things I know to be true

by andrew bovell
Directed by judy braha

Playing august 4 - august 14, 2022

From August 4 - August 14 audiences were enthralled by Things I Know to Be True, by award-winning playwright Andrew Bovell. A penetrating family drama, first presented by the Milwaukee Rep in 2019 to rave reviews, it was headed for Broadway until Covid intervened. GB Public presented the East Coast premiere of this brilliant new play that goes straight to the heart of family love, truth, and bonding. Judy Braha, who helmed GB Public’s 2021 hit Mr. Fullerton directed a powerhouse cast.

Reviews

  • Interview: Andrew Bovell (Playwright) of THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE at Great Barrington Public Theater

    Broadway World

  • THEATER REVIEW: ‘Things I Know to be True’ at Great Barrington Public Theater through August 14

    The Berkshire Edge

  • REVIEW: “Things I Know to be True” at Great Barrington Public Theater

    Berkshire On Stage

Cast and creative team

  • Liz Hayes

    Liz Hayes (Pip) Recent acting credits include George Brandt’s Grounded at The Gamm Theatre and Into the Woods with Fiasco Theater at McCarter, Old Globe and Roundabout Theaters, and the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. She has appeared onstage with many regional and Boston-based companies and has been nominated for both IRNE and Elliot Norton Awards. Liz is currently the resident Voice & Dialect Coach on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and teaches in Columbia University’s MFA Acting Program. She is married to actor Paul L. Coffey and Mom to Sean Frank Coffey. Member: AEA, SAG-AFTRA, VASTA and The Actors Center.

  • David Keohane

    David Keohane (Ben) is a freelance actor, director, and arts educator currently based in the Mid-Hudson Valley. David is a graduate of Boston University, where he studied acting, directing, playwriting, and theater management. He also holds a Shakespearean acting certificate from the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art. He has worked extensively in both Boston and Chicago. Locally, David is a teaching artist with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and has independently taught myth creation, dream reenactment, improvisation, and ensemble-building. Favorite performance credits include Vanity Fair, The Crucible, Frankenstein, The Tempest, Comedy of Errors, and Two Gentlemen of Verona. www.davidmkeohane.com.

  • Raya Malcolm

    Raya Malcolm (Rosie) is an actor, musician, and devising artist living in upstate New York and is thrilled to be returning to GBPT, having previously appeared in Breakwater in 2019. She has worked with various regional theaters, including Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, Stages On the Sound and Troy Foundry Theatre, of which she is an Associate Artistic Director. Raya also makes up 1/3 of the indie-folk singing trio Hold On Honeys. You can catch her this fall helping to devise an original, immersive musical with her Troy Foundry Theatre fam. When not acting or music-making, you can find her zenning out on her yoga mat. www.rayamalcolm.com. IG: @rayamalcolm, @holdonhoneys.

  • Corinna May

    Corinna May (Fran) Great Barrington Public Theater debut! Berkshires: Berkshire Theatre Group: Shirley Valentine, Importance of Being Earnest, Holiday Memories, Benefactors, Same Time Next Year, Homestead Crossing, Two-headed. WAM/BTG: The Bakelite Masterpiece. Shakespeare & Co.: 30+ (selected) Morning After Grace, Roman Fever, The Memory of Water, A Winter’s Tale, Enchanted April, Jack and Jill, Betrayal, Fortune and Misfortune, House of Mirth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Wharton Salon. Pythagoras Theatre. Broadway National Tour: The Graduate with all five Missus Rs. Regional (selected): Portland Stage Co., Merrimack Rep., Syracuse Stage, Rep. Theater of St. Louis, Capitol Rep. Film: Split Ends (starring); Speck’s Last. TV: House of Cards; Unforgettable; Law & Order; PBS: Evening at the Pops. Playwright: Dancing With the Czar. Unions: AEA, SAG-AFTRA, Dramatists Guild.

  • Jo Michael Rezes

    Jo Michael Rezes (Mia) is a nonbinary theatermaker from Greater Boston thrilled to be joining GBPT for Things I Know to Be True! Acting credits: Rocky Horror Show (Entropy Theatre); Nosferatu, The Vampyr (Sparkhaven Theatre), The Inheritance (SpeakEasy Stage Co.— Regional Premiere). Directing: Trans [Plays] of Remembrance (HowlRound.TV) and Cloud 9 (AD, The Nora— Elliot Norton Award). Jo instructs gender and performance courses across the country (Yale Dramat, UMass Law, Tufts). Their TEDTalk, A Playful Exploration of Gender Performance, is available online! Rezes is a proud Vassar alum, Ph.D. Candidate at Tufts University, and Lecturer in Theatre at Boston College. Learn more about Jo: www.JMRezes.com (they/them)

  • John Wojda

    John Wojda (Bob) has performed on Broadway in The Nap, Present Laughter, Two Shakespearean Actors, The Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth. Among his many off-Broadway credits is an Obie award for Ecstasy at The New Group. John was featured in the first national tour of Spring Awakening, played London and Paris in West Side Story, and dozens of leading roles in resident repertories, including four seasons at Canada's Stratford Festival. His television credits include Dr. Death, FBI Most Wanted, Manifest, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary, Mr. Robot, Third Watch, and all of the Law and Order shows. In Massachusetts: The Huntington Theater, Merrimack Repertory, North Shore Music Theater, Cape Cod Theatre Project and Berkshire Playwrights Lab.

  • Andrew Bovell

    Andrew Bovell (Playwright) Andrew is an internationally recognized writer for the stage and screen. His works for the stage include The Secret River, When the Rain Stops Falling, Anthem (2020), Holy Day (2001), Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? (1998), Speaking in Tongues (1996), Scenes from a Separation (1995), Ship of Fools (1999) and After Dinner (1988). Productions of Andrew’s plays are performed throughout Asia, UK, America and Europe. Andrew is adapting his play When the Rain Stops Falling into an opera with music by Quentin Grant. His film credits include In the Shadow of Iris; A Most Wanted Man (2014), an adaptation of John Le Carre’s novel for director Anton Corbijn (starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Defoe and Robyn Wright) which premiered at Sundance Film Festival; Edge of Darkness (2010) starring Mel Gibson; and many more.

  • Judy Braha

    Judy Braha (Director) has been a director, actor, teacher and artist for social justice for over four decades. She was long-time head of the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University’s School of Theater. With a commitment to raising consciousness around the power of the arts as activism, Judy collaborated with Andre de Quadros in the BU College of Fine Arts Prison Arts Project, and within the BU community, taught the socially conscious Collaborative Arts Incubator and the groundbreaking series Race, Prison, Justice, Arts. As a director, Judy’s work often has concern for human rights at its center: Golda’s Balcony (New Rep), To Kill A Mockingbird (Gloucester Stage Company), Emilie, La Marquise du Chatelet, Defends Her Life Tonight (Central Square Theater), Othello, I Am Lear, a devised piece on aging (Actor’s Shakespeare Project), The Oil Thief + Deported, a dream play (Boston Playwrights Theater), Our Class, Our Country’s Good, and The Exonerated at BU/School Of Theater and Mr. Fullerton (Great Barrington Public Theater and Gloucester Stage). Currently, a new solo work about the feminist, suffragist, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, Representation and How to Get It. A longtime member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers, AEA and SAG-AFTRA, Judy is also a founding board member of Stage Source, NewEngland Theater’s networking organization.