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The Actors’ Reading Collective presents
by Amy Herzog
directed by Amy Kossow
November 6 - 30, 2025
Venue
The Magic Theatre
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
2 Marina Boulevard
Landmark Building D, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94123
Public Transit and driving directions
As Mary Jane navigates both the mundane and the unfathomable realities of caring for Alex, her chronically ill young son,
she finds herself building a community of women from many walks of life.
Mary Jane is Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog’s remarkably powerful and compassionate portrait of a contemporary American woman striving for grace.
“Seeing this play, I’ve felt inspired—not by heroism but by everyday
decency, empathy, competence and strength.
In a world that often seems far from those values,
Herzog’s play shines like a candle in the dark.”
- Adam Feldman, Time Out, April 23, 2024
Run time: 95 minutes, no intermission
Cast:
Danielle Levin*, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong*, Lisa Morse*, Stacy Ross*, Anna Takayo*
*Member, Actors' Equity
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Our Cast & Creative Team
Cast (in alphabetical order)
Danielle Levin*
Leontyne Mbele-Mbong*
Lisa Morse*
Stacy Ross*
Anna Takayo*
Brianne / Chaya
Ruthie / Tenkei
Mary Jane
Sherry / Dr. Toros
Amelia / Kat
Creative Team
Amy Kossow
Sheila Devitt
Steph Puentes
Mary Baird
John Bernard
Kate Boyd
Cliff Caruthers
Tab Mattos
Naomi Sanchez
Director
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Costume Coordinator
Lighting Designer
Scenic Consultant
Sound Designer
Assistant Sound Designer
Vocal Coach
Production Team
Leontyne Mbele-Mbong
Tim Redmond
Luisa Sermol
Robert Parsons
Business Manager
Production Manager
Equity Coordinator
Casting Coordinator
Technical Crew
Kristy Arroyo
Lance Mindell
Olivia Vazquez
Scenic Painter
Lead Electrician
Sound Engineer
Kristy Arroyo (Scenic Painter)
Kristy is a scenic painter and art educator whose work has enhanced productions for the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Novato Theater Company, Ross Valley Players, Stapleton Theater Company, College of Marin and various children’s theater companies in the North San Francisco Bay Area. Alongside her theater work, Kristy is an elementary school art teacher and practicing artist. She is happy to be a part of the ARC Theater Company’s production of Mary Jane at the Mystic Theater!
Mary Baird (Costume Coordinator)
Mary is proud to be a member of ARC. Her previous work with ARC includes Outside the Box. She is excited to be a part of the Christmas story Mr. Griddle. Worked in NYC, regionally and nationally. She was seen in Fräulein Else at Berkeley Rep that went to La Jolla, McCarter and Long Wharf. Also seen in Indian Ink at ACT and in Hank Williams: Lost Highway at Center Rep to name a few. She thanks her family and friends for their constant support.
John Bernard (Lighting Designer)
John is excited to be with ARC for this production, his first with the company. John received his MFA from the University of Washington in 2015, and has been a freelance lighting designer in the Bay Area ever since. In the Area, he has worked with Hillbarn, Ray of Light, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and City Lights Theater Company to name a few.
Cliff Caruthers (Sound Designer)
Cliff is based in the Bay Area with over 300 productions credits near and far, including Born With Teeth for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Frankenstein at Guthrie Theatre, 1984 at Alley Theatre, Caucasian Chalk Circle for American Conservatory Theater, TRAGEDY: A Tragedy for Berkeley Repertory Theater, Man in Love for Kansas City Rep, and A Clean House for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, where he was Resident Sound Designer for seven years. His work on Fighter Airplanes for Cutting Ball Theater was featured at the Prague Quadrennial in 2007. His work on Earth: A Primer, was featured at the Experimental Gameplay Worship at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in 2015. He has received numerous Bay Area Critics Circle awards, including most recently in 2019 for Detroit ’67 at Aurora Theatre Company. Cliff is co-curator and technical director of the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, a member of United Scenic Artists, and teaches sound design at Stanford University.
Sheila Devitt (Stage Manager/Dramaturg)
Sheila is a San Francisco-based, classically-trained theatre maker: actor, director, puppeteer, producer & advocate, with a love of world theatre and gender parity in the arts. Stage managing credits this year include The Starmaker (Playwrights Foundation), Seeds of Time Festival, Romeo/Juliet (Marin Shakespeare Co.), The Half-Life of Marie Curie (The 222, Healdsburg). Acting credits this year include Amy Lee in Laundry and Bourbon (The 222), Celia in Volpone (Theatre of Yugen). She is a proud member of the Actors' Reading Collective and Theatre of Yugen’s acting ensemble. Art is crucial for democracy: Fund the Arts!
Anne Hallinan (Props Coordinator)
Anne was last seen in Reunion in ARC’s Out of the Box reading series. Acting credits include: Bay Area Children’s Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Center Rep, Central Works, Cutting Ball, El Teatro Campesino, Magic Theatre, Shotgun Players, S.F. Mime Troupe, S.F. Playhouse, Stanford Rep, Tabard Theatre, Theatre Rhinoceros, TheatreFIRST, Theatre Q, Those Women, and Woman’s Will. A former company member of the Mime Troupe and Woman’s Will, she can be seen in Deal of a Lifetime starring David Cross, (Vimeo, YouTube), Next: The Web Series (YouTube) and heard in A Woman’s Place (Audible). www.annehallinan.com
Danielle Levin (Brianne/Chaya)
Danielle is thrilled to be a part of the second full production of the Actors’ Reading Collective, a company she has been proud to support for many years. An actor, writer, and dialect coach, Danielle has been seen onstage at Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, Center REPertory Company, Just Theater, San Francisco Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Word for Word, CentralWorks, Shotgun Players, and Crowded Fire Theater. Danielle received her MFA in Dramatic Art from UC Davis. Most recently, Danielle joined ARC for a reading of Lucas Hnath’s The Thin Place (Hilda) and was directed by the wonderful Amy Kossow in My Name is Asher Lev (Rivka, et al.) at The 222.
Amy Kossow (Director)
Amy is a Resident Director with the Actors’ Reading Collective. In 1993, Amy was a founding member of Z Space and has been a company Member of Word for Word since its inception. With WFW, Amy developed and directed award-winning new works based on the prose of Alan Bennett, Sam Shepard, Siobhan Fallon, Muriel Spark, among others. As an actor and singer, she originated roles in World or American premieres by Taylor Mac, Octavio Solis, and Linda McLean, and has appeared in many WFW productions over the years. Amy is a director and co-Curator of Theater at The 222, a multi-art space in Healdsburg, where she will be directing plays by Athol Fugard and Lauren Gunderson in 2026. Amy is honored to be in the company of such extraordinary artists on Mary Jane. As always, much love to Pete and Robin.
Leontyne Mbele-Mbong (Ruthie/Tenkei)
Leontyne appeared this year in Waste and Eureka Day at Marin Theater; and in The Half-Life of Marie Curie at the 222 in Healdsburg. Other credits: The Untime (Marin Shakes); Pipeline, Macbeth, Medea (TBA Award), and Antony & Cleopatra (TBA Award Finalist) (African-American Shakes); Cyrano, Hurricane Diane, Bull in a China Shop, Temple, and Breakfast with Mugabe at the Aurora; Fefu and her Friends at A.C.T., Lear at CalShakes (BATCC Award); The Half-Life of Marie Curie (TheatreSquared, Fayetteville, AK); Watch on the Rhine (Berkeley Rep/Guthrie Theatre). Proud founding member of the Actors’ Reading Collective. www.leontynembele-mbong.com
Lisa Morse (Mary Jane)
Lisa is a proud member of ARC. Most recently, Lisa played Emma in ARC’s OTB ’25 reading of The Best We Could, Izzy in Crossing Delancey (SFBATCC 2024 Winner Best Entire Production Bay Area), and Sarah Winchester in Mrs. Winchester, or, A Gun in the First Act. She has worked locally at Berkeley City Club, Theatreworks, Marin Theatre, Ross Valley Players, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Symmetry Theatre Co., Shotgun Players, Live Oak Theatre, PlayGround and Just Theatre, and regionally with Missouri Rep, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center Institute as well as in the NYC Fringe Festival.
Stacy Ross (Sherry/Dr. Toros)
Recent work includes the very old (Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Marin Shakespeare) and the very new (Craig Lucas’ A Whynot Christmas Carol at ACT) as well as Fefu and Her Friends at ACT, Hurricane Diane at Aurora, and As You Like It at California Shakespeare Theatre. For Randy, because Randy.
Anna Takayo (Amelia/Kat)
REGIONAL: Marin Shakes: The Tempest | Shakespeare Theatre Company: Frankenstein, Jane Anger, Our Town | Marin Theatre: Waste | Santa Cruz Shakes: Hamlet, As You Like It, Vanya & Sonya & Masha & Spike | Spooky Action: Frontières Sans Frontières | Devil’s Isle Shakes: Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It | Olney Theatre & People’s Light: Song of the Exile | Adventure Theatre: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Helen Hayes & BroadwayWorld Nominations) | Kennedy Center: Pulling the Switch. LONDON: Southwark Playhouse: Women in War | Tower Theatre: Hamlet | Theatro Technis: Antony and Cleopatra | Tristan Bates: Pearl City ‘Sunshine’ | Inspector Sands: Wuthering Heights | Bloomsbury Festival: Orphée. Education: Stanford: BA; RADA: MA; STC Academy: MFA.
Amy Herzog
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Amy Herzog is an American playwright. She is known for her poignant and character-driven plays that explore themes of family dynamics, personal relationships, and the complexities of human experience. She has received a Drama Desk Award as well as a nomination for a Tony Award.
Her play 4000 Miles, which ran Off-Broadway in 2011, was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Herzog adapted revivals of the Henrik Ibsen plays A Doll's House (2023) and An Enemy of the People (2024), both of which earned her Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play nominations and wins for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Adaptation.
Her play Mary Jane, which ran Off-Broadway in 2017, and premiered on Broadway in 2024, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.
Mary Jane Production Donors
Angel $5000+
Lisa and Jack Johnston
Joseph & Lynne Kossow
Amanda and Marc Meisner
Craig Moody
Producer $1500-$4999
Anonymous (1)
Janet Kossow
Peter Ouborg & Amy Kossow
David & Antonia Lavine (in honor of Amy Kossow)
Kelly Pepper (in memory of Buddy Cohn)
Edward and Susan Phillips
Deanne Raskin (in honor of Amy Kossow)
Tom Swift and His Amazing Charitable Fund
Evan & Anne Tager
Supporter $500-$1499
Anonymous (2)
Mukesh and Anita Bajaj
Bernard and Denise Cassidy
Anita and Eddie Cheung
Ellen and Joffa Dale
Jackie Davies
Maggie Fillmore and Mark Huffman
Steven Frank & Heidi Petersen
(in honor of Amy Kossow)
Jim and Xanthe Hopp
Kristen Jensen and Allen Carr
I & R (in honor of Lisa Morse)
Hillary Kambour
Samuel & Helena Mbele-Mbong
The Morse-deBrier Family
Helen Popper
Nancy Redmond
Jim Roethe
John J. Ruskin
Sharon Simpson
Jennifer Sousae (in honor of Richard Epstein)
Katherine Stechschulte and David Cost
oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Friend $499 and Below
Anonymous (4)
Molly Aaronson-Gelb and Jonathan Spector
Dorian Chen
Jennifer Cooper (in honor of Robin and Eli)
David Hallinan
Jim Hopp
Catherine Luedtke
Tanya Marie
Nic Moore
Sandy and Robert Morse
(in honor of Lisa Morse)
Phoebe Moyer
Miranda Mueller
Michaela Nee
Madeline Puccioni
Wendy Radford
Geetha Reddy (in honor of Lisa Morse)
Catherine Riggs
Juliana Salfiti
Scripts
Erika Sim
Jean Simpson
Liz Sklar & Matthew Purdon
Rachel Spear
Alison Teeman & Michael Yovino Young
Mary Lou Torre
Kathleen Turco-Lyon
Jeff & Meredith Watts (in honor of Stacy Ross)
JoAnne Winter and Adrian Elfenbaum
Michael Ray Wisley