(Pittsfield, MA – August 27, 2025) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC) is pleased to announce the cast and creative team for the company’s World Premiere production of The Weekend: A Stockbridge Story. The play, written by Ben Diskant (The Endless Quiet) and directed by BSC Artistic Director Alan Paul,will be presented from Tuesday, September 16 through Sunday, October 12 on the St. Germain Stage (36 Linden Street). Opening night is Sunday, September 21.
The production will star Bill Army (Broadway: The Band’s Visit, Act One), Sasha Diamond (BSC: The Birds, Peerless; TV: “The Equalizer,” “Bull”), Molly Jobe (Broadway: Waitress, Newsies), and Ben Rosenfield (Off-Broadway: Through a Glass Darkly; Film: Joy Will Prevail, A Most Violent Year).
“We are thrilled to bring Ben Diskant’s The Weekend to life here in the Berkshires, where the play is both set and deeply rooted,” commented Alan Paul. “Premiering this story on our stage allows audiences to experience the humor, complexity, and humanity of a piece that feels like it could only have been born in this landscape. It’s a joy to shepherd a world premiere that speaks so directly to our community while resonating far beyond it.”
The Weekend is a world premiere about fresh perspectives, missed opportunities, and
finding the courage to move forward again. It was a quick, romantic getaway. Just Beth and Tom… and his hopeless brother, Allan. Their family cabin in Stockbridge is full of memories for all of them, some wonderful and some world-ending. As Beth attempts to reconnect with her husband, Allan unexpectedly reconnects with his past, and Tom can’t help but intervene.
The creative team features scenic design by Wilson Chin, costume design by Ricky Reynoso, lighting design by Amina Alexander, and sound design and original composition by Fabian Obispo. Production Stage Manager is Leslie Sears. Assistant Stage Manager is Aurora Courcy.
Tickets are available at BarringtonStageCo.org.
BIOGRAPHIES
Bill Army (Tom). BSC Debut. Bill originated roles on Broadway in The Band’s Visit (The show won 10 Tony Awards including Best New Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album), Act One (Lincoln Center Theater, written and directed by James Lapine) and Relatively Speaking. Off Broadway: The Public, Atlantic, Red Bull Theater, and Old Jews Telling Jokes. Company member of the Potomac Theatre Project PTP/NYCwhere he performed in New York premieres of plays by Howard Barker and Caryl Churchill. Regional: George Street Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, and The National Players of Olney Theatre Center. Co-founder/Producer of Sketchbook Theatre: The Cherry Orchard and Romeo and Juliet. Film and television: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Deadbeat,” Cohab. Teaching and Directing: Middlebury College, and LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts. MFA NYU. @resoluteartistsagency
Sasha Diamond (Jordan). BSC: The Birds, Peerless. Select theater: Regretfully, So the Birds Are (Playwrights Horizons); Teenage Dick (The Public); Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout); Dirty Laundry (WP Theatre); Peerless (Primary Stages); Once Upon a (korean) Time, The Wong Kids (Ma-Yi Theatre Company); Kentucky (Ensemble Studio Theater); A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Long Wharf Theatre). Select film and television: Margo’s Got Money Troubles (upcoming, Apple TV+), “The Equalizer,” “Bull,” “New Amsterdam,” “Magnum: PI,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Blindspot.”
Molly Jobe (Beth). BSC Debut. Broadway: Waitress, Newsies. Other credits include A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden, and Annie at Paper Mill Playhouse. Film and television: A Complete Unknown, Halston, Waitress: The Musical, Things Heard and Seen, Godfather of Harlem, Law&Order: SVU. LaGuardia Arts High School Drama Dept alum. BFA NYU Tisch School of the Arts. @mollyelizabethj
Ben Rosenfield (Allan). BSC Debut. Benrecently wrapped production on the feature film Joy Will Prevail, starring opposite Griffin Dunne. He made his professional debut starring opposite Carey Mulligan in the Atlantic Theater Company’s stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly. New York Theatre: The Public, Lincoln Center, Roundabout, Atlantic, MCC. Select film and television: “Boardwalk Empire” (SAG Award Nomination), “Twin Peaks,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Mrs. America,” A Most Violent Year, 6 Years, Mark, Mary and Some Other People, Mickey and the Bear.
Ben Diskant (Playwright) is honored to have The Weekend premiere at BSC as he’s had a lifelong relationship with the Berkshires. As a composer/lyricist, he has written the musicals The Endless Quiet, the High School adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado and wrote the music for Judy Moody and Stink (ArtsPower National Touring Theatre). As an actor, Ben has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in regional productions all over the country. As an illustrator, Ben’s artwork, dubbed “The Little Theatre Kid,” is sold online at the Playbill Store and his website. Thank you to Alan and Branden, and much love to his parents and Justin. www.thelittletheatrekid.com. @bendiskant
Alan Paul (Director) is the Artistic Director of Barrington Stage Company. BSC credits include Cabaret, A Tender Thing, and Next To Normal. Alan spent 15 seasons at the Tony Award-winning Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he served as Associate Artistic Director. STC Highlights include Camelot, Kiss Me, Kate, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Man of La Mancha, Our Town, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, The Boys from Syracuse,the film of Patrick Page’s All the Devils are Here,and the world premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s Peter Pan and Wendy. Alan has directed productions at theaters across the country including Kiss Me, Kate at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre and The King and I at Chicago’s Drury Lane Theatre, for which he was nominated for a Jeff Award for Best Director. In Washington, Alan has directed at the city’s top theaters, including The Pajama Game at Arena Stage, Cabaret at Olney Theatre Center, Spring Awakening and Next to Normal at Round House Theatre, The Rocky Horror Show and Silence! The Musical at Studio Theatre, and I Am My Own Wife at Signature Theatre. Alan has worked extensively in classical music, directing at Portland Opera, Palm Beach Opera, and The Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center. Alan is a frequent collaborator with the National Symphony Orchestra, and directed John Williams 90th Birthday Celebration which featured Steven Spielberg, Yo-Yo Ma, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Daisy Ridley.
Wilson Chin (Scenic Design). BSC: Next to Normal, Cabaret, Tiny Father, Sweeney Todd.Broadway: Cost of Living, Pass Over (Drama Desk, Lortel and Henry Hewes Award nominations), Next Fall. Off-Broadway: Jonah (Roundabout), Annie (Madison Square Garden), All Nighter (MCC), Sumo (Ma-Yi/Public/La Jolla), Duke & Roya (Lortel), The Animal Kingdom (Connelly), The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), and Space Dogs (MCC, Lortel Award nomination). Opera credits include: Turandot (Washington National Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago) and Eine Florentinische Tragödie/Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera, Dora Award winner). @wilsonchindesign
Ricky Reynoso (Costume Design). BSC: A Tender Thing. Television: HBO’s “We’re Here” (Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes). Select theatre: This Beautiful Future (US Premiere), This Beautiful Future (Off-Broadway), Uncle Vanya (DVRF), Uncle Vanya (Off-Off Broadway), The Animal Kingdom (US Premiere), Velour: A Drag Spectacular (La Jolla Playhouse).
Amina Alexander (Lighting Design). BSC Debut. Off-Broadway: Duke & Roya, Alex Edelman – Just for Us, Superhero at The Sheen Center. Theatre: Fat Ham (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Waitress (Phoenix Theatre Company). Assistant lighting design credits: Black No More (Signature Theatre), KPOP (Broadway), Shucked (Broadway), Hell’s Kitchen (Broadway). Lighting Designer & Production Manager for ModasProAV+. Formally the Lighting Design fellow for Black Theatre Coalition 21/22.
Fabian Obispo (Sound Design and Original Composition).BSC: Faith Healer, Blues for an Alabama Sky, ABCD, American Underground, The Chinese Lady. Off-Broadway: Oedipus El Rey (The Public, Hewes nomination), The Chinese Lady (Ma-Yi Theater, Lucille Lortel nomination). Regional: Angels in America (Arena Stage, Helen Hayes nomination), Bina’s Six Apples (Alliance, Suzi Bass nomination), Imaginary Invalid (A.C.T., Bay Area Critics Circle nomination), and Boleros for the Disenchanted (IRNE nomination). Film and television: Vancouver (Best Original Score, LA Film Festival’s Indie Short Fest Award), “20 Years of Asian American Playwriting”(Original Music, PBS Documentary). He is also a recipient of the Berkshires Theatre Critics Award and the Barrymore.
Leslie Sears (she/her) (Production Stage Manager). BSC: fuzzy; Forgiveness; The Happiest Man on Earth; Andy Warhol in Iran; If I Forget; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Taking Steps; Georgie; Kunstler; 2018 10×10. Off-Broadway: Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout). Regional theatre credits include work at Chester Theater Company, Barnstormers, New Rep, Gloucester Stage, Poets’ Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Huntington Theater Company, and The Old Globe. Opera and Symphony credits include Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Tanglewood Music Festival, Palm Beach Opera, Inland Northwest Opera, Concert Theater Works, Jacksonville Symphony, Boston Lyric Opera and Boston Early Music Festival. Ms. Sears is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and a core member of FairWage.
Aurora Courcy (she/they) (Assistant Stage Manager). BSC: fuzzy, Eisenhower, Next to Normal, A Tender Thing,and Bernadette Peters: 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert. Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing, The Old Man and The Old Moon, Putnam County Spelling Bee, War of the Worlds 23′: A Servant of Two Networks, Rent, Roe, Metamorphoses, Food for the Gods, Blood at the Root, Little Shop of Horrors,and The 39 Steps (Connecticut Repertory Theater); Copenhagen (Yale Quantum Physics Institute), I Am the Seagull, Hazel’s Hands, Alice’s Adventures (University of Connecticut Dramatic Arts Department); All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (Saybrook Stage).Festivals: The Arts and Ideas Festival. BFA Design and Technical Theater, Minor in Puppet Arts, UCONN. @aurora.courcy
ABOUT BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY
Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Alan Paul, is an award-winning theatre located in Pittsfield, MA, in the heart of the Berkshires. Co-founded in 1995 by Julianne Boyd, BSC’s mission is to produce top-notch, compelling work; to develop new plays and musicals; and to engage our community with vibrant, inclusive educational outreach programs. Alan Paul succeeded Ms. Boyd as the company’s Artistic Director in 2022.
BSC attracts over 60,000 patrons annually and has gained national recognition for its superior-quality productions and comprehensive educational programming, including the award-winning Playwright Mentoring Project, the Musical Theatre Conservatory, Youth Theatre, KidsAct! and other initiatives. The company has become integral to the economic revitalization of downtown Pittsfield.
BSC’s reputation for excellence began with a smash revival of Cabaret that moved to Boston in 1997 for an extended run. The theatre’s prominence grew with the world premiere of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin (BSC 2004; Broadway 2005-2008, winner of two Tony Awards). Other notable productions include the world premiere of Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son (BSC 2016; Broadway 2018); Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session (BSC 2009; Off-Broadway 2010-2012); Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden & Adolph Green’s On the Town (BSC 2013; Broadway 2014, four Tony Award nominations); Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company, starring Aaron Tveit (2017); and West Side Story in honor of Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins’ centenaries (2018).
BSC develops and commissions new work with two programs: PlayWorks, which supports the creation of new plays, and the Musical Theatre Lab, which develops new musicals. Since 1995, BSC has produced 46 new works, 22 of which have moved to New York and major US regional theatres.
BSC is the recipient of 14 Berkshire Theatre Awards for the 2024 season, including Outstanding Production of a Musical, Outstanding Direction of a Musical (Alan Paul) and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical (Natalie Joy Johnson) for its production of Next to Normal; Outstanding Production of a Play and Outstanding Ensemble Performance for its production of Boeing-Boeing; Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play (Justin Weaks) and Outstanding Direction of a Play (Jennifer Chang) for Primary Trust; and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical (Alex Michaels) and Outstanding Choreography (Paul McGill) for La Cage aux Folles.