Made Possible in Part by:
Sally D. Jackson
Olivier Award Winning Classic
BETRAYAL
by Harold Pinter
Directed by SHANA GOZANSKY~
After Jerry and Emma collide for the last time, their final encounter unfolds into a seven year long, torrid love triangle entangled with secrets, deception, and Emma’s husband Robert. Throughout this backwards tailspin, the three navigate unexpected impulses, forbidden trysts, and their own feelings of betrayal.
From Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter and directed by Shana Gozanskyº, Betrayal runs July 9 to August 1, all performances are at the Natti-Willsky Performance Center – 267 East Main Street, Gloucester. Showtimes are Wednesdays – Saturdays at 7:30pm, with matinees Saturdays & Sunday at 2:00pm.
No refunds or exchanges
JULY 9 – AUGUST 1
Performances
7:30 pm, WED – SAT
2:00 pm, SAT + SUN
Preview Performances
July 9 + 10 @ 7:30 pm
Champagne Opening
Saturday, July 11 @ 7:30 pm
Artist Talk Backs
July 18 + 25 after the matinee
Critical Praise for Harold Pinter’s Betrayal
“Of all Pinter’s often-puzzling work, this play is the one that clearly speaks to you, thinks for you, and may even feel for you.”
“A creeping depth and delicacy … which for me now ranks among Pinter’s finest.”
“There is nothing to distract you from the cutting, syncopated rhythms of the dialogue.”
Trailers and Behind the Scenes videos for Betrayal
Meet the Creative Team
Harold Pinter (he/him) / Playwright
Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was born in London on October 10, 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008. (They were married in 1980). After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama, he worked as an actor under the stage name David Baron. Following his success as a playwright, he continued to act under his own name, on stage and screen. He last acted in 2006 when he appeared in Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. He wrote 29 plays, including The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, The Caretaker, The Collection, The Lover, The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man’s Land, Betrayal, A Kind of Alaska, One For The Road, The New World Order, Moonlight and Ashes to Ashes. Sketches include The Black and White, Request Stop, That’s Your Trouble, Night, Precisely, Apart From That and the recently rediscovered Umbrellas. He directed 27 theatre productions, including James Joyce’s Exiles, David Mamet’s Oleanna, seven plays by Simon Gray (one of which was Butley in 1971, for which he directed the film adaptation three years later) and many of his own plays, including his last, Celebration, paired with his first, The Room, at The Almeida Theatre, London in the spring of 2000. He wrote 21 screenplays, including The Pumpkin Eater, The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Sleuth. In 2005 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Other awards include the Companion of Honour for services to Literature, the Legion D’Honneur, the European Theatre Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award and the Moliere D’Honneur for lifetime achievement. In 1999 he was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. Harold Pinter was awarded 18 honorary degrees.
Shana Gozansky~ (she/her) / Director
Shana Gozansky is a theater director and children’s book author. She has directed throughout the greater Boston area and regionally including Trinity Rep and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She is thrilled to be returning to GSC (Wipeout, Barefoot in the Park). Originally from Atlanta, GA, Shana holds an MFA in Directing from the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs, is a graduate of Bard College and is a proud Associate Member of SDC. She is the author of Phaidon’s My Art Book series, Penguin Rise’s How to Be a Witch (with Gabrielle Balkan), and has more books on the horizon. She lives in Massachusetts with her spouse, tween, and a dog named Miss Piggy.
Meet the Cast
Liza Giangrande* / Emma
Liza is thrilled to be back at Gloucester Stage Company! Gloucester: The Glass Menagerie (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Featured Performance) Off Broadway: Girls Who Walked on Glass (Gordon Farrell). Regional: Spitfire Grill (Umbrella Stage), Emma (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Little Women (Greater Boston Stage), Born to Do This (World Premiere, Company Theatre). TV: “Beer League Last Licks” (213TV), “Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman” (PBS). Film: “Wish I Was There” (NYIFA Best Actress), “Chimera” (Andrew Lee Ryan, Dir.) Meisner Conservatory, 2 Year Advanced Training (Michael Chekhov Actors Studio, Scott Fielding), BA in Music (Fairfield University). @lizagiangrande
Michael Underhill* / Jerry
Previous GSC Roles: Debut. Regional: Witch, Man In The Ring, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Huntington) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Gamm) The Age of Innocence, Henry 6, Merry Wives of Windsor (Old Globe) As You Like It, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, Richard III, Othello (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company) The Play That Goes Wrong (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), Eyes Shut. Door Open (Wax Wings Productions). Next: Close Distance Disappearing Acts (The Tank) Other: MFA – The Old Globe / University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program (Group 36) BA – Northeastern University. www.michaeljunderhill.com Big thanks to Mom, Dad, Brian, Meghan and Emma for being the wind at my back.
Tanner Efinger* / Robert
Tanner Efinger (he/they) is thrilled to make his Gloucester Stage debut. Recent acting credits include A Christmas Story, Dial M for Murder, and Murder on the Orient Express at Syracuse Stage. A multi-hyphenate artist, Tanner recently directed The Odd Couple and Wait Until Dark at Cortland Repertory Theatre. He is the Producing Artistic Director of Breadcrumbs Productions, which supports LGBTQ+ creatives in Central and Western New York in developing new theatrical work. Recent projects include The Picture of Oscar Wilde, The Game of Life, String Quartet Theatre, and Drag+Clown. Other acting credits include The Marriage of Figaro (Boston Lyric Opera), The Seagull and Three Sisters (The Classics Company), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Leaning House Productions/Oxford University Press). Tanner dedicates this performance to his family for encouraging him to create stories. www.tannerefinger.com
Jeremy Beazlie / Waiter
Jeremy Beazlie is very excited to return to Gloucester Stage. Recent credits include Heniek in Our Class (Arlekin Players), winner of the 2026 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Visiting Play; Menasche in The Dybbuk (Arlekin Players); Süssmayr and five other roles in Madame Mozart (Punctuate4); Tartuffe in Tartuffe; Isaac Jaggard in The Book of Will (Hub Theatre Company of Boston); Shoigu in The Gaaga (Arlekin Players); Ben in Grand Horizons (Gloucester Stage Company); George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life (Rhinoleap Productions, NC); Katurian in The Pillowman; Jim in The Glass Menagerie (Insomniac Productions); Steve Enloe in The Radiant Abyss (Woolly Mammoth); and Frizer in Murdering Marlowe (Access Theatre NYC). Film and television credits include “WTC View”, “The Gamekillers” (MTV), and “Whoopi” (NBC), as well as numerous national and regional television commercials. He grew up in New Albany, Indiana, where he learned and performed classical theatre, made independent films, and played in rock bands. Jeremy is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Meet the Production Team
Jeffrey Petersen^ / Scenic Designer
Prior Gloucester Stage work includes Gloria, The Agitators, and Barefoot in the Park. New England credits include: Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., Huntington Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Odyssey Opera, White Snake Projects, Boston Midsummer Opera, Opera Hub, Greater Boston Stage, Hanover Theatre, and more. Jeffrey holds an MFA in Scenic Design from BU’s School of Theatre and is a proud member of the United Scenic Artists local 829. www.jeffreypetersendesigns.com
Nia Safarr Banks^ / Costume Designer
Nia Safarr Banks is a costume designer based in Richmond, Virginia, whose work explores the intersection of history, identity, and contemporary performance. She has designed for productions including Hamlet at American Shakespeare Center, The Piano Lesson at Shakespeare & Company, The Glass Menagerie at Gloucester Stage, and HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT? at The Bushwick Starr. She earned her MFA in Costume Design from Boston University and her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Banks is a two-time Richmond Theatre Critics Circle Award nominee for Outstanding Costume Design for An Octoroon (2019) and A Christmas Kaddish (2022), and an Elliot Norton Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design (2026) for The Glass Menagerie at Gloucester Stage.
Amanda Fallon / Lighting Designer
Julian Crocamo / Sound Designer
Julian Crocamo is a composer and sound designer based in Portland, ME. His work has recently appeared in Penobscot Theatre Company’s Dial M for Murder and Actor’s Shakespeare Project’s Little Women, in addition to many fruitful collaborations with Gloucester Stage, including The Ding Dongs, The Hombres, and the Elliot Norton Award-nominated The Garbologists.
Emme Shaw / Props Designer
Emme is a long time artistic collaborator with GSC, both as an actor and designer. Recent GSC credits include Bad Books, and last season’s Elliott Norton award winning production of The Glass Menagerie. Other recent credits include last season’s Speakeasy Stage productions of Job, and Lizard Boy, and BLO”s season 25-26: Macbeth, Song of the Earth ( Dir. Anne Bogart), and Daughter of the Regiment. Emme teaches Property Design at BC Theatre, and is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon Drama.
Liv Dumaine / Intimacy Consultant
Liv Dumaine is a Boston-based actor and Intimacy Director. Select intimacy credits include: Fun Home (Huntington Theatre Company); Wait Until Dark, Little Shop of Horrors (Greater Boston Stage Company); Breaking the Code; Beyond Words, Ada and The Engine (Central Square Theater); The Glass Menagerie (Gloucester Stage); The Hombres (Gloucester Stage/Teatro Chelsea); All Shook Up (Reagle Music Theatre); Fade (Teatro Chelsea); The Normal Heart (New Repertory Theatre); The House of Ramón Iglesia, Passing Strange (Moonbox Productions); The Piano Lesson, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare & Company); Calf Scramble, Corpus Christi, The Rink (Boston University). Liv is the resident Intimacy Director at ASP as of spring 2023, and has choreographed the last 11 productions. She is a graduate of the BFA Theatre Performance program at Salem State University, and a proud AEA member.
Melissa A. Nathan* / Production Stage Manager
Melissa is thrilled to be working at Gloucester Stage Company. Select credits include: Intimate Apparel (Chenango River Theatre), Our Town (Portland Stage), The Complete Works of Jane Austen (abridged) and Souvenir (Theater at Monmouth), A Driving Beat and Ragtime (Flint Repertory Theatre), Lucky Stiff and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Florida Rep), Which Way to the Stage (Short North Stage), Oliver! (Sharon Playhouse), Almost Heaven: John Denver’s America (Riverside Theatre), Gloria and Airline Highway (Swine Palace/LSU), Because of Winn-Dixie (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), and Bonnie & Clyde (Asolo Rep). Proud member of AEA and the SMA.
Emily Coccovizzo / Asst. Stage Manager
Emily Coccovizzo is a New Jersey native excited to expand her skills as a Stage Management Apprentice! In May of 2025 Emily graduated from Loyola University Maryland with a Bachelors of Arts in theatre and forensic science. At Loyola, Emily had the privilege to Stage Manage a student directed production of Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic and Assistant Stage Manage RENT at Iron Crow Theatre and its transfer to the M&T Bank Exchange at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center, home of the Hippodrome. Since graduating, Emily has moved home and focused on bringing theatre to her community, working on many shows throughout the state, including the East Coast premiere of Althea & Angela. Emily is passionate about making theatre accessible to everyone who wants to participate. She cannot wait to join the GSC team! IG: @awesomemily15
2026 Season Partners
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
ºThe Director is a Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) ~The Director is an Associate Member of SDC
^Represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE
BETRAYAL is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Dramatists Play Service www.concordtheatricals.com