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March 24–April 19, 2015

by Arthur Miller

Directed by Brett Aune Scenic Design Lighting Design Brian Mallgrave Jon Olson Sound Design Costume Design Wig and Makeup Design Grant Evenson Clare Henkel Diana Ben-Kiki Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Jonathan D. Allsup* Lisa Cook* Artistic Producer Rod A. Lansberry

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THE ARCHBISHOP’S CEILING is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Time & Place Sometime in the 1970s. The sitting room in the former residence of the Archbishop; a capital in Europe. — There will be a 20 minute intermission —

. Cast of Characters Adrian...... Rodney Lizcano * Maya...... Heather Lacy * Marcus...... William Hahn * Irina...... Adrian Egolf * Sigmund...... Michael Morgan * Understudies (Understudies never appear in place of principal actors unless an announcement has been made.) Adrian: Jack Wefso; Maya: Adrian Egolf*; Irina: Emma C. Martin; Marcus, Sigmund: Mark Rubald*. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association. This theater operates under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Director’s Notes Brett Aune, Director

Arthur Miller was no stranger to political coercion. His play The and in 1967 visited Czechoslovakia, where he briefly met with Vaclav Crucible was a direct response to the House Un-American Activities Havel. Then a persecuted playwright, Havel later ascended to the Committee, drawing parallels between it and the Salem witch trials. presidency, but his early days provided Miller with the inspiration Miller was denied a passport to the London opening of the play in for The Archbishop’s Ceiling. Interestingly, in 1969, Miller found 1954 after the HUAC became incensed by its subject matter and himself seemingly on the other end of the Communist threat as implications. In 1956, Miller was called before the committee and he his works were banned in the Soviet Union due to his lobbying refused to give up names (despite assurances that he would not be asked) efforts and publicity around the suppression of writers in Eastern and he was subsequently held in contempt of congress and ultimately Europe. Fourteen years earlier, he had been called before the HUAC blacklisted. The ruling was eventually overturned, but it left a mark. for Communist sympathizing, and suddenly he was under fire in Communist countries for promoting democracy and free expression. In 1965, Miller was elected president of an international literary The Archbishop’s Ceiling takes place in this nexus. organization and thereafter traveled to the Soviet Union to persuade writers to join. He began campaigning on behalf of dissident writers Director’s Notes are continued in ArtsCentric, page 7.

Who’s Who in the Cast

Adrian Egolf (Irina, u/s Maya) City (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center). Training: Heather Lacy (Maya) returns has previously appeared at the National Theater Institute. to the Arvada Center after Arvada Center in Is He Dead? appearing in Harvey, Camelot, and The Ladies Man. Other William Hahn (Marcus) and as the mischievous spirit, credits: Benediction, Death of is returning to the Arvada Elvira in Blithe Spirit (Marlowe a Salesman, and Romeo and Center after a 12-year absence. award). Heather performed in Juliet (Denver Center Theatre Regional credits include: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Company); Ambition Facing West (Boulder Becky Shaw, Frozen, and Opus Change and The Doyle and Debbie Show (Garner Ensemble Theatre Company);Steel Magnolias (Curious Theatre Company); Galleria Theatre); as Miss Watson in Big River (Barth Hotel); (Off Square King Lear (Denver Center and as a hot box girl in Guys and Dolls (Lone Theatre Company);Of Mice and Men and The Theatre Company); Escanaba in Moonlight Tree Arts Center). Other roles include: Anna in Twelve Dates of Christmas (Colorado Springs (Aurora Fox). Film: A Test of Wills, Skills Like The King and Iand Charlotte in A Little Night Fine Arts Center); The Graduate (Edge Theatre This,and Looking For Sunday. He received the Music (Opus Award). Heather holds a Bachelor Company); Unnecessary Farce, Fools, Leading 2006 Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award of Arts in Theatre and Music. Ladies, Quilters, Crazy for You, and Boomtown for his work in the play Frozen. (Creede Repertory Theatre); and Tales of the Rodney Lizcano (Adrian) seasons at the Denver Center Theatre Company. has worked locally include Curious Theatre Appearances with the Arvada A member of SAG and Actors’ Equity. Company and Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Center include: , A Man for All Seasons, and End Jack Wefso (u/s Adrian) has Jon Olson (Lighting Designer) has been the of the Rainbow. Mr. Lizcano has performed at the Arvada Center Master Electrician for the Arvada Center’s appeared in regional theaters in two previous children’s production staff since 2007 after joining the across the country with most productions: James and the Arvada Center as a crew member in 2003. notable appearances with the Denver Center Giant Peach and Miss Nelson He has also enjoyed being a freelance pyro Theatre Company (11 seasons), Dallas is Missing!. You can also see technician since 2009. Jon is designing his Shakespeare Festival, Open Stage, Stories on him as Avery Arable/Homer third show in the Arvada Center Black Box, Stage, Theatre Aspen, Colorado Shakespeare Zuckerman in Charlotte’s Web through April 10. having previously designed Blithe Spirit and Festival, and off-Broadway with Actors Other credits: Beets, Ranger Came Calling, The Mousetrap. Other design credits for Arvada Ensemble Theatre and DreamScape Theatre Good Television, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, include: James and the Giant Peach, Miss Nelson Company. Film and Television: Silver City and While We Were Bowling (Aurora Fox); The is Missing!, Alexander, Who’s Not, Not, Not, Not, directed by independent filmmaker John Ding Dongs or What is the Penalty in Portugal? Not, Not Going to Move, and Go, Dog. Go! Sayles and Stage Struck for the Bravo Network. (Square Product); and Orphans (Edge Theatre Training: Meadows School of the Arts at Company). Jack is a regular cast member on the Grant Evenson (Sound Designer) Arvada Southern Methodist University and the episodic Duck Duck Dupe! (Buntport Theatre). Center credits include: The Great Gatsby, as National Theatre Conservatory. He has also appeared in numerous television well as numerous children’s theater productions and radio commercials. such as A Year with Frog and Toad, Schoolhouse Michael Morgan (Sigmund) Rock Live, Lyle the Crocodile, and the currently was last seen at Boulder . running Charlotte’s Web. For the latter three he also engineered and mixed each show’s recorded Ensemble Theatre Company Arthur Miller (Author 1915–2005) an as Tom in This. He is an Artistic music accompaniment. Equally at home in American playwright whose biting criticism of the recording studio, Grant has engineered Company member of Curious societal problems defined his genius. Born one Theatre Company, and has been for clients such as Hewlett Packard, Gannett, hundred years ago in Harlem, New York, Arthur and Fox’s King of the Hill. Combining studio seen as James in Time Stands Miller attended the University of Michigan Still and Joey in The Lieutenant of Inishmore. and stage disciplines, Grant’s sound designs are before moving back east to produce plays for unique in that they often feature a large number Other roles include Midas in Metamorphoses and the stage. His first critical and popular success Remnar in Escanaba in da Moonlight (Aurora of sound effects and production elements he was , which opened on recorded specifically for the production. Fox); and The Man inTurn of the Screw (Modern Broadway in 1949. His very colorful public Muse). Michael was the recipient of the Denver life was painted in part by his rocky marriage Post’s 2011 Ovation Award for Best Supporting Clare Henkel (Costume Designer) designed to Marilyn Monroe, and his unwavering costumes for Nine (2011 Ovation Award), Miss Actor for his performance as Quango Twistleton refusal to cooperate with the House Un- in Curious’ Homebody/Kabul. Saigon, Cabaret, Sunset Boulevard, Ragtime, American Activities Committee. Miller wrote Twelfth Night, Chess, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Emma C. Martin (u/s Irina) The Archbishop’s Ceiling in the mid-70s. It was Dividing the Estate, End of the Rainbow, The was last seen at the Arvada originally produced at the John F. Kennedy Great Gatsby, and Camelot. Also Denver Center Center as White Teen Girl Center in 1977 and after revisions premiered Theatre Company, The Old Globe Theatre, in Memphis. Other Arvada at the Cleveland Playhouse in 1984. La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego and San Jose Center credits: Ensemble and . Repertory Theatres, Aurora Fox, Arizona understudy Jane in Tarzan, The Theatre Company, Dallas Theatre Center, Stage Musical, Mrs. Primm in Brett Aune (Director) previously performed at Geva Theatre, Indianapolis Symphony’s Lyle, the Crocodile; and Sissie in Dividing the the Arvada Center in Cabaret. He has directed Pops Consortium (including Carnegie Estate. Regional credits: A Christmas Carol at numerous theaters in Los Angeles, and locally Hall), Sacramento Theatre Company; Lake (Denver Center Theatre Company);Barefoot at Horsechart Theatre Company, where he was Tahoe, Colorado, San Francisco and Idaho in the Park, Grease!, West Side Story, Spamalot, Artistic Director for seven seasons, directing True Shakespeare Festivals, and the Maxim Gorky and The Rocky Horror Show (Forestburgh West, Glengarry Glen Ross, O.T., and Reckless, Theatre in Vladivostok, Russia. Clare has Playhouse); and Cinderella (Studio Tenn). among others. Local acting credits include: Venus taught at University of Colorado Boulder, Local credits: Swing! (Town Hall Arts Center). in Fur, , Inventing Van Gogh, and How I as well as University of California, Berkeley Emma is a graduate of Belmont University with Learned to Drive (Curious Theatre Company); and Davis. a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre and Death of a Salesman and Last Train to Nibroc a Minor in Music Business. (Aurora Fox); Waiting for Godot (Bug Theatre); Diana Ben-Kiki (Wig and Makeup Designer) The Mystery of Irma Vep and Terra Nova (Denver recently designed She Loves Me at the Arvada Mark Rubald (u/s Marcus, Civic); and The Swan and A View from the Bridge Center. Other Arvada Center credits include: Sigmund) was seen this season (Horsechart Theatre Company). Legally Blonde, Curtains and The Great Gatsby. as Judge Gaffney in Harvey, She has been the Wig Master at the Denver Maraczek in She Loves Me, and Brian Mallgrave (Scenic Designer) has served as Center Theatre Company for the last 19 seasons, Buck Wiley/Gordon Grant in Resident Scenic Designer at the Arvada Center and a few of these credits include: Sense and Memphis. Previous roles at the since 2008. Recent designs include Harvey, Sensibility, White Christmas (Buell Theatre); Arvada Center include Slim in She Loves Me, and the costume design for the A Christmas Carol, and The Unsinkable Molly Of Mice and Men, Lewis in Dividing the Estate, children’s production Charlotte’s Web. Other Brown. Other local design credits include: Les Common Man in A Man for All Seasons, Taylor Arvada Center credits include Man of La Mancha Misérables and Little Women (Theatre Aspen); in Prelude to a Kiss, and Gunny in Defiance. (2013 Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award, and Sweeney Todd (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Mark has performed at the Old Globe in San 2013 Broadway World Denver Award) and Center). She has also done work for the Garner Diego, Central City Opera, Pikes Peak Center, Les Misérables (2009 Colorado Theatre Guild Galleria Theatre, Lone Tree Arts Center and Colorado Shakespeare Festival and many Henry Award). Other companies for which he other local theaters. Jonathan D. Allsup (Stage Manager) most Lewis, Adams State, and Metropolitan State commercials, television and film. Current recently stage-managed Harvey and assistant University of Denver. tours: Nice Work If You Can Get It and Jekyll stage-managed Memphis and She Loves Me & Hyde. Other tours: Joseph and the Amazing (Arvada Center). Jonathan has also served Lisa Cook (Assistant Stage Manager) Arvada Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma!, A Chorus as Creede Repertory Theatre’s production Center credits include: Memphis, End of Line. Off-Broadway: Tennesee Williams’ The stage manager where he stage-managed over the Rainbow, The Mousetrap, A Christmas Two Character Play starring Amanda Plummer six hundred performances of twenty-five Carol, The Musical, Blithe Spirit, Dirty Rotten and Brad Dourif, Triassic Parq, Handle With productions, including The Last Romance, Scoundrels, Ragtime, Sunset Boulevard, and The Care starring Carol Lawrence, National The Liar, The Road to Mecca, Kimberly Crucible. Around Colorado: Cherry Creek Pastime, 666, and Philosophy For Gangsters. Akimbo, Bad Dates, Sweeny Todd, Everything Theatre, Aurora Fox, Theatre Aspen, Colorado Regional theaters include: Riverside Theatre, in the Garden, Crazy for You, A Wonderful Shakespeare Festival. FL; Stages St. Louis, MO; Theatre Aspen, CO; Noise, and world-premieres of Billy Hell and and Tuacahn Performing Arts Center, UT. TV/ Harry the Great. Jonathan teaches theater Wojik | Seay Casting (Casting) is the Film/Webseries: Upstate, Best Man in the Dark, workshops and classes at universities and partnership of Scott Wojcik and Gayle Prologue, Tommy Battles the Silver Sea Dragon, festivals across the nation including Fort Seay. With Erin Denman, they cast theater, and Expert Witness.

ADMINISTRATION Scene Shop Costume Shop and Wardrobe Philip C. Sneed...... Executive Director Nick Cimyotte...... Technical Director Chris Campbell...... Costume Shop Manager Rod A. Lansberry...... Artistic Producer Tim Krueger...... Master Carpenter/Welder Liz Jasperse...... Assistant Costume Shop Manager Rob Reynolds....Design Associate/Scenic Carpenter Crystal McKenzie...... First Hand PRODUCTION Korri Marshall...... Scenic Artist Meredith Murphy...... Costume Crafts Production Staff Jennifer Melcher...... Scenic Artist Alma Henderson...... Costume Crafts Jacob Auten...... Scenic Carpenter Megan O’Connor.....Wig Maintenance Technician Lisa Hoffman...... Artistic Associate Todd Malcolm...... Scenic Carpenter Jessie Page...... Stitcher/Dresser Adam Stolte...... Production Manager Nathan Spurgeon...... Scenic Carpenter Kathy Page...... Stitcher Jacob Kenworthy.....Assistant Production Manager Frank Cason...... Stage Carpenter Jessica Schneider...... Stitcher David Cimyotte...... Lead Theater Technician Kyle Scoggins...... Stage Carpenter Brian Mallgrave...... Resident Scenic Designer Dusty Sloan...... Stage Carpenter Electrics Lisa Cook*...... AEA Stage Manager Jon Olson...... Master Electrician Jonathan D. Allsup*...... AEA Stage Manager Prop Shop Lucy Himsl...... Electrician Maegan Burnell...... Stage Manager Meghan Markiewicz...... Prop Shop Manager Bryan Hudson...... Electrician Melanie Mayner...... Public Relations Manager Melissa Green...... Props Artisan Emily Maddox...... Electrician Liza Kindl...... Props Artisan Wesley Reeves...... Electrician Tom Fletcher...... Electrician Lauren Hergenreter...... Electrician Sound Grant Evenson...... Lead Sound Technician Morgan McCauley...... Sound Technician Bryan Rothrock...... Sound Technician On this production, the Arvada Center Theater’s production staff and crew have created or coordinated all elements of set, lighting, props, sound and costumes. Acknowledgments Performing Arts Committee, and the Arvada Center Volunteers. The Arvada Center would like to acknowledge the following sponsors ofThe Archbishop’s Ceiling

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