–MAY 17, 2019 THE DIARY MARCH 18 sponsoredOF in part by ANNE FRANK PARK SQUARE THEATRE Otto Frank with Margot and Anne on his lap, 1931

Anne at the Jewish Lyceum, 1941

Edith Frank with Anne & Margot in Frankfurt, 1933

Anne on the flat roof of their house,1940 Anne a few months before going into hiding, 1942

2 parksquaretheatre.org / 651.291.7005 THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK BY FRANCES GOODRICH & ALBERT HACKETT ON THE PROSCENIUM STAGE ARTISTIC STAFF Director...... Ellen Fenster Scenic Designer...... Gabriel Backlund Costume Designer...... Elin Anderson Assistant Costume Designer...... Kathleen Martin Lighting Designer...... Michael P. Kittel Original Sound Designer...... Randall Seitz Sound Designer...... Anita Kelling Properties Designer...... Robert-Bruce Brake Properties Master...... Laura Topham Fight Choreographer...... Joe Isenberg Vocal Coach...... Ruth Coughlin Lencowski Composer...... Jerry La Fave Stage Manager...... Lyndsey R. Harter* Assistant Stage Manager ...... Kyla Moloney CAST Mr. Otto Frank...... Michael Paul Levin* Miep ...... Rachel Austin Mrs. Van Daan...... Julie Ann Nevill Mr. Van Daan ...... Jon Andrew Hegge* Peter Van Daan...... Ryan London Levin Mrs. Frank...... Laurie Flanigan Hegge* Margot Frank...... Eva Gemlo Anne Frank...... Sulia Rose Altenberg Mr. Kraler...... Jim Pounds Mr. Dussel...... Charles Fraser* UNDERSTUDIES: Sarah Frazier, Eva Gemlo, Jon Andrew Hegge*, Andrew Newman, Charles Numrich, Vincent Hannam, Diana Wilde SETTING Amsterdam, Holland: World War II and immediately thereafter. PERFORMANCE TIME 2 hours, 30 minutes (including intermission).

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FRANCES GOODRICH and ALBERT HACKETT were American dramatists and screenwriters, and married to each other. They are best known for their collaborations together. Awards and recognitions include Academy Award nominations for Best Screenplay for The Thin Man (1934), After the Thin Man (1936), Father of the Bride (1950) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1955). They won Writers Guild of America awards for Easter Parade (1949), Father's Little Dividend (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), as well as nominations for In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Father of the Bride (1950) and The Long, Long Trailer (1954). They also won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for their original play The Diary of Anne Frank. Some of their other films include: Another Thin Man (1939) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

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SULIA ROSE ALTENBERG Institute, Nautilus Music Theatre Other Anne Frank Neighborhood Bridges Teaching Artist, Children’s Theatre Company; Crisis Actor, Park Square The Diary of MN Crisis Intervention Upcoming 2019 Artist Anne Frank Representative Initiative Grant Recipient (MSAB) Theatre Walking Shadow Theatre Company: Red Velvet; Loudmouth Collective: Waiting for CHARLES FRASER* Mr. Dussel Waiting for Godot; Mainly Me Productions: A Justice League of Their Own, The Wright Park Square August: Stuff, Backlash; Theatre Unbound: Graceland; Osage County, Defiance, Illusion Theater: Keepin’ It Real; Daleko Arts: The Triumph of Love A City Council Christmas, The Philadelphia Representative Theatre Story; Comedy Suitcase: The Harty Boys; Frank Yellow Tree Theatre: The Royale; Ordway: Theatre: The Visit, By the Bog of Cats Training Annie; Zephyr Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s B.A., Cultural Studies and Comparative Dream; History Theatre: The Buddy Holly Literature, University of Minnesota and the Story; Guthrie Theater: Ah, Wilderness!; University of Amsterdam; Park Square Theatre Theatre de la Jeune Lune: Tartuffe; Disney Ambassador 2012-2013 Upcoming Open Eye Cruise Line’s Disney Magic: Off Beat Figure Theatre Fusebox Project; Lyric Arts: Comedy Club Film Hinkleton; The Completely Legally Blonde the Musical Remarkable, Utterly Fabulous Transformation of a Regular Joe Training B.F.A., University RACHEL AUSTIN of Mississippi Accolades Ivey Award for Miep Ensemble Acting in Jungle Theater’s Driving Miss Daisy Upcoming Rochester Civic Park Square Debut Theatre: Moon Over Buffalo Representative Theatre Theatre Pro Rata: Rocket Man; Artistry: Blithe Spirit; EVA GEMLO Margot Frank Comedy Suitcase: The Averagers, Kafka Nuts; Other Tiger Productions: Elysium Blues; Park Square Debut Theatre in the Round: Love, Loss, and What Representative Theatre I Wore, Independence Training B.A., Theatre Classical Actors Ensemble: and Dance, Macalester College; Wesley Balk Measure for Measure; Walking Shadow Theatre Company:

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Equivocation; Theatre Coup d’Etat: Moby Actor’s Theater of MN: Sleuth; History Theatre: Dick; Mission Theater Company: Trojan The Immigrant; St. Croix Valley: My Fair Lady; Women; Zephyr Theater: Twelfth Night; SPIN Mixed Blood Theatre: The Boys Next Door; Paul Theater: Eurydice Training B.A., Theatre, Bunyan Playhouse: I Ought to Be in Pictures TV/ Luther College Upcoming DalekoArts: Peter Film Thin Ice, Hiding Victoria, I Am Not A Serial and the Starcatcher Killer, In an Instant, The Jingle Dress, Don’t Blow It Training American Academy of Dramatic JON ANDREW HEGGE* Arts, West Accolades/Other Morrow-Heus Mr. Van Daan Screenwriting Fellowship, Fargo-Moorhead Park Square Cyrano, The Community Theatre Playwright Award Diary of Anne Frank, Ragtime Representative Theatre RYAN LONDON LEVIN Guthrie Theater: 1776; Mixed Peter Van Daan Blood Theatre: An Octoroon; History Theatre: Park Square The Diary of Sweetland; Ordway: Beauty and the Beast; Anne Frank Representative Door Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew; Theatre History Theatre: Northern Sky Theatre: Loose Lips Sink Ships; Teen Idol: The Bobby Vee Minnesota Opera: The Merry Widow & The Story, Orphan Train; Trademark Theater: The Hollywood Tycoon TV/Film Diagnosis Murder, Boy and Robin Hood; Bitter Boy Productions: A.K.A. Birdseye Training M.F.A., University of Silence The Musical; Artistry: Fiddler on Minnesota Upcoming History Theatre: Dirty the Roof, The Last Five Years; Cromulent Business; Guthrie Theater: Guys and Dolls Shakespeare Company: Romeo and Juliet Upcoming History Theatre: Dirty Business; LAURIE FLANIGAN Park Square Theatre: Jefferson Township HEGGE* Sparkling Junior Talent Pageant Mrs. Frank Park Square The Diary of JULIE ANN NEVILL Anne Frank Representative Mrs. Van Daan Theatre (as Actor) History Park Square The Diary of Theatre: Radio Man, Buddy - The Buddy Holly Anne Frank, Melville Slept Story, Baby Case; Nautilus Music-Theater: Here, Dracula, Ten Little Joan of Arc; Northern Sky Theater: Muskie Indians, Lady Windermere’s Love, Lumberjacks in Love; (as Bookwriter Fan Representative Theatre Walking Shadow and Lyricist) History Theatre: Dirty Business, Theatre Company: The Whale; Minnesota Sweet Land, the Musical; Hormel Girls; Jewish Theatre Company: The Magic Dreidels; Twenty Days to Find a Wife; Tales Along Paul Bunyan Playhouse: I Ought To Be in the Minnesota Trail (at Minnesota Zoo); Pictures; Theatre Pro Rata: The Knight of the Northern Sky Theater: Boxcar, Loose Lips Burning Pestle; Bloomington Civic Theatre: Sink Ships, See Jane Vote Other Laurie serves God of Carnage; Jungle Theater: Torch Song as the Twin Cities Regional Rep for the Trilogy TV/Film Herman, USA; Haunted; In the Dramatists Guild of America Kitchen with...; Auto Tow commercial; Theater People web series; In An Instant (ABC); Lady MICHAEL PAUL LEVIN* Dynamite (Netflix) Training B.A., Theatre, Mr. Otto Frank University of Minnesota-Morris; TV & Film Park Square Might as Well training, University of MN-Morris; Mask Be Dead, The Diary of Anne training, In the Heart of the Beast Theatre Frank, Of Mice and Men, Accolades 2012 Ivey Award for Julius Caesar; The Red Box, Laughter on the City Pages Top 10 Shows of 2014 for The 23rd Floor, August: Osage County, The Sisters Whale; Lavender Magazine 2009 Best Cross- Rosensweig, The Soul of Gershwin Representative Gender Performance Theatre Illusion Theater: Bill W. & Dr. Bob; 5 Cast

JIM POUNDS Company: Fat Pig; Girl Friday Productions: Mr. Kraler An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf; Daleko Arts: Wait Until Dark Training B.A., Park Square Might as Well English and Art, Gustavus Adolphus College; Be Dead, The Diary of Doctoral program in Dramatic Literature, Anne Frank, The Red Box, University of Minnesota; Guthrie Theater: Saint Joan, Mary Stuart, Internship in Dramaturgy Other Costume Julius Caesar Representative Theatre Walking Designer for Metropolitan State University Shadow Theatre Company: Gross Indecency: and Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing The Trial of Oscar Wilde; Theater Latté Da: Artists; Costume Designer and guest speaker Company; Bloomington Civic Theatre: My for Saint Paul Academy Fair Lady; Actors Theater of Minnesota: A Thousand Clowns; Torch Theater: Fezziwig’s GABRIEL BACKLUND Scenic Designer Feast; Gremlin Theatre: The Homecoming Park Square American Family, The Heiress, Other Media Director for The College of St. Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Waltz of the Scholastica at the St. Paul campus Toreadors, Harvey, The Fantasticks, Arcadia, Hamlet, Fortinbras, Fashion, Ten Little Indians, Artistic Staff The Crucible; Technical Director/Resident Scenic Designer: 1995-1999 Representative Theatre Red Eye Theatre: (Company ELLEN FENSTER Member) Blue Moon, The Passion of Lucy, Director Strange Interlude Park Square The Diary of Anne RUTH COUGHLIN LENCOWSKI Frank Representative Theatre Vocal Coach Pillsbury House Theatre: Bright Half Life; Gremlin Park Square Antigone, A Midsummer Night’s Theatre: H20, Rocket to the Moon, The Effect of Dream Representative Theatre East West Players, Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, Sea Theatricum Botanicum, Chalk Rep Theatre, Marks, Burn This; Mu Performing Arts: The Tiger Stella Adler Academy, Trinity Repertory Company, Among Us; Workhaus Collective: Homegrown, The LaMaMa E.T.C., Primary Stages Training B.A., Great Divide; Phoenix Theater Project: Art, Proof; Theatre Performance, Fordham University; M.F.A., Artistry: Blithe Spirit Accolades/Other Pillsbury Acting, Brown University Other Voice, speech, and House Theatre: Artistic Programs Associate dialect coach for actors and productions in the 2001-Present; Artistic Director, Chicago Avenue Twin Cities, Los Angeles, and New York Project 2008-2014; Illusion Theater: Artistic Stage Manager Associate, 2001-Present; Producer, Lights Up! LYNDSEY R. HARTER* Series 2006-2010; CAMP!: Artistic and Executive Park Square The Agitators, The Diary of Anne Director 2015-Present; South High School: Frank, Cardboard Piano, The House on Mango Artistic Director, 2008-Present Street; (as Assistant Stage Manager) Flower Drum Song (co-production with Theater Mu), ELIN ANDERSON Costume Designer Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, My Children! Park Square Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, My Africa!, Murder for Two, The Other Place; Sexy Laundry, The School for Lies, Mary T. & (as Run Crew/Wardrobe) The Color Purple Lizzy K., Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Sisters Rosensweig, Representative Theatre Theater Latté Da: Man Steel Magnolias, Enchanted April, Romeo and of La Mancha; Theater Mu: The Korean Drama Juliet, Visiting Mr. Green, Of Mice and Men Addict’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity (at Park Representative Theatre Minnesota Jewish Square), Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Theatre: Moonlight and Magnolias; Gilbert Murder Mystery; Great River Shakespeare and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company: Festival: As You Like It; History Theatre: Ruddigore; Starting Gate Productions: A View Neighbors; Minnesota Opera: Fellow Travelers from the Bridge; Walking Shadow Theatre

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JOE ISENBERG Fight Choreographer KATHLEEN MARTIN Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Assistant Costume Designer Washington National Opera, Children’s Park Square The Diary of Anne Frank Theatre Company, GlimmerGlass Festival, Bard Representative Theatre Yellow Tree Theatre: The SummerScape, New York City Opera, Arena Royale; Lyric Arts: Wait Until Dark; Theater Latté Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Da: Gypsy Training B.F.A., Costume Design and Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, Production, University of Minnesota Duluth Humana Festival Training B.F.A., North Carolina School of the Arts Accolades 2013 Helen Hayes RANDALL SEITZ (1952-2007*) Award for Outstanding Choreography, The Original Sound Designer Kennedy Center Kenan Fellowship, 2010 Society Park Square Goodnight Desdemona (Good of American Fight Directors Swashbuckler of the Morning Juliet), Of Mice and Men, The Miracle Year Upcoming Fort Worth Opera: Porgy and Bess Worker, Julius Caesar, Equus, The Diary of Anne Frank, Hamlet, The Glass Menagerie, A View ANITA KELLING Sound Supervisor from the Bridge Representative Theatre Actors Park Square Might as Well Be Dead, The Snow Theater of St. Paul: (as Sound Designer); Queen, Murder for Two, Shooting Star, The House Illusion Theater: (as Technical Director); F.K. on Mango Street, 33 Variations, The Red Box, The Weyerhaeuser Auditorium Landmark Center Diary of Anne Frank Representative Theatre Theatre *In memoriam. We will not forget Randy’s wit, Mu/Mixed Blood Theatre: Two Mile Hollow; curiosity and significant contribution to Park Walking Shadow Theatre Company: Gabriel; Square productions from 1992-2007. Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company: What I Thought I Knew; Girl Friday Productions: Idiot’s Production Staff & Crew Delight (at Park Square); Prime Productions: Two Degrees; Yellow Tree Theatre: Clybourne Associate Artistic Director: Laura Leffler Park; Theatre Unbound: Mere Trifles; Freshwater Technical Director: Gaea Dill-D’Ascoli Theatre: Pioneer Suite Training B.A., Theatre Arts, Interim Production Manager: University of Minnesota Mary Montgomery-Jensen Master Carpenter: Trevor Muller-Hegel MICHAEL P. KITTEL Lighting Designer Carpenters: Eric Hofstad, Robert Czernik, Park Square Over 150 productions (as Resident Brittany Pooladian Lighting Designer) including The Color Purple, Repertory Crew Head: Gaea Dill-D’Ascoli Red, Ragtime, Grey Gardens, Democracy, To Kill a Master Electrician: Brent Anderson Mockingbird, Rock ‘n’ Roll Representative Theatre Sound Supervisor: Charlotte Deranek Ordway, Frank Theatre, Stages Theatre Company, Steppingstone Theatre, Mu Performing Arts, Sound Board Operator: Aaron Newman Bloomington Civic Theatre TV/Film tpt: The Wardrobe Supervisor: Aaron Chvatal St. Olaf Christmas Festival Training University Wardrobe/Dresser: Kathleen Martin of Wisconsin-River Falls Accolades Ivey Award for The Pillowman (Frank Theatre); Lavender Park Square Education Staff Magazine Best Lighting Design 2008 & 2009 Education Director: Mary M. Finnerty JERRY LA FAVE Composer Education Sales & Services Manager: Park Square Enchanted April, The Diary of Anne Connor M. McEvoy Frank, Art, The Cryptogram, The Miracle Worker, Education Associate: William Edson Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Glass Menagerie *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Representative Theatre (as Composer) Seven Managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and years of musical composition for theatre; Theatre foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in the Round: Original score for Jeffrey won at in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working regional and national festivals; Genesis Theatre: conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and Crossing Delancey Training M.A., Music, State stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, University of New York an international organization of performing arts unions. For information, visit www.actorsequity.org. 7 2019-2020 STUDENT SEASON AUBERGINE OCT 8, 9 & 15, 2019 PAIGE IN FULL OCT 25, 29, 30 & 31 2019 A RAISIN IN THE SUN NOV 18 –DEC 20, 2019 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE DEC 3 –19, 2019 EVITA FEB 11–26, 2020 FACE TO FACE: OUR HMONG COMMUNITY MAR 5, 10, 11 & 12, 2020 ROMEO AND JULIET MAR 23 – APR 24, 2020 THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK MAR 16–MAY 15, 2020 MISS YOU LIKE HELL APR 28 & 29, 2020

Park Square Theatre Educator Advisory Board Marcia Aubineau University of St. Thomas, Retired Jennifer Parker Falcon Ridge Middle School Liz Erickson Rosemount High School, Retired Maggie Quam Hmong College Prep Academy Theodore Fabel South High School Kate Schilling Mound Westonka High School Amy Hewett-Olatunde Humboldt High School Jack Schlukebier Central High School, Retired Cheryl Hornstein Freelance Theatre and Music Educator Tanya Sponholz Prescott High School Alexandra Howes Twin Cities Academy Jill Tammen Hudson High School, Retired Dr. Virginia McFerran Perpich Center for Arts Education Craig Zimanske Forest Lake Area High School Kristin Nelson Brooklyn Center High School

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