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An Inspector Calls Is Presented by Special Arrangement with Robert A FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE GREG LONGENHAGEN, Artistic Director • JOHN MARTIN, Executive Director 2019-2020 SEASON HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT PRESENTS SPONSORED BY NAOMI BLOOM & RON WALLACE MEDIA SPONSOR: ABC7 (WZVN) STARRING ensemble members KATE HAMPTON* • V CRAIG HEIDENREICH* WILLIAM MCNULTY* • BRENDAN POWERS* with COLE FRANCUM* • ELLYN HEALD* • BAILEY TYLER DIRECTED BY MICHAEL MAROTTA** SET DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER DENNIS C. MAULDEN*** STEFANIE GENDA*** TYLER M. PERRY*** ensemble member SOUND DESIGNER PRODUCTION STAGE ASST. STAGE MANAGER KATIE LOWE MANAGER KATIE WILHELM PHILL MADORE* An Inspector Calls is presented by special arrangement with Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency, Inc. Any taping, filming, recording or broadcast of this play (musical or otherwise) is strictly prohibited 2019-20 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS IN THE KNOW. IN THE NOW. This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT J.B. PRIESTLEY Born in Bradford, J.B. Priestley was educated there and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. His reputation as a dramatist was established by Dangerous Corner (1932), Time and the Conways (1937), and other plays on space-time themes, as well as popular comedies THE CAST such as Laburnam Grove (1933), and his (in order of appearance) psychological mystery, An Inspector Calls Arthur Birling............................William McNulty*† (1947). Best known as a writer of novels, Priestley was also master of the essay form. Gerald Croft................................. Brendan Powers*† He was an astute, original, and controversial Sheila Birling............................................Ellyn Heald*† commentator on contemporary society Sybil Birling.......................................Kate Hampton*† —Journey Down the Rainbow (1955) Edna..............................................................Bailey Tyler*† was written with his archaeologist wife, Jacquetta Hawkes. Eric Birling..........................................Cole Francum*† Inspector Goole...............V Craig Heidenreich*† The Working Poor............................Hunter Clarke, Thomas Hadzeriga, Bethany Mansfield, FROM THE DIRECTOR Kylie Gray Mask, Asher Van Meter Welcome to the world of J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, a play first presented in TIME AND PLACE: 1946 at the Old Vic, at the height of WWII All three acts, which are continuous, take and set in 1912 just before the outbreak of place in the dining-room of the Birlings’ WWI, two of the most significant moments house in Brumley, an industrial city in the in the history of the 20th century. North Midlands. It is an evening in Spring, 1912. The play takes place on a single night in the prosperous upper middle-class family home Wardrobe Supervisor: Kelsey Waller following the celebration of their daughter’s Lighting/Sound Board Op: Drew Kobus engagement. Highly successful after its Sound Engineer: Ansley Gayton first and subsequent London productions, Understudies: it is now considered one of Priestley’s Bethany Mansfield (Sheila Birling/Edna) greatest works. Hunter Clarke (Eric Birling) Thomas Hadzeriga (Gerald Croft) While the play may be interpreted as a AN INSPECTOR CALLS will be performed morality tale, something new to the Florida with one 15-minute intermission. Rep audiences, it’s appeal to the Downton Abbey fans out there couldn’t be more The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. relevant today. It focuses on four timeless primary themes: responsibility, class distinction, generational differences and †Member of Florida Repertory Theatre’s the definition of capitalism. And while the Ensemble of Theatre Artists. See page 31 for the entire ensemble. protagonist is a character we never meet but learn quite a bit about, it peels back the * The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this curtain on cause and effect, and how what production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in we do or what we say might trickle down the United States. to places we never imagine. ** Take a seat in the dining room of the Birling home and let’s see what surprises are in store when an inspector calls! *** -Michael Marotta WHO’S WHO COLE FRANCUM* Other selected theater credits include Romeo (Eric Birling) NYC: and Juliet (Lady Capulet), Triumph of Love Between Fire and Smoke (Phocion) at The Shakespeare Theatre of New (Signature Theatre); Jersey; Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra) at Troilus & Cressida LAMDA; The Merchant of Venice (Jessica) at (Columbia Stages). Southwest Shakespeare Company; and Passing Regional: Romeo and Strange (electric bass player in the onstage rock Juliet (Westport Country band) at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, Playhouse); Candide PA. As a musician and singer-songwriter, she (Opera National de Bordeaux/Theatre du has composed original music for productions Capitole); La Cage Aux Folles (Virginia Musical of Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Cymbeline, Theatre); Kiss Me Kate (Summer Theatre of and The Winter’s Tale. She is also a producer New Canaan); Peter Pan (Syracuse Stage), at KernoForto productions, and is a proud Punk Rock, Parade, Twelfth Night, Avenue Q member of Actor’s Equity & SAG-AFTRA. (Syracuse U.); The Magic Flute (Glimmerglass ellynheald.com. Festival); Chicago, Mary Poppins (Broadway Palm); Cinderella (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). V CRAIG “The Hosts” Webseries. Proud BFA Syracuse HEIDENREICH*† University. As always, for his family and (Inspector Goole) has Nathaniel. colefrancum.com appeared at Florida Rep as Frank Butley in Native KATE HAMPTON*† (Sybil Gardens, Adolph Freitag Birling) is very glad to in The Last Night of be back at Florida Rep. Ballyhoo, Juror Eight in Past shows here: A Fox Twelve Angry Men, Atticus on the Fairway, The Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and recently Miracle Worker, How the directed Damascus, Disgraced, Best of Enemies, Other Half Loves, The and, for the PlayLab Festival, Echo Location. Cocktail Hour, Social He also appeared in The Pitmen Painters for Security, Lend Me a Tenor. American Stage in St. Petersburg and directed Broadway: The Best Man, The Deep Blue Sea. Freak for the Urbanite in Sarasota. He has First National Tour: Spring Awakening. More produced, directed, and/or performed in more NYC: The Master Builder (BAM), All My Sons than 200 professional productions throughout (Roundabout), Have You Seen Steve Steven? the country including: 15 seasons and more (13P), The Typographer’s Dream (Clubbed than 80 productions with Actors Theatre of Thumb), Over the River and Through the Louisville, three seasons with the Old Globe Woods. Regional: A Doll’s House, Part 2, Noises Theatre in San Diego, two seasons with the Off, Fallen Angels, God of Carnage, Once in a Asolo in Florida, five with Shakespeare Santa Lifetime, Las Meninas, Boeing Boeing, La Bête, Cruz in California, and three years as artistic Pride and Prejudice, Expecting Isabel (Asolo director of the Complete Theatre Alliance and Rep), Gidion’s Knot (Florida Studio Theatre), Infinite Space, as well as the first three seasons Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Palm Beach of the Banyan Theater in Sarasota—of which Dramaworks), God of Carnage, The Ladies Man, he is a founder. He currently splits his time Talley’s Folly (Peterborough Players), Absurd between theatre work and coaching for Banyan Person Singular (Bristol Rep), Neighborhood 3: Voice and Speech in which he and his wife, Tess Requisition of Doom (Humana Festival), Loot Hogan, are partners.. (The Arden), The Real Thing (Olney), All My Sons, Hard Times (Williamstown). TV: Bones, WILLIAM MCNULTY*† The Law & Order trifecta, The Education of Max (Arthur Birling) has been Bickford, and Sex and the City. an ensemble member at Florida Rep since 2013. In ELLYN HEALD* (Sheila that time, he has appeared Birling) is delighted to be in such roles as Rothko in making her Florida Rep Red, Frank in Educating debut with An Inspector Rita, and Bob Ewell in To Calls. Currently based Kill a Mockingbird, and this in New York City, Ellyn season’s A Fox on the Fairway. The bulk of his trained at the London career has been with Actors Theatre of Louisville, Academy of Music and dating back to 1976. With that company he Dramatic Art where she has directed over 30 productions and acted received her MA in Classical Acting for the in more than 150. He has also performed with Professional Theater. She was most recently other major theaters such as the Public Theatre seen as Lady Macbeth in Stairwell Theater’s in New York, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland production of Macbeth in New York City. Playhouse, Arena Stage, and Milwaukee Rep. WHO’S WHO Representative roles include Jamie in Moon for regional theaters (Cincinnati Playhouse, The the Misbegotten, Alceste in The Misanthrope, Rep of St. Louis, Tennessee Shakes, STAGES Charlie in The Foreigner, Enobarbus in Antony St. Louis, The MUNY, the Signature Theater and Cleopatra, and Scrooge in A Christmas in NYC, Cincinnati Pops, and Florida Studio Carol. He is a 2009 recipient of the prestigious among others)
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