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★ Director and Fight Director John Sipes

Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer/Composer ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Michael Ganio Bill Black Kenton Yeager Joe Payne

Dramaturg Voice and Text Coach Stage Manager Heather Hirschfeld Sara Becker Danny Kuenzel ✣

Producing Artistic Director Managing Director Production Manager Calvin MacLean Tom Cervone Susan L. McMillan

✣ ★ The Director is a member of the Stage ◆ The Designers in LORT Theatres are The stage manager and assistant stage manager Directors and Choreographers Society, a represented by United Scenic Artists, appear through the courtesy of Actors' Equity national theatrical labor union. Local USA-829 of the IATSE. Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

E01-1035-002-20 Our Hamlet In an interview, I asked Charles Pasternak, our Hamlet, to talk a bit about how he relates to the character and the complicated circumstances of “Hamlet’s” tragic journey. Here is an edited excerpt of our conversation.

JS: We often overlook the fact that the play begins dangerous and terrifying world in which you are after two traumatic events recently occurred in rooting for someone to murder indiscriminately. Hamlet’s life: his father just died, suddenly and And I relate to that, and I think most people do. mysteriously, and his mother quickly married his uncle; grief and anger have overwhelmed him. JS: We all feel the urge to get even.

CP: Yes, as the play opens, Hamlet’s emotional CP: Absolutely. And so does Hamlet. But his mind world has utterly collapsed and he is in deep, is wide enough to ask: at what cost? I’ve never had deep anguish. As a result, he begins to question suicidal thoughts. But I do relate to the idea that if everything; nothing in life is certain or permanent. faced with these kinds of decisions: do I kill or do I I think we can all relate to this – and it is what keep living even though I’m living in suffering? Is it leads to his famous delay; his hesitation. His very worth it? Is it worth it to be here? idea of the world has been flipped upside down, JS: It is important to keep in mind that the death so how can he trust anything? of his father and the hasty marriage of his mother JS: In Hamlet’s case, he has been asked to kill his have pushed him to the edge emotionally. uncle and he hesitates to do so, for any number CP: Absolutely. What I think you’ve brought so of reasons, but certainly one reason is that it clearly to this production, which I’m so moved by, presents a moral conundrum. is just the depth of his grief at the beginning of the CP: Yes, it is a moral conundrum and I think it is play. It is easy to forget when looking at the sort of interesting that even today, in 2020, we hear the artistic mountain that this play has become in the ghost’s command and we accept it as reasonable; western canon, that it starts with a young man in that Hamlet should avenge his father’s death by agonizing grief; in nihilistic anguish over the death committing murder. of his father and what he perceives as the betrayal of his mother. Anyone who has suffered real loss JS: We all know the feeling of wanting to seek can relate to this: “How weary, stale, flat, and revenge for some perceived offense. unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world…”

CP: Absolutely. I think that is universal and we JS: Late in the play, when Hamlet returns from can all feel it. But Hamlet’s being asked to murder England, something in his personality has shifted, someone. And even if you believe that there are some processing has occurred. times when murder is justified, he is being asked to do so without evidence. He only has the word CP: He has gone through a change. He has gone on of a ghost. One could say that this is spiritual a long journey both physically and also existentially. evidence but Hamlet has real questions about the When he returns he is not the same person. I don’t spiritual validity of who the ghost is… think he has a death wish, as some claim, but rather he has come to peace with death and being JS: The ghost could be a demon pretending to be ready for the moment when it comes. I think it’s his father--it could all be demon trickery. interesting that upon returning he knows that forces are going to move against him. At one point he CP: Exactly. So what he has to do is mine deeper says, “how ill’s all here about my heart.” He knows and deeper for the truth – both hard evidence something’s wrong. But he’s ready now to face it. (Did his uncle actually do it?) and moral decision (Am I a killer? Do I want to be?). So Hamlet is JS: He has come to an acceptance, and achieves digging, digging, digging… What frustrates some an admirable degree of emotional maturity… commentators is the idea that he is a prince that can’t make up his mind. (Olivier began his film with CP: Yes. “The readiness is all.” that statement.) I disagree with that. It is a very heavy burden to take on… if you are considering killing someone, it deserves thought. It is a ~ John Sipes, Director the Cast Charles Pasternak *...... Hamlet Michael Elich *...... Claudius/The Ghost Abbey Siegworth *...... Gertrude David Brian Alley *...... Polonius Collin Andrews *...... Laertes Brittany Marie Pirozzoli...... Ophelia Jade Arnold *...... Horatio Peter Mayer Klepchick ...... Marcellus, Player, Lucianus, Soldier, ...... Pallbearer, Courtier, Ensemble Michael Najman...... Bernardo, Priest, Player, Soldier, Courtier, Ensemble Owen Squire Smith *...... Rosencrantz Davion T. Brown ...... Guildenstern John Cherry ...... Gravedigger, Captain, Courtier, Ensemble Roderick Peeples *...... Player King, Courtier, Pallbearer, Ensemble Brenda Orellana *...... Player Queen Zachariah Lidstone *...... Osric/Ensemble Rachel Darden ...... Gertrude's Confidante, Player, Prologue, ...... Lady of the Court, Ensemble Amberlin McCormick...... Ophelia's Confidante, Messenger, Ensemble Jordan Gatton-Bumpus...... Courtier, Player, Soldier, Pallbearer, Ensemble

This production has one 15-minute intermission.

This production employs the use of theatrical haze.

✣ The actors appear through the courtesy of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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Clarence Brown Theatre | 3 Written by Heather Hirschfeld

hat’s Hamlet to us? Why is it that we are compelled, like audiences around the globe for over four centuries, by William Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark? No other drama has been so extensively discussed, performed, adapted, or alluded to as Hamlet. No other central role has held the same appeal for actors, including women. Signature male Hamlets can be traced from Richard Burbage in Shakespeare’s day to David Garrick and Edmund Kean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from Sir John Gielgud and David Warner in the twentieth century to Benedict Cumberbatch and Paapa Essiedu in the twenty- first. And starting with Charlotte Charke, Fanny Furnival, and Sarah Siddons in the eighteenth century, women have also, and productively, been cast as Hamlet, with Sarah Bernhardt at the turn of the twentieth century and Ruth Negga in the twenty-first.

There are many reasons for our interest in this character and this play. They stem from Hamlet’s plot, based on an early thirteenth-century Danish chronicle history and rooted in perennial themes of family rivalry, love, loss, and grief. Shakespeare transformed the old story at the start of the seventeenth century, shaping it into a tragedy and deepening its mystery by introducing the crucial figure of a ghost.

The play opens at court in Elsinore soon after the death of the prince’s royal father, King Hamlet. Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, has just wed his uncle, Claudius. Hamlet, still in mourning, learns from the ghost of his father that he was poisoned by Claudius, a fratricidal “murder most foul” that has allowed the killer to seize crown and queen. The ghost commands Hamlet to get revenge on his uncle but to spare his mother. For the rest of the play the hero operates under this pressure, trying to cope with this knowledge and to “set things right.”

Hamlet’s efforts increase our fascination with him. As an obedient son but a reluctant revenger, Hamlet demonstrates profound psychological complexity. As a scholar who has pledged both to remember and to act, Hamlet displays great philosophical and theological range. As a shrewd child of the court trying to elude its surveillance while exposing its corruption, Hamlet models a canny form of political resistance.

Finally, as a theater connoisseur, Hamlet investigates the “purpose of playing.” Negotiating the world after his father’s death and his mother’s remarriage, he repeatedly questions the relationship between illusion and reality. He asks a visiting troupe of actors to rehearse the fall of Troy for him, and he marvels when one of them is moved to tears by the fate of the mythic

4 | Clarence Brown Theatre Trojan queen. “What’s Hecuba to him?” he wonders, the model for our opening question. Hamlet asks the troupe to perform for the court, and he gives them acting instructions before they conduct their play-within-a-play. And when, after his encounter with the ghost, he assumes his “antic disposition,” he becomes a performer in his own right.

Sir Laurence Olivier, who played the prince on both stage and screen in the middle of the last century, noted that Hamlet “approaches life like an actor, always trying on new characterizations to see if they fit.” We see this approach in his conversations with other characters but also in his conversations with himself, in his soliloquies. Shakespeare had been writing soliloquies for his characters since the start of his career, but in this play they take on a special prominence. They seem to give us glimpses into Hamlet’s mind at work and, as in the celebrated “to be or not to be” passage, to demonstrate his capacity for internal reflection and debate.

In the Carousel theater the soliloquy can be especially intimate. We are fortunate to be working on an exquisitely designed thrust stage. This kind of space allows for interaction between audience and actor, so that spectators can feel they have been transported to Elsinore even as they remember they are watching a performance. Although our costumes, props and lighting are modern, reinforcing the old story’s contemporary relevance, the thrust stage recalls Hamlet’s earliest productions at the Globe Theatre in London. It was performed there for the first time around 1600, when Shakespeare’s contemporaries would have been especially sensitive to its treatment of royal succession, ghostly haunting, and personal salvation.

Since then, Hamlet has invited different cultures to see their own psychological and political predicaments in Hamlet’s situation in Elsinore, and to use the play as a means of expressing urgent existential dilemmas about power, action, generational decline, authenticity, theatricality. It has a place in performance traditions from Russia to Japan to Germany to Mexico to Egypt to Denmark to Poland. As the great Shakespeare scholar Jan Kott has said, the play is “like a sponge. . . . it immediately absorbs all the problems of our time.” The Prince’s story has been told repeatedly, in venues and with technologies – like our sound engineering of the ghost’s voice and our elegant suspended lights -- that Shakespeare could hardly have imagined. All its audiences must solve the riddle for themselves: What is Hamlet to us?

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Clarence Brown Theatre | 7 the Actors JOHN CHERRY King John in King John; Harold Hill in The Music (Gravedigger, Captain, Man; Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew; Steven Courtier, Ensemble) is a local Kodaly in She Loves Me; Thersites in Troilus and actor and director, a 1984 Cressida; Harry Van in Idiot’s Delight; Hotspur graduate of UT Theatre, and and Bardolph in Henry IV; and Moe Axelrod in a retired Lieutenant Colonel Awake and Sing! In three seasons with the Utah from the U.S. Air Force. Shakespeare Festival, Mr. Elich has been seen as He is currently the Artistic Long John Silver in Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation Director for the Primary Players Children's Theatre of Treasure Island; The Duke of York in Henry Group in Blount County and works for Leadership VI; Macduff inMacbeth ; Jaques in As You Like It; Knoxville. Among his favorite roles: Prof. Harold Burbage in Shakespeare in Love; and Doctor Caius Hill in The Music Man, Sidney Bruhl in Deathtrap, in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Internationally he and Tateh in Ragtime. He lives in Maryville with his premiered David Edgar’s Continental Divide at wife Melanie. Their daughter Alex works in L.A. for London’s Barbican Theatre. A Juilliard graduate, Disney Studios...proud papa. Mr. Elich has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway and Regional Theaters including The Public RACHEL DARDEN Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Hartford Stage, (Gertrude's Confidant, Player Milwaukee Rep, Syracuse Stage, Berkeley Rep, Prologue, Lady of the Court, Dallas Theatre Co, and the 30th anniversary Ensemble) is a first-year production of Inherit the Wind with E. G. Marshall MFA Acting candidate who at The Papermill Playhouse. TV credits include One has come to UTK from her Life to Live and Ryan’s Hope. michaelelich.com home state of Colorado. After receiving her BA in Musical JORDAN Theatre, she spent time in New York City before GATTON-BUMPUS taking time off acting to explore such interests as (Courtier, Player, Soldier, yurt living, hitchhiking through New Zealand, and Pallbearer, Ensemble) making pie. For the past four years, she has been is a second-year undergrad honing her craft in the Denver area and has been student at the University an active member in the Education Department at of Tennessee and is super the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Rachel excited to be performing is an avid puzzler and the proud aunt of two cats. in the Carousel for the first time. You may have seen him previously in the CBT’s A Christmas MICHAEL ELICH Carol, or last year in the Lab Theatre in The Real (Claudius/The Ghost) is Inspector Hound. He would like to thank his pleased to be back at the family and friends for their constant love, John Clarence Brown Theatre Sipes and all others involved for this opportunity, where he was previously and all of you for coming out to Hamlet. This one seen as Prime Minister is for you Padre. Evans in King Charles III and Mark Rothko in RED. In 21 seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mr. Elich has been seen in 47 productions in roles as varied as Claudius in Hamlet; Jaggers in Great Expectations; Feste and Orsino in Twelfth Night; The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance;

8 | Clarence Brown Theatre the Actors PETER MAYER Joseph's Baby (River and Rail Theatre). Amberlin KLEPCHICK would like to thank her wonderful instructors, (Marcellus, Player, Lucianus, family, and classmates! You can also follow her Soldier, Pallbearer, Courtier, journey on Instagram: @theundercoverratchet Ensemble) is thrilled to be a first year MFA Acting MICHAEL NAJMAN candidate at UTK. Originally (Bernardo, Priest, Player, from Frenchtown, NJ, he Soldier, Courtier, Ensemble) received his BA in International Law at Rider is a first-year graduate University where he played Division One baseball, acting candidate of the but ultimately resigned his senior year after an MFA program at UTK. He impromptu acting class. Previous film credits most recently appeared in A include Mac in The Girl on the Train, Brad in Christmas Carol (Scadger) at Groupers, Bradley in The Beautiful Ones are All the Clarence Brown Theatre. Previous Shakespeare Mad and a half-dozen festival winning short films. credits include Twelfth Night (Sir Toby), The Tempest (Stephano), and Hamlet (Ophelia). ZACHARIAH LIDSTONE BRENDA ORELLANA (Osric, Player, Soldier, (Player Queen) is an actor, Pallbearer, Ensemble) writer and director from Los is proud to be in the MFA Angeles, California dedicated Acting Graduate Class of in bringing untold stories to 2022. He hails from Montana, light. Brenda is a third-year and received his Bachelor MFA Acting candidate at of Arts in Musical Theatre from The University of the University of Tennessee, Northern Colorado. His most recent CBT credit Knoxville where her CBT theatre credits include is A Christmas Carol. Some of his past regional People Where They Are, Alias Grace, King Charles theatre credits include Huck in Big River, Pierpont III, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Urinetown, and A Finch in How to Succeed, Harold Hill in The Music Christmas Carol. To continue her work in directing, Man, and Troy Bolton in High School Musical. devising and writing, she co-founded Hear Me Zachariah considers himself very blessed to be a Roar Theatre Company with her cohort Aleah part of CBT, and is also a proud member of the Vassell, where she will be workshopping and Actors’ Equity Association. Play on! performing her new play Sun Kissed Montañas here in Knoxville in March 2020. She’d like to AMBERLIN thank John for the wonderful opportunity of being in such a heartwarming play and to you all for McCORMICK your support. Brenda is a proud AEA member. (Ophelia's Confidant, Messenger, Ensemble) is so excited to be making her Clarence Brown Theatre debut in Hamlet. She is a first- year graduate acting student here at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Her most recent credits include: Viola in Twelfth Night (National Black Theatre Festival); Eurydice in Eurydice (Warehouse Performing Arts Center); and Avigail in The Unusual Tale of Mary and

Clarence Brown Theatre | 9 the Actors CHARLES BRITTANY MARIE PASTERNAK PIROZZOLI (Hamlet) Previously at CBT: (Ophelia) At the Clarence Black Stache in Peter and the Brown Theatre, Brittany has Starcatcher, Marplot in The performed in Alabama Story Busy Body, and Saturninus in (Lily Whitfield),Urinetown: Titus Andronicus. Regional: The Musical (Hope Cladwell), American Players Theatre, Candide (Ensemble, u/s to Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Cunegonde), A Christmas Carol (Christmas Past), Theatre, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, The Detroit ‘67 (Caroline), The Madwoman of Chaillot Denver Center, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Sierra (Street Singer), and People Where They Are (May). Repertory Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, Coachella In Cleveland, Ohio she understudied Ophelia and Valley Repertory, among others. Favorite roles Player Queen for Great Lakes Theatre Company’s include: Napoleon (Man of Destiny), Orsino, production of Hamlet. Other Ohio productions Mercutio, Black Stache, Leontes, Trotter (The include: Quality Street (Miss Susan), Big Love Mousetrap), Macbeth (twice), Octavius, Valentine (Lydia), The Two Noble Kinsmen (Emilia), Henry (twice), Iago, Hotspur, Henry V (twice), Hamlet, IV: Part II (Shallow), Romeo and Juliet (Balthasar), Oedipus, Berowne, and Romeo (twice). Charles Dark of The Moon (Mrs. Bergen, u/s to Barbara is the Artistic Director of The Porters of Hellsgate Allen), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella Theatre Company in Los Angeles. (Cinderella), White Christmas (Betty Haynes), and www.charlespasternak.com Pride and Prejudice (Jane Bennet). Locally, Brittany sang in Side by Side by Sondheim (a musical RODERICK PEEPLES review of Sondheim’s work). To all who have been (Player King, Courtier, a part of this production, to friends, to family: Pallbearer, Ensemble) is based Grazie di cuore. www.brittanypirozzoli.com in Chicago, and is pleased to return to the Clarence Brown ABBEY SIEGWORTH Theatre’s Carousel stage. He (Gertrude) is excited to was most recently seen as return to the CBT family with Fezziwig/Ghost of Christmas Hamlet. Previous Clarence Present in A Christmas Carol 2019. Previously at Brown credits include: Kate in CBT, he performed in Candide, Three Sisters, The King Charles III and Titania in Crucible, A Christmas Carol 2016, The Open Hand, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Threepenny Opera, Amadeus, and played Originally from the Chicago the title role in Life of Galileo. In Chicago: Many area, she currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Abbey roles at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Goodman, has worked with Titan Theatre Company and Steppenwolf, Remy Bumppo, Victory Gardens, Three Day Hangover (NYC); Nebraska Repertory Famous Door, Court, and Next theatres. A Joseph Theatre; American Players Theatre; Dallas Theater Jefferson Award for Dealers Choice (Roadworks), Center as a member of the Brierley Resident and a Joseph Jefferson Citation for Orphans Acting Company; Montana Shakespeare in the (CT20 Ensemble). Regional: Many shows with Utah Parks; and several theaters in Milwaukee and Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Madison Chicago. Favorite recent roles include: the title Repertory, and Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Film: role in Electra, Abigail (Abigail/1702), and Jennifer Robert Altman’s The Company, Road to Perdition, (The Doctor’s Dilemma). Abbey spent last summer Novocaine, The Hudsucker Proxy. TV: Chicago Fire, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the play Chicago Med, Prison Break, ER, Early Edition, and Boswell; and stars in the independent filmStolen the Untouchables series (syndicated). Season, currently making the festival circuit. She is

10 | Clarence Brown Theatre a proud member of the Actors' Equity Association. BFA University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana; MFA Southern Methodist University. Much thanks to John for inviting her to play again! The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is one www.abbeysiegworth.com of just 12 universities nationwide with its own professional LORT theatre. The Clarence Brown Theatre Company is a LORT D company and is OWEN SQUIRE SMITH fully integrated into the Department of Theatre’s (Rosencrantz) is a third-year academic curriculum. Three of the six mainstage MFA Acting candidate at productions are produced on the LORT contract, UTK. Originally from Grand allowing students the opportunity to work with seasoned professionals. Rapids, MI, he received his BFA in Acting for the Stage Founded in 1974 with Sir Anthony Quayle as and Screen at Azusa Pacific Artistic Director, the Clarence Brown Theatre University in California. Company is one of the older companies in the Previous CBT credits include Blue Window, LORT system. It has a distinguished history of hosting artists of national stature including Urinetown, Candide, A Christmas Carol, King Mary Martin, John Cullum, Zoe Caldwell, Charles III, The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Carol Mayo Jenkins, David Keith, Dale Dickey, People Where They Are. He would like to thank and Teresa Williams among others. John Sipes for this wonderful opportunity, all the phenomenal professors, the production All Department of Theatre faculty have dual team, the supportive cast and crew, former appointments with the professional company in their area of expertise. MFA Performance teachers, his entire loving family, Mom, Dad, and students may join the Clarence Brown Theatre especially, J.C. Olas. For Matt Fouch and Robert Company in their third year of study. MFA Design Porter, in memoriam. students have the opportunity to work on LORT productions throughout their graduate training.

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Producing Artistic Director: Calvin MacLean

Managing Director: Tom Cervone

Terry Silver-Alford David Brian Alley Bill Black Kate Buckley Jed Diamond Gina Di Salvo Carol Mayo Jenkins Patrick Lanczki Joe Payne Christopher Pickart Mike Ponder Lauren T. Roark Casey Sams John Sipes Terry Weber Kenton Yeager Katy Wolfe the Artists JOHN SIPES BILL BLACK (Director and Fight Director) is a Professor in (Costume Designer) has been designing, the Department of Theatre at the University teaching and directing the production of of Tennessee. Before joining the UT faculty, costumes for the Department of Theatre and he was a Director and the Resident Movement the Clarence Brown Theatre Company for 40 Director for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival years and has participated in the production for fifteen seasons. Prior to his residency at of more than 250 plays, musicals and operas. the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, John was An active professional designer, his work has a Director and Movement Director for the been seen across the country at professional Illinois Shakespeare Festival for twelve seasons theatres such as Alabama Shakespeare and served as the Festival’s Artistic Director Festival, Denver Center Theatre Company, for five seasons. Directing credits include Madison Repertory Theatre, Pioneer Theatre productions at the Clarence Brown Theatre, the Company, Playmakers Repertory Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Milwaukee Roundhouse Theatre, Skylight Opera Theatre, Rep, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Illinois Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival and others. jjsipes.com Shakespeare Festival, and for 27 seasons at the Tony Award Winning Utah Shakespearean MICHAEL GANIO Festival. His costume design work has been (Scenic Designer) For American opera, Michael listed among “Pittsburgh’s Best”, “Best of Ganio has designed the world premiere of Season” by the Salt Lake Tribune, and he is a Where Angels Fear to Tread for Opera San two-time winner of the Knoxville Area Theatre Jose; Agrippina for Chicago Opera Theatre; Coalition award for best costume design. In The Pirates of Penzance for Portland Opera; 1996 and again in 2004, he was awarded the Ship of Fools, Semele, and Les Bavards for The John F. Kennedy Medallion for outstanding Mannes Camerata; and productions of Fidelio, service to the Kennedy Center/American Tristan und Isolde, Il Trovatore for Virginia College Theatre Festival. He served two Opera. Currently he is designing Million Dollar terms as President of the Tennessee Theatre Quartet for Northern Stage in Vermont and Association and two terms as Tennessee the American premiere of The Sweet Science State Representative to the board of the of Bruising for Dartmouth College where he Southeastern Theatre Conference. Bill is a also teaches future generations of theater member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. makers. His work has been seen at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Denver Center Theatre Company and The Cleveland Playhouse, among other American performing arts companies. Previously for the Clarence Brown Theatre, he has designed Candide and The Trip to Bountiful. MichaelGanio.com

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Each office independently owned and operated. the Artists KENTON YEAGER JOE PAYNE (Lighting Designer) Member USAA has (Sound Designer/Composer) teaches Sound previously designed lights for Clarence Brown and Projection Design for the Department of Theatre’s productions of King Charles III, The Theatre. He has created sound, music and/ Crucible, Sweeney Todd, The Who's Tommy, or projections for a number of productions Woyzeck, Titus Andronicus, The Life of Galileo at CBT, including Candide, Around the World and many more. During his 40-year career, in 80 Days, The Crucible, King Charles III, he has designed, produced or directed more Threepenny Opera, Monty Python’s Spamalot, than 700 productions both nationally and Sweeney Todd, The Merry Wives of Windsor, internationally. Theatre design credits include and The Who’s Tommy. Joe has designed work for The Denver Center Theatre Company, more than 200 productions throughout the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Walnut Street country, including twenty seasons at the Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arizona Theatre Syracuse Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Company, Round House Theatre, Pioneer Park, Round House Theatre and Imagination Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Virginia Stage (Bethesda, MD), ten years at Pioneer Stage Company, Arden Theatre Company, Theatre Company (SLC, UT), Indiana Repertory Syracuse Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Riverside Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Virginia Company, and the Great River Shakespeare Stage Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Festival. He has designed concerts for Suzanne Utah Opera and Symphony, The Fulton Opera Vega, Dave Matthews, John Prine, They Might House (Lancaster, PA), and others. Joe is a Be Giants, George Winston, The Kronos member of United Scenic Artist Local 829, Quartet, Bobby McFerrin, The Roches and USITT as the Digital Media Commissioner, Stephane Grappelli. As an educator, Kenton and the Theatrical Sound Designers and heads the master’s program in lighting design Composers Association. here at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and has taught over 100 master classes at HEATHER HIRSCHFELD more than 40 universities and workshops (Dramaturg) is Professor and Director of abroad in Germany, The Czech Republic, Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Vietnam, India, Austria, Mexico, France, Wales English at the University of Tennessee. She and Holland. Kenton is also the creator and has published two books on Shakespeare and owner of Yeagerlabs, a company specializing Renaissance drama, and she edited The Oxford in innovative ways of teaching theatre in the Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy and the classroom. Foundational to all of his creative New Cambridge Shakespeare Hamlet. She is work and his teaching are his meditation and honored to have been able to participate in mindfulness practices. He is past president of this CBT production of Hamlet. the American Meditation Society, a certified advanced practices meditation teacher, and faculty advisor to the Mindfulness and Meditation Club here at UT.

Clarence Brown Theatre | 15 the Artists SARA BECKER CALVIN MacLEAN (Voice and Text Coach) is delighted to be (Producing Artistic Director) is in his working with John Sipes again, having fourteenth year as Theatre Department previously collaborated on last season's King Head and CBT Company Producing Artistic Charles III and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Ms. Becker Director. CBT productions he has directed is the Head of Voice and Text at American include: A Flea in Her Ear, The Life of Galileo, Players Theatre, where she has spent ten The Secret Rapture, A Streetcar Named seasons. Favorite credits include: Measure for Desire (with Dale Dickey), Amadeus (with the Measure, A View from the Bridge, Travesties, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra), Kiss Me, Kate, and Endgame. Other coaching credits include Sweeney Todd (with the Knoxville Symphony six seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Orchestra and Dale Dickey), Our Country’s Festival (Hamlet, As You Like It, Henry V and Good, The Threepenny Opera, The Open Hand, others), The Alley Theatre (Twelfth Night, The Crucible, Candide (with the Knoxville Pygmalion and others), The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra) and Anthony Clarvoe's Repertory Theatre (Pride and Prejudice, I Am People Where They Are. Cal was the Artistic My Own Wife), Illinois Shakespeare Festival Director of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Richard II and others), The Guthrie Theatre/ for eleven seasons. Professionally active in The Acting Company, Playmakers Repertory Chicago, his productions – mostly at the Company, and the Colorado Shakespeare Famous Door Theatre – earned several Joseph Festival. She teaches at the University of North Jefferson Awards for Outstanding Production Carolina School of the Arts. and Direction. Most notable was Joshua Sobol’s Ghetto, a production that ran for seven DANNY KUENZEL months and honored with four Jeff Awards (Stage Manager) returns to the Clarence including for Outstanding Direction of a Play. Brown Theatre by way of Arkansas Repertory Cal has served as President of the University/ Theatre, where she recently completed a Resident Theatre Association and is a member production of It’s a Wonderful Life, a Live of the National Theatre Conference. He and his Radio Play. That was a fluffy, festive holiday wife Rebecca are the proud parents of Sam piece. Now, she's on to something completely and Rachael. different. Last season she managed CBT’s King Charles III and she finds it interesting that she’s here again working a show with a ghost. Other regional credits include: Gulfshore Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre Company, Northern Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, the Alley Theatre, and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival. During the summer months Danny can be found at Mason Street Warehouse in Saugatuck, Michigan, where she has been the production stage manager for sixteen seasons.

16 | Clarence Brown Theatre the Artists TOM CERVONE SUSAN L. McMILLAN (Managing Director) Cervone has dedicated (Production Manager) is in her sixth year as most of his professional career (and life) Production Manager at the Clarence Brown advocating for and working in the best interests Theatre and UT Department of Theatre. In of the arts and culture industry, 25 years (and addition, she teaches Stage Management. counting) serving proudly as the managing Prior, Susan was the Production Manager director for the Clarence Brown Theatre/ and Stage Management Instructor at the Department of Theatre at UTK. He previously University of California, Santa Barbara, for 6 served as the first executive director of the years. Susan is a member of Actors’ Equity Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation and the Association, and was a Stage Manager at executive director for Dogwood Arts. the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 18 Cervone spent many years on the board of the years. Additionally, she has stage managed Arts and Cultural Alliance of Greater Knoxville, at the Guthrie Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre and currently serves on the boards of the Company, Portland Center Stage, PCPA, WordPlayers, the Knoxville Children’s Theatre, Rogue Valley Opera, Portland Civic Theatre, Department of Theatre and Foundation Board and has toured to the Kennedy Center. at West Liberty University, his undergraduate Through science and music (B.S. degrees alma mater, as well as the advisory board for in Biochemistry and Biology from Oregon River and Rail Theatre Company. He has also Stage University), Susan found her passion served as chair of the curriculum committee for in theatre. She is incredibly grateful for the Leadership Knoxville and has been a member opportunities and adventures, inspirational of their BOD as well. Cervone remains active mentors, artistic and talented colleagues, within the UTK community as a member of amazing students, and the love and support of the Exempt Staff Council and Chancellor’s her family and friends. Commission for LGBTQ people. He received the Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Service to the University in 2010. He is a longtime member of the Actors’ Equity Association. Cervone holds his undergraduate degree in Speech and English Education with an emphasis in Theatre from West Liberty University in West Virginia and an MFA (1993) and MBA (2010) from UTK. He is a graduate of and was selected as the Class Representative of the Leadership Knoxville class of 2011. Cervone is a member of his undergraduate alma mater’s class of 2015 Wall of Honor.

Clarence Brown Theatre | 17 ADMINISTRATION PRODUCTION Producing Artistic Director - Production Manager - Susan L. McMillan Calvin MacLean CBT StaffProduction Stage Manager - Patrick Lanczki Managing Director - Tom Cervone Business Manager - Tara Halstead COSTUMES Costume Shop Manager - Marketing & Communications Director - Melissa Caldwell-Weddig Robin Conklin Cutter/Draper - Kyle Andrew Schellinger General Manager - Shelly Payne Costumers - Elizabeth Aaron, Ellen Bebb, Administrative Specialist - Mari DeCuir, Erin Reed and Amber Williams Charlotte Holland Costume Assistants - Margo Birdwhistell, IT Specialist - Mark Spurlock John Merritt and My’Chyl Graphic Designer - Julie Anna Summers Wig Makers - Siobian Jones and Robert Pickens Archival Photographer - Brynn Yeager ELECTRICS PATRON SERVICES Electrics Shop Manager - Travis Gaboda Manager of Ticketing and Sales - Master Electrician - Jon Mohrman Lighting Assistants - Lisa Bernard, Rachel Clift Sarah Burton Helen Garcia-Alton, Bill Miller Box Office Manager - Morgan Moody Sara Oldford Lead House Manager - David Ratliff Patron Service Associates - Jack Archer, SCENERY Phillip Ashenden, Callie Bacon, Technical Director - Jason Fogarty Jordon Baker, Rachel Britt, Elana Douglas, Assistant Technical Director - George Hairston Annabel Duran, Chris Freeman, Master Carpenter - Jerry D. Winkle Cameron Hinzey, Brenda Hogan, Senior Carpenter - Kyle Hooks Jessica Kirshner, Tucker Miller, Sarah Mingo, Carpenters - Laura Clift, Wes Smith, My’Chyl, Amoirie Perteet, Emily Pope, and Eric Thompson Danielle Pressley, Jared Sanchez, Scene Shop Assistants - Ananya Dirghangi, Andrew Shipman, Kindra Thomas, Kristian Epley, Justin South and Erica Tate Eric Thompson and Lauren Whiteman Scenic Charge Artist - Jillie Eves Scenic Artist - Katie Moseley ENGAGEMENT/DEVELOPMENT Painter - Carrie Ferrelli External Relations & Community Development Manager - PROPERTIES Prop Shop Supervisor/Prop Master - Amanda Middleton Christy Fogarty Grants, Education, and Outreach Manager - Lead Properties Artisan - Sarah Gaboda Hana Sherman Props Assistant - Laura Clift, Kat Cooper Tours, Workshops - David Brian Alley and Katherine Stepanek Summer Acting Workshops, Actor Talk Backs - Terry Silver-Alford SOUND Sound Supervisor - Mike Ponder Assistant Sound Engineer - Chandler Oppenheimer

18 | Clarence Brown Theatre Production Crew

MANAGEMENT LIGHTING Assistant to the Director Associate Lighting Designer David Ratliff Helen Garcia-Alton

Stage Management Assistants Production Electrician/ Diane Lopez Light Board Operator Morgan Petrini Taylor Kirkland John Simmins

SOUND COSTUMES Assistant Sound Designer Wardrobe Supervisor Jack Clark Amber Williams Sound Board Operator Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor Sandra M. Ghabrial Brooklynn Woodall

Wardrobe Crew Krystal Robinson Graham Schober

SCENERY Assistant Scenic Designer Carrie Ferrelli

Deck Crew Lily Czulewicz Emily Pope Shea Snow

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Clarence Brown Theatre | 19 MARCH 25 - APRIL 5 LAB THEATRE

Prepare to have your face melted by Shreddy Eddy, Golden Thunder and the reigning champ, D Vicious, at the National Air Guitar competition! Nina, a real guitar player, enters the competition thinking it will be a cinch to take the championship. She soon discovers she has a lot to learn. A tribute to good friends, killer rock classics, and the joy of letting go.

Directed by Steve Sherman DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE FACULTY

Calvin MacLean Terry Weber Department Head & Professor Professor, Acting, Voice (Emeritus) Bill Black Kenton Yeager Associate Head & Professor, Costume Design Professor, Lighting Design Kate Buckley David Brian Alley Associate Professor, Directing Lecturer, Acting Jed Diamond Brian Gligor Head, Acting & Associate Professor, Acting Lecturer, Acting Gina Di Salvo Steve Sherman Head, Graduate Studies and Lecturer, Acting Assistant Professor, Theatre History Terry Silver-Alford & Dramaturgy Distinguished Lecturer in Music Theatre Joe Payne Katy Wolfe Associate Professor, Sound and Media Lecturer, Voice Christopher Pickart Jillie Eves Associate Professor, Scene Design Artist-in-Residence Lauren T. Roark Carol Mayo Jenkins Assistant Professor, Costume Artist-in-Residence Casey Sams Misty G. Anderson Head, Undergraduate Studies Professor of English, Adjunct Faculty & Associate Professor, Movement Stanton B. Garner, Jr. John Sipes Professor of English, Adjunct Faculty Professor, Acting, Directing & Movement

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Collin Andrews - Acting Bill Miller - Lighting Design Jade Arnold - Acting Michael Najman - Acting Margo Birdwhistell - Costume Design Chandler Oppenheimer - Sound Design Davion T. Brown - Acting Brenda Orellana - Acting Rachel Darden - Acting Brittany Marie Pirozzoli - Acting Carrie Ferrelli - Scenic Design Madeleine Rowe - Acting Helen Garcia-Alton - Lighting Design Christine Sage - Acting Peter Mayer Klepchick - Acting Owen Squire Smith - Acting Zachariah Lidstone - Acting Katherine Stepanek - Scenic Design Amberlin McCormick - Acting Aleah Vassell - Acting John Merritt - Costume Design APRIL 22 - MAY 10 | CBT MAINSTAGE

When young Monty Navarro learns he’s ninth in line for Earl of Highhurst and its vast family fortune, he decides to intercede uproariously in the line of succession in this multiple Tony Award-winning musical!

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CONTRIBUTORS Contributions listed below are from January 2019 through December 2019. The CBT at the University of Tennessee gratefully acknowledges the support of all our donors.

Ron and Jean Alexander Jane and Steven Harb Whitney Ray-Dawson Mr. David Brian Alley Barbara and Matthew Helms and Channing Dawson Dr. Robert C. Alley, in honor of Prof. Amy Morris Hess Dr. Lee Riedinger Mr. David Brian Alley Hickory Construction, Inc. Caitlin and Andrew Seidler Baker Donelson PC Mr. Bruce T. Hill Ms. Susan Seybold Dr. Paul Barrette Vanessa and Jeffrey Hooper Rev. Susan Sgarlat and and Dr. Susan D. Martin Julie Howard and Ted Flickinger Charles Fels, in memory of BB&T Corporation Beth Howe-Christensen Dr. Barbara Wright Pierce Mr. Stephen Becker and Richard Christensen Ms. Linda Shahinian Dr. Larry and Jeanie Brakebill Diane Humphreys-Barlow Hana and Steve Sherman Mr. Charles F. Brakebill and Jack Barlow Fred and Gail Smith Mary Ellen and Steven Brewington Mebane Jackson Donna Spencer Mrs. Nancy McCrary Burnett Seth and Lindsey Johnson Dr. Sam R. Tipton, Jr. Mrs. Bonnie C. Carroll Clay and Debbie Jones Ms. Jennifer Tipton and Mr. Roy H. Cooper, Jr. Family Foundation Elizabeth and Hanson Tipton Tom Cervone and Susan Creswell Jim and Ginger Justice Hon. Joseph M. Tipton Brooks and Karen Clark The Lederer Family and Mrs. Cheryl A. Tipton Mr. Roy Cockrum Mr. Tyler David Lewelling Alice Torbett Kenneth and Jane Creed Cal and Rebecca MacLean Peggy and Ron Turner Katharine Pearson Criss Bob and Brenda Madigan Robin C. Turner Dr. Wayne T. Davis Dr. Angela Masini Linda and Terry Tyler and Mrs. Sylvia G. Davis and Mr. Terry Grove Robert and Ann Underwood Drs. Joe and Jayne De Fiore Neil McBride UT Federal Credit Union Dale Dickey and Maureen Dunn McBride Angie Vicars Steve Drevik and Lee Ann Rogers Brent and Melissa Midyett Georgiana Vines Don and Nancy Dunning Margie Nichols and John Gill Alexander Waters Ms. Danielle Ely Linda Brakebill Norris Erick and Laura Weber and Mr. Matt Tully Margaret Norris Terry and Jeni Weber Dr. Walter and Lynne Fain John North Dr. John T. Winemiller Susan and Kent Farris Townes Osborn and Bob Marquis and Dr. Robert Hinde Ruth and Joe Fielden Patriot Investment Management, Mrs. Melanie C. Wood Dr. Howard C. Filston Taylor and Simonne Wortham Wendy and Dale Wortham and Mrs. Sandra K. Stoutt Mr. Marshall H. Peterson Ron and Sheila Fuchs Michael Phillips James Grossen Carl and Peggy Pierce CBT Thank You Contributions listed below are from January 2019 through December 2019. The CBT at the University of Tennessee gratefully acknowledges the support of all our donors.

Charles F. Brakebill James Brimer Scholarship Ralph Frost Memorial Artists Endowment Established with generous support Scholarship Endowment In an effort to recognize Charlie from James Brimer. Award established by Brakebill's contributions to the Mrs. Wilma Maples honoring Clarence Brown Theatre, the Dianne Blane, Mr. Ralph Frost, given to Dept. of Theatre, College of Arts in memory of Jimmy Brimer outstanding graduate students. & Sciences, and the University Mrs. Mary Giles Ritchie of Tennessee - Knoxville have David and Nancy Rutherford Barbara E. Lederer established this fund. Gifts raised Derrick and Tiffany Stowell Artists Endowment will assist in funding resident and Established with generous support guest artists. Thomas A. Cervone Scholarship from Robert W. Lederer. Given in Graduate Acting to assist in funding resident and Dr. Larry and Jeanie Brakebill Established to recognize guest artists. Linda Brakebill Norris Tom Cervone’s service as Managing Director of the CBT. Mr. Robert W. Lederer Joyce Brakebill Theatre Scholarship Susan Creswell and Tom Cervone Rel & Wilma Maples Endowment For Bachelor of Arts students Mr. James E. Diamond Provided by generous support entering UT Knoxville Clay and Debbie Jones from Mr. and Mrs. Rel Maples Family Foundation providing support for faculty David Brian Alley enrichment. Mr. Charles Brakebill Robert and Mary Neal Culver Dr. Larry and Jeanie Brakebill Scholarship Endowment Ellis Mays Theatre Endowment Linda Brakebill Norris Provided by generous support Scholarship fund honoring Ellis Liz and Wes Stowers, from Mr. and Mrs. Culver, this Mays established by R. Carroll King in honor of Charlie Brakebill award is given to outstanding and others. undergraduate students Clarence and Marian Brown in theatre. Townes Lavidge Osborn Theatre Endowment Endowment Provided by generous support William Desmond Scholarship for Generous support provided for the from the private estate of Clarence the Performing Arts Endowment CBT Society Artists Fund. and Marian Brown. Award honoring William Desmond given to an outstanding student in Stuart & Kate Riggsby Resident Kathey Evans the Department of Theatre. Artist Faculty Endowment David and Ellen Lovett Generous support provided for Bradley Lyle Ula Love Doughty/Carousel the CBT Society Artists Fund. Liz and Wes Stowers Theatre Endowment Provided by generous support Elizabeth and David Craig Clarence Brown Career from the private estate of Development Award Mrs. Ula Love Doughty. The Dan Owenby Provided by the estate of Scholarship Fund Clarence and Marian Brown, given Emily Mahan Faust In memory of Dan Owenby. to outstanding second and third Graduate Fellowship year graduate students as they Provided by the generous support Sara A. Phillips begin their professional careers. of the late Mr. Hugh Faust Jr. in Artists Endowment honor of his wife, this award is given Established with generous support CBT Society Special to outstanding graduate students. from Sara A. Phillips. Given to Event Sponsors Additional support given in memory assist in funding resident and Generous support provided for of Mrs. Emily Mahan Faust. guest artists. special events. Sara A. Phillips Lee and Tina Riedinger UT Theatre Enrichment Fund James and Mary Ellen Haddox Artists Endowment Generous support provided for Christopher and Watson Hall Established with generous support the Theatre. Jane Hall from Mr. Lee Riedinger. Given Brian and Jennifer Hardy to assist in funding resident and Crystal Marie Alberson Mrs. Joy Harjo-Sapulpa guest artists. Ron and Jean Alexander Ms. Katie Harrill Kathleen Alley Haslam Family Foundation Inc. Franklin Everett Robinson Artists Ms. Diane Anda Charlotte Holland Endowment Patricia and James Andrews Christian Holt Established with generous support Ms. Joyce R. Baker Dr. Charles and Sandra Huddleston from Helen Ann Robinson. Given to Mrs. Melissa Barnes Mr. John Hug assist in funding resident and Dr. Jeffrey and Nancy Becker, Ms. Susan Hughes guest artists. in honor of Cal MacLean Charlie and Emily Jernigan Thomas Beech, Dr. Allen E. Johnson Seth M. Rowan Endowment in honor of David Brian Alley Mrs. Gretchen Burleigh-Johnson In memory of Seth M. Rowan, this Kelsey Bennett Clay and Debbie Jones fund provides support for design Jill Bodenheimer Mr. Victor Kaminsky work for special theatre projects Bailee A. Boisclair Dale and Mary Kangas for undergraduate students. Dr. James and Janet and William Larson Constance Brace Ms. Pamela Leavy Dr. & Mrs. David L. Shea Ms. Denise J. Brandon Ms. Sharon A. Leonardo Award Endowment Ms. Catherine I. Brewer Jill Levin Provided by generous support Mr. Ashley Capps Jr. Mr. Tyler David Lewelling from Dr. and Mrs. David L. Shea. and Dr. Maria Clark Ms. Ellen M. Lofaro Given to outstanding theatre Lorena Cassell Nancy and Michael Lofaro students concentrating in Mr. Tim Cathcart Ms. Mary Clare Long movement and dance. Lauren Chiles and Gerald Witt Mrs. Laura Lucas Brooks and Karen Clark Miss Carla H. Manzuk Paul L. Soper Wayne and Sara Clatterbuck Ms. Elly Marsh Professorship Fund Mr. Michael Combs Dr. Anne Mayhew An award established by James and Sheila Cooper Ms. Susan McMillan Dr. & Mrs. Brent A. Soper and Ms. Jennifer Corum Mrs. Jean Mercer Dr. & Mrs. Gordon K. Soper Christopher Cox Mr. Guenter E. Meurer honoring Paul L. Soper, given and Vee Panagakos Ms. Susan Miller to outstanding faculty Ms. Carol Cumesty Ms. Brenda Mitchell members biennially. Ms. Vickie C. Cunningham Mrs. Morgan Moody Mr. Huntington T. Daly Dr. C. Roland Mote Elizabeth S. Stowers Ms. Ellen Davis and Mrs. Leona Mote Artists Endowment Nancy DeCosta Mrs. Mildred B. Myers Established with generous support Ms. Lucinda Denton Mrs. Julia Myers Olive from Liz Stowers. Jeff Dickamore Dr. Damaris A. Olsen Given to assist in funding Mrs. Trudy N. Dreyer Dr. Richard L. Pacelle resident and guest artists. Steve Drevik and Mrs. Fenton Martin and Lee Ann Rogers Mrs. Margie Parrott Liz and Wes Stowers Nancy and Don Dunning Joe and Shelly Payne Dr. Claire Eldridge Chris Pickart Liz Stowers Theatre Scholarship Janice and Stuart Elston Kadi Plemons-Brazil Endowment in Design Laura Eshbaugh Mrs. Betsy V. Quinn Established with generous support Mr. John Evans, II Mr. Michael K. Ralston from Liz and Wes Stowers to Mary and Dean Farmer Anne and Claude Riley Theatre Design students. Dr. Robert R. Fehr Ms. Lauren Roark Dianne and Kenneth Foster Mr. Harry L. Siler Marianne Custer, in memory of Travis and Sarah Gaboda and Mrs. Carrie Siler Levy Mr. Dwight Percy Ms. Rosemary Gartner Phil and Doris Sklad Lisa and Edward Rottmann Dr. Reid and Nancy Gerhardt William and Cheryl Slayden Patrice Shallow Patricia and Wallace Gillespie Joan Smith Liz and Wes Stowers

Marian Brown’s Circle (MBC) is for those wanting to deepen their involvement at the Clarence Brown Theatre and be a part of more artistic and literary discussion. This group will come together to read plays being produced at the CBT, have opportunities to attend unique events, and ultimately, help sponsor a guest artist or featured element for one show per season through membership fees and donations. Memberships are per person. Membership Levels & Benefits

AMBASSADORS $200 Benefits listed below, plus: • Admission to attend four Marian Brown’s Circle special events *

FRIENDS $100 • Quarterly literary lunches * • Personal script(s) for lunch discussions * • Marian Brown’s Circle tote and journal * • Acknowledgement in CBT mainstage and Carousel programs, and online • Invitation to attend Marian Brown’s Circle special events ($25/event)

* This benefit affects tax deductibility

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Julia Stark Carl Vines, Jr. Award Merchant & Gould Linda and John Stebbins Established by Georgiana Vines Moxley Carmichael Dr. John and Nancy Stewart honoring Carl Vines, Jr., this Bob and Margie Parrott Robert Stocks award is given alternately to Pilot Company Austin and Ann Stubblefield outstanding Department of Rotary Club of Knoxville Julie Anna Summers English and Department of Schaad Companies Meg Sutherland Theatre students. The Shubert Foundation Mrs. Gwendolyn W. Sweeden Stowers Machinery Corporation Marilyn and Douglas Toppins James Gray Walls, Jr. UT Federal Credit Union Donna Dixon Tyrrel Scholarship Endowment Robert and Ann Underwood Established with generous support. Call UT Arts & Sciences Donna and David Walker Development at (865) 974-2365 Stephanie and Tyler Wall Corporate, Foundation & to donate to the programs of John and Janie Wendelken Grant Support the CBT and the UT Department Beverly and Robert Wilson Arts & Cultural Alliance of Theatre. Lora Wilson Arts & Heritage Fund Dr. Laura Morris Winton Aubrey's For corrections to your City of Knoxville acknowledgement name, please W. David J. Torbett Artists Clayton Foundation contact Amanda Middleton at Endowment Great Schools Partnership [email protected] or call Established with generous support Mildred Haines and (865) 974-5654. from Mrs. Alice Torbett. Given to William Elijah Morris assist in funding resident and Lecture Endowment Fund guest artists. Knox County Tourism Consortium

AMBASSADORS

Charlie Brakebill Linda Brakebill Norris Alice Torbett Priscilla Bright Charles Peccolo Robin Turner C. Gayle Burnett Sara A. Phillips Linda Tyler Kerri Considine Mr. Kerry Remp Georgiana Vines Mardel Fehrenbach Donna Riggs Donna Wertz Susan Kornegay Frances Scheidt Terry Wertz Audrey Mankiewicz Michael Smith Margie Nichols Delores Sorey FRIENDS Tasha Blakney Leanne Dougherty Maureen Dunn McBride Liz Britt Susan Farris Cheryl Midyett Myra Buffaloe Virginia Kerwin Melissa Tortora Jenny F. Bushkell Stephen LaVie Peggy Turner Lawrence L. Bushkell Angela Masini CBTS Scholarship Fund Established by the members of the CBTS to provide scholarships to outstanding UT Department of Theatre Students. Contributions listed below are from July 2018 through December 2019.

Paulette and Roy Aaron Julie Howard Terry and Jeni Weber Ron and Jean Alexander and Ted Flickinger Kenton Yeager Andrea Anderson Diane Humphreys-Barlow and Casey Sams Carolyn and James Anderson and Jack Barlow Fred Young Rebecca and Chris Becker Mebane Jackson Mrs. Georgia Blake Monty Jolly For corrections to your Dr. Larry and Jeanie Brakebill Clay and Debbie Jones acknowledgement name, Elizabeth Carroll Family Foundation please contact Bonnie Carroll and Roy Cooper Tom Mercier Amanda Middleton at Jimmy and Ileen Cheek Amanda Middleton [email protected] or Brooks and Karen Clark Mrs. Mary Stuart Neely call (865) 974-5654. Wayne and Sara Clatterbuck Kitty Norton Drs. Joe and Jayne De Fiore Townes Osborn Mr. Michael Combs and Bob Marquis James and Sheila Cooper Ms. Kelly Lynn Pepper Lucinda Denton, Mr. G. Michael Phillips in honor of Georgiana Vines Ms. Linda L. Phillips Dr. Gina Di Salvo Sara A. Phillips and Mr. Jeffrey Tinley, Jr. Dr. Lee Riedinger Steve Drevik Philip and Elizabeth Royer and Lee Ann Rogers Mr. Frank J. Scimonelli Jr. Nancy and Don Dunning Bryan Self Sarah and Greg Eichelman John Shallow Susan and Kent Farris Joshua Shuter Norm and Doris Featherston Ms. Joan Smith Dr. Howard C. Filston Prof. Rita Hoyt Smith To learn more about the volunteer usher program go to and Mrs. Sandra K. Stoutt Ms. Leslie Lynn Steele clarencebrowntheatre.com/ushers or volunteeretn.org William and Mary Fryar, Carol and Jeff Stratton in honor of Martha and Josh Sutherland Ms. Jennifer Tipton Frank and Pamela Tallman Mr. Brian Eugene Gard Jessica and Joshua Taylor David Giles Peggy and Ron Turner Patricia Hart Mrs. Robin C. Turner Dr. Charlotte J. Headrick, Linda and Terry Tyler in memory of Robert and Ann Underwood Dr. Lorayne W. Lester Anthony and Lynn Venafro Merrit and Joan Heminway Angie Lynn Vicars Prof. Amy Morris Hess Georgiana Vines Jackie T. Hill Charlie Wagner, III and Jacqueline E. Hill David Waite John and Susan Hoffman Maggie Wallen Ms. Christian A. Holt Alexander Waters

42 | Clarence Brown Theatre CBT Volunteer Thank You We would like to thank the volunteer ushers who have helped the CBT this 2019/2020 season.

Shelly Aaser Donna Ferguson Renee’ Moldrup Dottie Redlich Essa Al-Talalah Chris Foell Steven Moldrup Collin Riggs Shirley Bean Linda Graham Becki Moran Avery Rodgers Steve Bell Tina Gregory Audrey Morgenegg Carrie Rydell Christy Bramblett Marilyn Hafner Ben Morgenegg Marc Sandlin Ash Bramblett Elizabeth Harms Beth Morgenegg Kay Sandlin Kathleen Breslin Rose Anne Hartman Alex Moyer Mary Sayler Jane Bullington Jacque Hollingsworth Andy Moyer Sherry Scott Danny Bullington Karen Horton Becky Moyer Heather Shirey Lynn Chilberg Anne Hulse Nelson Nichols Brad Skaggs Shannon Clifford David Johnson Debbie Nichols Lori Skaggs Barbara Cole Susan Jones Michael Nyderek Beverly Slover Steve Cole Dave Jones Robin Nyderek Gary Teper Leann Cooney Andrea Kupfer Daniel Parker Karen Towle Jo Lynn Herbert Kupfer Jane Parker Carol Townsend Cunningham Angela Lister Melissa Parker Nancy Tucker Sue Deery Paulette McBee Denice Parten Gary Tucker Mary Lynne Tony McGinnis Rick Patton Jennifer Bain Derrington Mary Lane McGinnis Robert Paul Waldron Melony Dodson Kris McNeese Bernice Penley Makayla Walker Kermit Easterling Natalie McNutt Elaine Pitcher Claudia Walsh Kristen Easterling Millie Meese Gary Pitcher Joe Walsh Paul Erickson Keith Meese Debra Pope John Witherspoon Nancy Erickson J Miller Laura Porter Lisa Womble Dennis Ferguson Joan Minge Amanda Ray Stacy Womble

To learn more about the volunteer usher program go to clarencebrowntheatre.com/ushers or volunteeretn.org

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Headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., Pilot Company's mission is to make life better for America’s drivers. With more than 650 locations nationwide, Pilot Company is the largest retail operator of travel centers in North America. At Pilot Company we believe it is essential to give back to the community. Our founder, Mr. James A. Haslam II, established our philanthropic spirit when he started the company in 1958. Our employees all take part in giving their time, talents and efforts to various organizations throughout the year. Together we work to make our communities better places to work, play and live. Visit www.pilotflyingj.com for more information.

The Arts and Heritage Fund, managed by the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville, raises money to support a wide range of arts organizations, historical sites, and cultural organizations throughout the area. The Arts & Heritage Fund grants: provide stable sources of financial support for the arts and heritage community; broaden access to high-quality arts and heritage experiences; and foster excellence in the local arts and heritage field and its administration.

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The Great Schools Partnership (GSP) is a free-standing tax-exempt organization that serves as an operational partner for making Knox County Schools globally competitive. The organization was formed in 2005 as an outgrowth of the “Every School a Great School” symposium to align efforts by leaders from the public and private sectors. In 2014, they were ranked as the 13th best education foundation in the US and the top ranked education foundation in Tennessee. The Great Schools Partnership mission is to serve as a catalyst, think tank, incubator, start-up funder and operational partner for making Knox County Schools globally competitive.

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The Mildred Haines and William Elijah Morris Lecture Endowment supports campus visits of lecturers and scholars in all disciplines in the College of Arts and Sciences. The dean of the college solicits proposals from departments and academic programs for the use of the funds, appoints an advisory committee to review and make recommendations regarding the proposals, and makes awards to the successful proposals. The advisory committee has a representative from the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences and the arts faculties of the college. The committee selects a chairperson from among its members. Committee members serve two-year terms and may be reappointed at the discretion of the dean.

The Shubert Foundation, Inc., was established in 1945 by Lee and J.J. Shubert, in memory of their brother Sam and is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States, with a particular emphasis on theatre and a secondary focus on dance. They are the nation’s largest funder dedicated to unrestricted funding of not-for-profit theatres, dance companies, professional theatre training programs and related service agencies. The Shubert Foundation is especially interested in providing support to professional resident theatre and dance companies that develop and produce new American work.

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