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SPONSORED BY Dr. Alexander M. Eaton & Dr. Hussein Wafapoor of the RETINA HEALTH CENTER and Florida Weekly STARRING VIKI BOYLE* • DAVID BREITBARTH* • MARK CHAMBERS* • MICHELLE DAMATO* BRAD DePLANCHE* • DAVID S. HOWARD* • CARRIE LUND* • JACKIE SCHRAM PETER THOMASSON* • JULIANNE AVOLIO

DIRECTED BY ROBERT CACIOPPO**

SET DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER JIM HUNTER*** DAVID M. UPTON*** ROBERTA MALCOLM SOUND DESIGNER STAGE MANAGER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER KATE SMITH AMY MASSARI* JASON PARRISH* is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, Inc.

2011-12 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS

The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Bruce & Janet Bunch • Cheryl & David Copham Gholi & Georgia Darehshori • John & Marjorie Madden • Arthur Zupko This entire season sponsored in part by in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, 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. CAST LIST

(In Order of Appearance) Chris Gorman...... MICHELLE DAMATO* Ken Gorman...... BRAD DePLANCHE* Claire Ganz...... CARRIE LUND* Lenny Ganz...... DAVID BREITBARTH* Ernie Cusack...... DAVID S. HOWARD* Cookie Cusack...... VIKI BOYLE* Glenn Cooper...... PETER THOMASSON* Cassie Cooper...... JACKIE SCHRAM* Officer Welch...... MARK CHAMBERS* Officer Pudney...... JULIANNE AVOLIO*

TIME & PLACE Present Day • Sneden’s Landing, New York

There will be a 15-minute intermission.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

ABOUT THE playwright NEIL SIMON (Playwright) began his career in and established himself as America’s leading writer of comedy by creating a succession of Broadway hits beginning with . During the 1966-67 season, , , , and The Star Spangled Girl were all running simultaneously; in the 1970-71 season, Broadway theatergoers had their choice of , Last of the Red Hot Lovers, and Promises, Promises. Next Came , The Gingerbread Lady, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, , , God’s Favorite, They’re Playing Our Song, I Ought to Be in Pictures, , a revival of Little Me, , (Tony Award) a new version of The Odd Couple starring Sally Struthers and Rita Moreno as the title duo, , Rumors, (Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize), Jake’s Women and .

Mr. Simon has also written for the screen: the adaptations of Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, Suite, I Ought to Be in Pictures, , Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, the TV motion picture of Broadway Bound and Lost in Yonkers. Other screenplays he has written include , The Out-of-Towners, The Heartbreak Kid, , , , Seems Like Old Times, Only When I Laugh, , and .

*The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the . CREATIVE TEAM

VIKI BOYLE* (Cookie April, The Rainmaker, Scapino, Breaking Legs, Cusack) is a 30 year A Funny Thing…Forum, Rounding Third, King o’ veteran of New York and the Moon and August: Osage County. Mark has regional theatre, film, and appeared in productions at Actors Theatre of TV and is delighted to be Louisville, Portland Center Stage, American back with this talented Stage Company, Charleston Stage Company, company at Florida Rep. City Theatre, Moon, Greenbriar Off-Broadway credits Valley Theatre, Hippodrome Theatre, and include her own works Seaside Music Theatre. Mark can be seen in The Whole Truth (Manhattan Class Company), the recent filmsBaby Jane? and I Want to Get winner of the Samuel French Short Play Series, Married, and can be heard on the CD Veil of and Term Limit for which she recently won the Tears by the Swiss group MGY. Mark was the top prizes for both acting and writing. She has Florida Theatre Conference 2006 honoree for received two Carbonell Awards for The Little distinguished career in professional theatre. Foxes and Don’t Dress For Dinner at the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton. Her TV credits include MICHELLE DAMATO* over 150 commercials, where her work has (Chris Gorman) is been recognized with the CLIO award. She and returning for her sixth writing partner Doug Kampsen publish NYC show with Florida Trivia Tours, a series of self-guided walking Rep. Audiences will tours of . Viki was recently a remember her from her contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire! roles in Sylvia, Rabbit You’ll have to tune in to find out how she did! Hole, Almost, Maine, A Funny Thing…Forum, and DAVID BREITBARTH* Dancing at Lughnasa. She is a graduate of Circle (Lenny Ganz) is thrilled in the Square Theatre School in NYC, and came to be making his Florida to Florida by way of Louisville, KY, where she Rep debut. Over 65 was a company member with Stage One for productions in 15 four years. Some of her favorite roles include years at Asolo Rep in Oliver Twist off-Broadway at the Promenade Sarasota where he’s Theatre and the voice of Shawna in MTV’s a company member, Daria: Is It College Yet? Michelle is a proud including: 12 Angry member of Actors’ Equity. Men, world premieres of Jason Wells’ Men of Tortuga and Perfect Mendacity, The Winter’s BRAD DePLANCHE* Tale, , Pride and Prejudice, (Ken Gorman) is thrilled Laughing Stock, Rounding Third, Art, Peter Pan, to be back at Florida The Front Page, The Immigrant, Hobson’s Choice, Rep, where last season Nicholas Nickleby. Broadway/ national tour: he appeared in The 39 Spring Awakening. Off-Broadway:Short Change, Steps. Recent work: both Perfect Crime, Fluorescent Hunger, This Hard Dromios in The Comedy Life. Film & Television: Frasier, Taken!, Law & of Errors (Shakespeare Order, Fame. For the Banyan Theater (founding Santa Cruz), The 39 member): Betrayal, Sight Unseen, Don Juan Steps (Actor’s Playhouse in Miami & Orlando in Hell, Otherwise Engaged. David is married Shakespeare Theater), Porthos inThe Three to the actress Kate Hampton. They live in Musketeers (People’s Light and Theatre Sarasota with Koufax, their dog. Company) and Pseudolus in A Funny Thing… Forum (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival). MARK CHAMBERS* Off-Off Broadway:China; The Whole Enchilada (Officer Welch) made ( NY Fringe), Gameshow! (Dodger Theatricals) his Florida Repertory Cloud Nine (Classic Stage Company) and debut as man # 5 in Armchair in Hell (Theatre at St. Clements). and the Regional Theatre: Actors Theatre of Louisville West End Horror. He has (5 Seasons), American Conservatory Theater, appeared in Enchanted South Coast Repertory, Syracuse Stage, Utah creative team

Shakespearean Festival, Cape Playhouse, companies in her hometown of Erie, PA & Florida Studio Theatre, Hangar Theatre, New York City, performed in regional theatres B Street Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare in NY, VT and NC, as well as the Three River Company. Upcoming, here at the Rep: It’s a Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Playhouse and Wonderful Life and The Mystery of Irma Vep. American Ibsen Theatre. In 1987, the Sanibel- Brad hails from Michigan and holds an MFA Captiva Chamber of Commerce awarded her from the American Conservatory Theatre. the Distinguished Citizen Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. She and DAVID S. HOWARD* husband Robert Cacioppo enjoy empty nesting (Ernie Cusack) holds with Matt at UCF and Julia and FSU. an M.F.A. from Brandeis University and worked JACKIE SCHRAM there as guest artist and (Cassie Gooper) is the acting teacher from 1967 happiest to be back at to 1975. He became Florida Rep! Previously a resident member of at the Rep: You Can’t the Asolo Rotating Repertory in 1976 and Take It With You (Essie) appeared there for 18 seasons during a 33 year and Boeing Boeing span. Florida Rep roles include Prof. Morrie (Stewardess Understudy). Schwartz in Tuesdays With Morrie, Mr. Green in She also performed with the Educational Visiting Mr. Green, Grandfather in Indian Blood, Outreach Company in the 2009-2010 Season. Ralph Bellini in The Last Romance, Martin Jackie studied at The University of Tampa and Vanderhof in You Can’t Take It With You and recently returned from the second national Judge Biddle in Trying. On film, Mr. Howard tour of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (Pamela/ was featured as Anthony Hopkins’ friend Eddie Annabella/Margaret). She is now based out of Sloan in Meet Joe Black, Robin Williams’ doctor New York and gets by with a little help from in Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, Doctor her friends. www.jackieschram.com. Kramer in Substance of Fire, Irv in Moonstruck, and Sol Rosenthal in Woody Allen’s Crimes and PETER THOMASSON* Misdemeanors. He has played Nat on Broadway (Glenn Cooper) last in I’m Not Rappaport and has worked in appeared at the Rep in numerous Off-Broadway and Regional theatres Dancing at Lughnasa as Fr. and in TV daytime and evening dramas. Proud Jack. He has appeared at member of Actors Equity. Sarasota’s Banyan Theatre in Becky’s New Car, Ghosts CARRIE LUND* (Claire and Retreat from Moscow. Ganz) has been the At home, in , he Associate Producer with recently appeared as Oscar Hubbard in Theater Florida Rep since its in the Square’s Suzi Award-nominated The inception, and has acted Little Foxes and On Golden Pond. In 2010 he in over 100 productions was named Actor of the Year for his work in in Southwest Florida. The Men of Mah Jong and The Sunset Limited. He Selected credits include: worked for 17 seasons at NC’s State Theatre, August: Osage County, The Flat Rock Playhouse. Favorite Florida Rep Sylvia, Noises Off (1998, 2010), Boeing-Boeing, roles include Bob Ewell in To Kill A Mockingbird You Can’t Take It With You, The Last Romance, and File in The Rainmaker. Alone Together, Dancing at Lughnasa, Enchanted April, Rabbit Hole, To Kill a Mockingbird, The JULIANNE AVOLIO Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, , I’m Not (Officer Pudney) is a Rappaport, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and recent Theatre Arts Private Lives. Her work as a voiceover artist graduate from the can be heard on NPR and industrial DVDs. University of Pittsburgh She founded the Pirate Playhouse on Sanibel where she also received Island in 1984, served as a theatre faculty at a certificate in Children’s Florida Gulf Coast University, produced theatre Literature. Past CREATIVE TEAM productions include Violet Sharp (Betty Gow) O’Brien, Blithe Spirit, Get Your Gun, A with Terra Nova Theatre Company;Angels in Funny Thing…Forum, , and America: Perestroika (Harper), As You Like It Cinderelle – a Rock Fairy Tale. Thanks to Sean, (Celia), Alice (Alice), Eleemosynary (Echo), The Becca, John, Bob – family always; and to the Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged Florida Rep and its board for the opportunity (Jess’s Lines) with Pitt Repertory Theatre; to showcase the best theatre around. and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Rona), The Farnsworth Invention(Pem AMY L. MASSARI* (Production Stage Farnsworth) with Little Lake Theatre Company. Manager) is thrilled to be back, for her She feels extremely fortunate to be interning second season as Florida Rep’s resident stage with Florida Rep this season! manager. Amy has been a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association for the past 21 JIM HUNTER*** (Set Designer) is happy to years, working in some of the country’s finest return to Florida Rep this season! Rumors is regional theatres: the Alley Theatre (Houston, Jim’s twelfth show at Florida Rep since he TX), the Dallas Theatre Center (Dallas, TX), completed the lighting for The Last Night of Stage-West (Springfield, MA), The Pioneer Ballyhoo in 2000. Last season Jim designed Memorial (Salt Lake City, UT) and the the set for August: Osage County and lighting Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Boulder, CO). for The 39 Steps. His scenic and lighting designs Amy has been happily married to her husband have been seen at theatres such as LaMama in of fifteen years, Michael. Michael teaches NYC, Phoenix Theatre, Arkansas Rep, Charlotte drama at North Fort Myers Academy for the Rep, Playhouse on the Square, Drury Lane Arts and is a terrific father to their children Theatre, The Lost Colony, Theatre Virginia, Jesse Cheyenne, age ten, and Caleb Dakota, age the World Stage Exposition in Toronto, eight. “Mommy LOVES you!” Heritage Rep, The Flat Rock Playhouse, the Veggie Tales Live! National Tour, Wall Street JASON PARRISH* (Assistant Stage Manager) Danceworks, and others. Jim is a member of is in his seventh season with Florida Rep and the national designers union, United Scenic serves as an ensemble member and Associate Artist, Local 829 in scene and lighting design. Director. Acting credits with the Rep include: He serves as the Chair and Artistic Director for King o’ the Moon, The Santaland Diaries, Noises the Department of Theatre and Dance at the Off, The Big Bang, Relatively Speaking, The Last University of South Carolina. Recent national Romance, and A Funny Thing…Forum. He was educational activities include serving as a seen most recently in The 39 Steps at Theatre member on the Commission for Accreditation by the Sea (Rhode Island). Parrish’s directing with the National Association of Schools of credits include How I Became a Pirate, The New Theatre and as a mentor for the Association for Kid, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, and The Mischief Theatre in Higher Education’s Makers with Florida Rep’s Children’s Theatre Leadership Institute. Series, and It Runs in the Family at the Strauss Theatre on Sanibel, and the regional premiere ROBERTA MALCOLM (Resident Costume of Forbidden Broadway at the Broadway Designer) After 25 years traveling the country Palm Dinner Theatre. His work with other as a costumer/designer for everyone from theatres includes Actors’ Playhouse (Miami), community theatre performers to Florence Riverside Theatre (Vero Beach), and numerous Henderson, John Ritter, LeVar Burton, Tony appearances with the New York Philharmonic’s Bennett, Patti LaBelle, Margaret O’Brien, Young People’s Concert Series at Lincoln Dean Jones, and , Roberta is Center. Jason is a proud member of pleased to be returning for her eighth season Actors’ Equity. at the Florida Rep. Favorite productions include: Gaslight, Boeing-Boeing, You Can’t Take KATE SMITH (Sound Designer) is happy to it With You, My Three Angels, Lucky Stiff, Florida return for her third season at Florida Rep. Follies starring Florence Henderson, Too Big She is a native of Pennsylvania and a graduate to be a Waitress, Show Boat (Dean Jones and from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Cloris Leachman national tour), Little Shop Kate has worked in many aspects of theater. of Horrors, Curly McDimple starring Margaret She most recently served as the sound and lighting designer for Florida Rep’s production DAVID M. UPTON*** (Lighting Designer) is of King o’ the Moon. Sound Design credits happy to be returning to Florida Rep to design include Sylvia, August Osage County, Trying, Rumors. Other designs include work for The and You Can’t Take it With You. Lighting design Revenge of the Mummy Attraction at Universal credits include: Picnic (2009 KC/ACTF Region Studios Singapore, Alabama Shakespeare II Barbizon Award in Lighting Design for IUP) Festival, Orlando Rep, North Carolina Theatre, and Santaland Diaries and The Lady With All the The World Science Festival, Northern Stage, Answers for Florida Rep’s Studio Theatre Series. Merrimack Rep, Orlando Shakespeare, Seaside Kate has also worked for Brevard Music Center, Music Theater, ReVision Theatre, Florida Studio NC as Master Electrician, and as the light board Theatre, The Orlando Opera, and the Orlando operator at Flat Rock Playhouse, NC. This past Ballet, among others. David is a member of summer she worked as the Lighting Designer the United Scenic Artists Local 829. Much for IUP’s Keystone Rep and part of the staff for love to Sarah for her endless support and the Footlight Players. encouragement. www.dmujrdesigns.com.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American Actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers work- ing 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 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 stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

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