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Major life events—perhaps the birth of a first child, or a first Silver Benefactors grandchild, or a health crisis, which Shelly confronted some years INTERESTED IN JOINING back—prompt many of us to ask as Shelly did: What is important in my THE CIRCLE? CONTACT life? What’s important for me? “I think that people should give money [email protected] to the things they love,” Shelly says, “and help other people to love FOR MORE INFORMATION. them too…It doesn’t matter how much or how little you are going to give—it’s the fact that you give that’s important.” Twelfth Night: A SYNOPSIS SAVE THE DATES! A LANGUISHING: In the kingdom of Illyria, Duke Orsino languishes for the love of the lady Meet the artists, save money on Olivia, who’s sworn off men while she mourns the death of her brother and father. tickets, sample local food and drink, SOMEONE ELSE HAS LOST A BROTHER TOO: A young noblewoman, Viola, washes ashore on and more during the runs of Twelfth Illyria, having survived a shipwreck. She believes her twin brother, Sebastian, was drowned Night and Life Is a Dream. in the storm. TWELFTH LIFE IS A EVENTS A DESIRE: Duke Orsino is enticed by Olivia’s refusals. The more she rejects him, the more he NIGHT DREAM wants her! Inside Scoop A JOB: Viola goes to work for Orsino in drag: she becomes his page, “Cesario.” She falls in love. These special events 6/22 provide an insider’s view of 5/11 See website HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE: Viola loves Orsino, Orsino loves Olivia, and Olivia loves Cesario. an upcoming production, for up-to-date featuring directors, cast, details. MEANWHILE DOWNSTAIRS: Olivia’s uncle, Sir Toby Belch, tries to match her up with his rich and artists up close. friend, Sir Andrew Aguecheek. The servant Malvolio is tricked into making a play for Olivia. Lower-priced previews 5/27, AT THE OTHER END OF THE ISLAND Be part of the process by 7/8, 7/9, …Viola’s twin brother Sebastian is not dead. Saved by his seeing the show before 5/28, 7/10 friend Antonio, he sets out across the island carrying some money Antonio loaned him. Opening, at a discounted 5/29 price. A DUEL: Sir Andrew meets Sebastian and, thinking he is Cesario, challenges him to a duel. Opening Night AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE: During their duel, Olivia comes upon Sebastian and, mistaking him Mingle with cast, creative 5/30 7/11 for Cesario, begs for marriage. team, and critics at a free post-show party. SOME GUYS DON’T CARE, APPARENTLY: Sebastian says yes to Olivia. Why not? Olivia is beautiful and rich. Meet the Artists Matinees 5/31 7/12 AND GIRLS DON’T KNOW, APPARENTLY. Post-show chat with cast Orsino and Cesario come to Olivia’s house. Olivia & creative team. welcomes Cesario as her new husband. Orsino is furious. Cesario reveals himself as Viola and the confusion is sorted out. Open-Captioned NOR DO OTHER GUYS CARE, APPARENTLY: Orsino is happy to marry Viola. Performances Performances featuring 6/3 7/15 open captioning for YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT: Neither Sebastian’s friend Antonio, nor the patrons who are deaf or servant Malvolio, has a happy end. But it’s still a comedy! hard-of-hearing. Teen Nights A special pre-show event 6/2 7/14 Thank You to Our for students ages 13–18. Corporate Partners and Individual Benefactors For Making Our Play it Forward Gala Such a Success Complimentary Tuesday Tastings 6/2, 6/9, 7/14, 7/21, Enjoy pre-show samples 6/16 7/28 Lead Corporate Partners from local purveyors.

InSight Matinee Post-show talk with the 6/7 7/19 dramaturg. Corporate Partners Camper Night Students from our prestigious Summer Conservatories are invited 6/5 7/17 to come together for pre-show activities and Gold Benefactors picnicking. Nancy & Jerry Falk Bruce & Debby Lieberman Jean Simpson Harvey & Gail Glasser Craig & Kathy Moody Sharon Simpson Patrick Golden & Peter & Delanie Read Carol Upshaw Susan Overhauser Jim & Nita Roethe Jay Yamada Nancy Kaible & David Anderson Patti & Rusty Rueff

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BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER LIAM MOORE MAY 27–JUNE 21, 2015 BRUNS MEMORIAL AMPHITHEATER, ORINDA

SCENIC DESIGNER NINA BALL COSTUME DESIGNER MEG NEVILLE LIGHTING DESIGNER BURKE BROWN SOUND DESIGNER ANDRE PLUESS VOICE AND TEXT COACH LYNNE SOFFER DRAMATURG ALISON CAREY RESIDENT FIGHT DIRECTOR DAVE MAIER MOVEMENT CONSULTANT ERIKA CHONG SHUCH STAGE MANAGER LAXMI KUMARAN ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER DEIRDRE ROSE HOLLAND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR VICKIE ROZELL ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNERS SARINA RENTERIA, MOLLY STEWART-COHN PRODUCTION ASSISTANT CHERYLE HONERLAH

CAST OLIVIA JULIE ECCLES VIOLA/SEBASTIAN LISA ANNE PORTER MALVOLIO STACY ROSS DUKE ORSINO RAMI MARGRON SIR TOBY BELCH CATHERINE CASTELLANOS SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK MARGO HALL MARIA DOMENIQUE LOZANO FESTE TED DEASY

THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: ELLEN & JOFFA DALE, MICHAEL & VIRGINIA ROSS, JEAN SIMPSON, SHARON SIMPSON, JAY YAMADA

PRODUCERS: NANCY OLSON, GEORGE & KATHLEEN WOLF

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: JIM & NITA ROETHE

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PRODUCTION SEASON PARTNERS UNDERWRITERS

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Cover image: Tristan Cunningham and Adrian Danzig; photo by Kevin Berne. Photo digitally altered. encoreartsprograms.com 9 ALL THE BAY’S A STAGE By Rebecca Novick, 2015 Associate Artistic Director/ Triangle Lab Director

The Triangle Lab’s All the Bay’s a Stage program brings performances to community locations around the Bay, reaching audiences with limited access to theater. Last year I was introducing our touring performance of Twelfth Night at the Alameda County juvenile detention center and I asked the teen audience if any of them were twins. A surprising number raised their hands and I suddenly felt a chill as I thought about these young people locked up and separated from a twin brother or sister. As the play started, and Viola mourned for the (presumed) death of her twin brother Sebastian, I felt a different energy to that scene than we’d felt in other performances. This was just one of many examples in which our audiences taught us as much as we taught them as we toured the show to homeless shelters, senior centers, alternative high schools and more. Michelle Hensley—who directed last year’s tour and trained us in the model used for many years by her Minneapolis company Ten Thousand Things—likes to say, “theater is better when everyone is in the audience.” Our first tour last year was a shining demonstration of the richness of audience response and conversation to be discovered in non-traditional settings.

This year, I’m thrilled to be directing Shakespeare’s The Tempest for our second touring production. THE TRIANGLE LAB—Cal Shakes’ community Featuring beloved Cal Shakes performers engagement program—invites more people Catherine Castellanos (as Prospero), Tristan to engage with theater in different ways. Cunningham (as Miranda and Trinculo), and Our programs take performances to unusual Liam Vincent (as Antonio), our production will places, support deep artist/community explore the fierceness of revenge and the power collaborations, and celebrate the artist of forgiveness. Composer Olive Mitra returns to in everyone. Triangle Lab programming create the magic of the island through song. We engaged approximately 4,000 people in will tour 8–10 community locations and then offer 2014, more than half of whom had no prior public performances at the Oakland Museum of connection with Cal Shakes. California in November 2015. Stripped-down sets and costumes, room lighting, and seating close to the actors puts audiences in a deeply intimate relationship to the story, and challenges actors to deliver total authenticity in their performances. We invite all of you to join us at the show!

Tickets for The Tempest will go on sale in October 2015 at www.calshakes.org. If you’re interested in supporting the community performances, please contact [email protected].

Top right: Catherine Castellanos, Patti Galagher, Nancy Carlin, and Rami Margron in Triangle Lab’s 2014 community tour performance of Twelfth Night. Below left: Cindy Im and Sarita Ocón in Triangle Lab’s 2014 community tour performance of Twelfth Night. Photos by Jay Yamada. Little Stage to Big Stage Artistic Learning Director Clive Worsley in conversation with Conservatory alumna Sarah Augusta

Our Artistic Learning programs teach many things to students: speaking skills, self-confidence, and the empathy inherent in exploring another character through performance. Our Conservatory alumni go on to all kinds of careers with the skills they’ve learned through theater education, Sarah Augusta as Celia in Two Pence Theatre’s 2011 and once in a great while they end up where they started: in the theater. production of As You Like It; photo by Ben Chandler. Sarah Augusta, a Cal Shakes Conservatory alumna and managing director of Chicago’s Two Pence Theater Company, is one of those people. Her theater, Two Pence, has a mission to provide the Chicago area with intimate and dynamic experiences of Shakespeare and other artists inspired by the principles of the Renaissance, illuminating what it means to be human. She sat down for an interview with Clive Worsley, Director of Artistic Learning, to talk about her life and experiences.

Clive Worsley: What first piqued your interest in acting, and how did you get your start? Sarah Augusta: My parents sent me to the White Pony / Meher School in La- fayette, which has a belief that the arts are an essential part of childhood that everyone can benefit from. So my love of theater has been around basically as long as I can remember. I am pretty sure my first role was the dove in a production of the story of Noah’s ark. My first Shakespeare was A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I played Hermia and the boy I had a crush on played Lysander. What could be better? What year did you attend Cal Shakes Summer Camp? I did the summer program for three years from 1995–1998, and also did a school-year touring production. What were your most memorable experiences during camp? What would you say was the most important impact of that experience? Sarah Augusta as a young performer at a Cal Shakes I wanted to be very serious about theater even at 13, and I always felt like conservatory; photo courtesy Ms. Augusta. that was respected at Cal Shakes. Even though we were kids, we were treated by the staff as artists who could be trusted, who had responsibilities and were expected to follow through with them. I never felt like we were doing theater that was dumbed down or somehow made “kid friendly.” I always felt like I was doing the real thing which is, I think, a huge gift to a young person, to be given an authentic experience.

How did those experiences prepare you for your career in theater?

Well I basically started there and never looked back—I went on to get my BFA in Acting and my MA in Arts Administration. But I don’t think that the value of doing theater as a child is limited to people who want to work in the field. Theater taught me how to work collaboratively, how to be comfortable in my voice and body, how to play on a team, how to balance respecting outside authority while also listening to my own inner intelligence: all qualities that have been vital to my job as a decent human being as much as my career. continues on page 26 “What country, Like its melancholy cousin, Twelfth Night presents a world where grief, madness, and friend, is this?” loss are very real. However, this play is infused throughout with a spirit of festival, in the Loss, Love, and Finding the old English sense: a temporary state where ordinary rules of conduct are suspended, Way Forward: An Interview with where celebrants may disguise themselves, Director Christopher Liam Moore act out fantasies of power reversal, embrace By Dr. Laura Brueckner novel expressions of sexuality, and revel in crude humor and obscene pranks—all without the usual legal or social consequences, until What is it about Twelfth Night that so the festival ends and order is restored. In enchants us? Arguably Shakespeare’s a way, Twelfth Night—like others of darkest comedy, written directly before (some Shakespeare’s comedies—takes its main scholars say while) he crafted his majestic characters on a similar journey, especially Hamlet, Twelfth Night contains notes of Viola: she leaves behind the self she knows both bitter and sweet, but blended in such and enters an unknown country, testing the beguiling ways that, rather than negating each limits of what is possible until it is time to go other, each serves to season the other and “home” again. increase its savor. Director Christopher Liam Moore brings a wealth of knowledge and depth of passion to this play, which he describes as a play “as close to perfection as any I’ve ever encountered.” In his Cal Shakes production, Moore hopes to share with audiences a new experience of Shakespeare’s beloved text, which, like all great art, changes as we change, and becomes ever richer in meaning as we ourselves live, love, lose, and learn.

LB: One element in your production of Twelfth Night will be new for many in the audience—the primarily female cast. What inspired this? CLM: Twelfth Night is so much about transformation; people assume other identities that lead to all sorts of possibilities and open their eyes to other parts of themselves. This play in particular deals with issues of gender and identity in ways I was so inspired by the pool of amazing women actors in the Bay Twelfth Night (2010): Christopher Liam Moore, Michael Hume, Robin Goodrin Nordli. Photo by T. Charles Erickson, Oregon Area—as a director, I just wanted Shakespeare Festival. to be in the room with them.

12 CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER WWW.CALSHAKES.ORG that I thought would make this [casting] a really don’t know, who is clearly unattainable— combustible—in a great way—mix. Also, I have, that’s out of balance. So I think that that idea as an actor, played a lot of Shakespeare’s of balance is a compelling motivator for the heroines. In Twelfth Night, I have played both characters, whether they realize it or not. twins, Viola and Sebastian; I’ve also played Rosalind and Lady Macbeth. And I’m very LB: In addition to celebrating love and aware of the incredible imbalance between discovery, your production of Twelfth Night will explore some of the play’s more somber elements. Why does this feel important to I think [Feste] is there to you? remind everybody—through CLM: I’ve always been struck by the fact that what catalyzes the two main plots in this play his songs in particular—that are the deaths of two brothers. It is so much a life is fleeting, and death journey through grief, an exploration of how you come back to life after having experienced awaits everybody. And that’s such a loss. At the end of the play, Sebastian not a reason to be morbid or is alive, but Olivia’s brother is still dead; she must make a choice to work through this grief sad; it’s a reason to embrace so that she can embrace the future. I find that the now and celebrate what incredibly moving, and I wanted to make sure that we didn’t lose sight of that in this you have in your life. production. The language is so delicious, the comedy is so delicious, but what is always a foundation for me in this play is that reality male and female roles in the Shakespearean of loss. canon, so I’d always felt a bit guilty that I had taken these roles away from female actors— So one of the central visual images of the felt that, on a personal level, there was a debt production is a coffin, which is on stage the to pay. And I was so inspired by the pool of entire show, where Feste will spring from amazing women actors in the Bay Area—as a at the beginning of the play and retreat to director, I just wanted to be in the room with at the end. I think that character is there to them. remind everybody—through his songs in particular—that life is fleeting, and death awaits LB: The question of imbalance is also explored everybody. Not a reason to be morbid or sad; in the play. Would you speak to that? it’s a reason to embrace the now and celebrate CLM: For most if not all of the characters, it’s what you have in your life. something that they have to reconcile within themselves. Olivia goes too far into mourning; she needs to find a way to reconcile herself Laura Brueckner is a Bay Area to that loss and move on with her life. Even dramaturg whose research and script development work has the comic characters, Maria and Toby—their supported productions at A.C.T., revenge on Malvolio goes too far. What starts Berkeley Rep, Crowded Fire as a funny way to “get back at the mean guy” Theater, the Bay Area Playwrights actually becomes cruel. They get the balance Festival, and the New Harmony wrong—and they realize that, fortunately, or at Festival. She holds a PhD in least Toby does. Orsino faces the same kind dramaturgy. of thing: obsessive love for somebody you

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There is much that scientists have learned much.”) In the face of Orsino’s doggedness, about the human brain, with one of the Olivia even uses her deceased brother and great discoveries, the hippocampus, made father as a seven-year plan for love-avoidance. by Giulio Cesare Aranzi in 1564—the year of Sir Toby Belch plots his own version of a Shakespeare’s birth. We now know that grid perfect match with Olivia for his friend Sir cells help us to navigate, and that the more Andrew Aguecheek, planning thereby to re- wrinkled the brain, the more intelligent we route Olivia’s fortune to his own disposal. But are likely to be. And that it takes one-fifth of a then comes Viola to Illyria: on Twelfth Night, second to “fall in love!” Not months of flowers that magical date right after the New Year (the and candle-lit dinners, not laudatory love Renaissance version of Opposite Day), when letters, not long and complicated searches on everything is overturned and a million private Match.com—but, quite simply, twelve areas of desires can shoot out into the stratosphere. the brain that work, in a split-second, to release A change of clothes and a cap can make a rapture-inducing chemicals like dopamine, woman, it seems, the most desirable man in oxytocin, and adrenaline. And yet we still can’t the world. Olivia, falling violently in love, says, answer the question: why that person? Why “even so quickly may one catch the plague.” not another to get those chemicals buzzing? Sir Toby, despite the financial plans he’s so Why, in other words, at that moment of falling carefully laid for his friend’s adventure in in love, do we feel the way we do for that love, says suddenly that he’d marry Maria for particular person? fun, and no dowry at all. And Viola perhaps embodies the biggest mystery of any: why Consider Twelfth Night. If you had a double, as would a smart, savvy woman throw herself Viola and Sebastian do, they might react the upon someone who’s clearly committed to same way as you do to being hurt or burned. another love interest? “All is semblative a But when seeing the same person that you woman’s part,” says the bemused Orsino, do, they would think and feel about them contemplating the mysteries of gender and differently. The one thing that the human mind attraction. All is semblative, it seems, for all seems incapable of comprehending is itself. our parts. We do what we do, but we know not We don’t know why we feel how we feel; so it quite why. follows that while we might know how we love who we love, we don’t know why. There are the people

There are the people we’re supposed to love; we’re supposed to love; the quantitative nature of online dating has the quantitative nature persuaded us of this. Olivia goes to great lengths to ward off Orsino, the suitor who of online dating has keeps telling her she’s supposed to return his love (“no woman’s heart/So big, to hold so persuaded us of this. To cast Twelfth Night as an all-woman show (save, in our production, for Feste) cracks wide-open the issue of who we are and why we love.

This brings me to one of the great beauties of why should I be punished for my dreams? Just the cross-gender casting in our production, because I’ve dared to feel the way I do? directed by Christopher Liam Moore. To cast Twelfth Night as an all-woman show (save, in I believe it’s this question of why we feel as our production, for Feste) cracks wide-open we do—the refusal of the mind to be known, the issue of who we are and why we love. quantified, qualified, measured—that gestures We’re assigned, or we assume, certain roles in through and beyond Twelfth Night toward the life, and perhaps we think this is who we are wonder of theater itself. Theater gives us a site, or should be. If the world of Twelfth Night is or a playing-field, on which to contemplate the a world turned upside-down and inside-out, intriguing mysteries of what it is to “be”: what then gender can also be turned inside-out to ignites, animates, and extinguishes the human reveal the real truth about human nature: that spirit beyond the mere facts of birth, death, who we love, why we love, and why we feel, and the all-powerful force of love. Theater is a mystery. To ourselves as well as to others. excites empathy: the quality that the Oxford Having begun in the wake of a storm that has English Dictionary defines as “the power of thrown all these characters together, the play projecting one’s personality into, and so fully concludes with the promise of the one thing we understanding, the object of contemplation.” can depend on—that “the rain it raineth every Theater compels us to feel in our own bodies day”—there will be sadness as well as joy, and the profound and teasing questions that are nothing can make us immune to either.

“The rain it raineth every day” has a special Theater gives us a site, or a resonance for Twelfth Night as Shakespeare’s playing-field, on which to last, and darkest, comedy. The enigma of the human heart is nowhere so cruelly mocked as contemplate the intriguing in the case of Olivia’s servant Malvolio, who has his own cherished implausible desires and mysteries of what it is to “be.” inappropriately-matched dreams. But unlike the other characters, who sort themselves and played out on stage. And Shakespeare exploits each other out, Malvolio is mocked, chided, this relationship with more penetration and and imprisoned for his dreams. Ostracism is truth than most. His plays will continue to more powerful than anything else that humans intrigue and compel because no matter how can do to each other: it trumps, in sheer sophisticated our personality profiling, no strength, even the gift of love. And in Twelfth matter how fiercely we’re told, or how strongly Night, ostracism is physically embodied in we know, what we ought to do or feel, we’ll the man who is imprisoned, looking out at never have answers to these simple questions: the world with lonely, hollow eyes, pleading why do I feel this emotion for this person? Or for an answer to the simple human question: why, indeed, shouldn’t I? Partnership begins with a simple equation: We Plus You

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15-EBR-0001839_Cal_Shakes_AD.indd 1 4/7/15 8:45 AM ad proofs template.indd 1 4/7/15 3:14 PM COMING NEXT: Life Is a Dream BY PEDRO CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA TRANSLATED AND ADAPTED BY NILO CRUZ DIRECTED BY LORETTA GRECO JULY 8–AUGUST 2 Next up in our season is Pulitzer Prize–winner Nilo Cruz’s ferocious, witty, and beautiful translation and adaptation of the Spanish Golden Age Renaissance classic Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The modern retelling of this forgotten gem from the Renaissance tells the story of Segismundo (Sean San José), a prince imprisoned from infancy by his father, King Basilio (Adrian Roberts), who saw “ill-fated omens” warning that the prince would destroy the kingdom. Basilio reconsiders Segismundo’s imprisonment and gives his grown son a chance to prove the prophesy false. What follows is a plot full of love triangles, conflicting loyalties, and a fierce power struggle between father and son that determines the fate of a nation. Magic Theatre Artistic Director Loretta Greco, a long-time collaborator of playwright Nilo Cruz and one of our country’s most extraordinary directors, makes her directorial debut at Cal Shakes with Dream. Adrian Roberts (as monarch Basilio) returns to our stage, with Bay Area favorite Sean San José (American Night) playing the captive prince Segismundo and Sarah Nina Hayon as fiery Rosaura. Julian López-Morillas plays Rosaura’s conflicted father. Tristan Cunningham (The Comedy of Errors) and Amir Abdullah play Estrella and Astolfo, Basilio’s niece and nephew vying for the throne. Providing comic relief is Jomar Tagatac as Rosaura’s servant Clarín, the fool. Cuban-American playwright Nilo Cruz was the first Latino to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (in 2003 for Anna in the Tropics), and with Life is a Dream, Nilo brings new muscularity and expressiveness to the language of Calderón, finding modern relevance. This is a production not to be missed!

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EAP House Ad Reach 1_6V 3.19.13.indd 1 3/20/13 3:00 PM WHO’S WHO JULIE ECCLES* Caesar, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, (Olivia) and Love’s Labour’s Lost. She has also served Previously at Cal as vocal/text coach for The Tempest, The Verona ACTING COMPANY Shakes: Pygmalion, Project, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello, among CATHERINE Hamlet, Candida, John others. She has appeared regionally in The CASTELLANOS* Steinbeck’s The Pastures House of Mirth, Othello, and The Rose Tattoo (Sir Toby Belch) of Heaven, Romeo and (A.C.T.); As You Like It, Othello, The White Cal Shakes credits Juliet, An Ideal Husband, Devil, Twelfth Night, Mad Forest, Antony & include: A Midsummer King Lear, As You Like It, Cleopatra, and The Illusion (Oregon Shakespeare Night’s Dream, The Importance of Being Festival); Fuente Ovejuna, Our Country’s Good, Pygmalion, The Tempest, Earnest, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, and and The Illusion (Berkeley Rep); and Enchanted Much Ado About Love’s Labour’s Lost. Regional credits include: April, Hay Fever, On the Verge, and Mizlansky/ Nothing, Romeo and The House of Mirth, Dinner at Eight, and A Zilinsky (San Jose Rep). She has directed for San Juliet (BATCC Award, Christmas Carol (A.C.T.); Our Town, An Ideal Jose Stage Company, Marin Theatre Company, Best Supporting Actress), Nicholas Nickleby Husband, and The Beaux’ Stratagem (Berkeley Center Rep, Napa Valley Rep, and A.C.T., as (Parts I and II), Richard III, All’s Well That Ends Rep); Enchanted April, Holiday, and Hay Fever well as numerous productions with A.C.T.’s MFA Well, Twelfth Night, The Seagull, The Merry (San Jose Rep); Far East, Tally’s Folly, and The and Young Conservatory Programs. Ms. Lozano Wives of Windsor, Henry IV (Parts I and II), Heidi Chronicles (TheatreWorks); The Comedy is also a Resident Artist at A.C.T., where her Triumph of Love, and John Steinbeck’s The of Errors and Much Ado About Nothing (SF translation of The Caucasian Chalk Circle has Pastures of Heaven. Recent Bay Area credits Shakespeare Festival). She has also worked for been produced. include: Lorraine in Sam Shepard’s A Lie Of The Seattle Rep, Huntington Theatre, Geva Theatre, Mind at Magic Theatre; Sir Toby in Twelfth Night and Syracuse Stage. She received her B.A. in RAMI MARGRON* and Mary in Alleluia, The Road (a collaboration Drama from UC Davis, and trained at London (Duke Orsino) between Cal Shakes and Intersection for the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Rami Margron is proud Arts, sponsored by Triangle Lab). Castellanos is a to return to Cal Shakes company member with Campo Santo, appearing MARGO HALL* after performing in the in more than a dozen world premieres. Regional (Sir Andrew Aguecheek) 2014 community tour of credits include shows at Yale Rep, La MaMa in Ms. Hall is delighted to Twelfth Night, a Triangle New York, play development through readings return to Cal Shakes, Lab and Intersection for and workshops with Portland Center Stage, where she has appeared the Arts collaboration Arena Stage (D.C.), Lensic (Santa Fe), Cherry in A Midsummer Night’s that toured an all- Lane (New York), A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, Magic Dream, A Raisin in the female cast to juvenile halls, women’s centers, Theatre and Shotgun Players (Phaedra, Best Sun, A Winter’s Tale, shelters, and other community sites. Previous Leading Actress nomination, Broadway World, American Night: The Cal Shakes shows include Lady Windermere’s Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle). Catherine would Ballad of Juan José, and Fan (2013) and Restoration Comedy (2006). like to extend praise and gratitude to her sons, Spunk. Her recent credits include Be Bop Baby: Recent shows include Antigonick and Precious Miles and Gabriel, for their continued inspiration A Musical Memoir, which she also wrote in Little (Shotgun Players), Around the World in and generosity in sharing their mom with the collaboration with Nakissa Etemad, at Z Space; 80 Days and Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol theater. The Motherf**ker With the Hat at SF Playhouse; (Marin Theatre Company), Pericles (Berkeley Fences and Seven Guitars at Marin Theatre; Rep), Super:Anti:Reluctant (Mugwumpin). TED DEASY* Fabulation for Lorraine Hansberry Theatre; Her regional credits include SF Shakes, Magic (Feste) Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet and Once in Theatre, Crowded Fire, Willows Theater, Ted Deasy is pleased to a Lifetime at A.C.T.; and Trouble in Mind at Woman’s Will, Word for Word, Pacific Rep, Town make his debut at Cal Aurora Theatre. Hall is a founding member of Hall Theater, Pear Ave Theater, City Circus, and Shakes. His national Campo Santo, the resident theater company at a number of dance companies. Ms. Margron credits include: The Intersection for the Arts, where she has directed studied acting at the Bennett Theatre Lab in San 39 Steps (Hannay). and acted in over 15 productions including plays Francisco, clowning in Paris, and over twenty Off-Broadway: The 7th by Chinaka Hodge, Jessica Hagedorn, Naomi styles of dance and movement in the United of October (Working Iizuka, Philip Gotanda, Octavio Solis, and many States, Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, and Indonesia. She is Theatre), A Phoenix more. In 2005, she made her writing debut as a a company member of Crowded Fire Theater and Too Frequent (Clurman). Regional: The King collaborating writer on Leigh Fondakowski’s The Rara Tou Limen Haitian Dance Company, and and I (Dallas Summer Musicals), The North People’s Temple, which premiered at Berkeley an associate artist with Mugwumpin, a devised Pool, The Foreigner, and Doubt (Cincinnati Rep and won the Will Glickman Award for best theater ensemble. She co-hosts The SHOUT, a Playhouse), Ghost Light (Berkeley Rep), Doubt new play for 2005. She has also performed at monthly storytelling event in Oakland. (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville), Evie’s Waltz (St. Arena Stage, Olney Theater, and Source Theater Louis Rep), Private Lives, Death of a Salesman in Washington, D.C., the Guthrie Theater in LISA ANNE PORTER* (Syracuse Stage), Much Ado About Nothing, Minneapolis, and has toured France with Word (Viola, Sebastian) Timon of Athens (American Players Theatre), The for Word. Lisa Anne Porter’s credits Comedy of Errors (Yale Rep), Anna Karenina, include All’s Well That Cyrano, The Shaughraun, Sueño, Mary Stuart, DOMENIQUE Ends Well, Pericles, Richard III (Milwaukee Rep), All’s Well That LOZANO* A Midsummer Night’s Ends Well, The Foreigner (Utah Shakespeare (Maria) Dream, and Medea at Festival), Geva Theatre Center, Indiana Rep, Two Ms. Lozano was last seen California Shakespeare River Theatre Company, and seven seasons as at Cal Shakes in Romeo Theater; The Normal a company member with Oregon Shakespeare & Juliet (2013). Previous Heart and A Tale of Two Festival. TV/Film credits include: To The Flame, productions include Cities at American Conservatory Theatre; The Prophet of Evil, Secret Bodyguard, All My Blithe Spirit, Much Ado Marriage of Figaro and Much Ado About Nothing Children, and Guiding Light. About Nothing, Pericles, at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; The Long Christmas The Triumph of Love, As Ride Home, The Pharmacist’s Daughter and The You Like It, Nicholas Nickleby, The Importance Brief But Exemplary Life of a Living Goddess of Being Earnest, Arms and the Man, Julius at Magic Theatre; Lovers and Executioners at

18 CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER WWW.CALSHAKES.ORG Marin Theatre Company; Arms and the Man at or Less on TBS, and Murder in Small Town X on Cristina at Magic Theatre; and Aszure Barton Center Repertory Theatre; Sweet Maladies and In Fox. He has also appeared on Friends, Judging & Artists Awáa at Yerba Buena Center for the a Daughter’s Eyes at Brava Theatre Center; The Amy, Third Rock from the Sun, and Star Trek: Arts. Recent New York designs: La Celestina, a Tempest at San Francisco Shakespeare Festival; Voyager. He is a proud founding member of site-specific opera at the Metropolitan Museum Two Gentlemen of Verona at Shakespeare Cornerstone Theater Company and worked with of Art; Underland at 59E59; The Long Shrift, Festival/LA; The Heidi Chronicles at Sacramento the company for 20 years. Stay and Basilca at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre Company; Hamlet and Richard III with Theater; and Phoebe in Winter at Clubbed the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company; NINA BALL Thumb. Other New York City designs include Ars S.L.A.W at Shakespeare & Company; Private (Set Designer) Nova, NYSF-Public Theater, La MaMa, Under Lives at Syracuse Stage; and The Taming of the Ms. Ball’s designs have been seen here at Cal the Radar Festival, Playwright’s Realm, and the Shrew and Macbeth at Boston Theatreworks. Shakes (A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Baryshnikov Arts Center. Recent regional designs: She has an MFA from the American Conservatory Night’s Dream), American Conservatory Theatre, Center Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Northern Theatre and a BA from Wesleyan University. She San Jose Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Two River is currently the Co-Head of Voice and Dialects Company, Shotgun Players, SF Playhouse, Theater Company and PlayMakers Repertory at the American Conservatory Theatre and a Center REP, Z Space, Napa Valley Conservatory, Company. International design: Abbey Theatre lecturer in Voice, Acting and Public Speaking and San Francisco Mime Troupe, among many (Dublin), Golden Mask Festival (Moscow), Seoul at the University of California, Berkeley. She others. She has been nominated for numerous Performing Arts Festival (South Korea), and is thrilled to be back at the Bruns with such a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Festival of Two Worlds (Italy). Recent dance talented array of artists. Shellie, and Arty Awards. Recent honors designs: Aszure Barton & Artists, Alvin Ailey include SFBATCC awards for My Fair Lady at America Dance Theater, Hubbard Street Dance STACY ROSS* SF Playhouse and Metamorphosis at Aurora Chicago, Bayerisches Staatsballett, and Houston (Malvolio) Theatre; a BroadwayWorld San Francisco Award Ballet. Member of Wingspace Theatrical Design Ms. Ross lives and works for Care of Trees at Shotgun Players; and an (wingspace.com/burke). in the Bay Area. She Arty Award for her design of Eurydice at Solano was last seen at Cal College Theatre. Ball is a company member of ANDRE PLUESS Shakes as Mrs. Erlynne Shotgun Players and has a MFA in scenic design (Sound Designer, Associate Artist) in Lady Windermere’s from San Francisco State University. Upcoming At Cal Shakes: The Comedy of Errors (2014), Fan (2013). Prior to that, shows include Much Ado About Nothing, The Titus Andronicus (2012), Much Ado About she played Tamora in Liar and Macbeth at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Nothing and Macbeth (2010), A Midsummer Titus Andronicus, Lady and Presenting the Monstress at ACT. Learn Night’s Dream (2009), Romeo and Juliet Macbeth in Macbeth, and Mrs. Warren in Mrs. more about Nina’s work at NinaBall.com. (2009), and Twelfth Night (2008). Based in Warren’s Profession. Other recent roles include Chicago, credits include numerous productions Annie in In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play MEG NEVILLE for Lookingglass Theatre (Artistic Associate), at Berkeley Rep, and A (Terminus) and Jackie (Costume Designer, Associate Artist) Court Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, About (Any Given Day) at the Magic Theatre. She is a Current/upcoming: One Man, Two Guvnors Face Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf member of Symmetry Theatre, Playground, and (Berkeley Rep & South Coast Rep); A Long Theatre, Northlight Theatre, and many other Actors’ Equity. Ross was recently seen in the Day’s Journey Into Night (Oregon Shakespeare Chicago and regional theaters. Broadway world premiere of Bauer at SF Playhouse and Festival); X’s and O’s (Berkeley Rep & Center credits: Metamorphoses, I Am My Own Wife, 59E59 (New York). Stage); Cocoanuts (OSF and Guthrie Theater). 33 Variations, and The Clean House (Lincoln Recent West Coast credits: Party People, The Center). Mr. Pluess has received 11 Joseph CREATIVE STAFF Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism Jefferson Awards and citations, an L.A. Ovation CHRISTOPHER LIAM and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, Award, Barrymore Award, a Drama Critics MOORE Tribes, and Pericles (Berkeley Rep); Ghost Light Circle Award, and Lortel and Drama Desk (OSF and Berkeley Rep); Yellow Jackets and The nominations for composition and sound design. (Director) Taming of the Shrew at OSF. As an associate Recent projects include: White Snake (Oregon Christopher Liam Moore artist at Cal Shakes: Lady Windermere’s Fan, Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, McCarter is thrilled to be returning Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Happy Days, King Theatre and Goodman Theatre); The Scarecrow to Cal Shakes after Lear, A Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s and his Servant (Children’s Theatre Co.); An making his debut with Dream, Macbeth, Love’s Labours Lost, Romeo Illiad (Court Theatre); Endgame (Steppenwolf Lady Windermere’s Fan & Juliet, The Tempest, John Steinbeck’s The Theatre), Metamorphoses (Lookingglass Theater/ (2013). As director, Pastures of Heaven, and Twelfth Night (2001). Arena Stage) and King Lear/Tempest (OSF). his most recent work Her work has also been seen at ACT, Magic includes Long Day’s Journey Into Night in the Theatre, The Kirk Douglas Los Angeles, BAM, ERIKA CHONG SHUCH* current season at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Atlantic Theater, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage, Dallas (Movement Consultant, Resident Movement Blithe Spirit at Artist’s Rep in Portland and Theater Center, South Coast Rep, San Jose Rep, Director) Boeing, Boeing at Utah Shakespeare Festival. In Chicago Opera Theater, Joe Goode Performance Ms. Shuch is a choreographer and director the past six seasons at OSF, he has directed A Group, Portland Stage, Center Stage, NY Stage who makes original performance work with her Streetcar Named Desire; A Midsummer Night’s And Film. Meg is a graduate of The Yale School company, the Erika Chong Shuch Performance Dream; The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa; of Drama and Brown University. She lives in San Project. Cal Shakes performance and August: Osage County; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Francisco with her husband Chris and children choreography credits include: Ariel in Jonathan and Dead Man’s Cell Phone. As an actor, he Daisy, Sunny, and Nate. A special thanks to Moscone’s 2012 production of The Tempest, recently played Walter Jenkins in last year’s Tony Jonathan Moscone for bringing Meg west to work and Titania in Shana Cooper’s Midsummer in award–winning play All The Way on Broadway. —and for many wonderful productions with Cal 2014. Other Cal Shakes credits include: The He has worked at theaters across the country, Shakes! Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet (2013), including Berkeley Rep, American Repertory American Night, Taming of the Shrew, Much Theatre, Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, BURKE BROWN Ado About Nothing, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Old (Lighting Designer) Pastures of Heaven, and A Midsummer Night’s Globe, and the Guthrie. His film and television Bay Area designs: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Dream (2009). She was nominated for a Helen work includes being a series regular on Ten Items at Cal Shakes; A Lie of the Mind and Se Llama Hayes award in choreography (Conference of the Birds, Folger Theater, Washington *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. DC). A recipient of the Gerbode Foundation’s

encoreartsprograms.com 19 WHO’S WHO LAXMI KUMARAN* and the world premiere of Ghost Light, which (Stage Manager) he co-created and developed with playwright Ms. Kumaran is enjoying her fifth season at Tony Taccone for Oregon Shakespeare Festival Emerging Choreographer’s Award, Ms. Shuch’s Cal Shakes where she has stage-managed and Berkeley Rep. In addition, he directed original work has been commissioned by Yerba Pygmalion, A Raisin in the Sun, A Winter’s Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park for American Buena, Intersection for the Arts and Dancers’ Tale, Lady Windermere’s Fan, American Night, Conservatory Theater (where he is an adjunct Group’s ONSITE program, and she was a guest Hamlet, Spunk, Candida, and Titus Andronicus. professor). For Cal Shakes, Jonathan has directed choreographer for Liz Lerman’s Dance Exchange In the Bay Area, Ms. Kumaran has also stage- the world premiere of John Steinbeck’s The at the Corcoran Gallery, DC. In 2011, she was managed for San Jose Rep and Center REP. Pastures of Heaven by Octavio Solis, The Life commissioned by Daejeon Metropolitan Dance Before moving to the Bay Area, Ms. Kumaran and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Candida, Theater and Chang Mu Dance Company in stage-managed in Chicago for a variety of Twelfth Night, Happy Days, Much Ado About Korea to create three new works inspired by and theaters, including the Goodman Theatre and the Nothing, The Tempest, and The Seagull. He in collaboration with North Korean defectors. Court Theatre. Some of the directors with whom brought writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Directing credits include: Associate Director she has had the pleasure of working include Amy Freed, along with a broad array of writers of for The Gift of Nothing with Aaron Posner at Patricia McGregor, Liesl Tommy, Joel Sass, the canon of world theatrical literature, under the the Kennedy Center (2014), Lily’s Revenge by Jonathan Moscone, Rick Lombardo, Christopher direction of many of our country’s most inventive Taylor Mac (Magic Theatre, 2011) and God’s Liam Moore, Timothy Near, Amy Glazer, Richard and passionate directors. He is the first recipient Ear by Jenny Schwartz (Shotgun Players, Seer, John McCluggage, Kirsten Brandt, Barbara of the Zelda Fichandler Award, given by the 2010). Upcoming projects include: directing Damashek, Michael Butler, Robert Falls, Mary Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl (Shotgun Players, Zimmerman, David Ira Goldstein, JoAnne for “transforming the American theatre through 2015), creating new works for Volti choir and Akalaitis, Robert Woodruff, Karin Coonrod, Gary his unique and creative work.” His regional Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble, and creating Griffin, and David Cromer. Ms. Kumaran has credits include Intersection for the Arts, For You, a performance work for audiences of taught stage management classes at UC Santa Huntington Theatre, Alley Theatre, Milwaukee 12 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Erika is Cruz; San José State; Northern Illinois, DePaul Repertory Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, Dallas currently working with CIIS and the University of and Northwestern universities; and currently Theater Center, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Chichester’s (UK) Theater Department to launch teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Intiman Theatre, and Magic Theatre, among a new San Francisco–based MFA in devised others. Jonathan has served on panels for performance. DEIRDRE ROSE HOLLAND* the National Endowment for the Arts and the (Assistant Stage Manager) Massachusetts Arts Council. He serves as a LYNNE SOFFER* Ms. Holland is thrilled to be back for a third board member of Theatre Communications Group (Voice and Text Coach) season at Cal Shakes, having previously worked and just completed the National Arts Strategies’ Ms. Soffer has been the dialect/text/vocal coach on Mike Daisey’s The Great Tragedies and Chief Executive Program. In August, he will on over 240 productions for theaters including Lady Windermere’s Fan. Her regional theater assume the position of Chief of Civic Engagement A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, San Jose credits include: Let There Be Love (American for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and looks Rep, Old Globe (San Diego), Dallas Theater Conservatory Theater); 2 Pianos 4 Hands, New forward to coming to the Bruns every summer Center, Arizona Theater Co., Magic Theatre, Works Festival 2014 (TheatreWorks); The Big and enjoying this magnificent theater. Marin Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, Aurora Meal, Game On, The Tragical History of Doctor Theatre, Word for Word, and PCPA Theaterfest; Faustus, Next to Normal, A Christmas Carol SUSIE FALK the world premiere of Moisés Kaufman’s The (2011 and 2012), and Spring Awakening (San (Managing Director) Laramie Project at the Denver Center, New York, Jose Repertory Theater); the World Premiere Ms. Falk came to Cal and Berkeley; and for several films. She has both of Bonnie and Clyde and The Laramie Project: Shakes as marketing acted with and coached dialects and text for Ten Years Later (La Jolla Playhouse); the director in 2004, and Cal Shakes in the past including A Midsummer Shakespeare Festival (2011), How the Grinch was appointed managing Night’s Dream, Pygmalion, Titus Andronicus, Stole Christmas!, Brighton Beach Memoirs/ director in 2009, Macbeth, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Private Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers, and The overseeing the company’s Lives, Pericles, An Ideal Husband, Nicholas Mystery of Irma Vep (Old Globe Theatre). Ms. administration and Nickleby, Restoration Comedy, and Man and Holland holds an MFA in Stage Management operations. She previously Superman. She currently teaches at A.C.T., and from the University of California, San Diego. worked at Berkeley Rep, American Conservatory works as an actor at many Bay Area theaters Theater, Seattle Rep, and Berkshire Theatre as well as directing productions of Wilde and CAL SHAKES STAFF Festival. She served for seven years on the board Coward plays for Stanford Repertory Theater. (four as vice president) of Theatre Bay Area, the JONATHAN local service organization for theater companies MOSCONE ALISON CAREY and theater workers. She is a graduate of (Artistic Director) (Dramaturg) Vassar College and completed coursework in Jonathan Moscone is Alison Carey is director of American Revolutions: organizational psychology at JFK University. in his 16th and final the United States History Cycle, the Oregon She lives in Berkeley with her husband, lighting season as Artistic Shakespeare Festival’s ten-year program of designer York Kennedy, and their daughter Pippa. commissioning 37 new plays sprung from Director of California moments of change in United States history. Shakespeare Theater, REBECCA NOVICK where he is proud of Previously, Carey was co-founder and resident (Associate Artistic Director/Triangle Lab the many achievements playwright of Cornerstone Theater Company, Director) this organization has made during his tenure, where she helped develop the company’s Ms. Novick was the founder of Crowded Fire building the company’s Artistic Learning program signature style of adapting classics in collaboration Theater Company and served as its artistic and developing ways to connect Cal Shakes with with community. Her plays have been seen at director for 10 years, growing the company more communities throughout our diverse Bay OSF, the Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theatre, from an all-volunteer group to one of San Area. At Cal Shakes, he most recently directed Arena Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, Yale Repertory Francisco’s most respected small theaters. She Shaw’s Pygmalion and Richard Montoya’s Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, Great has developed and directed new plays for many American Night: The Ballad of Juan José. His Lakes Theatre Festival, the World Shakespeare theaters in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Her other credits include Tribes at Berkeley Rep, Conference, the shuttered mother plant of directing work has been recognized with a Goldie Bethlehem Steel, a dirt-floor cattle sale barn, and a crowded shopping mall. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

20 CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER WWW.CALSHAKES.ORG Award for outstanding local artist, among other 2014 academic year she practiced and taught PRODUCERS awards. Ms. Novick has held a number of arts dramaturgy at the University of California, management and consulting positions including Berkeley. She also teaches regularly for the Osher ELLEN & JOFFA DALE serving as interim arts program officer for the Lifelong Learning Institute in Berkeley. For most (Executive Producers) San Francisco Foundation, project coordinator of the summer she can be found here at Cal Long-time subscribers and donors, Ellen and for the Wallace Foundation Cultural Participation Shakes, where she is a regular pre-show Grove Joffa Dale live in Orinda. Ellen is serving her Initiative in the Bay Area, and director of Talk speaker. She is married to composer Paul second stint on Cal Shakes’ Board of Directors; development and strategic initiatives for Theatre Dresher and mother to Cole. she was also on the board in 1991 when Bay Area. She regularly writes and speaks the Bruns Amphitheater first opened. While on issues relating to the arts sector; recent DAVE MAIER Ellen and Joffa thoroughly enjoy picnics and publications include contributions to 20under40, (Resident Fight Director) performances at the Bruns, the primary focus of the GIA Reader, Counting New Beans, and Mr. Maier is an award-winning fight director their donations is Artistic Learning. They believe Theatre Bay Area Magazine. Ms. Novick has a who has been in residence at Cal Shakes since that the lives of children reached by Cal Shakes’ BA from the University of Michigan in drama and 2006. Cal Shakes credits include A Raisin in education programs are enormously enriched and anthropology. the Sun, Hamlet, Spunk, Titus Andronicus, that these children are the artists and audiences Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, Richard of the future. Ellen and Joffa also helped CLIVE WORSLEY III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and As You establish the Moscone Permanent Endowment (Director of Artistic Learning) Like It, among others. His recent credits include and are charter members of the Cal Shakes Clive Worsley assumed the reins as Director of One Man Two Guvnors (Berkeley Rep); Tosca Legacy Circle. the Cal Shakes Artistic Learning Department and Showboat (SF Opera); Mirandolina (Center in August of 2013, and has been one of Cal Rep). His work has been seen on many Bay OUR CORPORATE PARTNERS Shakes’ premier Teaching Artists since 2002. He Area stages including A.C.T., San Jose Rep, BART was instrumental in developing some of the first SF Playhouse, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Magic (Presenting Partner) integrated arts public school residency programs, Theatre, Aurora Theatre, and Shotgun Players. For more than 40 years, BART has served as and is the moderator of Cal Shakes’ popular He is a Full Instructor of Theatrical Combat one of the Bay Area’s primary transit systems, Student Discovery Matinee program. Clive is with Dueling Arts International and a founding transporting roughly 430,000 passengers to familiar to all age groups at our popular Summer member of Dueling Arts San Francisco. He is and from 45 stations every weekday. BART is a Shakespeare Conservatories as both a Master currently teaching combat-related classes at proud sponsor of Cal Shakes—one of its favorite Class Instructor and Director. From 2008–2013, Berkeley Rep School of Theatre and Saint Mary’s BARTable destinations—and admires the great Mr. Worsley also served as Artistic Director of College of California. performances that Cal Shakes brings to the Bay Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette, where he brought Area. BART encourages attendees to improve about both artistic and fiscal success. As an the environment and take public transit to the award-winning actor he has appeared on many theater. BART... and you’re there. Bay Area stages including Cal Shakes, Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, Center REP, Shotgun, and others. Mr. Worsley brings to the company a holistic philosophy and longstanding passion for arts education. He believes strongly in the power of theater to educate and enrich people regardless of age or background and looks forward to ashland2015 building upon the great success of the Artistic get iN oN Learning programs. PHILIPPA KELLY the Act! (Resident Dramaturg) Dr. Kelly’s work has been supported by many Much Ado About NothiNg foundations and organizations, most recently guys ANd dolls the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (2014-15 Bly grant for Innovation FiNgersMith in Dramaturgy—co-awardee with Lydia Garcia secret love iN of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival). She PeAch blossoM lANd has also been awarded fellowships by the sweAt Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Walter and Eliza Hall Foundations, and the Commonwealth Pericles Awards. She publishes widely, from books on loNg dAy’s JourNey Shakespeare (her latest being The King and I) iNto Night to papers on dramaturgy and topics of cultural the hAPPiest soNg engagement. Her most recent discussions of dramaturgy can be found in the Cambridge PlAys lAst Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry, Spring 2014, ANtoNy ANd cleoPAtrA and, with Laura Hope, in the Literary Managers heAd over heels and Dramaturgs of the Americas Special Topics issue, 2014. Besides her work for Cal the couNt oF MoNte cristo Shakes, Dr. Kelly has also served as production dramaturg for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Word for Word Theater Company, and, ElEvEn Plays in ThrEE ThEaTrEs • FebruAry 20-NoveMber 1 from 2015, the Napa Shakespeare Festival 800-219-8161 • osfashland.org (dramaturgy and enrichment). In the 2013– Wayne T. Carr in Pericles

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The Hotel features more thanks United for its generous support of Twelfth worldwide supplier of systems for theaters, than 10,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor Night and the 2015 Season. arenas, stadiums, theme parks, convention meeting space and is the ideal location for social centers, houses of worship, and touring concert events and corporate meetings. To be sure, the AFFILIATIONS sound-rental operations. Meyer Sound systems most elegant and memorable events are held at are installed in many of the great venues of the this “Crown Jewel of the East Bay.” world, including the Berlin Philharmonie and Estonia’s Nokia Concert Hall; and in several PEET’S COFFEE & TEA well-loved Bay Area venues, such as The (Season Partner) Fillmore, Yoshi’s, Berkeley Rep, and Freight & Peet’s Coffee & Tea is proud to be the exclusive This Theater operates under an agreement between Salvage Coffeehouse. 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$25,000 and above Nina & David Bond Rachael & Thomas Eberle◊ Steven Sterns & Barry Klezmer Anonymous in memory of Juniper Michael & Phyllis Cedars◊ Mimi & Jeff Felson Sue & Terry Stiffler Marley Allen Phil & Chris Chernin◊ Sally & Michael Fitzhugh Paul & Susan Sugarman Ellen & Joffa Dale◊ Debbie Chinn in honor of Susie Falk & Jessica & James Fleming Tony Taccone & Morgan Forsey Maureen & Calvin Knight◊ Megan Barton Dale & Jerry Fleming Anne Marie & Tom Taylor Sharon Simpson◊ Josh & Janet Cohen Stanlee Gatti Stephenie & Dan Teichman The Estate of Grace Williams Ron & Gayle Conway Kathleen & Karl Geier Mr. & Mrs. Richard Thieriot Jay Yamada◊ Linda Drucker & Lawrence Prozan in Carol & Richard Gilpin Nancy Thomas & Thomas Riley honor of Maureen & Cal Knight Robert J. 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Golden & Susan Xanthe & James Hopp John & Bobbie Wilson Nancy Olson◊ Overhauser◊ Mark Horowitz Midge & Peter Zischke Shelly Osborne & Steve Tirrell Paul Covey & Ardice Hartry Cynthia & Mark Jordan Michael & Virginia Ross Randall & Beverly Hawks Timothy Kahn & Anne Adams $750–$999 Michele & John Ruskin in memory of Craig & Margaret Isaacs◊ Elizabeth Karplus Anonymous Phyllis & Leonard Ruskin Arline Klatte & Jon Ennis Martin L. Kaufman Elizabeth Balderston Barbara Sahm & Steven Winkel◊ Lisa & Scott Kovalik Bruce Kerns & Candis Cousins Marian Catedral-King & Tony King Jean Simpson◊ Gina & David Larue Marshall Kido Craig Congdon* Julie Simpson◊ Bill & Carol Leimbach Sheryl & Anthony Klein Magnus & Jennifer Du Borg◊ Frank & Carey Starn Debby & Bruce Lieberman◊ Jean & Jack Knox Marilyn & Les Duman James N. 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Ratner Jennifer Traub & Paul Epstein Jim & Nita Roethe◊ Megan Barton & Brian Huse in honor of Paul A. Renard & John A. Blytt Meredith & Jeffrey Watts Patti & Rusty Rueff◊ Sharon & Barclay Simpson Velma & Hugh Richmond Martha Truett & David White Monica Salusky & John Sutherland◊ in Joyce & Charles Batts Lesah & Jeffrey Ross memory of Barclay Simpson Stephanie & David Beach in honor of $500-$749 Claire Roth Yvonne & Angelo Sangiacomo Amanda Starr Anonymous (7) Rob & Eileen Ruby Philanthropic Miriam & Stanley Schiffman Laura & Paul Bennett Keren & Robert Abra Fund of the Jewish Community Sondra & Milton Schlesinger◊ Pamela & Christopher Cain Beth & Phil Acomb Foundation of the East Bay Alan Schnur & Julie Landres Steven & Karin Chase Stephanie & N. Thomas Ahlberg Tiffany Schauer Teresa & Patrick Sullivan Alice Collins & Len Weiler Jose & Carol Alonso Barbara & Jerry Schauffler Charles & Heidi Triay Deborah Cullinan & Kevin Cunz Rich & Karen Archer Martha G. Schimbor Jackie Wallace Klein & Michael Klein Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Barbara Aumer-Vail & Steve Vail William & Nathalie Schmicker Buddy & Jodi Warner◊ Jan Deming & Jeff Goodby Richard & Sandy Bails Joanne & Robert Schultz in honor of Ellen Dietschy & Alan Cunningham in Frank Belizzi the Bay Area Ghostbusters $2,500-$4,999 honor of Philippa Kelly L. Karin & Bob Benning Jo Schuman Silver Anonymous Richard & Tamara Dishnica Marc Bensadoun Laura & Robert Sehr◊ Claire & Kendall Allphin Thalia Dorwick Sara Benson Maureen Shea & Allen Ergo Eugene & Neil Barth Margaret Doty Liz & Richard Bordow Gary Sloan & Barbara Komas Daphne & Richard Bertero Lisa & Joseph Downes Robert St. John & M. Melanie Searle Jeff Bharkhda Barbara Duff in memory of George Duff Alexandra & Peter Starr Donors continued on page 26

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PRESENTING PARTNERS $100,000 and above Exploratorium BART Flowers Claire Marie TASTING PARTNERS The William and Flora Hewlett Four Season Hotel San Francisco Crofter’s Organic Foundation** Francis Ford Coppola Winery La Tourangelle The James Irvine Foundation** Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse Marlo’s Bakeshop Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation The French Laundry Pop Mama POP! The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation** Galileo Learning R&B Cellars Meyer Sound Golden State Warriors Upper Crust Pies Google Urbano Cellars $50,000-$99,999 Gundlach Bundschu Winery Dale Family Fund Hog Island Oyster Co $25,000–$49,999 Incredible Adventures MATCHING GIFTS Adobe Matching Gifts Chevron Corporation Independent Charities of America Apple City National Bank Inn at the Market Bank of America The Thomas J. Long Foundation Judd’s Hill Bank of the West National Endowment for the Arts/ Kala Art Institute California Healthcare Foundation Arts Midwest: Shakespeare for a Kaur Photography Charles Schwab New Generation Kiwanis Club of Moraga Valley Chevron Corporation Otter Cove Foundation Ladera Vineyards Clorox San Francisco Magazine Lafayette Community Foundation Gartner Co The Shubert Foundation Lagunitas Brewing Company SEASON PARTNERS Google Sound Associates Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Lamborn Family Vineyards The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation $10,000-$24,999 Lynmar Estate Sidley Austin Sidney E. Frank Foundation Meadowood Napa Valley Visa Walter & Elise Haas Fund Mimi & Peter Haas Fund John Wiley & Sons John Muir Health Moraga Rotary KBLX Morrison’s Manufacturing Retail Jewelers ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING Lafayette Park Hotel & Spa Muscardini Cellars DONOR-ADVISED FUNDS MCJ Amelior Foundation My English Tea Party McRoskey Mattress Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund Oliveto Café & Restaurant East Bay Community Foundation The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation The Olympic Club United Airlines Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival Foundation Source $5,000–$9,999 The Oyster Girls Jewish Community Federation Archer Norris Paco’s Collars Renaissance Charitable Foundation Blue Star Theatre/ Theatre Peju Family Winery The San Francisco Foundation Communications Group Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Schwab Charitable Fund The Bernard Osher Foundation Plumpjack Squaw Valley Inn Dodge & Cox Prima Ristorante East Bay Community Foundation Ratna Ling Retreat Center North Highland Worldwide Consulting The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe Peet’s Coffee & Tea Rock Wall Wine Company PwC Rossmoor Rotary Foundation SEASON PRODUCTION The Ida and William Rosenthal Rotary Club of Lafayette Foundation Rotary Club of Lamorinda Sunrise PARTNERS Rotary Club of Orinda Up to $4,999 San Francisco 49ers American Conservatory Theater San Francisco Ballet Asian Art Museum San Francisco Giants Bay Area Discovery Museum San Francisco Wine Group Bison Brewing Company SF Camera Works Blue Waters Kayaking Shotgun Players Britex Smuin Ballet California Jazz Conservatory Testarossa Winery California Academy of Sciences TheatreWorks Captain Vineyards TWANDA Foundation Caterpillar Foundation UC Berkeley Art Musuem & Pacific Film Cesar Archive Chabot Space & Science Center UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley Claremont Hotel Club & Spa Walnut Creek Yacht Club Classic Catering Wells Fargo Foundation The Dailey Method Yerba Buena Center for the Arts The Dock at Linden Street di Rosa Art Alive Duckhorn Wine Company The Edible Schoolyard Project Elizabeth Spencer Winery

encoreartsprograms.com 25 Interview with Sarah Augusta DONORS CONTINUED continued from page 11. Jean & John Brennan Dorothy & John Peers Cindy & Robert Brittain Carey Perloff & Anthony Giles Carl Brown & Pilar Zuniga Mary C. Powelson Germaine Brown* Kathleen Quenneville Andy & Doree Burstein Pam Rafanelli How did your early exposure to Shakespeare Joan Byrens Douglas Regalia influence your career choice? Jo Alice & Wayne Canterbury Rachel Rendel Patrick & Jacqueline Carew Roberta Richards & Robert Semar Tom Chapman & Phil Shaw Karen & Jeffery Richardson Since I performed Shakespeare as a play before I Katherine & Henry Chesbrough David & Carla Riemer Michael & Sandra Cleland Ajay Robinson ever read it as a homework assignment, I skipped Marty Collins Joan Roebuck over the unfortunate experience I think a lot Jane & Thomas Coulter Sean Rositano Theresa Cullen Jirayr Roubinian of people have where the plays are treated as Lina Jane Howard-Cygan & Herbert Patricia & Glenn Rudebusch literature in a foreign language and sort of analyzed Cygan Elizabeth J. Sandefur Kathryn & Gunther De Groot Diana Sanson & Ben Compton to death. For me, the plays have always been alive Dennis DeDomenico & Sandra Brod Julie & Andrew Sauter and in motion and simply the best stories that exist! Maria Dichov Patti & Paul Sax Frank & Margaret Dietrich Ted & Susie Schaefer My partner (Two Pence Artistic Director Tom Wells) Eric Dittmar & Gayle Tupper Joyce & Kenneth Scheidig Maureen Dixon Kary Schulman calls them “the Olympics of theater,” and they are. Corinne & Michael Doyle Linda & Lester Schwartz There were a few years after I graduated college Karin Eames Marcus Segal Sharon & Leif Erickson Lucille & John Serwa (which was a very Shakespeare-heavy experience) Nancy & Phil Estes Heidi Shale & Earl Cohen where I only did new plays and modern plays. And Stephen Evans & Kathleen Correia James Shankland & Leslie Landau Mary & Ben Feinberg Anne Siglin then in 2009 I worked on Merchant with The Actors Claudia Fenelon & Mark Schoenrock Neil Sitzman Shakespeare Project in Boston and it was like water Kristin Ferrucci-Fuller & Scott Fuller Martha & Bill Slavin Scott & Joan Fife Betsy Smith to the desert—the lightbulb clicked on for me that Gita & Louis C. Fisher Carrie & Jason Smith this was the work I wanted to actively pursue, which Peter Fisher Ms. Valerie Sopher Debra & Dudley Fournier in honor of Stephanie & Robert Sorenson directly led to the creation of Two Pence. Sylvia Stone David Starke Maribel & Jack Fraser Gail & Rick Stephens Charla Gabert & David Frane Maryann & Douglas Straub Tell us about Two Pence and what you and your Marilyn & Paul Gardner Todd & Kim Strumwasser Judith & Alexander Glass Ragesh Tangri & Daralyn Durie company is engaged in now? Sarah Gopher-Stevens & Bill Stevens Dayna & Tom Taylor Laura Gorjance Leslie Thieriot Kathy & David Graeven Catherine & Ned Topham◊ We’re a small, scrappy little company going on William & Shand Green Beth Townsend & Mark Wagoner our fifth year. Tom and I founded it together when Kristi & Arthur Haigh Jamie & Gerry Valle Harriet Hamlin & James Finefrock William Van Dyk & Margaret Sullivan we felt like we couldn’t find the work we wanted Marnie Hartmann Beth Ann & Michael Ward to do (work we’d experienced at great companies William Hathaway Kelvin & Rosalind Wate Ben & Sarah Holzemer Marcia & John Waterbury like Cal Shakes, Shakespeare & Co, ASP, etc.) in Ellen Brody Hughes Corinne & David Whittall Leslie & George Hume Arlene & Victor Willits Chicago. One thing that Two Pence is dedicated to Mike Huston & Marcia Cho Ann K. Willoughby is cross-gender casting to make more opportunities Julie C. Jaeger Cheryl & Steve Wilske Ken & Judith Johnson Viviana Wolinsky for women in classical work, which is something Karin & Patrick Johnston Linda & Warren Zittel that has its roots directly in my time at Cal Shakes Abby Kersh Tony & Kathy Laglia playing Paroles, the swaggering man-fool in All’s Joseph Lee Well That Ends Well. I had the best time learning Michael & Samantha Leo Mr. Fred Levin & Ms. Nancy Livingston how to man-walk and man-talk and wearing a Susan & Donald Lewis ridiculous hat—Shakespeare’s characters are so Randall & Rebecca Litteneker Jean & Lindsay MacDermid well-crafted I truly believe any person can play any Carolyn Mahoney Alan Markle character and so does Two Pence! Mary & Howard Matis Tomi & Scott Matthews Marsha Maytum & William Leddy And any fun anecdotes you might care to share? Eugene McCabe Nion T. McEvoy Kimberly & Jerry Medlin I just want to brag about my peers and fellow D. G. Mitchell Cal Shakes alum that I’m still in touch with! Graham Susan Morris Linda & Chris Moscone Norris and his brother Brian did the program for Brian & Jennifer Mosel years and are respected actors, screenwriters and Marilyn & David Nasatir Joseph Navarro & Billie Jones teachers in LA. Graham is currently writing for the Marie & Jim O’Brient William Ostrander & Janice L. Johnson new hit show iZombie, how cool is that? I know Sharon & Bill Owens they cherish their memories of Cal Shakes as much Elizabeth & Artur Pasquinelli as I do.

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DIRECTORS Barbara Bennett Jeff Bharkhda Michael Cedars Phil Chernin Mike Cleland IN MEMORY Joshua Cohen Maureen Knight The Lt. G.H. Bruns III Memorial Amphitheater is named in memory of the late Craig Moody son of George and Sue Bruns of Lafayette. Lt. George Bruns was born in Hollis, NY, on December 14, 1942. He came to California with his family at the age Nancy Olson of seven, and attended Pleasant Hill High School, where he played football and Shelly Osborne took the North Coast Championship in Greco-Roman wrestling. At the Air Force Jim Roethe Academy, he became the AAU wrestling champion. He earned a Master’s Degree John Ruskin in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University. George rode Brahma bulls Sharon Simpson and saddle broncs, and loved to ride horses through the Siesta Valley where Frank Starn the Amphitheater now sits. Lt. Bruns was killed in June 1967, in an automobile Mark Traylor accident just before he was due to ship out for service in Vietnam. California Shakespeare Theater honors the memory of Lt. George H. Bruns III.

ABOUT THE BRUNS AMPHITHEATER Siesta Valley (the home of the Bruns Amphitheater) is one of the original land holdings of the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). In agreeing to lease to the Theater, EBMUD seeks to serve the public with a community facility while preserving the watershed with minimal disruption to the pastoral surroundings. This land may be open to the public for performances and private events, but remains restricted private property at all other times.

PICTURED, TOP TO BOTTOM: TWELFTH NIGHT YOUTH UPRISING (PHOTO BY JAMIE BUSCHBAUM); SUMMER SHAKESPEARE CONSERVATORY STUDENTS (PHOTO BY JAY YAMADA); LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (PHOTO BY JAY YAMADA); LT. G.H. BRUNS; THE BRUNS AMPHITHEATER (PHOTO BY JAY YAMADA). FYI IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR OUR PATRONS CONTACT US Wheelchair seating: Available in sections A, C, Terrace Rear, and Boxes. Box Office: 510.548.9666 or [email protected] We can also book seats, adjacent to yours, for up to three companions. (Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm; Sat, 10am–2pm; Sun 12–4pm) (Make sure to request this seating at time of purchase.) Mailing & Box Office Address: 701 Heinz Ave, Berkeley, CA 94710 Assistive Listening Devices: Available at no charge from the blanket kiosk on Website: www.calshakes.org a first-come, first-served basis. Social Media: Facebook.com/calshakes Twitter.com/calshakes Open-captioned Performances: Cal Shakes is proud to provide open Pinterest.com/calshakes Instagram.com/calshakestheater captioning for patrons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing during the four main Group Sales (10+): 510.809.3290 stage shows over our regular season. Open captioning utilizes an unobtrusive General: 510.548.3422 or [email protected] screen at the front of the theater to display dialogue spoken during a Program Advertising: Mike Hathaway, Encore Media Group, 800.308.2898 performance. No special equipment is required by patrons; one can simply x105 or [email protected] glance at the screen to read the text while watching the action on stage. Facilities Rental: 510.548.3422 x123 AMPHITHEATER ETIQUETTE Costume Rental: 510.548.3422 x111 Be respectful: Part of Cal Shakes’ mission is to inspire and cultivate diverse TICKETS AND SEATING and inclusive theater experiences. We reserve the right to ask patrons to Ticket Exchange & Replacement: Subscribers and Flex Subscribers may leave. exchange tickets at no cost up to 24 hours in advance of the time and date Arrive on time: Latecomers will be seated at an appropriate interval at the of their scheduled performance; single ticket holders may do so for a $10 House Manager’s discretion. fee. If you lose or misplace your tickets, the Box Office can arrange for Silence all electronic devices before the performance begins. replacements at no extra charge. Recording: Do not take photos of the performance. The use of any type of Discounts: For information on discounted tickets for military, age 30 and camera, video or audio recorder in the amphitheater is strictly prohibited. younger, and student/senior rush, visit calshakes.org/discounts. Such devices may be confiscated at the House Manager’s discretion. 20 for $20 Policy: We’ve set aside 20 $20 tickets for each performance Keep the aisles clear during the performance. this season, making it easier for more people to enjoy theater. Simply call the Observe all signage including directional signage on the grounds. It is posted Box Office between noon and 2pm the day of the show and ask to purchase for your safety. “20 for $20” tickets. (Subject to availability.) Smoking is restricted to area designated: Look for the bench and ashtray Terrace Seating: Chairs are pre-placed in all sections. If you’re seated in our on the plaza across from the café. Electronic cigarettes are allowed in the Terrace or Terrace Preferred sections, you have the options of bringing your groves, plaza, and anywhere on the grounds with the exception of the own chair. If you choose to bring your own, it must be a low-backed beach Amphitheater. chair with a seat no more than six inches off the ground and a backrest no Be scentsitive: Perfumes or scented lotions may cause discomfort to other taller than shoulder height. patrons and may attract yellow jackets. Please keep use to a minimum. Picnicking: You’re welcome to enjoy food and beverages during the BRUNS AMPHITHEATER performance, but please be courteous to others. Unwrap all items before 100 California Shakespeare Theater Way, Orinda, CA 94563 (not a mailing the performance begins or at intermission so as not to disturb your fellow address) patrons. Hours: Box office and grounds open two hours before performance time. Come prepared for the outdoors: Blankets are available to the right of the ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP main Amphitheater entrance for a suggested $2 donation; please dress Recycling: Please use the labeled recycling bins to discard glass, aluminum, warmly for cold nights and bring sunscreen and a hat for matinees. To keep plastic, and paper; a portion of the proceeds from the value of our recycled yellow jackets at bay, keep food covered whenever possible and promptly materials is donated to area schools. dispose of trash and recyclables. We’ve also found fabric softener dryer Solar: Cal Shakes is one of the largest solar-powered outdoor professional sheets work well to repel yellow jackets. theaters in the country. The 144 260-watt panels and four 9000-watt Take BART and our free shuttle: Cal Shakes provides free, wheelchair lift- inverters of our Turn Key 37.4 kilowatt DC solar electric system are designed equipped shuttle service between the Orinda BART station and the Theater to supply up to 98% of the power needs to the Bruns Amphitheater. beginning 2 hours prior to and at the end of each performance. The shuttle Living Roof: Like much of the Bruns Amphitheater grounds, the Sharon runs approximately every 20 minutes; the final shuttle leaves the Orinda Simpson Center’s living roof boasts native, drought-resistant plants. BART station approximately 20 minutes before curtain. Orinda BART pickup is in the BART parking lot to the right of the station exit; after the show, catch the shuttle on the Sue & George Bruns Plaza. SHARON SIMPSON CENTER AMENITIES EVACUATION PLAN Café by Classic Catering: Offering a wide selection of gourmet meals, wine, beer, Peet’s coffee and tea, hot cocoa, and desserts, the café opens two hours before the performance and at intermission. Catering is available for STAG E groups (10+) and special events; call 925.939.9224. EXIT Restrooms: Located to the left of the Café. (Additional restrooms are located in the Upper Grove.) THE SHARON SIMPSON EXIT CENTER First Aid: For assistance, please go to the House Management Office, EXIT located inside to the left of the restrooms. P Emergency Phone: Since we ask all patrons to silence cell phones EXIT during performances, you may leave the House Office phone number (925.254.2395) as your contact number during a performance. EXIT ROUTE PRIMARY AREA OF REFUGE (MEETING PLACE FOR ALL ACCESSIBILITY AUDIENCE MEMBERS)

Wheelchair Lift-equipped Shuttle: See info above, under “Take BART and SECONDARY AREA OF REFUGE UPPER our free shuttle.” GROVE FIRE HYDRANTS

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2015 ARTISTIC COMPANY ARTISTIC SCENIC ART DEVELOPMENT Chris Akerlind, LIGHTING DESIGNER Rebecca Novick, ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC Letty Samonte, SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST Megan Barton, DIRECTOR OF Kjerstine Anderson, ACTOR DIRECTOR/TRIANGLE LAB DIRECTOR Sophia Fong, Anya Kazimierski, Bill DEVELOPMENT Arwen Anderson, ACTOR Clea Shapiro, ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE Plumb, SCENIC ARTISTS Andrew Page, GRANTS MANAGER Nina Ball, SCENIC DESIGNER Philippa Kelly, RESIDENT DRAMATURG Zoe Westbrook, INTERIM SPECIAL El Beh, ACTOR ELECTRICS EVENTS MANAGER Aldo Billingslea, ACTOR TRIANGLE LAB Renée Gholikely, DONOR STEWARDSHIP Lauren Wright, MASTER ELECTRICIAN Drew Boyce, SCENIC DESIGNER Lisa Evans, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COORDINATOR Kelly Kunaniac, ASSISTANT MASTER Cliff Caruthers, SOUND DESIGNER COORDINATOR ELECTRICIAN Catherine Castellanos, ACTOR Denise Jolly, TRIANGLE LAB Tianyi Hao, FOLLOWSPOT MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Dan Clegg, ACTOR COORDINATOR Hamilton Guillén, Kyle Cameron, SHOW Janet Magleby, DIRECTOR OF Tristan Cunningham, ACTOR ARTISTIC LEARNING ELECTRICIAN/CARPENTER MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Amanda Dehnert, DIRECTOR Clive Worsley, DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC Sarina Renteria, BOARD PROGRAMMER Marilyn Langbehn, MARKETING & PR Julie Eccles, ACTOR LEARNING MANAGER Loretta Greco, DIRECTOR SOUND Beverly Sotelo, ARTISTIC LEARNING Keith Spencer, PUBLICATIONS MANAGER Margo Hall, ACTOR Brendan Aanes, SOUND ENGINEER PROGRAMS MANAGER Penny Leyton, GRAPHIC DESIGNER/ Sarah Nina Hayon, ACTOR Whitney Grace Krause, ARTISTIC WEBMASTER Anthony Heald, ACTOR LEARNING COORDINATOR Renée Gholikely, CORPORATE PARTNER Deirdre Rose Holland, STAGE MANAGER COSTUMES & WARDROBE Brett Jones, CONSERVATORY COSTUME DIRECTOR RELATIONS COORDINATOR Cheryle Honerlah, PRODUCTION Naomi Arnst, COORDINATOR ASSISTANT Jessa Dunlap, RENTALS MANAGER/ Stephanie Anne Foster, CONSERVATORY Josh Horvath, SOUND DESIGNER CRAFTSPERSON PATRON SERVICES COORDINATOR Alex Jaeger, COSTUME DESIGNER Karina Chavarin, ASSOCIATE COSTUME Pam Webster, PATRON SERVICES Jacinta Sutphin, ASSISTANT Rafael Jordan, ACTOR DESIGNER MANAGER CONSERVATORY COORDINATOR Laxmi Kumaran, STAGE MANAGER Morgen Warner, COSTUME DESIGN Molly Conway, PATRON SERVICES Sofie Miller, ASSISTANT CONSERVATORY Dave Maier, RESIDENT FIGHT DIRECTOR ASSOCIATE ASSISTANT MANAGER COORDINATOR Julian Lopez Morillas, ACTOR Kitty Wilson, CUTTER/DRAPER Aliya Charney, Nan Noonan, Rhoda Cheryle Honerlah, CONSERVATORY Jonathan Moscone, DIRECTOR Katherine Griffith, TAILOR Slanger, Sheila Yee, PATRON SERVICES TECHNICAL COORDINATOR Christopher Liam Moore, DIRECTOR Nelly Flores, FIRST HAND/TAILOR’S ASSOCIATES Alex Nichols, LIGHTING DESIGNER ASSISTANT Linda Ely, Milena Geary, STITCHERS Rebecca Novick, DIRECTOR DIVERSITY & INCLUSION Marcy Frank, Janet Conery, Tasa BOX OFFICE Dan Ostling, SET DESIGNER Carmen Morgan, DIVERSITY & Derik Cowan, BOX OFFICE MANAGER Gleason, Coeli Polansky, COSTUME Andre Pluess, SOUND DESIGNER INCLUSION CONSULTANT ASSISTANT BOX OFFICE OVERHIRE Kelvyn Mitchell, Charles Shaw Robinson, ACTOR Jamie Buschbaum, Jamila Cobham, Rena Simon-Igra, Kyo Yohena, MANAGER Katherine Roth, COSTUME DESIGNER Derik Cowan, Susie Falk, Joyce COSTUME SHOP ASSOCIATE Kimberlee Hicks, BOX OFFICE Megan Sada, STAGE MANAGER Fleming, Denise Jolly, Whitney Krause, Suzy Deal, Suzanne Ryan, Meave Kelly, ASSOCIATE Sean San José, ACTOR Marilyn Langbehn, Jonathan Moscone, COSTUME VOLUNTEERS Danny Scheie, ACTOR Rebecca Novick, Clea Shapiro, Tirzah Leandra Watson, WARDROBE LEAD Douglas Schmidt, SCENIC DESIGNER Tyler, Pam Webster, TASK FORCE FRONT OF HOUSE Megan Finley, Ashley Grambow, Michael Ross, Rei Jackler, HOUSE Erika Chong Shuch, MOVEMENT DRESSER MANAGERS CONSULTANT PRODUCTION Jessica Carter, WIG/MAKEUP DESIGNER Sarawat Aimimthan, Molly Conway, Lynne Soffer, VOICE AND TEXT COACH Tirzah Tyler, DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION Katherine Bettini, WIG/MAKEUP Heidi Hayame, Dena Laurie, Belgica Karen Szpaller, STAGE MANAGER & FACILITIES ASSOCIATE Rodriquez, Claire Patterson, Karla Melissa Torchia, COSTUME DESIGNER Jamila Cobham, ASSOCIATE Barahona Skyler Larkin, HOUSE Jomar Tagatac, ACTOR PRODUCTION MANAGER ASSOCIATES Liam Vincent, ACTOR Cordelia Miller, Chris Waters, PROPERTIES PRODUCTION COORDINATORS Sarah Spero, PROPERTIES MASTER 2015 PROFESSIONAL IMMERSION TEACHING ARTISTS Kirsten Royston, PROPERTIES ARTISAN PROGRAM Molly Aaronson-Gelb, Heidi Abbott, STAGE MANAGEMENT Brittany White, WEAPONS MANAGER Amelia Furlong, ARTISTIC Andy Alabran, Jason Bayoni, Ron Deirdre Rose Holland, Laxmi Kumaran, Jenny Hiyama, SCENIC PAINTIG Campbell, Elizabeth Carter, Michael Megan Sada, Karen Szpaller, STAGE OPERATIONS Isabel Leonard, PROPERTIES Cavanaugh, Scott Coopwood, Kelsey MANAGERS Jamie Buschbaum, SENIOR OPERATIONS Taelen Robertson, COSTUME DESIGN Dickman, Amber Flame, Stephanie Cheryle Honerlah, Christina Larson, Jason Cohen, STAGE MANAGEMENT Foster, Britney Frazier, Gary Grossman, MANAGER Cordelia Miller, PRODUCTION Brittany White, FACILITIES MANAGER Annette Koehn, STAGE MANAGEMENT Susan-Jane Harrison, Dave Maier, ASSISTANTS Joshua Marx, Rebecca Kemper, Carla Erin Gibb, Brian Giguere, FACILITIES Pantoja, Patrick Russell, Dan Saski, TECHNICIAN Anna Schneiderman, Michael Shipley, SCENIC Porscha Owens, Reva Owens, Anna Smith, Jonathan Spector, Lauren Chris Hammer, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR SHUTTLE DRIVERS Spencer, Teddy Spencer, Jacinta Colin Suemnicht, ASSISTANT Sutphin, Cat Thompson, Trish Tillman, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Maryssa Wanlass, Wendy Wisely, Jake Ewonus, MASTER CARPENTER Noralee Rockwell, DIRECTOR OF Elena Wright, Kat Zdan John Wolfe, CARPENTER FINANCE De’Leon Hegler, SCENIC CARPENTRY Joyce Fleming, DIRECTOR OF HUMAN FELLOW RESOURCES Sampson Krause-Suemnicht, TECH DOG Brian Luce, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT/ PRODUCTION PROGRAM OFFICE MANAGER Volume 24, No. 1 Melissa Dimon, ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT Keith Spencer, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Penny Leyton, ART DIRECTOR

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30 CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER WWW.CALSHAKES.ORG The Twelfth Night Mixtape Quiz

If music be the food We asked our fans to tell us some of their favorite love songs and lyrics, in preparation for our lov- of love, play on. ingly crafted production of Twelfth Night. From But play what, exactly? When you’re the syrupy to the sappy, we’ve got song and verse trying to assemble a love playlist from galore for our Twelfth Night mixtape. But can you the ten thousand songs on your laptop, match the lyric to the artist? Rank your love song you may find the excess of it “surfeiting, knowledge on a scale from Dudly Aguecheek to such that your appetite may sicken and Amorous Juliet, with the quiz below. (We’ve filled so die” (as Orsino says in Act I). out the first one to get you started.)

Lyric Artist 1 P But when I came, alas! to wive, / With hey, ho, the wind and rain, / By swaggering A Nat King Cole – “Let There Be could I never thrive, / For the rain it raineth every day. Love” B The Beatles – “Something” 2 I remember that time you told me you said / “Love is touching souls” / Surely you touched mine / ‘Cause part of you pours out of me / In these lines from time to time C William Shakespeare – “Sonnet /Oh, you’re in my blood like holy wine. 18” 3 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temper- D Cole Porter – “It’s DeLovely” ate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer’s lease hath all E Aretha Franklin – “(You Make Me too short a date. Feel Like) A Natural Woman” 4 If I ventured in the slipstream, / between the viaducts of your dream, / where immo- F Tracy Chapman – “Fast Car” bile steel rims crack, / and the ditch in the back roads stop / Could you find me? / G Frou Frou – “Breathe In” Would you kiss my eyes? H Fiona Apple – “I Know” 5 Well, I can’t forget this evening / Or your face as you were leaving / But I guess that’s J Paul McCartney – “Silly Love just the way the story goes / You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows. Songs” 6 I’m high enough from all the waiting / To ride a wave on your inhaling. K Harry Nilsson – “I Can’t Live if Living is Without You” 7 Let there be you, let there be me / Let there be oysters under the sea / Let there be wind, an occasional rain / Chile con carne, sparkling champagne. L Joni Mitchell – “Case of You” 8 Love doesn’t come in a minute, / Sometimes it doesn’t come at all / I only know that M Tom Waits – “San Diego when I’m in it / It isn’t silly, no, it isn’t silly, love isn’t silly at all. Serenade” N Van Morrison – “Astral Weeks” 9 Looking out on the morning rain / I used to feel so uninspired / And when I knew I had to face another day / Lord, it made me feel so tired / Before the day I met you, P William Shakespeare – life was so unkind / But you’re the key to my peace of mind. Twelfth Night 10 I never saw the white line, ‘til I was leaving you behind / I never knew I needed you ‘til I was caught up in a bind / I never spoke “I love you” ‘til I cursed you in vain, / I Score one point for each right answer never felt my heartstrings until I nearly went insane. (key below). 11 You can tell at a glance / What a swell night this is for romance, / You can hear dear 1-3. Dudly Aguecheek Mother Nature / Murmuring low, / “Let yourself go!” / So please be sweet, my 4-7: Tepid Troilus chickadee, / And when I kiss you, just say to me, / “It’s delightful, it’s delicious…” 8-10. Fetching Marc Antony

12 And you can use my skin / To bury your secrets in / And I will settle you down / And 11-12: Amorous Juliet

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