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PRODUCTION SPONSOR AUGUST 21 ‑ SEPTEMBER 16 A MESSAGE FROM THE LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Christopher Ashley Debby Buchholz Managing Director During a season planning session last year, Playhouse Artistic Director Associate Artistic Director Jaime Castañeda proposed Seize the King, Will Power’s reimagining MISSION STATEMENT: of Shakespeare’s Richard III, as the next play that he wanted to direct.
La Jolla Playhouse advances theatre as Jaime had reached out to Will a year ago to see if he an art form and as a vital social, moral was working on anything new. He told him that he was grappling with anxieties and political platform by providing and was in the midst of adapting Richard III to explore how man’s ambition and lust for power could lead to tyranny. unfettered creative opportunities for the leading artists of today and When Jaime read the script of Seize the King, it completely sparked his interest. tomorrow. With our youthful spirit and Not only did Will’s play invoke and imagine past, present and future cultural eclectic, artist-driven approach, we polarities, but he boldly reinterpreted a well-known text in his own voice, with his will continue to cultivate a local and own rules for language and structure, and turned a daring lens on Shakespeare’s classic for a company of five actors and a drummer. national following with an insatiable appetite for audacious and diverse As a director, Jaime had license to imagine a dynamic costume, lighting, sound BY work. In the future, San Diego’s La and scenic design, using the architectural elements of metal and glass to reflect Jolla Playhouse will be considered the melded timescapes represented in the play. He wanted to reconfigure the WILL POWER seating arrangement in the Potiker Theatre so that the audience would surround singularly indispensable to the the stage, occupying the same space as the actors, to create a deeper, more worldwide theatre landscape, as we intimate relationship. I was excited to see Jaime and Will’s production and become a permanent safe harbor for programmed it right away. DIRECTED BY the unsafe and surprising. The day will come when it will be essential to In a year-long casting process, they explored how age, race, ethnicity, gender and JAIME CASTAÑEDA body type could transcend preconceived notions of who could play a particular enter the La Jolla Playhouse village role. In workshops they were able to hear the language of the play with actors, in order to get a glimpse of what is learn where Will’s text parallels or departs from Shakespeare’s drama, and observe about to happen in American theatre. how text and story live within the world they were creating. Now, with a stellar cast FEATURING and design team, they are ready to share their work with us. SAIDAH ARRIKA EKULONA*, JULIAN PARKER*, JESSE J. PEREZ*, LUIS VEGA*, JENAPHER ZHENG* Please join me for the premiere of Seize the King, and the newly-imagined world of Richard III for our moment in time. SCENIC DESIGNER CHRISTOPHER LAUREN HELPERN La Jolla Playhouse has received the highest rating from COSTUME DESIGNER EMILIO SOSA Charity Navigator, the nation’s premier charity evaluator. ASHLEY LIGHTING DESIGNER TYLER MICOLEAU SOUND DESIGNER AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT EVENTS: SEIZE THE KING MIKHAIL FIKSEL DRUMMER RICHARD SELLERS INSIDER EVENTS Sponsored in part by DISCOVERY SUNDAY FIGHT DIRECTOR STEVE RANKIN Join Playhouse staff for a special pre-performance presentation that Join special guest speakers post-performance as they engage audience gives an insider’s view of Seize the King. members in a moderated discussion exploring the themes in the play. DRAMATURG SHIRLEY FISHMAN Wednesday, September 12 at 6:45 pm Sunday, September 16 after the 2:00 pm performance CASTING TELSEY + COMPANY; KARYN CASL, C.S.A. Saturday, September 15 at 1:15 pm STAGE MANAGER RACHAEL DANIELLE ALBERT* TALKBACK TUESDAYS Sponsored in part by ACCESS PERFORMANCE ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER ASHLEY R. MARTIN* Participate in a lively discussion with Seize the King actors and On select performances, La Jolla Playhouse provides American Playhouse staff members immediately following these performances. Sign Language interpretation for audience members who are deaf ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION MANAGER BECCA DUHAIME or hard of hearing and audio description for patrons who are blind Tuesday, August 28 after the 7:30 pm performance or have low vision. Tuesday, September 4 after the 7:30 pm performance Saturday, September 8 at 2:00 pm For more information, please visit LaJollaPlayhouse.org THE COMPANY THE CAST
SAIDAH ARRIKA EKULONA, Queen Woodville/ WILL POWER, Playwright Gardener 2/Master of the Royal Wardrobe is an award-winning playwright and performer. His Playhouse credits (in alphabetical order) La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Well. Off-Broadway: include The Seven and the Performance Outreach Program (POP) An American Daughter (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Tour of Honey Bo and the Goldmine. Other plays include Stagger Lee Othello, Well, The Square, Romeo and Juliet (Public (Dallas Theater Center); Fetch Clay, Make Man (NYTW, Roundhouse Queen Woodville/Gardener 2/Master of the Royal Wardrobe...... Saidah Arrika Ekulona Theater/NYSF); The Thugs (Soho Rep); A Streetcar Named Theatre, True Colors Theater); Steel Hammer with SITI Company Desire (NYTW), among others. Ms. Ekulona originated the role of Mama (Humana Festival, BAM); Five Fingers of Funk! (Children’s Theatre Lord Buckingham/Gardener 1/Royal Servant ��������������������������������������������������������������������Julian Parker Nadi in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined (MTC and The Goodman), Company); and two acclaimed solo shows: The Gathering and Flow. for which she won an Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Jeff Award, Power’s numerous awards include a Doris Duke Artist Award, TCG Peter Richard III...... Jesse J. Perez Audelco Award and the Black Theatre Alliance Award. TV: Shameless, Zeisler Memorial Award, Jury Award for Best Theatre Performance at Bull, Impastor, A.P. Bio, Law & Order: SVU, Scandal, among others. Film: the HBO Comedy Arts Festival, and the Trailblazer Award from The Lord Hastings/Young Warwick/Greygor the Tailor...... Luis Vega Christian Mingle, Righteous Kill, Two Lovers and more. Training: B.A. National Black Theater Network. His film and TV appearances include from Albright College, M.F.A. from University of Minnesota. The Steven Colbert Report and Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason. Power Anne Neville/Edward V/Woodville ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Jenapher Zheng was a five-time guest of the U.S. State Department, traveling to South JULIAN PARKER, Lord Buckingham/Gardener 1/ Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. On these trips, Royal Servant Power taught workshops, worked with poets, and lectured at various La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. He is a co-founding member libraries, grammar schools and colleges. He is currently the Andrew W. Seize the King will be performed without an intermission. of Definition Theatre Company. Received his B.F.A. from Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Dallas Theatre Center the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Stage and the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Theater at Spelman College. credits include: Pass Over, Gospel of Franklin (First Look Series), Head of Passes (understudy), BlackTop Sky (Steppenwolf JAIME CASTAÑEDA, Director/Associate Artistic Director Theatre); Genesis, Dutchman, The Brothers Size (Definition Theatre joined the Playhouse in 2014 as Associate Artistic Director, where he has ADDITIONAL STAFF Company); Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Smart People (Writers Theatre); directed Rachel Bonds’ At the Old Place, Mike Lew’s Tiger Style! and Prowess (Jackalope Theatre); The Hairy Ape (Oracle Productions; Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj. Other productions include Vietgone by Assistant Director...... Natalia Duong Jeff Award Recipient for Actor in Principal Role); Charm (Northlight Qui Nguyen (American Conservatory Theatre), The Elaborate Entrance of Assistant Costume Designer...... Keira McGee Theatre); The Royale (American Theatre Company). TV/Film credits Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz (Dallas Theater Center), Chimichangas and Lighting Design Assistant...... Minjoo Kim include: Pass Over (presented at Sundance Film Festival; directed by Zoloft by Fernanda Coppel (Atlantic Theater Company), How We Got On Spike Lee), The Chi (Showtime), Chicago PD and Chicago Fire (NBC), by Idris Goodwin (Cleveland Play House), The Royale by Marco Ramirez Home for the Weekend (Comedy Central). Represented by Buchwald (American Theater Company), Welcome to Arroyo’s by Kristoffer Diaz Talent and Grossman & Jack Talent. Managed by Authentic Talent. (The Old Globe) and Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp (Perseverance Theatre). He has also developed new plays with the Eugene O’Neill JESSE J. PEREZ, Richard III Theater Center, Rattlestick Theater, Portland Center Stage, Denver PATRON SERVICES La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Party People Center Theatre, The Kennedy Center and the Atlantic Theater Company, (Public Theater); The Father and A Doll's House (Theatre where he spent five seasons as Artistic Associate. A Drama League ACCESSIBILITY CONCESSIONS AND RESTAURANT PATRON SERVICES is located in the lobby or for a New Audience); Informed Consent (Primary Fellow, Castañeda is the recipient of a Princess Grace Award and a courtyard of each theatre. A volunteer is available Stages); Triple Happiness (Second Stage); Barrio Grrrl TCG New Generations Grant. He holds an M.F.A. in Directing from The to distribute assisted listening devices and (Summer Play Festival); Recent Tragic Events (Playwrights University of Texas at Austin. La Jolla Playhouse provides wheelchair-accessible James’ Place provides bar and concessions at answer questions. Horizons); In the Penal Colony (Classic Stage Company); Up Against seating and parking. Wheelchair seat locations each theatre lobby or courtyard. The restaurant the Wind (New York Theatre Workshop) and Lucia di Lammermoor LAUREN HELPERN, Scenic Designer are available for wheelchair users and a (James’ Place) is open Tuesday – Friday 4:00 PHOTOGRAPHY/RECORDING DEVICES (The Metropolitan Opera). Regional: The Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., La Jolla Playhouse: At the Old Place, Tiger Style!. Selected NYC: companion at all performances; be sure to advise pm until 8:30 pm and Saturday – Sunday 3:00 Photography and video or audio recording of Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Seattle Rep, American Repertory Theatre, The Skintight and Bad Jews (Roundabout); 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center; the reservationist that you require a wheelchair pm until 9:00 pm. Please call (858) 638-7778 performances is strictly prohibited. Guthrie, Humana Festival of New American Plays, The Goodman, Lortel Award); BUG (Barrow Street; Obie Award); also Atlantic, location. Additionally, a golf cart is available to for reservations or visit jamesplacesd.com. and The McCarter Theatre Center. Internationally he has worked at Playwrights Horizons, MTC, MCC, Primary Stages, Second Stage, La assist patrons with accessibility needs to and PLEASE SILENCE or turn off all electronic devices, The Venice Biennale in Italy and at The Salzburg Festival in Austria. Mama, and on Broadway. Selected Regional: Blue Man Group/Live at Luxor (Eddy Award; also Boston and Chicago), Geffen Playhouse, from the parking lot. Please notify Patron Services LATE SEATING including cell phones and watches, before the LUIS VEGA, Lord Hastings/Young Warwick/ South Coast Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, The prior to your performance if you are in need of Should you arrive late for any performance or performance. Greygor the Tailor Old Globe, Guthrie Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, this service; additionally, you may pull into the need to leave your seat during the performance, La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Mr. Vega was most recently Portland Center Stage, Huntington Theatre and Anchorage Opera. ten minute parking area, and a La Jolla Playhouse you may be asked to wait in the lobby until an SAFETY IN THE THEATRE DISTRICT seen as Richard Saad in the national tour of The Humans. Web series: Janice Gunter: Ghost Hunter. www.laurenhelpern.com greeter will assist you. The Playhouse also appropriate moment. To minimize any disturbance La Jolla Playhouse is constantly working with UC Other recent theatre credits include: Tell Hector I Miss provides assisted listening devices for patrons to actors or other patrons, you may stand or be San Diego Police Department and Transportation Him (Atlantic Theater Company); Where Storms Are Born, EMILIO SOSA, Costume Designer who are hard of hearing. Devices are available, seated in the first available location by House and Parking Services to maintain a safe and A Streetcar Named Desire (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Comfort La Jolla Playhouse: Miss You Like Hell, American Night. London: free of charge, at the Patron Services desk Management even if not your assigned location. secure environment in the parking lots. Patrons are Team (Virginia Stage); Dance for a Dollar (INTAR); Campo Maldito (NY Motown: The Musical, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Father prior to performances (subject to availability). Please be advised that some performances welcome to use the UC San Diego escort service Fringe/SF Fringe). Film/TV: Chinese Puzzle, Another Earth, Heirloom. Comes Home From the Wars, Topdog/Underdog. Broadway: On Listening Devices Provided in Part by may not allow for late seating or return to your by contacting UC San Diego Community Service Education: B.A. from Columbia University, M.F.A. from UC San Diego. Your Feet!, Motown: The Musical, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination), Topdog/ assigned seat. Officers (CSOs) at (858) 534-9255 (WALK). Further JENAPHER ZHENG, Anne Neville/Edward V/Woodville Underdog. Off-Broadway: Me and My Girl; By the Way, Meet Vera questions regarding security, please contact UC San CHILDREN under the age of 6 are not permitted La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: Kentucky (East West Stark (Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk nomination); Venus (Drama PARKING is free for subscribers; $2 for the Diego Police at (858) 534-4357 (HELP). Players); The Misanthrope (CalArts); ALARM (REDCAT); Desk nomination); Crowns; Trust; Invisible Thread; Romeo and Juliet; in the theatre during performances unless general public on weekdays (free on weekends). Musubi Monologues (Son of Semele Ensemble). Readings: Capeman; The Misantrope; Sex with Strangers. Regional: The White otherwise posted. Unaccompanied minors ages Upon arrival to campus, please enter your parking THEATRE TOURS The Great Leap (The Old Globe); tokyo fish story (South Card, Skeleton Crew, I Dream, The Scottsboro Boys, Ma Rainey’s 12 and under are not permitted in the theatre. space number and pay the automated pay stations Tour the stages and production shops of the Coast Repertory); Young, Dumb, Broke High School Kids Black Bottom, Ruined, Señor Discretion Himself (Helen Hayes Out of respect for fellow audience members located in the parking lot. Spaces that are not Playhouse facilities and learn more about the history (Artists at Play). International: Fantomas: Revenge of the Image (Wuzhen nomination), Witness Uganda, Twist (2011 LA Ovation Award), Fences. and the performers, babes in arms are not paid for are subject to citations by UC San Diego of La Jolla Playhouse and the role that it plays in the Theatre Festival). Education: B.A. from UC Riverside. M.F.A. from CalArts. Radio City Music Hall Spring Spectaculars, NY Knicks City Dancers, permitted in the theatre during performances. Parking Enforcement. community. Contact (858) 550-1070 x101. Project Runway. Trustee, American Theatre Wing. @esosafashion THE COMPANY PLAYHOUSE LEADERSHIP
TYLER MICOLEAU, Lighting Designer SHIRLEY FISHMAN, Dramaturg CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY, Artistic Director DEBBY BUCHHOLZ, Managing Director La Jolla Playhouse: The Squirrels, Miss You Like Hell. Broadway: The has worn many hats during 17 seasons at La Jolla Playhouse – Associate has served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director since joined the Playhouse in 2002, serving first as General Band's Visit (Tony Award). Recent Off-Broadway: Be More Chill (Signature Artistic Director, Director of Play Development, Artistic Producer and October, 2007. During his tenure, he has helmed the Manager before becoming Managing Director. She is a Vice Diamond); Mary Page Marlow (Second Stage); Peace for Mary Frances Resident Dramaturg. She has worked on many plays and musicals, Playhouse’s acclaimed productions of The Squirrels, President of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT) and a (New Group); Miss You Like Hell (Public Theater); A Midsummer including 2016 Tony Award winners Come From Away and Indecent, Hollywood, The Darrell Hammond Project, His Girl Friday, member of its Executive Committee. She is a recipient of a Night's Dream (Public, Central Park); The Antipodes (Signature); The the Playhouse’s POP Tour that brings a new play to 20,000 elementary Glengarry Glen Ross, A Dram of Drummhicit, A Midsummer San Diego Women Who Mean Business Award from The San Effect (Barrow Street). Other notable Off-Broadway: Antlia Pneumatica school children throughout San Diego, as well as other projects in Night’s Dream, Restoration and the musicals Escape to Margaritaville, Diego Business Journal. Prior to joining La Jolla Playhouse, she served (Playwrights Horizons; Drama Desk nomination); Blasted (Soho Rep; development. During her five years at the Public Theater, she worked Disney’s Freaky Friday, Chasing the Song, Xanadu, Memphis, which won as Counsel to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Hewes Award); Bug (Barrow Street; Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards). on classic as well as new plays and musicals and was co-curator of the four 2010 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and Come From Away, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. She was a faculty Regional: Arena, Huntington, Alley, Goodman, ART, Old Globe, Dallas New Work Now! new play festival. Her other affiliations include: Denver for which he won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical. He member of the Smithsonian Institution’s program on Legal Problems of th Theater Center, Long Wharf, among others. 2010 Obie Award for Theatre Center, Magic Theatre, Childsplay, Seattle’s 5 Avenue Theatre, also spearheaded the Playhouse’s Without Walls (WOW) series and the Museum Administration. Prior to The Kennedy Center, she served as Sustained Excellence. San Diego Rep, Playwrights Project, UC San Diego’s Wagner New Play Resident Theatre program. Prior to joining the Playhouse, he directed the a corporate attorney in New York City and Washington, D.C. She is a Festival and Native Voices at the Autry. She is an M.F.A. graduate of Broadway productions of Xanadu (Drama Desk nomination), All Shook Up graduate of UC San Diego and Harvard Law School. Ms. Buchholz and MIKHAIL FIKSEL, Sound Designer Columbia University’s Theatre Theory/Criticism/Dramaturgy program. and The Rocky Horror Show (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle her husband, noted author and White House economic policy advisor is a designer, composer, musician and a DJ based in Chicago and Award nominations), as well as the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration Todd Buchholz, live in Solana Beach and are the proud parents of Victoria, NYC. La Jolla Playhouse: Tiger Style!. Other recent credits: Playwrights TELSEY + COMPANY, Casting productions of Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along. Other New York Katherine and Alexia. Horizons, The Civilians, Albany Park Theatre Project, Third Rail Projects, Broadway/Tours: Pretty Woman; Straight White Men; My Fair Lady; credits include: Blown Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey (Lucille Lortel and Manhattan Theatre Club, The Goodman Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Carousel; Mean Girls; Frozen; SpongeBob SquarePants; Once on This Obie Awards), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets Only, DES McANUFF, Director Emeritus The Pearl, American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Dallas Island; Hello, Dolly!; Come From Away; Waitress; Hamilton; Kinky Boots; Wonder of the World, Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, The Night served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director from 1983 Theater Center, The Old Globe, Cleveland Play House, The Geffen Wicked; The Color Purple; On Your Feet!; The King and I; An American Hank Williams Died and Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award), among through 1994, and from 2001 through April 2007. Under his Playhouse, The Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, in Paris. Off-Broadway: Be More Chill, Sweeney Todd, Atlantic, MCC, others. Mr. Ashley also directed the feature films Jeffrey and Lucky Stiff, as leadership, the Playhouse garnered more than 300 awards, Victory Gardens, Writers Theatre, TimeLine and The Hypocrites. Mr. Park Avenue Armory, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Second Stage. Film: Mary well as the American Playhouse production of Blown Sideways Through including the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Fiksel is a recipient of a Lucille Lortel Award, multiple Joseph Jefferson Poppins Returns, The Greatest Showman, Miss Sloane, Into the Woods, Life for PBS. Mr. Ashley is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award, the His Playhouse to Broadway credits include: SUMMER: The Awards and the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award, and Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married. TV: Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Drama League Director Fellowship and an NEA/TCG Director Fellowship. Donna Summer Musical; Doctor Zhivago; Jesus Christ Superstar; Jersey is a proud member of TSDCA and USA. www.mikhailfiksel.com Concert, This Is Us, House of Cards, Divorce, NCIS: New Orleans, One Boys (four Tony Awards); Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays (Tony Award); How Day at a Time, Atypical, commercials. www.telseyandco.com JAIME CASTAÑEDA, Associate Artistic Director to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (five Tony nominations); RICHARD SELLERS, Drummer Please see Mr. Castañeda's bio on page 5. director and co-author with Pete Townshend on The Who’s Tommy has been playing drums professionally for over twenty-five years. He has RACHAEL DANIELLE ALBERT, Stage Manager (Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Director) and Big River (seven Tony performed with countless groups and ensembles in a variety of styles, La Jolla Playhouse credits include: Up Here, Ether Dome, Peer Gynt. Awards), among others. He also directed the premieres of Aaron Sorkin’s including straight-ahead jazz, avant-garde jazz, Brazilian, Latin, funk and Regional credits include: Botticelli in the Fire (Woolly Mammoth); The The Farnsworth Invention and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, which hip-hop. In addition, he has worked extensively as a teacher, applying his Wolves (Studio Theatre); Native Gardens, A Raisin in the Sun, Watch he co-wrote. Opera credits: Faust (The Met, ENO). Film credits: Cousin unique rhythmic approach and meticulous technical methods. A native of on the Rhine, Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, The City of Conversation Bette (director), Iron Giant (producer, BAFTA Award) and Quills (executive Valencia, California, Mr. Sellers has performed with the best professionals (Arena Stage); Bright Star (pre-Broadway, The Kennedy Center); Rich Girl producer). Recipient of the Drama League’s 2006 Julia Hansen Award, in and out of town. This experience includes a lasting musical liaison with (The Old Globe); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Stage 773). New York Mr. McAnuff served as Artistic Director at Canada’s Stratford Festival (bassist) Rob Thorsen and (vocalist) Steph Johnson, with a popular San credits include: The Roads to Home (Primary Stages); Maize & Blue on from 2007 through 2012. In 2012, he was awarded Canada’s esteemed Diego band called The Steph Johnson Band. cHeFRnB ThAT Be mE !!! Broadway; The Last Word (NYMF). Founding member: Ubuntu Theater Governor General’s National Arts Center Award and the Order of Canada. Project (Oakland, CA). M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego. STEVE RANKIN, Fight Director B.F.A. from University of Michigan. Proud AEA member. La Jolla Playhouse: SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, Kill Local, Hollywood, Guards at the Taj, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, His ASHLEY R. MARTIN, Assistant Stage Manager LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE EDUCATION & OUTREACH PROGRAMS Girl Friday, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Sideways, Memphis, The La Jolla Playhouse: Queens, The Luckiest (DNA Series), Wild Goose Farnsworth Invention, The Wiz, Zhivago, Palm Beach, Jersey Boys, The Dreams and Junk. Other recent credits: Silkroad Ensemble’s 2018 Spring Lead Supporters: Who’s Tommy, Elmer Gantry. Broadway: Doctor Zhivago; Memphis; Tour with Yo-Yo Ma, Ojai Music Festival Live Stream and La Jolla Music The Hearst Foundations | The William Hall Tippett and Ruth Rathell Tippett Foundation | Qualcomm Foundation Bonnie & Clyde; Guys and Dolls; The Farnsworth Invention; Jersey Boys; Society’s SummerFest. Ms. Martin holds a B.A. in Psychology and Social Arts Academy pairs a classroom teacher with a InterACTion allows Playhouse artist instructors to work YP@LJP – Young Performers at La Jolla Playhouse offers Dracula; Henry IV, Parts I and II; The Who’s Tommy; Twelfth Night; Two Behavior from UC Irvine and an M.F.A. in Stage Management from Playhouse artist instructor. Through collaboration, they in partnership with City of San Diego Police Department’s exciting summer programs for kids: Young Performers’ Shakespearean Actors; Getting Away with Murder; Anna Christie; The UC San Diego. Based on the West Coast, Ms. Martin enjoys jumping work together to incorporate advanced theatre activities STAR/PAL Program to create interactive lessons that Workshop (YPW), an exploration of theatre arts in a fun, Real Inspector Hound. Off-Broadway: The Third Story, Pig Farm, The between AEA regional theater, corporate events and music touring. and exercises into existing curriculum. teach adolescents the importance of self-respect, creative way; Young Performers’ Academy (YPA), where Night Hank Williams Died and Below the Belt. Stratford Shakespeare community and the law. students build upon the skills they learned in YPW; Young Festival: Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Henry V, The Who’s Tommy. Metropolitan Opera: Rodelinda, Boris Godenov, Faust Girl Scouts Empowerment Theatre is a collaboration Performers’ Conservatory (YPC), a 5-week intensive that and Iphegenie at Tauride. Mr. Rankin plays mandolin with The Susie Glaze between Girl Scouts San Diego and La Jolla Playhouse. Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour prepares actors for serious college theatre programs; New Folk Ensemble. This program prepares young women, through the Each year, the Playhouse commissions a new play that and Tech Theatre, a class which introduces young people acquisition and application of theatre skills, to addresses real concerns of today’s youth and brings to the various aspects of technical theatre. Supported confidently tackle challenges and opportunities faced a professional production to schools and community by the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, the Jordan Ressler in life as empowered leaders. This program is made centers across San Diego County. School performances Endowment Fund, David C. Copley Foundation and the possible through funding from the Favrot Fund. are integrated into the classroom curriculum through Roberto Quiñones, Jr. Scholarship Fund. pre-show visits by Playhouse artist instructors. In-School Residencies – In partnership with San Diego County and City Visual and Performing Arts Student Matinees – Special student matinees of For more information on Education & Outreach programs at La Jolla Playhouse, please contact Bridget Cavaiola at * Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres Departments, Playhouse artist instructors teach theatre selected mainstage productions are offered throughout The theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association. and United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. skills in classrooms across the county, ensuring theatre the school year. Study guides, pre-performance and staff (858) 550-1070 x101. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres La Jolla Playhouse is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) becomes an integral part of the education of all San development workshops and post-show talkbacks are and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union. and a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the nonprofit professional theatre. Diego children while fostering a relationship with the available to prepare students for these productions. This theatre operates under an agreement between La Jolla Playhouse and the Playhouse that will continue as they grow into adulthood. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 122. ‡ UC San Diego M.F.A. Candidates in residence at La Jolla Playhouse. SF: Shakespeare’s Richard III has 52 speaking parts. Seize the King has five actors playing LOOKING FOR less than half that number. How did you imagine the casting of the play? RICHARD III WP: I don’t think having 52 actors would give us a stronger feel for the Bosworth battlefield, where Richard III died. In Seize the King, the battle is not about the IN ALL OF US thing itself. With fewer bodies, and by way of stylized movement rather than swords and stabs, we’re able to conjure it not only as a historical event, but as metaphor. Dramaturg Shirley Fishman catches up with playwright Will Power about his thoughts on adapting Being a solo theatre actor and writer, I know that many Shakespeare’s Richard III for our moment in time. characters can come out of one actor. It’s really juicy to have an actor play multiple roles and have all those A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF KING RICHARD III roles be in conversation with each other. When an actor plays a variety of roles, they can all come together to Shirley Fishman: Welcome back to La Jolla Playhouse! SF: How did you arrive at Shakespeare’s Richard III? capture a universal character. In Seize the King, we have 1452 Richard born October 2, 1452. The first time you were here was withHoney Bo an actor who plays the part of Richard only. Each of the WP: The idea of examining Richard III came to me early and the Gold Mine, the 2007 POP Tour that we other actors play a variety of roles; together they create 1460 Richard's father killed in Battle of Wakefield; last year. Shortly after Trump became president, I talked commissioned for young audiences in San Diego one supercharacter with a unified trajectory. With five spends childhood under tutelage of uncle, Richard to a few people in different cities across the country Neville, Earl of Warwick (the “Kingmaker”). elementary schools. A year later, you returned when actors – and a drummer – you can paint the world. we presented The Seven, your extraordinary hip-hop about our political climate. A number of them brought adaptation of Aeschylus’s Seven Against Thebes. up Richard III, saying someone should take a look at it. I 1461 King Henry VI deposed; Richard's elder brother SF: Since you’re thematically conflating Richard III's knew about Richard III, but I didn’t know it well. I felt like declared King Edward IV. Richard becomes Duke of time with ours, how do you see the world of the play? WP: I have so many terrific memories of my time at it was kind of in the ether, so I thought I’d explore it. Gloucester. the Playhouse on those two pieces. It’s great to be WP: The play takes place in a world that’s a mix-up of back – and especially to be working on my new play. Hip hop theatre was a relatively new form of poetry 1472 Richard marries Anne Neville. then and now, and I’m using a contemporary lens to when I wrote Flow, and I was creatively free. But entering wrestle with who we are, not just as a kingdom or a into Shakespeare’s pentameter, I had to imagine myself 1473 Richard and Anne’s only child, Edward of SF: More recently, you’ve been writing plays about nation, but as people. Lord Buckingham is trying to do as an Elizabethan poet. I found that even though I was Middleham, is born. contemporary figures – Muhammed Ali inFetch Clay, right, but feels that he will have to do wrong to achieve Make Man and folk icon Stagger Lee in your musical working with an old-school structure, I was bringing the right thing. I want to engage with the possibility King Edward IV falls ill, names Richard as Lord Stagger Lee. What brings you back to the classics? new things to it. My head was buzzing; the play started 1483 that we can become corrupt for what we think are Protector of his young sons, Princes Edward and to pour out of me. The idea of good and evil took the right reasons. I don’t want to pull any punches; I Richard. Dies April 9, 1483. WP: With my earliest piece, Flow, I was creating a new hold and I began to explore how self-righteousness, really want to examine the complexity of choices. form – hip hop theatre. With The Seven, I was taking a greed and lust for power can lead to tyranny. Edward IV’s eldest son, Edward, ascends to the new form to energize and "remix" older stories. With SF: What are your hopes for the future? throne as Edward V; awaits coronation in the Tower Fetch Clay, I placed myself in a traditional theatrical SF: What did you discover? of London with his brother Richard. form, the "straight play;" with Stagger Lee, it was the WP: I’m a pretty optimistic cat. We can be all “kumbaya” "American musical.” I wanted to see how I might bend WP: Every era brings forth heroes and mavericks, – and I’d like to believe that’s real. But our country is June 16: The coronation of Edward V cancelled. and change them from the inside out. I’ve always been people who challenge and meet the woes and ills that extremely polarized right now, and I’m wrestling with the excited about exploring different kinds of forms. have existed throughout time. As much as Richard is a question of whether there’s another side to who we are. I June 25: Parliament declares the Princes illegitimate. manipulator – conniving, deceitful and a liar – there’s an put that question in the play to challenge us. When crazy honesty in his soliloquies. He believes humanity is corrupt SF: How do the classics inform your work? stuff is going on, that’s the time to take bold chances. June 26: Richard, Duke of Gloucester, declared King and that we should stop lying and admit it to ourselves. Richard III; crowned July 6 at Westminster Abbey. WP: I look at the classics in a very broad way. I’m trying to go to the depths of his perspective, peel it I’m really excited to get to work. We have a superstar The Princes are never seen again. Sometimes, in pivotal moments, like the one we’re back to investigate how one person can mistreat their cast and our director, Jaime Castañeda, is a fantastic in now, revisiting the classics can shed light on who fellow human being for their own advancement. I’m April 9: Son of Richard III and Anne dies at age 10. spirit and artistic collaborator. He’s been pushing me 1484 we are, both as a species and a country, and where asking, “What is the honest truth, not just of Richard in all the right ways and his staging ideas are just we might be headed. Older forms from different III, Trump or America, but humanity at large?” 1485 March 16: Anne Neville dies. what the play needs. I think it’s time to do theatre that time periods reveal how writers have wrestled with provokes people, and Seize the King is my offering. big ideas and questions from their own era. 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ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION & OUTREACH Associate Artistic Director Jaime Castañeda Associate General Manager Flo Low Director of Education & Outreach Steve McCormick* Director of New Play Development Gabriel Greene* Assistant General Manager Samantha De La Riva Associate Director of Education & Outreach, Artistic Associate Teresa Sapien Corporate/Legal Counsel Robert C. Wright, Wright & L’Estrange Education Programs Julia Cuppy Artistic Programs Manager Jacole Kitchen Theatre/Legal Counsel F. Richard Pappas, Esq. Associate Director of Education and Outreach, Director Emeritus Des McAnuff Intern Reed Jones Outreach Programs Bridget Cavaiola Executive Assistant to Christopher Ashley Rick VanNoy* COMPANY MANAGEMENT Education Programs Associate Lydia Real Commissioned Artists Todd Almond, Jeff Augustin, Company Manager Erica Martin Audio Describers Mernie Aste, Brian Berlau*, Tina Dyer, Daniel Beaty, Keith Bunin, Guillermo Calderón, Company Management Assistant Jacob Sinclair Shari Lyon*, Kay O’Neil*, Deborah Sanborn*, Kara Lee Corthron, Kristoffer Diaz, Kirsten Greenidge, Interns Benjamin Fleischer, Christina Seberino Sylvia Southerland* Joe Iconis, Hansol Jung, Jon Kern, Mike Lew, ASL Interpreters Lynn Ann Garrett, Anelia Glebocki, Rehana Lew Mirza, Martyna Majok, Mona Mansour, FINANCE Alycen Haynesworth, Suzanne Lightbourn*, Gregory S. Moss, Lisa Peterson, Theresa Rebeck, Director of Finance Christine Dolan Billieanne McLellan, Geri Wu Laura Schellhardt, Dan Moses Schreier, Brian Selznick, Controller Laura Killmer ASL Usher Esther Shen* Claudia Shear, Mat Smart, Charlayne Woodard, Lauren Yee Payroll George Kelly Teaching Artists Bradley Behrmann, Julie Benitez, Intern Adira Wingard Rosen Staff AccountantJanet Gray Kirsten Giard, Aiden Ghosh, Cory Hammond, Sr. Production Accountant Jared Jackson Catherine Hanna-Schrock, Becky Hurt, Jeffrey Ingman, PRODUCTION Accounts Payable Manager Sharon Ratelle* Courtney Kattengell, Ursula Meyer, Marie Osterman, Production Manager Benjamin Seibert Benefits Coordinator Kathy Silberman Mary Peterson*, Lydia Real, Tara Ricasa, Tomas Tamayo, Associate Production Manager Becca Duhaime Sydney Wilson, Sofia Zaragoza Production Office ManagerRyan Heath DEVELOPMENT Playhouse Teen Council Laural Cantor, Justin Canning, Intern Hyunjung “Hazel” Park Director of Development Julia B. Foster Natalia Escobedo, Zoe Goldstein, Emre Gumus, Nick Lux, SCENE SHOP Associate Director of Development Bonnie Broberg Natasha Partnoy, Alice Shashkina, Izzy Shroff, Lexi Smith, Interim Technical Director William Hartley Major Gifts OfficerJini Bernstein Archibald Natalia Trifunovic, Shelby Westbrook, Katie Wilkinson Master Carpenter David Weiner* Individual Giving Manager Samantha Wilson Interns Alice Banta, Richard Cajka, Asher Ehrenberg, Technical Designer Jonathan Gilmer Institutional Giving Manager Adeline McKinley Riley Fisher, Casey Johnson, Kayla King, Grace Lehman, Charge Artist Melissa Nalbach Development OfficerTony Dixon Grace Lemmon, Noelle Mortensen, Kate Poms, Jared Pugh, Production Carpenter Laura McEntyre Intern Sarah Goodwin Vanessa Rebeil, Teagan Rutkowski, Liana Steinberg Casper Carpenters Megan Birdsong, Jacob Bruce, Matt Clark, SPECIAL EVENTS James Fogarty, Nick Jackson, Scott Kinney, Interim Manager, Special Events Samantha Watkins OPERATIONS Stephanie Lee, Paul Mares, Albert Rubidioux, Special Events Coordinator Erica Kao Director of Operations Ned Collins* Zane Whitmore Intern Jazmine Logan Operations Manager Jen McClenahan* Scenic Painters Edee Armand, Dwaine Best Network Systems Specialist Daryl “Scooter” Davis Shop Helper Doug Collind* MARKETING FRONT OF HOUSE PROPERTIES SHOP Director of Communications Mary Cook* House Manager John Craft* Prop Shop Supervisor Deb Hatch* Director of Public Relations Becky Biegelsen* Assistant House Managers Avery Henderson, Sara Lucchini, Prop Shop Foreman Erick Toussaint Director of Sales & Marketing Mia Fiorella Amy Marquez*, Chastyn Rauh, Mondis Vakili Props Artisans Zlatko Mitev, Jeff Rockey, Gabe Serbian Communications Manager Grace Madamba Audience Concierges Ashley Carbonell, Christopher Ferreria, COSTUME SHOP Senior Multimedia Designer Nancy Showers Cory Kurkierewicz, Michelle Rodriguez, Sultan Saeed, Costume Supervisor Jennifer Ables Multimedia Designer Jane Sanders Gemina Soriano Resident Costume Design Assistant Desiree Hatfield-Buckley Marketing Database Analyst Dani Meister Janitorial Professional Maintenance Systems: Luis Bagshaw, Costume Shop Intern Isabella Rasdal Marketing Specialist Sonia Diaz Nora Gomez, Francisco Lopez, Juan Mena, Maria Mena, Draper Alexander Zeek Direct Sales Associate Andrew Fink Santiago Servin, Tony Villafuerte First Hand Rebecca Fabares Patron Services Sales Specialist Paul Preston* Craft Artisan Tess Mattraw Intern Anna Couvrette SEIZE THE KING STAFF Stitcher Stephanie Gift PATRON SERVICES Stage Carpenter Zane Whitmore ELECTRICS Director of Patron Services Nikki Cooper Production Props Zlatko Mitev Electrics Supervisor Jeff Brewer Patron Services Manager Travis Guss Master Electrician/Light Board Operator Kristyn Kennedy Master Electrician Kristyn Kennedy Senior Lead Patron Services Representative/Ticketing Specialist Audio Engineers Matthew Birchmeier, Haley Wolf Electricians Joel Britt, Allison Cluff, Mike Doyle, Bryan Ranscht, Pearl Hang* Wardrobe Supervisor Jan Mah Ramon Wenn, Matt Wilson Lead Patron Services Representative/Group Sales Specialist SOUND/VIDEO Renee Shinske Sound/Video Supervisor Lane Elms Lead Patron Services Representative/Group Sales Concierge Resident Sound Engineer Matthew Birchmeier Mike Brown Sound Technicians Jessica Jakes, Haley Wolf Patron Services Coordinator Bill Washington Patron Services Representatives Devon Gonzales, * Ten years or more with La Jolla Playhouse Makayla Hoppe, Devin O’Reilly Sales Concierge William Guiney
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