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by Thomas Middleton • Directed by Sarah E. Budge

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SPONSORS Pictured: Patrick Bentley as Vindici. Photo by Ken Holmes by Ken Photo Bentley as Vindici. Patrick Pictured: HARD BARD

Directors Note “A man who seeks revenge should dig two graves.” - Chinese Proverb

“No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.” – Meir Kahane

“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.” – Samuel Johnson

“Revenge is barren of itself; it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.” – Fredrich Schiller

The desire for revenge is a universal human desire. Wrongs exacted upon Director Sarah E. Budge our families, friends, or selves, unleashes cold power of bloodlust within us. Driving us to unimaginable boundaries in the effort to balance the scales of justice. We dream of the utter destruction of our foes. We thrill when we succeed, and failure spurs us to deeper levels of vengeance.

Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy displays the dangerous extent of the power of revenge. From the mightiest ruler to the poorest servant, ambition, lust, desire, and greed inspire the characters of the basest of actions; rape, incest, and murder – leaving nothing but a pile of bodies.

Sit back, relax, but beware… there will be blood.

Sarah E. Budge - Director

Hedda November 4-20, 2011 Based on Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler Written and Directed by Nikki Przasnyski The Ballard Underground 2220 NW Market St, Seattle learn more at: GhostLightTheatricals.org

Board of Directors GreenStage Staff Jeff Taylor – President Erin Day Nicole Vernon – Secretary Artistic Director go see a play Ken Holmes – Treasurer Ken Holmes Managing Director www.greenstage.org Sarah E. Budge 206-748-1551 Amelia Meckler Peter Buford Communications Director PO Box 9594, Alicia Doyl Meredith Armstrong Seattle, WA 98109 Scott Gifford Facilities Manager Scott Smallbeck page 2 2011 Season

Greenstage presents HARD BARD

by Thomas Middleton • Directed by Sarah E. Budge

CAST (in alphabetical order) Aaron Allshouse...... Supervacuo Meredith Armstrong...... Duchess Sharon Barto...... Dondolo, Officer, Judge, Sordido Mary Murfin Bayley...... Gratiana Patrick Bentley...... Vindici Michael D. Blum...... Duke Matthew Fulbright...... Spurio Sam Hagen...... Lussurioso Tyler James Lockwood...... Junior Marc “Mok” Moser...... Judge, Piero, Lord Michael Ramquist...... Antonio Ryan Spickard ...... Ambitioso Nicole Vernon ...... Castiza Daniel Wood...... Hippolito Production Team Sarah Kessler...... Stage Manager Adam Zopfi Hulse ...... Costume Designer Peter Frost...... Scenic Designer Dave Baldwin...... Light Designer Laura Garcia...... Properties Designer Julia Griffin...... Effects Designer Chris Garland...... Sound Designer / Sound Board Operator J.D. Panzer...... Technical Director Liam Enns...... Blood Wrangler Renee Cyr...... Assistant Stage Manager Mary Nelson Brown ...... House Manager Maia Jean Paul Nelson-Brown...... House Manager Courtney Kessler ...... Wardrobe Manager Devlin Donnelly...... Graphic Designer Strong Ken Holmes...... Production Manager/Managing Director Special Thanks erotic fantasy / Michelle Atkins • Bartell Drugs • Book-It Repertory Theatre • Chukar Cherries • sci-fi romance author Rex Carelton • Devlin Donnelly • Tony Driscoll • Lisa Holmes • Dan Iverson • Isabel Hamilton • Shane Regan • Julianna Ross • S.P.A.C.E • Savage Color • Seattle Parks and Recreation • Seattle Shakespeare Company • www.maiastrong.com Theatre Puget Sound maiastrong.blogspot.com

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About the actors

Aaron Allshouse Sharon Barto Patrick Bentley (Supervacuo) (Dondolo, Officer, Judge, Sordido) (Vindici) Enjoy the show! Sharon is excited to be working with Patrick is pleased to be back for another GreenStage for the first time! She most Hard Bard production. Previous credits recently was seen in Dramatic Episodes with GreenStage include the title role in of Relentless Utility with UMO Ensemble. Titus Andronicus, Adriana in The Comedy Other local credits include: Oedipus, of Errors, and Duke Frederick and Duke Elephant’s Graveyard, Death Sex II, Senior in As You Like It. He also directed and Search and Destroy with Balagan GreenStage’s production of Antony and Theatre. Her favorite roles include: Elma Cleopatra this past summer. Many thanks in Bus Stop, June Stanley in The Man Who to this whole cast and crew, especially to Came to Dinner, a daughter in Quilters the lovely Sarah E. Budge. Thanks for with Company of Fools in Hailey, Idaho coming tonight. I will try to get some and Hero in Much Ado About Nothing blood on you. with Sun Valley Summer Shakespeare Meredith Armstrong Festival. Sharon holds a BA in Theatre (Duchess, Facilities Manager) from Willamette University. Meredith is tickled pinker than blood pudding to be doing her second “Hard Bard” show with GreenStage. She had great fun spicing up the witches’ brew last year, and has been craving stage blood and kettle corn ever since. Meredith performs as an actor around the greater Seattle area and with The Fuzzy Monkeys as a bellydancer. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Western Michael D. Blum Washington University and completed (Duke) post-graduate study with The National Actor, director, storyteller, teacher Shakespeare Conservatory in New Mary Murfin Bayley and voice talent, Michael is a recent York. Some of her favorite past roles (Gratiana) arrival to the Pacific Northwest. He is are Mercutio in the all-female Romeo Mary is delighted to be part of The the co-founder of two Latino theater and Juliet (Hose & Britches); Catherine Revenger’s Tragedy. Favorite recent companies: La Compañía de Teatro de in Proof and Alais in The Lion in Winter roles include Miss Potter in Annex Albuquerque, Inc. in the 1980’s, and (Renton Civic Theatre); and Katherine in Theatre’s Tale of Jemima Canard and more recently Teatro Nuevo México, Henry V (GreenStage). Favorite future Olive Worthington in Book-it Repertory where he served as Artistic Director roles include La Marquise de Merteuil in Theatre’s Cider House Rules. Mary for four years. His work has been seen Les Liaison Dangereuses; Hannah Jarvis recently returned from Florence, Italy, as far afield as Europe, Mexico and in Arcadia; and the Fool in King Lear. where she performed at Teatro Cestello South America, including a stint with Please contact her when you’re ready to in La Fiera di Besons and La Casetta the National Theater of Venezuela in start rehearsals for any of those shows. Nostra. Mary received her BA in theater Caracas. Here in Seattle he has been Outside the theatre, she writes fiction, from Reed College. seen in a big red dress in The Comedy climbs rock walls, and spends more time of Errors with GreenStage, and in a top watching Disney Channel than anyone hat and on roller skates at Balagan in with no children should. She enjoys good Elephant’s Graveyard and The Jammer, food, good scotch, and good times with among others. He just finished directing her hubby, friends, and kitties. Love to The Tempest for GreenStage. Erik, Astrid, and Gunnar!

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Matthew Fulbright Tyler James Lockwood Michael Ramquist (Spurio) (Junior) (Antonio) Matt is delighted to be working with Tyler Lockwood is a real, live Leprechaun Michael was last seen blissfully bumbling GreenStage for a second time this hailing from the land of Faeries and around numerous parks this summer as Autumn. A California native and a Unicorns (aka The Evergreen State Gonzalo in GreenStage’s production graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of College, Olympia WA). So don’t steal of The Tempest. Having survived that the Performing Arts (PCPA), he moved to his gold. He will not appreciate your experience with little dignity and only Seattle in early 2010 looking for mystery, tom-foolery. A recent Seattle transplant, the barest shred of sanity left, you might excitement, wisdom, love and adventure. Lockwood’s favorite past roles include ask: “Why plunge into The Revenger’s When not performing live theatre, Matt The Great and Powerful Oz from The Tragedy?” Evidently he esteems works for the Museum of History and Wizard of Oz, Lord Capulet from neither dignity nor sanity. Regardless Industry, and moonlights purveying Shakespears Romeo and Juliet, Puck from of the reason for his presence, know corporate coffee to the desperately A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mane that Michael is delighted to be here decaffeinated denizens of the Emerald Stage Theatre), as well as the demented performing with this stellar cast and City. Matt has aspirations of one day dentist Dr. Orin Scrivella DDS of Little crew. Healthy theater in our community attaining a MA in acting from a graduate Shop of Horrors and Hedda Gabler’s needs your participation so thank you for program with unparalleled training and infamous Judge Brack (Evergreen). getting up and coming down here! a sterling reputation. Past favorite roles How does someone so Lilliputian yet include Ferdinand from The Tempest, gorgeous manage to continuously land George Gibbs from Our Town and such intimidating personas? You must Borachio from Much Ado About Nothing. wait and see! BWA HA HA HA!

Ryan Spickard (Ambitioso) Ryan is pleased to be back again with Greenstage’s Hard Bard! Last year he Sam Hagen Marc “Mok” Moser was honored to play the title role in (Lussurioso) (Judge, Piero, Lord) Macbeth, and is still cleaning the blood Sam likes GreenStage. He likes you too. Marc is deeply tickled to return to off his boots. A native of the northwest, He thinks you both will get along well GreenStage this fall, and to be a part Ryan is a graduate from Cornish College together. Enjoy the show. of this wonderful tribe of artists. Recent of the Arts and has been an actor and work with GreenStage includes The fight choreographer in Seattle for the last Tempest, Hard Bard Macbeth, and fifteen plus years. As a member of the As You Like It. His other roles of which Society of American Fight Directors and he’s proud are Macbeth, Benedick, United Stuntman’s Association, Ryan is Petruchio, Duke Orsino, and El Gallo, to also a Co-Artistic Director of Performers’ our name a few. He also enjoys making what Forge, a stage combat theater company Tell y could be considered music, but only for dedicated to the education and GreenStage. Thanks for joining us today! performance of stage violence. Thanks friends about to GreenStage and the wonderful cast of GreenStage! The Revenger’s Tragedy for playing!

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About the actors About the production team Sarah E. Budge Laura Garcia (Director) (Properties Designer) Sarah is pleased to be directing This is Laura’s 20th show with GreenStage’s first Early English Modern GreenStage...maybe she should stop Drama (that isn’t Shakespeare). Sarah counting, but she’s still very proud to attended Mary Baldwin College be a member of a company that has in association with the American produced Shakespeare free to the public Shakespeare Company and received for 23 years. Notable GreenStage gigs: a Master of Letters and Master of Fine Directing The Taming of the Shrew, Arts in Shakespeare and Renaissance Assistant Director for shows in the Fringe Literature in Performance. She began her Theater Festival, stage managing, directing career at the University of Utah, and property design on all three Hard Nicole Vernon where she directed Experiments in Ink III, Bard shows (ooo bloody body parts!), as (Castiza) a project that produced new playwrights well as working on many, many, MANY Nicole thoroughly enjoys telling stories, work. She has since directed, assistant other GreenStage shows . Other work especially with the swell folks that directed, and/or choreographed Once around town includes Theatre Schmeater make up GreenStage (that includes Upon This Island, Comedy of Errors, and ACT. A Seattle native, she began you, Audience). Last seen in Ghostlight Pericles, Henry V, and The Tempest. her career in New York City studying Theatricals’ The Clouds, GreenStage’s She would like to welcome you to the directing and acting at Herbert Berghof As You Like It as Celia, Titus Andronicus world of Middleton and hopes you enjoy Studios. Her first job was working for as Lavinia and as Viola in Twelfth Night GreenStage’s The Revenger’s Tragedy. the Off-Broadway theatre company The (both the “tiny” and full-sized version.) Manhattan Theatre Club. She is the She spent the summer performing at folk Sarah Kessler proud mom of three beautiful daughters festivals with the Eclectic Cloggers and (Stage Manager) whom she adores. BUAIDH NO BAS yelling at strangers in Pike Place Market. “He steps on stage and draws the Huzzah! sword of rhetoric, and when he is Julia Griffin through, someone is lying wounded and (Effects Designer) thousands of others are either angry or Julia is thrilled to be back in the bloody consoled.” – Pete Hamill business with GreenStage. Last year’s Hard Bard Macbeth was her debut into Adam Zopfi Hulse the world of gore and had such a good (Costume Designer) time, she thought she’d try it again. Adam is working with GreenStage for Other fx works include Resevior Dolls the first time (officially). He was last lead at Theater Schmeater where she had costume designer for Henry V at South the priviage of making someone’s chest Kitsap High School. He helped with explode. Other credits include directing tech for GreenStage’s The Tempest this An Adult Evening with Shel Silverstien summer. This fall he begins his freshmen and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Julia Daniel Wood year in Cornish College of the Art’s would like to thank her Schmee family (Hippolito) Performance Production program. He and you. Dan is overjoyed to be returning to would like to dedicate his work this year GreenStage, having just toured with to his mom Mona Zopfi, his whole family Chris Garland them this summer as Stephano in The and his newly found family at school. (Sound Designer / Sound Board Operator) Tempest. Other recent credits this year He is wide eyed and optimistic about his Chris is returning after his first summer include Paul Osgood in The Ladies of future with GreenStage and in the arts. with GreenStage working on The Tempest. the Corridor (an Actor’s Equity Member He’s more than giddy to be coming back Project Code), the Actor in The Woman Peter Frost to do this year’s Hard Bard with his In Black (Centerstage), and Benedick in (Scenic Designer) favorite company. Chris is a freshman Much Ado About Nothing (SecondStory Peter Frost is thrilled to be working with at Cornish College of the Arts for Sound Rep). He has also performed with the fabulous people at GreenStage Design and Technical Direction. Chris Book-It Repertory Theatre, Wooden for the first time. Peter is a local scenic would like to dedicate his first Hard Bard O Productions, Seattle Public Theatre, designer and stage manager whose to his mum for experiencing their first Theater Schmeater, Balagan Theatre, work has been seen at Live Girls! Hard Bard together with 2009’s Titus Harlequin Productions, Annex Theatre, (Quickies Vol. 11), Seattle Public Theatre Andronicus. He would also like thank Sound Theatre Company and Seattle (The Happy Ones, Outrage), Annex his roommate Adam Hulse, for not only Opera. He would like to thank his Theatre (Money Changes Everything), dealing with the insanity but joining him beautiful and exceptionally talented (and Handwritten Productions (Troilus and for the ride that is Hard Bard. He would patient) fiancée Julia Evanovich for her Cressida), Book-It All Over (Henry’s finally like to send his love to his girlfriend love and support. Freedom Box, The Secret Garden), and Danni, especially for putting up with him Ghost Light Theatricals (Midsummer and his obsession (Shakespeare!). Night’s Dream, The Three Sisters). Peter is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound with a BA in theatre arts.

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J.D. Panzer Mary Nelson Brown Ken Holmes (Technical Director) (House Manager) (Production Manager/Managing Director) J.D. graduated from Willamette Mary Nelson-Brown graduated from the After a busy summer playing Prospero University with a BA in Drama and University of Arizona with dual degrees in The Tempest, Ken is back behind the jumped headlong into the glamorous in English and Theatre Education, but scenes making sure that theatre gets world of [first available paying job]. took a hiatus from stage work (or even produced. In his eighteen years with When he isn’t busy with his day job, he seeing a play) until 2002, when her GreenStage, he has acted in two dozen manages, directs and writes as much interests in classical literature, spectacle productions, directed half a dozen, and as possible. Having just finished stage and bargain entertainment coaxed her done dozens of other things.. Ken has managing for Yellow Face, directed by to GreenStage’s audience. A few years been seen onstage at Seattle Shakespeare ReACT’s David Hseih, J.D. is proud to be later, the right partner, location and Company, Book-It Repertory Theatre, joining GreenStage for the Revenger’s opportunity led to a two-plus season Theater Schmeater, Centerstage, Taproot Tragedy this fall and looks forward to a stint at Civic Light Opera/Seattle Musical Theatre, and various other companies. spectacular run. Theatre. There, her interests were Ken is a freelance graphic designer and reawakened and her backstage skills photographer, has a very understanding Liam Enns polished by working as running crew, wife, and a beautiful daughter who just (Blood Wrangler) dresser, costume coordinator and/or turned two. This is Liam’s third time working with assistant stage manager for a number of GreenStage and he is very excited to shows. For the past eight years, Mary and Erin Day be back with the company and involved now-husband, Jean-Paul, have hosted a (Artistic Director) with this Hard Bard production of The summer Bard-B-Que, always featuring In 1994 Erin moved to Seattle, and was Revenger’s Tragedy. In previous seasons one of GreenStage’s productions, but cast as Thaisa in GreenStage’s Pericles. he has worked as house manager and it wasn’t until volunteering as House That experience; the intimate relationship substitute stage manager for Twelfth Managers for the 2010 Hard Bard of actor, text, audience and the elements Night, and house manager for The Macbeth that they fully immersed brought her back to the company again Comedy of Errors. Liam has performed themselves into GreenStage’s particular and again. She has performed with in Grease, The Odd Couple (female brand of madness and magic-making. It GreenStage in numerous productions, version), Rumors, Carlo Goldoni’s The has proved an addiction. both indoors and out, as well as Seattle Liar, Footloose, I Bet Your Life, and The Public Theatre, Theatre Babylon, One Vampyre. He is a recent graduate of Jean-Paul Nelson-Brown World Theatre, Seattle Fringe Festival, Western Washington University where he (House Manager) The Washingtonians!, and most recently studied History and Political Science with It was a dark and stormy night in 2006, joined the company of The Midnight an emphasis in International Relations. when the spirit of Jean-Paul Nelson- Mystery Theatre. It has been her honor He would like to thank his family and Brown was first sighted lurking about lo- to witness and be part of GreenStage’s friends for supporting him throughout cal theatres. After two harrowing seasons 23rd season. Thank you and see you the years. of haunting the backstage and spotlight next summer. operator’s area at Civic Light Opera/ Renee Cyr Seattle Musical Theatre, working such Amelia Meckler (Assistant Stage Manager) shows as Man of La Mancha, Children (Communications Director) Renee Cyr recently celebrated her of Eden, and Fiddler on the Roof, his Amelia left New York in 1997 and is now one year anniversary of her move to spectre can now be spotted roaming the what they call a “lifer” with GreenStage. Seattle which she now is proud to call GreenStage house, cleaning up blood, She is rising to the challenge of her home. Originally from Vermont, she or providing refreshments to those with new staff position. Favorite GreenStage graduated in 2010 from Muhlenberg an insatiable thirst. His position as co- experiences include Lady Macbeth in College in Allentown, Pennsylvania House Manager began with last year’s the 2010 Hard Bard Macbeth, the where she studied theatre (directing and Hard Bard production of Macbeth. Bloody Slave Girl in Titus Andronicus, performance studies) and minored in Come visit him at concessions...if you Elizabeth in Richard III, Katarina in The philosophy and comparative religion. dare! Happy Halloween season! Taming of the Shrew, Ulysses in Troilus Since her arrival in Seattle she has and Cressida; and non Shakespearean worked at Taproot Theatre, Stone Soup Courtney Kessler turns as Honey in Who’s Afraid of Theatre, and Centerstage as a director (Wardrobe Manager) Virginia Woolf?, Maxine in The Night of and teaching artist. While she has Courtney is very excited to be working with the Iguana, and Mammoth and Fortune worked in and loves all aspects of the GreenStage again this fall (even if that Teller in The Skin of Our Teeth as well theatre she hopes to pursue a career in does include copious amounts of blood as directing Twelfth Night, The Merchant directing and educational theatre. She to clean up!). She’s been costuming for of Venice and Squish! Non-GreenStage is thrilled to be part of such a vibrant over 8 years, working locally with NSCC, forays include Marat/Sade at Balagan theatre community. Renee wishes to ArtsWest, Taproot Theatre and Cirque du Theatre, and Creation of the World and thank her amazing family and friends for Soleil’s KOOZA. Many thanks to Mutti Kvetch at Theater Schmeater. She recently their love and support. and Vati for their support, and Jeannie appeared in the critically acclaimed The and Greg for teaching her everything she Gene Pool with Arouet Theatre. knows. Enjoy the show!

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