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KURT LANDISMAN (Lighting Designer) Local SARA SPARKS* (Stage Manager) has previously ABOUT CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY audiences will be familiar with his work through worked at Center REP as the Stage Manager for past productions designed for Center REP including Dancing Lessons and Shirley Valentine. She has Center REP is the resident, professional theatre Communicating Doors, Mamma Mia!, Disney's worked all around the Bay, including TheatreWorks, company of the Lesher Center for the Arts. Our Freaky Friday, Altar Boyz, Mirandolina, Deathtrap, California Shakespeare Theater, Shotgun Players, season consists of six productions a year – a variety CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY Life Could Be a Dream, Ella, the Musical, Sweet Aurora Theatre Company, 42nd Street Moon, San of musicals, dramas and comedies, both classic Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director Charity, and Xanadu. His designs have been seen Francisco Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Stage and contemporary, that continually strive to reach throughout the Bay Area at many theaters including Company, Pear Theatre, Palo Alto Players, Silicon new levels of artistic excellence and professional San Francisco Opera, ACT, Berkeley Rep, San Valley Shakespeare, Eugenie Chan Theater Projects standards. Jose Rep, Theatreworks, California Shakespeare and RE:ACT. She is also a lighting designer, recently Festival, The Magic Theatre, and Marin Theatre designing Uncanny Valley, Major Barbara, and Our mission is to celebrate the power of the human Company. Locally his work has garnered 19 Bay Uncle Vanya at Pear Theatre. imagination by producing emotionally engaging, Area Critics Circle Awards, 5 LA Dramalogue intellectually involving, and visually astonishing Awards and 5 Shellie Awards. Nationally, his work SCOTT DENISON (Managing Director) has been live theatre, and through Outreach and Education programs, to enrich and advance the cultural life of The Diary of has been seen at many regional opera & ballet the General Manager for the Lesher Center for the companies, including the Los Angeles Opera, Arts since it opened 28 years ago and has worked the communities we serve. Minnesota Opera, Virginia Opera, Tulsa Opera, for the Arts in this area for over 45 years. Scott What does it mean to be a producing theatre? and Ballet Arizona. His designs have also been has directed over 150 productions, including The We hire the finest professional directors, actors presented off-Broadway, represented at Circle Wizard of Oz, the musical hit Cinderella, Disney’s and designers to create our productions at Rep, and the Douglas Fairbanks Theatres. Other Beauty and the Beast, Hairspray, The Music Man, Center REP. These are not touring productions – designs internationally include world premieres Les Misérables and for the past 20 seasons Center they’re conceived and developed here, the sets of plays by Sam Shepard in Japan, and Singapore, REP’s A Christmas Carol as well as all Fantasy Forum and costumes are built in our shops, and the as well as the San Francisco Opera in Shanghai, productions since 1970. He created and produces actors rehearse in our rehearsal hall. Whether China, and the Moscow Circus in Tokyo, Japan. the annual Shellie Awards now celebrating 40 Anne Frank the production is a Bay Area premiere or a kurtlandisman.com years. Scott has also designed lights for over Shakespearean classic, each is devised to be a one By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 250 productions, including the national touring of a kind, artistic creation that will be a unique TEDDY HULSKER (Sound & Projections Designer) is production of Sylvia. Under Denison’s guidance the theatre experience for our audience. Adapted by Wendy Kesselman a San Francisco Bay Area born and multidisciplinary Lesher Center for the Arts presents over 850 public theater artist and program director of the artist events each year. He coordinates performing arts What does it mean to be a professional theatre? ensemble Klanghaus. Specializing in Sound and activities with over 100 producers and producing It means that all our artists and artisans are Projection design, recent design credits include organizations. Scott created the Chevron Family career theatre-practitioners. Many of the actors You Mean to Do Me Harm at the San Francisco Theatre Festival which hosts over 7,000 guests in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Playhouse, Eureka Day at Aurora Theater, and each year. He is also the Managing Director of the Association; our directors and designers are In Case of Moon Disaster with Mugwumpin. He Center REPertory Company producing professional members of professional unions. All do theatre Nina Ball Jessie Amoroso Kurt Landisman received the Landisman Fellowship for Emerging productions each season and is the director and because it is their profession and their passion. Designer in 2012 and was awarded Best Sound co-founder of Fantasy Forum Actors Ensemble, Design in 2018 for his work on Warplay with theater an adult family performing arts company which We are very proud to have the opportunity to Sound & Projections Wig Designer Stage Manager company NCTC by the Bay Area Theater Critics presents programs for the young and Young at produce professional theatre for our community in Circle in 2018. His installations and performances Heart. the beautiful theatres here at the Lesher Center for Designer Lindsay Saier Sara Sparks* have been seen and heard in San Francisco, the Arts. Thank you for your support. Oakland, Berlin, New York, Detroit, and LA. Recent OUR SPONSORS original creations include the installation Spoken- Teddy Hulsker Barn Owl THANK YOU TO THE STAFF OF THE Word-Disco-Karaoke and the play which Chevron (Season Sponsor) has been the leading LESHER CENTER FOR THE ARTS was created in collaboration with playwright Evan corporate sponsor of Center REP and the Johnson. Lesher Center for the Arts for the past twelve Production Services Audience Services years. In fact, Chevron has been a partner of Coordinator Coordinator LINDSAY SAIER (Wig Designer) is delighted to be the LCA since the beginning, providing funding Toni Kilcoyne Courtney Egg Cast working with Center REP. She has traveled around for capital improvements, event sponsorships Technical Staff Ticket Office Staff the country playing with hair and makeup On and and more. Chevron generously supports every Steve Pino Jeremiah Vierling Monique Hafen Adams* Justin Hernandez Alison Quin Off Broadway, in educational and regional theatres, Center REP show throughout the season, and Alex Bull Rami Kim and commercial, film, and fashion. She re-located is the primary sponsor for events including Maria Campbell Robert Nolan back to the Bay Area 3 years ago, and is the Wig the Chevron Family Theatre Festival in July. Chris Currie Bailey Ferris Joe Ayers Domenique Lozano* Maya Michal Sherer Jacqualyn Metcalf Jennifer Haga Master for American Conservatory Theater(A.C.T. Chevron has proven itself not just as a generous Lexie Oswald Eli Humel SF). In her spare time she designs and creates supporter, but also a valued friend of the arts. Garrick Schuster Brandon Lawrence Michael Butler* Marcia Pizzo* Kevin Singer custom wigs, body, facial hair, and prosthetics. Find Josh Stouffer Shannon Taylor her on instagram @LSaier and LindsaySaier.com. Diablo Regional Arts Association (DRAA) Josh Yarnell Usher Coordinator (Season Partner) is both the primary fundraising Steve Young Pat Mitchell Michael Patrick Gaffney* Paul Plain Victor Talmadge* organization of the Lesher Center for the Arts (LCA) and the City of Walnut Creek’s appointed curator for the LCA’s audience outreach. DRAA’s role in Center REPertory Company the community is all about building partnerships Michael Butler Artistic Director Directed by Timothy Near with the focused goal of enhancing artistic Scott Denison Managing Director quality at the LCA and providing opportunities for Production Manager Education Directors everyone to enjoy the arts. Through partnerships Jeff Collister Jeff Draper with the LCA and its producers, individual donors, Technical Director Kerri Shawn THE VIDEOTAPING OR MAKING OF ELECTRONIC OR OTHER AUDIO AND/OR VISUAL RECORDINGS OF THIS PRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTING corporate and foundation sponsors and the Joshua Lipps Int. Costume Manager City of Walnut Creek, DRAA plays a vital role in Master Electrician Michelle Kincaid RECORDINGS ON ANY MEDIUM, INCLUDING THE INTERNET, IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED, A VIOLATION OF THE AUTHOR'S RIGHTS AND advancing the arts for the betterment of the Del Medoff Wardrobe Supervisor ACTIONABLE UNDER UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT LAW. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT: WWW.SAMUELFRENCH.COM/WHITEPAPER community. Please visit us online at www.draa.org. Carpenters Kiara Montgomery Kevin Bennett 1st Hand/Draper Lesher Foundation (Foundation Sponsor) As the Trevor Frey Alea Gonzalez Arian Grimsrud Stichers Margaret Lesher Theatre namesake family for the Lesher Center for the Arts, Gabriel Johnson Michael A. Berg the Lesher Foundation has provided funding to Brennan Shreves Judy DeHont March 29 - April 28, 2019 Center REP and the Lesher Center since the Center Asst. Stage Manager Julia McLeod Lesher Center for the Arts opened in 1990. Their support has had a profound Joe Coe Linda Scotting impact on the quality of Center REP’s productions Deck Crew Stephanie Weldon Season Season Partner Foundation Sponsor and has greatly enhanced the experience for Justin Hernandez Dresser Center REP’s audiences. Grant-making