Be a part of the experience...right here in Lincoln Park. 1 DEAR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS,

Welcome to the magnificent new School at DePaul University.

Even before the curtain rises, this inaugural season of theatrical production merits a resounding round of applause. Students and faculty, at long last, will have the opportunity to study, practice and perform in space that is designed for that purpose. Audiences — especially our students and neighbors — will experience performances a simple walk from their residences. presents The arts are important at DePaul University, and have long been so. Our art museum and its collections, our celebrated programs in music, fine arts, creative writing and theatre all embody our belief that the arts advance the values we cherish as a human community.

Theatre ennobles us. If we see the cost of resisting social change in The Cherry Orchard; if we observe the limits and necessity of religious conviction in Faith Healer; if we watch race and prejudice threaten but not overcome a relationship in ; if we simply laugh at the hypocrisy of Tartuffe or buffoonery of Falstaff, we walk away changed. Reassured. Disturbed. Reflective. If it’s good theatre, we’re better people for the experience.

DePaul University’s motto is Viam Sapientiae Monstrabo Tibi (“I will show you the way of wisdom”). This quote from the Book of Proverbs speaks in God’s voice offering humanity wisdom for lives well and fully led. Such is the aspiration of the arts as we make sense of our lives and seek to live nobly. Such is the aspiration of DePaul University as well, as we prepare successive generations to do the same.

This important work of preparing and ennobling the next generation is the raison d´être of great universities and the work of many. Generous alumni and friends who have supported DePaul’s Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign make this new building possible, but more importantly make the work that will be carried out within it possible. With generosity and foresight, you have given to DePaul students and the greater university community gifts that will resonate for generations.

Thank you for joining us on this very special occasion and for your own support of the arts. I invite you to return again and again to share in the pleasures and wisdom of the theatre.

God bless you, by Thornton Wilder

Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M. President Director – Damon Kiely DePaul University Vocal Coach – Claudia Anderson Movement Coach – Julia Neary Scenic Designer – Megan Truscott HELLO AND WELCOME to The Theatre School at DePaul University. We are delighted Costume Designer – Catharine Young that you could join us for this momentous occasion: the first production in our new facility. We are pleased to present Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, now celebrating its 75th year in production. Lighting Designer – Peyton B. Smith Sound Designer – Kami Siu It is a great privilege to have an artistic home of such high caliber that was designed and built specifically for the making of theatre, and for fostering a sense of community. The productions we Dramaturg – Catherine Miller present are only one part of the educational journey for our student actors, designers, dramaturgs, Stage Manager – Emily Hitmar managers, playwrights, and technicians. This facility is also designed to invite you behind the scenes; take a look at what is being built in the scene shop; listen to a vocal coaching session on the third floor; see the costumes for Arabian Nights being built in the costume shop; and watch October 4, 2013 – October 13, 2013 movement classes happening just down the hall. You may even catch a student or two napping in our lobby, for this is truly their home.

We open the new The Theatre School in the heart of the Lincoln Park campus in the spirit of community. The human desire for community interaction and the need to discuss and examine today’s social issues are the ideas that heavily influenced Fullerton Stage the building of this facility. What better play than Our Town to underscore the importance of community and the importance The Theatre School at DePaul University of you, as audience members, in the training of the next generation of theatre artists. The role of the audience in Our Town is integral to its success, and parallels the role of the audience in the day-to-day activities of The Theatre School. We are 2350 N. Racine Ave., , IL 60614 delighted that you are here to make today’s performance a unique and extraordinary experience.

And with this, we welcome you to our home. Thank you for joining us for our production of Our Town. Email: [email protected] theatre.depaul.edu | (312) 922-1999

John Culbert Dean The Theatre School at DePaul University

2 The Theatre School at DePaul University Our Town 3 CAST [in order of appearance] DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Stage Manager...... Sean Wiberg Simon Stimson...... David Giannini Seventy-five years ago when Thornton Wilder first wrote Our Town he said he Mrs. Gibbs...... Tiffany Ogelsby Mrs. Soames...... Olga Aguilar was presenting “the life of a village against the life of the stars.” Do our lives Mrs. Webb...... Abie Irabor Constable Warren...... Clayton Louis mean anything when measured against the vastness of the universe and Dr. Gibbs...... Joseff Stevenson Belligerent Man/Baseball Player/ limitless time? Joe Crowell, Jr...... Lauren Mitchell Joe Stoddard...... Juwan Lockett Howie Newsome...... Max Stewart Sam Craig/Si Crowell...... Denzel Irby You are sitting in a building that will be around for another hundred years Rebecca Gibbs...... Riley Isabel Andrews Townspeople...... John Bridges, Julia Buckton, or more. You most likely will not be. This building is grand in scale, dwarfing the people standing next to it, yet it is dedicated to recreating small, human George Gibbs...... Nathan Simpson Dean Corrin, Katrina Dion, moments to be witnessed. The lobby lists hundreds of plays performed by Emily Webb...... Alissa Walker Stacy Gonzalez, Bella Kiely, actors long since dead, gone, or forgotten. But the plays are remembered. Wally Webb...... Leo Chappell Madeline Kranz, Janet Messmer, Professor Willard...... Trudie Kessler, John Jenkins* Jewells K. Santos, Jeanne Williams With this opening we celebrate the town that is the Theatre School, past Mr. Webb...... Jason Goff and present. With that in mind our cast is larger than usual—It’s called Our Town not Our Friends—and includes students from throughout the program, Alumni Stage Managers...... Tom Amandes*, Gillian Anderson*, W. Earl Brown, Ann Dowd*, Mary Grill, faculty, staff, and even select alumni actors. John Hoogenakker*, Lisa Joyce*, Adam Poss*, PJ Powers, John C. Reilly*, Lucy Sandy Our Town suggests that our lives have meaning when we realize the little The Theatre School production of Our Town, 1999. *the Actor appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the moments as they happen. I believe Wilder would encourage us to notice Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. each other right now. To truly experience the present. Because it will be gone instantly. * Trudie Kessler will perform on Octover 2, 4, 5 (evening), 9, 11, and 13. John Jenkins will perform on October 3, 5 (matinee), 6, 10, and 12 ~ Damon Kiely, Director

There will be two 10-minute intermissions. DRAMATURGY Our Town (Thornton Wilder) is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. by Catherine Miller, BFA4, Dramaturgy/Criticism The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. In the last decade alone, Our Town has been produced over 4,000 times all over the world. Regional and high schools alike have revisited this text that has been so widely celebrated in its 75-year existence. But what do theatre artists find so intriguing about this play? PRODUCTION STAFF For starters, it isn’t what it looks like. Thornton Wilder picked a small, idyllic town in the quaint state of New Assistant Director...... Brian Balcom Make-up/Wig Supervisor...... Nan Zabriskie Hampshire in the early 20th century to set his play. It was a time where life Assistant to the Director ...... Philip Brankin Master Electrician...... Andrew Meyer was not bogged down by spectacle and technology. Where a small town Assistant Dramaturg...... Krissy Begeske, Ben Falk Scenery and Property Crew...... Vincent Banks, Todd Bleiman, could be a small town. Assistant Stage Managers...... Caroline D’Angelo, Darlene Greene, Camille Mitchell, Cat Andrade, Aiden Kent Ashton Sanders By choosing this setting, Wilder was able to focus on story and connection Assistant Scenic Designer...... Julia Brzezicki Costume Crew...... Madison Briede, Claire Divito, rather than context. He believed that while our everyday life--the Professional Assistant Angii Jackson, JJ McGlone conversations and interactions we have in passing-- might seem mundane Costume Designer...... Lissa Lamona Make-up Crew...... Mary Kirwan, Jessica Olson, and easily forgettable, it adds up to our personal history. Wilder wrote that Assistant Costume Designer...... Meghan Burke, Hailey Rakowiecki when writing Our Town he saw that he was, “...making an effort to find the Sydney Dufka Lighting Crew...... Chloe Baldwin, Ben Claus, dignity in the trivial of our daily life, against those preposterous stretches Assistant Lighting Designer...... Lindsay Rosenfeld Ricky Latshaw, Danielle Szabo, that seem to rob it of any such dignity, and the validity of each individual’s Assistant Sound Designer...... Matthew Reich Raven Whitley, Mara Zinky emotion.” Director of Production...... Chris Hofmann Reskin Sound Technician...... Adam Smith Production Coordinator...... Jeanne Williams Sound Technician...... Morgan Lake Frank Craven as the Stage Manager in the original How many people in the history of the world have said, “I love,” “I hate,” production of Our Town. Courtesy of The New York “I hurt”? And what makes any of those statements valid? Every human Technical Director...... Wil Deleguardia Sound Crew...... Spencer Batho, Connor Wang Public Library. http://www.nypl.org Assistant Technical Director...... Christina Buerosse Audio Describer...... Rob Lamont being has two things in common: birth and death. Other than that, little is Master Carpenter...... Sean Conlin Sign Language Interpreter Coordinator...... David Jones scientifically sound. But throughout time, we, as humans, have related to Theatre Technical Director...... Jen Leahy Sign Language Interpreters ...... Colleen Geier, David Jones one another’s experiences of life and seen that collectively, we make up the human experience. Theatre Assistant Technical Director...... Aaron Pijanowski Director of Marketing and Public Relations...... Anna Ables Scene Shop Foreman ...... Gerry Reynolds Manager of PR and Special Events...... Andrea Tichy In Our Town, Wilder is justifying the importance of every single life in relation Scenic Artist...... Joanna Sim Publicity/Production Photos...... Anna Ables, Michael Brosilow to the history of human existence. Property Master...... Wayne W. Smith Publicity and House Crew...... Klaire Brezinski, Costume Shop Manager/Lead Draper...... Myron Elliott Haley Carmichael, Noelle Daniels, Here, at The Theatre School, we have begun anew with the building of Staff Costume Technician...... So Hui Chong Lauren Quinlan, Raquel Villalobos our brand new facilities. As a company of actors, designers, directors, and Professional First Hand...... Elise Petrucci Box Office Manager...... Julia Curns dramaturgs, we want to always acknowledge those before us and those to Stitcher...... Jennifer Moore House Managers...... Anna Bosy, LaKisha Jackson come through the work we present at this institution. What better way to do Assistant Draper/Cutter ...... Castille Ritter, Theatre Manager...... Leslie Shook this than by performing a show that is truly an ensemble-based work that Anna Slotterback asks the artist and the audience to grapple with the difficulties of life and art?

4 The Theatre School at DePaul University Our Town 5 time that Wilder’s perception of the world and all it offered Stein’s The Making of Americans, also left a major impression began to shift dramatically. He began to view the now as an on Wilder. The novel followed the marriage of two families archaeologist would, looking at it as if the present were a and eliminated the conventional description of scenery and thousand years in the future. settings normally seen in early 20th century literature. It created an oral history of the traditional American family in After finishing school in Rome, Wilder taught at the the turn of the century, something which Wilder was familiar Lawrenceville School. He continued to write. A year later, with, but in a new way. Wilder attended the MacDowell Colony in Petersborough, New Hampshire, an artist’s retreat. It was there that he finally With all these wonderful ideas bursting inside of him, Wilder began to write what would be the first of many prominent made another trip to the MacDowell Colony and there, Our plays and novels, The Cabala, about Samuele, an American Town was born. student who spends a year exploring post-World War I Rome; during his journey, he stumbles upon a secret community--a Our Town would premiere on Broadway in 1938. It received cabala composed of eccentric European royalty, Americans, harsh reviews. Critics were simply not ready for a piece of and a celebrated Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. theatre that was so different from any other play on the Great White Way. They could In the mid-1920’s, Wilder not fathom the larger, more decided to attend graduate universal ideas Wilder was school at Princeton trying to present in his University, focusing on play. And yet, audiences French Literature. Only a kept coming. THORNTON WILDER few years after he obtained his degree, in 1927, Wilder In the same year, Wilder won AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PLAYWRIGHT wrote his second and most his second Pulitzer Prize for praised novel, The Bridge Our Town. In his forward to Thornton Wilder: A Life, the new biography of San Luis Rey, for which posted as US Consul General. Isabella Wilder wanted her Even though Wilder is often left by Penelope Niven, Edward Albee states that, “If I were asked he won the Pulitzer Prize children cultured in music, art, and theatre, while Wilder Sr. off of the list of great American to name what I consider to be the finest serious American in Literature. His second preferred them reading scripture and attending church. Both playwrights, his work lives on play, I would immediately say Our Town.” Yet despite having novel focused on the story parenting styles contributed to Thornton’s future. in classrooms and theatres won three Pulitzer Prizes, Wilder is often forgotten in the of a Franciscan monk who throughout the world. As an pantheon of great American playwrights. Compared to In 1915, Thornton entered Oberlin College to study Greek witnessed the tragic death innovator who dared to challenge the well-made play, Wilder Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Eugene O’Neill, Wilder and Roman classics. It was there that he began to establish of five individuals and his quest to determine whether it was paved the way for many contemporary playwrights. looks mighty small because only two of his plays remain himself as a playwright. Wilder’s classmates read his works divine intervention or happenstance. notable in the canon of American Theatre. and began to produce them on campus. Two years later, While Wilder was teaching at the , he Edward Albee goes onto state that the reason he loves Our Wilder transferred to Yale. Again, he took hold of the artistic Town is, “not for its giant Americanness but because it is a But Wilder was unique in the sense that he allowed his life met Gertrude Stein. The two became great friends. As they opportunities the school had to offer and continued to write superbly written, gloriously observed, tough, and breathtaking experiences and his interest in existentialism guide his writing. grew familiar with each other’s work, Wilder delved further plays. statement of what it is to be alive, the wonder and hopeless He was ahead of his time. Wilder believed that the audience into Stein’s ideas on the creation and evolution of the artist. loss of the space between birth and the grave.” was a key member of the ensemble and therefore needed to Wilder longed to join the army but was rejected from general Stein believed that the audience affected the writer‘s mind be acknowledged by the actors onstage. Additionally, he was service due to poor eyesight. His father pulled some strings Even if some believe he only wrote one great play, it is a play keen on demolishing the idea of the well-made play, which and Wilder left school for eight months to serve as a corporal and art. Furthermore, Stein acknowledged that her audience influenced her writings. She continued to study this notion that has stood the test of 75 years and will continue to do so had been so essential to American playwriting until Our Town. in the Coast Artillery Corps in Rhode Island. When the war for many years to come. ended, Wilder returned to Yale and received his B.A. in 1920. throughout her work which eventually inspired Wilder to do Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin in the same. Her freedom of imagination became a cornerstone 1897. The second child of Amos and Isabella Wilder, Thornton After having lived stateside for almost ten years, Wilder of his work. Stein asked Wilder to free himself from spent his childhood traveling back and forth between the wanted to further his travels. He moved to Rome and studied conventionality and give himself completely to his art. United States and the Far East, where his father had been archaeology at the American Academy. It was during this

NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS OF OUR TOWN 1977 February 26, 2009 1955 Revival of Our Town at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York City. May 12, 1939 Television adaptation with Television adaptation, a live musical Directed by David Cromer, who was also the Stage Manager, the Our Town was first performed on Hal Holbrook as the Stage performance with Frank Sinatra as the play was performed 648 times, making it the longest-running radio on The Campbell Playhouse. Manager, Robby Benson as Stage Manager, Paul Newman as George production of Our Town in its history. Other actors who played The cast included Orson Welles as George Gibbs, and Glynnis Gibbs, and Eva Marie Saint as Emily Webb. the Stage Manager included Helen Hunt, Michael McKean and the stage manager. O’Connor as Emily Webb. Michael Shannon.

1920 2010 November, 2002 1940 Broadway revival at the Booth January 22, 1938 Film adaptation starred Martha Scott as Theatre with Paul Newman as First production of the play opened at Emily and William Holden as George. There 1989 the Stage Manager. the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New was an original score by Aaron Copeland. Telecast of the Lincoln Center stage Jersey. Thorton Wilder was recognized production starring Spaulding Gray, Francis with the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Conroy, Penelope Ann Miller and Eric Stoltz. 6 The Theatre School at DePaul University Our Town 7 BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES [cont.]

Olga Aguilar (Mrs. Soames), 3rd Year MFA/ Playwriting Symposium. He is the Founder with Samuel Beckett as an actor in Mr. Hunt of the Sun, Karl Lindner in Clybourne in America, Part Two: Perestroika, directed Damon Kiely (Director), Damon is a Acting. Olga has been seen in The Theatre and Executive Director of I-SITE (The Beckett’s direction of Waiting for Godot Park, George H Jones in Machinal, and Adult by Jane Drake Brody; and A Tribute to Thick professional director and writer, as well as School’s studio productions When the Rain Institute for the Study of Immersive and Endgame and served as movement Man in Spring Awakening. Other credits Leonard, directed by Shade Murray. a full time professor of directing and acting Stops Falling, The Tempest, and Trust. Also, Theatrical Experiences). advisor for Mr. Beckett’s production of include Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire, for DePaul’s Theatre School. His show Hank Olga performed for Hillary Clinton at the Krapp’s Last Tape. More recently John Shelley Levine in Glengarry Glen Ross, and Jeanne Williams (Townsperson), Williams: Lost Highway is currently running 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China, and for Katrina Dion (Townsperson), 4th Year BFA/ performed in the premiere production of Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Coordinator of Academic Services for at American Blues Theatre. In Chicago, Independent Shakespeare Company’s Much Theatre Arts. Katrina hails from Iowa City. Harmless by Brett Neveu at TimeLine Theatre The Theatre School. Jeanne recently was he has directed regional premieres of Ado About Nothing and The Merry Wives of While this is her first time on the stage at Company. He is a qualified teacher of the Janet C. Messmer (Townsperson). Janet is a privileged to work with her colleagues work by Lisa Kron and Jordan Harrison Windsor in Los Angeles. DePaul, she has worked on several shows Alexander Technique. Professor and Program Head of the Costume Phyllis Griffin and Trudie Kessler in a staged for Next Theatre, The Chicago premiere including assistant directing both A Wrinkle Technology Program for The Theatre School reading of Dead Man Walking. of Gore Vidal’s Weekend for TimeLine Riley Isabel Andrews (Rebecca Gibbs), in Time directed by Ernie Nolan and Breach Trudie Kessler (Professor Willard). Trudie is of DePaul University. She teaches classes Theatre Company, the regional premiere 4th Year BFA/Acting. Riley hails from, directed by Krissy Vanderwarker. She has a Certified teacher of the Meisner Acting in costume construction and the history of Sean Wiberg (Stage Manager), 4th Year of Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw for A Red Westport, Connecticut. Her Theatre School also worked with Redmoon Theatre and Approach, a Designated Linklater Voice art and aesthetics for theater. She has also BFA/Acting. Sean is from Coon Rapids, Orchid Theatre, and the world premiere credits include Mother in Machinal, Riley Free Street Theatre in Chicago. Teacher, and a specialist in the Lessac Voice maintained a professional career as a draper/ Minnesota. He has appeared most recently of McMeekin Finds Out for Route 66. He’s in Tempest, Kendra in Language of Angels, method. She received her MFA in Directing cutter for theatre, opera, ballet and film; in the Arc Theatre’s production of Twelfth also worked at Eclipse Theatre, Chicago Joan in Love Song, Marie in Careless Love, David Giannini (Simon Stimson), 4th Year from the University of California at Irvine in including work for The , Night. His Theatre School credits include Dramatists, WildClaw and others. His Psychiatrist in Nine Circles, and Adele in BFA/Acting. His Theatre School credits 1975, and taught acting, directing and voice Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Steppenwolf Measure for Measure, directed by Catherine world premiere adaptation of Thieves Five Flights. include Lawyer for the Prosecution at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City for Theatre and . Though she Weidner; The Royal Hunt of the Sun, directed Like Us was produced by the House in Machinal, Roy Cohn in Angels in America, nine years prior to her arrival at The Theatre acted extensively in high school and by Ian Frank; and Language of Angels, Theatre of Chicago and the Theatre John Bridges (Townsperson) Assistant Part II: Perestroika, Hanschen in Spring School in 1984. Some of her production college, this appearance will mark her first directed by Kevin Kingston. School. He served as the Artistic Director Dean, Director of Administration, Alumni Awakening, Nat Miller in Ah, Wilderness!, credits in The Theatre School’s Playworks opportunity to be seen dead on the stage of of American Theater Company from Relations. John is a founding board Solyony in The Chekhov Machine, Agate and Showcase Series include The Last Night The Theatre School. Rob Lamont (Audio Describer). Rob was 2002 to 2007. Directing credits at ATC member of the Eclipse Theatre Company in Waiting for Lefty, and Harry in Love Song. Of Ballyhoo, Ramona Quimby, The Fir Tree, recently seen as The Giver at Apple Tree include Oklahoma! (Nominated for 6 Jeff and an award-winning and published The Diary Of Anne Frank, The Miracle Worker, Lauren Mitchell (Joe Crowell), 3rd Year BFA/ Theatre. He enjoyed roles in Sleuth, Ten Awards including Best Musical and Best photographer. In addition to having served Anastasia Gonzalez (Townsperson), and Scrapbooks, a touring show for young Acting. Lauren hails from Rolling Meadows, Little Indians, Much Ado About Nothing, Direction of a Musical), The Dark at the Top as the production photographer for over Anastasia is now in her thirtieth year at The audiences about the difficulties of teen . Some of her credits include The Mousetrap, Before I Wake, The Tempest, of the Stairs, Orpheus Descending, A View three hundred Theatre School productions Theatre School. She first came to The Theatre pregnancy. In addition, Trudie has directed The Seagull, The Dreamer Examine his , King Lear and Our Town. from the Bridge, and The Hairy Ape. He looks for over a quarter of a century, he has also School to fill the position of Accounts over 20 plays for The Theatre School’s Studio Pillow, Dog Sees God, Rumors, and The He was heard in live radio drama at WGTD forward to helming the Midwest premiere done production and publicity photo Manager and later was promoted to Budget and Introduction to Performance Series. She Norman Conquests. 91.1 Players including as William Jennings of Luck of the Irish,at Next Theatre. calls for dozens of professional theatres Manager. She works closely with the Dean received her Linklater Designation in 1991 Bryan in On The Eight Day. Rob narrated in the Chicago area.​​ In 2000, he was the on all financial aspects of the school. She has and her certification in teaching the Meisner Tiffany Oglesby (Mrs. Gibbs), 3rd Year MFA/ the nationality distributed audio books of Brian Balcom (Assistant Director), first Theatre School recipient of a DePaul moved The Theatre School forward on the Acting Approach in 2009. Her area of Acting. Tiffany is a student from , Ted Dekker and Robert Whitlow. He was the 1st Year MFA/Directing. Brian Balcom is University Staff Recognition Award. various upgrades and new systems that the expertise is in combining the Linklater and Georgia. She received her BFA in Performing National TV and radio voice of Caterpillar from Minneapolis. University has developed over these years, Meisner work to help actors fully own the Arts from the Savannah College of Art Tractor. Rob can be heard in the Museum Julia Buckton (Townsperson), 2nd Year making sure that the school’s production life words they speak. Trudie is a proud recipient and Design in 2010. Her Theatre School of Science and Industry and Longyear Philip Brankin (Assistant to the Director), Theatre Management. Julia hails from Glen continued without any delays. She has also of The Theatre School/ DePaul University’s debut was Clybourne Park. Other Theatre Museum (Boston). He was awarded 1st Place 3rd year BFA/Theatre Arts. Philip has Ellyn, Illinois. She has worked on multiple been involved with several small theatres 2007 Excellence in Teaching Award.​​​ School credits include: In the Red and Brown Special Program (Live Radio Drama) by the worked with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Theatre School productions including including Zephyr Dance Company and was Water, Blue Heart, and Trust. Wisconsin Broadcasters Association. , the Piven Theatre, Kitchen Sink, Turn of the Screw, and Pan. a board member for a short time. Bella Kiely (Choir Member/Townsperson), the Bailiwick and Second City here in his Bella Kiely is entering the sixth grade at Jewells K. Santos (Townsperson), 2nd Year Colleen Geier (ASL Interpreter) MSEd, CI/ hometown, Chicago. Before moving back Leo Chappell (Wally Webb), 3rd Year BFA/ Jason Goff (Mr. Webb), 2nd Year MFA/Acting. Sacred Heart Academy where she is on the BFA/Playwriting. Jewells is originally from CT. Colleen holds two national certifications to the city he lived in the United Kingdom, Acting. Leo is from Sarasota, Florida. His Jason is from St. Peters, Missouri. He received cross country and basketball teams as well Dallas, Texas. She has recently worked on and has been interpreting professionally working with The Roundhouse In London, previous credits include The Physicists, Come his BFA from Missouri State University in as the choir. She just finished shooting a The Tempest directed by Coya Paz and The since 1987. She has also taught interpreting the Library Theatre, Cornerhouse and Blow Your Horn, and Living Together. Springfield, Missouri. In addition to academic short film this summer, Orca, which she Paleta Project at Free Street Theater. at Columbia College and the Chicago Area Contact Theatre in Manchester, where he performances, he was seen onstage at TENT wrote, directed, and edited. She lives in Interpreter Referral Service (CAIRS). Colleen’s created the public arts festival Lost & Found, Michael Cohen (Choir Member/Townsperson/ Theatre Company, Swan Repertory, and Edgewater with her parents Damon and Nathan Simpson (George Gibbs), 3rd Year theatrical interpreting includes many shows funded by Arts Council England. Baseball Player), 2nd Year BFA/Theatre Vandivort Center Stages. A recent transplant Jennifer, and her brother Finn. She would BFA/Acting. Nathan is from Prarie Village, for Artpark, a professional theatre in Niagara Management. Michael is from Highland from Los Angeles, he was privileged to study like to thank her Grandmother for serving as Kansas. He most recently appeared in This Falls, New York, as well as several community Claudia Anderson (Dialect/Music Coach), Park, Illinois. He participated in other Theatre with Steppenwolf West under Tom Irwin. the backstage wrangler, without whom she Is Our Youth with OneTime Theatre. His theatres in upstate New York. Since moving Claudia worked as dialect coach for My School productions such as A Wrinkle in couldn’t have participated in this show. Theatre School credits include The Norman to Chicago, Colleen has interpreted for Fair Lady (Paramount Theatre), Pirates Time and The Royal Hunt of the Sun. Abie Irabor (Mrs. Webb), 2nd Year MFA/ Conquests, Rumors, and The Pillars of Society. Marriott Lincolnshire, Bailiwick Theatre, of Penzance (), The Real Acting. Abie hails from Rancho Cucamonga, Madeline Kranz (Choir Member/ storytelling festivals and the Radio Disney Thing, A Street Car Named Desire and Oh Michael Conroy (Choir Member/ California. She received her BA in Film Townsperson), 2nd Year BFA/Theatre Arts. Joseff Stevenson (Doc Gibbs), 3rd Year Touring Company. At DePaul’s Merle Reskin Coward (), Travesties, The Townsperson/Baseball Player), 3rd Year BFA/ Studies and Women’s Studies from University Madeline Kranz from Cleveland, Ohio. She is MFA/Acting. Joseff is from San Francisco, Theatre, she has interpreted The Servant Importance of Being Earnest, The Dead, and Theatre Arts. Michael is from Cleveland, of California, Riverside. a double major in English, minors in studio California. He received his BA in Drama of Two Masters, Polaroid Stories, A Murder (Court Theatre), (Drury Ohio, where he attended Saint Ignatius art, and plans to pursue theatre education from San Francisco State University. Theatre of Crows, The Selfish Giant and Other Wilde Lane Oakbrook), U.N. Inspector, Defiance, High School. His past theatre credits include Denzel Irby (Sam Craig/Si Cowell), 3rd and outreach. Madeline served on crews for School credits include Russ in Clybourne Tales, Lapin Lapin and Stamping Shouting and Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and featured roles in , , You Year BFA/Acting. Denzel is from Madison, A Wrinkle in Time, Angels in America, Part Two: Park, directed by Trudie Kessler; Garbiel York Singing Home for The Theatre School. Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Next Theatre Can’t Take it With You, and . He Wisconsin. Other credits include The Norman Perestroika, and A Tribute to Thick Leonard. in When the Rain Stops Falling, directed by Company), The Lion In Winter and Halcyon recently directed the 2011 Senior Showcase Conquests and 12 Angry Jurors. Denzel also Madeline has also appeared in DePaul Michael Osinski; and Angelo in Measure for David Jones (ASL Interpreter) JD, CSC, CI/CT. Days (Timeline Theatre Company). In Los for the Lynnette Guttmann Voice Studio. does stand-up comedy and performs under Theatre Union’s production of Accidental Measure, directed by Catherine Weidner. He David is a 20-year veteran in the interpreting Angeles, she coached productions at A Noise the stage name “Denny Love.” Death of an Anarchist and also appeared in Arc Theatre’s production field and is certified by the National Registry Within, The Mark Taper Forum and Rubicon Dean Corrin (Townsperson), Associate Dean Collaborative performances. of Romeo and Juliette, directed by Theatre of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID). His other Theatre Company. A singer/songwriter, her of The Theatre School. Dean teaches courses John Jenkins (Professor Willard). A member School alum Mark Boergers. DePaul credits include Lapin Lapin, Alice in first CD of original songs, titled In Dreams I in playwriting and dramatic literature. He of the tenured faculty of The Theatre School Juwan Lockett (Belligerent Man/Baseball Wonderland, Selkie, Buried Child, The Selfish Can Fly, available on iTunes and CDbaby, was is a Founding Member of the Playwrights since 1984, John is an Associate Professor Player/Joe Stoddard), 3rdYear BFA/Acting. Max Stewart (Howie Newsome), 3rd Year BFA/ Giant and Other Wilde Tales, Julius Caesar, released in December 2011. Ensemble at where of Acting and Movement. He has directed Juwan hails from Kansas City, Kansas. He Acting. Theatre School credits include The Stamping Shouting and Singing Home, Icarus his plays Battle of the Bands, Expectations, over 20 productions for the school including attended Idyllwild Arts Academy. Credits Physicists, 12 Angry Jurors, and The Blue, Assassins, Pinocchio 3.5, The Servant of Julia Neary (Movement Coach) Assistant Gentrification and Butler County were Woyzeck, The Three Penny Opera, The School include Dog Sees God, Rumors, and The Norman Conquests. Other theatre credits Two Masters, Insurrection: Holding History and Professor of Acting and Movement. Julia produced. His plays have been produced for Scandal, Six Degrees of Separation, The Norman Conquests. include Abby Hoffman Festival (Mary Archie) Othello. He has also interpreted many other was a founding member of the Organic by the Tacoma Actors Guild, Addison Center Glass Menagerie, Jungalbook, The Wrestling Film credits include Tasmanlan Tiger (Mobius stage productions around Chicago including Theater Collective, Powertap Productions, Theatre and Stage #1 in Dallas, the Actors Season, Rooms, Still Life With Iris, The Secret Clayton Louis (Constable Warren), 3rdYear Films), The Executive (Boomstick Aida, The Civil War, Jekyll & Hyde, 28: The State and Running With Scissors all companies Theatre of St. Paul, Northlight Repertory, Garden, the premiere 2012 of The Death MFA/Acting. Clayton received his BA in Productions) and The Green Mill. Humanity in the High Tech World, Babes in based in the creation of original and Missouri Repertory, New York Stageworks, of Gaia Divine by The Theatre School alum theatre from Loyola Marymount University. Toyland, Valparaiso, Berlin Chalk Circle, Funny physically inspired work. She has directed the Cape Cod Festival of New American Jacob C. Shuler, and last season, Lizzie Bright He has performed in Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Alissa Walker (Emily Webb), 4th Year BFA/ Girl and . David is also an and choreographed dance, movement, and Plays, Wichita Center for the Arts and and the Buckminster Boy. As a member of the Germany, and Russia. His Theatre School Acting. Alissa is a Sioux City, Iowa, native. attorney licensed to practice law in Illinois combat for theater, television, and film. She the Bonderman National Youth Theatre San Quentin Drama Workshop, he worked credits include Francisco Pizarro in The Royal Her Theatre School credits include Spring and carries on a private legal practice as has co-adapted three novels for the stage Awakening, directed by Damon Kiely; Angels his day job. one of which, The Man Who Fell in Love with 8 The Theatre School at DePaul University Our Town 9 BIOGRAPHIES [cont.] HISTORY the Moon, received two After Dark Awards Theatre School’s Number the Stars, and Catherine Miller (Dramaturg), 4th Year The Theatre School at DePaul University was founded as and a nomination for a Joseph Jefferson The Savengers. She works in The Theatre BFA/Dramaturgy & Criticism. Catherine the Goodman School of Drama in 1925, made possible Award for Best Adaptation. As an actor School’s scene shop as a stitcher, carpenter, hails from San Diego, California, where by a gift of $250,000 from William and Erna Goodman television and film credits include Early and welder. she worked extensively in theatre. to the Art Institute of Chicago. The gift was in memory Edition, The Untouchables, Black Days, Dramaturgy credits include[title of show] 2013-14 SEASON Samaritan, Four/Four, Jack Slash, Etchings, Anna Slotterback (Assistant Draper/Cutter) at Diversionary Theatre and The Waves of their son, Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, a playwright. Thanks, Mom!, I Think Not and The Break 3rd Year BFA/Costume Technology. Anna is at Vox Nova Theatre Company. At The THE THEATRE SCHOOL Kenneth dreamed about opening a theatre that Up. Julia has worked with numerous theaters originally from San Francisco, California. Theatre School, Catherine has served as combined a repertory company with a dramatic arts throughout Chicago and received a Joseph She has worked on several other shows the dramaturg for Crooked and Measure for school, where classes would be taught by professional Our Town Jefferson Award for Best Supporting Actress for the Theatre School as Stitcher and First Measure, as well as the assistant dramaturg artists and actors. as a ventriloquists dummy in Famous Door’s Hand including A Wrinkle in Time, Angels in for A Wrinkle in Time. She has also worked as by Thornton Wilder directed by Damon Kiely award winning production of Ghetto, which America, Part Two: Perestroika, and A Tribute the music intern at The Old Globe on three In 1975 The trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago voted October 4 – October 13, 2013 she also choreographed. At The Theatre to Thick Leonard. world premiere musicals: Sammy, Whisper to phase out the Goodman School of Drama over a School, she has directed and choreographed House (music by Duncan Sheik), and Robin (previews 10/2 & 10/3) various productions including last Peyton Bernard (Lighting Designer), 4th and the 7 Hoods (directed by Casey three-year period. Luckily, DePaul University stepped in year’s Spring Awakening, directed by Year BFA/Lighting Design. Peyton left Nicholaw). Later this year, she will serve as Arabian Nights and embraced the Goodman School of Drama to keep Damon Kiely. Most recent fight and dance Seattle to pursue a career in lighting design the dramaturg for Number the Stars and will adapted by Dominic Cooke alive a tradition of dramatic programming. DePaul’s first choreography can be seen in Signs of Life, at DePaul University. Now in his final year, direct Greg Kotis’ play Pig Farm. directed by Kevin Kingston theatre, The College Theatre, opened on the Lincoln Park Peyton has a diverse portfolio of experience, directed by Lisa Portes, currently running at November 1 – 10, 2013 (previews 10/30 & 10/31) Campus in 1907. Victory Garden’s . including In the Red and Brown Water, Trust Emily Hitmar (Stage Manager) 4th year ,and Contractions at The Theatre School, BFA/Stage Management. Emily hails from A Free Man of Color Throughout the years, The Theatre School at DePaul Megan Truscott (Scenic Designer), Megan live events such as Wavefront Music Festival, Akron, Ohio. Past Theatre School credits University has grown in reputation and stature. Our new is a Chicago based scenic designer. An as well as work in architectural lighting include stage manager for Angels in America, by John Guare alumnus of DePaul University, her work design with the Austin Bell Building in Part Two: Perstroika, directed by Jane directed by Phyllis E. Griffin home at Fullerton and Racine opened in September has been seen at Milwaukee Repertory downtown Seattle. Drake Brody; Faustus, directed by Krissy January 31 – February 9, 2014 2013 and was designed by the internationally renowned Theatre, Bailiwick Chicago, TheatreSquared, Vanderwarker; and Blood Wedding, directed (previews 1/29 & 1/30) architect César Pelli and his firm Pelli Clarke Pelli Pennsylvania Youth Theatre, and The Young Wil Deleguardia (Technical Director), 4th by Reshmi Hazra. She served as assistant Architects. Actor’s Guild of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Her Year BFA/Theatre Technology. Wil will be stage manager for The Coral King, Barrio Moth current projects include Forever attending The Royal Central School of Grrrl! A Musical, Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker, by Declan Greene To learn more about our history, Plaid (Milwaukee Rep), Harry and the Speech and Drama in London, England this and Much Ado About Nothing. Later this year, please visit theatre.depaul.edu Thief (The Pavement Group), and A Christmas fall as part of DePaul’s Study Abroad she will be stage managing Dog and Pony’s directed by Michael Osinski Carol (TheatreSquared). Her associate work program. This winter he will be interning production of Breach, directed by Krissy February 14 – 23, 2014 (previews 2/12 & 2/13) includes The Hollow at Alley Theater and Miss at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. His Vanderwarker. Saigon at The Paramount (Des: Linda previous credits with The Theatre School The Last Days of Judas Iscariot MISSON STATEMENT Buchanan). include master electrician for Kitchen Sink Caroline D’Angelo (Assistant Stage by Stephen Adly Guiris rd The Theatre School at DePaul University educates, trains, and and Synergy, assistant technical director Manager), 3 year BFA/Stage Management. directed by Lisa Portes inspires students of theatre in a conservatory setting that is Catharine Young (Costume Designer), for Measure for Measure, Angels in America Caroline hails from Long Island, New April 18 - 27, 2014 (previews 4/16 & 4/17) 3rd Year BFA/Costume Design. Last year, Part Two: Perestroika, Spring Awakening, York. Theatre School credits include serving rigorous, disciplined, culturally diverse and that strives for the highest level of professional skill and artistry. Catharine served as assistant costume and I Am Bradley Manning, master carpenter as stage manager for The Misanthrope, and The Scavengers designer for Spring Awakening, The Royal for Venus, and carpenter for Intimate Apparel. as assistant stage manager for Intimate by Lucas Baisch Hunt of the Sun, and A Tribute to Thick Apparel, Barrio Grrrl! A Musical, and A Wrinkle A commitment to diversity and equality in education is central Leonard. Other recent credits include Christina Buerosse (Assistant Technical In Time. Other favorite credits include: La directed by Bonnie Metzger to our mission. As an integral part of the training, The Theatre costume consultant on Arc Theatre’s Director) 3rd Year BFA/Theatre Technology. Boheme (DePaul Opera Theatre), The May 9 – 18, 2014 (previews 5/7 & 5/8) School produces public programs and performances from a production of Twelfth Night and assistant Christina is a technician and photographer Little Prince (Theater at Monmouth), Two wide repertoire of classic, contemporary and original plays that costume designer of Fleetwood Jourdain’s at DePaul University. Her credits include Gentlemen of Verona (Theater at MFA14, TBA challenge, entertain, and stimulate the imagination. We seek to summer stock in Evanston. Catharine is Master Carpenter for The Royal Hunt of the Monmouth), Henry IV Part 1 (Theater at An ensemble piece to be enhance the intellectual and cultural life of our university com- originally from Dallas, Texas. Sun and Measure for Measure. Monmouth), and Cinderella (Theatre Three). performed by MFA III actors munity, our city and the profession. For admissions information, This year at The Theatre School, Caroline will by Greg Allen telephone (773) 325-7999 or 1-800-4-DEPAUL. Lissa Lamona (Professional Assistant Andrew Meyer (Master Electrician), Andrew serve as stage manager for A Free Man of directed by James Bohnen Costume Designer), Lissa moved from Los Color and The Scavengers. is from Lake in the Hills, Illinois, where he May 16 - 25, 2014 (previews 5/14 & 5/15) CHICAGO PLAYWORKS FOR FAMILIES Angeles, California, to Chicago in 2009 served as the Lighting Department Manager AND YOUNG AUDIENCES to attend The Theatre School at DePaul for two years at Huntley High School. John Culbert (Dean). In Chicago, John University where she graduated with honors Andrew was the designer for the world has designed scenery and/or lighting for Chicago Playworks offers a live theatre experience to students, in 2013 with a BFA in Costume Design. Her premiere of A Tribute to Thick Leonard by Gil the Buckingham Fountain, PLAYWORKS teachers and parents in the Chicago metropolitan area. It is our theatre school credits included costume Tanner. He also served as Master Electrician Chicago, Garfield Conservatory, Chicago FOR FAMILIES AND mission to provide theatre for children that reflects their experi- design for Spring Awakening, Lizzie Bright for The Theatre School’s production of In the Park District, Field Museum of Natural ences in a contemporary, multi-ethnic, urban environment. and the Buckminster Boy, I Am Bradley Red and Brown Water and Assistant Lighting History, Goodman Theatre, Northlight YOUNG AUDIENCES Manning, Faustus, and Woyzeck. Currently, Designer for The Royal Hunt of the Sun. Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Drury at DePaul’s Founded as the Goodman Children’s Theatre in 1925, Chicago Lissa works as a freelance costume Andrew is also currently a hired contractor Lane Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Playworks is the city’s oldest continuously operating children’s designer in Chicago where her credits for LakeShore Audio/Visual where he Chicago Opera Theatre and more than theatre. It has been the first theatre experience for audiences of Hansel and Gretel include costume design for The Glass performs lighting related operations. thirty productions at Court Theatre. At the Chicago’s young people for more than seven decades and was Inward at The Island Theatre Company, For Court Theatre, he received several Joseph by Moses Goldberg one of the first major theatres for children in the United States. Colored Girls, Going to St. Ives, Woza Albert!, Kami Siu (Sound Designer), 4th Year BFA/ Jefferson nominations and a directed by Ann Wakefield In 1997 and again in 2003, Chicago Playworks was honored and Big Butt Girls and Other Fantasies at Sound Design. Kami is a native of Las Vegas, for The Triumph Of Love. Other Chicago October 15 – November 16, 2013 by the Illinois Theatre Association with the Children’s Theatre Fleetwood Jourdain Theatre, Little Shop Nevada. Her previous design credits include productions include Regina for the Lyric Division Award, for its outstanding long-term contribution to of Horrors and The Rocky Horror Show at The Hothouse, The Misanthrope, co-designing Opera of Chicago, Hughie for the Goodman Number the Stars children’s theatre. In 1980, Chicago Playworks was awarded Awkward Pause Theatre Company. I Am Bradley Manning, Lizzie Bright and Theatre, Glass Menagerie, based on the book by Lois Lowry the prestigious Sara Spencer Award by the Children’s Theatre for Court Theatre and A Year With Frog And the Buckminster Boy, as well as The Coral adapted by Dr. Douglas W. Larche Association of America (now the American Alliance for Theatre Castille Ritter (Assistant Draper/Cutter), Toad for Chicago Children’s Theatre. John King. Outside credits include designing directed by Ernie Nolan and Education). 3rd Year BFA/Costume Technology. Castille Porchlight’s ElectionFest and working as an has designed scenery and/or lighting for January 18 – February 22, 2014 Ritter is from Mesa, Arizona. Her past A2 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Her final the Boston Lyric Opera, St. Louis Opera, Chicago Playworks is a vital aspect of the training at The Theatre School experience includes working design credit for The Theatre School will be Baton Rouge Opera, Southern Repertory, Theatre School at DePaul University. Students gain pre-profes- as Stitcher on Spring Awakening, Assistant Moth this winter. Cleveland Orchestra, McCarter Theatre and Jackie and Me Designer on Angels in America, Part Bristol Riverside Theatre. At The Theatre by Steven Dietz sional experience in an extended run before a most demanding II: Perestroika, and as the First Hand School he has designed productions of The directed by John Jenkins and appreciative audience. Chicago Playworks presents three on Measure for Measure. Later this season Misanthrope, Streetcar Named Desire, The April 8 – May 10, 2014 unique productions to more than 35,000 young people each she will be building costumes for The Rose Tattoo, The Women, The Snow Queen, Rip season and has entertained more than 1 million schoolchildren Van Winkle and Stage Door. and families since 1925. 10 The Theatre School at DePaul University Our Town 11 FACULTY/STAFF BOARD

John Culbert...... Dean TECHNICAL THEATRE SUSTAINING MEMBERS Carol Morse PROFESSIONAL HONORARY Dean Corrin...... Associate Dean Shane Kelly...... Head of Theatre Technology Mary Spalding Burns, Chair Penny Obenshain ASSOCIATES BOARD MEMBERS Linda Buchanan...... Associate Dean of Curriculum Janet C. Messmer...... Head of Costume Technology Sondra Healy, Chair Emeritus Vonita Reescer Paula Cale LIsbe John Ransford Watts Shane Kelly...... Chair, Design and Narda E. Alcorn ...... Head of Stage Management Joseph Antunovich Merle Reskin Scott L. Ellis Joseph Slowik Technical Theatre Jason Brown Richard Bynum Kathleen M. Bette Hank Richter Samantha Falbe Lord Piers Wedgwood Barry Brunetti...... Chair, Theatre Studies David Castellanos Kevin Depinet Kyle A. DeSantis Trisha Rooney Alden Scott Falbe Phil Timberlake...... Chair, Performance Department Joel Hobson Ed Leahy David W. Dunning Joseph Santiago Jr. Zach Helm David Naunton Courtney O’Neill Whitney A. Lasky Patricia Costello Slovak Criss Henderson ADMINISTRATION Russell Poole Michael Rourke Don McLean Rev. Monsignor Kenneth Velo Paul Konrad Anna Ables...... Director of Marketing Jim Savage Noelle Thomas Irene Michaels Amy K Pietz and Public Relations Alden Vasquez Laura Whitlock Brian Montgomery John C. Reilly Jason Beck...... Director of Admissions Charlayne Woodard Mitsu Beck...... Executive Assistant THEATRE STUDIES John Bridges...... Assistant Dean, Barry Brunetti...... Head of Theatre Arts Denniz Zacek Director of Administration, Marcie McVay...... Interim Head of Alumni Relations Theatre Management DONORS Anastasia Gonzalez...... Budget Manager Carlos Murillo...... Head of Playwriting Joshua Mangilia...... Technical Operations Manager Alan Salzenstein...... Head of Arts Leadership Listings in the honor roll reflect contributions and pledge payments made to The Theatre School between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013. If you are interested John Rooney...... Interim Executive Assistant Rachel Shteir...... Head of Dramaturgy in making a gift to support student scholarships, programs, or the new Theatre School building, please contact Elizabeth Soete, Assistant Vice President of Elizabeth Soete...... Assistant VP of Development Suzanne Bizer Aaron Carter Development, at 312/362-7148 or [email protected]. Andrea Tichy...... Manager of PR and Special Events Tosha Fowler Criss Henderson PRESIDENT’S CLUB Melissa Tropp...... Admissions Assistant Jim Jensen Chris Jones Gifts of $1,000 and above annually qualify for membership in the President’s Club, DePaul’s honor society of donors. Jeanne Williams...... Coordinator of Academic Services Jan Kallish Jay Kelly Dexter Zollicoffer...... Diversity Advisor Kristin Leahey Ernie Nolan *$1,000,000+ lifetime giving to DePaul University + Donor has made a special philanthropic pledge to DePaul University Bill O’Connor Tanya Palmer ~ Denotes President’s Club membership, which reflects total giving to DePaul ACTING & DIRECTING Coya Paz-Brownrigg Maren Robinson Dexter Bullard...... Head of Graduate Acting Roche Schulfer Geoffrey Jackson Scott $50,000 + Dennis Dugan, GSD ‘69 Robert Shook, GSD ‘72 & Martha Melman & Richard Leslie McNicholas ~ Fr. McCabe Circle The Edgewater Funds Leslie Shook + Melman Jonathan Meier, GSD ‘85 & Trudie Kessler...... Head of Undergraduate Acting Sandy Shinner Anonymous (1) Jennifer Faron, BUS ‘94; MBA Linda Sieracki & Richard Richard & Martha Melman Jill Meier Lisa Portes...... Head of Directing, Dr. Bella Itkin-Konrath (dec.), ‘05 & Michael Faron Sieracki Foundation Joan Meister & Dr. Richard Artistic Director Chicago Playworks LIBERAL STUDIES GSD ‘43 Andi Gordon & Jim Gordon Thomas Tryon, THE ‘88 Millard Group, Inc. Meister ~ Grafx Ted Wass, GSD ‘75 & Nina Cathleen Osborn & William Peoples Gas Greg Allen Jane Drake Brody Bea Bosco David Chack $25,000-$49,999 Jack Greenberg, BUS ‘64; JD Wass Osborn Carol Post Andrew Gallant Linda Gillum Lou Contey Shanesia Davis Fr. Levan Circle ‘68; DHL ‘99 (Trustee) & Ted Wolff Dr. Kathleen Owens, MED ‘71 Prof. Decorating & Painting, Allstate Insurance Co. Donna Greenberg * Grant & Margi Palmer Inc. Noah Gregoropolous John Jenkins Jason Fliess Kevin Fox Kathleen Bette & Gerhard Harry J. 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Donald Schiller, JD ‘66 & Carole Segal & Gordon Segal Bob & Linda Kozoman + The Robert Thomas Bobins Rosemary Schnell + Eileen Schiller + ~ MOVEMENT TECHNICAL STAFF Rev. Charles Shelby, C.M., Whitney Lasky & Jerry Lasky Foundation Amy Shelly Schuler & Shook, Inc. MS ‘72 * Don McLean Lois Brennan * Charles Smith Laura Shallow Patrice Egleston...... Head of Movement So Hui Chong...... Costume Technician Northern Trust Corporation William Brown, MFA ‘89 Elizabeth Soete & Raymond Gerald Smith Laura Dixon Kristina Fluty Tim Combs...... Technical Director $10,000-$24,999 Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Friends of Edward M. Burke Narducy Tylk Gustafson & Associates, Vanessa Greenway Gabriel Halpern Myron Elliott ...... Costume Shop Manager Fr. Corcoran Circle Inc. Justice Anne Burke, SNL Ted Sprague Inc. Anonymous (3) Charles Rhodes ‘76; DHL ‘05 & Alderman Harrison I. & Lois M. Steans Phil Varchetta, BUS ‘49 ~ Natasha Julius Camille L’Italien Chris Hofmann...... Director of Production Antunovich Associates, Inc. Nancy Rick-Janis, MBA ‘93 Edward Burke Sr., LAS ‘65; Family; Harrison Steans, Phil Varchetta & Associates Neil Massey Alie McManus Jen Leahy...... Theatre Technical Director Leslie Antunovich & Joseph & Robert Janis, SNL ‘82; JD ‘68 + DHL ‘05 (Life Trustee) * Catherine Weidner Kimosha Murphy Julia Neary Dawn G. McKesey...... Assistant Costume Shop Manager Antunovich MS ‘86 Elizabeth Cadwallader Dana Stonecipher Weiss & Company, LLP Bob Arthur Sarah Siddons Society, Inc. Cannon Design Lois Stratemeier, LAS ‘53 Dr. & Mrs. Ray Whittington ~ Nick Sandys Pullin Clifton Robinson Aaron Pijanowski...... Theatre Assistant Technical Director ComEd * Stephen Sever, LAS ‘73 Jim Cavanaugh, GSD ‘67 Thornton-Tomasetti Group, WMA Consulting Engineers, Mary Schmich Gerry Reynolds...... Scene Shop Foreman Richard H. Driehaus Charita- Steven Simpson Chapman & Cutler, LLP Inc. Ltd. ble Lead Trust * Patricia Slovak Joyce Chelberg Abigail Tierney Ron Seeley...... Master Electrician Toni Dunning & David Staples, Inc. Emily Chew & Robert Murphy Susan Vargo, THE ‘98 & Matt Matching Gifts VOICE AND SPEECH Adam Smith...... Sound Technician Dunning Chris P. Stefanos Associates, John Jenkins & Nan Cibu- Holliday The Boeing Co. Claudia Anderson...... Head of Voice and Speech Jennifer Smith...... Production Coordinator Scott Ellis, GSD ‘78 Inc. la-Jenkins Monsignor Kenneth Velo Walt Disney Company Exelon Corporation Chris Stefanos Dean & Judy Corrin Foundation Deb Doetzer Mark Elliott Wayne W. Smith...... Property Master, Safety Officer Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund * Steppenwolf Theatre Co. Christopher Countryman $500-$999 Ernst & Young Foundation Phyllis E. Griffin Trudie Kessler Shawn Warren...... Carpenter Focus Lighting, Inc. US Bank Direct Action Counseling Anonymous (1) Goldman Sachs & Co. Phil Timberlake Joanna White...... Scenic Artist Paul Gregory, GSD ‘73 W. E. O’Neil Construction Co. Walt Disney Company Jon Andrews Peoples Gas Stana Katic Foundation Robert Berner Jr. PSEG Malcolm Lambe, JD ‘84 & $2,500-$4,999 Brigid Duffy, GSD ‘65 & Dr. GianMario Besana ~ US Bank Foundation DESIGN AUDIENCE SERVICES Linda Usher Fr. O’Malley Circle Charles Gerace, GSD ‘66 Christine Binder Liz Calvert...... Administrative Assistant Magellan Corporation Rochelle Abramson, MED ‘89 Ernst & Young Foundation Jay Braatz, EdD ~ Gifts-in-Kind Christine Binder...... Head of Lighting Design National Philanthropic Trust & Elliott Abramson Herbert Felsenfeld, GSD ‘63; John Bridges Anonymous (1) Linda Buchanan...... Head of Scene Design Julia Curns...... Box Office Manager Penny Obenshain & William Monica Abramson-Lyons, THE GSD ‘65 & Gail Newman Gisela Brodin-Brosnan American Airlines Nan Cibula-Jenkins...... Head of Costume Design Anna Bosy...... Theatre School House Manager Obenshain ‘87 & Daniel Lyons, MUS Kevin Fortwendel Mark Burns & Linda Burns, Chicago Bears Football Club R4 Services ‘83; MM ‘91 Chet Grissom, THE ‘87 MA ‘11 ~ Chicago Blackhawks Victoria Deiorio...... Head of Sound Design LaKisha Jackson...... Chicago Playworks House Manager Merle Reskin Charitable Fund Carol Bernick Lois Hubbard Sean Eshaghy Chicago Bulls Nan Zabriskie...... Head of Make Up Linda RM Jones...... Group Sales Representative Merle Reskin * Carol Lavin Bernick Family Valorie Hubbard, GSD ‘84 Josh Grossman Toni Dunning & David Jeff Bauer Anna Henson Leslie Shook...... Theatre Manager Trisha Rooney-Alden Foundation Maureen Huntley, GSD ‘82 & Mark L. Hawkins, BUS ‘01; Dunning ~ Lady Valerie Solti Lawrence Bundschu Paul Sheahen MBA ‘06 ~ Exelon Corporation Todd Hensley Nick Keenan Jane Doyle & Lawrence Doyle William Ibe, LAS ‘80 Louise Heckman & Gregory Coral Gable, THE ‘08 Jason Knox Jack K. Magaw $5,000-$9,999 F. E. Moran, Inc. 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We require the security deposit of a driver’s Patrons with electronic pagers or cellular telephones are • were featured in numerous articles in Godspell Who’s Afraid of license or other identification during the performance. The publications including American Theatre asked to either turn off their equipment in the theatre or ID will be returned when you return the device. Kinky Boots Virginia Woolf? Magazine, Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times, check them with the House Manager prior to curtain. We discourage text messaging during the performance. The Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, The Lion King Wicked LARGE PRINT PROGRAMS light from the screen can bother other patrons. We allow The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The New You may request a large print program from the ticket taker Matilda the Musical photographs to be taken before and after but never during or the House Manager. Yorker, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. the performance. You may also check cameras and recording • were recognized with 43 awards or nominations, equipment with the House Manager who will secure them SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING including the Black Theatre Alliance Award, FILM until final curtain. Selected performances will be interpreted in American Sign Emmy Award, Fulbright Scholarship, Humanitas Alums worked on over 100 films including: Language. Call the Box Office or see the website for the Prize Fellowship, Jeff Award, Jonathan Larson RESTROOMS schedule. Grant, Princess Grace Award, Tony Award, and Restrooms are located in the lobbies on the main floor and the Windham-Campbell Literature Award. Argo Jeff Who Lives at Home balcony levels. AUDIO DESCRIPTION Carnage Just Go With It Designated audio-described performances and pre- • have also become assistant library directors, LOST AND FOUND performance touch tours are scheduled throughout the business owners, DJs, entrepreneurs, floral Compliance The Lone Ranger If you find an item or have lost an item, please contact the 13-14 season. Call the Box Office or see the website for the shop managers, lawyers, magicians, mountain House Manager. You may also call (773) 325-7900 the next schedule. climbing tour guides, musicians, outreach The Descendants Man of Steel day to determine if an item has been found. program instructors, personal trainers, and Dorothy of Oz The Master more. The Giant Mechanical The Sessions Man For all the info see The Theatre School News Tim & Eric’s Billion at theatre.depaul.edu/tsn Horrible Bosses Dollar Movie

14 The Theatre School at DePaul University Our Town 15 TAKE YOUR SEAT and support The Theatre School

DePaul University invites you to support The Theatre School Capital Campaign. Your gift of a named seat will give you a permanent place inside The Theatre School’s new home at the corner of Racine and Fullerton.

Be recognized for your support with a plaque bearing your name on one of a limited number of available seats within the 250-seat thrust theatre or the 100-seat flexible theatre in the new performing arts facility at the heart of the Lincoln Park Campus.

The Fullerton Stage $3,000 Premiere Section $2,000 Center Section $1,000 Right/Left Section

Sondra and Denis Healy Theatre $250 Moveable Chairs

Don’t miss this window of opportunity. Make your gift today and be a lasting part of this transformative space that will inspire generations of students and audiences.

For more information visit alumni.depaul.edu/TakeYourSeat