A CHRISTMAS CAROL Adapted by JERRY PATCH

SEGERSTROM STAGE / NOVEMBER 29 THROUGH DECEMBER 27, 2003

David Emmes Martin Benson PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR presents CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL adapted by JERRY PATCH

SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN Thomas Buderwitz Dwight Richard Odle Donna and Tom Ruzika based on the original design of Cliff Faulkner SOUND DESIGN MUSIC DIRECTOR CHOREOGRAPHER Garth Hemphill Dennis Castellano Linda Kostalik

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER Laurie Woolery Jeff Gifford *Scott Harrison

DIRECTED BY JOHN-DAVID KELLER

HONORARY PRODUCERS PAUL, DARANNE AND COURTNEY FOLINO

CORPORATE PRODUCER THE CITIGROUP PRIVATE BANK

A Christmas Carol • SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance)

LENA, a vendor of second-hand goods ...... *Julia Coffey JOE, a cider salesman and a receiver of stolen goods ...... *Art Koustik TOY LADY ...... *Hisa Takakuwa PUPPETEER ...... Dennis Alexander Garcia UNDERTAKER ...... *Jonathan Del Arco CHIMNEY SWEEP ...... *Timothy Landfield ELIZABETH SHELLY ...... Christine Yael THOMAS SHELLY, a vendor of second-hand goods ...... Sean Durrie OLIVER SHELLY ...... Alex Wherritt, ▲Kevin Russell EBENEZER SCROOGE, a grasping covetous old man ...... *Hal Landon Jr. RICH WOMAN ...... *Devon Raymond GIRL ABOUT TOWN ...... Hannah Stafford, ▲Kaylin Miller CONSTABLE ...... John Sisk BOB CRATCHIT, clerk to Scrooge ...... *Daniel Blinkoff FRED, nephew to Ebenezer ...... *Howard Shangraw SOLICITORS ...... *John-David Keller, *Martha McFarland WREATH SELLER ...... John Sisk JACOB MARLEY’S GHOST, a spectre of Ebenezer’s former partner in business ...... *Don Took THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PAST, a phantom showing things past ...... *Richard Doyle EBENEZER AS A BOY ...... Alex Wherritt, ▲Kevin Russell FAN, the sister of Ebenezer ...... Giulia Bencivenga, ▲Jessica Perlman MRS. FEZZIWIG ...... *Martha McFarland MR. FEZZIWIG, a kind hearted, jovial old merchant ...... *Art Koustik JACOB MARLEY AS A YOUNG MAN ...... John Sisk EBENEZER AS A YOUNG MAN ...... *Jonathan Del Arco BELLE, an old sweetheart of Ebenezer ...... *Julia Coffey THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT, a spirit of a kind, earthy and generous nature ...... *Timothy Landfield “TINY” TIM CRATCHIT ...... Mason Acevedo, ▲Conner Thomsen MRS. CRATCHIT ...... *Devon Raymond BELINDA CRATCHIT ...... Julia Ostmann, ▲Katie Westerhout PETER CRATCHIT ...... Mikey DeBenedetto, ▲Liam Lodge MARTHA CRATCHIT ...... Brina Dokich, ▲Austen Wianecki MR. TOPPER, a bachelor ...... Dennis Alexander Garcia PURSUED MAIDEN ...... Christine Yael SALLY, the wife of Fred ...... *Hisa Takakuwa THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS YET-TO-COME, an apparition showing the shadows of things which may yet happen ...... *Don Took WANT ...... Hannah Stafford, ▲Kaylin Miller IGNORANCE ...... Alex Wherritt, ▲Kevin Russell GENTLEMEN ON THE STREET ...... *Richard Doyle, *John-David Keller, *Howard Shangraw THE SCAVENGERS ...... *Martha McFarland, *Hisa Takakuwa, *Julia Coffey BOY ON THE STREET ...... Nicholas Walker, ▲Bryce Steeves POULTERER ...... John Sisk

Please Note: Children’s roles are double cast. Actors with ▲ appear Tuesday, Thursday, Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at noon. Others appear in balance of performances.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

P2 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • A Christmas Carol Hal Landon Jr. as Scrooge and Timothy Landfield as the Ghost of Christmas Present in 2002.

SETTING 19th Century London

LENGTH Approximately two hours, including one 15-minute intermission

PRODUCTION STAFF Assistant Stage Manager ...... *Vanessa J. Noon Casting Director ...... Joanne DeNaut Stage Management Intern ...... Nina Evans Deck Crew ...... David Gallo, Jeff Ham, Robert Harrison, James Ray, Joe Smith Follow Spot Operators ...... Nina Evans, Wendy Radford Child Wrangler ...... Lisamarie Goodell Dresser ...... Stacy Nezda Costume Shop Assistants ...... Catherine Esera, Tracy Gray, Amber Johnson Peggy Oquist, Cynthia Shaffer-Thompson Costume Design Assistant ...... Julie Keen

Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance. Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons.

The use of cameras and recorders in the theatre is prohibited. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre.

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A Christmas Carol •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P3 Who was Charles Dickens?

He was a sympathizer with the poor, the suffering and came the writing or publication of a major work. In the oppressed; and by his death, one of England’s 1837, with the birth of his first son, Charles Jr., came greatest writers is lost to the world. Oliver Twist. In 1838, with the arrival of Mary, Inscription on Dickens’ tombstone at Nicholas Nickleby was begun. In 1843, just prior to Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey the birth of Francis Jeffrey, A Christmas Carol was created. he eldest son of John The first of his Christ- and Elizabeth Dickens, mas books, A Christmas Carol TCharles Huffman Dick- quickly became a favorite of ens was born in Landport the people. It would be (now part of Portsmouth), followed by The Chimes, England, February 7, Dombey and Son and 1812. In 1824, he was Christmas Stories. given his first posi- Shortly after tion in business in the publication of A the employ of War- Christmas Carol, ren’s Blacking Fac- Dickens moved tory, Chatham. his family from For six months, their London the young Dick- home to settle, ens adhered la- briefly, in bels to contain- Genoa, Italy, ers of blacking, and later moved and perhaps un- on to Switzer- knowingly, col- land and Paris. lected material During these for what would years away from become world fa- London, his best mous portrayals known works in- of Victorian Eng- cluded Cricket on land’s working the Hearth, The class. Battle of Life and At 15, he en- the first installments tered the professions, of David Copperfield. taking a position as Once again back clerk at Ellis and Black- in England, Dickens more, attorneys. In be- would spend his later tween his clerking and years creating some of his evening shorthand lessons, he most internationally acclaimed wooed his first love, Maria Bead- works. These include Bleak nell, a flirtatious young lady whose House (1859), A Tale of Two Cities deep impressions on Dickens would be (1859) and Great Expectations (1861). In reflected in Little Dorrit, written nearly 30 years 1870, the first installment of The Mystery of after their courtship. Forsaking Miss Beadnell, in 1836 Edwin Drood was published, and the author made his he met and married Catherine Hogarth, who would bear last public appearance. He died in his home at Gad’s him ten children, and began the publication of The Hill Place on June 9, 1870. Pickwick Papers. With the birth year of nearly each of his children The Illustrated London News depicted Dickens giving his last public reading of the Carol in March 1870.

P4 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • A Christmas Carol The Real Meaning of Christmas

hat the original “meaning” of tremely harsh, long Christmas has been lost is a winters. An ever- Tcommon complaint. Those green tree placed in- voicing it are usually referring to the doors at Christmas celebration of the birth of Christ. In was a reminder that fact, our Christmas customs have the suffering of winter much less to do with the Nativity would be followed by than with midwinter pagan seasons of rebirth agricultural and solar obser- and fullness in the vances dating centuries be- coming spring and fore Christ’s birth. summer. The Roman world This experi- into which Christ ence is difficult to was born celebrat- appreciate in our ed the Festival of dry, temperate Saturn from December Southern California 17-24, a week of parties climate. Our Yule and exchanging of gifts. trees stand more often The fact that Christmas was as fire hazards than re- celebrated at the time of the minders of spring. But winter solstice (December 22, winter for much of the world is a sea- the day on which the sun is at son of dormancy and death in nature; its greatest distance south of and in earlier centuries it was even more the equator – hence, the short- a time of frailty fatal to human beings. est day of the year for the Charles Dickens’ recognition of northern hemisphere) con- human mortality pervades A Christmas nected it with festivals for the Carol. The deaths of Marley and Fan, unconquered sun. Houses the Ghosts, and the possible passing of were decorated with greenery and Tiny Tim, as well as the suffering of lights, and presents were given to children and the the poor and the Cratchits’ lean poor. Christmas are the shadows to be dis- Germanic and Celtic Yule customs pelled by the light of human love and worked their way into Christmas tradi- the season’s spirit. tions as well. Special foods and More than a century later, Octavio feasts, fellowship, the Yule log Solis in his La Posada Mágica found and Yule cakes, wassailing, similar substance in the predicament of greenery and fir trees all his young and reluctant heroine, Gracie. commemorated different as- The transforming power of love that Dick- pects of the season. ens found in 19th-Century London remains Two things were com- constant in Solis’ southwestern barrio at the mon to all European midwinter beginning of the 21st. festivals in earlier times. Fires The value of love and human life is mea- and lights, symbols of warmth and sured by the fact that it doesn’t last forever. It is the endurance of life, were a part of the equation Scrooge comes to know, and one both pagan and Judeo-Christian cele- which Dickens fully appreciated. brations. Evergreens, as symbols of –Jerry Patch survival, had particular meaning for Northern Europeans who faced ex- Bob and Tim Cratchit, by Frederick Barnard

A Christmas Carol •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P5 Other Voices at Christmas

“Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how “Dickens was a mythologist rather than a novelist; he then should they become acquainted?” was the last of the mythologists, and perhaps the – Benjamin Franklin, greatest. He did not always manage to make his Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1734 characters men, but he always managed, at the least, to make them gods.” “Remorse is memory awake.” – G.K. Chesterson 1906 – Emily Dickenson, Poems, Pt. I, No.69 Malcolm Kushner relates the story of a man who “Why should I sorrow for what was pain? chaired the charity committee of his local hospital. He A cherished grief is an iron chain.” reviewed all the fundraising records, and he discovered – Stephen Vincent Benet, King David that the richest person in town had never made a dona- tion. So he went to visit him. He said, “Our records “I dreamt the past was never past redeeming; show that you’re the richest person in town, but you’ve But whether this was false or honest dreaming never contributed to the hospital.” And the rich man I beg death’s pardon now. And mourn the dead.” said, “Do your records also show that my widowed – Richard Wilbur, The Pardon mother was left absolutely destitute? Do they show that my brother is totally disabled? Do they show that my “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great sister was abandoned with four young children?” By light: They that dwell in the land of the shadow of now the chairperson felt really ashamed. He said, death, upon them hath the light shined.” “Well no, our records don’t show that.” And the rich – Isaiah, 9:2 man said, “Well, I don’t do anything for them, so why should I do anything for you?” “At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like each thing that in season grows.” – Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost

“Dickens is a terrible writer. In the original, Scrooge was mean and stingy, but you never know why. We’re giving him a mother and father, an un- happy childhood, a whole background which will motivate him.” – President of Screen Gems, 1968

“I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt: in the might of design, the mystery of color, the re- demption of all things by beauty ever- lasting and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Create in me a clean heart, O God: and renew a right spirit with me.” – Psalms 51:10

Art Koustik and Martha McFarland as Mr. & Mrs. Fezziwig.

P6 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • A Christmas Carol A Miser’s Miser by Charles Dickens

h! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the the crowded paths of life, warning all grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing wrench- human sympathy to keep its distance, ing, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, was what the knowing O ones call “nuts” to old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; Scrooge. secret, and self-contained, and solitary – Excerpted from as an oyster. The cold within him A Christmas Carol froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog- days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas. External heat and cold had little in- fluence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to en- treaty. Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and “It’s a great part I enjoy doing. I snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of actually work on it during the the advantage over him in only one re- course of each year, so I can come spect. They often “Came down” hand- closer to nailing it. You’d think I somely, and Scrooge never did. would have figured it out after 23 Nobody ever stopped him in the years; but it keeps my imagination street to say, with gladsome looks, “My and my mind fresh to know I dear Scrooge, how are you? When will haven’t gotten it all yet. I’ve tried you come to see me?” No beggars im- it a lot of ways: where he’s nasty plored him to bestow a trifle, no chil- and snarly, where he’s cold and dren asked him what it was o’clock, no austere, and they all basically man or woman ever once in all his life in- work, but I just haven’t found the quired the way to such and such a place, of one that clicks and feels like, Scrooge. Even the blindmen’s dogs ap- ‘That’s it!’ I’m still experimenting.” peared to know him; and when they saw – Hal Landon Jr. on him coming on, would tug their owners into playing Ebenezer Scrooge doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, “No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!” But what did Scrooge care! It was the very thing he liked. To edge his way along

A Christmas Carol •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P7 DANIEL BLINKOFF JULIA COFFEY JONATHAN DEL ARCO Bob Cratchit Lena/Belle/Scavenger Undertaker/Young Ebenezer

Artist Biographies

*DANIEL BLINKOFF (Bob Cratchit) Crossing the Bridge, “NYPD Blue,” *JONATHAN DEL ARCO (Undertak- appeared at SCR in last season’s The “Law and Order” and “Missing Per- er/Young Ebenezer) returns for a Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow and sons.” Mr. Blinkoff received his third year in A Christmas Carol. His Major Barbara (Robby Award nomi- MFA from the Yale School of Drama other theatre credits include six sea- nation – Best Supporting Actor), and and is a founding member of Yale sons of the Hispanic Playwrights previously in The School for Wives Cabaret Blue in Los Angeles. Project at SCR, the one-man show and Nostalgia. Other theatre credits Always Running (Cornerstone The- include The Imaginary Invalid and *JULIA COFFEY (Lena/Belle/Scav- atre), Blood Wedding (La Jolla Play- A Kiss for Cinderella at the Cleve- enger) made her SCR debut as Hero house), Spoils of War (Broadway), land Playhouse, A Christmas Carol in Much Ado about Nothing. Local Torch Song Trilogy (Broadway/First at McCarter Theatre, Are We There theatre credits include Lady Macbeth National Tour), Roosters (Public Yet? at Williamstown Theatre Festi- in Macbeth at A Noise Within, Ros- Theater/INTAR), The Virgin Molly val, Stepping Out with Mr. Markham alind in As You Like It and Viola in (EST), Amulettes Against the Dragon at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New Twelfth Night for the Kingsmen Forces (Circle Rep), Elegies for An- York, The Summer in Gossensass Shakespeare Festival, Peter Hall’s gels Punks and Raging Queens (Maria Irene Fornes, director) at Measure for Measure and A Mid- (Canon Theatre), House Arrest (Mark Theatre Row, Dinosaur Dreams and summer Night’s Dream at the Ah- Taper Forum) and Common Infrac- The Last 60 of 99 at New York Stage manson Theatre and Cecelia in The tions/ Gross Injustices (American and Film, The Beaux Strategem and Last Tycoon at the Fountain Theatre. Repertory Theatre). He also spent Twelfth Night at Yale Repertory The- She also originated the role of two summers as a member of the atre, as well as the title role in Lean- Charmille in John Strand’s new play acting company at The Institute on der Stillwell at Stage Left (Joseph Jef- The Diaries at the Signature Theatre the Arts and Civic Dialogue, a Har- ferson Award – Best Ensemble) and in Washington, DC. Television vard program under the direction of Flesh and Blood at Chicago’s Baili- credits include appearances on Anna Deavere Smith. On television wick Theatre (Joseph Jefferson “Yes, Dear.” Ms. Coffey trained at he is a recurring character on the Nomination – Best Actor). His film Florida State University and the Lon- critically acclaimed “Nip/Tuck.” He and television credits include Rock- don Academy of Music and Dramat- has guest starred on “The Division,” abye, With Honors, Wally’s Walk, ic Art. “First Monday,” “Grosse Point,” “Star

P8 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • A Christmas Carol RICHARD DOYLE JOHN-DAVID KELLER ART KOUSTIK Spirit of Christmas Past/Gentleman Solicitor/Gentleman Joe/Mr. Fezziwig

Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: The Next ing for Godot, Our Country’s Good A Christmas Carol for its entire 24- Generation” (recurring as Hugh and Intimate Exchanges, for which year history. He is responsible for Borg), “Pearl,” “The Mommies,” he earned a Los Angeles Drama Crit- directing SCR’s Educational Touring “Miami Vice,” “True Colors,” “Sis- ics Circle Award nomination. He Production of The Pride of Weed- ters,” The Wonder Years,” “Blos- won LADCC Awards for his roles in patch Camp, which will begin tour- som,” “Boy Meets World” and “Pa- Sally Nemeth’s Holy Days and as ing in January 2004. Among his cific Blue.” His film credits include Reverend Hale in The Crucible. other SCR directing credits are God- The Mambo Kings, Lost Angels and “Cheers” fans will remember him as spell, Jacques Brel, In Fashion, The True Rights. For the last several Woody’s snooty father-in-law Walter Real Inspector Hound (SCR’s first years Del Arco has also pursued his Gaines. Other film and television Equity show), Peg O’ My Heart and other passion, politics. Currently he credits include Air Force One, TomFoolery, to name a few. He has is working on Howard Dean’s presi- “NYPD Blue,” “Sisters,” movies of also acted in over 100 plays at SCR. dential campaign. the week, “The Practice” and guest He has been the concert host for the star appearances on “The Pretender” fifth grade concerts for the Orange *RICHARD DOYLE (Spirit of Christ- and “The Lot.” He is a voice-over County Philharmonic Society for 19 mas Past/Gentleman) is an SCR actor in animation, CD ROMS, tele- years. He has performed with the Founding Artist who appeared earli- vision, radio commercials, books on National Symphony Orchestra and er this season in The Last Night of tape and documentaries, including the Sydney Philharmonic. He was Ballyhoo. Last season he appeared the Emmy-winning series The Living part of the Sundance Playwrights in Relatively Speaking, Proof, Major Edens, Impressions of California, the Festival for 10 years. He tries to Barbara and A Christmas Carol and recent documentary reenactment stay busy. the previous season in The School The Bismark and the soon to be re- for Wives and The Homecoming. leased Green and Green, an archi- *ART KOUSTIK (Joe/Mr. Fezziwig)is Additional appearances include the tectural documentary on the cre- an SCR Founding Artist who has ap- world premieres of The Beard of ation of the craftsman design move- peared in scores of productions, in- Avon, On the Jump (Robby Award), ment. cluding Much Ado about Nothing, But Not for Me, BAFO, The Interro- The Hollow Lands, Of Mice and gation of Nathan Hale, She Stoops to *JOHN-DAVID KELLER (Solicitor/ Men, Tartuffe, Ah, Wilderness! and Folly, Wit, Hospitality Suite and Gentleman) is a member of SCR’s Pygmalion. He also appeared in Highest Standard of Living. Other resident acting company. He has BAFO, Six Degrees of Separation, credits include Much Ado about been with the company since 1973 She Stoops to Folly, The Taming of Nothing, A Delicate Balance, Of working as both an actor and direc- the Shrew, The Cherry Orchard, The Mice and Men, Ah, Wilderness!, tor. Most recently he directed SCR’s Misanthrope, A Streetcar Named De- What the Butler Saw, Pygmalion, inaugural Theatre for Young Audi- sire, Loot, Lettice & Lovage, The Man Six Degrees of Separation, Arms and ences Series production of The Em- Who Came to Dinner, The Miser, the Man, The Cherry Orchard, Wait- peror’s New Clothes. He has directed Shadowlands and Hospitality Suite.

A Christmas Carol •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P9 TIMOTHY LANDFIELD HAL LANDON JR. MARTHA MCFARLAND Spirit of Christmas Present Ebenezer Scrooge Mrs. Fezziwig/Solicitor

His other appearances include The The Miser at A Noise Within and in Nothing, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Philadelphia Story, Twelfth Night, A the Broadway revivals of Company The Hollow Lands, True West, Play Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Cho- and The Sound of Music. He also Strindberg, Tartuffe and Ah, Wilder- rus of Disapproval, Hard Times, The appeared opposite his Hay Fever co- ness! Other credits include Arcadia, Crucible, Prelude to a Kiss, Glengar- star Kandis Chappell in The Guards- Our Town, Sidney Bechet Killed a ry Glen Ross, Galileo, The Foreigner, man at the Huntington Theatre in Man, BAFO, Six Degrees of Separa- Rum and Coke, The Show-Off, Saint Boston. Mr. Landfield appeared on tion, An Ideal Husband, A Mess of Joan, Playboy of the Western World, Broadway in Rumors, Arsenic and Plays by Chris Durang, The Things The Seagull, Coming Attractions, Old Lace, Wild Honey, The Crucifer You Don’t Know, Faith Healer, American Buffalo, The Elephant of Blood and Tartuffe. Off-Broad- Ghost in the Machine, Green Man, Anything Goes, Time Was, way, he was in the original produc- Icebergs, Morning’s at Seven, Danc- Time of Your Life, Comedians, Rub- tion of Sister Mary Ignatius and The ing at Lughnasa, The Miser, Our bers, That Championship Season and Actor’s Nightmare as well as the mu- Country’s Good and Waiting for The Last Meeting of the Knights of the sical Charlotte Sweet. Television and Godot. He created the role of White Magnolia and most annual film credits include “Six Feet Under,” Ebenezer Scrooge in SCR’s A Christ- productions of A Christmas Carol. “Without a Trace,” “Monk,” “Frasier,” mas Carol, and has performed it in Outside SCR, he has been in Any- “Boston Public,” “C.S.I.,” “Family all 23 annual productions. He ap- thing Goes, Chapter Two, Guys and Law” and “Law and Order” and The peared in Leander Stillwell at the Dolls, Brigadoon, numerous com- Cooler with William H. Macy and Mark Taper Forum and in Henry V mercials, and film and television Alec Baldwin. Mr. Landfield has at the Globe Theatres in San Diego. such as La Bamba, “Valerie,” “Hill played major roles in regional the- Other resident theatre roles include Street Blues,” “Moonlighting,” “Gold- atres across the country including Salieri in Amadeus, Malvolio in en Girls,” “Dallas” and “The Young Phileas Fogg in 80 Days at La Jolla Twelfth Night and Gordon Miller in and the Restless.” “With my wife Playhouse in San Diego. While in Room Service. Among his film cred- Peggy, I am at last a happy man. As Africa filming Disney’s Cheetah, Mr. its are Trespass, Pacific Heights, Al- the years go by I am more aware Landfield met his wife, actress Breon most an Angel, Bill and Ted’s Excel- how important faith, family and Gorman. They have two angels, Mi- lent Adventure and Playing by Heart. friends are. ‘GOD BLESS US EVERY- randa and Bianca. Television credits include a recent ONE.’ episode of “Frasier.” *HAL LANDON JR. (Ebenezer *TIMOTHY LANDFIELD (Spirit of Scrooge) is an SCR Founding Artist *MARTHA McFARLAND (Mrs. Fezzi- Christmas Present) is delighted to re- who recently appeared in The Draw- wig/Solicitor) is an SCR Founding turn to SCR, where he was previous- er Boy, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Artist who served as the theatre’s ly seen in The Norman Conquests: Major Barbara, Getting Frankie Casting Director for 11 years. Most Round and Round the Garden and Married—and Afterwards, The recently she appeared in Two Gen- Hay Fever. He recently appeared in School for Wives, Much Ado about tlemen of Verona and as Mrs. Baines

P10 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • A Christmas Carol DEVON RAYMOND HOWARD SHANGRAW HISA TAKAKUWA Mrs. Cratchit Fred/Gentleman Toy Lady/Sally/Scavenger

in Major Barbara, Georgette in The eigner at the Laguna Playhouse, Top appeared in On Approval at Pacific School for Wives, Ursula in Much Girls at UCI and the world premiere Resident Theatre in Los Angeles, Ado about Nothing, Mom in True of City with the Circle X Company in where she is a company member. West, Alice in Play Strindberg and Los Angeles. She is a teacher with She can be seen in the Cameron reprised her role as Norah in Ah, the SCR Professional Conservatory Crowe film Singles, and the film ver- Wilderness! Other roles at SCR in- and privately in the L.A./Orange sion of Holy Days, directed by Mar- clude appearances in Our Town, County area. Ms. McFarland is also tin Benson. Television credits in- Pygmalion, Private Lives, An Ideal a popular voice-over artist, a pub- clude the movie of the week “Empty Husband, as Dr. Charlotte Wallace lished poet and the Southern Califor- Cradle” and a recurring role in the in Beyond Therapy and as part of the nia Casting Director with the Oregon Dabney Coleman series “The Slap Drama-Logue Award-winning en- Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Maxwell Story.” She is a graduate of sembles of TomFoolery and Side by The Juilliard School. Side by Sondheim. She also ap- *DEVON RAYMOND (Mrs. Cratchit) peared as Pope Joan and Louise in returns to SCR for her 14th season of *HOWARD SHANGRAW (Fred/Gen- both the SCR and Westwood Play- A Christmas Carol. Other SCR ap- tleman) returns to his role as Fred in house engagements of Top Girls. pearances include She Stoops to A Christmas Carol. He was seen in She has appeared in 17 of the 23 Folly, Our Country’s Good, Heart- the Mark Taper Forum’s production productions of A Christmas Carol, break House, Holy Days and Hard of Arcadia and Travels with My Aunt having missed the first year when Times. Regionally she has appeared at the Laguna Playhouse. His SCR she was on a U.S. tour with James at the Ensemble Theatre Company of credits include Algernon in The Im- Mason in A Partridge in a Pear Tree. Santa Barbara in The Secret Rapture portance of Being Earnest, Russell in Ms. McFarland is also a director, and in the world premiere of Cast- Loose Ends, Lonnie in Coming At- having staged Sly Fox and The For- away. Most recently, Ms. Raymond tractions, and as young Ebenezer in

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A Christmas Carol •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P11 ENSEMBLE SEAN DURRIE (Thomas Shelley) is ing from the making his SCR debut after having American Acade- recently complet- my of Dramatic ed SCR’s Profes- Arts. His favorite sional Conserva- parts so far have tory Program. been Peck in Theatre credits in- How I Learned to clude Stonewall Drive, himself in Country at The- his one person atre at Lime Kiln; show How to Dark Rapture, Lose Friends Without Really Trying, Family Circles, and Tevye way back in high school. Once a Catholic, Hot L Baltimore, He is honored to be a part of this Waiting for Lefty and A Midsummer group and hopes to do his granddad- Night’s Dream at the AADA Studio dy in Valhalla proud. Theatre; The Pajama Game at the DON TOOK Kendall Theatre; and Joseph and the CHRISTY YAEL (Elizabeth Shelley/Pur- Marley/Spirit of Christmas Yet-To-Come Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, sued Maiden) is making her SCR The Tempest and A Funny Thing debut after hav- Happened on the Way to the Forum at ing recently completed SCR’s Pro- A Christmas Carol, a role he created the Mount Michael Theatre. Film credits include This is Encino, P.S. I fessional Conser- in 1980. He also appeared in SCR’s Know You Love Me and Ultimatum. vatory Program. A Mess of Plays by Chris Durang, Theatre credits Wild Oats, The Contractor, The Time DENNIS ALEXANDER GARCIA (Pup- include The of Your Life and The Sorrows of Fred- peteer/Mr. Topper) is making his SCR Rimers of Eldritch erick. He will also be remembered debut after hav- at the Matrix The- for his performances as Mick Conner ing recently com- atre; Dark Rap- ture, Measure for Measure, The in Comedians, Androgyno in pleted SCR’s Pro- fessional Conser- Philadelphia Story, The Dining Room, Volpone and Lonnie Roy McNeil in vatory Program. Waiting for Lefty and Journey to the The Last Meeting of the Knights of the Theatre credits in- Day at the American Academy of White Magnolia. Mr. Shangraw clude The York Dramatic Arts; Vinegar Tom at Equity played Madame Nash in the Mark Crucifixion, Men Showcase Theatre; The Baby Dance Taper Forum’s Romance Language, in White and The and Crimes of the Heart at the Players C.A. Rolander in the Odyssey The- Early Girl at Academy; and A Midsummer Night’s atre’s In the Matter of J. Robert Op- Columbia College Theatre; The Red Dream and Twelfth Night at the Ed- monton Fringe Theatre Festival. penheimer, Aubrey Piper in the Gem Coat and A La Carte at the River For- est Theatre; The Telephone Pole Man Theatre’s production of The Show- at the Victory Garden Theatre; and The children’s roles are performed by Off and Norman in The Dresser at The Rabbit Trap and Butterflies are students in South Coast Repertory’s Santa Barbara’s Garvin Theatre. His Free at the John Ruskin Theatre Young Conservatory: MASON ACEVEDO, recent television appearances in- School. GIULIA BENCIVENGA, MIKEY DEBENEDETTO, clude “Frasier,” “Chicken Soup for BRINA DOKICH, LIAM LODGE, KAYLIN the Soul” and “Star Trek: Deep JOHN SISK (Constable/Wreath Sell- MILLER, JULIA OSTMANN, JESSICA PERLMAN, Space Nine.” Mr. Shangraw is a er/Young Jacob Marley/Poulterer) is KEVIN RUSSELL, HANNAH STAFFORD, BRYCE making his SCR debut after having member of the Pacific Resident The- STEEVES, CONNER THOMSEN, NICHOLAS recently completed SCR’s Professional atre where he serves as both an WALKER, KATIE WESTERHOUT, AUSTEN Conservatory Program and graduat- IANECKI and LEX HERRITT actor and director. W A W .

*HISA TAKAKUWA (Toy Lady/Sally/ Day after Evermore, Power Play and Sundance Children’s Theatre; and Scavenger) returns for the twelfth Indian Summer. Other theatre cred- Romeo and Juliet at the Indiana time in A Christmas Carol. Ms. its include Masha in The Seagull, Repertory Theatre. Ms. Takakuwa is Takakuwa also appeared at SCR in Agnes in The School for Wives and a Resident Artist at the classical the- The Man Who Came to Dinner and Emily in Our Town at A Noise With- atre company A Noise Within and is in the Educational Touring Produc- in; Hero in Much Ado about Nothing on the faculty of SCR’s Young Con- tions Bad Water Blues, Face2Face, at the Grove Shakespeare Festival; servatory. She holds a BA from My Mom’s Dad, Finding Home, The the Playwright’s Lab at the Sundance Smith College and an MFA from the Fitness Game, Rhubarb Jam, The Institute; the inaugural season of the California Institute of the Arts.

P12 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • A Christmas Carol *DON TOOK (Marley/Spirit of PLAYWRIGHT, DIRECTOR Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Christmas Yet-To-Come) is an SCR & DESIGNERS Richard III, So It Is ...If So It Seems To Founding Artist who recently ap- You, A Christmas Carol, The Glass peared in Two Gentlemen of JERRY PATCH (Adaptor) has been af- Menagerie, Great Expectations, Ah, Verona, The School for Wives, The filiated with South Coast Repertory Wilderness! and Tartuffe. Other no- Beard of Avon, Much Ado about since 1967. He has served as dra- table designs include Under The Nothing and The Countess. In pre- maturg on more than 125 new plays Blue Sky for the Geffen Playhouse, vious seasons, he was seen in The seen here since 1980, including the Death of a Salesman for the Interact Hollow Lands, A Christmas Carol world premieres of Abundance, Theatre, Titanic for Civic Light and The Philanderer. Other SCR Freedomland, Golden Child, Search Opera of South Bay Cities, Camping productions include Play Strind- and Destroy, Sight Unseen, Three with Henry & Tom and Swingtime berg, Tartuffe, Ah, Wilderness!, Pyg- Days of Rain and Wit. His dramatic Canteen for McCoy/Rigby at the La malion, Our Town, Arcadia, BAFO writing has been produced at SCR Mirada Theater, Jack Fletcher’s pro- (for which he won a Drama-Logue and other theatres and on television. ductions of A Midsummer Night’s Award), She Stoops to Folly, Three He co-conceived The Education of Dream for the P.C.P.A. Theatrefest Viewings, A Streetcar Named Desire, Randy Newman with Michael Roth and the Westwood Playhouse, 2 at The Misanthrope and Pterodactyls. and Mr. Newman (SCR, 2000). For Theatre Forty, The Blue Dahlia and He also appeared in the world pre- seven years he was Artistic Director South Central Rain for the Pacific miere of Hospitality Suite and the of the theatre program of the Sun- Resident Theatre Ensemble, D-Girl at revival of The Philadelphia Story. dance Institute. He serves as con- the Century City Playhouse, Heathen Mr. Took is proud to be an SCR sulting dramaturg for the Round- Valley at the Grove Shakespeare Fes- Founding Artist with 39 years of ex- about Theatre Company in New tival, Great Expectations at the Ari- perience in a wide variety of roles. York. zona Theatre Company, Arms and He enjoyed playing the role of Greg the Man at the Denver Center The- in a record-breaking run of A.R. *JOHN-DAVID KELLER (Director) See atre Company, Broadway Bound for Gurney’s Sylvia at the Laguna Play- biography on page P9. the Portland Repertory Theatre and house; and his latest venture is Loot for the San Diego Repertory Shakesperience – a high school THOMAS BUDERWITZ (Scenic Theatre. Mr. Buderwitz’s current touring production he conceived Design) previously designed Proof, A and recent television designs in- and co-authored with Hal Landon Delicate Balance and But Not for Me clude: “The Hollow Men” and “Bat- Jr., SCR’s resident Scrooge – some- at SCR. His recent stage designs in- tlebots” for Comedy Central; “Sunday what loosely based on the Carl clude Romeo & Juliet, the inaugural Morning Shootout” for AMC; “The Reiner-Mel Brooks “2000 Year-Old production at the new Boston Court Inside World of Martial Arts” for Dis- Man” concept; Don interviews Hal Theatre, Toys in the Attic for the covery; and “Mr. Show,” “Def Come- as Shakespeare and invites the stu- Colony Theatre, Sunday in the Park dy Jam,” “Sketch Pad” and “HBO dents on stage to participate in with George for the West Coast En- Comedy Hour” for HBO. scenes from the Bard’s works. semble and Agnes of God for the In- Television credits include appear- ternational City Theatre. His designs DWIGHT RICHARD ODLE (Costume ances on “Roseanne,” “Cheers,” for A Noise Within, where he is a Design) has dressed SCR’s A Christ- “General Hospital,” “ER;” and he resident Scenic Designer, include mas Carol annually since 1980. can currently be seen in his recur- Measure for Measure, The Triumph Over 21 seasons, working in both ring role as the evil Agent Grey in of Love, Bus Stop, The Imaginary In- scenery and costumes, he designed the ABC spy series, “Alias.” valid, Hay Fever, The Taming of the nearly 90 productions including

A Christmas Carol •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P13 many Young Conservatory and Edu- Barcelona. For six years, he was the can be seen at Universal Studios cational Touring Productions. resident designer for Robert Red- Hollywood, Florida and Japan. His Presently in his ninth season as resi- ford’s Sundance Theatre in Utah and lighting can also be seen at Knott’s dent scenic and costume designer proudly served as art director for Berry Farm, Disneyland, Las Vegas for the Laguna Playhouse, his latest Pope John Paul’s 1987 Mass in casinos and hotels and theme parks costume credits include The Quilt- Dodger Stadium. He holds an MFA in Spain, Japan, Korea, Australia and maker’s Gift, The Secret Order and degree from the Yale School of Germany. His architectural lighting The Spitfire Grill (both West Coast Drama and has been a professor of can be seen at the new SCR Folino premieres) and The Wizard of Oz. design at Stanford University, Cal- Theatre Center and theme tower, Latest scenic credits include Mr. State Fullerton and UC Irvine. He South Coast Plaza, OCPAC’s Fire Shaw Goes to Hollywood (world pre- has been honored for a Lifetime Bird sculpture, the Los Angeles miere), Lovers at Versailles and Mov- Achievement in Scenic Design by Music Center, and many retail cen- ing On (both American premieres), the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. ters and restaurants. Other profes- Rounding Third and Always Patsy sional associations include major re- Cline. More than 50 Playhouse pro- DONNA & TOM RUZIKA (Lighting gional theatre, opera, and ballet ductions include Who’s Hot, Who’s Design) celebrate their 24th year of companies throughout the United Not, Kevin’s Bed, Spinning Into But- illuminating A Christmas Carol and States and South America. Mr. Ruzi- ter, Communicating Doors, Moon for their 31st year of marriage. They ka is also the head of the Graduate the Misbegotten, Old Wicked Songs, have collaborated on a number of Lighting Design Program at UC Travels with My Aunt, Charlotte’s SCR productions including Beyond Irvine. Web and The Velveteen Rabbit. His the Fringe and Coming Attractions. costumes for the West Coast pre- Ms. Ruzika has designed many pro- GARTH HEMPHILL (Sound Design) is miere of I Love You, Your Perfect, ductions for SCR’s Young Conserva- the Resident Sound Designer for Now Change and The Last Session at tory Players and several productions American Conservatory Theater in the Playhouse transferred to extend- on SCR’s Second Stage. She is a San Francisco. He has designed ed Los Angeles runs. Regionally, Mr. member of the Artistic Staff of the more than 150 productions, includ- Odle has designed for the Geffen Utah Shakespearean Festival where ing the American premieres of Tom and Pasadena Playhouses, Ballet she has designed for the past five Stoppard’s Indian Ink and Invention Pacifica and the Fullerton Civic Light summer festival seasons. Ms. Ruzika of Love. Other shows include Rag- Opera (scenery for Jekyll and Hyde has designed more than 70 musicals time, The Threepenny Opera, A and Camelot). He just costumed as the resident lighting designer for Christmas Carol, Mary Stuart, The Gunmetal Blues for Burbank’s Fullerton Civic Light Opera. Her Guardsman, Old Times and A Street- Colony Theatre and All My Sons, his award-winning work has also been car Named Desire (for which he re- eleventh production for McCoy- seen in Bogota, Colombia, ceived a Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Rigby Entertainment in La Mirada. Barcelona, Spain and closer to home Circle Award). He has earned His long association with the Orange at the Laguna Playhouse and Long Drama-Logue Awards for his work County Performing Arts Center as a Beach’s International City Theatre. on SCR’s Jar the Floor, A Christmas producer/designer/lecturer. Mr. She is the Production Manager for Carol, The Things You Don’t Know, Odle has a long list of industrial the Pomona College Department of Blithe Spirit, New England, Lips To- clients and has also designed for Theatre & Dance. In his 29 seasons gether, Teeth Apart, Fortinbras and Disney Theatricals, Universal Stu- with SCR, Mr. Ruzika has created the world premiere of Richard dios, Princess Cruises, two World’s award-winning lighting designs for Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain. His Fairs and theme parks in Seoul and over 75 productions. His designs most recent projects were the World

P14 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • A Christmas Carol Premiere of a new adaptation of Les atre Ensemble. Her career as formed by Ms. Woolery in their city- Liaisons Dangereuses and a 50th an- dancer, choreographer and educator wide Festival of Faith. She worked niversary production of Waiting for has spanned 39 years. She has on the world premiere of Lisa Godot. choreographed numerous produc- Loomer’s Living Out and Annie tions for professional theatres such Weisman’s A Totally Meaningful Rit- DENNIS CASTELLANO (Musical Di- as SCR, Playwrights Horizons, the ual at the Mark Taper Forum. Ms. rector) returns to SCR after musically Goodman Theatre, the International Woolery is an Associate Artist with directing past productions of A City Theatre and others. “Professor Cornerstone Theatre Company, an Christmas Carol, Happy End, Sun- K” has directed Grammy nominee active member of the Virginia Av- day in the Park with George and A Bobby Rodriguez: A Latin Jazz enue Project, playwright in residence Chorus of Disapproval. He serves as Christmas Show for the past three for Hollygrove Children’s Home in the Head of the Music Theatre Pro- years and continues work in videog- Los Angeles, Instructor at Citrus Col- gram at UCI and during the summer raphy and design. As always, it is a lege and Director of SCR’s Young he musically directs for the Music pleasure to be back with the SCR Conservatory. Currently, her pro- Circus in Sacramento where he con- family. The happiest holidays to ev- duction of Bryan Davidson’s Reflect- ducted their recent editions of Rag- eryone! ing Back can be seen at the Central time and Joseph and the Amazing Library as part of their American Technicolor Dreamcoat. Other cred- LAURIE WOOLERY (Assistant Direc- Originals exhibit. She is also a its include Grease, The Unsinkable tor) is an actor, director and play- proud member of the Lincoln The- Molly Brown, Guys & Dolls and wright who has worked at SCR, atre Center’s Directors Lab West. Annie Get Your Gun for McCoy/ Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles The- Rigby Entertainment and Me and My atre Center, Cornerstone Theatre, *SCOTT HARRISON (Stage Manager) Girl and A Funny Thing Happened Deaf-West Theatre, fofo Theatre, is pleased to be working on this, his On the Way to the Forum for Musical Highways Performance Space, A 13th production, of A Christmas Theatre West. His credits include Noise Within, Sundance Playwrights Carol. Mele Kalikimaka. musical direction for The Civic Light Lab as well as the Sundance Chil- Opera of South Bay Cities and the dren’s Theatre. As a director and *VANESSA J. NOON (Assistant Stage Laguna Playhouse. His musical di- playwright, she has created and col- Manager) has been the Assistant rection has been cited by the Los An- laborated on many new works in- Stage Manager on Terra Nova, Proof, geles Times; he has received nine cluding Orphan Train: The Lost Chil- Two Gentlemen of Verona, Intimate Drama-Logue Critics Awards and dren, The Snow Teen, BLISS, I Slept Apparel, The Drawer Boy and has The Robby Award for Best Musical with Jack Kerouac, Lapin and stage managed Making It, Nostalgia, Direction. He resides in Irvine with Lapinova, California Scenarios and The Lonesome West and The Countess his wife Peggy and their children adapted Eleanor Estes’ The Hundred at SCR. She has stage managed for Leslie and Jeffrey. Dresses. Her award winning produc- the Mark Taper Forum’s New Works tion of Our Town won Best Scene at Festival and P.L.A.Y. Tour, Shake- LINDA KOSTALIK (Choreographer) is the 2001 Kennedy Center’s American speare Santa Cruz, Shakespeare Fes- a Professor in the Theatre Arts and College Theatre Festival and her pro- tival/L.A., A Noise Within, Buena Dance Department at California State duction of A Sick World participated Vista Special Events at The El Capi- University Los Angeles and works in the O’Neill Summer Festival. Her tan Theater and Universal Studios, for the award-winning Los Angeles solo play, Salvadorian Moon/African Hollywood. Besides theatre, she County High School of the Arts as Sky, was commissioned by the Cor- has worked on live television events choreographer for their Musical The- nerstone Theatre Company and per- such as the Academy Awards, the

A Christmas Carol •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P15 Primetime Emmy Awards, “America: the Executive Committee of the in Directing awards an unparalleled A Tribute to Heroes” telethon, the League of Resident Theatres, and as seven times for the three Shaw pro- Pearl Harbor movie premiere on- a panelist for the California Arts ductions, John Millington Synge’s board the USS John C. Stennis in Council. After attending Orange Playboy of the Western World, Arthur Hawaii and the Anaheim Angels Coast College, he received his BA Miller’s The Crucible, Sally Nemeth’s World Series Victory Celebration at and MA from California State Univer- Holy Days and Wit. He also directed Edison Field. sity, San Francisco, and his PhD in the film version of Holy Days using theatre and film from USC. the original SCR cast. Along with DAVID EMMES (Producing Artistic David Emmes, he accepted SCR’s Director) is co-founder of SCR, one MARTIN BENSON (Artistic Director) 1988 Tony Award for Outstanding of the largest professional resident shares co-founder credit and artistic Resident Professional Theatre and theatres in California. He has re- leadership of SCR with his colleague won the 1995 Theatre LA Ovation ceived numerous awards for produc- David Emmes. As one of SCR’s chief Award for Lifetime Achievement. tions he has directed during SCR’s directors, Mr. Benson has directed Mr. Benson received his BA in The- 39-year history, including a 1999 Los nearly one third of the plays pro- atre from California State University, Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award duced here in the last 39 years. He San Francisco. for the direction of George Bernard has distinguished himself in the stag- Shaw’s The Philanderer. He directed ing of contemporary work, including PAULA TOMEI (Managing Director) the world premieres of Amy Freed’s Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s is responsible for the overall admin- The Beard of Avon and Freedom- Children and the world premiere of istration of South Coast Repertory land, Thomas Babe’s Great Day in his Getting Frankie Married—and and has been Managing Director the Morning, Keith Reddin’s Rum After-wards, the critically acclaimed since 1994. A member of the SCR and Coke and But Not for Me and California premiere of William staff since 1979, she has served in a Neal Bell’s Cold Sweat; the American Nicholson’s Shadowlands, Athol Fu- number of administrative capacities premiere of Terry Johnson’s Unsuit- gard’s Playland, Brian Friel’s Danc- including Subscriptions Manager, able for Adults; the West Coast pre- ing at Lughnasa, David Mamet’s Business Manager and General Man- mieres of C.P. Taylor’s Good and Oleanna, Harold Pinter’s The Home- ager. She currently serves as Presi- Harry Kondoleon’s Christmas on coming, David Hare’s Skylight and dent of the Theatre Communications Mars; and the Southland premiere of the West Coast premieres of Peter Group (TCG), the national service Top Girls (at SCR and the Westwood Hedges’ Good As New and Martin organization for the professional not- Playhouse). Other productions in- McDonagh’s The Lonesome West. He for-profit theatre. In addition, she clude the West Coast premieres of has won accolades for his direction has served as Treasurer of TCG, Vice Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher, of five major works by George President of the League of Resident The Secret Rapture by David Hare Bernard Shaw, including the Los An- Theatres (LORT) and has been a and New England by Richard Nel- geles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) member of the LORT Negotiating son; and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, Award winners Major Barbara, Mis- Committee for industry-wide union Six Degrees of Separation by John alliance and Heartbreak House. agreements. She represents SCR at Guare, The Importance of Being Among the numerous world pre- national conferences of TCG and Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Ayckbourn’s mieres he has directed are Tom Stre- LORT; is a theatre panelist and site Woman in Mind and Relatively lich’s BAFO and Margaret Edson’s visitor for the National Endowment Speaking and You Never Can Tell by Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, which he for the Arts and the California Arts George Bernard Shaw, which he also directed at Seattle Repertory Council; served on the Advisory restaged for the Singapore Festival of Theatre and the Alley Theatre in Committee for the Arts Administra- Arts. His producing responsibilities Houston. He has directed American tion Certificate Program at the Uni- involve the overall coordination of classics including Ah, Wilderness!, A versity of California, Irvine; and has SCR’s programs and projects. He Streetcar Named Desire, A Delicate been a guest lecturer in the graduate has served as a consultant to the Or- Balance and All My Sons. Mr. Ben- school of business at Stanford. She ange County Performing Arts Center son has been honored with the graduated from the University of Cal- and as a theatre panelist and onsite Drama-Logue Award for his direc- ifornia, Irvine with a degree in Eco- evaluator for the National Endow- tion of 21 productions and received nomics and pursued an additional ment for the Arts. He has served on LADCC Distinguished Achievement course of study in theatre and dance.

The Actors and Stage Managers em- The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and The Director is a member of the So- ployed in this production are mem- Sound Designers in LORT theatres ciety of Stage Directors and Chore- bers of Actors’ Equity Association, the are represented by United Scenic ographers, Inc., an independent na- Union of Professional Actors and Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. tional labor union. Stage Managers in the United States.

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