Holmes, Sherlock, and the Consulting Detective

Unbound Productions Presents

Holmes, Sherlock,

and The Consulting Detective

A mash-up of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “The Red-Headed League,” and “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”

By Jonathan Josephson Directed by Paul Millet

The Cast ~ Chairman Barnes, Robert Beddall, Joe Camareno, Kevin Dulude, Jena Hunt, Eric Keitel, Richard Large, John Leslie, Aaron McGee, Robert Paterno, Paul Romero & Hannah Whiteoak

Production Stage Manager ~ Benjamin Scuglia Stage Manager ~ Emily Abbott ASMs ~ Eddie Gallogly, Lara Noriega & Amanda Sauter Resident Costume Designer ~ Christine Cover Ferro Sound Designer ~ Drew Dalzell Lighting Designer ~ Hilda Kane Set Designer and EFX~ Je G. Rack

Production Builder ~ Kurtis Bedford Wigs & Makeup ~ Judi Lewin Wardrobe Mistress ~ Robin Lynn House Manager ~ Susy Vera Fight Choreographer ~ Paul Romero Public Relations ~ Davidson & Choy Publicity Tim Choy, David Barber, Peter Goldman, Niki Blumberg

Producers ~ Unbound Productions: Jonathan Josephson, Paul Millet, and Je G. Rack ML-1 A Note From Unbound Productions

Welcome to the Santa Anita Train Depot for a summer night lled with mystery!

Since our founding in 2008, Unbound Productions has grown from producing Wicked Lit annually during the Halloween season to a year-round theatre company with a thriving Membership base and an ever-expanding group of phenomenal artists. It is always exciting for us to unveil a new “Lit,” and after Wicked Lit and History Lit, we are thrilled to partner with the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden and the LA County Arboretum Foundation to present the inaugural Mystery Lit production: Holmes, Sherlock and the Consulting Detective.

Tonight’s play was originally commissioned with support from the City of Pasadena Cultural A airs Department. Developmental staged readings of the play have been presented throughout the Southland including the Pasadena Central Library, Sherlocks in Brentwood at Contrapuntal Performance Hall, the Huntington Library, and right here at the Santa Anita Train Depot. It’s been a long and fruitful journey for this play, and we are thrilled to nally present it fully produced in an ideal immersive environment.

We are extremely pleased to have the opportunity to work with the Arboretum and to stage Holmes in this fantastic venue. The Santa Anita Train Depot is simply gorgeous! We hope that this turns out to be the beginning of a long and symbiotic relationship between Unbound and the Arboretum.

Finally, with Wicked Lit 2017 just around the corner and the continued growth of our education program, we expect this to be another tremendous year for our company. As always, thank you for taking the ride along with us!

Enjoy the show, Paul Millet, Jonathan Josephson and Je G. Rack Sta of Unbound Productions

Richard Large as “Holmes.” Mystery Lit 2017. Heidi Marie Photography.

ML-2 Our History

2008 Wicked Lit Reading Series: The Monkey’s Paw, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Cask of Amontillado, Young Goodman Brown

2009 WL09: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Pigeons from Hell, The Fall of the House of Usher

2010 WL10: The Unnamable, The Chimes, The Cask of Amontillado

2011 Wicked Lit Installation: A Ghost Story (in conjunction with the TCG National Conference) WL11 Production A: The Unnamable, The Chimes, The Cask of Amontillado WL11 Production B: A Ghost Story, The Body Snatcher, Casting the Runes

2012 History Lit Flash Performances: Charles Bukowski: Back at Barney’s and Fahrenheit 451: The Secret Library (commissioned by the City of West Hollywood) HL12: Two Pictures in One, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Garden Party WL12: The Dead Smile, Count Magnus, Wake Not the Dead

2013 Wicked Lit Installation: The Tell-Tale Heart (in conjunction with ScareLA) WL13: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The New Catacomb, The Lurking Fear, The Masque of the Red Death Experience

2014 Mystery Lit at Pasadena Central Library Reading: Holmes, Sherlock and The Consulting Detective Wicked Lit Installation: The Doll (Strub Mansion at Mayeld Senior School) WL14: Dracula’s Guest, Las Lloronas, The Monk, The Spirits of Walpurgisnacht Pasadena Museum of History Workshop Reading: A Christmas Carol

2015 Mystery Lit at the Huntington Reading: Holmes, Sherlock, and The Consulting Detective Wicked Lit Installation: The Monkey’s Paw (Mountain View Mausoleum) Wicked Lit at the Huntington Reading: Young Goodman Brown, The Unnamable, The Open Door WL15: The Ebony Frame, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Grove of Rashomon, The System

2016 HL16: Two Pictures in One, The Girl Who Owned A Bear, The Garden Party Wicked Lit Installation: The Initiation (in conjunction with ScareLA) WL16: The Shadowy Third, From Beyond, Anansi and the Demons, Camp Mountain View Mystery Lit at the LA Arboretum Reading: Holmes, Sherlock and The Consulting Detective Pasadena Central Library Readings: A Christmas Carol & Charles Dickens’ Christmas Tree

2017 Mystery Lit at the LA Arboretum: Holmes, Sherlock and The Consulting Detective 2017 Stab Festival: Mystery Lit - Pasadena Central Library WL17: Thoth’s Labyrinth, The Damned Thing, The Open Door, Liliom

ML-3 Bios CAST

Chairman Barnes :: The Consulting Detective Chairman has appeared in Anansi and the Demons (WL16), The Girl Who Owned a Bear (HL16), The New Catacomb (WL13), The Tell-Tale Heart, Wake Not the Dead (WL12), and various Unbound Productions staged readings. A USAF veteran and former military reporter/disc jockey, Chairman has studied performance at LA Valley College, CSUN, the Summer Training Congress at ACT and Groundlings. He is a member of Sacred Fools Theatre Co. and currently can be seen in the Snapple “Telegraph” commercial and the indie lm Middle Man with Jim O’Heir (Parks & Rec). He shares an LA Weekly Ensemble award for Louis and Keely Live at the Sahara (Sacred Fools/Matrix) as u/s Louis Prima.

Robert Beddall :: Inspector Lestrade Unbound Productions debut. US theatre credits include: Sherlock Holmes The Final Adventure (Lake Dillion Theatre), Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3 and Sherlock Through the Looking Glass (Porters of Hellsgate), Henry IV, Part 2, The Man In The Iron Mask (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Coriolanus (The Archway Theatre), Interview with a Cat (Greenway Court Theatre), Lockout (Curious Beast Theatre Co), That Good Night (The Road Theatre), Richard III (A Noise Within), Mercury Fur (Need Theatre). UK theatre: The Ghost of William Shakespeare (Stratford Fringe Festival), Dracula (Tread the Boards), A Christmas Carol, Closer (Blue Orange Theatre). Film: Night Vet, A Marine Story, Second Thoughts, Locked Up, Selves. A massive thank you to my family and friends and my wonderful girlfriend for their never-ending support. You are all MAD!! Keep up with my antics @ www.robbeddall.com

Joe Camareno :: Dr. John Watson Joe is proud to return to Unbound for his second production after donning the red eyes of El Diablo in Las Lloronas (WL14). He recently shot two lms in London, directing one of them. His feature directing debut, Revenge of the Bimbot Zombie Killers just secured distribution. Camareno directed the multi-award winning Fixing Paco web series starring Paul Rodriguez and Gloria Garayua. Theater: A Weekend Near Madison, Kiss of the Spider Woman and ‘Bocón!’ for CTG. Huge thanks to the Unbound team!

Kevin Dulude :: Alistair Merryweather/Pete, the Policeman Kevin has performed in many theaters throughout LA including Big Papa in Camp Mountain View (WL16) and Nurse Rachet in The System (WL15). Currently, he is entertaining audiences with his one-man shows. In Shadow of the Villain, he plays eight di erent characters to share one man’s descent into the darkness. In Hepburn Sings! he portrays the actress and American icon, Katharine Hepburn in a semi-musical journey through her life. And in Inside Vincent Price, written by Sharon L. Graine, he performs the title role. In past productions, Kevin has also appeared as Clark Gable, Otto Preminger and Bette Davis, so beware dead legendary celebrities, you may be next!

ML-4 Jena Hunt :: Violet Hunter/Irene Adler As a former child opera singer, Jena Hunt is thrilled to play Conan Doyle’s star contralto, Irene Adler, as part of her Unbound Productions debut. Jena has appeared in lms and theater in San Francisco and Los Angeles, including writing and directing the award-winning one act play Aria for The Marin One Acts Festival. She’s been nominated for her lm acting by New York VisionFest for her role in the romantic comedy Falling Uphill, but is most happy to return to her roots onstage.

Eric Keitel :: Vincent Spaulding/Godfrey Norton/Jephro RuCastle Back for his 11th Unbound show, Eric is embroiled in a erce battle with Richard Large to determine who reigns supreme as the most Unbound. Hailing from rival sports towns (Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh), this seemed inevitable. Eric has killed and dismembered Richard in The Tell-Tale Heart, threatened to blow him up in The Lurking Fear (WL13), been vigorously slapped by him in Dracula’s Guest (WL14), escaped other-worldly beasties in From Beyond (WL16) and now... well, you’ll see. Other Unbound credits: The Body Snatcher (WL11), The Dead Smile (WL12), Two Pictures in One (HL12 & HL16). Echo Theater Company: The Suitcase, Fugue, The Optimist. Film: Most recently, Eric starred in the sci- feature, Agent, which debuted earlier this year.

Richard Large :: Holmes For Unbound, Richard has played Inspector Theobald in From Beyond (WL16), Herbert in The Monkey’s Paw, Delbruck in Dracula’s Guest (WL14), Deputy Toby in The Lurking Fear (WL13), Stephen in The Tell-Tale Heart, the Deacon in Count Magnus (WL12), Toby Veck in The Chimes (WL10, WL11), and Baltrus Van Tassel in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (WL09). He is a veteran of over 80 productions in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. Favorite roles include Shotover in Heartbreak House, Brack in Hedda Gabler, John Cleary in The Subject was Roses (Shellie Award winner) and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night. Richard was awarded a Dramalogue Award for his direction of The Cave. MA in Theatre Arts from SFSU.

John Leslie :: Jabez Wilson/Rob, the Ruan John’s previous experience with Unbound Productions has been as a writer. He adapted Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s Guest for the 2014 edition of Wicked Lit. As an actor, he has performed all over Los Angeles, including stops at the Pasadena Playhouse and the Kirk Douglas Theatre. His most recent stage appearance was his 15th season as the corrupt Senator Alfred Winston in Theatre Forty’s production of The Manor at the Greystone Mansion. For 9 years, John has taught theatre and acting to elementary school students through Theatre Phoenix. He also co-teaches (with his wife Melanie MacQueen) a Theatre Appreciation course for adults through the Beverly Hills school system. John just completed a tour of SoCal libraries as part of “Two L.A. Rays”, a celebration of Ray Bradbury and Raymond Chandler.

Aaron McGee :: Count Von Kramm/King Wilhem/Ben, the Bobby Aaron is delighted to debut with Unbound Productions in their rst ever Mystery Lit production. He is a company Fellow Member of the Chance Theatre and has most recently appeared in their production of The Little Prince as the Fox and the Men on Planets. Other past credits include the role of Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Hamlet at American Coast Theatre Company. Aaron’s most recent Sherlockian role was James Larrabee at Glendale Centre Theatre’s production of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. He is a graduate of CSU, Fresno with a Bachelor’s in Theatre Arts. ML-5 Robert Paterno :: Darren, the Doctor/Baz, the Brute This is Robert’s second production with Unbound after making his Wicked Lit debut as Isamu in The Grove of Rashomon (WL15). LOS ANGELES: Sacred Fools Theatre, Theatricum Botanicum, Celebration Theatre, Speakeasy Society, Drive Theatre, Hudson Theatre (2014 LA Weekly Best Ensemble & Best Revival Award The Last Days of Judas Iscariot), Shakespeare Orange County, Company of Angels, Moving Arts. REGIONAL: Stagewest, Great River Shakespeare Festival. MFA Theatre - Southern Methodist University. BS Marine Biology - Texas A&M University @ Galveston. Thanks to the cast, crew, artistic team, and producers, and enjoy the show!

Paul Romero :: Sherlock Paul has been fortunate to work with countless brilliant artists on stage and screen, and is thrilled to be able to add the great minds at Unbound Productions to that list. More recently he has had the pleasure of working on productions with Coeurage Theatre Company (The Sparrow, Andronicus) and Loft Ensemble (Dracula), and he can be seen in the upcoming pilot Malibu Gothic which is currently in post-production. Paul would like to thank the other Paul (and assure him that he is only the other Paul for this particular bio) and Jonathan for this wonderful opportunity.

Hannah Whiteoak :: Clara Huggins Hannah returns to Unbound after playing Charlotte in The Shadowy Third (WL16) and Mrs. Sheridan in last summer’s The Garden Party (HL16). She was so impressed with the wonderfulness of the troupe, she had to come back for more! Heralded from the UK, she escaped, and she now is making her big break here in sunny California. Actress, Singer, Film Lighting Lady. You can nd her on Instagram: hannahblakewhiteoak2015 to follow her on her next adventure.

PRODUCTION TEAM

Emily Abbott :: Stage Manager Emily is thrilled to return to Unbound Productions after stage managing The Grove of Rashomon for WL15 and Anansi and the Demons for WL16. A supporter of the Los Angeles theater community, other stage management credits include Frederick Douglass Now, O Rejane, Viral, and Failure A Love Story. Emily is the Development Associate for The Pasadena Playhouse, as well as a brand new LA Stage Alliance Ovation Voter. Thank you to the producers, Paul and the cast and crew for making this a wonderful experience.

Kurtis Bedford :: Production Builder Kurtis is an actor, designer, General Contractor and Master Carpenter. Favorite projects include the design and construction of an entire military museum in Northern California, work on the feature lm Archie’s Final Project, and the set design for WCJT’s production of The Whipping Man. Kurtis started designing at a young age for the Factory of Nightmares, which was a haunted house built on the campus of Cal State Northridge. This is his fourth time working with Unbound Productions (WL14-16) as the Production Builder.

ML-6 Christine Cover Ferro :: Resident Costume Designer Christine is Unbound Productions’ resident costume designer and has designed all shows to date. She won the Costume Design Ovation in the large theatre category for Wicked Lit 2015. Recent work includes Pacic Resident Theatre’s The Homecoming, My Girlfriend Is an Alien, and Eccentricities of a Nightingale, and Rogue Machine’s Dutch Masters. TV and lm credits include costume design for the feature lms Yard Sale and Edith & Harvey, and assistant costume design for the 2014 and 2015 Oscars and Fox’s Sleepy Hollow. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design from Brandeis University.

Drew Dalzell :: Sound Designer/Systems Design For Unbound, Drew has designed The Tell-Tale Heart, History Lit 2012 and 2016, and Wicked Lit 2012-2016 (including Ovation Awards for Best Sound Design in 2014 and 2015). Outside of Unbound, Drew has designed over 250 theatrical productions including the world premiere of Toy Story: The Musical and numerous productions at regional theaters such as South Coast Repertory, The Laguna Playhouse, the Colony Theatre Company, and the Rubicon Theatre Company. He has received a USITT ClearCom Sound Achievement Award and been nominated for LA Weekly, Garland, LADCC, and NAACP Awards, winning multiple times. Drew received his MFA in Theatrical Sound Design from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and has lectured at Yale University, University of California Irvine, University of Missouri Kansas City, North Carolina School for the Arts, Purdue University, and the University of Cincinnati. Drew is also a member of the Board of Directors for Unbound Productions.

Edward Gallogly :: Assistant Stage Manager Edward returns to Unbound Productions after serving as an Assistant Stage Manager for Anansi and the Demons (WL16), He is a recent graduate from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and is excited to be working with Unbound Productions after working with them previously in 2014.

Hilda Kane :: Lighting Designer Hilda is happy to return to Unbound Productions for the premiere of Mystery Lit. Los Angeles credits include WL13, WL14 and WL16, gala events for Los Angeles Ballet, The ALS Association, and Pasadena Playhouse, Guest Designer at Pepperdine University, and Resident Lighting Designer at Marlborough School. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Emerson College.

Robin Lynn :: Wardrobe Mistress Robin Lynn is a costume designer, fabricator, fashion editor, and history addict. Robin has restored, designed, and/or created items from a variety of materials for clients around the globe, including major magazines, celebrities, and theme parks. She’s an old-fashioned girl who likes unpopular past times, arcane verbiage, and mischief. This is her third show with Unbound Productions (WL15-16).

Benjamin Scuglia :: ProductionStage Manager Benjamin is an author and playwright, actor, producer and stage manager. Recent gigs include the world premiere of Robert Allen Ackerman’s acclaimed Blood and a workshop production of the new play God Looked Away with Al Pacino and Judith Light. He is excited to rejoin Unbound Productions for the inaugural Mystery Lit after stage managing The Shadowy Third for Wicked Lit 2016. Benjamin’s play Gay for Pay was a 2015 Finalist for the Samuel French O -O -Broadway Short Play Festival. His play The Man Who Saved Everything will receive a Spring 2018 world premiere at Theatre West. Twitter: @500Turtles.

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Our rst published collection The Legend(s) of Sleepy Hollow, includes nine Wicked Lit plays! originally developed by Unbound Productions! The Body Snatcher The Cask of Amontillado The known and lesser-known story The Chimes of what happened the fateful night The Doll Ichabod Crane encountered the The Grove of Rashomon Headless Horseman. This play The Legend of Sleepy Hollow reveals all from the point-of-view of Las Lloronas the one character who was there The Monkey’s Paw and knows the whole truth: The Unnamable Ichabod’s horse, Gunpowder.

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ML-8 Back for our 8th immersive year in Altadena!

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THOTH’S LABYRINTH by Jonathan Josephson “...possibly the best thing inspired by the Egyptian you can do if you’re looking legend “The Book of Thoth” to take in a bit of dramatic directed by Bruce Gray art during the Halloween Ambrose Bierce’s season.” THE DAMNED THING - Stage Raw adapted by Jeff G. Rack directed by Sebastian Munoz Margaret Oliphant’s Tickets Available July 1 THE OPEN DOOR adapted by Kirsten Brandt Online: WickedLit.org directed by Paul Millet

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McKenzie Eckels and Michael Perl in The Shadowy Third: Wicked Lit 2016. Photo by Daniel Kitayama. Back for our 8th immersive year in Altadena!

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FD1020 Jonathan Josephson :: Playwright/Executive Director For Unbound Productions, Jonathan has written/adapted Anansi and the Demons (WL16), Camp Mountain View (WL16), The Grove of Rashomon (WL15), Las Lloronas (WL14), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (WL09, WL13), The New Catacomb (WL13), The Lurking Fear with Je G. Rack (WL13), The Chimes (WL10, WL11), A Ghost Story (WL11, Millennium-Biltmore Hotel), Count Magnus (WL12), The Garden Party (HL12, HL16) and The Girl Who Owned a Bear (HL16). Jonathan also directed The Cask of Amontillado (WL10-11), A Ghost Story (WL11), and Two Pictures in One (HL12). Jonathan received an Individual Artist Grant from the City of Pasadena to write Holmes, Sherlock, and The Consulting Detective for the debut of Unbound’s Mystery Lit series, a vote of condence for which he is very grateful. Jonathan’s original plays have been produced at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival of New American Plays), Milwaukee Repertory Theater (Rep Lab), San Jose Repertory Theatre (SJREAL), Chance Theater, The Samuel French O -O Broadway Theatre Festival (Festival Winner - 2016) and many others. Upcoming projects include The Giant and The Pixie (Finalist Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference) which will be included in the 2017 New York Summerfest Theatre Festival and Phone Friend which will be a part of the short play weekedn at the 2017 Midtown International Theatre Festival. Jonathan if a ve-time Finalist for ATL’s Heideman Award and twelve of his plays are published by Steele Spring Stage Rights, Samuel French, Playscripts, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, YouthPLAYS and Original Works Publishing and have been produced throughout the US as well as in Canada, England, Scotland, and Cameroon. Jonathan received his BA in Theatre: Playwriting from UCSD and is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America and a Lifetime Member of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights.

Paul Millet :: Director/Artistic Director For Unbound’s Wicked Lit, Paul has directed Camp Mountain View (WL16), The Monkey’s Paw (WL 2015 Summer Installation), Las Lloronas (WL14), The Lurking Fear (WL13), The Masque of the Red Death Experience (WL13, also conceived), Count Magnus (WL12), The Body Snatcher (WL11, also playwright), and The Chimes (WL10, WL11) at Mountain View Mausoleum & Cemetery; The Initiation (WL16 Installation at ScareLA); The Doll (WL14 Summer Installation at Mayeld Senior School); A Ghost Story for the 2011 TCG National Conference at the Los Angeles Millennium Biltmore Hotel; and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (WL09) and The Fall of the House of Usher (WL09, also playwright) at Greystone Mansion. As playwright for Wicked Lit, Paul adapted The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell- Tale Heart, The Shadowy Third and Wake Not the Dead. For Unbound’s History Lit, Paul has directed The Girl Who Owned a Bear (HL16) and The Yellow Wallpaper (HL12) at the Pasadena Museum of History; and co-directed (with Je G. Rack) Charles Bukowski: Back at Barney’s (2012), a spontaneous ash performance of poetry. Other credits include the world premiere of Albie Selznick’s show with magic, Smoke & Mirrors (16-month run at The Promenade Playhouse in Santa Monica and The Road in North Hollywood); Jump/Cut (West Coast Premiere) at the Arena Stage for the Arts in Hollywood; Incorruptible and Southern Comforts (Los Angeles premiere) at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills; Driving Miss Daisy, The Curious Savage, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue at the High Street Arts Center in Moorpark; Václav Havel’s The Memorandum for Vox Humana; Southern Comforts at the Indian Wells Theatre; and the two original one-acts, Alpha Best and Best Chance, Chance Best for Variations on a Theme: The Best at The Chance Theater. As a former member of the Eclectic Company Theatre (ECT), Paul directed the critically acclaimed productions of Don’t Dress for Dinner, Spike Heels, A Weekend Near Madison, the world premieres of Exmagare and The Unsinkable Bismarck, as well as the late night serial Ambition. Paul is a proud member of SDC, TCG, and LA Stage Alliance.

ML-12 Je G. Rack :: Set Design/EFX/Props/Producing Artistic Director For Unbound, Je directed Lovecraft’s From Beyond (WL16), Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher (WL15), adapted W.W. Jacobs’ The Monkey’s Paw (WL15 summer installation), directed Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s Guest (WL14), adapted Algernon Blackwood’s The Doll (Strub Mansion), directed Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (WL13), co-wrote an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Lurking Fear (WL13) with Jonathan Josephson, directed Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell- Tale Heart at LA Mart/ScareLA, adapted and directed F. Marion Crawford’s The Dead Smile (WL12), M.R. James’ Casting the Runes (WL11), H.P. Lovecraft’s The Unnamable (WL10-11), and Robert E. Howard’s Pigeons From Hell (WL09) at Greystone Mansion. Also for Unbound, Je directed a ash performance of a scene from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 inside the West Hollywood Library in celebration of Ray Bradbury month, and co-directed with Paul Millet a ash performance of Charles Bukowski’s poetry at Barney’s Beanery as part of Pacic Standard Times’ Art in LA (check them both out on YouTube). Je also wrote the adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and directed Katherine Manseld’s The Garden Party for History Lit 2012. Other directing credits include Molly Sweeney in Ventura, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for Theatre 40, continuing his association with the Beverly Hills theater having directed the west coast premieres of Pen and The Mystery Plays. He is also Theatre 40’s resident set designer. Probably best known to Los Angeles theater patrons for his award-winning set designs, Je has designed and built over 150 sets for productions from Santa Barbara to Edinburgh, Scotland. He enjoys designing and creating unique items for stage and screen, which has included miniatures for Armageddon and Con-Air, the Back to the Future DeLorean cars for the Universal Studios ride, a full-sized robot puppet for Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage (for which he received an LA Weekly Award), and props for Stuart Gordon’s Ovation Award-winning Re-Animator – The Musical. Join us for Wicked Lit staged readings!

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Those of us who write plays for Unbound Productions are often asked “which comes rst - the story that you want to adapt or the venue where you want to stage the play?” After all, Unbound’s mission is to produce site-specic, immersive adaptations of timeless stories so it stands to reason that one of those two things would be in place, or at least in mind, before undertaking the creative e ort that is writing a new play. Well with this piece, it wasn’t either of these things that served as the springboard... it was a third, also critical factor to the playwriting process: panic.

Panic, fear and a really critical deadline.

I received an Individual Artist Grant from the City of Pasadena Arts Commission in 2014 to write an evening-length Sherlock Holmes adaptation for Unbound’s rst-ever Mystery Lit production, but at that time, I wasn’t sure which stories (or novel?) I wanted to adapt. At rst I was going to tackle an adaptation of The Hounds of the Baskervilles, but it turns out that that has been done many times by playwrights far more established than myself. For a while I tinkered with a “Sherlock Was Wrong” play that undid several of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories by revealing faulty logic in a number of Mr. Holmes’ more convoluted cases, but it was dicult to nd a plot that could sustain that sort of literary dramaturgy.

So I read and reread dozens of the Holmes stories, seeking out a through-line or insight that I had missed in one of my rst times through the canon. Beyond that, I wanted a concept - a reason to newly adapt a Sherlock Holmes story when they’ve all been so regularly tapped as source material for plays, as well as for the small and large screens. As I played with concepts and drafts, the clock was ticking, and I owed the City of Pasadena and Unbound Productions a play. In fact, a public staged reading was already on the books and accepting reservations... before a page of this play had been written.

Three weeks before the rst public reading of what would become Holmes, Sherlock, and The Consulting Detective, I had my concept. I would attempt to address how Mr. Holmes does it, how one man can know everything he knows and be everywhere he is without defying the laws of human cognition and time travel as we know it. And when I connected the through- line of photography between “A Scandal in Bohemia” and “The Red-Headed League” and then the “dark room” of “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches,” my plot began to take shape. From there, all I needed was to invent a few characters, merge a few others, feature a few of my favorite personalities from the Sherlockian universe, and we had a play! Three years of pondering, four public readings and hundreds of hours of rewrites later, I’m very proud of the wild theatrical romp that is this piece, I hope you enjoy it as well.

Thank you to this incredible cast and production team for bringing this play to life with such magic, tenacity and skill.

Thank you City of Pasadena for your of support artists in your city.

Thank you Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for your wit and imagination.

And thank you for coming out this evening!

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Katy Muzikar * Chris Zirbel Our Mission Unbound Productions reimagines timeless stories for new audiences by creating immersive, theatrical adaptations of literature.

Unbound Productions Board of Directors

Maria Chaure * Teresa Chaure * Daryl Maxwell Drew Dalzell - Vice President * Daniel Goodkin, Esq. - President

Jonathan Josephson* Paul Millet * Je G. Rack Our Mission Unbound Productions reimagines timeless stories for new audiences by creating immersive, theatrical adaptations of literature.

Unbound Productions Board of Directors

Maria Chaure * Teresa Chaure * Daryl Maxwell Drew Dalzell - Vice President * Daniel Goodkin, Esq. - President Jonathan Josephson* Paul Millet * Je G. Rack

ML-16 Our Mission Unbound Productions reimagines timeless stories for new audiences by creating immersive, theatrical adaptations of literature.

Unbound Productions Board of Directors

Maria Chaure Teresa Chaure Daryl Maxwell Drew Dalzell - Vice President Daniel Goodkin, Esq. - President

Jonathan Josephson* Paul Millet * Je G. Rack Schools Program Unbound sta and teaching artists conduct free, comprehensive, interactive playwriting workshops with students in Pasadena public high schools who have no or little other access to arts education. These workshops culminate with students writing dramatic adaptations of classic short stories which are then performed by a group of Unbound’s professional actors. Our workshops have been developed in conjunction with seasoned public school educators and with insight from the Pasadena Unied School District. The sessions focus on literary and theatrical vocabulary, text analysis, creative writing, expression and investigative learning. Unbound provides this program to schools free of charge.

This program needs support in order to continue! Contact Jonathan at [email protected] for information on how you can get involved.

ML-17 Introducing the rst annual Unbound Productions First Stab Festival Earlier this year, Unbound commissioned twelve playwrights to work with twelve directors to develop twelve new plays under the Mystery Lit banner. Six of these plays will be presented as staged readings later this summer! Pasadena Central Library July 21-22, 3:00 p.m. * Admission is Free

Plays in development include:

Cleveland Mo et ‘s “The Mysterious Card” adapted by Je G. Rack, directed by Debbie McMahon

Allen Pinkerton ‘s “The Two Sisters; Or, The Avenger” adapted by John Leslie, directed by Sebastian Munoz

Ambrose Bierce’s “My Favorite Murder” adapted by Je Folshinsky, directed by Darin Anthony

Charles W. Chestnutt ‘s “The Sheri ’s Children” adapted by Trey Nichols, directed by Heidi Marie

Abraham Lincoln’s “Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder” adapted by Nicholas C. Pappas, directed by Bruce Gray

Ellen Glasgow ‘s “A Point of Morals” adapted by Kirsten Brandt, directed by Aurora Culver

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William Leggett’s “The Rie” adapted by Diana Woody, directed by Lora Ivanova

Thomas Baily Aldrich’s “The Danseuse” adapted by Susannah Myrvold, directed by Richard Large

Anna Katherine Green’s “The Doctor, His Wife and the Clock” adapted by Melanie McQueen, directed by Brian David Pope

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Acknowledgements

This production would not have been possible without the help, generosity, and dedication of many very special people. We thank you for your support of Unbound Productions and this special presentation of Mystery Lit!

The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden and the Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation!

Dan Foliart, President and Richard Schulhof, Chief Executive Ocer for your vision and trust!

The entire Arboretum sta including Timothy Phillips, Nadia Balaz, Jennifer Van Stralen, Nancy Yoshihara, Robin Sease, Sylvia Rosenberger, and Stephanie Davis Nancy Carlton and all of the Arboretum volunteers.

Lilli Burrow for going above and beyond for this production!

Jay Brown, Jim Sickonic & the sta of Mountain View Mausoleum & Cemetery

Brad Macneil, Katie Brandon and the Pasadena Museum of History

David Hunt Sta ord & Theatre Forty

Davidson Choy Publicity

Theatre West

Diablo Sound

Pamela Hill and William Joseph Hill

Heidi Marie Photograhy

Katy Muzikar * Chris Zirbel

The cast and production team for their talent and uncompromising commitment

And nally to you, our audience, for supporting and celebrating our work and joining us tonight!

Unbound Productions is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

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