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11 ONCE ON THIS ISLAND 12 Cast Information 13 Musical Numbers 15 Artist Biographies

33 MARGARET ATWOOD’S ALIAS GRACE 34 Cast Information 35 Playwright’s Notes by Jennifer Blackmer 36 Artist Biographies

ALSO INSIDE 30 Coming Next 58 Patron Information

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NOTES FROM BLAKE & BUZZ

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! It’s the 60th season for your beloved Playhouse in the Park. And we’re celebrating with a stellar collection of entertaining plays and musicals, the re-opening of the Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre and the public unveiling of the final design for our new mainstage theatre. First things first: This season opens with a big Broadway musical. Once on This Island is a charming, Calypso-infused romance featuring rich characters, a magical story and a beautiful score from the great team of and . The love story of Ti Moune and Daniel, guided by the gods of a mystical Caribbean island, will enchant theatre-goers of all ages. Across the plaza, we are thrilled to introduce the newly renovated and re-named Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre. You’ve come to know our historic, original stage as the place for new plays and challenging work. Nobody has been more supportive of new work at the Playhouse than the Rosenthal family. We are grateful for their support and proud to name the updated space in their honor. It’s got a new stage, comfortable seats, increased accessibility and best of all… more leg room! If you tend to favor the Marx in your play-going, now is the time to come back to the Rosenthal Shelterhouse. We’ve put together an eclectic season of works that are diverse, highly theatrical, occasionally challenging and always thought-provoking. Case in point: Begin your journey with a story by the great Margaret Atwood. Alias Grace is a psychological mystery inspired by real-life events about Grace Marks, who was imprisoned for life in 1843 for committing one of the most notorious murders in history. Is Grace an innocent victim? Or is she the scheming murderess everyone believes her to be? Atwood’s story — recently seen as a Netflix mini- series — will keep you on your toes until the very end. Finally, you’ve got just a few months to wait for the unveiling of our grand vision. We’ve been working with BHDP Architecture on a transformational design that will take the Playhouse into the future. Our new mainstage theatre complex will feature a state-of-the-art flexible theatre named for Moe and Jack Rouse, improved sightlines and acoustics, and almost 100 seats that won’t require a single step up or down from the parking lot to the seat! A new lobby will embrace our unique setting with towering glass windows that look out on our park. Backstage, our artists will enjoy new rehearsal and dressing rooms, and a state-of-the-art facility which will allow us to continue producing the world class theatre you’ve come to love and expect from the Playhouse. We are on track to begin construction next summer, so stay tuned for all the details later this season! Thanks for your support, your loyalty and your eternal curiosity. Theatre still has the power to reflect the human condition and bring us together like no other art form. Let’s go there together. Blake and Buzz

Blake Robison Buzz Ward Artistic Director Managing Director

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CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK Blake Robison Buzz Ward Artistic Director Managing Director ONCE ON THIS ISLAND A Musical Book and Lyrics by LYNN AHRENS Music by STEPHEN FLAHERTY Based Upon The Novel “My Love, My Love” by Director and Choreographer Robert Barry Fleming Music Director Brandon Adams Set Designer Jason Ardizzone-West Costume Designer Lex Liang Lighting Designer Alan Edwards Sound Designer Daniel Perelstein Dialect Coach Michael Morgan Casting Director Stephanie Klapper, CSA Sept. 7 – Oct. 6, 2019 Robert S. Marx Theatre Sponsored by

Design Sponsor:

Artist Sponsor: Artist Sponsor:

Orchestra Sponsor: Barbara Weyand Robert S. Marx Theatre Season presented by:

Season Sponsor of New Work: The Rosenthal Family Foundation Additional support provided by:

Originally Directed and Choreographed on Broadway by Playwrights Horizons, Inc. Produced ONCE ON THIS ISLAND Off-Broadway in 1990 Originally Produced on Broadway by The Shubert Organization, Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. Suntory International Corporation and James Walsh, in Association with Playwrights Horizons ONCE ON THIS ISLAND is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com CAST (in speaking order)

Mama Euralie Rheaume Crenshaw* Tonton Julian Kenneth Robinson* Ti Moune Lauren Chanel Daniel Beauxhomme Colin Carswell* Armand Ken Early* Andrea Alexis Louise Young* Papa Ge Sharon Catherine Brown* Storyteller Christina Booker Storyteller Alfie Dale Jones, Jr. Asaka Bre Jackson* Agwe Allan K. Washington* Erzulie Christina Acosta Robinson* Little Girl/Little Ti Moune Asada Austin, Morgan O. Reynolds

Stage Manager Brooke Redler* Second Stage Manager Jenifer Morrow* Stage Management Intern Micah Akilah

Time: Now Location: The Jewel of the Antilles in the Caribbean

Once on This Island will be performed without an intermission.

Musicians Conductor/Piano Brandon Adams Synthesizer 2/Rehearsal Pianist Jennifer Radisch Percussion/Musician Contractor Brian Malone Reeds Brent Gallaher Bass Terrell Montgomery Guitars Joel Greenberg

Additional Production Staff Set Designer Assistant Anna Driftmier Associate Costume Designer Margaret Goldrainer Associate Lighting Designer Erin Smith Movement Associate/Dance Captain Alfie Dale Jones, Jr. Scenic Artist Thomas Condon Additional First Hand Joy Galbraith The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND • 12 MUSICAL NUMBERS “Prologue/We Dance” — Storytellers “One Small Girl” — Asaka, Erzulie, Pape Ge, Tonton, Mama, Storytellers “Waiting For Life” — Ti Moune, Storytellers “And The Gods Heard Her Prayer” — Asaka, Agwe, Erzulie, Papa Ge, Storytellers “Rain” — Agwe, Asaka, Erzulie, Papa Ge, Storytellers “Discovering Daniel” — Storytellers, Ti Moune “Pray” — Ti Moune, Tonton, Mama, Gatekeeper, Peasants “Forever Yours” — Ti Moune, Daniel, Papa Ge, Storytellers “The Sad Tale of The Beauxhommes” — Armand, Madame Armand, Peasant Girl, Beauxhommes, Storytellers “Ti Moune” — Mama, Tonton, Ti Moune “Mama Will Provide” — Asaka, Storytellers “Waiting For Life – Reprise” — Ti Moune “Some Say” — Storytellers, Little Girl “The Human Heart” — Erzulie, Storytellers “Pray – Reprise” — Gossipers, Father “Some Girls” — Daniel “The Ball” — Storytellers, Andrea, Daniel “Ti Moune’s Dance” — Mama, Tonton, Little Ti Moune “Andrea Sequence” — Andrea, Ti Moune “Promises/Forever Yours – Reprise” — Papa Ge, Ti Moune, Erzulie, Storytellers “Wedding Sequence” — Storyteller (Asaka) “A Part Of Us” — Mama, Little Ti Moune, Tonton, Storytellers “Why We Tell The Story” —

This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States and with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees-Local No. 5. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park receives partial funding from the Ohio Arts Council, a state agency created to foster and encourage the development of the arts and to preserve Ohio’s cultural heritage. Funding from the Ohio Arts Council is an investment of state tax dollars that promotes economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

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ASADA AUSTIN Loyola University in Maryland and a Bachelor (Little Girl/Little Ti Moune) of Arts in Music Education from Jacksonville Asada is excited to be State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. Little Ti Moune in Once on This Island at Cincinnati SHARON CATHERINE BROWN Playhouse in the Park. She (Papa Ge) has been at the School for Sharon makes her Cincinnati Creative and Performing Playhouse in the Park debut Arts since kindergarten and, fresh from her Broadway since that time, has been cast in every school run in the GoGos musical play she auditioned for! In addition to her Head Over Heels. She acting, Asada is also a dancer and model for the toured as The Blues Singer Heyman Talent Agency. Her commercial credits in A Night with Janis Joplin include Highlights magazine and Coney Island and recently played Karen in the off-Broadway amusement park. In addition to her commercial comedy Chick Flick. The native New Yorker work, Asada dances with Cincinnati’s own was the first African American to play Lucy in Q-Kidz Dance Team and has opened for Kidz Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll & Hyde. Sharon was the Bop. She has been dancing, acting and singing Seasons of Love soloist in Rent with Neil Patrick since she was 3 years old, and she dedicates Harris. Her Broadway credits include Effie in all her performances to her mom and brother. Dreamgirls and The Narrator in Joseph and The Follow Asada on Instagram @austinasada. Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Other theatre appearances include Sister Rosetta Tharpe in CHRISTINA BOOKER Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Velma in Crowns, Georgina (Storyteller) in Hallelujah Baby!, one of the featured female Christina is thrilled to be leads in Smokey Joe’s Café and Robert Barry making her musical theatre Fleming’s twin sister Glory in Thunder Knocking at debut with Cincinnati The Door — and they are still twinning! Sharon’s Playhouse in the Park! She film and television credits include Etta Jones in is a recent graduate of the HBO’s Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Sister Act 2: University of Louisville where Back in The Habit and Angela the opera diva in she received her MM in Vocal A Different World. In addition to her television Performance. She recently performed as a soloist roles, Sharon has made guest appearances for Bach’s Magnificat in D major and Vivaldi’s on Ellen, Dr. Oz and was the host of her own in D major at the Teatro Nacional de lifestyle web series, The Love It Show. Psalms 19:1 Costa Rica and as a Guest Artist with Kentucky Opera’s educational tour of Oh! Freedom! Her COLIN CARSWELL opera roles include Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and (Daniel Beauxhomme) Aeneas, Veronique in Bizet’s Le Docteur Miracle, Originally from Nashville, Aline in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer, and Colin is beyond excited Amanda/Ameliora in Sterling Tinsley’s Daniel and honored to be making and the Dreamcatcher. She has also been a his Cincinnati Playhouse featured soloist in choral masterworks such as in the Park debut! Thanks Mozart’s Requiem in D minor. Christina served to God, his amazing for two years as a member and soloist with the , University of North Alabama’s Walk with Me Thomas Grean and Lakey Wolff and the Foundation’s choir, SOLAS, which performed brilliant team of OOTI! #BLKLIVESMATTER across North Alabama and Mississippi. She #PROTECTTRANSWOMEN Jude 1:24-25. also holds a Master’s in Education with a Follow him on Instagram @colincarswell_. concentration in Kodály Music Education from 15 • ONCE ON THIS ISLAND

LAUREN CHANEL Subways (Novo Novus Productions), #INSOCIAL (Ti Moune) (Instagram series) and Drama Queenz (web Lauren is thrilled to be series). Follow @blksunrae on Instagram. making her Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut KEN EARLY as Ti Moune in Once on (Armand) This Island! Playing this Ken is grateful to be on role has been a long-time the Cincinnati Playhouse dream and she finally in the Park stage once gets to cross it off her bucket list! Lauren is a again. His other Playhouse graduate of Pebblebrook High School Center credits include Buster in of Excellence in Performing Arts. She studied Misery, Philmore in Jitney classical, opera and musical theatre vocal and Reverend Sykes in techniques, as well as multiple genres of dance To Kill a Mockingbird. A Cincinnati native, Ken’s and drama. She is currently a member of AGI other regional credits include Ira Aldrigde in Entertainment and is represented by J. Pervis Red Velvet, Sam in The Whipping Man, Phileas Talent Agency and Natarsha Garcia, CMA Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days, Aldrin Entertainment. Her credits include in Dancing Princesses, Caterpillar in Alice in (Little Inez), Waitress (Dawn), Dreamgirls (Lorrell Wonderland and Brooks in Grey Gardens, all Robinson), Sister Act (Deloris Van Cartier) at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati; Crooks in at The American Musical and Dramatic Of Mice and Men, Reverend Sykes in To Kill a Academy and (Lauren). Follow Mockingbird and John Prentice Sr. in Guess her! Instagram: @_lauren_chanel_ Who’s Coming to Dinner, all at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; Bill Ray in On Golden RHEAUME CRENSHAW Pond at The Human Race Theatre Company; (Mama Euralie) Death and Radio Voice in Pluto, Maddox in Rheaume is happy to be Harry and the Thief, Jesus in The Last Days of making her Cincinnati Judas Iscariot and Man 2 in Adding Machine: A Playhouse in the Park debut. Musical, all at Know Theatre Cincinnati. Across Her Broadway credits the pond (Ohio River) his credits include Sam include in Master Harold and the Boys at Falcon Theatre; and Amazing Grace. Other Padre in Man of La Mancha, Revita Glory in New York appearances Church Girls, Jesus in Godspell and Officer include Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope (NYCC Murray in The Odd Couple, all at Northern Encores!) and Alternating Currents (Working Kentucky University. Ken would like to thank Theater). Rheaume was most recently seen family and friends for their love and support. in the first national tour of Waitress and Road Show (NYCC Encores). Regionally, Rheaume BRE JACKSON has played leads in Smokey Joe’s Café (FLMTF/ (Asaka) MGR), Golem of Havana (Miami New Drama, Bre is thrilled to be making Barrington Stage and La Mama Theater), her Cincinnati Playhouse Raisin (St. Louis Black Repertory Co.), Black in the Park debut! She has Nativity (Congo Square and Goodman most recently been seen Theatre) and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Crossroads/ on Broadway in The Book New Jersey Performing Arts Center). Some of of Mormon as an ensemble Rheaume’s recent favorite workshops, films member. Her performance as and web series include The Family Resemblance Ado Annie in Denver Center for the Performing (Bingham Camp Theatre Retreat, The O’Neill Arts’ Oklahoma! garnered her a Henry Award Theater Center), Sundance Theater Lab, for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. She 17 • ONCE ON THIS ISLAND has also been seen in NBC’s Emmy Award- favorite, science. Morgan has accomplished winning Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert four years of piano lessons and performed in the as well as a featured soloist on season two of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company production CBS’s The Good Fight. Other roles include Effie in of Fences, Annie Hard Knock Life (Cincinnati Dreamgirls (South Korean tour). Her Broadway Black Theatre) and Captain Roger’s Great credits include The Color Purple (Church Lady/ Space Adventures (Milford Theatre Guilde). Celie/understudy) and The Book of Mormon She is proud of her family and attributes her (ensemble/swing). First national tour credits performances to her grandmother, Geraldine, include Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Diva). Bre who has shown Morgan to never give up. earned her BFA at the University of Michigan — Visit www.LivNfaithWithMorgan.com. Go, Blue! She gives honor and thanks to God for this and all blessings. Instagram @bre.jackson CHRISTINA ACOSTA ROBINSON (Erzulie) ALFIE DALE JONES, JR. Christina is making her (Storyteller/Movement Associate/ Cincinnati Playhouse in the Dance Captain) Park debut! Broadway credits Alfie is elated to make include Summer: The Donna his debut with Cincinnati Summer Musical. Regional Playhouse in the Park. credits include The Wiz Other theatre credits (Glinda/Aunt Em, Broadway include The Disney Magic, At Music Circus); Everybody Black (Actors Theatre The Disney Wonder, Newsies, of Louisville); Summer: The Donna Summer Musical Fancy Nancy, Rapunzel, How I Became A Pirate (La Jolla Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Stinky Kids: The Musical (Disney Cruise (Titania, The Guthrie Theater); August Wilson’s Line); Curious George and The Golden Meatball The Piano Lesson (Berniece, Hartford Stage); (Derby Dinner Playhouse); Richard III (Kentucky August Wilson’s Seven Guitars (Vera, Two Shakespeare); Brothers of a Common Country: River Theater); The Color Purple (Shug Avery, An Abraham Lincoln Story (Stage One); Altar Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Caroline, or Boys and (Pandora Productions); and Change (Caroline, Tantrum Theater); Romance in Once on This Island, Fiddler on The Roof, The Hard Times (Hennie, Barrington Stage Company); Who’s Tommy, Funny Girl, The Little Mermaid My Fair Lady and The Unfortunates (Oregon and 9 to 5 (CenterStage). His choreography Shakespeare Festival); Death of a Salesman (Yale credits include The Addams Family; A Chorus Repertory Theatre); Caroline, or Change (Syracuse Line; American Idiot; Kiss Me, Kate; Hedwig and Stage); (Sarah, Arvada Center for the the Angry Inch; and Falsettos. Alfie thanks the Arts and Humanities); and The House of the Jones and Robertson family, especially his Spirits (Alma, Mixed Blood Theatre Company). loving partner, Neill! Instagram: @alfiedjr Television and film credits include Younger (TV Land) and Smash (NBC). She holds an MFA in MORGAN O. REYNOLDS Acting from the Yale School of Drama. Here’s (Little Girl/Little Ti Moune) to you, Mr. Robinson, and my sweet Marilyn. Morgan couldn’t be happier to present her talents in Once on This Island at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. She is a native Cincinnatian and attends the School for Creative and Performing Arts, where she currently studies drama, dance, creative writing and, her 19 • ONCE ON THIS ISLAND

KENNETH ROBINSON 2019 Kids’ Choice Awards (Nickelodeon) (Tonton Julian) and the 2018 (CBS). Allan Ken is honored to make his studied at the University of North Carolina Cincinnati Playhouse in the School of the Arts (BFA Acting). Follow Park debut with Once on him on Instagram @allankwashington. This Island. Ken’s Broadway credits include Summer: The ALEXIS LOUISE YOUNG Donna Summer Musical, The (Andrea) Color Purple (2016 revival), Alexis is delighted to be Memphis and Baby It’s You! Regional theatre making her Cincinnati credits include Del in Support Group for Men Playhouse in the Park (Contemporary American Theater Festival debut with such a powerful at Shepherd University); The Dryer/The Bus story. Her national tour in Caroline, Or Change (Tantrum Theater); credit includes RENT Junior in Between Riverside and Crazy (Cleveland 20th Anniversary (swing, Play House); The First Noel (Classical Theatre understudy, Joanne, Mimi). Select regional of Harlem); Headmaster Morrow in Choir credits include Fun Home (Joan), The Trip to Boy (Marin Theatre); The Colored Museum Bountiful (Thelma) and Dontrell, Who Kissed (Huntington Theatre Company); Avery in the Sea (Danielle). Additional credits include The Piano Lesson (Syracuse Stage, Seattle Rep); Mainstage Vocalist with Disney Cruise Lines. and Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady (Oregon Alexis is currently based in New York City as Shakespeare Festival). Ken holds an MFA in well as a proud member of the NYC-based retro Acting from the Yale School of Drama and a singing group The Randy Andys. Many thanks to BA in Economics from Morehouse College. Ashley Wible and the entire team at KMR, and Here’s to you, Mrs. & Miss Robinson, always. her loving family and friends for their continued support. Visit www.alexislouiseyoung.com ALLAN K. WASHINGTON and follow her on Instagram @mslexilouyou. (Agwe) Let positivity trail you! Allan is excited to be making his Cincinnati LYNN AHRENS Playhouse in the Park debut! (Author and Lyricist) Broadway credits include Lynn Ahrens won Tony, SpongeBob SquarePants: Drama Desk and Outer The Broadway Musical Critics Circle Awards and (Nederlander Theatre) received two Grammy and Once on This Island (2017 revival). Off- nominations for Broadway’s Broadway, Allan appeared in A Man’s A Man Ragtime. For Twentieth (Classic Stage Company). Regional credits Century Fox’s animated include SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway feature film , she was nominated Musical (Oriental Theatre in ), Paint for two Academy Awards and two Golden Your Wagon (The Muny), ...Beautiful Room... Globes. She and longtime collaborator Stephen (Long Wharf Theatre), Wagner’s Der fliegende Flaherty received the Oscar Hammerstein Holländer (Hawaii Opera Theatre), Verdi’s Award for Lifetime Achievement, and in 2015 Aida (Glimmerglass Festival) and The Music they were inducted into the Theater Hall of Man (Royal Opera House of Muscat). Allan . Broadway: Anastasia; Once On This will be recurring on the upcoming third season Island (Olivier Award, Best Musical; Tony of The Deuce on HBO. Other television credits nominations, Best Book and Score); include High Fidelity (Hulu), SpongeBob (Grammy nomination); My Favorite Year; SquarePants Birthday Special (Nickelodeon), Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; Rocky; Madison 21 • ONCE ON THIS ISLAND

Square Garden’s A Christmas Carol; Ragtime and co- founders of the Dramatists Guild Fellows (2010 Broadway revival). Off-Broadway Program. In 2015 they were inducted into the and regional: Lincoln Center Theater’s Dessa Theater Hall Of Fame. AhrensAndFlaherty.com. Rose, (both Drama Desk- nominated) and A Man of No Importance ROBERT BARRY FLEMING (Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Musical); (Director/Choreographer) ; (Kennedy Center world Robert, the Artistic premiere). Film and television credits include Director of Actors Theatre A Christmas Carol (NBC-TV); Camp (IFC Films); of Louisville, served as Schoolhouse Rock (ABC-TV) and others (Emmy the Director of Artistic Award and four Emmy nominations). She is Programming at Arena a Council member of the Dramatists Guild of Stage and the Associate America, a co-founder of the Dramatists Guild Artistic Director at Cleveland Fellows Program, and a Lilly Award winner Play House. Directing/choreography credits for Lyrics. www.ahrensandflaherty.com include Native Gardens, The Royale and Between Riverside and Crazy (Cleveland Play House); Next STEPHEN FLAHERTY to Normal (Tantrum Theater); Destiny of Desire (Composer) (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); and Caroline, or Stephen Flaherty is the Change (Tantrum Theater). Arena Stage world composer of the Broadway premieres commissioned, developed and/or musicals Ragtime (Tony, championed under his watch include the 2017 Drama Desk, OCC Awards, Best Musical Tony Award-winner Dear Evan two Grammy nominations), Hansen, Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Sovereignty, John Seussical (Grammy, Drama Strand’s The Originalist, Katori Hall’s Blood Quilt, Desk nominations), Once Karen Zacarías’ Destiny of Desire and the 2017 on This Island (Tony nomination, Olivier Award, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sweat by Lynn Nottage. Best Musical) and Rocky. Additional Broadway Robert was an Associate Producer for the off- includes Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life (original Broadway premiere of The Two Character Play by songs) and Neil Simon’s Proposals (incidental Tennessee Williams, starring Amanda Plummer music). Stephen has also written four musicals and Brad Dourif. An Associate Professor at Lincoln Center Theatre: The Glorious Ones (tenured) and Chair of the University of San (OCC, Drama Desk nominations), Diego Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (OCC, Drama Desk nominations), A Man of No Department, Robert’s professional acting Importance (OCC, Best Musical, Drama Desk credits include Ragtime directed by Frank Galati, nomination) and My Favorite Year. Other theater Stand-Up Tragedy directed by the late Ron Link includes In Your Arms (Old Globe), Little Dancer on Broadway, off-Broadway in Insurrection: (Kennedy Center), Lucky Stiff (Playwrights Holding History by Robert O’Hara at The Public, Horizons) and Loving Repeating: A Musical of the world premiere of George C. Wolfe’s Jelly’s Gertrude Stein (Chicago’s Jefferson Award, Last Jam as Young Jelly at the Mark Taper Forum Best New Musical). Film includes Anastasia and the Oscar-winning film L.A. Confidential. (two Academy Award and two Golden Globe nominations), the documentary After The Storm STEPHANIE KLAPPER, CSA and Lucky Stiff. Mr. Flaherty’s concert music (Casting Director) has premiered at the Hollywood Bowl, Boston’s See bio on Pg. 42 Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Guggenheim Museum and Symphony Space. This year celebrates Stephen’s 32-year collaboration with lyricist-librettist Lynn Ahrens. Stephen and Lynn are members of the Dramatists Guild Council

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BRANDON ADAMS with Susan Hilferty); Lana Del Rey (world tour); (Music Director/Conductor/Pianist) Circus; Wandering City (BAM Next Wave); Next Brandon is pleased to be To Normal and Caroline, or Change (Tantrum making his Cincinnati Theater); Bullets Over Broadway (national tour) Playhouse in the Park debut. and Adele, Live in NYC (NBC with Es Devlin). New York theatre credits Upcoming projects include School Girls, or the include at Theatre African Mean Girls (Berkley Repertory Theatre); 2020 and The New York The Bluest Eye (Huntington Theater); Bliss (The Cabaret Convention at ); The Michaels (The Public Lincoln Center with Leanne Borghesi. Regional Theater) and Blue Man Group – Speechless credits include The Secret Garden, Camelot, Vanity (national tour). Jason received a Bachelors of Fair and King Charles III at Shakespeare Theatre Architecture from Cornell University, College of Company; The Secret Garden at 5th Avenue Architecture, Art & Planning and a Masters of Theatre; and Old Wicked Songs at Marin Theatre Fine Arts from New York University, Department Company; and Blues in the Night, The Musical of Design for Stage & Film. He is a member of of Musicals the Musical!, 25th Annual Putnam USA 829. Visit ardizzonewest.com and follow County Spelling Bee, Life Could Be a Dream (dir. him on Instagram @jasonardizzonewest. Roger Bean) and Xanadu at Center Repertory. An enthusiast for early 20th-century and rarely LEX LIANG performed musicals, he has also music directed (Costume Designer) Little Me; Brigadoon; Oh, Kay!; Grass Harp; Sitting Lex is delighted to be back at Pretty; Miss Liberty; Too Many Girls; Face the Music; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Lucky Stiff Park, having last designed (dir. Robert Barry Fleming); Nymph Errant; and Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Do I Hear a Waltz. He has toured internationally Mystery. His work includes with the Grammy Award-winning Pacific scenic and costume design Boychoir, and he is a frequent Bay Area theatre for performance-based award-winner, having only recently moved to productions. To date, his New York City/off- the East Coast. He has lectured at San Francisco Broadway credits exceed over 50 productions State University, San Francisco Conservatory and his most recent work includes Antigone, of Music and American University. He is a Circles and The Bacchae. Regional credits include graduate of Dartmouth College and Indiana Alliance Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, University (Masters in Choral Conducting). Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre Center, Visit BrandonDavidAdams.weebly.com. Denver Center, Florida Studio Theatre, Geva Theatre, Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, JASON ARDIZZONE-WEST Long Wharf Theatre, Miami New Drama, Paper (Set Designer) Mill Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Jason is an Emmy Award- Stage, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, winning set and production Tantrum Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre designer based in New York. Company and others. He is the principal/ Recent work includes Native founder of LDC Design Associates, an Gardens and The Royale experiential event and bespoke interiors design (Cleveland Play House); and production company, based in New York Good Grief (The Vineyard); City. Recent projects include Ubuntu Pathways: Uncle Vanya (Old Globe and Hunter Theatre Fight for Good, Operation Smile’s 35th Anniversary Project); Jesus Christ Superstar Live (NBC – Emmy Gala, the Tony Awards Gala and BCBG’s 30 Year Award & ADG Nomination); One Thousand Retrospective, NYFW 2019. Member, United Nights and One Day (Prospect Theater); Illyria Scenic Artists-829. Visit www.LexLiang.com. – The Gabriel Family Plays (The Public Theater 25 • ONCE ON THIS ISLAND

ALAN EDWARDS Stages, McCarter Theatre, Opera Philadelphia, (Lighting Designer) Geva Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Alan’s off-Broadway Wilma Theater, Arden Theatre, People’s Light credits include Harry Clarke and others. Daniel is an Associate Artist at the (The Vineyard), for which Wilma Theater and he teaches sound design he received the Lucille to undergraduates at Washington College Lortel Award, Kill Move in Maryland. He has received Barrymore Paradise (National Black Awards for Don Juan… at the Wilma Theater Theatre), Drama Desk and Knives in Hens at Theatre Exile, as well Award nominee; and Native Son and Measure as 16 Barrymore Award nominations in three for Measure (The Acting Company). Regional categories. Daniel received an Independence credits include Lights Out: Nat King Cole (Geffen Foundation Fellowship in 2013. He is a graduate Playhouse, People’s Light); American Moor of Swarthmore College, where he earned (Arts Emerson); Dutchman, The Bacchae, a BS in Engineering and a BA in Music. Antigone, Macbeth and The Tempest (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Twisted Melodies (Center MICHAEL MORGAN Stage Baltimore, Apollo Theater Chicago, (Dialect Coach) Mosaic); Henry IV Part 2 and Fingersmith Michael is currently the (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Penny Candy studio professor of voice and and Stagger Lee (Dallas Theatre Center); We speech at the University of Are Proud To Present (The Guthrie); Man of La California Santa Barbara. Mancha (Westport Playhouse); Previously, he has taught at (Connecticut Repertory Theatre); and Jeremy Penn State, Yale, Temple, McQueen’s Madiba (The Kennedy Center). Theatre Conservatorium in On Broadway, he was the associate to Jennifer Brussels, Royal Conservatoire in Liege, Arena Tipton on The Testament of Mary. His work has Stage, Neighborhood Playhouse, University been seen at The Guthrie Theater, Oregon of Hawaii, University of California San Diego, Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, California Institute for the Arts and Shanghai Center Stage Baltimore, Asolo Repertory, Theatre Academy. Michael is a graduate from Yale Repertory, Cleveland Play House, Kansas NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, a designated City Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Linklater teacher and a Fitzmaurice master The Geffen Playhouse, Miami New Drama, teacher. He has authored the book, Fitzmaurice Berkshire Theatre Group, Chautauqua Theatre Voicework: Constructing the Holistic Actor. As Company, People’s Light, Madison Opera, an actor, Michael has performed with the Mill City Opera and the Kennedy Center. Independent Shakespeare Company, Mark He received his MFA from the Yale School Taper Forum, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, LA of Drama. Visit www.alancedwards.com. Classical Theater Lab, California Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Sierra Repertory DANIEL PERELSTEIN Theater, People’s Light and Theater Company, (Sound Designer) Yale Rep, Shakespeare and Company, Red Daniel is a freelance sound Pear Theatre in the South of France, La Mama designer, composer and ETC, Richard Allen Center, the Spring Street musical director based in Gallery in A Photograph directed by Anna Devere Tucson and Philadelphia. Smith, and Ensemble Studio Theater. Michael Dan is pleased to return to started in children’s theatre and later went on to Cincinnati Playhouse in the perform nationally with The City Street Theater, Park after last season’s Tiny a company that dealt with social/political Houses. Recent designs and/or original music issues. For the last nine years, Michael has include Roundabout Theatre Company, Primary developed a theatre initiative with incarcerated 27 • ONCE ON THIS ISLAND youth called The Odyssey Project. Follow their and world premieres, and has traveled to several stories on Instagram @odyssey_project. other theatres to bring co-productions back to the Playhouse. Her recent credits include Tiny BROOKE REDLER Houses; August Wilson’s Two Trains Running; (Stage Manager) — It’s Not You, It’s Me; Cincinnati Brooke is pleased to return King; Misery; Murder for Two; Marie and Rosetta; for her fifth season with An Evening With Groucho; Shakespeare in Cincinnati Playhouse in the Love; Little Shop of Horrors; The Second City’s Park. Her off-Broadway Holidazed & Confused Revue; A Prayer for Owen credits include Breathing Meany; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Secret Garden; Time, The Faire and From and Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical. White Plains (production Jenifer served as the PSM at Santa Fe Stages for stage manager, Fault Line Theatre). Regional several seasons. She has also stage managed theatre credits include In The Heights, Million at Cleveland Play House, La Jolla Playhouse, Dollar Quartet, The Curious Incident of the Dog Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Long Wharf Theatre, in the Night-Time, Summerland and Native Goodspeed Opera House, Virginia Shakespeare Gardens (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Festival, The Ordway and Players Theatre : Retrospection, Stillwater, The Whipping Columbus. One of her most memorable Man, August: Osage County, Cabaret and five experiences was stage managing the U.K. tour seasons of A Christmas Carol (production stage of Miss Evers’ Boys at The Barbican Centre in manager, Kansas City Repertory Theatre); London and at the historic Bristol Old Vic. Peter and the Starcatcher and Richard II (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Vanya and Sonia and MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL Masha and Spike (Center Stage in Baltimore); Music Theatre International (MTI) is one The Drowsy Chaperone, Is He Dead? and Harry of the world’s leading theatrical licensing the Great (Creede Repertory Theatre). Assistant agencies, granting theatres from around stage management credits include Our Town, the world the rights to perform the greatest A Flea in Her Ear, Clay, Jitney and Love, Janis selection of musicals from Broadway and (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); and work at beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Starlight Theatre, Stages St. Louis and Heart Loesser, and orchestrator Don Walker, of America Shakespeare Festival. Brooke also MTI is a driving force in advancing musical has worked in opera, with credits including theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. Moscow, Cherry Town and Medea (PSM, Opera MTI works directly with the composers, Long Beach); and Ariadne Auf Naxos, The lyricists and book writers of these musicals Coronation of Poppea, Frida, Die Fledermaus to provide official scripts, musical materials and Tosca (ASM, Cincinnati Opera). She also and dynamic theatrical resources to over spent two seasons at The Santa Fe Opera. 70,000 professional, community and school theatres in the U.S. and in over 60 countries JENIFER MORROW worldwide. MTI is particularly dedicated to (Second Stage Manager) educational theatre, and has created special A proud member of Actors’ collections to meet the needs of various types Equity Association for 30 of performers and audiences. MTI’s Broadway years, Jenifer has been a Junior™ shows are 30- and 60-minute stage manager at Cincinnati musicals for performance by elementary and Playhouse in the Park since middle school-aged performers, while MTI’s 1994. She became the PSM School Editions are musicals annotated for (head of the department) performance by high school students. in 2005. Jenifer has worked on more than 100 productions, including a number of regional ONCE ON THIS ISLAND • 28

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CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK Blake Robison Buzz Ward Artistic Director Managing Director

With support from: THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION MARGARET ATWOOD’S ALIAS GRACE Adapted for the stage by JENNIFER BLACKMER

Director Blake Robison Set Designer Jo Winiarski Costume Designer Kathleen Geldard Lighting Designer Jaymi Lee Smith Composer/Sound Designer/Music Director Matthew M. Nielson Movement and Intimacy Coach Casey Sams Casting Director Stephanie Klapper, CSA

Sept. 14 – Oct. 27, 2019 Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre

Sponsored by Digi and Mike Schueler Honorary Producer: Linda and Gary Greenberg

Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre Season Presented by

Additional support provided by:

Alias Grace was first produced by Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Chicago, Illinois CAST (in speaking order)

Grace Marks Caroline Hewitt* James McDermott Damien Boykin Thomas Kinnear Nick Rose* Nancy Montgomery Tess Talbot Jeremiah/Dr. Jerome Dupont R. Ward Duffy* Mrs. Rachel Lavell Annie Fitzpatrick* Simon Jordan Grant Goodman* Mary Whitney Andrea San Miguel*

Stage Manager Andrea L. Shell* Stage Management Intern Erin Speno

Time: 1859 Location: Ontario, Canada

Alias Grace will be performed with an intermission.

Additional Production Staff Fight Director Jake Guinn Dialect Coach D’Arcy Smith Additional Cutter/Draper Kathie Brookfield Additional Stitcher Amanda McGee

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States and with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees-Local No. 5. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park receives partial funding from the Ohio Arts Council, a state agency created to foster and encourage the development of the arts and to preserve Ohio’s cultural heritage. Funding from the Ohio Arts Council is an investment of state tax dollars that promotes economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

ALIAS GRACE • 34 Playwright’s Notes By Jennifer Blackmer I generally resist writing program notes; I prefer to let the play speak for itself, trusting that what I want to say has been successfully translated onto the stage — if I haven’t achieved that, then 500 words in a program probably won’t matter. In the case of Alias Grace, however, the story and the characters didn’t originate with me; this is my first adaptation, and it’s proven to be one of the most challenging and rewarding projects of my career, a seesaw ride balancing my utter reverence for the novel and its creator with my own storytelling, every choice weighted down with expectation: Will true fans miss this or that character, moment or line? Does it stand on its own as a play? And why does such a rich story, told so beautifully in transcendent prose, need a stage version anyway? I’ll leave those first two questions for you, the audience, to ponder; but I’ll take a stab at that last one. I was working as a bookseller in Chicago (at the now sadly defunct Borders Books and Music) when Alias Grace was published. I’d been obsessed with Atwood since my adolescent feminist sensibilities first encountered The Handmaid’s Tale, so, of course, after I unpacked and shelved that first shipment, I took a copy home and devoured it. In my mid-twenties, I was still searching for my own artistic identity, trying to grasp what stories I wanted to tell theatrically, and most days my brain was a fiery crucible of confusion and need. The beauty of the novel moved me in ways I literally couldn’t articulate — I wanted… No, I longed… for something… But what? Fast-forward 14 years: With some moderate success under my belt, my friend and colleague, producer Brian Nitzkin, nonchalantly asked if there was anything I was interested in adapting. Normally I’m a let-me-think-about-that-and-get-back-to-you person, so I was genuinely surprised at how quickly I blurted: “Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace,” like something in the back of my brain had been patiently waiting for him to come along and ask the question. And now, of course, Margaret Atwood’s stories are experiencing a Renaissance of sorts in our current political climate, as they should. But for me, her project goes deeper. Several years and countless drafts later, I think I have a better handle on the aesthetic response that washed over me in my Chicago apartment. Grace Marks contains multitudes; we all do. Beneath its beauty, Atwood’s prose reveals exquisitely complex characters riddled with inconsistencies and ambiguity, wonderful vehicles for actors. Grace’s relationship with Simon is an intimate yet epic roller- coaster ride that anchors a difficult story questioning the nature of truth, perfect for the stage. Most importantly, however, Atwood’s story is propelled by a woman who refuses to be a victim, a woman who eludes every attempt to define her, a surprising, smart, funny and charming woman who is, quite possibly, a murderer. What more could anyone want from an evening at the theatre?

35 • ALIAS GRACE CAROLINE HEWITT R. WARD DUFFY (Grace Marks) (Jeremiah/Dr. Jerome Dupont) Caroline is pleased to be Ward is overjoyed to be making her Cincinnati returning to the Playhouse Playhouse in the Park for his eighth production, debut. Her Broadway having previously appeared credits include Junk and The in To Kill a Mockingbird, Front Page. Off-Broadway Speaking in Tongues, credits include Lazarus Othello, The Understudy, (New York Theater Workshop and King’s Cross A Flea in Her Ear, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial Theater in London), Tamburlaine (Theater for and A Christmas Carol. In New York, Ward has a New Audience), Against the Hillside and Good appeared at Manhattan Theater Club, Lincoln Results… (Ensemble Studio Theater). Regionally, Center, New Dramatists and the Cherry Lane Caroline has worked at Arena Stage, The Alley Theatre, among others. Regional credits Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, American include Admissions, As Bees in Honey Drown Conservatory Theater and many others. She has and Twelve Angry Men (Repertory Theatre Of appeared on television in Ava Duvernay’s mini- St. Louis); As You Like It, The Three Musketeers series When They See Us, and in New Amsterdam and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Pioneer and The Blacklist. She will be in the upcoming Theatre Company); Good People, The Other Netflix series The I-Land. She holds an MFA in Place, and Race (TheaterWorks Hartford); Acting from the American Conservatory Theater True West (Banyan Theater Company); The and a BA in French from Vassar College. Immigrant (George Street Playhouse); as well Caroline adapts novels into plays, and she as productions for the Missouri, Indiana, Asolo will be one of four actors in her adaptation of and Merrimack Repertory theaters and Portland Howards End, which receives its world premiere Center Stage and The Old Globe. Television at Portland Center Stage in the spring of 2020. and film credits include Madame Secretary, She is currently adapting Edith Wharton’s The Blindspot, Blue Bloods, Shades of Blue, Law & House of Mirth into a play for five actors. Order: Criminal Intent and SVU, Last Ferry, You Can’t Have It All and the upcoming Diamonds DAMIEN BOYKIN and Rust. He lives in New York City with his wife, (James McDermott) actress Henny Russell, and their dog, Bailey. Damien is ecstatic to be back at Cincinnati Playhouse ANNIE FITZPATRICK in the Park after being (Mrs. Rachel Lavell) a part of the prestigious Annie is delighted to return 2018 Bruce E. Coyle Acting to Cincinnati Playhouse in Internship program. He the Park after appearing attended the Stella Adler in A Prayer for Owen Meany Studio of Acting in New York for three years (2016), To Kill a Mockingbird and performed improv throughout the city of (2016), Pride and Prejudice Chicago before that. Recent credits include Dick (2014); Hank Williams: Lost Wilkins in A Christmas Carol, Trip from Other Highway (2012) and five seasons of A Christmas Desert Cities, Iago in Othello, Adam Sorensen Carol. She recently appeared in The Roommate in The Shape of Things and Bassanio in The at American Stage and The Wolves at Ensemble Merchant of Venice. He’d like to thank his family Theatre Cincinnati. She was a founding for their love and support throughout his life. member of The New Group in New York City and toured nationally and internationally with Murder a la Carte. Regionally, Annie has performed at The Repertory Theatre of St. ALIAS GRACE • 36

Louis, Geva Theatre Center, Florida Stage, NICK ROSE Florida Studio Theatre, Cincinnati Shakespeare (Thomas Kinnear) Company, The Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Nick is excited to return to Porthouse Theatre and The Human Race Cincinnati Playhouse in the Theatre Company. Television and film credits Park for his eleventh show. A include Chicago P.D., Lifetime’s Army Wives, veteran actor of A Christmas A&E’s Those Who Kill, Fun Size, Milk Money, to be, Carol, he is delighted to Broken Hearts and The Old Man and The Gun. be part of Alias Grace. His regional credits include GRANT GOODMAN Prospero in The Tempest and Iago in Othello (Simon Jordan) (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company), Dead Man’s Grant is thrilled to return Cell Phone (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati) and to Cincinnati Playhouse When the Rain Stops Falling (Know Theatre of in the Park where he has Cincinnati). He starred in the world premiere appeared as Charlie Stewart of Carson Kreitzer’s The Lasso of Truth in San in Mad River Rising, Aramis Francisco (Marin Theatre Company). Nick’s in The Three Musketeers television and film credits include Emulsion, The and as Billy Bones and Tao of Tom, Justice in Bloom and various local Captain Smollett in Treasure Island. National television and radio commercials. He is currently tours include The Merchant of Venice starring pursuing an M.Ed. in Secondary Education. He F. Murray Abraham. New York credits include currently resides in Anderson Township with King Lear, The Iliad (Lincoln Center), Antony his beautiful and more talented wife, Sara, & Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice (Theatre their son, Brennan and their cat, Keillor. for a New Audience), Pericles (Red Bull Theater), Three Sisters (International Chekhov ANDREA SAN MIGUEL Now Festival) and Richard II (Pearl Theatre). (Mary Whitney) Regional credits include extensive work with Andrea is profoundly grateful Yale Repertory, Shakespeare Theatre Company to make her Cincinnati (DC), Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Old Playhouse in the Park debut. Globe, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Regional credits include Stage, (Chicago), Cleveland SS! & , SS! Play House, Pioneer Theatre Company, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The PlayMakers Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Comedy of Errors (Chicago Syracuse Stage, Milwaukee Repertory, People’s Shakespeare Theater); As You Like It (Guthrie Light (Philadelphia), Shakespeare Theatre of Theatre), Twelfth Night (Writer’s Theatre); As New Jersey, Clarence Brown Theatre, Arizona You Like It, The Recruiting Officer, Our Country’s Theatre Company and the Utah, Illinois, Good, The Maids, A Flea in Her Ear and Pericles Notre Dame, Indianapolis, Milwaukee and (American Player’s Theatre), Appoggiatura Kentucky Shakespeare Festivals among many (Indiana Repertory Theatre); The Two Gentlemen others. Film/television credits include As the of Verona (Jungle Theater); Our Town and World Turns, Sex and the City and Sleepers. Company (Theater Latté Da); and A Christmas Grant is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of Carol (Children’s Theater of Madison). Touring the Arts. Visit grantgoodmantheatre.com. credits include The Taming of the Shrew, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Recruiting Officer and Henry V (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks). She holds a BFA in Acting from The University of Minnesota/ Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program.

ALIAS GRACE • 38 TESS TALBOT Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, The Lark and (Nancy Montgomery) Activate Midwest. Visit Jennifer on the New Play Tess is honored to make Exchange and at www.jenniferblackmer.com. her debut with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. A BLAKE ROBISON local Cincinnatian, she (Director) has performed with Know Blake is in his eighth season Theatre of Cincinnati, as Artistic Director of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati Playhouse in the Cincinnati, New Edgecliff Theatre, Cincinnati Park. Since his arrival, he LAB Theatre and the Carnegie Center has created the Playhouse’s for Performing Arts. She is also a resident associate artist program, ensemble member with Cincinnati Shakespeare embraced its tradition of Company (sixth season). Film credits include new work, made an ongoing commitment to Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile; and produce culturally diverse and multigenerational Inconceivable. Tess holds a BFA in Acting from works, and deepened the theatre’s community Wright State University. She sends a profound engagement. At the Playhouse, he has directed thank you to voice coach, Chaslee Schweitzer, the world premieres of Karen Zacarías’ Native and love to her family, biological and theatrical. Gardens, Audrey Cefaly’s The Last Wide Open and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Abigail/1702; JENNIFER BLACKMER literary adaptations such as Treasure Island, (Playwright) , A Prayer for Owen Meany, Jennifer is the 2015 PEN/ Peter and the Starcatcher, Pride and Prejudice, Laura Pels International The Three Musketeers and Stephen King’s Foundation for Theatre Misery; and contemporary works such as Amy Award winner for Emerging Herzog’s 4000 Miles, Karen Zacarías’ The Book American Playwright, Club Play and Dana Yeaton’s Mad River Rising. and serves as Professor Other directing credits include productions at of Theatre and Executive the Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Baltimore Director of the Virginia B. Ball Center for Center Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Creative Inquiry at Ball State University. Her The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Utah plays have been produced off-Broadway and Shakespeare Festival, PlayMaker’s Repertory across the country, and include Human Terrain, Company, Folger Theatre, Round House Unraveled, Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, National (Joseph Jefferson award for Best Adaptation), Shakespeare Company and Vermont Stage. Delicate Particle Logic, Borrowed Babies and the Internationally, he directed the Tennessee upcoming Predictor, currently in development. Williams classic Summer and Smoke at English Jennifer’s screenplay for Human Terrain won the Theatre Berlin and has worked several times prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award at the renowned Avignon Festival in France. through the Tribeca Film Institute and was Previously, he was producing artistic director of also a finalist for the Sundance Film Institute Round House Theatre from 2005-2012, artistic Sloan Prize. Additional film and television director of Clarence Brown Theatre from 2000- work include the feature Rare Earth, series Miss 2005 and founding artistic director of Vermont Mitchell’s Comet, and a rewrite of the Aaron Stage from 1994-2000. He serves on the Board Berg feature Assault. Jennifer’s writing has of the Theatre Communications Group. been short-listed for the Princess Grace Award and the Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship, and has been developed by Seven Devils, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Repertory 39 • ALIAS GRACE

JO WINIARSKI Playhouse, Imagination Stage, Flashpoint (Set Designer) Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Martha’s Jo, a set designer and art Vineyard Playhouse, Studio Arena Theater, director, is pleased to return Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and Dance to Cincinnati Playhouse in Exchange. Kathleen’s awards include a 2012 the Park after designing The Bay Area Critics Circle nomination for Ruined Last Wide Open last season. at The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Her New York off-, a 2012 IRNE Award nomination credits include Accidentally for Ruined at Huntington Theatre Company Brave; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey; and a 2009 Helen Hayes nomination for Love, Loss, and What I Wore; and multiple shows The Neverending Story at Imagination Stage. She with the Pearl Theatre Company. She has is an artistic associate for Signature Theatre. designed for several New York companies. Credits include the Abingdon Theatre JAYMI LEE SMITH Company, New Georges, the New Group, Keen (Lighting Designer) Company and Clubbed Thumb. Jo’s regional Jaymi is thrilled to be design credits include the Guthrie Theater, Utah returning to Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival (over 35 shows), the Old Playhouse in the Park. She Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Oregon has been designing around Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center and the country for the last Geva Theatre. She designed Wishes for Disney 20 years at theatres such Cruise Line. Jo was the art director on Late Night as Oregon Shakespeare with Seth Meyers for the show’s first five seasons. Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Steppenwolf She received an Emmy nomination for A Colbert Theatre Company, The Alley Theatre, La Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All for art direction. Jolla Playhouse, , Court Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Hartford Stage, KATHLEEN GELDARD Alliance Theatre Company, Getty Villa, Utah (Costume Designer) Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Kathleen previously designed Theater and Lookingglass Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in among others. Some of her most recent favorites the Park’s You’re a Good have included Vietgone and Photograph 51 at Man, Charlie Brown; Misery; South Coast Repertory, A Midsummer Night’s Shakespeare in Love; All the Dream at The Alley Theatre and The Maids at Roads Home; Little Shop of American Players Theatre. Her work has also Horrors and Mad River Rising. been seen in China, Italy, Spain, Scotland Other recent regional credits include Actors and Ireland. Previous awards have included Theatre of Louisville’s The Curious Incident of the the 2003 Michael Merritt/Michael Maggio Dog in the Night-Time, Circle Mirror Transformation, Emerging Designer Award, a 2014 Column Peter and the Starcatcher and Humana Festivals Award and a 2010 Joseph Jefferson Award. 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018; Shakespeare She is currently a professor of lighting design Theatre Company’s Macbeth; Arena Stage’s at The University of California, Irvine. Her The Year of Magical Thinking; and Portland work can be seen online at jaymismith.com. Center Stage’s Little Shop of Horrors. She has other regional credits at Huntington Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Florida Studio Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Arena Stage, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, Weston 41 • ALIAS GRACE MATTHEW M. NIELSON Associate Professor of Theatre at the University (Composer/Sound of Tennessee at Knoxville. Casey last worked Designer/Music Director) at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park as the Matthew made his choreographer for Peter and the Starcatcher. Cincinnati Playhouse in She has had the great good fortune to work the Park debut in 2012 at such theatres as PlayMakers Repertory with The Three Musketeers Theatre, The Roundhouse Theatre, St. Louis and has since returned for Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Abigail/1702, The Book Club Vermont Stage, The Utah Shakespearian Play, 4000 Miles, Sherlock Holmes, Peter and the Festival, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Starcatcher, Sex with Strangers, Mad River Rising, North Carolina Stage and Knoxville Opera, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Summerland, Treasure among others. Casey has also written plays for Island, Misery, The Last Wide Open and Two young audiences which have been produced Trains Running. Off-Broadway credits include across the southeast. Her undergraduate and The Public Theater/NYSF, Lincoln Center graduate degrees are both from Penn State, she Theater and 59E59 Theaters. Regional credits is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst from the include Denver Center Theatre Company, Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies Portland Center Stage, Milwaukee Repertory in New York, and she has trained in intimacy Theater, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, coaching and choreography with Theatrical Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Intimacy Educators. Philadelphia Theatre Company, Delaware You can see more of her work at Theatre Company, Ford’s Theatre, The Kennedy www.caseysamstheatremaker.squarespace.com Center, Signature Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Round House Theatre, Woolly STEPHANIE KLAPPER, CSA Mammoth Theatre Company, The Studio (Casting Director) Theatre, Theater Alliance, Olney Theatre Stephanie is thrilled to Center and Contemporary American Theater continue her collaboration Festival. Film and television credits include with Blake Robison and Death in Time, Elbow Grease, Blue, Epix Drive- Cincinnati Playhouse in the In, From Hell to Here and Too Like the Lightning. Park, having cast You’re a Matthew is the creator of audio drama series Good Man, Charlie Brown; The Troublesome Gap. He has won several awards for Thanksgiving Play; Two Trains his work in the DC area, regionally and in film. Running; A Christmas Carol; Cincinnati King; Miss He is currently running Sound Lab Studios, a Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and The Roommate recording studio and production house. Samples this past season, in addition to Shakespeare in can be heard online at CuriousMusic.com. Love; Mr. Joy; Be Here Now; Marie and Rosetta; Sooner/Later; Treasure Island and Murder for CASEY SAMS Two in 2017-18. Previously for the Playhouse, (Movement and Intimacy Coach) she cast A Prayer for Owen Meany, Disgraced, Casey is happy to have A Christmas Carol, Jane Eyre, Summerland, All the opportunity to revisit the Roads Home, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Alias Grace, after having Sherlock Holmes Mystery, The Secret Garden, Sex been the Intimacy Coach with Strangers, Mad River Rising, Native Gardens, for the Clarence Brown The Revolutionists, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mothers Theatre (CBT) production and Sons, Bad Dates, Sherlock Holmes and the of the show. Casey is a Adventure of the Suicide Club, Safe House, Tenderly: resident artist at the CBT where she regularly The Rosemary Clooney Musical, Circle Mirror works as a director and choreographer. She is Transformation, Peter and the Starcatcher, Buzzer, also Head of Undergraduate Studies and an Fly, Seven Spots on the Sun, Clybourne Park, 4000 ALIAS GRACE • 42

Miles, Pride and Prejudice and A Delicate Ship, as Mr. Joy; Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End; Jane Eyre; well as Shipwrecked! An Entertainment; The Book Disgraced; Bad Dates; The Revolutionists; Peter Club Play; Leveling Up; Abigail/1702; The Three and the Starcatcher; I Loved, I Lost, I Made Musketeers; and The Blonde, the Brunette and the Spaghetti; The North Pool; The Trip to Bountiful; Vengeful Redhead. Her work is frequently seen Merrily We Roll Along; As You Like It; Behind on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally, the Eye; The Understudy; Blackbird; Durango; as well as on film and television. She has many Around the World in 80 Days; Altar Boyz; Smoke exciting projects running and upcoming in New on the Mountain Homecoming; Reckless; Ace; York, regionally and in Europe. Stephanie is a The Clean House; A Picasso; One; Abracadabra member of the Casting Society of America. (2002-2007); The Bible … (abridged); and Dark Paradise. Regionally, she stage managed ANDREA L. SHELL The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful (Stage Manager) Redhead (Dallas Theater Center); Ace (The Andrea is excited to be Old Globe); Lost Prospect (Ingenuity Festival celebrating her 20th season of Cleveland); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and with Cincinnati Playhouse The Nutcracker (Cincinnati Ballet); and Snow in the Park, having White and Beauty and the Beast (Cincinnati worked on more than 90 Ballet’s Otto M. Budig Academy). She also productions. A highlight served as the production stage manager for the of every season for her is Jonesborough Repertory Theatre. Andrea is a stage managing A Christmas Carol. Favorite proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Playhouse credits include The Last Wide Open; She would like to thank her family, friends, The Roommate; Treasure Island; Be Here Now; Dylan and Scott for their unending support.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES BOARD OF TRUSTEES Ryan L. Brown James C. Leonard Al Vontz III Woody Taft Robert S. Castellini Stephen S. Lett Randolph Wadsworth President James P. Conway, Jr. Jacqueline Mack Jill A. Warman Ellen G. van der Horst Alva Jean Crawford Kevin N. McMurray Julia Wesselkamper Vice President Mark Dawes Roy A. Mitchell Barbara Weyand John Stein Scott X. Deters William J. Moran Leo T. Whitt Treasurer Peter A. Draugelis Patti Myers Susan B. Zaunbrecher Terry Lemmerman Louis A. Fender Jack D. Osborn Secretary Elizabeth George Kenneth Oswald EMERITI Jack Rouse Linda Greenberg Jenny Powell Otto M. Budig, Jr. Chair Nirvani Head Matt Reckman Charles O. Carothers, M.D. Andrea A. Herzig Robert C. Reifsnyder David C. Herriman TRUSTEES Karen M. Hoguet Austin Schiff Andrew MacAoidh Jergens Cathy Bailey Richard P. Homan Digi Schueler Morse Johnson Ronald T. Bates Peter Horton Jerry Shroat Lois Rosenthal Mono Bhattacharya Holly Huttenbauer Marty Tomb Howard Tomb David Billmire Susan Ingmire Barbara A. Turner Albert W. Vontz, Jr. Douglas Brauch Thomas M. Keckeis Lawrence N. Vignola

THE MORSE JOHNSON SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK Thanks to your vision and commitment to the Playhouse, we can continue to produce extraordinary theatre for Playhouse audiences of tomorrow. We are grateful to you for including the Playhouse in your estate plans. This list recognizes members of the Morse Johnson Society as of July 10, 2019. For more information on joining or including the Playhouse in your estate plan, please contact Development Director Rachel Kirley at 513-977-2084. Anonymous Ron Matson and Daniel Young POSTHUMOUSLY REMEMBERED Romola N. Allen Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Helen and Charles Abramovitz Henrietta Barlag Barbara A. McCracken Mrs. Thomas Adler Roderick and Barbara Barr Charles and Joann Mead Robert H. Allen Peggy Barrett James A. Miller Karen H. Bell Mr. Neil Billman David and Diane Moccia Eva Jane Romaine Coombe Rosemary and Frank Bloom William J. and Mary G. Moran John V. Crable Thomas J. Breed Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Morelli John F. Curley Charlin and Peter Briggs Patti Myers and Alan Flaherty Anne Elkins Didrichsen Jack G. and Rosemarie Brown Mort and Barb Nicholson Mrs. Elizabeth Easley John and Peg Bruggeman Richard and Julia Okenfuss James M. Edwards Susan and Burton Closson Jack and Marilyn Osborn Felix and Weta Mae Elkins Leland and Carol Cole Charlotte and Robert Otto Margaret M. Embshoff Richard and Theresa Curry Jenny and David Powell Jerome A. Fey and Robert J. Schlafle Guy and Cathy DeDiemar Betty L. Prince Stona Fitch Jackie Dieckman and Mike Camery Pamela Reising William A. Friedlander Mrs. James M. Edwards Ellen Rieveschl Oliver M. Gale Barbara Fitch Richard Rosenthal Mr. Charles W. Goering Susan S. Friedlander Jack and Moe Rouse Peter Hainline Victoria Buyniski Gluckman Robert and Dell Ann Sathe Carlyn G. Mrs. Charles Goering Mrs. Robert C. Schiff, Sr. Dr. Robert J. Hasl J. Frederick and Cynthia Gossman Mark and Rosemary Schlachter Mrs. Morse Johnson Linda Greenberg Digi France Schueler Stanley M. Kaplan, M.D. Jan and Herman Groshoff John and Marsha Shields Keith Lemmerman Mary Hainline Jerry and Betsy Shroat Maurice E. Oshry Cheryl Harden-Love Elizabeth C. B. and Paul G. Sittenfeld George Rieveschl Joan and Joe Harris Adrienne Angst Smith Launcey Roder Mrs. Robert J. Hasl Louise W. Spiegel Lois Rosenthal Robert and Judith Heaton Francis and Susan Stanton Gene F. Santoro Mrs. Andrea and Dr. Edward Herzig Charles L. Thomas, Jr. Mr. Robert C. Schiff, Sr. Karlee L. Hilliard Lynda A. Thomas Karl and Roberta Schlachter Andrew MacAoidh Jergens Sidney Thomas Mary Louise Schroth Judith E. Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Todd Rick Steiner M. J. Johnson Marty Tomb Jane K. Steinfirst Jan and Jay Kalagayan Margaret and Albert Vontz III Thurza R. Sternberg Winifred B. Kessler Daniel G. Walker Charles and Sue Straus Randolph and Patricia Krumm JoAnn and Paul Ward Joan Thomas Ms. Abby E. Langdon Stuart Warshauer Howard Tomb Minor and Dan LeBlond Dr. and Mrs. Nelson B. Watts Albert Vontz, Jr. Terry Lemmerman Jim and Jo Ann Weber Mr. and Mrs. Dick Waite Mr. and Mrs. Ron Lyons Irwin and Barbara Weinberg Gladys C. Warshauer Jacqueline M. Mack Barbara M. Weyand Monte Witte Richard and Sandy Manteuffel Ronna and Dr. James B. Willis James A. Markley, Jr. Barbara Witte David L. Martin Susan and Don Zaunbrecher Please remember the Playhouse in your will David Mason or estate plan — and let us know if you do! BOARD OF TRUSTEES/MORSE JOHNSON SOCIETY • 46 IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS Tony Arrasmith/Arrasmith & Eat Well Poeme Associates Erlanger Window Cleaning Vonderhaar’s Catering, Inc. The Blind Lemon and Funky’s Catering WKRQ-FM Eddie Sheppard Jeff Thomas Catering WRRM-FM The BonBonerie Mt. Adams Bar & Grill WXIX-TV Cincinnati Park Board Optic Lizard Productions ACCESSIBILITY WITH DIGNITY

“The arts are a right, not a privilege … No citizen should be deprived of the beauty and insights into the human experience only the arts can impart.” – National Council on the Arts, 1973 Funding for this program is made possible by Bartlett Wealth Management. AUDIO DESCRIPTION AND LARGE PRINT PROGRAMS SIGNED PERFORMANCES Large print programs for those with visual The Cincinnati Playhouse offers live audio impairments are available upon request at description for patrons who are sight-impaired every performance. and signed performances for those with hearing impairments. These services are HEARING ENHANCEMENT available for designated performances Hearing enhancement receivers providing throughout the season. Audio description volume enhancement to patrons with hearing equipment courtesy of Cincinnati Bell impairments can be obtained prior to every Foundation. Telex FM equipment courtesy of performance. Please stop at the Manuel D. Bethesda Hospitals. Signers and describers for and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation patron the season are Dawn Caudill, Mark DeWitt, services booth in the Rosenthal Plaza for more Paula Fleming, David Lichtenfeld, Betsy Mann information, or see the house manager. and Mike Snyder. AUDIO DESCRIBED FACILITY ACCESSIBILITY PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Patrons who are mobility-impaired may be Once on This Island dropped off outside the Playhouse’s south Saturday, Sept. 28, at 4 p.m. entrance to the Otto M. Budig Lobby. An elevator in the Budig Lobby allows for Moe & Jack Rouse and Randolph Wadsworth access to all levels of the Playhouse. Parking present for those with disabilities is located in front of The Lifespan of a Fact the main entrance, as well as in the Playhouse Saturday, Nov. 9, at 4 p.m. parking garage. Parking for persons with disabilities is limited and must be reserved and SIGNED PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE paid for in advance. All vehicles using these spaces must display a valid disability placard. Once on This Island Wheelchair seating in the theatres is subject to Sunday, Sept. 29, at 2 p.m. availability and should be requested at the time of ticket reservation. Moe & Jack Rouse and Randolph Wadsworth present The Lifespan of a Fact Sunday, Nov. 10, at 2 p.m.

47 • ACCESSIBILITY WITH DIGNITY

2019-20 LEADING LADIES BRAVA! Thank you for stepping into the spotlight and joining the Playhouse’s Leading Ladies program. This list recognizes members of the Leading Ladies as of August 2, 2019. For information on accepting your role as a Leading Lady, please contact Helene Herbert at 513-977-2025. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Sara M. Butler Karen Neyer Linda Young Carol Campbell Jeannie Niebuhr Sue Showers Kassy Corken Claire Patterson Judy S. Dalambakis Jane Portman GRAND DAMES Kelly Dehan Betty L. Prince Sue Cummings Debora Del Valle Kathy Qualls Linda Greenberg Sharon Fiscus Sherri Adams Remaklus Karlee Hilliard Elizabeth George Margie Rennie Rosemary Schlachter Sue Gilkey Deborah White Richardson Ronna K. Willis Nirvani Head Laura Schuman Carolyn Heck Patricia Sheppard DIVAS Judy Tondi Herd Julie Shifman Janet G. Banks Cathy Hogan Sue Showers Mrs. Angela Buckley Linda R. Holthaus Kazue Takeuchi Marjorie Compton Marty Humes Teresa Telford Patricia Doyle Patricia Humphrey Kathleen S. Thornton Margo Kirstein Dr. Linda Huntress Sally Tieke Audrey Miller Susan Ingmire Catharina Toltzis Ph.D. Patti Myers Diane Iseman Dionn Tron Mrs. Julia Pentecost Anne Jaroszewicz Maureen Valentine Jenny Powell Carrie Johnson Nancy Virgulak Paula Steiner Sarah Raup Johnson Bettie Watts Dr. Susan R. Strick Eileen Kilday Judith W. Wells Glenda Suttman Rachel Kirley Shelby Wood Heather Krombholz Linda Young STARLETS Lynn P. Larson Suzanne J. Zimmerman Debra Hust Allison France LeMaire Susan Anthony Terry Lemmerman Bold indicates Steering Committee Carol Aquino Nancy Lippincott Members Susan Arnold Sally A. Lloyd Jean Balassone Janet Longacre ADVISORY COMMITTEE Jan Bartel Nancy Martin MEMBERS Marianne M. Beard Joann Mead Rebecca Beckstedt Emily Miracle Amelia Crutcher Mary Ann Bell Danute Miskinis Mary Ivers Stephanie Besl Mary G. Moran Mary G. Moran Susan Brand Maura Moran-Berry Digi Schueler Linda D. Brink Connan Morrissey Maureen Vignola Faith Bryan Catherine Moulas Ronna K. Willis

49 • LEADING LADIES RECOGNITION GIFTS We are grateful to the following friends who have chosen to honor a loved one through a donation to the Playhouse. The following recognition gifts have been received from May 1, 2018, through July 12, 2019.

IN HONOR OF SANDY GRAY IN HONOR OF JULIA HASL MILLER Charles and Deanna Ashing Doug and Susan Moehring

IN HONOR OF NIRVANI HEAD IN HONOR OF JACK ROUSE Jeanne and Richard Hannan Mr. and Dr. Tim Zimmerman, Jr. Lauren Hannan Shafer IN HONOR OF JOHN STEIN IN HONOR OF JACKIE MACK Amy Magenheim Anne DeLyons Greater Cincinnati Foundation IN HONOR OF JULIA WARD Mike and Tracy Ward

MEMORIAL GIFTS We are grateful to the following friends who have chosen to remember a loved one through a memorial gift to the Playhouse. The following memorial gifts have been received from May 1, 2018, through July 12, 2019.

IN MEMORY OF KAREN BELL IN MEMORY OF AMY MERRELL Mr. Edward Lanzit Yousef Aouad

IN MEMORY OF KIM BLACKLEY IN MEMORY OF OLIN CLYDE ROBISON The Family of Kim Blackley Blake Robison and Connan Morrissey Jacqueline M. Mack and Dr. Edward B. Silberstein IN MEMORY OF LUCILLE ‘TWINK’ CAROTHERS Ronna and Dr. James B. Willis Gordon Bogdan Mrs. Betty Salzer IN MEMORY OF EDWARD STERN Mary Lou Aufmann IN MEMORY OF BRUCE COYLE Gordon M. Bogdan Ron Bunt Susan Cohen Cornelius and Jane Coyle Jacqueline M. Mack and Dr. Edward B. Silberstein Rebecca J. Graham Susan and James Marrs James and Colleen Tingue Susan and Roger Martin Ms. Laura Milburn IN MEMORY OF KENNETH E. FURRIER Betty Rosenthal Ghita R. Sarembock Kenneth E. Furrier Estate Cynthia C. Schmid-Perry Gail and Tim Seifert IN MEMORY OF VICTORIA MOORE GRAY Elizabeth C. B. and Paul G. Sittenfeld Anonymous Anita Trotta Lawrence and Maureen Vignola IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH H. HEAD JR. Ronna and Dr. James B. Willis Liz and Hank Alexander Ellen and Ray van der Horst IN MEMORY OF ALLISON TAFT Brian Swift IN MEMORY OF BARBARA HARKNESS Jacqueline M. Mack and Dr. Edward B. Silberstein IN MEMORY OF HOWARD TOMB Ronna and Dr. James B. Willis Stephen Holmes and Christy Kaeser

IN MEMORY OF TAMMY HILTON IN MEMORY OF BRENDA WARREN Pamela M. Gautier Anonymous Roy and Peggy Whitford

RECOGNITION AND MEMORIAL GIFTS • 50 DIRECTING THE FUTURE: A NEW STAGE FOR CINCINNATI’S NATIONAL THEATRE Thank you to all our incredible supporters of our Directing the Future Campaign. Your support ensures the Playhouse’s new mainstage theatre is a place where great artists continue their work behind the scenes and on our stages. This list recognizes donors to our Capital Campaign as of July 15, 2019. For more information about making a donation, please contact Allison Gerrety at 513-977-2022.

Anonymous (6) The Morse and Betty Johnson Blake Robison and Connan Morrissey Richard and Virginia Adams Family Foundation Amy and John Rosenberg Atkins & Pearce Inc. Patti and Tom Keckeis* The Rosenthal Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Banks Barbara and Larry Kellar Moe and Jack Rouse Allan Berliant and Jennie Rosenthal Dennis and Laura Kirley William S. Rowe Foundation Berliant Family Fund Sally and Gerry Korkin Austin Schiff David and Elaine Billmire Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Kremzar Robert and Adele Schiff Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blatt Mr. and Mrs. Randolph L. Krumm Family Foundation Ruth and Tom Bobenread Mr. Edward Lanzit Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Schiff, Jr. Neil Bortz Terry Lemmerman Martha and Lee Schimberg Jack and Rosemarie Brown Mr. and Mrs. James C. Leonard Rosemary and Mark Schlachter Mr. and Mrs. Ryan L. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Lett Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts, Mrs. L.L. Browning, Jr. Doris M. and Charles B. Levinson Fund Fifth Third Bank, Trustee Clement and Ann Buenger Foundation Jonathan and Nancy Lippincott The John A. Schroth Family Charitable M. Cathleen Callies LKC Foundation Trust, PNC Bank, Trustee Robert S. Castellini Whitney and Phillip Long Digi and Mike Schueler Denise and Martin Chambers Jacqueline M. Mack and Abby and David Schwartz Burton and Susan Closson Dr. Edward B. Silberstein Ladislas and Vilma Segoe Carl and Deborah Coburn Craig and Anne Maier Family Foundation Marjorie E. Compton Mariner Wealth Advisors The Louise Taft Semple Foundation Jim Conway and Richard Robertson David L. Martin Lauren Hannan Shafer The Crawford Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Sean McCauley Betsy and Jerry Shroat Dawes Direct, LLC Mr. Kim and Mrs. Barbara McCracken Mr. Jeremy F. Simpson Nancy and Mark Dawes Mary McCullough-Hudson Robert and Linda Singer Kelly Dehan and Rick Staudigel and Greg Hudson Elizabeth C. B. and Paul G. Sittenfeld Jacquelyn Dieckman and Charles and Joann Mead Ellen Pease and V. Clark Michael Camery Carol Meibers Sole, Jr. Family Fund* John and Liz Dye Messer Construction Co. John F. Steele, Sr. Ms. Joyce Elkus Leon and Barb Meyer John and Jennifer Stein Louis and Lisa Fender Becky Miars Phil and Berni Stephenson Pete and Betsy Frame Mr. Roy A. Mitchell Robert D. Stern Fund* Susan Friedlander Diane and Dave Moccia Elizabeth A. Stone* Chandra and Mel Gravely William J. and Mary G. Moran Dudley and Tina Taft Linda and Gary Greenberg* Arthur C. Morrissey and Jennifer and Woody Taft The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./ Janet M. Hayes Mr. Charles L. Thomas, Jr. U.S. Bank Foundation Dean and Catherine Moulas Mr. and Mrs. Scott Tieke Mr. and Mrs. J. Joseph Hale, Jr. Patti Myers and Alan Flaherty Marty C. Tomb Jeanne and Richard Hannan Ms. Meghan Sullivan Nelson Daman and Barbara Turner The Harold C. Schott Foundation Louis and Louise Nippert Ellen and Ray van der Horst Jeb and Nirvani Head Charitable Foundation Lawrence and Maureen Vignola Mrs. Louise A. Head Ohio Valley Foundation, Margaret and Albert Vontz III* Dave and Betsy Hendy Fifth Third Bank, Agent Randolph Wadsworth Andrea and Dr. Edward Herzig Robert and Carol Olson Buzz Ward Karlee L. Hilliard Jack and Marilyn Osborn David and Ginger Warner Karen and David Hoguet Charlotte and Robert Otto Dr. and Mrs. Nelson B. Watts Richard and Renita Homan Mr. and Mrs. Don Popelar Barbara and Irwin Weinberg Fund* Mr. Peter Horton Jennifer and David Powell Don and Sandy Weinkam Marty and Tom Humes Betty Prince Julia Wesselkamper and Julian Johnson Huttenbauer Foundation Prudential - Matching Fund Barbara Weyand Susan Ingmire and Lynn Hailey Gerald D. Rape Leo Whitt and Xia Wang Bill and Mary Jane James Rob and Gretchen Reifsnyder Ronna and Dr. James B. Willis Linda Busken Jergens and Pamela and Dick Reis Susan and Don Zaunbrecher Andrew MacAoidh Jergens Mrs. Mary Ellen Roberts Mr. and Mrs. George Zuefle

*Denotes a fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

51 • DIRECTING THE FUTURE OUR MISSION The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is a professional regional theatre committed to producing and presenting for diverse audiences the broadest range of theatre in an inviting theatrical environment. Our mission is accomplished through works of the highest caliber produced on stage in a fiscally responsible manner and through Photo by Tony Arrasmith/Arrasmith & Associates. stimulating educational and outreach programs.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT We couldn’t do it without you. The generous support of donors like you makes it possible for us to present the finest theatre and innovative education and outreach programs for the Greater Cincinnati community. This list includes all gifts given to the Playhouse from July 7, 2018 through July 7, 2019, not including endowment and Capital Campaign gifts. For questions about making a gift, contact Director of Individual Giving Helene Herbert at 513-977-2025.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE DIRECTOR SET DESIGNER AUDIENCE Anonymous AAA Travel & Provident Travel ArtsWave Bahl & Gaynor Investment Counsel Mark and Lindsay Bibler First Financial Bank Bartlett Wealth Management David and Elaine Billmire Louis and Louise Nippert BHDP Architecture Bonbonerie Charitable Foundation Robert S. Castellini Denise and Martin Chambers The Ohio Arts Council The Daley Family Foundation Carl and Deborah Coburn The Rosenthal Family Foundation Emerge Managed Solutions, LLC Dawes direct, LLC, Nancy and Robert and Adele Schiff Fifth-Third Foundation Mark Dawes Family Foundation Susan Friedlander Mrs. Victoria Buyniski Gluckman and Digi and Mike Schueler The Geiler Company Dr. Jack Gluckman The Schueler Group Linda and Gary Greenberg* Ms. Holly Huttenbauer The Shubert Foundation Jeb and Nirvani Head Patti and Tom Keckeis* Mrs. Andrea and Dr. Edward Herzig Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Kremzar PLAYWRIGHT Jack Rouse Associates Mr. and Mrs. James C. Leonard Linda Busken Jergens and Jacqueline M. Mack and Tony Arrasmith/Arrasmith Dr. Edward B. Silberstein Andrew MacAoidh Jergens and Associates Craig and Anne Maier KeyBank The Charles H. Dater Foundation James A. Miller Heidelberg Distributing Company Mr. Edward Lanzit Diane and Dave Moccia The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Charles and Joann Mead Patti Myers and Alan Flaherty Macy’s, Inc. Messer Construction Co. Jack and Marilyn Osborn Moe and Jack Rouse Leon and Barb Meyer Kenneth Oswald and U.S. Bank Becky Miars Mary Beth Martin Vonderhaar’s Catering The National Endowment for the Arts Jenny and David Powell Randolph Wadsworth Ohio National Financial Services Richard Goettle, Inc. The Procter & Gamble Fund* Amy and John Rosenberg PRODUCER The Seven Hills Group at Mark and Rosemary Schlachter BB&T Morgan Stanley Louis and Melba Schott Foundation Mrs. L.L. Browning, Jr. Betsy and Jerry Shroat Elizabeth C. B. and Paul G. Sittenfeld Chemed Foundation John and Jennifer Stein Skidmore Sales & Distributing Co., Inc. Clark, Schaefer, Hackett & Co. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Jack J. Smith, Jr. Charitable Trust The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. Charitable Trust Rick Steiner /U.S. Bank Foundation Barbara and Daman Turner TriVersity Construction Johnson Investment Counsel Ellen and Ray van der Horst Margaret and Albert Vontz III* Terry Lemmerman Barbara and Irwin Weinberg Fund* Leo Whitt and Xia Wang The Daniel and Susan Pfau Ronna and Dr. James B. Willis Foundation STAGE MANAGER Nellie Leaman Taft Foundation Elsa Sule Foundation Barbara Weyand Jennifer and Woody Taft THANK YOU • 52 PLAYHOUSE SUPPORTERS The Roehr Agency Linda R. Holthaus COSTUME DESIGNER John L. Shields Mr. Neil Hoover and Mr. Shawn Scott Louise Allen and Tom Gougeon Dr. Susan R. Strick Mr. Peter Horton Alpine Valley Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Ms. Lindsey Huttenbauer William P. Anderson Foundation Marty Tomb Ellen and Garrett Jackson* Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bartel UBS Financial Services Inc. Johnson & Johnson- Matching Fund Thomas J. Breed Lawrence and Maureen Vignola Ms. Wendy Johnson Jack G. and Rosemarie Brown WesBanco Laurie F. Johnston Mr. and Mrs. Ryan L. Brown Amanda and Tom White Kyle and Sue Jones Eric Burgmann & Linda Vaccariello World Pac Paper, LLC Dr. Robert Keith and Terri and John Byczkowski Susan and Don Zaunbrecher Kathleen Thornton-Keith Janet and Bruce Byrnes Barbara and Larry Kellar Cincinnati Coin Laundry LIGHTING DESIGNER Arleene Keller Pearl J. Compaan, M.D. Anonymous (2) Judith and Ken Kenniston James P. Conway, Jr. and Americana Arts Foundation Marilyn Kinne Richard D. Robertson Cathy Bernardino Bailey and Dennis and Laura Kirley The Crawford Family Foundation Terry Bailey Margo and Elliott Kirstein Mr. and Mrs. David Ellis, III Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Banks Jack and Lynn Klahm Mr. Robert C. Fee Barnes Dennig & Company, Ltd. Marvin Kolodzik Louis A. and Lisa K. Fender Peggy Barrett Kroner Dry Cleaners General Electric Kate and Bill Baumann Mr. and Mrs. John LaMacchia Gradison Foundation Doug and Mary Ann Bell Dr. John Larkin The John C. Griswold Foundation The Blackley Family Ms. France B. LeMaire Mrs. Suzanne Hasl Randal S. Bloch Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Lett Hixson Architects Engineers Interiors Martha P. Bolognini Barbara Lewis and Bob Griffin David and Karen Hoguet Jane and Gary Booth Deborah and John Majoras Richard and Renita Homan Mr. and Mrs. Ken Borisch Mariner Wealth Advisors Homewood Suites Mark and Jody Brosey David Martin Huntington Bank John and Peg Bruggeman The Mathile Family Huttenbauer Foundation Mrs. Angela Buckley Mary Ann Meanwell Susan Ingmire Ron Bunt and Wei Sun Mr. Roy A. Mitchell Bill and Mary Jane James Bonnie and Dick Buten Karen Neyer Sonya S. Jindal and Shahryar Tork Rosalind Chaiken Michael Nordlund and Lisa Lee Jo Ann and George Kurz CityBeat Randy and Marianne Olson Madison Wealth Management Philip Clayton Marilyn Z. Ott Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Manteuffel Burton and Susan Closson Charlotte and Robert Otto Barbara and Kim McCracken Lois and Philip S. Cohen Judy and Thomas Oxman William J. and Mary G. Moran Leland M. and Carol C. Cole Julia Pentecost Mossbarger Deimling Moler Financial Marjorie Compton Phillips Family Fund* Strategies Group of Janney Contemporary Cabinetry East Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pierce Montgomery Scott The Cord Foundation Stuart and Ildiko Pray Dean and Catherine Moulas Robin Cotton and Cindi Fitton Betty Prince Mt. Adams Bar and Grill Ms. Susan Cummings Nick Puncer Prudential - Matching Fund Richard and Teddie Curry Mitch and Karen Rashkin Red Echo Post The David J. Joseph Company Robert and Connie Reed Rob and Gretchen Reifsnyder Kelly Dehan and Rick Staudigel Charles Scott Riley III Foundation Ellen Rieveschl Thomas and Florence DeWitt Blake Robison and Connan Morrissey Mr. Albert C. Dierckes, Jr. Caroll and George Roden Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Dorward Jim Rubenstein and Bernadette Unger Patricia and Timothy Doyle Ann Saluke and Don Yelton Victoria Fleck Glenn and Kitty Schaaf Ms. L.B. Fleischmann Pat and Paul Schlecht Jeffrey and Ann Frymier Marvin and Betsy Schwartz Fund* Paul and Nancy Gaffney Mary D. Schweitzer Mrs. James R. Gardner Scripps Howard Foundation Peggy L. Golden and Kerry J. Klumpe Glenn and Sue Showers Chandra and Mel Gravely Gerald and Sarah Skidmore Greater Cincinnati Foundation Edgar L. Smith, Jr. and Alan and Judy Guttman Toni M. Robinson-Smith, M.D. Leading Ladies Jeanie Niebuhr, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Smith Maureen Valentine and Barbara Hauck Betsy and Dave Hendy Ellen Pease and V. Clark Sole, Jr. Catherine Moulas at the final event Family Fund* of the 2019 season. Ms. Karlee L. Hilliard 53 • THANK YOU Sandra and Henry Spitz David Crotty and Joan Von Handorf Stapleton Electric Co. Judy and Chris Dalambakis Paula Steiner Mark Dauner Barbara E. Stern* Kathy and Mike Davis Mr. and Mrs. Scott Tieke Debora Del Valle Towne Properties Jan Denton Doug and Molly Tyger Jackie Dieckman and Mike Camery The Utilities Group Michael and Kathleen Doherty Carol and Robert Vidal Dr. and Mrs. Walter E. Donnelly, Jr. Waltek and Company Limited Emilie and David Dressler Fund* Richard and Jill Warman Ms. Fay Dupuis Attendees of the 2019 Playhouse Larry Weber Freeman Durham and PRIDE event. Photo by Julia Wesselkamper and Dean Clevenger Claudia Hershner. Julian Johnson Molly Eckman Jo Ann Wieghaus Ms. Joyce Elkus Jarrell Media Solutions Jill and Steve Wilson William C. Price and Carrie Johnson Anthony and Sally Woodward Empower MediaMarketing Mark and Sarah Johnson Richard Ernst Scott and Patricia Joseph ACTOR Janet Fette Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Keenan Paul J. and Carolyn G. Kemper Anonymous (9) Ms. Sharon Fiscus Robert A. & Marian K. Kennedy Liz and Hank Alexander Dr. Daniella Fisher Charitable Trust Bob Amott and Janice Flanagan Sarah and Grayson Fitzhugh Eileen Kilday Dr. Victor and Mrs. Dolores Angel Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Foster Don and Kathy King Thomas and Susan Anthony Sharon Freyhof Patricia King Carol Aquino Dick and Gail Friedman Ms. Rachel Kirley and Eric and Brenda Armstrong Frost Brown Todd LLC Mr. Joe Jaquette Family Fund* Larry and Diane Games Ray and Marlene Kloos Susan Arnold H. Jane Gavin Heather and Lee Krombholz Mandy Bartel Elizabeth George Eric and Maggie Kuhn Marianne M. Beard Kathleen Gibboney Michael and Paula Kunka Rebecca Beckstedt Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gilkey Donald D. and Lynn Larson Mariana Belvedere and Samer Hasan Dr. and Mrs. Glenn S. Gollobin Richard and Susan Lauf Kit Berger Clifford Goosmann and Anna Lerhaupt Mr. and Mrs. Michael Besl Andrea Wilson Jonathan and Nancy Lippincott Rodd and Carol Bixler Tom Gougeon Dr. Sally A. Lloyd Mark Bowen Barbara Gould Whitney and Phillip Long Linda D. Brink Grants Plus Janet Longacre Edward Brown Greater Cincinnati Mrs. Alleen Blesi Manning Jackie and Gary Bryson Planned Giving Council Nancy Martin Jeff and Gay Bullock Carl and Joyce Greber Anne Atkins Martz David L. Butler Helen and John Habbert Emily M. Mason Jack and Marti Butz Robert and Judy Heaton Stephanie McNeill Frank and Jane Caccamo Carolyn Heck Jackie and Mitch Meyers Mr. Rick Coffey Irmgard and Horst Hehmann Audrey Miller Barbara and John Collins Mrs. Anne P. Heldman* Emily Miracle Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Collins Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heldman Miramar Charitable Foundation Kassy and Jeff Corken Mr. and Mrs. W. Hensel, Jr. James and Judith Herd Ms. Danute M. Miskinis Mrs. Kyle Hodgkins Stephen E. and Meg B. Muething Noel and Karen Hofmann Scott and Barb Muhlhauser Cathy and Mark Hogan Jeannie Niebuhr Nancy Hollingsworth James Nordlund Mark and Deanna Hollon Nottinghill Investment Advisers, LTD Carolyn and Michael Hoyt Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Oppelt Amy and Larry Hughes Vicky and John Ott Joan Hume-Cohen and Tom and Linda Palmer Marvin Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pardekooper Mr. Roger Humphrey Claire Patterson Drs. Linda and Gordon Huntress Alice Perlman Susan Weil, Ted Silberstein and IBM Corporation Jeff and Diane Pfaff Board Member Jackie Mack at the Carl and Diane Iseman Lana Piazza Salute to Season event. Bob and Patsy Pike Photo by Mikki Schaffner. Jennifer Jackson THANK YOU • 54 Mr. and Mrs. James Pretz STAGEHAND Kathy Qualls Anonymous (15) Jeff and Lori Raser Sue and Don Adick Ms. Sherri Remaklus Ms. Kathryn Al-Lamadani Ms. Margaret Rennie Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Anderson Ms. Karen Renz Albert and Lillian Andrews Alison and Rob Rice Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Ansel Nancy Robinson Drs. Lori Aronson and Craig Froehle Rita and Roger Ross Mrs. William T. Bahlman, Jr. Michael and Christine Ryan Barbara and Roderick Barr* Mrs. Betty Salzer Mrs. Dolores Beebe Karlee Hilliard and Buzz Ward at the Mr. and Mrs. David Savage, Jr. Miss Martha L. Bell Austin Schiff final Leading Ladies event of 2019. Michael and Kathleen Benken Photo by Claudia Hershner. Martha and Lee Schimberg Michael Berry Bret Schneider and Sean Davis Dr. and Mrs. John Bismayer Nathan and Vanessa Jenkin Charles and Alice Schneider Julie and Mark Bissinger Roger and Glenda Schorr Fund* Dr. Toni and Rabbi Ken Kanter Phyllis Bossin and Robert Strauss Roz Kendall Carol Schroeder Bob and Dawn Brewster Janet R. Schultz and Russell Lascelles Ms. Monica V. Kindt Helena and Randy Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Kissel Ms. Laura Schuman Dr. Daniel T. Brown, DDS and Dr. P. Robert Schwetschenau Kroger Community Rewards Program Mr. Mark Haggard Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Krug* Radona and Kevin Scott Mr. and Mrs. James Cartledge Lauren Hannan Shafer Robert J. Krumdieck Christine and Bob Christen Mr. and Mrs. Randolph L. Krumm Betty Ann Shenk James Cissell Patricia Sheppard Bill and Evie Landrigan Bob and Tisha Clary Aimée and Louis Langrée Julie and Steven J. Shifman Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Cohen Karen and Ivan Silverman Sherwin Little Thomas and Sondra Copanas Lupe Lopez Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Simon Mr. and Mrs. Roger Creasy Mr. and Mrs. Doug Skidmore Lynette Love Jean and John Croxton Dr. and Mrs. Robert Lukin Adrienne Angst Smith Anne Dagenbach Elizabeth Smith Kay Lynch and Chuck Beckman Mr. Eric Deprato Carol I. Lyon Wanda Wall Spivey Thomas and Pamela Donnelly Paul and Jill Staubitz John and Mary Ann MacLeod John and Liz Dye Paul and Suzie Maione Elizabeth A. Stone* Mr. and Mrs. Jerome H. Eichert Glenda Suttman Ward and Ellen Maresca Delores J. Erby Raymond and Madelynn Matlock Ms. Kazue Takeuchi Finding Hope Consulting Thomas Tami Ron Matson and Dan Young James K. and Susan Fitton Ms. Shelly Maxwell Ms. Teresa Telford Joy and Bill Fotsch Drs. Jan and Larry Tepe Ms. Nancy McBreen Mr. and Mrs. Randel Franz Dennis and Carol McCoy Carlos and Roberta Teran Drusilla Garms Ms. Catharina Toltzis Jim and Dianne McEachen Susanne E. Geier Kim and Jan McNeil Ms. Dionn Tron Frank and Karen Girolami James and Susan Troutt Hope E. McSwigan Madeleine Gordon Faye and Bunny Meisel James and Sue Ellen Tweddell Pank and Wendy Goulet United Mail Anne and Rick Meyer Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Greengus Richard and Rhoda Meyer Maureen and Andre Valentine Glenn and Barbara Groh Christopher and Nancy Virgulak Roger and Mary Ann Meyer Sandra Gross and John Hutton Richard I. Michelman and Mike and Tracy Ward Mary and Phil Hagner Dr. and Mrs. Nelson B. Watts Karen E. Meyer Christopher and Marti Hall Mr. and Mrs. Mark Miller Ms. Judy Wells Joyce and Jim Hamberg Donald R. and Patricia R. Welti Steven and Jacqueline Miller David Hammond Family Foundation Chris and Diane Williams Janet Heiden Robert L. and Judy A. Wilson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David A. Millett Gwen and John Heilbrun Mr. Mike Monin Wimberg Landscaping Andrew D. Heldman Family Fund* Susan and Dean Windgassen Nora E. Moushey David and Elizabeth Himes Dr. and Mrs. Charles Myer III Ms. Shelby Wood Stephen Holmes and Christy Kaeser Wow Windowboxes Laura Nassau Barbara J. Howard George L. Nielsen Wuerdeman Family Fund II* Dr. Carol Hubbard Linda and James Young Andrew J. Nuckols Mr. Fruman Jacobson Bruce and Neda Nutley Sheri Zimmer Patti and Keith James

55 • THANK YOU J. Brett Offenberger and Rich and Barb Ruddy Carol and Ted Striker Douglas Duckett Mr. Richard H. Russell Kendra L. Struthers Carol and Robert Olson Sandy and John Russell Dennis and Helen Sullivan Ossie Boutique Pat and Tom Ruthemeyer Dick and Jeanne-Marie Tapke Kit and Jack Overbeck James Sanitato Dr. Alan and Shelley Tarshis Dr. and Mrs. Richard Park Mark and Jan Sass Robert D. Temple and Terry and Jill Parsons Timothy and Jeannie Schoonover Sue E. Auerbach Mr. and Mrs. Donald Peairs Dr. and Mrs. L.J. Schott Carol Thaman Pepper Family Fund* Michael E. Schroer and Carey Kruer Mr. Charles L. Thomas, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Perna Amy Schubert Dr. Gary A. Thompson and Ed Plageman David and Abby Schwartz Dr. Lisa E. Dunlap Les and Molly Polasky Michael and Kathie Schwartz James and Colleen Tingue Steve & Sharon A. Poppe Recie and Jim Scott Janet G. Todd Nancy and Bruce Prewitt William and Sandra Selvey Torey and Tom Torre Sue and Jay Price Ms. Janice Seymour Sarella Walton Joetta Prost and Kathy Shell Sandy and Hal Shevers Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Ward Mary and Ranjit Rath Robert and Linda Singer Dr. and Mrs. Galen R. Warren Mary Redington Mary Lee and Louie Sirkin Dr. and Mrs. Barry W. Webb Leslie and Bernie Reiss Jack and Barbara Smith Richard A. Weiland Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Revelson Susan and David Smith Shelly Weisbacher Mr. Carl Reynolds Harold and Faye Sosna Mary Ann and Ted Weiss Brian and Mary Rhane Steelcase Foundation - Donna Welch Craig and Sue Richmond Matching Fund Ms. Anne Warrington Wilson George and Phyllis Robertson Jane and Paul Stewart John M. Yacher Sylvia Robison Stephanie and Joseph Stitt David and Cynthia Zink Donald H. and Rebecca Rolf John Strawser Mr. and Mrs. George Zuefle

*Denotes a fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

THANK YOU • 56 DIRECTORS HOUSE MANAGEMENT Artistic Director Blake Robison House Staff Supervisors Joellyn Goos, Stacy Smith Managing Director Buzz Ward House Staff Amy Carroll, Kayleigh Clark, Ashley Goos, Courtney Kennell, Suzann Kokoefer, Barb Santel, ARTISTIC Jacqueline Smith, Brian Wylie, Richard Zenk Associate Artists Wendy C. Goldberg, Nicole A. Watson, Karen Zacarías EDUCATION/OUTREACH Literary Associate Anita Trotta Director of Education and Community Engagement Daunielle Rasmussen ADMINISTRATION Associate Director of Education and Community General Manager Suann Pollock Engagement Carolyn Guido Clifford Executive Assistant Kathleen Roll Unkrich Education Associates Craig Branch, Nicholas Tsangaris Company Manager A.J. Ford Education Associate Producer Rebecca Armstrong Assistant Company Manager Richard Wanamaker Education Coordinator Valerie Perez Receptionist Steve Seitz PRODUCTION FINANCE/HUMAN RESOURCES Production Manager Veronica Pullins Bishop Human Resources Manager Sharon Weber Assistant Production Manager Jessica Lucas Finance Manager Jim Hatton Technical Director D.W. Jones Finance Associate Brian Anderson Assistant Technical Director Haley Schutzenberger Payroll Specialist Barb Gloeckner Scene Shop Assistant Emily Graver DEVELOPMENT STAGE MANAGEMENT Development Director Rachel Kirley Production Stage Manager Jenifer Morrow Director of Individual Giving Helene Herbert Stage Managers Brooke Redler, Andrea L. Shell Individual Giving Manager Kendra L. Struthers, CFRE Individual Giving Assistant William Stowell Meriwether BRUCE E. COYLE INTERN COMPANY Director of Institutional Giving Bethany Doverspike Acting Intern Company Nicolas Acosta, Joshua Carandang, Grants Manager Jenni Miller Deja Elliott, Jo Garcia-Reger, Julia Gomez, Shonita Joshi, Institutional Giving Assistant Josh Hamilton Ethan Graham Roeder Capital Campaign Manager Allison Gerrety Stage Management Interns Micah Akilah, Capital Campaign Assistant Molly K. Hickey Gabriella C. Neuerer, Erin Speno Development Events Manager Clare Jaymes SCENERY OPERATIONS Carpenters Bryan Bridewell, Leah Busse, Timothy Fowler Facilities Manager Brian Smith Swings Bill Coates, Michael Lyons, Clint Nessler, Josh Ward Facilities Assistant Myron Monroe Charge Scenic Artist Kenton Brett Bar Manager Darren Cox Assistant Scenic Artists Stephen Childress, Abigail Heyd Bartenders Kathy Burr, Clint Collins, Darren Cox, Justin Eckstein, Rachel Ellis, Lori Hiltenbeitel, Barb Santel, PROPERTIES John Simpson, Kathleen Thorman Properties Manager Liz Lyons Housekeeping Services Blue Chip 2000 Assistant Properties Manager Jen Lampson Properties Jeff Fowee, Ingrid Heithaus, Scott Hubert MARKETING/COMMUNICATIONS Marx Properties Running Crew Lara Sheridan Director of Marketing and Communications Kathy Neus Rosenthal Shelterhouse Properties Running Crew Chief Associate Director of Marketing Aly Gomez Debra Hildebrand Multimedia Designer Sean Martin Content Marketing Manager Natalie Hulla COSTUMES/WARDROBE Marketing Administrative Coordinator Assia M. Johnson Costume Shop Manager Gordon DeVinney Marketing Associate Megan Bowers Cutter/Draper Cindy Witherspoon Content Marketing Intern Gigi Relic First Hand Caitlin Turvey Photographer Mikki Schaffner Crafts/Dyer Dean W. Walz Sales and Events Manager Piper N. Davis Wig Master/Makeup Artist Amy Whitaker Ticket System Administrator Patrick Desgrange Administrative and Design Assistant Chad Phillips Ticket Services Manager Don Wong Costume Technician/Shop Assistant Heather Merchant Patron Services Staff Brianna Bernard, Andrew Bishop, Marx Wardrobe Mistress Cindy Clifford Saalfeld Ernaisja Curry, Emily Damelio, Jenny French, Sandra Gray, Associate Marx Wardrobe Mistress Karla Knochelmann Christian Gutierrez, Chase Johnson, Jacob Krismanick, Rosenthal Shelterhouse Wardrobe Mistress Julie Hudson David Lopez, Julia Hasl Miller, Josh Neumeyer, Sarah O’Haver, Benjamin Ochsner, Julie Pergrem, Kathryn Pielage, Jennifer Radisch, Sawyer Shafer, Tess Talbot LIGHTING/SOUND Electricians John Parr, Jon Pullen INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Sound Cedric Collier Rosenthal Shelterhouse Light Board Operator IT Manager Matt Parsons Justin Chandler CAPITAL PROJECT Rosenthal Shelterhouse Audio Engineer M. Adam Jacob Capital Project Manager Phil Rundle

57 • ADMINISTRATIVE AND PRODUCTION STAFF Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Address: 962 Mt. Adams Circle, Cincinnati, OH 45202 Administrative Offices: 513-345-2242 Website: www.cincyplay.com Box Office: 513-421-3888 OH, KY, IN Toll-Free: 800-582-3208 Telecommunications Device for the Deaf access: 513-345-2248 On non-performance days, the Box Office closes at 5:00 p.m. ACCESSIBILITY WITH DIGNITY PROGRAM GROUP DISCOUNTS The Playhouse is pleased to offer a variety of services to Bring your group of eight or more to the Playhouse and patrons with special needs. Included are an infrared sound receive great benefits and discounts, including special enhancement system for the hearing impaired, large print rates for students and seniors. Our popular corporate programs, wheelchair access to both theatres and all web discount program allows your employees to book public areas, as well as audio described and signed tickets online at a discount whenever they want. performances. Funding for this program is made possible Contact the group sales office at 513-345-2242 or by Bartlett Wealth Management. For information on the [email protected] for more details. Playhouse accessibility programs, visit the Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation patron services booth in the LATECOMERS AND READMITTANCE Rosenthal Plaza. Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the house BACKSTAGE TOURS manager, which may be as late as intermission. Latecomers may be denied admission depending on the Behind-the-scenes tours include information on the demands or structure of a particular production. Please Playhouse’s history and the day-to-day workings of a allow yourself adequate time to arrive, park and be seated. professional regional theatre. Tours are $3.50 per person, Should you need to leave the theatre during a last approximately half an hour and are available for performance, re-admittance and seating will be at the groups with a minimum of 10 participants. Some limited discretion of the house manager so as not to disturb the free tours are available based on financial need. Please audience and actors. contact the administrative office at 513-345-2242 to schedule a tour. PARKING CAMERAS AND RECORDING DEVICES The Park Board reminds you that Eden Park officially closes at 10 p.m. As a grace period to the Playhouse, the Actors’ Equity Association strictly prohibits the use of police will not ticket vehicles until one half hour following cameras or recording devices in the theatre during the end of a performance. The Playhouse assumes no the performance. responsibility for anyone receiving a ticket for illegal parking. Convenient parking is available in the Playhouse CHILDREN garage. Purchase parking in advance to secure a space. Parking can also be purchased from our parking attendant Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted to immediately before the performance if available. Playhouse productions unless otherwise advertised. Parents with disruptive children will be asked to leave PROHIBITION OF WEAPONS the theatre. The Ohio Revised Code (R.C. 2923.126) has established COAT CHECK the privilege of carrying a concealed handgun to Ohio citizens who have obtained the proper license. The same From October through March, a coat check facility is open law explicitly grants private employers in the state the right inside the entrance to the Otto M. Budig Lobby. to prohibit their employees and visitors from possessing firearms on the employer’s premises. With this notification EMERGENCIES AND PAGING SERVICES the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is informing you that If you require paging services, please register your seat it prohibits weapons of any kind on its premises, and location with the house manager upon arrival at the reserves the right to search persons, parcels and vehicles theatre. Leave the number 513-345-2247 with those who on the same. This policy applies to all employees, patrons may need to reach you. Messages will be delivered to you and visitors to the facility. as soon as possible. Please turn off beeping watches and other digital alerts. RESTROOMS AND TELEPHONES Restrooms are located in the Rosenthal Plaza. A phone is GIFT CERTIFICATES located near the Box Office in the Budig Lobby. Need the perfect gift? The Playhouse offers gift certificates redeemable for single tickets or subscription packages. SMOKING/VAPING Call the Box Office or stop by at intermission for more information. Smoking/vaping is prohibited in the entire theatre complex.

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