CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY OF WALNUT CREEK Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director

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Cast Cassie Beck*, Michael Butler*, James Carpenter*, Mark Farrell*, Craig Marker*, Carrie Paff*, Mark Anderson Phillips*, Kerri Shawn Scenic Designer Costume Designer Kelly Tighe Lighting Designer Elizabeth Poindexter Sound Designer Kurt Landisman Stage Manager Chris Houston Props Master Elisa J. Rupert* Casting Director Jo Hasslowski Dialect Coach Annie Stuart Dawn-Elin Fraser Directed by Timothy Near

Oct 18 - Nov 17, 2007 Lesher Center for the Arts Margaret Lesher Theatre

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*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States The Scenic Designer and Lighting Designer are members of United Scenic Artists Union The Director in this production is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers THE MOUSETRAP is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. Cast of Characters James Carpenter* (Major Small Tragedy and Betrayal (San Francisco Bay Metcalf ) is a longtime San Guardian—Best Cast of 2004) at Aurora Theatre Francisco Bay Area resident and Company, The Haunting of Winchester at San Jose Miss Casewell ...... Cassie Beck* currently an Associate Artist with Repertory Theatre, and various productions for Mr. Paravicini ...... Michael Butler* the California Shakespeare A.C.T.’s First Look series, The Shee Theatre Major Metcalf ...... James Carpenter* Theatre. He has appeared at Company, Woman’s Will, Word for Word, and Christopher Wren ...... Mark Farrell* Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Film credits include Presque Detective Sergeant Trotter...... Craig Marker* over 30 productions as actor and Isle (Rob Nilsson) and Opal’s Diary (Dina Ciraulo). Mollie Ralston ...... Carrie Paff* Associate Artist, at American Conservatory Theatre, She holds a master’s degree in educational theater Giles Ralston ...... Mark Anderson Phillips* San Jose Repertory Company, The Aurora, from New York University and is the cofounder of Mrs. Boyle ...... Kerri Shawn TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, Shakespeare StageWrite, Building Literacy through Theatre. Santa Cruz and Thick Description. His out of town Act I credits include work at the Old Globe Theatre, The Mark Anderson Phillips* (Giles Scene 1 The Great Hall at Monkswell Manor Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Ralston) is pleased to be back at Late Afternoon The Intiman, Arizona Theatre Company and the the REP, where he was last seen as Scene 2 The same. The following day at lunch Huntington. Television: Nash Bridges; Film: The Frank in How the Other Half Loves. Rainmaker, Metro Independents: Singing, The He also appeared as Phileas Fogg Act II Sunflower Boy. in last season’s Around the World in The same Ten minutes later 80 Days. Most recently, he was seen in the title role of Theophilus North Time Period: Late 1940’s Mark Farrell* (Christopher Wren) at TheatreWorks. Other TheatreWorks credits include has worked as an actor in the Bay The Grapes of Wrath (Tom Joad), Proof (Hal), and Charley’s Area for over 15 years. He has Aunt ( Jack). With San Jose Rep, he appeared as Jamie appeared with Center REPertory Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Stephen Company in Fugitive Kind, Noel & CAST BIOGRAPHIES Undershaft in Major Barbara. Other Bay Area work Gertie, (Bay Area Theatre Critic’s includes roles with The Magic Theatre (Stones in His Circle Award/Shellie Award), Cassie Beck* (Miss Casewell) is Pockets, True West, Family Butchers), Aurora Theatre Around the World in 80 Days thrilled to return to Center REP (Small Tragedy, Salome), Word for Word (Stories by (Director: Michael Butler), and most recently, Laughter after playing the Countess and Tobias Wolff), Marin Theatre Company (The Last on the 23rd Floor. Other productions/theatres: The providing the choreography for The Schwartz), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and California Crucible, Lady in the Dark, Wonderful Town, Me & My Marriage of Figaro. Ms. Beck is also Shakespeare Theatre. the proud Co-Artistic Director of Girl, Splittin’ the Raft (world premiere), Old Wicked Songs – Marin Theatre Company; Haunting of Crowded Fire Theatre Company Kerri Shawn (Mrs. Boyle) Winchester (Director: Michael Butler, world premiere)– in San Francisco. Past performance currently serves as Co-Director San Jose Rep; Loaded (Director: Barbara Damashek)– credits with the company include Trojan Woman, Top of Education for Center Ars Nova Theatre, NYC; Travesties (understudy) – Girls, A-A-America, One Big Lie, Slow Falling Bird, We REPertory Company. This Dean ACT; The Fantasticks (BATCC Award), Putting It Are Not These Hands, and most recently, Anna Bella Goodman and Shellie Award Together – SF Playhouse; Judgment at Nuremberg, A Eema. Other Bay Area credits: All My Sons, Living recipient has performed locally Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine – Willows Out and Be Aggressive at TheatreWorks, The Haunting with Center REPertory Theatre. Mark has also worked with such esteemed of Winchester at San Jose Rep, Communicating Doors at Company, Marin Theatre companies as ArtRise, Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, Marin Theatre Company, 3F 4F at the Magic Company, Fantasy Forum Actors Ensemble, CCMT, 42nd Street Moon, Golden Thread, ODC, Playground, Theatre, Thursday at Encore Theatre Co., and On the DAE, PlayGround, and has been a resident actress Solano College (guest artist), and TheatreFirst. Verge with the Napa Valley Repertory Theatre. Cassie at Eugene O’Neill’s Tao House since 1988. Most recently workshopped two Adam Bock plays, The recently at Center REP, Kerri was seen as the Judge Craig Marker* (Detective Drunken City and The Flowers at Playwright’s Horizons in The Marriage of Figaro and Shirley Valentine in Sergeant Trotter) last appeared at in New York City. Cassie has participated in numerous Center REP’s award winning production of Shirley Center REP as Figaro in last new play readings, including TheatreWorks and the Valentine. She will gratefully return to the role of Mrs. season’s award-winning pro- Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She has also served as Cratchit in Center REP’s A Christmas Carol opening duction of the Marriage of Figaro. choreographer for several Bay Area productions. December 6th in the Hofmann Theatre next door. His Bay Area credits include the world premiere of First Person Michael Butler* (Paravicini/ CREATIVE TEAM Artistic Director) is very pleased to Shooter (San Francisco Playhouse), make his onstage debut at Center The Circle (American Conservatory Theater), Brooklyn Agatha Christie (Playwright) is REP, having previously directed Boy, Dolly West’s Kitchen, Shakespeare In Hollywood, and the world’s best-known mystery Hank Williams: Lost Highway, How Theophilus North (TheatreWorks), Iphigenia At Aulis (San writer. The Guinness Book of the Other Half Loves, The Marriage of Jose Repertory Theatre), Bus Stop (Marin Theatre Records listed her as the best- Figaro, Around the World in 80 Days Company), Love’s Labour’s Lost (San Francisco selling fiction author of all time (Shellie Award) and Picasso at the Shakespeare Festival), and The Shape of Things and with an estimated two billion Lapin Agile (Shellie Award). As an actor, Michael has The Persians (Aurora Theatre Company, each earning copies of her works sold. It is often worked on Broadway and off, in film, television, books him a Dean Goodman Choice Award.) His other said that she is outsold only by the on tape, and in regional theatres around the country. credits include The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow Bible and Shakespeare. Agatha Highlights include Two Shakespearean Actors and Macbeth (Portland Center Stage and San Jose Repertory Miller was born in Torquay, England on September on Broadway, and leading roles at The Public Theatre, Theatre), and the world premiere of David Edgar’s 15, 1890. In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald the Roundabout, the Guthrie, Arena Stage, and Long Continental Divide (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. The Wharf, tours of Russia, Europe and Australia with Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Barbican Theatre couple had one daughter, Rosalind, before their divorce The Acting Company, and 6 productions at San Jose (UK), and La Jolla Playhouse). in 1928. In a writing career that spanned more than Rep under the direction of Timothy Near. He played half a century, Agatha Christie wrote 80 novels and the title role in the PBS production of David Gordon’s Carrie Paff* (Mollie Ralston) is short story collections. She also wrote over a dozen delighted to be back at Center Punch and Judy Get Divorced, the guitar-wielding plays, including The Mousetrap, which opened in performance artist in the Merchant Ivory film, Slaves REP where she has previously London on November 25, 1952, and is now the longest of New York, and was the villainous Pierre LeChance been seen in How the Other Half continuously running play in theatrical history. , and on The Guiding Light. In his career as a performer he Loves Picasso at the Lapin Agile Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles has also danced with the Erick Hawkins Dance Becoming Memories (Shellie Award (1920), was also the first to feature her eccentric Company and played guitar and harmonica in many Nomination—Best Supporting Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Surely one of the rock, blues, and country western bands at all the Actress). Other Bay Area credits include After the War most famous fictional creations of all time, Poirot’s notable dives in NYC. at A.C.T., The Joan Rivers Theatre Project and Charles ‘little grey cells’ triumphed over devious criminals in Grodin’s The Right Kind of People at Magic Theatre, 33 novels and 54 short stories. Christie’s last published novel, Sleeping Murder (1976), featured her other designer and makeup artist. Her credits include Casting Director, her other credits include Off- world-famous sleuth, the shrewdly inquisitive Miss costume design work for Opera San Jose, American Broadway Productions (Happy Hour) & NGNJ Jane Marple, who appeared in twelve novels, and 20 Musical Theatre of San Jose, San Jose Repertory Productions (I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change) both short stories, since her debut in The Murder at the Theatre, California Shakespeare Festival, Western in New York, The New Eureka Theater, The San Vicarage in 1930. Murder on the Orient Express, Witness Stage Company, The Alley Theatre, and the Jose Limon Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Arizona Theatre for the Prosecution, And Then There Were None, and Death Dance Company. Betty’s makeup credits include San Company, Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, Brava! on the Nile are a few of the successful films based on Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, Opera San Jose, For Women in the Arts, Theatre Rhinoceros, Z Space her works. In 1971, she achieved her country’s highest and American Musical Theatre. She is a member of Studio, and Warehouse Repertory Theatre. For the honor when she received the Order of Dame the IATSE– Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists, the camera, she has cast Falcom Crest, An Inconvenient Commander of the British Empire. Agatha Christie Costume Commission of the United States Institute Woman, Midnight Caller and The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. died peacefully at home on January 12, 1976 after a for Theatre Technology and a founding member of the short cold. Bay Area Costumers Alliance. Scott Denison (Managing Director) has directed over 150 productions, including Center REP’s highly Timothy Near (Director) is in her Kurt Landisman (Lighting Designer) is pleased to be successful production The Wizard of Oz and CCMT’s 21st season as Artistic Director designing lighting for The Mousetrap at Center REP, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and the last nine of San Jose Rep. Her more than and collaborating with Director, Timothy Near. Local productions of A Christmas Carol. Mr. Denison is the 30 directing credits at the Rep audiences will be familiar with his work through past director and co-founder of Fantasy Forum Actors include Iphigenia At Aulis, Major productions designed for Center REP including How Ensemble, and the creator of the Contra Costa County Barbara, Bad Dates, Wintertime, the Other Half Loves, Around the World in 80 Days,and Shellie Awards. He has also designed lights for over ART, By the Bog of Cats with Holly Fugitive Kind. His designs have been seen throughout 250 productions, including Center REP’s production Hunter, Wallflowering, The Little the Bay Area at many theaters including San Francisco of Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Laughter on the 23rd Foxes, The 1940’s Radio Hour and The Sea Gull. Near Opera, ACT, Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Floor, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Cowgirls, Suds, Shirley has directed at numerous theatres throughout the Theatreworks, California Shakespeare Festival, The Valentine and Dear Liar, and CCMT’s Titanic and Guys United States, including Portland Center Stage, Magic Theatre, and Marin Theatre Company. Locally and Dolls. As General Manager of the Lesher Center Intiman Theatre (Seattle), A Contemporary Theatre his work has garnered 15 Bay Area Critics Circle for the Arts, he coordinates over 900 events annually. (Seattle), The Guthrie Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Awards and 5 LA Dramalogue Awards. Nationally, Theatre, Alliance Theatre Company, the Mark Taper his work has been seen at many regional opera & ballet Forum, Ford’s Theatre (Washington, D.C.), The New companies, including the Los Angeles Opera, York Shakespeare Festival, The Repertory Theatre of Minnesota Opera, Virginia Opera, Tulsa Opera, and St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse and Opera San Jose. Ballet Arizona. His designs have also been presented Center REPertory Company She has received Hollywood DramaLogue Awards for off-Broadway, represented at Circle Rep, and the Managing Director - Scott Denison her direction of Ghosts on Fire (La Jolla Playhouse), Douglas Fairbanks Theatres. Other designs Fire in the Rain...Singer in the Storm (Mark Taper internationally include world premieres of plays by Artistic Director - Michael Butler Forum) and Thunder Knocking on the Door at SJ Rep. Sam Shepard in Japan, and Singapore, as well as the She is also an actress and is the recipient of New York’s Production San Francisco Opera in Shanghai, China, and the Audience Servuces Production Manager Obie Award for her performance in Still Life with Moscow Circus in Tokyo, Japan. Audience Services Coordinator Jeff Collister John Spencer and Mary McDonnell. Ms. Near grew Ty Sutton Properties Master up on a ranch in Northern California and is a graduate Ticket Office Staff Jo Hasslowski Chris Houston (Sound Designer) is a pianist and Assistant Stage Manager of San Francisco State University and the UK’s London Rebecca O’ Connor composer. He writes and designs for film, video, theater, Faye Antaki Scott Marden Production Assistant Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Near was and dance. His designs and compositions have been Sherrell Ayers awarded a 1997 Woman of Achievement Award In Avelina Brown-Nunez Brandon Fuller featured at Aurora Theatre, Marin Theater, SF Technical The Arts. In 2005 she received The Janet Gray Hayes Caitlin Downing Playhouse, A.C.T., Center REPertory, Magic Theater, Kiersten Jones Technical Director Joe Mizzi Award for Leadership. and SF Shakespeare. Recent productions include Karla Kopfhammer Rafael Martin Carpenters Hysteria, 6 Degrees of Separation, The Good German, Jason Renteria Ben Cowden Kelly Tighe Jason Renteria Kelly Tighe (Scenic Designer) Off Broadway: The Jesus Hopped the A Train, Birthday Party, Luminescence Sean Wihera Kalon Forrest Kyle Jacques Fantasticks, Almost Heaven. National tours: Movin’ Out, Production Services Dating, Ice Glen, Tuesdays With Morrie, The Ride Down Henry Perkins Mooseltoe. Regional: Dreamgirls, My Way, Aida, Cats, Production Services Coordinator Henry Perkins Mt. Morgan, and The Tempest. His music may be Toni Kilcoyne Scenic Artist The Full Monty, Jesus Christ Superstar (Gateway Kelly Tighe heard on the Emmy winning PBS news show Now. He Technical Staff Playhouse); Beauty/Beast, Grease, Titanic, The Who’s Casting has been twice nominated for the Bay Area Theatre Doug Alvey Tommy, (Contra Costa Musical Theatre); Annie, Kiss Casting Director Critics Circle Award. John Earls Annie Stuart Me Kate, Joseph/Dreamcoat (Ohio’s Carousel Dinner Nicole Iannaccone Education Theater); West Side Story, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Diablo Sid Lucas Education Directors Elisa J. Rupert* (Production Stage Manager) is pleased Iain McKay Light Opera Co.); Around the World in 80 Days, The Kerri Shawn and excited to be returning to California after having Steve Pino Jeffrey Draper Garrick Schuster Pavilion, Picasso at the Lapin Agile , A Christmas Carol worked on the East Coast for the last five years. Most Marketing (Center REPertory Company); The Laramie Project, A Stephen Spleiss Marketing Director recently Elisa worked for The John F. Kennedy Center Josh Stouffer Midsummer Night’s Dream (PPAS/ NYC). Mr. Tighe Gabe Marin as the Production Stage Manager for the National Administration Costumes served as the resident Scenic Designer for Western Asst. to the Managing Director Tour of Willy Wonka. Prior to working for the Kennedy Costume Manager Michigan’s Cherry County Playhouse (The Music Man Gail Pfeifer Melissa Paterson Center Elisa was the Production Stage Manager for Program starring William Katt and Josie DeGuzman, and the Assistant Costumers the National tours of: Menopause the Musical, Sarah Plain Linda Nomura Michael A. Berg world premiere of starring Amanda Usher Coordinator Will’s Women and Tall and Cedar Lake Ensemble’s Eternal Search. Amy Nielson Jody Cook Development McBroom), and Center REP in the San Francisco Some of Elisa’s regional Stage Management credits Bay Area. Television: Sunday Night Woah! (starring Development Director include: West Side Story, Annie Get Your Gun, Some Like Gwen Loeb Mo Rocca) for Animal Planet as well as several spots It Hot!, Honk! The Ugly Duckling, Peter Pan, Annie, Man for Verizon, Kit Kat, Disney, and the Oxygen network. of La Mancha, A Grand Night for Singing, Gretel & Hansel, Awards and recognitions: Northern California’s CITY COUNCIL I Love You, You¹re Perfect, Now Change, Forever Plaid and Susan McNulty Rainey, Mayor “Shellie”, Drama-Logue, and the S.F. Bay Area’s Outer the East Coast Premiere of Him and Her. Other Gwen RegaliaRegalia, Mayor Pro Tem Critic’s Circle. Kelly resides in New York City. Charlie Abrams regional credits include: Jane Eyre, Ragtime, Carousel, Cindy Silva Brigadoon, Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, War of the Gary Skrel Elizabeth Poindexter (Costume Designer) is very Worlds, Bus Stop, Wonderful Town, and Company One. CITY MANAGER Gary Pokorny excited to be working with Center REPertory Elisa is a proud member of The Actor’s Equity Company. Her professional career has been divided DIRECTOR Association. Arts, Recreation and Community Services between her two great loves, teaching and designing. Barry Gordon She has recently retired from San Jose State University, Annie Stuart (Casting Director) has been casting in ARTS COMMISSION Department of TV, Radio, Film and Theatre where Jacquelyn Smith, Chair the Bay Area for the last twelve years, and has enjoyed Michael FotheringhamFotheringham, Vice Chair she taught costume and makeup for the past 27 years. four seasons at Center REP, the last two as Associate Fritz Brunner While at SJSU she designed costumes and makeup for Artistic Director. She has long-term affiliations with Lonna Coleman over 180 productions. Betty is equally well known in Carol Fowler Marin Theatre Company, SF Playhouse, PlayGround Reginald Marshall the San Francisco Bay Area as a professional costume and the Playwright’s Foundation. As a freelance Suzanne Masella Center REPertory Company would like to thank our generous 2007-2008 season supporters.

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