A NERO WOLFE MYSTERY by Joseph Goodrich; Directed by Peter Moore Adapted from the Novel by Rex Stout

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A NERO WOLFE MYSTERY By Joseph Goodrich; Directed by Peter Moore Adapted from the Novel by Rex Stout

JUN 16 – JUL 30 Proscenium Stage World Premiere Commission

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Welcome to a production that has many “owners.” Some are obvious: playwright Joseph Goodrich, Rebecca Stout Bradbury and the Rex Stout estate who literally own the rights to the original novel, director Peter Moore and his amazing team of designers, cast and crew. This play is also the fourth undertaking of our wildly enthusiastic Mystery Writers Producers’ Club who have owned it since the beginning. Started by like-minded mystery/theatre fans, club members contribute funds and journey through the production process together. This year it has grown to 40 households! Over dinners, cocktail parties, play reading and rehearsals, they have helped bring this play to life. It was their idea that the original businessman who starts the action to find a missing son should be a woman. They sat in on early readings to identify the red herrings that didn’t work and applaud the turns of phrase that did. You become an owner by investing your energy in this performance. While we always appreciate those who can make a tax-deductible contribution to further our mission, you become a Park Square “owner” when you invest your time, recommend a play or send us your passionate criticism. Many thanks to all of our owners in the house today! To the newcomers: we are owned by this community, which means you (yes you).

Gratefully,

Richard Cook, Artistic Director C. Michael-jon Pease, Executive Director, CFRE 651.767.8482 | [email protected] 651.767.8497 | [email protected]

OUR MISSION is to enrich our community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

3 PLAYWRIGHT JOSEPH GOODRICH is a playwright whose work has been produced across the United States, in Canada and Australia, and published by Samuel French, Playscripts, the Padua Hills Press, and Applause Books, among others. Canada’s Vertigo Theatre produced the world premiere of his adaptation of Ellery Queen’s novel Calamity Town, which received the 2016 Calgary Theater Critics’ Award for Best New Script. In 2014, The Red Box was commissioned by Park Square Theatre and marked the stage debut of Nero Wolfe. Panic received the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Play and was produced at Park Square in 2011. He is the editor of Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950, which was nominated for Anthony and Agatha awards. His fiction has appeared inEllery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Noir Riot, and in two Mystery Writers of America anthologies: The Mystery Box, edited by Brad Meltzer, and The Rich and the Dead, edited by Nelson DeMille. His nonfiction has appeared inAHMM , Mystery Scene and Crimespree. In 2018, Perfect Crime Books will publish This Business of Revenge, a collection of short stories. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a former Calderwood Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Born in Minnesota, he survived four years in Los Angeles, and now lives in New York City.

This show was made possible in part by Park Square Theatre’s MYSTERY WRITERS PRODUCERS’ CLUB:

Anonymous Jewelie Grape Michael Monahan & Steve & Nancy Apfelbacher The John W. Harris Family Molly O’Shaughnessy Clint & Sara Beckstrand David & Ann Heider Rosanne Nathanson Herbert & Lynne Benz Robert & Lucille Ingram George Perez & Linda Boss Tom & Victoria Keller Karna Johnson Peters John Clarey & Robyn Hansen Wes & Deidre Kramer Steve & Deb Ragatz Mike & Sharon Conley Ray & Jan Krause Susan Rostkoski Kenneth & Gwen Crabb Kent & Diane Krueger James Rustad & Kay Thomas Richard Crowell & Jim & Mary LaFave Joe & Christi Schmitt Mary Beth Brody Elizabeth Wall Lee Dan & Emily Shapiro Tim & Susan Flaherty James & Sharon Lewis Joan T. Smith David & Genevieve Freier Ken & Diana Lewis Jim & Mimi Stake The Gallagher Eversoll Family Bill Mahlum & Donna Allan Paul Stembler & Mary Ebert Philip & Deborah Gelbach Jack & Jeanne Matlock Fred Wall The Mystery Writers Producers’ Club is a fun and devoted group of Park Square Theatre donors who help support our Mystery Show each year and stay connected to the production year round. Find out how you can help produce next year’s production of Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Also, learn about our Premiere Club (Next Production: Cardboard Piano) and Future Audiences Club (Next Production: Hamlet). Contact Mackenzie Pitterle at 651.767.1440.

The Latin Dance Music in Act I is dedicated to the JOHN W. HARRIS FAMILY on the PROSCENIUM STAGE

A NERO WOLFE MYSTERY By Joseph Goodrich; Adapted from the Novel by Rex Stout Director...... Peter Moore Assistant Director...... Sophie Peyton Scenic Designer...... Rick Polenek Costume Designer...... Sara Wilcox Light Designer...... Michael P. Kittel Sound Designer...... Anita Kelling Properties Designer...... Robert “Bobbie” Smith Fight Choreographer...... Brandon Ewald Choreographer...... Austene Van Stage Manager...... Laura Topham* Assistant Stage Manager...... Charles Fraser* Assistant Stage Manager...... Samantha Diekman CAST Nero Wolfe...... E.J. Subkoviak* Archie Goodwin...... Derek Dirlam Inspector Cramer ...... Michael Paul Levin* Fritz/Tom Irwin...... Jim Pounds Michael Monahan & Dol Bonner/Suki Molloy...... Am’Ber Montgomery Molly O’Shaughnessy Peter Hays/Johnny Keems...... Brandon Ewald Rosanne Nathanson Mrs. Herrold/Franny Irwin/Mrs. Arbuthnot...... Austene Van* George Perez & Delia Brandt/Rita Arkoff...... Marisa B. Tejeda Karna Johnson Peters Steve & Deb Ragatz Pat Degan/Morgue Attendant...... Don Maloney Susan Rostkoski Albert Breyer/Ralph Arkoff...... Paul Reyburn James Rustad & Kay Thomas Albert Breyer/Ralph Arkoff Understudy...... Brian P. Joyce Joe & Christi Schmitt Dan & Emily Shapiro On Wednesday evenings, the role of Albert Breyer/Ralph Arkoffwill be Joan T. Smith played by Understudy Brian P. Joyce Jim & Mimi Stake Paul Stembler & Mary Ebert TIME PERIOD/SETTING: May 22-28, 1956 The office of Nero Wolfe’s Fred Wall Brownstone at 918 W. 35th Street, and other locations on the Island of Manhattan. PERFORMANCE TIME: The performance will run approximately 2 hours, 5 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission. Copies of the novels and stories of Rex Stout are available from Bantam Books.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. As a courtesy to our actors and those around you, please DEACTIVATE all PHONES and ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ** Member, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Park Square Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre. 5 PERSPECTIVE

Rex Stout was among a handful of always precise. From Chandler: “He authors in the pre-World War II era to snorted and hit me in the solar plexus.” document the grimy underbelly of the From Hammett: “I haven’t laughed American dream, and his six dozen works so much over anything since the hogs are cited along with Dashiell Hammett’s ate my kid brother.” And, of course, and Raymond Chandler’s as among Nero Wolfe: “I have no talents. I have the most influential of the century. genius or nothing.” Such conflations The “pulp” genre had inauspicious and contradictions suggest a world beginnings in the nineteenth century, as collapsing, a blurring of good and writers in newly urbanized environments evil, the rise of an anti-hero – and poured out sordid crime stories printed not a small amount of delight in the on cheap paper (thus the name). The mounting rubble. form demonstrated (and exacerbated) a tenacious anxiety that cities were havens The genre’s glee with the unseemly of evil filled with dens of iniquity run by parts of human nature – boundless vile sinners. (It would come to be known greed, lust, and corruption – would be as “hardboiled,” like an egg cooked so quickly tempered. The cloying normalcy long it’s tough on the outside and good of I Love Lucy, Leave It to Beaver, and luck getting in.) The Andy Griffith Showwas a salve after the devastation of the Depression and The genre has been criticized in recent World War II. By the 1960s, readers had years for its celebration of half-drunk, turned away from one of America’s most perpetually penniless carousing bachelors. dominant literary genres as political (From Chandler’s The Long Goodbye: turmoil demanded more urgent forms. “Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is But sleuths are still sleuthing – and not magic, the second is intimate, the third just Garrison Keillor’s Guy Noir. Robert is routine. After that you take the girl’s Mosley’s Easy Rawlins and Michael clothes off.”) Such casual misogyny has Connelly’s Harry Bosch tangle with evil given rise to queer readings – Freud would with the kind of lazy indignation that have much to say about so many men and kept Philip Marlowe soaked in gin. Sue oh so many guns. Nero Wolfe and Archie Grafton’s alphabet soup and Gillian Goodwin are markedly kinder (and more Flynn’s recent novels have enhanced the sober) than Hammett’s Continental Op form with women crime-solvers who’d and Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, but the rather be home alone, and probably in duo still revel in the muck of humanity. the dark. They’re all (mostly) welcome Like other gumshoes, Wolfe and Goodwin reminders that we still need unlikely will find trouble when trouble doesn’t find heroes. Or, as Nero tells Archie in The them first. (It usually does.) Red Box, “I cannot remake the universe, and must therefore put up with this one.” Perhaps the most distinctive (and parodied) aspect of hardboiled fiction —Matt DiCintio is its language: euphemisms, sharp Matt DiCintio holds a PhD in Drama from Tufts. turns in logic, extended metaphors He works at Boston University and teaches at that can be sharp or languorous but Emerson College.

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Woody Love Traci Colwell 612.695.3001 651.308.0816 [email protected] [email protected] SUPER AGENT 2016 Mpls/St. Paul Magazine Coldwell Banker Burnet’s ROOKIE OF THE YEAR 2016 CAST AM’BER MONTGOMERY MARISA B. TEJEDA Dol Bonner/Suki Molloy Delia Brandt/Rita Arkoff Park Square A Raisin in the Sun Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Phoenix Representative Theatre Theater: Girls in White Dresses; Guthrie Theater: A Jungle Theater: Two Gentlemen Christmas Carol, The of Verona Training University of Minnesota/Guthrie Sunshine Boys; Shakespeare Theatre of Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program New Jersey: The Learned Ladies; South Dakota Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s JIM POUNDS Tale; Artistry: Hairspray; Mission Theatre Fritz/Tom Irwin Company: Much Ado About Nothing, Titus Park Square The Red Box, Saint Andronicus; Paul Bunyan Playhouse: Vanya Joan, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar and Sonya and Masha and Spike; CLIMB Representative Theatre Walking Theatre: Touring Company Member 2016- Shadow Theatre Company: Gross 2017 Training B.A, Theatre Arts, Concordia Indecency: The Trial of Oscar Wilde; Theater Latté Da: University 2016; Acting Apprentice, Company; Bloomington Civic Theatre: My Fair Lady; Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Actors Theater of Minnesota: A Thousand Clowns; 2015 Upcoming Projects GIRL Theatre’s Torch Theater: Fezziwig’s Feast; Gremlin Theatre: The Production at MN Fringe Festival 2017 Homecoming Other Media Director for The College of St. Scholastica at the St. Paul campus AUSTENE VAN* Mrs. Herrold/Franny Irwin/ PAUL REYBURN Mrs. Arbuthnot Albert Breyer/Ralph Arkoff Park Square As Actor: Park Square Debut To Kill a Mockingbird; As Representative Theatre Daleko Director: Hot Chocolate, Arts: Urinetown; Paul Bunyan Gee’s Bend, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar Playhouse: Gypsy, The Full Monty, and Grill Representative Theatre As Actor: Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Chicago, She Loves Me; Penumbra Theatre (Company Member): The Directing: Theatre in the Round: 110 in the Shade; Owl Answers, Detroit ‘67, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Lakeshore Players: Big River, The Mystery of Edwin Seven Guitars; Theater Latté Da: Aida; Ten Drood, The Happy Elf, A Funny Thing Happened on Thousand Things: A Street Car Named the Way to the Forum Film Invincible Force, Drop Desire; Jungle Theater: In the Next Room; Dead Fred Training B.A., Theater (Acting, Directing), Guthrie Theater: Trouble in Mind, Disgraced; Moorhead State University Upcoming Projects IRT/Cleveland Playhouse: Radio Golf; Artistry: The Music Man Children’s Theatre Company: Shrek the E.J. SUBKOVIAK* Musical, Once on This Island; Ordway: Singin’ Nero Wolfe in the Rain; As Director: Ten Thousand Things: Intimate Apparel; Theatre in the Park Square Great Expectations, Round: Six Degrees of Separation; Rarig Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Center: Joan: Voices in the Fire; History Palace Murders, The Red Box, Theatre: Lonely Soldier Monologues, A Civil Of Mice and Men, King Lear, War Christmas; Ordway: Blues in the Night; Oliver Twist, The Last Seder, Sherlock Holmes: Capri: Ain’t Misbehavin’; Penumbra Theatre: The Final Adventure, You Can’t Take It With You Black Nativity Other Artistic Director of Representative Theatre Jungle Theater: On Golden New Dawn Theatre Productions Upcoming Pond; History Theatre: The Highwaymen; Actors Projects As Director: Skylight Music Theatre: Theater of Minnesota: We Gotta Bingo; Hey City Hot Mikado; Ordway: Annie Theater: Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding Training B.S., Theater Arts, Minnesota State University, Mankato Upcoming Projects Park Square: Of Mice and Men

9 ARTISTIC STAFF PETER MOORE Juliet Training B.A., Theatre Arts, University Director of Minnesota Upcoming Projects Girl Friday Park Square 18 productions Productions: Idiot’s Delight (on the Andy Boss including Sherlock Holmes Thrust Stage at Park Square) and the Ice Palace Murders, MICHAEL P. KITTEL Lighting Designer The Red Box, King Lear, Park Square Over 120 productions (as Resident The Soul of Gershwin, Becky’s New Car, Lighting Designer) including The Color Purple, Spider’s Web, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Red, Ragtime, Grey Gardens, Democracy, To Adventure Representative Theatre Guthrie Kill a Mockingbird, Rock ‘n’ Roll Representative Theater, Coconut Grove Playhouse - Miami, Theatre Ordway, Frank Theatre, Stages Virginia Stage Co. - Norfolk, Winter Garden Theatre Company, Steppingstone Theatre, Mu Theater -Toronto, Parker Playhouse - Ft. Performing Arts, Bloomington Civic Theatre Lauderdale, York Theater (Off-Broadway), TV/Film tpt: The St. Olaf Christmas Festival University of Minnesota, Playwright’s Center Training University of Wisconsin-River Falls TV/Film (as Director) Autistic License; (as Accolades Ivey Award for The Pillowman (Frank Stunt Coordinator) Wilson (with Woody Theatre); Lavender Magazine Best Lighting Harrelson), Thin Ice (with Greg Kinnear), Design 2008 & 2009 Factotum (with Matt Dillon), Old Explorers (with James Whitmore), Vampire’s Embrace SOPHIE PEYTON Assistant Director (with Alyssa Milano), In An Instant (ABC-TV) Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Training B.A., Penn State University Accolades History Theatre: The Highwaymen; McCarter Best Educational Film, Autistic License, L.A. Theatre Center: Baby Doll, A Christmas Carol, International Family Film Festival. The Mousetrap; Wilma Theater: The Real Thing; PlayPenn: No Such Thing; Simpatico Theatre BRANDON EWALD Fight Choreographer Project: Missed Connections; Plays and Players See bio on page 7 Theater: Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet Training CHARLES FRASER* Assistant Stage Manager B.A., Theatre Arts with concentration in Park Square Of Mice and Men, The Language Directing, Temple University Archive, 33 Variations, To Kill a Mockingbird, King RICK POLENEK Scenic Designer Lear, The Last Seder Representative Theatre Park Square Over 30 productions including Penumbra Theatre: Jitney; History Theatre: Great Expectations, 4000 Miles, The Red Box, Lonely Soldiers; Burning House Group: 3 Parts King Lear, Ragtime, Spider’s Web, Pacific Dead; Jon Hassler Theater: Seascape; Minnesota Overtures, Born Yesterday Representative Shakespeare Project: King Lear; Mixed Blood Theatre Theater Latté Da: Oliver!, The Light in Theatre: Jackie Robinson Training B.F.A., the Piazza, Evita; History Theatre: Glensheen, University of Mississippi Upcoming Projects Teen Idol, Working Boys Band; Ordway; Skylark Penumbra Theatre: Wedding Band Opera; MN Centennial Showboat Training ANITA KELLING Sound Designer M.F.A., Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota Park Square The Snow Queen, Murder for Two, Other Retired faculty in Theatre, Normandale Shooting Star, The House on Mango Street, College Upcoming Projects History Theatre: 33 Variations, The Red Box, The Diary of Anne All The Way, Coco’s Diary Frank Representative Theatre Minnesota ROBERT “BOBBIE” SMITH Properties Designer Jewish Theatre Company: The Whipping Man; Park Square Amy’s View Representative Theatre Yellow Tree Theatre: Clybourne Park; Theatre Theater in the Round: Deathtrap; Minnesota Unbound: The How and the Why; Freshwater Jewish Theatre: The Magic Dreidels, Aunt Raini, Theatre: Pioneer Suite; Public Theatre of The Chanukah Guest, The Tale of the Allergist’s Minnesota: I and You; 20% Theatre: Changes Wife, Jericho; Theatre in the Round: Death on in Time; Theatre in the Round: Morning’s at the Nile; Walking Shadow Theatre Company: Seven; COLLIDE Theatrical Dance: Romeo and The River

10 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org ARTISTIC STAFF LAURA TOPHAM* Stage Manager Park Square The Realistic Joneses, Calendar Girls, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders, Explore Landmark Center through the The Diary of Anne Frank, 33 Variations, The Red Box, work of 10 visual artists: Of Mice and Men, Mary T. & Lizzie K. Representative Art within a ‘work of art. Theatre Ordway: Flint Hills Children’s Festival; Theater Latté Da: Beautiful Thing Training B.A., Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota

AUSTENE VAN Choreographer see bio on page 8

SARA WILCOX Costume Designer Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Old Log Theatre: Savannah Sipping Society, Reluctant Dragon, Million Dollar Quartet, Jungle Book, Wedding Singer; Walking Shadow Theatre: The River, The Christians, The Coward, Gabriel; DalekoArts: The Rink Wedding Pledge, Aziz Osman Training B.F.A., Costume Design, DePaul University June 15 - August 31, 2017 Upcoming Projects Old Log Theatre: Jack and the Open building hours • Free admission Beanstalk, Life Could Be a Dream Production Staff & Crew Assistant Stage Managers: Charles Fraser*, www.landmarkcenter.org Samantha Diekman Dresser: Britt Keller Wardrobe and Wig Maintenance: Mary Farrel Sound Operator: Charlotte Deranek Production Director: Rob Jensen Loring Park Technical Director: Ian Stoutenburgh Art Festival Paint Charge: Mary Montgomery-Jensen, Angelique Powers SATURDAY & SUNDAY Master Carpenter: William Bankhead July 29 & 30 Carpenters: Meagan Kedrowski, Brittany Pooladian An urban, sophisticated Tech Intern: Maya Simon oasis of art and culture Wardrobe Supervisor: Aaron Chvatal Master Electrician: Tony Stoeri Electrician: Courtney Schuitz, Jeremiah Ellarby Sound Supervisor: Charlotte Deranek

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11 OUR CONTRIBUTORS

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE HISTORIC HAMM BUILDING Their investment of $12,000,000 in donated rent and use of facilities over our 40-year tenure creates a vibrant cultural life in downtown Saint Paul.

PARK SQUARE LEAD FUNDING PARTNERS:

Margaret H. and James E. Kelley Mardag Foundation Foundation

These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota.

ANNUAL FUND INDIVIDUALS Jeff & Kathy Johnson Michael & Sharon Conley CORPORATIONS, CHAMPIONS $25,000+ Celita Levinson Joan R. Duddingston FOUNDATIONS AND Timothy & Gayle Ober Steven Kent Lockwood & Lucas Erickson GOVERNMENT Richard Cook Tim & Susan Flaherty $10,000-24,999 DIRECTORS $10,000+ Jack & Jeanne Matlock Edward Fox John Larsen Foundation Betty Anderlik in Memory of Kristin Parker Kristin Taylor Geisler Hugh J. Andersen Foundation Joseph Anderlik C. Michael-jon Pease & Philip & Deborah Gelbach Boss Foundation Linda Boss Christopher Taykalo Jim & Judy Haigh Harlan Boss Foundation David Duddingston & Scott T. & David & Ann Heider for the Arts Clay Halunen Jennifer Norris Peterson Scot Housh Colle + McVoy* Paul & Pat Sackett Thomas & Nancy Rohde Robert & Lucille Ingram Deluxe Corporation Foundation James Rustad & Kay Thomas Bruce Jones & Joann Nordin Ruth Easton Fund FANS $5,000+ Kari Ruth & Tom Park Mary & William Krueger Ecolab Foundation Anonymous Edward & Victoria Szalapski Ken & Diana Lewis EMC Paradigm Publishing* John Burbidge George Tyson Sharon & James Lewis Greystone Foundation John Clarey & Robyn Hansen Terri Uline Paul & Tara Mattessich Highlands Foundation The Crabb Family, Ken, Gwen, Fred Wall Rita McConnell RBC Wealth Management Casey & Rachael Susan Wenz Richard & Joan Newmark Foundation Mary Ebert & Paul Stembler Ann Wynia Molly O`Shaughnessy & The Saint Paul Foundation Dianne & Jim Falteisek Michael Monahan Travelers Nancy J. Feldman PACESETTERS $1,500+ Douglas & Carol Ogren VSA Minnesota Jerri Freier Suzanne Ammerman Steve & Deb Ragatz Wells Pianos* David & Genevieve Freier John & Barbara Balfanz David Robinson & Janet Ekern Xcel Energy Foundation Jewelie Grape Lynne Beck Ken & Nina Rothchild Athena Hollins Betsy Cobb & Peter Maye Edwin & Jennifer Ryan $5,000-9,999 Paul & Renee Johnson Tom & Mary Lou Detwiler Art & Jan Seplak RW Baird Foundation, Inc. John & Jeanne LeFevre Andrea Trimble Hart Emily & Dan Shapiro Starkey Hearing Foundation Bill Hueg† & Hella Mears† Wesley & Deirdre Kramer Miriam Stake Michaud Cooley Erickson Benedict & Rita Olk Ray & Jan Krause In memory of Gary Berggren Mixed Blood Theatre The David & Karen Olson Kent & Diane Krueger John L. Sullivan The Scrooby Foundation Family Foundation James & Mary LaFave Missy Staples Thompson & Securian Foundation Peter & Sara Ribbens John & Karen Larsen Gar Hargens Theatre Communications Group Joe & Christi Schmitt Jim Lewis Thomson Reuters Helen Wagner Rosanne Nathanson BENEFACTORS $500+ John & Sandra White Susan Rostkoski Jim Altman $2,500-4,999 Joan T. Smith Anonymous (2) AARP Minnesota LEADERS $2,500+ Carolyn Sorensen & Ani Backa Poehler/Stremel Charitable Trust John L Berthiaume & David Kelm Judy Bartlett Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker Joanne B Votel Irene Suddard Thelma Boeder Foundation Jeffrey Bores & Mary Beth Brody Lillian Wright & C. Emil Berglund Michael Hawkins GUARANTORS $1,000+ Susan Cammack Foundation Allan & Mary Lou Burdick Corrie Ooms Beck Paul & Tina Casey Charles & Laura Cochrane Tim & Sara Beckstrand Kathy Cristan $1,000-2,499 Barb & Fran Davis Herbert & Lynne Benz Richard Crowell Dramatists Guild Fund The John W. Harris Family Anonymous (2) Fran Davis James B. Linsmayer Foundation Karen B. Heintz Daniel Boone Steven Euller & Nancy Roehr

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Litton Field Steve Colton Rick Polenek Keith Kuffel John Gillen in Memory of Roger Cone Nicole & Charlie Prescott Robert Leonard Lawrence Pierson Buzz Cummins Brad & Linda Quarderer Edward & Judith Malecki Jennifer Gross Sheila Faulkner Lawrence Redmond Mary Markgraf William & Linda Holley David E. Feinberg Nancy & Kevin Rhein Virginia McFerran Gerald Holt Richard & Beverly Fink Jill Rice Kathleen McLeod & Eric Hepp Mary Jacobs Mary Finnerty & Chuck & Terri Roehrick Patricia Mitchell Donald & Carol Jo Kelsey Patrick Esmonde Sandra Sandell Muriel Nelson PARK SQUARE LEAD FUNDING PARTNERS: Thomas & Mary Krick Carolyn Fiterman Jack & Judy Schlukebier Joann Nelson Lynn Kvalness K. Paul Freborg Jim Seidel Michael & Kay O`Brien Chris & Daniel Mahai Mike & Carol Garbisch Connie Shaver Mary O`Keefe Tony Manzara in Memory of Mary Beidler Gearen Ronald-Craig & Jim Ostlund Sally Bess Gold Mariana Shulstad Kathy and Don Park Frank P. Mayers Sara Graffunder George Skinner & Sydney Phillips William & Virginia McDonald Bonnie Hancock & Joe Weyendt Anne Hanley Nancy & James Proman Robert Milligan & Sharon Danes Robin Hubbell Jackson Smith Sharon Radman Russell & Kathryn Rhode Todd & Mary Jacobson Cynthia & Mark Stange Thue & Uttara Rasmussen Timothy M. Scanlan Nancy Jones Stanley & Connie Suchta Barbara & William Read Summer Seidenkranz & Mary A. Jones Ron and Margaret Tabar Farrel Rich Clark Schroeder Art & Martha Kaemmer Jon & Lea Theobald Mike Ring & Flannery Clark David & Ann Smith Linda Klaver Debra Venker Catherine & Ferrol Robinson Sheri Zigan Jan Konke Jenifer Wagner & James Vogel Shelly Rucks Ruth Ladwig Leon & Lindy Webster Michael Ryan SUSTAINERS $250+ David & Pamela Lande Claudia & Don Wiebold William & Glennis Schlukebier Carolyn Adams Colles Larkin Bruce & Julianne Seiber Janet Albers Kim Leventhal FRIENDS $150-249 Lee & Lois Snook William A. Anderson Mary & David Margaret Albrecht Michael & Sherry Spence Elizabeth Andrews Lundberg-Johnson James & Kathy Andrews John & Nan Steger Steve & Nancy Apfelbacher Michael Mallory & Anonymous Marcia & John Stout Marcia J. Aubineau Catherine Gray Kay C. Bach Barbara & Randy Sutter Terry Banaszewski Ron & Mary Mattson Mark & Pam Bintzler Michael Symeonides Robert & Mary Beck Bryan Mcgee Jeanne Corwin Joyce Thielen Tanya Bell Dennis & Kathy McGuire David & Evelyn Coslett Bob & Kathy Thompson Susan & James Berdahl Bev & Ward Montgomery Susan Flynn Gerald & Beth Voermans Iris Bierbrauer James & Nancy Mulvey Caroline & H Dutton Foster Carol Westberg Laura & Jon Bloomberg Merritt Nequette in Memory of Jeremiah & Karen Gallivan Terry & Susan Wolkerstorfer Judy & Arnold Brier Pauline Lambert Nancy & Jack Garland Wendy Worner Jean & Carl Brookins Bonnie Palmquist Annamary & Jim Herther David Bruns James Persoon & Julie & Anders Himmelstrup Cecil & Penny Chally Barbara Schmidt Persoon Mike & Lorinda Jackson * In-Kind Gift Ron & Kathy Colby Sidney & Decima Phillips Alfred & Sharon Kauth † In Remembrance

FOUNDERS SOCIETY The Founders Society recognizes individuals who have made PLANNED ESTATE GIFTS a future gift to the Theatre through their wills or other estate Betty Anderlik Jack & Jeanne Matlock plans. These gifts literally lay the foundation for the next Anonymous Dick Morrison† generation of theatre goers – making each donor a founder of Robert Baker Corrie Ooms Beck Park Square’s future. John & Barbara Balfanz Ronald Parker You don’t need to be rich to leave a lasting legacy. You can Dennis Breining C. Michael-jon Pease provide for your heirs, gain important tax benefits, and even Richard Cook & James Persoon & Barbara Steven Kent Lockwood Schmidt Persoon receive an income now by making a thoughtful planned gift. Margaret Durham Scott T. & Planned Gifts include: A Bequest in Your Will; Retained Life Nancy Feldman Jennifer Norris Peterson Estate; Gift of Retirement Plan Assets; Charitable Remainder Berneen Rudolph John & Hilde Flynn Trust; Gift of Life Insurance Policy; Charitable Lead Trust; Paul & Pat Sackett John Paul Gillen in memory of Charitable Gift Annuity Lawrence E (Larry) Pierson Laurie Simon John W. Harris Doris Swenson† For more information about planned gifts and their potential Sheila Henderson† John & Sandy White tax advantages, please visit parksquaretheatre.org/legacy Sue McAllister Many thanks to ALL our donors. Every gift makes a difference and all donors are listed at parksquaretheatre.org/contribute/individualsupport

Individual support was received between 1.1.2016 and 12.31.2016. Please help keep our records correct by contacting us at 651.767.8483 or [email protected] with any changes or oversights.

theatre because of you. (yes you.) 13 PARK SQUARE STAFF Richard Cook, Artistic Director FINANCE AND OPERATIONS Michael-jon Pease, CFRE, Executive Director Sheri J. Zigan, Finance & Operations Director ARTISTIC Jackson Smith, Finance Coordinator Rob Jensen, Production Director Dave Peterson, Facility & Event Manager Ian Stoutenburgh, Technical Director John Romano, Facility & Event Associate Laura Leffler, Company and Contract Manager Front of House Staff: (Evening) Jiffy Kunik - Jamil Jude, Artistic Programming Associate Performance Supervisor; Jimmy Vincent - Lead House Michael P. Kittel, Resident Lighting Designer Manager; Ashe Jaafaru, Jackson Smith, Kasey Tunell, William Bankhead, Master Carpenter Mariah Christensen, Michelle Clark, Sarah Bauer, Justin Charlotte Deranek, Sound Supervisor Campbell, Maria Perez, Sophie Wozniak; (Daytime) Meagan Kedrowski, Rep Crew Head Maria Perez - Lead House Manager; Justin Campbell - Aaron Chvatal, Wardrobe Supervisor House Manager; Gayle Smith, Louise Rosemark, Ann John White, Literary Management Volunteer Feider, Patricia Arnold, Paula Manzuk, Ting Ting Cheng, Ernest Briggs, Production Intern Liz Englund Ticket Agents: Ben Cook-Feltz - Ticket Office Supervisor; Jimmy Vincent, Sophie Wozniak EDUCATION Usher & Friday Morning Club Coordinator: Judy Bartlett Mary M. Finnerty, Education Director Quinn Shadko, Education Sales and Services Manager ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES: Aditi Kapil, Playwright, Connor M. McEvoy, Education Program Associate Director and Actor; Carson Kreitzer, Playwright; Ricardo Alexandra Hatch, Education Assistant Vázquez, Playwright and Actor; James A. Williams, Marcia Aubineau, Post-show Discussion Moderator Director, Actor and Teacher Immersion Day and Ambassador Program ACCESS SERVICES STAFF: Audio Description: Rick Teaching Artists: Tessie Bundick, Josh Campbell, Shanan Jacobson, Laurie Pape-Hadley, Elana Centor; ASL: Paul Custer, Annie Enneking, Mary K. Flaa, Christina Ham, H. Deeming, Shelley Lehner, Susan Masters, Linda Gill, Adam Harris, Steve Hendrickson, Brian Hesser, Katharine Carlos Grant, Nella Titus, Alicia Hoch; Open Captioning: Horowitz, Stephen Houtz, JuCoby Johnson, Aditi Kapil, Kathleen Conroy, Elana Centor, Laura Wiebers Mike Kittel, Carson Kreitzer, Kory LaQuess Pullam, Kym CONSULTANTS: Assignment Writers: Ting Ting Cheng, Longhi, Katy McEwen, Leslye Orr, Joseph Papke, Aaron Matt DiCintio, Vincent Hannam, Eric “Pogi” Sumangil; Preusse, Doug Scholz-Carlson, Jen Scott, Eric Sharp, Dane Auditor: Clifton Larson Allen; Disability Advisor: Jill Stauffer, Jennifer Weir, Regina Marie Williams Boon; Marketing Consultant: Christopher Taykalo; EXTERNAL RELATIONS Volunteer Curator: Toni Dachis Connie Shaver, Marketing & Audience Development Director VOLUNTEERS: Friday Morning Club: Susan Adix, Mackenzie Pitterle, Annual Fund Manager Doreen Aszmus, Sue Bjerke, Pat Dalluhn, Monica Fritzen, Rachel Wandrei, Marketing & Engagement Manager Pat Sackett; Thank you to all of our Volunteer Ushers. Rachel E.H. Bentley, Marketing & Development Associate Lynne Beck, Development Consultant Madge Duffey, Graphic Designer PARK SQUARE INFORMATION Petronella J. Ytsma, Photographer CONTACT Michael Hanisch, Videographer Park Square Theatre Jim Heideman, Telemarketing Services 408 St. Peter Street, Suite 110, Saint Paul, MN 55102 Alicia Pedersen, Marketing Coordinator Zach Anderson, Marketing Intern Ticket Office: 651.291.7005 Usher Hotline: 651.767.8489 Education: 651.291.9196 Donor Development: 651.767.1440 Audience Services: 651.767.8487 PRESENTS PRESENTS Group Sales: 651.767.8485 PRESENTS PRESENTS Audition Hotline: 651.767.8491

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TICKET OFFICE HOURS Tuesday – Friday: 12:00 – 5:00pm & 6:30 – 8:00pm (performance days only) 12:00 – 5:00pm (non-performance days) June 29-July 23 Saturday: 2:00 – 8:00pm* (performance days only) June 29-July 23 *For Sat matinees, ticket office & phones open at12:30 pm AndyJune Boss Thrust 29-July Stage at Park Square23 Andy Boss Thrust Stage at Park Square Sunday: 1:00 – 3:30pm (performance days only) AndyThe Boss 1936 Thrust Pulitzer Stage Prize-winning at Park Square Thedramatic 1936 comedyPulitzer Prize-winning with musical Proscenium Stage seats 348. Andy Boss Thrust Stage seats 203. Thedramatic 1936 comedyPulitzer Prize-winning with musical accents—setdramatic comedy in a world with on musicalthe brink. The Historic Hamm Building is smoke-free. accents—setdramatic comedy in a world with on musicalthe brink. Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the House Manager. accents—set in a world on the brink. Restrooms and water fountains on main floor and lower level. accents—setgirlfridayproductions.org in a world on the brink. girlfridayproductions.org Cameras/audio/video equipment and laser pointers prohibited. girlfridayproductions.org PARK SQUARE BOARD OF DIRECTORS EDUCATOR ADVISORY BOARD Tim Ober (President) Marcia Aubineau, University of St. Thomas, retired President, Red Oaks of Dakota County Inc. Liz Erickson, Rosemount High School, retired John L. Berthiaume (Vice President) Theodore Fabel, South High School VP, Financial Advisor, RBC Wealth Management Craig Farmer, Perpich Center for Arts Education Karen Heintz (Treasurer) Amy Hewett-Olatunde, LEAP High School Senior VP, Branch Manager, Robert W. Baird Cheryl Hornstein, Freelance Theatre and Music Educator Nancy Feldman (Secretary) Alexandra Howes, Twin Cities Academy President and CEO, UCare, Retired Dr. Virginia McFerran, Perpich Center for Arts Education Daniel Boone Executive Director, Integrated Programs Kristin Nelson, Brooklyn Center High School Marketing Services, DELUXE Mari O’Meara, Eden Prairie High School Kristine Clarke Learner Representative, Jennifer Parker, Falcon Ridge Middle School University of Minnesota: College of Continuing Education Maggie Quam, Hmong College Prep Academy Barb Davis Realtor, Coldwell Banker Burnet Kate Schilling, Mound Westonka High School Jim Falteisek VP of Commercialization, 3M Jack Schlukebier, Central High School, retired Kristin Taylor Geisler Principal, Iris Consulting, LLC Tanya Sponholz, Prescott High School Jill Tammen, Hudson High School, retired Jewelie Grape Partner, Conner & Winters, LLP Craig Zimanske, Forest Lake Area High School Andrea Trimble Hart CPCU, Senior VP, Willis of Minnesota, Inc. Jeff Johnson (Immediate Past President) CFO, Amesbury Truth Paul Johnson VP, Investor Relations, Xcel Energy THEATRE AMBASSADORS Greg Landmark VP - HR, Compensation, Payton Anderson (Shell Lake High School), Marissa Bergin Benefits and Operations, Travelers Insurance (Columbia Heights High School), Alex Boss (Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists), Amiri Burns (Harding John LeFevre Community Volunteer (Deluxe, Retired) High School), Arianna Diaz-Celon (SPCPA), Soren Eversoll Paul Mattessich Executive Director, Wilder Research Foundation (Highland Park High School), Schyler Fish (Highland Park Kristin Berger Parker Partner, Stinson, Leonard, Street High School), Greta Hallberg (Minnehaha Academy), Kari Ruth Director of Strategic Communications, Madisyn Haukland (Coon Rapids High School), Thomas Hennepin Theatre Trust Henry (Trinity School at River Ridge), Mairi Johnson Paul Sackett Professor of Psychology and Liberal Arts, (Mounds View High School), Elizabeth Koetz (South High University of Minnesota School), Jonah Schmitz (Buffalo High School), Katherine Paul Stembler Consultant Swartzer (Buffalo High School), Emma Symanski (SPCPA), Helen Wagner Community Volunteer (3M, Retired) Ava Tesmer (Eagle Ridge Academy), Emily Twardy (Buffalo Susan Wenz Director of Programming – KSTP-TV & 45TV High School), Claire Umolac-Bunker (Highland Park High School), Catherine Vorwald (Twin Cities Academy), Brigham Williams (SPCPA), Kiersten Ziegler (Minnehaha Academy)

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