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FEBRUARY 2015

The Dog of the South A1

by Charles Portis Adapted by Judd Parkin Directed by Jane Jones

A-1 Welcome A-3 The Dog of the South Credits A-8 Meet the Cast and Crew A-13 Thank You to Our Contributors A-16 Company Information

I AM OF IRELAND | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | THE DOG OF THE SOUTH | LITTLE BEE | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

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Five Friday Questions with Spike Friedman BY BRETT HAMIL

Spike Friedman is as versatile a theatre artist as you’re likely to find. He’s a playwright and founding member of the Satori Group. He covers sports and culture for Grantland and writes the hilarious Seahawks game recaps for the Stranger. He’s also an Upright Citizens Brigade-trained sketch and improv player. (Full disclosure: Friedman also starred in a video I made with Encore contributor Travis Vogt that was a finalist in this year’s SketchFest Seattle Comedy Film Challenge.)

Friedman’s got a worldly sense of humor and an active curiosity that makes no distinction between high and low culture. He’s always working on something weird and wondrous. I caught up with him for this week’s installment of Five Friday Questions. What’s the funniest thing you’ve seen/heard in the last month? Moving from the peak of cinema to the dregs, The Worst Idea of All Time What’s the best performance you’ve seen lately? podcast is two comedians from New Zealand who watch Grown Ups 2 every A tie between New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.’s week and then immediately record a podcast about the experience. I just circus catch against the Dallas Cowboys from two Sundays ago and the discovered it a couple weeks ago and have already burned through the first cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki in Birdman. I think my own lack 20 or so episodes. It’s so funny. They’re on week 40 and are targeting a full of physical abilities draw me to admire the truly virtuosic and acrobatic, 52 episode run, which means they’ll have watched Grown Ups 2 52 times, and both Beckham and Lubezki blew me away with their virtuosity and which is insane. Their camaraderie, which seems to run in direct contrast acrobatics. It’s also worth noting that Lubezki, who is by far the best to Grown Ups 2’s apparent misanthropy, makes the whole project deeply cinematographer working right now, also has an Instagram account that’s satisfying and makes me want to watch Grown Ups 2 (despite their weekly

playing on another level. sign-off, “DON’T WATCH THE FILM”). WILSON GRETA

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Unfortunately that garbage movie is not available on any streaming service, nor is it rentable on iTunes. I’d have to pay 10 bucks to watch Grown Ups 2 just so I can more deeply in on a joke. Nice try, Sandler, but that’s not gonna happen (yet anyway... I’ve decided that when I’ve caught up with the guys on the podcast, I’m watching the film).

What music gets you pumped up? What do PARENT PREVIEW oct. 23, nov. 8, & May 13 you listen to when you’re sad? OPEN HOUSES Nov. 12 & Dec. 2 I’m in a sketch show called Buddies with drop-in event jan. 10, 2015 For more information visit WWW.BILLINGSMIDDLESCHOOL.ORG Ubiquitous They running at the Pocket Theater this month and one of my co-stars, Jason Miller, is supposed to make me a “night running” mix to get me pumped up before the shows. He hasn’t done this yet, so I’m shaming him (while also shamelessly plugging our show). Sans this as of yet non-existent mix, I’ll go with the song “Just” by Radiohead to get me pumped and every other song by Radiohead for when I’m sad.

What’s the ideal setting for writing a play? Depends on the point in the process. Early on I like to be as far from everyone as possible so I can spew out whatever I’ve got in my brain onto the page. Then when I have to do the grittier work of defining a story arc or composing a treatment, I like to work closely with a couple collaborators by day, and then recede to my own space at night for scripting. My best time for pumping out text usually comes after 10 pm, because I’m a crazy person for whom the rules don’t apply (or because I’m lazy and deadlines don’t count until whomever you owe a draft to is awake in the morning).

What’s the most indispensable thing you own? I hate that the answer is my MacBook Air, but man, I would not be able to survive without it. It’s light and powerful and small, and I do all my work on it. I’m writing these words on it right now! Say hi, MacBook Air.

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Nothing. It’s shy. Shy but great. You’ll have to trust me on this.

I’ve got a pretty great dog too whom I would not be comfortable dispensing of. Let’s put my dog Edgar Martinez Friedman in a tie with my MacBook Air for the top spot.

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Philharmonic • Taproot Theatre • UW World Series at Meany Hall • Village Theatre Issaquah & Everett • American ON THE EARLY-NOVEMBER NIGHT of his album of never being fulfilled, because no matter how Conservatory Theater • Berkeley release party, Seattle rapper Gabriel Teodros popular you are, there’s someone with more influ- Repertory Theatre • Broadway San Jose sits upstairs on the balcony of the Columbia ence than you. • California Shakespeare Theater • San City Theater drinking tea with an old friend and Francisco Ballet • San Francisco Opera • group mate. Ben Haggerty (aka Macklemore) is You’ve said that you’re really proud of the SFJAZZ • Stanford Live • TheatreWorks sitting next to him, separated by a skinny table writing on the new record. and so much more. Their careers are in vastly I see in my own writing a huge improvement and • Weill Hall at Sonoma State University different places, but it’s Teodros who’s fully tap- I think it has to do with the fact that I’m experi- • 5th Avenue Theatre • ACT Theatre • ping into his creative power now. He recently menting with other types of writing and then I Book-It Repertory Theatre • Broadway released Evidence of Things Not Seen, a col- come back to hip-hop. I’ve been writing prose Center for the Performing Arts laboration with New Zealand-based producer more this year, from a short story in Octavia’s SoulChef, featuring Teodros’ heart-drenched Brood: Sci-Fi Stories from Social Movements to Pacific Northwest Ballet • Paramount lyricism matched with polished production. The essays [for the music blog Okayafrica.com]. I’ll & Moore Theatres • Seattle Children’s material cuts to the core of his principles of go from a book that I’m working on to writing a Theatre • Seattle Men’s Chorus love, artistic faith and sobriety, and suggests song. And my approach to writing lyrics is more Seattle Opera • Seattle Repertory that Teodros, 33, is creatively in his Jesus year. mature. I hope listeners get it. Theatre • Seattle Shakespeare Company JONATHAN CUNNINGHAM Why did you decide to do Evidence of Things Seattle Symphony • Seattle Women’s Given the title of the album, it’s worth asking: Not Seen with someone in New Zealand? Chorus • Tacoma City Ballet • Tacoma What does faith mean to you? I loved SoulChef’s beats, and I really loved the Philharmonic • Taproot Theatre • UW Being a full-time artist in a society where being workflow. We went from him sending a beat to World Series at Meany Hall • Village an artist isn’t seen as a re- recording, mixing, master- spectable profession takes ing and having a finished Theatre Issaquah & Everett • American extraordinary faith. The lon- product in the least amount Conservatory Theater • Berkeley ger you do it, even making “When you get to of time I’ve ever spent on a Repertory Theatre • Broadway San Jose music becomes a practice the mountaintop, project. I’ve always wanted • California Shakespeare Theater • San of trusting instincts. Beyond to go as close to real-time as Francisco Ballet • San Francisco Opera • music, I don’t personally fol- possible in terms of creating low any organized religion. there’s a shared music and then sharing it SFJAZZ • Stanford Live • TheatreWorks I respect whatever faith with people, without sacrific- • Weill Hall at Sonoma State University people hold onto, what- view no matter ing the quality of the music in • 5th Avenue Theatre • ACT Theatre • ever it is that keeps them where you any way. This is the closest Book-It Repertory Theatre • Broadway grounded, connected and to that that I’ve ever been. evolving. Religions are like Center for the Performing Arts • Pacific different paths climbing a started. I believe And you and SoulChef Northwest Ballet • Paramount & Moore mountain, and they all start have never met before. Theatres • Seattle Children’s Theatre in different places for par- in the mountain.” We’ve never met and I don’t • Seattle Men’s Chorus • Seattle ticular reasons. Different even know what he looks Opera • Seattle Repertory Theatre paths sometimes require a different walk, and like! That was another part of the title too. they have different obstacles. When you get to • Seattle Shakespeare Company • the mountaintop, there’s a shared view no matter You included a separate chapbook of your Seattle Symphony • Seattle Women’s where you started. I believe in the mountain. lyrics with this release. That was a last-minute decision. I like the idea of put your business here You’ve been making music for a long time but people interacting with the album in a different haven’t seen your music break out nationally. way, having a book to actually hold to go with it, Chorus • Tacoma City Ballet • Tacoma Do you feel like you’ll perpetually be an un- interacting with the album as a body of text like Philharmonic • Taproot Theatre • UW derground artist? they would a book of poetry. World Series at Meany Hall • Village I’m grateful for having the ability to make music It’s important to have a physical product, espe- and touch the people who I do reach. And the cially as a touring artist, because every time you people I reach often blow my mind. It’s all per- perform in front of people you’re reaching new spective. One of my favorite conversations I had ears. And if you’re having a good show, people with Macklemore was in 2008, and we were want to take a piece of that home with them. And talking about how people measure success by I want to have something that’s a collector’s item, comparing where they are versus where some- something they can’t download. Plus I’m a nerd.

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THE DOG OF THE SOUTH by Charles Portis Adapted by Judd Parkin | Directed by Jane Jones

cast Thomas J. Foster Webster / Ensemble Jim Gall* Dr. Reo Symes / Ensemble Jorge Gomez Officer / Ensemble Gin Hammond* Melba / Ensemble Suzy Hunt* Mrs. Symes / Ensemble Shannon Loys Norma / Ensemble Nikolai Mell† Religious Pilgrim / Ensemble Christopher Morson Ray Midge Cheyenne B. Reynosa† Waitress / Ensemble Bill Ritchie Mr. Meigs / Ensemble Joshua C. Williamson Guy Dupree / Ensemble

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Why do we fall hopelessly in love with Because Ray Midge is a hero of great Cormac McCarthy if he wanted to, certain books? It’s a strange, unscientific and heart-breaking courage. That may but he’d rather be funny.” Portis’ stories process, as mysterious as why we fall seem an odd way to describe a penniless deal with the weighty themes of great in love with our significant others and cuckold who’s driving a broken-down literature—love, God, man’s place in the spouses. From the moment I read the ’63 Buick. Certainly, no one will ever cosmos, and so forth—but he comes opening paragraph of Charles Portis’ The compare Midge to Napoleon, except at these issues from an absurdist comic Dog of the South, I knew I had lost my perhaps for his diminutive stature. slant. Portis’ heroes don’t stand on a heart to Ray Midge, the story’s hapless No, Midge is a hero in the vein of blasted heath like Lear and howl at the hero. On the surface, Midge and I have Don Quixote and Buster Keaton, a furies—they’re too busy worrying about very little in common. I’m a Northerner, hopeless romantic, born out of time that weird clicking noise in their car’s a man of mature years, the married and place, who is repeatedly clobbered carburetor. father of three; Midge is a Southerner to by windmills. He refuses to be defeated So welcome, dear theatregoer, to the his core, a boy-man in his twenties whose by the slings and arrows of outrageous wonderfully off-kilter world of The Dog fortune, and he keeps coming back for of the South. I would recommend you It takes guts to soldier on when more. It takes guts to soldier on when fasten your seatbelts, except this old everyone and everything in the everyone and everything in the universe Buick doesn’t have any—so just hold on is telling you to quit. That’s real heroism. tight and enjoy the ride. universe is telling you to quit. That’s courage. In another writer’s hands, The Dog of marriage has unraveled in a spectacularly the South might be a dark melodrama, Judd Parkin humiliating fashion. We are nothing or even a tragedy. But Charles Portis Adapter alike, and yet my identification with him is no ordinary writer. Roy Blount is complete. Why? Jr. once said of Portis, “he could be

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A-4 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE rights movement, and he frequently before Gringos (1991). returned to the South to report on civil Portis’s last published fiction was the rights-related events, including biting melancholy short story “I Don’t Talk accounts of Ku Klux Klan rallies and Service No More” (1996), and most riots. He served for a year as the Herald recently, he published a memoir piece, Tribune’s London bureau chief, before “Combinations of Jacksons,” in the making the move back to Arkansas and Atlantic Monthly (May 1, 1999) and into fiction in 1964. the collection Escape Velocity (2012). Portis garnered a good deal of praise The 2010 remake of True Grit (which for his first novel, Norwood (1966), Portis was not involved with) revitalized the story of an ex-Marine driving interest in his novels, and brought from Texas to New York at the behest several of them back into print. of a con man. Norwood established Charles Portis currently resides in Portis’ style: deadpan humor, madcap Little Rock, where he mostly avoids adventures, a keen eye for eccentricities reporters. and a fascination with cars, guns, and the American West. by Anthea Carns His second novel, the classic Western True Grit (1968), was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post and was so immediately successful that it was adapted for the screen the very next year. The 1969 film won John Wayne Charles Portis was born in El Dorado, his only Oscar, for his portrayal Arkansas on December 28, 1933, and of Rooster Cogburn. (True Grit’s The Portis Canon grew up in several Arkansas towns. As a enormous popularity has long been young man, Portis served in the Marine a point of contention for Portis fans: 1966: Norwood Corps in the Korean War, reaching the opinions are divided on whether it rank of sergeant. After his discharge in rightly stands out as his masterpiece, or 1968: True Grit 1955, Portis returned to Arkansas to whether it overshadows his later, greater 1979: The Dog of the South pursue a degree in journalism at the works.) 1985: Masters of Atlantis University of Arkansas. Eleven years passed between writing Portis began his writing career as a True Grit and The Dog of the South 1991: Gringos reporter, first at the UA student paper (1979), wherein Portis returned to and then as a reporter and columnist at the present day and forayed south of To read more about Charles Portis, the Arkansas Gazette. After two years at the border. Another six years passed visit our website. the Gazette, Portis moved to the New between The Dog of the South and book-it.org York Herald Tribune. His four years Masters of Atlantis (1985), “the oddest there coincided with the rise of the civil ball among his works,” and six more

encoreartsseattle.com A-5 The open road, the quest, the first step on the journey away from home–storytellers have been Tal es fascinated by tales of travel and trips from time immemorial. Charles Portis’ The Dog of the South is a quintessential road trip story, filled with colorful locations, odd characters, and an everyman of thE with a goal. Ray Midge is driving in the footsteps of centuries of heroes–some looking for enlightenment, some for love, and some just for their next buzz. RoAd by Anthea Carns

The Odyssey Homer’s epic poem, a sequel of Journey sorts to The Iliad, tells the story To the WEst of the Greek soldier Odysseus and This 16th century Chinese novel, also known his ten-year journey home to his as Monkey in English, is an account of a Chinese wife after the Trojan War. Along the Buddhist monk who travels to India to retrieve way, Odysseus outsmarts monsters a set of sacred scrolls. Xuanzang, also known as like the Cyclops and the witch Circe, Tripitaka, is accompanied by the Monkey King and the spends years as the captive of the disgraced immortals Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing, all seductive nymph Calypso, travels to the three of whom are searching for redemption. Their underworld, and narrowly escapes the adventures have been adapted Sirens before finally making it back into novels, several to Ithaca. movies, and a cult TV show.

the Grapes o f W r ATH John Steinbeck’s 1939 classic tells the story of the Joad family, driving their old truck along Route 66 from Oklahoma to California in search of work during the Great Depression. The tragic plight of the Joads and their quest for a better life, away from the Dust Bowl, has inspired music, movies, plays, and an opera.

Even Thelma & Louise Cowgirls Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis hit the road in a Thunderbird, intending to take GEt the bluEs a two-day vacation; things soon go wrong, Tom Robbins’ 1976 novel features the though, and the two women find themselves unusually large-thumbed Sissy Hankshaw, on the run from the law. The 1991 film was who puts her thumbs to use nominated for six Academy Awards, including hitchhiking across the country. Best Actress nods for both its Her travels introduce her stars, and won Best Original to tycoons, mystics, Screenplay. and the titular cowgirl, Bonanza Jellybean.

From our production of Cowgirls in 2008.

A-6 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE The Wizard Alice In of Oz WonderlanD There’s no road more familiar than L. Frank Baum’s Yellow Brick Road. The Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) introduced Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking American children to the world of Oz and Glass (1871) follow Alice as she wanders beloved characters like the Tin Man, the through fantastical lands, meeting iconic Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion. Everyone characters like the Mad Hatter, the Queen is headed to the Emerald City for of Hearts, the Caterpillar, and the something—a heart, a brain, Cheshire Cat. courage—but like Odysseus, Dorothy Gale just wants to get home.

We’re touring Alice to schools now! Catch an at-home performance on May 6 or 19. See A-11 for details. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson first published this classic On the ROad account of his road trip to Las Vegas—and his drug trips in Las Vegas—in Rolling Stone in 1971. On the Road (1957) defined the Thompson called Fear and Loathing a “failed Beat generation. Jack Kerouac experiment” in gonzo journalism, a based the novel on his own travels blending of fiction and fact, and many with fellow Beat author Neal critics initially panned the novel Cassady. Protagonist Sal Paradise for its drug use and meandering and his friend Dean Moriarty plot, or lack thereof. criss-cross the continent by bus and by car in search of meaning and self-understanding.

o BrOther, The MotOrcyClE WhEre ART thou? DiarIes The Coen Brother’s 2000 classic brought the story of The Odyssey In 1952 Che Guevara and his friend Alberto to 1937 Mississippi: Odysseus Granado take a year off from their medical becomes Ulysses Everett McGill, studies to explore South America on a thirteen- an escaped convict trying to year-old motorcycle. The nine-month journey con, hitchhike, and sing his way opens Guevara’s eyes to the situation of the home before his wife remarries. working-class, the ostracized, and the marginalized. His memoirs from the trip were first published as The Motorcycle Diaries in Cuba in 1993. What’s your roadtrip story? We want to hear your best story from the open road! Draw a map and share a memory in the lobby.

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THOMAS J. FOSTER for Desert Rose Productions and Sinner and you have certainly seen her posters, as she Webster / Ensemble Magazine in Las Vegas. He has performed is Book-It’s full-time graphic designer. This is Thomas’ debut with The Rose Theater in Omaha, Traveling Lantern Theatre Company in Portland, Ore., with Book-It. He is † very excited about Open Door Theatre in Arlington, Wash., NIKOLAI MELL this opportunity and and most recently finished a tour of Book-It’s Religious Pilgrim / being the only child bilingual show La Mariposa. Ensemble actor in the cast! Thomas has a true love www.behance.net/georgiegomez Nikolai is excited to for theatre; he is only ten years old, but has graduate from Cornish studied performing arts at the Langston College of the Arts Hughes Performing Arts Institute for the past GIN HAMMOND* (BFA ‘15) with a three years. There he has performed in their Melba / Ensemble degree in theatre. His favorite roles include summer youth productions, most recently in Gin is a Harvard Tuzenbach in The Three Sisters, El Gallo in the musicals Rooted and Keepers of the Fire. University/Moscow The Fantasticks, and Commander Gomez in A fifth-grade Discovery program scholar at Art Theatre grad, Fuenteovejuna; he will be playing the part of Campbell Hill Elementary, Thomas enjoys and thrilled at Hero in Seattle Musical Theatre’s upcoming studying art, science, and participating in the opportunity production of A Funny Thing Happened on drama troupe. When he’s not acting, you can to work with this busload of talented the Way to the Forum. He is delighted to be find him reading a book, drawing anime, or artists. She received a Helen Hayes Award a part of Book-It’s brilliant ensemble and is practicing Taekwondo. for Outstanding Lead Actress for her thrilled to make tonight a memorable night performance in The Syringa Tree, and has of theatre. performed in Russia, Germany, Ireland, JIM GALL* Scotland, Canada, and England. A certified Dr. Reo Symes / voice-over geek, Hammond’s voice can be CHRISTOPHER Ensemble heard on commercials, audiobooks, and a MORSON variety of video games including Undead Some of Jim’s favorite Ray Midge Labs: State of Decay, DotA 2, Aion, and Halo 3 Book-It credits include Christopher is ODST. Enjoy the ride. If I Die in a Combat extremely happy to Zone…, Pride and return to Book-It Prejudice, Moby-Dick, or The Whale, and for The Dog of the Border Songs. His most recent credits include SUZY HUNT* South! His past roles with Book-It include a national tour of The Miracle Worker with Mrs. Symes / Ensemble Huck Finn in Adventures of Huckleberry Montana Rep as Captain Keller, The Two Earlier this season, Finn: Uncensored and Say in their touring Gentlemen of Verona with Seattle Shakespeare Suzy performed production of Pink and Say, where he enjoyed Company’s Wooden O Theatre, and The in Book-It’s I Am engaging with students and teaching the Bunner Sisters with Athena Productions at of Ireland. She is a Book-It Style. You may have seen him this Theatre Off Jackson. Other favorite roles proud member of past summer in a leather jacket and wielding include Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird Actors’ Equity. Locally she has performed a mini water gun as Speed in Two Gentlemen and Mountain McClintock in Requiem for a at ACT Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, of Verona with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Heavyweight. Locally Jim has worked at The The Empty Space, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Wooden O Theatre or in their mainstage 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Rep, Intiman, and Intiman. Regionally she has performed production of Twelfth Night as Sebastian. Village Theatre, and ACT Theatre, to name on Broadway, Off-Broadway, the Guthrie, Christopher has also been working his way a few. Jim has been named best actor by the Denver Center Theatre, the Alley, Arizona into the Seattle film scene–catch him in the Seattle Times’ Footlight Awards three times. Theatre Company, and the Spoleto Festival. season one finale of “Z Nation” as Johnny He is proud to be married to the beautiful Plum roles include Fraulein Schneider or in the new online fantasy mini-series, Kelly Kitchens. in Cabaret, Stella in Light Up the Sky, the Chaldea. He holds a BFA in theatre from Countess in The Women, and Carrie in Trip Cornish. www.christophermorson.com to Bountiful. Next up is Seattle Shakespeare JORGE GOMEZ Company’s production of Tartuffe. Officer / Ensemble CHEYENNE B. Jorge graduated from REYNOSA† the University of SHANNON LOYS Waitress / Ensemble Nebraska at Omaha Norma / Ensemble Cheyenne is extremely in 2006 with a BA in Shannon last proud to be a part of Spanish and a minor performed at the cast of The Dog in theatre. In 2009 he graduated with his Book-It in their of the South and to Masters of Education in higher education two most recent work with such diligent actors and a driven leadership from the University of Nevada at productions of Owen director. Some of Cheyenne’s favorite roles Las Vegas, where he also studied film. Since Meany’s Christmas Pageant. Her theatre include The Governor from Bonnie and Clyde, then, he has worked as a cinematographer adventures have taken her everywhere from Pascuala from Fuente Ovejuna, and ensemble Washington, D.C., playing patients for * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union roles in the production of Penelopiad. She is of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the medical school training, to Scotland and currently a theatre student at Cornish College United States. France with original, devised work. Around of the Arts, graduating this spring. town, you may have seen her in staged † Book-It Acting Intern readings with Endangered Species Project, A-8 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE BILL RITCHIE CHRISTOPHER MUMAW LAURA KARAVITIS* Mr. Meigs / Ensemble Scenic Designer Stage Manager Over the past 40 Christopher is grateful to be working on Laura returns to Book-It after assistant years, Bill has been a his second production with Book-It, having stage managing Hotel on the Corner of Bitter member of the acting previously designed for their Gregory and Sweet. She began her career touring companies of The Old Award-winning production of The Amazing internationally as a personal assistant and Globe in San Diego, Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This past illusion specialist for magician David The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle year he has designed scenery for SPRAWL Copperfield, and has stage managed at Repertory Theatre, and a founding member with Pete Rush at Washington Ensemble several regional and fringe theatres across the of the Oregon Repertory Theatre (along with Theatre,Judy’s Scary Little Christmas with country. Favorite credits include August: Osage Book-It’s Jane Jones). He has appeared in a ArtsWest, and worked as a set designer for County with Balagan Theatre; One Man, Two number of Book-It productions, including the Amazon Studios television pilot “The Guvnors and The Mystery of Edwin Drood with Anna Karenina, Red Ranger Came Calling, Man in the High Castle.” Past designs include Barnstormers Theatre in New Hampshire; Breathing Lessons, and Ethan Frome. His The Rape of Lucretia at St. Mark’s Cathedral Violet, The Full Monty,and Dead Man’s Cell favorite role was playing Scrooge for four with Vespertine Opera Theater, Little Women Phone with Barter Theatre in Virginia; and seasons in A Christmas Carol. with ArtsWest, and The Last Five Yearswith The Little Dog Laughed with Good Medicine Cornish College of the Arts. Upcoming Theatre in Nevada. She recently relocated to projects include The Magic Flutewith Cincinnati with her husband, David, and JOSHUA C. Vespertine Opera Theater and Grease with The their little cocker spaniel sidekick, Yoshi. She 5th Avenue Theatre. ChristopherMumaw.com is a proud member of Actors’ Equity, but an WILLIAMSON even prouder alumna of Washington State Guy Dupree / Ensemble University. www.stageleftlaura.com This is Joshua’s MARNIE CUMINGS Book-It debut, and Lighting Designer DAVID HARTIG he has loved his Marnie is very happy to be back working Assistant Stage Manager experience with this with Book-It after designing Truth Like show. Joshua is a the Sun last year. Recent work includes The David is thrilled to be back at Book-It again Frankenstein; local actor and Cornish alum who recently Rape of Lucretia at St. Mark’s Cathedral with where he previously worked on or, The Modern Prometheus. has been seen working with Centerstage Vespertine Opera Theater, The Barber of Recent local Summerland, Theatre in Federal Way in My First Time and Seville with Tacoma Opera, and Le Bourgeois credits include part of the this year’s holiday pantomime, Jack and the Gentilhomme at the Cornish Playhouse. New Play Festival with Seattle Rep, and his Beanstalk. Marnie received her MFA from the University Wisconsin credits include The Importance of Washington in 2012 and is thrilled to have of Being Earnest, Travesties, All My Sons, The been continually designing since. Admirable Crichton, The Critic, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest with American Players Artistic CHELSEA COOK Theatre;Cabaret, My Name is Asher Lev, The Costume Designer Bomb-ity of Errors, Othello, and In the Next Chelsea Cook is a freelance costume designer, Room (or the Vibrator Play) with Milwaukee shop manager, and small business owner. Repertory Theater; and A Day in Hollywood/A meet the staff Favorite designs include Ernest Shackleton Night in the Ukraine with Peninsula Players Loves Me and Spring Awakening with Balagan Theatre. David has spent the last three seasons as the touring stage manager for the Eugene JUDD PARKIN Theatre;The Addams Familywith Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre; Trails, Lizzie Borden, Ballet Company, where he recently stage Adapter and Hairspray with Village Theatre; andShe’s managed the world premiere of Toni Pimble’s Judd is delighted to return to Book-It, Come Undone with Book-It. Her work has Mowgli: The Jungle Book Ballet. where he adapted Adventures of Huckleberry also been seen at ACT Theatre, Washington Finn: Uncensored in 2013. He began his Ensemble Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, ANTHEA CARNS career as an actor and director with the SecondStory Repertory, Intiman, Seattle Dramaturg Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and at other Gilbert & Sullivan Society, and iDiom Theatre. Anthea is pleased to be working with regional theatres around the country. He She has been on management staff at Seattle Book-It once again. She has worked in later worked as an executive for NBC and Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, and the Pennsylvania, Alaska, and Washington ABC, where he oversaw the development and Intiman Theatre Festival. Chelsea graduated as a dramaturg, director, writer, and arts production of over 250 movies and miniseries. with a BA in performance production at administrator. Her co-written play Bad In recent years, Judd has produced and Cornish College of the Arts, and also owns an Hamlet was an official selection of the 2011 written numerous television films, including educational sewing and craft company. Last Frontier Theatre Conference; more the acclaimed CBS miniseries Jesus, the recently she worked on Book-It’s Pride and Christopher Award-winning Nicholas’ Gift, NATHAN WADE Prejudice and Burmer Music’s Dante’s Inferno. and the Lifetime Television Christmas favorite Her current projects include branching into Comfort and Joy. He is the author of the novel Sound Designer Nathan is a long-time Book-It veteran whose original fiction and exploring digital media. The Carpenter’s Miracle, which he adapted and www.antheacarns.com produced for UP TV. Judd is currently writing musical and audio handiwork has been the limited series “World Changers” for NBC. featured in stage adaptations of Truth Like the Sun, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, GIN HAMMOND JANE JONES Border Songs, Moby-Dick, or The Whale, and Dialect Coach Don Quixote. His sound/music design for See bio on preceding page. Director Jesus’ Son was nominated for a 2014 Gregory See bio on page A-10. Award. www.nathanwademusic.com encoreartsseattle.com A-9 Artistic

meet the staff JANE JONES Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday, and Economics. He has taught at Columbia Founder, Founding Co-Artistic Director she adapted and directed The Financial Lives College in Chicago, New York University, Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding of the Poets, The River Why, Night Flight, and Columbia University School of Law; co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the in Seattle he has been a lecturer at Cornish Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 27 years of Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird College of the Arts, Edmonds Community staging literature, she has performed, adapted, Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman College, and the EDGE Artist Professional and directed works by such literary giants Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone Call, and Development Program at Artist Trust. Mayer as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith A Child’s Christmas in Wales. She adapted is the co-chair of the Arts Advisory Council Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted of 4Culture and on the board of directors Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Jim Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane of Khambatta Dance Company and Coyote Lynch, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Jones, and composed music for Prairie Central. Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), du Maurier, and Jane Austen. A veteran actress Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), of 30 years, she has played leading roles in The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s many of America’s most prominent regional Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in affiliations theatres. Most recently, she played the role of Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. Miss Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. Her acting credits include Prairie Nocturne, ACTORS’ EQUITY Film and TV credits include The Hand That The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, ASSOCIATION Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, The Awakening(West Los Angeles Garland This theatre operates under an “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed Award), Howards End, and The Cider House agreement within AEA, the union Rules, Parts I and II (original production). She of professional actors and stage with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more Intiman, New City Theatre, and the Mark than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United Rules, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum Taper Forum. Myra is the recipient, with Jane the art of live theatre as an essential component of Jones, of a Paul G. Allen Family Foundation our society. Equity negotiates wages and working in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, Anniversary grant, the 2010 Women of including health and pension plans. AEA is a member best director). Jane directed Pride and Prejudice Influence from Puget Sound Business Journal, of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an and was named by Seattle Times an Unsung international organization of performing arts unions. and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20- www.actorsequity.org Direction and Production. For Book-It, she year contribution to life in the Puget Sound has directed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: region. THEATRE PUGET SOUND Uncensored, Truth Like the Sun, The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, DANIEL Y. MAYER Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Managing Director THEATRE Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Daniel is delighted to join the staff of Book-It COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two Cities, and as its managing director. Most recently, he The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, winner spent eight years as executive director of the of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards for Kirkland Performance Center. Prior to that, Outstanding Production. In 2008 she, Myra Mayer worked in a variety of arts nonprofits Platt, and Book-It were honored to be named in the Seattle area including Photographic by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Center Northwest, Spectrum Dance Theater, Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20- On the Boards, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, year contribution to life in the Puget Sound Sand Point Arts & Cultural Exchange, The region. She is a recipient of the 2009 Women’s Empty Space, and the Bellevue Philharmonic. University Club of Seattle Brava Award, a 2010 Dan returned to his hometown of Seattle 16 special thanks to Women of Influence award from Puget Sound years ago from New York where he worked as Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family a consultant to POZ Publishing and Condé Michelle Mai Smith, The Makeup Session Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Nast Publications and as executive director Grant, and was a finalist for the American at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts for five Elisa Chavez Union for Stage Directors and Choreographers years. Earlier, Mayer lived in Washington, Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award. D.C. where he was the executive director of Blue Water Taco Grill artsave, an artist rights project founded by People for the American Way, a civil liberties Gemma Cody, Gray Stowers, and Matt MYRA PLATT organization founded by Norman Lear. Smucker at Cornish College of the Arts Founding Co-Artistic Director Mayer began his legal career in Chicago as As co-founder, Myra has helped Book-It executive director of Lawyers for the Creative Joshua Williamson produce over 100 world premiere mainstage Arts, a pro bono legal assistance organization productions and over 30 education touring for artists of all genres. During this time productions. Most recently she directed he was also a fellow at the Office of Policy, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Planning and Research at the National which won the 2014 Gregory Award for Endowment for the Arts. Mayer is a graduate Outstanding Production and received a of Case Western Reserve University School Seattle Times 2014 Footlight Award. She of Law and Claremont McKenna College, directed Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the and also studied at the London School of

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HIGH WEIRDNESS BACK AT SCRATCH DELI After Tragic Loss, Creative Hub Regenerates It’s Saturday night and a man in a giant mask made of beer cartons with cans for eyes lumbers onstage. Accompanied by festive music, the entire audience passes in front of him in a conga line and he stabs each one with a cardboard sword. Weird comedy is back at Scratch Deli. Two years ago, Tristan Devin committed sui- cide on the back patio of this scruffy Capitol Hill café, then known as People’s Republic of Koffee. His death shocked the close-knit community of performers who made the former thrift shop their clubhouse and home stage. Many of the core ANN HAMILTON group, devastated by the loss of a catalyzing cen- tral figure, drifted off to do other things and the the common S E N S E flurry of creativity ended. But lately a scene has re-emerged there with a full calendar of monthly shows guided by the striving and funky ethos Devin established. “Tristan truly cared about doing new and ON VIEW THROUGH APRIL 26, 2015 HENRY ART GALLERY exciting things with comedy,” says Zach Gabriel, a former regular who quit comedy after Devin’s death but has returned to the stage. “I gained an understanding of what was possible to do with a HENRYART.ORG show in a tiny space and with no budget.” Ann Hamilton. Digital scan of a specimen from University of Under Devin’s leadership a core group of five or Washington’s Burke Museum six comedians put on numerous one-night-only of Natural History and Culture Ornithology Collection. productions, from an outdoor show set at a pro Courtesy of the artist. wrestling match to a Game of Thrones parody based around a clan of wolves, complete with a Kenny Loggins musical interlude. A similar eclecticism continues with the cur- Untitled-7 1 11/24/14 11:25 AM rent batch of Saturday night shows: Flight Space 7, a serialized sci-fi sitcom;Boring Time, a variety show; The Good Fun Show, the only standup- based offering; and The Tiny Baby Talk Show, the lineup’s longest-running show. They make use of the entire space, with performers popping up from behind the bar, climbing in through windows and toggling between the original, makeshift stage and the newly built Tristan Devin Theater stage. Ian Thackaberry was running his sandwich business out of the café at the time of Devin’s death and took over ownership in the aftermath, changing the name to Scratch Deli. Tall and dark- haired, he’s not a comedian himself—his creative background is in music—but he’s committed to continuing the tradition of wild experimentation. Recognizing the current glut of cattle-call open mics sprouting up all over the city, Thackaberry emphasizes other forms of comedy. “My goal is to give people a space to work to- gether to present something creative that’s a team effort, that’s scripted,” says Thackaberry. He envisions the shows eventually outgrowing this incubator and finding their way in the wider world, but time is limited. Tall new buildings have sprung up all around the tiny cafe; many of them didn’t exist two years ago when Devin was still alive. “People can always see standup,” says Wilfred Padua, a producer of Boring Time. “What we’re doing is creating events that will never happen again.” BRETT HAMIL

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Chef Charters, right, provides “intensive edutainment.” she stacks bunches of lacinato kale leaves, rolls them, then cuts them into slender ribbons. These are placed in a pot and caramelized along with onions, garlic and a healthy amount of olive oil. The lesson winds down as Charters adds the final touches to a simmering pot of callaloo, a Caribbean- and African- inspired pepper pot, which has been slowly taking shape for the past hour. Essences of bacon, thyme, taro root and coconut milk infuse the kitchen. Now it’s our turn. Charters kicks the students off the bar seats and lets us loose in the kitchen. “Just play!” she instructs.

…the atmosphere is reassuringly homey—inviting Valdecampaña Crianza nestles among even to non-Betty other wines and beers, next to a platter Kale Class of perfectly quartered ripe figs, marcona Crocker types almonds and pickled baby beets. A night at the Hot Stove Students sit with notebooks at a who are otherwise Society inspires a non- spacious black bar overlooking a stovetop. traumatized by Most are return visitors (“die-hard Hot cook in the kitchen. Stovers,” I learn). One describes baking the prospect of a perfect macaron at home after a class BY AMANDA MANITACH earlier that week. On the bar top, a huge properly boiling basket bursts with bouquets of thick- stemmed, ruffling leaves of kale. an egg. IN MAY, Seattle superchef Tom Douglas Chef Bridget Charters, director at Hot opened an intimate, hands-on cooking Stove Society, worked for 17 years at the school called Hot Stove Society. Classes Art Institute of Seattle before joining the are dedicated to Douglas’ triple coconut Tom Douglas empire. Tonight she guides Compared to the Hot Stovers, my cream pie, prime rib roast or seasonal the class through an evening of kale- corner of the kitchen looks like Top Chef foods like corn and potatoes. Located inspired “intensive edutainment.” for Dummies, as I fumblingly caramelize downtown in the cozy Hotel Ändra (which The class begins with a smoothie—and my couve a mineira without setting also houses Douglas’ Greek restaurant a history lesson. Bananas, raspberries, anything on fire and pull together a kale Lola), the atmosphere is reassuringly almond and coconut butter are blended Caesar with dressing from scratch—which homey—inviting even to non-Betty Crocker with heaps of kale stripped from the stem. previously would have been tantamount types who are otherwise traumatized by Charters explains that until three years to parting the Red Sea. There’s a unique, the prospect of properly boiling an egg. ago, kale almost exclusively appeared as masochistic joy that comes from the ache Like me. My mother’s culinary high decorative garnishes at the country club. in your arms after you’ve whisked for point was nailing the Famous Amos In part because of its robust vitamin and minutes on end, watching oil and fresh- chocolate-chip cookie recipe. My dad mineral content, kale has since become the squeezed lemon emulsify before your called M&Ms his “vitamins.” In an act of It Girl of vegetables. eyes. teenage rebellion I became vegetarian. After the salubrious amuse-bouche, As the class draws to an end, Chef After a few botched attempts at making Charters returns to the blender to make Charters helps us box up the food we’ve veggie burgers in my teens, I forsook a kale pesto with pistachios and garlic cooked, then ladles bowls of kale callaloo experimentation for saltines and beans. cloves. Drizzled over cold rigatoni with a for everyone. When it finally meets my On a recent Thursday evening I climb a dusting of shaved Pecorino Romano, the mouth, my lapsed-vegetarian heart skips a set of stairs and enter Hot Stove Society. dish has an intense garden flavor. beat: chunks of bacon and kale swimming A door opens into a picture-perfect Next up: a shredded kale couve a in a base of hot, buttery coconut milk are commercial kitchen decorated with mineira (Charters’ take on a Brazilian among the best things I’ve ever tasted. I’ll squash, hand-carved totem poles and recipe for collard greens). “This dish is have to work up some courage to make it

burgundy walls. An open bottle of 2000 why I started growing kale,” she says as at home, but there’s hope for me yet. n BRUCE CLAYTON TOM

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