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By Naomi Iizuka Adapted from The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp by Barry Denenberg Directed by Desdemona Chiang Music by Chris R. Walker THE CAST (in order of appearance)

Mikko Juan Ben Uchida Ray Tagavilla Mr. Masao Uchida/Chorus Annie Yim Mrs. Lily Uchida/Chorus Mi Kang Naomi Uchida/Chorus Conner Neddersen Soldier/Radio Announcer/Danny McManus/ The Caller/Mr. Mills/Chorus Brenda Joyner Miss Kroll/Neighbor/Chorus Kevin Lin Understudy Ben Uchida/Mr. Masao Uchida/Chorus Sunam Ellis Understudy Naomi Uchida/Mrs. Lily Uchida/Chorus Trick Danneker Understudy Soldier/Radio Announcer/ Danny McManus/The Caller/Mr. Mills/Chorus Carol Roscoe Understudy Miss Kroll/Neighbor/Chorus

Assistant Director Cultural Consultant Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Steven Tran Naho Shioya Carey Wong Christine Tschirgi Matthew Webb

Sound Designer Wig Master Stage Manager Production Assistant Chris R. Walker Joyce Degenfelder Michael John Egan Kiera Krieg

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Stacie Foster PRESIDENT Aiko Bethea FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Barbara Larimer SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Mimi Gan SECRETARY Seattle Children’s Theatre and Microsoft Ryan Boone TREASURER share a passion for creativity, learning and

Eve Alvord Karin Jones excellence. Year after year, Seattle Children’s Ashley Andrew David Landau Theatre delivers high quality entertainment Jennifer Berger Natalie Matthews Dear friends, Shari Bitcon M.J. McDermott that captivates the imaginations of young Heather Shaw Blahous Zoey Minkove people, and their families, throughout the Thank you for joining us for the fourth Jarvis Bowers Eleanor C. Nolan show of our 43​rd season, The Journal of Ben Kendall Cammermeyer Alexander Oki Pacific Northwest. That’s why Microsoft Lara R. Constable Laurie Oki Philanthropies is proud to sponsor the Uchida: Citizen 13559, adapted by Naomi Gillian Crismier Andrew Parcel Iizuka, based on the Dear America series Dia Davis Louise Pietrafesa 2017-18 season. Bob Evans Natasha Rivers book by Barry Denenberg. We are proud to Matt Eyler Scott Ruthfield bring this powerful story to you and your Marie T. Farrelly Lee-Norah Sanzo Kate Forsyth Laura Smith Community involvement is an integral part family. Alice Forsythe Stephanie True of our culture at Microsoft. We support Tiffany Gilbert Heather Wilde We turn to history in order not to repeat it. the work of local nonprofits and encourage Jerome Greene Wanda Wong destroyed families, employee investment and volunteerism. stalled lives, and changed the course of Our employees respond in an incredible SCT Foundation Board the nation for generations to come. It is way, volunteering thousands of hours and Richard Bendix, CHAIR Mark Sherman easy for some to explain away or excuse contributing more than $60 million each Aiko Bethea Mig Schaaf the colossal mistake of internment as an Eve Alvord Mimi Gan year to local nonprofits, including Seattle Kerry Richards Mimi Kirsch ugly historical footnote. Growing up in Children’s Theatre. Laurie Oki Ryan Boone rural Virginia, I did not learn about the Lee-Norah Sanzo Stacie Foster internment of Japanese-Americans until A thriving arts and cultural scene, a I visited the West Coast. This geographic Teacher Advisory Committee network of human services providers, and deficit is a stark reminder of how we need Andrew Rabiroff, INGLEWOOD JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL to seek ways to educate, remember, and Barbara Kearney-Schupp, ST. EDWARD SCHOOL a world-class education system are critical Chelle Downey-Magee, ISSAQUAH MONTESSORI to the continued vitality and attractiveness heal. No single work can fulfill the task Dano Beal, ALKI ELEMENTARY of telling this story. These stories must be Don Fleming, SCT of the Puget Sound region. Through Emily Veling, CEDAR PARK ELEMENTARY partnerships with organizations such as woven into the fabric of all people's lives in Emma Goliff,PANTHER LAKE ELEMENTARY order to undo the bias and move forward. Greg Marquart, PIONEER VALLEY Seattle Children’s Theatre, we aim to create Gretchen Dru, SILVER RIDGE ELEMENTARY an environment where the arts will thrive Ben Uchida is an achingly beautiful step in Jeffrey Riley that direction. Jennie Proby for generations to come. Karen Sharp, SCT Margaret Bradford, THE EVERGREEN SCHOOL Marilyn Mears, GENESEE HILL ELEMENTARY Theatre is a public Meg Gardner On behalf of Microsoft and our employees Melia Scranton, ALKI ELEMENTARY in the Puget Sound area, we thank Seattle Nancy Brooks, OLYMPIC HILLS ELEMENTARY art form and stories Paul Richter, SCT Children’s Theatre for enriching our Peter Weschler, WEST WOODLAND ELEMENTARY community. like Ben Uchida are Rebekah Johansen, SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY Rita Giomi, SCT Ruth Bookwalter, PINE TREE ELEMENTARY catalysts for connecting Sandy Erak Enjoy the show! Tara Katz, TARA’S TOTS/FREEMONT COMMUNITY SCHOOL our communities Tiffany Maltos,SCT Urdene Rickard, ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL in meaningful and Veronique Sage Van Leuren, AKI KUROSE MIDDLE Mary Snapp SCHOOL ineffable ways. Corporate Vice President

If you are an educator and would like more Microsoft Philanthropies information about this committee, please email Don Fleming at [email protected]. What interests me most about this play is the question that lives at its center: ​How do we resist against forces fueled by fear, both on a personal and a communal level?​ Throughout history, fear has led to public policies that bolstered ingrained bias. In

4 SEATTLE CHILDREN’S THEATRE Synopsis A note from the

The Journal of Ben Uchida is a fictional businessman, trusting that it will be returned Artistic account of a family during WWII. Although to him eventually. Ben wonders if they can Mirror Lake internment camp didn’t exist, take their telescope with them to camp. much of what the Uchidas experience there did Naomi and Ben ask their father why they are Director happen in the real camps. being taken away. Mr. Uchida reminds them the United States is at war and everyone must Be warned: This synopsis has spoilers. make sacrifices.

The play begins in December of 1941 with turn, this bias continues to perpetuate an The family boards a train to the Mirror Lake a glimpse of Ben’s life with his family in San internment camp. They arrive in the desert inequality and inequity that is hard to set Francisco. Ben tells us this story is about his to find no lake, but guard towers, soldiers, right. We are all affected by this bias, some father. He remembers what his father taught and barbed wire fences. The family moves more acutely than others. Does policy allow him—the belief that as American citizens they into filthy barracks. They work to keep their for damaging behavior? Do people act from could be anything they wanted to be as long new living conditions clean as best they can. fear without understanding consequences? as they were willing to work for it. Mr. Uchida Ben meets a soldier, Mike, from Wisconsin. How can we quell the fear and move gives Ben a journal, saying, “Write everything They share a mutual interest in baseball, and forward? down… You’re history in the making.” We see Ben responds to the kindness in this hostile Mr. Uchida sharing his passion for the stars as environment. Ben joins the other children at Theatre artists have been and remain critical Ben looks through their telescope, until their the camp’s school, run by the strict Miss Kroll. voices on conditions of our country, our reverie is interrupted by Naomi, Ben’s older Ben hears from his friend, Robbie, back in world, and current politics. We are honored sister, demanding his help with the dishes. San Francisco, living a normal life of Little to have the artistry of Desdemona Chiang Mrs. Uchida appears and wonders if Ben is League and lizards, a life not available to Ben. at the helm of this production. Desdemona’s cold outside. Life is ordinary. Robbie asks Ben to write and tell him how work has engaged audiences at numerous things are at the camp, but Ben doesn’t know theatres across the country. She is known Then Ben writes, “Sometimes your whole how to describe it. And life gets harder and life changes in a flash.” Music on the radio for daring interpretations of Shakespeare, harder as the days go by. is interrupted by the news that the Japanese visceral storytelling, and highly collaborative have bombed Pearl Harbor. We hear a In the winter, the snow falls. Ben has never practices. She has led this dynamic team of chorus of voices and see flashes of terrifying seen snow before and can’t help but stare artists with grace, skill, and clarity at every headlines. are being out the classroom window. When Miss step along the way. I am grateful to the entire targeted as the enemy. Kroll presses Ben on answering a question, team and Des’ compassionate leadership. he responds with frustration. He asks how At Ben’s school there is a shift. His teacher Theatre is a public art form and stories like long he will be here and why he should learn looks at him funny. His friend Robbie anything if he will be stuck here forever. Ben Uchida are catalysts for connecting our notices and gives him a baseball signed by communities in meaningful and ineffable Joe DiMaggio to help him feel better. His Then, in Ben’s words, “This is the part of the ways. We are grateful to The Sheri and Les sister gets mad at him, “I swear you spend story I don’t want to say. This is the part of Biller Family Foundation for their support all your time thinking about the stupidest the story I don’t want to know.” His father of this project. We are also honored to things… Look around.” Finally, Ben sees the commits suicide. Knowing he had lost his collaborate with Densho and the Wing Luke posted notices: “Instructions to all persons business and he could never restore the life Museum, partners who have further helped of Japanese ancestry…. In the interests of he had provided for his family, Mr. Uchida us contextualize the story and consider how homeland security…” Ben learns they are chooses to end his life. being evacuated from their homes and sent to we animate our future. The decisions we a camp, and not a summer camp. The family struggles on under the shadow of make, how we treat one another, and the their loss. Two years later, they are released actions we take all play a powerful role in The family prepares. Mr. Uchida goes to the and bravely try to rebuild their lives. Ben making new history. Both Densho and Te Civil Control Station to get their family’s continues to write and remember, making Wing play critical roles in signal boosting identification number. Mrs. Uchida goes peace with the ghost of his father. Later in this history, assuring we never forget, and through their family possessions to find what his life, he visits Miss Kroll. She tells him amplifying important work to recognize the they can take. She finds a fragile teapot, a that she went to teach at Mirror Lake after paths that lead to these events and make sure family heirloom, and while admiring it is her husband was killed in the war at the age it never happens again. ​History does not visited by a neighbor looking to purchase of 19. She reminds Ben of the importance it cheap, to capitalize on their misfortune. repeat itself: ​people repeat history. of memories in our lives. Ben finds the Mrs. Uchida smashes the teapot. Mr. Uchida journal of his time at Mirror Lake. He hardly Thank you for being with us. returns and tells her not to worry, it’s just a recognizes himself as the person who wrote thing; he has faith that “our government” is those words. He tells us it is not just a story Sincerely, doing this for a good reason. about his father, but a story of war and people like his family, of neighbors and strangers, of The Uchidas experience harassment and the memory of those we have lost. taunting, racial slurs and aggression. Mr. Uchida signs over his store to a neighbor Courtney Sale | Artistic Director encoremediagroup.com/programs 5 The Cast

Trick Danneker Freehold’s Engaged Theatre Tour. Favorite University of Washington’s Musical Theater (Understudy) has local roles include Marie in The Wellesley Program, he was also in productions of appeared at SCT in Girl, Eleanor in Bring Down the Pippin, The 25th Annual Putnam County The Cat in the Hat, House, Yulie/Nancy Beal in The Brothers K, Spelling Bee, Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, The Boy at the Edge of Chorus in Medea, and Katharine/Montjoy Yellow Face, Urinetown, and Legally Blonde: Everything, Pharaoh in Henry V. Next, Sunam will be working The Musical. For Mom and Dad, immigrant Serket…, and several on Hand to God with Seattle Public Theater. parents who worked so hard to give their other shows. Other credits include Pride and Sunam is supported in her work by her kids a better life. For Patricia, hard-working Prejudice, The Servant of Two Masters, Speech amazing husband, Joshua, and three student and sister for life, no matter the & Debate (Seattle Repertory Theatre); wonderful children: Nolan, Jacob, and weather. For Megan, partner in crime and Eurydice, A Christmas Carol (ACT); Mother Moira. fellow adventurer. Courage and Her Children, Othello, Pygmalion (Seattle Shakespeare Company); Brenda Joyner (Miss Mi Kang (Naomi The Memorandum (Strawberry Theatre Kroll/Neighbor/ Uchida/Chorus) is Workshop); Arcadia, Back Back Back, The Chorus) This is thrilled to be making 13th of Paris, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Brenda Joyner’s first her Seattle Children’s “Master Harold”… and the Boys (Seattle production with Theatre debut with Public Theater); as well as performances with Seattle Children’s The Journal of Ben 14/48: TWQTF, Theater Anonymous, Book- Theatre. Most Uchida: Citizen It Repertory Theatre, and Theater Schmeater. recently she was seen in The Williams 13559. Her most recent credits include Deers Trick received his bachelor’s degree in Project’s production of The Blues for Mister (Annex Theatre), The Earth Shakes (Heron Theatre Performance from Minnesota State Charlie. In Seattle, she has worked with Ensemble), Nadeshiko (Sound Theatre University, Mankato. He lives in Queen companies such as Seattle Repertory Theatre, Company), The Yellow Wallpaper (Blank Anne with his lovely wife and two Village Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Stage Theater), and A Tale for the Time Being precocious kitties. XOAED Company, New Century Theatre Company, (Book-It Repertory Theatre). Mi is originally upstart crow collective, Seattle Public from Texas and a graduate of The University Sunam Ellis Theater, and Strawberry Theatre Workshop. of Texas at Austin, where past credits include (Understudy) is The Country Wife, Life x3, 12 Angry Men delighted to be a part Mikko Juan (Ben (Foot in the Door Productions), and Julius of this Uchida) is absolutely Caesar (Shakespeare at Winedale). production. She ecstatic to be back at graduated in 2015 SCT on a mainstage Kevin Lin from the University production, after (Understudy) is a of Washington’s Professional Actor Training being on the road Seattle-based actor Program, and since then, she has delved into with their educational who most recently the Seattle theater community, with touring production of Above Between Below. appeared in Seattle productions and readings with ACT, Book- Credits include Kiss Me, Kate (Seattle Public Theater’s The It, Seattle Shakespeare, Seattle Public Musical Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher World of Extreme th Theater, Sound Theatre, Seattle Rep, (ArtsWest); and Paint Your Wagon (5 Happiness. Kevin also completed Intiman’s Theatre22, The Horse in Motion, and Avenue Theatre). A proud graduate of the Emerging Artist Program in 2015. Other

“If you are with someone who THEATRE ETIQUETTE becomes noisy or restless, EVER WONDER WHY WE MAKE THESE AUDIENCE REQUESTS BEFORE A PERFORMANCE? please be kind to your neighbors IT’S TO RESPECT YOU AND THE ACTORS, AND FOR THESE REASONS, TOO. and use our quiet room which is located in the back of the theater over your right shoulder.” “Please completely turn off all electronic devices including cell We love our audiences and want them phones, cameras and video recorders. Also, taking pictures or to express themselves during the video is not allowed.” show—laughing, clapping, shouting in amazement. It’s part of the community We are fortunate to work with very talented performers, designers, playwrights experience. But everyone has moments and directors at SCT. One of our responsibilities to these artists is to help protect when they just don’t want to be their work from illegal distribution or piracy. Contractually, the use of images where they are. And sometimes they of their designs and recordings of their work is very specifically controlled. We express this quite loudly. The quiet appreciate that people want to capture a memory to enjoy later, but it is actually room offers a place to see and hear a violation of contract, and of trust between the artists and the audience. You are the show, while having a chance to welcome to take pictures in the lobby, of family and friends in their seats before settle in private. Please keep in mind or after the show, or when talking to the actors at autographs after the show, that although it is called the “quiet with their permission. If you are not sure if a photograph is permitted, please ask. room” it is not completely sound-proof.

6 SEATTLE CHILDREN’S THEATRE FOREST RIDGE WOMEN WHO CAN credits include HERON Ensemble, MAP THE SACRED HEAR T SCHOOL OF SEA TTLE Theatre, SIS Productions, Ghost Light Invent. Build. Design. Think. Grow. Business, Theatricals, Book-It Repertory Theatre, The Collaborate. Love. Mentor. Dance. Horse in Motion, and Pork Filled Persevere. Lead. Pray. Intervene. Nurture. Productions. Compete. Respect. Inspire. Adapt. meet box Negotiate. Laugh. Discover. Conner Neddersen (Mike/Radio Announcer/Danny office. McManus/The Caller/ Mr. Mills/Chorus) is happy to return to Encore connects Seattle Children’s your business Theatre, where he was most recently seen as Fin in Into the West. Conner is originally to arts patrons from and has been a local actor and educator in Seattle for the past twelve wherever they are. years, earning a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, in 2010. Other local theatre includes ACT (A Christmas Carol), Seattle Shakespeare Company, New Century Theatre, Seattle Opera, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, and Taproot Theatre. Some of his favorite credits in Seattle: Hamlet at Seattle To learn what Encore can Shakespeare Company; 9 Circles (Pvt. Daniel Accepting Applications for 2018-2019 do for your business, visit E Reeves) at Strawberry Theatre Workshop encoremediagroup.com. (nominated 2016, Outstanding actor in a play); and Mary’s Wedding at New Century www.forestridge.org Theatre (nominated 2015, Outstanding actor in a play). concanact.com

Carol Roscoe (Understudy) Previously at SCT: The Boy at the Edge of Everything, Shape of a Girl, The Magic City, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, and Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse. Other Seattle credits include: (ACT) Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World; (ACT Central Heating Lab) A Day in the Death of Joe Egg; “If you are with someone who (Intiman) Barbecue, Romeo and Juliet, Dirty becomes noisy or restless, Story, All My Sons, The Diary of Anne Frank, THEATRE ETIQUETTE please be kind to your neighbors EVER WONDER WHY WE MAKE THESE AUDIENCE REQUESTS BEFORE A PERFORMANCE? Native Son; (Book-It Repertory) What We IT’S TO RESPECT YOU AND THE ACTORS, AND FOR THESE REASONS, TOO. and use our quiet room which is located in the back of the Talk About When We Talk About Love, theater over your right shoulder.” Persuasion; and (Seattle Shakes) Hamlet, Twelfth Night. Honors include: 2013 Globe “Please completely turn off all electronic devices including cell We love our audiences and want them International Acting Fellow; 2011 TPS phones, cameras and video recorders. Also, taking pictures or to express themselves during the Gregory Award, Outstanding Actress. Carol video is not allowed.” show—laughing, clapping, shouting in teaches at Cornish College of the Arts. Her amazement. It’s part of the community film work includes If There’s a Hell Below, We are fortunate to work with very talented performers, designers, playwrights experience. But everyone has moments and directors at SCT. One of our responsibilities to these artists is to help protect when they just don’t want to be among others. www.carolroscoe.com their work from illegal distribution or piracy. Contractually, the use of images where they are. And sometimes they of their designs and recordings of their work is very specifically controlled. We express this quite loudly. The quiet appreciate that people want to capture a memory to enjoy later, but it is actually room offers a place to see and hear a violation of contract, and of trust between the artists and the audience. You are the show, while having a chance to welcome to take pictures in the lobby, of family and friends in their seats before settle in private. Please keep in mind or after the show, or when talking to the actors at autographs after the show, that although it is called the “quiet with their permission. If you are not sure if a photograph is permitted, please ask. room” it is not completely sound-proof.

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Ray Tagavilla (Mr. (Seattle), Seattle Shakespeare Company, Masao Uchida/ Artistic & Book-It Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre Chorus) is a graduate Production Company, Shotgun Players, Crowded of the University of Fire Theatre Company, Impact Theatre, Washington Drama Barry Denenberg (Author) was born in Playwrights Foundation, Golden Thread Program. He is the Brooklyn, New York. He was a serious reader Productions, Washington Ensemble Theatre, recipient of the 2012 from an early age, and when he attended Ohio Northern University, University of Gregory Award for Best Supporting Actor Boston University as a history major in 1968, Washington, and Cornish College of the for Jesus Hopped the A Train (Azeotrope), he worked in a bookstore at night. After Arts, among others. Awards/Affiliations: the 2014 Gregory Award for Best Supporting college, he was a book buyer for independent Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Theatre, Actor in A Small Fire (Sound Theater), and bookstores and national retail chains, and SDC Sir John Gielgud Directing Fellowship, the 2016 Outstanding Actor for The Last eventually became a marketing executive Drama League Directing Fellowship, TCG Days of Judas Iscariot (Sound Theater). Some in publishing. Barry has written numerous Young Leader of Color, Lincoln Center of his theatre credits include Porcelain, critically acclaimed books for young readers. Theater Directors Lab and Directors (Theater Off Jackson, formerly NWAAT); He is married to publisher Jean Feiwel and Lab West. Gregory Award Recipient for Our Country’s Good, the Money and Run lives in Bedford, New York. They have a Outstanding Direction. BA: University series, Trojan Women, Four Dogs and a Bone daughter Emma who is involved in the of California at Berkeley. MFA Directing: (Theater Schmeater); Richard II (Seattle theater. University of Washington School of Drama. Shakespeare); the Sex in Seattle series, Cowboy Vs. Samurai (SISProductions); An Naomi lizuka (Playwright) Plays include Steven Tran (Assistant Director) is a theater American Book of the Dead, Clubfoot (Annex 36 Views; Polaroid Stories; Anon(ymous); artist who wears a multitude of hats and is Theatre); Soft Rock Kid (ACT/Central Language of Angels; Aloha, Say the Pretty excited to be making his mainstage SCT Heating Lab); The Mistakes Madeline Made Girls; Tattoo Girl; Skin; At the Vanishing debut! Steven music directed last summer’s (Washington Ensemble Theatre); Elephant’s Point; Concerning Strange Devices from the student production of Madagascar, Jr for Graveyard, Zastrozzi: The Master of Distant West; Last Firefly; War of the Worlds the SCT Drama School. He has also worked Discipline (Balagan Theatre); Spidermann (a collaboration with Anne Bogart and on the music teams of Howl’s Moving (Jose Bold); Of Mice and Men (Seattle Rep); SITI Company); and Sleep (an adaptation Castle (Book-It Repertory Theatre), Crazy Sauced, To Savor Tomorrow, Smoked, and of a short story by Haruki Murakami in for You (Village Theatre Kidstage), The Christmas is Burning (Café Nordo); A Lie of collaboration with Ripe Time.) Her plays Odyssey (Seattle Repertory Theatre), Sweeney the Mind (Collektor); White Hot (West of have been produced at theatres across Todd (ArtsWest), and Free Boy (5th Avenue Lenin); Ramayana, Middletown, Seattle Vice, the country including Berkeley Rep, the Theatre/Adventure Musical Theatre). Steven and more recently, King of the Yees and The Goodman, the Guthrie, Cornerstone, is a teaching artist at various institutions Crucible (ACT). Children’s Theatre Company, Kennedy around Seattle; currently he is a resident with Center, Huntington Theatre, Actors’ Theatre STG at Hawthorne Elementary. Outside of Annie Yim (Mrs. Lily of Louisville, Portland Center Stage, Public theater and music, Steven works in computer Uchida/Chorus) is an Theater, Campo Santo + Intersection for science education. actor recently based the Arts, Dallas Theatre Center, Brooklyn Naho Shioya (Cultural Consultant) is excited in the Seattle, WA Academy of Music’s “Next Wave Festival,” to be working with SCT. SCT audiences may area. Favorite roles and Soho Rep. lizuka is an alumna of remember her as Mistress Min from A Single include Jean in the New Dramatists and the recipient of a Shard. She is an actor and performance artist world premiere of PEN/Laura Pels Award, an Alpert Award, who has worked internationally in Asia, Charles Mee’s Coney Island Avenue at New a Joyce Foundation Award, a Whiting Canada, Europe, and the U.S. Locally, she York Theatre Workshop; Babette in A Tale Writers’ Award, a Stavis Award from the has appeared at Seattle Children’s Theatre, for the Time Being at Book-It Repertory National Theatre Conference, a Rockefeller ACT, Seattle Public Theatre, and On the Theatre; Queen Elizabeth in Richard 3 at Foundation MAP grant, an NEA/TCG Boards, among others. As a director and LaMama, ETC.; and Lucetta in Two Artist-in-Residence grant, a McKnight teaching artist, she has worked with various Gentleman of Verona at the Colorado Fellowship, a PEN Center USA West Award organizations and schools in the greater Shakespeare Festival. Film roles include for Drama, a Hodder Fellowship, and a Puget Sound area, including Seattle Rep, Rammy Park’s The Homecoming Queen, Jerome Fellowship. Her play Good Kids was Book-It Repertory Theatre, Youth Theatre premiering at IFP. She was last seen in Seattle the first play commissioned by the Big Ten Northwest, Studio East, Langston Hughes Shakespeare Company’s Julius Caesar and Consortium’s New Play Initiative. Iizuka Performing Arts Institute, Seattle Public Theatre22’s Sings the Hits. Annie earned her heads the MFA Playwriting program at the Schools, and City of Seattle. She is a member BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts University of California, San Diego. and her MFA from Columbia University. She of the experimental, multi-disciplinary is thankful and humbled to be a part of this Desdemona Chiang (Director) is a co- arts group Aono Jikken Ensemble (AJE), production and to help share this important founder of Azeotrope (Seattle). Her directing for which she is a performer, vocalist, story. credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and benshi (silent film narrator). California Shakespeare Theater, Seattle Carey Wong (Scenic Designer) has designed Repertory Theatre, Playmakers Repertory sets for the Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, Company, Long Wharf Theatre, ACT

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EAP full-page template.indd 1 12/12/17 9:49 AM Bischofberger Artistic & Production Violins est. 1955 Portland Center Stage, Arizona Theatre designed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT, Professional Company, Syracuse Stage, ACT, Intiman, Intiman, and The 5th Avenue. In California, TAG, Village Theatre, Childsplay, Phoenix he’s designed at The Old Globe Theatre, La Repairs Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Hey City Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Appraisals Theater, and Prince Music Theater. He has Playhouse, and ACT (San Francisco). He & Sales been resident designer for Portland Opera, spent seven seasons as the resident designer Opera Memphis, and Wildwood Park for at American Repertory Theatre in Boston, 1314 E. John St. the Arts, and has designed for Seattle Opera, designing over forty productions there. He Seattle, WA Pittsburgh Opera, Vancouver Opera, the has also designed in New York, Houston, Spoleto Festival USA, the Macao and Beijing Philadelphia, Princeton, Providence, 206-324-3119 Music Festivals, and Nearco Producciones, in Chicago, Washington D.C., and Phoenix, as www.bviolins.combviolinsltd.com Spain. He is currently the exhibition designer well as internationally in Singapore, Taiwan, and artistic advisor for the new Portland and Moscow. Commercially, he has designed Evergreen City Ballet Presents Chinatown Museum, slated to open in Spring for Intel, Harvard University, Starbucks, and BV 071811 repair 1_12.pdf of 2018. Carey is a graduate of Yale University Popcap Games. He holds a degree in Classical and attended the Yale School of Drama. This Piano performance from Cornish College of is his 34th design for SCT. the Arts.

Christine Tschirgi (Costume Designer) is Joyce Degenfelder (Wig Master) From thrilled to be a part of the creative team for two summers with Pacific Conservatory of Ben Uchida. You may have seen her work Performing Arts, three seasons assisting in SleepingBeauty around Seattle, recently, at ACT (King of wigs at Oregon Shakespearean Festival (with the Yees), Azeotrope (Building the Wall), off season time at San Diego Opera), Joyce Storybook Theatre (Tortoise and the Hare), made her way to Seattle. Since arriving, Joyce New Century Theatre Company (Bright Half has had the opportunity to make wigs for Life), and Seattle Shakespeare Company/ many theatres, opera, ballet, and universities. Upstart Crow (Bring Down the House). Other The Seattle Repertory Theatre brought Joyce local theater credits include Seattle Repertory to Seattle, she continued to add more wig Theatre, 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, work with other area theatres; ACT, Intiman, Book-It Repertory, Washington Ensemble Book-it, Tacoma Actors Guild, and Seattle Theater, and Strawberry Theatre Workshop. Shakespeare Company, as well as Alaska Select dance credits include: Susie Lee Dance, Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Theatre, Cornish Dance Theater, and Degenerate Art Dallas Opera; and as hair and makeup Ensemble. Select circus credits: Ringling designer for Seattle Opera, while continuing Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, to create wigs for Pacific Northwest Ballet. Kinoshita Circus (Japan), and Circus Always happy to teach wig-making, Joyce has Contraption’s The Show to End All Shows. She taught at University of Washington, DePaul holds an M.F.A. in Costume Design from the University, Carnegie-Mellon, and Boston University of Washington. University. In 2014, Joyce was the recipient of April 27 - 29, 2018 the Gregory A. Falls Sustained Achievement The Theatre at Matthew Webb (Lighting Designer) is excited Award. Meydenbauer Center to join Seattle Children’s Theatre for the Evergreen City first time. In Seattle, Matt has designed with Michael John Egan (Stage Manager) At evergreencityballet.org Book-It Repertory Theatre, Sound Theatre SCT: Into the West, The Cat in the Hat, James Company, Parley, Taproot Theatre, and and the Giant Peach, and The Wizard of the University of Washington; and he has Oz. Broadway: Les Misérables, Man of La Inspiration happens here. assisted at 5th Avenue Theatre. Regionally, Mancha, and Never Gonna Dance. National he has designed for San Jose Repertory Tours: Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Theatre, ZACH Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Cabaret, and Mamma Mia!. Seattle Rep: Theatre, and Phoenix Theatre. Most recently, King Charles III, Disgraced, Lizard Boy, The Matt lit The Best Christmas Pageant Ever for Piano Lesson, How to Write a New Book for Omaha Theater Company. Matt is a third- the Bible, and Good People. Seattle Opera: year graduate lighting student with the UW Wagner’s Ring Cycle (twice!), La traviata, School of Drama, and this production is his Pearl Fishers, Parsifal, Lohengrin, and thesis; thank you to SCT for providing the Iphigenie en Tauride. The 5th Avenue Theatre: opportunity! www.matthewwebblighting.com Man of La Mancha and Singin’ In The Rain. Spoleto Festival USA: Eugene Onegin, The 206.289.7783 Chris R. Walker (Composer/Sound Designer) kingsschools.org Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, La Preschool – High School is very happy to be returning as resident Cenerentola, and Kepler. A proud Equity Now offering Spanish Immersion for Kindergarten sound designer for SCT. In Seattle, he has member and English major.

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Kiera Krieg (Production Assistant) is thrilled United States Center for the International From SCT to be back at SCT, after working on Fire Association of Theatre for Children and 5th Avenue Theatre Station 7 last season! Credits include: The Young People (ASSITEJ/USA). She has been Government Inspector (Seattle Shakespeare honored with the prestigious Gregory Falls ACT Theatre Company); Road Company 2017 (Taproot Sustained Achievement Award, given by Seattle Opera Theatre); Disney’s The Little Mermaid, The Theatre Puget Sound, and the Mayor’s Arts Music Man, Peter and the Starcatcher (Coeur Award. She has also been inducted into the Seattle Pacific University Performing Arts d’Alene Summer Theatre); and The Barber College of Fellows of the American Theatre. Seattle Repertory Theatre of Seville, The Magic Flute (Opera Coeur She was a recipient of the Distinguished d’Alene). Kiera is a proud graduate of TCU in Achievement Award from UW College of Village Theatre Fort Worth, Texas. Arts and Sciences in 1994. University of Washington School of Drama Karen Sharp (Managing Director) has been For SCT a member of the SCT staff since 1999. She honed her administrative skills teaching Seattle Children’s Theatre is a member Courtney Sale (Artistic Director) joined SCT and coordinating arts education programs of TYA/USA, the national center of the as artistic director in August 2016 and made for over 20 years, including several years as International Association of Theatre for her SCT directorial debut with this season’s a drama specialist in a public elementary Children and Young People.

The Little Prince. Previously, she served three school. In addition, Karen has been an SCT is a constituent of Theatre years as associate artistic director at Indiana adjunct faculty member for the Seattle Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the Repertory Theatre (IRT). IRT directing University MFA Arts Leadership program, nonprofit professional theatre. credits include Jackie and Me, The Giver, Cornish College of the Arts, and serves on And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the faculty of both Bringing Theatre into the SCT is a member of International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY). the World of Anne Frank, The Mousetrap, Classroom and the Teaching Artist Training The Mountaintop, and two iterations of A Lab. Karen has been a guest lecturer at many ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor Christmas Carol. As a director, Courtney has colleges and universities, and for over a union that represents more than developed plays with New Plays for Young decade was in the role of Seattle Children’s 50,000 professional actors and Audiences at NYU/Provincetown Playhouse, Theatre education director, helping to stage managers. Equity endeavors to advance the careers of its members by Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Write Now, spearhead the educational vision for the negotiating wages, working conditions Dorset Theatre Festival, Denver Center theatre. She has presented at several local and providing a wide range of benefits (health and pension included). Theatre Company’s New Play Summit, New and national conferences, including the 2011 Member: AFL-CIO, FIA. #EquityWorks. Harmony Project, and the Orchard Project. and 2013 One Theatre World conferences, 2012 AATE Theatre in our Schools regional The designers at this theatre are Her playwright/director collaborations represented by United Scenic Artists include the works of Steven Dietz, Allison conference, and the 2013 and 2015 AATE Local USA 829 of the International Gregory, Sherry Kramer, MJ Kaufman, Kirk national conferences. Karen is the immediate Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

Lynn, Jason Gray Platt, and James Still. Select past board president of TYA/USA and the Lighting, Sound, Staging, Property, awards include Indianapolis 40 Under 40, current board president of The Winifred Scenery, Scenic Art and Costume work Ward Scholarship Foundation. is performed by employees represented Austin Critic’s Table Award, and UT Austin by the International Alliance of Continuing Fellowship. Courtney has taught Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving at IRT Summer Conservatory for Youth, Michael K. Hase (Technical Director) has Picture Technicians, Artists, and Allied worked at SCT for 22 seasons and often Crafts of the US and Canada, AFL-CIO, Summer at Cornish, Temple College, and CLC. University of Texas at Austin. BFA, Cornish receives the question: “How did you do the (show title here)?” His stock answer is: The Director is a member of the STAGE College of the Arts. MFA, University of Texas DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS at Austin. “Theatre Magic. It really is the truth. There SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor are many very talented, very dedicated union. Linda Hartzell (Artistic Director Emerita) people all working, in many different realms, served as artistic director of SCT and towards the same goal. What can be more its Education Programs from 1984 until magical than that? Please enjoy our magic! her retirement in 2016. She received her You will see a lot of it.” BA in Education from the University of Washington. She has directed 84 Michael Wellborn (Production Manager) plays for SCT, 56 of which were world is in his eleventh season working with the premieres, including The Red Badge of amazing staff and guest artists at SCT. Prior Courage, Holes, Pink and Say, Still Life with to joining SCT, Michael was on the faculty Iris, The Odyssey, Afternoon of the Elves, of the University of Washington Dance and The Rememberer. Locally, she also Program. As a lighting designer for over 35 directed The Grapes of Wrath at Intiman years, his work has been produced in, or Theatre. Ms. Hartzell was formerly on the has toured, the U.S., Egypt, Germany, the board of Theatre Communications Group, Netherlands, and Singapore, and has been Cover illustration by and she is a former vice president of the seen in 25 productions here at SCT. Liz Wong

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encoremediagroup.com/programs 13 Forced From Home Japanese Americans In Western Washington

s the United States entered World War Japanese-owned businesses had formed in Se- tions they held: Buddhist and Shinto priests, AII, a widespread fear grew: that people of attle at Main and Jackson Streets near 5th and Japanese language school teachers, leaders of Japanese descent could pose a security threat 6th Avenues in today’s International District. economic and cultural organizations. Many to the country. This led to the forced removal Many Japanese Americans lived in multi- remained interned in camps run by the army and incarceration of 110,000 Japanese Ameri- ethnic residential areas further east. or Immigration and Naturalization Service for cans that lived on the West Coast, including The Katos lived in a home on 18th Avenue the duration of the war. 12,892 from Washington State, 9,000 of them near Yesler. “Well, all kinds of people [lived] The rest of the Japanese-American commu- from King County. in the neighborhood,” recalled Akiko. “There nity waited nervously as anti-Japanese feelings After being removed from their homes, were many Jews and a Chinese family, and rose in the weeks after Pearl Harbor. Wash- most Japanese Americans in the Seattle area several black families, and we went in and out ington Senator Monrad C. Wallgren led an were first sent to a temporary camp in Puyal- of each other’s homes all the time.” informal committee of senators from western lup, and then to the longer-term Minidoka But discrimination was also a fact of life for states that recommended the mass removal of internment camp in Idaho. Most who lived Japanese Americans and other ethnic minori- Japanese Americans from California, Oregon, outside the city limits were sent, first, to the ties at that time. Immigrants from East Asia and Washington. Tacoma Mayor Harry P. Cain Pinedale camp in Fresno, California, then to could not purchase land or become American was one of the only western politicians to op- the Tule Lake internment camp just south citizens like immigrants from other parts of pose the mass removal. of the Oregon border. Those on Bainbridge the world. In 1924, the United States ended Although President Roosevelt’s cabinet was Island were sent to the internment immigration from Japan. divided over the issue, supporters of exclusion camp in California, and then to Minidoka. By the end of the 1930s, Shosuke Sasaki won out, and the President issued Executive The story of this forced relocation is told held a degree in banking and finance from the Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942. The order gave here partly through the personal journeys of University of Washington, but like many other power to military leaders to exclude both two Seattle residents: Akiko Kato, a 17-year- highly-educated young Japanese Americans, citizens and non-citizens from any areas they old student at Seattle’s Garfield High School, jobs matching his education were hard to find. thought necessary. General John L. DeWitt, who was in many ways a typical American “For us, anyone of Japanese descent, it was the head of the Western Defense Command, teenager; and Shosuke Sasaki, a 30-year-old just a solid wall of prejudice. And there was declared all of California, the western parts Japanese immigrant who was raised and edu- absolutely no chance of getting any work,” of Oregon and Washington, and the southern cated in the Seattle area. he recalled. Instead, he managed his family’s part of Arizona off limits to anyone of Japa- Japanese immigration to the Pacific North- rental apartments. nese descent. west began at the end of the 19th century. Tensions between the United States and This started the government’s removal of Most immigrants worked in the logging or Japan grew in the 1930s. In anticipation of Japanese Americans in the spring and summer railroad industries, both of which needed a possible war, the U.S. government began of 1942; sending them first to temporary de- a supply of cheap labor. Others turned to watching the Japanese-American community. tention centers built in existing facilities, then farming, particularly in the river valleys south Although these investigations determined to 10 newly built long-term detention facilities of Seattle. By the 1920s, an urban cluster of that Japanese Americans would present a very in isolated desert or swamp lands. By the fall small security risk, the government prepared of 1942, all Japanese Americans—except those lists of community leaders to be rounded up in institutions such as jails or health care facili- and imprisoned in the event of war. ties—had been evicted from the West Coast, Within hours after Japan’s attack on Pearl and moved inland. Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, local and federal Most Japanese Americans in King County authorities swept through Japanese-American were forced to leave their homes in April and communities on the West Coast and in Ha- May of 1942. Both Akiko and Shosuke and waii, arresting people on these lists. Some 300 their families were first sent to Puyallup. “They men from Seattle were among those detained. were sheds,” Shosuke remembered of his living Mostly immigrants, these community leaders quarters. “The partitions between the sections were assumed guilty because of the posi- only went up to as high as seven feet and above all that was the ceiling. And so if any child was not feeling well and would awaken during the night and start crying for water or whatever, it kept everybody else in that shed from sleeping.” From there, they went on to Minidoka, Idaho. Many inmates mention the lack of privacy, the com- munal bathrooms and dining halls, and the barbed wire fence with

14 SEATTLE CHILDREN’S THEATRE guard towers. For Akiko, “the thing I felt most was the lack of privacy, and that there wasn’t any place you could just go and sit Library BOOKSHELF down and reflect.” And when she did have a Prepared by Lisa Cipolla, chance to reflect, “I started to realize, ‘Hey, Pierce County Library System wait a minute. This isn’t really the normal kind of thing that should be happening to people.’ And that we were being incarcerated just because of race and that it wasn’t fair.” In early 1943, the War Relocation Author- For Children and ity, the federal agency created to oversee Young Adults: the camps, required all inmates to complete a questionnaire that had the dual purpose Paper Wishes of identifying young men who would be Lois Sepahba eligible for military service and others whose profiles qualified them as safe to leave the Grandfather’s Journey camp to “resettle” in communities away from Allen Say the West Coast. As a result, thousands of Jap- anese Americans left the camps in 1943–44. My Name is Sangoel Akiko left Minidoka to attend college Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra in Wichita, Kansas. She married Junelow Mohammed “Junks” Kurose in 1948, and after some Barbed Wire Baseball The Bracelet Marissa Moss and Yuko Shimizu time in Chicago, the couple moved back to Yoshiko Uchida Seattle. Can a love of baseball raise a person’s hope The Name Jar Shosuke left Minidoka in December 1944 while living under horrific circumstances? Yangsook Choi and was able to land a position at Standard The introduction of baseball to his intern- and Poor’s Financial Services in New York. Save Me a Seat ment camp in World War II did just that for As a company representative to the News- Gita Varadarajan and Sarah Weeks Kenichi Zenimura. Share the story of base- paper Guild, he played a key role in a 1952 ball’s vital role in Ken’s life during and after guild resolution that urged newspapers to Baseball Saved Us stop using the word “Jap” to refer to Japanese Ken Mochizuki the war, when he was a professional player. Americans. Weedflower Starting in 1945, restrictions against Cynthia Kadohata Japanese Americans returning to the West Coast were lifted. At last, Seattle’s Japanese Americans could come home. While many Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James who left camp went on to places outside D. Houston the West Coast, just over half who had left Seattle decided to return. By 1950, 5,778 had returned. They faced many problems, rang- ing from continuing racism that had grown even worse in the war years to difficulties in finding housing. Both Akiko and Shosuke drew on their For Adults: wartime experiences in their postwar life and work. Akiko Kurose became an acclaimed The Arrival schoolteacher and peace activist. She wanted her students “to always realize that not to get Shaun Tan involved when you should get involved is an A Kid’s Guide to Asian act of violence. And that you should always American History: The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange work for peace.” The Aki Kurose Middle More than 70 Activities Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp School in Seattle is named after her. Valerie Petrillo Shosuke Sasaki retired in 1970 and moved during World War II back to Seattle. He became one of the leaders Infamy: The Shocking Jan Jarboe Russell of the Seattle Evacuation Redress Committee Story of the Japanese Crystal City was the center of a government program called (SERC), and worked to get payments from American Internment “quiet passage,” under which hundreds of Japanese Ameri- the federal government for the uncalled-for in World War II cans were exchanged for “more important” Americans wartime incarceration. Shosuke’s efforts Richard Reeves held behind enemy lines. Jan Russell details a little-known helped to pave the way for the Civil Liberties story of how the definition of American citizenship changed Act of 1988, which brought a presiden- under the pressure of war. tial apology and reparations payments of $20,000 for each surviving Japanese-Ameri- can inmate. Material used by permission of Densho. densho.org

encoremediagroup.com/programs 15 Thank you to our Community Partners Ever wondered what’s going on in the mind Seattle Children’s Theatre is pleased to acknowledge the generosity of all the cor- of our artistic director, porations, foundations, and government agencies that have supported SCT between December 1st, 2016 and December 19, 2017. The list below gratefully recognizes their Courtney Sale? contributions. Join Courtney’s Crew and find out! 2017-2018 SEASON SPONSORS For an automatic monthly payment (starting at $10/month), you’ll get exclusive behind-the-scenes updates.

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16 SEATTLE CHILDREN’S THEATRE LASTING CONNECTIONS LASTING CONNECTIONS In The Journal of Ben Uchida, Ben’s father loves looking at the night sky and passes his Inadmiration The Journal of theof Ben stars Uchida on to, hisBen’s son. father It is a loves connection looking Ben at the will night always sky remember. and passes his admiration of the stars on to his son. It is a connection Ben will always remember.

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Courtney Sale Artistic Director Karen Sharp Managing Director

ADMINISTRATION: Lead Stitcher/Crafts Assistant Rachel Carlson MARKETING: Sign Coach Suzanne Sherman Kate Chiappe Ellie Savidge IT Administrator Member Services Coordinator Keni Cohen Eric Bischoff Master Crafts Artisan Trick Danneker ASL Interpreter Cheyenne Smith Stephanie Couturier JoAnna Smith Executive Assistant Shelia Daniels Interim Director of Marketing Hannah Kaye DEVELOPMENT: Josh Darby & Sales Associate Production Manager Carina del Rosario Cara Jacobson Beth Ellen Spencer Business Office Associate Institutional Giving Officer Alban Dennis Resident Sound Designer Riley Kimsey Caitlin M. Bell Marketing Graphic Designer Maria Dogero Shayla Keating Chris R. Walker Accounting & HR Manager Annual Fund Manager Kate Drummond Production Manager Sue McAllister Eron Huenefeld Biz Freebairn Marketing Specialist Duncan Frost Torrie McDonald Michael Wellborn Director of Finance & Director of Development Karina Garcia Administration Cat Mason Sales & Database Manager PROPERTIES SHOP: Patrick Schroeder Matt Giles Kanani Reichlin Major Gifts Officer Chelsea Greenwood Master Properties Artisan ARTISTIC: Rachel Whalen Alex Hagen School Show Coordinator Daphne Maurides Lauryn Hochberg Paul Richter Casting Associate Development Associate Lead Properties Artisan Jeff Hogan Trick Danneker Gen Zoufal PATRON SERVICES: Todd Peacock-Preston Jackie Honold Artistic Associate EDUCATION Megan Jones House Manager PUPPETRY SHOP: Rita Giomi Gillian Jorgensen Stephanie Couturier PROGRAMS: Master Puppet Artisan Amy Jurkiewicz Board Liaison & Volunteer BACKSTAGE CREW: Education Finance & Annett Mateo Kelly Kitchens Coordinator Operations Manager Master Electrician Anita Kuroiwa Tammy Hase SCENIC SHOP: Craig Bradshaw Joanna Barnebey Tina LaPadula Annie Lareau Patron Services Manager Assistant Charge Artist Lead Electrician Arts Based Learning Program Michael Latham Sarahann Rickner Ashley Bailey Christine Brauch Assistant Meredith Berlin Malika Lee Patron Services Associates Lead Scenic Carpenter Lead Sound Engineer Rachael LeValley Katherine Ballard Resident Teaching Artist David Baldwin Mariah Brougher Jessica Low Kathryn Bolling Megan Collins John Lynch Karissa Elliott Charge Scenic Artist Lead Electrician Jeffrey Cook Allysa Johns Education Director Rob Martin Aimee Filippi Don Fleming Andrew McMasters Elizabeth Freebairn Master Scenic Carpenter Lead Dresser Allen Miller Education Specialist Fredrik Hedstrom Brian “Chili” Culver Courtney Kessler-Jeffrey Trina Mills Hannah Kaye Alyssa Mowrer Lead Scenic Carpenter Madeleine Napel Lead Electrician Pin-An Shy Zach Danneker Nick Koester Education Program Manager Maia Nowack Matthew Sythandone Laura Knote Michael Place Scenic Shop Foreman Master Stage Carpenter Beth Pollack PRODUCTION: Clark Sandford Nick Lauris Arts Based Learning Program Manager Olivia Ponzetti ASL Interpreter Wardrobe Assistant Scott Koh David Quicksall Rhonda Cochran Emily McLaughlin Samip Raval Education Outreach Manager Kathryn Reed Audio Description Wardrobe Master Tiffany Maltos Lynn Compton Erin Perona Angela Rinaldi Education Administrative Marisol Rosa-Shapiro ASL Interpreter Lead Stagehand Manager Carol Roscoe Tobias Cullins Jackie Richter Carly Mungovan Christie Rotarius Naho Shioya Properties Shop Manager Master Sound Engineer Education Administrative Intern Jasmine Sim Elizabeth A. Friedrich Joseph Swartz Madeline Napel Rhonda Soikowski Company Manager Lead Sound Engineer Teaching Artists Alyssa Taubin Alexis Garrigues Kyle Thompson Jose “JoJo” Abaoag Julia Thornton Costume Shop Manager Abraham Adams Lead Stagehand Steven Tran Sarah Gordon Alex Trewin Chris Allen Alex Ung Hattie Andres Kendall Uyeji Technical Director COSTUME SHOP: Daemond Arrindell Emily Veling Michael K. Hase Master Draper Rachel Atkins Marsha Walner Assistant Technical Director Kim Dancy David Baldwin Markeith Wiley Eric Koch Meredith Berlin Andrew Wilkes Lead Stitcher/Crafts Assistant Britt Boyd Madeleine Windward Assistant to Costume Shop Sierra Reid Eric Bradler Eleanor Withrow Manager Haley Parks First Hand Andre Brown Amber Wolfe Connie Rinchiuso Ann Marie Caldwell Gen Zoufal

We’re in the Loop! This wonderful innovation was Special appreciation goes to made possible only through the Seattle Children’s Theatre generosity of SCT’s funders. With 201 Thomas St. Seattle, WA 98109 is extremely pleased to the Hearing Loss Association deepest gratitude, on behalf of the announce that in September 2016, children, teachers and families who of Washington, its initiative hearing loops were installed in ADMINISTRATION will benefit, we thank them. both of our theatres. This new Loop Washington, and Loop technology has quickly become the The City of Seattle Office 206.443.0807 preferred assistive listening system Washington’s founder, Cheri of Arts & Culture EDUCATION/DRAMA SCHOOL for bringing clear sound to people with hearing loss. The system is 4Culture Perazzoli. Their generosity hearing aid compatible and protects 206.859.4040 and guidance helps SCT offer the privacy of those using it, while D.V. & Ida McEachern DEVELOPMENT OFFICE not intruding on the experience of Charitable Trust this inclusive experience nearby patrons. Equipment can 206.859.4007 also be borrowed from SCT. For ArtsFund – Power2Give for all children and their the 48 million Americans with TICKET OFFICE hearing loss, the loop boosts and Anonymous Major Donor families, regardless of their invigorates their experience of the 206.441.3322 living performance arts. Lou and Cheri Perazzoli ability to hear.

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