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OUR SPONSORS ABOUT CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY UP NEXT FROM CENTER REP Chevron (Season Sponsor) has been the Center REP is the resident, professional “Freaky Friday captures the best of great Disney leading corporate sponsor of Center REP theatre company of the Lesher Center for the musicals. The catchy, surprisingly deep score by CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY and the Lesher Center for the Arts for the Arts. Our season consists of six productions Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey is their best work since Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director past eleven years. In fact, Chevron has been a year – a variety of musicals, dramas and Next to Normal.” a partner of the LCA since the beginning, comedies, both classic and contemporary, – Buzzfeed providing funding for capital improvements, that continually strive to reach new levels of event sponsorships and more. Chevron artistic excellence and professional standards. generously supports every Center REP show throughout the season, and is the primary Our mission is to celebrate the power sponsor for events including the Chevron of the human imagination by producing Family Theatre Festival in July. Chevron emotionally engaging, intellectually involving, has proven itself not just as a generous and visually astonishing live theatre, and supporter, but also a valued friend of the arts. through Outreach and Education programs, to enrich and advance the cultural life of the Diablo Regional Arts Association (DRAA) communities we serve. (Season Partner) is both the primary fundraising organization of the Lesher What does it mean to be a producing Center for the Arts (LCA) and the City of theatre? We hire the finest professional BOOK BY MUSIC BY LYRICS BY Walnut Creek’s appointed curator for the directors, actors and designers to create our BRIDGET CARPENTER TOM KITT BRIAN YORKEY LCA’s audience outreach. DRAA’s role in the productions at Center REP. These are not Based on the novel Freaky Friday by community is all about building partnerships MARY RODGERS touring productions – they’re conceived and and the Disney films with the focused goal of enhancing artistic developed here, the sets and costumes are quality at the LCA and providing opportunities built in our shops, and the actors rehearse in Directed by Jeff Collister for everyone to enjoy the arts. Through our rehearsal hall. Whether the production Music Direction by Daniel Feyer partnerships with the LCA and its producers, is a Bay Area premiere or a Shakespearean Choreography by Jennifer Perry individual donors, corporate and foundation classic, each is devised to be a one of a kind, By Willy Russell sponsors and the City of Walnut Creek, artistic creation that will be a unique theatre March 30 - April 29 DRAA plays a vital role in advancing the experience for our audience. arts for the betterment of the community. Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Please visit us online at www.draa.org. Season What does it mean to be a professional Sponsor The Resident Professional Theatre Company of the Andrea Bechert Michael A. Berg Scott Denison theatre? It means that all our artists and Lesher Center for the Arts MICHAEL BUTLER Lesher Foundation (Foundation Sponsor) artisans are career theatre-practitioners. We Artistic Director Season Partner SCOTT DENISON Managing Director Sound Designer Dialect Coach Stage Manager As the namesake family for the Lesher hire many actors that are members of Actors’ Center for the Arts, the Lesher Foundation Equity Association; many of our directors www.CenterREP.org Jeff Collister Kimberly Mohne Hill Sara Sparks* has provided funding to Center REP and the and designers are members of professional lobby banner.indd 1 2/26/2018 4:18:34 PM Lesher Center since the Center opened in unions. All do theatre because it is their 1990. Their support has had a profound profession and their passion. Starring impact on the quality of Center REP’s THANK YOU TO OUR productions and has greatly enhanced the OPENING NIGHT DINNER SPONSORS: We are very proud to have the opportunity Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Kerri Shawn experience for Center REP’s audiences. to produce professional theatre for our Scott’s Seafood Grill and Restaurant Grant-making decisions are based on the community in the beautiful theatres here at vision of Dean and Margaret Lesher who felt the Lesher Center for the Arts. Thank you for quality education, diverse art programs, and your support! THANK YOU TO: Directed by George Maguire healthy children and families are the building Massimo’s Ristorante Waters Moving and Storage blocks of a strong and vibrant community. Associated Services-Alta Water "Shirley Valentine" is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. THANK YOU TO Center REPertory Company THE STAFF OF THE Michael Butler Artistic Director LESHER CENTER FOR THE ARTS Scott Denison Managing Director Production Services Audience Services Margaret Lesher Theatre Production Manager Costume Shop Marketing Associate Coordinator Coordinator March 30 - April 29, 2018 CITY COUNCIL Jeff Collister Manager Morgan Mitchell Toni Kilcoyne Courtney Egg Technical Staff Ticket Office Staff Lesher Center for the Arts Justin Wedel, Technical Director Bethany Deal Education Joshua Lipps Costume Staff Education Directors Steve Pino Jeremiah Vierling Mayor Master Electrician Michelle Kincaid Jeff Draper Alex Bull Rami Kim Season Season Partner Foundation Sponsor Rich Carlston Del Medoff Wardrobe Supervisor Kerri Shawn Chris Currie Robert Nolan ARTS COMMISSION Loella Haskew Carpenters Alea Gonzales Casting Director Hanna Johnson Jennifer Haga Sponsor Cindy Silva Kevin Bennett Props Manager Jennifer Perry Garrick Schuster Laina Hare Anita Sagástegui, Stephen Spleiss Jave Hernandez Chair Kevin Wilk Trevor Frey Roger Anderson Asst. to the Managing Gabriel Johnson Asst. to the Scenic Director Josh Stouffer Elizabeth Martinie Jane Emanuel, Vice CITY MANAGER Josh Yarnell Shannon Taylor Dan Buckshi Caleb Salmon Designer Gail Pfeifer Chair Brennan Shreves Lynn Grant Program/Webmaster Security Gabrielle Wood *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States Glynnis Cowdery DIRECTOR Emmaline Coartney Usher Coordinator Asst. Stage Manager Production Assistant Linda Nomura The Scenic Designer is a member of United Scenic Artists Union Iasmine Klauber Arts + Rec Joe Coe Miranda Ketchum Nick Dowd Pat Mitchell Ann Meredith Kevin Safine Johnny Silveira Center REP is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), The National Organization for the American Theatre CAST Company, PlayGround, CCMT, DAE, Town the UK. Shirley Valentine has been named Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation in the KIMBERLY MOHNE HILL (Dialect Coach) has villainous Pierre LeChance on “The Guiding Hall Theatre Company and she is a resident “one of the 10 most influential British plays of mountains of North Carolina for their yearly coached over 120 shows for such companies as Light," and played guitar and harmonica in Unto These Hills Shirley Valentine .................Kerri Shawn actress with Fantasy Forum Actor's Ensemble. the 20th Century.” summer production of . It’s A.C.T., SF Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Berkeley many rock, blues, and country western bands Kerri has been the recipient of the Shellie nice to be back home at Center REP. Rep, San Jose Rep, Arizona Theater Co, at all the notable dives in NYC. Award, the Dean Goodman Award and was GEORGE MAGUIRE (Director) is CityLights, the Aurora Theater, Marin Theater SCOTT DENISON (Lighting Designer/ Company and San Jose Stage Company. She TIME AND PLACE honored by the Eugene O'Neill Foundation thrilled to return to Center REP with their special award, along with Richard and his endearing bond with both Managing Director) has been the General is thrilled to be returning to Center REP for Manager for the Lesher Center for the Arts Shirley Valentine after having served as the James, for twenty five years of participating Kerri Shawn and Shirley Valentine. The mid-1980s since it opened 27 years ago and has worked original production’s Dialect Coach the first in Student Days at Tao House in Danville. She It has been 13 years since the DIRECTOR'S NOTES The kitchen of a semi-detached house for the Arts in this area for over 44 years. Scott time it was mounted here! Kimberly is an has performed in one other one woman show last foray into this remarkable and a Greek Island has directed over 150 productions, including Associate Professor and the current chair of for Center REP. She played Ann Landers in The journey for them. His other The Wizard of Oz, the musical hit Cinderella, the Department of Theater & Dance at Santa Lady With All The Answers In the 1998-99 season at Center REP, a Shirley Valentinewill be performed , directed by her productions with REP are the Shellie Award Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Hairspray, The Clara University where she teaches Acting, with one fifteen minute intermission. husband Scott Denison. Scott and Kerri have winning Our Town and as an actor Woman Music Man, Les Misérables and for the past 20 Voice & Speech, Dialects, Improv and Musical wildly successful journey of joy began three beautiful daughters; Jennifer, Kelley and in Black opposite Richard James. George has seasons Center REP’s A Christmas Carol as well Theater along with directing shows in their with Kerri Shawn and myself joining Amanda and two awesome granddaughters; directed projects for A.C.T., the Great Lakes as all Fantasy Forum productions since 1970. theater season. Smith & Kraus publishers has forces to create Shirley Valentine for the PROFILES Grace Dawn and Sadie May. All of them are Shakespeare Festival, the Willows Theater, He created and produces the annual Shellie published three of Kim’s books – Scenes in "marvelous, brave, living women" and they New Conservatory Theatre, SummerRep Santa Awards now celebrating 39 years. Scott has Dialect for Young Actors and Monologues in audiences.