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A Letter from the Founder
elcome home. I am sure I need not tell you how unspeakably thrilled I am that after EIGHT WMONTHS of darkness we are able to safely gather and present you with a season filled with a variety of unique opportunities created expressly with the safety of our actors, staff, and of course YOU in mind.
I don’t know about you, but I am ready to meet with friends (safely, at a distance, with an elbow tap instead of a hug) and enjoy live theatrical offerings once again. I remain committed to the fact that the live experience is unparalleled (live performance and Zoom are just not great partners), and, to that end, we have done everything possible to ensure that you could once again experience the magic of live theatre, while remaining safe.
Thank you. Thank you for your support during this most challenging time for arts organizations across the country. Thank you for “going with the flow” throughout our cancelations and for giving us the space to create new opportunities. Thank you for wearing masks and remaining physically distant from your fellow audience members. The world has changed dramatically in the last eight months, and it is impossible to predict when we will get back to something that feels like normal...or at the very least when we can interact unmasked. For now, let us enjoy this bit of solace, the kind that only live theatre can provide.
Above all else, we remain steadfast in our belief that theatre stirs the soul, provokes discussion, and invites us to pause and reflect in a way no other artform can. We’ve worked long and hard to get to this moment. I may have taken the blessing of enjoying a piece of live theatre amongst an audience for granted before, but one thing I know is that I never will again. This presentation today, and your presence, is something for which I will be forever grateful.
Thank you for being here. Enjoy the show.
Warmest and best,
KRISTEN COURY Founder and Producing Artistic Director THANK YOU TO OUR 2020-2021 SEASON SPONSORS SEASON ANGELS JANE AND STEVE AKIN SEASON BENEFACTORS PATTY AND JAY BAKER PREMIER CORPORATE PARTNERS
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SEASON AMBASSADORS VALERIE AND NIZAR GHOUSSAINI SANDI AND TOM MORAN SUSAN REGENSTEIN AND BARRY FRANK GLENDA AND RICH STRUTHERS CAROL AND JOHN WALTER JANE AND DAVE WILSON
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CREATE • ENGAGE • INSPIRE A Letter from the Chairman
Dear Gulfshore Playhouse Community,
It is with excitement and confidence that we proceed with our fifteenth season. As the world, our nation, and Southwest Florida continue to navigate very serious circumstances and challenges, the management team, staff, and Board have been working hard to understand the ever changing issues and plan for the season, and the future, in a responsible, successful manner.
Our entire community has responded in a magnificent way. Our patrons, donors, and ticket holders have, through their thoughtful generosity, ensured we have the support to move forward. Our Board of Directors has set the standard in insightful guidance combined with their generosity supporting the annual budget and the Capital Campaign. Our business leaders, generous residents, and government officials have been very helpful in securing our future for the benefit of the entire community.
The staff has worked very long, effective hours collaboratively to continually anticipate problems and develop contingencies for the safety and comfort of our audiences, our actors, and our students. They have inspired all of us. They have done so guided by the core values of the organization and are taking the steps now to progress the long term strategic plan.
I am delighted that this culminates in a wonderful, safe season during which we continue to produce high-quality professional theatre and student engagement opportunities for our region. Another major jewel is growing in the cultural fabric of our community. Our new Gulfshore Playhouse Cultural Campus featuring the Baker Theatre and Education Center will be an iconic cultural center and artistic home for all of us. We all thank you for your support and patronage.
Enjoy the performance,
STEVE AKIN CREATE • ENGAGE • INSPIRE Chairman of the Board
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A Letter from the Mayor
Dear Friends,
As the Mayor of the beautiful City of Naples, I am pleased to welcome you to Gulfshore Playhouse’s 2020-2021 season.
Thank you for visiting and supporting our local professional theatre while practicing social distancing as Gulfshore Playhouse and the Arts play an important role in easing our heightened anxiety during these times.
Although we did not anticipate how this year would start and end, Gulfshore Playhouse has continued to enrich our community through the Arts. We have hope while we continue to move forward.
While offering an amazing experience to our community, you will also find that they have offered phenomenal education programs to our youth.
I am looking forward to this creative teams’ season of exceptional theatre at Gulfshore Playhouse and I hope that you will too as they continue to enhance our community through the Arts.
Sincerely,
MAYOR HEITMANN Mayor of the City of Naples
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Gulfshore Playhouse Education is a vital component of the Playhouse’s mission, providing programs aimed at enhancing the lives of children, teens, and students of all ages. Each offering provides real-life skills and learning experiences that are invigorating, nurturing, and readily accessible to every member of our community, thanks to our scholarships and reduced-price programming for our region’s most deserving schools. From in-school residencies and pre-professional theatre training to community partnerships, audience engagement, and student matinees – our goal is to inspire creativity, encourage self-expression, and support the blossoming of self-confidence, collaboration, and a deep appreciation for the arts. With each passing year, Gulfshore Playhouse continues to touch the lives of thousands of students throughout Southwest Florida.
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AFTER-SCHOOL & SUMMER PROGRAMS Featuring a wide variety of musical theatre and acting programs, these unparalleled experiences help students aged 6-18 gain skills and confidence as performers while training under experienced theatre directors, choreographers, and teaching artists.
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ThinkTheatre brings theatre-based learning techniques into the classroom by pairing teachers with teaching artists to develop educationally enriching programs. Classroom residencies reflect Common Core curriculum while creating an interdisciplinary learning environment focused on academic enhancement, confidence, teamwork, and self-expression.
STUDENT MATINEE SERIES Middle and high school audiences have the opportunity to experience world-class professional theatre. All student matinees include an offer for a teaching artist to visit the school and conduct a workshop about the production before the students arrive. On the day of the performance, students are invited to stay for a talkback with the actors.
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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Focused on enriching experiences that foster personal growth, engagement, empathy, and a connection with others, Gulfshore Playhouse’s collaborative projects with local nonprofits enhance students’ lives and strengthen the community.
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Holocaust survivors stories are memorialized through original short plays. Designed to fit into a classroom period, this special partnership includes pre- and post-show discussions with the students to enhance their understanding of the Holocaust and its relevance to their lives today. We are in the process of developing a new play to be performed in spring 2021.
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Musicalized adaptations of classic works are performed for the entire 11th grade of Collier County Public Schools. This partnership is designed to enhance students’ understanding of classic work while giving them the unique opportunity to witness world-class performances from professional actors and musicians.
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STARRING JEFFREY BINDER
SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER KRISTEN MARTINO KIRCHE LEIGH ZEILE DALTON HAMILTON
SOUND DESIGNER CASTING JOHN KISELICA MICHAEL CASSARA, CSA
VOCAL COACH STAGE MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGER JOHN PATRICK JAMIE A. ECKHOLD EMILY MALMBORG
MANAGING DIRECTOR PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JOEL MARKUS KRISTEN COURY
DIRECTED BY KRISTEN COURY
SEASON ANGELS: JANE & STEVE AKIN SEASON BENEFACTORS: PATTY & JAY BAKER • F.E. & JACK NORTMAN PREMIER CORPORATE PARTNER: CORPORATE SEASON AMBASSADOR: SEASON AMBASSADORS: VALERIE & NIZAR GHOUSSAINI • SANDI & TOM MORAN SUSAN REGENSTEIN & BARRY FRANK • GLENDA & RICH STRUTHERS • CAROL & JOHN WALTER • JANE & DAVE WILSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: ERIKA & PETER ARON • MARY & PHIL BEUTH • BOBBI & DAVID DROBIS • SHELLEY & STEVEN EINHORN CHRISTINE & TERRANCE FLYNN • BARBARA & GEORGE FRANKS • NANCY & TOM GALLAGHER • LINDA & BOB HARDEN JENNY & RICH HOUSH • KRISTIN & JOHN MILLER • THELMA & BUD NEGLEY • CHRISTINE PADDOCK THE PAREKH FAMILY FOUNDATION • GAIL KERN PASTER • DOTTIE & JOHN REMONDI PRODUCERS: EARLE BORMAN & POLLY KELLER • MITCH HERTZ & ANNE CARLUCCI CORPORATE PRODUCER: ROBERT MARCONI • BARBARA & JOHN MORGAN • JACKIE & KENNETH MURRAY STAR SPONSOR: JERRY COURY JANET & PETER SWINBURN • JULIE & SAM WYMAN • KARL & JOANNE WYSS STAR SPONSORS: CATELYN JULIANO & DAVID DEUTSCH • JOYCE & ALLEN GERSTEIN
The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. ABOUT THE CAST HIGHER & PLAYWRIGHT A WORLD PREMIERE BY JEFFREY BINDER JEFFREY BINDER Higher is Jeffrey Binder’s second play following Scapino, which premiered at Gulfshore CAST OF CHARACTERS Playhouse in 2018 and has since been published by Jeffrey Binder Samuel French. Gulfshore Playhouse: It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, An Iliad, SETTING The Mystery of Irma Vep, Scapino (also playwright), The Prague, 1413 and 1997 Price, Merchant of Venice, Hound of the Baskervilles, My Fair Lady, An Enemy of the People, Boeing-Boeing, The God Game (World Premiere at Gulfshore Playhouse/ Capital Repertory Theatre). Broadway: The Lion King, Lieutenant of Inishmore (Original Broadway Cast), Mary Poppins, Side Man (Original Broadway Cast). West End: Side Man (Original London Cast). NYC: HIGHER will be performed Music Hall (US Premiere 59E59th), Romance/The New without an intermssion. Testament (NY Premieres/Neil LaBute, 59E59th), Dr. Faustus (Classic Stage Company), Birth and After Birth (Atlantic), Princess Turandot (Blue Light). Regional: Scapino (Kinetic Theatre Company, also playwright), The White Chip (Merrimack Rep World Premiere), Love in the Wars (Premiere, Bard Summerscape), The Master and Margarita (Bard Summerscape), Bob (Humana 2011), Tartuffe (NJSF). Television: Damages (recurring), Law and Order, L&O: Criminal Intent, Guiding Light, All My Children. MFA, NYU, 1998.
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre, founded in 1985, is a not-for-profit organization serving the musical theatre community. The CREATIVE TEAM 165 organizational members and 75 individual members, located throughout 33 states and abroad, are some KRISTEN COURY (Director/Founder/Producing of the leading producers of musical theatre in the world, and Artistic Director) is the Founder, Producing Artistic include theatres, presenting organizations, higher education Director, and CEO of Gulfshore Playhouse. She programs and individual producers. founded the Playhouse in 2004, after moving to Naples from New York City. Under her leadership, Gulfshore Playhouse is a member of the Playhouse has grown to a staff of 41, an annual Theatre Communications Group (TCG), budget of $4.6M annually with no debt, and plans the national organization for the in place to create a state-of-the-art Theatre and American Theatre. Education Center at the gateway to downtown Naples. While in New York, she worked on Broadway for Gulfshore Playhouse is an Associate Walt Disney Theatrical’s production of Beauty and Member of the National New Play the Beast and for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s company, Network. The Really Useful Group, working on Sunset Boulevard and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. She has directed many of the Playhouse productions to date including: My Fair Lady, The Merchant of Venice, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, The Price, and the World Premiere of The God Game. Kristen made her feature GENEROUSLY FUNDED BY film directorial debut withFriends and Family, a comedy starring Tony Lo Bianco, Anna Maria Alberghetti, and Tovah Feldshuh, which was released around the US and Europe. Kristen has directed several new works, produced a CD, and worked on a variety of musicals in various stages of development. She is also a frequent investor in Broadway productions, most recently the Tony Award-winning revival of Once On This Island. Kristen was named one of the “Top 40 Professionals Under 40” by Gulfshore Life Magazine in 2008, Theatre Controls. Recent selected design work includes a “Star in the Arts” by the United Arts Council of Collier My Way, Million Dollar Quartet, Bluest Water, Whipping County in 2011, and a “Leading Lady” by Naples Illustrated Man, The Mystery of Irma Vep and Waist Watchers: in 2018. The Musical.
KRISTEN MARTINO (Scenic Designer) is excited JOHN PATRICK (Vocal Coach) serves as Company to be returning to Gulfshore Playhouse after previously Vocal Coach for Gulfshore Playhouse. GP: In the designing several shows including It’s A Wonderful Life: Next Room (or the vibrator play); The Mystery of Irma The Radio Play, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Vep, Scapino, The Merchant of Venice, The Hound of Forum, The Revolutionists, and The Price. Kristen is a freelance the Baskervilles, My Fair Lady, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Scenic Designer based in Chicago, IL. Her work has been Carol, The Importance of Being Earnest. Guthrie Theater: seen around the Chicago area at theatres including The The Legend of Georgia McBride. Tours: KIDZ BOP: Goodman, Steppenwolf, Porchlight Music Theatre, and World Tour 2019. Regional: PlayMakers Repertory Music Theatre Works. She was recently a part of the team Theater: Highlights include The Cake, My Fair Lady, selected to design the exhibit representing the United Sweeney Todd, Metamorphoses, Imaginary Invalid, A Number, States of America for the 2019 Prague Quadrennial. Henry IV & V. Teaching: Co-Founder of Miller Kristen has spent the last several years assisting prominent Voice Method (MVM) Studio, Tenured Professor; designers which has given her the opportunity to work on Head of Voice and On Camera Acting for the theatrical productions and museum exhibits internationally Professional Actor Training Program at UNC Chapel including the 2020 West End production of The Prince of Hill 2011-2018, NYU Graduate Acting Program, Egypt. kristenmartino.com Southern Methodist University, the National Theater School of Finland at Helsinki, Queen’s College KIRCHE LEIGH ZEILE (Costume Designer) is and the Lyric Theater in Belfast, Northern Ireland. thrilled to be returning to the Gulfshore Playhouse after Training M.F.A., Rutgers University; B.F.A., Texas designing The Lady Demands Satisfaction last season. Her Christian University. Other: John also consults with Off- Broadway credits include Long Story Short, Amazons Gulfshore Playhouse, corporations, law firms and and Their Men, and The Last Word. Regionally, she has persuasive leaders on presentation and communication designed for the Weston Playhouse, AMAS, Syracuse skills for Miller Communication Consulting. Stage, Southern Rep, Rivertown Theater, Tulane Summer millercommunicationconsulting.com Shakespeare Festival, Two River Theater, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and the Sharon Playhouse. JAMIE A. ECKHOLD (Stage Manager) has She designs for numerous companies and academic a BFA in Theatrical Design and Production from institutions both regionally and in NYC, including the University of Michigan. She apprenticed at Columbia University, Marymount Manhattan College, Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, IL where Tulane University, and NYU. She is an affiliated artist with she had the privilege to work the original production Clubbed Thumb in NYC and holds an MFA from NYU. of August: Osage County (2007), among several other She is a Portfolio Development Advisor for Ringling regional level productions. During Jamie’s early years College of Art and Design. in Naples she served as Resident Equity PSM at TheatreZone for six seasons, stage managing over 20 DALTON HAMILTON (Lighting Designer) works productions between 2008 through 2013. Jamie has around the country as a designer, associate, and also worked productions for Opera Naples, including programmer and is thrilled to be making his debut at Carmen (2009), Die Fledermaus (2015) and La Traviata Gulfshore Playhouse. Theatrical design and associate (2016). She is thrilled to be returning to Gulfshore credits include: Urinetown (Nashville Rep, TN); Evita, Playhouse for her fifth season! Previous GP credits Death of a Salesman, Kiss Me Kate (Bay Street Theater, NY); include The Lady Demands Satisfaction (2020), Shipwrecked 2018 Nat’l Tour of Cabaret (Apex Touring); Turn of the (2019), Skylight (2019), In The Next Room (2019), … Screw, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Buyer & Cellar (FreeFall Forum (2018), Starcrossed (2018), Miss Keller Has No Second Theatre Company, FL); Avenue Q, The Hunchback of Notre Book (2018), My Fair Lady (2016), and the New Works Dame, Spring Awakening, Jekyll & Hyde (Eight O’Clock Festival (2016, 2017). Jamie enjoys being off the grid Theatre, FL); 42nd Street, Elf The Musical, South Pacific, in the wilderness and teaching group fitness, especially Billy Elliot, Hairspray, Holiday Inn, A Gentleman’s Guide to Buti Yoga. She would like to thank her husband, Love and Murder (City Springs Theatre Co, GA); Murder Patrick, for his unending support. on the Orient Express (Ogunquit Playhouse, ME). Theme Park Attractions: ‘Twas That Night, Deck the Halls, Night JOEL MARKUS (Managing Director) is thrilled Beats (Busch Gardens Williamsburg, VA). Television to be in his third season as Gulfshore Playhouse’s Programming: The Rachael Ray Show (Food Network, NY). Managing Director. Joel’s 25-year career has taken him daltonhamiltonlightingdesign.com | @dhlightingdesign to some of our nation’s leading professional regional theatres. Previously, he spent seven years at The JOHN KISELICA (Sound Designer) is the Assistant Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, America’s oldest Technical Director and Instructor of Lighting & Sound professional theatre with an annual budget of over $16 at The University of South Carolina. A graduate of West Million. Joel has played integral roles in the production Virginia University with a BFA degree in lighting and of hundreds of plays over ten seasons at the Indiana sound design. He has worked on a national tour, Buddy: The Repertory Theatre, four years at Geva Theatre Buddy Holly Story, as the master electrician after a contract Center in Rochester, NY, five summers at the Weston with Royal Caribbean International as a stage technician. Playhouse in Vermont, American Players Theatre in Commercial theatrical work includes installing Prodigy Spring Green, Wisconsin, and North Shore Music Hoists, an automated rigging system from Electronic Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts. Joel is a graduate of Indiana University and originally from Miami, Florida. BOARD OF DIRECTORS STEVE AKIN, Chairman of the Board • ERIKA ARON, PATTY BAKER, KRISTEN COURY, ASHLEY DEWJI, DAVID DROBIS, TOM GALLAGHER, NIZAR GHOUSSAINI, TIM HABBERSHON, JENNIFER HOUSH, JASON HUNTER KORN, DON McCULLOCH, SANDI MORAN, JACK NORTMAN, TONY PANZICA, GAIL KERN PASTER, SUSAN REGENSTEIN, TENNILLE SEVIGNY, RICH STRUTHERS, PAT SWEET, DAVID WILSON, DON GUNTHER, Emeritus, ROBERT HARDEN, Emeritus ARTISTIC ADVISORY BOARD ANNA MARIA ALBERGHETTI, ALAN CAMPBELL, FRANC D’AMBROSIO, KEN DAVENPORT, BRIAN LANE GREEN, KEN LUDWIG
LEADERSHIP KRISTEN COURY, Founder & Producing Artistic Director JOEL MARKUS, Managing Director ARTISTIC & EDUCATION FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Producing Artistic Director...... KRISTEN COURY Managing Director...... JOEL MARKUS Associate Artistic Director...... JEFFREY BINDER Director of Finance...... ALYSON McCOY Artistic Content Curator...... AUDREY ZIELENBACH Company Manager...... CHELSEA WALSH Director of Education...... STEVEN CALAKOS Patron Services Manager...... ASHLEY BROOKS Education Assistant...... EMILY BAARTMAN Front of House Manager...... DAVE BLOUNT Education Intern...... CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL Administrative Intern...... MAYA KLEINSORGE
ADVANCEMENT PRODUCTION Chief Advancement Officer...... KIMBERLY DYE Production Manager...... EMILY MALMBORG Annual Giving & Events Manager...... SARAH OWEN Technical Director...... JOHN FORTON Capital Campaign Coordinator.....JOHNATHAN McCANN Asst. Technical Director...... ALEX RIGGS Philanthropic Advisor...... STEPHEN WHEELER Master Carpenter...... ANTHONY KNUDSON Public Relations Specialist...... ANGELA BELL Carpentry Intern...... CHRISTIAN PEARSON (GRAVINIA, SMITH, MATTE & ARNOLD) Props Coordinator...... ELENA ROMERO Marketing/Development Intern...... JULIA BODOLAY Props Artisan...... JESSECA TERHAAR Scenic Charge Artist...... JAMES ALLEN Scenic Artist...... GENESIS DeWITT Master Electrician...... ELIZABETH KENNELL Sound Engineer...... SEAN McGINLEY GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE Lighting/Sound Intern...... CAMILLE HARKINS ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES Costume Shop Manager...... JENNIFER BRONSTED 1010 5th Avenue S., Suite 205 Draper...... RACHEL CLAYTON Naples, Florida 34102 Wardrobe Supervisor...... CHANDA HAWTHORNE (239) 261-7529 Costume Intern...... ALICE IRVINE WWW.GULFSHOREPLAYHOUSE.ORG Stage Management Interns...... AIMEE GRECO, LAUREN WINSTON
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Thanks to the generous vanguard support of local philanthropists, we continue to make great strides toward the creation of the Gulfshore Playhouse Cultural Campus, which will feature the Baker Theatre and Education Center, on the corner of 1st Avenue S and Goodlette-Frank Road. As we move toward groundbreaking, construction, and grand opening, we hope you will join us in this exciting venture. This project is a testament to our community’s generosity, passion, and belief that live professional theatre can change the world.
We are all connected by our love of theatre and our belief in its transformative power. The new Gulfshore Playhouse will be a home for theatre of the highest quality, as well as a confluence of patrons, students, and artists who will surely leave more educated, enriched, and enlivened than when they arrived.
Working together, we can transform our region by ushering Southwest Florida onto a new stage of cultural excellence. In our new building, the caliber of our programming will continue to thrive, we will have the privilege of impacting the lives of more people than ever before, and we will affirm our place on the national stage by contributing vibrantly to the expansion of theatre in our nation.
We invite you to join with fellow visionaries deeply committed to world-class theatre and unique educational opportunities in creating something special for yourself, for Naples, and for generations to come.
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The world-class professional theatre and educational opportunities created by Gulfshore Playhouse are made possible thanks to the sustained generosity of loyal patrons like you. By including Gulfshore Playhouse in your estate plan, you are supporting Gulfshore Playhouse’s long-term fiscal stability and leaving a lasting legacy that will allow us to create, engage, and inspire for many years to come.
We understand that the choice to designate a planned gift is a deeply precious and personal one, and we thank you for your consideration. When you become a member of the Standing Ovation Society, you are joining an ensemble of thoughtful and imaginative visionaries who believe, as you do, in the transformative power of world-class professional theatre and educational opportunities in our region. Your gift will touch the lives of all who walk through our doors and ensure our ability to carry out our mission.
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