ON STAGE The American Century Theater presents

About The American Century Theater The American Century Theater was founded in 1994. We are a professional nonprofit theater company dedicated to presenting great, important, and worthy American plays of the twentieth century—what Henry Luce called “the American Century.” The company’s mission is one of rediscovery, enlightenment, and perspective, not nostalgia or preservation. Americans must not lose the extraordinary Gunston Theatre Two vision and wisdom of past playwrights, nor can we afford to surrender the 2700 South Lang Street, Arlington moorings to our shared cultural heritage. Our mission is also driven by a conviction that communities need theater, and theater needs audiences. To those ends, this company is committed to July 17–August 8, 2015 producing plays that challenge and move all Americans, of all ages, origins, and points of view. In particular, we strive to create theatrical experiences that entire families can watch, enjoy, and discuss long afterward. Director Jack Marshall Board of Directors Assistant Director Assistant Director Quinn Anderson Tom Fuller Chair Louis George Production Manager/ Associate Production Manager/ Vice-Chair Wes Macadam Sound Design Stage Manager Treasurer Wendy Kenney Ed Moser Lindsey E. Moore Board Gabe Goldberg, Madi Green, Vivian Kallen, Jack Marshall, Kevin McIntyre Set Design Lighting Design Staff Michael deBlois Marc Allan Wright Jack Marshall Artistic Director Costume Design Properties Design Rip Claassen Eleanor Gomberg Rip Claassen Tom Fuller Emily Morrison Brian Crane Rhonda Hill Ed Moser Ellen Dempsey Steven Scott Mazzola Joli Provost Kate Dorrell Lindsey E. Moore Ginny Tarris Setting A jury room in New York City Late afternoon, Summer 1956 This program is supported in part by Arlington County through the Arlington Commission for the Arts and Arlington Cultural Affairs, a division of Arlington Economic Development; the Virginia Commission for the Arts; the National Endowment for the Arts; and many generous donors. The play is presented without intermission.

Please—Silence and stow cell phones and other distracting devices. Photography and other recording of this production by any means are strictly prohibited.

Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois. Cast Jury Foreman...... Craig Miller Juror 2 ...... Steve Ferry Twelve Angry Men, by Reginald Rose (1957) Juror 3 ...... Michael Replogle ’Bye! Juror 4 ...... Joe Cronin Juror 5 ...... Evan Crump Well, maybe I should elaborate a bit before we go. Juror 6 ...... Michael Sherman It didn’t take a lot of imagination or daring to choose Twelve Angry Men Juror 7 ...... Bruce Alan Rauscher for The American Century Theater’s final production. For one thing, I Juror 8 ...... Steve Lebens felt that as the founding artistic director, I should direct the last show, Juror 9 ...... Lyle Blake Smythers and there is no script that I love directing more than Reginald Rose’s Juror 10 ...... David Jourdan Juror 11 ...... Brian Crane screenplay. I first took it on in 1984, persuading the Georgetown Gilbert Juror 12 ...... John Tweel and Sullivan Society (which I had founded as a first-year Georgetown Guard ...... Ellen Dempsey law student in 1973) to sponsor a production I produced and directed myself because . . . I just always wanted to, and they owed me. The script Production staff wasn’t commercially available, so Grace Marshall, my long-suffering Director ...... Jack Marshall wife, transcribed the script from a tape recording we made of the film, Assistant Directors...... Tom Fuller, Quinn Anderson which we had rented and viewed using a projector and screen. For that Production Manager/Sound Design ...... Ed Moser production, I used the genuine switchblades Tom Fuller had bought Associate Production Manager/Stage Manager. . . . Lindsey E. Moore overseas (we’re using them in this production, too) and surreptitiously Set Design...... Michael deBlois “borrowed” a water cooler from my office at the U.S. Chamber of Costume Design...... Rip Claassen Commerce. My boss, Tom Donohue (now the President of the Chamber) Lighting Design...... Marc Allan Wright Properties Design...... Eleanor Gomberg was a good sport about that: “Gee,” he said, winking, “that water Assistant Stage Manager ...... Paul Alan Hogan cooler looked just like ours!” Tom, TACT’s general counsel and resident Wardrobe Mistress ...... Catherine Casino musical director all these years, played Juror 4. Playing Juror 9 in that Wardrobe Assistant ...... Mariana Cuesta first production was the late Glenn White, TACT’s longtime “resident old Stagehand ...... Pablo Marquez geezer” who graced so many shows here, from Moby Dick Rehearsed to Publicist...... Emily Morrison The Andersonville Trial to Hellzapoppin’, in which he kept forgetting the Production Photography...... Johannes Markus lyrics to “Try To Remember.” Program Design...... Michael Sherman In 1993, I directed the show again, this time as a special event for the Cover Design ...... Kate Dorrell House Manager...... Joli Provost all-lawyer board of my then employers, the Association of Trial Lawyers Box Office Coordinator...... Kate Dorrell of America. I had a large budget to work with and hired a stellar Special thanks to— American Association for Justice Georgetown Gilbert Natalie Rogers Silver Spring Stage Barrett’s of Alexandria and Sullivan Society Reginald Rose Lia Tampubolon Hal Crawford Andres Lukues Cadet Lt. Nathan Bridges and the Glenn White Jared Davis Timothy Hayes Lynch Salvation Army/Citadel Corps, Alexandria Bart Whiteman DC Theatre Scene Grace Marshall Shenandoah Water and Coffee Company, Yorktown High School Jean Fallow Bob Mondello Staunton VA, www.ShenSpring.com Transition Program Tom Fuller Mari Pappas cast including Nelson Smith, who later played Gen. Lew Wallace in directing the show, I talked to Rose, then in his seventies and heard him Andersonville, as Juror 8; Shelly Wallerstein (later TACT’s board chair), who express his own frustration that the script as he intended it was trapped reprised his role as the Foreman in TACT’s Twelve Angry Men; the late Bill in copyright hell. “Oh, pay the royalties for that awful script and do mine,” Karukas—last seen here as the MC in Marathon ’33—as wisecracking he said. Juror 7; and TACT founder and our first Ishmael, Tim Lynch, as Juror 12. Which is what we did. That production, with five of the actors you will We also had the legendary, controversial, brilliant, and intense Bart see in this one, was trumpeted in print by Bob Mondello of the City Paper Whiteman, founder of the Source Theatre and then in exile from DC as a highlight of the 1995 season. But we also, apparently, lit a spark. theater, playing the Lee J. Cobb role, his last appearance before moving Forty years after the film, and after reading the ecstatic reviews I sent out of the area. him, Reginald Rose started thinking about finally regaining control of The trial lawyers, predictably, went crazy over our production. I was a his masterpiece. First he wrote an updated version for Showtime (he hero. (ATLA fired me less than a year later, by the way.) Flushed with still owned the TV rights), and the success of that broadcast interested more praise and ecstatic reviews than it is healthy for actors to receive, producers in finally bringing the real Twelve Angry Men to Broadway. They we all went out to dinner on ATLA’s dime to celebrate and got gloriously succeeded, and the Broadway production ran for a year, receiving awards drunk. Late in the evening, Bart held forth, as he often did, about how and critical raves. Finally professional companies could do the script Rose live theater had declined into irrelevancy. “Nobody writes plays like this intended, in real time, with no intermissions, and no dumb lines written anymore,” he declaimed. “Big plays, about justice and racism and courage by someone else. and conflict. D.C. needs a company that will do these kinds of plays!” Thus it is that what was the first script performed by a daring little theater So Tim Lynch went to see Norma Kaplan and Jon Palmer Claridge of the company, founded on the crazy idea of putting 20th century shows on Arlington County Arts Incubator Project and, pretty soon, there was such stage that no other theaters would, is neglected no more. A recent poll a company. Naturally, we decided to launch it with a proven commodity. selected Twelve Angry Men as one of the ten greatest American plays, even That was in 1994, and back then, it was impossible to perform the script I though it is a half-century old and has only been performed regularly in its used without some special, as in “under the table,” maneuvers. This is why intended form for less than twenty years—that is, since TACT performed it. Twelve Angry Men fit our mission. Rose had sold the stage rights after the Almost nobody knows this story. Wikipedia has it wrong, as do all the movie bombed, and regretted it, for the licensing company turned the other websites I have checked. But there is no doubt in my mind that play version into a three-act mess even though the screenplay worked on The American Century Theater is a major reason why theater companies stage beautifully, as my two productions had proven. For my third time can perform this show today after so many years of confusion and legal entanglements. So that’s another reason that this was the best possible show to serve as Jack, TACT’s farewell. One more is that it gave me a chance to assemble a cast of actors and friends who have made the company what it is, including Of our many adventures in 35 years of marriage, TACT remains the top eight male actors in numbers of TACT shows performed over the one of the most memorable and meaningful. last two decades. Remember, though—your courage, creativity, and tenacity have And it’s just a wonderful play. That is the best reason of all, and the best created legacies well beyond The American Century Theater, and way we could think of to say thanks to all of you. I am so very proud of you for that. ‘Bye. Love you. —Jack Marshall Artistic Director, 1995–2015

uy You're invited to come back and enjoy our next three mainstage productions Cast at Gunston Arts Center... Craig Miller (Foreman) is in his tenth production with The American Century Theater, where he has most recently been seen as Judge Haywood in Judgment at Nuremberg, team manager Dutch in Bang the AYED S DREAM Drum Slowly, and Feydak in Biography. He acted and directed in Europe during the 1970s. After finishing his formal theatre training at The Royal SHIP BETR Academy of Dramatic Art, London, he returned to the States and began FRIEND SUMMER NIGHT’ performing in DC area theatres. He has performed in more than 125 September 10 to OctoberA MID 11, 2015 THE GOOD DEVIL productions. Craig also makes training films for the Defense Department. January 14 to February 7,(IN 2016 SPITE OF HIMSELF) June 16 to July 17, 2016 He resides with his wife Joyce and their rescue dog Coco in Colesville MD. And just up the road at Theatre on the Run AL we’re presenting... STIV Steve Ferry (Juror 2) was last seen at The American Century Theater as S Stephanowski in Mr. Roberts. After a long absence, Steve is thrilled to be a Y FE part of the Twelve Angry Men and the final show at TACT. Previously, Steve S IN PLA performed at TACT as Juror 7 in the opening production of Twelve Angry AY MEMORIE T CRIP Men, Sgt. Grey in The Andersonville Trial, and multiple roles in the staged HOLID S reading of Porgy. Steve has also been seen at The Keegan Theatre and as November 25 to December 20,March 2015 20 to April 24, 2016 a director/actor in the Roadshow touring company. Other professional For more information about our 2015-16 season go to credits include local commercials and cable TV specials. Michael Replogle (Juror 3) appeared most recently with The American avantbard.org Century Theater as Ernst Janning in Judgment at Nuremberg. He has also appeared at The Kennedy Center, Mill Mountain, Mac-Haydn Theatre, Signature, Round House Theatre, and The Source, as well doing two national tours and the narration for over thirty recorded books. Film/TV credits: NBC, ABC, TriStar Pictures, Pipeline, and A. Shane Productions. He has directed some seventy professional and community productions and won the area’s first WATCH Award in direction for Richard III. He has spent the last fifteen years as director/program originator for Fairfax County’s Professional Musical Theatre Actors Studio where he won honors for Teacher of the Year in 2013–2014. Joe Cronin (Juror 4) has appeared with The American Century Theater as Orrin Kennicott in Biography, Father in Life with Father, MacBird in MacBird!, Mr. Rogers in The Show-Off, Pop Doyle in On the Waterfront, and many others. He has also appeared with WSC Avant Bard as the Lord Chief Justice in Henry I(V) and with the now-defunct Bay Theater of Annapolis as Burgess in Candida and Wilson in Harvey. Capital Fringe audiences saw him a few years ago in the title role of the critically acclaimed Captain Squishy’s Yee Haw Jamboree. Regional appearances: Arena Stage, Theater J, National Players, Olney Theatre Center, Rep Stage, Solas Nua, Interact Theater, Everyman Theatre, Washington Stage Guild, The Keegan Theatre, and Spooky Action Theater. NYC appearances: Heritage Theater. Joe has an The Edge of the Universe Players 2 presents MFA in acting from The Catholic University of America. Evan Crump (Juror 5) has performed many times with The American Century Theater, including as Henry “Author” Wiggen in Bang the Drum Slowly, Richard Miller in Ah, Wilderness!, and Kenny Newquist in Little EntertainingE Murders. Other credits: Bernard in Don’t Dress for Dinner and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit (1st Stage), Talbott in The Other Room (The Kennedy Mr Sloane Center), Clown in The 39 Steps (NextStop Theatre Company), Yepikhodov in by JOE ORTON The Cherry Orchard and Lord Rivers in Richard III (WSC Avant Bard), and Vigo Jansen in The Resurrectionist King and Francis Crick in Photograph 51 (Active directed by Stephen Jarrett Cultures Theatre). His theater company, Unstrung Harpist Productions, (director of American Century’s Cops,The Show-Off and others) won Best Drama honors at the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival for Genesis. An outrageous black comedy by Joe Orton . . . a domestic situation Michael Sherman (Juror 6) has performed with The American Century shattered . . . a play still explosive 50 years after its premiere. Theater in Moby Dick Rehearsed (1997 and 2005), Eccentricities of a Featuring David Bryan Jackson, Jim Jorgensen, Matthew McGee, Jjana Valentiner Nightingale (John Buchanan), and Porgy (various). He has appeared as Common Man in A Man for All Seasons (NextStop Theatre), Pedro de November 21–December 13, 2015 | The Writer’s Center, Bethesda Candia in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (WSC Avant Bard), and George Holly in Suddenly Last Summer and The Doctor in Portrait of a Madonna (The Keegan Theatre). Other favorite roles include Yvon in Art, John in Dark of UniversePlayers2.org the Moon, Andrew Rally in I Hate Hamlet, and Rocky in The Iceman Cometh. Visit to a Small Planet, and The Andersonville Trial, for which he received a A graphic designer, Michael has been TACT’s program designer since 2007 Helen Hayes nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Col. Chipman. and designed the majority of the theater’s original production graphics Favorite roles with other theater companies include: Joseph Merrick in from 2005 to 2012. The Elephant Man, Alan Strang in Equus, Martin in Feeding the Moonfish Bruce Alan Rauscher (Juror 7) began his career in “The Biz” right (SETC award for Best Actor), Ellard Simms in The Foreigner, Alan Turing in after high school performing as a magician and producing short film Breaking the Code (ACT award for Best Actor), Edgar in King Lear, Gary/ comedies. He studied film production at the American Film Institute and Roger in Noises Off, Rev. Hale in The Crucible, and Edward III in Edward III. attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena. Bruce has Bruce has also been honored with a Mary Goldwater Award for acting by appeared in thirteen previous American Century Theater productions, The Theatre Lobby. including Cops, The Seven Year Itch, Judgment at Nuremberg, Marathon ’33, Steve Lebens (Juror 8) has been seen at The American Century Theater in Broadway Hit Parade, Judgment at Nuremberg, I Do! I Do!, Marathon ’33, J.B., Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Stalag 17, Visit to a Small Planet, Stage Door, The Country Girl, Little Murders, An American Century Christmas, To Jack, the Board, the staff, the directors, and the actors— Babes in Arms, Hellzapoppin’, Drama under the Influence, and Call Me You have given us stellar productions! Mister. Regional: The Guthrie Theater: The Entertainer. DC area: Signature Theatre: Cabaret; Passion. Studio SecondStage: Hot Fudge; The Virgin We will miss your visionary work showing us Molly; Muzeeka; A Clockwork Orange. The Folger: The Merchant of Venice; the greatness in the almost forgotten. Playing Juliet Casting Othello; Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience. No Rules Theatre: The Fantasticks. Film: Field of Lost Shoes; King Judi and David McGarvey Lear (2015). Television: House of Cards; VEEP; Law and Order: Criminal Intent; Pigeon the Series. Lyle Blake Smythers (Juror 9) has performed at The American Century Theater in Judgment at Nuremberg and The Pirate. He performed at the 1992 and 1995 Helen Hayes Awards ceremonies at the National Theatre, where he was also seen in Jesus Christ Superstar, and has appeared in “I’m really very sorry for you all, but it’s an unjust world, and Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods (Signature Theatre), Medea (Studio virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.” Theatre), The Pirates of Penzance and Big River (Lazy Susan Dinner Theatre), —W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado Romeo and Juliet, Uncle Vanya, and The Importance of Being Earnest (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company), and most recently A Man for All Seasons with Nextstop Theatre Company. Here’s to the many virtues played, portrayed, and David Jourdan (Juror 10) is happy and honored to be working with Jack unmade in The American Century Theater’s 20 years and this entire cast and crew. Past American Century Theater credits include Twelve Angry Men (TACT’s first show), Moby Dick Rehearsed of triumphant theatrical performances! (all three productions), and The Andersonville Trial. To Dave, TACT We are happy to have been here for it all. means happy memories and good friends. Love to Kathy and Sharon; remembering Phil and Judy. Wendy and Bob Kenney Brian Crane (Juror 11) has performed many roles with The American Century Theater, including Frank Elgin in Country Girl, Leslie in Seascape, Woodly in Happy Birthday, Wanda June, the Producer in Hellzapoppin’, the Is a Happiness that Morning Is, Foka in Les Justes, Edward IV in Richard III, Egg of Head in MacBird!, Harris in Tea and Sympathy, and Felix/Williams Sigmund in Secret Obscenities (Capital Fringe Festival), Steve in Small Craft in Paradise Lost. WSC Avant Bard roles have included Bernard in There Warnings, War in Peace, LeGrue in Red Noses, Lepidus in Caligula, Lodowick in Edward III, and DeNizza and Manco in The Royal Hunt of the Sun. Brian has also appeared as Clotaldo in Life’s a Dream with Journeymen Theatre and been an understudy for Studio Theatre as Clifford Snell (u/s) in The Solid Gold Cadillac, Andy (u/s) in Moonlight, Man (u/s) in The Long Christmas Ride Home, Teddy Lloyd/Gordon Lowther (u/s) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and Ralph (u/s) in Frozen (Studio Theatre Secondstage). John Tweel (Juror 12) last appeared at The American Century Theater in Bang the Drum Slowly. He recently appeared in Candide (Spooky Action Theater) and has also appeared with WSC Avant Bard, Constellation Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, and Adventure Theatre. Recently, John has been seen in commercials for the University of Maryland and Cropp Metcalfe. Ellen Dempsey (Guard) is often found in the director’s chair at The American Century Theater (Hello Out There, Bang the Drum Slowly, Little Murders, One Night with Fannie Brice, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Dr. Cook’s Garden, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, MacBird!, and It Had To Be You). She has also directed for The Keegan Theatre (Twelve Angry Men in 2000) and Little Theatre of Alexandria and stage managed for The Vineyard Playhouse (Martha’s Vineyard). Parade, Marathon ’33, Lady in the Dark, archy & mehitabel, The Cradle Will Production Staff Rock, Hollywood Pinafore, and many others. With Jack Marshall, he co- Jack Marshall (Director) is the co-founder of The American Century authored If Only in My Dreams and An American Century Christmas, and he Theater and its sole Artistic Director for all of its twenty seasons. Twelve adapted Uncle Tom’s Cabin for the theater’s 2002–2003 season. Angry Men is the 23rd play, musical, staged reading, or revue that he has Ed Moser (Production Manager) has produced Come Blow Your Horn, directed for the company; it was also the first. The rest are: Moby Dick Bang the Drum Slowly, Oh Dad, Poor Dad . . . , Judgment at Nuremberg, Rehearsed (three productions), Lady in the Dark, archy & mehitabel, Thirst An Evening with Danny Kaye, and The Seven Year Itch for The American (Part I of Two Masks), The Cradle Will Rock, Hollywood Pinafore, Danny and Century Theater. He is a regional audio-production veteran whose Sylvia (two productions), The Andersonville Trial, Laughter at Ten O’Clock: favorite designs for TACT include Native Son, Treadwell: Bright and Dark, Memories of the Carol Burnett Show, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Mr. Roberts, Call Me Visit to a Small Planet, The Country Girl, Little Murders, and Marathon ’33. Mister, Hellzapoppin’, The Titans, A Passion for Justice: The Clarence Darrow Other favorites include: The Veil, Long Day’s Journey into Night, A Little Trick, Story, An American Century Christmas, Marathon ’33, and I Do! I Do!. He also Afterplay, and Master Harold and the Boys (Quotidian Theatre); Amelia (a wrote, co-wrote, restored, adapted, revised, or significantly overhauled Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage reading); A Christmas Carol, Underneath the half of those, but which half is between him, his collaborators, and his Lintel, and Tuesdays with Morrie for Paul Morella; Señor Discretion Himself conscience. Thanks, everybody. It’s been a hell of a party! (Arena Stage); Urinetown (University of Maryland); David in Shadow and Tom Fuller (Assistant Director) appeared on stage in The American Light (Theater J); and Godspell (Olney Theatre Center). Century Theater’s Judgment at Nuremberg and its most recent production Lindsey E. Moore (Associate Production Manager and Stage Manager) of Moby Dick Rehearsed. He is the general musical director for all TACT was Stage Manager for The American Century Theater productions of shows and has conducted the theater’s productions of Broadway Hit Cops, Hello Out There, Broadway Hit Parade, The Seven Year Itch, An Evening

From Footlights, the modern drama discussion group Thank you, American Century Theater, for 20 wonderful years. We have loved rediscovering all of your plays, especially these, Thanks for all the produced by TACT and featured in lively Footlights discussions. Laughs, Drama, and The Andersonville Trial Beautiful Music. The Titans A Passion for Justice: An Encounter with Clarence Darrow Treadwell: Bright and Dark Cheryl Bailey Voodoo Macbeth and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung you in the Closet, William McClenahan and I’m Feelin’ So Sad Little Murders Beyond the Horizon Native Son Machinal Twelve Angry Men (July 2015) Check us out at Footlightsdc.org and join us for our monthly discussions. with Danny Kaye, Judgment at Nuremberg, Bang the Drum Slowly, I Do! I Do!, To Jack, Rhonda, Ellen, David S. and the casts and crews of: Voodoo Macbeth, The Show-Off, Marathon ’33, and Stage Door. Also for TACT, she has been Assistant Stage Manager for Come Blow Your Horn The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window and Oh Dad, Poor Dad… and the Properties Designer for Biography. 2001 She worked in stage management in Roanoke VA for shows including Antigone, An Evening of Comic Variations by David Ives, The Laramie Project, A Saroyan Celebration: The Sandbox, The American Dream, and The Good Woman of Setzuan. The Seven Year Itch Hello Out There! Lindsey is a graduate of Roanoke College with a BA in Theatre and Design. 2002 1997 Rip Claassen (Costume Design) is owner and impresario of The American Backstage Company in Alexandria. A fixture on the Washington theatre scene for many years, Rip has taught theatre and acting at the Institute The Robber Bridegroom Two Masks: Adaptations for the Arts for Fairfax County Public Schools, Duke Ellington School of 2003 1999 the Arts, and other local theatre programs. For The American Century Theater, he has directed (Come Blow Your Horn, J.B., Visit to a Small Planet, Laughter at Ten O’ Clock Paradise Lost Babes in Arms, and Life with Father), produced (One Night with Fanny Brice, 2002 2004 Native Son, and The Tenth Man), and costumed innumerable shows. Rip founded the Northern Virginia Theatre Festival for high schools, and coaches theatre students seeking admission to competitive programs. Thanks for the memories! He is Artistic Director of Teens and Theatre (TnT), a nonprofit theatre DeAnna Duncan Grand education company. Michael deBlois (Set Design) designed sets for The American Century She produced Stage Door, The Time of Your Life, Machinal, and Hellzapoppin’, Theater productions of Marathon ’33, Danny and Sylvia, Moby Dick among others, and designed properties for archy & mehitabel, The Rehearsed, and U.S.A., as well as several offerings in TACT’s “Rescues” series. Andersonville Trial, and the second production of Moby Dick Rehearsed. Eleanor Gomberg (Properties Design) has been associated with The Marc Allan Wright (Lighting Design) has almost thirty years’ experience as American Century Theater almost since its founding, in a variety of roles. a production manager, lighting designer, educator, and arts administrator in the DC area. With The American Century Theater, Marc most recently designed Broadway Hit Parade and Judgment at Nuremberg. Favorite past designs for TACT: Danny and Sylvia, Machinal, Mister Roberts, and If Only in My Dreams. His first design for TACT was forThirst by Eugene O’Neill. Marc is Director of Operations at the BlackRock Center for the Arts. Catherine Casino (Wardrobe Mistress) is delighted to be working with The American Century Theater for her fifth show. She was Wardrobe Mistress for Judgment at Nuremberg, An Evening with Danny Kaye, and Crime and Punishment in America (a production including Cops and Hello Out There), and Costume Design Associate for The Seven Year Itch. Mariana Cuesta (Wardrobe Assistant) is excited to work with The American Century Theater for the first time, after costuming for Thomas Edison High School’s drama department and working at The American Backstage Company.

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To the American Century Theater

Life goes on and times change And through it all, our memories remain That’s just life, how things come to be I just want you to know how much you’ve meant to me!

Shelly Wallerstein There from the beginning

Thanks for all the great shows! You shall haunt the halls of Gunston forever! The Wixon Family and Bookstore Movers Staff