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44th Season • 421st Production SEGERSTROM STAGE / OCTOBER 19 - NOVEMBER 18, 2007

David Emmes Martin Benson PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

presents DOUBT A PARABLE

BY Shanley

Thomas Buderwitz Angela Balogh Calin Lonnie Raphael Alcaraz SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN

Tom Cavnar Jeff Gifford Randall K. Lum* SOUND DESIGN PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER

DIRECTED BY Martin Benson

Jean and Tim Weiss, HONORARY PRODUCERS

Originally produced by the on November 23, 2004 Originally produced on Broadway by , MTC Productions, Roger Berlind and March 31, 2005 “Doubt, a parable” by is presented by arrangement with , Inc., in New York

Doubt, a parable • P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance) Father Brendan Flynn ...... James Joseph O’Neil* Sister Aloysius Beauvier ...... Linda Gehringer* Sister James ...... Rebecca Mozo* Mrs. Muller ...... Kimberly Scott*

SETTING St. Nicholas, a Catholic church and school in , New York, 1964.

LENGTH Approximately one hour and 30 minutes with no intermission.

PRODUCTION STAFF Dramaturg ...... Megan Monaghan Casting ...... Joanne DeNaut Assistant Stage Manager ...... Chrissy Church* Assistant Director ...... Vince Tycer Production Assistant ...... Kristin Calhoun Stage Management Intern ...... Wendy Leef Assistant Lighting Designer ...... Karyn Lawrence Deck Crew ...... Emily Kettler

Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. The use of cameras and recorders in the theatre is prohibited. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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When In Doubt — or, When? In ‘Doubt’ BY MEGAN MONAGHAN Lyndon Johnson has been in the civil rights workers disappear in Philadelphia, Mississippi White House for nearly a year, on June 21; their murdered bodies are discovered on Au- 1964.waging his War on Poverty. gust 4, and responsibility for the crime is ultimately laid Hello, Dolly! is the latest Broadway hit, the game show at the feet of local law enforcement officials. On July 2 “Jeopardy!” and the holiday special “Rudolph the - President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act outlawing Nosed Reindeer” make their TV debuts, and Beatlemania racial segregation in schools and other public places. is in full swing — with the brand new Rolling Stones Harlem erupts in race riots a few weeks later; they last for coming up fast behind them. The first Ford Mustangs six days, followed a month later by similar riots in are rolling off the Detroit assembly line. Cassius Clay is Philadelphia with hundreds injured and many more ar- the heavyweight champion of the world, and the St. rests. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees to win the Gender culture is also in a state of great upheaval. World Series. The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, triggered the Walter Cronkite is in the CBS Evening News an- second wave of the feminist movement (following the chor chair. Among the stories he covers night by night: first wave that established female suffrage in the 1920s). Khruschev is deposed, and Brezhnev The second wave brought traditional replaces him as Soviet Premier. John- feminine roles permanently into ques- son, now on the campaign trail, out- tion and sought an end to gender- lines his vision of the Great Society. here are two based discrimination. During this The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are deeply ways to slide same year the Vatican condemns the engaged in the Space Race throughout easily through female oral contraceptive, commercial- 1964. Cronkite’s gravitas provides T ly available in the U.S. since 1960. some counterweight against the na- life; to believe Even the Roman Catholic tion’s uncertainty about its future, still everything or to Church is traversing unknown territory resonating from the epicenter of the doubt everything. in 1964. The Second Vatican Council November 1963 assassination of Presi- conducts its third session in the fall, dent Kennedy. The Warren Commis- Both ways save us under the new leadership of Pope Paul sion report on the Federal investiga- from thinking. VI following the death of Pope John tion of the assassination is released in – Alfred Korzybski, XXIII. Vatican II would institute major September 1964. One can only specu- philosopher and cultural changes, foremost among late about how many Americans found them the new practice of celebrating relief in the report’s explanations, and scientist, 1879-1950 Mass and all the sacraments in the ver- how many had their doubts further nacular language of the people instead aroused by its contents. of using its ancient Latin text. All ele- In the first major demonstrations against the Viet- ments and moments of the Mass were made more visible nam War on May 2, 1964, hundreds of students march to the people, to encourage their understanding and par- through Times Square and the streets of , ticipation; formerly “secret” prayers were now spoken or with additional demonstrations in Seattle, Boston, and sung aloud. A ritual that had only changed incrementally Madison, Wisconsin displaying the nation’s mounting over two thousand years of Church history was suddenly doubt about the worth and outcome of that war. After revised overnight — or so it must have seemed to many the Gulf of Tonkin attacks, Congress grants President lay and ordained Catholics. Johnson broad war powers, setting a precedent we have In 1964, the building plans for the World Trade seen put to use in the present day. (In the following Center were unveiled and construction began. For many years, the veracity of the Gulf of Tonkin incident would of us reading this, the destruction of those towers be called into question.) By the end of the year, a total of marked a turning point in our own lives, stripping away 23,000 U.S. “military advisors” are stationed in Vietnam. any final belief in our safety and our nation’s security and There is no stability to be found in the changing establishing an irrevocable doubt that permeates our landscape of race relations in America in 1964. Three days.

Doubt, a parable •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P3 Artist Biographies

in the Country and The Dresser at Antaeus The- LINDA GEHRINGER* atre Company. She also appeared in the Holly- Sister Aloysius Beauvier wood Food Chain production of I Capture the has appeared at SCR in Ham- Castle for which she was nominated for an Ova- let, The Piano Teacher, A tion Award for Best Actress. Film and television Naked Girl on the Appian credits include Zerophilia, Headless Horseman, Way, The Retreat from The Water Hole and “Medium.” She earned her Moscow, The Last Night of BFA from Rutgers University, and studied at The Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, Globe in London. Getting Frankie Married — and Afterwards, Rel- atively Speaking, All My Sons, Hold Please, Arca- JAMES JOSEPH O’NEIL* dia and Good as New, among others. She re- Father Brendan Flynn cently appeared at the Atlantic Theater Company in the New York premiere of The Intelligent De- is making his SCR debut. sign of Jenny Chow, which had its world pre- Theatre credits include Off- miere at SCR. She has played leading roles in Broadway productions of Te n theatres across the country including Arena Unknowns at Lincoln Center Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Center Theater, Look Back in Anger Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, New York Stage at Classic Stage Company and and Film, Mark Taper Forum, , The Hired Man at . Regional Laguna Playhouse, Ojai Playwrights Festival and credits include Present Laughter, A Month in the seven seasons at . She County and Heartbreak House at Huntington holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota Theatre Company; iWitness at Mark Taper which she attended on a Guthrie Fellowship and Forum, King Lear and She Stoops to Conquer at has won numerous critical awards. Her televi- Center Stage; Antony & Cleopatra, As You Like It, sion roles include Fontana on “Evening Shade”; Romeo & Juliet, Henry IV, , guest starring roles on “Women’s Murder Club,” Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew at The “Without a Trace,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Cold Case,” Old Globe; and Much Ado about Nothing and “The West Wing,” “Frasier,” and “Law & Order: at Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Film Criminal Intent”; recurring roles on “Ally and television credits include Zodiac, Acts of McBeal,” “The Division” and “Dallas” and the film Worship, “Numb3rs,” “Charmed,” “Sex and the As Good as It Gets. City,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Third Watch” and “Law & Order.”

REBECCA MOZO* Sister James KIMBERLY SCOTT* Mrs. Muller is making her SCR debut. Theatre credits include Trying appeared at SCR previously in at The Colony Theatre Com- both the world premiere and pany; The Cherry Orchard the Pacific Playwrights Festival opposite Annette Bening and (PPF) reading of The Further Alfred Molina at Center The- Adventures of Hedda Gabler. atre Group; and Pera Palas, Classicfests, A Month She also appeared in the PPF

P4 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • Doubt, a parable workshop of Po’ Boy Tango, the PPF reading of founder of SCR with his colleague David Emmes, Safe in Hell, the NewScripts reading of Anon and has directed nearly one third of the plays pro- as the Stage Manager in the production of Our duced here. He has distinguished himself in the Town. On Broadway, she created the role of staging of contemporary work, including William Molly Cunningham in ’s Joe Turn- Nicholson’s The Retreat from Moscow, the world er’s Come and Gone (Tony and Drama Desk premiere of ’s Getting Frankie nominations) and Off-Broadway in Mabou Mines’ Married — and Afterwards and the critically ac- Lear and A Girl’s Guide to Chaos. Her regional claimed California premiere of Nicholson’s Shad- work includes Restoration Comedy (Hillaria, owlands. He has won accolades for his direction Nurse) and Voir Dire (Debra) at The Old Globe; of five major works by , in- Julius Caesar (Decia Brutus) at Mark Taper cluding the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Forum; The Comedy of Errors (Adriana) at (LADCC) Award-winners Major Barbara, Misal- Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, MA; a work- liance and Heartbreak House. Among his nu- shop of The Fall of the House (Munny) at Alaba- merous world premieres is ’s ma Shakespeare Festival’s Southern Writers Pro- Pulitzer Prize-winning , which he also direct- ject; and most recently ’s Proposals ed at Seattle Repertory Theatre and the Alley (Clemma) at Theatre Victoria. She also played Theatre in Houston. He has directed American Antigone in The Gospel at Colonus at the Gorky classics including Ah, Wilderness!, A Streetcar Theatre in Moscow. Among her film credits Named Desire, A Delicate Balance and A View are World Trade Center, The of Le- from the Bridge. Benson has received the land, Guess Who, I Am Sam, K-PAX, The Abyss, In LADCC Distinguished Achievement in Directing Quiet Night, Batman and Robin, Batman Forev- awards an unparalleled seven times for the three er, The Client, Falling Down and the upcoming Shaw productions, John Millington Synge’s Play- The Great Buck Howard. Television credits in- boy of the Western World, ’s The clude a recurring role on “Medium,” “Will and Crucible, Sally Nemeth’s Holy Days and Wit. He Grace,” “7th Heaven,” “Wonderfalls,” “Soul also directed the film version of Holy Days using Food,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Strong the original SCR cast. Along with Emmes, he ac- Medicine,” “NYPD Blue,” “ER” and as a member cepted SCR’s 1988 Tony Award for Outstanding of the acting company for the - Resident Professional Theatre and won the 1995 Mark Burnett series “On The Lot.” Ms. Scott is Theatre LA Ovation Award for Lifetime Achieve- delighted to have been cast in the 2008 company ment. Benson received his BA in Theatre from at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, reprising her San Francisco State University. role in The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler as well as portraying Mrs. Webb in . THOMAS BUDERWITZ (Scenic Design) previously de- signed Pig Farm, Bach at Leipzig, , A Deli- Playwright, Director and Designers cate Balance, A Christmas Carol, But Not for Me and the 2007 Gala “Affair in Shanghai” for SCR. JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY (Playwright) is from the He recently designed the world premiere of Eric Bronx. He was thrown out of St. Helena’s Whitacre’s Paradise Lost for Theatre @ Boston kindergarten. He was banned from St. Antho- Court and David Rambo’s The Ice Breaker for ny’s hot lunch program for life. He was expelled the Laguna Playhouse. Buderwitz’ set design for from Cardinal Spellman High School. He was Equinox (Odyssey Theatre) received the 2006 placed on academic probation by New York Uni- Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. His de- versity and instructed to appear before a tribunal sign for Pera Palas (Theatre @ Boston if he wished to return. When asked why he had Court/The Antaeus Company) received the 2005 been treated in this way by all these institutions, LA Drama Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Stage he burst into tears and said he had no idea. Alliance Ovation Award, LA Weekly Award and Then he went into the United States Marine Back Stage West Garland Award. Regional and Corps. He did fine. He’s still doing okay. L.A. designs include productions for the Pasade- na Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, PCPA Theater- MARTIN BENSON (Director/Artistic Director), co- fest, Denver Center Theatre Company, Arizona

Doubt, a parable •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P5 Bay, Court Theatre, Coast Playhouse, InterAct WORKS BY JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY Theatre, Pacific Resident Theatre, Music Theatre of Santa Barbara, McCoy-Rigby/La Mirada The- SCREENPLAYS atre, Apollo Theater (Chicago), Queens Play- Five Corners (1987) house and the Helen Hayes Center in New York. (1987) - Academy Award for Writing In 2005, he received the LA Drama Critics Circle (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen), Career Achievement Award for Scenic Design. Writers Guild of America Award for Best Origi- His television designs include AMC’s “Sunday nal Screenplay Morning Shootout”; National Geographic’s “Fight The January Man (1989) Science”; “Mr. Show,” “Def Comedy Jam,” “HBO (1990) - also directed Comedy Hour” and “Sketch Pad” for HBO; “Bat- Alive (1993) tlebots” for Comedy Central; and specials and se- Congo (1995) ries for ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, MTV, ESPN, Fox, Live From Baghdad (2002) (TV, Emmy) Disney, USA, UPN, VH1, PAX, A&E and Discovery. The Waltz of the Tulips (2006) ANGELA BALOGH CALIN (Costume Design) designed STAGE PLAYS last season’s Nothing Sacred and the Theatre for Welcome to the Moon (1982) Young Audiences productions of The Only Child Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (1983) and James and the Giant Peach. Her previous Savage In Limbo (1984) SCR credits include set and costume design for The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (1985) The Retreat from Moscow, Terra Nova, The Car- Italian American Reconciliation (1986) petbagger’s Children, Making It and The Lone- Women of Manhattan (1986) some West; set design for Play Strindberg; and All For Charity (1987) sets and costumes for SCR’s Educational Touring Italian American Reconciliation (1988) Productions from 1998 to present. She is a resi- The Big Funk (1990) dent designer at A Noise Within where her cos- Beggars in the House of Plenty (1991) tume designs include Another Part of the Forest What Is This Everything? (1992) (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and Gar- Kissing Christine (1995) land Award), Little Foxes (Garland Award), The Missing Marisa (1995) Threepenny Opera (Drama-Logue Award) and Four Dogs and a Bone (1995) (Drama-Logue Award). Calin has The Wild Goose (1995) designed over 50 productions for local theatres Psychopathia Sexualis (1998) and in her native Romania. Some of those pro- Where’s My Money? (2001) ductions are: The Constant Wife at the Pasadena (2001) Playhouse, The Ice Breaker Laguna Playhouse, (2003) The Cherry Orchard at Georgia Shakespeare, A Doubt, a parable (2004) - Pulitzer Prize for Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Hollywood Drama, and Tony Award Bowl, Christmas on Mars and The Winter’s Tale for Best Play at The Old Globe, The Last of Mr. Lincoln at El Sailor’s Song (2004) Portal, Diablogues at the Tiffany Theatre, Blood (2005) Poetry (Drama-Logue Award) for Theatre 40 and Ancestral Voices for the Falcon Theatre. She has worked extensively in film and television in the Theatre Company, San Diego Repertory Theatre, U.S. and Romania, having 16 design credits with Portland Repertory Theatre, The Acting Compa- I.R.S. Media, Cannon Films, PBS, Full Moon En- ny of Riverside (FL), Rubicon Theatre Company, tertainment and Romanian Films. She graduated International City Theatre, West Coast Ensemble, with an MFA in set and costume design from the The Colony Theatre, A Noise Within, Falcon The- Academy of Arts in Bucharest. atre, Ricardo Montalban Theatre, 24th Street Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, LA Philharmonic/ LONNIE RAFAEL ALCARAZ (Lighting Design) is an As- Disney Concert Hall, Civic Light Opera of South sociate Professor at UC Irvine and a professional

P6 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • Doubt, a parable lighting designer. He has designed at various re- gional theatres, such as SCR, Berkeley Repertory JEAN AND TIM WEISS (Honorary Producers) Theatre, Sierra Repertory Theatre, , have reached a milestone in SCR support — Laguna Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare Festival nine consecutive seasons as production under- and Utah Shakespearean Festival. In addition to writers. Their interest in supporting produc- his twelve seasons with La Posada Mágica, pro- tions as individual underwriters began the year ductions at SCR include My Wandering Boy, The that Tim became an SCR Trustee and the cou- Prince and the Pauper, Blue Door, Man from ple chose to help underwrite the world pre- Nebraska, Bunnicula, The Hoboken Chicken miere of The Education of Randy Newman. Emergency, Play Strindberg, Dimly Perceived Since then their support has been both strong Threats to the System, Sidney Bechet Killed a and eclectic ranging from Shakespeare’s Much Man (for which he received a Drama-Logue Ado about Nothing to modern classics like Award), BAFO, Later Life and Three Viewings. ’s and world pre- He designed Culture Clash’s The Birds at both mieres including Horton Foote’s Getting SCR and Berkeley Repertory, along with their na- Frankie Married—and Afterwards. Weiss sup- tional touring show, Radio Mambo. Recent de- port has not stopped at production underwrit- sign experience includes A Holtville Night’s ing. They were major donors to SCR’s “The Dream, Warriors Don’t Cry, LETHE, I Ask You, Next Stage” fundraising campaign and are sub- Farewell to Manzanar and Waking Up In Lost scribers to both stages and Gala table under- Hills with Cornerstone Theater Company, where writers. A former Board President 2002-03 and he is an associate artist; and Utah Shakespearean 2003-04, Tim is serving his ninth season as an Festival’s 2006 summer season of shows: Ham- SCR Trustee and is also the chair of the Legacy let, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Antony & Campaign. Cleopatra. He was also a designer for Universal Studios, Japan, where he designed the live shows Terminator 2 in 3D, and Monster Makeup, the at- clude Balancing Act and Chair at the Rude tractions Jurassic Park the Ride and Snoopy Stu- Guerrilla Theater Company. Mr. Cavnar holds dios, along with exterior architectural facades an MFA in Theatre Sound Design from UMKC, throughout the park. He is a member of the and a BA in Theatre from Western Michigan Uni- United Scenic Artist/IATSE - Local 829. versity.

TOM CAVNAR (Sound Design) is in his third sea- RANDALL K. LUM* (Stage Manager) begins his 18th son as staff Audio Technician and is designing his season with Doubt, a parable. Last season he ninth production at SCR. Last season, he creat- stage managed My Wandering Boy, Pig Farm, ed the sound design for Bach at Leipzig, Pig Ridiculous Fraud and Nothing Sacred. Two Farm, The Prince and the Pauper, The Piano summers ago he stage managed his good friend Teacher and System Wonderland. He also re- ’s play Restoration Comedy for Cali- cently designed sound for the SCR Theatre Con- fornia Shakespeare Theater in Northern Califor- servatory Summer Players production of Time nia. Other recent credits include Blue Door, Again in Oz. His other recent design credits in- Man From Nebraska, Born Yesterday and The

Doubt, a parable •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P7 Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler. During wood Playhouse). Other productions include his long association as SCR’s resident stage man- the West Coast premieres of Three Viewings by ager, he has worked on more than two dozen Jeffrey Hatcher, The Secret Rapture by David world premieres and has been associated with Hare and New England by Richard Nelson; and over 80 productions. In 1997, Mr. Lum stage by Tom Stoppard, The Importance of managed the AIDS Benefit Help is on the Way III Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Ayckbourn’s at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Woman in Mind and You Never Can Tell by Other stage management credits include the George Bernard Shaw, which he restaged for the American Conservatory Theater in San Francis- Singapore Festival of Arts. He has served as a co, The Old Globe in San Diego, Berkeley theatre panelist and onsite evaluator for the Na- Repertory Theatre, San Jose Civic Light Opera, tional Endowment for the Arts, on the Executive VITA Shakespeare Festival, Pacific Conservatory Committee of the League of Resident Theatres, of the Performing Arts, Long Beach Ballet, San and as a panelist for the California Arts Council. Francisco Convention Bureau and Kawasaki Mo- After attending College, he re- torcycles. He would like everyone to take a mo- ceived his BA and MA from San Francisco State ment to remember all those who have lost the University, and his PhD in theatre and film from battle and all those still suffering and fighting USC. the AIDS epidemic. PAULA TOMEI (Managing Director) is responsible CHRISSY CHURCH* (Assistant Stage Manager) is a for the overall administration of South Coast proud member of Actors’ Equity. Previous cred- Repertory and has been Managing Director its at SCR include the world premieres of Mr. since 1994. A member of the SCR staff since Marmalade, Getting Frankie Married — and 1979, she has served in a number of administra- Afterwards, Making It and Nostalgia, produc- tive capacities including Subscriptions Manager, tions of My Wandering Boy, The Real Thing, Business Manager and General Manager. She Hitchcock Blonde, three glorious seasons of A served on the board of Theatre Communica- Christmas Carol, Born Yesterday, Pinocchio, tions Group (TCG), the national service organi- The Little Prince, Intimate Exchanges, La Posa- zation for theatre, from 1998-2006, and was its Mágica, , Proof and the President for four years. She has also served as Pacific Playwrights Festival workshop of Tough Treasurer of TCG, Vice President of the League Titty. of Resident Theatres (LORT) and has been a member of the LORT Negotiating Committee for DAVID EMMES (Producing Artistic Director) is co- industry-wide union agreements. In addition, founder of SCR. He has received numerous she represents SCR at national conferences of awards for productions he has directed during TCG and LORT; is a theatre panelist for the Na- his SCR career, including a Los Angeles Drama tional Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Critics Circle Award for the direction of George California Arts Council, and site visitor for the Bernard Shaw’s The Philanderer. He directed NEA; served on the Advisory Committee for the the world premieres of Amy Freed’s Safe in Arts Administration Certificate Program at the Hell, The Beard of Avon and Freedomland, University of California, Irvine; and has been a Thomas Babe’s Great Day in the Morning, guest lecturer in the graduate school of busi- Keith Reddin’s Rum and Coke and But Not for ness at Stanford and the University of California, Me and Neal Bell’s Cold ; the American Irvine. She recently joined the board of Arts Or- premieres of Terry Johnson’s Unsuitable for ange County, the county wide arts council. Ms. Adults and Joe Penhall’s Dumb Show; the West Tomei graduated from the University of Califor- Coast premieres of C.P. Taylor’s Good and Harry nia, Irvine with a degree in Economics and pur- Kondoleon’s Christmas on Mars; and the South- sued an additional course of study in theatre land premiere of Top Girls (at SCR and the West- and dance.

The Actors and Stage Managers em- The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and The Director is a member of the Soci- ployed in this production are members Sound Designers in LORT theatres ety of Stage Directors and Choreogra- of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union are represented by United Scenic phers, Inc., an independent national of Professional Actors and Stage Man- Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. labor union. agers in the United States.

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