Mark Taper Forum 45th Season 2012

First Season Production By Bruce Norris Directed by Pam MacKinnon January 11 – February 26, 2012

Second Season Production Waiting for Godot RED By Samuel Beckett Directed by Michael Arabian March 14 – April 22, 2012

Third Season Production Los Otros Book and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh Music by Michael John LaChiusa Directed by Graciela Daniele May 23 – July 1, 2012

Fourth Season Production Red By John Logan Directed by August 1 – September 9, 2012

Fifth Season Production November By David Mamet Directed by Scott Zigler September 26 – November 4, 2012

sixth Season Production Other Desert Cities By Jon Robin Baitz Directed by Robert Egan November 28, 2012 – January 6, 2013

cover photo: Alfred Molina in the Donmar Warehouse production of Red. photo by johan persson/arenapal. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Unknown Adventures in an Unknown Space: The Struggles of

CEnter Theatre Group Board of Directors 2012/2013 Officers honorary chairman emeritus Mark Lew R. Wasserman† Harold Applebaum Ronald J. Arnault chairman Judith Beckmen Martin Massman Gordon Davidson Rothko by Jim Farber president Phyllis Hennigan William H. Ahmanson Leonard Hirshan Richard Kagan vice president Nancy Olson Livingston Ava Fries What happens when the artist/rebel who has spent O. Kit Lokey secretary Diane Morton his life assailing the spiritual emptiness of the Amy R. Forbes Lawrence J. Ramer establishment suddenly finds himself employed by assistant secretary past presidents the very people he despises, his paintings fetching Susan Grode Lew R. Wasserman† top dollar, even judged “a good investment” by treasurer Marshall Berges† Dr. Steven Nagelberg Armand S. Deutsch† no less a capitalist forum than Fortune Magazine? Walter Mirisch board members Henry C. Rogers† That is the crisis of conscience that faced the great Russian-American Dean V. Ambrose Richard E. Sherwood† painter Mark Rothko in 1958 when he accepted a commission to create Pamela Beck J. David Haft† a series of mural-size paintings in his signature “multiform” style Norris J. Bishton, Jr. Lawrence J. Ramer (large canvases accentuated by blurred blocks of contrasting colors) Dannielle Campos Ramirez Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. as decoration for the new Seagram Building’s luxury restaurant, Joseph C. Carieri Phyllis Hennigan The Four Seasons. Marcy Carsey Richard Kagan Cástulo de la Rocha Martin Massman Vin Di Bona The creation of the Seagram Murals ignited an emotional firestorm in Dante Di Loreto Rothko, since it put all his anti-establishment beliefs on the line. It also Frances Flanagan provides the emotional flash point for John Logan’s dramatic portrait of Barbara Fodor Rothko, Red, which after opening in London in 2009, then Broadway in Eric R. Garen 2010, garnered the Tony Award for Best Play on Broadway. Kiki Ramos Gindler Patricia Glaser How had Rothko, who was born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, Brindell Roberts Gottlieb September 25, 1903, in the small Russian community of Dvinsk, Latvia, Timothy G. Hanlon come to this emotional Rubicon in his career? How had the artist, who Brian Hargrove began his life as a young Talmudic scholar in Russia, worked as a go-fer Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. in New York’s garment district, and emerged as an intellectual lion of the Darell L. Krasnoff artistic avant-garde, found himself “working for the Man?” Or was he? Lucy M. Labruzzo Jennifer Altfeld Landau Carol Mancino Reportedly while cruising back from Europe aboard the SS Independence, Antonio Manning Rothko confided to John Fischer (publisher of Harper’s) that his real plan Dale S. Miller was to create a series of paintings, as he explained it, “that will ruin the Walter Mirisch appetite of every son-of-a-bitch who ever eats in that room. If the restaurant Jo Muse would refuse to put up my murals, that would be the ultimate compliment. Edward B. Nahmias But they won’t,” he told Fischer. “People can stand anything these days.” Diane Neubauer Edward L. Rada Marcus Rotkovitch (the artist didn’t change his name to Mark Rothko Bill Resnick until 1940) was part of an artistic generation born out of German Michael Ritchie expressionism, Dadaism, cubism, surrealism and the modernist Laura Rosenwald movement. They lived through the giddy high of the Roaring 20s, Bruce L. Ross suffered over the social despair of the Great Depression, and rejoiced Eva Stern Louise Taper in the promise of Roosevelt’s New Deal. They worked for the WPA and Sue Tsao fervently believed that art could change the world and bring about a new level of social awareness and spiritual consciousness.

(continued on page 4) †Deceased

P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

Presents the Donmar Warehouse Production of

By John Logan

with Jonathan Groff Alfred Molina

scenic and lighting composer and Casting costume designer designer sound designer Anne McNulty Christopher Oram Neil Austin Adam Cork Erika Sellin

associate artistic director Production Stage Manager Stage Manager Neel Keller David S. Franklin Michelle Blair

directed by Michael Grandage

Cast (In order of appearance) Mark Rothko ...... Alfred Molina Ken ...... Jonathan Groff

UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance. For Mark Rothko – Gregory North, For Ken – Nick Ciavarella

The performance lasts approximately 90 minutes without an intermission. August 1 – September 9, 2012 Mark Taper Forum

Red premiered at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, on December 3, 2009, Michael Grandage, Artistic Director. Original Broadway production produced by Arielle Tepper Madover, Stephanie P. McClelland, Matthew Byam Shaw, Neal Street Productions, Fox Theatricals, Ruth Hendel/Barbara Whitman, Philip Hagemann/Murray Rosenthal and the Donmar Warehouse. Likeness of the Rothko Seagram Mural Panels used with permission. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Red is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3 The Struggles of Mark rothko (continued from page 2)

Their aspirations were so high. Which is why, in the case of Today when people think of Mark rothko’s work they Mark rothko, the fall, when it came, was so low. on February inevitably equate the artist with his “multiforms”— those 25, 1970, in a state of deep depression and poor health bold, confrontational canvases with their radiantly glowing resulting from excessive drinking and smoking, along with the blocks on fi elds of color. But it is important to understand emotional carnage of three failed marriages, the artist slashed that these signature paintings were part of a long process of his arms with a razor and bled to death on the fl oor of his change as rothko moved from the dream states of surrealism studio. he was 66. toward abstraction. What is often misunderstood is that while rothko’s paintings gradually became devoid of subject Mark rothko’s artistic career began almost by chance in 1923. — no fi gures, no landscapes — he saw them as an ultimate he was working in new York city’s garment district when he distillation of the same themes he had been struggling to went to visit a friend who was studying at the art Students express for years. League. The League was a Mecca for artistic expression and heated debate and rothko found the heady world of art and in the “multiforms” rothko perfected a complex technique artists intoxicating. he later said that was the moment he of applying a thin layer of binder mixed with pigment decided to become an artist. (sometimes employing raw egg) directly onto an uncoated and untreated canvas. Then using quick, rapid brush strokes already a budding intellectual (who spoke russian, hebrew, and signifi cantly thinned oils he would create a dense mixture Yiddish and english) rothko began taking classes at the of subtly overlapping color fi elds and contrasting shapes. The art Students League and also enrolled at the Grand central size of the canvases, up to 11 feet in height, was meant to be School of art. and it was at this point that rothko met the overwhelming. he even urged viewers to stand as close as 18 fi rst two teachers that would exert a powerful infl uence over inches from the canvas in order to be totally enveloped. his work: arshile Gorky and the still life painter Max Weber, who like rothko was a russian-born Jew. at the same time The “surfaces,” he wrote, “are expansive and push outward in rothko spent hours exploring new York’s museums and all directions, or their surfaces contract and rush inward in all galleries, absorbing everything he saw, from caravaggio to directions. Between these two poles you can fi nd everything i Paul Klee. want to say.” his earliest paintings tended toward dark, his titles became equally abstract: moody interiors and social landscapes “Magenta, Black, Green on orange” that refl ected his taste for expressionism. “If you are only moved (1949), “rust and Blue” (1953), “Four he became part of a circle of artists that by color relationships darks in red” (1958) or simply “untitled.” included Milton avery, Barnett newman, The success that came with the Louis Schanker and adolph Gottlieb. [in my paintings],” “multiforms” proved a mixed blessing after days in the studio they would spend for rothko. he enjoyed the monetary hours debating art, philosophy and he said, “You are benefi ts, but felt the real message politics over rounds of drinks and packs missing the point. and power of the paintings was of cigarettes. it was during one of the misunderstood. Then came the Seagram group’s summer retreats to Lake George I am interested in commission, which as the play explores, (in 1932) that rothko met a young jewelry expressing the big shook rothko’s world to its core. designer named edith Sachar. They were married on november 12. Two more emotions — tragedy, after that the colors in the paintings marriages would follow. ecstasy, doom.” began to transition from the realm of vibrant reds and oranges to more somber Like the early impressionists of Paris, hues of blue, purple and eventually to rothko and his avant-garde new York shades of gray and black. colleagues found themselves on the outs with the major exhibitors of modern art, most notably the Whitney. in The artist’s fi nal, and greatest project was the rothko response they formed a group of “Whitney dissenters,” known chapel, which was commissioned in 1964 by the houston as The 10. and just as the impressionists had in 1938, they philanthropists, John and dominique de Menil. The octagonal organized their own alternative exhibition as an act of protest. chapel’s white walls are hung with large vertical format paintings consisting of three triptychs and fi ve panels in dark, rothko’s early phase of development was heavily infl uenced somber tones. The eff ect surrounds the viewer with massive, by the stylization of african art and the naïve paintings imposing visions of darkness. of children. But it was carl Jung’s theories of a collective consciousness and the power of mythic archetypes that each viewer that visits the rothko chapel perceives its provided rothko with new fertile ground for his paintings. meaning in a personal way. For me the paintings represent it was also at this time that he encountered the writing of a deeply profound study of the veil between death and the Friedrich nietzsche, most notably his essay, The Birth of world that may exist beyond. Mark rothko did not live to see Tragedy. rothko had found a new vocabulary for his paintings, the chapel dedicated in 1971. he had already stepped through surreal in nature with their roots embedded in ancient the veil of darkness that he had so eloquently portrayed. ○ mythology. This fascination with myths would continue to permeate rothko’s work even as his paintings became more —Jim Farber is long-time fine arts feature writer and critic. and more abstract.

P4 PERFORMANCES MaGaZine Who’s Who

JONATHAN GROFF GREGORY NORTH critics’ circle awards. For the donmar (Ken). Broadway: (Understudy for Mark Warehouse, 25 productions including Spring Awakening Rothko) happily returns derek Jacobi in King Lear (also BaM), Red (Tony and drama desk to cTG where he went (also n.Y.; Tony and drama desk awards, nominations, Theatre on for Marco Barricelli Best director), Jude Law in Hamlet (also World award), In My in Vigil opposite elsinore and n.Y.), Frost/Nixon (also Life. off-Broadway: olympia dukakis. Gielgud, n.Y., u.S. tour; Tony award The Submission Broadway (as Greg nomination, Best director), Guys and (Mcc), The Bacchae Zerkle): Into the Woods, Dolls (olivier award, outstanding Musical (delacorte), Hair (delacorte), Spring Secret Garden, Christmas Carol, Grand Production), Grand Hotel (olivier award, Awakening (atlantic Theater), Hotel opposite cyd charisse, Kiss of the outstanding Musical Production; evening for Prayer for My Enemy (Playwrights Spider Woman (pre-Broadway). Tour: Standard award, Best director), Caligula horizons) and The Singing Forest Phantom of the Opera, Show Boat, (olivier award, Best director), Merrily We (Public Theater). London: Deathtrap Footloose, Les Misérables. regional: Roll Along (olivier award, Best new (noel coward Theatre). Film: Taking Kennedy center, actors Theatre of Musical). For Sheffield Theatres, credits Woodstock, Twelve Thirty, The Conspirator. Louisville (Noises Off, Peter Pan), Buffalo include Don Carlos (evening Standard TV: Boss (upcoming), Glee, The Good Studio arena, a contemporary Theatre, award, Best director). his production of Wife, Pretty/Handsome. Sacramento Music circus, arizona Evita is currently playing at the Marquis Theatre company, Kansas city Starlight, Theatre on Broadway. Michael currently ALFRED MOLINA north Shore, Fulton opera house, serves as President of central School of (Mark Rothko). new Sacramento Theatre co. (Barrymore). Speech and drama. he was appointed York — Broadway: Art L.a.: hollywood Bowl (Amadeus), cBe in the Queen’s Birthday honours in (Tony nomination, international city Theatre, South Bay and 2011. earlier this year he launched the ), downey cLos, rubicon, Falcon, colony, Michael Grandage company with Fiddler on the Roof 3-d Theatricals, ensemble Theatre producer James Bierman and they recently (Tony nomination), company, Laguna Playhouse (Verdi Girls, announced their first season of work in Red (Tony nomi-nation, Leaving Iowa), reprise (four Shows). the uK. michaelgrandagecompany.com. drama League award); Film/TV: In Good Company, Zombie off-Broadway: Molly Sweeney and Prom, Elizabethtown, Virtually Heroes, CHRISTOPHER ORAM (Scenic and Howard Katz (roundabout). London — ER, Frasier, The District, Malcolm In The Costume Designer). For the donmar: Oklahoma!; Speed-the-Plow and Night Middle, Bernie Mac, Judging Amy, Ally The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling of the Iguana, both at the national McBeal, Law & Order, Astroboy. MFa: Bee, King Lear (also uK Tour, BaM), Theatre; Taming of the Shrew, Troilus and uW-Seattle. Mrs.: cynthia Marty. Passion, Red (also new York, critics circle Cressida, King Lear (royal Shakespeare Proud 25 year member and national award, Tony award), Hamlet (also new company); Destry Rides Again, Red councilor of actors’ equity. York ), Madame de Sade, Twelfth Night, (donmar Warehouse). Los angeles — Ivanov, Othello, Parade (also Taper, Richard III (odyssey Theatre), The Cherry JOHN LOGAN (Playwright) received Garland award, ovation award), Frost/ Orchard (odyssey and Mark Taper the Tony, drama desk, outer critics Nixon (also Gielgud/new York/u.S. tour), Forum). Film includes An Education, circle and drama League awards for Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly), Don Juan in Frida, Chocolat, Enchanted April, The Da his play Red. This play premiered at the Soho, Grand Hotel, Henry IV, World Music, Vinci Code, Spider-Man 2, Prick Up Your donmar Warehouse in London and at the Caligula (evening Standard award), The Ears, Maverick, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Golden Theatre on Broadway. Red has Vortex, Privates on Parade, Merrily We Roll Coffee and Cigarettes, Boogie Nights. subsequently been seen in more than Along, Passion Play, Good, The Bullet. recent TV includes Law & Order: L.A. 80 productions across the united States other theatre includes Evita (Marquis), A (nBc), The Innocent (TnT). and in over 30 foreign countries. he is View from the Bridge (duke of York’s), King also the author of more than a dozen Lear/The Seagull (rSc), Evita (adelphi), NICK CIAVARELLA other plays including Never the Sinner Danton’s Death, Stuff Happens, Marriage (Understudy for Ken). and Hauptmann. as a screenwriter, Play/Finding the Sun, Summerfolk, Power London: Hamlet Logan’s work includes Hugo, The Aviator, (olivier award, national Theatre), (The Factory, uK). Gladiator, Rango, Coriolanus, Sweeney Suddenly Last Summer (Sheffield, albery, regional: Farragut Todd, The Last Samurai, Any Given Sunday critics circle award). North (Shadowland and RKO 281. he is currently working on Theatre), Lend Me a the new James Bond film Skyfall and the NEIL AUSTIN (Lighting Designer). Tenor (Virginia rep), film adaptation of the musical Jersey Boys. Previously at the Mark Taper Forum: Hamlet, Comedy of Parade. recipient of the 2010 Tony award Errors (Virginia Shakespeare Festival), MICHAEL GRANDAGE (Director) was and drama desk award for Red at the Crossing Delancey (Theater Barn). nick artistic director of the donmar Golden Theatre, new York, and the 2011 would like to thank Michael Grandage and Warehouse (2002–2012) and artistic Laurence olivier award for The White cTG for this wonderful opportunity. director of Sheffield Theatres (2000– Guard at the national Theatre, London. 2005). he is the recipient of Tony, drama Broadway includes Evita (Marquis), Red desk, olivier, evening Standard and (Golden), Hamlet (Broadhurst), The

PERFORMANCES MaGaZine P5 Seafarer (Booth) and Frost/Nixon (Jacobs). America, Actors’ Equity Association and Rothko ultimately landed on his signature Other U.S. credits include Frost/Nixon the Stage Managers’ Association. MFA / style of rectangles floating in fields of (National Tour), King Lear and The University of California, . saturated color in 1949. By the late 1950s, Seagull starring Ian McKellen (New York, Special Thanks to Anne McNulty, David he was a celebrated artist, winning three Minneapolis, L.A.) and King Lear starring Kalodner, and session readers/actors mural commissions that dominated the Derek Jacobi (New York). Extensive shows Adam Burch, Johnny Giacalone, Jeremy latter part of his career. Only in the last of in the UK for the National Theatre, Glazer, Danny Lampson, Graham Miller. these, The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Opera House, was he able to realize his dream of a truly Royal Shakespeare Company and in DAVID S. FRANKLIN (Production Stage contemplative environment in which to the West End. Manager). Center Theatre Group: interact deeply with his artwork. Red is a Highlights — An Enemy of the People, Baz fictionalized account of Rothko’s ADAM CORK (Composer and Sound Luhrmann’s La Bohème, Art, A Perfect frustrated first attempt to create such a Designer) is co-author of the documentary Wedding, Romance, The Cherry Orchard, space. Rothko sought to create art that musical London Road, which returns to Curtains, Nightingale, The History Boys, was timeless; paintings that expressed the National Theatre in 2012 after Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Two basic human concerns and emotions that receiving the 2011 Critics’ Circle Award Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Kirk remain constant across decades, for Best Musical. Other work includes Douglas in his solo show, Before I Forget, generations and epochs. While creating a scores and sound designs for Anna Ain’t Misbehavin’, Parade, The Subject Was deeply expressive body of work and Christie (Donmar, Evening Standard Roses, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, garnering critical acclaim, Rothko battled Award, 2011), King Lear (Donmar, Olivier The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Randy depression and his brilliant career ended Award, 2011), Red (Donmar/Broadway, Newman’s Harps and Angels, God of in suicide in 1970. Tony Award, 2010), ENRON (West End, Carnage, Vigil, Waiting for Godot and Los Tony nominations for Best Score and Otros. Other Los Angeles: Los Angeles THE DONMAR WAREHOUSE is a 250- Best Sound, 2010), Romeo and Juliet Theatre Center in its heyday from 1985- seat subsidized (not for profit) theatre (RSC, 2010), Hamlet (Donmar/Broadway), 1990, Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen located in the heart of London’s West End Ivanov (Donmar West End), Phedre Playhouse. Regional: Seattle Rep, Intiman which, under the artistic leadership of (NT); Macbeth (Broadway); Frost/Nixon Theatre. New York: Public Theater. Tours: , Michael Grandage and now (Donmar/Broadway), Don Carlos Europe - Quotations from a Ruined City, Josie Rourke, has a reputation as one of (Sheffield/Gielgud); Suddenly Last Law of Remains (with Reza Abdoh’s Dar a the UK’s leading producing theatres. It Summer (Sheffield/West End), A Luz company); North America - Ann has presented some of London’s most Streetcar Named Desire, The Chalk Magnuson’s You Could Be Home Now. memorable award-winning theatrical Garden, Othello, The Wild Duck (Donmar), experiences, as well as garnered critical The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida). MICHELLE BLAIR (Stage Manager). acclaim at home and abroad. Over the Adam is an Associate Artist of the RSC. For CTG: Los Otros, Vigil, Poor Behavior, last 20 years the theatre has created a Adam’s screen work includes scores Burn This, Leap of Faith, The Lieutenant of reputation associated with artistic for The Hollow Crown: Richard II Inishmore, Parade, Lydia, The School of excellence: it has showcased the talent of (Neal Street/NBC/BBC) and Macbeth Night, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, some of the industry’s premiere creative (Illuminations/BBC). Distracted, Nightingale, Without Walls, artists, and built an unparalleled Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates, all catalogue of work. As well as presenting ANNE McNULTY (Casting) has been wear bowlers (also at the Barbican at least six productions a year at its home casting director at the Donmar Theatre, Berkeley Rep., La Jolla Playhouse in Covent Garden, the Donmar presents Warehouse for 20 years, working with and Studio Theatre), Flight, Nothing But work nationally and internationally. In Sam Mendes, Michael Grandage and The Truth, Stones In His Pockets, Topdog/ 2011 King Lear transferred to BAM, New Josie Rourke as artistic directors. Recent Underdog and “QED” at Lincoln Center York, and became the Donmar’s first productions include The Recruiting Officer Theater. Other favorites include The production to be screened live in cinemas and The Physicists directed by Josie Pee-wee Herman Show at the Club Nokia, across the globe from its Covent Garden Rourke, Making Noise Quietly directed by A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters with home. Donmar-generated productions Peter Gill, Anna Christie with Jude Law, Cornerstone Theater Company, and have received 43 Olivier Awards, 26 directed by Rob Ashford, and Richard II Amnesia Curiosa with the gentlemen of Critics’ Circle Awards, 25 Evening with Eddie Redmayne, directed by Michael Rainpan 43. Graduate of the University of Standard Awards, two South Bank Awards Grandage. Other freelance work includes Southern California and the University and 20 from 10 Broadway collaboration on Damon Albarn’s new of Amsterdam. Mom to 4-year-old Liam productions. opera Dr Dee directed by Rufus Norris, and 5-month-old Imogen. for the Manchester International Festival MICHAEL RITCHIE at the English National Opera. MARK ROTHKO. Born Marcus Rotkovitch (Artistic Director) is in in Latvia, Mark Rothko immigrated to the his eighth season as ERIKA SELLIN, CSA (Casting) is in her U.S. with his family and attended Yale Center Theatre Group’s tenth season at CTG – credits include 13, University from 1921-23, but dropped out Artistic Director, and Black Rider, The Convert, The Lieutenant of and moved to New York to “bum around has led over 100 Inishmore, This, Water & Power and more. and starve a bit.” A friend brought him to productions to the Film credits include Crash, A Cinderella a drawing class at the Art Students Ahmanson, Taper and Story and My Lunch with Larry. Artios League where he discovered his love of Douglas stages since Award for Outstanding Achievement in art. He painted in a figurative style for his arrival in 2005. From 1996 to 2004 Casting for The History Boys and Parade. nearly 20 years, depicting urban life in Michael was the Producer of the She is a member of the Casting Society of New York during The Great Depression. Williamstown Theatre Festival and prior

P6 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE to that he was a Production Stage Manager (including CTG). Prior to his years at NEEL KELLER in NYC. At CTG, he premiered six musicals CTG, he was the Director of Finance at (Associate Artistic that moved to Broadway —The Drowsy The Old Globe in San Diego and principal Director). For CTG Neel Chaperone (which won 13 Tony Award of Rada & Associates, an accounting has directed Pyrenees, nominations), Curtains (eight Tony firm that specialized in entertainment- Stones in His Pockets nominations), 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, related non-profit organizations and and Good Thing. He Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Leap of theatrical productions. He is a graduate has also directed and Faith. He has produced 30 world premieres of Occidental College in Los Angeles with produced plays and including the musicals Minsky’s, Venice and numerous post-graduate coursework and musicals at theatres Sleeping Beauty Wakes, and the plays credentials. He currently serves on the across the country and served, in wildly Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer board of trustees for the pension, health varying capacities, on the staffs of La Jolla Prize finalist that also moved to Broadway), and welfare and 401(k) plans of I.A.T.S.E. Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Water & Power and Yellow Face, and he Local 33 Stagehands Union, on the board Remains Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, presented a broad range of plays and of directors of Theatre@Boston Court, and the American National Theatre and Jerome musicals ranging from Dead End to The on the board of United Support of Artists Robbins’ Broadway. Black Rider to Edward Scissorhands to for Africa/USA for Africa, among other blockbusters such as God of Carnage, Mary affiliations. GORDON DAVIDSON Poppins, Jersey Boys and August: Osage (Founding Artistic County. In addition, Michael inaugurated DOUGLAS C. BAKER Director) led the Taper CTG’s New Play Production Program, (Producing Director) is throughout its first 38 designed to foster the development and now in his 23rd season seasons, guiding over production of new work. at CTG. Previously, he 300 productions to managed Broadway and its stage and winning EDWARD L. RADA touring productions countless awards (Managing Director) including Tru, Born for himself and the returned to Center Yesterday, The Gospel theatre — including the Tony Award for Theatre Group last at Colonus, Annie, A theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, year after previously Chorus Line, Working, The Wiz and Legends! The Governor’s Award for the Arts and a serving as CTG’s starring Mary Martin and Carol Channing Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle Chief Financial which premiered at the Ahmanson and Angels in America (Part One) won the Officer for 12 years Theatre in 1986. Baker is a graduate of Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, (1996–2008). Rada Albion College, is an active member of three of the four plays nominated for the spent the past three years as President the Broadway League, the Independent Tony Award for Best Play were from the of the Music Center Foundation, a non- Presenters Network and is a proud Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989 profit corporation that holds and invests member of the Association of Theatrical Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in the endowment and reserve funds for the Press Agents and Managers. 2004, he produced the inaugural season in Music Center and its resident companies the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

ADDITIONAL STAFF and credits FOR RED

Assistant Director...... Timothy Koch Website Wardrobe Crew Local 768; Make-up Artists and Hair Sound Consultant. . . .Christopher Cronin / Sound CenterTheatreGroup.org Stylists Local 706. The manager and press agent Associates Facebook.com/CTGLA of this theatre are members of the Association of Production Assistant...... T.J. Kearney Twitter.com/CTGLA Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. Assistant Designer...... Richard Kent #RED United Scenic Artists represents the designers and Assistant Designer...... Lee Newby scenic painters for the American theatre. Assistant Costume Designer . . Dianne K. Graebner Assistant Lighting Designer...... Heather Graff The Director is a member of the Stage Prop Artisans...... Sarah Farmer, Sarah Sowell, Directors and Choreographers Society, a Sarah Steinman national theatrical labor union. The Actors and Stage Managers Prop Intern...... Marcisha Dortch employed in this production are Center Theatre Group is a member members of Actors’ Equity Association, Credits of the American Arts Alliance, the the Union of Professional Actors and Set Construction by F&D Scene Changes, Ltd. Broadway League, Independent Stage Managers in the United States. Additional lighting equipment provided by Producers’ Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, League This Theatre operates under an agreement between PRG Lighting Los Angeles. Costumes provided of Resident Theatres (LORT), National Alliance the League Of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop and for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and the Theatre Association, the Union of Professional Actors and additional staff: Tailors – Swantje Gragert-Tuohino, Communications Group (TCG). Stage Managers in the United States. Enrique Urbina; Stitchers– Ophelia Brown, Charlotte Stratton; Costumers– Elizabeth A. Cox, Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the The following employees are represented Mara Holland. Production and rehearsal management. Patrons with disabilities: wheelchair by the International Alliance of Theatrical photography by Craig Schwartz. seating is available in a variety of theatre locations. Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine When ordering your tickets, please indicate any Operators, Artists and Allied Crafts of the Special Thanks special needs. For our hearing-impaired guests, the United States, its Territories and Canada, Vera Pizzarelli, Kate West theatre is equipped with listening devices; please AFL-CIO, CLC: Stage Crew Local 33; Local contact an usher for assistance. Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Local 857;

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P7 Center Theatre Group L.A.’s Theatre Company Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director EDWARD L. RADA, Managing Director Douglas c. baker, Producing Director

ARTISTIC DAVE ALTON ...... Chief Information Officer NEEL KELLER ...... Associate Artistic Director STAN GRUSHESKY ...... Director of Information Systems KELLEY KIRKPATRICK ...... Associate Artistic Director SEAN PINTO ...... Database And Web Manager DIANE RODRIGUEZ ...... Associate Producer/Director of New Play Production MANDY RATLIFF ...... Tessitura DBA PIER CARLO TALENTI ...... Resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager JARED WATANABE ...... Information Systems Analyst LINDSAY ALLBAUGH ...... Producing Associate Malcolm K. Darrell ...... New Play Production Associate michelle macgaffey ...... Director of Human Resources Joy meads ...... Literary Associate MADRIO FLEEKS ...... Interim Senior Human Resources Generalist ERIKA SELLIN ...... Director of Casting DAMON JOSEPH ...... Office Services mark b. simon ...... Casting Director SINGER LEWAK, LLP ...... Auditor andy crocker ...... Casting Associate MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF ...... Legal Counsel CHANTEL ADEDEJI ...... Casting Intern GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER ...... Legal Counsel

THE BURGLARS OF HAMM, TANYA BARFIELD, STEVE CUIFFO, KRISTOFFER DIAZ, JUSTIN DEVELOPMENT ELLINGTON, STEVEN EPP, , SAM GOLD, JOE HORTUA, DANIEL YVONNE CARLSON BELL ...... Director of Development ALEXANDER JONES, NICK JONES, RAJIV JOSEPH, TREY LYFORD, DAVE MALLOY, LAURAL PATRICK OWEN ...... Deputy Director of Development MEADE, JULIE MARIE MYATT (FADIMAN), DAN O’BRIEN, EVANGELINE ORDAZ, WILL POWER NATALIE BERGESON ...... Director of Donor Contributions (FADIMAN), matt sax, DOMINIQUE SERRAND, JEAN KLING ...... Director of Institutional Support GEOFF SOBELLE, UNIVERSES ...... Commissioned Artists LIZ LIN ...... Director of Donor Communications CHARITY WU ...... Director of Individual Giving Padraic duffy larissa Fasthorse, sigrid gilmer, prince gomolvilas, BECKY BIRDSONG ...... Major Gifts Officer jennifer haley, matt sax, steveN yockey . . . . . CTG Writers’ Workshop Members SANDRA Ebejer ...... Institutional Giving Officer KIM LA TOUR ...... Corporate Giving Officer EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS RICK LEE ...... Donor Contributions Supervisor LESLIE K. JOHNSON ...... Director of Education and Community Partnerships jennifer ryen ...... Special Gifts Manager DEBRA PIVER ...... Associate Director of Education and Community Partnerships Eric Brown ...... Communications Coordinator TRACI CHO ...... Director of School Partnerships jAMIE CATALDO ...... Grants Writer PATRICIA GARZA ...... Senior Manager for Education and Community Partnership jennifer chan ...... Development Assistant CAMILLE SCHENKKAN ...... Educational Programs Manager Donald Jolly ...... Donor Relations Associate for the Inner Circle DAN Harper ...... Educational Programs Associate MANDi OR ...... Special Events Manager ASHLEY OPSTAD ...... Educational Programs Associate HELEN H. OTA ...... Executive Assistant to the Development Director Kelly CHRIST ...... Educational Communications Coordinator maria paredes ...... Donor Relations Associate for The Guild VICTOR VAZQUEZ ...... Educational Services Coordinator COURTNEY ROBERTSON ...... Institutional Giving Associate SHANNON WINSTON . . Assistant to the Director of Education and Community Partnerships ERIN SCHLABACH ...... Donor Contributions Associate ELIZABETH WACHTEL ...... Special Gifts Assistant MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION Nausica Stergiou ...... General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) JASON BASS, AL BERMAN, JOHN CARDELLO, ann cavOto, JEFFREY UPAH ...... General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) GINA EAST, lili herrera, jessica nash, HOLLY RAMOS, SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY ...... Assistant General Manager (Mark Taper Forum) NICOLE SCIPIONE, BILL WALTON ...... Donor Advisors KATIE BRUNER SOFF . Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, New Play Production) ADAM BURCH, Karla Galvez ...... Donor Services Associates Alana beidelman ...... Executive Assistant to Managing Director Sarah Bedo, ANNE BRUNER, pasha manali, LIZ LYDIC ...... Assistant to Producing Director marci miller, julie nadal ...... Development Volunteers

ERIC SIMS ...... Operations Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS TOM BURMESTER ...... Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JIM ROYCE ...... Director of Marketing, Communications and Sales LAUREN BAXA ...... Assistant Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MIKE KINDLE ...... Facilities Assistant (Kirk Douglas Theatre) NANCY HEREFORD ...... Director of Media and Communications Sondra Mayer ...... Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PHYLLIS MOBERLY ...... Media and Communications Associate JASON MARTIN ...... Media and Communications Associate PRODUCTION TAYLOR RAE JOHNSON, shannon smith . . . . Media and Communications Assistants ALYS E. HOLDEN ...... Director of Production CHRISTOPHER KOMURO ...... Art Director IRENE KANESHIRO, nishita doshi ...... Senior Designers JONATHAN BARLOW LEE ...... Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) Haruka hayakawa ...... Graphic Designer KELSEY MARTINEZ ...... Assistant Production Manager(Mark Taper Forum) TERESA ENGLISH ...... Junior Graphic Designer KATE COLTUN ...... Interim Assistant Production Manager(Mark Taper Forum) emmet kaiser ...... Master Carpenter(Mark Taper Forum) AMELIA HEAPE ...... Associate Director of Marketing ROBERT RUBY ...... Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) ANDREW DARCEY ...... Advertising Manager WILLIAM MORNER ...... Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) JIM HALLORAN ...... Marketing Associate, Creative BONES MALONE ...... Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) JOEY OLIVA ...... Marketing Associate, Operations DENNIS SEETOO ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) ROSE POIRIER ...... Webmaster RICK GEYER ...... Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) CRAIG SCHWARTZ ...... Production Photographer LINDA WALKER ...... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) CINEVATIVE/MARK CIGLAR ...... Production Video Mara Holland ...... Stage Door (Mark Taper Forum) TOM BURMESTER, TREVOR ALGATT, KEVIN MAPP ...... Event Video ALLIED LIVE: LAURA MATALON, LESLEY-ANNE STONE, KELLY ESTRELLA . Advertising Agency JOE HAMLIN ...... Technical Director CHAD SMITH ...... Assistant Technical Director TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SAM CRAVEN-GRIFFITHS ...... Assistant Technical Director SHAWN ROBERTSON ...... Ticket Sales Director SKYPP CABANAS ...... Ticket Operations Coordinator DAWN HOLISKI ...... Shop Director ANDREW THIELS ...... Prop Manager SANDY CZUBIAK ...... Audience and Subscriber Services Manager MERRIANNE NEDREBERG ...... Prop Lead JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE . . Audience Services Supervisors SARAH KRAININ ...... Prop Shopper ALICE CHEN ...... Audience Services Asst. Supervisor CANDICE CAIN ...... Costume Shop Director SAM AARON, DEBORAH REED ...... Audience Services Sales Associate ELIZABETH LEONARD ...... Production Operations Manager JULIO A. CUELLAR ...... Driver/Custodian jeremie arencibia, VICKI BERNDT, RJ CANTU, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., EUGENE A. MONTEIRO II, BRIAN SLATEN ...... Drivers PETER COLBURN, HESPER COLOHAN, DONALD CRANDALL, GARY HOLLAND, KAY LOCHARD, JUSTINE PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, DANNY SCHMITZ, CRIS SPACCA, MELODY MATTOS ...... Production Business Manager TRAVIS WOOD ...... Audience Services Representatives JENNIFER ACHTERBERG ...... Production and Facilities Manager AMANDA CAMPBELL ...... Production Administrator DANUTA SIEMAK ...... Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ ...... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor SHAWN ANDERSON ...... Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) LIGIA PISTE, CELIA RIVAS ...... Subscriber Services Senior Representatives ANDREW W. ARNOLD ...... Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) irene chuang, peter staloch ...... Subscriber Services Representatives JIM BERGER ...... Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) STAN STEELMON ...... Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) SARAH K. GONTA ...... Box Office Treasurer ROBERT SMITH ...... Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) KISHISA ROSS, GISELE FRAZEUR ...... Assistant Treasurers MICHAEL GARDNER ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) YULIZA BARRAZA, ANGELICA Carbajal, michael kempisty, PATRICE MIRANDA ...... Hair Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) LEROY PAWLOWSKI, MICHAEL SALTZMAN, ...... Box Office Staff CHRISTINE L. COX ...... House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL ZOLDESSY ...... Account Sales Manager CELESTE SANTAMASSINO ...... Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) EILEEN ROBERTS ...... Account Sales Associate RICHARD PETERSON ...... Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) ADAM PHALEN ...... Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) KERRY KORF ...... Priority Services Director SUSAN F. TULLER ...... Priority Services Operations Manager FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES JAY BURNS ...... Priority Services Sales Manager MICHAEL F. THOMPSON ...... Chief Financial Officer paul cuen ...... Priority Services Manager DANA KELLY ...... Controller JANIS BOWBEER ...... Assistant Controller Carole Baxter, Rusty collins, SUZANNE “MAGGIE” DODD, Marc “Byron” FELICISIMA LAPID ...... Accounts Payable Supervisor Drotman, Lou George, KATE HALL, SEAN HOWSE, Jerry Johnston, LISA KESSLER, ALEGRIA SENA ...... Staff Accountant SHEP KOSTER, LES KUYKENDALL, CANDICE McDOWELL, ELENA MUSLAR, MATT PELFREY, DANNY LAMPSON ...... Staff Accountant EDWARD “MAX” RAZOR, JASMINE REGALA, Ken Salley, BOBBI LYNNE SCOTT, DAVE yuen ki “annie” Law ...... Payroll Manager SHALANSKY, Michael Smith, jeffrey stubblefield, quinn sullivan, DIANE WARD, mariana gonzALEz ...... Payroll Specialist JIM WATERMAN ...... Representatives

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