Britta Ollmann, Kate Beahen, Regina Marie Williams, Meghan Kreidler, Sara Ochs, and Kim Kivens. Photo by Allen Weeks. BERNARDA ALBA WORDS AND MUSIC BY MICHAEL JOHN LACHIUSA BASED ON THE PLAY THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA BY FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA

DIRECTED BY CRYSTAL MANICH MUSIC DIRECTION BY JASON HANSEN CHOREOGRAPHY BY KELLI FOSTER WARDER

JAN 15 - FEB 16, 2020 • RITZ THEATER Theater Latté Da’s re-imagined staging of the beloved returns.

Painting: Bonjour Tristesse, Nicholas Harper LA BOHÈME MUSIC BY GIACOMO PUCCINI BY LUIGI ILLICA AND GUISEPPE GIACOSA NEW ORCHESTRATION BY JOSEPH SCHLEFKE DIRECTED BY PETER ROTHSTEIN MUSIC DIRECTION BY ERIC MCENANEY In memory of John Hemann

MAR 11 - APR 26, 2020 • RITZ THEATER • TICKETS ON SALE NOW Words and music by Michael John LaChiusa Based on the play The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca THE COMPANY PRODUCTION TEAM * Bernarda Alba...... Regina Marie Williams Director...... Crystal Manich † Music Director...... Jason Hansen Angustias...... Kate Beahen ** Choreographer...... Kelli Foster Warder * Magdalena...... Nora Montañez Assistant Director ...... Jillian Robertson * Amelia ...... Britta Ollmann Scenic Designer...... Kate Sutton-Johnson * Martirio...... Meghan Kreidler Costume Designer ...... Alice Fredrickson Sound Designer ...... Kevin Springer Adela...... Stephanie Bertumen Lighting Designer ...... Mary Shabatura Maria Josepha...... Kim Kivens Wig, Makeup, and Hair Designer ...... Paul Bigot * Poncia...... Aimee K. Bryant Dramaturg ...... Elissa Adams Production Director ...... Allen Weeks Young Maid...... Haley Haupt Production & Artistic Administrator ...... Samantha Wend * Servant/Prudencia...... Sara Ochs Production Stage Manager ...... Tiffany K. Orr * Assistant Stage Manager ...... Rachael Rhoades THE BAND Technical Director ...... Bethany Reinfeld † Music Director/Keys/Piano...... Jason Hansen Properties Master ...... Abbee Warmboe † † Viola...... Anne Ainomäe /Matthew Mindeman Master Carpenter ...... Eric Charlton † Scenic Charge ...... Samantha Johns Acoustic Guitar/Mandolin...... Kristian Anderson Master Electrician ...... Micayla Thebault-Spieker † Double Bass ...... Greg Angel Assistant Master Electrician ...... Nick Fetting † Flute/Clarinet/Oboe...... Mark Henderson Audio Engineer ...... Nicholas Tranby Audio Crew ...... Isabel Patt Costume Shop Manager ...... Clara Cavins Wardrobe Supervisor ...... Dakota Blankenship Opening Night: Saturday, Jan. 18 at 7:30 pm Stitcher ...... Ali Schwalbe Draper ...... Rebecca Karstad ASL Interpreted and Audio Described Performance: Scenic Artist ...... Jeni Tolifson Thursday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 pm Electricians ...... Brent Anderson, Alexi Carlson, Post-show Conversations: Thursday evenings Jan. 23, Talia Cohen, Katie Deutsch, Jeremy Ellarby, 30, Feb. 6, and 13 Paul Epton, Grant Merges, Trevor Zapiecki Sunday afternoons Jan. 19, 26, Feb. 2, 9, and 16

Post-show Happy Hours: Friday evenings Jan. 24, 31, Feb. 7 and 14 *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors **Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union BERNARDA ALBA is presented through special † Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians arrangement with R & H Theatricals: www.rnh.com.

BERNARDA ALBA was originally produced by Theater, New York City, 2006

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 3 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Federico García Lorca came into my life when I was in college. As a native Spanish speaker who was fascinated with Spanish literature, I understood him to be a writer of great courage as he was unafraid to reveal truths that bubbled in the underbelly of his society, primarily regarding a woman’s role within it. Fast forward to one year ago when I came across a musical theater version of Lorca’s La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Michael John LaChiusa. I recalled that it played in New York during my first year of residence there in 2006. Every time I passed by Lincoln Center I thought to myself, “I should go see that.” I never did. Why did this piece cross my path again here and now at this stage of my life and career as a theater practitioner? A primary reason for why anyone would want to produce a piece is for the story. What I find remarkable about Lorca’s stories are the women. They are a dichotomy: fascinating and afraid, strong and helpless, beautiful and worn. InBernarda Alba specifically, the women exist in a claustrophobic environment of their mother’s making. Caring more for societal appearances than individual happiness, Bernarda is the product of patriarchy that mandates that women’s roles are defined and immovable. Once she is widowed, she takes on the role of the patriarch and therefore punishes her daughters—all grown women—when she deems them to be out of line within their gender role. The daughters themselves are tortured instruments of this staunch rule of law. Each has her own hopes, whether dashed, alive, or some combination of the two. What they all have in common, however, is an insatiable desire for gentle touch, for sensual fulfillment, and for true love itself. Bernarda’s last name, Alba, literally means “white,” as in clarity, or “sunrise.” We have created a Spanish-silhouetted world that contradicts the very meaning of Alba. The structure of beams is hard and looming. The walls, white yet uninviting, are soft in places. There is a sense of a world beyond the walls, yet the bars prevent the women from venturing out to gain a clear understanding of that world. The women express themselves through their bodies using harsh yet passionate flamenco movements. Their clothing is reminiscent of the early 20th century with an eye to how we currently might see them given their trapped existence. The presence of men is palpable in the periphery where we see haunting remnants of clothing and personal belongings—a presence that directly connects to the looming beams above and the bars that surround the space. What drives this production is that while this story takes place in Spain it is possible to see that it could place anywhere at any time in any culture. Any women who find themselves to be the descendants of a staunch patriarchal mindset could, and do, experience a gross decay of their individuality. They turn on each other. They live with the mentality that “all women are damned,” as Magdalena states early on. This alone is the raison d’être for theatrical expression. By experiencing the unraveling stability of the daughters through their expressive songs seeking deep truth, we can perhaps understand the mechanism that produced this behavior. So why here, and now? What can Lorca’s words, about “women in the provinces of Spain,” teach us about where we came from and where we are? Lorca shows us that these truths have existed for millennia all over the world. The isolation of Bernarda’s house reminds us that some voices have been squashed for too long at a cost. My hope is that you will leave the theater emotionally affected by this cautionary tale, and yet simultaneously feel a sense of hope for how we can repair the damaging influences of the past. Crystal Manich, Director MUSICAL NUMBERS PROLOGUE ACT II (cont.) ACT I: SUMMER “Ad e l a” “I Will Dream of What I Saw” “The Funeral” “Thirty Odd Years” “On the Day That I Marry (Part 1)” “Limbrada’s Daughter” “Bernarda’s Prayer” “On the Day That I Marry (Part 2)” ACT III: ONE WEEK LATER “Love, Let Me Sing You” “One Moorish Girl/The Smallest Stream” “Let Me Go to the Sea” “The Stallion” ACT II: TWO WEEKS LATER “Lullaby” “Magdalena” “Open the Door” “Angustias” “Finale” “Amelia” “Martirio”

4 BERNARDA ALBA ABOUT THEATER LATTÉ DA

ALL IS CALM (2019) PHOTO BY DAN NORMAN Founded in 1998, Theater Latté Da is in its 22nd season of presenting original and re-imagined musical theater. Our Mission Theater Latté Da (TLD) seeks to create new connections between story, music, artist, and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical Theater Latté Da seeks to create new connections theater. TLD is dedicated to expanding the American Musical Theater with between story, music, artist, and audience by work that speaks to a contemporary audience. Theater Latté Da has fostered innovation and diversity since its conception. We believe in work that is exploring and expanding the art of musical theater. bold and collaborative; we act with integrity and gratitude. These values are integral to the organization’s health and drives the discussion at every stage of decision-making. Through productions that transcend the conventional, Our Values the organization helps solidify the Twin Cities’ reputation as a place where progressive art plays a vital role. We believe in work that is bold and collaborative; we act with integrity and gratitude. Theater Latté Da is the leading nonprofit professional theater in the Twin Cities that exclusively produces musical theater. Since its inception, TLD has BOLD We make bold choices in support of our mission and presented 77 Mainstage productions, including 12 world premieres and 12 area vision, both on and off stage. By illuminating the unseen, premieres. Each has garnered critical acclaim and earned its artists and TLD a giving voice to the unheard, and empathizing with the unknown, we open eyes, ears and hearts. host of awards, including: seven IVEY Awards for overall excellence, National Endowment for the Arts, the Gabriel Award for Broadcast Excellence, and the COLLABORATIVE We believe musical theater to be the most American Theater Wing National Theater Company Award. In addition to our collaborative of art forms, incorporating music, drama, Twin Cities presence, TLD’s original production All is Calm: The Christmas Truce poetry, dance and design. We are inspired and strengthened of 1914 celebrated its 12th anniversary with a North American tour and an Off- through inclusive partnerships with artists, organizations and Broadway debut at the Sheen Center in New York City this past November our diverse community, and embody a collaborative spirit in and December, which won the 2019 for Unique Theatrical all we do. Experience. TLD’s provocative staging of Ragtime was remounted at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington in October 2017, and Asolo Repertory INTEGRITY We hold ourselves to the highest standards of artistic and fiscal integrity. We are committed to honesty, equality and Theater in Florida in May 2018. TLD’S production ofSweeney Todd was transparency in all aspects of our administration and art. remounted at Asolo Repertory in May 2019. GRATITUDE We are grateful for our artists, audiences, donors, Since 1998, TLD has performed in venues throughout the Twin Cities, ranging board and staff. We recognize that each individual plays an from the intimate 120-seat Loring Playhouse to the historic Pantages Theater in important role in this organization’s success, and we actively downtown Minneapolis. To deepen our relationship with Twin Cities audiences seek out opportunities to acknowledge each person’s and to better reach the communities we serve, Latté Da decided to make a contribution. permanent home in northeast Minneapolis. In 2016, TLD became the proud owner of the historic Ritz Theater, a 240-seat theater with administrative offices, rehearsal space, dressing rooms, and box office. THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 5 BY AZAR NAFISI, FINDING THE HEARTBEAT: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL JOHN LACHIUSA “WHO WILL OPEN THE DOOR?”

piano and just let myself go musically. I try to find four moments in a piece to musicalize and put into song. JG: How do you do your research? MJLC: For Bernarda Alba, I started listening to recordings that Richard Nelson discovered of indigenous Spanish music. These were wonderful recordings of people going to various villages and sticking a microphone in people’s faces and having them sing lullabies or their wedding music or some folk song. I was fascinated with flamenco. Lorca writes a lot about music in many of his poems and his plays. The sounds of claves, castanets-whatever beautiful things I have in my ear, I know that I’m going to put into the score. Composer & librettist Michael John LaChiusa JG: When you have eight women onstage, as in Bernarda Alba, how do you approach each character musically? Did you develop a theme Bernarda Alba premiered at Lincoln Center Theater in for each woman? 2006. During rehearsals, John Guare, renowned playwright and, at the time, editor of the Lincoln Center Review, sat MJLC: What I wanted to do with the score was create an environment where anything­ that had to do with down with composer/lyricist Michael John LaChiusa. Their rhythm or per­cussion would be created with the interview is excerpted below: palmas (claps) or compas (feet stomps). That was the foundation for all the music. That was what I JG: You seem to be a voracious reader who just reads anything. wanted texturally. And then, from there, you go into MJLC: Everything! I read The House of Bernarda Alba,the play by the character’s heartbeat. Because you always have to Federico García Lorca, when I was thirteen. know what the character’s heartbeat is in a situation or a particular scene. Is she excited? Is he sad? Are they JG: A perfect time to read it. happy? That’s where tempo comes from. MJLC: Oh, yeah. Particularly with the family I grew up in. I kept JG: Does each character then have a different tempo? thinking, My God, it’s like he’s got a camera in my household--these women all over the place. I loved it. MJLC: Absolutely. That’s how you define them. JG: Who were the women? Because you said you had two brothers. JG: Has The House of Bernarda Alba been adaptedtt into a musical before? It seems to be such a natural fit. MJLC: My grandmothers, my cousins, my mother and her sisters. MJLC: I have to be so bold as to say that I think Lorca is as great as JG: Do you sometimes think of a song and then try to find the Shakespeare in terms of poetry and theme and drama. I think Lorca situation that is going to contain it? Or does the situation always come is one of the greatest playwrights ever to walk the earth in this last first? century. In his native language, the poetry is very much there. But MJLC: The situation always comes first. When I sit down to write a when it’s translated sometimes the beauty of the language doesn’t come piece or I fall in love with a play, it has to have places where I know out well. I’ve been going back to the Spanish and, with the director it’s going to sing. It has to have some sort of musicality, whether it be , finding ways to bring as much of Lorca into the in the white spaces or in the words themselv­ es or even sometimes in adaptation as possible. But I also realize that music can cover a great the stage directions. Theme has to attract me. What I’ll do is sit at the deal of ground. I’m hoping that the music for the piece will be the way of expressing the poetry that you find in the Spanish Lorca. ABOUT FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Bernarda Alba is adapted from the play, The House of Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca, the Spanish poet and playwright who, in a career that spanned just 19 years, established himself as the most important poet and playwright of the 20th century. Born in 1898, Lorca grew up in rural Andalusia, surrounded by images and social conditions that influenced his work lifelong. Lorca went to Madrid in 1919, becoming part of a group of artists known as Generación del 27, which included Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, with whom he became passionately involved. The intensity of their relationship led Lorca to acknowledge, if not entirely accept, his own homosexuality. Lorca’s two most successful poetry collections, published in 1927 – 1928, were Canciones (Songs)and Ro- mancero Gitano (the Gypsy Ballads). His work, especially daring for the time with its exploration of sexual themes, made Lorca a celebrity in the literary world. In the 1930s, Lorca wrote a trilogy of dramas about the lives of women in the villages of his childhood home in Andalusia, including , and The House of Bernarda Alba. Lorca was at work on The House of Bernarda Alba in 1936 when the Spanish Civil War broke out. On Au- gust 16, he was arrested in Granada by Nationalist forces, who abhorred his homosexuality and his liberal views, and imprisoned without a trial. On the night of August 18 or 19 (the precise date is unknown), he was driven to a remote hillside outside town and executed. In 1986 the Spanish government marked the 50th anniversary of Lorca’s death, erecting a monument on the murder site. The gesture bears witness to Lorca’s stature as the most important Spanish poet and playwright of the 20th century, a man whose work speaks to readers everywhere of all that is most central to the human condition. Federico García Lorca

6 BERNARDA ALBA “WHO WILL OPEN THE DOOR?” BY AZAR NAFISI, Author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

When Bernarda Alba premiered at Lincoln Center in 2006, In a country like the , we forget how much the rudiments Azar Nafisi wrote an essay (excerpted below) about the play’s or the seeds of that climate can exist within us. I hope Americans will relevance for women in modern-day Iran. not be so blind as to say, “Oh, how sad for them, and how lucky we are.” I think we can have the same problems here. We do, in fact, in The condition and the situation that Lorca describes inThe House of this country. We do try to impose our images, our wishes, our religion, Bernarda Alba in many ways resonates with aspects of my culture. The our eth­nicity upon others. We need to understand how fragile our resentment in his women characters, the lack of fulfillment, the half­ own situation is. So it’s not just them, it’s always us. Art always targets digested individuality, which comes out in rage-that spoke to us. And not just them but us. that he makes women central. He spoke to all our untapped passions. I remember feeling that there was something inarticulate in me that That is where art becomes so important. Because art always predicts. responded to Lorca’s words. Great art reveals the potential of the future while exposing the ugliness of the present. In The House of Bernarda Alba, the despair is in the We tend to present victims the way we want them to be-noble, with present. The despair is in the fact that these girls are like wild animals. the courage to fight-and there is a great deal of courage in these women What Bernarda Alba does is she commits a sin against nature; she here. But the other aspect of it, which I experienced in Iran with this commits a sin against these girls’ natural drives. In fact, she goes regime that has deprived us of so many of the same rights that we talk against their destiny. And she turns them into savages. about in Bernarda Alba, is that it makes you bitter and resentful and blind. Like the women in the play, you deliberately leave out empathy. At the end of this play, we are not going to be happy. We’re going to These women, they are deliberate about leaving out empathy. have to live with the image of a woman hang­ing herself. And that horrible thing Bernarda keeps saying, that Adela died a virgin. But There are so many aspects of this play that are devastating to me. There what saves us, what makes us put ourselves into the experience of each is that line by Magdalena where she says, “Even our own eyes aren’t woman and understand, is the art. It is Lorca. our own.” I think that says it all. In Iran today, the woman represents a man’s honor; she is an object that is possessed by the man. At the beginning of the revolution, you had women in the Parliament, traditional women, who said that in order to make an example of the immoral women, the ones who do not go by the dress code, we need to kill two or three of these people. A woman said that. Sometimes I try to forget about that aspect of ourselves-women against women, how women can be victims of their own victimization. But the horribleness of this cruel way of living, whether it is Bernarda in her house or a regime prac­ticing this on its citizens, is that it implicates the victims. I think that is the worst thing that a system can do-that you as a victim also become part of the guilt. When you put yourself in that place, a lot of times you do become cruel toward yourself, and toward the world.

You see this with any form of religious orthodoxy. That sort of mind- set-whether it’s the Catholicism that has been institutionalized in Lorca’s Spain or the Islam that has been institutionalized in Iran or in Saudi Arabia-can be very potent. Any form of totalitarian mind- set becomes fundamentalist. Stalinism was a secular ideology but displayed the same traits as today’s fundamentalist political ideologies. That danger exists everywhere. The first thing they attack is the personal. That becomes the most basic form of control. 2006 Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York/VEGAP, Madrid

“For a woman, not even our eyes are our own.” - Magdalena; Bernarda Alba

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 7 BIOGRAPHIES

The Company Theatre: Ruined, Two Queens, One Castle; MEGHAN KREIDLER Theatre Forever: The Nature Crown; Park (MARTIRIO) THEATER KATE BEAHEN Square Theater: The Color Purple, Nina LATTÉ DA: Man of La (ANGUSTIAS) THEATER Simone: Four Women; Guthrie Theater: Mancha, Aida. THEATER: LATTÉ DA: Into the Woods, Caroline or Change, My Fair Lady, A Christmas Theater Mu: Hot Asian Gypsy. THEATER: Frank Carol. TV: The Detroiters.AWARDS: 2015 Doctor Husband, Two Theatre: The Cradle Will City Pages Actress of the Year, 2015-2016 Mile Hollow, Purple Cloud, Flower Drum Rock, Good Person of Setzuan; McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow. TRAINING: Song, A Little Night Music; Guthrie Theater: Daleko Arts: Always...Patsy Cline, Urinetown; B.F.A., Howard University. aimeekbryant.com As You Like It, A Christmas Carol; Mixed Lyric Arts: Proof, Picnic, RENT!; Ordway: Blood Theatre: Vietgone, Passing Strange; Ten The Sound of Music. OTHER: NPR’s A HALEY HAUPT (YOUNG Thousand Things: Henry IV Part I; Children’s Prairie Home Companion (Returning Guest). SERVANT) THEATER Theatre Company: The Lorax, Peter Pan, TRAINING: B.M., Florida Sate University LATTÉ DA debut. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Busytown; Music Theatre Program. THEATER: Theatre The Old Globe: The Lorax; History Theatre: Unbound: The Penelopiad; The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, Lonely STEPHANIE BERTUMEN Skylight Music Theatre: Soldiers; Workhaus Collective: Lasso Of (ADELA) THEATER LATTÉ Urinetown, Kiss Me, Kate; SPARK Theatre & Truth. AWARDS: 2017 Ivey Award Emerging DA: Half the Sky (NEXT Dance: The Supercilious Ways of Walter Wading; Artist, 2017 Ivey Award Overall Excellence Festival 2019). THEATER: Maplewood Area Historical Society: The (Ensemble) Vietgone, 2017 City Pages Artist Bloomington Civic Theatre: Sisters of Swing. TRAINING: B.F.A. Musical of the Year; TRAINING: University of The 25th Annual Putnam Theatre, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor County Spelling Bee; Mu Performing Arts: Point. Training Program. UPCOMING: Ten Twelfth Night, Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Thousand Things: The Hatmaker’s Wife. Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery; Park Square KIM KIVENS Kreidler also fronts local rock ‘n’ roll band Kiss Theatre / Mu Performing Arts: Flower Drum (MARIA JOSEPHA) the Tiger. www.kissthetiger.com Song; History Theatre: The Debutante’s Ball THEATER LATTÉ DA: (in partnership with Mu Performing Arts), NEXT Festival, C., Oliver!, NORA MONTAÑEZ Complicated Fun; Casting Spells Productions: Company, 25th Annual… (MAGDALENA) THEATER Disenchanted!; Backyard to Broadway: Right, Spelling Bee. THEATER: LATTÉ DA: Parade. Wrong or Bomb! A Dating Musical; Children’s Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company: THEATER: Jungle Theatre Company: The Abominables, The The Chanukah Guest, What I Thought I Theater: Anna in the Last Firefly; Children’s Theatre Company and Knew, Natasha and the Coat, Hershel and Tropics; Children’s Theatre The Old Globe in partnership with The Old the Hanukkah Goblins, Church and State; Company: Pippi Longstocking, I Come Vic: Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax; Ordway: Annie, Children’s Theatre Company: Matilda, From Arizona; Mixed Blood Theatre: The Jesus Christ Superstar; Old Log Theatre: Dr. Suess’ Sneetches the Musical, Cinderella; House of the Spirits, My Secret Language of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs; Ten Hennepin Theatre Trust: 24 Hour Plays, The Wishes, Minnecanos, 10% of Marta Solano, Thousand Things Theater: The Winter’s Realish Housewives of Edina, The Doyle and Immigrant Dreams, Pajama Game, Esperando Tale. TRAINING: University of Minnesota Debbie Show; Casting Spells Productions: La Carroza; Park Square Theater: Anna in the / Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Disenchanted!; The Catalysts: Shelly Bachberg Tropics, The Odyssey; Mu Performing Arts: Program. Presents: Orange is the New POTUS: The Four Destinies; History Theatre: Buddy-The Musical, Shelly Bachberg Presents: How Helen Buddy Holly Story; Transatlantic Love Affair: AIMEE K. BRYANT Keller and Anne Frank Freed the Slaves: The The Privateer;Pillsbury House Theatre: The (PONCIA) THEATER Musical; Daleko Arts: Urinetown; Park Great Divide 3; Theatre 45°: Sabor A Mi LATTÉ DA: Oh S#!%, I’m Square Theatre: Johnny Baseball; Theater Mu: (performer/playwright); William Inge Theatre Turning into My Mother. Yellowface; Minneapolis : Toxic Festival: A Tribute to: Octavio Solis; Chicago THEATER: New Dawn Avenger, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Lavender’s Dramatists: Los Tequerilos; Court Theatre: Theatre: Crowns; Congo Best Supporting Actress in a Musical), The Barrio Festival; Ten Thousand Things: Sins Square Theatre: Spunk, Deep Azure, Black Great American Trailer Park: The Musical, Jerry of Sor Juana (Assistant Director); National Nativity; Underdog Theatre: How It’s Gon’ Springer: The Opera, Zombie Prom. VOICE Past time Theatre: Lydia (Assistant Director). Be; Ten Thousand Things Theatre: The Music OVER TV/VIDEO: Auto B. Good. VOICE OTHER: The Alliance of Latinx Minnesota Man, Into the Woods, Winter’s Tale, The Most OVER ONLINE: SciGirls. UPCOMING: Artists (Founder/Executive Director), 2018 Happy Fella; Penumbra Theatre: A Raisin Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company: The Next Step Recipient (Metropolitan Regional in the Sun, Jar the Floor, Con Flama, Black People’s Violin. Arts Council). TRAINING: B.F.A., Florida Nativity; Pillsbury House Theatre:Gospel of Atlantic University. Lovingkindness, In the Red and Brown Water, Dat Black Mermaid Man/Lady; Mixed Blood

8 BERNARDA ALBA BIOGRAPHIES

SARA OCHS Dawn Theatre, Penumbra Theater Company Open Eye Figure Theater, Jungle Theater, the (SERVANT/PRUDENCIA) Member, TTT Core Member. AWARDS: MN Fringe Festival, the Hennepin Theater THEATER LATTÉ DA: Helen Hayes Nomination, Ivey Award, Trust. OTHER: Alive & Kickin’ (Associate Assassins, Man of La Mancha, McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship at the and Music Director). AWARDS: 2018 MN A Christmas Carole Petersen, Playwrights’ Center. Theater Award (Latté Da’s Assassins). Sweeney Todd, Our Town, Company. THEATER: Asolo Rep: Sweeney The Creative Team KELLI FOSTER WARDER Todd; Children’s Theatre Company: How (CHOREOGRAPHER) CRYSTAL MANICH the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Sneetches; THEATER LATTÉ DA: (DIRECTOR) THEATER Theater Mu: Middle Brother, Into the Woods, Chicago, Ragtime, Five LATTÉ DA debut. Little Shop of Horrors, Flower Drum Song, Points, Once, Our Town. THEATER: Nashville Pacific Overtures; Park Square Theatre: The Kelli is grateful to have Children’s Theatre: Return to Rocky Horror Show, The Language Archive; worked at the 5th Avenue in Seattle, Asolo Sender; Charottesville Opera: Minneapolis Musical Theatre: Sunday in Rep in Florida, The Zach Theatre in Austin Fiddler on the Roof. OPERA: Pinchgut Opera, the Park with George. TRAINING: B.T.A. and as a performer at Chanhassen Dinner Australia: Armida, Rameau Triple Bill; Buenos in Performance, Music Minor, Viterbo Theatres, Theater for the Thirsty, Artistry Aires Lírica: Madama Butterfly, Adriana University. UPCOMING: History Theatre: and Ruby’s Cabaret. She has worked as a Lecouvreur, Werther, Ernani; Wolf Trap Opera: Runestone. choreographer, teacher, diversity coordinator, Rigoletto; Pittsburgh Opera: Nine productions; and has directed and choreographed BRITTA OLLMANN Kennedy Center, Santa Fe, Boston Lyric internationally in La Paz, Bolivia and Panama Opera, Utah Opera, Tulsa Opera, American (AMELIA) THEATER City, Panama. Kelli is currently the Director Opera Projects, Opera Omaha, Arizona LATTÉ DA: Chicago, A of Education & Producing Associate at the Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Opera Little Night Music, Once, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. Columbus, North Carolina Opera, Opera Ragtime, Into the Woods, Delaware, Opera Roanoke, and Lyric Opera Steerage Song, Violet JILLIAN ROBERTSON Baltimore. POSITIONS: Former Artistic THEATER: Broadway: A Catered Affair; (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR) Director of the Mill City Summer Opera Guthrie Theater: Sunday in the Park with THEATER LATTÉ DA in Minneapolis and Opera Omnia in New George; Asolo Repertory Theatre: Ragtime; debut. THEATER: The York; Assistant Artistic Director of Cirque Ordway: Mamma Mia!; The Old Globe: A Southern Theatre: Alligator du Soleil: Quidam in Brazil. UPCOMING: Catered Affair; Chanhassen Dinner Theatre: Summer (upcoming); Morris Opera Southwest and Opera Santa Barbara: Il Sister Act, Grease; freeFall Theatre: Daddy Park Players: Big Fish; Boston University: Postino; Florida Grand Opera: Il matrimonio Long Legs, Red Velvet; Old Log Theatre: The Angels in America, When the Rain Stops segreto; Opera Roanoke: A Streetcar Named Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. TRAINING: Falling, Eurydice; Sanguine Theatre Company: Desire; Finalist in the 2019 Oaxaca Film B.F.A., /Tisch School of Flamingo (world premiere), Come Back Up Festival Global Script Challenge for her short the Arts. (world premiere), The Last Days of Judas...; film script Desconocer. TRAINING: B.F.A. Arena Stage: The Originalist (Asst. Director). REGINA MARIE and M.A.M., Carnegie Mellon University. ADMINISTRATIVE: Artistic Associate at WILLIAMS Park Square Theatre, Co-Founder of Sanguine JASON HANSEN (MUSIC (BERNARDA ALBA) Theatre Company. TRAINING: M.F.A., DIRECTOR) THEATER THEATER LATTÉ DA: Boston University Directing Program, B.F.A., LATTÉ DA: NEXT Festival Chicago. Guthrie Theater: University of Oklahoma Theatre Program. (A Child’s Christmas In Guys & Dolls, Guess Who’s Wales), Hedwig and the Coming To Dinner, The Bluest Eye, To Kill KATE SUTTON-JOHNSON Angry Inch, A Little Night A Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, Othello, (SCENIC DESIGNER) Music, Once, Assassins, C., Into The Woods, Our The Burial at Thebes, Caroline or Change, THEATER LATTÉ DA: Town, Aida. THEATER: Children’s Theater Crowns; Penumbra Theatre: w/Mu Theater: Six Degrees of Separation, Company: Cinderella, How The Grinch Stole Brothers Paranormal, Seven Guitars, Dinah Sweeney Todd, Into the Christmas, Dr. Seuss’s The Sneeches; Mixed Was; Chanhassen Dinner Theatre:Sister Act; Woods, Cabaret, Parade. Blood Theater: Passing Strange, Next To Ten Thousand Things: Romeo & Juliet, Doubt, THEATER: Guthrie Theater:Noises Off, Normal, Avenue Q; Guthrie Theater: Guys Man of La Mancha, Once On This Island; Confluence; Indiana Repertory Theater: & Dolls, Othello; History Theater: Sweet Mixed Blood Theater: Barbecue, Ruined, Pure Dial M for Murder, Becky’s New Car, Rabbit Land; Theater Mu: Twelfth Night, A Little Confidence; Pillsbury House Theater: Death Hole; 5th Avenue Theatre: Guys and Dolls; Night Music; Chanhassen Dinner Theaters: Tax, Pa’s Hat, The Road Weeps; Park Square Children’s Theatre Company: Disney’s High Newsies; Ten Thousand Things: Romeo & Theater: Nina Simone/Four Women, The Color School Musical, Shrek the Musical; Ordway: Juliet; Arkansas Repertory Theater:The Purple, Constant Star; People’s Light Theater Beauty and the Beast, Singin’ in the Rain, Grey Gift Of The Magi, Northern Sky Theater, & Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theater: Nina Gardens, Rocky Horror Picture Show; Florida Illusion Theater, Artistry, TigerLion Arts, Simon/Four Women; AFFILIATIONS: New Stage, Riverside Theater, and History Theatre:

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 9 BIOGRAPHIES

Beyond the Rainbow; Weston Playhouse: A Blackbird, ‘Night, Mother, The Maids, (and Gypsy; Ordway: Annie; Children’s Theatre Number, Strega Nona; Park Square Theatre: more); Artistry: W;t, Bad Dates, The Secret Company: How the Grinch Stole Christmas; Well, Constant Star; Mixed Blood Theatre: Garden; Trademark Theater: The Boy and Guthrie Theater: A View From the Bridge; Yellowman, Queen of the Remote Control, Robin Hood. DANCE: Morgan Thorson: Pillsbury House Theater: No Child; Park Flags Permanent Collection, 1001; 7th House Public Love; Shapeshift: Grey Skies Blue, XI:XI. Square Theatre: Taking Steps; Phoenix Theater: Theater: Jonah and the Whale, The Great Work. OPERA: : Fellow Travelers; Cabaret, The Women, Will Rogers Follies. Proud TRAINING: B.F.A., University of North TRAINING: B.A. Theater Arts, University of Member of Actors’ Equity Association since Carolina School of the Arts. Minnesota. www.mshabsdesign.com 2006.

ALICE FREDRICKSON PAUL BIGOT RACHAEL RHOADES (COSTUME DESIGNER) (HAIR, & MAKEUP DESIGNER) (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: THEATER LATTÉ DA: THEATER LATTÉ DA Chicago, Hedwig and the Oliver, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, debut. THEATER: Park Angry Inch, Assassins, Six Man of LaMancha, Assassins, Square Theatre (Stage Degrees of Separation, Gypsy, A Little Night Music, Manager): Pride & Prejudice, Sweeney Todd, Oliver! THEATER/OPERA: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, To Let Go and Aubergine; Ordway (Asst. Stage Manager): Guthrie Theater: Bad News I Was There...; Fall, Chicago; Chanhassen Dinner Theaters: 42nd Street; Dark & Stormy Productions Asolo Repertory Theater: Sweeney Todd; Mill Camelot, Grease, Sister Act, Newsies, Holiday (Stage Manager): Dry Powder, ’Night Mother, City Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte; Virginia Opera: Inn, Mamma Mia!; Artistry: , Best The Maids; History Theatre (Asst. Stage il Postino; Minnesota Opera: Diana’s Garden; Little Whorehouse in Texas, Drowsy Chaperone, Manager): Teen Idol: The Bobby Vee Story, Minnesota Orchestra: Home for the Holidays; Little Shop of Horrors, Follies, Victor/Victoria, Dance Till You Drop; Frank Theatre (Stage Old Log Theater: Winnie the Pooh; Park Footloose. TOURS: Hairspray, Wizard of Oz Manager): Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again; Square Theater: Hamlet. Young Frankenstein the Musical, La Cage Triple Espresso, LLC (Stage Manager): Aux Folles, Flashdance the Musical (Hair and Triple Espresso: A Highly Caffeinated Comedy; KEVIN SPRINGER Makeup Supervisor). Hennepin Theatre Trust (Stage Manager): The (SOUND DESIGNER) Real(ish) Housewives of Edina, Buyer & Cellar, THEATER LATTÉ DA: To ELISSA ADAMS Girl’s Only: The Secret Comedy of Women; Let Go And Fall, Once, Man (DRAMATURG) THEATER Minnesota Dance Theatre: Loyce Houlton’s of La Mancha, A Christmas LATTÉ DA: C., Lullaby, Nutcracker Fantasy; Brownbody Dance & Carole Petersen. THEATER: Assassins, Five Points, Figure Skating Company: Tracing Sacred Steps, Collective Unconscious Performance: Into Underneath the Lintel, Quiet as it’s Kept. TRAINING: B.A. Theatre the Darkness, Le Cirque Féerique Skins; In Once, A Little Night Arts, University of Iowa. The Heart Of The Beast: Make Believe Music, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, To Let Neighborhood; Minnesota Opera: Dead Man Go And Fall, Chicago, NEXT Festival ABBEE WARMBOE Walking, Dinner at Eight; New Native Theater: (Producer); THEATER: Director of New (PROPERTIES MASTER) 2012 The Musical; Penumbra Theatre: This Play Development at Children’s Theatre THEATER LATTÉ DA: Bitter Earth, Dutchman, The Owl Answers; Company (1998- 2017); Sundance Theatre All is Calm, Chicago, To Shakespearian Youth Theatre: Two Gentlemen Lab; Playwrights’ Center; TRAINING: MFA Let Go and Fall, Hedwig of Verona, Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet; in Dramaturgy UC San Diego. and the Angry Inch, A Swandive Theatre: mONSTER, An Outopia Little Night Music. THEATER: Penumbra for Pigeons; Theater Mu: Peerless; Trademark Theatre: Pipeline; Penumbra Theatre/Theater TIFFANY K. ORR Theater: The Hollow. TRAINING: M.F.A Mu: The Brothers Paranormal; Theater Mu: (STAGE MANAGER) Theater Design and Technology, University of Fast Company, Hot Asian Doctor Husband; THEATER LATTÉ DA: Minnesota. Old Log Theater: A Gentleman’s Guide to Over 20 productions Love and Murder; Mixed Blood Theatre: The including Chicago, Hedwig MARY SHABATURA Song of Summer; History Theatre: Gloria: A and the Angry Inch, A (LIGHTING DESIGNER) Life; Ordway: Smokey Joe’s Café; Mill City Little Night Music, Once, Five Points (world THEATER LATTÉ Summer Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte. AWARDS: premiere), Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Six DA: Chicago, To Let Go 2018 MN Theater Awards Honoree for Degrees of Separation, Ragtime, C. (world and Fall, Hedwig and the Exceptional Design, 2017 Ivey Award for premiere), Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, Angry Inch, Five Points, A Production Design and Execution (Six Degrees Spring Awakening, Evita; THEATER: Music Christmas Carole Petersen, Ragtime, Gypsy. of Separation), Overall Excellence (Ragtime). Theatre Wichita: Over 50 productions THEATER: History Theater: Gloria, A UPCOMING: The White Card with including In the Heights, A Chorus Line, Life; Mixed Blood Theater: The Song of Penumbra Theatre, Runestone! A Rock Musical Pippin, Guys & Dolls, Newsies, Mamma Summer, Prescient Harbingers, Is God Is; Dark with History Theater. Mia!, Hello Dolly, Big Fish, Billy Elliott, West & Stormy Productions: The Norwegians, Special Thanks Side Story, Mary Poppins, Sunset Boulevard, Lara Bolton 10 BERNARDA ALBA Part TED Talk, part cabaret, Pin Spot shines a light on the “story behind the story” — the history of the musical from concept to curtain! Hosted and curated by local performer and producer Max Wojtanowicz, each hour-long Pin Spot explores the origins, historical context, musical references, theatrical tidbits, and lasting legacy of the musical onstage, peppered with performances THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY by local performers and conversations with experts. Whether you attend before or after you see the production, Pin Spot is guaranteed to cultivate your curiosity about the show!

ADMISSION IS FREE! Tickets at Latteda.org/pinspot BERNARDA ALBA Monday, January 27, 2020 at 7:00PM

TWELVE ANGRY MEN Monday, June 15, 2020 at 7:00PM

Photo credit Chris Cartwright This initiative made possible by the generous support of NAMT. GIVE A GIFT TO MAKE MUSICAL THEATER THAT MATTERS. Ticket sales only cover about half of the cost of our productions. Please consider a charitable contribution to Theater Latté Da and show your support for musical theater that provokes and connects and for the artists that call the Twin Cities home.

Thank you for being here with us. www.latteda.org/donate

Photo credit Dan Norman

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 11 THEATER LATTÉ DA DONORS Thank you for your commitment to our 22nd season. Theater Latté Da is one of only a few theaters in the country dedicated solely to producing and presenting new and adventurous musical theater that speaks to contemporary audiences and advances the art of musical theater. We truly could not do this without the generosity of our many individual and institutional donors. Thank you for your support. INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT

Theater Latté Da’s mission is to create new connections between story, music, artist, and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical theater. We are guided by our values that our work be bold and collaborative, and strive to act with integrity and gratitude both on and off the stage. By illuminating the unseen, giving voice to the unheard, and empathizing with the unknown, Theater Latté Da strives to open eyes, ears, and hearts.

Please consider a tax-deductible contribution to Theater Latté Da today and join us in bringing great musical theater to life.

Grand Finale ($25,000 and above) These individuals have made a Kent Allin and Tom Knabel Marti Morfitt and Patrick Weber significant contribution to our Carol and Kim Culp Rita and Benedict Olk access programs, supporting Kathy and Allen Lenzmeier Theater Latté Da’s commitment to making musical theater available to our entire community. Curtain Call ($10,000–$24,999)

Bill and Jane Johnson, Noreen Charitable Kathleen and Paul Rothstein Patricia Zalaznik Trust Cara Sjodin and Scott Stensrud Jennifer Melin Miller and David Miller Margaret and Angus* Wurtele The Nara Fund The Thomas and Julianne Youngren David A. Wilson and Michael J. Peterman Foundation

Eleven O’clock Number ($5,000–$9,999) Anonymous (1) Rob Dingmann and Ethan Reynolds Christine Larsen and Scott Peterson Patricia Johnson and Kai Bjerkness John Hemann* Penny Meier Tom and Barb Burke Lisa and Dan Hoene Gary Reetz Bush Foundation Board of Director’s Fund Dennis and Nora Hunchar Ann and Pat Ryan Jane and Ogden Confer Nancy Jones Colleen Ryan

*In remembrance

12 BERNARDA ALBA Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner Fremajane and Blair* Wolfson John Sullivan Jane Zilch Marjorie and Irving Weiser Ron Frey and Steven Thompson

Show Stopper ($1,500–$4,999)

Anonymous (1) Cindy and Doug Fulton Matt Kiser and Chris Nichol Michelle Woster and Peter Quale Elissa Adams and Michael Margulies Mary Beidler Gearen Cyndi and Greg Klaus Gene and Pat Radecki Dan Avchen and David Johnson Lynn Glesne Bill Venne and Douglas Kline Lewis and Connie Remele Barbara Brin and John Beal Carolee Lindsey and Darolyn Gray Shannon Pierce and Rachael Kroog Mary and Paul Reyelts Les Bendtsen and Rick Buchholz Katie Guyer and Steve Grego Barbara Larson Jake and Donna Romanow Priscilla Brewster Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara Kate and Greg Lawson Ken and Nina Rothchild Jack Burbidge in loving memory of Soto Michael Lee Wayne Zink and Christopher Schout his wife Nancy* Sandra and Edmund Hall Carol Lichterman Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Scott Cabalka Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie James Lockhart and Janie Mayeron Brian and Carrie Svendahl Joe Dowling and Siobhan Cleary Jean and Jim Hartman Mary and Mark Maher Michael and Terri Uline Ingrid and Chris Culp Christopher Hermann and Brian Thomas Senn and Mark Manion Ruth and David Waterbury Fran and Barb Davis Pietsch Drew Mattson Carol and Tom Windfeldt Janet and Mark Ditter Sandy and John Hey Warren and Daniel Mosier Dick and Diane Wright Sara and Jock Donaldson Jim and Sandi Jensen Kim and David Motes James Olson Steve Euller and Nancy Roehr Bill Jones Curt D. Nelson Margery Martin and Dan Feidt Sylvia and Sam Kaplan Marvel Norton

Entr’acte ($500–$1,499)

Anonymous (1) Kirk and Kathy Davis Lee Lynch and Terry Saario Jean Ryan Sheryl Aarnio Thomas* and Mary Lou Detwiler Mark and Barbara Lyons Sandy Ryan Tom and Cindy Adamson Julie L. Ditter Todd and Laurie Macgregor Susan and John Ryan Mark Addicks and Thomas L. Hoch Jennifer Patti Duffy and Sean Duffy Pat & Sara Mack The Ryan Family Mary Alberts Dianne VanTasell and Steven David and Marilee Mahler Sharon Sampson Steve Alberts and Jackie LePore Eggimann Kathleen Martin Peter and Mary Sandberg Alberts Meghan and Sean Elliott Jim and Kristin Matejcek Linda and Steven Sandvig Albrecht Family Foundation Robert Englund Paul and Julie Mattson Lewis Sandy in Memory of Kathy Tim Grady and Catherine Allan Lucas Erickson Samuel and Patricia McCullough Sandy John Kundtz and Thomas Amon Bill Underwood and Chris Everett Mary H. and J. Milo Meland Family Marjorie and Mark Schroeder Jan & Greg Aplin David Feroe and Linda Svitik Fund Paul Schumann Stuart Appelbaum and Jean King Denise Prosek and Milton Ferris Gretchen Alberts Mellies David and Patricia Shaffer- Scott Appelwick and Ed Sootsman Vicki and Si Ford Sonny and Amy Miller Gottschalk Ward and Kathleen Armstrong Matt Fulton Linda and Jim Milow DeAnne Sherman James Assali and Michael Mauch Barbara and Bob Gaertner David and Leni Moore Family Lance and Christopher Sibilia Kurt Bachmayer and Lisa Dalke Fred and Gael Gardner Foundation Anne Simpson and Cindy Bandur James P. Gearen Tom and Conchy Morgan Rolf and Janet Skjei Jean M. and Jim Becker Susan Genaw and Lee Humphries Sally Mortenson and Al Zdrazil Lynn Spelman Patricia Beithon Janice Gepner and Eric Newman Debra Mundinger Sandy and Neil Spidel Neumann Carol and Judson Bemis Trey Gladney Sara Mushlitz Marcia and John Stout David Bjork and Jeff Bengtson Ray Goettl Joan Nelson Kevin Streeter Kris Berggren and Ben Olk Christine and Bill Griffith Karle and Diane Nolte Scott and Cindy Sundet Judy and Dennis Berkowitz Cynthia Grissom John Stefany and David Odenbach George F. Sutton Jaime A. Roman and Jim Bernier Joan Growe and Thomas Moore Sandra Overland Libby and John Utter David and Janet Berry Kath Hammerseng and Mo Kennedy Steve Passeri Paula Vesely Ray DeSpiegler and Michael Birch Janis Haney Jim Payne Gregory Vilmo Roger Haase and Michael Birdsall Shannon Harris Sue and Bill Payne Michael Wagner Susan S. Boren and Steve King Randy Hartten and Ron Lotz Jeffery Perkey and Robert Spikings Jay Waldera Jeff Bores and Michael Hawkins Joanne and Allen Hinderaker Carol Peterson David Warner Jean Borgerding Steve Horan Patti Pinkerton Corliss Weeks Al Bradley Mark and Jeanne Innerbichler Patricia Ploetz David and Anne-Lise Whitescarver Erik Brendtro and John Sweet Steve Johnson and Susan Iverson John Polta and Anne Tuthill Polta Frank and Frances Wilkinson Shawn Bryant and Michael Grouws Bernadette and Jeffrey Janisch David Pote and Linda Tapsak Jim and Martha Williams Jimmy Burnett Bruce and Jean Johnson Nancy and James Proman David Young and Edward Williams, Sue Salmela & Paul Burnett Scott and Julie Kammer Quiring Family Fund of The Jr. Virginia and Stuart Campbell Gina and Kurt Kastel Minneapolis Foundation Jodi and Jim Young Peter Carlsen and Sylvia Frank Miriam and Erwin Kelen Michael Rainville Peter Zenner Darlene J. and Richard P. Carroll Scott and Deborah Knight Jeff Reed I-ming Shih and Arnold Chu Family Fund Sue Kratsch Dan Rooney David Miller and Mary Dew Thomas Caswell & Nancy Tessmer Al Kvaal Richard Rosow and Vicki Sue and Bill Payne Lili Chester Rebecca and Andrew Lahl Underland-Rosow Kathie and Stacy Christensen Diana and Kenneth Lewis Randy and Tara Roth William and Andrew Collis-Prather Anna Linder Tom and Molly Rothstein David Colwell Rebecca Loader and Michael Ritchie Peggy and Bill Roush Gretchen and David Crary Kerry Sarnoski and Susan Lowum Rupert the Wonder Dog Foundation

Overture ($100–$499) Anonymous (24) Paul Amann and Cory Johnson Jennifer and Joseph Armitage Michael Bahr and Morrie Hartman Bruce and Carla Adams Victor and Phyllis Anderson Lisa Armstrong Walt and Ginger Bailey Sharon Adams Craig Anderson Annette Atkins and Tom Joyce John Bale Mira Akins Rita Andrescik Marcia Aubineau Maria Bales Theresa Alewine Joe Andrews and Scott Benson Carol and James Avant Timothy Dordell and Kirk Ballard Eileen Allen Howard Ansel Carol Bachmann Javen Swanson and Oby Ballinger *In remembrance Grant Amadio John Arechar William Bahl Jennifer Bankers-Fulbright

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Thomas Barber Peter Donohue Marcie Weinandt and Greg Hippen Kathleen McGonigle Travis L. Barkve Nancy Dorris Joel Hoekstra and Eric Jensen Nancy McIntyre Lois Pallmeyer and John Barnicle Annie Doughty and Jim Detmar Jim and Mary Holland Peg McKee Cathy Barrea and Bruce Dumke Jane Doyle Joe Holmers Roni McKenna Peggy Hall and Lee Barry Edward Jorczyk and Steve Duncan Nanette Hoover Anita McKeown Tom and Traci Bates Charla and Jeffrey Eccles David Horstmann Lisa McLean Les & Barb Bauer Charla Eccles Elizabeth Watkins and Tom Huberty Douglas and Cindy Merrigan Diana Bauman Linda Eckman Kathleen Humphries Fern Meshbesher Paul D. Olson and Mark Baumgartner Dorothy Edelson Marcia Hunter Frank and Ginny Meuers Robert and Mary Beck Andrew and Jessica Elofson Betsy Husting Margaret Michaelson Donald and Mary Anne Bennett Thomas Emmert Hugh Huston John Mihelic & Gerry McGrane Patricia Benson Tom Rosen and Tom Emmert Wyn Huynh and Bob Zehrer Carole Senty and Richard Miller Ruth Ann and Jim Benson Sharon Engel Ty Inglis Kari Miller Bonnie Berg Lew and Kathy Erickson LuAnn Iverson Barb and Kevin Minnerath Dan Berg and Welcome Jerde Kathleen Erickson Diane Jacobson Becca Norris and Lynn Moline Joan Berg Hope Esparolini Jeanne Jacobson Jodi and Mike Mooney Chelsea Berglund Larry Espel and Cyndi Hasselbusch Kate Jamison Fred and Ann Moore Jennifer Linde, Julian Bernick Chris Estee Suzanne Jebe Jane and Jack Moran Susan Bernstein Anna Marie Ettel Mike Jereczek and Jan Sigmund Kate Morton-Peters and Stan Oleson Bill Bertram Mark and Kelly Evans David Johnson Laurie Mount Bill and Carol Beste Tim Evens Jeraldin and Steven Johnson Joanne Mullen Peter Carlson and Bradley Betlach Kristin Evenson Sarah Miller Johnson and Paul Johnson Katherine Murphy Marilyn Bierden Maurice and Kathleen Failer Bonnie Johnson Thomas Murtha Jeannette and Jeff Bineham Gary and Connie Falkenstein Daniel Pinkerton and Jane Johnston Jack and Nylce Myers Virginia & Joe Bisanz Mary Kelley and Mark Falstad Bruce Jones and Joann Nordin Peter & Karla Myers Kim Havey and Mike Bisping Sheila Faulkner and Russ McPherson Mary A. Jones Richard and Janet Myers Michelle Blaeser Ryan Feltman Shawn Judge and Stephen Yoakam Bonnie Nelson William A. Velte & Mary Lee B. Blomgren George Ferguson Arnold and Shirley Kaplan Vicki Nelson Thomas Boatman Sara and Karl Fiegenschuh Mark Kappelhoff Robert Nesterowich Brian Hartz and Michael Boe Stephen Field and Stephen Herzog Lois Kapteina and David Truckenmiller Nelson and Beth Neubrech Paul Kaminski and Rich Bonnin Susan Fink Edwin Karels Kristen Neurer Allen Borcherding Brad Fisher James R. and Mary M. Kaster Rick Nielsen Dr. Stuart and Sue Ellen Borken Amy and Jack Fistler Jeremiah and Pamela Kearney Judy Nobles Rosanne Borscheid Chad and Denisea Fitch Heidi Keil Mary Weber Nord William and Rita Bourne Terry Fitzgerald and Susan Mendesh-Fitzgerald William Kenney and Margaret Kilpatrick Lynn Noren Mary Brady Harold Stewart Fleetham Terry Kilburn Gary P. Nygaard John Brant Deborah Fletcher Karen Kirby Jim and Rosalie O’Brien Susan and John Breon Gerald Foley Lisa Lally and Elaine Kirkland Lynn and Ben Oehler Judith and Arnie Brier Betsy & Keith Ford Kathy Kirvida Lynn Olds Gary Oftedahl and Robin Bristol George and Mary Kay Fortier Spalding Max and Lynn Kittel Duane and Lynn Olson Joanne and Drew Brockington Jinnet Fowles Harv Thompson and Richard Klemm Elaine and Harry Olson Carson Brooks Ron Fraboni Tracy and Craig Knighton Margaret Olson Peter C. Brosius Barb Frame Maximillian T. Shemesh and Katharina Dawn Elizabeth O’Mara Cheryl Brown Gene and Charlotte Frampton Kohlman-Shemesh Jenneke Oosterhoff Renee Brown Craig Freeman Stan Kolden and Glyn Northington Carol and Keith Ottoson Sandra Browning Heather and Bill Froehlich Gerald Kollodge Philip Oxman and Harvey Zuckman Carol Brozic Patricia Gaarder Jonna Kosalko Marcia and Russ Palma Philip and Carolyn Brunelle Larissa Kokernot and Karl Gajdusek Candace Koslow Bonnie Palmquist Stephen Bubul Micah and Michal Garber Steve Koslow Mary Jane and Bruce Pappas Sue Budd Sharon and Bill Garber Stuart Krahn Agneta Parr Burke Genz Family Karen J. Garvin Bert Kritzer Ruth Parriott Sheryl Burkhardt Rex Gaskill and Paul Strandberg Sara Ellen Kuether Chuck and Jo Parsons Ellen Butler Joan Gecik Mike Kunnick Lowell and Finola Parsons Fred Quirsfeld and Linda Campbell Walter Gegner Diane and Allen Kuperman Charlene Paulson Kathleen Campbell Leland and Beverly Gehrke Joe Kuznik Vija Pelecis Karin and Frank Canfield Jill Genaw Jon C. Lahann Steve Peloquin Jane Carlstrom Deborah Gerhardt Karl Lambert and Jayme Pelerine Larry Pfarr Cindy Carpenter and Gregg Roberts Mark Gilberstadt Mary Kay Langager Julie and Jim Podlich Dana Gust Carr Robin Gillette Jane Lansing Maryanne Poliseno Mary Cassell Jerome Girton David Larson Deborah E. Pollak Nicholas Naumann and Joe Chadwick Patrick & Elizabeth Goebl Pat Laulainen Susan Mary Porter James and Julie Chosy Barbara Golden Ruth and Herb Lauritzen Karen and Don Prestly Janet Christenson Lisa Goodman Patty Lawrence Steve and Susan Prestwood Gary Christenson Kathleen Gorman Sally Leighninger Brad and Linda Quarderer Ed Clark Richard Gould Andrew Leshovsky and Louis Berg-Arnold Debra and Lawrence Que Audrey Clay Michael Graham and James Stolz Kristie Lester John Quinn Burton and Rusty Cohen Bonnie Mulligan and Charlie Greenman Susan and Michael Lewis Bob Radecki Mike Collins and Cindy Fashant Collins Jaime Pedraza and Stephen Gronewold Marty L’Herault and Rebecca McNally Lori Radecki Margie Commerford Justin Gross James Loeffler Jim and Susan Ramlet Linda Comstock Elayne Gunnare and Teresa Pasquarella Mary and Doug Logeland Delores Ray Jeanne and David Cornish Phillip Jares and Mark Hager Jon Michael Logue Maria Reamer Marcia Cortelyou Kelly and Ben Hain Dennis Louie Judy Reeve Jeanne Corwin Jennifer Marshall and Matthew Haines Linda Luksan and David Munn Scott Remmel and David Vagneur Kristine Cotroneo David and Judy Halgren Judy Lund Dick Rice and Rosemarie Whitehead Laura and John Crosby Jane Hallas Lynne & Jack MacBean Beth Richardson and James Sheeley Peggy Crosby Mark and Mary Jo Hallberg Paul Madore Mary and Matthew Richie Alex Cruz Roger and Pam Hamilton George and Debbie Magliano John F. Riehle Teri Cuddy Dr. Beth Haney and Mr. Scott Moore Mike and Diana Magner Allan Riel Mary Cullen Jo-Ida C Hansen Rhoda and Don Mains Betsy Roering Patricia Cummings Paul Hanson Teresa Maki Patti Rogness Kathy M. Dahl Gar Hargens and Missy Thompson Cookie and Paul Mandell Pat Rosaves Lynda Dahl Dr. Daniel Harnett Family Foundation Kristine Mandler Pam Rosch Roberta and John Dahler Dana Harris-Gonsales Will and Willene Mangham Steve and Kris Rose Sally Wingert and Tim Danz Christine Harrison Joanne Manthe Susan Rose Tom and Mary Darnall Jeffrey Hatcher Susan L. Maples James Rosenbaum Tammy Darrah Wenberg Lisa Stevens & Jeffrey Hatcher Ruth B. Markowitz Kristin Rothstein Dan Delaney Phebe Haugen Patrick and Linda Marsh Denise Roy Virginia and John Dell Judith Hawley Wendell Vandersluis and Cynthia Marsh Graydon P. Royce Debra DeNoyelles Emily Heagle Vivian and Jeff Martin Russ and Karen Rubin Brian Dernbach Margie and Tom Hebig Marg Marvin Robert and Wendy Rubinyi Caroline Dey Alan Heider Jeff Masco The Francis J. Ryan Family Michael DiBlasi Donald Helgeson and Sue Shepard Mark Mathison Laurine Speltz and Denis Ryono Alison Didier Bob and Dodi Helman Jim and Liane Mattson Elaine Savick Brett Diethert Mark and Mary Henderson Ron and Mary Mattson Gregg M. Sawyer Dennis and Nickie Dillon Mark Rynda & Daniel Henriquez Rodriguez Virginia May Nancy Saxhaug James and Sharon Dimond Laura Silver and Jeff Hertzberg Scott Mayer and John Zeches Molly Schaaf Jane Tilka and Bill Dolan Joan Higinbotham Robert and Polly McCrea Julie Schaper Sandy Doll Wilbur Hill Martha M. and James P. McDermott Heidi Schellhas

14 BERNARDA ALBA Carol Schirmers Anthony Sofie Axel Theimer MaryAnn Weidt Ron Schlatter Ron and Kathy Sofie Anthony Thein Carol and Sandy Weisberg Dianne Schmiesing and Victor Zupanc Wendy Sommer John and Lisa Theurer Rebecca and Christopher Wenthold Christine Schraml Lawrence Sonsthagen Marsha Thiel Mark and Deborah Werner Judy Schwartau Roxanne Soth Gary and Kay Thompson Jim and Sue Westerman Trish and Ralph Scorpio Susan Stamson Lindsay and Brian Thompson Barbara and Monte White Katie and Ken Searl Ann and Tom Stanley keith thorkelson Gary and Andrew Whitford Holey Sharon and Stephen Segal Mary Stanley Erik and Emily Thurman David and Kathy Wiemer Miriam Seim Jennifer Starr and John Waddle Doug Tiede Elizabeth Wiens Gale Sharpe Nanette Stearns Terry Treanor Lori-Anne Williams William and Katrinka Sharpe George and Janet Stevens Stephanie Untiedt Paige Winebarger Sarah and Dan Sheehan James Stolz Katherine and Martijn van de Ruijtenbeek Mike and Donna Wolsted Michelle Sherman Kristin Storrs Andrejs Vape Judy Woodward Jackie and Stephen Sinykin Claire Stortz Tammi Veale Julia M. Yager Gretchen Sjoholm Dana and Stephen Strand Dudley Voigt Mary Yates Marci and Mike Skrove Jack Stuart Costa Voulgaropoulos Jane Young Jeff Slywka Donald Sullivan Brian Waelti Ingrid Young Jim and Cindie Smart Craig and Janet Swan Mary Claire Wahlberg Mark and Penny Ziessman Bruce Smith Kari and Kevin Swan Karen Waldron Nancy Zingale Jim Smith Hildy Swedean Charles and Lynette Wallin Ann Wynia Tom Smith Christina M. Szitta Marlys Weber Kathleen and Mark Humphrey William Smith Jean Taylor Leon & Lindy Webster Linnea Sodergren Jennifer, Daniel, Raina, & Zoey Tenenbaum Robert Weeks

NEXT 20/20 is an initiative to cultivate 20 new musicals, or plays with music, over a five- year period. This initiative comes from the belief that it is the responsibility of the regional theater to not only speak to audiences today, but to contribute to the dramatic canon of tomorrow. With NEXT 20/20, Theater Latté Da will invest in the future of the great American Musical and its playwrights, composers, and lyricists through our annual NEXT Festival and world premieres.

Please consider supporting new work through giving to NEXT 20/20 in addition to your annual fund gift. Thank you to the following individuals and organizations or institutions for their commitment to new work through supporting NEXT 20/20.

Anonymous Lisa and Dan Hoene Randy and Tara Roth Elissa Adams and Michael Margulies Jim and Sandi Jensen Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara Soto You can play a vital Mary Alberts Patricia Johnson and Kai Bjerkness Michael and Kathleen Ruhland Kent Allin and Tom Knabel Nancy Jones Thomas Senn and Mark Manion role in the future of Jean M. and Jim Becker Cyndi and Greg Klaus Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner the American Musical Sue A. Bennett Carolee Lindsey and Darolyn Gray John Sullivan Theater. Please Jeff Bores and Michael Hawkins Jim and Kristin Matejcek Douglas* and Suzanne Tacheny Kubach Priscilla Brewster Jennifer Melin Miller and David Miller Steven Thompson and Ron Frey contact Libi Baehr at Barbara Brin and John Beal Kim and David Motes Libby and John Utter [email protected] to Scott Cabalka Rita and Ben Olk Bill Venne and Douglas Kline find out how. Shelli Chase and John Feldman Dr. Luis A. Pagan-Carlo and Jay Waldera Jane and Ogden Confer Joe Sammartino Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Carol and Kim Culp Jim Payne Margaret and Angus* Wurtele Fran and Barb Davis Shannon Pierce and Rachael Kroog David Young and Edward Williams, Jr. Timothy Dordell and Kirk Ballard Gary Reetz Jane Zilch Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie Lewis and Connie Remele Jean and Jim Hartman Christopher Rence *In Remembrance Tom Hoch and Mark Addicks Jaime A. Roman and Jim Bernier

Legacy Circle We gratefully recognize the following individuals who have chosen to include Theater Latté Da in their estate plans. These estate gifts will sustain our artistic excellence and fiscal health for years to come:

Kent Allin and Tom Knabel Bill Venne and Doug Kline If you have included Theater Latté Da in your estate plans but are not listed here, or if Mary Ebert and Paul Stembler Patti Pinkerton you would like to learn more about legacy giving to Theater Latté Da, please contact Stephen Fischer Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Libi Baehr at [email protected] or 651-204-6852. John Hemann*

In-Kind Supporters The Guthrie Theater Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara Soto Dan Avchen and David Johnson Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie MyTalk 107.1 Chocolat Céleste Nancy Jones The Sheridan Room Fran and Barb Davis Mary Meighan, David Ingbar, Jim and Cindie Smart Laurie DeMartino Design and Jake Ingbar Stagetime Productions Rob Dingmann and Ethan Reynolds Minnesota Public Radio Hammel Green & Abrahamson Northeast Social

Funders are listed for the donations made between 1/1/2019 and 1/1/2020 . Please accept our apologies for any errors or omissions. A complete list of donors can be found online at latteda.org. For corrections, please contact Libi Baehr, Development Manager, at 651-204-6852 or [email protected]. Theater Latté Da is grateful for the generosity of our BERNARDA ALBA Production Sponsors, Kathy & Allen Lenzmeier THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 15 Play to power through. Winter will end eventually. While you wait, find your own sunshine with Classical MPR.

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16 BERNARDA ALBA Board of Directors Staff

Officers: Elissa Adams Peter Rothstein Nancy Jones, Chair Associate Artistic Director Founding Artistic Director Kevin Winge, Vice Chair Jay Harkness, Secretary Libi Baehr Courtney Rust Brian Svendahl, Treasurer Development Manager Concessions Supervisor

Directors: Chris Cartwright Luke Stiller Kent Allin Marketing Associate House Manager Les Bendsten Sarah Dayley Micayla Thebault-Spieker Matt Fulton Box Office Associate Ron Frey Master Electrician & Rentals Coordinator Katie Guyer Michael Dunne Sandy Hey Concessions Manager Nicholas Tranby Lisa Hoene Audio Engineer Christine Larsen Michael Hanisch Kate Lawson Videographer Allen Weeks Carolee Lindsey Production Director Jim Matejcek Andrew Leshovsky Penny Meier Marketing Director Samantha Wend Gary Reetz Production & Artistic Peter Rothstein, ex-officio Roni McKenna Administrator Thomas Senn Accounting Consultant Cara Sjodin Michelle Woster Renata Nijiya Managing Director Kari Groth Swan Box Office Manager Libby Utter David Young Tiffany K. Orr Diane Beck Jane Zilch Production Stage Manager Katie DeBoer Kate Houns Denise Prosek Grace Peterson THEATER Co-Founder Marlee Schlegel LATTÉ Kathleen Sullivan Concessions Staff DA Bethany Reinfeld Technical Director THEATER MUSICALLY

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18 BERNARDA ALBA THINGS TO KNOW

RESTROOMS Season Tickets: Mini season ticket House Manager at an appropriate While state law requires gender packages for the rest of Season 22 break in the performance. You may binary signage, we welcome everyone are available for purchase online at be seated in an alternate location to use whichever restroom best meets latteda.org, by phone at 612-339- designated for late arrivals and take their needs or preferences. Signs 3003, or in person at the Box Office. your original seats at intermission. posted near the entrance to each Group Tickets: Photo & Video: restroom provide information about Groups of 15 or Photos of the set which amenities (toilets, urinals, more receive 20% off of each ticket. are allowed before or after the show handicap accessibility) are available Student groups of 15 or more receive and during intermission, but not in that location. If you require or $20 tickets. Call the Box Office at when artists are onstage. Video or prefer a fully private restroom for any 612-339-3003 for inquiries and more audio recording of any kind is strictly reason, please see the House Manager information. prohibited. who will see that you are escorted you Phones: to one upon request. AUDIENCE INFO & POLICIES The ringing of cellular phones or texting is highly disruptive Food & Beverage: You are welcome during a performance. These devices to bring your concessions items into TICKET INFORMATION should be turned off completely while the theatre to enjoy during the show. at the theater. Box Office Hours:Monday-Friday We ask that you please dispose of (10am-6pm) & Saturday-Sunday any trash in the designated trash bins Disruptive patrons: House located in the lobby. (11am-1pm). management staff reserves the right to escort disruptive patrons from the Single Tickets: Late seating: We do not guarantee You may purchase theater at any time. tickets online at latteda.org, by phone late seating after a performance at 612-339-3003, or in person at the begins. Late seating may or may not Box Office. be permitted at the discretion of the

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A switched-at-birth comedy Destiny of Desire May 30 – July 11 by KAREN ZACARÍAS directed by JOSÉ LUIS VALENZUELA

A musical masterpiece Cabaret June 20 – Aug 23 book by JOE MASTEROFF based on the play by JOHN VAN DRUTEN and stories by CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD music by JOHN KANDER lyrics by FRED EBB directed by JOSEPH HAJ

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