SEPTEMBER 5 - 28, 2014 SPENCER THEATRE FEARLESSBOARD ADVENTUROUS OF DIRECTORS THEATRE CHAIRMAN Scott Boswell TREASURER SECRETARY Robert Bratcher Mike Lochmann

INSIDE COMMITTEE DIRECTORS ADVISORY BLOCFIRST YEARS K CHAIRS Debby Ballard DIRECTORS Executive Steve Bernstein Donald J. Hall

A CITY-WIDE CELEBRATION OF KC REP ON THE UMKC CAMPUS PASEPTEMBER 28, 2014 •OLSON PRTERFORMING ARTS CENTER • 10AM - 6PM • FREEY TO THE PUBLIC 6 KC REP BLOCK PARTY Scott Boswell Kristopher Dabner Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. Development Ann Dickinson John B. Francis 6 7 Chronology | The Life of Thornton WIlder Abigail Wendel Phil Frerker (1917-2004) Endowment Courtney Goddard DIRECTOR EMERITI William R. Blessing Laura Hall 8 Title Page | Emily Ballentine Finance John L. Hoffman Mary Shaw Branton Robert Bratcher Jeff King Thomas R. Brous 9 Cast | OUR TOWN Governance Sharon Lindenbaum* William L. Bruning Irvin V. Belzer Gregory Macfarlane 2 7 Linda Cozad 3 10 Artistic Director’s Message | Arlene Mockapetris DISTINGUISHED Barbara Fay Tribute to William C. Nelson Leo Morton* DIRECTORS Robert Firnhaber David Oliver Honorary Vice-Chairman Mark S. Gilman Jeanette Prenger 11 OUR TOWN & Our World John H. Johntz, Jr. Betty L. Henson George Shadid by Dr. Felicia Hardison Londré J. Gordon Kingsley Bunni Copaken Darin Shank Jeannette Nichols Douglas N. Ghertner Myra Siegel 10 15 Company | OUR TOWN Marvin W. Ozley Nancy P. Hatch Jo Ann Sullivan Sally Rheinfrank Bert Trucksess Eugene M. Strauss 23 KC Rep Staff Wayne Vaught* Sally West Richard Wetzel

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Help us celebrate 50 Years of theatre at KC Rep! 1897 Born in Madison, Wisconsin 1930s Part-time faculty, Univer- 1949 Major role in Goethe Convo- (April 17) sity of Chicago (comparative cation in Aspen; lectures widely. 1906 Moves to Hong Kong in May literature and composition); 1951-52 Charles Eliot Norton and to Berkeley, California, in lectures across the country; Professor of Poetry at Harvard FIRST YEARS first Hollywood screen-writing October Gold Medal for Fiction, assignment (1934); extensive 1952 Emerson Public School American Academy of Arts and 1906-10 foreign travel in Berkeley Letters 1930 The Woman of Andros China Inland Mission Cover of Time Magazine 1910-12 (novel) 1953 School, Chefoo, China (1 year) (January 12) Completion of home for his BLOCK 1912-13 Thacher School, Ojai, 1955 The Matchmaker opens on family and himself in Hamden, California (one year). First play Broadway staring Ruth Gordon Connecticut known to be produced: The The Alcestiad produced at Edin- 1931 The Long Christmas Dinner Russian Princess burgh Festival with Irene Worth and Other Plays (six one-act Graduates from Berkeley (as A Life in the Sun) 1915 plays) High School; active in school 1957 German Peace Prize dramatics 1932 Lucrece opens on Broadway staring Katharine Cornell (trans- 1961 Libretto for The Long PARTY 1915-17 Oberlin College; pub- lation of André Obey’s Le Viol Christmas Dinner (music by lishes often in Oberlin Literary SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2014 de Lucrèce) Paul Hindemith—premieres in Magazine Mannheim, West Germany) 1935 Heaven’s My Destination 9:30 am -8:00 pm B.A. Yale College (3-month 1920 (novel) 1962 “Plays for Bleecker Street” (On the UMKC campus) service in 1918 with U.S. Army in (Someone from Assisi, Infancy, Olson Performing Arts Center 1937 A Doll’s House (adaptation/ 6 1918); many publications and Childhood) premiere at 7 trans.) opens on Broadway with 4949 Cherry Street • Kansas City, MO 64110 American Academy in NYC’s Circle in the Square 1920-21 Ruth Gordon Rome (8-month residency) Libretto for The Alcestiad (music FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC • Fun for the whole family! 1938 Our Town (Pulitzer Prize) French teacher at Law- by Louise Talma—premieres in 1920s and The Merchant of Yonkers Sponsored by Exclusive Print Media Sponsor renceville School, Lawrence- Frankfurt, West Germany) open on Broadway ville, NJ (’21-’25 & ’27-’28) 1963 Presidential Medal of 1942 The Skin of Our Teeth opens First visit to the Mac-Dowell Freedom 1924 on Broadway (Pulitzer Prize) Colony, Peterborough, New Hello, Dolly! starring Carol Screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 Children’s Tent Hampshire Channing opens on Broadway. of a Doubt Food Trucks 1926 M.A. in French literature, 1965 National Book Committee’s 1942-45 Service with Army Air Princeton University Medal for Literature Face Painting Force in North Africa and Italy The Trumpet Shall Sound pro- Karaoke (Lieut. Col. at discharge –Bronze 1967 The Eighth Day (National duced off-Broadway Star and O.B.E.) Book Award for Fiction) (American Laboratory Theatre) 1948 The Ides of March (novel); 1973 Theophilus North (novel) Live Performances by The Cabala (first novel) performing in his plays in sum- Dies in sleep in Hamden, KC Rep, UMKC Theatre, Booths featuring 1975 1927 The Bridge of San Luis Rey mer stock in this period Connecticut (December 7) Coterie Theatre, Heart of America local arts organizations (novel- Pulitzer Prize) The Victors opens off-Broadway Shakespeare Festival, Quixotic & Hourly Prize drawings 1928 The Angel That Troubled (translation of Sartre’s Morts Hearts of Darkness The Waters (first published sans sépulture) collection of drama-playlets)

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Eric Rosen, Artistic Director Angela Lee Gieras, Executive Director Stage Manager Jeff Still* Jerry Genochio, Producing Director Mrs. Gibbs Stephanie Rae Roberts* Mrs. Webb Kati Brazda* presents Doc Gibbs Craig Benton* Joe Crowell, Jr. Seth Macchi Howie Newsome Todd Carlton Lanker* Rebecca Gibbs Mariem Diaz Emily Webb Linsey Page Morton* Sponsored by Myra & Lester Siegel, Jr. Wally Webb Andrew Stout George Gibbs Derrick Trumbly* Sponsored by Herb & Bonnie Buchbinder Professor Willard Logan Black* Editor Webb Charles Fugate* Simon Stimson Patrick Du Laney* Mrs. Soames Peggy Friesen* Si Crowell Brian Huther Sam Craig Jamie Dufault Joe Stoddard Gary Neal Johnson* Citizen Alisha Espinosa Citizen Nícole Marie Green Constable Warren Jerry Genochio 8 Citizen Emily Nan Phillips 9 Citizen Michael Thayer by Farmer McCarty Richard C. Brown* THORNTON WILDER *Denotes Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

scenic design costume design lighting design The entire play takes place in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. STEPHEN DOBAY ALISON SIPLE HEATHER GILBERT OUR TOWN will be performed with TWO 10-MINUTE INTERMISSIONS. sound design/music director production stage manager assistant stage manager JONATHAN MASTRO MARY R. HONOUR* BROOKE REDLER*

associate director MICHAEL PADDEN 50th Anniversary Patron Dinners Sponsor

This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Directed by DAVID CROMER Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The Director is a member of the STAGE The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, Designers in LORT Theatres are represented by a national theatrical labor union. United Scenic Artists Local USA-829 IATSE. The EXCLUSIVE SPONSOR for this production is Kansas City Repertory Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the ArtsKC Fund. and the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund With additional support from Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Mis- the WILLIAM T. KEMPER FUND FOR CLASSIC THEATRE and souri Arts Council, a state agency. This project is supported in part the CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGE FUND ­— Miller and Jeannette Nichols by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which be- lieves that a great nation deserves great art. * Denotes Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Videotaping, photography or other video or audio recording of this production is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. 2014/15 SEASON 816.235.2700 | KCRep.org FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Welcome to the beginning of KC Rep’s 50th Anniversary Season! We’ve been planning this year-long celebration of the Rep’s astonishing five decade run in Kansas City for ages, and I am incredibly excited to honor the legacy of the figures in our history who had the foresight, generosity, genius, and force of will to create one of the nation’s great regional theaters. OUR TOWN, as director David Cromer has told me, is a love letter to our town. Truly the DNA of our company is pulsing through this production — an internationally renowned director, a project of enormous scope and vision, 19 brilliant actors who make their homes in our town, incredibly talented visiting artists, students and faculty from UMKC Theatre ­— truly everything Dr. Mac envisioned is exemplified by this stunning, deeply original work that both honors Thornton Wilder’s masterpiece and reminds us why OUR TOWN endures as a shatteringly powerful work of art. I can’t imagine a better way to honor this landmark anniversary season. As I write this, however, I am still reeling from the news that our beloved friend WILLIAM C. NELSON, Rep board leader and chairman for many years, passed away just before rehearsals began. Bill was a force to be reckoned with, and his vision, passion, & OUR WORLD 10 and determination helped transform the Rep into a 11 leading national theater. Bill believed passionately by Felicia Hardison Londré that the elevation of the Rep to new heights was essential for Kansas City, a town he loved deeply. I can think of no better honor than to celebrate his legacy hen Thornton Wilder to follow suit. The arts, ever with this extraordinary production. wrote Our Town (1938), responsive to the times, played Bill, thank you for believing in the power of the Wthe United States, like their necessary role in provok- theater to change the world, and in dedicating so much of yourself to the Rep much of the world, was still in ing the public to think about to make our town a better place. Our artists, staff, and board dedicate this the grip of economic depres- production to your memory, and our celebration of our 50 years to you and and evaluate conditions. Artists our founding leaders. sion. This and other social worked in myriad forms, from problems raised doubts about gritty realistic depictions of As members of Bill’s beloved Rep audience, we thank you for joining the effectiveness of democratic us for this production and for this season, and we ask that you do Bill the life at its most difficult, as in greatest honor: spread the word, bring your friends and family all season, and forms of government. On the Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, to help the Rep reach ever greater heights. international scene, totalitari- pure escapism like Walt Dis- anism—with effective appeals ney’s Snow White and the Seven Yours, to nationalism and law and Dwarfs. Wilder’s Our Town man- order—made frightening gains. aged remarkably to integrate Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin both the challenge and the had already consolidated their affirmation, as it re-examined Eric Rosen, Artistic Director Kansas City Repertory Theatre power, and Franco was soon basic assumptions about life in

2014/15 SEASON 816.235.2700 | KCRep.org the course of its nostalgic trip simplicity of staging, the denies that alcohol is a prob- things the way they were at a down a memory lane solidly mimed use of props, the lem, and we see that towns- certain place and time. That paved with traditional values. multiple characters played by people choose “just not to tolerant avoidance of value Our Town is one of few Ameri- the stage manager, and the notice” Simon Stimson’s drink- judgments is one of the beau- can classics that survive on temporal discontinuities. Even ing problem. Perhaps Stimson’s ties of the play. both popular appeal and liter- the stagehands’ union opposed musical calling is stifled in the By focusing on a very particu- ary merit. It won the Pulitzer the play on the grounds that it small town, which admittedly lar place and time — Grover’s Prize and — given the astound- made them superfluous. The lacks any significant cultiva- Corners, New Hampshire, ing number of amateur produc- original producer, Jed Harris, tion of the arts. More recently, between 1901 and 1913, with tions each year, in addition to ultimately agreed to hire some it has been suggested that occasional references to earlier many professional revivals like stagehands, but nearly came Stimson suffers as a gay man and later dates — Wilder cre- ours — it has possibly been to blows with them over the with no way out of the closet. ates a sense of the universal. seen by more people than any issue of actors moving their George Gibbs never goes to From the twins born in Polish other American play. Recently I own chairs. In the 77 years college, and Mrs. Gibbs never Town in 1901 to the “millions” had the pleasure of listening to since then, many plays have fulfills her dream of visiting of ancestors three Kansas City actors who borrowed Wilder’s devices, and Paris. The $350 that might who witness audiences have broadened had performed in the Rep’s have paid for her trip is Photo of author/ Emily’s wed- 1990 production of Our Town their latitude of acceptance presumably the $350 legacy playwright ding, all are and had later played differ- to encompass all kinds of that buys a cement drinking Thornton Neville interconnected ent roles in one or two other departures from realism. fountain for live- Wilder as 12 Mr. Antrobus in his in a cosmic 13 productions of it. The richness The surprises in today’s Our stock. In all such play, The Skin of pattern cul- within the play’s apparent sim- Town have more to do with instances, neither Our Teeth, (1948) minating (like plicity led them to find unex- content than form. Radiating Wilder nor his the address on pected new values each time. warmth and sweetness, the Stage Manager at- Jane Crofut’s We think we know this play play can be seen as a celebra- tempts to point up envelope) in well, but it surprises us afresh. tion of the turn-of-the-century a moral or to com- “the Mind Yet Our Town was not an American small town where ment on the of God.” The immediate success in its the cherished values of work characters’ same human original production. It provides and family best flourished. actions. activities oc- an interesting case study of Robert Coleman’s review of the They cur repeatedly how today’s classic arises original production stated that simply from ancient from yesterday’s avant garde. “it captures the mind and the show Babylon to Wilder’s theatrical minimalism spirit of the country as have “people a — which we can readily accept few plays of our time.” But at thousand nowadays as a stimulus the same time, Wilder skillfully years from to the imagination — was allows a darker vein to surface. now.” But revolutionary in the scenically- Money is a major concern in change is also literal theatre of 1938, and it Grover’s Corners, but education a constant, as alienated many theatregoers. is not. Nor is marriage senti- Emily must They could not get past the mentalized. The Stage Manager realize: “Why

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can’t I stay for a while just as Our Town, it is not surprising For additional biographical information about the cast and I am?” The play encompasses that he set the last act of the creative team, please visit our web site at KCRep.org. both wonderment at the vast- play in 1913, a time we now ness of the universe (evoked in see as civilization’s end of in- CRAIG BENTON (Doc Gibbs) KC Rep/ Missouri Repertory Theatre: repetitions of the word “mil- nocence before catastrophe August: Osage County, A Christmas Carol (2 seasons as Bob Cratchit), The lions”) and a sense of pain at overtook the world in August Royal Hunt of the Sun. Local: A View from the Bridge, A Funny Thing Hap- pened On The Way to The Forum, (Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); Bee the overlooked value of the 1914. Nor could Wilder refrain Luther Hatchee (Unicorn Theatre); Big River (Musical Theater Heritage); smallest moments in quotidian from alluding to the toll of that Harvey, Becky’s New Car, Miracle On South Division Street, Out of Order, existence. war, as when the Stage Manag- The Foreigner, You Can’t Take It With You, Barefoot in the Park, Propos- als, Beau Jest, Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo, Arsenic and Old Lace, er tells us that the newsboy Joe In Our Town — as in his Pulitzer Father of the Bride, Cash on Delivery, Never Too Late, Rumors, Aspirin and Elephants, Social Crowell would graduate head Prize-winning novel The Bridge Security, On Golden Pond, Norman Is That You?, Game Show (New Theatre). Moonlight and of his class and have a great Magnolias, Tuesdays With Morrie, Death Trap, A Christmas Story, The Dinner Party, Play It Again of San Luis Rey (1927), in his career in engineering ahead Sam (American Heartland Theatre); Over the River and Through the Woods (American Heart- second Pulitzer Prize-winning land Theatre, New Theatre); Regional: The Odd Couple (Great Plains Theatre Festival). O ff of him, “but the war broke out play The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), Off Broadway: Hanky Panky (NYC Midtown International Theatre Festival). TV & Film: “Mar- and he died in France. All that ried With Children”, “Wings”, “Herman’s Head”, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, “Jake and in his National Book Award education for nothing.” the Fatman”, “Knots Landing”, “The Bold and the Beautiful”, “The Young and the Restless”; novel The Eighth Day (1967), and The Lawnmower Man, Kuffs, Kansas, Suspension, Raising Jeffrey Dahmer, Truman, More Than in other works — Thornton Thornton Wilder once Puppy Love, Dead Silence, Soldiers Of Change, There Was a Little Boy. Education: BS in The- atre, Kansas State University; School of Performing Arts, Wichita. Upcoming: Shear Madness Wilder (1897-1975) explored his referred to his plays as having (New Theatre). AEA Member “relatively slight ideological perennial theme: the relation- LOGAN BLACK (Professor Willard) KC Rep: A Christmas Carol. content.” But the example of 14 ship between the minutiae of Local: Seminar (Unicorn Theatre); Antony and Cleopatra, A Midsummer 15 daily life and the cosmic sweep the newsboy from a small New Night’s Dream (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); Afflicted (The England town caught up and Coterie); Journey’s End (Kansas City Actors Theatre and UMKC co-pro- of time, humanity, and the uni- duction, WW I Museum). Regional: Hamlet, The School for Scandal (The verse. However, a decade before cut down by forces of history Riverside Festival Theatre); Henry IV parts I & II (Oak Park Festival The- he wrote Our Town, Wilder had on another continent at least atre); Much Ado About Nothing, To Kill a Mockingbird (Colorado Shake- speare Festival); Romeo and Juliet, Dial “M” for Murder (Pioneer Theatre commented: “Someday some- prompts reflection about the individual’s place in the world. Company): The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Blithe Spirit (Okoboji Summer The- one will discover that one of atre). Education: MFA, UMKC. Upcoming: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (The Coterie) the principal ideas behind my To those who questioned www.logan-black.com work is the fear of catastro- the viability of a democratic KATI BRAZDA (Mrs. Webb) KC Rep: debut. Broadway: A Moon for the Mis- phe...” and he expressed his “… system, Wilder’s response in begotten. Off-Broadway: Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre, David Cromer, 1941 echoed elements of Our Director); Bill W and Dr. Bob (SoHo Playhouse); Lovers (The Actors The- apprehension about the future, Town: “That deep sense of atre Company “TACT”); Trying (Promenade Theatre); Regional: Our Town the whole mystery of tomor- (George Street Playhouse, David Esbjornson, Director); Paula Vogel’s A responsibility from neighbor to row.” Such sentiments in 1927 Civil War Christmas (Center Stage, Rebecca Taichman, Director); Our neighbor is the finest thing a Town (Broad Stage Santa Monica); On Golden Pond (Geva Theatre); The undoubtedly grew out of Amer- democracy can show.” Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Moon for the Misbegotten (Palm Beach Dra- ica’s involvement ten years maworks); Twelfth Night (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); Enemies, A Love Story (Wilma earlier in the Great War (when Theatre); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Dallas Theatre Center); Bluish (Alliance Theatre); Finding the Sun (Eric Rosen, Director), The Story, The Death of Bessie Smith (Goodman Theatre); The Ac- Wilder’s older brother Amos Dr. Felicia Hardison Londré, tion Against Sol Schumann, Trying (Victory Gardens Theatre); Pericles, Cymbeline (Court The- had fought in France). With the Curators’ Professor of Theatre at UMKC, atre); Next Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, About Face, among others. is Immediate Past Dean of the College of Upcoming: L’Hotel (Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Ted Pappas, Director). AEA Member. world rearming and moving Fellows of the American Theatre. toward its second World War As a theatre historian, she specializes in even as Wilder was writing French, Russian and Kansas City theatre.

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RICHARD C. BROWN (Farmer McCarty) KC Rep/ Missouri Repertory Theatre: Imaginary PEGGY FRIESEN (Mrs. Soames) KC Rep/ Missouri Repertory Theatre: Invalid (Aragon), Tartuffe (Tartuffe), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Guildenstern), A Christmas Carol (28 seasons), The Syringa Tree, Man and Superman, Peter Pan (Captain Hook), Bus Stop (Dr. Lyman), Look Homeward Angel (Ben), Love Letters. Indian Ink, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, WMKS, A Delicate Balance, If We Local: Come Blow Your Horn (Alan), Never Too Late (Charlie), and Sidney Bruhl in Deathtrap are Women, M. Butterfly, Our Town, . Local: Steel (Tiffany’s Attic Dinner Playhouse); Harvey (Elwood P. Dowd), My Fair Lady (Henry Higgins ), Magnolias (Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); The Year of Magical Thinking No Time For Sergeants (Sergeant King), and the Aunt in Charlie’s Aunt (Waldo Astoria Dinner Play- (Spinning Tree Theatre and The Living Room); The Mousetrap, A Lesson house); Room Service (Gribble, The Folly Theatre); On Golden Pond (Norman, The Bell Road From Aloes, The Cripple of Inishmaan (Kansas City Actors Theatre); 101 Barn). Regional: The Foreigner (Charley, The Alley Theatre, Houston); Nicholas Nickelby (New- man Noggs, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival), Henry V (Dauphin), and Vladimir in Waiting Dalmatians, Frindle (Coterie Theatre); Stories My Grandmother Told Me, for Godot (Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival). AEA Member. Little Foxes, The Dinner Party (American Heartland Theatre); Nickel and Dimed, Spinning Into Butter, Frozen, Wit (Unicorn Theatre). Regional: The Exonerated (Contemporary American MARIEM S. DIAZ (Rebecca Gibbs) KC Rep: debut. Local: The Audio Cart Theatre Company, Columbus, Ohio); Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, and harpist in The Fantasticks (KC Fringe Festival 2014); Mere Mortals…or What You Will, The Epic Project, (Okoboji Summer Theatre); The Tempest (as Prospero, Guest Artist at Stephens College). New Troilus and Cressida (UMKC Theatre). Educational: Breaking Up, Traces of York: Hanky Panky (Midtown International Theatre Festival). Ms. Friesen also performs as a Memory, Blood Wedding, Unfinished Women, Momentary Memories (Get- professional harpist. Film & TV: Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil, Robert Altman’s Kansas City, tysburg College). Education: BA in Theatre Arts, Gettysburg College; Sec- Stephen Soderbergh’s King of the Hill, The Big Brass Ring with , Monday After the ond year MFA student, UMKC. Upcoming: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo Miracle, A Will of Their Own, Truman, My Antonia, Sarah, Plain and Tall II. AEA Member. (Unicorn Theatre). CHARLES FUGATE (Editor Webb) KC Rep: A Christmas Carol (Dick- PATRICK DU LANEY (Simon Stimson) KC Rep: A Christmas Story ens), Cabaret (Ernst), Carousel (Bascombe), The Foreigner (Rev. Da- (Santa), Into the Woods (The Steward). Local: Inspecting Carol (Wayne, vid), Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Larrabee). Local: A Little Unicorn Theatre/UMKC/Kansas City Actors Theatre co-production); The Night Music, Shipwrecked! and Hello Again (Spinning Tree Theatre); Country Wife (Pinchwife), Tartuffe, title role (UMKC Theatre); Oklahoma! Journey’s End, The Mousetrap and The Real Inspector Hound (Kansas (Jud, New Theatre). Mr. Du Laney is a founding member of The Alaska City Actors Theatre); Master Of The Universe and Carousel (The Living Shakespeare Festival. Upcoming: Vanya in Vanya and Sonia and Masha Room); Kander & Ebb’s Kiss Of The Spiderwoman (Molina) and Ragtime and Spike (Old Creamery Theatre). Education: MFA in acting, UMKC. (Father) (Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); Next Fall, Bat Boy, Laramie 16 AEA Member. Project (Unicorn Theatre); Disney’s Geppetto & Son (Geppetto, world premiere), Franken- 17 JAMIE DUFAULT (Sam Craig) KC Rep: Romeo and Juliet. Local: Almost, Maine, Big stein (world premiere, title role), Our Town (Doc Gibbs) (Coterie Theatre); Music Man (Char- Love, King Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost (UMKC Theatre). Regional: Twelfth Night, Henry V lie Cowell), Narnia (Mr. Tumnus), Anything Goes, Cinderella, Footloose (Starlight Theatre). (Great River Shakespeare Festival); Macbeth, The Tempest, Romeo and Regional: Man Of La Mancha (Quixote) and South Pacific (Emile) (Great Plains Theatre). Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Arthur Kopit’s INDIANS (Buffalo Bill, Rockhurst College guest artist).Vocal perfor- Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice (The Colonial Theatre); The mance: Kansas City Chorale, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. Graduate, The Comedy of Errors (Courthouse Center for the Arts); But- @charlesfugate, www.charlesfugate.com AEA Member. terflies are Free (Newport Playhouse); The Belle’s Strategem (2nd Story Theatre); A Lie of the Mind (Rumble Productions); Buster Keaton: Fade JERRY GENOCHIO (Constable Warren) KC Rep: debut. Six (Kansas to Black (Daydream Theatre Company). Film: Murder University, A Date City Fringe Festival). Regional. Pippin, Dark of the Moon (SMSU Theatre); With Your Family, Unchained, Hands Off!, Winner. Awards: Best Male Lead Camille, The Rover, As You Like It, 1984, Beyond the Horizon, Emily (Florida 2011 (Buster Keaton: Fade to Black, Motif Magazine); Best Actor, Shudder Fest 2012 (Murder State University); Plaza Suite, Harvey, Carousel, The Lion in Winter, Hair, University). Education: BA in Journalism and Film Media Studies, Minor in Theatre (Magna Wait Until Dark (Northwest Repertory Theatre). Mr. Genochio is also Cum Laude, University of Rhode Island); MFA third-year candidate, UMKC. Upcoming: Peri- Producing Director at KC Rep and will direct the upcoming productions cles (UMKC Theatre). of A Christmas Carol and An Iliad.

NÍCOLE MARIE GREEN (Irma, u/s Mrs. Gibbs, u/s Mrs. Webb) KC Rep: ALISHA ESPINOSA (CItizen) KC Rep: debut. Echoes of Octavia (Melt- debut. Local: The Winter’s Tale (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); ingPot KC); Comedy of Errors (Kansas Classical Repertory Theatre); Wa- Afflicted: Daughters of Salem (world premiere, The Coterie); Love’s ter by the Spoonful (Unicorn Theatre); Afflicted: Daughters of Salem (The Labour’s Lost, Big Love!, Almost, Maine, Eat This!, Burnt By the Sun, King Coterie). Regional: Henry V (CNY Shakespeare). Educational: Almost, Maine, Seven Guitars, Kansas City Swing (UMKC Theatre). Education: Lear (UMKC Theatre). Regional: Enchanted April (Elmwood Playhouse); Third year MFA student, UMKC. The Sword and the Stone, A Christmas Carol (Traveling Lantern Theatre Company); The Odd Couple (Antrim Playhouse); Noises Off(Nyack Theatre); Servant of Two Masters, All’s Well That Ends Well, Carousel (Flagler Theatre). Upcoming: A Christmas Carol (KC Rep), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (The Coterie). Education: Third year MFA acting student at UMKC.

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EMILY NAN PHILLIPS (Citizen) KC Rep: debut. Local: Afflicted: BRIAN HUTHER (Si Crowell) KC Rep: debut. Local: The Mistakes Mad- Daughters of Salem (world premiere, The Coterie); Love’s Labour’s Lost, eline Made, The Death of Cupid (The Living Room Theatre). Educational: Almost, Maine, Big Love, Burnt by the Sun, EAT THIS! KC Chews on the You Can’t Take It With You, Night of January 16th, Pirates of Penzance, The Politics of Food, King Lear (UMKC Theatre). Regional: Love, Sex and Music Man (MidAmerica Nazarene University). Education: BA, Mass Com- the I.R.S., The Foreigner (Prairie Repertory Theatre); Bye Bye Birdie munications, Theater/English minors, MidAmerica Nazarene University). (Playhouse 2000); The Wizard of Oz (Fredericksburg Theatre Company). Educational: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tartuffe, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Urinetown: The Musical, The Secret Garden, Beauty and the GARY NEAL JOHNSON (Joe Stoddard) KC Rep/ Missouri Repertory Beast (West Texas A&M University). Education: BA in Musical Theatre, magna cum laude, West Theatre: (Associate Artist): Death of a Salesman, A Christmas Carol, The Texas A&M University; Third year MFA student, UMKC. Ms Phillips recently interned with the Foreigner, Little Shop of Horrors, August: Osage County, Cabaret, Bus Stop, Guildford Shakespeare Company, Surrey, UK. Upcoming: Rudolph (The Coterie). Winesburg Ohio, The Drawer Boy, King Lear, Give ‘Em Hell, Harry, Guys and STEPHANIE RAE ROBERTS (Mrs. Gibbs) KC Rep: A Christmas Carol. Dolls, Saint Joan, Inherit the Wind, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Oleanna, Anti- Local: The Mask of the Broken Heart (writer/performer), Boom! An In- gone, A Delicate Balance, Treasure Island, Julius , M. Butterfly, Our ternational Lost and Found Family Marching Band (writer/director/per- Town, Of Mice and Men, Nicholas Nickleby, Translations, One Flew Over the former), (Fishtank Performance Studio); Tallahassee (co-writer/director, Cuckoo’s Nest, et al. Local: King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Mea- Kansas City Fringe Festival); Eat This! KC Chews on the Politics of Food sure for Measure, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Heart of America Shakespeare); (writer/director), The King Stag (co-director), Slammed! KC Speaks Out Wizard of Oz, Annie (Starlight Theatre); The Mousetrap, The Real Inspector Hound, A Lesson on the Recession and Meanwhile (writer/director, UMKC Theatre). Re- from Aloes. (Kansas City Actors Theatre); Regional: King Lear (Goodman Theatre); The Voysey gional: Living Voices (national tour, Seattle WA); An Evening in Amer- Inheritance (American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco); King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre ica (Seattle Mime Theatre); Three Pigs (Dell’Arte International). International: Dead on Her Company, Washington, D.C.); Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice (Utah Shake- Feet (choreography, The North Wall, Oxford and London, UK); Square One (German tour); speare Festival), Witness for the Prosecution (Arrow Rock Lyceum Theater). AEA Member. The Handwriting, the Soup and the Hats (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Awards: 2010 Char- TODD CARLTON LANKER (Howie Newsome) KC Rep: Laramie Proj- lotte Street Foundation Generative Performing Artist Fellow; Arts KC’s Inspiration Award; ect Epilogue (Workshop, Moisés Kaufman, Director), The Glass Menagerie The Pitch: “Best Face Time” (The Mask of the Broken Heart) and “Best ‘Dinner Theatre’” (Eat (David Cromer, Director), King Lear (Larry Carpenter, Director). Local: As This!). Education: BFA Cornish College of the Arts; MFA Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Ms. Roberts is an Associate Professor, UMKC Theatre. AEA Member. 18 You Like It, Othello (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); Pride and 19 Prejudice (Mr. Darcy, Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); The Importance http://sraerob.wix.com/stephanieraeroberts of Being Earnest (American Heartland Theatre); Game Show, Lend Me a JEFF STILL (Stage Manager) KC Rep: debut. Broadway: August: Osage Tenor, Becky’s New Car (New Theatre); Reality, Honest (Unicorn Theatre); County (also National Tour), Lombardi, Bronx Bombers. Off-Broadway: Our Town (George Gibbs, The Coterie); Head (Kyle Hatley, Director/Play- Our Town, , Orson’s Shadow, Adding Machine, City of Conversation. wright, KC Fringe Festival). Regional: You Can’t Take It With You (Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Regional: Born Yesterday (Guthrie Theatre); Our Town (Broad Stage); Michael Haney, Director); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck, twothirds theatre); Lord of the Tribes (Mark Taper Forum and La Jolla Playhouse); RED (Pittsburgh Pub- Flies, The Real Thing, The Things They Carried (Ding an Sich). Education: BA, Samford Univer- lic Theatre); Amadeus (Cardinal Stage); Orson’s Shadow (Williamstown sity, Wheaton College; MFA in Acting and Directing, UMKC. AEA Member. Theatre Festival); Lombardi: The Only Thing (Madison Rep); Tracy Letts’ SETH MACCHI (Joe Crowell, Jr.) KC Rep: debut. Local: More 4Play, Bad Bug (world premiere, Gate Theatre, London). Chicago: (Writers’ Auditions (KC Fringe Festival 2014); The Mistakes Madeline Made (The Theatre); The Caine Mutiny Court Martial; “Doc” in Place of Angels, the one-man show about Living Room); Educational: Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens Vietnam Vet Bob Adams (Red Orchid Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare The- (Bill Russell, Director), The 39 Steps, The Foreigner, Shakespeare in Hol- atre); A Clockwork Orange, Golden Boy, Wolf Lullaby, Mother Courage, The Dresser, Sonia Flew, lywood (University of Kansas). International: Orestes (Oiniades Summer among others (Steppenwolf Theatre). Film & TV: Public Enemies, The Express, The Hudsucker Theatre Festival, Katohi, Greece). Film: Adira (Hidden Distict Studios). Mr. Proxy, “Law & Order”, “Early Edition”, The Untouchables, Good Night Sweet Wife, To Sir with Macchi is a member of the Kansas City Improv Company. Writer/actor for Love II. AEA Member. Round 2 of Founty City Sketch Comedy. ANDREW STOUT (Wally Webb) KC Rep: A Christmas Carol (Tiny Tim/ LINSEY PAGE MORTON (Emily) KC Rep: debut. Regional: Lost in Scrooge as a boy), Carousel, Pippin. Local: Master of the Universe (Young Yonkers (Bella, Northlight Theatre); The Iceman Cometh (Goodman The- Victor, world premiere, The Living Room); Oliver! (title role, Gladstone atre); JoanDark (co-production, Goodman Theatre and the Linz 2009 Fes- Theatre in the Park); Children of Eden (Shawnee Mission Theatre in the tival in Austria); The Dresser (Steppenwolf Theatre); A Streetcar Named Park); The King and I, Oliver! (Jewish Community Center, Shirley White Desire (David Cromer, Director), Another Part of the Forest, Bus Stop (Jeff Theatre); Titanic the Musical (Leawood Stage Company); Music Theatre Award Nomination), and Spite for Spite (Writers Theatre); The Crucible for Young People. International: Alice in Wonderland (Port Elizabeth Op- and Hannah and Martin world premiere (Timeline Theatre); Enchanted era House, South Africa). Film: The Boy That Stayed. Upcoming: A Christ- April (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre). Directing: Assistant Director, The mas Carol (Simon, KC Rep). Andrew is a seventh grader at Mill Creek Middle School. Normal Heart (Nick Bowling, Director, Timeline Theatre). Film: Joshua, The Quiet, Freudian Slip. Ms. Morton is a company member and casting director at Pine Box Theatre Company. AEA Member. 2014/15 SEASON 816.235.2700 | KCRep.org THE COMPANY FEARLESS ADVENTUROUSOur THEATRE Town

MICHAEL THAYER (Citizen) KC Rep: debut. Local: Mere Mortals, DAVID CROMER (Director) New York: Women or Nothing (The Atlantic Theater Company); Troilus and Cressida (UMKC Theatre). Regional: Children of Hercules Really Really (MCC Theater), The House of Blue Leaves on Broadway, When the Rain Stops (American Thymele Theatre); The Imaginary Invalid (National Theater Falling (2010 Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction) and Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln for Arts and Education tour); Arsenic and Old Lace (Wayside Theatre). Center Theater); (Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Writ- Educational: In a Room Somewhere, Bent, Pitching to the Star, Much Ado ers Theatre in Chicago); on Broadway and Orson’s Shadow (Barrow About Nothing, The Sneeze, Escape from Happiness (University of Maine). Street Theatre). Mr. Cromer’s production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town ran for 19 months Off Education: BA, Theatre, summa cum laude University of Maine; Second Broadway and received the 2009 Lortel Awards for Direction and Outstanding Revival, as well year MFA student, UMKC. as a 2009 for Direction. This production has also been produced at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica and The Huntington Theater Company in Boston and will be produced DERRICK TRUMBLY (George) KC Rep: debut. Regional: Our Town by the Almeida Theatre in London later this year. Mr. Cromer’s New York production of The (Huntington Theatre Company, David Cromer, Director); Rent (American th Adding Machine at the Minetta Lane garnered him 2008 Obie and Lortel Awards for Direction. Theatre Company/About Face Theatre, David Cromer, Director); The 25 Originally from Chicago, his credits there include A Streetcar Named Desire, Picnic and The Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway In Chicago, James Lap- Price (Writers Theatre); Cherrywood, Mojo, and The Hot l Baltimore (Mary-Arrchie), Our Town ine, Director); Mamma Mia!, Las Vegas (Mandalay Bay); Yank! (Workshop, (The Hypocrites), The Cider House Rules (co-directed with Marc Grapey at Famous Door), An- Roundabout Theatre Company, David Cromer, Director); Shenandoah, th gels in America (The Journeymen), The Dazzle, Orson’s Shadow and Golden Boy (Steppenwolf The 25 Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Marriott Theatre Lincoln- Theatre), among others. David is a 2010 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. shire); Cymbeline (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Hair, Ragtime, Table Manners, The Three Musketeers, Bye Bye Birdie (Weathervane Theatre Company); Shenan- MICHAEL PADDEN (Associate Director) KC Rep: The Glass Menagerie (Assistant to Direc- doah (David Bell, Director); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Marriott Theatre, Ra- tor David Cromer). New York Directing: Zurich, NY (Essential Theatre Group); Barn, Sex and chel Rockwell, Director); Cymbeline (Barbara Gaines, Director). Film & TV: “Crisis”, “Chicago Death in London (Rising Phoenix Repertory Theatre); Open (New Gorges Wintry Mix). New Fire” (NBC); “The Mob Doctor” (Fox); Conversations w/ My Ex (Fifty2&Nine Pro.); Coop’s Night York Assistant Directing: Hit the Wall (Eric Hoff, Barrow Street Theater);The House of Blue In (Elantra Films). www.derricktrumbly.com. AEA Member. Leaves (David Cromer, Broadway, Walter Kerr); When the Rain Stops Falling (David Cromer, Lincoln Center Theater); Brighton Beach Memoirs (David Cromer, Broadway, Nederlander The- MARY R. HONOUR (Production Stage Manager) KC Rep/Missouri Repertory Theatre: atre). Education: BA in Theatre, Northwest Missouri State University. Stage Management: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Romeo and Juliet, The Santaland Diaries, The Foreigner, American Buffalo, Death of a Salesman, Little Shop of Horrors, The STEPHEN DOBAY (Scenic Designer) KC Rep: debut. Regional (with David Cromer): Our Adventures of Tom Sawyer (including the New York production at New Victory Theatre), Town (Broad Stage, Huntington Theatre, Almeida Theatre in London), Come Back Little Sheba 20 The History of Kisses, Peer Gynt (including the co-production at La Jolla Playhouse), Circle (Upcoming). Other credits include: Under My Skin (Little Shubert); Adult (Abrons Art Cen- 21 Mirror Transformation, Harriet Jacobs, Bus Stop, A Flea in Her Ear, Winesburg, Ohio, The ter); The Realists (Here Theatre); The Last Will (Abingdon Theatre); Long Day’s Journey into Glass Menagerie, Radio Golf, The Drawer Boy, A Marvelous Party!, A Christmas Carol, Doubt, Night (York Shakespeare); Holy Crap (laMaMa Theatre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (3STC); Al- Two Pianos, Four Hands, The Syringa Tree, Love, Janis, Jitney, The Trip to Bountiful, Man and legro, The Cottage, Blood Brothers, A Hard Wall at High Speed, The Pillowman (APAC); Bus Superman, The Voysey Inheritance, Little Women, The Front Page, Incognito. Regional: Kansas Stop (Olney Theatre); A Loss of Roses (Arkansas Repertory Theatre); Dublin by Lamplight (Mc- City Starlight Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Light Opera Carter Theater). Opera: The Bartered Bride, Merry Wives of Windsor, Don Pasquale, The Italian Works. Ms. Honour is also stage manager for the Rep’s annual fundraising event A Fearless Girl in Algiers (Boston Midsummer Opera); Un Giorno di Regno, Zanetto, Il Secreto di Susanna Fête. AEA Member. (Odyssey Opera); The Play of Daniel (GEMS, the Cloisters); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Four Note Opera, Der Zwerg, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, L’Heure Espagnole (OperaHub) www.ste- BROOKE REDLER (Assistant Stage Manager) KC Rep: Stage Manager: The Whipping phendobay.com Man, A Christmas Carol, August: Osage County, Cabaret, 30th anniversary production of A Christmas Carol, Saved, Palomino; Assistant Stage Manager: Bus Stop, A Flea in Her Ear, HEATHER GILBERT (Lighting Designer) KC Rep: debut. Regional (with David Cromer): Winesburg, Ohio, A Christmas Carol, Radio Golf, The Drawer Boy, A Marvelous Party!, Bad Dates, Our Town (The Hypocrites, Chicago; Barrow Street Theatre, New York; The Broad Stage, Los The Syringa Tree, Love, Janis; Production Assistant: Clay, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Angeles; Huntington Theatre, Boston); A Streetcar Named Desire (Chicago Writers Theatre Carol, Jitney. Local: Peter Cottontail III (Production Stage Manager, Starlight Theatre); Aladdin and Williamstown Theatre Festival); Rent (American Theatre Company and About Face The- Jr., The Sound of Music (First Assistant Stage Manager, Starlight Theatre); Anything Goes, atre); The Farnsworth Invention (Alley Theatre, Houston). Chicago: Goodman Theatre, Court The King and I, Cinderella (Second Assistant Stage Manager, Starlight Theatre); King Henry Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Hypocrites, Next Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Writ- V, Romeo and Juliet (Assistant Stage Manager, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); O ff ers’ Theatre, and more. Regional: Milwaukee Rep and Actors Theatre of Louisville . Upcoming: Broadway: The Faire, Breathing Time, From White Plains (Production Stage Manager, Fault Dee Snider’s Rock & Roll Christmas Tale (Alchemy Productions, the Gilbert and Sullivan Reper- Line Theatre). Regional: Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, (Stage Manager, Baltimore tory Company with The Hypocrites) and the Almeida Theatre, London production of Our Town Center Stage); Peter and the Starcatcher, Richard II (Stage Manager, Utah Shakespeare with this creative team. Awards: 1999-2001 recipient of the NEA/TCG Development Program Festival); The Drowsy Chaperone, Is He Dead? and Harry The Great (Stage Manager, Creede Award and a 3Arts Award (2012). Education: MFA, The Theatre School at DePaul. Ms. Gilbert Repertory Theatre); Big River and Promises, Promises (Assistant Stage Manager, Stages is Head of Lighting Design at Columbia College. St. Louis). Opera: Moscow, Cherry Town, Medea (Production Stage Manager, Long Beach JONATHAN MASTRO (Sound Designer/Music Director) KC Rep: debut. New York: Julie Opera); The Good Soldier, Schweik (Assistant Stage Manager, Long Beach Opera); Santa Fe Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (original music by Elliot Goldenthal), David Cromer’s Opera, two seasons. AEA Member. Our Town (original music, music direction, Simon Stimson), Hit the Wall (Barrow Street The- atre); Paris Commune (The Civilians/BAM Next Wave);Taming of the Shrew Theatre For a New Audience). Mr. Mastro is also Emily Bergl’s Music Director (54 Below, Cafè Carlyle, Oak Room, 2014/15 SEASON 816.235.2700 | KCRep.org THE COMPANY Our Town STAFF FEARLESS ADVENTUROUSOur THEATRE Town

etc.). Regional: Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Broad Stage, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Barrel of Monkeys. Upcoming: Our Town (Almeida Theatre, London); Come Back, Little Sheba Eric Rosen Angela Lee Gieras (Huntington Theatre, David Cromer, Director). jonathanmastro.com. PRODUCING DIRECTOR EDUCATION/COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Assistant Properties Master Jerry Genochio Director of Education/Community Programs Grace Hudson ALISON SIPLE (Costume Designer) KC Rep: Arabian Nights. Regional: All Our Tragic, ADMINISTRATION Melinda McCrary Properties Artisan Manager, Information Services Education Associate Nancy Wagner The Project, The Mikado (The Hypocrites); Ask Aunt Susan (Goodman Michelle Blaine Amy M. Abels Owen Properties Artisan/Carpenter Mark Hambrect Theatre); The How and the Why (Timeline Theatre); Anatole (First Stage); Lord of the Assistant General Manager FRONT OF HOUSE Andrea Collignon Materials Coordinator Flies (Steppenwolf TYA); Motortown (Steep Theatre); Pirates of Penzance (A.R.T.). O ff House Manager D. Patrick Farmer Staff Accountant Kelly Cooper Broadway: Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre); The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Jeanette Bichage Charge Scenic Artist Asst. House Mgr./Volunteer Coordinator Alice Bracken-Carroll Love Suicide (The Hypocrites at 59e59). : Our Town (Almeida Theatre, Accounts Payable Associate Sandra Rodriguez Upcoming Kimberly Wealthall Assistant Charge Scenic Artist Assistant House Managers Jessica Seacrest London); lookingglass ALICE (Lookingglass Theatre); HMS Pinafore (The Hypocrites). Awards: Executive Assistant Warren Deckert Amy M. Abels Owen Costume Shop Manager 3Arts Grant (2011), Equity Jeff Award for The Mystery of Irma Vep (2010, Court Theatre); non- LaVera Fleeks Gayla Voss Equity Jeff Award for Cabaret (2011, The Hypocrites); non-Equity Jeff awards forTime and ARTISTIC Christina Obenshain Assistant Costume Shop Manager Resident Director Front of House Staff Polly Bilski the Conways (2006, Griffin Theatre) andLeonce und Lena (2005, The Hypocrites). Education: Kyle Hatley Nattanii Boonanant Head Cutter BA Northwestern University. Ms. Siple is a company member of The Hypocrites, an Artistic Playwright-In-Residence Sophie Laufer Michele Richmond Nathan Louis Jackson Linda Fleeks Cutter Associate with the Lookingglass Theatre, and an Associate company member of the Steep Associate Producing Director Mary Lou Garrett Kathleen Bradford Theatre. alisonsiple.com. Daniel R. Earnest Linh Hoang Stitchers Assistant Artistic Director Barb Lutman Jana Jessee ERIC ROSEN (Artistic Director) was the founding Artistic Director of Chicago’s About Chip Miller Bailey Moore Heather Schmidt Company Manager Danyelle Owens Milliner Face Theatre (AFT) from 1995 to 2008, and is a writer, director and producer. Original projects Melissa Koerner Adrian Peabody Carol Brookover include Venice (KC Rep, Center Theatre Group-LA, Public Theater-NYC, “Best Musical of 2010”– Ping Ying Choo Props/Costume Rental Manager MARKETING/COMMUNICATIONS Thao Phan Gary Campbell TIME Magazine); Wedding Play (Steppenwolf/AFT, Jefferson nomination);Winesburg, Ohio Director of Marketing & Communications Rachel Prowell Wardrobe Supervisor/Rental Associate (Step­penwolf/AFT-Jeff Award, Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company—Barrymore Award, KC Brendan S. Martin Saitejasree Ramala Marianne Rowse Publicist Jane Schaefer Head Electrician Rep); Clay (AFT, Lookingglass Theatre-Chicago, Center Theatre Group, KC Rep, Lincoln Cen- Ellen McDonald Zane Snipes Rachael Shair ter/CT3-Drama Desk Nomi­nation, Jeff Award); and Undone, Whitman and Dream Boy (Jeff Marketing Manager Christopher Steinauer Master Audio Engineer Gerry Eadens Craig Thompson Jeffrey Keirsey Award, several productions across the country). In addition to Venice, other Rep directing Design/Publications Specialist Marissanne Lewis-Thompson Production Audio Engineer Thaylia Smith Trenton Spears credits include: Clay; Winesburg, Ohio; world premiere of A Christmas Story, The Musical! (a Digital Media/Public Relations Coordinator PRODUCTION 22 hit musical on Broadway—three Tony nominations, including Best Musical); Cabaret; August: Andi Enns Technical Director TICKET OFFICE 23 Osage County; The Whipping Man; Pippin; Death of a Salesman; Ro­meo and Juliet; and Vanya Publications Assistant W.R. Shinoski Manager, Ticketing Services Nancy Marcy Assistant Technical Director Catie Pedersen and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Additional directing credits include productions at Lincoln Tom Gault Group Sales/Audience Development Manager Center, Center Theatre Group, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Alliance, Lookingglass, Chicago Shake- DEVELOPMENT Scene Shop Foreman Rick Duplissie Senior Director for Advancement John Owen Assistant Box Office Manager speare, Hartford Stage, 5th Avenue, Prince, Cincinnati, Melbourne (Australia) and workshops Jennifer Ingraham Master Carpenter Shaun Culley at Sundance, O’Neill, Playwrights Horizons, and the Public Theater. He has developed and Director of Development Daniel Traner Ticketing Agents Mollie Alexander Speer Stage Supervisor Robin Harmon produced over 40 world premieres, including Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award- Manager, Individual Giving Michael Nolan Latifah Sayles winning I am My Own Wife and work by Mary Zimmerman, Frank Galati, Stephen Flaherty, Carrie Lenahan Carpenters Christina Lieffring Manager, Institutional Giving Daniel d’Egnuff Teleservice Manager Moisés Kaufman, David Cale and The Civilians, among others. He holds a doctorate in perfor- Ed Matheny William Howard Steve Hurla mance studies from Northwestern University, has twice served as an NEA panel­ist, and serves Special Events/Campaign Coordinator Michael Hudgens Teleservice Agents Amanda Middaugh Heather Klausner Alysia Engle on the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group, the national organization of Development Associate Nate Rose Mallory Flora non-profit theatres. Keri Losche Noerrlinger Properties Master Alicia Vaughn-Bey Michael Schall Denisha Vaughn-Bey ANGELA LEE GIERAS (Executive Director) As Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s chief administrative and operating officer, Gieras partners with artistic director Eric Rosen to fulfill the Rep’s artistic vision and mission. She is responsible for the day-to-day administrative, ADDITIONAL STAFF / Our Town UMKC THEATRE FACULTY Production Assistants Acting Scenic Design operational, and human resources functions of the theatre and serves as the primary staff Katie Fernandez Theodore Swetz John Ezell representative to the Rep’s board of directors and UMKC. Gieras began her career in arts ad- Matthew Henrickson Carla Noack Gene Emerson Friedman Meghan Newman Scott Stackhouse Sound ministration at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, South Carolina, and went on to serve as Crew Costume Design Tom Mardikes (Dept.Chairman) the associate managing director of the Dallas Theater Center, where she oversaw marketing Zach York Lindsay W. Davis Greg Mackender Electrician Margret Fenske Stage Management and public relations, human resources, financial management, artist contracting, and facilities Margaret Spare Sarah M. Oliver Sadie DeSantis management. Just prior to joining the Rep, she served as director of development at Florida Dressers Lighting Design Technical Direction Carole Jo Bradley Victor En Yu Tan Chuck Hayes Theatre in Jacksonville, where she represented the organization in the community and led Chelli Tillman Period Style/Movement Chaz Bell Florida Theatre’s fundraising strategy. Gieras earned an MBA. and MA in arts administration Jennifer Martin Theatre History/Dramaturgy Tracy Terstriep Dr. Felicia Londré from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, where she was a member of Beta Gam- Physical Theatre Voice/Dialect ma Sigma honor society, the highest national recognition a student in business can achieve. Stephanie Roberts Scott Stackhouse Professor of Theatre Arts She currently serves on the Alumni Board for SMU’s Cox School of Business. Ricardo Khan

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Henson * Mr. & Mrs. Charles Maxwell Carolyn Phelps Dorothy & Johnny Simpson Mary Wiggins Doug Kallenberger & Lynn Blixrud The Creativity Connection ^ Pat & Liz Daniels Mary Ann & James Heryer Robert & Heather Maynard Marsha Piepol Angela & Chris Smart Don & Jan Wilcoxon Donna Kastl Dean & Patricia Davison Shawn & Melissa Hickey Patricia & Patrick McAnany Piropos Restaurant Briarcliff (in-kind) Pamela & Gary Smedile Bob & Kakie Williams Lynn & Ann Kindred FRIENDS Deer Creek Golf Club (in-kind) Paget & Tom Higgins Dr. & Mrs. Lynn McCanse * Drs. 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GIFTS IN HONOR GIFTS IN MEMORY In honor of Charles Clay from Karlie Speicher In memory of Evert Asjes III from Gerry Goldberg In honor of Pat Conway & Thaylia Smith’s engagement In memory of Evert Asjes III from Clyde & Katie Wendel In honor of our lovely daughters, Holley, Snow, & Leighton In memory of Evert Asjes III from Bernie Fromm by Douglas & Chris Fain In memory of Evert Asjes III from Diane & John Berkshire In honor of Debi George from John George - Enjoy the arts! In memory of Lillian Darling Dubinsky from Rosemary & Steven Nochlin In honor of Bill & Kit Hallman from Kevin Stockard In memory of Lyman Field from JoAnn Field In honor of Michael P. Henry from Sara & Dad In memory of George Keathley & Stanley Klimczyk from Joann Edwards In honor of George Shadid from Steve & Kelly Dillman In memory of Jack Mathes from Bobbie Mathes

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Anonymous Ann Dickinson * ^ Lothar Krause Dr. & Mrs. Keith W. Ashcraft * Pam & Dr. Fred Geer Rev. Susan Langhauser * Mrs. Betty Thomas Baker Courtney Goddard Dr. Mary Jo Rahatz Mary Lou & Tom Brous * Lorraine & Richard Hansen Ruth G. Shechter * Richard R. Cawthorn Ellen & Irv Hockaday Tim & Cindie Unger Elizabeth Dermond Helen Louise Kassebaum Trust Brad Voelker Dr. & Mrs. J. Gordon Kingsley

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