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Lisa Portes, Artistic Director Presents Lisa Portes, Artistic Director presents by Moses Goldberg Director – Ann Wakefield Choreographer – Kristina Fluty Mime Specialist – Pamela Chermansky Scenic Designer – Greg Pinseoault Costume Designer – Anne Stebbins Lighting Designer – Zak Malsich Sound Designer – Kevin Cushman Dramaturg – Julianne Shwartz Stage Manager – Abbie Betts October 12 – November 16, 2013 DePaul’s Merle Reskin Theatre 60 E. Balbo Drive, Chicago, IL 60605 Email: [email protected] http://theatreschool.depaul.edu (312) 922-1999 Hansel & Gretel 1 CAST PRODUCTION STAFF Kiko the Mime ..........................................................................................................................Erica Murphy Assistant Director .......................................................................................................................... Gen Zoufal Staggio/Witch ........................................................................................................................Tyler Esselman Assistant Stage Managers .................................... Julia Bates, Jake Zwiebach, and Mario E. Wolfe Bulbov/Father/Sandman/Creator of the Forest/Witch’s Rooster........................ George Booker Assistant Scenic Designer .........................................................................................Rachel Summerfield Sabrina/Mother/Creator of the Forest/Witch’s Cat .............................................. Madison McLean Assistant Costume Designer ...........................................................................................................Lara Hall Bucol/Hansel .................................................................................................................................Joe Keerey Assistant Lighting Designer .........................................................................Emmaleigh Pepe-Winshell Trickle/Gretel ................................................................................................................................Lucy Blehar Director of Production ....................................................................................................... Chris Hofmann Creator of the Forest............................................................................Ki-Jana Moore, Sarah Serabian, Production Coordinator ....................................................................................................... Jennifer Smith Leigha Sinnott, Sanuel Straley Technical Director ......................................................................................................... Andrew McCarthy Assistant Technical Director ...................................................................................................Aimee Sweet The play will be performed without intermission. Theatre Technical Director ............................................................................................................Jen Leahy Theatre Assistant Technical Director .........................................................................Aaron Pijanowski Produced by special arrangement with Technical Assistant ..................................................................................................................Steven Baglio THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois. Scene Shop Foreman ..........................................................................................................Gerry Reynolds Scenic Artist............................................................................................................................ Joanna White Property Master ................................................................................................................ Wayne W. Smith Costume Shop Manager ..........................................................................................................Myron Elliott Costume Technician..............................................................................................................So Hui Chong TAKE YOUR SEAT Draper ....................................................................................................Megan Turner, Hannah Tricamo and support The Theatre School Staff Draper/Cutter .......................................................................................................Dawn G. McKesey Stitcher ......................................................................................................................................... Alma Acosta DePaul University invites you to support The Theatre School Capital Master Electrician .................................................................................................................... Vada Briceno Campaign. Your gift of a named seat will give you a permanent Reskin Master Electrician ............................................................................................................ Ron Seeley place inside The Theatre School’s new home at the corner of Racine Make-up Supervisor ................................................................................................................Nah Zabriskie and Fullerton. Wardrobe Chief ...................................................................................................................Courtney Schum Scenery and Property Crew ........................................................ Devin Asperger, Camilla Devereux, Be recognized for your support with a plaque bearing your name on Sophia Hartler, Todd Newton, one of a limited number of available seats within the 250-seat thrust Samuel Straley, Andrew Yeni theatre or the 100-seat flexible theatre in the new performing arts Costume Crew ............................................................................ Margaret Baughman, Kaysie Bekkela, facility at the heart of the Lincoln Park Campus. Dyllan Miller, Ki-Jana Moore, Leigha Sinnott Make-Up Crew ............................................................................ Nicka Hosseinzadeh, Sarah Serabian The Fullerton Stage Lighting Crew ................................................................................ Cassandra Kendall, Marjorie Muller, Emily Pabish, Brian Suchocki, Julian Von Nagel $3,000 Premiere Section Sound Crew ........................................................................................... Tyler Blakeman, Sadie Tremblay $2,000 Center Section Audio Describer .....................................................................................................................Brian Hawkins $1,000 Right/Left Section Sign Language Interpreter Coordinator ............................................................................. David Jones Sign Language Interpreters .............................................................. Diana Thorpe, Vera Washington Sondra and Denis Healy Theatre Director of Marketing and Public Relations ......................................................................... Anna Ables $250 Moveable Chairs Manager of PR and Special Events ..................................................................................... Andrea Tichy Don’t miss this window of opportunity. Make your gift today and be a Publicity/Production Photos ..................................................................Anna Ables, Michael Brosilow lasting part of this transformative space that will inspire generations Publicity and House Crew .....................................................Ellen Dillenburg, Jaclyn L. Kranenburg, of students and audiences. Allison Kupfer, Jeremy Martens, Madeline McCluskey, Olivia Simas, For more information visit alumni.depaul.edu/TakeYourSeat Mishari Lee Zambrano Box Office Manager .......................................................................................................................Julia Curns House Manager ...................................................................................................................LaKisha Jackson Theatre Manager ...................................................................................................................... Leslie Shook 2 The Theatre School at DePaul University Hansel & Gretel 3 DRAMATURGY NOTE BIOGRAPHIES Are you afraid of bugs or sharks? Snakes or the dark? Monsters, witches, or tall men with Lucy Blehar (Trickle/Gretel), 3rd Year BFA/Acting. Lucy interest in theatre for children and has written and big mustaches? You know what? You are not alone! At one time or another, everyone has is from Pittsburg, Pennsylviania. Her Theatre School directed plays and touring shows for junior, senior credits include Bette Bernick in Pillars of Society, schools and universities. In England she worked with been afraid of something! Even your mom and dad, grandma and grandpa…and your Officer Welch/Cookie in Rumors, and Ruth in The the Brian Way Theatre in Education Company and teacher! Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden. was the Assistant Director to the highly acclaimed Zulu Macbeth, Umabatha which was presented by But you don’t always have to live in fear. Stories can help us . Fairytales, like Hansel George Booker (Bulbov/Father/Creator of the Forest/ the Royal Shakespeare Company in London. She and Gretel can provide a safe place to explore emotions and start conversations about Sandman/Witch’s Rooster) 4th Year BFA/Acting. first appeared in Chicago for the original Chicago difficult topics George is a Chicago native. His Theatre School credits Children’s Theatre in The Arkansaw Bear. She was include Nine Circles, Language of Angels, Royal Hunt awarded
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