Reduced Shakespeare Company® in William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) Written and directed by Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor APR 5 – 6 / 7:30 PM

Jane Martin Austin Tichenor, GENERAL MANAGER Brandon Roe Poster Alli Bostedt SOUND DESIGN OFFICE MANAGER Lar DeSouza Elaine Randolph ART STAGE MANAGER GingerPower, Ltd. Tim Holtslag WEBMASTER BACKDROP DESIGN Baylin Artists Skipper Skeoch Management COSTUME DESIGNER U.S. TOUR DIRECTION Freya Marcelius Sharon Colchamiro, MASKS & PUPPETS Esq. Alli Bostedt LEGAL COUNSEL PROPS Daniel Singer Erin Sweeney COMPANY FOUNDER WARDROBE SUPERVISOR

Theatre at The Broad Stage made possible in part by generous gifts from Bill & Laurie Benenson and Susan Stockel.

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The actors and stage managers in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Reed Martin Teddy Spencer Austin Tichenor as For their contributions to the (in order of appearance) development of the script, the Authors wish to thank: Dromio Chorus Antipholus Puck Dee Ryan, Adrian Scarborough, Rob (of Syracuse) Richards, Dominic Conti, Jennifer King, Michael Faulkner, John Oberon Holofernes Ariel Hamlet Tichenor, Andrew Klein, Dr. Catherine Woodring, Benedict the Lady Macbeth Dauphin Mistress Quickly Sir John Falstaff Mad, Quincy & Daisy Tichenor, Peter Holland, Samuel Taylor, Elaine Proteus Valentine Juliet Richard III Randolph, Alli Bostedt, Campbell & Cian Martin, Kate Powers, Grant Beatrice 1st Witch 2nd Witch 3rd Witch Mudge, Christopher Moore, Freya Marcelius, Cameo Cinema in St. Bottom Viola Cesario Pompey Helena CA, Ron Severdia and the Shakespeare Pro App, Sonoma Cardenio Pericles King Lear Prospero Valley High School Drama Dept, Dan Saski, Teddy Spencer, Chad Yarish, Marina Cleopatra Richard II Sycorax the late great Howard Ashman and Jane Martin. Goneril Cordelia Regan Caliban Folger Shakespeare Library Editions are the Official Complete Kate Bear Malvoliago Patruchio Works Resource for this play. Henry V Henry IV Henry VIII Julius Caesar

Dromio WARNING: This show is a high- Timon of Athens speed, roller-coaster type (of Ephesus) condensation of William Shakespeare’s massive first play William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged) was first performed by and is not recommended for people the Reduced Shakespeare Company at the Folger Theatre (Janet Alexander with heart ailments, back problems, Griffin, Artistic Director) in Washington DC, April 21 - May 8, 2016. English degrees, inner ear disorders, people inclined to motion Directed by the authors, the script was workshopped and developed in a sickness and/or the humor- non-RSC production at Shakespeare Napa Valley (Jennifer King, Artistic impaired. The Reduced Director). That production then moved to Notre Dame Shakespeare Shakespeare Company can not be Festival (Grant Mudge, Producing Artistic Director). The cast was Dan held responsible for expectant Saski, Teddy Spencer and Chad Yarish. mothers. Running time: 105 minutes, including one intermission

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Since its pass-the-hat origins in 1981, RSC shows have received critical Guide for the Attention-Impaired the REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY acclaim across the US, UK, Belgium, (abridged) and the comic memoir How has created 10 world-renowned stage Holland, Hong Kong and Barbados, and the Bible Changed Our Lives (Mostly For shows, two television specials, several played to packed houses at the The Better). failed TV pilots and numerous radio Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh Public And the RSC Podcast, a free 20-minute pieces, all of which have been seen, Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, audio glimpse of life backstage and performed and heard the world over. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, on the road, is available every week The company´s stops have included the Seattle´s ACT Theatre, Alabama at iTunes and White House, Off-Broadway, the Shakespeare Festival and Sweden (in www.reducedshakespeare.com. Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Swedish!). And, in 2011, the world London´s West End, Seattle Repertory premiere of The Ultimate Christmas ABOUT THE ARTISTS Theatre, American Repertory Theatre Show (abridged) became Merrimack and Montréal´s famed Just For Laughs Repertory Theatre´s best-selling holiday REED MARTIN co-created and Festival, as well as performances in show ever, and the third-best-selling performed in the original productions Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Hong show in MRT´s history. of America, Bible, Western Civilization, Kong, Japan, Malta, Singapore and For TV, the RSC compressed the first All The Great Books, Hollywood, Sports, Bermuda, plus countless civic and five seasons ofLost into a ten-minute Christmas and Comedy—all (abridged). university venues throughout the USA, film calledLost Reduced, and was a He also contributed additional material the UK and Europe. Jeopardy! category in the 2005 and to The Complete Works of William The RSC´s first three shows—The 2006 Tournaments of Champions. They Shakespeare (abridged). He has Complete Works of William Shakespeare wrote and starred in The Ring Reduced, performed in London’s West End, at (abridged), The Complete History of a half-hour version of Wagner´s Ring Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, America (abridged) and The Bible: The Cycle for Channel 4 (UK), and reduced Seattle Repertory Theatre, American Complete Word of God (abridged)—ran the Edinburgh Festival for BBC and the Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Public for nine years at the Criterion Theatre soap opera Glenroe for RTE Ireland. Theater, ACT San Francisco, McCarter in Piccadilly Circus as London´s Shakespeare (abridged) aired on PBS Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla longest-running comedies. For years and is available on DVD, as is America Playhouse, The White House and the RSC had more shows running in the (abridged). Madison Square Garden, as well as in 11 foreign countries. He toured for two West End than Andrew Lloyd Webber. For National Public Radio, the RSC has They were also funnier. years as a clown/assistant ringmaster been heard on All Things Considered, with Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey In 2016, in honor of its 35th anniversary Weekend Edition, Talk of the Nation, Circus. Reed has written for the BBC, and the 400th anniversary of Day to Day, West Coast Live and To the National Public Radio, TBS, Britain’s Shakespeare´s death, the RSC Best of Our Knowledge. The BBC World Channel Four, RTE Ireland, Public Radio premiered its 10th stage show William Service commissioned the six-part International, Sky TV UK, the Shakespeare´s Long Lost First Play Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show. The Washington Post and Vogue magazine. (abridged) at the Folger Shakespeare Reduced Shakespeare Company Reed's work has been nominated for an Theatre in Washington D.C. And, in Christmas was heard on Public Radio Olivier Award in London, a Helen Hayes 2013, the RSC premiered the subject it International. Award in Washington, D.C. and a San was born to reduce—The Complete The RSC won the prestigious Shorty Francisco Bay Area Theater Critic's History of Comedy (abridged)—to Award in New York City and the Delft Circle Award. He lives in Northern critical and commercial acclaim at Audience Award in Holland. They´ve also California with his wife and two sons, all Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. been nominated for an Olivier Award in three of whom are much funnier than The “Bad Boys of Abridgment” have London, two Helen Hayes Awards in he is. also applied their fast, funny and Washington, D.C. and the SF Bay Area physical approach to world history in Theatre Critics Circle Award. TEDDY SPENCER is a Northern Western Civilization: The Complete RSC scripts are published in the US and California native and having a “hella Musical (abridged) [original title: The UK, and translated into over a dozen sweet” time since joining the RSC for Complete Millennium Musical languages. the World Premiere of Long Lost (abridged)], which toured Shakes. Regionally, Teddy has worked simultaneously in the US, UK and The RSC also creates unique with the Dallas Theater Center, Australia; athletics in The Complete entertainments for corporate events, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the World of Sports (abridged), which working with such companies as Folger Theatre, Capital Stage Company, played in London during the 2012 Sky-TV, Time Magazine, Motorola and Sacramento Theatre Company, Notre Olympics; literature in All the Great Rotary International. Dame Shakespeare Festival, Texas Books (abridged); and the movies in RSC Books include Pop-Up Shakespeare Festival, Arabian Completely Hollywood (abridged), Shakespeare (illustrated by Jennie Shakespeare Festival, Napa Valley which skewers the 197 greatest films of Maizels), the irreverent reference book Shakespeare, the Theatre at all time. Reduced Shakespeare: The Complete Monmouth, the Undermain and

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Summer Repertory Theatre. Teddy JANE MARTIN (RSC GENERAL MANAGER) holds a B.A. in both Musical Theatre and Prior to joining the RSC and sleeping Psychology from California State with Reed, Jane was Artistic Director of University, Chico, and an M.F.A. in the Hawk’s Well Theatre in Sligo, Acting from Southern Methodist Ireland, and then producer of the University. He is an Artistic Associate physical comedy troupe The Right Size with the Arabian Shakespeare Festival, in London, England. In her copious free a Company Member with SF PlayGround time away from RSC business, Jane and the proud father of a dog named spends time raising two boys (three, if Dweebs. you count Reed) and teaching Theater at Sonoma Valley High School. AUSTIN TICHENOR has performed with the RSC around the world, Off- ELAINE M. RANDOLPH (STAGE Broadway, in London’s West End and in MANAGER) Credits include stage the PBS version of The Complete Works management (compulsive) and lighting of William Shakespeare (abridged). He design (creative) in theater, music and has written stage adaptations of dance for the Kennedy Center, Walnut Frankenstein, a Kafka-for-kids Street Theater and Actors’ Theater of adaptation of “The Metamorphosis” Louisville, among many others. Recent called Dancing on the Ceiling and (with projects include Barbara Cook in Reed Martin) the irreverent reference Concert, The International Ballet book Reduced Shakespeare: The Festival, and The Sondheim Complete Guide for the Attention- Celebration. Favorite projects include: Impaired (abridged), the comic e-book Quilters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, memoir How the Bible Changed Our Noises Off, Pump Boys & Dinettes, Radio Lives (Mostly for the Better) and the Gals, A Tuna Christmas, Forever Plaid stage comedies America, Bible, Western and A Christmas Carol. Civilization, All the Great Books, Hollywood, Sports, Christmas and DANIEL SINGER (RSC FOUNDER) has Comedy — all (abridged)—all of which been a theatrical impresario from the are published and/or translated into moment he looked up “impresario” in over a dozen languages. TV credits the dictionary. Upon his return from include recurring roles on Alias, 24, The studying “proper dramatic technique” Practice, Ally McBeal and Felicity; and in London, he became a director at the various Guys in Ties on ER, X-Files, West original Renaissance Pleasure Faire, Wing, Gilmore Girls, Nip/Tuck and where he founded the subversive shows like them. Austin produces and Reduced Shakespeare Company. In hosts the weekly RSC Podcast, available 1989 Daniel hung up his doublet-and- on iTunes and at ReducedShakespeare. hose to design theme park attractions com. Follow him on Twitter at Walt Disney Imagineering, and @austintichenor. became a freelance designer, writer and event producer in Los Angeles. His ERIN SWEENEY (WARDROBE) is a new hit comedy A Perfect Likeness graduate of San Francisco State chronicles Lewis Carroll’s (fictitious) University with a B.A. in Women & attempt to get his literary hero Charles Gender Studies (she’s in it for the Dickens to pose for a photograph in money and job security) and has 1866 Oxford. Coming soon to a theater completed a fellowship in stage near you! management with American Conservatory Theater. After several forays out into the surrounding world, she is so, so happy to be back working in theater. Once, in an attempt to be helpful, Erin purchased a soccer ball, which directly led to her getting to live out her dreams of working for and touring with the RSC!

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