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027792 Clybourne Park Insert.Indd Alex Logemann (Deck Manager) is celebrating OUR SPONSORS estate in 1993 and 1995. In 1997, an additional his 41st show backstage with Center REP. Alex has endowment from Dean Lesher’s estate followed been backstage for ten seasons and is beyond Chevron (Season Sponsor) has been the the death of Margaret Lesher. A significant pleased to be involved with such an amazing leading corporate sponsor of Center REP and and final bequest from Mr. Lesher’s estate CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY group. Alex has also worked backstage for Contra the Lesher Center for the Arts for the past nine was received in 2003. As a family foundation, Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director Costa Musical Theatre and with Diablo Theatre years. In fact, Chevron has been a partner of support for the Contra Costa community will the LCA since the beginning, providing funding be carried on by the next generation of family Company. Alex is a proud member of the Fantasy for capital improvements, event sponsorships members. Grant-making decisions are based presents Forum Actors Ensemble. He is very thankful for our and more. Chevron generously supports every on the vision of Dean and Margaret Lesher who community and the fun it provides. “Opportunity Center REP show throughout the season, and felt quality education, diverse art programs, and is missed by most people because it is dressed in is the primary sponsor for events including healthy children and families are the building overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas Edison the Chevron Family Theatre Festival in July. blocks of a strong and vibrant community. Chevron has proven itself not just as a generous The Leshers defined the “spirit of giving” as Scott Denison (Managing Director) has been a supporter, but also a valued friend of the arts. “investing in the community and its people.” leader in the Arts for 40 years for Walnut Creek and By providing financial support and direction in the surrounding communities. Under Denison’s Diablo Regional Arts Association (DRAA) these critical areas, the Dean & Margaret Lesher guidance for the last 23 years as General Manager (Season Partner) is both the primary fundraising Foundation is investing every day, every week for the Lesher Center for the Arts, he oversees organization of the Lesher Center for the Arts (LCA) and every year in the health and well-being of over 850 public events each year. He coordinates and the City of Walnut Creek’s appointed curator this county that Dean and Margaret so loved. performing arts activities with over 85 producers for the LCA’s audience outreach. DRAA’s role in the community is all about building partnerships ABOUT CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY and producing organizations. He is also the with the focused goal of enhancing artistic Managing Director of the Center REPertory quality at the LCA and providing opportunities for Center REP is the resident, professional theatre Company producing 7 professional productions everyone to enjoy the arts. Through partnerships company of the Lesher Center for the Arts. Our each season; and is the director and co-founder with the LCA and its producers, individual season consists of seven productions a year – a of Fantasy Forum Actors Ensemble, an adult donors, corporate and foundation sponsors and variety of musicals, dramas and comedies, both family performing arts company which presents the City of Walnut Creek, DRAA plays a vital role classic and contemporary, that continually strive By programs for the young and Young at Heart. in advancing the arts for the betterment of the to reach new levels of artistic excellence and Scott directed CCMT’s hits Disney’s Beauty and community. Please visit us online at www.draa.org. professional standards. the Beast, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Bruce Norris Hairspray, and for the past 13 seasons Center Lesher Foundation (Foundation Sponsor) Since Our mission is to celebrate the power of the REP’s A Christmas Carol. Denison has directed over 1994, the Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation human imagination by producing emotionally 150 productions including REP’s The Lady with has awarded grants totaling more than $40 engaging, intellectually involving, and visually million and reaching citizens in all parts of Contra astonishing live theatre, and through Outreach Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer All the Answers starring Kerri Shawn. This spring, Costa County. True to the original wishes of Dean and Education programs, to enrich and advance he will direct Les Misérables. In 1979 he created and Margaret Lesher, the Foundation continues the cultural life of the communities we serve. J. B. Wilson Kurt Landisman Elizabeth Poindexter the Shellie Awards, which annually honors to build on the strengths of the community by Sound Designer Stage Manager Props Manager outstanding performing arts achievement in supporting organizations and programs that What does it mean to be a producing theatre? Contra Costa county. In 2007 he created the provide help and support to people in need; We hire the finest professional directors, actors Lyle Barrere David A. Young* Madison Genovese Chevron Family Theatre Festival bringing adult enhance and enrich the lives of all citizens; and and designers to create our productions at nationally acclaimed performances together for promote a healthy and exciting future for the Center REP. These are not touring productions – Wigs Dramaturgy one day performing to over 7,000 guests of all community. Established in 1989, the Foundation they’re conceived and developed here, the sets Judy Disbrow Timothy Near ages. received its principal assets from Dean Lesher’s and costumes are built in our shops, and the actors rehearse in our rehearsal hall. Whether CITY OF NEIGHBORHOODS WHITE FLIGHT TO THE OUTER SUBURBS (1950s-70s) the production is a Bay Area premiere or a Cast A History of Racial Division in Chicago Between 1950 and 1956 alone, nearly 300,000 Shakespearean classic, each is devised to be a one white Chicagoans moved to the outer suburbs. of a kind, artistic creation that will be a unique EARLY IMMIGRATION (1840s-1910s) theatre experience for our audience. EXPRESSWAYS AND THE CAR CULTURE (1950s-60s) Velina Brown* Richard Howard* Timothy Redmond Chicago in the 19th century was a city of immigrants - Germans, Poles and Ukrainians to Chicago’s expressway boom came at the expense What does it mean to be a professional Lynda DiVito Craig Marker* Adrian N. Roberts* the northwest, Italians to the west, Jews and of its once-extensive streetcar system, which was theatre? It means that all our artists and artisans Kendra Lee Oberhauser* Czechs to the southwest, and Irish to the south. completely dismantled in the ‘50s, reducing the are career theatre-practitioners. Many of the mobility of inner-city residents. actors in this production are members of Actors’ THE BUNGALOW BELT (1910-30) HIGH-RISE HOUSING PROJECTS (1950s-90s) Equity Association; many of our directors and Developers built some 100,000 bungalows in a The city bulldozed some 50,000 housing units- designers are members of professional unions. semicircle surrounding the downtown core and home to 200,000 people -between 1950 and All do theatre because it is their profession and Directed by Michael Butler formed early immigrant neighborhoods. 1961. Many African Americans, were funneled their passion. into newly built high-rise housing projects. Few CLYBOURNE PARK was produced on Broadway by Jujamcyn Theaters at The Walter Kerr Theatre, 2012. THE GREAT MIGRATION (1900-40) businesses or community spaces were built to We are very proud to have the opportunity to Chicago’s African American population grew serve the new high-rises, and conditions soon produce professional theatre for our community from 20,000 in 1900 to nearly 300,000 in 1940. became inhospitable. in the beautiful theatres here at the Lesher Center Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of CLYBOURNE PARK Off-Broadway in 2010. for the Arts. Thank you for your support! RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS (1926-48) THE DECLINE OF THE INNER CITY (1970s-90s) Margaret Lesher Theatre Legally binding contracts were signed Chicago had lost a portion of its residential and January 31 - March 1, 2014 by homeowners and landlords in white commercial tax base to the suburbs, and the CITY COUNCIL Lesher Center for the Arts city’s government struggled to fund its school Kristina Lawson, Mayor neighborhoods who agreed not to rent or sell to Bob Simmons, Mayor Pro-Tem blacks; they were most popular in the Bungalow system and social programs. In 1987, the federal Loella Haskew Season Season Partner Foundation Sponsor government named Chicago’s schools the worst Belt. Cindy Silva Sponsor in the country. Justin Wedel SECOND GREAT MIGRATION (1940s-60s) GENTRIFICATION (1990s to PRESENT) CITY MANAGER Chicago’s black population nearly tripled from Rising gas prices and lengthy commutes have Ken Nordhoff ARTS COMMISSION 278,000 to 813,000, placing even greater strain Joe Bologna, Chair *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States made suburban life seem less desirable to many DIRECTOR on the already crowded housing market. Jane Emanuel, Vice Chair The Director of this production is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Chicagoans over the past tow decades, and since Arts, Recreation and Polly Bradbury The Scenic and Lighting Designers are members of United Scenic Artists Union the 1990s suburban whites have begun to move Community Services Glynnis Cowdery Center REP is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), The National Organization for the American Theatre back to the inner city. Kevin Safine Carol Fowler CAST (in order of appearance) Richard Howard* (Russ/ Timothy Redmond (Jim/Tom/ CREATIVE TEAM Kurt Landisman (Lighting Designer) Local Lyle Barrere (Sound Designer) is thrilled to be Dan) has been a Company Kenneth) is making his Center audiences will be familiar with his work through returning to Center REP! Beginning his theatre Bev/Kathy ...................................................Lynda DiVito Member at the Oregon REP debut.
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