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IN THIS ISSUE
MARCH – APRIL 2016 Title Page. 2 Cast. 3 About the Play. 4 The Cast . 6 The Creative Team. 10 ATC Artistic Director. 15 About Arizona Theatre Company . 17 ATC Board of Trustees...... 18 Corporate and Foundation Donors. 19 Individual Donors. 20 ATC Staff. 28 Theater Information...... 31
Jonathan Wainwright, James Pickering, and Scott Greer in Arizona Theatre Company’s Of Mice and Men. Photo by Michael Brosilow.
Cover art by: ESSER DESIGN
1 David Ira Goldstein Artistic Director
Presents a Co-Production with Milwaukee Repertory Theater Mark Clements Artistic Director; Chad Bauman Managing Director OF MICE AND MEN BY JOHN STEINBECK
Mark Clements...... Director Todd Edward Ivins...... Scenic Designer Rachel Laritz...... Costume Designer Jesse Klug...... Lighting Designer Joe Cerqua ...... Sound Design and Original Composition Jamie Cheatham...... Fight Director Leda Hoffmann...... Associate Director JC Clementz ...... Casting Director T. Greg Squires...... Resident Lighting Designer Brian Jerome Peterson...... Resident Sound Designer Glenn Bruner*...... Production Stage Manager Maggie Swing*...... Assistant Stage Manager
On this original Arizona Theatre Company and Milwaukee Repertory Theater co-production, the ATC and MRT Production Staffs are responsible for scenic construction, costume construction, lighting, projections, sound, props, furniture, wigs, scene painting and special effects.
Of Mice and Men is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
2015/2016 SEASON SPONSORS: I. MICHAEL AND BETH KASSER
PRODUCTION SPONSOR:
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CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
Jonathan Wainwright* ...... George Scott Greer*...... Lennie James Pickering*...... Candy Jonathan Gillard Daly*...... Boss Bernard Balbot*...... Curley James Farruggio*...... Slim Kelley Faulkner*...... Curley’s Wife Sean Patrick Fawcett*...... Carlson Riley O’Toole...... Whit Chike Johnson*...... Crooks *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
TIME: 1930s PLACE: Salinas Valley of northern California
THERE WILL BE ONE FIFTEEN-MINUTE INTERMISSION.
ADDITIONAL STAFF UNDERSTUDIES Emma DeVore. . Assistant to the Stage Manager Bryn Booth...... Curley’s Wife Domino Mannheim. Assistant Lighting Designer Charlie Hall...... Carlson Nabrashaa Nelson. . . . . Assistant Director Aubrey King...... Whit Scott Murdock...... Slim Riley O’Toole ...... Curley
Arizona Theatre Company operates under agreements between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States; Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union; and United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.
To learn more about Of Mice and Men please visit the Education page on our website at arizonatheatre.org for a comprehensive free Play Guide. The Play Guide contains a biography of John Steinbeck, historical context, and more. Play Guides are also available in The Temple Lounge for a nominal charge to cover printing.
Cell phones and other devices that make a noise can greatly disturb your fellow audience members and the performers. PLEASE TURN THEM OFF before the performance and again after intermission.
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ABOUT THE PLAY
DIRECTOR’S NOTE Like many of us, I first encountered John Steinbeck’sOf Mice and Men at school. I was 13 years old, and on reflection, it was probably the first adult book I had ever read that truly resonated with me on a deeper and more emotional level. Coming from a respectable, British, middle class family I was at that time absolutely way too young, sheltered and naive to fully appreciate the vast context or central mechanism of this beloved and iconic American novel. I had very few plans, they Mark Clements weren’t best laid, and none of them had gone too badly awry thus far. So, at that particular time, I was clearly compelled, pre-occupied and absorbed by the unusual, amusing and often moving friendship of Lennie and George; two men, through sheer necessity, against the socio-political backdrop of the Great Depression, thrown together, yet so bound to each other in a relationship of co-dependency, that the whole universe of the story always had the potential to implode at any moment they might be pulled apart. As an only child, and a somewhat shy one at that, I identified with, and was intrigued by this extraordinary and unique friendship, and definitely had just enough insight in that respect to appreciate and be affected by Steinbeck’s elegiac depiction of abject loneliness, longing, and isolation amongst his protagonists. In 2006, I was grateful to be invited by my close friend, Bernard Havard, the Artistic Director, of the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, to fulfill a long desired professional aspiration to direct a production of the play. We had a sensational cast, that included my good friend and terrific and beloved Philly based actor, Scott Greer, who reprises the role of Lenny here at ATC,
Jonathan Wainwright, Jonathan Gillard Daly, and Scott Greer in ATC’s production of Of Mice and Men. Photo by Michael Brosilow.
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ABOUT THE PLAY along with long term collaborator, scenic designer, Todd Ivins, who also recreates his beautiful work for this co-production between Arizona Theatre Company and the Milwaukee Rep, where I currently reside as Artistic Director. Revisiting this beloved text years later as an adult, I was struck by Steinbeck’s brilliant, but simple observations of human need and desired connectivity, while arguably offering up one of the most elegant and erudite accounts of characters in search of the American Dream with all its innate fragility on full display. It is sadly, but prophetically true from the poem of Robbie Burns, that inspires the title of this play, that the“Best laid schemes O’ Mice and Men’ oft go awry”, and as we mature, we can assuredly feel this in deeper and darker ways as the years roll on. We reach for our dreams and open ourselves up in ways that expose us to the cruel reality of sometimes only realizing them fleetingly, or perhaps not at all. Of Mice and Men, is ultimately a harsh and cruel tale, but also one that can somehow inspire us to value or take consolation in our own pursuit and personal vision of the American Dream, and continue to dare us to dream that compulsive dream. Nine years later, I am most grateful to ATC, Artistic Director, David Ira Goldstein, and the Trustees of Milwaukee Repertory Theater, for affording me another opportunity to direct this iconic piece of American literature with a new and equally terrific group of talented/dedicated actors, and a group of creative artists who have put this production together with much love, care and attention, for which I extend my sincere gratitude. I sincerely hope that you find this performance, at least half as fruitful and satisfying, as we have all done so in making it.
Mark Clements Director
Scott Greer and Jonathan Wainwright in ATC’s production of Of Mice and Men. Photo by Michael Brosilow.
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THE CAST
Bernard Balbot (Curley) Chicago credits include: You Can’t Take It With You (Northlight Theatre); She Loves Me (Writers Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Parks, Short Shakespeare! Macbeth (Chicago Shakespeare); We Are Proud to Present a Presentation... (Victory Gardens Theater); Rich and Famous (Jackalope Theatre); The Original Grease, Yeast Nation, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play (American Theater Company) and A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane THeatre). Regional credits include: American Conservatory Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Hangar Theatre and Milwaukee Repertory Theater. TV/Film: Chicago Fire/Warrior. Mr. Balbot is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and NTI’s Moscow Art Theatre Program. Up next: Company directed by William Brown at Writers Theatre.
Jonathan Gillard Daly (Boss) is a veteran of the regional theatre, having joined Actors’ Equity Association in 1977. He has been a member of resident acting companies at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (1977-81), Great Lakes Theater Festival (1982-84), PCPA Theaterfest (1984-97), Milwaukee Repertory Theater (1998-2012), and the Great River Shakespeare Festival (2004-13). Some of his favorite classical roles include Prospero in The Tempest, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, both Malvolio and Feste in Twelfth Night, Falstaff in Henry IV Part One, and King Lear. Musical roles include Herr Schulz in Cabaret, the Proprietor in Assassins, and Edward Bloom in Big Fish. He has appeared over the years in plays at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, Actors Theater of Louisville, Clarence Brown Theater, American Players Theater, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, and PCPA Theaterfest. He is the author of the musical memoir, The Daly News, and a drama, To the Promised Land. He is currently working on a one-man play, titled An Evening with Carl Sandburg.
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James Farruggio (Slim) Previous plays include: Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird (Steppenwolf for Young Adults); Show Boat (The Lyric Opera of Chicago); Bethany; Streamers; Stop/Kiss; The Ruby Sunrise; Suicide, Incorporated; Northwest Highway; Oh, The Humanity (and other exclamations); Almost Maine, Vigils, and Broadsword as well as Ten.2012, Ten.2013, and Ten.2014 (The Gift Theatre); The Kentucky Cycle (Infamous Commonwealth Theatre); Stage Door (Griffin Theatre). Film and television credits: Batman Dark Knight, The Beast, Prison Break, Crisis, Chicago P.D. and The Playboy Club.
Kelley Faulkner (Curley’s Wife) Regional credits include The Mousetrap, Harvey, Noises Off, Ragtime, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cabaret, Always...Patsy Cline, Assassins, A Christmas Carol, and The History of Invulnerability (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Proof (Theatre-Fest); Oliver! and State Fair (Walnut Street Theatre); All Shook Up (Fireside Theatre). National Tour: Big. She can be seen/ heard in numerous commercials, industrials, and voiceovers, and holds a BFA in Acting from Montclair State University. Ms. Faulkner is a proud member of Actor’s Equity, as well as the Pro99 movement to save intimate theatre in Los Angeles. www.KelleyFaulkner.com
Sean Patrick Fawcett (Carlson) Most recently appeared as Brian in Avenue Q at Mercury Theatre in Chicago. Other favorite theatre credits include Emerald City/First Stage, The Hypocrites, Timeline, A Red Orchid, Sans Culottes, New Leaf, Syracuse Stage, Collaboraction, and Mason Street Warehouse. He was briefly seen on NBC’s Chicago Fire choking during a botched children’s magic show.
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Scott Greer (Lennie) is grateful to return to this amazing play with Mark Clements. A 20 year veteran of Philadelphia theatre, he has worked for the Arden Theatre Company, 1812 Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, The Wilma Theater, People’s Light and Theatre Company, InterAct, Theatre Exile, Lantern Theatre Company and many more. Regionally, he has worked for Actors Theatre of Louisville, Round House Theatre, Cape May Stage, Gulfshore Playhouse, and the Pearl Theatre in New York. He has won five Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre including the prestigious F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Theatre Artist, and he was named 2014’s “Best Theatre Talent” by Philadelphia Magazine.
Chike Johnson (Crooks) most recently appeared at American Players Theatre where he played Othello, Winston and Pistol and in Milwaukee Repertory Theatre’s production of A Raisin in the Sun. His New York and Broadway credits include A Time To Kill and Manhattan Theatre Club’s Wit. Off-Broadway: Lost In the Stars produced by New York City Center’s Encores! and Ruined co-produced by Manhattan Theatre Club and the Goodman Theatre. Chicago credits include: Goodman Theatre’s Meet Vera Stark; Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Crucible at Court Theatre; The Unmentionables and Huck Finn at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; A Christmas Carol at 16 Theatre Company. Other regional credits include a revival of The Unmentionables at Yale Repertory Theatre; Lincoln in Topdog/Underdog at Renaissance Theaterworks; Duke of Cornwall in King Lear at Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Cephus Miles in Home at In Tandem Theatre; Willie in Master Harold and the boys at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre; and Martin Luther King, Jr. in Smoldering Fires at First Stage Children’s Theater. Some of Mr. Johnson’s film credits include Friends with Benefits, Sleepwalk with Me, The Machinist and his television credits include Law & Order, Girls, Veep and Prison Break.
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Riley O’Toole (Whit) Regional credits: Milwaukee Repertory Theater: Of Mice and Men, Rep Lab, A Christmas Carol, Dreamgirls; Guthrie Theater: Juno and the Paycock, Blue Stockings; Great River Shakespeare Festival: Troilus and Cressida (A/I Project); Training: University of Minnesota/ Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program.
James Pickering (Candy) has appeared in 42 seasons at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, including the roles of Richard Harkin in The Seafarer, Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, Walter Burns in The Front Page, Mr. Voysey in The Voysey Inheritance, and Ebenezer Scrooge in 14 iterations of A Christmas Carol, during which he performed the role 450 times. Recently, he was seen as Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet at Door Shakespeare where he will direct Julius Caesar next summer. In recent seasons at American Players Theatre he played Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Shamraev in The Seagull, and The Ghost/Player King/ Gravedigger in Hamlet. In Milwaukee he has been seen as Pozdynyshev, the sole character in The Kreutzer Sonata at Renaissance TheatreWorks, and as The Man in Love Stories at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. He is a former trustee at Ten Chimneys, a former Milwaukee Outstanding Artist, and, as a voice-talent (his other vocation), narrator of the Emmy Award-winning The Making of Milwaukee.
Jonathan Wainwright (George) recently completed his fourth season as Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, where he has also been seen as Roderigo in Othello, and Doalty in Translations. In the last year he’s worked opposite his wife Laura Gray in Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s The Good Father, played Caliban and Mercutio in Door Shakespeare’s productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, and played Bartlett in Next Act’s production of Back of the Throat. Other favorite roles include Bobby in Coyote on a Fence, Cliff in Sideman, and Sloan in Entertaining Mister Sloane.
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Mark Clements (Director) returns to ATC, where he directed Five Presidents and Clybourne Park. He began his tenure as Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Artistic Director with the 2010/11 Season. He is an award-winning international theater director whose work has appeared in over 100 major theaters throughout Europe and the United States. Recent productions include: Dreamgirls, Five Presidents, The Color Purple, The History of Invulnerability, End of the Rainbow, Ragtime, Clybourne Park, Assassins, Othello, Next to Normal, Death of a Salesman, Bombshells and Cabaret at The Rep; Oliver!, Born Yesterday, Great Expectations, Les Misérables (2008 Barrymore Award – Best Production of a Musical) and Of Mice and Men (2007 Barrymore Award – Best Director and Best Production of a Play), all for Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia; The Milliner (Off-Broadway, World Premiere), CSC, New York; My Fair Lady, Copenhagen; The Browning Version (Barclays/TMA Regional Theatre Award) at Derby Playhouse and Blunt Speaking (World Premiere), Chichester Festival Theatre U.K. and Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York. Other productions include: Speaking in Tongues (U.S. Premiere), Roundabout Theatre Company; Speaking in Tongues (European Premiere; Barclays/TMA Best Director Nomination), Hampstead Theatre, London; Creator/Director – Soul Train, West End (Olivier Award Nomination) and three U.K. national tours; and the U.K. national tours of The Glass Menagerie, The Gingerbread Lady and Love & Marriage, all for Bath Theatre Royal productions. Mr. Clements served as an Associate Artistic Director for Moving Theatre Company, the production company founded by Vanessa and Corin Redgrave. He has also been Associate Director for New End Theatre and New Players Theatre, both in London, Royal Theatre in Northampton and Torch Theatre in Wales. Additionally, Mr. Clements served as Artistic Director of the award-winning Derby Playhouse in the U.K. from 1992 to 2002. He serves on the National Advisory Board for the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program at Ten Chimneys in WI.
Todd Edward Ivins (Scenic Designer) loves to tell stories through design, and he returns to ATC where he has designed Five Presidents and Clybourne Park. He is an Associate Artist at Milwaukee Repertory Theater where has designed scenery for Dreamgirls, Five Presidents, The Color Purple, The History of Invulnerability, Ragtime, Clybourne Park, Assassins, Next to Normal, and both scenery and costumes for Cabaret and Othello. Other favorites: Mirror Mirror (Milwaukee Ballet); Illusionists 1903 (Brisbane QPAC, Australia); Les Miserables (Walnut Street Theatre); Into the Woods (5th Avenue Theatre); Bright Lights, Big City (Prince Music Theatre); Rent (Engeman Theater), The Happy Time (Signature Theatre); Of Mice and Men, Godspell, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Oliver, Rent, Man of La Mancha, Hair, and Tiny Dancer. Off-Broadway favorites: The Milliner, Fathers & Sons, Time of Your Life, Our God’s Brother, The Jeweler’s Shop, Linnea, House of Desires, Salvage Shop, The Last Starfighter: the musical, A Majority of One, Squatters, and Deathclaw 7. Upcoming productions include a premiere of Dorian Gray at the Milwaukee
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Ballet. Mr. Ivins designs scenery, projections, and costumes. His work spans dance, opera, plays, musicals, corporate events, and newsrooms, ranging from intimate events to arenas. His online portfolio can be seen at www.ivinsart.com.
Rachel Laritz (Costume Designer) is making her ATC debut. Off-Broadway credits: Pearl Theatre. Regional theater credits: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Steppenwolf First Look, Northlight Theatre, American Players Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Writers Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Illinois Shakespeare, Court Theatre, Next Act, Peninsula Players, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, TimeLine Theatre Company, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Skylight Music Theatre, Children’s Theatre of Madison and University of Michigan. Other professional credits: NBC’S Law & Order, Chicago Opera Theatre, and Garsington Opera. Ms. Laritz is a recipient of a 2011 Emerging Artist Award from the University of Michigan and a 2009 Jeff Award for The Voysey Inheritance. www.rachellaritz.com
Jesse Klug (Lighting Designer) has previously designed Five Presidents, Other Desert Cities and Clybourne Park at ATC. Off-Broadway credits: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Lortel and Hewes Design nominations), The Screwtape Letters (Off-Broadway and National Tour), Romulus, and The Hour Glass. Regional: Goodman Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Broadway in Chicago, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Marriott Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Lookingglass Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, The Old Globe, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Fulton Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Theater Company, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Northlight Theatre, First Stage Milwaukee, Timeline Theatre Company. Mr. Klug is a Jeff and After Dark Award recipient. www.jessekluglightingdesign.com
Joe Cerqua (Sound Design and Original Composition) is a freelance composer, producer, vocalist and sound designer. Recent projects include music and sound designs for The RainMaker at American Blues Theater, Dear Elizabeth at Milwaukee Chamber, The Time of Our Life at the Artistic Home, The Miracle Worker at the Clarence Brown Theater, Silent Sky, The Other Place, Vanya and Masha and Sonya and Mike at Forward Theatre, and Amelia at Renaissance Theaterworks. He has composed music and/or designed sound for over 200 productions in Chicago, nationally, and internationally. Other recent projects include original music and sound design for Private Lives, Seascape, The Seagull, American Buffalo, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Royal Family at American Players Theatre; Our Class at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company; Paradise Drag and Leap Year at Shakespeare and Co.; American Buffalo at Kansas City Repertory Theatre; A Midsummer’s Nights Dream at Indiana Repertory Theatre; Tom Jones and Sense and Sensibility at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Repertory Theatre of St Louis and Northlight Theatre;
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THE CREATIVE TEAM and El Nogalar at the Goodman Theatre. Steppenwolf Theatre Company credits include original music and sound for Homebody/Kabul, The Fall to Earth, Wedding Band, Royal Family, Uncle Vanya, David Copperfield, and Sideman. His scores and designs for Sideman, Homebody/Kabul, How I Learned to Drive, The Laramie Project, Broken Glass, and Master Class have all enjoyed national tours. Mr. Cerqua is the Producing Director/Composer-in-Residence for the Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, a critically acclaimed 13-piece jazz orchestra and 10-member dance company. He is the Director of Production for the Music Department at Columbia College Chicago. Future projects include concerts with Cerqua Rivera, original music and sound designs for The Flick and Mr. Burns at Forward Theatre, and The Ideal Husband and Richard at American Players Theatre.
Jamie Cheatham (Fight Director) is a nationally recognized Fight Director and Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD). Before moving to Wisconsin in 2003, he was based in New York City as a fight director, teacher and actor. He is happy to return to the Rep after working on Noises Off, The Color Purple, End of the Rainbow, The History of Invulnerability and after all the terrible things I do. His fight work includes such theatres as the New York Shakespeare Festival (NYC), NYC Opera, the Alley Theatre (TX), Actors Theatre of Louisville (KY), Illinois Shakespeare and the Milwaukee Ballet. Mr. Cheatham is proud to be the new head of acting at Marquette University.
Leda Hoffmann (Associate Director) is the Director of Community Engagement at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Her directing credits include The Amish Project at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, and The Comedy of Errors at Door Shakespeare, Phaedra’s Love at World’s Stage, The Chairs and King Lear at the Alchemist Theater, Birth Witches at Riverside Theatre, and The Penelopiad at Luminous Theatre. Ms. Hoffmann is a proud graduate of Grinnell College and member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab 2012. Upcoming: Censored on Final Approach at Renaissance Theaterworks and Hamlet at Illinois Shakespeare Festival.
JC Clementz (Casting Director) is the Artistic Associate: Casting Director & Director of the Emerging Professional Residency, now in his fifth season with Milwaukee Repertory Theater. In addition to casting over 25 productions at MRT, JC directed last season’s The Doyle and Debbie Show as well as Forever Plaid in the Stackner Cabaret. Next up, he will be directing Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. Prior to his time in Milwaukee, JC traveled throughout Europe as the Assistant Stage Manager for New York Harlem Productions’ interna- tional tour of Porgy and Bess, and spent four summers working at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts in the mountains of Colorado. JC holds an MFA in Directing from Western Illinois University.
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T. Greg Squires (Resident Lighting Designer) began working for ATC in 1988 as a lighting and sound technician. Since becoming the Resident LD, he is responsible for remounting all of the designs in Phoenix and was the designer for Permanent Collection and Tuesdays with Morrie. Mr. Squires has been the Associate Lighting Designer for Michael Gilliam, Dennis Parichy, Ann Wrightson, Don Darnutzer, Allen Lee Hughes, York Kennedy, David Lee Cuthbert and Peter Maradudin. In addition to ATC, Mr. Squires has designed lights and/or sound for Laguna Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Creede Repertory Theatre, Borderlands Theater and Childsplay. Recently, Mr. Squires was Sound Designer for Actors Theatre of Phoenix productions of This, Circle Mirror Transformation and Dead Man’s Cell Phone, all of which received ariZoni Award nominations. Brian Jerome Peterson (Resident Sound Designer) celebrates his 30th season at ATC, where he has designed 83 productions, including Fences, Disgraced, Five Presidents, Wait Until Dark, Around the World in 80 Days, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Sunshine Boys, Jane Austen’s Emma, The Great Gatsby, God of Carnage, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Lost in Yonkers, Ain’t Misbehavin’, George is Dead, Somebody/Nobody, Enchanted April, Touch the Names, I Am My Own Wife, Twelfth Night, Tuesdays with Morrie, Crowns, Macbeth, The Pirates of Penzance, The Immigrant, A Streetcar Named Desire, Oh Coward!, Copenhagen, Fully Committed and The Mystery of Irma Vep (for which he won an ariZoni Award) and the world premieres of Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Suicide Club, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Inventing van Gogh, Rocket Man, Minor Demons and The Holy Terror. His designs have been heard in many theatres including GEVA, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, Northlight Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville and San Jose Repertory Theatre Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, and the Bay Street Repertory Theatre.
Glenn Bruner (Production Stage Manager) is in his 19th season as Production Stage Manager at ATC where he has stage managed over 60 productions, including Romeo and Juliet, Five Presidents, Other Desert Cities, The Mountaintop, The Importance of Being Earnest, Clybourne Park, The Sunshine Boys, Next to Normal, The Great Gatsby, The Mystery of Irma Vep, [title of show], The Kite Runner, Hair, Enchanted April, and the world premieres of Jeffrey Hatcher’s Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Suicide Club and Ten Chimneys, and Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Rocket Man, Inventing van Gogh, and Over the Moon. Mr. Bruner has worked at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Pasadena Playhouse, Centerstage, Studio Arena Theatre, and Maine’s Portland Stage Company. He was the Assistant Stage Manager for the world premiere of On the Waterfront at The Cleveland Play House and stage managed the Off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings. He has also been the voice for many radio and television commercials and worked for Texas Public Radio in his hometown of San Antonio. Mr. Bruner was the 2012 recipient of the Lucy Jordan Recognition Award, presented annually by the Western Region of Actors’ Equity Association. He has been a member of AEA since 1981.
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Maggie Swing (Assistant Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labors Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbockers, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (The Public Theater); Slowgirl (Lincoln Center); Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company). Regional: The Country House, The Judy Show, American Buffalo (Geffen Playhouse); Bell, Book and Candle (co-production with Long Wharf); The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Dividing the Estate, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Bluest Eye, Our Town (Hartford Stage Company).
Emma DeVore (Assistant to the Stage Manager) served as Assistant to the Stage Manager for ATC’s productions of Fences, Disgraced, Romeo and Juliet, Murder for Two, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Around the World in 80 Days, Xanadu, The Importance of Being Earnest, Clybourne Park, Freud’s Last Session, Lombardi, God of Carnage and The Great Gatsby. Regionally, she has worked at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Phoenix Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, and Southwest Shakespeare Company. She was the Production Stage Manager for E&M Theatrical’s Las Vegas production of The D*Word: A Musical, and has toured with the vaudeville troupe Handsome Little Devils, and with The Magic of David Copperfield.
The Actors and Stage Managers The Director is a member of the The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and employed in these productions are Stage Directors and Choreographers Sound Designers in LORT Theatres members of Actors’ Equity Association, Society, an independent national are represented by Union Scenic the Union of Professional Actors and labor union. Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. Stage Managers in the United States.
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
David Ira Goldstein this season celebrates his 24th season as Artistic Director of Arizona Theatre Company. In that time, he has produced and/or directed over 200 mainstage plays, workshops, readings, and presentations including acclaimed appearances by the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and the Theatre Royal Bath. He received the 2010 Leader of the Year Award in Arts and Humanities from the Capitol Times and the 2003 Governor’s Arts Award as Individual Artist for his contributions to the arts in Arizona. This season he will direct Disgraced and The Santaland Diaries for ATC. He has directed over 40 mainstage productions for ATC ranging from classics to new plays to musicals, including Next to Normal, The Sunshine Boys, Hair, Much Ado about Nothing, My Fair Lady, Valley Song, The Illusion, The Pajama Game, Side Man, [title of show], How I Learned to Drive, Wait Until Dark, Xanadu, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Scapin, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Boys Next Door, Shadowlands, Fully Committed, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, Willi, Dreams from a Summer House, Other People’s Money, The Heidi Chronicles, Noises Off and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as many world premieres including The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini; Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America); Inventing van Gogh, Rocket Man, Private Eyes, Over the Moon and Dracula by Steven Dietz; and Ten Chimneys, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Edgar Award nominee) and Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Suicide Club (Edgar Award nominee) by Jeffrey Hatcher. Mr. Goldstein has been a guest director at theatres all across the country including Arizona Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Florida Stage, Center Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Northlight Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Laguna Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Mixed Blood Theatre, The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Alaska Repertory Theatre, and Illusion Theatre. His musical A Marvelous Party: The Noël Coward Celebration, which originated at ATC, has played extensively across the U.S., winning many awards including four Jeff Awards in Chicago (including Best Director), the Elliot Norton Award in Boston, several Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Production. Before coming to Arizona, Mr. Goldstein was Associate Artistic Director of ACT Theatre in Seattle. His many productions there included Glengarry Glen Ross, Hapgood, Breaking the Silence, Lloyd’s Prayer, the world premieres of God’s Country by Steven Dietz and Willi by John Pielmeier, as well as a joint Soviet-American production of The Falcon. He was Associate Artistic Director at Actors Theatre of St. Paul from 1983-86. Mr. Goldstein holds an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota. He has been a visiting instructor and director at ASU, University of Washington, University of Minnesota, and University of Northern Iowa. He has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, Arts Midwest, and the Arizona, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington State Arts Commissions. Mr. Goldstein is a proud Union member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and Actors’ Equity Association. He is married to KJZZ radio announcer Michele Robins. They share their home with their dogs and cats: Rio, Rocky, Cary, Reggie, Dexter, and Benny.
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