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MALTBY AND SHIRE’S THAN EVER Music by Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. Conceived by Steven Scott Smith Musical Direction by Terry LaBolt Directed and Choreographed by DJ Gray TWISTED TALES OF POE By Philip Grecian From the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe Directed by Richard Roland

WAYCROSS By Jayne Deely Directed by Jenny McKnight

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WFIU AND THE IU LILLY LIBRARY

A DIGITAL FESTIVAL JULY 18– 31

1 Message from the producer

Welcome to IUST 2021! Indiana University Summer Theatre is thrilled to be back, providing professional theatre created here in Bloomington by our students, faculty, and guests. Given the cancellation of 2020's IUST due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the continued precautions surrounding in-person gatherings, IUST is proud to partner with WFIU to present two radio plays, and to also stream the fully staged musical Maltby and Shire's .

Although we’d very much like to have a live audience, we are delving into this summer as an opportunity to expand our work and our student’s experience into audio plays and filmed musicals. We’ve had an incredible time, not only partnering with WFIU but also with the Lilly Library for our audio production of Twisted Tales of Poe.

The silver lining is that this summer, many people both near and far can tune in to hear and view our IUST offerings for 2021! I’d also like to give a special thanks to our remarkable patrons and department friends who’ve supported us through this pandemic with financial gifts and letters of support. Thank you also to our fantastic Summer Season Associate Producers, Harlan Lewis and Doris Wittenburg and Diana and Rodger Alexander!

We look forward to the upcoming academic year and for those of you who traditionally attend our IU Summer Theatre season, we look forward to welcoming you to our season virtually and by radio this summer, and in person for IUST 2022!

All our very best from the IUST 2021 !

Linda Pisano

We are grateful to announce that we will be returning to in-person performances for the fall of 2021. For the health and safety of our students and patrons, we will follow all public and Indiana University safety guidelines.

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PRESENTS LEE, A CIA AGENT Carolynn Stouder*

WAYCROSS SKYBELL Jaicey Bledsoe DIRECTOR OF CIA By Jayne Deely

THE WAYCROSS PLAYERS:

KHAMARA Zoë Swisher DIRECTOR Jenny McKnight COLE Evan Vaughan STAGE MANAGER Sophie Reynolds HARVEY Connor Starks MUSIC COMPOSER Kaila Day AND SUPERVISOR EDNA Sophie Ideker

SOUND DESIGNER Andrew Hopson RHONDA Anna Lagrange

NADIA, A KGB AGENT Delia B. Jescoy

HUGH Gavin Whelan A LYFT DRIVER SPECIAL THANKS

Leraldo Anzaldua, Madison Colquette, Kathryn de la Rosa, Meloddy Gao, *Alumni Guest Artist Grant Goodman, DJ Gray, Eleanor Owicki, Kenneth L. Roberson

SETTING: Iceland for a hot second, and then Waycross, GA

Waycross was originally developed and produced for the IU Theatre & Dance 2021 At First Sight Festival of New Plays.

The audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

A RADIO EVENT | JULY 17 & 18, 2021 4 5 Original production team Playwright's note

Assistant Sound Designer Production Waycross is my version of a pandemic play, not one that Izabella Brown-Sparks I. Christopher Berg chronicles the constant loss and disconnection and confusion Audio Editor Department Props and Scenic Artist Andrew Hopson Supervisor of the past year, but one that offers something I was craving, Dan Tracy Dramaturg and thought others might be too. Community. Connection. Madison Colquette Scenic Studio Employees Laughter. Escape. Being in rooms with people doing weird Rachel Burke Voice, Speech, & Spencer Gjerde theatre exercises. Being in rooms with people doing anything Nancy Lipschultz Valeriya Nedviga at all, come to think of it. Fight Choreographer Marie Pipinich Carolynn Stouder Ben Ramos I began writing this play as we went virtual last spring, at the Technical Director Costume Studio Supervisor start of lockdowns and quarantines and adding ‘mask’ to the things you don’t Marie Pipinich Robbie Stanton leave the house without. Phone, keys, wallet… mask, check. I wanted to release the Playwriting Advisor Department Cutter/Draper Diana Grisanti Anne Sorenson pressure valve of writing some hard-hitting play about trauma or childhood, and Production Manager Costume Studio Assistants just get words onto the page. Could I find a sense of play in my work while staring Trish Hausmann Erin Barnett down a worldwide trauma that asked us to look into a future of unknown the likes Madi Bell Department Voice, Speech, and Dialogue Dawnette Dryer of which most of us had never imagined? Coach Rachel Saylor Nancy Lipschultz Brittany Lee Staudacher As the pandemic spiral became a spiral for the soul of our country and Black lives, Digital Operations Manager Eileen Thoma as the divide grew deeper and things at times felt hopeless, as my family suffered Reuben Lucas Lighting Supervisor a head-spinningly rapid and deep deep loss, I fantasized about a world in which Digital Operations Team Betsy Smith Chris Centinaro humanity wasn’t debatable, and those who were being forgotten could save us all. I Electrics Studio Employees Madison Colquette Corey Goulden-Naitove looked around at the conversations I was seeing in the news—conversations about Bobby Coyne Lily Howder who lives and who dies, and who gets to decide—and I felt an intense need to Gavin Wendell Holman Douglas Jeremiah Kearns Trish Hausmann Russell Long honor our elders, to acknowledge what we owe them and to listen to their wisdom. Laura Judson Lee Anne Meeks Macy Kloville As we sheltered in place, I wondered “how many people are not being seen, how Marie Pipinich Department Sound Designer/Engineer Jordan Flores Schwartz Andrew Hopson many people are desperate for just one person to ask them the question no one Audience Development Team else has, the question that says ‘I see you,’ and can this simple act save the world?” Brynn Jones Carolynn Stouder My partner is a dramaturg, and we often talk about the power of asking the right Chris Centinaro questions, and deep listening, as well as how she thinks she’d do well in the CIA. (If we disappear, you know why.) One day I wrote “dramaturg spy?” onto a post-it. And the rest is history. On the first day of rehearsal, Jenny asked the cast to write one line summing up what they thought the play was about. This was a dream come true, because that’s The Production Manager is a member of the ’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. the question I never want to answer about my own work. This a smattering of some of the answers:

The Department Production Technical Director and Costume Shop Supervisor are members of Finding what makes us human the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, 618 or 893. Stop running, allow for connection No one has the ideal life Escape reality & find sense of community in theatre I am so grateful to my generous, silly, immensely talented cast and production/ design team. I had become so focused on what theatre couldn’t do during a 6 7 pandemic, I completely lost sight of what it still could do. They showed me what was possible, and brought these pages to life in a way I never could have imagined. Cast Thank you to Jenny McKnight, who understood this world and these people from day one, and who treated them with such care while simultaneously making our JAICEY BLEDSOE ANNA LAGRANGE rehearsal room one that was rife with cackling laughter, take after take. (Skybell) (Rhonda) is a rising junior (she/her) is a rising Thank you to my fellow playwrights, Christin and Annalise, for your feedback and studying Cinematic junior undergraduate generosity. To my advisors Diana Grisanti and Tanya Palmer, thank you for your Arts and Theatre from Connecticut notes and your guidance, and to Peter Gil-Sheridan, thank you for bringing me to & Drama. For IU studying Theatre IU. Theatre: Waycross and Neuroscience. (Skybell), More Waycross is her first To my parents, who have always encouraged me to share my voice with the world, Perfect Places (Marie production with and have read more words of mine than should be legal, thank you for trusting my Duclos Fretageot, Lucy Way Sistare Say, the IU Department of Theatre and Dance. process, and believing I’d find my way. Frederika Vaihinger). For IPAC: High School Her previous credits include working Musical 2 Jr. (Sharpay Evans). For UTR with the University Players as an actress And to my dramaturg spy partner in crime Madison, thank you for your masterful Productions: Upon This Rock: The and sound operator: Moonchild (Jo/Mo), triple agent role of partner, dramaturg, and voice of Layla. You are a gift. Play (Martha, Servant girl, Ensemble). Metamorphoses (Pomona, Iris, Midas’s This is for UD, who was a friend and a guide. There have been many times during Other: Hope to Tell (Headmistress Kelly Fox). Daughter, etc.), Slip 2020 (Sound operator), Film: Within the Mirror (Lucy) for Double American Idiot (Sound operator). Anna is this process when I wanted to text you about how much fun we were having in Exposure 2020, Hidden Beneath (Lead, Co- also a part of the oldest Improv comedy rehearsal, and the pang every time of realizing I couldn’t was a poignant balance to Director, , Editor), The Glitch troupe on campus, Full Frontal Comedy. this play about community and love. It pains me that you don’t get to listen to this, (Supporting, Producer). Jaicey is from but thank you for leaving no doubt as to how proud you were of me. Indianapolis, Indiana. CONNOR STARKS (Harvey) Some things will go back to normal, but many of the losses that we’ve sustained SOPHIE IDEKER just graduated with over the past year will not return when the masks come off (which is not yet). Life (Edna) a major in Theatre will return to something like what we knew, but the people who have left us will not. (she/her) just & Drama and is I hope to honor those we’ve lost with work that honors the power of community graduated with from Bloomington, and hopefully offers some laughter. The human spirit is resilient. I hope this play a major in Indiana. You may Epidemiology with have seen him at IU offers a reminder of the joy of connection that awaits us on the other side, and I minors in Chinese in The Servant of Two look forward to getting dressed to the nines and seeing you all in a theatre soon. Language and Public Masters (Silvio), Titus Andronicus (Quintus), As the world opens back up, I hope we remember that we all need five seconds Health, as well as Machinal (Boy/Bailiff), and Peter and the a Certificate of Business. IU Main Stage: Starcatcher (Ted). Audio credits include Mary sometimes, and that we give it to ourselves, and to others. Tiger Beat (Vivian). University Players: Shelley’s Frankenstein (William Frankenstein) Metamorphoses (Aphrodite, Narrator 3, and Cardinal Stage’s upcoming Sherlock etc). IU Independent Project: The Arboretum in B’Town (Sherman). Also for Cardinal Jayne Deely (Six). Bay View Music Festival: Ragtime Stage: ( John), Oliver! (Ensemble), Pippin (Player). Sophie is (“The Artful Dodger”) and Brighton Beach from Shanghai, China and Harbor Springs, Memoirs (Eugene M. Jerome), among others. Michigan. Independent credits include Waiting for Godot (Lucky) and A Trip to Fiji (The Tourist).

8 9 CAROLYNN EVAN VAUGHAN STOUDER (Cole) Artistic team (Lee, Fight (he/him) is a Choreographer) freshman majoring is a recent graduate in Media Advertising. MADISON JAYNE DEELY of Indiana University Waycross is his COLQUETTE (Playwright) and the American first production at (Dramaturg) is a rising third-year Musical and Dramatic Indiana University, is the Department M.F.A. candidate Academy. She is but prior credits Dramaturg for IU in Playwriting. IU a SAFD certified -Combatant. For include Footlite Musicals: Bring It On: The Theatre & Dance. Theatre: Passing IU Theatre: Waycross (Lee), Black Super Musical (La Cienega). Other: Mary Poppins For IU Theatre, she (reading, dir. Jamie Hero Magic Mama (Stage Directions), jelly (Bert), Hairspray (Corny Collins), Shrek the has worked as a Anderson), Outraged beans (Kira), Ascendant (Chrissy), Hamlet Musical (Pied Piper, Pig #1). Evan is from dramaturg on Hamlet, (Winner, 2021 John (Gravedigger #2), Haus of Mirth (Gigi Indianapolis, IN. Little Shop of Horrors, Wonderful Town, The Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play, Trenor), Barbecue (Marie), Julius Caesar Goat, Pippin, as well as many new plays for KCACTF), 30 Seconds (AFS reading ‘20, (Lucilia). Other: The Tempest (Ariel), Romeo GAVIN WHELAN the At First Sight Festival. Madison has an dir. Martha Jacobs). Plays include Stay and Juliet (Juliet), A Midsummer Night’s (Hugh) M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the University (semi-finalist, Detroit New Works Festival), Dream (Hermia), Blithe Spirit (Ruth), Plaza (he/him) just of Iowa where she studied as a dramaturg Passing (semi-finalist, UCF Pegasus Playlab), Suite (Norma), Twelve Angry Jurors (Juror graduated with a triple with the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. She 30 Seconds (semi-finalist Eugene O’Neill #4), Our Town (Emily). She is from Fort major in Theatre, previously worked at the International Theatre Center National Playwrights Wayne, Indiana. Mathematics, and Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Conference and the Bay Area Playwrights Germanic Studies. the oldest and largest multinational writing Festival, winner Coe College Playwriting ZOË SWISHER For IU Mainstage: residency in the world, and in the Literary Award), and Outraged (national finalist, (Khamara) Tiger Beat (Mr. J/ Office at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Kennedy Center). Jayne is also a performer, is a rising junior Choreographer), Hamlet (Osric/Francisco). in Waterford, Connecticut. having worked with companies such as pursuing a B.A. in For University Players: Metamorphoses Theatreworks in Palo Alto, the Aurora, and Theatre & Drama. For (Midas/Phaeton), 10 out of 12 (Sound KAILA DAY Berkeley Rep. They are a proud member of IU Theatre: Hamlet Designer), Disorder (Michael/Huntsman). (Music Composer and AEA, and a native of Queens, NY. (Fortinbras Captain, Independent IU Credits: (Jim), Supervisor) Ensemble). For Circle Mirror Transformation (Schultz), (she/her) is a senior ANDREW HOPSON University Players: Universal Robots (Karel Capek). Other: The at Indiana University (Sound Designer and She Kills Monsters (Vera, Evil Gabby, The Crucible (Danforth); Urinetown (McQueen); where she’s pursuing Audio Editor) Beholder). Other Credits: Once Upon a Almost, Maine (Jimmy/Chad); Trifles (County a B.A. in Theatre As a theatre composer Mattress (Princess Winnifred), Richard III Attorney); Machinal (Filing Clerk). For IU and Drama along and sound designer, (Lady Anne),and Argonautika (Medea). Zoë Film: Lily and Violet, The Escape. Gavin is with a Minor in Andrew has designed is from Los Angeles, California. from Bloomington, Indiana. . She is from Bloomington, or written the IN. Previous roles include; For IU Theatre: scores for shows Webster (Bonnets), Tess (Tiger Beat). For IU at such theatres Independent Projects: Rossum (Universal as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Robots). For Ivy Tech: Ritu (Anonymous), Shakespearean Festival, Actors Theatre Martha (Spring Awakening). For Cardinal of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Stage: Dawn/Caroline (God Bless You, Mr. American Players Theatre, Cincinnati Rosewater), Various Roles (Merchant of Playhouse, Pioneer Playhouse, Venice). For University Players: Agnes (She Playhouse, Victory Gardens, Harvard Kills Monsters). University, and the Indiana Repertory Theatre, where he was resident sound designer for five years. In 2004, his New York debut Trying, was rated one of the best Off- Broadway shows of the year. In film, he has scored the documentaries, Birth of Legends, The Battle of Comm Avenue, Hockey’s Greatest Era 1942-1967, The Frozen

10 11 Four and Utah’s Olympic Legacy. He has JENNY MCKNIGHT produced, engineered or performed on over (Director) Summer administration 40 CDs, ranging from stories for children to is a Professor of collections of modern American works. Practice in Acting He is a member of United Scenic Artists, & Directing. Recent Producer, Department Chair Box Office Managers Linda Pisano Scott Hogsed, Madison Colquette, Laura Judson local 829 and the United States Institute of directing credits: Tiger Theatre Technology. Beat (IU Mainstage); Associate Artistic Director Department Dramaturg Richard Roland Madison Colquette Little Women (IU NANCY LIPSCHULTZ Production/Operations Manager Project Manager Summer Theatre); (Voice, Speech, and Trish Hausmann Laura Judson Only Child, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Dialect Coach) Financial Operations Manager/Budget Manager/ Audience Development Staff (IU Mainstage); The Lion, the Witch and the Manager of Business Affairs/Office Manager Carolynn Stouder Nancy has been Wardrobe (Cardinal Stage); Leipzig (JTB), Cindi Severance teaching theatre at and upcoming: Measure for Measure at IUB since 2005 and Illinois Shakespeare Festival. As an actor, has been a professor Jenny has also enjoyed opportunities to of theatre for the past perform at Chicago-area and regional 25 years at Wayne theatres including the Goodman, State University in Detroit, Cornell University Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, Northlight, in Ithaca, NY and Michigan State University. Remy Bumppo, Actors Theatre of Louisville. She has been a professional voice coach at Indiana Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory, Indiana Repertory Theatre since 2007 where Kansas City Repertory, Arizona Theatre she recently coached Dial M for Murder and Company and BPP, among many others. The Cay, The Curious Incident of The Dog Jenny also serves as Intimacy Consultant for in the Nighttime which went on to Syracuse IU's Department of Theatre, as well as recent Stage in New York, and Noises Off. She has productions at Bloomington HS North, BPP, coached dialects for the National Tour of Phoenix Theatre and IRT. She holds an M.F.A. Kiss Me Kate, the NY City Opera Production in Acting from the University of Alabama. of Dead Man Walking and for many regional Interdepartmental partners theatres including: Meadowbrook Theatre SOPHIE REYNOLDS in Michigan, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre (Stage Manager, and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. She also original production) Marketing Director, WFIU/WTIU Production Director, WFIU Laura Baich Mark Chilla coaches appellate court prep at IU’s Maurer is an IU graduate from School of Law and for IU Opera Theatre Station Operations Director, WFIU IU Libraries Director of Communications Columbus, Indiana John Bailey Michelle Crowe at the Jacobs School of Music. Nancy is a who has received a professional actor and has worked on stage, Head of Public Services, Lilly Library Education and Outreach Librarian, Lilly Library Bachelor’s degree in Rebecca Baumann Maureen Maryanski in film and on network television. In 2018 she Cinema and Media completed certification as a master teacher Arts with a focus on of Patsy Rodenburg’s voice technique at management, along with a minor in Theatre Michael Howard Studios in New York. Also and Drama. Waycross is their third and final teaching at their summer conservatory as show with the department. For IU Theatre, part of the training. Nancy is a member of she was the assistant stage manager for AEA SAG/AFTRA, and VASTA. Ascendant and Crazy for You.

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PRESENTS CARETAKER/ENSEMBLE Antoinette Pompe Van Meerdervoort TWISTED TALES OF POE MARY/KATY/ENSEMBLE Leah Mueller HELEN/MRS. PITTS/ Hannah Kulawiak By Philip Grecian ENSEMBLE From the stories of Edgar Allan Poe FORTUNATO/OLD MAN/ Peter Ruiz BEDLOE/ENSEMBLE

TALBOT/ENSEMBLE Christopher Centinaro DIRECTOR Richard Roland THE POET/MONTRESSOR/ Chris Plonka STAGE MANAGER Alex Woosley SIMPSON/ENSEMBLE

SOUND DESIGNER Andrew Hopson

DRAMATURG Madison Colquette

Produced by special with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., of Woodstock, Illinois. The audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. This broadcast was produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Originally produced by public television station KTWU in Kansas. A RADIO EVENT | JULY 24 & 25, 2021 14 15 a technique that synched live sound This isn’t to imply is Director's note effects to a film). purely technical since the actor still needs to provide that enigmatic I had never directed a radio play element of replicating human When my father performed in his before, but I learned a lot on this job behavior, but when that behavior last Broadway show in 1965, he and relied heavily on the advice from can only be replicated in vocal had already cultivated a highly colleagues who’d had experience qualities, a different technique successful career in television and doing this. In directing for the stage, seems to take over. radio commercials, which would I rely heavily on the physical to help continue well into the early 2000s. tell the story: body language, posture, Perhaps my father never got to While widely recognized for his genial spatial relationships, movement, perform in any radio dramas that father-to-everyone persona in front physical actions one employs I know of, but I do know that he of the TV commercial camera from with the text, etc. The funny thing considered every session in front the early 60s on, he was just as well about this piece is that I had to let of the microphone his own 30- or known for his voice-over work. I go of almost all of my traditional 60-second radio drama. He didn’t can’t come up with an exact number director’s vocabulary and talk mostly teach me how to direct an audio My father grew up during the Great of commercials he voiced over about the sound: inflection, tempo, play, but he certainly showed me Depression and World War II, and the decades, but I know it’s in the temperature, volume, operative how just the voice can create a whole the radio was all his family had for thousands. If I was off from school words, etc. I don’t know if I got it new reality. I would love to know his entertainment. He used to tell me for a day, I would usually accompany right, but I had to shift the way I thoughts on Twisted Tales of Poe. how The Shadow would frighten him Dad on his day of bookings— directed, which brings me back so much that his parents forbad recording sessions—throughout to the engineers (directors) in the Richard Roland, Director him from further listening. As a kid NYC. On average, he was recording studio control booths working with spending summers in rural Canada three or four “spots” a day. I loved my father. They directed mostly with with only battery-powered radio, I sitting in the control booth with the vocal and inflection qualities and remember listening to old and (then) engineers and clients (all of whom rarely with action verbs or motivation. new radio dramas over the CBC. I loved to work with Dad) and watch I remember one instance quite vividly had always wondered what those and listen to my father do his work. in which the engineer said into the recording studios looked like. In my I watched my father create cartoon mic to my father in the booth, “One childhood imagination, I pictured cereal characters (chefs, elves, more take, Steve, and this time, an entire physical set on which the werewolves, cows, cookie-thieving just give it a smile on the last line.” actors would perform, but only their dogs, etc.), bubble gum puppets, Sure enough, you could hear the voices would be heard, which in friendly announcers relating the smile in Dad’s voice as he stated the actuality was closer to how it was moods of toddlers wearing saggy, product’s slogan. To interpret that done back in the day: actors would leaky diapers, promising dieters “give smile in the voice meant that my stand at microphones in a studio, us a week, we’ll take off the weight,” father was convincing the listeners either with or without a studio and a multitude of other characters that this product will indeed make life audience, and with the actors would and spokesmen. He created entire that much better for them without a be one or several people who would characters and worlds with just his hard sell – he comforted the listener create all of the necessary sound voice. Now, what has this to do with into trusting this product. Vocal effects via the use of several props radio drama? We only have voices quality creates the action, action sells to help create the reality of the story and sound effects with which to the product. In the case of Twisted (in they’re called conjure a particular world. Tales of Poe, the action then moves artists, named after sound effects these classic tales of horror along! pioneer Jack Foley, who introduced

16 17 ANTOINETTE Cast POMPE VAN MEERDERVOORT (Caretaker/ CHRISTOPHER LEAH MUELLER Ensemble) CENTINARO (Mary/Katy/ is a rising junior (Talbot/Ensemble) Ensemble) majoring in Vocal is an Afro-Latinx actor is an M.F.A. Acting Performance at the from New Jersey Candidate at IU Jacobs School of pursuing his M.F.A. hailing from State Music and minoring in Theatre & Drama. in Acting. Previous College, Pennsylvania. For IU Theatre: Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Crazy roles include Juan She holds an M.A. For You (Ensemble). Other credit of hers Julian in Anna in the in Theatre Studies include The Amish Project (Carol Stuckey), Tropics, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s from the Royal Central School of Speech You Can’t Take It with You (Penny Sycamore), Dream, and Jack Worthing in The Importance and Drama in London and a Bachelor of and more. Some of her Shakespeare credits of Being Ernest. Chris holds a B.A. in Music Education from Penn State University. include Much Ado About Nothing and Psychology from Kean University, and a Selected Credits: Sunday in the Park with Comedy of Errors through Chicago Youth Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award. George, Matilda, Merrily We Roll Along (FUSE Shakespeare and Citadel Theatre. Antoinette Productions); King Lear (Nittany Valley is from Lake Forest, Illinois. HANNAH KULAWIAK Shakespeare Company); Don Juan in Hell (Helen/Mrs.Pitts/ (The Next Stage); Romeo and Juliet (Penn PETER RUIZ Ensemble) State URTC). (Fortunato/Old Man/ (she/her) is a rising Bedloe/ Ensemble) junior B.F.A. Musical CHRIS PLONKA (they/them) is an Theatre major with a (The Poet/ Orlando raised Actor minor in Media and Montressor/Simpson/ who has recently Creative Advertising. Ensemble) completed their third For IU Theatre: is a recent graduate year of their M.F.A. BONNETS (Ensemble, Standby for Claire, of the M.F.A. Acting Acting Candidacy. Daniel Stone, Laurent). For IU Independent program, hailing Peter has a passion for both classical text Projects: The Hunchback of Notre Dame from Swansea, and new play development. Self-described (Ensemble). For IU University Players: Massachusetts. Chris as a Queer, Quirky, Multi-Racial, Multi-Ethnic, American Idiot (Pit Orchestra - Violin). She has been seen on the IU Stage in Ascendant Mess, they believe it is in the multiplicity of has also performed multiple times as a (Jojo), Hamlet (Player King/ Gravedigger), their/others identities and the celebration featured vocalist with The Cleveland Pops By the Bog of Cats (Xavier Cassidy), Titus of those identities in rehearsal rooms and Orchestra back home in Cleveland, Ohio. Andronicus (Bassianus), and Barbecue onstage that the creation of radical spaces Hannah is a proud Equity Membership (James T). Chris has also been seen in the of empathy and connection are created Candidate. IUST production of Little Shop of Horrors thus transforming Theatre from a form of (Orin Scrivello, et. al), JTB's production of entertainment into a political act. IUST: Cherry Docs (Mike), as well as numerous Little Women (Brooke). For IU Theatre: jelly productions as actor and director in beans (Jaden), Water By The Spoonful (Elliot Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Black Ortiz) Titus Andronicus (Lucius), The Heiress Lives Matter. (Arthur Townsend). Past Credits Include: R.U.R. (Primus), Pinocchio (Pinocchio), Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Dumaine), Columbinus (AP), All New People (Charlie), and Trenchcoat In (Shye).

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MADISON collections of modern American piano works. COLQUETTE He is a member of United Scenic Artists, (Dramaturg) local 829 and the United States Institute of is the Department Theatre Technology. Dramaturg for IU RICHARD ROLAND Theatre & Dance. (Director) For IU Theatre, she has worked as a (he/him) Originally dramaturg on Hamlet, from NYC, Richard Little Shop of Horrors, Wonderful Town, The performed on IU SUMMER THEATRE IS SPONSORED IN PART BY: Goat, Pippin, as well as many new plays Broadway, off- for the At First Sight Festival, including the Broadway, National audio play Waycross. Madison has an M.F.A. Tours, in Regional in Dramaturgy from the University of Iowa theatres, and TV where she studied as a dramaturg with the when he was acting a long time ago. He Iowa Playwrights Workshop. She previously has directed plays and musicals all over Rodger & Diana Alexander worked at the International Writing Program the country. He directed City of Angels, at the University of Iowa, the oldest and Wonderful Town, and Fish for IU. For IUST Harlan Lewis & Doris Wittenburg largest multinational writing residency in he directed 25th Annual Putnam County the world, and in the Literary Office at the Spelling Bee, and Little Shop of Horrors. Summer Season Associate Producers Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, BFA, Denison University. MFA, Penn State. Connecticut. Member of SDC, AEA, and SAG/AFTRA, and heads the program at IU. ANDREW HOPSON (Sound Designer) ALEX WOOSLEY (Stage Manager) As a theatre composer and sound designer, recently graduated Andrew has designed with a major in or written the scores Stage and Intimacy for shows at such Management with a theatres as the minor in Media, Sex Oregon Shakespeare and Gender. Previous Festival, Utah Shakespearean Festival, credits include: for IU Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Theatre: Julius Caesar (ASM), The Heiress Repertory Theatre, American Players (ASM), Titus Andronicus (ASM/Weapons), Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Pioneer Big Fish (ASM). For University Players: The Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Victory Wolves (ASM), 10 Out of 12 (ASM), Where Gardens, Harvard University, and the Indiana the Statue Points (Intimacy Choreographer), Repertory Theatre, where he was resident Triassic Parq (Intimacy), The Big Meal sound designer for five years. In 2004, his (Intimacy). For Cardinal Stage: Grandfalloon New York debut Trying, was rated one of the best Off-Broadway shows of the year. In film, he has scored the documentaries, Birth of Legends, The Battle of Comm Avenue, Hockey’s Greatest Era 1942-1967, The Frozen Four and Utah’s Olympic Legacy. He has produced, engineered or performed on over 40 CDs, ranging from stories for children to

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PRESENTS Jessie Bittner MALTBY AND SHIRE’S Jacob Jackson Noah Marcus CLOSER THAN EVER Roberto Russo Music by David Shire Caroline Santiago Turner Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. Cassia Scagnoli Conceived by Steven Scott Smith

FIRST INTERNAL SWINGS: Jessie Bittner, Noah Marcus

SECOND INTERNAL SWINGS: Jacob Jackson, Robbie Russo,

MUSIC DIRECTOR Terry LaBolt Caroline Santiago Turner, and Cassia Scagnoli DIRECTOR/ DJ Gray CHOREOGRAPHER

SCENIC DESIGNER Reuben Lucas Brittany Staudacher Band LIGHTING DESIGNER Lee Anne Meeks

SOUND DESIGNER Macy Kloville PIANO/CONDUCTOR Terry LaBolt

VIDEO PRODUCER/EDITOR Reuben Lucas BASS Isaac Beaumont

STAGE MANAGER Jorie Miller DRUMS Carter Pearson

Originally Produced Off-Broadway by Janet Brenner, Michael Gill and .

CLOSER THAN EVER was developed at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. SPECIAL THANKS

Maltby and Shire's Closer Than Ever is presented through special arrangement with Ray Fellman Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com.

Any video and/or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

A DIGITAL EVENT | JULY 18– 31

22 23 About Closer Than Ever Production team

Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Rehearsal Pianist Carpenter Jeremy Gussin Spencer Lawson Shire wrote a powerful and /Choreographer Props and Scenic Art Supervisor witty piece reflecting the Greene Dan Tracy human spirit. Closer Than Ever Dramaturg Property Manager is a series of vignettes in two Chris Mills Spencer Donovan acts, that highlights themes Assistant Lighting Supervisor Rachel Rose Burke Betsy Smith about challenging choices, Projection Design Assistant Master Electrician/Programmer heightened emotions, and Spencer Donovan Jeremiah Kearns struggles with inner conflict. Video Producer Assistant Electricians Maltby and Shire take us on a Valeriya Nedviga Russell Long Jeff Porter Associate Sound Designer journey through the anguish, Corey Goulden-Naitove Grace Leckey humor, and amazement of the Costume Shop Supervisor Assistant Stage Managers Robbie Stanton* human condition. Rachel Johnson Izel Landa Costume Shop Staff Jason Orlenko* This piece is traditionally cast with 4 people. I decided to incorporate 2 more Production Manager fantastically talented performers, who also acted as internal swings, to give Trish Hausmann Wardrobe Run Crew Jason Orlenko* an opportunity for more artists to showcase their talents. There were a few Festival Technical Director I. Christopher Berg* COVID Compliance Officer pieces written for a particular gender that I decided to cast differently to give a Lily Howder IUST Production Technical Director different perspective on the story. I felt seeing these stories through an altered Valeriyia Nedviga lens shifted the expected outcome of what a woman’s role is or what a man’s Scenic Charge Artist role is. We live in a time that calls for new representation on the stage. Casting Rachel Rose Burke non-traditionally is a means to offer an experience to hear and see things in a new way.

Having the opportunity to create, after a year of few artistic opportunities, *Members of the production team represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical was a gift we all shared. The artistic team, coming together face-to-face was Stage Employees, 618 or 893. a needed step in healing our spirits. We had to learn to communicate clearly again, without being in a little box on a screen, frozen, or muted. Thank you, designers and performing artists for your patience and your art.

DJ Gray, Director/Choreographer

24 25 CASSIA SCAGNOLI Cast (Actor, Internal Swing) is a recent IU B.F.A. Musical Theatre JESSIE BITTNER NOAH MARCUS graduate. For IU (Actor, Internal Swing) (Actor, Internal Swing) Theatre: Wonderful (she/her) is an incoming (he/him) is thrilled to Town (Ruth senior in the B.S.O.F. be making his IUST Sherwood), Pippin Vocal Performance debut this summer (Berthe), Three Sisters and Musical Theatre and is so excited to be (Musician). For IU Summer Theatre: Sticks and program at the Jacobs back on stage doing Stones (Winnie). For Cardinal Stage Company: School of Music. For live theatre. Previous Newsies (Hannah/Ensemble), Beauty and IU Theatre: Little credits at IU include the Beast (Silly Girl/Ensemble), and Peter Women (Marmie), BONNETS (Ensemble, u/s the Theatre Department's By the Bog of Cats Pan (Tiger Lily/Liza). For University Players: Mrs. Wolcott & Prudence). For IU Ind. Projects: (Father Willow), University Players' Murder Murder Ballad (Director) and American The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Madame, Ballad (Tom), and Independent Productions Idiot (St. Jimmy).TV: The Friday Zone (Co- Ensemble). For IU Opera Theater: Parsifal of One Night Only (workshop- Marty) and Bad Host). Cassia is from Logansport, Indiana. (Blumenmädchen). Jessie also music directed Jews (Jonah Haber). Noah has also performed She’ll soon find her home in NYC in the fall! Mary Poppins Jr. and Annie Jr. for Zephyr Players in short films through the IU Media School cassiascagnoli.com. Community Theater. She is looking forward including Amici Novum and The Pattersons. to performing as Zweite Dame in IU Opera CAROLINE Theater’s production of The Magic Flute in the ROBERTO RUSSO SANTIAGO TURNER fall of 2021. Jessie is from Appleton, Wisconsin. (Actor, Internal Swing) (Actor, Internal Swing) (he/him) is a rising (she/her) is a rising JACOB JACKSON senior, pursuing his senior in the B.F.A. (Actor, Internal Swing) B.F.A. degree in musical Musical Theatre and (he/him) is a theatre. This is his Arts Management Sophomore pursuing first IUST experience programs. Credits – IU a B.F.A. in Musical and he couldn’t be Theatre: Little Women Theatre. For University happier to share it with (Jo); BONNETS (Mistress Stone, Valerie U/S); Players: Bright Star: such a wonderful cast and crew. Roberto has Crazy for You (Louise); Big Fish (Ensemble); Concert Version (Billy appeared in other IU based projects such as Barbecue (Barbara). UP: Next to Normal Cane), Metamorphosis Professor Bhaer in Little Women, Rapunzel's (Natalie). Other: Violet (Violet), The Last Five (Multiple Roles). He is the resident Music Prince in , and Man in Lungs. He Years (Cathy), Peter and the Starcatcher Director on the University Players Board of would also like to dedicate this performance (Molly). AFL Best Performance Awards: Best Directors. UP MD Credits: Murder Ballad (AMD), to his loving parents who support gets him Youth Musical Performance Award (2018). St. Footloose. Other notable shows: Forever Plaid through each and every day. Louis High School Musical Theatre Awards: (Sparky), Something Rotten! (Tom/Dance Nominee, Outstanding Lead Actress (2018). Captain), Zombie Prom (Jonny Warner), Wizard Caroline is from St. Louis, Missouri. of Oz (Tinman), Grease (Kenickie). Jacob is from Overland Park, Kansas.

26 27 COREY GOULDEN- SYDNEY GREENE Artistic team NAITOVE (Assistant Director/ (Electrician) Choreographer) (he/him) is excited (she/her) is a second- I. CHRISTOPHER LADY DEE to be a second-year year B.F.A. student BERG (Pro-dog-tion M.F.A. student in in musical theatre (Festival Technical Assistant) Lighting Design. pursuing a minor in Director) is a 12-year-old He received a B.A. Arts Management. joined the department greyhound who resides in Theatre Arts on For University in 1997. Prior to in Bloomington, the design and production track from the Players: Murder Ballad (Narrator), Bright Star IU, he worked as Indiana with her human University of Maryland, Baltimore County. (Ensemble/ Alice U/S), Shout (Orange Girl). Technical Director Terry LaBolt (Musical Credits for IU Theatre and Dance: Shadow Other: Into The Woods (Rapunzel), The Little for the University of Director). The cast and Flame from the Winter Dance Concert Mermaid (Ariel), Bring It On (Skylar). She is Houston School of Theatre. While in Texas, he and production team has had the pleasure of (Lighting Designer). Other lighting design the Co-Social and Membership Director on the also served as the Technical Director for the having her as a rehearsal guest throughout credits include: A Christmas Carol, A Broadway board of University Players. This summer she Houston Shakespeare Festival. He worked the course of Closer Than Ever. She offers her Holiday, and All That Jazz! for Annapolis is also co-choreographing Footloose through for OmniGroup, an exhibit company based services in the form of patrolling the rehearsal Shakespeare Company, Trouble in Mind and University Players. Sydney is from Carmel, IN. in Houston, as one of their junior designers. room, dancing and chattering with the cast, Anon(ymous) for the UMBC Department of Christopher also worked a season with the and sneaking pets from the stage management Theatre, and As You Like It and The Diary of JEREMY GUSSIN Alley Theatre. Christopher has designed team. Lady Dee has our sincerest thanks for all Anne Frank for Abington Friends School. Corey (Rehearsal Pianist) numerous productions for Brown County of her hard work in the rehearsal room. is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (he/him) Peruvian- Playhouse as well as Stantons Garage, but he has spent the last four years living and American Jeremy The Peer Panel, and The Crucible at IU SPENCER DONOVAN working in the Baltimore area, before moving Gussin is a multi- Bloomington. An avid sailor and member (Projection Design to Bloomington last fall. hyphenate artist with of U.S. Sailing, he is also interested in the Assistant, Property specialties as a studio re-introduction of current marine rigging into Manager) DJ GRAY vocalist, music director, theatrical rigging. Christopher is a member of is a current graduate (Director/ pianist, and occasional the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage student in IU’s Choreographer) opera singer. For IU Theatre: The Servant of Employees. theatrical design is a performer and Two Masters (Musical ), Jelly program. He received choreographer with Beans (Music), Little Shop of Horrors (Voice of RACHEL ROSE his undergraduate Broadway and Off- Audrey II). Pianist work with undergraduates

BURKE degree in Theatre from Loyola University Broadway credits. has included Next to Normal, Murder Ballad, (Scenic Design Chicago, where he acted as scenic designer On Broadway, she Hunchback of Notre Dame and Into the Woods, Assistant, Scenic on several productions including Tin Types, was the Associate in addition to music assisting courses for IUMT. Charge Artist) Eurydice, and She Kills Monsters. He also Choreographer for the Tony Award winning Dr. Gussin will be an Assistant Professor of (she/her) is a third spent a summer acting as resident designer 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Tony Voice at Baldwin Wallace University this fall. year graduate student and scenic painter for Timberlake Playhouse nominated Xanadu, (also staging the National TRISH HAUSMANN pursuing her Masters in Illinois, where he designed Born Yesterday, Tours and commercial engagements), and (Production Manager) of Fine Arts degree in Forever Plaid, and a slew of other productions. Sondheim on Sondheim. Regional credits scenic design. Recent design credits include include Barrington Stage, North Shore, is the Production Little Women: The Musical, BONNETS: (How Northern Stage, Florida Studio Theatre, Manager for the IU Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder), Candlelight Theatre, Moonlight Stage Theatre + Dance. Prior to Tiger Beat (Indiana University), Uncommon productions, McCoy/Rigby Entertainment, this she was the House Women and Others (Salem State University), The and Musical Theatre West. For TV, DJ Manager and Director Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Beverly High choreographed for Stephen Colbert’s of Patron Services for 15 School), and A Free Man of Color (Salem State Christmas Special, and Colbert’s “Dance years. She is also a stage University). Party," and for NBC, The Year Without a Santa manager, focusing on new musical workshops of Claus, as well as several episodes of “The New shows such as Sam Carner and Derek Gregor’s Electric Company." Island Song, Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid’s Solana, the Stardust Road, and Heidi Rodewald and Stew’s Passing Strange. She is the Resident Stage Manager

28 29 for the IU Summer Theatre’s New Musical JEREMIAH KEARNS Fantasticks (original Off-Broadway production) GRACE LECKEY Workshop series. Trish has an M.F.A. in Stage (Master Electrician/ and tough touring shows such as The Phantom of (Associate Sound and Production Management from the California Programmer) the Opera, Evita, Aida and most currently Mamma Designer) Institute of the Arts. At IU, she is also the head is a first year Lighting Mia. He performed the area premiere of Keith (she/her) studies of the stage management program, where she Design M.F.A. Emerson’s Piano Concerto #1 with the Kentucky Audio Engineering teaches stage management and entertainment candidate from Symphony Orchestra in 2001. In addition he was at the Jacobs management, focusing on theme park, cruise Cincinnati, Ohio. the music director of musical theatre for the School of Music, ship, and Las Vegas entertainment. Trish is the He graduated from University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory where she currently Vice Commissioner for Arts Management in Northern Kentucky of Music for more than ten years, conducting and works as an audio the USITT Management Commission and is University with a B.F.A. in Rock Concert supervising over 30 productions there. , teaching assistant, and the faculty sponsor for the Indiana University Technology in 2020. NKU Lighting Design recording session manager. While pursuing IZEL LANDA Student Chapter of USITT Credits include HMS Pinafore, Initiative, Kiss a concentration in music performance, she (Assistant Stage Me Kate (Assistant), and Marisol (Assistant). performs as the pianist and vocalist for the LILY HOWDER Manager) NKU Sound Design credits include Big Fish and Bloomington-based band GraceKellie; the (COVID Compliance The African Company Presents: Richard III. (they/she) are a Senior band celebrated the release of their debut Officer) at Indiana University album “Like the Princess” in 2020. For IU: is an Indiana University MACY KLOVILLE Bloomington and is Bonnets (Music Director, 2020) Tiger Beat rising second-year (Sound Designer) pursuing a degree in (Music Director, 2020); Big Fish (Sound M.F.A. lighting design graduated from Theatre Arts with a minor Designer, 2019, Executive Dean’s Award). candidate from Eau Indiana University after in Arts Management. Grace is from Arlington, Virginia. Claire, Wisconsin. creating her own major They are the current Chair for the Student Lighting design credits in sound design. For IU Advisory Board and President of the Black, Brown, RUSSELL LONG include associate lighting designer for Into Theatre: Design: By the and Beige Theatre Troupe. They also work as a (Electrician) the Woods (Flint Repertory Theatre), lighting Bog of Cats, Vinegar stagehand at the Musical Arts Center. Past works: is excited to be designer for Scrooge!, NMU Dance Concert, FRT To m , Three Sisters, Shifting Landscapes (SM), Hamlet (ASM), Singing continuing his design Battle of the Bands and The Bold, The Young, and Nice Nails; Other: Urinetown (Audio Hoosiers (SM), and most recently Christin Eve work as a graduate and the Murdered (Forest Roberts Theatre). Engineer). For Cardinal Stage Company: Fun Cato’s: The Black and Brown Guerrillas (SM). student at IU. Russell Other professional experience includes freelance Home (Audio Engineer) and The Christians They’re from Hammond, Indiana. has previously studied electrician around DFW area, light and sound (Co-Sound Designer). For Jewish Theatre of at NAU and PCC SPENCER LAWSON apprentice at Dorset Theatre Festival, and sales Bloomington, she has sound designed The Last in Arizona where (Carpenter) associate for Barbizon Lighting Company. Night of Ballyhoo and Church and State. Macy he designed and worked on Peter and the served as Audio Engineer for Bloomington is a senior from Fishers, Starcatcher, Secret Garden, and Mousetrap. RACHEL JOHNSON Playwrights’ 1 6 Project: SPUN: A Brother/ Indiana, majoring in Russell has worked as the Resident Designer (Assistant Stage Sister Rock Musical and IU Summer Theatre’s Theatre. He focuses in for Spotlight Youth Productions for ten years, Manager) premiere musical Stardust Road. Macy is from writing and direction for where he designed Jr., Peter Pan Jr., (she/her) is a rising Memphis, Tennessee. the stage and screen, and Mulan Jr. Russell has worked for Quogue senior at Indiana and currently serves Junior Theatre Troupe, Peaks Productions, Vail University majoring in TERRY LABOLT as University Players' Ballet, and Arizona Theatre Company. Theatre and Drama (Musical Director) Technical Director. Past Credits include: Bright with a focus in Stage is celebrating his Star (Assistant Director), Into the Woods (Stage REUBEN LUCAS Management and 11th year at Indiana Manager), and Metamorphoses (Scenic Designer). (Scenic Designer, minoring in French. For IU Theatre: BONNETS University. His career as Spencer has also written for several small play Projection Designer, (Stage Manager), Tiger Beat (Assistant Stage a Broadway conductor fests and films! Spencer is proud to be working Video Producer and Manager), Big Fish (Assistant Stage Manager), flourished in the 1980s with such an amazing cast and crew, and hopes Editor) Haus of Mirth (Assistant Stage Manager/ with shows such you enjoy the show! Reuben’s designs have Weapons Master), Pippin (Production Assistant). as 42nd Street, Hello, been seen onstage at For Cardinal Stage: Ada and the Engine Dolly! (with Carol Channing), George M. (with the Indiana Repertory (Assistant Stage Manager). Newsies (Deck ), and Sugar Babies (with Ann Miller and Theatre, Crew). Rachel is a member of the Hutton Honors Mickey Rooney). He is co-author of The Wonder Center Theatre Company, National Theatre College. She is from Brownsburg, Indiana. Years—the Musical which enjoyed success Conservatory, Theatre Aspen, Indiana Festival Off-Broadway and in Los Angeles in the 1980’s. Theatre, Curious Theatre Company, among Endeavors at the keyboard include The others. He is the head of the graduate scenic

30 31 design program at Indiana University and LEE ANNE MEEKS Shakespeare, Stage Left Theater, Philadelphia JEFF PORTER continues freelance designing as well. Before (Lighting Designer) Alliance for Performance Alternatives, and (Electrician) Walnut Street Theater. She has also been Indiana University, he was a Chicago-based is a rising third-year holds a B.A. in Theatre published in a number of peer-reviewed freelance associate scenic and exhibit designer Lighting Design M.F.A. from Oberlin College journals. on museum and theatre projects at various candidate. For IU and joined IU in 2018 national companies. Reuben is a member of Theatre: BONNETS as Assistant Technical VALERIYA NEDVIGA United Scenic Artists Local 829. Director of the Musical (Lighting Designer) (Video Producer Ascendant (Lighting Arts Center. Originally RICHARD MALTBY, JR. Assistant, IUST Designer), Hamlet from Vermont, Jeff (Lyricist) Production Technical was recently Lighting Supervisor at the Lensic (Asst. Lighting Designer), Big Fish (Asst. Lighting Director) BROADWAY: Conceived Designer). In , she has worked as a Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, NM. He has is a rising third-year and directed two Tony lighting designer for Serenbe Playhouse, Found done a variety of lighting, sound, and scenic M.F.A. student in Scenic Award winning musicals: Stages, and Shakespeare on Draught; and as work at venues such as Shakespeare Theatre Design. For IU Theatre: Ain’t Misbehavin' (1978: a design assistant at Synchronicity Theatre, Company and Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., Big Fish (Props Master Tony, N.Y. Drama Critics, Catalyst Arts, and the Atlanta Opera. With an A.B. Riverside Studios in London, and the Abbey & Projection Operator). For OSU Opera and Lyric Outer Critics, Drama in Drama from Vassar College, she is a founding Theatre in Dublin. Highlights include working Theatre: Le Nozze di Figaro (Stage Manager Desk Awards­­—also Tony member of The Meat Rascals Theatre Ensemble. on BalletNext, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Havana & Props Master), Opera Americana (Scenic Award for Best Director); (1999: Tony, Outer leeannemeeks.com Rumba, and the Led Zeppelin Reunion concert at Critics, Drama Desk Awards); as well as Ring Of Designer), (Props Master). For Opera the O2 Arena in London. Fire, (2006). With composer David Shire: director/ JORIE MILLER Columbus: Madama Butterfly & Flood (Assistant lyricist: Baby (1983, seven Tony nominations); (Stage Manager) Stage Manager). For Opera Project Columbus: DAVID SHIRE Rigoletto (Stage Manager), La cenerentola (Composer) lyricist: Big (1996, Tony nomination: Best Score; (she/her) is a Senior (Assistant Director). For Weathervane Playhouse: also Dominium Theatre London 2019). With Alain pursuing Stage wrote the music for In the Heights & Wizard of Oz (Sound Designer and Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, co-lyricist: and Production Baby (Tony nominations Live Mix). Valeriya is from Togliatty, Russia. Miss Saigon (Evening Standard Award, London Management with for Best Score and 1990; Tony nomination: Best Score, 1991); co- a minor in Arts Musical) and Big JASON ORLENKO lyricist: The Pirate Queen (2007). Director: The (nominated for Best Management. This is her (Costume Studio Staff, Story Of My Life (2009). Director/co-lyricist: Score). Off-Broadway third year on the Board Wardrobe Run Crew) ’s Song & Dance (1986 of Directors for University Players as Production credits include Starting Jason is the Visiting Tony Award for star, Bernadette Peters.) OFF- Manager. For IU Theatre: New Moves (Stage Here, Starting Now (Grammy nomination), Closer Professor of Costume BROADWAY: with David Shire: director/lyricist Manager), Shifting Landscapes (Stage Manager), Than Ever (Outer Critics Award for Best Musical Design at IU. His costume Starting Here, Starting Now (1977, Grammy By the Bog of Cats (ASM), Wonderful Town and Score), Urban Blight (MTC), The Sap of Life, design work has been nomination) and Closer Than Ever, (1989, two (ASM). For UP: Murder Ballad (Stage Manager), and incidental scores for As You Like It (NYSF), seen across the midwest Outer Critics Circle Awards: Best Musical, Best American Idiot (Stage Manager), SLIP (Stage The Unknown Soldier and His Wife, The Loman on the stages of the Score; also Off-Broadway Alliance Award, Best Manager). This summer Jorie is an intern with Family Picnic, Shmulnik's Waltz and Visiting Milwaukee Rep, the Rep of St. Louis, Indiana Musical Revival 2013; and London Jermyn MidWay Music Speaks. Jorie is from Valparaiso, Mr. Green. He and his long-time collaborator Festival Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Street Theatre 2014,). Director: Just Jim Dale, Indiana. Richard Maltby are at work on Take Flight, a (Roundabout Theatre 2014, , Music Theatre, First Stage Children’s new musical which premiered at the Charlotte London 2015). REGIONAL: Lyricist/conceiver, Take CHRIS MILLS Theater, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Rep in the spring of 2004. His many film scores Flight (, London 2010; (Dramaturg) Opera Theatre, In Tandem Theatre, Next Act include Norma Rae (Academy Award for Best Theatre, Children’s Theatre of Madison, Marquette McCarter Theatre 2012); book and lyrics, Waterfall is a Dramaturgy Song), Francis Coppola's , All University, Juniata College, University of Alaska- (2015, Pasadena Playhouse and Seattle’s Fifth M.F.A. candidate. the President's Men, The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, Anchorage and the Peck School of the Arts at the Avenue Theatre); Lyricist, new musical Sousatzka She was the Content Farewell, My Lovely, 'Night, Mother, Return to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he has (2017, Toronto). FILM: Screenplay, Miss Potter, Strategist at UNICEF Oz and Fever for which he won also served as an adjunct lecturer. (2007: Christopher Award, best screenplay.). Global and before two Grammy Awards. His numerous television Contributes cryptic crossword puzzles to Harpers that, taught in NYU’s scores have earned five Emmy nominations Magazine. Son of well-known orchestra leader; Drama Department. and include Sarah Plain and Tall, Rear Window, Five children: Nicholas, David, Jordan, Emily and She was the long-term resident dramaturg Raid on Entebbe,The Women of Brewster Charlotte. for Theater Mitu and dramaturg for Little Place, The Kennedys of Massachusetts, The Lord, Lucky Pierre, 24seven Play Lab, and Heidi Chronicles, Jake's Women and Broadway Young Playwrights. She made theater with Bound. His songs have been recorded by the Public Theater, Big Mess Theater, Chicago , Maureen McGovern, Melissa

32 33 Manchester, , Kiri Ti Kanawa and Visiting Mr. Green, and three years with the many others, and include the international Billy Star of Indiana’s Brass Theatre. Robbie has IU Summer Theatre Fund Preston & Syreeta hit "With You I'm Born Again" also worked as a dyer for such theatres as the and the Oscar-winning "." Mr. Old Globe Theatre and Lajolla Playhouse. As Shire is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, a member of I.A.T.S.E. local 893, Robbie has acknowledgements the proud husband of actress Didi Conn and enjoyed working on many national tours both doting father of sons Matthew and Daniel. doing wardrobe and hair.

BETSY SMITH BRITTANY SUMMER SEASON COFFEE CONTRIBUTORS (Lighting Supervisor) STAUDACHER ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Audrey and Kenneth Heller Liam Castellan and Angela holds a B.F.A in (Costume Designer) Diane and Rodger Alexander Huxford Lighting Design from (she/her) is a second- Harlan Lewis and Doris Wittenburg Carroll P. Britch The Theatre School year at DePaul University. M.F.A. candidate. ADOPT AN ARTIST She joined IU following She received her B.A. Dale and Cyndi Nelson a successful season from the University of at American Players Northern Iowa. Since Theatre where she was the Master Electrician graduation, she has worked for Florida Repertory SPOTLIGHT A MUSICIAN for the Touchstone Theatre. Prior to IU she Theatre, Lees-McRae Summer Theatre, and Carol and Wade Peacock was the Assistant Master Electrician at Indiana Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. She recently Repertory Theatre for five seasons and held worked with Penobscot Theatre Company in CREATE A DESIGN multiple lighting positions at Utah Shakespeare Bangor, Maine, serving as wardrobe manager Samuel J. Davis, Jr. Festival across two seasons. Elizabeth also and costume designer. Past design credits Danita and Robert Forgey spent several years as a freelance electrician include Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Safety in Chicago before moving to Indiana, working Net, A Wrinkle in Time, and Anne of Green Gables. Jackie and William Gilkey at theatres across the city including Chicago Margaret Goergen-Rood and DAN TRACY Shakespeare Theater, Court Theatre, and Vernon P. Rood Steppenwolf. (Props and Scenic Art Supervisor) Steven Hendricks

ROBBIE STANTON joined the the Carter and Kathleen Henrich (Costume Studio Department of Sandra and Stephen Moberly Supervisor) Theatre, Drama, and David and Lucy Smith has designed the Contemporary Dance costumes for the IU at Indiana University Terry and Sharon Williams Department of Theatre in the fall of 2013 as and Drama productions Prop Master and Scenic Artist Supervisor. He of Sweet Charity, Moon received his M.F.A. in scenic design from Indiana for the Misbegotten, University where he designed sets for Sunday Noises Off, Parade, The Misanthrope, Woyzeck, in the Park with George. For IU Theatre: Spring Guys and Dolls, Hurlyburly, Anything Goes, Awakening, In the Next Room or the vibrator Twelfth Night, Pippin, Brigadoon, Nine, The Sixth play, and . Additionally Dan has Borough, and IU Broadway Cabaret. He has worked as props artisan for Actors Theatre previously designed costumes for the Brown of Louisville, Seaside Music Theater,and New County Playhouse productions of You’re a Good Harmony Theater. He was assistant prop master Man Charlie Brown; Not Now, Darling; Deathtrap; and teacher at the University of Michigan. Dan Barefoot in the Park; A Tuna Christmas; The has also done event design and management for Rainmaker; The Mousetrap; Lend Me a Tenor; Andretti Autosports, Delta Faucet, Indy Racing Tintypes; Picnic; Born Yesterday and I Love You, League, NFL players association, and Rolls Royce. You’re Perfect, Now Change, Pump Boys and Dan continues to design professionally, having Dinettes and countless others. In addition to recently worked on projects for Phoenix Theatre the university, outside designs include Marisol, and Civic Theatre of Indianapolis. Goodnight Desdemona, The Cocktail Hour,

34 35 35 Thank you to our 2020–21 Department awards, academic season Associate fellowships, scholarships, Producers and endowments Bright Family Theatre, Foster Harmon Graduate Helen Sarah Walker The contributions of associate producers directly fund an IU Theatre Drama, and Contemporary Scholarship in Theatre Scholarship production of the donor’s choice. As an associate producer, you help Dance Fund L. Foster Harmon Michael L. Walker Anne and Jim Bright Baker Hughes Foundation directly support the cost of a production’s costume, scenic, lighting, Foster Harmon Cory and Margaret sound, and projection design. Your name is featured in our programs and Catherine Feltus Preston Undergraduate Baumhardt all curtain speeches. You also enjoy benefits as year-round members of Scholarship Scholarship in Theatre Irwin and Lois Jacobs Theatre Circle, an organization founded to promote and encourage the Catherine Preston Trust L. Foster Harmon Charles R. Leinenweber Jay Mark Scholarship in study and practice of theatre arts in the Department of Theatre, Drama, Frank and Becky Theatre & Drama and Contemporary Dance and an awareness of theatre throughout the Charles Aidman Spoon Hrisomalos Scholarship in Alvin Goldstein community. River Fellowship Theatre & Drama Ruth Albright Betty Aidman Becky Hrisomalos Joyce and Jim Grandorf Charles Ogilvie Jr. Katy Bigge Kestner Fund Theatre, Drama, and Diana and Rodger Alexander Richard and Alicia Lytle Contemporary Dance Fund Colleen J. and W. Keith Joyce and Jim Grandorf Anne and Jim Bright Alexander Scholarship George Pinney Musical Kathryn and Barry Brown W. Keith Alexander Theatre Scholarship Kimberly S. Hinton Anne and Jim Bright Memorial Scholarship in Carolyn and Dave Emmert David S. Hawes Award Paul Goldberg Contemporary Dance Betty Anne Hawes P. A . Mack Bridget Balint Phil Evans and Herbert O. Kuebler Jerry and Lucy McIntosh Jennifer Gray and Alan Jo Ellen and Steve Ham Donnelly-Brown Fund for Marilyn Norris Bradley Theatre & Drama Ilene and John Reid Madison Colquette Susan an David Jones Benita Gail Brown Angela Gast Brian Thomas Donnelly Harlan L. Lewis Family Lois and Richard Gast Harlan Lewis and Doris Wittenburg Scholarship Nancy Gray McKelvey and Cyndi and Dale Nelson Dr. James F. Elrod Harlan L. Lewis and Doris F. Raymond McKelvey Scholarship in Theatre & Wittenburg Suzanne and Keith Hinton Jennifer and John Sejdinaj Drama Laura Judson and Nikolaus James F. Elrod Harv and Connie Hegarty Miller Judy Shettleroe Theatre and Drama Reuben Lucas Featheringill Theatre and Production Fund Eleanor Owicki *This list represents our upcoming academic season associate producers Drama Scholarship Harv and Connie Hegarty Amanda and William as of May 2021. If you are interested in joining the associate producer Jack L. Featheringill Peterson Linda Pisano program, please contact Laura Judson at [email protected] or by phone Fontaine Syer Directing Bret Popper at 812-855-7699; or visit the Department of Theatre, Drama, and Fellowship in Theatre Cat Richards Contemporary Dance website at theatre.indiana.edu and select the Susan Greenberg Elizabeth and John Shea Theatre Circle link. Mary K. Nash Rusher Jamie and Jonathan Stuckey Henry Woronicz

36 37 Musical Theatre Fran Snygg Endowment Jason W. Stradtman Prize Undergraduate Marianne and Charles E. Alan Airth Department Contributions Scholarship Snygg Byron and Kimberly Antillon Amy Jo and Todd Zeldin Gertrude and Seymour Johnston Atoll CONTEMPORARY DANCE FUND THEATRE & DRAMA FUND CONTRIBUTORS Alberts Dawn and Paul Barrera CONTRIBUTORS ―― Nota Scholl McGreevey Anita Aldrich Ed.D. Ali and Robert Bartholomew ―― Rita Murray Anderson and Robert D. Anderson Lillian R. Feldman-Hill Nancy Baird Scholarship Anitra Bareikis Darlene Bishop Jennifer L. Gray and Alan S. Thomas M. Baydala John and Nota McGreevey Patricia E. Biddinger Donna Colwell Bradley Judith Biersdorfer Deborah C. Galvin Josiah A. Brown Emily Ann Bogard Bruce Creamer Robert J. Hamm Jr. and Gwendolyn A. Hamm Joan M. Capella Ralph Collins Memorial Leon and Roberta Brauner Donald and Patricia Crounse Joy C. Johnson and Jerry L. Hoagy B. Carmichael Lectureship James P. Burling II Kathleen Galindo Johnson J.D. Ashley M. Chilla Allen Hahn and Karen Keagle Wendy W. and Thomas P. Collins, David Collins Robert E. Burton Adelita Garza George and Mary Korinek Ph.D. Dorothy Craig Collins Marcia M. Busch-Jones Arlene and Martin Glassman Rose M. Krueger Allison C. Conrad and Donald W. Laura Judson and Nikolaus Miller Conrad Wayne Craig Jean E. Campbell Diane and Frederic Hite Harlan Lewis and Doris Mary and Sheldon Cooper Ann M. K. and Thomas R. Lucena A. Hocking Wittenburg Georgia R. and Mark K. de Araujo Meghan McGill Kimberlee M. Demers and Alan Richard L. Scammon Carter Ph.D. Denis and Robin LaBonge Miah and Jonathan Michaelsen Demers Award Orchard Close Anthony and Karin Lekas Elizabeth Jo Monnier Diane T. Dickinson Patrick Bryce Broughton Evelyn A. Davies Ed.D. Dick and Karen Lemen Dennis W and Lynette A. Organ Claire and Christopher Dippel Linda Pisano Gresdna A. Doty, Ph.D. Barbara Lockard- Deborah A. Freund Ph.D. Gael and Glenn Libby Susan B. Glenn-Salerno and Sean M. Dumm Zimmerman Robert L. Gluckstern Fred and Peggy Lynn Richard P. Salerno Jacqueline and Richard Dunham Mary Strow Harriet and William Fierman Janet Hamburg Judith and William Maisel Sheila A. Ward, Ph.D. Elizabeth and Steve Hass-Hill Patricia Dain Haskell Sharon Merz Scott Hogsed Todd and Lynn Honderd Scholarship William H. Hays III Marybeth and Robert JANE FOX FUND CONTRIBUTORS Elizabeth an David Ihlenfeld Catherine Preston Trust Robin Herrington-Bowen Michel ―― Laura Judson and Nikolaus Miller Charles R. Leinenweber Rachel and David M. Hertz Susan Moore Jane Fox Joe D. King Catharine and Thomas Buck Douglas and Kay Long Jo An Huff Elaine Peterson Jacqueline and Stephen Frew Linda A. Longhover Rosemary R. Schwartzel Peter P. Jacobi Robert Radus Gwendolyn and Robert Hamm Jr. The Honorable P.A. Mack, Jr. Rose Marie Krueger Tom Mazur Scholarship Thomas J. Kniesner Ph.D. Joanne and Paul Reynolds Christina Strack Richard and Terry McCall Patricia J. Redens Wrege Rachel Lampert Martha and Robert Santos Laura K. McClellan Marvin D. Moody, Ph.D. Bernice A. Pescosolido Sharon Seymour TED JONES STUDENT TRAVEL FUND Lawrence Myers, Jr. Suzanne M. Collins Louise Rebecca Rarick Martin and Charlotte CONTRIBUTORS Cyndi and Dale Nelson ―― Christina D. Ondrik and Charles A. Pryor Nancy and James W. Reeves Stradtman Robert R. Ormiston Katherine M. Aiken and Charles Scholarship Edward and Sydney Regan Dennis and Sharon Tase Rhoda and C.K. Peters C. Aiken Linda Pisano Suzanne M. Collins and Robert and Sandra Reiberg Howard and Joan Thompson Louray G. Cain Phil and Joyce Probst Lauren Hausmann Charles A. Pryor Carlos Rodriguez Catherine and William David L. Rinear Marianne Hausmann and William Corey Rosenberg Geneva B. Scriggins Titterud Hausmann Curtis and Judith Simic Ted W. Jones Theatre Circle Scholar Evelyn S. Turner Andrew and Rena Wellman Lynne Perkins Socey and Matthew Socey Jane Pennell McIntosh Diane J. Spoffard Award Allison and Thomas Walsh Lynda Wicks Amy N. Osajima Janice and Walter Stewart Eleanor Owicki Members of Theatre Circle Byron P. Wheeler Audrey and Robert Windsor R. Brent Wagner Lea Plut-Pregelj and Vladimir N. Mark F. Wheeler and Jan June E. Weiland Pregelj Doris F. Wittenburg and Harlan Theresa Anne Walker Wheeler Ph.D. Doris F. Wittenburg and L. Lewis Harlan L. Lewis Scholarship Donna and Richard Wolf Michael L. Walker

William Kinzer Memorial Scholarship Veralyn Kinzer

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Theatre Circle was founded in 1978 to encourage emailed information about all performances; Lynne Perkins Socey and Matthew HONORARY LIFETIME THE THEATRE CIRCLE Socey the study and practice of theatre arts at IU glimpses behind the scenes; exclusive talks MEMBERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS and to promote an awareness of IU Theatre by directors, designers, and theatre scholars; Jeffrey and Michelle Stuckey throughout the community. Theatre Circle special event invitations; theatre-related travel Anne and Gary Steigerwald Harv and Connie Hegarty 2021–2022 Barbara J. Suthers John Kinzer members enjoy a variety of benefits, including opportunities; reserved seating at numerous Gerry E. Titus Marilyn Norris acknowledgment in all IU Theatre programs; performances and events; and much more. President George Walker and Carolyn Susan Parrish and Thomas P. Liam Castellan Lipson-Walker Shafer Harlan Lewis and Doris Wittenburg Donna and Richard Wolf Vice President SUSTAINING CONTRIBUTOR ($100–$249) Brad Schiesser - Amplified Sheryl Woodhouse-Keese and Katherine and Charles Aiken MEMORIALS Cyndi and Dale Nelson - Little Brian Keese Douglas and Hilary Anderson Secretary (One-time gift of $5,000 and Women David Albright Carolyn Emmert Ken and Michelle Bergman DONOR ($50–$99) above) Jennifer and John Sejdinaj- More Eleanor Auer Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch Elaine and Philip Amerson Treasurer Perfect Places J. Jeffery Auer Bloomington Thrift Shop Herbert and Juanita Brantley Marlin Howard Judy Shettleroe - Bonnets Richard C. Burke Benita Brown and Brian Donnelly David Blumberg and Stephen Ashley and Mark Chilla Jean and Doris Creek R. Pock Ledford and Julia Carter Danielle Bruce BENEFACTOR Cheryl A. Engber Connie and Harv Hegarty Doris J. Burton Nelda Christ Ashley Dillard Chilla ($1,000 and above) David and Lucy Smith Becky and Frank* Hrisomalos Joan M. Capella Dorothy (Dottie) Collins Pam Davidson John and Teresa Ayres N.J. The Lawrence W. Inlow Cathleen Cameron Don Cook Maribeth McKaig Patricia and Samuel Ardery Ellen and Malcolm Stern Foundation Sandra B. Churchill Carolyn Kovener Richard Rose Cary and Julie Curry Judy Walcoff Carl F. Kiehler Jean Cook Donna Creek Brad Schiesser Jacqueline and William Gilkey Anthony and Kelli Zabel Eric Shelley Sara* and Bob LeBien Mary Alice Cox and James M. Cyril M. Franks Paula W. Sunderman Charles and Gallus Marion Bankert Michael and Koch SUPPORTERS ($1–$49) Bradley C. Wheeler Martha and Victor Harnack R. Keith Michael John and Susan Cronkhite Carroll P. Britch THEATRE CIRCLE Dr. Howard Polley Pamela Jones Davidson and Sandra L. Hertling PATRON ($500 –$999) Darlene Hand STUDENT BOARD Reva* and Jack Shiner Jefrey Davidson Frank Hrisomalos Terry P. Baer B. Watt and Vern Jorck Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Sparks Samuel J. Davis, Jr. Howard Jensen REPRESENTATIVES Anne and Jim Bright Michael D. Scott Bruce and Shannon Storm - In Lee H. Ehman and Barbara L. Harold Watling Jordan 2020-21 Jean A. Creek and Doris J. August and Virginia Semenick Honor of George Pinney Wilcox Lambert and Elizabeth Kiehler Shoultz-Creek Patricia B. Smith Bruce and Shannon Storm - In Cheryl A. Engber Sara LeBien George and Jo Fielding Betsy and J.M. Walsh Eboni Edwards Honor of Tiffany Storm Ericson Shirley A. Fitzgibbons Nita Levison Idalene F. Kesner and Paul Cole Winston Margaret and William Yarber Anne T. Fraker Jeanette Calkins Marchant Robins Audrey Heller Rosemary Miller Kate Kroll Susan Koutiel Hiller Leonard M. Phillips Earl Luetzelschwab and Deborah John Hobson Robert L. Shettleroe ANNUAL GIVING Burkhart Craig and Kathryn Holden Reva Shiner Carol and Wade Peacock 2020 Darla Brown and Michael Hunt Coleen Stanley Laura C. Trout Donald and Margaret Jones Fontaine Syer ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Ronald Kovener Grafton Trout SPONSOR ($250–$499) ($2,500) Gladys and David Kramer Herman B. Wells Joan Caulton and Edwin Diana and Rodger Alexander - Margaret and Thomas Leckey Albert Wertheim Greenebaum Twelfth Night Diana Dehart Lehner Nathan and Pamela Zauel David and Tyler Ferguson Harlan Lewis and Doris James and Jeanne Madison Paul N. Zietlow Donald and Sandra Freund Wittenburg - At First Sight Priscilla Osovski Manwaring and Michael E. Gleeson Harlan Lewis and Doris William Manwaring Dale and Sherry McFadden Wittenburg - Sounding Bodies Nancy G. Martin Maribeth and Richard McKaig Nancy and Perry Metz James L. McLay PARTNER ASSOCIATE Virginia K. Metzger Howard Mehlinger PRODUCERS Geraldine C. Miller Sandra and Stephen Moberly ($1,250) John and Patricia Mulholland Ruth Albright - Amplified Donna and Robert Ormiston Denise and Harold Ogren Anne and Jim Bright - Amplified George Pinney and Scott Jones Jeanne and Norman Overly Kathryn and Barry Brown - Little Mary F. Popp Katherine and Travis Paulin Women Elizabeth C. Raff Carol Pierce Carolyn and Dave Emmert - Little Stanley Ritchie Scott and Susan Putney Women Bradley Schiesser and Andrea John and Lislott Richardson Phil Evans and Herbert O. Kuebler White F. Wayne Roberts, Jr. - Amplified Judy Schroeder Beth and David Rupp Jo Ellen and Steve Ham - Erdine M. Simic Marilyn F. Saum Amplified Erika and George E. Walker Sue Sgambelluri Susan and David Jones - Mary H. Wennerstrom Kathleen A. Sideli Amplified * Denotes donors who have passed away, but whose gift continues to benefit the department and its students. * Denotes donors who have passed away, but whose gift continues to benefit the department and its students.

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THE THREEPENNY OPERA OCT 28–30

JUMP NOV 18–20

EARTHWARD: DEC 10–11 WINTER DANCE CONCERT

SUEÑO FEB 10–12

AT FIRST SIGHT: MAR 5–12 A FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS

CARRIE: THE MUSICAL APR 13–16

NEW MOVES/ APR 28–29 NEW DIRECTIONS: 2022 SENIOR CAPSTONE PROJECTS 2021/2022 SEASON Live performance, living impact theatre.indiana.edu

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