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La Sala was formed to coalesce and mobilize the diasporic Latinx arts What does La Sala do? You’ve spent your life accumulating wealth. And, no doubt, that wealth community of the region by highlighting the mosaic of Latino heritage. We work to build capacity for Latino now takes many forms, sits in many places, and is managed by many advisors. artists and have the long-term vision of Unfortunately, that kind of fragmentation creates gaps that can hold your making space for Latinx artists. Over wealth back from its full potential. The Private Bank can help. ten years, La Sala has evolved into a significant cultural incubator and SM We recently sat down with Vanessa Villalobos, a board The Private Bank uses a proprietary approach called the LIFE Wealth Cycle community resource that produces an to ­ind those gaps—and help you achieve what is important to you. member of La Sala, to discuss why the arts are important average of three to five art presentations, to the Latinx community, how the Presidential election trainings, social mixers, arts education To learn more, contact: may change Latinx arts and how you can help the and civic engagement ventures annually. Carolyn Stewart From small salons, that bring focused Vice President, Private Wealth Advisor organization. information to groups of 10 to 20 artists, 2065874788 to multi-dimensional productions that [email protected] encompass multiple workshops and or visit unionbank.com/theprivatebank events.

Why is an organization like La Sala important? In King County, few organizations are dedicated to serving the needs of our growing Latino population and fewer still utilize art as an advancement tool to bring people together to appreciate, envision, and co-create the future. Wills, trusts, foundations, and wealth planning strategies have legal, tax, accounting, and other implications. Clients should consult a legal or tax advisor. After ten years, our organization can ©2016 MUFG Union Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC. Union Bank is a registered trademark and brand name of MUFG Union Bank, N.A. see the fruit of our labor. Artists at

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EAP full-page template.indd 1 9/6/16 11:17 AM various stages of development have jumped into curatorial roles, ensembles, ventured into self-production, created pop-up venues, and are now applying and receiving public funds to produce annual seasons. It is essential that the public know we exist, but also for them to see the powerful extent of our reach.

What are your favorite memories in regards to La Sala?

Over the summer, our La Cocina exhibit used the notion of cooking as a creative metaphor for the development of new artistic work. In our kitchen, we commissioned cooks, or “cocineros,” to create one week of programming focused around their designated discipline, whether it be theatre, dance, literary, performance art or visual art. Artist at La Cocina, photo courtsey of La Sala.

Do you have an example or two? of milk on the bear’s body gave the Why are the arts important, and Xavier Lopez Jr.’s teddy bear spectator a shocking moment of “What particularly to Latinx community? performance was something very just happened?” Art is part of our community culture, unique, abstract at times, masterful Another moment was during Peruvian period. It is how we dress, how we in timing dark humor with a touch of artist Monica Rojas’ collaborative dance work, how we throw a party, the way we childish play … there is a climaxing theatre piece entitled Me Gritaron celebrate our dead, our political voice moment when an oversized, life-sized Negra/They Screamed Black At Me. The … it is an extension of our physical body bear gives in to his desire to consume, title comes from the notorious Afro- and spiritual being. Today more than and hoard his favorite cereal mix, and Peruvian female poet Victoria Santa anything, art will be a point of relief, there is a non-stop pouring of cereal Cruz. During the audience interaction release, a vehicle in which to engage over his nose, neck, chest and body … section of the work Venezuelen modern others in with political discourse … art then come the milk cartons to top of the dancer, Milvia Pacheco, brilliantly is what balances and fulfills that part of cereal that has visually just consumed recounted an audience member’s us that gets suppressed throughout the the teddy bear, the slow, splashing pour reflection on the topic of cultural day professionally, where maintaining appropriation and racist speech, using the status-quo is sometimes more a improvisational dance techniques to question about survival. contrast and compare the sentiments Talking about the Latinx political voice, expressed by the woman in the do you think the election changed (or audience. The air was thick, the small will change) the local Latinx artistic room was packed, only the sounds of community? In what ways? Oaxacan Mexican waving fans could be heard, while you couldn’t help The election has put everything but notice that for this woman, the personal at stake for Latino artists. As a artist’s physical poetry was hitting multicultural Brown community, we live something deep within her, perhaps with the tensions across the spectrum even with a healing element with this of hate-based Trump-ism. As artists, our acknowledgement work, that the lives and art express the pain, ecstasy, significance of the dance now weighed passion, vulgarity, anger and love we heavier with symbolism. feel. Knowing our people will be divided due to aggressive deportation tactics, This sort of “space,” is what La Sala bigotry and anti-gay cultural influence, masterfully creates, even when there is aside from the economic abuse Trump’s Vanessa Villalobos, La Sala Board Member no space, or no official home for La Sala. administration threatens, hits us at

6 ENCORE STAGES the core of who we are, what we carry —our ancestral legacy—and how we create. Artists are our culture keepers, our unity cheerleaders, our greatest agitators, that help us digest and process the American experience of not belonging, and we know we will be pitted against our neighbors because of lifestyle and social-economic-gender- power identities.

Art is part of our community culture, period… it is an extension of our physical body and spiritual being.

I believe that at this tormented, ridiculous political point in time, the Trump presidency will help our Brown communities band tighter together, it will help us weave purpose with resources together with the goal of building a stronger force to protect the beauty, rights and progress we have made under the Obama administration. The presidency challenges our Latino community with action. The result of the elections is really nothing more than a megaphone calling us to step it up and use our common bonds of culture, unity, art and advocacy to not accept hate-filled agendas, speech and process at the local level. La Sala, as a EAP 1_3 S template.indd 1 Evergreen City Ballet presents:11/17/16 4:14 PM power collective, is ready to partner, to build, to support and to lift up the gifted artists that contribute to our city’s allure daily.

How can someone get involved in the Experience the classic fairytale in a one-hour organization? family friendly or full length performance! People can friend us on Facebook, to learn about coming events and about March 18 & 19 our 2017 season. We also have many The Theatre at Meydenbauer Center < volunteer opportunities. Evergreen City Ballet evergreencityballet.org | 425.228.6800

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The magic created while seated with friends Our favorite memories of Paris—no surprise— around tables laden with food is the balm that are memories of food. The crust of the bread, the has, for as long as there have been tables and funk of the cheese, the long, languorous meals, wine and friends, seen us through the darkest these, to us, are Paris. If A Moveable Feast encap- days. Ernest Hemingway certainly derived com- sulates the life of an artist in Paris’ most roman- fort from the hearth fire of friendship in troubled tic era, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook captures times — A Moveable Feast is his love letter to the the food. A cookbook that reads like an adven- youthful struggles he shared with his friends in ture novel, or a travel memoir. Our tattered copy Paris. Those friends who met in Gertrude Stein’s barely had a spine when this production finally salon inspired and fed one another as creatives, gave us a good reason to try of her recipes. And lovers, and burgeoning luminaries. It is a long what decadence we found there. We have trans- practice of artists to gather together in this way formed Nordo’s Culinarium into the salon that Al- providing a foil to one another’s creativity. At ice and Gertrude presided over and our kitchen is Book-It we are no exception; the company began teeming with the sounds and smells of Alice’s as an artists’ collective. We keep this tradition recipes. The worlds of Café Nordo are usually alive by seeking always to welcome new friends conjured from scratch. For us to collaborate with to our metaphorical table. Now, with our new- Book-It was like having great friends bring won- est friends, our partners at Nordo’s Culinarium, derful ingredients to our home—a beautiful piece we have recreated Gertrude’s salon where you of literature, but also a real time in history with can experience A Moveable Feast accompanied real people who ate and drank and laughed over by the unforgettable tastes of Paris. Like all the real food and wine. Together we have cooked artists and dreamers who’ve come together to these ingredients into a feast for all of your sens- share their work and wonder aloud, we hope es that we hope resides with you for a long time you will feel inspired to think grand thoughts and to come. Your own Moveable Feast. Thank you love more deeply tonight fueled by the passions for joining us! of the great artists in our story. May you laugh, eat, drink, and make great memories. Welcome —Erin Brindley friends! Executive —Kayti Barnett-O’Brien Artistic Director General Manager, Book-It Café Nordo W E L C O M E T O A M O V E A B L E FEAST

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A MOVEABLE FEAST BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY Conceived by Jane Jones and Judd Parkin Adapted by Judd Parkin • Directed by Jane Jones Original Music by Annastasia Workman

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A MOVEABLE FEAST BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY Conceived by Jane Jones and Judd Parkin Adapted by Judd Parkin • Directed by Jane Jones Original Music by Annastasia Workman CAST in alphabetical order Susanna Burney Gertrude Stein / Ensemble Raymond Chapman* Ezra Pound / Cézanne / Ensemble Harriette Dunn-Feliz Hadley Hemingway Andre Nelson F. Scott Fitzgerald / Ensemble Opal Peachey Lisette Riley Shanahan Ernest Hemingway Jen Taylor* Alice B. Toklas / Sylvia Beach / Zelda Fitzgerald

Annastasia Workman Music Director / Piano / Accordian Dexter Stevens Clarinet / Bass Clarinet Sari Breznau Trumpet / Banjolele / Percussion / Vocals Michael Owcharuk Piano / Accordion (alternate) Kevin Hinshaw Clarinet / Bass Clarinet (alternate)

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Welcome to Book-It’s Production of Ernest Jane Jones and I have loved A Moveable Feast—first Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast at Nordo’s Culinarium, the separately, and now in concert—an almost embarrassing building once home to the Elliott Bay Book Company. number of years. My own contribution to this sum is close This very room for years housed Elliott’s used book section. to 50. I first encountered Hemingway when I read his Nick I remember it well; it elicits great joy to think that these Adams stories in a high school English class. I discovered A walls once held all those musty, distinguished works of Moveable Feast shortly afterward, and it’s not an exaggeration literature. Especially since the denizens that will guide to say it was a life-changer for me—it made the idea of being you through tonight’s story are an artist seem like a viable the likes of Ernest Hemingway, life choice; that had never Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, occurred to me before. It Alice B. Toklas, and F. Scott and helped that Hemingway was Zelda Fitzgerald. Oh yes, and from the Chicago area, as Sylvia Beach, who founded the I was. famous Shakespeare and Company, creating the first public lending In the first two projects Jane library in Paris to feature literature and I worked on together, written in English. The inexpensive the element of romance, membership to her library was for whatever reason, wasn’t a welcome privilege for the cash a central factor in either poor Hemingways, who were story. This is notable only hungry to devour any and all modern books of the time. because Jane and I are both from-the-floor-up, unabashed When Ernest and Scott finally meet, Scott offers to try and romantics, it’s been the glue of our long friendship. So in recover the only copy of The Great Gatsby he owns from a recent years, we’ve kidded each other that we needed to find a friend, so he can lend it to Hemingway. Funny to reflect great sweeping romance to develop. One day I got a brief email that Scott only possessed one copy of the book during his from Jane asking if (A) I knew A Moveable Feast and (B) if I Paris days. liked it. I quickly wrote back yes and yes, because I knew this project could be the great sweeping romance we’d joked about. And what days they were. Thousands of expatriates from Because what is A Moveable Feast about if not about love? And America and all corners of Europe found their way to a multiplicity of loves, at that—of art, the people who make it, Paris in the 1920s as the city became a refuge for artists a city, a place in time, and, most of all, the love of craft. and intellectuals after the trauma of the First World War. The city—with its plethora of restaurants, coffeehouses, The people in A Moveable Feast were the defining figures of publishing houses, and salons—offered an environment their age. The inaccuracies and outright lies of Hemingway’s for intellectual freedom for many young artists to debate memoir are well-documented, but that doesn’t undermine the the meaning of life and challenge new forms in art and power of the book, and its overriding theme that work and art literature. With the advent of Prohibition in the U.S., many can provide a form of deliverance. Hemingway encouraged found refuge in the city by the Seine. Also, the Parisians’ us to read A Moveable Feast as fiction, arguing that simple great acceptance for all manner of sexual preference— facts can’t reveal the truth as fiction can. I’ve grudgingly homosexuality had not been against the law since the late come to accept his argument—after all, how can simple facts 1700s—made a comfortable environment for amour. contain the complex and wildly human contradictions of a Gertrude Stein, an Ezra Pound, or a Scott and Zelda? This So, immerse yourself in our Paris. Imagine yourself tale needs the sweep of a great novelist to convey the largeness sitting in on a salon in the very famous flat belonging to of the characters and mood of the times, and luckily for us, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas at 27 Rue de Fleurus. Hemingway answered the call in his own inimitable way. An invitation to this apartment was much sought after by Blustering, yes; self-aggrandizing, to be sure. But without these anyone thought to be on the rise of artistic brilliance. I qualities Hemingway would not be Hemingway. The titanic think you all qualify by the brilliance you show in figures in our story have inhabited Jane’s and my imaginations choosing tonight to be our guest. for a long time, and we now joyously present them for your “…for Paris is a moveable feast.” pleasure. _ Jane Jones _ Judd Parkin A-4 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE

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Hemingway set off for Paris, where During this period, Hemingway also he forged friendships with the likes of wrote The Old Man and the Sea, which Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and won a Pulitzer Prize and led to his being Ezra Pound, and wrote his first novel: awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Sun Also Rises. He also met and fell On a visit to Paris in 1956, Hemingway in love with Pauline Pfeiffer, ending his retrieved several trunks containing marriage to Hadley. notebooks and material from his Hemingway and Pauline moved to Key West in 1928 for the birth of their first child, and lived happily enough until Hemingway’s 1937 trip to Europe to report on the Spanish Civil War. He fell in love with fellow journalist Martha Gellhorn, ending his marriage to Pauline. Hemingway and Martha married in 1940 and alternated between Ketchum, Idaho and Cuba. Marital bliss was not to last; Born July 21, 1899 in Oak Hemingway began antagonizing Martha Park, Illinois, Ernest Miller Hemingway while they were reporting on World was raised by his physician father and War II, even causing her to lose her musician mother. A writer from an early newspaper position. Their divorce was Hemingway and Hadley in Switzerland. age, Hemingway was first published at finalized in 1945, and he married Time 17 by his school newspaper and, rather correspondent Mary Welsh. than attending college, went to work Paris years that he had stored in 1928 for the Kansas City Star as a reporter Hemingway and Mary traveled inspiring him to write A Moveable Feast. directly after high school. He credits extensively, gallivanting across Europe After a period of intense writing in his training as a journalist for his short, and traveling on safari through Africa. Cuba, the Hemingways moved back to vigorous style. Idaho. Because of his bad eyesight, he could Tragically, Hemingway’s family was HEMINGWAY: haunted by suicide and mental illness; not join the Army during World War SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY I, and instead enlisted as an ambulance his father, brother Leicester, and sister driver. In Italy he was severely wounded NOVELS Ursula all ended their own lives. He was by mortar fire, and as he recovered, 1926 The Sun Also Rises progressively plagued by depression, 1929 A Farewell to Arms he fell in love for the first time: with a memory problems, paranoia, and 1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky. She broke thoughts of suicide. In December 1960, 1952 The Old Man and the Sea he was treated with electroconvulsive off their relationship and married an (Pulitzer Prize) Italian officer, events that would later therapy (shock therapy) at the Mayo inspire A Farewell to Arms. NONFICTION Clinic in Minnesota. The treatment 1932 Death in the Afternoon increased his difficulty with memory Shortly after returning from the war, 1935 Green Hills of Africa and his frustrations at his deteriorating two things happened that changed 1964 A Moveable Feast ability to write. Hemingway’s life: he met Hadley COLLECTIONS In the early morning hours of July 2, Richardson, whom he married, and 1923 Three Stories and Ten Poems he met author Sherwood Anderson 1961, Hemingway shot himself in the 1925 In Our Time head with his favorite shotgun. [Winesburg, Ohio; Dark Laughter], who 1927 Men without Women convinced him that Paris was the best 1961 The Snows of Kilimanjaro city for a writer to write in. Armed with and Other Stories Dramaturgy by Rebecca Fredrickson, letters of introduction from Anderson, Book-It Artistic Intern encoreartsseattle.com A-5

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“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.” _F. Scott Fitzgerald The 1920s saw a great number of Americans moving to Paris. By one estimate, 35,000 Americans migrated to Paris between 1920 and 1927. These were writers, artists, and A group of women celebrate tourists flocking to the City of Light for a variety of reasons, a réveillon in Paris, circa 1925. both logistical and emotional. For one thing, the exchange

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Susanna Burney Gertrude Stein / Ensemble Susanna Burney is an actress, director, Gertrude Stein audiobook narrator, and teaching artist. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a modernist Book-It acting credits include She’s Come writer and art collector. Bored with medical Undone, Howards End, and Trains, and several school at Johns Hopkins, she moved to Paris touring shows for Book-It’s Arts & Education in 1903 with her brother Leo. There, she (Huck Finn; Danger! Books; Thank met and moved in with Alice B. Toklas. The Program two amassed a vast collection of historically You, Mr. Falker; Flora & Ulysses). Other recent acting credits important art and hosted writers and artists in include The Twilight Zone: Live!at Theater Schmeater, Bunner their salon. Gertrude is known to have hosted and influenced Sisters at Theatre Off Jackson; Seattle Beckett Festival (Rockaby), the likes of Picasso, Juan Gris, Thornton Wilder, Matisse, and, I Never Betrayed the Revolution and Demon Dreams at West of course, Hemingway. Her stream-of-consciousness style and of Lenin, and three years of touring the state for Seattle overt modernism were popular among her writer friends, but Shakespeare Company in Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and international acclaim would have to wait until the publication Macbeth. She has also acted with Seattle Children’s Theatre, of her 1933 memoir The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.She The Empty Space, Annex Theatre, On the Boards, and all over also authored one of the first known coming-out stories, the country. Susanna received her BFA in Acting from Boston Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum). In 1946, Gertrude University. died after surgery for stomach cancer.

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Gertrude Stein and young Jack Hemingway, Paris

Hadley Hemingway Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1891-1979) is best known as the first wife of Ernest Ezra Pound Hemingway. Hadley was raised in St. Louis Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (1885-1972) by her overbearing mother, who managed ©Fpg / Getty Images was an American poet and major figure in to convince Hadley that she was physically the modernist movement. From 1908 to and psychologically weak. But, after the 1945, he lived in London, Paris, and finally death of her mother and her marriage to Italy. During this time, he wrote feverishly and successfully, while acting as a critic and Ernest, Hadley discovered her true strength and vitality; those promoter for writers he believed in. His who knew her remember her as strong and vigorous, enjoying Cantos are regarded as some of the finest poems in the English travel, music, and, especially, skiing. She retained these passions language. During World War II, he was an outspoken supporter even after Ernest’s affair with Pauline Pfeiffer led to their 1927 of anti-Semitic fascism. He was eventually arrested, extradited divorce. She stayed in Paris until 1934, during which time she to America and charged with treason and was (probably falsely) met and married journalist Paul Mowrer. Their marriage was declared insane and institutionalized rather than imprisoned. long, happy, and quiet. Hadley died in Florida at the age of 87. He was finally released in 1958 and moved to Italy, where he died and is buried. Raymond Chapman* Harriette Dunn-Feliz Ezra Pound / Cézanne / Ensemble Hadley Hemingway Raymond makes his first appearance at Book- After a hiatus from the theatrical world, It. Seattle area credits include appearances Harriette is thrilled to find her way back with with ACT Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, and this production of A Movable Feast. Originally Endangered Species Project. Off-Broadway from a cow town in Maryland, she followed credits include The Acting Company. her love for theatre to California where she Regional credits include Goodman Theatre, began her degree at the Pacific Conservatory Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre Theatre (PCPA) then travelled to Seattle to finish at Cornish of Louisville, Denver Center Theatre Company, Chicago College of the Arts. She returned to California to pursue film Shakespeare Theater, Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, and television and is now arriving in Seattle for more theatre (the Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, and Utah one your seat is in). Her favorite credits include Bonnie & Clyde: Shakespeare Festival, among many others. Film and TV work The Musical, Hamlet, The Tempest, and Beauty and the Beast. includes A League of Their Own and “Prison Break.” When not acting, she can be found making complex meals in the raymond-chapman.com kitchen or writing books for small children. Enjoy the show!

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Encore_Program_MVF.indd 7 2/1/2017 12:28:47 PM Continued from page A-6 both logistical and emotional. For one thing, the exchange rate was extremely favorable; in 1920, the dollar was worth 15 francs. This made the cost of living extremely affordable and allowed people like the Hemingways to live off relatively small incomes from personal savings or trust funds. Paris also became a major destination for Americans seeking to escape the puritan strictness of early 20th century American society. For example, France had decriminalized homosexuality in 1791, which made Paris a sort of mecca for homosexuals, particularly lesbians. Open lesbians, such as the legendary Natalie Clifford Barney, served as examples for homosexuals who were forced to hide their sexuality in other parts of the world. Paris was also home to many ABOVE: Sylvia Beach couples in other “non-traditional” arrangements, at her famed bookstore. including open marriages, polyamory, and widespread ©Hutton Archives/ Getty Images promiscuity. Hadley and Ernest, as a happily

F. Scott Fitzgerald Opal Peachey Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was Lisette an American novelist and screenwriter. A As a founding company member of Café Princeton dropout, Scott hastily wrote his first Nordo, Opal is thrilled for this collaboration novel before reporting to duty for World War with Book-It. She was last seen on the Book-It I. The war ended before he could be deployed, boards as Rosa in The Amazing Adventures of and he rewrote the novel under the title Kavalier & Clay. She has originated roles in This Side of Paradise.Its success won him his nine Café Nordo productions since 2009 and wife, Zelda, and made him an overnight celebrity. His magnum was last seen as Time Engineer Dutch Elm opus, The Great Gatsby, did not sell well initially, and only in Christmas is Burning. A Cornish College became truly successful after his death. His alcoholism and of the Arts alum, you may have witnessed turbulent marriage caused horrible writers block. Discouraged her collaborations as playwright and lyricist for original cabaret and depressed, Scott moved to Hollywood without Zelda to try musicals Seattle Vice, Modern Luv, Bohemia, and Twister Beach. his luck as a screenwriter. He died there of a heart attack at the And – even though she is a Washingtonian born and bred – age of 44. please remember: “Vous reviendrez toujours à Paris.”

Andre Nelson F. Scott Fitzgerald / Ensemble Andre is delighted to have the opportunity to work with Book-It, Café Nordo, and Lisette such a talented group of artists. Previously Lisette is a character created by adapter Judd Parkin to function with Book-It, he played Dante in She’s Come as a narrator and facilitator for the story. She is Gertrude Stein Undone and Mike in The Art of Racing in the and Alice B. Toklas’ maid. While the majority of her dialogue Rain. Other recent roles include Philip in is fictionalized by the adapter, portions of her interactions with The Pride(Theatre22) and Jonny Greenwood in Twister Beach Hemingway are taken directly from his recollections of the maid (Marxiano Productions/Café Nordo). He has also performed who actually served Gertrude and Alice. with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Mount Baker Theatre, Annex Theatre, Freehold’s Engaged Theatre, and others. Andre also works around Seattle as a sound * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union designer, puppeteer, and acting instructor at Freehold Theatre. of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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Encore_Program_MVF.indd 8 2/1/2017 12:28:48 PM Alice B. Toklas Alice Babette Toklas (1877-1967) is best known for her partnership with Gertrude Stein. Born and raised in San Francisco, Alice studied piano performance for a short time at the University of Washington. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, she monogamous, married, heterosexual couple, often moved to Paris and met Gertrude the same found themselves in the minority among their day. Alice has been described as Gertrude’s “confidante, lover, friends. Additionally, while America was under cook, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general organizer.” After Gertrude’s death in 1946, Alice began writing herself, Prohibition, American expatriates in Paris were producing two cookbooks and an autobiography. Because able to take full advantage of free-flowing alcohol. her relationship with Gertrude was not legally recognized, Gertrude’s family managed to claim all of the paintings and money that had been willed to Alice. She died in poverty at the Many of the Americans who made Paris home age of 89 and is buried next to Gertrude in Paris. were artists, and there was continually a thriving colony of writers. For Hemingway, this made Paris an invaluable literary apprenticeship. He Zelda Fitzgerald became acquainted with all of the most famous Zelda Fitzgerald, née Sayre (1900-1948), was a famous socialite and novelist. She was authors, learned everything he could from them, born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, and then made their teachings his own. He even and met her future husband in 1918 when he was stationed at nearby Camp Sheridan. As expressed his desire to do so in a 1925 letter to a young, active, social, and gorgeous dancer, Scott Fitzgerald: “I think you should learn about she had many suitors, but was eventually writing from everybody who has ever written won over by the success of Scott’s first novel. Their marriage was famously stormy; constant drunkenness by both, Scott’s that has anything to each you.” Although his plagiarism of Zelda’s diaries, and both rumored and actual own talent and discipline are certain, this time of infidelity. Zelda’s mental health deteriorated and she spent most of her life from 1930 onwards in and out of psychiatric clinics. mentorship and learning undoubtedly shaped him While institutionalized, she wrote her only novel, the semi- into the successful legendary author he became. autobiographical portrait Save Me the Waltz. She was killed in a hospital fire in 1948.

Sylvia Beach Nancy Woodbridge “Sylvia” Beach (1887-1962) Ernest Hemingway founded the Paris bookstore “Shakespeare and Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) was Company.” Born in Baltimore, she moved to a Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Paris in 1917 to study modern French literature. He was raised in Illinois and eschewed Her French partner, Adrienne Monnier, was a college in favor of reporting for The Kansas bookseller and owner of one of the first lending City Star before enlisting as an ambulance libraries in Europe. Inspired by Monnier, Beach driver in World War I. After a severe injury, set up shop across the street. She offered hospitality, support, he returned to America and met his first and even money to many aspiring writers, but her lifelong wife, Hadley. They moved to Paris, where Ernest cultivatedThe Sun passion was the work of James Joyce; she singlehandedly many literary friendships and wrote his first novel, published Ulysses. During World War II, occupying Germans Also Rises. He would write seven more novels in addition to forced Beach to close her doors, and she was interned for six short stories and works of full-length nonfiction. He would months at Vittel. After her release, her famous bookstore never also marry three more times and have three sons. He traveled re-opened for business*. Beach lived in Paris until her death in extensively, famously living in Cuba, Key West, and Idaho. His 1962. *The name lives on under different ownership at a different location in Paris. deteriorating mental health led to his 1961 suicide by shotgun. Jen Taylor* Riley Shanahan Alice B. Toklas / Sylvia Beach / Zelda Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway At Book-It, Jen has appeared in Pride and Riley is happy that you are here. Previously Prejudice, Truth Like the Sun, Giant, and The with Book-It he played Irwin Chance in The House of Mirth. Jen is a founding member Brothers K and ensemble in Slaughterhouse- of New Century Theatre Company (The Five. He has also appeared at Seattle Adding Machine, Orange Flower Water, O Shakespeare Company, Intiman Theatre Lovely Glowworm, and Holy Days) and has Festival, and ArtsWest Playhouse. He most also worked at ACT Theatre (Dangerous Liaisons, Yankee Tavern, recently played Chorus in Ajax (Outside The Wire’s Theater of A Christmas Carol), Seattle Shakespeare Company (Cymbeline, War), Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility (Pacific Conservatory Pygmalion, Much Ado About Nothing), Portland Center Stage Theatre). His film credits include Second Nature (Cross Films), (Cyrano, Doubt, Twelfth Night), San Jose Repertory Theatre, Suburbicon (Paramount Pictures), and two upcoming University Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Empty Space, and Village Theatre. She is a voice actor in radio, television, of Southern California films. Riley graduated from Cornish alo College of the Arts in 2014. For more: https://rileyasernest. audiobooks, and numerous video games including the H wordpress.com series as Cortana and Dr. Halsey. If you have a Windows Phone or PC, she is the voice of your personal assistant.

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Encore_Program_MVF.indd 9 2/1/2017 12:28:49 PM MEET THE MEET THE MUSICIANS ARTISTIC STAFF Annastasia Workman Judd Parkin be named by the Seattle Times among seven Music Director / Piano / Accordian Playwright Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius Annastasia is thrilled and honored He was glad to be working for the third for their 20-year contribution to life in the to be the house composer for Café time with Book-It. It was a good and Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the Nordo, a role she has fulfilled since honorable thing. They were fine people, 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Nordo’s inception. As a musician and as were his new friends at Café Nordo. A Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence performer, she is currently a pianist at man could go into battle with such people. award from Puget Sound Business Journal, Pacific Northwest Ballet, keyboardist/ His café crème had grown cold, and this and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s accordionist/ songwriter for the spaghetti made him sad. The garçon offered to bring 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was western band Two Horses Too Many, him a new one, but it was too late for that. a finalist for the American Union for Stage and the teacher of many delightful He knew he must go home and write that Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s piano students. Native to Great Falls, Hallmark Christmas movie. He and the 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award. Montana, Annastasia now lives in Seattle, garçon stared at each other and neither of a safe 641 miles away. She put herself them moved. After a while he went out and Erin Brindley on the map at age four with the single left the café and walked back to the hotel in Chef, Café Nordo Co-Founder “Hearts Are Red,” a smash hit at family the rain. Erin Brindley began integrating dining and gatherings and church potlucks. Some theatre to critical acclaim in 2004, winning years later she secured Bachelor of Music the Backstage Award for Most Memorable in Piano Performance from the University Jane Jones Director Play for Innocent When you Dream. In of Redlands in California, shortly 2007, she returned to her hometown of after which she completed the Pacific Founder, Founding Co-Artistic Director Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding Seattle to become managing director of Northwest Film Scoring Program. Circus Contraption and eventually directed annastasiaworkman.com. co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 30 years their final show, The Show to End All of staging literature, she has performed, Shows. In 2009, she and Terry Podgorski Dexter Stevens adapted, and directed works by such developed the concept of integrating food Clarinet / Bass Clarinet and storytelling that is Café Nordo, and has Dexter is excited to play in the literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., produced, directed, and designed menus Culinarium with a host of friends old for all nine of Nordo’s original Mainstage and new. When not playing at the coolest Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Jim Lynch, Ernest Hemingway, shows. She holds a BFA from Tisch School joint in Pioneer Square, Dexter can be of the Arts at New York University and found in pit orchestras around Seattle Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, and Jane taught herself a thing or two about cooking and playing lead reeds for the Seattle along the way. Rock Orchestra. Austen. A veteran actress of 35 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s Sari Breznau most prominent regional theatres. Film and Terry Podgorski TV credits include The Hand That Rocks Scenic Designer, Café Nordo Co-Founder Trumpet / Banjolele / Percussion / Vocals the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, Twin Sari is a circus performer, choir Terry has self-produced theatre for 20 Peaks, and Rose Red. She co-directed with years since attending the University of director, stage-craftsman, and multi- Tom Hulce at Seattle Repertory Theatre, instrumentalist best known for her work Michigan. From 2000-2009 he worked Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s with Seattle’s Circus Contraption as tour with Circus Contraption, Orkestar The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, which Zirkonium, Future Fridays, Cherdonna, manager, lighting designer, set designer, and enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the eventually production manager touring the and the Singing in the Rain Family Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation Choir. U.S., Canada, and Portugal. When Circus Award, best director) and in New York Contraption wound down, he teamed up Michael Owcharuk (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). with Erin Brindley to create Café Nordo. Recently Jane directed Book-It’s Great After an itinerant five years in which he Piano / Accordion (Alternate) Expectations at Portland Center Stage, where Michael is a composer, arranger, pianist, wrote and designed eight Café Nordo her credits also include Pride and Prejudice, productions, he and Brindley founded and accordionist. His love of all music Cyrano and Twelfth Night (2008 Drammy compels him to work in many genres: Nordo’s Culinarium in Pioneer Square award for Best Direction and Production). in April 2015. As producer and artist, jazz, new music, modern chamber, For Book-It, she has directed What We Talk orchestral music, Slavic folk, rock, and Terry has written and designed two new About When We Talk About Love, The Dog of productions and worked beside hundreds music for theatre, dance, and film. the South, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Michael leads the Michael Owcharuk of artists that have come through the Uncensored, Truth Like the Sun, The House of Culinarium doors to create a unique dining Quartet and is a member of Crystal Beth Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, and the Boom Boom Band. Additionally, theatrical experience. He is honored to Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a work with the talented team at Book-It. he works musically supporting and Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s collaborating with a diverse range of Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two Cities, and artists. He holds a Bachelor of Music Ryan Dunn The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, winner Lighting Designer from Cornish College of the Arts and his of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards music has been featured on/by: NPR, Ryan is a Seattle-based lighting and for Outstanding Production. In 2008 she, scenic designer whose work has been KEXP, KBCS, SIFF, Bumbershoot, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to Earshot Jazz, The 14/48 Projects, Seattle seen recently at Strawberry Theatre Rock Orchestra, Bushwick Book Club Workshop (Rhinoceros), Intiman Seattle, Book-It, Café Nordo, Seattle Theatre Festival (Orpheus Descending), Theatre Group, Seattle Repertory Theatre, KarinA-10 Stevens BOOK-IT Dance, REPERTORY and many THEATRE others. 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Washington Ensemble Theatre (Urban Tanuki Samurai), Café Nordo (Hotel Nordo, To Savor Tomorrow), ArtsWest Playhouse (Mothers and Sons, Death of A Salesman, Violet, My Mañana Comes), Pacific Northwest Ballet (Le Corsaire, Next Step 2014), and Village Theatre Kidstage (Urinetown), among others. Ryan is a graduate of the University of Washington, the resident designer for The Horse in Motion, a company member of Washington Ensemble Theatre, an affiliate artist with Umbrella Project, and the technical associate at ACT Theatre. Chelsea Cook Costume Designer Chelsea is thrilled to be back for her fifth show at Book-It and third show at Café Nordo. Previous shows include What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, The Dog of the South, The Brothers K,and She’s Come Undone (Book-It); Sauced and To Savor Tomorrow (Café Nordo). Her work has also been seen at Village Theatre, ArtsEmerson, George Street Playhouse, ACT Theatre, Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, and more. Favorite designs include Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Balagan Theatre, ArtsEmerson, George Street Playhouse), Into the Woods (STAGEright), The Addams Family(Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre), Pump Boys & Dinettes, Lizzie Borden (Village Theatre/ Festival). Upcoming productions include Ernest Shackleton Loves Me at the Second Stage Theatre in New York. Evan Mosher Sound Designer Evan Mosher is a Seattle sound designer, musician, and actor. He is also a company member/performer and resident sound designer and engineer with Café Nordo. He’s happy to be collaborating with When 19-year-old good ol’ boy D’aron Davenport and his Book-It again after designing sound for friends take a road trip from UC Berkeley to protest an annual Little Bee. His designs have also been Civil War reenactment in D’aron’s rural hometown in Georgia, heard at Strawberry Theatre Workshop, things don’t go as planned. A coming-of-age novel for a new Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle generation, Welcome to Braggsville reminds us of the promise Public Theater, Washington Ensemble Theatre, ArtsWest Playhouse, Satori and perils of youthful exuberance, while painting an indelible Group, Azeotrope, Splinter Group, New portrait of contemporary America. Century Theatre Company, and in two design residencies at Whitman College. TICKETS ON SALE NOW He’s also a founding member of art-pop band, “Awesome”, with whom he’s made melodic noise and peculiar performance since 2004.

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Encore_Program_MVF.indd 11 2/1/2017 12:28:50 PM MEET THE ARTISTIC STAFF Emma Pihl Robin Macartney Nocturne, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Stage Manager Properties Master Bears, The Awakening(West Los Angeles Emma is happy to return to Book-It, having Robin is excited to be working with the Garland Award), Howards End. She just stage managed Treasure Island earlier wonderful people at Book-It. Professional originated the role of Candy Kendall in The this season. Emma’s previous shows with credits include design work with Seattle Cider House Rules, Parts I and II directed Book-It also include Pride and Prejudice, I Shakespeare Company, Café Nordo, by Jane Jones and Tom Hulce. Myra is Am Of Ireland, The Amazing Adventures of Washington Ensemble Theatre, Pork the recipient, with Jane Jones, of a Paul Kavalier & Clay, Truth Like the Sun, and Filled Productions, Theatre22, Youth G. Allen Family Foundation Anniversary Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, Theatre Northwest, Live Girls! Theater, grant, the 2010 Women of Influence as well as Pink and Say, one of Book-It’s Annex Theatre, ArtsWest Playhouse, New from Puget Sound Business Journal, and educational touring shows. Emma has also Century Theatre Company, and Bainbridge was named by The Seattle Times a 2010 worked with Seattle Shakespeare Company Performing Arts. She is the resident set Unsung Hero and Uncommon Genius for (The Winter’s Tale, Titus Andronicus), Seattle designer/ front of house manager at the their 20-year contribution to life in the Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O (As You Theatre Off Jackson as well as the scene Puget Sound region. Like It), ACT Theatre and The 5th Avenue shop supervisor for the University of Puget Theatre (Assassins), Seattle Children’s Theatre Sound’s Theatre Department. (Elephant and Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”), Village Theatre (Cabaret), New Century Jane Jones Theatre Company (The Flick), and Taproot Founding Co-Artistic Director PRODUCTION Theatre (The Explorer’s Club). Emma is a proud member of New Century Theatre See Director bio. Company. STAFF Myra Platt Dan Schuy Rebecca Fredrickson Founding Co-Artistic Director Production Manager Dramaturg / Assistant Director As a founding member of Book-It, Myra As the literary and artistic intern at Book- has helped produce over 100 world- Benjamin Radin It, Rebecca is excited to be working on premiere mainstage productions and over Technical Director this production after sailing the high seas 30 education touring productions. Most recently she directed and adapted the two- Greyson Stowers with Treasure Island! She recently moved Scenic Artist back to Seattle after acquiring her MA in part epic of David James Duncan’s novel, Shakespeare Studies in Stratford-upon-Avon. The Brothers K, and directed The Amazing Angelo Domitri In the past, she has directed Romeo and Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, (2014 Master Electrician / Sound Board Operator Gregory Award for Outstanding Production, Juliet for the Shakespeare Institute Players, AidanFinn Poteet performed dramaturgy for A Midsummer Seattle Times Footlight Award). She was nominated for Outstanding Director 2012 Assistant Stage Manager Night’s Dream at Azusa Pacific University, Wardrobe Head and acted as the assistant musical director (Financial Lives of the Poets) and 2014 for Beauty and the Beast, Shrek The Musical, (Kavalier & Clay). Directing: Little Bee, Rachel Miller Les Miserables, and Thoroughly Modern Millie The Financial Lives of the Poets, The River Stage Management Intern at Studio East. Why, Persuasion, Night Flight: An Operetta, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Gin Hammond Spirits, Plainsong, Cry the Beloved Country, SPECIAL THANKS: Sweet Thursday, Giant, I Know Why the The Virginia Inn Dialect Coach Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Gin Hammond received her MFA from Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone the American Repertory Theater at Call, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Harvard University/Moscow Art Theater. Adapting: Little Bee, The Financial Lives She is an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice of the Poets, The River Why, Night Flight: Affiliations Voicework®, which she has taught in An Operetta, Red Ranger Came Calling, London, Cambridge, and Vancouver, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION British Columbia, as well as in Seattle at Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My This theatre operates under an the Cornish College for the Arts and the Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A agreement within AEA, the union Freehold Theatre Lab Studio. She is co- of professional actors and stage Telephone Call, and A Child’s Christmas in managers in the United States. founder of the Seattle Voice Institute where Wales. Adapted: The Art of Racing in the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), she teaches a wide array of vocal techniques Rain, co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas founded in 1913, represents more such as voice-over, public speaking, and than 49,000 actors and stage Pageant with Jane Jones. Composing: Prairie managers in the United States. accent/dialect skills. Hammond’s voice can Nocturne, Night Flight: An Operetta (with be heard on commercials, audiobooks, and Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling: A a variety of video games including “Undead Musical (with Edd Key), The Awakening, THEATRE PUGET Labs: State of Decay,” “DotA 2,” “Aion,” and Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas SOUND “Halo 3 ODST.” Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. Acting credits include: Seattle Repertory Theatre, THEATRE Intiman Theatre, New City Theatre, and COMMUNICATIONS the Mark Taper Forum; for Book-It: Prairie GROUP

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LITERARY LEGENDS CIRCLE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE, CONT. NOBEL CIRCLE, CONT. $75,000+ Ellen Maxson Marianna & Agastya Kohli Sage Foundation Shyla Miller Tami & Rob Kowal* Shirley Roberson* Richard LeBlanc LITERARY CHAMPIONS CIRCLE Kate & Stephen Robinson Leslie Fund, Inc. $25,000+ Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches Darcy & Lee MacLaren ArtsFund Melissa & Don Manning The Boeing Company Marcia Mason Matthew N. Clapp, Jr. BECOME A PRODUCER Doug & Kimberly McKenna Grousemont Foundation Learn how to help Book-It create Mary Metastasio N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier vibrant theatre by contacting Terry & Frank Michiels Shirley & Dave Urdal Book-It’s development staff at Microsoft Matching Gifts Program [email protected]. Moccasin Lake Foundation LITERARY HEROES CIRCLE Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters $10,000+ Terri Olson Miller & Tom Miller Anonymous Nancy & Warren Smith Deborah & Jeff Parsons* Sonya & Tom Campion Drella & Garth Stein Myra Platt & Dave Ellis Jane Cremin Tulalip Tribes Charitable Contributions Michelle Rebert & Tom Laughlin Gretl Galgon U.S. Bank Foundation Shawn & Mike Rediger Lucy Helm Kris & Mike Villiott Jo Ann & Jim Roberts Ellen & John Hill Elizabeth Warman Nathan Rodriguez Stellman Keehnel D.A. Davidson & Co. Eleni Ledesma & Eric Rose Williams Trading, LLC Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness John Schaffer Lucky Seven Foundation Laura & Erik Hanson Charyl Kay & Earl Sedlik Ellen & Stephen Lutz SEI Giving Fund Holly & Bill Marklyn NOBEL PRIZE CIRCLE Martha Sidlo Nesholm Family Foundation $1,000+ Mary Snapp The Norcliffe Foundation Anonymous (3) Christine & Josh Stepherson Mary Pigott Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Deborah Swets* Safeco Insurance Fund Cinnimin Avena Kelly Munn & Steven Thues Ruth Bailey Gen & Chuck Tremblay PARTNERS CIRCLE James Barnett Katherine & James Tune $5,000+ Stephen & Salli Bauer Karen & Ron Van Genderen Anonymous Lenore & Dick Bensinger Ruth & Jerry Verhoff ArtsWA Karen Brandvick-Baker & Ross Baker Judith Whetzel Charlotte Martin Foundation Sally Brunette Hope & Ken Wiljanen Amy & Matthew Cockburn Bryan Burch Jay Hereford & Margaret Winsor Emily Davis Diana & Chuck Carey Christina Wright & Luther Black Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Karen & Tom Challinor Wyman Youth Trust Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood Clipper Seafoods, LTD. Nordstrom Donna Cochener PULITZER PRIZE CIRCLE Michell & Larry Pihl Carol & Bill Collins $500+ Lynne & Nick Reynolds Laura & Greg Colman* Anonymous (3) Robert Chinn Foundation Allan & Nora Davis Connie Anderson Ellen & Michael Rosenberg DeNormandie, Sidlo & Associates PLLC Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb True-Brown Foundation Earl B. Gilmore Foundation Elizabeth Braun Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Joann Byrd LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Jayn & Hugh Foy Tré Calhoun $2,500+ Shannon & Graham Gardner Cathy & Michael Casteel John Aldaya & Tom DeFelice Craig & Darcy Greene Robert Hovden & Ron DeChene Monica Alquist Margaret Griffiths* Mark Dexter & Deborah Cowley Donna & Anthony Barnett Clay Gustaves Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal Carolyn & George Cox Barbara Hieronymus Sara Elward D.A. Davidson & Co. Mary Frances & Harold Hill Kim & Rob Entrop Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness Dave Thompson & Judy Jesiolowski Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Laura & Erik Hanson Karr Tuttle Campbell Merck Foundation Lydig Construction Debbie Killinger R. Brooks Gekler

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PULITZER PRIZE CIRCLE, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD CIRCLE, PEN/FAULKNER AWARD CIRCLE, CONT. CONT. CONT. Jean Gorecki & Dick Dobyns Hill • Lisa & William Holderman • Ann Hollar Wong • Marcia Donovan* • Beth L. Dubey* • Mark Hamburg & Steve Orser • Cynthia Huffman & Ray Heacox Donna Dughi • Helen Dunbar • Marilyn Endriss Ellen Hastings Lake & Company Real Estate • Melissa Huther • Tom & Angie Johnson • Janet • Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman • Judi & Steve Kathryn Hazzard Jones • Kristin Jorgensen • Alice Braverman & Finney • Laura Fischetti • Carolyn & Robert Karyn Henry* Patrick Kafer • Pam Kendrick • Karen Koon • Fletcher • Jean & Mike Gannon • Mike Garner • Chris Higashi Meredith Lehr & William Severson • Patricia Shelley Gibson • David Quicksall & Rachel Glass Eric Tishkoff & Wendy Hilliker Keegan & Connor & Thomas Lennon • Brock • Mitzi Gligorea • Terry Graham • David Nash Sallie Hirsch Loen • Douglas & Sherry Luetjen • Mary Anne & Pat Graves • Mike Grimm • Linda Haas • Alle Heather Howard Stusser Martin & Charles Martin • Molly & Hall & Cliff Meyer • Judith Hamilton • Marina John & Joyce Jackson Mike Martinez • Paul Martini • Elaine Mathies & Hunter Hanahan • Lenore Hanauer • Faith Craig Lorch • Ruth McCormick* • Mary McHugh • Jill & Hanna • Amani Harris • Phyllis Hatfield • Signy Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon Joe McKinstry • Susan & Bob Mecklenburg & James Hayden • Elena Hein • Lloyd Herman Jamie & Jeremy Joseph • Richard Monroe • Min Moon • Martha & Richard Wilson* • Stephanie Hilbert • Mariko Melissa & Bill Joyce Mukhalian • Christina Papadakis • Cecilia Paul & John Hirasawa • Beth Hogg • Erika Holden • Mr. & Mrs. Gareld John Kneepkens & Harry Reinert • Corliss Perdaems & Carl Julie Howe & Dennis Shaw • Elizabeth Hubbard John O’Connell & Joyce Anne Latino Kassebaum • Sherry Perrault & Michael Harding • Harriet Huber • Mary & Robert Hunter • Tami & Joe Micheletti • Yumi Petersen • Raquel Phillips • Judy Pigott Terry Holme & Jeanne Iannucci • Annie Jamison Ann Morris & John Sobieck • Barb & Dan Radin • Laura & Brian Readdy • • Russell Janney • Janof Architecture • Kent Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Paula Riggert • Rebecca Ripley • Robert Romeo* Johnson & Cody Blomberg • Susan Jones & Cheryl & Tom Oliver • Jain Rutherford • Troy & Margot Saharic • Christopher Monck • Gil Joynt • Joan Kalhorn Cathy & Jeff Peda Mig Schaaf • Gail & John Sehlhorst • David • David Kasik & Jan Levine • Kael Sherrard & Christiane Pein & Steven Bull Shellenbarger & Marsha Ose • Virginia Sly • Anne Kiemle • Owen Kikuta • Emily Krebill Olivia Pi-Sonyer & Andrew DeVore Alice C. Smith • Spencer Family Charitable • Alan Kristal • Kristen Laine & Jim Collins • Doris & Charles Ray Fund • Constance Standish & David Darby • Stephanie Lakinski • Patricia Lambert • Lois Janey L. Repensek Colleen & Brad Stangeland • Julie Stohlman Levy • Sylvia & Wayne Levy • Bonnie Lewman Michael & Jo Shapiro • Liann & Stephen Sundquist • Jen Taylor • • Mary Frances Lyons • Elizabeth Mathewson Margaret Silver Jennifer Teunon & Adam Smith • Shari & Kerry • Susan McCloskey • Ann McCurdy & Frank Jenness & John Starks Thompson • Elizabeth Valentine • Ruth Valine & Lawler • Paul & Anna McKee • McVicars Family Janice Strand Ed McNerney • Linda Walton & Andy Hoyal • • Kelly Meagher • Medina Foundation • Elaine Paul Stucki & Christina Chang Jerry & Vreni Von Arx Watt • Suzanne & Brent Mew • Ellen & Mark Mills • Cornelia & Terry Gail Tanaka Weaver • John Pehrson • Gregory Wetzel • Bill Moore • Margaret Morrow • Catherine Mudge • Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas & Paula Whitham • Carol & Bryan Willison • Lynn Murphy • Susan Nivert • Grace Nordhoff Wendy & Rhea Thompson Bo Willsey & Jonathan Beard • Karen O’Connor • Martha Vanguard Charitable Oman • Onehope Foundation • Carrie Oshiro Leora & Robert Wheeler PEN/FAULKNER AWARD CIRCLE • Mona & Kurt Own • Cheryl Papadakis • Julie $100+ Paul • Janet L Pauli • Louise Perlman • Roger & NATIONAL BOOK AWARD CIRCLE Anonymous (14) • Doug Adams & Scott Christine Pihl • Anne & Lee Pipkin • John & $250+ Fitzgerald • Melissa Albert • Judith Alexander Sandra Platt • Wilson Wyoming Platt • Felicia Anonymous (6) • Heather & Mark Barbieri • • Cortney Anderson-Sanford • Joel Aslanian • Porter & George Gilbert • Susan Porterfield • Leslie Bateman • Carla & Bradley Berg • Nancy Brian Atwater • Maxine Bailey • Anne & Roger Andrea Ptak & Aaron Houseknecht • Benjamin L. Bittner • Inez Noble Black • Bob Blazek & Baker • Jo Ann & Tom Bardeen • Brenda Bennett Radin • Roberta & Brian Reed • Nancy Reichley Monique Kleinhans • Marisa N. Bocci • Janet • Julia Bent • Maribeth Berberich • Diane Bisset • Jeannette Reynolds • Karen & Eric Richter Boguch & Kelby Fletcher • Patricia Britton • • Lindsay & Tony Blackner • Barry Boone & • Jennifer Ridewood • Nancy Risdon • Beth Jonathan Buchter • Kris Campbell • Linda & Mary Wilson • Cheryl Boudreau • Mary Anne Rollinger • Fernne & Roger Rosenblatt • Ann Peter Capell • Mary Casey-Goldstein • Mary Braund & Steve Pellegrin • Jeff Youngstrom & Rowberg • Jennifer L. Cells Russell • Beth Therese Chambers • Shelton-de Clercq Family Becky Brooks • Angela & Curtis Brown • Don Rutherford • Lisa Schafer • Carol Schapira & • Robin Dearling & Gary Ackerman • Wendy & Karen Brown • Stan & Alice Burgess • Lori Michael Levin • Lee Scheingold • Shannon del Valle • Dottie Delaney • Denise Derr • Lynn Mudge • Kathleen Caldwell • Zimmie Caner • Schneider • Julie & Jeff Schoenfeld • Heidi Dissinger • Carol & Kelly Dole • Arni Litt & Lori Jeanne Carpenter • Joyce Chase • Melissa Chase Schor • B. Charlotte Schreiber • Kinza & Philip Eickelberg • Lynne & Hollie Ellis • Expedia Gives • Carl Chew • Catherine Clemens • Johanna & Schuyler • Pamela & Nate Searle • Lavonne & Matching Gift Program • Jane & Stan Fields • A. 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The donor list reflects gifts received January 1, 2016 – December 31, 2016. Nastasia Guimont and Chandler Thomas in Goin’ Someplace Special. Photo by Chris Bennion. Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgments. Please contact Last summer, Book-It Arts and Ed provided Professional Development Development Associate Ian Stewart at ians@ Workshops to 36 Teachers in Washington, Texas, and Illinois. book-it.org or 206.428.6202 with any changes. Thus far, 726 students have experienced extended in-school residencies in King and Snohomish Counties. That number will top 1,000 students by the end of the school year—almost double last year’s numbers. Our Touring Stories this year have so far visited 47 venues, performed 50 performances for a 16,106 audience members. By the end of year we will have visited 135 venues, performed 150 shows and reached upwards of 60,000 audience members. To see where our touring shows have visited, go to our web- site book-it.org and click on “Education.”

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Encore_Program_MVF.indd 15 2/1/2017 12:28:50 PM OUR MISSION IS TO TRANSFORM GREAT LITERATURE INTO GREAT THEATRE THROUGH SIMPLE AND SENSITIVE PRODUCTION AND TO INSPIRE OUR AUDIENCES TO READ. Board of DIRECTORS

Larry Pihl, President Chief Financial Officer, Book-It STAFF Clipper Seafoods Stephen Robinson, Vice-President Jane Jones Myra Platt Writer Founder & Founding Founding Co-Artistic Director Co-Artistic Director Shirley Roberson, Secretary Senior Associate, Hughes Media Law Group artistic marketing & administrative John Aldaya, Treasurer Chief Financial Officer, Carrix Josh Aaseng communications Kayti Barnett-O’Brien Monica Alquist Literary Manager Patricia Britton General Manager Director of Events & Special Projects, Director of Marketing Shawna Grajek Penny Bradley Puget Sound Business Journal Casting Associate & Communications Bookkeeper Rebecca Fredrickson Val Brunetto Laura Colman Literary & Artistic Intern Communications Manager production Healthcare & Human Resources Executive, Retired Kevin McKeon Dan Schuy education Graphics and Publications Production Manager Anne Fisher Consultant, Point B Annie DiMartino Benjamin Radin Director of Education patron services Technical Director Stuart Frank Sourcing Specialist, 2r Consulting Dominic Lewis Sasha Bailey Jocelyne Fowler Tour Manager House Manager / Costume Shop Manager Craig Greene Volunteer Coordinator Director of Special Projects, Tom Dewey services Lydig Construction development Box Office Manager Adam Smith Photography Jane Jones Sally Brunette Aly Guzman-Dyrseth Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director, Director of Development A.J. Heinen Alan Alabastro Photography Book-It Box Office Associates Ian Stewart Chris Bennion Photography Development Associate Margaret Kineke John Ulman Photography Senior Vice President, Financial Consultant, The Makeup Session D.A. Davidson & Co. Tom Wahl, IT Support Mary Metastasio Senior Portfolio Manager, Safeco, Retired Shyla Miller Community Investor, Global Corporate Citi- zenship NW Region, The Boeing Company CONTACT us Christopher Mumaw (Intern) Independent Scenic Designer BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Myra Platt 2010 Mayor’s Arts Award-winner, recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Arts Award and the 2014 Inaugural Sherry Prowda Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It Literary Champion Award, Book-It Repertory Theatre began 27 years ago as an artists’ collective, adapting short stories for performance and touring them throughout the Northwest. The company incorporated as a non-profit in 1990. Today, with Steven Schwartzman Attorney, U.S. Postal Service, over 125 world-premiere adaptations of literature to its credit—many of which have garnered rave reviews and gone on to Western Area Law Department subsequent productions all over the country—Book-It is widely respected for the consistent artistic excellence of its work. Earl Sedlik center theatre + box office admin offices Educator and Supporter 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA 98109 158 Thomas Street, Seattle, WA 98109 Christine Stepherson box office contact admin contact Founder, Team Soapbox 206.216.0833 | [email protected] 206.216.0877 | [email protected] Honorary BOARD book-it.org Sonya Campion FACEBOOK TWITTER INSTAGRAM PINTEREST Beth McCaw Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Tom Robbins /bookitrep @book_it bookitrep bookitrep Garth Stein A-16 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE

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View Lawrence’s masterwork depicting the exodus of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North. All 60 paintings will be shown on the West Coast for the first time in two decades.

The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous loan of the entire series from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Presenting Sponsor Major support for this exhibition is provided by Matthew P. Bergman.

Special thanks to the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation for its support of this exhibition.

Image The Migration Series, Panel 3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north. (detail), 1940–41, Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917–2000, casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 in., Acquired 1942, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., © 2016 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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Production of Mariela in the Desert, photo by Michael Brunk.

Latino Theatre Projects is a Seattle-based professional theatre Tell me about Latino Theatre Projects. company that seeks to inform, enlighten, and engage audiences Founded in 2011, the primary purpose through presentation of thought-provoking literature—what LTP of Latino Theatre Projects is to produce plays from Latin America and the terms “useful theatre” or “Teatro Útil.” Caribbean presenting diverse cultural worlds that allow theater audiences to more fully understand the Latino experience in the twenty-first century.

We recently sat down with Fernando Luna, LTP’s Latino is a heterogeneous term that Producing Artistic Director, to discuss the local Latinx includes the diversity of all Spanish- artistic community, good memories and future hopes. speaking and indigenous cultures existing in the US from Mexico, the Caribbean, Spain, Central and Latin America, and the complexities which arise from the intersections of these cultures with non-Latino cultures. To that end, we strive to illuminate those rich and tense intersections.

encoreartsseattle.com 9 THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Saturday, March 11, 2017 7:30 pm | $44–$69 Join the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players’ band of swashbuckling buccaneers, bumbling British bobbies, frolicsome Victorian maidens, and the delightfully dotty “model of a modern Major-General” for a rollicking romp over the rocky coast of Cornwall. NIYAZ featuring AZAM ALI Friday, March 17, 2017 7:30 pm | $14–$44 Niyaz has created a 21st century global trance tradition, seamlessly blending poetry and folk songs from their native Iran and surrounding countries. Niyaz will perform with an electric/ acoustic quintet and feature a classically-trained whirling dervish. LILA DOWNS Anna in the Tropics at Burien Actors Theatre. Producing Director Fernando Luna at Thursday, March 30, 2017 center, in the hat. Photo courtesy of Latino Theatre Projects. 7:30 pm | $34–$69 Lila’s music and vocal artistry has many influences, including the folk and What are the stumbling blocks of de Arena/Women of Sand, with student ranchera music of Mexico Latinx artists? leaders at the UW La Raza Center. The and South America and American folk, jazz, blues, and hip-hop. Many of energy and excitement generated by her lyrics focus on issues relating to social justice, Like much of the country, the Seattle- and often tell the stories of the workers who that production led to the establishment migrate from rural Mexico to work in the U.S. area has a rapidly expanding Latino of Latino Theatre Projects as an ongoing, ec4arts.org population. However, outside of active organization. Along with my 425.275.9595 folkloric art and works that feature less creative collaborator Robert Harkins, 410FOURTHAVE.N. than positive images of Latinos—the with very limited resources, I developed EDMONDSWA98020 incarcerated, barrio gangs, struggling our mission and embarked on building a immigrants—there are few artistic presence for the kind of work that we do. works presented that feature a more

EAP 1_6 V template.indd 1 12/7/16 10:10 AMpositive perspective on Latino culture. Do you work with other organizations to We strive to break through those help get Latino arts further enmeshed in APRIL 2! barriers to present rich and varied the community? EXTENDED THRU Latino experiences, both through It is a hallmark of our work to partner established plays and original pieces with other artists and organizations to created to illuminate the true Latino fulfill our mission of helping Latinos culture in all its diversity both in and find a voice to share their identity and outside of the U.S. culture. For example, we joined with Why did you found LTP? Para Los Niños and Burien Parks to create a free educational program of I am the co-founder of LTP. I come from theatre arts and storytelling for low- a professional theatrical background income, elementary school students in in my native Mexico. After emigrating Burien. Our work on this program was to the U.S., I took a different life and featured in a news story on the local professional course through social work BEGINS FEB 9 Spanish-language television station and and other community-based services. that story was picked up by the national However, the pull of the theatre, artistic Univision network. expression and pride in my identity as a Latino never dissipated. This past summer, we partnered with La Sala, a local collective of Latino artists, In 2010, I began networking with to stage a multi-disciplinary “pop-up” of other Latino theatre artists in hope of A THEATRICAL CULINARY COLLABORATION Latino arts in Pioneer Square. The pop- WITH CAFÉ NORDO IN PIONEER SQUARE creating a foothold in the local scene up, titled La Cocina, demonstrated the TICKETS AT for serious Latino art. In 2011, I saw an rich cross-section of Latino art being BOOK-IT.ORG opportunity to create a production of created in Seattle. 206-216-0833 a provocative Mexican play, Mujeres

10 ENCORE STAGES Encore+CityArts_MVF_1-6pgvert_120716.indd 1 12/7/2016 3:01:30 PM In November, we collaborated with classically trained Latino artists to stage the 2016 Encanto music program at the Moore Theater. This concert combined mariachi, boleros, opera, and symphonic music for the first time in the region and possibly the nation. The concert was headlined by tenor José Iñiquez and featured the Mariachi Huenachi, the Ballard Civic Symphony, and Latino instrumental soloists.

What would you want the Seattle community at-large to know about the local Latino arts community? I work to present the richness of Latino culture in this region to the community at large. Our work is a statement of visibility and validation of our rich stories and our humanity. We strive to create intersections where we can connect and develop understanding across different narratives.

We take audiences beyond piñatas and margaritas to places where they see the positive contribution of Latinos to the world. We put a realistic face on who we are. Latino Theater Projects has a committed artistic vision of portraying positive role models that dignify and represent the high values of our community and the places we came from.

Our work is a statement of © Philip Newton visibility and CAPTIVATING DRAMA A New Seattle Opera Production In Czech with English subtitles. Recently awakened to true love, sheltered Evenings 7:30 PM Katya longs to be free of her dreary validation of our Sunday Matinee 2:00 PM arranged marriage and dominating mother- in-law. Can her fragile world survive when Featuring the Seattle Opera rich stories and our Chorus and members of pent-up passions finally burst forth? Seattle Symphony Orchestra. humanity. Janáček, a contemporary of Puccini, takes inspiration from Slavic folk songs to weave FEB. 25-MAR. 11 a dreamlike story of isolation, longing, MCCAW HALL and provincial oppression. Don’t miss this 206.389.7676 Seattle Opera premiere. SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/KATYA

SEASON SPONSOR: SEATTLE OPERA GUILD PRODUCTION SPONSORS: SEATTLE OPERA FOUNDATION, CITY OF SEATTLE OFFICE OF ARTS & CULTURE, KREIELSHEIMER ENDOWMENT FUND

encoreartsseattle.com 11 20 What are some forthcoming events or performances that you’re excited about?

Live @ Benaroya Hall16/17 We are very busy right now. From March 16 through April 8, we will be producing the play 26 Miles by Pulitzer Prize- winner Quiara Alegría Hudes. The play will be presented at West of Lenin in Fremont.

In 26 Miles, Olivia has been estranged from her Cuban-American mother for eight years, involuntarily torn apart by a nasty custody dispute. When she finds herself alone, scared and violently throwing up, she calls her mother who impetuously kidnaps the 15-year- old and takes her on a road trip to Yellowstone. In the process, we get to know this beautiful and broken family and the ways each of them has been loved and wounded.

We are very excited about the accomplished actors and designers that are helping to create this beautiful story. The play is directed by one of Seattle’s leading stage directors, Julie Beckman, who has crafted a string of highly acclaimed, popular shows.

What are some of your favorite memories of being a part of the Latino Theatre Projects? It’s hard to choose just a couple. This has been an exciting and personally enriching five years.

Certainly, an early highlight was working with five Latino immigrants to write and perform their own expressions of their experience of leaving their home country and having February 21 to establish new roots. The result, titled Voces y Raices/Voices and Roots, was performed as the keynote of a statewide summit of 350 Latino leaders.

In 2012, we partnered with Burien Actors Theatre to create a production of the Pulitzer-winning Anna in the Tropics by Cuban playwright Nilo Cruz. This production featured what had FOR TICKETS: to be the most multi-cultural cast in Media Sponsor: Greater Seattle. We had nine actors of BENAROYAHALL.ORG eight different nationalities, races, and

12 ENCORE STAGES ethnicities. I was proud to be a part of this cast. We truly formed an extended family that still gets together and shares their collective love all these years later. Live well.

At Mirabella Seattle, our goal is for We take audiences you to live better longer. With our premium fitness and aquatic centers, beyond piñatas complete with spa-style activities and amenities, plus our countless wellness and margaritas to classes, staying active and engaged places where they has never been easier. see the positive Let go of age. Embrace healthy. Retire contribution of at Mirabella. Latinos to the 206-254-1441 retirement.org/mirabellaseattle world.

Mirabella Seattle is a Pacific Retirement Services Community. Equal housing opportunity. Last spring, I was honored to direct a production of Mariela in the Desert by noted Mexican playwright Karen Zacarias at Theatre Off Jackson. This weSt CoASt PReMIeRe beautiful and moving production brought in sell-out audiences.

What can our readers do to help your organization? Well, first and foremost, we hope people will come see our upcoming production of 26 Miles at West of Lenin. It promises to be another powerful, thought- provoking experience for our theater- goers.

And, of course, there is always the need for financial support. It is an inescapable fact that making quality theatre takes a lot of money. We are fortunate to have built a base to help us continue to tell important Latino stories, but there are never enough by SARAH bURGESS contributors. We hope people who care about a rich and diverse arts dIReCted by MARyA SeA KAMINSKI community in Seattle will join us in enriching their appreciation and MARCH 17 - APRIL 15 season sponsor experience of Latino culture.< seattlerep.org | 206.443.2222

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Ana Maria Campoy Tina Polzin

1-Off Productions is a theatre How did 1-Off Productions get started? treated in the sciences, how we view company invested in producing What’s your mission? mental illness and now a look at first generation Americans—the added multilingual works to underserved Polzin: I approached Ana Maria when I was submitting grants for Blood pressure that is on them to succeed Seattle communities Wedding and she happened to also be when their parents often sacrificed submitting for Proof. We decided [to so much for them to be here. I think start a company] to help each other it’s important that all people see produce since our missions of equal themselves represented onstage and to open these conversations in diverse We recently sat down representation onstage and bringing theater to those without easy access communities. with Ana Maria Campoy, were aligned. Campoy: When you communicate a bilingual teaching artist Why is an organization like 1-Off between two languages regularly, it is for many Seattle theatres, Production important? hard and tragic to see someone who and Tina Polzin, who has lives in two worlds suddenly lose one Campoy: I really appreciate 1-Off half of it. Setting Proof within a bilingual worked as a producer for Production as a place where we can talk family gave me a window into that about how we can create equity on stage experience unlike it had before. the Intiman Festival. We and in the audience and then actually discussed their coming implement our ideas. With Proof, I was Talking about the Latinx political voice, bilingual production of drawn to how Catherine and Claire, do you think the election changed the appear to speak different languages, local Latinx artistic community? Proof, how politics will which lead me to draw parallels with Campoy: Oh yes, it will impact us and, affect Latinx art and what bilingual families. Our stories and how I believe, further galvanize us to get you can do to help. we communicate to each other are not organized, keep working, and demand performed on Seattle stages. space—on stages, in classrooms as Polzin: 1-Off Production brings plays teaching artists, or as administrators to the people. We are working to have and producers of our art form. I think the people we bring theater to equally we are going to get louder. I think we are represented onstage. We examine how going to get bolder. I think we are going modern and classical text can be made to give less fucks and go for it. Latinx even richer through the layering of stories are American stories. We have another language. been a part it for a long time. How can someone get involved in the Why did you choose to produce Proof? organization? Polzin: The idea behind the Spanish being another layer in the complex Campoy: So many ways! Donate, relationship of this father and daughter volunteer at a show, help us canvas and the use of language to explore and before events and or calling local illustrate his decline struck a chord with organizations to make them aware of us me. The play brings about important and our performances, and of course, < questions about how women are come!

14 ENCORE STAGES Intermission Brain Transmission Are you waiting for the curtain to rise? Or, perhaps, you’ve just returned your seat before the second act and have a few minutes to spare? Treat your brain to this scintillating TRIVIA QUIZ!

Email us the answer to the last question and have a chance to win tickets to a show!

1) Book-It Repertory Theatre is presenting A Moveable Feast in conjunction with Café Nordo. The ticket comes with a 4-course meal and an appetizer. About Ernest Hemingway’s time in Paris in the 1920s, when was A Moveable Feast first published?

a) 1924 b) 1944 c) 1954 d) 1964

2) Company Wayne McGregor comes to the Moore Theatre in January with the production Atamos. Where does McGregor originate from? Step Afrika!, photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. a) Canada b) England 4) Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Bring Down c) Wales the House is a new epic two-part adaptation Bonus Question d) United States of what Shakespeare play? What was the last arts performance you attended 3) Taproot Theatre is presenting a) Macbeth that you liked best and the comedy Room Service. After b) Henry VI trilogy why? it debuted in 1937, RKO Pictures c) Hamlet bought the rights to use as a movie Email your response to d) The Tempest production@encoremediagroup. starring who? com with Trivia Quiz in the subject line. a) Marx Brothers 5) Performing in February at Meany Hall will be Step Afrika!. It is the first professional b) Charlie Chaplin company dedicated to stepping. Where did c) Abbott and Costello the dance form originate? d) Laurel and Hardy a) Ghana b) South Africa c) United States

d) Morocco

with the upstart crow collective, it’s an all-female ensemble. 5) C – United States. The dance originated in the 1990s at African-American sororities and fraternities. and sororities African-American at 1990s the in originated dance The States. United – C 5) ensemble. all-female an it’s collective, crow upstart the with

Ballet and many other organizations. 3) A – Marx Brothers. Also starring a young Lucille Ball, the movie ultimately recorded a $330,000 loss. 4) B – – B 4) loss. $330,000 a recorded ultimately movie the Ball, Lucille young a starring Also Brothers. Marx – A 3) organizations. other many and Ballet trilogy. Produced in partnership partnership in Produced trilogy. Henry VI Henry

ANSWERS ANSWERS 1) D – 1964. It was published posthumously. Hemingway died in 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. 2) B – England. McGregor has created work for the San Francisco Ballet, Paris Opera Opera Paris Ballet, Francisco San the for work created has McGregor England. – B 2) Idaho. Ketchum, in 1961 in died Hemingway posthumously. published was It 1964. – D 1)

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