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Welcome to the opening production of ETC’s 41st season, Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare, the first of the five plays we’ll be bringing you this season – plays that are rich and varied in style, tone and genre. It is that variety that is a cornerstone of all regional professional theaters. This past August we took a group of ETC supporters to London to see five plays in five days. Seeing As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe put them in exactly the right frame of mind for this opening production. And last May we took another hearty ETC group to Washington D.C. to visit several fellow regional professional theaters. Plans included seeing a world premiere at Arena JILL SELTZER MANAGING DIRECTOR Stage which was ultimately cancelled due to the illness of a lead performer. Instead of seeing the production, we spent the afternoon with Arena Managing Director Edgar Dobie. Perhaps he thought he owed us, but for my money, he over-paid with his time and insight. He helped us understand that the vision of Arena co-founder Zelda Fichandler lives on in the efforts of all regional FOUNDATION SUPPORT professional theaters. Among regional theater’s needs, according to Zelda, are: imagination, taste, risk tolerance, and a nose for the audience’s subconscious hopes and fears. Ann Jackson Family Foundation Schlinger Chrisman Foundation ETC’s new season is designed to do just that. Join us as we endeavor to pique your Hutton Parker Foundation Shubert Foundation imagination, realize your hopes and allay your fears. The Léni Fund Towbes Foundation P.S. Don’t miss ETC’s Ghost Light Night on Sunday, October 27th. Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation Zegar Family Foundation Santa Barbara Foundation THE CAST IN ORDER OF SPEAKING
THE DUKE...... ABDUL-KHALIQ MURTADHA* ESCALUS/BARNARDINE...... PAUL MICHAEL SANDBERG ANGELO...... RICHARD BAIRD* MISTRESS OVERDONE/FRANCISCA...... TIFFANY STORY POMPEY...... MATTHEW FLOYD MILLER* LUCIO...... BRIAN IBSEN* CLAUDIO...... TREVOR PETERSON* PROVOST...... TIM McMANUS FRIAR THOMAS/ELBOW...... ROBERT LESSER* ISABELLA...... LILY GIBSON* MARIANA/JULIET...... PAIGE TAUTZ
Measure for Measure will be performed with one 20-minute intermission.
Please turn off all electronic devices while in the theater. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.
SPECIAL THANKS: Kevin Acuna Katie Laris Ashraf Berika Jeff Marlow Michael Bernard John and Ruth Matuszeski Paul Canter Marlin and Ginger Miller Francois-Pierre Couture Lisa Reich and Bob Johnson Peter Crawford Kate Saubestre Nancy Davidson SBCC Theatre Group Aurelio DeRobles Helene Segal David Ellenstein Jenny Sullivan Ken Johnson Bob and Leah Temkin Sina Khoda Sam and Barbara Toumayan Jon Koons Simon Williams
THIS PRODUCTION IS DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF: James Breen Elaine Kendall Geoffrey Rutkowski
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. PRESENTED WITH SUPPORT FROM Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara is a professional regional theater employing members of the Actors’ Equity Association and is a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theater. A NOTE FROM THE DRAMATURG
The title of Measure for Measure alludes to the New Testament admonition to withhold judgment and practice mercy, remembering that one day everyone will be judged and “with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you again (Matthew 7.1-2).” For the play’s plot, Shakespeare varied from his practice of looking to historical sources. drawing on folktales that were well known at the time. One of these folktales, known as “The Monstrous Ransom,” forms the basis of the interaction between the main characters (the Duke, Lord Angelo, Claudio, and Isabella).
The folk story involves a judge who agrees to release a woman’s husband or brother from a death sentence if she will have sex with him. In “monstrous ransom” stories, the woman consents to the judge’s bargain, but the judge reneges on his promise: he has sex with the woman and executes the man. [Music lovers may recognize this folk motif from Judy Collins’s song “Anathea,” Bob Dylan’s “Seven Curses,” Led Zeppelin’s “Gallows Pole,” or, opera lovers may recognize it as the major motif in Puccini’s Tosca.] In the folk tales and songs, the executed man’s head would be sent to the woman to terrorize her further.
The story continues when the severely wronged woman appeals to a higher authority than the judge for justice. Tension gathers around how the ruler to whom the woman brings her complaint will craft a just verdict that suitably punishes a judge who has corrupted justice. When these stories of the “monstrous ransom” circulated in the 16th and 17th centuries, the ruler (typically a judge or a king) solved his judicial dilemma by sentencing the malefactor to marriage to the victimized woman. After the victim and the judge are to be married, the judge is to be immediately executed. As a widow, the woman regains her honor and receives her dead husband’s estate. This was received as a brilliant solution back then, but it would likely leave modern people wanting a different kind of justice for the wronged woman/ Isabella.
The plot of “The Monstrous Ransom” formed the basis of several published plays and stories that Shakespeare likely knew and that emphasized the woman’s moral dilemma rather than the Duke’s judicial meticulousness: Should she surrender her bodily autonomy for her brother’s life? Shakespeare shares this greater emphasis on Isabella’s predicament and what measures she should take. WE PROUDLY SPONSOR etc proudly Lile supports Kitchen Ensemble Theatre MODERN • COMFORT FOOD AFFORDABLE • HEALTHY
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/ilovegelsons @gelsonsmarkets @gelsonsmarkets /gelsonsmarkets ETC thanks the following people for ARTISTS providing housing for our theater artists Tom & Paula Yurkanis Bruice Marlin & Ginger Miller Richard Baird (Angelo) is an award-winning Carol Duncan Lisa Reich & Bob Johnson actor, director and producer. Richard is the Casa Dorinda Joan Rutkowski founding artistic director of New Fortune Theatre Gil Garcia & Marti Correa de Garcia Bob & Leah Temkin Company, where he has directed and appeared Michael & Christine Holland Barbara & Sam Toumayan in Henry the Fifth (Craig Noel San Diego Critics John & Ruth Matuszeski Laura & Geof Wyatt Circle Awards for “Outstanding Direction and Lead Performance”), The Birthday Party (McCann) and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (co-director/Valmont). Richard has appeared in regional theaters across the country, including North Coast Repertory Theatre (twenty-five productions), The Old Globe, San Diego Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Portland Centre Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Arizona Theatre Company, Southwest Shakespeare Company (“AriZoni Best Actor for Cyrano and Petruchio” in Taming of the Shrew), and Kingsmen Shakespeare and has directed for North Coast Rep, Backyard Renaissance, Southwest Shakespeare, Intrepid Theatre and Diversionary Theatre. Measure for Measure marks Richard’s 50th Shakespeare production. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
Lily Gibson (Isabella) is an Ovation Award-winning actor. She is delighted to be returning to ETC, where she was last seen as Baby Doll in Tennessee Williams’ Baby Doll. Most recently, she appeared as Myrtle Mae in Harvey at the Laguna Playhouse. Lily starred as May in the critically acclaimed Nibroc Trilogy with the Rubicon Theatre Company (Ovation Awards for “Best Lead Actress & Best Production,” Indy Award for “Best Performance”). Other theater credits include Hedvig in The Wild Duck at A Noise Within (Ovation Nomination for “Best Featured Actress”), and the non-binary Burbank in A Singular They at The Blank Theatre (LADCC Special Award for “Outstanding World Premiere”). Television: “NCIS,” “The Mentalist,” “The Guardian,” “8 Simple Rules,” “Judging Amy,” “Boy Meets World,” and “Girl Meets World.” Film: the upcoming Christmas feature Pizza & Whine, Killing Animals, The Negotiator, Up Close & Personal, and The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle. She received her MA degree in Latin and Ancient Greek from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. www.Lily-Gibson.com ARTISTS ARTISTS
Brian Ibsen (Lucio) is thrilled to be making his Tim McManus (Provost) has been performing debut with ETC. On Broadway, Brian has worked solidly since 2006 doing a bit of everything, including with Laurence Fishburne and Stockard Channing in comedy, drama, musical, radio, dinner theater, The Lion in Winter and Woody Harrelson and Jayne reader’s theater, film, and of course, Shakespeare. Atkinson in The Rainmaker. He has worked with He has performed in repertory stage productions such directors as Tony-nominated Mark Lamos, and including Macbeth as Banquo, The Taming of the Tony Award winners Jack O’brien, Scott Ellis, John Shrew as Tranio, Richard III as Dorset, and his Rando and Michael Mayer. Brian has performed in ultimate favorite, A Midsummer Night’s Dream as regional theater around the country in shows such as Puck. Tim thinks the best kind of play is one that can Love’s Labours Lost and Venus in Fur (Shakespeare make you laugh and cry in the same night, and he Santa Cruz), Twelfth Night (The Old Globe), Taming feels Measure for Measure fits that perfectly. This is of the Shrew (The Old Globe), Macbeth (The Old Tim’s first time performing with ETC and he is very Globe), The Glass Menagerie (Arizona Theatre Company), The Lion in Winter excited and proud to be working with such a talented cast and crew! (The Fulton Opera House), The Drawer Boy (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park/ Actors Theatre of Louisville) and originated the role of Dan Jr. in Stephen Matthew Floyd Miller (Pompey) is delighted to Metcalfe’s world premier play Loves and Hours (The Old Globe). TV shows return to ETC, where he has appeared in Fallen Angels include “NCIS,” “CSI Miami,” “Masters of Sex,” “Shooter,” “Criminal Minds,” and The 39 Steps. His Broadway credits include and “Beverly Hills, 90210.” He holds a BFA in acting from Purchase College, Not About Nightingales (Circle in the Square, Dir. SUNY and an MFA in acting from The Old Globe/USD. Trevor Nunn) and The Invention of Love (Lincoln Center Theatre). His Off-Broadway credits include Robert Lesser (Elbow/Friar Thomas)’s theater Another Part of the Forest (Peccadillo Theatre Co.) credits include the Broadway production of The Soft and Letters from Cuba (Signature Theatre Co.). His Touch directed by Alan Arkin, Rubbers and Yanks regional theater credits include Oslo (L.A. premiere), 3, Detroit 0, Top of the Seventh at the American The Goodbye Girl, I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Place Theatre, also directed by Alan Arkin. He also Happened on the Way to the Sitcom, The Tug of War, appeared in the N.Y. Shakespeare Festival’s Richard the national tour of Judgment at Nuremberg (L.A. the Third and has performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre Works), Macbeth (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, co-directed by Aaron Theatre’s Winterfest. He starred in the New York Posner and Teller, of Penn & Teller), Stupid Fucking Bird (Theatre @ Boston premiere of Sam Shepard’s Geography of a Horse Court, L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award), Antony & Cleopatra, and a critically Dreamer at The Manhattan Theatre Club. In L.A., acclaimed production of Private Lives (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), he has appeared at the Odyssey Theatre in Steven Murder on the Orient Express (West Coast premiere), and Noises Off (La Berkoff’s Kvetch, and God’s Country, Steambath and Mirada), The Suppliant Women (Rogue Machine), Yes, Prime Minister (Geffen Awake & Sing. He was also in the West Coast premiere of To Gillian on her 37th Playhouse), The Pillowman, The Underpants, Middletown, Tom Stoppard’s Birthday, directed by Michael Pressman. Bob’s busy theater life at ETC in Santa Rock’n Roll (ACT Theatre-Seattle), and Desire Under the Elms (San Jose Rep. Barbara includes a dozen plays, most recently Amadeus, as well as My Antonia “Dean Goodman Choice Award”). Other theaters include The Falcon, Laguna at The Rubicon Theatre and PRT, where he also appeared in A View from the Playhouse, The Rubicon, Arizona Theatre Co., Shakespeare Theatre of New Bridge, winning the SAGE Award for “Outstanding Performance.” Some of his Jersey, Portland Center Stage, Wilma Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Ford’s films include Hester Street, The Big Easy, 2010, Ernest Saves Christmas, The Theatre, Arena Stage, The Geva, Playmaker’s Rep, The Old Globe, Rep of St. Last Innocent Man, Shoot to Kill, Die Hard, Oscar, The Relic, Godzilla, End Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, Portland Stage Co., and Berkshire Theatre Festival. of Days and Takashi Koizumi’s WW2 epic, Best Wishes for Tomorrow, shot at TV/Film includes: “Hand of God” (Amazon), “Colony” (USA), “Major Crimes” Toho Studios in Tokyo. (TNT), “Criminal Minds” (CBS), and “Law & Order” (NBC). MFA: NYU Graduate Acting Program. ARTISTS ARTISTS
Abdul-Khaliq Murtadha (The Duke) has enjoyed Paul Michael Sandberg (Escalus/Barnardine) is various classical and contemporary roles in regional happy to be back at ETC after playing Uncle Ben and repertory theaters across the country and is in Death of a Salesman earlier this year. Previous delighted to be making his third appearance at ETC credits: Utah Shakespeare Festival (four seasons), – he was George in Intimate Apparel and Macduff The Cleveland Playhouse, Huntington Theatre, in Macbeth. Past Shakespeare roles include Othello Steppenwolf Theatre, The Court, Briar Street in Othello, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Illinois Shakespeare Jacques in As You Like It, Escalus in Measure for Festival, Coronet Theatre, Circle X Theatre, Measure, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Northlight Theatre, Next Theatre, Pegasus Players, and Valentine in Two Gentlemen of Verona. A few and Shattered Globe. Film: Gods and Monsters, of his most recent roles include Claudius and the Fever Lake, and Empire City. TV: “Chicago Hope,” Ghost in Hamlet for the Indianapolis Shakespeare “Seventh Heaven,” “Seinfeld,” “NCIS,” “The Company, Orsino in Twelfth Night at Pioneer Theatre Co. (Salt Lake City), Untouchables” and many others. Martin Luther King Jr. in Mountaintop at WBTT (Sarasota), James T in Barbecue at the Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis), Luther King Jr. in the LBJ plays All the Tiffany Story (Mistress Overdone/Francisca) has Way and The Great Society, as well as Dr. Prentice in Guess Who’s Coming performed in over 200 theater productions, films, to Dinner at Asolo Rep in Sarasota. Some of his TV and film credits include and commercials and is thrilled to be performing “NCIS-LA,” “All My Children,” “Raising the Bar,” “The Unit,” “Medium,” here again at The New Vic, where many years prior “Numb3rs,” and the current streaming feature “8989 Redstone” (Amazon she’d gather with her three friends to watch weird Prime). Awards include “Best Actor in In the Wind” (New Orleans Short film foreign films. Previous shows with the ETC include festival) and “Best Ensemble playing Chris Keller in All My Sons” at The Matrix The Liar and Woyzeck. She also appeared in the Theatre in Los Angeles (NAACP Award). He was recently the featured guest sold-out run of Boeing Boeing as Gloria in Circle artist for the Africana Repertory Theatre of IUPUI, where he directed The Bar B’s final show. A few other favorites on that People Speak/Voices of the African Diaspora. He is an ensemble member of the stage were Ghost of a Chance, Noises Off, Return Fonseca Theatre Company in Indianapolis and his interactive multimedia play Engagements, Sylvia (Independent Award), It Had to The American Muslim Project was the resident umbrella project for the 2019 be You, Pump Boys & Dinettes, The Odd Couple, I Indy Convergence. BA: Indiana University, Bloomington; MFA: University of Love You You’re Perfect, Now Change, Rumors, Nunsense, and 1940’s Radio California, San Diego. Member of AEA and SAGAFTRA. Hour (Independent Award). Some favorites with the Santa Barbara City College Theater Group were One Man, Two Guvnors, August Osage County, Wild Oats, Trevor Peterson (Claudio) is grateful to be back Seascape, Bat Boy, The Buddy Holly Story, and You Can’t Take It with You, The at ETC after playing Ever in Dancing Lessons and Laramie Project, Anton in Show Business (Indy Awards for the last three) as Biff in Death of a Salesman last season. Theater well as several Center Stage productions, including Bob Potter’s The Last Empire credits in Los Angeles include Dead End (Ahmanson and The Last Liberal (Indy Award), and the original rock musical Success (Indy Theater), Pocatello and A Bright New Boise (Rogue Award). Tiffany has sung in many bands and is currently performing at the newly Machine Theater), and The Interlopers and Wildboy opened Magic Castle Cabaret, as well as being one of the original members of ‘74 (Bootleg Theater). Other credits include TV: “The the local La Boheme Dance Troupe. Tiffany dedicates everything she does to her Vampire Diaries,” “CSI: Miami,” and “10 Dates mother, Barbara. from Hell (TBS)”; Film: Beyond the Night, American Killing, Sky, Prom, and Grizzly Park. Training: BFA from the University of Southern California and British American Drama Academy in London, England.
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Paige Tautz (Mariana/Juliet) has recently returned The Invisible Hand in 2018 and Bad Jews in 2016 both traveled to Frankfurt. to California from a year spent in Austin, Texas after Other European productions include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Streetcar being awarded the “Artist-In-Residence Performance Named Desire, Visiting Mr. Green, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at The English Fellowship” with Salvage Vanguard Theater (SVT). Theatre Frankfurt, and Old Wicked Songs, Crimes of the Heart, and Cat on a While in residence, she starred in the world premiere Hot Tin Roof at the Vienna English Theatre. Before joining ETC, Mr. Fox spent production of Tryouts by playwright Adara Meyers, 12 years with Two River Theater Company in New Jersey, which he helped and was nominated for an Austin Critics Table establish in 1994. He served as Managing Director of the company from 1994- award as part of SVT’s mainstage production of 99, and subsequently became its Artistic Director. For Two River, he directed Anne Carson’s Antigonick. Paige is a two-time Santa their 2016 world premiere production of Lives of Reason. His production of Barbara Indy award winner, most recently in 2019 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was profiled in American Theatre Magazine, as for her role as Nora in A Doll House. She tours was his festival of work by Samuel Beckett. His directing work has been seen in nationally in the two-woman show Mad & a Goat New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Cologne, and has received critical (2016 Indy award winner), and internationally as a member of the Lit Moon acclaim in The New York Times, Variety, the LA Times, and other publications. Theatre Co. -- last year acting at international festivals in Tbilisi, Georgia and He received his MFA from Columbia University, and is a recipient of the Yerevan, Armenia. She has performed in productions with Brooklyn Yard NYC, prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship. He has served as Paper Chairs Austin, The Ground Floor at Berkley Rep, CoHo Productions an adjunct faculty member in theater departments at UCSB, Columbia University, Portland, House Play, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Lit Moon Theatre Co., The University of Utah, and Monmouth University. Bitola National Theater, Elements Theater Collective, and Ratatat Theater Group. Previous favorite Shakespeare roles include Titania in Midsummer Jeffrey Behm (Scenic Designer) is a scenic, lighting, and production Night’s Dream, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Queen Elizabeth in designer. He has traveled across the U.S. working in several different fields of Richard III, and Calpurnia in Julius Caesar. She has a BA in Theatre Arts and entertainment design. Most recently, Jeff was the assistant lighting director for Vocal Performance from Westmont College. Paige would like to thank Jonathan “The Espy Awards,” the “2019 MTV Video Music Awards,” and “So You Think Fox, ETC, and the entire cast and crew. Big xo’s to G & O! You Can Dance” Season 16. Jeff’s upcoming work includes the “Gershwin Prize” award show on PBS and a theater production of I and You at Alabama William Shakespeare (Playwright) is widely renowned as one of history’s Shakespeare Festival. Jeff is an MFA graduate of UCLA School of Theatre, Film, greatest dramatists. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 to a successful local and Television. businessman, and the daughter of a landowner, Shakespeare is credited with writing 37 plays and 159 sonnets before his death in 1616. The most produced Dianne K. Graebner (Costume Designer) received her MFA in Costume/ playwright in history, Shakespeare’s catalogue of plays include masterpieces such Set Design from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She has as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer’s Night designed and created costumes nationwide in theater, film and television. Off- Dream, Henry V, Richard III, and Merchant of Venice, among many others. Broadway: Church & State at New World Stages, and internationally for The English Theatre Frankfurt, Germany (co-productions with ETC) Invisible Hand Jonathan Fox (Director/Artistic Director) joined ETC in 2006. His most recent and Bad Jews. Many shows for ETC, including Dancing Lessons, Everything is ETC productions were Everything is Illuminated and The School for Lies. He Illuminated, Death of a Salesman, Syncopation, Miss Bennett, Husbands and adapted and directed ETC’s 2017 production of Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives, Chapter Two, Macbeth, Fallen Angels, Venus in Fur, Amadeus, Intimate Wives. Other ETC productions include Porgy and Bess, Macbeth, Sweeney Todd, Apparel, and Red, among others. A member of Circle X Theatre Co., she has Woyzeck, Amadeus, A Little Night Music, The Liar, Crime and Punishment, and designed many productions and was nominated for an Ovation Award for The a dozen others. He directed Opera Santa Barbara’s 2019 production of Eugene Brothers Karamazov and a L.A. Weekly award for Battle Hymn. A few of her Onegin and 2014 production of The Consul. He collaborated with the Santa recent credits include: Ay, Carmela! at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre, working Barbara Symphony on their Shakespeare and Valentine’s Day concerts, and with Frank Gehry and Gustavo Dudamel, Breath and Imagination at Virginia recently directed their production of The Soldier’s Tale. His ETC productions of Stage Co, Paradise at Austin Playhouse/Ruskin Theatre. Best of Enemies, Breath ARTISTS ARTISTS and Imagination (NAACP nomination), and others at the Colony Theatre, with Sullivan are Jackie Unveiled at the Wallis and The Baby Dance: Mixed Dogeaters and Clay at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, A Delicate Balance at The at Rubicon Theatre Company. Other recent works include Anna Karenina for Odyssey Theatre, The Happiest Song Plays Last, and Bright Light City at LATC, DCPA and Astoria Part One & Two for Portland Center Stage (PCS), directed opening and closing weeks of 365 Days/365 Plays at Center Theatre Group, by Chris Coleman. More with Coleman and PCS are Othello, Anna Karenina, Dying City (Ovation Winner- Production of the Year) Oppenheimer, Mexican Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline, The Imaginary Invalid, and Snow Falling on Day at Rogue Machine Theatre Co., the original L.A. production of Philosophy Cedars. With director Nancy Keystone and Critical Mass Performance Ensemble of the World and The Shaggs. She has originated the costumes for many new are Apollo at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (Garland Award and an Ovation Award works/world premieres. She is a member of United Scenic Artists Local-829. nomination), Ameryka (2016 Ovation nomination), Suzan- Lori Parks’ The www.diannegraebner.com America Play (Theatre @ Boston Court), Antigone (Portland Center Stage for which he won a Drammy Award), The Ahkmatova Project, Dr. Faustus, The Jared A. Sayeg (Lighting Designer) is a five-time Ovation Award nominee and Rover, and Measure for Measure. Further works include Hamlet, The Winter’s winner of the Ovation, StageRaw, Garland and the LADDC Kinetic Lighting Tale, the vocal score for David Hare’s version of Mother Courage, and music Awards. Designs for ETC include: Dancing Lessons, The Legend of Georgia and sound design for The Glass Menagerie, all directed by Jessica Kubzansky, McBride, The School for Lies, City of Conversation, Baby Doll, Intimate original music for Magic Fruit (Cornerstone), Shishir Kurup director, and Apparel, A Little Night Music, Frankie & Johnny, The Liar, Bell Book & composer/sound designer for the 2014-16 Launch Pad program at UCSB with Candle, Creditors and The Fantasticks. His designs have been seen throughout director Risa Brainin. the U.S., Canada, Spain, and Edinburgh. On-Broadway he designed the magic spectacle The Illusionists and two national tours as well as Bravo Bernstein, Ben Crop (Video Designer) is the full-time technical director and instructor Gotham Glory at Carnegie Hall. Regional: Center Theatre Group, Pasadena of technical theater at Santa Barbara City College. This is Ben’s first design Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, 5th Avenue Theatre, Sacramento Music at ETC. He previously served as an automation-engineering consultant and Circus, International City Theatre, Reprise, Laguna Playhouse, Virginia Stage technical direction consultant to the company. Video design credits include West Company, The Colony, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. On the West End, he Side Story, Newsies, One Man Two Guvnors, and Motown. This is Ben’s 50th designed Rolling with Laughter at Her Majesty’s Theatre. He was on the design production in Santa Barbara. In addition to theater, Ben worked in the concert teams for the Broadway productions of PRIMO, The Woman in White, The industry as a light director and light crew chief for artists such as Blake Shelton, Radio City Christmas Spectacular and the national tour of Blithe Spirit, starring Alice Cooper, Poison, Leanne Rimes, Wynona Judd, and Air Supply. Ben earned Angela Lansbury. Other designs include productions for Holland America and his BA in Theater and Performance and an MBA in non-profit management Norwegian Cruise Lines, the 2011 NBA All Star Game, LA Lakers at Staples from Willamette University. This production was made possible by his amazing Center, Neil Diamond’s world tour, and the LA Auto Show, and he had the honor assistant, Kate Saubestre. of lighting Pope Benedict XVI for the Papal Rally in NYC. Jared is principal designer for the prestigious USA International Ballet Competition held every Ken Merckx (Fight Choreographer) has choreographed fights and taught actors four years, and creates the lighting for the nationally touring music group The theatrical combat for film, television, theater and universities all across the country. Company Men. His architectural designs are seen regularly in restaurants and He is the resident fight choreographer for the Idaho and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare exhibits as well as the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific. Member of the Festivals, A Noise Within (Los Angeles) and Great Lakes Theater (Cleveland). International Association of Lighting Designers and the youngest member to join He is proud to have staged violence for the world premieres of Steven Dietz’s the United Scenic Artists-Local 829, and he serves as a trustee on the executive Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Pasadena Playhouse), Jeffery Hatcher’s board. www.jaslighting.com Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (a San Jose Repertory) and The Suicide Club (Arizona Theatre Company), Octavio Solis’ Cloudlands (South Coast Repertory), Jane Randall Robert Tico (Sound Designer) This is Randall’s seventh score and/or Martin’s Somebody/Nobody, directed by Jon Jory (Arizona Theatre Company) sound design for ETC, the others being Everything is Illuminated, The Invisible and the theatrical adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (San Jose Hand, Macbeth, and Husbands and Wives, directed by Jonathan Fox, and The Repertory). Mr. Merckx received his MFA in Acting from the University of Illinois Legend of Georgia McBride and Baby Doll, directed by Jenny Sullivan. Also and his B.A. in Theater Studies from the University of Washington. ARTISTS ARTISTS
Anna Jensen (Production Dramaturg) has a Ph.D. in Theater Studies from UC Ensemble Theatre Company began as the Ensemble Theatre Project in Santa Barbara. She has translated and adapted plays by Henrik Ibsen, including 1978 under the direction of Joseph Hanreddy. For the first three years, plays Hedda Gabler and When We Dead Awaken. She has served as production were performed at Trinity Episcopal Church. In 1981, ETC made the 140-seat dramaturg for many plays; some of her favorites include Macbeth (dir. Jonathan Alhecama Theatre its home for more than 25 years. Beginning in 2009, ETC Fox), Good People (dir. Jenny Sullivan) and The Baltimore Waltz (dir. Tom undertook a $12.6 million renovation of the Victoria Hall Theater. It opened its Whitaker). new 300-seat home, the New Vic, in 2013. The New Vic has become a venue for dance, music, film, and lectures. After Joseph Hanreddy left Santa Barbara Amy Lieberman, CSA (Casting Director) Six-time Artios Award winner. in 1985, Robert Grande Weiss became Artistic Director, a position he held until Broadway (The Dinner Party, Flower Drum Song, Big River). Center Theatre his retirement in 2006. Jonathan Fox assumed the position of Executive Artistic Group (Mark Taper, Ahmanson, Kirk Douglas) 1982–1990 and 1999–2006. Director in September 2006 and saw the company through great expansion. Jill Ongoing: Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (since 2006). Other: Seltzer joined ETC as its Managing Director in 2016. ETC, which became an Garry Marshall Theatre (Falcon Theatre), La Jolla Playhouse, Manhattan Equity theater in 1989, is Santa Barbara’s sole professional theater company. Theatre Club, Reprise Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, ACT, Denver The company, which presents five or six plays per season, has produced several Center, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Rubicon, Chicago American and West Coast premieres and has garnered numerous awards over Shakespeare Theatre, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the years. L.A. Theatre Works’ The Play’s the Thing series, North Coast Repertory and more. Film and TV throughout the 90’s. Associate Professor at UCLA’s MFA Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the program 2007-2013. American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents Jessie Vacchiano (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with more than 45,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds ETC. Stage management credits include Heisenberg and I Am My Own Wife of theaters across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working at Laguna Playhouse; Heisenberg, Return to the Forbidden Planet, The Baby in the theater as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity Dance, Other Desert Cities, Noises Off, Last Five Years, Sylvia, Gulf View negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits Drive, See Rock City, Christmas Carol, Taking Sides, Moonlight and Magnolias, including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with and Incognito at Rubicon Theatre Company; Sweet Charity at Reprise 2.0; Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage Conviction at Bay Street Theatre; Scorched, Uncle Vanya, and Pippin at UCLA; managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is Three Pianos at New York Theatre Workshop and A.R.T.; The Breakup affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For Notebook at ReVision Theatre; and Beth Malone So Far tour. more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.
Elena Cruz (Assistant Stage Manager) spent two years working for Princess Cruise Lines, effectively combining her passion for theater with her love of travel. Over the years she has worked a variety of shows doing everything from child wrangling to spot light operator to stage management. Some of her favorites have been working running crew on The Mystery of Irma Vep, stage managing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, and being stage crew aboard several beautiful ships of the Princess Fleet. She has recently had the privilege of working with Los Angeles’ Theatre Works on their audio production of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. JUGGLING A HECTIC SCHEDULE? Choose our flexible plan and choose your dates, even at the last minute! ENJOY THE SAME SUBSCRIBER SAVINGS AND BENEFITS! 4-Play Flex Pass $238FOR
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Lynda Fairly Candace Dauphinot Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Komp David and Linda James Leslie Bhutani David and Julieanne Hybert Robert and Pat Fulmer and Richard Brumm Jill and Neil Levinson Peter and Gerd Jordano Alan and Melinda Blinken Gay Infanti Betty Fussell Jeffrey and Kathryn Dinkin Carol MacCorkle Patricia and George Krikes Susan Bredhoff Hannah-Beth Jackson and Giles Family Foundation Vasanti and Joel Fithian Mr. and Mrs. Bob Manger Zoë Landers Louise Brickner George Eskin, Eskin and Jackson Family Trust Nancy and Frederic Golden Jonathan Fox and Lucille Mayer Sheila Lodge Michael Brinkenhoff Dr. Gregory Roper Kent and Holly Jennings Susan and Gary Gulbransen Barbara Meister Paul Longanbach Dr. and Mrs. Robert Bonfman Vic Cole and Pat Green Laura Jensen Betsy Hannaford in honor of Brian McDonald and Donald Polk Bill and Peggy Callahan Margaret Hamister Don Jeske Joseph and Jami Hanreddy Mr. Kurt R. Meyer Deborah and Martin Lynch Patricia Lee Caloia Betsy and Larry Hendrickson Kendra Johnson Michael and Christine Holland Harriet Mosson Robert and Siri Marshall J. Kenneth Campbell Joan and Robert Hollman Joan and William Murdoch Susan Matsumoto Robert Gibson Johnson Jr. HUB International Ted and Shandra Campbell and Zoe Iverson Insurance Services Caroline MacDougall and Marilyn Ramsay Douglas McAvoy Jerry Isenberg Susan Cappiello Colin and Joanie Jones Jackie Inskeep Mr. and Mrs. Stefan Riesenfeld Donald and Karine McCall Diane and Don Jackson Maggy Cara Stephen Joyce Jon Kechejian and Richard and Linda Ring Esther McKinley Stephen Carlan Sandy Schoolfield Ken James in memory of Susan Kadner Jenna James Mrs. Lila Scher Diane McMahon-Pratt in Thierry H. Cassan MaryAnn Lange memory of Tom Bruice Lois Kaplan Christine Jenkins Peter Schuyler and Reno and Joan Chackel in memory of Professor Lisa Stratton Peggy Merizalde Elliott and Donnalyn Karpeles Frederick F. Lange Glenn Jordan and Steb and MC Chandor Susan E. Shank Sarah Mirkin Jean Keely Judith Little Michael Stubbs Terease Y. Chin Deborah Steffen Barbara and David Mizes Emmy and Fred Keller John and Ruth Matuszeski Diana Katsenes Burt and Wilma Chortkoff Carol and Joseph Sullivan Michael Morris Susan Keller and Frank McGinity Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kennelly Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Cole Myron Shapero Susan Sullivan Charles and Elizabeth Newman Duncan and Bill and Linda Kitchen Brent Collier Ronald and Carolyn Koegler Mary Thompson Richard and Joan Page Suzanne Mellichamp Beth Leddy Chris Cornett Anna and Petar Kokotovic Robert and Elaine Toledo Gerald and Claire Parent Marlin and Ginger Miller Susan and Terry Northrop William Cornfield George and Anne Leis Tim Cardy and Ronnie Morris Ms. Jane C. Rieffel Bicky Townsend and Philip and Nola Pincus Bill Goldsmith Amelia L. Dallenbach in Michael Lewellen Russell Mueller Elizabeth D. Rogers Patricia Reilly Stark memory of Walter C. 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Elizabeth Ross Sharon Basham in memory of Ethel Kay Ms. Linda Diamant Patricia Toppel Kathy Marden Claude and Bette Saks Yvonne and David Bazinet Joan and Steven Siegel Victoria Dillon George and Judy Writer Gertrude Marsi Santa Barbara Bowl Britten W. Beauvoix in James A. Smith Sarah Dobbs Irene Marsi Foundation memory of Robert L. Wells Dale Griffiths Stamos Dr. Paul Dudley BENEFACTORS $500-$999 and Gregory Stamos Richard and Penny Martin Howard Scar Dr. George and Mrs. Bifano Margaret Easton Rebecca and Peter Adams Michael and Beverly Steinfeld Amanda McIntyre Nancy Schlosser Barbara H. Burger Drs. 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George Bruce Milner Mort and Judy Weisman Richard and Lynn Dow Dale and Nathalie Arne Anderson and Dawn George Gensac Dewey Nita Whaley August Minke Simon and Euzetta Williams Connie Frank Marilyn Gilbert and Coleen Richardson and Nancy Even and Joel Ohlgren Julie Antelman Nathan Rundlett Mission Wealth in memory of Thomas C. Bruice PATRONS $1,000-$1,999 Ted Friedel Dr. and Mrs. Heinrich Falk James and Linda Armstrong Gina M. Graham Virginia Gardner Susan Montpas Carla Amussen Dorothy and John Gardner Sheila Aron Polly Griscom Joseph and Elaine Gaynor Jean Moore Karol Andrews Janet and Mark Goldenson Sally Austin Barbara Hadley Nancy Gunzberg David and Anne Gersh Bob Baker in memory of Dwight Coffin Judith Muller in memory of Helene and Jerry Beaver David McEachen Arlyn Goldsby George Handler and Susan D. Bowey Lorna S. Hedges Lillian Ball in honor of Lee Luria Lila Trachtenberg Mr. and Mrs. Don Murray in honor of Mike Gray Cecia and Milt Hess Gary Bane Stanley and Betty Hatch Lorraine Hansen Phyllis and Richard Nielsen Michele and Arnold Brustin Jennifer Hone and John Beck Sandra Barkan Todd and Sharyn Hellwig Fred Haynes and Dr. David Nipper and Tom and Janice Caesar Pam and Bob Hyland Katherine Bart Ms. Lenore Palmer Cornelia Higginson Heidemarie Lundblad Diana and Steven Charles Joseph and Gina Jannotta in memory of Ellen Allred and Leon Selig John and Holliday Heine Mike and Dale Nissenson Linda Olson Clough in honor of Douglas and Jeri Beck Barbara Hirsch Jean Himmelstein Lisa and Michael O’Connell Carole MacElhenny Sherry Bebitch Jeffe Tom Beland Sandra Howard Christine Hollinger Susan Van Abel and Gene and Barbara Kohn Robert and Ann Benham Eric Oltmann ANNUAL DONORS ENDOWMENT DONORS Kelly Onnen Dori and Dan Suchman Shirley Dettmann The ETC Foundation is a permanently endowed supporting organization created for the sole Stuart Orenstein and Jenny Sullivan Marilyn and Patrick DeYoung purpose of providing the financial resources needed to ensure the vitality of Ensemble Theatre Joanne Schoenfeld in honor of Jonathan Fox Patricia Dixon and Company for future generations. The ETC Endowment earnings will help us keep admission prices Rose Marie Otey in memory of Engin and Jeanne Tekince Howard Jay Smith affordable, ensure maintenance of the New Vic, subsidize young audience programs, expand our Charles R. Otey John and Margaret Templeton in memory of educational outreach efforts and uphold ETC’s long-term financial strength. Thomas C. Bruice Ms. Pauline J. Paulin Katie Thatcher Gun Dukes We are honored to recognize the following individuals who have contributed to the ETC Foundation: Mr. and Mrs. Francis Peters, Jr Leslie Thomas Gail E Elnicky Owen Patmor and Ray and Sunni Thomas Doris Phinney Margaret England Anonymous (2) Christine and Michael Holland Lisa A. Reich and Robert and American Riviera Bank Donna and Daniel Hone L. Robert Johnson Marnie Pinsker Colleen Thornburgh Robert and Andrea Gaines Mr. and Mrs. Fred Anson Ellen and Peter O. Johnson Robert and Joan Rechnitz Ann Pizzinat in honor of Jack Tiethof and Anita Sy Greg Gorga and Tam Trinh Hattie Ugoretz Sybil Rosen Maggie Moss-Tucker Sandra Grasso-Boyd Gwen and Henry Baker Glenn Jordan Dolores and William Pollock and Paul Tucker Jody Dolan and Eve Bernstein Elaine and Herbert Kendall Geoffrey and Joan Rutkowski Michael and Lorie Porter Barbara Tzur Tom Holehouse Sarah P. Boyajian Linda and Bill Kitchen Santa Barbara Foundation Stewart Reid Tom and Nancy Upton Kenneth and Nancy Knight Thomas C. and Elinor and James Langer Maryan Schall Margery Ricards Alice Elliott Van De Water Robert Lingua Paula Yurkanis Bruice Sheila Lodge Helene Segal and George Konstantinow Staci Richard and David Lea Patricia Van Every Mike and Sheila Lunsford Ginny Brush Paul Longanbach Jill and Scott Seltzer Marlene and Bob Rifkin Ed and Carol Vance Davor Magdic Helen Caldwell Carole MacElhenny Jack and Anitra Sheen Laurel Rose Thomas and Deanne Violich James and Ella Markham Dwight Coffin John and Ruth Matuszeski in memory of Joe Cohn Missy and Chuck Sheldon Stephen Warner Jean Martinis Drs. Sue and JW Colin Jeff McFarland Dr. Sonia Rosenbaum Peter and Debby Stalker Carole Wasserman Ms. Julie McLeod Nancy and Roger Davidson Marlin and Ginger Miller Cheryl Runge Susie and Hugh Vos Tim Whitcomb and Kenneth and Janis Millett Judy and Rob Egenolf Mr. John C. Mithun and Frank Schipper Alison Daniels Ellicott Million Jonathan Fox and Ms. Mercedes Millington Carol Wilburn and Construction Company Charles McClintock Jennifer Wilson Marianne Moss Dr. Gregory Roper Agnes and David Murdoch Dale and Judy Seborg Parm and Frank Williams Annie Winch Natalie S. Myerson Elaine and Michael Gray Doug and Nancy Norberg Samantha Sennett Steve and Monica Ziemer Wade Nichols Mark Gross Carolyn and Philip Wyatt Colin and Heather Shafer Susan and Terry Northrop Steve and Diane Zipperstein Michael and Elizabeth Noling Diane and Ray Hester Alex and Gina Ziegler Willa and William Shapiro Donald and Jan O’Dowd Robert Pearson Carol and Jim Short DONORS $50-$99 Kostis Protopapas Robert and Linda Short Please consider making a gift to the ETC Foundation. For more information about endowment gifts to the Amazon Smile Foundation Thomas M. Putnam Lee and Amy Silverman ETC Foundation, please contact Managing Director Jill Seltzer at 805-880-1995 or [email protected]. 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Peter and Corelia Stearns Chris and David Chernof Randall Sunday Julie and Richard Steckel Barbara Clark Cassandra Thomsen Thank you to the following supporters who have provided a lasting legacy by including Ensemble Frank and Kay Stevens Jeannine Daniel Carlos Vera Theatre Company in their wills and other planned giving vehicles: Adrianne Sturman Mary Anne Dase Jeff Waxman Dave Denniston Roberta Weissglass Mr. and Mrs. Hal Altman Rose and Norman Jaffe Helene Segal and Gail Beust Glenn Jordan and George Konstantinow Sarah P. Boyajian Michael Stubbs Bob and Leah Temkin Bill and Linda Kitchen Derek and Beth Westen (AS OF SEPTEMBER 20, 2019) Roger H. and TRIBUTE GIFTS Nancy D. Davidson Lisa Reich Dana White Mr. Kim L. Hunter and Sybil Rosen Frank and Parm Williams Ginny Brush Lisa Reich and In Memory of In memory of Paulo P. 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