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From Executive Artistic Director the The Mission of the Nebraska Repertory Theatre This 34th season of the Nebraska Repertory Theatre is special for a number of reasons. The mission of the Nebraska Repertory Theatre is to produce quality theatre experiences for the residents of Nebraska while providing First is our lineup of plays in rotating repertory. ART, starring Ted Lange and professional opportunities for students and faculty members in everyone's favorite state senator, David Landis, and UNL faculty member Harris col laboration with professional artists-in-residence. Smith, kicks off the season on July 6 in the Johnny Carson Theater. JAKE'S WOMEN, with David Landis, in the title role, opens July 11 in the Nebraska Repertory Theatre newly-renovated Howell Theatre. The cast also includes UNL faculty member Shirley Mason (making her Equity debut) and graduate students Amber lrvin and Board of Advisors Joan Lauckner. Julliard faculty member Jeanne Hime and actress Shelle Davis are the Equity artists coming in from New York. Freshman Jennifer Ward and Joyce Cartmill, President UNL alumna Karen Kumm fill out the cast. Brant Pope (SYLVIA in 1999) directs Larry Frederick, Vice-President/President-Elect ART while yours truly will attempt to stage JAKE'S WOMEN. Mickey Tallman, Secretary Joan Hruza, Treasurer Secondly, the Nebraska Repertory Theatre will finally begin to honor its own, with an inaugural class of three dedicated supporters of the "Rep," being inducted into the Nebraska Repertory Theatre Hall of Fame. The three individuals will be Giacomo Oliva, Dean honored at the Season Kickoff Reception being hosted by Chancellor Harvey Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Perlman in the Steinhart Room of the Lied Center on Thursday, July 5. David Asche Nancy Haessler Finally, the Nebraska Repertory Theatre has been blessed by a number of Ellen Baldwin Kandra Hahn devoted supporters over the years. Many dozens of individuals have given Charles Henry Bethea Bonna generously of their time and their money. This past fall we received word that we Tebo Hays would be recipients of the Halcyon M. Allsman Trust. Ms. Allsman, who passed Lucy Madden Buntain Ron Hull away on August 21 ,2000, made many Lincoln arts and social services Kenneth H. Clark Karen Jensen organizations the beneficiary of her estate. Late in the year we received a Sally Desmond Walker Kennedy $50,000 check as the first installment on her bequest to the Nebraska Repertory Howard Dinsdale Ann Myers Theatre. Kathy Friedman Anne K. Porter Jeffery Scott Elwell Martha A. Greer Ann Rawley Executive Artistic Director William T. Griffin, M.D. Janice Walker Pace Woods AFFILIATIONS Theatre at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is an associate member of the Nebraska Repertory Theatre Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE); a participating member of Administrat¡ve Staff the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF); a charter member and accredited by the University/Resident Theatre Association Executive Artistic Jeffery Scott Elwell (U/RTA); and the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST). Director....... General Manager..... Julie Hagemeier Production Stage Manager..... ...........Brad Buffum Nebraska Repertory Theatre, an Actors' Equity Accounting Technician.. .................Dorothy Benes company and the University's professional wing, Costume Shop Supervisor.............. ...Ann Watson is an associate member of Theatre Communications Staff Assistant................ .Todd Cuddy Group, a national service organization for non-profit Scene Shop Foreman............... .......Vernon Roso professional theatre. Lied Center Box Office Manager..... ................Ei|een Brewster Nebraska Repertory Theatre Donors* Meet the Directors Producers ($2,000 or more) Directors ($1,ooo-$1,999) ln memory of Halcyon Allsman Kenneth H. and Mary Clark Jeffery Scott Elwell (Jake's women) David Landis Anne K. and William L. Porter Jeffery Scott Elwell is Professor and Chair of the Mickey Tallman Department of Theatre Arts at the University of University Program Council Actors ($250-$49e) Nebraska-Lincoln and Executive Artistic Director of the Nebraska Repertory Theatre. Prior Pace Woods David and Karen Asche to this, he served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre Ellen Baldwin and Director of the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts ($500-$eee) Designers Lucy Madden Bunta¡n Center at Marshall University (1996-99); and Professor Jeff Elwell and Edwina Gower Joyce Cartmill and John Baldwin and Director of Theatre at Mississippi State University Ann and James Rawley Howard and Barbara Dinsdale (1989-96). He received his Ph.D. from Southern lllinois University in 1986 and Ted J. Fraizer has a Mississippi Arts Commission Playwriting Fellowship, a Tennessee Williams Stage Managers ($100-$249) Larry and Bets Frederick Scholarship, and an NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship. He has $171,000 in grants and fellowships and his plays have been produced professional Mollie Baldwin J. Taylor and Martha Greer by theatres in Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, New York; and Lund, Mary Carey John and Nancy Haessler Hobart and Bonna Tebo Hays Sweden. ln the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) he has Herb and Kathy Friedman served as the Conference Planner (1999, Toronto), on Conference Planning James and Marjorie Hewitt Austin and Nancy Lewis Committees (1997, Chicago and 1998, San Antonio), as chair of the ATHE Tom and Joan Hruza Martin and Ruth Massengale Playwrights Program (199a-96); Conference Planner (1992-94); and Vice Chair John McBride Ron and Naomi Hull (1990-92). ln the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF) David and Ann Myers Walter and Karen Jensen he has served as Region lV Playwriting Awards Committee Chair and a member Bob and Mary Nefsky Walker and Dianne Kennedy of the Executive Committee (199a-96) and Vice-Chair (1993-94). ln the South- James O'Hanlon Clare and Roberta Sward eastern Theatre Conference he has served as Chair of the SETC Playwriting Committee (1996-98), of the SETC New Play Project (1994-96) lrvin and Wanda Omtvedt and Vice-Chair Assistant Stage Managers (1993-94); and as a Member of the Editorial Board of SOUTHERN THEATRE (1994-99). Since 1994 eighteen of his plays have been produced Off Off- *As (up to of Press Time 6/5/01 $99) Broadway in New York. THE ART OF DATING, was a winner in the 1995 Off Off- Kandra Hahn Broadway original Short Play Festival and is published by Samuel French. Two Laurel VanHam of his monologues are in BASEBALL MONOLOGUES published by Heinemann. His play, EVENING EDUCATION, was a winner in the 2000 Off Off-Broadway The Nebraska Repertory Theatre is an Actors' Equity Association (AEA) company Original Short Play festival and is published by Samuel French. His play FAMILY working under a University/Resident Theatre.(U/RTA) contract. LESSONS was produced in Krakow, Poland in March 2001 as part of the Krakowskie Reminiscencje Teatraine. Brant Pope ¡nrt¡ Brant Pope, who directed Sylvia in the Rep's 1999 season, is Associate Artistic Director of the Asolo Theatre Company and Director of the Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training. He is a member of Actors' Equity Association and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Mr. Nebraska Repertory Theatre also employs directors who are members of the Pope's work has been seen Off-Broadway and nationally at such theatres as the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC) and designers who are Hartford Stage Company, the John Houseman Theatre, Pennsylvania Centre members of United ScenicArtists of America (USAA). Stage, ArtPark, Florida Studio Theatre, American Stage, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theatre and the lllinois Shakespeare Festival. His 11 seasons with the Asolo Theatre Company have seen him direct 14 productions including Beast on the Moon, Misalliance, Ihe Srsfers Rosenswelg, Irlebraska Talley's Folly and Three Days of Rain, Mr. Pope and his costume designer wife, Barbara Pope, are the proud parents of their daughter, Olivia. The Nebraska Repertory Theatre Department of Theatre Arts The Cast Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts University of Nebraska-Lincoln Marc........ .........Ted Lange* presents Serge...... .......David Landis Art Yvan........ ......Harris Smith. A new play by Yasmina Reza UNDERSTUDIES Translated by Christopher Hampton Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance. Produced on Broadway by David Pugh, Sean Connery For Serge - Harris Smith, For Marc - David Landis and Joan Cullman, March 1 , 1998 For Yvan -- Aaron Foster DuPree directed by *Member BRANT POPE (ssDc) Actors' Equiîy Association scenic design by costume design by I The Direclor is a memb€t oî lhe Sociery oÍ DAN STRATMAN (usnn) GREG ROBBINS (usAA) h':' S SCIC :f i".ï:îJïi ::í 1!:' i;#: ,f¡;: lighting design by sound design by WILLIAM C. KENYON lusnn¡ KRISTIE GORDON technical direction by sfage management by SETTING ROB DUTIEL BRAD BUFFUM rnenl The main room of an apartment. The scenes unfold, successively, at Serge's, Yvan's and Marc's. July 5, 6,7, 13, 18, 20,26,28 August 1,3,9, 11 7:30 p.m. YASMINA REZA began work as an actress, appearing in several new plays as well as Moliere and Johnny Carson Theater Marivaux. ln '1987 she wrote Conyersations After A Burial, which was directed by Patrice Kerbrat and won the Moliere Award for Best Author, SACD New Talent Award, the Johnson Foundation performed The action is continuous without intermission. Award, and was subsequently across Europe and in South America, Following this, she translated Kafka's Metamorphosls for Roman Polanski and was nominated for a Moliere Award for Best Translation. Her second play, Winter Crossrng, won the 1990 Moliere Award for Best Fringe AEA - Designated actors and stage managers employed in this prodution are members of Actors' Equity Production, and her next play,The Unexpected Man, enjoyed successful productions in France, Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

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