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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Tuesday, January 28, 2020; 2 & 7 pm Wednesday, January 29, 2020; 2 & 7 pm

THE CORNLEY UNIVERSITY DRAMA SOCIETY PRESENTS

CAST INSPECTOR CARTER – CHRIS BEAN CHARLES HAVERSHAM – JONATHAN HARRIS THOMAS COLLEYMOORE – ROBERT GROVE PERKINS – DENNIS TYDE FLORENCE COLLEYMOORE – SANDRA WILKINSON CECIL HAVERSHAM – MAX BENNETT ARTHUR THE GARDENER – MAX BENNETT CREATIVE WRITER – SUSIE H.K. BRIDESWELL PRODUCER – WAYNE BLEXT DIRECTOR – CHRIS BEAN DESIGNER – CHRIS BEAN COSTUME DESIGNER – CHRIS BEAN PROP MAKER – CHRIS BEAN BOX OFFICE MANAGER – CHRIS BEAN PRESS & PR – CHRIS BEAN DRAMATURGY – CHRIS BEAN VOICE COACH – CHRIS BEAN DIALECT COACH – CHRIS BEAN FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER – CHRIS BEAN REHEARSAL ROLE ‘MR FITZROY’ – CHRIS BEAN STAGE MANAGER – TWILLOIL LIGHTING & SOUND OPERATOR – TREVOR WATSON

THIS PRODUCTION WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE BRITISH-AMERICAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM

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A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Hello and welcome to The Murder at Haversham Manor.

We are thrilled that the Cornley University Drama Society is performing in the USA. We can only apologise to those involved in the production of Equus originally scheduled for this week, which due to a clerical error, is now being performed in the Cornley University Gymnasium. We hope there are no hard feelings and we’ve left the vaulting horse out for you. The question everyone at Cornley has been asking is: are we ready for a venue of this size? The answer is “yes.” The cast and I rehearsed for weeks using only the best acting teachings to inspire us. We read that Sanford Meisner said, “Acting is behaving truthfully,” so we immediately changed all the names in the play to our own names and cut the murder, the manor house setting and any other element that we hadn’t personally experienced. We then found the piece rather flat, and it only ran at 17 minutes. So we went back to the Meisner book and we realized the full quote was in fact: “Acting is behaving truthfully... under imaginary circumstances,” so we reinstated the cuts and we were then quickly back on track.

We found the teachings of Michael Chekhov less confusing. He says, “An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.” So that evening it was vindaloos all round at the Sunam Balti House on Cornley High Street. However, try as we did to not react to our burning insides, it was certainly noticeable that we were all in significant discomfort, which just goes to show how tough acting can be. At the end of the evening, Dennis was actually sick in the restaurant bathrooms. We always knew he was of the weaker actors.

All this hard work and preparation has left us with an ensemble piece that has achieved such critical acclaim as “VERY INTERESTING” from Mr. Harwood, esteemed head of Design Technology at Cornley University, and “RATHER UNSETTLING” from real-life police chief Mr. Greaves of the Cornley Volunteer Police Force. I’m sure that with a full audience, the piece will truly bring down the house.

CHRIS BEAN President of the Cornley University Drama Society & Director of The Murder at Haversham Manor

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CHRIS BEAN MAX BENNETT INSPECTOR CARTER & CECIL HAVERSHAM DIRECTOR Touring debut! Max is in his Touring debut! Chris is the first year at Cornley University newly elected head of the where he is studying human Drama Society. For tonight’s geography and crime. He is an show, he served as the voice coach, dialect coach, fight avid fan of films, and his favourite is The Legend choreographer, casting director and costume designer. of Bagger Vance, which he’s seen 27 times. This is He also plays the lead role and, of course, Max’s first production with the Drama Society, and directed. The Society would like to thank Chris he is very glad to have donated a large portion of his for his remarkable and efforts. Credits recent inheritance to help the show reach Broadway. within the University: in Hamlet, Macbeth in Macbeth and Othello in Othello. DENNIS TYDE PERKINS ROBERT GROVE Touring debut! After failing THOMAS COLLEYMOORE the tryouts for the football, Touring debut! A member of , volleyball and the Cornley Drama Society for basketball teams, Dennis three years, Robert uses the decided to join the Drama Society. Dennis does Stanislavsky method. Credits not live in the Cornley halls of residence and include Lame Horse in Black Beauty, Victorian commutes in daily from his parents’ house. He Policeman in Chamber of Horror hopes the Society will give him the chance to meet – Live!, Dopey in Snow White and The Tall Broad like-minded people. Dennis’ only stage credit dates Gentlemen and Augustus Gloop in Charlie & The back to 1995 when he appeared in his primary Chocolate Factory. Robert’s next performance school nativity. Credit: Shepherd. will be as Godot in a newly self-written sequel to Beckett’s classic. ANNIE TWILLOIL STAGE MANAGER JONATHAN HARRIS Touring debut! The unsung CHARLES HAVERSHAM hero of the Society, Annie has Touring debut! Jonathan works designed, built, painted, stage as a model and is therefore managed and costumed every excited to learn transferrable single Society show in the last three years. Her hard skills by appearing in The work and dogged determination behind-the-scenes Murder at Haversham Manor. He is no stranger to lies behind so much of the Society’s success. After acting and appeared in when he was just The Murder at Haversham Manor, Annie will begin an 5 years old. Jonathan also performed with Emote, internship at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. another local theater , in A Midsummer Night’s Stamina, which featured a cast of 14 TREVOR WATSON pedalling exercise bikes for the full two-hour LIGHTING & SOUND performance. OPERATOR Touring debut! Trevor is only SANDRA WILKINSON participating in The Murder FLORENCE COLLEYMOORE at Haversham Manor to Touring debut! This is earn much needed extra credit for his electronics Sandra’s 11th season with module in order to pass his engineering course at the Cornley University Drama Cornley University. Once he has passed the course, Society, during which she he will not continue to work with the Drama Society. has proudly performed roles such as Snow White in Trevor credits his success to his sunny disposition Snow White and The Tall Broad Gentlemen, Virginia and his positive outlook on life. Woolf in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Cow in Jack and the Bean. Sandra has been performing from a very young age, since her mother appeared in A Winter’s Tale pregnant.

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KEVIN McCOLLUM J.J. ABRAMS KENNY WAX STAGE PRESENCE LTD. CATHERINE SCHREIBER DOUBLE GEMINI PRODUCTIONS/deROY BRUNISH DAMIAN ARNOLD/TC BEECH GREENLEAF PRODUCTIONS/BARD ROTH MARTIAN ENTERTAINMENT/JACK LANE/JOHN YONOVER LUCAS McMAHON

PRESENT A PRODUCTION OF

BY HENRY LEWIS, JONATHAN SAYER AND HENRY SHIELDS

STARRING RYAN VINCENT ANDERSON TODD BUONOPANE CHRIS FRENCH JACQUELINE JARROLD ASHLEY D. KELLEY CHRIS LANCELEY ADAM PETHERBRIDGE MICHAEL THATCHER BROCK BIVENS SHELLEY FORT JEMMA JANE CONOR SEAMUS MORONEY

SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN NIGEL HOOK ROBERTO SURACE RIC MOUNTJOY

SOUND DESIGN ORIGINAL MUSIC ANDREW JOHNSON ROB FALCONER

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT UK PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT MICHAEL DANEK JOHN EDKINS DIGBY ROBINSON

GENERAL MANAGEMENT MARKETING SERVICES THEATER MATTERS BD PRODUCTIONS JOHN E. GENDRON

TOUR MARKETING & PRESS TOUR BOOKING AGENCY ALLIED TOURING THE BOOKING GROUP

TOUR DIRECTED BY MATT DiCARLO

ORIGINAL BROADWAY DIRECTION BY MARK BELL

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG WAS ORIGINALLY PRESENTED BY MISCHIEF THEATRE AT THE OLD RED LION THEATRE, . EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DAMIEN DEVINE, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR NICK THOMPSON

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CAST (in order of appearance) Trevor ...... RYAN VINCENT ANDERSON Chris ...... CHRIS LANCELEY Jonathan ...... CHRIS FRENCH Robert ...... MICHAEL THATCHER Dennis ...... TODD BUONOPANE Sandra ...... JACQUELINE JARROLD Max ...... ADAM PETHERBRIDGE Annie ...... ASHLEY D. KELLEY

UNDERSTUDIES Swings and understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.

for Trevor—BROCK BIVENS, CONOR SEAMUS MORONEY for Chris—BROCK BIVENS, CHRIS FRENCH for Jonathan—BROCK BIVENS, CONOR SEAMUS MORONEY for Robert—CHRIS FRENCH, CONOR SEAMUS MORONEY for Dennis and Max—BROCK BIVENS, CONOR SEAMUS MORONEY for Sandra and Annie—SHELLEY FORT, JEMMA JANE Jemma Jane is appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association

RYAN VINCENT TODD CHRIS JACQUELINE ANDERSON BUONOPANE FRENCH JARROLD

ASHLEY D. CHRIS ADAM MICHAEL KELLEY LANCELEY PETHERBRIDGE THATCHER

BROCK SHELLEY JEMMA CONOR SEAMUS BIVENS FORT JANE MORONEY

The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device or such photographing or sound recording inside this theater, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection and violations may render the offender liable for money damages.

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST RYAN VINCENT ANDERSON (Trevor). Off-Broadway:The Play That BROCK BIVENS (Understudy). New York/Regional: Bubble Boy (N.Y. Goes Wrong (New World Stages), Scissoring (INTAR Theatre), We premiere), Williamstown Theatre Festival, SITI Company, American Live Here (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional: Oregon Shakespeare at Lincoln Center, Broadway Rose Theatre Co. Training: Festival, Marin Theatre Company, PCPA, L.A. Theatre Works, Emerson College, UCB. Endless gratitude to The Roster, Stephen TheatreSquared, Portland Center Stage, Antaeus Theatre Company Kopel and Mike Miller, the Wrong team and my incredible family. For and others. TV: “Law & Order SVU” (NBC), “The Sinner” (USA), “FBI” Jesse. BrockBivens.com. @BrockBiv. (CBS), “Scandal” (ABC). M.F.A. from CalArts. RyanVAnderson.com. SHELLEY FORT (Understudy) New York: La MaMa. Regional: The TODD BUONOPANE (Dennis). Broadway: Cinderella, Grease, , Mountaintop (Camae), Intimate Apparel (Mayme), Pride and Prejudice The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway: The (Jane), A Christmas Carol (Lucy). TV/film: “Dear Sister” @fortsisters, Butter and Egg Man, Henry and Mudge, The New Yorkers at Encores! “Unicornland.” Writing: “miss america,” Auburn Avenue 2018 issue; TV credits include “Kimmy Schmidt,” “Braindead,” “Law & Order: CI,” National Black Theatre (Reading Series); Quick Silver Summit; The “Grey’s Anatomy” and “30 Rock” (as Weinerslav). Todd is a Michigan Fire This Time Festival. B.A. Kenyon College. M.F.A. Brown/Trinity Rep. grad and a councillor of Actors’ Equity. More at ToddBuonopane.com. ShelleyFort.com. @shelleyfort. CHRIS FRENCH (Jonathan). NYC: The Greenwich Village , Dawn, JEMMA JANE (Understudy). Born in England, raised in and Simon Dawes Becomes a Planet. Select regional: (Booth), based in New York. U.S. theater credits: Bullets Over Broadway first Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Hedwig), The Three Musketeers (Porthos), national tour (Olive) and Bullets Over Broadway at and (//). Training: UNCSA. Thanks (Olive). Overseas credits: Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), (Texas), to this incredible team, and to his for their undying Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator), Miss Saigon support. Instagram: @papafrench. and . Jemma can’t wait to spend a year making sure things go right on the road. JACQUELINE JARROLD (Sandra). Broadway: The Cherry Orchard. First national tour: The Play That Goes Wrong. Regional: Shakespeare CONOR SEAMUS MORONEY (Understudy). Regional credits: Love’s Theatre Company of DC (, Coriolanus, Labours Lost, Henry IV, I Hate Hamlet (Advice to the Players); God of Wallenstein, A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Training: Northwestern Carnage (Newton Nomadic Theater); Twelfth Night, , University. Back in New York, Jacqui makes her artistic home Tartuffe (Shakespeare & Company). Education: B.A. Massachusetts with AmiosNYC. Proud AEA. JacquelineJarrold.com. Instagram: College of Liberal Arts. Training: Shakespeare & Company, The @JacquiJarrold. Barrow Group. ConorMoroney.com. Instagram: @csmoroney. ASHLEY D. KELLEY (Annie). Off-Broadway:Eve’s Song (The Public HENRY LEWIS (Co-Author) is an Olivier Award-winning writer, actor and Theater, Dir: Jo Bonney), Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights is the artistic director of Mischief Theatre. Henry trained at LAMDA. His Horizons, Dir: Robert O’Hara). Regional: An Act of God (Bucks County recent credits include writer and actor for The Play That Goes Wrong Playhouse), Dorothy in (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). TV: (Broadway, West End and U.K./international tour — winner of Best New Recurring on “Insatiable” (), “Luke Cage” (Netflix). Lucille Lortel Comedy at the Olivier Awards 2015 and What’s On Stage Awards 2014), Award nomination for Bella. Goes Wrong (BBC1, West End/U.K. tour/Pleasance London — nominated for Best New Comedy at the Olivier Awards 2016), The CHRIS LANCELEY (Chris). Born in Liverpool, England. Off-Broadway: Comedy About a Bank Robbery (West End — nominated for Best New The Play That Goes Wrong, The Bad and the Better. Off-West End: Henry Comedy at the Olivier Awards 2017). Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (BBC1), V, The Band. TV: “FBI,” “Blue Bloods.” Training: AADA, National Youth Royal Variety Performance (ITV), Keep It in the Family (ITV), Mischief Movie Theatre (UK). Chris would like to extend much love and gratitude to Night (West End/ U.K. tou — nominated for Best New Comedy at the his Dad, Nan, Kim, Jenny and his late Mum for always supporting Olivier Awards 2018), actor and producer for Mercury Fur (Trafalgar him. Instagram and Twitter: @LanceleyOnStage. Studios — nominated for Best Production Off-West End Awards), actor ADAM PETHERBRIDGE (Max). Off-Broadway: Irish Repertory Theatre for Beasts & Beauties () and producer of Tracy Letts’ (Lortel nom., Best Revival), In the Secret Sea, The Enlightenment of ( Playhouse — winner of Peter Brook Empty Mr. Mole. Regional: Palm Beach Dramaworks (nom., Best Actor), Space Award). St. Michael’s, Depot Theatre. Graduate of the Actors Studio Drama JONATHAN SAYER (Co-Author). Training: LAMDA. Jonathan is an School and Kenyon College. Endless thanks and love to Anna, family, Olivier Award-winning writer and the company director of Mischief friends and teachers. Instagram: @Adam.Petherbridge. Theatre working as a writer, actor and producer. Theater includes MICHAEL THATCHER (Robert). Broadway: TPTGW. Off- Mischief Movie Night (), The Comedy About a Bank Robbery Broadway: Julius Caesar (NYSF), The Time Machine (NYMF), (), The Play That Goes Wrong (Lyceum Theatre, Titan Theatre Company. National tours: TPTGW (first national), Broadway run , West End run, U.K. and international Guys and Dolls. Select regional: Utah Shakespeare, Texas tour—writer/actor, Olivier Awards and Whats On Stage Awards Best Shakespeare, Virginia Shakespeare, Sacramento Music Circus. New Comedy), (U.K. tour and West End—writer/ TV: “Quantico” (ABC). M.F.A. University of Houston. “Constantly actor), The Nativity Goes Wrong (writer, Mischief Theatre and Reading grateful for the love and support of my family!” Instagram: Rep co-production), Lights! Camera! Improvise! (various venues, actor, @thatched44. improviser, producer, Spirit of the Fringe Award 2013, Best Improv Show Award 2012) and Happy Birthday Simon (Orange Tree, actor).

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST

Television includes “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” (BBC One, writer/actor/ New Comedy, The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess…still going wrong!). associate producer), “The Royal Variety Performance: The Play That Future productions include the musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Goes Wrong” (ITV, writer and actor), “Keep It in the Family” (writer, Murder at Oscarsteatrn, Stockholm 2018. ITV), “A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong” (BBC One, writer/actor). Radio includes The Christmas Show That Goes Wrong (BBC radio two). ROBERTO SURACE (Costume Design) originates from , Australia, where he trained at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), HENRY SHIELDS (Co-Author) trained at LAMDA. He is an award-win- now based in London. The Play That Goes Wrong marks his Broadway ning writer and has been a member of Mischief Theatre since 2009. debut. West End: The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion), Peter Theater includes The Play That Goes Wrong (writer/actor, winner Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo) and The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess). U.K. 2015 Olivier Award and WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Comedy), national tours: The Play That Goes Wrong, Agatha Christie’s And Then Peter Pan Goes Wrong (writer/actor, 2016 Olivier Award nominee for There Were None and Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Off-West End: The Trial of Best New Comedy), The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (actor/writer, Jane Fonda (Park). International: The Play That Goes Wrong (Budapest, 2017 Olivier Award nominee Best New Comedy), Mischief Movie Rome and Australian tour). TV: “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” (BBC One). Night (actor, 2018 Olivier Award nominee for Best New Comedy), The Nativity Goes Wrong (writer), The Comedy About a Bank Robbery RIC MOUNTJOY (Lighting Design). Selected designs include The (writer/actor) and The Busy Body (). Television Play that Goes Wrong (Broadway, National U.S. Tour, West End, also includes “The Royal Variety Performance 2016: The Play That Goes South Korea, Australia, Hong Kong), Uncle Vanya (Theatre Clwyd and Wrong,” “ City” (BBC), “Keep It in the Family” (ITV), “Peter Pan Sheffield theaters),Emancipation of Expressionism (Barbican Theatre Goes Wrong” (BBC) and “A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong” (BBC). Henry and BBC TV), Mr. Popper’s Penguins (New Victory, NYC, Seattle, is currently working on, and developing, a number of new projects. Minneapolis and West End), world premiere of Karagula by Philip Ridley ( London), What the Ladybird Heard (international MATT DiCARLO (Tour Director) is overjoyed that things are going touring), Pandemic ( International Festival), The White Wrong all over North America! As the Production Stage Manager, Matt Whale (an outdoor Moby Dick, ). Relights include The Magic Flute helmed production of The Play That Goes Wrong for the (, English National Opera). ricmountjoy.com. first year and a half of its run. He served as the Associate Director for the 2017–2018 national tour of the Tony Award-winning revival of ANDREW JOHNSON (Sound Design). The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her The Color Purple, which he also stage managed on Broadway. Other Chameleon Skin (European premiere), Death Takes a Holiday (U.K. pre- Broadway credits include Honeymoon in Vegas and Rock of Ages. miere), , , TPTGW (West End, Australia and U.K. tours), Regional theater work includes world premieres at La Jolla Playhouse Dogfight (European premiere), Catch Me If You Can (European premiere), and American Conservatory Theater, and 12 productions at Paper Mill Girlfriends, The Stripper, The Toxic Avenger, U.K. Off-West End nomina- Playhouse. Matt has his B.F.A. from Rutgers University and is on the tions for Best Sound Design for , Titanic and Grand Hotel faculty at SUNY Purchase. He has supervised dozens of events with (Southwark Playhouse). Andrew is currently a regular sound designer Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Target and David Stark Design. for and Theatre Royal Stratford East, London. Matt is endlessly grateful to of The Play That Goes Wrong 2017 shows: The Braille Legacy, Tommy U.K. tour and How to Succeed in and to Mischief Theatre, for giving us the outlet and opportunity to Business Without Really Trying. make people laugh. Love to Joey. STEPHEN KOPEL, CSA (U.S. Casting). Broadway: Amélie, Sunday in the MARK BELL (Original Broadway Director). Trained at École Park…, She Loves Me, , On the , Violet, Beautiful: Internationale de Théâtre, Jacques Lecoq and was co-Artistic The Carole King Musical, The Winslow Boy, , The Director of Liquid Theatre. Liquid shows include If You Were Mine Mystery of Edwin Drood, Harvey, Once, , Brief Encounter, The (ACW), Feeding Time (BAC), Endgame (BAC) and Crave (BAC and Scottsboro Boys, , Hedda Gabler. Off-Broadway: touring). Directing includes Che Disastro di Commedia (Theatro Kingdom Come, The Robber Bridegroom, Invisible Thread, Indian , Greco, Rome); Waiting for (St. James Theatre, Off- The Common Pursuit. Kopel currently serves as casting director for West End); The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (West End); Ma Este Roundabout Theatre Company and Encores! Off-Center. Megbukunk (Central Szinhaz, Budapest); The Play That Goes Wrong ALLIED TOURING (Tour Marketing & Press) is a full-service engage- (West End); Blue Blood by Anna Jordan (Riverside); The Revenger’s ment management agency representing Broadway tours and other Tragedy (RCSSD, London); A Servant of Two Masters, Scapino (CMU, live events across North America. Current: Bandstand; The Book of Pittsburgh); The Snowfall (Etcetera). Mark has taught and directed at Mormon; Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Harry Potter and LAMDA, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UEA and East 15 the Cursed Child (San Francisco); Hello, Dolly!; The Hip Hop Nutcracker; acting schools. markbell.info. Mean Girls; Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live; Rent; ’s White NIGEL HOOK (Scenic Design) has designed an enormous range of drama, Christmas. Upcoming: Ain’t Too Proud, The Cher Show, , Pretty musical and opera productions throughout the U.K., Europe and the Woman, To Kill a Mockingbird, . Brits Off-Broadway (Unsuspecting Susan) season in New York. West End THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Booking). Since its inception in 1996, credits: Spread a Little Happiness (); Philadelphia, Here I Come! The Booking Group has represented 25 Tony Award-winning Best (Wyndhams); Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens (Criterion); Musicals and Plays. Current touring productions include: ; Ferry Across the Mersey (Lyric); The Boys in the Band (); Party and ; The Book of Mormon; ; ; When Pigs Fly (Arts); (Albery); Pageant (Vaudeville); ; Hello, Dolly!; Irving Berlin’s White Christmas; Mean Steptoe and Son (Pinter); and the 2015 Olivier Award-winner for Best Girls; My Fair Lady; Rent: The 25th Anniversary Tour and Waitress.

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST Future productions include: Hadestown, 1776, The Cher Show, Pretty since created Alchemation, a theatrical and media producing company Woman, To Kill a Mockingbird and Tootsie. committed to new work. Mr. McCollum was trained at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and earned his mas- MICHAEL DANEK(Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be joining ter’s degree in film producing from the Peter Stark Program at the The Play That Goes Wrong tour. Broadway: Chicago, , . University of Southern California. In 1995, he received the Robert National tours: Love Never Dies, , Chicago, Rock of Whitehead Award for Outstanding Commercial Theatre Producing. Ages, Dr. Dolittle, Little House on the Prairie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Disney’s High School Musical. Off Broadway: A Christmas Carol, The J.J. ABRAMS (Producer) is the founder of Bad Robot Productions. Fantasticks, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Master Class. European A writer, director and/or producer of television series such as and Asian tours: Grease (performed in German), , West Side “Felicity,” “Alias,” “Lost,” “Castle Rock” and “Westworld” and films Story. The Tokyo, Taiwan and Korean companies of Chicago. such as Super 8, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the Mission: Impossible, Star Trek and Cloverfield franchises. Abrams is currently SUZANNE APICELLA (Stage Manager). Broadway: Fiddler on the directing, producing and co-writing (with Chris Terrio) Star Wars: Roof, Burn the Floor. National tours: , Rock of Ages, Episode IX. Abrams and his wife, Katie McGrath, co-CEO of Bad Robot, . NYC: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas live in Los Angeles and have three children. (MSG). Regional: Ogunquit, Goodspeed, Engeman, FST, Gateway. For Joseph and Jacob. KENNY WAX (Producer) is a triple Olivier Award-winning London- based producer, currently serving a three-year term as the President JESSICA TROY (Assistant Stage Manager) has worked with of the Society of London Theatre. His musical won three Alchemation on The Play That Goes Wrong, Motown: The Musical, Olivier Awards including Best New Musical from its seven nominations. Something Rotten!, Hand to God, and many regional and developmen- His production of won Best New Musical in 1995 tal productions. B.A. from Fordham University. from its four nominations and The Play That Goes Wrong won Best JOHN EDKINS (Production Manager). Thirty years with Pittsburgh CLO New Comedy at the Olivier Awards in 2015 and is still playing in the building scenery and Production Supervisor for 25 years. Owner of West End, on a UK tour and has just been extended on Broadway, JE Scenic Technologies, Inc., a theatrical scenic production services where it won a Tony Award for best set design. Peter Pan Goes Wrong and storage company specializing in Broadway traveling productions was nominated for an Olivier in 2016 and The Comedy About a Bank exhibit and scenic elements. Involved with the Diocese of Pittsburgh Robbery is now into its third year at the Criterion Theatre in London. for 21 years in development and construction of the Millennium Kenny has just opened a new musical, Six, about Henry VIII’s wives, Crèche. The Play That Goes Wrong, An American in Paris (Paris tour), transferring from the Edinburgh Festival into the West End. Later this , Annie, , My Fair Lady, year he will present the first staged production ofThe Worst Witch, and Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Heads the annual Junior Theater based on the books by Jill Murphy. In the U.S. in 2018/19 Kenny will Festival in Atlanta. Indiana University graduate. Resides in Pittsburgh present Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Around the World in 80 Days and Mr with his wife and four sons. Popper’s Penguins. JOSE SOLIVAN (Company Manager). Broadway tours managed: STAGE PRESENCE LTD. (Producer) is delighted to be part of the team The Color Purple, Finding , Cabaret, R&H Cinderella, The presenting Mischief Comedy shows on Broadway and all across the Gershwins’ , Anything Goes, , The Drowsy United States. Chaperone, Rent, The Producers, Grease and . Broadway CATHERINE SCHREIBER (Producer) is a two-time Tony-winning and tours performed: Oklahoma! “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”— Oliver-winning international producer; Broadway Global Producer of Oprah. Instagram: cmjosesolivan. the Year, 2017. Productions: Broadway: Network, Pretty Woman; Off- DIGBY ROBINSON (U.K. Production Management) has over 30 years’ Broadway: Lead Producer The Play That Goes Wrong. Recent (U.K.) Lead experience of production management in both the commercial and Producer: Company; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Heisenberg. subsidized sectors. Recent productions in London’s West End include Catherine is most proud of bringing The Scottsboro Boys to London. Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo), The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess), Winner: London Critics’ Circle Award, Evening Standard Award. The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion) and Matilda for the Royal Nominated for seven Olivier Awards, including Best Musical. Tony win- Shakespeare Company (Cambridge). Current projects include Death ner: Clybourne Park, Angels in America. Olivier Award: Company (2019). of a Salesman (U.K. tour) and Fat Friends The Musical (U.K. tour). Six Tony nominations include Fiddler on the Roof, The Scottsboro Boys, Next Fall, Peter and the Starcatcher. Five Olivier nominations include KEVIN McCOLLUM (Producer) has received the Tony Award for Best , , The Scottsboro Boys, People Places and Things. Musical for (2008), (2004) and Rent (1996), Upcoming: The King’s Speech, The Scottsboro Boys (Alabama), Executive which also won the Pulitzer Prize. He is currently represented on Producer: Made in Kent, Documentary. Broadway with the Olivier Award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong. He produced Something Rotten! (Broadway, national tour); Hand to KEN DAVENPORT (Co-Producer). Once on This Island (Tony Award), God (Broadway, West End); Motown: The Musical (Broadway, West End Gettin’ the Band Back Together, , Spring Awakening and national tour); in 2006, which won five (Tony nomination), It’s Only a Play, Macbeth, Godspell, Altar Boyz, The ; Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s La bohème in Awesome ’80s Prom, Daddy Long Legs and more. Executive Producer 2002; [] in 2008; the touring and Broadway productions of for North America of ’s . Irving Berlin’s White Christmas; the Off-Broadway hitDe La Guarda; the Created “Be a Broadway Star” board game (available on ), recent hit revival of West Side Story; and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad DidHeLikeIt.com and author of the blog TheProducersPerspective.com. Zoo. 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WHO’S WHO in the CAST LUCAS McMAHON (Producer) is thrilled to help spread Mischief’s ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (“Equity”), founded in 1913, is the brand of mayhem across America! He has worked with Kevin U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional McCollum at Alchemation since 2012. Other credits include The Play actors and stage managers. Equity fosters the of live theater as That Goes Wrong on Broadway, Something Rotten! (Broadway and an essential component of society and advances the careers of its national tour) and Hand to God (Broadway and West End). He is a members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and proud alumnus of Northwestern University. He would like to thank providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension his family and friends for letting him believe he is right when is plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated often so wrong. with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks. MARTIAN ENTERTAINMENT (Co-Producer) is Gregory Rae, Carl D. White and Tyrus Emory. Credits: The Normal Heart (Tony Award), STAFF FOR THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony Award) and many others. Upcoming: GENERAL MANAGEMENT The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Loch Ness, Home Street THEATER MATTERS Home. MartianEntertainment.com. John E. Gendron Reeve Pierson

JACK LANE (Co-Producer). Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher COMPANY MANAGER (Tony nomination), (Tony Award), The Humans (Tony Jose Solivan Award), The Play That Goes Wrong and . Off-Broadway: Assistant Company Manager...... Jessica Troy Shear Madness. Jack is the Executive Producer and co-founder of Stages St. Louis, a 32-year-old regional theater. PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT John Edkins DOUBLE GEMINI PRODUCTIONS (Co-Producer). Wendy Federman and Carl Moellenberg have collectively garnered 18 Oscars (that is what U.K. PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Digby Robinson they call them, right?). Career highlights: Wendy doing the 100-yard dash in a long red dress at Radio City on national TV, Carl searching TOUR MARKETING & PRESS in Thailand for the missing star who ate too much sushi. ALLIED TOURING Marya K. Peters Andrew Damer deROY-BRUNISH (Co-Producer). Jamie deRoy: three Tony Awards, Jennifer Gallagher Anne Waisanen three Drama Desk, six Outer Critics, two Drama League awards; 41 Anne Dailey Meyer Scott Praefke Broadway and 33 Off-Broadway shows. TV: 11 Telly Awards. Film: Jacqueline Smith Janie Dickerson Broadway: The Golden Age Trilogy. Corey Brunish has garnered eight Hayden Anderson Jessica Cary Tony nominations, two Tony Awards. Currently: Come from Away. TOUR BOOKING AGENCY Beautiful is now in its fourth year. For Jessica. THE BOOKING GROUP Meredith Blair DAMIAN ARNOLD (Co-Producer) trained at LAMDA for three years. Rich Rundle and Brian Brooks Producing credits: Don’t Dress for Dinner (Chicago and Broadway, two www.thebookinggroup.com Tony nominations), Gypsy with (West End, Olivier Award), Thark by Ben Travers, Brief Encounter (dir. Emma Rice). U.S. CASTING Investor: Matilda (Broadway), Blithe Spirit with Stephen Kopel, CSA (West End and U.S. tour), (with Martin Freeman), The LEGAL COUNSEL Lieutenant of Inishmore (West End), The Moderate Soprano by David LEVINE PLOTKIN & MENIN, LLP Hare, The Girl from the North Country (West End). Loren Plotkin, Conrad Rippy, Susan Mindell Daniel Watkins, Emily Erstling GREENLEAF PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is a Tony, Drama Desk and Olivier award-winning company whose recent productions include Production Stage Manager...... Michael Danek Dreamgirls West End, Groundhog Day, , Fiddler on Stage Manager...... Suzanne Apicella the Roof and Menopause The Musical, both currently on tour through- Assistant Stage Manager...... Jessica Troy out the United States. They are very proud to be a part of the Wrong Associate Director...... Mark Evans Fight Captain...... Michael Thatcher family. For more information visit greenleafproductions.com. Associate Costume Designer ...... Amanda Jenks (Co-Producer). Bard Theatricals (Annette Jolles, Jim Assistant Costume Designer...... Courtney Irizarry BARD-ROTH Associate Lighting Designer...... Jeremy Cunningham van Bergen, Laurence Holzman, Lara Holzman, David Stern, Linda Associate Lighting Designer...... Wilburn Bonnell Hamil): Broadway: Jagged Little Pill (upcoming), The Play That Goes Associate Sound Designer...... Beth Lake Wrong, Fiddler… 2015 (and tour), Doll, The Scottsboro Boys Assistant Sound Designer...... Stephen Dee (and London), The Anarchist, Looped. Dean Roth: Puffs, Be More Chill, U.K. Technical Design Consultant...... Alan Bartlett Jagged Little Pill, Macbeth (Alan Cumming), Clinton The Musical and 27 U.K. Production Consultant...... Sacha Brooks Production Carpenter...... Jeff Zink other productions on- and Off-Broadway and in the U.K. Head Carpenter...... Jerry VanOrden JOHN YONOVER (Co-Producer) supported and invested in more than Assistant Carpenter...... Shawn McGinnis Production Sound Supervisor...... Dillon Cody 35 productions on Broadway, in Chicago and London, including , Head Sound...... Christopher Mark Walters Dee Snider’s Rock and Roll Christmas ( and Chicago), First Date Production Props...... Emiliano Pares and the currently running Dear Evan Hansen and Come from Away. Head Props...... Dean Burchett

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U.K. Props Buyer ...... Jasper Fox Production Electrician ...... Brendan Quigley CREDITS Head Electrician...... Dirk Van Pernis Scenery & automation built by Bay Scenery Ltd. Chandelier by Gothic Gates Assistant Electrician ...... Rose Nuchims Ltd. Trick props by PMB Theatre Services Ltd, Russell Beck Studios Ltd, Moving Light Programmer ...... Chelsea Zalikowski Breakaway Effect Ltd, Karl Evans & Terry Tiffin. Drapes by Chris Claydon Ltd. Wardrobe & Supervisor ...... Kearney Starr Upholstery by Claire Sanderson. Portrait artwork by Jane Gibson. Lighting Hair & Wig Stylist ...... Kaylan Paisley & sound equipment from PRG. Bra*Tenders for hosiery and undergarments. Vocal Coach ...... Kate Wilson Makeup provided by M·A·C. Production Supervisorv ...... Whitney Keeter U.S. Production Photography ...... Jeremy Daniel SPECIAL THANKS U.K. Production Photography ...... Simon Turtle Nica Burns, Laurence Miller and all at . Rachel Williams and GM Intern ...... Ben Fleischer the stage management team at the Duchess Theatre, London. Strike Digital, U.S. Advertising & Marketing ...... SPOTCO N9 Design, Dragonfly Design, Cambridge Arts Theatre, The Umbrella Rooms, Marketing Services ...... bd productions/ Jonathan Waller, Judith Phillips, Bryony Myers, Charlie Longstaff, Thomas Platt, Betsy Dollinger Martin Thomas, Adam Meggido, Harriet Parsonage, Jenny Wilson, Carla Batten, U.K. Marketing ...... JHI Marketing Mike Hagan, Niall Ransome, Mike Bodie, Harry Kershaw, Joshua Elliott, Julie U.K. Press ...... Jo Allan PR Jordan, Dylan Emery, Raz Shaw, Janet & David Burke, Suzie Zamit, Lucy Danser, U.K. Tour Press & Marketing ...... Helen Snell Caroline Jenkins, Julia Worms, Dawn Farrow, Jonathan Maydew, Rodney Cottier, Ltd Accountant ...... WithumSmith+Brown PC/ The Old Red Lion, Questors Theatre & LAMDA, Hailey Ferber, Darren DeVerna, Robert Fried, CPA, Karen Kowgios, CPA, Manny and Lani Azenberg, Anton Media Group, Chubb Group Anthony Moore, CPA U.K. Accountants ...... Michael Collins, MUSIC CREDITS Lois Hargreaves “Girls on Film” Written by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, Andy Taylor, Controller ...... Galbraith & Co./LeeAnn Kelley RogerTaylor and John Taylor and performed by Duran Duran. Published Banking ...... Signature Bank/Margaret Monigan by Gloucester Place Music Ltd and used by permission of Sony/ATV Music Insurance ...... AON/Albert G. Ruben/Claudia Kaufman Publishing LLC. All Rights Reserved. Appears courtesy of Warner Music Legal Counsel for Group. “Rio” Written by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, Andy Taylor, RogerTaylor Goes Rights Ltd ...... Brooks and Distler/ and John Taylor and performed by Duran Duran. Published by Gloucester Marsha Brooks Place Music Ltd and used by permission of Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. Physical Therapy ...... NEURO TOUR, All Rights Reserved. Appears courtesy of Warner Music Group. Physical Therapy Inc. Payroll Services ...... Checks and Balances/ Production travel & housing by Anthony Walker ROAD REBEL ENTERTAINMENT TOURING, Visa Consultants ...... Wiskoff Law, PLLC/ San Diego, CA David King Travel Agent ...... Tzell Travel/ The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity The “A“ Team, Andi Henig Association, the union of professional actors and Housing Services ...... ABA IDEAL/Elizabeth Helke stage managers in the United States. Merchandising ...... Creative Goods/ Pete Milano The Director is a member of the Stage Directors Creative Services ...... Allied Global Marketing/ and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical Debbie Allamong, Mark DeSalvo, Eric Stormoen labor union.

ALCHEMATION United Scenic Artists represents the designers and Kevin McCollum scenic painters for the American Theatre. Lucas McMahon Jack Eidson Madison Knox The Press Agents and Company Managers employed in this production are represented KENNY WAX LTD. by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Kenny Wax Managers. Kezia Lock Backstage and Front of the House Employees Sarah Ryan Oriel Bathurst are represented by the International Alliance of Amanda Sutton Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

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