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Casual Fine Dining • Open Everyday Beginning at 11 a.m. Outstanding Lunch and Dinner • Daily Lunch Specials Menus Featuring Fresh Cut Steaks, Lobster, and Prime Rib Full-Service Bar• Live Music Fridays and Saturdays, 8-11 p.m. IPFW DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE presents The Diviners by JIM LEONARD JR. *** Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer MARK RIDGEWAY CRAIG A. HUMPHREY MARK DeLANCEY TOM BECKNER Technical Direction Costume Supervision Stage Manager MARK DeLANCEY JEANNE PENDLETON BROGAN STILLMAN *** Directed by JEFF CASAZZA The Diviners was first developed and performed by the Hanover College Theatre Group under the direction of Tom Evans and with the support of the American College Theatre Festival. The Diviners is produced through special arrangement with Samuel French Inc., 45 W. 25th St., New York, NY 10010. Without the written permission from management for photographing or sound recording, violators may be punished by ejection, and violations may render the offender liable · for monetary damages. Please turn off all cell phones. As a courtesy to the performers, we ask that you remain in your seat until the curtain call is finished. 1bis production was created for its artistic and academic value. The selection and performance of the production does not constitute an endorsement by Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne or Purdue University of the viewpoints conveyed by the material. JIM LEONARD JR.-PLAYWRIGHT JIM LEONARD JR. writes plays, movies, and television. Published plays include The Diviners, And They Dance Real Slow In Jackson, V&VOnly, Crow And Weasel, and Anatomy Of Gray. His newest play, Battle Hymn, recently opened at Circle X Theatre in Los Angeles. He co-wrote the screenplay for Mira Nair's award-winning film, My Own Country. In addition, Leonard created the television series Close To Home ( CBS), Skin (Fox), and Thieves (ABC); he wrote and produced The Marshal (ABC), Internal Affairs (NBC), Night Visions (Fox), Kilroy (HBO), and the American version of Cracker (ABC). He was a member of New York's Circle Repertory Company for 20 years. Theatrical honors include three NEA Fellowships, a New York Villager Award, the Midland Writers Award, the Samuel French Best New Play Award, and the Dramatists Guild Award. Leonard ran the M.F.A. in Playwriting program at Arizona State University for seven years. He is proud to serve on the board of the New Harmony Project. CAST Buddy Layman ......................................................................... CHAD KENNERK C. C. Showers .............................................................................. AARON MANN Jennie Mae Layman ................................................ CATHERINE DEVENTER Ferris Layman ................................................................................. JACOB SLONE Basil Bennett ................................................................................. MARC SHULER Luella Bennett ..................................................................................... KAT WIMER Melvin Wilder ..................................................................... ADAM HAMILTON Dewey Maples ......................................................... MICHAEL BARTKIEWICZ Darlene Henshaw ............................................... STEPHANIE LOCHBIHLER Norma Henshaw ..................................................................... AMBER KLINKER Goldie Short .......................................................................... AMANDA PRATER Location: Zion, Indiana• Early 1930s Act I: 60 minutes There will be one 15-minute intermission. Act II: 50 minutes WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST MICHAEL BARTKIEWICZ (Dewey) has appeared in Beauty and the Beast and Seussical the Musical at the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre, The Music Man and Guys and Dolls at Bishop Dwenger High School, and as Tobias in Sweeny Todd with the Fort Wayne Community Schools Summer Theatre Program. He also won an Anthony Award for his performance in Big River at the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre. This production is his IPFW debut. Bartkiewicz plans to study theatre at IPFW. CATHERINE DEVENTER (Jennie Mae) is a sophomore theatre major and dance minor at IPFW and a graduate of Northrop High School. Some of her credits include The Taming of the Shrew, The Effects ofGamma Rays... , How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Purely Dance 2008, and The Lark. Deventer also won the 2007 Sterling Sentinel Award for Drama. ADAM HAMILTON (Melvin) is a graduate of Northrop High School and is currently a junior theatre major at IPFW. He has served as deck/ assistant stage manager for Tape, stage manager for The Effects of Gamma Rays... , and actor in The Taming of the Shrew, Wonderful Town, A Doll's House, The Lark, and The Crucible at IPFW as well as in Mr. Roberts at FPT and Three Days ofRain at the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre. He also performed in Man to Man at the 2008 KC/ ACTF in Milwaukee. CHAD KENNERK (Buddy) is a senior theatre major at IPFW. His acting credits include Two Rooms, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, In Bed with... , The Lark, and On the 20th Century. He received Irene Ryan nominations for his roles in Wonderful Town and The Taming ofthe Shrew. In addition, Kennerk has worked as the assistant stage manager for Story Theatre and as the assistant director for Tape at IPFW. AMBER KLINKER (Norma) is a second year theatre major where she appeared as part of the V-Day 2008 production of The Vagina Monologues at IPFW. Her other credits include The Taming ofthe Shrew, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, MASH, Aida, Jekyll and Hyde, and Rehearsal far Murder. She has served as the assistant stage manager for Wonderful Town and on the wardrobe crew for Two Rooms and The Lark. Klinker is also a stitcher for the IPFW Costume Shop. STEPHANIE LOCHBIHLER (Darlene) is making her IPFW theatre debut in this production. A junior psychology major at IPFW, she has appeared in Peter Pan and To Kill a Mockingbird at Snider High School and was nominated for an Anthony Award for her performance as Popeye in The Miss Firecracker Contest at the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre. AARON MANN (Showers) is a senior theatre major at IPFW. Mann transferred from Wabash College where he received the Fine Arts Fellowship for entering freshmen. Mann was last seen in The Taming ofthe Shrew, for which he earned an Irene Ryan nomination. Mann also appeared in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Doll's House, Waiting/or Godot, The Lark, Tape, and On the 20th Century. Mann appeared in I Remember Mama, Annie, and Kiss Me, Kate at the Huron Playhouse in Ohio. Mann is currently a member of the touring production Brush Up Your Shakespeare, which is traveling to local high schools during spring semester. AMANDA PRATER (Goldie) is a sophomore theatre major at IPFW. Prater has been busy at IPFW appearing in The Taming of the Shrew, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Wonderful Town, serving on the backstage crews for In Bed With ... , Waiting/or Godot, A Doll's House, Effects ofGamma Rays... , and serving as a member of the box office staff. A graduate of Lakeland High School in LaGrange, Ind., she was very involved in theater, appearing in Once Upon a Mattress, James and the Giant Peach, Godspell, and Big. MARC SHULER (Basil) has lived in Fort Wayne all his life. A sophomore theatre major at IPFW with an emphasis on acting, this is his first show at IPFW. He has worked in the scene shop helping to build and paint sets for various productions. Shuler has also served on wardrobe crews for Wonderful Town and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Most recently, Shuler appeared as Wiley in Mr. Roberts at First Presbyterian Theatre. JACOB SLONE (Ferris) is currently working as a library assistant for the Garrett Public Library. Slone's credits include The Taming of the Shrew and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at IPFW, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at Arena Dinner Theatre, and Mr. Roberts at First Presbyterian Theatre, and his favorite role as the Cat in Honk! He has also served on several deck crews including On the 20th Century, A Doll's House, and The Crucible. He was the stage manager for In bed with .... KAT WIMER (Luella) is a second-year theatre major at IPFW. Wimer has become a staple on the backstage crew serving as assistant stage manager for On the 20th Century and More Fun than Bowling, as well as deck manager for Purely Dance 2006 and stage manager for Waitingfar Godot at IPFW. At IPFW, she has appeared onstage in The Crucible. She hails from Carroll High School, where she assistant directed and stage managed several productions and appeared as Minnie in the show Tell Me That You Love Me,Junie Moon. WHO'S WHO IN THE PRODUCTION CREW JEFF CASAZZA (Director) directed Two Rooms at IPFW and Three Days ofRain for Fort Wayne Civic Theatre last semester. Last year, Casazza directed A Doll's House in the Williams Theatre. This semester, he is also working as director and dramamrg for the Indiana Repertory The~me's Young Playwright's in Process program. Also, he directed a reading from The Sound of Stars Reflecting for the 2009 Biennial Bonderman National Competition and Symposium. 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