FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE 2 0 1 4 - 2 0 1 5 S E A S O N

HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT ROBERT CACIOPPO, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PRESENTS

SPONSORED BY BRUCE & JANET BUNCH STARRING Ensemble Members RACHEL BURTTRAM* • PATRICIA IDLETTE* • CARRIE LUND* SARA MORSEY* • JASON PARRISH* • BRENDAN POWERS* and BRITTANY ALBURY • JOHN ARCHIE* • CINDY DE LA CRUZ • COURTNEY FEIMAN ELISE LORRAINE MILLER • GRAHAM SMITH* • KAYLA TOMAS DIRECTED BY Ensemble Member ROBERT CACIOPPO**

SET DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER DENNIS C. MAULDEN*** LIGHTING DESIGNER ROBERTA MALCOLM JIM HUNTER*** ensemble member SOUND DESIGNER ensemble member ASST. STAGE MANAGERS JOHN KISELICA PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER LILLY BAXLEY* DIALECT COACH LINDA HARRIS* MICHELLE DAMATO* GREG LONGENHAGEN* ensemble member ensemble member ensemble member DIVIDING THE ESTATE is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York 2014-15 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS

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The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Bruce & Janet Bunch Cheryl & David Copham • Gholi & Georgia Darehshori • Ed & Ellie Fox John & Marjorie Madden • Sue & Jack Rogers • Arthur Zupko This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists. CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) Son...... JASON PARRISH*† Lucille...... CARRIE LUND*† Stella Gordon...... SARA MORSEY*† Mildred...... PATRICIA IDLETTE*† Cathleen...... CINDY DE LA CRUZ*† Doug...... JOHN ARCHIE*† Lewis Gordon...... GRAHAM SMITH*† Pauline...... BRITTANY ALBURY*† Mary Jo...... RACHEL BURTTRAM*† Emily...... KAYLA TOMAS*† Sissie...... COURTNEY FEIMAN*† Bob...... BRENDAN POWERS*† Irene Ratliff...... ELISE LORRAINE MILLER*†

TIME & PLACE Harrison, Texas. 1987. DIVIDING THE ESTATE will be performed with one 15-minute intermission.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT won two screenwriting Oscars, one for the film version of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird (1961, starring Gregory Peck) and one for Tender Mercies (1983, starring Robert Duvall). Born and raised in the small Texas town of Wharton, Foote set out for California after high school to make his mark as an actor. By the 1940s he was in New York and found he was more suited to writing plays, which in turn led to a career writing screenplays for movies and, later, television. During his long and celebrated career he specialized in the quiet dramas of rural Americans, setting most of his work in the fictional town of Harrison, Texas. He earned a third Oscar nomination for adapting his play The Trip to Bountiful (1985), and he also did critically- acclaimed screen adaptations of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men (the 1992 film version that starred John Malkovich and Gary Sinise) and William Faulkner’s Old Man (a 1997 TV movie that won Foote an Emmy). His play The Young Man From Atlanta earned him a Pulitzer prize for drama in 1995, and in 2000 he was given a National Medal of Arts by President Bill Clinton.

Original Broadway production by Theater, by arrangement with , New York City, 2008.

New York City premiere produced by Primary Stages in September 2007 (Casey Childs, Founder and Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director).

A prior version of the play received its world premiere at the McCarter Theatre Company (Nagle Jackson, Artistic Director; Jamie Brown, Production Director) in March 1989, and was subsequently produced by Great Lakes Theatre Festival and North Carolina School of the Arts (Gerald Freedman, Artistic and Production Director) in October 1990 and December 1991.

†Member of Florida Repertory Theatre’s Ensemble of Theatre Artists. See page 23 for the entire ensemble. The Actors & Stage Manager *** ** * employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. CREATIVE TEAM

BRITTANY ALBURY member of Actors Equity. Thank you to Bob for the (Pauline) is so very pleased chance to be involved with this wonderful production! to be working with such a She is married to actor, Brendan Powers. wonderful theatre company www.rachelburttram.com again. Florida Rep credits include Tribes (Sylvia) and CINDY DE LA CRUZ* Mr. Perfect (Zooey)in Florida (Cathleen) is very excited to Rep’s PlayLab. Brittany has be performing in Dividing the previously appeared around Estate. She is a native New Southwest Florida in Joseph Yorker and graduate of the and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat (Ensemble), famous LaGuardia H.S. She The Little Mermaid (Ensemble), Into the Woods recently completed Florida (Lucinda/Granny), Woyzeck (Woyzeck), Miss Nelson Studio Theater’s acting is Missing (Cheryl), The Liar (Clarice), Monty Python’s apprenticeship and was last Spamalot (Ensemble), Becky’s New Car (Kenni), A seen in their production of Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania/Hyppolita), Art of South Beach Babylon. Cindy can soon be seen in the Murder (Kate), The School for Wives (Agnes), Servant independent film Mari en Maraña. She’d like to thank of Two Masters (Beatrice), In the Shade of Old Trees her parents and her incredibly supportive fiancé Joe. (Lani Gibb), Some Things You Need To Know Before The World Ends… (Space Lady/Country Singer), and COURTNEY FEIMAN (Sissie) Reckless (Rachel). hails from Atlanta, GA and is a recent graduate of High JOHN ARCHIE* (Doug) is Point University with a delighted to return to Florida degree in music and theatre Rep. A member of Actors performance. Her credits Equity and SAG-AFTRA, include being nominated John’s credits include TV, for the Kennedy Center Film, Commercials, voice, American College Theatre and print ads. He was last Festival for her roles as Little seen on stage as Kenyatta Sally in Urinetown, Lois Lane in Kiss Me, Kate, and in Sunset Baby at Primal Madame de Tourvel in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Forces in Ft. Lauderdale. In college, Courtney was a part of Phi Mu Sorority, John’s stage credits include The Whipping Man, Radio Alpha Psi Omega, Petal Points, and the HPU Chamber Golf, Permanent Collection, Top Dog Under Dog, Singers. She is currently one of the performance Lobby Hero, Buffalo Soldier, The Meeting, and Driving interns at Florida Rep and appears in the touring Miss Daisy. John wrote and performed the story of children shows, Journey to Oz and The True Story of Ft. Mose for thousands of kids. Nominated several the Three Little Pigs. Courtney was most recently seen times, he is the recipient of Carbonell, Curtain Up, and as P.B. in Florida Rep’s January production of One Silver Palm awards. John thanks God, family, friends, Slight Hitch and Nina in the season opener Vanya colleagues, and Theatre audiences for their support. and Sonia and Masha and Spike! She would like to thank her wonderful family and friends for always RACHEL BURTTRAM*† supporting her and encouraging her to follow (Mary Jo) has been a her dreams! company member since 2002 and has performed PATRICIA IDLETTE*† in almost 20 plays with (Mildred) is a local Actor, the Rep. Additionally, she Writer, and Director has played the roles of working in Regional Company Manager, Front Theatres across the United of House Manager, Director States and Canada. Her of Audience Development, creative explorations include and Associate Director here at the Rep. Currently, she television, film, voice over, serves as Production Manager for ArtFest Fort Myers. and performance art. Favorite roles at the Florida Rep include: Clybourne Patricia’s most recent and Park, Miracle on South Division Street, August: Osage most exhilarating artistic venture was as Director of County, Trying, Doubt, Amy’s View (with Carol the choreopoem, for colored firls who have considered Lawrence). Other Regional Theatre credits: Actors suicide when the rainbow is enuf in collaboration with Theatre of Louisville & the Humana New Play Festival, Theatre Conspiracy and the Theatre Department of Riverside Theatre, The Kitchen Theatre, Hippodrome Florida Southwestern State College. Ms. Idlette is a Theatre, City Equity Theatre, Barnstormers Theatre, proud member of the Florida Rep Ensemble of Gloucester Stage. NYC credits include: Actors Studio, Theatre Artists. Vital Theatre Company, NYC International Fringe Festival. TV & Film: Emma’s Fine, Burn Notice, World Traveler. National commercials. Rachel is a proud CREATIVE TEAM CARRIE LUND*† (Lucille) has Sara has appeared at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and been a company member and at The National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Associate Producer of as well as in several independent films and in regional Florida Rep since its inception theaters across the US. Sara is a long-time company in 1998 and has acted in over member at the Hippodrome Theatre and professional 90 productions in Southwest narrator for the National Library Service for three Florida. In 2012, she was years. Sara now narrates audiobooks from her home named Best Actress of the studio. Master of Fine Arts from The University of Year and named one of the Louisville, Member Actors’ Equity Association. www. “Power Women of the Year” saramorsey.com by Florida Weekly. She produced and acted on Sanibel Island from 1984-1998 at the Pirate Playhouse and on JASON PARRISH*† (Son) Captiva Island with Carrie Lund Presents. She taught is in his tenth season as an theatre at Florida Gulf Coast University in its early ensemble member and as years, produced theatre companies in her hometown of Associate Director with Erie, PA and New York City, and performed in regional Florida Rep. His appearances theatres in NY, VT and NC, as well as the Three River with the company include: Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Playhouse, and Around the World in 80 Days, American Ibsen Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA. In 1987, Clybourne Park, The Hound of the Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce awarded the Baskervilles, Arsenic and her the Distinguished Citizen Award and the Lifetime Old Lace, Lend Me a Tenor, Achievement Award in 1997. Carrie has been in all The Big Bang, Noises Off, Greetings!, The Last Romance, seven Florida Rep shows reviewed by the Wall Street King o’ the Moon, A Funny Thing Happened on the Journal: One Slight Hitch, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Way to the Forum, and six years in The Santaland Little Foxes, God of Carnage, Sylvia, You Can’t Take It Diaries. His directing credits with Florida Rep include with You, and Dancing at Lughnasa. Other selected The Fantasticks, Tru, [title of show], and The Shape of credits include Florida Rep’s Tribes, Heart Song, Things, as well as a number of productions for Florida Clybourne Park, Rumors (2002, 2011), August: Osage Rep’s Children’s Theatre Series including this season’s County, Noises Off (1998, 2010), The Last Romance, world premiere of Journey to Oz. His work with other Enchanted April, Rabbit Hole, To Kill a Mockingbird, theatres includes guest appearances with the New The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, All My Sons, and Private York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert Series at Lives. Her work as a voiceover artist can be heard Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, Sanibel’s Strauss on NPR and industrial DVDs. Married to Robert Theatre, The Off-Broadway Palm, Actors’ Playhouse Cacioppo, they both enjoy the accomplishments of (Miami), Riverside Theatre (Vero Beach), and Theatre their best productions: Matt, graduate of UCF and by the Sea/Ocean State Theatre Company (Rhode Julia, graduate of FSU. Island). Jason is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. ELISE LORRAINE MILLER BRENDAN POWERS*† (Bob) (Irene Ratliff) is a recent is an ensemble member graduate of Columbus State at Florida Rep where his University with a BFA in credits include Around the Performance and Directing World in 80 Days, Murder with Teacher Certification. at the Howard Johnson’s, The Elise is currently a Fantasticks, Doubt, Opus, performance intern at Florida Boeing-Boeing, The Glass Rep, and can be seen in the Menagerie, Dial M for Murder, Children’s Theatre Series: and Born Yesterday. Other Journey to Oz (Player 2 – Wicked Witch) and The True stage credits include the Tony Award-winning play, Story of the Three Little Pigs (Judge Prudence). Previous Art, and The Big Knife, both with Alec Baldwin, the credits include: The Illusion (Melibea/Isabelle…), Noel Coward revue, Oh, Coward! at Off-Broadway’s Seussical: The Musical (Gertrude McFuzz), Beggars Irish Repertory Theatre, A Tuna Christmas, Don’t in the House of Plenty (Ma/Noreen), and Amadeus Dress for Dinner, Our Town, Arsenic and Old Lace, (Constanze). Elise is very thankful to be working with and numerous others. TV work includes FBI Agent such a talented cast and crew; this will be her Florida Rick Cranston on Graceland (USA Network), and Rep Mainstage debut and she couldn’t be happier for David Weller in the Netflix original series, Bloodline, the opportunity. eliselorrainemiller.com starring Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard. He can also be seen driving the big blue Cadillac in a series of SARA MORSEY*† (Stella national commercials for Alabama Road Trips. His Gordon) returns to Florida cartoon captions have been winners for various Rep after last season’s contests including The New Yorker, Hartford Courant, Collected Stories, and previous Denver Post, Moment Magazine, Inside Higher Ed, and appearances in The Glass the Greensboro News-Record. He is married to actress Menagerie, The Last Romance, Rachel Burttram. www.BrendanPowers.com The Year of Magical Thinking, The Little Foxes, August: Osage County, and more. CREATIVE TEAM GRAHAM SMITH* (Lewis in Cherokee, North Carolina stage managing Unto Gordon) grew up jumping out These Hills with Mountainside Theatre and now joins of empty boxes in his father’s Florida Rep’s 17th season working as an assistant stage family-vaudevillemagic manager hoping to grow in her craft and continue show, which toured the US building a career in stage management. and Europe from 1961- 1973. BA: Davidson College, LINDA HARRIS*† (Production Stage Manager) Broadway MFA: The Hilberry Classic credits include Garden District at Circle in the Theatre. He has appeared in Square, A New York Summer at Radio City Music nearly two hundred plays Hall and various productions at The New Victory and eleven films. He worked for Charlotte Repertory Theater. Off-Broadway, she has stage managed The from 1981-2002, spent fifteen seasons with the North Fantasticks, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, and productions Carolina Shakespeare Festival and is presently a at Circle Rep, the Actor’s Studio, The Lucille Lortel company member with People’s Light and Theatre in Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The Village Philadelphia (since 1998). He also works regularly at Gate, among others. Regional credits include Mosaic other theatres, including Riverside Theatre, Actor’s Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, Arena Stage, The Theatre of Louisville, North Carolina Stage Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Northern Stage, Festival Stage, Cape Fear Regional Theatre and Westport Country Playhouse, The State Theatre Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. Notable roles include Company in Austin, Cleveland Play House, Seattle three Lears, three Cascas, two Jacques, Malvolio, Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Alabama Shakespeare Toby, and Aguecheek, Master Ford, Autolycus, Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC, Stephano, Gonzalo, Puck, Oberon (2), Peter Quince Delaware Theatre Company, Philadelphia Festival (2) in forty-two productions of Shakespeare. Other Theatre for New Plays, Berkshire Theatre Festival, favorites include Harpagon (2), Argan, Alceste, Roy Capital Repertory, and NJ Shakespeare Festival. Cohn in Angels in America, Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons, Tobias in A Delicate Balance, Don JIM HUNTER*** (Lighting Designer) Dividing the Quixote in The Return of Don Quixote, Salter in A Estate is Jim’s 15th design at Florida Repertory Theatre Number, Rance in What the Butler Saw, Rothko since 2000 including August: Osage County, The in Red, Louis in Shipwrecked (2), Author/Buks in Glass Menagerie, Amy’s View, and Noises Off. Folger Valley Song (2), Owen in The Foreigner (6) and Bob Theatre: Julius Caesar, Richard III. Phoenix Theatre: Cratchit (15). He spent the past year working on a Man of La Mancha, The Full Monty, Applause, collaboration between National Theatre of Scotland Tintypes; Charlotte Repertory Theatre: Jar the and People’s Light. At Florida Rep, he played Henry Floor, Other People’s Money; Theatre Virginia:Lost Ford in Camping with Henry and Tom, Joseph in My in Yonkers, Moon Over Buffalo, The Sunshine Boys; Three Angels, Vanya in Vanya and Sonia and Masha Arizona : The King and I. Florida and Spike, and Paul Miller in Murder at the Howard Stage: Goldie, Max, and Milk, Some Kind of Wonderful; Johnson’s. Happy to be back at Florida Rep, he lives Arkansas Repertory Theatre: Talley’s Folly, Foxfire; in Charlotte, NC with his wife, Audrey Brown, and Orlando Shakespeare: The 39 Steps; Florida Studio Golden, Henry. Theatre: Spamalot; The Lost Colony: The Lost Colony; Drury Lane (Chicago): La Cage Aux Folles; Tours: KAYLA TOMAS (Emily) was Clear Channel: Veggie Tales Live (National) and born and raised in sunny Wall Street Danceworks. AriZoni Awards in Scene Florida and is a graduate of Design for Thoroughly Modern Millie and Picnic. Jim Florida State University with is a Professor of Theatre Design at the University of a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre. South Carolina and serves on the Board of Directors Currently an Acting Intern for the National Association of Schools of Theatre at Florida Rep, she has had and Chairs the NAST Commission on Accreditation. the pleasure of performing jimhunterdesigns.com. in the Children’s Theatre Series productions of Journey JOHN KISELICA (Sound Designer) is a graduate of to Oz and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, as West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts well as understudying roles throughout the season Degree in Lighting and Sound Design. He recently and appearing as a teaching artist in the education worked on the national tour, Buddy: The Buddy Holly department. Much gratitude goes to Florida Rep and Musical as the Master Electrician after a contract with those who inspire her to pursue this career. Royal Caribbean International as a Stage Technician. LILLY BAXLEY (Assistant Stage Manager) Commercial theatrical work includes installing is a recent Prodigy Hoists, an automated rigging system graduate of Piedmont College where she studied both from Electronic Theatre Controls. John spends his Performance and Technical theatre with specification summers in Lynchburg, VA as the resident Sound & in Stage Management. She completed her work at Piedmont with her senior capstone in which she stage Lighting Designer with Endstation Theatre Company. managed Pippin and created a how-to guide along He is extremely excited to be here at Florida Rep for with lesson plans to help those interested in stage his first season. management learn the basics. Lilly spent her summer CREATIVE TEAM

ROBERTA MALCOLM† (Costume Designer) is in her dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, eleventh season in residence at Florida Rep and 38th upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity year as a costumer. Some past favorite assignments: negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a Curly McDimple with Margaret O’Brien, Florida Follies wide range of benefits including health and pension plans personal dresser for Florence Henderson, The Lennon for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this Play with John Ritter, Showboat national tour with theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is Dean Jones and Cloris Leachman, Annie national tour a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an dresser for Conrad John Schuck. Thanks to her family international organization of performing arts unions. For (Sean, Ali, Becca, Jon, Bob, and Fawn) for the constant more information, visit www.actorsequity.org. love and support. Sincere appreciation to Robert Cacioppo, John Martin, the Florida Rep board, staff, The director is a member of the Stage and audiences for their continuing commitment to Directors and Choreographers Society, quality in the SWFL arts community. a national theatrical labor union.

DENNIS MAULDEN*** (Set Designer) is delighted to be Florida Professional Theatres Association working with Florida Repertory Theatre for the first (FPTA) is a statewide organization of time. He has served since 1985 as the Resident Scene professional theatre companies and Designer at Flat Rock Playhouse, the State Theatre of theatre professionals interested in the North Carolina where he also serves as Apprentice development and promotion of professional theatre Administrator. He has headed design programs at throughout Florida. Florida Repertory Theatre is a proud the University of Florida and the University of South FPTA member theatre. Carolina, where he also was Departmental Director The National New Play Network is the of Graduate Studies. Maulden, a scene designer since country’s alliance of nonprofit theaters 1970, has designed in other university, community, that champions the development, and regional theatres as well as in New York. In production, and continued life of addition to a long list of theatre classics, he considers new plays. The NNPN strives to pioneer, implement, himself privileged to have designed many premiere and disseminate ideas and programs that revolutionize productions of straight plays, musicals, and operas. He the way theaters collaborate to support new plays and received his MFA in Design from UNC-Greensboro in playwrights. Florida Repertory Theatre is proud to be an 1977 and is a member of USA, NY Local #829. Associate Member of the National New Play Network.

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