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PRESENTS Brighton Beach Memoirs By Neil Simon Eugene ...... Garrett Douglas Blanche ...... Christina Duris Kate ...... Gloria Petrelli Laurle ...... Cassandra Conklin Nora ...... Megan Tennis Stanley ...... Jimmy Keating Jack ...... Graham Gusloff Directed by JONATHAN HUNT SELL Stage Manager Set Designer Costume Designer Dialect Coach MAGGIE HART BRIDGID BURGE LIZZIE TURNER CONNIE DE VEER Light Designer Hair/Makeup Design Sound Designer ETHAN HOLLINGER SAVANNAH WETZEL PAIGE SPIZZO

ACTI Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York The Jerome family home, not too far from the beach. It is a lower middle income area Inhabited mostly by Jews, Irish and Germans. September 1937 - 6:30 p.m. ACT II Same location Wednesday, a week later. About 6:45 in the evening

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. •Denotes Master of Fine Arts or Master of Arts/Science candidate Additional Staff Technical Dlrector ...... ___...... ______Dan Browder Assl Director ...... ___...... ______.. ____...... , Grace Irvin Assl Stage Managers ...... _____ ...... Mia Carretta & Braden Poapst Prop Maater ...... ----...... ______.. connor Herbeck Assl Costume Designer ...... ___ Sarah Schwarzhaupt Master Carpenter ...... ____ Jake Lambert Assl Light Deslgner ...... Chandler Kadner Assl Sound Designer ...... Naomi Kibler Master Electrlclan ...... ------______James Morrison Assl Master Electrician ...... ______...... Halley Paluch Lighting/ Sound Supervisor ...... ______, ____ ...... Cassie Mings Charge Artist ...... ______, ______,Samantha Gribben Wardrobe Supervisor ...... _____...... , Katie McCarty

Run Crew ...... Katie Capp, Sofia Morales, Marianne Burton Wardrobe Crew ...... Johann Kerber, Alyssa Middleton, Nick Scott Leah Soderstrom, Chris Stevenson, Clare Supplltt, Jennifer Paulos Paint Crew ...... Brittany Adelman, Ashley Chitwood, Kelly Franklin, Julia Heeren, Dalja Nealy, Shakeyla Thomas Light Crew ____...... Spence Brady, Alexis Handler, Gabrielle Munoz, Sarah Seidler, Natalie Trollinger Sound Crew ______.... Chris Cvlkota, Taylor Eaves, Naomi Kibler, Amanda Labonte•, Jenna Wells

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Special Thanks Connor Harbeck, Lindsay Rowley, Lindsey Siders, Amber Saul, Balley Inman. Robert Quinlan, Shawn Malott, Grace Irving, Illinois Wesleyan University

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4 SCHOOL OF """17'1o/,/r~~~1~r• "' I f ((('- '-~t\{'1~ . IUu,ouStatc lh,wmay AN~~~~ll»~:~ A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR in the Anny Air Force Reserve he began writing comedy "I guess there comes a time in everybody's life when you scripts for radio and some popular early television shows. say, ~his very moment is the end of my childhood:" - Among them were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows In Eugene from Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon 1950, where he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond. When we produce a play that takes place in the pas~ the His first two hits, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and the Tony following question is often asked: "Why?" Why do a play winning The Odd Couple (1965), made him a national written in 1982 that takes place in 1937? Why should we celebrity and a household name. Overall, he has garnered care about a Depression era family in 2015? The themes seventeen Tony nominations and won three. During one of this play are universal and timeless. A family is faced season, he had four successful plays showing on with unemployment, keeping a roof over their heads, and Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only food on the table. They are threatened by an impending living playwright to have a Broadway theatre, the Neil war at the same time they struggle to move on after a Simon Theatre, named in his honor. After Simon won the sudden tragedy. Children confront the confusion and Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1991 for Lost in Yonkers, critics excitement of attaining adulthood mixed with the threat began to take notice of the depths, complexity and issues of losing their innocence. Almost 80 years after this play of universal interest in his stories, which expressed is se~ these are all themes that continue to resonate. Neil serious concerns of most average people. His comedies Simon's genius of sharing these serious themes through were based around subjects such as marital confict, uproarious comedy and heartfelt storytelling makes this infidelity, sibling rivalry, adolescence, and fear of aging. play a joy for any age, and I am proud and excited to share Simon's facility with dialogue gives his stories a rare Mr. Simon's story with you tonight blend of realism, humor and seriousness which audiences f,nd easy to identify with. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Neil Simon (bom July 4, 1927) is an American playwright The play you are about to see is semi-autobiographical, and screenwriter. He has written more than seventy plays and is the first play in Neil Simon's "Eugene Trilogy:' The and screenplays, and has received more combined Oscar other two are Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound. This and Tony nominations than any other writer. Simon grew trilogy follows the life of one of Simon's most famous up in New York during the Great Depression. He often characters: Eugene Morris Jerome. took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years ENJOY THE SHOW!

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Started In 1969 by Roger L Stevens, the Kennedy Center's founding chairman, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) Is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide, which has served as a catalyst In Improving the quallty of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF has grown into a network of more than 600 academic Institutions throughout the country, where theater departments and student artists showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents.

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to encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced In university and college theater programs;

to provide opportunities for participants to develop their theater skills and Insight; and achieve professionalism;

to improve the quality of college and university theater In America;

to encourage colleges and universities to give distinguished productions of new plays, especially those written by students; the classics, revitalized or newly conceived; and experimental works.

Through state, regional, and national festivals, KCACTF participants celebrate the creative process, see one another's work, and share experiences and Insights within the community of theater artists. The KCACTF honors excellence of overall production and offers student artists individual recognition through awards and scholarships in playwriting, acting, criticism, directing, and design.

The KCACTF Is a year-round program In eight geographic regions In the United States. Regional activities are coordinated through eight KCACTF regional chairs and eight KCACTF playwriting awards chairs. With funding and administrative support from the Kennedy Center, the regional chair coordinates with the Co-Managers of KCACTF all aspects of the adjudication of productions on the local and regional level and supervises regional-level KCACTF award competitions. The playwriting chair works with schools that have entered new and student-written plays by providing expertise In the development of new scripts-assessment speclflcally designed for a developing play-and by providing Information on the numerous playwriting awards offered.

In January and February of each year, regional festivals showcase the finest of each region's entered productions and offer a variety of activities, Including workshops, symposia, and regional­ level award programs. Regional festival productions are Judged by a panel of three Judges selected by the Kennedy Center and the KCACTF national committee. These Judges in consultation with the Artistic Director select four to six of the best and most diverse regional festival productions to be showcased In the spring at the annual noncompetitive national festival at the Kennedy Center, all expenses paid.

Since Its Inception, KCACTF has given more than 400,000 college theater students the opportunity to have their work critiqued, Improve their dramatic skills and receive national recognition for excellence. More than 16 million theatergoers have attended approximately 10,000 festival productions nationwide.

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