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FLORIDA 2017-2018 SEASON HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT ROBERT CACIOPPO, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

PRESENTS

SPONSORED BY FLORIDA WEEKLY STARRING ensemble members CARRIE LUND* • JASON PARRISH* • BRENDAN POWERS* and KATE HAMPTON* • FAITH SANDBERG* • PAXTON WHITEHEAD*

DIRECTED BY MARK SHANAHAN**

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SET DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER GREG LONGENHAGEN RAY RECHT*** TODD O. WREN ensemble member ensemble member ensemble member

COSTUME DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER EMILY TARADASH JOHN KISELICA JANINE WOCHNA* ensemble member

How the Other Half Loves is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

2017-18 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS

The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Naomi Bloom & Ron Wallace • Dinah Bloomhall • Jane & Bob Breisch Alexandra Bremner • Janet & Bruce Bunch • Chippendale Audiology • Berne Davis • Mary & Hugh Denison Ellie Fox • David Fritz/Cruise Everything • Nancy & Jim Garfield • Vici and Russ Hamm John Madden • Joel Magyar • Noreen Raney • Linda Sebastian & Guy Almeling • Arthur M. 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) Fiona Foster...... CARRIE LUND*† Teresa Phillips...... KATE HAMPTON*† Frank Foster...... PAXTON WHITEHEAD*† Bob Phillips...... BRENDAN POWERS*† William Featherstone...... JASON PARRISH*† Mary Featherstone...... FAITH SANDBERG*† TIME & PLACE The living rooms of the Fosters and the Phillips. 1969. ACT I, Scene One: Early Thursday morning ACT I, Scene Two: Evening ACT II, Scene One: Saturday morning ACT, Scene Two: Sunday morning will be performed with one 15-minute intermission.

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Asst. Stage Manager: Miranda Paine Wardrobe Supervisor: Olivia Pedigo Lighing and Sound Board Operator: Katie Lowe Understudies: Dillon Feldman u/s William Featherstone • Haley Clay u/s Mary Featherstone

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT . 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of Alan Ayckbourn joining the Library Theatre company in Scarborough, of which he was the Artistic Director for 37 years and where he made both his professional playwriting in 1959 and his directorial debut in 1961. He has spent his life in theatre, rarely if ever tempted by television or film, which perhaps explains why he continues to be so prolific. To date he has written 82 plays - the 81st premiering this summer and the 82nd next year at the Stephen Joseph Theatre - and his work has been translated into over 35 languages, is performed on stage and television throughout the world, and has won countless awards. Major successes include: Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, , A Chorus of Disapproval and . In recent years, there have been revivals of Season’s Greetings and at the National Theatre and in the West End productions of Absent , Relatively Speaking and How The Other Half Loves. In 2009, he retired as artistic director of the Stephen Joseph, where almost all his plays have been and continue to be first staged. He has also forged close links with the 59E59 Theaters in New York, where he has directed a number of his own plays to great success since 2009. 2016 saw him direct the New York premiere of - 40 years after it first opened in Scarborough - as well as a more recent piece, Hero’s Welcome, for the Brits Off Broadway festival. In recent years, he has been inducted into American Theatre’s Hall of Fame, received the 2010 Critics’ Circle Award for Services to the Arts and became the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was knighted in 1997 for ‘services to theatre.’ www.alanayckbourn.net.

†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 KATE HAMPTON* (Teresa awarded her the Distinguished Citizen Award Phillips) is very glad to and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. be back at Florida Rep. Carrie has been in all nine Florida Rep shows Past shows here: The reviewed by The Wall Street Journal: The House Cocktail Hour, Social of Blue Leaves, The Cocktail Hour, One Slight Security, Lend Me a Tenor. Hitch, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Little Foxes, Broadway: The Best , Sylvia (2011, 2017), You Can’t Man, The Deep Blue Sea. Take It with You, and Dancing at Lughnasa. First National Tour: Spring Awakening. More Other selected credits include Florida Rep’s NYC: The Master Builder (BAM), All My Sons Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, Becky’s New Car, (Roundabout), Have You Seen Steve Steven? Doublewide, Dividing the Estate, Tribes, Heart (13P), The Typographer’s Dream (Clubbed Song, Clybourne Park, Rumors (2002, 2011), Thumb), Over the River and Through the August: Osage County, Noises Off (1998, 2010), Woods. Regional: Gidion’s Knot, Stalking the The Last Romance, Enchanted April, Rabbit Bogeyman (Florida Studio Theatre), Les Liaisons Hole, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Tale of the Dangereuses (Palm Beach Dramaworks), God of Allergist’s Wife, All My Sons, and Private Lives. Carnage, The Ladies Man, Talley’s Folly, Absurd Married to Robert Cacioppo, she enjoys the Person Singular (Peterborough Players), Fallen accomplishments of their best productions: Angels, God of Carnage, Once in a Lifetime, Matthew and Julia. The Innocents, Las Meninas, Boeing Boeing, La Bête, Pride and Prejudice, Expecting Isabel JASON PARRISH*† (Asolo Rep), Absurd Person Singular (Bristol (William Featherstone) Rep), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom is in his 13th season (Humana Festival), Loot (The Arden), The with Florida Rep as an Real Thing (Olney), All My Sons, Hard Times Ensemble Member and (Williamstown). TV: Bones, the Law & Order the company’s Associate trifecta, The Education of Max Bickford, Sex and Director. His thirty the City. Husband: David Breitbarth. appearances with the www.katehampton.net company include Over the River and Through the Woods, The Dingdong, Twelve Angry Men, CARRIE LUND*† (Fiona Around the World in 80 Days, The Hound of the Foster) is co-founder, Baskervilles, Clybourne Park, 2014’s nationally- ensemble member, acclaimed production of Arsenic and Old associate producer Lace, and six years in The Santaland Diaries. of Florida Rep, was His directing credits with Florida Rep include recently seen in Sylvia, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and has acted in over A Christmas Story, The Fantasticks, Tru, [title 90 productions in Southwest Florida. In 2012, of show], and The Shape of Things, as well as she was named Best Actress of the Year and Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Miss named one of the “Power Women of the Nelson is Missing, Journey to Oz, Schoolhouse Year” by Florida Weekly. She produced and Rock Live, How I Became a Pirate, The New acted on Sanibel Island from 1984-1998 at Kid, and The Mischief Makers for Florida Rep’s the Pirate Playhouse and on Captiva Island Theatre for Young Audience Series. His work with Carrie Lund Presents. She taught theatre with other theatres as an actor and director at Florida Gulf Coast University in its early includes Actors’ Playhouse (Miami), Riverside years, produced theatre companies in her Theatre (Vero Beach), Theatre by the Sea & hometown of Erie, PA and New York City, and Ocean State Theatre Company (Rhode Island), performed in regional theatres in NY, VT and and guest appearances with the New York NC, as well as the Three River Shakespeare Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert Series Festival, Playhouse, and American at Lincoln Center. Jason is a proud member of Ibsen Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA. In 1987, Actors’ Equity Association. the Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce CREATIVE TEAM BRENDAN POWERS*† of Actors’ Equity Association, when not on (Bob Phillips) Select stage, Faith is an (exceptionally) amateur Florida Rep credits Instagram photographer and an (exceptionally) over the past nine enthusiastic dog mom to her little Shorkie seasons include Outside puppy, Baxter. Mullingar, The Cocktail Hour, A Christmas Story, PAXTON WHITEHEAD* The Unexpected Guest, (Frank Foster) Broadway: Dividing the Estate, Around the World in 80 The Importance of Being Days, The Fantasticks, Doubt, Opus, Boeing- Earnest, Absurd Person Boeing, and The Glass Menagerie. He is married Singular, to fellow Rep ensemble member Rachel (Helen Hayes Award), Burttram and also serves as a Community Lettice and Lovage, A Outreach Coordinator. Other credits include Little Hotel on the Side, the Tony Award-winning play, , and The Artist Descending a Staircase, Run for Your Wife, Big Knife, both with Alec Baldwin, the Noel Noises Off (), (Tony Coward revue, Oh, Coward! at Off-Broadway’s Award nomination), The Crucifer of Blood, Irish Repertory Theatre, God of Carnage, Habeas Corpus, Candida, Beyond the Fringe, August: Osage County, Our Town, Arsenic and The Affair. Off-Broadway: The Heir Apparent, Old Lace, and numerous others. TV work ’s Harlequin Studies, Suite in Two Keys, includes FBI Agent Rick Cranston on Graceland , One Way Pendulum, Gallows (USA Network), and David Weller in the Humor. Westport Country Playhouse: What Netflix original series, Bloodline, starring Sissy the Butler Saw, Bedroom Farce, The Circle, How Spacek. He can also be seen driving the big blue the Other Half Loves, , Relatively Cadillac in a series of national commercials for Speaking, A Bench in the Sun, The Crucifer of Alabama Road Trips. His cartoon captions have Blood, and a script-in-hand play reading of been winners for various contests including Dial ‘M’ for Murder. Also recently: What the The New Yorker, Hartford Courant, Denver Post, Butler Saw (L.A. and Boston, Norton Award); Moment Magazine, Clinical Psychology, Inside Pygmalion (The Old Globe, Williamstown Higher Ed, and the Greensboro News-Record. Theatre Festival); The Habit of Art, All’s www.BrendanPowers.com Well That Ends Well (Helen Hayes Award nominations, D.C.); A.E.H. in The Invention of FAITH SANDBERG* Love (Jefferson Award nomination, Chicago). (Mary Featherstone) is 1967-1977 Artistic Director of Canada’s happy to be making her . Associate Artist San Diego’s debut at Florida Rep. . Selected Film: Kate and Off-Broadway/New Leopold, Back to School. Television: Desperate York credits include Housewives, , , The West originating Myra in Wing, Friends, Ellen, , The Fourth Messenger Dinosaurs, Early Edition, and more. (New York Musical Festival) and Terry in The Good Girl (BMI/Manhattan Musical MARK SHANAHAN** (Director) returns to Theatre Lab). Favorite roles include Helen the Florida Rep having directed The Hound Bechdel in Fun Home (Portland Center Stage), Of The Baskervilles and Around The World In Molly in Peter and the Starcatcher (Arkansas 80 Days. In 2016, Florida Rep produced his Repertory Theatre) and Sophia in Tom Jones play The Dingdong, the Off-Broadway and (Florida Studio Theatre, world premiere). regional hit comedy adapted from Feydeau’s Regional: Cape Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre Le Dindon. Mark’s directorial work has been Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, seen on numerous stages across the country, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and The Muny. including The Alley Theatre, The George Street TV/Film: Boardwalk Empire, Quantico, Playhouse, The Fulton Opera House, Arkansas Mysteries of Laura, Blue Bloods and Price Rep, Merrimack Rep, Penguin Rep, Florida Check (Sundance, 2012). A proud member Studio Theatre, Cape Playhouse, Weston CREATIVE TEAM Playhouse, Hangar Theatre, Theatre Squared, JOHN KISELICA (Sound Designer) is a graduate Westport Country Playhouse and others. New of West Virginia University with a Bachelor of York acting credits include the Broadway hit Fine Arts degree in lighting and sound design. (American Airlines, Cort Theatre); He is the Resident Sound and Lighting Designer Small World (59E59); The Shaughraun and for Endstation Theatre Company in Central VA Tryst (Irish Rep); Checkers (The Vineyard and acts as the Lighting and Sound Supervisor Theatre) As Bees In Honey Drown (Lucille for year round consultation and project Lortel Theatre); Philadelphia, Here I Come! specific work. He has worked on a national (Roundabout); and many more. Regionally, he tour, Buddy: the Buddy Holly Musical, as the has appeared extensively at The Alley Theatre master electrician after a contract with Royal and The Westport Country Playhouse, as well as Caribbean International as a stage technician. Hartford Theatreworks, The Bay Street Theatre, Commercial theatrical work includes installing Pioneer Theatre, Merrimack Rep, The Denver Prodigy Hoists, an automated rigging system Center, The Kennedy Center and others. Mark from Electronic Theatre Controls. In addition has been seen on television on David Letterman to his seasonal position with Florida Rep, John and All My Children, and in the films Kill Me, continues to freelance in the professional, academic, and community theatre circles. Safe Men, Bug, Endsville, Yellow, Mad About Harry and more. Mark is a graduate of Brown MIRANDA PAINE (Asst. Stage Manager) is so University and holds an MA from Fordham excited to be working with the amazing cast University, where he teaches. He is an award- and crew of How the Other Half Loves! This winning voice-over artist and Edgar Award is her third show with Florida Rep, and she is nominated playwright. eager to ASM in Arcade Theatre after working www.mark-shanahan.net. in the Studio Theatre on Outside Mullingar

† and Disgraced. Miranda is a recent graduate of GREG LONGENHAGEN (Assistant Director) is Florida State University with a BA in Theatre. thrilled to be back at Florida Rep after directing Her favorite stage management credits include: this season’s production of The Last Night of Cabaret, How I Became a Pirate, Grand Hotel, Ballyhoo. As a 20-year company member, Spamalot, and Curtains. She would like to thank Greg’s versatility as an Actor, Fight Director and her family and friends for their endless support. Dialect Coach has been evident in many Rep productions. He served as Stage Director for RAY RECHT***† (Set Designer) is delighted to the young audience’s version of Laura Ingalls be back at Florida Rep, where as an ensemble Wilder and as Assistant Director for the Rep’s member, his designs include One Slight Hitch, very first production, Noises Off. Greg directed Dancing at Lughnasa, Doubt, and others. for the PlayLab new play festival, including Broadway designs include The Flowering Peach, last season’s staged reading of We Will Not Be Trick, Slab Boys, The Babe, several national Silent. Other local directing credits include tours, and over 20 Off-Broadway productions, Florida Gulf Coast University’s The Foreigner such as Collected Stories, Marc Salem’s Mind and Leap at Theatre Conspiracy. In addition to Games, Mrs. Klein and sets for the Drama his continuing efforts for the Rep, Greg is an Desk Awards Shows. He has designed over Assistant Professor at FGCU and President of 200 shows for many regional theaters, such Abbott Productions, where has been responsible as Asolo Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, for many national marketing campaigns for Florida Stage Co., Center Stage, and George television and the web. His past achievements Street Theatre. He has designed several feature include Assistant Director to Theodore Mann films and was an art director or assistant in the acclaimed production of The Music art director on many others. He has worked Box at HERE, NYC and Resident Director for extensively in television, including NBC, Fox, PBS, ABC, over 150 commercials, and many Pittsburgh’s professional touring company commercial parodies for Saturday Night Live. “Shakespeare in the Schools.” Greg holds an Internationally, he designed for the Wien M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and Staatsoper Ballet, the Stratford Festival, Ontario, certified with the S.A.F.D. at Carnegie and the Manitoba Theatre Centre. He is a Mellon University. professor of Theatre at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. CREATIVE TEAM EMILY TARADASH (Costume Designer) is TODD O. WREN***† (Lighting Designer) is thrilled to be making her design debut at delighted to participate in Florida Rep’s Florida Rep with How the Other Half Loves. continued growth as an ensemble member. She holds a BA in Theatre Design from A special thanks goes to you, the audience, for the University of Vermont and an MFA in your support. Todd’s theatrical credits include: Costume Design from the University of Good Speed Musicals, Cleveland Playhouse, Massachusetts Amherst, where she designed People’s Light and Opera Company, The costumes for Urinetown, Machinal, Suitors Royal Manitoba Theatre Center, Merrimack (World Premeire), David Ives’ The Liar and Repertory, Barter Theatre, Tennessee J.M. Barre’s Peter Pan. Selected Regional Repertory, John F. Kennedy Center, Coconut Credits include Jogging (American Repertory Grove Playhouse, Charlotte Repertory, North Theatre, Cambridge), Dames at Sea (Stoneham Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Town and Theatre), SWARM (Museum of Fine Arts, Gown Theatre, Casa Manana, and Flat Rock Boston), The Kritik and A Doll’s House (The Playhouse. Todd is a member of United Scenic Harbor Stage, Wellfleet), On an Average Artists, New York Local #829. Day, Romance, The Captain’s Doll (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, MA), The Water JANINE WOCHNA*† (Production Stage Manager) Project (TheatreTruck, MA), Grease (New is delighted to return to Florida Rep where Bedford Festival Theatre), The Wakeville Stories she is an ensemble member having previously (Mattie May Theatre Project, Boston), Victor/ stage managed Outside Mullingar, the critically Victoria, Little Women, White Christmas, acclaimed House of Blue Leaves, Over the River Avenue Q, Damn Yankees!, Anything Goes, and Through the Woods, The Cocktail Hour, The The Miracle Worker, 1776, Breaking Legs, It’s Unexpected Guest, Tribes, Around the World a Wonderful Life (Ocean State Theatre, RI), in 80 Days, Collected Stories, Time Stands Still, Willy Wonka (Prescott Park Arts Festival, NH), Talley’s Folly, and many others over 12 seasons. and The Duck Wife (International Canadian Regional theatre credits include: Brother Wolf, Fringe Festival). When she is not freelancing, Underneath the Lintel, and Abundance at Triad Taradash is the resident Costume Designer at Stage, four seasons as Resident Stage Manager the Beaver Country Day School. at the Geva Theatre, and 14 seasons at the Cleveland Play House. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

SPECIAL THANKS Asolo Rep Amanda Warriner

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