Ahmanson Theatre 47th 2013/14 Season

first season production fourth season production Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch in Neil Simon’s The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess The Sunshine Boys by George Gershwin, Directed by Thea Sharrock DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, September 24 – November 3, 2013 and Ira Gershiwn Book Adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks season bonus option Musical Score Adpated by Diedre L. Murray Matthew Bourne’s Directed by Diane Paulus Sleeping Beauty April 22 – June 1, 2014 A Gothic Romance Music composed by Tchaikovsky season bonus option A New Adventures Production David Suchet and Brian Bedford in Co-Presented with Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center The Last Confession by Roger Crane November 21 – December 1, 2013 Directed by Jonathan Church United States Premiere second season production June 7 – July 6, 2014 Peter and the fifth season production Starcatcher Queen and Ben Elton’s by Rick Elice Based upon the novel by Dave Barry We Will Rock You and Ridley Pearson Created by Ben Elton Directed by Roger Rees and Musical Supervisors – Alex Timbers Queen’s Brian May December 3, 2013 – January 12, 2014 and Roger Taylor July 15 – August 24, 2014

special event presentation Joey deBettencourt and Megan Stern from the Peter and the Starcatcher tour company. photo by jenny anderson. A Word or Two Written, Arranged and Performed by Christopher Plummer Directed by Des McAnuff January 19 – February 9, 2014

third season production Harmony A New Musical Music by Barry Manilow Book and Lyrics by Bruce Sussman Directed by Tony Speciale Choreographed by JoAnn Hunter March 4 – April 13, 2014

season sponsors

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P1 Inspiring Our Future

Special Thanks to Center Theatre Group’s Most Generous Annual Patrons

Center Theatre Group wishes to thank the following leaders for their significant annual gifts and for their belief in the transformative power of theatre.

$500,000 and above Brindell Roberts Gottlieb

$250,000 and above The Dream Fund at UCLA Donor Advised Fund Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kirk & Anne Douglas The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$150,000 and above Eva & Marc Stern Wells Fargo Foundation Jeanette Shammas The Blue Ribbon Los Angeles County Arts Commission Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinocco Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Bank of America

$100,000 and above Anonymous Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Ann & Stephen F.Hinchliffe, Jr. JPMorgan Chase & Co.

$75,000 and above Elisabeth Katte Harris Trust Louise & Brad Edgerton The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundation Debra & Norris Bishton

This list includes gifts made to Center Theatre Group between September 6, 2012, and November 6, 2013.

P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Michael Ritchie, artistic director Edward L. Rada, managing director

Nancy Nagel Gibbs Greg Schaffert Eva Price Tom Smedes Disney Theatrical Productions Jane Dubin Suzan & Ken Wirth Jack Lane Martin Hummel & R.K. Greene Catherine Schreiber Mike & Janet Slosberg Jamie deRoy Peter Stern Radio Mouse Entertainment Dan Shaheen Rich Affannato Mary Cossette Productions Probo Productions Beam Reach Entertainment Julie Boardman & W. Anthony Edson Daniel Frishwasser Michael & Gabrielle Palitz Freedberg & Dale Present

A New Play By Rick Elice

Based Upon the Novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Starring Joey deBettencourt John Sanders Megan Stern

Harter Clingman Jimonn Cole Nathan Hosner Carl Howell Benjamin Schrader Luke Smith Ian Michael Stuart Edward Tournier Lee Zarrett

Ben Beckley Robert Franklin Neill Rachel Prather Nick Vidal

Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Donyale Werle Paloma Young Jeff Croiter Darron L West

Music Supervisor Music Director Production Stage Manager Technical Supervision Marco Paguia Andy Grobengieser Shawn Pennington Phoenix Entertainment

Associate Director Movement Associate Fight Director Production Supervisor Lillian King Patrick McCollum Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum Katherine Wallace

Casting Tour Tour Press Representation General Management Jim Carnahan, CSA Allied Live 321 Theatrical Management Jillian Cimini

Music By Wayne Barker

Movement Steven Hoggett

Directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers

Originally Produced in New York City by New York Theatre Workshop. Originally Presented as a “Page to Stage” Workshop Production by La Jolla Playhouse, 2009, Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director and Michael S. Rosenberg, Managing Director. Dec 3, 2013 – Jan 12, 2014 ○ Ahmanson Theatre

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3 CAST (in alphabetical order)

Alf ...... HARTER CLINGMAN Slank...... JIMONN COLE Boy ...... JOEY deBETTENCOURT Lord Aster...... NATHAN HOSNER Prentiss...... CARL HOWELL Black Stache...... JOHN SANDERS Mrs. Bumbrake...... BENJAMIN SCHRADER Smee...... LUKE SMITH Molly...... MEGAN STERN Captain Scott ...... IAN MICHAEL STUART Ted ...... EDWARD TOURNIER Fighting Prawn...... LEE ZARRETT

UNDERSTUDIES

Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For Molly/Ted/Prentiss/Mrs. Bumbrake—RACHEL PRATHER; for Boy/Fighting Prawn/Captain Scott/Ted/Prentiss—NICK VIDAL; for Black Stache/Lord Aster/Slank/Alf/Captain Scott—ROBERT FRANKLIN NEILL; for Slank/Smee/Fighting Prawn/Alf/Mrs. Bumbrake—BEN BECKLEY; for Smee—IAN MICHAEL STUART; for Black Stache—NATHAN HOSNER, BENJAMIN SCHRADER; for Boy—CARL HOWELL

Movement Captain—RACHEL PRATHER; Fight Captain—BENJAMIN SCHRADER

Music Director/Keyboard—ANDY GROBENGIESER Drums/Percussion—JEREMY LOWE Keyboard and Electronic Percussion Programmer—Randy Cohen Arrangements by Wayne Barker Additional Arrangements by Marco Paguia

THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION.

Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, PDAs, beepers and watch alarms. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Flight of Imagination

“Although it was based on a children’s book, we never thought of it as a show for children.” —Alex Timbers

said Roger Rees, who co-directed the audience fill in the blanks. We knew Peter and the show with Alex Timbers. there would be no pirate ships onstage. We knew we wanted to use the same Starcatcher is a Rees originated the role of Nicholas few props over and over to tell the play about flight. Nickleby in the 1980 Royal Shakespeare story. And we knew it was going to be a Company production of The Life and play with musical elements.” No, not flying, which is almost Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, and incidental to the piece. It’s about the his involvement in that landmark work Unlike most shows, Peter and the flight of imagination taken by the is precisely why Thomas Schumacher Starcatcher began with a concept but creative team in crafting the show, and of Disney Theatricals brought Peter without a script. “They went to the by audiences that open themselves up and the Starcatchers to him. “It was prop shop and grabbed what was to the magical journey. the summer of 2007, and Roger was laying around,” said Elice, “which was running Williamstown Theatre Festival a few sticks, a length of rope, a bucket Based on the children’s book Peter at the time,” said Elice. “Tom called and a stuffed bird. Everything else was and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry him and said, ‘You’ve got this great physical and psychological invention. and Ridley Pearson, the play, written theatre, and I’ve got this great property. They spent a week developing some by Rick Elice (co-author of Jersey Boys), Maybe you can take this book and sections of the novel. Then Tom came ingeniously connects their novel in do a Nicholas Nickleby kind of play to Williamstown with Ridley Pearson ways large and small to the original with it.’ There was no commitment and some people from Disney to see Peter Pan by James M. Barrie. The made; he was just handing a novel to what Roger and Alex had wrought.” It directors, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, Roger.” With limited time on his hands, generated enough interest to lead to present Peter and the Starcatcher as Rees invited Timbers, who was at a second workshop later that year in story theatre, with actors taking on Williamstown developing the musical New York. multiple roles and providing narration. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, to work The set is barebones, with locations on the piece with him. This time, Rees and Timbers felt they cleverly suggested rather than defined, needed proper text, and they asked requiring audiences to use their mind’s “There were certain important things Elice to write it. “At this point, nobody eye to see. we knew for the first workshop,” said knew whether there was going to be Timbers. “Although it was based on a a play,” Elice said. “But they needed “We’re asking people to join in, like children’s book, we never thought of words, and they wanted the play to listening to the radio where everybody it as a show for children. We knew we have an adult sensibility.” has their own image in their heads,” wanted to indicate a world, and let the

John Sanders and the Peter and the Starcatcher tour company. photo by jenny anderson. PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P5 “I thought it would be challenging to take a classic Hero’s Journey story in the Joseph Campbell vein, and divide the hero into two characters.” —Rick Elice

Elice wrote a couple of scenes for the The play was done in its entirety for encounter with a female character, who second workshop that had nothing the first time at La Jolla Playhouse in the novel and the original version to do with the novel. Dave Barry in San Diego, as part of the theatre’s of the play was a sidekick, as female was so impressed that he turned to developmental Page to Stage program. characters often are. I thought it Schumacher and said, “Is this guy “You rehearse for four weeks and would be challenging to take a classic going to write the play?” Although perform for three weeks, and after Hero’s Journey story in the Joseph there had been no discussion, every performance the audience stays Campbell vein, and divide the hero Schumacher answered, “Yes.” for a talk back,” said Elice. “Every day, into two characters. One would be “Tom, Dave and Ridley gave me, rather people would tell us what worked, the boy, Peter, and one would be the courageously, permission to do what didn’t, what was clear, what was girl, the Starcatcher — a smart, spiky whatever I wanted,” said Elice. “And puzzling. The feedback became part kid with the DNA of Scout Finch from I thought it would be fun to invent of the blueprint for the new draft of To Kill a Mockingbird and Jo March as much connective tissue as I could the play, which we worked on for New from Little Women; these highly active, between this contemporary novel York.” very empowered, super-bright, hyper- and Barrie’s original play. I tried to curious girls who are kind of isolated emulate stylistically all of the verbal “The La Jolla production was a great because they’re so special.” Even the tricks that James Barrie used in 1903: first step,” said Timbers. “But the title of the play expresses this dual- high comedy, low bawdy humor, design was a bit rudimentary, and hero approach — which explains how puns, alliterations, anachronisms, there were still aspects of the script the novel, Peter and the Starcatchers, songs, verse, verbal hijinks, sentiment that felt very child-like, such as a lost a letter to become Peter and the balanced by irreverence, and artifice talking porpoise. We began cutting Starcatcher on stage. balanced by contemporary references. back on some of the kiddie-leaning material in the script and decided to go Through all the changes, the one “In terms of the plot, I wanted to link for a grittier, more downtown aesthetic constant has been the concept: an all the mythology that James Barrie visually.” innovative use of time-honored created and what we know about Peter stagecraft to stimulate our imagination. Pan from the musical or the Disney A considerably revised version “I think we excite the library in animated movie, to the action of Dave premiered off-Broadway at New York everyone’s minds, and that’s a good and Ridley’s story,” he continues. “But Theatre Workshop in 2011, before thing,” said Rees. “Theatre doesn’t I didn’t take any of the mythology moving on to Broadway the following need the descriptive elements that as written in stone. I was a bit of an year. “One of the things I’d learned are used so often, when you have real anarchist. I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be at La Jolla was that nobody’s really objects, real things. You don’t need fun to discover how Captain Hook interested in a hero who is the hero any of it. That’s the beauty of language, really lost his hand? Wouldn’t it be from page one,” said Elice. “So I the power of ideas. It’s an adult way of interesting to know where Peter’s eliminated the youngest and most looking at theatre, and it’s endlessly emotional attachment to his shadow feral Lost Boy, the one who was afraid interesting for audiences. It’s also a lot comes from? Wouldn’t it be gratifying of his own shadow, and gave his of fun.” to learn why the dog who looks after qualities to this boy who, by the end the kids in Peter Pan is called Nana?’ of the play, would become truly heroic. There were dozens of connections, And the only way he would be able to small and large.” do that would be through a chance

P6 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Megan Stern and Joey deBettencourt from the Peter and the Starcatcher tour company. photo by jenny anderson. rather than defined, often with little more than a piece of rope and savvy lighting. (Lighting designer Jeff Croiter and sound designer Darron L West also received Tony Awards for their work.)

However, the one defined space is the proscenium, which serves as an entry into this fantasy world. “We felt we needed a framework, like a portal, to tell the story,” said Werle. “In the Peter Pan story, there’s a window. The proscenium serves that purpose here; it puts us in a recognizable, Victorian musical hall. And we created the proscenium with trash.”

The Broadway proscenium includes more than 3,500 corks, 800 bottle caps, and 300 pieces of cutlery, as well as toys, ropes, beads, cooking timers and tools, tops of cans, zippers, CDs, vinyl records, bamboo sticks and mannequin arms. “We searched for things and collected things,” said Werle. “Through the Broadway Green Alliance, kids collected bottle caps and donated their little plastic One Person’s Trash toys. I didn’t start with a particular vision. I rely on the materials that we find and the artists that I work with to create a is Another Person’s piece.” Cork is used to line the shape of the proscenium in place of Ethafoam, an Tony Award expensive thermoplastic that eventually ends up in landfills and does not biodegrade quickly. But many of the Designing for the Future items on the proscenium are not environmentally friendly. “I love plastic, and plastic is awful,” said Werle. “But I don’t purchase plastic; I find it. By using THAT MAY BE AN EXAGGERATION, Werle is a leader of the Broadway things like CDs — which we found in BUT NOT BY MUCH. Both scenic Green Alliance, which educates the a trash bin — and bottle caps, we’re designer Donyale Werle and costume theatre community about making keeping them out of landfills.” designer Paloma Young received 2012 more sustainable choices. “It’s really Tony Awards for their inspired work on uncommon for Broadway to think this With each incarnation of the show from Peter and the Starcatcher, in which they way,” she said. “Who uses trash on New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) to repurposed discarded objects, items Broadway? You have the money to build Broadway to off-Broadway to the national that had outlived their usefulness a brand new set. What the Broadway tour, most everything was recycled. There and, yes, rubbish, to create a magical, Green Alliance tries to say is there are is a transom seen on tour that first environmentally friendly ambiance for so many different ways to think about appeared in the NYTW production. “We this vibrantly original show. what we put on stage.” were driving around one day in a Zipcar on a trash run, and there was a bodega “Costume designers have been salvaging Recycled and sustainable materials have that had smoke coming out of it,” said things for years,” said Young. “We don’t long been integral to Werle’s set designs, Werle. “The doors had been removed throw things out at the end of every and she uses them in delightful ways in and put on the sidewalk because they show. But sets wind up in landfills. So Peter and the Starcatcher, a show, she were scorched, and we thought they what Donyale is doing is amazing. said, that is “about creating something would make the perfect transom. They She’s raising consciousness about out of nothing.” It’s a celebration of the were still warm from the fire when we the environment within the scenic imagination. A dozen actors take on grabbed them, and for the entire first run community.” more than 100 characters. Locations, of the show, there was a smell of charred like a ship or an island, are suggested wood.”

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P7 The first act takes place on two ships, The Neverland and The Wasp, and culminates in a storm-induced shipwreck. The second act is set on an island with a mountaintop, a jungle and a grotto. There are no realistic physical manifestations of any of these places, yet they are vividly clear thanks to some well-chosen props, lots of rope, and virtuoso lighting. The Neverland and The Wasp are represented by toy boats made out of popsicle sticks, bottle caps, corks, tongue depressors, cardboard and snaps. The island that rises at the end of Act I is simply a piece of silk, dyed and painted with a hint of sparkle. Most of the locales in Act II were made out of fabrics and screens left over from the Broadway production of The Little Mermaid that were donated by “ecologically minded” Disney Theatrical, one of the show’s producers.

By sheer coincidence, Act II of Peter and the Starcatcher opens with a scene featuring some peculiar-looking mermaids, courtesy of Young’s hilarious costumes made up of recycled odds and ends. “The costumes reflect the sense of play that is in the show,” said Young, “the way in which the show celebrates a child’s imagination. As adults, we remember when our entire world was our house, and we used things that were in our house to imagine great worlds. The mermaid costumes are decorated with old domestic objects and items you’d find in boxes at a yard sale. There are a lot of old kitchen tools: strainers, steamers, colanders, wooden spoons, metal spoons, pie servers, hand juicers. There are dirty sponges and copper scrubbers, toys with grime all over them, doll parts, old soda cans and bottle caps.”

The costumes for the lost boys were inspired by photos of 19th century orphans — and punk. “There’s an individuality that exists in the punk world,” said Young. “Because we were making ensemble costumes, and “Peter and the Starcatcher is because our actors also become part of the set at times, there had to be some about creating something out sort of similarity between the costumes of nothing. It’s a celebration of that could make them all one at certain points. Within the punk community the imagination.” there is a very tight color palette and —Donyale Werle very specific textures. But at the same time, their look is individual in the ways that they’ve chosen to express these

P8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE “...kids could then come with their families to see the show...and they would see their old teenage mutant Ninja turtle in the proscenium.” —Paloma Young

very controlled colors and textures. used in the show. “Those kids could So each costume is inspired by the then come with their families to see actor and the character he plays. The the show,” said Young, “and they costumes have morphed slightly for would see their old teenage mutant each production, based on what the Ninja turtle in the proscenium, or new actor brings to the show. The the bottle caps they collected in the costumes are made almost entirely of crown of a mermaid. I think it’s very cotton and wool; in all my work, I am empowering for a child for their effort very much a fan of natural fibers and to be seen. Some of what they collected things that are more environmentally is being used on the tour. So this friendly.” little bottle cap that a kindergartner collected a few years ago is now going On Broadway, about 90 percent of to be touring the country and seen by the set in Act II was made of recycled thousands and thousands of people. I items. That is not the case on tour, think that embodies what this show where the rigors of moving from city does. It celebrates performing and to city require more durable material. the imagination, and how far a small “Salvaged materials have a shorter life gesture can go.” span,” said Werle, “which means that it’s more sustainable to use new, green material.”

Both Werle and Young are especially pleased that children were involved in gathering many of the items that are

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9 Who’s Who JOEY See (Bailiwick/Steppenwolf), Bloody Redcoats. Host of SiriusXM radio’s The deBETTENCOURT Bloody Andrew Jackson (Bailiwick), State Stage Door Supper Club. (Boy). Proud Street (City Lit), Absolute Hell (The Gift benjaminschrader.com Chicagoan and Theatre) and Spring Awakening (Griffin Northwestern Theater). LUKE SMITH graduate. Theatre: (Smee). Off- South of Settling JIMONN COLE Broadway: Hit the (Steppenwolf (Slank). Off- Wall (u/s). Regional: Theatre), Punk Rock Broadway: New York The Buddy Holly (Jeff Award), Flare Path (Griffin Theatre), Theatre Workshop, Story, Hedwig…, My Cherrywood (Mary-Arrchie). Film: At Any Signature Theatre, Fair Lady, Godspell. Price. Thanks to Julie, my family and The Culture Project, BFA University of Shirley’s. The Acting Co., North Carolina Keen Co. Regional: School of the Arts. Songwriter for band JOHN SANDERS The Old Globe, The Awning: awning.bandcamp.com. (Black Stache) Shakespeare Theatre DC, Arena Stage, returns to Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Film: IAN MICHAEL Neverland after Spinning Into Butter. Graduate of The STUART (Captain appearing on Juilliard School. For Ava. Scott). NYC: Rocky, Broadway as Black The Last Goodbye. Stache, Aster, NATHAN HOSNER Regional: Sweeney Bumbrake and Capt. (Lord Aster). Todd, Phantom, A Scott. Other credits Chicago: Chicago Man Of No include Sergei in the original Broadway Shakespeare, Importance and cast of Matilda the Musical, and Sam in Goodman, Writers’, Tick, Tick…BOOM! Mamma Mia! North American tour. Paramount and Graduate of UC Irvine. Thanks BRS, Chicago Credits: Goodman (Turn of the First Folio Theatres. Jason, Roger, Alex, Jillian and Century), Chicago Shakespeare Regional: Alabama, Roundabout. Love to Jimmy and Jenn. (Cymbeline, Troilus & Cressida), Writers’ Arkansas, Door and For Mom and Dad! Ianmichaelstuart. (The Real Thing, Oh, Coward!), Drury Illinois Shakespeare Theatres, American com and Ianstuartphotography.com Lane Oakbrook (Spamalot, Miss Saigon), Players, Boarshead and Madison Rep Stage Left, Chicago Dramatists. TV: Last Theatres. Nathan is a graduate of the EDWARD Man Standing. Film: Alleged; No God, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. TOURNIER (Ted). No Master. Selected credits: CARL HOWELL Mother Courage and MEGAN STERN (Prentiss) is a Her Children (Molly). Credits Hammonton, N.J. (American Repertory include Be the native. Credits Theatre), The Rivals Death of Me (The include Romeo and (Huntington), The Civilians), Raptured Juliet (Romeo, History Boys (Play Co.), The Hudson Valley (Ahmanson), Secrets of the Trade (Black Material World Shakespeare), Halo/ Dahlia), Mercury Fur (Needtheater), (Dixon Place), The Titanic (Old Vic New Supernova (Elephant), Futura (Boston London Merchant Voices), The Seagull (Konstantin), New Court), Monkey Adored (Rogue (Storm Theatre), The Tempest Victory, The Pearl, Shelby Company. BFA Machine). (Porpentine Theater Co.), Straight Up NYU. Major thanks to Mom, Dad, Vampire (Joe’s Pub) and Pride and Meredith and Angie. carlhowell.com LEE ZARRETT Prejudice (NYMF). (Fighting Prawn). BENJAMIN Broadway: Hair, HARTER SCHRADER (Mrs. Spelling Bee, Jane Eyre. CLINGMAN (Alf) is Bumbrake). Tour: Les Misérables, a graduate of Broadway: The Book My Fair Lady. Off- Columbia College of Mormon (Original Broadway: New Chicago. Recent Elder White and Victory, Vineyard, credits include Terry Yoda), Avenue Q, Encores! Regional: La Twyman’s Saloon Ragtime. National Jolla, N.Y. Stage and Film, Williamstown. (Peninsula Players), tour: Big River. Film/ TV: Boardwalk Empire, Louie. See What I Wanna TV: Disney’s Frozen, BBC’s Rebels and

P10 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE BEN BECKLEY (u/s Superfly (directed and choreographed STEVEN HOGGETT (Movement). Smee/Slank/Alf/ by Bill T. Jones), Dog and Pony (world Recent work includes Let The Right One Fighting Prawn/Mrs. premiere, Old Globe in San Diego, In (NTS), The Full Monty (Sheffield Bumbrake). Theatre: 2014). Rick is proud to share this five- Crucible), The Curious Incident of the The Assembly, The time Tony Award-winning production Dog in the Night Time (National Theatre Actors Company, of Peter with you. “When I was a boy, and West End), Rigoletto (Met Opera), New Georges, I wished I could fly…and work in the The Glass Menagerie, Once, Peter and Berkshire Theatre theatre. Thanks to Roger Rees and Alex the Starcatcher and American Idiot Group, Joe’s Pub, Timbers, I do.” (B’way). Steven was Associate Director Flea, HERE, Temporary Distortion. Film: (movement) on Black Watch for the The Onion. Ben has premiered work ROGER REES (Director). Peter and National Theatre Scotland (Olivier with Christopher Durang, Adam Rapp the Starcatcher (co-director, Tony Award, Best Choreographer). Steven was and Robert Wilson. For Jess. benbeckley. nomination, Obie Award), Mud, River, founder and Artistic Director of Frantic com Stone (Playwrights Horizons), Arms Assembly Theatre Company. and the Man (Roundabout), Here ROBERT FRANKLIN Lies Jenny (Zipper). U.K.: Bristol Old DONYALE WERLE (Set Design). B’way: NEILL (u/s Lord Vic: Julius Caesar, Turkey Time, John Peter and the Starcatcher (2012 Tony Aster/Slank/Alf/Black Bull. Artistic Director, Williamstown, Award), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Stache/Captain Scott) 2005–07: Film Society, Rivals, Taming of (2011 Tony nom.). Other: The Explorers is a founding the Shrew, Double Double, Late Middle Club (MTC), Broke-ology (Lincoln member of the N.Y. Classes, Anything Goes; Herringbone Center Theater), Allegiance (Old Globe), Neo-Futurists. (WTF, McCarter, La Jolla); Red Memories Bare (New World Stages), Paper Mill, Broadway: London (NYS&F); Merry Wives of Windsor, Love’s Vineyard, The Public, NYTW. Obie, Assurance. London: Labour’s Lost (Old Globe); The Primrose Lortel and Hewes awards. Member of The Cherry Orchard. Regional: You Never Path (Guthrie); Treemonisha, The Broadway Green Alliance. Can Tell, Tartuffe. Off-off Broadway: Juniper Tree, A White House Cantata, The Spring Awakening, Hamlet, Doughboy. He Firebrand of Florence (Collegiate Chorale, PALOMA YOUNG (Costume Design). studied at LAMDA, NTI and Grinnell. N.Y.). Oz (HBO). N.Y.: Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony robneill.com Award), Natasha, Pierre… (Kazino), ALEX TIMBERS (Director) is a two- Brooklyn Babylon (BAM Next Wave), RACHEL PRATHER time Tony nominee and the recipient of Wildflower (Second Stage). Regional: (u/s Molly/Ted/ Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk and Outer Troublemaker…; You Nero (Berkeley Prentiss/Mrs. Critics Circle awards as well as two Obie Rep); Current Nobody; Hoover Comes Bumbrake) is Awards. Peter and the Starcatcher (co- Alive! (La Jolla); Titus Andronicus honored to join the director, Tony nomination, Obie Award); (California Shakespeare Theatre); Heart cast of PATSC. The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Bloody of Robin Hood (Oregon Shakespeare Regional credits Bloody Andrew Jackson (also book writer; Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream include Fiddler on Drama Desk, Lortel and OCC Awards, (Old Globe); Pride and Prejudice, the Roof (WBT); Tony nomination); A Very Merry… (Obie Charlotte’s Web (South Coast Rep), 1001 Nine (SpeakEasy Stage). BFA, The Award); Gutenberg! The Musical! (Drama (Mixed Blood). Graduate of UCSD. Boston Conservatory. Thanks to God, Desk nom.); Hell House (Drama Desk her family, friends, CGF and Jim nom.); Here Lies Love (OCC nom. and JEFF CROITER (Lighting Design). B’way: Carnahan Casting. Drama Desk nom.). Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award), Soul Doctor, The Performers, The NICK VIDAL (u/s WAYNE BARKER (Composer). Tony Anarchist, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Boy/Prentiss/Ted/ nomination and Drama Desk award Next Fall, Kiki and Herb. Other NYC: Fighting Prawn/ for Peter and the Starcatcher. B’way: Comedy Of Errors; Loves Labors Lost; Old Captain Scott). Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance! Jews Telling Jokes; Silence; Love, Loss, and Chicago Credits: (composer, co-lyricist with Barry What I Wore; A Lie of the Mind; Ordinary Iphigenia 2.0 (Next Humphries). Regional: The Primrose Days; Almost Maine; and Jennifer Muller Theatre), The Heart Path, The Great Gatsby (Guthrie); The Works. Is a Lonely Hunter Twelfth Night and The Three Musketeers (Steppenwolf for (Seattle Rep). TV: A Little Curious. DARRON L WEST (Sound Design) Young Adults), Aftermath (Signal Other: Mark Bennett’s A Midsummer is a Tony and Obie award-winning Ensemble), The Picture of Dorian Gray Night’s Dream (orchestrations), sound designer whose work has been (Life Line Theatre). TV: Chicago Fire. Chicago City Limits, The Raymond Scott heard in more than 500 productions Film: Black Box. Orchestrette, orchestras worldwide. nationally and internationally. Other Upcoming: Let Me Live!; Dramatists accolades include the 2012 Princess RICK ELICE (Playwright). Broadway: Guild; Artistic Associate for New Grace Statue and Lortel, AUDELCO Jersey Boys (Tony Award, Best Musical), Musicals at NYTW. and Henry Hewes awards. He is a The Addams Family. In the works: founding member of Anne Bogart’s SITI

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P11 Company and Former Resident Sound Buccaneer (Tank NYC). Jacob was a PHOENIX ENTERTAINMENT Designer, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Junior Olympic fencer and Div1 varsity (Production & Technical Supervision) fencer at Yale. is pleased to be on-board with Peter MARCO PAGUIA (Musical Supervisor). and the Starcatcher on its trek through Music Director for Peter and the KATHERINE WALLACE (Production North America and grateful to its Starcatcher, Everyday Rapture (B’way), Supervisor). B’way: Peter and the entire production team under the Disney’s On the Record. Marco performs Starcatcher, Other Desert Cities, After direction of long-time colleague Shawn with singer Lindsay Mendez (LMandMP. Miss Julie, A Man for All Seasons. Off- Pennington. As a well-established com). Love to friends and family, B’way: Peter and the Starcatcher (New international theatrical producing and especially Helen, Olivia and Landon. World Stages and NYTW), Death Takes management enterprise founded by a Holiday (Roundabout); Restoration Stephen Kane and Michael McFadden, ANDY GROBENGIESER (Music (NYTW); The Break of Noon, The Pride Phoenix Entertainment’s mission is to Director). Broadway: Ghost the Musical, (MCC); Blood Type: Ragu (Actors’ develop, produce, manage and present Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Lestat. Playhouse). Proud AEA member. the very finest in touring Broadway Tours/Regional: Elf, Shrek the Musical, musicals and family entertainment White Christmas, Disney’s The Lion King, SHAWN PENNINGTON (Production worldwide. Over the past three decades, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables. Hometown: Stage Manager). Broadway: Wicked, the Phoenix team has produced and/ Altamont, IL. Millikin University ‘91 and Next to Normal, Sondheim on or supervised over 100 live productions and UT-Austin ‘93. Sondheim. National tours: Rock of on four continents. Current and recent Ages, Spelling Bee, The Pajama Game, touring projects include Rock of Ages, LILLIAN KING (Associate Director) Gypsy, Will Rogers Follies, Smokey Joe’s The Addams Family, Monty Python’s has loved working on Peter and the Café. Regional: Little Miss Sunshine Spamalot, The Color Purple and the long- Starcatcher since NYTW. She worked (Sundance Theatre Lab), Dallas Center running Korean language production of for the last six summers at the New for the Performing Arts. Love to Mom, Grease. phoenix-ent.com London Barn Playhouse, and is looking Dad, Mark and Beth! forward to working with Alex again on 321 THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT Rocky the Musical. B.A.: Dartmouth McKENZIE MURPHY (Assistant Stage (General Management). Nina Essman, College. MFA: Boston University. Manager). Broadway: Cinderella, Elf, Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Marcia Peter and the Starcatcher, Wit, Everyday Goldberg’s past B’way, off-B’way and PATRICK McCOLLUM (Movement Rapture, Bye Bye Birdie, 9 to 5. This is tour management credits include Associate). Rocky (Associate Fight McKenzie’s fourth production of Peter Starcatcher Broadway and New World Director), Wicked (Dance Supervisor/ and the Starcatcher. B.A., Stony Brook Stages; Wicked; Bring It On: The Musical; Dance Captain/Swing), Murder Ballad University. Sister Act; Traces; Next to Normal; The (Associate Choreographer), Westport 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Country Playhouse. Thanks to Steven JIM CARNAHAN, CSA (Casting). Bee; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; for the opportunity, to DR for the love, Roundabout’s Director of Artistic I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Mom and Dad for everything. Development. Roundabout: Big Knife, and Bat Boy: The Musical. Additional Picnic, Drood, Cyrano, Harvey, Anything productions: The Lion King; Smokey MICHAEL CARNAHAN (Associate Goes, Sunday in the Park…, Pajama Joe’s Café; The Vagina Monologues; The Scenic Designer). Off-B’way: The Game, 12 Angry Men, Assassins, Nine, Santaland Diaries; and The Diary of Anne Happiest Song Plays Last (Second Big River, Cabaret. Other Broadway: Frank. Stage), The Piano Lesson and The First Matilda, Once, Peter and the Starcatcher, Breeze of Summer (Signature), The Jerusalem, Scottsboro Boys, American DAVE BARRY (Original Novel) is a Marvelous Wonderettes. Regional: Idiot, Spring Awakening, Boeing-Boeing, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and ACT, McCarter, Williamstown Theatre Pillowman, Democracy, Fiddler, Millie. author of more than two dozen books, Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, Two River, Film: Home at the End of the World, most recently Insane City. Along with Cleveland Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, Flicka. TV: Glee (Emmy nom). Ridley Pearson, he is the co-author of Utah Shakespeare Festival. Broadway Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the (Assoc): Peter and the Starcatcher, Ann, ALLIED LIVE (Marketing and Press) is a Shadow Thieves, Peter and the Secret of Cyrano de Bergerac, The Importance of full-service marketing and advertising Rundoon, Peter and the Sword of Mercy Being Earnest, Bloody Bloody Andrew agency representing Broadway and The Bridge to Never Land. Jackson, All About Me, White Christmas, shows, national tours, performing Curtains. arts institutions and experiential RIDLEY PEARSON (Original Novel) entertainment entities. Current clients is the co-author of Peter and the JACOB GRIGOLIA-ROSENBAUM (Fight include Blue Man Group, The Book of Starcatchers with Dave Barry. He also Director). Credits include - Broadway: Mormon, A Christmas Story, Rodgers + writes the award-winning Kingdom Peter and the Starcatcher, Bloody Bloody Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Elf, Ghost, Keepers series as well as best-selling Andrew Jackson, Cyrano de Bergerac. Off- Kinky Boots, Mamma Mia!, Motown, crime novels for adults. In 1990, Ridley Broadway/Regional: Starcatcher (NWS, Once, Peter and the Starcatcher, Stomp, was awarded the Raymond Chandler/ NYTW), BBAJ (Public), Here Lies Love We Will Rock You, West Side Story and Fulbright Fellowship at Oxford (Public), Sailor Man (Fringe NYC), The Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. University.

P12 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE NANCY NAGEL GIBBS (Producer) has DISNEY THEATRICAL GROUP JAMIE deROY (Co-Producer). Tony been a Producer, General Manager, (Producer). With productions Awards: Vanya and Sonia…, Norman and Company Manager for Broadway worldwide, a Disney musical is being Conquests, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Off-Broadway for over 30 years. performed professionally somewhere Nice Work…, Addams Family, Catch Me, Producer: If/Then, Bat Boy: The Musical, on the planet virtually every hour of Blithe Spirit, Thurgood, Asher Lev (OCC Striking 12, All Shook Up, The Big Bang, the day. Their Broadway productions— Awards) among others. The Last Session, Fully Committed, and Beauty and the Beast; King David; The Smoke on the Mountain. General Lion King; Elton John and Tim Rice’s RADIO MOUSE ENTERTAINMENT Manager: I Love You You’re Perfect…, De Aida; Mary Poppins, a co-production (Co-Producer). Vanya and Sonia and La Guarda, Over the River and Through with Cameron Mackintosh; Tarzan, Masha and Spike (Tony Award, Best the Woods, Visiting Mr. Green, Full Gallop, The Little Mermaid, Peter and the Play), Peter and the Starcatcher, The Santaland Diaries, Hank Williams: Starcatcher and Newsies—have won The Pee-wee Herman Show. www. Lost Highway, John & Jen, Ford’s Theatre, a combined 19 Tony Awards. Aladdin, radiomouse.com and The Lamb’s Theatre. Thanks to their newest musical, opens in Toronto Chris, David and Jeanne. this fall. PETER STERN (Co-Producer) is a leading art attorney. Currently co- GREG SCHAFFERT (Producer). B’way: JANE DUBIN (Co-Producer). Tony producer B’way: Pippin (Tony award). Peter and the Starcatcher, Burn the winner; Double Play Connections. Co-Producer: Peter and the Starcatcher Floor, All Shook Up. Off-B’way: Bat Productions: Ann (B’way, Holland B’way and off-B’way. Member, Advisory Boy: The Musical, Striking 12, Magnetic Taylor), unFRAMED, The Umbrellas of Council of the Royal Shakespeare North, How to Save the World and Find Cherbourg (London), The 39 Steps, The Company and supporter of Matilda on True Love in 90 Minutes, Cornered and Norman Conquests (Tony), Groundswell, B’way. Alone. Regional: Homestead Crossing, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, MentalPause. No Wake, Three Musketeers, The Girl DAN SHAHEEN (Co-Producer) is also in the Frame. In development: Great SUZAN & KEN WIRTH (Co-Producer). a producer of the hit comedy Buyer & Wall (Kevin So, Kevin Merritt, David Thrilled to be involved with this Cellar and numerous Jones & Schmidt Henry Hwang), Painted Alice (William continued journey. Background in musicals including The Fantasticks and Donnelly and Michael Mahler), Hot education and family along with I Do! I Do! Mess in Manhattan (Cait Doyle). four-decade financial service firm in Greenwich. Thanks to all. RICH AFFANNATO (Co-Producer) EVA PRICE (Producer). B’way: John is Executive Artistic Director of Grisham’s A Time To Kill, Peter and the JACK LANE (Co-Producer) is the Nederlander Worldwide Productions; Starcatcher (five Tony Awards), Annie Kevin Kline Award-winning Executive Ann on Broadway, Silence! The (current revival), Lewis Black…, Frankie Producer of STAGE ST. LOUIS, a Musical, Broadway Rox. www. Valli and the Four Seasons, Kathy Griffin 27-year-old regional musical theatre AffannatoProductions.com Wants a Tony, Colin Quinn: Long Story company. Peter marked his Broadway Short, The Merchant of Venice, The producing debut. MARY COSSETTE PRODUCTIONS Addams Family, Wishful Drinking, Dr. (Co-Producer). Tony Award winner: Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. MARTIN HUMMEL & R.K. GREENE Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Selected off-B’way and touring: Forever (Co-Producer). Martin Hummel (Big Other B’way productions: Peter and Dusty, Voca People, Ella, The Magic River, Little Ham) and R.K. Greene the Starcatcher, Will Rogers Follies, That School Bus Live!, ’S Wonderful. Eva was (StoryLineProject.com: Room Service, Championship Season, The Addams recently named to Crain’s New York 40 The Other Side of Newark) last produced Family, Bonnie and Clyde. Off B’way: Under Forty Rising Stars in Business Starcatcher on Broadway and Love Child Mindgame and Winner Brighton and Blouin Art Info’s Top 25 Under 35 off. Festival, U.K. Woody Sez. Emerging Broadway Players. CATHERINE SCHREIBER (Co- PROBO PRODUCTIONS (Co- TOM SMEDES (Producer). B’way: Producer). Tony-winning producer, Producer). Broadway: The Norman Pippin (Tony), Next Fall (Tony nom), Clybourne Park. The Scottsboro Boys Conquests (Tony Award), Next Fall, [title of show]. London: The Musical of (Young Vic London), The Scottsboro The Scottsboro Boys. Off-Broadway: Musicals (The Musical!), Side by Side Boys B’way, Next Fall, Stick Fly, The Groundswell, The 39 Steps. by Sondheim. Off-B’way:Natasha , King’s Speech, Desperate Writers (off- Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812, B’way), El Chico de Oz (Peru). BEAM REACH ENTERTAINMENT Naked Boys Singing!, Dog Sees God. (Co-Producer). Partners Paula Kaminsky General Manager: Silence! The Musical, MIKE & JANET SLOSBERG (Co- Davis and Bruce Joseph share a love Desperate Writers, [title of show], The Producer). Involved with all aspects of theatre, sailing and risk. Is a proud Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), Altar of theatre. Board members of supporter of Tours: La Cage and Ghost. Boyz (off-B’way and tour). TomSmedes. Atlantic Theater Company; The Broadway: Dead Accounts, Cinderella com. New Dramatists. Co-Founders, Off and Vanya… Broadway Angels - financial supporters of small theatre companies.

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P13 JULIE BOARDMAN (Co-Producer). August: Osage County. In addition, member of the Association of Recent: Dreamgirls, Submissions Only Michael inaugurated CTG’s New Play Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. and Witness Uganda. Proud graduate Production Program, designed to In May 2013 Doug received The of the University of Southern California. foster the development and Broadway League’s prestigious boardmanproductions.com production of new work. Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award. DANIEL FRISHWASSER (Co-Producer). EDWARD L. RADA Cinderella, Clybourne Park (Tony), Memphis (Managing Director) JEFFREY UPAH (General Manager, (Tony). Movies: Girl Most Likely, Mister returned to Center Ahmanson Theatre) has worked in & Pete, Freezing People Is Easy, Life of An Theatre Group in management at Center Theatre Group Actress. 2011 after since 2006 on more than 50 musicals, previously serving plays and special events including MICHAEL & GABRIELLE PALITZ as CTG’s Chief both pre-Broadway productions and (Co-Producers). Michael: Two-time Financial Officer for Broadway tours. Some of his favorites Tony winner. Gabrielle: Avid theatre 12 years (1996– include Follies, God of Carnage and lover. Upcoming together: Empire, the 2008). Rada spent three years (2008– The Black Rider (having previously Musical, The Scottsboro Boys (London). 2011) as President of the Music Center worked on Robert Wilson productions Foundation, a non-profit corporation in Boston, Houston and São Paulo, FREEDBERG & DALE (Co-Producer). that holds and invests the endowment Brazil). Prior to CTG, he was the Avram Freedberg and Marybeth Dale and reserve funds for the Music Center marketing manager for the last two formed Maximum Entertainment, a and its resident companies (including of his 11 seasons with The Santa developing, investing and producing CTG). Prior to his years at CTG, he was Fe Opera, and worked in various company, in 2006. Numerous the Director of Finance at The Old capacities at Yale Repertory Theatre, Broadway, off-Broadway and touring Globe in San Diego and principal of American Repertory Theatre and productions. Rada & Associates, an accounting firm Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, among that specialized in entertainment- others. He graduated magna cum FOR CENTER THEATRE GROUP related non-profit organizations and laude with his studies in film and theatrical productions. He is a theatre from Washington University MICHAEL RITCHIE graduate of Occidental College in Los in St. Louis, and received an MFA in (Artistic Director) is Angeles with numerous post-graduate theatre management from the Yale in his eighth coursework and credentials. He School of Drama. season as Center currently serves on the board of Theatre Group’s directors for Entertainment Industry GORDON Artistic Director, Foundation, Theatre @ Boston Court, DAVIDSON and has led over and United Support of Artists for (Founding Artistic 130 productions to Africa/USA for Africa, among other Director) led the the Ahmanson, affiliations. He also serves on the Taper throughout Taper and Douglas stages since his board of trustees for the pension, its first 38 seasons, arrival in 2005. From 1996 to 2004 health and welfare and 401(k) plans of guiding over 300 Michael was the Producer of the I.A.T.S.E. Local 33 Stagehands Union. productions to its Williamstown Theatre Festival and stage and winning prior to that he was a Production Stage DOUGLAS C. countless awards for himself and the Manager in NYC. At CTG, he BAKER (Producing theatre—including the Tony Award® for premiered six musicals that moved to Director) is now in theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Broadway—The Drowsy Chaperone his 23rd season at Award, The Governor’s Award for the (which won 13 Tony Award® CTG. Previously, he Arts and a Guggenheim fellowship. The nominations), Curtains (eight Tony managed Broadway Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America nominations) 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, and touring (Part One) won the Pulitzer in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Leap productions consecutive years and, in 1994, three of of Faith. He has produced 33 world including Tru, Born the four plays nominated for the Tony premieres including the musicals Yesterday, The Gospel at Colonus, Annie, Award® for Best Play were from the Minsky’s, Venice and Sleeping Beauty A Chorus Line, Working, The Wiz, and Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989 Wakes, and the plays Bengal Tiger at Legends!, which premiered at the Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, the Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer Prize Ahmanson Theatre in 1986 and starred in 2004, he produced the inaugural finalist that also moved to Broadway), Mary Martin and Carol Channing. season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Water & Power and Yellow Face, and he Doug is a member of the Achievement presented a broad range of plays and Hall of Fame of Chagrin Falls Schools musicals ranging from Dead End to in Ohio and a graduate of Albion The Black Rider to Edward Scissorhands College. He is an active member of the to blockbusters such as God of Broadway League, the Independent Carnage, Mary Poppins, Jersey Boys and Presenters Network and is a proud

P14 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE STAFF for PETER AND THE STARCATCHER 321 THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT The actors and stage managers employed in Bob Brinkerhoff, Amy Merlino Coey, this production are members of Actors’ Equity GENERAL MANAGEMENT Mattea Cogliano-Benedict, Veronica Decker, Association, the union of professional actors and 321 Theatrical Management Tara Geesaman, Tracy Geltman, stage managers in the United States. Nina Essman Marcia Goldberg Ken Silverman Andrew Hartman, Adam Jackson, Ryan Lympus, The musicians employed in this production Brent McCreary, Alex Owen, Rebecca Peterson, are members of the American Federation of JIM CARNAHAN CASTING Susan Sampliner, Haley Ward Musicians of the United States and Canada. Jim Carnahan, CSA Jillian Cimini EXCLUSIVE TOUR DIRECTION United Scenic Artists represents the designers Carrie Gardner, CSA Stephen Kopel, CSA Stephen Lindsay Brett Sirota and scenic painters for the American Theatre. Lain Kunin Logan Reid The Road Company theroadcompany.com The Press Agents and Company and House Managers employed in this production are TOUR PRESS & MARKETING peterandthestarcatcher.com represented by the Association of Theatrical Allied Live Press Agents & Managers. Laura Matalon SPECIAL THANKS Marya Peters Mary Alyce Blum Jacqueline Smith The Director and Choreographer are members Wendy Lefkon, Broadway Green Alliance, Tom of the Society of Stage Directors and Casserly, Paul Jepson, Chris Ashley, Dana Harrel, Choreographers, Inc., an independent national Production and Technical Supervision by Gabriel Greene, Jim Nicola, William Russo, Bill labor union. PHOENIX ENTERTAINMENT Darger, Kris Kukul, Amanda Charlton, Williamstown Stephen B. Kane Michael McFadden This production is produced by members of Theatre Festival, Michele Steckler, Neil Patel, Joe The Broadway League in collaboration with our Shawn Pennington Scott Orlesky Bruce Perry Huppert, Eric Stahlhammer, Kelly Devine, Adrienne professional union-represented employees. www.phoenix-ent.com Campbell-Holt, Amy Groeschel, Steve Rosen, Eric Love, Adam Green, Danny Deferarri, Rob O’Hare, Center Theatre Group is a member of the COMPANY MANAGER. . . ERICA NORGAARD American Arts Alliance, the Broadway League, Alicia Quirk, all the actors who helped us along Independent Producers’ Network (IPN), LA Stage the way. Alliance, League of Resident Theatres (LORT), Production Stage Manager. . Shawn Pennington National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and Assistant Stage Manager. . . McKenzie Murphy the Theatre Communications Group (TCG). CREDITS Dramaturg ...... Ken Cerniglia Scenery and Rigging by Associate Producer...... Daniel Posener Showman Fabricators, Inc., Associate Scenic Designer. . .Michael Carnahan Daedalus, & Scenic Solutions Assistant to Scenic Designer. . .Craig Napoliello Costumes by Artur & Tailors, Inc., Associate Costume Designer. . . .Irma Brainard Giliberto Designs, Inc., Assistant to Costume Designer. . . Caitlin Conci Katrina Patterns, Marie Stair Costume Intern ...... Ruth Mongey Millinery by Jeffrey Wallach and Hair Consultant. . Brandon Dailey, J. Jared Janas Rodney Gordon, Inc. Associate Lighting Designer . . . . .Cory Pattak Fabric Dyeing & Painting by Jeff Fender Studios. Assistant Lighting Designer. . .Peter W. Mitchell Sound by Masque Sound. Associate Sound Designer. . . . . Charles Coes Lighting by Christie-Lites. Technical Director ...... Scott Orlesky Props by Paper Mache Monkey, PropStar/Kathy Assistant Carpenter. . . . Tim “Rizzo” Dhority Fabian, Tom Carroll, Daniel Moss, Production Electrician. . . . John J. Anselmo Jr. Jessica Provenzale Head Electrician...... Michael Bert Trucking by Janco Ltd. Spotlight Operator. . . . . Lionel “Train” Riley Moving Light Programmer . . . . . Colin Scott ONLINE Production Sound ...... Gabriel Bennett CenterTheatreGroup.org Head Sound...... Jarrett Krauss #Starcatcher Assistant Sound...... Jeremy Oleska Like us on facebook Center Theatre Group Production Props...... Jonathan Knust Follow us on Twitter @CTGLA Prop Supervisor...... Darcy Bert Subscribe on YouTube CTGLA Assistant Prop Supervisor. . . .Daniel R. Naish Wardrobe Supervisor...... Kim Lozan Production Assistants. . . Jen Ash, Allison Long Merchandise. . . .Broadway Merchandising, Inc. Banking. . . . Signature Bank/Thomas Kasulka Payroll...... Castellana Services Inc. Accountant. .FK Partners CPAs LLP/Robert Fried Insurance. . . AON/Albert G. Ruben Insurance Legal Counsel. Brooks & Distler/Tom Distler, Esq. Travel Agent...... Road Rebel

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PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P15 CENTER THEATRE GROUP L.A.’s Theatre Company MICHAEL RITCHIE, Artistic Director EDWARD L. RADA, Managing Director DOUGLAS C. BAKER, Producing Director ARTISTIC STAN GRUSHESKY ...... Director of Information Systems NEEL KELLER ...... Associate Artistic Director SEAN PINTO ...... Database and Web Manager KELLEY KIRKPATRICK ...... Associate Artistic Director MANDY RATLIFF ...... Tessitura Administrator DIANE RODRIGUEZ ...... Associate Producer/Director of New Play Production JARED WATANABE ...... Information Systems Analyst PIER CARLO TALENTI ...... Resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager LINDSAY ALLBAUGH ...... Producing Associate JODY HORWITZ ...... Director of Human Resources MALCOLM K. DARRELL ...... New Play Production Associate MADRIO FLEEKS ...... Senior Human Resources Generalist JOY MEADS ...... Literary Associate and Artistic Engagement Strategist SINGER LEWAK, LLP ...... Auditor MARK B. SIMON ...... Casting Director MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF ...... Legal Counsel ANDY CROCKER ...... Casting Associate GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER ...... Legal Counsel STEVEN PIESZCHALKSI ...... Casting Assistant DEVELOPMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL ...... Director of Development DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), JESSICA BLANK, SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), TIM PATRICK OWEN ...... Deputy Director of Development CROUCH, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, GINA GIONFRIDDO, GOB SQUAD, MATT GOULD, DANAI NATALIE BERGESON ...... Director of Donor Contributions GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, JOE HORTUA, ERIK JENSEN, RAJIV JOSEPH, LATINO THEATER JEAN KLING ...... Director of Institutional Support COMPANY, GRIFFIN MATTHEWS, LAURAL MEADE, JULIE MARIE MYATT (FADIMAN), LIZ LIN ...... Director of Corporate Relations and Communications DAN O’BRIEN, EVANGELINE ORDAZ, DAEL ORLANDERSMITH, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), CHARITY WU ...... Director of Individual Giving RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, MATT SAX, THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR, BECKY BIRDSONG ...... Major Gifts Officer YOUNG JEAN LEE THEATER COMPANY ...... Commissioned Artists JAMIE CATALDO ...... Corporate Relations Manager BEKAH BRUNSTETTER, CARLA CHING, JASON GROTE, SARAH GUBBINS, TIM McNEIL, MANDI OR ...... Special Events Manager HENRY ONG, MADHURI SHEKAR ...... CTG Writers’ Workshop Members ERIC BROWN ...... Communications Coordinator JENNIFER CHAN ...... Special Events Associate EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS JUSTIN FOO ...... Donor Contributions Associate LESLIE K. JOHNSON ...... Director of Education and Community Partnerships SARAH HARBURG-PETRICH ...... Development Assistant PATRICIA GARZA ...... Assistant Department Director KATY HILTON ...... Grant Writer TRACI CHO KWON ...... Director of School Partnerships DONALD JOLLY ...... Donor Relations Associate for the Inner Circle CAMILLE SCHENKKAN . . . . . Program Manager, Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals KRISTEN LEVY-VAUGHAN ...... Individual Giving Assistant JESUS REYES ...... Program Manager, Community Partnerships JESSICA NASH ...... Donor Contributions Supervisor KATRINA FRYE ...... Program Associate MARIA PAREDES ...... Donor Relations Associate for The Guild ASHLEY LAMPSON OPSTAD ...... Program Associate COURTNEY ROBERTSON ...... Institutional Giving Associate VICTOR VAZQUEZ ...... Program Associate ERIC SEPPALA ...... Executive Assistant to the Development Director BRANDON TURNER ...... Temporary Program Associate ERIN SCHLABACH ...... Major Gifts Coordinator KELLY CHRIST ...... Communications Coordinator JESSICA THORSON ...... Corporate Relations Coordinator SHANNON WINSTON ...... Department Coordinator DEBRA PIVER ...... Resident Teaching Artist AL BERMAN, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, GINA EAST, LILI HERRERA, TONY LEWELLEN, HOLLY RAMOS, NICOLE SCIPIONE, LENA THOMAS, BILL WALTON, TOM WINKLER MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ...... Donor Advisors NAUSICA STERGIOU . . . . . General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) ADAM BURCH, KARLA GALVEZ ...... Donor Services Associates JEFFREY UPAH ...... General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) ANNE BRUNER, MURRAY E. HELTZER, MARCI MILLER, SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY ...... Assistant General Manager (Mark Taper Forum) JULIE NADAL ...... Development Volunteers KATIE BRUNER SOFF . . On leave - Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPP) ELLE AGHABALA ...... Interim Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPP) MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS ALANA BEIDELMAN ...... Executive Assistant to Managing Director JIM ROYCE ...... Director of Marketing, Communications and Sales PATRICK BELL ...... General Management Associate NANCY HEREFORD ...... Director of Media and Communications PHYLLIS MOBERLY ...... Media and Communications Associate ERIC SIMS ...... Operations Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JASON MARTIN ...... Media and Communications Associate TOM BURMESTER . Audience Experience Design/Front of House Mgr (Kirk Douglas Theatre) LYN COWAN ...... Media and Communications Coordinator LAUREN BAXA ...... Assistant Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHELSEY ROSETTER ...... Media and Communications Coordinator MAX OKEN ...... Facility Assistant (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SONDRA MAYER ...... Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) NISHITA DOSHI ...... Art Director IRENE KANESHIRO ...... Senior Design Manager PRODUCTION HARUKA HAYAKAWA ...... Graphic Designer DAWN HOLISKI ...... Production Department Operations Director TERESA ENGLISH ...... Graphic Designer JOE HAMLIN ...... Technical Director/Ahmanson Production Manager SHAWN ANDERSON ...... Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) ANDREW DARCEY ...... Advertising Manager ANDREW W. ARNOLD ...... Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) KAREN VOCK ...... Marketing Manager STAN STEELMON ...... Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JAMES SIMS ...... Marketing Creative Manager JIM BERGER ...... Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) JEWEL MOORE ...... Marketing Coordinator ROBERT SMITH ...... Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) ROSE POIRIER ...... Webmaster MICHAEL GARDNER ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) CRAIG SCHWARTZ ...... Production Photographer PATRICE MIRANDA ...... Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) LARRY DEAN HARRIS ...... Copywriter CHRISTINE L. COX ...... House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) CINEVATIVE/MARK CIGLAR ...... Production Video TOM BURMESTER, TREVOR ALGATT, KEVIN MAPP ...... Event Video CHAD SMITH ...... Associate Technical Director ALLIED LIVE: SAM CRAVEN-GRIFFITHS ...... Associate Technical Director LAURA MATALON, SHANNON WILLETT, KELLY ESTRELLA ...... Advertising Agency TICKET SALES AND SERVICES ANDREW THIELS ...... Prop Manager SHAWN ROBERTSON ...... Ticket Sales Director MERRIANNE NEDREBERG ...... Associate Prop Manager SKYPP CABANAS ...... Ticket Operations Coordinator SARAH KRAININ ...... Prop Associate SANDY CZUBIAK ...... Audience and Subscriber Services Manager CANDICE CAIN ...... Costume Director JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE . Audience Services Supervisors BRENT M. BRUIN ...... Costume Workroom Supervisor ALICE CHEN ...... Audience Services Asst. Supervisor MADELINE KELLER ...... Costume Generalist SAM AARON, DEBORAH REED ...... Audience Services Sales Associates SWANTJE TUOHINO ...... Tailor ELIZABETH LEONARD ...... Production Operations Manager JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, RJ CANTU, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., JULIO A. CUELLAR ...... Driver/Custodian PETER COLBURN, DONALD CRANDALL, GARY HOLLAND, DONAVAN MARTINELLI, EUGENE A. MONTEIRO II, BRIAN SLATEN ...... Drivers KAY LOCHARD, JUSTINE PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, DANNY SCHMITZ, JENNIFER ACHTERBERG ...... Production Administrator CRIS SPACCA ...... Audience Services Representatives JONATHAN BARLOW LEE ...... Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) DANUTA SIEMAK ...... Subscriber Services Supervisor CELESTE SANTAMASSINO ...... Associate Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ ...... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor EMMET KAISER ...... Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) LIGIA PISTE, CELIA RIVAS ...... Subscriber Services Senior Representatives ROBERT RUBY ...... Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) IRENE CHUANG, PETER STALOCH ...... Subscriber Services Representatives WILLIAM MORNER ...... Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) SARAH K. GONTA ...... Box Office Treasurer BONES MALONE ...... Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) KISHISA ROSS, GISELE FRAZEUR ...... Assistant Treasurers DENNIS SEETOO ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) YULIZA BARRAZA, ANGELICA CARBAJAL, MICHAEL KEMPISTY, RICK GEYER ...... Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) LEROY PAWLOWSKI, MICHAEL SALTZMAN ...... Box Office Staff LINDA WALKER ...... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) MICHAEL ZOLDESSY ...... Account Sales Manager CHRISTY WEIKEL ...... Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) EILEEN ROBERTS ...... Account Sales Associate KATE COLTUN ...... Assistant Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) KERRY KORF ...... Priority Services Director RICHARD PETERSON ...... Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SUSAN F. TULLER ...... Priority Services Operations Manager AARON STAUBACH ...... Light Board Programmer/Operator (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JAY BURNS ...... Priority Services Sales Manager ADAM PHALEN ...... Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PAUL CUEN ...... Priority Services Manager VICTOR COBOS ...... Stage Supevisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CANDICE WALTERS ...... Priority Services Assistant Supervisor FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES CAROLE BAXTER, RUSTY COLLINS, MAGGIE DODD, NIC DRESSEL, MARC “BYRON” MICHAEL F. THOMPSON ...... Chief Financial Officer DROTMAN, SAMANTHA ELSE, LOU GEORGE, KATE HALL, JERRY JOHNSTON, LISA MELODY MATTOS ...... Controller KESSLER, SHEP KOSTER, MATT PELFREY, KEN SALLEY, KRISTEN SCHRASS, BOBBI LYNNE JANIS BOWBEER ...... Assistant Controller SCOTT, ANDREW SEVERYN, MICHAEL SMITH, QUINN SULLIVAN, DIANE WARD, LIZ LYDIC ...... Accounts Payable Coordinator JIM WATERMAN ...... Representatives FELICISIMA LAPID ...... Accounts Payable Specialist DANNY LAMPSON ...... Senior Staff Accountant INTERNS ALEGRIA SENA ...... Staff Accountant DOMITILLE ANGOULVANT, SAVANNAH BARKER, CARLY BARNHILL, CATHERINE YUEN KI “ANNIE” LAW ...... Payroll Manager CAMPBELL, MADDIE DIAL, SYNNOVE ERIKSEN, CLINTON FOLEY, JENNIFER HARRELL, AMEETA SHARMA ...... Payroll Specialist KEVIN HERALD, GERMAIN HERNANDEZ, TOBY JACOBROWN, JADE JOHNSON, TIFFANY MOON, RACHEL KAUDER NALEBUFF, MIRIAM NEIGUS, ARMANDO PINA, KIRSTIE SELLS, DAVE ALTON ...... Chief Information Officer MIMI SILVEYRA, SARA WAUGH

Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication and extraordinary efforts.

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