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50th Season • 476th Production JULIANNE ARGYROS STAGE / JANUARY 5-26, 2014

Marc Masterson Paula Tomei ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MANAGING DIRECTOR

David Emmes & Martin Benson FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

presents the world premiere of Trudy and Max in Love

by

Laura Jellinek Melanie Watnick Lap Chi Chu Cricket S. Myers SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN

Kimberly Colburn Jackie S. Hill Kathryn Davies* DRAMATURG PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER

Directed by

Pam and Jim Muzzy Honorary Producers

TRUDY AND MAX IN LOVE was commissioned by South Coast Repertory and workshopped and developed in the 2013 Pacific Playwrights Festival.

Trudy and Max in Love • South Coast Repertory • P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS Trudy ...... Aya Cash* Other Woman ...... Celeste Den* Other Man ...... Tate Ellington* Max ...... Michael Weston*

SETTING New York: Present day.

PRODUCTION STAFF Casting ...... Joanne DeNaut, CSA Production Assistant ...... Kristen Coen Assistant Director ...... Travis Kendrick Assistant Scenic Designer ...... Yin-chiao Liao Assistant Costume Designer ...... Adriana Lambarri Stage Management Intern ...... Lilly Deerwater Light Board Operator ...... Sumner Ellsworth Sound Board Operator ...... Bryan Williams Dresser ...... Jessica Larsen

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Thank you to in New York City for its support in the development of Trudy and Max in Love.

Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. Video taping and/or recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre.

P2 • South Coast Repertory • Trudy and Max in Love Lovestruck

“Friendship is born at that “Let me live, love and say it moment when one person well in good sentences.” says to another: “What! ~ Sylvia Plath, You too? I thought that no The Bell Jar one but myself . . .” ~ C.S. Lewis, “I generally avoid tempta- The Four Loves tion unless I can’t resist it.” ~ Mae West “Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copula- “Confusing monogamy tion (a desire that extends with morality has done to an infinite number of more to destroy the con- women) but in the desire science of the human race for shared sleep (a desire than any other error.” limited to one woman).” ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness “Love is that condition in of Being which the happiness of another person is essential “We write to taste life to your own.” twice, in the moment and ~ Robert A. Heinlein, in retrospect.” Stranger in a Strange Land ~ Anaïs Nin “How I feel is that if I “I believe that everything wanted anything I’d take happens for a reason. it. That’s what I’ve always n a study published in the People change so that you thought all my life. But it Journal of Social and Personal can learn to let go, things happens that I want you, go wrong so that you ap- and so I just haven’t room Relationships, Linda Sapadin preciate them when they’re for any other desires.” asked more than 150 profes- right, you believe lies so ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, I sional men and women what they you eventually learn to The Beautiful and trust no one but yourself, Damned liked and disliked about their cross- and sometimes good things sex friendships. Topping women’s fall apart so better things “We have to continually be list of dislikes: sexual tension. Men, can fall together.” jumping off cliffs and de- ~ Marilyn Monroe veloping our wings on the on the other hand, more frequently way down.” replied that sexual attraction was a “Have you ever been in ~ Kurt Vonnegut prime reason for initiating a friend- love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. “What I’m saying is — and ship, and that it could even deepen It opens your chest and it this is not a come-on in any a friendship. Either way, 62 per- opens up your heart and it way, shape or form— is cent of all subjects reported that means that someone can that men and women can’t get inside you and mess be friends because the sexual tension was present in their you up.” sex part always gets in the cross-sex friendships. ~ Neil Gaiman, way.” ~ From Psychology Today The Sandman, ~ Harry, from Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones When Harry Met Sally

Trudy and Max in Love • South Coast Repertory • P3 Artist Biographies

Aya Cash* and television credits include “Dumb American Family” Trudy (Adult Swim), “Castle” (ABC), “Criminal Minds” (CBS), “The Doctor” (WB), and Larry Crowne (Universal). is making her SCR debut. She is Den received her BFA from the University of Florida a New York-based actress, last and MFA from the Institute of the Arts. www. seen on the west coast in Semi- celeste.den.com nar at the Ahmanson Theatre. Her New York theatre credits in- Tate Ellington* clude shows at Playwrights Hori- Other Man zons (The Pain and the Itch, Three Changes), Atlantic Theater Company (Happy Hour, Offices), Manhattan is making his SCR debut and is Theatre Club (From Up Here), Rattlestick Playwrights thrilled to be part of this produc- Theater (Killers and Other Family), Ars Nova (Play- tion. His previous theatre credits list, Missed Connections) MCC Theater (The Other include the Broadway production Place) and Summer Play Festival (Whore, Not Wav- of The Philanthropist and off-off ing). Her film credits include Sleepwalk with Me, The Broadway in Dog Sees God (origi- Oranges, The Bits in Between, Deception, Off Jackson nal cast) and The Shape of Things. He has appeared on Avenue, Winter of Frozen Dreams, The Happy , television in “The Good Wife,” “The Walking Dead,” the upcoming Can a Song Save Your Life? and Why “,” “Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23,” “Wolf- Now? Cash was a series regular on the Fox series “Traf- pack of Reseda” and “Rescue Me.” His film credits fic Light” and has filmed pilots for NBC, FOX, CW and include The Elephant King, The Kitchen, Remember FX, as well as guest-starred on many New York-based Me, Breaking Upwards and The Invention of Lying. shows. She recently recurred on “The Newsroom” He earned his BFA at the University of Mississippi. El- and “We Are Men” and can currently be seen in Martin lington is also an accomplished visual artist. tateelling- Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. tonart.com. For Chrissy.

Celeste Den* Michael Weston* Other Woman Max returns after appearing in this sea- is making his SCR debut. His son’s Death of a Salesman and theatre credits include the off- last season’s international tour of Broadway productions of Extinc- Chinglish at SCR, Berkeley Reper- tion and Snakebit; regionally he tory Theatre and the 2013 Hong appeared in Dead End, Match- Kong Arts Festival. Her other the- maker, Johnny on the Spot and, atre credits include the world premieres of Wild Swans Misha’s Party (all at Williamstown Theatre Festival); at American Repertory Theatre and Young Vic in Lon- in the productions of Other Desert Cit- don; Between Two Friends and Island at Actors The- ies (Center Theatre Group) and Waverly Gallery atre of Louisville; 11 Septembre 2001 and Peach Blos- (Pasadena Playhouse). Films include Expecting, Quad, som Fan with Center for New Performance; Spit, Shine, Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, State of Play, Last Glisten with Cotsen Center for Puppetry; and Laws of Kiss, Love Wedding Marriage, Wedding Daze, Gar- Sympathy with Playwrights’ Arena. Regional credits den State, Pathology, Dukes of Hazzard, Harts War, include King Lear with Center for New Performance; Lucky Numbers, Wishcraft, Getting to Know You and Conjunto at Borderlands Theatre; Othello at The The- Coyote Ugly, among others, as well as the upcoming atre @ Boston Court; The Joy Luck Club at East West Wish I Was Here, Gravy and See You in Valhalla. He Players; The Merchant of Venice with LA Women’s has done large recurring arcs on several television Shakespeare; and Attrapee with Poor Dog Group. Film shows including “House,” “Six Feet Under,” “Psych,”

P4 • South Coast Repertory • Trudy and Max in Love “Scrubs,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and the upcoming “Those Who Kill.” His other television work includes Coma (mini-series), “The Office,” “White Collar,” “CSI: N.Y.,” “The Good Guys,” “NCIS: L.A.” and yes, “Burn Honorary Producers Notice,” among others. Pam and Jim Muzzy (Honorary Producers) were smitten with Trudy and Max in Love and Playwright, Director and Designers are thrilled to underwrite its world premiere. Among SCR’s most dedicated and enthusiastic Zoe Kazan (Playwright) was born and raised in Los supporters, the Muzzys have served as Honor- Angeles and currently resides in New York. Kazan’s ary Producers for seven plays since 2005: Bill first play, Absalom, was produced in 2009 at the Hu- Cain’s How to Write a New Book for the Bible mana Festival at the Actors Theater of Louisville. Her (2012), Donald Margulies’ Sight Unseen (2012), second play, We Live Here, was commissioned and Adam Gwon’s Ordinary Days (2010), Sarah produced off-Broadway by Manhattan Theatre Club Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone (2008); the world in 2011. Kazan also wrote, executive produced, and premieres of Jeff Whitty’s The Further Adven- starred in the movie , for which she was tures of Hedda Gabler (2006) and Noah Hai- nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best dle’s Princess Marjorie (2005); and our holiday Screenplay. In addition, Kazan is an award-winning production of Octavio Solis’ La Posada Mágica. stage and film actress whose on-screen credits include Pam serves on the SCR Board of Trustees, and Revolutionary Road, It’s Complicated, The Exploding she and Jim have been First Nights subscribers Girl and the upcoming The Pretty One, In Your Eyes, for over a decade. They are also Platinum Circle The F Word and HBO miniseries “Olive Kitteridge.” members, Gala underwriters, and major donors to the Next Stage and Legacy campaigns. “Jim Lila Neugebauer (Director) is a New York-based and I feel fortunate to have a theatre the caliber director whose recent work includes Dan LeFranc’s of SCR in our community and are pleased to be Troublemaker (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Lucas able to support it,” says Pam. Hnath’s Red Speedo (The Studio Theatre, Washing- ton, D.C.), Mallery Avidon’s O Guru Guru Guru (2013 Humana Festival), ’s The Aliens (where Lila Neugebauer is a co-artistic director). Up- (San Francisco Playhouse; The Studio Theatre), Circle coming, she has projects with (MCC The- Mirror Transformation (Juilliard), The Valley of Fear ater) and Anne Kauffman (). Her (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Eliza Clark’s Edge- opera credits include Owen Wingrave with Daniel wise (Cherry Lane Studio) and Snow Day (Drama Fish at Curtis/Opera Philadelphia, a fully staged Mes- League), The Wii Plays (Ars Nova), and associate siah with Sam Helfrich at the Pittsburgh Symphony directing Karen O’s Stop The Virgens (St. Ann’s Ware- Orchestra, and The Cunning Little Vixen with Emma house, Sydney Opera House). As co-artistic director Griffin at The Juilliard School. This spring, she has of The Mad Ones, Neugebauer conceives and directs operas with Jordan Fein and Robin Guarino. In 2010, ensemble-devised work, including Samuel & Alas- she designed Ghosts (Christopher Wheeldon, San dair: A Personal History of the Robot War (Ars Nova, Francisco Ballet), which was nominated for an Isadora The Brick, New Ohio Theatre). She is a recipient of Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual the Princess Grace Award; an alumna of the Drama Design, and in 2013 she received an for League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Sustained Excellence in Set Design. She holds a BA Directors Lab; a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre; in mathematics from Brown University and an MFA in and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. Her upcoming set design from New York University, where she is an work includes Dorothy Fortenberry’s Partners (2014 adjunct professor. Humana Festival). Melanie Watnick (Costume Design) is pleased to Laura Jellinek (Scenic Design) is a theatre and opera return to collaborate with SCR after previously design- designer based in New York. Her recent theater proj- ing Smokefall and On the Mountain. She has been ects include Taking Care of Baby (Manhattan Theatre working as a professional costume designer in theatre Club), What Rhymes with America (Atlantic Theater and dance for more than 13 years. Her costume de- Company), The Imaginary Invalid (Bard Summer- signs for dance include works for Ballet West, ABTII scape) as well as multiple projects with Daniel Fish, (part of American Ballet Theatre), Ballet X, Company The Debate Society, Target Margin and The Mad Ones C, Complexions, Contemporary Ballet, Kansas City

Trudy and Max in Love • South Coast Repertory • P5 Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, Malashock Dance ticks, The Parisian Woman, Sight Unseen, Elemeno and Backhaus Dance. Costume designs for theatre Pea, The Trip to Bountiful and Three Days of Rain. include work with The Juilliard School, Seattle Reper- On Broadway, she earned a Tony nomination and a tory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, The Bar- for her design of Rajiv Joseph’s ter Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, The Open Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Her designs off- Fist Theatre Company and Rogue Machine Theatre. Broadway include the 16-month run of The Marvel- Watnick also has served as lecturer at University of ous Wonderettes (Westside Arts, Upstairs). She has California, Irvine; UC San Diego and Hartnell College also designed regionally at the Ahmanson Theatre and is currently a faculty member at Pepperdine Uni- (Sunshine Boys), Mark Taper Forum (Steward of versity. She earned her MFA from UC San Diego and Christendom, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Vigil, her BA, with an emphasis in design, from UC Santa Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Lieutenant of Barbara. She is currently working with choreographer Inishmore), La Jolla Playhouse (Sideways, The Night- Jodie Gates on a new work for Ballet West. ingale), Berkeley Repertory Theatre (In the Wake), Arena Stage (Book Club Play), Kirk Douglas The- Lap Chi Chu (Lighting Design) has designed region- atre (Twist Your Dickens, The Little Dog Laughed), ally for SCR, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse (Crowns) and Geffen Playhouse Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, The (Play Dead, Wrecks, Some Girls, Emergency). Other Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Good- selected Los Angeles designs include The Colony man Theater, The Shakespeare Theater, Arena Stage, Theater Company, The Antaeus Company, The Cel- Hartford Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Dallas ebration Theater, Ford Amphitheater and Circle X Theater Center, Portland Center Stage and Evidence Theatre. Myers has earned 16 Ovation nominations, Room. New York design credits include The Public and won LADCC and Garland awards in Los Angeles. Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature cricketsmyers.com Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Performance Space 122 and Kitchen Theatre Company. He is the lighting/ Kimberly Colburn (Dramaturg) is the associate video designer for ChameckiLerner Dance Company literary director and Pacific Playwrights Festival coor- (Costumes by God, Visible Content, Hidden Forms, dinator at SCR. She’s also serving as the dramaturg I Mutantes Seras, Por Favor and Não Me Deixe), for the Dialogue/Diálogos project, working with play- which has performed in the United States and Brazil. wright José Cruz González as he spends two years Awards have included the Los Angeles Drama Critic’s creating a theatrical piece inspired by the stories Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in of the nearby Santa Ana community. Other favorite Lighting Design, an Ovation award, multiple Bay Area dramaturgical projects at SCR include A Wrinkle in Theatre Critics Circle Awards, a “Drammy” for best Time (adapted for the stage by John Glore), Pride lighting, as well as a Lucille Lortel nomination for and Prejudice, Elemeno Pea and Jane of the Jungle. The Good Negro at The Public Theater. Chu is on the She has worked as dramaturg, performer, director lighting design faculty at California Institute of the and producer with companies including Los Angeles Arts. Opera, Chance Theater, Sledgehammer Theatre, Lord Leebrick Theatre, Critical Mass Ensemble, Native Voic- Cricket S. Myers (Sound Design) is thrilled to re- es at the Autry, Artists at Play and she co-founded the turn to SCR after designing 4000 Miles, The Fantas- Full Frontal Artists Collective in San Diego. Upcom-

P6 • South Coast Repertory • Trudy and Max in Love ing, she’ll be the dramaturg on Partners by Dorothy world premieres, expanded audiences and the reper- Fortenberry in the 2014 Humana Festival at Actors toire, deepened arts education programs, and spear- Theatre of Louisville. She received her bachelor’s in headed numerous community-based projects. Other theatre from University of California, Riverside and directing credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, her masters in performing arts administration from Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, Glengarry Glen Ross, the University of Oregon. The Tempest, Mary’s Wedding, The Crucible, Betrayal, As You Like It, The Importance of Being Earnest and Kathryn Davies* (Stage Manager) previously stage- Macbeth in Louisville. World premieres directed at the managed Ivy+Bean: the Musical, The Motherf**ker Humana Festival include works by Lisa Dillman, Wen- with the Hat, How to Write a New Book for the Bible, dell Berry, Craig Wright, Eric Coble, Adam Bock, Gina Sight Unseen, Topdog/Underdog, Sideways Stories Gionfriddo, Melanie Marnich, Charles Mee and Rick from Wayside School, In the Next Room or the vibra- Dresser. He served as artistic director of City Theatre tor play, Doctor Cerberus, Ordinary Days, Our Moth- in Pittsburgh for 20 years and was founder and chair- er’s Brief Affair, The Injured Party, The Brand New man of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Alliance, a board Kid and Imagine at SCR. Her favorite credits include member of the Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania, Dividing the Estate at Dallas Theater Center; La Bo- and Leadership Pittsburgh. He served six years on the hème at Tulsa Opera; The Mystery of Irma Vep at The Board of the Theatre Communications Group and Old Globe; Daddy Long Legs at Laguna Playhouse; as a theatre advisory panel member for the National Tosca and La Fille du Régiment at Opera Ontario; Of Endowment for the Arts as well as numerous founda- Mice and Men at Theatre Calgary/CanStage/Neptune tions. He won the Man of the Year Vectors Award, and Theatre; The Dresser at Manitoba Theatre Centre; received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Skylight at Tarragon Theatre; To Kill a Mockingbird Pittsburgh New Works Festival. at Citadel Theatre/Manitoba Theatre Centre/Theatre Calgary and The Designated Mourner at Tarragon Paula Tomei (Managing Director) is responsible for Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Davies the overall administration of SCR and has been manag- also has worked as head theatre representative at ing director since 1994. A member of the SCR staff since the Toronto International Film Festival, Dubai Inter- 1979, she has served in a number of administrative national Film Festival, AFI Fest (part of the American capacities, including subscriptions manager, business Film Institute), Los Angeles Film Festival and as team manager and general manager. She was the president leader at Sundance. of the board of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for theatre, and served Marc Masterson (Artistic Director) is in his third two terms as a board member. She has also served as season with SCR. His recent directing credits include treasurer of TCG, vice president of the League of Resi- Death of a Salesman, Eurydice and Elemeno Pea at dent Theatres (LORT) and has been a member of the SCR, As You Like It for the Houston Shakespeare Festi- LORT Negotiating Committee for industry-wide union val, The Kite Runner at Actors Theatre of Louisville and agreements. In addition, she represents SCR at national the Cleveland Play House. He previously served for 11 conferences of TCG and LORT; is a theatre panelist for years as artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the and produced the Humana Festival of New American California Arts Council; site visitor for the NEA; and has Plays. During his tenure, he produced more than 100 been a guest lecturer in the graduate school of business

Trudy and Max in Love • South Coast Repertory • P7 at Stanford and UC Irvine. She is on the board of Arts Coke and But Not for Me and Neal Bell’s Cold Sweat; Orange County, the county-wide arts council, and the the American premieres of Terry Johnson’s Unsuit- board of the Nicholas Endowment. Tomei graduated able for Adults and Joe Penhall’s Dumb Show; and from UC Irvine with a degree in economics and pur- the Southland premiere of Top Girls (at SCR and the sued an additional course of study in theatre and dance. Westwood Playhouse). Other productions he has She teaches a graduate class in nonprofit management directed include New England by Richard Nelson, at UC Irvine. by Tom Stoppard, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman Martin Benson (Founding Artistic Director), co- in Mind and You Never Can Tell by George Bernard founder of SCR, has directed nearly one-fourth of SCR’s Shaw, which he restaged for the Singapore Festival productions. In 2008, he and David Emmes received of Arts. He has served as a theatre panelist and onsite the Margo Jones Award for their lifetime commitment evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts, as to theatre excellence and fostering the art and craft of well as a panelist for the California Arts Council. After American playwriting. They also accepted SCR’s 1988 attending Orange Coast College, he received his BA Tony Award for Outstanding Resident Professional and MA from San Francisco State University, and his Theatre and won the 1995 Theatre L.A. Ovation Award PhD in theatre and film from USC. for Lifetime Achievement. Benson has received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, Achievement in Directing an unparalleled seven times founded in 1964 by David Emmes and Martin Benson, for George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara, Misalli- is celebrating its 50th Season. Now under the leader- ance and Heartbreak House; John Millington Synge’s ship of Artistic Director Marc Masterson and Manag- Playboy of the Western World; Arthur Miller’s The Cru- ing Director Paula Tomei, SCR is widely recognized as cible; Sally Nemeth’s Holy Days; and Margaret Edson’s one of the leading professional theatres in the United Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, which he also directed at States. SCR is committed to theatre that illuminates Seattle Repertory Theatre and Houston’s Alley Theatre. the compelling personal and social issues of our time, He has directed American classics such as A Streetcar not only on its stages but through its wide array of ed- Named Desire and has distinguished himself in staging ucation and outreach programs. While its productions contemporary work, including the critically acclaimed represent a balance of classic and modern theatre, California premiere of William Nicholson’s Shadow- SCR is renowned for its extensive new-play develop- lands. Most recently, he directed the world premiere of ment program, which includes the nation’s largest Julie Marie Myatt’s The Happy Ones, a revival of George commissioning program for emerging and established Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance, Horton Foote’s The Trip writers and composers. Each year, it showcases some to Bountiful and Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale. Ben- of the country’s best new plays in the Pacific Play- son received his BA in theatre from San Francisco State wrights Festival, which attracts theatre professionals University. from across the country. Of SCR’s more than 475 productions, one-quarter have been world premieres, David Emmes (Founding Artistic Director) is co- whose subsequent stagings achieved enormous suc- founder of South Coast Repertory. In May 2008, he cess throughout America and around the world. Two received the Margo Jones Award for his lifetime com- SCR-developed works have won Pulitzer Prizes, and mitment to theatre excellence and to fostering the art another eight were named Pulitzer finalists. In addi- and craft of American playwriting. In addition, he has tion, SCR works have won several Obie Awards and received numerous awards for productions he has scores of major new-play awards. Located in Costa directed during his SCR career, including a Los An- Mesa, California, SCR’s David Emmes/Martin Benson geles Drama Critics Circle Award for the direction of Theatre Center is home to the 507-seat Segerstrom George Bernard Shaw’s The Philanderer. He directed Stage, the 336-seat Julianne Argyros Stage and the 94- the world premieres of Amy Freed’s Safe in Hell, The seat Nicholas Studio. Today, SCR produces 13 shows Beard of Avon and Freedomland, Thomas Babe’s and eight public readings each season. More informa- Great Day in the Morning, Keith Reddin’s Rum and tion is available at www.scr.org.

The Actors and Stage Managers em- The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and The Director is a member of the Soci- ployed in this production are members Sound Designers in LORT theatres ety of Stage Directors and Choreogra- of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union are represented by United Scenic phers, Inc., an independent national of Professional Actors and Stage Manag- Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. labor union. ers in the United States.

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