By HANSOL JUNG Directed by SIGNE V. HARRIDAY
JAN 19 – FEB 18, 2018 photo by Petronella J. Ytsma Midwest Premiere / Andy Boss Thrust Stage
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Barbara Forster & Lawrence Hendrickson Susan & William Sands John Sullivan Members of the Premiere Producers Club 2017–2018 SEASON Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker Foundation Dear Park Square Patron: By HANSOL JUNG
Thank you for choosing to see this compelling play with us today. I won’t mince words – this is a bold, tough choice for a theatre to make when we all crave escapist entertainment to get us through our daily grind.
As a long time Park Square subscriber, I have learned that theatre can be a healing experience – which is also something we need today. The chance to live in someone else’s skin for a few hours brings us in touch with our common humanity and awakens new insights.
I’m proud to serve on both the Park Square board and the board of the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT), an organization that lives the reality behind this play firsthand in countries like Uganda and Kenya.CVT psychologists spent time with the cast discussing how survivors of trauma learn to operate in the world. The artwork in the lobby is created by CVT clients. Curt Goering, CVT’s Executive Director, will offer a pre-show discussion about Uganda on January 28.
In their unique ways, both Park Square and CVT focus every day on improving the human condition. But their committed staffs can’t do this inspiring work unless we buy the tickets, make the gifts, volunteer, and stay willing to open ourselves to both the pain and the beauty of life. Thank you for the part you are playing today.
I hope you find the next few hours meaningful and a bridge to hope.
Nancy Feldman Board Member, Park Square Theatre (Co-chair, Succession Committee) Board Chair, Center for Victims of Torture
OUR MISSION is to enrich our community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.
2 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org By HANSOL JUNG ARTISTIC STAFF Director...... Signe V. Harriday Scenic Designer...... Sarah Brandner Costume Designer...... Sara Wilcox Lighting Designer...... Michael P. Kittel Sound Designer...... Jacob M. Davis Properties Designer...... Terri Ristow Dialect Coach ...... Foster Johns Fight Choreographer...... Annie Enneking Blood Effects...... Tyler Olsen and Craig Kossen Stage Manager...... Lyndsey R. Harter* Assistant Stage Manager...... Jaya Robillard CAST Chris...... Adelin Phelps Adiel/Ruth...... Kiara Jackson Pika/Francis...... Michael Jemison Soldier/Paul...... Ansa Akyea*
TIME & SETTING A township in Northern Uganda. Part I: New Year’s Eve 1999 Part II: A Wedding Anniversary 2014
PERFORMANCE TIME The show will run approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes plus a 20-minute intermission. This show contains gunshots, strong language and adult content.
Cardboard Piano is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Cardboard Piano was developed during a residency at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Playwrights Conference in 2015. Preston Whiteway, Executive Director / Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director World Premiere in the 2016 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. For more information, please visit: www.samuelfrench.com/whitepaper
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3 CAST ANSA AKYEA* MICHAEL JEMISON Soldier/Paul Pika/Francis Park Square Great Park Square Debut Expectations, A Midsummer Representative Theatre Night’s Dream, King Lear Heritage Theatre Festival: Representative Theatre You’re a Good Man Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol, Harvey, Charlie Brown, The Pirates of Penzance; Mill To Kill a Mockingbird, A Winter’s Tale, Mountain Theatre: Music of Motown; Star Clybourne Park; Mixed Blood Theatre: Theatre: Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Busch Gardens: How to Use a Knife, Take Me Out, Crashing Gloria; Interlakes Theatre: Sister Act: The the Party, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Musical TV/Film NBC: Saturday Night Live, Deity, Vestibular Sense; Children’s Theatre Season 41; CSG International; Regions Company: Shrek; Huck Finn; Jackie and Hospital: The Heat Team Training Musical Me; The Watsons Go to Birmingham; The Theatre, University of the Arts Other Host Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; The of “Challenge the Woke” podcast; more at Iron Ring; Pillsbury House Theatre: Pa’s michaeldjemison.com Hat, In the Red and Brown Water; Ten Thousand Things: Othello Film/TV In an ADELIN PHELPS Instant, Kid West, Into Temptation, Memorial Chris Day Training M.F.A., University of Iowa Park Square King Lear Upcoming Projects Children’s Theatre Representative Theatre Company: Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax Girl Friday Productions: Idiot’s Delight; Minnesota KIARA JACKSON Jewish Theatre: Bad Jews; Transatlantic Adiel/Ruth Love Affair:Promise Land; History Theatre: Park Square Nina Simone: Watermelon Hill; Theater Latté Da: Lullaby Four Women (understudy), TV/Film Theater People Season 4 Training Six Characters in Search B.A. Theater Arts/Acting, Coe College of an Author (Wonderlust Accolades Ivey Award: Emotional Impact Productions) Representative Theatre (Transatlantic Love Affair:Ballad of the Pale Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol, To Kill Fisherman); Outstanding Performance/Best a Mockingbird; Walking Shadow Theatre Actress award (Minnesota Fringe Festival: Company: Red Velvet; Children’s Theatre Red Resurrected); Coe College Redford Company: The Last Firefly; Open Window Award: Best Actor Theatre: Everyman; MN Fringe Festival: Reinventing the Wolf; The University of *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Minnesota: Eurydice Training B.A.,Theatre Stage Managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission Arts, University of Minnesota; Jackson has is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, also trained with Penumbra Theatre and singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest MaMa mOsAiC Conservatory for Women artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For information, visit www.actorsequity.org.
4 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org ARTISTIC STAFF SIGNE V. HARRIDAY JACOB M. DAVIS Sound Designer Director Park Square Henry and Alice: Into the Wild; Park Square The Amy’s View, Flower Drum Song, The Soul of House on Mango Street Gershwin, Love Person, Nina Simone: Four Representative Theatre Women Representative Theatre Theater Workhaus Collective: The Latté Da: Sweeney Todd; Nimbus Theatre: Hollow; Penumbra Theatre: for colored The Kalevala; Theatre Pro Rata: Up, The girls who have considered suicide/when Minotaur; Tedious Brief Productions: the rainbow is enuf; Children’s Theatre Meed Hall; Gremlin Theatre: Sea Marks; Company: Mr. A’s Amazing Maze Plays; Minneapolis Musical Theatre: Big River; Mixed Blood Theatre: My Secret Language Nimbus Theatre: Ludlow Training M.F.A., of Wishes; Frank Theatre: Eclipsed; director Sound Design, California Institute of the at SteppingStone Theatre TV/Film Alt Arts; B.F.A., Theatre Design, University for Norge Training M.F.A., Institute for of Minnesota Duluth Other Professional Advanced Theatre Training at the American Member: Theatrical Sound Designers Repertory Theatre at Harvard University and Composers Association; Company and Moscow Art Theatre Other Co-Founder Member: Theatre Pro Rata; Member: of MaMa mOsAiC Theater; Co Founder United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of Million Artist Movement; Associate ANNIE ENNEKING Fight Choreographer Company Member of Pillsbury House Park Square Cyrano, Of Mice and Men, Panic Theatre; more info at signeharriday.com Representative Theatre Children’s Theatre Upcoming Projects Macalester College: Slut: Company: Peter Pan; Jungle Theater: Noises The Play; The Gay Games: The Subversive Off; Theater Latté Da: Cabaret; Guthrie Sirens (synchronized swimming team) Theater: To Kill a Mockingbird; Ten Thousand Things: Henry IV; Dark and Stormy: SARAH BRANDNER Scenic Designer Extremities Training Associate Instructor Park Square Murder for Two Representative and recognized Fight Director, Dueling Theatre Mu Performing Arts: Charles Francis Arts International; University of Minnesota Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, Theatre and Dance Department Accolades/ Two Kids That Blow Shit Up; Guthrie Theater: Intersections, Concrete Orange: An American Other 2010 Playwrights’ Center McKnight Fable; Penumbra Theatre: A Peculiar Patriot, Fellow; 2010 and 2014 Minnesota State Arts Rodney King; MN Opera: Elixir of Love; Board Artist Initiative recipient; Jerome Skylight Music Theatre: Hot Mikado; Stages Foundation support recipient; Founder and Theatre Company: Flora & Ulysses: The front woman for Annie and the Bang Bang Illuminated Adventures; Trademark Theatre: LYNDSEY R. HARTER* Stage Manager The Boy and Robin Hood; Loudmouth Park Square The House on Mango Street; Collective: Testament of Mary; Minnesota as Assistant Stage Manager: Flower Drum History Museum: Penumbra at 40: Art, Song (co-production with Mu Performing Race and a Nation on Stage Training M.F.A., Arts), Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, Scenic and Lighting Design, University of My Children! My Africa!, Murder for Two, Minnesota Upcoming Projects Minnesota The Other Place; as Run Crew/Wardrobe: Opera’s Project Opera: The Odyssey; Stages The Color Purple Representative Theatre Theatre Company: Crenshaw Theater Latté Da: Man of La Mancha;
5 ARTISTIC STAFF Mu Performing Arts: Charles Francis Chan Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Underpants Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery; Great Training B.S., Genetics and Cell Biology, River Shakespeare Festival: As You Like Microbiology, University of Minnesota; It; Lyric Arts: Shrek the Musical; Theatre Extension Certificates, Engineering, Art, Unbound: Silkworms Training B.A., Theatre University of Minnesota; Additional Arts, Hamline University training at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and The Art Academy Accolades/ FOSTER JOHNS Dialect Coach Other Minneapolis Institute of Art: Art in Park Square Dot, Behind the Eye Bloom (2012 – present) Upcoming Projects Representative Theatre Wayward Theatre Wayward Theatre Company: Hamlet; Company: The Weir; University of Minnesota Chameleon Theatre Circle: Picasso at the B.F.A. Program: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Lapis Agile; Young Artist’s Initiative: Annie In Arabia We’d All Be Kings; Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company: Becoming Dr. Ruth, SARA WILCOX Costume Designer Photograph 51; Old Log Theatre: Outside Park Square Might as Well Be Dead Mullingar, Steel Magnolias; Theater Latté Da: Representative Theatre Old Log Theatre: Steerage Song, Next Festival; Bloomington Jack and the Beanstalk, Savannah Sipping Civic Theatre: Guys & Dolls Training M.F.A, Society, Reluctant Dragon, Million Dollar Voice Studies, Royal Central School of Speech Quartet, Jungle Book, Wedding Singer; and Drama; B.A., English & Theater Arts, Walking Shadow Theatre: The River, Boston College The Christians, The Coward, Gabriel; DalekoArts: The Rink Training B.F.A., MICHAEL P. KITTEL Lighting Designer Costume Design, DePaul University Park Square Over 150 productions (as Resident Lighting Designer) including The Production Staff & Crew Color Purple, Red, Ragtime, Grey Gardens, Assistant Stage Manager: Jaya Robillard Democracy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rock Run Crew: Jorge Rodriguez-Sosa ‘n’ Roll Representative Theatre Ordway, Sound Operator: Samantha Faye King Frank Theatre, Stages Theatre Company, Dresser/Wardrobe Crew: Kathleen Martin Steppingstone Theatre, Mu Performing Arts, Production Director: Rob Jensen Bloomington Civic Theatre TV/Film tpt: The Technical Director: Ian Stoutenburgh St. Olaf Christmas Festival Training University Paint Charge: Mary Montgomery-Jensen of Wisconsin-River Falls Accolades Ivey Award for The Pillowman (Frank Theatre); Lavender Master Carpenter: William Bankhead Magazine Best Lighting Design 2008 & 2009 Carpenters: Brittany Pooladian, Maya Simon TERRI RISTOW Properties Designer Master Electrician: Brent Anderson Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Sound Supervisor: Charlotte Deranek Wayward Theatre Company: The Weir; Wardrobe Supervisor: Aaron Chvatal Dangerous Productions (Twin Cities Horror Festival): SKIN; Uprising Theatre Company: Special Acknowledgements These Shining Lives; Young Artists Initiative: Park Square would like to thank: Shrek The Musical Jr., Mary Poppins; Chameleon Center for Victims of Torture Theatre Circle: Arcadia, The 39 Steps; Theatre Craig Kossen (makeup consultant) in the Round: Don’t Drink the Water, The
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