By Stephen Karam; Directed by Jef Hall-Flavin

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3 the story Joseph Douaihy isn’t doing well. The marathon champion has chronic pain. His father just died, his uncle is ailing and his brother is a handful. Once he let slip that he’s distantly related to Kahlil Gibran, the author of The Prophet, his publisher boss began dogging him to write a family memoir. Stephen Karam’s Pulitzer Prize finalist is a comic and poignant exploration of our secret needs, By Stephen Karam the surprising people that fulfill them, and the unspoken moments of renewal that can happen on any typical day. “Written with insight and compassion, not to mention biting wit…with sustaining measures of hope, love and good humor. The question of why we suffer is unanswerable, but how we suffer defines our character…” – The New York Times the playwright Stephen Karam is the author of The Humans, a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize, and Sons of the Prophet, a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2012 Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and Hull-Warriner Awards for Best Play. Other plays include Speech & Debate, the inaugural production of Roundabout Underground; and columbinus (New York Theatre Workshop). He wrote the libretto for Dark Sisters, an original chamber opera with composer Nico Muhly. For film, Stephen has written screenplay adaptations of Chekhov’s The Seagull (starring Annette Bening, Elisabeth Moss, Corey Stoll and Saoirse Ronan), and Speech & Debate. Stephen is a MacDowell Colony fellow, and the recipient of the inaugural Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Drama Desk Award. He teaches playwriting at The New School. Born and raised in Scranton, PA, he’s a graduate of Brown University.

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By Stephen Karam Director...... Jef Hall-Flavin Scenic Designer...... Joseph Stanley Costume Designer...... Clare Brauch Costume Design Assistant...... Gene Nelson Lighting Designer...... Michael P. Kittel Sound Designer...... Katharine Horowitz Properties Designer...... Jennifer Johnson Stage Manager...... Megan Fae Dougherty*

CAST Joseph...... Sasha Andreev* Gloria...... Angela Timberman* Charles...... Maxwell Collyard Bill...... Michael Tezla* Timothy...... Dave Gangler Vin...... Ricardo Beaird Dr. Manor/Ensemble...... Patty Mathews Mrs. McAndrews/Ensemble...... Sally Ann Wright

place and time: Eastern Pennsylvania. July 2006–March 2007. PERFORMANCE TIME: The performance will run approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes, no intermission.

SCENES: Prologue – July On Home – November On Work – August On Friendship – November On Pain – September On Reason & Passion – December On Talking – November On Yesterday & Today – March

SONS OF THE PROPHET was originally commissioned by Roundabout Theatre Company, New York, NY (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) and produced in association with Huntington Theatre Company, Boston, MA (Peter DuBois, Artistic Director; Michael Maso, Managing Director). SONS OF THE PROPHET is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

The video or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited. As a courtesy to our actors and those around you, please DEACTIVATE all PHONES and ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Park Square Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.

5 perspective Suffering is deeply personal. Empathy and sympathy can be palliatives for the sufferer, but no matter how genuine, they are rarely transformative experiences for the provider. (And in the worst cases, they can degenerate into the “grief porn” which Joseph decries in the play.) The nature of suffering is that we are certain that we suffer alone. This may be why Charles Douaihy and his father cherish a painting of St. Rafka, the nineteenth-century Lebanese nun who prayed for Christ to allow her to share in his suffering. St. Rafka soon experienced terrible headaches and eye pain. She ultimately became blind and paralyzed before developing a mysterious wound in All Is Well her shoulder, which persisted for seven years until her death. St. Rafka’s martyrdom “You are far greater than you know, demonstrated that suffering, even as mighty and all is well.” The Lebanese-American as Christ’s, need not take place in solitary. poet Kahlil Gibran published these words in his 1932 The Prophet. The loosely structured For Charles and his father, the painting of novel records its title character’s philosophical St. Rafka is a totem, proof that suffering can reflections and conversations with citizens of be shared and thus abated. It offers hope a fictionalized Mediterranean city. The work that we are, as Gibran claimed, greater than became highly influential as an early example we know. The death of Prince last month of inspirational fiction; Gibran’s works are moved his record sales to the top of the often cited as following Shakespeare’s as the charts as fans privately downloaded their most popular in the world. favorite hits. But the enduring memories will be of the thousands who, purple-clad, Gibran’s exhortation, quoted in the first poured into downtown Minneapolis to cry, scene of Sons of the Prophet, is a powerful sing, remember, dance, mourn together. counterpoint to the suffering that so many The sudden passing of a star doesn’t induce dramatists have posed as central to the suffering akin to St. Rafka’s or the Douaihys’, human condition, and it has been central to but it is telling that on the night of April 21, so Western drama since its inception. Suffering many could not stay home alone. Suffering is is inherently dramatic, a potent stimulus or personal, indescribable, often indiscernible an ultimate act of revenge. From Sophocles’ to all but the sufferer. But perhaps we, like Oedipus to Shakespeare’s Hamlet (that some characters in Sons of the Prophet, can uber-sufferer of Western drama) to Kushner’s find comfort in Gibran’s words; what if, Prior Walter, anguish can reach metaphysical by his claim that you are greater than you levels (though, to be sure, Joseph Douaihy know, Gibran was addressing more than one experiences great physical pain). Suffering on person? Note the major difference between stage can reach existential levels. It calls into the opening and closing scenes of the play. question not only a character’s identity but the All is well, Stephen Karam suggests, when we entire order of the universe. don’t go it alone.

Matt DiCintio has been a producing director for Emigrant Theater and a dramaturg for Park Square and the Guthrie, among others. His writing has been published in the Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, American Theatre and City Pages. Matt holds a PhD in Drama from Tufts University.

6 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org CAST Sasha Andreev* B.A., Physics and Theatre, St. Olaf College; Joseph additional training with Jon Ferguson, Park Square Ragtime, Kevin Kling, Michael Montenegro, Melissa The Odyssey, Rock’n’Roll Hart, and through the Summer Intensive Representative Theatre at Studio 206 Hennepin Theatre Trust: Dave Gangler Buyer and Cellar; Guthrie Theater, Jungle Timothy Theater, Theater Latté Da, Mixed Blood Theatre, Yellow Tree Theatre, Paul Bunyan Park Square A Midsummer Playhouse, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Night’s Dream, Of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, Actors Theatre Mice and Men, Sherlock of Louisville TV/Film Best Man Down, Holmes: The Final Ghost From The Machine, Tom Clancy’s The Adventure Representative Theatre Torch Division: Agent Origins (Amazon), Curb Appeal Theater: Dangerous Liaisons; Walking (HGTV), Evine Live Training B.A., Drama, Shadow Theatre Company: Mary Stuart; Vassar College; Acting Apprentice Company, Jungle Theater: The Rivals; Theatre Pro Actors Theatre of Louisville; National Theater Rata: Waiting for Godot; The Mystery Café: Institute Awards Musical Direction and Let’s Kill the Boss; Paul Bunyan Playhouse: Performances Ivey Award (Don Juan Giovanni, The 39 Steps TV/Film Angel (WB), The Theatre de la Jeune Lune) Andy Dick Show (MTV), Freaks and Geeks (Dreamworks/NBC), Nikki (WB) Training Ricardo Beaird B.A., University of Washington Upcoming Vin Projects Bryant Lake Bowl: Shade’s Brigade; Park Square Debut The Mystery Café: The ex-Feds Representative Theatre Patty Mathews Yellow Tree Theatre: Dr. Manor/Ensemble Clybourne Park; Pangea World Theater; Conference of the Birds; Stage of Park Square Harvey Fools Theatre: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Representative Theatre Public Theatre of MN: Much Ado About Commonweal Theatre Nothing, I and You; Nebraska Shakespeare Company: Arsenic and Festival: The Tempest Training B.A., Theatre Old Lace; Children’s Theatre Company: and Marketing, Middle Tennessee State Ramona; Door Shakespeare: Twelfth Night; University; additional training with the Here Today Productions: Three Tall Women; Nashville Shakespeare Festival. Theater Latté Da: The Death of Bessie Smith; Jon Hassler Theatre: The Miracle Worker Maxwell Collyard Film A Descent of Woodpeckers Training Charles B.A., Dramatic Arts, University of Nebraska Park Square (as Assistant at Omaha Other Various radio and TV Director) Great Expectations commercials Upcoming Projects Touring Representative Theatre (as with The Looney Lutherans Actor) Bryant Lake Bowl and Bedlam Theatre: You Don’t Have To Leave *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors But You Can’t Stay Here; Arts Center on 7: and Stage Managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than Lemonade for the Lawnboy; (as Assistant 40,000 actors, 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, Director) Walking Shadow Theatre Company: upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions Midwinter Night’s Revel; Theater Latté Da: C., 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 Oliver!, Our Town; (as Playwright) Minnesota 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 Fringe Festival 2015: Ferguson, USA Training information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

7 cast artistic staff Michael Tezla* Jef Hall-Flavin Bill Director Park Square Visiting Mr. Green, Park Square A Taking Sides, Waltz of The Midsummer Night’s Toreadors, The Chosen, The Diary Dream (2006, 2008, of Anne Frank, Goodmorning 2010, 2012, 2014) Desdemona Goodnight Juliet Representative Representative Theatre Southern Rep Theatre Virginia Stage Company: The Woman Theatre: Orpheus Descending; Gremlin in Black; Penumbra Theatre: Ma Rainey’s Black Theatre: A Lovely Sunday for Creve Bottom, Strut; Jungle Theater: Hapgood; Mixed Coeur; Auckland Theatre Company Blood Theatre: King of the Kosher Grocers; (New Zealand): The Glass Menagerie; Goodman Theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Court Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre: Tartuffe; Guthrie Theater, Theatre in the Theater Festival: The Parade, Green Eyes, Square, American Players, Peninsula Players TV/ The Enemy: Time (World Premieres); Film All My Children (ABC), Guiding Light (CBS), Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC): Another World (NBC), Chicago Story (NBC), Laurel A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Kennedy Avenue (HBO) / Wilson, A Serious Man, The Last Center: As You Like It; Guthrie Theater: Love Letter, Holiday Beach, World and Time Enough, The Stuff of Dreams Awards Top 10 Last Seen, The Quietest Sound, My New Life productions of 2002 (for Hedwig and the Angry Inch) in StarTribune, Angela Timberman* Pioneer Press and Lavender Magazine Gloria Other Currently: Executive Director, Park Square The Sisters Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Rosensweig, Painting Churches, Festival; Formerly: Associate Director, Good People Representative The Shakespeare Theatre Company; Theatre Guthrie Theater, Jungle Outreach Associate, Guthrie Theater; Theater, Children’s Theatre Company, Chanhassen Artistic Director, Outward Spiral Theatre Dinner Theatres, History Theatre, Illusion Theater, Company; Teacher/Lecturer: Guthrie Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Upcoming Theater, Mayo Medical School, University Projects Park Square: The Realistic Joneses of Minnesota, Concordia University, Stephen’s College, University of Otago Sally Ann Wright (New Zealand) Upcoming Projects Park Mrs. McAndrews/Ensemble Square: Macbeth (2017) Park Square Becky’s New Car Representative Theatre Old Log Clare Brauch Costume Designer Theater: Jeeves in Bloom, Dixie Park Square Debut Representative Swim Club; Troupe America’s Theatre Guthrie Theater: costume Tour: Love Loss and What I Wore, Lemonade for the technician on all productions since 1990; Lawnboy; Ordway Center: Beauty and the Beast; Pillsbury House Theatre: Bel Canto, The Theater Latté Da: Passage of Dreams; Gremlin Story, An Almost Holy Picture, BUG!, Theatre/Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Home, No Child; Jon Hassler Theater Festival: The Enemy: Time and A Lovely Sunday for Company: Tuesdays with Morrie; Outward Creve Coeur; Torch Theater: Macbeth, Whatever Spiral Theater: Hedwig and the Angry Happened to Baby Jane; Illusion Theater: Angelheaded Inch, Falsettos, In the Garden, The Mineola Hipster, Autistic License; Jungle Theater: Picnic; Twins, In the Heart of America; several Minnesota Jewish Theatre: Twilight of the Golds; productions for Provincetown Tennessee Artisphere Theater: Looking for Normal; Starting Williams Theater Festival Training Apparel Gate: Richard III; Bloomington Arts Center: Gypsy Arts/Design/Tailoring degree from the Awards/Other Best Actress, Lavender Magazine 2008 Minneapolis Area Technical Institute. (Looking for Normal)and 2014 (Gypsy)

8 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org artistic staff artistic staff Megan FAE Dougherty* Blood Theatre, Mu Performing Arts, Girl Stage Manager Friday Productions, Walking Shadow Theatre Park Square Great Expectations, My Children! Company TV/Film “In The Kitchen With...” My Africa!; Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue; The Other Killing Joke Productions Training B.A., Place; The Color Purple; Sexy Laundry; Behind Theatre Arts, University of Iowa Awards/ the Eye; Cyrano; Good People; Stick Fly; Or Other Member, Theatrical Sound Designers Representative Theatre TigerLion Arts: and Composers Association; Artist to Watch Nature, The Dragons Are Singing Tonight; by Metro Magazine, 2010 Upcoming Projects Troupe America: A Christmas Carol; Utah Pillsbury House Theatre: Scapegoat; Park Shakespeare Festival: 2007 Season; Santa Fe Square: Calendar Girls Opera: 2006 Season Training B.A., Theatre Administration, Bemidji State University Jennifer Johnson Properties Designer Park Square Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue Katharine Horowitz Sound Designer Representative Theatre University of Park Square Romeo and Juliet, My Minnesota: Earthquakes in London; Theatre Children! My Africa!, A Midsummer Night’s Unbound: Title IX; Normandale Theatre: The Dream, Sexy Laundry, The School for Lies, Tempest; Penumbra: By the Way Meet Vera Or Representative Theatre Second City Stark Training B.A., Theatre Arts, University Theatricals, Pillsbury House Theatre, Mixed of MN

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AHT-ParkSquare-5.625x8.75.indd 1 5/4/16 9:56 AM artistic staff Michael P. Kittel Lighting Designer Theatre, Indiana University Awards/Other Ivey THIRD ANNUAL THIRD ANNUAL Park Square Over 120 productions (as Award for Scenic Design, 2010; Co-Founder and Resident Lighting Designer) including Great Artistic Director of 15 HEAD- a theatre lab, 1995- Expectations, The Color Purple, Red, Ragtime, 2005 Upcoming Projects Children’s Theatre Grey Gardens, Democracy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Company: Pinocchio; Mixed Blood Theatre: Rock ‘n’ Roll Representative Theatre Ordway, Barbecue and Orange Frank Theatre, Stages Theatre Company, Steppingstone Theatre, Mu Performing Arts, Production Staff & Crew Bloomington Civic Theatre TV/Film tpt: The Assistant Stage Manager: Rachael Rhoades St. Olaf Christmas Festival Training University Run Crew: Samantha Diekman of Wisconsin-River Falls Awards Ivey Award Sound Operator: Charlotte Deranek for The Pillowman (Frank Theatre); Lavender Wardrobe Supervisor: Clara Cavins-Wolford Magazine 2008 & 2009 Best Lighting Design Wardrobe Assistant: Becca Chapin Technical Director: Rob Jensen Joseph Stanley Scenic Designer Assistant Technical Director: Ian Stoutenburgh Park Square The Language Archive Paint Charge: Angelique Powers Representative Theatre Children’s Theatre Lead Carpenter: Matt Erkel Company: Jungle Book; Mu Performing Arts: You Carpenters: James Duncan, Ben Schave, For Me For You; Frank Theatre: The Arsonists; Brittany Pooladian Mixed Blood Theatre: Charm; Stages Theatre Master Electrician: Jeremy Ellerby Company: Number the Stars; Pillsbury House Electrician: Micayla Thebault-Spieker, Theatre: Bright Half Life Training M.F.A., Erin Belpedio, Jake Otto Scenography, University of Minnesota; B.A.,

Park Square’s Premiere Producers’ Club Ventures to Humana Festival of New American Plays Have you ever seen a play in another city and thought “That would be perfect for Park Square! How can I encourage them to consider it?” A group of nine avid theater-goers joined Richard Cook and Jamil Jude at the 40th Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville. Richard and Jamil were able to offer their ‘professional’ opinions, and were most interested in hearing what the ‘amateur’ theater-goers thought of each play, all with the shared intent of finding work to enliven Park Square’s stages. Over three days we enjoyed – some more, some less – performances of six new works, engaged in endless conversations about the work we’d seen and whether it was ‘a Park Square play’, shared our impressions over breakfast, lunch, Tour 30 Exquisite Homes dinner (and bourbon), and got an inside look at the process of sourcing plays for Park Square’s stages. As a member of the Premiere Producers’ Club, you (yes you!) could be a part of the process of finding new work for Park Square’s stages, and meet like-minded, passionate theater-goers in the JUNE 10–12, 17–19, 24–26 process. For a $1,000 annual contribution to help the theater develop and license new plays, you are ARTISANHOMETOUR.ORG invited to rehearsals, to meet the cast and artistic staff, and join staff and club members on theater weekends. If you care about the future of theater in general and Park Square in particular, you need to be part of this exclusive and enthusiastic group! We’re already planning our excursion for 2017!

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theatre because of you. (yes you.) 13 park square staff Richard Cook, Artistic Director FINANCE AND operations Michael-jon Pease, CFRE, Executive Director Sheri J. Zigan, Finance & Operations Director Artistic Jackson Smith, Accounting Associate Rob Jensen, Technical Director Dave Peterson, Facility & Event Manager Ian Stoutenburgh, Assistant Technical Director Tyshiana Mahomes and John Romano, Facility & Event Associates Megan West, Production Manager Amanda Lammert, Audience Services Director Jamil Jude, Artistic Programming Associate Front of House Staff: (Evening) Jiffy Kunik - PerformanceS upervisor; Michael P. Kittel, Resident Lighting Designer Adrian Larkin, Ashe Jaafaru, CJ Pitts, Federic Nobello, Jackson Smith, Matt Erkel, Lead Carpenter Jimmy Vincent, Kasey Tunell, Mariah Christensen, Matt Cawley, John White, Literary Management Volunteer Michelle Clark, Mina Kobayashi, Missy Keller, Sarah Bauer, Vince Hannam, Allison Osberg, Taylor Seaberg; (Daytime) Adrian Larkin - EDUCATION Lead House Manager; Staci Sathre - House Manager; Gayle Smith, Mary M. Finnerty, Education Director Louise Rosemark, Ann Feider, Patricia Arnold, Paula Manzuk, Ting Ting Megan Losure, Education Sales & Services Manager Cheng, Federic Nobello, Lyndsey Harter, Jimmy Vincent Connor M. McEvoy, Education Assistant Ticket Agents: Ben Cook-Feltz, Jimmy Vincent Marcia Aubineau, Post-show Discussion Moderator Usher and Friday Morning Club Coordinator: Judy Bartlett Alexandra Hatch, Education Assistant Immersion Day and Ambassador Program Teaching ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES Aditi Kapil, Playwright, Director and Actor; Artists: Tessie Bundick, Josh Campbell, Shanan Custer, Carson Kreitzer, Playwright; Ricardo Vázquez, Playwright and Actor; Carson Kreitzer, Annie Enneking, Mary K. Flaa, Christina James A. Williams, Director, Actor and Teacher Ham, H. Adam Harris, Steve Hendrickson, Brian Hesser, ACCESS SERVICES STAFF Audio Description: Rick Jacobson; Katharine Horowitz, Stephen Houtz, JuCoby Johnson, Aditi American Sign Language Interpreters: Mary Baremore, Elly Carpenter, Kapil, Mike Kittel, Kym Longhi, Katy McEwen, Leslye Orr, Paul Deeming, Shelley Lehner, Susan Masters, Charlette Reiner; Open Joe Papke, Aaron Preusse, Doug Scholz-Carlson, Jen Scott, Captioning: Kathleen Conroy, Jill Vaughn Dane Stauffer,A nna Sundberg, Regina Marie Williams Consultants Assignment Writer: Matt DiCintio; Auditor: Clifton EXTERNAL RELATIONS Larson Allen; Community Engagement Consultants: Jamil Jude, Alicia Connie Shaver, Wiesneth; Disability Advisor: Jill Vaughn; Graphic Designer: Madge Marketing & Audience Development Director Duffey; Photographer: Petronella J. Ytsma; Videographer: Michael Rachel E.H. Bentley, Hanisch; Volunteer Curators: Jennifer Bisch, Toni Dachis, Roger Nielsen Marketing & Development Associate VOLUNTEERS Friday Morning Club: Susan Adix, Doreen Aszmus, Lynne Beck, Development Consultant Sue Bjerke, Jerry and Nancy Carroll, Pat Dalluhn, Monica Fritzen, Jim Heideman, Telemarketing Services Betty Markland, Pat Sackett; Thanks to all of our Volunteer Ushers Alicia Pedersen, Marketing Assistant

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14 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org Board of Directors EDUCATor ADVISORY BOARD Tim Ober (President) President, Red Oaks of Dakota County Inc. Marcia Aubineau (University of St. Thomas, retired) John L. Berthiaume (Vice President) Theodore Fabel (South High School) VP, Financial Advisor, RBC Wealth Management Craig Farmer (Perpich Center for Arts Education) Karen Heintz (Treasurer) Amy Hewett-Olatunde (LEAP High Schools) Senior VP, Branch Manager, Robert W. Baird Cheryl Hornstein (Freelance Theatre and Music Educator) Kristin Taylor Geisler (Secretary) Principal, Iris Consulting, LLC Alexandra Howes (Twin Cities Academy) Elizabeth H. Cobb Managing Counsel, Legal Services, Travelers Dr. Virginia McFerran (Perpich Center for Arts Education) Barb Davis Realtor, Coldwell Banker Burnet Kristin Nelson (Brooklyn Center High School) Jim Falteisek Sales and Marketing Director, 3M Mari O’Meara (Eden Prairie High School) Nancy Feldman President and CEO, UCare, Retired Jennifer Parker (Falcon Ridge Middle School) Jewelie Grape Partner, Stinson Leonard Street Maggie Quam (Hmong College Prep Academy) Andrea Trimble Hart Cpcu, Senior VP, Willis of Minnesota, Inc. Kate Schilling (Mound Westonka High School) Lori Jenkins Consultant, Guardian Appraisals Jack Schlukebier (Central High School, retired) Jeff Johnson (Immediate Past President) CFO, Amesbury Truth Elizabeth Seal (Mounds Park Academy) Paul Johnson VP, Investor Relations, Xcel Energy Tanya Sponholz (Prescott High School) John LeFevre Community Volunteer (Deluxe, Retired) Jill Tammen (Hudson High School, retired) Paul Mattessich Executive Director, Wilder Research Foundation Craig Zimanske (Forest Lake Area High School) Kari Ruth Director of Strategic Communications, Hennepin Theatre Trust Theatre Ambassadors Paul Sackett Professor of Psychology and Liberal Arts, Brianna Flasch (Forest Lake Area High School), Alexandra University of Minnesota Hatch (St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists), Katelyn Joseph W.E. Schmitt VP, Chief Claims Counsel, Henslin (SPCPA), Thea Meyer-Grimberg (SPCPA), Jonah OneBeacon Insurance Group Schmitz (Buffalo High School), Johnny Stang (Cretin-Derham Paul Stembler Consultant Hall High School), Katherine Swartzer (Buffalo High School), Helen Wagner Community Volunteer (3M, Retired) Nathaniel Davis (SPCPA), Arianna Diaz-Celon (SPCPA), Schyler Susan Wenz Director of Programming – KSTP-TV & 45Tv Fish (Highland Park Senior High), Greta Hallberg (Minnehaha Academy), Madisyn Haukland (Coon Rapids High School), Kristal Jackson (SPCPA), Emma Lewis (South Saint Paul High School), Seth Retzlaff (Minnehaha Academy), Katelyn Storch (Perpich Center for Arts Education), Celia Tise (SPCPA), Claire Umolac-Bunker (Highland Park Senior High), Belle Wanke (Buffalo High School), Ozomatli Zarate (SPCPA)

Park Square’s Premiere Producers’ Club (see page 11 for more info)

Jeffery Bores & Michael Hawkins Toni & Buzz Dachis Mary Anne Ebert & Paul Stembler Bruce & Jean Johnson Jack & Jeanne Matlock Paul & Pat Sackett Joan T. Smith Club membership begins at the $1,000 level. Please contact Michael-jon at 651-767-8497 to join!

park square information Contact Ticket Office Hours Park Square Theatre Tuesday – Friday: 408 St. Peter Street, Suite 110, Saint Paul, MN 55102 12:00 – 5:00pm & 6:30 – 8:00pm (performance days only) Ticket Office: 651.291.7005 12:00 – 5:00pm (non-performance days) Usher Hotline: 651.767.8489 Saturday: 2:00 – 8:00pm* (performance days only) *For Saturday matinees, ticket office and Education: 651.291.9196 phone lines open at 12:30pm Donor Development: 651.767.8485 Sunday: 12:30 – 3:30pm (performance days only) Audience Services & Group Sales: 651.767.8487 Audition Hotline: 651.767.8491 Braille These activities are made possible by the Proscenium Stage seats 348. Andy Boss Thrust Stage seats 203. voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota The Historic Hamm Building is smoke-free. State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the House Manager. arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant Restrooms and water fountains on main floor and lower level. from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota. Cameras/audio/video equipment and laser pointers prohibited.

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Don’t Miss:

By Tim Firth; Directed by Mary M. Finnerty

jun 17– jul 24 Proscenium Stage Deliciously Witty and Heartwarming When a group of friends raises funds for a local charity (by posing in the buff for a calendar) their hilarious venture becomes a media sensation, exposing themselves in ways they hadn’t anticipated and testing the strength of their friendships. “…in the great good cause of cheering us up in hard times, Calendar Girls is just the ticket.” – Telegraph

Featuring the talents of

Mary M. Finnerty Laurel Armstrong Christina Baldwin* Ryan Colbert Julia Cook* Shanan Custer Anna Hickey

Charity Jones* Linda Kelsey* Bill McCallum* John Middleton* Carolyn Pool* Kory LaQuess Pullam Karen Weber

See special events and offers forCalendar Girls at parksquaretheatre.org

sponsored by in photo: Christina Baldwin*, Shanan Custer, Charity Jones* *Member, Actors’ Equity Association; photo by Petronella J. Ytsma

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