SEPTEMBER 2018 SEPT 12–OCT 7

By William Shakespeare Directed by Rosa Joshi

Produced in partnership with upstart crow collective

Sarah Harlett as Richard in Bring Down the House, photo by John Ulman.

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2 ENCORE STAGES The Next Generation of Arts Advocates

Young Patrons Circle Board of Directors at last season’s Backstage Bash. Backstage Bash is an annual celebration that takes place backstage after a performance and includes live entertainment and dancing. Photo: Alan Albastro Photography.

Forget young, dumb When you think about the board that and broke. These supports your favorite performing arts organization chances are you’re In 1996, Seattle Opera founded BRAVO!, performing arts fans picturing an older sect—folks who are a young professionals group aimed are young, smart and established in their careers, have saved at audience members ages 21 to 39. for retirement and have money to spare. For an annual fee of $79, BRAVO! making sure performing It’s a group, when imagined this way, members receive discounted opera arts are a financially that’s difficult to join and impossible tickets, invites to year-round social viable entertainment to keep up with. But what if I were to events and access to an exclusive tell you that performing arts boards intermission lounge, complete with option. come in all shapes and sizes, and complimentary wine and coffee. Now that some are even actively recruiting in its twenty-second year, BRAVO! is young people into their fold? I had the one of the largest organizations of its pleasure of speaking with members of kind nationwide. the BRAVO! Council at Seattle Opera, Young Patrons Circle at Pacific North- But BRAVO! would be nowhere without west Ballet and New Guard at TeenTix— its council members. Nine dedicated three organizations that are not only young professionals run this leadership recruiting Millennial and Generation board with the mission to make opera Z board members, they’re also training an integral and rewarding part of their the next generation of arts advocates. peers’ lives.

encoremediagroup.com/programs 3 BRAVO! Halloween Party. Photo: BRAVO! event at Tyee Yacht Club. Photo: Genevieve Hathaway. Jonathan Vandervelt.

BRAVO! Council member Evan Bennett opera in different ways. This diversity Murti credits council members like has been an opera fan nearly half his of experience has been an excellent Bennett and Eoin Hudson, BRAVO! life. The 32-year-old joined BRAVO! catalyst for innovation around how to Council president, for this conversion a year ago, after leaving a position in get people in their twenties and thirties rate. “Our council is very active in the opera’s community engagement involved in the art form.” programming events and bringing in department. their own professional and personal Young professionals groups are networks to try out opera.” “The first thing I did once I left my cropping up at performing arts position was to join BRAVO! as a organizations across the country, but The numbers don’t lie. Hudson joined member,” Bennett said. This year Seattle Opera credits the vitality of the leadership council in 2013 and since marks his first season as a BRAVO! BRAVO! to its council members. that time BRAVO! membership has Council member. “I genuinely love more than doubled—it had less than the art form and joining Council “. . . folks under 400 members when he joined. is a meaningful way for me to help get people my age involved in a 40 years old are “In that time there’s been a lot of centuries-old tradition.” not only a growing change—at the opera and in Seattle,” Hudson said. The change he’s most It’s an art form that Bennett and demographic in excited about is the fact that folks the rest of the BRAVO! Council are Seattle Opera under 40 years old are not only a passionate about—one that still growing demographic in Seattle Opera resonates with audiences today. audiences but also a audiences but also a growing donor growing donor base.” base. “It’s exciting to see the art form “You certainly don’t need a music being embraced by my generation and degree to be a part of this group,” “BRAVO! has over 800 members watching the preconceptions about Bennett joked, nodding to his own and almost all of them are season opera shift.” background in music performance ticket holders,” said Kristina and as an employee of Seattle Opera. Murti, director of marketing and When I asked Hudson which opera “Everyone on the council has come to communications at Seattle Opera. he was most looking forward to this

4 ENCORE STAGES Young Patrons Circle’s Night with a Choreographer fundraising event to benefit PNB’s NEXT STEP program. Photo: Andrew Tat Photography. season, he named Benjamin Britten’s of supporting and engaging this new too. The Young Patrons Circle The Turn of the Screw.The ghost story generation of ballet audiences. Board of Directors enjoys a rotating will be performed in October, just in leadership structure and Yamada time for Halloween. Meeka Charles was wrapping up is preparing to begin her first year her first year as board chair when as chair. But it won’t be her first Seattle Opera patrons interested in we spoke. In addition to growing the time in the Pacific Northwest Ballet joining BRAVO! or the BRAVO! Council Pacific Northwest Ballet audience, spotlight. can learn more at www.seattleopera.org. Charles has worked with the board to develop the ballet’s marketing and “I was a ballet student and amateur social media campaigns. Ballet has dancer from early childhood into early been a part of her life for over twenty- adulthood,” Yamada said, sharing that Seattle Opera isn’t the only arts five years. she studied at Pacific Northwest Ballet organization prompting their young for six of those years. “I got to perform audience members to get involved in the “I grew up overseas and moved often,” in The Nutcracker, which I loved. I’ve world of non-profit board leadership. Charles said. “Attending ballet was always admired the incredible company For $60 a year, Pacific Northwest Ballet something my mother and I did dancers.” audience members ages 21 to 39 can together no matter where we lived. enroll in the Young Patrons Circle, a When I moved to Seattle, buying ballet In the years since her Nutcracker social and educational group that offers tickets was one of the first things I performance, Yamada has lived all ticket discounts, ballet after–parties did. For me, attending the ballet makes over the world and has always made and the collective sponsorship of an a new place feel like home.” ballet attendance a priority. original piece of choreography at Pacific Northwest Ballet’s annual NEXT STEP Charles added that she loves engaging “I can see why Pacific Northwest Ballet performance. her peers in ballet. It’s the reason she has such a reputation for excellence in joined the board. the global dance community,” Yamada A fifteen-member board of directors shared. “It was an easy decision to serves as leadership liaisons for the Pacific Northwest Ballet is personal become a subscriber when I moved Young Patrons Circle with the mission for Board Member Emily J. Yamada back to Seattle.”

encoremediagroup.com/programs 5 During her upcoming year as chair of the board of directors, Yamada is hoping to expand Young Patrons Circle’s relationship with not only young patrons, but also other young professionals groups across Seattle. And, of course, continue the board’s work hosting events tailored to the interests and needs of Young Patrons Circle members.

Pacific Northwest Ballet audience members interested in joining Young Patrons Circle and its corresponding board of directors can learn more at www.pnb.org.

Thirteen– to nineteen–year–olds across Seattle and Tacoma know that TeenTix is the performing arts organization to join. For the duration of their teenage years, TeenTix members are eligible for $5 day-of tickets to arts organizations across the region. The organization is supported by a passionate staff and two boards—an advisory council and The New Guard Leadership Board, an eight-member board made up entirely of TeenTix members. Members of The New Guard Leadership Board at the 2017 Teeny Awards, from left to right: Isabel Schmidt, Katherine Draves, Anne Lim, Neha Gupta. Photo: John Ulman. “The New Guard Leadership Board is the home of some of the most talented, inspirational and kind- hearted individuals I have ever met.”

Neha Gupta joined the New Guard because she wanted to strengthen her leadership and public speaking skills. She fell in love with TeenTix because it gave her the opportunity to see theatre and attend museums without worrying about each organization’s price point. She still loves seeing as much theatre Members of The New Guard cohort 2015–2016 holding signs they made for a as she can, but it’s the people that make fundraising campaign. Photo: unknown. Gupta’s work worthwhile.

6 ENCORE STAGES “The New Guard Leadership Board is the home of some of the most talented, inspirational and kind- britten hearted individuals I have ever met,” Gupta said. She identifies as reliable, but shy. “The Leadership Board, as cheesy as it sounds, forced me to break THE TURN out of my shell.” This season, Gupta is taking over as the OF THE New Guard Director of Partnerships, working with TeenTix’s arts partners to organize events and strengthen their SCREW bond with the teen community. a ghostly thriller Isabel Schmidt joined the New Guard Leadership Board because she was eager to connect with arts lovers in OCTOBER 13–27 her peer group. Schmidt became a member of TeenTix as soon as she was eligible but took advantage of TeenTix’s 2-for-$10 days as her ’ plus one in the years leading up to her thirteenth birthday. She’s going on her fourth year as a member of the New Guard, this time as the board’s president.

“My favorite thing I’ve done on the New Guard has been giving advice to arts organizations in the city who are interested in highlighting youth voices and want advice on how to reach this important group of audience members,” Schmidt said. “I appreciate being valued as an arts-goer. As we say at TeenTix, teens know what teens want.”

Schmidt also loves having thought– provoking conversations with her peers and TeenTix’s arts partners New Production about what arts access really means. SPINE-TINGLING SUSPENSE When a young governess travels to an In English with English subtitles. When she’s not serving on the New Evenings 7:30 PM isolated English manor house to care for Guard—and going to high school— Sunday 2:00 PM two orphaned children, a series of Schmidt enjoys playing cello. She ominous encounters with menacing Featuring members of Seattle cited Seattle Symphony’s upcoming specters of the estate’s previous staff Symphony Orchestra. Octave 9 space, an immersive soon follows. Are the spirits supernatural MCCAW HALL performance and community space in origin, or do they spring from the 206.389.7676 in the heart of downtown Seattle, governess’s overactive imagination? SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/TURNSCREW as a place to watch. 2018/19 SEASON SPONSOR: Benjamin Britten’s seductive, luminous, LENORE M. HANAUER and brilliantly structured thriller offers PRODUCTION SPONSOR: MARKS FAMILY FOUNDATION “I’m looking forward to Seattle a tantalizingly veiled portrait of PHOTO © PHILIP NEWTON Opera’s coming season,” Schmidt psychological disintegration to usher in said. “There are a lot of impressive the Halloween season. TICKETS START AT JUST $25! shows coming up!”

encoremediagroup.com/programs 7 Watch out, BRAVO! Council, Isabel chances are there’s a place for you on a Schmidt might be coming for your job. performing arts board here in Seattle. Our Favorite The first step is to show up. We’ll let you Ticket Deals for TeenTix members interested in joining take it from there. < The New Guard Leadership Board can Folks Under 40 Danielle Mohlman is a nationally produced learn more at www.teentix.org. Not ready to join one of the feminist playwright based in Seattle. Her play Nexus is among the 2015 Honorable Mentions boards profiled? There are still on The Kilroys list. She is an alumnus of the plenty of opportunities to see inaugural class of Playwrights’ Arena at Arena theatre, dance and opera at Whether you’re a teen, a twenty- Stage and a member of the 2018 Umbrella an affordable price. Here are something or solidly in your thirties, Project Writers Group. some of our favorites. Club 20/30 Club 20/30 is Seattle Repertory Theatre’s free program for audience members in their 20s and 30s. Single tickets at Seattle Repertory Theatre start at $17, but Club 20/30 members are eligible for seat upgrades, happy hour pricing at the theatre’s bar and free ticket exchanges. The Pointe The Pointe is Pacific Northwest Ballet’s email list for audience members ages 20 to 40. STRAWBERRY Throughout the year, The THEATRE WORKSHOP SEP 6– Pointe sends out discounts ranging from $15 balcony seats S G ENIU OCT 6 to 50% off any seat in McCaw Hall. TeenTix If you’re 13 to 19 years old and live in the greater Puget Sound area, you’re eligible for TeenTix. Members are eligible for $5 day-of-show tickets at partner organizations across Seattle and Tacoma—including Taproot Theatre, ACT Theatre, Book- It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre and many more. MySymphony MySymphony is Seattle Symphony’s free program for patrons ages 21 to 39. Members are eligible for $25 tickets to performances at Benaroya Hall. S TRA W S HOP.ORG

8 ENCORE STAGES upstart crow upstart crow collective was co-founded by Betsy Schwartz, Kate Wisniewski, and Rosa Joshi in 2006. They are dedicated to producing classical works with all-female casts for contemporary audiences. Focused on telling story and living characters honestly on stage, their work is text centered and visually imaginative. upstart crow has presented three critically acclaimed productions of This may come as a surprise to you. After the success of Bring Down the House, our Shakespeare plays: Bring Down the first collaboration with upstart crow collective, we didn’t initially plan on continuing House (an adaptation of the Henry the story with Richard III. It just wasn’t in our thoughts and discussions. VI plays, produced with Seattle Shakespeare Company) in 2017, In 2015 the upstart crow team of Rosa Joshi, Kate Wisniewski, and Betsy Schwartz Titus Andronicus in 2012, approached us about developing their adaptation of the Henry VI plays. It was and King John in 2006. an exciting idea. I’d enjoyed and admired their previous productions, and the prospect of realizing their ambitious concept was one that I eagerly wanted Seattle Shakepseare Company to be a part of. In fact, they were fairly modest in their early proposals. They pitched the idea of cutting the Henry VI trilogy so that it could be While You Watch performed in one, lengthy evening performance. I set about convincing them to split Sensing & Shaping the Future it into two parts and presenting them in repertory. (Which is probably what they Pay attention to dreams and really wanted all along!) curses throughout the play. These storytelling devices build The result was a truly epic and memorable theatrical event. Bring Down the House anticipation and help recap events was a local phenomenon, earning critical praise and numerous year-end awards. It from the past. When characters was a thrilling process and a high-water mark for Seattle Shakespeare Company and relate dreams, it foreshadows future upstart crow collective. But, as we were working on it, there was no plan to keep the action. When characters curse each story going into Richard III. In fact, early on, I was actively resisting even the thought other, they remind us what their of it. I didn’t really want to plan a sequel just for the sake of a sequel. Hollywood all grievances are and shape the future too often falls into that trap. However, the compelling work of Rosa and her team of by speaking their curse. actors and designers, in particular the riveting performance of Sarah Harlett as the Names vs. Titles young Richard, and the chilling final tableau at the close of Part Two left me, and I’m Characters are referred to by their sure many others, breathless for more. given names and their titles. It’s even Soon after was the production wrapped, I called on Rosa, Kate, and Betsy to keep confusing for the characters: When King Edward learns his children are the story going. (Which is probably what they really wanted all along!) It was too late prophesied to be killed by “G,” he in the planning stages to get Richard III into the season immediately following Bring suspects his brother, Duke of Clarence, Down the House, but I put a lock in for the season after. This season. And for the first whose given name is George — but slot in the season. We just could not wait any longer to get this dynamic and thrilling it’s really about his other brother, ensemble back together and on our stage! Richard, Duke of Gloucester! It’s a true pleasure to bring this sequel (that wasn’t supposed to happen, but couldn’t Famous Quotes NOT happen) to life. We know your patience will be rewarded. “Now is the winter of our discontent” — Act I, scene i “Bloody thou art, bloody will be George Mount thy end.” — Act IV, scene iv Artistic Director “So wise so young, they say, do never live long.” — Act III, scene i “A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!” — Act V, scene iv

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-1 Bring Down the House Bring Down the House was upstart crow collective’s original, two-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy. Together with Richard III, these plays make up the final four of Shakespeare’s eight plays chronicling the century-long Wars of the . The Plot of the Prequel After the death of King Henry V, his allies fear the young Henry VI will be unfit to rule. Their fears are realized when the Duke of York revives a long- dormant claim to the throne. York’s followers rally behind the white of his house and Henry’s followers The Plot of the Play behind the red rose of Lancaster. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest brother of King Edward IV, is now sixth in During infighting between his line for the crown. He has already killed King Henry VI and Henry’s son, Prince Edward. advisors, Henry marries Margaret Now Richard plots the death of everyone else who stands in his way. His first victim of Anjou, hoping is his older brother, the Duke of Clarence. He convinces the king that Clarence is to strengthen plotting against him. Edward imprisons Clarence in the tower, where Richard has his position. The him drowned in a butt of his favorite Malmsey wine. Lady Anne, the widow of Prince Lancasters implode Edward, is grieving by the coffin of her late father in-law, Henry VI. Richard tells her with a series of that she, not he, is responsible for their deaths because he killed them for love of her assassinations and, astoundingly, convinces her to marry him. that leave them vulnerable. Edward dies suddenly, leaving his young family in a vulnerable position. Richard After the Yorkists and Lancasters declares himself Lord Protector. He places his nephews, the young King Edward V and engage in battle, both sides race to his brother, in the Tower of London for “safekeeping” and then demands that the Duke London. York arrives first and sits on of Buckingham have them killed. Buckingham balks, and Richard withdraws his trust in the throne. Desperate to make peace, him. Instead, Richard hires two professional murderers who smother the boys to death. Henry disinherits his own son, Prince Edward, and names York his heir. Richard, now free of all impediments, has himself proclaimed King Richard III. Old Queen Margaret, ex-Queen Elizabeth, and even Richard’s mother, the Duchess of York, all curse him. Buckingham leads a revolt, but it fails and he is executed.

Richard poisons Anne, leaving him free to court his neice, Elizabeth, whose brothers were killed in the tower. Marrying Elizabeth would unify the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions and finally bring to an end the 30 years of civil war. Henry Tudor, the Duke of Richmond, has had the same idea. He is a Lancastrian whose claims to the throne are at best tenuous.

Margaret and her forces attack Henry raises an army to challenge Richard. The night before the battle of Bosworth, York’s castle, killing York. The two Richard is haunted by the ghosts of those he has so remorselessly murdered. During sides battle again, and the Yorkists the battle, his horse is killed, and he is forced to fight on foot. He is killed in single are victorious. York’s oldest son is combat with Henry who seizes the crown and proclaims himself King Henry VII. crowned King Edward IV and marries . News arrives that Henry has been captured. Adapted from Shakespeare’s Genealogies by Vanessa James. Margaret and Prince Edward try to reclaim the throne but are captured in battle and Edward is executed. Richard of York kills the imprisoned Henry, and Margaret is banished. Edward IV seems to have secured the crown.

A-2 SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Against All Odds Richard was the 11th of 12 siblings, and one of only four brothers to reach adulthood. His ascent to the throne was unlikely, and the glory barely lasted. Richard’s reign (24 months) is the shortest of England’s crowned rulers in 1,000 years. A Hunch Confirmed For years historians disagreed whether Richard III had an actual hunchback — some scholars suspected it was made up by Tudor enemies. In 2012, an archeological dig uncovered Richard’s grave under a parking lot Our Production in Leicester. His skeleton showed “We’re out of civil war [of Bring Down the House],” explained director Rosa Joshi at first that scoliosis had twisted his spine rehearsal, “and we are now in an authoritarian fascist world.” Richard’s England is a and one shoulder would have controlled, piercing, and dangerous world. The set, designed by Shawn Ketchum appeared higher than the other. Johnson, showcases thin, angled wires on a dark and open stage.

Costumes by Christine Tschirgi blend the aesthetics of twentieth century authoritarian regimes with medieval elements — unified in black materials and sleek, severe lines — to create an abstract world that hovers outside of any specific time or location in history.

“To me the history plays are really cautionary tales,” Joshi reflected. “I think we go back to them to look at the dark, dangerous things that have happened in the past and think about how we might be more mindful about how to avoid these things in our Going Out with a Fight present and our future.” Allies and enemies alike praised Richard’s bravery in the Battle of Bosworth. Richard led a cavalry charge into the enemy forces, getting within a sword’s reach of Henry Tudor before being surrounded and killed. His skeleton showed eleven separate wounds — eight to his skull alone. Richard was the last English king to die in battle. Cold Case Shakespeare pins the murder of the princes in the tower on Richard, but their actual disappearance remains a historic mystery, and conspiracy theories (and memes) abound.

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-3 At Seattle Shakespeare Company, we believe that the plays of William Shakespeare MISSION and other classic playwrights are timeless works that cross social and cultural STATEMENT boundaries. With their rich themes and wide gallery of characters, these plays examine the full breadth of human experience: love, jealousy, loyalty, leadership, With the plays of William passion, vengeance, romance, ambition, and humor. Within these time-tested Shakespeare at our core, Seattle Shakespeare Company engages works are insights that continue to sing to contemporary audiences, and that is our audiences, our artists and our why we believe our region deserves a theatre committed to first-rate, professional community in the universal human productions of Shakespeare and the classics. experience inherent in classic drama through the vitality, immediacy and Whether set in Elizabethan England, in a backwoods trailer park, or in a 1950’s seaside intimacy of live performance and resort, our productions illuminate the relevance of these works, delighting, moving, and dynamic outreach programs. often surprising audiences. Founded in 1991, Seattle Shakespeare Company is a non-profit organization and is Washington State’s only year-round, professional classical theatre company. We operate with a budget of $2 million, a board of 21 trustees, a corps of 320 volunteers, a FREE AUDIENCE staff of 18, and a pool of more than 200 artists. Each year, we offer more than 200 ENRICHMENT performances and educational opportunities through four arms of programming:

Seattle Shakespeare Company The Indoor Season consisting of five professional productions performed in provides several opportunities with multiple theatre venues from September through May. each mainstage production for audience members to learn more The Wooden O outdoor summer shows are free Shakespeare productions in the about the play and interact with parks performed for 13,000 people in 11 cities across the Puget Sound region. our artists. For dates and times, visit Our Education Programs including workshops, school residencies, classroom seattleshakespeare.org/enrichment teacher training, after-school classes, and summer camps that serve 25,000 young Jumpstart Lecture people each year and reach out to 140 schools across the state Get to know the play before you The State-Wide Tour bringing productions of Shakespeare’s plays to schools and see it! A member of our artistic communities throughout Washington, traveling from Port Angeles to Pullman. team will bring you up to speed on the plot, characters, and history of These award-winning, professional programs reach across barriers of income, the play, as well as artistic concepts geography, and education to bring classical theatre to more than 54,000 people in for the production. Washington State each year. Post Show Talkback Join the cast after the performance as they answer your questions and share some insights into the production. Pictured: Eleanor Moseley, Imogen Love, and Annie Lareau in The Merry Wives of Windsor, photo by HMMM Productions.

A-4 SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY By William Shakespeare

CAST PRODUCTION TEAM STAGE CREW Buckingham / Ensemble Director Master Electrician Suzanne Bouchard* Rosa Joshi Desirae Brownlee Hastings / Tyrrel / Ensemble Set Designer Master Stage Carpenter Chantal De Groat* Shawn Ketchum Johnson Joel Wilmot Grey / Prince Edward / Ensemble Costume Designer Master Audio Engineer Yadira Duarte Christine Tschirgi Mark Krida Clarence / Ratcliffe/ Ensemble Lighting Designer Wardrobe Master Sunam Ellis Geoff Korf Cindy Sabye Edward IV / Catesby / Ensemble Sound Designers Peggy Gannon Meghan Roche SPECIAL THANKS Dorset / Young York / Ensemble Robertson Witmer American Life Inc, Seattle University Meme Garcia Movement Director Richard Alice Gosti PRODUCTION Sarah Harlett* Fight Choreographer SPONSORS Duchess of York / 1st Murderer / Peter Dylan O’Connor Ensemble Properties Designer Mari Nelson* Robin Macartney Stanley / Ensemble Technical Director Lisa Norman Benjamin Radin This project is supported in part by an award from Elizabeth / Henry VI Ghost / Ensemble Dramaturg the National Endowment for the Arts. Betsy Schwartz* Wiley Basho Gorn Anne / 2nd Murderer / Richmond / Text Coach Ensemble Kate Wisniewski Porscha Shaw Stage Manager George Stanley / Ensemble Maria Gray* Chanya Wiparungsri Assistant Stage Manager Margaret / Bishop Ely / Ensemble Ariel Bui Kate Wisniewski* Assistant Director Rivers / Brakenbury / Mayor / Ensemble Francie Mylet Dedra D. Woods Assistant Costume Designer upstart crow is an associated program of Shunpike Musician / Ensemble Elaine Ortiz Aimee Zoe Assistant Lighting Designer Trevor Cushman * Appearing through an Agreement between this theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Actors’ Equity Assistant Text Coach Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Mara E. Palma Managers in the United States. There will be one 15-minute intermission. Properties Artisan Adrian Delahunt The taking of pictures or the making of recordings of any kind during the performance is strictly prohibited.

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-5 Peggy Gannon Edward IV / Catesby / Ensemble CAST Peggy is a working actress, director, and producer in Seattle since 1994. She is honored to be continuing Suzanne Bouchard the journey of the York family in this “sequel” to Bring Buckingham / Ensemble Down the House. Peggy is the Producing Director for Suzanne last appeared as Queen Elizabeth I in MAP Theatre, where she has also acted (The Feast, The Shakespeare in Love at Seattle Shakespeare Company. Art of Bad Men, Greensward), and directed (Soft Click Suzanne Bouchard She has worked in Seattle and other regional venues of a Switch, A Behanding in Spokane, Belleville, Year for thirty-five years with so many remarkable and of the Rooster). Peggy has performed with: Seattle astonishing actors and directors. Other Shakespeare Shakespeare Company and Wooden O (As You Like It, credits include Helena, Titania/Hippolyta, Rosalind, , Henry V), upstart crow collective (Titus Beatrice, Ariel, Lady Capulet, Regan, Lady Macbeth, Andronicus, King John), Seattle Repertory Theatre Queen Margaret, Brutus, and Humphrey. For Ames: (Inspecting Carol), ACT Theatre (The Women), as well Thank you. as numerous shows at ArtsWest, Sound Theatre Company, Seattle Public Theater, Theater Schmeater, Chantal DeGroat and others. Hastings / Tyrrel / Ensemble Meme Garcia Chantal is honored to return to Seattle Shakespeare Dorset / Young York / Ensemble Chantal DeGroat Company and collaborate with the remarkable upstart crow collective for the first time! Chantal Meme is a graduate of the London Academy of began her training at Shakespeare and Company, Music and Dramatic Art where she received an MA in she now teaches with The August Wilson Monologue Classical Acting. She is a Fulbright Scholar and holds Competition (Seattle Repertory Theatre and August degrees in Theatre and Women and Gender Studies Wilson Red Door Project), and is a company member from Seattle University. Originally from El Salvador, of Third Rail Rep. Seattle: Well (Seattle Repertory she is committed to creating theatre which subverts Theatre), Stick Fly (Intiman Theatre), Julius Caesar cultural norms while raising major questions about (Seattle Shakespeare Company). Portland: Twist Your gender, race, and class inequality. She is a playwright Dickens (Portland Center Stage/Second City, four years whose first play, House of Sueños: A Chubby Latinx th running); The Piano Lesson (Portland Playhouse); We Hamlet, premiered last fall at 18 and Union. She is a founding member of Wyrd Sisters Productions, Yadira Duarte Are Proud To Present… and The Liar (Artists Rep); Bright Half Life and The Call (Profile Theatre); and The Nether an ensemble member of The Seagull Project, and a and Belleville (Third Rail Rep). New play development: member of the Umbrella Project Writers Group. She Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Seattle Repertory has worked with numerous theatre companies in Theatre’s The Other Season, The Hansberry Project, and Seattle such as upstart crow collective, ACT Theatre, Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble. Upcoming: Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Intiman Theatre. Twist Your Dickens (Portland Center Stage), Well and Let Sarah Harlett Me Down Easy (In rep, Profile Theatre). Richard Yadira Duarte Previously with upstart crow collective: Bring Down Grey / Prince Edward / Ensemble the House Parts 1 & 2 (Beaufort / Richard), Titus Andronicus (Demetrius), and King John (Austria). Sunam Ellis Yadira returns to Seattle Shakespeare Company to speak William Shakespeare’s words with a group of Seattle Shakespeare Company: All’s Well That women. Thank you for supporting these women, this Ends Well (Helena), The Two Gentlemen of Verona company, and the arts. (Speed). Freehold’s Engaged Theatre: The Winter’s Tale (Hermione), Othello (Desdemona), Julius Caesar Sunam Ellis (Portia), King Lear (Fool). Most recently seen in Frost/ Clarence / Ratcliffe / Ensemble Nixon (Strawberry Theatre Workshop). Locally: ACT Sunam is grateful to be a part of this second Theatre, On the Boards, Seattle Children’s Theatre, collaboration with upstart crow collective and New City Theater, Intiman Theatre, Annex Theatre, The Seattle Shakespeare Company after an incredible Compound, and The Empty Space Theatre. Regional/ experience during Bring Down the House. An MFA International: Dancing at Lughnasa (Tantrum Theater- grad from University of Washington, she has worked Ohio), Rich Grandeur of Boxing (Centre de Danse: Peggy Gannon on productions and readings with Book-It Repertory Paris, France). A graduate of Cornish College of the Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Sound Theatre, Arts, Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin), and British Seattle Repertory Theatre, Theatre22, The Horse in American Drama Academy (Oxford). Sarah currently Motion, Freehold’s Engaged Theatre, and Seattle teaches at Cornish College of the Arts. Public Theater. Favorite local roles include Margery Mari Nelson in Hand to God, Eleanor in Bring Down the House, Duchess of York / 1st Murderer / Ensemble Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, and Marie in The Wellesley Girl. Sunam is supported in her work by Broadway: Six Degrees of Separation, Guys and Dolls, her amazing husband, Joshua, and three wonderful and Translations. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater children: Nolan, Jacob, and Moira. (Up Against It); The Delacorte Theater (); Saint Ann’s Warehouse (Slain in the Spirit). Regional Meme Garcia Theater: Village Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre,

A-6 SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Baltimore and honored to be a part of this project and looking Center Stage, Intiman Theatre, The Alley Theatre, forward to more! Hartford Stage, The . TV: One Life to Live, Another World, and MTV’s Pirate TV. Film: Bad Girls, Kate Wisniewski Back Spot Turn, Laggies. Nominated BBW 2014 Best Margaret / Bishop Ely / Ensemble Supporting Actress, five-time Gordo Award winner for Kate a founding member of upstart crow collective Best Actress 2005–2012, Seattle Theater Writers Best and played in their co-production Supporting Actress Award 2016, The Gregory Award with Seattle Shakespeare Company of Bring Down for Best Actress in a Play 2017. A Graduate of University the House. Previously with upstart crow collective: of Washington and The Juilliard School. King John and Titus Andronicus. Seattle Shakespeare Sarah Harlett Company: The Importance of Being Earnest, Richard Lisa Norman II, and Much Ado About Nothing with Wooden Stanley / Ensemble O. Locally: Intiman Theatre, ACT Theatre, Seattle Lisa is an actor, coach, and educator. She performed Repertory Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, The under Rosa Joshi’s direction in Footfalls, as part of Empty Space Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, New Seattle’s Beckett Festival. With Freehold’s Engaged Century Theater, and New City Theatre. Regionally: Theatre, she toured in Henry V and Julius Caesar. The American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA. Lisa performed for several seasons with Tennessee Kate can next be seen at Seattle Repertory Theatre Repertory Theater, Clarence Brown Theater Company, in their upcoming production of Last of the Boys. Nashville Shakespeare Theater, and South Carolina Kate is a graduate of the American Repertory Theatre Repertory, among others. She co-founded Operating Institute at Harvard. She is an adjunct faculty member Mari Nelson Theater, in residence at Cornish College of the Arts, at Seattle University in the Performing Arts and Arts where she is Professor of Acting. Film/Television Leadership Department. credits include Our Very Own (with Allison Janney) and Disney’s Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken, as well as Dedra D. Woods TV’s Grimm. Lisa studied Shakespeare’s text in London Rivers / Brakenbury / Mayor / Ensemble and with Master Voice teacher Cecily Berry. Her Dedra is thrilled to join this company of amazing extensive coaching credits in Seattle include serving artists for this production. She was last seen on Seattle as text coach for Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Shakespeare Company’s stage in their collaboration Richard II and the Seattle Shakespeare Company and with upstart crow collective for Bring Down the House. upstart crow collective co-production of Bring Down Most recently she starred in Wild Horses (Intiman the House. Theatre). Other credits include An Octoroon (ArtsWest Lisa Norman Playhouse), The Little Prince (Seattle Children’s Theatre), Betsy Schwartz I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Book-It Repertory Elizabeth / Henry VI Ghost / Ensemble Theatre), Medea (Seattle Shakespeare Company), As a founding member of upstart crow collective, Wedding Band (Intiman Theatre), We Are Proud to Betsy was last seen as Henry VI in the upstart crow Present . . . (Pony World Theatre), and Intimate Apparel collective/Seattle Shakespeare Company co- (Artist Repertory Theater). Dedra has also had the production of Bring Down the House, Parts 1 and pleasure of working with The Hansberry Project, 2. Other Seattle Shakespeare Company/Wooden Hedgebrook Women Playwright’s Festival, and ACT’s O credits include: The Princess of France in Love’s Construction Zone. Offstage she has worked as a Labour’s Lost, Rosalind in As You Like It, Lady Teazle in teaching artist with Seattle Public Theater, Seattle The School for Scandal, and Ms. Linde in A Doll’s House. Repertory Theatre, and Intiman Theatre. Betsy Schwartz Betsy was also a founding company member of New Century Theatre Company and was seen in many Aimee Zoe productions, including The Big Meal, Festen, Tails of Musician / Ensemble Wasps, and Orange Flower Water. Betsy has worked Aimee is a drummer and vocalist about town. She for many local theatres in town including: Book-It can be found throwin’ down a wide variety of grooves Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, Thalia’s Umbrella, with various projects in Seattle and beyond including Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Village Theatre, Tacoma Wildcat Rose, Del Vox, The Sound of the Hunter, Actors Guild, The Empty Space Theatre, Seattle Lelavision, Jackrabbit, Ian McFeron Band, Jealous Children’s Theatre, and Intiman Theatre. Dogs: Seattle’s Only Pretenders Tribute, The Bushwick Book Club, and Sam Russell. Porscha Shaw Porscha Shaw Anne / 2nd Murderer / Richmond / Ensemble Porscha has recently completed her 3rd year in the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington. She is a native of Richmond, Texas, and a graduate of Santa Fe University of Art and Design where she majored in Drama under the training of Jon Jory. Her recent credits include: By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, Sound Theatre’s Hoodoo Love, As You Like It, Anne Washburn’s The Octavia, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Wooden O’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Force Continuum. Porscha is extremely excited Kate Wisniewski

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-7 A few favorites include: Welcome to Braggsville (Book- It Repertory Theatre), Oklahoma! (Charlottesville PRODUCTION Opera), Bring Down the House (Seattle Shakespeare Company/upstart crow collective), Master Class Wiley Basho Gorn (Shakespeare & Company), and The Little Prince (Bristol Dramaturg Riverside Theatre). She was Head of Props on several bus and truck National Tours from 2013 thru 2017. Wiley is a voice and text coach, theatre director, Maria also works as a Corporate Stage Manager, dramaturg, and avid swing dancer based in Seattle, Event Coordinator, Stagehand: focus Electrics and Dedra D. Woods WA. Recent directing credits include: House of Sueños Properties, and is a proud member of: IATSE Local#8. (18th and Union: an arts space), Twelfth Night: A Workshop with Music (Solo Bar), As You Like It (ACT Rosa Joshi Theatre) and The Tempest (Taksu Theatre Co, Brooklyn, Director NY). Assistant director credits include: Henry V at Rosa is a Seattle based director and co-founder of Oregon Shakespeare Festival (directed by Rosa upstart crow collective. Her directing credits include Joshi); Bring Down the House at Seattle Shakespeare Henry V (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); all-female Company (directed by Rosa Joshi); and Mr. Burns: a productions of Bring Down the House (upstart crow Post-Electric Play, A Christmas Carol, and Assassins at collective and Seattle Shakespeare Company), Titus ACT Theatre (directed by John Langs). Wiley is an Andronicus (upstart crow collective), and King John affiliate artist of upstart crow collective and received (upstart crow collective); John Baxter Is a Switch Aimee Zoe his BFA in directing from the University of North Hitter (Intiman Theatre Festival); Richard II (Seattle Carolina School of the Arts. In January 2019 he will Shakespeare Company); and Fen and Watbanaland begin a six month residency in Dramaturgy and Voice (New City Theater). Rosa was Interim Artistic Director at and Text at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Northwest Asian American Theatre and was a resident Ariel Bui director at New City Theater. Currently on the faculty Assistant Stage Manager of Seattle University, she has also taught at Hong Kong University and Hong Kong Academy of Performing Ariel’s production and stage management credits Arts. Rosa received her MFA in directing from Yale include Uncle Vanya with The Seagull Project; Public School of Drama. Next she will be directing As You Like Works: The Odyssey with Seattle Repertory Theatre; It in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2019 season. Actors’ Equity Association Hand to God, Ironbound, On Clover Road, The Other (AEA), founded in 1913, Place, Christmastown: A Holiday Noir (2014–15), Shawn Ketchum Johnson represents more than 45-thousand actors and and Arcadia with Seattle Public Theater; As One Set Designer stage managers in the with Seattle Opera; The Secret Garden, A Splash of Shawn is a Seattle-based theater maker. His expertise United States. Equity seeks to Red, and Flora and Ulysses with Book-It Repertory advance, promote and foster in site-specific and devised performance keep him Theatre; Mother Courage and Her Children with Seattle the art of live theatre as an linked to innovative socially-engaged ensembles in essential component of our Shakespeare Company; and Live! From the Last Night Chicago and throughout the country. Recent local society. Equity negotiates of My Life with Theatre22. Ariel is a graduate of Seattle wages and working projects include the workshop premiere of Time to Tell, conditions, providing a wide Pacific University. range of benefits, including an original hybrid performance piece presented at Lee health and pension plans. Alice Gosti Center for the Arts. Recent local scenic designs include AEA is a member of the AFL- the world premiere of Daisy at ACT Theatre (Gregory CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, Choreographer an international organization Alice is an Italian-American choreographer, hybrid Award), Ghosts at ArtsWest (Gregory nominated), of performing arts unions. performance artist, curator, educator, DJ, and architect and upstart crow collective’s Bring Down the House The Equity emblem is our at Seattle Shakespeare Company. An alumnus of mark of excellence. of experiences, working between Seattle and Europe actorsequity.org since 2008. Gosti’s work has been recognized with Northwestern University, Johnson holds the Scenic numerous awards, commissions, and residencies Design faculty position at Seattle University. including being a recipient of the 2012 Vilcek Creative Geoff Korf United Scenic Artists, Local Promise in Dance Award, the 2012 danceWEB USA 829 of the IATSE is the Lighting Designer scholarship, Velocity’s 2015 Made in Seattle Program, union representing Scenic, Geoff has lived in Seattle since 2002. Previous Costume, Lighting, Sound NEFA’s 2016 National Dance Project and 2017 Artist and Projection designers in Trust Fellowship. Gosti’s work has been commissioned productions for Seattle Shakespeare Company Live Performance. and presented nationally and Internationally in include: Hamlet, Richard II, , universities, theaters, museums and galleries. Othello, and Bring Down the House. Most recently Geoff designed Cornerstone Theater’s production of All Scenery, Staging Maria Gray The Cardinal in Queens, NY. Notable world premieres and Wardrobe work is performed by employees Stage Manager have included Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House at Yale represented by the I.A.T.S.E. Maria is elated to join Seattle Shakespeare Company Repertory Theatre, Disney’s High School Musical at Locals 15 and 887. and upstart crow collective after working with them the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, and on the co-production of Bring Down the House. She August Wilson’s Two Trains Running. Geoff has been a recently assistant stage managed Familiar (Seattle member of the Ensemble of Cornerstone Theater in Los Repertory Theatre) and stage managed The Merchant Angeles since 1996. Geoff also serves as the Associate of Venice (Seattle Shakespeare Company), Timon of Director of the School of Drama at the University Athens (Seattle Shakespeare Company) and I Know of Washington and is a graduate of California State Why the Caged Bird Sings (Book-It Repertory Theatre). University, Chico, and the Yale School of Drama.

A-8 SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Robin Macartney the University of Washington and is also a Journeyman with IATSE Properties Designer Local #15. Robin always loves working with Seattle Shakespeare Company. Meghan Roche Professional credits include technical work with Café Nordo, Sound Designer Youth Theatre Northwest, New Century Theatre Company, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Theatre22, Annex Theatre, Bainbridge Center Meghan is a Seattle-based freelance sound designer and technician. for the Performing Arts, Live Girls! Theater, Pork Filled Productions, Previous design credits for Seattle Shakespeare Company: Pericles and eSe Teatro. She is the scene shop supervisor at the University (Wooden O), Twelfth Night (Educational Tour), and Bring Down the of Puget Sound as well as front of house manager/resident set House (as Assistant Sound Designer). Other design credits include designer at the Theatre Off Jackson. work with Book-It Repertory Theatre, Ethereal Mutt/ACTLab, A Sensible Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, Macha Theatre Works, Francie Mylet New Century Theatre Company, ReACT Theatre, Sandbox Radio, Assistant Director Taproot Theatre, The Merc Playhouse, and more. Meghan also works Francie is a recent graduate of Seattle University’s theatre and as Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Associate Production Manager. arts leadership programs. She is also a former intern from Seattle Christine Tschirgi Repertory Theatre’s Professional Arts Training Program with a focus Costume Designer in development. Her directing and assisting credits include A Number by Caryl Churchill and Women of Troy directed by Rosa Joshi. Christine is thrilled to be back with these powerful women and upstart crow collective for Richard III. Previously at Seattle Peter Dylan O’Connor Shakespeare Company: Measure for Measure, Bring Down the House, Fight Choreographer and The Merchant of Venice. Recently in Seattle: King of the Yees (ACT Past fight choreography with Seattle Shakespeare Company Theatre), Building the Wall (Azeotrope), Citizen Ben Uchida (Seattle (Wooden O and mainstage) includes King Lear x 2, Shakespeare in Children’s Theatre). Other local credits include Seattle Repertory Love, Julius Caesar, Bring Down the House, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Henry Theatre, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, New Century V, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, As You Like It, Othello, Theatre Company, Washinton Ensemble Theatre, Strawberry Theatre and The Taming of the Shrew. Other credits include A Streetcar Named Workshop, Degenerate Art Ensemble, and Circus Contraption’s Desire, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Crime and Punishment, The Children’s The Show to End All Shows. She is a graduate of The University of Hour, John Baxter Is a Switch Hitter, and Bootycandy (Intiman Theatre); Washington and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local, USA 829. As You Like It (Oregon State College); Henry IV (Freehold’s Engaged Robertson Witmer Theatre); as well as work with New Century Theatre Company, UMO Sound Designer Ensemble, Cornish College of the Arts, The 14/48 Projects, Emerson College, Capitol Hill Arts Center, Theater Schmeater, Theatre Rob’s recent work with Seattle Shakespeare Company includes Under the Influence, Consolidated Works, The Globus Theatre King Lear, Timon of Athens, Shakespeare in Love, The Government (Novosibirsk, Russia), and the Novosibirsk College of Acting. Peter is Inspector, and Bring Down the House. Other shows this year include the Production Director for The 14/48 Projects and a Co-Founding Ironbound, Hand to God (Seattle Public Theater); The Wolves, Until member of New Century Theatre Company. Peter works on faculty the Flood (ACT Theatre). His onstage appearances include Go, Dog. and is the Staff Technical Director/Scene Shop Supervisor at Cornish Go! (Seattle Children’s Theater); A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Intiman College of the Arts where he graduated with honors in 1994. Theatre, Yale Rep) and Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play (ACT Theatre). His sound designs have been heard at Seattle Repertory Theatre, New Mara E. Palma Century Theatre Company, ReAct Theatre, Strawshop, Spectrum Assistant Text Coach Dance Theater, and Teatro ZinZanni. Rob plays with several bands, Mara (she/her) joins upstart crow collective and Seattle Shakespeare including The Love Markets, “Awesome” and the Toucans steel drum Company for the first time! Her training includes a semester at the band. Rob is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829. London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Shakespeare and Jacobean Tragedy) and a degree from Wellesley College (Political Science and Theatre Studies). She was part of the Intiman Emerging Artists’ Program in 2017 with Sara Porkalob and Dedra D. Woods. Mara is a performer, playwright, and producer based in Seattle with roots in the Philippines and Boston, MA. As a performer, she was last seen in Richard II (staged reading, upstart crow collective), As You Like It (Rosalind, REBATEnsemble), and Persimmon Nights and the Kimchi Kittens (Hae Kyung Kang, Café Nordo). Gratitude to mom, the Obers, the Golden Triangle, RKH, Maile and the Wong’s, and Sonnet LXV. Benjamin Radin Technical Director Ben is the Technical Director for Book-It Repertory Theatre and is ecstatic to again be partnering with Seattle Shakespeare Company to produce scenery for their season. Prior to joining Book-It Repertory Theatre, he worked as a Scenic Carpenter at Seattle Repertory Theatre for five seasons and before that built scenery for ACT Theatre, Seattle Opera, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and many others. He has worked as a Technical Director for Washington Ensemble Theatre, The Satori Group, and the Okoboji Summer Theatre. He received his BA in Drama from

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-9 By George Bernard Shaw Directed by David Armstrong

Oct 23–Nov 18 WHAT IT’S ABOUT WHO YOU’VE SEEN Raina Petkoff is young, beautiful, and Suzy Hunt Sylvester Foday filled with romantic notions about Tartuffe Kamara love. She’s all set to marry war hero Medea, Titus Andronicus, Major Saranoff, but then the combat Measure for Measure crashes through her window in the form a soldier fighting for the Jonelle Jordan George Mount opposing side. Intrigued, Raina agrees King Lear (Wooden O), A Midsummer Night’s to hide him, but only after learning he The Government Inspector, Dream, The Winter’s carries chocolates instead of bullets. The Winter’s Tale Tale, Romeo and Juliet After the war ends, both rival soldiers return for their love and that’s when Brenda Joyner Richard Nguyen the real battle for Raina’s heart begins. Bring Down the House, Sloniker Shaw’s most popular play was also The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant of Venice, one of the author’s first commercial As You Like It (Wooden O) The Comedy of Errors successes. Former 5th Avenue Theatre (Wooden O), Henry V Artistic Director David Armstrong makes his Seattle Shakespeare Company debut Performs at the Center Theatre with this classic romantic comedy. in the Armory at the Seattle Center. seattleshakespeare.org

A-10 SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Bring Shakespeare to Your Community Seattle Shakespeare Company’s touring productions are designed for accessibility and delivering live Shakespeare to your community may be easier than you’d expect!

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Performance venues Our touring productions have performed in school auditoriums and gymnasiums, at regional Something important goes on, in between the lines of text, when a play is performing arts centers, and for performed. The ring of swords and flush on faces, the unspoken gestures of retirement communities. comfort, the side eye — these unscripted elements don’t exist on the page, and they are exactly what our spring tour delivers. Age Appropiate for junior high aged Between March and June, a van packed with six actors and the set pieces, props, and audiences and up. costumes for two 90-minute shows will bring live, professional Shakespeare all across Washington State. Our smallest productions serve Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Cost largest audience: performing for 16,000 people in farmlands east of the Cascades, $1,700 up to 400 audience port towns on the coast, suburbs on the Eastside of Lake Washington, and islands in members (that’s just $4.25 per person). Additional fees may the San Juans. apply for larger groups, travel, and For many students these nimble, small-cast productions are their first experience of accommodations. live theatre. They’ve read Shakespeare from books in the classroom, but Shakespeare Financing wrote plays, not novels. His text is like a stained glass window, masterfully composed to Partial financial assistance is available be played upon by the light of human action. Live theatre is a completely new form of to qualifying schools. Regional storytelling for many far-flung audiences and, every year, students are enthralled. performing arts centers often charge ticket fees for public performance. The first time Romeo leans in to kiss Juliet, the ooohs, aaahs, and whoops tumble from the audience onto the stage. Teachers, wanting their students to be respectful, ______hiss soft “shhshes,” but, the truth is, the actors encourage these responses. They feed off that buzz, and they believe the audience’s involvement makes the performance Free Enrichment feel even more authentic. Every booking includes a free study guide with custom articles and The actors like it when students yell “Don’t do it!” when Romeo begins to drink the classroom activities, and a post-play poison. When Lady Capulet spits at Juliet, the audience gasps and murmurs. At one Q&A with the tour cast! performance an audience member yelled out, “No!” when Mercutio was stabbed. ______At post-play talkbacks, students are brimming with questions for the cast about their acting process, memorization, whether Romeo and Juliet are a real life couple, if How to Book a Tour people ever get hurt in the fights, and the list goes on. These students have realized that This spring’s tour features our flagship Elizabethan Romeo and Shakespeare — with all its lofty and intimidating stigma — is actually for them. Juliet and a new, bilingual Macbeth, in English y en Español. To book a show — or find out how to bring a show to your community — contact Touring Manager, Casey Brown, at 206-733-8228 x 241 or [email protected]

Pictured: Aishé Keita and Rafael Molina in Romeo and Juliet, photo by John Ulman.

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-11 Richard III By William Shakespeare | Directed by Rosa Joshi Sept 12–Oct 7, 2018 upstart crow collective returns with an all-female acting company for Shakespeare’s gripping portrait of a cunning villain’s rise and fall from power. Arms and She Stoops the Man to Conquer By George Bernard Shaw | Directed by David Armstrong By Oliver Goldsmith | Directed by Makaela Pollock Oct 23–Nov 18, 2018 Mar 19–Apr 14, 2019 Two rival soldiers vie for the heart of an idealistic young A raucous comedic romp about a practical joke that woman in Shaw’s charming and witty love triangle. leads to mistaken identities, and a young woman clever enough to use it to her advantage. All’s Well As You Like It That Ends Well By William Shakespeare | Directed by Kelly Kitchens By William Shakespeare | Directed by Victor Pappas Apr 23–May 19, 2019 Jan 8–Feb 3, 2019 Rosalind and Orlando engage in a glorious game A young woman pursues her heart’s desire in of love, lust, and mistaken identities in Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy and, despite the odds Shakespeare’s magical forest. gains a new understanding of love and relationships.

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Weber in Seattle Theatre Patricia Bartlett, Barbara and Tim Fielden Christina Wright and Bill Ames Jorji and Jason Knickrehm Rich Deena and Bill Baron Gary Holland, Jackie McGourty, Martha Phelps and Daniel Lepow Joella Werlin Wally Bubelis, by William Bubelis by David and Debra Boyle Hattie and Rick Grant and Luther Black Jim and Sharron Welch Tina Kuhnle Christina and Patrick Barredo Quinn, and Kyle Robert Pillitteri Catherine West Megan Coughlin, Louise Butler, by John Bradshaw Sharon Griggins Anonymous (7) Dr. Charles and Janet Wheaton Akshay Kulkarni Shari Basom Myra Horiuchi Stephen Poteet Margo and Jon Whisler by Paul and Stephanie Pericich Sue Drais, by Lisa Hagar Shannon Williams Kychakoff Family Sheryl Beirne Lewis and Lisa Horowitz Jake Powel William White Susan Drais, by Peter Mills Ellen and Chris Blackstone David and Meg Haggerty $500–$999 Wayne Winder Laura and James Laudolff Tessa and Chris Bennion Virginia Dangremond Houghtaling Hersh Powers Bill Whitman Dr. Avi Erlich, by Merrill Mayer Emily Evans and Kevin Wilson James Halliday and Tyson Greer David Barnes and Amy Eisenfeld Greg and Carrie Laycock Sandra and Jonathan Bensky Nancy Huntsinger Midge Price Sally and Tom Wilder Kelsi Gilkey, by Shelly Stephanie, Conor, and Lawrence and Hylton Hard and Jacqui Silvio Barnes Anonymous (7) Michael Lockman Bruce Bigley Elisa and Matt Huston Greg Prussia Ann Williams and John Taylor and John Williams Cahillane Shine John and Wendy Hardman Glen and Susan Beebe and Ellwood Davidson Deborah Black Melissa Huther and Gordon Hof Susanna Pugh Shelly and John Williams Bob Green, by Anne Repass Steve Stolder and Mary Park Harold and Mary Frances Hill Nancy and Sam Bent $250–$499 Joellen and Donald Loeb Ellen and Chris Blackstone Tracy, Tim, and Gus Hyland Daniel and Barbara Radin Rob Williamson and JJ Ewing Wendy Del Valle Nadja Honeywell Walter and Paula Boos Shawn and Lynne Aebi Elizabeth Mathewson Molly Blank and Greg Johnson Daniel Ichinaga Arlene Ragozin and Kim Williams Abbie Grimstad, by Janice Harvey Roger Fletcher, Maureen Hughes Eloise Boyle and Jim Grams Ralph Allais Teresa Mathis Janet and Kelby Boguch-Fletcher Kelley Ingham Eric Raub Andrew Willner and Abigail Grimstad by Emily Evans and Kevin Wilson Jane and Randall Hummer Philip Brazil Kathy Alm and Bill Goe Joe McDermott Art Borst Debbie and Patrick Irwin Colby Ray Lin and Judith Wilson Brenda Joyner and Evan Whitfield, Thomas Arthur Grant, Bill Johns and Stephanie Kallos David C. 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Zevin, by Rona Zevin Mary Anne and Chuck Martin Gregary Heath George Bright Lisa and Keith Oratz Sherry Chavers Ellen Lackermann Roberta Roberts Shakespeare in recognition of & The Washington Peggy Martin and Brian Kreger Phil and Lexi Heidt Scott and Cindy Buchanan Anne Frances Owen Jason Choi and Neal Stephenson Chad Robins the following people: Shakespeare Festival This list recognizes donors with David Mattson Randy and Barbara Hieronymus Julia Buck Margaret and John Pageler Carol Wolfe Clay Bernadette Lai Marga Rose Hancock Suzanne Skinner, by Karen combined donations of $100 Beth McCaw and Yahn Bernier Kristi and James Hudson Jean Burch Falls Erlinda Partridge Catherine Clemens Richard and Shelly Lamoreaux Pete Rush Casey, by Darby and Cara Brown Jones and Erik Rasmussen or more made from March 17, Ann McCurdy and Frank Lawler Trudi Jackson Kathleen Burns Jay Pearson and Daniel Speth Christopher and Courtney Lee Sharon and Bryan Rutberg Sarah Alsdorf, by Coco Stusser McNeil, by Janet 2017 to August 17, 2018. 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A-16 SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Casting an Actor with Albinism: The Importance of Authenticity on Stage

The Chisel team at the talkback: director Nathan Singh, playwright Julie Taiwo Oni, Jordan White, Cherie Carter, and Joshua Michael Moore. Courtesy of Julie Taiwo Oni.

Playwright Julie Taiwo Oni How do you cast authentically widespread misconceptions of non- explores the difficult, yet when there is not a single actor of a Western cultures (my global side) certain identity to be found within and sheer shock and horror at the necessary task of casting your community? If my mission as a encountering of some ritual practices actors who authentically playwright is to share stories of the (the good ole American in me). When underrepresented, then how can I cast I first heard about the persecution of represent characters an actor who lacks the marginalized PWAs (person with albinism) in Africa written and the effect this identity my script requires? This from my father a few years back, I representation has on obstacle is an important element of the thought it must be an ancient myth; current fight for fairness in casting, and I was mistaken. In fact, even today, marginalized identities. I encountered it full-force on my own Tanzania has one of the highest global journey to find a Black teenage male rates of people with albinism, and they actor with albinism. are frequently attacked and killed for the sale of their bodies to witch doctors for good luck potions.

As a Nigerian-American and a To dramatize this unfortunate story, I storyteller, I am in constant conflict wrote Chisel, a two-character play about between heightened awareness of a Black American teen with albinism and

encoremediagroup.com/programs 9 his interaction with a biracial Tanzanian an important part of the conversation art student. Sal, my teen protagonist, is the challenge of representing is in conflict with his albinism because marginalized identities when privileged he doesn’t feel that he’s accepted as a bodies are so much more accessible Black Lives Matter activist due to his on casting couches. Constant rejection lacking pigmentation. He therefore and appropriation discourages under- engages in an aggressive activity that represented actors, making it even more lands him in a juvenile detention center. difficult to get them into the room. Alice—his counter—struggles with The unfortunate result is that more being mixed race in a culture that often privileged actors get more opportunities resents non-native citizens. I finished to hone their skills in all levels of a draft of the play and placed it aside theatre. a few years ago, mainly because I had no idea who would perform either role, Sometime into my own representation especially that of Sal. journey, my friend Bri, who was set to perform the role of Chisel’s Alice for a reading, sat down to help me brainstorm possible actors to play the The representation struggle has become PWA male character Sal. We were at all too familiar these days, from the a loss. Would an audience be able to rampant cultural appropriation of gather the full weight of the story— hip-hop, to Katy Perry’s kimonos and centered on the identity of a young dreadlocks, to the whitewashing and man with albinism—if the actor playing Jordan White and Cherie Carter in gender identity-crossing of Hollywood the role did not have this condition? rehearsal. Courtesy of Julie Taiwo Oni. via the likes of Scarlett Johansson. Yet It felt so important to see him. We decided that the absolute minimum at that moment was to find somebody who would understand Sal’s journey intellectually and be willing to engage in conversation about the PWA plight. We decided to cast Tom, a TV actor and friend. The reading went well, but the question of course came up: was this play castable?

Is it worth the ongoing and discourag- ing search for an actor of a marginalized identity when there are so many of privilege willing to play the role?

I believe it is.

So, I persisted. Everywhere I went, to anyone I met, I mentioned Chisel and my struggle to find an actor. I spoke of the PWA attacks in my classes on culture. I emailed modeling and casting agencies. I asked my acting students for recommendations. The result was a sharing and tagging anytime a friend or colleague saw a story on albinism and a collection of books and magazine articles sent by friends, yet still no Sal. Joshua Michael Moore, Cherie Carter and Jordan White. Courtesy of Julie Taiwo Oni.

10 ENCORE STAGES Perhaps six months after the reading, actress with albinism she’d heard in the male role or adjust the script’s I got a message from Tom: “I see the about in Chicago. I emailed her a gender dynamics. She gave me the Tanzanian albino girls we talked about long, detailed, impassioned letter most heart-felt and thorough script in rehearsals.” The girls were Tindi and about my journey and how excited I feedback I had received, noting the Bibiana Mashamba, sisters who were was to be connected with her. I didn’t ringing-true to her experience and in Los Angeles on refuge after Bibiana expect a reply. Ten minutes later, I sharing questions that came up. Casting had been attacked and lost a leg and got one. She was as excited as I was her proved an impossibility because fingers. They were at his local lunch to be in touch. of the story’s essential commentary on spot. My heart jumped with joy. “Well Black male experience, but I promised talk to them!” I waited impatiently. I sent her Chisel and thought that to keep in touch and update her on the Hours later, he told me he’d lacked the perhaps I could find a way to cast her process. We made plans to collaborate nerve to speak to them: “I didn’t know what to say. Sorry.”

And here we encountered the next obstacle on our mission: the hypocrisy of drawing attention to albinism when the heart of Chisel’s story is about a desire for acceptance instead of social isolation. If I were to pass a Black male with albinism that looked like a possible Sal, what would I say to him, “You’re a PWA, I need you”? Fortunately, Tom saw them again a few months later and asked if they would be interested in meeting up with the Chisel team. They were overjoyed (probably because they recognized him from TV, but I’ll take it). Their host and co-founder of African Millennium Foundation, Malena Ruth, arranged for us to all have tea. During our meeting, they told the story of Bibiana’s attack, and we were all horrified by their trauma yet inspired by these two warriors.

If only these girls had been actors.

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encoremediagroup.com/programs 11 in the future, and I asked if she knew I was shocked by this young man. He any male PWA actors. reminded me of the importance of life experience and observation to breathe She did! humanity into a story. Jordan was an articulate, enthusiastic, hilarious and This is it, I said to myself, crafting another heartfelt email, this time, at long last, to a Black male actor with confident guy. When he entered the albinism. I got no reply. I was back to withtheatre, handshakes fresh off aand long hugs, flight pumped (and square one, even with some strong andthe first ready. of Ihis had life), anticipated—after he greeted us all all and inspiring ladies in my court. these years of studying the oppression

A few weeks later, I was scrolling conscious young man who would need through my Instagram when I saw timeof PWA—to to warm encounter up to us; ahe shy was and just self- the a post from @albinism_beautiful, a opposite. group I’d been following for years. It hit me that the members of this “I like to be seen,” he said as we particular community might be worth approaching. The second I passed the profile of Jordan White, an eighteen- todrove be mad down all Pacific the time Coast and Highway hate the year-old young man from Atlanta, I stares,after that but first now rehearsal. I just smile.” “I used knew I’d found my Sal. He was a Black teenage male with albinism with the In a world of rampant cultural description “Actor/Model.” I didn’t wait and identity appropriation, we this time. I messaged him immediately have a responsibility as practitioners and heard back within an hour or so. of live performance to allow the We began an ongoing dialogue about audience to experience another’s my play. ing an underrepresented actor It turned out one of Jordan’s most onstagestory truthfully. playing Thea character joy of encounter- of his or prominent performances was tied to her actual identity is too powerful another PWA actor’s casting in a TV to forego. The more marginalized series shot in his city. Marginalized actors see themselves represented groups do have this profound ability authentically, the more they will start to hold each other up, but we need to see that others respect our stories as will dwindle. < well by pushing forth characters that to fill our casting couches. The maze are multidimensional—not archetypal. Julie Taiwo Oni is a Nigerian-American playwright with an interest in exploring the And we need the space to bring them African diaspora through narrative. Recent to life ourselves. This is the key to plays include nat&EM, Bunk, Denim, Black- representation. Proof, and Chisel—a story that displays the oppression of people with albinism in On June 14, 2018, Jordan flew to LA Tanzania. Oni is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Pepperdine University. www for the first time to perform in a read- .julietaiwooni.com ing of Chisel at Pepperdine University, where I work. The Department of This piece, “Casting an Actor with Albinism: Humanities and Teacher Education The Importance of Authenticity on Stage” generously hosted him for Albinism by Julie Taiwo Oni was originally published Awareness Day. After months of talking on HowlRound (http://howlround.com/ casting-an-albino-actor-the-maze-of- through the script and planning, we representation-and-the-joy-thereafter), finally met in person. on August 2, 2018.

12 ENCORE STAGES Dialogue Encore Stages in conversation

Seattle Modern Orchestra. Photo: unknown.

Seattle Modern Orchestra (SMO) is the only large ensemble in the Pacific Northwest solely dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. The professional new music ensemble, conducted by Julia Tai, has 18 musicians performing in many different configurations, adding to Seattle’s artistic landscape and cultural dialogue.

Jérémy Jolley, SMO’s co-artistic director (along with Tai), is eager for SMO’s distinct voice to be heard. He recently sat down with Encore Stages to discuss the meaning of modern music, the challenges in performing it and Echoes of Tinder.

Tell me a bit about yourself. recent past. It is a modern orchestra that explores what music can be. I was born in Lyon, France and grew up in the French Alps. I moved to Seattle How did you get involved with SMO? in 1997, pursued composition studies Why was it important to you? and received my Bachelor of Arts and Master of Music degrees in Composition In June 2010, Julia Tai organized a Jérémy Jolley, SMO’s co-artistic director. from the University of Washington. I’m concert featuring Steve Reich’s Tehillim Photo: Amy Vandergon. the co-artistic director of SMO, also the under the name Seattle Modern artistic collaborations manager at the Orchestra. In August of that year, after Seattle Symphony. returning from a new music festival in Germany, I was looking forward to What is Seattle Modern Orchestra? How creating a way to consistently present is it different than other orchestras in contemporary music in Seattle. Julia the area? and I had met during our studies at the University of Washington, where Seattle Modern Orchestra focuses on she had conducted one of my works, music that relates to the present or

encoremediagroup.com/programs 13 so I contacted to see if I could join her Who are some of your favorite modern UW DEPARTMENT OF DANCE effort with SMO and we launched SMO’s composers? first season in 2010–2011. Seattle area Chamber Dance Company Ah! There are too many to list here, audiences must have access to all of the but if you insist; some composers that Unspoken different types of music being created I return to regularly and recommend today. Experiencing different types of exploring are Giacinto Scelsi, Luigi October 11 – 14 thought and expression is key to living Nono and Gérard Grisey. Their unbound UW Meany Theater in today’s society. love for sound and its expressive Harald Kreutzberg potential is very compelling to me. People have a perception of what Joseph Gifford classical music is. What does SMO do to Lucinda Childs What are some of your favorite SMO Susan Marshall change those perceptions? memories? Daniel Charon Today’s performing groups, including All of my favorite memories of SMO SMO, are taking a critical look at whose are a variation on the same experience, music has been performed and whose that is, at a concert, while listening has not. SMO’s mission to perform the to the works being played; or after music of today gives us the chance the performance, looking at the facial to challenge all these preconceived expressions of the audience. The faces dance.uw.edu notions associated with ‘classical’ of wonder, excitement, bewilderment. music. We are always experimenting Tickets $10 – 24 I typically sit on the side of the 206-543-4880 with the concert format and asking our auditorium, and to see the humble ArtsUW.org audience for their input. Overall, there and thankful looks that audiences and is an attitude of welcoming people to a performers give one another is magical. concert as if they were being welcomed into our homes. What are you looking forward to in the photo: Steve Korn coming season? This season is very exciting for me DESTINATION RETIREMENT... because I’ve only heard one of the Luxury Living in Sunny Sequim pieces of our season performed live! I’m looking forward to discovering “Live in the Beauty of it all” them deeply as we prepare them for our three concerts. This coming season we will get to play with Yigit Kolat and his Echoes of Tinder for ensemble and electronics. We will also have a concert celebrating flutist/composer/conductor Robert Aitken. Aitken is from Toronto, and will play with and conduct the ensemble music by Toru Takemitsu, Sequim Sequim Brian Cherney, Iannis Xenakis and his Voted Also Featured in BEST NORTHWEST WEEKEND own. Our last concert of the season will SMALL TOWN ESCAPES feature the American composer and 2017 May 21, 2017 vocalist Erin Gee who will perform a few USA Today L.A. Times of her Mouthpieces with the ensemble. Designed with you in mind. The Lodge is a full service, independent retirement community. These are works in which she explores Fine Dining • Spacious Apartments • Individual Cottages the nature of vocal sounds and their relation to instrumental sounds. It is a Month to Month Rental • No Upfront Buy-in Fee uniquely beautiful experience. <

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14 ENCORE STAGES Intermission Brain Transmission Are you waiting for the curtain to rise? Or, perhaps, you’ve just returned to your seat before the second act and have a few minutes to spare? Treat your brain to this scintillating trivia quiz!

Email us the answer to the last question and have a chance to win tickets to a show!

1) At ACT Theatre, Skylight will run from September 7–30. This play was written by British playwright David Hare. For which screenplay did he win the Seattle Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted in 2002?

a) The Hours b) Far from Heaven c) A Beautiful Mind d) Gosford Park

2) September 12–October 20, Taproot Theatre Company will produce Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. John Baskerville designed the popular serif Charlotte Brontë. typeface Baskerville in the 1750s. To what classification University of Texas of typeface does Baskerville traditionally belong?

a) Old-Style 4) Jane Eyre, adapted from the novel by Charlotte Brontë, b) Modern will run at Book-It Repertory Theatre September 13– c) Transitional October 14. Which popular cartoonist is known for d) Tuscan creating “Dude Watchin’ With the Brontës”, a comic strip first published on the internet?

a) Kate Beaton, Hark! A Vagrant 3) One of Shakespeare’s histories, Richard III, will run September 12–October 7 at Seattle Shakespeare Company. b) John Allison, Scary Go Round Richard III assumed the throne after King Edward IV, his c) Gabrielle Bell, Lucky brother, died and Edward’s heirs were declared illegitimate. d) Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half Richard was killed two years later and his remains were lost. Where in England were they eventually found?

a) Mislabeled, in the archives of the British Museum Bonus Question in 1989. What was the last arts performance you attended that you b) Under a parking lot in Leicester in 2012. liked best and why? c) Preserved in a boggy tributary of the River Soar in Email your response to [email protected] 1930. with "Trivia Quiz" in the subject line.

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