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FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE 2015-2016 SEASON HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT ROBERT CACIOPPO, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PRESENTS SPONSORED BY NAOMI BLOOM AND RON WALLACE • MEDIA SPONSOR FLORIDA WEEKLY STARRING ensemble members DAVID BREITBARTH* • CARRIE LUND* • BRENDAN POWERS* and BRITT MICHAEL GORDON • BRIAN HATCH • LARRY JOHN MEYERS* MARGARET LOESSER ROBINSON* • LOU SUMRALL* • KATE YOUNG* DIRECTED BY ensemble member ROBERT CACIOPPO** SET DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER BERT SCOTT*** JOSEPH P. OSHRY*** STEFANIE GENDA*** ensemble member SOUND DESIGNER PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ASST. STAGE MANAGER JOHN KISELICA JANINE WOCHNA* GRACIE DOD ensemble member THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. 2015-16 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS Anonymous • The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Naomi Bloom & Ron Wallace Bruce & Janet Bunch • Gholi & Georgia Darehshori • Ed & Ellie Fox • Dr. & Mrs. Mark & Lynne Gorovoy John & Marjorie Madden • Sue & Jack Rogers • Arthur Zupko This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists. CAST (in order of appearance) Laura Warwick........................................................MARGARET LOESSER ROBINSON*† Michael Starkwedder..............................................................................LOU SUMRALL*† Miss Bennett.............................................................................................CARRIE LUND*† Jan Warwick.........................................................................BRITT MICHAEL GORDON*† Mrs. Warwick.............................................................................................KATE YOUNG*† Henry Angell..................................................................................DAVID BREITBARTH*† Sergeant Cadwallader...............................................................................BRIAN HATCH*† Inspector Thomas.......................................................................LARRY JOHN MEYERS*† Julian Farrar....................................................................................BRENDAN POWERS*† TIME & PLACE Richard Warwick’s Study in South Wales near the Bristol Channel. Early November, 1958. Act I, i: 11pm Act I, ii: 11am, the Next Day Act II: That Evening THE UNEXPECTED GUEST will be performed with one 15-minute intermission. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT AGATHA CHRISTIE is the author not only of The Mousetrap, the longest running stage production in history but also Witness for the Prosecution and And Then There Were None to name but a few of her greatest stage successes. Her novels have sold more than 2 billion copies around the world, and she is only outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Born in 1890, in Torquay, Devon, England, to an American father and English mother, she wrote her first play Black Coffee (the only play in which she chose to feature Poirot) in 1930 having been disappointed by the way The Murder of Roger Ackroyd had been adapted into Alibi in 1928. She adapted her bestselling novel And Then There Were None for stage in 1943, giving it a different ending, followed by, in quick succession, Appointment with Death (1945), Murder on the Nile (1946) and The Hollow (1951). With The Mousetrap (1952), Witness for the Prosecution (1953), and Spider’s Web (1954), she became the only female playwright to have three plays running in the West End at the same time. Later plays include Towards Zero (1956) co-adapted with Gerald Verner, Verdict (1958) possibly her most unusual play, Go Back for Murder (1960), and Rule of Three (1962) a series of three one act plays. After a hugely successful career and a wonderful life, Ms. Christie died peacefully on 12 January 1976. You can read Agatha Christie’s own account of her life in An Autobiography which was published after her death in 1977. †Member of Florida Repertory Theatre’s Ensemble of Theatre Artists. See page 23 for the entire ensemble. The Actors & Stage Manager * employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity ** *** Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. CREATIVE TEAM DAVID BREITBARTH*† seen on-screen as the narrator of Mississippi State (Henry Angell) happily University’s 2015 brand videos and next spring as returns to Florida Rep a supporting character on House of Cards, season for his fifth consecutive four. Upcoming: the Georgia premiere of Peter and season. Previously: Tribes, the Starcatcher at Georgia Ensemble Theatre. Brian Social Security, Lend Me wishes to thank Bob, Carrie, and Jason for bringing A Tenor, and Rumors. him back to his first theatrical home. He sends love 20 years an Associate to his first family, the Hatches, his second family, the Artist at Asolo Repertory Coynes, his little furball, Toby, and his exceedingly Theatre in Sarasota, over 70 better half, Molly Coyne. productions there include: Both Your Houses, The Grapes of Wrath, Glengarry Glen Ross, Clybourne CARRIE LUND*† (Miss Park, God of Carnage, Once in a Lifetime, Twelve Bennett) has been a Angry Men, The Front Page, The Immigrant, world company member and premieres of Men of Tortuga and Perfect Mendacity, the Associate Producer The Winter’s Tale, A Few Good Men, A Flea in Her of Florida Rep since its Ear, Rounding Third, Art, and Nicholas Nickleby. inception in 1998 and has Broadway 1st National Tour: Spring Awakening. acted in over 90 productions Film and television: Frasier, Taken!, Law & Order, in Southwest Florida. In and Fame. David is a proud 2013 Lunt-Fontanne 2012, she was named Best Fellow, selected by the prestigious Ten Chimneys Actress of the Year and Foundation. named one of the “Power Women of the Year” by Florida Weekly. She produced and acted on Sanibel BRITT MICHAEL GORDON Island from 1984-1998 at the Pirate Playhouse and (Jan Warwick) is grateful on Captiva Island with Carrie Lund Presents. She to be returning to Florida taught theatre at Florida Gulf Coast University Repertory Theatre having in its early years, produced theatre companies in previously participated in her hometown of Erie, PA and New York City, Florida Rep’s Performance and performed in regional theatres in NY, VT Internship, during which he and NC, as well as the Three River Shakespeare played Billy in Tribes. Britt Festival, Pittsburgh Playhouse, and American Ibsen most recently reprised the Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA. In 1987, the Sanibel- role of Billy in Mad Cow Captiva Chamber of Commerce awarded her the Theatre’s production of Tribes this past summer. Distinguished Citizen Award and the Lifetime His performance as Don in Broward Stage Door’s Achievement Award in 1997. Carrie has been in all production of Butterflies Are Free earned him a seven Florida Rep shows reviewed by The Wall Street Silver Palm award for outstanding new talent. Journal: One Slight Hitch, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Britt received his BFA in Acting from Florida Little Foxes, God of Carnage, Sylvia, You Can’t Take It State University, where he performed in several with You, and Dancing at Lughnasa. Other selected main stage productions including Monty Python’s credits include Florida Rep’s Dividing the Estate, Spamalot (King Arthur), David Mamet’s Speed-the- Tribes, Heart Song, Clybourne Park, Rumors (2002, Plow (Bobby Gould), and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate 2011), August: Osage County, Noises Off (1998, Apparel (Mr. Marks). Britt has also contributed to 2010), The Last Romance, Enchanted April, Rabbit multiple films through FSU’s College of Motion Hole, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Tale of the Allergist’s Picture Arts including Killer Kart, which won Best Wife, All My Sons, and Private Lives. Her work as a Short-Horror Comedy at LA’s Screamfest 2012. voiceover artist can be heard on NPR and industrial DVDs. Married to Robert Cacioppo, she enjoys the BRIAN HATCH (Sergeant accomplishments of their best productions: Matt, Cadwallader) was last seen graduate of UCF and Julia, graduate of FSU. here at Florida Rep during the 2012-2013 season, LARRY JOHN MEYERS* where he made his regional (Inspector Thomas) is happy debut as Colonel Starling to return to the Gulf Coast in Camping with Henry and Florida Rep after his and Tom, as well, he played work here in Clybourne Park Leo in The Little Foxes and during the 2013-14 season. various other characters Since then he has performed in three TYA shows that season. Since then, Brian in Caryl Churchill’s has worked as a professional actor out of Atlanta. A Number (Chester His theatre credits include Deathtrap at Georgia Theatre, Massachusetts), Ensemble Theatre, R&J at Fabrefaction, The Rocky Theresa Rebeck’s O, Beautiful (Centre Stage, State Horror Show at Actor’s Express, Madeline’s Christmas College, Pennsylvania), Charles Dickens’ Great at Horizon Theatre and others. He can currently be Expectations (PICT Classic Theatre, Pittsburgh), and DRAMATURGICAL NOTES GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM UNITED KINGDOM: An island country located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe. The United Kingdom comprises the