ST. EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY THEATER ARTS STAFF AND FACULTY Dean of Humanities ...... Father Louis T. Brusatti . FULLCIRCLE Artistic Director/Area Coordinator ...... Ev Lunning, Jr. Managing Director ...... Michelle S. Polgar Administrative Coordinator ...... Robin Grace Thompson BY Costume Shop Manager ...... T'Cie Mancuso Technical Director ...... Chase Staggs CHARLES L. MEE Master Electrician ...... ( ...... Natalie George Costume Technical Specialist ...... Michelle Heath DAVID LONG Assistant Professors ...... David Long DIRECTOR Sheila Gordon Sara Medina-Pape Michael Massey LEILAH STEWART LAURA CANNON Adjunct Instructors ...... Dr. Brooks Barr SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN Ann Mary Carney Bhagirit Crow DIANA DUECKER BUZZ MORAN Todd Dellinger LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN Diana Duecker Kathy Dunn Hamrick ROBIN LEWIS TARA COOPER Babs George CHOREOGRAPHY MAKEUP/HAIR DESIGN Rachel Magee Bill McMillin MICHAEL MCKELVEY BROOKS BARR Dr. Michael McKelvey MUSIC DIRECTION PRODUCTION DRAMATURG Margita Pencevova Gary M. van der Wege KATE KAMPSCHROEDER* PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER SPECIAL THANKS Joe Carpenter JILL BLACKWOOD* Pedro Gallardo GREG HOLT* Rude Mechanicals EQUITY GUEST ARTISTS Ike Machamer Mark Porter Isaac Ruiz Sponsored in part by Kerstin Somerholter School of Behavioral and Social Sciences Lindsey C. Taucher

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FULL CIRCLE was originally produced under the title THE BERLIN CIRCLE as a world premiere at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago . Sept. 26-Oct. 7, 2007 Marthy Lavey, Artistic Director, Michael Gennaro, Managing Director. Funding for the original production of FULL CIRCLE was made possible by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust The Company Production Staff Pamela Dalrymple...... Jill Blackwood* Assistant to the Technical Director ...... Connor Hopkins Mr Market/Warren ...... David Gallagher** Properties Consultant ...... Rachel Magee Translator/Crowd ...... Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie** Assistant Stage Managers ...... Katie Andries, Elliott Dooley, Elizabeth Rische, ChristopherSmith Zhu/Hermann ...... Jarrett King** Properties Design and Construction ...... Hans Klein, Patricia Greenwell, Ping/Crowd/Cook's Assistant ...... Stephanie Denson** EvangelineJime nez, Sherry Mauch, Maryann Menzies Ching/Student/Werner ...... Nathan Osburn** Assistant to the Master Electrician/Board Operator ...... KristopherCarpenter Sly Modrow/Student/Gunter ...... Maarouf Naboulsi** Assistant to the Sound Designer/Board Operator ...... Elle Mahoney Stupid Krenz/Student/Masseur/Helmut...... Austin D. Alexander** Spot Operators ...... Charles Bryant, Joseph Luedeke Erich Honecker/Crowd/Cook ...... Clay Cartland** Scene Shop Staff ...... Austin Alexander,Michelle Brandt, Heiner Muller ...... Greg Holt* Amanda Hartley,Stacy Vandervorst Costume Designer/Bui/horn/Concierge ...... Julia Trinidad** Costume Shop Staff...... Karina Cooper, Miriam Jurgensen, Christa ...... Micaela Garcia-Baab** Heidi Mashaka,Allie Towell Dulle Griet ...... Helyn Rain Messenger** Box Office Staff ...... Shannon Bishop,Tomas Contreas, Kate Eminger, Lisa Maree Chiriboga, Elizabeth Shortall The Band House Manager ...... Eric Cardona Matthew Hines ...... Trombone, Keyboard, Guitar House Crew ...... Brandon Balque, Libby Dees, Austin Lowery, Aisha Melhem, Roy Varney,Jessica Townes Catherine Lippman-Bartkus ...... Bass Head Dresser ...... Miriam Jurgensen Cesar A. Osorio II ...... Lead Guitar Dressers ...... Charli Brath,Andrew Butler,Whitney Carpenter, Austin D. Alexander ...... Drums Sarah Anderson, BlaiseTreuting Laundry...... Brook Friesen,Elle Mahoney Setting: Berlin, 1989 Costume Crew ...... Stephanie Denson, Liana Hinojosa, Miriam Jurgenson, Jarrett King, Ashley Moore, Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie, There will be one ten-minute intermission Nathan Osburn, Kari Strunk, Julia Trinidad, and the students of THAR 1331 *Member of Actors ' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and Scenic Crew ...... Monica Azcarate, Brandon Balque, LeRoy Beck, stage managers in the United States. Lydia Breed, KristopherCarpenter, **Equity Member Candidate Stephanie Denson, EvangelineJimenez, Hans Klein, Sherry Mauch,Aisha Melhem, ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 Maryann Menzies, Helyn Messenger,Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie, actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, pro­ Ema Ramsower,Alex Riegelman,and the students ofTHAR 1330 mote and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our soci­ Make-Up and Hair Crew ...... Chad Duda, Sarah Shade ety. Equity negotiate s wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL- Lighting Crew ...... Sarah Burkhalter,Kristopher Carpenter, Scott Kyrish, ACTORS' CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing Valerie Lara, Maarouf Naboulsi,Nigel O'Hearn, JacobTrussell, EQ LJfTY arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. and the students from THAR 3323 Assoc111.noN 1913 www.actorsequfry.org Pamela Dalrymple is inspired by the life of the British-born socialite Pamela Beryl Digby From the Dramaturg Churchill Hayward Harriman ( 1920-1997). Harriman made a name for herself first as the The full-bore theatricality of Charles Mee's Full Circleis rooted in Bertholt Brecht's epic wife or lover of a succession of prominent men and later as a doyenne of the Democratic theatre. Brecht preferred to call his theatre a "theatre of dialectic" - the clash of oppos­ Party. Her list of liaisons included Randolph Churchill, Edward R. Murrow, Prince Aly ing ideas and concepts. This c.lash of opposites not only makes up the wildly entertaining Khan, the Fiat automobile heir Gianni Agnelli and Baron Elie de Rothschild. She married dramatic structure ofMee's play, as polarities of diought and behavior are pushed to comic Randolph Churchill, Broadway producer Leland Hayward and diplomat W Averell Har­ (and even offensive) extremes, but it is also the inner-dialogue of the play, as Mee com­ riman. In 1992 Pamela Harriman was made U.S. Ambassador to France, and in 1996 she ments on the story he has inherited from Brecht and his predecessors. was awarded the Commander of the French Legion of Honor's Order of Arts and Letters. BrooksBarr, Dramaturg l Dulle Griet is the central figure in two large paintings by Pieter Breugel the Elder (c. CHARLES MEE ON FULL CIRCLE: 1525-1569). Traditionally known in English as "Mad Meg," Griet is depicted as a heavily Ful{Circle is ... a conversation with an entire dramatic tradition. The original narrative armed thief crossing the mouth of Hell, her sword raised against the grotesque array of comes from a fourteenth-century Chinese play, The Chalk Circle, which was rewritten demons that surround her. Mee invokes this history of a patron "saint" of thieves. b~ the German playwright Klabund in 1924 as Der Kreidekreis.Brecht responded to Erich Honecker (1912-1994) was First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party and thus Klabund's play in 1926 when he wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and my play, Full head of state of the German Democratic Republic from 1971-1989. He advocated Circle,is an argument with Brecht and the earlier versions of the story, which seem to me modest consumerism but strict social controls. Under Honecker's rule, the GDR adopted romantic and na"ive. a program of "consumer socialism," which resulted in a marked improvement in living 1b'e Chalk Circleplays all conclude with a famous trial scene. A baby is placed in the mid­ standards. Still, internal dissent remained oppressively · subdued. A number of East dle of a circle and his adoptive and birth mothers stand on opposite sides of the circumfer­ German citizens were killed during this period while trying to cross the border into West ence. Both women try to pull the baby to them until one of them lets go, whereupon the Berlin . Honecker's career was inextricably linked with the Berlin Wall, from 1961 when judge declares that the true mother is the one who released her son for fear of hurting him. he was put in charge of its construction, through 1989 when the Wall was breached in So much for the myth. I want~d to return to the ancient roots of the Chalk Circle nar­ the bloodless revolution that overthrew his communist regime, to 1993 when criminal rative. CaucasianChalk Circleis one of Brecht's greatest plays - it certainly contains his charges were filed that he had issued "shoot-to-kill" orders to East German border guards. best argument for Marxism - but I wanted to escape Brecht, to turn him upside down. Honecker emigrated to Chile in 1993 and died the following year. My first decision was therefore to take the play back to Brecht's hometown, indeed to his Heiner Miiller (1929-1996) joined Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemb .le in 1951, working own theatre, the Berliner Ensemble. In Full Circlethe revolution takes place in Berlin in first as dramaturg and eventually as the theatre's artistic director. He was best known as an 1989. Now, I thought, let's put some Americans in the mix, because after the Berlin Wall experimental playwright who transformed such canonical texts as Hamlet, Macbeth, and collapsed, the world's political arid economic power was almost all American. Oedipus into metaphorical commentaries on recent European history. His best known My role is to remind all of us of the issues that are important in our lives today. The end of play, Hamletmachine (1977), is an eight-page collage of allusions to, among others, the Full Circlereflects what I think is true of the world; though we in the West may feel that Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang, the 1956 Hungarian uprising and the murder of Sharon we successfully defeated communism, it would be na"iveto assert that we are now travel­ Tate by Charles Manson's "family." Though a committed Marxist, Muller was as skeptical ing an easy path to absolute happiness. The belief that capitalism in its present form will of East German socialism as he was of capitalism, and pro"ved a thorn in the side of the solve all our problems is as na"iveas Brecht's belief in the panacea of communism; the next German Democratic Republic, which banned his plays for twelve years. After the collapse revolution may be just around the corner. of the regime in 1989, it transpired that he had provided information to the Stasi secret From an Interview with ART's Gideon Lester police "for reasons of dramaturgy," as he explained. We have here a meeting between George Grosz (men with beards, cigars, eyeglasses, lumpy Warren is based on the life and writings of business mogul Warren Buffett, one of the heads, misshapen faces, and badly designed but expensive clothes of the political class), the richest men in the world, the biggest single owner of Coca-Cola stock and the CEO Marx Brothers, Robert Rauschenberg, Commedia, vaudeville, revolution, guilt, Town and of, among others, Salomon Brothers and Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett, born in Omaha, Country magazine, money, and the exhilaration of making things up as you go along. Neb., in 1930, was rejected by Harvard Business School but quickly rose to fame as a -Charles Mee's stage directions _in the text of Full Circle. brilliant investment entrepreneur and a director of the WashfngtonPost. He is known for a DRAMATIS PERSONAE - THE CHARACTERS OF FULL CIRCLE string of homey, common-sense aphorisms on economics. In 1985 he became Nebraska's Mee's own list of character sources is entitled "Myths and Monsters" - his way of re­ first billionaire. minding us that the characters in the play have their own lives. Their sources are meant to invoke a series of associations and archetypes, not provide a model for behavior and character detail. The relevant question is, what are their life stories meant to suggest. To quote the reporter in TheMan Who Shot Liberty Valance,"When truth and the legend are in conflict, print the legend." EV LUNNING, JR. {Artistic Director) Zachary Scott Theater; An Ideal Husband, AUSTIN D. ALEXANDER, '09 (Krenz! include Zach Scott's Urinetown, Austin has been an actor, Kiss Me Kate (Austin Critics Table Award), Student/Masseur/Helmut), was last seen Playhouse's The Threepenny Opera, and teacher and adminis­ and The Mystery of Edwin Drood for Austin building sets, acting and playing some gui­ Summer Stock Austin's Thoroughly Mod­ trator at St. Edward's Playhouse; Twelfth Night, A Midsummer tar in Summer Stock Austin '07 as John ern Millie and Assassins. Clay is thrilled to University since 1990. Night's Dream (B. Iden Payne Award), and Hinckley Jr. in Assassins. This summer, he be a part of such a talented company and He first appeared as As You Like It (Austin Critics' Table Award) directed The Servant of Two Masters for would like to thank them all for never fail­ an Equity Guest Artist for Austin Shakespeare Festival; multiple the newly founded Transit Theatre Troupe ing to raise the bar every day. He would in a production of The roles with the State Theatre Company, here at St. Edward's. He has also been seen also like to thank his family for their un­ Drunkard and direct­ Zilker Theatre Productions, Mississippi's at MMNT in Antigone, Kneeling Down at wavering support and Gandalf for always ed Susan Loughran New Stage Theatre, Musical Theatre Works Noon and Ah Wilderness! He would like to making up the "hills and valleys." for the summer season in NYC, and the former Austin Musical thank everyone in the cast and crew of Full of 1990. Ev began teaching as an adjunct Theatre including 'Glinda' in The Wizard Circle for being wonderful human beings. DAVID GALLAGHER, '08 (Mr. Mar­ instructor in the fall of 1999 and served as of Oz at Bass Concert Hall. Jill is excited to 1 And he sends a very special thanks to his ket/Warren), is happy MMNT business manager from 1992 to be making her Mary Moody Northen The­ family and friends, who are the drive and to begin his last season 1997 . He has often appeared as a guest art­ atre debut and to be working with all of support in everything he does, and they here at Mary Moody ist in MMNT productions, most recentl y the talented students here at St. Edward's should never forget that. Northen Theatre . He in Ah, Wilderness! In 2003 he received an University! Love to Tim and Thomas. is a senior Theater Arts Austin Critics' Table award for Best Sup­ SARAH BURKHALTER, '10 (Student major. He was last porting Actor for his role in MMNT' s GREG HOLT (Muller) is very happy to Leader/Ursula). This is seen in Summer Stock production of The Kentucky Cycle, directed be returning to the Sarah's second show Austin's productions by Melba Martinez. Ev has directed several Mary Moody North­ at MMNT, and she of Thoroughly Modern MMNT productions, most recently Pa­ en Theatre. His previ­ is very excited to be Millie and Assassins. rade, which won an Austin Critics' Table ous appearances here a part of this produc­ Other credits include MMNT's Metamor­ award for Best Musical. He is a company include the title role tion. She was last seen phoses, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Honk member of the Austin Playhouse and the in Macbeth, and Ben on the MMNT stage (Austin Critics' Table Award), Way of the Austin Shakespeare Festival. Ev's voice can in Death of a Sales­ as Lennox in Mac­ World, Antigone, Parade and Ah , Wilder­ be heard in many anime titles dubbed into man. Regional credits beth. She would like ness! He also appeared in the TexARTS English by Austin's ADV Films, including include Roderigo in to thank David and production of Big River and The Three­ the voice of Captain Nemo in Nadia: The Othello with Samuel his creative team for this opportunity, her penny Opera at the Austin Playhouse. He Secret of Blue Water. A long-time volunteer L. Jackson, and Antipholus of Syracuse in father for being the biggest stage mom she would like to thank David for this won­ narrator for the Texas State Library 's Talk­ Comedy of Errors. Among his Austin credits knows, her mother for being her best crit­ derful , crazy opportunity and the cast and ing Book Program, Ev has narrated four are Marvin Hudgens in Dark of the Moon ic, and her brothers Robert and Hank for crew for a great time. And of course his volumes which have been chosen for cir­ at the State Theatre, and Gus/ Anton/Por­ always giving her something to laugh at. Mom, Pops, Aaron, Sarah and Kimberly culation by the National Library Service. ter/Wheels in Pride's Crossing at the Zach­ for being so supportive. Peace, Love and ary Scott Theater Center. Also an accom­ CLAY CARTLAND, '08 (Honecker! God Bless. JILL BLACKWOOD (Pamela) mo st plished singer, Greg was recently seen as Crowd/Cook), is al­ recently starred op­ Pilate in the Zachary Scott Theater Cen­ most too excited for STEPHANIE DENSON, '08 (Ping! posite television and ter's bilingual presentation of Jesus Christ words to be involved Crowd/Cook's Assistant), is a senior at Broadway star Patrick Superstar. He toured in Les Miserables with in Full Circle. Having MMNT and was last seen as Mrs. Meers Cassidy in the Tex­ the legendary Colm Wilkinson, won the worked with David in Summer Stock Austin's ThoroughlyMod­ ARTS production of Austin Critics' Table Award for his per­ l Long before as Ban­ ern Millie. She is thankful for Full Circle Carousel at the Para­ formance of George in She Loves Me, and quo in Macbeth how because it reminds her daily that "people mount Theatre. Other was nominated for an Austin Critics' Table could he say no to be­ who let go just get things taken away from stage credits include Award for his work as the Beast in Allen ing directed by him them." She'd like to thank everyone she Bad Dates, Urinetown, Robertson's Beauty and the Beast for Sec­ again? Clay has been knows for their tireless support. Aida (Austin Critics' ond Youth Family Theater in Austin. seen on the MMNT stage in such plays Table and B. Iden Payne Awards), Cabaret as Parade, Macbeth and Ah Wildern ess! and MICAELA GARCIA-BAAB, '09 (B. Iden Payne Award), Master Class and will be seen in the upcoming production (Christa). This is Micaela's second appear­ The Rocky Horror Show (1999, 2000) for of Ring Round the Moon. Outside credits ance on the MMNT stage, having previ- ously been seen in Ah, Wilderness! She is production of Much Ado About Nothing in ELIZABETH RISCHE, '10 (Assistant Critics' Table Award), Into The Woods currently a junior double majoring in the summer of 2005. Steffanie would like Stage Manager), is very excited to be a part and Annie Get Your Gun (Zilker Theatre performance and makeup design and has to thank all of those who have supported of Full Circle. This will be her first time as Productions); Nunsense, Gift of the Magi, spent the last two years working on the her over the years. an ASM, and she's had so much fun work­ A Christmas Carol and The Little Prince makeup design crew for many produc­ ing with the cast. Previously at MMNT she (State Theatre); Oklahoma, The Sound tions. Micaela graduated from Jam es Bow­ NATHAN OSBURN, '09 (Ching! worked on crew for Parade and Kneeling of Music, Man of La Mancha and My ie High School where her credits include Student/Werner), is in Down at Noon, and was a dresser for Mac­ Fair Lady (Austin Musical Theatre). At Julius Caesar (Antony) and Legend of the his fourth production beth. She will also be doing props for Ring MMNT Michael's credits include Parade Pointsettia (Maria). at MMNT, where Round the Moon. She would like to thank (Austin Critics' Table Award), Songs For he has been seen in all the ASMs for putting up with her ques­ a New World, Honk and Caesar & Ruben. JARRETT KING, '09 (Zhu/Hermann), The 'Way of the World, tions; without them she would be lost. During the summer he serves as co-artistic is a junior majoring in Theatre Arts and Durang/Durang director for Summer Stock Austin, where minoring in English Writing. He thanks Qake) and Macbeth CHRISTOPHER SMITH, '10 (Assistant he directed Assassins this summer and his parents and friends for their support, (Macduff), receiving Stage Manager). This is Christopher 's sec­ music directed Thoroughly Modern Millie. this unbelievably talented cast and crew two Austin Critics' ond time ASMing a show at MMNT. He Michael is the coordinator of Music for for nurturing his creativity, David for this Table nominations had the opportunity to work on Ah, Wil­ St. Edward's University and holds a Ph.D. wonderful opportunity, and Liana for ev­ for his work. With his theatre career at derness!last semester, and looks forward to from UT-Austin. erything. St. Edward's University coming to a close, maybe PSMing a show someday. He also Nathan looks forward to further success on had worked on the 10-Minute Play Fes­ ROBIN LEWIS (Choreography), has HELYN RAIN MESSENGER, '09 the MMNT stage. tival, Macbeth, the Freshman Showcase, performed in the Broadway productions of (Dulle Griet). Helyn is ready. Excited. And various Omni shows, and ThoroughlyMod­ Fossewith Ben Vereen and Ann Reinking refreshed. The summer has been good to JULIA TRINIDAD, '09 (Costume D.I ern Millie and Assassinswith Summer Stock (also on the DVD), Beauty and the Beast her, but it is now time to perform. She Bullhorn/Concierge), is extremely excited Austin. He would like to thank the cast and with Andrea McCardle, The Producers would like to thank her ma y papa. Dun­ to be making her fourth appearance on crew of Full Circle for making this such a with Martin Short and Jason Alexander can. Nigel and Maarouf, plus New York the MMNT stage. She has previously terrific experience and his loving family for (LA), Victor Victoria with Julie Andrews, A City and the Julias in her life. been seen in The 'Way Of The World, An­ their continued patience and support. Christmas Carol with Tim Curry and Tony tigone and Kneeling Down at Noon. She Randall, A Chorus Line as Don (tour), MAAROUF NABOULSI, '09 (Sly! would like to thank her loving friends and BROOKS BARR (Production Drama­ Hello Dolly with Michelle Lee (tour) and Student/Gunter), is currently a junior at family, without whom this would not be turg), is delighted to be in his third season has performed at The Kennedy Center, St. Edward's University majoring in The­ possible. as a resident dramaturg at MMNT. He has Carne gie Hall and for the Tony Awards. ater Arts with an emphasis in acting. This contributed his efforts to Ah, Wilderness!, Regional Choreography, EVITA with Kate is his fourth production on the MMNT KATIE ANDRIES, '10 (Assistant Sage Macbeth , Parade, Antigone, Cesar and Ru­ Chapman at the Lyric in Oklahoma, The stage, and he is excited to be working with Manager), Katie is a sophomore and is ben, The 'Way of the World, You Can't Take Music Man in Concert with Rebecca Luker such a wonderful cast. Maarouf was most assistant stage managing her first show at It With You and Honk! Before teaching & Jim Walton, Big River, Seven Brides For recently seen in Summer Stock Austin's MMNT. Last year she was a dresser for theater history at St. Edward's, he taught Seven Brothers (B. Iden Payne Award), production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. Kneeling Down at Noon and also partici­ for a decade at universities in Texas and Urinetown (Austin Critics' Table Award), Other credits at MMNT include Parade pated in the IO-Minute Play Festival and Oklahoma and has worked as an actor and Rocky Horror Picture Show, Plaid Tidings, and The 'Way of the World. He would like the Freshman Showcase. Her favorite roles stage manager in Equity theatres. Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin, Footloose, to thank David Long and the designers in the past include Stella from A Streetcar West Side Story, Thoroughly Modern Millie, for their inspiration, and he would also Named Desire and Anya from Verdict. She MICHAEL MCKELVEY (Musical Chicago, and High School Musical. Robin like to thank his mother, father, and would like to thank her friends and family Direction), has overseen the musical and is an Adjunct Professor at UT-Austin brother Nigel. for their support and also Kate for being vocal direction for numerous local theatre and is the co-founder of TexARTS an awesome stage manager! productions, including: The Threepenny Visual and Performing Arts Academy STEFFANIE NGO-HATCHIE, '10 Opera, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, (www.tex-arts.org ). (Translator/Crowd), is a sophomore theatre ELLIOTT DOOLEY, '10 (Assistant The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Kiss Me Kate, major. This is her first time performing in Stage Manager), previously appeared on Damn Yankees,A Christmas Carol, Mahalia BUZZ MORAN (Sound Design) has the Mary Moody Northen Theater in her the MMNT stage in Ah, Wilderness! This and The Fantastiks (Austin Playhouse); worked as a sound designer for Salvage college career, although she was first seen is his first ASM position. He would like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (B. Iden Vanguard Theater, Rude Mechanicals, on this stage during Summerstock Austin's to thank his family for all the support they Payne Award), Crazy For You (Austin UT, and various other groups around have shown him over the years. Austin. This is his third production with from Diana's Austin resume include years DAVID LONG (Director) is an actor, St. Edward's University. Buzz won a B. of designs for Salvage Vanguard Theatre director and educa­ what I like Iden Payne award for sound design in 2002 as well as designs for The Dirigo Group, tor who has worked for SVT's Intergalactic Nemesis, which will Art Spark Festival, The Rude Mechanicals, professionally on both My own work begins with the belief open Off Broadway in spring 2008. He Frontera Fest, Kids Acting, St. Edward's coasts and in Japan. that human beings are, as Aristqtle produces Foleyvision at the Alamo Draft­ University, One World Theatre, Dance David has served as said, social creatures - that we are the house Cinema in which weird foreign films Umbrella, Remembrance Through the a faculty member at product not just of psychology, but also are redubbed with new music, voices and Performing Arts, Storie Productions and Winthrop Univer­ of history and of culture, that we often sound effects live in the theater . He is the Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks. Outside sity in South Carolina express our historie~ •.and cultures in co-producer of the Dionysium, a monthly Austin she has worked with the Michigan and Portland State ways everi we are not conscious of, that forum for lecture, debate, music, declama­ Opera Theatre, Richmond Ballet, Spoleto University in Oregon the culture speaks through us, grabs us tion and art. Buzz is considering giving up Festival USA, Bismeaux: Productions and and is currently an assistant professor in and throws us to the ground, cries out, the rigorous life of the male model, but he JMP Lighting, and designed for Henrico Theatre Arts here at St. Edward's Univer­ silences us. is so in demand. Center for the Performing Arts, Upbeat sity. At MMNT he has directed Macbeth and Upsidedown, De-Light in Costa Rica, and Antigone and was seen as Leo Frank , I don't write "political plays" in the TARA COOPER (Make-Up and Hai r and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. in last season's production of Parade. Da­ usual sense of the term; but I write out Design) is a local make-up and wig de­ vid has presented acting and movement of the belief that we are creatures of signer and an alumnus of the University of LAURA CANNON (Costume Design) has workshops throughout the country and our history and culture and gender and Texas at Austin. She also teaches classes at been working in Austin theater and dance continues to train in and explore new ap­ politics - that our beings and actions the University of Texas at Austin, TexArts, for over 10 years. She is a Rude Mechani­ proaches to physical theatre. David is an arise from that complex of influences and for the StyleCup held in Austin every cal and a member of Salvage Vanguard active member in AEA, SAG and SAFD. and forces and motivations, that our year. She is ecstatic about helping make Theatre Company. Laura is also a choreog­ He would like to thank Tracy, Amelia and lives are more rich and complex than Full Circle come to life and working with rapher and principal dancer for Blue Lapis Alura for their loving support. can be reduced to a single source of St. Edward's University once again. Light, Austin's premier aerial dance com­ human motivation. pany. In 2006 she was honored with the CHARLES L. MEE (Playwright) So I try in my work to get past traditional LEILAH STEWART (Scenic Design) is a Austin Critics Table John Bustin Award has written bobrauschenbergamerica, ..· forms of psychological realism, to bring freelance scenic designer and performance for Conspicuous Achievement in the Arts Wintertime, Belle Epoque, Vienna: Lusthaus, into the frame of the plays material from artist based in Austin. She createdZiraat, an for her work as a performer and designer. Snow In June, A Perfect Wedding, Leomonade history, philosophy, insanity, inattemion, installation that featured an amazing score, In 2005 she received the Austin Critics tous lesfours, and a number of other plays distractedness, judicial theory, sudden written and performed by Phillip Owen Table Outstanding Costume Design in addition to his work inspired by Greek . violent passion, lyricism, the National for Fuse Box 2006. Other performance Award for her work in SVT's Genghis Plays: Big Love, True Love, Orestes 2. 0, Enquirer, nostalgia, longing, aspiration, art events include 31 days (2006) and just Khan and Death of a Cat and the Rude Trojan Women: A Love Story and others. His literary criticism, anguish, confusion, So Beautiful (2005), both commissioned Mechanical's Cherrywood. plays have been performed at the Brooklyn inability. by Austin Script Works, and a recent Academy of Music, American Repertory I like plays that are not too neat, too collaboration with Laura Cannon, If I Knew KATE KAMPSCHROEDER, '08 Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, finished, too presentable. My plays are You Were Coming for the Fuse Box Festival, (Stage Manager), began working in Austin the Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, the broken, jagged, filled with sharp edges, 2007. Leilah is also a company member theater at Hyde Park Theatre. Since then Humana Festival of New American Plays, filled with things that take sudden turns, of the Rude Mechanicals, an experimental she has had the pleasure of working with Steppenwolf, and other places in the United careen into each other, smash up, veer theatre collective whose hit play, Get Your Physical Plant, Frontera Fest '07, Ariel States as well as Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, t off in sickening turns. That feels good \¼r On, just won the Total Theatre Award Dance Theatre, Austin Script Works, Fuse­ Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere. to me. It feels like my life. It feels like at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. box Festival and the Gilbert & Sullivan His complete works are available at www. Society of Austin. This is her first time as charlesmee.org. His work is made possible the world. DIANA DUECKER (Lighting Design), an Equity stage manager, and her second by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher And then I like to put this - with some a Salvage Vanguard Theatre company as a stage manager at MMNT. Kate would and Richard B. Fisher. sense of struggle remaining - into member, earned her Master of Fine Arts like to thank David Long for his lessons in a classical form, a Greek form, or a degree from the University of Texas at possibility, Bill McMillin for believing in beautiful dance theatre piece, or some Austin in 2003. She teaches stage lighting her and Sunshine for always knowing just other effort at civilization. at St. Edward's University. Highlights what to say. Also thanks to Ike and Isaac. -Chuck Mee MARY MOODY NORTHEN DEAN'S CLUB ($500 to $999) CONTRIBUTOR ($50 to $119) Karen Korzenko Bowen , '86 John Adams Rachel Reitmeyer Elder Robert Apthorpe THEATRE William and Alice Higgins Tara Battani, '00 Thomas Moe and Cass Grange Karl Biggs SOCIETY Nancy Pierce Brumback THE HILLTOP CLUB ($250 to $499) Marta Cantu, MLA '02 Anonymous Brother Richard P. Daly, CSC, '61 Through Mary Moody Northen Theatre, theatre students work alongside professional Catherine Benner Johanna Damon actors, designers and directors in the creation of dynamic artistic work. Our students enjoy Gary Blomquist , '98 Barbara Day unparalleled pre-professional training and an opportunity to earn points toward membership Thomas Borders Tracey Dees in the Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in Jim Burkhalter Doug Dorst the United States - all within the context of the university's nationally recognized liberal Ronald Egelhoff Mary Ellen Felps Fidelity Investments arts education. Laura and Marvin Fletcher Ethel M. Kutac Laurie Friedman-Fannin Our program is made possible in part by the generous contributions of the Mary Moody Dr. and Mrs. Jimmy T. Mills Jerome Garvey Northen Theatre Society membership. Society contributions allow MMNT to provide Richard E. Orton Natalie George Patrick Pisano Joyce Green , '79 students with resources for hands-on learning and to provide audiences with the rich Nancy Pierce-Bromback Adalberto Hinajosa production values that keep you returning to our performances year after year. Last year Rabi and Michelle Polgar Jay Hume Theatre Society members contributed $22,000 in student scholarships, allowing us to William Rice Adrian Rose Jimenez maintain our commitment to educate a diverse group of Theater Arts students, regardless Tracy Sherman , '81 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Johnson of their financial situation. James Keddie THE 1885 CLUB ($120 to $249) Terry D. Kleiwer As a member of the society you'll enjoy a number of exciting benefits, including invita­ Anonymous John William Klein tions to special performances and opportunities to get involved with the Theater Arts Richard Bautch Theresa Mancuso program and our students on a deeper level. Your gift may be designated to scholarships, Ben Chomiak Florence Mayne Kathlyn Dailey, '78 Natacha Martin production support or capital improvements, or you may make an unrestricted gift. Alejandro Diaz, Jr. Stephanie Martinez We sincerely hope you will join the Theatre Society or continue as a member by Patrick Dooley Connie McMillan making a gift to the Mary Moody Northen Theatre. We also invite you to encour­ Charles and Dora Gembinski Philip Nolen, '91 Gaynelle Gosselin, '91 Phillip Owen age your friends and associates to join. For more information, contact Jay Hume at Brian Graham-Moore Diana Phillips [email protected] or 512-464-8811. Curtis Dean Hirsh Kevin Prince Thank you for your continued support . We look forward to seeing you at the MMNT. Bunny Joubert James J. Ragsdale , '99 Terry D. Kliewer Mary Rist Vicky Linsalata Bernadine Rettger, '91 Michael Massey Belinda Sandoval PRESIDENT'S ASSOCIATES - SILVER Angela Mccown Chase Staggs ($5,000 to $9,999) Pamela G. McGrew Robin Grace Thompson Everett Lunning, Jr. Sara Medina-Pape Mica ! Trejo, '97 Leo Osterhaus Jacob E. Trussell PRESIDENT'S ASSOCIATES - BRONZE Marisa Peterson, '00 Linda Wiest ($1,000 to $4,999) Marvela L. Pritchett , '02 Mary E. Wall Hamilton Beazley, PhD Barbara Ray Chalethia Williams , '83 Ola Butler Bell Belinda Sandoval Timothy P. Wright, '91 The Reverend Louis T. Brusatti Dr. Marilyn Schultz Sara Youngblood-Ochoa, '94, and Jose Ochoa Michael Guerra , '83 Charles Strunk Ronald Young Tracy Manier and Daniel Floyd Steven Weinberg Lewis A. Meyers Timothy Wright Steve Moore Fred E. Rizk Donor list reflects gifts made from August 2006-August 2007 2007 - 2008 SEASON MARY MOODY NORTHEN l'HEATRE ST. EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY FULL CIRCLE by Charles L. Mee Directed by David Long Sept. 26- Oct. 7, 2007 RING ROUND THE MOON by Jean Anouilh, adapted by Christopher Fry Directed by Christina J. Moore Nov. 7- 18, 2007 DEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMAN by Wole Soyinka Directed by Stephen Gerald Produced in association with ProArts Collective . Feb. 13-24 , 2008 ON THE TOWN by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Ado lph Green Directed by Ev Lunning Jr. Musical Direction by Michael McKelvey April 9-20 , 2008 SEASON TICKETS 448-8484