FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE 2018-2019 SEASON HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT

PRESENTS

SPONSORED BY TWISTED VINE BISTRO

STARRING SUSAN GREENHILL*

DIRECTED BY ensemble member CHRIS CLAVELLI*

SET DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING/PROJECTION SOUND DESIGNER BERT SCOTT*** JACQUELYN LOY DESIGNER KATIE LOWE ROB SILER

PRODUCTION STAGE ASST. STAGE MANAGERS COSTUME DESIGN MANAGER KATELYNN FOSTER ASST. AMY L. MASSARI* BRIGHAM JOHNSON ANNA BARGE ensemble member

2018-19 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS

IN THE KNOW. IN THE NOW.

The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Naomi Bloom & Ron Wallace • Dinah Bloomhall • Jane & Bob Breisch Alexandra Bremner • Janet & Bruce Bunch • Chippendale Audiology • Berne Davis • Mary & Hugh Denison Ellie Fox • David Fritz/Cruise Everything • Nancy & Jim Garfield • Vici and Russ Hamm John Madden • Joel Magyar • Noreen Raney • Linda Sebastian & Guy Almeling • Arthur M. 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. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT MARK ST. GERMAIN has written the plays Freud’s Last Session and Camping with Henry and Tom (Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel awards), Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap and Forgiving Typhoid Mary (Time CAST Magazine “Year’s Ten Best”), all published by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer...... Susan Greenhill* Samuel French and Dramatists Play Service. Mark’s play George Washington’s Teeth had TIME AND PLACE: its World Premiere at Florida Rep in April June 9, 1997. 2018. With Randy Courts, he has written the Washington Heights, New York. musicals The Gifts of the Magi, Johnny Pye Apartment of Ruth and Fred Westheimer. and the Foolkiller (winner of an AT&T “New Plays for the Nineties Award”) and Jack’s Holiday at Playwrights Horizons. Mark’s Wardrobe Supervisor: Anna Barge musical Stand by Your Man, The Tammy Lighting and Sound Board Op: Jason Sanchez Wynette Story was created for Nashville’s Ryman Theatre. He was Writer and Creative BECOMING DR. RUTH is presented by Consultant for The Cosby Show and co-wrote special arrangement with Dramatists Play the screenplay for Carroll Ballard’s Warner Service, Inc., New York. Brothers film Duma. Mark directed and co-produced the documentary My Dog, An World Premiere, June 30, 2013 at Barrington Stage Company, Un-conditional Love Story featuring Richard Pittsfield, MA. Julianne Boyd (Artistic Director); Gere, Glenn Close, Lasse Hallstrom, Isaac Tristan Wilson (Managing Director). Originally Produced Off-Broadway by Mizrahi, Edward Albee, and many others. Michael Alden, Stefany Bergson, Rodger Hess, Jamie deRoy, Mark wrote the children’s book Three Cups Pat Flicker Addiss, Beam Reach Entertainment/Elyse Mirto, LFI Group. Associate Producers: Matt Jared, (www.3cupsbook.com). He is an alumnus Lawrence D. Poster/Merrill A. Stone of New Dramatists where he was given the Original projection design by Brian Prather and Daniel Brodie Joe A. Callaway Award, a member of the Dramatist Guild, the Writer’s Guild East and Becoming Dr. Ruth will be performed with a Board Member of the Barrington Stage no intermission. Company. He was awarded the New Voices in The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any American Theatre Award at the William Inge means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Theatre Festival. ABOUT THE CAST SUSAN GREENHILL* †Member of Florida Repertory Theatre’s (Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer) Ensemble of Theatre Artists. is delighted to be See page 25 for the entire ensemble. making her debut at Florida Repertory * The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this Theatre and to be production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, working with Chris the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Clavelli again. She has previously played Dr. Ruth at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota and the Kravis Center ** in West Palm. In New York, she was in CRI Crimes of the Heart on Broadway and new works at Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, Actors Studio Theatre, Urban Stages to name a few. Regionally, she has appeared *** at numerous theatres from the Long Wharf to Theatre Works Silicon Valley in such plays as The Glass Menagerie, Noises Off, The ABOUT THE CAST & CREATIVE TEAM Clean House (Acclaim Award), Dinner with Disaster, directed by Jack Plotnick. Favorite Friends (SRQ Award), Sideman (Barrymore credits include Spring Awakening and Hair, Award), Private Lives, 4000 Miles, and Shirley both directed by Terrence Mann, and Shrek, Valentine. On TV and film, she has been seen directed by Chryssie Whitehead. Brig has on The Good Wife, Law & Order, The Chapelle also worked for the Utah Shakespeare Show, Clarissa Explains it All, Guiding Light, Festival, Berkshire Theatre Group, Crane River Italian Movie, Pecker (Jon Waters, director), Theater, and the Red Fern Theatre Company. Bargain by Hail Street, and New World Order He would like to thank everyone who has (Sundance Festival). supported him over the years. www.brighamjohnson.com CHRIS CLAVELLI**† (Director) is an Ensemble Member and the Associate Artistic Director KATIE LOWE (Sound Designer) is thrilled at Florida Repertory Theatre where he has to be a part of this production! She served directed and performed in more than 40 as an electrics intern last season at Florida productions since 2000. Florida Rep directing Repertory Theatre. Previously, she has been credits include Outside Mullingar, The House an electrics apprentice at Endstation Theatre of Blue Leaves, The Cocktail Hour, One Slight Company after graduating from the University Hitch, Tribes, The Glass Menagerie and The of Kentucky. Previous credits include: Cabaret Santaland Diaries. He has been the recipient (Florida Repertory Theatre, A2), Million Dollar of both the Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) Quartet (Endstation Theatre Company, A2), and the South Florida Carbonell for best actor Once On This Island (University of Kentucky, and was honored with an Alan Schneider Stage Manager), Sense and Sensibility Directing Award nomination through Theatre (University of Kentucky, Sound Designer), Communications Group. He was a founding She Kills Monsters (University of Kentucky, member and co-artistic director of the Stage Manager), In The Red and Brown Neighborhood Theatre for Kids in Brooklyn. Water (University of Kentucky, Assistant Representative theatres: Virginia Stage Stage Manager), and The 25th Annual Putnam Company, The Depot Theatre, Chenango County Spelling Bee (University of Kentucky, River Theatre, Two River Theatre, Dog Days Assistant Stage Manager). Theatre, Off Square Theatre, The Riverside in Vero Beach and Greenbrier Valley Theatre. His JACQUELYN LOY (Costume Designer) is one-man play, A Little More Than You Wanted thrilled to be a part of the design team for to Spend, ran at The Drilling Company in New Becoming Dr. Ruth! Featured Designs include: York City. He teaches classical acting at Pace Refugee, the world premiere (Florida Rep University/The Actors Studio Drama School, TYA); A Chorus Line and Heathers (Florida MFA Program and serves on the faculty of Rep Conservatory), The Drowsy Chaperone The New York Conservatory for Dramatic (Bigfork Summer Playhouse), Junie B. Jones Arts and The American Musical and Dramatic (Hope Summer Rep), Willy Wonka (Matthews Academy, CAP 21/Molloy College. Playhouse), The Fantasticks (Lee Street Theatre); Almost, Maine and Pinocchio’s KATELYNN FOSTER (Asst. Stage Manager) Sister, the world premiere (St. Thomas has recently graduated from Oklahoma Players); Tartuffe, Silent Sky, The Matchmaker, City University with a BFA in Design and and Violet (USM), The Importance of Being Production with an emphasis in Stage Earnest, Once on This Island, and Charlotte’s Management. She is so happy to be at Florida Web (Catawba College). Awards: KC- Rep for their 21st season as one of their Stage ACTF Region IV First Place for Excellence Management Interns. She was the Stage in Costume Design (Barbizon Fellow) for Manager for Florida Rep Conservatory show The Matchmaker (2017) and Violet (2016), A Chorus Line. She could not be here without KC-ACTF Region IV First Place in Technical the support of her family. Design/Crafts for Millinery (2016), Marian A. Smith Costume Scholarship from SETC’s BRIGHAM JOHNSON(Asst. Stage Manager) Graduate Scholarships (2014). She received is thrilled to join the team at Florida Rep. her M.F.A. in Costume Design and Technology He completed his undergraduate degree at at the University of Southern Mississippi and Western Carolina University’s School of Stage her B.A. in Theatre Arts at Catawba College. and Screen with a Bachelors of Arts in Design She is also an aspiring playwright and her and Technical Theatre, with a focus on stage plays have been featured in various play management and scenic design. This summer festivals in North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Brig worked for the Connecticut Repertory and Michigan. Theatre as an Assistant Stage Manager for ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM AMY L. MASSARI*† (Production Stage the Sea and Ocean State Theatre (Rhode Manager) is pleased to be returning for her Island), North Shore Music Theatre (Boston), 10th season as Florida Rep’s resident stage the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Orlando manager and an ensemble member. Amy Rep, and Nickelodeon (Slime Time Live! has been a proud member of Actor’s Equity on Norwegian Cruise Lines and several Association for the past 29 years, working in productions of Dora the Explorer Live! in some of the country’s finest regional theatres: the US and Canada). Bert is an associate the Alley Theatre (Houston, TX), the Dallas professor of theatre and the coordinator Theatre Center (Dallas, TX), Stage-West of the Theatre Design & Technology BFA (Springfield, MA), the Pioneer Memorial (Salt program at the University of Central Florida Lake City, UT), and the Colorado Shakespeare in Orlando. Festival (Boulder, CO). Among her favorite Florida Rep productions are The 25th Annual ROB SILER*** (Lighting and Projection Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Dingdong, Designer) FLORIDA REP: Disgraced, Outside Split in Three, The Fantasticks, Lend Me a Mullingar. OFF BROADWAY: Occupied Tenor, August: Osage County, Sylvia, and God Territories (59E59). REGIONAL (select of Carnage. Amy has been happily married credits): Night Train 57 (Kennedy Center to her husband of 22 years, Michael. Michael & National Tour); Erminia/The Enchanted is an adjunct faculty member at Marymount Forest (Opera Lafayette); Brooklyn, Bonnie Manhattan and a terrific partner and father & Clyde, Urinetown (Monumental Theatre to their children Jesse Cheyenne and Company); Orfeo ed Euridice, Orphée aux Caleb Dakota. enfers (Maryland Opera Studio); Floyd Collins, Into The Woods (Weathervane Repertory BERT SCOTT*** (Set Designer) Off- Theatre); Les Misérables, Red (Riverside Broadway designs include According to Theatre). ASSISTANT: A Delicate Balance, The Goldman, Bass for Picasso, The Unexpected Front Page (Broadway); Broadway Center Guest, The Cocktail Hour, The Middle Ages, Stage: In the Heights (Kennedy Center); The The Rules of Charity, and many others. Prince of Egypt (Tuacahn Ampitheatre); Regionally, Bert has designed for Stages St. The Invisible Hand, In the Heights, Carousel Louis, Theatre West Virginia (where he served (Olney Theatre Center); Three Sisters for seven seasons as Resident Designer), the (Studio Theatre, DC). BFA from Shenandoah Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Mark University, MFA from University of Maryland. Twain Playhouse (Branson, MO), Theatre by Love and thanks to Colleen.

SPECIAL THANKS Drew Johnson Jesseca Terhaar

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