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She’s Come Undone A1

By Wally Lamb Adapted and Directed by Kelly Kitchens

A-1 Welcome A-2 She’s Come Undone Credits A-7 Meet the Cast and Crew A-13 Thank You to Our Contributors A-16 Company Information

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ENCORE ARTS NEWS FROM CITY ARTS MAGAZINE Beautiful Dreamer Alice Gosti dances herself home.

BY AMANDA MANITACH WHO Alice Gosti, 28-year-old dancer, choreographer, performer and filmmaker from Perugia, Italy. Gosti moved to Seattle eight years ago to study dance and film at the University of Washington. Her work is inspired by durational performance art by artists like Marina Abramovic , Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Gina Pane, Yves Klein and Jan Fabre. STYLE GUIDE “As a kid, most of my clothes were hand-me-downs from my brother and family friends, so I’ve always mixed and matched. I love primary colors. I think of Mondrian a lot. Nail polish helps me not chew my nails. I choose a pair of shoes only if I can run in them. Underwear is the most difficult and important item of clothing.” ARCHITECT OF EXPERIENCE Gosti calls herself a “space transformer,” a title bor- rowed from Yoko Ono. Her performance pieces consider every sensual element of the environment, manipulating temperature, taste, sound, smell and textures to evoke memories and emotions in the audience. “I am interested in eradicating the misconception of dance as an art form for the elite,” Gosti says. “I would like to move beyond the fish-tank feeling in which dancers are seen as beautiful, exotic fish.” RUNS IN THE FAMILY The child of artists (her Italian father was an architect, her American mother a graphic designer), Gosti was always the kid running around at art openings. Eventually her parents began interactive installations and perfor- mances as the artist team SANDFORD&GOSTI. “Dreamers themselves, they taught me early on to follow mine,” Gosti says. HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS Growing up bilingual, Gosti never felt like she quite belonged one place or another. “Whenever I was in Italy, I fantasized about living in the States,” she says. “When I finally moved to here, I wanted to go back. Dance and art have been about creating my own language, my own world. I wanted to

create a home for myself wherever I went.” LAUREN MAX

4 ENCORE STAGES increase long-term organizational and funding sustainability. With the completion of our three-year strategic plan (which you can view on our website), we are moving forward to achieve specific goals and objectives that will help to: • Expand Book-It’s education, mainstage, and outreach programming • Increase Book-Its capacity for the development of new work and steward new scripts for future productions • Increase Book-Its ability to hire the best artists, designers, and staff, and to continue to maintain our high-quality production values • Begin planning for a new and/or improved performance Thriving and and rehearsal space that will meet our growing needs growing • Maintain a six-month cash reserve The Book-It staff, circa June 2013. With all our new initiatives and projects, it feels really great to be at Book-It! Of course, to make it all happen, we count th Welcome to the 24 Season at Book-It! I am so excited about on your support. We hope you’ll consider making a multi- this coming season and here’s why: year pledge to support Book-It and its mission: To transform We’re producing four amazing novels that I know you’ll great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive love; production and inspire audiences to read. You may know that the cost of your ticket covers about 50% of what it actually We’re continuing our second stage Circumbendibus with a performance at one of the great new spaces in Seattle, West of costs to bring these amazing novels to life on stage. The gifts Lenin; you make will ensure that Book-It can continue to thrive for many years to come. To learn more about supporting Book-It, Our Arts and Education program is thriving and growing; and to see the people who already do, turn to page A-11. plan to join us for our first annual Food for Thought Breakfast on October 24 in support of our education initiatives (see page A-11); Thank you for joining us for our opening production of the season, Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone. I look forward to We have had to say goodbye to some of our wonderful staff seeing you at the theatre throughout the year. who have gone on to do very exciting things with their lives, but we are thrilled about the new staff members who have joined the Book-It family: Scott Herman, Patron Services Charlotte Tiencken Manager; Michelle Berweiller, House Manager; and Will Managing Director Abrahamse, Production Manager; We are already planning our 25th Anniversary season, which will be filled with more world-premiere adaptations, and new events and programs; The Board of Trustees and I are working hard to help Book-It achieve a critical operating capacity that will

ENCORE ARTS PROGRAMS A-1 Book-It Repertory Theatre’s 2013-14 Season

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb September 18 - October 13, 2013

Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley february 12 - march 9, 2014

truth like the sun by Jim LYnch april 23 - may 18, 2014

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay plus... by Michael Chabon circumbendibus june 7 - july 13, 2014 is back! Jesus’ son by denis johnson

nov 6 - 24, 2013 literature, meet theatre. for tickets: 206.216.0833 www.book-it.org She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb Adapted and Directed by Kelly Kitchens

cast John Bianchi Mr. Pucci / Ensemble Susanna Burney Roberta / Ensemble Trevor Cushman † Eric / Ensemble Rachel Fitzgerald Dottie / Ensemble Julie Jamieson Grandma David Anthony Lewis* Dr. Shaw / Thayer / Ensemble Jocelyn Maher Dolores Cobey Mandarino* Tony / Ensemble Trevor Y. Marston Jack / Ensemble Andre Nelson Dante / Ensemble Allie Pratt † Jeanette / Kippy / Ensemble Betsy Schwartz* Bernice / Ensemble

Victoria Thompson Stage Manager Miranda C. Pratt* Assistant Stage Manager

Artistic Team Andrea Bryn Bush Scenic Designer Robert J. Aguilar Lighting Designer Chelsea Cook Costume Designer Dustin Morache Sound Designer Catherine Cornell Properties Master Tom Dewey Fight Choreographer Will Abrahamse Production Manager plus... circumbendibus * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the is back! † Book-It Acting Intern Jesus’ son by denis johnson

Season Support Media Support nov 6 - 24, 2013 Seattle Office of

Additional generous support is provided by individuals, and by Green Diamond Resource Company, The Ex Anima Fund, and The Williams Miller Family Foundation.

Many thanks to all our supporters! ENCORE ARTS PROGRAMS A-3 The hisTory of The Mind A Timeline of American Mental health Care and resources drAMATurgy by MAliA ZurCher

The U.S. has come a long way in the treatment and the recognition of mental illness. In the 1960s and ’70s—the time covered in She’s Come Undone when Dolores needs help—many improvements to mental health care were underway. However, mental healthcare reform is still relatively recent. This delay has largely been due to a widespread misunderstanding and stigmatized notion of mental illness dating back to ancient Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and Indian cultures. Instead of seeing mental issues as an illness, poor mental health was widely believed to be a sign of spiritual taint, punishment from the gods, or demonic possession. This attitude persisted throughout the Middle Ages and into the 18th century, when better understanding and care of the mentally ill came into motion. Here are some mileposts on the way to today’s mental health treatment practices:

late 18th century 1946 Phillippe Pinel, a French physician, takes over a French U.S. President Harry Truman signs the National Mental asylum and banishes the use of chains and shackles to restrain Health Act, which helps establish the National Institute of patients. He moves patients from dungeons to rooms with Mental Health. The NIMH begins research into the brain, natural lighting, and allows patients to spend time outdoors, behavior, and the mind, in an effort to reduce the prevalence paving the way for a larger mental health reform. of mental illness. 1840s 1950s American mental health activist Dorothea Dix grows so Anti-psychotic drugs are made available and effectively disgusted with the mistreatment of mental health patients in control the symptoms of psychotic patients. Behavior therapy Massachusetts that she rallies for 40 years to help create 32 is developed to help treat phobias. Therapies such as Gestalt state mental hospitals. Therapy focus on therapist/client relationships and help patients fully realize their potential. late 19th century Due to overcrowding and inhumane treatment, mental health 1963 patients are still not receiving proper care in state hospitals. The Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act Nellie Bly, a World reporter, goes undercover as a closes most state psychiatric hospitals in the U.S., and does patient to expose the mistreatment of the mentally ill. Her not allow anyone to be admitted unless they are a threat work helps provide more funding to improve mental health to themselves or others. In a push to de-institutionalize treatment. mental health, another act comes to pass in 1963: the Mental Retardation Facilities Act. Together, these acts grant federal 1908 funding to the development of community-based mental Clifford Beers publishes the autobiography A Mind That Found health services. Itself, which exposes the inhumane treatment he received at a Connecticut mental hospital. He founds the National 1979 Committee for Mental Hygiene, which later becomes the The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill forms, and provides National Mental Health Association. The NMHA is dedicated mental health patients with support, advocacy, education, to bringing awareness to and advocating for mental health, and research. and is the largest organization of its kind in the U.S. 1980 1930s About one third of the homeless population is considered Lobotomies and electro-convulsive therapy (shock mentally ill. treatments) become two of the leading mental health practices in the nation. Lobotomies are used for the next 1981 20 years to treat depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, and The Reagan Administration revokes the Mental Health obsessions. Systems Act, which cuts funding to community mental

A-4 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE healthcare and pushes mental healthcare policy-making into the same systems as physical healthcare. Many mentally ill people without health insurance go without adequate healthcare. resourCes 1986 Dolores overcomes many periods of darkness in The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia She’s Come Undone, and finds that she does not need and Depression is founded, and becomes the largest non- to walk through her challenges alone. Here are governmentally funded organization to raise funds for research on some resources if you or anyone you know can brain disorders. relate to Dolores’ story:

1990 The national suicide The Americans with Disabilities Act is passed, prohibiting Prevention lifeline discrimination against people with mental or physical disabilities/ 1 (800) 273-TALK illnesses. The Child-help usA Crisis line 2008 For anyone reporting/living through child abuse. The Mental Health Parity and Addictions Equity Act ensures that 1 (800) 4-A-CHILD the limits on mental health insurance are the same as those on physical health insurance. The King County Mental health Plan Offers specialized mental health care, including treatment for addiction/substance abuse. www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/ MentalHealth.aspx

The Crisis Clinic Provides a 24-hour hotline with King County treatment referrals for those who do not have access to mental health care, includes resources for addiction/substance abuse. (206) 461-3222

harborview Center for sexual Assault and Traumatic stress Located in Seattle, WA and dedicated to providing care to anyone affected by sexual assault/trauma. (206) 744-1600.

rape, Abuse, and incest national network (rAinn) national sexual Assault hotline Confidential help and support for anyone affected by sexual assault. 1 (800) 656-HOPE. www.rainn.org

Sources The Kim Foundation: www.thekimfoundation.org Mental Health America: www.mentalhealthamerica.net Unite for Sight: www.uniteforsight.org/mental-health/module2 PBS: A Brilliant Madness. www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/timeline National Alliance on Mental Illness: www.namidupage.org/advocacy/ advocacy-toolkit/advocacy-time-line www.goodtherapy.org/Gestalt_Therapy.html Electronic Journal of Sociology: www.sociology.org: “Ronald Reagan and the Commitment of the Mentally Ill: Capital, Interest Groups, and the Eclipse of Social Policy” by Alexander R. Thomas. www.sociology.org/ content/vol003.004/thomas.html Health Affairs: www.content.healthaffairs.org: “Mental Health in the Mainstream of Health Care” by Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied www.content.healthaffairs.org/content/26/6/1539.full

ENCORE ARTS PROGRAMS A-5 When I read She’s Come Undone almost 20 years ago, it was a book I couldn’t put notes down; and it became a story that stayed from with me across the years. Perhaps a letter thedirector written about the same time to Wally Lamb by a then mentally ill young man &adapter helps explain why Dolores Price captured my heart and my imagination. He wrote: I didn’t write to bear [sic] my soul or anything, Mr. Lamb, but when I was an inpatient at the Institute for Living for two and a half years, I read a lot and thought a lot, and one of my ridiculous thoughts/fantasies was that if I were to have a literary character dinner party, I would invite, being 27 but still pathetically immature, [Salinger’s] Holden Caulfield, [Hemmingway’s] Jake Barnes, [Kate Chopin’s] Edna Pontellier, and [John Updike’s] Rabbit Angstrom (the young one). What I wanted to tell you is that I’m extending an invitation to Dolores Price for that dinner party…I wasn’t fat as a kid like Dolores, but when I got to the I.O.L. and they hit me with Thorazine, etc., etc., suddenly (now) I weigh a hundred pounds more than I did in college .And though I never tried to drown myself as Dolores did—I was a razor man— the scene with the [dead] whale was amazing. I felt like she was fighting for me... And at the end, I felt happy for her and really lifted. Thanks for writing your book. Give my love to Dolores! Shalom, David F. I, like David F. and countless others, made a friend for life with Dolores Price and her story; and I, too, felt like she was fighting for me. She is an unexpected, imperfect heroine who makes us feel we are not alone in our struggles. Her triumph gives us hope that we, too, can find a measure of peace and grace no matter what life throws at us or what we throw back. Ultimately, it is a story that affirms, scary though it may be at times, that having the courage to forgive ourselves and others and having the courage to offer and accept love is the best risk of all.

Top to bottom: Director Kelly Kitchens; Jocelyn Maher and David Anthony Kelly Kitchens Lewis; Jocelyn Maher. Rehearsal photos by Shannon Erickson. Adapter & Director

Wally Lamb is the Connecticut-born and bred writer of several novels, the first of which was She’s Come Undone. While teaching high school English, he changed direction, went to graduate school and began writing novels. She’s Come Undone was published eight years after he received his MFA from Vermont College. His subsequent works, I Know This Much Is True (1998—another Oprah Book Club selection) and The Hour I First Believed(2008), have also garnered notable critical acclaim. His newest novel, We Are Water, has an October 2013 release date. In addition to his own writing, Lamb has edited two bestselling anthologies of writing authored by inmates at the maximum security women’s prison in Connecticut, Author Wally Lamb where he has taught since 1999. Wally Lamb and his family live in Connecticut. A-6 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE meet the Cast

John BiAnChi rAChel FiTzgerAld JoCelyn mAher Mr. Pucci / Ensemble Dottie / Ensemble Dolores John is thrilled to be Rachel is thrilled to Jocelyn is incredibly working with Book- be performing with grateful to be making It Repertory Theatre Book-It for the first her Book-It debut in again, having performed time. Seattle audiences She’s Come Undone. in the original may recognize her as She is a recent graduate adaptations of Emma, Howards End, and Don Helen in FAT PIG with Artattack Theater, from the University of Washington, where Quixote. He has also appeared locally at ACT as one of the Amtrak Cascade Fairies, or she earned her BA in drama performance Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Annex touting the virtues of spatulas for King and communications. Along with her time Theatre, Theater Schmeater, Seattle Public County Recycling. Favorite roles include the at UW, Jocelyn has worked with various Theater, Seattle Musical Theatre Workshop, Nurse in Romeo and Juliet with Harlequin other companies around the Puget Sound Centerstage Theatre, and Capitol Hill Arts Productions and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare area including Bainbridge Performing Center. Some favorite roles performed Festival, Lucy in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Arts, Young American’s Theatre Company include Mr. Elton in Emma, Septimus in Brown with Como Lakeside, and Zubaida and Productions. Past roles Arcadia, DeFlores in The Changeling, David Ula/Catherine in The Laramie Project include Lady in Macbeth, Barbara in Santaland Diaries, and all eight characters with Tacoma Little Theatre. Once upon a in boom!, Vera in Distracted, Barbara in of the solo show, 21A. time in , Rachel performed August: Osage County, Mrs. Bergman in on “Saturday Night Live” and was Rosie Spring’s Awakening, Chloe in Arcadia, O’Donnell’s stand-in and body-double. Lisabette in Anton in Show Business, and SUSAnnA BUrney roles in The Laramie Project and The Roberta / Ensemble Caucasian Chalk Circle. Susanna’s Book-It JUlie JAmieSon credits include Howards Grandma End, Trains, and many CoBey mAndArino* school tours. Other Julie was last seen local acting credits on Book-It’s stage as Tony / Ensemble include Demon Dreams and the Samuel Nurse Angela in The Cobey was last seen in Beckett solo piece Rockaby at West of Lenin; Cider House Rules, Book-It’s production Torso, Teensploitation, A Terrible Price for Parts I and II. She of The Financial Lives Whimsy, and The Chris Schussler Incident also played Big Red in Even Cowgirls Get of the Poets. He moved with Printer’s Devil; Electra, Romeo and Juliet, the Blues, and Caroline in The Highest Tide. to Seattle last year Macbeth, and As You Like It with Seattle She recently played Polina in The Seagull, from New York City where he was an actor, Shakespeare Company; and As You Like It and performed at ACT Theatre’s Central director, writer, and teacher for more than with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Heating Lab, and she plans to tour with that 15 years. He has worked with Roundabout Wooden O Theatre. She has also worked production to Uzbekistan. Other favorite Theatre, Public Theater, Huntington Theatre, with Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Empty roles include Catherine in Arms and the and Soho Rep, among others. Cobey was a Space, House of Dames, Theater Schmeater, Man and Alta in Language Archive at Seattle cast member of the revival of David Rabe’s 14/48, ConWorks, and Annex. Susanna has Public Theater; and the Nurse in Romeo Streamers, directed by Tony Award nominee performed in New York, New England, Los and Juliet and Montjoy in with Scott Ellis, which earned him and his fellow Angeles, Minneapolis, and the Edinburgh Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O cast members a top ten pick of 2009 by Festival. Film credits include The Beans of Theatre. Julie is the mother of three fantastic Charles Isherwood of . He Egypt, Maine, and John Carpenter’s The Ward. children, of whom she couldn’t be more has appeared on “Law & Order,” “Saturday proud. Night Live,” and “Six Degrees,” and is currently shooting motion capture for the Trevor CUShmAn † lead role in an untitled Warner Brothers video game. Cobey holds his MFA in acting from Eric / Ensemble dAvid AnThony lewiS* The Theatre School at DePaul University. Trevor is elated to be www.cobeymandarino.com performing in Book-It’s Dr. Shaw / Thayer / She’s Come Undone. He Ensemble was last seen playing David is happy to Trevor y. mArSTon Alan Seymour in return to Book-It–he ReAct’s production of Picnic. Other roles played several dozen Jack / Ensemble include Robert in A Language of Their Own, roles in the most recent production of The Trevor is delighted also with ReAct; Mr. Samsa in Metamorphosis Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, and played to be making his with British American Drama Academy; and Levin in Anna Karenina last season. He Book-It debut. He is a Rudy in Kind Ness with Whitman College. graduated from Cornish College of the Arts graduate of the PATP Trevor has a BA in theatre from Whitman late in the last millennium and has been at the University of College. fortunate to continue working ever since. Washington and most recently starred in Favorite roles include le Vicomte de Valmont the feature film Pacific Aggression directed by in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Edward Hyde in Shaun Scott. Favorite roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar and Friar Laurence in Romeo * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Franz Liebkind in of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the The Producers, and The Ghost of Christmas & Juliet with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s United States. Present in A Christmas Carol. Educational Touring Program; Peter in † Book-It Intern Prelude to a Kiss with ReAct; and Simon in ENCORE ARTS PROGRAMS A-7 meet the Cast

Caucasian Chalk Circle, Ferdinand in Love’s Theatre Company, where she appeared Andrea was formerly an ensemble member Labour’s Lost, and Richard/Max in The Lover in Foreclosure, On the Nature of Dust, and and resident designer at Washington with University of Washington’s School of Orange Flower Water. She is also a founding Ensemble Theatre. She also received the Drama. member of the upstart crow collective and 2010 Gregory Award for outstanding scenic played Arthur in the 2006 production of design as well as a Seattle Times Footlight King John. Betsy holds an MFA from the Award. Andre nelSon Professional Actors Training Program at Southern Methodist University, and a BFA Dante / Ensemble in theatre from the University of New roBerT J. AgUilAr Andre is delighted Mexico. to be back on stage Lighting Designer with Book-It. Robert is delighted to be designing for Recently Andre has Book-It once again! Upcoming designs been in productions elsewhere include 7 Spots on the Sun for of Pygmalion with Seattle Shakespeare Artistic Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Bo-Nita Company, The Art of Racing in the Rain for Seattle Repertory Theatre, Little Shop with Book-It, River Ice with Playwrights’ of Horrors for the 5th Avenue Theatre, and Begin Again for zoe|juniper. Recent designs Theatre, and a workshop production of The meet the staff Weatherman Project with Seattle Repertory include Next to Normal for Contemporary Theatre. He is particularly proud of being in Classics, Trails for Village Theatre, I Am My the Freehold Engaged Theatre’s production Kelly KiTChenS Own Wife for Seattle Repertory Theatre, Hairspray in Concert of King Lear, which toured to Washington Adapter / Director for The 5th Avenue Theatre, and A Crack in Everything for prisons, and The Platform Playwright’s Kelly is a professional actor, director, adapter, zoe|juniper. He has also designed for ACT Festival, a showcase of plays written by and teaching artist who has been living and Theatre and Seattle Children’s Theatre. homeless and at-risk youth. Andre also plays working in Seattle since 1997. She is the Robert is the managing director and resident in the local rock band Loyal Kites. He has a artistic associate of Seattle Public Theater, a lighting designer of Contemporary Classics; BFA in theater from Cornish College of the member of Actors’ Equity Association, and he is the lighting associate for Seattle Arts. a member of the Sandbox Artists Collective. Repertory Theatre. Locally she has worked with Book-It, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Opera, Seattle † Allie PrATT Shakespeare Company, Endangered Species ChelSeA CooK Jeanette / Kippy / Project, Theater Schmeater, Taproot Theatre, Costume Designer Ensemble Annex Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare’s Since making the move Wooden O Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, Chelsea is very excited to be designing her from to Sandbox Radio, 14/48, and Washington first show for Book-It. She is a freelance Seattle last year, Allie Ensemble Theatre. Recent projects include costume designer and shop manager, having has worked with Seattle directing The Understudy for Seattle Public also worked at Seattle Repertory Theatre Shakespeare Company, Live Girls! Theater, Theater; directing Wagner Sketches for and the Intiman Theatre Festival. Favorite and award-winning Seattle-based playwright Seattle Opera; stage directing the Our Earth designs include Trails and Lizzie Borden Wayne Rawley. She is thrilled to be making cycle of original operas for Seattle Opera, with Village Theatre, Spring Awakening with her Book-It debut. She has trained at PCPA touring; and performing the role of Kate Balagan Theatre, Cabaret with Second Story Theaterfest and recently received her BFA in The Taming of the Shrew and directing Rep, and Radiance, a new play workshop from Cornish College of the Arts. The Tempest both with Seattle Shakespeare with Seattle Repertory Theatre. Her work www.alliepratt.com Company. Upcoming projects include has also been seen at ACT Theatre, Seattle directing Romeo and Juliet and Othello for Public Theater, Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan the touring program of Seattle Shakespeare Society, and iDiom Theatre. Chelsea is also a Company and The Santaland Diaries and member of Washington Ensemble Theatre. BeTSy SChwArTz* Arcadia for Seattle Public Theater. She Bernice / Ensemble holds her BA in theatre and English from Betsy closed out Book- Vanderbilt University and her MFA in acting dUSTin morAChe It’s last season playing from the University of Texas. Sound Designer the majority of the Dustin is excited for his first show at Book- women characters in It Repertory Theatre as well as getting the The Financial Lives AndreA Bryn BUSh chance to help to tell this tough, truthful, of the Poets . Prior to that, her last Book- Scenic Designer and inspirational story! Dustin is a local Romance It credit was Olga Ivanovna in Andrea is thrilled to be designing with Book- sound and light designer who graduated With Double Bass . Betsy has performed at It again. Previous works with the company from Seattle Pacific University with a degree Intiman, ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare include The Financial Lives of the Poets, in theatre. His work has been seen and heard Company, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, at Seattle Public Theater, Seattle Musical Village Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, The The Art of Racing in the Rain, and The Cider Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Seattle Pacific Empty Space, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. House Rules, Parts I and II. Her work has University Theatre, Nathan Hale High Betsy is a company member of New Century been seen at Seattle Shakespeare Company, School Theatre, Infinity Box Theatre Project, Seattle Public Theater, Contemporary Downtown Theatre Project, and Stop * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the Classics, Seattle Musical Theatre, Azeotrope, Talking Film Productions. United States. The 5th Avenue Theatre AMT Touring † Book-It Intern Company, and Cornish College of the Arts. A-8 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Artistic

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last season. Miranda is the The Awakening(West Los Angeles Garland CATherine Cornell production manager at Seattle Shakespeare Award), Howards End, and The Cider House Properties Master Company and has worked as a stage Rules, Parts I and II (original production). Catherine is a scenic and prop designer manager with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Myra has performed at Seattle Repertory in the Seattle area. After earning her BFA Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, Intiman, New City Theatre, and the from the University of Michigan, she hit Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, 14/48, Mark Taper Forum. Myra is the recipient, the local theatre scene designing shows such Theater Schmeater, Paradise Theatre School, with Jane Jones, of the Paul G. Allen Family as Master Harold… and the boys for West and Balagan Theatre. Prior to moving to Foundation Founders Award, the 2010 of Lenin and Undo for Annex Theatre. She Seattle, she worked at the La Jolla Playhouse Women of Influence from Puget Sound found a wonderful home at Book-It as prop and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Business Journal, and was named by Seattle artisan for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Miranda has a BFA in stage management Times an Unsung Hero and Uncommon Uncensored and The Financial Lives of the from Webster University’s Conservatory of Genius for their 20-year contribution to life Poets and set designer for their Arts and Theatre Arts in St. Louis, Mo. in the Puget Sound region. Education Program. Her pre-Seattle credits include working as a scenic artist on Walt Disney Pictures’ Oz: The Great and Powerful, will ABrAhAmSe JAne JoneS scenic designer for Cloud Nine for the Production Manager Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director University of Michigan, and scenic designer With more than a decade in theatre and Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding for Cabaret for MUSKET. nearly 100 productions under his belt, Will’s www.catcornell.com co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory work as a set designer and scenic artist has Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 24 years been seen on the stages of Tacoma Musical of staging literature, she has performed, Playhouse, ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, Tom dewey adapted, and directed works by such Seattle Public Theater, and Coeur d’Alene literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Fight Choreographer Summer Theatre, among others. He has Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Tom is honored to join the team of She’s served as the technical director for Tacoma Pam , Raymond Carver, Frank Come Undone. As an actor and fight Musical Playhouse and ArtsWest Playhouse O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, choreographer, his work has been seen and Gallery. Throughout the years, Will has Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, around the Puget Sound Region. For Book- worked closely with the drama programs Daphne du Maurier, and Jane Austen. A It, he has choreographed the fights for Great of Auburn Riverside High School and veteran actress of 30 years, she has played Expectations and The Financial Lives of the Enumclaw High School, helping to foster the leading roles in many of America’s most Poets. He also played the role of Fisher in next generation of theatre technicians. Will prominent regional theatres. Most recently, Border Songs. Other credits include Brad in studied technical theatre and architecture she played the role of Miss Havisham in Gloucester Blue at Harlequin Productions, at Washington State University and The Book-It’s Great Expectations. Film and TV Titus Lartius in Coriolanus with Seattle University of Idaho. credits include The Hand That Rocks the Shakespeare Company, and Petruchio in Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin The Taming of the Shrewwith GreenStage. Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom is an actor combatant with the Society myrA PlATT Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s of American Fight Directors and a proud Founding Co-Artistic Director adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider graduate of the theatre arts and history House Rules, Parts I and II, which enjoyed As co-founder, director, adapter, actor, and programs at the University of Puget Sound successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark composer, Myra has helped Book-It produce in Tacoma. Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation over 100 world premieres. Most recently Award, best director) and in New York she adapted and directed The Financial (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Lives of the Poets, nominated in the 2013 Jane directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth viCToriA ThomPSon Gregory Awards for Outstanding Director Night at Portland Center Stage which Stage Manager and Outstanding Production. Her other won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Victoria is the production stage manager for adapting/directing credits include The Direction and Production. For Book-It, Book-It Repertory Theatre where she has River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came she has directed Adventures of Huckleberry worked on numerous productions including Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I Finn: Uncensored, The House of Mirth, The Moby-Dick, or The Whale, The Cider House Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Rules, Parts I and II, and most recently Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored. Cloud, A Telephone Call, and A Child’s The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Other credits include The Tempest and Christmas in Wales. Directing credits include Pageant, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Twelfth Night, or What You Will with Seattle Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, winner Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, Country, and Sweet Thursday. She adapted of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards The Skrikerwith Janice Findley Productions, The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted for Outstanding Production. In 2008 she, Love Horse with Washington Ensemble Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to Theatre, and several productions with Seattle Jones, and composed music for Prairie be named by the Seattle Times among seven Shakespeare Company’s Educational Touring Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius Program. Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), for their 20-year contribution to life in the The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the mirAndA C. PrATT* Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Assistant Stage Manager Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union Miranda is very excited to be back at Book-It Her acting credits include Prairie Nocturne, of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. after stage managing The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, † Book-It Intern ENCORE ARTS PROGRAMS A-9 production staff

2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle mAliA zUrCher † Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence Assistant Director / Dramaturg award from Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and emmA Pihl † was a finalist for the Stage Directors and Stage Management Intern Choreographers Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award. KAThleen le Coze Properties Artisan ChArloTTe m. TienCKen devon BrighT Managing Director Charlotte is an administrator, director, Master Electrician producer, and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting AnderS BolAng fields for 28 years. Before moving back to Master Carpenter the Seattle area in September 2003, she was general manager at Jacob’s Pillow Dance CArmen rodrigUez Festival in Massachusetts. As president of her own consulting firm, Scarlet Productions, Charge Artist she has worked with companies across the country, including Chitresh Das Dance Andrew CroSS Company in San Francisco, Ben Munisteri Light Board Operator Dance in New York, Seattle Theatre Group, EnJoy Productions in Seattle, and Westwind, in Oregon among many others. She has glen milligAn taught at Seattle Pacific University, the Sound Board Operator University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, and the University of Puget lAUren KArBowSKi Sound. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, Wardrobe Mass. for seven years. Charlotte is a member of SDC, the union of stage directors and † Book-It Intern choreographers and is past president of the Board of Arts Northwest. She has served on the Board of the Pat Graney Dance Company, on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission and special thanks to 4 Culture, and was president of the Board of Theatre Puget Sound. Her most recent directing credits include Into the Woods for Annie Lareau Vashon Drama Dock, Eugene Onegin for OCD Seattle Vashon Opera, and Rashomon for Seattle Pacific University. She lives on Vashon Island King County Sexual Assault with her husband Bill, three cats, and two Resource Center dogs. Richard Gold Pongo Teen Writing

affiliations ACTorS’ eqUiTy ASSoCiATion (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark. Book-It Repertory Theatre is a proud member of TheATre PUgeT SoUnd

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Help kids fall in love with words. Teach kids to tell their stories. Unleash the creative impulse in teachers and students.

The Book-It Repertory Theatre Board of Trustees invites you to Food for Thought A Fundraising Celebration of our Arts & Education Program Thursday, October 24, 2013

Please join us! • Meet the visionary educators and artists who lead our Arts & Education Program. • See how our residency programs and workshops partner with school principals and teachers to provide a life- changing learning experience for students. • Experience our program in action.

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L to R: West Woodland residency; photo by Chris Bennion, Skippyjon Jones on tour; Foster High School students participate in a workshop, photo by Chris Bennion. ArtsFund strengthens the community by supporting the arts through leadership, advocacy and grant making.

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Support from The Company, Microsoft Corporation, K&L Gates, POP, Sellen Construction, Starbucks Coffee Company, U.S. Bank and Weyerhaeuser Company includes employee workplace giving. $25,000 - $49,999 $10,000 - $24,999 RealNetworks Financial Resources Group Alaska Airlines, Inc. Regal Entertainment Group Fishing Company of Alaska ADP/Cobalt* BNY Mellon Wealth Management* Seattle Foundation Foss Maritime Company Amgen Foundation Columbia Bank* Snoqualmie Tribe Gaco Western, Inc. BigHouse Production Comcast Sparling* Goldman, Sachs & Co. Chihuly Garden and Glass The Commerce Bank of Washington* Symetra Financial Corporation* Jones Lang LaSalle DLA Piper* Davis Wright Tremaine LLP* Washington Dental Service Mithun* EXCLAIM LLC Dorsey and Whitney LLP* Nintendo of America Inc.* Getty Images* Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle* $5,000 - $9,999 PhenoPath Laboratories PLLC KeyBank KING Broadcasting* Alaskan Copper & Brass Company and Puget Sound Business Journal King County Employees* Medical Consultants Network, Inc.* Alaskan Copper Works Raisbeck Foundation Perkins Coie* Nordstrom, Inc. APCO Worldwide Riddell Williams P.S. Russell Investment Group Presentation Services Big Door Inc. Seattle Mariners Baseball Club Stoel Rives LLP* Puget Sound Energy* Clise Properties Inc. Union Bank Washington State Combined Fund R.D. Merrill Company Dwaffler Drive* Ernst & Young LLP *Includes employee workplace giving Sally S. Behnke Mark and Arlene Tibergien Aya Hamilton Arts Benefactor Circle Pam and Gary Beil Dr. Clyde and Mrs. Kathleen Phillip and Sally Hayes Ray Heacox and Cynthia Gold Club Michael and Anne Bentley Wilson Richard and Marilyn Herzberg Huffman Toby Bright Ann P. Wyckoff Kevin and Eddy Hoffberg $100,000 and up Peter and Peggy Horvitz Lori Campana Lynn Hubbard and David Mari Horita Neukom Family Margaret Inouye C. Kent and Sandra C. Carlson Zapolsky Dan and Connie Hungate Mary Pigott Glenn Kawasaki Matthew Clapp Randle Inouye Deborah Killinger $50,000 - $99,999 Melanie Curtice Encore Ed Kim Thomas and Gwen Kroon Allan and Nora Davis $2,500 - $4,999 James Kraft Joshua Green Foundation, Inc. Benjamin Leifer Stephen P. and Paula R. Mrs. Jane Davis and Dr. David Kim A. Anderson John and Tina Lapham Charlotte Lin and Robert Porter R. Davis Bob and Clodagh Ash Don Marcy Reynolds Sandy and Chris McDade Pete and Julie Rose Kevin and Lynne Fox John H. Bauer Tim Mauk and Noble Golden Moccasin Lake Foundation Ms. Heather Howard Lisa and Nick Beard Blanche and Stephen Maxwell $25,000 - $49,999 Douglas and Theiline Andrea and Steve Jones Kathleen Pierce Paul C. Mayer Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Scheumann Richard and Francine Loeb Sue and Artie Buerk Anthony R. Miles Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence and Sequoia Foundation Family Foundation Linda Cheng Douglas and Nancy Norberg Mary Ellen Hughes Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation Douglas and Joyce McCallum Peter and Susan Davis Nancy S. Nordhoff Patricia Britton and Stellman Mary Snapp Bruce and Jolene McCaw Melanie and Robert Dressel Glenna Olson and Conrad Keehnel James and Katherine Tune Matthew and Mary Ellen Nancy and James Dunn Wouters Arlene Wright Nickerson Karl Ege Ms. Carol Powell Conductor’s Circle Anonymous (1) Lea Ennis $10,000 - $24,999 Elaine Nonneman Marlene Price Mary Ellen Olander David Ferguson Clifford G. Bunch and David A. Nancy Alvord First Chair Michael and Melanie Fink Norman Archibald Charitable $5,000 - $9,999 Judy Pigott Pritchard Chap and Eve Alvord Ann Ramsay-Jenkins and the Robert Fleming Scott Redman Foundation Dan and Mareth Fulton Judi Beck and Tom A. Alberg Casey Banack William M. Jenkins Fund Stanley D. and Ingrid H. Savage Annette and Daniel Becker Herman and Faye Sarkowsky Lynn and Brian Grant Schoenfeld-Gardner Foundation William Beeks Maria Gunn Jim and Gaylee Duncan Steve Behnen and Mary Maryanne and David Tagney- Gail and Bill Weyerhaeuser Hornsby Jones Darren Hamby Anthony and Linda Whatley

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liTerAry legendS $75,000+ nobel Award Society, cont. The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Donald E. Marcy Holly & Bill Marklyn liTerAry ChAmPionS $25,000+ Marcia Mason ArtsFund • ArtsWA • The Boeing Company • Matthew N. Clapp, Jr. Ellen Maxson Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Mary Piggott • Gladys Rubinstein Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood Sarah Merner & Craig McKibben liTerAry heroeS $10,000+ Susan & Furman Moseley Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser 4Culture • N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier • Sonya & Tom Campion Peter & Jane Powell** Ellen & John Hill • Stellman Keehnel • Lucky Seven Foundation Jo Ann & Jim Roberts The Norcliffe Foundation • Ann Ramsay-Jenkins • Kris & Mike Villott Matt Sauri The Seattle Foundation • The Shubert Foundation, Inc. • Shirley & David Urdal Marc & Stacie Scattergood April J. Williamson • Anonymous (2) Seattle Center Foundation Seattle International Film Festival* literary Classics $5,000+ leadership Circle, cont. Virginia Sly & Richard Wesley Boeing Gift Matching Program Puget Sound Business Journal B. Richal & Karen Smith Joann Byrd** David Quicksall & Rachel Glass** Mary Snapp Jeff & Amanda Cain** Shirley Roberson** Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Sonya & Tom Campion John Schaffer Jared Watson CenturyLink Foundation Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches** Judith Whetzel City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Martha Sidlo Shannon Williams Affairs Deborah Swets** Williams Miller Family Foundation Green Diamond Resource Company Jim & Kathy Tune Merrily Wyman & Karen Bryant Humanities Washington U.S. Bancorp Foundation The Wyman Youth Foundation Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Elizabeth Warman** Anonymous (2) Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Lucy Zuccotti** The Medtronic Foundation Pulitzer Award Society $500+ Nordstrom nobel Award Society $1,000+ Earl Alexander* Larry & Michell Pihl Rachel Alquist** All One Family Fund PONCHO Stephen & Salli Bauer Virginia L. Anderson Lynne & Nick Reynolds** Patricia Britton** Ruth Bailey Garth & Drella Stein** D. Thompson & Karen Challinor Kayti Barnett* The Ex Anima Fund Catherine Clark & Marc Jacques Luther Black & Christina Wright Richard Weening Amy & Matthew Cockburn Lindsay & Tony Blackner Mary Ann & Robert Wiley Bill & Carol Collins Janet Boguch & Kelby Fletcher Andrew & Trish Zuccotti** Collins Group Bruce Bradburn & Meg Holgate Davidson & Co. Matching Gifts Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb leadership Circle $2,500+ Mark Dexter & Deborah Cowley Diana & Chuck Carey Monica Alquist** Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal The Carey Family Foundation Karen Brandvick Baker & Ross Baker** Ellen Maxson Sylvia & Craig Chambers Steven Bull & Christiane Pein** Expedia Gives Matching Gift Program Steve Miller & Pamela Cowan Tony & Emily Cox Firesteed Cellars* Tony & Emily Cox George & Carolyn Cox Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Amy & Paul Curtis Allan & Nora Davis Peter Godman & Munira Rahemtulla Emily Davis Myra Platt & Dave Ellis** Tom & Cande Grogan Dottie Delaney Expedia, Inc. Jay Hereford & Margaret Winsor Diane Douglas Firesteed Cellars* Harold & Mary Frances Hill Jim & Gaylee Duncan Jamie & Leesha Ford Heather Howard Joyce Erickson Amy & Thaddeus Hanscom David Thompson & Judith Jesiolowski Stan & Jane Fields Lucy Helm Clare Kapitan & Keith Schreiber The Film School* Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness** KeyBank Foundation Jean Godden** Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon** Lea Knight Jean Gorecki & Dick Dobyns Darcy & Lee MacLaren Agastya Kohli Laurie Griffith Mary Metastasio** Pam Kendrick** Phyllis Hatfield Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Jeffrey M. Kadet Lynn Murphy** Ed & Laura Littlefield Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Tom & Cheryl Oliver** Lynn Manley & Alexander Lindsey Annie Lareau** Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters Melissa & Don Manning Frank Lawler & Ann McCurdy Bill Block & Susan Leavitt ENCORE ARTS PROGRAMS A-13 honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support!

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Howard • Jennifer Weis • Sandra Waugh • Robert & Leora Wheeler Melissa Huther • Marcia Johnson • Lorna Jordan Steve Wilson & Julie Lin • Elisabeth White • Rachel Wilsey & Sam • Kris Jorgensen & Margey Rubado • Gil Joynt David & Sally S. Wright Bernstein • Blake & Cathy Wilson* • Janet & • Dr. David Kaplan & Dr. Ann Nelson • Joan Anonymous (1) Lawrence Wilson • Anonymous (1) Kalhorn • David Kasik & Jan Levine • Rebecca Kavoussi • Katherine King • Mary J. Klubben national Book Award Society $250+ Pen/Faulkner Award Circle $100+ • James Knapp • Shannon & Richard Knipp • ACT Theatre* • Richard Adair & Susan Petty Carol Adams • Doug Adams • Shawn & Dean W. Koonts • Frances J. Kwapil • Meredith • Shawn & Lynne Aebi • Alderbrook Resort Lynne Aebi • John Aldaya • Connie Anderson Lehr & William Severson • Larry Lewin • & Spa* • Christina Amante • Cinnimin Avena • Virginia L. 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Dubey For the Performing Arts* • Emily Burns • Billie Elaine Mew • Bonnie & Curry Miller • Shyla • Pamela & Kenneth Eakes • Sara Elward Butterfield • Barbara Buxbaum • Christine & Donald Miller • Donna & Robert Parker • • Brent & Katie Enarson • Joyce Erickson Calderon • Jane Camden • Carri Campbell George & Marion Mohler • Becky Monk • Terry • Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman • James & • Hugh Campbell • Linda & Peter Capell • & Cornelia Moore • Morfey’s Cakes* • Christine Denise Fortier • Terry Graham • Cezanne Michela Carpino & Rick Klingele • Cashmere Mosere** • Pam & Don Myers • Kim Namba • Garcia • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Mountain Bed & Breakfast* • Kevin & Jocelyn David Nash & Pat Graves • Riley Neldam* • Dr. Matching Gifts Program • Katharine Godman Ceder • Joyce Chase • Lynne & David Chelimer David Kaplan & Dr. Ann Nelson • Donna & & Jerry Collum** • Diane Grover • Erik & • Marianna Clark & Charles Schafer • Jack Dennis Neuzil • Betty Ngan & Tom Mailhot • Laura Hanson • Frederic & Karin Harder • & Cynthia Clay • Nancy Cleveland • Harvey Dorothy & Aaron Nicholls • Pam & Scott Nolte Nicholas Hart • Mark & Carolyn Holtzen • Sadis & Harriett Cody • Jane Commet • Susan • Deanna & Craig Norsen • Northwest Folk HomeStreet Bank • Robert Hunter • Sarah Connors & Eric Helland • Robert & Mary Life* • Chris Ohlweiler • Martha Oman • Pacific Kohut & Jim Grant • Nancie Kosnoff • Alan Cooper • Garry & Kay Crane • Blair Osborn Northwest Ballet* • Jeff & Lauren Packman • Kristal • Dr. Eric Rose & Eleni Ledesma • & Alice Cunningham • Jim Wilder & Margaret Will Patton & Joni Ostergaard • Steve Pellegrin Lois Levy • David Loren & Julie Lyss Curtin • Melinda Deane & Dan Wheetman & Mary Anne Braund • Sherry Perrault A-14 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont. Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont. gifts in honor & memory Ed & Carol Perrin • Barbara B. Peterson • Nancy Ellingham • Margot & Dave Elsner • Cheryl Peterson • Phoenix Theatre* • Paula Daisy & Joel Emans • Shannon Erickson** • Beth Amsbary & Lisa Dart-Nakon in Honor of Pimental • Anne & Lee Pipkin • Mary Poole • Dr. EM Faustman • Chandler & Janice Felt Rachel Alquist PopCap Games* • Kim Port & Norman Garner • Laura Fischetti • Mary Ellen Flanagan • • Susan Porterfield • Peter & Jane Powell • Carolyn & Rob Fletcher • Deb Fredrikson • Nancy L. Celms, Kate C. Hemer, Connie Racha Noodles & Thai Cuisine* • Diana Julia Geier & Phil Borges • Elizabeth Gilchrist Hungate, and Margaret M. Marshall in Memory Rakow • Bruce & Sonia Ransom • Michelle • Ann Glusker & Peter Hunsberger • Laurie of William Rees Phillips Rebert • Brian & Roberta Reed • Arnold Reich Greig • Scott Guettinger • Corina Hardin • • Dennis Reichenbach • Nancy Reichley & Wier Harmon • Harry’s Daughter Jewelry* • Jeanne Metzger in Honor of Joann Byrd Timothy Higgins • Sarah Reisenauer • Jane Anne Helmholz • Catherine Hennings • Chris Repensek • Jeannette Reynolds • Karen & Higashi • Robert Hunter • Susanne Hussong Corliss Perdaems in Memory of Eric Richter • Roberta Roberts • Lawrence & • Alison Inkley • Lawrence Jackson • Malia Judy Runstad’s father, Gerry Wright Manville Karen Robins • Marga Rose Hancock • H. & Chang Kawaguchi • Vickie Kawakami • Stewart Ross • Ellen Roth • Beth Rutherford** Millett & Patricia Keller • Art Kobayashi • Barbara Rollinger in Memory of • Rebecca Sadinsky • Donna Sand • Kathy Tracy Krauter • Kristi’s Grooming Company* Stephanie Prince’s mother, Mildred Prince Saunders • B. 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Moser • Susan & Harold Mozer • Martha Irish Pub & Restaurant* • Theresa Tamura Mukhalian • Museum of Flight* • John Narver • Gail Tanaka • Eric & Cassandra Taylor • • Malinda Newstrom* • Judy & Stephen Niver *denotes in-kind donation Anne Terry • Kristin & Mark Thomas • Cappy • Warren Northrop • Ellen Nottingham • Heidi **denotes in-kind plus monetary support Thompson • Tom Douglas Restaurants* • Noun & Michael Collins • Nancy & Stephen This list reflects gifts received March 1, 2012 – August 15, Caren Toney • Richard Thorvilson • Jennifer Olsen • Martha Oman • On The Boards* • Pat 2013. Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with Tice • The Two Tides* • Deborah Torgerson • O’Rourke • Helen Ortiz • Timothy O’Sullivan our acknowledgements. 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Jerick Hoffer (left) in Seattle’s Pioneer Square and Brandon Ivie in NYC’s Times Square. Photos by STEVEN MILLER.

JERICK HOFFER rode a wave of BRANDON I can’t remember where I saw you percent—because I was so heavily working as starring roles in productions of Spring perform the first time, but I think you came in a drag queen at that time. I kept missing good while I was doing casting at the 5th, with the rest theatre stuff because I had my head in the clouds. Awakening, RENT and Hedwig before of your Cornish class. I didn’t know that Spring Awakening was going taking reality TV by storm as his alter JERICK That’s right! to be the catalyst to, like, a lot of stuff. It started a BRANDON ego Jinkx Monsoon and winning And I think you came in and you snowball effect for me in Seattle. I don’t know if sang, like, some Kurt Weill? I’ve ever thanked you for that email because it all RuPaul’s Drag Race in May. In July, he JERICK I think I did Cole Porter and 1776. would’ve been completely missed if you hadn’t made his Off-Off-Broadway debut in BRANDON Oh yeah! “Momma Look Sharp”! alerted me to it. JERICK I remember you called to offer me an BRANDON What’s it like now that you’re per- The Vaudevillians, an original musical intern role in—I think it was Candide. I had to turn forming in drag 90 percent of the time? comedy. BRANDON IVIE grew up it down because I was taking an intern role at JERICK Anything I can do to save time when in Seattle and cut his teeth directing Seattle Shakes. I’m doing my makeup and getting ready, I’ll do. BRANDON I remember thinking you were so Because when I do a show a day for six days in a and casting at the 5th Avenue. He interesting and you had this really unique perfor- row, I wanna spend as little time as possible get- now works in New York part-time mance style. It was this sort of throwback, jazzy ting into drag. BRANDON while running Contemporary Classics, performer style, as opposed to a trained musical Of course. theatre singer. You know what I mean? There’re JERICK So I shave my eyebrows off and I have a Seattle-based theatre company so many musical theatre conservatories that acrylic nails. I’ve been able to get my makeup dedicated to new musicals. He pump out talent that oftentimes I can tell where down to an hour and 15 minutes. I used to take someone’s gone to school based on how they sing like two and a half hours. Now I can go into the directed Next to Normal last winter in or how they perform. They teach you how to sing bathroom and an hour later come out as Jinkx. Seattle and he’s currently assistant properly, really high, eight shows a week and It gets tiresome being in drag all the time. My directing his fourth Broadway never lose your voice, ever. It’s this very specific body’s sore. technique and you came in with this really old- BRANDON How often do you get to be Jerick? musical, First Date, which opened school approach that was so unique and refresh- JERICK You know, during the day. [laughs] in August. Hoffer and Ivie caught up ing. I was like, who is this kid? Depending on how busy the week is, maybe every JERICK over the phone in mid-June between I remember seeing you at plenty of other day. Kenny—my best friend and personal auditions. You alerted me to Spring Awakening. assistant—always reminds me that if we went rehearsals and tour dates. I totally would’ve missed that—like 100 anywhere out of drag and I saw drag queens, I’d

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be upset that I wasn’t in drag. I’m just a Virgo wanted me to leave. Because they found someone who can’t be pleased, that’s all. else who did the job a little bit less, you know, BRANDON When I started doing the bi-coastal soul-crushed about it. thing, I had never in my entire life done the So I decided that summer to just be a drag job-to-job, only-freelance thing. As a creature queen and see how long I could do that. I actu- of habit, it’s so scary to try to find a way to do it. ally lived three months off of drag gigs, being I’ll have a month where I don’t have any work. completely freelance and going from bar show to I didn’t get offered First Date until mid-March— bar show and doing any little thing that came my and until then I didn’t have anything lined up way, like staged readings or singing at a mega- for the rest of the year. But then First Date hap- church or something. And now I’m a freelance pened. I worked on A Christmas Story last year drag queen again and I don’t have a free weekend and that’s gonna happen again this year. It’s all until December—because of reality TV. That’s falling into place. what’s crazy to me—this time last year I was JERICK First Date premiered in Seattle, right? working as a custodian at a respite center and BRANDON Yeah. The 5th got a hold of the script now I’m in a new city every day singing torch and really liked it. They did a reading or two and songs to drunk homosexuals. a big workshop. Then they convinced ACT to get BRANDON You’ve become an icon in young gay in bed on it together as a co-production—and culture. In the musical theatre community, Drag that was the world premiere. It sold out and they Race is really popular. Those girls love to work it extended it. I saw it at ACT, but I didn’t work on out, and they love to see drag queens working it it because I was in New York. I thought it was out. During the series, at every party or bar that just so fun and silly and charming.SIF So 072413 when Bill nationalI would 1_3v.pdf go to, everyone would be like, so did you called and asked, what are you doing for the see Drag Race this week? And I would keep my summer? I was like, I’m unemployed! mouth shut and ask, yeah, what do you think of JERICK I wasn’t able to see the show in Seattle. it? I’m interested to see what people have to say I think I was out filmingDrag Race. But I had got- not knowing that I know you. And the thing that ten called in to audition for the son role and the I loved was that everyone would be like, he’s gay best friend, so I got to hear some of the songs. crazy, but I love that Jinkx Monsoon. And then My favorite one is “The Girl for You”—you know, I’d say, I know Jerick and he’s really sweet and about how the girl’s not Jewish. I love that song. I he’s just like that in real life. And they’d go nuts. still have it on my iPod. Absolutely nuts. BRANDON That’s amazing. The girl who sings JERICK I love it. It’s so funny because I do so that song in the show is named Sara. I’m crazy many obscure references, like with Grey Gardens, obsessed with new musicals and stuff no one’s that I’ve got a fanbase that’s really culty, you know? ever heard before—so I have demo recordings BRANDON When you did Little Edie, everyone NT Live of her singing random-ass new musicals when I I know was like, who are these drag queens that was like 17 years old. I haven’t told her yet, but I don’t know who Little Edie is?! totally have that on my iPod! JERICK We’re lucky that we grew up where we JERICK Right, don’t freak her out. grew up. Festival BRANDON I’ve spent a lot of time not pissing BRANDON Right? people off. [laughs] JERICK You know, this time last year I had never Oct 28–Nov 7 | Uptown JERICK That can do wonders for a career! been to New York. Now I’ve been a couple times BRANDON Exactly. I’m not ruffling any feath- and it’s hard because there’s so much of me that Featuring Kenneth Branagh’s ers. They’re like, well, he worked out last time, so wants to try the whole dream of living in New we’ll just ask him to come back this next time. York and working there and wondering how far I Macbeth JERICK Well, you’re good at what you do and can go with that. But I’m also so content in Seattle Nicholas Hytner’s you’re very knowledgeable in your field. But right now—even though it’s been my plan to go to that’s only a portion. It’s mostly that you don’t New York for as long as I can remember. Now I’m Othello piss people off. so comfortable in Seattle, I’m not in a rush. BRANDON The really scary thing is that I know BRANDON I miss Seattle every single day that Danny Boyle’s lots of people who are good at their craft but I’m not there. I miss it desperately. I have to go to Frankenstein still can’t make a living at it. So I feel fortunate Central Park a couple times a week just to make that I’m able to do this stuff. But I’m going broke sure I see green. Alan Bennett’s going to concerts and getting drinks and meeting JERICK Trees. Living plants. bar minimums in order to see a concert or get BRANDON Living things that are not asshole The Habit of Art to know an artist or a composer. It’s the most New Yorkers. Every time I go back to Seattle I Rory Kinnear’s expensive and underpaid job you could get. forget how stunning the area is. Driving back JERICK Right now the drag circuit tour is from the airport I see more trees than I would in Hamlet the only job I have. It’s so drastically different an entire year in New York. from the last time I was a freelance performer. I JERICK My dream is to have a small apart- remember the first job I had out of Cornish—I was ment in New York and keep my apartment here working at this health food café and it was one in Seattle and try to operate out of both. 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