Mark Taper Forum 46th Season 2013

FIRST SEASON PRODUCTION Tribes by Nina Raine Directed by David Cromer February 27 – April 14, 2013

SECOND SEASON PRODUCTION August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Directed by Phylicia Rashad April 24 – June 9, 2013

THIRD SEASON PRODUCTION A Parallelogram by Bruce Norris Directed by Anna D. Shapiro West Coast Premiere July 10 – August 18, 2013

FOURTH SEASON PRODUCTION Humor Abuse kowen Created by Lorenzo Pisoni and Erica Schmidt c Directed by Erica Schmidt September 17 – November 3, 2013

FIFTH SEASON PRODUCTION

The Steward illustration by scott m of Christendom by Sebastian Barry Directed by Steven Robman November 26, 2013 – January 5, 2014

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P1 Inspiring Our Future

Special Thanks to Center Theatre Group’s Most Generous Annual Patrons

Center Theatre Group wishes to thank the following leaders for their significant annual gifts and for their belief in the transformative power of theatre.

$500,000 and above Brindell Roberts Gottlieb

$250,000 and above The Dream Fund at UCLA Donor Advised Fund Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kirk & Anne Douglas The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$150,000 and above Eva & Marc Stern Wells Fargo Foundation Jeanette Shammas The Blue Ribbon Los Angeles County Arts Commission Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinocco Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Bank of America

$100,000 and above Anonymous Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. JPMorgan Chase & Co.

$75,000 and above Elisabeth Katte Harris Trust Louise & Brad Edgerton The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundation Debra & Norris Bishton

This list includes gifts made to Center Theatre Group between September 6, 2012, and November 6, 2013.

P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE ,

Presents

by Sebastian Barry with Carmela Corbett Mary-Pat Green Kalen Harriman James Lancaster Grant Palmer Dylan Saunders Daniel Weinstein Abby Wilde and Brian Dennehy

set design costume design lighting design sound design Kevin Depinet Leah Piehl Robert Wierzel Cricket S. Myers projection design wig & hair design casting Jason H. Th ompson Carol F. Doran Mark B. Simon, csa

dramaturg producing associate production stage manager Joy Meads Lindsay Allbaugh David S. Franklin

directed by Steven Robman

First produced at the Royal Court Upstairs on March 30, 1995, by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre. Subsequently produced at the Royal Court Downstairs on September 7, 1995, by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre. First produced in America at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, on January 19,1997, by Out of Joint. The Steward of Christendom is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

November 26, 2013 – January 5, 2014 Mark Taper Forum

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3 CAST (in order of appearance)

Thomas Dunne ...... Brian Dennehy Smith ...... James Lancaster Mrs. O’Dea...... Mary-Pat Green Recruit/Matt ...... Dylan Saunders Willie Dunne ...... Grant Palmer/Daniel Weinstein Annie Dunne ...... Abby Wilde Maud Dunne ...... Kalen Harriman Dolly Dunne ...... Carmela Corbett

UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

Understudy for Thomas Dunne — Adrian Sparks Understudy for Smith — Martin Kildare Understudy for Mrs. O’Dea — Melanie Jones Understudy for Recruit/Matt — Mark Christine Understudy for Annie/Maud/Dolly — Erin Anderson

STAGE MANAGER Michelle Blair

TIME/PLACE The play is set in the county mental home in Baltinglass, County Wicklow, Ireland, in about 1932, with echoes of times past.

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, PDAs, beepers and watch alarms. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, with or without fl ash, is strictly prohibited.

P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Notes from the Playwright

Dunne family photo courtesy of Sebastian Barry.

he Steward of Christendom is part of a series of plays looking for the lost, hidden or Tseldom mentioned people in one Irish family. In a way, the approach to my great- grandfather, Thomas Dunne, was the most worrying, because he was, according to whispered family history, the last Catholic head of the Dublin Metropolitan Police before its change in regime in 1922. In the folklore of Dublin working-class life and Trades Union history, he hardly holds an enviable place. He was the man with responsibility for Dublin Castle, the very heart of British rule in Ireland. Yet he was a countryman, whose father was the steward of an old estate in Wicklow. His tastes were simple. He was a big strong person in his heyday. It was only when I began to think of him as an old man, and placed him alone in the county home in Baltinglass, boggy in the head and thinner and unpredictable enough to have his grandchildren kept away from him, that I was able to overcome a certain fear of his life and reach the man himself. I’ve had to recreate him from hints and largely imagine him. He is never going to be a comfortable ancestor. But he could not be denied his place among the plays for all that.

–Sebastian Barry, 1995

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P5 The World of Thomas Dunne by Amy Woodson-Boulton

he Steward of Christendom begins in 1932, in the wake of decades of Tradical change in Ireland. The Irish Free State was finally established in 1922, after centuries of struggle against British rule and the Protestant aristocracy that had ruled over the Catholic majority since the 16th century. However, independence came with a high cost, achieved only through war

Michael Collins. with Britain and a bitter civil war between Irish nationalists themselves. ©Sean Sexton Collection/CORBIS Most Catholics celebrated national independence, but for Irish loyalists it was a time of profound dislocation and loss. The character Thomas Dunne, Michael Collins: Irish Chief Superintendent of the Dublin police force and a Catholic loyal to republican, statesman and military strategist who helped the British crown, was responsible for maintaining the established order in lead Irish forces to victory a time of revolution. Here are some of the people, places and events that against Britain and then led marked his life. the Free State Army in the Irish Civil War. Collins participated in the Easter Rising of 1916 and was a leader of the Dáil Éireann, the new Irish legislature that revolutionaries established in 1919. As head of the Irish Republican Army during the Anglo-Irish War, Collins helped lead the Army to victory and became a hero to nationalists. Collins helped negotiate the Anglo-Irish Treaty that ended that war and became a minister in the Provisional Government of the new Irish Free State: the outgoing British administration handed over Dublin Castle to him in 1922. However, a faction of nationalists led by Collins’ former comrade de Valera never accepted the treaty and rose in armed rebellion against the new state. Collins went on to lead the Free State Army during the Irish Civil War and Dublin Castle. photo by artur bogacki. @rognar. was assassinated on August 22, 1922. Many grieved at the Dublin Castle: Symbol of British rule in Ireland for over 700 years. First built by loss of Collins as a leader who an English king in 1204, it developed into a complex containing the offices and might have helped to stabilize the new government, to heal living quarters for the British Crown’s government in Ireland, including the Dublin the fractured republican Metropolitan Police. Irish nationalists derisively referred to Catholics who worked movement, and to eventually there as “Castle Catholics.” The character Thomas Dunne, as a police superintendent, reunite with Northern Ireland. was given living quarters in the Castle for himself and his family.

P6 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Robert Emmett: Early rebel and martyr for Irish independence. After the creation of James Larkin: In 1913, the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland in 1801, numerous Irish movements arose fiery labor union leader seeking to gain independence from Britain and to break the power of the Protestant James Larkin organized a elite. Emmett was one of many such failed militants; he planned to take Dublin Castle general strike in Dublin that in 1803, but when his plot was discovered he fled to the Wicklow Mountains, and he led to a fatal confrontation was later executed. His final speech became a rallying cry for Irish nationalists: between workers and the “When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till Dublin Metropolitan Police. then, let my epitaph be written.” Larkin was an inspired orator, famous for his use of Ireland in the First World War, 1914-1918: Britain delayed giving Ireland its own the line, “The great appear government and called on the Irish to volunteer to serve on the Western Front. Just great because we are on our after Britain agreed to the goal of limited independence for Ireland, the Empire was knees: Let us rise.” When plunged into the Great War. Over two hundred thousand Irishmen would ultimately Larkin’s speeches inspired freely enlist and serve during the war, fighting alongside the British soldiers known as a wave of unionization, “Tommies.” Among nationalists, enlistment was bitterly controversial; some chose to business leaders responded with a “lock out,” barring enlist and were condemned by others for taking up arms for the Empire. all union members from employment. In response, Easter Rising, 1916: Short-lived Irish Republican Brotherhood uprising that fanned Larkin and the union called the flames of nationalism. In the hopes of inspiring a national rebellion through a out other workers to join grand action — or even martyrdom — about 1,200 armed Irish nationalists seized a general strike, inspiring control of Dublin’s General Post Office and other sites in Dublin and proclaimed the 20,000 workers to leave their Irish Republic. Fighting lasted for five days, April 24-29, 1916. Initial reaction to the jobs. On August 31, 1913, at Rising was generally unsupportive, but after government forces summarily executed a workers’ rally on Sackville 15 leaders, public outrage created support for the participants’ cause. Key organizers, (now O’Connell) Street, the including Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera, survived and became important Dublin Metropolitan Police leaders in the wars to come. Force charged the crowd, killing two men. In the play, Anglo-Irish War, 1919-1921: War for Irish independence between the Irish Republican Thomas Dunne ordered the Army and British forces. After the First World War ended and Britain still delayed attack, fearing for the city if granting independence to Ireland, nationalists decided to take matters into their own the crowds got out of control. hands. In 1919, the nationalist political party Sinn Fein established an independent government with its own legislature (the Dáil Éireann), its own elected president (Eamon de Valera) and its own military force (the Irish Republican Army or IRA). The IRA began a guerilla war against Crown police forces; in response, the British govern- ment bolstered those forces by recruiting WWI veterans, who became known as the “Black and Tans.” Soldiers fresh from the brutality of the trenches, the Black and Tans gained a reputation for ruthlessness, which furthered public support for the IRA. The war ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which created the independent Irish Free State but was deeply controversial among nationalists because of continued close relations between Ireland, Britain, and the British Empire.

The Irish Civil War, 1922-1923: War between Irish nationalists over the Anglo-Irish © rté stills library.

Treaty. Although most of the Irish population as a whole supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty, a majority of the IRA rejected it and joined ranks to oppose the new Irish state, igniting a civil war. Like the Anglo-Irish War, this was a guerilla war, but this time it was between families, former comrades and close friends. The streets of Dublin James Larkin. became, briefly, a battlefield, and the conflict left around one thousand people dead,

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P7 including Michael Collins, ambushed by his former followers and soldiers in County Cork. After a period of chaos and bloodshed, the pro-treaty Irish Free State defeated the IRA.

Eamon de Valera: Irish republican, statesman, President of the first independent Irish legislature and leader in post- independence Ireland. De Valera commanded troops during the Easter Rising of 1916, for which he was sentenced to death, but he was reprieved in part because he was born in the United States. After the Dáil Éireann elected de Valera as its first President, he came into conflict with his close friend and ally Michael Collins, who directed the Irish Republican Army’s guerilla war against the British while de Valera left to raise funds in America and to try (unsuccessfully) to obtain official U.S. recognition for their new nationalist government. This breech was exacerbated when de Valera sent Collins to negotiate the treaty ending the Anglo- Irish War, making Collins the target of the inevitable controversy that followed. Collins and de Valera finally broke over the treaty, with de Valera leading the anti-treaty side of the Irish Civil War. Although de Valera’s side lost the Civil War, in the years after the conflict, de Valera went on to lead the Irish Free State: he would have been Prime Minister in 1932, the time of the play.

Humewood Castle. photo courtesy of national inventory of architectural heritage.

Humewood Castle: A large country estate in Kiltegan, County Wicklow, property of the Hume family since the 15th century. In the play, Thomas Dunne’s father is steward of the estate. From at least the 17th century onward, the Protestant landowning class, often “absentees” who spent most of their time and money in more fashionable places like Dublin or London, relied on “stewards,” estate managers, often native Catholic Irish. These men became the face of their landlords, responsible for collecting rents and negotiating with tenants. When those duties included raising rents and carrying out evictions, tenants could see the stewards as enemies and collaborators. ○

Amy Woodson-Boulton is the Chair of the Department of History and Associate Professor of modern British and Irish history at Loyola Marymount University.

P8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Who’s Who

CARMELA Off-Broadway: Chicago: Rat in the Skull (Wisdom CORBETT (Dolly Nunsense and Bridge), Galileo, A Christmas Carol Dunne). Regional: Marcy in the Galaxy (Goodman Theatre). New York: Eurydice, Smokefall (Transport Group). Twelfth Night (NYSF, Delacorte (South Coast National Tours: Theater in Central Park), The Hostage Repertory, Costa Godspell. Regional: (Irish Arts Center). Connecticut: Mesa). Juilliard: Showboat and Fighting Chance, (Long Wharf Hay Fever, All’s Well Annie 2 (Kennedy Theatre, New Haven). Film: Titanic, That Ends Well, Top Girls, Mine by Center), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Pirates of the Caribbean II, The Laura Marks, The Seagull, Blue Deathtrap (Fulton Theatre), Juno and Prestige, Spanglish, Lost Souls and Window, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Paycock (B Street Theatre), Gettysburg. TV: CSI N.Y., King of Once In A Lifetime. TV: Open Carry. Hannah Free (Victory Gardens), Queens, Numb3rs, Judging Amy and Originally from London, Carmela has Putting it Together (San Francisco Even Stevens. performed with the National Youth Playhouse) and Annie (KC Starlight). Theatre and National Youth Music Los Angeles: Fallen Angels (Pasadena GRANT PALMER Theatre of Great Britain, most notably Playhouse), Chess (Ovation (Willie Dunne). at her majesty the Queen’s private nomination), First Lady Suite and The Grant is thrilled to 80th birthday celebration. Carmela Cradle Will Rock (Blank Theatre be making his Mark has been a narrator for audible books Company). Film: Yes Man, The Taper Forum debut. on tape since 2011. Graduate of Break-Up, In Her Shoes, xXx. TV: Other L.A.: Juilliard, class of 2012. American Horror Story: Asylum, The Winthrop in The Mentalist, Castle, The Middle, Cold Music Man BRIAN DENNEHY Case, Saving Grace, The West Wing, (Candlelight Pavillion Theater). Film: (Thomas Dunne). My Name is Earl, Any Day Now and Waldo in The Little Rascals Save The Broadway: Long Six Feet Under. Day (Universal Studios, 2014). Grant Day’s Journey Into would like to thank his family, Bonnie, Night (Tony win), KALEN HARRIMAN Jody and Philip at Clear Talent Group Death of a (Maud Dunne). and his manager, Myrna Lieberman, Salesman (Tony Regional: The Liar for all their help and support. win), Translations (Writers Theatre), and Desire Under The Elms. Off- As You Like It, The DYLAN SAUNDERS Broadway: Hughie, Krapp’s Last Tape, Merchant of Venice (Recruit/Matt). The Iceman Cometh, The Cherry and Love’s Labor’s Center Theatre Orchard, Trumbo, The Exonerated, Lost, among others Group debut. Says I, Says He, All’s Well That Ends (Riverside Theatre in the Park), Much Regional: Chicago Well and Waiting for Godot. Film: Ado About Nothing, among others Shakespeare Semi-Tough, Foul Play, 10, First Blood, (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks), Theater, Milwaukee Cocoon, F/X, Presumed Innocent, Born Yesterday and Tartuffe Repertory Theater, Tommy Boy, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + (Milwaukee Repertory Theater). Shakespeare Santa Cruz, New Leaf Juliet, Gorky Park, Never Cry Wolf, Television: Chicago Fire. Theatre, Stage 773, American Finders Keepers, Silverado, Twice in a Conservatory Theatre, The Ten Lifetime, Best Seller, The Belly of an JAMES Chimneys. International: National Architect, 10th & Wolf and Righteous LANCASTER Theatre’s Connections Festival (U.K.), Kill. TV: The Burden of Proof, Murder (Smith). Los Festival Apostrof (Prague, Czech in the Heartland, To Catch a Killer, Angeles: Hapgood Republic). Television: Chicago Fire Killing in a Small Town, Shadow of a (Center Theatre (NBC). Founding company member Doubt, Indefensible, Our Fathers and Group); The Weir, of the new media viral sensation The Big C: Hereafter. The Caretaker, StarKid Productions (155 million Dancing at YouTube views). As a vocalist, Mr. MARY-PAT GREEN (Mrs. O’Dea). Lughnasa (South Coast Rep); Noises Saunders has contributed to several Broadway: Sweeney Todd (original Off (La Mirada). San Diego: A Billboard and iTunes-charting album cast) and Candide (1975 revival). Nightingale Sang (Old Globe Theatre). collaborations, and his debut solo

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9 studio venture, Confluence, is due for ERIN ANDERSON Her Ear, Fifth of release in early 2014. Proud University (Understudy Annie/ July, Two Gentlemen of Michigan graduate. Eternal thanks Dolly/Maud of Verona, Crimes of to Melissa, Mark, Pat, the entire CESD Dunne). Los the Heart, Vanities, family, Stewart, and Sha. For his Angeles: We Are among others teachers, and especially for mom. Proud to Present a (Trinity Rep - Presentation About company member, DANIEL the Herero of 10 seasons); Molly WEINSTEIN (Willie Namibia… (Matrix Theatre, west coast Sweeney, The Sisters Rosensweig, Dunne). Los premiere, Ovation Award nominee Picasso at the Lapin Agile, City of Angeles: Beauty - Best Ensemble), Ken Roht’s Same-O: Angels (Weston Playhouse). L.A.: The and the Beast, 99 Cent Only Show (Bootleg Theater), Little Flower of East Orange, Love Sick Oklahoma!, The A Bright Room Called Day and (Elephant Theatre Company - Sound of Music Translations (Coeurage Theatre company member); Crane, Mississippi (O’Ryan Company Company), Bury the Dead and (Page 93); Hay Fever, Tooth and Nail, Players, Good Shepherd Catholic Cymbeline the Puppet King (Actors’ School for Scandal, Deathtrap (Little School); Young People’s Chorus I and Gang), Marat/Sade (Blue House Fish Theatre - Artistic Director II under the direction of Misha Theatre), Good Thing directed by 2008–2010); The Belle of Amherst, Shtangrud (Colburn School of Robert Castro. New York: Teatro de Scary Stories (11 seasons), Fool for Performing Arts). Facto’s Fires Are Confusing (New York Love (Inevitable Productions). Film: Stage & Film, Powerhouse Theatre – original RoboCop. Studied with ABBY WILDE original workshop). Regional: Sight Kim Stanley and is co-producing (Annie Dunne). Unseen (South Coast Repertory), a documentary about her - Abby is thrilled to Haroun & the Sea of Stories theneedsofkimstanley.com; graduate be making her (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: of Brown University and member of Center Theatre Days Together (Best Actress, 2011 the Actors Studio. Group debut! Los Gotham Screen International Film Angeles: The Festival-NYC). TV: Justified, CSI, MARTIN KILDARE Seagull (Nina), Southland, Criminal Minds and the (Understudy Smith). Peace in Our Time (Doris, Ovation upcoming original series Kittens in Broadway: The Lion winner, Best Production) and The a Cage. King, A Raisin in the Thin Man (Foley) with the Antaeus Sun, Timon of Company; Twelfth Night (Viola) and MARK CHRISTINE Athens, The Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) with the La (Understudy Government Cañada Flintridge Shakespeare Recruit/Matt). CTG Inspector, The Festival; Richard III (Richard) with debut. Off- Herbal Bed. Off-Broadway: Pride’s Pipeline Players; Shakespeare’s King Broadway: About Crossing (Lincoln Center), Candida Phycus (Juliet) with the Flynnsmen at Face (37 Arts). (The Pearl), Labor Day (Manhattan Antaeus and the Hollywood Fringe Regional: Romeo & Theatre Club). National Tour: Mamma Festival (Top of Fringe and Best Juliet (Denver Mia!. Other New York: Honor and the Comedy nominee). Regional: Ten Center), Going Live! (Guthrie), Twelfth River, Three More Sleepless Nights. Chimneys (Uta Hagen) with Artists Night (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Red Regional: Over 20 companies Repertory Theatre. Television: Zoey (Aspen Fringe), Altar Boyz, Gruesome including South Coast Repertory, 101, iCarly, Sam & Cat. Abby is a Playground Injuries, The Who’s Tommy American Conservatory Theatre, graduate of the University of and The Glass Menagerie. Film: The Dallas Theater Center, Portland California, Irvine and a proud New Year, Fortitude and The List. TV: Center Stage, The Folger Theater, member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ The Band. Training: BFA, University of Indiana Repertory, Missouri Equity Association and the Antaeus Michigan; MFA, UC San Diego/La Repertory, and California, Alabama Company. Thanks to CTG and Mom Jolla Playhouse. and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. and Dad! Other Credits: international MELANIE JONES (Understudy Mrs. fellowships at Shakespeare’s Globe, O’Dea). Regional: King Lear, A Flea in London and Théâtre des Amandiers,

P10 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Paris. Television: Hit The Floor, Street (2007). Among his theatre Thirtysomething, The O.C., Boston Enlightened, Big Love, Desperate awards are the Christopher Ewart- Public, Gilmore Girls, American Housewives, Without A Trace, Law & Biggs Memorial Prize, the Ireland/ Dreams, Dawson’s Creek, Melrose Order, Las Vegas, Numb3rs, CSI: New America Literary Prize and the Place, Lonestar, Medium, Ghost York, Ed, Beverly Hills 90210, London Critics’ Circle Award. Whisperer, Strong Medicine, Shark, Journeyman, Law & Order: SVU, His novels include A Long Long Way Against the Wall, The Guardian. Deadline and others. (2005), which was short listed for Television Films: Picking Up and the Man Booker Prize, The Secret Dropping Off, Hello Sister, Goodbye ADRIAN SPARKS Scripture (2008), which won The Life, The Sons of Mistletoe, The (Understudy Costa Book of the Year Award, The Audrey Hepburn Story. Thomas Dunne). James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 40+ years of U.S. and was also shortlisted for the Man KEVIN DEPINET regional theatre Booker Prize and an L.A. Times (Set Design) has credits include Book Award. He is the recipient of designed for Inherit the Wind, honorary doctorates from the Steppenwolf, The Taming of the University of East Anglia and the Goodman Shrew, King Lear, Death of a University of Galway. Theatre, Chicago Salesman, Madness of King George Shakespeare, The III, The Tempest (San Diego Old STEVEN National Theatre Globe); The Tavern, A Christmas ROBMAN of Great Britain, McCarter Theatre Carol (Guthrie Theater); Much Ado… (Director). Center, Cincinnati Playhouse in The (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Off-Broadway: Park, Glimmerglass Opera, Denver Washington, D.C.); That Uncommon Theatre Center, The Court Theatre, Championship Season, Hamlet, The Women and The Arden Theatre, Milwaukee Seagull, Equus (Seattle Repertory); Others, Isn’t It Repertory, Writers Theatre, The The Seafarer (CEA & Acclaim Best Romantic, Drury Lane, Indiana Repertory, Actor Awards - Ensemble Theater Kaufman At Large, Says I, Says He American Players Theatre, Repertory Cincinnati); Macbeth, Miser, The (Phoenix Theatre); Sea Marks Theatre of Saint Louis and Illinois Cherry Orchard (Cincinnati (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Shakespeare. He also designed Playhouse-in-the-Park); Hedda Minister’s Black Veil, Santa Anita ’42 scenery for Michael Mann’s film, Gabler (Baltimore Center Stage). (Playwrights Horizons). Regional Public Enemies (Universal Studios). National/International Tour: One- Theatres: The Gin Game (Actors He was the associate designer for man play Papa – starring as Ernest Theatre of Louisville); Hoagy, Bix and the original August: Osage County. Hemingway (Ovation Best Actor Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhouse, He is an adjunct professor of design nomination.) A veteran of more than Babbitt, Made in America (Mark at DePaul University. He studied at 75 film and television productions, Taper Forum), Moonlight and Ball State University and the Yale Mr. Sparks returns to Cuba and Magnolias, High Holidays (Goodman School of Drama. Hemingway’s home this January Theatre), Alphabetical Order, The to finish principle photography for Rose Tattoo, The Bathers, Martin LEAH PIEHL (Costume Design). the feature film Papa, directed by Night (Long Wharf Theatre), Right of Recent: A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Bob Yari. Way, Bonjour, La, Bonjour (Guthrie Dickens! (Kirk Douglas Theatre); The Theater), Rat in the Skull (Wisdom Most Deserving (Denver Center SEBASTIAN Bridge Theatre), Born Yesterday Theatre); The Motherf**ker with the BARRY (Baltimore Center Stage), Bosoms Hat and The Light in the Piazza (Playwright). and Neglect, Union Boys (Yale (South Coast Repertory). L.A.: Sebastian Barry Repertory Theatre), The Desert Intimate Apparel (LADCC Award – was born in Dwellers (Arena Stage), The Snake Best Costume design, NAACP Dublin in 1955. Can (Odyssey Theatre), Above the nomination) and The Heiress His plays include Fold (Pasadena Playhouse—2014). (Ovation nomination, Pasadena The Steward of Television Series: Law & Order, Playhouse); The Dinosaur Within, Christendom (1995), Our Lady of Northern Exposure, L.A. Law, Party of Futura, Tartuffe and The Pain and the Sligo (1998) and The Pride of Parnell Five, (Co-Executive Producer) Itch (Theatre @ Boston Court); The

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P11 Doctor’s Dilemma and The CRICKET S. The Great Immensity (KC Rep., TED), Eccentricities of a Nightingale (A MYERS (Sound The Mountaintop, Distracted and Noise Within); Satyr Atlas (The Getty Design). Broadway: Wheelhouse (TheatreWorks), Villa); bobrauschenbergamerica and Bengal Tiger at the Re:Union (Vancouver, Jessie Tree ([Inside] the Ford); Love Water Baghdad Zoo Nomination), Bad Apples (Circle X). (Open Fist Theatre). New York: Bull (Drama Desk Jason has also designed video for Spears (La Tea Theater), Someone in Award, Tony Stars on Ice for the last seven years. Florida Loves Me (Paradise Factory). nomination). www.jasonhthompsondesign.com. Regional: Paradise Lost (Intiman Off-Broadway: Marvelous Theatre), The Borrowers, Robin Hood Wonderettes. Mark Taper Forum: Joe CAROL F. DORAN (Wig & Hair and The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Turner, Vigil, Burn This, The Design). CTG: Over 40 productions The Light in the Piazza (South Coast Lieutenant of Inishmore (Ovation including Joe Turner’s Come and Repertory). Film: All Stars (director nomination), The Subject Was Roses. Gone, A Raisin in the Sun, Lieutenant Lance Kinsey),The Men’s Room, Kirk Douglas Theatre: Twist Your of Inishmore, Parade, Pippin. Other director Jane Pickett; Buzzkill, (The Dickens! (Ovation nomination) The L.A.: Mask, Sister Act, Stormy Second City Presents), director Wake, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Weather (Pasadena Playhouse); Steven Kampmann; The Macabre Zoo (Ovation nomination), The Little several shows at The Geffen and World of Lavender Williams, director Dog Laughed (Ovation nomination). Deaf West Theatres. Broadway: Big Nick Delgado. Television: Regional: Sideways, The Nightingale River, King Hedley II, Seven Guitars. Mullercizeit!, pilot (Tom Lennon and (La Jolla Playhouse), Book Club Play National Tours: Big River. Regional: Ben Garant). Commercials: Ford, (Arena Stage), In the Wake (Berkeley KA, Believe, Viva Elvis, Kooza, Iris, Nissan, KFC, Tostitos, Chevy, Prius. Rep), Play Dead, Wrecks, Some Girl(s), Zumanity (Cirque du Soleil); The Emergency (Ovation, NAACP Asolo Theatre, South Coast ROBERT WIERZEL (Lighting Design) nomination; Geffen), 4000 Miles, The Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, The made his CTG debut with Enigma Fantasticks, Elemeno Pea (South Goodman Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Variations and returned for The Coast Rep), Crowns, Orson’s Shadow Louisville, A.C.T. and Ford’s Theatre. School For Scandal; Moliere Comedies: (Pasadena Playhouse), Marvelous Internationally: England and South The School for Husbands & The Wonderettes (Laguna Playhouse). Africa. Film: Over 80 feature films Imaginary Cuckold and Romeo and Cricket has earned 16 Ovation including The Dark Knight Rises, Thor, Juliet. Broadway: Fela! (Tony Award nominations, as well as winning an Eagle Eye, Borat, For Your nomination; productions at the LADCC and a Garland Award. www. Consideration, Spider-Man 3, The National Theatre, London, cricketmyers.com. Alamo, Bad Santa and Adaptation. International and American tours), Television: One Tree Hill, Grey’s David Copperfield’s Dreams and JASON H. THOMPSON (Projection Anatomy, House, Angel, Buffy the Nightmares. Off-Broadway: The Design). Center Theatre Group: This Vampire Slayer, Six Feet Under and Public Theater, The Signature, The Beautiful City, Venice (Ovation others. Carol owns the wig company, Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons. Award), Palomino. Broadway: Baby Wigged Out, and sits on the Board of Regional: Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, It’s You!. New York: Venice (Public Directors of Deaf West Theatre. A.C.T. San Francisco, Berkeley Rep, Theater), Remember Me (Parsons Center Stage, Chicago Shakespeare, Dance), This Beautiful City MARK B. SIMON, CSA (Casting). Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, (Vineyard), Anthem (Borishnikov). CTG: The Black Suits, The Royale Goodman Theatre, The Guthrie, The Recent: Crescent City Opera, Invisible (Artios nomination), Neva (Kirk Old Globe. Opera: Paris Opera - Cities (The Industry, L.A.), The Douglas Theatre); The Sunshine Boys, Garnier, New York City Opera, Marriage of Figaro (L.A. Phil), The Scottsboro Boys, End of the Glimmerglass, Seattle, Boston Lyric, Snapshots (Goodspeed), Fast Rainbow, Backbeat (Ahmanson Minnesota, San Francisco and Company (South Coast Rep), Citizen Theatre); A Parallelogram, Los Otros Chicago Lyric. Dance: over 27 years Twain (KDT and Pasadena (Mark Taper Forum). Prior to joining with choreographer Bill T. Jones Playhouse), Tales from Hollywood the CTG casting department, Mark (Bessie Awards). MFA Yale School of (Guthrie), Cage Songbooks (Carnegie worked as a New York-based Drama. Adjunct faculty at NYU Tisch Hall, New World Symphony), David independent casting director for School of the Arts and Yale School Arkenstone’s Symphonic Adventure, clients including Hal Prince, Jason of Drama. Heart of Darkness (Actors’ Gang), Robert Brown, Graciela Daniele,

P12 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Susan Stroman, Patricia Birch, Inishmore, Randy Newman’s Harps was a Production Stage Manager in Stephen Sondheim, Marvin and Angels, God of Carnage, Vigil, NYC. At CTG, he premiered six Hamlisch, Nick Hytner, Alfred Uhry, Waiting for Godot, Los Otros, Red, musicals that moved to Broadway Carol Burnett, Jeremy Sams, New Seminar, Tribes, A Parallelogram and — The Drowsy Chaperone (which won York City Opera and the Radio City Humor Abuse. Other Los Angeles: 13 Tony Award nominations), Curtains Christmas Spectacular on projects Los Angeles Theatre Center in its (eight Tony nominations) 13, 9 to 5: including 13, Parade, The Last Five heyday from 1985-1990, Pasadena The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Years, Show Boat, Candide, 3hree, Playhouse and Geffen Playhouse. Jackson and Leap of Faith. He has Hollywood Arms, Bounce, LoveMusik, Regional: Seattle Rep, Intiman produced 33 world premieres Paradise Found, Sweeney Todd, Chita Theatre. New York: Public Theater. including the musicals Minsky’s, Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Sweet Tours: Europe - Quotations from a Venice and Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Smell of Success and Ragtime. Ruined City, Law of Remains (with and the plays Bengal Tiger at the Treasurer of the Board, Casting Reza Abdoh’s Dar a Luz company). Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer Prize finalist Society of America. that also moved to Broadway), Water MICHELLE BLAIR (Stage Manager). & Power and Yellow Face, and he JOY MEADS (Dramaturg). For CTG: The Sunshine Boys, A presented a broad range of plays and Dramaturgy Credits at CTG: Waiting Parallelogram, Joe Turner’s Come and musicals ranging from Dead End to for Godot, Radiate, The Royale, A Gone, Backbeat, Krapp’s Last Tape, The Black Rider to Edward Parallelogram and The Steward of Red, Los Otros, Clybourne Park, Vigil, Scissorhands to blockbusters such as Christendom. Joy is the Literary Poor Behavior, Burn This, Leap of God of Carnage, Mary Poppins, Jersey Associate and Artistic Engagement Faith, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Boys and August: Osage County. In Strategist at CTG. Previously, Joy Parade, Lydia, The School of Night, addition, Michael inaugurated CTG’s spent four cold but rewarding years Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, New Play Production Program, at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Distracted, Nightingale, Without designed to foster the development Company, where she was Literary Walls, Lewis and Clark Reach the and production of new work. Manager. Prior to Steppenwolf, Joy Euphrates, all wear bowlers (also at served as California Shakespeare the Barbican Theatre, Berkeley Rep., EDWARD L. RADA Theater’s Associate Artistic Director La Jolla Playhouse and Studio (Managing and director of the theatre’s New Theatre), Flight, Nothing But The Director) returned Works/New Communities program. Truth, Stones in His Pockets, Topdog/ to Center Theatre Joy has also worked with Portland Underdog and “QED” at Lincoln Group in 2011 after Center Stage, the O’Neill, South Center Theater. Other favorites previously serving Coast Rep, Chicago Dramatists, The include The Pee-wee Herman Show as CTG’s Chief Playwrights’ Center, Native Voices at at Club Nokia, A Long Bridge Over Financial Officer the Autry, NYTW, and Campo Santo Deep Waters with Cornerstone for 12 years (1996 – 2008). Rada + Intersection for the Arts. Theater Company and Amnesia spent three years (2008 – 2011) as Curiosa with Rainpan 43. Mom to President of the Music Center DAVID S. five-year-old Liam and one-year-old Foundation, a non-profit corporation FRANKLIN Imogen. that holds and invests the (Production Stage endowment and reserve funds for Manager). Center MICHAEL RITCHIE the Music Center and its resident Theatre Group (Artistic Director) companies (including CTG). Prior to Highlights: An is in his eighth his years at CTG, he was the Director Enemy of the season as Center of Finance at The Old Globe in San People, Baz Theatre Group’s Diego and principal of Rada & Luhrmann’s La Bohème, Art , Artistic Director, Associates, an accounting firm that Romance, The Cherry Orchard, and has led over specialized in entertainment-related Curtains, Nightingale, The History 130 productions to non-profit organizations and Boys, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the Ahmanson, Taper and Douglas theatrical productions. He is a Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, stages since his arrival in 2005. From graduate of Occidental College in Los Ain’t Misbehavin’, Parade, The Subject 1996 to 2004 Michael was the Angeles with numerous post- Was Roses, Bengal Tiger at the Producer of the Williamstown graduate coursework and credentials. Baghdad Zoo, The Lieutenant of Theatre Festival and prior to that he He currently serves on the board of

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P13 directors for Entertainment Industry USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, and theatre — including the Tony Award Foundation, Theatre @ Boston advises and works with local not-for- for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Court, and United Support of Artists profi ts including Daukayev Ballet Award, The Governor’s Award for the for Africa/USA for Africa, among Theatre and Hollywood Orchard. Arts and a Guggenheim fellowship. other affiliations. He also serves on BA, Cornell University, MFA, The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in the board of trustees for the pension, Yale School of Drama, and proud America (Part One) won the Pulitzer health and welfare and 401(k) plans certifi cate holder from the Outward in consecutive years and, in 1994, of I.A.T.S.E. Local 33 Stagehands Bound program at Dartmouth three of the four plays nominated for Union. College – “To serve, to strive and the Tony Award for Best Play were not to yield.” from the Taper (Angels in America DOUGLAS C. won). In 1989 Gordon took over the BAKER (Producing LINDSAY Ahmanson and, in 2004, he Director) is now in ALLBAUGH produced the inaugural season in his 23rd season at (Producing the Kirk Douglas Theatre. CTG. Previously, Associate) is a he managed member of Broadway and Center Theatre touring Group’s artistic productions including Tru, Born staff and has Yesterday, The Gospel at Colonus, served in varying capacities for the Annie, A Chorus Line, Working, The past nine years. Lindsay also serves Wiz, and Legends!, which premiered as the artistic coordinator for CTG’s at the Ahmanson Theatre in 1986 Sherwood Award, which supports and starred Mary Martin and Carol emerging Los Angeles artists. In Channing. Doug is a member of the addition to her work at CTG, Lindsay Achievement Hall of Fame of Chagrin is the co-artistic director at the Falls Schools in Ohio and a graduate Elephant Theatre Company in of Albion College. He is an active Hollywood. Producing credits member of the Broadway League, the include the upcoming production of Independent Presenters Network different words for the same thing at and is a proud member of the the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and most Association of Theatrical Press recently The Nether at the KDT, and Agents and Managers. In May 2013 Waiting for Godot at the Taper. Doug received The Broadway Directing credits include the West League’s prestigious Outstanding Coast premieres of 100 Saints You Achievement in Presenter Should Know and Never Tell Management Award. (Elephant), the world premiere of Revelation (Elephant), Supernova NAUSICA STERGIOU (General (Elephant) and Kate Crackernuts, Manager, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Gray City, Aloha Say the Pretty Girls Douglas Theatre) has worked (Harvard/ART). professionally supporting artists in theatres of all shapes, sizes and GORDON locales including many seasons at DAVIDSON Center Theatre Group as General (Founding Artistic Manager and, previously, Audience Director) Development Director. She oversees led the Taper mainstage productions at the Taper throughout its and Douglas, as well as new play first 38 seasons, commissions and developmental guiding over 300 productions through CTG’s New Play productions to its stage and winning Production. Nausica has taught at countless awards for himself and the

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PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P15 CENTER THEATRE GROUP L.A.’s Theatre Company MICHAEL RITCHIE, Artistic Director EDWARD L. RADA, Managing Director DOUGLAS C. BAKER, Producing Director ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER ...... Associate Artistic Director JODY HORWITZ...... Director of Human Resources KELLEY KIRKPATRICK ...... Associate Artistic Director MADRIO FLEEKS ...... Senior Human Resources Generalist DIANE RODRIGUEZ ...... Associate Producer/Director of New Play Production SINGER LEWAK, LLP ...... Auditor PIER CARLO TALENTI ...... Resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF ...... Legal Counsel LINDSAY ALLBAUGH...... Producing Associate GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER ...... Legal Counsel MALCOLM K. DARRELL ...... New Play Production Associate JOY MEADS ...... Literary Associate and Artistic Engagement Strategist DEVELOPMENT MARK B. SIMON ...... Casting Director YVONNE CARLSON BELL...... Director of Development ANDY CROCKER ...... Casting Associate PATRICK OWEN ...... Deputy Director of Development STEVEN PIESZCHALSKI ...... Casting Assistant NATALIE BERGESON...... Director of Donor Contributions JEAN KLING ...... Director of Institutional Support DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), JESSICA BLANK, SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), TIM LIZ LIN...... Director of Corporate Relations and Communications CROUCH, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, GINA GIONFRIDDO, GOB SQUAD, MATT GOULD, DANAI CHARITY WU ...... Director of Individual Giving GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, JOE HORTUA, ERIK JENSEN, RAJIV JOSEPH, LATINO THEATER BECKY BIRDSONG...... Major Gifts Officer COMPANY, GRIFFIN MATTHEWS, LAURAL MEADE, JULIE MARIE MYATT (FADIMAN), JAMIE CATALDO ...... Corporate Relations Manager DAN O’BRIEN, EVANGELINE ORDAZ, DAEL ORLANDERSMITH, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), MANDI OR ...... Special Events Manager RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, MATT SAX, THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR, ERIC BROWN ...... Communications Coordinator YOUNG JEAN LEE THEATER COMPANY...... Commissioned Artists JENNIFER CHAN ...... Special Events Associate BEKAH BRUNSTETTER, CARLA CHING, JASON GROTE, SARAH GUBBINS, TIM McNEIL, JUSTIN FOO ...... Donor Contributions Associate HENRY ONG, MADHURI SHEKAR ...... CTG Writers’ Workshop Members SARAH HARBURG-PETRICH ...... Development Assistant KATY HILTON ...... Grant Writer EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS DONALD JOLLY ...... Donor Relations Associate for the Inner Circle LESLIE K. JOHNSON ...... Director of Education and Community Partnerships KRISTEN LEVY-VAUGHAN ...... Individual Giving Assistant PATRICIA GARZA ...... Assistant Department Director JESSICA NASH ...... Donor Contributions Supervisor TRACI CHO KWON ...... Director of School Partnerships MARIA PAREDES ...... Donor Relations Associate for The Guild CAMILLE SCHENKKAN ...... Program Manager, Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals COURTNEY ROBERTSON ...... Institutional Giving Associate JESUS REYES...... Program Manager, Community Partnerships ERIC SEPPALA...... Executive Assistant to the Development Director KATRINA FRYE ...... Program Associate ERIN SCHLABACH...... Major Gifts Coordinator ASHLEY LAMPSON OPSTAD ...... Program Associate JESSICA THORSON ...... Corporate Relations Coordinator VICTOR VAZQUEZ...... Program Associate BRANDON TURNER ...... Temporary Program Associate AL BERMAN, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, GINA EAST, LILI HERRERA, TONY LEWELLEN, KELLY CHRIST ...... Communications Coordinator HOLLY RAMOS, NICOLE SCIPIONE, LENA THOMAS, BILL WALTON, TOM WINKLER SHANNON WINSTON ...... Department Coordinator ...... Donor Advisors DEBRA PIVER ...... Resident Teaching Artist ADAM BURCH, KARLA GALVEZ ...... Donor Services Associates MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ANNE BRUNER, MURRAY E. HELTZER, MARCI MILLER, NAUSICA STERGIOU ...... General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) JULIE NADAL ...... Development Volunteers JEFFREY UPAH ...... General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY ...... Assistant General Manager (Mark Taper Forum) MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS KATIE BRUNER SOFF. . . . . On leave - Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPP) JIM ROYCE ...... Director of Marketing, Communications and Sales ELLE AGHABALA ...... Interim Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPP) ALANA BEIDELMAN ...... Executive Assistant to Managing Director NANCY HEREFORD...... Director of Media and Communications PATRICK BELL ...... General Management Associate PHYLLIS MOBERLY ...... Media and Communications Associate JASON MARTIN ...... Media and Communications Associate ERIC SIMS ...... Operations Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) LYN COWAN ...... Media and Communications Coordinator TOM BURMESTER . . .Audience Experience Design/Front of House Mgr (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHELSEY ROSETTER...... Media and Communications Coordinator LAUREN BAXA ...... Assistant Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MAX OKEN ...... Facility Assistant (Kirk Douglas Theatre) NISHITA DOSHI ...... Art Director SONDRA MAYER ...... Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) IRENE KANESHIRO...... Senior Design Manager HARUKA HAYAKAWA ...... Graphic Designer PRODUCTION TERESA ENGLISH ...... Graphic Designer DAWN HOLISKI ...... Production Department Operations Director JONATHAN BARLOW LEE...... Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) ANDREW DARCEY ...... Advertising Manager CELESTE SANTAMASSINO...... Associate Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) KAREN VOCK ...... Marketing Manager EMMET KAISER ...... Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) JAMES SIMS ...... Marketing Creative Manager ROBERT RUBY ...... Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) JEWEL MOORE...... Marketing Coordinator WILLIAM MORNER ...... Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) ROSE POIRIER ...... Webmaster BONES MALONE ...... Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) CRAIG SCHWARTZ ...... Production Photographer DENNIS SEETOO...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) LARRY DEAN HARRIS ...... Copywriter RICK GEYER ...... Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) CINEVATIVE/MARK CIGLAR...... Production Video LINDA WALKER ...... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) TOM BURMESTER, TREVOR ALGATT, KEVIN MAPP...... Event Video ALLIED LIVE: JOE HAMLIN...... Technical Director/Ahmanson Production Manager LAURA MATALON, SHANNON WILLETT, KELLY ESTRELLA ...... Advertising Agency CHAD SMITH ...... Associate Technical Director SAM CRAVEN-GRIFFITHS...... Associate Technical Director TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON ...... Ticket Sales Director ANDREW THIELS...... Prop Manager SKYPP CABANAS ...... Ticket Operations Coordinator MERRIANNE NEDREBERG ...... Associate Prop Manager SANDY CZUBIAK ...... Audience and Subscriber Services Manager SARAH KRAININ ...... Prop Associate JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE. . . Audience Services Supervisors CANDICE CAIN ...... Costume Director ALICE CHEN ...... Audience Services Asst. Supervisor BRENT M. BRUIN...... Costume Workroom Supervisor SAM AARON, DEBORAH REED ...... Audience Services Sales Associates MADELINE KELLER ...... Costume Generalist SWANTJE TUOHINO...... Tailor JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, RJ CANTU, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., ELIZABETH LEONARD ...... Production Operations Manager PETER COLBURN, DONALD CRANDALL, GARY HOLLAND, JULIO A. CUELLAR...... Driver/Custodian KAY LOCHARD, JUSTINE PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, DANNY SCHMITZ, DONAVAN MARTINELLI, EUGENE A. MONTEIRO II, BRIAN SLATEN ...... Drivers CRIS SPACCA ...... Audience Services Representatives JENNIFER ACHTERBERG...... Production Administrator DANUTA SIEMAK...... Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ ...... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor SHAWN ANDERSON...... Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) LIGIA PISTE, CELIA RIVAS...... Subscriber Services Senior Representatives ANDREW W. ARNOLD...... Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) IRENE CHUANG, PETER STALOCH ...... Subscriber Services Representatives STAN STEELMON ...... Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JIM BERGER ...... Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) SARAH K. GONTA ...... Box Office Treasurer ROBERT SMITH ...... Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) KISHISA ROSS, GISELE FRAZEUR ...... Assistant Treasurers MICHAEL GARDNER ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) YULIZA BARRAZA, ANGELICA CARBAJAL, MICHAEL KEMPISTY, PATRICE MIRANDA ...... Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) LEROY PAWLOWSKI, MICHAEL SALTZMAN...... Box Office Staff CHRISTINE L. COX...... House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL ZOLDESSY ...... Account Sales Manager EILEEN ROBERTS...... Account Sales Associate CHRISTY WEIKEL ...... Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) KERRY KORF ...... Priority Services Director KATE COLTUN ...... Assistant Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SUSAN F. TULLER ...... Priority Services Operations Manager RICHARD PETERSON ...... Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JAY BURNS ...... Priority Services Sales Manager AARON STAUBACH...... Light Board Programmer/Operator (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PAUL CUEN ...... Priority Services Manager ADAM PHALEN ...... Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CANDICE WALTERS...... Priority Services Assistant Supervisor VICTOR COBOS ...... Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CAROLE BAXTER, RUSTY COLLINS, MAGGIE DODD, NIC DRESSEL, MARC “BYRON” FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES MICHAEL F. THOMPSON ...... Chief Financial Officer DROTMAN, SAMANTHA ELSE, LOU GEORGE, KATE HALL, JERRY JOHNSTON, LISA MELODY MATTOS ...... Controller KESSLER, SHEP KOSTER, MATT PELFREY, KEN SALLEY, KRISTEN SCHRASS, BOBBI LYNNE JANIS BOWBEER ...... Assistant Controller SCOTT, ANDREW SEVERYN, MICHAEL SMITH, QUINN SULLIVAN, DIANE WARD, LIZ LYDIC ...... Accounts Payable Coordinator JIM WATERMAN ...... Representatives FELICISIMA LAPID...... Accounts Payable Specialist DANNY LAMPSON ...... Senior Staff Accountant INTERNS ALEGRIA SENA ...... Staff Accountant DOMITILLE ANGOULVANT, SAVANNAH BARKER, CARLY BARNHILL, CATHERINE YUEN KI “ANNIE” LAW...... Payroll Manager CAMPBELL, MADDIE DIAL, SYNNOVE ERIKSEN, CLINTON FOLEY, JENNIFER HARRELL, AMEETA SHARMA ...... Payroll Specialist KEVIN HERALD, GERMAIN HERNANDEZ, TOBY JACOBROWN, JADE JOHNSON, TIFFANY MOON, RACHEL KAUDER NALEBUFF, MIRIAM NEIGUS, ARMANDO PINA, KIRSTIE SELLS, DAVE ALTON ...... Chief Information Officer MIMI SILVEYRA, SARA WAUGH STAN GRUSHESKY ...... Director of Information Systems SEAN PINTO...... Database and Web Manager MANDY RATLIFF ...... Tessitura Administrator JARED WATANABE ...... Information Systems Analyst

Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication and extraordinary eff orts. P16 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE