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Directed by Timothy Near Cast John Patrick Shanley CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY OF WALNUT CREEK Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director presents A Parable By John Patrick Shanley Cast BW Gonzalez Lorri Holt Laura Morache Kevin Rolston Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Eric Sinkkonen Kurt Landisman Elizabeth Poindexter Sound Designer Casting Director Dialect Coach Will McCandless Greg Hubbard Lisa Anne Porter Stage Manager Peter Royston Directed by Timothy Near October 24 - November 22, 2008 Lesher Center for the Arts Margaret Lesher Theatre Originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club on November 23, 2004 Originally produced on Broadway by Carole Shorenstein Hays, MTC Productions, Roger Berlind and Scott Rudin on March 31, 2005 DOUBT, A PARABLE by John Patrick Shanley is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., in New York Season Sponsor Season Partner Season Media Sponsor The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States The Scenic Designer and Lighting Designer are members of United Scenic Artists Union The Director in this production is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers CAST (in order of appearance) Festival), Sophia in Fools (Rubicon Theatre Company, and appeared as a regular guest on Sesame Street for Ventura, CA), Lady Macduff in Macbeth (Hazlett several years. She is a graduate of San Francisco State Kevin Rolston .............................Father Brendan Flynn Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA) and Gabriella in Pentecost University and the UK’s London Academy of Music and Lorri Holt ............................... Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Carnegie Mellon University). Laura received her BFA Dramatic Art. Laura Morache ..........................................Sister James in acting from Carnegie Mellon University. BW Gonzalez ..............................................Mrs. Muller Eric Sinkkonen (Scenic Designer) Member United Kevin Rolston (Father Brendan Scenic Artists Local 829. He has designed 20 productions Flynn) Last year Kevin Rolston for Center REPertory Co. In addition, he has designed CAST BIOGRAPHIES appeared in two world premieres for the Houston Playhouse, Detroit’s Hilberry Classic at the Magic Theatre: The Crowd Theatre, San Francisco and Berkeley Shakespeare BW Gonzalez (Mrs. Muller) has You’re In With and Monkey Room. Festivals, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Lorraine worked locally with Berkeley He recently made his ACT debut Hansberry Theatre, San Francisco Repertory and San Repertory Theatre, the San in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore. He has Diego Repertory Theatres, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Francisco Mime Troupe, Lorraine also toured with the San Francisco Summer Repertory Theatre, CitiArts Theatre, Harbor Hansberry Theatre, Oakland Mime Troupe in Godfellas and Making A Killing. Other Theatre, Marin Theatre Co., TheatreWorks, Sacramento Ensemble Theatre, San Diego theatre credits include work with the SF Playhouse, Theatre Co., Aurora Theatre, San Jose Repertory Co., Repertory Theatre, American PCPA Theaterfest, foolsFury, Word for Word, The New California Shakespeare Theatre, San Francisco’s Magic Conservatory Theatre and Federal Theatre and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Theatre, and designed the world premiere of Mart Playground Theatre Company. As a nine year company Jersey. This past summer, his first playCrystal Christian Crowley’s The Men from the Boys at New Conservatory member with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, she (which he is co-writing with his partner, Ronald Palmer) Theatre, S.F., and the Los Angeles premiere of The Men performed Ariel in The Tempest, Masha in The Three had its initial workshop production at Magic Theatre. from the Boys at the Fountain Theatre. He is the recipient Sisters, Shen The/Shui Ta in The Good Person of Kevin Rolston was last seen at Center REP in Becoming of several Dean Goodman Choice Awards, East Bay Szechuan, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Memories. He is grateful for the opportunity to return. Shellie Awards and was nominated for outstanding Cassandra in The Trojan Women, Lady Macbeth in achievement in set design by the San Diego Theatre Macbeth and Mattie Campebell in Joe Turner’s Come CREATIVE TEAM Critics Circle for his set and lighting designs for Master and Gone among many others. She created the role Harold….and the boys. His designs were included in an of Phoebe in Darker Face of the Earth by former poet John Patrick Shanley (Playwright) earned almost exhibit of American stage designers which toured the laureate, Rita Dove, which she performed at the Kennedy overnight recognition with his play, Danny and the United States, including Lincoln Center in New York Center. Recent television credits include three seasons Deep Blue Sea (1984), followed quickly by the movie City and the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington as Lupe on the Emmy Award winning show, Arrested Moonstruck (1987), which won him an Academy Award D.C. Development. Gonzalez is a recipient of a Citation of for Best Original Screenplay and was a huge box-office Excellence in Theatre from the Massachusetts House of success. The Bronx-raised author began his writing Will McCandless (Sound Designer) is a sound designer Representatives and has taught Theatre Arts workshops career while still in elementary school, penning poems and engineer based in San Francisco. Will returns to and master classes to men, women and children at age 11 and winning a statewide essay competition the Center REP after designing the sound for How the Other incarcerated in prisions and juvenile detention centers following year. After interrupting his college education Half Loves last season. Recent sound design credits and has also worked with at-risk youth for 30 years. with a tour of duty in the Marines, Shanley obtained his include Intimate Apparel (Solano College Theatre), degree in educational theater. His many plays and films Territories (Magic Theatre), David Copperfield (A.C.T. Lorri Holt (Sister Aloysius include Italian American Reconciliation, Four Dogs and Conservatory), and Assassins (Custom Made Theatre Beauvier) has been a leading a Bone, Psychopathia Sexualis, Cellini, and Joe Versus Company). Will is also the sound engineer for the actress in the Bay Area for nearly the Volcano. His 2005 play, Doubt, received the Pulitzer notoriously wonderful San Francisco Mime Troupe as three decades. During that time Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. well as the sound designer for the troupe’s Youth Theatre she has performed with A.C.T., Project. Will is excited to be collaborating again with the Berkeley Rep, Magic Theatre, Timothy Near (Director) recently creative team at Center REP. Marin Theatre Co., Aurora concluded 21 years of service Theatre, San Jose Rep (with as Artistic Director of San Jose Kurt Landisman (Lighting Designer) Local audiences Timothy Near on Baby Dance and Repertory Theatre during which will be familiar with his work through past productions Three Days of Rain), TheatreWorks, and in numerous time she directed over 35 plays, designed for Center REP including Ain’t Misbehavin’, commercial theatre productions, including a long run developed and produced over Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), A Midsummer in San Francisco in The Vagina Monologues. For ten 25 new works, contributed Night’s Dream, The Mousetrap, How the Other Half years Lorri was a company member of San Francisco’s significant leadership as well as Loves, Around the World in 80 Days, and Fugitive Kind. groundbreaking Eureka Theatre, where she originated the artistic and technical guidance to the design and building His designs have been seen throughout the Bay Area role of Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner’s Angels In America. of the Rep’s new theatre facility and lead The Rep to at many theaters including San Francisco Opera, ACT, Most recent roles include Nancy in Frozen at MTC and be a valued and integral part of the community. She Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Theatreworks, California Karen in The Crowd You’re In With at the Magic Theatre. was awarded a 1997 Woman of Achievement Award in Shakespeare Festival, The Magic Theatre, and Marin Lorri holds a B.A. in Dramatic Art from UC Berkeley the Arts given by The Mercury News and the Women’s Theatre Company. Locally his work has garnered 15 and an MFA in Writing & Literature from Bennington Fund and in 2005 she received The Janet Gray Hayes Bay Area Critics Circle Awards and 5 LA Dramalogue College; her feature articles on acting and theatre have Award for Women in Leadership. In the spring of 2008 Awards. Nationally, his work has been seen at many appeared in American Theatre magazine, and she is she left her Artistic Director position to resume her regional opera & ballet companies, including the Los an award-winning short story writer. In addition, Ms. career as a free lance director. Over the past summer Angeles Opera, Minnesota Opera, Virginia Opera, Tulsa Holt voices many characters in video games, working Near opened her productions of Enchanted April at Opera, and Ballet Arizona. His designs have also been frequently with Lucas Arts and Electronic Arts, among Arizona Theater Co. and Uncle Vanya at The California presented off-Broadway, represented at Circle Rep, others. Shakespeare Theatre. Near has directed at numerous and the Douglas Fairbanks Theatres. Other designs theatres throughout the U.S. including The Guthrie, The internationally include world premieres of plays by Sam Laura Morache
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