The Artistic Director’s Circle Season Sponsors

Gail & Ralph Bryan Una K. Davis Brian & Silvija Devine Joan & Irwin Jacobs Sheri L. Jamieson Frank Marshall and Kathy Kennedy Becky Moores Jordan Ressler Charitable Fund of the The William Hall Tippett and Ruth Rathell Tippett Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation David C. Copley Foundation, Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust, Gary & Marlene Cohen, The Rich Family Foundation The Dow Divas, Foster Family Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation, The Fredman Family, Wendy Gillespie & Karen Tanz, Lynn Gorguze & The Honorable Dr. Seuss Fund at The San Diego Scott Peters, Kay & Bill Gurtin, Debby & Hal Jacobs, Lynelle & William Lynch, Foundation and Molli Wagner Steven Strauss & Lise Wilson

JUNE 30 – JULY 28

PRODUCTION SPONSORS

Una K. Davis Larry & Robin Rusinko The Paula Marie Black Endowment for Women’s Voices in the Art of Theatre Dear Friends, LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS

When I first read Melissa Ross’s new Christopher Ashley Debby Buchholz play, The Luckiest, I was confronted The Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse by the fascinating irony of its title. The central character, Lissette, has consistently and voraciously devoured MISSION STATEMENT: life on her own terms. When she gets MISSION STATEMENT: diagnosed with a serious illness, it La Jolla Playhouse advances initially seems to be an event that is as Latheatre Jolla Playhouse as an art formadvances and astheatre a vital as unlucky as it gets. But the joy of Melissa’s play is that it asks us ansocial, art form moral and and as apolitical vital social, platform moral to reconsider what good fortune actually looks like, even in the andby providingpolitical platform unfettered by providing creative most extreme of circumstances. unfetteredopportunities creative for theopportunities leading artists As Lissette navigates her new reality alongside her mother Cheryl for the leading artists of today and BY of today and tomorrow. With our and her best friend Peter, what emerges is an essential story of tomorrow. With our youthful spirit and youthful spirit and eclectic, artist- how we choose to take care of each other – and ourselves. How MELISSA ROSS eclectic, artist-driven approach, we driven approach, we will continue can we exert control over our lives when seemingly all options will continue to cultivate a local and are closed off? How can we maintain our independence while still to cultivate a local and national national following with an insatiable being open to accepting help? appetitefollowing for with audacious an insatiable and diverse appetite DIRECTED BY work.for audacious In the future, and San diverse Diego’s work. La With surprising humor and startling insight, Melissa has created JAIME CASTAÑEDA JollaIn the Playhouse future, San will Diego’sbe considered La Jolla three richly-human characters who struggle to genuinely see each singularlyPlayhouse indispensable will be considered to the other, who fight and love with equal ferocity, who come to realize that true generosity and understanding from our family – and our worldwidesingularly theatreindispensable landscape, to the as we become a permanent safe harbor for chosen family – are among the luckiest things you can possess. worldwide theatre landscape, as FEATURING the unsafe and surprising. The day will we become a permanent safe In addition to introducing Melissa’s work to San Diego audiences, come when it will be essential to enter DEIRDRE LOVEJOY*, ALEQUE REID*, REGGIE D. WHITE* harbor for the unsafe and surprising. The Luckiest also reunites us with Jaime Castañeda, who served the La Jolla Playhouse village in order as the Playhouse’s Associate Artistic Director from 2014 to 2018. The day will come when it will to get a glimpse of what is about to It’s our great fortune to welcome him back with this urgent, happenbe essential in American to enter theatre. the La Jolla compassionate and tender story. SCENIC DESIGN TIM MACKABEE Playhouse village in order to get a COSTUME DESIGN DENITSA BLIZNAKOVA glimpse of what is about to happen CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY in American theatre. THE RICH FAMILY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR LIGHTING DESIGN LAP CHI CHU OF LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGN RYAN RUMERY DRAMATURG GABRIEL GREENE La Jolla Playhouse gives heartfelt thanks to our lead donors for their generous contributions CASTING TELSEY + COMPANY; KARYN CASL, C.S.A.; DESTINY LILLY to the Sheri L. Jamieson New Work Development Fund for La Jolla Playhouse: STAGE MANAGER ANJEE NERO* Sheri L. Jamieson Joan and Irwin Jacobs STAGE MANAGER DEAN REMINGTON* ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER KIRA VINE PROJECT PRODUCTION MANAGER BECCA DUHAIME

Developed with the support of New York Stage & Film's 2018 Winter Season.

The deep commitment to developing new work is at the very core of the Playhouse’s identity and the Sheri L. Jamieson Developed, in part, with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. New Work Development Fund for La Jolla Playhouse provides lasting resources to such vital programs as the DNA New Work Series, Page To Stage, artist commissions and residencies, and Without Walls programs, securing our legacy of new work development, as well as our place at the forefront of the American theatre landscape. THE COMPANY THE CAST

DEIRDRE LOVEJOY, Cheryl JAIME CASTAÑEDA, Director (in alphabetical order) La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Nora Ephron’s Lucky served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Associate Artistic Director from 2014 to Guy (starring Tom Hanks), Six Degrees of Separation, The 2018, where he directed Will Power’s Seize the King, Rachel Bonds’ Cheryl...... Deirdre Lovejoy* Gathering, Getting and Spending. Off-Broadway: How I At the Old Place, Mike Lew’s Tiger Style! and Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at Learned to Drive (original production). Regional: Macbeth the Taj. Other productions include Vietgone (American Conservatory Lissette...... Aleque Reid* (The Old Globe). Ms. Lovejoy has appeared in over 100 Theatre), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz (Dallas plays and episodes of television, including The Wire, The Blacklist, NCIS, Theater Center), Chimichangas and Zoloft by Fernanda Coppel (Atlantic Peter...... Reggie D. White* The West Wing, Girls, Bones (The Gravedigger) and the upcoming Theater Company), How We Got On by Idris Goodwin (Cleveland Play Raising Dion (Netflix, October). Recent film: The Post, Step Up, I Am House), The Royale by Marco Ramirez (American Theater Company), Elizabeth Smart (Wanda Barzee). B.F.A.: University of Evansville; M.F.A.: Welcome to Arroyo’s by Kristoffer Diaz (The Old Globe) and Red Light Time and Place: NYU. Currently developing her solo play Bird Elephant China. Thank you Winter by Adam Rapp (Perseverance Theatre). He has also developed Spanning the last decade or so Mr. Pickles & Mrs. Pickles. Visit DeirdreLovejoy.com. Social: @ddlovejoy. new plays with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Rattlestick Theater, Portland Center Stage, Denver Center Theatre, The Kennedy Center and New York City and Vermont ALEQUE REID, Lissette the Atlantic Theater Company, where he spent five seasons as Artistic La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Domesticated Associate. A Drama League Fellow, Jaime is the recipient of a Princess The Luckiest will be performed in one act without an intermission. (Lincoln Center Theater); All’s Well That Ends Well (Public Grace Award and a TCG New Generations Grant. He holds an M.F.A. in Theater); Nobody Loves You (Second Stage); Really Really Directing from The University of Texas at Austin. (MCC). National Tour: Hair (Jeanie). TV: Dying Up Here, Doubt. Film: Insidious: The Last Key, A Simple Wedding. TIM MACKABEE, Scenic Designer ADDITIONAL STAFF VO: Trolls: The Beat Goes On, Captain Underpants, Dragon Rescue La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Riders, Pitch Perfect 3, The Grinch Movie, Super Monsters. Education: Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. Spike Lee). West End: The UNCSA. For my loves, Heath and Reid. Elephant Man. Off-Broadway: Heathers The Musical, The Last Match ‡ Assistant Director...... Natalia Duong Scenic Design Resident Assistant...... Hsi-An Chen (Roundabout); Vietgone, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (MTC); Assistant Scenic Designer...... Anna Robinson ALS Consultant...... Eric Andrews REGGIE D. WHITE, Peter Guards at the Taj (Lortel Award), Describe the Night, The Penitent, Our La Jolla Playhouse: Hundred Days, The Last Tiger in Haiti. New Girl (Atlantic Theater); Luce (Lincoln Center Theater); Gigantic Assistant Lighting Designer...... Rachel Tibbetts Speech Consultant...... Joanna Burgess Off-Broadway: Hundred Days, I & You, For the Last Time. (Vineyard Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theater). TV: Amy Assistant Sound Designer...... Mason Pilevsky Physical Consultant...... Jesse J. Perez Selected Regional: The Bluest Eye (Arden Theatre), Eddie Schumer: Live at the Apollo (HBO), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (HBO), the Marvelous... (O’Neill), Blues for Mr. Charlie (The Williams Gotham, Smash, The Today Show. Education: North Carolina School of Project), Party People (Berkeley Rep). International: Flood in the Arts, Yale School of Drama. timothymackabeedesign.com, the Valley (Gung Ho Projects - China). Film & TV: Gotham, Blindspot, The @timmackabeedesign. SPECIAL THANKS Parent ‘Hood, Rebound, Buzzer, Medias Res. Training: Atlantic Theater School; Cal State Hayward. Reggie is a founding company member of DENITSA BLIZNAKOVA, Costume Designer ALS Association Greater San Diego Chapter • Cassie Beck • Kathryn Erbe The Williams Project, a living wage theatre company. Reggie is also a La Jolla Playhouse: The Cake, Queens. Her theatre design work has Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa • Shirley Fishman • Leah Hamos • Bobby Moreno • Deirdre O'Connell recipient of the TCG Fox Fellowship and NAACP Award nominee. been seen nationwide at venues including the Geffen Playhouse, Mark www.reggiedwhite.net Taper Forum, Old Globe Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Saul Paniagua & Irving Gonzalez/Snake Oil Cocktail Co. • Ryan Spahn • Summer Spiro • Daniella Topol Arts, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland Play House, A MELISSA ROSS, Playwright Noise Within, Williamstown Theatre Festival and others. Ms. Bliznakova's La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Plays include Thinner Than Water, A Life work for opera includes Carmen at Los Angeles Opera, Murder in the Extra Ordinary, Nice Girl, An Entomologist’s Love Story and Of Good Cathedral and All Is Calm at San Diego Opera. Costume design and Stock. Thinner Than Water and Nice Girl were both originally produced stylist credits for other media include films and music videos for various AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT EVENTS: THE LUCKIEST by LAByrinth Theater Company. Thinner Than Water is included in the artists. Nominations for Outstanding Costume Design: LA Stage Alliance anthology New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2011. Nice Girl was a finalist Ovation Award and Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award. She is a for the Francesca Primus Prize and is in Applause’s Best Plays of 2015. Professor in the School of Theatre, TV and Film at SDSU and is the Head Join us before the show on the first Friday of the run to hear directly from writers, directors and designers The Green Room Of Good Stock received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory of the M.F.A. Design and Technology program. Her work may be viewed about their process from the page to opening night. as part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival, followed by a subsequent at www.Denitsa.com. Sponsored in part by Friday, July 5 at 7:00 pm production at Manhattan Theatre Club. An Entomologist’s Love Story is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Commission and an Edgerton New LAP CHI CHU, Lighting Designer Play Award recipient, and received its world premiere at San Francisco La Jolla Playhouse: The Year to Come, Queens, At the Old Place, Talkback Tuesdays Participate in a lively discussion with The Luckiest performers and Playhouse staff members immediately Playhouse. Melissa’s plays have been developed and produced around Blueprints to Freedom, The Orphan of Zhao, Ruined. Recent works the country at Dorset Theatre Festival, The Gift Theatre, Iama Theatre include world premieres of Lynn Nottage’s Mlima’s Tale and Suzan- Sponsored in following these performances. part by Company, LAByrinth Theater Company, LCT3, New York Stage and Lori Parks' Father Comes Home From the Wars (Public Theater), Tuesday, July 9 and Tuesday, July 16 after the 7:30 pm performances Film, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, TheatreWorks and many others. She Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (Playwrights Realm); and Rajiv Joseph’s has been twice commissioned by South Coast Repertory and Manhattan Archduke (Mark Taper Forum). Other lighting designs: New York Theatre Club. Melissa is a graduate of Bennington College and the Lila Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Oregon On select performances, La Jolla Playhouse provides American Sign Language interpretation for audience ACCESS Performance Acheson Wallace Playwriting Program at The Juilliard School, a two- Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, members who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and audio description for patrons who are blind or have low vision. time winner of the Le Comte de Nouy Prize and a proud member of The Shakespeare Theater (Washington, D.C.). Awards: 2018 Obie for Sponsored in part by Saturday, July 20 at 2:00 pm LAByrinth Theater Company. Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Design, Ovation Award, multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards. Join special guest speakers post-performance as they engage audience members in a moderated discussion Education: Lighting Design faculty at California Institute of the Arts. Discovery Sunday exploring the themes in the play. Sunday, July 21 after the 2:00 pm performance

Preshow fun on the second and fourth Friday of the run. Experience visual and performance art inspired by Friday Fare the show. FREE to attend (food and drinks available for purchase). Friday, July 12 and Friday, July 26 at 6:30 pm THE COMPANY

RYAN RUMERY, Composer and Sound Designer ANJEE NERO, Stage Manager La Jolla Playhouse: Peer Gynt. Broadway: Be More Chill, Fool for Love, La Jolla Playhouse: Sideways, Blood & Gifts, Ruined, A Midsummer Thurgood. National Tours: The Lightning Thief (Theatreworks). Off- Night’s Dream, Herringbone, Tobacco Road, The Adding Machine, Broadway: over 50 productions. Regional: over 250 productions. Film: The Seven, Current Nobody, Mother Courage. Broadway: Bright Hopeful Pathways to Power and The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Paul Manafort Star. National/International Tours: Bright Star, Paul Dresher Ensemble, (Washington Post); Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles, When We IMAGOmoves. World Premiere Musicals: Almost Famous (upcoming), Walk (CAAMFest37); Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock (Tribeca Life After, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Benny & Joon, October Sky, Bright 2017); How to Let Go of the World (Sundance 2017); City of Gold Star, Dog & Pony, Allegiance, A Room with a View (The Old Globe). and Infinite (Sundance 2015). Select Regional: The Wanderers, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Twenty- seventh Man, Be a Good Little Widow, The Rocky Horror Show (The Old GABRIEL GREENE, Dramaturg Globe); Kiss Me Kate (Hartford Stage); Venice (Center Theatre Group); A conversation between playwright Melissa Ross and joined La Jolla Playhouse’s artistic staff in 2007 and currently serves as Ruined (Huntington Theatre Company); Antigone (SITI Company); Director of Artistic Development Gabriel Greene their Director of Artistic Development. He has dramaturged nearly Mother Courage (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). thirty new plays and musicals for the Playhouse, in addition to shows at 5th Avenue Theatre, Berkeley Rep, New York Stage & Film, The DEAN REMINGTON, Stage Manager (July 16 – 24, 2019) Melissa Ross Playwrights Center, Playwrights Horizons, Steppenwolf Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse: Gala 2018, Without Walls Festival 2017, DNA New TimeLine Theatre. Goosebumps Alive, his immersive adaptation of R.L. Works Series: The Luckiest, 3 Farids. National Tours: The Lion King, Stine’s best-selling novels (co-written and directed by Tom Salamon) Beauty and the Beast. Regional: Manifest Destinitis, Outside Mullingar GG: What inspired you to write The Luckiest? And that tiny adjustment opened up an entire magical premiered in 2016 at The Vaults (London). With Alex Levy, he co-wrote (San Diego Repertory); Pride and Prejudice, Every Brilliant Thing, world of possibility, which is essentially what that scene Safe at Home, which was developed as part of the 2016 DNA Series Shockheaded Peter, When the Rain Stops Falling, The Wind and the and received its world premiere at Mixed Blood Theatre in 2017 (Ivey Breeze, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, MR: About five years ago I slipped on the ice getting is about: how meeting a kindred spirit can suddenly Award). B.A.: University of Michigan. M.Phil: Trinity College, Dublin. Stupid F***ing Bird, A Christmas Carol (Cygnet Theatre). International: into a taxi and ended up with a wretched injury make the crazy, complicated world less crazy and B.F.F.: Mia Fiorella. www.gabrielgreene.com. Hey, Mr. Producer! (Cameron Mackintosh). Production Coordinator for called the Unhappy Triad – which is as terrible as it complicated. And how when that happens, suddenly HBO and Columbia Pictures. Education: UCLA. sounds. It's when you tear your ACL, your MCL and everything feels expansive and hopeful and infinite. TELSEY + COMPANY, KARYN CASL, C.S.A.; DESTINY LILLY, Casting Broadway/Tours: Beetlejuice; Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; KIRA VINE, Assistant Stage Manager your meniscus, and so you basically have nothing Oklahoma!; Be More Chill; Network; The Cher Show; The Prom; Pretty La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Elsewhere: Native Gardens (The Old Globe); holding your leg together. I was homebound for a GG: Why did you decide to structure the play in a Woman; My Fair Lady; Mean Girls; Frozen; Come From Away; Waitress; Actually, Aubergine (San Diego Rep); Hedwig and the Angry Inch, few months and in very intense physical therapy. In non-linear way? Hamilton; Wicked; Hello, Dolly!; Anastasia; Charlie and the Chocolate Homos: Or, Everyone in America (Diversionary Theatre); Bliss: Or, Emily the midst of all that, I also lost a few people who Factory. Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company, Classic Stage Post Is Dead (MOXIE Theatre); Seven Spots on the Sun (InnerMission Company, MCC Theater, Second Stage Theater. Film: The Kitchen, Productions). Other production work includes: The Wanderers, The Heart were very dear to me. It was all very heightened. But MR: It was less a conscious decision and more how Mary Poppins Returns, Ben Is Back, The Greatest Showman, Into the of Rock & Roll (The Old Globe); A Doll’s House Part 2 (San Diego Rep). despite its difficulty, I was simultaneously filled with I heard this particular story in my head. Sometimes Woods, Rachel Getting Married. TV: Tales of the City, Fosse/Verdon, Performance credits include: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla immense gratitude for the friends and family who when I'm writing, I get a clear sense of the ending NOS4A2, Rent, Murphy Brown, This Is Us, House of Cards, NCIS: New Playhouse); The Taming of the Shrew (InnerMission Productions). showed up for me. I remember thinking to myself that and I simply write to that. Other times, I skip around Orleans, One Day at a Time, commercials. www.telseyandco.com there was probably a play in there somewhere, but I to different moments in the story and then write the sort of compartmentalized that and filed it away for in-betweens. Others unfold organically, in a “this Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres the future. Two years later, during a period of intense happens and then this happens” sort of way and I just * the United States. The theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident and United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association. writer's block, I wrote the opening monologue in a keep writing forward. With The Luckiest, since in some La Jolla Playhouse is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national and a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service wonderful writer's group with Rattlestick Playwrights ways it starts at the end, the journey for me – and theatrical labor union. organization for the nonprofit professional theatre. Theater. And then it slowly started to find itself bit by ultimately also for the audience – was to figure out ‡ UC San Diego M.F.A. Candidates in residence at La Jolla Playhouse. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 122. bit from there. how we got there. Though I did still write the scenes in the order they appear in the play, so the process was GG: How has the play evolved since your first far more linear than the end result. draft? What discoveries did you make in the DNA The DNA New Work Series Series and in rehearsal? GG: What would you like people to leave the show with? The Luckiest was featured as part of the Playhouse’s 2018 DNA New Work MR: I discovered the bar scene between Lissette and Series. Established by Rich Family Artistic Director Christopher Ashley in Peter during my workshop with DNA. There are two MR: At the risk of sounding sentimental – and I don't 2013, the DNA Series is one of the theatre’s signature play development scenes in the play that take place on the same night. think this is a sentimental play but I am sometimes programs that offers playwrights the opportunity to develop a script over And in some ways they are the simplest because a sentimental person – I hope that people leave the a multi-week period, culminating in a public reading. It’s a rare chance for they are in the past, before any of the high stakes of theatre determined to fall in love with their life. To theatre-lovers to be a part of a new work and for playwrights to receive Summer Spiro and Ryan Spahn in the the present have emerged. But they also contain the appreciate the people they love. To be good friends. valuable feedback on their work in its earliest stages. 2018 DNA reading of The Luckiest highest stakes – because they are the origin story of To have empathy for others. I hope that perhaps they the relationship that anchors the entire play. In early are inspired to do something they have always wanted Numerous Playhouse productions have been developed through the DNA New Work Series, including Kill drafts, both scenes took place at the same party, but to do but for some reason haven't yet. I hope they call Local, What Happens Next, Miss You Like Hell, The Last Tiger in Haiti, Blueprints to Freedom, The Who & The something wasn't working. And then in rehearsal someone they miss – on an actual phone – and have a What, Chasing the Song and the upcoming The Coast Starlight. Melissa Ross’ piece resonated deeply with DNA Series audiences, and we are thrilled to have her touching play have its world-premiere production as part of our conversations, someone said, “I think the issue is that long conversation. I realize this is a lot to wish for, but subscription season. they are in literally the same location and so there if maybe every person has one of these things happen isn't any progression. Can they go someplace else, so for them, that would be kind of wonderful. that the relationship can move forward in some way?” LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE EDUCATION & OUTREACH PROGRAMS

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Arts Academy – Through the Kennedy Center's Innovation Lab – Focusing on how theatre can Student Matinees – Special student matinees New Musical! Partners in Education program, San Diego County improve communication, creativity, collaboration of selected mainstage productions are Office of Education and the Playhouse team up and critical thinking skills, Playhouse teaching offered throughout the school year. An online to provide professional development for non- artists are available to lead interactive activities engagement guide, pre or post show workshops, theatre teachers on how to use arts integration that build teams to be effective in any industry. and a post-show talkback provides a deeper strategies in the classroom. Over the course of a understanding on how a new play is uniquely year, participating students and teachers benefit JumpStart Theatre – This three-year program developed with Playhouse staff. from working alongside Playhouse teaching consists of dedicated curriculum to provide artists to enhance their existing core curriculum middle school teachers with the skills and YP@LJP – Young Performers at La Jolla using theatre activities. resources needed to produce musicals in their Playhouse offers exciting summer programs 2019/2020 schools for the first time. for kids: Young Performers’ Workshop (YPW), In-School Residencies – Playhouse teaching an exploration of theatre arts in a fun, creative artists lead multi-day workshops focusing on Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour way; Young Performers’ Academy (YPA), where SEASON a variety of theatre topics in dozens of K-12 Each year, the Playhouse commissions a new students build upon the skills they learned in schools throughout San Diego. Each residency is play that addresses real concerns of today’s youth YPW; Young Performers’ Conservatory (YPC), customized to the individual school's goals and and brings a professional production to schools a 5-week intensive that prepares actors for offer innovative approaches for both students and community centers across San Diego County. serious college theatre programs; and Tech UP NEXT! August 20 – September 15 September 3 – October 13 and teachers. Theatre, a class which introduces young people Spotlight On – Playhouse teaching artists lead to the various aspects of technical theatre. resh irreverent and Our capacity for re-invention For more information on Education & Outreach classes for adults on Improv, Musical Theatre, Supported by the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, when life oes off the rails. outraeously funny. programs at La Jolla Playhouse, please Acting and Technical Theatre. Each class closes the Jordan Ressler Endowment Fund, David C. contact Julia Cuppy at (858) 550-1070 x103. with a performance for invited guests. Copley Foundation and the Roberto Quiñones, Jr. Scholarship Fund.

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LaollaPlayhouse.or PLAYHOUSE LEADERSHIP LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY, The Rich Family Artistic Director DEBBY BUCHHOLZ, Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse of La Jolla Playhouse joined the Playhouse in 2002, serving first as General LYNELLE LYNCH Karen A. Quiñones has served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director since Manager before becoming Managing Director. She is a Vice Chair Jeffrey Ressler* Becky Robbins 2007. During his tenure, he has helmed the Playhouse’s President of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT) and RANDALL L. CLARK, Don Rosenberg, Qualcomm productions of The Squirrels, Hollywood, The Darrell a member of its Executive Committee. She is a recipient Sempra Energy Tim Scott Hammond Project, His Girl Friday, Glengarry Glen Ross, of a San Diego Women Who Mean Business Award from The First Vice-Chair Shane Shelley, Morrison Foerster A Dram of Drummhicit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Restoration and San Diego Business Journal. Prior to joining La Jolla Playhouse, she served MICHAEL FLASTER Karen Silberman the musicals Diana, Escape to Margaritaville, Disney’s Freaky Friday, as Counsel to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Second Vice-Chair Laura Spielman Chasing the Song, Xanadu, Memphis, which won four 2010 Tony Awards the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. She was a faculty Steven M. Strauss*, Cooley, LLP SUSAN TOUSI, Illumina including Best Musical, and Come From Away, for which he won the member of the Smithsonian Institution’s program on Legal Problems of Andy Thomas, Evans Hotels Secretary 2017 Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical and the Craig Noel Museum Administration. Prior to The Kennedy Center, she served as Mary Walshok, Ph.D., Award for Direction. He also spearheaded the Playhouse’s Without Walls a corporate attorney in New York City and Washington, D.C. She is a SCOTT M. STANTON, Mintz UC San Diego Extension (WOW) series and the Resident Theatre program. Prior to joining the graduate of UC San Diego and Harvard Law School. Ms. Buchholz and Treasurer Charlayne Woodard Playhouse, he directed the Broadway productions of Xanadu (Drama her husband, noted author and White House economic policy advisor Barbara ZoBell Desk nomination), All Shook Up and The Rocky Horror Show (Tony, Todd Buchholz, live in Solana Beach and are the proud parents of Victoria, TRUSTEES HONORARY TRUSTEES Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), as well as Katherine and Alexia. Christopher Ashley** Richard Atkinson, Ph.D. the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration productions of Sweeney Michael Bartell Denise Bevers Ivan Gayler Todd and Merrily We Roll Along. Other New York credits include: Blown DES McANUFF, Director Emeritus Andrew Boyd** John Goodman Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey (Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards), The served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director from 1983 Ralph Bryan* Joel Holliday* Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets Only, Wonder of the through 1994, and from 2001 through April 2007. Under his Debby Buchholz** Julie Potiker World, Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, The Night Hank Williams leadership, the Playhouse garnered more than 300 awards, Robert Caplan, Geri Ann Warnke* Died and Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award), among others. Mr. including the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek Gary Wollberg* Ashley also directed the feature films Jeffrey and Lucky Stiff, as well as His Playhouse to Broadway credits include: SUMMER: The Hope Carlson, Dowling & Yahnke Robert Wright, Esq. the American Playhouse production of Blown Sideways Through Life Donna Summer Musical; Doctor Zhivago; Jesus Christ Superstar; Jersey Lisa S. Casey Wright, L’Estrange & Ergastolo for PBS. He is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award, the Drama Linda Chester Boys (four Tony Awards); Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays (Tony Award); How EMERITUS TRUSTEES Peter Cowhey, Ph.D., League Director Fellowship and an NEA/TCG Director Fellowship. to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (five Tony nominations); Rita Bronowski (1917-2010) UC San Diego director and co-author with Pete Townshend on The Who’s Tommy David Copley (1952-2012) Doug Dawson LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE (Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Director) and Big River (seven Tony Ted Cranston (1940-2012) Edward A. Dennis, Ph.D. is a place where artists and audiences come together to create what’s Milton Fredman (1920-2005) Awards), among others. He also directed the premieres of Aaron Sorkin’s Brian Dovey, Domain Associates new and next in the American theatre, from Tony Award-winning Ewart W. Goodwin, Jr.* The Farnsworth Invention and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, which Emily Einhorn (1938- 2019) productions, to imaginative programs for young audiences, to interactive he co-wrote. Opera credits: Faust (The Met, ENO). Film credits: Cousin Annie Ellis, Procopio Marian Jones Longstreth experiences outside our theatre walls. Founded in 1947 by Gregory Bette (director), Iron Giant (producer, BAFTA Award) and Quills (executive Teri Evons (1906-1997) Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, the Playhouse is currently led producer). Recipient of the Drama League’s 2006 Julia Hansen Award, Mick Farrell Hughes Potiker (1925-2005) by Christopher Ashley, the Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Dr. Lawrence Friedman Mr. McAnuff served as Artistic Director at Canada’s Stratford Festival Sheila Potiker (1930-2011) Playhouse, and Managing Director Debby Buchholz. Internationally- Top row: Debby Buchholz, Ralph Bryan, Becky Robbins; Lynelle & William Lynch; middle row: Randall L. Clark, Sheri L. Jamieson, Hanna Gleiberman from 2007 through 2012. In 2012, he was awarded Canada’s esteemed Christopher Ashley; Robin & Larry Rusinko, Denise & Lon Bevers; bottom row: Susan Tousi and friends; Luke Gulley, Barbara & Ellen Revelle (1910-2009) Lynn E. Gorguze renowned for the development of new plays and musicals, the Playhouse Governor General’s National Arts Center Award and the Order of Canada. Howard Milstein. Roger Revelle (1909-1991) Luke Gulley, Show Imaging, Inc. has mounted 102 world premieres, commissioned 52 new works, and Willard P. VanderLaan, M.D.* Dwight Hare sent 32 productions to Broadway – including the currently-running hit (1917-2012) Kevin Hilderman, musical Come From Away – garnering a total of 38 Tony Awards, as Arthur Wagner, Ph.D. A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR Bank of America (1923-2015) well as the 1993 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Osborn Hurston, US Bank Mandell Weiss (1891-1993) Summer is in full swing at La Jolla Playhouse! On stage, The Luckiest Debby Jacobs is a touching new play about family – and the friends who become Joan Jacobs 1947 FOUNDERS Cynthia James-Price** our family – in times of difficulty. We’re also beginning rehearsals Mel Ferrer IN MEMORIAM | EWART W. “CHIP” GOODWIN, JR. Sheri L. Jamieson Dorothy McGuire for The Coast Starlight, a smart, funny piece that explores our Jeanne Jones Gregory Peck capacity for re-invention. Both these plays were developed through Kathy Jones, Ph.D. Ewart W. “Chip” Goodwin, Jr. (June 7, 1938 – May 24, 2019) served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Pradeep K. Khosla, Ph.D., our DNA New Work Series, a signature Playhouse program that *Past Chair of the Board board chair from 1983 to 1984. A fourth-generation insurance executive, Goodwin’s Chancellor, UC San Diego **Ex-Officio grandfather started the Percy H. Goodwin Company in San Diego in 1875. Chip graduated offers playwrights the chance to hear a first reading of their script Kay Matherly, Wells Fargo from Claremont-McKenna College with a B.A. in economics and then joined the Great and receive valuable audience feedback. Now these two works are List as of June 13, 2019 American Insurance Company in New York City. After several years with that firm, he receiving their world premieres as part of our subscription season – returned to join his family’s company as Vice President of Insurance. In 1989, he joined a true Playhouse mission moment! the Ehrenfeld Company. Chip served as president for organizations such as the Vietnam Gift Pac, Help Hospitalized Veterans, the Executive Association and the Independent Meanwhile offstage, we’re playing host to hundreds of young people for our annual Young Performers' Workshops Insurance Agents Association, where he was presented the Andrew Ekern Award. (YP@LJP). It’s truly exciting to witness the bonding experiences, growth in confidence, and sheer fun that takes place among these kids each summer. YP@LJP is just one of the Playhouse’s many acclaimed education programs that One of Chip's greatest legacies was the role he and his family played in the re-emergence of La Jolla Playhouse. collectively help us serve more than 20,000 students annually. There are many learning opportunities for adults as well, He worked diligently throughout the '60s and '70s with the University of California system regarding the theatre’s with our new “Spotlight On” series of classes in Acting, Musical Theatre, Improv and Technical Theatre that can re- proposed location on the UC San Diego campus. He was also instrumental in building the new theatre, as well as ignite your creative spark. in the hiring of Des McAnuff, who became the theatre's first Artistic Director. As Presidents of the Theatre & Arts Foundation of San Diego, Ewart, Sr. and then Chip worked with a dedicated group of theatre lovers to secure As a donor, subscriber, patron or participant, you are an essential part of making La Jolla Playhouse a vital theatrical funding and assemble a leadership team to assure the continued viability and growth of the Playhouse, paving the launching pad, as well as an essential home for arts education. Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support. way for it to become one of the premier regional theatres in the nation. LYNELLE LYNCH CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES THE LUCKIEST PRODUCTION SPONSORS LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE CORPORATE CIRCLE

Illumina is proud to partner with La Jolla Playhouse, whose innovative approach and SEASON SPONSORS passionate commitment to producing the new and the next in American theatre has been rewarded with fans around the globe. Founded and based here in San Diego, with over 3,000 employees locally and 7,500 globally, Illumina is improving human health by unlocking the power of the genome. Discoveries that were unimaginable even a few years ago are now becoming routine – and making their way into patient treatment to make a difference now and empower a healthy future.

La Cuisine Custom Catering is delighted to partner with La Jolla Playhouse again this $25,000 + year. With the new season comes a new opportunity to demonstrate a commitment to the arts. The Playhouse is where creativity is born and a community thrives. We applaud the efforts of all involved and look forward to a great season.

Una K. Davis As a long-time supporter of the arts, I am very pleased to be a co-sponsor of this brand-new, thought-provoking play. What excites me most about partnering with the Playhouse is their commitment to developing new plays and musicals that ignite conversation and change. Beyond this production, I am proud to join the Artistic Director’s Circle to help bring a wonderful 2019/2020 Season to San Diego audiences.

Larry & Robin Rusinko We believe in the power of theatre to start conversations, broaden perspectives and increase understanding. When we were introduced to The Luckiest during the 2018 $15,000 + DNA New Work Series, it affected both of us. We are very pleased to co-sponsor this world-premiere production and thank Melissa Ross for this beautiful, life-affirming play. We hope you are touched by the performance and leave wanting to “Live Hard – and Love Harder!”

The Paula Marie Black The Paula Marie Black Endowment Fund for Women’s Voices in the Art of Theatre Endowment for Women’s supports female playwrights and directors both on stage and off. Established by former Voices in the Art of Theatre Playhouse Trustee Paula Marie Black, this Endowment provides female artists with $10,000 + invaluable resources to develop their work at the Playhouse. This generous gift helps us amplify the voices of women that will benefit not only these female artists, but the countless lives they will affect by sharing their work with the world. Wishing Melissa Ross and the entire creative team a wonderful and successful engagement of The Luckiest!

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ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION & OUTREACH Producing Director Eric Keen-Louie General Manager Ryan Meisheid Director of Education & Outreach Julia Cuppy Director of Artistic Development Gabriel Greene* Assistant General Manager Samantha De La Riva Associate Director of Education & Outreach Bridget Cavaiola Associate Producer Teresa Sapien Corporate/Legal Counsel Robert C. Wright, Wright & L’Estrange Education & Outreach Coordinator Hannah Reinert Artistic Programs Manager & Local Casting Director Theatre/Legal Counsel F. Richard Pappas, Esq. Audio Describers Mernie Aste, Laurielynn Barnett, Jacole Kitchen COMPANY MANAGEMENT Brian Berlau*, Michele Dixon, Tina Dyer, Lisa Iliana, Director Emeritus Des McAnuff Company Manager Erica Martin Shari Lyon*, Ann McDonald, Kay O’Neil*, Executive Assistant to Christopher Ashley Rick VanNoy* Company Management Assistants Alex Bezdeka, Deborah Sanborn*, Leslie Satz, Sylvia Southerland* Commissioned Artists Todd Almond, Jeff Augustin, Jacob Sinclair ASL Interpreters Hilda Colondres, Lynn Ann Garrett, Daniel Beaty, Guillermo Calderón, Kara Lee Corthron, Interns Alice Banta, Sofia Perez-Lizano, Yuzhi Xiang Anelia Glebocki, Alycen Haynesworth, Steph Del Rosso, Noah Diaz, Kristoffer Diaz, Ava Geyer, Suzanne Lightbourn*, Billieanne McLellan*, Geri Wu Kirsten Greenidge, Joe Iconis, Hansol Jung, Jon Kern, FINANCE ASL Usher Esther Shen* Mike Lew, Rehana Lew Mirza, Martyna Majok, Director of Finance Laura Killmer Teaching Artists Frankie Alicea, Adrian Alita, Mona Mansour, Gregory S. Moss, Lisa Peterson, Payroll George Kelly Bradley Behrmann, Julie Benitez, Ian Brandon, Theresa Rebeck, Dan Moses Schreier, Brian Selznick, Staff AccountantSara Kiebooms Kelly DeRouin, Kristen Fogle, Donny Gersonde, Claudia Shear, Mat Smart, Octavio Solis, Controller Jared Jackson Kirsten Giard, Samantha Ginn, Cory Hammond, Charlayne Woodard, Lauren Yee Accounts Payable Manager Sharon Ratelle* Rachel Hoey, Jeffrey Ingman, Levi Kaplan, Justin Lang, Artistic Interns Miranda Mattlin, Skyles Siben Employee Benefits CoordinatorKathy Silberman Bruce McGlumphy, Richard Mendoza, Ursula Meyer, Lizette Ortiz, Wilfred Paloma, Tara Ricasa, Nicole Roerick, PRODUCTION PHILANTHROPY Michael Shantz, Sydney Wilson, Sofia Zaragoza Production Manager Benjamin Seibert Director of Philanthropy Julia B. Foster Playhouse Teen Council Justin Canning, Lilith Freund, Associate Production Manager Becca Duhaime Associate Director of Philanthropy Bonnie Broberg Elizabeth Gelber, Rebecca Genin, Zoe Goldstein, Production Office ManagerCaren Heintzelman Foundation & Government Relations Senior Manager Mia Grust, Emre Gumus, Kelly Hatfield, Madison Hoffman, Production Intern Eric Clark Elizabeth Pennington Kaplan Andalyn Honselaar, David Lopez, Ariella Markus, SCENE SHOP Philanthropy Operations Manager Tony Dixon Christina Martino, Naomi Melville, Dylan Nalbandian, Technical Director William Hartley Corporate Relations Manager Adeline Duke Nicky Redd, Vivian Romero, Lexi Smith, Emily Talerman, Assistant Technical Director Jonathan Gilmer Individual Giving Manager Cristina Hernandez Carly Walton, Sabrina Webster, Shelby Westbrook Master Carpenter David Weiner* Philanthropy Coordinator Sarah Huddleston Education & Outreach Interns Madeline Barry, Johanna Bear, Charge Artist Melissa Nalbach Philanthropy Intern Sophia Rucireta Meghan Coyle, Luc D’arcy, Claire Dunn, Production Carpenter Laura McEntyre SPECIAL EVENTS Savannah Edwards, Natalia Escobedo, Hunter Katz, Carpenters Kyle Ahlquist, Mihai Antonesco, Megan Birdsong, Special Events Manager Samantha Watkins Grace Lehman, Jordan Lichtenheld, Phillip Magin, Michael Brodsky, Jacob Bruce, Matt Clark, David Hanna, Special Events Coordinator Erica Kao Emily Midgley, Charlotte Meffe, Eliana Ulloa Peter Hirsch, Nick Jackson, Scott Kinney, Paul Mares, Brylan Ranscht, Syd Svetz, Tim Van Der Lind, COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS Zane Whitmore Director of Communications Mary Cook* Director of Operations Ned Collins* Scenic Painters Edee Armand, Dwaine Best*, Jenn Imbler Director of Public Relations Becky Biegelsen* Operations Manager Jen McClenahan* Shop Helper Doug Collind* Director of Sales & Marketing Mia Fiorella Network Systems Specialist Daryl “Scooter” Davis PROPERTIES SHOP Communications Manager Grace Madamba FRONT OF HOUSE Prop Shop Supervisor Deb Hatch* Senior Multimedia Designer Nancy Showers House Manager John Craft* Props Artisans Zlatko Mitev, Zach Zeringue Multimedia Designer Jane Sanders Assistant House Managers Avery Floto, Jessica Loomer, COSTUME SHOP Marketing Specialist Jacey Aldredge Sara Lucchini, Amy Marquez*, Chastyn Rauh, Mondis Vakili Costume Supervisor Jennifer Ables Marketing Database Analyst Dani Meister Audience Concierges Ashley Carbonell, Sarah Delgado, Resident Costume Design Assistant Desiree Hatfield-Buckley Direct Sales Associate Andrew Fink Christopher Ferreria, Cory Kurkierewicz, Benjamin Nelson, Draper Alexander Zeek Patron Services Sales Specialists Tanya Barach, Paul Preston* Sultan Saeed, Gemina Soriano First Hand Rebecca Fabares Marketing & Communications Intern Catherine Ames Janitorial Professional Maintenance Systems: Juan Mena, Stitchers Stephanie Gift, Keira McGee PATRON SERVICES Maria Mena, Tony Villafuerte Craft Artisan Tess Mattraw Associate Director of Ticketing Services Pearl Hang* ELECTRICS Senior Patron Services Manager Travis Guss THE LUCKIEST CREW Electrics Supervisor Jeff Brewer Patron Services Assistant Manager Mike Brown Stage Carpenter Zane Whitmore Master Electrician Kristyn Kennedy* Senior Lead Patron Services Representative/Group Sales Production Props Jeni Cheung Electricians Alex Cluff, Mike Doyle, Xavier Luevano, Specialist Renee Shinske Wardrobe Supervisor Jan Mah Andrea Ryan Lead Patron Services Representative Bill Washington Master Electrician Kristyn Kennedy SOUND/VIDEO Patron Services Representatives Devon Gonzales, Audio Engineer Jon Fredette Interim Sound/Video Supervisor Chris Powell Devin O’Reilly Sound Technician Haley Wolf

* Ten years or more with La Jolla Playhouse

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