The Hot L Baltimore Program Layout

Untverslfy of Houston ~ Downtown Production Staff Unlverslfy Theatre Production Manager I Light Board Operator ...... Kataneh Haklmzadeh presents Stage Manager . . . . . • • • ...... Kam Pattfsapu Sound Board Operator ...... Rick Moreno Program Cover Design ...... Troy E.. FaJdyn The Hot L Baltimore Program Layout ...... Zlrot Graphic Designs by House Managers I Ushers ...... Alisha Breakfield Lanfbrd Wilson Angela Standish Box Office Staff...... Brenda Belmares

Director Thomas J. Lyttle This semester's recipients of the Rockwell Drama Scholarship Set Design Lighting Design are Miss Kacy Pollock and Mr. Troy E. FaJdyn. Jonathan Middents Jonathan Middents We congratulate them on this honor. and Ondy Day You are cordially Invited to meet the cast and crew Costume Design Sound Design In the theatre lobby fbllowlng the performance. Pat Covington John Peeples

Cast Aboyt the Playwiight Born In 1937 In Lebanon, Missouri, Lanford Wilson originally wanted to be an (In order of appearance) artist. After studying painting at San Diego State University, he got a job with an adver­ Bill Lewis ...... Troy E.. Faldyn tising agency In Chicago doing layout work and writing copy. His ultlmate plan was to quit his job and support himself by writing short stories whlle pursuing his painting. Girl ...... Angela Konzem One day he had an Idea for a stoty. He began writing It out on a layout pad Millie ...... Shawny Tubbs when It suddenly occurred to him that the stoty might work better as a play .. By the time Mrs. Bellotti ...... Lisa M. AyaJa he got to the bottom of the first page he knew he was a playwright. He took an lntroduc­ April Green ...... Ka~ Pollock toty play writing dass at the University of Chicago to learn the rudiments of theatre and Mr. Morse ...... Robert Drell has been writing plays ever since. Jackle ...... Prof. Cindy K1stenberg In 1962 he moved to New York to break Into theatre and In 1969, along with his longtime friend and collaborator, Marshall Mason, he co-rounded Orde Repertoty Jamie ...... Glenn O'Mary Company, a well-respected off-Broadway theatre where most of his plays have pre­ Mr. Katz ...... Paul Emerson miered. Several of them, such as the popular Fifth of July. have successfully transferred to Suzy Gone ...... Marjorie T. Ng Broadway. Suzy's John ...... Charles Griswell Among Wiison's more familiar works are the following: Balm In Giiead: The Paul Granger, Ill ...... Marcos Rodriquez Rlmers of Elddtcb; Lemon Sky: Serenading Louie; The Moynd Bullders: Angels fall: 1\l.lrn Mrs. Oxenham ...... Rebekah Fredholm ~: Redwood Curtain; the trilogy that comprises the Talley cyde: Talley &. Son. ~ fQlh'. ( 1980 Pulitzer Prize) and Flftb of)uly: and, of course, The Hot L Baltimore ( 1973 Cab Driver ...... Karn Patttsapu Drama Crlttcs Orde Award).

Time: Memorial Day, 1973 Place: the dfy of Baltimore We.are woddng.at bulldlng up our furniture, prop and costume stock·for uSi ID futule shows. If.JOU have,_,~ or unusual,.ltems. Such u ·smaD ·taillhst old t.v.'s, c:baJrs, non·worldns Jadlos and docks, w.n :pictures, period clothes, ek. dmyoa-would ~e to donate. piease all the H"!Unl­ There wlll be a 10-mlnute Intermission between each of the three acts. tlt;S ~at llt-8104.and someone wDI pt bM;k with you to make the ~ arr-sements-