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August 20 – September 15

August 20 – September 15

The Artistic Director’s Circle Season Sponsors

Gail & Ralph Bryan Una K. Davis Brian & Silvija Devine Joan & Irwin Jacobs Sheri L. Jamieson Frank Marshall & 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 Scott Peters, Kay & Bill Gurtin, Debby & Hal Jacobs, Lynelle & William Lynch, Foundation and Molli Wagner Steven Strauss & Lise Wilson

AUGUST 20 – SEPTEMBER 15

PRODUCTION SPONSORS

Una K. Davis Brian & Silvija Devine Recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award Dear Friends, PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS “Go West, young man.” Christopher Ashley Debby Buchholz That phrase, most often attributed to Horace Greeley The Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse in 1865, perfectly captures the essence of American expansion that permeated much of the 19th century. An untold number of people, whether driven by the idea of “Manifest Destiny” or simply unable or unwilling to MISSION STATEMENT: fit into established society, made the journey West. It La Jolla Playhouse advances was often uncharted, rough territory that required – and rewarded – hard work and a pioneering spirit. theatre as an art form and as a vital social, moral and political platform The truth, of course, is much more complicated than that. Westward expansion by providing unfettered creative also caused a staggering amount of violence and oppression against the Native population of America. But the mythology still maintains a warm home in our opportunities for the leading artists history books; the West was (and remains) a place of opportunity, possibility, BY of today and tomorrow. With our adventure and optimism. KEITH BUNIN youthful spirit and eclectic, artist- The setting of Keith Bunin’s luminous new play, The Coast Starlight, is an apt driven approach, we will continue metaphor; a train is an impermanent, transitional space, delivering people from one to cultivate a local and national place to another. Keith’s characters may have shared in that pioneer spirit of following with an insatiable appetite optimism and opportunity, but now they’re bone-tired or disillusioned, locked in a DIRECTED BY place of uncertainty and disruption. But by the end of their journey, they will each for audacious and diverse work. arrive at a new understanding of themselves. TYNE RAFAELI In the future, San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse will be considered Keith wrote this play while living in for a long-term writing job. During his downtime, he’d often ride the Coast Starlight, imagining the lives of his fellow singularly indispensable to the passengers: what brought them here? Where were they heading? What were they FEATURING worldwide theatre landscape, as running towards – or from? This play honors that impulse by unfolding as a series of we become a permanent safe (mostly) imagined interactions between the characters that illuminate the emotional MIA BARRON*, CAMILA CANÓ-FLAVIÁ*, RHYS COIRO* topography we all share, even if we seldom grant other people access to it. harbor for the unsafe and surprising. NATE MANN*, STEPHANIE WEEKS*, ROB YANG* The day will come when it will Keith once told me that The Coast Starlight is a tribute to all the people he met be essential to enter the La Jolla along the way, and to all the people who’d made the same journey before him – those who had, in one way or another, built the tracks on which he traveled. The UNDERSTUDIES ‡ ‡ ‡ Playhouse village in order to get a result is a deeply empathetic play that asks us to consider the humanity we share MARY ROSE BRANICK , CHRISTINE PENN , GARRETT SCHULTE glimpse of what is about to happen with those just a few seats over from us on a train – or anywhere. in American theatre. CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY THE RICH FAMILY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE SCENIC DESIGN ARNULFO MALDONADO COSTUME DESIGN DENITSA BLIZNAKOVA AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT EVENTS: THE COAST STARLIGHT LIGHTING DESIGN LAP CHI CHU Talkback Tuesdays Sponsored in part by The Green Room Sponsored in part by COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGN Participate in a lively discussion with The Coast Starlight Join us before the show on the first Friday of the run to DANIEL KLUGER performers and Playhouse staff members immediately hear directly from writers, directors and designers about DRAMATURG SHIRLEY FISHMAN following these performances. their process from the page to opening night. and Tuesday, August 27 and Tuesday, September 3 Friday, August 23 at 7:00 pm CASTING TBD CASTING; STEPHANIE YANKWITT, C.S.A. MARGARET DUNN following the 7:30 pm performances STAGE MANAGER ASHLEY R. MARTIN* Friday Fare Discovery Sunday ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER TYLER LARSON* Pre-show fun on the second and fourth Fridays of the run. Join special guest speakers post-performance as they Experience visual and performance art inspired by the show. engage audience members in a moderated discussion PROJECT PRODUCTION MANAGER BECCA DUHAIME FREE to attend (food and drinks available for purchase). exploring the themes in the play. Friday, August 30 and Friday, September 13 at 6:30 pm Sunday, September 8 following the 2:00 pm performance Developed with the support of Ojai Playwrights Conference and New York Stage and Film. ACCESS Performance Sponsored in part by The Coast Starlight was commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse and developed during the 2018 DNA New Work Series. On select performances, La Jolla Playhouse provides American Sign Language interpretation for audience members who are deaf or P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE hard-of-hearing and audio description for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Saturday, September 7 at 2:00 pm THE COMPANY THE CAST MIA BARRON, Liz CHRISTINE PENN, Understudy for Liz (in order of appearance) La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. : , La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. UC San Diego: The Gradient, QED. Off-Broadway: Hurricane Diane (NYTW; The Misanthrope, A Beautiful Day in November on the TJ...... Nate Mann* for Performance), The Wolves (Lincoln Center; Drama Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes, SERE, Revolt. She Jane...... Camila Canó-Flaviá* Desk, Obie Awards, Best Ensemble), shows at Manhattan Said. Revolt Again, The Green Cockatoo. CSU Long Beach: Theatre Club, Public, Lincoln Center, Atlantic and Playwrights Red Light Winter, Out of Orbit. Education: B.S. in Business Noah...... Rhys Coiro* Horizons, including Keith Bunin’s The World Over. Select regional Marketing at CSU Long Beach, M.F.A. at UC San Diego. Liz...... Mia Barron* includes House of Blue Leaves (Taper), Farragut North (Geffen), along with Long Wharf, Old Globe, Guthrie, Williamstown, among others. GARRETT SCHULTE, Understudy for TJ Ed...... Rob Yang* Co-created and performed Big Times Off Broadway (, La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. UC San Diego: The Gradient, Anna...... Stephanie Weeks* director) and Joan Didion’s The White Album (Lars Jan, director; BAM Life Is a Dream, Mother Courage, How to Defend Yourself, Next Wave). Recent recurring roles: Get Shorty (), Law and Order:True Othello, The Green Cockatoo. MIT: The Resistible Rise of Understudies...... Mary Rose Branick ‡, Christine Penn ‡, Garrett Schulte‡ Crime (NBC). Voice of Molotov on Venture Bros. M.F.A.: NYU. Arturo Ui, Pillowman, Arcadia. Education: B.S. in Engineering from MIT, M.F.A. in Acting from UC San Diego. MARY ROSE BRANICK, Understudy for Jane ROB YANG, Setting: On a train from L.A. en route to Seattle. La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. UC San Diego: Shame Spiral, Ed Life Is a Dream, Mother Courage and her Children, How to La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Defend Yourself, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again, What of the Night’s Dream, Shanghai Gesture, Bingo with the Indians. The Coast Starlight will be performed in one act without an intermission. Night?. Willamette University: Macbeth, Lear’s Daughters, Regional: Chimerica (Studio Theatre, D.C.). Television/Film: Vincent in Brixton, Helen, Top Girls, The Trojan Women, HBO’s Succession, FX’s The Americans, upcoming Living Understudies are never substituted for listed roles unless a specific announcement or notice is made at the time of the performance. Conference of the Birds. Education: B.A. from Willamette University, with Yourself on Netflix, upcoming film The Kitchen. M.F.A. from UC San Diego. KEITH BUNIN, Playwright CAMILA CANÓ-FLAVIÁ, Jane is very happy to return to La Jolla Playhouse, where his play Sam Bendrix ADDITIONAL STAFF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Network (Belasco at the Bon Soir was produced in 2012. His plays The Busy World Is Theater). Off-Broadway: Dance Nation (). Hushed, The Credeaux Canvas and The World Over all premiered ‡ Assistant Director...... Joseph Hendel Regional: My Jane (Chester Theater Company). TV: Madam Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. His other plays include The Scenic Design Resident Assistant...... Samuel Keamy-Minor‡ Military Consultant: Kurt Kalbfleisch Secretary, Orange Is the New Black. Education: B.F.A. from Unbuilt City (New York Stage and Film), The Principality of Sorrows (Pure Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Orange Productions) and the musical 10 Million Miles (Atlantic Theater Stage Management Intern...... Emily Wooten Company). He wrote the screenplay for the film Horns and was a writer RHYS COIRO, Noah for the HBO series In Treatment. He is currently writing screenplays for La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Dinner at Eight MGM, Universal, HBO Films and Fox Searchlight. He lives in Brooklyn. (Lincoln Center). Off-Broadway: Boys' Life (Second Stage); PATRON SERVICES This Lime Tree Bower (Primary Stages). Film: Hustlers TYNE RAFAELI, Director (upcoming), Entourage, Straw Dogs, Finding Steve is a New York-based director of new plays, classics and musicals. McQueen. TV: A Million Little Things, The Walking Dead, Recent productions include Ming Peiffer's Usual Girls at Roundabout ACCESSIBILITY CONCESSIONS AND RESTAURANT PATRON SERVICES is located in the lobby or Unsolved, Ray Donovan, Hostages, Graceland, Lillyhammer, Dexter. Theater Company (NY Times Critic's Pick, Drama Desk Nomination for courtyard of each theatre. A volunteer is available Outstanding Director of a Play), Craig Lucas' I Was Most Alive With to distribute assisted listening devices including NATE MANN, TJ You at Playwright's Horizons (NY Times Critic's Pick), Selling Kabul at La Jolla Playhouse provides wheelchair-accessible James’ Place provides bar and concessions at hearing loop and answer questions. La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Little Women Williamstown Theatre Festival, 's Ironbound and the world seating and parking. Wheelchair seat locations each theatre lobby or courtyard. Please call (Primary Stages). He recently received his B.F.A. at The Juilliard premieres of Anna Ziegler's Actually and Amanda Peet's Our Very Own are available for wheelchair users and a (858) 638-7778 or visit jamesplacesd.com for PHOTOGRAPHY/RECORDING DEVICES School, where he appeared in Golden Boy, , Carlin McCullough at The Geffen Playhouse, the New York premiere of companion at all performances; be sure to advise hours and reservations. Photography and video or audio recording of Romeo and Juliet, Our Lady of 121st St. and Evergreens. In a Word by Lauren Yee (NY Times Critic's Pick) and the world premiere the reservationist that you require a wheelchair performances is strictly prohibited. of Michael Yates Crowley's The Rape of The Sabine Women at The STEPHANIE WEEKS, location. Additionally, a golf cart is available LATE SEATING Anna Playwrights Realm. Upcoming: Power Strip at Lincoln Center Theater, La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. She has performed at many and Selling Kabul at Playwright's Horizons. Her work has also been seen to assist patrons with accessibility needs to Should you arrive late for any performance or PLEASE SILENCE or turn off all electronic devices, award-winning regional theaters and Off-Broadway. She at Classic Stage Company, The Public Theatre, Roundabout Theatre and from the parking lot. Please notify Patron need to leave your seat during the performance, including cell phones, before the performance. is a company member of Target Margin Theater, and the Company, , Manhattan Theatre Club, Cal Services prior to your performance if you are in you may be asked to wait in the lobby until an 2019 Obie winner in recognition of artistic achievement and Shakes, Two River Theater, PlayMakers Rep, New York Stage & Film, need of this service; additionally, you may pull appropriate moment. To minimize any disturbance SAFETY IN THE THEATRE DISTRICT commitment to excellence in theater. Favorite roles include: Goodspeed and Juilliard, amongst others. Ms. Rafaeli is a 2016-18 Time into the ten minute parking area, and a La Jolla to actors or other patrons, you may stand or be La Jolla Playhouse is constantly working with UC Christine in Mourning Becomes Electra (Target Margin Theater; New York Warner Directing Fellow at the Women's Project Theater and received Playhouse greeter will assist you. The Playhouse seated in the first available location by House San Diego Police Department and Transportation Times Critic’s Pick); Tami in How to Catch Creation (Baltimore Center the 2014 SDC Sir John Gielgud Fellowship for Classic Direction. also provides assisted listening devices for Management even if not your assigned location. and Parking Services to maintain a safe and Stage/Philadelphia Theater Company); Tituba in The Crucible (Pioneer patrons, free of charge, at the Patron Services Some performances may not allow for late seating secure environment in the parking lots. Patrons are Theater Company). Film: Ex-Doofus (dir. Melvin Van Peebles; Tribeca desk prior to performances (subject to availability). or return to your assigned seat. welcome to use the UC San Diego escort service Film Festival), Rosy (2017). TV: Tales of the City for Netflix, starring . Training: Academy of Music and Drama; M.F.A.: Listening Devices Provided in Part by by contacting UC San Diego Community Service American Conservatory Theater. stephaniejweeks.com. PARKING is free for subscribers; $2 for the Officers (CSOs) at (858) 534-9255 (WALK). Further general public on weekdays (free on weekends). questions regarding security, please UC San CHILDREN under the age of 6 and Upon arrival to campus, please enter your parking Diego Police at (858) 534-4357 (HELP). unaccompanied minors under the age of 12 are space number and pay the automated pay stations not permitted in the theatre unless otherwise located in the parking lot. Spaces that are not THEATRE TOURS posted. 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ARNULFO MALDONADO, Scenic Designer SHIRLEY FISHMAN, Dramaturg CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY, The Rich Family Artistic Director DEBBY BUCHHOLZ, Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: A Strange Loop, Dance During many seasons at La Jolla Playhouse, worked on numerous of La Jolla Playhouse joined the Playhouse in 2002, serving first as General Nation, Men On Boats (Playwrights Horizons); Sugar in Our Wounds productions of new plays and musicals, including 2016 Tony Award- has served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director since Manager before becoming Managing Director. She is a Vice (MTC; Lortel Award); Fireflies (Atlantic); School Girls…, Charm (MCC); winning shows and , the Playhouse’s 2007. During his tenure, he has helmed the Playhouse’s President of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT) and Usual Girls (Roundabout). Regional: , Berkeley Rep, Center annual POP Tour that bring new plays to elementary school children productions of The Squirrels, , The Darrell a member of its Executive Committee. She is a recipient Stage, , , , throughout San Diego County, and workshops and readings of projects in Hammond Project, His Girl Friday, , of a San Diego Women Who Mean Business Award from The Humana Festival, KC Rep, Long Wharf, Old Globe, Two River Theater, development for the DNA New Work Series and beyond. At New York’s A Dram of Drummhicit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Restoration and San Diego Business Journal. Prior to joining La Jolla Playhouse, she served Williamstown Theatre Festival. Tour: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of was co-curator of New Work Now and dramaturg on new the musicals Diana, Escape to Margaritaville, Disney’s Freaky Friday, as Counsel to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Sower (UTR/International Tour); The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir plays, classics, musicals and projects in development. Affiliations: San Chasing the Song, Xanadu, , which won four 2010 the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. She was a faculty (BAM Next Wave/International tour). Mr. Maldonado is a Clubbed Diego Rep, Denver Center Theatre, Magic Theatre, Theater Under the including Best Musical, and Come From Away, for which he won the member of the Smithsonian Institution’s program on Legal Problems of Thumb Affiliated Artist, a recipient of a Princess Grace Fabergé Theater Stars, among others. M.F.A.: Columbia University. Proud to have worked 2017 Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical and the Craig Noel Museum Administration. Prior to The Kennedy Center, she served as Award, and a multiple-Henry Hewes Design nominee. M.F.A.: NYU Tisch. on developing plays with two U.S. Poet Laureates: Juan Felipe Herrera on 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 www.arnulfomaldonado.com his POP Tour and Joy Harjo at Native Voices on her new musical. (WOW) series and the Resident Theatre program. Prior to joining the graduate of UC San Diego and Harvard Law School. Ms. Buchholz and Playhouse, he directed the Broadway productions of Xanadu (Drama her husband, noted author and White House economic policy advisor DENITSA BLIZNAKOVA, Costume Designer TBD CASTING; STEPHANIE YANKWITT, C.S.A. and Desk nomination), All Shook Up and The Rocky Horror Show (Tony, Todd Buchholz, live in Solana Beach and are the proud parents of Victoria, is happy to return to La Jolla Playhouse, where she previously designed MARGARET DUNN, Casting Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), as well as Katherine and Alexia. the costumes for The Luckiest, Queens and The Cake. Her theatre Upcoming: For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad (Soho the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration productions of Sweeney design work has been seen nationwide at venues including the Geffen Rep); As Much As I Can (Joe’s Pub/The Public Theater); The White Chip Todd and Merrily We Roll Along. Other New York credits include: Blown DES McANUFF, Director Emeritus Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, , Denver Center for (59E59); GNIT (Theatre for a New Audience). Current/Recent: Broadway: Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey (Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards), The served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director from 1983 the Performing Arts, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Off-Broadway: (Theatre Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets Only, Wonder of the through 1994, and from 2001 through April 2007. Under his Play House, A Noise Within, Williamstown Theatre Festival and others. for a New Audience); Passage (Soho Rep); Nomad Motel (Atlantic World, Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, The Night Hank Williams leadership, the Playhouse garnered more than 300 awards, Ms. Bliznakova's work for opera includes Carmen at Opera, Theater); Public Servant (Theater Breaking Through Barriers). Regional: Died and Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award), among others. Mr. including the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Murder in the Cathedral and All Is Calm at San Diego Opera. Costume Immortal Longings and Ann at the ZACH Theatre. Film includes ongoing Ashley also directed the feature films Jeffrey and Lucky Stiff, as well as His Playhouse to Broadway credits include: Ain't Too Proud, design and stylist credits for other media include films and music videos work with Lexicon Productions and the Independent Filmmaker Project. the American Playhouse production of Blown Sideways Through Life SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical; Doctor Zhivago; Jesus Christ for various artists. Nominations for Outstanding Costume Design: LA Ongoing theatre work with Tectonic Theater Project. Member of Casting for PBS. He is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award, the Drama Superstar; (four Tony Awards); ’s 700 Sundays Stage Alliance Ovation Award and Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award. Society of America. League Director Fellowship and an NEA/TCG Director Fellowship. (Tony Award); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (five Tony She is a Professor in the School of Theatre, TV and Film at SDSU and is nominations); director and co-author with on The Who’s the Head of the M.F.A. Design and Technology program. Her work may ASHLEY R. MARTIN, Stage Manager LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE Tommy (Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Director) and (seven be viewed at www.Denitsa.com. La Jolla Playhouse: The Year to Come, Seize the King, Queens, Wild is a place where artists and audiences come together to create what’s Tony Awards), among others. He also directed the premieres of Aaron Goose Dreams, DNA Series Readings and Junk. International Tours: new and next in the American theatre, from Tony Award-winning Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, LAP CHI CHU, Lighting Designer Silkroad Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma's Asia, Australia and New Zealand/ productions, to imaginative programs for young audiences, to interactive which he co-wrote. Opera credits: Faust (The Met, ENO). Film credits: La Jolla Playhouse: The Luckiest, The Year to Come, Queens, At Australia tours. National Tours: Silkroad Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma's North experiences outside our theatre walls. Founded in 1947 by Gregory Cousin Bette (director), Iron Giant (producer, BAFTA Award) and Quills the Old Place, Blueprints to Freedom, The Orphan of Zhao, . East, Florida, West Coast, South East, HEROES Take Their Stand and Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, the Playhouse is currently led (executive producer). Recipient of the Drama League’s 2006 Julia Hansen Recent works include world premieres of Lynn Nottage’s Mlima’s Osvaldo Golijov's Falling Out of Time tours. Education: M.F.A.: UC San by Christopher Ashley, the Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Award, Mr. McAnuff served as Artistic Director at Canada’s Stratford Festival Tale, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (Playwrights Realm), Rajiv Joseph’s Diego, B.A.: UC Irvine. Playhouse, and Managing Director Debby Buchholz. Internationally- from 2007 through 2012. In 2012, he was awarded Canada’s esteemed Archduke (Mark Taper Forum) and Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes renowned for the development of new plays and musicals, the Playhouse Governor General’s National Arts Center Award and the Order of Canada. Home from the Wars (Public Theater). Other lighting designs: New TYLER LARSON, Assistant Stage Manager has mounted 102 world premieres, commissioned 52 new works, and York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Oregon San Diego: La Jolla Playhouse: DNA Series: Slam (SM), Diana (ASM) and sent 32 productions to Broadway – including the currently-running hit Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, , The Squirrels (Sub ASM). The Old Globe: Guys and Dolls (SM Intern). musical Come From Away – garnering a total of 38 Tony Awards, as The Shakespeare Theater (Washington, D.C.). Awards: 2018 Obie for San Diego Comic Con: ’s Castle Rock Activation (ASM). New York: well as the 1993 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, Lucille Lortel, Los Angeles Pride Plays ‘19 Festival. Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre: Le Switch (SM). Drama Critics Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Austin: Long Center for the Performing Arts: GAHSMTA (Spots ASM Design, Ovation award, multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards. ‘19/‘18, Deck ASM ‘16, & PA ‘14/‘15). M.F.A. in Stage Management from LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE EDUCATION & OUTREACH PROGRAMS Education: Head of Lighting Design at California Institute of the Arts. UC San Diego. B.F.A. with emphasis in Stage Management from Texas Lead Supporters: The William Hall Tippett and Ruth Rathell Tippett Foundation | Qualcomm Foundation www.lapchichu.com State University. Arts Academy – Through the Kennedy Center's JumpStart Theatre – This three-year program Student Matinees – Student matinees of DANIEL KLUGER, Composer/Sound Designer Partners in Education program, San Diego County consists of dedicated curriculum to provide select mainstage productions are offered La Jolla Playhouse: Tribes. Broadway: Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! (new Office of Education and the Playhouse team up middle school teachers with the skills and throughout the school year., and include an online arrangements & orchestrations), revival of Marvin’s Room and world to provide professional development for non- resources needed to produce musicals in their engagement guide and post-show talkback. premiere of Significant Other. Off-Broadway: premieres of I Was Most Alive with You, Animal, The Village Bike, Man from Nebraska, Tribes and theatre teachers on how to use arts integration schools for the first time. Women or Nothing. Mr. Kluger has produced dozens of other scores for strategies in the classroom to enhance their YP@LJP – Young Performers at La Jolla Off Broadway theaters including Lincoln Center, Roundabout Theatre existing core curriculum using theatre activities. Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour Playhouse offers exciting summer training Company, The Atlantic, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Each year, the Playhouse commissions a new programs for kids: an exploration of theatre arts Theater, as well as some of the country’s premier regional theaters: The In-School Residencies – Playhouse teaching play that addresses real concerns of today’s youth in a fun, creative way. Mark Taper Forum, The Ford's Theater and . artists lead multi-day workshops focusing on and brings a professional production to schools Supported by the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, the Jordan danielkluger.com a variety of theatre topics in dozens of K-12 and community centers across San Diego County. Ressler Endowment Fund, David C. Copley Foundation and the schools throughout San Diego. Each residency is Roberto Quiñones, Jr. Scholarship Fund. customized to the individual school's goals. Spotlight On – Playhouse teaching artists lead 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 . The theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident and United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. classes for adults on Improv, Musical Theatre, Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association. For more information on Education & La Jolla Playhouse is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) Innovation Lab – Focusing on how theatre can Acting and Technical Theatre. Each class closes 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 improve communication, creativity, collaboration with a performance for invited guests. Outreach programs at La Jolla Playhouse, theatrical labor union. organization for the nonprofit professional theatre. and critical thinking skills, Playhouse teaching please contact Julia Cuppy at ‡ UC San Diego M.F.A. Candidates in residence at La Jolla Playhouse. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident (858) 550-1070 x103. Theatres and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 122. artists are available to lead interactive activities that build teams to be effective in any industry. SF: How did you arrive at writing about a train trip? structure and the story – six characters getting on the train at various stops along the Coast Starlight route. Each of them KB: When I first arrived in San Francisco, I stayed in an East is in a moment of real crisis, and even though they barely Bay residential hotel, the Hyatt House in Emeryville, which speak to each other, they find themselves communicating was literally next door to the Amtrak station. Two long- on a deeper, subconscious level. distance trains stop in Emeryville every day – the Coast Starlight, a 36-hour trip from Los Angeles to Seattle, and SF: How did you imagine it would work? TRAILS AND PATHS the California Zephyr to Chicago. One weekend soon after I got to Emeryville, I went to visit a friend of mine who was KB: In a book you can easily enter a character’s ALONG performing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. subconscious, but it’s usually a selective omniscience. In THE COAST STARLIGHT I took the Coast Starlight from Emeryville to Klamath Falls, a film, that sort of thing gets literal very quickly. In theatre rented a car and drove to Ashland. It was one of the most there's a way to dramatize an experience we’ve all had beautiful trips I’d ever taken. Over the next few years, I took when we’re traveling – the one in which we can feel entirely Flickr/Loco Steve Playwright Keith Bunin talks with dramaturg the Coast Starlight both north and south. solitary and at the same time be part of a community of Shirley Fishman about his journey from child fellow travelers. I asked myself, what actor to the inspiration for his new play – being While I was in the Bay Area, I visited if my play existed in a shared space a passenger on an iconic California train trip. City Lights and other bookstores, where the passengers communicate LOS ANGELES to SEATTLE visited the Oakland Museum of with each other, even if they don't California and the Autry Museum of speak to each other. the American West in Los Angeles. It had an exhibit about the history of SF: You said that the characters in jackrabbit homesteads that I wrote The Coast Starlight had a “collective SF: When did you start to write plays? While I was in college, I started a theatre company in the city into the play. Because I was traveling subconscious.” What did you mean with some friends and was writing plays and screenplays at so much, I did a lot of reading. I read by that? KB: I started writing before I could read. I would tell stories the same time. When I graduated, it was a good time to be and re-read John Steinbeck, Jack to my mother and she’d write them down in little handmade a young screenwriter in New York. Miramax Films was based Kerouac and Joan Didion, and was KB: When you’re on a train or bus books that I would illustrate. She was a teacher, very arts- in New York and they were at the height of their success with impacted by their incredibly different or subway, you sometimes become oriented and encouraging that way. Writing was always so films likePulp Fiction and Shakespeare in Love. Other film views of California. I also read Lucia conscious of someone across the aisle natural for me that I never thought it was particularly special. companies began to set up shop in the city and I got some Berlin, a Raymond Carver-style short and begin imagining their lives. It’s a screenwriting jobs. I got hired because I was willing to work story writer who wrote about Northern natural thing that we all do. In my play, for cheap. So I wrote plays and screenplays and earned a SF: Were you involved in theatre when you were a child? California. I wanted to go further and deeper. The decent living with part-time jobs here and there. Within a few passengers tell their stories to each KB: Oh, yeah, I was a theatre kid. I went to a children’s theatre years I was able to fully support myself with my screenwriting SF: In thinking about who would other as if they’re in a conversation. school for two hours every Saturday in Poughkeepsie, where and write plays. be at the center of your play, what They examine their individual moral I grew up and where my dad was a manager at IBM. I had inspired the character of TJ? questions and wrestle with their issues. this amazing teacher, Jan Denison, an IBM wife who was SF: In 2012 your play Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir was I’m interested in showing how the bored and started a children’s school with other IBM wives. produced off-site at Martinis Above Fourth as part of KB: The idea of writing about a collective subconscious of imagined She directed children’s theatre plays and I acted in them. our Without Walls program. Then the Playhouse offered Navy medic came from the time I lives can change actual lives. She worked in a way that emphasized theatre as a means of you a commission for a new play. Did you have an idea of spent rehearsing Sam Bendrix at creative expression and communication that was organic and what you wanted to write about? Martinis Above Fourth. A number SF: You told me that , student based. I loved it! Being a kid actor is a very doable of the bartenders who worked there who wrote The House of Blue Leaves way of being a part of the theatre. KB: I knew I wanted to do a story about California and the COAST STARLIGHT TRAIN ROUTE were veterans, and I got to know them and Six Degrees of Separation, West. You and I are both East Coast people and we’re pretty well. They’d come from all over said that the audience has an In my sophomore year of high school I got a scholarship to fascinated by California – the native people, the settlers – the country, had very different military backgrounds and “assignment” when they come to see a play. attend a Quaker school in my hometown. I had an amazing why they came, and the trails and paths they took to get tremendously varied political beliefs. But they’d all been teacher there named Niyonu Spann. She was my advisor, was here. The stories of their journeys made me think about what profoundly affected by their service. It made me think on a KB: He said that when the audience comes to a play, they a fantastic musician and directed musicals at the school. She it takes to be a pioneer. deeply personal level about what our responsibilities are to want to know what the problem is that has to be solved was a very spiritual person; she really made me think deeply the people who fight for us. The story of TJ came into focus by the end of the performance. They want to go on the about my personal and moral responsibility as an artist. In 2014 I took a film job in the San Francisco Bay Area. The – a young man in the military service with a problem. journey, care about the characters, feel their emotional original contract was for twelve weeks; I ended up staying on stakes and be afraid for them. He called it “the imperative Even today, in terms of my philosophy and how I approach that job for three years. Although I had spent a few weeks SF: What about the passengers on the train? of the audience” and that their “assignment” is to help the what I do, I owe an enormous amount to those two women. or months in California here and there, I had lived in New characters solve the problem. York my whole life. As a writer you become accustomed to KB: Traveling alone, I was among strangers a lot. When SF: Where did you go to college? solitude; on this job it was the complete opposite. The film we travel, the other passengers appear to us as figures in SF: What’s your hope for audiences who come to project was extremely collaborative, so work was incredibly a landscape. But on a long trip, they become alive in our The Coast Starlight? KB: I went to NYU Film School. I was majoring in film social. But I didn’t know a lot of people in the Bay Area imaginations. We begin to form a relationship to them and production, but I pretty quickly realized that the problems outside of work, and I decided that I’d make an effort to see we affect one another in a granular way. I started thinking KB: I hope they feel compelled by each character’s story I was most interested in solving were writing problems. So as much of the West Coast as possible. about TJ. He has a problem, he’s on a train among strangers and exercise their imperative. And that the play has some little by little everything else fell away and I finally accepted and he can’t speak to anyone about it. Once I intuitively meaning for them. that I was a writer. understood how this could work theatrically, I had the LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

LYNELLE LYNCH Karen A. Quiñones Chair Jeffrey Ressler* Becky Robbins RANDALL L. CLARK, Don Rosenberg, Qualcomm Sempra Energy Tim Scott First Vice-Chair Shane Shelley, Morrison Foerster MICHAEL FLASTER Karen Silberman Second Vice-Chair Laura Spielman Steven M. Strauss*, Cooley, LLP SUSAN TOUSI, Illumina Andy Thomas, Evans Hotels Secretary Mary Walshok, Ph.D., SCOTT M. STANTON, Mintz UC San Diego Extension Treasurer Charlayne Woodard Barbara ZoBell TRUSTEES Christopher Ashley** HONORARY TRUSTEES Michael Bartell Richard Atkinson, Ph.D. Denise Bevers Ivan Gayler Andrew Boyd** Ralph Bryan* Joel Holliday* Debby Buchholz** Julie Potiker Robert Caplan, Geri Ann Warnke* Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek Gary Wollberg* Hope Carlson, Dowling & Yahnke Robert Wright, Esq. Lisa S. Casey Wright, L’Estrange & Ergastolo Linda Chester EMERITUS TRUSTEES Peter Cowhey, Ph.D., Rita Bronowski (1917-2010) UC San Diego David Copley (1952-2012) Doug Dawson Ted Cranston (1940-2012) Edward A. Dennis, Ph.D. Milton Fredman (1920-2005) Brian Dovey, Domain Associates Ewart W. Goodwin, Jr.* Emily Einhorn (1938- 2019) Ellis, Procopio Marian Jones Longstreth Teri Evons (1906-1997) Top row: Debby Buchholz, Ralph Bryan, Becky Robbins; Lynelle & William Lynch; middle row: Scott Stanton (Trustee, Mintz) with Mick Farrell wife, Clea Stanton; Brian & Silvija Devine with Christopher Ashley; bottom row: Adeline Duke with Hope Carlson (Trustee, Dowling & Hughes Potiker (1925-2005) Dr. Lawrence Friedman Yahnke); Michael Fairchild Clark and Randy Clark (Trustee, Sempra) with Dr. Howard and Barbara Milstein. Sheila Potiker (1930-2011) Hanna Gleiberman Ellen Revelle (1910-2009) Lynn E. Gorguze Roger Revelle (1909-1991) Luke Gulley, Show Imaging, Inc. Willard P. VanderLaan, M.D.* A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR Dwight Hare (1917-2012) Kevin Hilderman, Arthur Wagner, Ph.D. Welcome to tonight’s performance of The Coast Starlight, Keith Bank of America Private Bank (1923-2015) Osborn Hurston, US Bank Bunin’s touching piece set aboard California’s iconic coastline train. Mandell Weiss (1891-1993) This production represents our third world premiere this season, and Debby Jacobs Joan Jacobs 1947 FOUNDERS yet another to be developed through our DNA New Work Series. Cynthia James-Price** Mel Ferrer Sheri L. Jamieson Dorothy McGuire Many of you may remember Keith’s beautiful piece, Sam Bendrix at Jeanne Jones OCT 17 – 20 | 4 DAYS OF FUN! Kathy Jones, Ph.D. the Bon Soir, which was part of our Without Walls (WOW) series a Pradeep K. Khosla, Ph.D., *Past Chair of the Board few years ago. Our next WOW venture is coming up in October with Chancellor, UC San Diego **Ex-Officio Theatre, Dance, Music FREE 20 Kay Matherly the highly-anticipated WOW Festival. This year’s event will be held at List as of August 1, 2019 ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station, and we hope you can join us for this amazing weekend of interactive, site-inspired theatre, dance and music.

This fall we’ll also begin the second cohort of our Veterans Playwriting Workshop, offering veterans the opportunity to develop their playwriting skills during a 12-week session led by Playhouse artists and UC San Diego M.F.A. Playwriting candidates. We’re incredibly proud that graduates of this program are gaining national attention, such as Shairi Engle, who recently won the Arts in the Armed Forces’ prestigious Bridge Award for a play she developed during her time at the Playhouse. The Veterans Playwriting Workshop is just one of our many military outreach initiatives that reach hundreds of military personnel, families and veterans each year. Polyglot Theatre’s Boats Blindspot Collective’s Hall ass TEATR KTO’s eregrinus Third Rail Projects’ Iaros Thank you for your support of these vital engagement programs and for helping La Jolla Playhouse touch lives both on ALL PERFORMANCES AT stage and in our community. wowfestival.org LYNELLE LYNCH CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES Third Rail’s Ikaros; image by Tom Pearson; Polyglot’s Boats: photo by Theresa Harrison; Blindspot Collective’s Hall Pass: photo by Eliza Hoyland; TEATR KTO’s Peregrinus photo by Monika Kozłowska THE COAST STARLIGHT PRODUCTION SPONSORS LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE CORPORATE CIRCLE

Dowling & Yahnke salutes Tony Award-winning director Christopher Ashley and the SEASON SPONSORS entire Playhouse team’s commitment to providing San Diego with the gift of world-class performances. Their dedication to excellence, creativity and culture remains paramount to making San Diego “America’s Finest City."

Mintz is proud to partner with La Jolla Playhouse, and we applaud their commitment to developing new plays and musicals and to serving the community with award-winning education and outreach programs. Founded in Boston in 1933, our 500 attorneys span eight $25,000 + offices, including Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Franciso, Stamford, Washington, D.C., London, U.K. and San Diego. Throughout them all, we are united with the same can- do entrepreneurial spirit, which helps our clients grow. From all of us at Mintz, thanks for supporting La Jolla Playhouse and enjoy the show!

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 be a part of the Artistic Director’s Circle to help bring a wonderful 2019/2020 Season to San Diego audiences. $15,000 +

Brian & Silvija Devine Supporting the performing arts has been our lifelong endeavor, and we are pleased and privileged to partner with La Jolla Playhouse on The Coast Starlight. We were first introduced to this fantastic play during the 2018 DNA New Work Series and immediately recognized its bright future. It's our pleasure to co-sponsor this world-premiere, and we thank Keith Bunin for helping us to reflect on and more deeply appreciate our life's journey. $10,000 + Edgerton Foundation The Edgerton Foundation is proud to support extra rehearsal time for The Coast Starlight and has awarded it a 2019 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. La Jolla Playhouse is a national leader in creating new plays and musicals and we have high expectations for this play.

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Here at La Jolla Playhouse, Iris and Matthew Strauss Patricia and David Marino Ahern Insurance Brokerage Bill and Linda Kolb Anita Busquets and William Ladd Susan Chortek Weisman and Marianne Marsch-Nakamura Daniel and Deborah Carnick he served as an assistant to Des McAnuff on Billy Debbie Turner Christy and Alan Molasky Jason Anderson and Riley Smith Daniel and Tammie Krammer Robert and Maggie Cooper Eric Weisman Richard Mastaler Kyle Chan Crystal’s 700 Sundays and was the script supervisor for Jersey Boys. Sheryl and Harvey P. White Marci and Ronnie Morgan Lynell Antrim Helen & Sig Kupka Fred Cutler Graydon and Dorothy Wetzler Edward and Barbara Mayers Victoria Chen The Jordan Ressler Charitable Fund of the Jewish Community Barbara ZoBell Elspeth and Jim Myer Family Fund Kenneth X. Baca Michael and Katharine Lee Denise & Gary David Judy White Wallace McCloskey and Lynn Dolby Arthur and Alice Clawson Foundation was established by his parents, Vivien and Jeffrey Bernard Paul and Maria Sardina Robert Baizer and Diane Jacobs Baizer Mrs. Reinette Levine Jack and Karen DeLaria Jeff White Jim and Cheryl McIlhon Judith Collier Ressler, to honor their son and his love of theatre and film. LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE Christopher Ashley* Debby Buchholz* STAFF The Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse

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 Ushers Regina Moxley, Esther Shen* Mike Lew, Rehana Lew Mirza, Martyna Majok, Director of Finance Laura Killmer Teaching Artists Frankie Alicea, Adrian Alita, Kristen Fogle, Mona Mansour, Gregory S. Moss, Lisa Peterson, Payroll George Kelly Donny Gersonde, Samantha Ginn, Cory Hammond, Theresa Rebeck, Dan Moses Schreier, Brian Selznick, Staff AccountantSara Kiebooms Levi Kaplan, Justin Lang, Wilfred Paloma, Michael Shantz , Mat Smart, Octavio Solis, Controller Jared Jackson Playhouse Teen Council Justin Canning, Lilith Freund, Charlayne Woodard, Lauren Yee Accounts Payable Manager Sharon Ratelle* Elizabeth Gelber, Rebecca Genin, Zoe Goldstein, Artistic Interns Miranda Mattlin, Skylar Siben Employee Benefits CoordinatorKathy Silberman Mia Grust, Emre Gumus, Kelly Hatfield, Madison Hoffman, Andalyn Honselaar, David Lopez, Ariella Markus, PRODUCTION PHILANTHROPY Christina Martino, Naomi Melville, Dylan Nalbandian, Production Manager Benjamin Seibert Director of Philanthropy Julia B. Foster Nicky Redd, Vivian Romero, Lexi Smith, Emily Talerman, Associate Production Manager Becca Duhaime Associate Director of Philanthropy Bonnie Broberg Carly Walton, Sabrina Webster, Shelby Westbrook Production Office ManagerCaren Heintzelman Foundation & Government Relations, Senior Manager Production Intern Eric Clark Elizabeth Pennington OPERATIONS SCENE SHOP Philanthropy Operations Manager Tony Dixon Director of Operations Ned Collins* Technical Director William Hartley Corporate Relations Manager Adeline Duke Operations Manager Jen McClenahan* Associate Technical Director Jonathan Gilmer Individual Giving Manager Cristina Hernandez Network Systems Specialist Daryl “Scooter” Davis Assistant Technical Director Michael Strickland Philanthropy Coordinator Sarah Huddleston FRONT OF HOUSE Shop Foreman David Weiner* Corporate and Foundation Relations Assistant House Manager John Craft* Charge Artist Melissa Nalbach Sarah Goodwin Assistant House Managers Avery Floto, Jessica Loomer, Production Carpenter Laura McEntyre Philanthropy Intern Sophia Rucireta Sara Lucchini, Amy Marquez*, Chastyn Rauh, Mondis Vakili Carpenters Kyle Ahlquist, Mihai Antonesco, Megan Birdsong, SPECIAL EVENTS Audience Concierges Ashley Carbonell, Sarah Delgado, Michael Brodsky, Jacob Bruce, Matt Clark, David Hanna, Special Events Manager Samantha Watkins Christopher Ferreria, Cory Kurkierewicz, Benjamin Nelson, Peter Hirsch, Nick Jackson, Scott Kinney, Paul Mares, Special Events Coordinator Erica Kao Sultan Saeed, Gemina Soriano Brylan Ranscht, Syd Svetz, Tim Van Der Lind, Janitorial Professional Maintenance Systems: Juan Mena, Zane Whitmore COMMUNICATIONS Maria Mena, Tony Villafuerte Scenic Painters Dwaine Best*, Jenn Imbler Director of Communications Mary Cook* Shop Helper Doug Collind* Director of Public Relations Becky Biegelsen* THE COAST STARLIGHT CREW PROPERTIES SHOP Director of Sales & Marketing Mia Fiorella Stage Carpenter Brylan Ranscht Prop Shop Supervisor Deb Hatch* Communications Manager Grace Madamba Automation Operator Michael Brodsky Props Artisans John Lannom, Zlatko Mitev Senior Multimedia Designer Nancy Showers Production Props Jeni Cheung COSTUME SHOP Multimedia Designer Jane Sanders Wardrobe Supervisor Jan Mah Costume Supervisor Jennifer Ables Marketing Specialist Jacey Aldredge Master Electrician Alex Cluff Resident Costume Design Assistant Desiree Hatfield-Buckley Marketing Database Analyst Dani Meister Audio Engineer Daniel Silva Draper Alexander Zeek Direct Sales Associate Andrew Fink A2 Jennifer Lopez First Hand Rebecca Fabares Patron Services Sales Specialist Paul Preston* Stitcher Stephanie Gift Marketing & Communications Intern Kristina Stahl * Ten years or more with La Jolla Playhouse Craft Artisan Tess Mattraw PATRON SERVICES ELECTRICS Associate Director of Ticketing Services Pearl Hang* Electrics Supervisor Jeff Brewer Senior Patron Services Manager Travis Guss Master Electrician Kristyn Kennedy* Patron Services Assistant Manager Mike Brown Electricians Alex Cluff, Mike Doyle, Xavier Luevano Senior Lead Patron Services Representative/Group Sales SOUND/VIDEO Specialist Renee Shinske Sound/Video Supervisor Tim Riggs Lead Patron Services Representative Bill Washington Sound Technician Haley Wolf Patron Services Representatives Devon Gonzales, Devin O’Reilly, Heidi Smith

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