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41st Season • 398th Production SEGERSTROM STAGE / APRIL 1 - MAY 8, 2005

David Emmes Martin Benson PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

presents the world premiere of A NAKED GIRL ON THE APPIAN WAY

BY

SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN and COMPOSITION Tony Fanning Joyce Kim Lee Peter Maradudin Steven Cahill

DRAMATURG PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER Jerry Patch Jeff Gifford *Scott Harrison

DIRECTED BY Mark Rucker

HONORARY PRODUCERS The Playwrights Circle

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way was commissioned by South Coast Repertory

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CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance) Bess ...... Linda Gehringer* Jeffrey ...... John de Lancie* Sadie ...... Ann Guilbert* Elaine ...... Mary Joy* Juliet ...... Dawn-Lyen Gardner* Thad ...... Terrence Riordan* Billy ...... James Yaegashi*

SETTING A beautiful house in some Hampton.

LENGTH Approximately two hours, including one 15-minute intermission.

PRODUCTION STAFF Assistant Stage Manager ...... Jamie A. Tucker* Casting ...... Joanne DeNaut Production Assistant ...... Jennifer Butler Assistants to the Scenic Designer ...... Curt Beech, Scott Herbertson, Lauren Dandridge Deck Crew ...... Deanna Keefe

Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. The use of cameras and recorders in the theatre is prohibited. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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JOHN DE LANCIE DAWN-LYEN GARDNER LINDA GEHRINGER Jeffrey Juliet Bess

Artist Biographies

*JOHN DE LANCIE (Jeffrey) ap- Taking Care of Business, Fear- Nimoy. He has also performed peared at SCR previously in less, Multiplicity, Woman on in numerous radio plays includ- Art, Childe Byron, Man and Top with Penelope Cruz, Good ing the role of Cassius in the Superman and Going for Gold. Advice with Charles Sheen and BBC Radio production of Julius He has been a member of the the soon-to-be-released Caesar, co-starring Stacy Keach American Shakespeare Festival, Nicholas. He has appeared in and Richard Dreyfuss. Mr. de the Seattle Repertory Company numerous television shows in- Lancie is co-owner, with and Mark Taper Forum. He cluding “The West Wing,” Leonard Nimoy, of Alien Voic- has performed with the New “Sports Night,” “Star Trek,” es, a production company de- York Philharmonic, “Legend,” “LA Law,” “Picket voted to the dramatization of Philharmonic, Philadelphia Or- Fences,” “Civil Wars,” “The classic science fiction. He has chestra, Montreal Symphony, Practice” and “Touched by an produced and co-written Aspen Music Festival Orchestra Angel.” With L.A. Theatre dramatizations of The Time Ma- and Seattle Symphony. He has Works, the producers of Na- chine, Journey to the Center of also performed at The Kennedy tional Public Radio’s The Play’s the Earth, The Lost World, The Center with the US Army Band. The Thing, he directed such Invisible Man and First Men in Mr. de Lancie is the host of the plays as Fallen Angel with An- the Moon, as well as three Sci- L.A. Philharmonic “Symphonies nette Bening and Judith Ivey; Fi Channel live one hour spe- For Youth” concerts and a The Waldorf Conference with cials. He is a graduate of The member of the Aspen Music Edward Asner, Ron Rifkin, Juilliard School and Kent State Festival. His film credits in- Shelly Berman and John Ran- University. clude The Hand that Rocks the dolph; and the nationwide Hal- Cradle, The Fisher King, Bad loween NPR broadcast of Inva- *DAWN-LYEN GARDNER (Juliet) Influence, The Onion Field, sion to Mars with Leonard comes to SCR with a wide and

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ANN GUILBERT MARY JOY TERRENCE RIORDAN Sadie Elaine Thad

varied background in theatre. clude Be Aggressive and Light Angel,” “The Larry Sanders She is a 2003 graduate of the Up the Sky at La Jolla Show,” “Law and Order: Crimi- prestigious acting program at Playhouse, The Poison Tree at nal Intent,” “Boomtown,” and a The Juilliard School where she Mark Taper Forum and Strange recurring role on “The Divi- stared in such productions as Snow at Laguna Playhouse. sion.” She also appeared in For Colored Girls (Lady in Ms. Gehringer has worked at the film As Good as It Gets. Blue), The Seagull (Masha) and Washington’s , As You Like It (Rosalind). Ms. ’s Huntington Theatre, *ANN GUILBERT (Sadie) cele- Gardner had the lead role in the , the Berk- brates her fiftieth year as a pro- the Fringe Festival shire Theatre Festival, The Ojai fessional artist. Theatre credits production of UGLy and also Playwrights Conference, New include The Billy Barnes Revue appeared with the Guthrie Ex- York Stage and Film and spent on Broadway; Life Lies: An perience and the Chatauqua seven seasons as a company Evening with Ann Guilbert, The Conservatory Theatre Compa- member at the Dallas Theatre Matchmaker, The Road to ny. Her TV credits include Center. Roles include Blanche Mecca, Arsenic and Old Lace, “Summerland,” “Crossing Jor- in A Streetcar Named Desire, Waiting for Godot, A Lie of the dan,” “Married to the Kelly’s” Regina in The Little Foxes, Mind, Three Men on a Horse and “ER.” She can soon be Wanda in The Waiting Room, and To Kill A Mockingbird at seen in the feature film, Art Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dan- Denver Center Theatre; ’Nite, School Confidential. gereuses, Bette in The Marriage Mother and The Immigrant at of Bette and Boo, Olga in The Arena Stage; Foxfire, Blood *LINDA GEHRINGER (Bess) ap- Three Sisters, Catherine in The Wedding, Misalliance, Green peared at SCR in The Retreat Heiress, Edward/Betty in Cloud Grow the Lilacs, The School for from Moscow, The Last Night of 9 and Ann Stanton in All the Scandal, Harvey, The Royal Ballyhoo, The Intelligent Design King’s Men. She holds an MFA Family, Major Barbara and of Jenny Chow, Relatively from the University of Min- Fifth of July at the Pacific Con- Speaking, The Carpetbagger’s nesota and has received nu- servatory; Growing Gracefully Children, Getting Frankie Mar- merous critical awards. Her at the Tiffany Theatre; Life ried—and Afterwards, Hold television roles include four Times Ten and Nobody’s Safe Please, and as Helen Gahagan seasons as Fontana on Here at Theatre West; The Im- Douglas in But Not for Me. “Evening Shade” and guest ap- migrant at the Mark Taper Most recently she appeared at pearances on “Boston Legal,” Forum; and The Legacy at The Baltimore Center Stage in Pic- “The West Wing,” “The Prac- Old Globe. Film credits in- nic. Performances at other tice,” “Ally McBeal,” “Provi- clude Grumpier Old Men, Sour Southern California theatres in- dence,” “Touched by an Grapes, A Guide for the Mar-

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of Anne Frank (Theatre Four), cast, Broadway/ The Public Amorphous George (MCC), The Theater/Donmar Warehouse, White Hawk (The Annenberg London), Richard III (The Pub- Theatre) and extensively at the lic Theater), John Guare’s A Ensemble Studio Theatre where Few Stout Individuals (original she is a member. Television cast, Signature Theater), Mac- credits include guest starring beth (Theatre For A New Audi- roles in “Wanted,” “Grey’s ence), The Road Home: Stories Anatomy,” “Century City,” of the Children of War (River “Nip/Tuck,” “ER,” “For the Peo- Arts Repertory/Taganka The- ple,” “Boston Public,” “NYPD atre, Moscow), Twelfth Night Blue,” “Homicide,” “Law and and The Comedy of Errors (Al- Order,” “Sweet Mouthful,” abama Shakespeare Festival), “Against the Law,” “Judge- among others. Film and televi- ment,” “Women and Wallace,” sion: 13 Conversations About JAMES YAEGASHI Sylvia in the “Days and Nights One Thing, The Thomas Crown Billy of Molly Dodd” as well as nu- Affair, Lisa Picard Is Famous, merous soaps and countless Spin the Bottle, “The Job,” and commercials. Film credits in- “One Life to Live” among oth- ried Man, The Man from the clude The Ring Two, Secretary, ers. Some “gamers” in the au- Diner’s Club, How Sweet It Is! The Rundown, Girls Town, Mo- dience may recognize James’ and Viva Max! Television jave Moon, Joey Breaker, Tune voice from “Grand Theft Auto: credits include Millie Helper on in Tomorrow, Fatal Attraction, San Andreas” in which he plays “The Show,” Candy Mountain, The Whoopee the character Woozie. Grandma Yetta on “The Boys, Desperately Seeking Nanny;” regular appearances Susan, Celebrity, Alice and PLAYWRIGHT, on “The New Andy Griffith Searching for Bobby Fischer. DIRECTOR & DESIGNERS Show” and “The Fanelli Boys;” She recently finished shooting recurring roles on “Pros & Bam Bam and Celeste. She is a RICHARD GREENBERG (Play- Cons,” “Picket Fences,” “Empty graduate of Emerson College, wright) is the author of six pre- Nest;” and guest appearances studied two years with William vious SCR world premieres: on “Room for Two,” “Murder, Esper and spent a summer at The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, She Wrote,” “Blossom,” RADA. She has a daughter Hurrah at Last, Three Days of “Cheers,” “Seinfeld,” “Home Ruby with actor Robert Joy. Rain (Los Angeles Drama Crit- Improvement” and “The ics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize Newhart Show.” She is a Stan- *TERRENCE RIORDAN (Thad) is finalist, Olivier, Drama Desk ford graduate and lives in Pa- making his SCR debut. Theatre and Hull-Warriner nomina- cific Palisades. This is her first credits include Take Me Out at tions), Night and Her Stars and appearance at SCR. both Seattle Repertory and The The Extra Man. His most re- Old Globe, Betty’s Summer Va- cent play, Take Me Out, trav- *MARY JOY (Elaine) appeared cation at Huntington Theatre eled from London to New York at SCR in last summer’s Pacific Company and Off-Off-Broad- in the first co-production of the Playwrights Festival reading of way in Life in the Trees at the Donmar Warehouse and The Richard Greenberg’s Safe as Punch and Pie. Film and tele- Public Theater, and transferred Houses. Theatre credits in- vision credits include Dog to Broadway in early 2003 clude two other Greenberg Lover, Kings and Queens, The where it won the Tony Award plays, The Maderati (Play- Marriage Bed, “Rescue Me,” for Best Play. His other plays wrights Horizons) and Vanish- “As the World Turns” and include The Dazzle (Outer Crit- ing Act (Ensemble Studio The- “Guiding Light.” ics Circle Award, atre); Women and Wallace and John Gassner nomina- (Playwrights Horizons), Lydie *JAMES YAEGASHI (Billy) is tions), The American Plan, Life Breeze (American Place The- making his SCR debut. Theatre Under Water and The Author’s atre), Responsible Parties (The credits include: Richard Green- Voice. Recently, his adaptation Vineyard Theatre), The Diary berg’s Take Me Out (original of Strindberg’s Dance of Death

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could be seen on Broadway, TONY FANNING (Scenic De- land directed by Lisa Peterson starring Ian McKellen, Helen signer) designed SCR’s Lobby at ; Ten Un- Mirren and David Strathairn. Hero, Art, All My Sons, Good as knowns with Stacy Keach and He is a winner of the Oppen- New, An Ideal Husband and The House of Bernarda Alba heimer Award and the first Three Viewings. He designed with Chita Rivera and Sandra winner of the PEN/Laura Pels the sets for August Wilson’s Oh (LA Ovation Nomination) at Award for a playwright in mid- Two Trains Running on Broad- the Mark Taper Forum; and career. way and for the national tour Under the Blue Sky directed by of The Who’s Tommy. His re- Gil Cates at the Geffen Play- MARK RUCKER (Director) di- gional theatre work includes house. She has also designed rected On the Mountain earlier Vita and Virginia and A Mid- costumes for the Los Angeles this season and Cyrano de summer Night’s Dream at The Opera, Berkeley Repertory Bergerac last season. Other Old Globe and Don Pasquale Theatre, East West Players, In- SCR directing credits include for San Diego Opera, as well as diana Repertory Theatre, Chica- The Two Gentlemen of Verona, designs for the Geffen Play- go’s Court Theatre, Santa Fe The Dazzle, Hold Please, Much house, , Yale Chamber Music Festival, Arena Ado About Nothing, The Sum- Repertory Theatre, Great Lakes Stage, the Berkshire Theatre mer Moon, Amy’s View, On the Theatre Festival, Virginia Festival Children’s Theatre, the Jump, Dimly Perceived Threats Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Latino Theatre Company and to the System, Our Town, The Canadian Opera Company and the Singapore Repertory The- Birds, Art, The Triumph of Piedmont Opera. His film and atre. Ms. Lee is a recipient of Love, The Taming of the Shrew, television work includes the an NEA/TCG Grant for Design- Later Life, Loot, Intimate Ex- upcoming War of the Worlds in ers. This production will mark changes and So Many Words. addition to Ocean’s Twelve, her sixth collaboration with Mr. Rucker directed the pre- Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Mark Rucker. miere of Anna Deavere Smith’s Unfortunate Events, Polar Ex- play House Arrest at Arena press, Intolerable Cruelty, Spi- PETER MARADUDIN (Lighting Stage in Washington, D.C. For der-Man, What Women Want, Design) is pleased to return to he di- October Sky, What Lies Be- SCR, where he has designed rected productions of Twelfth neath, Amistad, The Indian in over 30 productions including Night, Measure for Measure, the Cupboard, Nell, Forrest Princess Marjorie, Safe in Hell, The Cryptogram by David Gump, Quiz Show, The Hud- The Piano Lesson, Hurrah at Mamet, John Guare’s Land- sucker Proxy and “The West Last, Great Day in the Morning scape of the Body, a new trans- Wing” (for which he won an and Prelude to a Kiss. On lation by James Magruder of Emmy Award for Art Direc- Broadway he designed the Molière’s Imaginary Invalid tion). lighting for Ma Rainey’s Black and Kingdom of Earth by Ten- Bottom and the Pulitzer Prize- nessee Williams. Other pro- JOYCE KIM LEE (Costume De- winning The Kentucky Cycle, ductions include ’s sign) is pleased to be returning and Off-Broadway Hurrah at The Beard of Avon at ACT in to SCR where she most recently Last, Ballad of Yachiyo and , Romeo & collaborated with Kate Who- Bouncers. Mr. Maradudin has Juliet at the California Shake- riskey on The Clean House. designed over 300 regional the- speare Festival, How I Learned Her other designs at SCR in- atre productions for such com- to Drive and The Taming of the clude , The panies as The Kennedy Center, Shrew at the Intiman Theatre, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Guthrie Theater, American Con- The Model Apartment by Don- Hold Please, Art, The Summer servatory Theater, Berkeley ald Margulies at La Jolla Play- Moon, Sidney Bechet Killed a Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper house and Dracula at The Old Man and Entertaining Mr. Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Globe. He is a graduate of Sloane. Other selected credits Seattle Repertory Theatre, The UCLA and the Yale School of include Room Service directed Old Globe, Huntington Theatre Drama. His first feature film, by JR Sullivan and The Comedy Company, Actors Theatre of Die, Mommie, Die!, won a spe- of Errors directed by Bill Rauch Louisville, Steppenwolf and the cial jury prize at the 2003 Sun- at the Oregon Shakespeare Fes- Oregon Shakespeare Festival. dance Film Festival. tival; The Country and Wonder- He is a Principal Designer with

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Visual Terrain, Inc., a lighting JERRY PATCH (Dramaturg) has from Moscow this season and design consultancy for architec- been affiliated with South Coast Anna in the Tropics, Lovers ture and themed environments, Repertory since 1967. He has and Executioners, Intimate Ex- and is the author of the plays served as dramaturg on nearly changes and Mr. Marmalade Eugene Onegin, The Woman in 150 new plays seen here since last season. He previously White and The Blackamoor of 1980, including the world pre- stage managed the world pre- Peter the Great. mieres of Abundance, Free- miere of Richard Greenberg’s domland, Golden Child, Inti- The Violet Hour, the West Coast STEVEN CAHILL (Sound Design mate Apparel, Search and De- premiere of ’s The and Composition) designed and stroy, , Three Days Carpetbagger’s Children, Rela- composed Cyrano de Bergerac of Rain and . His dramatic tively Speaking and the world at SCR last season. Currently, writing has been produced at premiere of Rolin Jones’ The his work can be heard in the SCR and other theatres and on Intelligent Design of Jenny West Coast Premiere of Doubt television. He co-conceived Chow. He worked as SCR’s (starring Linda Hunt) at Pasade- The Education of Randy New- stage manager for the Second na Playhouse and 12th Premise man with Michael Roth and Mr. Stage productions of The Daz- at the Lillian Theatre. Regional Newman (SCR, 2000). He has zle, True West, Play Strindberg, credits include A Streetcar been the project director of the world premiere of But Not Named Desire (L.A. Ovation SCR’s Pacific Playwrights Festi- for Me and the Pacific Play- Nomination), Driving Miss val since it began in 1998, and wrights Festival workshop pro- Daisy (L.A. Ovation Nomina- for seven years was Artistic Di- duction of Landlocked. He tion), Defying Gravity (L.A. rector of the theatre program of also was stage managed three Ovation Nomination), All My the Sundance Institute. He seasons of La Posada Mágica. Sons (L.A. Ovation Award, Best serves as consulting dramaturg He has worked as assistant Play), Lady MacBeth Sings The for the Roundabout Theatre stage manager on the Main- Blues, The Importance of Being Company in New York, and on stage productions of New Eng- Earnest and Dancing at Lugh- June 1 will leave SCR to serve land, Our Town and Arcadia nasa at Rubicon Theatre Com- as Resident Artistic Director at and the Second Stage produc- pany in Ventura; As Bees In The Old Globe in San Diego. tions of BAFO and Three Days Honey Drown and Bicoastal of Rain. Mr. Tucker has Woman at Pasadena Playhouse. *SCOTT HARRISON (Stage worked at the Long Beach Mr. Cahill played keyboards for Manager). As a member of the Civic Light Opera on No, No, Sunset Boulevard starring Stage Management staff for 16 Nanette, Can Can, A Chorus Glenn Close at the Shubert seasons Mr. Harrison has had Line, The King and I and Man Theatre and The Rocky Horror the pleasure of working on five of La Mancha. If you can’t find Show starring David Arquette at previous Richard Greenberg him in the theatre, he is likely the Tiffany Theatre. As a com- plays. The production marks to be on the diamond, or riding poser/arranger for television, his seventh with Mark Rucker, in paradiseridehawaii, Hawaii’s his credits include “Six Feet working most recently with him bike ride to stop AIDS. Under,” “Touched by an on last season’s Cyrano de Angel,” “Guiding Light,” “Party Bergerac. As one of the Resi- DAVID EMMES (Producing of Five,” “Come To Papa,” “The dent Stage Managers, Mr. Harri- Artistic Director) is co-founder Five Mrs. Buchanans,” “The son previously stage managed of SCR. He has received nu- Crew” and “The Rosie O’Don- this season’s Brooklyn Boy and merous awards for productions nell Show” as well as numerous A Christmas Carol and served he has directed during SCR’s national TV commercials. as the Assistant Stage Manager 40-year history, including a Los Recordings include Jekyll and on The Clean House. Angeles Drama Critics Circle Hyde, Sunset Boulevard (Gram- Award for the direction of my nominated), Cinderella and *JAMIE A. TUCKER (Assistant George Bernard Shaw’s The Drat the Cat. He has accompa- Stage Manager) completed his Philanderer. He directed the nied Linda Eder, Patti Lupone, MFA in Dance, specializing in world premieres of Amy Billy Porter, Carol Hall, Stage Management, at UCI in Freed’s Safe in Hell, The Beard Gretchen Cryer and Sheryl-Lee 1994. He stage managed La of Avon and Freedomland, Ralph. www.stevencahill.com Posada Mágica and The Retreat Thomas Babe’s Great Day in

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the Morning, Keith Reddin’s including Horton Foote’s The ing Resident Professional The- Rum and Coke and But Not for Carpetbagger’s Children and atre and won the 1995 Theatre Me and Neal Bell’s Cold Sweat; the world premiere of Getting LA Ovation Award for Lifetime the American premiere of Terry Frankie Married—and After- Achievement. Mr. Benson re- Johnson’s Unsuitable for wards, the critically acclaimed ceived his BA in Theatre from Adults; the West Coast pre- California premiere of William California State University, San mieres of C.P. Taylor’s Good Nicholson’s Shadowlands, the Francisco. and Harry Kondoleon’s Christ- Southern California premiere of mas on Mars; and the South- Michael Healey’s The Drawer PAULA TOMEI (Managing Di- land premiere of Top Girls (at Boy; and the West Coast pre- rector) is responsible for the SCR and the Westwood Play- mieres of Peter Hedges’ Good overall administration of South house). Other productions in- As New and Martin McDonagh’s Coast Repertory and has been clude the West Coast premieres The Lonesome West. He has Managing Director since 1994. of Three Viewings by Jeffrey won accolades for his direction A member of the SCR staff Hatcher, The Secret Rapture by of five major works by George since 1979, she has served in a David Hare and New England Bernard Shaw, including the number of administrative ca- by Richard Nelson; and Arca- Los Angeles Drama Critics Cir- pacities including Subscriptions dia by Tom Stoppard, The Im- cle (LADCC) Award-winners Manager, Business Manager portance of Being Earnest by Major Barbara, Misalliance and General Manager. She cur- Oscar Wilde, Ayckbourn’s and Heartbreak House. Among rently serves as President of the Woman in Mind and You Never the numerous world premieres Theatre Communications Can Tell by George Bernard he has directed are Tom Stre- Group (TCG), the national ser- Shaw, which he restaged for lich’s BAFO and Margaret vice organization for the pro- the Singapore Festival of Arts. Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning fessional not-for-profit theatre. His producing responsibilities Wit, which he also directed at In addition, she has served as involve the overall coordina- Seattle Repertory Theatre and Treasurer of TCG, Vice Presi- tion of SCR’s programs and the in Houston. dent of the League of Resident projects. He has served as a He has directed American clas- Theatres (LORT) and has been theatre panelist and onsite sics including Ah, Wilderness!, a member of the LORT Negoti- evaluator for the National En- A Streetcar Named Desire, A ating Committee for industry- dowment for the Arts, on the Delicate Balance and All My wide union agreements. She Executive Committee of the Sons. Mr. Benson has been represents SCR at national con- League of Resident Theatres, honored with the Drama- ferences of TCG and LORT; is a and as a panelist for the Cali- Logue Award for his direction theatre panelist and site visitor fornia Arts Council. After at- of 21 productions and received for the National Endowment tending College, LADCC Distinguished Achieve- for the Arts and the California he received his BA and MA ment in Directing awards an Arts Council; served on the Ad- from California State University, unparalleled seven times for visory Committee for the Arts San Francisco, and his PhD in the three Shaw productions, Administration Certificate Pro- theatre and film from USC. John Millington Synge’s Play- gram at the University of Cali- boy of the Western World, fornia, Irvine; and has been a MARTIN BENSON (Artistic Di- ’s The Crucible, guest lecturer in the graduate rector), co-founder of SCR with Sally Nemeth’s Holy Days and school of business at Stanford. his colleague David Emmes, Wit. He also directed the film She graduated from the Univer- has directed nearly one third of version of Holy Days using the sity of California, Irvine with a the plays produced here. He original SCR cast. Along with degree in Economics and pur- has distinguished himself in the Emmes, he accepted SCR’s sued an additional course of staging of contemporary work, 1988 Tony Award for Outstand- study in theatre and dance.

The Actors and Stage Managers em- The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and The Director is a member of the Soci- ployed in this production are members Sound Designers in LORT theatres ety of Stage Directors and Choreogra- of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union are represented by United Scenic phers, Inc., an independent national of Professional Actors and Stage Man- Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. labor union. agers in the United States.

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