41st Season • 396th Production SEGERSTROM STAGE / JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 27, 2005

David Emmes Martin Benson PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

presents the West Coast premiere of THE CLEAN HOUSE

BY

SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN ORIGINAL MUSIC and SOUND DESIGN Rachel Hauck Joyce Kim Lee Scott Zielinski Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen

CHOREOGRAPHY PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER Randy Duncan Jeff Gifford *Jamie A. Tucker

DIRECTED BY Kate Whoriskey

HONORARY PRODUCERS Jean and Tim Weiss

World Premiere produced by Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director First Act commissioned by McCarter Theatre

The Clean House • P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance) Matilde ...... Adriana Sevan* Lane ...... Mary Beth Fisher* Virginia ...... Mary Lou Rosato* A Man/Charles ...... Timothy Landfield* A Woman/Ana ...... Ivonne Coll*

SETTING A Metaphysical Connecticut. The present.

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

PRODUCTION STAFF Assistant Stage Manager ...... Scott Harrison* Casting ...... Joanne DeNaut Dramaturg ...... Jennifer Kiger Dialect Consultant ...... Claudine Barros Assistant to the Director ...... Magdalena Zira Production Assistant ...... Jennifer Butler Assistant to the Lighting Designer ...... Christina Munich Assistants to the Scenic Designer ...... Cameron Roberts,Tracy Otwell Matt Downs McAdon, Shaun Fillion Deck Crew ...... Bobby Weeks

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special thanks to Ana Fluck-Dos Anjos and Roberto Dos Anjos, Dori and Jamie Caillouette and Dr. Alice Police.

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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P2 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • The Clean House The Anatomy of Love

In The Clean House, the controlled world of a doctor falls into chaos when life and all its messes come crashing into her perfect home. A successful doctor married to a surgeon, Lane excels at maintaining her ordered exis- tence. That is until her maid (who prefers telling jokes to cleaning), sister, husband and his patient all challenge what she knows about love, death and the perfect joke.

I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent, and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you. “The only honest art It seems as though your eyes had flown away form is laughter, and it seems that a kiss had sealed your mouth. comedy. You can't fake it…try to fake As all things are filled with my soul three laughs in an you emerge from the things, filled with my soul. hour—ha ha ha ha You are like my soul, a butterfly of a dream, ha—they'll take you and you are like the word Melancholy. away, man. You can't.” I like for you to be still, and you seem far away. -Lenny Bruce It sounds as though you were lamenting, a butterfly cooing like a dove. And you hear me from far away, and my voice does not reach you: Let me come to be still in your silence.

And let me talk to you with your silence that is bright as a lamp, simple as a ring. “In a well run mental You are like the night, with its stillness and constellations. household there ought Your silence is that of a star, as remote and candid. to be a thorough cleaning at the I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent, threshold of distant and full of sorrow as though you had died. consciousness a few One word then, one smile is enough. times a year.” And I am happy, happy that it's not true. -Karl Kraus, “Half-Truths and -Pablo Neruda, poem XV from One-and-a-Half Truths” “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”

“Jokes are unanswerable objections.” Death or life or life or death -Mason Cooley Death is life and life is death I gotta use words when I talk to you But if you understand or you don't That's nothing to me and nothing to you “I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more We all gotta do what we gotta do than one occasion, thought I might.” –T.S. Eliot, –Joseph Epstein, “Sweeney Agonistes” “Jokes and their Relation to the Conscious”

The Clean House •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P3 IVONNE COLL MARY BETH FISHER TIMOTHY LANDFIELD A Woman/Ana Lane A Man/Charles

Artist Biographies Slapped), Cast Theatre (The Boiler *IVONNE COLL (A Woman/Ana) ap- Seagull. and Off-Broad- Room) and Marilyn Monroe Theatre, peared at SCR previously in the Pa- way credits include Boy Gets Girl Hollywood (world premiere of Ten cific Playwrights Festival readings of (Drama League Award for Outstand- Tiny Love Stories). Broadway credits The Clean House and Illuminating ing Artist and Drama Desk and Lu- include Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Veronica. She marked her Chicago cille Lortel Nominee), By the Sea, By Chronicles of a Death Foretold di- theatre debut at the Goodman The- the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea; The rected by Graciela Danielle, pro- atre with a Jeff Award Nomination Night of the Iguana; The Radical duced by Lincoln Center; Joseph for outstanding supporting role in Mystique; Extremities (with Farrah Papp’s Shakespeare on Broadway the world premiere of Luis Alfaro’s Fawcett); and Are You Now or Have (director Estelle Parsons); and Electricidad. She is also the recipi- You Ever Been. Regional theatre Goodbye Fidel (director Ed Sherin). ent of a Craig Noel Award for Best credits include The Importance of This season’s television credits in- Female lead in José Rivera’s Adora- Being Earnest at the Court Theatre; clude a guest starring appearance tion of the Old Woman at La Jolla The Dresser and The Memory of on “Without a Trace” and recurring Playhouse. She also appeared at La Water at Steppenwolf; Heartbreak roles in “American Family,” “Joan of Jolla in Blood Wedding, Arms and House, Dinner with Friends, The Arcadia” and “Nip/Tuck.” A dozen- the Man and The Hairy Ape. Other Rose Tattoo, The Guys, Boy Gets Girl, plus features later, she prides herself regional theatre work includes San Spinning into Butter, Design for Liv- for making her film debut in Godfa- Diego Repertory (A.C.E. Best Ac- ing, Light up the Sky, The Night of ther II. A native of , Ms. tress/NYC), Arizona Theatre Compa- the Iguana and Marvin’s Room at Coll resides in Hollywood where ny, McCarter Theatre Center (world the Goodman Theatre; My Own she is a private acting coach. She’s premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner Stranger at Writer’s Theatre; Arca- extremely pleased to be working at ’ Two Sisters and a Piano), dia at Indiana Repertory; Indian Ink SCR. Mark Taper Forum (world premiere at Missouri Repertory; Buffalo Gal at of Widows), LATC for Playwrights the Studio Arena Theatre; The Wa- Arena (Bitter Homes and Gardens), *MARY BETH FISHER (Lane) ap- verly Gallery at the Long Wharf The- Hudson Theatre (He Who Gets peared at SCR previously in The atre; and The Merry Wives of Wind-

P4 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • The Clean House ding Banquet, Two Bits and Illumi- nata. Television credits include “Titus” and “Caroline in the City.” Ms. Rosato is a founding member of The Acting Company and a member of the first graduating class of the Drama Division of the Juilliard School. She is on the faculty of Cal- ifornia Institute of the Arts and a member of Center for New Theatre.

*ADRIANA SEVAN (Matilde) is de- lighted to return to SCR where she was last seen as Conchita in Anna in the Tropics and at the 2004 His- panic Playwrights Project, where she MARY LOU ROSATO ADRIANA SEVAN developed and performed her solo Virginia Matilde piece Taking Off (now titled Flight), directed by Tony Plana. She has just returned from Miami, where she sor, On the Verge and The Seagull at Cooler with William H. Macy and recreated the role of Conchita in the Guthrie Theater. Film and tele- Alec Baldwin. Mr. Landfield has Anna in the Tropics at the Coconut vision credits include Dragonfly, played major roles in regional the- Grove Playhouse under the direc- Jungle Juice, Safe Storage, Trauma, atres across the country including tion of Nilo Cruz. Other credits in- “NYPD Blue,” “Profiler,” “To Have Phileas Fogg in 80 Days at La Jolla clude; Norca in Our Lady Of 121st and to Hold,” “Turks,” “Early Edi- Playhouse in San Diego. He is on (LA Theatre Works), Maria Celia in tion,” “One Life to Live” and “Guid- the faculty at The American Acade- Two Sisters and a Piano (The Public ing Light.” my of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood. Theater, SCR), Helen of Troy in While in Africa filming Disney’s Derek Walcott’s The Odyssey (Wil- *TIMOTHY LANDFIELD (A Man/ Cheetah, Mr. Landfield met his wife, low Cabin Theater Co.), Amelia in Charles) is delighted to return to actress Breon Gorman. They have Another Part of the House (Classic SCR, where he was previously seen two angels, Miranda and Bianca. Stage Co.), Alice/Orleans in Henry in A Christmas Carol, The Norman V (Shakespeare & Co.), Lady Mac- Conquests: Round and Round the *MARY LOU ROSATO (Virginia)ap- beth in Macbeth (HERE), Marie An- Garden and Hay Fever. He recently peared at SCR previously in the Pa- toinette in A Royal Affair and Ixqiux appeared in A Midsummer Night’s cific Playwrights Festival reading of in A Popol Vuh Story (Intar). She Dream at the Hollywood Bowl with The Clean House and the has appeared in guest-starring roles the LA Philharmonic, The Miser at A NewSCRipts reading of Daedalus. on “Law & Order,” “Sex & the City,” Noise Within and in the Broadway She recently played the general Ma “Deadline,” “Law & Order: Criminal revivals of Company and The Sound Shi-Ying in the Center for New The- Intent.” She recently won an award of Music. He also appeared oppo- ater at CalArts production of The at The Denver International Film site his Hay Fever co-star Kandis Peach Blossom Fan at the REDCAT Festival for her portrayal of Priscilla Chappell in The Guardsman at the Theatre in Los Angles. She has ap- in Patrice Johnson’s critically ac- Huntington Theatre in Boston. Mr. peared on Broadway numerous claimed debut film, King’s County. Landfield appeared on Broadway in times and at most major regional A special thank you to Blanca at the Rumors, Arsenic and Old Lace, Wild theatres in the country including Sonesta, and muito obrigada to Ana Honey, The Crucifer of Blood and Yale Repertory, the Guthrie, ART, and Claudine. Tartuffe. Off-Broadway, he was in Seattle Repertory, The Old Globe, the original production of Sister Williamstown Theatre Festival and PLAYWRIGHT, Mary Ignatius and The Actor’s the McCarter Theatre. In 1997, she DIRECTOR & DESIGNERS Nightmare as well as the musical played the Queen in the Broadway Charlotte Sweet. Television and film revival of Once Upon A Mattress and SARAH RUHL (Playwright) is the au- credits include “Six Feet Under,” appeared in School For Scandal, for thor of Melancholy Play, Eurydice, “Without a Trace,” “Monk,” “Frasier,” which she won a Drama Desk Late: a cowboy song, Orlando and “Boston Public,” “C.S.I.,” “Family Award. Her films include Quiz Passion Play. Recent projects in- Law” and “Law and Order” and The Show, Hudsucker Proxy, The Wed- clude Eurydice at Berkeley Reperto-

The Clean House •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P5 ry Theatre directed by Les Waters. of Talking Heads; The Country, Be West Players, Indiana Repertory Her plays have been performed at Aggressive and Wonderland at La Theatre, Chicago’s Court Theatre, theatres around the country and in Jolla Playhouse; and Comedy of Er- Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, London and Germany. She received rors and All’s Well That Ends Well at Arena Stage, the Berkshire Theatre her MFA from Brown University and the California Shakespeare Theater. Festival Children’s Theatre, the Lati- is originally from Chicago. In 2003, She was a company member of the no Theatre Company and the Singa- she was the recipient of a Helen Actors’ Gang in Los Angeles where pore Repertory Theatre. Ms. Lee is Merrill award and a Whiting Writers’ her work included Dream Play, Eu- a recipient of an NEA/TCG Grant for award. The Clean House was phoria, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella Designers. awarded the 2004 Susan Smith and Sprawl. She is an Associate Blackburn prize. Ms. Ruhl is a Artist at Cornerstone Theater where SCOTT ZIELINSKI (Lighting Design) member of New Dramatists. she recently designed Center of the returns to SCR where he designed Star and Body of Faith. Off-Broad- Antigone and Mr. Marmalade last KATE WHORISKEY (Director) returns way in New York, she has designed season and the world premieres of to SCR, where she directed Antigone for , Minetta and On the Jump last season and the world premiere Lane, the , the in previous seasons. He designed of Intimate Apparel the previous Women’s Project, EST and Ma-Yi Topdog/Underdog for Broadway. season and was recently named an Theater Company. Regional work Other New York credits include pro- SCR Associate Artist. She has served includes designs for Actors Theatre ductions at Lincoln Center, The Pub- as an Artistic Associate at Intiman of Louisville, Prince Music Theater, lic Theater, Theatre for a New Audi- Theatre through a TCG New Gener- Yale Repertory, the Intiman Theatre, ence, Theatre Club, Play- ations Grant. Her credits include Trinity Repertory, Portland Center wrights Horizons, New Fabulation at ; Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Workshop, Ontological-Hysteric Heartbreak House, The Rose Tattoo Perseverance Theatre and The Chil- Theatre (with Richard Foreman), and the world premiere of Drown- dren’s Theatre Company of Min- Signature Theatre Company, Classic ing Crow at Goodman Theatre; The neapolis. Ms. Hauck received the Stage Company and others. High- Master Builder at American Reperto- Princess Grace Award for Theatre lights of his extensive regional cred- ry Theatre; Lady from the Sea and and was an NEA/TCG Design Fel- its include Guthrie Theater, Mark The Chairs at Intiman Theatre; and low. Her design for the House of Taper Forum, Goodman Theatre, Desire Under the Elms at Persever- Bernarda Alba was recently hon- Steppenwolf Theatre Company, ance Theatre. She has worked with ored by being displayed at the Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, writers and Michael Prague Quadrennial. She is an Hartford Stage Company, American Ondaatje. Upcoming projects in- alumna of University High School in Repertory Theatre, The Shakespeare clude The Tempest at the Shake- Irvine. Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, speare Theatre in D.C. and the The Old Globe, Seattle Repertory world premiere of José Rivera’s JOYCE KIM LEE (Costume Design) is Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Massacre: Sing to Your Children at pleased to be returning to SCR Huntington Theatre Company, Labyrinth. Ms. Whoriskey is a grad- where she will be collaborating for Williamstown Theatre Festival, and uate of NYU-Tisch School of the the first time with Kate Whoriskey. many others. Internationally, his Arts and ART’s Institute for Ad- Her other designs at SCR include designs have been seen at Royal Na- vanced Theatre Training. A recipi- Anna in the Tropics, The Two Gen- tional Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, ent of an NEA/TCG Director’s Fel- tlemen of Verona, Hold Please, Art, and Lyric Theatre Hammersmith lowship, she has also acted as a vis- The Summer Moon, Sidney Bechet (London), Edinburgh Festival (Scot- iting professor at UC Davis. Killed a Man and Entertaining Mr. land), Adelaide Festival (Australia), Sloane. Other selected credits in- Theatre Spektakel Zurcher, Theatre RACHEL HAUCK (Scenic Design)pre- clude Room Service and Comedy of Neumarkt (Zurich), Rotterdamse viously designed Mr. Marmalade Errors at the Oregon Shakespeare Schouwburg (Rotterdam), Som- and Sidney Bechet Killed a Man at Festival, The Country and Wonder- mertheater Festival (Hamburg), IN- SCR. Her work on the West Coast land at La Jolla Playhouse, Ten Un- TRANSIT (Berlin), Schauspielhaus includes Chavez Ravine, The House knowns and The House of Bernarda (Vienna), TheatreWorks (Singapore) of Bernarda Alba (Ovation nomina- Alba (LA Ovation Nomination) at and Fukuoka (Japan). His designs tion), Tongue of a Bird and The the Mark Taper Forum and Under for dance include the Joyce Theater; Body of Bourne for the Mark Taper the Blue Sky at the Geffen Play- Kennedy Center Modern Dance Fes- Forum; Hedda Gabler for the Ore- house. She has also designed cos- tival; American Dance Festival (with gon Shakespeare Festival; the Los tumes for the Los Angeles Opera, Twyla Tharp); American Ballet The- Angeles and New York productions Berkeley Repertory Theatre, East atre; National Ballet of Canada; and

P6 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • The Clean House the San Francisco, Boston and Mark Taper Forum and the Ahman- mieres for Chicago’s largest dance Kansas City ballets. Mr. Zielinski’s son in L.A.; the Comedy Theatre in benefit for HIV/AIDS. Mr. Duncan, opera credits include the Brooklyn London’s West End; The Barbican an African-American who grew up Academy of Music; Houston Grand Centre; the Royal National Theatre; in Chicago, began his dance studies Opera; New York, Minnesota, Pitts- the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv; the with Geraldine Johnson, followed burgh, Berkshire Operas; Opera Subaru Acting Company in Japan; by classes at the Sammy Dyer Colorado; Spoleto Festival USA; and and festivals in Toronto, Canada, School of Theatre, Alvin Ailey Amer- others. Dublin and Galway, Ireland and ican Dance Center and Illinois State Sydney and Perth, Australia. Pro- University (vocal music major), but ROB MILBURN and MICHAEL jects this season include original credits Harriet Ross and Joseph BODEEN (Composers/Sound Design) music, traditional arrangements and Holmes with much of his inspira- return to SCR where they composed sound design for Cherry Orchard at tion. His guest classes in jazz with music and sound for last season’s Steppenwolf, music and sound for an African influence have taken him Antigone directed by Kate Who- The Tempest at The Shakespeare to England, France, Amsterdam, Is- riskey. Broadway credits include Theatre in D.C, sound for After Ash- rael and Mexico. He teaches at col- music compositions and sound for ley at the Vineyard and Last of the leges, universities and high schools One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, My Boys at the McCarter and music and nationwide. You can find him on Thing of Love, The Speed of Darkness sound for The Drawer Boy at the Pa- the faculty of the Chicago Academy and sound designs for A Year with permill Playhouse. for the Arts High School. You may Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey’s Black also find him sitting on the panels of Bottom, King Hedley II, Buried RANDY DUNCAN (Choreography) the NEA, IAC and Arts Midwest. Child, The Rise and Fall of Little worked with Kate Whoriskey most Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu and recently on Heartbreak House at the *JAMIE A. TUCKER (Stage Manager) The Grapes of Wrath. Off-Broadway Goodman Theatre and Antigone at completed his MFA in Dance, spe- includes music composition and SCR. He has the unique privilege to cializing in Stage Management, at sound for Space, Boy Gets Girl and be a three-time recipient of Chica- UCI in 1994. He stage managed La Marvin’s Room and its productions go’s prestigious Ruth Page Award Posada Mágica and The Retreat in Chicago, Boston, L.A., D.C., and for Outstanding Choreographer of from Moscow this season and Anna London’s West End. Regionally, the Year. Using elements of ballet, in the Tropics, Lovers and Execu- they have composed music or de- jazz and modern dance, he has cre- tioners, Intimate Exchanges and Mr. signed sound at the Kennedy Center ated works for dance companies in- Marmalade last season. He previ- and Arena Stage in D.C.; the Guthrie cluding the Joffrey Ballet, River ously stage managed the world pre- Theater and the Children’s Theatre North Dance Company, Gus Gior- miere of Richard Greenberg’s The in Minneapolis; the Huntington The- dano Jazz Dance Chicago, Bat Dor Violet Hour, the West Coast pre- atre in Boston; the Manhattan The- Dance Company of Israel and the miere of Horton Foote’s The Carpet- atre Club, The Public Theater, Circle Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensem- bagger’s Children, Relatively Speak- in the Square, Second Stage, the ble. His musical theatre credits in- ing and the world premiere of Rolin Union Square Theatre, the New Vic- clude choreographing and appear- Jones’ The Intelligent Design of tory, the and ing in Street Dreams, West Side Jenny Chow. He worked as SCR’s Playwrights Horizons in New York; Story, Carousel, Hello Dolly, Don’t stage manager for the Second Stage the Brooklyn Academy of Music; the Bother Me, I Can’t Cope and Guys productions of The Dazzle, True Alley Theatre in Houston; The Old and Dolls. His affiliation with the West, Play Strindberg, the world Globe in San Diego; the Alliance Goodman Theatre has helped create premiere of But Not for Me and the Theatre in Atlanta; the McCarter critically acclaimed works such as Pacific Playwrights Festival work- Theatre in Princeton; Center Stage in Zoot Suit, The Rose Tattoo and shop production of Landlocked. He Baltimore; the Dallas Theater Cen- Drowning Crow. Mr. Duncan’s first also was stage manager of La Posa- ter; Hartford Stage Company; La major motion picture choreography da Mágica for two seasons and Jolla Playhouse; Rhode Island’s Trin- for Paramount Pictures, Save the SCR’s Festival Latino ‘97 production ity Repertory; Berkeley Repertory Last Dance starring Julia Stiles, of Rick Najera’s Latinologues. He Theatre; Seattle Repertory; Arizona earned him a nomination for the has worked as assistant stage man- Repertory; Milwaukee Repertory; American Choreography Award in ager on the Mainstage productions Missouri Repertory; the Repertory of the Dance on Film category. An of New England, Our Town and Ar- St. Louis; Long Wharf Theatre in avid supporter of HIV/AIDS causes, cadia and the Second Stage produc- New Haven; Pittsburgh Public The- for the past eleven years he has do- tions of BAFO and Three Days of ater; The Philadelphia Theatre Com- nated his time and choreography to Rain. Mr. Tucker has worked at the pany; ACT in San Francisco; the Dance for Life, creating world pre- Long Beach Civic Light Opera on

The Clean House •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P7 No, No, Nanette, Can Can, A Chorus dowment for the Arts, on the Execu- three Shaw productions, John Line, The King and I and Man of La tive Committee of the League of Millington Synge’s Playboy of the Mancha. If you can’t find him in Resident Theatres, and as a panelist Western World, Arthur Miller’s The the theatre, he is likely to be on the for the California Arts Council. Crucible, Sally Nemeth’s Holy Days diamond. After attending Orange Coast Col- and Wit. He also directed the film lege, he received his BA and MA version of Holy Days using the origi- *SCOTT HARRISON (Assistant Stage from California State University, San nal SCR cast. Along with Emmes, Manager) began his 15th season at Francisco, and his PhD in theatre he accepted SCR’s 1988 Tony Award SCR stage managing the world pre- and film from USC. for Outstanding Resident Profession- miere of Brooklyn Boy and most re- al Theatre and won the 1995 The- cently the 25th anniversary produc- MARTIN BENSON (Artistic Director), atre LA Ovation Award for Lifetime tion of A Christmas Carol. co-founder of SCR with his col- Achievement. Mr. Benson received league David Emmes, has directed his BA in Theatre from California DAVID EMMES (Producing Artistic nearly one third of the plays pro- State University, San Francisco. Director) is co-founder of SCR. He duced here. He has distinguished has received numerous awards for himself in the staging of contempo- PAULA TOMEI (Managing Director) productions he has directed during rary work, including Horton Foote’s is responsible for the overall admin- SCR’s 40-year history, including a The Carpetbagger’s Children and the istration of South Coast Repertory Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle world premiere of Getting Frankie and has been Managing Director Award for the direction of George Married—and Afterwards, the criti- since 1994. A member of the SCR Bernard Shaw’s The Philanderer. cally acclaimed California premiere staff since 1979, she has served in a He directed the world premieres of of William Nicholson’s number of administrative capacities Amy Freed’s Safe in Hell, The Beard Shadowlands, the Southern Califor- including Subscriptions Manager, of Avon and Freedomland, Thomas nia premiere of Michael Healey’s Business Manager and General Man- Babe’s Great Day in the Morning, The Drawer Boy; and the West ager. She currently serves as Presi- Keith Reddin’s Rum and Coke and Coast premieres of Peter Hedges’ dent of the Theatre Communications But Not for Me and Neal Bell’s Cold Good As New and Martin McDon- Group (TCG), the national service Sweat; the American premiere of agh’s The Lonesome West. He has organization for the professional Terry Johnson’s Unsuitable for won accolades for his direction of not-for-profit theatre. In addition, Adults; the West Coast premieres of five major works by George Bernard she has served as Treasurer of TCG, C.P. Taylor’s Good and Harry Kon- Shaw, including the Los Angeles Vice President of the League of Res- doleon’s Christmas on Mars; and the Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) ident Theatres (LORT) and has been Southland premiere of Top Girls (at Award-winners Major Barbara, Mis- a member of the LORT Negotiating SCR and the Westwood Playhouse). alliance and Heartbreak House. Committee for industry-wide union Other productions include the West Among the numerous world pre- agreements. She represents SCR at Coast premieres of Three Viewings mieres he has directed are Tom national conferences of TCG and by Jeffrey Hatcher, The Secret Rap- Strelich’s BAFO and Margaret LORT; is a theatre panelist and site ture by David Hare and New Eng- Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, visitor for the National Endowment land by Richard Nelson; and Arca- which he also directed at Seattle for the Arts and the California Arts dia by Tom Stoppard, The Impor- Repertory Theatre and the Alley Council; served on the Advisory tance of Being Earnest by Oscar Theatre in Houston. He has direct- Committee for the Arts Administra- Wilde, Ayckbourn’s Woman in ed American classics including Ah, tion Certificate Program at the Uni- Mind and You Never Can Tell by Wilderness!, A Streetcar Named De- versity of California, Irvine; and has George Bernard Shaw, which he sire, A Delicate Balance and All My been a guest lecturer in the gradu- restaged for the Singapore Festival Sons. Mr. Benson has been hon- ate school of business at Stanford. of Arts. His producing responsibili- ored with the Drama-Logue Award She graduated from the University ties involve the overall coordination for his direction of 21 productions of California, Irvine with a degree in of SCR’s programs and projects. He and received LADCC Distinguished Economics and pursued an addi- has served as a theatre panelist and Achievement in Directing awards an tional course of study in theatre and onsite evaluator for the National En- unparalleled seven times for the 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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