The 2018/2019 Season is generously sponsored by This production is generously sponsored in part by Carol Beauchamp, Kathy Gaona, Ronni Lacroute Diane Lewis, Linda Morrisson, Pat Reser & Bill Westphal & Jan Simmons OCT 4,5,6,7,11,12,13,14,18,19,20,21,25,26,27,28,29,30,31 DIRECTOR’S NOTES By Scott Palmer
IRA LEVIN is no stranger to murder, his attention successfully to Broadway. upper crust New England convention; mayhem, terror, demons, the He adapted a now-forgotten book by Mac Ralph Lauren woolen sweaters, classical supernatural, or good old-fashioned blood Hyman – No Time For Sergeants – and the architecture, an attractive and supportive and gore. In fact, Levin’s career was 1955 play ran for over 700 performances wife, influential neighbors, with just a largely based on scaring the pants off on Broadway, launching the career of the hint of celebrity here and there; a fading people, and his iconic play, Deathtrap, is lead actor, Andy Griffith. Levin stayed with career and the recognition that younger, perhaps his greatest achievement. theatre for the next 10 years, although more energetic talents may soon eclipse less successfully. His work may not have you. In so many ways, these characters According to the UK’s Independent been hugely impactful for the theatre, are pretty commonplace. newspaper, Ira Levin was “the king of but it was for a number of Broadway the high-concept thriller.” Although he stars. Interlock (1958) starring Maximilian But underneath all of that convention produced more plays than he did novels Schell ran for four performances. Critic’s lurks the darkest of human impulses. (10 plays, 7 novels) in a writing career Choice (1960) starring Henry Fonda fared Murder, betrayal, greed, violence, spanning over 50 years, three novels better, running for three months. General duplicity, infidelity, and slaughter….just were massive bestsellers that were Seeger, produced and directed by George there, right under the surface, waiting to made into highly successful movies C. Scott, lasted only two performances. A explode. – Rosemary’s Baby (1967), in which a musical, Drat! The Cat!, that he spent 10 woman suspects that a cult wants to take years on, ran for only one week in 1966 The tension of the play is constant, and her baby for use in some kind of demonic (although a song he had written for it later starts from the very first scene, but so ritual, The Stepford Wives (1972), in which became a huge hit for Barbra Streisand, much of that tension is never shown - it a young mother begins to suspect that He Touched Me). is only felt. When I think of the tension in the ridiculously submissive housewives this play, I often think of the movie Jaws. in her Connecticut neighborhood may in In 1978, Levin finally nailed the marriage Everyone in the audience knows there fact be robots, and The Boys From Brazil of his two great passions (thrillers and is a giant man-eating shark waiting right (1976), wherein Josef Mengele, alive theatre) with his Broadway hit Deathtrap. below the surface, but the characters still and in hiding in South America, gathers He won a second Edgar Award for it in go swimming. It is the anticipation of together a group of former Nazis in an 1980 and the play ran on Broadway for the violence that provides the audience attempt to clone Adolf Hitler. Good old- 1,793 performances, from 1978 to 1982, with glee. fashioned family fun! making it one of the most successful Broadway thrillers of all time. As a work of literature, Deathtrap is His debut novel, A Kiss Before Dying, clever, self-aware, and very witty. The published in 1953 when Levin was only The New York Times said of Levin in their combination of excellent writing and 23, remains a masterpiece of crime obituary of him in 2007, “Combining a devilishly complex plot is simply fiction and won him his first Edgar Award. elements of several genres — mystery, irresistible to me. I’ve been wanting to It was adapted twice for film, once in Gothic horror, science fiction and the try my hand at Deathtrap for a long, long 1956 and again in 1991. The story focuses techno-thriller — Mr. Levin’s works time and now that we have The Vault, on a charming, highly intelligent young conjured up a world full of quietly looming with its intimate closeness and technical man who will stop at nothing to get menace, in which anything could happen magic, I figured it was time to try and what he wants; his problem is a young to anyone at any time. In short, the Ira scare the pants off our audiences, just as pregnant woman who loves him, and Levin universe was a great deal like the Ira Levin would have wanted it. the solution, inevitably, will involve some real one, only more so: more starkly desperate measures. A Kiss Before Dying terrifying, more exquisitely mundane.” BOO. really started Levin’s career of exploring the depths of evil and sadism that lie Deathtrap is the perfect example of Happy Halloween, and enjoy the show… underneath calm, normal, and often Levin’s fascination with the deadly, violent if you dare…. attractive exteriors. undercurrents of what appears, at first glance, to be the completely mundane: Scott Palmer By the time of the film release ofA Kiss a successful, but declining playwright Founding Artistic Director Before Dying, Levin had already turned living in the relative comfort of polite,
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by Ira Levin
CAST Scott Palmer Sidney Bruhl...... Lawrence Siulagi† Founding Artistic Director Clifford Anderson...... Andrew Beck‡ Beth Lewis Myra Bruhl...... Morgan Cox† Managing Director Helga ten Dorp...... Mandana Khoshnevisan† Porter Milgrim...... Eric St. Cyr† Cassie Greer Associate Artistic Director CREW/PRODUCTION TEAM Director...... Scott Palmer Arianne Jacques Costume Designer...... Melissa Heller Patron Services Manager Lighting Designer & Technical Director...... Jim Ricks-White Alec Lugo Scenic Designer...... Tyler Buswell Marketing Assistant, Stage Manager...... Ephriam Harnsberger Graphic Designer Master Carpenter & Master Electrician...... Gabe Costales Assistant Stage Manager & Props Master...... Kai Hennig^ Juliana de Paula Sound Designer...... Darwin Pringle^ Event Manager Fight Choreographer...... Signe Larsen†
Jim Ricks-White ‡= member of the Bag&Baggage Resident Acting Company, Technical Director, generously sponsored by Linda Morrisson & Andrew Hoffmann Resident Lighting Designer, The Vault Theater Facilities Manager †= Bag&Baggage Associate Artist
Yasmin Ruvalcaba ^= Bag&Baggage Emerging Artist, generously sponsored by Brad & Linda Needham Problem Play Project Manager DEATHTRAP is presented by special arrangement Melissa Heller with Dramatists Play Service Inc., New York Resident Costume Designer
Ephriam Harnsberger This performance lasts 2 hours, Company Stage Manager including one 15-minute intermission.
Board of Directors Please remember: turn OFF your phone, do not text during the performance, Carol Beauchamp and photography or recording of this performance are strictly prohibited. Julie Case Karl Citek Elka Eastly Kathy Gaona John Jacques The 2018-2019 Season is presented by Beth Lewis Ronni Lacroute Eric Lewis Patricia Logan Liz Manser The 2018-2019 Season is generously sponsored by Mori Mirashrafi Pat Reser & Bill Westphal and The Hillsboro Hops Linda Morrisson Gayle Nachtigal (chair) Scott Palmer Devinka Peiris Segun De Silva Jan Simmons This production is generously sponsored in part by Donna Swanson Carol Beauchamp, Kathy Gaona, Diane Lewis, Linda Morrisson, K. Marie Tyler & Jan Simmons and Clark’s Bistro & Pub Aditi Vyas
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Nation Theatre (Montpelier, VT), and The Players Assistance with Theatre Vertigo (Broadwayworld ACTOR BIOGRAPHIES Ring (Portsmouth, NH). Offstage, Eric can be found Portland Nomination- Best Set Design), Bomb-itty of hanging with his number one, Romy Mae St. Cyr, Errors with Post 5 Theatre (Broadwayworld Portland ANDREW BECK rooting for his hometown teams, and eating. Brenna Nomination- Best Set Design), Hawthorne and School (CLIFFORD ANDERSON) Redmond - all my love! Dance with Action/Adventure Theatre, Stupid Kids Andrew holds a Master of Fine Arts with Post 5 Theatre, Nesting at The Shoebox and in Acting from the University of MANDANA KHOSHNEVISAN Gruesome Playground Injuries at Action/Adventure Nebraska- Lincoln and a Bachelor of Arts (HELGA TEN DORP) Theatre among others. Many thanks to his family, from the University of Oregon. This is Mandy studied literature, theater, and friends, and the incredible artists here that inspire Andrew’s fourth year as a member of Bag&Baggage’s history at Stanford University, where him daily. Resident Acting Company. You may have seen she earned a B.A. and M.A. in English. Mr. Beck in Bag&Baggage’s Blithe Spirit (As At Bag&Baggage she has appeared in EPHRIAM HARNSBERGER Charles Condomine); Spinning into Butter (as Ross Romeo & Juliet/Layla & Majnun (as Lady Capulet) (STAGE MANAGER) Collins); Charles Dickens Writes A Christmas Carol (as and Death and the Maiden (as Paulina), and is thrilled Ephriam completed his Bachelor of Fine a bushel of characters); Our Country’s Good (as Ralph to be an Associate Artist. Favorite scripted roles Arts Degree in Omaha, Nebraska at Clark); Dial “M” for Murder (as Tony Wendice); and elsewhere include: Into the Woods (as Baker’s Wife); Creighton University. This is his fourth most recently in As You Like It (as Jaques). Other My Fair Lady (as Mrs. Eynesford-Hill); and here in season with Bag&Baggage. Productions companies Andrew has worked for include the Portland, Tesla City Stories (multiple roles); The Rocky include: As You Like It (SM); Blithe Spirit (SM); Death Oregon Contemporary Theatre (where he will be Horror Show (as Eddie/Dr. Scott); Reefer Madness & The Maiden (SM); Charles Dickens… performing again later this year), The Great American (as Mae Coleman); Back to the Future: The Musical Christmas Carol (SM); Farndale…Checkmate Melodrama & Vaudeville, Willamette Stage Company, Parody (as Biff); and Die Hard: The Musical Parody (as Manor (SM); Spinning Into Butter (SM); Romeo & Nebraska Repertory Theatre, and The Ludlow Festival Mother Gruber/Inga). Mandy also works backstage as Juliet/Layla & Majnun (SM); Brontë (SM); Parfumerie (England). Other favorite roles include: The Great an electrician and designer, most recently costuming (SM); The Drowning Girls (SM); The Graduate Gatsby (as Jay Gatsby); The Seagull (as Trigorn); In The Mystery of Irma Vep. Since moving to Portland in (SM); Coriolanus (SM); Emma (ASM); The Best the Next Room (as Dr. Givings); and Frankenstein’s 2013, she has taught at Northwest Children’s Theater, of Everything (ASM); The Lady Aoi (SM); Othello Bride (as The Monster). Andrew is a current member and improvised on the mainstage at the Brody (SM); The South Omaha Stories (SM/AD); The Spitfire of No Filter Improv and Long Con Improv, and works Theater, Curious Comedy, and the Funhouse Lounge, Grill (SM/AD); The Tempest (ASM); Compleat Works as a Financial Advisor in his family’s practice when where she is Director of Improv. Last year, she of William Shakespeare [abridged] (ASM); Titus he is not making loud noises in front of paying published her first book,Managed Mischief, about Andronicus (ASM); Twelfth Night (ASM); audiences. Andrew is lucky to have such great family, improv and creativity. At home, she maintains an Phantom (AD); Dames at Sea (SM); Almost, friends, and wife. excess of books, art supplies, and impractical musical Maine (SM); Julius Caesar (ASM); and Comedy of instruments; she would like to thank her roommate/ Errors (ASM). Although he is usually found backstage, MORGAN COX best friend Greg for being, in that way and countless he has also appeared onstage in Cabaret (as (MYRA BRUHL) others, a kindred spirit. Emcee); Noises Off! (as Selsdon); and Urinetown (as Morgan holds an MFA in Acting from Bobby). Ephriam is elated to work alongside the Temple University, and a BA in Theater LAWRENCE SIULAGI fierce cast and crew of of Deathtrap. When he is Arts from Santa Clara University. She (SIDNEY BRUHL) not wandering about the stage, Ephriam also enjoys is a proud Bag&Baggage Associate Lawrence Siulagi performed in a cooking, camping, hiking, and singing silly songs with Artist! Past roles with B&B include: The Best of variety of roles while pursuing a BA his sisters. He would like to thank Bag&Baggage, Everything (as Amanda Farrow); Coriolanus (as in Theatre Arts at San Diego State Nik, Rosemary, and his parents. Sicinius); Brontë (as Emily); Spinning Into Butter University before his path led to his (as Dean Kenney); and Charles Dickens Writes debut role in last summer’s Bag&Baggage production MELISSA HELLER a Christmas Carol (Multiple Roles). Morgan has of Romeo & Juliet/Layla & Majnun (as The Sayyid). (COSTUME DESIGNER) performed locally in the JAW Festival, Fertile Ground This is Lawrence’s first year as an Associate Artist Melissa splits her time between Festival, The Hearth Collective, The Reformers, with Bag&Baggage. Other companies Mr. Siulagi heading the costume shop at Pacific Stage Works Ink. She co-produced and performed has worked for include Milagro Theatre, LA Opera, University and designing for local area in the Portland, Oregon premiere of Melissa Ross’s Portland Opera, and Portland Actors Ensemble. Other theater companies. She has designed Of Good Stock this past May with Lyon Theatre favorite roles include: Iphigenia in Aulis (as King for several production companies including Mt. (and will embark on another one in 2019). Morgan Agamemnon); The Mikado (as The Mikado); Waiting Hood Community College, Broadway Rose Theater also works in film, television, and voiceover and is for Godot (as Pozzo); and A Flea In Her Ear (as Carlos Company, St. Mary’s Academy, Oregon Children’s represented by Dennis Troutman at Option Talent. She Homénides). When he’s not on stage, Mr. Siulagi is an Theater, and is also the Resident Costume Designer has participated in the acting apprentice programs accomplished sound designer, music composer, and for Bag&Baggage Productions. She holds a B.S. in and performed on stage at both The Williamstown projection designer. Most recently: Milagro’s Corre! Apparel Design from Oregon State University, where Theatre Festival and Berkshire Theatre Festival (now Corre! (music and sound) and Bag&Baggage’s As her interest in costumes for theater began. She Berkshire Theatre Group). When she’s not performing, You Like It (projection). As a playwright, Mr. Siulagi graduated in 2008 and moved to Portland to pursue Morgan works as a Realtor with Inhabit Real Estate, recently adapted a short story into a one-woman her career in the apparel industry. She began work specializing in residential home sales. She is a show titled Sea/Sick. After Deathtrap he will design with Oregon Ballet Theater in 2010, where she helped Portland native and so very proud to be a part of the projections for Bag&Baggage’s Bell, Book and to create costumes for their 2010/2011 season. Her Bag&Baggage family! Candle and sound for Milagro’s Judge Torres. He recent works include A Christmas Carol, As You Like dedicates this performance to his daughters, Olivia it, Romeo & Juliet/Layla & Majnun with Bag&Baggage ERIC ST. CYR and Alma. Productions, HIDE with Pacific University, andPippin (PORTER MILGRIM) with Lakewood Center for the Performing Arts. Born and raised a short drive outside Melissa thanks Bag&Baggage Productions for this of the city of Boston, MA, Eric St. Cyr CREW BIOGRAPHIES engaging partnership. holds a Bachelors of Arts in Theatre Arts from Plymouth State University TYLER BUSWELL IRA LEVIN with a concentration in Acting and Dramatic Writing. (SCENIC DESIGNER) (PLAYWRIGHT) Past B&B appearances include: Richard III (as Lord Tyler Buswell is a set designer, actor, Ira Levin was twenty-two when he Hastings/Second Murderer); Moby Dick, Rehearsed and drag performer based in Portland, wrote his first novel, the award-winning (as Queequeg/Cynical Actor); The Graduate (as Oregon. He has worked as a scenic thriller A Kiss Before Dying, and twenty- Benjamin Braddock); Parfumerie (as Arpad Novack); painter and carpenter for Portland five when, fresh from military service, and Romeo&Juliet/Layla&Majnun (as Paris/Ibn Center Stage, ART, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, and he wrote his first play, the smash-hit adaptation of Salam). New England theatre credits include work Oregon Children’s Theatre. Recent design credits Mac Hyman’s No Time for Sergeants. In the years with such companies as New Hampshire Theatre include Death and the Maiden and Blithe Spirit at since, he has continued to work both sides of the Project (Portsmouth, NH), Seven Stages Shakespeare Bag&Baggage, Quietly with Corrib, Guys and Dolls, literary street. His plays include the comedy hit Critics Company (Portsmouth, NH), Artists Collaborative Rock of Ages, Once Upon a Mattress, Willy Wonka, Choice, the musical Drat! The Cat!, and the thrillers Theatre of New England (Portsmouth, NH), Lost ...Charlie Brown, and Grease at Camp Manitou Maine, Veronica’s Room and Deathtrap. Among his novels
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are Rosemary’s Baby, generally credited (or blamed) a BA in Theatre from Connecticut College and is JIM RICKS-WHITE for having sparked the current revival of occultism, a Core Company Member of the Original Practice (LIGHTING DESIGNER & TECHNICAL The Stepford Wives, and the international best-seller, Shakespeare Festival. DIRECTOR) The Boys from Brazil, all of which have been made With over 30 years in theatre, Jim is into successful films. His later plays includeFootsteps SCOTT PALMER pleased to be part of the staff here at and Cantorial, which enjoyed runs both Off-Broadway (DIRECTOR & FOUNDING ARTISTIC Bag&Baggage, adding Vault Facilities and in Florida. His best-selling novel Sliver has been DIRECTOR) Manager to his duties as Technical Director and made into a film. A native-born New Yorker, Mr. Levin Scott received his Bachelor’s Degree Lighting Designer. Jim has worked professionally is an alumnus of New York University and has three from the University of Oregon, his as a Production Stage Manager and Stage Manager sons. In addition to his other accomplishments, he is Master’s Degree from Oregon State (Civic Light Opera Seattle, Spokane Interplayers, a four-time winner (retired) of the New York Magazine University, and completed his PhD Coursework in Stumptown Stages); Technical Director, Lighting and Competition. Mr. Levin’s Deathtrap garnered a Theatre, Film, and Television studies at the University Set Designer (Innovation Theatreworks, Tower Theatre, 1978 Tony Award nomination for Best Play and was of Glasgow in Scotland. Over the past 20 years, Scott Portland Actors Ensemble); Properties Artisan and all- awarded a special Edgar Award by Mystery Writers of has developed an international reputation for his around Theatre Tech (the list goes on and on...) — in America. approach to classical dramatic literature, and more venues as small as 99-seat black box theatres, and specifically his work with major literary adaptations as large as the Olympic Stadium for the 2012 London BETH LEWIS of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Scott Olympics and Paralympics as well as lighting the (MANAGING DIRECTOR) was the Founding Artistic Director of the Glasgow World’s Largest Building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, for Beth has over ten years of experience Repertory Company, Scotland’s only Shakespeare- New Year’s Eve 2018. Basically, he has yet to meet a in theatre administration and dedicated theatre company, Bard in the Quad theatre tech job he didn’t like — or at least enjoy! Jim management. She most recently Outdoor Shakespeare summer event at Oregon has also taught technical theatre at PCC Sylvania and served as Managing Director of Curious State University, and Bag&Baggage Productions. has held numerous administrative positions in theatre Comedy Theater, Portland’s only nonprofit comedy Scott is a Hillsboro native and serves as a member during his career. In his free time, Jim loves to travel, theater. She moved back home to the Portland area in of the Board of the Hillsboro Downtown Partnership, explore great food, and enjoys working off steam 2013, after being in Los Angeles for five years working the Hillsboro Library Advisory Board, the National swinging a German longsword or Military saber at his at The Pasadena Playhouse, where she ended her Theatre Conference, and is a member of Oregon local HEMA gyms, Indes Western Martial Arts and tenure there as their Annual Giving Manager. Before State University’s Beaver Caucus, the lobbying arm NW Armizare. Jim looks forward to being able to help that, she lived in New York City, where she served as of the OSU Foundation. Scott lives in Hillsboro with nail down some good storytelling and bring the 2018- the Director of Development for The Looking Glass his amazing and talented husband, Brian, and their 2019 B&B season to light! Theatre, and the Associate of Special Events for equally amazing pets Agnes and Mac. Sonnet Repertory Theatre. In addition to her work at Bag&Baggage, she is currently the President of the Portland Area Theatre Alliance. She also holds
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6 | BAG&BAGGAGE BECOME A BAG&BAGGAGE SUSTAINING SUPPORTER TODAY! Small monthly donations that, over time, add up to We invite you to consider long-term, sustainable support for your favorite local non-profit arts organization... Bag&Baggage! Kevin Hoover has been a passionate patron and supporter of Bag&Baggage for over a decade. As a volunteer usher, then board member, then Chair of the Board, Kevin has given his time, We are thrilled to announce a convenient and dedication, energy, and resources to help make B&B what we are affordable way for ALL of our patrons to support today. As a way of ensuring that the theatre company he loves continues to thrive and grow, Kevin worked with his financial planner our important work... and becoming a sustaining to leave Bag&Baggage a generous bequest in his will. supporter couldn’t be easier!
Just determine the amount you’d like to donate each month ($2, $5, $10, $25, $50, etc.) and contact Associate Artistic Director Cassie Greer to begin your contributions to us and our work!
If you would like to learn more about how to leave Bag&Baggage a CASSIE GREER legacy in your will or trust, please contact ASSOC. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR BETH LEWIS • MANAGING DIRECTOR [email protected] • 503 345 9590 [email protected]
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