Mainstage Playbill Richard Hopkins, Producing Artistic Director presented as part of the SARASOTA FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS

Ali Rose Dachis and Justin Adams. Photo by Matthew Holler

This project is sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida. RICH GIRL by Victoria Stewart CAST (in alphabetical order) Henry...... Justin Adams* Claudine...... Ali Rose Dachis* Eve...... Allison Daugherty* Maggie...... Tanesha Gary* Scenic Designers Costume Designer Lighting Designer Isabel & Moriah Curley-Clay Abby Parker Justin A. Partier Stage Manager Roy Johns* Directed by Jessica Holt Season Underwriters Dennis & Graci McGillicuddy, Anne H.S. Nethercott, Gerri Aaron, Robert & Bonny Israeloff, Ed & Judy Christian, Georgia Court, Ernie Kretzmer in loving memory of Alisa Kretzmer, Dorothy Waldron, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Co-Producers Shirley Fein, Ty & Liza Gardner, Sandy & Jim Goldman, Valerie Joels, Jean & Alfred Goldstein, Sydney & Jerome Goldstein, Arnold Simonsen & Ronda Montminy, SRQ Media Group RICH GIRL was made possible by Tennessee Rep’s 2008-2009 Martha R. Ingram Artist-in-Residence: New York for the Theatre Fellowship, the McKnight Advancement Grant and Ruth Easton Reading Series at the Playwrights’ Center. RICH GIRL has had readings at Tennessee Rep, Broken Watch Productions, City Theater and at the Ruth Easton Lab at the Playwrights’ Center. The world premiere of RICH GIRL was presented by George Street Playhouse (David Saint, Artistic Director; Norma Kaplan, Managing Director) and Cleveland Play House (Michael Bloom, Artistic Director; Kevin Moore, Managing Director). RICH GIRL is produced by special arrangement with THE GERSH AGENCY, 41 Madison Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10010 THE VIDEOTAPING OR MAKING OF ELECTRONIC OR OTHER AUDIO AND/OR VISUAL RECORDINGS OF THIS PRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTING RECORDS ON ANY MEDIUM, INCLUDING THE INTERNET, IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED, A VIOLATION OF THE AUTHOR’S RIGHTS AND ACTIONABLE UNDER UNTIED STATES COPYRIGHT LAW. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT: WWW.SAMUELFRENCH.COM/WHITEPAPER * Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ARTIST PROFILES JUSTIN ADAMS (Henry) ALLISON DAUGHERTY New York: Don Juan (title (Eve) FST Debut! role), The Pearl Theatre; Broadway: An Ideal The Little Shubert; The Husband, Holiday. Off Acting Company; Drama Broadway: As Bees League’s DirectorFest; In Honey Drown, The HERE Studios; 13th Street Clearing, The Country Club, Rep; L.E.S. Festival of the Arts; Storm Theatre. Summer Shorts. Regional: Guthrie, Actors Regional: Nicholas Nickleby, Parts 1 and 2 Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Theatre (title role), PlayMakers Repertory Company; NJ, Williamstown Film: I Dreamed of Africa, Amadeus (title role), Northern Stage; Hamlet Hi-Life. TV: ADA Mann on Third Watch, Crazy (title role), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Rae on Guiding Light & Comedy Central. Law Westport Country Playhouse; Cincinnati and Order, Spin City, Sex & The City, Madame Playhouse; Alliance Theatre; Denver Center; Secretary. Sarah Lawrence College. Proud Folger Theatre; Portland Stage; Clarence Brown Member: The Actors Center and The Smiths. Theatre; Alabama and Texas Shakespeare AllisonDaugherty.com Festivals; Vineyard Arts Project. Film/TV: TANESHA GARY (Maggie) Elementary; Unforgettable; Blue Bloods; The happily joins the cast, Cask; Independence: Beyond What She Expects; crew, and creative team of Radio Cape Cod. Training: The Royal Academy of Rich Girl at Florida Studio Dramatic Art. www.justincadams.com Theatre. She is a member ALI ROSE DACHIS of the Grammy-nominated (Claudine) is a proud Broadway Inspirational graduate of The U of MN/ Voices and is currently doing her part in Guthrie Theater BFA Actor politics by singing with Joe Scarborough Training Program. Ali made (MSNBC) as part of the Morning Joe Band! an artistic home at the Favorite Theatre Credits: Caroline or Change on Guthrie Theater appearing Broadway, Sheila’s Day at Lincoln Center and in many shows, favorites being Circle Mirror To Kill A Mockingbird at The Repertory Theatre Transformation and The Edge Of Our Bodies. She of St. Louis. Favorite TV Roles: Crystal in HBO’s is proud to have made her Broadway debut in short-film, The Cycle, and Donna Harris on Law Larry David’s Fish in the Dark. She has worked at & Order: SVU. many New York and regional theaters including JESSICA HOLT (Director) is a freelance Baltimore Center Stage, Fault Line Theatre, theater director based in New York. Recent The Children’s Theater Company, Cincinnati directing projects include Venus in Fur Playhouse in the Park, and others. (Virginia Stage Company), Ugly Lies the Bone (Alliance Theater), Significant Other (Actor’s Express), and Bright Half Life (Magic Theatre). Other favorite projects include: The Lily’s Revenge (Magic Theatre), The Seagull (Yale ARTIST PROFILES School of Drama), Twelfth Night (YSD), We Are Call, 7 Theatrical People To Watch and are Proud to Present…(Yale Summer Cabaret) both members USA 829. and Have I None (Yale Cabaret). She has also ABBY PARKER (Costume Designer) is truly developed and directed work at The Ground honored and excited to be joining Florida Floor at Berkeley Rep, Bay Area Playwrights Studio Theatre! She is based in Atlanta where Festival, Cutting Ball Theater, New she works primarily in video with Orange Conservatory Theater Center, Piano Fight, and Productions. She designs around Atlanta Theatre Emory, among others. 2015 Directing with several different theaters, occasionally Fellowship, Alliance Theatre. 2016 O’Neill venturing out of state to South Carolina, National Directing Fellowship. MFA, Directing California and now Florida! She can usually (Yale School of Drama). be found in her car covered in coffee, cat hair, ROY JOHNS (Stage Manager) is pleased to and mulitcolored string. be back for another season at FST. He has JUSTIN A. PARTIER (Lighting Designer) is a had an exciting and varied career both on New York City based Lighting Designer. Recent stage and behind the scenes from Tokyo Notable Designs: The Clearing (Theater 808 Disneyland to the White House. Past credits at 59E59), This Wonderful Life (Luna Stage) at FST include brownsville song (b-side for Red (Arkansas Repertory Theater), Postcard tray); Million Dollar Quartet; The God of from Morocco (Merola Opera), Verdi Requiem Isaac; The Roommate; The Fabulous Lipitones; Mass (San Francisco Opera) Aftermath (World Alabama Story; Outside Mullingar; One Man, Tour/Meryln Theater Melbourne Australia – Two Guvnors; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Also Production Manager).He has served as Chapatti; Hairspray; and Taking Shakespeare. Lighting Director, Associate Lighting Designer ISABEL & MORIAH CURLEY-CLAY or Assistant Lighting Designer on numerous (Scenic Designers) Moriah and Isabel are regional and Broadway shows. He received award winning scenic designers whose his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts theatrical work can be seen on regional at Rutgers University. Member United Scenic stages across the U.S. Recent credits include: Artists, Local 829. justinpartierlighting.com The Magic Negro and other Blackity Blackness THOMAS KORP (Sound Designer) is a former As Told By an African American Man Who FST intern. After his departure in 2013, he Also Happens to Be Black (Alliance Theatre), traveled abroad from 2014 - 2017 under Royal Lumberjacks in Love (Penobscott Theatre), Caribbean Cruise Lines as an onboard sound Constellations (Horizon Theatre), Exit Strategy technician. Sound design credits include (Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre). Past Talley’s Folly, The Columnist, In The Book Of, designs at FST include Clever Little Lies; South Beach Babylon, The West Side Waltz, The God of Isaac; The Fabulous Lipitones; Freud’s Last Session, A Chorus Line, Spamalot. Alabama Story; Outside Mullingar; Butler; Mixing Credits: Next to Normal, Das Barbecu, Taking Shakespeare; Chapatti; Inspired Lunacy; Smokey Joes Café, The World Goes Round, Dancing Lessons; Hairspray; and One Man, Tango: Buenos Aires, We Will Rock You. Two Guvnors. Isabel and Moriah were recently featured in American Theater Magazine’s Roll SEASON UNDERWRITERS GEORGIA COURT I love great theater and FST they are just as good if not better. Richard Hopkins delivers that. FST is among the best theater is amazing; he continues to select plays that both companies I have seen, but it is more than a theater confirm and challenge one’s beliefs. FST is a Sarasota company. It is an organization that recognizes it is treasure that keeps getting better. part of the greater community-and it reaches out GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION Together to that community in positive, productive ways. with its donors, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Having FST so accessible adds to the joy of living in transforms our region through bold and proactive the fabulous arts community that is Sarasota. philanthropy. Gulf Coast is a public charity that DENNIS & GRACI MCGILLICUDDY FST is was created in 1995 through the sale of the important to us because we believe so strongly in Venice Hospital. Since then, we have become the the transformative power of the arts. For close to 30 philanthropic home of more than 600 families who years now, we have been so fortunate to experience have established charitable funds here, and we have first-hand how that transformative power works invested over $227 million in grants in the areas of its magic in the hands of an organization that is health and human services, civic and economic not only experienced and dedicated but so highly development, education, arts and culture, and the skilled in their craft. The values of the theater and environment. Learn more at GulfCoastCF.org its leadership, as reflected in its mission, and as ROBERT & BONNY ISRAELOFF Our favorite FST manifested in its work, whether it be on the main story happened while attending a performance for stage, in the cabaret, and in its education and the first time, many years ago and saying, “This is community outreach programs, are values that theater! Do they have a season subscription?!” FST we so strongly believe in. As a consequence, it is a is thought provoking, Broadway worthy theater. privilege for us to be a part of, and supportive of this We believe FST is important because it enriches great theater. our community; helps make Sarasota what it is. ANNE H.S. NETHERCOTT When asked to define This is why we have proudly contributed to past giving, Anne said: “My mother used to say, ‘The best expansions; especially the new Gompertz Theatre way to find you is to lose yourself, by focusing on the complex, to aid FST’s mission in being even more needs of others rather than on oneself.” So, giving accessible to the public. has always been an important family value, which ERNIE KRETZMER IN LOVING MEMORY OF ALISA in childhood was reinforced by the community KRETZMER I would describe FST as uncommonly, experience of surviving The Depression. Anne is intimate theater that is well-articulated and succinct. proud to be a supporter of FST. FST is important to me because it is the perfect ED & JUDY CHRISTIAN If you travel the country window to take in the American contemporary you will never find one venue/campus that offers theatre scene. A favorite play was Golda’s Balcony; not just one, but two main stages, two cabarets superbly acted. I continue to support FST’s five theatres, a theatre lab and improv opportunities. stages of engaging theatre. All this and absolute professional theatre to boot. DOROTHY WALDRON I support FST for its diversity We willingly support FST as it is the jewel in the of programming; Mainstage, Cabaret, Improv, artistic crown of Sarasota. WRITE A PLAY children’s program and VIP program, GERRI AARON To me, FST is a great theater for special needs children. Also, there is summer experience in the respect that I’ve seen plays in New camp and classes for adults; it is truly a wonderful York City and then seen the very same plays here; community asset. CO-PRODUCERS SHIRLEY FEIN I support Florida Studio Theatre for Kate Alexander. We generally like the dramas, the pleasure that I derive when I attend their very which makes us think and touches our emotions. professional and entertaining productions. I also FST has many facets, all of them worthwhile. It is support FST for reaching out into the community our pleasure to support these efforts! providing programs for all ages at ticket prices that ARNOLD SIMONSEN & RONDA MONTMINY are fair and comfortable. I also salute management, Florida Studio Theatre is far ahead of any theatre in staff and performers for their continued efforts in Sarasota. We try to see every play as the actors are bringing new and different programs for us to enjoy. truly professional. Richard Hopkins deserves much I like what they do and how they do it! credit for the success of FST. TY AND LIZA GARDNER The quality of the VALERIE JOELS is deeply involved with theatre and numerous and diverse, cutting edge offerings at FST the arts both here in Sarasota and in her home city, is awesome. Rebecca and Richard Hopkins are pure London. Her admiration for the artistic excellence genius as is their writing, producing, and directing. of the performances at FST together with the Our community is extremely lucky to have these unwavering determination of all concerned to make dedicated, talented, and gifted individuals and their theatre as accessible and affordable as possible to terrific staff. About the time you think it just cannot so many is unbounded. Valerie is so delighted to get any better, they come up with something much be supporting FST through co-producing Rich Girl better!! They deserve our support and thanks! and continuing active involvement with FST, about JEAN & ALFRED GOLDSTEIN We knew when we which my late husband, Harold felt so passionately. first met Richard and Kate, that FST was special. SRQ MEDIA GROUP Publishes hyper-local print Which is why we have been supporters for many, and digital publications SRQ Magazine: Live Local. many years; and although we are active in other Thrive Local Sarasota | Bradenton, the monthly community organizations, we support FST because regional magazine influencing 60,000+ affluent, it is the ideal model of a vibrant, productive regional multi-generational residents and visitors in Sarasota theatre. We are proud to be a part of its growth and and Bradenton. The SRQ MEDIA portfolio also continued success! includes targeted niche publications: SRQ ACCESS: SYDNEY & JEROME GOLDSTEIN FST is important The Sarasota Bradenton Visitors and Newcomers to us because we have always enjoyed the theatre Guide, LUX Living Magazine: Gulfcoast Luxury and it provides a good, usually, thought-provoking Homes and Living, Modern Home Magazine and the play. Its productions are unique to our community. buzz worthy online e-newspaper SRQ DAILY. Our favorite show was Master Class in 1998 with FSTSpecial FORUMS Thanks to

Mikael and Karen Hansen, founders and owners of Copenhagen Imports in Sarasota, for their gen- erous support for the set of Rich Girl. If you would like more information or to purchase the Danish modern leather sofa used in this production, please contact Copenhagen Imports, at 7211 South Tamiami Trail, 941-923-2569. FST FORUMS VICTORIA STEWART (playwright) Plays include Rich Girl (co-produced by George Street Playhouse and Cleveland Playhouse, The Old Globe, Lyric Stage, Theatre 502), Hardball (Live Girls! Theater, SPF), 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick (Caravan Theatre, Workhaus Collective, Live Girls! Theater), Live Girls (Urban Stages, WHAT, Stage Left), Mercy Watson To The Rescue (Children’s Theatre Company, Marin Theater Company), Ophelia Redux and an adaptation of Henry James’ The Bostonians. She also collaborated on Fissures (lost and found) produced at the 2010 Humana Festival and Clandestino about the ICE raid in Postville, IA. She is developing a TV series with Devin Graham for YouTube Red and her adaptation The Meaning of Maggie will premiere at the Rose Theatre in 2018. She has received the Francesca Primus Award, a McKnight Advancement Grant, the Helen Merrill Award, and the Jerome Fellowship. She was a founding member of the Workhaus Collective and is a member of WGA West. GIVING AS A LIFESTYLE Rich Girl also centers on Claudine’s mother Eve, and her private foundation. While Eve is certainly wary about whom she allows to have a piece of her fortune, here are several wealthy individuals who have dedicated their lives to giving away their earnings.

J. K. ROWLING – While she was living on welfare before the success of the Harry Potter books, she became a multi-millionaire in only five years due to the massive acclaim and love for her wizarding works. She has donated to causes such as multiple sclerosis, children’s health, and welfare, as well as support for the poor. She has also been active in British politics, donating and campaigning during multiple elections in recent years.

BILL GATES – After co-founding Microsoft and helping to develop the Windows computer operating system, he is now the richest man on earth. Together with his wife Melinda Gates, he founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is the wealthiest charitable organization in the world. The foundation works to combat global poverty, offer better healthcare across the world, and to encourage and create new educational opportunities in the United States, specifically in informational technologies. Gates has agreed to donate half his wealth over the course of his lifetime to charity, though from statements they have made about what they intend to leave behind to their children as inheritance, they are on a course to give away over 90% of their total wealth.

PRINCE AL-WALEED BIN TALAL – While he started out with a hefty leg up in the world due to being a member of the Saudi royal family, he has since been steadfast in giving a significant portion of his fortune away to philanthropic causes. One of his main focusses is to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western cultures, specifically to try to help Christians and Muslims better understand one another. He stated in 2015 that he intended to donate over thirty billion dollars to philanthropic causes, ranging from women’s empowerment in the Saudi world, as well as disaster relief and the eradication of disease. FST COMPANY BOARD OF TRUSTEES COMMUNITY RESOURCE GROUP President...... Dennis McGillicuddy Gaele Barthold Valerie Joels Vice-President...... Richard Hopkins Jan Coleman Marie Kropp Secretary/Treasurer...... Tom Hayes Larry Coleman Frank Malickson Trustee...... Kate Alexander Maddy Freshwater Graci McGillicuddy Trustee...... Carol Poteat Buchanan Sy Goldblatt Dick Nimtz Trustee...... Georgia Court Sydney Goldstein Ina Schnell Trustee...... Patricia Courtois Jim Goldman Alan Schottenstein Trustee...... Jeff Hotchkiss Trustee...... Barbara Lupoff Sandy Goldman Lois Schottenstein Robert Grady Lois Stulberg Trustee...... Jennifer­ Michell­ EXECUTIVE STAFF Wendy Grady Charlie Ann Syprett Producing Artistic Director……...... Richard Hopkins Robert Israeloff Martin Taffel Associate Director...... Kate Alexander Bonny Israeloff Managing Director...... Rebecca Hopkins AUDIENCE ENRICHMENT GROUP ARTISTIC STAFF Hon. Larry L. Eger Dr. Eddy Regnier Casting/Hiring Coordinator...... James Ashford Mr. Trevor Harvey Ina Schnell Resident Pianist...... Jim Prosser Innocence Project Mayor Willie Associate Artist...... Jason Cannon of Florida Charles Shaw Associate Artist...... Catherine Randazzo The Jewish Federation Mr. Howard Tevlowitz Assistant to the Artistic Director...... Doris Iemolo of Sarasota-Manatee Chief Judge Charles Director of Improvisation...... Will Luera Gilbert King E. Williams PRODUCTION STAFF Production Manager…...... ….Bruce Price OUTSIDE ASSISTANCE Mainstage Stage Manager...... Roy Johns House Counsel...... John Patterson Scene Shop Supervisor...... Stephen Dunham Facility Custodian...... Carlos De Oliveira Costume Shop Manager...... Adrienne Webber Sound Supervisor...... Thom Korp ...... Confidence Cleaning Company Props/Paint Supervisor...... Kristine Kreutzer Caretaker...... Doctor Nik Hair Colorist...... Ana Molinari ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF IT Manager...... Lee Schlosser Business Manager...... Carmen Gonzalez INTERN PROGRAM Bookkeeper...... Jennifer Berkey Acting Apprentice...... David Anthony Bookkeeper...... Jennifer Fullman Acting Apprentice...... Naomi Asch Asst. to the Managing Dir...... Phyllis Silverman Acting Apprentice...... Alexa Eldridge Operations Manager...... Mark Quackenbush Acting Apprentice...... Vanessa Guadiana Facilities Manager...... Joseph Goepfrich Acting Apprentice...... Lydia Hassell General Manager...... Jill Zakrzewski Acting Apprentice...... Dennis Mullikin Events Coord / Gen Mgmt Asst...... Christina Charlotte Acting Apprentice...... Jacob Perkel Company Manager...... Luke Johnson Marketing Director...... Audra Lange Acting Apprentice...... Myles Phillips Public Relations Associate...... Nicole Clayton Acting Apprentice...... Kihresha Redmond Marketing Associate...... David Meiers Acting Apprentice...... Tanner Sands Director of Indiv. Giving...... Melody Mora-Shihadeh Acting Apprentice...... Amber Wiest Development Associate...... Steve Turrisi Artistic/Co. Mgmt Intern...... Robin Mackey Development Associate...... Corriane Oster Company Management Intern...... Dianna Burgos Application Systems Manager...... Kathleen Smith Directing Intern...... Michael Galvez Box Office Manager...... Kelsey Wehde Education & Outreach Intern...... Brandon Mancuso Asst. Box Office Manager...... Gigi Delpero Literary Intern...... Morgan Green Asst. Box Office Manager...... David Wallace Literary Intern...... Thomas McPhee Asst. Box Office Manager...... Samus Haddad Literary Intern...... Jordan Nickels Box Office Assistant...... Amy Beach Literary Intern...... Joseph Vaske Restaurant Manager...... Tom Curry Marketing Intern...... Alex Hill Restaurant Manager...... Karen Kraster Prod./Lighting Intern...... Sarah McGrath Restaurant Manager...... Josh Rodoski Production Intern...... Marco Acosta Asst. Restaurant Manager...... Katelyn McKelley Production Intern...... LaZerrick Travis Receptionist...... Joan O’Dowd Administrative Assistant...... Bart Dolce Prod./Sound Intern...... Jonathan Baker Stage Management Intern...... Sally Burgos EDUCATION & TOURS Stage Management Intern...... Rebecca Li Grady Director of Children’s Theatre...... Caroline Kaiser Stage Management Intern...... Jennifer London Director of Education...... Christine Hopkins Stage Management Intern...... Jynelly Rosario Education Administrator...... 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