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KATHERINE AND BOB PENN PRESENT DALLAS THEATER CENTER in association with GOODMAN THEATRE and KATHERINE and BOB PENN presents AMERICAN MARIACHI MUSIC AND LYRICS BY José Cruz González WITH SCENIC DESIGNER Gloria Vivica Benavides Linda Buchanan Gigi Cervantes COSTUME DESIGNER Satya Jnani Chavez Danielle Nieves Tiffany Solano DeSena LIGHTING DESIGNER María-Cristina Fusté Lucy Godínez Ricardo Gutierrez SOUND DESIGNER Ray Nardelli Molly Hernández WIG DESIGNER Bobby Plasencia Jason P. Hayes Christopher Llewyn Ramirez STAGE MANAGER Anna Baranski MARIACHI IMPERIAL INTERIM DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION DE DALLAS, TX Frank Butler Alvaro Moreno PRODUCTION MANAGER Pedro Moreno Andrew Brown Cristian Najera ARTISTIC PRODUCER Gustavo Sanchez Sarahbeth Grossman Maria Sandoval-Moreno Dallas Theater Center’s Production Staff MUSIC DIRECTION AND is responsible for the sets, costumes, lighting, props, furniture, scenic painting, sound, special effects and ORIGINAL MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS BY wigs used in this production. Cynthia Reifler Flores Kevin Moriarty ENLOE / ROSE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jeffrey Woodward MANAGING DIRECTOR DIRECTED BY American Mariachi received its world premiere on February 2, 2018 at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Henry Godinez Company, Chris Coleman, Artistic Director, and on March 29, 2018 at the Old Globe, Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director, and Timothy J. Shields, Managing Director. EXECUTIVE PRODUCING PARTNER Performed by Special Arrangement with Susan Schulman Literary Agency 454 West 44th St. New York, N.Y. 10036 ASSOCIATE PRODUCING PARTNER UNISYS The role of Lucha Morales is underwritten by the Dallas Theater Center Guild. ASSISTANT PRODUCING PARTNERS Foley Gardere COMMUNITY PARTNER Munck Wilson Mandala, LLP AWARE Dallas PRINTED PROGRAM SPONSORED BY Diane and Hal Brierley CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) Lucha Morales ...........................................................................................................TIFFANY SOLANO DESENA* Hortensia “Boli” Pérez ....................................................................................................................LUCY GODÍNEZ* Amalia Morales ............................................................................................................................ GIGI CERVANTES* Federico Morales ................................................................................................................. RICARDO GUTIERREZ* Isabel Campos ........................................................................................................................ MOLLY HERNÁNDEZ* Mateo Campos ............................................................................................ CHRISTOPHER LLEWYN RAMIREZ* Gabby Orozco ....................................................................................................................SATYA JNANI CHAVEZ* Soyla Reyna ...............................................................................................................GLORIA VIVICA BENAVIDES* Mino Avila ................................................................................................................................BOBBY PLASENCIA* MARIACHI IMPERIAL DE DALLAS, TX Violin .......................................................................................................................................... ALVARO MORENO Guitarrón .......................................................................................................................................PEDRO MORENO Tr ump e t .....................................................................................................................................CRISTIAN NAJERA Vihuela................................................................................................................................... GUSTAVO SANCHEZ Tía Carmen, Violin ..................................................................................................MARIA SANDOVAL-MORENO CREATIVE SUPPORT Associate Music Director ................................................................................................SATYA JNANI CHAVEZ* Copyist .................................................................................................................................... MOLLY HERNÁNDEZ* Assistant Costume Designer ................................................................................................ LAURYN TERCEIRA Assistant Lighting Designer ............................................................................................. PAUL VAILLANCOURT Assistant Sound Designer ........................................................................................................... CHRIS LAPORTE STAGE MANAGEMENT Stage Manager ........................................................................................................................... ANNA BARANSKI* Assistant Stage Manager .......................................................................................... SAMANTHA HONEYCUTT* Production Assistants........................................................................... CLAIRE CARDEN, LOGAN FREDERICK Time and Place: Mid-1970s. Late afternoon in the living room of a working-class home in a Latino community somewhere in the western United States American Mariachi will be performed without an intermission. The songs “Lo abandoné” and “Rosa Como Ninguna” were composed by José Cruz Gonzáles. The scenic, costume, lighting sound * Member of Actors’ Equity and projection designers in LORT Association, the Union of Theatres are represented by United Professional Actors and Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of Stage Managers in the the IATSE. United States. Member, Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company This theater operates under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Dallas Theater Center is a member of the League of Resident Theaters; a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the nonprofit professional theater; and Visit Dallas. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US 2 GLORIA VIVICA BENAVIDES (Soyla Reyna) Regional/DFW credits include: Real Women Have Curves, White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Dallas Theater Center); Dracula (Theatre Three); A Doll’s House, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (WaterTower Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Stage West); Where Earth Meets the Sky (Cara Mia Theatre); and so go the ghosts of mexico, part two (Undermain Theatre). She is currently featured as the voice of Elanoa on Fairy Gone with FUNimation, and is represented by the Campbell Agency. She received her BFA in Theatre from the University of North Texas. Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter: @gloriavivica GIGI CERVANTES (Amalia Morales) is excited to return to Dallas Theater Center after appearing in A Christmas Carol in 2019! Recent area theater credits include The View Upstairs at Uptown Players, Glorious! at One-Thirty Productions, so go the ghosts of méxico (parts two and three) at Undermain Theatre, and Our Town at Circle Theatre. Gigi is also an award winning singer- songwriter with two solo albums, One of Those Years and Nothing but Angels, plus This Texican-American Life as one half of the duo The Shameless Boohoos. SATYA JNANI CHAVEZ (Gabby Orozco) Dallas Theater Center debut. Seen recently in American Mariachi at South Coast Repertory Theatre and Arizona Theatre Company, her regional credits include; Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, John F. Kennedy Center, Denver Center for Performing Arts, Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Curious Theatre; The Arvada Center, Jackalope Theatre Company, 16th Street Theater, Porchlight Music Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre and The Aurora Fox Theatre. A Chicago based actress, musician, and composer, Chavez is proudly represented by Paonessa Talent Agency. instagram @satyachachachale Visit satyachavez.com TIFFANY SOLANO DeSENA (Lucha Morales) Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company member. Dallas Theater Center credits: In the Heights, Public Works Dallas’ As You Like It, Twelfth Night, A Christmas Carol. Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, South Coast Repertory, San Jose Repertory, Mixed Blood Theatre, Will & Company. Other notable credits include: Cesar and Ruben, written and directed by Ed Begley Jr.; flying on a magic carpet in Disney’s Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular as Princess Jasmine. Proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA. En memoria de mi Papá! IG: @tiffanydesena The role of Lucha Morales is underwritten by the Dallas Theater Center Guild. LUCY GODÍNEZ (Hortensia “Boli” Pérez) is so happy to make her Dallas Theater Center debut! A Chicago-native, regional credits include Nancy in Oliver! and Ariel in Footloose (Marriott Theater), Into The Woods (Little Red, Writers Theater), In The Heights (Nina, Porchlight Music Theater), Legally Blonde (Serena, Paramount Theater) and Hair (Jeannie, Mercury Theater Chicago). A recent graduate of Northwestern University, she is proudly represented by Stewart Talent. Mil gracias to her family and to her Papi, with whom she gets to work on this piece. @lucygodinez lucygodinez.com 3 RICARDO GUTIERREZ (Federico Morales) is delighted to make his Dallas Theatre Center debut. Recent Chicago credits include Mother of the Maid at Northlight, Ah, Wilderness and Destiny of Desire at the Goodman. Regional cred- its include South Coast Repertory, Actors Theatre in Louisville and The Denver Center Theatre. Film and television credits include Stranger Than Fiction,