St. Edward'sUniversity Departmentof PerformingArts Facultyand Staff Dean, School of Humanities ...... Sharon Nell, PhD Chair/Associate Professor . . . Sheila M. Gordon Artistic Director/Associate Professor David M. Long Managing Director/Adjunct Instructor . Michelle S. Polgar Administrative Coordinator ...... Jarrett King '09 Costume Shop Manager/Adjunct Instructor . . .. T'Cie Mancuso B'(ANNE WASR5URN Technical Director/Adjunct Instructor ...... Joe Carpenter Assistant Technical Director ...... K. Eliot Haynes Master Electrician ... Sadie Langenkamp Costume Technical Specialist ...... Michelle Heath Assistant Professors ...... Kathryn Eader Tyler Layton Ev Lunning Jr. Susan Branch Towne Adjunct Instructors ...... Joyce Aldridge William Crowell Cara Johnston Firestone Jo Anne Schatz Rebecca Whitehurst

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Mr. Burns, a post-electric play is presented through special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC .

Playwrights Horizons , Inc . produced the New York City premiere of the play off-Broadway in 2013. Originally produced in June 2012 by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington , D.C. , Howard Shalwitz, artistic director; Jeffrey Hermann , managing director .

Mr. Burns was commissioned by The Civilians , New York , NY, Steven Casson, Artistic Director.

For the language of the remembering of The Simpsons episode "Cape Feare ," the author would like to credit the Civilians actors involved in the initial workshop : Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Mara Dizzia, Gibson Frazier , Matt Maher, Jennifer Morris, Colleen Werthmann and Sam MEDIASPONSOR: Breslin Wright. THECOMPANY PRODUCTIONSTAFF ...... Jill Blackwood* Jill Properties Designer .. Ashton Chase Marc . . Marc Pouhe* Accompanist. . Suzanne Pagan Seth . . .. Seth Stewart* * Assistant to the Director . Cheyenne . Cheyenne Barton** . Anna Shultz Assistant Mask Designer Ryan . . . . Ryan Mattingly ** ...... Souther Recio Rachel. .... Rachel Dunk** Mask Build Crew Chief . . Jennifer Rose Davis Madison ...... Madison Williams** Student Assistant Technical Director Edward Kohler Chorus Leader . . Alexandrea Wrea Ortiz** Dance Captain ...... Anna Shultz Assistant Lighting Designer ...... Izzy Woods *Member, Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors Lead Stage Manager . . Hannah Wilson** and stage managers in the United States Assistant Stage Managers ...... **Equity Member Candidate Emile Lachney , Colleen McCool **, Rachel Powers**, Jake Salinas** SETTING Run Crew/Spot Operators ...... Leah Fitzgerald , Katie Mcloughlin , Molly Rapoza The very near future. Properties Crew ...... Megan Bolton , Ohara Mistry, Brett VerVort Then seven years after that. Light Board Operator/Programmer...... Catherine Brandt Then 75 years after that. Sound Board Operator/Mixer ...... Taylor Juarez Scene Shop Staff ...... Catherine Brandt, Ashton Chase, Edward Kohler, ACTIll MUSICALNUMBERS Marcela Spamer, Eric Swabey-Keith . The Call Came on the Radio . . . Company Costume Shop Staff ...... Austin Chandler, Sydney Floyd, Laura Fuller, I Stand on the Deck ...... Bart, Homer, Lisa, Marge Theme from Cape Feare. . Chorus , Ensemble Larisa Maddu x, Colleen McCool , Brett VerVoort Lighting Department Staff . Two Little Darling Lads . .. Itchy, Scratchy , Mr. Burns . Rachel Dunk, Jordan Mersberger Messing with the Simpsons ...... Bart, Lisa Stitchers Alissa Duquette , Anna Kimmell, Everything Will Be Alright ...... Homer Toni Sales, Rebecca Skelton Toxic ...... Mr. Burns, Itchy, Scratchy Box Office Manager ...... David Herrrera Love and Hate/And Now the Sky .. . . . Chorus Assistant Box Office Manangers Emily Ott, Hannah Wilson Say Goodbye ...... Bart, Marge , Lisa, Homer Box Office/Administrative Staff. . Jacqueline Flores, Emile Lachney Keep On ...... Company House Manager The Rapids ...... Company . Jacqueline Flores Burns' Last Speech .. .. . Ensemble House Staff ...... Tiara Clayton , Viviana Garcia , Gabrielle Gaudette, David Stern The Clouds Have Parted . .. Chorus Head Dresser ... Souther Recio Last Song .Bart and Company Dressers ...... Nico Campbell , Michelle Clarke , Brook Havener, THEBAND Katherine Taylor, Ryan VanDewalli Piano ...... Suzanne Pagan Laundry ...... Emerald McLaughlin , Meg Court Percussion ...... Austin Alexander Costume Crew ...... Sydney Floyd, Tori Jimenez , Ryan Mattingly , Emerald McLaughlin, There will be one 15-minute intermission. Emily Ott, Souther Recio, Madison Williams and the students ofTHAR 1331, 2128, 2130, 3153 and 4154 Costume Renderings by Benjamin Taylor Ridgway Scenic Crew ...... Miriam Alexander , Roby Attal , Natalie Crane, Jacqueline Flores, Edward Kohler, Ryan Mattingly ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. and the students of THAR 1330, 2128, 2130, 3153 and 4154 Equity's mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theater as an essential Make-up/Hair Crew. . Chloe Cox, Anne Harbaugh , Zach Salinas , Jessica Thompson component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 45,000 actors, singers, and the students of THAR 1331, 2128, 2130, 3153 and 4154 dancer s and stage managers working in hundred s of theaters across the United States. Lighting Crew . Cooper Accord , Cheyenne Barton , Cassandra Valentin, Equity members are dedic ated to working in the theater as a profession, upholding Ryan VanDewalli, Izzy Woods, Owen Ziegler the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits includ ing health and pension plans for its members. and the students of THAR 1330 and 3323 Through its agreement with Equity, this theater has committed to the fair treatment ACTORS' of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a membe r of EQUITY the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of perform ing arts ASSOCIATION l 91 3 unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequ ity.org. RACHEL DUNK '16 (Rachel) makes her DANNY HERMAN (Co-Choreographer) has he worked for Theatre East and Shakespeare THECOMPANY seventh appearance on the Mary Moody Northen appeared on Broadway in Contact, A Chorus NYC. Upon returning to Austin, Ridgeway began JILL BLACKWOOD (Jill} Theatre stage , but she is most often recognized Line (Mike), Leader of the Pack, Song and working with Paper Chairs , Physical Plant and is thrilled to be returning to for her role as Beth in the Spring 2014 production Dance, Big Bad Burlesque (Off-Broadway) and Kids Acting. He served as the head costume the Mary Moody Northen of Merrily We Roll Along. Thank you to everyone Die Soldaten (NYC Opera), and he was the designer for Kids Acting for four years. Ridgeway Theatre! Previous MMNT who helped her get to where she is today, and let associate choreographer for Michael Bennett's is excited to return to MMNT and hopes you enjoy credits include award-winning the fun begin! Pre-Broadway Workshop of Scandal. Herman the production. productions of Full Circle, has directed and/or choreographed wor ld­ The Imaginary Invalid and RYAN MATTINGLY '16 (Ryan) previously premiere musicals at the Goodman (Chicago) , SARAH MAINES (Lighting Designer) has The Further Adventures of appeared at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre in Long Wharf (New Haven), Zipper Theater (NYC), extensive theater exper ience in her field . As Hedda Gabler. Blackwood Misalliance, Hamlet, Love and Information, Merrily Ford's Theater (Washington, D.C.), City Theatre associate/assistant lighting designer: Jersey Boys has been a regular performer We Roll Along, Tartuffe, Museum , The Secret (Pittsburgh), Playwrights Horizons (NYC), George (nine companies inc luding Broadway, National at ZACH Theatre for over a decade , where she Garden and The Importance of Being Earnest. \ Street Playhouse (New Brunswick, NJ), Directors Tour, Las Vegas, Netherlands), Sarah Jones's most recently starred as Anna in The King and Previous film credits include The Flamboyant Company (NYC), Theaterfest (Upper Montclair, Bridge and Tunnel (Broadway) , The Pirate Queen /. She also performed in numerous productions Janitor in On The Rocks and Jerry in To Serve and NJ), Bottom Line (NYC), The Rep (Nashville) , (Broadway), Gypsywith Patti Lupone (Broadway , for The State Theatre, Austin Playhouse, Austin Neglect. Mattingly would like to thank his main LA Children's Theater , Naked Angels Theater NY City Center) , In the Heights (National Tour), La I Company (NYC) as well as dozens of other Jolla Playhouse , South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep. Shakespeare , the former Austin Musical Theatre/ catb ird Dan Williamson, as well as David Long Broadway Texas, Mississippi's New Stage Theatre and the cast and crew. He'd also like to thank his Broadway musical classics all over the country. As lighting designer: Illinois Shakespeare Festival and Musical Theatre Works in NYC, to name a few. parents and , as always, Seth Stewart. 2014 Season (Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado She has received numerous Austin Critics' Tab le ROCKER VERASTIQUE (Co-Choreographer) About Nothing , Elizabeth Rex) and 2013 Season and B. Iden Payne Awards over the years for her SETH STEWART '16 (Seth) is delighted to be appeared in the original Broadway companies of (Macbeth, Comedy of Errors, and Failure: A Love work in comedies, dramas and musicals. Film back on the Mary Moody Northen Theatre stage , Contact, Chicago, VictorNictoria and Carousel. Story). At ZACH Theatre: A Christmas Carol, A credits includ e Five Time Champion and Bernie. where he has previously appeared several times , Verastique's other Broadway cred its include Miss Christmas Story, God of Carnage. At Sea World in Favorite roles to date are wife to husband Tim and most notably as Hamlet in Hamlet. He would like to Saigon, Phantom of the Opera and The Ziegfeld San Antonio: A Dolphin Christmas. At Texas State mother to their two beautiful boys. thank the cast and crew, the director , friends and Follies of 1936, as well as the world premiere University: Anything Goes, Richard Ill, The Cherry family, Alexis and especia lly his parents for their productions of Hearts Desire, Jekyll and Hyde, and Orchard, As You Like It, All Shook Up. Maines is MARC POUHE (Marc) never-ending support. Spirit and the Broadway workshop of Fosse. head of Design and Techno logy at Texas State is proud to return to Mary University. She holds an MFA from the University Moody Northen Theatre. MADISON WILLIAMS '17 (Madison) returns to TARA COOPER (Mask/Make-up/Hair Designer) of California-San Diego and is a member of Previous MMNT appearances the Mary Moody Northen Theatre after previously is a freelance make-up , hair and wig designer and United Scenic Artists - Local 829. include Elesin Oba in Death appearing in Tartuffe. She most recently appeared puppet maker in Austin , Texas. A diverse artist, and the King's Horseman, as Lidia in Transit Theatre Troupe's production of Cooper 's work has been featured in publications LEILAH STEWART (Scene Designer) is a Vershinin in Three Sisters and Spike Heels. Prior productions elsewhere include from TIME to Forbes, in films with actors Paul freelance scenic designer and performance Count de Guiche in Cyrano The Pirates of Penzance, Grease and Two By Two. Rudd and Willie Nelson, as well as in touring artist . Her work was most recently seen at de Bergerac. He will next She would like to thank her parents and friends , productions such as Wicked and The Lion King. Mary Moody Northen Theatre in The Robber appear at MMNT as Tom and the three Golden Goddesses , for the power, Cooper's skills were highlighted by the Austin Bridegroom, Love and Information, Merrily We Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird. Selected theater wisdom and courage. American-Statesman in a November 2014 Roll Along and Museum. She col laborated credi ts include Austin Shakespeare : Petruchio profile artic le. with Daniel Alexander Jones on last summer's in The Taming of the Shrew and title roles in ALEXANDREA WREA ORTIZ '17 production of Bright Now Beyond at Salvage Othello, Macbeth and Cyrano de Bergerac ; ZACH (Chorus Leader) returns to the Mary Moody K. ELIOT HAYNES (Sound Designer) is an Vanguard Theater , and she designed scenery Theatre: Jim Casey in Grapes of Wrath, Caldwell Northen Theatre stage, where she previously award-winning designer and the assistant for UT- Austin's production of The Method Gun. B. Cladwell in Urinetown and Delbert Tibbs in The appeared in The Robber Bridegroom and Blood technical director of the Mary Moody Northen Stewart is a company member of the Rude Exonerated; Austin Playhouse: Dr. Martin Luther Wedding. She would like to thank her friends , Theatre. MMNT designs include Who's Afraid Mechanicals, an experimental theater. King Jr. in The Mountaintop and Satchel Paige in family and the produc tion company. of Virginia Woolf?, The Spitfire Grill, Bus Stop, 2016's Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing. The Imp ortance of Being Earnest, Tartuffe and MICHAEL MCKELVEY (Music Director) Selected film and television: Mnemosyne Rising, ASHTON CHASE '17 (Properties Designer) Hamlet. Other recent designs include The returns to the Mary Moody Northen Theatre after Friday Night Lights and Prison Break. Pou he is a has worked behind the scenes on various Mary Head, The Crapstall Street Boys (Trouble Puppet a hiatus in Pittsburgh. MMNT music direction four-time winner of the Austin Critics' Table award Moody Northen Theatre shows, inlcuding Blood Theater); The Orchid Flotilla, Once There Were Six credits include Honk , Cesar & Ruben, Three and holds a B.A. in Mass Communications and Wedding , Merrily We Roll Along and Hamlet , as Seasons (Glass Half Full); and Doubt , RENT, Red Sisters, Full Circle, Cloud Nine, Parade, On the Theatre from Texas State University. well as ZACH Theatre's The Who's TOMMY This Hot Patriot, This Wonderful Life (ZACH Theatre). Town, The Pajama Game , City of Angels and is her first properties design . She has directed Haynes loves working at MMNT with the Carousel. While at St. Edward's, McKelvey was CHEYENNE BARTON '16 (Cheyenne) for Transit Theatre Troupe's New Works Festival, amazing directors , designers, performers and the coord inator of the Music Department and most recently appeared as Airie in The Robber and was seen in the 2014 10-Minute Play Festival. students. He would like to send a special thanks an instructor of Musical Theater. He is also the Bridegroom and Ophelia in Hamlet. Previous She would like to thank David Long , Michelle to Taylor Juarez and Matt Buzonas for all of producing artistic director of Doctuh Mistuh credits include Love and Information and Measure Polgar, Joe Carpenter and Kathryn Eader for their help. Productions and co-founder of Summer Stock for Measure at Mary Moody Northen Theatre and their unconditional love, suppor t, wisdom and Austin. Other recent stage and music directing Eurydice at the High School for the Performing guidance. Last but not least, she would like to BENJAMIN TAYLOR RIDGWAY '07 (Costume credits include Chicago, Legally Blonde (Austin and Visual Arts. She would like to thank her family, thank Susan Branch Towne for inspiring her Designer) has been working in the field since Critics ' Table-Best Musical) , Sweeney Todd friends and the faculty at MMNT for their unending artistic pursuits as a designer. Enjoy the show! he graduated from St. Edward's University and (B. Iden Payne-Best Musical) , A Year with Frog support and wisdom. moved to New York City. While in New York, & Toad (B. Iden Payne- Best Show for Youth), Oklahoma, Urinetown. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll, State University in Oregon and currently serves Jungalbook, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson , as artistic director and associate professor Honk , Heathers , Rocky Horror, Silence! of Theater Arts at St. Edward 's University. (B. Iden Payne- Best Musical) , Reefer Madness , Directing credits at Mary Moody Northen Theatre BBAJ, Company, Evil Dead , Annie, Footloose, include Love and Information, Tartuffe, Museum, A Minister 's Wife, I Love You Because , John & Under Construction, The Further Adventures DIRECTOR'S NOTES Jen (Austin Critics' Table-Best Musical), and of Hedda Gabler (Austin Critics' Table Award The Last Five Years (Austin Critics' Table- Best for Outstanding Comedy), the world premiere Mr. Burns, a post-electricplay Musical) . McKelvey recently moved on to his next production of David Chamber 's The Imaginary adventure as the artistic director of the Summer Invalid , On The Verge, bobrauschenbergamerica Lyric Theatre in New Orleans, where he will also (Austin Critics' Table Award for Outstanding join the faculty of Tulane University . Ensemble Performance) , Cloud 9, Full Circle (Austin Critics' Table Award for Best Comedy) , I love The Simpsons.My memoriesof laughingwith my mom, ROBERT TO LARO Macbeth and Antigone. At MMNT, he has dad and siblingsas we sat in frontof the televisionare precioas- (Production Stage Manager) appeared as Neville Craven in The Secret to me now. We imitatedtheir voices, shared our favorite lines returns to the Mary Moody Garden, John Proctor in The Crucible, Stone Northen Theatre , where in City of Angels, Cyrano (Austin Critics ' Table and acted out our fa:vortg(scenes.The SirnB$POSwere the family he has previously staged Award for Outstanding Acting in a Leading Role) we invited into our homefevery week bringin~{usjoy, laughter managed Hamlet and · in. Cyrano de Bergerac and Leo Frank in Parade. Love and Information Long is an active member in both Actors ' Equity and connection,creating , in us a shared experience. And it'sthe and directed Misalliance , Association and the Screen Actors ' Guild. He explorationof the "sharedexperience" that initiallymotivates Blood Wedding, Great would like to thank his wife, Tracy, and daughters, Expectations and Othello. Amelia and Alura , for their patience and our play. Tolaro is a professional actor , director and stage loving support. manager and has been a member of Actors' Equity Association for 27 years He served as ANNE WASHBURN PlaywrightAnne Washburnestablishes The Simpsonsas a cultural production stage manager for national tours of (Playwright) has written referenceto which all characters can contribute,and it is through The Foreigner, Greater Tuna, The Fantasticks, plays including Mr. Burns, this collaborationthat ideas develop, relationshipsare forged and Red, White and Tuna, and A Tuna Christmas The Internationalist , A Devil which included four weeks on Broadway . Tolaro At Noon , Apparition , The an ensemole is created. These, of course, are the building blocks has stage managed such dignitaries as Walter Communist Dracula Pageant , for theatricalcreation. Cronkite , Bob Shieffer, Willie Nelson , Lyle Lovett, I Have Loved Strangers , The Nancy Dussault, Tommy Lee Jones , Tommy Ladies , The Small and a 'f, Tune, Betty Buckley and Carol Burnett. He transadaptation of Euripides ' [email protected] Brookstates in his bookTbe Empty Space recently stage managed Holland Taylor in her Orestes. Her work has been one woman show Ann! at Lincoln Center in New produced by 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, that th§ principleelements requiredfor theater to occur are the York. He holds an MFA in Theatre from Trinity American Repertory Theatre , Cherry Lane actor, audience ana the_space. He _n//it ~~i no mentionof li~hts, University in San Antonio, and he was co-founder Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians , Dixon j~e of the Callier Theatre of the Deaf in Dallas and Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, costumesor make-up tDuk

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