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CELEBRATING 2018/19 SEASON

FIRST SEASON PRODUCTION SCHOOL GIRLS Or, the African Mean Girls By Jocelyn Bioh Directed by Rebecca Taichman Sep 2–30, 2018

SECOND SEASON PRODUCTION QUACK By Eliza Clark Directed by Neel Keller World Premiere Oct 21 – Nov 18, 2018

THIRD SEASON PRODUCTION BLOCK PARTY (L-R) Crystal Diaz, Lynn Odell, Alina Phelan, and Tania Verafield. Photo by Darrett Sanders. Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre Mar 7 – Apr 28, 2019

THEATRE OF NOTE FOR THE LOVE OF (or, the roller derby play) By Gina Femia Directed and Choreographed by Rhonda Kohl Mar 7–17, 2019

SKYLIGHT THEATRE ROTTERDAM By Jon Brittain Directed by Michael A. Shepperd Mar 28 – Apr 7, 2019

ANTAEUS THEATRE COMPANY NATIVE SON By Nambi E. Kelley Based on the Novel by Richard Wright (L-R) Ryan Brophy, Ashley Romans, Miranda Wynn, and Audrey Cain. Photo by Ed Krieger. Directed by Andi Chapman Apr 18–28, 2019

FOURTH SEASON PRODUCTION DANA H. By Adapted from Interviews with Dana Higginbotham Conducted by Directed by Les Waters World Premiere May 26 – Jun 23, 2019

Noel Arthur. Photo by Geoffrey Wade Photography. MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director friend. Presents the production of

insider. Written by Gina Femia

With (in alphabetical order) visionary. Diaz de los Muertos...... CRYSTAL DIAZ you! Michelle...... ELINOR GUNN Squeaky Mouse...... LIESEL HANSON INTRODUCING A NEW MEMBERSHIP EXPERIENCE Trauma Queen...... FAITH IMAFIDON AT Jammy From The Block...... CINDY LIN Frida Call-It-Low...... NADIA MARINA Hot Flash...... LYNN ODELL Andrea the Vagiant...... ALINA PHELAN As a nonprofit organization, Center Theatre Group relies friends Joy Ride...... BRIANA PRICE on the philanthropy of people just like YOU. Friends get first access to tickets before Ruth Bader Getsit...... NICOLE GABRIELLA SCIPIONE the general public plus invitations to Anna-Stecia...... YOLANDA SNOWBALL Your tax-deductible contribution of $100 or more helps members-only events, including backstage Prosecute-Her...... JENNY SOO ensure that Center Theatre Group continues to bring tours and rehearsals. Join today with a Maid of Metal...... NANCY STONE the highest quality theatre to our community. And, gift of $100 or more. Lizzie Lightning...... TANIA VERAFIELD as a member, you will unlock benefits that enhance insiders Scenic Design Design Lighting Design Sound Design your theatregoing experience, from behind-the-scenes Insiders enjoy a year-round VIP experience Eli Smith Vicki Conrad Rose Malone Gilly Moon members-only events to the best seats in the house— with access to the best seats for our shows, and more! concierge service for house seats at New York Center Theatre Group and London productions, and special behind- Associate Producer Production Manager Stage Manager the-scenes events. Join today with a gift of Learn more at CTGLA.org/membership Lindsay Allbaugh Maggie Swing $2,500 or more. Brooke Baldwin visionaries Originally Produced for Theatre of NOTE by Visionaries have the ultimate access to our David Bickford, Kelly “Lucretia Hott” Lingen, Jenny Soo artists, shows, programs, and staff, with premium seating for our productions, including Directed & Choreographed by use of The Founders’ Room at the Ahmanson, and invitations to private salon-style artist Rhonda Kohl QUESTIONS? events. Join today with a gift of $15,000 Call our Membership Concierge or more. For The Love Of will be performed with an intermission. at 213.972.7564 or email [email protected] MARCH 7–17, 2019 THEATRE

For The Love Of (or, the roller derby play) received its World premiere by Pride Films & Plays 2017—David Zak, Executive Director Block Party receives major support from Aliza and Marc Guren, with generous funding also provided by Joni and Miles Benickes, and additional support provided by Kiki and David Gindler. Block Party is also made possible in part by a Culver City Performing Arts Grant with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE WHO’S WHO

CRYSTAL DIAZ (Diaz de los Muertos). A battles and trolling Epicurious for recipes. She is honored to I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Disassembly, and Hearts Like Fists. JENNY SOO (Prosecute-Her). Favorite L.A. NOTE member since 2011, Crystal served work on the Kirk Douglas Theatre stage as she reunites with TV: How to Get Away with Murder, Grey’s Anatomy, Shameless, theatre credits: Hot Cat, D Deb Debbie on the Artistic & Management Committee her lovely, badass female cast! Find more Faith at Criminal Minds, among others. Thank you to David Bickford, Deborah, Dry Land, and Gloria, which was and is currently the Membership Chair. faithimafidon.com. Follow @fidosaurus Rhonda, and all the ladies on the team who make this show recently mentioned by the Los Angeles Productions at Theatre of NOTE include: epic. The biggest thanks to Center Theatre Group for creating Times as one of the best of L.A. theatre Cleo, Theo & Wu; For The Love Of (or, CINDY LIN (Jammy From The Block, Block Party and inviting us to play in your arena. productions of 2018. TV: Parks and the roller derby play); Hot Cat; Niagara Understudy for Prosecute-Her) can’t believe Recreation, LA to Vegas, Reverie. Her Falls; Shoe Story; Figure 8; and Skeleton she gets to skate with her favorite roller BRIANA PRICE (Joy Ride) was born and passion project, award-winning feature film Stories. She is a member of Theatre Movement Bazaar, an derby women again. Original cast of Theatre raised in Pasadena, California. She studied FOR IZZY, is currently finishing its festival run and is available associate member of Sacred Fools, and has performed in of NOTE’s West Coast premiere of For The at in the city of New on VOD: forizzy.com. BFA: NYU. MFA: A.R.T./MXAT Institute New York, , London, and Edinburgh. She is a native Love Of. UCLA graduate and HOOLIGAN York, where she was preparing to be a for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard. New Yorker and a trained ballet/flamenco dancer. Special Theatre Company alumna. Past HTC credits doctor. However, her love for the arts took thanks to husband, Alexis DeLaRosa, Ziggy & Penny, and include The Wedding Singer, , over and steered her in the direction of NANCY STONE (Maid of Metal, Understudy all of the strong women who hold her up. Titanic, Curtains, and Urinetown. Always singing, dancing, professional dance and theatre. Briana for Hot Flash, Anna-Stecia) is thrilled to kicking, or teaching. Thank you to Theatre of NOTE and has toured with Nicki Minaj, performed participate in Center Theatre Group’s Block ELINOR GUNN (Michelle) is delighted to be everyone that pushed this show forward. Much heartfelt on Glee and The Neighbors, onstage in Tempest Redux as Party as part of Theatre of NOTE’s For cast alongside such talented in this appreciation for my teachers and friends. Special thanks Ariel, All My Distances Are Far as Ruby, Future Sex, Inc. as an The Love Of. Los Angeles theatre includes honest, heartfelt play. Notable performances to my family—I’m forever grateful. For everyone that chases ensemble member, and most recently Lysistrata Unbound as Washer/Dryer at East West Players, Tartuffe, in : US premiere of Sugar Daddies, after the love of the game. a female chorus member. Love’s Labor’s Lost, and Embedded with written and directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn; The Actors’ Gang; Atlas Pit and Speech Olivia in and Cordelia in King NADIA MARINA (Frida Call-It-Low, NICOLE GABRIELLA SCIPIONE (Ruth Bader & Debate with Los Angeles New Court Theatre. Recent TV/ Lear with Seattle Shakespeare Company; Understudy for Diaz de los Muertos, Lizzie Getsit, Understudy for Michelle, Andrea film: The Good Doctor, Grey’s Anatomy, Speechless, The Price, and just last fall, Kyra in a successful run Lightning) is back again for Block Party, the Vagiant). Regional (selected): Disgraced Bones, How I Met Your Mother, and Apple’s untitled morning- of Skylight at ACT Theatre. In L.A., she is a proud company but this time onstage. Her work as an (PlayMakers Repertory Company); 32 show with Reese Witherspoon. Nancy has also member of Theatre of NOTE. For The Love Of will mark Elinor’s #actormama includes Nina in Possum Beds (South Coast Repertory, Culture performed as an /improviser in the Bay Area and NYC. Kirk Douglas Theatre debut. Many thanks to Center Theatre Carcass, Tyler in Some Girl(s), and Christina Clash); Greenhouse (The Pasadena Group for this opportunity. She hopes you continue to support in Tree of Hope, to name a few. She is also Playhouse); Night Sky and A Piece of TANIA VERAFIELD (Lizzie Lightning). local theatre, and enjoy the show! a producer and has worked on productions My Heart (/Mo’olelo); Currently in A Noise Within’s Othello as at the Echo Theater Company as well as Theatre of NOTE. The Miracle Worker (Sierra Repertory Theatre); Bus Stop (Met Emilia through April. L.A. theatre—A Noise LIESEL HANSON (Squeaky Mouse) is a Newly a mom of two, Nadia thanks her family and the cast for Theatre); The Crucible (StageSceneLA’s Best Performance Within: Lady Henry/Gladys, A Picture of company member at Theatre of NOTE sharing her nicely. More info can be found at nadiamarina.com. by a Featured Actress). Film/TV (selected): CSI, Shark Dorian Gray; Rogue Machine: Carmen/ and is so happy to be back in For The Swarm (Spike TV), Detective (TNT), Fielder’s Choice (opposite Hawk, In the Valley of the Shadow; Love Of! She is a native Californian who has LYNN ODELL (Hot Flash) has acted, directed, Chad Lowe), McBride: Dogged, Monster Makers, Arrest & Trial, Jessie, Still Life; Kayleen (alt), Gruesome performed onstage in Los Angeles, Las and produced in New York, , Justine Bateman’s Five Minutes, PUSH, and Nicole’s Song in a Playground Injuries; Bug, Henry Murray’s Vegas, New York, and Edinburgh. Previous and Los Angeles. She was a member of the Convenience Store (third place—Oscar qualifying Athens Treefall. N.Y. theatre—: Melody/Rika, Beneath credits include the Lionsgate horror film Actors’ Playhouse in N.Y., Dude Theatre in International Film Festival). Grateful for you. More at IMDb the Veil; Gallery Players: Ellen, The Little Dog Laughed. Partial Children of Sorrow and the original cast of San Francisco, and has been with the & resumes.actorsaccess.com/ngs. film/TV—Ms. Purple, Alex & Jaime, I Am Not a Hipster, Short Re-Animator the Musical. You can also catch her in the action/ critically acclaimed Theatre of NOTE in L.A. Term 12 (Sundance 2009 Best Short), The First Time, Julia, thriller feature Happy Hunting (now streaming on Netflix). for almost 20 years. She has also had the YOLANDA SNOWBALL (Anna-Stecia) is Harsh Times, Namaste, Bitches, 24. It’s a dream come true to Thanks to everyone who helped bring me into the Scallywags privilege of working at Sacred Fools Theater excited to recreate the role of Anna-Stecia be making her Center Theatre Group debut—big thank you to family; I love this team and all of you. and Elephant Theatre companies. Her TV credits include in For The Love Of (or, the roller derby play). all involved. Love IS a contact sport. For you, Dad. Criminal Minds, Law & Order, and the PBS children’s series Yolanda is a graduate of Spelman College FAITH IMAFIDON (Trauma Queen, Steps. She is in the independent films Gypsies, Tramps & in Atlanta, Georgia, and has studied at the GINA FEMIA (Playwright) has written 31 full-length plays which Understudy for Joy Ride, Squeaky Mouse) is Thieves, Have You Seen Me?, Pariah, The Lost One, and Kill Neighborhood Playhouse in include ALLOND(R)A (winner; Leah Ryan Prize), We Are a a proud first-generation Nigerian and Boston Me, Deadly. as well as the American Conservatory Masterpiece (winner; Doric Wilson Award), The Mermaids’ native. She holds both an MFA in acting and Theater in San Francisco. Yolanda’s theatre Parade (semifinalist; The Relentless Award), Annie and the BA in English from Harvard University. ALINA PHELAN (Andrea the Vagiant). Credits: credits include work with Theatre of NOTE, The Actors’ Gang, Fat Man (honorable mention; The Kilroys), For The Love Of Favorite past performances include: Cut ICT: Dead Man’s Cell Phone, All in the Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, and Lower Depth Theatre (Original Works Publishing), and The Violet Sisters (Great (Nurse Ogutu)—Casa 0101; The Fertile Timing; Chalk Rep: Family Planning; Circle X: Ensemble. Her television credits include This Is Us, NCIS, Plains Theatre Conference). She is the 2019 Writer-in- River (River)—Baylor University’s Mabee Lascivious Something; Open Fist: All Night Good Trouble, and . Yolanda is honored to be a Residence with Spicy Witch Productions, a current member Theatre; And Then They Fell (Crystal)—Brimmer Street Long, Love Water; Theatre of NOTE: Rio part of Block Party. Yolanda would like to thank her husband of Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group, and an alum of EST Theatre; and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Saint Monica)— Hondo, Entropy, Niagara Falls, Hamlet: and son for their love and support. Youngblood, Pipeline Theatre’s PlayLab, and New Georges’ The Hudson Theatre. When not onstage, Faith enjoys dance The First Quarto (winner—Garland Award), Audrey Residency. Gina has received residencies with Page

P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P5 73, Powerhouse, NTI at the O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm, GILLY MOON (Sound Designer) is excited to be remounting ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR FOR THE LOVE OF THEATRE OF NOTE STAFF and Fresh Ground Pepper. For The Love Of at the Kirk Douglas Theatre! Gilly received Assistant Director...... Lauren Smerkanich Board of Directors...... Katharine Crnko, Michelle Cullen, her MFA in sound design from CalArts in 2016 and has been Assistant Choreographer...... Angeline Mirenda Eric Emery, John Money, Genevieve Morrill, Kirsten Vangsness RHONDA KOHL (Director/Choreographer) is proud to be part pursuing sound design in multiple mediums ever since. Favorite Head ...... Ryan Howard Artistic Management Committee...... Cat Chengery, of the Center Theatre Group Block Party. Rhonda was credits include: Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Assistant Lighting Designer...... Mary Keegan Fiona Lakeland, Alexis DeLaRosa, the SDCF Fellow on the Broadway debut of In Transit (Circle with Diablo Sound (sound media and systems design Lynn Odell, Elinor Gunn, Paris Benjamin in the Square) with Kathleen Marshall, whom she also team member); Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin with Rogue CREDITS Managing Director...... Hauk Graham worked with on Mamma Mia! (Hollywood BowI), Damn Artists Ensemble (co-sound design, 2019 Ovation Award for Original Makeup Supervisor...... Nadia Marina Special thanks to Diablo Sound. The closing song, “Ordinary Yankees (Roundabout Theatre Benefit Reading), and Sound Design—Intimate Theatre). Gratitude and love to Julien Original provided by Theatre of NOTE. Additional costumes Girls,” is courtesy of Cheap Perfume, New York's first all-female Sweet Charity (Reprise 2.0). She recently choreographed for his support, and to Bash and Larry for their furry loyalty. provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop. punk band. and assistant directed Native Gardens at the . Directing credits include: Around the World in BROOKE BALDWIN (Production Stage Manager). Center Theatre 80 Days (Actors Co-op; L.A. Times Critic’s Choice), Pocket Group: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play, Bloodletting, Universe (Hollywood Fringe), Look Back in Anger (LA New Spamilton, Big Night, Good Grief, Vicuña, Disgraced, Women Court). Assistant directing: Ragtime and King Charles Laughing Alone With Salad, Kansas City Choir Boy, Girlfriend, III (Pasadena Playhouse), Barbecue and Long Day’s Journey Chavez Ravine, Luna Gale, Race, different words for the same Into Night (Geffen Playhouse). SDC Associate Member. thing, The Nether, The Convert, Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens. LA Philharmoic & The Industry: Europeras ELI SMITH (Scenic Designer) is an activist, visual artist, and 1 & 2. Rio Hotel in Las Vegas: Duck Commander Musical. performance designer. She received her BA in physics Moonlight Stage Productions: Newsies, The Little Mermaid, from SUNY Geneseo and an MFA from CalArts in both The Wizard of Oz, Cats. Cabrillo Music Theatre: Bye Bye Birdie, performance design and art & technology. Eli’s work In the Heights, Kiss Me, Kate. And many more! expresses the psychology of precarity through constructed landscapes of potential violence. Recent productions include MAGGIE SWING (Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: Lewis Klahr’s 2017 film Hearse, Edgar Arceneaux’s 2016 Linda Vista, Quack, Block Party 2018, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, performance art piece Until, Until, Until…, and Nataki Spamilton, Big Night, King of the Yees, Block Party 2017, Garrett’s 2018 devised work The Carolyn Bryant Project. Vicuña, Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up. Geffen Her 2018 video installation A Continuous Thread appeared Playhouse: Big Sky, Barcelona, Guards at the Taj, Discord, The at The Box gallery in June 2018, and her narrative installation Country House, American Buffalo. Boston Court: Collective Tiger Play premiered in December 2018 at CalArts. Rage. European tour: The Apple Family Plays. Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Sweet and Sad, VICKI CONRAD () received the Ovation Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (The Award for Best for The Mystery of Edwin Public Theater), Slowgirl (Lincoln Center), Blood Knot, The Drood and nominations for 33 Variations (Best Play, Ovation Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company). Award), Imaginary Invalid, The Learned Ladies (L.A. Weekly Award), and Big River. Favorite credits include Anna Karenina THEATRE OF NOTE is an L.A.-based nonprofit ensemble of (Actors Co-op), Bad Jews (The Odyssey), Other Desert Cities theatre artists dedicated to creating high-caliber, original work (Theatricum Botanicum), Jocasta: A Motherf**king that challenges both its artists and its audiences. Founded in (Ghost Road), and 8:03 (Scherzo). Her Asterion costumes 1981, its democratic, ensemble-based organization is dedicated traveled to Poland’s Grotowkski Institute, and her custom to providing a creative environment in which collaboration and designs/creations were in the Project Runway season 15 development of maverick theatre more accurately reflects L.A.’s commercial. She is thrilled to get to go to Center Theatre diverse cultural makeup, thus inspiring a deeper connection Group’s Block Party and remount For The Love Of with the with its audiences. NOTE also produces the annual Hollywood Scallywags! vickiconraddesign.com Performance Marathon, the NOTEworthy new play development workshops, and its educational outreach Young Writers Project. ROSE MALONE (Lighting Designer) received an MFA in Stick your hand in L.A.’s NOTEorious black box theatre—you lighting design from CalArts. Some recent productions never know if you’ll get licked…or bitten. include Amos & Boris at South Coast Rep, An Undivided Heart at Echo Theater Company, With Love and a Major Organ at Boston Court, and Rachel Calof at the Pico Union Project. Additionally, she has designed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and assisted with Deaf West Theatre’s production of Spring Awakening on Broadway. A selection of Block Party 2019 participants from Theatre of NOTE, Skylight Theatre Company, and Antaeus Theatre Company. Photo by Luke Fontana.

P6 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE WHO’S WHO MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director RYAN BROPHY (Josh) was nominated for the JON BRITTAIN (Playwright) received the Olivier Award in 2017 2019 Ovation Award for Best Featured Actor for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre and was in a Play for Rotterdam. L.A.: Oppenheimer also nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Most Presents the production of (Rogue Machine), Idol Minds (Skylight), Promising Playwright. His other work includes The Wake, Justin Tanner’s Little Theatre (Fountain). What Would Spock Do?, the Fringe First Award-winning USC (BA 2018): Romeo and Juliet, The musical A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad), and Country Wife, You Can’t Take It With You, the cult hit Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho. Brittain also That Long Damn Dark. British American directs stand-up and has twice won the Edinburgh Drama Academy (LTP 2017): The Love of the Nightingale. Comedy Award for his shows with John Kearns. He has In association with Hartshorn – Hook Productions Film: we could have danced (Sundance Ignite), Howler (USC), written for Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball The Gift of the Magi (UCLA). Multimedia: Is the Sky Falling? (dir. and is currently a staff writer on The Crown. Written by Bill T. Jones). Alumnus of YoungArts and Northwestern University’s Cherubs program. Instagram: @rybrophy. MICHAEL A. SHEPPERD (Director). Artistic Director of L.A.’s Jon Brittain ryanbrophy.com award-winning Celebration Theatre. Recent directing credits: The Boy from Oz (awards: Ovation, LADCC), Rotterdam (awards: LADCC—Best Production, Stage With (in alphabetical order) AUDREY CAIN (Lelani) is thrilled to be reprising the role of Lelani after an amazing Raw—Best Production), Laughter on the 23RD Floor (Scenie— run at the Skylight Theatre. Other theatre Director of the Year, BWW—nom, Best Director); The View Josh...... RYAN BROPHY credits include East West Players’ Upstairs (BWW Award—Best Director). Assistant Director Lelani...... AUDREY CAIN production of La Cage Aux Folles for Sweat (). Acting credits: (Anne) and the Fountain Theatre’s Rapid (Troy; Ovation, LADCC noms), BootyCandy (LADCC nom, Fiona/Adrian...... ASHLEY ROMANS Development Series. Audrey was the Ovation, Stage Raw win), The Color Purple (Mister; Ovation ´ proud recipient of Comcast NBCUniversal’s Award), Steel (Ovation Award), Intimate Apparel (NAACP Alice...... MIRANDA WYNNE inaugural Conservatory Fellowship for East West Players’ Theatre Award). Broadway/regional credits: Cathy Rigby is Actors’ Conservatory, as well as the recipient of the Dan Velez Peter Pan, The Seafarer, Little Shop of Horrors. TV: Curb Fund Scholarship for Acting. Many thanks to Center Theatre Your Enthusiasm, Soul Man, Hot In Cleveland. Group for this incredible opportunity, and to the “Rotterfam” Scenic & Lighting Design Costume Design Sound Design for the endless joy. JEFF McLAUGHLIN (Scenic & Lighting Designer) works across Jeff McLaughlin Naila Aladdin Sanders Christopher Moscatiello most industries in which design is called for: film, television, ASHLEY ROMANS (Fiona/Adrian) is thrilled to commercials, corporate events, music videos, concerts, and escape rooms; however, his first love continues to be theatre. Center Theatre Group play in Rotterdam once more with the Associate Producer Production Stage Manager Stage Manager amazing Skylight family. Previous L.A. Recent notable works include Stupid Kid at The Road Theatre theatre credit: Celebration’s Charm. Recent (Ovation nominee), Cult Of Love with IAMA Theatre Company, Lindsay Allbaugh Garrett Crouch Marcedes L. Clanton TV credits include: NOS4A2, Shameless, the feature film Snapshots directed by Melanie Mayron, and I’m Dying Up Here, Are You Sleeping. Web Evel Live for The History Channel. He is very proud to be Originally Produced for Skylight Theatre by series: HGQLC. Education: Pace School of working on Rotterdam once again with the same amazing Performing Arts class of 2015, BA—theatre people as last time and some new ones to boot! Gary Grossman, Tony Abatemarco, Andrew Carlberg arts. Romans is represented by Schumacher Management. NAILA ALADDIN SANDERS (Costume Designer). Credits include Directed by MIRANDA WYNNE (Alice) is thrilled to be Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine; Neighbors by reviving her all-time favorite role of Alice for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; The Brothers Size and In the Red Michael A. Shepperd Block Party 2019. Last year, Miranda was and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney; Gem of the Ocean, nominated for Best Lead Performance by Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, , and The Piano Lesson the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and by . Anna Lucasta, Bronzeville, The Color Purple Time: Act One—New Year’s Eve, Present Day / Act Two—Four Months Later Stage Raw. Born and raised in Los Angeles, (musical), The Ballad of Emmett Till, The Women of Brewster Place: Rotterdam she received her BA in theatre from UC Place (musical), For the Love of Freedom, and The Haitian Rotterdam is performed with an intermission. San Diego. Some favorite credits include Trilogy are some of her other costume design credits. Naila is Oppenheimer (Rogue Machine Theatre), Punk Rock (Odyssey the recipient of a Drama Critics Circle and three NAACP Awards. MARCH 28 – APRIL 7, 2019 KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE Theatre Ensemble), and Three Sisters (La Jolla Playhouse). She would like to thank Center Theatre Group and Skylight CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO (Sound Designer). Recipient Theatre for this opportunity and her grandma Addie for being of the 2018 LADCC and 2015 Stage Raw Awards for Sound Design, Christopher Moscatiello is also a composer, sound Originally produced at Theatre503 in London by Hartshorn – Hook Productions. her #1 fan. mirandamwynne.com @mirandamwynne Block Party receives major support from Aliza and Marc Guren, with generous funding also provided by Joni and Miles Benickes, and additional support provided editor/mixer, and music director for theatre, television, and by Kiki and David Gindler. Block Party is also made possible in part by a Culver City Performing Arts Grant with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

P8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9 MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director film. TV credits includeThe Walking Dead (AMC), Psych and UK tour), and Woody Sez (Arts). In 2019, their production (USA), Eureka (Syfy), Human Target (Fox), The Cape (NBC), of Amélie will tour the UK and Asia, Rotterdam will return to Presents the production of Caprica (Syfy), and Trauma (NBC), and he has scored full the UK and US, and Dolly Parton’s musical 9 to 5 will open series, specials, and promos for HBO, BBC, NBC, Discovery, at The Savoy Theatre. Louis and Brian hold the positions of National Geographic, and others. Theatre credits include The Executive Director and Operations Director at the Arts´ Theatre Kennedy Center, , Folger Theatre, Antaeus, Rogue in the West End. Machine, Skylight Theatre, The Fountain Theatre, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, and he served as assistant conductor on ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR ROTTERDAM Written by the national tour of The Phantom of the . Assistant Directors...... Shen Heckel, Shaina Rosenthal Marketing Consultant and Nambi E. Kelley GARRETT CROUCH (Production Stage Manager) is a Engagement Facilitator...... Joshua Gershick multi-hyphenate human with a deep passion and love Fight Director...... Matt Orduña Head Carpenter...... Melissa Hartman Based on the Novel by for entertainment. He graduated from AMDA College and Prop Carpenter...... Ryan Howard Conservatory for the Arts in 2015. Actor, writer, musician, Assistant Lighting Designer...... Hilda Kane technician, director, and stage manager are just a few pies to Richard Wright name. He recently collaborated with the Puckwit Gang in a CREDITS successful run of Dangerous Cures of Dr. B, which he co-wrote Original Prop Master...... Michael O’Hara With (in alphabetical order) the script and score for. When he isn't writing the score to Original Casting...... Raul Clayton Staggs a show or acting out, you can usually find him in the booth, Original Dialect Coach...... Tuffet Schmelzle The Black Rat...... NOEL ARTHUR managing at Skylight Theatre in Los Feliz, where he Original Assistant Director...... Shen Heckel was production stage manager of the multiple award- Original Associate Producers...... Christopher Aguilar, Mrs. Dalton...... GIGI BERMINGHAM Josh Gershick, Jonathan Munoz-Proulx, Shaina Rosenthal winning Rotterdam. Bigger...... JON CHAFFIN Original costumes provided by Skylight Theatre Company. Additional costumes provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop. MARCEDES L. CLANTON (Stage Manager) is delighted to return Mary...... ELLIS GREER to the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Selected credits: Mutt House SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY STAFF Jan...... MATTHEW GRONDIN RD (premiere), Laughter on 23 Floor, A Funny Thing Happened Board of Directors...... Fr. Gregory Goethals, SJ—Chair, Bessie, Vera...... MILDRED MARIE LANGFORD on the Way to the Forum, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Ah, Steven Karic—Vice Chair & Treasurer, Dale Raoul— Wilderness!, The Maids, Sons of the Prophet (West Coast Secretary, Ford Austin, Bradford Bancroft, Gary Grossman, Britten...... NED MOCHEL premiere), Wolves (L.A. premiere), Justin Love (premiere), Wendy Kout, William Slocum, (In Memoriam) Hannah...... VICTORIA PLATT The Color Purple (six Ovation Awards), Leslie Jordan’s Fruit Fly Advisory Committee...... Robert Israel, Chip Rosenbloom (premiere), What’s Wrong with Angry?, Take Me Out (NAACP Executive Director...... Sandee Grossman Buddy...... BRANDON RACHAL Awards), The Temperamentals (West Coast premiere), and Producing Artistic Director...... Gary Grossman Co-Artistic Director...... Tony Abatemarco [title of show]. She’s proud to be completing her ninth season Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Artistic Associate...... Michael Kearns as Resident Stage Manager with Celebration Theatre. Play LAb Director...... Lee Blessing Edward E. Haynes Jr. Wendell C. Carmichael Andrew Schmedake Jeff Gardner Program Coordinator and Technical Advisor...... Christopher Hoffman SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY was created to support artists. Lyric Project Program Director...... John J. Torres Center Theatre Group Recognized as a “powerhouse of new play development” by Artistic Leaders....Victoria Pearlman, Celia Ramirez, Shaina Rosenthal Projection Design Associate Producer Production Stage Manager Stage Manager Dramatist Magazine, the 36-year-old company discovers, PlayLAb Associate Director...... Tim Furlong Adam R. Macias Lindsay Allbaugh Taylor Anne Cullen Maggie Swing develops, and produces compelling new works that expand Publicist...... Judith Borne mainstream theatre while nurturing and educating the people Graphic Design...... Llance Bower, Guillermo Perez that create them. Plays premiering at Skylight have gone on Stage Managers...... Christopher Hoffman, Colin Grossman, Directed by to be performed Off-Broadway, nationally, and internationally, Garrett Longley, Ben Baltman and its vibrant family of artists has received prestigious national Front of House...... Jill Abatemarco, Ashley Felkner, Andi Chapman Amy Pelch, Carlee Wilson and local awards. After producing over 100 World premieres Artistic Advisors...... Andy Ackerman, Brooke Adams, and working with hundreds of teens and young adults, Skylight Randall Arney, Ed Asner, Dan Bucatinsky, , TIME: A split-second inside Bigger’s mind, when he runs from his crime, remembers, imagines, two cold and snowy winter days in December 1939 and beyond. remains dedicated to the power of the artist to create positive Johnny Galecki, Peter Gallagher, Buck Henry, PLACE: A labyrinth of Chicago’s black belt and surrounding areas as it appears in Bigger’s mind. change. SkylightTheatre.org John Benjamin Hickey, Winnie Holzman, Sheryl Kaller, Stacy Keach, Sharon Lawrence, Eric McCormack, Native Son is performed without an intermission. HARTSHORN – HOOK PRODUCTIONS is a live entertainment Mary McDonnell, Terrence McNally, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, management company founded in 2007 by Louis Hartshorn Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Nauffts, Billy Porter, Joan Rater, APRIL 18–28, 2019 KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE Jeffrey Richman, Don Roos, Thomas Sadoski, and Brian Hook. Over 120 productions across five continents, Original stage adaptation by Paul Green and Richard Wright and produced in arrangement with the Paul Green Foundation—www.paulgreen.org. The World premiere production including Olivier and multi-LADCC Award-winning Rotterdam Marc Shmuger, Joe Spano of Native Son was produced by Court Theatre—Charles Newell, Artistic Director; Stephen J. Albert, Executive Director; and American Blues Theater—Gwendolyn Whiteside, (Arts, 59E59 New York, Skylight), Dreamworks’ Madagascar Producing Artistic Director. Block Party receives major support from Aliza and Marc Guren, with generous funding also provided by Joni and Miles Benickes, and additional support provided by Kiki and the Musical (UK tour), Urinetown (Apollo), American Idiot (Arts David Gindler. Block Party is also made possible in part by a Culver City Performing Arts Grant with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment. WHO’S WHO

NOEL ARTHUR (The Black Rat) is excited to Children’s Theatre). Readings/workshops at Independent VICTORIA PLATT (Hannah). Center Theatre Directing Workshop for Women. Andi is honored to be forever reprise this role here at the Kirk Douglas Shakespeare Co., The Pasadena Playhouse, and The Group: Venice (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Hallon Chapman’s daughter. Theatre. He thanks his cast, Antaeus Workroom’s Off-the-Page series. Film: Bastard. Special Ovation Award nom), (Mark Taper Theatre, director Andi Chapman, and awards/training: Best Actress for St. Miranda at the DC 48 Forum), Native Son (Antaeus Theatre— EDWARD E. HAYNES JR. (Scenic Designer) is excited to adaptor Nambi E. Kelley. Other performance Hour Film Project. BFA, USC. Her family has her heart. 2018), Jelly’s Last Jam (Broadway), Building be returning to Center Theatre Group where he served as highlights include TAR (Playwrights’ Arena), the and Roxy in Cyrano (Fountain Resident Scenic Designer for 18 years. Regional credits Bars and Measures (Boston Court), and MATTHEW GRONDIN (Jan) is honored to be at Theatre), Sammy (Old Globe), Asphalt include Mark Taper Forum, Ebony Repertory Theatre Elmina’s Kitchen (Lower Depth Theatre the Kirk Douglas Theatre with this inspiring (REDCAT), and Atlanta (Geffen). TV: Company, South Coast Rep, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Geffen Ensemble). TV: Jane the Virgin, Are You Sleeping, ER, Scrubs, group of artists! Recent credits: District Dimensional Shift (pilot, lead), NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, East West Players, Pasadena NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Shameless. My love to my wife and Merchants, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Los Angeles, Lucifer, Bones, The Mentalist, Castle, Criminal Playhouse, Hollywood Bowl, Marin Theatre Co., TheatreWorks, son, Vanessa and Neo Orion. IG: @noelactor and the NewSCRipts workshop of Origin Minds, and contract roles on both All My Children and Muny Opera, Intiman Theatre, Trinity Rep, Alley Theatre, Story (South Coast Repertory); The City of Guiding Light. Film: H4 (adaptation of Henry IV, which she Alliance Theatre, and many he can no longer remember. GIGI BERMINGHAM (Mrs. Dalton) has Conversation, Women In Jeopardy!, Good co-produced with Harry Lennix & Terrell Tilford), Josephine Television credits include MTV’s Spring Break 2012 & 2011, appeared on many SoCal stages including People (Ensemble Theatre Company); A Baker in HBO’s Winchell, #Truth (dir. Charles Murray), The Hip Hop Harry, The Tony Rock Project, and Culture Clash. Pasadena Playhouse, Old Globe, Moon for the Misbegotten (Rubicon Theatre); Stupid F*cking Gleaner (opp. Angus MacFadyen, dir. Harry Lennix), Revival!, Ed is the father of twins, Denis and Wesly, and husband to International City Theatre (ICT), La Mirada, Bird, Bad Jews (Stage West); Spinning Into Butter, Rabbit Hole Interference, Jonah Hex. VictoriaPlatt.com director Elizabeth Bell-Haynes. Rubicon, Ensemble Theatre Company, (Actors Co-op); Friends Like These (New York International MainStreet, and in many productions with Fringe Festival). He is a member of the Antaeus Theatre BRANDON RACHAL (Buddy). Los Angeles WENDELL C. CARMICHAEL (Costume Designer). Theatre classical theatre company Antaeus. TV: Company, and appeared in their productions of The Cripple theatre: Fences (Long Beach Playhouse), credits: , Our Town, The Wizard of Oz, WINK, Jane the Virgin, Adam Ruins Everything, of Inishmaan and Native Son. Readings/workshops include: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night Fool for Love, In the Heights, Happy Ending, American Saga— Scandal, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Mistresses, Chasing Life, Laguna Playhouse, Wallis Annenberg, and Pasadena Playhouse. (Downtown Repertory Theater Company), Gunshot Medley, Jews, Christians and Screwing Stalin, Vol. 1: Hart of Dixie, Weeds, Days of Our Lives. Film: Save the Date, TV: Westworld. For Dad. Othello (Inner City Shakespeare). A Post Racial America, Violet, Her Portmanteau, Native Son, Alex & Emma. Web: Kittens in a Cage, The Britishes. Awards: Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Texas A Walk in the Woods, , West Side Story, Romeo and LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award for at ICT; MILDRED MARIE LANGFORD (Bessie, Vera) is Shakespeare Festival). Film: Iago. Web: Juliet, Othello, Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief, The Ovation and LADCC Awards for solo-comedy Non-Vital excited to be back at it with Antaeus’ powerful Jesus Freaks. Training: BA theatre, USC. Crucible, , Br’er Cotton, Ball Yards, Waiting for the Organs. In December, Gigi performs Cabaret Noel. She is production of Nambi E. Kelley’s adaptation of IG: @brandonrachal_ Parade, The Good War. 2018 Stage Raw winner—Costume also a stage director and journalist. Native Son as part of Center Theatre Group’s Design, three-time LA Ovation Award nominee, 2017 Orange Block Party 2019! Other credits include: NAMBI E. KELLEY (Playwright). Award-winning playwright and County’s Best Costume Designs, 2015 NAACP Theatre Award JON CHAFFIN (Bigger) is a native of Stone Rogue Machine Theatre and Collaborative actress, Nambi has performed on stages across the world winner. Member of Local 768, the Theatrical Union/ Mountain, Georgia. He is making his Center Artists Bloc’s co-production of Dionna and on television. She is currently serving in residence at New LA Opera. Theatre Group debut with the revival of the Michelle Daniel’s American Saga–Gunshot Victory Theater and as a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow. critically acclaimed production Native Son. Medley: Part 1. Mildred can also now be seen in the new series She has penned plays for Steppenwolf, , ANDREW SCHMEDAKE (Lighting Designer) is a Los Angeles- Theatre: Two Trains Running (Matrix Commune on YouTube at Commune the Series, which she Lincoln Center (Director's Fest), and internationally. Former based lighting designer for theatre, dance, and live events. Theatre), American Saga–Gunshot Medley: co-executive produced and co-wrote with an uber-talented playwright in residence at the National Black Theatre and Recent credits include designs for Gabriel Iglesias, Steel Part 1 (Rogue Machine), Native Son group of artists. @communetheseries Goodman Theatre. Awards include: The Prince Prize, Writers Magnolias, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The 39 Steps, (Antaeus Theatre), King Hedley II (Matrix Alliance Grant (Dramatists Guild Foundation), the Francesca 33 Variations (Actors Co-op—2017 Ovation Award for Lighting Theatre), The Dumb Waiter (PushPush Theater). Television/ NED MOCHEL (Britten) is so pleased to be a Primus Prize (finalist), and The Kevin Spacey Foundation Design), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2018 Ovation film: Lucifer, Snowfall, Hawaii Five-O, The Haves and Have part of this incredible cast. Ned appeared Award (finalist). Currently working on an adaptation of Toni Award for Lighting Design), Dogfight (After Hours Theatre Nots, Stitchers, Army Wives, Blindspotting, If Not Now, in Antaeus Theatre Company’s production Morrison’s Jazz. Native Son will premiere in NYC in July 2019. Company), Native Son (Antaeus Theatre Company—2018 When?, 96 Minutes. Jon received his BA from Fort Valley of . Ned also appeared in Nambi is working on several commissions, including television Ovation nominee), and The Art Couple (Sacred Fools). Andrew State University. He is also a member of Phi Beta Sigma Sam Hunter’s A Permanent Image at and film projects. nambikelley.com holds an MFA from the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon Fraternity, Inc. Rogue Machine. Ned hails from Chicago, University and teaches as a guest lecturer in lighting design where he worked for The Goodman Theatre, ANDI CHAPMAN (Director). Associate Artistic Director of at UC Santa Barbara. schmedakelightingdesign.com ELLIS GREER (Mary) is honored to follow The Court Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, Remains, Ebony Repertory Theatre. Her directing credits include the lead of the artists at Antaeus and and many others. He wishes to thank his pack at home for all Ebony Repertory Theatre’s The Gospel at Colonus, which JEFF GARDNER (Sound Designer) is thrilled to be back at Block Center Theatre Group. At Antaeus Theatre the love and support. garnered 14 Ovation nominations, including Best Play and Party after previously designing Dry Land with Echo Theater Company: Three Days in the Country, Native Best Play Direction, and won the NAACP Theatre Award for Company. Jeff’s designs include Cry It Out, also with Echo Son, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Other Best Production (2016). Others include Mockingbird, As It Is Theater Company; Picnic for Antaeus Theatre Company; The stages: The Goodbye Girl, Jefferson’s Garden In Heaven, The Ninth Wave, Actors Co-op Steel Magnolias Cake for the Geffen Playhouse; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (L.A. Theatre Works); The Matchmaker (for which she garnered a Best Director award), and a host Are Dead for A Noise Within; Trevor for Circle X Theatre (Actors Co-op); The Many Women of Troy of others. Assistant director for Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Company; Les Blancs for Rogue Machine Theatre; The (Pallas Theatre Collective); The Diary of Anne Frank (Oklahoma (Mark Taper Forum). Film: the award-winning short films Recommendation for IAMA Theatre; Two Trains Running at Memorial Street, Elijah’s Song, and Why? A graduate of Yale the Matrix Theatre; and It’s a Wonderful Life for The Pasadena School of Drama. An alumna of The American Film Institute’s Playhouse. Jeff can also be seen performing live sound effects P12 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE for L.A. Theatre Works and is resident sound designer for ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR NATIVE SON Network, and is a proud member of the Association of Scenic Artists...... Orlando de la Paz, Jacquelyn Gutierrez the Westridge School in Pasadena. jeffthomasgardner.net Assistant Director...... Jessica E. Williams Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. In May 2013, Doug Prop Master...... Kate Reinlib Choreographer...... Indira Tyler received the Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Prop Artisans...... Eric Babb, Erin Walley ADAM R. MACIAS (Projection Designer) is very excited to Fight Choreographer...... Bo Foxworth Achievement in Presenter Management Award. Electricians...... Kristen Addix, Brooke Baldwin, Jenisse Castillo, be working with Center Theatre Group to bring the Native Head Carpenter...... Bo Foxworth Daniel del Busto, Corwin Evans, Chase Hinton, Lunchbox, Eric Mitchell, Kari Morales, Taylor Shaw Son group back together again! He is an Ovation-nominated Assistant Lighting Designer...... Meghan Hong LINDSAY ALLBAUGH (Associate Producer) is a member video designer and sound designer. Some of his recent Video Engineer...... Joey Guthman of Center Theatre Group’s artistic staff and has served in CREDITS credits include Rope (sound designer and composer— varying capacities for the past 14 years. Selected producing Props provided by the Center Theatre Group Prop Department. Actors Co-Op Theatre), Charlie and The Chocolate Factory CREDITS credits include—Mark Taper Forum: Archduke, Bent, Production photos by Craig Schwartz. (sound designer, composer, and video designer— Original Props Designer...... Jacquelyn Gutierrez What the Butler Saw, Steward of Christendom, Waiting FRONT-OF-HOUSE LEADS Performing Arts Center), Native Son (video designer— Original Dramaturg...... Dylan Southard for Godot; Kirk Douglas Theatre: Block Party, Big Night, Trevor Algatt, AJ Meijer, Tarah Pollock Antaeus Theatre Company), A Walk In The Woods (sound Original Arrangements by...... Dr. Joi Carr Good Grief, Vicuña, Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light and Mr. Addison Doby designer & composer—Actors Co-Op Theatre), and much Me Up, Endgame, Women Laughing Alone With Salad, FRONT-OF-HOUSE LEAD SWINGS more! Go to adamrmacias.com to see and listen to his Native Son is presented by special arrangement with Chavez Ravine, Race, different words for the same thing, Chase Anderson-Shaw, Bradford Barnes, Olivia Choate, Eduardo designs and music! SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. The Nether. Co-Artistic Director of the Elephant Theatre Fernandez-Baumann, Stephen Lydic, Adrienne Marquand Original costumes provided by Antaeus Theatre Company. 2004–2014. TAYLOR ANNE CULLEN (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled Additional costumes provided by the Center Theatre Group DISCUSSION LEADERS to make her debut at the Kirk Douglas Theatre with the Costume Shop. NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Manager) has worked Chase Anderson-Shaw, Megan DeHart, Amber Espinosa-Jones, incredible team of Native Son! Other PSM credits include: professionally supporting artists in of all shapes, Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Stephen Lydic, Adrienne Marquand, How We’re Different From Animals (Élan Ensemble), The ANTAEUS THEATRE COMPANY STAFF sizes, and locales including many seasons at Center Theatre Isabella Petrini

Little Foxes (Antaeus Theatre Company), Alcina (USC Board of Directors...... David Gindler, Chair, Group as General Manager and, previously, as Audience CONCIERGES Thornton School of Music), A Weekend with Pablo Picasso Development Director. She oversees mainstage productions Rhonda Aldrich, Jamie Anderson, Sonja Berggren, Payden Ackerman, Hanna Anderson, Nicole Braucher, Lily Brown, at the Taper and Douglas, as well as new play commissions (Casa 0101 Theatre), The Kentucky Cycle, Mockingbird, Stuart Berton, Charlie Bohlen, Bill Brochtrup, Bob Craft, Fallon Christian, Brandon Cutts, Eric Eberle, Abbey Fenbert, Love and Information, That Long Damn Dark (USC School Evie DiCiaccio, Dawn Didawick, Ruth Eliel, and developmental productions through Center Theatre Jill Galbraith, Angela Garcia, Tara Griffo, Faith Imafidon, Henry of Dramatic Arts). internship credits Karen Frederiksen, Harry Groener, Mary Lambert, Group’s New Play Development. Nausica has taught at Kelly, Joan Kubicek, Sarah Lindsley, Michael McClain, Rachael include: Tosca (LA Opera), Bull, Dutch Masters (Rogue Melinda Eades LeMoine, Kwana Martinez, USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, and advises and works McNamara, Sean McSweeney, Janice Motuapuaka, Nicole Naito, Machine Theatre), and Annapurna (The New Group). Taylor Claudette Nevins, Ana Rose O’Halloran, with local nonprofits including Hollywood Orchard. Brenda Phillips, Antonie Pope, Daniel Rashid, Michayla Van Treeck is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s School Ara Oshagan, Linda Park, Laura Seigle, of Dramatic Arts, BFA in stage management. Kitty Swink, Reba Thomas, Debra Thompson, GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the CONCESSIONS Jocelyn Towne, Peter Van Norden, Arlene Vidor, Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 Brandon Cutts, Megan DeHart, Abilene Gonzalez, Monica Greene, MAGGIE SWING (Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: Jack Walker, April Webster productions to its stage and winning countless awards for Mike Lanahan Linda Vista, Quack, Block Party 2018, Elliot, A Soldier’s Executive Director...... Ana Rose O'Halloran himself and the theatre—including the Tony Award for STAGE DOOR ATTENDANTS Fugue, Spamilton, Big Night, King of the Yees, Block Party theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Co-Artistic Directors...... Bill Brochtrup, Kitty Swink Trevor Algatt, Chase Anderson-Shaw, Cory Aycock, Abilene Award for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship. The 2017, Vicuña, Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up. Production Manager/...... Adam Meyer Gonzalez, Ian Ray Geffen Playhouse: Big Sky, Barcelona, Guards at the Taj, Executive Assistant...... Lamar Richardson Kentucky Cycle and (Part One) won the Discord, The Country House, American Buffalo. Boston Assistant Technical Director...... Cuyler Perry Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the Court: Collective Rage. European tour: The Apple Family Bookkeeper...... Amy Michner four plays nominated for the were ONLINE Follow us on @CTGLA Subscribe on YouTube Plays. Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labour’s Publicist...... Lucy Pollak from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989, Gordon Center Theatre Group #CTGLABlockParty CTGLA Like us on Center Theatre Group Follow us on Instagram @CTGLA Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Founding Artistic Directors...... Dakin Matthews, Lillian Groag took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the Hopey Changey Thing (), Slowgirl (Lincoln inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Center), Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production CENTER THEATRE GROUP are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Theatre Company). Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States. MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 14TH season as BLOCK PARTY CORE TEAM This theatre operates under an agreement between the League ANTAEUS THEATRE COMPANY is an actor-driven theatre Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 200 Line Producer, Special Artistic Projects...... Patricia Garza of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. company that explores and produces timely and timeless productions to the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Production Manager...... Chris Reardon Associate General Manager...... Katie Soff works, grounded in our passion for the classics. We Kirk Douglas Theatre stages, including the premieres of six Program Coordinator...... Ian-Julian Williams illuminate diverse human experiences through performance, The Directors are members of the Stage Directors and musicals that moved to Broadway—The Drowsy Chaperone, Choreographers Society, Inc., an independent national labor union. training, and outreach. We believe in the transformative Curtains, 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR BLOCK PARTY power of live theatre. Antaeus was founded in 1991 by Jackson, and Leap of Faith—and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama Block Party General Management...... Megan Alvord, Dakin Matthews and Lillian Groag, who felt strongly that finalistBengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Casey McDermott, Eric Sims Center Theatre Group is a member of the League of Resident Los Angeles actors could form an ensemble theatre Production Coordinator...... Brooke Baldwin Theatres (LORT), the American Arts Alliance, the Broadway company equal to any other in the world. Antaeus.org DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his Carpenters...... Michelle Black, Ryan Fischer, Bo Foxworth, League, Independent Producers’ Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, National Alliance for (NAMT) and the Theatre TH Connor Hayes, Curt Gavin, Melissa Hartman, 29 season at Center Theatre Group. He is an active member Communications Group (TCG). of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Ryan Howard, Joe Kidawski, Randy Pound P14 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P15 MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director

ARTISTIC SEAN MEYER ...... Head (Kirk Douglas Theatre) KARLA GALVEZ, JUSTINE PEREZ ...... Donor Services Associates NEEL KELLER ...... Associate Artistic Director CAMBRIA CHICHI ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MURRAY E. HELTZER, EARL KLASKY ...... Development Volunteers KELLEY KIRKPATRICK ...... Associate Artistic Director BEN GRAY ...... Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) DIANE RODRIGUEZ ...... Associate Artistic Director CHAD SMITH ...... Associate Technical Director MARKETING LINDSAY ALLBAUGH...... Associate Producer LEE O’REILLY ...... Associate Technical Director DEBORAH WARREN ...... Director of Marketing PATRICIA GARZA ...... Line Producer, Special Artistic Projects SEAN KLOC ...... Shop Foreman GARRETT COLLINS ...... Marketing Strategy Director SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY ...... Casting Coordinator MERRIANNE NEDREBERG...... Prop Director KYLE HALL ...... Creative Director IAN-JULIAN WILLIAMS ...... Program Coordinator, Block Party KATE REINLIB ...... Associate Prop Manager ARIE LEVINE ...... Senior Marketing Manager, Ahmanson & TIFFANY SLAGLE ...... Literary Assistant CANDICE CAIN ...... Costume Director ...... Mark Taper Forum BRENT M. BRUIN ...... Costume Shop Manager KIYOMI EMI...... Marketing Manager, Promotions & Events MATTHEW BOURNE, DANAI GURIRA, EMYLI GUDMUNDSON ...... Marketing Manager, Kirk Douglas Theatre ANNA D. SHAPIRO ...... Associate Artists MADDIE KELLER ...... Costume Generalist WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER ...... Resident Assistant Costume Desginer CAROLINE THOMPSON/IMPACT 123 ...... Media Planning DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), LUIS ALFARO, JON ROBIN BAITZ, STEVE CUIFFO, LISA D’AMOUR, WILL ENO (FADIMAN), KAT PATTERSON...... Resident Assistant Costume Designer C JENNIFER HALEY, ALESHEA HARRIS, LARS JAN, NANCY KEYSTONE, LISA SWANTJE TUOHINO ...... Tailor DEANNA M CLURE ...... Art and Design Director KRON, KIMBER LEE, YOUNG JEAN LEE, MATTHEW LOPEZ, TREY LYFORD, IRENE T. KANESHIRO ...... Senior Design Manager RICHARD MONTOYA, JANINE NABERS (FADIMAN), QUI NGUYEN, LYNN OPERATIONS SANDI SILBERT ...... Senior Designer NOTTAGE, MARCO RAMIREZ, , ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH, GEOFF TARA NITZ ...... Senior Designer SOBELLE, MARIKE SPLINT, LUIS VALDEZ, , TRACEY SCOTT DAWN HOLISKI ...... Director of Operations and Facilities WILSON (FADIMAN), PETER WYLIE ...... Office Services Manager JAVIER VASQUEZ ...... Senior Designer-Digital Specialist

KAREN ZACARÍAS (FADIMAN) ...... Commissioned Artists ELIZABETH LEONARD ...... Senior Facilities Manager COMMUNICATIONS MAX OKEN ...... Facilities Manager LUIS ALFARO, AZIZA BARNES, DIANA BURBANO, JAMES SIMS ...... Director of Communications BRANDON DOBBINS...... Operations and Production Supervisor NOAH HAIDLE, ADITI BRENNAN KAPIL, BRIAN OTAÑO, JASON MARTIN ...... Head of Publicity RUBY RAE SPIEGEL ...... L.A. Writers’ Workshop Members JULIO A. CUELLAR...... Driver/Custodian KRISTI AVILA ...... Publicist BO FOXWORTH, JOE HALLAM...... Drivers KRISTINA WONG...... Sherwood Award Recipient, 2019 KAREN BACELLAR ...... Junior Publicist FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, AND HUMAN RESOURCES SARAH ROTHBARD ...... Associate Editorial Director EDUCATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS CHERYL SHEPHERD ...... Chief Financial Officer TYLER EMERSON ...... Digital Product Manager LESLIE K. JOHNSON ...... Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Impact SARAH STURDIVANT ...... Director of Finance and Technology RUTH GUERRA...... Communications Coordinator KATHRYN MACKENZIE ...... Director of Administration SUZANNE BROWN ...... Controller REZA VOJDANI ...... Communications Coordinator TYRONE DAVIS ...... Audience Engagement Director DANNY LAMPSON OPSTAD ...... Accounting Manager HAL BANFIELD...... Multimedia Producer TRACI KWON...... Arts Education Initiatives Director NAKISA ASCHTIANI ...... Senior Staff Accountant TICKET SALES AND SERVICES JESUS REYES ...... Community Partnerships Director ALEGRIA SENA ...... Staff Accountant SHAWN ROBERTSON ...... Ticket Sales Director CAMILLE SCHENKKAN ...... Next Generation Initiatives Director XOCHITL RAMIREZ ...... Accounts Payable Supervisor SKYPP CABANAS ...... Senior Manager, Ticket Operations JAQUELYN JOHNSON ...... Audience Engagement Manager KERRY LARICK ...... Accounting Assistant NICOLE MEDINA ...... Ticket Operations Coordinator SONDRA MAYER ...... Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JESSICA HERNANDEZ ...... Payroll Manager ADAM NICOLAI ...... Arts Education Program Manager JUAN MARTINEZ ...... Payroll Specialist MICHAEL ZOLDESSY ...... Senior Manager, Account Sales FELIPE M. SANCHEZ ...... Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals Program Manager SANDY CZUBIAK...... Audience and Subscriber TOM MEGALE ...... Director of Business Applications ...... Services Director ANNE MARIE ACOSTA ...... Administrative Assistant ASH LEWIS...... Systems Administrator JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, DEBRA PIVER ...... Resident Teaching Artist JANELLE TORRES ...... Senior Tessitura & Web Administrator RICHARD RAGSDALE ...... Audience Services Supervisors ALEKSEJ AARSAETHER ...... Temporary Internship Program Coordinator CHIMA OMEAKU...... Help Desk Support ALICE CHEN...... Audience Services Asst. Supervisor MICHAELA BULKLEY ...... Temporary Career Fair Program Coordinator MICHAEL ESPINOZA, GARY HOLLAND...... Audience Services Sales Associates COURTNEY CLARK ...... Temporary Program Assistant JODY HORWITZ ...... Director of Human Resources SAM AARON, JESSICA ABROMAVICH, JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, PJ. PHILLIPS ...... Senior Human Resources Generalist KIMBERLY ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION MELISSA MCCAFFREY...... Human Resources Generalist DAVID BETANCOURT, ALEJANDRA DE PAZ, KAITLYN GALVEZ, ANASTASHIA GARCIA, NAUSICA STERGIOU ...... General Manager MOSS ADAMS ...... Auditor ELIANA HERNANDEZ-FAUSTO, CHRISTINE PEDROZA, JEFFREY UPAH ...... General Manager MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF ...... Legal Counsel EILEEN PEREZ, CHRISTIAN UNGER ...... Audience Services Representatives KATIE SOFF ...... Associate General Manager GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER ...... Legal Counsel DANUTA SIEMAK ...... Subscriber Services Supervisor ERIC SIMS ...... Associate General Manager CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ ...... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor CASEY MCDERMOTT ...... Associate General Manager INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT IRENE CHUANG, LIGIA PISTE, PETER STALOCH ...... Subscriber Services MEGAN ALVORD ...... Company Manager YVONNE CARLSON BELL...... Director of Institutional Advancement ...... Senior Representatives ALANA BEIDELMAN ...... Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director TYLER ENNIS ...... Deputy Director of Institutional Advancement SARAH K. GONTA ...... Box Office Treasurer JASON CABRAL...... Director of Advancement Operations & Analytics ANGELICA CARBAJAL, KISHISA ROSS ...... Assistant Treasurers PRODUCTION LOUIE ANCHONDO...... Director of Events & Corporate Relations KEANA JACKSON, MICHAEL KEMPISTY, KEVIN LAUVER, CRIS SPACCA, MICHAEL VALLE ...... Box Office Staff JOE HAMLIN ...... Director of Production ASHLEY TIERNEY ...... Director of the Annual Fund KRYSTIN MATSUMOTO ...... Production Manager TERRA GOULDEN ...... Senior Major Gifts Officer KERRY KORF ...... Priority Services Director CHRISTOPHER REARDON ...... Production Manager KATY HILTON ...... Associate Director of Foundation & Government Support CANDICE WALTERS ...... Priority Services Sales Manager KATIE CHEN ...... Assistant Production Manager LAURA HITE ...... Associate Director of Gift Operations & Reporting PAUL CUEN, KRISTEN SCHRASS ...... Priority Services Managers ERIN TIFFANY ...... Assistant Production Manager MANDI OR ...... Associate Director of Special Events SOFIJA DUTCHER ...... Priority Services Assistant Supervisor ...... ERICA LARSON ...... Production Coordinator RYAN WAGNER ...... Associate Director of Donor Data & ...... Communication Strategy BEALENE AHERN, REILLY ALLEN, CLAY BUNKER, SHAWN ANDERSON ...... Head Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) RITA CANNON, MAGGIE DODD, NATALIE DRESSEL, SCOTT LUCAS...... Head Properties (Ahmanson Theatre) VANESSA WHEELER ...... Associate Director of Prospect Research MARC “BYRON” DROTMAN, FRANK ENSENBERGER, JAMES WRIGHT ...... Head Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) MOLLY COTTEN ...... Major Gifts Officer LOU GEORGE, BRAD GRIFFITH, CONSTANCE HARCAR, CHRISTY LAMB ...... Corporate Relations Officer SHEP KOSTER, JULIANNA OJEDA, IAN PRICE, ROBERT SMITH ...... Head Sound (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL SMITH, BRITTANY VILLARS, SHANE ANDERSON ...... Head Flyrail (Ahmanson Theatre) DENEEN O’NEILL...... Board Liaison and Administrator DIANE WARD ...... Priority Services Representatives GARY MARTHALER ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) KIM OKAMURA ...... Grants Manager SARAH RIDDLE...... Annual Fund Manager SABRINA CAMPOS, GENESIS CHICAS, PAUL DAVIS, MARY WARDE ...... Hair and Make-up Supervisor NICOLE ESPINOZA, ZAIRA HERNANDEZ, LINDSAY A. JENKINS, ...... (Ahmanson Theatre) ERIN SCHLABACH ...... Donor Stewardship & Recognition Strategist ERICA KIM, CESIA REYES, GRACELYN SWEENEY...... Interns CHRISTINE L. COX ...... House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO ...... Annual Fund Officer EMMET KAISER ...... Head Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) DONALD JOLLY ...... Advancement Communications Specialist MARY ROMERO ...... Head Properties (Mark Taper Forum) EDUARDO MOLLINEDO-PIÑÓN ...... Advancement Database Analyst AARON STAUBACH ...... Head Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) MIKE RATTERMAN...... Donor Advisor Supervisor BONES MALONE ...... Head Sound (Mark Taper Forum) ERIC SEPPALA ...... Executive Assistant to the Director DENNIS SEETOO ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) ...... of Institutional Advancement RICK GEYER ...... Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) MATTHEW SUTPHIN ...... Special Events Coordinator LINDA WALKER ...... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) OLIVIA BERUMEN ...... Advancement Operations Associate ADAM PHALEN ...... Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SOHINI RISAM ...... Institutional Advancement Assistant AL BERMAN, VARTAN MERJANIAN, BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ, NICOLE SCIPIONE, PAUL VITAGLIANO ...... Donor Advisors

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