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2008-09 Mainstage Season By Beth Henley April 23-26, 2009 Patricia Corbett Theater SEASON SPONSOR Interested in exploring job opportunities with Macy’s or one of its department store or support divisions? Check it out on www.retailology.com today! University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Division of Opera, Musical Theater, Drama and Arts Administration presents Crimes of the Heart By Beth Henley Set Designer Costume Designer Brian Ruggaber Heather Kitchen´ Lighting Designer Wig & Make-Up Designer Isabella F. Byrd´ Raymond J. Torres´ Sound Designer Assistant Director David Hunter´ Stacy N. Taylor´ Dialect Coach Stage Manager Rocco Dal Vera Sandra Zamora´ Director R. Terrell Finney, Jr. ´ CCM Student Patricia Corbett Theater April 23-26, 2009 Mainstage Season Sponsor Duke Energy Mainstage Season Design Sponsor Macy’s Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. CCM is an accredited institution of the National Association of Schools of Music and the National Association of Schools of Theatre and a member of the University/Resident Theatre Association. The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. Director’s Note _rimes of the Heart was the first production I directed in Cincinnati. The year was 1985, the venue was the Showboat Majestic, and my casting pool consisted, primarily, of students Cat CCM. In the intervening years, some of those cast members have become Tony Award-winning artists (which I attribute directly to their experiences with me on the venerable Showboat Majestic!), while I have continued to teach, direct and enjoy the rich artistic possibilities present here at CCM. Preparing this production has, of course, caused me to think about my earlier effort, and I must offer some apologies to those long-ago cast members, for I fear we merely scratched the surface of Beth Henley’s wonderful play. While we captured, I think, the quirky eccentricities of the Magrath sisters, in retrospect, and especially in light of the superb work done by the current company, I believe the play lives at a much deeper, richer emotional level and has a more complicated and compelling story to tell than I first imagined. It is a work filled with humor, yes, but also with sadness and hope, and it has been a joy to revisit it with these talented student and faculty artists. In August 1969, Hurricane Camille devastated lives and land along the Gulf Coast. Five years later, the Magrath family is still feeling its effects… - R. Terrell Finney, Jr. Acknowledgments CCM thanks the following contributors for their generosity and support of CCM Drama: Ricola 4 The Company (in order of appearance) Lenny AMY BerrYman Chick AbbY Butcher Doc Porter Stephen Shore Meg MIKAYLA StanLEY Babe Dione KuraoKA Hardin Barnett Lloyd MichaeL Carr Scene The action takes place in the kitchen of the Magrath home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Time 1974 The performance will last approximately 2 hours and 7 minutes and will include one 15-minute intermission between Acts One and Two. This production will include the smoking of non-tobacco herbal cigarettes. 5 Cast Profiles Amy Berryman Lenny Junior from Seattle, Washington At CCM: Anne in Side Effects, Mrs. Gabor in Spring Awakening, Nemasani in Anon(ymous), Niece in The Good Person of Setzuan. Elsewhere: Mary Jane in Big River with the Taproot Theatre (Seattle, Wash.); Anne Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor with the Wooden O Theatre (Mercer Island, Wash.). Abby Butcher Chick Sophomore from Houston, Texas At CCM: Huntress in Barren, Queen Fairy in Quest for the Forbidden Chest. Elsewhere: Naomi in Naomi in the Living Room with the Denny Theatre Company (Houston, Texas). Michael Carr Barnett Lloyd Sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio At CCM: Shane in Side Effects, Man in On the Verge, or The Georgraphy of Yearning, Ensemble in La Bohème. Dione Kuraoka Hardin Babe Junior from Burleson, Texas At CCM: Thea in Spring Awakening, Belen in Anon(ymous), Coochie Snorcher in Vagina Monologues, Stage Manager for Recent Tragic Events. Elsewhere: Ensemble in Body Language at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Stephen Shore Doc Porter Sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio At CCM: Prince Phillip in Quest for the Forbidden Chest, Son in American Century. Mikayla Stanley Meg Sophomore from Tampa, Florida At CCM: Bar Moll 1 in Miss Lonelyhearts. 6 COMING IN APRIL! Dine Out Often? Your $$100 dinner is now only a $$60 dinner thanksthanks toto thethe Best of Cincinnati® Card! YOU SAVE 40% EVERY TIME YOU DINE OUT! Fully rechargeable and valid at the following locations: York Street Café | Allure | Dee Felice Cafe | NUVO | Washington Platform Café Martin at Garfield Suites | Indigo | + many more coming soon! Check Out bestofcincinnaticard.com April 1st! 7 Staff Profiles R. Terrell Finney, Jr. Director and Producer R. Terrell Finney, Jr. has directed CCM’s Rashomon, Charley’s Aunt, Floyd Collins, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Diviners, Myths and Hymns, As You Like It, Baby, Lend Me A Tenor, Chekhov in Yalta, Blithe Spirit and the world premiere of Clever Dick for CCM/Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, among others. He is a former artistic director of the Showboat Majestic, where selected productions included Crimes of the Heart and They’re Playing Our Song. He also directed The Importance of Being Earnest for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival. Finney’s acting credits include Nurse Nanny Fanny in ETC’s Snow White, Hysterium in the “Hot Summer Nights” production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Argon in CCM’s The Imaginary Invalid. He has also served as narrator for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. A graduate of the MFA directing program at Boston University, he spent the summers of 1992 and 1995 in training programs with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. A past president of the Ohio Theatre Alliance, Finney is currently the head of the Division of Opera, Musical Theater, Drama and Arts Administration at CCM and served as producer of CCM’s acclaimed “Hot Summer Nights” from 1998 to 2002. A member of Actors’ Equity Association, he chairs the Commission on Accreditation of the National Association of Schools of Theatre and frequently serves as a consultant to theater programs across the United States. Brian Ruggaber Set Designer Assistant professor of scenic design Brian Ruggaber was formerly an assistant professor (1999–2004) and associate professor (2005–06) at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte. He is a member of United Scenic Artists, United States Institute of Theatre Technology and Metrolina Theatre Association. His scenic design for UNC–Charlotte’s Crimes of the Heart was recognized by the Metrolina Theatre Association as Outstanding Set Design by an Academic Institution for 2004–05. His scenic designs for Wiley and the Hairy Man (Children’s Theatre Charlotte) and Blithe Spirit (Theatre Charlotte) received nominations for Outstanding Set Design 2002–03 by the Metrolina Theatre Association. 17 of his shows have been nominated by Creative Loafing Charlotte for Best Scenic Design. He has designed sets for CCM’s productions of Spring Awakening, La Bohème, Wonderful Town and The Full Monty. Heather Kitchen Costume Designer A senior from Berea, Ohio, Heather Kitchen was costume designer for CCM’s production of Twelfth Night, and assistant costume designer for Werther. She is a costume intern at the Cincinnati Opera. 8 Staff Profiles Isabella F. Byrd Lighting Designer A senior from Houston, Texas, Isabella F. Byrd’s lighting design credits at CCM include Swan Lake, Invisible Cities, Twelfth Night, The Magic Flute and several dance productions. She has assisted on such productions as The Pajama Game, Werther, Little Women and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Raymond J. Torres Wig & Make-Up Designer A second-year graduate student from Round Top, New York, Raymond J. Torres was wig and make-up designer for CCM’s production of the Urinetown, and wig assistant for The Barber of Seville, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Rappaccini’s Daughter, Little Women and Wonderful Town. He was wig master for Reckless and wardrobe superviser/wig assistant for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Death of a Salesman with the Chautauqua Theatre Company (N.Y.), wig master for A Flea in Her Ear with the Auburn State Theatre (Ala.) and wig and make-up assistant for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (Montgomery, Ala.). Rocco Dal Vera Dialect Coach Rocco Dal Vera is a professor of drama at CCM. His book Voice: Onstage and Off, co-authored with Robert Barton, is in use by a number of college and university theater programs. His newest book is Acting in Musical Theatre: A Comprehensive Course, co-authored with Joe Deer. Together they have a regular monthly article in Dramatics Magazine called “Acting in Musical Theatre.” He lectures internationally on vocal violence and the effects of emotion on the voice and is one of a handful of certified instructors in the Alba Emoting technique. Dal Vera is also the founding editor of the journal Voice and Speech Review for the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and has edited the first three books in that series: Standard Speech and other contemporary issues in professional voice and speech training, The Voice in Violence…, and Film, Broadcast and e-Media Coaching… The former head of the BFA Professional Actor and Musical Theatre Training Programs for Wright State University, he has also taught at the National Theatre Conservatory, Willamette University, United States International University and is the former chair of the Voice and Speech department at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. For the last ten seasons he has been the resident vocal coach and associate artist for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and the Tony Award-winning Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and works as a voice and speech coach at numerous theaters around the US including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Long Beach Civic Light Opera, and the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

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