Theatre UAB 2012-2013 Season The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre PROOF Frank and Joan Dawson, by David Auburn Directed by Karla Koskinen Michael J. and Mary Anne Freeman The Sirote Theatre and October 3 - 6 at 7:30pm W.B. Philips, Jr. October 7 at 2:00pm
DON'T TRIFLE WITH LOVE by Alfred de Musset. Translation by Nagle Jackson Directed by Visiting Professor Frank Bradley from The American University in Cairo The Odess Theatre November 7 - 10, 14 -17 at 7:30pm November 18 at 2:00pm CHARLEY'S AUNT by Brandon Thomas Directed by Dennis McLemon The Sirote Theatre February 20 - 23 at 7:30pm February 24 at 2:00pm
THEATRE UAB TENTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF TEN MINUTE PLAYS Produced by Lee Shackleford The Odess Theatre March 11 - 15 at 7:30pm March 16 at 2:00pm
BAT BOY, THE MUSICAL Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming Music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe Director TBA The Sirote Theatre April 17 - 20 at 7:30pm April 21 at 2:00pm
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The Odess Theatre in the Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center OVATIONUAB Staff for this Production (Sponsored by Theatre Advisory Committee) Assistant Stage Managers ...... Angela Carstensen, Taylor Richardson Opening ni ght s at Theatr UAB are OVATION nights. OVATION UAB features Assistant Costume Design ...... Sharon Morgan refreshm ent and conv ersation with the director and designers before the show, as well as a po st-performan ce party with the cast and crew . Assistant Scenic Design ...... Allie Phifer Fight Choreography ...... utth at s n tall. VATION 's mi ion i s to upp 1tanl ' P n rourstudents ...... Ron Hubbard workin g backsta ge a nd performin g in Theatr e UAB produc tion . Membership dues, Fight Captain ...... Xandria Lawrence ranging from $20 - $ 1500+ help off-set th tuition co ts required by each student to participate in the production s. Scenery/Lighting Construction ...... 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Kyle Hulcher, Sarah Guthrie ~ Costume/Craft Construction ...... Angela Carstensen, Chih Ting Chen, Founding Members Rebecca Harper, John M. Holbrooks, Kyle Hulcher, Russell Drummond , Col. Daniel D. Hall , The Kennedy Center Emily Hyatt, Patty McDonald , Carol Ode ss, Chandler S . THE JOHN KENNEDYF. CENTERTHE FOR PERFORMING ARTS Xandria DeBold, Cassie J. Mays, Smith, Jane Paris Smith , BBS Martha Moore Taylor Richardson, Callie G. Smothers, Terrance Campbell, Sykes Fund The KennedyCenter American College Theater Festival-45, part orthe Rubenstein Arts Access Program, Linda A. Egbuna, Sarah Guthrie*, Dina E. Lawson, rundcdis generously by Davidand AliceRubenstein. 2012-2013 Members Victoria J. Morales, Gwendolyn G. Pate, Lauren A. Seale, Doug B aulos, Pet er and Miriam Bellis , Atom Addilionalsupp ort is provided by the Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation, Kimberly Tompkins, Kara Quinn Ward Tobin Bennett , Louise Cecil, Mel Christian , Catie The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and WilmaE. Bern stein, and the National Committee rorth e Performing Arts. Cole , Glen Conn , Melanie A . Crane , Mr. and Dressers ...... Sarah Mrs. Frank Dawson, Catherine Dani elou, Thisproduction is enlered in the Kennedy Center Pullen, Victoria Morales Penny Docktor, Linda DeRocher, Mr . and AmericanCollege Theater Feslival(KCACTF). The aimsof Properties Construction ...... Adriane Johnson, James Lopez Mrs. Ben Erdreich , Jim Earley , Susan and this national theater education programare toidentify and promote qualityincollege-level theater production. To this Light Board Operator ...... Louis Bustamante Morgan Eiland, Margaret and Kelley Farley, end, each production entered is eligible for a response by a Michael J . and Mary Anne Freeman , Mr. and regionalKCACTF representative, and selected students and Sound Board Operator...... Kat Burcham Mrs. Emanuel Goldstein, Dr. and Mrs . facultyare invited to participateKCACTF in programs Cover/Poster Design ...... Cliff Simon Robert Glaze , Lanny and D arlene Gray , Dr. involving scholarships,internship s, grants and awards for actors, directors, dramaturgs, playwrights, designers, stage and Mrs . Ward Haarbauer, Mr. and Mrs . managers and criticsboth at theregional and national levels. Frank Harper, Marci Turn er-Holcomb e, Productions enteredon the Participatinglevel are Patricia Ann and Don Lehman, Mr. and Mrs. eligiblefor invitation theto KCACTF regional festival and Norman McClur e, Steve N elson, Carol mayalso be con sideredfor national awards recogni zing outslanding achievement in production,direclion design,and Visit our website! Odess, Mary Pate, Herb Patterson, W . B. performance. Philips, Jr., Dr. Eben Rosenthal and Dr. Mary Lastyear morethan 1,300 productionswere entered http://www.uab.edu/theatre/ Hawn , Shan Sheikh , Dorinda and John A. in the KCACTF involving more than 200,000 students Smith, Olivia Standridge, John E. Van Sant, nationwide. By entering this production, our theater department is sharingin the KCACTF goals to recognize, Joyce Whitten, Will York reward,and celebrate the exemplary work producedin college Created and moderated by Lee Shackleford and university theaters across the nation. The University of Alabama at Birmingham CAST Department of Theatre Frank and Joan Dawson, The Baron ...... Jack Cannon* Michael J. and Mary Anne Freeman and Perdican ...... Calvin Nielsen W.B. Philips, Jr. Present Master Bazius ...... Byron King Don't TrifleWith Love Master Bridaine ...... Garan Tinsley Camille ...... Rhonda Erbrick
By Alfred de Musset Dame Pluche ...... Rebecca Harper Translation by Nagle Jackson Produced by Special Arrangement with Nagle Jackson Rosette ...... Bliss Bailey
Stage Manager Chorus ...... Renita Lewis Adriane Johnson M us1crnn...... N ata 1·1e Kmsau. l* Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Charles Eddie Moncrief Kimberly Schnormeier Kevin Allinder* Villagers ...... Joseph Bodkin
Composer/Audio Design Properties Design Vocal Consultant Markeitra Gilliam Natalie Kinsaul* J. Marc Quattlebaum Marlene Johnson* Sarah Kane Movement Coach/Choreographer Leah Hudspeth Xandria Lawrence Directed by Scottye Moore Frank Bradley From the American University in Cairo Time and Setting: A country estate and its surroundings. Sponsored by the Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities
Opening Night: Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 7:30 p.m. *Member of Psi Beta Cast, Alpha Psi Omega National Theatre Honorary. Production Biographies Production Biographies, Continued
Kevin Allinder (Lighting Design) Rebecca Harper (Dame Pluche) Home Town: Comer, AL Home Town: Valley Head, AL Previous Production Work: (Lighting Design) On The Verge, Caucasian Chalk Previous Production Work: (Acting) Caucasian Chalk Circle, Theatre UAB Circle and We Three -Theatre UAB . Festival of Ten Minute Plays , Theatre UAB Cabaret Touring Company. Education: Corner High School Education: Transfer student from Northeast Alabama Community College
Bliss Bailey (Rosette) Leah Hudspeth, (Movement Coach/Choreographer) Home Town: Tuscaloosa, AL Home Town: Hoover, AL Previous Production Work: (Acting) Bar Mitzvah Boy, Little Shop of Horrors, Previous Production Work: (Acting) Caucasian Chalk Circle, Macbeth, Bookends Steel Magnolias - Paul W. Bryant High School. Touring Company -Theatre UAB. Education: Paul W. Bryant High School Education: Hoover High School.
Joseph Bodkin (Villager) Adriane Johnson (Stage Manager) Home Town: Huntsville, AL Hometown: Birmingham, AL Previous Production Work: (Acting) : Twelfth Night, The Dining Room , A Small Previous Production Work: Postcards to J. Bird, Venus , Theatre UAB Festival of Family Business, All in the Timing, and Rimers of Eldritch-Calhoun Theatre. The Ten Minute Plays, Theatre UAB Bookends and Cabaret Touring Companies. Night of January 16th and Don't Drink the Water - Grissom High School. Education: Thompson High School, Class of2010 Education: Transfer from Calhoun Community College and graduated from Grissom High School. Marlene Johnson (Vocal Consultant) Hometown: Allentown, PA Frank Bradley (Director, Visiting Professor) Previous Production Work: Vocal Coach: Proof, Macbeth. Vocal Director: On Hometown: Cairo, Egypt and Mt. Airy, NC The Verge. Previous Production Work: Associate Professor of Theatre, American University Education: MF A, Virginia Commonwealth University in Cairo. Chair, AUC Department of Performing and Visual Arts, 1999-2005; Artistic Director, AUC Theatre, 2008-12 . Over 50 plays directed in the US and Sarah Louise Kane (Villager) Egypt including Churchill's Mad Forest , Chekhov's Three Sisters, Ruh l's Dead Hometown - Philadelphia, PA Man 's Cell Phone, Srbljanovic's Family Stories , Brecht's A Man 's A Man, Previous Production Work: (Acting) Five Women Wearing The Same Dress and Sophocles' Antigone and Electra, Fornes' Abingdon Square, Moliere's School For will be in Alora King's Directing II musical piece. Wives, The Sisterhood, and Tartuffe, and Stoppard's Arcadia. Education - Transfer student from Marymount Manhattan College. Graduate of Education: PhD, Cornell University Spain Park High School, class of2010
Jack Cannon (The Baron) Byron King (Master Blazius) Hometown -- Atlanta, GA Home Town: Prattville, AL Previous Production Work: (Acting) King Lear, Three Sisters. (Directing) The Previous Production Work: (Acting) Macbeth, Othello Touring Company, Hamlet Caucasian Chalk Circle, Largo D esolato, The Food Chain - Theatre UAB . Touring Company, Caucasian Chalk Circle, We Three, Venus . Education: MF A in Directing/ Acting from the University of Ari zona. Education : Prattville High School
Angela Carstensen (Assistant Stage Manager) Natalie Kinsaul (Composer/Musician/Audio Design) Home Town: San Francisco , CA Home Town: Corner , AL Previous Production Work: Assistant to the scenic designer for Proof, Assistant Previous Production Work : (Acting) Venus, Lysistrata, The Three Sisters, The Stage Manager for Macbeth - Theatre UAB. Caucasian Chalk Circle, Postcards to J. Bird - Theatre UAB . Education: Hope Christian School Education: B.A. in Theatre, French Minor, UAB. Graduate of Comer High School
Rhonda Erbrick (Camille) Xandria Lawrence (Villager) Home Town: Corner, AL Hometown: Prattville, AL Previous Production Work: (Acting) On The Verge, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Previous Production Work: (Acting) Theatre UAB Festival of T en Minute Plays, Othello Touring Company - Theatre UAB, Taming of the Shrew - Troy Theatre. Othello Touring Company and Up to Date -UAB. All's Well That End's Well - Education: Comer High School, transfened from Troy University . Prattville High School. Education: Prattville High School, Class of2011 Markeitra Gilliam (Villager) Home Town: New Orleans, LA Renita Lewis (Chorus) Previous Production Work: (Acting) Macbeth. Home Town : Birmingham , AL Education: S. R. Butler High School, Huntsville Previous Production Work : (Acting) Macbeth. Education : Thomp son High School Production Biographies, Continued
Charles Eddie Moncrief, III (Scenic Design) Home Town: Atlanta, GA Previous Production Work: (Scenic Design) We Three, Macbeth - Theatre UAB. The Glass Menagerie - Birmingham Festival Theatre. Education - Spain Park High School, Class of 2009
Scottye Moore (Villager) Home Town: Oxford, AL Previous Production Work: Theatre UAB Festival of Ten Minute Plays, Up To Date - UAB, Wind In The Willows -Theatre of Gadsden. Education: Oxford High School
Calvin Nielsen (Perdican) Home Town: Budapest, HU and Vestavia, AL Previous Production Work: (Acting) Theatre UAB Festival of Ten Minute Plays. Pride and Prejudice, Senior One Acts -Vestavia High School. Education: Vestavia High School
Taylor Richardson (Assistant Stage Manager) Home Town: Corner, AL Previous Production Work: (Acting) Macbeth, Theatre UAB Cabaret Touring Company, Up To Date - UAB. The Krooshybells - Corner High School Education: Corner High School
Kimberly Schnormeier (Costume Design) Home Town: Gambier, OH Previous Production Work: (Costume Design) Caucasian Chalk Circle -Theatre UAB; Beauty and the Beast and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow -Birmingham Children's Theatre. Education: MFA in Scenography from Northwestern University. BFA in Graphic Design, Miami University
Garan Tinsley (Master Bridaine) Home Town: Collinsville AL Previous Production Work (Acting): Theatre UAB Cabaret Touring Company. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Second Samuel, Sylvia at Northeast Alabama Community College. Home Town: Collinsville Alabama Education: Northeast Alabama Community College Class of 2012. Collinsville High School Class of 2010
J. Marc Quattlebaum (Properties Design) Home Town: Lexington, SC Previous Production Work: (Properties Design) Macbeth, On The Verge, Postcards to J Bird, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Lysistrata, The Rocky Horror Show -Theatre UAB. Education: MFA Wayne State University 2009. BA Newberry College 2005 Theatre UAB Faculty and Administrative Staff Theatre UAB Production Staff
Production Manager/Technical Director ...... Ed Zuckerman* Kelly Allison, Professor...... Chair Jack Cannon*, Assistant Professor...... Acting/Intro to Theatre Assistant Technical Director...... Lee Adlaf Ward Haarbauer ...... Professor Emeritus Costume Studio Supervisor...... Sharon Morgan Cheryl Hall*, Assistant Professor ...... Intro to Theatre Ron Hubbard, Associate Professor ...... Movement Program Manager...... Mel Christian Karma Ibsen ...... Professor Emerita Stage Electrics Director...... Jeff McKee Marlene Johnson*, Associate Professor...... ActingNoice Karla Koskinen, Professor...... Acting/Directing Properties Master ...... J. Marc Quattlebaum Dennis McLemon, Associate Professor...... Head of Performance Scenic Studio Assistants ...... Angela Carstensen, Xandria Lawrence, Amy Page, Assistant Professor ...... Costume Studio Director Kimberly Schnormeier, Associate Professor/Associate Dean ...... Costume Design Charles Eddie Moncrief, Taylor Richardson Lee Shackleford*, Assistant Professor...... Playwriting Lighting Assistants ...... Kevin Allinder*, Louis Bustamante, Andrew Taylor Cliff Simon, Associate Professor ...... Head of Design & Production/Scene Design Costume Assistants ...... Sean Adams, Angela Carstensen, Markeitra Gilliam, Vessela Warner, Assistant Professor...... Theatre History Samantha Helms, Leah Huebner, Emily Hyatt Will York* ...... Professor Emeritus Ed Zuckerman*, Associate Professor...... Production Manager/Technical Director Properties Assistants ..... Alora King, Rachel Landress*, Kelsey McClure*, Allie Phifer Media Relations ...... Shannon Thomason Adjunct Faculty Lexie Dorsett...... Musical Theatre House Manager...... Jerry Sims Charlotte Lantz ...... Dance Associate House Manager ...... Ed Rosendahl Jeff McKee ...... Audio Sharon Morgan ...... Costume Technology Haveyou heard? Nora Whitten ...... Administrative Associate We havechanged our final show to the gleefullyoutlandish Theatre UAB is a proud member of. .. BatBoy: The Mus~al NAST BookbyKeythe Farley &Brian Flemming. The National Association Musicandlyrics byLaurence O'Keefe. of Schools of Theatre Sametime and place: TheSirote Theatre, April17-20 at7:30pm andApri l21 at 2pm . . 1, ~attYtornlSS, , ~ou'd~e