Mark Taper Forum 47th Season 2014

FIRST SEASON PRODUCTION Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang Directed by David Hyde Pierce Based on the Broadway Direction of Nicholas Martin. January 29 – March 16, 2014

SECOND SEASON PRODUCTION The Tallest Tree in the Forest Written and Performed by Daniel Beaty Directed by Moisés Kaufman World Premiere Production. April 12 – May 25, 2014

THIRD SEASON PRODUCTION David Suchet in The Last Confession by Roger Crane Directed by Jonathan Church United States Premiere Presented in the Ahmanson Theatre. June 7 – July 6, 2014 photo by JeRemy daniel. FOURTH SEASON PRODUCTION Buyer & Cellar SEASON BONUS OPTIONS Featuring Michael Urie ’s Written by Jonathan Tolins Directed by Stephen Brackett Sleeping Beauty West Coast Premiere. A Gothic Romance July 9 – August 17, 2014 Music composed by Tchaikovsky A New Adventures Production FIFTH SEASON PRODUCTION Co-Presented with Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center Marjorie Prime Presented in the Ahmanson Theatre. by Jordan Harrison November 21 – December 1, 2013 Directed by Les Waters World Premiere. Christopher Plummer in September 10 – October 19, 2014 A Word or Two SIXTH SEASON PRODUCTION Written and Arranged by Christopher Plummer Directed by Des McAnuff What the Butler Saw Presented in the Ahmanson Theatre. by Joe Orton January 19 – February 9, 2014 Directed by John Tillinger. November 12 – December 21, 2014

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P1 Inspiring Our Future

Special Thanks to Center Theatre Group’s Most Generous Annual Patrons

Center Theatre Group wishes to thank the following donors for their significant annual gifts and for their belief in the transformative power of theatre.

$1 Million and above Brindell Roberts Gottlieb

$250,000 and above Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kirk & Anne Douglas The James Irvine Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$150,000 and above Anonymous Bank of America The Blue Ribbon Jeanette Shammas† The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Wells Fargo Foundation

$100,000 and above Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Los Angeles County Arts Commission JPMorgan Chase & Co. Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation Deidra Norman Schumann Eva & Marc Stern

$75,000 and above Elisabeth Katte Harris Trust William Randolph Hearst Foundation The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler — Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation †Deceased

This list includes gifts made to Center Theatre Group between March 13, 2013, and May 13, 2014.

P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Michael Ritchie, aRtiStic diRectoR Edward L. Rada, manaGinG diRectoR

Paul Elliott and Duncan C. Weldon, Liza McLean, TRH Productions & Karl Sydow present David Suchet in The Chichester Festival Theatre Production of

David Bannerman Nigel Bennett Ezra Bix Pier Carthew Kevin Colson Philip Craig Donald Douglas Sheila Ferris David Ferry Mark Hammersley Peter Harding Marvin Ishmael Roy Lewis Bernard Lloyd Stuart Milligan Richard O’Callaghan John O’May Sam Parks George Spartels

WRitten by Roger Crane diRected by Jonathan Church deSiGned by William Dudley liGhtinG deSiGned by Peter Mumford

coStUmeS deSiGned by Fotini Dimou

mUSic compoSed by Dominic Muldowney

SoUnd deSiGned by Chris Cronin and Josh Liebert

pRodUction manaGement by Simon Marlow FoR Crosbie Marlow oRiGinal london caStinG by Joyce Nettles

In association with AEG Ogden, Perth Theatre Trust & Queensland Performing Arts Centre & William J. Kenney and 1407 Productions LLC

June 7 – July 6, 2014 ○ Ahmanson Theatre

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3 CAST (in order of appearance)

Cardinal ...... David Suchet Father Lorenzi ...... Sam Parks The Confessor ...... Philip Craig Monsignor Magee ...... David Ferry Cardinal Albino Luciani...... Richard O’Callaghan Cardinal Jean Villot ...... Nigel Bennett Bishop Paul Marcinkus ...... Stuart Milligan Paul VI ...... Donald Douglas Cardinal ...... John O’May Cardinal ...... Bernard Lloyd Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio...... Kevin Colson Cardinal Leo Suenens ...... Peter Harding Cardinal ...... Roy Lewis Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider ...... George Spartels Sister Vincenza ...... Sheila Ferris Thomas...... Marvin Ishmael Dr. Buzzonetti/Priest ...... David Bannerman Guard/Priest...... Ezra Bix Guard/Priest...... Pier Carthew Priest...... Mark Hammersley

Other parts played by members of the company.

This production is part of a world tour that started in , and after Los Angeles will head to Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. An international cast has been assembled for this production from Canada, the United States of America, Australia and the United Kingdom.

The performance lasts approximately two hours and 30 minutes including an intermission.

This production of The Last Confession opened at the , Toronto, on April 19, 2014. The Last Confession was first performed on April 27, 2007, at the Chichester Festival Theatre. It subsequently toured the U.K. and was produced by Paul Elliott & Duncan C. Weldon with Theatre Royal Haymarket Productions in the West End of London. The Last Confession © Roger Crane 2007

Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd; www.alanbrodie.com

This production is dedicated to the memory of David Jones, the director of the premiere production.

The actors in The Last Confession are appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association.

Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, PDAs, beepers and watch alarms. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

Vatican PoliticsBy Roger Crane

photo by cylla von tiedemann

n 1962, Pope John XXIII convened the Second connections, had been hired by Paul to act as the Vatican Council. His objective was to open the Church’s financial consultant. By the last year of Paul’s windows of the Church to the world. The Council reign, Sindona was lodged in an American prison. His Ibegan an overhaul of the Church’s laws and adopted an replacement as consultant to the Vatican was an Italian approach of reconciliation and collaboration towards the financier called Roberto Calvi, a man with an equally other faiths of the world. murky financial past.

John died in 1963 before the Council’s work was Paul died in 1978. The Cardinals elected a compromise completed. His successor was Paul VI. In the 15 candidate — Albino Luciani, a Cardinal from Venice years during Paul’s reign, the reactionary element who chose the name . In the 33 days of the Church, primarily located within the Vatican’s of his reign, he turned out to be far more liberal than administrative body known as the Curia, sought to undo the reactionaries ever suspected. The night before all that had been accomplished by the Second Vatican he died, he had decided to remove the most senior Council and to restore the concept of an autocratic and of the reactionaries from power as well as Bishop aloof church that had existed prior to John XXIII. Marcinkus who headed the scandal-ridden Vatican Bank. Because he died the next day, his reforms were never Paul was elected by the liberal faction of the Church implemented. to implement the reforms of the Vatican Council. However, he turned out to be incapable of decisive The Vatican press release about the cause of his action and instead equivocated between the positions of death was proved to be, in large part, false. No official both sides. In fact, John XXIII had referred to Paul when investigation was ever conducted and no autopsy was he was a Cardinal as his ‘Hamlet Cardinal.’ performed. Questions were raised in the press as to whether Pope John Paul I had been murdered and a In the last year of Paul’s reign, the struggle intensified. battle developed among the Cardinals over the election Paul was nearly 80 years old and in poor health. The of the next Pope. reactionary forces within the Church began maneuvering in an effort to elect a conservative Pope who would do The play mirrors the confession of Cardinal Benelli, the away with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. man who had engineered the election of Pope John The liberals, on the other hand, were mostly outside Paul I in 1978. That confession recounts the events Rome and only loosely organized. that occurred before, during and immediately after the Pope’s 33-day reign, and Benelli’s ambition to become At the same time, the Church was in a state of Pope himself. economic crisis. The reforms of the Vatican Council had significantly increased the costs of administering the Church. Michele Sindona, a man with mafia Reproduced by permission of Chichester Festival Theatre.

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P5 Who’s Who

DAVID SUCHET Award, RTS Awards), Falcon and the in The Sea Change, Sporous/Mother of (Cardinal Benelli, Snowman, The Last Innocent Man Rome in Nero and the Golden House United Kingdom). (HBO — Best Actor, Ace Awards), Red (Traverse, Edinburgh) and Tommy David is an Monarch (Channel 4 — Best Actor Ryden in Play Donkey (Royal Lyceum, Associate Artist and Award, Marseilles Film Festival), A Edinburgh). Other roles include: Sloane Governor of the World Apart (Working Title — Best Actor in Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Royal Royal Shakespeare nomination, BAFTA), Great Expectations Lyceum, Edinburgh), Michael in Dancing Company. He is (BBC 2), Richard II (BBC 2), Hidden at Lughnasa, Franklin in Forty Years On best known around the world for his (Origin Pictures/BBC 1), Going Postal (both at Palace Theatre, Westcliffe), Eric portrayal of Agatha Christie’s Hercule (Sky), Diverted (TV film Shaftesbury in The Old Country (U.K. Tour), Wagner/ Poirot having starred in all 74 Poirot Films/Big Tree Productions) Best Actor Sloth in Doctor Faustus (Manchester TV films, which is the whole canon of Gemini Award, Flood (Power), Henry Royal Exchange) and Boswell in The Agatha Christie’s Poirot stories. Theatre VIII (Granada TV), George Carmen Office Suite (Chichester Theatre and credits include Long Day’s Journey Into QC (BBC), NCS: The Series (BBC), The Tour). Film credits include Peter the Night (Apollo Theatre) nominated for Way We Live Now (BBC) won Best Great: Booked and The Gospel of John. Olivier Award — Best Actor; All My Actor Olivier Awards, nomination Television includes Hamish in All at Sons (Apollo Theatre) nominated for Best Actor BAFTA Awards, Murder In No. 20, Luke in Hard to Get, Matthew in Olivier Award/won Best Actor Critics’ Mind — ‘Teacher’ (BBC), NCS: Manhunt Invitation to a Party, Chinese Detective, Circle; Complicit (); The Last (BBC), Victoria & Albert (BBC & A&E), Taggart, Roughnecks, The Treachery Confession (West End and Chichester RKO281 (HBO), Seesaw (LWT), Solomon Game, Off Peak and Between the Covers. Festival Theatre); Once in A Lifetime (Lux & TNT USA), Moses (Lux & TNT More than 600 radio productions with (Royal National Theatre); Man and Boy USA), Secret Agent (BBC), Separation lead roles in The Admirable Crichton, (West End and No. 1 Tour); The Play (BBC), Bingo (BBC), Once in a Lifetime The Piano, Different States, The Pope’s What I Wrote (West End); Amadeus (BBC), Cause Célèbre (Anglia), Ulysees Brother, Lost Fortnight, The Amazing (West End, London and Broadway) won (LWT), Playing Shakespeare (LWT), Blott Spiderman, One Night in Winter and Best Actor USA Award/nominated for on the Landscape (BBC — Best Actor, Maybe. Olivier and Evening Standard Awards, BAFTA), The Life of Freud (BBC — Best Tony nomination for Best Actor; Actor, RTS Awards), The Muse (BBC). NIGEL BENNETT Saturday, Sunday, Monday (Chichester David received an Emmy Award for (Cardinal Villot, Festival Theatre); George in Who’s Afraid his performance as Robert Maxwell Canada). Nigel was of Virginia Woolf? at Aldwych Theatre in Maxwell on British and American born and raised in (won Critics’ Circle Award, nominated television. Radio credits include The England, and moved for Best Actor Evening Standard and Kreutzer Sonata (Best Actor Award), to Canada nearly 30 Olivier Awards); What a Performance Ironhand, First Night Impressions, The years ago. He has (Plymouth Theatre Royal and Queens Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Debussy, appeared widely in Theatre); Oleanna (Royal Court and Gorky on Tolstoy/Gorky on Chekhov, film, television and on the stage in both Duke of York’s — Best Actor, Royal Wilkie Collins — Rich Pickings and Life of countries. His stage credits in England Variety Club), Best Actor nomination Chekhov. He has just finished include appearances at the Phoenix and Olivier Awards; Timon of Athens (Young recording the complete Bible — Haymarket Theatres in Leicester, The Vic — Best Actor, Evening Standard One Voice — One Bible. David has also Young Vic, Chester Playhouse, the Awards); Separation (Hampstead been featured in many documentaries. Bristol Old Vic, Manchester Library Theatre and Comedy Theatre — Olivier David was awarded the CBE in 2011. Theatre, Contact Theatre and nomination for Best Actor). David Wyndhams Theatre in the West End. In has also acted extensively in regional DAVID Canada, he has worked at The Neptune theatres. An Associate Artist of The BANNERMAN Theatre in Halifax, Ships Company Royal Shakespeare Company, he has (Dr. Buzzonetti/ Theatre, Stage West, The Citadel Theatre played Iago in Othello, Shylock in Priest, Understudy: in Edmonton, Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Merchant of Venice, Caliban in Cardinal Jean The Grand Theatre London, Theatre The Tempest, Bolingbroke in Richard Villot, Bishop Paul Kingston and Theatre Aquarius in II, Angelo in Measure for Measure Marcinkus, Cardinal Hamilton. Nigel’s latest work has been (all nominated for Olivier Best Actor Pericle Felici, United at the Stratford Festival where he has Awards). Film/television credits include Kingdom). Theatre includes West End: appeared in Peter Pan, King of Thieves, Effie, The Bank Job, Act of God, Foolproof, Werner Heisenburg in Copenhagen Richard III, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The In-Laws, Live From Baghdad, (Duchess & Alexander Von Humboldt Cymbeline, Measure For Measure, Mary Sabotage, Wing Commander, Foundation, Bamburg), Gunter Stuart and the world premiere of The A Perfect Murder, Sunday (winner of the Guillaume in Democracy (Wyndhams Thrill by Judith Thompson. On television Best Film at the Sundance Film Festival), and National Theatre), End of the he has been a series regular in Forever Deadly Voyage, Executive Decision, The Rainbow (Trafalgar Studios), Uncle Knight, Lexx, Psi Factor, Hotel Lucona Affair, When the Whales Came, Vanya and Memory of Water (both Metropolitan, The Border and Murdoch Gulag, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Song at Vaudeville). Regional: Created the Mysteries and has made numerous guest for Europe (Channel 4 — Best Actor roles of Phil in Rents (Traverse Theatre appearances in many, many other series. Edinburgh, Lyric Hammersmith), Alistair His film credits include The Skulls,

P6 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Murder at 1600, Narrow Margin, Legends PIER CARTHEW (UTC); Hope Machine (Talkin Pictures); of the Fall, Die Darkman Die, Strike, The (Guard, Understudy: Trapped in Space (Warner/Road Show); Corridor and The Crossing. He has been Monsignor Magee, Nightwatch; Star; Khartoum; Heartbeat nominated for a Gemini Award four Australia). Since (ITV); A Very British Sex Scandal times and won once, and has won the graduating from The (Channel 4); Doctors (BBC); Kings & ACTRA Maritimes Award for best actor Actors Ensemble Queens (Blakeway Productions); Dance twice. He is a published author and lives New York in 2001, to the Music of Time (Film Four); Police with his wife and daughter in Stratford. Pier has performed Rescue (BBC/ABC); and more. Website: blackhatstation.com. on stage extensively in the USA and Australia including Filumena PHILIP CRAIG (The EZRA BIX (Guard/ (Stanislavsky Theatre Studio, Washington Confessor, Canada). Priest, Understudy: DC), Waiting For Godot (The Actors Phil trained at The Cardinal Aloisio Ensemble, New York), The Zoo Story Drama Studio, Lorscheider, (Fourdours Theatre), Lucky and Oh The London, England Australia). Since Humanity (La Mama), Salome, Cageling before going on to graduating from and For a Better World (Griffin). For appear in theatres NIDA, Ezra has Shakespeare Alive (New York) he across North worked on the performed in A Midsummer Night’s America including Henry IV Part I and international stage with companies such Dream, Pericles, Measure For Measure II at the Stratford Festival, Journey’s as IMG International, Melbourne and Cymbeline. In 2013, Pier appeared in End at the National Arts Centre and Theatre Company and the London Story of O (The Rabble/MTC Neon), This Henry IV at the New York Shakespeare Repertory Theatre. He toured for many Is Beautiful (Public Studio/Malthouse Festival under the direction of Des years throughout Asia in the three- Helium), and his solo work Miracle Man McAnuff. He also appeared in Antigone hander The Complete Works of William (Sans Hotel), co-devised and directed by as Chorus and A Day in the Death Shakespeare — Abridged and toured Nicola Gunn. On television he has of Joe Egg as Brian, both of which Australia last year with Yes, Prime appeared in City Homicide, Rush, Tangle, earned him awards. Numerous film Minister and The Club. Other recent Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, Gallipoli appearances include Cinderella Man, theatre work includes Cromwell in A From Above, Mrs. Biggs and Paper Giants directed by Ron Howard and starring Man For All Seasons, MTC, Dr. Faustus 2 Magazine Wars. Russell Crowe, John Q with Denzel in Wittenberg, Red Stitch and Nelson Washington, Owning Mahowny with Algren in Simone de Beauvoir, Stork KEVIN COLSON Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Spider Theatre. Also: Romeo and Juliet, The (Cardinal Baggio, starring Ralph Fiennes and directed Taming of the Shrew, The Wind In The Australia). by David Cronenberg. Craig starred Willows, Australian Shakespeare Theatre credits as Tommy Gorman in The Rocket: The Company; The Heartbreak Kid, Monsters, include Summer Maurice Richard Story, Charles Binamé’s Pr!ck — The Musical, Athenaeum Days Dream bio-pic of great Canadian hockey legend Theatre; An Evening With Gary Lineker, (Finborough Maurice Richard, and was recently Theatre Royal Northampton; The Theatre); Feather featured in The Time Traveler’s Wife Virtuous Burglar, Oxford Playhouse; The Boy (Old Vic Theatre); The Beautiful playing Philip Abshire, father of Claire Secret House, Earthly Paradise, People (Finborough Theatre); Old Abshire (portrayed by Rachel McAdams). Malthouse Theatre; The Great Gatsby, In World (The Courtyard Theatre and He has just completed shooting season Angel Gear, Sunset Children, Performing Tour); Imagine This (Theatre Royal, 2 of Hemlock Grove for Netflix and has Arts Projects; Three Hotels, Thy Kingdom Plymouth); Acquaintances (Pleasance lent his voice to countless radio and Come, Stingray, Rooted, La Mama; Six Theatre); Hanging by a Thread (Almeida television commercial spots. Phil is Degrees of Separation, Hobson’s Choice, Theatre); (Victoria Theatre and very active in his community serving as Chapel Off Chapel; and Someone Who’ll No. 1 Tour); Maddie (Lyric, Shaftesbury Councillor, Town of Georgina. He co- Watch Over Me, 45 Downstairs. TV Avenue); Divorce Me Darling (Chichester founded The Georgina Military Museum credits include Offspring, Rush, Festival Theatre); Sleuth (Haymarket, with WW2 veteran Sam Doggart and Satisfaction, The Secret Life Of Us, Bush Basingstoke); Rossini’s Cinderella is co-owner of Liberation Tours, a Slam, Adam Hills, Murder Call, This Man (Vienna Festival/U.K. Tour/Royalty battlefield touring company. Phil is …This Woman, Bootleg, Blue Heelers, Theatre); (London, happily married for 25 years to Pauline Janus, Embassy, The Feds, The Flying Sydney, Broadway) Tony Award and they have four beautiful teenage Doctors, Kelly, All The Way, The Four nomination; Chess (Prince Edward children. Minute Mile, Always Afternoon, The Fast Theatre); A Tale of Two Cities (Palace Lane, Vietnam, Cyclone Tracey, Col’n Theatre); Queenie (Comedy Theatre); DONALD Carpenter and The Sullivans in Australia; (Palace Theatre); Carnival DOUGLAS (Pope Class Act, To Play The King and The Knock (Australian tour); Hamlet (Melbourne Paul VI, United in the U.K. Feature film credits include Theatre Company); Who’s Afraid of Kingdom). After Fever Pitch, Wilde, The Big Steal, Moonlite, Virginia Woolf (Melbourne Theatre graduating from Deeper Than Blue and The Real Thing. Company); and many more. Film/ Edinburgh College television credits include Hepizbah of Art, Donald won a scholarship to

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P7 RADA, and began his professional Choice Best Performance Award). He at the Webber Douglas Academy of career in 1960 with the RSC. His early was featured in Richard III and Titus Dramatic Art, and after almost 40 years, TV appearances include War and Peace, Andronicus and played Captain Ahab in his work includes in London: The Sense and Sensibility, Middlemarch and Moby Dick for the Stratford Festival. In Country Girl, Damn Yankees, Raisin In Poldark in which he played Capt. Toronto, David has been nominated The Sun, Wilberforce, 1936, The Seven McNeill. More recently, he has multiple times for DORA best actor Year Itch, Henry VI Pt III (Pentonville appeared in Poirot, Taggart, Kavanagh, awards, winning for his work as Edward Jail), The Romans In Britain and Othello Bomber, Diana: Her True Story, in Someone To Watch Over Me. He (National Theatre), and President Eastenders and The Armando Iannucci played The Professor in The Lesson; Ian Roosevelt In Annie (Victoria Palace and Show. His films include A Bridge Too Far, in the Canadian premiere of Sarah national tour). Other U.K. theatre Give My Regards To Broad Street, She’s Kane’s Blasted (for which he won the credits include Titus in Titus Andronicus, Been Away, Green Fingers, From Hell, inaugural Toronto Critics Best Actor Elyot in Private Lives, Atticus Finch in To Highlander III, and the two Bridget Award); Shannon in Night of the Iguana; Kill A Mockingbird, Ray Say in The Rise Jones films, playing Admiral Darcy, Iago in Othello; Mike Daisey in The And Fall Of Little Voice, Brighton Rock, Colin Firth’s father. London theatre Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs and The School For Scandal, Oleanna, Death includes Poor Bitos, Boys In The Band, Gordius Carbuncle in Eternal Hydra. He Of A Salesman, Gaslight, The Man Who Savages, Gotcha, Mr. Cinders, Absurd played Romeo in 2014 in The Last Days Had All The Luck, Broken Glass, Woman Person Singular, and in New York, of Romeo and Juliet, a rendition of the In Mind, Death And The Maiden, Death Medea. He and his partner have six classic which is set in a retirement Of A Salesman, The Crucible, The daughters between them, and at the home. He has worked extensively in Philadelphia Story, Breaking The Code, last count, five grandchildren. They live film and TV as well, including An Officer Henry V, As You Like It, The Merchant in France with two horses, one dog, two and a Murderer; Man of the Year (with Of Venice and the USA university tour cats and six chickens. Robin Williams); Dolly in the cult hit of Twelfth Night. Film and TV credits Boondock Saints and its sequel All include General Von Schlieben In SHEILA FERRIS Saints Day. David was a regular on the Spying On Hitler’s Army, Wilde, Claudia, (Sister Vincenza, CTV series Dan for Mayor and Across Beautiful People, Nikolai, Killing Time, United Kingdom). the River in Motor City. He has Young Soul Rebels, The Loss Of A Sheila trained at the appeared in Suits, Haven and The Personal Friend, Casualty, Murphy’s Law, Bristol Old Vic Republic of Doyle. New Tricks, King Of The Ghetto, Theatre School and Eastenders, Coronation Street, The Bill, has worked MARK Pie In The Sky, Emmerdale, Bergerac, extensively in HAMMERSLEY Peak Practice, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, repertory theatres around the U.K. (Priest, Understudy: Wycliffe, Holby City, Dream Team, Birds including Birmingham, Coventry, Father Lorenzi, Of A Feather, Open Space, Goodbye My Liverpool, Leeds and Colchester, in Thomas, United Love, The Fourth Floor, The Fallen Shakespeare, Ayckbourn, pantomines, Kingdom). Trained Curtain And Jack The Ripper In musicals and comedies. She did two at the Arts Wedekind’s Lulu. Frequent radio drama major U.K. tours with Trap for a Lonely Educational appearances include Donation, Black Man and Happy Birthday. European Schools London. Most recently, Mark Tuesday, The Influence, The Devil’s tours include Measure for Measure originated the role of Brian Epstein in Province, A Vital Flaw, Other People, (RSC), and West End credits include the world premiere of Backbeat, which Moving Along and Guys And Dolls - all Rookery Nook (Her Majesty’s Theatre) played in London’s West End, Toronto for BBC. and Shadowlands (Queen’s Theatre). and Los Angeles. Other theatre credits Television credits include House of Elliot, include Pygmalion (Garrick Theatre, MARVIN ISHMAEL Some Mother’s do Have ‘Em, Yes West End); Blood Brothers (West End, (Thomas, Minister, General Hospital, Graham’s National tour and United Arab Emirates Understudy: Gang, Willy and Poirot. premiere); The Shawshank Redemption Cardinal Bernardin (Wyndham’s Theatre, West End); The Gantin, Dr. DAVID FERRY Alchemist (Theatre in the Mill); The Buzzonetti, Canada). (Monsignor Magee, Dumb Waiter (Etcetera Theatre). Mark Marvin Ishmael is a Understudy: is also an accomplished vocalist and Dora Mavor Moore Cardinal Giovanni voice-over artist and can be regularly award-winning playwright, actor, Benelli, Canada). heard in the Alphanim cartoon series director and the founder of We Are One David has worked Zap Jr. High. Theatre Productions. Originally from extensively as an Trinidad, he graduated from Ryerson award-winning PETER HARDING Theatre School in Toronto in 1980 and actor on stage, television, radio and (Cardinal Suenens, also holds a master’s from York film in Canada and the U.S. Understudy: University 2011. As founder and artistic (performing on and off-Broadway) in a Cardinal Albino director of We Are One Theatre career that has spanned 40 years. Luciani, The Productions, he has written 16 plays, all Recent theatre credits include George Confessor, United produced in Canada and the USA. His in Of Mice And Men; Willy Loman in Kingdom). Peter plays have been nominated for three Death of a Salesman (Victoria Critics trained in London Dora Mavor Moore Awards with My

P8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Father My Hero winning one in 1996/97. Shakespeare (RSC), The National Arnold Weiss in Festival, Captain Most recently, Marvin was seen on Theatre (NT), The English Shakespeare Johnson in Sky Captain and the World of stage in Taming of the Shrew and Company (ESC), The West Yorkshire Tomorrow, Prime in Dead End, Frank Di Macbeth with Canadian Stage and Playhouse (WYP) and The Chichester Martini in 9/11 Twin Towers, Ron in Romeo and Juliet with Manitoba Theatre Festival Theatre. RSC credits include Prague Duet, Dale Kruse in Into Thin Air, Centre. He has played at Canadian Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Whitten in Spy Game, Art in But Stage, The National Art Centre, Prairie Troilus and Cressida, The Winter’s Tale, Beautiful. Stuart is also a frequent Theatre Exchange, The Centaur Theatre, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, A Doll’s contributor to BBC Radio. www. The Grand, Arts Club, Young Peoples’ House, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry IV stuartmilligan.com. Theatre and Factory Theatre. In 2004, (parts I and 2), The Lower Depths, The he was the only Canadian with a lead Merchant of Venice, London Assurance, A RICHARD role in the Broadway musical Bombay Midsummer Night’s Dream and the O’CALLAGHAN Dreams. On screen Marvin regularly musical Poppy. Other credits include (Cardinal Albino recurs on Degrassi: The Next Generation Coriolanus and The Winter’s Tale (ESC), Luciani, United and was a series regular on Testees on The Fawn and Le Cid (NT), Fiddler on Kingdom). Richard FX/Showcase. He can also be seen in the Roof and King Lear (WYP), Nicholas is pleased to be C’est Gars La (with international Nickleby and Pravda (Chichester returning to the comedian Sugar Sammy), King, Rookie Festival Theatre), The Last Confession cast of The Last Blue, The Border and Sanctuary. (Chichester Festival Theatre and Confession and the part of Cardinal Theatre Royal Haymarket) and Man and Luciani which he originally created. ROY LEWIS Superman (Ottawa Arts Centre). Theatre credits include Haunting Julia (Cardinal Bernardin Musicals include The Beggar’s Opera, (Hall & Childs); Our Brother David Gantin, Canada). Threepenny Opera, Bells are Ringing, (Watford Palace Theatre); King Lear Roy Lewis has Jorrocks, Time and 1776. Film and TV (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Story spent 12 seasons at credits include The Young Victoria, A of Vasco (The Orange Tree Theatre); The the Stratford Christmas Carol, Poirot, Lewis, Inspector Importance of Being Earnest, Romeo and Festival in Canada. Morse, The Signalman, Casualty, Trial & Juliet, Twelfth Night (the Open Air His credits include Retribution and Midsomer Murders. Theatre, Regents Park); Comedy of Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Norfolk in Errors, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare A Man For All Seasons, Cyclops in Derek STUART MILLIGAN Globe Theatre); 5/11, King Lear Walcott’s The Odyssey and the (Bishop Marcinkus, (Chichester Festival Theatre); Sitting Executioner in The Three Musketeers. United States of Pretty (Watford Palace Theatre); Other acting roles of note include America). Stuart Educating Rita (Liverpool Playhouse); Prospero in The Tempest, Howlin Wolf was born in Boston, Amadeus (Her Majesty’s Theatre, for the Blues Project, Martin Luther Massachusetts and Haymarket); Butley (Criterion Theatre/ King in Jeff Stetson’s The Meeting, raised in Denver, American Film Theatre); Three Months Baron Van Switen in Amadeus, Colorado. Gone (The Royal Court Theatre). Film/ Posthumus in Cymbeline, Lightbourne Television credits include Arthur O’Neill television credits include Galileo; Carry in Edward II and Mr. Visconti in Travels in The Assets (ABC Television), General on at your Convenience, Carry on Loving With My Aunt. He has worked Badger in Tank Commander (BBC (Carry On films); Red Dwarf; with many extensively in film, radio and television Scotland), Garfield in Land Girls (BBC), guest spots including Casualty, New and is a published author. His Adam Klaus in Jonathan Creek (BBC), Tricks, Midsomer Murders. collection of poetry, With You The President Richard Nixon in Doctor Who Moments Of My Life Are Fading, is (BBC), Webster in Lewis (ITV), Thomas JOHN O’MAY available through Blaurock Press. He is Paine in The Romantics, Mr. Hindsecker (Cardinal Felici, a founding member of the Obsidian in Midsomer Murders. Theatre credits Australia). John has Theatre Company. Roy lives in a small include Gyp DiCarlo in Jersey Boys worked in all areas house the size of a postage stamp, with (London West End), Joe Keller in All My of the an equally small garden in the backyard, Sons (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), Mr. entertainment somewhere in Southwestern Ontario, Robinson in The Graduate (London industry Canada. West End), Cord Elam in Oklahoma! encompassing (National Theatre), Ed in The Fishing music theatre, cabaret, drama, opera, BERNARD LLOYD Trip (Croydon Warehouse), Tommy concerts, comedy, radio, writing and (Cardinal Ottaviani, Boatright in The Normal Heart (Royal directing. His music theatre credits United Kingdom). Court/London West End), Walter/Victor include Godspell, The 20’s And All That Trained at The Royal in The Price (Library Theatre, Jazz, Seven Little Australians (which he Academy of Manchester), Richard in Owen Meany also directed), HMS Pinafore, Crazy For Dramatic Art (National Theatre), Lank in Crazy For You, The Merry Widow, A Little Night (RADA) and more You (London West End), Owen Musser Music (for which he won his first Green than 52 years in the in The Foreigner (London West End) Room Award for Leading Male profession, Bernard has appeared and The Last Confession (Chichester Performer), The Phantom of the Opera extensively on stage with such world Festival Theatre and Theatre Royal (in the roles of both M. Firmin and M. renowned companies as The Royal Haymarket). Film credits include Andre), Mamma Mia! and The Light In

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9 The Piazza (produced, directed and GEORGE Choice, God and Stephen Hawking, starred in this award-winning show’s SPARTELS Romeo and Juliet, The Circle and Master only Australian production). John (Cardinal Class. As Artistic Director of Chichester participated in the workshop of a new Lorscheider, Festival Theatre Jonathan has directed Australian work, Dreamsong, and then Understudy: Amadeus, The Resistible Rise of Arturo starred in the lead role of Georges in La Cardinal Alfredo Ui, Singin’ in the Rain, The Critic/The Cage aux Folles. He has also worked Ottaviani, Pope Real Inspector Hound (co-directed with extensively with the Melbourne and Paul VI, Australia). Sean Foley), The Grapes of Wrath, The Sydney theatre companies. For the George Spartels is well-known to Circle, Hobson’s Choice, Pravda, and Production Company, John has played Australian audiences of all ages. From co-directed with Philip Franks, The Life Major Bouvier/Norman Vincent Peale his long-term appearance on ABC’s and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. in Grey Gardens, Elijah Whitney in Play School to his role as Benito Alessi Recent West End transfers from Anything Goes, General Harrison on Neighbours, George’s contribution Chichester (as originating producer) Howell/Harry Trevor in Kiss Me, Kate to Australian film, television and include The Pajama Game directed and Nicky Arnstein in Funny Girl. His theatre spans more than 30 years. On by Richard Eyre (Shaftsbury Theatre), film and TV credits include A Heartbeat stage, George has appeared with the Kiss Me Kate directed by Trevor Nunn Away, City Homicide, The Games, major State Theatre companies and (Old Vic), Sweeney Todd directed by Carson’s Law, Between Wars and played many diverse roles. Theatrical Jonathan Kent (Adelphi Theatre), Love Starstruck. More recently, John played highlights include Godspell (original Story directed by Rachel Kavanagh the role of Captain Bracket in the Melbourne production), Hamlet (STC), (Duchess Theatre), ENRON directed by acclaimed Opera Australia production Chicago (STC), Signal Driver (QTC), Rupert Goold (Coward Theatre, BAM of South Pacific and has just completed Romeo & Juliet (State Theatre SA), The and Broadway), Macbeth directed by a six-month season with The Phantom Levine Comedy (MTC), Mike Leigh’s Rupert Goold (Gielgud Theatre and of the Opera, touring Bangkok, Greek Tragedy in Sydney, Edinburgh Broadway), King Lear directed by Angus Singapore and Shanghai. John has been and London, and most recently, Losing Jackson (Chichester and BAM). Other a proud member of Actor’s Equity since Louis at Ensemble and The Spook for productions directed include The Life September, 1972. Belvoir Street Theatre. George has also of Galileo, Promises and Lies, Elizabeth appeared in Stool Pigeon, a one-man Rex, Hobson’s Choice, Of Mice and SAM PARKS (Father show for the Sydney Festival. Television Men, Private Lives, Closer, Peter Pan, Lorenzi, appearances include All Saints, The David Hare Trilogy, The Norman Understudy: Homicide, Cop Shop, GP, All Saints, Conquests, The Crucible and The Witches Cardinal Leo Fallen Angels, Rafferty’s Rules, The Great (Birmingham Rep), A Busy Day (Bristol Suenens, Cardinal Bookie Robbery, The Sullivans and Sweet Old Vic), You Be Ted and I’ll Be Sylvia Sebastiano Baggio, and Sour. His film roles include Blame it (Hampstead Theatre), The Crucible United Kingdom). on Burumba, Seeing Red, Mad Max III — (Birmingham Old Rep), The Rover, Theatre includes Beyond Thunderdome, Out of it and Kick. The Banished Cavaliers, The Merchant Snow Gorilla (Rose Theatre Kingston), Most recently, George has appeared in of Venice, The Rehearsal, The Double Café Chaos (The Kosh U.K. Tour), Channel 7’s Packed to the Rafters. Inconstancy, Disappearances, Racing Johnny Come Lately (Coal Theatre/Royal Demon, The Cherry Orchard, Romeo and Exchange Manchester), You Can’t Take JONATHAN CHURCH (Director). Juliet, The Alchemical Wedding, Colombe It With You (Royal Exchange Artistic Director of Salisbury Playhouse (Salisbury Playhouse). Manchester), Smash! (Menier (1995-1999), Associate Director of Chocolate Factory), Burn My Heart Hampstead Theatre (1999-2001), ROGER CRANE (Playwright). (Trestle Theatre U.K. Tour), Epic and Artistic Director of Birmingham Roger is a lawyer. This is his first (Theatre 503), The Critic (Chichester Repertory Theatre (2001-2006). play. He is extremely pleased that this Festival Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Currently Artistic Director Chichester production is embarking on such a Dream and Timon Of Athens Festival Theatre (2006-Present). grand tour. (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre), I Am West End productions include Singin’ Shakespeare (Chichester Festival in the Rain (Palace Theatre), The WILLIAM DUDLEY (Designer). Theatre), Oliver Twist (Manchester Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Duchess William Dudley’s distinguished career Library Theatre), A Christmas Carol Theatre), Of Mice and Men (Savoy as a designer of theatre and opera (Derby Playhouse), The Tempest and Two Theatre and The Old Vic), The Witches has been recognized with seven Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare’s Globe (Wyndhams Theatre), A Busy Day (Lyric Olivier Awards and a further seven Theatre), A Fool And His Money Theatre), The Life and Adventures of nominations. He has designed more (Nottingham Playhouse). Television Nicholas Nickleby, (Gielgud Theatre). than 60 productions at the National includes The Bill, The Chase, Life Begins, International productions include The Theatre, including The Mysteries, Harry and Cosh, Judge John Deed, Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Undiscovered Country, Coast of Utopia, London’s Burning, Family Affairs, Silent (Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto), The Critic, Pygmalion and The Rise and Witness. Film includes Les Misérables, Singin’ in The Rain (Tokyo). National Fall of Little Voice. At the Royal Court Kevin and Perry Go Large. Radio: From touring productions include Singin’ he designed Duchess of Malfi, Hamlet Abstraction and The Franchise Affair, both In The Rain, The Grapes of Wrath, The (Drama Award), Kafka’s Dick and for BBC Radio 4. Crucible, The Witches, Of Mice and Hitchcock Blonde (Olivier Award). Work Men, The Diary of Anne Frank, Hobson’s at the RSC includes Julius Caesar (also

P10 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE New York), Merry Wives of Windsor Opera); The Soldier’s Tale and Pierrot directed by Jonathan Church. Fotini (Olivier Award), Twelfth Night, Richard Lunaire (Chicago Symphony); Passion was the Costume Designer for The II & III and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (Minnesota Opera); The Damnation Last Confession at Chichester Festival West End productions include End of of Faust, Lucrezia Borgia, Madam Theatre and the Theatre Royal the Rainbow; All My Sons; Carousel; Butterfly, Bluebeard’s Castle (English Haymarket. Woman in White; I Claudius; Mutiny!; National Opera); La Cenerentola Kiss Me, Kate; A Streetcar Named Desire; (Glyndebourne); Carmen (also set DOMINIC MULDOWNEY My Night with Reg and Lenny, many of design), Petrushka (Scottish Ballet); (Music Composer). Dominic Muldowney which transferred to the USA. Dudley Faster, E=mc2, Take Five (Birmingham became Director of Music at the designed the sets for Roman Polanski’s Royal Ballet); Il trovatore (Paris); Fidelio, National Theatre in 1981, and held the acclaimed musical The Dance of the Two Widows, Don Giovanni, The Ring post for 16 years. He has amassed a Vampires (Vienna and Berlin), The (Scottish Opera); Midsummer Marriage formidable list of accomplishments Ship (for European Cultural Capital (Chicago Lyric Opera); Eugene Onegin over the past three decades for films, Glasgow 1990), Peter Pan (Kensington and The Bartered Bride (Royal Opera television and theatre — his score Gardens, O2 and U.S. tour), and The House). Currently directing/designing for Michael Radford’s film of George Beggar’s Opera (Regent’s Park). Opera a concert version of The Ring Cycle for Orwell’s 1984 remains one of the designs include Der Ring (Bayreuth); Opera North. Co-directed and designed most unique film soundtracks ever to Un Ballo in Maschera (Salzburg); Billy sets/lighting for L’Heure Espagnole be recorded. His series of classical Budd (Metropolitan Opera); Lucia di and L’Enfant et les sortilèges (Opera concertos for violin, saxophone, Lammermoor (Opéra National de Paris); Zuid). Awards include 1995 Olivier percussion, oboe and piano have been Der Rosenkavalier and Ron Giovanni Award for Outstanding Achievement in performed by some of the U.K.’s major (Royal Opera House); The Silver Tassie Dance for The Glass Blew In (Siobhan orchestras, yet he is equally at home (English National Opera) and The Davies) and Fearful Symmetries (Royal writing and arranging for artists such Seraglio (Glyndebourne). He won a Ballet), 2003 Olivier Lighting Award as David Bowie and Sting. Dominic’s BAFTA for Persuasion (BBC TV and U.S. for The Bacchai (National Theatre). film and TV credits include Betrayal cinema). Other work includes Fortune’s Knight of Illumination Award 2010 for ( — director David Jones), Fool at the Old Vic, Uncle Vanya at the Sucker Punch at the Royal Court. www. 1984 (director Mike Radford), The Print Room and he was just awarded petermumford.info. Beggar’s Opera (director Richard Eyre), the French Opera Critics Award for his Defence Of The Realm (director David CGI designs for Sunday in the Park with FOTINI DIMOU (Costume Designer). Drury), Tales From Hollywood (director George at the Théâtre du Châtelet. Trained in Fine Art in Brussels before Howard Davies), Emma (director studying Theatre Design at the Central Richard Eyre), Sharpe Series (director PETER MUMFORD (Lighting Designer). St. Martin’s School of Art and Design. Tom Clegg), King Lear (director Richard Recent theatre includes King Kong After her studies in the U.K., she Eyre), Tales From Hollywood (director (Global Creatures/Australia) — 2013 went to New York where she started Howard Davies), Black Daises For Helpmann Award Nomination for Best designing for off-Broadway productions The Bride (director Peter Symes), The Lighting Design; Ghosts, Stephen Ward, and later for regional theatres all over Peacock Spring (director Christopher Old Times, Top Hat, Jumpy, Absent the U.S. After five years she returned Morahan), Bloody Sunday (director Paul Friends, Much Ado About Nothing, The to the U.K. where she remained and Greengrass), War Oratorio (director Lion In Winter, The Misanthrope, An worked for companies including the James Kent), Margaret (director James Ideal Husband, Carousel, Fiddler on the RSC, the National Theatre, the Royal Kent), Wallander (director Aisling Roof, Prick Up Your Ears, A View From Court, Chichester Festival Theatre, Walsh). Dominic’s theatre credits the Bridge (West End); Circle Mirror and designed for several U.K. tours as include Romeo and Juliet (Globe), Transformation, In the Republic of well as London’s West End. She has Cyrano (NT), Death of a Salesman Happiness, Love and Information, Jumpy, also designed sets and costumes for (Birmingham), Gethsemane (NT), King Our Private Life, Sucker Punch, Cock, ballet, modern dance and opera as Lear (NT), Moon for the Misbegotten The Seagull, Drunk Enough to Say I Love well as costumes for feature films and (Old Vic and Broadway), Never So Good You, Dying City (and set) (Royal Court television. Designs for feature films (NT), Remembrance of Things Past (NT), Theatre); Scenes from an Execution, include The Browning Version, Ripley’s Present Laughter (NT), Philistines (NT), Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, Game and Skin. Recent work includes The Last Confession (Chichester and The Reporter, The Hothouse (National costume design for the dance pieces West End), Vincent in Brixton (NT and Theatre); The Dark Earth and the Light Phaedra, Illuminations and Holderlin West End), House of Special Purpose Sky (Almeida); Heartbreak House, King Fragments for the Richard Alston Dance (Chichester), All My Sons (West End). Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre and Company at the Barbican Theatre. Set BAM); Bull, A Taste of Honey, Betrayal and costumes for Variations on a Theme JOSH LIEBERT (Sound System Designer (Sheffield Crucible); A Streetcar Named at the Finborough theatre, costume for Sound Associates Inc.). Josh Liebert Desire (Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis); designs for Puccini’s opera Manon has been with Sound Associates Inc. set and lighting design for Mojo Lescaut directed by Richard Eyre for for the last seven years. Designs for (Theatre-Rites); The Last of the Duchess Baden Baden Festspielhaus, which is Sound Associates include the 2014 (Hampstead Theatre). Opera and dance due to also open at the Metropolitan Roundabout Gala honouring Sam credits include Madama Butterfly, Opera in New York in 2016. Upcoming Mendes with Bernadette Peters and Faust, Carmen, Peter Grimes, 125th Gala work includes costumes for Amadeus Alan Cumming, the 2013 Serioüs (New York Met); Eugene Onegin (LA for the Chichester Festival Theatre Fun Gala with Stevie Wonder, Ingrid

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P11 Michelson and Suzanne Vega; Ragtime Toronto and Los Angeles). Stewart Strange Interlude; Aren’t We All?; Wild and The Ghosts of Versailles at the Crosbie and Simon Marlow have Honey; Pygmalion; A Walk In The Wood; Manhattan School of Music (with worked together as Crosbie Marlow Beethoven’s Tenth; Breaking The Code; Domonic Sack). Recent designs include Associates since 1993. Both worked for Half Life; American Buffalo; Early Days; The Story of my Life at the Delaware English National Opera and Scottish Circe & Bravo; Enigmatic Variations. Theatre Company, Central Avenue Opera before forming their own Together: Backbeat (Royal Alexandra Breakdown in Daegu, South Korea company. Previous productions include Theatre, Toronto and Ahmanson and the 2011-2012 European tour of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Theatre, Los Angeles, with Karl Sydow); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (directed by Richard Lion King in London, Andrew Lloyd Private Lives (Vaudeville Theatre, Maltby). Other off-Broadway designs Webber’s Sunset Boulevard (U.K. Tour), London, Royal Alexandra Theatre, include The Other Josh Cohen, Son of Jesus Christ Superstar (U.K. Tour), The Toronto and Music Box Theatre, New A Gun, 40 Weeks, Emily: An Amythest Beautiful Game, and 15 international York); The Hollow Crown; Grease; Hedda Remembrance, Refuge of Lies, Surviving productions of The Phantom of the Gabler; 13 Rue de L’Amour; Richard Billy Boy, Sessions, Every Girl Gets Her Opera. Other West End productions III; The Importance Of Being Earnest; Man. Regional designs include South include Showboat, Notre Dame De Private Lives (Tony Award for Best Pacific (Delaware Theatre Company); Paris, Napoleon, Lautrec, The Full Monty, Revival in 2002); Stones In His Pockets Ice Glen, King John, The Taming of the Mamma Mia!, Contact, The Graduate, (USA); My One And Only; The Hollow Shrew, Martha Mitchell Calling and The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Lady Crown; The Tempest; The Master Builder; Kerfol (Shakespeare & Co.); One Flew in the Van, The Caretaker, The Play Coriolanus; The Merry Wives Of Windsor; Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Studio Players); What I Wrote, The Breath of Life, Closer Suddenly Last Summer; Thoroughly Beauty and the Beast (Cumberland to Heaven, Rebecca, Art, Beautiful Modern Millie; The Birthday Party; The County Playhouse); Evita, Crazy for You and Damned, Death of a Salesman, Philadelphia Story; As You Desire Me; and A Chorus Line (Surflight Theatre). Ducktastic, I am My Own Wife, Heroes, The Best Of Friends; The Last Confession; Associate Designer (Broadway): A Daddy Cool, Dirty Dancing, Spamalot, Nicholas Nickleby (London/Toronto); Night With Janis Joplin, Vanya and The Lord of the Rings, The Lady from Macbeth (London/New York); Waiting Sonia and Masha and Spike. Assistant Dubuque, Brief Encounter, Equus, God For Godot (Theatre Royal Haymarket Sound Designer (Broadway): Relatively of Carnage, Deathtrap, , Jersey and Australia); Haunted; When We Speaking, Baby it’s You, La Bête, Irena’s Boys, Sister Act, Rock of Ages, The Lady Are Married (Garrick Theatre); Blithe Vow. MFA: CCM; BFA: Ithaca College. Killers, Ghost The Musical, Viva Forever Spirit (Apollo Theatre); and Pygmalion Thanks as always to Chris Cronin and and Stephen Ward The Musical. The (Garrick Theatre). the rest of the SAI team; and to Mark, company has technically managed 19 Judi and Ben for their eternal support. international productions of Mamma TINDERBOX PRODUCTIONS Mia! www.crosbiemarlow.com. (Producer Liza McLean). Liza McLean POTI MARTIN (Associate Sound has worked in the entertainment Designer). Poti Martin was born in TRIUMPH ENTERTAINMENT (Producer industry in Australia and overseas Madrid. Worked in London in Boundary Paul Elliott & Duncan C. Weldon). for the past 20 years, working and Row Studios for three years, being Produced together for 10 years collaborating with extraordinary the resident sound engineer. Later from 1967 and again from 2001 as producers and some of the world’s he had his own P.A. company and a Triumph Entertainment Ltd. They have finest actors, singers, musicians and recording studio in Madrid. Between produced or co-produced 350 London performers. She is the sole director 2003 and 2011 he has been working productions. Paul Elliott: Buddy — The of Tinderbox Productions and has a for Stage Entertainment Spain, as Buddy Holly Story; Jolson (Olivier Award company, Kay & McLean Productions, sound supervisor, being involved as for Best Musical in 1997); Kat And The with producing partner Andrew sound designer, associate designer Kings (Olivier Award for Best Musical Kay. Tinderbox Productions credits or assistant designer in shows like in 1999); The Goodbye Girl; Run For include The Resistible Rise of Arturo Cats (Madrid), Cabaret (Madrid and Your Wife; Stones In His Pockets (Olivier Ui, Executive Producer 2013 Helpmann Spanish tour), Mamma Mia! (Madrid, and Evening Standard Award in 2001); Awards, The 39 Steps Australia & Hong Barcelona and Spanish tour), The and The Shawshank Redemption. Paul Kong, Talking Heads starring Brenda Graduate (Madrid), Victor Victoria has also produced more than 450 Blethyn & Sigrid Thornton, The Hobbit, (Madrid), (Madrid), Jesus pantomimes. His first play, a comedy, Dorothy the Dinosaur’s Dance Party USA Christ Superstar (Madrid and Spanish There’s No Place Like a Home, has been tour and Humphrey in Rock Around the tour), Beauty And The Beast (Madrid produced for two U.K. tours. Duncan Magic Forest Clock. Consulting Producer and Barcelona), High School Musical C. Weldon: Theatre Royal Haymarket Paco Pena A Compas! to the Rhythm (Spanish tour), Saturday Night Fever productions 1975 to 1995 include: and Tango Fire. Associate Producer (Madrid and Spanish tour), Chicago Heartbreak House; Long Days Journey Shaolin Warriors Legends of Kung Fu. (Madrid and Spanish tour), Les Into Night; Way Of The World; Man And Tour Producer The Ten Tenors 2006 Misérables (Madrid). Poti was associate Superman, The Apple Cart; Sweet Bird and Supervising Producer The Misfits. sound designer for The Sound Of Of Youth; Waters Of The Moon and Old Kay & McLean Productions Australian Music (Moscow) and associate sound Times. With The Company: and New Zealand credits include Jerry designer for Mamma Mia! (Aarhus). Orpheus Descending; The Merchant Hall as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate Of Venice. Duncan was the director of Melbourne 2013 and Perth 2010. In 2013 SIMON MARLOW for CROSBIE Chichester Festival Theatre from 1995 Tubular Bells ‘For Two’ in association MARLOW (Production Manager London, to 1997. Other productions include: with Places & Spaces, My First Time

P12 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE starring Sharon Millerchip and Josef Ber Goldman’s The Lion in Winter starring Sewell at the Queens Theatre, A Swell with the Sydney Opera House. In 2012, Robert Lindsay and Joanna Lumley. Party a celebration of Cole Porter at with Glynis Henderson Productions, In 2011, they co-produced Pygmalion, the Vaudeville Theatre, Timberlake The Spaghetti Western Orchestra. In which starred Rupert Everett and Kara Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good 2011 the exclusive Sydney season of The Tointon, and in 2013, TRH Productions (nominated for six Tony Awards and Bridge Projects’ Richard III starring Kevin co-produced Barking in Essex, a new received the Olivier Award for Best Spacey, Magic Flute, Impempe Yomlingo comedy by Clive Exton starring Lee Play and the New York Critics’ Circle as part of the Melbourne Festival, James Evans, Sheila Hancock and Keeley Award for Best Foreign Play), Hysteria Rhodes and Haunted starring Brenda Hawes at the Wyndhams Theatre. They (Best Comedy, Olivier Awards), and an Blethyn. In 2010 Samuel Beckett’s are currently the lead producers of Fatal adaptation of Sue Townsend’s novel Waiting for Godot starring Ian McKellen, Attraction, directed by Trevor Nunn. It The Queen And I which was Out of Roger Rees and Matthew Kelly. Other stars Natasha McElthone, Mark Bazeley Joint’s inaugural production. Karl was theatrical credits include Warriors and Kristin Davis at the Theatre Royal a founding member and continues of Brazil 2010, Meow Meow Feline Haymarket which is playing until June to serve on the board of Out of Joint, Intimate 2009, Secret Bridesmaids’ 2014. TRH Productions co-produced the U.K.’s leading producer of new Business 2009. Liza McLean for the highly successful London season writing for the theatre founded by Max Tinderbox Productions is responsible of The Last Confession at the Haymarket Stafford Clark after serving for 13 years for all financial management on the Theatre. as Artistic Director of the Royal Court above KMP productions. As Associate Theatre. Broadway credits include The Producer for ICA Presents Pty Ltd, KARL SYDOW (Producer). Seagull featuring Kristin Scott Thomas Bed Among the Lentils and Soldiering Productions planned this year include and Carey Mulligan; All My Sons with On, two of the Talking Heads series This May Hurt A Bit by Stella Feehily Katie Holmes; American Buffalo by monologues, starring Dame Maggie at the St. James Theatre and the David Mamet; Our Country’s Good Smith and Margaret Tyzack, The Hollow international Out of Joint tour of by Timberlake Wertenbaker (six Tony Crown, starring Dame Diana Rigg, Sir the centennial production of Under nominations, New York Critics’ Circle Derek Jacobi, Sir Donald Sinden and Milk Wood. U.K. credits include Our Award Best Foreign Play, Olivier Award the late Ian Richardson, The Importance Country’s Good and Our Ajax by Best Play). Other New York credits of Being Earnest starring Patricia Timberlake Wertenbaker, Backbeat include at BAM the NT’s production Routledge with Triumph Entertainment. (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow & The Duke of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett The Blue Room starring Sigrid Thornton of York’s Theatre, London); Dish Of featuring Fiona Shaw directed by and Marcus Graham and Masterclass Tea With Dr. Johnson directed by Max Deborah Warner, Haunted by Edna starring Amanda Muggleton. Stafford Clark, The Line by Timberlake O’Brien featuring Brenda Blethyn; Wertenbaker; Memory by Johnathan Terra Haute by Edmond White with TRH PRODUCTIONS (Producer Lichtenstein, directed by Terry Hands; Peter Eyre; North America: Backbeat at Arnold M. Crook and Nigel Everett). Triptych by Edna O’Brien, Ring Round The Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto Theatre Royal Haymarket Productions The Moon by Jean Anouilh and adapted and at the Ahmanson Theatre in has produced and collaborated on by Christopher Fry at the Playhouse, L.A. Karl also served as a director many productions over the years. Their Jenufa by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Renaissance Film Company. He most recent credits include in 2007 directed by Irina Brown at the Arcola continues to act as an independent a season of plays under the Artistic Theatre. Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych film and theatre producer; projects Directorship of Jonathan Kent including, Theatre, London, which achieved the with David Parfitt, his colleague from Wycherley’s The Country Wife, Edward largest advance sales in the history of Renaissance for Trademark Films are Bond’s The Sea, and Marguerite, a the West End, the London and Sydney A Bunch Of Amateurs by Ian Hislop world premiere from the composers of production of Dance of Death with Sir and Nick Newman featuring Burt Les Misérables, Miss Saigon and Martin Ian McKellen, Francis de la Tour and Reynolds, Sir Derek Jacobi, Imelda Guerre. A season led by Sean Mathias Owen Teale, And Then There Were Staunton and Samantha Bond. Other who directed the acclaimed sell-out None by Agatha Christie, Bea Arthur Trademark Films include My Week With production of Beckett’s Waiting For At The Savoy, Auntie And Me, with Marilyn featuring Michelle Williams, Godot starring Ian McKellen, Patrick Alan Davies and Maggie Tyzack at the Eddie Redmayne, Sir , Stewart and Ronald Pickup followed by Wyndham’s, Michael Moore, Live! at the Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson Samuel Adamson’s adaptation of the Roundhouse, the West End premiere and Dame . Parade’s End, Truman Capote novella, Breakfast at of Noel Coward’s Semi Monde, Kevin screenplay by Sir Tom Stoppard for the Tiffanys. A third season led by Sir Trevor Elyot’s Mouth To Mouth at the Albery BBC and The Wipers Times, screenplay Nunn included the phenomenally Theatre with Lyndsay Duncan and by Ian Hislop & Nick Newman for the successful Flare Path, as part of the Michael Maloney, David Mamet’s BBC. Rattigan centenary, starring Sienna Speed The Plow with Mark Strong, Miller, James Purefoy and Sheridan Patrick Marber and Kimberly Williams; NICOLA SEED (Production Associate, Smith (which won her an Olivier award), Drummers by Simon Bennet and Some Triumph Entertainment) has worked for Sir Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill Triumph Entertainment since 2012, on Guildenstern are Dead with Samuel (winner of the Evening Standard the international transfers of Backbeat Barnett and Jamie Parker, followed by Award as Most Promising Newcomer) to the Royal Alexandra, Toronto and The Tempest starring Ralph Fiennes and both directed by Max Stafford-Clark the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles. Nicholas Lyndhurst, and finally James for Out of Joint, Macbeth with Rufus Other work includes Associate General

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P13 Manager of the Olivier Awards 2013, the Olivier Award-winning production non-profit organizations and theatrical Project Manager of TheatreCraft 2013 Goodnight Mister Tom. The highly productions. He is a graduate of and Central Coordinator of the Victory acclaimed production of King Lear with Occidental College in Los Angeles with Ceremonies at London 2012 Olympic Frank Langella completed a limited numerous post-graduate coursework and Paralympic Games. Production New York run in February 2014. For and credentials. He currently credits as an Independent Producer more information, go to cft.org.uk. serves on the board of directors for include Too True To Be Good, Accolade, Entertainment Industry Foundation, Drama at Inish, The Drawerboy and Chairman Sir William Castell Theatre @ Boston Court, and United A Life, all at the Finborough Theatre, Artistic Director Jonathan Church Support of Artists for Africa/USA for London. Nicola is producing the Executive Director Alan Finch Africa, among other affiliations. He also upcoming revival of Accolade by Emlyn serves on the board of trustees for the Williams at the St James Theatre, pension, health and welfare and 401(k) London in November 2014. FOR CENTER THEATRE GROUP plans of I.A.T.S.E. Local 33 Stagehands Union. CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE. MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) Chichester Festival Theatre is one is in his ninth season as Center DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing of the U.K.’s flagship theatres with Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and Director) is now in his 24th season at an international reputation for has led over 170 productions to the CTG. Previously, he managed Broadway producing work of the highest quality, Ahmanson, Taper and Douglas stages and touring productions including Tru, ranging from large-scale musicals to since his arrival in 2005. From 1996 Born Yesterday, The Gospel at Colonus, distinguished dramas. Festival 2014 to 2004 Michael was the Producer of Annie, A Chorus Line, Working, The Wiz, is a landmark season for Chichester. the Williamstown Theatre Festival and and Legends!, which premiered at the It marks the reopening of the newly prior to that he was a Production Stage Ahmanson Theatre in 1986 and starred refurbished Chichester Festival Manager in NYC. At CTG, he premiered Mary Martin and Carol Channing. Doug Theatre, following a major capital six musicals that moved to Broadway is a member of the Achievement Hall of project, RENEW, to restore and — (which won Fame of Chagrin Falls Schools in Ohio upgrade its Grade II* listed building. 13 Tony Award® nominations), Curtains and a graduate of Albion College. He Chichester Festival Theatre can now (eight Tony nominations) 13, 9 to 5: The is an active member of the Broadway proudly match its world-class artistic Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson League, the Independent Presenters reputation with world-class spaces. and Leap of Faith. He has produced 39 Network and is a proud member of The Festival Theatre will reopen in world premieres including the musicals the Association of Theatrical Press July with a major new production Minsky’s, Venice and Sleeping Beauty Agents and Managers. In May 2013 of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus directed Wakes, and the plays Bengal Tiger at Doug received The Broadway League’s by Jonathan Church with Rupert the Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer Prize prestigious Outstanding Achievement Everett as Salieri. The season also finalist that also moved to Broadway), in Presenter Management Award. includes two award-winning Broadway Water & Power and Yellow Face, and he musicals (Guys and Dolls, Gypsy), world presented a broad range of plays and LINDSAY ALLBAUGH (Producing premieres (Pressure, Pitcairn, Taken musicals ranging from Dead End to Associate) is a member of Center at Midnight) and compelling drama The Black Rider to Edward Scissorhands Theatre Group’s artistic staff and has (Stevie, Frankie & Johnny in the Clair to blockbusters such as God of served in varying capacities for the De Lune, Miss Julie, Black Comedy, An Carnage, Mary Poppins, Jersey Boys past nine years. Lindsay also serves Ideal Husband). The season ends with and August: Osage County. In addition, as the artistic coordinator for CTG’s CFT’s ever-popular Youth Theatre filling Michael inaugurated CTG’s New Play Sherwood Award, which supports the new stage with 101 Dalmatians. Production Program, designed to foster emerging Los Angeles artists. In During 2014, Chichester Festival the development and production of addition to her work for CTG, Lindsay is Theatre productions will continue to be new work. the co-artistic director at the Elephant seen by the widest possible audience Theatre Company in Hollywood. beyond West Sussex. Singin’ in the Rain EDWARD L. RADA (Managing Director) Producing credits include the continues its U.K. tour until October returned to Center Theatre Group upcoming production of different words 2014 and Barnum begins a U.K. tour in 2011 after previously serving as for the same thing at the Kirk Douglas in the autumn. The Pajama Game will CTG’s Chief Financial Officer for 12 Theatre, and most recently The Nether play at the Shaftesbury Theatre in the years (1996–2008). Rada spent three at the KDT, and Waiting for Godot at West End and Another Country will years (2008–2011) as President of the Taper. Directing credits include the open at the Trafalgar Studios for limited the Music Center Foundation, a non- West Coast premieres of 100 Saints You seasons. The Last Confession, directed profit corporation that holds and Should Know and Never Tell (Elephant), by Jonathan Church, will tour to Canada, invests the endowment and reserve the world premiere of Revelation America and Australia. Private Lives funds for the Music Center and its (Elephant), Supernova (Elephant) and was recently broadcast at cinemas resident companies (including CTG). Kate Crackernuts, Gray City, Aloha Say throughout the U.K. In 2013, the Prior to his years at CTG, he was the the Pretty Girls (Harvard/ART). Theatre’s West End transfers included Director of Finance at The Old Globe The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Singin’ in San Diego and principal of Rada & JEFFREY UPAH (General Manager, in the Rain (currently touring in the Associates, an accounting firm that Ahmanson Theatre) has worked in U.K.), Private Lives, Kiss Me, Kate and specialized in entertainment-related management at Center Theatre Group

P14 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE since 2006 on more than 50 musicals, STAFF FOR THE LAST CONFESSION plays and special events including both pre-Broadway productions and Director...... Jonathan Church Travel Consultant...... Designer...... William Dudley Jamie Dagnall For Dial A Flight Broadway tours. Some of his favorites Lighting Designer...... Peter Mumford Rehearsal Space...... Alford House include , God of Carnage and The Costume Designer...... Fotini Dimou Black Rider (having previously worked Music ...... Dominic Muldowney FOR TINDERBOX on Robert Wilson productions in Boston, Sound Designed By ...... Chris Cronin Producer ...... Liza Mclean Houston and São Paulo, Brazil). Prior to For Sound Associates Inc. Production Coordinator...... Eve Kay CTG, he was the marketing manager for Sound System Designer...... Josh Liebert Accountant...... Trianon Usher For Sound Associates Inc. the last two of his 11 seasons with The Production Manager (U.K./Canada/U.S.). . . . THANKS Santa Fe Opera, and worked in various ...... Simon Marlow For Crosbie Marlow Adam Kenwright, Alan Brodie and Sarah McNair, capacities at Yale Repertory Theatre, Production Manager (Australia)...... AKA London and AKA Australia, Arts University American Repertory Theatre and Jacob’s ...... Ian Studham Bournemouth, David Mirvish and Brian Sewell Pillow Dance Festival, among others. Company Manager ...... Elaine De Saulles and the Mirvish Production team, Doug Baker He graduated magna cum laude with Deputy Stage Manager . . . .Amanda Hillhouse and Jeffrey Upah and everyone at Center Theatre Costume Supervisor (U.K.). . . . Carrie Bayliss his studies in film and theatre from Group and Keith Davidson and all at Canadian Costume Supervisor (Tour) ...... Actor’s Equity. Washington University in St. Louis, and ...... Jessica Houghton received an MFA in theatre management Production Carpenter ...... Philip Large Triumph Entertainment Limited engages from the Yale School of Drama. Associate Lighting Designer ...... under the terms of the Independent Theatre ...... Victoria Brennan Agreement, professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Assistant Lighting Designer . . . . John Delaney GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Association. Director) led the Taper throughout Production Electrician ...... John Still Associate Sound Designer . . . . . Poti Martin its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 The following employees are represented Dialect Coach...... Charmian Hoare by the International Alliance of Theatrical productions to its stage and winning Scenery Built By . . . . .All Scene All Props Ltd. Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine countless awards for himself and the Props By...... Marcus Hall Ltd Operators, Artists and Allied Crafts of the theatre — including the Tony Award® for Sound Supplied By...... Chris Cronin United States, its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, From Sound Associates Inc. CLC: Stage Crew Local 33; Local Treasures and theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, Ticket Sellers Local 857; Wardrobe Crew Local 768; Lighting Supplied By ...... Q.I. The Governor’s Award for the Arts and Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706. Shipping Organised ...... a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky ...... Jeppeson Heaton Ltd. The Press Agents and House Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) Image Design...... Frank Donovan Manager employed in this won the Pulitzer in consecutive years For Donovan Graphics production are represented by the Association of and, in 1994, three of the four plays Costumes Made And Provided By...... Theatrical Press Agents & Managers. nominated for the Tony Award® for ...... Angels The Costumiers, Best Play were from the Taper (Angels ...... Robbie Gordon, Center Theatre Group is a member of the American Arts Alliance, the in America won). In 1989 Gordon took ...... Thomas Von Nordheim Headwear Provided By...... Debbie Boyd Broadway League, Independent over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he Producers’ Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, League of Resident Theatres (LORT), National produced the inaugural season in the FOR TRIUMPH ENTERTAINMENT LTD. Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Producer ...... Paul Elliott Theatre Communications Group (TCG) Producer ...... Duncan C. Weldon Financial Director ...... Dinesh Khanderia ONLINE Production Associate ...... Nicola Seed CenterTheatreGroup.org Insurance ...... Gordon & Co. #TheLastConfession Legal Advisors ...... Like us on facebook Center Theatre Group Shannon Such For Such Law Firm Follow us on Twitter @CTGLA Visa Consultant ...... Subscribe on YouTube CTGLA Lisa Carr For Visa Consultants (London) Ltd. Follow us on Instagram @CTGLA Visa Consultant ...... Tina Richard For T & S Immigration

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ARTISTIC SEAN PINTO ...... Database and Web Manager NEEL KELLER ...... Associate Artistic Director MANDY RATLIFF ...... Tessitura Administrator KELLEY KIRKPATRICK ...... Associate Artistic Director JARED WATANABE ...... Information Systems Analyst DIANE RODRIGUEZ ...... Associate Producer/Director of New Play Production PIER CARLO TALENTI ...... Resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager JODY HORWITZ ...... Director of Human Resources LINDSAY ALLBAUGH ...... Producing Associate MADRIO FLEEKS ...... Senior Human Resources Generalist JOY MEADS ...... Literary Associate and Artistic Engagement Strategist SINGER LEWAK, LLP ...... Auditor MARK B. SIMON ...... Casting Director MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF ...... Legal Counsel MEG FISTER ...... Casting Associate GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER ...... Legal Counsel STEVEN PIESZCHALKSI ...... Casting Assistant DEVELOPMENT DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), JESSICA BLANK, SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), TIM YVONNE CARLSON BELL ...... Director of Development CROUCH, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, GINA GIONFRIDDO, GOB SQUAD, MATT GOULD, DANAI PATRICK OWEN ...... Deputy Director of Development GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, JOE HORTUA, ERIK JENSEN, RAJIV JOSEPH, LATINO THEATER NATALIE BERGESON ...... Director of Donor Contributions COMPANY, GRIFFIN MATTHEWS, LAURAL MEADE, JULIE MARIE MYATT (FADIMAN), JEAN KLING ...... Director of Institutional Support DAN O’BRIEN, EVANGELINE ORDAZ, DAEL ORLANDERSMITH, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), LIZ LIN ...... Director of Corporate Relations and Communications RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, MATT SAX, YOUNG JEAN LEE THEATER COMPANY . . . . . CHARITY WU ...... Director of Individual Giving ...... Commissioned Artists BECKY BIRDSONG ...... Major Gifts Officer RYAN HONEY ...... Associate Director of Special Initiatives BEKAH BRUNSTETTER, CARLA CHING, JASON GROTE, SARAH GUBBINS, TIM McNEIL, MANDI OR ...... Special Events Manager HENRY ONG, MADHURI SHEKAR ...... CTG Writers’ Workshop Members ERIC BROWN ...... Communications Coordinator JENNIFER CHAN ...... Special Events Associate EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS JUSTIN FOO ...... Donor Contributions Associate LESLIE K. JOHNSON ...... Director of Education and Community Partnerships SARAH HARBURG-PETRICH ...... Development Assistant PATRICIA GARZA ...... Assistant Department Director KATY HILTON ...... Grant Writer TRACI CHO KWON ...... Director of School Partnerships DONALD JOLLY ...... Donor Relations Associate for the Inner Circle CAMILLE SCHENKKAN . . . . . Program Manager, Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals KRISTEN LEVY-VAUGHAN ...... Individual Giving Assistant JESUS REYES ...... Program Manager, Community Partnerships JESSICA NASH ...... Donor Contributions Supervisor KATRINA FRYE ...... Program Associate KIM OKAMURA ...... Institutional Giving Associate MELISSA HERNANDEZ ...... Program Associate MARIA PAREDES ...... Donor Relations Associate for The Guild ROSEMARY MARSTON-HIGDON ...... Program Associate ERIC SEPPALA ...... Executive Assistant to the Development Director KELLY MUCHNICK ...... Communications Coordinator ERIN SCHLABACH ...... Major Gifts Coordinator ASHLEY LAMPSON OPSTAD ...... Project Coordinator JESSICA THORSON ...... Corporate Relations Coordinator SHANNON WINSTON ...... Department Coordinator DEBRA PIVER ...... Resident Teaching Artist AL BERMAN, ERIN BUTLER, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, DAVID GARVER, GINA EAST, LILI HERRERA, TONY LEWELLEN, HOLLY RAMOS, NICOLE SCIPIONE, LENA THOMAS, PAUL MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION VITAGLIANO, BILL WALTON, TOM WINKLER ...... Donor Advisors NAUSICA STERGIOU . . . . . General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) ADAM BURCH, KARLA GALVEZ ...... Donor Services Associates JEFFREY UPAH ...... General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) ANNE BRUNER, MURRAY E. HELTZER, MARCI MILLER, SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY ...... Assistant General Manager (Mark Taper Forum) JULIE NADAL ...... Development Volunteers KATIE BRUNER SOFF ...... Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPP) ALANA BEIDELMAN ...... Executive Assistant to Managing Director MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS ELLE AGHABALA ...... Interim General Management Associate KORY P. KELLY ...... Director of Marketing and Communications ERIC SIMS ...... Operations Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) NANCY HEREFORD ...... Media and Communications Director TOM BURMESTER . Audience Experience Design/Front of House Mgr (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PHYLLIS MOBERLY ...... Media and Communications Associate LAUREN BAXA ...... Assistant Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JASON MARTIN ...... Media and Communications Associate MAX OKEN ...... Facility Assistant (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHELSEY ROSETTER ...... Media and Communications Coordinator SONDRA MAYER ...... Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) NISHITA DOSHI ...... Art Director PRODUCTION IRENE KANESHIRO ...... Senior Design Manager DAWN HOLISKI ...... Production Department Operations Director HARUKA HAYAKAWA ...... Graphic Designer JOE HAMLIN ...... Technical Director/Ahmanson Production Manager SHAWN ANDERSON ...... Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) ANDREW DARCEY ...... Advertising Manager ANDREW W. ARNOLD ...... Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) KAREN VOCK ...... Marketing Manager STAN STEELMON ...... Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JAMES SIMS ...... Marketing Creative Manager JIM BERGER ...... Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) JEWEL MOORE ...... Marketing Coordinator ROBERT SMITH ...... Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) ROSE POIRIER ...... Webmaster MICHAEL GARDNER ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) CRAIG SCHWARTZ ...... Production Photographer PATRICE MIRANDA ...... Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) LARRY DEAN HARRIS ...... Copywriter CHRISTINE L. COX ...... House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) CINEVATIVE/MARK CIGLAR ...... Production Video ALLIED LIVE: CHAD SMITH ...... Associate Technical Director LAURA MATALON, SHANNON WILLETT, KELLY ESTRELLA ...... Advertising Agency SAM CRAVEN-GRIFFITHS ...... Associate Technical Director TICKET SALES AND SERVICES ANDREW THIELS ...... Prop Manager SHAWN ROBERTSON ...... Ticket Sales Director MERRIANNE NEDREBERG ...... Associate Prop Manager SKYPP CABANAS ...... Ticket Operations Coordinator SARAH KRAININ ...... Prop Associate SANDY CZUBIAK ...... Audience and Subscriber Services Manager CANDICE CAIN ...... Costume Director JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE . Audience Services Supervisors BRENT M. BRUIN ...... Costume Workroom Supervisor ALICE CHEN ...... Audience Services Asst. Supervisor MADDIE KELLER ...... Costume Generalist SAM AARON, DEBORAH REED ...... Audience Services Sales Associates SWANTJE TUOHINO ...... Tailor ELIZABETH LEONARD ...... Production Operations Manager JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., JULIO A. CUELLAR ...... Driver/Custodian PETER COLBURN, DONALD CRANDALL, GARY HOLLAND, DONAVAN MARTINELLI, EUGENE A. MONTEIRO II, BRIAN SLATEN ...... Drivers JUSTINE PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, DANNY SCHMITZ, JENNIFER ACHTERBERG ...... Production Administrator CRIS SPACCA ...... Audience Services Representatives JONATHAN BARLOW LEE ...... Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) DANUTA SIEMAK ...... Subscriber Services Supervisor CELESTE SANTAMASSINO ...... Associate Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ ...... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor EMMET KAISER ...... Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) LIGIA PISTE, CELIA RIVAS ...... Subscriber Services Senior Representatives ROBERT RUBY ...... Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) IRENE CHUANG, PETER STALOCH ...... Subscriber Services Representatives WILLIAM MORNER ...... Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE ...... Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) SARAH K. GONTA ...... Box Office Treasurer DENNIS SEETOO ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) KISHISA ROSS, GISELE FRAZEUR ...... Assistant Treasurers RICK GEYER ...... Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) ANGELICA CARBAJAL, MICHAEL KEMPISTY, LEROY PAWLOWSKI, LINDA WALKER ...... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) MICHAEL SALTZMAN ...... Box Office Staff MICHAEL ZOLDESSY ...... Account Sales Manager CHRISTY WEIKEL ...... Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) EILEEN ROBERTS ...... Account Sales Associate KATE COLTUN ...... Assistant Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) KERRY KORF ...... Priority Services Director RICHARD PETERSON ...... Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SUSAN F. TULLER ...... Priority Services Operations Manager AARON STAUBACH ...... Light Board Programmer/Operator (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JAY BURNS ...... Priority Services Sales Manager ADAM PHALEN ...... Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PAUL CUEN ...... Priority Services Manager VICTOR COBOS ...... Stage Supevisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CANDICE WALTERS ...... Priority Services Assistant Supervisor FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES RACHEL BRINK, MAGGIE DODD, NIC DRESSEL, SOFIJA DUTCHER, MARC “BYRON” MICHAEL F. THOMPSON ...... Chief Financial Officer DROTMAN, SAMANTHA ELSE, JORDAN ESTES LOU GEORGE, KATE HALL, LISA KESSLER, MELODY MATTOS ...... Controller SHEP KOSTER, MATT PELFREY, DONALD RIZZO, KEN SALLEY, KRISTEN SCHRASS, JANIS BOWBEER ...... Assistant Controller BOBBI LYNNE SCOTT, ANDREW SEVERYN, ANASTASIA SILVA, MICHAEL SMITH, QUINN XOCHITL RAMIREZ ...... Accounts Payable Coordinator SULLIVAN, DIANE WARD, JIM WATERMAN ...... Representatives FELICISIMA LAPID ...... Accounts Payable Specialist DANNY LAMPSON ...... Senior Staff Accountant INTERNS ALEGRIA SENA ...... Staff Accountant NICOLE ARCA, HILARY FITZSIMMONS, MERCEDES FRIERSON, EMILY MISCHEL, MATTHEW YUEN KI “ANNIE” LAW ...... Payroll Manager QUINLAN AMEETA SHARMA ...... Payroll Specialist DAVE ALTON ...... Chief Information Officer STAN GRUSHESKY ...... Director of Information Systems

Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication and extraordinary efforts.

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