Mark Taper Forum 47th Season 2014

first season production Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Directed by Based on the Broadway Direction of Nicholas Martin. January 29 – March 16, 2014

Second Season Production The Tallest Tree in the Forest A Play with Music 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

Fourth Season Production season bonus options Buyer & Cellar Matthew Bourne’s Featuring Michael Urie Written by Jonathan Tolins Sleeping Beauty Directed by Stephen Brackett A Gothic Romance West Coast Premiere. Music composed by Tchaikovsky July 9 – August 17, 2014 A New Adventures Production Co-Presented with Glorya Kaufman Fifth Season Production Presents Dance at the Music Center Presented in the Ahmanson Theatre. Marjorie Prime November 21 – December 1, 2013 by Jordan Harrison Directed by Pam MacKinnon Christopher Plummer in World Premiere. September 10 – October 19, 2014 A Word or Two Written and Arranged by Christopher Plummer Sixth Season Production Directed by Des McAnuff Presented in the Ahmanson Theatre. What the Butler Saw January 19 – February 9, 2014 by Joe Orton 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 leaders for their significant annual gifts and for their belief in the transformative power of theatre.

$1,000,000 and above Brindell Roberts Gottlieb

$250,000 and above The Dream Fund at UCLA Donor Advised Fund Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kirk & Anne Douglas The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$150,000 and above Eva & Marc Stern Wells Fargo Foundation Jeanette Shammas The Blue Ribbon Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinocco Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Bank of America

$100,000 and above Anonymous Debra & Norris Bishton JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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

This list includes gifts made to Center Theatre Group between December 6, 2012, and January 6, 2014.

P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Presents

by Christopher Durang

With Mark Blum Christine Ebersole David Hull Liesel Allen Yeager

SET DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN original music and David Korins Gabriel Berry David Weiner SOUND DESIGN Mark Bennett

Wig, hair and make-up DESIGN CASTING BY ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PRODUCTION Cookie Jordan Mark B. Simon, CSA Kelley Kirkpatrick STAGE MANAGER Daniel Swee, CSA David S. Franklin

Directed by David Hyde Pierce

Based on the Broadway Direction of Nicholas Martin

Original Broadway Production Produced by Joey Parnes Larry Hirschhorn Joan Raffe/Jhett Tolentino Martin Platt & David Elliott Pat Flicker Addiss Catherine Adler John O’Boyle Joshua Goodman Jamie deRoy/Richard Winkler Cricket Hooper Jiranek/Michael Palitz Mark S. Golub & David S. Golub Radio Mouse Entertainment Shadowcatcher Entertainment Mary Cossette/Barbara Manocherian Megan Savage/Meredith Lynsey Schade Hugh Hysell/Richard Jordan Cheryl Wiesenfeld/Ron Simons S.D. Wagner John Johnson in association with McCarter Theatre Center and Lincoln Center Theater.

Originally commissioned and produced by McCarter Theatre, Princeton, N.J., Emily Mann, Artistic Director; Timothy J. Shields, Managing Director; Mara Isaacs, Producing Director. And produced by Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, under the direction of Andre Bishop and Bernard Gersten in 2012.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. January 29 – March 16, 2014 Mark Taper Forum

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3 photo by joan marcus.

clockwise from left: Director David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Christine Ebersole, David Hull, Liesel Allen Yeager, Mark Blum and Shalita Grant.

CAST (in order of appearance) Vanya...... Mark Blum Sonia...... Kristine Nielsen Cassandra...... Shalita Grant Masha...... Christine Ebersole Spike...... David Hull Nina...... Liesel Allen Yeager

UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For Cassandra – Ngozi Anyanwu; For Sonia and Masha – Susan Denaker; For Vanya – David Pevsner; For Spike – Brad Schmidt; For Nina – Georgia Warner.

STAGE MANAGERS Michelle Blair and Denise Yaney

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Bryan Hunt

TIME/PLACE Set in the present, a lovely farm house in Bucks County, PA.

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

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 MY LIFE WITH CHEKHOV By Christopher Durang

i read plays from a very young age. Probably because had very long speeches, and after a while I felt that I my mother did. wasn’t ready to read Chekhov. She read to me from Winnie-the-Pooh when I was So I went back to reading Blithe Spirit or the musicals I little—not a play, of course, but lots of good dialogue. loved, such as Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. My two favorite characters were windbag Owl, who bored I wrote comic plays of my own, as well as two musical everyone, and gloomy, worrying Eeyore. comedies that my Catholic high school put on. My My mother loved James Thurber and Noël Coward and college guidance counselor was a smart and worldly The New Yorker. Thurber had lots of wonderful dialogue, priest, and he suggested I apply to all these famous too. And I find the arch sound of Coward’s dialogue very schools. My grades were good but not spectacular, but funny. My mother’s and my favorite Coward play was Hay he told me that I should stress the playwriting I had done Fever, about the chaotic and grandiose Bliss family and in school. how they ignore and insult their houseguests. To my utter surprise, I got into Harvard. So I was hungry to read the famous plays, the classic plays. CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER No. 2 CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER No. 1 (The Seagull) (Chekhov in my childhood) Harvard did not have a theatre major, which I knew when When I was 14, I tried to read my first Chekhov play. I always I applied. I thought that, as a would-be playwright, maybe looked at the cast of characters to figure out who was who. I should be well-rounded. Which I am not. In terms of my The Russian names in Chekhov, though, intimidated me. education, I ended up only semi-rounded, with large, Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina (Madame Treplev by gaping holes in my knowledge. I really couldn’t be a marriage) was the first character listed in The Seagull. contestant on Jeopardy! Much harder to take in than Judith Bliss in Hay Fever. The English department did offer some theatre classes. Then there was Konstantin Gavrilovitch Treplev (Kostya), And during the first week of my freshman year I who was Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina’s son. But below auditioned to get into an acting seminar. him on the list was Boris Aleksyeevich Trigorin, who was The list of who got in was posted, but there was a throng “a writer.” of people standing in front of it. I decided to wait until And the character names in the text were Arkadina, the crowd thinned out, and I stood by a striking young Treplev and Trigorin. And the last two names seemed woman who was barefoot and wisely avoiding the crowd similar to me, as well as unfamiliar. And the characters so as not to have her feet trod upon.

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P5 I was bushy-tailed and friendly my freshman year (before Three Sisters, which I had not read yet. He chose the I entered the Dark Night of My Soul sophomore year), complicated scene where Baron Tuzenbach is talking to and I asked the barefoot young woman how her audition Irina, who says that she will marry him even though for the George Hamlin acting seminar had gone. She she’s not in love with him. She no longer believes that looked at me and said, in a resonant voice, “Mr. Hamlin she can be happy. The baron accepts this, and they are said my Saint Joan was the finest he had ever seen.” to marry the next day. But there is an unspoken upset between them, because they both know that he is about Well, that was a bit of a conversation stopper. I later to go off and fight a duel. And they are saying nothing wished I had said, “Ah, that’s what he said to me, too.” about it. And Professor Alfred read this scene with such But I didn’t. Plus, he hadn’t. I think he found my Saint a sense of fragility and the uncertainty of life that I Joan to be mediocre. And she got into the seminar, and I suddenly heard how the characters were meant to didn’t. But a few years later I got to see her in a student chatter and then to express something deeply felt, but production of Three Sisters, and she was very good. But then to rush back to chatter again. I feel that he showed I am ahead of myself. I still hadn’t figured out how to me the enormous vulnerability and sadness that can lie read Chekhov. right beneath commonplace conversation, both in I signed up for an enormous lecture class called Chekhov and in life. “Contemporary American and British Theatre, From the My senior year, I was lucky to be accepted into a small 1950s Through the Present.” This sounded like bliss to playwriting seminar that he taught. me. And it was taught by a famous professor who was also a playwright—William CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER No. 3 Alfred, a much (The Seagull and Vanessa Redgrave) beloved teacher I went to the movies a great deal in college. And, in my and scholar, sophomore year, suddenly there was a movie version of who in 1965 had The Seagull, directed by Sidney Lumet. It was had an off- meandering, and the talented Simone Signoret wasn’t Broadway success right for Arkadina. with his Irish-family play Hogan’s Goat, But, oh my, there was Vanessa Redgrave playing Nina. which gave the actress I think it’s an impossibly difficult role, but Redgrave’s Faye Dunaway her first portrayal was the perfect Nina I had imagined when I professional success. read the play for Professor Alfred’s class. Her Nina was The class was in a large lecture charming but so, so intense—her youth was painfully room. Professor Alfred walked to raw, her insecurity palpable, her infatuation with the the podium. He announced that theatre was almost humorous, and she gushed at in order to fully understand everyone a bit too much. She was spectacular. modern American and British But the character’s youthful hope dies very quickly. drama, we needed to know Konstantin falls in love with her, but when she doesn’t something about the plays that respond he suddenly deposits a dead seagull at her feet. preceded them. And so we were going to This was seemingly his extremely inappropriate way of read a Greek tragedy, a Roman play, a Molière, saying, “Please don’t ignore me. I love you.” Nina, a Shakespeare, a Chekhov, a Shaw, etc., until we meanwhile, falls for the writer Trigorin. They fall in love, got to the modern-day playwrights. This was she has a baby, the baby dies, Trigorin loses interest in rather far from the published syllabus, but it also Nina. In Act 4, she comes back secretly to visit sounded terrific. Konstantin. In despair and grief, she keeps saying, “I am The assigned Chekhov was The Seagull, the play I had a seagull.” tried to read when I was 14. It is very hard to play that scene. But Ms. Redgrave knew I did better reading the play this time—and I made my how to make that mad scene work. It’s an imperfect film, own character list, which was easier to follow. but watch it for her sometime. But it wasn’t until Professor Alfred read scenes aloud CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER No. 4 that I had the door to Chekhov opened for me. (Three Sisters) In a rumpled suit, and with a friendly Irish face, Alfred I mentioned my Dark Night of the Soul during my was a brilliant lecturer, full of wisdom, but he was also a sophomore year. It might also be called depression. And wonderful reader of plays. For some reason, he it lasted into my junior year as well. I lost my Catholic read aloud not from The Seagull but from faith (I left it on the ground, like a dead seagull), and I

P6 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE lost my bushy-tailed exuberance and could only react to The cast was excellent. That barefoot girl who got into dark, despairing literature. the acting seminar played Masha and was terrific. (Her A teaching fellow whose small class I was in correctly name was Susan Yakutis.) Nancy Cox was very good as pointed out to me that I didn’t like the poet Wordsworth the oldest, already spent sister Olga. And the sisters’ because I was angry that he wasn’t Beckett. That was beloved brother Andrei was played by a Harvard senior quite an accurate statement he made, and his taking the named André Bishop. Yes, that André Bishop, who is time to try to unravel my brain helped me a lot in the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater. (I didn’t managing to pass his course. Later, in my 30s, I grew to know him then.) He was poignant and tortured as like Wordsworth. But all that rattling on about nature Chekhov’s Andrei. drove me crazy in my youth. I wanted psychological A strange thing happened in this production. Laurie angst and hopelessness. That is, I didn’t want it, but it’s Heineman was so good as Irina that she became the what I was feeling, and I needed it reflected back to me protagonist for me. so I felt less alone. The melancholy of Chekhov suited It is Irina’s “name day” (birthday) in Act 1, and me very well. Heineman’s Irina was so convincingly full of excitement In my junior year, I saw Three Sisters. It was being done and youthful hope for the future that I was riveted. When by the Harvard Dramatic Society. she was onstage, I watched only her. I clocked her every The production was directed by an undergrad, Leland movement and emotional shift. Moss, who had been inspired by Jerzy Grotowski, a In Act 3, time has not been kind to Irina. She has a famous experimental Polish theatre director. This boring job at the Town Council. She imagined she’d inspiration made for some nontraditional staging in the meet the man of her dreams once they moved to play—when the star-crossed lovers Masha and Vershinin Moscow. But they keep not going to Moscow, and had a scene, other actors would say their dialogue, while instead her only choice is a loveless marriage to Baron Masha and Vershinin would get down on their knees and Tuzenbach. She is disappointed in her beloved brother growl and purr and paw each other. I guess they were Andrei, who has made a disastrous marriage to the leopards in love or something. Maybe they were lions. I bullying Natasha and is gambling and has given up his don’t think they were raccoons, because they weren’t dreams of being a professor. They have all given up their eating garbage. dreams. Sorry to be flip, and I’m sure the growling-crawling Heineman’s shift from joy to despair was riveting. behavior is far from a fair description of what Grotowski Starting with a startling “Where has it all gone to?... meant. And I know that he was significant in the history where is it?,” Irina quickly progresses to how hopeless of experimental theatre. Though, as a comic writer, I find her life seems, how she feels muddled and is forgetting it hard not to look back at the “inner animal” sections everything. She says, “I don’t remember the Italian for and find them kind of funny. ‘window’ or ‘ceiling.’ And every day I’m forgetting more Besides which, what I really liked about the production and more….” was all the regular acting in it. Most of the play—two- Because I had never read the play, the weird specificity of thirds, maybe?—was just young actors embodying their forgetting foreign words for “window” and “ceiling” roles with intelligence and passion. And the play was jumped out at me as a beautiful and heartbreaking line. new to me; I had not read it. It positively haunted me. It embedded itself in my brain. Of course, I did know that the recurring lament of the I guess Three Sisters is actually my favorite Chekhov play. three sisters was their desire to “go to Moscow,” where they grew up and where life seemed stimulating and CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER No. 5 hopeful. (Oh, Uncle Vanya) I already liked Beckett and the existential feel of waiting I read Uncle Vanya on my own. And I saw a wonderful for Godot, who never came, and the three sisters production directed by Mike Nichols in 1973 at Circle in seemed a precursor to that. They longed to go to the Square, with an exciting cast of George C. Scott, Moscow, and yet they never went. The ending of Waiting Nicol Williamson, Julie Christie, Elizabeth Wilson, Lillian for Godot is this: Gish and Barnard Hughes. I paid 10 dollars for standing room, and it was thrilling to see. Vladimir: Well? Shall we go? Estragon: Yes, let’s go. And if the “Italian for window and ceiling” lines haunted They do not move. End of play. me in Three Sisters, it was Sonia’s devastating lines at the end of the play that transfixed me here. Vanya has had an Which is similar to Olga, Masha and Irina. “Oh, my emotional meltdown and has tried to shoot the sisters, let’s go to Moscow.” They do not move. professor, missing each time. And now Vanya and his

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P7 niece Sonia are left alone, both rejected by the people these lines: “O, we gotta get to Moscow, make a check- they love, and both with no hope of any kind. Like me on off list and pack, and we’ll leave this town behind us, and Mondays. (No, just kidding.) we’re never coming back….O, we gotta get to Cleveland, And Sonia says, “What can we do? We shall go on living. San Francisco or L.A., and we’ll sell the cherry orchard, We shall suffer through a long succession of tedious and we’ll give the pits away.…Goodbye now, Uncle Vanya, days and tedious nights.” don’t you cry now, Gotta get to Moscow, Moscow right now!” Reading the play, I stopped right there. “Long succession of tedious days.” I don’t feel that every day, though I did It was a crazy and chaotic play, and it was Albert’s and during my middle two years at college. And I don’t know my first professional production. why I find that such a despairing sentiment doesn’t CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER No. 7 depress me; it moves me. It shows me that other people I had the idea to write Vanya and Sonia and Masha and feel awful at certain times. It’s the opposite of the people Spike a few years ago, when I realized that I was now the who rush in and say “Cheer up!” to you when it’s the age that Vanya was (or seemed to be). And, like Vanya wrong time to say that. Oh, I don’t know. I guess I love and other Chekhov characters, I started to reassess the emotional sadness in Chekhov. choices made in the past. CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER No. 6 I live in a stone farmhouse with my partner, the writer- (Chekhov meets Dostoyevsky meets Chris and Albert) actor John Augustine, on a small hill in Bucks County, My senior year at college, my depression lifted. A longer Pennsylvania. I choose to live here for the quiet and the story, but lifted it did. I was accepted into the Yale School trees, and there is a small pond where a blue heron of Drama with a play that I had written in two days—a comes and sees what is available to eat. burst of energy after not writing for a couple of years. But I started to think to myself, what if I didn’t live here I made three important friendships at Yale: fellow with my partner but with my adopted sister, and the two playwright Albert Innaurato, actress , of us had spent 15 years taking care of our elderly and and fellow playwright Wendy Wasserstein. eventually incoherent parents. What if we never left the house we lived in as children, and felt jealous of our Albert and I were both raised Catholic, and we both had older sister, who was a glamorous stage and film star. nuns in our plays. We had a brief period of distrust—was She sends us money, but our lives feel empty and the school big enough for two nun-writing authors? unexciting. What if my life had been closer to a However, Albert made me laugh, and we became friends. Chekhov play? We co-wrote and performed in two cabaret pieces. And By the way, I also have cherry trees around the house. we also wrote a very odd, playful musical together—The About nine of them, I’d say. Very pretty two weeks a year. Idiots Karamazov. The setup was that Constance Garnett was translating The Brothers Karamazov, but she was old My play is not a parody. It is set in the present day. Once and crazy and kept mixing it up with Chekhov and I finished the first draft, I started to say to people, “The Eugene O’Neill and Charles Dickens—it was a literary play takes Chekhov characters and themes and puts roller coaster. them into a blender.” Throughout my life, I keep reacting and reacting to Chekhov. ◆ It was done first as an undergrad project (directed by Albert). Then it was a Drama School project, starring acting student Meryl Streep as Constance. (Whatever Christopher Durang is an award-winning playwright whose work happened to her? Ha-ha.) And then, as a professional has appeared on and off-Broadway, including the Tony-nominated production at the Yale Repertory Theatre, still starring A History of the American Film, the -winning Sister Meryl, and I was unexpectedly cast as the monk Alyosha. Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, and , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. With Marsha Norman, In the first scene, Constance introduces the Karamazov he is the co-chair of the Playwriting Program at Juilliard. brothers, but when they enter they sing a spirited song Reprinted with permission from the Lincoln Center Theater Review. called “O, We Gotta Get to Moscow.” The lyrics included

P8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Who’s Who

MARK BLUM lifetime” as Edith Beale and Little Empire Corner, Invisible, Rehearsing a (Vanya) returns to Edie Beale in Grey Gardens. Other Dream (Academy Award nom., Best the Taper after an memorable performances include Documentary Short, 2006). absence of 30 her Tony Award-winning Television: The Good Wife. Education: years. Broadway: performance in the revival of 42nd The Juilliard School. Affiliated with The Assembled Street, Steel Magnolias, On the NFAA Arts. Parties, The Best Twentieth Century, Oklahoma, Man (both Camelot, Dinner at Eight, The Best DAVID HULL revivals), Twelve Angry Men, The Man and Blithe Spirit. Film credits (Spike). CTG Graduate, A Thousand Clowns, Lost include The Wolf of Wall Street, The Debut. Recently In Yonkers, My Thing of Love, The Big Wedding, Confessions of a seen as Cooper in Merchant. Off-Broadway: The Model Shopaholic, Black Sheep, Richie Rich, the New York Apartment, The Good Mother, Lonely and Amadeus. Ms. Ebersole premiere of Really I’m Not, We Live Here, Picked, After was a regular cast member on Really (MCC). And The Revolution, The Singing Forest, Saturday Night Live (‘81- ‘82). Other recently not seen Mourning Becomes Electra, The Long television credits include American as the understudy for Daniel Christmas Ride Home, The Waverly Horror Story: Coven, Royal Pains, Radcliffe, Nick Jonas and Darren Gallery, Mizlanski Zilinski, Little Ugly Betty, Boston Legal and Will Criss in the recent Broadway revival Footsteps, It’s Only A Play, Gus and and Grace. She can currently be of How To Succeed... Other Credits: Al (Obie Award), Key Exchange, seen in the comedy series Sullivan The Book of Mormon (Elder Grant), Table Settings, Say Goodnight Gracie. and Son on TBS. www. Wicked (Fiyero u/s), A Chorus Line Films: I Don’t Know How She Does christineebersole.com (Mark). Regional: Calvin Berger It, Shattered Glass, Desperately (George Street Playhouse), Saved Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee, SHALITA GRANT (Kansas City Rep), High Button Shoes The Presidio, Blind Date, Worth (Cassandra). (Goodspeed) and Gypsy starring Winning, Lovesick, Miami Rhapsody. Broadway: Vanya Patti LuPone. Film/TV: The Big C, TV: Indictment: The McMartin Trial, and Sonia and Smash and the forthcoming feature The Defenders, The Judge, Jesse Masha and Spike film You Must Be Joking. University of Stone: Innocents Lost, Capital News, (Tony nomination, Michigan graduate. Thanks to this Sweet Surrender, The Good Wife, Theatre World amazing cast and creative team, Damages, Mercy, Fringe, The Award recipient). Armen and Sean at ICM, Sarah and Sopranos, The West Wing, Law & Off-Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Nick at 3 Arts, and to his hilarious Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Masha and Spike (LCT, Martin E. friends and family. Law & Order: SVU, CSI: Miami, Segal Award recipient); The NYPD Blue, Frasier, The Practice, Philanderer (Pearl Theatre); Measure KRISTINE Judging Amy, Roseanne, Wings, for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, The NIELSEN (Sonia). Miami Vice, St. Elsewhere. Merchant of Venice (The Public Broadway: Vanya Theater); Roxy Font (Fringe NYC). and Sonia and CHRISTINE Regional: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and EBERSOLE Masha and Spike (McCarter Spike (Tony (Masha). Ms. Theatre); Luck of the Irish nomination), Ebersole received (Huntington Theatre); The Laramie Bloody Bloody virtually every Project (England); Unaccompanied Andrew Jackson, To Be or Not to Be, off-Broadway Minors (Vanguard Arts); The Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Spring award and her Children’s Hour (Everyman Theatre); Awakening, A Streetcar Named second Tony A Raisin in the Sun, Into the Woods Desire, The Green Bird, Jackie, The Award for Leading Actress in a (Mainstage Theater); Body and Soul Iceman Cometh. With Christopher Musical for her “dual role of a (Baryshnikov Arts Center). Film: Durang: Why Torture Is Wrong, and

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9 the People Who Love Them (Drama Crucible. She is a also graduate of BRAD SCHMIDT League, Outer Critics Circle noms.), Point Park University. (Understudy for Miss Witherspoon, Betty’s Summer Spike). Broadway: Vacation (Obie, Drama Desk and SUSAN Lombardi (Circle Outer Critics Circle noms.), Mrs. DENAKER in the Square). Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge. (Understudy for Off-Broadway: Off-Broadway: Crazy Mary, Our Sonia and Masha). Corktown Leading Lady, Dog Opera (Obie London West End (Signature Award). Has appeared at many Theatre: Theatre), New Girl in Town regional theatres including the Old Accidental Death (Theresa Lange Theatre), Peer Gynt Globe, La Jolla Playhouse and the of an Anarchist, (Shapiro Theatre). Regional: Taper. Film: Morning Glory, That’s Budgie, Blockheads, Country Life. Lombardi (Fox Cities PAC). Los What She Said, The Savages, Regional: Abuela Claudia, In The Angeles: The Bacchae (Getty Villa), Adelaide, Small Time Crooks. Heights; understudy Beth in Tribes West (Electric Lodge), FooteNotes Television: Political Animals, Smash, and Bernstein (performed) in and Mad Forest (Open Fist Law & Order, Law & Order: CI, Third November, Mark Taper Forum; Lola Theatre). Film: Dead Men Float, Watch, NBC’s live broadcast of The in Come Back, Little Sheba; Aunt Eden, Bill, Tunnel Rats. TV: CSI: Sound of Music. Education: MFA, Alicia in Gigi; Paulina in A Winter’s New York, Entourage, The Studio, Yale School of Drama; B.S., Tale; Sweet Bird of Youth and Our Joey, Summerland, As the World Northwestern. Town, La Jolla Playhouse; Beatrice Turns, Guiding Light and is currently in A View From the Bridge; Marta in on season three of House of Lies on LIESEL ALLEN ; Frankie and Johnny in the Showtime as J.C. Butterman. YEAGER (Nina) is Clair de Lune, Breaking Legs. Film/ Thanks to Larry Moss, Deb Aquila, excited to explore Television: American Friends, Alan Hergott and SMS. Love to my L.A. and make her Accidental Death of an Anarchist, As wife Julianna and son Jaxon. Center Theatre Time Goes By, Just a Gigolo, Me and Group debut! My Girl, Royce, The Woman He GEORGIA Previous credits Loved, Passport to Murder. She has WARNER include Broadway: recorded over 100 audio books. (Understudy for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Nina) has loved Spike. Lincoln Center: Vanya and DAVID PEVSNER enacting Jill in Sonia and Masha and Spike. (Understudy for Equus (with Alec Off-off- Broadway: Too Much, Too Vanya). Stage: Baldwin), Slippy Soon (Lesser America), The F*cking Men (U.S. Helen in The Sporting Life (Studio 42). Film: A premiere), Corpus Cripple of Inishmaan and Pip in Picture of You. Television: The Good Christi, Fiddler on Moby Dick Rehearsed (with Peter Wife, How to Make It in America. Broadway with Boyle) at the John Drew Theatre/ Education: The Juilliard School. Topol, When Pigs Guild Hall; Curley’s Wife in Of Mice Thank you to Chris for his beautiful, Fly (original N.Y./L.A. cast), Party and Men at Pioneer Theatre funny play. (original N.Y. cast), MTLA’s Company (director Mary B. Chicago, Lucid by Proxy’s Into the Robinson); Abigail in The Crucible NGOZI Woods, It Must Be Him (L.A. at Northern Stage; Margot in The ANYANWU premiere). Film: Scrooge and Marley Diary of Anne Frank at Bay Street (Understudy for (Ebenezer Scrooge), Joshua Tree: Theatre; and Polly in Transport Cassandra) is a 1951, Role/Play, Corpus Christi: at Irish Arts Center (director recent MFA grad Playing with Redemption, Waiting in Tony Walton), plus many more from UC San the Wings, Love and Teleportation. plays and several nifty indie Diego. UCSD TV/Web: Modern Family, Grey’s films. She would like to thank Credits: Joe Anatomy, Liz and Dick, Law & DHP, Mark and Mike for this Turner’s Come and Gone, Titus Order: LA, Desperate Housewives, exhilarating opportunity! Andronicus, Hedda Gabler and June The LXD, Old Dogs and New Tricks. www.GeorgiaWarner.com Moon. Other Credits: As You Like It Songwriter: Adam and Steve, Naked (directed by Eve Best), War Boys Singing, and the one-man CHRISTOPHER DURANG (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater) musicals To Bitter and Back and (Playwright). His plays include A and Castronauts (NYMF). Regional Musical Comedy Whore. History of the American Film (Tony Credits: Hair, Showboat and The nomination), Sister Mary Ignatius

P10 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Explains It All for Brook’s The Cherry Orchard. DAVID KORINS (Set Design). You (Obie Award), Regional: Six Dance Lessons in Six Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Beyond Therapy Weeks with Uta Hagen at the Geffen Masha and Spike, Motown, Annie, (off and on Playhouse, various roles at the Bring It On, Chinglish, An Evening Broadway), Guthrie, Goodman and Long Wharf with Patti LuPone and Mandy Baby with the Theatres. Film: The Perfect Host, Patinkin, Magic/Bird, Godspell, The Bathwater, Down with Love, Full Frontal, Wet Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, photo by susan johann. The Marriage Hot American Summer, A Bug’s Life, Passing Strange and Bridge & of Bette and Boo (Obies for Treasure Planet, Wolf, Nixon, Tunnel. David has worked playwriting, Jerry Zaks’ direction, Sleepless in Seattle, Little Man Tate, extensively both off-Broadway and ensemble acting; Dramatists Guild Crossing Delancey. TV: The Powers regionally. Opera credits include Hull Warriner Award), Laughing That Be, The Outer Limits, Titus, the world premiere operas of The Wild, For Whom the Southern Belle Frasier (Emmy and SAG Awards). Gospel of Mary Magdalene at the Tolls, Betty’s Summer Vacation As Director: Oscar Wilde’s The San Francisco Opera, and Oscar (Obies for playwriting, Nicholas Importance of Being Earnest at and Life Is A Dream at Santa Fe Martin’s direction, Kristine the Williamstown Theatre Festival Opera. David served as creative Nielsen), Miss Witherspoon (2005 and Anselmi & Hargrove’s musical director to Kanye West, designing Pulitzer finalist), Why Torture is It Shoulda Been You at the George several concerts in the United Wrong and the People Who Love Street Playhouse. States and abroad. He received a Them. For Vanya and Sonia and , a Lucille Lortel Masha and Spike, he won the 2013 NICHOLAS MARTIN (Broadway Award, three Henry Hewes Awards . Cabaret: Director). Broadway: Vanya and and the 2009 Obie Award for Das Lusitania Songspiel, coauthored Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony Sustained Excellence in Design. and performed by Sigourney Award nomination), Present Dad to Stella and Vivian. www. Weaver and Durang (Drama Desk Laughter, Butley, Match, Hedda DavidKorinsDesign.com nominations for both performers); Gabler, The Rehearsal, You Never Chris Durang and Dawne (Bistro Can Tell. Off-Broadway: Vanya GABRIEL BERRY (Costume Design) Award for Durang and cohorts John and Sonia and Masha and Spike, specializes in collaboration on new Augustine and Sherry Anderson). Saturn Returns, The New Century, work. Notable productions include He won the Harvard Arts Medal, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching the world premieres of the works the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a Towards the Somme (Drama Desk of Maria Irene Fornes, Richard Master American Dramatist; nomination), Chaucer in Rome, The Foreman, Charles Ludlam, Samuel recently inducted in the Theater Time of the Cuckoo (LCT); Why Beckett, Philip Glass, John Guare, Hall of Fame. For 20 years he and Torture Is Wrong, and the People Christopher Durang, Mabou Mines, Marsha Norman have been co- Who Love Them (The Public Peter Sellars, John Adams, Tito chairs of the Juilliard Playwriting Theater); Fully Committed (Vineyard Puentes, Yoshiko Chuma, Lucinda Program. He is a member of Theatre, Cherry Lane); Full Gallop Childs, Ethyl Eichelberger, Nick the Dramatists Guild Council. (MTC, Westside Theatre); Betty’s Jones, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, www.christopherdurang.com Summer Vacation (Obie Award, Osvaldo Golijov, Meredith Monk Drama Desk nomination), Sophistry and Ellen Stewart. Awards include DAVID HYDE (); Bosoms and Obies, Bessies and a silver medal PIERCE (Director). Neglect (Signature Theatre). from the Prague Quadrennial for CTG: Curtains, Regional: Vanya and Sonia and her contribution to experimental It’s Only a Play. Masha and Spike, She Stoops to theatre. Broadway: Vanya Conquer (McCarter); The House of and Sonia and Blue Leaves (Mark Taper Forum); DAVID WEINER (Lighting Design). Masha and Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre); Center Theatre Group: American Spike (Tony Pygmalion, Macbeth (Old Globe); Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose, nomination), La Bête, Accent on The Verizon Play (Humana); The Venice (2011 L.A. Ovation Award), Youth, Curtains (Tony Award), Show Off, The Circle, A Cheever This Beautiful City. Broadway: Spamalot, The Heidi Chronicles, Evening (Westport Country Romeo & Juliet, Dead Accounts, Beyond Therapy. Off-Broadway: The Playhouse); My Wonderful Day Grace, Godspell, The Normal Landing, Close Up Space, Elliot Loves, (Two River Theater). Former artistic Heart, reasons to be pretty, Butley, Zero Positive, That’s It, Folks!, The director of Williamstown Theatre Dinner at Eight (LCT), Betrayal Maderati, The Author’s Voice, Festival and Boston’s Huntington (Roundabout), The Real Thing. Summer, Hamlet, Much Ado, Peter Theatre. Off-Broadway: MCC, MTC, Second

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P11 Stage, Playwrights Horizons, The Pacific. Off-Broadway: King Lear, New York City Opera and the Radio Public, N.Y. Theatre Workshop, Neighbors, Hurt Village, Angels City Christmas Spectacular on Theatre for a New Audience, in America. Other: The Wiz projects including 13, Parade, The Vineyard, Atlantic. Regional: The (City Center); Cunning Little Last Five Years, Show Boat, Candide, Goodman, Oregon Shakespeare Vixen, Le Grand Macabre (N.Y. 3hree, Hollywood Arms, Bounce, Festival, South Coast Repertory, Philharmonic); White Noise LoveMusik, Paradise Found, Sweeney The Guthrie, La Jolla Playhouse, The (Royal George); You, Nero Todd, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Alley, McCarter, Huntington, ART, (Arena); The Wiz, Joseph... Life, Sweet Smell of Success and Kansas City Rep, Williamstown, (Dallas Theater Center); Liberty Ragtime. Treasurer of the Board, Berkeley Rep. Museum Design: NC Smith, 1776 (Ford’s Theatre). Casting Society of America. State Museum of Natural Sciences Nature Research Center - Raleigh, BRYAN HUNT (Associate Director) DANIEL SWEE, CSA (Casting). As NC. Awards: 2012 Lucille Lortel was the assistant director for the casting director for Lincoln Center Award (Through a Glass Darkly), world premiere of Vanya and Sonia Theater, he has cast more than 70 2011 Drama Desk nomination and Masha and Spike at the productions including Vanya and (Small Fire), 2005 Lucille McCarter Theatre, Lincoln Center Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Lortel Award (Rodney’s Wife). Theater and on Broadway. His Nance, Golden Boy, War Horse, www.DavidWeinerDesign.com directing credits include Alien Other Desert Cities, The Coast of Sex Comedy (New Light Theater Utopia, In the Next Room, Joe MARK BENNETT (Original Music Project), As You Like It, Caroling Turner’s Come and Gone, Awake and and Sound Design). Broadway Through the Woods (Theater Hikes Sing!, Henry IV, The Invention of (Lincoln Center Theater): Macbeth, - CO), Pretty, Smart, Poetic Love, Contact, The Heiress, Arcadia, Vanya and Sonia…, The Coast of (Westport Country Playhouse), Carousel and The Sisters Rosensweig. Utopia (Drama Desk Award, Henry V (Great River Shakespeare Additional Broadway productions Outstanding Score; Henry Hewes Festival - SYA) and Urinetown: The include God of Carnage, Mary Award, Outstanding Sound Musical (Margo Jones Theatre). In Stuart, Exit the King, Frost/Nixon, Design), Henry IV. Broadway: Dead addition to Vanya..., he has served The Crucible, Art and The Heidi Accounts, Driving Miss Daisy, A as assistant director at several Chronicles. Films include The Hours, Steady Rain, Henry IV, A Streetcar regional theatres including The Crucible, The Object of My Named Desire, Who’s Afraid of Westport Country Playhouse, 92Y, Affection, The Great New Wonderful Virginia Woolf?, Golda’s Balcony, Baltimore Center Stage, Goodman and Cold Souls. The Goat, Lily Tomlin’s The Search… Theatre and Dallas Theater Center. (Ovation Award-CTG), The Lion in He is currently producing director DAVID S. Winter, A View From the Bridge. of the Iron Curtain Theater FRANKLIN CTG: Dead End, Without Walls, The Company in NYC and was a (Production Stage House of Bernarda Alba (Ovation founding member of the Island Manager). Center nomination). Getty/Hall Walls: Theatre Company in Chicago. Theatre Group Plato’s Symposium. La Jolla Highlights: An Playhouse: A Midsummer Night’s MARK B. SIMON, CSA (Casting). Enemy of the Dream (Craig Noel Award), His Gal CTG: The Black Suits, The Royale People, Baz Friday, Most Wanted, Dogeaters. (Artios nomination), Neva (Kirk Luhrmann’s La Bohème, Art, The Globe: Pygmalion, Twelfth Douglas Theatre); The Sunshine Romance, The Cherry Orchard, Night. Off-Broadway: The Bridge Boys, The Scottsboro Boys, End of Curtains, Nightingale, The History Project 2009-2012 (BAM/Old Vic), the Rainbow, Backbeat (Ahmanson Boys, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Talley’s Folly, An Iliad (Obie Theatre); The Steward of Two Unrelated Plays by David Award, Craig Noel Award); Christendom, A Parallelogram, Los Mamet, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Parade, Mad Forest. Awards: 1998 Obie Otros (Mark Taper Forum). Prior to The Subject Was Roses, Bengal Tiger Award for Sustained Excellence joining the CTG casting department, at the Baghdad Zoo, The Lieutenant in Sound Design, 14 Drama Mark worked as a New York-based of Inishmore, Randy Newman’s Desk nominations. independent casting director for Harps and Angels, God of Carnage, clients including Hal Prince, Jason Vigil, Waiting for Godot, Los COOKIE JORDAN (Wig, Hair and Robert Brown, Graciela Daniele, Otros, Red, Seminar, Tribes, A Make-up Design). Broadway: Fela!, Susan Stroman, Patricia Birch, Parallelogram, Humor Abuse and Motherf**ker with the Hat, , Marvin The Steward of Christendom. Other Lombardi, The Miracle Worker, Hamlisch, Nick Hytner, Alfred Los Angeles: Los Angeles Theatre A View from the Bridge, South Uhry, Carol Burnett, Jeremy Sams, Center in its heyday from 1985-

P12 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 1990, Pasadena Playhouse and Hartford Stage, Arizona Theatre 2011) as President of the Music Geffen Playhouse. Regional: Seattle Company, Long Wharf and Center Foundation, a non-profit Rep, Intiman Theatre. New York: Bay Street. corporation that holds and invests Public Theater. Tours: Europe the endowment and reserve funds - Quotations from a Ruined City, MICHAEL for the Music Center and its resident Law of Remains (with Reza Abdoh’s RITCHIE (Artistic companies (including CTG). Prior to Dar a Luz company). Director) is in his his years at CTG, he was the eighth season as Director of Finance at The Old MICHELLE BLAIR (Stage Manager). Center Theatre Globe in San Diego and principal of For CTG: The Steward of Group’s Artistic Rada & Associates, an accounting Christendom, The Sunshine Boys, A Director, and has firm that specialized in Parallelogram, Joe Turner’s Come led over 130 entertainment-related non-profit and Gone, Backbeat, Krapp’s Last productions to the Ahmanson, organizations and theatrical Tape, Red, Los Otros, Clybourne Taper and Douglas stages since his productions. He is a graduate of Park, Vigil, Poor Behavior, Burn This, arrival in 2005. From 1996 to 2004 Occidental College in Los Angeles Leap of Faith, The Lieutenant of Michael was the Producer of the with numerous post-graduate Inishmore, Parade, Lydia, The School Williamstown Theatre Festival and coursework and credentials. He of Night, Bloody Bloody Andrew prior to that he was a Production currently serves on the board of Jackson, Distracted, Nightingale, Stage Manager in NYC. At CTG, he directors for Entertainment Industry Without Walls, Lewis and Clark premiered six musicals that moved Foundation, Theatre @ Boston Reach the Euphrates, all wear to Broadway — The Drowsy Court, and United Support of Artists bowlers (also at the Barbican Chaperone (which won 13 Tony for Africa/USA for Africa, among Theatre, Berkeley Rep., La Jolla Award nominations), Curtains other affiliations. He also serves on Playhouse and Studio Theatre), (eight Tony nominations) 13, 9 to 5: the board of trustees for the Flight, Nothing But The Truth, The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew pension, health and welfare and Stones in His Pockets, Topdog/ Jackson and Leap of Faith. He has 401(k) plans of I.A.T.S.E. Local 33 Underdog and “QED” at Lincoln produced 33 world premieres Stagehands Union. Center Theater. Other favorites including the musicals Minsky’s, include The Pee-Wee Herman Show Venice and Sleeping Beauty Wakes, DOUGLAS C. at Club Nokia, A Long Bridge Over and the plays Bengal Tiger at the BAKER (Producing Deep Waters with Cornerstone Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer Prize Director) is now Theater Company and Amnesia finalist that also moved to in his 23rd season Curiosa with Rainpan 43. Mom Broadway), Water & Power and at CTG. to five-year-old Liam and one-year- Yellow Face, and he presented a Previously, he old Imogen. broad range of plays and musicals managed ranging from Dead End to The Broadway and DENISE YANEY (Stage Manager). Black Rider to Edward Scissorhands touring productions including Tru, Most recently stage-managed to blockbusters such as God of Born Yesterday, The Gospel at Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Carnage, Mary Poppins, Jersey Boys Colonus, Annie, A Chorus Line, Spike on Broadway. Other Broadway and August: Osage County. In Working, The Wiz, and Legends!, credits include Time Stands Still, addition, Michael inaugurated which premiered at the Ahmanson American Buffalo, The Homecoming, CTG’s New Play Production Theatre in 1986 and starred Mary The Retreat From Moscow, A Moon Program, designed to foster the Martin and Carol Channing. Doug for the Misbegotten, Redwood development and production of is a member of the Achievement Curtain and As Is; In the Next new work. Hall of Fame of Chagrin Falls Room, Awake and Sing! and Schools in Ohio and a graduate of Morning’s at Seven (Lincoln EDWARD L. Albion College. He is an active Center); The Columnist, Good RADA (Managing member of the Broadway League, People, Accent on Youth, Brooklyn Director) returned the Independent Presenters Boy and Sight Unseen (MTC); The to Center Theatre and is a proud member of Road to Mecca, Old Acquaintance, Group in 2011 the Association of Theatrical Press Major Barbara and The Play’s the after previously Agents and Managers. In May 2013 Thing (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: serving as CTG’s Doug received The Broadway LCT, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Chief Financial League’s prestigious Outstanding Second Stage and Circle Rep Officer for 12 years (1996 – 2008). Achievement in Presenter (company member). Regional: Rada spent three years (2008 – Management Award.

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P13 KELLEY productions at Award, The Governor’s Award for KIRKPATRICK the Taper and the Arts and a Guggenheim (Associate Artistic Douglas, as well fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Director). Since as new play (Part One) won arriving at CTG in commissions and the Pulitzer in consecutive years 2005, Kelley has developmental and, in 1994, three of the four plays produced over 40 productions nominated for the Tony Award for productions at through CTG’s Best Play were from the Taper the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper New Play Development. Nausica (Angels in America won). In Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre, has taught at USC’s School of 1989 Gordon took over the many of which have gone on to Dramatic Arts, and advises and Ahmanson and, in 2004, he future lives on Broadway, off- works with local not-for-profits produced the inaugural season Broadway and beyond. In addition including Daukayev Ballet Theatre in the Kirk Douglas Theatre. to producing shows across CTG’s and Hollywood Orchard. MFA, three stages, he has had the Yale School of Drama and Outward privilege of collaborating with Bound trekker. numerous local and national artists to commission and develop GORDON new works. DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Director) Manager, Mark Taper Forum and led the Taper Kirk Douglas Theatre) has worked throughout its professionally supporting artists in first 38 seasons, theatres of all shapes, sizes and guiding over 300 locales including many seasons at productions to its stage and Center Theatre Group as General winning countless awards for Manager and, previously, as himself and the theatre — Audience Development Director. including the Tony Award for She oversees main stage theatrical excellence, Margo Jones

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P14 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE (l-r): Kristine Nielsen, David Hull, Shalita Grant, Director David Hyde Pierce, Associate Director Bryan Hunt, Christine Ebersole and Mark Blum.

Mark Blum and Shalita Grant. (l-r): Christine Ebersole, Mark Blum and Shalita Grant. photos by joan marcus.

Kristine Nielsen. David Hull and Liesel Allen Yeager.

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P15 Center Theatre Group L.A.’s Theatre Company Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director EDWARD L. RADA, Managing Director Douglas c. baker, Producing Director ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER ...... Associate Artistic Director JODY HORWITZ ...... Director of Human Resources KELLEY KIRKPATRICK ...... Associate Artistic Director MADRIO FLEEKS ...... Senior Human Resources Generalist DIANE RODRIGUEZ ...... Associate Producer/Director of New Play Production SINGER LEWAK, LLP ...... Auditor PIER CARLO TALENTI ...... Resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF ...... Legal Counsel LINDSAY ALLBAUGH ...... Producing Associate GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER ...... Legal Counsel Malcolm K. Darrell ...... New Play Production Associate Joy meads ...... Literary Associate and Artistic Engagement Strategist DEVELOPMENT mark b. simon ...... Casting Director YVONNE CARLSON BELL ...... Director of Development STEVEN PIEszCHALKSI ...... Casting Assistant PATRICK OWEN ...... Deputy Director of Development NATALIE BERGESON ...... Director of Donor Contributions DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), JESSICA BLANK, SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), TIM JEAN KLING ...... Director of Institutional Support CROUCH, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, GINA GIONFRIDDO, GOB SQUAD, MATT GOULD, DANAI LIZ LIN ...... Director of Corporate Relations and Communications GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, JOE HORTUA, ERIK JENSEN, RAJIV JOSEPH, LATINO THEATER CHARITY WU ...... Director of Individual Giving COMPANY, GRIFFIN MATTHEWS, LAURAL MEADE, JULIE MARIE MYATT (FADIMAN), BECKY BIRDSONG ...... Major Gifts Officer DAN O’BRIEN, EVANGELINE ORDAZ, DAEL ORLANDERSMITH, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), jAMIE CATALDO ...... Corporate Relations Manager RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, matt sax, YOUNG JEAN LEE THEATER COMPANY . . . . MANDi OR ...... Special Events Manager ...... Commissioned Artists Eric Brown ...... Communications Coordinator jennifer chan ...... Special Events Associate Bekah Brunstetter, Carla ching, jason grote, sarah gubbins, tim mcneil, JUSTIN FOO ...... Donor Contributions Associate henry ong, madhuri shekar ...... CTG Writers’ Workshop Members SARAH HARBURG-PETRICH ...... Development Assistant katy hilton ...... Grant Writer EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Donald Jolly ...... Donor Relations Associate for the Inner Circle LESLIE K. JOHNSON ...... Director of Education and Community Partnerships Kristen Levy-Vaughan ...... Individual Giving Assistant PATRICIA GARZA ...... Assistant Department Director JESSICA NASH ...... Donor Contributions Supervisor TRACI CHO KWON ...... Director of School Partnerships maria paredes ...... Donor Relations Associate for The Guild CAMILLE SCHENKKAN . . . . Program Manager, Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals COURTNEY ROBERTSON ...... Institutional Giving Associate JESUS REYES ...... Program Manager, Community Partnerships ERIC SEPPALA ...... Executive Assistant to the Development Director KATRINA FRYE ...... Program Associate ERIN SCHLABACH ...... Major Gifts Coordinator NIJUEL PORTER ...... Temporary Program Associate JESSICA THORSON ...... Corporate Relations Coordinator Kelly CHRIST ...... Communications Coordinator ASHLEY LAMPSON OPSTAD ...... Program Coordinator AL BERMAN, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, DAVID GARVER, GINA EAST, lili herrera, SHANNON WINSTON ...... Department Coordinator TONY LEWELLEN, HOLLY RAMOS, NICOLE SCIPIONE, lena thomas, PAUL DEBRA PIVER ...... Resident Teaching Artist vitagliano, BILL WALTON, TOM WINKLER ...... Donor Advisors MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ADAM BURCH, Karla Galvez ...... Donor Services Associates Nausica Stergiou . . . . General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) ANNE BRUNER, Murray E. Heltzer, marci miller, JEFFREY UPAH ...... General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) julie nadal ...... Development Volunteers SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY ...... Assistant General Manager (Mark Taper Forum) KATIE BRUNER SOFF . . On leave - Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPP) MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Alana beidelman ...... Executive Assistant to Managing Director JIM ROYCE ...... Director of Marketing, Communications and Sales PATRICK BELL ...... General Management Associate EMIKA ABE ...... Yale School of Drama Fellow NANCY HEREFORD ...... Director of Media and Communications PHYLLIS MOBERLY ...... Media and Communications Associate ERIC SIMS ...... Operations Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JASON MARTIN ...... Media and Communications Associate TOM BURMESTER . Audience Experience Design/Front of House Mgr (Kirk Douglas Theatre) LYN COWAN ...... Media and Communications Coordinator LAUREN BAXA ...... Assistant Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHELSEY ROSETTER ...... Media and Communications Coordinator Max Oken ...... Facility Assistant (Kirk Douglas Theatre) Sondra Mayer ...... Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) nishita doshi ...... Art Director IRENE KANESHIRO ...... Senior Design Manager PRODUCTION Haruka hayakawa ...... Graphic Designer DAWN HOLISKI ...... Production Department Operations Director TERESA ENGLISH ...... Graphic Designer JONATHAN BARLOW LEE ...... Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) CELESTE SANTAMASSINO ...... Associate Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) SUSAN BARTON ...... Interim Associate Director of Marketing emmet kaiser ...... Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) ANDREW DARCEY ...... Advertising Manager ROBERT RUBY ...... Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) KAREN VOCK ...... Marketing Manager WILLIAM MORNER ...... Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) JAMES SIMS ...... Marketing Creative Manager BONES MALONE ...... Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) JEWEL MOORE ...... Marketing Coordinator DENNIS SEETOO ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) ROSE POIRIER ...... Webmaster RICK GEYER ...... Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) CRAIG SCHWARTZ ...... Production Photographer LINDA WALKER ...... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) LARRY DEAN HARRIS ...... Copywriter CINEVATIVE/MARK CIGLAR ...... Production Video JOE HAMLIN ...... Technical Director/Ahmanson Production Manager TOM BURMESTER, TREVOR ALGATT, KEVIN MAPP ...... Event Video CHAD SMITH ...... Associate Technical Director ALLIED LIVE: SAM CRAVEN-GRIFFITHS ...... Associate Technical Director LAURA MATALON, SHANNON WILLETT, KELLY ESTRELLA ...... Advertising Agency ANDREW THIELS ...... Prop Manager TICKET SALES AND SERVICES MERRIANNE NEDREBERG ...... Associate Prop Manager SHAWN ROBERTSON ...... Ticket Sales Director SARAH KRAININ ...... Prop Associate SKYPP CABANAS ...... Ticket Operations Coordinator CANDICE CAIN ...... Costume Director SANDY CZUBIAK ...... Audience and Subscriber Services Manager BRENT M. BRUIN ...... Costume Workroom Supervisor JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE . Audience Services Supervisors MADDIE KELLER ...... On leave - Costume Generalist ALICE CHEN ...... Audience Services Asst. Supervisor WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER ...... Interim Costume Generalist SAM AARON, DEBORAH REED ...... Audience Services Sales Associates SWANTJE TUOHINO ...... Tailor ELIZABETH LEONARD ...... Production Operations Manager jeremie arencibia, VICKI BERNDT, RJ CANTU, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., JULIO A. CUELLAR ...... Driver/Custodian PETER COLBURN, DONALD CRANDALL, GARY HOLLAND, DONAVAN MARTINELLI, EUGENE A. MONTEIRO II, BRIAN SLATEN ...... Drivers KAY LOCHARD, JUSTINE PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, DANNY SCHMITZ, JENNIFER ACHTERBERG ...... Production Administrator CRIS SPACCA ...... Audience Services Representatives SHAWN ANDERSON ...... Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) DANUTA SIEMAK ...... Subscriber Services Supervisor ANDREW W. ARNOLD ...... Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ ...... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor STAN STEELMON ...... Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) LIGIA PISTE, CELIA RIVAS ...... Subscriber Services Senior Representatives JIM BERGER ...... Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) irene chuang, peter staloch ...... Subscriber Services Representatives ROBERT SMITH ...... Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL GARDNER ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) SARAH K. GONTA ...... Box Office Treasurer PATRICE MIRANDA ...... Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) KISHISA ROSS, GISELE FRAZEUR ...... Assistant Treasurers CHRISTINE L. COX ...... House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) YULIZA BARRAZA, ANGELICA Carbajal, michael kempisty, LEROY PAWLOWSKI, MICHAEL SALTZMAN ...... Box Office Staff CHRISTY WEIKEL ...... Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MICHAEL ZOLDESSY ...... Account Sales Manager KATE COLTUN ...... Assistant Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) EILEEN ROBERTS ...... Account Sales Associate RICHARD PETERSON ...... Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) KERRY KORF ...... Priority Services Director AARON STAUBACH ...... Light Board Programmer/Operator (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SUSAN F. TULLER ...... Priority Services Operations Manager ADAM PHALEN ...... Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JAY BURNS ...... Priority Services Sales Manager VICTOR COBOS ...... Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) paul cuen ...... Priority Services Manager CANDICE WALTERS ...... Priority Services Assistant Supervisor FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES MICHAEL F. THOMPSON ...... Chief Financial Officer Carole Baxter, MAGGIE DODD, nIC DRESSEL, Sofija dutcher, Marc “Byron” MELODY MATTOS ...... Controller Drotman, SAMANTHA ELSE, amber friendly, raylene gutierrez, Lou George, JANIS BOWBEER ...... Assistant Controller KATE HALL, Jerry Johnston, LISA KESSLER, SHEP KOSTER, MATT PELFREY, donald LIZ LYDIC ...... Accounts Payable Coordinator rizzo, Ken Salley, KRISTEN SCHRASS, BOBBI LYNNE SCOTT, ANDREW SEVERYN, FELICISIMA LAPID ...... Accounts Payable Specialist anastasia silva, Michael Smith, quinn sullivan, DIANE WARD, JIM WATERMAN . DANNY LAMPSON ...... Senior Staff Accountant ...... Representatives ALEGRIA SENA ...... Staff Accountant yuen ki “annie” Law ...... Payroll Manager INTERNS AMEETA SHARMA ...... Payroll Specialist CATHERINE CAMPBELL, SYNNOVE ERIKSEN, TOBY JACOBROWN, JADE JOHNSON, LAURA SARDISCO DAVE ALTON ...... Chief Information Officer STAN GRUSHESKY ...... Director of Information Systems SEAN PINTO ...... Database and Web Manager MANDY RATLIFF ...... Tessitura Administrator JARED WATANABE ...... Information Systems Analyst

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

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