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52nd Season • 494th Production SEGERSTROM STAGE / OCTOBER 16 - NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Marc Masterson Paula Tomei ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MANAGING DIRECTOR

David Emmes & Martin Benson FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

presents ABUNDANCE

by

John Iacovelli Angela Balogh Calin Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz Michael Roth SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN COMPOSER/SOUNDSCAPE

Oanh Nguyen Jackie S. Hill Joanne DeNaut, csa Talia Krispel ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION MANAGER CASTING STAGE MANAGER

Directed by Martin Benson

ABUNDANCE is presented by special arrangement with , Inc., New York. produced the world premiere of ABUNDANCE, April 21-May 25, 1989.

Abundance • South Coast Repertory • P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance) Bess Johnson ...... Lily Holleman Macon Hill ...... Paige Lindsey White Jack Flan ...... Adam Haas Hunter William Curtis ...... Daniel Reichert Professor Elmore Crome ...... Larry Bates

SETTING Wyoming Territory and later in St. Louis, Missouri.

LENGTH Approximately two hours and 25 minutes, including one intermission.

PRODUCTION STAFF Dramaturgs ...... Jerry Patch, Kat Zukaitis Assistant Stage Manager ...... Jessica Aguilar Production Assistant ...... Natalie Figaredo Choreographer ...... Sylvia Turner Fight Choreographer ...... Ken Merckx Assistant Scenic Designer ...... Chad Dellinger Costume Design Assistant ...... Kaitlyn Kaufman Assistant Lighting Designer ...... Stacie Marie O’Hara Costume Design Intern ...... Lauren Smith Stage Management Intern ...... Andrea Fitch Light Board Operator ...... Andrew Stephens Sound Board Operator ...... Jesus Rivera Automation Operator ...... Emily Kettler Wardrobe Supervisor/Dresser ...... Bert Henert Dresser ...... Rebecca Clayton Wig and Makeup Technician ...... Gillian Woodson Additional Costume Staff ...... Emily Burst, Bronwen Burton, Aurora Cortez Lalena Hutton, Megan Knowles, Ashley Riggs, Christina Templeton, J Wendy Wallace

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Special thanks to Jean Hugo, Marshall Coid, Yvette Holsworth, Eric Starr and Peter Sprague for their help with the music.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. Videotaping and/or recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. Electronic devices should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre.

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P2 • South Coast Repertory • Abundance The Good, the Bad and the Lucky by Kat Zukaitis they’re offered in Wyoming. Through- tion grew, resources that had once out, they share a yearning for some- seemed limitless now grew scarce. hen Abundance celebrated thing more than the life they’ve been Much of the state’s arable land was its world premiere at South handed. “I’m hoping someday things soon claimed. The Native American Coast Repertory, George will be different and we’ll have an tribes, after a series of wars with the H.W. Bush had just taken abundance,” says Macon wistfully after U.S. army, were confined to ever- office as president of the several years in Wyoming. But even as smaller plots of land in South Dakota WUnited States. Later that year, the Ber- she plans for the future, she recogniz- and Oklahoma. The battles that were lin Wall fell and students died in Ti- es that abundance is an elusive goal. once the stuff of life became the stuff ananmen Square. Rain Man won the “If only I could get a new room built, of legend: the most reliable place to Oscar for Best Picture, Steffi Graf won I’d be satisfied. But perhaps not,” she witness a skirmish with the Sioux was the Wimbledon Cup and Nin- tendo released the first Game Boy. It was 1989. Since then, a quarter century has passed, and the world has irrevocably changed… except, of course, when it hasn’t. Beth Henley’s modern clas- sic, Abundance, charts the pas- sage of a very different quarter century: 1868–93. With humor and heart, Henley takes us back to the days when the American frontier offered untold oppor- tunities for both fortune and failure. Bess and Macon, the two tenaciously hopeful women at the center of the play, experi- ence both, and slowly watch the world change around them. As we know, a lot can happen in 25 years. In 1868, Wyoming was a brand says. “Seems like I’ve always some- not on the Plains, but in Buffalo Bill new territory that beckoned settlers thing to wish for.” For Macon, as for Cody’s Wild West Show, a traveling with its wide-open spaces and land for so many others, the open expanse of performance act that did as much as the taking. The fact that several Na- the West seemed to deliver both more anything to codify the mythology of tive American tribes, among them the and less than what it promised. the frontier. Sioux and the Cheyenne, were already At the heart of Henley’s play beats By 1890, Wyoming Territory no in residence was, unfortunately, no the urgent question of what, exactly, is longer existed. Wyoming became the dissuasion to white settlement. The abundant in life—and what to do with 44th state of the Union, and the super- completion of the Transcontinental that precious abundance when you intendent of the U.S. Census declared Railroad the following year brought have it. The overflowing cornucopia is the Western frontier closed. An era a temporary construction boom, and a favorite American image, because we was over. enabled industry and infrastructure to want to believe that plenty is spilling As we look back over the past develop in its wake. The non-native from the horn. But what if the goods quarter century of our own era, it is population of the territory, about are going the other way, like so much easy to identify some of what we’ve 8,000 in 1868, ballooned to more than water down a drain? And what if the lost or gained, and what we still yearn 62,000 in just 20 years. promised abundance doesn’t turn out for. But it is clear that, in any era, our In Abundance, Bess and Macon to be material in nature? most abundant resource may be the do their best to seize the opportunities As Wyoming Territory’s popula- hope of abundance itself.

Abundance • South Coast Repertory • P3 Artist Biographies

Larry Bates include “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Shameless,” “South- Professor Elmore Crome land,” “Key & Peele,” “Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union” and “Queen Sized.” Holleman also serves is happy to be back at SCR. as the chairman of the board for The Los Angeles Some of his favorite SCR cred- Breakfast Club and hosts a podcast about women its include Happy in Death of in media called “Am I Right, Ladies?.” Follow her a Salesman, Ralph D in The on Instagram & Twitter: @lilyholleman. This per- Motherf**ker with the Hat, formance is dedicated to her mother, who showed Booth in Topdog/Underdog, her how to “walk and speak and fight and dream,” Cory in , Cactus in Mr. Marmalade and and to her father, who instilled in her a love for the Youngblood in SCR and Pasadena Playhouse’s pro- western sky. duction of Jitney, for which he won an NAACP The- atre Award and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Adam Haas Hunter Award for Best Featured Actor. This year, Bates Jack Flan had the distinction of representing SCR by being selected as a 2015 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. His other made his SCR debut last sea- notable theatre credits include You Can’t Take it son in The Whipping Man. He with You at The Antaeus Company and Martin Lu- is the co-founder of Poor Dog ther King, Jr. in The Mountaintop directed by Roger Group, a Los Angeles-based Guenveur Smith at San Diego Repertory. His film arts collective. Hunter has ap- and television credits include The Veronica Mars peared in The Great Divide by Movie, Lions for Lambs, “Dark Blue,” “The Unit,” Lyle Kessler, The Importance of Being Earnest and “Bones,” “CSI: Miami,” “Numb3rs,” “Huff,” “The Cymbeline at A Noise Within; Prometheus Bound District,” “NYPD Blue,” “Boston Public” and “JAG,” at the Getty Villa; The Nether at Kirk Douglas The- among others. Bates is a graduate of The Theatre atre; The Government Inspector and Dark Play or School, DePaul University. larrybates.me. Stories for Boys at The Theatre @ Boston Court; The Walworth Farce at Theatre Banshee; Medea Lily Holleman at UCLA Live; and Romeo i Julia 1968 with Ulysses Bess Johnson Theatre in Croatia, to name a few. His appearances with Poor Dog Group include Brewsie and Willie appeared at SCR previously (part of RADAR L.A.), The Internationalists and The in The Trip to Bountiful and Midnight Sun. Hunter has won or been nominated Circle Mirror Transformation. for Ovation, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, LA Her Los Angeles Theatre cred- Weekly and Garland awards. He is a graduate of its include Coney Island Christ- California Institute of the Arts. mas (Geffen Playhouse), Bleed Rail (The Theatre @ Boston Court; Ovation and LA Daniel Reichert Weekly awards nominee), Where The Great Ones William Curtis Run (Rogue Machine), God Save Gertrude (Boston Court), Crumble: Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake appeared at SCR previously in (Moving Arts), All About Walken (Touring) and The Trip to Bountiful, The Weir leads in LA’s Sci Fest 2014 and 2015. Holleman stars and Arms and the Man. His in the award winning film @urFRENZ, and recently other theatrical productions in- appeared in and produced the newly completed clude Bus Stop, Side Man and dark comedy The Lady Killers (theladykillersmovie. Enchanted April at the Pasa- com). Her other films include The Love Witch, Ten- dena Playhouse; , Burn This, ure and How I Got Lost. Her television appearances A Tale of Two Cities, Saint Joan, King Lear and

P4 • South Coast Repertory • Abundance Twelfth Night, and others at the American Conser- and “TV Funhouse.” She is a Los Angeles Drama vatory Theater; The Cherry Orchard, Great Expec- Critics Circle Award-winner for Lead Performance tations and Awake and Sing! at A Noise Within; and has received two Ovation and LA Weekly nomi- Macbeth and The Importance of Being Earnest at nations for Best Actress and Best Ensemble. paige- Intiman Theatre; Arms and the Man and The Rivals lindseywhite.com. at Portland Center Stage; The Misanthrope, Betray- al and The Elephant Man at Andak Stage Company; Playwright, Director and Designers King Lear, Oedipus Rex and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at American Players Theatre; Much Ado Beth Henley (Playwright) was awarded the Pulitzer About Nothing at The San Francisco Shakespeare Prize in Drama and the New York Drama Critics Cir- Festival; The Rivals at Denver Center Theatre Com- cle Award for Best American Play for Crimes of the pany; and Orpheus Descending at New York Stage Heart (produced at SCR in 2010). Her plays include & Film. His film and television appearances include The Miss Firecracker Contest, The Wake of Jamey Batman Forever, “Major Crimes,” “Judging Amy,” Foster, The Debutante Ball (SCR world premiere, “Charmed,” “Get Real,” Prophet of Evil, Dead in the 1985), The Lucky Spot, Abundance (SCR world pre- Water and NBC’s “Days of Our Lives.” He received miere, 1989), Signature, Control Freaks, Impossible his BA from Vassar College and his MFA from the Marriage, Ridiculous Fraud (SCR West Coast pre- American Conservatory Theater. miere, 2006), The Jacksonian and Laugh. Henley wrote the screenplay for the film version of Crimes Paige Lindsey White of the Heart, for which she was nominated for an Macon Hill Academy Award. She also wrote the screenplays for The Miss Firecracker Contest, Nobody’s Fool, Trying is honored and thrilled to debut Times and was a co-writer on True Stories. Henley is at SCR in Abundance. Earlier the Presidential Professor of Theatre Arts at Loyola this year, she played Eliza Doo- Marymount University, Los Angeles. little in Pasadena Playhouse’s production of Pygmalion. Her Martin Benson (Director/Founding Artistic Di- other stage credits include In- rector), co-founder of SCR, has directed nearly one- ternational City Theatre in Trying, Ghost-Writer and fourth of SCR’s productions. In 2008, he and David The Heir Apparent; Arizona Theatre Company and Emmes received the Margo Jones Award for their Indiana Repertory Theatre in Other Desert Cities; lifetime commitment to theatre excellence and fos- Theatre @ Boston Court in RII and The Children; tering the art and craft of American playwriting. 24th Street Theatre in Walking the Tightrope; and They also accepted SCR’s 1988 Tony Award for Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble in Wounded. She Outstanding Resident Professional Theatre and won earned her MFA in acting from UCLA. She is a mem- the 1995 Theatre L.A. Ovation Award for Lifetime ber of Ensemble Studio Theatre L.A., Los Angeles Achievement. Benson has received the Los Ange- Theatre Ensemble and was formerly with the The les Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Actors’ Gang, with whom she toured internationally Achievement in Directing an unparalleled seven in The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. Her television times for George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara, credits include “Shameless,” “Days of Our Lives” Misalliance and Heartbreak House; John Milling-

Abundance • South Coast Repertory • P5 ton Synge’s Playboy of the Western World; Arthur and , “Babylon 5,” Miller’s The Crucible; Sally Nemeth’s Holy Days; and “Ed,” “Resurrection Blvd.” and “Lincoln Heights.” He ’s Pulitzer Prize-winning , which has an MFA in scenic design from New York Univer- he also directed at Seattle Repertory Theatre and sity’s Tisch School of the Arts. iacovelli.com. Houston’s Alley Theatre. He has directed American classics such as and has Angela Balogh Calin (Costume Design) returns distinguished himself in staging contemporary work, to SCR where she has designed costumes and/or including the critically acclaimed California premiere sets for more than 40 productions, including Peter of William Nicholson’s Shadowlands. He directed a and the Starcatcher, The Whipping Man, Rest, The revival of ’s The Trip to Bountiful and Whale, The Trip to Bountiful, The Weir, Circle Mir- Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale and Rest (world pre- ror Transformation, , Ordinary miere) and The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez. Days and The Happy Ones. She has designed more Benson received his BA in theatre from San Fran- than 60 productions for Chautauqua Theater Com- cisco State University. pany, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, The Old Globe, Pasadena Play- John Iacovelli (Scenic Design) has designed scen- house, Georgia Shakespeare, A Noise Within and ery at SCR since 1989. His memorable designs in- many local theatres. She has worked extensively in clude Rest, Silent Sky, Noises Off!, Talley’s Folly, film and television in the U.S. and Romania and has The Philanderer, Heartbreak House (Los Angeles design credits with I.R.S. Media, Cannon Films, PBS, Drama Critics Circle award) Oleanna, Skylight, The Full Moon Entertainment and Romanian Films. Calin Company of Heaven, Shadowlands, Frankie & is a resident artist at A Noise Within Theatre. She Johnny In the Clair de Lune, Faith Healer, Pick Up graduated with an MFA in set and costume design Ax and 10 more. He has designed more than 300 from the Academy of Arts in Bucharest, Romania. plays and musicals at most major theatres in the U.S.: McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf Theatre, Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz (Lighting Design) is a pro- Seattle Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Play- fessor at the University of California, Irvine, and a house, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Magic Theatre, professional lighting designer. He has designed for Aurora Theatre, St. Louis Repertory, Goodman The- various regional theatres, such as Oregon Shake- atre, Actors Theatre of Kansas City, Oregon Shake- speare Festival, The Repertory Theatre of St Louis, speare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Deaf West Play- Syracuse Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Great ers, and Center Theatre Group. River Shakespeare Festival, East West Players and Iacovelli received a prime-time Emmy Award for Utah Shakespearean Festival. Among the produc- the broadcast of the Broadway production of Peter tions he has designed at SCR are OZ 2.5, The Whip- Pan, starring Cathy Rigby. He was the film produc- ping Man, The Long Road Today (El Largo Camino tion designer on Ruby in Paradise, starring Ashley de Hoy), 4,000 Miles, Absurd Person Singular, Three Judd in her film debut, and art director on Honey, I Days of Rain, La Posada Mágica, Ordinary Days, Shrunk the Kids! His television credits include Beck- Saturn Returns, Goldfish, An Italian Straw Hat, ett Directs Beckett: Endgame with The San Quentin Culture Clash in AmeriCCa, Doubt, My Wandering Drama Workshop, The Old Settler starring Philycia Boy and Blue Door. His recent designs include A Rashad and Debbie Allen, staring Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Repertory The-

P6 • South Coast Repertory • Abundance atre of St Louis, Venus in Fur at San Diego Reperto- Oanh Nguyen (Associate Director) has been serv- ry, Chinglish at East West Players, SEED: A Weird Act ing as Chance Theater’s founding Artistic Director of Faith for Cornerstone Theater Company, where since 1999. Nguyen is a recipient of TCG’s New he is an associate artist and The Glass Menagerie Generations Grant and the TCG Nathan Cummings and Much Ado About Nothing at Great River Shake- Young Leaders of Color Fellowship. He was awarded speare Festival. He also was a designer for Universal the Outstanding Artist Award by Arts Orange Coun- Studios Japan. He is a member of the United Scenic ty, profiled in ’s “Most In- Artist/IATSE—Local 829. His complete design port- fluential People” 2014 and OC Weekly’s 2014 People folio can be found at lradesigns.com. Issue, and inducted into Anaheim High School’s Hall of Fame and was the commencement speaker Michael Roth (Composer/Soundscape) returns to to the 2014 graduation class of SCR where his work has been heard in 55 produc- College of Performing Arts. Nguyen was Producing tions, including The Whipping Man, The Whale and Associate at South Coast Repertory for four years. the world premieres of Rest, Mr. Marmalade, Wit, He is a proud member of SDC and SAG-AFTRA. His Brooklyn Boy (also Broadway) and Dinner with directing credits include productions at Chance The- Friends and Sight Unseen (both also off-Broadway). ater, East West Players, the J. Paul Getty Museum, His recent projects include two collaborations with Segerstrom Center for the Arts and South Coast Christopher Plummer, his one-man show A Word Repertory, and served as the Associate Director for or Two (Stratford Festival and Los Angeles) and The the international tour of David Henry Hwang’s Ch- Tempest (Stratford Festival, Bravo); many collabora- inglish (Berkeley Repertory, South Coast Repertory, tions with Randy Newman including musical direc- Hong Kong Arts Festival). tion/arrangements for Disney’s Princess and the Frog and Faust (including the recent City Center/ Talia Krispel (Stage Manager) is excited to be Encores version) and editing five songbooks; Jews back at SCR. She received her MA degree from the & Baseball (documentary/PBS); many productions educational theatre program at New York University, as La Jolla Playhouse’s resident composer; collabora- Steinhardt, in May 2012. Some of her credits include tions with, among many others, Stacy Keach (Henry SCR’s 35th annual production of A Christmas Carol, IV in Washington, D.C.), Culture Clash, Dan Sullivan, Guys and Dolls, Joseph and the Amazing Technicol- Des McAnuff, Sarah Ruhl, Mac Wellman, Anne Bog- or Dreamcoat (starring Clay Aiken and Tony nomi- art, the United Nations and Tom Stoppard (includ- nee Keala Settle), The Sound of Music, Dirty Rotten ing the U.S. premieres of Indian Ink and Invention Scoundrels, Radio City Musical Hall Christmas of Love); and accompanying singers from Alicia Spectacular, Inherit the Wind (starring Christopher Keyes to Alice Ripley. His opera Their Thought & Plummer and Brian Dennehy), Dame Edna: Back Back Again is available via iTunes. Upcoming proj- with a Vengeance, How the Grinch Stole Christmas ects include a new collaboration with Stacy Keach as (original Broadway company), the Broadway work- Hemingway, his chamber music/theatre treatment of shop of Legally Blonde and The Times They Are A- Beckett’s Imagination Dead Imagine, Fats Novem- Changin’ (directed/choreographed by Twyla Tharp). ber (piano sonata), Tuesday 4 Toy Piano and a new Krispel is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Associa- opera to be premiered online. For more informa- tion. This performance is dedicated to Mychal Adair- tion: rothmusik.wix.com/rothmusik. Lynch and Dad. taliakrispel.com.

Abundance • South Coast Repertory • P7 Jessica Aguilar (Assistant Stage Manager) is hon- Paula Tomei (Managing Director) is responsible ored to be making her SCR debut with Abundance. for leading the overall administration of SCR. She Her credits include Pasadena Playhouse: Real has been managing director since 1994 and a mem- Women Have Curves, A Night with Janis Joplin, ber of SCR’s staff since 1979. She is a past president Waterfall, Pygmalion, Stop Kiss, 12 Angry Men, In- of the board of Theatre Communications Group timate Apparel, Blues for an Alabama Sky; Geffen (TCG), the national service organization for the- Playhouse: reasons to be pretty, Death of the Author; atre. In addition, she served as treasurer of TCG, the pre-Broadway tour of One Night with Janis Jop- vice president of the League of Resident Theatres lin concluding at Arena Stage; Marin Theatre Com- (LORT) and as a member of the LORT Negotiating pany: Fences, In the Red & Brown Water; Pasadena Committee for industry-wide union agreements. Civic: The Real Love; Los Angeles Theatre Center: She represents SCR at national conferences of TCG The Vault: Unlocked; Devil’s Advocate, Dementia; and LORT; is a theatre panelist for the National En- Cygnet Theatre: Man of La Mancha, Hedwig & the dowment for the Arts (NEA) and the California Arts Angry Inch, Fully Committed. Aguilar is a graduate Council; site visitor for the NEA; and has been a of UCLA and a proud member of Actors Equity As- guest lecturer in the graduate schools of business at sociation. Stanford and UC Irvine (UCI). She teaches a gradu- ate class in nonprofit management at UCI and was Marc Masterson (Artistic Director) is in his fifth appointed by the chancellor to UCI’s Community season with SCR. His recent directing credits in- Arts Council. She is also on the board of Arts Orange clude Zealot, , Eurydice and County, the county-wide arts council, and the board Elemeno Pea at SCR, As You Like It for the Houston of the Nicholas Endowment. She graduated from Shakespeare Festival, The Kite Runner at Actors UCI with a degree in economics and pursued an ad- Theatre of Louisville and the Cleveland Play House. ditional course of study in theatre and dance. He served for 11 years as artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville and produced the Humana David Emmes (Founding Artistic Director) is co- Festival of New American Plays. During his Actors founder of South Coast Repertory. He received the Theatre tenure, he produced more than 100 world Margo Jones Award for his lifetime commitment to premieres, expanded audiences and the repertoire, theatre excellence and to fostering the art of Ameri- deepened arts education programs and spearheaded can playwriting. In addition, he has received numer- numerous community-based projects. His other ous awards for productions he has directed during Louisville directing credits include A Midsummer his SCR career. He directed the world premieres of Night’s Dream, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, Amy Freed’s Safe in Hell, The Beard of Avon and , The Tempest, Mary’s Wed- Freedomland, Thomas Babe’s Great Day in the ding, The Crucible, Betrayal, As You Like It, The Morning, Keith Reddin’s Rum and Coke and But Importance of Being Earnest and Macbeth. The Not for Me and Neal Bell’s Cold ; the American world premieres he directed at the Humana Festival premieres of Terry Johnson’s Unsuitable for Adults include works by Lisa Dillman, Wendell Berry, Craig and Joe Penhall’s Dumb Show; and the Southland Wright, Eric Coble, Adam Bock, Gina Gionfriddo, premiere of Top Girls (at SCR and the Westwood Melanie Marnich, Charles Mee and Rick Dresser. He Playhouse). Other productions he has directed in- served as artistic director of City Theatre in Pitts- clude New England, Arcadia, The Importance of burgh for 20 years and was founder and chairman of Being Earnest, Woman in Mind and You Never Can the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Alliance, and as a theatre Tell, which he restaged for the Singapore Festival of advisory panel member for the National Endow- Arts. He has served as a theatre panelist and onsite ment for the Arts as well as numerous foundations. evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts, He won the Man of the Year Vectors Award, and as well as a panelist for the California Arts Council. received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the After attending , he received Pittsburgh New Works Festival. his BA and MA from San Francisco State University and his PhD in theatre and film from USC.

The Actors and Stage Managers em- The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and The Director is a member of the Soci- ployed in this production are members Sound Designers in LORT theatres ety of Stage Directors and Choreogra- of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union are represented by United Scenic phers, Inc., an independent national of Professional Actors and Stage Manag- Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. labor union. ers in the United States.

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