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OCTOBER 2016 OCT 18–NOV 13, 2016 By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederick Raphael Directed by Kelly Kitchens 2016 SUMMER 2016 FALL 2016–2017 2017 SPRING WOODEN O TOUR INDOOR SEASON TOUR Hamlet Romeo and Juliet The Winter’s Tale Romeo and Juliet Love’s Labour’s Lost Medea The Taming of Bring Down the House, Parts 1 & 2 the Shrew A Midsummer Night’s Dream ES016 covers.indd 2 9/22/16 3:47 PM October/November 2016 Women Painters of Washington Volume 13, No. 1 & National Association of Women Artists Women Artist Coast to Coast:West Paul Heppner Publisher FALL 2016 At the Washington Convention Center Susan Peterson Oct 13, 2016 - Jan 11, 2017 Design & Production Director Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, Shaun Swick, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Design Contents Mike Hathaway 3 Dialogue Sales Director Encore Stages in Brieanna Bright, Joey Chapman, Ann Manning, Rob Scott conversation with Seattle Area Account Executives Carlsen Cello Foundation Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives 5 Seattle Public Theater Sara Keats Reaching out to youth and Estuary:Consonance by Sandra Kahler Stages Editor; Associate Online Editor making theater fresh Jonathan Shipley Stages Editor; Associate Online Editor 7 Intermission Brain Ad Services Coordinator Transmission Carol Yip Sales Coordinator Test yourself with our trivia quiz Encore Stages is a publication of Encore Media Group. 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Northgate Mall Seattle, WA ©2016 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. 2 ENCORE STAGES EAP 1_6 V template.indd 1 9/20/16 11:26 AM Dialogue Encore Stages in conversation Founder Ray Carlsen with recipients and Director Miriam Shames. Photo courtesy of the Carlsen Cello Foundation Playing and studying the cello can be The Carlsen Cello Foundation is a expensive. Base model cellos can cost non-profit organization that has $2,000 or more, and terrific “student” cellos can cost another $10,000 to $15,000. The loaned instruments to young cellists Carlsen Cello Foundation provides a fine for nearly twenty years. instrument while a recipient is actively studying, giving serious and deserving students the opportunity to practice and perform on a cello that matches the quality of their study and growing talent. We recently sat down with Miriam Shames, the Miriam Shames is the Foundation’s Foundation’s director, to discuss cello acquisitions, director. With a Master’s Degree from Juilliard in Cello Performance, Shames is the best pieces for cello and how you can help put no stranger to the expenses involved with a cello in a child’s hand. the cello, nor the beauty the instrument can bring. While being involved in the Foundation, she also works with cello students in her Seattle studio and has performed with such groups as the Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Northwest Sinfonietta. Who is Carlsen? Ray Carlsen is a Seattle dermatologist who started taking cello lessons as an adult beginner in the early 1990s. He immediately encoreartsseattle.com 3 became interested in going to auctions in London and New York and collecting Produced in association with American Conservatory Theater and Shakespeare Theatre Company older, mostly European, cellos. Over the next two decades, through his own purchases and some donated cellos, his collection grew to its present – approximately 100 cellos that are loaned out to students. It’s a remarkable feat and a remarkable treasure in today’s world. Why the Foundation? Besides being a player himself, Dr. Carlsen, like so many, was drawn to the particularly beautiful and human sound of the cello. He also soon realized that an advancing student needed a cello beyond what was available through rentals, the price of which is prohibitive. The cello is enjoying a beloved place in the music BY MIKE world today, evidenced by its huge BARLETT popularity among younger students, directed by DAVID MUSE adult beginners, its use in so many genres and its draw with audiences. SEASON SPONSOR OPENS NOVEMBER 11 Any notable cellists that have used a SEATTLEREP.ORG | 206.443.2222 Carlsen Cello? Joshua Roman, the former principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony; Julie Albers, principal cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; recent winner of a Boston Symphony audition, Oliver Aldort; and many more who are currently studying at major conservatories in the US and Canada. Where do you get the cellos? The cellos are purchased or donated. They are often restored in Seattle, and then maintained, by Rafael Carrabba of Rafael Carrabba Violins. He is a world- NOW SERVING BRUNCH renowned restorer of the most beautiful and rare string instruments. 10am-3pm Friday-Sunday What is your favorite piece of cello music? My usual answer is “whatever I’m listening to right now.” But, of course, there are the Bach Cello Suites and the 820 Pine St. Seattle, Washington Schubert “Cello” Quintet in C Major. 206.946.9720 How can someone help? TheCarlile.com The Foundation accepts tax deductible @thecarlileroom contributions, as well as donations of cellos. < 4 ENCORE STAGES By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederick Raphael Directed by Kelly Kitchens CAST PRODUCTION TEAM Servant Director CONTENTS John Bianchi Kelly Kitchens Cast Bios: A2–3 Chorus Choreographer Maya Burton Donald Byrd Production Bios: A3–5 Kreon Composer Leadership Bios: A5 Peter Crook* Shenandoah Davis Plot Summary & Enrichment Child Set Designer Materials: A6–7 Cecilia Cruz Andrea Bryn Bush Nurse Costume Designer Bring Down the House: A8–9 Yadira Duarte Chelsea Cook Fierce Women of Corinth: A10 Chorus Lighting Designer Sunam Ellis Kent Cubbage Season Ticket Subscriptions: A11 Jason Sound Designer Bill’s Bash Gala: A12 Sylvester Foday Kamara* Jay Weinland Chorus Properties Designer Donor Acknowledgements: A13–15 Chelsea LeValley Robin Macartney Staff and Board Listing: A16 Aigeus Stage Manager Kevin McKeon Nina Trotto Tutor Technical Director Matt Sherrill Benjamin Radin SPECIAL THANKS Medea Dramaturg American Life, Inc, Book-It Repertory Alexandra Tavares* Sara Keats Theatre Scene Shop, Owen Condit, Charles Minshall, R90 Lighting, Carmen Chorus Assistant Director Rodriguez, Suzi Tucker, Village Theatre Kathryn Van Meter* Rachel Delmar Electrics Department Chorus Assistant Stage Manager Lucy Weber Maria Gray* PRODUCTION Chorus Assistant Technical Director SPONSORS Dedra D. Woods Adrian Delahunt Spanish Language Translator Ana Maria Campoy RUNNING CREW Master Electrician Trevor Cushman “Medea (McLeish/Raphael, trans.)” is Master Audio Engineer presented by special arrangement with Erik Siegling SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. Wardrobe Master Courtney Bennett The taking of pictures or the making of * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of recordings of any kind during the performance Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. is strictly prohibited. ** Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc. encoreartsprograms.com A-1 John Bianchi Maya Burton Peter Crook Cecilia Cruz Yadira Duarte Sunam Ellis Sylvester Foday Kamara Chelsea LeValley Kevin McKeon Matt Sherrill On Broadway and on tour he was Mozart Chelsea LeValley Alexandra Tavares She has also been a featured performer Donald Byrd CAST BIOS in Amadeus. His film and television credits Chorus Medea with Seattle Opera in its production of Suor Choreographer include Chaplin and Max Headroom. He is a Chelsea is thrilled to be making her Seattle Alexandra is thrilled to be returning to Seattle Angelica. Lucy has performed and covered Donald is the Executive Artistic Director John Bianchi graduate of PCPA and The Juilliard School, Shakespeare Company debut! In the last Shakespeare Company. She was last seen here Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Hansel (Hansel and of Spectrum Dance Theater, a TONY- Servant and is a member of The Seagull Project. year, Chelsea has appeared in Buzzer (Suzy) as Emilia in Othello. Some productions she Gretel), Siebel (Faust), Cherubino (Le Nozze di nominated and Bessie Award-winning John is excited to be working again with Figaro), Anna (The Seven Deadly Sins), and Dido Cecilia Cruz at ACT Theatre as a co-production with has appeared in are Constellations (Marianne) choreographer. His career has been long, Seattle Shakespeare Company, where he (Dido and Aeneas). Lucy has also appeared Child Ethereal Mutt, was a member of the casts and Three Tall Women (C) at Seattle Repertory complex and his choreographic and appeared as Sebastian in The Tempest. John of Come From Away at Seattle Repertory Theatre; Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth), The with Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater in theatrical interests are broad. The New York Cecilia is very excited to work with Seattle received his MFA from Rutgers University’s Theatre/La Jolla Playhouse and The 5th Clean House (Mathilde) at Actors Theatre of Donald Byrd’s production of Carmina Burana. Times says of him, “a choreographer with Shakespeare Company for the first time. Professional Actor Training Program and has Avenue Theatre/ACT Theatre co-production Louisville; the world premiere of the new Jane This will be her first time on stage with Seattle multiple personalities .

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