About the Artists Rachel Fine Executive Director & CEO Paul Crewes Artistic Director

JANE KACZMAREK DramaLogue Awards for her work on Arthur Kopit's the Wellcome Trust, Bush Theatre Fertility Fest, and AND PATTY GLASER, PAULA HOLT, PERLA KARNEY AND KAREN WINNICK (Helga) reprises her role of Wings, Samuel Beckett's Happy Days and Eugène Landor Theatre, 2018. Diane facilitates and teaches Helga, which she previously Ionesco's The Chairs. Creative Writing to all ages and levels of experience, played in the New York and PRESENT encouraging methods of regular practice to live a Los Angeles productions MAYA BRATTKUS (Eva) is currently pursuing vibrant, healthy, productive life. of Kindertransport. Jane her BFA at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is pleased to rejoin the where she studies acting. Her theatre credits include DEBORAH LAVINE (Director) is very proud A PLAY READING OF producing and directing team that brought the play The Crucible, Chalk Garden and Animal Farm at to be associated with this anniversary reading of to the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles, and are now Theatricum Botanicum. At CalArts she has performed Kindertransport. Deborah had the honor of directed bringing this reading to The Wallis. Her other stage in the Center for New Performance’s Fântomas: Kindertransport at the Tiffany Theater more than 20 appearances include Caryl Churchill’s Ice Cream With Revenge of the Image which had its world premiere years ago starring Jane Kaczmarek. That production Hot Fudge at the New York Shakespeare Festival, at the Wuzhen Theatre Festival in China, Hedda remains one of her most cherished in a career that Steve Martin’s W.A.S.P at New York Stage and Film Gabler, and the Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Maya had spans over 300 professional productions, many and Raised in Captivity at South Coast Rep. She has her film debut in the award winning independent winning honors and awards including several Los appeared in the motion pictures Falling in Love and film Wild Prairie Rose directed by Deborah Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Ovation Awards, and John Grisham’s The Chamber, among others. The LaVine. Maya is extremely honored to be a part of a NAACP citation. Deborah also directs films. Her KINDERTRANSPORT three-time Golden Globe and seven-time Emmy Kindertransport. feature, Wild Prairie Rose, premiered at Geena Davis’ Award nominee’s television credits include “Party of Bentonville Film Festival and subsequently screened To benefit Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Five,” “Picket Fences,” “Equal Justice” , “Law & Order” DAVID LM MCINTYRE (Ratcatcher) is extensively across the U.S., Canada and New Zealand. and the beloved "Malcolm in the Middle" where she descended from German and Polish Jews who It has won numerous prizes including: The James In response to the increasing anti-Jewish violence and the brutality of Kristallnacht, several was lauded for playing Lois. had mostly already fled to the United States years Stewart Legacy Award at the Heartland Film Festival organizations worked together to bring Jewish children under Nazi occupation to safety in the before the events of this play. Mostly. He will among many others. Short films: Unintended, KATE BURTON (Evelyn) Lost Music United Kingdom. Roughly 10,000 Jewish children from Germany, Austria, parts of Czechoslovakia, never know the family lines that failed to escape. featuring Jeff Perry; , featuring Barbara is best known for her Emmy Film: Kill, Me Deadly; Mr. Woodcock. TV: “The Bain; and Prairie Sonata written by Tom Jacobson. and parts of modern day Poland were sent to the United Kingdom on Kindertransports (children’s nominated roles; Ellis Grey in Comeback,” “Criminal Minds.” David has been Additionally, Deborah is the Program Director of the transports). Additional, smaller groups of children were brought to safety on Kindertransports to “Grey's Anatomy” and Sally a member of the Sacred Fools Theatre Company MFA in Directing at California Institute of the Arts Sweden and Switzerland. The children were as young as 3 or as old as 17 and were unaccompanied Langston in “Scandal.” She for eighteen years and joyously married to Sarah (CALARTS) which proudly boasts many exceptional by their parents. The first train carrying refugee children left Berlin on December 1, 1938, and trains has appeared on Broadway McKinley Oakes for ten years. indie filmmaking students and alumni. many times and has three continued until the borders closed due to the outbreak of World War II. The vast majority of the Tony nominations for her work in Hedda Gabler, SAMANTHA RESSLER (Faith) was last seen JEFF GARDNER (Sound Design) is an rescued children never saw their families again, as they perished in the Holocaust. The Elephant Man and The Constant Wife. She most at the Geffen Playhouse in Anna Ziegler’s Actually award-winning actor/sound designer/foley artist recently appeared in Present Laughter opposite playing the role of Amber, for which she was born and raised in Los Angeles. Favorite designs Kevin Kline on Broadway in 2017 and as Prospera nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Actress. include Les Blancs for Rogue Machine Theatre BY Diane Samuels in The Tempest at The Old Globe last summer. Her Other Theater credits include Women of Manhattan (Ovation Nomination, Stage Raw Award); Native CHARACTERS upcoming projects are roles in “The Gifted” for Fox at the Palace Theater, Blackbird dir. by Wilson Milam Son and Picnic for The Antaeus Company (Ovation and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? starring Cate Closer Dry Land DIRECTED BY Deborah LaVine at The Wallis and at The Ruby Theatre. Film & Nomination); for the Kirk Douglas Theatre RATCATCHER DAVID LM MCINTYRE Blanchett. She recently directed an evening of TV credits include: This is The End, American Dream, (Ovation Award); Trevor for Circle X Theatre; Raisin EVA MAYA BRATTKUS Shakespeare and Tchaikovsky with Gustavo Dudamel Palo Alto, “Modern Family,” “Hello Ladies.” Samantha In The Sun, The Madwoman Of Chaillot for A Noise STARRING conducting the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl. She is co-founded We The Women, a non-profit performing Within, The Recommendation for IAMA Theatre, Jane Kaczmarek, Kate Burton & Barbara Bain HELGA JANE KACZMAREK a professor at USC SDA and on the Western Regional arts collective that promotes and showcases The Cake for The Geffen Playhouse, and Miracle Board of AEA. She is a graduate of Brown University On 34th Street WITH Maya Brattkus, David LM McIntyre & Samantha Ressler EVELYN KATE BURTON emerging female talent in LA. for the Pasadena Playhouse. Jeff is and Yale School of Drama where she shared an resident sound designer for the Westridge School in FAITH SAMANTHA RESSLER apartment with her classmate and lifelong friend, DIANE SAMUELS (Playwright) won the Pasadena. jeffthomasgardner.net SOUND DESIGN BY Jane Kaczmarek. LIL BARBARA BAIN Verity Bargate and Meyer-Whitworth Awards for Jeff Gardner Kindertransport, which was first produced by Soho PATRICIA GLASER (Producer) is one of the BARBARA BAIN (Lil) Theatre Company in 1993, has been translated into United States’ top business trial attorneys and heads is probably best known for many languages, performed in the West End, Off the Litigation Department of Glaser Weil LLP. She also SPONSORED BY her work in the landmark Broadway and all over the world. Other plays include serves on the board of directors of several prominent television series “Mission: The True-Life Fiction of Mata Hari, Palace Theatre, arts organizations, including the Los Angeles Music Impossible,” where she Watford, 2002; Cinderella’s Daughter, Trestle Theatre Center Theatre Group and The Geffen Playhouse. created the pivotal role of tour, 2005; How to Beat a Giant, Unicorn Theatre, Impossible Missions Force 2007; Persephone (a love story), with Maurice PAULA HOLT (Producer) built the Tiffany Theatres Agent Cinnamon Carter, and, in the process, became Chernick, Rosemary Branch, 2013; The A-Z of Mrs. P, in West Hollywood and served as President, the first actress in the history of television to receive with Gwyneth Herbert, Southwark Playhouse, 2014; producing and presenting for two decades. She three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Dramatic Poppy + George, Palace Theatre, Watford, 2016; This served the City of Los Angeles as Commissioner of Actress. Ms. Bain followed with the role of Dr. Helena is Me, snapshots of girlhood, life-story as interactive Cultural Affairs under Mayors Hahn and Villaraigosa. Russell in the now classic British syndicated science monologue, Chickenshed, 2018. Currently working She is the Chair of Board, Rogue Machine Theatre, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2018 AT 2PM fiction television series “Space:1999.”. Her stage with Gwyneth Herbert on The Rhythm Method, a and former chair of LAStage Alliance. Bram Goldsmith Theater work has garnered her Los Angeles Critic's Circle and musical love story (with contraception) funded by Two hours including a 15 minute intermission.

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P19 About the Artist An Evening of PERLA KARNEY (Producer) has been the Artistic Director of Hillel at UCLA since 2004 and was the Vice-President of the Los Angeles Museum Shopping, Sipping & of the Holocaust for ten years. Perla sits on the UCLA Fowler Museum Arts Council and is on the board of The Rogue Machine Theater. Philanthropy KAREN B. WINNICK (Producer) is an author- illustrator of thirteen picture books for children. She’s President of the LA Zoo Commission, appointed by four mayors and serves on the boards of Wild Earth Allies, Defenders of Wildlife and the Lange Foundation. Her family includes 3 sons, 8 grandkids, 5 dogs and many fish.

LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST in Pan Pacific Park is the oldest Holocaust survivor-founded museum in the United States. Founded in 1961 by a group of local Holocaust survivors who wanted a permanent, safe home for their Holocaust-era photos and artifacts, the museum moved to its permanent home in Pan Pacific Park in 2010. The museum dedicates itself as a primary source institution, commemorating those who perished, honoring those who survived, and housing the precious artifacts that miraculously weathered the Holocaust era. The museum provides free Holocaust education and opportunities for dialogue with Holocaust survivors to the public. The museum is open seven days a week and admission is always free. (L TO R) Wallis Executive Director & CEO Rachel Fine with Wallis Board members Linda May, John Bendheim & Kris Levine.

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Prada graciously donated a portion of all sales that evening, and throughout the subsequent weekend, to our GRoW @ The Wallis arts education and outreach programs. The evening kicked off with a private reception introduced by Executive Director and CEO Rachel Fine and Artistic Director Paul Crewes, followed by champagne, cocktails and retail therapy. we are proud to support the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts We sincerely thank Prada and our supporters for such a fantastic neighborhood event. A special thanks goes to and the 2018 - 2019 season Wallis Board Member Kris Levine for spearheading the

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