WESTMINSTER COLLEGE OF THE ARTS OF RIDER UNIVERSITY School of fine and Performing artS PRESENTS

Spring Awakening

Book & Lyrics by Music by Steven Sater Duncan Sheik

Based on the play by Frank Wedekind

Vocal String Orchestrations Arrangements Orchestrations Duncan Sheik AnneMarie Milazzo Simon Hale Miriam Mills, director Robin Lewis, choreographer Wendy Feaver, music director j

Thursday, April 28, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 29, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30, 2016, 2 p.m. Saturday, April 30, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 1, 2016, 2 p.m.

Yvonne Theater Rider University Lawrenceville, N.J. 2 Cast

Melchior Colby Dezelick Wendla Molly Franco Moritz Matthew Fairlee Ilse Ruby Westfall Hänschen Braden Sweeney Ernst Bryce McAllister Georg, U/S Moritz Daniel Joseph Maldonado Otto Aaron Bennett Miller Martha Kadrea Dawkins Gretchen, U/S Wendla Eleni Kontos Thea Hannah Bearer Anna Terrie Lynne Goins Greta Laura Jinparn Herr Stiefel, Dr. Von Brausepulver, Dieter, U/S Melchior Nick Ziobro Fanny Gabor Essence Williams Fräulein Knuppeldick Sloan Brettholtz Rupert, Headmaster Knochenbruch, U/S Georg Kyle Geraghty Frau Bessell, Fräulein Großebüstenhalter Shelly Lynn Walsh Frau Bergman, Frau Neumann Sara Davis Herr Gabor Max Silverman Ulbrecht, Herr Sonnenstich Ellington Berg Herr Rilow, Father Kaulbach, Schmidt Pat Constant Reinhold, Herr Neumann Michael Arias

SPRING AWAKENING Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com

WARNING Strobe lights will be in use during the performance.

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

The use of cell phones is prohibited during the performance. Violators may be asked to leave. Artistic Staff and Crew 3

Director Miriam Mills Choreographer Robin Lewis Musical Director Wendy Feaver Costume Designer Robin I. Shane Lighting Designer Todd Loyd Scenic Designer German Cárdenas-Alaminos Technical Director Buck Linton Sound Designer Darren R. Sussman Producer Ivan Fuller Assistant Directors Brandon Ponzo, Dakota Judge Assistant Choreographer Maria Garvey Assistant Musical Director Rachel Sherman Production Stage Manager/Coordinator Meaghan Finlay Stage Manager Joshua Hornback Assistant Stage Managers Abeba Isaac, Cassie Szymczyk Assistant Technical Director Austin Gray Assistant Costume Designer Kerri Singley Props Master Evan Griner Fight Coordinator Sean McCarther Light Board Operator Joshua Hornback Spot Operators Megan Beres, Lancelot Douglas Wardrobe Runners Stephanie Hampton, Juliana Long, Destiny Rohan Hair & Make-up Kathryn Priest Sound Runners Christopher Horton, Kimberly Ortiz Props Runners Gabi Bazinet, Stephanie Devito, Allison Phillips Scenic Operator Austin Gray Poster Design Mary Mechalakos

Orchestra

Wendy Feaver, keyboard Steve Schaefer, guitar Louis F. Goldberg, keyboard Dennis Walter, drums Susan Meuse, cello Jack Gerhard, violin/guitar John Lindner, bass

Original Broadway Production Produced by IRA PITTELMAN, TOM HULCE, JEFFREY RICHARDS, JERRY FRANKEL, ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY, Jeffrey Sine, Freddy DeMann, Max Cooper, Mort Swinsky/Cindy and Jay Gutterman/Joe McGinnis/Judith Ann Abrams, ZenDog Productions/CarJac Productions, Aron Bergson Productions/Jennifer Manocherian/Ted Snowdon, Harold Thau/Terry Schnuck/Cold Spring Productions, Amanda Dubois/Elizabeth Eynon Wetherell, Jennifer Maloney/Tamara Tunie/Joe Cilibrasi/StyleFour Productions

The world premiere of “SPRING AWAKENING” was produced by the Atlantic Theater Company by special arrangement with Tom Hulce & Ira Pittelman. 4 Musical Numbers

ACT I

“Mama Who Bore Me” Wendla “Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)” Wendla, Girls “All That’s Known” Melchior “The Bitch of Living” Moritz, Boys “My Junk” Boys and Girls “Touch Me” Boys and Girls “The Word of Your Body” Melchior, Wendla “The Dark I Know Well” Martha, Ilse, Boys and Girls “The Word of Your Body (Reprise)” Otto, Georg “And Then There Were None” Moritz, Frau Gabor, Boys “The Mirror- Blue Night” Melchior, Boys “I Believe” Boys and Girls

ACT II “TheGuilty Ones” Wendla, Melchior, Boys and Girls “Don’t Do Sadness” Moritz “Blue Wind” Ilse “Don’t Do Sadness/Blue Wind” Moritz, Ilse “Left Behind” Melchior, Full Company “Totally Fucked” Melchior, Full Company “The Word of Your Body (Reprise 2)” Hänschen, Ernst, Boys and Girls “Whispering” Wendla “Those You’ve Known” Moritz,Wendla, Melchior “Song of Purple Summer” Ilse, Full Company

THERE WILL BE ONE 10-MINUTE INTERMISSION

TIME: 1891 PLACE: Germany

Special Thanks

Tharyle Prather Elissa Fredeen Danny Prather The Faculty of Theatre and Dance Ivan Fuller Scott Alboum Trent Blanton Jenna Moschella Rebecca Simon Todd Dellinger Louis Goldberg Sean McCarther Laura Luck Director’s Note 5

Spring Awakening, the musical, was first written as a play by Frank Wedekind in 1891. The play deals with sexuality and was a blistering critique of the sexually repressed society of the 1890’s. For the next 110 years, the play was mostly censored and considered by many to be pornographic. In 2006 Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater adapted the play as a musical and kept the theme of teens’ inner sexual turmoil. One major change was to keep the spoken text in 1891, but the songs, which represent the inner thoughts of the characters, written in the rock genre. The use of rock music clarifies the writer’s desire to illustrate that the consequences of sexual repression that plagued our young in 1891 are the same issues facing the youth of today. To some this may be disconcerting, but it is the ideal choice of expressing the angst and struggle in this coming-of-age musical. This play won 8 Tony Awards, 4 Drama Desk Awards and a Grammy® for Best Cast Recording.

About the Cast

MICHAEL ARIAS (Reinhold, SLOAN BRETTHOLTZ (Fräulein Herr Neumann) is a senior theatre Knuppeldick) is a senior theatre performance major making his performance major. Her past Rider Rider main stage debut. Other Rider credits include ZM, Machinal, credits include Alpha Psi Omega’s Melancholy Play and Ubu Roi. productions of Live from Lawrenceville and Lovers and Other Strangers. PAT CONSTANT (Herr Rilow, Father Kaulbach, Schmidt) is a sophomore HANNAH BEARER (Thea) is a junior musical theatre major. Rider credits musical theatre major. Rider Credits include Catch Me If You Can and include Grateful: Songs of John Bucchino, A Little Night Music. Professional ZM, Constant Craving: A Country Music credit includes Family Furniture (Off- Cabaret, Flower Power: A 60’s Cabaret Broadstreet Theater, Hopewell N.J.). and A Little Night Music. SARA DAVIS (Frau Bergmann, Frau ELLINGTON BERG (Ulbrect, Herr Neumann) is a junior musical theatre Sonnenstich) is a junior musical theatre major. Rider credits include Flower Power: major. Rider credits include Catch Me A 60’s Cabaret, Praying Mantis, Constant If You Can, Girl’s Night Out, Merrily We Craving: A Country Music Cabaret and Roll Along, The Human Heart, Musical Girl’s Night Out. Professional credits Chairs, La Vie BM: Senior Showcase include Mary Poppins and Guys and Dolls of the Class of 2015, Forbidden Rider, (Millbrook Playhouse, PA). Never Have I Ever: A Miscast Cabaret, Swingin’ The Seasons, Ca*BRA*et: An KADREA DAWKINS (Martha) is a Uplifting Evening of Song, More to the freshman musical theatre major making Story: A Cut Songs Cabaret and Prologue: her Rider main stage debut. Rider credits The Freshmen Showcase of the Class of include Upon the Shoulders We Stand. 2017. Professional credits include Beauty and the Beast (Marquis Theatre, MI). 6 About the Cast

COLBY DEZELICK (Melchior) is Breaking Up is Hard to Do (Off a senior musical theatre major. Rider Broadstreet Theatre). credits include Catch Me If You Can, All Shook Up, Machinal, Merrily We TERRIE LYNNE GOINS (Anna) is a Roll Along, Our Town, A Chorus Line, freshman musical theatre major making Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Cole. her Rider main stage debut. Previous Professional credits include Oklahoma, Rider credits include Red Carpet: Music of My Fair Lady, Grease, Tarzan, West Side the Movies and The Last Days of Pompeii. Story and Spamalot (The Muny, MO). LAURA JINPARN (Greta) is a MATTHEW FAIRLEE (Moritz) junior musical theatre major. Rider is a senior musical theatre and arts credits include Red Carpet: Music administration double major. Rider of the Movies, Flower Power: A 60’s credits include A Little Night Music, Cabaret and Grateful: Songs of John Lovers and Other Strangers, The Last Bucchino. Professional credits include The Days of Pompeii, Between the Lines Producers (Woodminster Amphitheatre, (’13,’14), All Shook Up, Machinal, ZM, CA) and Mary Poppins (Woodminster Merrily We Roll Along, Our Town, A Amphitheatre, CA). Chorus Line, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Misanthrope and The ELENI KONTOS (Gretchen, U/S Crucible. Professional credits include Wendla) is a freshman musical theatre Forestburgh Playhouse (2013), Shawnee major. Rider credits include A Little Playhouse (2014), and Mary Poppins, Night Music (U/S Mrs. Nordstrom). Guys and Dolls and the regional premiere of My Vaudeville Man at DANIEL JOSEPH MALDONADO Millbrook Playhouse (2015). (Georg, U/S Moritz) is a sophomore musical theatre major. Professional MOLLY FRANCO (Wendla) is a credits include West Side Story (Plaza senior musical theatre major. Rider Theatrical Inc.). Rider credits include credits include The Crucible, A Chorus music directing and composing for The Line, Lucky Stiff, The Praying Mantis Penelopiad. Performances include A and Between the Lines. Professional Little Night Music, Catch Me if You Can, credits include The King and I, The All Shook Up, Machinal and ZM. Secret Garden, Parade, Side Show, Les Miserables (Casa Mañana, TX), Spring BRYCE MCALLISTER (Ernst) Awakening and The Diary of Anne Frank is a sophomore musical theatre (WaterTower Theatre, TX). major with a minor in event planning and production. Rider main stage and KYLE GERAGHTY (Rupert, technical credits include ZM and A Little Headmaster Knochenbruch, U/S Night Music. Professional credits include Georg) is a senior musical theatre major. Santa’s Village (RWS & Associates, Previous Rider credits include Red N.Y.) and Hairspray (Derryfield Carpet: Music of the Movies, Last Days Repertory Theatre, N.H.). of Pompeii, All Shook Up, ZM, Merrily We Roll Along, A Chorus Line, The AARON BENNETT MILLER (Otto) Full Monty and The Crucible. His is a junior musical theatre major. Rider past professional credits include Les credits include Catch Me if You Can, All Miserables (Gateway Playhouse), Spring Shook Up, A Chorus Line, Merrily We Roll Awakening, Grease, Peter Pan (SPAC) and Along, Lucky Stiff, Red Carpet: Music of About the Cast 7 the Movies. Professional credits include third show at Rider. Rider credits include West Side Story (The Finger Lakes Musical All Shook Up and most recently, The Last Theatre Festival; Merry-Go-RoundDays of Pompeii. Playhouse), Next to Normal (Theatre in the Park), Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, RUBY WESTFALL (Ilse) is a sophomore Mame, The Best Little Whorehouse in musical theatre major. She was Texas, La Cage Aux Folles and A Murder previously seen on The Rider main stage is Announced (Forestburgh Playhouse). in The Penelopiadand ZM. Professional credits include Joseph and the Amazing MAX SILVERMAN (Herr Gabor) is Technicolor Dreamcoat (Dallas Theatre a junior musical theatre major. Rider Center, TX), The Goodbye Girl (Theatre credits include Catch Me If You Can, Three, TX), August: Osage County, Spring All Shook Up, Lucky Stiff, Merrily We Awakening and Violet (WaterTower Roll Along and A Chorus Line. Rider Theatre, TX); Creep and Eight (Uptown staged readings include Unfit, Real True Players, TX). Crime and But I Will See You Again. Professional credits include Unknown ESSENCE WILLIAMS (Fanny Gabor) Soldier (World Premiere) (Williamstown is a sophomore musical theatre major. Theatre Festival, MA). Rider credits include ZM, Flower Power: A 60’s Cabaret and A Little Night Music. BRADEN SWEENEY (Hänschen) is Professional credits include Aida (Dance a junior musical theatre major. Rider Captain), Ragtime (Sarah), Beauty credits include A Little Night Music, and the Beast (Mrs. Potts) and Catch Me If You Can, All Shook Up, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Machinal, Lucky Stiff, A Chorus Line, Trying (Ms. Jones). Reasons to Be Pretty, The Aisling and UNFIT. Professional credits include NICK ZIOBRO (Herr Stiefel, Dr. Von Mary Poppins (Red Mountain Theatre Brausepulver, Dieter, U/S Melchior) is a Company, AL) and The Who’s Tommy sophomore musical theatre major. Rider (ZACH Theatre, TX). credits include All Shook Up, Catch Me If You Can and Red Carpet: Music of SHELLY LYNN WALSH (Frau Bessell, The Movies. Film & TV credits include Fräulein Großebüstenhalter) is a America’s Got Talent (NBC) and The Last sophomore musical theatre major in her Pick-Up (Goodface Films).

About the Artistic Staff and Crew

GERMAN CÁRDENAS-ALAMINOS teaching stagecraft, intro to stage (Scenic Designer) holds a Bachelor design, stage lighting, theater lab and of Arts in Architecture from National theater appreciation. He has worked University in Mexico City (UNAM) and as resident scenic designer and painter an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama in at Rider since 2011. Scenic designs scenic design. He has assisted, designed for Rider University include A Little and co-designed in both Mexico and the Night Music, Catch Me If You Can, Ubu U.S. He is a full-time faculty member Roi, The Laramie Project, The Wedding of the Theatre and Dance Department, Singer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 8 About the Cast

The Producers, Nine, Cole, The Misanthrope, Music Cabaret and Alpha Psi Omega's The Full Monty, Metamorphoses, Reasons Lovers and Other Strangers. to be Pretty, Merrily We Roll Along, Lucky Stiff and ZM. Part of his work in Mexico AUSTIN GRAY (Assistant Technical includes musicals like The Producers Director) is a junior theatre studies (International Tour), Hoy no me puedo major. He has carpentry experience levantar in Mexico City (2006) at Yale from his work at Rider University on School of Drama, Jelly’s Last Jam and Our Town, Merrily We Roll Along, A Eclipsed at the Yale Repertory Theater Chorus Line, ZM (Zombie Musical) and which won Outstanding Production Lucky Stiff. Assistant technical director from Connecticut Critics Circle in 2010. credits include A Little Night Music, The Other professional credits include co- Penelopiad, Ubu Roi and Catch Me If You design for LUCE at Claire Tow Theater Can. He has been stage manager and at Lincoln Center (2013) and Little Rock production stage manager for multiple at Passage Theater (2014). He was a shows. During the summer of 2015, recipient of the Mexican National Fund Austin was a carpentry intern at The for the Culture and the Arts (FONCA) Forestburgh Playhouse for a season. from 2007 to 2010. EVAN GRINER (Props Master) is a WENDY FEAVER (Musical Director) is junior majoring in theatre studies with a graduate of the American Musical and a minor in film and media studies. Rider Dramatic Academy in New York as well credits include The Triumph of Time as the Musical Theatre Piano Program and Truth. Prior experience includes at Rider University, where she currently production assistant for Kiss Me Kate works as a vocal coach, accompanist and and A Man for All Seasons (Pinnworth music director. Previous music directing Productions); director for A Pair of credits include American Pop: A Songbook, Lunatics (MCCC); lighting for Cabaret 1846-1923 (Reading of a work-in- (Pinnworth Productions) Les Miserables progress by composer Michael Friedman/ (Playful Theatre Productions), and University of the Arts), Flower Power: A actor in Doctor/Securitate/Vampire in Cabaret Celebration of Pop Music from the Mad Forest (MCCC). 1960's, Lucky Stiff, The Human Heart: A Cabaret for Love, Unity & Tolerance, SIMON HALE (String Orchestrations) Cole: A Cole Porter Revue, Homemade After graduating from the University Fusion, Love Goes On: an original song of London with an honors degree in cycle by Briana Wolf and It's a Girl!, an composition, Simon Hale’s acclaimed all-female cabaret. Ms. Feaver is the co- solo album, East Fifteen, led to founder of Waytago Productions (www. recordings with many artists, including facebook.com/WaytagoProductions), George Benson, Simply Red, Jamiroquai a theatre production company created and Bjork. In 1996 he orchestrated to be a platform to encourage artists' Duncan Sheik’s first album, and their creative aspirations. musical collaboration has continued ever since. Simon’s involvement MEAGHAN FINLAY (Production Stage with Spring Awakening marked his Manager) is a junior arts administration Broadway debut and the Tony Award major with a theatre concentration. for Best Orchestrations in 2007. Rider stage management credits include He continues to work with Steven Sater All Shook Up, Catch Me If You Can, The and Duncan Sheik on other projects. Penelopiad, Red Carpet: Music of the For more information please visit Movies, Constant Craving: A Country www.simonhale.co.uk. About the Artistic Staff and Crew 9

DAKOTA JUDGE (Assistant Director) Kamalenya and The Odyssey Experience is a junior theatre performance major. (McCarter Theatre Education); Die Rider performance credits include Fledermaus, Rigoletto and Turandot Machinal. Rider technical credits include (Opera New Jersey); Chicago (Peach Catch Me If You Can, Ubu Roi, All Shook State Summer­ Theatre); Tamer of Horses Up and A Chorus Line. Professional and Beguiled Again (Theatre Virginia); credits include film work with JFN EDDA (Ping Chong & Sequentia); Motion Pictures Productions LTD. Brigadoon and Hello, Dolly! (Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival); and The Merry ROBIN LEWIS (Choreographer) Rider Widow and West Side Sto­ry (Ash Lawn credits include Catch Me If You Can, All Opera). Shook Up, The Full Monty, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and The Producers. TODD LOYD (Lighting Designer) His film credits include choreography is the lighting director for Rider Uni­ for Bernie, and performances of Fosse versity’s Department of Theatre and and at the Tony Awards. Broadway Dance. At Rider he has designed lighting credits include Fosse, Beauty and the for Gallathea, Rider Dances: DanceSpaces Beast and A Christmas Carol. His tour (Recital 2016), Catch Me If You Can, Ubu credits include The Producers, A Chorus Roi, The Penelopiad, All Shook Up, The Line, Hello, Dolly!, Beauty and the Beast, Praying Mantis, Rider Dances: Collaborate Where’s Charley? (Kennedy Center) and and Innovate (Recital 2015), Machinal, Jubilee (Carnegie Hall). He is currently ZM, A Doctor in Spite of Himself, Lucky a faculty member in the Department of Stiff, Merrily We Roll Along, Reasons to Theatre and Dance at Rider University. Be Pretty, Our Town, A Chorus Line and www.robinlewisdance.com Meta­morphoses and many others. He has also designed lighting for Journey to Oz BUCK LINTON (Technical Di­ (Children's Theatre of Charlotte); The rector) received a Master of Fine Arts in Gun Show (Passage Theatre in Trenton); Scenography and Technical Design from and the Summer Intensive Recital at Virginia Tech and became­ the technical Princeton Ballet School from 2010 director for the School of Fine and through the present. Performing Arts in 2012. His work has been seen around the country at such ANNMARIE MILAZZO (Vocal ven­ues as The Kennedy Center, Paper Arrangements) Composer/lyricist: Pretty Mill Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Dead Girl, Sundance Film Festival. Vocal Club, Second Stage, Seattle Reper­tory arranger: Broadway productions of Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Spring Awakening and Next to Normal, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse Bright Lights, Big City at the New York and Capital Repertory Theatre. Recent Theater Workshop and the Paramount works include The Drowsy Chaperone, feature film, The Marc Pease Experience. Assassins, World Goes ’Round and Two AnnMarie is a Grammy® nominated Gentlemen of Verona (Westminster singer from The East Village Opera College of the Arts); Phaedra Backwards, Company on Universal/Decca. Travesties, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Take Flight, Herringbone, Lookingglass Alice MIRIAM MILLS (Director) is an M.F.A. and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mc­ graduate in directing from Mason Gross Carter Theatre);Die Zauberflöte, Pel­léas et School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Mélisande, Dialogues des car­mélites, Il Re Ms. Mills teaches acting, directing, Pastore, La Clemenza di Tito and Oreste, acting for the camera and advanced (Westminster Choir College); Sunjata performance classes in auditioning and 10 About the Artistic Staff and Crew comedy. Ms. Mills has directed over 100 the author of numerous plays, including shows nationally, including productions the long running Carbondale Dreams, of Extremities, The Pillowman, Rent and Perfect for You, Doll (the Rosenthal Sweet Charity. Ms. Mills has also taught Prize, Cincinnati Playhouse); Umbrage at Mason Gross, TCNJ and Mercer (Steppenwolf New Play Prize); A County College. She has twice received Footnote to the Iliad (New York Stage and the Kennedy Center ACTF “meritorious Film, The Miniature Theatre of Chester); directing” award for excellence in Asylum (Naked Angels); Murder at the directing for her productions of The Gates (commissioned by Eye of the Pillowman and The Misanthrope. She is Storm); In Search of Lost Wings (Sanford active in the Association for Theater in Meisner Theater) and a reconceived Higher Education and currently serves version of Shakespeare’s Tempest, with as the director of the acting program for music by Laurie Anderson, which the national association. Miriam is an played London’s Lyric Hammersmith active voice-over artist and her New and toured throughout Great Britain. York acting credits include leads in such In addition to Spring Awakening, Sater productions as Romeo and Juliet, Hot’l has collaborated with Sheik on the Baltimore and Company. N.Y. premiere of Umbrage (HERE), Nero (The Magic Theatre, workshopped BRANDON PONZO (Assistant at the New York Shakespeare Festival Director) is a senior arts administration and New York Stage & Film), and The major. Rider sound design credits include Nightingale (workshopped at the O’Neill Machinal, Our Town, Metamorphoses Musical Theatre Conference, La Jolla (nominated for The Kennedy Center Playhouse, A.C.T. and New York Theater American College Theater Festival's 2014 Workshop). He is also hard at work with Award for Sound Design Excellence), System of a Down’s Serj Tankian on a Alpha Psi Omega's student productions musical version of Prometheus Bound, of Lovers and Other Strangers and Almost, to be directed by Diane Poulus at the Maine, Arts Management Association's American Repertory Theater. Sater is the world premiere production of B-Sides lyricist for Sheik’s critically acclaimed and Colby Dezelick's Between the Lines. album Phantom Moon (Nonesuch), and Professional sound design credits include together the two wrote the songs for The Aliens (Pulse Theatre Company). Michael Mayer’s feature filmA Home at the End of the World (Warner Classics) as STEVEN SATER (Book and Lyrics) well as the independent features Brother’s was awarded the 2007 Tony Awards Shadow and Mary Stuart Masterson’s The for Best Book of a Musical and Best Cake Eaters. Sater is also co-creator and Original Score for Spring Awakening executive producer, with Paul Reiser, of along with the Drama Desk and Outer recent pilots for both NBC and Sony/ Critic Circle Awards for Best Lyrics. FX, and has developed two projects for With alt-rocker Duncan Sheik, he HBO and another for Showtime (with received the 2007 Grammy® Award for Reiser). He is also at work with Jessie Best Musical Show Album for Spring Nelson on a feature film and is creating Awakening. In addition, the two received an original movie musical for producer The Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Larry Mark. In addition, Steven works as Award, The Outer Critics Circle, The a lyricist with various composers in the Drama Desk, The Lucille Lortel, New pop/rock world – recently writing songs York Drama Critics’ Circle, and Drama with Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mandel, League Awards for Best Musical. Steven is Andreas Carlsson and William Joseph. About the Artistic Staff and Crew 11

ROBIN I. SHANE (Costume Designer) (Another Golden Rome) (currently in Robin has been the resident costume development), The Nightingale (currently designer at Rider for the past three in development) and Whisper House seasons. Favorite designs include A Little (currently in development). Recorded Night Music, Catch Me If You Can, Ubu works include: Whisper House (Sony/ Roi, All Shook Up, The Praying Mantis, Victor 2009), White Limousine (Rounder Machinal, Lucky Stiff, Merrily We 2006), Daylight (Atlantic Records 2002), Roll Along, Metamorphoses (KCACTF Phantom Moon (Nonesuch 2001), Honorable Mention) and The Full Humming (Atlantic Records 1998) and Monty. Recent productions include God Duncan Sheik (Grammy® Nomination of Carnage at the Montgomery Theatre, “Best Male Vocal”) (Atlantic Records The Captive with the Philadelphia 1996). Film Scores include: DARE Artist’s Collective and Yes! And’s Silliest (2009), Little Spirit: Christmas in New Story Ever Told at Plays & Players in York (2008), Capers (2007) and The Cake Philadelphia. Robin is also the current Eaters (2007). Producer Credits include: resident designer at Passage Theater in Holly Brook (forthcoming CD 2009), Trenton where her designs have included Micah Green (2008), Spring Awakening Song for the Disappeared, Little Rock, Original Cast Album (Universal 2007) Tamer of Horses, Roundelay, Blessed Are…, and Chris Gameau (2006). Slippery as Sin, The History of Light and Samuel J and K. She had previously KERRI SINGLEY (Assistant Costume served as the resident designer for EgoPo Designer) is a senior theatre studies Productions in Philadelphia, where her major with a minor in film and media projects included Hairy Ape, Stairs to the studies. Rider credits for costume design Roof, Death of a Salesman, A Doll's House include Gallathea and Crumble (Lay and Lady from the Sea. Other favorite Me Down, Justin Timberlake); assistant productions include Xanadu, Dreamgirls costume design: A Little Night Music, and The Rocky Horror Show (Revision The Full Monty, Our Town, Merrily We Theater) andBrundibar; Comedy on the Roll Along, Lucky Stiff, Machinal, The Bridge and But The Giraffe (The New Praying Mantis, The Penelopiad and Ubu Victory Theater/Yale Rep/Berkeley Rep). Roi; wardrobe supervisor: Reasons To Be Other credits include Jean Cocteau Rep, Pretty, A Doctor In Spite of Himself and Soho Rep, The Mint, Chicago Opera Catch Me If You Can. Theater, The Juilliard School, New York University and The Harrisburg Opera, DARREN R. SUSSMAN (Sound as well as work for the large and small Designer) is the owner of Reid Sound, screens. Robin serves on the Board of Yes! Inc. and has been involved with And Collaborative Arts in Philadelphia, hundreds of productions in New Jersey and earned her M.F.A. from New high schools, colleges and professional York University’s Tisch School of the theaters. Recent productions for Rider Arts. For JDS. University include A Little Night Music, Catch Me If You Can, All Shook Up, A DUNCAN SHEIK (Music) In Chorus Line, Lucky Stiff, Reasons to be addition to writing the music for Spring Pretty, Merrily We Roll Along, The Full Awakening (2007 Tony Awards for “Best Monty, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Orchestrations” and “Best Original Hair and Urinetown. Other highlights Score,” 2008 Grammy® Award for include Ain’t Misbehavin’, Waiting For “Best Musical Show Album”), Sheik’s Godot (Two River Theater Company), other theater credits include: Nero The R&J Project (Mason Gross School of 12 About Us the Arts) and numerous productions for Technicians, rewarding those students the George Street Playhouse’s education who choose to pursue a career in theater department. In 2010, Darren created the behind the scenes. Reid Sound Scholarship for Theatrical

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