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April 29—May 25, 2014

Adapted for the stage by Simon Levy Directed by Gavin Mayer Scenic Design Lighting Design Brian Mallgrave vance McKenzie Sound Design Costume Design Wig and Makeup Design Grant Evenson Clare Henkel Diana Ben-Kiki Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Lisa A. Kurtz* Lisa Cook* Artistic Producer Rod A. Lansberry

Casting by wojcik | seay casting, llc

World Premiere produced by the ; Joe Dowling, Artistic Director; Thomas C. Proehl, Managing Director. West Coast Premiere produced by Seattle Repertory Theatre; David Esbjornson, Artistic Director; Benjamin Moore, Managing Director. is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Cast of Characters Jay Gatsby...... Anthony Bianco *

Daisy Buchanan...... Jamie Ann Romero *

Nick Carraway...... Graham Ward *

Tom Buchanan...... C. Clayton Blackwell *

Jordan Baker...... Audra Blaser *

Myrtle Wilson...... Cailin Doran

George Wilson...... Steven Cole Hughes *

Meyer Wolfsheim...... Steve Einspahr *

Mr. McKee, Policeman...... Erik Tieze *

Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Michaelis...... Rachel Fowler *

Waiter...... Andrew Russell

Understudies (Understudies never appear in place of principal actors unless an announcement has been made.) Nick Carraway: Andrew Russell; Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, Waiter: Nicholas Kemner; Daisy Buchanan: Audra Blaser*; Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson: Bethany Eilean Talley; George Wilson, Meyer Wolfsheim: Erik Tieze*; Mr. McKee, Policeman: Steve Einspahr*; Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Michaelis: Adrienne Martin-Fullwood. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the .

Time & Place Summer 1922. Long Island, New York. — There will be an intermission —

Acknowledgments Nikki Harrison, Ted Stark of the University of Colorado Department of Theatre and Dance, the University of Northern Colorado School of Theatre, Brian Kelly D.D.S., Performing Arts Committee, and Arvada Center Volunteers. Who’s Who In The Cast

Anthony Bianco (Jay Gatsby) was last My Blueberry Nights. Training: Master of Fine Arts (Northern seen at the Arvada Center as Valentine Illinois University). Member of Actors’ Equity Association, in Twelfth Night. Other credits include: and Screen Actors Guild. Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Three Musketeers (Denver Audra Blaser (Jordan Baker, u/s Daisy Center Theatre Company);Twelfth Buchanan) is making her Arvada Night (Feste Theatre); Richard III, Center debut. She has appeared Off- Treasure Island (Colorado Shakespeare Broadway in The Ruby Sunrise (Public Festival); Bach at Leipzig (Boulder Theater). Regional credits include: Ensemble Theatre); The Zoo Story The Toxic Avenger (George Street (Permanent Transient Productions); Playhouse); Happy Days, the Musical Red Light Winter, Bent, The Pillowman (Falcon Theatre); andHair (Pittsburgh (Armory Free Theatre); The Chosen (Theatre Or); The House of Musical Theater). Television: Lovebites Yes (Equinox Theatre Company); and Books on Tape (Vintage (TBS); Law & Order (NBC); Rules of Theatre). Training: Master of Fine Arts, University of Illinois Engagement (CBS); Sherri (Lifetime); at Urbana/Champaign; Bachelor of Fine Arts and Minor in 3 Lbs. (CBS); and The Book of Daniel Shakespeare Studies, Southern Oregon University. (NBC). Film: Bandidas, Wedding Daze, Suburban Girl, and A Novel Romance. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Carnegie Jamie Ann Romero (Daisy Buchanan) Mellon University. was last seen at the Arvada Center as Fabian in Twelfth Night. Other credits Cailin Doran (Myrtle Wilson) include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is making her first regular season Richard II, Noises Off, Romeo and appearance after performing last year Juliet, Hamlet (Colorado Shakespeare in the children’s theater production of Festival); The Seagull and Boeing- No Dogs Allowed. New York/Regional: Boeing (THEATREWORKS); and The Othello (Julii Theatre); and 365 Legend of Georgia McBride, The Three Plays/365 Days (Single Carrot Theatre, Musketeers, and Sunsets and Margaritas Baltimore). Colorado: Boeing-Boeing, (Denver Center Theatre Company). Sweet Charity (Littleton Town Hall); She received her Bachelor of Arts in Assassins (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado. Center); Mallmart (Curious Theatre Company); Hairspray (Aurora Fox Arts Graham Ward (Nick Carraway) has Center); and educational tours with the Colorado Shakespeare appeared at the Arvada Center as Festival. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre, Sergeant Trotter in The Mousetrap, Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, University of Colorado. Passepartout in Around the World in 80 Days, and Thorpe/Riviere/Charlie/ Steven Cole Hughes (George Wilson) King of France in Is He Dead?. Other previously appeared at the Arvada regional productions include: William Center in Blithe Spirit, Is He Dead?, Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead, Tamin’ and A Man For All Seasons. Other of the Shrew, A Funny Thing Happened credits include: Is He Dead?, Harry the on the Way to the Forum, Mrs. Mannerly, Great, Unnecessary Farce, 39 Steps, and Harry the Great, and the improvised cowboyily (Creede Repertory Theatre); comedy shows Boomtown!, and Pants Just Like Us, Pride and Prejudice, All on Fire (Creede Repertory Theatre). He has a Bachelor of Fine My Sons, Measure for Measure, The Arts in Acting from Brigham Young University. Misanthrope, Scapin, Blue/Orange, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Three Sisters, The C. Clayton Blackwell (Tom Buchanan) Lonesome West, Hamlet, and Tantalus is making his Arvada Center debut. (Denver Center Theatre Company); A Midsummer Night’s He last appeared as Henry VIII in Dream, Richard II, and Macbeth (Colorado Shakespeare A Man for All Seasons (Bowen Park Festival); Mary Stuart (THEATREWORKS); and Lieutenant of Theatre Company). Las Vegas credits: Inishmore (Curious Theatre Company). Television: Easy Money, Tony ‘n Tina’s Wedding, and Star Trek: Law & Order, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Master of The Experience. Other roles include: Fine Arts, National Theatre Conservatory. Warden in Not About Nightingales, Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Duncan in Macbeth, Bosworth in Theophilus North, and Ahab in Moby Dick Rehearsed (Northern Illinois University). Film credits: Two Hundred Thousand Dirty, and Steve Einspahr (Meyer Wolfsheim, Andrew Russell (Waiter, u/s Nick u/s Mr. McKee, Policeman) is making Carraway) was last seen in the Arvada his Arvada Center debut. Regional Center’s production of Legally Blonde. credits include: A Christmas Story, In addition to The Great Gatsby, Things My Mother Taught Me (Circa Andrew can also be seen in Lyle ‘21 Dinner Playhouse); All Shook Up, The Crocodile with Arvada Center’s Greater Tuna (Texas Family Musicals); children theater. Andrew is a recent House of Blue Leaves, The Bungler graduate from the University of (West Coast Ensemble); and Antony Northern Colorado and holds a & Cleopatra (Colorado Shakespeare Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre. Festival). Television: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Superman: The New Adventures of Lois and Clark, and Days of Our Lives. Steve received his Master of Fine Arts from CalArts in Valencia, California. Nicholas Kemner (u/s Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby, Waiter) is making his Erik Tieze (Mr. McKee, Policeman, Arvada Center debut. Local credits u/s Meyer Wolfsheim, George Wilson) include: The Rocky Horror Show, A Man For All Seasons, Second Tosca, Arcadia, The Pillowman(Wit Theatre The Crucible, Hollywood Arms, As Bees Company); and Hamlet, The Importance in Honey Drown, Moon Over Buffalo, of Being Earnest (73rd Avenue Theatre Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Arvada Company). Nicholas is a graduate of Center); World of Mirth (Primary Whitworth University in Spokane, Stages, ); Vinegar Tom where he received his (Westbeth, New York City); Iphigenia Bachelor of Arts in General Theatre (Elysium Theatre, New York City); and Theatre Performance. Macbeth, and Much Ado About Nothing (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival); Adrienne Martin-Fullwood (u/s Tartuffe (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Winter’s Tale, A Mrs. McKee, Mrs Michaelis) was last Christmas Carol, Kingdom, Macbeth, Gross Indecency, Travels seen at Arvada Center in A Raisin in With My Aunt, Cyrano, Don Quixote, Tempest, Three Tall Women, the Sun as Ruth and as u/s Esther in and Hamlet (Denver Center Theatre Company); andSpeed- Intimate Apparel. Other credits include: The-Plow, and THOM PAIN (Modern Muse, 2007 Ovation Hairspray (Venue Theatre);Tell Martha Award). Erik is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has a Not to Moan (Aurora Fox Arts Center), Master of Fine Arts from Temple University. for which she was nominated Best Actress in a Drama; The Container Rachel Fowler (Mrs. McKee, Mrs. (73rd Avenue Theatre Company); Michaelis) Colorado stage credits Fences (Curious Theatre Company); and include: All My Sons (Denver Center Flyin’ West and Four Queens No Trump Theatre Company,Denver Post Ovation (Shadow Theatre Company). Award); Rabbit Hole (Curious Theatre Company, Denver Post Ovation Award); Bethany Eilean Talley (u/s Myrtle Steel Magnolias (Senior Housing Wilson, Jordan Baker) was last seen as Options); Noises Off and Twelfth Maggie in Lend Me a Tenor (Vintage Night (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Theatre). Other credits include: u/s and Tomorrow in the Battle (Grant- Aouda in Around the World in 80 Humphreys Mansion), which she also Days, and u/s Marie in Is He Dead? produced. New York credits include (Arvada Center); Lorina in Alice and the The Pagans, Cloud 9, and Treason. She’s worked at Cincinnati Bookstore Palace, and Tintinabula in A Playhouse, St. Louis Repertory, Playmakers Repertory, Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and The Old Globe. She co-founded Forum (Creede Repertory Theatre); and Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, New Jersey, and now serves Frieda in Sunday in the Park with George as Producer for LOCAL in Boulder. Rachel received the 2012 (Playhouse 22). She has a Bachelor of CultureWest Award for Best Season by an Actress. Fine Arts in Acting from Brigham Young University. Grant Evenson 8 (Sound Designer) has designed numerous children’s theater productions for the Arvada Center, F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author, 1896-1940) was an American including: A Year with Frog and Toad, Schoolhouse Rock Live, author of novels and short stories, whose works are the and the currently running Lyle the Crocodile. For the latter paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He two he also engineered and mixed each show’s recorded music is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of accompaniment. Equally at home in the recording studio, the 20th century and is considered a member of the “Lost Grant has engineered for clients such as Hewlett Packard, Generation” of the 1920’s. He finished four novels:This Side Gannett, and Fox’s King of the Hill. Combining studio and of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his stage disciplines, Grant’s sound designs are unique in that they most famous), and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished often feature a large number of sound effects and production novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously elements he recorded specifically for the production. after his death from a heart attack at age 44. Clare Henkel (Costume Designer) designed costumes for Nine Simon Levy (Playwright) is an award-winning theater director (2011 Ovation Award), Miss Saigon, Cabaret, Sunset Boulevard, and playwright, who has been the Producing Director/ Ragtime, Twelfth Night, Chess, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dividing Dramaturg with the Fountain Theatre in since the Estate, Camelot, and End of the Rainbow. Also Denver Center 1993. He has taught Playwriting at University of California, Theatre Company, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Old Globe Los Angeles Writer’s Extension, served as a site evaluator for Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego and San Jose Repertory the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Theatres, Aurora Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Dallas Arts Council, and is a member of numerous organizations, Theatre Center, Geva Theatre, Indianapolis Symphony’s Pops including the Dramatists Guild, Society for Directors and Consortium (including Carnegie Hall), Sacramento Theatre Choreographers, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Company, Lake Tahoe, and Idaho Shakespeare Americas. His stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, Festivals, and Maxim Gorky Theatre in Vladivostok, Russia. The Great Gatsby premiered at the Guthrie Theater in 2006. Diana Ben-Kiki (Hair and Wig Designer) Arvada Center 8 credits include: The Lion in Winter, Chess, Twelfth Night, Legally Blonde, Curtains, and End of the Rainbow. Diana has been the Gavin Mayer (Director) Arvada Center: A Christmas Carol: The Wig Master at Denver Center Theatre Company for the last 19 Musical, Curtains, Miracle on 34th Street, and Legally Blonde seasons, where her credits include: Sense and Sensibility, White (True West Award Best Musical). Assistant Director: End of the Christmas (Buell Theatre),A Christmas Carol, and Tantalus, to Rainbow, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Chess. Arvada Center name only a few. Other local design credits include: Colorado Teen Intensive: Footloose, All Shook Up, and Hairspray. Other Springs Fine Arts Center, Garner Galleria Theatre, Lone Tree selected credits include: Forever Plaid (Post Playhouse); Jesus Arts Center and other local theaters. Christ Superstar, Bus Stop, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables, The Laramie Project, Noises Off, and Urinetown. Master of Fine Lisa A. Kurtz (Production Stage Manager) has been at the Arts in Directing from the School of Theatre at Florida State. Arvada Center since 1995. She started on the running crew, moved into stage management and has been in this position Brian Mallgrave (Scenic Designer) serves as Resident Scenic ever since. Designer at the Arvada Center. Recent designs include Man of La Mancha (2013 Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award Lisa Cook (Assistant Stage Manager) has been involved in and 2013 Broadway World Denver Award), Camelot, The consecutive Arvada Center productions since 2004. Mousetrap, and Blithe Spirit (2013 Henry Award Nominee). He was the recipient of Denver Post’s 2011 Award for Ongoing Wojcik | Seay Casting (Casting) is Scott Wojcik & Gayle Seay. Achievement in Scenic Design. Other companies for which Along with Erin Denman, they cast theater and commercials, he has worked locally include Curious Theatre Company and as well as television/film. Off-Broadway: Tennessee Williams’ Colorado Shakespeare Festival. The Two Character Play starring Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif, Triassic Parq, Handle With Care starring Carol Vance McKenzie (Lighting Designer) is a freelance lighting Lawrence, National Pastime, 666. Upcoming: Philosophy for designer working throughout North America. He recently Gangsters. Tours: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Joseph and the designed A Christmas Carol, A Musical for the Arvada Center, Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma!, and A Chorus Line. It’s a Wonderful Life for THEATREWORKS and the regional Regional theatres including: Riverside Theatre-FL, Theatre premiere of Jane Eyre at the Lakewood Cultural Center. Other Raleigh-NC, Stages St Louis-MO, Theatre Aspen-CO, and designs include: The 39 Stepsat Breckenridge Backstage Theatre; Tuacahn Performing Arts Center-UT. Pilot: Upstate. Feature Carry On with Ballet Nouveau Colorado; A Journey of the film:Best Man In The Dark. Short Film: Prologue. Web Series: Human Spirit for the Newman Center; and Miracle on 34th Expert Witness. Street for the Arvada Center. Vance has his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Living the Dream Living By Elizabeth Zurn, the Dramaturg Dream By Elizabeth Zurn, Dramaturg

Anthony Bianco as Jay Gatsby Photo: © P. Switzer

WhenWhen consumerism,consumerism, reckless reckless self-advanceself-advance- self-advance-­ Fitzgerald focused on writing a novel that would bring ment, and profits are worshipped, can any of us him offinancial Paradise, success, his marriage and when proposal Scribner’s to decidedZelda come outout clean? clean? to publish that first novel,This Side of Paradise, his marriagewell, proposal and Fitzgerald to Zelda was immediatelygranted admittance accepted. Gatsby’sGatsby’s worldworld is isset set in inthe the seductive seductive glamour glamour Theto novelthe soldworld well,of wealth.and Fitzgerald He spent was severalgranted and glitz of 1922 America. These characters are swept admittance to the world of wealth. He spent several up in the Jazz Age, an era of rapid cultural change, summers with Zelda on Great Neck Long up in the Jazz Age, an era of rapid cultural change, summersIsland with running Zelda with on aGreat fast and Neck rich Long crowd. Island He rampant consumerism, and moral ambiguity. The running with a fast and rich crowd. He struggled to accepted practice of ignoring prohibition blurs the find his place in a society built on appearances, and lineaccepted between practice right and of wrong,ignoring and prohibition the get-rich-quick blurs the appearances, and that experience fueled the line between right and wrong, and the get-rich-quick that experience fueled the conflict and questioning at stock market rewards reckless investment. 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In this dystopia, the audience and characters yearn together In response, Fitzgerald focused on writing a novel that would ADMINISTRATION Scene Shop Costume Shop and Wardrobe Philip C. Sneed...... Executive Director Nick Cimyotte...... Technical Director Chris Campbell...... Costume Shop Manager Rod A. Lansberry...... Artistic Producer Tim Krueger...... Master Carpenter/Welder Liz Jasperse...... Assistant Costume Shop Manager Jill A. Fives...... Lead Scenic Artist Crystal McKenzie...... First Hand PRODUCTION Korri Marshall...... Scenic Artist Meredith Murphy...... Costume Crafts Production Staff Jacob Auten...... Scenic Carpenter Andrew Ozbun...... Wig Maintenance Technician C. Cory Knutson...... Scenic Carpenter Jessie Page...... Stitcher/Dresser Lisa Hoffman...... Artistic Associate Todd Malcolm...... Scenic Carpenter Kathy Page...... Stitcher Kitty Skillman Hilsabeck...... Dance Sequences Nathan Spurgeon...... Scenic Carpenter Jessica Schneider...... Stitcher/Dresser Adam Stolte...... Production Manager Frank Cason...... Stage Carpenter Brooke Vlasich...... Stitcher Jacob Kenworthy.....Assistant Production Manager Kyle Scoggins...... Stage Carpenter David Cimyotte...... Lead Theater Technician Dusty Sloan...... Stage Carpenter Electrics Brian Mallgrave...... Resident Scenic Designer Jon Olson...... Master Electrician Rob Reynolds....Design Associate/Scenic Carpenter Prop Shop Ronnie Daniel...... Electrician Lisa Cook*...... AEA Stage Manager Lucy Himsl...... Electrician Lisa A. Kurtz*...... AEA Stage Manager Meghan Markiewicz...... Prop Shop Manager Bryan Hudson...... Electrician Melissa Green...... Props Artisan Wesley Reeves...... Electrician Liza Kelley...... Props Artisan Tom Fletcher...... Electrician Lauren Hergenreter...... Electrician Sound Grant Evenson...... Lead Sound Technician Morgan McCauley...... Sound Technician Bryan Rothrock...... Sound Technician

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