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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 Guthrie Theater; 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. The Great Gatsby is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. T The Designers at this Theatre S CENIC A S A IA D R T are Represented by E I E T S I I T N S • U L • United Scenic Artists• Local USA 829 O 9 C 82 AL USA of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes 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 United States. 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); and Hair (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, New York City); Vinegar Tom Washington 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