A USTIN S HAKESPEARE I NTERNSHIPS

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For production, become involved for part or all of the rehearsal and performance process from mid-March to the end of May. You can also be part of the running crew for performances at The Curtain, a replica of an Elizabethan Theatre. Spring production internships available in light, sound, set, costume, or props. You can also apply to be an assistant to the stage director!

- April-June internships for our Shakespeare in the Park Production in Zilker Park. - June-July 2011 education internships with students for summer camps, or for teens for a production that rehearses in the evening and performs on weekends. - Aug-Sept rehearsals for Austin Shakespeare's Fall Production to be performed at the Long Center for the Performing Arts.

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January 19 –23, 2011 The Long Center for the Performing Arts The Rollins Studio Theatre www.austinshakespeare.org W INTER /SPRING 2011

Anthem, ’s Classic set to Original Music January 19 – 23, 2011 at The Rollins Theatre The Long Center

Man and Superman, by George Bernard Shaw February 17 – March 6, 2011 at The Rollins Theatre The Long Center

Shakespeare, Politics and Shylock A political forum addressing Jewish issues in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice March 26, 2011 The Curtain Theatre 101 W 6th Street Words by Shakespeare, Music by Austin A fundraiser featuring some of Austin’s finest musicians performing songs of Austin, Texas 78701 Shakespeare’s words April 21 & 22, 2011 512-479-0044 The Curtain Theatre

Shakespeare’s Birthday Revel www.goldsgym.com A day of fun for the whole family to celebrate the Birthday of the Bard April 23, 2011 The Curtain Theatre/Castleton Village

Love’s Labours Lost, a Shakespearean Comedy SUPPORT AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE Directed by Robert Faires May 5 – 29, 2011 at Zilker Hillside Theatre at Zilker Park Join us at Austin Shakespeare to make a difference in our city through the arts. Austin Shakespeare (free to the public) not only brings high quality classic productions to Central Texas, but educates and stimulates 1,000’s of people each year by its programs. We do this with the help of people like you.

"Young Shakespeare’s" Troilus and Cressida IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMES IT IS IMPORTANT TO GIVE WHAT YOU CAN. GIVE GENEROUSLY. June 23 – July 3, 2011 at The Curtain Theatre Our summer program for Teens culminating in a • classes • lectures • camps • education outreach • readings • workshops • professionally-produced show. SUPPORT LIVE THEATRE. SUPPORT SHAKESPEARE. SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY. Contact Alex at [email protected] or stop by membership table to find out how.

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Austin Shakespeare presents professional theatre of the highest quality with an emphasis on the plays of William Shakespeare, bringing to the public performances that are fresh, bold, www.austinshakespeare.org imaginative, thought-provoking, and eminently accessible, connecting to the truths of the past with challenges and possibilities of today. ANN CICCOLELLA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ALEX B. ALFORD, MANAGING DIRECTOR PRESENT

AYN RAND’S

Adapted by Music by JEFF BRITTING

Directed by ANN CICCOLELLA

Costume Design………………………………….………………………….……JENNIFER MADISON Lighting Design…………………………………..………..……………………………….JASON AMATO Scenic Design…………………………………………………..……………………..JOHN AARON BELL Video Projections…………………..………………………………………..…………K. ELIOT HAYNES Video Design……….…………..………………………..……………………………….…ROBERT Sound Effects………….……………..………………………………………..…………K. ELIOT HAYNES Properties Coordinator………………..………..………………………….….SHANNON RICHEY* Music Supervisor and Original Music …………………..………..……MICHAEL McKELVEY Production Coordinator……………………………………………………….………MELINDA PARR Stage Manager……………………….………….…………………………………SHANNON RICHEY*

*Member Actors’ Equity Association

January 19 — 23, 2011 The Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre

Special thanks to for permission to produce this play.

This production is presented under a Small Theatre Professional Contract with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors & Stage Managers in the . Austin Shakespeare’s programs are funded in part by the City of Austin through The Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. . C HARACTER L IST ( IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE ) EQUALITY 7-2521………………….………..……….……………………….………….…………Collin Bjork INTERNATIONAL 4-8818………………………………………………………..…..….Michael Dalmon LIBERTY 5-3000…………………………………………………………………….……….……Helen Merino*

TOWNSPEOPLE………………..……….………………………Katherine Beamer, Peter Beilharz Justin Gordon, Heather Tucek

*Member Actors’ Equity Association

Anthem will be performed without an intermission.

The run time is approximately 65 minutes.

S PECIAL T HANKS

 Greater Austin Creative Alliance for sustenance and most especially Latifah Taormina who makes it all happen!  Nicole Shiro and Casey Shiro for year-round support of every kind.  Lisa Jones for services above and beyond the call of duty.  Dale Flatt, Richard Garriott & The Curtain Theatre  The Scottish Rite Children’s Theatre  Zilker Theatre Productions  The Vortex  Diane Ingram  Anu Seppala, Simon Federman, Yaron Brooke, Donna Montrezza and The N OTES F ROM T HE D IRECTOR

Shakespeare theaters across the country often do new works these days; but I must publicly thank the Austin Shakespeare Board members, who love ideas, for supporting this new production of Anthem. Knowing it would be controversial and not necessarily agreeing with its point of view, they have been tremendously open to the conversation.

Also, thanks to playwright/composer Jeff Britting for sharing this world with us. I’ve known Anthem since I was in high school, but in working with these actors and with Jeff, I’ve found the experience of living in this world every day simply inspiring. Anthem doesn’t focus on the dark future but opens to reveal a bright world in which each of us can re-discover the treasure of our very self. Perhaps that is why it appeals to that optimistic youth that is our best self -- body and spirit. Jeff Britting conceived this theatrical experience as an ―oratorio‖ of Ayn Rand’s words. Anthem is a hymn to honor the self. We look forward to hearing from our audiences those who love Shakespeare and our classical work – and from new audience members too --- we hope that you will stay after the show and share your thoughts with us.

- ANN CICCOLELLA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

TEEN AUDITIONS FOR: Young Shakespeare 2011 Troilus and Cressida Performed at the Curtain Theatre, a replica of an Elizabethan Theatre Shakespeare’'s classical tragedy takes place in the midst of the long and bloody Trojan War as Troilus, the youngest son of Priam, King of Troy, meets and falls in love with the beautiful Cressida, daughter of a deceptive and treacherous Trojan priest. Although the two vow to stay true to one another, Cressida is forcibly taken from Troy after her father defects to the Greek army and begins to fall in love with Diomedes, her Greek captor. As Troilus vows to avenge her betrayal on the battlefield, Agamemnon, king of the Greeks, attempts to lure the famous warrior Achilles out of a state of depression and apathy and back into the war. The play comes to a violent and epic conclusion as a series of battles pit mythic warriors against each other in single combat for the future of Troy. For more audition information, contact [email protected] A BOUT A YN R AND A USTIN S HAKESPEARE B OARD OF D IRECTORS Thanks to our extraordinary board! Every book by Ayn Rand published in her lifetime is still in print, so far totaling more than 26.5 million copies. Born in in St. Petersburg, Russia, on February Scott Brutocao, President 2, 1905, she was thoroughly opposed to the mysticism and collectivism endemic to Ogletree Deakins Russian Society. Mary Barrow Nichols, Vice President During her high school years, she was Texas Mutual Insurance eyewitness to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, which Lisa Jones, Secretary she denounced from the outset. When introduced to Writer and Editor American history in her last year of high school, she immediately took America as her model of what a Catherine Wildermuth, Treasurer nation of free men could be. Retired Project Manager, IBM At the University of Petrograd she studied Chris Aiena - Human Initiatives philosophy and history. She arrived in City in February 1926. Her first novel, , was Joy Baskin - Texas Association of School Boards completed in 1934; the most autobiographical of her Kirsten Billhardt - Dell Computer Corporation novels, it was based on her years under Soviet tyranny. Boyce Cabaniss - Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody Ayn Rand, New York City, 1943 She began writing in 1935 -- taking a short Dr. Lawrence Foster - Miller Professor of Strategic Business, University of Alabama, break in 1937 to write the anti-collectivist novelette Anthem. In The Fountainhead’s Retired character of the architect Howard Roark, she presented for the first time the kind of Mary Keeney - Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody hero whose depiction was the chief goal of her writing: the man, man as ―he Monique Maley - L3 could be and ought to be.‖ When published in 1943, it made history by becoming a best-seller through word of mouth, and gained for its author lasting recognition as Robert Matney - MinggL a champion of . Robert Stevens - CyberSource Published in 1957, was her greatest achievement and last Gail Watkins - Fulbright & Jaworski work of fiction. In this novel she dramatized her unique philosophy in an intellectual mystery story that integrated ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics and sex. Although she considered herself primarily a fiction writer, she realized that in order to AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE create heroic fictional characters, she had to identify Founded in 1984, Austin Shakespeare presents professional theater of the highest quality the philosophic principles, which make such individu- with an emphasis on the plays of William Shakespeare in central Texas. Bringing to the als possible. public performances that are fresh, bold, imaginative, thought-provoking, and eminently Thereafter, Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on accessible, Austin Shakespeare connects the truths of the past with the challenges and her philosophy -- , which she characterized possibilities of today. Austin Shakespeare offers fall and spring sessions of "Shakespeare as ―a philosophy for living on earth." Her philosophy Studio," the organization's professional actor training courses. In addition, actors, readers, and artistic vision have changed the lives of thousands Ayn Rand, New York City, 1957 teachers, parents and students are welcome at the "Shakespeare Aloud" year-round weekly of readers and launched a philosophic movement with a growing impact on reading group. Austin Shakespeare also offers summer camps for high school students at American culture. St. Edward's University and camps for children ages 5 - 9 years at Scottish Rite Children's Ayn Rand died on March 6, 1982, in the city she adored -- New York.. Theatre. Austin Shakespeare will return to the Long Center for the Performing Arts' Rollins Studio Theatre in September 2010 with The Tempest. For more information about the 2011 season, visit the Austin Shakespeare website at http://www.austinshakespeare.org C IRCLE /DONORS /SPONSORS /SUPPORTERS A BOUT T HE C AST

Benefactors Underwriters COLLIN BJORK (Equality 7-2521) THEATER: Measure for Measure $500 - $999 $5,000 - $9,999 (Claudio), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Austin Shakespeare; Hamlet City Carol & Chris Adams* Tom & Laura Green Theatre (Laertes); Antony and Cleopatra (Marc Antony), A Midsummer

Chris Aiena* Lisa Jones* Night’s Dream (Nick Bottom), Romeo and Juliet (Prince of Verona), The Elizabeth Christian & Bruce Todd* Perry Lorenz* Nell Dale* Merchant of Venice (Aragon/Gaoler/Musician), Shakespeare at Winedale, The Deitch/Sturley Family Fund University of Texas. EDUCATION: BA in Plan II Honors and English at the The Cliff Ernst* University of Texas at Austin. Ray & Mary Margaret Farabee Season Sponsor Carol Fredericks* Young Shakespeare Sponsor MICHAEL DALMON (International 4-8818) holds two BFAs from Texas Margaret L. Furse* $10,000 + State University in Acting and Directing. He has performed with many of Karen Jambon & Jennie Underwood* Bill Dickson Betty King Austin's theatres in roles such as "Trinculo‖ in The Tempest (Austin Sandy & Cynthia Levinson Shakespeare), "Eddie" in Shear Madness (ZACH Theatre), "Hamlet" in Hamlet Ronald & Eleanor Luke Monique Maley* (the VORTEX), and "Stanley" in Pinter's The Birthday Party (HYDE PARK). Michael Corporate Support Connie McMillan Corporate under $1,000 now teaches to Austin area students using his experience producing Elizabeth & Jerele Neeld* independent and corporate video as certification. [email protected] Beverly Smith* Cansler Insurance Agency Human Initiatives Philip & Sylvia Spertus* Wells Fargo Home Mortgage HELEN MERINO* (Liberty 5-300) Austin Shakespeare Festival: Mary Stuart Eva & Marvin Womack (Mary), Hamlet (Hamlet). Off Broadway: Taboos (Soho Playhouse), Eye of Jodi & Fred Zipp* Corporate $1,000 - $4,999 God (Kirk Theatre/Theatre Row). Off Off Broadway: Psych (Paradise Austin Thyroid & Endocrinology Center Factory). Regional Theatre: Present Laughter, Bad Dates, Omnium Gatherum,

Dell Computer Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Vagina Monologues, Bee Luther-Hatchee, Pride's Jeff Neal Design Crossing, My Children My Africa, The Last Night of Ballyhoo (all at ZACH Theatre). Director's Circle Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak, & Stew- Madame X (written and directed by Ann Ciccolella), As You Like It, Antigone: $1,000 - $4,999 art Anonymous Thompson & Knight Looking Into the Sun (TheatreWorks Austin), Anton In Show Business (The State Bill & Jean Avera* IBM Theatre). : Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater/Director), Cassidy Kids, Gretchen, Joy & J. J. Baskin The Interview. Upcoming: The Soldier Dreams (Theatre Row) Kirsten & Bjorn Billhardt Corporate $5,000 + Jill & Tim Blackwood Jamail & Smith Construction Scott & Desiree Brutocao* Dan Bullock *Member Actors’ Equity Association Boyce Cabaniss & Tom Welch Gayle Cannon Foundation Support Catalyst 8 Foundation under $1,000 Victoria Corcoran & Jeff Neal* Austin Commumity Foundation Jim Cousar Valerie D'Antonio Foundation $1,00 - $4,999 John & Dorothy De La Garza* Larry & Helen Foster* Navarro Education Foundation Shelley Friend & Travis Kessler* Foundation $5,000 + Mary Furse & Bill McMillin* Harvey & Kathleen Guion* The Green Family Foundation Laura Gutierrez-Witt* Richard Hartgrove & Gary Cooper* Mary Keeney

Wendi & Brian Kushner* Government Support Leslie & Aloysius Martinich

Mary B. & Steve Nichols* City of Austin Cultural Contracts Pete & Frances Schenkkan Texas Commission on the Arts Leslie Thomas & Jim Trice* Catherine & David Wildermuth*

* = Member Multi-Year Giving Society

A BOUT T HE A RTISTIC /PRODUCTION S TAFF C IRCLE /DONORS /SPONSORS /SUPPORTERS

ANN CICCOLELLA (Artistic Director/Director) became Austin Shakespeare's Donors Supporters (con’t.) Artistic Director on Aug. 9, 2007, the same day she received a "Distinguished $50 - $99 $100 - $249 Service Award" from the City Council for her advocacy in building the creative Liz Barrett Ev Lunning Mary Baughman community of Austin. For the previous 8 years, she was Managing Director for Robert Matney Helen Baxter Florence P. Mayne Zachary Scott Theatre Center and from 1990-1999, Ann served as executive director for Lima Bean Michael McGill Austin Circle of Theaters (now Greater Austin Creative Alliance), a service organization for Sheila Berry Vicki McKain Austin's 70 theaters, dance and music groups. Ann served as artistic director for ZACH's Kathleen Higgins Susan McLeland & Joe Freeland* Mark Holzbach Michael & Celeste Mendoza* Project InterAct, (1992-94) which toured professional productions to 80,000 students Celia Hughes Gerrell Moore annually throughout Central Texas. At ZACH, Ann served as Stage Director for: Cabaret, Diane & Hudson Ingram Brandi Nelson Vagina Monologues, Full Gallop, Closer, Master Class, and Misery. At the Zilker Hillside Sedora Jefferson George & Margaret Perry Rachael Koske Andrea Pully Theatre she directed Sondheim's Into the Woods (1990) and A Midsummer Night's Timothy & Katherine Kubatzky Martha Salazar Dream (1992) for the Austin Shakespeare. Before moving to Austin, Ann served as Angela Marshall Michael Singley Associate Director for Shakespeare-on-Wheels from the University of Maryland Baltimore Peter Maxson & John Taylor Jan Smith* Michael Mercer Jamee Stewart Country. For ten years, she led the Renaissance Theater Company as Artistic Director, Roy Mullin Gail & Tim Sulak producing and directing Off Broadway and along the East Coast including an outdoor, Patty Olwell Stefania Tafuro & Claus Wilke* uncut Romeo and Juliet. In New York, Ann also directed a production of Shakespeare's Pat Peterson Latifah Taormina* Jennifer Reck* Karola Thurman dark comedy Measure for Measure in Washington Square Park. Ann is a graduate of NYU Elizabeth Richmond-Garza & David Garza Steven & Louise Weinberg in Dramatic Literature, History of Theater and Cinema. These days, Ann also leads a Dotty & Bob Rutishauser Gloria Weisenberger professional weekly training program for actors and directors, "Shakespeare Studio." Mary Lou Sheridan Michael Whellan & Margaret Menicucci* Kay Taebel As Artistic Director of Austin Shakespeare, she has staged Much Ado about Suzanne Wofford Carol Traver Paul Woodruff Nothing, Macbeth, An Ideal Husband, Romeo & Juliet, Measure for Measure, Mary Stuart, A Chris Trickey Debbie Zappen-Corser & Karl Corser* Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest. This coming season Ann will direct Shaw's Elliot Trester & Barbara J. Wilson Man and Superman (February) for Austin Shakes at the Rollins Theater.

Sustainers ALEX B. ALFORD (Managing Director) is pleased to serve as Austin Shakespeare's Supporters $250 - $499 first Managing Director. He comes to the company from Austin Lyric Opera, $100 - $249 Sandy Ball where he spent 14 years in a variety of jobs, from Director of Administration to Lidia Agraz & Allen Peck Amanda G. Birrell Director of Board & Volunteer Services. Previous experience included a 12-year Kathy Anzaldua Annag Chandler Matthew Baumgartner Jo Anne Christian* stint at ZACH Theatre, where he was Box Office Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, and Ronald & Sandra Bilski Susan Conway & Jack Howell* Project InterAct Business Manager. He was honored to work with Artistic Director Ann Allen & Pat Bonilla Franchelle & Edwin Dorn* Ciccolella at Project InterAct during the last two years of his time at ZACH. He has Burgess & Pat Buchanan Zoe Griffith* Eric & Laura Buehler served as President of the Board of Austin Circle of Theaters and Treasurer for the Rude Tamara & Don Hale* Pat Campbell Joan Hilgers Mechs. Bill Christian Corky Hilliard* Nick Curry & Mark Longley Karen Holody* JASON AMATO (Lighting Designer) Jason Amato’s career has spanned 17 years, Mr. & Mrs. Claude E. Ducloux Tom & Nancy Hudson* Laura Esparza* designing over 450 local and international shows. He is the resident lighting Jeff & Gail Kodosky Barbara Fisher Michael Meigs* designer for ZACH Theatre, Austin Shakespeare, Blue Lapis Light and the Vortex. Carol Fritz* Jeff & GiGi Miller* Charles Gentry* The Austin Critics Table has honored Jason for outstanding lighting in 25 shows. Jeanette Nassour Brad Graeber He has also received B. Iden Payne Awards for his lighting of Troades, Trickster, The Candace & Michael Partridge Melissa & Timothy Gray Dara Quackenbush & Doug French* Exonerated, Omnium-Gatherum, Triskelion, Panoptikon, Despair's Book of Dreams, and Susan B. Hammer Patrick Thompson* The Deluge. In 2002 he was honored with ―Best Dazzler‖ in The Austin Chronicle’s Critics’ Pattye Henderson* John Turlington poll. In 2008, Jason received the "Outstanding Contribution to Austin Theater" award Kathy Hutto Dirk Van Allen Rose Jennings* from Austin Circle of Theaters. He also has a website of his work www.jasonamato.com. Gretchen Weicker Juanita Jeys* Mary Anne Wilkinson & Bill Samelson Nancy Jones* Sheri & Peter Zornio* Kathy Lagaza Sherry Lowry Susan & Craig Lubin * = Member Multi-Year Giving Society A NTHEM P RODUCTION S TAFF A BOUT T HE P RODUCTION S TAFF Director…………………………………………………………………………………………………………Ann Ciccolella JOHN AARON BELL (Set Designer) With Austin Shakespeare: The Tempest, THE Costume Designer……………………………………………..……………………..………..……Jennifer Madison DREAM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Stuart. He arrived on the Austin Lighting Designer……………….…….………….………………….….………………………..………….Jason Amato scene just a year ago, and has already found his niche. He grew up in the Dallas/ Set Designer………………………………………………………..…………John Aaron Bell and Erin Wendel Fort Worth area, and as a kid first worked for Fort Worth’s Shakespeare in the Park Video Projections………………………………………………………………………………………..……….Line Dash as a carpenter. Aaron moved on and achieved a BFA in Scenic Design at North Carolina Projection Design……………………………………………………………………...…………..………...Colin Lowry School of the Arts. Later he finished his education in Boston at Brandeis University, with an MFA in Theatrical Design. While in Boston, Aaron worked for the American Repertory Video/Projection Engineer……………………………………………………………………………K Eliot Haynes Theatre. He has now returned to Texas, offering up his services to help Austin’s theatrical Music………………….………………………………………………………………………………………………Jeff Britting scene as it grows stronger and more vibrant. Aaron also splits his time working for Sound Effects……………...……………………………..…………………………….…………..…..….K. Eliot Haynes Television and Film. Properties Coordinator……………..…….…….……………..…….……………………………Shannon Richey* Light Box Design……………………………………………………………………………………………...Jason Amato JEFF BRITTING is a Los Angeles-based writer, composer and producer, who also Stage Manager……………….………….…………….………………………………………..…..…Shannon Richey* manages the Ayn Rand Archives, a special collection of the Ayn Rand Institute Production Coordinator.………………………..……………………………………………….…..….Melinda Parr located in Irvine, California. Production Assistant……………………………………………………………………………………..Heather Tucek Britting’s work on Rand ranges across several media, including: the documentary Assistant Stage Manager…………………………………………………….………………………...Peter Beilharz feature film Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1997 Academy Award ™ Nominee for Best Sound Assistance……………………………………………………………………………………………..Adam Hilton Documentary Feature, 1998 Golden Satellite Award for Best Documentary Feature, 2000 Wardrobe Supervisor……….…………………………………….………………………………...… American Library Association Video Panel - Best Documentary); essay contributions to four Dresser….…………………………………………………………………………………………………Katherine Beamer anthologies on Rand’s novels We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, Deck Crew……………………………………………………………………………………………………Peter Beilharz, edited by Robert Mayhew (Rowman & Littlefield, Inc.); television appearances in Justin Gordon, Heather Tucek conjunction with the C-SPAN American Writer’s Series presentation, Ayn Rand and “The Master Electrician………………………………………………...………………….…………………Patrick Anthony Fountainhead;” appearances at the 2005 Liberty Film Festival, including the C-SPAN panel Scenic Artists………..……………………………………………………………... “Was Communism a Threat to Hollywood?” and a BBC documentary on Alan Greenspan . Technical Director…………………………………………………………………………………………….Scott Braudt Britting authored the biography Ayn Rand (The Overlook Press, 2004), which Publisher’s Sound Board Operator……….……………………………..……..……………………..…………. Weekly described as ―lively and engaging.‖ He has curated manuscript exhibits Light Board Operator……….……………………………..……..……………………….……Roxanne Huckabee incorporating materials from his biography Ayn Rand for the Los Angeles Public Library Public Relations………………………………………………………………………..…..……Hook ‘Em Marketing system and the Nabokov Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. In the fall of 2009 he curated a new exhibit on Atlas Shrugged at the Chapman University Library in Orange, California. Amy Layton and Heather McClellan Volunteers…………………………………………..…………...……………………………..…Roxy Becker, Scott Daigle, Britting’s work on Rand blends with other dramatic interests as a composer, writer and Chelsea DuVall, Ashley Edwards, Diane Ingram, Lisa Jones, producer. ―My work,‖ say Britting, ―expresses a life-long interest in music and text. It’s a Edmund Martinez, Jennifer Mueller, Judy Rohmann, Roxanne Rohmann balancing act, with words and sounds, combined and re-combined, to produce powerful statements on stage, or in a movie theatre or listening alone. Sometimes the text leads and sometimes it is the music that sets the terms. And there is a natural link between theatre and music. I love drama because I like love conflict, not as a way of life, but as a way of underscoring - to use a musical metaphor - what is important in life. And what is important is your happiness. I don’t believe in original sin. I do believe in ―original innocence.‖ So, the stories that interest me most do not dwell on people’s beginnings. They look at what people do with their beginnings, at where they end up - and why.‖ A DMINISTRATIVE S TAFF With music and drama a life-long interest, Britting has scored thirteen stage works, five Artistic Director……………………………………………………..………..………………….………………..Ann Ciccolella films (two features and three shorts) and has composed various instrumental and vocal Managing Director……………………………………………………..………..………………….…………….Alex B. Alford works, including Sonatina for Octavin, commissioned by Franklin H. Stover, composer and Stage Manager……………………………………………………………..………..……..….………………Shannon Richey* American rare instrument specialist. Photography…………………………………..………………….……………..………Brett Brookshire, Sara Lee Cely Shakes Aloud Moderator……………………………………………………….…………………………….Jill K. Swanson Poster and Cover Design………………………………….……..…………………………………….……Jeannie Lozano Program………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………..Nicole Shiro A BOUT T HE P RODUCTION S TAFF A BOUT T HE P RODUCTION S TAFF Britting scored and contributed to producing the first theatrical production of Rand’s JENNIFER MADISON (Costume Design) has designed costumes for Austin stage play Ideal, which was called a ―tour de force‖ by the Los Angeles Times. Britting’s film Shakespeare's The Tempest, THE DREAM: A Midsummer Night’s work includes Ideal, directed and adapted for film by . (Director’s Vision Dream, Mary Stuart, Mary Moody Northen Theatre’s Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Series edition of Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, Strand Releasing, 2004.) The 54-minute Ideal is and City of Angels, Zilker Theater Production's Annie, Southwestern's The Man Who scored with a noir minimalism that supports the black-and-white story of a Garbo-esque Came to Dinner, St. Stephen's School’s Elephant Graveyard, the University of Texas's actress in search of a person of integrity among her letter-writing fans. BoxOffice magazine Department of Theatre’s productions of Assassins and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and described Ideal as ―a mini-masterpiece.‖ Dance Repertory Theatre’s productions of Aria Redux, Parade, and Sextet. Her costume Other film scores include directing efforts Stewart Wade: Coffee Date from Fairy Tales: designs for Assassins and A Midsummer Night’s Dream both shared recognition with the Straight Men and the Men Who Love Them (Hollywood Independent Features, 2005), scenic designs for ―Beautiful designs at UT‖ in the Austin Chronicle article ―Top 10 screened at more than 40 film festivals worldwide, and Stag Party (2004), which was Wonderful Things About Austin Theatre in 2008 (In No Particular Order).‖ Jennifer has also screened at the Los Angles International Short Film Festival. Most recently, he composed a designed lights for the UT Department of Theatre and Dance’s production of Elephant’s score for the silent short film Language of Flowers directed by Caroline Carrigan. Graveyard.

In addition to music assignments, Britting served as the co-producer of the feature film MELINDA PARR (Production Coordinator) Previously with Austin Shakespeare: The Take Two, directed by Sharyn Blumenthal. As vice president of the Detroit-based Project Tempest, THE DREAM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Stuart, Spooky Shakespeare, Performance Art, he contributed writing and music to the critically acclaimed play Until, Measure for Measure; Other favorites include: Annie, The Music Man, The Secret Garden, featuring Quentin Crisp. He has contributed to producing four stage works (Ideal, Anthem, Annie Get Your Gun and Beauty and the Beast with Zilker Theatre Productions; Floyd Collins Until, Punk). His writing and co-directing credits include Patrick Burton’s Until (1995) and and TOME with Scott Schroeder Presents; Plays Well With Others at ZACH; Big River, Punk (1996). In 1998 he directed Still Negative . . . After All These Years, a one-man show Carousel, and Damn Yankees at The Paramount and School House Rock with TexARTS. written by and starring Simon Harvey. Two long-term opera projects in development fuse Britting’s original music and texts: a SHANNON RICHEY* (Properties Design and Stage Manager) is a freelance production and drama of reason versus faith set in the Middle Ages and a World War II story of justice set stage manager. Recent credits include: Soul to Sole Festival, Visions of Rhythm, and Of Mice against the background of Japanese-American internment. and Music with Tapestry Dance Company, Third Coast Rhythm Project, City of Angels with Most recently, text panels of Britting’s poems and fictive film scenarios were on display St. Edward's University, and A Texas Christmas Carol presented at the Long Center. With as accompaniments to the paintings of Sean D’Anconia (artist-designer and director, Her Austin Shakespeare: Stage Manager for The Tempest, THE DREAM: A Midsummer Night’s Majesty’s Secret Studio) in a Spring 2010 group show at the Uphold Art Gallery in Los Dream, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure and Production Coordinator for An Ideal Angeles’s Little Tokyo. Husband. Other Regional Credits include: Let Me Down Easy at ART/HARVARD; With ZACH Theatre: Jennifer Holliday in Concert, Cabaret, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Hair, The Publications and websites reviewing, interviewing or mentioning Britting or his works Laramie Project, Jelly’s Last Jam, Jouét, Tapestry, Pride’s Crossing, The Santaland Diaries, The include: High Performance magazine, Drama-Logue, aRUDE magazine, Los Angeles Times, Rocky Horror Show, and The Mystery of Irma Vep. With TexArts at the Paramount New York Times, San Francisco Examiner, New York Post, Vanity Faire, Impact, Box Office Theatre:Carousel, Music Man, and Big River. Ms. Richey has been a Wardrobe Supervisor magazine, Box Office Mojo, Weekly Variety, New York Sun, Publisher’s Weekly, Library on Angels in America, Dreamgirls, Love, Janis, Ruthless! The Musical, Sylvia and also toured Journal, and the London Times Review of Books. as Company Manager on The Foreigner and Greater Tuna. Jeff Britting lives in West Hollywood, California.

*Member Actors’ Equity Association K. ELIOT HAYNES (Video Engineer) is a founding member of Refraction Arts Project and is technical director of the annual Fuse Box arts festival here in Austin. A sound and video designer for many years, he won a Critics Table Award for his video design of The Assumption (Refraction Arts) and one for his sound design for The Kindermann Depiction (Physical Plant). Most recently he designed sound for Flush (Ariel Dance Theater) and Doubt: A Parable (ZACH Theatre). Eliot also collaborated with Colin Lowry on My Favorite Year (Zilker Theatre Productions) and How Late It Was, How Late (Rude Mechs).