JENNIFER PERRY (Choreographer) has been teaching Ballet and JEFF MOCKUS (Sound Designer) has designed sound for Center OUR SPONSORS Theatre classes for over 25 years. She was lucky to have studied REP’s Women In Jeopardy, A Christmas Carol, Tenderly: The and trained with her grandmother, Lareen Fender at The Ballet Rosemary Clooney Musical, Life Could Be a Dream, Old Wicked Chevron (Season Sponsor) has been the leading corporate sponsor of School Performing Arts. Directing Credits Include: Billy Elliot, Gypsy Songs, Xanadu, Marvelous Party, Cabaret, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Center REP and the Lesher Center for the Arts for the past eleven years. (Shellie Award), Joseph and the Amazing.., A Chorus Line (BATCCA), Musical of Musicals: The Musical!, Hank Williams Lost Highway, In fact, Chevron has been a partner of the LCA since the beginning, CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY OKLAHOMA! (Shellie Award), 42nd Street, and Guys and Dolls all for Around the World In 80 Days, and The Marriage of Figaro. Among providing funding for capital improvements, event sponsorships Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director Contra Costa Musical Theatre. Red Hot and Cole for Role Players his recent work are TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s The Bridges and more. Chevron generously supports every Center REP show Ensemble. Choreography Credits include: Billy Elliot, Gypsy, The Of Madison County, The Four Immigrants: An American Musical throughout the season, and is the primary sponsor for events including Music Man (Shellie Award) Les Miserables (CCMT), 25th Annual Manga, Rags, and Crimes of the Heart, as well as The Western the Chevron Family Theatre Festival in July. Chevron has proven itself Stage’s Young Frankenstein, In the Heights, and Bloody Bloody not just as a generous supporter, but also a valued friend of the arts. Putnam County Spelling Bee (Center REP) Sweet Charity (Center Andrew Jackson. Mr. Mockus served as San Jose Repertory REP), Xanadu (Center REP, Shellie Award) Joseph and the Amazing. Theatre’s Resident Sound Designer for over 70 productions, Diablo Regional Arts Association (DRAA) (Season Partner) is both (Shellie Award), Hairspray (BATCCA, Shellie Award), A Chorus Line including The Haunting Of Winchester, Nixon’s Nixon, Mary’s the primary fundraising organization of the Lesher Center for the (BATCCA), Cinderella (Shellie Award Winner), Disney's Beauty and Wedding, and Thunder Knocking On The Door. He has credits with Arts (LCA) and the City of Walnut Creek’s appointed curator for the The Beast, Annie, Sound of Music, Titanic the Musical and many American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theatre, LCA’s audience outreach. DRAA’s role in the community is all about other original pieces. Favorite roles include: Cassie (A Chorus Line), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz/Santa building partnerships with the focused goal of enhancing artistic Frenchy (Grease), Bonnie Jean (Brigadoon), Louise (Carousel), Mary Cruz Shakespeare, Utah Shakespearean Festival, and Oregon quality at the LCA and providing opportunities for everyone to enjoy Warren (Crucible), Jennie Mae (Diviners), Ghost of Christmas Past Shakespeare Festival. the arts. Through partnerships with the LCA and its producers, (A Christmas Carol) Shellie Nominee, Suzy Hendrix (Wait Until Dark) individual donors, corporate and foundation sponsors and the City and Bonnie (Anything Goes, Shellie Award). Jennifer is a proud KATHLEEN J. PARSONS* (Stage Manager) is excited to be doing of Walnut Creek, DRAA plays a vital role in advancing the arts for the member of Fantasy Forum Actor's Ensemble www.fantasyforum.org another show with Center REPertory Company. Companies she betterment of the community. Please visit us online at www.draa.org. and is thrilled to be going into her 23rd year of teaching for Center has worked for include Rubicon Theatre Company, Access Theatre, REP's Young REP Acting Training Program, where she serves as co- North Shore Music Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, The Lesher Foundation (Foundation Sponsor) As the namesake family director of the Musical Theatre Program. Jennifer is the Casting Pasadena Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Teatro Zinzanni, for the Lesher Center for the Arts, the Lesher Foundation has provided Director for Center REPertory Company. Jennifer is the owner and the American Musical Theatre of San Jose, San Jose Rep, and the funding to Center REP and the Lesher Center since the Center National Theatre of the Deaf. Kathleen was also the Production opened in 1990. Their support has had a profound impact on the BOOK BY MUSIC BY LYRICS BY director of Lareen Fender's The Ballet School Performing Arts which Manager for the California International Theatre Festival. is home to the Performing Arts Studio. www.theballetschool.org quality of Center REP’s productions and has greatly enhanced the #LiveJoyCreateHope MICHAEL BUTLER (Artistic Director) This is Michael’s twelfth experience for Center REP’s audiences. Grant-making decisions BRIDGET CARPENTER TOM KITT BRIAN YORKEY season as Artistic Director of Center REP, where his directing are based on the vision of Dean and Margaret Lesher who felt KELLY JAMES TIGHE (Scenic Designer) has a number of Off- credits include Women in Jeopardy, Baskerville, ‘Art,’ Anything quality education, diverse art programs, and healthy children and Based on the novel Freaky Friday by Broadway and national tour credits including Martin Luther on Goes, Clybourne Park, Real Housewives of Walnut Creek, and To families are the building blocks of a strong and vibrant community. Kill a Mockingbird, as well as the Shellie and BATCC Award-winning MARY RODGERS Trial, Shadowlands, The Most Reluctant Convert, The Great Divorce, ABOUT CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY. The Fantasticks, Almost Heaven, Movin’ Out, Shear Madness and productions of Around the World in 80 Days, A Midsummer Night’s and The Disney Films Cats. His regional theatre credits include Paper Mill Playhouse, Dream, Enchanted April, and Witness For The Prosecution. His Center REP is the resident, professional theatre company of the Fingerlakes Musical Theater Festival, San Jose Repertory Theatre, directing work has also been seen at San Jose Rep, Cleveland Lesher Center for the Arts. Our season consists of six productions a Laguna Playhouse, Center REPertory Company, Arts Center Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Laguna Playhouse, ACT in Seattle, Marin year – a variety of musicals, dramas and comedies, both classic and Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer of Coastal Carolina, Sacramento Theatre Company, Gateway Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, San Jose Stage, contemporary, that continually strive to reach new levels of artistic Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and The Juilliard School, of which he excellence and professional standards.. Kelly James Tighe Victoria Livingston-Hall Kurt Landisman Playhouse, Broadway By the Bay, Contra Costa Musical Theatre, is a graduate. As an actor, Michael has worked on Broadway Diablo Theatre Company and Ray of Light Theatre. Kelly’s theatrical (Macbeth with Glenda Jackson and Christopher Plummer and Our mission is to celebrate the power of the human imagination work is published in the textbook Scene Design and Stage Lighting Two Shakespearean Actors), Off Broadway (Roundabout, The Sound Designer Stage Manager and his work as an illustrator has been published in "Mooseltoe, by producing emotionally engaging, intellectually involving, and Public Theatre), in regional theatres (The Guthrie, Arena Stage, visually astonishing live theatre, and through Outreach and Education A Moose and a Dream." Awards and recognitions include the San Long Wharf), film and television, as well as in REP’s productions Jeff Mockus Kathleen J. Parsons* Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, DramaLogue and the programs, to enrich and advance the cultural life of the communities of Mirandolina!, The Mousetrap, Noises Off and Rumors. He is a we serve.. Shellie Awards. kjtdesign.com published songwriter and the co-writer and composer of numerous music-theatre pieces, which have been produced in NY, LA, and at What does it mean to be a producing theatre? We hire the finest Cast VICTORIA LIVINGSTON-HALL (Costume Designer) Work at Center festivals in India and Morocco. In his career as a performer he has professional directors, actors and designers to create our productions REP includes Altar Boyz, Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, also danced with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, portrayed at Center REP. These are not touring productions – they’re conceived Dave J. Abrams Tyler Patrick Hennessy Bryan Munar Anything Goes, Mirandolina, Deathtrap, The 25th Annual Putnam the villainous Pierre LeChance on “The Guiding Light," and played and developed here, the sets and costumes are built in our shops, and County Spelling Bee, Xanadu (Shellie Award) The Underpants, Arms guitar and harmonica in many rock, blues, and country western the actors rehearse in our rehearsal hall. Whether the production is a Noel Anthony* Aubri No'Eau Kahalekulu Alison Quin and The Man, Smokey Joe’s Café, Boeing Boeing, She Loves Me bands at all the notable dives in NYC. Bay Area premiere or a Shakespearean classic, each is devised to be a Nick Quintell (BACC Award), Dracula, Noises Off, Witness for the Prosecution Andrea Dennison-Laufer Michael McCarty SCOTT DENISON (Managing Director) has been the General one of a kind, artistic creation that will be a unique theatre experience (Shellie Award), and Cabaret (Shellie Award and BACC Award). Work Manager for the Lesher Center for the Arts since it opened 26 years for our audience. Nathan Richardson in London includes, “The Long Hard Goodbye”- film, “Olympia” at Lynda DiVito* Katrina Lauren McGraw* ago and has worked for the Arts in this area for over 43 years. Scott What does it mean to be a professional theatre? It means that all the Baron’s Court Theatre, “S.N.U.B.”- feature film-Angry Badger has directed over 150 productions, including The Wizard of Oz, the Mark Farrell* Olivia Jane Mell* Justin Sabino Pictures, “Striklem”, The National Film and Television School, British our artists and artisans are career theatre-practitioners.