THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK PARK SQUARE THEATRE MARCH 18 –MAY 17, 2019 sponsored in part by Otto Frank with Margot and Anne on his lap, 1931 Anne at the Jewish Lyceum, 1941 Edith Frank with Anne & Margot in Frankfurt, 1933 Anne on the flat roof of their house, 1940 Anne a few months before going into hiding, 1942 2 parksquaretheatre.org / 651.291.7005 THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK BY FRANCES GOODRICH & ALBERT HACKETT ON THE PROSCENIUM STAGE ARTISTIC STAFF Director ..............................................................Ellen Fenster Scenic Designer .................................................Gabriel Backlund Costume Designer .............................................Elin Anderson Assistant Costume Designer .............................Kathleen Martin Lighting Designer ..............................................Michael P. Kittel Original Sound Designer ...................................Randall Seitz Sound Designer .................................................Anita Kelling Properties Designer ...........................................Robert-Bruce Brake Properties Master ..............................................Laura Topham Fight Choreographer .........................................Joe Isenberg Vocal Coach .......................................................Ruth Coughlin Lencowski Composer ..........................................................Jerry La Fave Stage Manager ...................................................Lyndsey R. Harter* Assistant Stage Manager .................................Kyla Moloney CAST Mr. Otto Frank ...................................................Michael Paul Levin* Miep ..................................................................Rachel Austin Mrs. Van Daan ...................................................Julie Ann Nevill Mr. Van Daan ....................................................Jon Andrew Hegge* Peter Van Daan ..................................................Ryan London Levin Mrs. Frank ..........................................................Laurie Flanigan Hegge* Margot Frank .....................................................Eva Gemlo Anne Frank .........................................................Sulia Rose Altenberg Mr. Kraler ........................................................... Jim Pounds Mr. Dussel ..........................................................Charles Fraser* UNDERSTUDIES: Sarah Frazier, Eva Gemlo, Jon Andrew Hegge*, Andrew Newman, Charles Numrich, Vincent Hannam, Diana Wilde SETTING Amsterdam, Holland: World War II and immediately thereafter. PERFORMANCE TIME 2 hours, 30 minutes (including intermission). “The Diary of Anne Frank” is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. For more information, please visit: www.samuelfrench.com/whitepaper As a courtesy to our actors and those around you, PLEASE DEACTIVATE ALL PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Park Square Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, and a member of the Minnesota Theatre Alliance. 3 Playwrights FRANCES GOODRICH and ALBERT HACKETT were American dramatists and screenwriters, and married to each other. They are best known for their collaborations together. Awards and recognitions include Academy Award nominations for Best Screenplay for The Thin Man (1934), After the Thin Man (1936), Father of the Bride (1950) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1955). They won Writers Guild of America awards for Easter Parade (1949), Father's Little Dividend (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), as well as nominations for In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Father of the Bride (1950) and The Long, Long Trailer (1954). They also won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for their original play The Diary of Anne Frank. Some of their other films include: Another Thin Man (1939) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Cast SULIA ROSE ALTENBERG Institute, Nautilus Music Theatre Other Anne Frank Neighborhood Bridges Teaching Artist, Children’s Theatre Company; Crisis Actor, Park Square The Diary of MN Crisis Intervention Upcoming 2019 Artist Anne Frank Representative Initiative Grant Recipient (MSAB) Theatre Walking Shadow Theatre Company: Red Velvet; Loudmouth Collective: Waiting for CHARLES FRASER* Mr. Dussel Waiting for Godot; Mainly Me Productions: A Justice League of Their Own, The Wright Park Square August: Stuff, Backlash; Theatre Unbound: Graceland; Osage County, Defiance, Illusion Theater: Keepin’ It Real; Daleko Arts: The Triumph of Love A City Council Christmas, The Philadelphia Representative Theatre Story; Comedy Suitcase: The Harty Boys; Frank Yellow Tree Theatre: The Royale; Ordway: Theatre: The Visit, By the Bog of Cats Training Annie; Zephyr Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s B.A., Cultural Studies and Comparative Dream; History Theatre: The Buddy Holly Literature, University of Minnesota and the Story; Guthrie Theater: Ah, Wilderness!; University of Amsterdam; Park Square Theatre Theatre de la Jeune Lune: Tartuffe; Disney Ambassador 2012-2013 Upcoming Open Eye Cruise Line’s Disney Magic: Off Beat Figure Theatre Fusebox Project; Lyric Arts: Comedy Club Film Hinkleton; The Completely Legally Blonde the Musical Remarkable, Utterly Fabulous Transformation of a Regular Joe Training B.F.A., University RACHEL AUSTIN of Mississippi Accolades Ivey Award for Miep Ensemble Acting in Jungle Theater’s Driving Miss Daisy Upcoming Rochester Civic Park Square Debut Theatre: Moon Over Buffalo Representative Theatre Theatre Pro Rata: Rocket Man; Artistry: Blithe Spirit; EVA GEMLO Margot Frank Comedy Suitcase: The Averagers, Kafka Nuts; Other Tiger Productions: Elysium Blues; Park Square Debut Theatre in the Round: Love, Loss, and What Representative Theatre I Wore, Independence Training B.A., Theatre Classical Actors Ensemble: and Dance, Macalester College; Wesley Balk Measure for Measure; Walking Shadow Theatre Company: 4 parksquaretheatre.org / 651.291.7005 Cast Equivocation; Theatre Coup d’Etat: Moby Actor’s Theater of MN: Sleuth; History Theatre: Dick; Mission Theater Company: Trojan The Immigrant; St. Croix Valley: My Fair Lady; Women; Zephyr Theater: Twelfth Night; SPIN Mixed Blood Theatre: The Boys Next Door; Paul Theater: Eurydice Training B.A., Theatre, Bunyan Playhouse: I Ought to Be in Pictures TV/ Luther College Upcoming DalekoArts: Peter Film Thin Ice, Hiding Victoria, I Am Not A Serial and the Starcatcher Killer, In an Instant, The Jingle Dress, Don’t Blow It Training American Academy of Dramatic JON ANDREW HEGGE* Arts, West Accolades/Other Morrow-Heus Mr. Van Daan Screenwriting Fellowship, Fargo-Moorhead Park Square Cyrano, The Community Theatre Playwright Award Diary of Anne Frank, Ragtime Representative Theatre RYAN LONDON LEVIN Guthrie Theater: 1776; Mixed Peter Van Daan Blood Theatre: An Octoroon; History Theatre: Park Square The Diary of Sweetland; Ordway: Beauty and the Beast; Anne Frank Representative Door Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew; Theatre History Theatre: Northern Sky Theatre: Loose Lips Sink Ships; Teen Idol: The Bobby Vee Minnesota Opera: The Merry Widow & The Story, Orphan Train; Trademark Theater: The Hollywood Tycoon TV/Film Diagnosis Murder, Boy and Robin Hood; Bitter Boy Productions: A.K.A. Birdseye Training M.F.A., University of Silence The Musical; Artistry: Fiddler on Minnesota Upcoming History Theatre: Dirty the Roof, The Last Five Years; Cromulent Business; Guthrie Theater: Guys and Dolls Shakespeare Company: Romeo and Juliet Upcoming History Theatre: Dirty Business; LAURIE FLANIGAN Park Square Theatre: Jefferson Township HEGGE* Sparkling Junior Talent Pageant Mrs. Frank Park Square The Diary of JULIE ANN NEVILL Anne Frank Representative Mrs. Van Daan Theatre (as Actor) History Park Square The Diary of Theatre: Radio Man, Buddy - The Buddy Holly Anne Frank, Melville Slept Story, Baby Case; Nautilus Music-Theater: Here, Dracula, Ten Little Joan of Arc; Northern Sky Theater: Muskie Indians, Lady Windermere’s Love, Lumberjacks in Love; (as Bookwriter Fan Representative Theatre Walking Shadow and Lyricist) History Theatre: Dirty Business, Theatre Company: The Whale; Minnesota Sweet Land, the Musical; Hormel Girls; Jewish Theatre Company: The Magic Dreidels; Twenty Days to Find a Wife; Tales Along Paul Bunyan Playhouse: I Ought To Be in the Minnesota Trail (at Minnesota Zoo); Pictures; Theatre Pro Rata: The Knight of the Northern Sky Theater: Boxcar, Loose Lips Burning Pestle; Bloomington Civic Theatre: Sink Ships, See Jane Vote Other Laurie serves God of Carnage; Jungle Theater: Torch Song as the Twin Cities Regional Rep for the Trilogy TV/Film Herman, USA; Haunted; In the Dramatists Guild of America Kitchen with...; Auto Tow commercial; Theater People web series; In An Instant (ABC); Lady MICHAEL PAUL LEVIN* Dynamite (Netflix) Training B.A., Theatre, Mr. Otto Frank University of Minnesota-Morris; TV & Film Park Square Might as Well training, University of MN-Morris; Mask Be Dead, The Diary of Anne training, In the Heart of the Beast Theatre Frank, Of Mice and Men, Accolades 2012 Ivey Award for Julius Caesar; The Red Box, Laughter on the City Pages Top