CAST Gabriel Christian Valentine Coverly Justin DuPuis Ezra Chater Jessma Evans Hannah Jarvis Max Forman-Mullin Septimus Hodge Dave Garrett Understudy for Jellaby/Noakes (January 9–11, 15–19, and 24–25) Dean Koya Gus / Augustus Coverly Aaron Murphy Bernard Nightingale Adam Niemann Captain Brice Danielle O’Hare Lady Croom Amanda Ramos Thomasina Coverly Gianna DiGregorio Rivera Chloe Coverly David Sinaiko Jellaby/Richard Noakes Production Team Cliff Caruthers† Sound Designer Patrick Dooley Director Perry Fenton Assistant Director Helen Frances Wardrobe Supervisor Dave Garrett Dramaturg Brooke Jennings Costume Designer Liz Johnson Production Assistant Heather Kelly-Laws Stage Manager Devon LaBelle Props Designer Allison Paraiso Choreographer Kathleen Qiu Costume Design Assistant Sarina Renteria Lighting Designer Adeline Smith Scenic Charge Painter Lynne Soffer Dialect Coach Caitlin Steinmann Master Electrician Deanna L. Zibello Set Designer Production Sponsors Season Sponsors Naomi Janowitz & Andrew Peet’s Coffee & Tea Lazarus Carol Amyx & Donald Kaufman Richard Nelson & Janice Kitty Bosher Berman DeYoe Wealth Management Ragesh Tangri & Daralyn Durie Craig & Kathy Moody Richard & Kate West Guy Tiphane Arcadia is generously supported by a grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation. Special thanks to Jean Fichtenkort, Henry Picciotto, and David Eisenbud Arcadia is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. †Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 Rehearsal photography by Kyle Adler Photography Headshots by Robbie Sweeny Thoughts on arcadia One gift of a great work is its time- play reminds us that while we may lessness. Not just that it continues to feel something has been lost, we resonate with us despite its age, but have comfort knowing the tools to that it continues to resonate with us remedy our challenges will be dis- despite our age. My first experience covered again. “We shed as we pick with Arcadia was in 1995 while in my up… what we let fall will be picked 20’s. I was struck by its ability to cap- up by those behind… We die on the ture the many faces of love from the march. But there is nothing outside ridiculously carnal to the achingly de- the march so nothing can be lost to voted—and seemingly everything in it.” Forge ahead. The future will pro- between. Stoppard’s ability to reveal vide. the vast array of the ways in which we express love, and then reflect them But that’s just me, and that’s just to- back to us, almost felt exploitative. day. I invite you all to meet this play How dare he know us so intimately! where you are. Enjoy the moments that give you solace or joy, and leave This time around with Arcadia feels the others for someone else to dis- different. The threads that feel most cover. resonant to me now are the ones that connect to the strain we feel —Patrick Dooley in our socio-political moment. The Cast GABRIEL CHRISTIAN (Valentine Coverly) Gabriel, ever since moving to the Bay in 2014 with a BA in theatre studies from Yale, has been, grate- fully, performing up a storm. Their work has most recently been seen in Beyond Gravity (Jess Curtis/Gravity) and Still Standing (Joe Goode Perfor- mance Group), as well as at Yale Rep, SOMArts, Counterpulse, and Red Poppy Art House. This is their Shotgun Players debut. Big thanks to their mama. Follow them on Instagram (@genderjuicy). JUSTIN DUPUIS (Ezra Chater) Justin is proud to be making his Shotgun Players debut. He has been an active part of the Bay Area theatre community for the last 15 years as an actor, director, teacher, fight chore- ographer, carpenter, scenic painter, and props artisan. He would like to thank his beautiful wife for her support and the cast and crew of Arcadia for making this project such a joy, and he is delighted to add them all to his extended theatre family. JESSMA EVANS (Hannah Jarvis) Jessma is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts—Experimen- tal Theatre Wing. Shotgun credits include Top Girls (2015) and Nora (2017). Other Credits include Painting Churches, Saved, Cloud 9, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Loves Labour’s Lost, The Visit, Law & Order (NBC), The Bedford Diaries (WB). She would like to give a huge thank you to this dynamite cast, Patrick Dooley, and the amazing Shotgun staff!! To Joe: all of my love and an Elliephant size thank you! I love you Mom! Thank you!!! MAX FORMAN-MULLIN (Septimus Hodge) Max is making his Shotgun Players debut. Born and raised in San Francisco, he is happy to come back to the Bay and work with dynamic local theatre companies, including Berkeley Rep, SF Playhouse, Cutting Ball, Word for Word, Boxcar, and the Shelton. Max holds an MA in applied theatre from the City University of New York. Many thanks to his whole family. maxformanmullin.com likes to rock climb and juggle. DEAN KOYA (Gus / Augustus Coverly) Dean received his BA in Psychology from University of Califor- nia, Santa Cruz, and—after almost nine years in the tech industry—decided to jump into the world of theatre and acting. He has appeared on stage at SF Playground and Stagebridge. Previous credits include TheatreFIRST’s The Farm, SF Playhouse Sandbox’s Non-Player Character, and Role Player Ensemble’s All My Sons. AARON MURPHY (Bernard Nightingale) Aaron acts, directs, teaches, and produces theatre. Recent credits: Hughie (O’Neill Festivals in Danville and Ireland), The Winter’s Tale (Livermore), Between Us and Partici- pants (TheatreFirst), Jerusalem (SF Playhouse), Arms and the Man and To Kill a Mockingbird (Center Rep), Seascape (Role Players), Pillowman (Breadbox). He received a TBA Award for acting in The Foreigner (CCCT). aaronmurphyacts.com ADAM NIEMANN (Captain Brice) Adam is making his debut with Shotgun Players. Favorite productions include Reefer Madness (Ray of Light Theatre), Isaac’s Eye (Custom Made Theatre Co.), and Beauty and the Beast (Berkeley Playhouse). Adam also cowrote the time-travelling two-man musical JFK ‘n Me, which is being remounted this February at PianoFight with collabo- rator and best friend, Weston Scott. Love and thanks to his hilarious and supportive wife, Panayiota. adamniemann.com DANIELLE O’HARE (Lady Croom) Danielle was last seen at Shotgun in The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage. Danielle is an associate artist at the Cutting Ball Theater, having appeared in many productions including Avant GardARAMA, The Strindberg Cycle, Lady Grey (in ever lower light), and other plays. A giant thank you to Federico, Noemi, Matteo, mom, and dad for the most wonderful love and support. AMANDA RAMOS (Thomasina Coverly) Shotgun Players was the first theater that Amanda fell in love with when she moved to the Bay Area, and Arcadia is one of her favorite plays; so it’s safe to assume that she is over- the-moon about her debut. Favorite productions include Queering My Lobster (Killing My Lobster), …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi, and In The Heights (Saint Mary’s College). Thank you to her SMC theatre folk, her family, and Nesto for all the love amidst the chaos. GIANNA DIGREGORIO RIVERA (Chloe Coverly) Gianna is a Bay Area-born actor and musician. Her favorite stage credits include Quixote Nuevo (California Shake- speare Theater), Ageless (Quantum Dragon Theatre), How I Learned to Drive (Custom Made Theatre), Zoot Suit (UCSC Mainstage), Water by the Spoonful (Barnstorm), and Lydia (Napa Valley College Theater). Gianna is deeply grateful for her support- ive friends, family, and the inspiring community of artists around her. DAVID SINAIKO (Jellaby / Richard Noakes) David is grateful to be back at Shotgun after Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Hamlet, Village Bike, Antigonick, and The Coast of Utopia. Credits: Timon of Athens, Life’s a Dream, Mount Misery, Ubu Roi, The Chairs, Tender- loin, The Tempest, Endgame, Taming of the Shrew, and many others at the Cutting Ball Theater where he’s an associate artist. He was born and raised in Chicago where he did incen- diary vaudeville with New Crime Productions. Photo source: The Telegraph THE PL AYWRIGHT Tom Stoppard was born Tomás Straüssler produced by Shotgun Players in 2004. July 3, 1937, in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. He grew up in Singapore and India during Arcadia (1993) received the Laurence World War II and moved to England in Olivier Award for Best New Play (1993) 1946 with his mother and stepfather, his and has been nominated for two Tony own father having been killed in Singa- Awards (Best New Play, 1995 & Best Re- pore. vival, 2011). Educated at schools in Nottinghamshire Stoppard’s trilogy of plays set in 19th and Yorkshire, he worked as a newspa- century Russia, The Coast of Utopia per journalist and magazine theatre critic (2002), was first staged at the National in London. He began writing plays for ra- Theatre in 2002 and was produced at dio and television in the early 60’s. Shotgun Players in 2012, 2013, and 2014. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Fes- Other plays include Jumpers (1972), Ev- tival in 1966. The play came to the at- ery Good Boy Deserves Favour (1976), tention of Kenneth Tynan, and it was Professional Foul (1978), On the Razzle produced at the National in 1967 and (1981), The Real Thing (1982), Rock on Broadway in 1967, winning a Tony ‘n’ Roll (2006), and The Hard Problem Award for Best Play in 1968. Stage ad- (2015). His film work includes screenplay aptations of earlier works, including The for Brazil (1985), as well as adaptations Real Inspector Hound, were produced of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1990), soon after. Enigma (2001), Anna Karenina (2012), and Tulip Fever (2014), and he cowrote Travesties (1975) was first staged by the the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974, (1998).