2010) and an Arty Award for Intimate Apparel (Solano and performed in NY, LA, and at festivals in India and ABOUT CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY College Theatre, 2008) In addition to her design Morocco. In his career as a performer he has also danced Center REP is the resident, professional theatre company work, Rebecca teaches costume and theatre classes with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, portrayed the of the Lesher Center for the Arts. Our season consists of CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY at Solano Community College and has worked at The villainous Pierre LeChance on “The Guiding Light”, and six productions a year – a variety of musicals, dramas and Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the played guitar and harmonica in many rock, blues, and comedies, both classic and contemporary, that continually Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director Park and The University of Michigan. Rebecca was the country western bands at all the notable dives in NYC. strive to reach new levels of artistic excellence and costume shop manager for The Solano College Theatre professional standards. presents Association from 2005 to 2014. She holds a BA in SCOTT DENISON (Managing Director) has been a Theatre with an emphasis in technical theatre from The leader in the arts for 40 years for Walnut Creek and Our mission is to celebrate the power of the human University of California, Santa Cruz (1991) and a MFA in the surrounding communities. For the last 24 years he imagination by producing emotionally engaging, costume design from the University of Michigan (1995). has been the General Manager of the Lesher Center intellectually involving, and visually astonishing live and oversees over 850 public events each year. He theatre, and through Outreach and Education programs, KURT LANDISMAN (Lighting Designer) Local coordinates performing arts activities with over 85 to enrich and advance the cultural life of the communities audiences will be familiar with his work through past producers and producing organizations. He is also we serve. productions designed for Center REP including 'art', the Managing Director of Center REPertory Company What does it mean to be a producing theatre? We hire Born Yesterday, Anything Goes, Mirandolina, Deathtrap, producing 6 professional productions each season; and the finest professional directors, actors and designers to Life Could Be a Dream, Ella, the Musical, Sweet Charity, is the director and co-founder of Fantasy Forum Actors create our productions at Center REP. These are not touring The 39 Steps, Old Wicked Songs and Xanadu. His Ensemble, an adult family performing arts company productions – they’re conceived and developed here, the designs have been seen throughout the Bay Area at which presents programs for the young and Young at sets and costumes are built in our shops, and the actors many theaters including San Francisco Opera, ACT, Heart. Scott directed CCMT’s hits The Music Man, Les rehearse in our rehearsal hall. Whether the production Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Theatreworks, California Misérables, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Rodgers and is a Bay Area premiere or a Shakespearean classic, each is Shakespeare Festival, The Magic Theatre, and Marin Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Hairspray, and for the past devised to be a one of a kind, artistic creation that will be a Theatre Company. Locally his work has garnered 16 Bay 16 seasons Center REP’s A Christmas Carol. Denison unique theatre experience for our audience. Area Critics Circle Awards, 5 LA Dramalogue Awards and has directed over 150 productions including REP’s The What does it mean to be a professional theatre? It 5 Shellie Awards. Nationally, his work has been seen at Lady with All the Answers starring Kerri Shawn. In 1979 means that all our artists and artisans are career theatre- Book by Chris D'Arienzo many regional opera & ballet companies, including the he created the Shellie Awards, which annually honors practitioners. The actors in this production are members of Los Angeles Opera, Minnesota Opera, Virginia Opera, outstanding performing arts achievement in Contra Actors’ Equity Association; our directors and designers are Tulsa Opera, and Ballet Arizona. His designs have also Costa county. In 2007 he created the Chevron Family members of professional unions. All do theatre because it Arrangements and Orchestrations by Ethan Popp been presented off-Broadway, represented at Circle Theatre Festival bringing adult nationally acclaimed is their profession and their passion. Rep, and the Douglas Fairbanks Theatres. Other designs performances together for one day performing to over internationally include world premieres of plays by Sam 7,000 guests of all ages. We are very proud to have the opportunity to produce Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Shepard in Japan, and Singapore, as well as the San professional theatre for our community in the beautiful Francisco Opera in Shanghai, China, and the Moscow OUR SPONSORS theatres here at the Lesher Center for the Arts. Thank you John Iacovelli Rebecca Ann Valentino Kurt Landisman for your support! Circus in Tokyo, Japan. Chevron (Season Sponsor) has been the leading corporate Sound Designer Stage Manager Wig Designers sponsor of Center REP and the Lesher Center for the SOME MORE SOUND (Sound Designer) Co-designers Keir Center REPertory Company Arts for the past nine years. In fact, Chevron has been Managing Director - Scott Denison Some More Sound Michael Friedlander* Bethany Deal & Judy Disbrow Moorhead, Yuri Sumnicht, and Brendan West make up a partner of the LCA since the beginning, providing Some More Sound, and have been providing their sound funding for capital improvements, event sponsorships Artistic Director - Michael Butler design services to youth and regional theatre groups as and more. Chevron generously supports every Center Production Services Production well as high school and college theater departments in the REP show throughout the season, and is the primary Production Services Production Manager Bay Area for close to ten years. Past productions include sponsor for events including the Chevron Family Theatre Coordinator Jeff Collister STARS 2000’s RENT and West Side Story, Berkeley YMTC’s Festival in July. Chevron has proven itself not just as a Toni Kilcoyne Technical generous supporter, but also a valued friend of the arts. Ragtime, CCMT's Shellie Award-winning Les Miserables, Technical Staff Technical Director Cast and DTC’s Shellie Award-winning Singin' In The Rain. Diablo Regional Arts Association (DRAA) (Season John Iarla Joshua Lipps More information about their work, and past and future Partner) is both the primary fundraising organization Steve Pino Master Electrician Tielle Baker Ariel Daly Tyce Green* productions can be found at www.somemoresound.com. of the Lesher Center for the Arts (LCA) and the City of Michael Arlen Del Medoff They are thrilled to be working on their first production Walnut Creek’s appointed curator for the LCA’s audience Chris Currie Carpenters Justin Travis Buchs* Michael Doppe* Jacob Judd with Center REP. outreach. DRAA’s role in the community is all about Kieren McEntee Sean Bryan building partnerships with the focused goal of enhancing Garrick Schuster Gabriel Johnson MICHAEL FRIEDLANDER* (Stage Manager) Selected Nikita Burshteyn Mark Duncanson Tiiu Eva Rebane* artistic quality at the LCA and providing opportunities for Stephen Spleiss Caleb Salmon Credits include: The First Noel (Apollo Theater), Saturday everyone to enjoy the arts. Through partnerships with the Josh Stouffer Assistant Lucas Coleman* Yuliya Eydelnant Erica Richardson Night Fever (Ogunquit Playhouse), Curious George And LCA and its producers, individual donors, corporate and Audience Services Stage Manager Audience Svcs Joe Coe the Golden Meatball (TWUSA), Tail! Spin! (DRTM), Hello foundation sponsors and the City of Walnut Creek, DRAA Jesse Cortez Tracy Freeman Will Springhorn Jr.* Coordinator Assistant Choreographer Dolly (Big League Productions), Romeo n Juliet (Classical plays a vital role in advancing the arts for the betterment Courtney Egg Kevin Gruwell Theatre of Harlem), The Unavoidable Dissappearance of the community. Please visit us online at www.draa.org. Elizabeth Curtis Elise Youssef* of Tom Durnin (RoundAbout Theatre), Blood Brothers Ticket Office Staff Production Assistant (APAC), Lovers (TACT), & Lost in Yonkers (TACT). Lesher Foundation (Foundation Sponsor) Since 1994, the Jeremiah Vierling Phillip Davis Rami Kim Audio Assistants Numerous events for the Actors Fund, Vineyard Theatre, Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation has awarded grants Robert Nolan Lyle Barrere Directed by Dyan McBride and Dramatists Guild, as well as a TACT adjunct company totaling more than $40 million and reaching citizens in all parts of Contra Costa County. True to the original wishes Vaughn Edward John DiGiorgio member. Michael would like to thank his friends and of Dean and Margaret Lesher, the Foundation continues Kiersten Jones Follow Spot Operators Music Directed by Kevin Roland family for supporting him in such a rewarding career. to build on the strengths of the community by supporting Alyssa Montany Kira Daugherty Riley Spring Ethan Williams MICHAEL BUTLER (Artistic Director) This is Michael’s organizations and programs that provide help and support Choreographed by Staci Arriaga to people in need; enhance and enrich the lives of all Shannon Taylor Deck Crew tenth season as Artistic Director of Center REP, where citizens; and promote a