Mainstage Playbill Richard Hopkins, Producing Artistic Director This project is sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida. Pictured: George Tynan Crowley and Rachel Moulton. Photo by Matthew Holler. Native Gardens by Karen Zacarías CAST Virginia Butley ..................................Carolyn Popp* Pablo Del Valle ...............................Alex Teicheira* Tania Del Valle .........................Alicia Taylor Tomasko* Frank Butley ............................John Thomas Waite* Directed by: Kate Alexander Scenic Designers Costume Designer Isabel & Moriah Curley-Clay K. April Soroko Lighting Designer Sound Designer Thom Beaulieu Thom Korp Stage Manager: Roy Johns* Setting: Washington DC, present day Season Underwriters Gerri Aaron, Gaele Barthold, Ed & Judy Christian, Georgia Court, Shirley Fein, Wendy & Bob Grady, Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Robert & Bonny Israeloff, Ernie Kretzmer in loving memory of Alisa Kretzmer, Dennis and Graci McGillicuddy, Anne H.S. Nethercott, Gail & Skip Sack, Dorothy Waldron Show Co-Producers Ruth Gorton, Ben & Judy Handelman, Valerie Joels, Sally Yanowitz, and SRQ Magazine The video or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited. * Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ARTIST PROFILES CAROLYN POPP (Virginia Butley) is grateful to Asolo. Film: After Louie starring Alan Cumming be in sunny Florida this winter. She performs (Best LGBTQ Film Award - Key West Film Festival mostly along the east coast in NYC & Regional 2017). As Director: Call Fosse at the Minskoff productions including: Death of a Salesman, (Best Production - 2016 United Solo Festival). The Clean House; Pride & Prejudice; Steel KATE ALEXANDER (Director) is the Associate Magnolias; Romeo & Juliet; Vanya and Sonia and Director At-Large of FST and the Founder of the Masha and Spike; The Last Night of Ballyhoo; FST Theatre School with its acting method of Harvey; Footloose; Our Town; Cabaret; Dancing training. Ms. Alexander has directed numerous at Lughnasa; The Miracle Worker; Defiance; productions and premieres on the FST stages Gigi; An Inspector Calls; Carousel; and I Do! I Do! including Heisenberg, The Absolute Brightness ALEX TEICHEIRA (Pablo Del Valle) is thrilled of Leonard Pelkey; brownsville song: (b-side for to make his FST debut with Native Gardens. tray); Clever Little Lies; Alabama Story; Outside Theater Credits: (NYC) Signature Theatre Mullingar; Over the River and Through the Company, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Access Woods; Chapatti; Dancing Lessons; Becoming Theater, NY Fringe Fest, Hip to Hip Theatre Dr. Ruth; Freud’s Last Session; Thurgood; South Company, and The Flea. (Regional) Guthrie Beach Babylon; The Columnist; Talley’s Folly; Theatre, Yale Rep, Cal Shakes, Long Wharf, Jericho; Next Fall; The Savannah Disputation; Yale Cabaret, and Elm Shakespeare Company. Ghost- Writer; Two Jews Walk into a War...; I Love TV: Blacklist: Redemption, and “Alexander You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Sylvia; Shotgun; the Great” on The History Channel. Film: The Miamians; Brooklyn Boy; The Exonerated; Into Bridge. MFA: Yale School of Drama. Wit; Proof; Lobby Hero; and Ten Unknowns. Ms. ALICIA TAYLOR TOMASKO (Tania Del Valle) is Alexander has also been a resident actress for thrilled to be back in FL with FST! After 7 years in over 25 years. Some of her leading roles were NYC performing in In The Heights on Broadway in the plays: Edward Albee’s The Goat; Filumena; and If/Then on tour, Alicia will next be heading Master Class; Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, west to Los Angeles to continue the acting The Occupant , The Play About the Baby; Golda’s journey! Other favorite credits include Audrey in Balcony; and Taking Shakespeare. Ms. Alexander Little Shop of Horrors (Starstruck), Sylvia in Sylvia is the recipient of numerous acting, directing, (McAplin Fine Arts) and Amy in Trouble the film. and public service awards, including FAER, She Knows Where She’s Going Award (Girls, Inc.), Follow her on Instagram: @ aliciataylornyc The Woman of Light Award, National Council JOHN THOMAS WAITE (Frank Butley) of Jewish Women, The Woman of Power Award, Broadway: Dracula, Amadeus. Off-Broadway: the Sarasota County Arts Leadership Award, The Fantasticks, Beyond the Horizon (Irish Rep). Education Award, Sarasota Manatee Jewish London: MacBeth (Independent Shakespeare Federation, and most recently, The Unity Award. Theatre). Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ms. Alexander leads the FST Forums Series and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland developed the Blue Butterfly Theatre Program, Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Virginia a program for teens suffering from grief Stage, Syracuse Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, through loss. She created the Art of The Gesture ARTIST PROFILES program at Ringling College of Animation Lipitones, Das Barbecu and Beehive: The 60s and is the co-author of The Animated Short, Musical. Scenery- Pump Boys and Dinettes. with Karen Sullivan, now in its 2nd edition. Scenery and Costumes: The Last Romance, Talley’s ROY JOHNS (Stage Manager) is pleased to be Folly, The Savannah Disputation, Race, and The back for another season at FST. He has had an 39 Steps (FST). Scenery: Collected Stories, A Long exciting and varied career both on stage and Day’s Journey Into Night and My Old Lady at behind the scenes from Tokyo Disneyland to the Palm Beach Dramaworks. MEMBER -USA Local White House. Past credits at FST include: Once; 829 -Scenery and Costumes, MFA -Yale School Doublewide; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard of Drama. Ms. Soroko is Assistant Professor of Pelkey; Burt & Me; Rich Girl; brownsville song Scenic Design at Florida Atlantic University and (b-side for tray); Million Dollar Quartet; The God is Professional Chair – Board of Directors- Florida of Isaac; The Roommate; The Fabulous Lipitones; Theater Conference. www.aprilsoroko.com Alabama Story; Outside Mullingar; One Man, THOM BEAULIEU (Lighting Designer) is an Two Guvnors; The Hound of the Baskervilles; award-winning lighting and sound designer. Chapatti; Hairspray; and Taking Shakespeare. His work has been experienced throughout the ISABEL & MORIAH CURLEY-CLAY (Scenic eastern US including Once, Blue Suede Shoes, Designers) are award-winning scenic designers Mack the Knife: The Bobby Darin Songbook, whose theatrical work can be seen on regional and Burt & Me (Florida Studio Theatre); The stages across the U.S. Recent credits include: Waltz, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, The Magic Negro and other Blackity Blackness, Carrie: the Musical, and The Lord of the Flies as told by an African-American man who (The Winnipesaukee Playhouse); A Chorus also happens to be Black (Alliance Theatre); Line, Floyd Collins, Sweet Charity, and Singin’ Lumberjacks in Love (Penobscott Theatre); in the Rain (Aurora Theatre). He holds a BFA Constellations (Horizon Theatre); Exit Strategy in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University’s (Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre). Past School of Drama, and an MS in Physics. designs at FST include Doublewide; Rich Girl; THOMAS KORP (Sound Designer) a former FST Clever Little Lies; The God of Isaac; The Fabulous intern, is excited to be entering his second season Lipitones; Alabama Story; Outside Mullingar; as staff. Sound design credits include Once; Butler; Taking Shakespeare; Chapatti; Inspired Burt & Me; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Lunacy; Dancing Lessons; Hairspray; and One Pelkey; The Columnist; Talley’s Folley; A Chorus Man, Two Guvnors. Isabel and Moriah’s designs Line; Spamalot; and The West Side Waltz. Mixing were recently featured in American Theater Credits: Next to Normal; Das Barbecü; Smokey Magazine’s “Roll Call,” “7 Theatrical People To Joe’s Café; The World Goes Round; Tango: Buenos Watch” and are both members of USA 829. Aires; and We Will Rock You/ Sound engineer K. APRIL SOROKO (Costume Designer) with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines 2014 – 2016. Off-Broadway- Scenery: Napoleon (NYMF). Costumes: Mariage Blanc (Playwrights Horizons), Regional- Costumes: The Fabulous EXECUTIVE STAFF RICHARD HOPKINS Mr. Hopkins is the Producing REBECCA HOPKINS Mrs. Hopkins serves as Managing Artistic Director of Florida Studio Theatre. Mr. Director for Florida Studio Theatre, and as such, is the Chief Hopkins has fostered the development of FST’s Operations Officer. Mrs. Hopkins is responsible for Mainstage and Cabaret productions. His many the oversight of FST’s Administration, including directing Mainstage credits include: Inspired the Business Office, Development, Marketing, Lunacy, The Best of Enemies, Next to Normal, Race, Box Office, Front of House, Restaurant, Ruined, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling budgeting, and maintaining the overall quality Bee, Boleros for the Disenchanted, Permanent of FST’s internal management. Nationally, Mrs. Collection, and Metamorphoses, among numerous Hopkins is President of the National New Play other plays. Mr. Hopkins led the development Network and serves on the Board of Directors of FST’s Cabaret productions of Piano Men, The for the League of Resident Theatres and the Prima Donnettes, Too Darn Hot, and By Gershwin. Theatre Communications Group. She has been Mr. Hopkins also serves as the Chief Executive actively involved in development of FST’s Officer of Florida Studio Theatre. This includes Cabaret productions since her arrival in 1998. overseeing the creation and implementation