OUR SPONSORS ABOUT CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY “Hilarious. Fluid physicality and impreccable execution. Moore’s talents Chevron (Season Sponsor) has been the Center REP is the resident, professional theatre are wondrous to behold! Brilliant.” - Jean Schiffman, San Francisco Examiner leading corporate sponsor of Center REP and company of the Lesher Center for the Arts. Our CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY the Lesher Center for the Arts for the past nine season consists of eight productions a year – a years. In fact, Chevron has been a partner of variety of musicals, dramas and comedies, both Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director the LCA since the beginning, providing funding classic and contemporary, that continually strive for capital improvements, event sponsorships to reach new levels of artistic excellence and presents and more. Chevron generously supports every professional standards. Center REP show throughout the season, and is the primary sponsor for events including Our mission is to celebrate the power of the the Chevron Family Theatre Festival in July. human imagination by producing emotionally Chevron has proven itself not just as a generous engaging, intellectually involving, and visually supporter, but also a valued friend of the arts. astonishing live theatre, and through Outreach and Education programs, to enrich and advance Diablo Regional Arts Association (DRAA) the cultural life of the communities we serve. (Season Partner) is both the primary fundraising organization of the Lesher Center for the Arts (LCA) What does it mean to be a producing theatre? and the City of Walnut Creek’s appointed curator We hire the finest professional directors, actors The Resident Professional Theatre Company of the for the LCA’s audience outreach. DRAA’s role in and designers to create our productions at Lesher Center for the Arts the community is all about building partnerships Center REP. These are not touring productions – with the focused goal of enhancing artistic they’re conceived and developed here, the sets Created by: SARA MOORE quality at the LCA and providing opportunities for and costumes are built in our shops, and the Written by: SARA MOORE and MICHAEL PHILLIS everyone to enjoy the arts. Through partnerships actors rehearse in our rehearsal hall. Whether Produced by: THRILLRIDE MECHANICS and DEBRA MOSK PRODUCTIONS with the LCA and its producers, individual the production is a Bay Area premiere or a Directed by: ANDREW NANCE donors, corporate and foundation sponsors and Shakespearean classic, each is devised to be a one Choreographed by: Matthew Martin MICHAEL BUTLER Artistic Director the City of Walnut Creek, DRAA plays a vital role of a kind, artistic creation that will be a unique SCOTT DENISON ByBy Managing Director OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 9 in advancing the arts for the betterment of the theatre experience for our audience. community. Please visit us online at www.draa.org. What does it mean to be a professional IraIra LevinLevin Lesher Foundation (Foundation Sponsor) Since theatre? It means that all our artists and artisans 1994, the Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation are career theatre-practitioners. Many of the has awarded grants totaling more than $40 actors in this production are members of Actors’ million and reaching citizens in all parts of Contra Equity Association; many of our directors and Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costa County. True to the original wishes of Dean designers are members of professional unions. and Margaret Lesher, the Foundation continues All do theatre because it is their profession and Kelly James Tighe Costume Designer Kurt Landisman to build on the strengths of the community by their passion. Sound Designer Victoria Livingston-Hall Props Manager supporting organizations and programs that provide help and support to people in need; We are very proud to have the opportunity to Theodore J.H. Hulsker Stage Manager Mia Baxter enhance and enrich the lives of all citizens; and produce professional theatre for our community promote a healthy and exciting future for the in the beautiful theatres here at the Lesher Center Dialect Coach Nicole S. Langley* Fight Director community. Established in 1989, the Foundation for the Arts. Thank you for your support! Lisa Anne Porter Dave Maier received its principal assets from Dean Lesher’s estate in 1993 and 1995. In 1997, an additional Center REPertory Company endowment from Dean Lesher’s estate followed Cast the death of Margaret Lesher. A significant Managing Director - Scott Denison and final bequest from Mr. Lesher’s estate Artistic Director - Michael Butler Lynda DiVito Charles Shaw Robinson* was received in 2003. As a family foundation, Production Services Costumes support for the Contra Costa community will Production Services Costume Manager Craig Marker* be carried on by the next generation of family Coordinator Shannon Sigman Toni Kilcoyne Costumers members. Grant-making decisions are based Technical Staff Michael A. Berg Kerri Shawn Colin Thomson* on the vision of Dean and Margaret Lesher who Steve Pino Katie Dowse felt quality education, diverse art programs, and John Earls Education healthy children and families are the building Michael Arlen Education Directors Chris Currie Jeff Draper blocks of a strong and vibrant community. Kieren McEntee Kerri Shawn The Leshers defined the “spirit of giving” as Garrick Schuster Production Directed by John McCluggage “investing in the community and its people.” Stephen Spleiss Production Manager By providing financial support and direction in Josh Stouffer Jeff Collister Audience Services Technical these critical areas, the Dean & Margaret Lesher Audience Svcs Coordinator Technical Director “DEATHTRAP is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.” Foundation is investing every day, every week Courtney Egg Joshua Lipps and every year in the health and well-being of Ticket Office Staff Master Electrician this county that Dean and Margaret so loved. Jeremiah Vierling Del Medoff Robert Nolan Carpenters Tiffany Del Valle Matthew Hougey Margaret Lesher Theatre Jennifer Haga Gabriel Johnson October 24 - November 22, 2014 CITY COUNCIL Kiersten Jones Lisa Peterson Kristina Lawson, Mayor Karla Kopfhammer Chris Swartzell Lesher Center for the Arts Bob Simmons, Mayor Pro-Tem Britt Lauer Dresser Loella Haskew Caleb Neeper Edie Olson Season Season Partner Foundation Sponsor Cindy Silva Trevor Owen Assistant Sponsor Justin Wedel Usher Coordinator Stage Manager Pat Rusich Joe Coe CITY MANAGER Marketing Deck Manager Ken Nordhoff ARTS COMMISSION Marketing Director Alex Logemann Jane Emanuel, Chair Gabe Marin Administration DIRECTOR Glynnis Cowdery, Vice Chair Marketing Assistant Asst. to Managing Director *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States Arts, Recreation and Joe Bologna Ariel Brewer Gail Pfeifer The Lighting Designer is a member of United Scenic Artists Union Community Services Polly Bradbury Casting Director Program Center REP is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), The National Organization for the American Theatre Kevin Safine Anita Sagastegui Jennifer Perry Linda Nomura CAST (in order of appearance) CHARLES SHAW ROBINSON* PRODUCTION TEAM Screen Academy, Midsummer Murders for Virgin LISA ANNE PORTER (Dialect Coach) Porter is a ALEX LOGEMANN (Deck Manager) is celebrating (Sydney Bruhl) was last seen Media and she assisted at the Holland Park Opera designated Linklater voice instructor, an acting, his 47th show backstage with Center REP. Alex has Myra Bruhl ..................................................Lynda DiVito as Leonard in Seminar at the IRA LEVIN (Playwright) was twenty-two when he productions of Lakme and La Traviata. Bay area voice, dialect and text professor and a professional been backstage for eleven seasons and is beyond Clifford Anderson ..................................Craig Marker* San Francisco Playhouse. wrote his first novel, the award-winning thriller “A work includes the A Seagull in the Hamptons for actress and director. She has coached voice and pleased to be involved with such an amazing Sidney Bruhl ...................... Charles Shaw Robinson* Other favorite roles include Kiss Before Dying,” and twenty-five when, fresh Shotgun Players, the ReOrient Festival for Golden dialect in over sixty productions nationwide, group. Alex has also worked backstage for Contra from military service, he wrote his first play, the including American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Costa Musical Theatre and with Diablo Theatre Helga Ten Dorp ..........................................Kerri Shawn Shag in Bill Cain’s Equivocation Thread Productions, Abe Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance smash-hit adaptation of Mac Hyman’s No Time Party for SF Playhouse and the NYFringe Festival, Repertory Theatre, SF Opera, San Jose Repertory Company. Alex is a proud member of the Fantasy Porter Milgrim....................................Colin Thomson* (Marin Theatre Company); for Sergeants. In the years since, he has continued among other shows for Crowded Fire Theatre Co. Theatre, Theatreworks, Marin Theatre Company, Forum Actors Ensemble. He is very thankful for Milton in the West Coast premiere of Tony to work both sides of the literary street. His plays The Magic Theatre, and Theatre Artaud. Aurora Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre our community and the fun it provides. “Do not Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul (Berkeley Repertory include the comedy hit Critics