FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE 2016-2017 SEASON HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT ROBERT CACIOPPO, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PRESENTS STARRING ensemble member BRENDAN POWERS* and MOLLY COYNE* • MATTHEW FAISON* • COURTNEY FEIMAN • BRIAN HATCH TAYLOR ANTHONY MILLER* • NATE RITSEMA • KATE YOUNG* DIRECTED BY ROBERT CACIOPPO** ensemble member SET DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER DENNIS MAULDEN*** CHARLENE GROSS*** TODD O. WREN*** JOHN KISELICA ensemble member PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ASST. STAGE MANAGER ASST. SOUND DESIGNER AMY MASSARI* AARON MARTIN RHIAN FRANCHEBOIS ensemble member THE MOUSETRAP is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. 2016-17 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Naomi Bloom & Ron Wallace • Dinah Bloomhall • Alexandra Bremner Bruce & Janet Bunch • Gholi & Georgia Darehshori • Mary & Hugh Denison • Ellie Fox • David Fritz/Cruise Everything Dr. & Mrs. Mark & Lynne Gorovoy • John Madden • Sue & Jack Rogers • Arthur Zupko This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists. CAST (in order of appearance) Mollie Ralston.........................................................................................COURTNEY FEIMAN*† Giles Ralston..............................................................................TAYLOR ANTHONY MILLER*† Christopher Wren...........................................................................................NATE RITSEMA*† Mrs. Boyle...........................................................................................................KATE YOUNG*† Major Metcalf...........................................................................................MATTHEW FAISON*† Miss Casewell..................................................................................................MOLLY COYNE*† Mr. Paravicini..........................................................................................BRENDAN POWERS*† Detective Sergeant Trotter..............................................................................BRIAN HATCH*† TIME & PLACE ACT ONE Scene I: 1952, winter. The Great Hall at Monkswell Manor, outside London. Late Afternoon. Scene II: The following day after lunch. ACT TWO Ten minutes later. THE MOUSETRAP will be performed with one 15-minute intermission. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Asst. Costume Designer: Kim Griffin Wardrobe Supervisor: Pingwei Li Lighting and Sound Board Operator: Chris Patterson Understudy: Sarah Katherine Zanotti ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT AGATHA CHRISTIE is the author not only of The Mousetrap, the longest-running stage production in history, but also Witness for the Prosecution and And Then There Were None, to name but a few of her greatest stage successes. Her novels have sold more than two billion copies around the world, and she is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Born in 1890, in Torquay, Devon, England, to an American father and English mother, she wrote her first play Black Coffee (the only play in which she chose to feature Poirot) in 1930 having been disappointed by the way The Murder of Roger Ackroyd had been adapted into Alibi in 1928. She adapted her bestselling novel And Then There Were None for stage in 1943, giving it a different ending, followed by, in quick succession, Appointment with Death (1945), Murder on the Nile (1946) and The Hollow (1951). With The Mousetrap (1952), Witness for the Prosecution (1953), and Spider’s Web (1954), she became the only female playwright to have three plays running in the West End at the same time. Later plays include Towards Zero (1956) co-adapted with Gerald Verner, Verdict (1958) possibly her most unusual play, Go Back for Murder (1960), and Rule of Three (1962) a series of three one-act plays. After a hugely successful career and a wonderful life, Ms. Christie died peacefully on January 12, 1976. You can read Agatha Christie’s own account of her life in An Autobiography which was published after her death in 1977. †Member of Florida Repertory Theatre’s Ensemble of Theatre Artists. See page 23 for the entire ensemble. * The Actors & Stage Manager ** *** employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. CREATIVE TEAM MOLLY COYNE* (Miss BRIAN HATCH (Detective Casewell) is thrilled to Sergeant Trotter) is return to Florida Rep after delighted to return to his having been a part of the first theatrical home! Brian Intern Class of Season 15 began as an acting intern (Luisa in The Fantasticks). during Florida Rep’s 15th Since then, she has made season (Camping with Atlanta her home, working Henry and Tom and The at the Alliance Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare, Little Foxes), and you may also remember him Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Horizon Theatre, as Sergeant Cadwallader from last season’s The Theatrical Outfit, and the Atlanta Lyric Theatre. She Unexpected Guest. In the time since, he has worked is especially glad to return to Florida Rep with her in Atlanta: Synchronicity Theatre, Actor’s Express, fellow intern, best friend, and love of her life, Brian Georgia Ensemble, Horizon Theatre, Stage Door Hatch, who she can’t wait to marry in October of Players, Fabrefaction and High Museum. Brian has next year. Love to Mom, Dad, Nunu, Little Stink, also worked for commercial clients like Zaxby’s, and Toby. Proud member of AEA. AT&T, Mississippi State and can be seen on Adult Swim, Netflix, and Discovery Channel. Brian is MATTHEW FAISON* overjoyed to share the stage with his fiancé, and (Major Metcalf) grew up in fellow Season 15 intern, Molly Coyne. Hollywood, Florida and after a stint in the Navy TAYLOR ANTHONY and college at UF and Penn MILLER* (Giles Ralston) State, he began appearing is excited to be making all over the country—from his debut at Florida Rep! the Old Globe Shakespeare NYC: Asking for Trouble Festival in San Diego to Actor’s Theatre of 2016 (Ensemble Studio Louisville, Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Theater), The Believers Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Southcoast Rep in (Storm Theater, BAM; Newport Beach, and the Alabama Shakespeare NY Innovative Theater Nom), Much Ado About Festival where he played the title role in Hamlet. In Nothing (American Globe), Clean (Looking Los Angeles he guest starred in more than 120 film Glass). He has worked at regional theatres and television roles ranging from M*A*S*H* to including Gablestage, Palm Beach Dramaworks, E.R. He and his wife Brenda live on a small lake in Peterborough Players, Allentown Shakespeare, rural north central Florida where they keep track and more! TV: Law and Order: SVU, Magic City, of a blended family that includes seven children Law and Order, Chicago PD, Leverage, Burn Notice. and four granddaughters. Taylor enjoys making his own films, such as his Cross Streets series on YouTube and Facebook, and COURTNEY FEIMAN his short film Deal, which he wrote and produced. (Mollie Ralston) hails Thanks to Bob, Jason, the cast and crew, and his from Atlanta, GA and is family and Rachel for the constant motivation and a graduate of High Point support. University with a degree in music and theatre BRENDAN POWERS*† (Mr. performance. Some of Paravicini) Select Florida her recent credits include Rep credits over the past Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s Three eight seasons include The Musketeers and As You Like It with the Maryland Cocktail Hour, A Christmas Renaissance Festival. Courtney is thrilled to be Story, The Unexpected back with her Florida Repertory Theatre family, Guest, Dividing the Estate, where you may have seen her in Vanya and Sonia Around the World in 80 and Masha and Spike, One Slight Hitch, and Days, The Fantasticks, Doubt, Opus, Boeing-Boeing, Dividing the Estate back in Season 17. She would and The Glass Menagerie. He is married to fellow like to thank her wonderful family and friends Florida Rep ensemble member Rachel Burttram for always supporting her and encouraging her to and also serves as a Development Associate. follow her dreams! Other credits include the Tony Award-winning play, Art, and The Big Knife, both with Alec CREATIVE TEAM Baldwin, the Noel Coward revue, Oh, Coward! at film and television credits include Houseguest, Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre, God of Roommates, Diabolique, Citizen Cohn, and What Carnage, August: Osage County, Our Town, Arsenic She Doesn’t Know. A native San Franciscan now and Old Lace, and numerous others. TV work living in Chicago, Kate trained in London at includes FBI Agent Rick Cranston on Graceland LAMDA, Brown University, the University of (USA Network), and David Weller in the Netflix Pittsburgh, and New England Conservatory. original series, Bloodline, starring Sissy Spacek. He www.kateyoung.biz can also be seen driving the big blue Cadillac in a series of national commercials for Alabama Road RHIAN FRANCHEBOIS (Asst. Sound Designer) is Trips. His cartoon captions have been winners a first-time intern at Florida Repertory Theatre. for various contests including The New Yorker, She recently