THE STRAZ Hello Friends, After the year we’ve had, we are happy you’ve found some room for a smidge more drama in your life because Jobsite is providing it with Henry V, its seasonal tradition of bringing Shakespeare into our lives. And if you joined us in August at the Riverwalk Stage when The Straz and Jobsite presented the highly comedic The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised], well, this is the opposite. Jobsite Artistic Director David M. Jenkins promises an exciting, engaging sensory experience – “the spectacle of a rock concert.” “In the world of this play, there is hope and triumph over a period of darkness, at what seems like impossible odds -- and this is a story we can all relate to and use right now,” Jenkins told us. If these are your first steps back into live theater, The Straz is happy to be part of the return to normalcy. We are grateful for your patience, enthusiasm and trust as we slowly continue to bring more shows to our stages and audiences to our socially distanced campus with our sights set on the return of Broadway in the fall. In the coming weeks, our free Live & Local series will feature singer/songwriters on the Riverwalk Stage, Patel Conservatory students will showcase what they’ve learned in an adaptation of Singin’ In the Rain Jr., Opera Tampa will stir your soul with Butterfly’s Flight, a reimagined narrated concert featuring the music of Madama Butterfly and our Voices of the Community town hall will explore the legacy of jazz in Tampa Bay. Check all we have coming up at strazcenter.org. If you’d like to further support our efforts, please consider contributing to our Raise The Curtain Recovery Fund that aids our education and community engagement initiatives. Judy Lisi Gary Sasso President and CEO, Chairman, Straz Center Straz Center Board of Trustees THE STRAZ APRIL 7-25 JAEB THEATER and THE STRAZ present HENRY V By William Shakespeare Adapted by David M. Jenkins, Giles Davies and the Ensemble Associate Director Direction and Video and Text Coach Set Design David M. Jenkins Giles Davies Brian Smallheer Lighting Design Costume Design Composer Jo Averill-Snell Katrina Stevenson Jeremy Douglass FEATURING Cornelio Aguilera, Ned Averill-Snell, Roxanne M. Fay, Lizzie Kehoe, Brian Matthew Shea, Kara Sotakoun, Katrina Stevenson and Adam Workman Jobsite actors and crew are following strict Straz Center and CDC safety protocols regarding COVID-19 during rehearsals and performances. Those including a daily wellness/building entry survey, temperature scan, mandatory mask wearing when off-stage, separate dressing rooms, no sharing of costumes, wigs or makeup and no interaction with patrons, including social distancing of 12 feet from the audience. For more specifics on Straz safety precautions go to strazcenter.org/safety. As part of The Straz safety protocols, we ask that you wear a mask at all times while on our campus, including during the performance. THANK YOU. PLEASE silence and stow all electronic devices before the performance starts. The taking of photographs and/or use of other recording equipment is strictly prohibited during the performance. You are welcome to snap shots when the house lights are still up. Tag us on Instagram, etc., @JobsiteTheater and/or use #JobsiteHenryV. While attending performances and events at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, please be aware that photography, audio and video recording may occur. Your attendance serves as your implied consent for the Straz Center to use your image in institutional and marketing materials. THE CAST (in order of appearance) King Henry V of England ...............................................Adam Workman Hostess Quickly, Montjoy, Scroop, Jamy ............................ Kara Sotakoun Duke of Exeter, Orleans, Macmorris ................................Ned Averill-Snell Westmorland, Bardolph, Constable, Williams ............ Brian Matthew Shea Gloucester, Nym, Dauphin, Burgundy ............................Katrina Stevenson Bishop of Cantebury, Pistol, Governor of Harfleur, Alice ....Roxanne M. Fay Fluellen, Boy, Cambridge, Katherine ..................................... Lizzie Kehoe Bishop of Ely, Gray, King Charles, Gower, French Soldier .............................................Cornelio Aguilera HELP US MAKE OUR 2021 GOAL! We’ll be honest, the way things are right now and with all we are doing to keep everyone safe, there’s no way that we can produce and cover basic expenses. We need your help to navigate to the other side of this pandemic so that we can continue entertaining and inspiring more than 15,000 regular audience members a year, including more than 3,500 middle and high school students. Please become part of the family by joining our annual campaign! Our 2021 goal is $85,000, which will allow us to continue offering affordable access to the arts while continuing to increase the quality of our shows and work toward a living wage for all our artists. You can learn more by visiting us at jobsitetheater.org/annual- campaign. We also would be happy to speak with you directly if you call 813.476.7378. Monday, April 26 is our annual online day of giving, #KeepJobsiteRocking. We have a $50,000 goal for the day and the first $15,000 will be matched dollar for dollar. Learn more at jobsitetheater.org/fundraiser. Thanks again for being with us tonight. Enjoy the show, and please let us know what you thought: [email protected] TIPS APPRECIATED! If you would like to drop a tip for tonight, hit Jobsite through Venmo @JobsiteTheater or select the “other” option at JobsiteTheater.org/donate. Please tip the Straz Center through your app! LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? WANT MORE? Digital content and information on upcoming live performances available at JobsiteTheater.org or find us on your favorite social media platform. Who’s WHO CORNELIO “COKY” AGUILERA (Ensemble) studied as an acting specialist at UW Madison, moved to the Tampa area and has been working professionally with the following companies since 2012: Stageworks Theatre, A Simple Theatre, Tampa Repertory Theatre, St. Petersburg Opera Company, RQL Productions, Your Real Stories Theatre and Jobsite Theater. Coky organizes the “Dreamer’s Teatro Crew,” a bilingual, theatrical group out of Dade City, in collaboration with the Farmworkers Self-Help Organization. It also is his honor to be working with Outcast Theatre Collective since its inception. NED AVERILL-SNELL (Ensemble) previously appeared with Jobsite in HIR, Gloucester Blue, Twelfth Night, Lebensraum and other plays. He also has appeared at Tampa Repertory Theatre (A View from the Bridge, The Iceman Cometh, Copenhagen), Stageworks Theatre (The Lifespan of a Fact, The Sugar Bean Sisters), American Stage Company (Tartuffe, A Moon for the Misbegotten), the Asolo State Theatre’s Dog Days series (What the Butler Saw), at various theaters in the solo play The Apocrypha of Theodore Roosevelt and regionally at Indiana Repertory Theatre and the United Solo festival in New York. He is the author of the novel Small Professional Murder, appears in the St. Petersburg-produced film Waiting On Mary and appeared as surrealist André Breton in a short film presented in theMidnight in Paris, 1929 exhibit at the Dalí Museum. Ned is married to director and lighting designer Jo Averill-Snell and is a father of three. ROXANNE M. FAY (Ensemble) is an actor, playwright and artistic director of Circle in The Water. As an actor, Roxanne has received regional awards and acclaim for her work with Jobsite Theater in Doubt, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing and HIR (named one of the best performances of the decade by BroadwayWorld in 2019). Other roles include Dr. Emma Brookner in The Normal Heart and Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Beatrice in The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds (NY) and Leni Riefenstahl in Leni (NY). As a playwright, Roxanne has been awarded a fall 2021 residency by the Hosking House Trust in Stratford Upon Avon, UK, to continue work on her Shakespeare-inspired play, The Deeds Of Mercy. She was named a 2016 Hawthornden Writers’ Fellow (artist in residence, Hawthornden Castle, Scotland). Her play, Thrice To Mine, created at Hawthornden and premiered in New York in 2019. Roxanne received the 2017 Creative Pinellas Individual Artist Fellowship. Roxanne regularly creates new work for the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. Her first film,Breton And The Muse: A Midnight In Paris, opened in November 2019 as part of the Dalí’s acclaimed exhibition coordinated with Le Centre Pompidou (Paris). LIZZIE KEHOE (Ensemble) is thrilled to be joining the Jobsite team for Henry V. Growing up in Tampa and at Patel Conservatory, she is living a dream performing in the Jaeb. She recently graduated from New York University with degrees in English literature and drama. Some upcoming and recent credits include King Lear (Tampa Rep), Goodbye Petrushka (Eclair Soon Productions), The Inferior Sex (Hangar Theater) and Macbeth (NYC Department of Correction). She thanks her parents, the cast and crew of Henry V and her loved ones for your support. BRIAN MATTHEW SHEA (Ensemble) is pleased to be returning to the stage with incredible Jobsite Theater. A four-time recipient of Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay in performance, his previous Jobsite credits include Dancing at Lughnasa, A Skull In Connemara, The Tempest, The Lonesome West, The 39 Steps, Dracula and many more. He dedicates his performances to his beloved late parents, Peter and Pat Shea. KARA SOTAKOUN (Ensemble) is making her third appearance with Jobsite. Previously, she appeared in Hand to God and in last year’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has worked all over Florida in theater, commercial and film projects. Kara studied acting at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. When not acting, she dedicates her time to making music and practicing yoga.