CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY OF WALNUT CREEK Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director presents By George Bernard Shaw Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Kelly James Tighe Victoria Livingston-Hall Kurt Landisman Sound Designer Stage Manager Prop Master Lyle Barrere Gregg Rehrig* Christopher Kesel Wig Designer Judy Disbrow Cast Andy Gardner Maggie Mason Kendra Lee Oberhauser Gabriel Marin* Aaron Murphy Lisa Anne Porter* Craig Marker* Michael Ray Wisely* Directed by Nancy Carlin Margaret Lesher Theatre January 27 - February 25, 2012 Lesher Center for the Arts Season Season Partner Season Media Sponsor Foundation Sponsor Sponsor *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States The Lighting Designer is a member of United Scenic Artists Union The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Center REP is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), The National Organization for the American Theatre CAST (in order of appearance) Craig Marker* (Captain Kendra Lee Oberhauser Bluntschli) has appeared at (Louka) is delighted to Catherine Petkoff ........................... Lisa Anne Porter* Center REP in The Mousetrap return to the Center REP Raina Petkoff .........................................Maggie Mason and The Marriage of Figaro. stage where she was last Louka .....................................Kendra Lee Oberhauser His Bay Area theater credits seen in Dracula (Mina Captain Bluntschli .................................Craig Marker* include The Glass Menagerie, Murray), Noises Off (Poppy) Russian Officer ............................ Andy Ryan Gardner Seagull, 9 Circles, Equivocation and The Women (various). Nicola ....................................................... Aaron Murphy and Bus Stop at Marin Theatre Company; The Circle Recent credits include: Reduction in Force and Major Petkoff .............................. Michael Ray Wisely* and Curse of the Starving Class at A.C.T.; Macbeth and Blastosphere at Centralworks, Twelfth Night at Major Sergius Saranoff ......................Gabriel Marin* Romeo and Juliet at Cal Shakes; Love In American Town Hall Theatre, The Norman Conquests trilogy Times, As You Like It, The Foreigner, Iphigenia At at Shotgun Players and See How We Are at Impact Aulis and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at Theatre. She has also worked at Berkeley Rep, TIME and PLACE San Jose Repertory Theatre; Macbeth at Shotgun SF Playhouse, TheatreFIRST, Precarious Theatre, Players; Third, Theophilus North, Brooklyn Boy, Playhouse West and others. This spring she’ll Dolly West’s Kitchen, and Shakespeare in Hollywood appear in Adam Chanzit’s world premiere Down to The Petkoff home and garden in Bulgaria at TheatreWorks; Wirehead, First Person Shooter This with Sleepwalker’s Theatre. 1885-1886 and The Story at SF Playhouse; Cymbeline and Love’s Labour’s Lost at San Francisco Shakespeare Lisa Anne Porter* (Catherine There will be one 15 minute intermission Festival; and The Shape of Things and The Persians Petkoff) credits include at Aurora Theatre Company. Marker appeared in the American Conservatory Theatre: A Tale of Two CAST BIOGRAPHIES David Edgar’s Continental Divide at Berkeley Rep, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Barbican Theatre Cities; California Shakespeare Festival: Andy Ryan Gardner (Russian (UK) and La Jolla Playhouse. All’s Well that Ends Well, Pericles, A Midsummer Officer) is thrilled to return Night’s Dream, Medea; Shakespeare/Santa Cruz: to the Lesher Stage after Maggie Mason (Raina The Marriage of Figaro, Much Ado About Nothing; a decade of absence. He Petkoff) is so happy to be Magic Theatre: The Long Christmas Ride Home, The began training in the Center’s making her Center REP debut Pharmacist’s Daughter, The Brief But Exemplary Young Rep Program when in this wonderful play with Life of a Living Goddess; Marin Theatre Company: he was fifteen. The classes this incredible cast. New Lovers and Executioners; San Francisco Shakespeare were fun, informative, and prepared him for life York Credits: These Seven Festival: The Tempest; Shakespeare Festival/LA: Two at UCLA’s theater school. While attending UCLA Sicknesses, and Arok of Java Gentlemen of Verona; Shakespeare & Company: he was cast in various roles that led him to be dir. Ed Sylvanus Iskandar (Exit, Pursued by a Bear), S.L.A.W; Sacramento Theatre Company: The Heidi noted as a quirky and versatile character actor. Right to the Top (workshop) written and directed by Chronicles; The Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Roles ranged from a drugged out, Vietnam medic Amy Freed. Bay Area Credits: Period of Adjustment Company: Hamlet, Richard III; Syracuse Stage: Private in Tracers, to a licentious priest in The Devils. For (SF Playhouse) dir. Bill English; Why We Have A Lives; Boston Theatreworks: Taming of the Shrew, this role, the “Monty” was indeed “Full” for all of Body dir. Katie Pearl, and Or, dir. Loretta Greco Macbeth. MFA: American Conservatory Theatre. his fellow classmates, professors, and parents to (Magic Theatre) - nominated ‘Best Actress’ in the be unfortunately subjected to, numerous times. Bay Area Critics Circle Awards 2010; You, Nero dir. He is happy to be keeping his clothes on for this Sharon Ott and Arabian Nights (understudy) dir. Michael Ray Wisely* (Major performance, and thanks the incredible staff, Mary Zimmerman (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Petkoff) 2012 marks his cast and crew of Center REP for this opportunity Rock and Roll dir. Ken Kelleher (San Jose Stage); 16th appearance with the to once again foray into the lights with friendly Possibilidad dir. Wilma Bonet (San Francisco company. REP’s audiences folk. He loves his mother, father, girlfriend, and Mime Troupe); Hamlet and As You Like It dir. Ken may remember him as Mr. occasionally his brother. Kelleher (Pacific Repertory Theatre); Future Me Gilmer in last season’s To Kill (TheatreFIRST); Oskar the Bully dir. Mary Sutton a Mockingbird as well as a decade as Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol. Gabriel Marin* (Major (Theatreworks). Film and television: Grange Hill Well known to bay area audiences, Michael Ray Sergius Saranoff) is delighted (BBC) Gemma Lyons, 3 seasons; Mirad a Boy From has performed locally and at other West Coast to return to Center REPertory Bosnia, (BBC) dir. Jeremy Irons, starring Jeremy theatres for over 20 years. Credits include: Berkeley Company where he was Irons and Sinead Cusack. Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, Aurora Theatre previously seen in Noises Off Co., Marin Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, SF (Garry), A Number (Bernard), Aaron Murphy (Nicola) Shakespeare, San Jose Stage, San Jose Repertory, and Tuesday’s with Morrie appeared at Center REP American Musical Theatre, Marin Shakespeare (Mitch). Recently credits include Bellwether (Alan) in last season’s To Kill a and many others. Michael Ray has starred and at Marin Theatre Company, Love in American Times Mockingbird. He co-founded guest-starred in television movies and series. He (Hector) at San Jose Rep, Wirehead (Destry) at SF the San Francisco-based also shares the helm of 3 1/2 Egos Productions, a Playhouse, Collapse (David) at Aurora Theatre, and company, Spare Stage, new bay area independent production company. Superior Donuts (Luther) at TheatreWorks. Locally where he appeared in Ashes to Ashes, Afterplay, Here, and Private Eyes. Marin has appeared at American Conservatory THANK YOU TO OUR Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, Bay Area Other credits include Seven Days at SF Playhouse, OPENING NIGHT DINNER SPONSORS: Playwrights Foundation, Black Box Theatre, Central Gaslight at Hapgood Theater, Doubt at Interplayers Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Works, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, (Spokane, WA), Glengarry Glen Ross and Betrayal at Oi-C Bowl Scott’s Seafood Grill and Restaurant PlayGround, San Francisco Fringe Festival, San Actors Theatre of San Francisco, Uncle Vanya and Hedda Gabler at Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, The Jose Rep, SF Playhouse, TheatreWorks, The Jewish ADDITIONAL THANKS TO: Theatre, Thick Description, Word for Word, and Z Real Inspector Hound at Napa Valley Shakespeare, Massimo’s Ristorante Space. Mr. Marin was named Best Actor by the East The Homecoming at Magnetic Theater, and Walnut Creek Baking Company American Buffalo at Lunasea. He earned his BFA Waters Moving and Storage Bay Express in their “Best of The East Bay 2010”. He Associated Services-Alta Water has performed on NBC, CBS, PBS and the BBC. in Acting at UC Santa Barbara and is a Bay Area Shannon and Mike Demers native. Hyatt Summerfield Suites CREATIVE TEAM Victoria Livingston-Hall (Costume Designer) Judy Disbrow (Wig Designer) and her company Work at Center REP includes, Smokey Joe’s Café, Theatrical Hairgoods have provided wigs for George Bernard Shaw (Playwright) was born Boeing-Boeing, She Loves Me (BATCC Award), theatrical productions for over 30 years. She has in 1856 in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His Dracula, Noises Off, Witness for the Prosecution worked with companies throughout the United education was irregular, due to his dislike of any (Shellie Award), and Cabaret (Shellie Award and States including Diablo Theatre Company, CCMT, organized training. After working in an estate BATCC Award). Victoria has a diverse background in La Jolla Playhouse, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, design including industrial design, interior design, San Francisco Opera, Portland Opera, Florida Grand agent’s office for some time, he moved