OUR SPONSORS ABOUT CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY Chevron (Season Sponsor) has been the Center REP is the resident, professional JOIN CENTER REP IN leading corporate sponsor of Center REP theatre company of the Lesher Center for the CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY and the Lesher Center for the Arts for the Arts. Our season consists of six productions DECEMBER FOR Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director past twelve years. In fact, Chevron has been a year – a variety of musicals, dramas and a partner of the LCA since the beginning, comedies, both classic and contemporary, A CHRISTMAS CAROL providing funding for capital improvements, that continually strive to reach new levels of event sponsorships and more. Chevron artistic excellence and professional standards.. generously supports every Center REP show “THE Christmas Carol to see in the Bay Area.” throughout the season, and is the primary Our mission is to celebrate the power of the -Contra Costa Times sponsor for events including the Chevron human imagination by producing emotionally Family Theatre Festival in July. Chevron engaging, intellectually involving, and visually Dancing has proven itself not just as a generous astonishing live theatre, and through Outreach supporter, but also a valued friend of the arts. and Education programs, to enrich and advance the cultural life of the communities Diablo Regional Arts Association (DRAA) we serve. (Season Partner) is both the primary essons fundraising organization of the Lesher What does it mean to be a producing L Center for the Arts (LCA) and the City of theatre? We hire the finest professional Walnut Creek’s appointed curator for the directors, actors and designers to create our LCA’s audience outreach. DRAA’s role in the productions at Center REP. These are not By Mark St. Germain community is all about building partnerships touring productions – they’re conceived and 6 – 16 BY with the focused goal of enhancing artistic developed here, the sets and costumes are DECEMBER Charles Dickens quality at the LCA and providing opportunities built in our shops, and the actors rehearse in ADAPTED BY Cynthia Caywood & Richard L. James for everyone to enjoy the arts. Through our rehearsal hall. Whether the production DIRECTED BY Scott Denison partnerships with the LCA and its producers, is a Bay Area premiere or a Shakespearean The Resident Professional Season Partner Season Sponsor Scenic & Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound & Projections Designer Theatre Company of the Lesher Center for the Arts individual donors, corporate and foundation classic, each is devised to be a one of a kind, Michael Butler ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Scott Denison MANAGING DIRECTOR Kent Dorsey Brooke Jennings Teddy Hulsker sponsors and the City of Walnut Creek, artistic creation that will be a unique theatre www.CenterREP.org Carol16_poster.indd 1 9/17/2018 9:26:33 AM DRAA plays a vital role in advancing the experience for our audience. www.C enterREP.org arts for the betterment of the community. Choreographer Stage Manager Please visit us online at www.draa.org. What does it mean to be a professional Jennifer Perry Sara Sparks* theatre? It means that all our artists and Center REPertory Company Lesher Foundation (Foundation Sponsor) As artisans are career theatre-practitioners. Michael Butler Artistic Director Scott Denison Managing Director the namesake family for the Lesher Center The actors in this production are members for the Arts, the Lesher Foundation has of Actors’ Equity Association; our directors Production Manager Costume Staff provided funding to Center REP and the and designers are members of professional Jeff Collister Miranda Lenore Technical Director Stephanie Weldon Cast Lesher Center since the Center opened in unions. All do theatre because it is their Joshua Lipps Props Manager 1990. Their support has had a profound profession and their passion. Master Electrician Roger Anderson Del Medoff Marketing impact on the quality of Center REP’s Carpenters Marketing Associate Craig Marker* Sharon Rietkerk* productions and has greatly enhanced the We are very proud to have the opportunity Kevin Bennett Morgan Mitchell Trevor Frey Education experience for Center REP’s audiences. to produce professional theatre for our Arian Grimsrud Education Directors Grant-making decisions are based on the community in the beautiful theatres here at Gabriel Johnson Jeff Draper Brennan Shreves Kerri Shawn vision of Dean and Margaret Lesher who felt the Lesher Center for the Arts. Thank you for Asst. Stage Manager Casting Director quality education, diverse art programs, and your support. Joe Coe Jennifer Perry Directed by Joy Carlin Production Assistants Asst. to the Managing healthy children and families are the building Desiree Alcocer Director Miranda Ketchum Gail Pfeifer blocks of a strong and vibrant community. World Premiere, August 13, 2014 at Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield, MA Costume Shop Manager Program/Webmaster Bethany Deal Linda Nomura Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director Wardrobe Supervisor Alea Gonzales DANCING LESSONS premiered in August 2014 at Barrignton Stage Company (Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director) in Pittsfield, MA. It was directed by Julianne Boyd: THANK YOU TO: the choreography was by Christine O'Grady; the set design was by James J. Fenton; the costume design was by Sara Jean Tosetti; the lighting design was by Mary Louise Geiger; the projection design was by Andrew Bauer; the sound design was by Will Pickens; the production stage manager was Renee Lutz. THANK YOU TO THE STAFF OF THE Deanne Detmers, CITY COUNCIL DANCING LESSONS is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York LESHER CENTER FOR THE ARTS Behavior Intervention for Autism Justin Wedel, Mayor Rich Carlston Production Services Audience Services Margaret Lesher Theatre Loella Haskew Coordinator Coordinator Stewart Johnston October 19 - November 17, 2018 Toni Kilcoyne Courtney Egg Cindy Silva Technical Staff Ticket Office Staff Johnston Medical Supply Inc Lesher Center for the Arts Steve Pino Jeremiah Vierling Kevin Wilk Alex Bull Rami Kim ARTS COMMISSION Season Season Partner Foundation Sponsor Kerri Shawn Chris Currie Robert Nolan Jane Emanuel, Chair CITY MANAGER Sponsor Hanna Johnson Larry Acosta Glynnis Cowdery, Lexie Oswald Bailey Ferris Dan Buckshi Garrick Schuster Jennifer Haga Robert Reich Vice Chair Josh Stouffer Brandon Lawrence Iasmine Klauber DIRECTOR, Arts + Rec *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States Josh Yarnell Shannon Taylor Ann Merideth The Scenic and Lighting Designer is a member of United Scenic Artists Union Steve Young Usher Coordinator Massimo’s Ristorante Kevin Safine The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Pat Mitchell Anita Sagástegui Center REP is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), The National Organization for the American Theatre CAST PROFILES MARK ST. GERMAIN (Playwright) Mark St. KENT DORSEY (Scenic & Lighting Designer) the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle in 2018. MICHAEL BUTLER (Artistic Director) This Germain's play Freud’s Last Session ran for two has designed over thirty world premieres for His installations and performances have been is Michael’s thirteenth season as Artistic Senga Quinn ....................... Sharon Rietkerk* CRAIG MARKER* (Ever years Off-Broadway, and enjoyed successful Theatre, Opera and Dance and created over seen and felt in San Francisco, Oakland, Berlin, Director of Center REP, where his directing Ever Montgomery .................... Craig Marker* Montgomery) returns to international productions in Argentina, 300 designs nationwide and internationally New York, Detroit, and LA. Recent original credits include The Liar, Women in Jeopardy, Center REP having starred Sweden, Australia and Denmark. His play including scenery and/or lighting on 98 creations include the installation Spoken- Baskerville, ‘Art,’ Anything Goes, Clybourne in productions of The Liar, Becoming Dr. Ruth also ran Off-Broadway and productions for San Diego’s Old Globe Word-Disco-Karaoke, Klanghaus Forever Park, Real Housewives of Walnut Creek, and TIME AND PLACE Marriage of Figaro, Mousetrap, has been produced at theatres throughout the Theatre. His New York theater productions Seminar and Barn Owl which was created in To Kill a Mockingbird, as well as the Shellie and Arms and the Man, Clybourne country. Mark’s other plays include Camping include Alligator Tales, About Time, The collaboration with playwright Evan Johnson. BATCC Award-winning productions of Around The Present Park, and Deathtrap. Recent credits include with Henry and Tom (Lucille Lortel and Outer Cocktail Hour, Yankee Dawg You Die, Suds, the World in 80 Days, A Midsummer Night’s Another Antigone and Silence. He has worked JENNIFER PERRY (Choreographer) has been Dream, Enchanted April, and Witness For The An apartment in New York City his roles as King Henry VIII and James I in Critics Circle Awards), Ears On a Beatle, The Anne Boleyn and Nick Bright in Invisible Hand God Committee, The Best of Enemies and as both lighting and/or scenic designer for teaching Ballet and Theatre classes for over Prosecution. His directing work has also been at Marin Theatre Company, and Frederick Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap. Mark wrote such notable directors as Jerry Zaks, Jack 25 years. She was lucky to have studied and seen at San Jose Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, O’Brien, Ellis