STANFORD TheatreWorks SHOPPING CENTER SILICON VALLEY Fallen angels June 2015 About TheatreWorks Volume 45, No. 8 TheatreWorks is proud to be celebrating its 45th anniversary producing award- winning theatre in Silicon Valley. Led by Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and Managing Director Phil Santora, it presents a wide range of programming, from mainstage productions to education programs and new works for the American theatre. Paul Heppner Founded in 1970, the company continues to celebrate the human spirit and the Publisher diversity of our community by nurturing new work, championing arts education, Susan Peterson and revitalizing the great works of the past. TheatreWorks has produced 64 Design & Production Director world premieres and 150 US and regional premieres. In the 2014/15 season, Ana Alvira, Deb Choat, TheatreWorks adds the world premiere of The Great Pretender and three more Robin Kessler, Kim Love regional premieres to its résumé. Design and Production Artists TheatreWorks’ 2013/14 season included the world premieres of The Loudest Mike Hathaway Man on Earth, as well as regional premieres of Other Desert Cities, Warrior Bay Area Sales Director Class, Silent Sky, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. The company also Staci Hyatt, Marilyn Kallins, produced the musical Little Women, which became the second-highest selling Terri Reed, Tim Schuyler Hayman show in TW’s history. In the course of the year, shows that debuted at TW San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives played off-Broadway and at theatres throughout the US. Marty Griswold Seattle Sales Director With an annual operating budget of $8 million, TheatreWorks produces eight Joey Chapman, Gwendolyn Fairbanks, mainstage productions at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto and the Mountain Ann Manning, Lenore Waldron View Center for the Performing Arts. Fourteen years ago, TW launched the New Seattle Area Account Executives Works Initiative, rededicating itself to the development of new works for the Carol Yip theatre. That program inspired The Mercury News to call the company “a Sales Coordinator premiere breeding ground for new musicals, which has put the company on the national map.” The Initiative has developed over 130 new works through retreats, Jonathan Shipley ENCORE STANFORD HOSPITAL Ad Services Coordinator workshops, staged readings, developmental productions, and the annual New Works Festival, offering plays and musicals in various stages of development. www.encoreartssf.com TheatreWorks believes in making theatre accessible to the entire Silicon Valley community. As a part of these efforts, the TW Education Department reaches more than 35,000 students in 92 schools in 8 counties annually. It sponsors outreach programs that include the Children’s Healing Project at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the Young Playwright’s Initiative, specially-priced student matinees, school tours, post-show discussions, and theatre camps, classes, and conservatories for youth. Paul Heppner President For more information on TheatreWorks’ 2014/15 season, New Works Festival, and Education Programs, please visit theatreworks.org or call 650.463.1960. Mike Hathaway Vice President Erin Johnston Communications Manager AFFILIATIONS—TheatreWorks is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and operates under agreement between LORT and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the union of professional actors and stage Genay Genereux managers in the United States. TheatreWorks is a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group, Inc., Accounting the national organization for the nonprofit professional theatre. TheatreWorks is a member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, a national service organization for musical theatre. In addition, TheatreWorks is a member of Theatre Bay Area, the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, and the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce. TheatreWorks’ 2014/15 Season is presented in cooperation with the City of Mountain View and the Corporate Office City of Palo Alto, Community Services Department, Division of Arts and Sciences. 425 North 85th Street Seattle, WA 98103 The director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, p 206.443.0445 Inc., an independent national labor union. f 206.443.1246 The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound [email protected] designers are members of United Scenic Artists. This season is supported in part by 800.308.2898 x105 an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. www.encoremediagroup.com Garden Court is the official J. Lohr is the official wine hotel of TheatreWorks. of TheatreWorks. Encore Arts Programs is published monthly by Encore Media The Mercury News is TheatreWorks’ Hengehold Trucks is the official trucking provider of Group to serve musical and theatrical events in the Puget 2014/15 Season Media Sponsor. TheatreWorks. Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights reserved. ©2015 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. 2 THEATREWORKS From the Board Chair In this Issue Summer Studio @ TheatreWorks About TheatreWorks As we near the June 30 end of TheatreWorks’ 45th season, we 2 A brand new summer program for teens grades 7–12 have much to celebrate. Eight amazing shows, an education program that reached 35,000 students, and a fiscal year that again 4 Summer Studio @ TW looks to end in the black (something not many theatres are expe- created by the ensemble, and performed as a riencing these days). We have you to thank for all of that—thank 6 The New Works Festival World Premiere play in a professional studio at you for coming to the theatre, for sending your children to our TheatreWorks. classes, and if you also donate to the company, thank you again. 8 The 2015/16 Season But before we can congratulate ourselves, we cannot rest on In addition to expanding their creative and From the Artistic Director our laurels. Like many arts organizations, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley relies on 11 performance skills, students develop essential life donations for half of its annual budget. We still have work to do to complete the skills in problem solving, self-expression, and year on plan. collaboration. Subscriptions are our lifeblood. If you have not yet subscribed for the 2015/16 season, please do so. Subscribers enjoy many benefits. One particularly important N I This summer, TheatreWorks will offer two engaging T R one is that you can easily exchange your tickets for a different performance. Yes, A M studio tracks: Y C you could buy single tickets, but how often did you mean to see a show and just A R T & not find the time, or did not hear about a great show until it was too late to go? A K O A HAMBLY TRACK (grades 7–9) If you subscribe, TheatreWorks will remind you to attend, and you can quickly T I K K R exchange to a different performance if necessary. In fact, on most shows if you A July 6–July 31, 2015 M Y B miss your performance, TheatreWorks will find you tickets for another night! S Monday–Friday, 10am–4pm O T O Subscription plans are available for four or more plays, and you can tailor H P Tuition: $1000 the choices to suit your taste and schedule. I always tell friends to subscribe to TheatreWorks’ Summer Studio gives creative teens all eight, because it’s impossible to know in advance which will be their favorites. STERN TRACK (grades 10–12) The coming season ranges from the world premiere musical Triangle to an opportunity to collaborate with peers and study July 13–August 7, 2015 TheatreWorks’ favorite classic, Jane Austen’s Emma, with exciting new dramas, Playwright Noël Coward under Broadway and Equity actors, as they learn to Monday–Friday, 10am–4pm recent Broadway comedies, and Pulitzer-winning classics soon to come. I am write, stage, and perform a unique piece of theatre. Tuition: $1500 especially excited to see The Velocity of Autumn, after a fellow board member 13 Noël Coward: A Man of Style A fast-paced and immersive experience, the Summer raved about its New York production last year. So pick your season. Send your donation. We are so fortunate to have a Studio offers comprehensive instruction in acting, 15 A Fashionable Fallen Angels playwriting, and staging as well as custom Studio nationally acclaimed professional theatre right here in Silicon Valley. Keep it classes such as “Costume Crush” and “Guerilla strong with your support this year. Thank you! 17 TheatreWorks presents Soundtrack,” providing participants with a variety of Fallen Angels tools and experiences to inform their art. www.theatreworks.org/shows/1516-season/ Julie Kaufman www.theatreworks.org/give 19 Who’s Who Led by a faculty of professional actors, directors, and playwrights, students begin with a story and 23 Broadway Actress to Teach BOARD OF TRUSTEES this Summer at TW characters from a classical piece of theatre, then turn Julie Kaufman, Chair them upside down and inside out by using their own Jayne Booker Derry Kabcenell Loren Saxe Experience TW as an Insider original writings, ideas, and individual creative skills. Bill Coughran Michael Kahn Barbara Shapiro 24 The result is a fresh and exciting piece of theatre, Jenny Dearborn Robert Kelley Nancy Ginsburg Stern Susan Fairbrook Tom Kelley Debra Summers 25 Contributors Ciro Giammona Robin Kennedy Lynn Szekely-Goode Anne Hambly Michael Kwatinetz Mark Vershel Judy Heyboer Ray A. Rothrock Holly Ward 28 TW Staff Financial aid is available to families who qualify, so Larry Horton Adam Samuels Lisa Webster no one is excluded from attending. Free extended Lisa Jones Phil Santora Gayla Lorthridge Wood 29 TW General Information care is also offered for all participants. BOARD EMERITUS The Summer Studio is located at TheatreWorks’ Nancy Meyer, Founder Continue the conversation online! professional rehearsal space in the Sobrato Center William F. Adler • Edward T. Anderson, MD • Doug Barry • Lauren Berman • Chuck Bernstein • Sharon Anthony Bower • Michael Braun • Polly W. Bredt • Bruce C.