THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK #pstDIARY MAR 16–MAY 22 Sponsored by L to R: Otto Frank with Margot and Anne on his lap, 1931; Anne at the Jewish Lyceum, 1941; Edith Frank with Anne and Margot in Frankfurt, 1933; Anne a few months before going into hiding, 1942; Anne on the flat roof of their house, 1940 THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK By Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett artistic staff Director Ellen Fenster Scenic Designer Gabriel Backlund Costume Designer Elin Anderson Assistant Costume Kathleen Martin Designer Lighting Designer Michael P. Kittel Original Sound Designer Randall Seitz Sound Designer Anita Kelling Original Properties Robert-Bruce Brake* Designer Properties Master Talia Cohen Vocal Coach Keely Wolter Stage Manager Lizzie Streif* Assistant Stage Manager Ashley Raper cast Mr. Otto Frank Michael Paul Levin* Miep Sarah Broude Mrs. Van Daan Julie Ann Nevill Mr. Van Daan Jon Andrew Hegge* Peter Van Daan Ryan London Levin Mrs. Frank Laurie Flanigan Hegge* Margot Frank Eva Gemlo 3 Anne Frank Sulia Rose Altenberg Mr. Kraler Jim Pounds Mr. Dussel Charles Fraser* understudies Sarah Frazier, Sarah Broude, Andrew Newman, Corey DiNardo, Charles Fraser*, Jon Andrew Hegge*, Charlotte Williams setting Amsterdam, Holland: World War II and immediately thereafter. performance time 2 hours, 30 minutes (including intermission) The Diary of Anne Frank is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. For more information, please visit: www.samuelfrench.com/whitepaper * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Park Square Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, and a member of the Minnesota Theatre Alliance. As a courtesy to our actors and those around you, please DEACTIVATE ALL PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Playwrights FRANCES GOODRICH & ALBERT HACKETT were American dramatists and screenwriters, and married to each other. They are best known for their collaborations together. Awards and recognitions include Academy Award nominations for Best Screenplay for The Thin Man (1934), After The Thin Man (1936), Father of the Bride (1950) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1955). They won Writers Guild of America awards for Easter Parade (1949), Father’s Little Dividend (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), as well as nominations for In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Father of the Bride (1950) and The Long, Long Trailer (1954). They also won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for their original play The Diary of Anne Frank. Some of their other films include:Another Thin Man (1939) and It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). Cast Stephens College Upcoming Fearless Comedy Productions: The Bungalow Loft Other Actor, SULIA ROSE Director, Educator, Teaching Artist, Crisis ALTENBERG Intervention trainer, Mental Health First Anne Frank Aid Instructor Adult and Public Safety/Law Park Square The Enforcement Diary of Anne Frank Representative Theatre JON ANDREW Frank Theatre: By HEGGE * 4 the Bog of Cats, The Visit; DalekoArts: The Mr. Van Daan Philadelphia Story, A City Council Christmas; Park Square Guthrie Walking Shadow Theatre Company: Red Theatre: Guys and Dolls, Velvet; Open Eye Figure Theatre: Sweet Songs Christmas Carol, Stuff of and Flying Objects; Theatre Unbound: Lily, Dreams, 1776; History Graceland; GTC Dramatic Dialogues Training Theatre: Dirty Business, Sweet Land, Working B.A., Cultural Studies and Comparative Boys Band, Baby Case, Radio Man; Mixed Literature, University of Minnesota and the Blood: An Octoroon; Artistry: Awake and Sing!; University of Amsterdam; Park Square Theatre Ordway: Beauty and the Beast; Chanhassen Ambassador 2012–2013 Upcoming Collective Dinner Theatre: The Wonder Bread Years, Unconscious: Maiden Voyage; Theatre The Rainmaker, All Shook Up; Northern Sky Unbound: Girl Shorts Festival Theatre: Loose Lips Sink Ships, See Jane Vote Training M.F.A., University of Minnesota SARAH BROUDE Upcoming History Theatre: Runestone! Miep Park Square House LAURIE FLANIGAN on Mango Street HEGGE * Representative Sidekick Mrs. Frank Theatre: Cinderella, Park Square The Little Red Riding Hood; Diary of Anne Frank Theatre Pro Rata: Silent Sky, Elephants Representative Theatre Graveyard; Swandive: Kid Simple; Hard Cover: History Theatre: Baby Mrs Mortimer’s Xenophobic Travel Guide; Case, The Buddy Holly Story, Radio Man; Pangea World Theater: Zafira, The House Nautilus Music-Theater: Joan of Arc; Northern of Bernarda Alba Training B.F.A., Theatre, Sky Theater: Muskie Love, Bone Dance, many more; as Bookwriter and Lyricist: EVA GEMLO Dirty Business, Sweet Land, Boxcar, Loose Margot Frank Lips Sink Ships, See Jane Vote, Twenty Days to Park Square The Find a Wife Training: B.F.A. from University Diary of Anne Frank of Illinois Other Laurie serves as the Twin Representative Theatre Cities Regional Rep for the Dramatists Guild (as Actor) DalekoArts: of America Ada and the Engine, Peter and the Starcatcher; Walking Shadow Theatre Company: ; Theatre MICHAEL PAUL Equivocation Coup d’Etat: ; New Arab American LEVIN * Moby Dick Mr. Otto Frank Theatre Works: Zafira and the Resistance; Park Square Might as Zephyr Theater: Twelfth Night; Theatre Well Be Dead, The Diary Unbound: The Penelopiad (As intimacy coach) of Anne Frank, Of Mice History Theatre: Dirty Business, Beyond and Men, The Red Box, the Rainbow Training B.A., Theatre, Luther Laughter on the 23rd Floor, August: Osage College Upcoming: Walking Shadow Theatre County, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Soul of Company: Red Mayor Gershwin Representative Theatre Illusion Theater: Bill W. & Dr. Bob; Actor’s Theater of RYAN LONDON MN: Sleuth; History Theatre: The Immigrant; LEVIN St. Croix Valley: My Fair Lady; Mixed Blood Peter Van Daan Park Theatre: The Boys Next Door; Paul Bunyan Square The Diary of Playhouse: I Ought to Be in Pictures TV/ Anne Frank, Jefferson Film Thin Ice, Hiding Victoria, I Am Not A Township Sparkling Serial Killer, In an Instant, The Jingle Dress, Junior Talent Pageant 5 Don’t Blow It Training American Academy Representative Theatre Children’s Theater of Dramatic Arts, West Accolades/Other Company: Cinderella; History Theatre: Dirty Morrow-Heus Screenwriting Fellowship, Business: A Spy Musical; Teen Idol: the Bobby Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre Vee Story; Orphan Train; MN Jewish Theater Playwright Award Company: The Mikveh Monologues; Artistry: She Loves Me; Awake and Sing; The Last Five ; Trademark Theater: CHARLES FRASER * Years The Boy and Robin Mr. Dussel Hood Accolades 2019 TOSCA Magazine Park Square August: Rising Star Award Upcoming History Theatre: Osage County, Defiance, Runestone! The Triumph of Love Representative Theatre JULIE ANN NEVILL Rochester Civic Theatre: Mrs. Van Daan Moon Over Buffalo; Yellow Tree Theatre: The Park Square Diary of Royale; Ordway: Annie; Zephyr Theatre: A Anne Frank, Melville Midsummer Night’s Dream; History Theatre: Slept Here, Dracula, The Buddy Holly Story; Guthrie Theater: Ah, Ten Little Indians, Lady Wilderness!; Theatre de la Jeune Lune: Tartuffe; Windermere’s Fan Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Magic: Off Beat Representative Theatre Walking Shadow Comedy Club Film Hinkleton; The Completely Theatre Co: The Ugly One; Acadia Repertory Remarkable, Utterly Fabulous Transformation Theatre, ME: Ghost-Writer; MN Jewish of a Regular Joe Training B.F.A., University Theatre: Hershel & the Hannukah Goblins; of Mississippi Accolades Ivey Award for Theatre ProRata: The Knight of the Burning Ensemble Acting in Jungle Theater’s Driving Pestle; Paul Bunyan Playhouse: I Ought to Miss Daisy Be In Pictures TV/Film In An Instant on ABC; Lady Dynamite on Netflix;Undercurrent by Avenue Project 2008–2014; Illusion Theater: Cybick Productions; In The Kitchen With.... by Artistic Associate, Young and Emerging Artist Killing Joke Films; Theater People (web series) Advocate 2001–Present; South High School: by Metasynthesis Films; Herman, USA by Artistic Director, 2008–2015; Twin Cities Herman Films, LLT Training B.A., Theatre, Theater Camp: Artistic and Executive Director University of Minnesota-Morris; TV & Film 2015–Present training, University of MN-Morris; Mask training, In the Heart of the Beast Theatre ELIN ANDERSON Upcoming Freshwater Theatre Co.: The Bucket Costume Designer List of Booze Club Accolades 2012 Ivey Award Park Square Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, for Julius Caesar; City Pages Top 10 Shows of Sexy Laundry, The School for Lies, Mary T. & 2014 for The Whale; Lavender Magazine 2009 Lizzy K., Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Sisters Rosensweig, Best Cross-Gender Performance Steel Magnolias, Enchanted April, Romeo and Juliet, Visiting Mr. Green, Of Mice and Men Minnesota Jewish JIM POUNDS Representative Theatre Mr. Kraler Theatre: Moonlight and Magnolias; Gilbert Park Square Might and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company: as Well Be Dead, The Ruddigore; Starting Gate Productions: A View Diary of Anne Frank, from the Bridge; Walking Shadow Theatre The Red Box, Saint Company: Fat Pig; Girl Friday Productions: Joan, Mary Stuart, An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf; Julius Caesar Representative Theatre Walking DalekoArts: Wait Until Dark Training B.A., Shadow Theatre Company: Gross Indecency: English and Art, Gustavus