20II - 2012 SEASON C C ON OTHER STAGES C T3PEOPLE Reviews AT&T CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARTS CHAIR Sally Hansen News MAR 13 - 25 Inthe Heights LIAISON, CITY OF DALLAS CULTURAL COMMISSION Theater Cl RCLE TH EAT RE Lark Montgomery Features JAN 26 - FEB 25 Secrets ofa Soccer Mom BOARD MEMBERS Jac Alder, MarionL. Brockette, Jr., MAR 22 - APR 14 The Whipping Man Suzanne Burkhead, Laura V. Estrada, David G. Biogs Luther, Victoria McGrath, David M. May, Dana W. DALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATER Rigg, Elizabeth Rivera, Eileen Rosenblum, Ph.D., Classical Music JAN 20- FEB 26 IfYouGive A MouseA Cookie Scott Williams Listings FEB 10- 26 The Secret Lifeof Girls HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS Roland & Virginia MAR 9- APRAnne of Green Gables Dykes, Gary W. Grubbs, John & Bonnie Strauss Humor DALLAS THEATER CENTER ADMINISTRATION Dance JAN 18 - FEB 19 Giant EXECUTIVE PRODUCER-DIRECTOR Jac Alder MAR 2 - MAY 13 Tigers Be Still COMPANY MANAGER Te rry Dobson Video ASSISTANT PRODUCER Cory Norman DALLAS SUMMER MUSICALS DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS AFFAIRS Joan Sleight FEB 14 - 26 Bring ItOn IN-HOUSE ACCOUNTANT Wendy Kwan MAR 6-18 Million Dollar Quartet DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS ({COMMUNICATIONS APR 10-22 La Cage aux Foiles At TheaterJones, Kimberly Richard EISEMANN CENTER FOR THE IT MANAGER Nick Rushing we're all performing arts. PERFORMING ARTS EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT All the time. FEB 17 Tr iple Play Adele Acrey FEB 19 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble HOUSEKEEPING Kevin Spurrier Expertise & Professionalism FEB MAR Tuna's Greatest Hits: 30 Year of 21 - 4 PRODUCTION Laughter When It Counts PRODUCTION MANAGER Jeffrey Schmidt FEB 25 Max Raabe und der Palast Orchester TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Daniel Pucul MAR 21 - 25 Sister's Easter Catechism: Will My Bunny MUSICAL DIRECTOR Te rry Dobson The Image After Go To Heaven RESIDENT ARTISTS Bruce R. Coleman, Ken Birdsell, photojournalist MAR 29 Sinbad in Concert Jeffrey Schmidt, & David Walsh TheaterJ ones.co11 APR l Fancy Nancy and Other Storybooks www.imageafter.net APPRENTICE/INTERN SUPERVISOR APR 2 Keyboard Conversations: The Power and 214-364-6992 Unoaatructed views Passion ofJohannes Brahms Katherine Marchant APPRENTICE STAFF ICT MAINSTAGE Nathan Mills, Gillian Salerno-Rebic MAR 23 - APR 7 The Cat and The Canary CUSTOMER SERVICE JUBILEE THEATRE CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER Amy Mills Jackson JAN 27 - FEB 26 Pretty Fire HOUSE MANAGER Nancy Meeks MAR 23 - APR 22 Tambourines to Glory DAYTIME BOX OFFICE MANAGER KITCHEN DOG THEATER Darius Warren FEB 3 - MAR 3 Collapse EVENING BOX OFFICE MANAGER MAR 30 - APR 28 The Turningof the Screw Fred Faust BOX OFFICE AGENTS POCKET SANDWICH THEATRE Tony Banda, Sally Cole, Fred Faust, Chris Sanders FEB 24 - MAR 31 The Musical Comedy Murders of1940 DIRECTOR OF TELEMARKETING Carol Crosby SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE TELEMARKETING AGENTS FEB 3 -26 Pluck the Day Deborah Byrd, Roger Wilson MAR APR The Midwest Tr ilogy 15 - 8 For the theatre's 50th STAGE WEST Anniversary (20n) Theatre FEB 9 - MAR 18 The Sports Page Three's main stage has been MAR 29 - APR 29 The Real Thing named the NORMA YOUNG ARENA STAGE in honor of TECO THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS the theatre's founding artistic FEB 16- MAR 41othAnnual New Play Competition director. Ms. Young, a Dallas Best ofthe Best native, served the theatre as MAR 16 Speaker's Series: Gary Garrison director, leading actress and UNDERMAIN THEATRE administrator from the the­ atre's founding in 1961 until FEBRUARY 18- MARCH 17 Time in Kafka her death in 1998. UPTOWN PLAYERS Theatre Three thrives on her legacy of artistic and intel­ FEB 3 - 19 Take Me Out lectual vigor, her wisdom and her continuous quest for MAR 16-25 Broadway Our Way the perfect synthesis of authors, actors and audiences. WATERTOWER THEATRE This playbill is a publication ofTheatre Three, Inc., 2800 Routh MAR l - 11 Out ofthe Loop Fringe Festival Street, Suite 1681 Dallas, Texas 75201, 214-871-3300, MAR 30- APR 22August: Osage County www.theatre3dallas.com in support of The Farnsworth Invention (the fourthshow of Theatre Three's 2011 - 2012 Season on the Norma Young Arena Stage) and Superior Donuts (the fifthshow of Theatre Three's 2011 - 2012 Theatre Too Season) PLAYBILL EDITORS: Jae Alder CJ!Kimberly Richard PROOFREADER: Adele Acrey ILLUSTRATIONS: Dean Corbitt PHOTOGRAPHY: Jeffrey Schmidt & Bruce R. Coleman DESIGN: David w. Radabaugh C EXECUTIVE PRODUCER-DI RECTOR JAC ALDER PRESENTS ... The Farnsworth Invention BY Aaron Sorkin Produced by Special Arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. THEATRE ARTISTIC STAFF SCENE SYNOPSIS Aaron Sorkin 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee DIRECTOR/SET DESIGN SETTING: THREE PLAYWRIGHT and Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks forT3, Jeffrey Schmidt Various places of End Days and Well for Echo Theatre and the LIGHTING DESIGN/MULTI-MEDIA importance as recalled After penning a number of off-Broadway DESIGN by David Sarnoff horse heads forUptown Players' Equus. He plays, Sorkin made it to the Great White Amanda West was artistic director of MoonWater Theater Way with the 1989 legal military drama ACT I COSTUME DESIGN A Few Good Men, selling the filmrights Company forthree years. Jeffreylast Meredith Hinton 1921 - 1929 beforethe show even premiered. Three appeared onstage in Charm as Emerson SOUND DESIGN years later the play was turned into an at Kitchen Dog Theater and TwelfthNight Marco Salinas ACT II Oscar-nominated film, thuslaunching his as Duke Orsino and Romeo andJuliet as October 1929 - 1969 CAST Hollywood career. Sorkin then transitioned Tybalt with Trinity Shakespeare Festival. DAVID SARNOFF into television, as he and his frequent TV credits include: The Good Guys, My *Jakie Cabe PRODUCTION collaborator, director-producer Thomas STAFF Generation, Crash, The Deep End, Prison LESLIE GORRELL, GIFFORD, & Schlamme, created a succession of witty, AEA STAGE MANAGER Break, Friday Night Lights, Your House OTHERS poignant and critically acclaimed series set '�Bruce R. Coleman and Home, and Whattaya Think. His next Adrian Churchill behind the scenes at a sports show (the TECHNICAL DIRECTOR design project is forthe premiere of Erik JIM HARBORD, LIPPINCOTT, PEM'S beloved but short-lived Sports Night), the Daniel Pucul FATHER & OTHERS White House (West Wing) and a late-night Ehn's Diamond Dick for Project X which SCENIC ARTIST Jerry Crow sketch-comedy show (Studio Go on the will transfer to NYC's La Ma Ma Theatre in David Walsh JUSTIN TOLMAN, ZWORYKIN, & Sunset Strip). Each were characteristically November 2012. Also, look for him as Dr. MASTER ELECTRICIAN OTHERS filledwith crackling dialogue and fascinat­ Day in the feature filmBad Kids Go to Hell Nicole Iannoccone **Christopher Curtis ing characters, and Sorkin wrote almost all premiering this year. He is represented by AGNES FARNSWORTH, BETTY, MRS. PRODUCTION ASSISTANT the scripts single-handedly. Following the the Mary Collins Agency. GARDNER, OTHERS Gillian Salemo-Rehic & cancellation of Studio Go after just one sea­ **Catherine DuBord PRODUCTION CREW son in 2007, Sorkin returned to the movies STAN WILLIS & OTHERS Micah Figueroa, Amanda West LIGHTING DESIGN/MULT­ by writing the scripts forthe 2007 political Ian Ferguson Katherine Marchant, MEDIA DESIGN» Ms. West is a graduate of Nathan Mills, & Gillian comedy-drama Charlie Wilson's War and RIDLEY, PHOTOGRAPHER, SWING, & Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. Salemo-Rebic the 2010 docudrama The Social Network, OTHERS about the rise of the web site Facebook. This is her ninth lighting design forTheatre **Micah Figueroa Sorkin won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Three including the recent productions of ATKINS, CLIFF GARDNER, JOSEPH The Social The Roads to Home, The Drowsy Chaperone, SCHENK, & OTHERS Award forthe screenplay of Network. and Sherlock Holmes and The Crucifer of **David Goodwin Ironically, Sorkin's dream growing up was to get involved in show business as Blood. HARLAND HONN, SIMS, & OTHERS Other recent work includes Uptown **Andrew Kasten an actor, and only eventually realized that Players' productions of The Temperamentals, LIZETTE SARNOFF, MARY PICKFORD, his true calling was as a writer. Broadway Our Way, and Thank You forBeing MINA EDISON, & OTHERS a Friend. She also works as the Assistant *Lydia Mackay Special thanks fortheir contributions that ARTISTIC STAFF Production Manager at the AT&T Perform­ WILKINS, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, made the visual design elements of this show ing Arts Center and as a pyrotechnician for MAITRE D', &OTHERS possible: Jason Fehrm, Nicole Iannaccone, Marcos Prado, Russell Read, Bryan Stevenson, JeffreySchmidt DIRECTOR/SET DESIGN» Pyrotex. Amanda would like to thank all the **Joel McDonald Simon West. brilliant people around her who were willing PHILO FARNSWORTH Mr. Schmidt's T3 directing/design credits *Alex Organ Special thanks to Theatre Arlington� include: Language of Angels, Sherlock to lend their time, insight, and equipment PEM & OTHERS A Page to Stage Production of Holmes in The Crucifer ofB/ood, Talley's Folly, to help achieve this project. Danielle Pickard The Farnsworth Invention Trysts In Toledo, Popcorn, Vieux Carre and Produced in 2007 by The La Jolla Playhouse, La BILL CROCKER, WACHTEL, RUSSIAN Jolla, California A Christmas Memory, as well as, Lobster Meredith Hinton COSTUME DESIGN» OFFICER, &OTHERS Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director& Steven Alice at Second Thought Theatre, Manifesto Ms. Hinton is a graduate ofTCU with a **Aaron Roberts Libman, Managing Director 2001 Cl[2002 and Sex Drugs, and Rock and degree in fashionmerchandising and YOUNG PHILO, YOUNG SARNOFF, & Original Broadway Production by Dodger Roll at MoonWater Theater Company, and minor in theater. The Farnsworth Invention OTHERS Properties, Steven Spielberg and Rabit Ears, LLC; Produced in association with Frederick Craving Gravy at Ground Zero Theater is Ms. Hinton's debut design assignment **Ian Patrick Stack Zollo, Jeffrey Sine, Dancap Productions, Inc., GEORGE EVERSON &OTHERS Latitude Link and Pelican Group; Associate Company. As co-founderof The Drama at Theatre Three. Local designs include '"�Clay Wheeler Producer: Lauren Mitchell Club, he co-designed/wrote The Muse, Noises Off.