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SPEND THE HOLIDAYS WITH PORTLAND CENTER STAGE! We’re serving up plenty of holiday hilarity to help keep you warm this winter.

For tickets, visit pcs.org, call the box office at 503.445.3700 or drop by at 128 NW Eleventh Avenue.

Above: Jaime Moyer in The Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens. Below: Darius Pierce in The Santaland Diaries. Photos by Patrick Weishampel/blankeye.tv.

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october 24 – november 29, 2015 On the U.S. Bank Main Stage

Artistic Director | Chris Coleman

presents

ain’t misbehavin’ The fats waller musical show Conceived by

Richard Maltby, Jr. and Murray Horwitz Created and Originally Directed by

Richard Maltby, Jr.

Original Choreography and Musical Staging by

Arthur Faria

Vocal and Musical Concepts by Jeffrey Gutcheon

Musical Adaptations, Orchestrations and Arrangements by

Luther Henderson

Musical Arrangements by Jeffrey Gutcheon and William Elliott

Originally produced by Manhattan Theatre Club.

Originally produced on Broadway by Emanuel Azenberg, Dasha Epstein, The Shubert Organization, Jane Gaynor and Ron Dante.

Directed by Chris Coleman Musical Director Rick Lewis

Choreographer Kent Zimmerman

Scenic Designer Tony Cisek

Costume Designer Alison Heryer

Lighting Designer Diane Ferry Williams

Sound Designer Casi Pacilio

Dialect Coach Mary McDonald-Lewis

Stage Manager Mark Tynan*

Dance Captain André Ward*

Assistant Stage Manager Janine Vanderhoff*

Production Assistant Stephen Kriz Gardner

Local Casting Brandon Woolley

New York Casting Harriet Bass

Atlanta Casting Jody Feldman

Ain’t Misbehavin’ is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019. Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com

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Supporting Season Sponsors

Portland Center Stage receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Ain’t Misbehavin’ Song List Music by Thomas “Fats” Waller, except were (*) indicated. Songs not written by Fats Waller were recorded by him.

ACT I

ACT II

Ain’t Misbehavin’*

Spreadin’ Rhythm Around*

Music by Thomas Waller and Harry Brooks; Lyrics by Andy Razaf

Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Ted Koehler; Additional Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.

Lookin’ Good but Feelin’ Bad Lyrics by Lester A. Santly

Lounging at the Waldorf Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.

’T Ain’t Nobody’s

The Viper’s Drag

Biz-ness if I Do*

Music and Lyrics by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins; Additional Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Murray Horwitz

The Reefer Song* (Traditional)

Mean to Me*

ain’t misbehavin’ “Fats” Waller, unless otherwise n CAstMusic&by Thomas Band cast in order of appearance Charity Angél Dawson* Mia Michelle McClain* DeMone* David St. Louis* Jerrod Neal Ricardy Charles Fabre

Music and Lyrics by Roy Turk and Fred E. Ahlert

David Jennings*

Your Feet’s Too Big*

Maiesha McQueen*

Music and Lyrics by Ada Benson and Fred Fisher

Olivia Phillip*

Lyrics by Clarence Williams

That Ain’t Right*

André Ward*

Handful of Keys

Music and Lyrics by Nat “King” Cole; Additional Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Murray Horwitz

Honeysuckle Rose Lyrics by Andy Razaf

Squeeze Me

Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Murray Horwitz (based on an idea by Marty Grosz)

I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling* Music by Thomas Waller and Harry Link; Lyrics by Billy Rose

How Ya Baby Lyrics by J.C. Johnson

The Jitterbug Waltz

Keepin’ Out of Mischief NOW Lyrics by Andy Razaf

Find Out What They Like Lyrics by Andy Razaf

Fat and Greasy* Music and Lyrics by Harry Porter Grainger and Charlie Johnson

Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.

Black and Blue*

The Ladies Who Sing with the Band

Music by Thomas Waller and Harry Brooks; Lyrics by Andy Razaf

Lyrics by George Marion, Jr.

Finale: I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter*

Yacht Club Swing* Music by Thomas Waller and Herman Autrey; Lyrics by J.C. Johnson

When the Nylons Bloom Again

Music by Hoagy Carmichael; Lyrics by Frank Loesser

Cash for Your Trash

Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Ted Koehler

Lyrics by Ed Kirkeby

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love*

The Joint Is Jumpin’ Lyrics by Andy Razaf and J.C. Johnson

Rick Lewis, Conductor/Piano Will Amend, Bass Mieke Bruggeman-Smith, Reeds Levis Dragulin, Trumpet Sam Foulger, Drums

Two Sleepy People* I’ve Got My Fingers Crossed*

Music by Thomas Waller and Harry Brooks; Lyrics by Andy Razaf

The band

Music by Fred E. Ahlert; Lyrics by Joe Young

Lyrics by George Marion, Jr.

Off-Time*

Hailey Kilgore

Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields

It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie* Music and Lyrics by Billy Mayhew

Honeysuckle Rose (Reprise)

Performed with one intermission.

The videotaping or other photo or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. 伀挀琀漀戀攀爀 ㈀㐀 ⴀ 一漀瘀攀洀戀攀爀 ㈀㤀Ⰰ ㈀ Ain’t Misbehavin’ cover art

by Julia McNamara.

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Director’s notes

by Chris Coleman

In 1938, Thomas (Fats) Waller recorded more than 100 songs.

100. Songs.

Which makes me wonder how many more songs he actually heard that weren’t recorded. He was possessed by a musical demon that held him tightly in its grip and refused to let go.

Waller was born to a preacher in 1904, in a Harlem that was just beginning to find its identity. Though African Americans had long lived in this upper part of Manhattan, it was actually in the year of Waller’s birth that a huge migration began, catalyzed by a real estate crash that drove families out of other parts of the city.

The Harlem that Waller grew up in saw the largest gathering of free African Americans the United States had yet seen. And this gathering created enormous energy, tension and possibility. There were voices crying for a return to Africa, sensing that America would never make a real place in her economic and political heart for the black community. Other voices demanded a fight for their rightful place in her future. Some taught decorum and respectability, urging the community to prove they were just as good as whites. Others sensed that the unique journey of their ancestors had created the possibility of a rhythm, a soul, a music and a literature that no white man could replicate.

Waller began playing the piano (and the organ) as a young boy, and quickly exhibited a preternatural gift with his fingers. By 15, he was rocking the house on the organ at the local movie theater to the intense dismay of his father, who seriously believed that the new sounds Fats loved to make were inspired by the devil. What else could explain the sensuality of the dance moves that seemed to inevitably follow? The fights between father and son were violent and unending.

But Fats was a man possessed: call it the devil, call it his muse, or call it his destiny — the music was not to be denied. His family life was always messy. There were too many gigs to play, too many women to seduce, too many bourbons to down, too many jokes to tell. He loved nothing more than to play a gig, lead the party over to a friend’s apartment and battle it out on the keys with the most thrilling pianists in the neighborhood — everyone dancing, eating, drinking and laughing until the wee hours of the morning.

Fats traveled in all worlds, playing the best hotels and nightclubs, and the most elegant mansions (often having to enter through the kitchen). He acutely felt the blunt prejudice and overt oppression of his race in that moment and time. He ended up behind bars on more than one occasion for “forgetting” to pay child support from his first marriage. He had recordings funded by some of the most notorious gangsters of his day. He lived large, fast and relentlessly.

I saw Richard Maltby, Jr.’s production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ as a 17-year-old senior in high school. It was my first Broadway show.

With his permission, we’ve expanded the size of the ensemble for this production, in hopes of bringing the many facets of Fats Waller’s world to physical life through each song included in the evening. Hold on tight.

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The Joint was Jumpin’: An Introduction to the

Harlem Renaissance The term Harlem Renaissance refers to the phenomenal swell of creative output generated

by African American writers, scholars, artists and musicians during the brief period between, approximately, the end of the First World War and the start of the Great Depression. Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, millions of African Americans relocated from the Southern United States to cities like Chicago, Detroit and New York. This process of urbanization, known as the first Great Migration, was precipitated by the need to escape the racial segregation rendered by Jim Crow laws, 伀挀琀漀戀攀爀 ㈀㐀 ⴀ 一漀瘀攀洀戀攀爀 ㈀㤀Ⰰ ㈀ ㄀㔀 which not only restricted their civil liberties, but also subjected them to the violence and hatred born of codified racism.

As a result of this diaspora, the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem became a hub for many African Americans seeking a more progressive place to call home. The swift growth of the community soon gave way to a revolutionary cultural movement.

One of its prime concerns became the investigation of the politics of blackness and a new envisioning of African American identity. The Harlem community — populated by prominent individuals including W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters and Alain Locke — wrestled with these questions through a 䐀攀挀攀洀戀攀爀 ㈀ ⴀ ㈀㜀Ⰰ ㈀ ㄀㔀 vibrant surge of arts and letters, many of which were published in Du Bois’ magazine The Crisis, the official publication of the recently-founded N.A.A.C.P. This flourish of intellectual and creative activity found its underscore — its sonic fuel and propulsive rhythm — in the music of the movement: jazz. The word “jazz” encapsulates a multifarious genre descended of the blues, ragtime, and other styles pioneered by African American musicians toward the end of the nineteenth century. The expressive freedom and mischievous spirit of Fats Waller’s music came to be called the Harlem Stride. Waller’s style radiates a boldness of spirit that, much like the Harlem Renaissance, disrupted the status quo and left indelible marks on the cultural consciousness. As J.A. Rogers, a leading historian of the movement, wrote in his 1925 essay Jazz At Home: “The true spirit of jazz is a joyous revolt from convention, custom, authority, boredom, even sorrow — from everything 䐀攀挀攀洀戀攀爀 㤀 ⴀ ㌀㄀Ⰰ ㈀ ㄀㔀 that would confine the soul of man and hinder its riding free on the air.”

—Benjamin Fainstein, PCS Literary Manager

ain’t Misbehavin’ | cast Charity Angél Dawson

Charity is THRILLED to be a part of this amazing production! Thanks to the creative team for this opportunity. Some of her favorite credits include: Broadway: Side Show (Fortune Teller); National Tours: The Color Purple (Darlene) and Dreamgirls (Effie White); Regional: Waitress (Nurse Norma, American Repertory Theater, pre-Broadway production), Kiss Me Kate (Hattie, Hartford Stage Company), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (BJ, Heberger Theater Center), Beehive (Wanda, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), Aida (Aida, Moscow Regional Theatre), The Wiz (Evilline, Valley Youth Theater) and West Side Story (Rosalia, Baltimore Lyric Opera House).

Education: The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Ecclesiastes 12:13.

DeMone

DeMone is excited to play with such a talented crew! Broadway, national and international credits include: Ragtime, Miss Saigon, RENT, Jesus Christ Superstar, Once on This Island and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Regional credits include Crowns, Big River, Miss Saigon, Sweet Charity, The Best of Both Worlds, Side Show (Jeff Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical), The Great MacDaddy, The Full Monty, Othello, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow, Grand Hotel and Black Nativity. Film and T.V. credits include: Law and Order SVU, Person of Interest, Bad Street, The Magic Door and In the Eyes of God (regional Emmy Awards), The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete and California Dreams.

DeMone is the founding artistic director of The New American Theatre Company in New York. DeMone is a proud member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!

Ricardy Charles Fabre

Ricardy Charles Fabre is originally from New York and is a resident actor at The Flea Theatre (NYC).

He was a 2012-2013 acting apprentice at Portland Playhouse.

Ricardy is ecstatic about working with Portland Center Stage where he was last seen in Our Town and Othello. Past Portland credits include: Jitney (Portland Playhouse), Belleville (Third Rail Repertory Theatre), The Lion in Winter (Northwest Classical Theatre), Cymbeline (Portland Actors Ensemble). Coming up, Ricardy will portray the role of Tamba in Danai Gurira’s beautiful play, The Convert, at Central Square Theater in Boston.

Ricardy would like to thank his friends and family for their support, and Chris Coleman for the opportunity!

David Jennings

David Jennings is thrilled to return to PCS after appearing last fall as James “Thunder” Early in Dreamgirls. He is also excited to return to Ain’t Misbehavin’ after starring alongside American Idol’s Ruben Studdard in the Broadway Tour, as well as on the 30th Anniversary recording of the show, which netted him a Grammy Award nomination. His many credits include, Broadway/London: After Midnight, starring Fantasia and Patti LaBelle; Hands on a Hardbody; Brooklyn the Musical (original Streetsinger); The Genius of Ray Charles (Lead) on London’s West End; and the new Sara Bareilles musical, Waitress, headed to Broadway in 2016.

National: Ragtime (Coalhouse); Porgy and Bess (Porgy); Sister Act (Sgt. Eddie Souther); Dreamgirls (Curtis) starring Jennifer Holliday. Television: Blue Bloods; The Shield; The Grove. Concerts: Motown Salute to Berry Gordy (with Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson); King of Morocco’s New Year’s Eve in Casablanca; 4th of July Celebration at the White House.

Hailey Kilgore

Hailey is elated to be returning for her second production at PCS! Hailey currently is a student at Clackamas Web Academy.

Hailey’s theater credits include Hairspray (Lil’ Inez), Fiddler on the Roof (Fruma Sarah), Romeo and Juliet (Prince, Friar John, Page and chorus), Peter Pan (Tiger Lily), Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Ermina Crump), Perfect Works in Progress (Donald), Our Town (Rebecca Gibbs) and The

Oregon Symphony’s A Gospel Christmas (Northwest Community Gospel Choir, Soloist). Hailey represented Portland at the National August Wilson Monologue Competition in the August Wilson Theater in New York City last year.

Now sit back, relax and enjoy Ain’t Misbehavin’!

Mia Michelle McClain

Mia Michelle McClain, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, is proud to be making her Portland Center Stage debut! Favorite credits include: Off-Broadway: Sistas: the Musical. National Tour: Cornerstone Chorale. Regional: Hairspray, Castle Walk (The New York Musical Theatre Festival), All Shook Up, RENT, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Dreamgirls, Once on This Island, Oklahoma!, Cabaret and Eubie!.

Additionally, Mia is a singer-songwriter (ASCAP), educator and producer of the Voices of Peace EP. She holds a B.F.A. from Syracuse University and an M.A. from New York University. Much love to Mom and Dad. Special thanks to Gregg Baker Management. Dedicated to her dearly departed, Leo. www.miamichellemcclain.com Maiesha McQueen

Maiesha is thrilled to be making her Portland Center Stage debut!

After graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Maiesha traveled for over a decade as musical composer and lead ensemble member in the touring company, Progress Theatre, which has presented work at Performance Space 22, as well as The Kennedy Center and World Music Festival in Amsterdam. Regional credits include: Chasin’ Dem Blues (Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre), Black Nativity, Little Shop of Horrors, Show Boat, Man of La Mancha and Guys and Dolls. Film work includes Down to Earth, starring Chris Rock. She also holds an M.Ed. from Fordham University and has served in education for over a decade. She thanks her family for their love and support. www.maieshamcqueen.com.

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ain’t Misbehavin’ | cast & Band Jerrod Neal

Ain’t Misbehavin’ marks Jerrod Neal’s debut with Portland Center Stage, and he is excited to be a part of this production.

Locally, his previous credits include The Wiz, RENT and A Chorus Line with Stumptown Stages; Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors and The Drowsy Chaperone with Broadway Rose Theatre Company; Show Boat and Curtains with Lakewood Theatre Company; Violet with Staged!; and Show Boat with Leavenworth Summer Theater.

Television credits include Undercover History: Titantica’s Cold War Secrets for National Geographic. He holds a B.A. from Central Washington University and is a recent graduate of American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Much love to this cast and crew; he hopes everyone has a great time!

Olivia Phillip

Olivia is originally from England and, after a fruitful career in London, is thrilled to be welcomed to the United States at Portland Center Stage! West End credits include: The Book of Mormon (Original Cast, The Prince of Wales Theatre), Ghost the Musical (Oda Mae Brown Cover, The Picadilly Theatre) and Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Diva Swing, The Palace Theatre). Other credits include: Ghost the Musical (Original Cast Recording), Chicago (Velma Kelly, Royal Caribbean Productions) and A Chorus Line (Diana Morales, The Lowry Theatre, Manchester). Training: Phil Winston’s Theatreworks College, Blackpool, England. Olivia is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association and looks forward to continued success in the USA. Find her on Facebook (Olivia Phillip Fan Page), Twitter (@OliviaPhillip) and Instagram (@olivialucyphillip).

David St. Louis

Film: Shrader House, At Your Convenience, Trigger Effect, Temptation.

Television: Royal Pains, NCIS, Third Watch, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, A Royal Birthday, The Jury, One Life to Live, Homicide: Life on the Streets, The Secret Path. Broadway: Side Show, Harlem P 6 | Portland Center Stage ain’t misbehavin’

Song, RENT, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Regional: Side Show (La Jolla Playhouse/Kennedy Center), The Royale (The Kirk Douglas Theater), Intimate Apparel (Pasadena Playhouse), Thunder Knocking on the Door (Cincinnati Playhouse), Ruined (Geffen Playhouse/ Intiman Theatre), Parade (Mark Taper Forum), Cousin Bette (Antaeus Theater Company), The Life (Jaxx Theatricals), Ragtime (PCPA Theatre), Porgy and Bess (Zach Scott Theatre), Golden Boy (Long Wharf Theatre), From My Hometown (American Heartland Theater), Spunk (Delaware Theater Company), Henry V (Shakespeare Theatre), Candide (Arena Stage), Bessie’s Blues (Studio Theatre).

Awards: Ovation Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor (Parade), Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor (Bessie’s Blues). Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.

André Ward

André is thrilled to be making his Portland Center Stage debut with Ain’t Misbehavin’. André’s Broadway shows include: The Producers, as well the original Broadway companies of Saturday Night Fever, Xanadu and Rock of Ages.

André’s other New York credits include: Claudio Quest (Outstanding Featured Actor, The New York Musical Theatre Festival), The Apple Tree (Encores at City Center) and the original developmental readings for The Book of Mormon.

National Tours: Crazy for You, Dreamgirls, Ragtime (Chicago company), Cinderella (starring Eartha Kitt), The Producers and Pippin (leading player). Some of André’s television credits include: 30 Rock, Elementary, Difficult People and Broad City. Regional credits include: Putting it Together (Syracuse Stage), Jelly’s Last Jam (Alliance Theatre), Lucky Duck (The Old Globe), Kept (TheatreWorks, Palo Alto), Finian’s Rainbow and Pippin (Godspeed Opera House). André would like to thank those at CGF Talent Inc. and Regarding Entertainment for the continued support.

Will Amend Bass

Will is very excited to be back at Portland Center Stage for Ain’t Misbehavin’! He has previously been in the pit for The Fantastics, West Side Story and Cabaret here at PCS, as well as Les Misérables at Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Mars On Life at Artists Repertory Theatre, The

Full Monty at Pixie Dust and others. Since his last PCS production, he has toured the United States and Britain with a countryrock band, played in eight different bands in the Portland area, continued to teach upright and electric bass and cello, and (best of all) got married. Will and his wife Nicole welcomed their son Greyson in April, and spend most of their time trying to make him laugh.

Mieke Bruggeman-Smith Reeds

Mieke Bruggeman-Smith is a performer, educator, composer/arranger and development director for the Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble (PJCE). She performs in a wide variety of groups, including the all-female sax quartet, Quadraphonnes; the Afro-Cuban band, Melao de Cuba; and the 12-piece jazz chamber orchestra, PJCE; as well as playing classical alto when she can, and performing musicals. Recent PCS productions include: Dreamgirls, Fiddler on the Roof and Somewhere in Time. Mieke also enjoys teaching private lessons at her home studio and co-teaching at Roosevelt High School, Beaumont Middle School and the Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra. She is heavily involved in promoting music education and loves collaborating with her music community. Music is the one outlet that (as author Tom Robbins might say) keeps the oxygen from leaking out of her life.

Levis Dragulin Trumpet

Levis began performing on trumpet when he was 11 years old. In 2006, he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Music from Portland State University. After that, he decided to work on Royal Caribbean cruise lines as a theater band musician, performing lead trumpet. He traveled the world for four years to places such as Australia, New Zealand, Alaska, Mexico, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. In the last six years, Levis has been involved in around 30 musical performances, including Little Shop of Horrors, Hairspray, Annie Get Your Gun, Bye Bye Birdie, South Pacific, La Cage aux Folles, Cats, My Fair Lady, Beauty and the Beast, Show Boat, The Music Man, Dreamgirls, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Oklahoma! and Anything Goes.

ain’t Misbehavin’ | Band & creative team Sam Foulger Drums

Sam is a versatile musician and teacher, performing with theater companies such as Portland Center Stage (Dreamgirls) and Oregon Children’s Theatre (Schoolhouse Rock, The Magic Treehouse); stage shows like The Mont Chris Hubbard Bonus Show and The Warren Black Show; and with jazz groups including the Blake Lyman Quintet, Art Resnick Trio and Jim Beatty Jazz Band. Since 2008, he’s played drums for regional man of mystery, Tony Starlight. Originally from Poughkeepsie, New York, Sam studied music education and symphonic percussion at Penn State, and now lives with his wife, dogs and rollerblades, here in Portland, OR. Thomas “Fats” Waller

Fats Waller (May 21, 1904–December 15, 1943) was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer. His nickname came about because he weighed nearly 300 pounds.

He was born Thomas Wright Waller in New York City. Waller studied classical piano and organ before apprenticing himself to legendary Harlem stride pianist James P. Johnson. Johnson introduced Waller to the world of rent parties (a party with a piano player, designed to help pay the rent by charging the guests), and soon he developed a performing career. He was an excellent pianist — now considered one of the very best who ever played in the stride style — but his songwriting, and his lovable, roguish stage personality, overshadowed his playing. Before his solo career, he played with many performers, from Erskine Tate to Bessie Smith, but his greatest success came with his own five- or six-piece combo, Fats Waller and his Rhythm. Among his songs are, “Squeeze Me” (1919); “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929); “Blue Turning Grey Over You” (1929); “Honeysuckle Rose” (1929); “I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling” (1929); and “Jitterbug Waltz” (1942). He collaborated with the Tin Pan Alley lyricist, Andy Razaf, and had a commercially successful career. Waller made a successful tour of the British Isles in the late 1930s, and appeared in one of the earliest BBC television broadcasts. He also appeared in several feature films and short subject films, most notably Stormy Weather (1943). With Razaf, he wrote, “What Did I Do (To Be So Black and Blue)?” (1929),

which became a hit for Louis Armstrong.

This song, a searing treatment of racism, black and white, calls into question the accusations of “shallow entertainment” leveled at both Armstrong and Waller. On December 15, 1943, at age 39, Waller died aboard an eastbound train in the vicinity of Kansas City, Missouri, following a West Coast engagement.

Richard Maltby, Jr. Co-Conceiver and Original Director

Broadway: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1978, conceived, directed and provided additional lyrics, Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Musical and Best Musical, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award and Obie Award for Best Musical); Fosse (1999, conceived and directed, Tony Award for Best Musical, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award); Baby (1983, lyricist and director, nominated for seven Tony Awards); big (1996, lyricist, nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Score); Nick & Nora (1991, lyricist); Miss Saigon (1989, co-lyricist, London Evening Standard Award for Best Musical); Song and Dance (1985, co-lyricist and director). Off-Broadway: Starting Here, Starting Now (1977, lyricist and director, Grammy nomination); Closer Than Ever (1989, lyricist and director, Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Score and Best Musical). A graduate of Yale University, he also contributes crossword puzzles to Harper’s Magazine.

Murray Horwitz Co-Conceiver

Murray Horwitz is an American playwright, lyricist, NPR broadcaster and arts administrator. Horwitz graduated from Kenyon College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Drama. He began his career working as a clown with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

In 1973, after moving to New York City, Horwitz appeared in the one-man show, An Evening Of Sholom Aleichem, which was directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. (in which he continues to perform at The Kennedy Center, The Manhattan Theatre Club and The New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater).

In 1978, Horwitz and Maltby created Ain’t Misbehavin’ and won Tony, Obie, Emmy, Grammy and New York Drama Critics’ Circle awards for the show.

He subsequently became the assistant director of Opera/Musical Theater at

the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1992, he received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Kenyon College.

Chris Coleman Director

Chris joined Portland Center Stage as artistic director in May, 2000. Most recently, he directed the Off-Broadway debut of Threesome at 59E59 Theaters (a production that had its world premiere at PCS and was also presented at ACTSeattle). Before coming to Portland, Chris was artistic director at Actor’s Express in Atlanta, a company he co-founded in the basement of an old church in 1988. Chris recently returned to Atlanta to direct the world premiere of Edward Foote at Alliance Theatre.

He also directed Phylicia Rashad and Kenny Leon in Same Time Next Year at True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta, in 2014. Favorite PCS directing assignments include Three Days of Rain, Threesome, Dreamgirls, Othello, Fiddler on the Roof, Clybourne Park, Sweeney Todd, Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline (which he also adapted), Anna Karenina, Oklahoma!, Snow Falling on Cedars, Ragtime, Crazy Enough, Beard of Avon, Cabaret, King Lear, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Man and Superman, Outrage, Flesh and Blood and The Devils. Chris has directed at theaters across the country, including Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ACT-Seattle, The Alliance, Dallas Theatre Center, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop and Center Stage in Baltimore. A native Atlantan, Chris holds a B.F.A. from Baylor University and an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon.

He is currently the board president for the Cultural Advocacy Coalition. Chris and his husband, Rodney, are the proud parents of an 18-lb Jack Russell/Lab mix, and a 110-lb English Blockhead Yellow Lab. Rick Lewis Musical Director/Conductor/Piano

PCS shows: Our Town, Dreamgirls, The Last Five Years, Twist Your Dickens, Fiddler on the Roof, Somewhere in Time, Sweeney Todd (Drammy Award), Black Pearl Sings!, Oklahoma!, The Huntsmen (JAW), The Imaginary Invalid, Sunset Boulevard, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Ragtime (Drammy Award), Grey Gardens, A Christmas

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ain’t Misbehavin’ | creative team Carol (Composer), Guys and Dolls (Drammy Award), Cabaret, West Side Story (Drammy Award), The Fantasticks and Bat Boy. He is the creator of the hit Off-Broadway musicals The Taffetas and The Cardigans (New York City Bistro Award for Outstanding Musical Review); musical supervisor for the West Coast regional premiere of Next to Normal (Artists Repertory Theatre); and assistant conductor/vocal director for the preBroadway workshop of Cy Coleman’s The Life. Rick has written for Disney Live Family Entertainment, American Hawaii Cruises and American Classic Voyages, and developed The Cinnamon Bear Cruise. Rick is a private vocal coach, concentrating on musical theater audition and performance technique. www.rlewismusic.com Kent Zimmerman Choreographer

Kent returns to PCS where choreography credits include Dreamgirls and Fiddler on the Roof. Associate choreographer credits include: Ragtime, It’s a Bird…

It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!, Cabaret, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Grease and The Wizard of Oz. Directing credits include: Sister Act, Young Frankenstein, La Cage aux Folles (Red Mountain Theatre Company). Other theater credits include: Annie Get Your Gun, Thou Shalt Not (Broadway); Show Boat (London); The Producers, Guys and Dolls, Footloose, Show Boat (National); Spamalot, Nice Work If You Can Get It (Ogunquit Playhouse); It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!, Cabaret, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Dallas Theater Center); Ragtime, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, A Christmas Carol (PCS); Randy Newman’s Faust (The Goodman); A Chorus Line, 42nd Street (Casa Mañana); Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Arts Center of Carolina); White Christmas (TUTS). Film/TV: The Shawshank Redemption, The Producers, My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs. Psalms 91:11.

Tony Cisek Scenic Designer

Tony Cisek has collaborated with Chris Coleman on the world premiere of Edward Foote at Alliance Theatre. For PCS, he designed Our Town, A Small Fire, The Whipping Man, The North Plan, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, A Christmas Story, Frost/Nixon and the premieres of A Feminine Ending and Sometimes a Great P 8 | Portland Center Stage ain’t misbehavin’

Notion. Tony’s work has been seen OffBroadway and regionally at Roundabout Theatre, Arena Stage, Guthrie Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Center Stage (Baltimore), Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Cleveland Play House, Folger Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Round House Theatre, Studio Theatre, GALA Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival and Signature Theatre. He has received four Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, four Drammy Awards in Portland, and a Barrymore Award nomination in Philadelphia. www.tonycisek.com Alison Heryer Costume Designer

Alison Heryer is a costume designer for theater, film and print. She is thrilled to be returning to Portland Center Stage, after designing costumes for Our Town, Three Days of Rain and Threesome. Other theater credits include The Bluest Eye (New Victory Theater); The Fall to Earth, A Lesson Before Dying, Orange Flower Water and World Set Free (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Pippin, The Whipping Man, A Little More Alive and The Who and the What (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); The King and I, 33 Variations, RENT and Doubt (ZACH Theatre); Jackie and Me (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Bum Philips All-American Opera (La MaMa); and The Price (Artists Repertory Theatre). Recent awards include the Austin Critics Table Award and the ArtsKC Inspiration Grant.

Alison is a faculty member at Portland State University. She is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and The University of Texas at Austin, and a member of United Scenic Artists.

Diane Ferry Williams Lighting Designer

Diane Ferry Williams is pleased to be returning to Portland. Diane has worked for many theaters around the country and abroad. Her most recent design is a national tour of How to Succeed, beginning in Beijing, China. In the U.S., she has worked for many theaters around the country, including the Marriott Theatre (Chicago), Alliance Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, Goodspeed Opera House, Chicago Shakespeare

Theater, Goodman Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, ACT-Seattle, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Ford’s Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Regional Dance America. Other international work includes The Harlem Gospel Singers (Paris and the European tour) and Die Shone Und Das Biest (Berlin and the European tour). She has also lit several national tours and premieres.

Awards include a Jeff Award, an After Dark Award, a Carbonelle Award, five Drammy Awards (most recently for The Whipping Man) and seven Jeff nominations. Diane has an M.F.A in Theatrical Design from Northwestern University.

Casi Pacilio Sound Designer

Casi is the resident sound designer at PCS, where recent credits include Our Town, Three Days of Rain, Cyrano, The People’s Republic of Portland, Other Desert Cities, Threesome, Dreamgirls, The Last Five Years, Othello, A Small Fire, Twist Your Dickens, The Mountaintop; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike with composer Jana Losey; and nine seasons of JAW. National shows: Holcombe Waller Surfacing and Wayfinders; Left Hand of Darkness, My Mind is Like an Open Meadow (Drammy Award, 2011), Something’s Got Ahold Of My Heart and PEP TALK for Hand2Mouth Theatre.

Other credits include Squonk Opera’s Bigsmorgasbord-WunderWerk (Broadway, PS122, national and international touring); I Am My Own Wife, I Think I Like Girls (La Jolla Playhouse); Playland, 10 Fingers and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (City Theatre, PA). Film credits include Creation of Destiny, Out of Our Time and A Powerful Thang. Recordings: Glitterfruit’s fruit snacks.

Mary McDonald-Lewis Dialect Coach

Mary McDonald-Lewis has been a working artist since 1979 as SAG-AFTRA voice actor and on-camera performer, and in theater for much longer as an actor and director. MaryMac has been a dialect coach since 1999, and is house coach for Hallmark Hall of Fame, the series Leverage, Grimm and others. Film, television and stage clients range from overnight sensations to Drammy, Obie, Emmy and Oscar winners, and include a Knight of the British Empire. She is blessed to be a resident artist, speech and

ain’t Misbehavin’ | creative team text director at Artists Repertory Theatre and house coach at Portland Center Stage, and is just thrilled to say this is her 24th show as coach at PCS. MaryMac thanks Finnegan, Sullivan and Flynn for always wagging their tails when she comes home from telling her tales. www.marymac.com Mark Tynan Stage Manager

Imagine being in a room full of artists, watching the birth of an idea, a movement given purpose, a sentence, phrase, scene, act given life. Then imagine that room translating to the stage with lighting, sound, costumes, scenery and props, then you can imagine what Mark’s job is like. Special thanks to the phenomenal PCS production assistants, Marialena DiFabbio, Stephen Kriz Gardner, Bailey Anne Maxwell and Kristen Mun, who help keep the vision attainable. Prior to PCS, Mark toured nationally and internationally with musicals including Dreamgirls, The King and I with Rudolf Nureyev, How to Succeed…, Grand Hotel, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent and Jersey Boys. Other Portland credits include several summers with The Broadway Rose Theatre Company in Tigard.

Regional credits include The Alley Theatre (Houston, TX), La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla, CA) and Casa Mañana Theatre (Fort Worth, TX).

Janine Vanderhoff Assistant Stage Manager

Janine had the great pleasure of opening the PCS season with Our Town (stage manager). Previous Portland credits include the world premiere of DC Copeland’s Play (stage manager/ production manager); as well as stage managing How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes and The Other Place (Portland Playhouse). Janine’s touring experience is primarily with Broadway musicals such as Cats, Jekyll & Hyde and Show Boat. She has also toured plays such as The Graduate, starring Morgan Fairchild, and The Vagina Monologues. While in New York, Janine had the opportunity to work on The Lion King on Broadway, as well as with many Off-Broadway and regional companies. Production management credits include: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for “Democalypse 2012 Republican National Convention”

(Tampa, FL); Straz Center (Tampa, FL); and The Fox Theatre (Atlanta, GA).

Proud NYU graduate and proud AEA member.

Stephen Kriz Gardner Production Assistant

Stephen is happy to begin his fourth season with Portland Center Stage.

Previously with PCS, Stephen was the production assistant for Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, Othello, Chinglish, Twist Your Dickens (2013 and 2014), The Mountaintop and Somewhere in Time.

His favorite Portland credits include stage managing The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Spring Awakening with Live On Stage, and Columbinus and Pinkalicious with Oregon Children’s Theatre. His credits outside of Portland include stage managing Black Comedy for No Rules Theatre Company in Washington DC, and assisting on Camp Wanatachi at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York.

Barbara Hort, Ph.D. Dramaturg

Barbara Hort, Ph.D., has maintained a private practice in Portland for over 25 years, working primarily from the psychological perspective developed by the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung.

At the invitation of Chris Coleman, Dr. Hort has served as a dramaturg on the PCS productions of Sweeney Todd, Clybourne Park, the 2013 JAW festival, Fiddler on the Roof, Othello, Dreamgirls, Threesome, Three Days of Rain and now, Ain’t Misbehavin’, providing material on the psychological dynamics of the play that can be used by the artists who are creating the performance.

Music Theatre International

Music Theatre International is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting schools, as well as amateur and professional theaters from around the world, the rights to perform the largest selection of great musicals from Broadway and beyond. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these shows to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 60,000 theatrical organizations in the US, and in over 60 countries worldwide.

SPONsor statements NW Natural

“A handful of keys/ And a song to sing/ Now how could you ask for more?”

—Fats Waller In this supersized production of the Tony Award-winning Ain’t Misbehavin’, Portland Center Stage embodies the ebullient, exuberant spirit of jazz great Fats Waller.

From Harlem’s raucous gin joints to the radio airwaves and recordings reaching listeners at large, Waller’s music unveiled a streetwise symphony of love, loss and longing.

Congratulations to Portland Center Stage on this remarkable production, a celebration of our shared humanity.

The Shubert Foundation

The Shubert Foundation is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States, with a particular emphasis on theater and a secondary focus on dance.

In service of this mission, we provide general operating support, enabling the organizations we fund to focus on producing thoughtprovoking, relevant work for the widest possible audience. This year we are delighted to be offering support to a record number of 488 performing arts organizations in locations all around the country, including Portland Center Stage.

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december 2 – december 27, 2015 In the Ellyn Bye Studio

presents

The Santaland Diaries by david sedaris adapted by Joe Mantello Directed by Wendy KNox Starring Darius Pierce Scenic and Costume Designer Jessica Ford

Lighting Designer Don Crossley

Sound Designer Sarah Pickett

Stage Manager Kelsey Daye Lutz

Production Assistant Kristen Mun

Casting Rose Riordan

Originally produced in New York by David Stone and Amy Nederlander-Case on November 7, 1996.

The Santaland Diaries is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

Performed without intermission.

Videotaping or other photo or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

The Actor and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The Santaland Diaries cover art by Julia McNamara.

Season Superstars

Supporting Season Sponsors

Portland Center Stage receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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The SAntaland Diaries | CAST & Creative Team Darius Pierce Crumpet

Darius is thrilled to be spending his eighth holiday season with PCS after three years of The Santaland Diaries, and two each of A Christmas Story and A Christmas Carol. Other productions at PCS include Cyrano, Beard of Avon (Drammy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor), Twelfth Night, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The 39 Steps, Frost/Nixon, How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, Misalliance and the JAW festival.

Elsewhere, some favorite shows have been Stupid F**king Bird (Woolly Mammoth Theatre); The Gaming Table and Comedy of Errors (Folger Theatre); Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Profile Theatre); As You Like It (Portland Shakespeare Project); My Fair Lady and Les Misérables (Broadway Rose); Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Portland Playhouse); The Long Christmas Ride Home and A Devil Inside (Theatre Vertigo). Darius is a company member at Third Rail Repertory Theatre and a co-founder of the Anonymous Theatre Company. He can occasionally be seen on screen, where his credits include Leverage, Portlandia, Grimm, Mock Trials, Train Master II and Cell Count. Thank you all for spending a little bit of your holiday season with us! And thanks to my family — especially Julian who is almost old enough to sit through this show.

humorous commentators and a bestselling author in the United States and abroad. The great skill with which Sedaris slices through euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire. Everywhere he goes, David Sedaris delights his audience with his irreverent style and great humor. In addition to his commentaries on NPR, David Sedaris is the author of the best-sellers Barrel Fever and Naked. His collection of Christmas related stories is entitled Holiday on Ice. His book of essays, Me Talk Pretty One Day, was published in June 2000 and became an immediate best-seller.

David and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name The Talent Family and written several plays which have been produced at La MaMa and Lincoln Center in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Show (which received an Obie Award), Incident at Cobbler’s Knob and The Book of Liz. David is a regular contributor to Esquire magazine and his essays have also appeared in The New Yorker, Allure and Travel and Leisure.

Sedaris’ original radio pieces can often be heard on public radio’s This American Life, distributed nationally by WBEZ in Chicago, as well as BBC radio in London.

David Sedaris currently resides in Paris.

Joe Mantello Adaptor

Directing credits include Assassins (Tony Award); Wicked; Take Me Out (Tony Award); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune; A Man of No Importance; Design for Living; Terrence McNally and Jake David Sedaris Creator ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE PLANE.Heggie’s Dead Man Walking for the San David Sedaris made his comic debut Francisco Opera; The Vagina Monologues; Flat-bed seats on all Delta One flights. recounting his strange-but-true Bash; Another American: Asking and experiences of being a Macy’s elf clad Telling; Love! Valour! Compassion!; in green tights, reading his Santaland Proposals; The Mineola Twins; Corpus Diaries on National Public Radio’s Christi; Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks; Morning Edition. Sedaris’ sardonic humor Blue Window; God’s Heart; The Santaland and incisive social critique have since Diaries; Lillian; Snakebit; Three Hotels; made him one of NPR’s most popular and Imagining Brad; and Fat Men in Skirts.

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Mr. Mantello also directed the film Love! Valour! Compassion!. As an actor he appeared in Angels in America (Tony nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz.

He is the recipient of the Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie, and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Wendy Knox Director

Wendy is the artistic director of the Frank Theatre in Minneapolis, which is celebrating its 27th anniversary this year.

Credits include: George Brant’s Grounded; critically acclaimed productions of the Brecht/Weill masterpiece, The Threepenny Opera; Enda Walsh’s The New Electric and Misterman (which garnered an Ivey Award); Jordan Harrison’s Maple and Vine; Ellen McLaughlin’s Ajax in Iraq; Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret; Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed; a company-developed adaptation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis; an Ivey Award-winning production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman (presented by the Guthrie Theater); Brecht’s Mother Courage; Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus; her own adaptation of Euripides’ texts, featuring a blues-based score by composer Marya Hart, titled The Women of Troy; the premiere of Carson Kreitzer’s The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew; Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock; Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom and Naomi Wallace’s The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek.

She recently directed Berlin to Broadway for Skylark Opera. Other regional credits include: the Guthrie Theater, Syracuse Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Vermont Ensemble Theatre and Intiman Theatre. She has served as a guest director at many colleges and universities, most recently directing Brecht’s The Good Person of Setzuan for

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ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE PLANE.

Flat-bed seats on all Delta One flights.

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THE SANTALAND DIARIES

bY THE nUMBERS: 10

2015 marks the 10th year Portland Center Stage has produced The Santaland Diaries.

The first production debuted at PCS in 2002; the current production has been running consecutively since 2009.

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The number of red-striped tights that Crumpet alternates between during the run of the show. Crumpet’s costume was handmade by our costume crew, and includes materials such as stretch felt, foam, polyester batting and sculpted plastic.

25

The percent of presents that usually need to be re-wrapped each season to prepare for the opening.

The wrapped presents are stored in a huge road box between runs.

The set gets re-frosted each season, so it is nice and sparkly for the new run.

84,240

The total number of tickets sold for The Santaland Diaries at Portland Center Stage in previous seasons. With nine years of Santaland productions under our belt, it’s become the top-selling play at PCS. Many patrons return year after year to introduce new family members and friends to this holiday theater tradition.

Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She has also worked as a teaching artist for the Perpich Center for Arts Education and in the Children’s Theatre Company’s Neighborhood Bridges program. She was affiliated for ten years with Kulture Klub Collaborative, an arts-based organization that connects homeless teens with artists as role models. Knox was a Fulbright Fellow in Finland, and she holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Washington. Her work has been recognized by the McKnight Foundation with fellowships for outstanding work by professional artists, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome Foundation.

JESSICA FORD Scenic and Costume Designer

Jessica is delighted to be returning to PCS for The Santaland Diaries.

Other regional theater credits include productions at The Long Wharf Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Baltimore Center Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, The Folger, Barrington Stage, Hangar Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Alley Theatre in Houston. In New York, she has worked with Ars Nova, The Play Company, Second Stage, P73, Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre, Pearl Theatre and The Public, to name a few. Jessica received her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama and was a recipient of the 2007– 2009 NEA/TCG fellowship for designers.

Recently, she won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for These Paper Bullets at Yale Rep. Jessica is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst.

DON CROSSLEY Lighting Designer

Don is excited to re-create his design for The Santaland Diaries. Don has served as a lighting designer for JAW: A Playwrights Festival, and was PCS’s master electrician from 1996–2007.

Previous PCS lighting designs include: The Santaland Diaries (2009–2014), The People’s Republic of Portland (2013 and 2015), The Receptionist, Act a Lady, The Thugs, Fully Committed, Another Fine Mess, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? and The Santaland Diaries with A Christmas Memory (2002–2004) that earned Don one of his seven Drammy Awards for Lighting Design. Don has also designed lighting for Portland Opera, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre and CoHo Productions, among others.

SARAH PICKETT Sound Designer

Sarah has worked with theatrical companies all over the United States including: Yale Repertory Theatre, CT; Oregon Shakespeare Festival, OR; Victory Gardens Theater, IL; Drury Lane at Oakbrook, IL; Long Wharf Theatre, CT; Portland Center Stage, OR; Theatre for a New Audience, NYC; Playmakers Repertory Company, NC; Syracuse Stage, NY; Stonington Opera House, ME; Asolo Repertory Theatre, FL; Hangar Theatre, NY; and Women’s Theatre Project, NYC. Sarah holds a B.F.A. from Syracuse University, an M.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. She is a sound design and music composition instructor at Carnegie Mellon University.

KELSEY DAYE LUTZ Stage Manager

PCS credits include: stage manager for Sex with Strangers, The Lion, The People’s Republic of Portland (second engagement), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Typographer’s Dream, The Last Five Years and A Small Fire, and production assistant for Clybourne Park, Venus in Fur, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The North Plan and Anna Karenina. Kelsey Daye is a graduate of University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She would like to thank her boys for all their unconditional love, and Shamus for being wonderful.

KRISTEN MUN Production Assistant

Kristen Mun is originally from Hawaii and graduated from Southern Oregon University with a B.F.A. in Stage Management. This is her third season at Portland Center Stage, where previous credits include: production assistant on Three Days of Rain, Threesome, Lizzie and 2nd production assistant on Fiddler on the Roof. Outside of Portland she has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theatre and Actors Theater of Louisville. In Portland, she has worked as a production assistant and stage manager with other theater companies, such as Artists Repertory Theatre (And So It Goes …, Red Herring), Oregon Children’s Theatre (A Year With Frog and Toad, Charlotte’s Web, Ivy and Bean, Junie B. Jones) and Broadway Rose (Oklahoma!). Outside of stage managing, Kristen is also a fight choreographer and stage combat teacher.

december 9 – december 31, 2015 On the U.S. Bank Main Stage

Artistic Director | Chris Coleman

presents

The Second City’s A Christmas Carol:

Twist Your Dickens

By Peter Gwinn & Bobby Mort Directed by Ron West

Scenic Designer Tom Buderwitz

Costume Designer Jeff Cone

Lighting Designer Daniel Meeker

Sound Designer Casi Pacilio

Vocal Arranger and Music Consultant Rick Lewis

Stage Manager Mark Tynan*

Production Assistant Stephen Kriz Gardner

The Second City Casting Beth Kligerman

Local Casting Rose Riordan & Brandon Woolley

A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens was originally produced by The Second City and Center Theatre Group and received its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, November, 2012.

Videotaping or other photo or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

Performed with one intermission. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Season Superstars

Supporting Season Sponsors

Show Sponsor

Portland Center Stage receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Twist your dickens

CAst

Craig Cackowski* as Scrooge Chantal DeGroat* as Belle and others Sam Dinkowitz as Ghost of Christmas Past and others

bY THE nUMBERS: 35

The number of costume changes you’ll see in the first 15 minutes alone. There are over 80 total costumes in this show, including 27 wigs.

Nicholas Kessler as Ghost of Christmas Future, Bob Cratchit and others

1,000

Lauren Modica as Mrs. Cratchit and others

1959

Jaime Moyer* as Ghost of Christmas Present and others

Roughly the number of hand-painted bricks featured in the set.

The local scenic artists that created the set used eco-friendly sheets of molded Pulp Art to achieve the realistic appearance of a brick wall.

The year The Second City first opened its doors in Chicago.

This improv giant created Twist Your Dickens, and also trained comedic greats such as Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey.

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As in #1. Twist Your Dickens was the very first show created by The Second City that features full production values (most of their shows include only a few props and costumes). And Portland Center Stage was the very first company to secure the rights to produce Twist Your Dickens, after its world premiere in Los Angeles.

John San Nicolas* as Marley and others *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

1843

The year Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was first published.

Fans of the great Victorian novelist can catch a visually stunning theatrical depiction of his novel, Great Expectations, on this stage, beginning January 16, 2016.

Did you know?

In the 1942 film Casablanca, the famous line, “here’s looking at you, kid,” was improvised by the star heartthrob, Humphrey Bogart.

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SPONsor statement Dr. Curtis Thompson and Associates

Twist Your Dickens strikes at the heart of my need to lighten up and enjoy the holidays. I am proud to support yet another production this season.

Twist Your Dickens | CAST Craig Cackowski Scrooge

Craig Cackowski is excited to be returning to Portland Center Stage, and reprising his role as Scrooge in Twist Your Dickens. He has been seen on TV as Officer Cackowski on Community, and as a member of the ensemble of Comedy Central’s Drunk History. He has performed with The Second City as a member of its National Touring Company, and on its Equity stages in Chicago. Craig has also toured the country with his long-running improv group, Dasariski, and as a member of the cast of the acclaimed podcast, The Thrilling Adventure Hour. Other film and TV appearances include Veep, Welcome to the Family, How I Met Your Mother, Comedy Bang Bang, Newsreaders, Maker Shack Agency, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Kings of Summer, 21 and Over and Year of the Dog. Chantal DeGroat Belle and others

Chantal DeGroat is tickled pink to mix and mingle in the jinglin’ beat for the third time with Twist Your Dickens! She is a Portland­ based actress, represented by Arthouse Talent. Chantal trained with Shakespeare and Company (Lenox, MA) and Emerson College (Boston, MA), where she studied under Kristin Linklater. Chantal is ecstatic to have recently joined the esteemed Third Rail Repertory Theatre.

Local companies she’s worked with include: Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Playhouse, Profile Theatre, Badass Theatre, Clackamas Rep Theatre, Jewish Theatre Collaborative and Chehalem Players Repertory. Chantal loves the local companies she teaches and performs with — The August Wilson Red Door Project; PlayWrite, Inc.; Portland Center Stage’s All’s Fair in Love and Shakespeare; and abroad, at Exeter University in England.

Proud to be AEA all the way, Chantal is thankful for the love and support from family and friends who champion her! www.chantaldegroat.com

Sam Dinkowitz Ghost of Christmas Past and others

Sam is full of Christmas joy to be back at PCS with the Twist gang. Recent local credits: Passion Play with Profile Theatre/Shaking the Tree; Static at Third Rail Repertory Theatre; Twist Your Dickens (2013 and 2014) at Portland Center Stage; Wait Until Dark with Northwest Classical Theatre; The Tempest and Taming of the Shrew with Portland Shakespeare Project; Lost Boy at Artists Repertory Theatre; A Pigeon and a Boy with Jewish Theatre Collaborative; Dracula: A Musical Nightmare at Stumptown Stages; and Julius Caesar, Henry IV and Arabian Nights at Post5 Theatre. Other credits include: Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Macbeth, Othello, A View from the Bridge, Coriolanus and A Servant of Two Masters) and Utah Shakespeare Festival (Diary of Anne Franke, Pericles). Sam received his B.F.A. from Southern Oregon University.

Nicholas Kessler Ghost of Christmas Future, Bob Cratchit and others

Nicholas is thrilled to be back at PCS and reprising his roles, Bob Cratchit and Ghost of Christmas Future.

Nicholas is the host of OPB’s The Moth StorySLAM. He is a founding member of the long-running local improv group, The Liberators (www.theliberators.net), recently seen at the Stumptown Improv Festival and The Siren Theater. Nicholas is also a founding member of the PCS Improv All-Stars, and performs regularly with Slingshot Comedy Series and Bad Reputation Productions. Nicholas is a Teaching Artist for Portland Film Festival, Portland Center Stage, Liberators Training Center and Walter’s Art Center.

Other credits include Portlandia, and commercials for Dell, Intel and ODOT. Nicholas is a Portland parent to his adorable family and immense dog. @NicholasKessler Lauren Modica Mrs. Cratchit and others

Lauren Modica (last seen at PCS in Our Town) is elated to “Twist the D” for the third time. Local roles include Lola in Play by DC Copeland (world premiere); Jessica in

Undiscovered Country (world premiere) and Ruth in In the Forest, She Grew Fangs (West Coast premiere) at Defunkt Theatre; JAW 2014; Rose in Gretchen Icenogle’s Trailing Colors; Tituba in The Crucible (Theatre Vertigo/Anonymous Theater); Verges in Much Ado About Nothing (Willamette Shakespeare); and others. She can next be seen in No Man’s Land at Action/Adventure Theatre and The Skin of Our Teeth at Artist Repertory Theatre. Bountiful gratitude and love to family, friends, cast/crew, Rose, Brandon and all at PCS who make these days some of her favorites. G$.

Jaime Moyer Ghost of Christmas Present and others

Jaime Moyer is an alum of The Second CityDetroit and now performs weekly at The Second City Hollywood, and iO West. She was awarded the sole prize of Maestro at The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin in 2011, and she also received The James Grace Award of Excellence at The Del Close Awards at iO West last January. TV appearances include Parks and Recreation, 2 Broke Girls, Jennifer Falls, Ken Jeong Made Me Do It (pilot) and a recurring role on Disney’s KC Undercover. Jaime has also appeared in several short films and features and is the creator of the viral hit, Fancy Catz.

She produced, directed and performed in several productions in Michigan before moving to Los Angeles, where she currently resides. Jaime is delighted to return to Portland Center Stage! Thanks to all involved. www.jaimemoyer.com John San Nicolas Marley and others

John is pleased to be back at PCS, where he has previously been seen in Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline. A resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre, John has performed there in The Liar, The Invisible Hand, Exiles, The Motherf **ker with the Hat and Jack Goes Boating.

Recent credits include Disgraced with Fusion Theatre Company, Play with Cracked Nutshell Productions, Three Sisters with Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, Invasion! with Badass Theatre, Richard III with Northwest Classical Theatre, A Noble Failure and Portland Center Stage twist your dickens | P1 5

Twist Your Dickens | Creative team The Pain and the Itch with Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Bingo with the Indians at Portland Playhouse, and Reasons To Be Pretty with CoHo/Lucky Apple Productions. He has appeared on the television shows Leverage and Portlandia.

He will be playing the role of Henry in Artist Repertory Theatre’s upcoming production of The Skin of Our Teeth (opening May 17, 2016). John is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Peter Gwinn Co-Writer

Peter Gwinn is one of the original writers for The Colbert Report (two Emmy Awards) and the Amazon original series Alpha House. Other written works: Moulin Scrooge! (WreckingBall Theater Lab, Denver; iO Chicago), Listen Kid ... (Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, NYC; iO Chicago), Peter Gwinn’s The Confidence Ladder (UCB Theatre), The Awesome Show (iO Chicago). Founding Member of Baby Wants Candy, a troupe that improvises one-act musicals (New York Times Critics’ Pick). Other performer credits: Late Night with Conan O’Brien, ASSSSCAT (UCB), Gravid Water (UCB), The Armando Diaz Experience (iO), The Second City National Touring Company, and, as we speak, Twist Your Dickens (Goodman Theatre, Chicago).

Bobby Mort Co-Writer

Bobby Mort wrote for The Colbert Report during the 2012-2013 Season (one Emmy Award) and currently resides in Los Angeles. He grew up in South Carolina, before moving to Chicago where he trained at iO Chicago and performed for a number of years with the improv group, People of Earth, and sketch comedy trio, Maximum Party Zone.

Bobby is extremely excited to be working with Peter Gwinn, the fine folks of The Second City, and Portland Center Stage on Twist Your Dickens.

Ron West Director

This production marks Ron West’s debut as a member of SSDC, The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. That his name would be ever be uttered in the same sentence with “choreographer” is nothing short of miraculous. In the P 16 | Portland Center Stage twist your dickens

past year, he directed The 39 Steps at the Malibu Playhouse and Quick and Dirty (which he also wrote) at The Second City Hollywood. Also, he and the renowned playwright Catherine Butterfield completed their work on a stage adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now. Ron has directed more shows than he can count for The Second City, including the awardwinning Curious George Goes to War and the international tour of Sex & The Second City. He and Phil Swann wrote the Shakespeare-based musicals, The People vs. Friar Laurence and deLEARious. They also collaborated on Neil Simon’s Musical Fools, based on the play by Neil Simon.

Yes, that Neil Simon. On TV, Ron most recently appeared on The Soul Man and Blunt Talk, though he can’t figure out what channel they’re on. He is happy to report that the power of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol withstands, and even supports, the irreverent treatment you are about to witness. The Doctor bats right/left and throws right.

Tom Buderwitz Scenic Designer

Previously designed I Love To Eat for Portland Center Stage. Tom designed the world premiere of The Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens for Center Theatre Group at The Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, and is currently designing the Chicago production (a co-production with The Second City and the Goodman Theatre).

Tom has also designed for South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Chautauqua Theater Company, Arizona Theatre Company, San Diego Repertory, Artists Repertory Theatre, The Antaeus Company, Reprise Theatre, Boston Court Theatre, P.C.P.A. Theaterfest, Riverside Theater, Florida Studio Theatre, Rogue Machine, DeafWest Theatre and A Noise Within, among many others. Tom has been honored with four Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards (26 nominations) and three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. For television, Tom has designed specials and series for every major broadcast and cable network, and has three Emmy Award nominations and an Art Director’s Guild Award nomination. www.tombuderwitz.com

Jeff Cone Costume Designer

Jeff Cone is the costume shop manager at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.

Before moving to Atlanta, Jeff spent 16 seasons as PCS’s resident costume designer and costume shop manager. In that time he designed costumes for over 75 productions. Of those shows, over 50 were in PCS’s first eight seasons at the Armory. Favorite PCS productions include West Side Story, Cabaret, The 39 Steps, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Imaginary Invalid, Black Pearl Sings!, Venus in Fur and Clybourne Park. Jeff received Drammy Awards for his costume designs for Dirty Blonde, Act A Lady and Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline.

Daniel Meeker Lighting Designer

Previously at PCS: Set design for The People’s Republic of Portland and Red (Drammy Award), lighting for Twist Your Dickens, and set and lighting for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Typographer’s Dream, LIZZIE (Drammy Award for Best Lighting), The Last Five Years, BoNita and The Mountaintop. Other credits: lighting director for the Pickathon Festival; lighting for The Other Place (Drammy nomination), and set and lighting for The Light in the Piazza and Detroit at Portland Playhouse; set design for Ramona Quimby for Oregon Children’s Theatre; and set design for Outside Mullingar at the Pioneer Theatre Company. Upcoming projects include: Mothers & Sons at Artists Repertory Theatre, Peter and the Starcatcher at Portland Playhouse, and Eugene Onegin and L’italiana in Algeri for Portland Opera. Daniel, a member of the faculty of Portland State University, is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Yale School of Drama, and a member of United Scenic Artists.

Casi Pacilio Sound Designer

Casi is the resident sound designer at PCS, where recent credits include Ain’t Misbehavin’, Our Town, Three Days of Rain, Cyrano, The People’s Republic of Portland, Other Desert Cities, Threesome, Dreamgirls, The Last Five Years, Othello, A Small Fire, Twist Your Dickens, The Mountaintop; Vanya and Sonia and

Twist Your Dickens | Creative team Masha and Spike with composer Jana Losey; and nine seasons of JAW. National shows: Holcombe Waller Surfacing and Wayfinders; Left Hand of Darkness, My Mind is Like an Open Meadow (Drammy Award, 2011), Something’s Got Ahold Of My Heart and PEP TALK for Hand2Mouth Theatre. Other credits include Squonk Opera’s BigsmorgasbordWunderWerk (Broadway, PS122, national and international touring); I Am My Own Wife, I Think I Like Girls (La Jolla Playhouse); Playland, 10 Fingers and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (City Theatre, PA).

Film credits include Creation of Destiny, Out of Our Time and A Powerful Thang.

Recordings: Glitterfruit’s fruit snacks.

Rick Lewis Vocal Arranger and Music Consultant

PCS shows: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Our Town, Dreamgirls, The Last Five Years, Twist Your Dickens, Fiddler on the Roof, Somewhere in Time, Sweeney Todd (Drammy Award), Black Pearl Sings!, Oklahoma!, The Huntsmen (JAW), The Imaginary Invalid, Sunset Boulevard, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Ragtime (Drammy Award), Grey Gardens, A Christmas Carol (Composer), Guys and Dolls (Drammy Award), Cabaret, West Side Story (Drammy Award), The Fantasticks and Bat Boy. He is the creator of the hit Off-Broadway musicals, The Taffetas and The Cardigans (New York City Bistro Award, Outstanding Musical Review); musical supervisor for the West Coast regional premiere of Next to Normal (Artists Repertory Theatre); and assistant conductor/vocal director for the pre-Broadway workshop of Cy Coleman’s The Life. Rick has written for Disney Live Family Entertainment, American Hawaii Cruises, American Classic Voyages, and developed The Cinnamon Bear Cruise. Rick is a private vocal coach, concentrating on musical theater audition and performance technique. www.rlewismusic.com Mark Tynan Stage Manager

Imagine being in a room full of artists, watching the birth of an idea, a movement given purpose, a sentence, phrase, scene, act given life. Then imagine that room translating to the stage with lighting, sound, costumes, scenery and props, then you can imagine what Mark’s job is like. Special thanks to the phenomenal

PCS production assistants, Marialena DiFabbio, Stephen Kriz Gardner, Bailey Anne Maxwell and Kristen Mun, who help keep the vision attainable.

Prior to PCS, Mark toured nationally and internationally with musicals including Dreamgirls, The King and I with Rudolf Nureyev, How to Succeed…, Grand Hotel, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent and Jersey Boys. Other Portland credits include several summers with The Broadway Rose Theatre Company in Tigard. Regional credits include The Alley Theatre (Houston, TX), La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla, CA) and Casa Mañana Theatre (Fort Worth, TX).

Stephen Kriz Gardner Production Assistant

Stephen is happy to spend his fourth season with Portland Center Stage.

Previously with PCS, Stephen was the production assistant for Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, Othello, Chinglish, Twist Your Dickens (2013, 2014 and 2015), The Mountaintop and Somewhere in Time.

His favorite Portland credits include stage managing The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Spring Awakening with Live On Stage, and Columbinus and Pinkalicious with Oregon Children’s Theatre. His credits outside of Portland include stage managing Black Comedy for No Rules Theatre Company in Washington DC, and assisting on Camp Wanatachi at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York.

Second City Theatricals

Second City Theatricals is the live entertainment arm of the legendary comedy institution that produces an eclectic array of entertainment in venues worldwide. Recent productions include the Jeff Award-winning Second City Guide to the Opera with Lyric Opera Chicago and the Helen Hayes Award-nominated production America All Better!! at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC. Other productions include a collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago that premiered at the Harris Theater in October 2014 (remounting summer 2016 in Chicago) and a new play Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody premiering in 2016. Second City Theatricals also maintains three full time ensembles aboard Norwegian Cruise Line.

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DONORS

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Portland Center Stage gratefully acknowledges the supporters of our 2015–2016 season.

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Corporate Gifts SEASON SUPERSTAR ($150,000+)

OVATION SOCIETY ($100,000+) U.S. Bank

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE ($25,000+)

Curtis T. Thompson, M.D. and Associates, LLC Express Employment Professionals Oregonian Media Group Wells Fargo

SEASON STARS ($10,000+)

AHA! Berry Wealth Strategies Davis Wright Tremaine KeyBank M Financial Group NW Natural The Standard Stoel Rives LLP Work for Art, including contributions from more than 75 companies and 2,000 employees

PLAYMAKERS ($5,000+) Arciform Boeing Company GBD Architects Hoffman Construction Perkins Coie Troutman Sanders LLP Washington Trust Bank Wieden + Kennedy

PRODUCERS ($2,000+)

Bank of America Klarquist Sparkman LLP Merrill Lynch PCC Structurals, Inc. Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP Providence Health Plan Vernier Software & Technology

BENEFACTORS ($1,000+) Break-Away Tours Pacific Office Automation Zimmer Gunsul Frasca

STARS ($250+)

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Foundation & Government Support (AS OF september 28, 2015)

OVATION SOCIETY ($100K+) SEASON STARS ($10K+) Collins Foundation James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation The Regional Arts & Culture Council, including support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and the Arts Education and Access Fund The Wallace Foundation

Anonymous Clark Foundation Jackson Foundation

PLAYMAKERS ($5K+)

Samuel S. Johnson Foundation Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation

BENEFACTORS ($1K+)

Season Superstars

Big Sky Fund of Equity Foundation

STARS ($250+)

Leupold & Stevens Foundation Swigert-Warren Foundation

Supporting Season Sponsors

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE ($25K+) ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE The Kinsman Foundation ($3K+)

Meyer Memorial Trust The National Endowment for the Arts Oregon Arts Commission Oregon Cultural Trust Shubert Foundation The Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust

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Holzman Foundation H.W. & D.C.H. Irwin Foundation Mentor Graphics Foundation Juan Young Trust

PRODUCERS ($2K+)

Autzen Foundation D. Margaret Studley Foundation

Portland Center Stage receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Individual Gifts (as of september 28, 2015) The membership levels and names listed below are determined by your individual gift membership renewal date and are recognized for twelve months. We make every attempt to acknowledge your name accurately. If you find a mistake, want to make a change or think your name should be listed and want to inquire further, please don’t hesitate to call 503.445.3744 to let us know. We are more than happy to make changes for the next playbill.

Those donors whose names are in bold are a part of our Sustaining Supporters group. We want to honor those donors who have given every year for the last five years. Your consistent support to Portland Center Stage means a great deal to us and keeps our theater thriving.

Thank you for your loyalty and generosity.

Ovation Productions ($100,000+)

Keith & Sharon Barnes Don & Mary Blair

Heather Killough Richard L. Lawson

Leadership Producers ($25,000–$99,999)

Anonymous Patricia Huckins Beckman Trust Broughton & Mary Bishop Family Advised Fund, a charitable fund of the Community Foundation of Southwest Washington Andy & Nancy Bryant Dream Envision Foundation Stephen Domreis Brigid Flanigan Craig & Y. Lynne Johnston Ronni Lacroute/WillaKenzie Estate Pat & Trudy Ritz/Ritz Family Foundation Barbara & Phil Silver Helen & Jerry Stern Christine & David Vernier Dan Wieden & Priscilla Bernard Wieden

Season Stars ($10,000–$24,999)

Anonymous (2) John & Linda Carter Roger Cooke & Joan Cirillo Ray & Bobbi Davis William & Karen Early Mark & Ann Edlen The Wayne & Sandra Ericksen Charitable Fund Diana Gerding Tasca & Paul Gulick Steven & Marypat Hedberg Dr. Barbara Hort Marilyn & Ed Jensen James & Morley Knoll Charles & Carol Langer Dedre J. Marriott Reynolds Potter & Sharon Mueller Arlene Schnitzer Jordan Schnitzer Richard & Marcy Schwartz Drs. Ann Smith Sehdev & Paul Sehdev

Douglas & Teresa Smith Mr. & Mrs. W.T.C. Stevens Ben & Elaine Whiteley

Playmakers ($5,000–$9,999)

Dr. Don & Jessie Adams Scott & Linda Andrews Gerry & Marylin Cameron Martin & Karen Daum Bill Dickey Jess Dishman David Dotlich Robert Finger Lois Seed & Dan Gibbs Rob Goodman Roy Schreiber & Carole Heath Rocky & Laura Henderson Judy Carlson Kelley Ms. Kirsten Lee & Mr. Joseph Sawicki Drs. Dolores & Fernando Leon Skye & Jane Lininger Chrys A. Martin & Jack Pessia Peter K. McGill Leonard & Lois Schnitzer Family Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation John & Jan Swanson John Taylor & Barbara West

Artistic Director’s Circle ($3,000–$4,999)

Carole Alexander Peter & Susan Belluschi Family Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Bill Byrne & Dennis Scolard J. Michael & Ginger Carroll Glenn Dahl & Linda Illig Joan & Jim English Paul & Samantha Harmon Jon & Sheila Levine Steve Cox & Vikki Mee Laurie & Gilbert Meigs Patrick W. Murphy Steven C. Neighorn James H. O’Lennick Jim & Linda Patterson Franklin & Dorothy Piacentini Charitable Trust Fred L. Ramsey Robert Reed Dave & Lori Robertson Stephen & Trudy Sargent Barbara A. Sloop CollierTrust

Producers ($2,000–$2,999)

Anonymous (2) Ruth & Jim Alexander Kathi & Ted Austin Julia & Robert S. Ball Mr. & Mrs. John C. Beckman Chris Blattner & Cindy McCann Jack Blumberg & Tom Anderson Ann Brayfield & Joe Emerson Richard Louis Brown Marianne Buchwalter Carol Edelman Chris & Lana Finley Christina Flaxel & B. Randall Randy Foster Sue & Mike Hollern Brad & Judy Johnson Dennis C. Johnson Raymond & Marilyn Johnson Stephen & Marjorie Kafoury Tim Kalberg Bernie & Carole Kronberger Edwards Lienhart Family Foundation Richard M. Linn George Middleton John D. & Nancy J. Murakami J. Greg & Terry Ness Stanley & Susanne Penkin David Pollock Pat & Al Reser Bobbie & Joe Rodriguez Teri Rowan Raj Sarda MD Mark Schlesinger & Patti Norris Marian & Elihu Schott Family Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Trina & Michael Sheridan Michael & Karen Sherman Marilyn Slotfeldt Sue & Drew Snyder Burt & Barbara Stein W R Swindells Ronald E. & Ivy L. Timpe Fund of The Oregon Community Minh Tran & Gary Nelson E. Walter Van Valkenburg & Turid L. Owren Ted & Julie Vigeland Don & Eunice Waggoner Trudy Wilson & Terry Brown Winnowski Family Foundation Mary & Pat Wolfe Steven & Deborah Wynne

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Umpqua Bank

AHA! Berry Wealth Strategies Curtis T. Thompson, M.D. and Associates, LLC Davis Wright Tremaine Express Employment Professionals M Financial Group Benefactors ($1,000–$1,999)

Anonymous Mr. Stan Amy & Ms. Christy Eugenis Aletha & N. Christian Anderson III Phyllis Arnoff Cheryl Balkenhol Robin & Thomas Barrett Lawrence S. & Susan W. Black Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Sam & Adriane Blackman Craig Boretz Dr. Gene Baker & Regina Brody Linda & William Brown Walter & Mary Bush Tim O’Leary & Michelle Cardinal Tim & Susan Carey Lee Anne & George Carter Rick Caskey & Sue HornCaskey Dr. Richard & Nancy Chapman Mary Chomenko Hinckley & Gregory K. Hinckley Drs. Marguerite Cohen & Joe Roberts Leslie Copland M. Allison Couch & Tom Soals Leslie & James Culbertson Judy Dauble Edward & Karen Demko Mickey Devore Craig Dewey & Julie Coop Gerard & Sandra Drummond James & Patricia Edwards John & Jane Emrick Robert Falconer John Briggs & Jeffrey Feiffer Mike & Chris Feves Per-Olof Jarnberg & Joan Foley Marc Franklin Larry & Deborah Friedman Daniel & Leah Frye Mike Golub & Sam Shelhorse John & Jacque Guevara Heather Guthrie & Gil Parker Del Hall Donald F. Hammond Sis Hayes Lani Hayward Tom & Betsy Henning Sharon & Henry Hewitt Dale Hottle Neil & Karen Hutchinson Don & Claudia Hutchison Kathy & Steve Johnson Douglas & PJ Jones Gregg & Diane Kantor

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Dr. Laurie Kash & Michael Carter Carla Kelley Selby & Doug Key Keith Larson Dorothy Lemelson Shari & Frank Lord Jean & Steve Mann Robert Matheson & Kimberly Porter Shelly McFarland Lindsey & Marilen McGill Jack & Carolyn McMurchie Rob & Kate Melton Lora & Jim Meyer Nathan Family Hester H. Nau Bradford & Linda Needham Deborah Neft & Salvatore D’Auria Paul & Lisa Nourigat Allan & Madeline Olson Duane & Corinne Paulson Joan Peacock Brenda Peterson Dr. & Mrs. Charles Poindexter Walter C. Hill & Family Foundation Judson Randall Michael Remsing Stephen Reynolds & Paula Rosput Reynolds Mary & Craig Ruble Mardi Saathoff Darryl Saunders & Randy Mannen Lynne & Ron Saxton Carol Schnitzer Lewis Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation John & Joan Shipley Geoff & Susie Strommer George & Molly Spencer Ray & Pat Straughan Mary & Jeff Strickler Donald & Roslyn Sutherland Katherine & Nickolas Tri Joan & David Weil Vikki Wetle Codiligent LLC Jay Wilt David & Sherri Zava

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Anonymous (2) Charles & Gloria Adams Rukaiyah Adams Margaret & Stuart Albright Thomas & Brada Bailey Susanne Baumann & John Gragg David & Bonnie Bennett Dr. Janet Bennett Phil & Julie Beyl

Christian, Lisa & Ella Bisgard Jill Blanchard Diane Boly Lesley Bombardier Stephen & Marge Brenneke Brooke Psychologists, LLC Clifford & Doris Carlsen Family Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Brenda Charpentier Herbert & Pamela Crane Erik Cubbage Tracy A. Curtis & Rick Nagore Kirk & Marsha Davis Richard & Anne De Wolf Amy & Bruce Dobbs Paul Dockter Richard & Betty Duvall Stephen Early & Mary Shepard Ed & Marilyn Epstein Gregory Flick Charlie Frasier & Rick Taylor Carol Fredlund & John Betonte Charles & Kyle Fuchs Don & Judy Fuller Richard & Kristine Gates Paul & Faye Gilbarg Cathie Glennon Melissa & Robert Good Michael & Nancy Graham Gail & Walter Grebe Rick & Susan Gustafson Bill & Elaine Hallmark Brett & Jessica Hamilton Kregg & Andrea Hanson Richard L. Hay Patsy Heinlein MJ & Lee Alan Helgerson Herman Charitable Foundation Paul & Ruth Herrington Arthur Hung & Jim Watkins Susan Immer & Larry Juday Arnold & Virginia Israelit Jeff Jetton Jessie Jonas Jean & Rich Josephson Susan E. Jossi & Bob Conners Kevin & Suzanne Kahn Gerri Karetsky & Larry Naughton David Kasten Robert Kennedy Chelsea King Jim & Lois King Peter H. Koehler Sr BettyLou Koffel & Phillip Moyer Mr. Rudy Kohnle & Ms. Krista Larson Bruce & Cathy Kuehnl Susan Lair & Doug Trobough Ray & Terry Lambeth Portland Center Stage | P 1 9

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Patrons ($150–$499) Anonymous (16) Jose Alcarez Richard & Kristin Allan Joan & Brian Allen Philip & Pip Allen Kris Alman Linda C. Anderson

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Robert & Jane D’Entremont Linda & Jerry Dinan Ken & Laura Dobyns John & Danuta Donovan Steve Dotterrer & Kevin Kraus CDR Robert duBiel & Nancy Dougherty Beverly Downer Julie & Jim Early Mary A. & Peter Eisenfeld Kris & R. Thomas Elliott Ronnie-Gail Emden & Andrew Wilson Sharon Ewing-Fix Renee Ferrera & James Johnson Patrick Fiegenbaum David Filer & Marlene Anderson Colleen Finn Sally & Jerry Fish Chuck & Pat Fisher Sherry & Paul Fishman Mary Flahive & David Finch George H. Fleerlage John & Paula Fogarty Steve & Susan Ford Bernard A. & Loretta E. Fox Larry & Judy Fox Ronald Fraback Sharon Frank Terry Franks & Carolyn Duran Bruce & Kate Frederick Gail & Kim Frederick Richard Smith & Patricia Frobes Jerome & Mary Fulton Susan & Seth Garber Colleen Gekler Sarah Giles Scott Goins Patricia & Tim Gray Mark & Michelle Greenwood Nancy & Ron Gronowski Frank & Margery Guthrie Patricia Guthrie & Joe Grosh Elisabeth Hall John G. Hall Ulrich H. Hardt & Karen Johnson Gary Hargett Pat & Kelley Harrington Tom & Jan Harvey Fred & Sara Harwin Mark & Paige Hasson Susan M. & Robert S. Hatfield Tracey Heinrich Paul Hempel & Bruce Newman Mr. & Mrs. Clayton Hering Diane M. Herrmann Suzanne Hiscox Barbara & Mark Hochgesang Janet Hoffman & John Harland Thomas Hoffmann Laurie Holland Barry & Fanny Horowitz Anne & Thomas Horton Michele Houck Jeanne Provost & R. Brian Hough Donald & Lynnette Houghton Dr. Hal Howard Nancy Hull & Chris Sproul Lynn & Diana Husband

Kathy & Tom Iberle Robina & Tim Ingram-Rich Willard & Shirley James Katharine Jansen Joanne Jene, M.D. Betsy & Jerry Jeronen Cecily Johns Dennis & Karen Johnson Tony & Sarah Johnson Becky & Jarrett Jones Joan Jones Vanessa Abahashemi & Soren Jorgensen Jack & Farol Kahle Ross Kaplan & Paula Kanarek Chad & Mary Karr Ron & Ruth Katon Katherine Keene Tom & Barbara Kelly Jane Kennedy Bill & Kathleen Keryan Marion & Bart Kessler Janice & Mark Kettler Jeffrey & Carol Kilmer Nancy Kingston Frederick Kirchhoff & Ronald Simonis Bob & Rose Klas Lucien & Sally Klein Romy Klopper Michael Knebel & Susan Shepard Kohnstamm Family Foundation Drs. Bill & Ricky Korach Ed & Margaret Kushner Kevin & Ida Lafky Brian & Annika Lamka Diane Lancon Margaret & Greg Lapic Sarah & Jim Laughlin Dave Lapof Robert & Nancy Laws Bob & Sally LeFeber Roger & Joy Leo Ti Cycles Bicycles Brian & Chris Lewis Bob & Debbie Lindow Craig & Anne Lindsay Peter & Janice Linsky Ralph London Mary E. Long R. Lubomirski Marvin & Sylvia Lurie Elaine & Richard Lycan Jeanne & Jim Magmer Tauna Magness Don Main & John Ahlen Jane Maland Caroline Mann Linda & Ken Mantel Kenneth & Nancy Martin Pamela Matheson Oscar & Mary Mayer Susan & Bill McConnell Dr. Louis & Judy McCraw Maryl M McCullough Betty McDonald & William Hansen Charles & Kathleen McGee Alan & Daina McLean Gretchen McLellan Steven McMaster & Kathleen Brock Julia Meck Richard Meeker Mariellen Meisel & Steve Glass

Peter & Joan Melrose Patty Merrimon William & Janis Mildenberger Louis R. Miles Lani Miller & George Gust Roger & Karen Miller Sherry Mills Stephanie & Spencer Moersfelder David & Machteld Mok Grant Molsberry & William Apt Douglas & Malinda Moore Jane Moore & David Pokorny William & Jane Moore Clint & Donna Moran Mike & Jan Morgan Sonny Jepson & Felice Moskowitz Laura & Joseph Munoz Bill & Pat Nelson Jeanne Newmark Ann Nickerson Landscape Design Jim & Michelle Niegowski Linda Aso David & Anne Noall Kay Novak Ron & Janet O’Day Bonnie & Robert Olds Ric Oleksak Eileen & Alfred Ono Beverly J. Orth Callie & Ana Winner JoAnn Pari-Mueller & Dan Mueller Robyn Parnell & Mark Waggoner Janet Peek Jennifer Peery Steve & Melissa Peterman John M. & Suzy J. Petersen Cheryl Meyers Kevin Phaup Nancy Pitney Art Dodd & Diane Plumridge David & Margo Price Kathy Querin Edgar & Prudence Ragsdale Jay & Barbara Ramaker Michael R. Rankin Bonnie & Peter Reagan Ed Reeves & Bill Fish Leslie Rennie-Hill & Ken Hill Mark Reploeg Leslie Richards David Robertson & Chuck Brimmer Michael Robertson & Gwyn McAlpine Curtis Robinhold Greg Roderick Elmer & Karen Rogers Charles & Judith Rooks Kelly & Tomilynn Ross Ted & Holly Ruback Davia & Ted Rubenstein John & Stephanie Saven Dianne Sawyer & Richard Petersen Jim Scherzinger & Claire Carder Sheldon & Jean Schiager Jennifer Schuberth Peter C. & Jeanette M. Scott Sheila & Gary Seitz Michael & Pam Shanahan Mary Shaw

Dr. Jeffrey D Sher Karen Sheridan Ron & Lynn Sherwood Peter Shinbach Carl R. Shinkle Rodger & Marcella Sleven Christine Smith Constance Smith Kimberly Smith-Cupani Janelle Snyder & Valerie Wallander Neil Soiffer & Carolyn J. Smith George Soule & Maurice Horn Doug Sparks & Casey Bass Sheryl Stauffer Jim & Debbie Steele Zach & Vassie Stoumbos Rhonda Studnick Kaiser Margie Sutherland, MD Mr. & Mrs. John Sutton Jeanette & Matthew Swafford Roger & Gale Swanson John & Jan Switzer Elizabeth Tabaka Amy & Emanuel Tanne Ellen Tappon & Ted Wilson Leif & Marjorie Terdal William & Lori Thayer James & Linda Thomas Robin Thomas & Carl Addy George & Nancy Thorn Grant & Sandra Thurston Sandra Teel Trainer Lou Ann Tiedemann Tom & Priscilla Turner Phil & Mimi Underwood Ann & Thomas Usher E. & P. Alderwerelt David & Julie Verburg Dawn Vermeulen Ginni Vick James N. Stamper & Jennifer P. Villano Dan Volkmer & Frank Dixon Mark & Mary Ann Vollbrecht John N. & Betty K. Walker Nancy Walker & Terry Foty Anne & Eddie Ward Karen Whitaker Chris & Jana White JD & D’Alene White Scott Whiteford Maurice & Lauretta Williams Marjorie & Tom Wilson Alan Winders Jeff Winsor Greg Winterowd Loring & Margaret Winthrop Don & Jan Wolf Richard & Leslie Wong J. Marcus Wood & Sue Hennessey Linda M. Wood Robert & Vickie Woods Martha Woodworth Paul Wrigley Jack Wussow & Kyle Adams Russ & Mary Youmans Alan & Janet Zell

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Board of directors

IN TRIBUTE Amanda Ashley in honor of Cynthia Fuhrman

Richard Meeker in honor of Ellen Rosenblum

Jan and Bill Beebe in memory of Chris Wetteland

Joan Peacock in loving memory of Ben Buckley

Randall J. Brown in honor of Karen Alexander-Brown

David Pollock in honor of Rosemary Trierweiler

Susan C. Campochiaro Confrey in honor of JoAnne Luccarelli

Doug and Kathy Querin in memory of Chris Wetteland

Ginger A. Carroll in memory of J. Michael Carroll

Gertrude Robinson in memory of Arnold Robinson

Judy Dauble in memory of Chris Wetteland

Lisa Sanman and Ebbe Roe Smith in memory of Shirley Sachs Hort

John and Danuta Donovan in memory of Robert Gerding

Carl Snook in honor of Andy Linehan

Elisabeth Baerg Hall, Catherine Hall Wedge and Micah Hall in memory of Shirley Sachs Hort

Helen and Jerry Stern in memory of Annette Coleman

Tom and Betsy Henning in honor of Annette Coleman Dr. Hal Howard in memory of Carol Howard Douglas and Selby Key in honor of Charlie Frasier Jim Rosenbaum and Sandra Lewis in honor of Tim and Mary Boyle

Becky Todd in honor of Ginny Kaiser-Shipman Ted and Julie Vigeland in memory of Patricia Beckman, a great lady, a wonderful friend, and a passionate supporter of PCS from the beginning.

Ted and Julie Vigeland in loving memory of a wonderful woman and friend, Annette Coleman.

JS and Robin May in honor of Chris Coleman Tribute Gifts Why not try something different? Instead of searching for that perfect gift or struggling over how to acknowledge a special achievement, you can recognize someone with a 100% tax deductible Tribute Gift to Portland Center Stage. We’ll make it even easier for you by specially notifying the appropriate person that a Tribute Gift was made in honor or memoriam and list your gift in the playbill.

If you would like to make a Tribute Gift, please contact Karen Johnson at: 503.445.3744 or karenj@pcs.org.

Portland Center Stage operates under an agreement among the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. PCS is a member of LORT, Theatre Communications Group, Portland Business Alliance and Travel Portland.

Portland Center Stage is a participant in the Audience (R)Evolution Program, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for the professional not-for-profit American theater.

Mary Boyle, Chair Civic Volunteer Mardilyn Saathoff, Vice Chair Senior Vice President and General Counsel, NW Natural Ted Austin, Second Vice Chair Senior Vice President, The Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank Brigid Flanigan, Treasurer President, Shamrock Holdings, LLC Steven E. Wynne, Secretary Executive Vice President, Moda Health Steve Hedberg, Immediate Past Chair COO, Perkins Coie Chris Coleman, President Artistic Director, Portland Center Stage Sharon Barnes, Community Volunteer Sarah Crooks, Partner, Perkins Coie, LLP Evelyn Crowell, Retired, Portland State University Tracy Curtis, Regional President of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Wells Fargo & Company Gail Hayes Davis, Civic Volunteer Randy Foster, Partner, Stoel Rives LLP Diana Gerding, Community Volunteer Lani Hayward, Executive VP, Creative Strategies, Umpqua Holdings Corp Betsy Henning, CEO and Founder, AHA! Strategic Communications Yuki “Lynne” Johnston, Advocate for the Arts Jim Knoll, President, Knoll Mediation Karen O’Connor Kruse, Partner, Stoel Rives LLP Dedre Marriott, Community Volunteer Charles McGee, President and CEO, Black Parent Initiative Bob Packard, Managing Partner, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects Peter V. Potwin, Retired, CFO, Benson Industries, Inc. Bruce Ramseyer, Senior Vice President, Private Banking, Washington Trust Bank Pat Ritz, Chairman and CEO, Footwear Specialties International Dave Robertson, Vice President, Public Policy, PGE Joe Sawicki, Vice President and General Manager, Mentor Graphics, Design-To-Silicon Division Marcy Schwartz, Senior Vice President, CH2M HILL Michael Sheridan, VP, Financial Advisor, The Newhouse Sheridan Group, Merrill Lynch Ann E. Smith Sehdev, Physician, Cascade Pathology Doug Smith, Senior Vice President, AMEC John Taylor, Co-founder, Arcadia Investment Corporation Brian Wilson, Principal, Mainland Northwest, LLC J. Greg Ness, Director Emeritus, Chairman, President and CEO, Standard Insurance, StanCorp Financial Group Julie Vigeland, Director Emeritus, Civic Volunteer

In Memoriam Bob Gerding The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE

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STAFF | PCS Artistic Director | Chris Coleman ARTISTIC

Associate Artistic Director: Rose Riordan Producing Associate: Brandon Woolley Literary Manager: Benjamin Fainstein Company Manager: Don Kenneth Mason Literary Associate: Mary Blair

EDUCATION/COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Education & Community Programs Director: Kelsey Tyler Community Programs Coordinator: RJ Hodde Education Programs Coordinators: Clara Liis-Hillier Resident Teaching Artist: Matthew B. Zrebski

ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE

Chief Operating Officer: Cynthia Fuhrman General Manager: Creon Thorne Human Resource & Capital Campaign Director: Lisa Sanman Finance Director: Lisa Comer Accounting Manager: Aurora Sanquilly Accountant: Alan King Executive & HR Assistant: Nia I. Adams Database/Tessitura Consultant: Bob Thomas IT Administrator: Christian Kisanga IT Assistant: James Dixon

DEVELOPMENT

Development Director: Charles T. Frasier Associate Development Director: Jennifer Goldsmith Grants Manager: Marlene A. Montooth Development Associate: Karen Johnson Producer, Development Events: Kate Bowman Professional Development Volunteer: Carolyn Delany-Reif

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Director of Marketing & Communications: Cynthia Fuhrman Public Relations & Publications Manager: Claudie Jean Fisher Group Sales & Promotions Manager: Mandy Morgan Marketing & Communications Associate: Alice Hodge Graphic Designer: Mikey Mann Multimedia Designer: Kate Szrom Webmaster: Christian Bisgard Production Photographer: Patrick Weishampel

PATRON SERVICES

Patron Services Manager: Luke Robertson Patron Services Assistant Managers: Hannah Katibah, Klint Keys Senior Patron Services Associate: Emily S. Ryan Patron Services Associates: Megan Harned, David Harper, Sierra Walker Sales Associates: Madelyn Clement, Michael Erickson, Katie Watkins Season Ticket Sales Agents: Dayne Ledet, Barbara Morley, Cate Ridenour, Mark Woodlief

OPERATIONS

Operations Manager: Ryan Collins Operations Lead: Lauren Knapp

Operations Assistants: Mitchell Bohanan, Katie Cronin Events & Rentals Manager: Jessica Metteer Rentals Assistant: Elizabeth Hjort Lead Custodian: Joel Hartman Evening Custodian: Liliana Thirdgill

PRODUCTION

Production Manager: Liam Kaas-Lentz Production Coordinator: Lydia Comer Stage Managers, AEA: Kelsey Daye Lutz, Mark Tynan, Janine Vanderhoff Production Assistants: Stephen Kriz Gardner, Bailey Anne Maxwell, Kristen Mun Technical Director: Derek Easton Assistant Technical Director: David McCrum Scene Shop Manager: Seth Chandler Master Carpentar: Nick Foltz Staff Carpenters/Welders: Benjamin F. Mills, Noah Phillips, Phil A. Shaw Properties Master: Michael Jones Lead Props Artisan: Rachel Peterson Schmerge Scenic Charge Artist: Kate Webb Interim Assistant Scenic Charge Artist: Lauren Newey Costume Shop Supervisor: Mike Floyd Cutters/Drapers: Paula Buchert, Eva Steingrueber-Fagan First Hand: Larissa Cranmer Costume Crafts Artisan: Barbara Casement Wardrobe Supervisor: Bonnie Henderson-Winnie Wig Mistress: Danna Rosedahl Lighting Supervisor: Ben Courtney Master Electrician, U.S. Bank Main Stage: Alexz Eccles Master Electrician, Ellyn Bye Studio: Em Douglas Deck Manager: Tim McGarry Resident Sound Designer & Sound/Video Supervisor: Casi Pacilio Sound Engineer & Lead Programmer: Scott Thorson Sound Engineer & Programmer: Em Gustason

FRONT OF HOUSE

Concierges: Miles Bennette-Eaton, Meghan Howard-Hakala, Wynee Hu, Amanda Maxwell Volunteer Coordinator: Robyn Hodges Lead House Manager: Michael Rocha House Managers: Jenna Barganski, Nhu Nguyen, Emerson Scott, RaChelle Schmidt Food and Beverage Managers: Jamie Bilderback, Noelle Melberg Kitchen Supervisor: Erik Sanchez Kitchen Assistants/Cooks: Laura Fudacz, Sam DiChiara Food & Beverage Service Staff: Celine Geday, Stacy Hagen, Christopher Klarer, Lucia Oneil, Ellie Percival, Chelsea Turner, Jazzmine Zubia

Volunteer Committee

Office Assistants Chair: Connie Guist Entertainers Chairs: Jo McGeorge, Olivia Jacobus Supporting Cast Chair: Karen Watson

FOR AIN’T MISBEHAVIN Assistant to the Scenic Designer Brian Gillick Paige Hathaway Carpenter Nick Lohanick Scenic Artists Jackson Hunt Shawn Mallory Kiona McAlister Ryan Nicholai Props Artisans Geahk Burchill Teresa Pilar Huarte Assistant to the Costume Designer Brandilyn Scott Stitchers Foggy Bell Sanne Jenkins Virginia Kilkelly Fuchsia Lin Costume Crafts Janet Cadmus Wardrobe Julio Maxwell Kat Reid Live Sound Engineer Em Gustason Deck Audio Molly Gardner Rehearsal Accompanist Jeffrey Childs

FOR Twist Your Dickens Costume Coordinator Mike Floyd Props Artisans Teresa Pilar Huarte Shawn Mallory Sound Programmer and Engineer Scott Thorson Wardrobe Julio Maxwell Kia Reid Run Crew Bailey Anne Maxwell

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