Grand Course / The Skin of Our Teeth

Ayanna Berkshire ®

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GRAND CONCOURSE Heidi Schreck by

directed by

JoAnn Johnson

M AY 3 - J U N E 5

THE

SKIN OF OUR TEETH Thornton Wilder by

directed by

Dámaso Rodriguez

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A MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR by Dámaso Rodriguez Welcome to the final productions of our 2015/16 season!

On the Morrison stage, we present the Portland premiere of Heidi Schreck’s Grand Concourse.

Her sensitive, funny and quietly moving play explores faith, compassion and forgiveness within a naturalistic and seldom-seen theatrical setting of a Bronx soup kitchen. On our Alder stage you’ll have the rare opportunity to experience Thornton Wilder’s still-groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece The Skin of Our Teeth (see my director’s notes on page 10). I invite you to

immerse yourselves into both of these wildly different plays that represent the extraordinary range of provocative, intimate theatre experiences we strive to share with you again and again at Artists Rep. I hope these plays inspire you to think, to feel, to discuss your experience with other theatregoers and, most importantly, to come back to Artists Rep soon.

Until then,

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I KNOW THAT WHATEVER MY FAULTS YOU WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK AT ME WITH GENTLENESS. –Shelley in Heidi Schreck’s Grand Concourse THE WHOLE WORLD’S AT SIXES AND SEVENS, AND WHY THE HOUSE HASN’T FALLEN DOWN ABOUT OUR EARS LONG AGO IS A MIRACLE TO ME. – Sabina in Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth.

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In addition to our own programming, Artists Rep is a vital center for Portland’s thriving arts community. This beautiful building is home to 10 arts organizations: The August Wilson Red Door Project, Profile Theatre, Portland Shakespeare Project, Portland Area Theatre Alliance, Risk/Reward Festival, Hand 2 Mouth Theatre, Portland Revels, Staged! Musical Theatre, Isinglass and The Geezer Gallery artists, whose work adorn our Morrison Lobby walls. In this ArtsHub, our stages, lobbies and rehearsal rooms teem with the creative offerings of these Resident Companies, as well as a wide variety of community artists and groups.

Whether you’ve been with us all along, or you’ve just hopped on board for the ride, we welcome you to make this your home for great theatre … and hope to see you again, again and again.

Here to see The Skin of Our Teeth? Turn to page 9.

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DIRECTED BY JOANN JOHNSON

BY HEIDI SCHRECK

The 2015/16 Artists Repertory Theatre season is presented by

DÁMASO RODRIGUEZ, Artistic Director SARAH HORTON, Managing Director

CAST Shelley...................................................................Ayanna Berkshire*^ Emma.....................................................................Jahnavi Alyssa+ Oscar......................................................................John San Nicolas*^ Frog........................................................................Allen Nause*^

CREATIVE TEAM Director..................................................................JoAnn Johnson^ Scenic Designer.....................................................Kristeen Willis Crosser^ Costume Designer.................................................Emily Horton Lighting Designer..................................................Carl Faber# Sound Designer.....................................................Sharath Patel^ Dialect Coach.........................................................Mary McDonald-Lewis^ Fight Choreographer............................................Jonathan Cole Props Master.........................................................Amy Katrina Bryan Production Stage Manager..................................Carol Ann Wohlmut* Assistant Stage Manager.....................................Karen Hill Assistant Director..................................................Nate Cohen Production Assistant.............................................Jessica Evans Irvine Board Operator.....................................................Dave Petersen Understudy for Allen Nause.................................David Meyers*

David & Christine Vernier SEASON MEDIA SPONSORS

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THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION. PLACE: A SOUP KITCHEN ON THE GRAND CONCOURSE IN THE BRONX. Grand Concourse is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited.

ARTISTS REP’S MISSION is to engage diverse audiences in fresh, thought-provoking and intimate theatre.

We are committed to world-class acting, directing, design and stagecraft that support new playwriting and aspire to embody great literature, moving audiences to truly feel — to experience — storytelling in a way that only the best live theatre can.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. www.actorsequity.org Equity Membership Candidate Artists Repertory Theatre Resident Artist # The scenic, costume, lighting, projection & sound designers are represented by United Scenic Artists + ^

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SHOW SPONSORS Hugh & Mair Lewis Rosalie & Ed Tank

Partial support for open captioning performances provided by Theatre Development Fund.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES

DIRECTOR BIO

by JoAnn Johnson

The Grand LUCK Boulevard and Sometimes a crumb falls Concourse, From the tables of joy completed in 1909, Sometimes a bone running north Is flung and south through To some people the Bronx, was Love is given envisioned as an To others ideal neighborhood.

Only Heaven It represented –Langston Hughes upward mobility for hundreds of thousands of first and second-generation immigrants to America. But by the 1960s, as in many other American cities, the decline had begun – the once grand neighborhood was decimated by poverty, racism and violence.

The South Bronx, where our story takes place, had become a symbol of urban violence and despair. Bronx County remains the poorest urban county in America.

The soup kitchen of Heidi Schreck’s Grand Concourse reflects this recent past and painful present. The people who gather here need food, shelter and safety from the dangers of the street. But the human needs go beyond the physical – to a desire for community and for spiritual sustenance. And those who serve them a hot meal “to get them through the day” are not immune to the desperation of those they serve — they have demons of their own.

So in this simple setting, big questions are lurking. What are the limits of compassion?

Who is deserving of forgiveness? What is our personal response to the desperation on our own streets? And is there hope for us?

1. The Grand Boulevard and Concourse in 1900, just before it was completed.

2. The same area today, with

Yankee Stadium in the background.

3. At East 165th Street in The South Bronx.

PLAYWRIGHT BIO Heidi Schrecks a writer and actor living in Brooklyn who grew up in Wenatchee, Washington and attended the University of Oregon as a theatre major. Her plays include Grand Concourse, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons and Steppenwolf Theatre in 2014/15 and was a Lilly Award winner and finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize; Creature (New Georges and Page 73); There Are No More Big Secrets (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre); and The Consultant (Long Wharf Theatre). Other playwriting awards include the Claire Tow Fellowship at Playwrights Horizons, the Roe Green Award at Cleveland Playhouse, and the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. Heidi is

an alumna of the Soho Rep Writer/ Director Lab and Sundance Theatre Lab, and is currently commissioned by MTC, True Love Productions, South Coast Rep and the Atlantic Theatre Company. As an actor, Heidi has performed at Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theatre (Shakespeare in the Park); MTC, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, The Foundry, Clubbed Thumb, The Women’s Project, The Roundabout, Williamstown, Berkeley Rep, Center Theatre Group, and with The Talking Band. She has also worked as a writer and actor on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie and Billions, and as reporter in St. Petersburg Russia. Heidi has received two OBIES, a Drama Desk, and the Theatre World Award.

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Among JoAnn’s directing credits for Artists Rep are Ballerina, Birdsend, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Vanya, Blackbird and The Gin Game. Other directing credits include boom and The School for Lies (Theatre Vertigo); Macbeth (Quintessence); Richard II and King Lear (Northwest Classical); Precious Little (defunkt); Watbanaland (Portland Actors Conservatory); Big Love (University of Portland); The Detective’s Wife (Hellfire Productions) and The Turn of the Screw (Portland Shakespeare Project). Among her many roles for Artists Rep are Katharine in Mothers and Sons, Hattie in Ten Chimneys, Vivian Bearing in Wit, Flora in Humble Boy, Leo in Indiscretions, Mrs. Rafi in The Sea, and Alice in Retreat From Moscow.

Other roles include Sister Aloysius in Doubt and Kate Keller in All My Sons (Arkansas Repertory Theatre); Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Portland Center Stage); Leni Riefenstahl in Leni (Insight Out Theatre Collective); Sarah Bernhardt in Memoir (Coho Productions); Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit and Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (Tacoma Actors Guild) and Meg in The Birthday Party and Aunt Sally in Fifth of July (Profile Theatre).

Other theatres include The Old Globe, The Empty Space, Pioneer Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Sacramento Theatre Company, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Liminal, Imago and many seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. For Artists Rep, JoAnn has toured to Asia, Africa and the Middle East in the role of A in Three Tall Women. She is a Resident Artist at Artists Rep and a member of Actors’ Equity.

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ACTOR & CREATIVE TEAM BIOS Shelley Ayanna is a recent addition to Artists Rep’s talent-riddled roster of resident artists. She is thrilled to bring Shelley to the stage in this wonderful new play

by Heidi Schreck. Most recently seen on stage as Roxanne in The Understudy and Esther in Intimate Apparel (Artists Rep); The Lady (u/s) in The Scottsboro Boys (Ahmenson Theatre - Los Angeles); Race (Artists Rep); Back Bog Beast Bait, Bang,Curtain.End of Show, The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador (defunkt theatre); Fuente Ovejuna (Teatro Milagro); The Tales of Canterbury (Ensemble Loupan); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tygres Heart Shakespeare) and Pure Gold Baby (Seers Network). Film credits include Twilight, Extraordinary Measures, Wendy and Lucy, Say Uncle, The Dust Factory and The Record Keeper.

Television credits include Grimm, Parenthood, Castle, Grey’s Anatomy, Awake, Leverage, Significant Mother and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Thank you to Union Gospel Mission.

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Jahnavi is thrilled to make her Artists Rep debut with Grand Concourse. Past credits include Innogen in Cymbeline (Anon it Moves); Tracy in Sans Merci (Badass Theatre Co.); Natasha Ivanova in The Three Sisters (Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble) and Emily Webb in Our Town (Liminal). She received a degree in Theatre from Lewis & Clark College, and is a proud alumna of Third Rail Theatre Repertory’s Mentorship Company. Many thanks to JoAnn, the cast, crew and design team, and to her family given and found.

JOHN SAN NICOLAS Oscar John is proud to be a Resident Artist at Artists Rep where he has performed in The Liar, The Invisible Hand, Exiles, The Motherfucker With the Hat and Jack Goes Boating. He has also worked at many other theatres locally and regionally, including Fusion Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Third

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Rail Rep, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Action/Adventure Theatre, Shaking the Tree Theatre, Miracle Theatre, Imago Theatre, Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, Badass Theatre Company, Broadway Rose, Anonymous Theatre, Northwest Classical Theatre, CoHo Productions and Salem Rep. He has been featured on the television series Portlandia and Leverage. He will be returning to Artists Rep in the Fall to play a chimpanzee with a floundering acting career in Trevor by Nick Jones. He is thrilled to be in this show and playing this role. John is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

ALLEN NAUSE Frog Allen has performed at many Northwest theatres including Artists Rep, Portland Center Stage, Portland Shakespeare Project, Portland Opera, Imago Theatre, Corrib Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, A.C.T. Theater, Seattle, and Seattle’s Intiman Theatre. Allen appeared in several feature films including Bucksville, Not Dead Yet, The River Why, The Valley of Light, Frances, The Runner Stumbles and Without Evidence. His TV credits include Grimm, Leverage, Portlandia and Nowhere Man. Allen served as Artists Rep’s Artistic Director from 1988 until 2013 and is one of the theatre’s Resident Artists.

KRISTEEN WILLIS CROSSER Scenic Designer Kristeen received her BA from Centre College in Danville, KY and received her MFA in lighting design from Wayne State University, Hilberry Company in Detroit, MI. Previously, she designed lights for several Artists Rep productions, including The Miracle Worker, The Understudy, Tribes, Foxfinder, The Cherry Orchard and Eurydice. She designed the set for We are Proud to Present…, Broomstick, 4000 Miles and Foxfinder. She has designed scenery and/or lighting for several area theatres including Northwest Children Theatre’s Shrek the Musical; Profile Theatre’s True West and Master Harold and the Boys (2013 Drammy) and Thief River; Coho Production’s Frankie and

ACTOR & CREATIVE TEAM BIOS Johnny in the Clair de Lune and The Outgoing Tide; Miracle Theatre’s Oedipus El Rey (2012 Drammy); and Third Rail Repertory Theatre’s The Aliens, A Bright New Boise (2014 Drammy) and Gideon’s Knot (2014 Drammy). As always, she is grateful to her husband, Mike, for all of his love and support.

SHARATH PATEL Sound Designer

Sharath grew up splitting his time between Appalachia and India while spending the following years studying across Europe and New England. Before finding a home in Portland, he spent nearly a decade as a lead sound designer EMILY HORTON in New York City. Design highlights include The Motherf **ker With the Hat, Costume Designer Emily is thrilled to be joining Artists Rep Tribes, The Price (Artists Rep); The Call, Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Profile Theatre); for her first production. Other credits The Setup, Mary Stuart (Cygnet include seven seasons with Third Rail, Productions); Free Outgoing (Boom Heathers, The Musical; Michael Curry Arts); In/divisible (Reed College); The Design fiber artist, multiple productions Piano Lesson, The Brother/Sister Plays, with Oregon Children’s Theatre, Jitney (Portland Playhouse). Regional Portland Playhouse productions of King and international design credits in Hedley II (2012) and The Left Hand NYC, D.C., Boston, Aspen, Norfolk, of Darkness (2013) as well as multiple Raleigh, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, private and corporate clients. Emily India, France, England, Germany and holds a BFA in Costume Design and Construction from Webster University in Romania. Sharath holds a BFA from Ohio University and he earned his MFA ST Louis, MO as well as a certificate in technical theatre from PCPA Theaterfest. in Sound Design from the Yale School of Drama. In 2014 he received the Kennedy Center Meritorious Achievement Award CARL FABER for Sound Design (Far Away). Sharath is Lighting Designer a Resident Artist at Artists Rep. Recent designs with Artists Rep include Broomstick, 4000 Miles and MARY MCDONALD The Price. Other recent credits include LEWIS Orlando, Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Profile Dialect Coach Theatre); The Realistic Joneses (Third Mary McDonald-Lewis Rail); Mary Poppins (NWCT, PAMTA has been a professional nomination); Trouble in Mind (Arena artist since 1979. She Stage); Wilderness (Uferstudios, resides in Portland, Berlin); The Experiment (Boston Oregon, and is an international Institute of Contemporary Art); Brother dialect coach for film, television Brother (Theater Freiburg, EU/US and stage. She also works as a voice Tour). Founding Member & Resident Immersive Lighting Designer: Woodshed actor, on-camera actor, stage actor and director. Last season at Artists Collective NYC. Touring Lighting/ Rep, MaryMac coached Intimate Video Associate (US/Canada, Europe, Apparel, Blithe Spirit, The Invisible Australia): Bon Iver, The National.

Hand, The Price and Tribes; this year, Grounds Lighting Designer: Eaux she has coached Cuba Libre, Broomstick, Claires Music Festival. Guest Artist/ The Miracle Worker and We Are Lecturer: Playwrights Horizons Theater Proud to Present… As house coach School, Crossroads School. Lighting for Portland Center Stage, she Supervisor: Williamstown Theatre managed Threesome and Three Days Festival (’08 & ‘09, Artistic Director: of Rain, which featured two stars from Nicholas Martin). Broadway Associate/ the NBC hit show Grimm, who she also Assistant: The Book of Mormon, Bloody coaches. Listen for her work on Streetcar Bloody Andrew Jackson, August: Osage Named Desire at PCS as well! Her County, Dividing the Estate. Education: favorite new client is Patrick Stewart.

The Catlin Gabel School, Vassar College.

MaryMac loves what she does, and she Member: United Scenic Artists Local thanks Finnegan, Sullivan and Flynn USA-829. Currently on tour with Bruce for always wagging their tails when she Springsteen and the E Street Band. comes home. www.carlfaber.com.

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JONATHAN COLE Fight Choreographer Jonathan has worked throughout the Northwest as a director, actor and fight director, and is a tenured faculty member of the Theatre Department at Willamette University. He is one of two Society of American Fight Directors Certified Teachers of stage combat in Oregon, and co-owns Revenge Arts, one of the largest stage combat consortiums in the United States. His choreography is most often seen on Artists Rep stage, where he recently choreographed fights for We Are Proud…, The Miracle Worker, The Understudy, The Liar, Exiles, The Playboy of the Western World and The MonsterBuilder, and on Third Rail’s stage, where he choreographed Belleville, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Middletown and The Mystery of Irma Vep. Jonathan’s choreography has also been seen at Portland Shakespeare Project, Clackamas Repertory Theatre and Profile Theatre.

AMY KATRINA BRYAN Props Master Amy is from Ashland, Oregon and relocated to Portland in 2014 after being accepted as an acting apprentice at Portland Playhouse, where she also learned a lot about being a properties master. She joined the Dramatist Guild this year after touring her production The Amy Show with Portland Playhouse and is looking forward to staging a full production of it later this year. Amy has very much enjoyed working on Grand Concourse for Artists Rep this season. Amy has worked with Bad Ass Theatre Company, CoHo Productions, Northwest Children’s Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Hand2Mouth and most recently stage managed Chapatti with Corrib Theatre. Amy is pleased to work with JoAnn again who directed her in the first professional piece she did in Portland.

CAROL ANN WOHLMUT Production Stage Manager Carol Ann has worked in Portland theatre for 25 years and is proud to be working her 17th season at Artists Rep. Her most recent Artists Rep stage management credits include Mothers and Sons, Broomstick, The Liar, The Invisible Hand, Blithe Spirit, The

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ACTOR & CREATIVE TEAM BIOS Playboy of the Western World, Mistakes Were Made, Ithaka, Red Herring and God of Carnage. Carol Ann has worked with such companies as Portland Center Stage, Civic Theatre, Musical Theater Company, Portland Repertory Theatre, Tygres Heart Shakespeare Co., New Rose Theatre, Columbia Theatre, Carousel Company, Stark Raving Theatre, triangle productions!, Miracle Theatre, Firehouse Theatre, Northwest Children’s Theatre, Vanity Productions and others. She has toured in New York and Ireland. She also guest lectures on the craft of Stage Management.

KAREN HILL Assistant Stage Manager Karen is happy to be back for another show with Artists Rep. She loves the opportunity to create thoughtful art with people who care about what they do. Karen has also worked with Oregon Children’s Theatre, Portland Shakespeare Project and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She has a BFA in Stage Management from Southern Oregon University. Karen would like to thank her husband Mike for his continued support of this crazy lifestyle.

NATE COHEN Assistant Director Nate is thrilled to be working on his first show at Artists Rep! Nate is a director, teacher and actor. He is currently a Company Member at Theatre Vertigo, the Mentorship “Chief Resident” at Third Rail Repertory Theatre, sits on the board of the Portland Area Theatre Alliance, and has worked extensively with companies such as the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, Action/Adventure and Down Boat Arts. Nate works as the Program Coordinator for Isinglass, the newest organization in the ArtsHub at Artists Rep. He is so grateful to JoAnn for bringing him along on this ride!

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JESSICA EVANS IRVINE Production Assistant Jessica is so glad to be back backstage with Grand Concourse! She began working at Artists Rep as an Artistic Intern in 2014, and has since worked as a Production Assistant on The Monster-Builder, Exiles, Blithe Spirit, The Invisible Hand, The Liar, Broomstick, Mothers and Sons and We Are Proud….

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CAST Sabina...................................................................... Sara Hennessy* Mr. Antrobus........................................................... Don Alder* Mrs. Antrobus......................................................... Linda Alper*^ Gladys...................................................................... Val Landrum*^ Henry....................................................................... Shawn Lee* Ensemble................................................................. Sarah Lucht*^ Ensemble................................................................. Michael Mendelson*^ Announcer/Ensemble............................................. Vana O’Brien*^ Ensemble................................................................. Chris Harder*^ Fortune Teller/Ensemble......................................... Lauren Modica* Telegraph Boy.......................................................... Dámaso J. Rodriguez Wooly Mammoth.................................................... Eva Rodriguez Dinosaur.................................................................. Sky Jude

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CREATIVE TEAM Director.................................................................... Dámaso Rodriguez*** Scenic Designer....................................................... Megan Wilkerson^ Lighting Designer.................................................... Kristeen Willis Crosser^ Costume Designer................................................... Gregory Pulver^ Sound Designer....................................................... Rodolfo Ortega^ Wig Design.............................................................. Jane Holmes Assistant Costume Designer.................................. Josie Benedetti Props Master........................................................... Emily Wilken Dialect Coach........................................................... Mary McDonald-Lewis^ Dramaturg............................................................... Luan Schooler Fight Choreographer.............................................. Jonathan Cole Production Stage Manager.................................... Michelle Jazuk* Assistant Stage Manager....................................... D Westerholm* Production Assistant............................................... Esther McFaden Assistant Director/Guest Star Coordinator........... Joshua Rippy Lead Wardrobe........................................................ Sundance Wilson Henry Deck Crew/Youth Supervisor................................. Grace Owens Deck Crew................................................................ Charlie Capps Board Ops................................................................ Duncan Lynch & Jon Plueard

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THERE WILL BE TWO 15-MINUTE INTERMISSIONS. SETTING ACT I: HOME, EXCELSIOR, NEW JERSEY ACT II: ATLANTIC CITY BOARDWALK ACT III: HOME, EXCELSIOR, NEW JERSEY The Skin of Our Teeth© 1942 The Wilder Family LLC | Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Representation ltd | www.alanbrodie.com

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. www.actorsequity.org + ^ Equity Membership Candidate Artists Repertory Theatre Resident Artist ***Stage Directors & Choreographer Society

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DIRECTOR’S NOTES by Dámaso Rodriguez

DIRECTOR BIO

My answer to this, or some similar question, is always Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth. I love this play wholeheartedly, and despite a dozen years or so in positions at theatres where I have had either full control over choices or some input affecting programming, the play evades me. The cast is usually determined too large or the design needs too demanding. Despite its status as a “classic” and Pulitzerwinner, it is still usually considered not familiar enough to general audiences to be anything less than a big, bold box office risk. Part of the problem is that I won’t accept just any production; I want to live up to Wilder’s extraordinary, relentlessly relevant vision. The play is so important that it deserves everything Mr. Wilder asks of producers and directors. His characters exist “every time” and “everywhere,” and his play has the power to capture (and relieve!) the anxiety of any community in any moment. No matter how many times I consider the play, I am left in awe of Wilder’s audacity, and his innovation. The play was ahead of its time in its 1942 debut, and ahead it remains. Like in Our Town, Wilder continues to break the fourth wall, to call attention to the fact that we are seeing a play, but in The Skin of Our Teeth he establishes characters, tone, setting and style, and then changes each on a dime again and again. “Which kind of play is this and where will it take me next?” audience members might ask, as if plays need be one particular kind or conform to a recognizable structure. I find that audiences can still be uncomfortable when playwrights break rules, especially in one evening of theatre, let alone mid-Act. In The Skin of Our Teeth, Wilder keeps us — his audience, like Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus — uncertain, on edge, and in doing so, unites us.

Originally published in the SDC Journal, a publication of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society.

Dámaso is in his fourth year as Artistic Director of Artists Repertory Theatre. In 2001 he co-founded the Los Angeles-based Furious Theatre Company, where he served as Co-Artistic Director until 2012. From 2007-2010 he served as Associate Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse. His directing credits include work at Artists Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Intiman Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Laguna Playhouse, A Noise Within, The Theatre@ Boston Court, Naked Angels and Furious Theatre. Rodriguez is a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, the Back Stage Garland Award, the NAACP Theatre Award and the Pasadena Arts Council’s Gold Crown Award. His productions have been nominated for multiple LA Weekly Theatre Awards and LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. In 2012, Rodriguez was honored by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation as a Finalist for the Zelda Fichandler Award. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

Directing credits at Artists Rep include revivals of The Miracle Worker by William Gibson and The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge, the world-premiere musical Cuba Libre featuring the music of three-time Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre, the Portland premieres of David Ives’ adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s The Liar, Nina Raine’s Tribes, Exiles by Carlos Lácamara, the U.S. premiere of Dawn King’s Foxfinder, and the West Coast premieres of Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal and Jeffrey Hatcher’s Ten Chimneys. Credits at other theatres include a mix of plays by contemporary and classic playwrights including William Shakespeare, Eugene O’Neill, Noel Coward, Bernard Shaw, Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams and Lillian Hellman. More information at www.damaso-rodriguez.com.

“Which play, that you have not directed, do you admire and why?”

PLAYWRIGHT BIO THORNTON WILDER (1897–1975)

Thornton Wilder was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works explore the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth. Wilder’s farce, The Matchmaker, was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly! He also enjoyed enormous success as a translator, adaptor, actor, librettist and lecturer/ teacher. Wilder’s many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The playbill for the 1942 Broadway production at The Plymouth Theatre.

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ACTOR BIOS SARA HENNESSY Sabina Artists Rep credits include Cuba Libre, Blithe Spirit, Intimate Apparel and Foxfinder.

She’s also worked locally with Corrib Theatre (Little Gem) and Readers Repertory Theatre. A cofounder of Furious Theatre Company in L.A., her Furious credits include Foxfinder, Hunter Gatherers, Grace, The God Botherers, The Shape of Things, Scenes from the Big Picture, Chimps, The Playboy of the Western World, and the U.S. Premiere of Noise by Alex Jones, which she directed. With other L.A. theatres: The Government Inspector at The Theatre @ Boston Court; The Skin of Our Teeth, A Christmas Carol and Hay Fever at A Noise Within; Festen and Another Part of the Forest at Pasadena Playhouse – Hothouse and Ramblers (Chicago and L.A. Premieres). She performed improv at Chicago’s ImprovOlympic. Sara is a two-time L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award winner and a L.A. Weekly Theatre Award nominee. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. www.sarahennessy.com

DON ALDER Mr. Antrobus Don has appeared at Artists Rep in The Miracle Worker, The MonsterBuilder, Ah Wilderness!, Fortinbras, Love! Valour!

Compassion!, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! and The Fox. Favorite roles include Estragon in Waiting for Godot for NWCTC, Denny in The Steady Rain for Hellfire Productions (Drammy Award); Don Armado in Love’s Labour’s Lost for Northwest Classical Theatre Company; McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest for Brundog Productions and Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross for Cygnet Productions. Don has also worked for Arkansas Rep, Lakewood Theatre, Profile Theatre, Broadway Rose, Portland Center Stage, Salem Rep, Portland Rep, Sun Valley Rep, New Rose Theatre and others. Don’s film and television roles include Grimm, Leverage, The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang, Path of Evil, Lie Detector, Dandelion, Harvest of Fear, Kicking Bird, Homeward Bound, The Temp, Come See the Paradise, The Gas Café, Alibi, Things They Never Told Me, Duplicates, Nowhere Man, Rose Red and Say Uncle.

LINDA ALPER Mrs. Antrobus An Artists Rep Resident Artist, Linda has appeared in The Price, Tribes, The Quality of Life, Ten Chimneys, Superior Donuts and The Cherry Orchard. She has also played leading roles at Portland Center Stage, Portland Shakespeare Project, Off Broadway, Mark Taper Forum, The Intiman, Seattle Rep and other theatres, including 23 seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where she appeared in over 50 productions. Linda has also co-written adaptations produced by OSF, ACT in San Francisco, Denver Theatre Center, Virginia Rep; Santa Cruz, Colorado and other Shakespeare festivals, as well as The Acting Company. With Penny Metropulos, she wrote an adaptation of Great Expectations which is currently playing at OSF. Linda has won a Dramalogue Award for Best Actress, Fulbright Specialist Grant to Pakistan, Fulbright Travel Grant, Grant for Visiting Artist to Taiwan and an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. A graduate of The Juilliard School, she is also a Fulbright Senior Scholar.

SHAWN LEE Henry Shawn was last seen on the Artists Rep stage in the U.S. Premiere of Foxfinder by Dawn King. Favorite credits include The Little Foxes (with Kelly McGillis); The Imaginary Man (staged reading); Confessions of Deacon Jim (Pasadena Playhouse); Shatter Street (with Jason Ritter); This World We Know, Naked Angels; Ramblers (with Eric Stonestreet); No Good Deed, The Shape of Things, Mojo, Saturday Night at the Palace (Furious Theatre Company); Waiting For Godot, The Zoo Story (Chicago Dramatists Workshop).

TV/film credits include Grimm, YOLO (with Makela Watkins); Revenge of the Bimbot Zombie Killers and A.G.A.N.G. He is a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and a co-founder of the Los Angeles-based Furious Theatre Company. Next season he will direct Artists Rep’s NW premiere of Bess Wohl’s American Hero and the Portland premiere of EM Lewis’ awardwinning play The Gun Show with CoHo Productions.

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VAL LANDRUM Gladys Val is a proud and grateful member of Artists Rep’s Resident Artist Company. Her other Artists Rep credits include The Miracle Worker, The Liar, Blithe Spirit, Red Herring, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Cherry Orchard, A Streetcar Named Desire and Killer Joe. She has also been seen locally in productions for Portland Center Stage, Third Rail, Coho and Profile to name a few. Val has taught Theatre at Oregon Children’s Theatre, Portland Center Stage and is on staff at the Portland Actors Conservatory

SARAH LUCHT Ensemble Sarah is a Resident Artist at Artists Rep and first appeared here in The Artificial Jungle over 20 years ago.

She has since appeared in numerous Artists Rep productions, including as Liz in Present Laughter, Mrs. Bob Cratchit in Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, Beth in Dinner With Friends, Rose in Enchanted April, Gilda in Design for Living, Emilia in Othello, Dolores/Gloria in And So It Goes…, and most recently as Louise Greene in Ten Chimneys. Sarah has also performed at Portland Center Stage (Bus Stop, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gypsy) as well as Profile Theatre (Bananas in House of Blue Leaves); Lakewood Theatre (Noises Off and Inspecting Carol). She has taught for the Portland Actors Conservatory, Portland Center Stage and currently teaches Shakespeare, playwriting and scene study in area high schools. She is also a founding member of the Portland Shakespeare Project, and is on the guest faculty at The Haven Institute in British Columbia.

MICHAEL MENDELSON Ensemble Michael is an Artistic Associate and Resident Artist with Artists Rep. Credits here include Cal in Mothers and Sons, The Price, Tribes, The Quality of Life, Mistakes Were Made, Ten Chimneys, Red Herring, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol, God

ACTOR & CREATIVE TEAM BIOS of Carnage, Superior Donuts, Design for Living, Holidazed, Becky’s New Car, Three Sisters, Eurydice, Orson’s Shadow, Mr. Marmalade, Theater District, Present Laughter and Love! Valour!

Compassion!. Local credits include Portland Shakespeare Project, OSF/ Portland, Profile Theatre, Northwest Classical, Miracle Theatre, triangle productions!, Tygres Heart Shakespeare, Portland Center Stage, A Contemporary Theatre, New Rose, Portland Rep. NYC credits include: Revolving Shakespeare Co., Theatre 1010, Lincoln Center/Clark StudioTheatre, Genesius Guild, The Barrow Group. Regional credits include: PCPA Theatrefest, Paper Mill Playhouse, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, Penobscot Theatre, Arkansas Rep, First Stage Milwaukee, Idaho Rep, Attic Theater and Wisconsin, Utah and Berkeley Shakespeare Festivals. Michael received a BFA from Wayne State University and an MFA from the University of Washington’s PATP. He is the Artistic Director of Portland Shakespeare Project.

VANA O’BRIEN Announcer/Ensemble Vana co-founded Artists Rep in 1981 with a small group of fellow theatre artists in the Portland YWCA. Since that time, she has worked on several different Portland stages and seen Artists Rep grow to its current size and well-respected status. Favorite Artists Rep roles include Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All For You, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Top Girls, Artificial Jungle, The Laramie Project, A Perfect Ganesh, Superior Donuts, The Big Meal, The Gin Game, 4000 Miles and Broomstick. Vana joined Artists Rep’s Southeast Asia Arts America tours in 1991 and 1994. She is a Resident Artist at Artists Rep and a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

CHRIS HARDER Ensemble Chris is delighted to return to the Artists Rep stage. Theatre credits include We Are Proud..., Intimate Apparel, Ten Chimneys, The History Boys, Chasing Empires Soul (Artists Rep); Cyrano, Othello, The Receptionist, Antigone, JAW (Portland Center Stage); Mother Teresa is Dead, Angels in America,

Twelfth Night (Portland Playhouse); The Turn of the Screw (Portland Shakespeare Project); Fishing For My Father, The Centering (original solo works); The Snowstorm (Many Hats/ CoHo); The Yellow Wallpaper, Fool For Love (CoHo); Shining City (Third Rail); One Day (Sojourn). Chris was a founding member of the Sowelu Theatre Ensemble for seven seasons, he holds a degree in theatre from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and trained with Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, MA. He is a faculty member of Portland Actors Conservatory and offers private classes and coaching here at Artists Rep. www.chrisharder.com

LAUREN MODICA Fortune Teller/ Ensemble Lauren proudly makes her Artists Rep debut with The Skin of Our Teeth. Local credits and companies include Portland Center Stage (Mrs. Cratchitt in Second City Presents: Twist Your Dickens, JAW 2014, Our Town); Vertigo/Anonymous Theater (Tituba, The Crucible); Defunkt (Ruth, In the Forest She Grew Fangs, Jessica, Undiscovered Country); Northwest Classical (Fool, King Lear); PAE (Queen/Belarius, Cymbeline);Willamette Shakespeare (Verges, Much Ado about Nothing); Rose in Gretchen Icenogle’s Trailing Colors and others.

DÁMASO J. RODRIGUEZ Telegraph Boy This is Dámaso’s first show at Artists Rep. He was last seen onstage as Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol at A Noise Within Theatre in Los Angeles. A 4th-grade student at West Tualatin View Elementary School, he enjoys playing sports (football, soccer and basketball) and is a big Miami Dolphins fan.

EVA RODRIGUEZ Wooly Mammoth After spending most of her life backstage and in the audience, Eva is thrilled to finally make her acting debut at Artists Rep. She is a 1st-grade student at West Tualatin View Elementary School. She enjoys theatre, ice skating and spending time with her friends and family.

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SKY JUDE Dinosaur Sky is excited to be making his theatrical debut as the Dinosaur in The Skin Of Our Teeth.

You can hear Sky’s voice as Ike in Season 16 of South Park and can see his face in the poster for Mothers and Sons! Sky is currently in 2nd grade and spends his free time in Tae Kwon Do, playing drums and obsessing about sharks.

MEGAN WILKERSON Scenic Designer An Artists Rep Resident Artist, Megan has designed for Exiles and XMAS UNPLUGGED. Megan is a member of the women’s theatre company The Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago, a founding member of the artistic collective Bad Soviet Habits and the Resident Scenic Designer for Bag&Baggage Productions. Megan has worked with a bevy of local companies including Teatro Milagro (Opcion Multiple, American Night); Portland Center Stage (Assistant Designer - Clybourne Park); deFunkt (The Children’s Hour, Betty’s Summer Vacation); Theatre Vertigo (Jekyll & Hyde, The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents); Northwest Classical Theatre (Wait Until Dark, Mary Stuart) and Bag&Baggage Productions (The Crucible, The Merry Wives of Windsor).

Work with other companies includes Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Next Act Theatre, The Skylight Opera, First Stage Children’s Theatre, Michigan Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre and the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. As a Design Assistant, Megan spent two seasons at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (American Night, The Music Man, Ruined).

KRISTEEN WILLIS CROSSER Lighting Designer Kristeen received her BA from Centre College in Danville, KY and received her MFA in lighting design from Wayne State University Hilberry Company in Detroit, MI. Previously, she designed lights for several Artists Rep productions, including

CREATIVE TEAM BIOS The Miracle Worker, The Understudy, Tribes, Foxfinder, The Cherry Orchard and Eurydice. She designed the set for Grand Concourse, We are Proud to Present…, Broomstick, 4000 Miles and Foxfinder. She has designed scenery and/or lighting for several area theatres including Northwest Children Theatre’s Shrek the Musical; Profile Theatre’s True West and Master Harold and the Boys (2013 Drammy) and Thief River; CoHo Production’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and The Outgoing Tide; Miracle Theatre’s Oedipus El Rey (2012 Drammy); and Third Rail Repertory Theatre’s The Aliens, A Bright New Boise (2014 Drammy) and Gideon’s Knot (2014 Drammy).

GREGORY PULVER Costume Designer Gregory is currently Theater Program Director and Associate Professor of costume design, make up and choreography for the University of Portland Drama Department. Mr. Pulver holds an MFA in costume design and choreography from Humboldt State University, CA. He is the 1993 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Costume Design Winner for his work on Three Penny Opera. He is a member of the international board of advisors for The Last Frontier Theatre Conference and participates yearly as a guest artist, mentoring new American playwrights.

He has designing both sets and costumes for Bag and Baggage Theatre, and costumes for Broadway Rose Theatre and Artists Rep (Broomstick, Cuba Libre, Foxfinder, God of Carnage, Red Herring and Design for Living). Gregory is also an accomplished director, singer, actor and dog owner.

RODOLFO ORTEGA Sound Designer Rodolfo received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the University of Arizona and his Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music where he studied piano and composition. He has composed music and designed sound for the recent productions of Artist Rep’s Broomstick, The Understudy and The Liar.

Additionally he has composed several musicals for Northwest Children’s Theater including Hansel and Gretel,

Snow White, Pinocchio, El Zorrito, Little Mermaid and Peter Pan. Rodolfo has also composed the scores for The Monster-Builder at Aurora Theater, Tenth Muse for OSF, and Romeo and Juliet and Three Musketeers for Denver Center. He has also composed many of the productions at Santa Cruz Shakespeare where he is the Associate Artist in Composition, including their recent productions of Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Man in the Iron Mask and Henry the Fourth Part One and Part Two. Rodolfo is a Resident Artist here at Artists Rep.

JOSIE BENEDETTI Assistant Costume Designer Josie is a recent graduate of the University of Portland with a degree in Theatre Design. She is excited to be joining Artists Rep for her first production helping as an assistant designer. Previously she has designed at the University of Portland for productions of Stop Kiss, Julia Caesar and Adding Machine. She has also helped with Mocks Crest on their production of Iolanthe.

Invisible Hand, The Price and Tribes; this year, she has coached Cuba Libre, Broomstick, The Miracle Worker, Grand Concourse and We Are Proud to Present…

As house coach for Portland Center Stage, she managed Threesome and Three Days of Rain, which featured two stars from the NBC hit show Grimm, who she also coaches. Listen for her work on Streetcar Named Desire at PCS as well! Her favorite new client is Patrick Stewart.

LUAN SCHOOLER Dramaturg Luan honed her dramaturgy chops at Perseverance Theatre in Alaska and at Berkeley Rep, where she served as Literary Manager/Dramaturg. She has also worked at Denver Center Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, Cleveland Play House, and other regional theatres.

Luan joined Artists Rep in April 2015 to lead the new play development program, Table|Room|Stage, and this season served as dramaturg on The Miracle Worker and We Are Proud to Present…

EMILY WILKEN Props Master A graduate of Illinois State University’s Scenic Design Program, Emily works with a variety of materials and with various age groups, musicians, organizations and budgets. She enjoyed three seasons in Illinois Shakespeare Festival Prop Shop, has led mural and public arts projects, and has spearheaded puppetry workshops at public schools, libraries and the Children’s Discovery Museum. In addition she’s worked with several companies in the area including Northwest Classical Theatre Company, Action/Adventure Theatre, Lincoln High School, Profile, Valley Repertory Theatre and Enlightened Theatrics.

MARY MCDONALD LEWIS Dialect Coach Mary McDonald-Lewis has been a professional artist since 1979. She resides in Portland, Oregon, and is an international dialect coach for film, television and stage. She also works as a voice actor, on-camera actor, stage actor and director. Last season at Artists Rep, MaryMac coached Intimate Apparel, Blithe Spirit, The

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CREATIVE TEAM BIOS JONATHAN COLE Fight Choreographer Jonathan has worked throughout the Northwest as a director, actor and fight director, and is a tenured faculty member of the Theatre Department at Willamette University. He is one of two Society of American Fight Directors Certified Teachers of stage combat in Oregon, and co-owns Revenge Arts, one of the largest stage combat consortiums in the United States. His choreography is most often seen on Artists Repertory Theatre’s stage, where he recently choreographed fights for Grand Concourse, We Are Proud…, The Miracle Worker, The Understudy, The Liar, Exiles, The Playboy of the Western World and The Monster-Builder, and on Third Rail’s stage, where he choreographed Belleville, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Middletown and The Mystery of Irma Vep. Jonathan’s choreography has also been seen at Portland Shakespeare Project, Clackamas Repertory Theatre and Profile Theatre.

MICHELLE JAZUK

JOSHUA RIPPY

Production Stage Manager

Assistant Director

As a stage manager in Portland theatre for the past decade, it has been Michelle’s pleasure to collaborate with several companies. She has worked with Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Broadway Rose Theatre, Theatre Vertigo, Staged!, and also, Third Rail Repertory (A Bright New Boise, A Noble Failure, Penelope). However, her usual home was always with Artists Rep where some of her favorite projects include Tribes, The Big Meal, Ten Chimneys, God of Carnage, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, All My Sons, House, Garden, Orson’s Shadow and Theatre District. Chelle is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Joshua is currently in the last leg of receiving his MFA in Directing from the University of Portland.

Joshua has worked at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise Contemporary Theater and The Hilberry Repertory Theater. He is the former founder and producing artistic director of both HomeGrown Theater in Boise, Idaho and Drastic Theater Company in Detroit, Michigan.

D WESTERHOLM Assistant Stage Manager Portland Stage Management credits include Blue Door, The Call, 2013 Sam Shepard Season, 2014 Sarah Ruhl Season, The Road to Mecca (Profile Theatre); The Price (Artists Rep); The Light in the Piazza (Portland Playhouse).

Oregon Shakespeare Festival, non-equity Assistant Stage Manager credits include The Unfortunates (2013), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2013), Troilus and Cressida (2012), The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa (2012), Julius Caesar (2011), The African Company Presents Richard III (2011). BA in Theatre Management from Western Washington University, MFA in Stage Management from Columbia University.

ESTHER MCFADEN Production Assistant

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Esther is excited to return to Portland after spending the season at Trinity Repertory Company as the stage management intern. She graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Stage and Production Management and a BA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing in 2015. Favorite credits include the 2013 Summer Shakespeare Festival (SM Intern) at The Old Globe, Julius Caesar, The Heidi Chronicles, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Blues for Mister Charlie at Trinity Rep, and The World Goes ‘Round (SM).

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SUNDANCE WILSON HENRY Lead Wardrobe Sundance has worked professionally in theatrical design in six states over the past 17 years. Her favorite design projects have been scenic and costume design for Proof and Guys and Dolls Jr. at Jackson, Mississippi’s New Stage Theatre, scenic design and painting for Brownville (Nebraska) Village Theatre’s Off the Map, scenic construction and painting for Atlanta’s Essential Theatre and Seattle’s Tap Root Theatre, and most recently scenic and costume design for Battle Ground High School’s Grease, Much Ado About Nothing, The Outsiders, Taming of the Shrew, and Father of the Bride. She has also worked backstage with Artists Rep in Holidazed, Three Sisters, Hillsboro Story, and Ten Chimneys.

CHARLIE CAPPS Deck Crew Charlie is thrilled to be a part of the crew on his very first professional show. Charlie graduated from Arts and Communications Magnet Academy high school in 2015 where he worked on productions such as a student adaptation of Coraline, Evil Dead The Musical and Pride and Prejudice. He also participated in the Summer Musical Intensive where he designed and built the set for Once Upon A Mattress. For the past three months he has been here at Artists Rep as an intern in the scene shop and alongside stage management, where he has worked on Mothers and Sons, We are Proud to Present..., Grand Concourse and The Skin of Our Teeth.

We built the set, sewed the costumes, adjusted the lights, called the cues, and rehearsed, and rehearsed, and rehearsed.

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Priscilla & Nick Cowell Susan Cowles John Crabbe & Jeri Jenowsky Phyllis Crary Bruce Croffy Graham & Peggy Crow Joel Datloff & Linda Wiener Elaine Davis Richard Day Barbara & George Dechet Carolyn DeLany-Reif Becky Denham Jewel Derin Elaine & Bill Deutschman Janice Dolan De & Donald Doorlag Diana Dorney Steven Dotterrer Ed Doyle & Judy Posey Lynn Drake Jessica Duncan Ross Dwinell Heather Eberhardt Laury Ellis & Kathy Fode Myron D. Filene Greg & Carol Flakus Heidi Franklin Marc Franklin Rhonda & David Frick-Wright Dwain & Judith Fullerton Kay Gage & Ketan Sampat Alice Galloway Neely Seth & Susan Garber John & Chris Gardner Patrick Gleason & Susan Gratch Susan Glen Mary Jo Gillespie Andy Ginsburg & Danielle L. Erb Linda Gipe Gwendolyn & Bruce Graff Virginia & Jeff Graham Rob & Amanda Gratchner Patricia Gray Gretta Grimala Madeline Grimm Guayaki Yerba Mate Candace Haines John Hall John Hall & Jean Jensen Hall Meredith Hartley & Jeremiah Pyle Brian Hefele Thomas Hellie & Julie Olds Faye Henderson Laura Henderson Joe & Rita Henery William Herzberg Dean & Jen Hess Charles & Margaret Hickman Barbara & Ron Higbee Tom & Sandra Hill Amanda Hinsdale Lorill Hirschberger Ava Hoover Lynnette & Don Houghton Lois Hrella Kristine & Steve Hudson Carol & T.A. Hull Gary & Joy Hunt Robert & Cecilia Huntington Intel Involved Volunteer Matching Grant Lois Isbell Constance Jackson & Xavier Le Héricy Alice Jacobson & AJ Arriola David & Colleen Jannuzzi Katharine Jansen Colleen & Jeff Johnson Phyllis Johnson Lynne Johnston Erika & Tom Kane Steve & Anita Kaplan Ron & Ruth Katon Marianne Keddington-Lang & William Lang Karen Kemper Nancy Kennaway Karen Kervin Janice Kettler Heather Kientz Doris & Eric Kimmel Larry King & Daniel Hutchison Frederick Kirchhoff Anneliese Knapp Tom & Judy Kovaric

Norman Krasne & Sarah Duvall Diana Kruger & Olivia Gray Ted Labbe & Kelly Rogers Robert & Helen Ladarre Storm Large David Larsen Elyse & Ron Laster Susan Lavin Brenda Lee Molly Lee & Tad Craig Robert & Susan Leeb Richard Lewis & Meg Larson Literary Arts Ralph London Mary E. Hay Long Henry C. Louderbough Jane Luddecke & Robert Anderson Glenn & Rhee Luft Dr. Christine Mackert Sheila Mahan Jim & Midge Main Caroline Mann Linda L. Mann John & Renee Manson Michael & Deborah Marble Ellen Margolis Joann Marks Susannah Mars & Gary Johnson Stacey Martinson & Brad Sealy Nancy Matthews Bruce & Joyce Maxwell Lynn Mayer Robert McAdams Carla McKelvey William J McKinney Anne & Kathy McLaughlin Ruth Medak Deb & Erich Meihoff Mariellen Meisel Michael Mendelson & Tim Thompson Libby Merwin Jim & Audrey Metcalfe Jeannette & Bill Meyer Judy Miller Michael & Denise Millhollen in memory of Bertha Millhollen Kate & Jack Mills JJ Miner Susan & Greg Miner Monique’s Boutique Connie Morgan Nancy & Art Moss Robert Moyer Muscadine Restaurant Alix & Wei Nathan John & Johanna Niemitz Robert Nimmo Bennie Norris Northwest Children’s Theatre Terry O’Brien Bob & Bonnie Olds Carlton & Roberta Olson Oregon Symphony Elsa Ostergaard Pairings Portland Nancy Park Judy Parker & Albert Passadore Kathy Parker Beth Parmenter & Alan Miller Doris Pascoe Katherine Patricelli & Dennis Reichelt Gordon & Sondra Pearlman Jan & Bill Perry Mark & Judy Peterman Philip Peterson Marilyn & Gaynor Petrequin Kevin Phaup Donna Philbrick Pink Martini Roger Porter Terrance & Barbara Porter Portland Actors Conservatory Portland Center Stage

Portland Shakespeare Project Dee Poujade Robert Powers Elizabeth Pratt & Philip Thor Profile Theatre Alan Purdy Carole Quick Ana Quinn Jay & Barbara Ramaker Dick & Linda Reedy Ed Reeves & Bill Fish Isaac Regenstreif Dave & Marili Reilly Betty & Jacob Reiss Jim & Judy Rice Martha & David Richards Rebecca Robinson, In memory of Gary D. Robinson Charles & Judith Rooks Barbara Rose Kathryn Ross Ms. Cara Rozell Laurens & Judith Ruben Rich & Joan Rubin Joanne & James Ruyle Rick & Halle Sadle Jane Sage Darrell Salk & Tricia Knoll John T. Sarr Sasquatch Brewing Company William & Meredith Savery Ann Savitt Sheldon & Jean Schiager Linda Schmidt Luan Schooler Jean Scott & Myrth Ogilvie Joyce Semradek David & Frances Sessions Gil Sharp & Anne Saxby Mary & KC Shaw Laurel & Dan Simmons Skamania Lodge Constance Smith Karen & E. Baird Smith Patricia & Robert Smythe Sniff Dog Hotel Neil Soiffer & Carolyn Smith Martha Spence Barbara & Bill Stalions Phil Stanton Marcia D. Starr Paul Steger & Pat Ferguson-Steger Marc Stein Kathleen & Leigh Stephenson-Kuhn Fran Storrs Milan & Jean Stoyanov Pat & Larry Strausbaugh Scott Stuart & Brenda Meltebeke Ruthe Taber Gary Taliaferro Roberta Taussig Bahram & Susan Tavakolian Theatre Vertigo Third Rail Repertory Theatre Margaret Thompson Marilee Thompson Tracy Thornton Karen Tobin Robert Todd Pam Triplett Don & Sue Trotter Jean Tyler & Bruce Rothman University of Portland Theatre Department Roberta & Ward Upson Stephen Urion Kathy & Ron Varekamp David & Julie Verburg Julie & Ted Vigeland Pamela Vohnson & David Streight Voicebox Karaoke Sue & Jim Walcutt Marilyn Walkey & Mike McClain Judi & J. Wandres Janet F. Warrington Robert & Ann Watt Frederick Wearn George Weghorst Barbara Wegner Robert Weil Mike & Linda Wells Victoria Wetle

STAFF Artistic Director: Dámaso Rodriguez Managing Director: Sarah Horton

ARTISTIC

Artistic Producer: Shawn Lee Artistic Associate: Michael Mendelson Visiting Artistic Associate: Jerry Tischleder Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy: Luan Schooler Resident Artists: Linda Alper, Ayanna Berkshire, Owen Carey, Kristeen Willis Crosser, Chris Harder, JoAnn Johnson, Kevin Jones, Val Landrum, Sarah Lucht, Susannah Mars, Gilberto Martin Del Campo, Mary McDonaldLewis, Michael Mendelson, Allen Nause, Amy Newman, Vana O’Brien, Rodolfo Ortega, Sharath Patel, Gregory Pulver, John San Nicolas, Vin Shambry, Andrea Stolowitz, Joshua Weinstein, Megan Wilkerson

ADMINISTRATIVE

Director of Finance & Administration: Jim Neuner Finance & Administrative Assistant, Casting Associate: Vonessa Martin

MARKETING & AUDIENCE SERVICES

Communications Director: Nicole Lane Marketing Director: Sarah Bills Marketing & Publications Manager: Jessica Gleason Digital & Graphic Design Specialist: Jeff Hayes Music Events Specialist: Susannah Mars Audience Services Manager: Karen Rathje Assistant Audience Services Manager: Christina DeYoung Box Office Systems Manager: Jon Younkin Kristin Wheary Ethel Wheatley David Wheeler Susan Whereat Karen Whitaker Elizabeth White Karen Whitman & Brad Shiley Larry & Erleen Whitney Carol Ann & Patrick Wohlmut Rick Woodford & Gregory Pulver Lora & Andy Woodruff Susan Woods Aileen & Duncan Wyse Cynthia Yee Yoga Pearl John & Pat Zagelow

P 16 Artists Repertory Theatre

Box Office Associates: Jessie Duncan, Jessica Hillenbrand, Jack Ridenour House Managers: Jessie Duncan, Karl Hanover, Valerie Liptak, Tara McMahon, Cecily Overman Concessions: Jessie Duncan, Karl Hanover, Tim Thompson, Jennifer Zubernick Resident Photographer: Owen Carey Video: ShutterSky Pictures

DEVELOPMENT

Development Director: Sarah Taylor Donor Relations Specialist: Laura Murray

PRODUCTION

Production Supervisor: Jon Plueard Associate Technical Director: Rudy Schuepbach Resident Production Stage Managers: Michelle Jazuk, Carol Ann Wohlmut Master Carpenters: Nathan Crone, Eddie Rivera Master Electrician: Ruth Nardecchia Scenic Charge: Sarah Kindler Production Intern: Charlie Capps

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Marcia Darm, MD, Chair* Mike Barr, Vice-Chair Susanne Dziepak Kuhn, Treasurer* Michele Bowler-Failing, Secretary* Cody Hoesly, Past Chair* Julie Ball Jeffrey Condit Denise Frisbee* Patricia Garner Andrew Glass Blake Johnson Michael Parsons Andrea Schmidt Barbara Sepenuk Elisa Wickstrom* * Member of the Executive Committee