Bag&Baggage - Rope / The Best of Everything

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BAG&BAGGAGE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Carol Beauchamp Julie Case Karl Citek Lisa Curry Lisa DuPre’ Kathy Gaona Sherry Lamoreaux Beth Lewis

Eric Lewis Patricia Logan Linda Morrisson Gayle Nachtigal (chair) Scott Palmer Jan Simmons Donna Swanson K. Marie Tyler

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THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

by Rona Jaffe Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service

ROPE

by Patrick Hamilton

Presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH Directed by Rusty Tennant

Adapted by Julie Kramer Developed with Amy Wilson Directed by Michelle Milne

The 2015–2016 Season generously sponsored by Ronni Lacroute and WillaKenzie Estate

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THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

by Rona Jaffe

Presented by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Adapted by Julie Kramer Developed with Amy Wilson Directed by Michelle Milne Generously Sponsored by Steve And Marilyn Gray of John L. Scott Real Estate

CAST CAROLINE BENDER ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Cassie Greer* MARY AGNES RUSSO ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Jessi Walters* APRIL MORRISON ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Kaia Hillier AMANDA FARROW ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Morgan Cox GREGG ADAMS �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Arianne Jacques* BRENDA ZALESKI ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Stephanie Leppert EDDIE HARRIS �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Andrew Beck* ALL OTHER MEN �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Joey Copsey*

CREW/PRODUCTION TEAM Guest Director ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Michelle Milne Stage Manager/Props Mistress ������������������������������������������������������������������������������Emily Trimble Resident Costume Designer �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Melissa Heller Resident Scenic Designer �������������������������������������������������������������������������������Megan Wilkerson Resident Lighting Designer �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Molly Stowe Sound Design ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Scott Palmer Assistant Stage Manager ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ephriam Harsberger Run Crew ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Matthew Hays

* Member of the Bag&Baggage Resident Acting Company, sponsored by David and Shirley Woodford.

This performance lasts approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes with one 15-minute intermission.

Please turn off your cell phone and remember, photography and recording are strictly prohibited.

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DIRECTOR’S NOTES By Michelle Milne A recent article in Harvard Business Review quoted research showing that women arrive at new jobs with more ambition than their male counterparts.

Two years into that same job, women’s ambition dropped significantly while men’s stayed the same. A similar article in New York Magazine was titled, “How Companies Crush Women’s Ambitions.”

Public comments on these articles included virtual head nods of recognition; this phenomenon is familiar. Others predictably hypothesized that women don’t want traditional “success”—a singular focus on work to the point of compromising their physical, emotional, or relationship health.

One thing that originally struck me about The Best of Everything is its rhythms. The rhythms of an office in a city, contrasting with the rhythms of relationships, or of a ship (a dream?) sailing away.

How do we navigate the rhythms of work and love? Do we walk on prescribed paths, making sharp turns, following expectations? Or do we look for something different, winding around and through the areas outside of expectations? These rhythms informed our staging.

We also found repetition. The word “ambition” is repeated multiple times in the script, so much so that we, as cast and production team, wondered if it was too much. But then we started talking about what is “too much” in relation to ambition, especially related to women’s ambition? Is even the hint of it “too much”?

Mike Rice tells Caroline she’s “damn smart,” then warns her to “be careful who knows it.”

“And here I thought that was a compliment,” she says.

These lines remind me of many recent studies and commentary on how men and women are perceived differently in the workplace. Men who stay late at work are “dedicated;” women are “selfish.” Men are “brilliant;” women are “bossy.”

How do we feel about ambition? What does “being ambitious” look like? And how does the gender of someone who is “ambitious” play into our feelings about whether or not ambition is a strength or a character fault?

Caroline is described as ambitious at work, while other characters could be described as ambitious in love. What happens when someone tries to be ambitious in both love and work? Is it possible, really, to achieve the best of everything?

Interchangeability also plays a role in the rhythms of this play. In our production, desks and other objects are interchangeable, so it doesn’t matter where someone sits or which typewriter is used. Secretaries are interchangeable, so it doesn’t matter who does the work—or which one the boss decides to kiss. Books are interchangeable, so people buy them for the titles and don’t care what they say. Even the men are interchangeable.

One turns into another, and another, each serving a role and then disappearing, at least for a while.

We might think, at the start of the play, that the women are interchangeable as well. Eddie exchanges one woman for another. The women in the typing pool all appear almost identical at first glance.

in cookie-cutter offices and homes, bringing order to society. Secretaries type until they get married. Married women love being married. Single women are vaguely untrustworthy. Men hide in back offices with whiskey and mistresses. Men run the world, women support them.

It all seems as structured and predictable as the rhythm of typewriter keys clacking, a “ding” as each line ends, following responsible margins, each page nearly indistinguishable from the next. Interchangeable typists, interchangeable pages, interchangeable stories.

And yet—one thing I love about this play is that the sheen cracks, the typing is interrupted, and real lives emerge. Each page turns out to hold a unique story.

And those stories are messy— just as messy as our lives are.

Rona Jaffe found in her interviews with office women of the time that they had affairs, abortions, anxiety about being old maids—in short, she found that they were complex people, living complex lives.

That, to me, is a relief. When what we see are postcard-perfect images of another era, we forget that real human beings lived in that era.

We think we “know” who April is, or Gregg, or Mary Agnes, as soon as we see them. When we think “1950s secretary pool,” we have a sense of what that means. And then we discover that the generic “pool” is made up of individual women, each navigating intertwining worlds of work and love, pursuing dreams, facing heartbreak, and making surprising—and very human— choices. Just like us.

Our culture encourages us to make people (particularly women) interchangeable. The Best of Everything reminds us that they (and we) are not.

–Michelle Milne, Guest Director

When we think of the 1950s, we may think of cookie-cutter women and men, with designated roles played out

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ACTOR BIOGRAPHIES ANDREW BECK*

(EDDIE)

Andrew holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oregon. This is Andrew’s second year as a member of Bag&Baggage’s Resident Acting Company. You may have seen Mr. Beck in Bag&Baggage’s last season in Our Country’s Good (as Ralph Clark); Dial “M” for Murder (as Tony Wendice) and in Love’s Labour’s Lost (as The King of Navarre). Other companies A.W. Beck has worked for include Oregon Contemporary Theatre, The Majestic Theatre, Willamette Stage Company, Nebraska Repertory Theatre and The Ludlow Festival (England). Other favorite roles include: The Great Gatsby (as Jay Gatsby); The Seagull (as Trigorn); In The Next Room (as Dr. Givings) and Frankenstein’s Bride (as The Monster).

Andrew is a current member of Infinite Improv and works as a financial advisor in his family’s practice when he is not making loud noises in front of paying audiences. Andrew is lucky to have such great family, friends, and wife.

JOEY COPSEY*

(MIKE, DAVID, MR. SHALIMAR, RONNIE)

Joey received his primary theatrical training at Hiram College in Ohio. Having grown up on the south Oregon Coast Joey returned to Oregon after college and has worked on stage intermittently in the years since around the Portland area. This is his second show as a resident actor with Bag&Baggage, having just performed in B&B’s incomparable Richard III. He has recently appeared for Valley Repertory Theatre in All My Sons (as Chris Keller); For Faultline ensemble in Holding onto the Sky (as Scott); as well as a reading of Spokesong (as Francis) with Corrib Theatre. Some notable productions include Antony and Cleopatra (as Marc Antony); How the Other Half Loves (as Frank Foster); and Caucasian Chalk Circle (as Azdak) at Hiram College. More recently, at Portland Community College, he appeared in Judevine (as David); and Woyzech (as The Captain). Joey lives in Portland and when not acting spends as much time as he can with his incredible P4 | BAG&BAGGAGE THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

friends and family. He also runs a small residential contracting business, and just generally tries to be useful.

MORGAN COX

(AMANDA FARROW)

Morgan holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA, and a BA in Theatre Arts from Santa Clara University. Morgan most recently performed in The Oregon Trail (as Mary Anne) as part of The Hearth Collective’s Kilroy Readings, at Portland Center Stage. She has also performed locally in the Fertile Ground Festival, as well as the JAW Festival, at Portland Center Stage. You might recognize her from The Hallmark Channel’s animated Christmas specials Jingle All the Way (as Andrew’s mom) and Jingle and Bell’s Christmas Star (also as Adam’s mom) which were produced locally at Bent Image Lab, in SE Portland. Morgan participated in the acting apprentice programs and performed on stage at both The Williamstown Theatre Festival and Berkshire Theatre Festival. She is a Portland native and THRILLED to be a part of the Bag&Baggage family!

CASSIE GREER*

(CAROLINE BENDER)

Cassie received her training in the MFA Acting program at Florida Atlantic University, and the undergraduate theatre program at Goshen College in Indiana.

She has appeared with a number of companies around the country, some of her favorite shows being with New World Arts: Hello and Goodbye (as Hester) and Lysistrata (as Lysistrata); Shared Space: David’s Redhaired Death (as Jean); Festival Rep. Boca Raton: Company (Sarah) and Twelfth Night (as Olivia); South Bend Civic: Intimate Apparel (as Mrs. VanBuren); and Oregon Children’s Theatre: Gathering Blue (as Katrina) and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (as Unicorn). Cassie is a proud Resident Acting Company member at Bag&Baggage, where she has appeared in sixteen shows since the 2011–12 season. Her favorites include Our Country’s Good (as Duckling & Tench); The Six Gentlepersons of Verona (as Proteus); Dial “M” for

Murder (as Margot Wendice); The Great Gatsby (as Daisy Buchanan); Julius Caesar (Mark Antony); Of Mice and Men (as Curley’s Wife); and Crimes of the Heart (as Meg Magrath). A huge advocate of theatre training and education, Cassie is a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, and actively teaches acting and voice students in the greater Portland area, in addition to working with Bag&Baggage’s educational outreach, professional development, and community engagement programs. She wouldn’t be here without Danny, and is incredibly grateful to her family and friends for their continual love, support and energy.

KAIA MAARJA HILLIER

(APRIL MORRISON)

Kaia is a core member of the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival and is a company and board member of the Pulp Stage. Bag&Baggage credits include: The Six Gentlepersons of Verona (as Speed/Duke) and Julius Caesar (as Lucius). Recent roles include: BOX (as Jane) with the Pulp Stage; Born Yesterday (as Billy) with Readers Theatre Gresham; Much Ado About Nothing (as Margaret) with Northwest Classical; Romeo & Juliet (as Juliet)—winning the Best Actress Award in the Portland Outdoor Shakespeare Festival—with OPS Fest; Noises Off! (as Poppy) with Nutz-n-Boltz; Urinetown (as Josephine) with PSU; Dog Sees God (as C.B’s Sister) with CoHo Theatre; Holidazed (as Gremlin) with Artists Repertory Theatre; and Columbinus (as Rebel) with Blue Monkey Theatre. Kaia is a costume designer and also performs in her Estonian folk dance troupe, Tulehoidjad.

When not acting, Kaia is a teacher at the Ainsworth Aftercare Program. Thank you and much love to her amazing sister Clara and her mother Lena.

ARIANNE JACQUES*

(GREGG ADAMS)

Arianne holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Theater Arts from Oregon State University. Over the past eight seasons with Bag&Baggage Productions, favorite roles include: The Importance of Being Ernest (as Gwendolyn); Crimes of the Heart (as

ACTOR BIOGRAPHIES Babe); The Great Gatsby (as Jordan); Private Lives (as Sibyl); Love’s Labour’s Lost (as Rosaline); The Crucible (as Abigail Williams); The Six Gentlepersons of Verona (as Julia); and most recently Our Country’s Good (as Mary Brenham).

Arianne is honored to be a member of Bag&Baggage’s Resident Acting Company for the third consecutive season. She has been working as a box officer for the company since 2009, and is now the Patron Services Manager for B&B. When she is away from the theater, Arianne spends her time hanging out at Rùa (her partner’s new restaurant), reading, and watching nature documentaries. Arianne would like to thank Jason, Aurora, and her mom and pop for their endless love and support.

STEPHANIE LEPPERT

(BRENDA)

Stephanie holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in theatre from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (Los Angeles campus). She’s appeared on the Bag&Baggage stage a few seasons ago in Lear (as Cordelia) and Julius Caesar (as Portia). She’s also worked with Lakewood Theatre in South Pacific (as Nellie) and two winters in a row in White Christmas (as Rhoda).

Various other credits include Into the Woods (as Cinderella); Our Town (as Emily); Crimes of the Heart (as Meg); The Sound of Music (as Maria); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (as Olive); Twelfth Night (as Olivia); and Les Miserables (as Cosette). Be sure to come see her on stage this winter in A Taffeta Christmas at Broadway Rose in Tigard! In addition to performing, Stephanie is a licensed massage therapist and certified chiropractor’s assistant at Lula Health Center in SE Portland. Stephanie would like to thank her wonderful friends, family, and hunky boyfriend for being a foundation of constant love and support.

JESSI WALTERS*

(MARY AGNES RUSSO)

Jessi holds a BA in Theatre, Film, and Dance from Humboldt State University, and has also received training from Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE), and the Actor’s Academy in Southern California. Over the past four years in Portland, Jessi has been seen on stage with Post5 Theatre (Founding Company Member 2011–2014) in Romeo & Juliet (as Nurse); Arabian Nights (as the Jester’s Wife); The P&J Show (Co-host); with Northwest Classical Theater Company in Much Ado About Nothing (as Borachio); with Bag&Baggage in Julius Caesar (as Lucilius & Soothsayer); Lear (as Regan); Love’s Labour’s Lost (as Maria); The Crucible (as Ann Putnam), The Six Gentlepersons of Verona (as Launce, Silvia, Lucetta), and most recently in Our Country’s Good (as Dabby Bryant & Meg Long). Jessi is a proud member of the Bag&Baggage 2015–2016 Resident Acting Company, and is incredibly grateful for all the artistic opportunity that continues to unfold. In addition to main stage productions, she is also regularly featured in the Portland-based sketch comedy, Potty Talk, which is currently filming its third series. On the technical side, Jessi has had experience with mask design and construction, hair, wigs, makeup, props, and held the position of Lead Dresser for A Tuna Christmas with Oregon Repertory Theater (2012 & 2014). Her local and regional teaching credits include Catlin Gabel School, Northwest Children’s Theater, and Mira Costa College. When she isn’t performing, Jessi enjoys spending time with her loved ones, swimming at the river, talking shop into the wee hours of the morning, cuddling with her sweetie Phillip and their kitty, Cheri Cat, singing at karaoke joints, and having an all-around enjoyable time in life. Lots of love and thanks to Scott, Beth, the incredible Venetian staff, the City of Hillsboro, our volunteers, and the wonderful Bag&Baggage community.

Special thanks to Marcia Reyes for always being an avid supporter of Portland theatre and its actors. * = Member of the 2015–2016 Bag&Baggage Resident Acting Company BAG&BAGGAGE THE BEST OF EVERYTHING | P5

ROPE

by Patrick Hamilton Produced by Special Arrangement with Samuel French Directed by Rusty Tennant Generously Sponsored by Karl Citek & Patricia Logan and Ralph & Marilynn Helzerman

CAST WYNDHAM BRANDON ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Trevor Jackson CHARLES GRANILLO ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Nathan Dunkin KENNETH RAGLAN ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Joel Patrick Durham LEILA ARDEN �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Signe Larsen SIR JOHNSTONE ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Phillip Rudolph MRS DEBENHAM ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Victoria Blake RUPERT CADELL ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Michael Tuefel SABOT ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Alec Lugo

CREW/PRODUCTION TEAM Guest Director ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Rusty Tennant Stage Manager/Props Mistress ������������������������������������������������������������������������������Emily Trimble Resident Costume Designer �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Melissa Heller Resident Scenic Designer �������������������������������������������������������������������������������Megan Wilkerson Resident Lighting Designer �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Molly Stowe Sound Design ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Scott Palmer Assistant Stage Manager ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Amanda Kishlock

This performance lasts approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes with one 15-minute intermission.

Please turn off your cell phone and remember, photography and recording are strictly prohibited.

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DIRECTOR’S NOTES by Rusty Tennant these are exciting emotions for an audience to enjoy. However, my style is often highly interpretive.

To me it is the architecture of the house that became sacred, almost as a metaphor for the architect of a murder. It became a way for us to tear away the skin and see what really makes this play tick.

Naturalism: “Slice of life” theatre.

Time: The grandfather clock.

Like Hitchcock, I am fascinated by the use of time in this piece. The looming grandfather clock called for in the stage directions by the playwright is the heartbeat of our creative process, it’s pendulum constantly swinging like justice, quietly ticking like a time-bomb throughout the piece. Rupert’s monologue about it being “25 to 11” is the apex of the piece in my mind the way it carefully treads into a meta-theatre world while still keeping us firmly rooted in the reality of a moment of Naturalism.

Also, simply the notion of how we use time is a driving force; Brandon seems to operate out of boredom, little more than the manifestation of the pressure of time.

Space: The architecture of the house.

I am a designer as well as a director and so using the visual as a story telling element is a big part of what I love about theatre. I’m always asking more out of my sets and lights than for them to just be tools. Naturalism really relies on the presence of “the fourth wall” and thus activates a voyeuristic nature in its audience. To make the audience the judge and jury, or better yet, to make them God;

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I first learned about the differences between Realism and Naturalism while studying at The University of New Orleans by reading plays like Woyczek, Miss Julie, and The Lower Depths. I’ve had much to say about Realism as a style and its effect on the current state of theatre, but as a style, it is its corollary, Naturalism, that really excites me. In so many ways Naturalism solves the theatrical challenges that Realism took on. No more awkward blackouts and passages of time reminding the audience that they are in a play; no more clumsy changes of scenery pulling us out of the story. Naturalism is best defined as a “slice of life” and as an actor it is those rare opportunities when we can live a life fully, without interruption, that tend to be the most psychologically satiating.

Perspective.

Death and specifically murder, as this play so beautifully points out, are a matter of perspective.

There are many perspectives on death, but this play specifically references Nietzsche. Here are a few quotes that stuck with me while researching this play. I can’t help but imagine Brandon understanding these ideas as some sort of permission to do murder in the same way that someone else might use literature as a inspiration to shoot kids in a school, murder a politician, or defend a country:

For believe me, the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is to live dangerously!

–The Gay Science There is a certain right by which we may deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

–Human, All-Too-Human: THE PREVENTION OF SUICIDE The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

–Human, All-Too-Human: BAD HABITS IN REASONING Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die. –Human, All-Too-Human: OF REASONABLE DEATH Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself—a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

–The Gay Science You shall not steal! You shall not kill!

Such words were once called holy; before them people bowed their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself—robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

–Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Old and New Law-Tables One never perishes through anybody but oneself. –Twighlight of the Idols, Expeditions of an Untimely Man It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake —for in some cases it is a mistake.

–Twighlight of the Idols, Expeditions of an Untimely Man

ACTOR BIOGRAPHIES VICTORIA BLAKE

(MRS. DEBENHAM)

A huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock, Victoria is pleased to be making her debut performance at Bag&Baggage in Rope. She majored in Drama at San Diego State University and has trained with Des McAnuff, Edward Albee and Eve Ensler. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Women’s Studies from Old Dominion University in Virginia. Locally, Victoria has been seen in The Cherry Orchard (as Dunyasha) and All My Sons (as Sue), both at Artists Rep, and in To Kill a Mockingbird (as Mayella) at Public Playhouse, which earned her a Drammy for Best Supporting Actress. She has also won two Best Supporting Actress Awards from Portfolio Magazine in Virginia for her performances in Pterodactyls and The Vagina Monologues. Film/TV credits include The Kill Hole, Mandarose, Significant Mother, Portlandia and an Oregon Lottery commercial. Victoria is a Navy Veteran and served as a Corpsman, twice, during the first Gulf War and again after 9/11.

NATHAN DUNKIN

(CHARLES GRANILLO)

Nathan Dunkin was classically trained at East 15 Acting School in London where he received an M.A. in Acting. He last appeared at Bag&Baggage in Of Mice and Men (as Slim). As well as theatre, Nathan is increasingly involved in Portland’s film and television industries, having appeared in the local film Bucksville and TNT’s Leverage. He is also the voice of Dad on The Hallmark Channel’s locally produced claymation Christmas special Jingle all the Way. Past and favorite roles include: The School for Lies (as Frank); Dear Galileo (as Gabriel Vaughn) in Playwrights West, and a chorus member in BOB: A Life in Five Acts. Nathan is a proud member of Portland’s Theatre Vertigo.

JOEL PATRICK DURHAM

(KENNETH RAGLAN)

Joel is a proud member of the 2013–14 Third Rail Mentorship Program, and has spent the last seven years training with actors, teachers and companies that inspire him to improve his craft. He has been lucky enough to tour three shows with Oregon Children’s Theatre’s Educational Theatre Program, as well as one show with Tears of Joy. Past credits include: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (as Rosencrantz) and Hamlet (as Rosencrantz); the highly awarded Ablaze: an A Capella Musical Thriller (as Zeek); bobrauchenburgamerica (as Carl); Romeo and Juliet (as Mercutio); Twelfth Night (as Malvolio); A Midsommer Night’s Dreame (as Demetrius); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (as Captain Nemo); Fall of the House: Season 6 (as James); and Dog Sees God (as Beethoven). In March 2016, Joel will be producing and directing an original, semi-improvised horror thriller, Nesting, at the Shoebox theatre. When Joel is not in rehearsal, like a good Portlander, he enjoys biking, spending hours wondering in Powell’s, watching films, and drinking excessive amounts of coffee. He would like to thank the teachers that inspire him, the artists who see potential in him, and his family who support him.

TREVOR JACKSON

(BRANDON)

Trevor just graduated in June from Western Oregon University, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. There he appeared in many productions such as The Liar (as Dorante); Death

by Design (as Walter Pearce); The Ladies Man (as Dr. Molineaux); Deathtrap (as Clifford); Thoroughly Modern Millie (as Trevor Graydon); Pride and Prejudice; The Crucible; Romeo and Juliet; Spike Heels; Catastrophe; and Half a Block from Home. This is Trevor’s second performance at Bag&Baggage. He previously appeared in Richard III this past summer, where he played the young prince of York and had a whole bunch of quick changes.

When he’s not in the theatre, Trevor is usually reading a good book in a

corner somewhere, eating too many pancakes, or working out in the gym.

He’s thankful for the help of his father, many wonderful friends, and his past professors that have supported him throughout his career.

SIGNE LARSEN

(LEILA ARDEN)

Signe is thrilled to be making her Bag&Baggage debut as Miss Arden. A regular of Northwest Children’s Theater as a child, she was most recently seen in The Little Mermaid (as Sister/Havanna Girl) and the Drammy and PAMTA award winning Mary Poppins (as Ms. Andrew/ Mrs. Correy/Queen Victoria/Chimney Sweep/Doll/Banker), for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. She has also appeared at Lakewood Theatre in Spamalot!

(Ensemble); The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Ensemble, Fertile Ground Festival). Signe received her BFA in Acting from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where she was seen in Das Barbeqü (as Freya/River Maiden/ Valkyrie); Cloud 9 (as Edward/Victoria); and Bat Boy! The Musical (as Meredith).

She teaches at both Oregon Children’s Theatre and Northwest Children’s Theater, and has aspirations for The Oregon Shakespeare Festival. When not on stage, Signe plays fiddle and sings in a Pirate band, frequents Renaissance Faires, sails Tall Ships, and plays with her cat, Genghis Khan. She is a seamstress, knitter, mask maker, and all around crafter.

PHILLIP RUDOLPH

(SIR JOHNSTONE)

Phillip is a Portland based actor with a long history of performances on stage and screen.

You may have seen him on television in either Grimm or Leverage, or onstage with Willamette Radio Workshop, Stumptown Stages, Portland Playhouse, or Theatre Vertigo. Recent credits include Mr. Gower in It’s A Wonderful Life for Stumptown, Mr. Doolittle in Pygmalion with Portland Playhouse, the Graverdigger in Hamlet for Northwest Classical, Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar for Northwest Classical, and Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor for Northwest Classical.

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ACTOR BIOGRAPHIES ALEC LUGO

(SABOT)

Alec is currently a senior at Pacific University pursuing a BA in Theatre Performance and Film Production. While at university, he has performed in several productions, including Our Town; Burial at Thebes; Melancholy Play (as Lorenzo the Unfeeling); Romeo and Juliet (as The Nurse); The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden (as Ma ‘Kate’ Kirby); and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (as William Barfée). Other acting credits include Oklahoma! (as Ali Hakim); Loot (as Harold McLeavy); and The Tempest (as Trinculo) at Aloha Performing Arts Company. Technical credits include Portland Shakespeare Project, Corrib Theatre, and Broadway Rose Musical Theatre Company. This is his first Bag&Baggage production.

Besides his studies, Alec enjoys reading, playing video games, watching films and

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spending time with his close friends.

He also works as a freelance graphic designer, and has created graphics for Playwrights West, Aloha Performing Arts Company, Pacific University, and Corrib Theatre, where he is the resident graphic designer. He contributes to several collaborative and independent art blogs where he makes posts regularly.

Alec would like to thank his university professors and his parents, Mary and Victor Lugo, for their continuous encouragement, support and love.

MICHAEL TUEFEL

(RUPERT CADELL)

Michael is delighted to be making his debut with Bag&Baggage after many years treading the boards of Portland. Most recent stage roles include Buffy the Vampire Slayer–a Parody Musical (as Merrick) and Nimbus Monologues (as Nimbus).

Favorite roles have included As Is (as

Saul) for Key Productions (Michael’s first collaboration with the talented Rusty Newton Tennant) and Cupid and Pstyche (as Apollo) for Stark Raving Theatre. Film credits include Bigger Than The Sky in which Michael had the tremendous joy of working with Oscar winner Patty Duke. Michael is a cofounder of The Well Arts Institute, an arts in healthcare organization employing the transformative power of storytelling as a means of wellness. “I am delighted to be back in the town of my birth; many years ago my Grandmother Margaret encouraged me to walk over to the theater and audition—almost 20 years later, here I am again, happily so”. As always, for Diane.

CREW BIOGRAPHIES (The Best of Everything and Rope) CASSIE GREER

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN MANAGER

Since 2005, Cassie has worked with theaters, arts organizations, and training programs across the country, connecting with communities, facilitating events, educating actors, and helping to build frameworks that allow these organizations thrive. As a performer herself, Cassie received her training in the MFA Acting program at Florida Atlantic University, and the BA Theatre program at Goshen College in Indiana. Behind the scenes, she has worked as a Production Manager, Event Manager, and Production Stage Manager at the Goshen College Music Center; as Event Coordinator for New World Arts (Goshen, Ind.); as Publicity Coordinator for the Florida Atlantic University Department of Theatre and Dance; and as the Ten4One/ PASSPORT Coordinator, “Think It” Project Manager, and Professional Development Program Coordinator right here at Bag&Baggage. Cassie began working with Bag&Baggage as an actor in the summer of 2011, shortly after moving to Oregon, and is a proud founding member of B&B’s Resident Acting Company. Her current work with the company unites her passion for challenging, engaging live performance experiences with her passion for promoting the presence of arts organizations within communities, helping to ensure their success; she is grateful to be able to call Bag&Baggage her artistic home.

EPHRIAM HARNSBERGER

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER (The Best of Everything)

Ephriam recently graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Creighton University. Over the last four years, he has been involved in several productions in the Midwest as part of the production team including Othello (SM); The South Omaha Stories (SM/AD); The Spitfire Grill (SM/AD); The Tempest (ASM); Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged] (ASM); Titus Andronicus (ASM); Twelfth Night (ASM); Phantom (AD); Dames at Sea (SM); Almost, Maine (SM); Julius Caesar (ASM); and Comedy of Errors

(ASM). Although he is usually found backstage he has also appeared onstage in Cabaret (as Emcee); Noises Off! (as Selsdon); and Urinetown (as Bobby).

Ephriam is honored to work with the talented company members of The Best of Everything in his first Bag&Baggage production. When he is not wandering about the stage Ephriam also enjoys cooking on the BBQ, camping, playing with his dog, and singing silly songs with his younger sisters. He would like to thank Bag&Baggage and his parents.

MELISSA HELLER

RESIDENT COSTUME DESIGNER

A six year Portland resident, Melissa Heller is a native Oregonian, originally from Bend.

She received a B.S. in Apparel Design while attending Oregon State University where her interest in costumes for theatre began.

She began her work with the Oregon State University Theatres in 2006 as Assistant Costume Designer. After graduating in 2008, Melissa moved to Portland to pursue her career in the apparel industry. Melissa quickly decided that consumer apparel design was not the path she wanted to pursue, so she began work with Oregon Ballet Theatre in 2010 where she helped to create costumes for all of their productions for the 2010/2011 season. Melissa splits most of her time between heading the costume shop and designing costumes at Pacific University, designing for local area theatre companies, and a few custom projects in between. Her partnerships include Mt. Hood Community College, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, St. Mary’s Academy, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Pacific University, and is also the Resident Costume Designer for Bag&Baggage Productions since 2010.

She continues as Resident Costume designer for their upcoming season.

Her recent works include Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Lear, The Great Gatsby with Bag&Baggage Productions, Charlotte’s Web with Oregon Children’s Theatre, acting as mentor for Othello with Mt. Hood Community College, and The Jungle Book with Broadway Rose.

Melissa thanks Bag&Baggage for their continued and engaging partnership, and her husband Brad, for his unending support and late-night dinners.

ARIANNE JACQUES

PATRON SERVICES MANAGER

Arianne holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Oregon State University. She began as an actor with Bag&Baggage in their 2007/08 season, but has also become a staff member as well. After originating the role of Box Office Manager in 2009, she then became Operations Officer in 2013 and is, as of this year, Patron Services Manager for the company. Arianne looks forward to continuing to grow with Bag&Baggage as the company evolves and expands.

AMANDA KISHLOCK

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER (Rope)

Amanda has been working in theatre professionally since the age of sixteen. Over the past few years she has worked as part of several Bag&Baggage productions, including The Merry Wives of Windsor (Production Crew); Rough Crossing (Production Crew); Julius Caesar (Assistant Stage Manager); The Great Gatsby (Assistant Stage Manager); It’s a (Somewhat) Wonderful Life (Production Crew); Lear (Assistant Stage Manager); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Assistant Stage Manager); The Crucible (Assistant Stage Manager); A Miracle On 43rd Street (Assistant Stage Manager); The Six Gentlepersons of Verona (Assistant Stage Manager); (Assistant Stage Manager); and most recently Richard III (Assistant Stage Manager).

When not working with Bag&Baggage, Amanda works at Glencoe High School assisting with the drama program and teaching students stage craft. She would love to thank Scott and Bag&Baggage for their dedication to promoting the arts and making their shows accessible to students with the PASSPORT program.

BETH LEWIS

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Beth Lewis has over ten years of experience in theater administration and management. She most recently served as Managing Director of Curious Comedy Theater, Portland’s only nonprofit comedy theater. She

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CREW BIOGRAPHIES (The Best of Everything and Rope) moved back home to the Portland area in 2013, after being in Los Angeles for five years working at The Pasadena Playhouse where she ended her tenure there as their Annual Giving Manager.

Before that, she lived in New York City, where she served as the Director of Development for The Looking Glass Theatre and the Associate of Special Events for Sonnet Repertory Theatre. In addition to her work at Bag&Baggage, she is currently a board member of the Portland Area Theatre Alliance. She also holds a B.A. in Theatre from Connecticut College and is a Core Company Member of the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival.

MICHELLE MILNE

GUEST DIRECTOR (The Best of Everything)

Michelle has worked as a theatre artist (director/ performer/writer) and educator across the country. In Oregon, she has worked with Hand2Mouth Theatre, Sojourn Theatre, Open Hearts Open Minds, and Portland Playhouse’s Fall Festival of Shakespeare.

Michelle has directed original, ensemblecreated performances; contemporary scripts such as Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice and Chuck Mee’s Big Love; and classics including multiple Shakespeare plays, Chekhov’s The Seagull, and Marriage of Figaro. Primarily based in Chicago and Indiana, Michelle also travels regularly to New York City to continue her advanced training as a Feldenkrais Method practitioner; southern Arizona to continue exploring her interest in borders as a place of exchange and transformation; and of course her beloved Oregon every chance she gets.

These are her multiple homes, along with the road and spaces that connect them.

SCOTT PALMER

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND SOUND DESIGNER

Scott received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Oregon, his Master’s Degree from Oregon State University and completed his PhD Coursework in Theatre, Film, and Television studies at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Over the past

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20 years, Scott has developed an international reputation for his approach to classical dramatic literature, and more specifically his work with major literary adaptations of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Scott has adapted and directed critically acclaimed shows for Glasgow Repertory Company, Toi Whakkari (the National Drama School of New Zealand), Salem Repertory Theatre, Oregon State University, and Bag&Baggage Productions. Scott was the Founding Artistic Director of Glasgow Repertory Company, Scotland’s only Shakespeare-dedicated theatre company, as well as the Bard in the Quad Outdoor Shakespeare summer event at Oregon State University. Scott is a Hillsboro native and has served on the Hillsboro Arts and Culture Council and the Westside Cultural Alliance, and previously worked as the Trust Manager of the Oregon Cultural Trust.

MOLLY STOWE

RESIDENT LIGHTING DESIGNER

Molly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Purchase College in New York. Over the past ten years she has worked all over the country from The Santa Fe Opera to New York’s Lincoln Center Festival where she was fortunate enough to work closely with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ireland’s Druid Theatre Company and on the U. S. premiere of Peter Brook’s A Magic Flute.

Molly’s most recent design credits include Twelfth Night; Cendrillon; The Nutcracker; White Christmas and Fool for Love. She has been in the Portland area now for just over two years and has had the pleasure of working with Bag&Baggage on Rough Crossing; Twelfth Night of the Living Dead; The Crucible; Dial “M”for Murder; Miracle on 43rd Street; The Six Gentlepersons of Verona and most recently Our Country’s Good. Molly would like to thank her husband Steven for supporting and encouraging her as well as her friends and family. She is also currently the Resident Designer and Technical Director at David Douglas High School in Portland.

RUSTY TENNANT

GUEST DIRECTOR (Rope)

Rusty Newton Tennant is Artistic Director of Fuse Theatre Ensemble. He has an MFA in Directing and Performance from the University of New Orleans. A well-traveled director/ actor/choreographer/designer/writer/ educator, you can never be sure where you’ll find his fingerprints on a production or his name popping up in a program. He is the proud recipient of the 2003 Storer Boone Award (New Orleans) for Best Production of a Play (Director, The Laramie Project); The 2011 Drammy Award for Props Design (The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Artists Rep) and the 2015 Drammy for Scenic Design (The Last Days, Post5). Selected Regional Credits include: The Reason for the Season (Director, Artists Rep); Ten Chimneys (Asst. Director & Props Design; Damaso Rodriguez, Dir., Artists Rep); A Streetcar Named Desire (Asst.

Dir., understudy, Fight Choreographer, Jon Kretzu, Dir. Artists Rep). As an Actor: Carousel (Gary English, Dir. Connecticut Rep); House of Plunder (Ryan Rilette, Dir. Southern Rep); Mother Courage (Robert Benedetti, Dir. Nevada Conservatory Theatre).

Recent Portland productions: Under the Influence (Director, Fuse Theatre Ensemble); The Last Days (Director, Post5); bobrauschenbergamerica (Director, Clark College); Spring Awakening (Director, Clark College); Bat Boy (Sheriff, Funhouse Lounge); Henry IV Pt.1 (Falstaff, Post5); A Midsummer Night’s Somnambulism (Bottom, Fuse); Sonnetscape (Director/ Performer, Fuse); Same Time, Next Year (Director, The Pub); Romeo and Juliet, Machinal (Director, Pacific University); Failure to Communicate, Romeo and Juliet, Plumfield, Iraq (Fight/Movement Choreographer, Lewis & Clark College).

Rusty serves as an adjunct faculty and guest artist at numerous local colleges.

Upcoming productions include directing Measure for Measure at Clark College and producing the 4th annual OUTwright Theatre Festival.

EMILY TRIMBLE

COMPANY STAGE MANAGER & PROPS MISTRESS

Emily holds from a BA in Arts & Performance from The University of Texas at Dallas.

Originally from Houston, she moved to Dallas for college as an Electrical Engineering major. Finding that to not be nearly as interesting as anticipated, she changed her major to theatre and quickly fell in love. While living in Dallas she worked as Run Crew, Assistant Stage Manager, and Stage Manager at many companies including: WaterTower Theatre, Dallas Children’s Theatre, Undermain Theatre, and Nouveau 47.

She moved to Portland in early 2012 and got her first professional gig here as Light Board Op for B&B’s production of Dangerous Liaisons. The next season she worked as ASM on The Velveteen Rabbit and Rough Crossing.

Bag&Baggage’s 13–14 season brought her her first Stage Manager and Props Designer jobs with the company, and she has been Stage Managing and gathering props on shows ever since. In July 2015 she became Company Stage Manager and Resident Props Designer

for Bag&Baggage. Also in Portland, Emily has worked with Broadway Rose on The Jungle Book (SM) and My Fair Lady (ASM); and at Oregon Children’s Theatre on The Giver (ASM). When not in a show she likes to climb rocks, crochet, and play with her adorable cat Korben. She’d like to thank her mom for everything she does and helping her pursue her passion.

MEGAN WILKERSON

RESIDENT SCENIC DESIGNER

Megan holds an Masters of Fine Arts in Design for the Theatre from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Besides being the Resident Scenic Designer for Bag&Baggage Megan is also a Resident Artist at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland and an Ensemble Member at Rivendell Theatre in Chicago. Megan was a Recipient of Chicago’s After Dark Award in Scenic Design for her “thoroughly creepy” set for Marisa Wegrzyn’s Psalms of a Questionable Nature with Rivendell and was nominated for a Drammy award for her design for The Children’s Hour at

deFunkt theatre in Portland. Her design work has also been recognized by The Chicago Tribune, The Austin Critics Circle, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the South Eastern Theatre Conference, and The United States Institute for Theatre Technology. Regionally she’s worked with The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre, The New Conservatory in San Francisco, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Broadway Rose, Teatro Milagro, deFunkt Theatre, Next Act Theatre, The Skylight Opera, First Stage Children’s Theatre, The Michigan Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and the Portland Opera. She has taught Theatre, Design and Art courses at Lewis & Clark College, The University of Portland, Michigan State University, The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, St. Norbert College, Randolph-Macon Women’s college, Carroll University, Central Michigan University, the Milwaukee High School for the Arts, and The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Megan’s Portfolio can be found online at www.meganwilkerson.com.

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ABOUT BAG&BAGGAGE Bag&Baggage is committed to unique interpretations and novel stagings of plays by the world’s best-known authors. We seek to rethink and reinvigorate the most celebrated titles, to challenge the public to experience them in new ways, and to connect our work to the lives and experiences of our audiences. Founded by a Hillsboro native, Bag&Baggage believes that cultural experiences like live theatre play an absolutely crucial role in the health of our community.

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With the incredible, visionary support of The City of Hillsboro, Bag&Baggage has purchased an amazing new building that will become our permanent home in Hillsboro. Located in the heart of downtown, the former Wells Fargo Bank Building is an ideal space for us. Intimate, flexible, modern, edgy and...most importantly ...ours.

We are launching a $1.4 million capital campaign to renovate this amazing new space to create a bold, intimate and highly flexible permanent home. Over the course of the next 20 months, B&B staff and supporters will be engaged in a highly focused capital campaign to raise the funds necessary to transform the Bank Building into a 150 seat, modern studio theatre space, including administrative offices, a concessions/bar area, storage, meeting space and shop space - literally everything we need to succeed and evolve.

Most importantly, our new home will allow Bag&Baggage to explore our provocative, innovative theatrical style in a significantly more intimate space. Our new home will enable us to deepen our work, improve our quality, and experiment with new theatrical technologies such as immersive digital environments. It truly is an evolution.

This is the time. This is the place.

We invite YOU to come and see the new space for yourself. Contact Artistic Director Scott Palmer at scott@bagnbaggage.org to arrange a personal tour of the new building and to learn how YOU can become part of the EVOLUTION! www.bnbevolution.org