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F R O M T H E T H E AT R E We’re happy that you could join us at Actors Theatre as we kick off our 55th season with one of Louisville’s favorite fall traditions, Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula! For 24 consecutive years, we have brought this thrilling, high-stakes vampire adventure to Louisville audiences. Whether you are a seasoned attendee or visiting the theatre for the first time, Dracula is the perfect blend of adrenaline-charged storytelling and electrifying stagecraft. We wouldn’t be able to bring this story to our stages without the longstanding support of our community as well as our production sponsor, Fifth Third Bank, and our student matinee series sponsor, Yum! Brands Foundation. Thank you for your generous investment in helping audiences to define who they are through theatre.

Count Dracula is not the only character from classic literature on stage at Actors Theatre this fall. This October, Lucas Hnath’s award-winning A Doll’s House, Part 2 picks up the story of Henrik Ibsen’s famous play fifteen years after the original ends. As Nora returns to the home she left behind, we find ourselves asking: What does a woman owe her family? What does she owe herself? Or, if you want to experience a story that has become a modern classic, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time opens this September. Directed by Actors Theatre’s own associate artistic director, Meredith McDonough, Curious Incident follows Christopher Boone, an autistic teenager who sets out to find the real culprit after being wrongly accused of a crime. Finally, the fall season would not be complete without our favorite holiday classics—The Santaland Diaries and Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol—both opening in November. Be sure to buy your tickets soon!

With so many stories to explore, why not customize your season for ultimate flexibility and incredible savings with our new Platinum and Gold Passes? With the purchase of a Platinum (eight vouchers) or Gold Pass (four vouchers), you can tailor your experience this season and use your Pass any way you want! Use all of your Passes at one production or use one Pass each at different shows. Visit ActorsTheatre.org or call 502.584.1205 for details.

Thanks again for joining us. Now get ready, because the vampire hunt is on!

Kevin E. Moore, Managing Director

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Dracula originally dramatized by John L. Balderston and Hamilton Deane from Bram Stoker’s world-famous novel, Dracula adapted and originally directed by William McNulty directed by Drew Fracher September 7 – October 31, 2018 FEATURING Rin Allen *, David Ball +, Silvia Daly Bond +, Santino Craven *, Brylee Deuser, Rebby Foster +, Grant Goodman *, Rasell Holt +, Ella Jenkins, Kevin O’Connell +, Jonathan Moises Olivares +, Kayla Peters +, Austin Ramirez, Vaughn Ramirez, Neill Robertson, Angelica Santiago +, Julian Socha +, Kurt Uy * and Crystian Wiltshire *

Scenic Designer Paul Owen Costume Designer Lorraine Venberg Lighting Designer Tony Penna † Sound Designer Benjamin Marcum Media Designer Philip Allgeier Fight Director Jake Guinn Stage Manager Stephen Horton * Dramaturg Hannah Rae Montgomery

Presented by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com) The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers of the United States. † Designers that are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA – 829 of the IATSE. + Member of the Professional Training Company of Actors Theatre.

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P rod u c t i o n Cred i t s The Cast of Characters (in order of appearance)

Count Dracula Santino Craven *

Van Helsing Grant Goodman *

Ms. Sullivan Silvia Daly Bond + Renfield Neill Robertson

Dr. Seward Kurt Uy *

Mr. Briggs Jonathan Moises Olivares + Lucy Rin Allen *

Jonathan Harker Crystian Wiltshire *

Undead Ensemble David Ball +, Brylee Deuser, Rebby Foster +, Rasell Holt +, Ella Jenkins, Kevin O’Connell +, Kayla Peters +, Austin Ramirez, Vaughn Ramirez, Angelica Santiago +, Julian Socha +

Understudies Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of performance.

For Ms. Sullivan: Reagan Stovenour +; For Renfield: Julian Socha +; For Dr. Seward: Brett Schultz +; For Mr. Briggs: Josh Fulton +; For Lucy: Kayla Peters +; For Undead Ensemble: Laura Lee Caudill +, Emma Maltby +, Brett Schultz +

Sett i n g Dr. Seward’s sanatorium and environs in Purley, England.

I n term i s s i o n There will be one 15-minute intermission.

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Associate Sound Designer Assistant Fight Director/Fight Captain Dialect Coach Waltz Coaches

Paul Doyle Kurt Uy * D’Arcy Smith Ann Marie Werner and Alex Ioukhnel

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U n der w r i ter We are so pleased you chose to join us for this fright-filled performance of Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula. For over 24 years, we have had the pleasure of bringing fun and fear to Actors’ patrons through the spirit of Dracula. Based on our howling history, you are sure to find yourself on the edge of your seat with suspense and screaming for more.

But don’t let us scare you away! We hope you and yours will join us soon to meet some other favorite spirits in the beloved Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol.

Thank you for allowing the Fifth Third Bank family to play a special role in your holiday traditions.

Sincerely, Michael K. Ash Kentucky Regional President Fifth Third Bank

St u de n t M at i n ee Spo n s or As part of the Yum! Family Series, the YUM! BRANDS FOUNDATION is honored to sponsor Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Student Matinee Series for the 2018–2019 season. Together, we bring the unique experience of live theatre to more than 15,000 schoolchildren from across the region. As a longtime supporter of Actors Theatre, we wish to thank you for joining us in celebrating 55 years of inspiring performances and live theatre excellence, all of which have enriched the lives of so many throughout the community.

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The Making of Dracula

Bram Stoker, author of Dracula (published in 1897).

Born Abraham Stoker in 1847 in a seaside town north of Dublin, Ireland, Bram Stoker suffered a mysterious ailment in his childhood which kept him unable to walk until he was seven. Both of his parents were storytellers: his father, a civil servant, told vivid tales about the theatre. His mother told him Irish folk tales as well as stories from her childhood—stories about drinking the blood of the family cow for nourishment during the Potato Famine and about the cholera epidemic of 1832, during which some victims were mistaken for dead and buried alive.

As a young man, fully recovered from his childhood illness, Stoker worked as a Clerk to the Registrar of Petty Sessions for the Irish government (his first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland [1866], was significantly more exhaustive and less sensational than his most famous work). Stoker filled his evenings with theatre, eventually volunteering as the drama critic for Dublin’s Evening Mail. During this time he wooed Florence Balcombe from her other suitor, Oscar Wilde. After their marriage, Stoker published several short stories, including a volume of fairy tales based on the cholera outbreak of his mother’s youth.

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P l ay N Ote s When he was 29, Stoker met the famed British actor Henry Irving. The two became friends, and when Irving formed his own company soon thereafter, Stoker became his acting manager. He held the job for 28 years. Irving—known for his brooding and temper, as well as definitive performances of heroes and villains alike—would prove a powerful creative influence for Stoker, who is theorized to have crafted Count Dracula as a star vehicle for Irving (and to have based some of the Count’s less savory characteristics on Irving’s domineering personality).

Bram Stoker spent seven years plotting, re-plotting, researching and crafting the action and prose of Dracula. The novel is written in diary entries, letters and newspaper clippings, and Stoker’s research took him around England, plotting train and boat schedules with a diligence befitting a former civil servant.

Although it introduced one of the most famous vampires of all time, Stoker’s work met with mixed reviews and middling sales in his lifetime. Perhaps more disappointing, after hearing the reading Stoker staged for his benefit shortly before the novel’s publication, Henry Irving called the work “dreadful.”

Stoker never lived to see Dracula adapted for the stage, although it became a theatrical sensation relatively soon after Stoker’s 1912 death, and has gone on to inspire countless movies, television shows and novels in the 121 years since its initial publication.

From the folk tales of his youth to the theatrics that saturated his daily life, Stoker crafted a character for the ages.

Take a deep breath and enjoy the explosion of action and effects, passion and terror in this year’s production of Dracula.

A uniformed nurse was ready to administer smelling salts to fainthearted patrons at all London performances of Dracula (1927). At one performance, 39 audience members took advantage of the offer.

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B i o g raph i e s THE ACTING COMPANY Rin Allen (Lucy) thanks you for coming to see this story! Allen is making her Actors Theatre debut.

Regional Theatre: Jane Eyre at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Treasure Island and The Three Musketeers at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Urinetown and The Mikado at Weston Playhouse. Off-Broadway: Cyrano de Bergerac at The Theatre at St. Clements.

Television: Stunts in Gotham on FOX Network (five episodes). Other Theatre: As You Like It and The Tempest at New York Classical Theatre; Chicago, Grease! and Cats at Cortland Repertory Theatre; Other World developmental LAB at Baryshnikov Arts Center. Additional Credits: Allen received her B.F.A. from New York University. She received an AEA vocal scholarship at EMGCollective. For more information, please visit rinallen.com.

Santino Craven (Dracula) is making his Actors Theatre debut.

Regional Theatre: Father comes home from the wars (u.s.) and A View from the Bridge (u.s.) at the Goodman Theatre; The Royale at Yellow Tree Theatre; The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry at Pillsbury House Theatre; A Civil War Christmas and Lonely Soldiers at the Minnesota History Theatre; Dracula and The Great Gatsby at the Hilberry Theatre.

Additional Credits: Craven received his M.F.A. from Wayne State University. He is represented by Gray Talent Group.

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Grant Goodman (Van Helsing) is thrilled to return to Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he previously appeared as Dr. Givings in In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play). Most recently, Goodman played the title role in Coriolanus for the Indianapolis Shakespeare Company. Regional Theatre Credits Include: Extensive work with such theatres as Yale Repertory Theatre; Shakespeare Theatre Company (D.C.); Chicago Shakespeare Theater; The Old Globe; Hartford Stage; Court Theatre; Cleveland Play House; Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Pioneer Theatre Company; PlayMakers Repertory Company; Indiana Repertory Theatre; Syracuse Stage; People’s Light & Theatre (Philadelphia); Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Clarence Brown Theatre; Arizona Theatre Company; and the Utah, Illinois, Notre Dame and Kentucky Shakespeare Festivals, among many others. New York Credits Include: Antony & Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice at Theatre for a New Audience; King Lear, The Iliad at Lincoln Center; Pericles at Red Bull Theater; and Richard II at The Pearl Theatre. National Tours Include: The Merchant of Venice (starring F. Murray Abraham). Film/ Television Includes: As the World Turns, Sex and the City, Sleepers. Additional Credits: Goodman is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Neill Robertson (Renfield) is delighted to return to Actors Theatre after having played Renfield in 2017. Other Theatre: Othello, Henry IV Part I, The Comedy of Errors, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing,

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Titus Andronicus in Butchertown, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest with Kentucky Shakespeare; Hamlet with StageOne; Misalliance with Commonwealth Theatre Center; Auctioning the Ainsleys and The Language Archive at Theatre [502]; Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Pandora Productions. Additional Credits: Robertson is a 2005 graduate of the Studio Program at the American Music and Dramatic Academy in New York.

Errors with Kentucky Shakespeare; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Tempest, A Raisin in The Sun and Dracula with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; Hamlet, And In This Corner: Cassius Clay and Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse with StageOne Family Theatre; and Kill Move Paradise with Know Theatre of Cincinnati. Additional Credits: Wiltshire attended the University of Louisville.

Kurt Uy (Seward) is making his Actors Theatre debut. Regional Theatre: The Oldest Boy (West Coast premiere) at Marin Theatre Company; Foster Mom (world premiere) at Premiere Stages; Common Enemy (world premiere) at Triad Stage; Tamburlaine and Edward II at Shakespeare Theatre Company.

Off-Broadway: Vietgone at Manhattan Theatre Club; The Oldest Boy at Lincoln Center Theater. Television: Netflix’s The OA; ID’s A Crime to Remember. Additional Credits: INS & Outs (writer, EP; AAFL 72 Hour Shootout 2013 Grand Prize Winner, among others); Yield (writer, EP; Official Selection Planet Connections Film Festival 2014, Outstanding Film nomination); 487 in Progress (directorial debut, Official Selection 2017 HOYS Film Festival). Uy received his B.A. from Princeton University and M.F.A. from American Conservatory Theater; he is a graduate of the Public Theater Shakespeare Lab and a proud AEA Member.

Brylee Deuser (Undead Girl) is thrilled to be returning to Actors Theatre for Dracula.

Deuser is ten years old and in fifth grade at Pope John Elementary in Madison, Ind. Her past experience includes Little Bunny Foo Foo, Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula and I Now Pronounce at Actors Theatre; The Music Man at Derby Dinner Playhouse; and Miracle on 34th Street and Willy Wonka at Clarksville Little Theatre. She enjoys riding horses, singing and dancing.

Crystian Wiltshire (Harker) is thrilled to be making his Actors Theatre debut. Other Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Part I and The Comedy of

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Ella Jenkins (Undead Girl) is thrilled to be back at Actors Theatre this season! At Actors Theatre: Little Bunny Foo Foo. Other Theatre: The Music Man and Aladdin at Oldham County Arts Center; The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and Alice in Wonderland at StageOne; and Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, Willy Wonka and Cinderella at St. Margaret Mary. Jenkins is a sixth grader at St. Margaret Mary.

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Austin Ramirez (Undead Boy) is thrilled and honored to be back for his fourth season with Actors Theatre. At Actors Theatre: Little Bunny Foo Foo, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol.

Additional Credits: Curious George at Derby Dinner Playhouse. Ramirez enjoyed meeting and performing Shakespeare for Jennifer Lawrence this summer. When he is not singing and dancing, he enjoys playing with Legos and superheroes.

Vaughn Ramirez (Undead Boy) returns to Actors Theatre for his sixth season. At Actors Theatre: Little Bunny Foo Foo, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol. Other Theatre: Fidelio at Kentucky Opera; Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Kentucky Shakespeare.

Television: Mother Goose Club Playhouse, multiple commercials and educational videos. Additional Credits: Awards include 2015 Louisville’s Got Talent 1st Place, 2018 Mr. Junior Dance America, 2014 Broadway World’s Best Performance by a Child Actor and the national title “2014 Mr. Petite Dance America.” He is a Cub Scout at St. Patrick’s School and enjoys soccer and learning.

THE APPRENTICE COMPANY David Ball (Undead Ensemble) Theatre Credits: Hamlet (ensemble; performed in a barn in Portsmouth, N.H.) and Romeo & Juliet: a Shakes-BEERience (Romeo; performed in a bar called the Way Station in Brooklyn) with Seven Stages Shakespeare Company; Constellations (Roland; performed with Namron Players at Mainsite Contemporary 14

Art Gallery in Norman, Okla.); 2016 acting apprenticeship and 2017 Professional Training Company internship at Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Additional Credits: Ball received a B.F.A. in acting from the University of Oklahoma. He is an Actors’ Equity Membership Candidate, has an SAFD basic pass in single sword, and is SAFD recommended pass in unarmed combat.

Silvia Daly Bond (Ms. Sullivan) is an actor from Lake Mills, Wisconsin.

Theatre Credits: Bright Star Touring Company (Ensemble), The Seagull: Rehearsed (Masha), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hippolyta/Titania), Antigone (Messenger). Film: Things Found on the Ground (Jane) and Dear Coward on the Moon (Selah) with Shaky Balloon Productions. Additional Credits: Bond is a recent graduate of University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a bachelor of fine arts in acting. As a produced playwright, her plays Febreze and Hoarded were featured in the UWSP Player’s Fringe Festival. She is the winner and recipient of the Kennedy Center Irene Ryan Scholarship.

Rebby Foster (Undead Ensemble) Theatre Credits: The Wolves with Bellingham Theatreworks; Come to the Table Mike Pence with Shaking the Tree Theatre; Tartuffe, Appropriate, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Mad Forest and She Kills Monsters at the University of Portland; Self-Composed at Driftwood Theatre. Additional Credits: Foster is a graduate of the University of Portland, class of 2018, where she earned her B.A. in theatre and English literature. She studied at the Young Actors Professional Intensive at Studio East in 2014. She is from Mukilteo, Washington.

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Rasell Holt (Undead Ensemble) Theatre Credits Include: understudy work for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at Lookingglass Theatre, BLKS at Steppenwolf Theatre, Miss Holmes at Lifeline Theatre. Holt has most recently been seen in A Story Told in Seven Fights at The Neo-Futurist, Wit at Hypocrites Theater, The Hairy Ape with Oracle Productions and The American Revolution at Theatre Unspeakable.

Film/Television Credits Include: Drive Slow by Terrence Thompson and Chicago P.D. on NBC. Kevin O’Connell (Undead Ensemble) is thrilled to be working with the Professional Training Company.

O’Connell comes from Chicago, Ill., where his credits include The Neighborhood Theatre’s productions of Vigils and Ivanov!, as well as Random Acts’ productions of The Bone House and Strangest Things: The Musical. O’Connell has also starred in Arthur Uhlrich’s webseries, Savance.

Jonathan Moises Olivares (Mr. Briggs) is a Salvadoran-American actor. Regional Theatre: PlayMakers Repertory Company, Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, Peppercorn Theater.

Educational Theatre: Olivares’ original play, Trial 9, performed in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s inaugural “Making Tracks Series”; In the Heights with Pauper Players; Ordinary Days with Company Carolina. Additional Credits: Olivares has a B.A. in drama from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attended NC School of the Arts High School Program for Acting.

Kayla Peters (Undead Ensemble) is from Chaska, Minn. Theatre Credits: Thomas Tallis with Orchard Theatre Collective; Sam’s Son at Bucket Brigade Theater; Pippin with Lundeen Theatre Productions; bare: a pop opera and Rock of Ages at the Duluth Playhouse; Spoon River (abroad) at the Conservatoire de Lyon in Lyon, France; and various productions with the University of Minnesota–Duluth. Additional Credits: Peters has studied with Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, Calif., and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota–Duluth B.F.A. Musical Theatre Program.

Angelica Santiago (Undead Ensemble) received her B.F.A. in acting from Montclair State University, along with being a 2016 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Irene Ryan Regional Finalist. Montclair State Credits: The Winter’s Tale, #Revolution, Pride and Prejudice, 99 Ways to F*** a Swan and Jon. Other Theatre: Does This Make My Head Look Big? at The Roebuck Theatre.

Julian Socha (Undead Ensemble) hails from St. Paul, Minnesota. Other Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare Dallas; Henry VI and The Comedy of Errors (u/s) at Great River Shakespeare Festival; We Are Proud to Present…, Shakespeare’s Other Women and Love’s Labour’s Lost at the University of Oklahoma.

Additional Credits: Socha recently received his B.F.A. in acting from the University of Oklahoma Helmerich School of Drama and has served as an apprentice at the Great River Shakespeare Festival.

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DIRECTOR

Allgeier is a graduate of Western Kentucky University.

Drew Fracher is thrilled to be back at Actors Theatre directing this season’s production of Dracula. Also at Actors, he has directed A Christmas Carol (seven seasons) and A Christmas Story. Regional Theatre: Henry IV part 1, Macbeth and One Man, Two Guvnors at Georgia Shakespeare; Sense and Sensibility, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Tempest at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; Much Ado About Nothing and The Winter’s Tale at Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival; and Opus and When We Were Young and Unafraid at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati.

Additional Credits: Productions at Florida Stage, American Stage Theatre Company, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, The Human Race Theatre Company, and the Alabama and Kentucky Shakespeare Festivals. As a fight master of the Society of American Fight Directors, Fracher has choreographed fight scenes and violence in productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville and more than 50 theatres nationwide, most recently staging fights for Treasure Island at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

DESIGNERS Philip Allgeier (Media Designer) became the Media Technologist for Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2008. Since joining the company, he has designed media for over fifty productions, including many world premieres in the Humana Festival of New American Plays, such as The Christians, The Glory of the World and The Hour of Feeling. Additional credits at Actors include: The Mountaintop, At the Vanishing Point, The 39 Steps, The Last Five Years, Peter and the Starcatcher, Angels in America (Parts One & Two) and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity.

Allgeier has also designed media for productions at Playwrights Horizons, Mark Taper Forum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Syracuse Stage and others.

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Benjamin Marcum (Sound Designer) A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Marcum has been designing sound for the past 16 years at Actors Theatre, where his work has been heard in numerous productions, including works in the Humana Festival of New American Plays.

Marcum’s work also has been heard at other theatres around the country.

Marcum is now operating a successful headshot and portrait photography studio and is a mentor in Peter Hurley’s Headshot Crew. For more information and to see his current work, visit BenMarcum.com.

Paul Owen (Scenic Designer) celebrated his 50th year as a theatrical designer in 2010. From 1960 to 1970 he served as resident designer for Nina Vance’s Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, designing sets, lights and costumes for the majority of the productions. Owen left the Alley in 1970 and joined the staff of Actors Theatre as resident designer in 1971.

He continued in that capacity until semi-retiring in 2009. During those 38 years, he designed approximately 1,500 productions, including all of the state, national and international tours, as well as a number of guest designs for other regional theatres. Owen has designed several productions since his retirement, the most recent being Atomic Bombers at the University of Louisville and the musical Honk for a venue in Marshalltown, Iowa. Owen was honored in 1993 with The Kentucky Governor’s Award for Artistic Achievement. In 2005 he received the Eddy Award from Entertainment Design Magazine on behalf of Actors Theatre, and in 2010 he was awarded the Hanover College Medal for Excellence in the Arts.

Tony Penna (Lighting Designer) returns to Actors for his 19th year lighting Dracula. Other Actors Theatre credits

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include four years as resident lighting designer, during which time he designed over 50 plays and musicals. Regional Theatre: The Warehouse Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Baltimore Center Stage, Studio Arena Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Lean Ensemble Theater, the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, South Carolina Repertory Company and the historic Shuler Theater in Raton, N.M. In New York his designs have been seen at La MaMa, Medicine Show, Culture Project and HERE. Additional Credits: Penna serves as director of theatre at Clemson University and is a member of United Scenic Artists. He is on the resident design staffs of The Warehouse Theatre, Lean Ensemble Theater and the Eleventh Hour Theatre Company in New York.

Lorraine Venberg (Costume Designer) At Actors Theatre: Over 70 shows, including A Christmas Carol; The Delling Shore; Cry Old Kingdom; The Whipping Man; Long Day’s Journey into Night; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; In The Next Room (or the Vibrator Play); Elemeno Pea; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Crime and Punishment; A Christmas Story; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Glengarry Glen Ross; This Beautiful City; The Tempest; Spunk; Dracula; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; The Chosen; Gem of the

Ocean; Intimate Apparel; The Crucible; Twelfth Night; Love, Janis; Fences; Pure Confidence; and Memory House. Other Theatre: Studio Theatre, The New Victory Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Victory Gardens Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Cleveland’s Playhouse Square, Arden Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theater (Cyrano de Bergerac) and City Theatre. Other Credits: Venberg was the Costume Designer for Leonard Bernstein’s Mass with the Louisville Orchestra; at the Kentucky Opera, Venberg worked as Costume Designer for Three Decembers (with Denyce Graves) and The Mikado, and as Costumer for Dead Man Walking, The Barber of Seville, Madame Butterfly, Abduction from the Seraglio, Macbeth, La Boheme, La Fanciulla del West and Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire.

Venberg is a member of United Scenic Artists.

CREATIVE STAFF Jake Guinn (Fight Director) is an Atlantabased fight director, action actor, playwright and movement artist. He is also co-founder and co-artistic director of Havoc Movement Company in Atlanta.

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father and mentor. Most recently, he served as the stunt coordinator for the epic outdoor production of Titanic at Serenbe Playhouse. His other selected credits include Marvel Universe Live! Age of Heroes, TruTV’s Fake/Off, Serenbe Playhouse, the Woodruff Arts Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Florida Repertory Theatre, Unto These Hills Outdoor Drama, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Folding Chair Theatre, Southern Arkansas University, Louisiana Tech University and The Seedling Project of Atlanta.

PRODUCTION Stephen Horton (Stage Manager) At Actors Theatre: Dracula (2011–2018), Marginal Loss, Little Bunny Foo Foo, We’re Gonna Be Okay, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Wellesley Girl, 4000 Miles, Dot, The Brothers Size, Tribes, Brownsville song (b-side for tray), The Pirates of Penzance, Tom Jones, Cry Old Kingdom, The Whipping Man, True West, The Veri**on Play, ReEntry, A Devil at Noon, Barefoot in the Park, Sirens, Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas. Regional Theatre: Coming Back Like a Song!, Deathtrap, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Lion in Winter, Edith, In the Mood, The Who’s Tommy, A Delicate Balance, The Guardsman, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Faith Healer, Noël Coward in Two Keys, The Book Club Play, The Caretaker, Educating Rita, My Pal George and Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? at Berkshire Theatre Group; The Elephant Man, The Foreigner, Doubt, Bertrand Priest, Hello, Dolly! and The King and I at Arkansas Repertory Theatre.

Other Theatre: The Hound of the Baskervilles at The Cape Playhouse and The Last Train to Nibroc at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater.

DRAMATURG Hannah Rae Montgomery is the resident dramaturg at Actors Theatre. Dramaturgy credits at Actors include The Magic Play, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, 4000 Miles, Luna Gale, At the Vanishing Point, The Mountaintop, True West, Romeo and Juliet and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity in the Brown-Forman Series, and the world premieres of God Said This, Airness, Cardboard Piano, Residence, That High Lonesome Sound, Remix 38, Cry Old Kingdom, The Delling Shore and How We Got On in the Humana Festival. She has also worked as a dramaturg at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Yale Repertory Theatre and Yale Cabaret.

Montgomery holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.

AUTHORS John L. Balderston (1889–1954) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts. In 1927, after a career as a journalist during World War I, Balderston revised Hamilton Deane’s stage adaptation of Dracula for its U.S. production. The 1931 film version of Dracula launched his screenwriting career. In addition to Dracula, Balderston contributed to the screenplays for Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy and Dracula’s Daughter. He adapted many novels for the screen, including Gone with the Wind (1939), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) and Gaslight (1944), which earned him his second Academy Award nomination (the first was for 1935’s The Lives of a Bengal Lancer). His 1929 play Berkeley Square was the basis for the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.

Hamilton Deane (ca. 1880–1958) was an Irish actor, playwright and director whose stage career spanned forty years and included heading The Deane Theatre

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Company. Deane was also the first to adapt Dracula for the stage. His version opened in 1924 in Derby, England, with Deane assuming the role of Van Helsing.

When the production moved to London in 1927, Deane, as a publicity stunt, hired a nurse to be present at each performance to assist any audience members who reacted badly to the play by fainting or taking ill. Deane also played Dracula during the play’s twodecade run, revamping Bram Stoker’s title character. The suave gentleman vampire who lives on in the popular imagination is actually Deane’s creation and remains his lasting legacy.

William McNulty Since joining the resident acting company of Actors Theatre in 1976, McNulty has been seen in over 150 productions, playing such diverse roles as Jamie in A Moon for the Misbegotten, Charlie in The Foreigner, Roy Cohn in Angels in America, Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra and Danforth in The Crucible. During those 40 years, he also directed over 30 productions, including Seascape, Skylight, Bad Dates, A Tuna Christmas and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Other theatres where he has acted and/or directed include New York’s Public Theater, Washington’s Arena Stage, the Alliance Theatre of Atlanta, Cleveland Play House and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. He played Marc Rothko in a

critically acclaimed production of Red at Florida Repertory Theatre. His adaptation of Dracula has been produced at academic and professional theatres throughout the country and the world. It has been staged at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Chung Ying Theatre of Beijing, among others. In 2009, McNulty was awarded a Fox Fellowship Distinguished Artist Grant by Theatre Communications Group, an award given to only three actors in any given year.

Bram Stoker (1847–1912), born Abraham Stoker, was a novelist, a short story writer and the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London. Born north of Dublin, Stoker worked for the Irish government before becoming acting manager for Henry Irving’s theatre company. His novels include his most famous work, Dracula (1897), as well as The Primrose Path (1875), The Shoulder of Shasta (1895), The Man (or: The Gates of Life) (1905), The Lady of the Shroud (1909) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911).

He also published several collections of short stories. Stoker was a drama critic for Dublin’s Evening Mail in the 1860s and eventually served on the literary staff of London’s Daily Telegraph during the 1890s.

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E x e c u t i v e O ff i c er Kevin E. Moore Managing Director Moore joined Actors Theatre as Managing Director in July 2016.

Previously, he had been the Managing Director of Theatre Communications Group since 2010. Prior to joining TCG, Moore was with Arizona Theatre Company, where he worked for ten years in various capacities, ultimately serving as Managing Director. In addition to Arizona Theatre Company, Moore is also a founding board member and former Board President for Alliance for Audience/ShowUp.com in Phoenix, a service organization for the arts in the

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Valley. Moore has also served on panels for the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, and has served on several planning committees for bi-annual meetings for the League of Resident Theatres. Moore has also served on the negotiating committee for contract negotiations between the League of Resident Theatres and United Scenic Artists, and has been on the Executive Committee for the League of Resident Theatres. He served on the inaugural board of the National Center for Arts Research at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Moore is a graduate of Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.

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A c tor s T heatre B oard s BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Elizabeth Rounsavall Vice President Gill Holland Treasurer Jan Grayson Secretary Karen Wunderlin

Alejandro Alvarez John Bajandas Adam Beam Turney Berry Neville Blakemore III William W. Crawford Jr. Angie Evans Kirsten Ford Layla George Jan M. Grayson Lena Hamel

Gill Holland Barbara W. Juckett Christopher Kay Stewart Lussky Jennifer Mackin Caroline Martinson † Theresa Reno-Weber Theodore S. Rosky ‡ Marsha Beck Roth ‡ Elizabeth Rounsavall Bob Saunders †

John E. Selent Seema Sheth Wendy Sirchio Allan Tasman, MD ‡ Mac Thompson Robbie Tindall Karen Wunderlin

John J. Buchino, MD Mary Beth Clark Irwin H. Cutler, Jr. Gayle S. Dorsey Jane Driskell Douglass Farnsley Mrs. Harry S. Frazier, Jr. Clarence E. Glover Jack Guthrie

Ian Y. Henderson Frank B. Hower, Jr. Christine Johnson David M. Krebs Eleanor Bingham Miller Steven J. Paradis Donna King Perry Benjamin K. Richmond Donna Burks Sanders

Rev. Alfred R. Shands W. Kennedy Simpson Kathi Stearman Sherry Steinbock William M. Street Amanda Foard Tyler Ann C. Wells Jessica White

Vice President for Communication Rita Bell

Vice President for Service Linda Gaines

Vice President for Fundraising Barbara Nichols

Coordinator, Gift Shop Operations Pennie Miller

Board Members Linda Cauble Wanda Cundiff Barbara Ketcham Lew Ketcham Melanie Knight Robert Lutz Tom Morton Patti Slagle Val Slayton, M.D. Sue Terdan

‡ Denotes Sustaining Director † Denotes Ex-Officio * Denotes Executive Committee

ADVISORY COUNCIL Carolee Allen James B. Appleberry Lynn Ashton Irving W. Bailey Stanley Bayersdorfer Karen Bearden Winfrey Blackburn, Jr. Neville Blakemore, Jr. Cornelia W. Bonnie

ACTORS ASSOCIATES BOARD President Caroline Martinson Immediate Past President Mary Korfhage, PhD Financial Secretary Bill Bolte Treasurer Doris Elder

Vice President for Hospitality Dana Cooley

Le g a c y C i r c l e The Legacy Circle recognizes individuals who have made arrangements to support Actors Theatre in their estate plans.

Anonymous Michael and Rachel Adkins Bryan R. Armstrong, Esq. Nancy L. Doctor Peter M. and Sarah D. Fuller

Todd P. Lowe and Frances C. Ratterman Robert T. and Eleanor N. Maddox Miriam Spectre Marcus and Jerome H. Kauper Rose Mary Rommel Toebbe A U D I E N C E

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Corporate S u pport President Circle Brown-Forman Corporation Director Circle Fifth Third Bank Yum! Family Series Benefactor Circle BB&T D.D. Williamson & Co., Inc. The Galt House Hotel GE Appliances Hilliard Lyons LG&E and KU Energy Old Forester Theatre Forward

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Guarantor Churchill Downs, Inc. Derby City Litho Republic National Distributing Company The Voice-Tribune White Clay Consulting ZFX Flying Effects Supporter AT&T Kentucky McCarthy Strategic Solutions, LLC

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Partner Bearno’s Pizza Cellar Door Chocolates Falls City Brewing Company Heine Brothers’ Coffee Mike’s Kentucky Kitchen National Arts Club Vincenzo’s Restaurant

F o u n dat i o n a n d g ov er n me n t S u pport President Circle Fund for the Arts Humana Foundation Producer Circle The Roy Cockrum Foundation The Shubert Foundation

Benefactor Circle Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Gheens Foundation Jennifer Lawrence Arts Fund at the Fund for the Arts Shakespeare in American Communities

Louisville Metro Government The Robert W. Rounsavall, Jr. Family Foundation, Inc. Supporter The Elizabeth George Foundation Norton Foundation, Inc.

Director Circle Partner Guarantor Kentucky Arts Council The William E. Barth Edgerton Foundation National Endowment for the Foundation Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd Arts Parking Authority of River City County The Harold and Mimi Steinberg (PARC) Charitable Trust

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

The Shubert Foundation

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Gheens Foundation

Jennifer Lawrence arts fund at the fund for the arts

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports Actors Theatre of Louisville with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting Actors Theatre of Louisville.

T ea c her A d v i s ory Comm i ttee Jenni Aberli, JCPS Literacy Specialist; Faith Anderson, Ballard High; Katie Blackerby Weible, YPAS; Hillary Boles, Louisville Collegiate School; Brent Braun, Pleasure Ridge Park High; Kelly Capps, Meade County High School; Judy Chandler, Bullitt County; Terrilyn Flemming, The Brown School; Kevin Gose, Valley High School; Amy Harpenau, New Albany High; Tom Hayes, Bardstown High; Kyrstin Price, KY School for the Blind; Kim Joiner, Noe Middle; Georgette Kleier, YPAS; Alison Lambert, Oldham County High; Tiffany LaVoie, Western Visual and Performing Arts Middle School; Amanda McFarland-Smith, Southern High; Patti Miller, Jeffersonville High; Kate Nitzken, Louisville Archdiocese; Shelby Steege, Atherton High; Steven Rahe, Western Visual and Performing Arts Middle School; Hannegan Roseberry, Community Montessori; Amanda Simmons, Mercy High; Patti Slagle, Louisville Writing Project; Tiffany Smith, Eastern High; Robbie Steiner, Floyd Central High; Frank Ward, Trinity High; Amy Zuccaro, Trinity High A U D I E N C E

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Theatre Forward advances the American theatre and its communities by providing funding and other resources to the country’s leading nonprofit theatres.

Theatre Forward and our theatres are most grateful to the following funders: THEATRE EXECUTIVES ($50,000-$99,000) Bank of America* The Schloss Family Foundation♦ Wells Fargo*♦ BENEFACTORS ($25,000-$49,999) Buford Alexander and Pamela Farr*♦ BNY Mellon Steven & Joy Bunson*♦ Citi DeWitt Stern* Goldman, Sachs & Co. MetLife Morgan Stanley James S. & Lynne Turley*♦ Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP* PACESETTERS ($15,000‑$24,999) American Express* Bloomberg Cisco Systems, Inc.* The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. EY* Alan & Jennifer Freedman*♦

Frank & Bonnie Orlowski*♦ Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. National Endowment for the Arts♦ Pfizer, Inc. Southwest Airlines♦† Theatermania/Gretchen Shugart*♦ George S. Smith, Jr.*♦ UBS DONORS ($10,000‑$14,999) Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Epiq Systems* Karen A. & Kevin W. Kennedy Foundation Lisa Orberg♦ Presidio* Thomas C. Quick* RBC Wealth Management♦ Daniel A. Simkowitz*♦ S&P Global TD Charitable Foundation♦ Isabelle Winkles*♦ SUPPORTERS ($2,500‑$9,999) Mitchell J. Auslander*♦

Disney/ABC Television Group* Paula A. Dominick*♦ Dorfman and Kaish Family Foundation, Inc. ♦ Dramatists Play Service, Inc.* Kevin & Anne Driscoll John R. Dutt*♦ Bruce R. and Tracey Ewing*♦ Jessica Farr* Mason & Kim Granger*♦ Brian J. Harkins*♦ Gregory S. Hurst*♦ Howard and Janet Kagan♦ Joseph F. Kirk*♦ John R. Mathena *♦ Ogilvy & Mather† Jonathan Maurer and Gretchen Shugart*♦ Dina Merril & Ted Hartley* Newmark Holdings* Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. * John Thomopoulos*♦ Evelyn Mack Truitt* Leslie C. & Regina Quick Charitable Trust As of August 2017

* Theatre Forward/DeWitt Stern Fund for New American Theatre † Includes In-kind support ♦ Educating through Theatre Support Theatre Forward supporters are former supporters of National Corporate Theatre Fund and Impact Creativity.

For a complete list of funders visit theatreforward.org.

I n - K i n d D o n at i o n s Alltrade Service Solutions Actors Associates Actors Education Bearno’s Pizza Bourbon Barrel Foods Boxcar PR Brown-Forman Cellar Door Chocolates Churchill Downs Clearwater Fine Foods Derby City Litho Elements Massage Westport Village Elite Packaging, LLC Farm to Fork Catering

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The Galt House Hotel Heine Brothers’ Coffee Hilliard Lyons Hyland Glass Katie and Fred Ryser-Cycle The Kentucky Center for the Arts J.B. Speed Art Museum Chris and Julie Kay Kentucky Shakespeare Kentucky Space LLC Louisville Ballet Louisville Marriott Downtown Mike’s Kentucky Kitchen Ted and Mary Nixon

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Parking Authority of River City (PARC) The Paw Zone, LLC Pawsitively Dogs Grooming Rabbit Hole Distillery Republic Bank Ms. Elizabeth Rounsavall SCOUT Wendy and Kris Sirchio Taxi 7 Mac and Jessica Thompson VIA Studio Virginia Gray Henry White Clay Consulting ZFX Flying Effects

I n d i v i d ua l S u pport Visionary Circle Anonymous Christina Lee Brown Mrs. Harry S. Frazier, Jr. Producer Circle Ann and Stewart Cobb Sandra Frazier Mary and Ted Nixon Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham Jacqueline R. and Theodore S. Rosky Ms. Elizabeth Rounsavall Director Circle John and Natalie Bajandas Brooke and Matthew Barzun Crawford Charitable Fund Turney P. Berry and Kendra Foster Mrs. Edith S. Bingham Mr. and Mrs. David Daulton Lena and Matthew Hamel Augusta and Gill Holland, Jr Mary Gwen Wheeler and David A. Jones, Jr. Bruce Merrick and Karen McCoy The Mitchell/Rushing Family Foundation Inc. Thomas and Mary Jo Mueller Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Murphy J. A. Paradis III John E. Selent Alfred Shands Mr. and Mrs. Mac Thompson Jaleigh and Michael White The Wunderlin Company Designer Circle Lynn Allen and Pete Walton Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Callen Sarah and Peter Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Rounsavall III Jim and Marianne Welch Playwright Circle Anonymous (2) Ms. Patricia W. Ballard Mr. and Mrs. William C. Ballard Jr. Eleanor Bingham Miller Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Bonnie Meredith Wilson Brown Victoria and Paul J. Diaz Daniel and Kirsten Ford Bill and Joyce Holmes Chris and Julie Kay Fairleigh and Abby Lussky Kevin E. Moore and Mike Porto Carol and Charlie Pye Jonathan and Julie Roberts Ken and Anne Selvaggi Cathy and Allan Tasman, MD John L. Tate and Phyllis McMurry-Tate Linda and Chris Valentine Dramaturg Circle Jesse and Kim Adams Keith Auerbach, M.D.

Sarah and Campbell Brown Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson Dr. Joseph J. Buchino Madelyn Buzzard Mees Heather McHold and Stephen P. Campbell Tanya Carrico and John Higgins Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson Michael and Gina Del Negro Nancy L. Doctor Mr. and Mrs. Donald Finney Ken and Judy Handmaker Barbara and Bill Juckett Paul and Tracy Klein Ms. Stewart Lussky and Mr. Bob Jones Mr. and Mrs. Holland N. McTyeire IV Susan S. and Robert H. Means Dr. Catherine Newton and Dr. Gordon Strauss Al and Jamie Paradis Rick and Becky Reed Kris and Wendy Sirchio Habdank Foundation David and Melissa Weedman Jane Welch Will and Becky West Ed and Anne Wunsch Stage Manager Anonymous (2) Mr. James B. Appleberry Sharon and Stephen Berger Mr. and Mrs. Neville Blakemore III Neville Blakemore, Jr. and Gray Henry Maggie Brandt and Bert Lyons Norma B. Braver Dr. and Mrs. John J. Buchino William Burbank In Memory of Catherine Davidson Ms. Kathleen Chalfant Ms. Erika Chavez-Graziano Dr. Phil Cochran and Ms. Marie B. Hertzman-Cochran Terry Conway Drs. Larry and Christine Cook Kevin and Mera Cossey Corlett Brad Asher and Susan Coventry Irwin and Carol Cutler Dr. Richard Edelson and Donna Smith Fr. John G. Eifler Emily and Bob Gable Jan M. Grayson Mr. John R. Gregory Scott and JoAnn Haner Michelle and Michael Hanington Jane Hardy and David Schmidt Arvida and Edward Harris Hood and Heather Harris Jim Haynes Anna Hitron and Thomas Johnston Jonathan and Janet Hodes Mr. Richard Hoskins Steve Knight A U D I E N C E

Mary Korfhage David and Carol Krebs Mr. Robert E. Kulp, Jr. Rabbi Laura Metzger and Cantor David Lipp Susan McNeese and Phil Lynch Robert T. and Eleanor Maddox Mr. and Mrs. John Mann Jr. Caroline Martinson John and Cindy McCarthy Bill and Mim McKenzie Rishab and Lopa Mehrtora Claire Alagia and Creighton Mershon, Sr. Duane and Anne Murner Mr. Scott Neff Joanne and Joseph Oldham Jessica and Lance Owens Donna M. Peak Chris Price Theresa and Ben Reno-Weber Mr. Robert S. Saunders Darrell and Nancy Shelton Patti Slagle and Steve Zimmerman Larry Fleischer and Les Stanfield Mr. Sam Stewart Charlotte and John Clay Stites Mrs. James W. Stites, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Bodley Stites Dr. Brandon Sutton and Karen Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Robbie Tindall Rose Mary Rommel Toebbe Terry and Amanda Tyler Porter Watkins and George Bailey Dr. Melissa L. Weaver Stephen and Coretta Wolford Kimberly and Michael Wood Phoebe A. Wood Principal Artist Carol Anne Edwards Sally and Charlie Moyer Beth Welch Supporting Role Michael Alt Bill and Carlyn Altman Alejandro and Carol Alvarez Maureen Awbrey and Diane Kyle Stephen and Jeannie Bodney Tom and Sylvia Brite Stephen and Katie Bush Helen Cohen Mr. Curtis R. Conlin and Mr. Chris Welsh Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Costel Dr. Keith P. Cross Dr. Thalia Dorwick David & Paulette Dubofsky Chris and Kathelen Ferlita Drs. Karen and Brennan Fitzpatrick Jack E. Francis Daniel and Lisa Gunther Clark Sonya and Ara Hacet Ms. Maria Hardy-Webb 25

I n d i v i d ua l S u pport Allen Harris and Alexis Rich Mrs. Kristen Hawley Hollie Hopkins Cindy and Dwayne Jarboe Charles and Robin Kane Shannon and David Kisselbaugh Dr. and Mrs. Forrest Kuhn Charles and Donna Lavelle Matt Linville and Kelly Will Sally and Stanley Macdonald Mr. Joseph and Dr. Janine Malone Christopher P. Murphy John Neichter Lue and John Peabody Laura Petry Erik Prentice Sean Riley and Adam Neff Janet and Richard Rink Bonnie and John Roth Kevin and Cheryl Sandefur Brian and Molly Schaffner Jeremy and Suzy Shepherd Dr. and Mrs. Roger J. Shott Mrs. Yandell R. Smith Ilam E. Smith Dr. John Roberts and Dr. Janet L. Smith Vertner Smith and Barbara West Dr. Peter and Margaret Fife Tanguay

Mr. and Mrs. James Ward Les Waters Rev. and Mrs. James Wilson Thomas and Susan Wobbe Ms. Ruth Wukasch Craft Artisan Mary Alexander and John Downard Rebecca Begley and Robert Weekly Rebecca S. Brown Dr. Deb Patterson Burdsall Ms. Madeline Carey Grant Linda W. Cauble Vicki Coombs Dawn and Robert Croft Leonidas Deters and Penelope Shaw Dr. Edward Dunn Dr. and Mrs. Walter Feibes Bill and Kathy Fensterer Gregg and Leslie Fowler Kerry Francis James and Grace Giesel Clarence and Bettie Glover Dr. and Mrs. Richard Goldwin Louis Hettinger Mr. Nick Hormann Allison Jenkins Donna Y. Kays Ed Kruger and Jeff Rodgers

Boyce Martin III & Melea East Mary Lou and Bill Marzian Erin and Chris Meiman Guy E. and Elizabeth S. Montgomery Janessa and John Moran Mindy Murphy Dustin Page and Bryan Miller Patrice E. Paton John and Nancy Reed Mr. C. Glenn Reid Drs. Tiffany Rieser and Steven Heilman Ms. Sarah Dart Ruhl Darla and Donald Shaffer John & Shiao Shaw-Woo Seema Sheth and Andreas Wokutch Ted and Rae Shlechter Mr. Val Slayton Dr. J. C. States and Ms. G. R. Russo Kelly Terlau Alyssa J. Toerne Mr. and Mrs. William W. Weber Don and Mary Wells Melany Wessels Brenda Whittaker Mitzie and Jim Wittliff Carol and Bill Young David and Bonnie Zepka

* This gift was made possible in part or in full through a Fund for the Arts Partnership Grant.

S TA F F D O N O R S Allison and Tony Hammons Melissa Hines Steve Knight

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Meredith McDonough Erin Meiman Kevin E. Moore and Mike Porto

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Jeffrey S. Rodgers Peggy Shake Carrie Syberg

T heatre Staff Managing Director, KEVIN E. MOORE ARTISTIC Associate Artistic Director....... Meredith McDonough Artistic Producer.................................Emily Tarquin Artistic Manager................... Zachary Meicher-Buzzi Company Manager..................................... Dot King Literary Director............................................... Amy Wegener Literary Manager...........................Jenni Page-White Resident Dramaturg....... Hannah Rae Montgomery Literary Associate..................................Jessica Reese Education Director................................................ Jane B. Jones Education Manager.................. Betsy Anne Huggins Education Associate.........................Janelle R. Dunn Teaching Artists................Liz Fentress, Keith McGill, Talleri McRae, Letitia Usher ADMINISTRATION General Manager.......................... Jeffrey S. Rodgers Human Resources Manager..................... Marie Tull Systems Manager.................................. Dottie Krebs Executive Assistant............................ Norman Dixon Administrative Services Coordinator................................Bianca Unzueta AUDIENCE SERVICES & SALES Ticket Sales Director.........................Kim McKercher Season Tickets Manager......................Julie Gallegos Patron Services Managers......................Steve Clark, Kristy Kannapell Patron Services Associates................ LaShana Avery, Kristine Farley, Marty Huelsmann Volunteer and Audience Relations Director........................................... Allison Hammons House Managers...........................................Tiffany Bush, Elizabeth Cooley, Rachel Downs, Jordan Kelch, Abigail Rogers Lobby Manager.....................................Tiffany Walton DEVELOPMENT Director of Development.................... Mark Warner Director of Community Partnerships... Carrie Syberg Director of Individual Giving.......... Katherine Lander Grants Manager.................................... Allie Summers Development Coordinator............. Matthew Brown FINANCE Director................................................. Peggy Shake Accounting Coordinator.........................Jason Acree Accounting Assistant............................ Jamila Childs MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Director................................................. Steve Knight Marketing Manager............................ Melissa Hines Festival & Events Manager.................. Erin Meiman Public Relations Manager....... Elizabeth Greenfield Marketing & Communications Coordinator.................................. Laura Humble Graphic Designer............................ Mary Kate Zihar Assistant Graphic Designer.........Sheyenne Santiago Group Sales Manager............................ Sarah Peters Outbound Customer Service Representative............... David Meredith

OPERATIONS Director of Operations........................Carlo Stallings Operations Manager................................. Barry Witt Building Services Supervisor............... Ricky Baldon Building Services........... Deonta Burns, Phillip Vinegar PRODUCTION Production Manager............................. Paul Werner Associate Production Manager................................ Michael DeWhatley Production Stage Manager.......... Paul Mills Holmes Resident Stage Managers...............Stephen Horton, Jessica Kay Potter, Katie Shade Resident Production Assistants.................Margaret Rial, Katherine Thesing Scenic Technical Director............................Justin Hagovsky Associate Technical Director............ Braden Blauser Scenic Charge Artist........................ Rachael Claxton Scene Shop Manager................Javan Roy-Bachman Master Carpenter..................................... Alexia Hall Scenic Carpenters........................... Hannah Allgeier, Josh Blum, Pierre Vendette Assistant Scenic Charge........................Colleen Doty Deck Carpenters.....Gracie Lawson, Peter Regalbuto Costumes Costume Director.....................................Mike Floyd Crafts Master.......................................Shari Cochran Wig and Makeup Supervisor............Barbie McCann Draper/Tailor..........................................Jeffery Park First Hands...........Rachel Gregory, Natalie Maynard Stitchers....................... Faith Brown, Katie Leonard, Christina Marcantonio Costume Design Assistants................. Isabel Martin, Isabelle Tabet Wig and Makeup Assistant..............Rebecca Traylor Wardrobe Manager.................................Anna Jenny Wardrobe Assistant.............................. Chloe Hixson Wardrobe Technician............................Kathryn Vest Lighting Supervisor......................................... Jason E. Weber Assistant Lighting Supervisor...............Dani Clifford Electrics Shop Manager..................... Steve Burdsall Lead Lighting Technician..................Wylder Cooper Lighting Technicians.......... Ellen Reid, Tyler Warner Sound Supervisor................................................ Paul Doyle Assistant Sound Supervisor............Lindsay Burdsall Sound Technicians.............................. Marion Ayers, Victoria Campbell Properties Director............................................... Mark Walston Associate Properties Master.............Heather Lindert Assistant Properties Master.............Katelin Ashcraft Carpenter Artisan................................ Ryan Bennett Soft Goods Artisan............................ Jessie Combest

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T heatre Staff Video Media Technologist............................Philip Allgeier Professional Training Company Director................................Christine Albright-Tufts Artistic Coordinator.............................Jonathan Ruiz Acting.........................................................................

Amber Avant, David Ball, Silvia Daly Bond, Laura Lee Caudill, Avery Deutsch, Rebby Foster, Josh Fulton, Ashley N. Hildreth, Rasell Holt, Emma Maltby, Kevin O’Connell, Jonathan Moises Olivares, Ashley K. Patlan, Kayla Peters, Angelica Santiago, Brett Daniel Schultz, Julian Socha, Oluwaseun Soyemi, Russell Sperberg, Reagan Stovenour Communications................................ Laura Mullaney Company & Artistic Management.............. Ben Otten Costumes.................................................. Jessica Land Development................................................ Kelly Carr Directing.........................Shareef Elkady, Emily Moler Dramaturgy/Literary Management..........Alonna Ray, Susan Yassky Education/Teaching Artist..................Rachel Bischoff, Emma Leff Festival & Events Management............ Henrietta Key Lighting.......................................................Seth Torres Marketing.......................................Charlotte Stephens

Producing & Casting Management.............................. Rebecca Redman Production Management..........................Bryn Weiler Properties................................................ Kayla Carroll Scenic Painting.......................................Petra Stoppel Sound...............................................Cheyenne S. Zuck Stage Management.................................Andie Burns, Annalise Fosnight, Elizabeth Gordon, Em Hornbeck Usher Captains Dolly Adams, Shirley Adkins, Marie Allen, Terryl Allen, Katherine Austin, Libba & Chuck Bonifer, Tanya Briley, Judy Buckler, Brenda Cease, Maleva Chamberlain, Donna Conlon, Terry Conway, Laurie Eiden, Doris Elder, Joyce French, Carol Halbleib, LuAnn & Tom Hayes, Candace Jaworski, Holly Kissel, Barbara Nichols, Teresa Nusz, Dalen Payton, Beth Phipps, Nancy Rankin, Bob Rosedale, Tim Unruh Actors Theatre’s Company Doctor Dr. Andrew Mickler, F.A.C.S.

Members of the Professional Training Company receive additional training at the Louisville Ballet School.

Actors Theatre of Louisville was founded in 1964 by Richard Block in association with Ewel Cornett. Jon Jory was Producing Director from 1969 to 2000.

Alexander Speer was Executive Director from 1965 to 2006.

Artists under Commission In addition to reading script submissions from around the country, Actors Theatre of Louisville builds relationships with playwrights and encourages the creation of new work by commissioning plays from artists whom we admire. A new play commission engages a writer to pen a piece specifically for Actors Theatre of Louisville and allows us to support the work’s development from the earliest stages of inspiration onward.

Some notable past full-length plays commissioned by Actors Theatre and produced in the Humana Festival of New American Plays include The Christians by Lucas Hnath, Cry it Out by Molly Smith Metzler, For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday by Sarah Ruhl, Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo, Maple and Vine by Jordan Harrison (co-commission with Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Big Love and The Glory of the World by Charles Mee, and Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies (winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama).

Commissioned writers currently include: Jeff Augustin Jackie Sibblies Drury Tasha Gordon-Solmon Sarah Gubbins

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Lucas Hnath Rajiv Joseph & Bill Sherman Basil Kreimendahl Taylor Mac

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Mara Nelson-Greenberg A. Rey Pamatmat Naomi Wallace & Ismail Khalidi

Ser v i c e s & A me n i t i e s TICKET INFORMATION Box Office Hours (During Performances) Subject to change.

Monday: 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday – Thursday: 12 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Friday – Saturday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Sunday: 12 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Order by phone (502) 584-1205 ■ 1-800-4ATL-TIX Phone orders are subject to a $3 per ticket processing fee. All orders subject to a $2 per ticket Historic Landmark Fee. Online fees vary, based on ticket cost. All purchases subject to 6% sales tax.

Order Online: ActorsTheatre.org Address: 316 West Main Street Louisville, KY 40202-4218 USA special offers Season Ticket Packages A range of ticket packages are available, including incredible benefits. Call our Box Office for options or visit ActorsTheatre.org/SeasonTickets.

Groups Discounts ranging from 5% to 20% are available to groups of ten or more. Call (502) 585-1210 for details.

Ages 60+, Military, Students and Patrons with Disabilities 60+, military, students (full-time with valid ID) and patrons with disabilities receive 10% off single tickets.

Day of Performance: Patrons with disabilities and students $24.

Gift Certificates Perfect for all occasions, gift certificates are available in any amount and can be purchased at the Box Office or online at actorstheatre.org.

Ticket Exchange Ticket holders may exchange their tickets either by phone or in person. As soon as possible after exchange needs are known, please call or visit our Box Office to make arrangements. Ticket exchanges may be made until 5 p.m. the day of the date on the tickets or one hour in advance of a matinee—only for another performance of the same play. Upgrade fees may apply.

PLEASE NOTE Ticket discounts subject to availability, cannot be combined with other discounts, and are not valid on previously purchased tickets. Historic Landmark and phone fees apply. Not valid during blackout performances. Seating restrictions may apply. Visit ActorsTheatre.org/TicketOptions for more information.

GALLERY HOURS (During Performances) Tuesday - Friday: 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Saturday - Sunday: 1 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Closed Mondays and non-performance days

FOOD & BEVERAGE Food is not permitted in the theatre.

Beverage Service Beverage service is available on the Mezzanine Level Tuesday–Sunday, one hour before all shows and at intermission. Post-performance beverage service is available at MilkWood. Beverages can be pre-purchased for intermission at the Mezzanine bar before all performances.

MilkWood Open Tuesday-Sunday at 5:30 p.m.

MilkWood, a restaurant operated by Chef Edward Lee, is located on the lower level of Actors Theatre.

Food is available at the bar in the restaurant without reservations; however, reservations are recommended for table service. For reservations, please call (502) 584-MILK (6455) or visit MilkwoodRestaurant.com.

Late Arrival Policy Late Seating in the Pamela Brown Auditorium or the Bingham Theatre is at the discretion of the House Manager, who can be located in the lobbies upon your arrival. Due to the intimate nature of the Victor Jory Theatre, latecomers will not be seated.

Parking Accessible parking is available on the Mezzanine Level of the Actors parking garage and on the Ground Floor Level for vans. There are additional marked spaces next to the Main Street elevators on Levels 3 through 6. The Actors parking garage elevators, located along Main Street, provide direct access to theatre lobbies. For information on discount parking for theatre events or traffic updates and alerts, please visit our website at ActorsTheatre.org or contact our Box Office at 502.584.1205.

EMERGENCY PROCEDURE In the event of a fire, a severe storm or an earthquake, you will be instructed by an announcement from the stage indicating the best method of exit. Please notice the multiple red exit signs in the theatre. For your safety, please exit in a calm and orderly manner.

ELECTRONIC DEVICES Please silence your phone or watch alarm so it will not disrupt the performance. Use of cellular phones, pagers, cameras, recording devices or any device that will light up the rows behind you are strictly prohibited in the auditorium. If you feel you may need to be contacted in case of an emergency, check your phone or pager with the house manager. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

NO Firearms Firearms are strictly prohibited on these premises.

CHILDREN

Children under age four are not permitted unless the production specifically appeals to very young children.

All children attending an event, regardless of age, must have a ticket. Because it can be distracting to others in the theatre, if your child is disruptive or excessively restless, you may be asked to step outside.

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Ser v i c e s & A me n i t i e s NO SMOKING

No smoking of any kind is permitted within the facility.

ACCESSIBILITY Accessible ramps, elevators, parking, restrooms, water fountains and wheelchair seating are available for patrons with disabilities. Parking is located on levels M and 3–6 of the garage. Accessible restrooms are located on the first floor and Mezzanine Level.

Sound Enhancement All theatres are equipped with an FM wireless system for hearing enhancement.

Lightweight receivers with earphones or magnetic induction loops are available free of charge, with a refundable deposit, at Coat Check (October–April) or the Box Office.

Audio-Described Performances Selected performances, generally during a weekend matinee, are audio described for patrons who are blind or have low vision.

Describers provide a live, objective, and descriptive delivery of the visual elements of the performance in between the dialogue. A schedule is available at the Box Office. Provided by The Kentucky Center.

Caption Theatre Caption Theatre is provided for selected performances for patrons who have hearing loss and may not benefit from hearing amplification. The audible elements are shown on an LED sign, in real time, as each line is spoken or sung. Reservations for this service should be made at the time of ticket purchase to ensure the best seating for this service. Provided by The Kentucky Center.

LARGE-PRINT PROGRAMS Large-print programs are available at the entrance to all theatres on both levels.

VOLUNTEERS Volunteer opportunities are available as a member of Actors Associates or the Usher Corps. Call (502) 584-1265.

RENTALS Looking for a unique space to hold an event?

Actors Theatre boasts a variety of different spaces for events ranging from meetings to conferences.

Call (502) 584-1265 for details.

BACKSTAGE TOURS Backstage Tours arranged by advance request. Call (502) 584-1265.

All programs, activities and services are provided equally without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

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