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Welcome to the 44th Humana Festival of New American Plays!

On behalf of our staff, board, artists and volunteers, we’re delighted to have you join us for another year celebrating the innovative voices of American theatre. I am honored to be sharing my first Humana Festival as Executive Artistic Director with you.

This is an exhilarating time of year as Louisville, Kentucky becomes the focus of the national theatre scene. For more than four decades, the Humana Festival has been a launchpad for extraordinary work, a platform to introduce groundbreaking plays to the world. Actors Theatre provides a destination for both artists and art lovers to share in our commitment to new play development. This year, we are thrilled to share with you the stories of seven remarkable artists whose dynamic voices showcase the vast possibilities of theatre.

As the audience, you’re an essential part of the equation! It is your spirit and support that bring the Humana Festival to life. We are so very thankful for your enthusiasm for new work and your unwavering belief in the importance of the Festival— whether this is your first time joining us or part of your yearly tradition. New play development is a conversation, and I invite you to share your response to the work onstage. Stop and say hello to the staff, artists and volunteers in the building. Take a moment to acknowledge the person on your left and on your right. Let’s treasure this experience together.

We are incredibly grateful for our longstanding partnership with the Humana Foundation, whose generous support of this gathering space to explore new stories strengthens both our national theatre ecology and the cultural and social fabric of our communities here in Louisville. The Humana Festival provides an unparalleled opportunity for this city to experience new plays before they travel to stages across the nation and around the world.

Thank you for joining us, and enjoy the Festival!

Robert Barry Fleming Executive Artistic Director

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FROM THE UNDERWRITER

The arts possess a unique ability to reach across cultures and communities, while at the same time resonating on a very personal level.

Great theatre gives us an opportunity to express our shared humanity, teach ourselves about who we are and shape the world in which we live—facilitating the social connection we know is critical to our health. For the past 56 years, Actors Theatre of Louisville has shared innovative and inspiring productions with the Louisville community.

As we enter the 44th year of the Humana Festival of New American Plays, we look forward to another group of world-premiere productions and to the rich cultural engagement that comes with it. We believe that theatre supports our overall wellbeing by fostering shared experiences and enriching our emotional world.

The Humana Foundation is honored to underwrite this celebration of creative achievement. With some plays going on to productions in New York, the Hollywood screen and theatres around the world, it is no surprise that this event is often referred to as the preeminent new play festival in the country. Actors Theatre has helped bring Louisville a reputation for theatrical innovation unsurpassed in the United States.

This year, we welcome Executive Artistic Director Robert Barry Fleming, whose vision and leadership will carry this event into the future. We congratulate Actors Theatre, Robert and his team, and applaud all the playwrights, actors, directors and audiences who cast their nets wide to explore the nuances of the American experience.

The Humana Foundation is proud to sponsor the 44th year of the Humana Festival of New American Plays. We sincerely hope everyone enjoys this year’s performances.

Bruce D. Broussard President and Chief Executive Officer, Humana Inc. Chairman, Humana Foundation

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44th Humana Festival of New American Plays made possible by a generous grant from the Humana Foundation

Nicole Clark is Having a Baby written and directed by Morgan Gould March 6 – April 12, 2020

THE CAST (in order of appearance)

Nicole Clark Robert Arnold Amy Renna Helen Clark

Nicole Spiezio * DeShawn Harold Mitchell * Emily Kunkel * Nancy Robinette *

SETTING Helen’s house (and Nicole’s childhood home) in a small town.

There will be no intermission.

Presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency.

Scenic Designer Lauren Helpern †

Costume Designer Lex Liang †

Lighting Designer Wen-Ling Liao †

Sound Designer Rodolfo Ortega †

Stage Manager Kathy Preher * Dramaturg Hannah Rae Montgomery

Casting by Paul Davis, Calleri Casting

Generous early development support provided by The MacDowell Colony, New Dramatists, The Juilliard Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Program (Marsha Norman and David Lindsay-Abaire, Co-Chairs) and Manhattan Theatre Club.

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.

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44th Humana Festival of New American Plays made possible by a generous grant from the Humana Foundation

Where the Mountain Meets the Sea

by Jeff Augustin music by The Bengsons directed by Joshua Kahan Brody commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville March 11 – April 12, 2020

THE CAST (in order of appearance)

Jonah Allan K. Washington *

Jean Nathan Hinton * Band Abigail Bengson *, Shaun Bengson * There will be no intermission.

Presented by special arrangement with William Morris Endeavor.

Scenic Designer Meredith Ries †

Costume Designer Dominique Fawn Hill

Lighting Designer Scott Bolman †

Sound Designer Matt Hubbs †

Original Music and Composition The Bengsons

Movement Director Steph Paul

Stage Manager Roxana Khan * Dramaturg Sarah Lunnie

Casting by

Erica Jensen, Calleri Casting

Where the Mountain Meets the Sea was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville.

The play received additional developmental support from La Jolla Playhouse and Manhattan Theatre Club.

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.

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44th Humana Festival of New American Plays made possible by a generous grant from the Humana Foundation

FLEX

by Candrice Jones directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg March 18 – April 11, 2020

THE CAST (in alphabetical order)

Starra Jones Donna Cunningham Cherise Howard Coach Francine Pace April Jenkins Sidney Brown

Alaina Kai Chester * Hailey Elizabeth • Joy Yvonne Jones * Halili Knox * NaSwana Moon • Arielle Siler *

SETTING Rural Arkansas. Late February through mid-March, 1997.

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

Presented by special arrangement with the author.

Scenic Designer

Costume Designer

Lex Liang † Wen-Ling Liao †

Lighting Designer

Sound Designer

Stage Manager

Lauren Helpern †

Rodolfo Ortega † Katherine Thesing *

Dramaturg Kim Euell

Casting by

Emily Tarquin

FLEX was developed at the 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (2018), and received support from a Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation workshop in 2017.

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. • Equity Professional Theatre Intern

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44th Humana Festival of New American Plays made possible by a generous grant from the Humana Foundation

Grace

by Nolan Williams, Jr. directed by Robert Barry Fleming March 25 – April 12, 2020

THE CAST (in order of appearance)

The Mintons:

Paul David Hughey * Ruthie Jenny Mollet *

Miss Minnie Virginia Woodruff * Haley Lacretta * E.J. Bernard Holcomb *

Family Members (Ensemble) Lawrence Cummings *, Jacqui Blue *,

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

Understudy for Paul

Lawrence Cummings *

There will be no intermission.

Scenic Designer Jason Ardizzone-West †

Costume Designer Dominique Fawn Hill †

Lighting Designer Xavier Pierce †

Sound Designer Matt Hubbs †

Music Director & Conductor Nolan Williams, Jr.

Production Stage Manager Stephen Horton *

Assistant Stage Manager Jessica Kay Potter * Dramaturg Amy Wegener

Casting by

Stephanie Klapper, CSA

Grace has received developmental support from Cleveland Play House, NEWorks Productions, and The Archousai of the Sigma Pi Phi Grand Boulé.

Grace is dedicated to the memory of Rev. Nolan Williams, Sr., Daisy Marie Young and Steven Newsome.

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.

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Grace SONGS “By Grace”............................................................................................................The Mintons “The Wave of Change”.................................................................................................Ruthie “Potlikker”........................................................................................................... Miss Minnie “Chicken Ramen Noodles and Cherry Kool-Aid”......................................................... E.J. “Bogle, Augustin, Prosser, Dorsey, Jones & Minton”...................... Paul & The Mintons “A Hard Head Makes a Soft Behind”.............................................Haley, Ruthie & Jacqui “By Grace – Reprise”.................................Haley, Ruthie, Miss Minnie, E.J. & The Mintons “Grace”.................................................................................................................The Mintons “Good Lawd, Let’s Eat”......................................................................................The Mintons “Black-eyed Peas”..............................................................................Ruthie & The Mintons “‘Dady’ Used To Say”........................................................................................................ E.J. “Diamond in the Rough”............................................................................................. Haley “‘The Itis’”.................................................................................. Miss Minnie & The Mintons “By Grace (Ancestral Redux)”...........................................................................The Mintons “This New Normal”............................................................................... Paul & The Mintons “This Chicken Died! [The Gospel Bird]”.......................................... Haley & The Mintons “Disgrace”......................................................................................E.J., Haley & The Mintons “Again?”..........................................................................................................................Ruthie “Potlikker – Reprise”......................................................................................... Miss Minnie “Three Okra Seeds”.................................................................. Miss Minnie & The Mintons “When Gran’Me Cooked / Grace Reprise”.................... Paul, Ruthie, Miss Minnie, Haley

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44th Humana Festival of New American Plays made possible by a generous grant from the Humana Foundation

Are You There?

by Vivian Barnes, Jonathan Norton and Gab Reisman directed by Robert Barry Fleming performed by the actors of the 2019–2020 Professional Training Company commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville March 1 – April 12, 2020

THE CAST (in alphabetical order)

Michael Allyn +, Kaitlyn Boyer +, Zoë DePreta +, Christopher Garofalo +, Jen Jarnagin +, Noah Keyishian +, Teresa Langford +, Germainne LeBron +, Alex Lin +, Gabriela Llarena +, Alex Might +, Mollie Murk +, Kat Peña +, Andrew G. Rodriguez +, Patrick Steadman Taylor +, Ashtonn Thompson + and Isaiah J. Williams + There will be no intermission.

Presented by special arrangement with Bret Adams, Ltd. and the authors.

Are You There? is supported in part by The Roy Cockrum Foundation.

Katelin Ashcraft

Scenic/Properties Designer

Costume Designer

Mike Floyd †

Lighting Designer

Wen-Ling Liao †

Sound Designer

Lindsay Burdsall

Media Designer

Philip Allgeier

Stage Manager

Margaret Rial

Dramaturg Jenni Page-White

Casting by

Sujotta Pace

The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

† Designers that are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA – 829 of the IATSE. + All actors are members of the Professional Training Company of Actors Theatre of Louisville.

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Are You There?

Casting for specific pieces as follows:

PTC GroupChat

by Gab Reisman

Oppy

by Vivian Barnes

The Ensemble

NASA 1................................................... Zoë DePreta NASA 2................................................... Jen Jarnagin Bailey............................................ Isaiah J. Williams Jude.......................................................... Alex Might Alex..............................................................Kat Peña Oppy................................................ Noah Keyishian

Buddy Chat

by Vivian Barnes lilsoccerbabygirl44.......................................Alex Lin QTPi314.................................. Andrew G. Rodriguez JuicyFrewt1795............................... Teresa Langford SaDgUrL111.......................................... Mollie Murk Sk8rboy666.......................Patrick Steadman Taylor Mom..................................................... Jen Jarnagin Dad.............................................Germainne LeBron Six Days on the Road

by Jonathan Norton Night Crawler...................................... Michael Allyn Daisy Duke............................................... Alex Might Stinky Al..................................Christopher Garofalo This is The Daily

by Vivian Barnes Sleepy Human...........................Germainne LeBron Michael Barbaro.....................Christopher Garofalo Correspondent................................ Teresa Langford Facebook Invite

by Gab Reisman Emilie.................................................... Zoë DePreta Alonzo.................................... Andrew G. Rodriguez Brit........................................................ Mollie Murk Darryl........................................Ashtonn Thompson Devon....................................................... Alex Might Steve...........................................Germainne LeBron Reese...........................................................Kat Peña a short play vaguely reminiscent of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town

by Jonathan Norton

#rosaparks, or I Wish a Muhfucka Would

by Jonathan Norton Rosa Parks........................................... Kaitlyn Boyer MLK...........................................Ashtonn Thompson The Ensemble.................................... Michael Allyn, Christopher Garofalo, Jen Jarnagin, Noah Keyishian, Alex Lin, Gabriela Llarena, Kat Peña, Patrick Steadman Taylor, Isaiah J. Williams Louisville Exchange

by Gab Reisman Highlands......................................................Alex Lin Warren....................................Christopher Garofalo Gladys.................................................... Mollie Murk Pearl.................................................... Kaitlyn Boyer Humphrey........................Patrick Steadman Taylor Junior........................................Ashtonn Thompson City........................................................... Alex Might Ida......................................................... Jen Jarnagin Arthur.............................................. Noah Keyishian Mack....................................... Andrew G. Rodriguez Lillian............................................. Gabriela Llarena East..............................................................Kat Peña Birdie............................................... Teresa Langford Pete..................................................... Michael Allyn Mabel.................................................... Zoë DePreta

@captaineo.................................... Noah Keyishian @nippy............................................... Kaitlyn Boyer @lakeminnetonka...................Ashtonn Thompson Vanity............................................ Gabriella Llarena Luther........................................... Isaiah J. Williams

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Additional Humana Festival Production Credits Nicole Clark is Having a Baby

Dialect Coach Properties Master Rehearsal Production Assistant Assistant Dramaturg Stage Management Apprentice

Rachel Hillmer Heather Lindert Andie Burns Liam E. Gibbs + Sophie Antovel +

Where the Mountain Meets the Sea

Dialect Coach Properties Director Production Assistant Directing Assistant Assistant Dramaturg Stage Management Apprentice

Chantal Jean-Pierre Mark Walston Michael Donnay Julia Rufo + Kathryn de la Rosa + Maggie Hoffecker +

FLEX

Dialect Coach Movement Captain Basketball Coach Properties Master Production Assistant Directing Assistant Assistant Dramaturg Stage Management Apprentice

American Federation of Musicians Contractor Properties Director Directing Assistant Assistant Dramaturg Stage Management Apprentice

Properties Master Directing Assistant Assistant Dramaturgs Stage Management Apprentices

Rachel Hillmer Hailey Elizabeth Crystal Riley Heather Lindert Andie Burns Cara Hinh + Kathryn de la Rosa + Julia Bregy +

Grace Angela Hopperton Mark Walston Julia Rufo + Liam E. Gibbs + Connor Feagin +

Are You There?

Heather Lindert Cara Hinh + Liam E. Gibbs +, Kathryn de la Rosa + Sophie Antovel +, Julia Bregy +

Actors Theatre thanks Vincent Lighting Systems for providing the lighting equipment.

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BIOGRAPHIES AUTHORS Jeff Augustin’s (Where the Mountain Meets the Sea) plays include Cry Old Kingdom (2013 Humana Festival), The Last Tiger in Haiti (La Jolla Playhouse and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The New Englanders (Manhattan Theatre Club) and Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout Theatre Company). Augustin is currently writing for The Morning Show on Apple TV+ and the limited series The Good Lord Bird on Showtime. He was a Playwright-in-Residence at Playwrights Horizons and Roundabout. He’s an alumnus of New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, The Lark’s Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop and The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm. Augustin is under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club and La Jolla Playhouse. He received his B.A. from Boston College and his M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego.

Vivian Barnes (Are You There?) is a playwright from Virginia and a proud former Actors Theatre Professional Training Company apprentice.

Other Theatre: Duchess! Duchess! Duchess! at the University of California, San Diego.

Additional Credits: Her play Jezebels was a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, as well as an honorable mention for the 2019 Kilroys List. Recently, she received

Clubbed Thumb's Open Application Commission. She is a second-year M.F.A. Playwriting candidate at the University of California, San Diego and a recipient of the San Diego Fellowship.

Morgan Gould (Playwright/Director, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby) At Actors Theatre: Director, God Said This (2018 Humana Festival).

Regional Theatre: I WANNA FUCKING TEAR YOU APART at Studio Theatre (Playwright/Director, 2017 Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding New Play, 2019 Dramatists Guild Foundation Writers Alliance Grant). Select directing credits include Straight White Men at Marin Theatre Company and Or, What She Will at Hangar Theatre. OffBroadway: Directing credits include God Said This at Primary Stages, Kentucky at Ensemble Studio Theatre/Page 73 and The Rafa Play at The Flea Theater.

Additional Credits: Gould's work has been workshopped at Cutting Ball, Z Space, the Playwrights’ Center, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Manhattan Theatre Club and The Lark. Gould is a member of New Dramatists and Ensemble Studio Theatre, a Yaddo and MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows alumna and current Ingram New Works Playwright. She is the artistic director of Morgan Gould & Friends, her own company with 13 other actors/designers/ producers. She received her B.A. in directing from Fordham University and her M.F.A. in Playwriting from Brooklyn College. Gould is a recent graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program.

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BIOGRAPHIES Candrice Jones (FLEX) is a playwright, poet and educator from Dermott, Arkansas.

Residencies: The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (FLEX, 2018), 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (FLEX). Additional Credits: Jones received an M.F.A. in Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts. Her play Crackbaby was nominated for the Wasserstein Prize in 2010. She was a 2019 MacDowell Colony Fellow and is a current Many Voices Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, MN. Jonathan Norton (Are You There?)

Regional Theatre: penny candy, Dallas Theater Center. Other Theatre: Plays developed and/or produced at PlayPenn, Black and Latino Playwrights Conference, InterAct Theatre Company, Kitchen Dog Theater, Pyramid Theatre Company, African American Repertory Theater, Undermain Theatre, Theatre Three, Soul Rep Theatre Company, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, South Dallas Cultural Center, and National New Play Network.

His play Mississippi Goddamn was a finalist for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and won the 2016 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award given by the American Theatre Critics Association. Mississippi Goddamn was commissioned by the South Dallas Cultural Center Diaspora Performing Arts Commission Project. Norton is the Playwright in Residence at Dallas Theater

Center. For more information, please visit nortonscriptworks.com.

Gab Reisman (Are You There?)

Regional Theatre: Underbelly's Alice in Wonderland at ZACH Theatre. Other Theatre: Next Year People at Fusebox Festival, Flood City at Theater Alliance and The NOLA Project, Storm Still at Vortex Rep and Brooklyn Yard. Additional Credits: Reisman has received commissions from Clubbed Thumb, New Plays at Barnard, EST/Sloan Project and The NOLA Project. Her plays have been developed with Page 73, Sundance Theatre Lab, The MacDowell Colony, The Orchard Project, Ingram New Works Lab, National New Play Network and the Playwrights’ Center, among others.

Publications include work in The Kilroys List: Vol. 1 and The GPTC Reader. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. For more information, please visit gabreisman.com.

Nolan Williams, Jr. (Grace) is an American composer and producer who uses his art to advocate, educate and inspire. His work includes curatorial festivals produced in partnership with the Kennedy Center and Philadelphia’s Mann Center; cultural programming developed with the Smithsonian Institution, U.S. State Department, and the Embassies of India and South Africa; theatrical productions including Stirring the Waters Across America (Kennedy

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BIOGRAPHIES Center), The Nolan Williams Project (Cleveland Play House), Go, Tell It! (Lincoln Theatre), Christmas Gift! (The Clarice) and Devine Hamer Gray (in development); choral/orchestral works premiered by major American orchestras; music for television; and songwriting credits on two Grammy-nominated projects. A graduate of Oberlin College, Williams is one of the Kennedy Center’s six inaugural Social Impact Arts Residents.

For more information, please visit nolanwilliamsjr.com.

THE ACTING COMPANY The Bengsons (Band/ Original Music and Composition, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea) Married duo Abigail and Shaun Bengson are composers/ performers. Regional Theatre: Hundred Days at La Jolla Playhouse, Z Space, The Arsht Center, The Straz Center, and Know Theater of Cincinnati; Hurricane Diane at Two River Theater; Anything That Gives Off Light at Edinburgh International Festival and Virginia Tech, you’ll still call me by name at Jacob’s Pillow. Off-Broadway: Hundred Days at New York Theatre Workshop and The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival; The Lucky Ones at Ars Nova; Sundown, Yellow Moon at WP Theater; Iphigenia in Aulis at Classic Stage Company; Hurricane Diane at New York Theatre Workshop.

TV: So You Think You Can Dance.

Additional Credits: Recipients of the Jonathan Larson and Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater, nominated for Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk and Drama League Awards. For more information, please visit thebengsons.com or follow @thebengsons on Instagram.

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Jacqui Blue (Ensemble, Grace) Other Theatre: Porgy and Bess at Opera Grand Rapids; The Dialogues of the Carmelites at The University of Louisville; Ragtime and Street Scene at Grand Valley State University; Dreamgirls and The Bridges of Madison County at CenterStage at the Jewish Community Center; and The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Alley Theatre. Film: Bagels (2017) and Anastasia (2019). Additional Credits: Blue received her Bachelor of Music in music therapy and voice from the University of Louisville. She was awarded first place in the National Association of Negro Musicians (KANM) Traditional Negro Spiritual Voice Competition and the Hoernemann Competition at Heidelberg University. For more information, follow @JacquiBlueMusic on Facebook and Twitter or @MsJacquiBlue on Instagram.

Alaina Kai Chester (Starra Jones, FLEX) At Actors Theatre: You Across from Me (42nd Humana Festival), Skeleton Crew and Little Bunny Foo Foo. Regional Theatre: Caroline, or Change at Tantrum Theater, directed by Robert Barry Fleming. New York Credits: Ensemble Studio Theatre short plays by Youngblood playwrights such as Will Arbery and Mara Nelson-Greenberg; The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals through The New School of Drama at Theatre Row in 2019.

Additional Credits: Chester received her B.F.A. in acting from Ohio University's School of Theater. She is an alumna of

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BIOGRAPHIES the Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre and a member of She-Collective New York. For more information, please visit alainakaichester. com or follow @alainakai on Instagram.

Lawrence Cummings (Ensemble, Grace) is making his Actors Theatre debut.

Regional Theatre: Disney’s The Little Mermaid at Music Theatre Wichita, Tuacahn Amphitheater, 5-Star Theatricals and Broadway Music Academy; Miss Saigon at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and Macau International Music Festival; Rent at La Mirada; Sister Act at Music Theatre Wichita; Smokey Joe’s Cafe at Music Theatre Wichita, La Mirada and Riverside Theatre, Honk! at Music Theatre Wichita; Jesus Christ Superstar at Maine State Music Theatre. National Tours: Jesus Christ Superstar, Camelot, Porgy and Bess. Off-Broadway: Foxy.

Opera: Alcina at Merkin Concert Hall and Caramoor Summer Music Festival; Ariodante at Merkin Concert Hall and Caramoor Summer Music Festival; Deidamia with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Messiah at Davies Symphony Hall, Romulus Hunt at Fisher Center. Television/ Film: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Live from the Blue Palm. Additional Credits: Cummings recieved his B.M. and Master of Music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. He was the winner of the Ned Rorem Art Song Competition, recipient of the Leslie Urquhart foundation, winner of NATS competition, NAACP Award for Best Ensemble for Jesus Christ Supetstar and L.A. Ovation nomination for Miss Saigon.

For more information, please follow @LawrenceCummings on Instagram.

Hailey Elizabeth (Donna Cunningham, FLEX) Other Theatre: Chicken Little Shop of Horrors at Occidental Children’s Theatre; New York City Indie Theatre One Minute Play Festival at New Ohio Theatre; Tea at EPOD Theater Company; HAIR'itage at The Actors Fund; Daughters of Troy Project at Dixon Place; Black Panther Women at Shades of Truth Theatre; Where You Hang Your Hat and Nisikilize at Dramatic Adventure Theatre. Film: Astral. TV: The Resident on FOX. Web-Series: In Pursuit. Additional Credits: She received her B.A. in Theatre from Occidental College, studied abroad at the London Dramatic Academy and received the 2015–16 Edgerton Post-Grad Fellowship. For more information, please visit haileyelizabeth.com or follow @hailey.ebeth on Instagram.

Nathan Hinton (Jean, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea) Regional Theatre: Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Twelfth Night at Yale Repertory Theatre, Pentecost at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Marjorie Prime at Pittsburgh Public Theater, A Raisin in the Sun at Dallas Theater Center, Nomathemba at Huntington Theatre Company, Blood Knot at Mosaic Theater Company, Take Me Out at Philadelphia Theatre Company, A Streetcar Named Desire at Virginia Stage Company, Two Trains Running at Triad Stage, The Piano Lesson at Delaware Theatre Company, The Call at Arkansas

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BIOGRAPHIES Repertory Theater. Off-Broadway: Insurrection: Holding History and The Tempest at The Public Theater, A Fair Country at Lincoln Center Theater, Pitbulls at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Block at The Working Theater, Living in the Wind at American Place Theatre, Marat/Sade at The Classical Theatre of Harlem. Television: FBI: Most Wanted, Manifest, The Code, Madam Secretary, Elementary, The Good Wife. Narration: Small Silent Things (Harper Perennial), Elsewhere, Home (Blackstone Publishing).

Additional credits: Hinton is a member of The Actors Center. For more information, please visit nathananthonyhinton.com.

Bernard Holcomb (E.J., Grace) OffBroadway: Whiskey Pants at HERE Arts Center. Additional Credits: Porgy and Bess (international tour); The Central Park Five (world premiere) at Long Beach Opera; Murasaki’s Moon (workshop) at American Lyric Theater; Rigoletto at Seattle Opera; Christian De Gré: Twisted

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Operettas at Joe’s Pub; Composer’s Series at Feinstein’s/54 Below; Dancing in the Street: The Music of Motown at Dallas Symphony; Rent at 5th Floor Theatre Company; Owen Wingrave at GK Arts Center; The Princess Sophia (world premiere) at Orpheus Project; Company at Eastman Theatre; Gershwin’s Blue Monday at On Site Opera; The Thirteenth Child at Santa Fe Opera and the Guggenheim Museum. For more information, visit bernardholcomb.com or follow @bernarddamonholcomb.

David Hughey (Paul, Grace) is making his Actors Theatre of Louisville debut! Broadway: Waitress, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. Off-Broadway: Das Barbecü. National Tours: Waitress first national, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess first national. Television/Film: Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector, 12 Years a Slave. To learn more, please follow @mrdavidhughey on Instagram.

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BIOGRAPHIES Joy Yvonne Jones (Cherise Howard, FLEX) Regional Theatre: As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Alley Theatre. Other Theatre Credits: Pride and Prejudice at Cygnet Theatre, Ring Around the Moon at Lamb's Players Theatre, Dance Nation at Moxie Theatre, Macbeth at Texas Shakespeare Festival.

Additional Credits: Graduate of the Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program at the University of Minnesota (2014). Recipient of the San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play for her portrayal of Saartjie Baartman in Voyeurs De Venus at Moxie Theatre (2018). For more information, please visit joyyvonnejones.squarespace.com or follow @joyyvonnejones on Instagram.

Halili Knox (Coach Francine Pace, FLEX) is making her Actors Theatre debut. Other Theatre: Detroit '67 at Aurora Theatre Company, in Berkeley, CA (San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award nomination, Principal Actress in a Play); The Gospel of Loving Kindness at Ubuntu Theater Project in Oakland, CA (Theatre Bay Area Award nomination, Outstanding Female Actor); Barbecue at San Francisco Playhouse in San Francisco, CA (San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award, Best Ensemble). Additional Credits: Knox is an Emmy-nominated television host who made her national debut on Home and Garden Television (HGTV). For more information, follow @iamhalili on Instagram.

Emily Kunkel (Amy Renna, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby) At Actors Theatre: The End (2011 Humana Festival); Dracula.

Regional Theatre: Or, What She Will at Hangar Theatre; All My Sons at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Barrington Stage Company; Talley's Folly at The Cape Playhouse; 10x10 at Barrington Stage; A Midsummer Night's Dream at Geva Theatre Center and Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.

Off-Broadway: Kentucky at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Television: Nurse Jackie.

Additional Credits: Kunkel received her B.A. in theatre from Fordham University at Lincoln Center. She is a founding member of Hook & Eye Theater as well as a proud alum of the Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Company. For more information, please visit emilykunkelactor.com or follow @kunks41 on Instagram.

Lacretta (Haley, Grace) recently closed out Avenue Q OffBroadway as Gary Coleman and lit up the silver screen in the romantic comedy Second Act, directed

by Peter Segal. Last year, Lacretta played Bouncy, a series regular role in the ABC pilot Salvage, and guest starred on FOX’s Gotham. She originated the role of Levora Verona in the Broadway production of Disaster! and was in the first national tour of The Book of Mormon (as part of the Latter Day Company). Lacretta is represented by Headline Talent Agency.

For more information, follow @just_Lacretta on Instagram and Twitter.

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BIOGRAPHIES DeShawn Harold Mitchell (Robert Arnold, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby) Recent Credits Include: All My Sons (understudy) at American Airlines Theatre on Broadway, 10x10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage Company, The Taming of the Shrew at New Swan Shakespeare Festival. Film/Television: Recurring roles in Daredevil and Blue Bloods; guest star on Blindspot and Orange is the New Black; and co-star roles in The Leftovers, Ray Donovan and The Enemy Within. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Northern Colorado.

For more information, please find him at DeShawn Harold Mitchell on IMDB.com.

Jenny Mollet (Ruthie, Grace) Broadway: The Color Purple as Young Celie/Young Olivia/ Henrietta. Other Theatre: Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust Road at Temple Theatre; The Perfect Fit as Martha at the Rave Theater Festival in NYC; H2O: A Play About Water as the Water Goddess in the Cincinnati and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals; Runaways as Kenya/Assistant Director/Choreographer at Know Theatre of Cincinnati; The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Esmeralda, Lysistrata Jones as Myrrhine; and Godspell as Joanne/Dance Captain at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Additional Credits: Associate choreographer and featured dancer in Tituss Burgess’s music video “45.” A recent graduate of CCM with a B.F.A. in musical theater. For more information, please visit jennymollet.com or follow @Jenny.Mollet on Instagram.

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NaSwana Moon (April Jenkins, FLEX) is making her Regional Theatre debut. Other Theatre: Pullman, WA and Billy Witch at University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Romeo and Juliet at Kenan Auditorium, Hamlet at Dreams Garage. Additional Credits: Moon received her B.A. in acting from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. For more information, please visit naswanamoon.wixsite.com/actor or follow @naswana_moon on Instagram.

Joshua Percell (Ensemble, Grace) is a native of Campbellsville, KY and is twenty-nine years of age. This is Percell’s second stage appearance, his first being the role of “Seaweed” in the timeless musical Hairspray at Campbellsville University’s Russ Mobley Theatre. Percell has a long history in music—beginning at the age of seven— which has now afforded opportunities to use his gifts of singing, writing and vocal arranging. Now based in Louisville, KY, he serves as Director of Music and Arts at the Burnett Avenue Baptist Church.

For more information, please follow @joshuarashad on Instagram.

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Nancy Robinette (Helen Clark, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby) Regional Theatre: Everybody, The Rivals and The Little Foxes at Shakespeare Theatre

BIOGRAPHIES Company; Well and The Heiress at Arena Stage; Driving Miss Daisy at Ford's Theatre; John and Eagle River at Signature Theatre; Savannah Disputation at The Old Globe; Twelfth Night at McCarter Theatre Center; Diary of Anne Frank at Paper Mill Playhouse; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Key West Waterfront; Philadelphia Here I Come! at Williamstown Theatre Festival; New Electric Ballroom, Tribes, Souvenir and Frozen at Studio Theatre; A Doll's House, Part 2 and Uncle Vanya at Round House Theatre; Happy Days at Scena Theatre; Everything is Illuminated and After the Revolution at Theatre J. Broadway: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Off-Broadway: Give Me Your Answer Do! at Roundabout Theatre Company; The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek at New York Theatre Workshop.

Film/TV: Serial Mom, Louie, Soldier Jack and Three Christs. Additional Credits: Robinette is the recipient of the 2018 Helen Hayes Tribute and Shakespeare Theatre Company's Will Award (Ensemble); Alumni Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Reader, Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays.

Arielle Siler (Sidney Brown, FLEX) is making her Actors Theatre debut.

Television: Lifetime’s My Crazy Ex. Additional Credits: Straight (Tenth Avenue Arts Center), What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Boston Court Theatre), The Blacks: A Clown Show (The Actors Company), Obama Spy Drama (Acme Comedy Theatre), Founding Families (Pico House), Dance the Fallen and Day of Absence (CalArts). Siler

received her B.F.A. in acting from California Institute of the Arts. She also received an M.A. in Applied Theatre from Goldsmiths University of London.

Nicole Spiezio (Nicole Clark, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby) Regional Theatre: I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart at Studio Theatre. Film: Bev (NoBudge), Unfinished Business (Slmbr Prty) Television: Ray Donovan (Showtime), Friends from College (Netflix), The Characters (Netflix), 555 (Vimeo). Other Theatre: Brief Chronicle Books 6-8 with i am a slow tide, Toe Pick! at Dixon Place, BYUIOO, The Ash Girl, and Fat Kids on Fire with Pipeline Theatre Company (founding company member), The Witchelor at Ars Nova's ANT Fest. Additional Credits: Spiezio received her B.F.A. from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has hosted SHOWGASM. at Ars Nova and performed at Joe's Pub, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Littlefield, and The Duplex. Her video "Housewife Sonata" on YouTube has been featured on Anderson Cooper Live.

Virginia Woodruff (Miss Minnie, Grace) is making her Actors Theatre debut.

Regional Theatre: Dreamgirls at Pittsburgh Playhouse, Gotta Dance at Bank of America Theatre, Abyssinia at Cleveland Play House, Avenue X at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Beehive at Arkansas Repertory Theatre.

Broadway: Violet at American Airlines

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BIOGRAPHIES Theatre, Leap of Faith at St. James Theatre, Oprah Winfrey presents The Color Purple at the Broadway Theatre, All Shook Up at the Palace Theatre and Smokey Joe’s Cafe at the Virginia Theatre.

Other Theatre: Guys and Dolls and The Full Monty at Alpine Theatre Project.

Film: Harlem Grace, Jump The Broom: A Musical and An Awkward Silence.

Additional Credits: Woodruff received her B.A. in theatre arts at SUNY Empire State College, 2019. She wrote and produced her first play ANTOINETTE: Lost in A Changing World, produced at Emerging Artists Theatre's New Work Series in 2019. Broadway Inspirational Voices 25-year member.

DIRECTORS Joshua Kahan Brody (Where the Mountain Meets the Sea) is making his Actors Theatre debut. Regional Theatre: King of the Yees at Goodman Theatre, Center Theatre Group and San Francisco Playhouse; Airness at Chautauqua Theater Company; A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecological Oncology Unit... at City Theatre; The Last Tiger in Haiti at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse. Additional Credits: Fourteen Flights at The New York Fringe Festival (Award for Excellence in Directing); developmental work across the country including several summers at the Ojai Playwrights Conference.

He is a Princess Grace Award Winner (Faberge Theater Award, 2015), a proud graduate of Yale University (B.A.) and the University of California-San Diego, Department of Theatre & Dance (M.F.A.), and the co-founder of THE TRIP, an ensemble-based performance company.

Robert Barry Fleming (Grace, Are You There?) See Executive Artistic Director, page 53.

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Morgan Gould (Nicole Clark is Having a Baby) See Author bios, page 17.

Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (FLEX) is making her Actors Theatre debut!

Regional Theatre: Skeleton Crew (The Old Globe); Roz and Ray, Sex with Strangers, My Mañana Comes, In the Wake, The Seafarer, The Good Body, Miss Witherspoon, Intimate Apparel, Proof (San Diego Repertory Theatre); the POP Tour of #Super Shiny Sara, The Car Plays: San Diego and Counterweight in the Without Walls Festival (La Jolla Playhouse); The Piano Lesson, Fences and coming soon Two Trains Running (Cygnet Theatre). Additional Credits: Sonnenberg is a founder and the former Artistic Director of MOXIE Theatre, which she helmed for 12 acclaimed seasons receiving The Des McAnuff New Visions Award for “Risk-Taking Leadership and Body of Work” and “2015 Director of the Year” from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. Other directing credits include: Hamlet, Prelude to a Kiss (New Village Arts Theatre); Fit to be Tied (Diversionary Theatre); Voyeurs de Venus, BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) and upcoming Shiv (MOXIE Theatre). Sonnenberg has had the pleasure of directing productions and mentoring students at The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program, University of San Diego undergraduates, Sonoma State University, University of Redlands, San Diego State University, University of California San Diego and Palomar College. Sonnenberg was twice a recipient of the Van Lier Directing Fellowship through Second Stage Theater in New York, and is an alumna of the New York Drama League’s Directors Program as well as TCG’s New Generations Program.

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BIOGRAPHIES and nomination for direction, a Women's International Center Living Legacy Award, as well as many “Craig Noel� awards for Outstanding Direction of a Play and Outstanding Dramatic Production from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle.

Christ Superstar Live (NBC, Emmy Award and Art Directors Guild Nomination).

Additional Credits: Dermot Kennedy (EU/UK/USA concert tour); Common: Bluebird Memories (Audible at Minetta Lane Theatre).

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Kaitlin Ashcraft (Scenic/Properties Designer, Are You There?) is the Assistant Properties Master for Actors Theatre of Louisville. At Actors Theatre: Prop Master Credits include The Corpse Washer (2019 Humana Festival); we, the invisibles (2018 Humana Festival); The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time; The Santaland Diaries. Regional Theatre: Assistant Prop Master/Soft Goods Artisan at Arizona Theatre Company 2014-2017 including Holmes & Watson; Act of God; Fences; Disgraced. Other Theatre: Ashcraft has spent the last six summers at Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) 2014-2019. Five years spent as Assistant/Associate Prop Supervisor. Berta, Berta; The Niceties; Second Girl; world premieres of The Wedding Gift; We Are Pussy Riot; Uncanny Valley. Additional Credits: B.F.A. in theatre production, design/technology emphasis in scenic design & properties from the University of Arizona 2010. Proud member of S.P.A.M.

Philip Allgeier (Media Designer, Grace) became the Media Technologist for Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2008. Since joining the company, he has designed media for over 50 productions, including many world premiere productions 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 Theatre Include: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Mountaintop, At the Vanishing Point, The Last Five Years, Peter and the Starcatcher, Angels in America (Parts One and 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. Allgeier is a graduate of Western Kentucky University.

Jason Ardizzone-West (Scenic Designer, Grace) At Actors Theatre: Once on This Island (co-production with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). Regional Theatre: Bliss (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Uncle Vanya (The Old Globe, Hunter Theater Project, WNET 13 TV); Native Gardens and The Royale (Cleveland Play House); The Bluest Eye (Huntington Theatre Company, upcoming); Macbeth (Geffen Playhouse, upcoming). Off-Broadway: The Michaels (The Public Theater); Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre); One Thousand Nights and One Day (Prospect Theater Company); Illyria (The Public Theater). Television: Jesus

Scott Bolman (Lighting Designer, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea) Regional Theater: PlayMakers Repertory Company, Studio Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Trinity Repertory Company, Portland Stage. Other Theatre: Rainmaidens of East World (Nemetsky Theater, Almaty, Kazakhstan), One Man, Two Guvnors (Chautauqua Theater Company), All Our Children (The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, NYC), Landscape With Figures (New Orleans Museum of Contemporary

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BIOGRAPHIES Art) Waiting for Godot, Antigone (Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece); MIDNIGHT (Radialsystem V, Berlin, Germany).

With Robert Wilson: The Impossible Black Tulip (Shanghai International Arts Festival), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Peak Performances), Der Sandmann (Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Germany), Zinnias (Peak Performances) and Odyssey (National Theater of Greece). Additional Credits: The Hat Makes the Man (Max Ernst Museum, Germany), Sutra (LINES Ballet), Darkling (Cinedans Festival, Amsterdam). Bolman is a founding member of Wingspace Design Collective.

Lindsay Burdsall (Sound Designer, Are You There?) At Actors Theatre: Solo Mio Round 2 with the 2019–2020 Professional Training Company. Other Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors and Bomber’s Moon at Raue Center for the Arts; Lost in Yonkers and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Manin-the-Moon Marigolds at Iowa Summer Rep; In The Next Room, or the vibrator play and Misalliance at UIowa Mainstage.

Additional Credits: Burdsall received her B.A. from the University of Iowa and was the Resident Sound Designer at Raue Center for the Arts.

Mike Floyd (Costume Designer, Are You There?) works as the Costume Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Regional Theatre: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Portland Center Stage; All’s Well That Ends Well at Yale Repertory Theatre; Lady at Northlight Theatre.

Broadway: Newsies! (Associate Costume Designer); Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Assistant Costume Designer); Fela!

(Assistant Costume Designer); Come Fly Away (Assistant Costume Designer).

Off-Broadway: Designs or Assistant Designs at The Public Theater, The Acting 28

Company, Primary Stages, New York Theatre Workshop and New York Classical Theatre. Other Theatre: Designs for Peninsula Players, Peterborough Players, the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium and Rutgers University. Additional Credits: Floyd received his M.F.A. in Design from the Yale School of Drama and his B.A. from Kenyon College.

Lauren Helpern (Scenic Designer, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby, FLEX) Select Regional Theatre: Skintight at Geffen Playhouse; Fences at Ford’s Theatre; The Canadians and Curve of Departure at South Coast Repertory; Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley at Pioneer Theatre Company; and Seize the King at La Jolla Playhouse. Broadway: Voices in the Dark at the Longacre Theatre.

Selected Off-Broadway: Harry Townsend’s Last Stand at New York City Center Stage II; Skintight and Bad Jews at Roundabout Theatre Company; 4000 Miles and Disgraced at Lincoln Center Theater; and BUG at Barrow Street Theatre. Video: Janice Gunter: Ghost Hunter on WhoHaHa. Other Theatre: American Girl Live!

National Tour; Blue Man Group Boston, Chicago and Live at Luxor; and The Aeneid at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Additional Credits: Lucille Lortel Award and Obie Award.

Dominique Fawn Hill (Costume Designer, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea, Grace) Regional Credits: Hedwig and The Angry Inch at Portland Center Stage; One Night in Miami at City Theatre Company; School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play at Kansas City Repertory Theatre; Pipeline at City Theatre Company; Julius Caesar at Asolo Repertory Theatre. Other Design Credits: 125th & FreeDOM at The National Black

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BIOGRAPHIES Theatre; A Streetcar Named Desire at Boston Court Theatre; Beauty and Beast at The Cumberland County Playhouse; Chicago and Clybourne Park at The Sonoma Summer Theatre; After-love and The Engine of Our Ruin at The Chautauqua Theater Company. She is the 2019 USITT/USA Prague Quadrennial recipient for Costume Design and holds an M.F.A. from The University of California San Diego. For more information, please visit dominiquefhill.com.

Matt Hubbs (Sound Designer, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea, Grace) At Actors Theatre: How We Got On, Death Tax, A Devil at Noon. Broadway: Time and the Conways, Indecent. Off-Broadway: Power Strip, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, The Royale, Preludes (Lincoln Center Theater); Boesman and Lena (Signature Theatre); Indecent (Vineyard Theatre); Stage Kiss, 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons); Marie Antoinette (Soho Rep); Three Pianos (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional: Jane Eyre, Henry V (Hartford Stage); Indecent (Ahmanson Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre); The Wholehearted (Kirk Douglas Theatre); RoosevElvis, Marie Antoinette, Three Pianos (American Repertory Theater); As You Like It (Baltimore Center Stage); Marie Antoinette (Yale Rep); The Royale, Time and the Conways (The Old Globe). Other Theatre: Company Member of The TEAM. Lex Liang (Costume Designer, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby, FLEX) At Actors Theatre: Once on This Island. Regional Theatre: Alliance Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Center for the

Performing Arts, Geva Theatre Center, Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and others. NYC/OffBroadway: 50+ productions—recent work includes Antigone, Nine Circles, The Bacchae and the upcoming Cullud Wattah at The Public Theater. He is the founder and owner of LDC Design Associates, an experiential event design and production company in New York City. Recent projects include Ubuntu Pathways: Fight For Good, Operation Smile’s 35th Anniversary Gala, The Tony Awards Gala, and BCBG’s 30 Year Retrospective, NYFW 2019. Member, United Scenic Artists-829. For more information, please visit LexLiang.com.

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BIOGRAPHIES Wen-Ling Liao (Lighting Designer, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby, FLEX, Are You There?) is making her Actors Theatre debut. Regional Theatre: Gloria and Vietgone at American Conservatory Theater, White Pearl at Studio Theatre, House of Joy, Quixote Nuevo at California Shakespeare Theater, The Who & The What, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, I and You at Marin Theatre Company, Chill at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Milk Like Sugar at Huntington Theatre Company, Sense and Sensibility at Dallas Theater Center. Off-Broadway: The Boy Who Danced on Air at Abingdon Theatre Company. Other Theatre: Oedipus El Rey at Magic Theatre. King of the Yees at San Francisco Playhouse.

Additional Credits: Liao earned her

M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego and her B.A. from National Taiwan University.

Rodolfo Ortega (Sound Designer, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby, FLEX) Regional Theatre: Native Gardens at Cleveland Play House; Romeo and Juliet and The Tenth Muse at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; The Monster Builder at South Coast Repertory; Three Musketeers and Romeo and Juliet at Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, Love’s Labor’s Lost and Venus and Fur at Santa Cruz Shakespeare;1984, La Ruta, Magellanica, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart at Artists Repertory Theatre. Additional Credits: Ortega received his Master of Music from Manhattan School of Music

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BIOGRAPHIES and was recently featured in Prague for the 2019 Prague Quadrennial for his music from Magellanica. For more information, please visit rodyortega.com.

Meredith Ries (Scenic Designer, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea) is making her Actors Theatre debut. Regional Theatre: Love in Hate Nation (Two River Theater), Lost Laughs (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Heartland (Geva Theater Center), The Temple Bombing (Alliance Theatre), The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra, Go! (Children’s Theatre Company). OffBroadway: Little Gem (Irish Repertory Theatre), No One Is Forgotten (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), A Hard Time (Pig Iron Theatre Company), Bonnie's Last Flight (Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop), Cute Activist (The Bushwick Starr), Peer Gynt and the Norwegian Hapa Band (A.R.T./New York Theatres, Ma-Yi Theater Company), Heartbreak (The Bushwick Starr). Associate Design: Hadestown (des: Rachel Hauck), The Spongebob Musical (des: David Zinn), The Waverly Gallery (des: David Zinn), Amelie, the Musical (des: David Zinn). For more information, please visit meredithries.com.

Xavier Pierce (Lighting Designer, Grace) Lighting design credits include White Noise (The Public Theater); How to Catch Creation, Othello, Shakespeare in Love (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Native Gardens, Harvey, Blithe Spirit (Guthrie Theater); Smart People, Native Gardens (Arena Stage); The Roommate (Steppenwolf Theatre Companys); Fun Home (Baltimore Center Stage ) Angels in America Part One and Part Two (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Camp David (Alley Theatre); Othello (American Repertory Theater); Little Girl

Blue (George Street Playhouse); Yours Unfaithfully, A Day by the Sea (Mint Theater Company); Misery (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Noises Off! (Syracuse Stage); Fences (Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center); Peter and the Starcatcher, 4000 Miles, The Mountaintop, Detroit ’67 (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Two Trains Running, My General Harriet (Arden Theatre Company); Outside Mulingar (Arizona Theatre Company); The Piano Lesson (Olney Theatre Center); Fly (Florida Studio Theatre); Common Enemy, Red (Triad Stage); A Raisin in the Sun, Thousand Pines (Westport Country Playhouse); Two Trains Running (Two River Theater); Everybody, The Glass Menagerie, black odyssey, Fences (California Shakespeare Theater); Hamlet, Pippin (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre); Pipeline, Watson goes to Birmingham (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Hype Man: a break beat play, The Fre (The Flea Theater).

CREATIVE STAFF The Bengsons (Original Music and Composition, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea) See The Acting Company bios, page 20.

Steph Paul (Movement Director, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea) At Actors Theatre: How to Defend Yourself.

Regional Theatre: Richard III at Shakespeare Theatre Company; The Royale at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis/City Theatre Company/American Theater Company; Water by the Spoonful at Court Theatre; Mansfield Park at Northlight Theatre. Other Theatre: The Wolves at Studio Theatre; Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare; Last Stop on Market Street

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BIOGRAPHIES at Chicago Children’s Theatre; Six Stories Tall at Adventure Stage Chicago; Learning Curve at Albany Park Theater Project and Third Rail Projects; Ofrenda and Feast at Albany Park Theater Project; In the Red and Brown Water and Jane Eyre at Northwestern University. International: Ofrenda at Albany Park Theater Project, National Theatre of Scotland (Inverness, Scotland). Additional Credits: 3Arts Make A Wave Grantee, St. Louis Theater Circle Award Nomination for Outstanding Choreographer, Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination for Artistic Specialization.

Paul is a Resident Director at Albany Park Theater Project and an Artistic Associate at Chicago Dance Crash. She attended Northwestern University. For more information, please visit stephpaul.com.

PRODUCTION Stephen Horton (Production Stage Manager, Grace) At Actors Theatre: Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol, Fifth Third Bank's Dracula (2011–2019), The Corpse Washer, Pipeline, 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.

Roxana Khan (Stage Manager, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea) is making her Actors Theatre debut. Regional Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, Richard II, Taming of the Shrew, Pride and Prejudice, General From America (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); Thousand Pines (Westport Country Playhouse); Shakespeare in Love, The Siegel, All the Way (South Coast Repertory); Head Over Heels, The Count of Monte Cristo, Guys and Dolls, Into the Woods, The Cocoanuts,

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BIOGRAPHIES The Tenth Muse, King Lear, Animal Crackers, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV, Part Two (Oregon Shakespeare Festival).

Off-Broadway: Greater Clements (Lincoln Center Theater); Mies Julie, The Dance of Death (Classic Stage Company); Kings (The Public Theater); Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages).

Jessica Kay Potter (Assistant Stage Manager, Grace) At Actors Theatre: The Santaland Diaries, Measure for Measure, The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time, Evocation to Visible Appearance, Angels in America (Parts One and Two), We’re Gonna Be Okay, Circle Mirror Transformation, Macbeth, The 39 Steps, For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, Peter and the Starcatcher, Seven Guitars, Luna Gale, The Glory of the World, At the Vanishing Point, The Last Five Years, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Christians, Noises Off, Appropriate, The Whipping Man, True West, Romeo and Juliet, The Veri**on Play, ReEntry, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The End, Fissures (lost and found), Heist!, A Christmas Carol, Dracula and Absalom.

Other Theatre: Uncharted Realms at the Louisville Ballet; Much Ado About Nothing at Kentucky Shakespeare. Additional Credits: Potter holds a B.S. in theatre arts from the University of Louisville, where she graduated cum laude.

Kathy Preher (Stage Manager, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby) At Actors Theatre: God Said This, This Random World, I Will Be Gone, Partners, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Elemeno Pea, A Christmas Story, The Kite Runner, Crime and Punishment, Rock and Roll: The Reunion Tour, 43 Plays for 43 Presidents and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, among many others. Other Theatre: Shakespeare Notre Dame, Contemporary American

Theater Festival, Shakespeare & Company, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, StageOne, Kentucky Opera and Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. Preher has also enjoyed many seasons as a teacher and designer at Commonwealth Theatre Center.

Margaret Rial (Stage Manager, Are You There?) At Actors Theatre: The Wolves, The Santaland Diaries, Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula, How to Defend Yourself, A Doll's House, Part 2, You Across from Me, The Magic Play, Skeleton Crew, and Angels in America. Other Theatre: C Theatre with C Venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Brown-Forman Nutcracker with Louisville Ballet and Kentucky Shakespeare. Additional Credits: Rial is a proud alumna of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and the Professional Training Company.

Katherine Thesing (Stage Manager, FLEX) At Actors Theatre: Hype Man: a break beat play, Ring of Fire, We’ve Come to Believe, You Across from Me, Once on This Island, Fifth Third Bank's A Christmas Carol, Pipeline, Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula and The Santaland Diaries. Regional Theatre: Milwaukee Repertory Theater.

Other Theatre: Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and Kentucky Shakespeare.

Additional Credits: Thesing is an alumna of the Professional Training Company.

DRAMATURGS Kim Euell (FLEX) FLEX at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor Residency. FLEX was initially developed in Euell’s VONA (Voices of the Nation) playwriting workshop at the University of Pennsylvania. Euell has headed play development programs at Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, San Jose Repertory Theatre and the Tony

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BIOGRAPHIES Award-winning Hartford Stage. Euell was the August Wilson Fellow at Penumbra Theatre Company and the California Arts Council’s Artist in Residence at The Robey Theatre. She has worked as a dramaturg at the Sundance Theatre Lab, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, South Coast Repertory and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She was the Playwright in Residence at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 20142018 and teaches playwriting workshops around the U.S. and overseas. She is a Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis and a Resident Teaching Artist at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Sarah Lunnie (Where the Mountain Meets the Sea) is a dramaturg who works primarily on new plays. At Actors Theatre: Humana Festival premieres of The Christians, Sleep Rock Thy Brain, The Hour of Feeling, O Guru Guru Guru, Death Tax, and Under Construction, among many others. Regional: Shipwreck (Woolly Mammoth), Human Error (Denver Center).

Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me (also New York Theatre Workshop, Clubbed Thumb), Grand Horizons, Hillary and Clinton and A Doll’s House, Part 2.

Off-Broadway/New York: The Thin Place (Playwrights Horizons) and, with The Mad Ones, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova), Miles for Mary (Playwrights Horizons, The Bushwick Starr), The Essential Straight & Narrow (New Ohio) and Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (New Ohio, The Brick). Based in New York, she is an Associate Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater (Minneapolis) and a company member with The Mad Ones.

She was previously the Literary Director at Playwrights Horizons and, before that, the Literary Manager at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

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Hannah Rae Montgomery (Nicole Clark is Having a Baby) is the resident dramaturg at Actors Theatre. Dramaturgy credits at Actors include Hype Man: a break beat play, Pipeline, 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 The Corpse Washer, 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.

Jenni Page-White (Are You There?) is the literary manager at Actors Theatre.

Dramaturgy credits at Actors include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Angels in America (Parts One and Two), and the Humana Festival premieres of Everybody Black, We've Come to Believe, Do You Feel Anger?; we, the invisibles; We’re Gonna Be Okay; I Now Pronounce; Wellesley Girl; and This Random World. Previously, she was the literary associate at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she helped select and develop new plays for First Look and coordinated post-show discussion programming. In Chicago, she has developed plays with American Theater Company, Sideshow Theatre Company and LiveWire Chicago Theatre. She holds a B.F.A. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.

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BIOGRAPHIES Amy Wegener (Grace) is the literary director at Actors Theatre, where she heads the literary department and coordinates the reading and selection process for the Humana Festival. In nineteen seasons with Actors and four as literary manager at the Guthrie Theater, she has worked as a dramaturg on more than 100 productions and workshops of new plays and classics. Actors Theatre credits include Macbeth, Luna Gale and Long Day’s Journey into Night, as well as the Humana Festival premieres of The Thin Place, Evocation to Visible Appearance, Marginal Loss, Cry it Out, Recent Alien Abductions, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, The Glory of the World, I Will Be Gone, The Grown-Up, Maple and Vine, Gnit, Eat Your Heart Out, The Veri**on Play, Elemeno Pea and many more. She has co-edited 20 published anthologies and holds degrees from Princeton and Northwestern University.

CASTING Calleri Casting, Paul Davis (Nicole Clark is Having a Baby) and Erica Jensen (Where the Mountain Meets the Sea) Regional Theatre: Casting for Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, The Flea Theater, Keen Company, The Playwrights Realm, Classic Stage Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, City Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons (10 seasons). Broadway: Fool for Love, Hughie, The Elephant Man (also West End), Hedwig and The Angry Inch, The Visit, Of Mice and Men, Venus in Fur, Living on Love, 33 Variations, A Raisin in the Sun, Chicago, James Joyce’s The Dead.

Off-Broadway Selected Credits: Buyer & Cellar, Murder for Two, All in the Timing,

Passion, Lobby Hero, Fuerza Bruta, Silence!

The Musical. Television: The Path for Hulu, Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle, Monk, Hope & Faith, Ed. Film: Lots of film including Mike Cahill’s Sundance winners Another Earth and I Origins. Additional Credits: Calleri Casting has been awarded 13 Artios Awards for Outstanding Casting Achievement. They are a member of the Casting Society of America. For more information, please visit callericasting.com.

Stephanie Klapper, CSA (Grace) This past season, she cast You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; The Thanksgiving Play; Two Trains Running; A Christmas Carol; Cincinnati King; Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and The Roommate.

Additional Credits Include: Shakespeare in Love; Mr. Joy, Be Here Now, Marie and Rosetta, Sooner/Later, Treasure Island, Murder for Two, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Disgraced, A Christmas Carol, Jane Eyre, Summerland, All the Roads Home, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, The Secret Garden, Sex with Strangers, Mad River Rising, Native Gardens, The Revolutionists, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mothers and Sons, Bad Dates, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, Safe House, Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical, Circle Mirror Transformation, Peter and the Starcatcher, Buzzer, Fly, Seven Spots on the Sun, Clybourne Park, 4000 Miles, Pride and Prejudice and A Delicate Ship. At Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Klapper cast Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Book Club Play, Leveling Up, Abigail/1702, The Three Musketeer and The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead. Her work is frequently seen on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally, as well as on film and television. She has many exciting projects running and upcoming

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BIOGRAPHIES in New York, regionally and in Europe.

Klapper is a member of the Casting Society of America.

Emily Tarquin (FLEX) is the Artistic Producer at Actors Theatre. Their casting credits here also include Hype Man: a break beat play, Pipeline, God Said This, Dracula and A Christmas Carol. Prior to Actors, Tarquin was the Artistic Producer at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where they co-developed, produced and curated the non-traditional programming arm, Off-Center; was the in-house casting director; and produced the Colorado New Play Summit. They have also held the titles of Director of Theatre and New Works Festival Producer for the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp. Tarquin was part of the Innovation Lab and Continuing Innovation funding platforms from Doris Duke and co-produced the 16,000-sq ft. immersive experience Sweet & Lucky

by Third Rail Projects as part of The Wallace Foundation’s Build Audiences for Sustainability Grant.

THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING COMPANY Michael Allyn (Acting) is a proud native of Denver, CO. At Actors Theatre: Solo Mio Round One, Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol and Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula. Off-Broadway: The Passage: Stories from the Maafa at The National Black Theatre. Other Theatre: Proof, A Raisin in the Sun and Sister Act at Little Theatre of the Rockies; The Crucible, The Piano Lesson, Legacy of Light and The Importance of Being Earnest at the 36

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Additional Credits: Allyn received his B.A. in theatre arts from the University of Northern Colorado. For more information, please visit michaelallyn.com.

Carol Almonte (Production Management) is from Jackson Heights, New York, and is a graduate of Williams College, where she got her B.A. in American studies. At Actors Theatre: She has been the Production Manager for the Solo Mio Series, New Play Projects, and New Voices. At Williams, she was a crew member in the scene shop and had the privilege of being the supervisor in the spring of 2019. Additionally, she had production management internships at Williamstown Theatre Festival and Ars Nova, working on world premieres such as Where Storms are Born and Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future.

Sophie Antovel (Stage Management) is a Florida native and a graduate of the University of Florida, where she earned a B.A. in theatre and a B.S. in business administration in management. At Actors Theatre: The Sensational (Stage Manager), Louisville//Kentucky//USA (ASM), Tell The Truth (Assistant Stage Manager), Fifth Third Bank's A Christmas Carol (Stage Management Apprentice), Solo Mio Round 2 (SM), Hype Man: a break beat play (Stage Management Apprentice). Other Theatre: University of Florida: Red Velvet, Swamp Dance Fest! 2018, The Beaux’ Stratagem

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Additional Credits: In the summer of 2018, Antovel interned at the Blue Elephant Theatre in London, England.

Michaela Barczak (Learning & Creative Engagement) is a Massachusetts native and recent graduate of Muhlenberg College. At Actors Theatre: She performed as Scrooge in Scrooge’s Christmas Journey and worked as an Audience Services Associate. Other Theatre: Barczak recently directed a production of Trial by Jury on the Muhlenberg Mainstage and has worked at Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre as the youth workshop coordinator, house manager, assistant music director and senior marketing associate. She previously served as the directing/ education apprentice at The Millbrook Playhouse in Mill Hall, PA and the education intern at The Naples Players in Naples, FL. Barczak also teaches voice and piano at Kentucky Arts Academy in Prospect, KY. For more information, please visit michaelabarczak.com.

Kaitlyn Boyer (Acting) is a Minnesota native and graduate of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program. At Actors Theatre: The Sensational, Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol and O Ezili! in Solo Mio Round Two. Regional

Theatre: Cyrano de Bergerac at the Guthrie Theater. Other Theatre: Deux Femmes on the Edge de la Revolution and Visible at the Playwrights' Center; Spring Awakening with Dangerous Productions; A Midsummer Night's Dream with Oasis Theatre Ensemble; Seven Guitars, The Beaux' Stratagem, Eumenides, Titus Andronicus, The Winter's Tale and In The Blood with the Guthrie Program. For more information, please visit kaitlynboyer.com.

Julia Bregy (Stage Management) is originally from Long Island, NY. She is a recent graduate of Suffolk University, where she received her B.A. in theatre production with a minor in arts administration. At Actors Theatre: Measure for Measure, Solo Mio Round Three, A Christmas Carol, Tell the Truth and The Wolves. International Credits: The Little Mermaid: The Circus Sensation at the Underbelly Festival Southbank, I Do Need Me/I’m Not a Bit Like A Clown at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival. Other Credits: Fun Home at SpeakEasy Stage Company.

Emily Brod (Costumes) is a graduate of Reed College with a B.A. in theatre. Previous experience includes summer internships with the Weston Playhouse and the Croswell Opera House. At Actors Theatre: Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula, Solo Mio Series,

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BIOGRAPHIES Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol.

Other Theatre: Costume designer for The Gas Heart, Love And Information and This Must Be The Place at Reed College; Anne of Green Gables, Fun Home, West Side Story at Weston Playhouse.

Joshua Brown (Sound) is an American sound artist and dramaturg split between Louisville, KY, and Pittsburgh, PA. His music has been premiered at home and abroad in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, Canada, Brazil, and South Korea, and his designs have been featured at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and in New York with the Harlem School of the Arts, Planet Connections Festivities, and Gallery Players. As a dramaturg, he has directed and produced contemporary opera festivals and new play workshop series.

Brown holds a Bachelors degree in technical writing and music technology and an Advanced Music Studies certificate in Music Composition from Carnegie Mellon University.

Aizhaneya Carter (Acting) was born and raised in Philadelphia, by way of New Hampshire and Rennes, France.

Credits Include: Pyramid Effect (Lulie) at Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Electric Lady (Sheekah) at The Tank; A New Kind of Whole (Lea) and The Eumenides (Fury) at Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Other Theatre: egg; or anythin' dipped in egg gone soften (Autumn/ 38

Tanisha) at The New School; and Fefu and Her Friends (Cecilia) at the University of Pennsylvania. Additional Credits: Carter received her B.A. in theatre arts from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is an Actors’ Equity membership candidate. For more information, please visit aizhaneya.com. deGuzman (Properties) At Actors Theatre: Solo Mio Series, Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula, Hype Man: a break beat play, Measure for Measure, The Santaland Diaries, Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol and The Wolves. Film: Zory the Monster (dir. Joseph Menocal).

Television: Creature Creek “Pilot,” aired on Milwaukee PBS. Other Theatre: Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family and The Importance of Being Earnest at Pacific Conservatory Theatre; Urinetown, The Tales of Hoffmann and Zombies from the Beyond at Skylight Music Theatre in Wisconsin; 9 to 5, Anon(ymous) and Major Barbara at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee. Additional Credits: deGuzman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Production.

To learn more, please visit bit.ly/deguzmanprops.

Kathryn de la Rosa (Dramaturgy & Literary Management) is a Kentuckian dramaturg and playwright, born in Prestonsburg and raised in Paducah.

Previously, they interned with Asolo

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BIOGRAPHIES Repertory Theatre, The New Harmony Project and the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. They earned their B.A. in theatre & drama and a B.A.J. in journalism from Indiana University (IU).

At Actors Theatre: Louisville // Kentucky // USA, Solo Mio Series, assistant dramaturg for The Wolves. Other Theatre: Little Women for Indiana University Summer Theatre; Vinegar Tom, Haus of Mirth, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and The Exonerated for IU Theatre.

Zoë DePreta (Acting) At Actors Theatre: Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula (Ms. Sullivan u/s), Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol (Mrs. Cratchit u/s), The Sensational (Barbie), Tell the Truth (Cassie), Solo Mio Round One. Credits Include: We Are Pussy Riot or Everything Is P.R. at Red Tape Theatre; 2 Unfortunate 2 Travel at Prop Thtr; Anna Karenina at Lifeline Theatre; and May Day at Rhino Fest. Web Series: Apartment 101. Additional Credits: DePreta is a proud graduate of Oberlin College and iO Theater's Improv Training Center and is a company member with Red Tape Theatre. For more information, please visit zoedepreta.com.

Matthew Dryburgh (Learning & Creative Engagement) grew up in North Dakota, where he graduated from North Dakota State University with a B.F.A. in theatre performance (emphasis in directing).

While at NDSU, he directed Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive for their

mainstage season. He also worked as an assistant director, devisor and dramaturg on various productions, including The Christians, The Odyssey and Peter Pan. In addition to his artistic work, Dryburgh taught several theatre workshops for the university and community during his time in school. In Chicago, he has worked as a teaching artist and director with various theatre companies, as well as Chicago Public Schools.

Connor Feagin (Stage Management) is a Dallas native and a recent graduate of Texas State University, where he received his B.F.A in theatre.

At Actors Theatre: Dracula, A Christmas Carol, Louisville// Kentucky//USA, and Once on This Island.

Recent Credits Include: A Doll's House, Part 2, A Brief History of America and The Transition of Doodle Pequeño at Hangar Theatre; The World According to Snoopy at Theatre Under The Stars; and Cabaret, Hamlet, Tales of the Lost Formicans and the 2018 Black & Latino Playwrights Conference at Texas State University.

Christopher Garofalo (Acting) Credits Include: Romeo and Juliet at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Stupid Fucking Bird at Arden Theatre Company and Love's Labour's Lost at Quintessence Theatre Group. OffBroadway: Julius Caesar at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park and SCRAPS at The Flea Theater. Garofalo has interned with Roundabout Theatre

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BIOGRAPHIES Company and Epic Theatre Ensemble in NYC and is part of the resident acting company at The Flea Theater. Additional Credits: He received a B.F.A. in acting from The University of the Arts. For more information, please visit cjgarofalo.com Liam E. Gibbs (Dramaturgy & Literary Management) is a dramaturg and writer originally from the South Side of Chicago. At Actors Theatre, he has served as dramaturg of Tell the Truth and nine pieces in this season’s Solo Mio Series and as assistant dramaturg of Hype Man: a break beat play. Last season he was the literary apprentice at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ, where he assisted playwrights Ken Ludwig, Eleanor Burgess and Douglas McGrath on the world premieres of The Gods of Comedy, The Niceties and The Age of Innocence, respectively. He holds a B.A. in music with minors in drama and American culture studies from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was resident dramaturg and literary manager of Thyrsus. His senior honors thesis “Synthesizers, Virtual Orchestras, and Ableton Live: Digitally Rendered Music on Broadway and Musicians’ Union Resistance” is published in Journal of the Society for American Music. For more information, please visit liamegibbs.com.

Cara Hinh (Directing) is a director, educator and creator originally from Indiana.

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Stage. At Actors Theatre: Director on Solo Mio Series, directing assistant on Hype Man: a break beat play, Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol and Once on This Island. Other Theatre: Recent directing credits include Tornkid at Cohesion Theatre and The Tank and Sa'idah at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. SDC observer on Hadestown with Rachel Chavkin.

Assistant-directing credits include King of the Yees at Baltimore Center Stage and Vietgone at Studio Theatre. She is a founding member of Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective (BAPAC).

Maggie Hoffecker (Stage Management) At Actors Theatre: Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula, The Santaland Diaries and The Wolves.

Additional Credits: Cincinnati Opera, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London, UK), Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Chicago Musical Theatre Festival, TEDx Chicago. Hoffecker holds a B.F.A in stage management with a minor in women’s and gender studies from DePaul University.

Jen Jarnagin (Acting) At Actors Theatre: Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula, Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol and Solo Mio Round Three. Other Theatre: Locked Up Bitches, The Trojan Women and Serials at The Flea Theater; The Arsonists at DENIZEN Theatre; Dirt at The Wild Project; and The Leader Project, The Forgiveness Project and The Awareness Project with OutsideIn, NYC's first arts

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BIOGRAPHIES re-entry program for the formerly incarcerated. Additional Credits: Jarnagin is a proud graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and Upright Citizens Brigade. She works extensively in NYC jails and drug programs teaching acting and playwriting. To learn more, please visit jenjarnagin.com.

Noah Keyishian (Acting) At Actors Theatre: Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula (Mr. Briggs) and Solo Mio Round Two. Credits Include: Favors (Cohen) at Manhattan Repertory Theatre and Iphigenia Among the Taurians (Thoas) at Bard College.

Film/Television: The feature film Happy Yummy Chicken (Clive Harrington, dir.

Anna Loyd Bradshaw) and short films That Thing I Had That One Time (Able, dir.

OJ Reyes), Status-Driven (Alex, dir. Francis Agyapong), Phill Gladkov; Sasquatch (Preston, dir. Samantha Pager), Separation Celebration (Coleman, dir. Amanda Madden) and Wax Lover’s Playlist (Spits, dir. Mai Senaar). Television includes the pilot for H.I.T.S. (Guy, dir. Andrea Clinton) and the web series Looking Through the Windows (Xavier, dir. Cris Thorne).

Additional Credits: Keyishian received his B.A. from Bard College in environmental and urban studies.

Teresa Langford (Acting) is thrilled to be a part of this incredible ensemble of artists! At Actors Theatre: Reagan in Alexis Scheer's The Sensational, Marigold/

Dorothea/Mrs. Dilber in Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol, Her in Since... (Solo Mio Round One) and Mina u/s in Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula. Off-Broadway: Drama Desk-nominated Beardo at Pipeline Theatre Company, Cute Activist at The Bushwick Starr/New Saloon. Film: Conundrum! (2017). Other Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird at Gloucester Stage, Chamber Music at St. Johns, Lucky Number Three at the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals. Additional Credits: Langford received her B.F.A. in acting from Boston University and studied Classical Acting at LAMDA. For more information, please visit teresalangford.com.

Germainne LeBron (Acting) At Actors Theatre: Louisville// Kentucky//USA in the New Play Projects, Fifth Third Banks Dracula, Fifth Third Banks A Christmas Carol and Solo Mio Round Three. Other Theatre: Eight Tales of Pedro at The Secret Theatre; O's Confederados and Lucha Libre at Columbia University’s Schapiro Theatre; River Rouge at The Lenfest PAC at Columbia University; Elvira: The Immigration Play at Collaboraction Theatre Company; Much Ado About Nothing at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden; King Lear at The Brick Theater. Tours: Julius Caesar, a regional tour with Stages on the Sound; Hamlet and Dead Man's Cell Phone with Red Monkey Theater Group regional tours. Additional Credits: LeBron is a proud graduate of The City College of New York and Borough of Manhattan Community College. To learn more, please visit GermainneLebron.com.

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BIOGRAPHIES Sarah Jae Leiber (Marketing) is a playwright, essayist, dramaturg and theatre marketer from Philadelphia, PA. She currently works as a part-time entertainment editor for BroadwayWorld. com. Playwriting credits include Grand Theft Tea Leaves (off-Broadway, Theatre Row), The Repair Man (Muhlenberg College Mainstage) and Freudian Oops (Jewish Theatre of Bloomington, 2020); dramaturgy credits include Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play, Ubu Roi, The Cherry Orchard, Reverse Transcription and Final Placement at Muhlenberg College; comedy writing and essays include work at The Broadway Beat, Uncomfortable Revolution and The Validation Project.

Leiber holds a B.A. in theatre and history from Muhlenberg College and wrote her thesis on art and activism during the AIDS crisis. For more information, please visit sarahjaeleiber.com and follow her @sarahjaeleiber.

Alex Lin (Acting) is just a girl from Jersey.

At Actors Theatre: The Wolves (#11) and Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula (Transylvanian Peasant). Other Theatre: Julius Caesar (Portia, Cassius u/s) at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Henry VI Part III (Margaret) at Commonwealth Shakespeare, The Crucible (Abigail) and Pippin (Leading Player) at Princeton Summer Theater.

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Additional Credits: Lin is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is also a big fan of space exploration and is a content writer for A24 Films' space media outlet, Supercluster.

Gabriela Llarena (Acting) At Actors Theatre: The Sensational (Cruz), Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol (Martha Cratchit/ Fezziwig Cook), Here Before God (Solo Mio Round Two). New York: Much Ado About Nothing at the Stella Adler Studio, Lola at Playwrights Downtown, Medea at Queens Theatre, produced by the Pancyprian Association.

Additional Credits: Llarena received a B.F.A in acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. To learn more, visit www.gabrielallarena.com.

Alex Might (Acting) is a New York-based actor from Ohio. They are a drag performer, aspiring Michelin Guide inspector, and self-proclaimed social media influencer.

Recently they have danced at Chen Dance, Club Cumming, and Dixon Place.

At Actors Theatre: The Wolves (Movement Assistant). New York Theatre: Raison d’Être (Dance Captain), Psychedelic Playhouse (Andy Warhol), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) at Guild Hall. For more information, www.alexmight.com.

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BIOGRAPHIES Mollie Murk (Acting) At Actors Theatre: The Wolves (#8), Dracula (Mina, u/s Lucy), I Would Give You Some Violets (Louise Abbéma), Tell the Truth (Jenny).

Other Theatre: Titus Andronicus (Lavinia), Macbeth (Banquo/Porter), Twelfth Night (Viola) and A Midsummer Night's Dream with Kentucky Shakespeare; and productions at Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Derby Dinner Playhouse, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Louisville Fringe and Suspend Aerial Arts. Additional Credits: B.A. in theatre and dance/ choreography, Hope College; internships at Seattle Children’s Theatre and Lookingglass Theatre; training at Shakespeare & Company; Michigan Wilde Award Nominee and KCACTF Irene Ryan Acting Finalist. Proud member of Ring of Keys Network: RingofKeys.org/mollie-murk.

Patrice J. Nelms (Scenic) is a St. Louis native and holds a B.F.A. in theatre design technology from The Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance at Southeast Missouri State University. She has designed, scenic charged and technical-directed various productions at Buck’s Rock Performing & Creative Arts Camp in New Milford, CT, and at Thunder Bay Theatre in Alpena, MI, as well as in undergrad at Southeast.

Some of her work from Thunder Bay Theatre was featured in American Theatre magazine’s “Know a Theatre” in December 2018.

Kat Peña (Acting) At Actors Theatre: Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula (Ms. Sullivan), Pronto Llegará from Solo Mio Series, Louisville//Kentucky// USA (Doris). Other Theatre: Eight Tales of Pedro (Escolastica) at The Secret Theatre; King Lear (Goneril) at The Brick Theater; As You Like It (Celia) at the Smiling Hogshead Ranch; Marat/ Sade (Simonne) at Columbia University’s Schapiro Hall; Elvira: The Immigration Play at Collaboraction Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois; Big Green Theater Festival at The Bushwick Starr. Tours: Water by the Spoonful (Yaz), regional tour with Red Monkey Theater Group; Las Mariposas at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater and regional tour with People’s Theatre Project. Film: Reina (Michelle), directed by Phil Vickery; As You Like It (Celia) with Cafecito Films. Additional Credits: B.A. in theater from City College of New York. For more information, please visit katpena.com.

Andrew G. Rodriguez (Acting) Credits Include: The City Wears a Slouch Hat with the Rude Mechs, *some humans were harmed in the making of this show at En Route Productions, Dairy Queen with MouthRadio, Emma and the Suzies with Teatro Vivo, A Few Good Men at TexARTS and Richard III and Henry IV with Hidden Room Theatre. Other Theatre: The Women of _____ (a song not song) at Texas Performing Arts. Additional Credits: Rodriguez recently graduated with his B.F.A. from the University of

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BIOGRAPHIES Texas at Austin. For more information, please visit andrewgrodriguez.com.

Julia Rufo (Directing) is a director and devisor originally from Massachusetts.

At Actors Theatre: Director: Solo Mio Series. Directing Assistant: Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula, Measure for Measure, The Santaland Diaries and The Wolves. Other Directing Credits: Why Do You Always Wear Black? at BorderLight International Theatre & Fringe Festival and I’ll Turn to Sparks Of Flame: The Burn It All Down Play at the Louisville Fringe Festival.

Other Assistant Directing Credits: Johnny 10 Beers’ Daughter at Something Marvelous and We're Gonna Be Okay at American Theater Company. For more information, please visit juliarufo.com.

Abby Tauber (Festival & Events Management) is a recent graduate of Indiana University (IU), where she received her B.S. in arts management.

While there, she spent time studying and writing a thesis on sensory accessibility in theatre, which was published and presented at the Wider World Conference.

For IU Theatre: Titus Andronicus (stage manager), Barbecue (stage manager), City of Angels (automation operator), An Iliad (stage manager), Julius Caesar (assistant stage manager, weapons master). For IU Summer Theatre: assistant production manager.

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Patrick Steadman Taylor (Acting) is an actor with Tourette Syndrome originally from Florida and now based in New York.

At Actors Theatre: Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula (Renfield u/s), Solo Mio Round One and A Christmas Carol (Caroler/Young Ebeneezer/Graspers/Edwards). Other Theatre: Is He Dead? (O’Shaunessy), An Enemy of the People (Billings) and Charlotte's Web (Templeton) at Greenbrier Valley Theatre; Pretty Theft (Joe) at The C.O.W. Theatre; Lucy’s Sick (Richard/ Devising Member) at Jeffery Ledder Gallery; Line (Stephen) at 13th Street Repertory Company; Dog Sees God (Van) at The Tank. Film: Password by Means of Productions, Not Another Immigrant Story

by To & Fro Productions and Slights by Tony Koros. Additional Credits: Taylor is a graduate of Marshall University (B.F.A.), Florida School of the Arts (A.S.) and the Atlantic Acting School Evening Conservatory. For more information, please visit patricktayloractor.com and follow @ptayloractor.

Ashtonn Thompson (Acting) is an Okie from Muskogee. At Actors Theatre: Solo Mio Round Three, Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula, Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol. Credits Include: Actually (Tom), We Are Proud to Present… (Actor 1/Black Man), Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika (Belize), Everyman (Everyman), A Christmas Carol (Solicitor 1) and Let the Right One In at the University of Oklahoma. Tours: The Seussification of

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BIOGRAPHIES A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon) and The Bremen Town Musicians (Dog) for the Children’s Theatre Helmerich Literature Alive Tour. Additional Credits: Thompson is a proud graduate of the University of Oklahoma, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama with an Acting Emphasis.

Isaiah J. Williams (Acting) is an actor, director and costume designer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and a graduate of Oklahoma City University. At Actors Theatre: Without Work (MAN) in Solo Mio Round Two, Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol (Topper, Ensemble, Christmas Present u/s), Louisville//KY//USA (Newscaster/Olin) in the New Play Projects. Chicago Theatre: Caged: an Allegory (“B”) at The Impostors Theatre Company. Other Theatre:

Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park (Snout in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Horatio in Hamlet); House of Atreus: Part 1 (Old Man) and Water by the Spoonful (Chutes&Ladders) at Oklahoma City University. To learn more, please visit ijwilliams.com.

Siena Wise (Lighting) At Actors Theatre: Solo Mio Series (Lighting Designer).

Additional Credits: She Kills Monsters, An Iliad, Real Women Have Curves and Machinal at Wellesley College (Lighting Designer); Hamlet at San Francisco Shakespeare Festival (Assistant Master Electrician). Wise is a former electrics apprentice for The Cape Playhouse and electrician at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They are a recent graduate of Wellesley College with a B.A. in history and women's & gender studies.

15TH ANNIVERSARY NEW VOICES YOUNG

PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL | APRIL 27–29 An evening of eight world-premiere ten-minute plays selected from more than 900 entries to the annual New Voices Ten-Minute Play Contest, written by students from around the region.

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H U M A N A F E S T I VA L E V E N T S There are many events throughout the Festival that vary from panel conversations to receptions.

All events listed below are FREE and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

COLLEGE DAYS KEYNOTE ADDRESS Pirronne Yousefzadeh Saturday, March 28 at 10:30 a.m.

Pamela Brown Auditorium Join us for a keynote address with director, writer, and educator Pirronne Yousefzadeh, the Associate Artistic Director and Director of Engagement at Geva Theatre Center, a founding member of Maia Directors, and a frequent Actors Theatre collaborator. This conversation is free, but ticketed. Please contact the Box Office at 502.584.1205 to reserve your ticket.

COLLEGE DAYS PANEL CONVERSATION Who Gets to Tell the Story?

Sunday, March 29 at 12 p.m.

Pamela Brown Auditorium As theatre makers, we have a responsibility to tell powerful and relevant stories to our audiences. But who gets to tell these stories? Who are the gatekeepers? Which voices would we like to hear more of, and how do we tell those stories ethically? Join us as our panelists discuss how we cultivate diverse stories responsibly in the world of theatre. This conversation is free, but ticketed. Please contact the Box Office at 502.584.1205 to reserve your ticket.

This conversation is free, but ticketed.

Please contact the Box Office at 502.584.1205 to reserve your ticket.

OVATION CELEBRATION Saturday, April 4 at 10 p.m.

Actors Theatre Lobbies This post-show celebration is the perfect time to chat with friends, meet new colleagues, and toast the exciting lineup of new plays.

ENCORE WEEKEND KEYNOTE ADDRESS Robert Barry Fleming Friday, April 10 at 1 p.m.

Pamela Brown Auditorium Join us for a lively address by Actors Theatre’s Executive Artistic Director, Robert Barry Fleming. This event is free, but ticketed. Please contact the Box Office at 502.584.1205 to reserve your ticket.

HUMANA FESTIVAL CLOSING CELEBRATION Saturday, April 11 at 9 p.m.

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Join us for an evening of food and drink as we celebrate the closing of the Festival. Come as you are or dressed to impress; either way, we are ecstatic to share this with our extended theatre family!

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E X E C U T I V E A R T I S T I C D I R E C TO R Robert Barry Fleming Fleming served as Associate Artistic Director at Cleveland Play House from 2016-2019. Prior to Cleveland Play House, he served as the Director of Artistic Programming at Arena Stage; world premieres he commissioned, developed and championed during this tenure include the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award winner Dear Evan Hansen, Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Sovereignty, John Strand’s The Originalist, Katori Hall’s Blood Quilt, Karen Zacarías’ Destiny of Desire, and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner, Sweat, by Lynn Nottage. Fleming was an Associate Producer for the Off-Broadway premiere of The TwoCharacter Play by Tennessee Williams, starring Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif. He was also an Associate Professor (tenured) and Chair of the University of San Diego Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Department.

His most recent directing and choreography credits include Once on This Island (Actors Theatre of Louisville and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Next To Normal (Tantrum Theater), The Royale (Cleveland Play House), Destiny of Desire (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Caroline, or Change (Tantrum Theater) and Between Riverside and Crazy (Cleveland Play House). As part of the 2018 Cleveland Play House New Ground Theatre Festival, Fleming directed a reading of the new musical Minton’s Place by acclaimed contemporary music composer Nolan Williams, Jr., with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Nikkole Salter.

His professional acting credits include stints on Broadway (Ragtime directed by Frank Galati, Stand-Up Tragedy directed by the late Ron Link), Off-Broadway (the leading role in Insurrection: Holding History by Robert O’Hara at The Public Theater), joining Actors’ Equity Association with the national tour of Cats (Original Bus and Truck), playing major regional theatres (The Old Globe, the Guthrie Theater, A Contemporary Theater, The Mark Taper Forum with the world premiere of George C. Wolfe’s Jelly’s Last Jam as Young Jelly) and appearing on television (Emmy-winning Disney Channel series Adventures In Wonderland, Family Matters, The George Carlin Show) and in films (Academy Award-winning L.A. Confidential and Twilight Of The Golds).

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Alex Alvarez * Turney P. Berry Natalia Bishop Colin Crawford William W. Crawford Jr. David W. Dove Angie M. Evans * Kirsten Ford Linda Gaines † Layla George Jan M. Grayson Lena Hamel

Aaron Jahn Barbara W. Juckett Jonathan Lowe Todd Lowe Stewart Lussky Jennifer Mackin Theresa Reno-Weber Theodore S. Rosky ‡ Marsha Beck Roth ‡ Bob Saunders † Scott Schaftlein * John E. Selent

Seema Sheth Corrie Shull Wendy Sirchio Allan Tasman MD ‡ David E. Tate Mac Thompson Robbie Tindall * Karl N. Victor, III 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

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ACTORS ASSOCIATES BOARD President Linda Gaines Immediate Past President Caroline Martinson Financial Secretary Bill Bolte Treasurer Doris Elder Secretary Barbara Ketcham

Vice President for Communication Rita Bell Vice President for Fundraising Barbara Nichols Vice President for Hospitality Patti Slagle Vice President for Service Robert Lutz

Cast of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 2018. Photo by Jonathan Roberts.

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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*

Pfizer, Inc.

The Schloss Family Foundation♦

Theatermania/Gretchen Shugart*

Gregory S. Hurst* ♦

Wells Fargo*♦

George S. Smith, Jr.*♦ UBS

Howard and Janet Kagan ♦

DONORS ($10,000‑$14,999) Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Epiq Systems* Karen A. & Kevin W. Kennedy Foundation

John R. Mathena *♦ Ogilvy & Mather† Jonathan Maurer and Gretchen Shugart*♦ Dina Merril & Ted Hartley* Newmark Holdings* Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. *

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♦

Mason & Kim Granger* ♦ Brian J. Harkins* ♦

Southwest Airlines † ♦

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Lisa Orberg♦ Presidio* Thomas C. Quick* RBC Wealth Management♦ Daniel A. Simkowitz*♦ S&P Global

Joseph F. Kirk* ♦

John Thomopoulos*♦ Evelyn Mack Truitt* Leslie C. & Regina Quick Charitable Trust Isabelle Winkles*♦

TD Charitable Foundation♦ 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*

As of November 2019

* 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.

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BENEFACTOR CIRCLE Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Jennifer Lawrence Arts Fund at the Fund for the Arts GUARANTOR Edgerton Foundation Caesars Foundation of Floyd County

PARTNER Clifton Foundation Louisville Metro Government Parking Authority of River City (PARC) The William E. Barth Foundation

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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.

TEACHER ADVISORY COMMIT TEE Jenni Aberli, JCPS Literacy Specialist; Faith Anderson, Ballard High; Katie Blackerby Weible, YPAS; Brent Braun, Pleasure Ridge Park High; Judy Chandler, retired Bullitt County; Terrilyn Flemming, The Brown School; Kevin Gose, Valley High School; Jennifer Girardin, Oldham County High; Amy Miller, New Albany High; Kipp McDaniel, Seneca High School; 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; Steven Rahe, Western Visual and Performing Arts Middle School; Hannegan Roseberry, Community Montessori; Amanda Simmons, Mercy Academy; Patti Slagle, Louisville Writing Project; Tiffany Smith, Eastern High; Shelby Steege, Atherton High School; Robbie Steiner, Floyd Central High; Frank Ward, Trinity High; Amy Zuccaro, Trinity High.

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Glenn and Ann Thomas Rose Mary Rommel Toebbe Glenn Porter Watkins and George Bailey Terry and Amanda Tyler Sarah Van Roo Patricia M. Varga Mr. and Mrs. Bob and Margaret Walker Dr. Melissa L. Weaver John Weeter, MD and Linda Weeter Sarina and Robert Weiss Paul and Carrie Widman Thomas and Susan Wobbe Stephen and Coretta Wolford Kimberly and Michael Wood

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Artistic Producer .................................................Emily Tarquin Artistic Manager................................... Zachary Meicher-Buzzi Interim Company Manager............................. Ellen Greetham

Director of Production........................................... Paul Werner Assistant Production Manager............................... Bryn Weiler Production Stage Manager..............................Stephen Horton Resident Stage Managers..............................Jessica Kay Potter, Katherine Thesing Resident Production Assistants.... Andie Burns, Margaret Rial

Learning & Creative Engagement Director of Learning & Creative Engagement......Erica Denise Learning & Creative Engagement Associates.............................

Janelle Renee Dunn, Abigail Miskowiec Teaching Artists......................................................Liz Fentress, Diana Grisanti, Claire Hagan, Alyssa Rae Hendricks, Keith McGill, Talleri McRae, Steve Moulds, Morgan Younge

Literary Literary Director.................................................. Amy Wegener Literary Manager............................................Jenni Page-White Resident Dramaturg........................Hannah Rae Montgomery

Professional Training Company Professional Training Company Producer.........Jonathan Ruiz Interim PTC & Casting Coordinator.......................Sujotta Pace

EXTERNAL RELATIONS Chief External Relations Officer.......................... Patrick Owen IT Manager..................................................................Dot Krebs

Development Manager of Community Partnerships.......... Mary Bainbridge Development Coordinator........................................ Kelly Scott

Sales & Audience Development Director of Sales & Audience Development.......Melissa Hines Visual Communications Manager............... Mary Kate Grimes Marketing & Communications Coordinator.. Charlotte Stephens Assistant Graphic Designer.........................Sheyenne Santiago Outbound Customer Service Representative... David Meredith Patron Services Manager................................Kristy Kannapell Season Tickets Manager.......................................Julie Gallegos Patron Services Associates................................ LaShana Avery, Sophia Bierman, Leah Boroff-Bodoin, Floren Kyteler

Communications & Patron Experience Director of Communications & Patron Experience.................

Elizabeth Greenfield Festival & Events Manager...................................Erin Meiman Lobby Manager.................................................Greylyn Gregory House Managers.............................Jesse Barfield, Hilary Jones Audience Services Associates....................... Michaela Barczek, Matthew Dryburgh, Will LaRue, Sujotta Pace

FINANCE

Scenic Technical Director............................................ Justin Hagovsky Associate Technical Director.............................Braden Blauser Scene Shop Manager.................................Javan Roy-Bachman Master Carpenter.......................................................Alexia Hall Scenic Carpenters.................Hannah Allgeier, Pierre Vendette Deck Carpenters................Gracie Lawson, Brooke McPherson Scenic Charge Artist............................................... Colleen Doty

Costumes Costume Director..................................................... Mike Floyd Crafts Master........................................................ Shari Cochran Draper/Tailor........................................................... Jeffery Park First Hands.............................................................. Faith Brown Stitchers................................Celeste Collado, Maureen Strobel Costume Design Assistants....Isabel Martin, Tiffany Jieting Yu Wig Supervisor.......................................................... Katie Ward Wig Assistant..................................................... Rebecca Traylor Wardrobe Manager................................................. Anna Jenny Wardrobe Assistants.....................Camila Benencia Courreges, Chloe Hixson

Lighting

Lighting Supervisor............................................Jason E. Weber Associate Lighting Supervisor............................... Dani Clifford Lead Lighting Technicians......... Wylder Cooper, Tyler Warner, Lighting Technicians...................... Blake Anderson, Will Blair, Andy Glischinski, Troy Johnson, Lindsay Krupski, Steven York

Sound

Sound Supervisor......................................................Paul Doyle Assistant Sound Supervisor............................. Lindsay Burdsall Sound Technician..................Marion Ayers, Victoria Campbell

Properties Properties Director...............................................Mark Walston Associate Properties Master............................. Heather Lindert Assistant Properties Master............................. Katelin Ashcraft Carpenter Artisan.................................................Ryan Bennett Soft Goods Artisan..............................................Jessie Combest

Video Media Technologist............................................. Philip Allgeier

2019–2020 PTC APPRENTICES

OPERATIONS

Acting... Michael Allyn, Kaitlyn Boyer, Aizhaneya Carter, Zoë DePreta, Christopher Garofalo, Jen Jarnagin, Noah Keyishian, Teresa Langford, Germainne LeBron, Alex Lin, Gabriela Llarena, Alex Might, Mollie Murk, Kat Peña, Andrew G. Rodriguez, Patrick Steadman Taylor, Ashtonn Thompson, Isaiah J. Williams

Director of Operations........................................Carlo Stallings Operations Manager.............................................Ricky Baldon Building Services.............. Deonta Burns, Michael Sweatmon, Cedrick Yelder

Costumes.................................................................. Emily Brod Directing.................................................. Cara Hinh, Julia Rufo Dramaturgy & Literary Management.......Kathryn de la Rosa, Liam E. Gibbs

Chief Financial Officer...........................................Peggy Shake Accounting Manager............................................... Jason Acree Accounting Assistant.....................................Christine England

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SERVICES & AMENITIES

T H E AT R E S TA F F Festival & Events Management............................ Abby Tauber Learning & Creative Engagement............... Michaela Barczak, Matthew Dryburgh Lighting......................................................................Siena Wise Marketing......................................................... Sarah Jae Leiber Production Management....................................Carol Almonte Properties................................................................. deGuzman Scenic................................................................ Patrice J. Nelms Sound................................................................... Joshua Brown Stage Management...................... Sophie Antovel, Julia Bregy, Connor Feagin, Maggie Hoffecker

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, Ella Cullen, Laurie Eiden, Doris Elder, Joyce French, Carol Halbleib, LuAnn & Tom Hayes, Candace Jaworski, Holly Kissel, Natalie Koch, Yvonne Mead, Barbara Nichols, Teresa Nusz, Beth Phipps, Nancy Rankin, Tim Unruh, Peyton Weihe, Lily Wobbe.

ACTORS THEATRE’S COMPANY DOCTOR Dr. Andrew Mickler, F.A.C.S.

ACTORS THEATRE'S COMPANY PHYSICAL THERAPY PROVIDER

TICKET INFORMATION Box Office Hours will vary during the Humana Festival in accordance with performance times.

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.

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/Box-Office.

Groups Discounts ranging from 5% to 20% are available to groups of ten or more. Call (502) 584-1205. for details.

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

Kevin Brown, MEd, ATC, CKTP, FMT

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 and The Thin Place 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: Lisa Sanaye Dring, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Idris Goodwin, Sarah Gubbins, Jane B. Jones, Rajiv Joseph & Bill Sherman, and Alexis Scheer

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 are 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 or special programming. Seating restrictions may apply. Visit ActorsTheatre.org/ TicketOptions for more information.

GALLERY HOURS (During Performances) Tuesday - Friday: 5:30 p.m. - 10 p.m.

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

Closed Mondays and non-performance days

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SERVICES & AMENITIES FOOD & BEVERAGE Food is not permitted in the theatre.

NO SMOKING No smoking of any kind is permitted within the facility.

Beverage Service Beverage service is available at the lobby bar TuesdaySunday, 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 bar before all performances.

ACCESSIBILITY Accessible ramps, elevators, parking, restrooms, water fountains and wheelchair seating are available for patrons with disabilities. Booster seats are available for check-out at the Box Office with a refundable deposit. Parking is located on levels M and 3–6 of the garage. Accessible restrooms are located on the first floor and Mezzanine Level.

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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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, from the House Manager or at Coat Check.

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 Kentucky Performing Arts.

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 Kentucky Performing Arts.

Sensory Friendly Sensory-friendly items such as noise-reducing headphones, fidgets and stress balls are available for check-out, with a refundable deposit, from the House Manager or at Coat Check.

A schedule of sensory-friendly and relaxed performances is available at the Box Office.

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 ext. 3072 or visit actorstheatre.org/volunteer.

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 ext. 3072.

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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