The Revolutionists - Park Square Theatre

An assassin, a spy, a playwright, and of course, Marie Antoinette!

REVOLUTIONISTS

By Lauren Gunderson

MAR 29 –

APR 16

Directed by Shelli Place

AGAIN

book & additional lyrics

music

& lyrics by

by KATIE KA VANG

MELISSA LI

directed by NANA DAKIN

THEATERMU.ORG | MAR 29 - APR 16 A musical about what to do when sh*t gets real.

It’s been two years in the making, but finally an assassin, a Caribbean spy, a playwright and a Queen walk into a revolution and onto Park Square’s stage.

We are excited to welcome you to PRIME Productions and Park Square’s co-production of THE REVOLUTIONISTS by Lauren Gunderson. Set during the French Revolution, this play is both a true story and a dream fugue by a talented quartet, but most of all it’s a comedy in which cooler heads don’t always prevail, but instead roll.

We are grateful for Park Square Theater’s continued faith in us and this project as we waited for live theater to return, and for all of you who have joined us here tonight. Some stories are meant to be told from a stage to a live audience, and THE REVOLUTIONISTS is certainly one that genre.

Since its inception in 2016, PRIME’s mission has been to expand opportunities for the Twin Cities’ mature female artists to tell stories that portray women over 50 in a 3-dimensional way. We’re attracted to stories of strong women who are changing the world or changing themselves and others, while living in interesting times.

THE REVOLUTIONISTS accomplish this handily. This production allows PRIME to expand our mission by telling stories from diverse cultures and further the narrative that mature women are not only thought-provoking, they also can be bad-ass! We want 17-year-old boys to be in awe of their grandmothers; 30-year-old women to see 50 can be a new beginning, not a finale; and for women over 50 to be so proud of their age that when they look in the mirror they see their wisdom, not wrinkles. We constantly aim for the journey of mature female characters to appeal to both men and women.

Thank you, Park Square Theater, for this collaboration and the opportunity to share this historical, hilarious play with both our audiences.

So, sit back and enjoy as Marie Antoinette, Charlotte Corday, Olympe De Gouges and Marianne show the boys how revolutions are done!

- The Ladies of PRIME

ALISON EDWARDS SHELLI PLACE

Park Square Theatre celebrates our community’s many voices, inspires creativity across generations, and ignites our shared sense of belonging, exploration, generosity, and self-reflection.

Four women find themselves caught up in the French Revolution: an assassin, a spy, a playwright, and, of course, Marie Antoinette. They plot murder, find friendship (and do some good writing), in this irreverent, poignant, rebellious comedic romp that considers how we go about changing the world.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Lauren Gunderson has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list thrice including 2022/23. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is a playwright, screenwriter, musical book writer and children’s author who lives in San Francisco. She graduated from NYU Tisch as a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. LaurenGunderson.com

NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR

When I first read The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson, I thought, “wow” this is a play I have to direct. I love period pieces (plays, novels, cable series) that are rooted in history, with notable people of the era, but whose story and dialogue is accessible. This play is all that and more. The combination of 18th century pathos and 21st century dialogue is something new and refreshing. This comedy is about “real women, real transcripts and real executions”. These women are fighting for their rights, their souls, and their survival. Any woman who has marched in a rally for their own rights owes a debt of gratitude to brave women in history. Written by a millennial, it is smart, snappy, witty, and wise, with morsels of real history spread throughout. It’s a wild ride, so buckle up, keep your ears and eyes open and enjoy the experience!

The video and audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited.

By Lauren Gunderson

THE REVOLUTIONISTS

CAST

Alison Edwards* ................................ Olympe de Gouges

Tia Marie Tanzer ................................ Marriane Angelle

Jasmine Porter ................................... Charlotte Corday

Jane Froiland* .................................... Marie Antoinette

Laini Beth Devin ................................. Understudy

Julie Ann Nevill ................................... Understudy

CREATIVE TEAM

Shelli Place* ....................................... Director

MJ Leffler ............................................ Set Designer

Sonya Berloviz .................................... Costume Designer

Karin Olson ......................................... Lighting Designer

Anita Kelling ........................................

Sound Designer

Bee Tremmel ...................................... Wig Designer

Marc Berg ........................................... Properties Designer

Lily Isaacson ....................................... Projection Designer

Andrew Isaacson ............................... Projection Supervisor

Ashley Raper* .................................... Stage Manager

Keara J Lavandowska ........................ Assistant Stage Manager

Megan West-Sharp* .......................... Producer

Performance Time: Approximately 100 minutes with a 10 minute intermission

Setting: Paris, the Reign of Terror (1793). A safe place, a study, a prison cell, the Tribunal. Then the scaffold.

*Members

ofActors’EquityAssociation,theUnionofProfessionalActorsandStageManagersintheUnitedStates. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

THE WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION

ALISON EDWARDS* (she/her) Olympe de Gouges

Park Square Debut Representative Theatre National Tour: Wit; PRIME Productions: The Roommate; Rochester Civic Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest; Sidekick Theater: Ripcord; Repertory Theatre of St Louis: The Royal Family; Fulton Theatre: The Lion in Winter TV/Film Girls (HBO), In An Instant (ABC), Canusa Street (pilot), Farmer of the Year, Miles Training MFA School for the Arts, Boston University Upcoming Projects Jungle Theatre: The Courtroom More at alisonedwardsonline.com

OLYMPE DE GOUGES (174 8 – 1793) was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries. She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s. As political tension rose in France, Olympe de Gouges became increasingly politically engaged.1

TIA MARIE TANZER Marianne Angelle

Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Birth Play Project: Aquellares; Theatre Unbound: The Penelopiad; Sod House Theater: Enemy of the People; Lumin Theatre Lab: Twelfth Night; Madison Shakespeare Company: Richard II

MARIANNE ANGELLE is an invented amalgamation of historical figures. The historical Olympe De Gouges would not have known any San Dominguean / Haitian freedom fighters so she invents one. Thankfully we are starting to have much more scholarship on the critical and inspiring role Black women played in the Haitian Revolution. When writing Marianne’s character, playwright Lauren Gunderson “looked mostly to the little we know about Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture, wife of Toussaint Louverture.”2

1: Wikipedia contributors. (2023, February 11). Olympe de Gouges. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympe_de_Gouges

2: T. (2022, July 9). Great Question: Why is Marianne Invented? The Revolutionists. https://therevolutionists.tumblr.com/ post/689333661381869568/great-question-why-is-marianne-invented

3: Wikipedia contributors. (2023b, February 27). Charlotte Corday. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Corday

4: Wikipedia contributors. (2023b, February 18). Marie Antoinette. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette

- Olympe De Gouges

JASMINE PORTER (she/her) Charlotte Corday

Park Square Debut Representative Theatre

Lakeshore Players Theater: The Niceties; Zephyr Theater: A Comedy of Errors; The Guthrie: Cyrano de Bergerac; Theatre Unbound: The Clean House; Youth Performance Company: Just Before Sleep

Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (1768 –1793), known as CHARLOTTE CORDAY, was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, had played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized. In 1847, writer Alphonse de Lamartine gave Corday the posthumous nickname l'ange de l'assassinat (the Angel of Assassination).3

JANE FROILAND* (she/her) Marie Antoinette

Park Square The Diary of Anne Frank, Of Mice and Men, The Realistic Joneses, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rock n Roll Representative Theatre Children’s Theatre: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Yellow Tree Theatre: The Miracle Worker; Mixed Blood Theatre: An Octoroon; Walking Shadow Theatre: Marie Antoinette; Dark and Stormy Productions: The Norwegians; Zephyr Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire

TV/Film Documentary Now! (IFC/Netflix), Fun-Raiser Awards/ Other Best Actress in a Drama, Lavender Magazine for Rocket to the Moon; Ivey Award for Outstanding Overall Production for Doubt; Compleat Female Stage Beauty Training B. A. Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Upcoming Projects Guthrie Theatre: Murder on the Orient Express More at janefroiland.net

MARIE-ANTOINETTE, (1755 – 1793), was Austrian queen consort of King Louis XVI of France. Her name is associated with the decline of the French monarchy. Her rejection of reform provoked unrest, and her policy of court resistance to the progress of the French Revolution finally led to the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792.4

"Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights."

CREATIVE TEAM CREATIVE TEAM

LAINI BETH DEVIN

(she/her) Understudy

Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Children’s Theatre Company: 20,000 Leagues

Under the Sea; Lyric

Arts: Something Rotten; MN Opera: Rigoletto; Lakeshore Players Theatre:

Singin’ in the Rain; Zephyr Theatre: Mamma Mia!; Actors Theatre of MN: All The Great Books (abridged) TV/Film

In An Instant (ABC); I was There (History Channel) Training B.A. Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota Upcoming Projects Lakeshore Players Theatre: La Cage aux Folles More at lainidevin. com; @laini_beth (Instagram)

JULIE ANN NEVILL

(she/her) Understudy

Park Square The Diary of Anne Frank, Melville Slept Here, Dracula, Ten Little Indians, Lady Windermere’s Fan Representative Theatre DalekoArts: Native Gardens; Acadia Repertory Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest; Freshwater Theatre: The Bucket List of Booze Club; Walking Shadow Theatre Co.: The Ugly One; Six Points Theater: Hershel and the Hannukah Goblins; Theatre Pro Rata: The Knight of the Burning Pestle TV/Film In An Instant (ABC); Lady Dynamite (Netflix); Undercurrent (Cybick Productions); In the Kitchen With (Killing Joke Films); Theater People (Metasynthesis Films); Herman, USA (Herman Films, LLT)

Awards/Other Performed in Ivey Award winning production of Julius Caesar with Theatre Unbound; Mock Trial/ Deposition witness for Faegre & Benson; Mock Patient Exercises for Augsburg College Training B.A., Theater Arts, University of Minnesota-Morris; Mask training from In the Heart of the Beast

SHELLI PLACE*

(she/her) Director Park Square With

PRIME Productions: Debut (as director)

Representative Theatre Guthrie

Theater with PRIME Productions: Two Degrees; Mixed Blood with PRIME Productions: Little Wars; Hennepin Theater Trust with Theatre

Unbound: The How and the Why (Best Director Nomination, BroadwayWorld. com); Old Log Theater: Life Could Be a Dream (as choreographer); Six Points: Hanukkah Lights in the Big Sky; SOAR Arts: Steel Magnolias Awards/Other

Disney Business Productions: Creative Director/Producer; Los Angeles County of Museum of Art (LACMA) Costume Council; Director/ Live Shows; NFL

Association: Director/ Player of the Year

Awards Training BFA, Acting, Southern Methodists University Upcoming Projects PRIME Productions: PRIME Voices: a Staged Reading Series More at PRIME Productions - primeprods.org

MJ LEFFLER (they/them) Set Designer

Park Square (as scenic designer)

Airness; (as director/playwright)

Antigone; (as actor) A Midsummer Night’s Dream; (as props designer) Henry and Alice; (as Interim technical director)

Sometimes There’s Wine; Part of over 20 productions between 2016 - 2019 as staff/ crew member Representative Theatre Guthrie: Lashed but Not

Leashed; Yellow Tree Theater: Passing Strange; Theater Pro Rata: By the Bog of Cats; Lyric Arts: Little Women; Umbrella Collective: JUNE Training

B.A., Minnesota State University, Moorhead; A.A., Central Lakes College

Upcoming Projects Theater Pro Rata: By the Bog of Cats, Scenic Design

SONYA BERLOVIZ (she/her)

Costume Designer

Park Square Pride and Prejudice, Rule of Thumb, Great Expectations

Representative Theatre Actors

Theatre of Louisville: Loves Labour’s

Lost; The Guthrie Theatre: Refugia; Ten Thousand Things: Into the Woods; South Coast Repertory: Tartuffe; The Moving Company: Speechless; Theatre

Latte Da: Peter and the Starcatcher

TV/Film Ida’s Story Awards/Other

Familie, original creation Training BFA., Fashion & Painting, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Upcoming Projects History Theatre - The Defeat of Jesse James; Pillsbury House Theatre - Passage (Exposed Brick Theatre)

More at sonyaberlovitz.com

KARIN OLSON (she/her)

Lighting Designer

Park Square The Humans, Pride and Prejudice, Aubergine, Well; With SteppingStone Theatre: Princess Nightingale, Ruby!, Jack and the Beanstalk, Four Little Girls, Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Tom Sawyer, Pinocchio, Little Princess, Magic Bus to Asian Folktales, Stinky Cheese Man, My Grandmother’s Tchotchkes, Petite Rouge; With Full Circle Theater: Fire in the New World, Atacama, The Empathy Project; With Collide Dance: The Picture of Dorian Gray; With Theater Mu: The Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity, Tot, A Little Night Music, Into the Woods Representative Theatre MN Opera: The Song Poet (world premiere); Cleveland Playhouse: Antigone; Jungle Theater: Redwood; Guthrie Theater: Valor; Ordway Center presenting Taiko Arts Midwest: HERbeat; Trinity Rep: A Christmas Carol TV/ Film HandPrints: Cineplay w/ Ten Thousand Things Upcoming Projects History Theatre: The Defeat of Jesse James; Mu Performing Arts at the Luminary: Kung Fu Zombie

Saga: Shaman Warriors and Cannibals More at karinolsonlighting.com

ANITA KELLING (she/her)

Sound Designer

Park Square The Snowy Day, The Diary of Anne Franke, Idiot’s Delight with Girl Friday Productions, Might As Well Be Dead, The Snow Queen, Murder for Two, Shooting Star, The House on

Mango Street, 33 Variations, The Red

Box Representative Theatre Prime Productions: The Roommate; Six Points Theater: Trayf; Stage North Theater: King of the Kosher Grocers; Artistry: Tinker to Evers to Chance; Theatre Mu: Two Mile Hollow Training B.A. Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota

BEE TREMMEL (she/they) Wig Designer

Park Square Debut Representative

Theatre as performer: Wildwood Theater: Next to Normal; Inver Grove Community Theater: RENT; as hair and makeup: Theater Latte Da: 12 Angry Men; Guthrie Theater: 12th Night; Artistry Theater: Mary Poppins; James Sewell Ballet: Nutcracker Not so Suite Training Theater training at Three University of Northern Iowa, hair and makeup training at the Aveda Institute and the Guthrie Theater wig shop Upcoming Projects Working on some drag and burlesque around town as Misfit! More at Misfit.hair

MARC BERG (he/him)

Properties Designer

Park Square with Full Circle Theatre: Fire in the New World Representative Theatre Phantom Chorus Theatre: Victor Invictus; The Matchbox Theater: Razia’s Shadow: A Puppet Rock Opera; Prime Productions: The Roommate; Classical Actors Ensemble: Hamlet; Stages Theatre Company: A Different Pond; Old Log Theatre: The Reluctant Dragon Awards/Other Co-Artistic Director of Phantom Chorus Theatre Training B.A.,Theatre Arts, University of Wisconsin - River Falls. A.A.S., Graphic Design, Minneapolis Community and Technical College Upcoming Projects

Phantom Chorus Theatre: CHROMA, at Dreamland Arts; Stages Theatre Company: Raymie Nightingale, at Stages Theatre; ISD 194: Little Shop of Horrors, at Lakeville North High School More at www.phantomchorus.com

LILY ISAACSON (she/her)

Projection Designer

Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Eden Prairie Performing Arts:

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor

Dreamcoat as Projection Designer; The Devil of a Job as Lighting Tech; Mamma Mia as Set Build and Sound; Arsenic and Old Lace, as Scenic Designer and Sound Head

ANDREW ISAACSON (he/him)

Projection Supervisor

Park Square Debut Representative

Theatre Guthrie: Two Degrees TV/Film

Live Events: Prince Tribute Halftime Show, Minnesota Vikings, Field Projection; NCAA Final Four Intro, CBS Sports, Court Projection; NFL Draft, Bellagio Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Fountain Projection

ASHLEY RAPER* (she/her)

Stage Manager

Park Square Airness, The Diary of Anne

Frank, Face to Face: Hmong Women’s Experiences , Paige in Full, The Rocky Horror Show Representative Theatre

Dark and Stormy Productions: God of Carnage; Artistry: Shrek the Musical; Sod House Theater: Arla Mae’s Booyah Wagon; Kentucky Opera: Rigoletto; CommonwealthTheatre Center: The Ugly Duckling; Triad Stage: The Price Training BFA, Drama, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

KEARA J LAVANDOWSKA (she/they)

Assistant Stage Manager

Park Square Airness; Holmes and Watson; The Humans; with Full Circle

Theater: The Empathy Project; ATACAMA

Representative Theatre Guthrie Theater: The Little Prince; Gremlin

Theatre: The Boy’s Room; Theatre at Monmouth: Murder For Two; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville

Renegade Theatre Company: Bright

Star; The Meeting; The Children’s Theatre

Company: Matilda the Musical; Duluth

Playhouse: Sweet Charity; The Music Man; Clown Bar; Jekyll and Hyde; University of MN Duluth: Dear Finder 2018; Antigone; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged); Charlotte’s Web; Constellations

MEGAN WEST-SHARP*

(she/her) Producer

Park Square Former Director

Company Director for PST 2006-2016

Representative Theatre Guthrie

Theatre, Illusion Theatre, History Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Prime Productions (debut)

PRODUCTION STAFF & CREW

Meghan “Mac” McLaughlin

Production Manager

Austin Stiers Technical Director

Garrett Conard

Assistant Technical Director

Kurt Jung Lighting Supervisor

Richard Graham

Sound/ Video Supervisor

Meghan Kent Wardrobe Supervisor

Jeni Tolifson Paint Charge

Erin Gustafson Carpenter Supervisor

Charlie Diefenbach Dresser/ Laundry

SPECIAL THANKS to all who have helped make this production possible.

Thank you to Michael-jon Pease for providig the invitation, Mark Ferraro-Hauck for shepherding the process and the enire Park Square Theatre staff for this collaboration and the opportunity to share this historical, hilarious play with both our audiences.

Nora Reimemschneider-St. Paul Gov., Laurie Fitz-980 AM, Buer Carlie-Lavender Magazine, Dennis and Nancy Monroe-Chloe by Vincent, CJ Davis and Paul Rodriguez-The Famous Group, Neal Beckman & Friends of the Actors Workout, Michelle Klein-MIA Events, Sulia Altenberg-PRIME Development Manager, Matt Bivens-CaptionPoint Creator,Miriam Monasch, Robbie Mancina & Beth DesotelleCaptionPoint Operators,& Lars ThomsonVideo Archivist

To PRIME’S Board of Directors for their guidance and governance - Susanne Egi, Anne Marie Gillen, Nancy Monroe, Saray GarnettHochuli, Grace Heatherington-Tilka and Susan Eder

And our Advisory Council for their continuing support and advice - Marcia Stout, Rose McGee, Pat Milan, Michelle Caron, Kim Greene, Robbye Lewis, Eric “Pogi”Sumangil, Julia Weiler, Fawn Wilderson, Michael Shann, Sharon Bialy, and Charles Randolph-Wright

The PRIME Journey Continues…

Now that we’ve got your attention with The Revolutionists, we’d love to see you back as part of the PRIME family as we craft nuanced perceptions of mature women and make sure that it not only includes, but fully embraces and celebrates all cultures of womanhood.

Here are some of our upcoming plans:

PRIME Productions plans to continue with PRIME Voices: A Staged Reading series that focuses on stories about mature women. The series includes three play readings presented in three consecutive months at 3 separate venues, each for one night only and offered for free! These plays allow us to employ a myriad of Twin Cities’ valuable female theater artists and explore new, as well as classic plays, shedding light on different nuanced versions of mature womanhood.

Emerging from its “online” reading in the 2021 PRIME Voices Series, PRIME is now working in tandem with the Playwrights Center to develop Abuelita by Nathan Yungerberg. Set in Spanish Harlem in the 1990s during a historic heatwave, the play includes four fabulous roles for mature women and the “coming of age” of two mixedrace teens.

And last but not least, PRIME is now on a national search to commission a playwright to develop a play based on the struggles of mothers and grandmothers in the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. We can’t wait to discover what a new voice at PRIME could craft to represent richer, deeper stories about mature women and their worlds.

Thanks to all of the people who’ve helped us to sustain and grow PRIME.

Here’s how you can be a part of the PRIME family:

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Thank you and enjoy The Revolutionists!

COSTUMES MAKE THE CHARACTER

Humorist Mark Twain once remarked that “Naked people have little or no influence on society,” which is how he came up with his oft repeated line: “Clothes make the (wo)man.” The four women in The Revolutionists are undeniably intent on influencing their French society, which is why what they wear on stage sends an important message to the audience about who they are and what they stand for.

It’s the costume designer, along with the wig designer, who is charged with creating this nonverbal communication that complements the actors’ words and actions.

The designer’s job starts with conversations with the director to get a sense of what they want to say about the play, including “their slant, their sense of aesthetics, colors, character analysis…,” says Sonya Berlovitz, who has designed the costumes for more than 50 productions during her career, starting with plays and operas for the former Theatre de la Jeune Lune.

Once the two are on the same script, Sonya refers to her research on the period and the characters, who in this case are based on actual people. The play’s four main characters have varying economic levels, she says, and color is one way to suggest “a mood that’s symbolic of a quality” they possess. For instance, red, white, and blue are prominent to signify the French Revolution and are referenced in the costumes of Charlotte Corday and Marianne Angelle, while Marie Antoinette is elegantly dressed in pink and apricot, and Olympe de Gouges wears a green leather jacket and a vest with the wording of the playwright’s Declaration of the Rights of Women written on it.

Hairstyles, hats and headwraps also offer a window into who a character is.

“Audience members may not say, ‘You know, that wig made the show,’” says Bee Tremmel, who is designing three wigs for the production (Marianne is wearing a head wrap with wisps of hair sewn in). But if the wig doesn’t fit the head or the character, it can be a disconnect that audiences sense but may not always be able to put their finger on.

Costumes need to fit just right, so the actor is free to strut and fret onstage unencumbered, just as wigs have to be balanced so they’re not too heavy, too hot or too wonky. Which is why Marie Antoinette won’t be wearing the sky-high updo that turns up in her Google searches.

Period pieces often incorporate a nod to the present taste in fashion, both designers say, because what was deemed attractive in the 1700s, or even early 2000s, isn’t always seen as flattering to a modern audience.

Bee, who is a performer as well as a hairstylist/wig designer, started with human hair wigs which were hand colored and cut. They then worked from a detailed sketch Sonya provided of the characters’ costumes. “My boss is always the costume designer,” Bee says.

Wigs and costumes for the understudy also are on the designers’ to-do list. “It’s a nice perk when the actor and understudy are close to the same size,” Sonya says. For Bee, the texture and length of both the actor’s and understudy’s hair have to be taken into consideration, as well as facial structure. For instance, Bee explains, they once designed a wig with a chin-length bob, only to discover that the actor and the understudy had different chin lengths.

Wigs are an affordable luxury, Bee points out. A good wig ensures a consistent look night after night, but also saves the actor’s own hair, plus time sitting in the makeup chair before each production.

Wigs and costumes aren’t only for the audience’s experience, Bee and Sonya agree. Donning the costume and the wig completes the transformation in their minds from an actor in 2023 to queen, spy, assassin, and playwright from several lifetimes ago.

- Article written by Nancy Monroe

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Kay Witherspoon

Ann Wynia

$50-99

Marcia Abineau

Elizabeth Anderson and Heather

Clark

Judith Bonhiver

Liz Brady

Jean and Carl Brookins

Josh Campbell

Carol Chomsky

Kathy Cobb

Jacqueline Cruz

Shanan Custer

Rita Dibble

Elizabeth Docherty

Peggy Endres

Maureen Englehardt

Laura Esping

Lee Fabel

Lolly Foy

Penelope Gardner

Hans Gasterland

Elena Giannetti and David Pacheco

Roberta Gibbons

Delta Giordano

Kathryn Guentzel & John Catron

Mary Harrison

Janine Hegarty

Harriet Horowitz

Micheal Horvath & Robert Patrick

Stacie Jablonecki

Beverly Jacobson

Mike Norman and Jan Davies

Guy and Jean Johnson

Heather Kutzler Johnson

Robert Lee

Joan Lentz

Desiree Long

Mary Lou Burdick

Teresa Lumley

Charlene Lund

Catherine Lundoff

Rhoda and Don Mains

Nancy Marvy

Ruthie and James McGrath

Charissa Menefee and K.L. Cook

Chuck Mersereau

Bob Moilanen and and Marlene

Senechal

Miriam Monasch

Wendy Morris

Marysue Moses

Ron Nicodemus

Connie O’Sullivan

Daniel Pinkerton

Debra and Lawrence Que

John Quinn

Robert Salter

Eric Schotz

Barb Schultz

Candy Simmons

Molly Smith

Jeanette Sobania

Elizabeth Steblay

Suzanne and Ivan Stagic

Cindy and Greg Stiever

Sue Talley

Rita THofern

Pat Treseler

Daniel Vogel

Barbara Wakefield

John Woehrle

Susan and Terrence Wolkerstorfer

Francis and Nancy Zebot

$1-49

Bob Allen

Jim and Jacky Sherohman

Katherine and James Lee

Joan Bachman

Adam Barenfeld-Engel

Diana and Philip Berbig

Adyln Carreras

Marisha Chamberlain

Patrick Coyle

Janette Davis

Kevin Drew

Chari Eckmann

Susan Elsner

Darcey Engen

Jeff Erager

Holly Erickson

Patricia Eversman

Laurie Flanigan-Hegge and Jon Hegge

Janet Frisch

Amanda Fuller

Jan Gillen

Helen Grice

Erika Grossman

Marilyn Haight

Kay Harris

Laura Hillman

Carol Jackson

Camille Kolles

Kim Kotzen Wear

Ruth Ladwig

Loretta Larkey

Karen Lawson

Michelle Lichtig and Kevin Byrne

Crystal Manich

Audrey Nelson

Julie Ann Nevill

Amanda Nickerson

Peggy O’Connell

Rachel Parker

Paula Pfaff

Sue Miller

Jack Reuler

Jodene Riha

Erin Roberts

Ruth Rogers

Gidalia Rothman

Carolyn Sandgren

Jill Schafer

Kurt Schulz

Taylor Shann

Mark Sieve

Nancy and Keith Sjoquist

Linnea Solem

Timothy Stolz

Laura Tahja Johnson and Tony Johnson

Gudrun Wurm

Nathan Yungerberg

David Zander

This activity is supported, in part, by the City of Saint Paul Cultural Sales Tax Revitalization Program. This organization supports the efforts of MNTAC and endorses The MN Theater Foundational Standards for Safety and Accountability.

Individual Giving

The Founders Society recognizes individuals who have made a future gift to the Theatre through their wills or other estate plans. These gifts literally lay the foundation for the next generation of theatre goers – making each donor a founder of Park Square’s future.

You don’t need to be rich to leave a lasting legacy. You can provide for your heirs, gain important tax benefits, and even receive an income now by making a thoughtful planned gift.

Planned Gifts include: A Bequest in Your Will; Retained Life Estate; Gift of Retirement Plan Assets; Charitable Remainder Trust; Gift of Life Insurance Policy; Charitable Lead Trust; Charitable Gift Annuity

For more information about planned gifts and their potential tax advantages, please contact

Marcie Berg: 651.767.8486 | berg@parksquaretheatre.org

Betty Anderlik+

Anonymous

Marcia Aubineau

Robert Baker & Margo Mickelson

John & Barbara Balfanz

Corrie Ooms Beck

Dennis Brennan & Dan Bundy

Steven Lockwood & Richard Cook

Margaret Durham

Mary Ebert & Paul Stembler

Dianne & Jim Falteisek

Nancy Feldman

Hilde & John Flynn

John Gillen In Memory of Lawrence E Pierson

Jewelie Grape

The John W. Harris Family

Sheila Henderson+

Dennis & Mary Kelly

William & Janice Kimes

Jack & Jeanne Matlock

Sue McAllister

Dick Morrison+

Ronald Parker & Janet Houck

Michael-Jon Pease & Christopher Taykalo

James Persoon & Barbara Schmidt Persoon

Scott T & Jennifer Norris Peterson

Mackenzie & Steve Romenesko

Susan Rostkoski

Mr. Ken Rothchild

Berneen Rudolph

Paul & Pat Sackett

Laurie Simon+

Joan T. Smith+

Sarah Stevenson in Memory of Gary Berggren

Doris Swenson+

Randall & Cynthia Thoen

John & Sandra White

Kate Wolfe-Jenson & Ralph Jenson (+ - in remembrance)

Special Thanks to the Historic Hamm Building

For their investment in the vibrant cultural life in downtown Saint Paul, a warm welcome to the new building owners, Halverson and Blaiser Group, LTD.

Park Square Theatre Lead Funding Partners:

Hugh J. Andersen Foundation

The Anderlik Family Foundation

Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts

John Larsen Family Foundation

Sarah J. Andersen Fund of the Hugh J. Andersen Foundation

Boss Foundation

Edelstein Family Foundation

The Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation

Margaret H. and James E. Kelley Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

Willis Towers Watson

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and culture heritage fund.

INDIVIDUAL GIVING

30+ Years of Giving:

Howard Ansel

David E. Feinberg

Benedict & Rita Olk

Sigrid Johnson

Scott T & Jennifer Norris Peterson

Janice Kimes

Thomas & Nancy Rohde

25-29 Years Giving:

The Crabb Family, Ken, Gwen, Casey & Rachael

Margaret Osborne

James Rustad & Kay Thomas

Hilde & John Flynn

Michael & Carol Garbisch

Jenifer Wagner & James Vogel

Richard & Joan Newmark

Paul & Pat Sackett

20-24 Years Giving:

Edward Fox & Lori Belair

Donald & Mary Ellen Olson

Mr. Ken Rothchild

Peter Maye & Betsy Cobb

Elizabeth Docherty

Margaret Michaelson

Summer Seidenkranz & Clark Schroeder

John & Sandra White

Caroline Foster & H Dutton Foster

John & Jeanne Lefevre

Janice & Louis Leichter

Eric & JoAnn Pasternack

Jeanne Corwin

Trudy Dunham

Nancy Feldman

Mary A. Jones

Gerald & Beth Voermans

Helen Wagner

Elizabeth Andrews

James & Kathy Andrews

Laura Cochrane

Susan Flynn

Thomas Gifford & Jean Heidenreich

Robyn Hansen

Wesley & Deirdre Kramer

Ruth Ladwig

Richard & Marina Morey

Jack & Judy Schlukebier

John & Nan Steger

15-19 Years Giving:

Anonymous

Linda Boss

Cathryn & Robert Burrell

C.C. & Dawn Clawson

Mary Dawson

Jack & Jeanne Matlock

Kathleen McLeod & Eric Hepp

Sarah Stevenson in Memory of Gary Berggren

John Sullivan

Rolf & Christi Bolstad

Burle & Louetta Gengenbach

Michael Mallory & Catherine Gray

Laurel Severson

Tim & Sara Beckstrand

Wendy Lane & Judith Fairbrother

John & Karen Larsen

Mary Ann Ogden

Bruce A. Lilly & Paula Schad Lilly

Charity Tahmaseb

Wendy Worner

Jane Carlstrom & Dave Decker

John Fisch & Judith Halabrin

Mary Jacobs

Alfred & Sharon Kauth

Thomas & Mary Krick

Robert & Barbara Kueppers

Laura McCarten

Laurie Rose Simon & Carol Hohenstein

Peg & Doug Wangensteen

Robert Baker & Margo Mickelson

Joan & Arnold Feinberg

Annamary & Jim Herther

Jeff & Kathy Johnson

Bruce Jones & Joann Nordin

10-14 Years Giving:

Suzanne Ammerman

Jane Helmke & Teresa Sterns

Carol & Joseph Incremona

Mike & Lorinda Jackson

Art Kaemmer

Thomas Kleinschmit & Liana Magee

David & Karen Minge

Theresa Mish

Rosanne Nathanson

Michael-Jon Pease & Christopher Taykalo

Catherine & Ferrol Robinson

William Zimmermann

Marcia J. Aubineau

Lynne Beck

Paul & Tina Casey

Barb Davis

Carol Freeman

Tom & Kristy Griep

Suzanne Jebe

Patricia Mitchell

Ronald Parker & Janet Houck

Chuck & Terri Roehrick

Rebecca Shockley

Kay A. Thomas

Frank & Barbara Abramson

William Anderson

David Freier

Nancy Jones

Sara Kuether

Bev Montgomery

Susan Reese

George Skinner & Anne Hanley

Michael & Sherry Spence

Stanley & Connie Suchta

Andrea Trimble Hart

Nell Ytsma & Mark Sauer

Arnold & Judith Brier

Terri Cavanaugh

Jonathan T Despotes-Tourdot

Howard Fink & Stephanie Bell

Jennifer Gross

The John W. Harris Family

William & Linda Holley

James & Gail Lafave

Gayle & Timothy Ober

Russell & Kathryn Rhode

Connie & Wally Shaver

Bob Thompson

Dale & Judy Tucker

Dale & Judy Tucker

Rick & Barbara Whiting

Jeanne & Richard Lemberger

Kay Robinson

Susan Rostkoski

Miriam & James Stake

Keith Thorkelson

Georgia Wegner

Terry & Susan Wolkerstorfer

Sheri Zigan

5-9 Years Giving:

Janet Albers

Robert & Mary Beck

Pam & Mark Bintzler

Mary Ebert & Paul Stembler

Dianne & Jim Falteisek

Robert & Becky Glesne

David & Ann Heider

Todd & Mary Jacobson

Laurel Krause & Ross Collins

Mary Martin

Paul & Tara Mattessich

Sharon Radman

Jane Schmidt

Emily & Dan Shapiro

Mary Wingfield

Burdick Family Fund

David & Michelle Christianson

Michael & Sharon Conley

Casey & Rachael Crabb

Fran Davis

Jewelie Grape

Jim & Judy Haigh

Patricia Koors

Ms. Sharon Lewis

Nancy & Kevin Rhein

Ute & Chuck Buehler

David & Joan Ciminski

Jay & Page Cowles

Ferris Fletcher

Jeffrey Hatcher

Mary Kay Hicks

John Jesmok

Paul & Renee Johnson

Kent & Diane Krueger

Al Kvaal

Cheryl Laurent

Ken & Diana Lewis

Elizabeth Martin

Michael & Connie O`Sullivan

John Orbison & Holly MacDonald

Karna Peters & George Perez

Brad & Linda Quarderer

George & Janet Stevens

Janet & Thomas Walker

John Williams

Jeanne Winiecki

Francis Zebot & Nancy Wiggers

Park Square Theatre Information

Mary Beth Brody & Richard Crowell

Lois Carolan & Ronald Marquis

Steve Colton

Jeffrey & Debra Erager

Steven Euller & Nancy Roehr

Jerri & Dan Freier

Beth Iseminger

Michael Kruempel

David & Pamela Lande

Catherine Loye

Steve & Rita Mattaini

Pondie Nicholson Taylor & Mark Taylor

Richard Osborn

Anton Rang

STAFF

Rachel Murch-D’Olimpio Interim Executive Director

Artistic

Ansa Akyea

Artistic Associate

Ellen Fenster

Artistic Associate

Rick Shiomi

Artistic Associate

Production

Meghan “Mac” McLaughlin Director of Productions

Austin Stiers

Technical Director

Garrett Conard

Assistant Technical Director

Kurt Jung

Electrician Supervisor

Richard Graham

Sound Supervisor

Meghan Kent

Costume Supervisor

Erin Gustafson

Carpenter Supervisor

Jeni Raddatz Tolifson

Scenic Paint Charge

SteppingStone

Creative Learning

Megan Flød Johnson

Interim Director of Education

Morgan Gray

Registrar and School

Scott Roste

Stephen & Dana Strand

Robert Warde

Michael & Martha Willett

Herbert & Lynne Benz

Faith Clover

Rita Dibble

Ann Jalonen

Pamela & Doug Johnson

Charles Keyes

Joseph & Kathy Kovarik

Susan Maples

Ron & Mary Mattson

John Moulder

Dean & Rita Nelson

Program Coordinator

Teaching Artists: Ansa Akyea, Pedro Bayón, Alessandra Bongiardina, Jack Bonko, Abigail Chagolla, Laurie Dehmlow, Isabella Dunsieth, Kristin Fox, Jane Froiland, Dominique Jones, Clay Man Soo, Sylvia Michels, Mikaela Moe, Shae Palic, Aaron Preusse, Dominic Rodgers, Taj Ruler, Doug Scholz Carlson, Jen Scott, Kiyoko Sims, Alli St. John, Dane Stauffer, Kiera Stegall, Terrell Woods

External Relations

Taylor Rowekamp

Marketing & Communications Manager

Victoria Dobias

Marketing & Design Lead

Marcie Berg

Development Manager

Lynne Beck

Development Consultant

Shelley Johnson

Webmaster

Mike Hanisch

Videographer

Dan Norman, Tomas Leal Photographers

Emma Swain

Ticketing Associate

Carol Perkins

Michele Ione Pierce

Trudy Richter & Alan Kamrath

Greg & Dianne Robinson

Annemarie Solon

Daniel & Jennifer Tenenbaum

Ella Thayer

David & Rita Thofern

For a full list of Park Square supporters, please visit parksquaretheatre.org/ contribute/individualsupport/

Victoria Martynko Marketing Intern

Front of House Staff: Mariah Christensen, Claire Chwalek, Lauren Everett, Eva Gemlo, Robby Miller, Alicia Pedersen, Steve Sell, Laura Topham, Tammie Weinfurtner, Sophie Wozniak

Finance and Operations

Amanda Hestwood

Internal Relations and Operations Manager

Access Services Staff

Audio Description: Laurie Pape-Hadley, Laura Wiebers

ASL: Terryann Nash, Theresa DuBois

Open Captioning: Shelia Bland

Volunteers

Susan Adix, Doreen

Aszmus, Judy Bartlett, Sue Bjerke, Diane Blaiser, Carolyn Brown, Pat

Dalluhn, Jo and Ernie

Frankovich, Monica Fritzen, Lynn Harris, Nan Jahnke, Lucy and Rick Olsen, Pat

Sackett, Anne Supplee

Thank you to all of our Volunteer Ushers.

Park Square Theatre Information

Board of Directors

Dr. Paul Sackett (Chair)

University of Minnesota

Pondie Taylor (Vice Chair)

St. Paul City School

Shwetha Vijayakumar (Secretary)

Ecolab

Andrea Trimble Hart (Treasurer)

Trimble Hart Consulting, Inc.

Mike Erlandson (Past Chair)

Aurora Strategic Advisors

Kristin Berger Parker

Stinson, Leonard, Street

Tamra Davis Cownie

Hardenbergh Foundation

Nancy Feldman

UCare, Retired

Mark Howlett

3M

Paul Johnson

Xcel Energy

Jared Kemper

Schwan’s Company

Paul Mattessich

Wilder Research Foundation

Susan Rostkoski Consultant

Paul Stembler Consultant

Anna Tobin

Greene Espel PLLP

Educator Advisory Board

Ben Carpenter

South High School

Heather Klug Park Center High School

Jack Schlukebier Central High School, retired

Jill Tammen

Hudson High School, retired

Kate Schilling Teacher & Designer

Marcia Aubineau

University of St. Thomas, retired

Tanya Sponholz

Prescott High School

Theodore Fabel South High School

Lanka Liyanapathiranage, Educator

Barbara Hynes-Tomczyk, Educator and Freelance Director

Contact Information & Ticket Office Hours

Contact

Mailing Address: 408 St. Peter Street, Suite 110LL Saint Paul, MN 55102

Street Address: 20 West 7th Place Saint Paul, MN 55102

Ticket Office: 651.291.7005 tickets@parksquaretheatre.org

Education: 651.291.9196 education@parksquaretheatre.org

Donor Development: 651.767.8486

Audience Services: 651.767.8489

Adam Arnold, MA, LMFT, LADC- Mental Health Professional

Theatre Ambassadors

Keena Dietz, Homeschool

Elle Hinds, Centennial High School

Spencer Lilla, Jefferson High School

Iris Luz Hernandez, Nova Classical Academy

Kinsey Peterson, Prescott High School

Sam Wiesner, Irondale High School

Sydney Horsman, Roseville Area High School

Ticket Office Hours

Wednesday–Friday* 12:00-5:00pm

*Or by emailing tickets@parksquaretheatre.org

Performance Days

6:30-8:30pm for 7:30 evening performances

1:00-3:00pm for 2:00 matinee performances

Hold times may be longer due to in-person customer service before performances

Proscenium Stage seats 348. Andy Boss Thrust Stage seats 203. The Historic Hamm Building is a smoke-free facility. Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the House Manager. Restrooms and water fountains are on the main floor and lower level. Cameras/audio/video equipment and laser pointers are prohibited.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and culture heritage fund.

We really like having you here!

Thank you for supporting Park Square Theatre. Continue your support with a gift to keep the momentum going. We hope to see you again soon!