The Humans

SEPT 14 – OCT 9

THE HUMANS

By Stephen Karam

Directed by Lily Tung Crystal

Families are complex, to say the least! In Stephen Karam’s The Humans we witness one family’s relationships and dynamics as they jostle, wheel, and stomp between two floors of a New York Chinatown duplex on Thanksgiving day. Park Square’s production brings an additional layer of nuance with the two daughters, Aimee and Brigid, cast as Korean adoptees.

As a Korean adoptee whose parents are Caucasian, it’s gratifying to finally see a family onstage that looks like my own. Although not addressed in the dialogue, the underlying adoptee stories come through. For instance, Aimee has ulcerative colitis, a painful inflammatory bowel disease. For adoptees, having a medical issue of any kind can bring up many painful, unanswered questions. Did someone in my birth family have this same ailment? Could I have done something about it had I known sooner? There is a specific loss and grief that is felt when one is completely disconnected from their biological relatives with no health or history roadmap at all.

Throughout the show, we see how close the Blake family is with one another and how disappointment, fear, and grief influence this closeness. At the beginning of rehearsals, we talked about how adoption could have contributed to this tight family bond. Questions like: were Deirdre and Erik unable to have children biologically? Did they try for a long time? Was there an intense desire to have children, and how much did this desire play into adopting from Korea? Again, none of these questions are addressed in the play itself, but they deepen the play in a different way than if Aimee and Brigid were their biological children.

Casting the two Blake daughters as Korean adoptees is a new concept, but director Lily Tung Crystal did not just drop people of color into the cast without any deliberation. Minnesota has the highest concentration of Korean adoptees of any state, and by portraying the Blakes as a multi-racial adoptee family, this production allows the audience to ask deeper questions, while giving the resident adoptee community in the Twin Cities visibility and representation on stage. When I hear people say, “Oh, that character couldn’t be related to that character - they look nothing alike,” I want to invite them to dinner at my parents’ house. Adoption does not define the Blake family, but it exists quietly among all of their complexities.

KATIE BRADLEY Dramaturge

Oh, friends! I am filled with such hope and joy as we come together to continue Park Square’s tradition of summertime mysteries. In the midst of all the uncertainties we have shared, it is strangely reassuring to know that, in the end, tonight’s riddle will be solved!

When we come together to make theatre, we offer our imaginations, our generosity of spirit, and our willingness to be in community in ways that are truly present. We know, after all, that we are not really on a remote island like the one where Holmes and Watson takes place. Rather, we come together to laugh, to wonder, to shed a tear, and to lean into the story unfolding before us. This is balm for our socially isolated and culturally divided souls. For a brief moment we are together, making worlds in our mind’s eye, and allowing our flights of fancy to run free.

So, let’s have some fun and let our imaginations and spirits expand! In our summer camps, young artists are inventing fantastical worlds together while creating friendships and discovering how much they can imagine into existence. I hope you will find the same joy as we join together to solve the mystery of what has happened to the great detective!

I am so thrilled to be back at Park Square with you.

MARK FERRARO-HAUCK Executive Director, Park Square Theatre Artistic & Exec. Director, SteppingStone Theatre hauck@parksquaretheatre.org

Park Square Theatre excites generations of artists and audiences through vibrant theatre that elevates our community’s multiplicity of voices.

SteppingStone Theatre for Youth ignites belonging, generosity, mastery, self-advocacy, and inspiration by creating art with young people to share with the world.

SYNOPSIS

A stunning portrayal of the human condition told in real time. At Thanksgiving, the Blake family gathers at the run-down New York apartment of Brigid Blake and her boyfriend, Richard. Brigid’s parents, Erik and Dierdre, have driven in from their home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, along with Erik’s elderly mother, Momo, while their other adult daughter, Aimee, is visiting from Philadelphia. Together they attempt to focus on the positive while wrestling with basic human challenges including aging, illness, and economic insecurity.

The Humans was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play.

Stephen Karam is the Tony Award-winning author of The Humans, Sons of the Prophet and Speech & Debate. For his work he’s received two Drama Critics Circle Awards, an OBIE Award and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Stephen recently directed his first feature film, a rethought version of The Humans for A24 films, to be released in 2021. He wrote a film adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull starring Annette Bening, which was released by Sony Picture Classics. His adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard premiered on Broadway as part of Roundabout’s 2016 season. Recent honors include the inaugural Horton Foote Playwriting Award, the inaugural Sam Norkin Drama Desk Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, Drama League Award, and Hull-Warriner Award.

Stephen teaches graduate playwriting at The New School. He is a graduate of Brown University and grew up in Scranton, PA.

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*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

†Member, USA Union 829

Park Square Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.

THE HUMANS had its world premiere in November 2014 at American Theater Company, Chicago, Illinois (PJ Paparelli, Artistic Director)

The Original Broadway Production of THE HUMANS was produced by Scott Rudin, Barry Diller, Roundabout Theatre Company, Fox Theatricals, James L. Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, Roy Rufman, Daryl Roth, Jon B. Platt, Eli Bush, Scott M. Delman, Sonia Friedman, Amanda Lipitz, Peter May, Stephanie P. McClelland, Lauren Stein, and the Shubert Organization; Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner and John Johnson, executive producers

Commissioned and Originally Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, New York, NY (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director; Harold Wolpert, Managing Director: Julia C. Levy, Executive Director, Sydney Beers, General Manager)

By Stephen Karam

THE HUMANS

CREATIVE TEAM

Lily Tung Crystal ................................. Director

Roshni Desai ...................................... Assistant Director

Erik Paulson ........................................ Set Designer

Matthew Lefebvre† ............................ Costume Designer

Katharine Horowitz ........................... Sound Designer

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

John Novak ......................................... Properties Designer

Andrea Moriarity................................ Wig Designer

Katie Bradley ...................................... Dramaturge

Isabella Dawis .................................... Music Director

Shae Palic* ......................................... Intimacy Director

Keely Wolter ...................................... Dialect Coach

Lyndsey R. Harter* ............................ Stage Manager

Em Friedman ...................................... Assistant Stage Manager

CAST

John Middleton* ................................ Erik Blake

Charity Jones* .................................... Deirdre Blake

Laura Anderson* ............................... Aimee Blake

Darrick Mosley* ................................. Richard Saad

Angela Timberman* .......................... Fiona “Momo” Blake

Dexieng “Dae” Yang ........................... Brigid Blake

Understudies: Lori Constable, Gary David Keast, James Rodriguez, Janet Scanlon

Setting: Chinatown in New York City

Performance Time: Approximately 95 minutes with no intermission.

CAST

LAURA ANDERSON*

(she/her) Aimee Blake

Park Square Debut

Representative

Theatre Theater Mu: Kung Fu Zombies vs. Cannibals; Red Fern

Theatre Company: A Shot Away; The Guthrie: A Christmas Carol; Children’s Theatre Company: Linnea in Monet’s Garden; The Ordway: Music Man; Theatre de la Jeune Lune: Germinal TV/Film

Person of Interest (CBS); SouthLAnd (TNT); Law & Order: SVU (NBC); Sugar & Spice

(New Line Cinema) Awards/Other Proud Korean Adoptee, Award Winning TV/ Film Producer, Member of the Television Academy Training B.F.A., Drama, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts

Upcoming Projects: Feature Film: BODY

SHOP (development) More At imdb.me/LauraAnderson

LORI CONSTABLE

(she/her) Understudy

Park Square Debut

Representative

Theatre Theatre 55: Rocky Horror Show; Children’s Theatre

Company: Madeline’s Rescue; Lakeshore

Players: The Boyfriend; Unicorn Theatre: Entertaining Mr Sloane; Theatre in the Round: A Comedy of Errors Awards/ Other Drama Education representative for the National Connected Arts Network Training MA, Media, Performance and Education, University of New South Wales (Australia); BS, Education in Theatre Arts and English, University of WisconsinMadison; Training with Frantic Assembly; Punchdrunk; Out of Joint (UK); L’Ecole...du

Jacques LeCoq (France); Tectonic Theatre

Upcoming Projects (as director) Chaska

High School: Manhattan Project’s Alice in Wonderland

CHARITY JONES* (she/her)

Deirdre Blake

Park Square

Calendar Girls, Sexy Laundry, Sherlock Holmes and the Suicide Club, The Sisters Rosensweig Representative Theatre Various productions at Guthrie Theater, History Theater, Jungle Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Shakespeare Theater Company, Mixed Blood

Upcoming Projects Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol

GARY DAVID KEAST (he/him)

Understudy

Park Square The O’Conner Girls, The Diary of Anne Frank, Of Mice and Men, Biography Representative Theatre Theatre 55: Jesus Christ Superstar, Sanguine Theatre Company: Alligator Summer; Oxford Comma Theatre

Collective: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Stray Cat Theatre: Hir; Southwest Theatre Company: Hamlet, Frank Theatre: The Cradle Will Rock TV/Film Come Out Fighting (Schuetzle Company Productions), The Lumber Baron (Scene & Hurd Productions) More At garydavidkeast.com

JOHN MIDDLETON*

(he/him) Erik Blake

Park Square

Henry & Alice: Into the Wild, Calendar Girls, Romeo and Juliet, Sexy Laundry, The School for Lies, American Family, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Becky’s New Car; with Theatre Pro Rata: UP: The Man in the Flying Chair; with Girl Friday Productions: Idiot’s Delight Representative Theatre Theater

Latté Da: Six Degrees of Separation; Six Points Theater: Groupthink; Jungle

Theater: In the Next Room; Theatre Pro

Rata: 1984; Torch Theater: Prints; Gremlin

Theatre: The Petrified Forest; Girl Friday Productions: Our Town

DARRICK MOSLEY*

(he/him) Richard Saad

Park Square

Aubergine, A Raisin In The Sun

Representative Theatre Guthrie

Theater: A Raisin In The Sun; History

Theatre: Parks: A Portrait Of A Young

Artist; Yellow Tree Theatre: Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood; Pillsbury House

Theatre: What To Send Up When It Goes

Down; Springer Opera House: Fences; Penumbra Theatre: Benevolence Training

B.A., Speech & Theatre, Grambling State University Upcoming Projects Children’s Theatre Company: Locomotion

JAMES RODRIGUEZ

(he/him) Understudy

Park Square with

Prime Productions:

Marjorie Prime; Amy’s View, Of Mice and Men, Ragtime

Representative Theatre Jungle Theater: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley; Yellow Tree Theatre: In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play; Dark & Stormy Productions: Fool For Love; Theater Latte Da: Peter & The Starcatcher; Ten Thousand Things Theater: Pericles; Children’s Theater Company:

Peter Pan TV/Film Theater People Season

2 (Various streaming platforms) Awards/ Others Member of the Artistic Cohort at Jungle Theater Training

B.F.A., Music Theater, College of Santa Fe Upcoming

Projects Jungle Theater: Kitty & Georgiana: Christmas at Pemberley; (as director) Jungle Theater: The Courtroom: A Reenactment of One Woman’s Deportation Proceedings

JANET SCANLON (she/they) Understudy

Park Square Debut

Representative Theatre Theater Mu: Man of God Training

B.A., Human Physiology, University of Minnesota

ANGELA TIMBERMAN*

(she/her) Fiona

“Momo” Blake Park Square (as director) Airness, Sometimes There’s Wine; (as actor) The Realistic Jones, Sons of the Prophet, Good People, The Sisters Rosensweig

Representative Theatre (as actor)

Guthrie Theater: The Tempest; Jungle Theater: A Doll’s House, Part 2; Children’s Theatre Company: The Magical Mrs. Piggle Wiggle; Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: Ruthless; Chanhassen

Dinner Theatre: Easter Parade; Artistry: Noises Off!; History Theatre: Hormel Girls; (as director) Artistry: Shrek; Lyric Arts: Steel Magnolias; Yellow Tree Theatre: Cry It Out Awards/Other Member of the Artistic Cohort at Jungle Theater

Upcoming Projects Park Square Theatre: ANN

DEXIENG “DAE” YANG (she/her)

Brigid Blake Park Square with Theater Mu: The Last Firefly, The Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to losing Your Virginity Representative Theatre Theater Mu: Man of God, Pillsbury House Theater: Breaking Ice, Six Point Theater: Shul Training B.A., Theatre in Dramaturgy, Directing and Playwriting, Augsburg University

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THE HUMANS

Sept 14 – Oct 9, 2022 | Proscenium Stage

By Stephen Karam

The Tony Award-winning play about a family at its best...and worst.

FIRE IN THE NEW WORLD

with Full Circle Theater Company

Oct 19 – Nov 6, 2022 | Proscenium Stage

By R.A. Shiomi

A world premiere detective comedy with plenty of sly intrigue and a dash of social commentary.

THE SNOWY DAY*

DEC 1-23, 2022 | Proscenium Stage

Script by Jerome Hairston

Based on the books by Ezra Jack Keats

Celebrate the joy in the seasons of a child’s world!

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

Jan 18 – Feb 12, 2023 | Proscenium Stage

By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

On stage at Park Square for 25 years. Now, an all-new telling of history we must never forget.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM*

FEB 8 – MAR 5, 2023 | Boss Stage

By William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s classic comes alive for young people!

THE REVOLUTIONISTS

with PRIME Productions

Mar 29 – Apr 16, 2023 | Proscenium Stage

By Lauren Gunderson

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

BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY

May 24 – Jun 18, 2023 | Proscenium Stage

By Stephen Adly Guirgis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize – a rich comedy-drama about fatherhood and justice.

ANN

Jun 7 – Jul 2, 2023 | Boss Stage

By Holland Taylor

Directed by Ellen Fenster

A hilarious no-holds-barred portrait of Ann Richards, the legendary 45th governor of Texas.

HOLMES/POIROT

Jul 19 – Aug 20, 2023 | Proscenium Stage

By Jeffrey Hatcher and Steve Hendrickson

World premiere mystery! Not one but two of the greatest detectives of all time take the stage!

CREATIVE TEAM CREATIVE TEAM

LILY TUNG CRYSTAL (she/her) Director

Lily Tung Crystal is a director and actor and the artistic director of Theater Mu. She is grateful to be collaborating with such talented and generous artists. In the Twin Cities, she has directed Jiehae Park’s peerless, Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band, and the live film-theater production of Susan Soon He Stanton’s Today Is My Birthday at Mu and Art is a Verb (Harrison Rivers, librettist) at MNOpera. Other shows include David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish and Flower Drum Song at Palo Alto Players, and the world premiere of Leah Nanako Winkler’s Two Mile Hollow at Ferocious Lotus. For all three shows, she was named a Theatre Bay Area Award Finalist for Outstanding Direction. As an actor/singer, Lily has performed at theaters across the country, including Cal Shakes, Crowded Fire, Magic Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, New World Stages, Playwrights’ Center, Portland Center Stage, SF Playhouse, and Syracuse Stage. She is a YBCA 100 honoree, named by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as a “creative pioneer making the provocations that will shape the future of culture.” More At theatermu.org; lilytungcrystal.com

KATIE BRADLEY (she/her) Dramaturge

Park Square (as actor) with Theater Mu: Flower Drum Song Representative Theatre (as dramaturg) History Theatre: Wilson’s Girl (workshop); (as actor) Guthrie Theater: Guys and Dolls, A Christmas Carol (20162019), South Pacific; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Cocoanuts, Into the Woods; Indiana Repertory Theatre: Murder on the Orient Express; Theater Mu: Today Is My Birthday, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ching Chong Chinaman, and others Upcoming Projects (as actor) Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Murder on the Orient Express

ISABELLA DAWIS (she/her)

Music Director

Park Square Debut Representative Theatre 5th Avenue Theatre: Half the Sky (radio musical); Theater Mu: peerless; Center for Contemporary Opera: Sweat; New Ohio Theatre: Icons/ Idols; Theater Mu & Skylark Opera: The Mikado; Minnesota Opera: Doubt Awards/Other (as librettist/lyricist)

Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre, Fred Ebb Award, Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award Training B.M., Piano Performance summa cum laude, University of Minnesota; Diploma, Vocal Performance, New England Conservatory Upcoming Projects

Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol; Round House Theatre: Half the Sky More At isabelladawis.com

ROSHNI DESAI (they/she)

Assistant Director

Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Jungle Theater: The Wickhams; Nebraska Shakespeare: Othello; Great River Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice Awards/Other Artistic Apprenticeship at The Playwrights’

Center Training University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program

EM FRIEDMAN (they/them)

Assistant Stage Manager

Park Square Aubergine Representative Theatre Collide Dance Theatre:

Class of ‘85; Theatre Mu: TwentyPho Hour Playfest; Macalester College: Twelfth Night; Penumbra Theatre: Brothers Paranormal Awards/Other

Stage Management Fellow, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2022-2023 Season

Training B.A., Theatre and Dance, Macalester College

LYNDSEY R. HARTER* (she/her)

Stage Manager

Park Square Agatha Christie: Rule of Thumb, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Agitators, Cardboard Piano, The House on Mango Street, With Theater Mu: Flower Drum Song Representative

Theatre Guthrie Theater: A Christmas

Carol; Minnesota Opera: Fellow Travelers; Theater Mu: Man of God and others; Pillsbury House + Theatre: What to Send Up When It Goes Down; Theater Latté

Da: Man of La Mancha; Collide Theatrical Dance Company: Class of ‘85 Training

B.A. ,Theatre Arts, summa cum laude, Hamline University Upcoming Projects

History Theatre: The Root Beer Lady; Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol, Shane

KATHARINE HOROWITZ (she/her)

Sound Designer

Park Square Romeo and Juliet, The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, Calendar Girls, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Sons of the Prophet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, My Children!

My Africa!, Sexy Laundry, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Stick Fly, Doubt, A Parable, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, The School for Lies, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Agnes of God Representative Theatre

Guthrie Theater, Creede Repertory Theatre, Jungle Theater, History Theatre, Theater Mu, Mixed Blood Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre, Great River

Shakespeare Festival Awards/Other

2017 McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center Training

B.A., Theatre Arts, University of Iowa

Upcoming Projects History Theatre: Root Beer Lady; Diesel Heart; Children’s Theatre Company: An American Tail

MATTHEW LEFEBVRE † (he/him)

Costume Designer Park Square Holmes and Watson, Cyrano de Bergerac, Retreat from Moscow, ART, Romeo and Juliet, Three Days of Rain, The Waiting Room Representative Theatre

Guthrie Theater: 20+ productions

since 1998 including A Christmas Carol; Penumbra Theatre: 20+ productions

since 2000 including Ma Rainey’s Black

Bottom; Jungle Theater: A Doll’s House, Part 2, Minnesota Opera: Das Rheingold; Milwaukee Rep: Cyrano de Bergerac; New York Theatre Workshop: Bach at Leipzig

Awards/Other 2014-2015 McKnight

Theatre Artist Fellowship; 2012 TDF

Irene Sharaff Award; 2015 Ivey Award; Professor of Costume Design: University

of Minnesota

Upcoming Projects Portland Playhouse/ Penumbra Theatre: What I Learned in Paris; Penumbra Theatre: Sugar in Our Wounds

ANDREA MORIARITY (she/her)

Wig Artisan

Park Square Holmes and Watson, The Color Purple Representative Theatre

Jungle Theater: A Doll’s House: Part 2; Penumbra Theatre: Girl Shakes

Loose; Theater Latté Da: Peter and the Starcatcher Awards/ Other Andrea’s wig work, along with her colleagues’ at Guthrie Theater, appeared in the August/ September 2019 issue of American Craft Magazine Training M.F.A., Theatre Design and Production, University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music

JOHN NOVAK (he/him)

Properties Designer

Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Jungle Theater: over 100 productions, most recently Every Brilliant Thing, Redwood, and Cambodian Rock Band; Skylark Opera Theatre: Eugene Onegin Upcoming Projects Ten Thousand Things: Iphigenia at Aulis; Jungle Theater: 2022-23 Season

KARIN OLSON (she/her)

Lighting Designer

Park Square: 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: 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

Cleveland Playhouse: Antigone; Jungle Theater: Redwood; Guthrie Theater: Valor; Ordway Center presenting Taiko Arts Midwest: HERbeat; Trinity Rep: A Christmas Carol; Walker Arts Center:

CREATIVE TEAM CREATIVE TEAM

Jason Moran, The Last Jazz Festival TV/Film HandPrints: (Cineplay w/ Ten Thousand Things) Upcoming Projects Artistry: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Stages Theater Company: A Different Pond; MN Opera: The Song Poet More At karinolsonlighting.com

SHAE PALIC (she/her)

Intimacy Director

Park Square (as actor) Airness, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth Representative Theatre (as intimacy director) Guthrie Theater, MN Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, The University of Minnesota/ Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Program and Opera Program, An Opera Theatre, Lyric Arts, Macalester College, Mixed Precipitation TV/Film Intimacy

Coordinator for Marmalade, a SAG Feature film Training Over 70 hours of training with IDC Professionals (formerly IDI); in the process of applying for her Intimacy Coordinator certification; Mentee of certified intimacy director Doug Scholz-Carlson; B.F.A., Acting, University of Minnesota/Guthrie; PCPA, 2 year Vocational Actor Program

Upcoming Projects (as intimacy director) The University of Minnesota/Guthrie

B.F.A. Actor Training Program; Exposed Brick: Through Our Eyes; The University of Minnesota’s Opera program

ERIK PAULSON (he/him)

Set Designer

Park Square Holmes and Watson, The Snow Queen, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Representative Theatre

Old Log Theatre: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder; Madison Opera:

The Turn of the Screw; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: The Comedy of Errors; Great River Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; History Theatre: Tyrone and Ralph; Nautilus Music-Theater: Man of LaMancha Awards/Other 2009 Ivey Award for Overall Excellence, History Theatre’s Tyrone and Ralph

(Scenic Design) Training B.S., Speech Communication-Theatre Emphasis, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Upcoming Projects Old Log Theatre: Once Upon a Mattress More At erikepaulson.com

KEELY WOLTER (she/her)

Dialect Coach

Park Square Holmes and Watson, Romeo and Juliet, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Amy’s View, Calendar Girls, The Diary of Anne Frank Representative Theatre

Guthrie Theater: Sweat, Noura, The Great Leap; Jungle Theater: Is Edward Snowden Single?, Miss Bennet, The Wickams; Penumbra Theatre: Wedding Band; Theater Latté Da: Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Artistry: Awake and Sing!; Old Log Theatre: Guys and Dolls Training M.A., Voice Studies, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

B.A., Theater Performance, Viterbo University Accolades 2018 Lavender

Magazine “Best Vocal Dialogue Coach”

Upcoming Projects Guthrie Theater: Vietgone, Sally and Tom

†

USA Union 829

*MembersofActors’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.

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PRODUCTION STAFF & CREW

Stage Management Swing:

Keara Lavandowska

Substitute Electrician Supervisor: Alex Clark

Electricians: Dylan Payne, Noah Hynnick

Wardrobe/Dresser: Phoebe Rodriguez

Carpenters: Kristin Bryan, Roan

Childress, Pierce “Peaches” Hastings, Eric Lucas, Will Marsh

Sound Operator: Olivia Nyman

Covid Compliance Officers: Joe Burch

Lighting Programmer: Garvin Jellison

Our Contributors

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:

Boss Foundation

Edelstein Family Foundation

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.

The Anderlik Family Foundation

The Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation

Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts

Hugh J. Andersen Foundation

John Larsen Family Foundation

Margaret H. and James E. Kelley Foundation

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

The Shubert Foundation

Willis Towers Watson

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Thomas & Mary Krick

Robert & Barbara Kueppers

Joe Kuznik

Ruth Ladwig

Wendy Lane & Judith Fairbrother

John & Karen Larsen

Michael Mallory & Catherine Gray

Ruth Markowitz

Jack & Jeanne Matlock

Laura McCarten

Kathleen McLeod & Eric Hepp

Alan & Sharon Miller

Mary Ann Ogden

Susan Roberts

Jean & Joseph Rozinka

Bruce A. Lilly & Paula Schad Lilly

Laurel Severson

Laurie Rose Simon & Carol Hohenstein

Lee Snook

Cynthia & Mark Stange

Erica Stern

Sarah Stevenson in Memory of Gary Berggren

John Sullivan

Charity Tahmaseb

Peg & Doug Wangensteen

Wendy Worner

Individual Giving

10-14 Years of Giving

Frank & Barbara Abramson

Suzanne Ammerman

William Anderson

Marcia J. Aubineau

Lynne Beck

Susan Bedor & Robert Ford

Sarah Beuning

Warren Bowles

Arnold & Judith Brier

Paul & Tina Casey

Terri Cavanaugh

Barb Davis

Jonathan T Despotes-Tourdot

Nancy Dougherty

Barbara & John Edgar

Carol & Roger Everhart

Howard Fink & Stephanie Bell

Joanne & Ernie Frankovich

Carol Freeman

David & Genevieve Freier

Michael Fuhrman

Gayle Gaskill

Fred & Deane Gradous

Jennifer Gross

The John W. Harris Family

Jane Helmke & Teresa Sterns

William & Linda Holley

Carol & Joseph Incremona

Mike & Lorinda Jackson

Suzanne Jebe

Paul & Norma Johannsen

Nancy Jones

Art Kaemmer

Thomas Kleinschmit & Liana

Magee

Sara Kuether

James & Gail Lafave

Verena & Virgil Larson

Mariellen & Wayne Leebaw

Jeanne & Richard Lemberger

Carol Lichterman

Edward & Judith Malecki

David & Karen Minge

Theresa Mish

Patricia Mitchell

Julie Ann Nevill

Gayle & Timothy Ober

Ronald Parker & Janet Houck

Michael-Jon Pease & Christopher

Taykalo

Dan Pinkerton & Jane Johnston

Thue & Uttara Rasmussen

Susan Reese

Russell & Kathryn Rhode

Peter & Sara Ribbens

Catherine & Ferrol Robinson

Kay Robinson

Chuck & Terri Roehrick

Karen Roesler

Susan Rostkoski

Karen & Steve Rudd

Thomas & Judith Russell

Wayne Schoeneck

Rebecca Shockley

Jon Skaalen

George Skinner & Anne Hanley

Jim & Joanne Smith

Michael & Sherry Spence

Miriam & James Stake

Carla Steen & Jeff Friedl

Marcia & John Stout

Stanley & Connie Suchta

Karen Tarrant

Kay A. Thomas

Bob Thompson

Keith Thorkelson

Andrea Trimble Hart

Dale & Judy Tucker

Dale & Judy Tucker

Georgia Wegner

Robert & Teri Wheeler

Terry & Susan Wolkerstorfer

Maryann Wycoff

Nell Ytsma & Mark Sauer

Sheri Zigan

William Zimmermann

5-9 Years of Giving

Janet Albers

Linda Aronson

Paul Batalden

Robert & Mary Beck

Herbert & Lynne Benz

Pam & Mark Bintzler

Mary Beth Brody & Richard Crowell

Ute & Chuck Buehler

Burdick Family Fund

Bonnie and David Buzza

Joan Carlson

Lois Carolan & Ronald Marquis

David & Michelle Christianson

David & Joan Ciminski

Faith Clover

Steve Colton

Michael & Sharon Conley

Ben Cook-Feltz & Ellen Stanley

Glenn & Nan Corliss

Jay & Page Cowles

Casey & Rachael Crabb

Richard & Trudy Cragg

Lynda Dahl

Fran Davis

Rita Dibble

Mary & David Drache

Shawn Dunn

Daniel Durdin

Mary Ebert & Paul Stembler

Susan Elsner

Jeffrey & Debra Erager

Steven Euller & Nancy Roehr

Dianne & Jim Falteisek

Ellen L. Ferrari & Stewart H. Corn

Karl & Sara Fiegenschuh

Tim & Susan Flaherty

Ferris Fletcher

Jerri & Dan Freier

Robert & Judith Gardner

Leland & Beverly Gehrke

Anne Geisser

Christine & Bob Gordon

Kelsye Gould

Jewelie Grape

Kathy Gremillion

Jim & Judy Haigh

Michael and Daryle Hamlin

Diane & Bill Hansen

Joyce Haselmann

Jeffrey Hatcher

Jody Hauer

David & Ann Heider

Rosemary Heinitz

Steven & Bonnie Heller

Mary Kay Hicks

Jim & Jean Horn

Kathy Howson

Lori Huot

Beth Iseminger

Todd & Mary Jacobson

John Jesmok

Kirby Johnson

Paul & Renee Johnson

Pamela & Doug Johnson

Phyllis Kahn

Sherry Kim

Gail Kochie

Patricia Koors

Laurel Krause & Ross Collins

Kent & Diane Krueger

Michael Kruempel

Al Kvaal

David & Pamela Lande

Keith & Nina Larson

Cheryl Laurent

Ms. Sharon Lewis

Ken & Diana Lewis

Catherine Loye

Susan Maples

Mary Martin

Elizabeth Martin

Steve & Rita Mattaini

Paul & Tara Mattessich

Jim & Liane Mattson

Charlie Mishek

LuAnn Monahan

Anonymous

Diane Nelsestuen

Dean & Rita Nelson

Pondie Nicholson Taylor & Mark

Taylor

Michael & Connie O`Sullivan

Sandra Olson

John Orbison & Holly MacDonald

Richard Osborn

Carol Perkins

Karna Peters & George Perez

Polly Jo Peterson

Michele Ione Pierce

Jacqueline & Aaron Preusse

Brad & Linda Quarderer

Sharon Radman

Anton Rang

Nancy & Kevin Rhein

Trudy Richter & Alan Kamrath

Greg & Dianne Robinson

Mackenzie & Steve Romenesko

Steve & Kris Rose

Scott Roste

Michael Ryan

Jane Schmidt

Emily & Dan Shapiro

Bruce & Marie Smith

Annemarie Solon

George & Janet Stevens

Stephen & Dana Strand

Mary & Mike Subkoviak

Daniel & Jennifer Tenenbaum

Ella Thayer

Linda Valentine

Janet & Thomas Walker

Nancy Walton

Robert Warde

Tammie Weinfurtner

Judy & H. Michael Whalen

Laura Wilcox & Richard Slowes

Michael & Martha Willett

John Williams

Mary Wingfield

Jeanne Winiecki

Francis Zebot & Nancy Wiggers

Jackie & Steve Zimmerman

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) was founded in 1965 and has grown from a small 150-seat theatre in a converted supermarket basement to become one of America’s most significant producers of theatre. This not-for-profit company, with more than 44,000 season subscribers, is committed to producing definitive productions of classic plays and musicals alongside new plays by today’s writers, ensuring that audiences and artists alike have access to high-quality, professional stagings of important works of world literature. With three distinctive homes, the American Airlines Theatre, Studio 54, and the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre/Laura Pels Theatre/Black Box Theatre, Roundabout has the unique opportunity to showcase these works in a venue perfectly suited to enhance the production. Since moving to Broadway in 1991, Roundabout productions have received 150 Tony nominations, 135 Drama Desk nominations, and 154 Outer Critics Circle nominations. Production highlights include ANNA CHRISTIE (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Revival), SHE LOVES ME (Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Olivier Awards for Best Revival of a Musical), NINE (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Revival of a Musical), ASSASSINS(Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Revival of a Musical), INTIMATE APPAREL (Outer Critics Circle and Audelco Awards for Best Off-Broadway Play), TWELVE ANGRY MEN (Drama Desk and Outer Critic’s Circle Awards for Outstanding Revival of a Play), THE PAJAMA GAME (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical), and CABARET (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Revival of a Musical), one of the longest running musical revivals in Broadway history. Since 1995, when Roundabout expanded its repertoire to include premieres of new plays, the company has produced works by such talented writers as Brian Friel, Paula Vogel, Richard Greenberg, Lynn Nottage, Beth Henley, Harold Pinter, and Jon Robin Baitz. THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, the first production at the American Airlines Theatre on 42nd Street in 2000, and the star-studded production of THE WOMEN in June 2002 have been seen on channel Thirteen/WNET and other PBS stations nationally. Beyond its work on stage, Roundabout is recognized as a national leader in audience development and offers a comprehensive program of initiatives, including the Social Series, the Early Curtain Series, the Wine Series, the Gay and Lesbian Series, HIPTIX (targeting young professionals), and related humanities events and publications. Roundabout launched ACCESS ROUNDABOUT, a program which offered over 22,000 dramatically discounted tickets during the 2007-2008 season. In addition, through arts education programs, Roundabout reaches more than 7,000 New York City public high school students and their teachers each year. With a focus on in-depth programming, these activities range from partnerships with two New Century High Schools (a NYC Department of Education Initiative) and professional development for teachers to in-school year-long residencies and student matinees at its Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres. Through national tours, live broadcasts, education and outreach programs, and its work on three stages, Roundabout touches the lives of millions of theatergoers, students, and artists across the country.

Park Square Theatre Information

STAFF

Mark Ferraro-Hauck

Executive Director

Artistic

Ansa Akyea

Artistic Associate

Ellen Fenster

Artistic Associate

Mark Ferraro-Hauck

Artistic Associate

Rick Shiomi

Artistic Associate

William Edson

Executive Administrator

Production

Meghan “Mac” McLaughlin

Production Manager

Austin Stiers

Technical Director

Garrett Conard Assistant Technical Director

Brent Anderson

Electrician Supervisor

Alexi Carlson

Assistant Electrician Supervisor

Richard Graham

Sound Supervisor

Meghan Kent

Costume Supervisor

Erin Gustafson

Carpenter Supervisor

Jeni Raddatz Tolifson

Scenic Paint Charge

Nina Broberg

Production Intern

SteppingStone Creative Learning

Megan Flød Johnson

Interim Director of Education

Erin Granger

SteppingStone Youth and Family Program Manager

Amanda Hestwood

School & Community Program Manager

Hannah Mahr Education Program Coordinator

Teaching Artists: Ansa Akyea, Pedro Bayón, Alessandra Bongiardina, Jack Bonko, Abigail

Chagolla, Laurie Dehmlow, Isabella Dunsieth, Kristin Fox, Jane Froiland, Gretchen Grunzke, Kristi Johnson, Dominique Jones, Christopher Kent, Kivan

Kirk, Clay Man Soo, Sylvia Michels, Mikaela Moe, Leslye Orr, Shae Palic, Aaron Preusse, Dominic Rodgers, Taj Ruler, Doug Scholz Carlson, Jen Scott, Kiyoko Sims, Alli St. John, Dane Stauffer, Kiera Stegall, Emily Villano, Terrell Woods

External Relations

Emily Halstead

External Relations Director

Rachel Wandrei Interim Marketing & Communications Director (Happy trails!)

Victoria Dobias

Digital Marketing Manager

Marcie Berg

Development Manager

Lynne Beck

Development Consultant

Shelley Johnson

Webmaster

Mike Hanisch

Videographer

Dan Norman, Tomas Leal Photographers

Finance and Operations

Christopher Taykalo

Interim Finance and Operations Director

Bethany Gladhill Finance Consultant

Dave Peterson

Facility and Events Director

Ben Cook-Feltz

Ticket Office Manager

Jiffy Kunik

Performance Manager

Morgan Gray

Box Office and Database Coordinator

Emma Swain

Ticketing Associate

Front of House Staff: Mariah Christensen, Claire Chwalek, Charlotte

Deranek, Lauren Everett, Eva Gemlo, Robby Miller, Alicia Pedersen, Steve Sell, Laura Topham, Tammie

Weinfurtner, Sophie

Wozniak

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. Learn more about becoming a volunteer usher at parksquaretheatre.org/ about/employment

Board of Directors

Dr. Paul Sackett (Chair) University of Minnesota

Susan Rostkoski (Vice Chair) Consultant

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

Paul Stembler

Consultant

Pondie Taylor St. Paul City School

Anna Tobin Greene Espel PLLP

Park Square Theatre Information

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

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

Contact Information & Ticket Office Hours

Contact

Mailing Address: 408 St. Peter Street, Suite 110 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

We are currently searching for educators to serve on the Educator Advisory Board. Learn more at www.parksquaretheatre. org/education/advisoryboard

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.

The 2021-2022 Harris Family Season is made possible with extraordinary support from the John W Harris Family.

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.

It has been such a privilege to welcome audiences back to our stages this summer! You made this safe and joyous return possible.

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