Block Party 2019 at Center Theatre Group, Performances magazine March 2019

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2019

KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE THEATRE OF NOTE

for the love of

(Or, The roller derby play)

MAR 7–17

(L-R) Crystal Diaz, Lynn Odell, Alina Phelan, and Tania Verafield. Photo by Darrett Sanders.

Rotterdam SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY

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MAR 28 – APR 7

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Welcome to Center Theatre Group With three theatres of different sizes and scales, we are lucky to be able to partner with a range of international, national, and local artists—and you can see all three onstage this month.

In 1997, Center Theatre Group introduced America—and Los Angeles—to the work of the great British director/choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne by bringing his groundbreaking Swan Lake to the Ahmanson direct from the West End. Sir Matthew continues to amaze me with his ability to surprise us with classic tales like his Cinderella, which we’re very pleased to have onstage at the Ahmanson once again.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson is a brilliant actor, director, and writer who also has a Center Theatre Group history—he appeared on our stages in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars and in the World premiere of Jelly’s Last Jam before both shows went to Broadway. Now, he’s returning to the Taper with his seminal Lackawanna Blues, a very American story of his childhood in upstate New York and the wonderful woman who raised him. I’ve truly enjoyed working with Ruben over the years and am honored to have him back at our theatre with this deeply personal and moving work.

We launched our Block Party program in 2016 to celebrate the innovation, excellence, and diversity of the Los Angeles theatre ecosystem by remounting recent productions from local companies at the Douglas. Our third edition of Block Party features Theatre of NOTE’s For The Love Of (or, the roller derby play), Skylight Theatre Company’s Rotterdam, and Antaeus Theatre Company’s Native Son—all terrific shows by companies with rich Los Angeles histories. Whether you are discovering these shows—or companies—for the first time or know them well, by joining us for Block Party you’re helping celebrate the vibrant art and artists that make Los Angeles a leading theatre town.

Thank you for helping make our partnerships with these artists and organizations possible.

Sincerely,

Michael Ritchie

Center Theatre Group Board of Directors 2018/2019 Officers BOARD MEMBERS

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Photos by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

It might have been raining but the stars were out to see Tracy Letts make his Mark Taper Forum debut with Linda Vista at Opening Night on January 16, 2019. (Top, L–R) Bradley Whitford, James Franco, Liza Weil, Bob Odenkirk, and Eric McCormack heading into the performance. (Bottom, L –R) Michael McKean, playwright Tracy Letts, Carrie Coon, and cast member Chantal Thuy at the after party.

EDUCATORS DIVE INTO DANCE BEFORE CINDERELLA Students from around Los Angeles filled the Ahmanson on February 13, 2019 for a Student Matinee of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella. They had prepared for the production through in-class visits by dancers from Bourne’s New Adventures company, reading our Discovery Guides, and learning about the show’s World War II setting and its creation. But before all that, their teachers had gathered at Center Theatre Group for an Educator Conference that included instruction from Teaching Artists, deep historical and theatrical background—and an introductory ballet class to help them offer their students a movement vocabulary to talk about the production they would be seeing.

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Photo by Ericka Kreutz Photography.

ON OUR STAGES

High School Students Onstage at the Taper Congratulations to our August Wilson Monologue Competition Regional Finalists: Bene’t Benton, Kyle Branch, Samuel Caruana, Tiffany DeBerry, Dejean Deterville, Mylah Eaton, Jofre Paul Francisco, Jada Henry, Laila C. Stewart, Vanessa Valencia, Daniel Velez, and Ryan Wade. These 12 Southern California high school students completed Preliminary Auditions and Semifinal Auditions in November and December, and we’re so proud of everything they have accomplished.

They’re performing onstage at the Mark Taper Forum on March 11, 2019 in the Southern California Regional Finals. Learn more about the woman guiding them through their training and rehearsals on page 18.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Photo by Benedict Evans.

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MAR 5 – APR 21

SHERWOOD AWARD FOR KRISTINA WONG Performance artist, comedian, and writer Kristina Wong accepted this year’s Dorothy and Richard E. Sherwood Award—given annually to an innovative and adventurous L.A. theatre artist—at the 2019 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards on January 28.

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Marron performs in Through the Looking Glass. Photos by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

In summer 2015, 10 years after he’d graduated from high school, Manuel Marron’s 10th grade English teacher invited him to join a playwriting workshop.

“I really had no idea what I was getting myself into,” recalled Marron. “I didn’t have any expectations at all.”

A Playwright Emerges The workshop, which met in Montebello over the course of eight months and was led by playwright and poet Jerry Quickley, was a Center Theatre Group program/production called Through the Looking Glass. It invited members of two Los Angeles communities (Montebello and Leimert Park) to create and perform a play inspired by individual residents’ autobiographies—written not by themselves but their counterparts in the other community.

“I live in what’s considered a gang neighborhood,” said Marron of Pico Rivera, where he was raised by his grandmother and uncle after his father died and his mother left, and is just east of Montebello. “Each time we’d meet up to read our pieces, the reaction I got from people about my writing made me feel inspired,” he said. “It made me feel like, maybe all these people aren’t lying to me, maybe I can do something.” He added,

“Center Theatre Group has had an amazing effect on me. It’s opened up just an entire life I had no idea I could even be a part of.”

Before joining Through the Looking Glass, Marron hadn’t been doing much writing—mainly poetry and some short film scripts—and playwriting was “new to me completely,” he said. But he was quickly hooked. Over the next few years, he stayed involved in programs and workshops through Center Theatre Group, and in January, he enjoyed another first: his new, original piece, A Wake, was performed as part our Library Play Readings Series at three branches of the Los Angeles Public Library in Boyle Heights.

Photo by Cristi Burgos/CBGRAPHY.

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His high school English teacher Libby Rego, who also participated in Through the Looking Glass, wasn’t entirely surprised to hear that Marron had stuck with it.

In high school, “he was an excellent writer with a great imagination, and he also really hated authority and following rules,” she said.

When she heard about Through the Looking Glass, Marron “was the first person I thought of, because he’s always been super creative and had an interesting and unique perspective on things.” His writing in Through the Looking Glass, she added, “was always so good.”

“Manny is somebody... who’s got stories inside of him that really deserve to be seen by lots and lots of people.

He has a voice.”

Marron participated in more Center Theatre Group workshops, led by playwright Naomi Iizuka, as well as Chisme y Queso, a program that featured performances of short pieces by a group of local playwrights at a Boyle Heights bar.

“He had an amazing ear for dialogue, he had a huge amount of empathy, and the way that manifested was in how complex his characters were. His characters were just incredibly rich, multidimensional—they were fully formed people,” said Iizuka, who also praised his “funny, dry, dark” humor. “And then what became apparent, as it does over time as you work with someone, was he was just an incredibly diligent hard worker.” She added, “I honestly think Manny is somebody—because of his life experiences and because of how he sees the world—who’s got stories inside of him that really deserve to be seen by lots and lots of people. He has a voice.”

Chisme y Queso helped Marron develop that voice but also gave him what he hadn’t even realized he needed: “self-confidence in my own writing that came from sharing my work and putting it out there. I’ve always been filled with a lot of doubt, and I guess that’s what’s held me back for so long,” he said. Through the workshops and performances “I was able to open up and actually realize that I had far more potential than I was working with.”

After Chisme y Queso concluded, Center Theatre Group Community Partnerships Director Jesus Reyes invited Marron to write something new for the Library Play Readings. “It feels like something very special because it’s in the libraries and in Boyle Heights. It feels like it’s giving back to the community,” said Marron. “I’m really excited to have my writing have any representation at all, but especially coming from something that’s representing East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights.”

A Wake is “about a young man who is trying to overcome his fear of death at his grandmother’s wake,” said Marron. “It’s about how people mourn and why we mourn the way we do.”

The experience of seeing his work read out loud, in public, remained surreal.

“The fact that there’s going to be actors and a director I need to meet with is coming out of left field for me and people who are like me, who come from where I come from,” said Marron. “I am super, super grateful for the opportunity to get my view on the world represented. I don’t think I would have had an opportunity

without Center Theatre Group to express myself that way, and it’s been a blessing to my life. Not just my day to day but how I feel about myself, how I feel about my writing, and how I feel about my future.”

TOP: Abe Martell performs A Wake in Boyle Heights. BELOW: Marron (second from right) and the Chisme y Queso writers. Photos by Cristi Burgos/CBGRAPHY.

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And what’s the best use of your time as you drive to the theatre to see a Center Theatre Group show?

Center Theatre Group’s new podcast, “30 to Curtain,” hosted by Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, answers all these questions and more as we sit down for interviews with some of the greatest theatre makers from around the world. Our podcast aims to bring our audiences direct, intimate access to the amazing talents we work with every day across the Ahmanson, Taper, and Douglas. We’re not only talking with artists currently onstage at Center Theatre Group but will also be featuring voices from our past, present, and future to highlight over 50 years of bringing groundbreaking theatre to Los Angeles.

Our debut episode featuring Dominique Morisseau was recorded just after the announcement that Ain’t Too Proud (which played the Ahmanson August 21 – September 30, 2018) was heading to Broadway and a few weeks before the playwright was named a MacArthur “Genius.” Ritchie talked with the Detroit native about the arc of her career and her creative process. “How much research do you want to do?” asked Ritchie. “Do you want to be accurate when you sit down to write a play?”

“I do want to be accurate,” said Morisseau. “But as I’m writing, I realize that sometimes the facts get in the way of the truth. Facts will make me a slave to this day and this moment, but I won’t actually get underneath it and get to the heart of what that moment was really about. …I’ve developed the mantra, ‘I’m not a slave to the facts, I’m a slave to the truth.’”

Ritchie also brought together Quack playwright Eliza Clark and director/Associate Artistic Director Neel Keller to discuss the development of the comedy at Center Theatre Group before its World premiere at the Douglas October 21 – November 18, 2018.

“The relationship between a playwright and a director on a new play is almost like a marriage,” said Ritchie. “Is the honeymoon over?

On both sides, how do you navigate developing that relationship?”

“It has been really fun to be able to do workshops of the play knowing we were going to have a production. That’s not a thing that happens all the time in theatre and has been a real blessing,” said Clark.

“I really only end up doing plays that I’m really excited about, and that’s a gift because it makes the relationship with the playwright so much easier,” added Keller. “You feel like the playwright has caught a certain magic in a bottle, and it’s just about what you can do…to help her realize as fully as possible that magic.”

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(L–R) Michael Ritchie and Luis Valdez. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

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She didn’t know it at the time, but Andi Chapman’s first encounter with legendary playwright August Wilson was prophetic.

“He said ‘hello’ and told me I had hands like his mother,” said Chapman—who, 22 years old and beginning graduate school at the Yale School of Drama, wasn’t sure what to think. Today, however, “That’s a special thing to me because I feel like a mother, a nurturer, of the kids here at the August Wilson Program.”

Chapman, a director, actor, and educator, holds the title Program Advisor on the August Wilson Program Faculty at Center Theatre Group. But as so many young people and their families know, she is much more than that. Since the program’s inception in 2011—when she also helped create the curriculum for the August Wilson In-School Residency—she has trained, taught, and supported every single Regional Finalist to come through the Los Angeles August Wilson Monologue Competition.

The Competition is an educational journey for local 10,TH 11,TH and 12TH grade students, who hone their acting skills while receiving an introduction to Wilson’s work. Each year, approximately a dozen advance from Preliminary and Semifinal Auditions to the Regional Finals at the Mark Taper Forum, at which point they work closely with Chapman as a group.

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ANDI CHAPMAN

“I have a passion for education and students and storytelling,” said Chapman. “I know what it feels like when your voice is heard. It was important to me to pass that on.” Chapman also passes on her experience and training as a professional director (who directs the Antaeus Theatre Company production of Native Son at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre April 18–28, 2019) Continues on page 20

She Helps Young People Find their Voices through August Wilson’s Words

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RIGHT: Chapman (left) backstage at the Ahmanson with Regional Finalists and Center Theatre Group Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Engagement Leslie Johnson (right). Photos by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

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and actor. “The confidence a teacher gave me in the seventh grade to have my own voice, to know my voice mattered in the world, also gave me the confidence to do something as fearless as Native Son and all the work I’ve done,” she said.

“If I can somehow, some way, pass that on, somebody else will have the same experience.”

“I know what it feels like when your voice is heard. It was important to me to pass that on.”

THE AUGUST WILSON PROGRAM IS PRESENTED BY THE CENTER THEATRE GROUP AFFILIATES

This is the goal of the 20 hours of training and rehearsals she leads the Regional Finalists through in the weeks leading up to their performances at the Taper.

“The first thing I ask them in the workshops I do is what drew them to the monologue they selected,” said Chapman. “They’ll say, ‘I identify with Booster,’ ‘I identify with Bertha.’ I ask them why. There was something in their song, in these characters’ voices, that spoke to them. And then I encourage them to tell it within the context that August Wilson has set up. That’s what’s most important: their voice is heard, but it’s heard through the lines of August Wilson.

The challenge is to ensure that the authenticity of the monologues is honored and the voices of the students are honored.”

In all of the activities the students do, Wilson is at the center. “I show them who he is, show them his work, let them hear his voice in different interviews and things so they can see the kind of man he was,” she said. She helps the students see the context in which their monologue lives, ultimately preparing them to perform the entire play rather than just one piece of it. “We keep building so the characters shine through—they have different colors, different levels of emotion, so the characters aren’t all angry or sad or crying. We give them humanity,” she said.

Also at the core of the students’ learnings is that “working together is key and ensemble is key. I know it says ‘August Wilson Monologue Competition,’ but it’s really ensemble,” said Chapman. “We’re one voice trying to tell a story of this particular artist.” That feeling carries through the Regional Finals and beyond, including the National Finals in New York. Chapman travels there with two Regional Finalists, who perform their monologues on Broadway. “Every group we’ve had has been very supportive of each other. Backstage when we’re doing the show, they’re all hugging, they’re right there with each other. Whoever’s going to go on to New York, the whole village goes along. We all go with them.”

She added, “The win is not so much the trip to New York. The win is for a

student to feel as if they have fulfilled the telling of the story—and they used themselves to do so. That’s the great beauty of this program.”

Photos by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

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We’re delighted to have Center Theatre Group Associate Artist Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella return to the Ahmanson two decades after making its American debut with us. But Center Theatre Group audiences have had many chances—10 in fact—to experience his works since 1997, when they became the first Americans to see his groundbreaking dance theatre and his ingenious adaptations of films and fairy tales via his daring Swan Lake. Here’s a look back at some of the highlights from this prolific director/ choreographer’s past productions to appear at the Ahmanson, which is proud to be his North American home.

AHMANSON AUDIENCES LOVE PLAY WITHOUT WORDS 2005

CINDERELLA 1999

Saranne Curtin and Alan Vincent in Play Without Words, Bourne’s adaptation of Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter’s 1963 film The Servant, itself based on a Robin Maugham novella. Photo by Sheila Burnet.

Sarah Wildor and Adam Cooper as an RAF pilot and the title character in the American premiere of Cinderella. Photo by Michael Le Poer Trench.

SLEEPING BEAUTY 2013

MARY POPPINS 2009

Hannah Vassallo in Sleeping Beauty, the third in Bourne’s trilogy of reinvented Tchaikovsky ballets. Photo by Simon Annand.

Gavin Lee and the company in Mary Poppins; Bourne co-directed and co-choreographed Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s updated take on the P.L. Travers classic. Photo by Joan Marcus.

SIR MATTHEW BOURNE SWAN LAKE 1997

THE RED SHOES 2017

Adam Cooper in Swan Lake, which replaced the original corps de ballet with all-male dancers. Photo by Hugo Glendinning.

Ashley Shaw in The Red Shoes, Bourne’s adaptation of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s classic film. Photo by Johan Persson.

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS 2006 Kerry Biggin and Richard Winsor in Bourne’s magical Edward Scissorhands, based on the Tim Burton movie. Photo by Bill Cooper.

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SCHOOL GIRLS

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FOR THE LOVE OF

(or, the roller derby play)

By Gina Femia Directed and Choreographed by Rhonda Kohl Mar 7–17, 2019 SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY

ROTTERDAM

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Presents the

production of

Written by

Gina Femia With (in alphabetical order)

Diaz de los Muertos.................................................CRYSTAL DIAZ Michelle......................................................................ELINOR GUNN Squeaky Mouse.....................................................LIESEL HANSON Trauma Queen.......................................................FAITH IMAFIDON Jammy From The Block..................................................CINDY LIN Frida Call-It-Low.....................................................NADIA MARINA Hot Flash.......................................................................LYNN ODELL Andrea the Vagiant................................................ALINA PHELAN Joy Ride......................................................................BRIANA PRICE Ruth Bader Getsit.........................NICOLE GABRIELLA SCIPIONE Anna-Stecia...................................................YOLANDA SNOWBALL Prosecute-Her..............................................................JENNY SOO Maid of Metal........................................................... NANCY STONE Lizzie Lightning...................................................TANIA VERAFIELD Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Sound Design

Eli Smith

Vicki Conrad

Rose Malone

Gilly Moon

Center Theatre Group Associate Producer

Production Stage Manager

Stage Manager

Lindsay Allbaugh

Brooke Baldwin

Maggie Swing

Originally Produced for Theatre of NOTE by

David Bickford, Kelly “Lucretia Hott” Lingen, Jenny Soo Directed & Choreographed by

Rhonda Kohl For The Love Of will be performed with an intermission.

MARCH 7–17, 2019 KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE For The Love Of (or, the roller derby play) received its World premiere by Pride Films & Plays 2017—David Zak, Executive Director Block Party receives major support from Aliza and Marc Guren, with generous funding also provided by Joni and Miles Benickes, and additional support provided

by Kiki and David Gindler. Block Party is also made possible in part by a Culver City Performing Arts Grant with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

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WHO’S WHO CRYSTAL DIAZ (Diaz de los Muertos). A NOTE member since 2011, Crystal served on the Artistic & Management Committee and is currently the Membership Chair.

Productions at Theatre of NOTE include: Cleo, Theo & Wu; For The Love Of (or, the roller derby play); Hot Cat; Niagara Falls; Shoe Story; Figure 8; and Skeleton Stories. She is a member of Theatre Movement Bazaar, an associate member of Sacred Fools, and has performed in New York, Chicago, London, and Edinburgh. She is a native New Yorker and a trained ballet/flamenco dancer. Special thanks to husband, Alexis DeLaRosa, Ziggy & Penny, and all of the strong women who hold her up.

ELINOR GUNN (Michelle) is delighted to be cast alongside such talented actors in this honest, heartfelt play. Notable performances in Seattle: US premiere of Sugar Daddies, written and directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn; Olivia in Twelfth Night and Cordelia in King Lear with Seattle Shakespeare Company; and just last fall, Kyra in a successful run of Skylight at ACT Theatre. In L.A., she is a proud company member of Theatre of NOTE. For The Love Of will mark Elinor’s Kirk Douglas Theatre debut. Many thanks to Center Theatre Group for this opportunity. She hopes you continue to support local theatre, and enjoy the show!

LIESEL HANSON (Squeaky Mouse) is a company member at Theatre of NOTE and is so happy to be back in For The Love Of! She is a native Californian who has performed onstage in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, and Edinburgh. Previous credits include the Lionsgate horror film Children of Sorrow and the original cast of Re-Animator the Musical. You can also catch her in the action/ thriller feature Happy Hunting (now streaming on Netflix).

Thanks to everyone who helped bring me into the Scallywags family; I love this team and all of you.

FAITH IMAFIDON (Trauma Queen, Understudy for Joy Ride, Squeaky Mouse) is a proud first-generation Nigerian and Boston native. She holds both an MFA in acting and BA in English from Harvard University.

Favorite past performances include: Cut (Nurse Ogutu)—Casa 0101; The Fertile River (River)—Baylor University’s Mabee Theatre; And Then They Fell (Crystal)—Brimmer Street Theatre; and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Saint Monica)— The Hudson Theatre. When not onstage, Faith enjoys dance

battles and trolling Epicurious for recipes. She is honored to work on the Kirk Douglas Theatre stage as she reunites with her lovely, badass female cast! Find more Faith at faithimafidon.com. Follow @fidosaurus CINDY LIN (Jammy From The Block, Understudy for Prosecute-Her) can’t believe she gets to skate with her favorite roller derby women again. Original cast of Theatre of NOTE’s West Coast premiere of For The Love Of. UCLA graduate and HOOLIGAN Theatre Company alumna. Past HTC credits include The Wedding Singer, Legally Blonde, Titanic, Curtains, and Urinetown. Always singing, dancing, kicking, or teaching. Thank you to Theatre of NOTE and everyone that pushed this show forward. Much heartfelt appreciation for my teachers and friends. Special thanks to my family—I’m forever grateful. For everyone that chases after the love of the game.

NADIA MARINA (Frida Call-It-Low, Understudy for Diaz de los Muertos, Lizzie Lightning) is back again for Block Party, but this time onstage. Her work as an #actormama includes Nina in Possum Carcass, Tyler in Some Girl(s), and Christina in Tree of Hope, to name a few. She is also a producer and has worked on productions at the Echo Theater Company as well as Theatre of NOTE. Newly a mom of two, Nadia thanks her family and the cast for sharing her nicely. More info can be found at nadiamarina.com.

LYNN ODELL (Hot Flash) has acted, directed, and produced in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She was a member of the Actors’ Playhouse in N.Y., Dude Theatre in San Francisco, and has been with the critically acclaimed Theatre of NOTE in L.A. for almost 20 years. She has also had the privilege of working at Sacred Fools Theater and Elephant Theatre companies. Her TV credits include Criminal Minds, Law & Order, and the PBS children’s series Steps. She is in the independent films Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves, Have You Seen Me?, Pariah, The Lost One, and Kill Me, Deadly.

ALINA PHELAN (Andrea the Vagiant). Credits: ICT: Dead Man’s Cell Phone, All in the Timing; Chalk Rep: Family Planning; Circle X: Lascivious Something; Open Fist: All Night Long, Love Water; Theatre of NOTE: Rio Hondo, Entropy, Niagara Falls, Hamlet: The First Quarto (winner—Garland Award),

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I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Disassembly, and Hearts Like Fists.

TV: How to Get Away with Murder, Grey’s Anatomy, Shameless, Criminal Minds, among others. Thank you to David Bickford, Rhonda, and all the ladies on the team who make this show epic. The biggest thanks to Center Theatre Group for creating Block Party and inviting us to play in your arena.

BRIANA PRICE (Joy Ride) was born and raised in Pasadena, California. She studied at Columbia University in the city of New York, where she was preparing to be a doctor. However, her love for the arts took over and steered her in the direction of professional dance and theatre. Briana has toured with Nicki Minaj, performed on Glee and The Neighbors, onstage in Tempest Redux as Ariel, All My Distances Are Far as Ruby, Future Sex, Inc. as an ensemble member, and most recently Lysistrata Unbound as a female chorus member.

NICOLE GABRIELLA SCIPIONE (Ruth Bader Getsit, Understudy for Michelle, Andrea the Vagiant). Regional (selected): Disgraced (PlayMakers Repertory Company); 32 Beds (South Coast Repertory, Culture Clash); Greenhouse (The Pasadena Playhouse); Night Sky and A Piece of My Heart (La Jolla Playhouse/Mo’olelo); The Miracle Worker (Sierra Repertory Theatre); Bus Stop (Met Theatre); The Crucible (StageSceneLA’s Best Performance by a Featured Actress). Film/TV (selected): CSI, Shark Swarm (Spike TV), Detective (TNT), Fielder’s Choice (opposite Chad Lowe), McBride: Dogged, Monster Makers, Arrest & Trial, Justine Bateman’s Five Minutes, PUSH, and Nicole’s Song in a Convenience Store (third place—Oscar qualifying Athens International Film Festival). Grateful for you. More at IMDb & resumes.actorsaccess.com/ngs.

YOLANDA SNOWBALL (Anna-Stecia) is excited to recreate the role of Anna-Stecia in For The Love Of (or, the roller derby play).

Yolanda is a graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and has studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City as well as the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Yolanda’s theatre credits include work with Theatre of NOTE, The Actors’ Gang, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, and Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble. Her television credits include This Is Us, NCIS, Good Trouble, and Jane the Virgin. Yolanda is honored to be a part of Block Party. Yolanda would like to thank her husband and son for their love and support.

JENNY SOO (Prosecute-Her). Favorite L.A. theatre credits: Hot Cat, D Deb Debbie Deborah, Dry Land, and Gloria, which was recently mentioned by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best of L.A. theatre productions of 2018. TV: Parks and Recreation, LA to Vegas, Reverie. Her passion project, award-winning feature film FOR IZZY, is currently finishing its festival run and is available on VOD: forizzy.com. BFA: NYU. MFA: A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard.

NANCY STONE (Maid of Metal, Understudy for Hot Flash, Anna-Stecia) is thrilled to participate in Center Theatre Group’s Block Party as part of Theatre of NOTE’s For The Love Of. Los Angeles theatre includes Washer/Dryer at East West Players, Tartuffe, Love’s Labor’s Lost, and Embedded with The Actors’ Gang; Atlas Pit and Speech & Debate with Los Angeles New Court Theatre. Recent TV/ film: The Good Doctor, Grey’s Anatomy, Speechless, The Price, Bones, How I Met Your Mother, and Apple’s untitled morningshow drama with Reese Witherspoon. Nancy has also performed as an actor/improviser in the Bay Area and NYC. TANIA VERAFIELD (Lizzie Lightning).

Currently in A Noise Within’s Othello as Emilia through April. L.A. theatre—A Noise Within: Lady Henry/Gladys, A Picture of Dorian Gray; Rogue Machine: Carmen/ Hawk, In the Valley of the Shadow; Jessie, Still Life; Kayleen (alt), Gruesome Playground Injuries; Bug, Henry Murray’s Treefall. N.Y. theatre—Lincoln Center: Melody/Rika, Beneath the Veil; Gallery Players: Ellen, The Little Dog Laughed. Partial film/TV—Ms. Purple, Alex & Jaime, I Am Not a Hipster, Short Term 12 (Sundance 2009 Best Short), The First Time, Julia, Harsh Times, Namaste, Bitches, 24. It’s a dream come true to be making her Center Theatre Group debut—big thank you to all involved. Love IS a contact sport. For you, Dad. GINA FEMIA (Playwright) has written 31 full-length plays which include ALLOND(R)A (winner; Leah Ryan Prize), We Are a Masterpiece (winner; Doric Wilson Award), The Mermaids’ Parade (semifinalist; The Relentless Award), Annie and the Fat Man (honorable mention; The Kilroys), For The Love Of (Original Works Publishing), and The Violet Sisters (Great Plains Theatre Conference). She is the 2019 Writer-inResidence with Spicy Witch Productions, a current member of Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group, and an alum of EST Youngblood, Pipeline Theatre’s PlayLab, and New Georges’ Audrey Residency. Gina has received residencies with Page PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P5

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RHONDA KOHL (Director/Choreographer) is proud to be part of the Center Theatre Group Block Party. Rhonda was the SDCF Fellow on the Broadway debut of In Transit (Circle in the Square) with Kathleen Marshall, whom she also worked with on Mamma Mia! (Hollywood BowI), Damn Yankees (Roundabout Theatre Benefit Reading), and Sweet Charity (Reprise 2.0). She recently choreographed and assistant directed Native Gardens at the Pasadena Playhouse. Directing credits include: Around the World in 80 Days (Actors Co-op; L.A. Times Critic’s Choice), Pocket Universe (Hollywood Fringe), Look Back in Anger (LA New Court). Assistant directing: Ragtime and King Charles III (Pasadena Playhouse), Barbecue and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Geffen Playhouse). SDC Associate Member.

ELI SMITH (Scenic Designer) is an activist, visual artist, and performance designer. She received her BA in physics from SUNY Geneseo and an MFA from CalArts in both performance design and art & technology. Eli’s work expresses the psychology of precarity through constructed landscapes of potential violence. Recent productions include Lewis Klahr’s 2017 film Hearse, Edgar Arceneaux’s 2016 performance art piece Until, Until, Until…, and Nataki Garrett’s 2018 devised work The Carolyn Bryant Project.

Her 2018 video installation A Continuous Thread appeared at The Box gallery in June 2018, and her narrative installation Tiger Play premiered in December 2018 at CalArts.

VICKI CONRAD (Costume Designer) received the Ovation Award for Best Costume Design for The Mystery of Edwin Drood and nominations for 33 Variations (Best Play, Ovation Award), Imaginary Invalid, The Learned Ladies (L.A. Weekly Award), and Big River. Favorite credits include Anna Karenina (Actors Co-op), Bad Jews (The Odyssey), Other Desert Cities (Theatricum Botanicum), Jocasta: A Motherf**king Tragedy (Ghost Road), and 8:03 (Scherzo). Her Asterion costumes traveled to Poland’s Grotowkski Institute, and her custom designs/creations were in the Project Runway season 15 commercial. She is thrilled to get to go to Center Theatre Group’s Block Party and remount For The Love Of with the Scallywags! vickiconraddesign.com ROSE MALONE (Lighting Designer) received an MFA in lighting design from CalArts. Some recent productions include Amos & Boris at South Coast Rep, An Undivided Heart at Echo Theater Company, With Love and a Major Organ at Boston Court, and Rachel Calof at the Pico Union Project. Additionally, she has designed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and assisted with Deaf West Theatre’s production of Spring Awakening on Broadway.

GILLY MOON (Sound Designer) is excited to be remounting For The Love Of at the Kirk Douglas Theatre! Gilly received her MFA in sound design from CalArts in 2016 and has been pursuing sound design in multiple mediums ever since. Favorite credits include: Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood with Diablo Sound (sound media and systems design team member); Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin with Rogue Artists Ensemble (co-sound design, 2019 Ovation Award for Sound Design—Intimate Theatre). Gratitude and love to Julien for his support, and to Bash and Larry for their furry loyalty.

BROOKE BALDWIN (Production Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play, Bloodletting, Spamilton, Big Night, Good Grief, Vicuña, Disgraced, Women Laughing Alone With Salad, Kansas City Choir Boy, Girlfriend, Chavez Ravine, Luna Gale, Race, different words for the same thing, The Nether, The Convert, Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens. LA Philharmoic & The Industry: Europeras 1 & 2. Rio Hotel in Las Vegas: Duck Commander Musical.

Moonlight Stage Productions: Newsies, The Little Mermaid, The Wizard of Oz, Cats. Cabrillo Music Theatre: Bye Bye Birdie, In the Heights, Kiss Me, Kate. And many more!

MAGGIE SWING (Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: Linda Vista, Quack, Block Party 2018, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, Spamilton, Big Night, King of the Yees, Block Party 2017, Vicuña, Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up. Geffen Playhouse: Big Sky, Barcelona, Guards at the Taj, Discord, The Country House, American Buffalo. Boston Court: Collective Rage. European tour: The Apple Family Plays. Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (The Public Theater), Slowgirl (Lincoln Center), Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company).

THEATRE OF NOTE is an L.A.-based nonprofit ensemble of theatre artists dedicated to creating high-caliber, original work that challenges both its artists and its audiences. Founded in 1981, its democratic, ensemble-based organization is dedicated to providing a creative environment in which collaboration and development of maverick theatre more accurately reflects L.A.’s diverse cultural makeup, thus inspiring a deeper connection with its audiences. NOTE also produces the annual Hollywood Performance Marathon, the NOTEworthy new play development workshops, and its educational outreach Young Writers Project.

Stick your hand in L.A.’s NOTEorious black box theatre—you never know if you’ll get licked…or bitten.

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ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR FOR THE LOVE OF Assistant Director...........................................................Lauren Smerkanich Assistant Choreographer..................................................Angeline Mirenda Head Carpenter........................................................................Ryan Howard Assistant Lighting Designer.....................................................Mary Keegan CREDITS Original Makeup Supervisor....................................................Nadia Marina Original costumes provided by Theatre of NOTE. Additional costumes provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop.

THEATRE OF NOTE STAFF Board of Directors...............................Katharine Crnko, Michelle Cullen, Eric Emery, John Money, Genevieve Morrill, Kirsten Vangsness Artistic Management Committee........................................Cat Chengery, Fiona Lakeland, Alexis DeLaRosa, Lynn Odell, Elinor Gunn, Paris Benjamin Managing Director...............................................................Hauk Graham Special thanks to Diablo Sound. The closing song, “Ordinary Girls,” is courtesy of Cheap Perfume, New York's first all-female punk band.

A selection of Block Party 2019 participants from Theatre of NOTE, Skylight Theatre Company, and Antaeus Theatre Company. Photo by Luke Fontana.

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MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director

Presents the

production of

In association with Hartshorn – Hook Productions Written by

Jon Brittain With (in alphabetical order)

Josh.....................................................................RYAN BROPHY Lelani...................................................................AUDREY CAIN Fiona/Adrian...............................................ASHLEY ROMANS ´ Alice..............................................................MIRANDA WYNNE

Scenic & Lighting Design

Costume Design

Sound Design

Jeff McLaughlin

Naila Aladdin Sanders

Christopher Moscatiello

Center Theatre Group Associate Producer

Production Stage Manager

Stage Manager

Lindsay Allbaugh

Garrett Crouch

Marcedes L. Clanton

Originally Produced for Skylight Theatre by

Gary Grossman, Tony Abatemarco, Andrew Carlberg Directed by

Michael A. Shepperd Time: Act One—New Year’s Eve, Present Day / Act Two—Four Months Later Place: Rotterdam Rotterdam is performed with an intermission.

MARCH 28 – APRIL 7, 2019 KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE Originally produced at Theatre503 in London by Hartshorn – Hook Productions.

Block Party receives major support from Aliza and Marc Guren, with generous funding also provided by Joni and Miles Benickes, and additional support provided

by Kiki and David Gindler. Block Party is also made possible in part by a Culver City Performing Arts Grant with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

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WHO’S WHO RYAN BROPHY (Josh) was nominated for the 2019 Ovation Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Rotterdam. L.A.: Oppenheimer (Rogue Machine), Idol Minds (Skylight), Justin Tanner’s Little Theatre (Fountain).

USC (BA 2018): Romeo and Juliet, The Country Wife, You Can’t Take It With You, That Long Damn Dark. British American Drama Academy (LTP 2017): The Love of the Nightingale.

Film: we could have danced (Sundance Ignite), Howler (USC), The Gift of the Magi (UCLA). Multimedia: Is the Sky Falling? (dir.

Bill T. Jones). Alumnus of YoungArts and Northwestern University’s Cherubs program. Instagram: @rybrophy. ryanbrophy.com AUDREY CAIN (Lelani) is thrilled to be reprising the role of Lelani after an amazing run at the Skylight Theatre. Other theatre credits include East West Players’ production of La Cage Aux Folles (Anne) and the Fountain Theatre’s Rapid Development Series. Audrey was the proud recipient of Comcast NBCUniversal’s inaugural Conservatory Fellowship for East West Players’ Actors’ Conservatory, as well as the recipient of the Dan Velez Fund Scholarship for Acting. Many thanks to Center Theatre Group for this incredible opportunity, and to the “Rotterfam” for the endless joy.

ASHLEY ROMANS (Fiona/Adrian) is thrilled to play in Rotterdam once more with the amazing Skylight family. Previous L.A. theatre credit: Celebration’s Charm. Recent TV credits include: NOS4A2, Shameless, I’m Dying Up Here, Are You Sleeping. Web series: HGQLC. Education: Pace School of Performing Arts class of 2015, BA—theatre arts. Romans is represented by Schumacher Management.

MIRANDA WYNNE (Alice) is thrilled to be reviving her all-time favorite role of Alice for Block Party 2019. Last year, Miranda was nominated for Best Lead Performance by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and Stage Raw. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she received her BA in theatre from UC San Diego. Some favorite credits include Oppenheimer (Rogue Machine Theatre), Punk Rock (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble), and Three Sisters (La Jolla Playhouse).

She would like to thank Center Theatre Group and Skylight Theatre for this opportunity and her grandma Addie for being her #1 fan. mirandamwynne.com @mirandamwynne

JON BRITTAIN (Playwright) received the Olivier Award in 2017 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre and was also nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. His other work includes The Wake, What Would Spock Do?, the Fringe First Award-winning musical A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad), and the cult hit Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho. Brittain also directs stand-up comedy and has twice won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for his shows with John Kearns. He has written for Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball and is currently a staff writer on The Crown.

MICHAEL A. SHEPPERD (Director). Artistic Director of L.A.’s award-winning Celebration Theatre. Recent directing credits: The Boy from Oz (awards: Ovation, LADCC), Rotterdam (awards: LADCC—Best Production, Stage Raw—Best Production), Laughter on the 23RD Floor (Scenie— Director of the Year, BWW—nom, Best Director); The View Upstairs (BWW Award—Best Director). Assistant Director for Sweat (Mark Taper Forum). Acting credits: Fences (Troy; Ovation, LADCC noms), BootyCandy (LADCC nom, Ovation, Stage Raw win), The Color Purple (Mister; Ovation Award), Steel (Ovation Award), Intimate Apparel (NAACP Theatre Award). Broadway/regional credits: Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan, The Seafarer, Little Shop of Horrors. TV: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Soul Man, Hot In Cleveland.

JEFF McLAUGHLIN (Scenic & Lighting Designer) works across most industries in which design is called for: film, television, commercials, corporate events, music videos, concerts, and escape rooms; however, his first love continues to be theatre.

Recent notable works include Stupid Kid at The Road Theatre (Ovation nominee), Cult Of Love with IAMA Theatre Company, the feature film Snapshots directed by Melanie Mayron, and Evel Live for The History Channel. He is very proud to be working on Rotterdam once again with the same amazing people as last time and some new ones to boot!

NAILA ALADDIN SANDERS (Costume Designer). Credits include Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine; Neighbors by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; The Brothers Size and In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney; Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Jitney, and The Piano Lesson

by August Wilson. Anna Lucasta, Bronzeville, The Color Purple (musical), The Ballad of Emmett Till, The Women of Brewster Place (musical), For the Love of Freedom, and The Haitian Trilogy are some of her other costume design credits. Naila is the recipient of a Drama Critics Circle and three NAACP Awards.

CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO (Sound Designer). Recipient of the 2018 LADCC and 2015 Stage Raw Awards for Sound Design, Christopher Moscatiello is also a composer, sound editor/mixer, and music director for theatre, television, and PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9

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film. TV credits include The Walking Dead (AMC), Psych (USA), Eureka (Syfy), Human Target (Fox), The Cape (NBC), Caprica (Syfy), and Trauma (NBC), and he has scored full series, specials, and promos for HBO, BBC, NBC, Discovery, National Geographic, and others. Theatre credits include The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Folger Theatre, Antaeus, Rogue Machine, Skylight Theatre, The Fountain Theatre, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, and he served as assistant conductor on the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera.

GARRETT CROUCH (Production Stage Manager) is a multi-hyphenate human with a deep passion and love for entertainment. He graduated from AMDA College and Conservatory for the Arts in 2015. Actor, writer, musician, technician, director, and stage manager are just a few pies to name. He recently collaborated with the Puckwit Gang in a successful run of Dangerous Cures of Dr. B, which he co-wrote the script and score for. When he isn't writing the score to a show or acting out, you can usually find him in the booth, managing at Skylight Theatre in Los Feliz, where he was production stage manager of the multiple awardwinning Rotterdam.

MARCEDES L. CLANTON (Stage Manager) is delighted to return to the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Selected credits: Mutt House (premiere), Laughter on 23RD Floor, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Ah, Wilderness!, The Maids, Sons of the Prophet (West Coast premiere), Wolves (L.A. premiere), Justin Love (premiere), The Color Purple (six Ovation Awards), Leslie Jordan’s Fruit Fly (premiere), What’s Wrong with Angry?, Take Me Out (NAACP Awards), The Temperamentals (West Coast premiere), and [title of show]. She’s proud to be completing her ninth season as Resident Stage Manager with Celebration Theatre.

SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY was created to support artists.

Recognized as a “powerhouse of new play development” by Dramatist Magazine, the 36-year-old company discovers, develops, and produces compelling new works that expand mainstream theatre while nurturing and educating the people that create them. Plays premiering at Skylight have gone on to be performed Off-Broadway, nationally, and internationally, and its vibrant family of artists has received prestigious national and local awards. After producing over 100 World premieres and working with hundreds of teens and young adults, Skylight remains dedicated to the power of the artist to create positive change. SkylightTheatre.org HARTSHORN – HOOK PRODUCTIONS is a live entertainment management company founded in 2007 by Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook. Over 120 productions across five continents, including Olivier and multi-LADCC Award-winning Rotterdam (Arts, 59E59 New York, Skylight), Dreamworks’ Madagascar the Musical (UK tour), Urinetown (Apollo), American Idiot (Arts

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and UK tour), and Woody Sez (Arts). In 2019, their production of Amélie will tour the UK and Asia, Rotterdam will return to the UK and US, and Dolly Parton’s musical 9 to 5 will open at The Savoy Theatre. Louis and Brian hold the positions of Executive Director and Operations Director at the Arts Theatre ´ in the West End. ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR ROTTERDAM Marketing Consultant and Engagement Facilitator....................................................Joshua Gershick Fight Director............................................................................Matt Orduña Head Carpenter...............................................................Melissa Hartman Prop Carpenter.......................................................................Ryan Howard Assistant Lighting Designer.......................................................Hilda Kane CREDITS Original Prop Master........................................................Michael O’Hara Original Casting.........................................................Raul Clayton Staggs Original Dialect Coach....................................................Tuffet Schmelzle Original Assistant Director....................................................Shen Heckel Original Associate Producers...................................Christopher Aguilar, Josh Gershick, Jonathan Munoz-Proulx, Shaina Rosenthal Original costumes provided by Skylight Theatre Company. Additional costumes provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop.

SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY STAFF Board of Directors...............................Fr. Gregory Goethals, SJ—Chair, Steven Karic—Vice Chair & Treasurer, Dale Raoul— Secretary, Ford Austin, Bradford Bancroft, Gary Grossman, Wendy Kout, William Slocum, Doris Roberts (In Memoriam) Advisory Committee............................Robert Israel, Chip Rosenbloom Executive Director.......................................................Sandee Grossman Producing Artistic Director..............................................Gary Grossman Co-Artistic Director........................................................Tony Abatemarco Artistic Associate..............................................................Michael Kearns Play LAb Director...................................................................Lee Blessing Program Coordinator and Technical Advisor......Christopher Hoffman Lyric Project Program Director..........................................John J. Torres Artistic Leaders....Victoria Pearlman, Celia Ramirez, Shaina Rosenthal PlayLAb Associate Director...................................................Tim Furlong Publicist..................................................................................Judith Borne Graphic Design.......................................Llance Bower, Guillermo Perez Stage Managers........................Christopher Hoffman, Colin Grossman, Garrett Longley, Ben Baltman Front of House.......................................Jill Abatemarco, Ashley Felkner, Amy Pelch, Carlee Wilson Artistic Advisors..................................Andy Ackerman, Brooke Adams, Randall Arney, Ed Asner, Dan Bucatinsky, Scott Ellis, Johnny Galecki, Peter Gallagher, Buck Henry, John Benjamin Hickey, Winnie Holzman, Sheryl Kaller, Stacy Keach, Sharon Lawrence, Eric McCormack, Mary McDonnell, Terrence McNally, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Nauffts, Billy Porter, Joan Rater, Jeffrey Richman, Don Roos, Thomas Sadoski, Marc Shmuger, Joe Spano

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MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director

Presents the

production of

Written by

Nambi E. Kelley Based on the Novel by

Richard Wright With (in alphabetical order)

The Black Rat......................................................NOEL ARTHUR Mrs. Dalton...................................................GIGI BERMINGHAM Bigger......................................................................JON CHAFFIN Mary........................................................................ELLIS GREER Jan................................................................MATTHEW GRONDIN Bessie, Vera................................ MILDRED MARIE LANGFORD Britten.....................................................................NED MOCHEL Hannah...............................................................VICTORIA PLATT Buddy.............................................................BRANDON RACHAL Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Sound Design

Edward E. Haynes Jr.

Wendell C. Carmichael

Andrew Schmedake

Jeff Gardner

Projection Design

Center Theatre Group Associate Producer

Production Stage Manager

Stage Manager

Adam R. Macias

Lindsay Allbaugh

Taylor Anne Cullen

Maggie Swing

Directed by

Andi Chapman TIME: A split-second inside Bigger’s mind, when he runs from his crime, remembers, imagines, two cold and snowy winter days in December 1939 and beyond.

PLACE: A labyrinth of Chicago’s black belt and surrounding areas as it appears in Bigger’s mind.

Native Son is performed without an intermission.

APRIL 18–28, 2019 KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE Original stage adaptation by Paul Green and Richard Wright and produced in arrangement with the Paul Green Foundation—www.paulgreen.org. The World premiere production of Native Son was produced by Court Theatre—Charles Newell, Artistic Director; Stephen J. Albert, Executive Director; and American Blues Theater—Gwendolyn Whiteside, Producing Artistic Director.

Block Party receives major support from Aliza and Marc Guren, with generous funding also provided by Joni and Miles Benickes, and additional support provided by Kiki and David Gindler. Block Party is also made possible in part by a Culver City Performing Arts Grant with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

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WHO’S WHO NOEL ARTHUR (The Black Rat) is excited to reprise this role here at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. He thanks his cast, Antaeus Theatre, director Andi Chapman, and adaptor Nambi E. Kelley. Other performance highlights include TAR (Playwrights’ Arena), Bars and Measures (Boston Court), and Elmina’s Kitchen (Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble). TV: Jane the Virgin, Are You Sleeping, ER, Scrubs, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Shameless. My love to my wife and son, Vanessa and Neo Orion. IG: @noelactor GIGI BERMINGHAM (Mrs. Dalton) has appeared on many SoCal stages including Pasadena Playhouse, Old Globe, International City Theatre (ICT), La Mirada, Rubicon, Ensemble Theatre Company, MainStreet, and in many productions with classical theatre company Antaeus. TV: Jane the Virgin, Adam Ruins Everything, Scandal, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Mistresses, Chasing Life, Hart of Dixie, Weeds, Days of Our Lives. Film: Save the Date, Alex & Emma. Web: Kittens in a Cage, The Britishes. Awards: LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Master Class at ICT; Ovation and LADCC Awards for solo-comedy Non-Vital Organs. In December, Gigi performs Cabaret Noel. She is also a stage director and journalist.

JON CHAFFIN (Bigger) is a native of Stone Mountain, Georgia. He is making his Center Theatre Group debut with the revival of the critically acclaimed production Native Son. Theatre: Two Trains Running (Matrix Theatre), American Saga–Gunshot Medley: Part 1 (Rogue Machine), Native Son (Antaeus Theatre), King Hedley II (Matrix Theatre), The Dumb Waiter (PushPush Theater). Television/ film: Lucifer, Snowfall, Hawaii Five-O, The Haves and Have Nots, Stitchers, Army Wives, Blindspotting, If Not Now, When?, 96 Minutes. Jon received his BA from Fort Valley State University. He is also a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. ELLIS GREER (Mary) is honored to follow the lead of the artists at Antaeus and Center Theatre Group. At Antaeus Theatre Company: Three Days in the Country, Native Son, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Other stages: The Goodbye Girl, Jefferson’s Garden (L.A. Theatre Works); The Matchmaker (Actors Co-op); The Many Women of Troy (Pallas Theatre Collective); The Diary of Anne Frank (Oklahoma

Children’s Theatre). Readings/workshops at Independent Shakespeare Co., The Pasadena Playhouse, and The Workroom’s Off-the-Page series. Film: Bastard. Special awards/training: Best Actress for St. Miranda at the DC 48 Hour Film Project. BFA, USC. Her family has her heart.

MATTHEW GRONDIN (Jan) is honored to be at the Kirk Douglas Theatre with this inspiring group of artists! Recent credits: District Merchants, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and the NewSCRipts workshop of Origin Story (South Coast Repertory); The City of Conversation, Women In Jeopardy!, Good People (Ensemble Theatre Company); A Moon for the Misbegotten (Rubicon Theatre); Stupid F*cking Bird, Bad Jews (Stage West); Spinning Into Butter, Rabbit Hole (Actors Co-op); Friends Like These (New York International Fringe Festival). He is a member of the Antaeus Theatre Company, and appeared in their productions of The Cripple of Inishmaan and Native Son. Readings/workshops include: Laguna Playhouse, Wallis Annenberg, and Pasadena Playhouse.

TV: Westworld. For Dad. MILDRED MARIE LANGFORD (Bessie, Vera) is excited to be back at it with Antaeus’ powerful production of Nambi E. Kelley’s adaptation of Native Son as part of Center Theatre Group’s Block Party 2019! Other credits include: Rogue Machine Theatre and Collaborative Artists Bloc’s co-production of Dionna Michelle Daniel’s American Saga–Gunshot Medley: Part 1. Mildred can also now be seen in the new series Commune on YouTube at Commune the Series, which she co-executive produced and co-wrote with an uber-talented group of artists. @communetheseries NED MOCHEL (Britten) is so pleased to be a part of this incredible cast. Ned appeared in Antaeus Theatre Company’s production of Hedda Gabler. Ned also appeared in Sam Hunter’s A Permanent Image at Rogue Machine. Ned hails from Chicago, where he worked for The Goodman Theatre, The Court Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, Remains, and many others. He wishes to thank his pack at home for all the love and support.

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VICTORIA PLATT (Hannah). Center Theatre Group: Venice (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Ovation Award nom), Pippin (Mark Taper Forum), Native Son (Antaeus Theatre— 2018), Jelly’s Last Jam (Broadway), Building the Wall and Roxy in Cyrano (Fountain Theatre), Sammy (Old Globe), Asphalt (REDCAT), and Atlanta (Geffen). TV: Dimensional Shift (pilot, lead), NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Los Angeles, Lucifer, Bones, The Mentalist, Castle, Criminal Minds, and contract roles on both All My Children and Guiding Light. Film: H4 (adaptation of Henry IV, which she co-produced with Harry Lennix & Terrell Tilford), Josephine Baker in HBO’s Winchell, #Truth (dir. Charles Murray), The Gleaner (opp. Angus MacFadyen, dir. Harry Lennix), Revival!, Interference, Jonah Hex. VictoriaPlatt.com

Directing Workshop for Women. Andi is honored to be forever Hallon Chapman’s daughter.

BRANDON RACHAL (Buddy). Los Angeles theatre: Fences (Long Beach Playhouse), Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night (Downtown Repertory Theater Company), Othello (Inner City Shakespeare).

Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Texas Shakespeare Festival). Film: Iago. Web: Jesus Freaks. Training: BA theatre, USC. IG: @brandonrachal_

WENDELL C. CARMICHAEL (Costume Designer). Theatre credits: The Mountaintop, Our Town, The Wizard of Oz, WINK, Fool for Love, In the Heights, Happy Ending, American Saga— Gunshot Medley, Jews, Christians and Screwing Stalin, Vol. 1: A Post Racial America, Violet, Her Portmanteau, Native Son, A Walk in the Woods, Cabaret, West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief, The Crucible, An Octoroon, Br’er Cotton, Ball Yards, Waiting for the Parade, The Good War. 2018 Stage Raw winner—Costume Design, three-time LA Ovation Award nominee, 2017 Orange County’s Best Costume Designs, 2015 NAACP Theatre Award winner. Member of Local 768, the Theatrical Wardrobe Union/ LA Opera.

NAMBI E. KELLEY (Playwright). Award-winning playwright and actress, Nambi has performed on stages across the world and on television. She is currently serving in residence at New Victory Theater and as a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow.

She has penned plays for Steppenwolf, Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center (Director's Fest), and internationally. Former playwright in residence at the National Black Theatre and Goodman Theatre. Awards include: The Prince Prize, Writers Alliance Grant (Dramatists Guild Foundation), the Francesca Primus Prize (finalist), and The Kevin Spacey Foundation Award (finalist). Currently working on an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Jazz. Native Son will premiere in NYC in July 2019.

Nambi is working on several commissions, including television and film projects. nambikelley.com ANDI CHAPMAN (Director). Associate Artistic Director of Ebony Repertory Theatre. Her directing credits include Ebony Repertory Theatre’s The Gospel at Colonus, which garnered 14 Ovation nominations, including Best Play and Best Play Direction, and won the NAACP Theatre Award for Best Production (2016). Others include Mockingbird, As It Is In Heaven, The Ninth Wave, Actors Co-op Steel Magnolias (for which she garnered a Best Director award), and a host of others. Assistant director for Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Mark Taper Forum). Film: the award-winning short films Memorial Street, Elijah’s Song, and Why? A graduate of Yale School of Drama. An alumna of The American Film Institute’s

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EDWARD E. HAYNES JR. (Scenic Designer) is excited to be returning to Center Theatre Group where he served as Resident Scenic Designer for 18 years. Regional credits include Mark Taper Forum, Ebony Repertory Theatre Company, South Coast Rep, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, East West Players, Pasadena Playhouse, Hollywood Bowl, Marin Theatre Co., TheatreWorks, Muny Opera, Intiman Theatre, Trinity Rep, Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, and many he can no longer remember.

Television credits include MTV’s Spring Break 2012 & 2011, Hip Hop Harry, The Tony Rock Project, and Culture Clash.

Ed is the father of twins, Denis and Wesly, and husband to director Elizabeth Bell-Haynes.

ANDREW SCHMEDAKE (Lighting Designer) is a Los Angelesbased lighting designer for theatre, dance, and live events.

Recent credits include designs for Gabriel Iglesias, Steel Magnolias, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The 39 Steps, 33 Variations (Actors Co-op—2017 Ovation Award for Lighting Design), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2018 Ovation Award for Lighting Design), Dogfight (After Hours Theatre Company), Native Son (Antaeus Theatre Company—2018 Ovation nominee), and The Art Couple (Sacred Fools). Andrew holds an MFA from the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University and teaches as a guest lecturer in lighting design at UC Santa Barbara. schmedakelightingdesign.com JEFF GARDNER (Sound Designer) is thrilled to be back at Block Party after previously designing Dry Land with Echo Theater Company. Jeff’s designs include Cry It Out, also with Echo Theater Company; Picnic for Antaeus Theatre Company; The Cake for the Geffen Playhouse; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead for A Noise Within; Trevor for Circle X Theatre Company; Les Blancs for Rogue Machine Theatre; The Recommendation for IAMA Theatre; Two Trains Running at the Matrix Theatre; and It’s a Wonderful Life for The Pasadena Playhouse. Jeff can also be seen performing live sound effects

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for L.A. Theatre Works and is resident sound designer for the Westridge School in Pasadena. jeffthomasgardner.net ADAM R. MACIAS (Projection Designer) is very excited to be working with Center Theatre Group to bring the Native Son group back together again! He is an Ovation-nominated video designer and sound designer. Some of his recent credits include Rope (sound designer and composer— Actors Co-Op Theatre), Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (sound designer, composer, and video designer—Arcadia Performing Arts Center), Native Son (video designer— Antaeus Theatre Company), A Walk In The Woods (sound designer & composer—Actors Co-Op Theatre), and much more! Go to adamrmacias.com to see and listen to his designs and music!

TAYLOR ANNE CULLEN (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to make her debut at the Kirk Douglas Theatre with the incredible team of Native Son! Other PSM credits include: How We’re Different From Animals (Élan Ensemble), The Little Foxes (Antaeus Theatre Company), Alcina (USC Thornton School of Music), A Weekend with Pablo Picasso (Casa 0101 Theatre), The Kentucky Cycle, Mockingbird, Love and Information, That Long Damn Dark (USC School of Dramatic Arts). Stage management internship credits include: Tosca (LA Opera), Bull, Dutch Masters (Rogue Machine Theatre), and Annapurna (The New Group). Taylor is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Arts, BFA in stage management.

MAGGIE SWING (Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: Linda Vista, Quack, Block Party 2018, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, Spamilton, Big Night, King of the Yees, Block Party 2017, Vicuña, Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up. Geffen Playhouse: Big Sky, Barcelona, Guards at the Taj, Discord, The Country House, American Buffalo. Boston Court: Collective Rage. European tour: The Apple Family Plays. Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (The Public Theater), Slowgirl (Lincoln Center), Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company).

ANTAEUS THEATRE COMPANY is an actor-driven theatre company that explores and produces timely and timeless works, grounded in our passion for the classics. We illuminate diverse human experiences through performance, training, and outreach. We believe in the transformative power of live theatre. Antaeus was founded in 1991 by Dakin Matthews and Lillian Groag, who felt strongly that Los Angeles actors could form an ensemble theatre company equal to any other in the world. Antaeus.org P14 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

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ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR NATIVE SON Assistant Director.............................................Jessica E. Williams Choreographer................................................................Indira Tyler Fight Choreographer...................................................Bo Foxworth Head Carpenter...........................................................Bo Foxworth Assistant Lighting Designer....................................Meghan Hong Video Engineer.........................................................Joey Guthman CREDITS Original Props Designer...............................Jacquelyn Gutierrez Original Dramaturg..............................................Dylan Southard Original Arrangements by...........................................Dr. Joi Carr and Mr. Addison Doby Native Son is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. Original costumes provided by Antaeus Theatre Company.

Additional costumes provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop.

ANTAEUS THEATRE COMPANY STAFF Board of Directors..........................................David Gindler, Chair, Rhonda Aldrich, Jamie Anderson, Sonja Berggren, Stuart Berton, Charlie Bohlen, Bill Brochtrup, Bob Craft, Evie DiCiaccio, Dawn Didawick, Ruth Eliel, Karen Frederiksen, Harry Groener, Mary Lambert, Melinda Eades LeMoine, Kwana Martinez, Claudette Nevins, Ana Rose O’Halloran, Ara Oshagan, Linda Park, Laura Seigle, Kitty Swink, Reba Thomas, Debra Thompson, Jocelyn Towne, Peter Van Norden, Arlene Vidor, Jack Walker, April Webster Executive Director.........................................Ana Rose O'Halloran Co-Artistic Directors...........................Bill Brochtrup, Kitty Swink Production Manager/Technical Director.................Adam Meyer Executive Assistant...........................................Lamar Richardson Assistant Technical Director.......................................Cuyler Perry Bookkeeper................................................................Amy Michner Publicist..........................................................................Lucy Pollak Founding Artistic Directors..........Dakin Matthews, Lillian Groag CENTER THEATRE GROUP MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 14TH season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 200 productions to the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre stages, including the premieres of six musicals that moved to Broadway—The Drowsy Chaperone, Curtains, 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Leap of Faith—and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 29TH season at Center Theatre Group. He is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters

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Network, and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. In May 2013, Doug received the Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.

LINDSAY ALLBAUGH (Associate Producer) is a member of Center Theatre Group’s artistic staff and has served in varying capacities for the past 14 years. Selected producing credits include—Mark Taper Forum: Archduke, Bent, What the Butler Saw, Steward of Christendom, Waiting for Godot; Kirk Douglas Theatre: Block Party, Big Night, Good Grief, Vicuña, Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up, Endgame, Women Laughing Alone With Salad, Chavez Ravine, Race, different words for the same thing, The Nether. Co-Artistic Director of the Elephant Theatre 2004–2014.

NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Manager) has worked professionally supporting artists in theatres of all shapes, sizes, and locales including many seasons at Center Theatre Group as General Manager and, previously, as Audience Development Director. She oversees mainstage productions at the Taper and Douglas, as well as new play commissions and developmental productions through Center Theatre Group’s New Play Development. Nausica has taught at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, and advises and works with local nonprofits including Hollywood Orchard.

GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre—including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989, Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

BLOCK PARTY CORE TEAM Line Producer, Special Artistic Projects.......................Patricia Garza Production Manager......................................................Chris Reardon Associate General Manager..................................................Katie Soff Program Coordinator..............................................Ian-Julian Williams ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR BLOCK PARTY Block Party General Management..............................Megan Alvord, Casey McDermott, Eric Sims Production Coordinator...............................................Brooke Baldwin Carpenters....................Michelle Black, Ryan Fischer, Bo Foxworth, Connor Hayes, Curt Gavin, Melissa Hartman, Ryan Howard, Joe Kidawski, Randy Pound

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Scenic Artists..........................Orlando de la Paz, Jacquelyn Gutierrez Prop Master...........................................................................Kate Reinlib Prop Artisans.......................................................Eric Babb, Erin Walley Electricians................Kristen Addix, Brooke Baldwin, Jenisse Castillo, Daniel del Busto, Corwin Evans, Chase Hinton, Lunchbox, Eric Mitchell, Kari Morales, Taylor Shaw CREDITS Props provided by the Center Theatre Group Prop Department.

Production photos by Craig Schwartz.

FRONT-OF-HOUSE LEADS Trevor Algatt, AJ Meijer, Tarah Pollock FRONT-OF-HOUSE LEAD SWINGS Chase Anderson-Shaw, Bradford Barnes, Olivia Choate, Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Stephen Lydic, Adrienne Marquand DISCUSSION LEADERS Chase Anderson-Shaw, Megan DeHart, Amber Espinosa-Jones, Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Stephen Lydic, Adrienne Marquand, Isabella Petrini CONCIERGES Payden Ackerman, Hanna Anderson, Nicole Braucher, Lily Brown, Fallon Christian, Brandon Cutts, Eric Eberle, Abbey Fenbert, Jill Galbraith, Angela Garcia, Tara Griffo, Faith Imafidon, Henry Kelly, Joan Kubicek, Sarah Lindsley, Michael McClain, Rachael McNamara, Sean McSweeney, Janice Motuapuaka, Nicole Naito, Brenda Phillips, Antonie Pope, Daniel Rashid, Michayla Van Treeck CONCESSIONS Brandon Cutts, Megan DeHart, Abilene Gonzalez, Monica Greene, Mike Lanahan STAGE DOOR ATTENDANTS Trevor Algatt, Chase Anderson-Shaw, Cory Aycock, Abilene Gonzalez, Ian Ray ONLINE Center Theatre Group #CTGLABlockParty Like us on Facebook Center Theatre Group

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MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER...............................................................Associate Artistic Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK................................................. Associate Artistic Director DIANE RODRIGUEZ..................................................... Associate Artistic Director LINDSAY ALLBAUGH.............................................................. Associate Producer PATRICIA GARZA ....................................Line Producer, Special Artistic Projects SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY .................................................Casting Coordinator IAN-JULIAN WILLIAMS ....................................Program Coordinator, Block Party TIFFANY SLAGLE ...................................................................... Literary Assistant MATTHEW BOURNE, DANAI GURIRA, ANNA D. SHAPIRO ......................................................................Associate Artists DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), LUIS ALFARO, JON ROBIN BAITZ, STEVE CUIFFO, LISA D’AMOUR, WILL ENO (FADIMAN), JENNIFER HALEY, ALESHEA HARRIS, LARS JAN, NANCY KEYSTONE, LISA KRON, KIMBER LEE, YOUNG JEAN LEE, MATTHEW LOPEZ, TREY LYFORD, RICHARD MONTOYA, JANINE NABERS (FADIMAN), QUI NGUYEN, LYNN NOTTAGE, MARCO RAMIREZ, SARAH RUHL, ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH, GEOFF SOBELLE, MARIKE SPLINT, LUIS VALDEZ, PAULA VOGEL, TRACEY SCOTT WILSON (FADIMAN), KAREN ZACARÍAS (FADIMAN)........................................... Commissioned Artists LUIS ALFARO, AZIZA BARNES, DIANA BURBANO, NOAH HAIDLE, ADITI BRENNAN KAPIL, BRIAN OTAÑO, RUBY RAE SPIEGEL............................................L.A. Writers’ Workshop Members KRISTINA WONG..............................................Sherwood Award Recipient, 2019 EDUCATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS LESLIE K. JOHNSON............. Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Impact KATHRYN MACKENZIE ................................................ Director of Administration TYRONE DAVIS.....................................................Audience Engagement Director TRACI KWON.................................................. Arts Education Initiatives Director JESUS REYES...................................................Community Partnerships Director CAMILLE SCHENKKAN..................................Next Generation Initiatives Director JAQUELYN JOHNSON...........................................Audience Engagement Manager SONDRA MAYER............................Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) ADAM NICOLAI.................................................Arts Education Program Manager FELIPE M. SANCHEZ............................................................Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals Program Manager ANNE MARIE ACOSTA.....................................................Administrative Assistant DEBRA PIVER................................................................. Resident Teaching Artist ALEKSEJ AARSAETHER.....................Temporary Internship Program Coordinator MICHAELA BULKLEY....................... Temporary Career Fair Program Coordinator COURTNEY CLARK.................................................Temporary Program Assistant MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION NAUSICA STERGIOU................................................................... General Manager JEFFREY UPAH ...........................................................................General Manager KATIE SOFF.................................................................Associate General Manager ERIC SIMS..................................................................Associate General Manager CASEY McDERMOTT..................................................Associate General Manager MEGAN ALVORD....................................................................... Company Manager ALANA BEIDELMAN.......................... Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director PRODUCTION JOE HAMLIN........................................................................ Director of Production KRYSTIN MATSUMOTO.......................................................... Production Manager CHRISTOPHER REARDON......................................................Production Manager KATIE CHEN...........................................................Assistant Production Manager ERIN TIFFANY........................................................Assistant Production Manager ERICA LARSON..................................................................Production Coordinator SHAWN ANDERSON.................................... Head Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) SCOTT LUCAS...........................................Head Properties (Ahmanson Theatre) JAMES WRIGHT.......................................... Head Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH.................................................Head Sound (Ahmanson Theatre) SHANE ANDERSON............................................Head Flyrail (Ahmanson Theatre) GARY MARTHALER............................ Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) MARY WARDE......................................................... Hair and Make-up Supervisor .............................................................................................. (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINE L. COX.......................................House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) EMMET KAISER............................................Head Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) MARY ROMERO........................................... Head Properties (Mark Taper Forum) AARON STAUBACH......................................Head Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE................................................ Head Sound (Mark Taper Forum) DENNIS SEETOO.................................. Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) RICK GEYER.............................. Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) LINDA WALKER ........................................... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) ADAM PHALEN .............................................. Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre)

SEAN MEYER .......................................Head Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CAMBRIA CHICHI............................Wardrobe Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) BEN GRAY..............................................Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHAD SMITH............................................................ Associate Technical Director LEE O’REILLY........................................................... Associate Technical Director SEAN KLOC...................................................................................... Shop Foreman MERRIANNE NEDREBERG................................................................ Prop Director KATE REINLIB..................................................................Associate Prop Manager CANDICE CAIN........................................................................... Costume Director BRENT M. BRUIN..............................................................Costume Shop Manager MADDIE KELLER..................................................................... Costume Generalist WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER..........................Resident Assistant Costume Desginer KAT PATTERSON......................................Resident Assistant Costume Designer SWANTJE TUOHINO........................................................................................Tailor OPERATIONS DAWN HOLISKI............................................ Director of Operations and Facilities PETER WYLIE................................................................. Office Services Manager ELIZABETH LEONARD................................................... Senior Facilities Manager MAX OKEN................................................................................ Facilities Manager BRANDON DOBBINS................................Operations and Production Supervisor JULIO A. CUELLAR......................................................................Driver/Custodian BO FOXWORTH, JOE HALLAM.....................................................................Drivers FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, AND HUMAN RESOURCES CHERYL SHEPHERD...........................................................Chief Financial Officer SARAH STURDIVANT.................................... Director of Finance and Technology SUZANNE BROWN.................................................................................. Controller DANNY LAMPSON OPSTAD...................................................Accounting Manager NAKISA ASCHTIANI......................................................... Senior Staff Accountant ALEGRIA SENA........................................................................... Staff Accountant XOCHITL RAMIREZ.................................................. Accounts Payable Supervisor KERRY LARICK.....................................................................Accounting Assistant JESSICA HERNANDEZ................................................................. Payroll Manager JUAN MARTINEZ......................................................................... Payroll Specialist TOM MEGALE................................................... Director of Business Applications ASH LEWIS........................................................................ Systems Administrator JANELLE TORRES...................................... Senior Tessitura & Web Administrator CHIMA OMEAKU......................................................................Help Desk Support JODY HORWITZ........................................................Director of Human Resources PJ. PHILLIPS.................................................Senior Human Resources Generalist MELISSA MCCAFFREY...........................................Human Resources Generalist MOSS ADAMS............................................................................................. Auditor MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF..................................... Legal Counsel GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER......................................................... Legal Counsel INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL..........................Director of Institutional Advancement TYLER ENNIS................................ Deputy Director of Institutional Advancement JASON CABRAL....................... Director of Advancement Operations & Analytics LOUIE ANCHONDO............................... Director of Events & Corporate Relations ASHLEY TIERNEY.......................................................Director of the Annual Fund TERRA GOULDEN..........................................................Senior Major Gifts Officer KATY HILTON...............Associate Director of Foundation & Government Support LAURA HITE............................Associate Director of Gift Operations & Reporting MANDI OR.....................................................Associate Director of Special Events RYAN WAGNER...............................................Associate Director of Donor Data & .......................................................................................Communication Strategy VANESSA WHEELER..............................Associate Director of Prospect Research MOLLY COTTEN........................................................................ 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KARLA GALVEZ, JUSTINE PEREZ................................ Donor Services Associates MURRAY E. HELTZER, EARL KLASKY.............................Development Volunteers MARKETING DEBORAH WARREN..............................................................Director of Marketing GARRETT COLLINS.................................................... Marketing Strategy Director KYLE HALL...................................................................................Creative Director ARIE LEVINE..........................................Senior Marketing Manager, Ahmanson & .................................................................................................. Mark Taper Forum KIYOMI EMI.........................................Marketing Manager, Promotions & Events EMYLI GUDMUNDSON.........................Marketing Manager, Kirk Douglas Theatre CAROLINE THOMPSON/IMPACT 123............................................ Media Planning DEANNA McCLURE........................................................... Art and Design Director IRENE T. KANESHIRO....................................................... Senior Design Manager SANDI SILBERT............................................................................ Senior Designer TARA NITZ.....................................................................................Senior Designer JAVIER VASQUEZ............................................. Senior Designer-Digital Specialist COMMUNICATIONS JAMES SIMS..............................................................Director of Communications JASON MARTIN........................................................................... Head of Publicity KRISTI AVILA............................................................................................ Publicist KAREN BACELLAR.........................................................................Junior Publicist SARAH ROTHBARD.....................................................Associate Editorial Director TYLER EMERSON............................................................Digital Product Manager RUTH GUERRA........................................................ Communications Coordinator REZA VOJDANI ......................................................Communications Coordinator HAL BANFIELD......................................................................Multimedia Producer TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON............................................................ Ticket Sales Director SKYPP CABANAS............................................ Senior Manager, Ticket Operations NICOLE MEDINA.....................................................Ticket Operations Coordinator MICHAEL ZOLDESSY............................................Senior Manager, Account Sales SANDY CZUBIAK........................................................... Audience and Subscriber ....................................................................................................Services Director JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE.......................................... Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN................................................. Audience Services Asst. Supervisor MICHAEL ESPINOZA, GARY HOLLAND....... Audience Services Sales Associates SAM AARON, JESSICA ABROMAVICH, JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, KIMBERLY ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, DAVID BETANCOURT, ALEJANDRA DE PAZ, KAITLYN GALVEZ, ANASTASHIA GARCIA, ELIANA HERNANDEZ-FAUSTO, CHRISTINE PEDROZA, EILEEN PEREZ, CHRISTIAN UNGER..............Audience Services Representatives DANUTA SIEMAK................................................ Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ ........................... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor IRENE CHUANG, LIGIA PISTE, PETER STALOCH....................Subscriber Services ..........................................................................................Senior Representatives SARAH K. GONTA .................................................................. Box Office Treasurer ANGELICA CARBAJAL, KISHISA ROSS................................. Assistant Treasurers KEANA JACKSON, MICHAEL KEMPISTY, KEVIN LAUVER, CRIS SPACCA, MICHAEL VALLE................................................... Box Office Staff KERRY KORF.................................................................. Priority Services Director CANDICE WALTERS............................................ Priority Services Sales Manager PAUL CUEN, KRISTEN SCHRASS............................... Priority Services Managers SOFIJA DUTCHER......................................Priority Services Assistant Supervisor ................................................................................................................................

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We gratefully recognize the following list of annual fund and membership donors whose contributions help bring the highest quality of theatre to our stages and support the impact we strive to make in our communities. You are the backbone of Center Theatre Group, and we are deeply appreciative of your generous support.

Acknowledges a loyal supporter who has pledged to sustain their commitment beyond Center Theatre Group’s current season by making a multi-year investment to our annual operating or membership funds. ◆

To learn more about making an annual gift, visit CTGLA.org/WaystoGive or consider joining our membership program and call 213.972.7654.

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Joan & Rob Blackman Desobry E. Bowens in Memory of Alice Desobry Bowens Mara & Joseph Carieri Marcy Carsey Helen & Morgan Chu Alan Mandell Susanne & Greg Daniels Cástulo de la Rocha & Zoila Escobar Erica & Vin Di Bona Ruth Flinkman-Marandy & Ben Marandy Cindy & Gary Frischling Robert Greenblatt Jason Grode & Maryl Georgi In Memory of Morris A. Hazan Vicki King The Eugene La Pietra Foundation The Labowe Family Foundation Jody & David Lippman Renee & Meyer Luskin Lynn & Dreux McNairy Isabel Friend Newman Michael Ritchie & Kate Burton Ben Sherwood and Karen Kehela Mr. & Mrs. Jack Simon Ms. Marie H. Song Glenn and Andrea Sonnenberg Eugene & Marilyn Stein Sandra Stern Sunshine Stone Karen & William Timberlake Peter & Iona Tompkins Dana & Matthew Walden

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Judith Beckmen Eli Broad Ronald W. Burkle Amb. (ret.) John B. Emerson* Lois Erburu Richard M. Ferry Brindell Gottlieb Bernard A. Greenberg Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Amb. (ret.) Glen A. Holden Stuart M. Ketchum Amb. (ret.) Lester B. Korn

Richard Lynn Martinez

Kent Kresa

Bowen “Buzz” H. McCoy Mattie McFaddenLawson

Robert F. Maguire, III Ginny Mancini

Elizabeth Michelson

Walter M. Mirisch

Darrell D. Miller Shelby Notkin Michael Pagano Cynthia M. Patton Karen Kay Platt Rory Pullens Max Ramberg ^

Edward J. McAniff Fredric M. Roberts Claire L. Rothman Joni J. Smith Cynthia A. Telles James A. Thomas Andrea L. Van de Kamp* Paul M. Watson Thomas R. Weinberger Rosalind W. Wyman * Chairman Emeritus

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A s one of the nation’s largest performing arts centers, and as a cultural and civic anchor in Los Angeles County, The Music Center convenes artists, communities and ideas with the goal of deepening the cultural lives of every resident in the county. The Music Center is poised to become a multidisciplinary arts center for the 21st century, not only as a home for classical art forms, but also as a driving artistic voice for diversity and inclusion that reflects and responds to the ever-evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Through compelling programs that are relevant to a range of audiences, serving Los Angeles in all its breadth, The Music Center is both the home and the force behind some of the greatest creative expression today.

OFFICERS Lisa Specht Board Chair

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MARCH FRI 01 MAR / 8:00 p.m.

Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Ahmanson Theatre Thru 3/10

TUE 05 MAR / 8:00 p.m.

Lackawanna Blues CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Mark Taper Forum Thru 4/21

FRI 01 MAR / 8:00 p.m.

Dudamel Conducts Mahler LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 3/3

TUE 05 MAR / 8:00 p.m.

Bryce Dessner’s Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

FRI 01 MAR / 8:30 p.m.

Courtney Bryan REDCAT @ Roy And Edna Disney / CalArts Theater

WED 06 MAR / 8:00 p.m.

Anne-Sophie Mutter • Lambert Orkis LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

FRI 01 MAR / 12:15 p.m.

Grand Park’s LUNCH À LA PARK: Yoga reTREAT @ Grand Park Performance Lawn Every Wed/Fri

THU 07 MAR / 8:00 p.m.

Dudamel & Yuja Wang LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

SAT 02 MAR / 7:30 p.m.

The Clemency of Titus LA OPERA @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 3/24 MON 04 MAR / 8:30 p.m.

Sharon Lockhart: Rudzienko and Podwórka New Films From Poland REDCAT @ Roy And Edna Disney / CalArts Theater TUE 05 MAR / 11:00 a.m.

Grand Park’s LUNCH À LA PARK: Food Trucks @ Grand Park Every Tue/Wed/Thu

SAT 23 MAR / 8:00 p.m.

Oscar, with Love LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall SUN 24 MAR / 7:30 p.m.

Iron & Wine with Orchestra LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall MON 25 MAR / 8:30 p.m.

Anouk de Clercq: Future Images REDCAT @ Roy And Edna Disney / CalArts Theater TUE 26 MAR / 8:30 p.m.

Ever Present Orchestra: Works by Alvin Lucier REDCAT @ Roy And Edna Disney / CalArts Theater

SUN 10 MAR / 7:30 p.m.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

WED 27 MAR / 7:30 p.m.

Music 101: A Symphonic Spectacular LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

WED 13 MAR / 8:00 p.m.

Eric Owens and Lawrence Brownlee • Craig Terry LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

THU 28 MAR / 8:00 p.m.

Gershwin & Ravel LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 3/31

SAT 16 MAR / 8:00 p.m.

Nils Frahm LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall SUN 17 MAR / 7:00 p.m.

The Duruflé Requiem LA MASTER CHORALE @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

2019 Visit musiccenter.org for additional information on all upcoming events. facebook.com/MusicCenterLA

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ®

The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Wednesday, April 3, 2019

7:30 p.m. Trailblazers Program

Thursday, April 4, 2019

7:30 p.m. Bold Visions Program

Friday, April 5, 2019

7:30 p.m. Timeless Ailey Program

Saturday, April 6, 2019

2:00 p.m. Musical Inspirations Program

Saturday, April 6, 2019

7:30 p.m. Trailblazers Program

Sunday, April 7, 2019

2:00 p.m. Bold Visions Program

Sunday, April 7, 2019

7:30 p.m. Timeless Ailey Program

For full descriptions of each program, please visit musiccenter.org/ailey.

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musiccenter.org/ailey | (213) 972-0711 GROUPS OF 10+: (213) 972-8555 | mcgroupsales@musiccenter.org Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Samantha Figgins and Jeroboam Bozeman. Photo by Andrew Eccles.

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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES Support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS, Second District; SHEILA J. KUEHL, Third District, Chair; JANICE HAHN, Fourth District; KATHRYN BARGER, Fifth District; and HILDA L. SOLIS, First District

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