DMPA: Murder for Two - March 10-15, 2015

Murder for Two March 10-15, 2015

Contents 3 Welcome from Prairie Meadows . . . . . . . .4 Murder for Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Who’s Who in the Company . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Staff and Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Des Moines Performing Arts . . . . . . . . . . 14 From the President & CEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Board of Directors and Staff

April 14-19

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Guest Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO

Dear friends, Welcome to the Temple Theater! Since opening in October 2002, the Temple Theater has become an important fixture in the live entertainment scene in Central Iowa and a cornerstone of the Western Gateway revitalization. It is undoubtedly one of the best small performance spaces in Des Moines.

Des Moines Performing Arts is dedicated to bringing the finest in professional theater and entertainment to our area. We’re very grateful to Prairie Meadows for supporting our programming.

We especially appreciate the support of our loyal Temple Comedy Series Season Ticket Holders. It’s the support of theater-goers like you that makes this intimate theater a continued success.

Enjoy this performance of Murder for Two! Then, join us for Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man April 14-19.

Jeff Chelesvig President & CEO Des Moines Performing Arts

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WELCOME FROM PRAIRIE MEADOWS

Dear Temple Theater guests, Des Moines is alive with cultural events that rival those found in much larger cities across the nation. This is a result, in large part, to the outstanding offerings presented by Des Moines Performing Arts. Your support of this organization and the wonderful productions at the Temple Theater is a testament to the quality of offerings it provides to our community.

Prairie Meadows is delighted to partner with Des Moines Performing Arts in bringing you the Prairie Meadows Temple Comedy Series and to contribute to the economic vitality and quality of life in Central Iowa.

Along with our commitment to providing financial support to the arts, Prairie Meadows has given more than $1 billion through taxes, grants and charitable donations to the State of Iowa. More than half of that has remained right here in our community to promote economic development, agriculture, jobs and tourism.

We look forward to another wonderful season, and we hope you enjoy the show.

Sincerely,

Gary Palmer President /CEO Prairie Meadows 4

TEMPLE THEATER

A Des Moines Performing Arts Theater Jeff Chelesvig, President & CEO

JAYSON RAITT

LATITUDE LINK

BARBARA WHITMAN

STEVEN CHAIKELSON

OMNEITY PAULA MARIE ENTERTAINMENT/ BLACK RICHARD G. WEINBERG

PAULA PITTSBURGH KAMINSKY CLO DAVIS

SECOND STAGE THEATRE Carole Rothman, Artistic Director Casey Reitz, Executive Director Christopher Burney, Curator and Associate Artistic Director present

Book and Music by

Book and Lyrics by

JOE KINOSIAN

KELLEN BLAIR

KYLE BRANZEL

Scenic Design BEOWULF BORITT

Starring

Costume Design ANDREA LAUER

IAN LOWE

Lighting Design JASON LYONS

Music Director DAVID CALDWELL

Sound Design JILL BC DU BOFF

Choreographer WENDY SEYB

Casting Production Stage Manager Production Supervisor Associate Producer CALLERI CASTING Katrina Olson PRODUCTION CORE TOM CASSERLY National Press Representative MATT ROSS PUBLIC RELATIONS

General Management SNUG HARBOR PRODUCTIONS

Exclusive Tour Direction AWA PARTNERS

Directed by

SCOTT SCHWARTZ The World Premiere of Murder for Two was presented on May 12, 2011 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago, IL. Barbara Gaines, Artistic Director, Criss Henderson, Executive Director.

Murder for Two was developed for Chicago Shakespeare Theater by Rick Boynton, Creative Producer.

New York Premiere Produced by the Second Stage Theatre, New York, 2013

March 10-15, 2015 PRESENTED BY DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS

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WHO’S WHO in the COMPANY KYLE BRANZEL (The Suspects) is just dying to murder every last one of you.

Did I say murder? I meant thrilled to be in the production.

National Tour: Henry and Mudge. Regional: Footloose (Willard), Guys and Dolls (Benny),... Charlie Brown (Schroeder). As Music Director/Pianist: See What I Wanna See (Steppenwolf Garage Rep), Passing Strange (Bailiwick Chicago), The Fabulous Lipitones (Penguin Rep Theatre), A Chorus Line (Timber Lake Playhouse), Sam Carner and Derek Gregor’s Barely Legal Showtune Extravaganza (Les Poisson Rouge). B.F.A. Musical Theatre from Chicago College of Performing Arts and proud AEA member. Native of Elyria, Ohio. Much love to Mom and Dad, my family and The Guys! kylebranzel.com

Dorset Theater Festival, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Ivoryton Playhouse and others. Readings and workshops at The York, Ensemble Theatre Company, Manhattan Theater Club and others. 2014 Lotte Lenya Competition Semi-Finalist. BA, Yale University. Many thanks to the entire MFT team and to Mom and Papa for those piano lessons. Love to RC. Next Up: More Murder For Two across the country! theianlowe.com MARTIN LANDRY (u/s The Suspects) is beyond thrilled to join Murder for Two! New York credits include Til Divorce Do Us Part (DR2 Theatre), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Harbor Lights Theatre Company), Son of a Gun (Theatre Row), Dear Edwina (DR2 Theatre), Brunch - The Musical (ATA - Chernuchin) and The Ohmies (Peter Jay Sharp Theatre). He also appeared in the world premiere of Of Mice and Manhattan at the Kennedy Center, debuting previously unheard Frank Loesser songs. Additionally, Martin is a published composer/lyricist, and his full-length musical Esther (co-written with his wife, Janice) has been produced more than 40 times in five countries. Many thanks to the entire Murder For Two family, and special shout out to Joe Kinosian for inadvertently being a career fairy godfather for the last six years. Love to Janice (always), and enjoy the show! martinlandry.net

IAN LOWE (Marcus) is excited to be performing in Des Moines with the Murder for Two tour following engagements at The Old Globe Theatre and Arizona Theater Company! OffBroadway: Murder for Two (New World Stages), Nikolai & the Others (Lincoln Center Theatre), Bayonets of Angst (NY Musical Theater Festival), Feste in 12th Night (Sonnet Rep). Regional: Fingers in Fingers & Toes (Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival, Regional Premiere), Heartbreaker starring Christine Andreas (Adirondack Theatre Festival, Regional Premiere); plays and musicals at Capital Rep, Pittsburgh CLO, Riverside Theater, Charleston Stage,

BRANDON LAMBERT (u/s Marcus) is thrilled to be joining the tour of Murder for Two. Regional: Plaid Tidings (Pittsburgh CLO), Born Yesterday (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Legally Blonde (Pittsburgh Musical Theatre) and Natoma (Victor Herbert Renaissance Project). Additionally, he won the 6

WHO’S WHO in the COMPANY Pittsburgh Concert Society Young Artist Competition, placed 3rd in the Solon Center of the Arts Concerto Competition and participated in the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Young Composer Program. Brandon thanks the entire MFT team for this opportunity, and he thanks his family for their unwavering support.

across the country. Kellen is excited to be developing a new musical farce with Joe titled The More Things Change; he’s also working with Broadway composer Larry Grossman on a new show called Scrooge in Love. Updates, videos, song demos and sheet music can be found at kinosianandblair.com.

A huge thank you to the most supportive family ever!

SCOTT SCHWARTZ (Director) directed Murder for Two Off-Broadway at New World Stages and Second Stage Uptown. On Broadway, he directed Golda’s Balcony and Jane Eyre (co-directed with John Caird). His other Off-Broadway work includes Bat Boy: The Musical (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical; Drama Desk Award nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), tick, tick…

BOOM! (Outer Critics Circle, Outstanding OffBroadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical); Rooms: A Rock Romance; The Foreigner starring Matthew Broderick (Roundabout Theatre Company), Kafka’s The Castle (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Outstanding Director of a Play) and No Way to Treat a Lady. He also directed Golda’s Balcony on tour, in London, in Los Angeles at the Wadsworth Theatre and in San Francisco at American Conservatory Theater. He directed the world premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon at Opera Santa Barbara and subsequently at New York City Opera. Schwartz’s other recent credits include the U.S. premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse), the world premiere of Secondhand Lions (5th Avenue Theatre), the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against (Alley Theatre), Arsenic and Old Lace starring Tovah Feldshuh and Betty Buckley (Dallas Theater Center) and a re-envisioning of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Paper Mill Playhouse, Theatre Under The Stars, Theatre on the Square and North Shore Music Theatre; 2008 IRNE Award, Outstanding

JOE KINOSIAN (Book and Music) is the co-recipient of Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award recognizing Murder for Two as Best New Musical following its record-breaking run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Joe was also nominated for Best Actor as The Suspects. Murder for Two had its Off-Broadway premiere at Second Stage Uptown, going on to a year-long run at New World Stages. Joe’s work with Kellen Blair has been showcased at The Kennedy Center, The York Theater and on Broadway at the Theatre World Awards. Joe received the ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award and the Harrington Award from the BMI Workshop. Joe also appeared in Dirty Blonde with Emily Skinner (Hangar Theater) and the NYC premiere of Dear Edwina OffBroadway. kinosianandblair.com KELLEN BLAIR (Book and Lyrics) is the Drama Desk-nominated co-creator of Murder for Two (Off-Broadway: Second Stage Theatre and New World Stages. World premiere: Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Kellen and co-writer Joe Kinosian are the recipients of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Musical Work in Chicago (2011) and the ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers / Lorenz Hart Award (2013).

Their work has been showcased on Broadway, the Kennedy Center and theaters 7

WHO’S WHO in the COMPANY Director of a Musical). He is the Artistic Director of Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY and is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an Associate Artist at the Alley Theatre and a graduate of Harvard University.

Brooklynite, STREB’S event at the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad, in addition to theatrical, dance, and opera productions in New York and around the country. Lauer is also a stylist for various artists, musicians and publications. Her work can be seen in Rolling Stone, Vogue, Interview, OUT Magazine, The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, The Tony Awards, red carpet events, music videos, and promo shoots.

WENDY SEYB (Choreographer) Carnegie Hall with Sting, Kevin Spacey, James Taylor, Renée Fleming, The Pee-wee Herman Show (Broadway and HBO), Off Broadway: Click, Clack, Moo (Lortel Nomination), The Toxic Avenger Musical (Lortel, Dora, Callaway nominations), Murder for Two. Director/choreographer: How You Look at It (Sacramento Ballet), Birthday Sax (Ars Nova), That Reminds Me... (web series).

Shows for Disney, Cartoon Network, Richard Frankel Productions and Nickelodeon. Her Narrative Dance Comedies are created for short films, spec commercials, music videos and esteemed NYC venues including Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce SoHo and Baryshnikov Arts Center. wendyseyb.com

JASON LYONS (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Hand To God, On The Town, Bronx Bombers, Let It Be, Bring It On, Rock of Ages (Vegas, Toronto, Australia, London and Nat. Tours), The Threepenny Opera, Barefoot In the Park and Good Vibrations. Recent: Heathers, The Commons of Pensacola (MTC), Murder For Two, Nerds (PTC), Venice (Public), Hello Dolly (Goodspeed), All in the Timing (Primary), Medieval Play (Signature), Uncle Vanya (CSC), White Noise (Chicago), Brokeology, Clay (LCT), Happy Hour, 2 by Pinter, Scarcity (Atlantic), 10 years with The New Group including The Good Mother, Marie & Bruce, Abigail’s Party, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Hurlyburly. Faculty: Purchase College. jasonlyonsdesign.com

BEOWULF BORITT (Scenic Designer) designed the Off-Broadway production of Murder For Two. Broadway: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nomination), On The Town, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee , LoveMusik, Rock Of Ages, Chaplin, Bronx Bombers, Grace and The Two And Only. Off- Broadway: More than 50 shows, including Toxic Avenger, Last Five Years, Miss Julie, Roundabout, MTC, Public, 2nd Stage, Vineyard, MCC, Primary Stages and the New Group. Other Designs: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Ballet) and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He received a 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence.

JILL BC Du BOFF (Sound Designer) Broadway: The Heidi Chronicles, Hand to God, Disgraced, Picnic, Wit, Other Desert Cities, Good People, The Constant Wife, The Good Body and Bill Maher: Victory... Off-Broadway includes Lincoln Center, MTC, Atlantic, Vineyard, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Second Stage, NYTW, WP, New Georges, Flea, Cherry Lane, Signature, Clubbed Thumb (Affiliate Artist), Penguin Rep. Regional: Bay Street, La Jolla, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Portland Stage, Long Wharf, The Alley, NYS&F, Humana, Williamstown, ATF. Radio: Executive Producer: New Yorker Out Loud, Studio 360, Naked Radio, RadioLab. Drama Desk and Henry Hewes nominations. Awards; Ruth Morley Design Award, OBIE for Sustained Excellence,

ANDREA LAUER (Costume Designer) has recent design credits including Broadway’s Bring It On, American Idiot (Broadway and touring productions), Off Broadway: What’s it all about, Michael Mayer’s upcoming 8

WHO’S WHO in the COMPANY Raisin in the Sun, Chicago, James Joyce’s The Dead. Some past Off-Broadway includes: Buyer & Cellar, The Hill Town Plays, The Revisionist, All in the Timing, Passion, My Name is Asher Lev, Fuerza Bruta, Silence! The Musical.

Also Rattlestick, CSC, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Flea, Long Wharf, McCarter, Berkeley Rep, Playwrights Horizons (10 seasons). Lots of TV and Film including Mike Cahill’s I Origins, Sundance 2014. Awarded 12 Artios Awards for Outstanding Casting Achievement. Member CSA.

Lilly Award. Audio Producer for The New Yorker, Adjunct Professor; Sarah Lawrence College. Love to Adam.

DAVID CALDWELL (Music Director) has been the Music Director of Forbidden Broadway since 2004. He composed music and lyrics for All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and Uh-Oh Here Comes Christmas, both based on the writing of Robert Fulghum. He conducted the American premiere of Stephen Schwartz’ Children of Eden. He arranged and orchestrated Marvin Hamlisch’s song “I’m Really Dancing” for Career Transitions for Dancers’ 25th Anniversary Gala, featuring Angela Lansbury, Chita Rivera and Bebe Neuwirth. He is interviewed at length in Oliver Sacks’ book about music and the brain, Musicophilia.

KATRINA OLSON (Production Stage Manager) Tours: Smokey Joe’s Café 20th Anniversary Tour, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Miss Saigon, LOOPED, The Book of Mormon, High, The Brothers Size.

New York: Lincoln Center, Nickelodeon, The Public Theatre, SoHo Rep, Classical Theatre of Harlem, MCC Theater, Theatre for a New Audience, Vineyard Theatre, The Civilians.

Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Hartford Stage Company, New York Stage & Film, Trinity Repertory Company, Houston Grand Opera, Scottish Opera, Glasgow, Scotland. MFA, Yale School of Drama. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

J. SCOTT LAPP (Assistant Director) is thrilled to be back on Murder for Two after working on the initial runs at Second Stage Uptown and New World Stages! Associate/Assistant Directing credits include Broadway: Bonnie & Clyde; Off-Broadway: Murder For Two (New World & Second Stage); Regional: Into the Woods (Fiasco/Old Globe), Secondhand Lions (5th Ave), Somewhere in Time (PCS), Good People (Old Globe), A Room With A View (Old Globe), Somewhere (Old Globe), Bonnie & Clyde (La Jolla, Asolo Rep), Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin (La Jolla), Xanadu (La Jolla, Nat’l Tour). Upcoming Projects: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paper Mill Playhouse) and The Untitled John Mayer Project (NY workshop). He also works as the co-artistic producer of Cabaret at The Merc and is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Love and thanks to God, Scott, parents and Chelsea. Live blessed. jscottlapp.com

PRODUCTION CORE (Production Supervisor) lends support and guidance to theatre companies that produce highquality theatrical performances and need direction/support on the collaboration, planning and execution of the production process. The Production Core team is James E. Cleveland, Jared Goldstein, David Upton, Ron Grimshaw, Maggie Davis, Chasmin Hallyburton, Julie Shelton, Amber Mathis, S.M. Payson, Leah Vogel, Esti Bernstein, Gayle Riess, Felicia Hall, Darielle Shandler, A.J. Jacobs, and Grace Richardson. Current projects include: Nevermore at New World Stages, 50 Shades! The Musical at the Elektra Theatre, Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man at the 777 Theatre, Pretty Filthy at The Abrons Art Center, Bright Half Life

CALLERI CASTING (James Calleri, Paul Davis, Erica Jensen) (Casting) Broadway: The Elephant Man, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Of Mice & Men, Venus in Fur, 33 Variations, 9

WHO’S WHO in the COMPANY at New York City Center Stage II, A Month in the Country at Classic Stage Company, The Last Two People On Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville Tour. productioncore.net

to Normal (Pulitzer), Hamlet starring Jude Law, 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda and Mary Stuart, Legally Blonde - The Musical, … Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and A Raisin in the Sun. A native New Yorker, Barbara attended NYU’s Gallatin School and received an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University.

She’s on the Board of the Tectonic Theater Project and the Leadership Council of Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights Aids. Her proudest productions are her sons, Daniel and Will.

SNUG HARBOR PRODUCTIONS (General Management) Credits include: Broadway: Ring of Fire, Elaine Stritch at Liberty (Tony Award), George Gershwin Alone, Death of a Salesman (Tony Award, starring Brian Dennehy), The Price and Fool Moon (Tony Award); Off-Broadway: Murder for Two, Piece of My Heart, Martin Moran’s All the Rage (Lortel Award), Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature, Elective Affinities (starring Zoe Caldwell), Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn, Evil Dead The Musical, Almost, Maine, The Tricky Part (Obie Award) and Peter Brook’s Tierno Bokar.

STEVEN CHAIKELSON (Producer) is a professor in the Columbia University School of the Arts, where he runs the MFA Theatre Management & Producing Program and serves as advisor to the T Fellowship, founded by Harold Prince. He is a co-author of Theatre Law: Cases and Materials, the first and only law school textbook devoted to theatre law, and a regular contributor to the theatre volumes of Entertainment Industry Contracts, published by LexisNexis. Through his company, Snug Harbor Productions, Steven general manages productions on and Off-Broadway, around the U.S. and internationally. Producing credits include Private Jokes, Public Places in NYC and London, the Off-Broadway premiere of Murder For Two, Criss Angel Mindfreak and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

JAYSON RAITT (Producer) produces and develops new musicals. Broadway: Rock of Ages. Off-Broadway: Murder for Two, Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn, Vanities A New Musical. London: Make Me A Song. Regional: Murder For Two, Nine Wives, Love Makes the World Go ‘Round, Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, Being Alive, The Grave White Way. Live events: Sting and Patti LuPone in Uprising of Love; Christina Aguilera and dancers from the movie Burlesque on “Dancing with the Stars,” “The American Music Award” and “X Factor” (UK); cast of the movie Hairspray on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “The Today Show” and “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,” concerts in Poland and Israel for the documentary 100 Voices: A Journey Home. Jayson spent seven years on the producing team at Pasadena Playhouse.

SECOND STAGE THEATRE (Producer) founded in 1979 under the leadership of artistic director Carole Rothman, produces a diverse range of premieres and new interpretations of America’s best contemporary theatre including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey; the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes; The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown; Dogfight by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Peter Duchan; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage; Trust and Lonely,

BARBARA WHITMAN (Producer) Current productions include Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony Award, Best Musical Revival), If/Then starring Idina Menzel, and this spring, Fun Home. Other credits include Hands on a Hardbody, Red (Tony Award, Best Play), Next 10

WHO’S WHO in the COMPANY I’m Not by Paul Weitz and Bachelorette by Leslye Headland. The company’s more than 130 citations include the Pulitzer Prize, seven Tony Awards and the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work.

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had a voice; I dedicate my support of the Art of Theatre to you.”

PAULA KAMINSKY DAVIS (Producer) Owner: Gem Financial Services, PKDManagement, Epkam Ventures, Drama League Board Member. Producer: Rock of Ages. Assoc.

Producer: Heidi Chronicles, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Ann, Peter and the Starcatcher on tour, Tail!Spin!. Investor: Vanya…, Cinderella, Nice Work…, The Trip to Bountiful, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 54 Below and others. Avid photographer and theatre lover.

LATITUDE LINK (Producer) is led by threetime Tony Award-winning producers, Ralph & Gail Bryan. They are currently represented on Broadway by Jersey Boys, Matilda and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Current National/ international hits include Jersey Boys and Memphis. Past Broadway productions include Rocky, Of Mice and Men, Hands on a Hardbody, Memphis, American Idiot, Jesus Christ Superstar, 33 Variations and The Farnsworth Invention. latitudelink.com

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER (Producer) Recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award, CST is one of America’ s largest, most celebrated theaters, producing a yearround season encompassing more than 600 performances at its home on Chicago’s Navy Pier. CST’s work is regularly represented on stages around the world including the Donmar Warehouse, Sydney Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company and Market Theatre of Johannesburg. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson, CST produces extraordinary classics from the past and present, contemporary dramas, musical theater and premieres of new works–including Murder for Two, which CST developed in 2011. chicagoshakes.com

OMNEITY ENTERTAINMENT/RICHARD G. WEINBERG (Producer) Richard’s been involved with numerous film and television projects through his tenure with Columbia, CBS, Savoy and Sundance. Theatre investments include, among others, The Producers, Hairspray and The Immigrant, Spider-Man and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Richard and his partner Tommye Giacchino are United States pro/am ballroom champions. Thanks to wife, Diane, parents, children and family.

PAULA MARIE BLACK (Producer) London currently running: Made in Dagenham (Adelphi), Lead Producer of The Scottsboro Boys (Garrick). Broadway currently running: On the Town (Lyric) and Tony Award® winner for Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Belasco), Of Mice and Men,Tony Award® nomination for Twelfth Night/ Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Tony Award Nomination® for The Trip to Bountiful, Hands on a Hardbody; Off-Broadway: Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812, Little Miss Sunshine, Murder For Two. “My producing efforts honor the works of women directors and playwrights. I honor those who have not

AWA PARTNERS (Exclusive Tour Direction) represents the joint forces of AWA Touring Services, Off-Broadway Booking/OBB and AVID Touring Group. The new roster includes, I Love Lucy Live on Stage, A Christmas Story— the Musical, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!—the Musical, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Celebrity Autobiography, among many others. Past projects include Green Day’s American Idiot, The Phantom of the Opera, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, DreamWorks’ Madagascar Live and Monty Python’s Spamalot. AWA-Partners.com 11

Staff and Credits GENERAL MANAGEMENT SNUG HARBOR PRODUCTIONS Steven Chaikelson Kendra Bator _______________________________________

Website Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Pekoe Group

Jon Bierman, Sasha DeFazio

EXCLUSIVE TOUR DIRECTION AWA PARTNERS L. Glenn Poppleton Robin Mishik-Jett Glenn White Sean Mackey Jalaina Ross _______________________________________

Playbill Cover Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . aka

Production Photos . . . . . . . . . . Jim Cox, Joan Marcus Production Accountants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fried & Kowgios CPA’s LLP

Robert Fried, CPA and Karen Kowgios, CPA Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Galbraith & Company

Sarah Galbraith, Tabitha Falcone

NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE MATT ROSS PUBLIC RELATIONS Matt Ross Nicole Capatasto Nancy Alligood _______________________________________

Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JP Morgan Chase Bank Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DeWitt Stern Group, Inc

Rebecca LaFazia

CASTING CALLERI CASTING James Calleri, CSA Paul Davis Erica Jensen _______________________________________

Legal Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sendroff & Baruch, LLP

Jason Baruch, Esq. Payroll Service . . . Checks and Balances Payroll, Inc.

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR PRODUCTION CORE James E. Cleveland

___________________________________________ CREDITS Scenery constructed by Tom Carroll Scenery.

Lighting equipment by 4Wall. Sound equipment

by Chinchilla Theatrical. Trucking by Rock-It Cargo USA, LLC. “Stepping Out” Track by Ethan Deppe

___________________________________________ PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER . . . . . Katrina Olson Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicole Herrington

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General Management Assistants . . . . . . . . . Erik Kaiko

Katharine Sullivan-Dawes General Management Intern . . . . . . . Kappy Kilburn

Murder for Two was developed at The Adirondack Theatre Festival, 2010 Season

Consulting Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kat West

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Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Scott Lapp

SPECIAL THANKS ___________________________________________

Assistant Choreographer . . . . . . . . . Steven Cardona Associate Scenic Designer . . . . . . . Jared Rutherford

David Bell, 42nd Street Moon, Hangar Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, Tom Caruso, Scott Weinstein, The Bemis and Blair Family, Marcus Stevens, Jessica Amato, The Kinosians ___________________________________________

Assistant Costume Designer . . . . . . . . . . Heather Neil Associate Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . John Wilder Associate Sound Designer . . . . . . . David Sanderson Sound Effects Consultant . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Carlyon

The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. ___________________________________________

Associate Production Supervisor . . Jared Goldstein Assistant to the Production Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chasmin Hallyburton Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dave Upton Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SM Payson

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

Production Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leah Vogel Props . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Barras and Pittsburgh CLO Production Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colin Whitely

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DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Thomas Brown * Chair/Compensation Chair Brown NationaLease Mary Kramer * Vice Chair Ambassador, Ret. Thomas E. Press * Treasurer Midland’s Choice Rosemary Parson * Secretary EquiTrust Life Insurance Company Mary Stier * Past Chair The Brilliance Group Karen J. Lynn * Assets Chair Athene USA

Eric T. Crowell * Audit Chair UnityPoint Health – Des Moines John Craig * Finance Chair Sammons Financial Group Dr. Andy McGuire * Nom/Gov Chair Meridian Health Plan DIRECTORS Tom Ahart Des Moines Public Schools

Michael Eberle, DVM Eberle Animal Hospital

Patrick Mack John Deere Financial

Jon Garnaas Healthy Living Centers of America

Robert Mahaffey City of Des Moines

Travis Gjoraas Deloitte

Bob O’Hollearn Allied Insurance

Sheryl Grimm Community Leader

Katie Stocking Happy Medium

Laure Guisinger Holmes Murphy & Associates

Angela Williams The Great Frame Up

Terry Johnson Wells Fargo Wealth Management

Robert Brownell Polk County Board of Supervisors

Monica Kirgan Principal Financial Group

Frank Cownie City of Des Moines

Christine Lauridsen Sand Lauridsen Group

LEGAL COUNSEL Mike Kulik Davis Brown Law Firm *Indicates a member of the Executive Committee

STAFF ADMINISTRATION Jeff Chelesvig President & CEO

DEVELOPMENT Todd Fogdall Director of Development

MARKETING Barb Preuss Director of Marketing

Laura Sweet Vice President & COO

Tiffany K. Spinner Annual Fund Manager

Cindy Hughes Anliker Communications Manager

Heidi Watkins Finance Director/Controller

Brett Smith Research Specialist

Bill McElrath Business Director Barbara Hanson Accountant Chris Browning Office Manager Vicky Barr Executive Assistant BUILDING SERVICES Earl Smith Building Services Manager

Summer Evans Marketing Manager Matt Spangler Marketing Manager

Rachel Woodhouse Donor Relations Coordinator

Greg Votava Digital Marketing Manager

Kelsey Tyler Development Intern

Kevin Maisto Marketing Intern

GUEST SERVICES Joel Cox Guest Services Manager

PROGRAMMING & EDUCATION Eric B. Olmscheid Director of Programming & Education

Allison Ross Assistant Guest Services Manager

Karoline Myers Education Manager

House Managers:

Ly Ung Assistant Building Services Manager

Kerry George

Building Services Associates: Danny Glover Francisco Hernandez Khom Mao Francisco Mora Irene Perez Hank Teav Dominick Ung

Doug Kouba

Sarah Bannon Community Programs Coordinator

Shirley Kleywegt *

Julia Duvall Interim School Programs Coordinator

Evonne Kouba

Julie Houghton Programming & Education Coordinator

Sharon Montgomery Cynde Pool * Shirley Ramirez Marion Singleton *Temple Theater House Managers

Nicholas Romano Stage Operations Manager/ Head Carpenter Greg Tracy Production Manager/Head Audio Jamie L. Stepp Production Supervisor TICKET OFFICE Denise Smithson Green Interim Ticket Office Director Brooke Bridenstine Ticket Office Staff Manager Misty Enderson Ticket Office Database Manager Jeff Waldschmitt Ticket Office Manager Laura Arenson Customer Service Team Member

Michelle McDonald School Programs Coordinator

Candace Bell Customer Service Team Member

Trevor Wiley Education Intern

Chontel Berthelsen Group Sales Coordinator

The backstage employees of Des Moines Performing Arts are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 67.

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TECHNICAL OPERATIONS Alan Dyer Technical Operations Manager/ Head Electrician

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The use of cameras or any type of recording devices is prohibited.

CELL PHONES AND MOBILE DEVICES

Please turn cell phones and mobile devices off, or set them to the silent mode. Please also refrain from text messaging and using them as light sources during the performance.

LATE SEATING

Late seating will be accommodated by House Staff at the earliest appropriate time.

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SPECIAL SEATING NEEDS

Seating is available for all performances for a variety of accessibility requirements. Please call the Ticket Office at (515) 246-2300.

WHEELCHAIR

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The Temple Theater has a wheelchair available to assist guests with mobility concerns. A House Manager may be contacted for access to this.

Des Moines Performing Arts 221 Walnut Des Moines, IA 50309-2104 (515) 246-2300

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We start with excellent product selection, and back it up with exceptional service. It’s time for your goals to take center stage.

Performance worthy of an encore.

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WE HEARD THIS SHOW IS TO DIE FOR. We hope you enjoy Murder for Two. Prairie Meadows is an enthusiatic and longtime supporter of Des Moines Performing Arts.