Other Desert Cities

RE GI ON AL PR EM IE RE

by Jon Robin Ba itz DIRECTED BY D. LYNN MEYERS

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OTHER DESERT CITIES

by Jon Robin Baitz

Directed by D. Lynn Meyers† September 4-22, 2013 Set & Lighting Designer Sound Designer Costume Designer Properties Master & Design Assistant Production Coordinator & Master Electrician Production Stage Manager Technical Operations Director

Brian c. Mehring Matt Callahan Reba Senske Shannon Rae Lutz Matthew Hollstegge Brandon T. Holmes* Aaron Clements

Originally produced by Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, 2010.

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Other Desert Cities

Thursday, September 12th and 19th Dr. John Getz and Dr. Kathy O'Conner,

Department of Psychological Science at Northern Kentucky University

Rapture, Blister, Burn Thursday, October 17th Dr. Andrea Kornbluh

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CAST & CREW CAST (in alphabetical order)

Trip Wyeth...................................................................................Ryan Wesley Gilreath* Silda Grauman...........................................................................................Dale Hodges* Brooke Wyeth............................................................................................ Sara Mackie* Lyman Wyeth......................................................................................... Dennis Parlato* Polly Wyeth...............................................................................................Amy Warner*

RUNNING CREW

Assistant Director.......................................................................................Ben Ranaan 1st Assistant Stage Manager.................................................................. Sola Thompson 2nd Assistant Stage Manager.................................................................Hannah Sawicki Sound Board Operator............................................................................ Zak Schneider Light Board Operator................................................................................. Linnea Bond Running Crew...................................................................... Becca Howell, Ben Raanan Wardrobe........................................................................ Jared Hudson, Jeremy Parker

UNDERSTUDIES

Trip Wyeth............................................................................................... Jared Hudson Silda Grauman........................................................................................... Linnea Bond Brooke Wyeth........................................................................................... Becca Howell Lyman Wyeth........................................................................................... Zak Schneider Polly Wyeth.............................................................................................Jeremy Parker

SETTING

Act 1: Christmas Eve Morning; Palm Springs, California, 2004 Act 2, Scene 1: Some hours have passed.

Act 2, Scene 2: Some years later; a bookstore.

Other Desert Cities is performed with one intermission.

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DIRECTOR'S NOTES It is utterly appropriate that Other Desert Cities is set in Palm Springs, California. This longstanding haven for the successful affords these characters a place to live and enjoy the best of life. Palm Springs, however, is also located in a desert.

The Wyeth home may appear to be a man-made oasis, but ever present is that fact that the temperature changes dramatically daily. Heat and cold are just outside the door and the vista, while fascinating, can also be bleak. The Wyeth family has made this house their home for decades, yet the comfort of it cannot make them comfortable. At one point, Brooke says she wants to talk about the silence they live it, the unspoken, unexplained pivotal part of their lives. This play is about filling the silent places with understanding.

Because the Wyeths have been deeply involved in politics, it may be easy to see this play as a political statement, but it is not. This play is about the belief systems we choose to organize our lives around, be that to the left or to the right, it is about the choices we make and those who fall between them. Smart, accomplished people occupy this play, but sometimes smart is not enough. Sometimes those who feel truly enlightened in this world are really in the dark.

Pain is part of living, and everyone in this play deals with loss and pain differently.

Brooke says “One of the nice myths about pain is that one apparently can’t literally remember it…I am here to tell you I have a very good memory for pain.” But each of our memories is unique, our pain personal and the process of a family sharing their personal pain to create an understanding and peace in a painful process. However, we lighten our journey through honestly loving each other.

This play is set mostly in 2004. So 9/11 is a very close memory, the threat of what was to happen next was on our minds daily and the war being fought in another desert was relatively new and the controversy just beginning. There is much we did not know about our government in 2004 and much the Wyeths did not know about each other. Keep this in mind as you watch the play that what we witness on a Christmas Eve in 2004 is nine years ago in our collective memory. It is a carefully chosen date by the playwright to give us some distance and as they say in the play “distance is always good.”

Thanks you for journeying to Other Desert Cities with us.

-D. Lynn Meyers

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IN MEMORIUM In loving memory of Ruth D. Sawyer

Ruth D. Sawyer’s favorite holiday was Christmas, fitting and appropriate for a woman whose life was about the joy of giving. Giving people a chance to work, giving artists a place to grow and thrive, giving to a community and touching countless people's lives whom she never met. However, for those of us lucky enough to know her, our lives were more than touched, they were transformed. Her passion to allow others to find and live in their passion was a rare and unique blessing. There was never a conversation with Ruth that did not contain a wonderful, gleeful laugh. There was never a time when something needed to be done that she did not step forward to do it. And she did it all well, very well with a grace that can only come from pure inspiration. Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is a living legacy to her spirit, which will never leave us.

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THE CAST RYAN WESLEY GILREATH (Trip Wyeth), a New York-based actor, is glad to be making his return to ETC. He was last seen in Next Fall. His other ETC credits include 33 Variations and Mary's Wedding. As a child growing up in Cincinnati, he always wanted to be a police officer, doctor, fireman, pilot, clown, lawyer...clown. After deciding that acting would allow him to do it all, he trained at the University of Central Florida's Conservatory program. His television credits include NBC's Deception, Fox's pilot Guilty in which he had a scene opposite Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Team Umizoomi on Nick Jr. Mr. Gilreath has also worked with Emmy-nominated Stephen David Entertainment on their next miniseries which is set to air on Discovery this October. For more info: www.ryanwesleygilreath.com.

DALE HODGES (Silda Grauman) is delighted to be back on the Ensemble stage. After joining Actors' Equity Association in 1974, she worked both on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres around the country. In 1988, she move to Cincinnati, which has been her home ever since. Her previous Ensemble credits include: Mrs. Mannerly, 33 Variations, Grey Gardens, String of Pearls, Bed Among the Lentils, The Credeaux Canvas, Copenhagen, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Vigil, Side Man, The Skriker, Going to St. Ives, A Package Deal, Death of A Salesman, Find Me a Voice, Fragments, The Illusion, Seascape, A School for Scandal, Everything in the Garden, Buckminster Fuller: In and Out of the Universe, and Eleemosynary. At Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Ms. Hodges has appeared in the following productions: The Piano Teacher, Witness for the Prosecution, The Crucible, The Retreat From Moscow, King Lear, Ten Little Indians, Wit, The Importance of Being Earnest, Our Country's Good, How the Other Half Loves, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Equus, and 20 seasons of A Christmas Carol. At Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, she has appeared in The Grapes of Wrath, Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Merchant of Venice, and Coriolanus. Ms. Hodges has also appeared on the Music Hall stage as the Duchess of Krakenthorpe in La Fille Du Régiment with the Cincinnati Opera and as a narrator with the Cincinnati Symphony. She is married to counselor David Logan and has a son Sebastian and a stepson Hugh.

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THE CAST CONT. SARA MACKIE (Brooke Wyeth) is a Wright State graduate and proud AEA member. She has been with Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati in all three Wonderettes iterations (Betty Jean), Rabbit Hole (Izzy), Mauritius (Jackie), and Alice in Wonderland (Cheshire Cat), among other holiday favorites. Her Human Race Theatre Company credits include: the premiere staged readings of three new musical works; Guarding Gold Street, a new musical, The Trimble Wars, and Red Blooded All-American Man and she was also seen as Olivia in Twelfth Night. She has performed with the Carnegie Theatre in Camelot in Concert, Pump Boys and Dinettes, and the premiere staged reading of The Sandman. In addition to small roles in commercials, short films and web skits, she has had the great pleasure of performing in theatres across the country, but for now prefers to make Cincinnati her home. She is immensely grateful to Lynn for this amazing opportunity in such an important and beautiful piece of theatre.

DENNIS PARLATO (Lyman Wyeth) returns to ETC, having recently appeared in Ghost-Writer. His other ETC credits include 25 The Musical, Becky’s New Car, 33 Variations, Mauritius, The Seafarer, Fiction, The Guys, Glimmer, Glimmer, and Shine, and A Question of Mercy. On Broadway, he’s played Lawrence Jameson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mr. Robinson in The Graduate, John the Baptist in Salome, Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, and CIA agent Walter in Chess.

His off-Broadway and regional credits include the title roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Barrymore, J.B., and The Master Builder; Prospero in The Tempest, Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Oliver in David Hare’s The Vertical Hour, Sky in Guys and Dolls, and Julian Marsh in 42nd Street. Mr. Parlato’s film credits include Johnny Suede, Delirious, Dillinger’s Dead, Bury the Evidence, Rick, First Born, Starting Out in the Evening, and Bride Wars.

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THE CAST CONT. AMY WARNER (Polly Wyeth) is delighted to be returning to ETC, where she has been seen in End Days, Collected Stories, 33 Variations (CEA award), Fiction, Permanent Collection, The Women of Lockerbie, and The Guys. Her Fringe Festival production of The Edge was also seen on this stage. Ms. Warner has worked locally at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in Speaking in Tongues, You Can’t Take it With You, Twelfth Night, Reckless, and A Christmas Carol; Cincinnati Shakespeare Company in All’s Well That Ends Well, Richard III, Cymbaline, Hamlet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (CEA award), and Pride & Prejudice; New Stage Collective in Who is Sylvia? or The Goat (Acclaim award) and A Little NIght Music; Know Theatre Cincinnati in Angels in America, and she was in Dale Hodges’ production of Les Belles Sœurs (Acclaim award). She worked three seasons Off-Broadway with the Classic Stage Company. Her credits there include The Orestia, Faust, Danton’s Death, Frankenstein, and Wild Oats. Her Los Angeles credits include Lady Chatterley’s Lover (L.A. Drama Critics Circle nomination). She has had co-starring roles on Ally McBeal, Boston Public, The Guardian, E.R., and The Practice. She has toured her solo show, As the Wind Rocks the Wagon, directed by her husband Michael Haney across the country and abroad.

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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR D. LYNN MEYERS is in her sixteenth season as the Producing Artistic Director of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati where she has directed over a fifty world and regional premieres, including Good People, Alice in Wonderland, Next to Normal, and The Whipping Man. She recently directed The Pavilion at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Pride and Prejudice for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. She directed Off-Broadway at the York Theatre with Marsha Norman’s Traveler in the Dark and James McClure’s Max and Maxie. Her regional work includes Capital Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Florida Stage, and the Falcon Theatre in Los Angeles where she directed the Sweet 16 anniversary production of Steel Magnolias. Her several Canadian national tours included Mass Appeal with the late great Gale Gordon. As a producer for Dove Audio, she produced and directed dozens of audio books. She served as the Associate Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Playhouse for several seasons where she cast over one hundred productions as well as directed in both the Marx and Shelterhouse theatres. In addition to her directing work, she is a member of the Casting Society of America and has cast for PBS, CBS, BBC, HBO, MTM, Paramount and MGM. Her favorite feature credit is serving as Location Casting Director for the Academy Award-winning Shawshank Redemption. She was a named one of four finalists for the Zelda Fichandler National Award in 2011, honoring directors whose work is making an impact on the art form and their community. She was honored with as a YWCA Woman of Achievement and given the Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Continued Excellence. She is a proud graduate of Thomas More College and serves on the college’s Board of Trustees.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT JON ROBIN BAITZ'S plays include The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, The End of the Day, Three Hotels, A Fair Country (Pulitzer Prize finalist 1996), Mizlansky/ Zilinsky, Ten Unknowns, and The Paris Letter, as well as a version of Hedda Gabbler (Broadway 2001). He created Brothers & Sisters, the TV series which ran for five seasons, until 2011. His other TV work includes PBS’ version of Three Hotels, for which he won the Humanitas Award, and episodes of The West Wing and Alias. He is the author of two screenplays: the film script for The Substance of Fire (1996) and People I Know (2002). He is a founding member of Naked Angels Theatre Company, and on the faculties of the MFA programs at The New School for Drama, and SUNY Stony Brook/ Southampton. His play Other Desert Cities won the Outer Critics Circle Award in 2011.

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THE PRODUCTION TEAM BRANDON T. HOLMES (Production Stage Manager) is currently in his second season with Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. Previous productions include Alice in Wonderland, Freud’s Last Session, and Black Pearl Sings!. He holds a BFA from Wichita State University in Technical Theatre and Design. This past summer, he served as Production Stage Manager for LOOK Musical Theatre in Tulsa, OK. There, he stage managed productions of Hello, Dolly, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Side

By Side By Sondheim. He has also worked with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Music Theatre of Wichita, Theatre in the Park, Kansas City Starlight, and Wichita Center for the Arts. Favorite productions include Thunder Knocking on the Door, Merrily We Roll Along (directed by John Doyle), Disney’s The Little Mermaid, The Producers, Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard.

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BRIAN c. MEHRING (Resident Set & Lighting Designer) has designed over seventy productions at ETC. His favorite productions include: Thom Pain (based on nothing), James and Annie, Copenhagen, Blue/Orange, and I Am My Own Wife. Mr. Mehring’s regional favorites for set design include: The Last 5 Years and The Laramie Project, Playhouse in the Park; Henry IV, Part 1, The Georgia Shakespeare Festival; and I Am My Own Wife, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Peterborough Players, and Florida Studio Theatre; and for video design, Hiding Behind Comets (Playhouse in the Park).

Mr. Mehring has also served as Charge Scenic Painter for the Cincinnati Opera.

Mr. Mehring spent a season assisting mentor Paul Shortt at Teatro de Lucca and three seasons assisting Broadway Designer Robert T. Williams at Artpark in New York.

SHANNON RAE LUTZ (Properties Master/Design Assistant) earned her Master’s degree in 1996 and became Prop Master at ETC and since then she has “mastered” dozens of productions. Ms. Lutz would like to thank the Cincinnati theatre community and patrons for their generous, supportive and tenacious spirit.

Trained as a performer, she first appeared on ETC’s stage during the 1989 New Works Festival. In 1991, she was granted an ETC Internship. Now the Director of Intern Programming, she is honored to guide ETC’s essential ensemble: the Intern Company. ETC performance credits include: Fiction, Alice in Wonderland (1998, 2003, 2008, 2012), Poor Super Man, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Chronicles of Plague, A School for Scandal, Cinderella, Zorro, The Frog Princess, and Sleeping Beauty (2009, 2000). She would like to thank her family for their persistent love and support, Ruth for lessons in art, life, and integrity, and Lynn for her dedication to our dreams.

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PRODUCTION TEAM CONT. AARON CLEMENTS (Technical Operations Director) is now in his fourth year at ETC. He is a native of Charlotte, NC and received his B.F.A. in Theater with a design/technical emphasis at Greensboro College. Mr. Clements worked four seasons at Seaside Music Theater as a carpenter, master carpenter, metal shop foreman, and as the assistant technical director for a winter season. He received his M.F.A. in Technical Direction from UC’s College-Conservatory of Music. He has also worked as a carpenter for ETC’s productions of Grey Gardens and Alice in Wonderland.

MATT CALLAHAN (Sound Designer) has been the Resident Sound Designer for Actors Theatre of Louisville for the past seven seasons. Most recent designs include The Pavilion, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Bob, LMNO Pea, The End, Sirens, The Cherry Sisters, Ground, A Christmas Story, A Mid Summers Night Dream, Hard Weather Boating Party; Mrs. Mannerly and Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati; This Beautiful City, All Hail Hurricane Gordo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Tempest and Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Callahan was also a co-creator/designer of Rock n’ Roll: The Reunion Tour. He has spent two seasons as the resident sound designer at The Eugene O’Neil Center for their National Playwrights Conference.

He was formerly the sound engineer for The Steppenwolf Theatre, the Assistant Engineer for Blue Man Chicago and a member of the disbanded Defiant Theatre.

He received a Jeff Citation for Red Dragon (Defiant Theatre), a nomination for Fortinbras (Defiant Theatre) and a Kevin Kline nomination for Sherlock Holmes (St. Louis Rep and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park).

REBA SENSKE (Costume Designer) is CCM’s Associate Costume Designer. She’s designed costumes for ETC’s Becky’s New Car, My Name is Asher Lev, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, 33 Variations, Mauritius, Grey Gardens, The Seafarer, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Mary’s Wedding, Rabbit Hole, Souvenir, String of Pearls, I Am My Own Wife, Nite Club Confidential, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), among countless others. Her other credits include ETC’s world premiere holiday productions of Ugly Duck, Cinderella, The Frog Princess, Alice in Wonderland, and Sleeping Beauty, as well as Side Man, A Question of Mercy, Edward Albee’s Seascape, and Traveler in the Dark. Recent CCM credits include: Hot Summer Nights’ Violet, We Tell the Story, and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. Other CCM credits include: Wonderful Town, The Boys from Syracuse, Oklahoma!, and Big River. She designed Noah’s Flood for the May Festival and is Cincinnati Opera’s costume coordinator. She designed Ainadamar, Cosi Fan Tutti and We Rise to Freedom for the Cincinnati Opera.

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THE PREMIERE SOCIETY The Premiere Society recognizes individuals who have made gifts totaling $1,000 or more within the past year. The exceptional generosity of these donors enables ETC to present world class new works and works new to the region by having the resources to achieve the highest level of artistic quality possible. The following list was updated August 1, 2013 and includes the names of donors whose gifts total $1,000 + since June 1, 2012. For questions or corrections, please contact Ashley Johnson at (513) 421-3555, ext. 17.

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MCF Advisors, LCC David & Judith Morgan Fund* Jack & Moe Rouse Fund* Pete & Ginger Strange Family Fund* UC Physicians Co.

CINCINNATI CIRCLE ($1,000-$2,499): Anonymous (3) Anatole Alper Americana Arts Foundation Nicholas Apanius Mrs. Charlene Breidster Kathy DeLaura & Ron Steinhoff Dee & David Dillon Fund* John & Jen DuBois Grace A. Epstein Mary & Bob Fitzpatrick Linda & Gary Greenberg Bob & Mary Hamilton Suzanne & Dr. Bob Hasl Bob & Judy Heaton Daniel Hurley William & Mary Jane James Cecilia & Tom Kloecker Kroger Community Rewards Program NATIONAL CIRCLE ($5,000-$9,999): Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Nancy Lutz William P. Anderson Foundation Judith B. Green & Thomas M. McDonough Mr. & Mrs. A.B. Closson, Jr. Dr. Lisa Jo Melnyk Crosset Family Fund* Sharon & Graham Mitchell Reuben Herzfeld Fund* Diane & Dave Moccia Kroger Dr. Patricia O'Connor Edward & Anita Marks Joseph A. & Susan E. Pichler Fund* Messer Construction Co. Sue & Jerry Ransohoff Fund* Richard Postler & Manuel Hernandez James & Sue Riley The Dudley S. Taft Charitable Foundation Marvin & Betsy Schwartz Fund* Thompson Hine LLP Jane Bogart Sellers Western & Southern Financial Fund Shelly Shor Gerson The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Drs. Brian & Tracey Skale Mary Stagaman REGIONAL CIRCLE ($2,500-$4,999): Mary & William Bonansinga Charitable Family Fund* Paul & Jill Staubitz Paula Steiner Kenneth & Joan Campbell The Corky & Rick Steiner Family Foundation Thomas R. Dietz Glenda Suttman Gallagher SKS Judith B. Titchener Dennis & Rita Geiger Ed Trach Chip Gerhardt U.S. Bank Mr. & Mrs. Skip & Susan Hickenlooper Mr. & Mrs. Anthony. Woodward Stephen M. King & Lynne M. Miller The Dennis B. & Patricia L. Worthen Fund Marcene & Jim Kinney Mike & Liz Zimmer * Denotes a Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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OUR SUPPORTERS ETC gratefully acknowledges the extraordinary individuals, families, and organizations whose generous support makes it possible for us to present exceptional theatre and unique educational outreach programs for our community. The following list was updated August 1, 2013 and includes the names of donors whose gifts total $125+ since June 1, 2012. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. For questions or corrections, please contact Ashley Johnson at (513) 421-3555, ext. 17.

ACTORS COLUMN ($500-$999): Anonymous (2) Joan & Oliver Baily Malcolm A. & Glenda Bernstein Michael Berry & Melanie Garner David & Elaine Billmire Bob & Elaine Blatt Carter & Jo Ann Bobbitt Robert L. Bogenschutz Clay & Emily Bond Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Matching Gift Program Jacklyn & Gary Bryson Denise & Martin Chambers Meredythe G. & Clayton C. Daley, Jr. Family Fund* Mark & Louis Dauner Mary Pat England Nora Zorich & Thomas Filardo Family Fund* Kenneth J. Furrier GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program Michael Haney & Amy Warner Judith Harmony & Richard Jackson Marilyn P. & Joseph W. Hirschhorn Fund* Florette Hoffheimer Betty Huck John Isador & Sandy Kaltman Keith & Patti James Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Matching Gifts Program Arleene Keller Norah & joe Mock Deborah & John Moffatt Marilyn Z. Ott Kit & Jack Overbeck Linda & Andy Smith Nellie Leaman Taft Charitable Foundation Carol Talbot & John Battistone Mr. Laurence Weber Irwin & Barbara Weinberg Mark D. Manley & Annette Januzzi Wick Jo Ann Wieghaus Jeffrey & Nadia Wuest STAGE MANAGERS COLUMN ($250-$499): Anonymous (3) Richard & Susan Baum Leonard Berenfield Neil E. Billman, In Memory of Eunice Billman Eileen & William Bishop

Mark Bowen Daniel Brown & Mark Haggard Brenda Carter Cincinnati Veterans' Affairs Medical Center Research Service, In honor of Kathy DeLaura Larry & Janet Clements Susannah Davids & Steve Myer Charlene Davis Judith de Luce Kelly M. Dehan & Stephen H. Gallenstein Darin Dugan Ray & Kay Edwards Robert & Elizabeth W. Ehrsam Richard & Carol Fencl Terrell & Susan Finney David W. & Frances H. Goldman Fund* Helen & John Habbert Sue Harris & Meredith Green Debra Hartsell & Michael James Dale Hodges Nada Latto Len & Sherie Marek Dr. & Mrs. John E. McCall Ryan Messer & James Musuraca Ronald & Nancy Mielech William & Sibyl Miller Hatsuki Miyata mj Dynamics William & Sara Morgan Hon. Norbert & Linnea Nadel Michael Nordlund & Lisa Lee Morris & Patricia Passer Family Fund* Alice & Burton Perlman Barbara & Michael Porte Barry L. Prince Becky & Ted Richards Tim & Mary Riordan George & Caroll Roden J. R. Rulon Jude Samuel Jean Springer Ed & Anne Stern Elizabeth Stites & Kevin Randall Dr. & Mrs. Joe & Nancy Stratman Lynn & Dan Ticotsky Sarah S. Timmons Dixie & Bill Utter Jennifer Verkamp Jane A. Walker

* Denotes a Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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OUR SUPPORTERS, CONT. STAGE MANAGERS CONT. Buzz Ward Stuart Wheaton & Lenore Horner Gene Wilson Zaring Family Foundation CREW COLUMN ($125-$249): Anonymous (3) Jean L. Abrahamson Larry & Debby Adams Scott & Anne Aiken Albert & Lillian Andrews Gail Barker, M.D. Jane Bennett Hal & Sandi Bernstein Neil Bortz & Susan Myers Mr. Henry P. Briggs Jr. Warren & Gail Cato Chester Cavaliere Kevin & Linda Chaney Sally Chatfield Dunn Jean & Matt Chimsky Susan Cohen & Robert Schmuelling Dr. & Mrs. Alan Cordell Rev. Dr. Robert W. Croskery & Beverly Croskery, Ph.D. Douglas L. Custis & Katherine A. Keller Sonia Daoud Emilie W. & David W. Dressler Family Fund* Peggy Eberhard Charles K. Eckert Charles & Harriet Edwards Mr. & Mrs. Frederick A. Fink Deborah Friedman Carol S. Friel Eugenie & Edward Goggin Janice & Sidney Goldstein Mrs. Madeleine H. Gordon Cyndi Grammel, In Honor of Skylar Cherry Sean Gray Michael Gumbleton & Teddy Gumbleton Tana Kirkbride & Amit Gupta JoAnn & Gary Hagopian Ann E. Hicks David & Karen Hoguet Cindy & Bill Hopping Erin Houlihan & John Bostick Marilyn Hurrell Charles D. King Marilyn Kircher Margaret W. Kite Pinky & Sam Kocoshis

* Denotes a Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

26 • OUR SUPPORTERS CONT.

Carmen & Rich Kovarsky Mr. & Mrs. Polk Laffoon, IV Dorothy K. Larsson Lowell Latto M. Ann Leech John Lin DeDe & Kevin McNeal Jan & Marilyn Methlie John F. Metz Dr. Ralph Meyer Drs. Steven & Jacqueline Miller Family Foundation Anu & Shekhar Mitra Mobile Giving Foundation Nora Moushey Eunice H. Murphy Paul & Mary Ann Odegard Ms. Nancy Ohnmeis Irene & Daniel Randolph Family Barbara & Dave Reaman Margaret M. Reid Danielle & Kenneth Revelson Joyce Rich Barbara Robb, In honor of Sara Mackie Dr. Raymond H. Rolwing Sondra & Fred Ross Marianne & Snowden Rowe Richard Russell Patti & Mitchell Sacks Catharine B. Saelinger Jeanie Schmidt Elizabeth Sherwood Paul Shortt Eli E. Shupe, Jr. & Toby Ruben John & Linda Silvati Jacquelin & Richard Snyder John & Martha Spiess Howard & Nancy Starnbach Elizabeth A. Stone Fred & Anne Straus Charitable Fun J. Michael & Patricia Thierauf Lynda A. Thomas Tom Umfrid & Phil Tworek Rosalie P. van Nuis Priscilla S. Walford Pann & Terry Webb Mike Wedig Jackie Weist Joseph Wessling Barbara Wiedemann Kate & Jay Wilford Joseph D. Williams Dr. & Mrs. James & Ronna Willis

OUR STAFF EXECUTIVE BOARD John Sawyer Stephen M. King Chair President Marcene Kinney Vice President

Mitchell Meyers Treasurer

Jane Sellers Secretary

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Nick Apanius Mary Bonansinga Otto M. Budig Dr. Charles O. Carothers Brenda A. Carter Kathy DeLaura Tom Dietz Dennis Geiger

Chip Gerhardt Skip Hickenlooper Dan Hurley Edward G. Marks Richard L. Postler Mary Stagaman Mike Zimmer

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF D. Lynn Meyers Producing Artistic Director

PRODUCTION STAFF Brian c. Mehring Resident Set & Lighting Designer

Richard J. Diehl Managing Director

Matthew Hollstegge Production Coordinator & Master Electrician

Jocelyn Meyer Director of Marketing & Communications Allison Fangman Director of Education Outreach Jared D. Doren Director of Patron Services & Development Associate Ashley Johnson Producing Associate FINANCIAL ADVISOR Chet Cavaliere

Shannon Rae Lutz Property Master, Design Assistant & Director of Intern Programming Aaron Clements Technical Operations Director Jack Murphy Technical Assistant Jacob Himmelspach Technical Apprentice Brandon T. Holmes Production Stage Manager

BOX OFFICE STAFF John Diehl Seth Longland Jenna McBride Sarah Nix

Starr Fish Costume Assistant

HOUSE MANAGER Amy Janowiecki

ACTING INTERN COMPANY Linnea Bond, Becca Howell, Jared Hudson, Jeremy Parker, Hannah Sawicki, Zak Schneider, Sola Thompson

HEAD OF SECURITY Officer Nick Ligon

DIRECTING INTERN Ben Raanan

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PATRON SERVICES ENSEMBLE THEATRE CINCINNATI 1127 Vine Street | Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 | www.ensemblecincinnati.org (513) 421-3555 ETC BOX OFFICE HOURS & ACCEPTED PAYMENT Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 2 hours prior to curtain. Weekend hours vary. VISA, MC, Discover, and AmEx are accepted, as well as Downtown Gift Cards.

TICKET RESERVATIONS & SALE POLICY Reservations can be made by calling the box office, in person, or online at. Ticket reservations are not accepted via email. Single-ticket purchases are a final sale with no refund. Single tickets may, however, be exchanged for another performance during the run of a show for a fee, but may not be exchanged from one production to another. If a patron is a no-show for their reserved performance, ETC is under no obligation to reschedule his or her tickets.

TAX CREDITS If for any reason you cannot attend your performance and cannot reschedule for another date, tickets released prior to performances by calling the ETC box office are fully deductible as a charitable contribution.

No-shows or tickets released after curtain time do not qualify as tax credits.

PARKING Patrons may park at the Gateway Garage (accessible via 12th Street) or at the surface lot, both are conveniently located at the corner of Vine and 12th Streets. Parking is also available at Washington Park Garage, accessible via Elm or Race Street. Charges vary.

CHILDREN Children under the age of 4 will not be admitted to productions unless otherwise advertised. Parents with disruptive children will be asked to leave the theatre.

LATECOMERS & ADMITTANCE Latecomers will be seated at the House Manager’s discretion and may be denied admission depending upon the demands or structure of a particular production. Should you need to leave the theatre during a performance, readmittance is not guaranteed. ETC reserves the right to deny admission and/or remove any disruptive patrons from the theatre at any time.

RESTROOMS Restrooms are located at the front of the lobby. Should you need to use the restroom during a performance, please exit the theatre the same way you came in. Readmittance will be at House Manager's discretion.

ACCESSIBILITY Please notify the box office in advance if you require wheelchair-accessible seating or have special seating needs and our staff will be happy to accommodate you. Audio-enhancement and large-print playbills available. Generally, sign-interpreted performances are on the third Wednesday of every production.

CAMERAS, CELL PHONES & STAGE Actors’ Equity Association strictly prohibits the use of cameras or recording devices (including camera phones) in the theatre. Kindly turn off any cell phones or pagers prior to the show starting. Text messaging during the show disturbs other audience members and actors and will not be tolerated. For safety reasons, audience members are strictly prohibited from standing, sitting or otherwise being or putting anything onstage at any time.

GROUPS & DISCOUNTS Groups of 10 or more can save over single-ticket prices. Student rates, rush discounts, Public Radio Perks Card, AAA, ArtsWave ArtsPass, Enjoy the Arts, and educator and military member discounts available (please consult your appropriate membership(s) for details and exclusions).

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