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This spring he will be playing Harold Hill in The Music Man at his school. Gabe plays the saxophone and he loves video games and going out with friends. Endless thanks to the Florida Repertory creative team, his teachers, and his family.

SETH ROBERT

PATTERSON^ (u/s Bill Ray) is a recent Central Michigan University graduate where he studied musical theatre under the tutelage of Dr. Eric Tucker. Recent collegiate credits: The Last Five Years, Punk Rock, Fool For Love, and Little Shop of Horrors (Central Michigan Univ.). Recent regional credits include Xanadu (Emerald Coast Theatre Company), Aida (Glow Lyric Theatre), Classic Broadway (Glow Lyric Theatre), and The Importance of Being Earnest , Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (Florida Rep). This season, Seth will appear in Elephant and Piggie’s: We’re in a Play, Ella Enchanted, and Macbeth with Florida Rep’s Education Department. To my people, I am forever grateful.

GREG LONGENHAGEN† (Director) As a member of the original founding company of Florida Repertory Theatre, Greg Longenhagen is honored to be entering his third decade with the Rep. and delighted to serve as its Producing Artistic Director. An accomplished actor, director, producer, teacher, and coach Greg has enjoyed a career of more than 30 years with professional theatre, radio, television and film. Since 1998, Greg has worked on 91 productions at Florida Rep as an actor, director, fight choreographer, dialect coach, and now as Florida Rep’s Producing Artistic Director. He was last seen on Florida Rep’s mainstage as Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol. His other acting credits include performances at The Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Riverside Theatre, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Florida Stage, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Quantum Theatre, Pirate Playhouse, Trilogy Theatre, Pennsylvania Stage Company, Inner Space Theatre, The Mountain Playhouse, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, The Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, Philadelphia Shakespeare, The Pantages Theatre, The Great American Children’s Theatre, Theatre at Hartwood, The Fulton Theatre, Pittsburgh Musical Theatre, Opera Delaware, St Vincent

Theatre, Theatre Row Theatre, and Stage Right. Directing credits at Florida Rep include Maytag Virgin, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Barefoot in the Park, PlayLab readings of Split in Three, Where I Dwell, We Will Not Be Silent, and more. Greg served as an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Florida Gulf Coast University and was Chair of the Theatre Program’s Marketing and Recruitment Committee. After receiving his B.A. in Speech Communication while at West Chester University where he was a four-time Irene Ryan nominee to the region, the recipient of the Tom Dudash Memorial Award for Children’s Theatre, and The Most Outstanding Student in Speech Communication & Theatre, Greg also served as the Resident Director for Pittsburgh’s “Shakespeare in the Schools” while continuing to work as an actor in New York City. Greg holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pittsburgh and certified with the Society of American Fight Directors at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1993. Born and raised near Allentown, Pennsylvania, Greg’s career in Regional Theatre took him all over the country. In the 1990s, he settled in Southwest Florida, his “ideal community.” It was there he met and fell in love with his amazing wife, Liz Abbott, who grew up on Sanibel Island. Greg and Liz have happily made their home in Fort Myers for 24 years where they are raising their two beautiful children, Liza, a student at Bishop Verot High School, and Jack who attends Sanibel Middle School.

ELI CARNAHAN (Lighting Designer) is thrilled to be returning to the Rep! Selected Credits: I AM THE DEAD MAN (University of Florida co-pro with Saudade Theatre), Rhinoceros (University of Florida), Native Gardens (Florida Rep), Annie Jr., Aladdin Jr., Anything Goes (YPE), The Wizard of Oz (YPE) (Florida Rep Ed.), Next to Normal (Market Theatre), Urinetown (Brevard Little Theatre). Thanks to Olivia, M, D, T, and B. www.elicarnahan.com

KATIE LOWE (Sound Designer) is happy to return as Resident Sound Designer this anniversary season! Previous credits include The Importance of Being Earnest, Ripcord, Freud’s Last Session, And Then There Were None, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar

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& Grill, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Matilda, Spring Awakening, Disney’s Newsies (Sound Engineer, Florida Repertory Theatre), Maytag Virgin, Bulletproof Backpack, Every Brilliant Thing, Barefoot in the Park, Alabaster, An Inspector Calls, A Fox on the Fairway, Always…Patsy Cline, Romeo and Juliet, August Wilson’s Fences, Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical, Damascus, Steel Magnolias, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Refugee, (Sound Designer, Florida Repertory Theatre), Cabaret (Florida Repertory Theatre, A2), Million Dollar Quartet (Endstation Theatre Company, A2), Sense and Sensibility (University of Kentucky, Sound Designer). Katie would like to thank her parents and fiancé, Ben, for their endless support and love!

BRIANNA McVAUGH^ (Fight Choreographer) is a graduate of The University of South Florida where she earned her B.A. in Theatre Performance. She is and actor/singer/dancer as well as an advanced actor/combatant certified by the Society of American Fight Directors in all eight recognized stage combat weapons. Brianna has worked as a performer professionally in productions such as A Clockwork Orange and Jobsite Theatre in Tampa, Florida and Unto These Hills at Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee, North Carolina. She’s also been seen as a stunt performer in The Big Test Stunt Show at Legoland in Goshen, New York. Along with being a performer, Brianna is also a professional fight/intimacy director, working on shows such as House of Desires at The University of South Florida, Moon Over Buffalo at Plant City High School and The

Play That Goes Wrong at Newsome High School, and most recently And Then There Were None here at Florida Rep. She has also been an intimacy director for Jobsite Theatre’s production of Animals Out of Paper Brianna is so excited to be a part of Florida Repertory Theatre’s acting intern company for the 2022-2023 season.

ALICE NEFF*** (Costume Designer) is delighted to be designing costumes at Florida Rep again. She designed Over the River and Through the Woods, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Christmas Carol, Fox on the Fairway, George Washington’s Teeth, and Maytag Virgin in recent seasons at Florida Rep. She has designed for professional as well as academic companies, including Lees McRae Summer Theatre, the outdoor drama Horn in the West, Blowing Rock Stage Company, Davidson College, WCU, and the Appalachian State University Opera Program, all in North Carolina. She has also designed for Aurora Theatre, Horizon Theatre, and 7 Stages in Atlanta, as well as Ballet Austin and the University of the Cumberlands. She has built costumes for Glimmerglass Opera, some of which are now in stock at the Metropolitan Opera; for the Hallmark channel miniseries True Women, and for Alvernia University. She managed the ASU Theatre & Dance Department costume shop for several years, and mentored many students who went on to graduate schools and professional careers. She holds a BFA in costume design and construction from UT-Austin.

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

FLORIDA PROFESSIONAL THEATRES ASSOCIATION (FPTA) is a statewide organization of professional theatre companies and theatre professionals interested in the development and promotion of professional theatre throughout Florida. Florida Repertory Theatre is a proud FPTA member theatre.

Florida Repertory Theatre is a member of THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP (TCG), the national organization for the American Theatre.

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Florida Repertory Theatre is a proud Associate Member of the NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK

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ROBERT F. WOLIN***† (Scenic Designer) has created scenic designs for regional theatres including Florida Rep: Heart Song, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Educating Rita, God of Carnage, King o’ the Moon, Dial M for Murder, Middle Ages, The Sugar Bean Sisters, The Boys Next Door, Absurd Person Singular; Zoetic Stage: American Rhapsody (World Premiere), Clark Gable Slept Here (World Premiere); Gulfshore Playhouse: The Game’s Afoot, Master Class, Importance of Being Earnest, I Am My Own Wife, A Streetcar Named Desire, Handle with Care, Unnecessary Farce, A View from the Bridge, Honour, A Doll’s House; Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Two Gentlemen of Verona, King Lear, Cinderella, Comedy of Errors, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline; Porthouse Theatre: Anything Goes (2008 and 2018), Dames at Sea, Amadeus, Much Ado About Nothing, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Man of La Mancha; Island City Stage: Armature, Rotterdam; Mad Cow Theatre: Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Born Yesterday, Fences, Three Sisters, Pygmalion, 1776, Avenue Q, and My Name is Asher Lev; Bristol Riverside Theatre: A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, What a Glorious Feeling; Osceola Arts: We Will Rock You, Young Frankenstein, Gentelman’s Guide to Love and Murde. Off Broadway: Rules of Desire (World Premiere), An Evening with Quentin Crisp, Fraulein Else, Queen of Hearts, Shivaree, The Hollowed Man, and for The Glines Welcome to Chelsea, Nooses, Knives and Lovers, Dancing on Ice. Broadway Assistant Designer: The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Flower

Drum Song, Never Gonna Dance with Robin Wagner, Liza’s at the Palace with Ray Klausen. www.RFWolin.com

AMY L. MASSARI*† (Stage Manager), ensemble member and AEA Stage Manager, is pleased to be returning for her 14th season as a resident stage manager at Florida Repertory Theatre. Amy has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association for the past 33 years and has had the privilege of working in some of the country’s finest regional theatres, including: the Alley Theatre (Houston, TX), the Dallas Theatre Center (Dallas, TX), and the Pioneer Memorial Theatre (Salt Lake City, UT) to name a few. Amy would like to thank her loving family for their support. She has been happily married to her husband, Michael, for 26 years. Michael is also a theatre professional and an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College in NYC. Michael and Amy could not be more proud of their two children; Jesse is in her junior year at Marymount Manhattan, double majoring in Acting and Directing. This past summer she served as Music Director here at Florida REP for the education department. Caleb is a sophomore at Castleton University in Vermont studying sports management on a full wrestling scholarship. Amy would like to dedicate this production to her father, JimTemple, who has always been so supportive of this crazy ride—he turned 95 this year and is a WW II Navy veteran. Happy Birthday Dad!

BOARD OF DIRECTORS & FLORIDA REP STAFF

Board Of Directors

Janice Danzig, Chair

Naomi Bloom, Vice Chair

Dinah Bloomhall

Alexandra Bremner

Shavon Chester

Doris Colgate

Fay C. Gronski, Secretary

Arthur Zupko, Treasurer

Marc Collins

David M. Fritz

R. Marc Laviolette

Greg Longenhagen

Advisory Board

Sunny Lubner

John Martin

Martin McLaughlin

Marlene Moulton

Don Abbott • Liz Abbott • Suzanne Boy • Don Gurule • Melinda Isley • Jan Klein

Jane Lane • R. Marc Laviolette • Darrel Lieze-Adams • Greg Longenhagen • Donna Lovejoy

Clive Lubner • John Martin • Jeff McCullers

Staff

ARTISTIC & EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Executive Director............................................John Martin

Producing Artistic Director........Greg Longenhagen

Associate Artistic Director.......................Jason Parrish

Executive Assistant............................Dianne Summers

Administration

Finance Director.................................................Scott Osler

Business Manager............................................Kelly Colton

Company Manager............................................Joy Rester

Director of Operations...........................Juan Santiago

Asst. Operations Manager...........................Blanca Solis

Box Office Manager................................Gerrie Benzing

Front of House Associates....Rick Aschenbrenner, Renae Corvi, Joanne Friedman, Angel Harris, Jennifer Manekin, Lori McKenzie, Beverly Morgan, Yamil Ocasio, Lee Slattery, Donna VanDuiven

DEVELOPMENT & FUNDRAISING

Development Director..........................Jennifer Denike

Development Associate............................Emily Yorgey

MARKETING

Marketing Director............................Deborah Jonsson

Digital Media Specialist....................Joe Dafeldecker

Social Media Specialist.......................Stephanie Davis

Education

Education Director.............................Monique Caldwell

Asst. Education Director...............................Emily Turtle

Touring & Outreach Manager...........Isabella Cintron

Production

Production Manager/Safety Officer...Charles Clark

Associate Production Manager.............Naomi Bates

Technical Director.................................Christian Londos

Asst. Technical Director........................Miranda White

Production Shop Foreman......................Liam Fisher

Resident Director...........................................Chris Clavelli

Master Electrician..............................................Joel Zishuk

Asst. Master Electrician.................................Tyler Evans

Carpenter........................................................Shellie Raleigh

Sound Engineer..................................................Katie Lowe

Costume Shop Manager..................Stephanie Hawks

Asst. Costume Shop Manager..............Briar Edwards

Wardrobe Supervisor...........Anthony “Tony” Toney

Scenic Charge...............................Julie Beth McCracken

Scenic Artist...................................................London Dailey

Properties Manager...............................Jesseca Terhaar

Properties Artist.................................................Lily Munroe

2022-2023 INTERN COMPANY

Acting Company......................................Chase Brackett, Sarah Brackett, Arielle Conrad, Sam Crabtree, Brianna McVaugh, Seth Patterson

Production................Mae Burrus, Matthew Hakesley, Emma Sabulsky, Dillon Sheehan, Erija Wayman-Murdock

Company Management.............................Gabby Farve

Stage Management....DJ Kelly, Jennifer Woodford

Costumes.......................Sam Bogan, Eleanor Boozer

Properties.......................................................John O’Shields

Contains strong language, adult situations, & brief nudity.