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THE AUDREY SKIRBALL KENIS THEATER AT THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

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From the artistic Director Welcome to Miss Julie by August Strindberg and re-imagined

by Neil LaBute. We know Neil and his work quite well, having previously produced four of his plays. So when he came to us with a hankering to take on Strindberg’s classical play about the pitfalls of womanhood and one’s station, we were intrigued; more than intrigued, we were in. Audiences of the late 1800’s were intolerant of Miss Julie, refusing to attend a play that exposed the true yearnings of two types of underclass - women and servants. But Miss Julie later became widely produced and admired for its candid exposure of what goes on behind closed doors.

Known for scratching at surfaces no one else is willing to touch, Neil came into his own writing about unbridled violence and the destruction, both psychological and physical, that humans consistently visit upon one another. His plays never cease to leave us on edge, waiting for another round of bad behavior from his fascinating characters. So his attraction to Strindberg, another writer who tore the façade from society, seems a given.

As his long-time collaborator, Jo Bonney once again illuminates Neil’s writing — expertly helming this production. Jo and Neil have a short hand that makes the work seamless, so we are unable to see where the script ends and the production begins. Our great pleasure is to have them back with this beautiful play under our roof.

Jo has also put together an incredible company of actors who have navigated this difficult play, now updated to 1929, with what appears as effortless elegance. And the world they inhabit has been imagined and built by some of the best designers working in theater.

We are always seeking productions of classical works, just as we seek to produce the most cutting-edge new theater we can find. With this production of Miss Julie, we get the best of both worlds.

Enjoy the show!

Randall Arney Artistic Director PErFORMANCEs MAGAZINE P1

letter from the chaiRman

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Frank G. Mancuso Chairman

Patricia Kiernan Applegate Randall Arney Behnaz Ataee dr. Gene d. Block Harold A. Brown Gil Cates jr.

Mary Ann Cloyd Dennis Doty John Ebey Mark Fleischer Herbert M. Gelfand Chairman Emeritus

FRANK G. MANCUSO I am delighted to welcome you to the world premiere adaptation of Miss Julie written by Neil LaBute and directed by Jo Bonney.

I would like to update you about our work in the community. As you may know, each season we serve more than 22,500 individuals through our education and outreach programs. We are committed to the mission of bringing theater into the lives of people who might otherwise not have access to it. We believe it is our responsibility and privilege to afford the experience of live theater to all segments of our city’s population.

I would like to take this opportunity to acquaint you with one of our many education and outreach programs: the Geffen Playhouse Mendez Writing Project.

In response to a request from two principals at the Mendez Learning Center, a high school in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, the Geffen is using theater as a tool to assist high school youth with their writing skills.

Not only does this program expose these young people to theater, but it uses their experiences here to develop their critical thinking and their ability to express their thoughts in writing, particularly as they prepare to pass the essay requirement of the California High School Exit Exam.

It is our ongoing mission to work closely with six classrooms of 10th grade students in this immersive writing program centered on our season of plays. We are using the plays as thought-provoking and, quite simply, fun springboards, because dialogue and self-expression boosts the students’ confidence in writing while developing an appreciation of the arts.

We look forward to presenting the results of this program to you this summer.

In the meantime, know that your donations are what make this rigorous and innovative program possible. If you have any questions or would like to support these programs, please contact Regina Miller at 310.208.6500 ext. 112.

Thank you again for joining us here at the Geffen Playhouse. Now sit back, relax and enjoy Miss Julie.

Respectfully yours,

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Sitting down to write an article for our program, my goal is to find a way to bring the audience into the play they are about to see. For Miss Julie, adapted by Neil LaBute, I wanted to delve into the art and process of adapting a classical play. When I asked Neil if I might interview him on the subject, he replied that he had just finished the preface for the published version of this adaptation and that it might address the very issues of my proposed interview. It does that, and so much more. What follows is a sneak peek at that preface, for which I thank Neil profusely.

Photo by Aaron Eckhart

— Amy Levinson

playwright neil labute

how do you solve a problem like miss julie ? by neil Labute

How do you solve a problem like Miss Julie?

I’ve stolen that handy little refrain from The Sound of Music but it’s a very helpful question when it comes to dealing with such an important, studied and debated play like the one that August Strindberg wrote in his Miss Julie.

The problem that I write of, at least in my mind, is how to take a play that so effortlessly deals with universal and timeless themes and make it your own during the adaptive

process (without getting your big muddy paws all over it).

I’m a firm believer in trying things — you may succeed, you may fail, but trying is one of the greatest and grandest of ambitions. In the end no one will much care what I’ve done with this text; it will either work or it won’t but the play will live on. Actors will keep scouring it for scenes to perform in class, directors will keep wanting to stage it and other playwrights will come along and want to adapt PErFORMANCEs MAGAZINE P3

how do you solve a problem like miss julie ? play you like, read it again to see why. If you read a play it in some way or other. That’s fine by me and completely you hate, read it twice more to unlock all the reasons for expected — ‘the play’s the thing’ and this one just happens your displeasure with it. Perhaps you were too hasty (or to be an extraordinarily fine one.

— gasp! — even wrong) the first time around, but maybe Written in the late 1880’s, Strindberg continued to not. Maybe each time will deepen your dislike of it. That’s come into his own with this text and to widen and deepen not the point. Know the enemy and how not to do what his greatest themes and concerns: love as a currency, the he or she has done. The best playwriting teachers I’ve had battle of wills that exist between partners (namely men made me read as much or more than they made me write. and women) and the power dynamics at the soul of most Some were annoying (and I suspect not very talented, relationships (be they colleagues, friends or family). As a either) but the ones who pushed me to write and rewrite writer there would be a number of other ideas Strindberg and read and re-read turned me into a better writer. I’ve would tackle on the page but in Miss Julie he seemed to thanked them before but I’ll thank them again here for be perfectly at home with both his characters and subject. doing what writing teachers should do best: set deadlines, The simplicity with which he uses time, the effortless way be positive and find the play within the play that each he moves his characters about a room, how he allows student is trying to write. Do not rewrite it for them or tragic circumstances to rise up out of the smallest of suggest a better ending — any asshole can do that — guide human gestures. From what I’ve read Strindberg wasn’t them and nurture them with respect a great guy, not the nicest husband or and understanding and love (‘tough friend or father, but he was a hell of a Strindberg love’ is entirely acceptable but make it writer and understood something vast understood people. the type that any fool can understand). about human frailty (perhaps because He may not have Adapting Strindberg’s wonderful he was so frail on so many personal document of real lives in crisis has levels himself). loved them or trusted also made me a better writer. Each Whatever the case, Strindberg them or always felt moment felt so alive as I worked understood people. He may not comfortable around on it, struggling to find the best have loved them or trusted them or them, but as an word or phrase to underscore what always felt comfortable around them, author he found he’d already written while trying to but as an author he found a way to a way to create them make it a part of my own oeuvre as create them in vivid, beautiful, horrific in vivid, beautiful, well. It was a great pleasure and a detail. He dissected the human spirit horrific detail. distinct pain in the ass. A painfully with the precision of a surgeon and slow process, tedious even, but an while he genuinely seemed to be — neil labute experience I’m glad to have had and frightened (or at least wary) of women one I’d love to be a part of again. This and their many gifts and foibles and is not the first play I’ve adapted (I’ve also done a version glories — he was able to write some of modern drama’s of Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck and one of Dracula as greatest and most memorable portraits of femininity. well, although that one came straight from the novel Not just ‘Miss Julie’ but ‘Laura’ from The Father and and not from a dramatic text). The desire to find ‘Tekla’ from Creditors and Eleonora from Easter and moments that illuminated the play in some new way for the wonderful roles (one spoken, one silent) in his play a contemporary audience was intoxicating and carried The Stronger. Strindberg — in that way that only hugely me through the rough patches when I would barely limp talented, narcissistic, and deeply paranoid geniuses can through a page or two a day. A page or two stacks up, — even went so far as to accuse his great Norwegian however, and soon a version of Miss Julie existed with contemporary Henrik Ibsen of stealing from him, as he both Strindberg’s name and my name on it. I have never apparently considered the heroines of both A Doll’s collaborated with another writer on a show but in some House and Hedda Gabler to be plagiarized versions of way it felt as if Strindberg was by my side throughout, what he had already accomplished onstage. How can offering encouragement, scoffing at some of my ideas you not love and admire a guy as simultaneously crazy but always pushing me on to do good work. I hope I and talented as that? have but that will be for you, the audience to decide. If Mostly, I just don’t care. I love all the scripts I’ve he were alive, Strindberg would no doubt take all the just mentioned and I go back and read them often. Your credit for this version and I probably wouldn’t raise a career as a playwright begins with your career as a reader. finger to stop him. A few of my ideas are smart ones, I Read everything and read often. Actual books if you can. think, but I just wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the man Feel them in your hands and know that they matter and himself (every zany, hateful, exuberant inch of him). will matter long after you and I are gone. If you read a P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINe

THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE AND NEIL LABUTE I chose to re-set the play in America (on the Long Island Sound in particular) so that the themes of old money and new morals could continue to clash appropriately while resonating in a new way for today’s audiences. The world of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his ‘Jazz Age’ is undoubtedly a strong influence here but it goes well beyond the songs and look of the period. I wanted the character of ‘John’ (‘Jean’ in the original version) to be a man who could have tasted the horrors of a world war but also the worldly pleasures of Europe just after the signing of the Armistice.

He is a man who hungers for a way of life that he has held briefly in his hands yet works for a rich man whom he both fears and reveres, a man whose estate he has grown up staring at from the dirty window of his own filthy family shack. And the idea of a ‘Miss Julie’ who is as much a ‘Daisy Buchanan’ as she is a Swedish aristocrat was not a huge stretch once I began to let my overactive imagination start to get the better of me.

The fatal dance that John and Julie and Kristine enact over the course of a single evening follows the same psychological trajectory of the original text, but as viewers today we are constantly aware of the stock market crash that is less than a month away from when these events play out, and the rabbit hole that most of the United States will plunge into almost immediately after. This seemed like a valid and vivid world in which to re-set Strindberg’s long night of the soul. I hope it works as an adequately painful playground in your mind, but ultimately you will be the judge of that, although feel free to write my agents rather than me with any and all complaints. I promise to get back to you within a decade.

I’ve said a lot and yet almost nothing about Strindberg and his marvelous creation. That’s a compliment. Like all great works of art, Miss Julie feels intensely familiar and yet remains elusive and mysterious the more time you spend with it.

The world premiere of this version of the play is lucky enough to have a quiet genius at its helm, Jo Bonney, who has directed my work many times before. It also has an amazing cast lead by the gifted Laura Heisler, the feral charm of Logan Marshall-Green and the startling beauty and brilliance of Lily Rabe. Sometimes the gods smile down on us.

It also came about because of the good people at the Geffen Playhouse, led by the great and gracious Randall Arney. Thank you all for trusting me on this one.

I love this play and I fear it. I know that I will never write anything as good as Miss Julie but it’s so good that it makes me want to keep trying. I think that’s what they call ‘Art.’

— Neil LaBute March 2013

Our ongoing love affair.

Chris Pine and Scott Wolf in Fat Pig (06/07 Season). Photo by Michael Lamont.

Justina Machado and Mark Feuerstein in Some Girl(s) (07/08 Season).

Photo by Michael Lamont.

Ed Harris in Wrecks (09/10 Season). Photo by Michael Lamont.

Tracee Chimo and Kevin Anderson in The Break of Noon (10/11 Season).

Photo by Michael Lamont.

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THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE presents

Written by

August Strindberg Adapted by

Neil LaBute Scenic Designer

Costume Designer

Myung Hee Cho

Christina Haatainen Jones

Lighting Designer

Sound Designer

Lap Chi Chu

Vincent Olivieri

Production Stage Manager

James T. McDermott

Casting by

Phyllis Schuringa

Directed by

Jo Bonney

Opening Night: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Opening Night: Wednesday, November 28 , 2012 OPE N I N G N I G HT SPO N SOR s

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(In order of appearance)

Kristine..........................................................................................................................................Laura Heisler John............................................................................................................................. Logan Marshall-Green Julie.........................................................................................................................................................Lily Rabe

understudies (In alphabetical order)

Julie / Kristine..........................................................................................................Mary Thornton Brown John............................................................................................................................................Aubrey Deeker

Time/setting Labor Day, Long Island N.Y. 1929 running time Approximately 100 minutes There will be no intermission

The Geffen Playhouse is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

This project was also funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

The Geffen Playhouse, a non-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.

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LAURA HEISLER (Kristine) Laura Heisler is delighted to be back at Geffen Playhouse, where she last performed in Michael Golamco’s Build.

Laura recently received Lucille Lortel and Drama League Award nominations for her work in Bathsheba Doran’s Kin at Playwrights Horizons, where she also previously appeared in Doris to Darlene and People Be Heard. Other theater credits include Broadway: Coram Boy (Imperial Theatre); Liz Meriwether’s The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels); Everything Will Be Different (Soho Rep); Top Girls (directed by Jo Bonney) and Bus Stop (Williamstown); The Language Archive (South Coast Rep); the world premiere of David Adjmi’s Stunning and Rocket to the Moon (Woolly Mammoth); A Seagull in the Hamptons (McCarter); title role in the world premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice (Madison Rep); The Taming of the Shrew and Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Old Globe); Humana Festival; The Shakespeare Theatre; Pacific Playwrights Festival; O’Neill Conference; NY Stage & Film and many others. TV and film credits include guest appearances on: Grey’s Anatomy, Bones, The Defenders, Numb3rs, Ugly Betty, recurring role on The Middle, YellowBrickRoad, Coach, Cold Souls and Forged.

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LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN (John) Theater: Adam Rapp’s Hallway Trilogy at The Rattlestick Theatre (Drama Desk nomination), King Lear with Kevin Klein at The Public Theatre (Drama League nomination), Greg Kotis’ Pig Farm at The Roundabout Theatre (Drama League nomination), Michael Weller’s Beast at The New York Theatre Workshop, Gina Gionfriddo’s US Drag, Neil LaBute’s A Distance from Here at MCC (Drama Desk Ensemble award, Lucille Lortel nomiantion), Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees God (Lucille Lortel nomination), Adam Bock’s Swimming in the Shallows at Second Stage and Turn of the Screw. Williamstown Theatre Festival: Bus Stop, Street Scene, Skin of Our Teeth, The Blue Bird, Light Up the Sky, Tonight at 8:30, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Servant of Two Masters and Xanadu.

Film: Cold Comes the Night with Brian Cranston, James Franco’s As I Lay Dying, Sir Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe, M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil, Antoine Fuqua’s Brooklyn’s Finest, The Great Raid and The Kindness of Strangers. Television: Jerry Bruckheimer’s Dark Blue, Oscar Winners Bruce Cohen and Dan Jenk’s Traveler, 24, The O.C., Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Training: National Theatre Institute and NYU Tisch Graduate Acting Program MFA.

LILY RABE (Julie) Broadway: Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar with Alan Rickman and directed by Sam Gold (Drama League nomination), The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino, directed by Daniel Sullivan (Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League nominations, Callaway Award), Richard Greenberg’s The American Plan at MTC, Heartbreak House at Roundabout (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Callaway Award), Steel Magnolias (Drama Desk nomination). Off Broadway/ Regional: As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice directed by Daniel Sullivan at The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park, A Doll’s House directed by Sam Gold at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Crimes of the Heart at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Roundabout, Colder than Here at MCC, The Crazy Girl and Speaking Well of the Dead at GSC. Film: Beyond Redemption, Letters from the Big Man, All Good Things, Weakness, Aftermath, What Just Happened, The Toe Tactic, A Crime, No Reservations, Mona Lisa Smile, Never Again.

Upcoming: Mary Pickford in The First. Television: The Good Wife, Nip/Tuck, the Law & Orders, among others. Lily is a regular on Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story which is about to enter its third season on FX. She is a graduate of Northwestern University.

JO BONNEY (Director) Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig and The Break of Noon and Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at the Geffen Playhouse.

Premieres of plays by Alan Ball, Eric Bogosian, Culture Clash, Eve Ensler, Jessica Goldberg, Danny Hoch, Neil LaBute, Warren Leight, Lynn Nottage, Dael Orlandersmith, SuzanLori Parks, Darci Picoult, Will Power, David Rabe, Jose Rivera, Christopher Shinn, Diana Son, Universes, Naomi Wallace, Michael Weller, also, productions of plays by Caryl Churchill, Nilo Cruz, Anna Deavere Smith, Charles Fuller, Lisa Loomer, John Osborne and Lanford Wilson.

Theatres: PS 122, The Public Theater NYC, New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage, NYC, The Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, MCC, NYC, Geffen Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The McCarter Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Signature Theatre, NYC, Long Wharf Theatre, The New Group, NYC, Classic Stage Company, NYC, Humana Theatre Festival, Almeida Theatre, London, Edinburgh Theatre Festival, The Market Theatre, Johannesburg, Cine 13, Paris. Recipient of a 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Direction, Lucille Lortel Best Musical, Lucille Lortel Best Revival and Drama Desk nominee. Editor of “Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century” (TCG).

NEIL LaBUTE (Adapter) Neil LaBute received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre, London and also attended the Sundance Institute’s Playwrights Lab. His films include In the Company of Men (New York Critics’ Circle Award for Best First Feature and the Filmmaker Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, The Shape of Things (a film adaptation of his play by the same title),

production biographies

MYUNG HEE CHO (Set Designer) Myung Hee Cho is a set and costume designer for theater, opera, dance, and other special productions. She recently designed costumes for Stuck Elevator at ACT, SF; sets and costumes for Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Other Place at Magic Theatre, and The Magic Fluteat Canadian Opera Company. Her designs have been seen at The Market Theatre (Johannesburg), Ciné 13 Théâtre (Paris), TheaterWorks (Singapore), Landestheater Linz (Austria), Singapore Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, Signature Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, The Kennedy Center, Chicago Opera Theater, The Pasadena Playhouse, Deaf West Theatre, McCarter Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Intiman Theatre, The Public Theater, Union Square Theatre, Manhattan Class Company, Vineyard Theatre, Music Theatre Group, East West Players, Singapore Repertory, Women’s Project & Productions, Centerstage, The Prince Music Theater, New York Stage & Film, New York Theatre Workshop, Children’s Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre, and many more. She is a recipient of The Princess Grace Awards and Professor of Stage Design at The UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.

CHRISTINA HAATAINEN JONES (Costume Design) At the Geffen: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Nightmare Alley; Joan Rivers Project; Quality of Life; Fat Pig; A Picasso; God of Hell; Take Me Out; Steve Martin’s The Underpants; I Just Stopped By to See the Man; Boy Gets Girl; Neil Simon’s Oscar and Felix: A New Look at The Odd Couple; God’s Man in Texas; All in the Timing; and the David Mamet plays The Cryptogram and The Old Neighborhood.

Regionally: Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Boston Court, Denver Center Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Antaeus, Noise Within, Lewis Family Playhouse. Tina is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University and is the Director of Design at the USC School of Theatre.

LAP CHI CHU (Lighting Designer) Regional designs include Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Goodman Theater, The Shakespeare Theater, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage and Evidence Room. New York design credits include The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage Theatre, Performance Space 122 and Kitchen Theatre Company. He is the lighting/video designer for ChameckiLerner Dance Company (Costumes by God, Visible Content, Hidden Forms, I Mutantes Seras, Por Favor and Não Me Deixe), which has performed in the United States and Brazil. Awards have included the LA Drama Critic’s Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Design, multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, a “Drammy” for best lighting, as well as a Lucille Lortel nomination for The Good Negro at The Public Theater.

Mr. Chu is on the lighting design faculty at California Institute of the Arts.

VINCENT OLIVIERI (Sound Design) Broadway: High. OffBroadway: The Water’s Edge, Omnium Gatherum, and Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy. At The Geffen: Build and Extraordinary Chambers. Other southern California work includes In a Garden, Emilie, Noises Off, The Heiress, and A Feminine Ending at South Coast Repertory, Jitney at Pasadena Playhouse, and Clownzilla: A Holiday Extravaganza at Rude Guerrilla. New York & regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Barrington Stage Company, Center Stage (Baltimore), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Juilliard School, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Portland Center Stage, The Public (New York), South Coast Repertory, Syracuse Stage, Theatre Novi Most (Minneapolis), Woolly Mammoth, Virginia Stage Company, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Mr. Olivieri has created designs & music for world-premiere productions

by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Michael Golamco, Kirsten Greenidge, Lauren Gunderson, Howard Korder, Matthew Lombardo, Charles L. Mee, Adam Rapp, Theresa Rebeck, Sarah Treem, and August Wilson. For three seasons, he was the Resident Sound Designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he designed for the Humana Festival of New American Plays.

International work includes productions in Romania, Italy, China, South Korea, and the Czech Republic. Mr. Olivieri is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and serves on the faculty at University of California-Irvine.

JAMES T. McDERMOTT (Production Stage Manager) Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Jimmie is returning, with Miss Julie being his sixteenth show Stage Managing for the Geffen Playhouse. He has also stage managed across the country at theaters in cities including New York, Princeton,

Charleston, Washington D.C., Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Las Vegas and San Francisco. In Southern California he has stage managed at Center Theatre Group (Ahmanson, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatres), Los Angeles Theatre Center, La Jolla Playhouse and South Coast Repertory. Jimmie is ending his third five year elected term on the Council of Actors’ Equity Association, the governing body of his fellow actors’ and stage managers’ union. In 2001 he was the first stage manager to be named as the outstanding professional stage manager in whose name the USITT Outstanding Stage Manager Award was given.

This 2012 / 2013 school year marks Jimmie’s 17th year on the faculty of California Institute of the Arts. Jimmie would like to thank his stage management partner Leia Crawford and many thanks to his life partner Pat Brymer.

PHYLLIS SCHURINGA, CSA (Casting) Phyllis has had the pleasure of working with wonderful directors throughout her career and especially this season — Jo Bonney, Will Frears, Bart DeLorenzo, Maria Aitken, Randy Arney and Jonathan Lynn. She has been the Casting Director at the Geffen for 10 years and before that she served as casting director for Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago where her favorites include Frank Galati’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath (also La Jolla Playhouse, National Theatre in London, and Broadway, where it received the Tony Award for Best Play), the original production of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile (and subsequent productions including Westwood Playhouse and Briar Street Theater in Chicago), Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow and Charles L. Mee’s Time to Burn. Broadway transfers include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony for Best Revival) and The Song of Jacob Zulu. She teaches auditioning at Steppenwolf West.

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The Wicker Man,Lakeview Terrace, Death at a Funeral and the forthcoming Some Velvet Morning. LaBute’s plays include bash: latter-day plays, The Shape of Things, The Mercy Seat, The Distance From Here, Autobahn, Fat Pig (Olivier nomination for Best Comedy), Some Girl(s), This Is How It Goes, Wrecks, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, Lovely Head, In a Dark Dark House, reasons to be pretty (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), reasons to be happy and the forthcoming The Money Shot. LaBute is also the author of Seconds of Pleasure, a collection of short fiction which was published by Grove Atlantic.

production biographies AMY LEVINSON (Dramaturg) Amy Levinson is the Artistic Associate and Literary Director at the Geffen Playhouse. As dramaturg, Amy has overseen over 40 productions including the commissions and world premieres of Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still and Jane Anderson’s The Quality of Life.

She has also had the privilege of working with numerous writers on premiere productions including Neil Simon, Neil LaBute, Bill Cain, Joanna Murray-Smith and David Weiner, among others. Production dramaturgy credits include: The Weir, Boy Gets Girl, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Extraordinary Chambers, The Escort and Equivocation. As Artistic Associate and Literary Director, she has helped to build programs for new play development including the commissioning and development of emerging and established playwrights. Also a translator of Yiddish drama, she holds an MFA in dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

RANDALL ARNEY (Artistic Director) Randall Arney has been a theater professional for over 30 years, and has served as Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse since 1999. In addition to his artistic programming and oversight at the Geffen, Arney has helmed more than 10 productions for the theater, most recently Superior Donuts, The Female of the Species, The Seafarer, Speed-the-Plow and All My Sons. Arney is an ensemble member and former Artistic Director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre where his directing credits include: The Seafarer, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Death and the Maiden, Curse of the Starving Class, Killers and The Geography of Luck, among others. Arney also

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directed Steppenwolf’s world premiere of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, as well as the subsequent national and international acclaimed productions. Mr. Arney’s acting credits with Steppenwolf include Born Yesterday, Ghost in the Machine, The Homecoming, Frank’s Wild Years, You Can’t Take it with You, Fool for Love, True West, Balm in Gilead and Coyote Ugly. As the Artistic Director for Steppenwolf from 1987 to 1995, he oversaw the creation of a new stateof-the-art theater which is Steppenwolf’s current home.

Broadway transfers under his leadership include The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu (six Tony Award nominations) and The Grapes of Wrath (1990 Tony Award, Best Play). Mr. Arney has an MFA degree in Acting from Illinois State University and has taught master classes and workshops at UCLA, Steppenwolf, around the U.S. and in Tokyo.

KEN NOVICE (Managing Director) Ken Novice’s career in the professional theater spans 25 years and over 250 productions.

Prior to joining the Geffen Playhouse, he served as Managing Director and Director of External Affairs at Pasadena Playhouse where his credits included the revival of Fences starring Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett and the world premieres of Sister Act the Musical, Ray Charles Live, Stormy Weather starring Lesley Uggams and many others. He was Director of Marketing and Public Relations for San Diego’s Tony Award-winning Old Globe Theatre where his credits include Jack O’Brien’s acclaimed revival of Damn Yankees, the Tony Award-nominated musical The Full Monty, Henry

IV starring John Goodman and Sheldon Epp’s Tonynominated hit Play On! among many others. His credits also include marketing and public relations for the Tony Awardwinning Denver Center Theater Company and New York’s Circle Repertory Company. As Director of Programming for YouthStream Media Networks he developed national marketing and public relations programs for most of Hollywood’s major motion picture studios. Novice also served as Head of the Theatre Management MFA/ MBA program at California State University, Long Beach and has been a guest lecturer at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. He holds a BA from the Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from San Diego State University. Novice is a member of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT) Executive Committee and has served in various capacities including as a member of the negotiating team for the LORT/ Actors’ Equity Association collective bargaining agreement.

BEHNAZ ATAEE (General Manager) Behnaz Ataee is a financial professional with more than 25 years of experience in forprofit and nonprofit financial management and auditing.

Behnaz joined the Geffen Playhouse in 1999 and this marks her ninth season as the theater’s General Manager. She began her career in the Bay Area as a partner in a small family start-up before joining FBS Management where she acted as Director of Accounting, overseeing the finances of more than 25 nonprofit organizations. Behnaz continued her work with nonprofits as an auditor for Trump and Van Sloten CPA and then

returned to the for-profit sector at Ultratech, before ultimately landing at the Geffen Playhouse.

Behnaz has a Master’s degree from Pepperdine University.

REGINA MILLER (Chief Development Officer) Regina has been a development professional for over 18 years, working with non-profit institutions, foundations and corporations on strategy, analysis and fundraising.

She has worked for Simon Wiesenthal Center, The Clinton Foundation, Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative, Hank Azaria’s Determined to Succeed, The Millan Foundation and Whole Child International, among others. Prior to the Geffen, Regina served as the Director of Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire where she led strategic planning and development while executing policies that advanced the organization’s visibility and growth. Regina also has a strong passion for teaching. After graduating from University of North Carolina School of the Arts, she taught in preschools and kindergartens in New York.

From the age of 13, Regina worked as a professional dancer on Broadway as well as with a number of prominent modern dance ensembles. Fusing two of her interests, she created a highly successful program which incorporated dance therapy and creative movement into an early childhood curriculum as well as wrote and produced a television show based on this concept. In addition to being a published author and photographer with Tallfellow Press and Prometheus Books, Regina has taught and lectured at numerous schools in New York, Los Angeles and abroad.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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PRODUCTION STAFF FOR MISS JULIE Properties Supervisor Rich Gilles Properties Artisans Hazel Kuang and Devin Lennon-Davey Production Assistant Leia Crawford Sound Board Operator James Grabowski Light Board Operator Dan Tuttle Wardrobe Supervisor Jenna Huffman Scenic Design Assistants Yuki Izumihara and Hana Kim Costume Design Assistant Holly Victoria Lighting Design Assistant Elizabeth Harper Sound Design Assistant Josh Fehrmann Dialect Coach Paul Wagar Fight Director Ned Mochel Movement Andrew Palermo ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Set provided by Scenic Highlights Lighting Equipment provided by Entertainment Lighting Services Sound Equipment provided by Jon Sound Inc. SPECIAL THANKS UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Scene Prop, Sound and Costume Shops; London Cleaners; Peet’s Coffee & Tea; Catherine Yi; Tim Dyess UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION The Geffen Playhouse is affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles, specifically the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

The Geffen Playhouse values its role as an important educational resource by providing students with master classes, workshops and internships.

Students are also able to work and learn from distinguished visiting Geffen artists such as Alan Ayckbourn, Jon Robin Baitz, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, David Ives, Neil LaBute, David Mamet, Donald Margulies, Terrence McNally, John Rando and Kathleen Turner in areas of directing, playwriting, acting, design, dramaturgy, management and production. The Geffen Playhouse also draws upon the distinguished experts in the university to enhance the theater’s programs and research.

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.

The director is a member of the society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

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The Geffen Playhouse recognizes the following individuals and organizations for their generous support of our Annual Fund and Backstage at the Geffen. Donors are listed at the Associate level and higher for gifts made between November 1, 2011 and March 10, 2013.

annual donors Jane Cates Melissa Cates & Roger Claman Lisa, Michael & Rachel Chalfin Sheldon Cherry & Carolyn Runowicz Rich-Chiocchi Family Roy & Dorothy Christopher Laurel & Aaron Clark Linda & John Coleman Lou Colen Tim & Charlene Conway Janine Cristiano Brunello Cucinelli In Loving Memory of Ed Cypert Daedalus Foundation, Inc Ruth Daugherty Shirley Lu & Norman Davidson Roger Davis Pam Dawber Gavin de Becker Deluscious Cookies Daniel & Gayle Devin Carolyn Dirks & Brett Dougherty Dennis & Jeralyn Doty Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones Dr. Laura’s Wholesome Junk Food Jan & Thea Drayer Dream Warrior Group Gerald & Sally Ducot Victoria Dummer William Duncan Colleen M. Ellis Terri & David Elston Kevin Watts & Christine Enlow Carl & Courtenay Enright Carol & J.B. Esterkin Stacey Feinberg Marc Feldman Susanna Felleman & Erik Feig Gloria & Morton Field Lawrence N. Field Michael Filerman Joan & Charles Fox Steve Freedman Tom & Kathy Freston Carol & Paul Frimmer Tomas Fuller & Bill Kelly Future Lighting G2 Graphic Service, Inc. Jim Garfield Kathleen Garfield Jeanne & Arnold Geffner Harry A. Gilbert Rose Gilbert Kiki & David Gindler Cherna & Dr. Gary Gitnick Charlotte Gold Dr. Irene Goldenberg Adrienne Grant & Paul Jennings Ken Greenblatt & Peter Walsh Jack Grossbart & Marc Schwartz Allen & Deborah Grubman Michael Grunwald The Guerin Foundation Madeline Gussman Andrea & Marc Guth Monty & Marilyn Hall Alan & Michelle Heilpern Mr. & Mrs. William Hellman Mel & Faith Henkin Hernand Family Grant & Lysa Heslov Jean Himmelstein & David Coleman Stephen Sass & Steven Hochstadt Dr. John D. Hofbauer & Dr. Laura E. Fox Mrs. Dorothy Hoffman Gail & Stanley Hollander Roger & Linda Howard Vicki Iovine Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob Terry & Marc J. Jacoby Jerome & Linda Janger Lori Johnson Jordan Strauss Photography Joseph B. Gould Foundation Linda & David Kagel

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Donna & Jeffrey Klein Laurie & Milton Klorman Judy Knapp In honor of Leni Jane Knapp Charles Kolstad Donald Kottler Richard Kraft Barbara & Stan Krasnoff Howard & Vivian Krepack Janice White & Eugene Krieger Charles Kristenson Frumeh Labow Doctors Mark & Lena Labowe Joan & Christopher Larkin Jill & Michael Lasky Jeanne & Christopher Lavagnino Ann Leland Gail J. Levine Dr. Isaac & Barbara Levy Mr. Warren Lincoln Lee & Therese Linden Victor & Madeline Lindenheim Irma & Allen Lipin Leslie & Adam Lobel Geri Loe Lori & Tom Low Ann & Bill Lucas Dianne Lum Anne L. Lynch Liz Lytle Teresa L. Maguire Guillaume Maillet Jeannette & Mervyn Mandelbaum Connie & Leslie Martinson Phyllis & Bert Massing Stewart Mayeda Cheryl McCormick William E. & Marcela H. McKenna Kimberly Meye Bettina Michaels Teddie J. Milner Ankica Milosavljevic Andrew Molasky John Moschitta Catherine Nameth Bonnie Nash David Neilan Mark & Diane Neubauer Sheila Newman Napoleon & Afra Nobay Shelby Notkin Elad Offer Adrienne & Arthur Omansky Martin Ordman Donald Ott Allen Pack & Rikki Gordon Michael Pannullo Bob Paris Edward Parker Mr. & Mrs. Herman Pass David Paymer Kathy & Jeff Perkins Michael & Leslee Perlstein Naidu & Jane Permaul William Pesetski Frank J. Pfizenmayer & Josh Brown Gloria Pink Frank Piontek Dr. Ronald & Alyson Podell Lily & Rick Pollack Ms. Kim Pompey Zazi Pope Nancy Porter Andrea Pourmoradi Philip Pritchett Mr. & Mrs. Howard Privette Drs. Laurence & Isabell Purdy Lisa Quateman

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