Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas Program

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MATTHEW MODINE SAVES THE ALPACAS

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From the Producing Director

WELCOME TO THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE Welcome to the first play of the Geffen Playhouse 09/10 season.

It is with great pleasure that we bring you a rollicking satire that is sure to amuse the senses and provoke the mind. Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas is a breath of fresh air, a comedy to be sure, but rich with social conscience. Blair Singer has written a play that magnifies the ridiculous excesses of celebrity life and explores what one will do to enjoy those excesses. If we were to describe Blair’s new play in just two words, they would surely be ‘relevant’ and ‘irreverent’.

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And as in the past when we have an irreverent comedy in our midst, we go to one of today’s greatest comic directors to take the helm. Happily, John Rando, who previously directed The Underpants, All in the Timing and Merton of the Movies returns to the Geffen. Adding to the collaboration between John and Blair is the extraordinarily talented Matthew Modine without whom this play could obviously not exist. Matthew has fearlessly helped to create a callow, clueless version of himself that couldn’t be further from the actor we know and love. With a cast that includes the two incomparable comedians Peri Gilpin and French Stewart, John Rando has assembled a cracker jack ensemble that is having as good a time performing this play as you will have watching it.

The design challenges for Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas at times felt as insurmountable as the task of saving the Chimborazzi tribe. Our expert design team has created worlds spanning from Hollywood PR offices to mountain peaks in Ecuador all to tell this wonderful story of celebrity humanitarianism. Our team includes set designer Beowulf Boritt, lighting designer Jeff Croiter – who we are pleased to welcome to the Geffen for the first time, as well as costume designer Robert Blackman, sound designer Jon Gottlieb and prop master Chuck Olsen – all of whom we welcome back for the umpteenth time.

The entire Geffen family is elated by the plays in our season line-up. We certainly have something for everyone – some satire, some farce, a bit of historical fiction, a bit of true history and a musical about the darker side of human nature. We look forward to having you join us for what promises to be an exciting and invigorating ride.

Gilbert Cates Producing Director

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FROM THE CHAIRMAN FRANK G. MANCUSO

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the new season at our beautiful Geffen Playhouse. We are very excited about this year’s schedule.

Gilbert Cates, Randall Arney and our creative department have put together a very promising program that we hope you will enjoy. If you haven’t renewed your subscription, now is the time to do it. I also want to welcome our many new subscribers to the Geffen Playhouse family.

Recently, I read a final report submitted to a foundation that made a large grant to help fund our education programs (school tours, student matinees, senior citizens, and Saturday Scene). The report documented the grant’s impact. I was very moved, as I read letter after letter from principals, teachers and students attesting to how much our programs mean to them. The passion that was expressed for what they saw, what they felt and what will stay with them from their Geffen Playhouse experience made me very proud of our extensive programs in education. A visual experience is one that vividly lasts.

It is only fitting that our theater, with its close association with one of the great institutions of learning in the country, UCLA, should have one of the very best theater arts education programs. None of this is possible without your continued financial support. Your involvement is more important now than ever. All you need to do is read the headlines in newspapers or the internet about the continuing cutbacks at our schools, the elimination of the art, theater and music programs, to realize how much your financial contributions to the Geffen Playhouse education programs will mean to our children.

Finally, thank you to the Edgerton Foundation for their support of Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas and for their generous involvement in new play development at the Geffen Playhouse. We will be working with six playwrights over the next three years to develop new plays for the American stage; and we hope you will join us in the excitement, challenges and tremendous satisfaction of bringing outstanding new plays to life!

Now, sit back and enjoy Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas.

Respectfully yours,

Frank G. Mancuso Chairman, Geffen Playhouse

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SCENE AT THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE Opening Night of Farragut North Sponsored by Audi and Los Angeles magazine

From left to right: Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Randall Arney, Doug Hughes, Mia Barron, Chris Noth, Beau Willimon, Chris Pine, Olivia Thirlby, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Dan Bittner, Justin Huen, and Geffen Playhouse Producing Director Gilbert Cates

Peter Sobrero, Vice President of Montage Residences, Geffen Playhouse marketing partner Debra Davis, and Shane Kavanagh, Montage Residential Sales Operations Manager

Charlie Midnight, Geffen Playhouse Board Member Susanna Midnight, Alexandra Edenborough and Gary Oldman

Dr. Karen Zoller, Dr. David Tillman, Fay Mancuso, and Geffen Playhouse Chairman Frank G. Mancuso

Chris Noth and Geffen Playhouse Board Member Cynthia Stafford

Friends of the Geffen Playhouse Jody and Arthur Schmid

Geffen Playhouse Board Member Pamela Robinson Hollander and Geffen Playhouse Producing Director Gilbert Cates

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Gilbert Cates, PRODUCING DIRECTOR Randall Arney, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Ken Novice, MANAGING DIRECTOR

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THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS

Written by

Blair Singer Set Design

Beowulf Boritt

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Production Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

Robert Blackman

James T. McDermott

Fight Director

Steve Rankin

Sound Design

Jeff Croiter

Jon Gottlieb

Jennifer Brienen

Casting Director

Phyllis Schuringa

Dramaturge

Amy Levinson

Directed by

John Rando

Opening Night: September 16, 2009 OPENING NIGHT SPONSORED BY:

MATTHEW MODINE SAVES THE ALPACAS is a proud recipient of the Edgerton Foundation 2009 New American Play Award

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CAST OF CHARACTERS Matthew Modine........................................................................................... Matthew Modine Whimberly North.......................................................................................... Peri Gilpin Jeffrey/Pierre du Perrier Jouet................................................................... French Stewart Abraham......................................................................................................... Edward Padilla Santos Panchos and Puppeteer.............................................................. Mark Damon Espinoza Angel............................................................................................................... Reggie De Leon Matthew Modine’s Conscience/Shaman/Charlie Rose/Puppeteer....... Mark Fite Puppeteer...................................................................................................... Kevin Noonchester

UNDERSTUDIES Matthew Modine.....................................................................................................

Whimberly North/Puppeteer................................................................................

Jeffrey/Pierre du Perrier Jouet/Matthew Modine’s Conscience/Charlie Rose.....

Shaman/Abraham/Santos Panchos/Angel.......................................................

Mark Fite Lauren Lovett Kevin Noonchester Alfonso DiLuca

Time & Place: The play takes place over the course of two weeks in Beverly Hills and on Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorian Andes.

The Geffen Playhouse gratefully acknowledges the following media sponsors for their generous support of Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas.

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

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST ABOUT THE PLAYERS international stages, Irish bars and shower stalls…the latter reserved for private audiences. He is very happy indeed to be making his debut with the Geffen Playhouse.

REGGIE DE LEON (Angel) Reggie is thrilled to be making his Geffen Playhouse debut! Recent theater credits include: Bun Foo in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Sacramento Music Circus), LeFou in the west coast regional premiere of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Horton the Elephant in Seussical and Toad in A Year with Frog and Toad with MainStreet Theatre Company at the Lewis Family Playhouse, and Sancho in Man of La Mancha throughout the southland. TV and Film credits include: Free Radio (VH1), My Own Worst Enemy (NBC), The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS), national commercials, and the upcoming indie short Hip Hop Headstrong. Reggie is a cum laude graduate of USC (B.A. in Public Relations) and Cal State LA (M.A. in Theatre Arts). “Many thanks to John, Blair, Phyllis, and everyone at the Geffen for this amazing opportunity, and as always, to Mom and Dad for everything! Soli Deo Gloria.”

MARK DAMON ESPINOZA (Santos Panchos, Puppeteer) Audiences may best remember him as Jesse from 90210; or as Carlos, Kelly Bundy’s clueless boyfriend on Married With Children, but recently you can catch him on the tube as any number of cranky cops and bloodsucking priests. Credits include series regular, recurring and guest spots on episodic television; most recently, The Mentalist and Without A Trace, as well as feature films. A variety of award-winning regional theaters across the country have also provided a place to play. The acclaimed Goodman Theatre in Chicago, San Diego’s Old Globe and Portland Center Stage are among favorites.

Webisodes include Gemini Division and the upcoming Chapin Circle.

On occasion you’ll hear him warble a tune in a variety of cabaret venues,

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MARK FITE (Matthew Modine’s Conscience, Shaman, Charlie Rose, Puppeteer) Mark Fite has been very active in live theater, improv, and comedy in Los Angeles for over twenty years. He has worked with several reputable theater companies such as The Actors’ Gang, The Padua Hills Playwrights’ Festival and Theater of Note. Original plays and comedy shows include Wife Swappers, Klüb, Shatter n’ Wade, The Chemistry of Change, Bob’s Office Party, Clowntown City Limits, The Rudy Casoni Show, and Two Headed Dog. He has performed at The Comedy Store, The Improv, Upright Citizen’s Brigade, Dixon Place (NYC), The U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, and The San Francisco Comedy Festival.

Film and television credits include Happy Endings, Fight Club, Off The Lip, Independence Day, Godzilla, Rules of Engagement, News Radio, Friends, Seinfeld, multiple episodes of SpongeBob Squarepants, and over thirty commercials. Mark received a B.A. in Communications and Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa.

PERI GILPIN (Whimberly North) Peri enjoyed playing Roz Doyle, producer of Dr. Frasier Crane’s talk radio show on NBC’s long-running Emmy Award-Winning show, Frasier.

She also starred in Neil Simon’s Emmy Nominated film Laughter On the Twenty Third Floor for Showtime as well as Cross Roads: A Story of Forgiveness for CBS’s Hallmark Hall of Fame and For the Love of a Child for Lifetime. Currently she is starring in ABC Family’s Make It or Break It.

Gilpin’s film credits include: How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog and Spring Forward. She appeared on stage in Women of Manhattan at Ensemble Studio Theater West, The Maderati at the Tiffany Theatre directed by Ron Link, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and played Alexa Vere De Vere in Douglas Carter Beane’s As Bees in Honey Drown OffBroadway directed by Mark Brokaw and at the Pasadena Playhouse directed by Sheldon Epps. Peri is very happy be working onstage at the Geffen Playhouse. Love to T. Scott.

MATTHEW MODINE (Matthew Modine) Matthew has worked with many of the most highly regarded directors in the industry, including Oliver Stone, Sir Alan Parker, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Alan J. Pakula, John Schlesinger, Tony Richardson, Robert Falls, Sir Peter Hall, Abel Ferrara, Spike Lee, Tom DiCillo, Mike Figgis, Jonathan Demme and John Sayles. A partial list of his films includes Birdy, Married to the Mob, Vision Quest, Full Metal Jacket, Gross Anatomy, The Real Blonde, Browning Version, Pacific Heights, Any Given Sunday, Memphis Belle and Shortcuts. Matthew is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award, Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup and Golden Lion for best actor.

He’s also received Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for What the Deaf Man Heard and the Emmy Award winning And the Band Played On. Recent stage appearances include a new theatrical adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbid at Hartford Stage directed by Michael Wilson and Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues directed by Robert Altman at The Old Vic in London. He also worked with Arthur Miller in Finishing the Picture directed by Robert Falls at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

As a director, Matthew has helmed several distinguished short films, each of which has played in film festivals worldwide including the prestigious Museum of Modern Art’s New Directors/New Films (NYC). He also directed a theatrical production of 12 Angry Men starring F. Murray Abraham, Wallace Shawn, Kevin J. O’Connor and Seymour Cassel.

KEVIN NOONCHESTER (Puppeteer) Kevin Noonchester most recently played the role of Marlin in Disney’s Finding Nemo: The Musical and prior to that was in the Las Vegas company of Avenue Q. Also as a puppet performer, Kevin has done commercials for Sony PSP and spots currently airing for Jitterbug cellphones.

Kevin’s dream is to one day work with the Henson company. Theater credits include the East Coast Tour of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Music of the Night, Mordred in Camelot for Fullerton CLO where he also played Armand St. Just in The Scarlet Pimpernel. He also starred as Frankie in the CLO of South Bay Cities’ Hermosa Beach Playhouse production of Forever Plaid alongside Original Plaid, Stan Chandler. Other favorite roles include Joseph in Joseph... Dreamcoat, Finch in How To Succeed..., Dickon in The Secret Garden and the title role in Pippin directed by Ovation Award winner, Nick DeGruccio. Being partially of Peruvian descent and having seen alpacas up close in their native land as a child, Kevin is excited to “represent” in his Geffen Playhouse debut.

EDWARD PADILLA (Abraham) Edward Padilla is former Artistic Director for Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights (June 2006 to March 2009). He has worked on stage, film and television for more than 20 years. Stage credits include numerous productions with Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, Sinergia, Blank Theater Company, Ethical Arts Company. He was in the workshop productions of Sister Act (the musical) for Pasadena Playhouse, and Zorro (the musical) for Zorro Productions (LA, SF, NY). In film, he appeared in Spider-Man 3 (2007), opposite Brad Pitt in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), and with Richard Gere in Mr. Jones (1992). His TV credits include

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appearances on SouthLAnd, General Hospital, Dirt, The Shield, Windfall, Bones, King of Queens, Drew Carey Show (voice only), Los Beltran and more. He received his B.A. in Theater from the USC School of Theater and won the David Dukes Scholarship for Acting in 2004. He studied with the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University. He directed Teatro Izcalli at the San Diego Lyceum in Anthology (2009) and Juan More Beer (2008). At Casa 0101, he produced more than 20 shows and directed Trio Los Machos, Soledad, Split Second, and more.

FRENCH STEWART (Jeffrey & Pierre du Perrier Jouet) Since 1989, French has been an artist in residence for Justin Tanner at the legendary Cast Theatre. Over the past twenty years he has originated roles in such favorites as Zombie Attack (which went on to become L.A.’s longest running play), Party Mix, Teen Girl, Happy Time X-Mas, Intervention, and Pot Mom - for which he won an L.A. Weekly award. Once the company moved to The Zephyr, he appeared in Space Therapy and, this years’ Voice Lessons (with Laurie Metcalf). Other theatre credits include Little Egypt at the Matrix, The Nerd at the Colony, Romeo and Juliet at South Coast Rep, as well as King Lear, Richard 2 and Comedy Of Errors - all for the Grove Shakespeare Festival. French is best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the hit show Third Rock From The Sun, which ran for six years on N.B.C. Other television credits include Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show, Just Shoot Me, News Radio, Mad T.V., Bones, The Coser, C.S.I., and Pushing Daisies.

Film roles include Stargate, Leaving Las Vegas, Dick, Love Stinks, The Flock, Give ‘em Hell Malone and most recently received critical acclaim for his dark turn in the David Lynch produced Surveillance. French is proud to be working at The Geffen.

JOHN RANDO (Director) Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas marks John Rando’s fourth Geffen production including All in the Timing, Merton of the Movies and The Underpants. John made his Broadway debut directing Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party, starring Henry Winkler and John Ritter. Other

Broadway credits include Urinetown: The Musical (2002 Tony Award, Best Director and Outer Critics Circle Award), the 2006 Tony nominated musical The Wedding Singer, the revival of Herb Gardner’s A Thousand Clowns starring Tom Selleck, and Dance of the Vampires, starring Michael Crawford. For City Center’s Encores! series, John recently directed the highly-acclaimed concert version of On The Town. Also for Encores! he directed Face The Music, Of Thee I Sing, The Pajama Game, Do Re Mi and Strike up the Band. And for the Encores Summer Stars, he directed Damn Yankees.

His current Off-Broadway production of The Toxic Avenger Musical won the 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for best Off-Broadway Musical.

Rando achieved prominence in New York as director of the David Ives’ comedies: Mere Mortals (Primary Stages, John Houseman Theatre), Polish Joke (Manhattan Theatre Club) and Ancient History/English Made Simple (Primary Stages), as well as Lives of the Saints (Philadelphia Theatre Company and Berkshire Theatre Festival). Additional Off-Broadway credits include Pig Farm (The Roundabout Theatre), Bright Ideas (Manhattan Class Company), Peter Ackerman’s Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight (Promenade Theatre) and Comedy of Errors (The Acting Company).

BLAIR SINGER (Playwright) PLAYS: The Most Damaging Wound (The Production Co., NYC); Placement (The Black Dahlia, Los Angeles); Mackerels are My Life (Chautauqua Theater Company); The First One Down (Vital Theatre Company, NYC), Notice Me. TELEVISION: Weeds, Monk, Book of Daniel. Blair is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama, a member of the MCC Playwrights’ Coalition, and the 2009-10 Playwright-inResidence of The Production Company. Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas is the recipient of the 2009 Edgerton Prize.

BEOWULF BORITT (Set Designer) Broadway:, The 25th Annual Putmam County Spelling Bee, Lovemusik, Rock of Ages. The Two and Only.

Off- Broadway: More than 50 shows including The Last Five Years, Toxic Avenger, The Tin Pan Alley Rag. The Other Side, Sleepwalk With Me, Saint Lucy’s Eyes, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Miss Julie. Public, MTC, 2nd Stage, MCC, New Group, Pearl, American Place, Keen Co. He also designed the 2007 & 2008 Ringling Brothers Circus. Awards: OBIE, AUDELCO. Barrymore, 2 Lortel Noms, 3 Drama Desk Noms.

ROBERT BLACKMAN (Costume Designer) Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas marks Mr. Blackman’s sixth production at The Geffen. Previously Robert designed costumes for Speed the Plow, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Uncle Vanya and scenery for All My Sons among others.

Mr.Blackman has designed for The American Conservatory Theater, The Taper, The Ahmanson, South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe, The Seattle Repertory, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and The Denver Center Theater Company.

He also designed wardrobe for four Star Trek series, The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager, and Enterprise.

His latest television show was the critically acclaimed Pushing Daisies for which he is an Emmy nominee this year.

Mr. Blackman has a BFA degree from University of Texas Drama School and a MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

He lives in Palm Springs with his partner Mark, their Standard Poodles Barnum and Peabody and Ginger the cat.

JEFF CROITER (Lighting Designer) Geffen Playhouse: The Underpants.

Broadway: Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway; concerts at the New Amsterdam including Chess, Hair, and On The 20th Century. Other NY: Next Fall; Jerry Springer The Opera; Rufus Wainwright’s Judy Garland Concert at Carnegie Hall (London and Paris too); Family Guy Sings; Streamers; A Body of Water; The Voysey Inheritance; Things We Want; The Accomplices; The Internationalist; Junie B. Jones; Burleigh Grime$; Drumstruck; Jacques Brel…; I Love You Because; Almost, Maine; Lone Star Love; Dedication; Trumbo; Matt & Ben; Cam Jansen; The Eros Trilogy; Miss Witherspoon; Privilege; The Dazzle; and Fiction. Regional: The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, McCarter Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Paper Mill Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Trinity Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, and NY Stage and Film.

JON GOTTLIEB (Sound Designer) Jon Gottlieb is an award-winning Sound Designer who currently serves as Assistant Dean and Head of the Sound Design program for the School of Theater at the California Institute of the Arts. A Los Angeles-based artist, his recent design work at the Geffen includes:Time Stands Still,By the Waters of Babylon,George Gershwin, Alone(2007 Ovation Award), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Collected Stories directed by Gil Cates, Hedda Gabler with Annette Bening directed by

Daniel Sullivan, and Four Dogs And A Bone with Martin Short directed

by Lawrence Kasdan. He has been heard regionally, internationally and on and off- Broadway. Recent Broadway credits include QED with Alan Alda at Lincoln Center, Neil Simon’s Dinner Party and Terrence McNally’s Tony award-winning Master Class, starring Zoe Caldwell and later Faye Dunaway in the national tour. During his 15 year tenure as resident sound designer for Center Theater Group his designs included Taper productions of iWitness (LA Drama Critics Circle Award), The Flower Drum Song (Ovation Award), Distracted, Hughie with Al Pacino, Enigma Variations with Donald Sutherland, Putting It Together with Carol Burnett, in association with Cameron Mackintosh, The Cider House Rules directed

by Tom Hulce and Jane Jones, Nine Armenians directed by Gordon Davidson, Master Class (Ovation award) and Henceforward (LA Drama Critics Circle Award). His designs at the Ahmanson Theater include The History Boys, Cinderella (LA Drama Critics Circle Award) and Measure For Measure and A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Sir Peter Hall. Jon has received eight LADCC Awards, three LA Theater Alliance Ovation Awards, over 60 Drama-Logue, L.A. Weekly and NAACP Theater awards, Career Achievement awards from The Los Angeles Theater Alliance, the L.A. Weekly and the Los Angeles Theater Center, and the Distinguished Artist Award from the Music Center Club 100. He served for five years as the resident sound designer at the Los Angeles Theater Center, fifteen years as resident sound designer at Center Theater Group, and prior to teaching at CalArts was a member of the teaching faculty at both the USC and UCLA Schools of Theater. For Disney Imagineering, he created original sound effects and design for two attractions at Walt Disney World in Florida.

JAMES T. MCDERMOTT (Production Stage Manager) James T. McDermott is a Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Jimmie is excited about being back at the Geffen Playhouse having just completed Farragut North, The Seafarer and Time Stands Still. He has also stage managed across the country at theatres in cities including New York, Princeton, Charleston, Washington D.C., Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. Here 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 in his third five year elected term on the Council of Actors’ Equity Association, the

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST ABOUT THE PLAYERS 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. The 2009 / 2010 school year marks Jimmie’s 14th year on the faculty of California Institute of the Arts.

JENNIFER BRIENEN (Assistant Stage Manager) Geffen Playhouse: Third, Atlanta, Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress, The Seafarer, Farragut North. Center Theatre Group: Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre); Water & Power, 13, Yellow Face, Pippin (Mark Taper Forum); Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Of Equal Measure, This Beautiful City (Kirk Douglas Theatre).

Other Los Angeles: Once On This Island (Reprise Theatre Company); Nine Circles (Ojai Playwrights Conference); Stephen Sondheim’s 75th: The Concert (Hollywood Bowl); Rapture (Hysterica Dance Company); Paheliyan – The Story of Alice (blue13 Dance Company at the Ford Amphitheatre). Education: BFA, University of Southern California.

PHYLLIS SCHURINGA (Casting Director) Phyllis is in her seventh season as Casting Director at the Geffen Playhouse. Recent plays include: Farragut North, The Seafarer, Time Stands Still, By the Waters of Babylon, The Quality of Life, and Third. Prior to the Geffen, Phyllis served as casting director for the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. 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 The Briar Street 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.

AMY LEVINSON (Dramaturge) Amy Levinson is the Literary Manager and Dramaturge of the Geffen Playhouse. Her dramaturgy credits at the Geffen Playhouse include The Weir, Looking for Normal, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, Under The Blue Sky, Rose and Walsh, Boy Gets Girl, I Just Stopped By To See The Man, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Third, and The Quality of Life

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among others. Also a translator of Yiddish drama, she holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she taught until 1997. She has worked in literary offices at Hartford Stage and The Mark Taper Forum.

RANDALL ARNEY (Artistic Director) Randall begins his ninth season as Artistic Director at the Geffen where he has directed The Seafarer, Atlanta, David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, Stephen Jeffreys’ I Just Stopped by to See the Man, Rebecca Gilman’s Boy Gets Girl, David Rambo’s God’s Man In Texas and Conor McPherson’s The Weir. An ensemble member of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1984, Arney also acted as the company’s artistic director from 1987 to 1995. 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 (Tony Award winner). 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, Coyote Ugly, True West and Balm in Gilead. Film/TV credits include Normal, Weapons of Mass Distraction (both for HBO), Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) and Judging Amy (CBS)

KEN NOVICE (Managing Director) Prior to joining Geffen Playhouse Novice served as Managing Director and Director of External Affairs at Pasadena Playhouse. Prior to that he was Director of Marketing and

Public Relations for San Diego’s Tony Award-winning Old Globe Theatre developing marketing and public relations programs for Jack O’Brien’s revival of Damn Yankees, the Tony Award-nominated musical The Full Monty, Henry IV starring John Goodman as well as the Tonynominated hit Play On! among many others. Novice’s credits also include marketing and public relations with the Tony Award-winning 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 major motion pictures from Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks S.K.G., Buena Vista Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Fox Broadcasting, 20th Century Fox, MGM, New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers Pictures. He also currently manages Ken Novice Entertainment Marketing, working with such clients as The Salvation Army, Sephra Fountains LLC, and promotional partners including Warner Brothers, American Express and Gelson’s among others. Novice served as Head of Theatre Management for the California State University Long Beach theatre management M.F.A./ M.B.A. degree program and has been a guest lecturer at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. He holds a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from San Diego State University.

GILBERT CATES (Producing Director) Gilbert Cates is recognized as a leader in television, film and theater. Currently presiding as the Producing Director of the Geffen Playhouse, he is dedicated to enriching the Los Angeles theatrical spectrum by presenting the finest in contemporary and classical theater. In November 1996, Cates was the recipient of the Jimmy Dolittle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Los Angeles Theater. He received the 1999 Ovation Award for best play for Collected Stories, starring Linda Lavin and Samantha Mathis, which he directed at the Geffen.

The accolades for Cates expand into other areas of the entertainment industry. He produced and directed the 1970 film version of the Broadway hit I Never Sang for My Father, starring Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons. The movie earned three Academy Award nominations.

Cates also directed Joanne Woodward and Sylvia Sidney in the 1973 film Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, which received two Oscar nominations. Other film directing credits include: The Promise, One Summer Love, The Last Married Couple in America, Oh! God Book II and Backfire. He further distinguished himself as director and/or producer of a number of television dramatic specials.

These include NBC’s 1972 Emmy Award-winning To all My Friends on Shore, starring Bill Cosby, ABC’s 1974 The Affair starring Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, NBC’s 1975 After the Fall starring Faye Dunaway and Christopher Plummer. Other credits include: Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, The Kid from Nowhere, County Gold, Faerie Tale Theater’s Rapunzel and Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hobson’s Choice, Burning Rage, Consenting Adults, Fatal Judgment, Do You Know the Muffin Man, Call Me Anna, Absolute Strangers, In My Daughter’s Name, and Tom Clancy’s Netforce (Cates directed James Agee’s A Death in the Family for Masterpiece Theater’s American Collection of PBS and Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories for PBS Hollywood Presents). In September 2002, he directed David Eldridge’s Under the Blue Sky for The Geffen Playhouse and directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 2005, the inaugural production in the newlyrenovated Geffen Playhouse. In February 2007 he directed Jeffrey Hatcher’s A Picasso in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater. He served two terms as President of the Directors Guild of America from 1983 to 1987. In 1989, he received the Guild’s Robert B. Aldrich Award for extraordinary service and, in 1991, he received the DGA’s Honorary Life Membership.

He also served as Dean of the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television (which he founded) from 1990—1998. In 2008, Cates produced the 80th Annual Academy Awards show for ABC, his 14th occasion producing the Awards, for which he has already garnered 84 nominations and 17 Emmy Awards. Mr Cates was born in New York City and attended Syracuse University. Married to Dr. Judith Reichman, he has four children, two stepchildren and six grandchildren.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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PRODUCTION STAFF FOR MATTHEW MODINE SAVES THE ALPACAS Properties Supervisor Chuck Olsen Associate Sound Designer Cricket S. Myers Puppet Designer Cristina Bercovitz Deck Supervisor Dwayne Barnes Master Electrician Darren Rezowalli Sound Master James Grabowski Wardrobe Supervisor Leah A. Lewis Production Assistant Christina Acero Assistants to John Rando and Blair Singer Quinn Meyers, Jack Nicolaus Dialect Coach Paul Wagar Assistant Set Designers Maiko Chii, Jason Lajka, Hermione Lanoir Assistant to Lighting Designer John Ryman Assistant to Master Electrician Jenna Pletcher Stage Crew Juan Lozano Stage Crew Canyon Prince Wig Sylist Sarah Hatten ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Scenery provided by Scenic Highlights Lighting Equipment provided by Entertainment Lighting Services Sound Equipment provided by Jon Sound Inc. SPECIAL THANKS Alan Armstrong, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Scene, Prop, Sound and Costume Shops, London Cleaners, and Peet’s Coffee & Tea 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 Donald Margulies, Annette Bening, Terrence McNally, Alan Ayckbourn, David Mamet, David Ives and Jon Robin Baitz 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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ANNUAL DONORS The Geffen Playhouse recognizes the following individuals & organizations for their generous support of our Annual Fund.

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Sue & Peter Bunzel Jolene & Robert Burk Yvonne Burke Cliff Cantor Dr. Fanya Carter & Dr. Harold J. Delchamps Nick Cassavetes Rick Chase Laurel & Aaron Clark In Memory of Irma Colen Tami G. Cooper Corday Family Foundation Arline Covell Nancy Cypert - In honor of Ed Cypert, Jr. Daedalus Foundation Nancy Daly Riordan Celeste Decuir Freddy & Candy DeMann Dawn Denoon Glorya & Will Dixon Gerald & Sally Ducot William Duncan Ron Dunner Rich S. Eisen Dr. & Mrs. Paul Eisenberg Rene Elizondo Colleen M. Ellis Kevin Watts & Christine Enlow In Loving Memory of Richard C. Field Michael Filerman Eric Flamholtz & Yvonne Randle Burt & Nanette Forester Judith R. Forman & Dr. Cynthia Pikus Joan & Charles Fox Judith Fisher Freed Robert Freedman Dottie Frieband Sarah Leonard Fine Jewelers Hilary Garland Harry A. Gilbert Kiki & David Gindler Gloria Gold Lessing E. Gold Barbara Goldenberg Irwin & Shirley Goldenberg Fund Lawrence & Dee Dee Gordon Gucci The Guerin Foundation Aliza & Marc Guren Brett & Gina Gurewitz Louise Halevy & Ken Erlich Monty & Marilyn Hall Happy LA, LLC Dina Merrill & Ted Hartley Betty & Fred Hayman Mr. & Mrs. William Hellman Harriette Henderson Mel & Faith Henkin Michael Heslov Jack Hileman & Roxanne Huddleston Gwen & Arthur Hiller Jeannie & Gene Himelstein Jim Hliboki & Hildi Snodgrass Bud & Mary Hoffman Elaine Hoffman & Jack Cherbo Jackie & Dr. Irwin Hoffman Roger & Linda Howard Terry & Marc J. Jacoby Quincy Jones Productions Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Kamine Donald Kates Julie & David Kavner Chris King Kent Klavens Thea & Neal Koss Carol Krause

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OUR DEEPEST APPRECIATION TO MONTAGE HOTELS & RESIDENCES As continued supporters of the Geffen Playhouse, Montage Hotels & Residences invites you to experience the Montage lifestyle and help support the theater.

For a limited time, Geffen supporters will receive a special room rate offer at both Montage Laguna Beach and Montage Beverly Hills, with 10% of the exclusive rate donated back to the Geffen Playhouse.* Many thanks to Montage for all they do to support our artistic and educational programming.

Treat yourself, your family or a friend to something extraordinary and make a big difference for the Geffen.

For more information, please call Regina Miller (310.208.6500, ext. 112).

We are excited to also announce the Montage-Geffen Playhouse Holiday Gift Giving Program; purchase a special gift card that includes a credit at Montage Laguna Beach and/or Beverly Hills and VIP Geffen tickets.

Contact Regina Miller for more details (310.208.6500, ext. 112).

This rate cannot be combined with any other promotion, and is based upon availability and length of stay restrictions. Deposits are refundable if canceled seven days prior to arrival, otherwise the deposit is non-refundable. If the cancellation of the reservation is within seven days of arrival, there will be a forfeiture of one night’s room and tax. Individual holders of reservations are responsible for all charges.

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THE GEFFEN AT A GLANCE

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Infrared listening devices are available free of charge at all performances. Listening devices can be retrieved at the Theater Concierge Desk in the lobby. Please arrive early to obtain a listening device, they are subject to availability.

Signed Performances

TICKET DONATIONS If you cannot use your tickets, you may release them to the Geffen prior to the date of your show, in time for resale, and you will receive an acknowledgement for a charitable contribution.

Please mail to: Geffen Ticket Services 10886 Le Conte Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024 or call the Box Office.

REFUNDS It is the policy of the Geffen Playhouse not to issue refunds on subscriptions or on any single performance tickets.

AT THE THEATER Accessible Accommodation

The Geffen Playhouse is fully committed to ensuring a satisfying theater experience for our patrons with special needs or disabilities. The theaters have been designed to provide excellent seating for patrons in wheelchairs. Please call the Box Office to discuss your needs.

When appropriate, each play of the season will have a special performance that will be sign-language interpreted for the deaf and hearing impaired. Call the Box Office for more info or email boxoffice@geffenplayhouse.com.

Late Seating

Should you arrive late to the theater or vacate your seat during the performance, please expect to be held in the lobby until an appropriate pause in the action on-stage. To minimize disturbance to other patrons, you may be sat into the first available location by the house staff even if different from your assigned seat.

Be advised that some productions or circumstances may not allow for late seating. To ensure you enjoy the performance in your assigned seat, please arrive at the theater early.

PARKING The following parking facilities are convenient to the Geffen Playhouse; all facilities provide parking for patrons with special needs or disabilities: Westwood Plaza — 924 Westwood Blvd.

Phone......................................310.208.4474 Flat Rate of $7 after 5 pm* Hours of Operation: Monday—Thursday ................. 7 am—12 am Friday ...........................................7 am—1 am Saturday ......................................8 am—1 am Sunday................................... 10 am—11 pm Westwood Center — 1100 Glendon Ave. Phone......................................310.208.8589 Flat Rate of $6 after 5pm* Hours of Operation: Monday—Friday.......................... 8 am—1 am Saturday.......................................9 am—2 am Sunday................................... 11 am—11 pm

* Please note these facilities do not honor Donor Parking Passes.

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GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE STAFF

Gilbert Cates Producing Director

Randall Arney Artistic Director

Ken Novice Managing Director

ARTISTIC

PRODUCTION

Mary Garrett Artistic Manager Amy Levinson Literary Manager/Dramaturge Heidi Snoe Assistant to the Producing Director Phyllis Schuringa Casting Director & Assistant to the Artistic Director Kristina Leach Literary Associate

Daniel Ionazzi Matthew Carleton Jill Davis Barnes Dwayne Barnes James Grabowski Darren Rezowalli Leah A. Lewis

Behnaz Ataee General Manager

Production Manager Technical Director Production Coordinator Assistant Technical Director Sound Master Master Electrician Wardrobe Supervisor

DEVELOPMENT Regina Miller Development Director Ellen Catania Director of Major Gifts & Corporate/Foundation Partnerships Angela LaManna Annual Fund Manager Elliot Hirsen

Development Associate Jessica Brusilow Development Office Manager Ava Bogle

Development Assistant

EDUCATION Debra Pasquerette Education Director Louise Hung Resident Teaching Artist & Education Associate Alex Rogals Education Coordinator

ADMINISTRATION Frankie Ocasio Executive Assistant to the Managing Director Maryam Kermani Staff Accountant Sima Izadi Staff Accountant Maureen Lestelle Human Resources/Benefits Manager Marguerite Harris Receptionist

FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Miguel del Castillo Victor Cueva De Loera Mario Santillan-Perez

Facility Manager Maintenance Custodial

COMMUNICATIONS Allison Rawlings Tyler Tangalin

Director of Communications Communications Intern

MARKETING & SALES Joseph Yoshitomi Director of Marketing Karen Gutierrez Associate Marketing Director Mark San Filippo Ticket Services Director Ivy Khan Marketing Coordinator Brian Dunning Graphics / Production Artist Stephanie Strand Audience Services & Subscription Manager Janice Bernal Associate Box Office Manager Bryan Martin Associate Box Office Manager Janet Huynh Assistant Box Office Manager Korie Benavidez, Audrey Cain, Ariel Goldberg, Scott Kriloff, Richard Martinez, Lilach Mendelovich, Rodrigo Perez, Ryan Sandoval, Ben Seay Martin Wurst Box Office Staff

FRONT OF HOUSE Jeni Pearsons Events Coordinator Tyler Tangalin Supervising House Manager Jessica Kummer, Sarah Rosenbloom, Zack Schultz

House Managers Abdoulaye N’Gom Head Usher Beth Behrs, Adam Carr, Lindsey Cerny, Tiger Curran, Matt Jones, Sean Jones, Kimberly Legg, Katie Mitchell, Leah Munson, Jonathan Schwartz, Julianne Tveten Ushers

This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident Theaters and Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT theaters are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

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