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Welcome to Gulfshore Playhouse! On behalf of the law firm Dentons Cohen & Grigsby, we are honored to serve once again as a corporate partner of Gulfshore Playhouse and to play a supporting role in bringing first class, professional theatre to Naples. Since its inception, Dentons Cohen & Grigsby has been committed to the communities in which it serves, representing clients with sound business counsel, innovative legal thinking, and a powerful understanding of the dynamics that shape our world. We are particularly proud of our collaboration with Gulfshore Playhouse. Not only does Gulfshore Playhouse contribute to a wealth of arts in our community through exceptional theatre, but also the Education programs serve our area’s children through a variety of opportunities. Beyond the programs created to give students performance opportunities and enhance their education through theatre arts, Gulfshore Playhouse Education partners with Collier County Public Schools to nurture theatre programs in our area schools, and much more. Our partnership with Gulfshore Playhouse is a way of extending our firm’s high level of commitment to the arts, enriching the communities in which we serve. We hope you enjoy tonight’s performance and continue to support Gulfshore Playhouse, an exceptional cultural resource and treasure for our community.

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A L e tt er from th e Foun der Welcome to the 2023-2024 season! We are so thrilled to have you for an historic season. Since 2006, we have called the Norris Center home. This season marks the final year here, filled with a line-up of delightful productions from the heartwarming to the hilarious. You don’t want to miss a moment of this season. Our mission is to produce the highest-caliber professional theatre in our region for your ultimate enjoyment. From the shows we select, the designers from around the nation we hire, the professional actors we cast, the dedicated Gulfshore Playhouse team, to the performance you are about to witness, everything we do is with care and appreciation for your presence. I hope you find joy, connection, revelation, laughter, and more this season! I would highly encourage you to consider purchasing a Flex Pass for the 2023-2024 season. Not only will you save on tickets and enjoy numerous benefits, you will also be among the first to have access to tickets for the 2024-2025 opening season at the Baker Theatre and Education Center. This is your chance to be a part of history and get some of the best seats in the house to boot. Be sure to chat with any of the Gulfshore Playhouse staff at the performance or visit our website to learn more about Flex Passes! Just in case you haven’t heard, Gulfshore Playhouse is moving! Beginning in the 2024-2025 season, we’ll be located on the corner of Goodlette-Frank Road and 1st Avenue South. The Baker Theatre and Education Center will house two performance venues and an educational wing. This $70 million, 44,000 square foot facility will vastly expand the scale and scope of our productions while providing a more diverse range of offerings each year. There will be more of what you love and so much more to discover. We can’t wait to welcome you to our new home. But until that time, I hope you enjoy this season! I am so grateful that you are here. Your support of live, professional theatre means the world to us. It is your passion, dedication, attentiveness, and generosity that gives us purpose. Thank you and enjoy the show! With gratitude,

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A L e tt e r f rom th e C h ai rm an Welcome to the 2023-2024 season at Gulfshore Playhouse! I have the great honor to serve as the Chairman of the Board during this thrilling time in Gulfshore Playhouse history. An incredible season awaits, featuring toptier talent hired from across the country to create the thoughtful, entertaining, and joyful productions you are about to witness. The Gulfshore Playhouse staff, led by CEO & Producing Artistic Director Kristen Coury and COO & Managing Director Joel Markus, has grown to continue to meet the high expectations we have for our future. We have worked hard to attract and retain skilled professionals in creating these high quality productions. We are blessed with this wonderful group of people who are passionate about creating great theatre. We have a very special, dedicated, and committed Board of Directors who give generously of their time, talent, and resources to support the mission and strategies of Gulfshore Playhouse. We are so grateful our community continues to grow with generous donors and curious patrons who sustain and inspire us. Theatre is a truly collaborative artform, and all of us are working together to make Gulfshore Playhouse a world-class LORT theatre (League of Resident Theatres, the highest level of professional regional theatres). Gulfshore Playhouse Education continues to transform our community through many initiatives. Not only does The Conservatory offer students the chance to learn and perform using theatre techniques from professionals, we also partner with Collier County Public Schools and other area organizations to make sure every student in our region has the opportunity to experience theatre. Because of your continued support, our fiscal year ended financially strong, our Capital Campaign continues to meet fundraising goals, the artistic quality of our productions received high praise, and construction on the new theatre complex is proceeding with great excitement. I hope that you find this season captivating, entertaining, and inspiring. Thank you for being a part of our community and for being here today. Please tell your friends, family and colleagues about all of the opportunities for engagement the Gulfshore Playhouse offers. Enjoy the show! Sincerely, Steve Akin Chairman of the Board

A L e tt e r f rom th e May o r History is in the making, right here in Naples, FL. Gulfshore Playhouse produces its transformational 2023-2024 season in the Norris Center ahead of an exciting transition into their brand new home, The Gulfshore Playhouse Baker Theater and Education Center, in October of 2024. Their new home is fully under construction and coming to life at the corner of Goodlette Frank Road and 1st Avenue S, a corner that is truly transforming before our eyes as the construction project continues. The City is grateful to its leaders, donors, theatre enthusiasts, professional performers, and exceptional staff and volunteers who support our cultural landscape and are leading the way in the live performing arts scene. I encourage you to be a part of making history in your community. Please join the community and play your part in building your legacy at the new Gulfshore Playhouse Baker Theatre and Education Center. You will find Gulfshore Playhouse will enrich your quality of life here in Naples. I hope you enjoy the season and see you at the theatre!

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Starring Jeffrey Binder Alan Campbell Sarah Corey Nuah Ozryel Max Singer Margot White

Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Dahlia Al-Habieli

Ivania Stack**

José Santiago**

Original Music/Sound Design

Fight Director

Stage Manager

Lindsay Jones**

Rick Sordelet

Kelli Karen

Casting

Director of Production

Michael Cassara, CSA

Ray Inkel

COO & Managing Director

CEO & Producing Artistic Director

Joel Markus

Kristen Coury Director

Marshall Jones III* The actors and stage manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. (*) Denotes a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (**) Denotes a member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829

AN INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT

BRENT ASKARI

What inspired you to write this play? Share the origins of the idea and how it developed. Were there any specific challenges or breakthrough moments during the writing process? I am the product of a biracial marriage: my father is a Shiite Muslim from Iran; my mother an Episcopalian WASP from New England. Growing up, I saw a lot of my father’s family coming over to the United States after fleeing the regime in Iran. At some point, I wondered…what if it had been my mother’s family fleeing New England and ending up in the Middle East? To flesh out this imagined scenario, I invented a civil war in the United States, something which at the time felt like a wild idea; unfortunately, the potential threat of political violence in our country has increased, making the backstory of the play seem more and more plausible – it’s scary to see reality tiptoeing towards what was once my wildest imagination.

The Refugees touches on many relevant themes, topics, and cultural issues. What draws you to tackle those ideas in your work? I don’t tend to start plays from the level of theme – I like for themes to emerge and to present themselves during the process of writing. I think I’m subconsciously drawing on the world and cultural issues and incorporating them into my plays; it’s only as I start re-writing that I actually learn what I’m wrestling with in telling a particular story.

How closely did you work with the director during the New Works Festival? Were there any collaborative moments that significantly influenced the production? Marshall and I worked very closely together during two appearances at the New Works Festival! There were really too many collaborative moments to mention -- he has been an extremely helpful soundboard and provided valuable feedback throughout the entire process. I’m excited and honored to be collaborating with him once again on this World Premiere.

Are there any unique elements in the script or production that you're particularly excited about? I’m thrilled to be working with some fantastic actors who have previously workshopped the play along with several wonderful new additions! I’m also excited, after seeing the play read at music stands, to finally see it come to life with sets, lights, sound, costumes, and all the other technical elements.

How does it feel to have your play presented as a world premiere? Like my birthday and Christmas together.

What is one thing you hope the audience takes away from the show? I try to avoid having a didactic message that I want to impart on the audience. While this play deals with some cultural and political issues, I don’t have specific ideologies or policies that I’m trying to push. I’d be happy if people walk away from this play with more feelings of empathy, humility, and connection. 21

Cast of Characters Barry.................................................................................... Jeffrey Binder Yates ......................................................................................... Alan Campbell Salma ................................................................................... Sarah Corey Samir ...................................................................................... Nuah Ozryel Wynn ...................................................................................... Max Singer Poppy .......................................................................................... Margot White Run Time 2 hour and 15 minutes including intermission Setting Unnamed country in the Middle East Warnings A gun is seen not fired, switchblade, fight scene, handcuffs, choking and mild cursing. Gulfshore Playhouse operates under agreements between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), a consortium of regional theatres throughout the nation; Actors Equity Association (AEA), the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States; the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), an independent national labor union; and United Scenic Artists (USA), a union of scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers. The National Alliance for Musical Theatre, founded in 1985, is a not-for-profit organization serving the musical theatre community. The 165 organizational members and 75 individual members, located throughout 33 states and abroad, are some of the leading producers of musical theatre in the world, and include theatres, presenting organizations, higher education programs and individual producers. Gulfshore Playhouse is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American Theatre.

Gulfshore Playhouse is an Associate Member of the National New Play Network.

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.

DIRECTOR'S NOTE Back in the previous century when I was a young college student studying theatre at Rutgers University, a professor proclaimed: “the function of the artist is to hold a mirror to reflect society.” Consider how the works of William Shakespeare routinely juxtaposes the wisdom of fools against the folly of kings. Or, how the great leader Nelson Mandela credited the plays of Athol Fugard with helping to dismantle apartheid by sharing compelling stories about the plight of South Africans with the world. And, sometimes a work of art comes along that is so meaningful it not only reflects the current state of society but also provides a glimpse into the future -- which brings us to The Refugees, a powerfully astute play written by Brent Askari. The script, which Mr. Askari completed a first draft of in December 2019, utilizes satire and humor to address a very real and present danger about the fragility of democracy. Upon first reading the script, my initial thought was: if I read this on or before January 5, 2021, it’s a middling take on American democracy. However, reading The Refugees on or after January 7, 2021, provides a whole new – and frightening – context. The Refugees is a seminal play that cleverly places the shoe on the other foot with regards to the multiple complex issues regarding living in refugee status. It was clearly evident in both of our workshops at the New Works Festival, that the Gulfshore audiences immediately identified with the Sutton family. We are ready to shed the music stands of stage reading in order for this enormously talented cast to effusively embody the well-costumed and engaging characters in a fully produced show that encompasses a dazzling scenic design, mood-inducing lighting, along with a soothing original score. Through the use of satire, it is our belief that experiencing this show, audiences will grasp a greater understanding of the issues facing refugees and migrants. Recently, the UN Refugee Agency declared that there are 108.4 million refugees worldwide resulting from persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations. For context, that equates to the combined population of our 8 most populous states – California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Georgia. However, the United Nation reported 30 years ago, the total refugees were 45 million (approximately the population of California and Wisconsin). It is hoped that this show will inspire audiences to do their part to protect the rights of the only race that counts – the human race.

Marshall Jones III, Director

the CAST JEFFREY BINDER

(BARRY) is an actor,

playwright, and a director. He performed on Broadway, OffBroadway, regionally, and in London’s West End as well as on television and in film. Additionally, he served as Associate Artistic Director of Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, Florida for six seasons. Acting: Broadway: The Lion King, Lieutenant of Inishmore (Original Broadway Cast), Mary Poppins, Side Man. West End: Side Man (Premiere). NYC: Music Hall (US Premiere 59E59th), Romance/ The New Testament (NY Premieres/Neil LaBute, 59E59th), Dr. Faustus (Classic Stage Company), Birth and After Birth (Atlantic), Princess Turandot (Blue Light) Regional: Ride the Cyclone (McCarter Theatre), The White Chip (Merrimack Rep, World Premiere), The God Game (Premiere Gulfshore Playhouse/Capital Repertory Theatre), Love in the Wars (Premiere, Bard Summerscape), The Master and Margarita (Bard Summerscape), Bob (Humana 2011), Tartuffe (NJSF), Gulfshore Playhouse: Numerous productions including the one person Higher (filmed, also playwright), An Iliad, Scapino (World Premiere, also playwright), My Fair Lady, Holmes and Watson, Hound of the Baskervilles, The Price. Television's "Damages" (recurring), "Law and Order," "L&O: Criminal Intent," "Guiding Light," "All My Children." Directing: Maytag Virgin, The Lady Demands Satisfaction, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, and Camelot at Gulfshore Playhouse. MFA, NYU.

ALAN CAMPBELL

(YATES) is thrilled to be back in Naples having appeared previously at Gulfshore Playhouse in The Christians Doubt and Oleanna, the inaugural production in 2006. Alan is a Tony nominated actor known for his versatility. Over his forty plus year career, Alan has enjoyed featured roles on stage, film, television and in concert. His many credits include Broadway musicals, Off-Broadway and regional 24

musicals and drama, feature and indie films, as well as, costarring roles in television drama, comedy, and daytime. Alan received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Joe Gillis in the original Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard. Also on Broadway in Mamma Mia! and Contact at Lincoln Center. Feature films include Paul Schrader’s upcoming Oh Canada, Amazon’s Uncle Frank, and Universal's A Simple Wish. On television most recently in M. Night Shaymalan’s Servant, Dopesick, for Hulu, five seasons on "Jake and the Fatman," "Three’s a Crowd with John Ritter," and appearances on "Law & Order," "Law & Order: SVU," "Homicide: Life on the Streets," "Another World," and "All My Children." As a producer, he has over 30 shows and concerts to his credit. Alan is a co-founder of Theatre Raleigh and a founding member of H.O.L.A. (Heart of Los Angeles) Youth Theatre, providing an artistic outlet and guidance to inner-city children Alan lives in Raleigh, North Carolina and is the proud father of Duke sophomore, Riley Rose.

SARAH COREY

(SALMA) is thrilled to be

making her Gulfshore Playhouse debut! Off Broadway - A Letter to Harvey Milk, Love & Real Estate, Illyria. International Tour Prospect Theater Company: Death For Five Voices. Regional - Huntington Theatre: The Band's Visit, Shakespeare Theatre Company: Much Ado About Nothing, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Much Ado About Nothing, Alabama Shakespeare Festival: In the Book Of, Gamm Theatre: Bad Jews, Theater J: Nathan the Wise, Love Sick, The Chameleon, Tantrum Theatre Company: Rhinoceros, TheatreSquared: A Christmas Carol, Olney Theatre Center: Oil, Arena Stage: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Prospect Theater Company: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Barnstormers Theater: Nunsense, Oldcastle Theatre Company: Broadway Bound, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Around the World in 80 Days, The Public Theatre: Beau Jest, Love/Sick, Rep Stage: Songs for a New World, Falsettos, SpeakEasy Stage: Caroline, or Change, New Repertory Theater: Lippa's The Wild Party (IRNE

Award, best supporting actress), Lyric Stage: Meshuggah-Nuns!, Totem Pole Playhouse: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. TV: "Swagger," "Lady in the Lake," "We Own This City." Proud graduate of Princeton University. Training: LAMDA, Shakespeare & Company. IG: @sscoreyny. www.sarah-corey.weebly.com

NUAH OZRYEL (SAMIR) His Previous

favorite credits include New York: Off Broadway The Vagrant Trilogy (The Public Theater), The Art of Hijab, Kohl Black and The Right Way to Pray (FiveMyles); Rest Upon the Wind (Skirball Center); I Come From Syria (Beit Jeddo). Regional: Hard Cell (Geva Theatre - Rochester). TV: "Madam Secretary" (CBS), "The Other Two" (Max), "Law & Order: SVU" (NBC), "Mr. Robot' (USA), "The Looming Tower" (Hulu) and "The Blacklist" (NBC). Film: Moments Before (Lithium Productions). BA: University of Toronto. MFA: Columbia University.

MAX

SINGER

(WYNN) is thrilled to be

returning to Gulfshore Playhouse to help cultivate new work! Max received his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from University of California San Diego. He made his professional debut at the La Jolla Playhouse in the world premiere of The Squirrels directed by Tony Award® winner Christopher Ashley. His other theatre credits include Hamlet at Theatrelab NYC, This Hair I Tear Is Mine and Echo in a Diner at Lenfest Center For the Arts, And Then You Wait at La Jolla Playhouse's WoW Festival, (w)holeness, Joshua, and The Clitorish at the Wagner New Play Festival, and Wandering Feast and For Honor at San Diego Repertory Theatre.

MARGOT WHITE

(Roundabout); Constellations (MTC); Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention (Music Box); Off-Broadway & Regional: Dirty Dancing (International Tour); The Traveling Lady (E.S.T, Dir Horton Foote); Pericles (Red Bull); Unspeakable (Harlem’s Apollo); Sweat (Pioneer Theatre); Talley’s Folly (The McCarter w/ Richard Schiff), Curious Incident.. (CTRep), for which she received the CT Critics Circle Featured Actress Award of Excellence. TV/Film/Podcast: “FBI,” “Bull,” “Unforgettable,” "L&O,” "L&O: Criminal Intent," "BlueBloods,” “Limetown,” “Ask for Jane,” and a few other projects where she plays many a grieving widow. In addition to her acting career, she is the founder & creator of Sweets of Adversity, a baking company specializing in creative concessions for special events, along with catering the edible props for shows On and Off-Broadway. Many thanks to casting & creatives, family & friends, along with Henderson/Hogan & Robyn Bluestone for their stalwart support. More at the sites margotwhite.com & sweetsofadversity.com

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(POPPY) is thrilled to be

making her Gulfshore Playhouse debut with this timelyfunny, and poignant world premiere of The Refugees. Her favorite credits include Broadway: Farinelli & the King (Belasco); Love, Love, Love 25

ABOUT the CREATIVE TEAM BRENT ASKARI (PLAYWRIGHT) is a

Persian-American writer and actor. He is the winner of the 2019 National New Play Network Smith Prize For Political Theater for his play The Refugees. Other plays include American Underground (Runnerup winner Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award, produced at Barrington Stage Company 2019), Hard Cell (PlayPenn Conference 2017, produced at Geva Theatre Center in 2019), White Party (semifinalist for O’Neill Conference, Finalist for Bay Area Playwrights Festival and Ashland New Play Festival), Digby’s Home (Semifinalist O’Neill, produced at Mad Horse Theatre); Exiled Kings Of Persia (Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival); Cocktails and Travails (Winner of Neil Simon Festival’s National New Play Contest and produced at The Theater Project); Bending Reeds (Semi-Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Blank Stage Living Room Series). In addition, he has had plays produced at or developed by Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, Vital Theatre, Melrose Theatre, The 78th Street Theatre, The Boston Theatre Marathon, American Theatre, The Drilling Company, Choice Theatricals, Penobscot Theatre Company, The Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, Swarthmore College, Eastern Connecticut State University, and the College of Southern Nevada. Brent has also been a finalist for the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award, the Reva Shiner Comedy Award, and the Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Contest. He was part of HBO’s New Writers Project and has written screenplays for Paramount Pictures, Marvel Films, MTV, and Reveille Entertainment. Brent is a National New Play Network affiliate artist and a member of Mad Horse Theatre Company. He is currently working on a new commission for Barrington Stage Company.

MARSHALL JONES III (DIRECTOR)

is excited to return to Gulfshore Playhouse once more. He first worked with this hidden jewel of a theater company in November 2021 as he directed a critically-acclaimed production of August Wilson’ Radio Golf starring Joseph C. Phillips (“Cosby Show”). Marshall directed Mud Row by Dominique 26

Morisseau and also directed this gripping family drama at Premiere Stages in N.J. After being on the faculty in the Theater dept at his alma mater since 2002, effective July 2022, Professor Jones transitioned to an administrative role in the newly created position of Associate Dean of Equity for the Mason Gross School of the Arts. Although he has years of producing experience, directing plays is Marshall’s first love. In October 2020, he directed Premiere Stages’ live, in-person critically acclaimed show about civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer starring veteran Broadway actress Rema Webb. For 13 years (2007-2019), he was the Producing Artistic Director for the Tony Award® -winning Crossroads Theatre Company where he directed several shows including the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center’s inaugural production – Paul Robeson. Selected other directing credits include the world premiere of Walter Mosley’s Lift, which later played Off Broadway; and Nikkole Salter’s Repairing a Nation, which was recorded for TV broadcast on WNET’s Theater Close-Up Series. In the spring of 2018, Marshall served as the Creative Consultant (replacement director) for the Off Broadway production of Little Rock, about the famed Little Rock Nine of 1957, which received NY Times Critic Pick. Marshall enjoys serving the community and the field as he proudly serves as the president of the NJ Theatre Alliance. Marshall is a proud 2020 Inductee in the Rutgers University African-American Hall of Fame. Much love to the four ladies in my life my Ma, my daughters, and my brilliant bride.

DAHLIA AL-HABIELI (SCENIC DESIGNER)

is a designer and educator who has held faculty appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, Albright College, and Wake Forest University. Recent credits include designs for the Dallas Theatre Center, Trinity Rep, Virginia Stage Company, Harvard College, Playmakers Rep, and The Rep of St. Louis. You can learn more about her work as an artist, educator, and director/producer at eloquentaction.com.

IVANIA STACK (COSTUME DESIGNER)

is based in the Washington DC region, where she has been working as a professional theatrical Costume Designer for over 20 years. She has designed over 200 shows at over 40 different theatres, and she continues to

find creative excitement with each new collaboration. Regional and DC area credits include: Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Company Member), Seattle Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Ford’s Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Everyman Theatre, The Second City, The Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, Imagination Stage, Olney Theatre Center (Associate Artist), Studio Theatre, Theatre J, dog & pony dc (Ringleader, deviser), Constellation Theatre, Andy’s Summer Playhouse, Pointless Theatre, Synetic Theatre, Forum Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Rorschach Theatre, The Karski Project, Metro Stage, and Gala Hispanic Theatre. She has an MFA in design from the University of Maryland, College Park and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University.

JOSÉ SANTIAGO (LIGHTING DESIGNER)

is a New York City based Lighting Designer. His work has been seen at Chicago Opera, The Paramount Theatre (Aurora, IL), Center REP, Bristol Riverside Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre by the Sea, Bay Street Theatre, Gretna Playhouse, The Gateway, Guild Hall, Penobscot Theatre, 5 Star Theatricals, Slow Burn Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse. He received his MFA in Lighting Design from Florida State University. Proud member of USA829 and represented by Michael Moore Agency. www.jsantiagodesign.com

LINDSAY JONES (ORIGINAL MUSIC/ SOUND DESIGNER) Broadway: Slave Play

(Tony® nominations for Best Score and Best Sound Design of a Play), The Nap, Bronx Bombers, and A Time to Kill. OffBroadway: Privacy (The Public Theater), Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons), Feeding the Dragon (Primary Stages), Top Secret (New York Theatre Workshop) and many others. Regional: Guthrie Theater, Center Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Hartford Stage, Alliance Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Old Globe Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre and many others. International: Stratford Festival (Canada), Royal Shakespeare Company (England) and many others. Audio dramas: Marvel, Audible, Next Chapter Podcasts, award-winning “The Imagine Neighborhood.” Lindsay has received two

Tony® Award nominations, seven Joseph Jefferson Awards (24 nominations), two Ovation Awards (three nominations), an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award, and many others. Film/TV scoring: HBO Films’ "A Note of Triumph – The Golden Age Of Norman Corwin" (2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subject), the newly released "Dinosaur Discoveries" (now playing the Houston Natural Sciences Museum) and over 30 other films. He is the co-chair of Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA), and teaches Composition For Theatre and Music History at the University Of North Carolina School Of The Arts. www.lindsayjones.com

RICK SORDELET (FIGHT DIRECTOR)

Rick and his sons, Christian Kelly-Sordelet and Collin Kelly-Sordelet created Sordelet Inc., a Native-owned action movement company with 30 years experience. They have done 80 Broadway productions, including The Lion King, Aida, Beauty and the Beast, and Tina with 52 first-class productions worldwide including Beauty and the Beast UK Tour and West End production, soon to Broadway, as well as many National Tours, including Tina and Jesus Christ Superstar, Opera, resident fight intimacy directors for Santa Fe Opera since 2015 with many productions at The MET, La Scala, The Royal Opera House and many more. Films, including, The Game Plan starring Dwayne Johnson, Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell, Ben is Back starring Julia Roberts, Respect, starring Jennifer Hudson, One True Loves starring Simu Lim. Also loads of television productions. They teach at William Esper Studio, HB Studio, CUNY Harlem, Montclair State, Kean University, and 22 years at Yale School of Drama. Rick is a board member for Red Bull Theater.

KELLI KAREN

(STAGE MANAGER)

is excited to begin her fourth season at Gulfshore Playhouse after successful runs of Morning After Grace, Mud Row, and Radio Golf. Her credits include: Freedom Rider (Crossroads Theatre Company and Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Production Team for A Night With Crossroads, Theatre Company: Honoring Denzel Washington (Crossroads Theatre Company). OffBroadway: Fly (The New Victory). Selected Regional Credits: School Girls (American Stage), Fly (Pasadena Playhouse, Crossroads 27

Theatre Company, Oprah Winfrey Theatre Smithsonian), Handle With Care, Straight White Men, Clever Little Lies, Fly, Taking Shakespeare, Daddy Long Legs, Monty Python's Spamalot, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Perfect Wedding, Next Fall, Next To Normal, Shear Madness, The 39 Steps, Ruined, Edward Albee's Occupant (Florida Studio Theatre). This performance is dedicated to my parents, Chakoo, The Patterson Foundation Family and Bill Buttaggi.

MICHAEL CASSARA

(CASTING)

casts theatre and film in New York City, and is thrilled to be returning for a twelfth season with Gulfshore Playhouse, where they have cast over 45 plays and musicals since 2009. Recent credits include An American In Paris (International Tour, dir. Christopher Wheeldon), Spamilton (NYC/ Chicago/Pittsburgh CLO/national), Enter Laughing (York Theatre), Gigantic (Vineyard Theatre), Forbidden Broadway (last three editions/cast albums), The 12 (Denver Center/world premiere). Film credits include The Hyperglot (Artios nomination for excellence in casting, dir. Michael Urie), Contest, Grantham & Rose (dir. Kristin Hanggi, starring Marla Gibbs, Jake T. Austin and Tessa Thompson). Other regional credits include productions for Ogunquit Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Denver Center, Old Globe, Asolo Rep, Hangar Theatre, and many more. Resident Casting Director for the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) since 2007 and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) since 2013. Michael is a native Clevelander and a member of the Casting Society of America.

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(COO & MANAGING DIRECTOR) is thrilled to be in his sixth season as Gulfshore Playhouse’s COO & Managing Director. Joel enjoys working side by side with Kristen to produce Broadway caliber theatre while focusing on cultivating a great staff and culture. In his time at Gulfshore Playhouse, Joel has helped grow and double the theatre’s budget, double the staff, has co-managed the design and construction of the new $72M Baker Theatre and Education Center, new production shops construction project, has been instrumental in joining LORT (most recently, being on the negotiating committee for LORT and Actors’ Equity Association), and navigated and guided the 28

organization through the pandemic and Hurricane Ian. Joel’s thirty year career has taken him to some of our nation’s leading professional regional theatres. Previously, he spent seven years at The Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, America’s oldest professional theatre with an annual budget of over $16 Million. Joel has played integral roles in the production of hundreds of plays over ten seasons at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, four years at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY, five summers at the Weston Playhouse in Vermont, American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts. Joel is a graduate of Indiana University and originally from Miami, Florida.

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is the CEO and Producing Artistic Director of Gulfshore Playhouse. She founded the Playhouse in 2004, after moving to Naples from New York City. Under her leadership, the Playhouse has grown to a staff of 56, an annual budget of $8.15M with no debt, and led the charge to create a $72M state-of-the-art Theatre and Education Center at the gateway to downtown Naples, which will be open to the public in late 2024. As part of this project, Coury ignited a public/private partnership with the City of Naples, donating an acre of land upon which to build a public parking garage. While in New York, she worked on Broadway for Walt Disney Theatrical’s production of Beauty and the Beast, both nationally and internationally, and for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s company, The Really Useful Group, working on Sunset Boulevard and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Kristen made her feature film directorial debut with Friends and Family, a comedy starring Tony Lo Bianco, Anna Maria Alberghetti, and Tovah Feldshuh, which was released around the US and Europe. Kristen has directed several new works, produced a CD, and worked on a variety of musicals in various stages of development. Kristen is also a frequent investor in Broadway productions, mostrecently The Neil Diamond Musical: A Beautiful Noise. Kristen has directed over 40 productions for the Playhouse. Including a ten person, 2 piano My Fair

Lady, world premieres, the world premiere of The God Game by Suzanne Bradbeer and The Butcher by Gwydion Suilebhan. She is currently preparing to direct the final production in the Norris Center, the musical She Loves Me. Kristen was named one of the “Top 40 Professionals Under 40” by Gulfshore Life Magazine in 2008, a “Star in the Arts” by the United Arts Council of Collier County in 2011, and she was named one of the Men and Women of the Year by Gulfshore Life in 2013. She served two terms on the board of Theatre Communications Group, the national advocacy group for professional theatres. She is a member of

the board of the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce, and was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential Business Leaders in Collier County in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Most recently, she was appointed to Florida Council for arts and culture by Senate President Kathleen Passidomo.

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by George Brant directed by Marshall Jones III The year is 1942 and World War II has called millions away to Europe, including the leading players of Oberon Play House. Enter a group of passionate, albeit inexperienced, band of actresses who seize the chance to move from the sidelines to centerstage. For the first time, they will receive pay for their talents as they mount an ambitious production of Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 and Henry V. Will their performance be a victory on the home front or a disaster of epic proportions? This sweet, hilarious, and heartwarming play celebrates the power of art to rally a community and see us through the darkest of times. These women will steal the spotlight and your heart!

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STEVE AKIN, Chairman of the Board • RICH STRUTHERS, Vice-Chair PATTY BAKER, KRISTEN COURY, DAVID DROBIS, TIM HABBERSHON, MITCH HERTZ, JENNY HOUSH, JASON HUNTER KORN, PAMELA KRUPKA, DON McCULLOCH, SANDI MORAN GERRY MOSS, JACK NORTMAN, TONY PANZICA, GAIL KERN PASTER, SUSAN REGENSTEIN, RICK RONDINELLI, CYNTHIA SCHOLL, TENNILLE SEVIGNY, ASHLEY SMITH, PAT SWEET, DAVID WILSON, DON GUNTHER, Emeritus, ROBERT HARDEN, Emeritus

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KRISTEN COURY, CEO & Producing Artistic Director JOEL MARKUS, COO & Managing Director ARTISTIC & EDUCATION

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COO & Managing Director.................................. JOEL MARKUS Director of Finance........................................... ALYSON McCOY General Manager..................................................... JIM DALLAS Director of Events/Food and Beverage ................ ERIN PEREZ Finance Associate............................................... TREVOR WISE Front of House Manager................................. DENISE VONADA Front of House Assistant .................... JOCELYN RICHARDSON Company Manager................................................ ABBY GREER Asst. Company Manager...................... CHANDA HAWTHORNE Office Manager/Bookkeeper................... MAUREEN P DEVINE ADVANCEMENT Chief Advancement Officer............................................ LISA HALSEY Executive Assistant......................................... ALLISON WINKEL Advancement Officer: Events & Donor Engagement. SARAH OWEN Administrative Assistant......................................... TAYLOR HO Advancement Officer......................................... BRANDON HORWIN Donor Stewardship & Events Coordinator....................... DAVE BLOUNT Advancement Coordinator........................ AVERY CURRY- WILLIAMS CEO & Producing Artistic Director.................... KRISTEN COURY Director of Education.................................... STEVEN CALAKOS Literary Manager............................................ AUDREY ZIELENBACH Artistic Associate ........................................................... DANN DUNN Executive Assistant.................................... MACKENZIE CARABALLO Education Associates............... MEREDITH SINGLETON, JOHN PERINE MARY MCGOUGH Education Assistant............................................. EMILIE BAARTMAN

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Director of Production............................................ RAY INKEL MARKETING Assistant Production Manager............................ LILA SELL Chief Marketing Officer..................................... RACHEL APPLEGATE Stage Management Production Assistants. MOLLY CONKLIN DYLAN GELLETT Marketing Manager.................................................. HEIDI OVERMAN Graphic Designer.................................................. ASHLEY MARTINEZ Technical Director.............................................. JOHN FORTON Patron Services Manager ......................................... LUKE MATLOCK Asst. Technical Director....................................... ALEX RIGGS Construction Charge.......................... ANTHONY KNUDSON Assistant Patron Services Manager.............. ASHLEIGH JENNINGS Scenic Technician .......................................... TOM GREGUS Patron Services Assistants......... SARA ROSS, JESSLYN LANDERS Props Supervisor........................................ ANDREW BABB Props Artisan........................................... GWENDOLYN RYGG Properties Technician ............................... HUNTER BOOTH Carpenter ........................................................ CLAUDIO CARTEI Scenic Art Supervisor........................................ JAMES ALLEN Scenic Artists............................................ ADDISON GRIFFIN KATHERINE BURNS Lighting Supervisor........................... ELIZABETH KNUDSON Lighting Technician....................................... GABE LANDES Sound Engineer ......................................................... OWEN TRUE Sound Technician ...................................... AIRWINN WARD Costume Shop Manager...................... JENNIFER BRONSTED Draper....................................................... ELIZABETH EATON First Hand................................................. CAROLYN SCHAR Wardrobe Supervisor..................... SHERIDAN PARKINSON Costume Technicians.................................. EMMA MADDEN DYNA DEMERRITT

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