A Shayna Maidel Program

From the MANAGING DIRECTOR BILL KERLIN

Welcome to the fifth play of our 2023-2024 mainstage season, A Shayna Maidel. Just as the characters in this touching family story had to reinvent themselves when their world changed, so too, did Laguna Playhouse. Now, four years after the global pandemic put live theatre on hold and nearly a year since David Ellenstein and I became your new Artistic Director and Managing Director, I am happy to report that your Playhouse is stronger than ever!

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But first, here we are gathered in the theatre for the inspiring story, A Shayna Maidel. We hope you are as moved seeing it as we have been preparing it for you.

Thank you!

Bill Kerlin

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Lisa Hale

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Jared K. Mathis

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Kate E. Phelan-Lowen, JD

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Heather Anne Chalmers

Torin J. Cunningham, MD

James Hale

Joe Hanauer

Dr. Gary Jenkins

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Otis Healy

Ilona Martin

Melinda Masson

Jim Mellor

Artistic Director

David Ellenstein

Barbara MacGillivray

Heidi Miller

Xiaohong Rose

Jordy Spiegel

Richard Thomas

Managing Director

Bill Kerlin

A SHAYNA MAIDEL

written by BARBARA LEBOW

directed by DAVID ELLENSTEIN

presents starring SAMANTHA KLEIN, ZARAH MAHLER, EDEN MALYN, JOSH ODSESS-RUBIN, MARNINA SCHON, JOEL SWETOW

scenic designer STEPHEN GIFFORD

sound designer IAN SCOT

hair/wig designer PETER HERMAN

costume designer ELISA BENZONI

casting

MICHAEL DONOVAN CASTING MICHAEL DONOVAN, CSA RICHIE FERRIS, CSA

dialect coach JANA MAZURKIEWICZ MEISAROSH

lighting designer JARED A. SAYEG

properties designer KEVIN WILLIAMS

production stage manager NATALIE FIGAREDO

A Shayna Maidel was originally produced in New York City by K & D Productions, Margery Klain and Robert G. Donnalley, Jr.

Originally presented at the Academy Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, and subsequently premiered at Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, Connecticut.

A Shayna Maidel is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc, New York.

NOTES TO THE AUDIENCE: Please be considerate to the performers and your fellow audience members by turningoffanydevicethatcouldemitlightand/orsound.Thephotographicorsoundrecordingofanyperformance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside the theatre, without written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. THE VIDEOTAPING OR OTHER VIDEO OR AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS PRODUCTION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED

OPENING NIGHT

A NOTE ON A SHAYNA MAIDEL FROM DIRECTOR DAVID ELLENSTEIN

When I first directed A Shayna Maidel in 1989, I was an early career director. The artistic and human experience that I had with this beautiful play impacted me as an artist and a person deeply. It made me understand more fully the life affirming power that theatre can have when we share our stories and experience them together. That feeling has never left me.

I directed A Shayna Maidel in 2007, and once again was touched and renewed with hope for the resiliency of the human spirit.

So here we are in 2024, and once again we are bringing to life the Weiss family story at Laguna Playhouse. To do this wonderful play justice, it requires a cast of extraordinary actors and designers who are willing to dive deeply into this world, and commit to the subtle nuances woven into the script. To my great delight – I have been fortunate to have this amazing committed team of artists to illuminate this powerful tale. I am ever grateful to each of them.

I am moved by all kinds of theatre. I love crazy comedies. New plays, old plays, musicals and mysteries. But there is something about a play that reaches down deep and touches the soul, that makes me know that the path of creating theatre is worthwhile and important.

Thank you for joining us for A Shayna Maidel.

Warmest regards,

David Ellenstein

THE COMPANY

Mama .................................................................................................................................................

Samantha Klein

Lusia Pechenik ......................................................................................................................................

Zarah Mahler

Rose Weiss................................................................................................................................................

Eden Malyn

Duvid Pechenik...........................................................................................................................Josh Odsess-Rubin

Hanna ..................................................................................................................................................

Marnina Schon

Mordechai Weiss ....................................................................................................................................

Joel Swetow

SAMANTHA KLEIN

JOSH ODSESSRUBIN

ZARAH MAHLER

EDEN MALYN

MARNINA SCHON JOEL SWETOW

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of the Actors’ Equity Association.

WHO’S WHO

SAMANTHA (SAMI) KLEIN (Mama) LADCC winner last year for If I Forget at Fountain Theatre directed by Jason Alexander. Other theatre credits in LA: Their Eyes Saw Rain, On Emotion, Trip to Bountiful, Into the Woods, Chapter Two, and many more. TV: Numerous including “ICarly” (Paramount +), “Pretty Freekin Scary” (Disney +), “Physical” ( Apple TV), “Modern Family,” “Veronica Mars,” “You’re the Worst,” “Masters of Sex,” “Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything,” and many more. BFA from Chapman University. Proud SAG/ AFTRA and Equity member. Thanks to family (hi mom!), friends, Sandy, and this incredible cast and crew. sweetsamiklein on IG/Twitter and samiklein.com

ZARAH MAHLER (Lusia Pechenik) is an actor, musician, and singer/songwriter, born and raised in LA. Broadway credits: Ruth in Soul Doctor (Circle in the Square), Nessa in Wicked (National Tour). Regional faves: Sally in Cabaret (Drury Lane Chicago), River in Appropriate (Mark Taper Forum), Rent (Hollywood Bowl), etc. TV: Recurring in “Major Crimes (TNT),” “Ghost Whisperer (CBS)”. Guest starring in “The Rookie (ABC),” “9-1-1 (FOX)”. Film: “The Wretched,” “Ramona at Midlife,” “Nightmare Cinema,” “Beyond Skyline,” etc. Original music, including her debut album Ophidian, is available at iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, etc. For info on future projects (including an upcoming 2024 album release) please follow @zarahmahler on IG. Love and thanks to her incomparable friends, family, reps, and of course R & F.

EDEN MALYN (Rose Weiss) is happy to be working at the lovely Laguna Playhouse for the first time, and to be telling such a timely and important story. Off Broadway: 53% OF (Second Stage,) Stuffed (The Westside Theatre.) Regional: Sex and Other Disturbances (Portland Stage,) Bad Jews (The English Theatre of Frankfurt/ EST Santa Barbara,) Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Portland Center Stage,) The Cherry Orchard (Oasis.) Film: “The Climb (Cannes, Sundance)”; “Maybe Someday,” “Deadheads”. Limited Series: “Halston”. TV: “Law & Order: SVU”; “FBI: Most Wanted,” “NCIS,” “Living With Yourself,” “The Good Cop,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Orange is the New Black,” “American Horror Story,” “Castle,” “House of Lies,” “Criminal Minds”.

JOSH ODSESS-RUBIN (Duvid Pechenick) is an LA-based actor pleased to be making his Laguna Playhouse debut. Favorite Theatre: Photograph 51, Sense and Sensibility (South Coast Repertory); Dunsinane (Marin Theatre Co); Nimrod (Theatre of NOTE); Red Herring (Portland Stage); Long Day’s Journey into Night, Miss Bennet (American Stage); Animal Crackers, Bad Jews, When the Rain Stops Falling (Cygnet); Imaginary Invalid (A Noise Within); As You Like It (Shakespeare Orange County); Comedy of Errors (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare); My Name is Asher Lev (Ensemble Cincinnati); Richard II (Yale Rep); and two seasons with New Swan Shakespeare. TV: “This is Us,” “Hacks,” “Physical.” BA, Yale. MFA, UC Irvine. Love to C.

MARNINA SCHON (Hanna) got her start at Berkeley Rep in Tony Kushner’s Brundibar. Other favorite theatre credits include Once (South Coast Rep) and world premieres of Group Therapy, Menstruation: A Period Piece, Anne, and More Guns! (Second City); and workshops at Center Theatre Group, A Noise Within, Geffen Playhouse, and Ojai Playwrights Conference. Marnina stars in “Chanshi,” an Official 2023 Sundance Episodic Selection, also featuring Henry Winkler. Film/TV: “Unstable (Netflix - upcoming),” “Dollface (Hulu),” “Play It By Ear (Dropout),” “A Man’s World (NoBudge),” “Bourn Kind (Tribeca)”. Marnina also cocreates musical comedy with her fiancé and performs at Upright Citizens Brigade. L’Chaim.

JOEL SWETOW (Mordechai Pechenik) Select Los Angeles Theatre: Antony, Antony and Cleopatra, (Theatricum Botanicum); Hamlet, Henry IV (Antaeus Theatre); Les Blancs, The Suppliant Women (Rogue Machine Theatre); At A Noise Within: Estragon, Waiting for Godot; Scrooge, A Christmas Carol; Malvolio, Twelfth Night; Vershinin, The Three Sisters; Arnolphe, The School For Wives; title roles in Cymbeline, Tartuffe, Merchant of Venice. Select NYC and Regional Theatre: leads in The Normal Heart, Talley’s Folly, and The Sound of Teeth. Directed The Cherry Orchard, As You Like It, Miss Witherspoon, The Learned Ladies, among others. T.V. & Film: “American Horror Stories,” “Kidding,” “The Orville,” “Lucifer,” “Silicon Valley,” “Charmed,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Lord of Illusions”, among many others. Been heard in reams of animated projects and scads of commercials. See more at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842498/

DAVID ELLENSTEIN (Director, Artistic Director) Born into a theatrical family, David has been working in professional theatre for the better part of five decades - from San Diego to Portland, Maine and from Miami to Anchorage, Alaska - and most places in between. Now, he serves as the Artistic Director for both Laguna Playhouse and North Coast Rep. At Laguna Playhouse, credits include directing The Angel Next Door, Chapatti, Alexandros and playing “Einstein” in Picasso at The Lapin Agile. Other directorial credits include The Chosen at Paper Mill Playhouse; Halpern and Johnson and Sonia Flew at Coconut Grove Playhouse; The Glass Menagerie, Rocket City and Honky Tonk Angels at Alabama Shakespeare Festival; His Royal Hipness

at 59E59 in NYC; and Long Day’s Journey into Night at Renaissance Theatre. As Artistic Director at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach since 2003, over 60 directorial credits including Way Down River, The Tempest, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Outsider and The Homecoming. David’s career includes acting credits of playing the title roles in Hamlet at LA Theatre Center and LA Rep; Richard III at California Shakespeare Festival; Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof at Moonlight Stage; Jonathan in Sight Unseen, Max in Laughter on the 23rd Floor and Matt in Talley’s Folly at North Coast Rep as well as over three dozen film and television episodes.

BARBARA LEBOW (Author), a Santa Barbara resident, grew up in New York, moved to Atlanta in the 1960s, and joined Academy Theatre’s developmental workshop, eventually becoming playwright in residence. Among her plays with first productions there are A Shayna Maidel, The Left Hand Singing, Cyparis, The Keepers, Trains, The Adventures of Homer McGundy Revised, Little Joe Monaghan, Tiny Tim is Dead, and several plays for young audiences. Theaters producing her work include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage Company, Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara. A Shayna Maidel (Off-Broadway 1987-’89) continues receiving regional and international productions. Its adaptation received a Best Picture Emmy in 1992. In addition to her own writing, Barbara facilitates play creation with disenfranchised segments of the population including homeless and addicted individuals, youth at risk, developmentally and physically disabled persons, and women in prison. Most recently, she worked with residents of Los Prietos Boys Camp, supported by a grant from the Fund for Santa Barbara. She taught a play development class addressing this process at the University of California Santa Barbara, winter quarter, ‘09. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting, a TCG/Pew Theatre Artists Residency, an NEA/TCG Residency, an Atlanta Mayor’s Fellowship in the Arts, a Georgia Governor’s Award in the Arts, and a Distinguished Service Award from the Santa Barbara County Probation Department. Her recent plays, The Phenom and Plumfield, Iraq both were developed with assistance from The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, receiving workshops there. Plumfield, Iraq was developed in part at UCSB with a PWC New Plays on Campus grant and premiered at UCSB in May ‘08, directed by Risa Brainin. At that time, Barbara was a Michael Douglas Distinguished Visiting Artist. Her latest play, La Niñera: The Nursemaid, premiered at UCSB in May ‘09. Currently in process: Killing Spiders.

STEPHEN GIFFORD (Scenic Designer) Designs for Laguna Playhouse include: Twelve Angry Men, End of the Rainbow, The Seafarer, Barefoot in the Park, Love Among The Ruins and Staged. Designs have been featured nationally and internationally at The Grand Ole Opry, The Chicago Theatre, Madison Square Garden, The El Sett & Abdel Halim Theaters (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), The Walnut Street Theatre, 5th Avenue Theatre, Juneau Lyric Opera, La Mirada Performing Arts Center/McCoy Rigby, 3D Theatricals, Ensemble Theatre Company Santa Barbara, and many more. He has garnered many awards and nominations for his work including The Bob Z Award for career achievement in set design by the LADCC. www.stephengifforddesign.com

ELISA BENZONI (Costume Designer) is thrilled to be working again with the Laguna Playhouse. Her work was previously seen in The Angel Next Door, Murder on the Links and Chapatti. Elisa has also worked on over a hundred productions across Southern California with theatres such as The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre and New Village Arts. Elisa is also the Resident Costume Designer at North Coast Repertory Theatre. Elisa holds a costume design M.F.A. from UCSD where she is currently an adjunct professor.

JARED SAYEG (Lighting Designer) A recipient of the Ovation & LADCC Kinetic Lighting Award, his designs for theatre, opera, musicals, ballet, themed attractions, exhibits and architectural installations have been seen throughout the world. Jared designed The Illusionists on Broadway and National Tours. Regionally he’s designed for Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, International City Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, 5-Star Theatricals, 3D Theatricals, Reprise, Ensemble Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse, Virginia Stage Company, 5th Avenue Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. On the West-End he designed Rolling with Laughter at Her Majesty’s Theatre and was on the design teams for the Broadway productions of Primo, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in White, The Radio City Christmas Spectactular and the national tour of Blithe Spirit starring Angela Lansbury. Notable projects include four seasons lighting LA Opera, lighting Pope Benedict XVI in NYC and the USA International Ballet Competitions. Jared became the youngest member of the United Scenic Artist-Local 829 and serves as Vice Chair to the executive board. www.jaslighting.com

IAN SCOT (Sound Designer) is a composer and sound designer specializing in the development of new works and installations. His music and designs have been heard at Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout Theatre, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, Actors Shakespeare Project, Dorset Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, Heartbeat Opera, Yale Repertory Theatre, Space Wing. In addition to his artistic endeavors, Ian has made an extensive career as an A1 for productions with Audible Theatre, The New Group, Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Rattlestick Theatre, Tuacahn Amphitheater, Classic Stage Company, Theatre for the New City, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and others. Ian received his MFA in Sound Design from Yale School of Drama.

MICHAEL DONOVAN, CSA (Casting) Michael Donovan is the recipient of 9 Artios awards, presented by the Casting Society of America for Outstanding Achievement in casting. Richie Ferris has 3 Artios awards. The company’s credits include shows produced at the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, the Hollywood Bowl, the Wallis Annenberg, Pasadena Playhouse, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Geffen Playhouse, the Getty Villa, the Soraya, La Jolla Playhouse, the Garry Marshall Theatre, Ebony Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Symphony, Arizona Theatre Company, Arkansas Rep, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Rep, the Totem Pole Playhouse, and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Other credits include numerous films, TV shows and commercials. Michael is President of the Board for the Foundation for New American Musicals, and serves on the Board for Camp Bravo.

KEVIN WILLIAMS (Properties Designer) Recovering actor and L.A. native, Kevin has spent over two decades working as a designer, art director, fabricator and consultant for clients such as Walt Disney Imagineering, HUB Network, Red 5 Studios, Buena Vista Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox among many others. Notably, he was the Resident Production Designer for interactive theatre company, Delusion, for seven years: Lies Within (2014), His Crimson Queen (2016), Lies Within VR (2017), The Blue Blade (2018) and Reaper’s Remorse (2021). Kevin is the Prop Department Supervisor for UCLA’s School of Theater, Film & Television and lives in Orange County with his incredible family. Proud member of S.P.A.M.

PETER HERMAN (Hair/Wig Designer) is honored to be part of the creative team for A Shayna Maidel. He has designed wigs for past co-productions of The Angel Next Door, and Murder On The Links. Peter has designed wigs for many theatres across southern California as well as some design works for theme parks, television and film. Peter currently teaches wig and makeup design at San Diego State.

JANA MAZURKIEWICZ MEISAROSH (Dialect Coach) is a PhD candidate in the Slavic Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is working on her dissertation on Yiddish Theater in Communist Warsaw. Originally from Poland, Jana holds a Master of Arts degree in Polish Philology and Jewish Studies from the University of Wrocław. Jana is not only a practicing academic but also an active theater artist and critic. She is an actor, director, playwright, and producer of Yiddish theater. In October 2017, she moved to San Diego and launched the Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA), Yiddishland California, and Yiddish Theater Academy.

NATALIE FIGAREDO (Production Stage Manager) Tours: My Fair Lady (1st National Tour). Regional Theatre: Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Rainmaker, Staged, Island of the Blue Dolphins (Laguna Playhouse), La Havana Madrid, Avaaz, Snow White, A Shot Rang Out, American Mariachi, Poor Yella Rednecks, Amos and Boris, Little Black Shadows, Junie B Jones Is Not A Crook, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Yoga Play, Mr. Poppers Penguins, Orange, Going to a Place Where You Already Are, A Year With Frog and Toad (South Coast Repertory),The Cake (Geffen Playhouse), The Cake (Echo Theater Company), With Love and a Major Organ (Boston Court), What You Are, Twelfth Night (The Old Globe). Disneyland Resort: Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Dance Off!, Disney Junior Dance Party, Mickey’s Trick and Treat. Trained at CSULB and The London Academy Of Music And Dramatic Art.

BILL KERLIN (Managing Director) Originally from Valparaiso, Indiana, Mr. Kerlin brings over 30 years of finance, marketing, and sales experience to the Laguna Playhouse, including 12 years as Managing Director for North Coast Repertory Theatre and 16 seasons as the Director of Administration at the legendary Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami. During the time that Bill served at Coconut Grove, it was the largest professional not-for-profit producing theatre in the State of Florida. Mr. Kerlin graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from the University of Miami in 1984. While he completed his Master of Science from Florida International University, he concurrently taught classes at Miami-Dade College. He was also the Chief Financial Officer for Professionals’ Retirement Strategy, a national insurance and retirement planning service firm in Irvine, CA. He has also served as a Board Member for Camposition, a performing arts company whose mission was to push the boundary between contemporary performance and activism through live performance, interactive outreach programs, and professional development trainings.

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Development Manager .................................................................. Mary Grant

Grants and Community Outreach Manager......................... Erin O’Flaherty

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Interim Director of Marketing ....................................................... Kate Brandt

Marketing Manager Mackenzee Osborne

Graphic Designer

David Bryant

Brian Lyter

Wally Ziegler

Clara Bush

Jane Sabarre

Curtis Pebley

Leanne Nolan

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. Please check house boards for any program changes.

The Director is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

Production

Wig

Substitute

Teresa English

Press Consultant ..................................................... David Elzer, Demand PR

Broadcast Consultant

Nancy Pank, Nancy’s Media Buys

Season Ticket Sales Theatre Direct

CONSULTANTS

Legal Services

Stephen Berry

Community Relations Liason ............................................... Karyn Philippsen

Medical Provider Caduceus Medical Group, Dr. Gregg deNicola

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in

Scenic Artists Local USA 829,

Laguna Playhouse is a member of the League of Resident Theatres.

YOUTH THEATRE & EDUCATION

ACTING INTENSIVES

SPRING SESSION: MARCH 26 - JUNE 4 SUMMER CAMPS BEGINS JUNE 24

Laguna Playhouse is proud to offer youth acting and theatre classes in conjunction with our fall and spring Youth Theatre productions.

Conservatory classes at the Laguna Playhouse nurture students ages 9 - 18 in learning professional skills that will guide them to success in theatre and life. In Conservatory, students learn important acting techniques and methods that are later utilized in full-scale youth productions. With five levels, this program is for passionate individuals who have a desire to learn professional skills, have fun, and explore their creative voices with other committed students.

We are thrilled to also be offering Junior Conservatory Classes for students ages 6 to 9 on Saturday mornings starting April 20th with a student showcase on June 4th. Each Junior Conservatory session is based on a fun and exciting theme!

VISIT LAGUNAPLAYHOUSE.COM/YOUTH-THEATRE for more information on Conservatory Classes, Young Adult Workshops and more!

MAY 10-12

THE JESSICA HERRON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Laguna Playhouse gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Dana Klein and Jay Herron who have established the Jessica Herron Memorial Scholarship Fund in loving memory of their daughter, a former student of the Laguna Playhouse Youth Theatre.

This designated gift to the theatre’s permanent Endowment will help provide scholarship assistance to talented young people seeking to expand their knowledge and skills though our youth conservatory.

For more information call 949.497.2787 x202

Exciting musical and non-musical summer camps for all ages! During camp, students will learn to work as an ensemble, build self-confidence, and have a great time while engaging in the performing arts. Each session will culminate in a showcase for friends and family!

Camps available for kids from ages 4-19!

SESSIONS BEGIN JUNE 24TH

START PLANNING FOR SUMMER EARLY!

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