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JUNE 2026

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JOHN LOGAN

DIRECTED BY J. SCOTT

LAPP

THERE IS ONLY ONE THING I FEAR IN LIFE, MY FRIEND... ONE DAY THE BLACK WILL SWALLOW THE RED.

MARK ROTHKO BIOPLAY

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CHAIR

Lisa Hale

TREASURER

Harley Bassman

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Jeff Winston

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Jared K. Mathis

Heather Anne Chalmers, MD

James Hale

Dr. Gary Jenkins

Barbara MacGillivray

Heidi Miller

Kitty Malcom

Bob Whalen

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Glenn E. Gray

Joe Hanauer

Otis Healy

Ilona Martin

Melinda Masson

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Adele Adkins

e are thrilled to welcome John Logan’s Red to the Laguna Playhouse stage. Mark Rothko did not make art to decorate a room. He made it to stop you in your tracks, to pull something out of you that you did not know was there. His work demanded to be felt, not simply seen. And yet, at the height of his career, Rothko found himself standing at the edge of his own irrelevance, watching a younger generation of artists redefine the very ground he had fought to claim.

That tension sits at the heart of John Logan’s Red. Set in Rothko’s New York studio in the late 1950s, the play draws us into the charged relationship between a master and his young assistant, Ken. Their conversations are arguments, provocations, and confessions all at once. Ken represents the oncoming tide of a new artistic era. Rothko represents everything that tide threatens to wash away. Together, they ask a question that every artist, every institution, and every art form must eventually face: what does it mean to matter, and for how long?

At Laguna Playhouse, this question is one we carry with us every season. Theatre, like painting, must be alive to survive. It must be willing to be challenged, reshaped, and passed forward. Red does not offer easy answers, but it does offer something rarer: an honest reckoning with what it costs to create, and what it costs to let go.

We are honored to bring this Tony Award-winning masterwork to our stage. We invite you to sit with its questions, its color, and its fire. Thank you, as always, for being here.

ADELE ADKINS

MANAGING DIRECTOR

DIRECTED BY

JOHN LOGAN J. SCOTT LAPP

STARRING

ROB NAGLE* AS MARK ROTHKO BRIAN WALLACE* ROTHKO UNDERSTUDY

STEPHEN GIFFORD SCENIC DESIGNER

JAMES HAYDEN RODRIGUEZ* AS KEN

DIANNE GRAEBNER COSTUME DESIGNER

MICHAEL DONOVAN, CSA

RICHIE FERRIS, CSA CASTING

JARED SAYEG LIGHTING DESIGNER

KEVIN WILLIAMS PROPS DESIGNER

COBY ROGERS KEN UNDERSTUDY

IAN SCOT SOUND DESIGNER

KYRSTEN GOODRICH* STAGE MANAGER

*Actors and stage managers are members of Actors’ Equity Association. Director is a member of Directors and Choreographers Society. OPENING NIGHT

June 14, 2026 | MOULTON THEATRE, LAGUNA BEACH RED premiered at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London on December 3, 2009, Michael Grandage, Artistic Director. Original Broadway Production Produced by Arielle Tepper Madover, Stephanie P. McClelland, Matthew Byam Shaw, Neal Street Productions, Fox Theatricals, Ruth Hendel/Barbara Whitman, Philip Hagemann/Murray Rosenthal and The Donmar Warehouse.

ROB NAGLE

KEN JAMES HAYDEN RODRIGUEZ

BRIAN WALLACE COBY ROGERS

UNDERSTUDY

TIME: 1958 - 1959

PLACE: Rothko’s Studio.

222 Bowery, New York City

There will be no intermission.

UNDERSTUDY

MARK ROTHKO

THE COMPANY

ROB NAGLE* (Mark Rothko) A versatile actor whose Los Angeles stage credits include the Antaeus Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse, and Mark Taper Forum, as well as multiple credits with Moving Arts, Road Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Old Globe, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Troubadour Theater Company. Film credits include: “The Wolf and the Lamb”, “Blonde”, “The Soloist”, and “Bad Samaritan”. Television credits include: “SWAT Exiles”, “Good Trouble”, “Dynasty”, “Modern Family”, and “Grey’s Anatomy”. A Northwestern alumnus, Rob worked in Chicago, Washington, DC, and New York City before settling in Los Angeles. Find him at robnagle.com @nagdoggie.

JAMES HAYDEN RODRIGUEZ* (Ken) is best known for originating the role of Luke Castellan in the Broadway and National Tour productions of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (based on Rick Riordan’s Best Selling book series). James recently completed production on the upcoming feature film “Drunk with Love”, directed by George Bamber, where he stars as Stoughton Gentry, a fabulously defiant cabaret star in 1930s Los Angeles. He can also be seen in the upcoming feature film “Out of the Woods”, directed by Sal Bardo, starring Frances Fisher. Other Theater Credits: Afterglow (The Hudson Theater), Pat Benatar’s Invincible (The Bourbon Room), The Visitor (The Public Theater), Get Your Pink Hands Off Me (Barrington Stage Company), Man of La Mancha (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Hairspray (Signature Theatre). Catch James in the salacious murder mystery “Laid Bare” now streaming on AppleTV! For More Info: check out jameshaydenrodriguez.com and @james_haydn on Instagram.

BRIAN WALLACE* (Understudy - Mark Rothko) – is fresh off the American premiere of Steven Moffat’s comedy The Unfriend at Asolo Rep; other regional/LORT credits include Trinity Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Public Theater, Capital Rep, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Arkansas Rep, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival; in Southern California he has appeared at the El Portal, LATC, and La Mirada Theatre, and is a regular face at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. Film and TV credits include “Law & Order”, “Elemental”, and festival favorites “Relish” and “World Twistories”. IMDB. me/BrianWallace.

COBY ROGERS (Understudy - Ken) is a Pepperdine graduate from West Texas. He’s an actor, writer, husband, and artist trying to find his way. Regional: View From the Bridge (Laguna Playhouse & North Coast Rep, Rodolpho), Deathtrap (ICT Longbeach, Clifford Anderson), West Side Story (Tony), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tom Sawyer). He is breaking his way into film one indie short at a time. He was a 2019 Jimmy Awards nominee. Love always to God, family, friends, mentors. Thanks to Skyfire Artists, and Michael Donovan Casting team! For Sam & Mopsy. @cob.ob

MARK ROTHKO (Artist) Born Marcus Rotkovitch in the town of Dvinsk, Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire, Mark Rothko immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of ten, settling in Portland, Oregon. A gifted student, Rothko attended Yale University on scholarship from 1921-23, but disillusioned by the social milieu and financial hardship, he dropped out and moved to New York to “bum around and starve a bit.” A chance invitation from a friend brought him to a drawing class at the Art Students League where he discovered his love of art. He took two classes there but was otherwise self-taught. Rothko painted in a figurative style for nearly twenty years, his portraits and depictions of urban life baring the soul of those living through The Great Depression in New York. The painter Milton Avery offered Rothko both artistic and nutritional nourishment during these lean years. In the 1930s, Rothko exhibited with The Ten, a close-knit group of nine (!) American painters, which included fellow Avery acolyte, Adolph Gottlieb. Success was moderate at best but the group provided important incubation

for the Abstract Expressionist school to come. The war years brought with it an influx of European surrealists, influencing most of the New York painters, among them Rothko, to take on a neo-surrealist style. Rothko experimented with mythic and symbolic painting for five years before moving to pure abstraction in the mid 1940s and ultimately to his signature style of two or three rectangles floating in fields of saturated color in 1949. Beginning in the early 1950s Rothko was heralded, along with Jackson Pollock, Willem deKooning, Franz Kline and others, as the standard bearers of the New American Painting--a truly American art that was not simply a derivative of European styles. By the late 1950s, Rothko was a celebrated (if not wealthy) artist, winning him three mural commissions that would dominate the latter part of his career. Only in the last of these, The Rothko Chapel in Houston was he able to realize his dream of a truly contemplative environment in which to interact deeply with his artwork. Red presents a fictionalized account of Rothko’s frustrated first attempt to create such a space in New York’s Four Season’s restaurant. Rothko sought to create art that was timeless; paintings that expressed basic human concerns and emotions that remain constant not merely across decades but across generations and epochs. He looked to communicate with his viewer at the most elemental level and through his artwork, have a conversation that was intense, personal and, above all, honest. A viewer’s tears in front of one of his paintings told him he had succeeded. While creating a deeply expressive body of work and garnering critical acclaim, Rothko battled depression and his brilliant career ended in suicide in 1970.

JOHN LOGAN (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. He has received rave reviews for his plays Never the Sinner, about the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, and Hauptman, about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. Red, which premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London and the Golden Theatre on Broadway, won Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Olivier awards for best play, as well as six Tony Awards, the most of any play. Mr. Logan’s prolific work as a screenwriter includes “Any Given Sunday”, “RKO 281”, “The Last Samurai”, “Gladiator”, “The Aviator”, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and “Skyfall”. In 2013 Mr. Logan premiered two new plays: Peter and Alice and I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers.

J. SCOTT LAPP (Director) is an award-winning director, a proud member of the SDC and the Interim Artistic Director at Rubicon Theatre Company. He has worked across the United States as well as internationally in London, Denmark, Japan, and Canada. He is the recipient of the 2022 Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Direction & Outstanding New Production for Witnesses. Recent directorial projects include the U.S. premiere of a reimagined production of Bonnie & Clyde at Rubicon and the 2025 revival of Murder for Two that played Tokyo and a number of other Japanese cities. He also served as the Associate Director on the World Premiere, West End production of Dreamwork’s The Prince of Egypt that can now be viewed on BroadwayHD and various streaming services. Selected directing credits include International: Murder for Two (Japan, Calgary), Regional: Bonnie & Clyde, the Musical (U.S. Premiere), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (San Diego Premiere), Bottle Shock! The Musical (World Premiere), Witnesses (World Premiere) and more. Associate/Assistant Directing credits include Broadway: Bonnie & Clyde; International: The Prince of Egypt (West End, Fredericia Teater); Off-Broadway: Murder for Two (New World Stages); National Tour: Murder for Two, Xanadu. Regional: Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paper Mill, La Jolla); Rain, Into The Woods, Good People, A Room With a View (Old Globe); Secondhand Lions (5th Avenue). Upcoming projects include Ragtime at Rubicon & Bonnie & Clyde here at Laguna Playhouse next summer, and a reimagined version of Cry Baby in Tokyo. IG:@jscottlapp

STEPHEN GIFFORD (Scenic Designer) is grateful to be a part this production of Red. Stephen’s designs have been seen on stages across the country and internationally including: The Grand Ole Opry, The Chicago Theatre, Madison Square Garden, The El Sett & Abdel Halim Theaters (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Sacramento Music Circus, The Walnut Street Theatre, 5th Avenue Theatre, Phoenix Theatre Company, Juneau Lyric Opera, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing

Arts/McCoy Rigby, and many more. He has garnered many awards and nominations for his work. He was awarded The Bob Z Award for Career Achievement in Set Design by the Los Angeles Drama Critic Circle and was awarded Broadwayworld.com’s Scenic Design of the Decade in Los Angeles for Celebration Theatre’s production of Cabaret. In addition to scenic design for theatre, Stephen has also designed for live immersive events, themed interiors, nightclubs, and cabarets. He holds an M.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts and is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. For more about Stephen, please visit @swgifford1 on Instagram or www.stephengifforddesign.com

DIANNE K. GRAEBNER (Costume Designer) has originated the costumes for many new works and world premieres and has designed costumes for well over 100 productions (and films) regionally and internationally including: Church & State- Off-Broadway at New World Stages, Fallen Angels (Indy award- Ensemble Theatre Co. of Santa Barbara), Breath & Imagination at The Colony (NAACP nomination) and again at Virginia Stage Co. Some other favorites include: The Judas Kiss and The Brothers Karamazov (Ovation nominations) and Battle Hymn (L.A. Weekly nomination)- for CircleX Theatre Co. and Poor Clare, Gloria, Undivided Heart, The Thin Place, and Dido of Idaho for Echo Theatre Co. She has long been a company member of Circle X Theatre Co. and spent many years wearing many hats (both figuratively and literally) at Center Theatre Group, where she designed the opening and closing weeks of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 days/ 365 Plays (on the Music Center Plaza and California Plaza, DTLA), and Dogeaters and Clay at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and also created hundreds of hats as their Milliner. Dianne teaches and mentors Costume Design at CSU Fullerton. She is a member of United Scenic Artists, IATSE Local: USA 829. www.diannegraebner.com

JARED SAYEG (Lighting Designer) He is a recipient of the Ovation, Garland & LADCC Kinetic Lighting Awards; his designs for theatre, opera, musicals, ballet, themed attractions, exhibits and architectural installations have been seen internationally. Jared designed The Illusionists on Broadway and National Tours. Regionally he’s designed for Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Indiana Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare, 5-Star Theatricals, Phoenix Theatre Company, Reprise, Ensemble Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse, Virginia Stage Company, 5th Avenue Theatre. Notable projects include four seasons with 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 currently serves as Vice Chair to the executive board. www.jaslighting.com

IAN SCOT (Sound Designer) is a sound designer, composer, and projection designer based in NYC. His work spans theatre, opera, dance, and installation. Credits including productions with Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Daryl Roth Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Minetta Lane, Roundabout Underground, Signature Theatre, The New Group, Tuacahn Amphitheater, The Tent Theatre Company, ACT of Connecticut, Yale Rep, Laguna Playhouse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Dorset Theatre Festival, Actors Shakespeare Project, The Tank, and Ars Nova, among others. Ian is a member of USA829. @ianscxt • ianscot.com

MICHAEL DONOVAN (Casting) is the recipient of 10 Artios Awards presented by the Casting Society of America for Outstanding Achievement in Casting. Richie Ferris has 4 Artios Awards. The company’s credits include shows produced at the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, The Hollywood Bowl, the Wallis Annenberg, The Pasadena Playhouse, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Geffen Playhouse, Garry Marshall Theatre, Ebony Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Symphony, Arkansas Rep, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Rep, the Totem Pole Playhouse and 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) is a recovering actor and LA native. He has had the privilege of spending over two decades working as a designer, art director, fabricator and consultant for a variety of clients such as Walt Disney Imagineering, Buena Vista Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Six Flags Parks, Discovery Cube OC, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, North Coast Repertory and REPRISE Broadway’s Best. Notably, he was the Resident Production Designer for interactive theatre company, Delusion, for seven years: Lies Within, His Crimson Queen, Lies Within VR, The Blue Blade and Reaper’s Remorse. In his free time he works as an award winning leather artist crafting bespoke gifts for discerning clients. 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.M. For more information please visit @KGWProps or @ MonstaBags on Instagram.

KYRSTEN GOODRICH (Production Stage Manager) was born and raised in California, where she earned her BA in Theatre from CSU Chico in 2016 and her MFA in Stage Management from UC Irvine in 2021. She focuses on implementing anti-racist and stage intimacy training across all her work and enjoys guest lecturing in Stage Management courses whenever possible. Credits include Man of La Mancha (Musical Theatre West); Eat Me, The Heart Sellers, The Incredible Book Eating Boy (South Coast Repertory); The Inheritance: Part 1 & Part 2, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Geffen Playhouse); The Rocky Horror Show (Cygnet Theatre); Murder for Two, Escape to Margaritaville, Steel Magnolias, A Christmas Carol, The Amish Project (Theatre SilCo);The Spongebob Musical, Young Frankenstein, The Who’s Tommy, Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar and others (Clinton Area Showboat Theatre); Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Chicago (The Lexington Theatre Company). Cheers!

ADELE ADKINS (Managing Director) is thrilled to join Laguna Playhouse. Adele is an arts leader with over 25 years of experience in nonprofit theater management and programming. She most recently served as Managing Director of Bucks County Playhouse, where she expanded revenue, increased subscriber growth, and spearheaded key initiatives in equity, accessibility, and community engagement. She has booked performances across the full spectrum of venues—from intimate 100-seat theaters to 7,000-seat arenas—presenting everything from classical music and Broadway tours to major country music stars and a wide range of genres in between. Adele has also led the Clark State Performing Arts Center in Ohio and the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. Her early career includes leadership roles at the Collins Center for the Arts and the Maine Center for the Arts. A Juilliard-trained cellist, she brings a lifelong dedication to performance, education, and cultural leadership. Adele is a sought-after consultant for performing arts centers and theaters, known for her expertise in strategic planning and innovative revenue growth strategies.

J. SCOTT LAPP

A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR

THERE IS A MOMENT in Red when Mark Rothko asks a devastatingly simple question: “What do you see?”

It is the question at the center of this play. But it is also the question at the center of ALL art.

John Logan’s extraordinary play places us inside Rothko’s studio at a pivotal moment in his life - an artist at the height of his fame, wrestling with success, legacy, mortality, and the terrifying possibility that the world is changing without him. Set against the backdrop of the late 1950s, the play captures a cultural moment when the old rules of art, identity, and meaning were being dismantled in real time.

John Logan (book) approached Red not as a biography, but as a living argument - visceral, dangerous, intellectual, and deeply human. That spirit has profoundly inspired our production here at Laguna Playhouse. At its heart, this is not simply a play about painting. It is a play about why we create at all.

Rothko believed art should transform us. He rejected decoration, superficiality, and easy consumption. He wanted viewers to stand before his paintings and confront something elemental - grief, ecstasy, loneliness, silence, even God. For him, art was sacred. And yet, in accepting the lucrative Seagram Murals commission for the Four Seasons restaurant, Rothko finds himself trapped inside the contradiction every artist eventually faces: how do you preserve artistic truth in a world increasingly driven by commerce, celebrity, and consumption?

The collision between Rothko and Ken is therefore much larger than teacher and assistant. It is a battle between generations. Between certainty and doubt. Between legacy and reinvention. Ken represents the future rushing toward Rothko whether he is ready or not. Their relationship becomes at once intellectual sparring match, father-son struggle, confession, and reckoning.

What makes Red so thrilling is that the debate remains unresolved. The questions the play asks feel perhaps even more urgent today:

What is the responsibility of the artist? Can great art still exist in a distracted world? Does success dilute authenticity? And how do we continue creating when we know time eventually swallows us all?

Over the past month, we have embraced both the intimacy and the scale of these questions in rehearsals. Our “studio” became a battleground of ideas - raw, muscular, immediate. We bring to you a production where language feels like paint thrown against canvas, where silence carries weight, and where color itself becomes emotional architecture.

Rothko famously feared that “the black would swallow the red.” That haunting image lingers over the entire play - the fear that darkness overtakes vitality, that meaning disappears, that the world stops truly seeing.

And yet Red itself stands as an act of resistance against that darkness. It reminds us that art still matters because human connection still matters. To stand together in a theatre - wrestling with beauty, contradiction, anger, vulnerability, and truth - is in and of itself, a profoundly hopeful act.

Thank you for joining us in the studio.

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Diane Stovall

Toni Tartamella and John Castelli

Tim and Annette Templeton

James Thomas

Richard and Monica Thompson

Lynn Weiser and Mike Tompkins

Mary and Jay Torres

Dolores M. Trevorrow and Toby Curry

Belle Tuckerman

Dennis Grant Tyler

Kendall Vaught

Quentin J. and Barbara Wall

Patricia Waldman and Jerald Paul

Neal Warren

Lynn Weiser and Mike Tompkins

John Weir and Marita Spragge

Janet and Robert Zaugg

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MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR SCAN TO SEE

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Train like a pro, perform live, and get real feedback from a working talent agent. Perfect for aspiring actors ready to build confidence education@lagunaplayhouse.com

MATT JACKSON , TALENT AGENT

Matt has worked for over 20 years in talent development with companies including ABC, Amazon, Buchwald Entertainment, CBS, Disney Channel, Freeform, FX, Hallmark Channel, HBO, Hulu, Lionsgate, Netflix, OWN, Rebel Entertainment Partners, TNT, TBS and Warner Brothers.

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LEAVE A LEGACY

Laguna Playhouse has grown as a theater and a community—a place where stories come to life and generations gather to be inspired. If this place holds a special meaning for you, consider making a lasting gift that will help keep our stage lights shining far into the future.

A legacy gift—through your will, trust, retirement account, or other planned giving tools—allows you to support the Playhouse in a deeply meaningful way, and leave a legacy for generations.

CONTACT ERIN SIMON ESimon@LagunaPlayhouse.com 949-204-5343

Photos, Clockwise from top: 1959, Howard Hap Graham & friend at 319 Ocean. 1981, A Little Night Music. 1947, Betsy Paul (Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson).