The Book Of Will - Bruka Theatre Program 2024

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Originally commissioned and produced at the Denver Center Theatre Company A division of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Kent Thompson, Artistic Director) Subsequent Rolling World Premiere produced by Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison, New York (Davis McCallum, Artistic Director; Kate Liberman, Managing Director) BRÜKA THEATRE MISSION “TO CREATE & SHARE THE EXPERIENCE OF INNOVATIVE THEATRE.” CELEBRATING 30 YEARS IN DOWNTOWN RENO

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ABOUT BRÜKA THEATRE Brüka Theatre is celebrating its 31st season of live theatre in downtown Reno.

Brüka’s theme for the 2023/2024 season is: “The Show Must Go On” embracing the excitement and magic of live theatre alongside the fun and challenges that go with creating a show. As an artistic leader in the region, Brüka is recognized for innovative productions, exceptionally talented artists and acclaimed Theatre for Children touring series since its founding in 1992. Central to Brüka is the commitment to the re-investigation of contemporary and classic plays and developing new plays within Brüka’s Artistic Collective, a group that includes winners of the Nevada Arts Council and Sierra Arts Foundation artist grants and nine local best actor honors. Brüka was named “Best Theatre Company” by Reno News and Review for twenty-one years. Brüka is a non-equity, small, not-for-profit member theater company and a liate of the national TCG (Theatre Communications Group). Brüka Theatre has produced over 200 shows in our downtown Reno location. Sign up for our newsletter by going to our website at www.bruka.org.

If you are associated with a local charity that you believe in and would fit with our season line-up, please reach out to marybruka@gmail.com and we will do our best to access and serve the needs while we enhance the experiences of the organizations.

PRICES: General admission: $30. Admission for Students/Seniors/Military: $26. All tickets are $35 at the door. Artist Night Tickets are $17. Additional Ticket fees will be incurred on all online and phone ticket transactions.

REQUIREMENTS DUE TO COVID - 19: If you are feeling sick or feel that you have been exposed to COVID - 19 please use precautions, communicate and wear a mask to the theatre so as not to expose others to illness. We appreciate your understanding and support as we continue to navigate keeping our theatre safe and a vital part of the Reno community. We reserve the right to change these protocols based on CDC guidelines. All ticket holders will be notified well in advance if changes arise.

RESERVATIONS are available in person through the Brüka Box O ce (775) 323-3221, online at www.bruka.org or at the Melting Pot World Emporium @ their location: 1049 S. Virginia Street, Reno. Our box o ce is open Thursday through Saturday from 3-6 PM and on Wednesdays by appointment. We are closed on most holidays. Our 2023/2024 Season Tickets are on sale beginning September 1, 2023. Individual tickets go on sale the Monday after the previous show closes. Check us out at www.bruka.org. All Brüka mainstage evening shows begin at 7:30 PM. Matinees begin at 2:00 PM. Doors open 30 minutes before curtain time. There is NO late seating and all ticket sales are final.

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BRÜKA THEATRE - 31 YEARS OF LIVE THEATRE As we reflect back on our 30 years, we champion the incredible dedication of our staff, board of directors, actors, directors, stage managers, crews, writers, costumers, set designers, lighting & sound designers, graphic artists, business partners, supporters, foundations, community leaders, volunteers and our patrons, who have helped to keep us here, through thick and thin, good and challenging times and have kept the dream of producing, creating and presenting live theatre that flourishes in downtown Reno.

Cheers & respect to all who have gone before us and to those who may follow in our footsteps. It is an honor to serve the community by producing and creating for Brüka Theatre.

In great love & appreciations, Mar Bennet Producing Artistic Director Brüka Theatre

MORE ABOUT THE TIME PERIOD & THE CHARACTERS

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The Story Behind “THE BOOK OF WILL” “The Book of Will” begins three years after Shakespeare’s death, and spans from 1619 1623. The story follows his closest friends and fellow actors, Henry Condell and John Hemmings who deeply miss him and his beautiful plays. When a pirated, badly botched Hamlet hits a local playhouse, they decide to set the record—and literary and theatrical history—straight.

They take on a money-hungry publisher, a drunken poet laureate, and their own mortality as they piece together a little book we call the First Folio.

“The Book of Will” is a mixture of fact and fiction. We can’t know the complete details and full motivations for gathering and creating the First Folio, but through Gunderson’s joyful and poignant play, it is great fun to imagine.

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Book of Will - CREATIVES @ BRÜKA LAUREN GUNDERSON - PLAYWRIGHT Lauren has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list thrice including 2022/23. She is a two- me winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is a playwright, screenwriter, musical book writer and children's author who lives in San Francisco. She graduated from NYU Tisch as a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.

LaurenGunderson.com STACEY SPAIN - DIRECTOR Stacey Spain has a B.A. in Theater from Boise State University, where she worked with Phil Atlakson, Mike Hoffman, Mark Medoff and Ntozake Shange. She also holds an MFA in Ac ng from Purdue University where she trained in the Sanford Meisner Ac ng Method. Ac ng in over 50 produc ons favorite roles include Mag in The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Diana in Abduc ng Diana and Cora in Calendar Girls. She has taught at Purdue University, UNR and TMCC. Spain’s work as a playwright includes: now i lay me down 2 sleep, Yule Believe, Crazy Fucking Kincaids, Queen of Sunshine Mountain, Killarney Sabba cal, Street People, No News, To Whom Should I Complain? and Up On Deer Creek. Her works have been produced at the San Francisco Fringe Fes val, the Noh Theater of Nygen, Bruka Theater, Good Luck Macbeth Theater and Reno Li le Theater.

Spain directed Good People, Becke Undressed, The Scarlet Le er and Orpheus Descending at Bruka. At the University of Nevada, Reno she directed Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, The HOT L Bal more and the world premiere of Anne Garcia Romero's Juanita's Statue. For Reno Li le Theater Spain directed The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Harvey, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Mother Hicks. Live simply, love deeply, create passionately.

RILEY KVETON - STAGE MANAGER has been working behind the scenes in Reno since 2014. They were last seen at Brüka working on Stage Kiss (2016). The only me Riley has been onstage as an actor was in Calendar Girls as Liam at Reno Li le Theater. They are very happy to be working in theater a er covid shut down their last show on opening night. Riley would like to thank their parents for all of their support and Flicka for being the best puppy.

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THE BOOK OF WILL Appropriate for ages 16 & Up Running Time: 2 Hours. 2 Acts.

THE BOOK OF WILL Lauren Gunderson - Author Stacey Spain - Director

The Enduring, Hilarious & Heartfelt Power Of The Bard

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ACTOR 1 (JOHN HEMMINGS) ……………………………….…………… JAMES MARDOCK ACTOR 2 (HENRY CONDELL) ................................................................. BRETT ANDRES ACTOR 3 (BEN JONSON, RICHARD BURBAGE, ISAAC JAGGARD) …….. BRADFORD KA’AI’AI ACTOR 4 (WILLIAM JAGGARD, BARMAN 1) …………………..……….…….…. BOB IVES ACTOR 5 (HORATIO, ED KNIGHT, SIR EDWARD DERING, BARMAN 2, COMPOSITOR) ... MIKE PETERS ACTOR 6 (ALICE HEMINGES DAUGHTER) …………………………..…….. AMBER TEEN ACTOR 7 (ELIZABETH CONDELL, MARCELLUS) ……………………... ANGELA PARKER ACTOR 8 (EMELIA BASSANO LANIER, ANNE HATHAWAY) ………... CATHY GABRIELLI ACTOR 9 (REBECCA HEMINGES) ……………………………..…..…………….ROBIN SOLI ACTOR 10 (RALPH CRANE, FRANCISCO, MARCUS) ……………….... RYAN CORRIGAN ACTOR 11 (BOY HAMLET & CRIER ………………..………………….. MI YOUNG BARASH

CREATIVES & CREW PRODUCER …………..………………………….……………………...…… MARY BENNETT DIRECTOR …………..…….…………..…….………………………...……..… STACEY SPAIN STAGE MANAGER/PROP MASTER …………….……….……….………... RILEY KVETON COSTUMER ………………………………………...…………..…….. DEBORAH MORRISON TECHNICAL DIRECTOR - SOUND OPERATION & LIGHTING DESIGN …………. DAVID SIMPSON SET DESIGN & BUILD …………………………………….…………….. LEWIS ZAUMEYER DRAMATURG……………………………………………………………….JESSICA JOHNSON ASST. STAGE MANAGER ……………………………………………… RACHAEL BARKER NICKY’S/CREW OF LOVE ………………..……… RILEY MCKINNEY, JESSEY RICHARDS

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PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ……………………….......………….. MARY BENNETT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR. …..…….……….................................….……… DAVID SIMPSON OPERATIONS DIRECTOR……………….…..……….…………….....…... HOLLY NATWORA BOOKKEEPER …..…...…..…….…....……..…...……..….…………….....….. SUE KEPHART DRAMATURG …………………………………….…..………………..…. JESSICA JOHNSON COMPANY MANAGER .…....………….….......…….……………..….... KAITLYNN COOPER PRODUCTION ASSISTANT …………………………….………..……KRISTINA WORTHLEY COMPANY PHOTOGRAPHY ……………….…………… BILL QUINBY & DANA NOLLSCH POSTER DESIGN …….………….…...………….…………...……….…….. MICHAEL GRIMM NEON ART ….…….……….…….…………..….…….……………….…….… JEFF JOHNSON BRÜKA THEATRE BOARD OF DIRECTORS………….………..…..…... DELORES AIAZZI, PEGGY JONES, MICHAEL PETERS, WESTON SPANN, KRISTI STENQUIST, BOB WHITEFIELD, LEWIS ZAUMEYER BRÜKA SPECIAL THANKS …………………….. JEFF JOHNSON, G3 COLLABORATION, THE WILD RIVER GRILLE, ALI PAULETTO, DIANE & MICHAEL PETERS, WASHOE COUNTY LIBRARY

Book of Will - Cast @ BRÜKA JAMES MARDOCK (John Hemmings) has appeared in, directed, and provided dramaturgy for plays in the Reno area since 2007. At Brüka he’s appeared in The Reflec ons of Tarantula Jones, The Beauty Queen of Leenene, and Stupid Fucking Bird. A Shakespeare scholar and editor, he’s lived with the real Will, Ben, John, Henry, Ed, Ralph, and Isaac for 30 years, and he’s grateful to Emilie for allowing him the chance to help resurrect them. “Such good wives.”

BRETT ANDRES (Henry Condell) returns to Bruka Theater a er taking a few decades off to find himself. He was trained at the New Actor’s Workshop in New York City, performed on stages across the country, and wrote and starred in some fantas cally unimportant web series back when literally everyone was producing their own cheaply budgeted internet sensa ons.

He dedicates this performance to his mother who lives on in her pain ngs, her recipes, and the joy she brought to life in those who knew and loved her.

BRADFORD KA’AI’AI (Ben Jonson, Richard Burbage, Isaac Jaggard) has been a member of the Reno theatre community since 1995, having worked with the Nevada Repertory Company, TMCC Redfield Performing Arts Center, Reno Li le Theatre, and Bruka Theatre. Previous credits include Joan Crawford (Christmas with the Crawfords), Miss Tracy Mills (The Legend of Georgia McBride), John Proctor (The Crucible), O o Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank), Ghost of Christmas Present (A Christmas Carol), Ned Kynaston (The Compleat Female Stage Beauty), Alan Raleigh (God of Carnage), Uncle Peck (How I Learned to Drive), Yusef El-Fayoumy (The Last Days of Judas Iscariot), and Alan Turing (Breaking the Code). #imabrightkid BOB IVES (William Jaggard, Barman 1, Francisco) The first person Bob Ives played onstage was Puck in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream over 45 years ago. Although Bob was asked to write this bio in third person, he is too old to remember who was the third person he played onstage, and anyway, is Puck really a person? Also around that me, he played several people in Spoon River Anthology, so the third person could have been one of those. He did play one of a group of four people singing four-part harmonies in the world premiere of a musical based on the movie Na onal Velvet, but he doesn’t know if he was the third person in that group. Being the third person is good, because at least you get a medal, while the fourth person does not.

MIKE PETERS (Hora o, Ed Knight, Sir Edward Dering, Barman 2) has been knocking about Reno stages since the first Clinton administra on and first performed with Reno Li le Theater in the 1995 produc on of “Go Back For Murder”. Some of his other favorite roles have been Col Pickering in “My Fair Lady” ; Sidney Bruhl in “Deathtrap” at both RLT and Bruka; Harold Hill in “The Music Man”; Henry II in “The Lion in Winter”; Malvolio in “Twel h Night” and Johnnypateenmike in “The Cripple Of Inishmaan”. Many thanks to his wife, the lovely Diane, for her constant support.

Book of Will - Cast @ BRÜKA AMBER TEEN (Alice Heminges Daughter) has had the tremendous blessing to be involved in the Reno Theater Community for the last 29 years. Some of her favorite rolls include, Widow in Mary Benne ’s original “Tarantula Jones,” Mrs. White in Sandy Rus n’s “Clue,” Viola in Shakespeare’s “Twel h Night,” Desdemona in Shakespeare’s “Othello,” Polly in Bertolt Brecht’s “Three Penny Opera,” Gypsy in Laurent, Styne, & Sondheim’s “Gypsy,” and Pamela in Alfred Hitchcock’s “39 Steps.” Amber is thrilled and humbled to be joining this insanely talented cast in bringing this beau ful moment to life. Amber thanks her incredibly suppor ve husband and three beau ful children for their constant love and encouragement.

ANGELA PARKER (Elizabeth Condell, Marcellus) is delighted to be working with Bruka Theatre in The Book of Will. Trained in Meisner Technique (NYC), with nearly a decade since performing off-broadway and an aperture from film, she has been an award-winning commercial actress, interna onal runway model, interna onal Human Rights Worker and upon reloca ng to beau ful Lake Tahoe, has more recently spent the past five years as a real estate professional, entrepreneur and a professional and published writer. A lover of the Sierra Nevada and a compassionate adventurer, she finds enrichment in nature, the arts and in the crea ve innova on of our local business community.

CATHY GABRIELLI (Emelia Bassano Lanier, Anne Hathaway) is delighted to be part of this most excellent band of players! She was most recently seen in The Hungry Games at Bruka’s Biggest Li le Theatre & New Works Fes val, as well as Shamrock Produc ons’ Siamsa! A Cel c Christmas.

Favorite credits include: The Glass Menagerie (Amanda), The Love Song of J Robert Oppenheimer (Ki y), Humble Boy (Flora), Rabbit Hole (Nat), Our Town (Mrs. Gibbs), Calendar Girls (Celia) and The Children (Hazel). Cathy enjoys singing with High Desert Harmony, volunteering with local non-profits and traveling wherever excep onal theater happens. Thanks to Bob for all the love and support.

ROBIN SOLI (Rebecca Heminges) has had an extremely successful dance career that enabled her to pursue her passion of performing on stage, television and traveling the world. One of her many accomplishments was winning the tle as the Dance Grand Champions in the television produc on of Star Search!!! A er a me away from performing to raise her 2 children she realized how much she missed performing so then began her journey of ac ng!! She started classes and soon began audi oning and she has been working ever since!! She has performed in leading roles in such produc ons as: Emilie La Marquise, 2 Across, Admissions, Ar fice and While The Lights Were Out...plus numerous musicals....Legally Blonde, Nunsense, Victor Victoria, Chicago and Kinky Boots just to name a few!!

She can also be seen in many feature/short films and various commercials.

Robin is very excited to be returning to the Bruka Stage in this wonderful produc on as the lovely character of Rebecca ~ Cheers

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Book of Will - Cast @ BRÜKA RYAN CORRIGAN (Ralph Crane, Compositor) is excited to be taking the stage at Bruka once again. He has appeared in Lifespan of a Fact, The Reflec ons of Tarantula Jones, and Christmas with the Crawfords all at Bruka Theater. He would like to thank this amazing cast for being a pleasure to work with every day, Stacey for being a joy to work with again, Mary for crea ng an amazing theater to work at, and his friends/family for suppor ng him.

MI YOUNG BARASH (Boy Hamlet & Crier) started ac ng in 9th grade and has played three roles since then. She was involved in her 9th grade school theater group and is overjoyed to work with Brüka Theatre in The Book of Will as Boy Hamlet, Crier, Bernardo, Fruit Seller, and Susannah Shakespeare. She hopes to con nue theater throughout high school and in college. In her free me, she puts together puzzles and plays Anagrams with her family. She o en experiments with baking recipes that involve chocolate. Her cat is her number one companion.

To the Willing Dreamers: I was a late reader but when books became my best friends in the third grade, I thought the thickest books in the library were clearly the best books. One of the thickest was a collection of Shakespeare that I lugged around in my brother’s old Incredible Hulk backpack. That book felt like a shield to me. I absolutely did not understand all of the language, or the themes but I learned to use a dictionary and I learned how cool Shakespearean insults were.

When I read the introduction to the First Folio by Hemmings and Condell, Shakespeare’s friends came alive. These were real people who cared about what history would do with his work.

It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been wished, that the author himself had lived to have set forth, and overseen his own writings; but since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envy his Friends the office of their care and pain to have collected and published them; and so to have published them, as where (before) you were abused with diverse stolen, and surreptitious copies, maimed, and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors that exposed them: even those are now offered to your view cured and perfect of their limbs; and all the rest, absolute in their numbers as he conceived them.

John Heminges Henry Condell 1623 Four hundred years later Lauren Gunderson has written of these friends and how they worked to preserve Shakespeare’s genius creations in the First Folio. The world of theater in this play is vibrant, personal, and timely. Characters from history blend with Gunderson’s deep knowledge of Shakespeare and female characters lost to time are imagined and fully realized in her play.

Brüka Theater is a place people call home, grow their artistic practice and devote time, talent and energy to create art with each other for an audience. We are part of a lineage of actors, playwrights, designers, directors and managers who feel the sacred necessity of sharing our humanity through this art form. This production is dedicated to those who have given so much to Brüka over decades, their lives have meaning when we remember them and speak their names aloud: To Tom Plunkett, Lady Hull, Allen Hull, Kahele Dunn and Jim Martin. ~ Stacey Spain, Director

BRÜKA THEATRE CREATIVES MARY BENNETT - BRÜKA THEATRE PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Mary Benne ’s training and performances include American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco), Bay Area TheaterSports, Upright Ci zens Brigade (UCB) Dell’Arte Interna onal Theatre Company, New York Stage & Film, B Street Theater, Reno Philharmonic, Reno Jazz Orchestra, Sierra Nevada Ballet, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Fes val, and Kennedy Center training as a teaching ar st, Arts Integra on Specialist and mentor. Currently, Producing Ar s c Director of Brüka Theatre & Theater Ar st-in-Residence with Nevada Arts Council and Sierra Arts Founda on. Her Dorothy Parker…Shivering and Sighing won Best of The San Francisco Fringe Fes val, and was performed in NYC, June, 2017. Named “Best Actor” in Reno News & Review ten mes. She organizes and ar s cally directs the Carson City Ghost Walk and has appeared on screen, most recently in Nowhere Nevada and Dear George, and commissioned for solo shows with NAMI and The Nevada Museum Of Art. Mary is currently the drama instructor at Doral Academy.

DAVID SIMPSON, BRÜKA THEATRE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR David Simpson, born in Reno, Hug High School graduate, learned the art of photography during five years in the Navy as a Photographer's Mate aboard the U.S.S. Constella on. In the early 90's he was introduced to theatre in Modesto, CA and has been involved since “some mes immersed in it, some mes not [with] various du es, a few roles, numerous venues, a lot of shows.” At Brüka, Dave brings stage produc ons to life through his ligh ng and sound exper se. Ar sts and audiences throughout the region have benefited from his reless work ethic and a en on to detail when building a world on stage with sight and sound.

HOLLY NATWORA – BRÜKA OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Holly Natwora received her MFA from Columbia University in NYC and has acted in over 75 plays including two summers at Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival, touring The Caucasian Chalk Circle in Berlin, Germany and performing as Lady Macbeth in the first ever New York Fringe. Holly has also appeared in television and film, most notably in Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Since moving to Reno in 2005, she has performed or directed at the Brüka Theatre, Reno Little Theatre, Good Luck Macbeth, and TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada. Holly currently teaches Theatre at Truckee Meadows Community College and Shakespeare for Social Justice at High Desert State Prison. She is the Operations Director at Brüka Theatre-her theatrical home.

KAITLYNN COOPER - BRÜKA COMPANY MANAGER/STAGE MANAGER Kaitlynn is our company manager at Brüka, overseeing human resource details and working behind the scenes and as stage manager for many of Brüka's produc ons including Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Crucible, Stupid Fucking Bird, Anne Frank, Clue, Mr. Burns, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Dollshouse 2, mul ple Bu crackers, Kinky Boots, and The Reflec ons of Tarantula Jones. She is an English teacher at McQueen High School.

BRÜKA THEATRE CREATIVES LEWIS ZAUMEYER - SET DESIGNER/ BRÜKA BOARD OF DIRECTORS A prac cing Architect and Ar st, I have been enthusias cally involved at Brüka Theater since 1997, Ac ng, doing Set Design and Construc on, Direc ng and serving on the Non-Profit Board of Directors. I’ve worked on almost every project since I showed up and a quite a few memorable ac ng projects include Hair, King Lear, Wai ng for Godot, Cabaret, Buried Child, The Underpants, Metamorphosis, Irma Vep,The Goat, Richard III, MacBeth, then most recently Tooth of Crime, Stupid Fucking Bird & Acknaton.

SUE KEPHART - BRÜKA BOOKKEEPER Bookkeeper and QuickBooks expert, Sue began by volunteering for the organiza on. She con nues to upgrade the accoun ng systems used in Brüka Theatre and other businesses around town.

KRISTINA WORTHLEY - BRÜKA PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Kris na is the assistant to the producer. Brüka is a place she calls home.

Kris na has performed at many theaters around Reno. She a ended UNLV to earn a bachelors in English with a minor in Theater Arts. Kris na is a high school teacher at Spanish Springs High School. She teaches a program that provides life skills, job training, career and trade skills, and problem solving skills.

ROSE SAMBRANO - PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE Rose has worked on several projects with Bruka in a variety of roles. Both on and off the stage, Rose frequently supports produc ons with things like props, organiza on, and quick changes. Shows she has worked on through Bruka include Kinky Boots, The Reflec ons of Tarantula Jones, and Every Brilliant Thing. This summer, Rose will be assistant direc ng Side Show, The Musical. She is extremely grateful for this opportunity and thankful to Mary for the trust.

RILEY MCKINNEY -NICKY’S/CREW OF LOVE Riley has been working with Brüka since she graduated high school in 2015.

You've seen her in many Bu crackers, The Crucible, Green Show, and serving drinks at Nickey's! Riley is a 2020 graduate of UNR with a degree in theater where you may have seen her as the tular Eurydice or Assistant Direc ng Twel h Night.

JESSEY RICHARDS - NICKY’S/CREW OF LOVE Jessey as been working with Brüka both on and off stage since 2013. You most recently saw him as Jov Bon Johnnie in Bu cracker: Rockstar! You may have also seen him in Na on Of Two, The Diary of Anne Frank, and a plethora of other shows! He is currently in Brüka touring Theatre For Children shows, The Paramount and Some mes Wildly Ridiculous History of Nevada and Mamma Nurture & the Brightsides

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In Memory Dunn, Kahele Hull, Lady Lear, Moya Martin, Jim Plunkett, Tommy Tenney, Jim

Additional Funding From DP Foundation The City of Reno NV. Humanities The Nevada Arts Council The National Endowment For The Arts SVOG Grant

Brüka Volunteer Corps Bartz, Jerry Beers, Logan Blanford, Victoria Boothe, Ina Bow, Ann Marie Butler, Julia Cooper, Cori Cooper, Kaitlynn Davis, Merryanne Douglas, Rachel Etheridge, La Ronda Flynn, Jennifer Gianos, Amy Gottas, Rachael Hearn, Rod Kephart, Sue Kohlenberg, Barbara Koshinski, MK Langsdale, Lyndsey McKinney, Riley Miller, Kris Monahan, Pat Nesbitt, Elizabeth Podewils-Baba, Nancy Richards, Dave Richards, Jessey Schwarz, Kass Seymour, Larry Spain, Stacey Vucovich, Tracy Walmsley, John Young, Mona

BRÜKA THEATRE 2023/2024 SEASON SURVEY 1. How many shows have you seen at Brüka?

2. Where are you from? City: State: Postal Code: 3. Please check your opinion of our theatre based on our unique ratings scale: *One of the great highlights of my existence *Excellent – just can’t get enough *Great ~ I go if I can, but I’m a busy person *I’m a middle of the road person. * I could take it or leave it. *I am underwhelmed

4. How did you hear about our production? (Please circle that apply) *I’m on the mailing list * Word of mouth * Website * Newspapers (News & Review, Reno Gazette, Sparks Tribune, NV Appeal, Other) * Radio * Another way: 5. How did you get tickets for this production? (Please circle) Season Tickets. * Purchased them online * Purchased at the Melting Pot World Emporium * Purchased through the Brüka Box office by phone * Through the Brüka Box Office in person * They were a gift * Another way: ___________________________________ 6. What is your age? (Please Circle any that apply) *0–20 * 21-30 * 31-40 *41–50 * 51–60 *61–70 * 71....

7. Male or Female?

8. Where do you park?

9. What is your favorite Brüka show? VGT6 10. What show would you like to see produced at Brüka?

11. Your feedback/comments: NAME: _______________________________________________ ADDRESS:____________________________________________ EMAIL: _______________________________________________ Forms may be dropped off at the box office desk or can be mailed back to Brüka. (99 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89501 or faxed to 775.323.8209) If you include your information you will be entered into a drawing to win a gift certificate to a Brüka Show. Drawings held at the end of the run of each show.

Thank you for taking the time. We are listening.

FILL IT OUT ONLINE AT: https://forms.gle/167enmwZh9vk6fjC7