MENDOCINO THEATRE COMPANY
IN ASSOCIATION WITH GLORIANA MUSICAL THEATRE PRESENT
WOODY GUTHRIE’S AMERICAN SONG
SONGS AND WRITINGS BY WOODY GUTHRIE
CONCEIVED AND ADAPTED BY PETER GLAZER
ORCHESTRATIONS AND VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS BY JEFF WAXMAN
STAGE DIRECTION BY ELIZABETH CRAVEN MUSICAL DIRECTION BY JENNI WINDSOR
BAND DIRECTION BY DAVE ALDEN STAGE MANAGEMENT BY PATRICIA PRICE
SCENIC AND LIGHTING DESIGN BY JEFF ROWLINGS COSTUME DESIGN BY SUSAN COLLINS
SOUND DESIGN BY ZACH TAYLOR MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY BY BRUCE PRICE
PERFORMING ENSEMBLE
SINGER/STORYTELLERS
CARRIE FISHMAN - Mama, Saloon Singer, Woman | BYRON GREENE - Folksinger, Hobo
LUCAS KEIHN-THILMAN - Searcher, Cisco | MARIA RAMOS - Daughter, Bowery Girl, Young Woman
STEVE WORTHEN - Writer, Dad
INSTRUMENTALISTS
DAVE ALDEN (Guitar/Dobro/Vocals) | EMILY BERNA (Fiddle) | ZOE BERNA (Fiddle)
DAN COULSON (Acoustic Bass) | JIM GILBERT (Banjo, Mandolin) | BYRON GREENE (Banjo/Guitar) ALEX MILLER (Banjo/Mandolin) | MEGHAN MILLER (Acoustic Bass)
*There will be five Singer/Storytellers and four Instrumentalists on stage at each performance.
Produced by Special Arrangement with Peter Glazer
Developed with the Writers Theatre, New York City; American Stage Festival, Milford, NH and Attic Theatre, Detroit, MI. Vocal and instrumental arrangements developed in collaboration with Mimi Bessette, Liz Seneff Corrigan, David Lutken, Scott Wakefield and Neil Woodward.
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THE MISSION of the Mendocino Theatre Company is to produce plays of substance and excitement, from the classics to the cutting edge. MTC strives to address issues that speak to our world with plays that entertain, challenge and enrich our community and those who visit. With a commitment to excellence, MTC focuses on nurturing local talent by providing a collaborative, respectful and creative environment.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Jeff Rowlings
Vice President: Raven Deerwater
Treasurer: Julie Ahrens
Members: Lisa Norman, Ronda Smith, Erina Reeves, Bob Cohen
THEATRE STAFF
Producing Director: Elizabeth Craven
Artistic Directors: Betty Abramson, Mark Friedrich, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe
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Carpenters: David Lear, Jim Gibson, John Craven
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David Lear, Main Stage West, Diane Larson, Erina Reeves, Gloriana Studios, David Marshall, Steve Greenwood, John Craven, Zoe Berna, Peter Glazer, Jim Peterson, Robin Zickel, Betty Abramson, Martin Betz, Katie Applebaum, Mendocino Art Center, Dave Alden Box Office: 707-937-4477 | boxoffice@mendocinotheatre.org Business Office: 707-937-2718 | mtc@mcn.org | WWW.MENDOCINOTHEATRE.ORG 45200 LITTLE LAKE ST. | PO BOX 800 | MENDOCINO | CA 95460
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Scene One: Prologue
SCENES AND SONGS
ACT I
“Storm of Words” .................................................... Company
HARD TRAVELIN’ .................................................... Company
“The People I Owe” ................................................... Company
Scene Two: On the Plains -- Early 1930s
SO LONG, IT’S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YUH ......................... SEARCHER and Band
OKLAHOMA HILLS ........................................... SEARCHER and Band
DUST STORM DISASTER .............................................. SEARCHER
I AIN’T GOT NO HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE ............... WOMAN, YOUNG WOMAN
Scene Three: A Train Heading West BOUND FOR GLORY .................................................. Company
DUST BOWL REFUGEE ............................... SEARCHER, HOBO BOY AND GIRL
Scene Four: The California Line DO RE MI .......................................................... Company
Scene Five: The Jungle Camp
WORRIED MAN ............................................... MAMA, DAUGHTER
AIN’T GONNA BE TREATED THIS WAY ...................................... Company END OF MY LINE ......................................................... DAD GRAND COULEE DAM ........................................ MAMA and Company
PASTURES OF PLENTY ................................................ Company
ACT II
Scene One: Prologue
LUDLOW MASSACRE ................................. Maria Ramos/Carrie Fishman
LUDLOW BREAKDOWN ................................................... Band
Scene Two: New York City, Middle 1940s
NEW YORK TOWN ........................................... FOLKSINGER, CISCO HARD, AIN’T IT HARD ............................................ SALOON SINGER
I DON’T FEEL AT HOME ON THE BOWERY NO MORE ................... FOLKSINGER, CISCO
TALKIN’ SUBWAY ................................................... FOLKSINGER
JOLLY BANKER .............................................. FOLKSINGER, CISCO
UNION MAID .......................... SALOON SINGER, BOWERY GIRL and Company
THE SINKING OF THE REUBEN JAMES .................. SALOON SINGER and Company
NINE HUNDRED MILES .................. WRITER, WANDERER, FOLKSINGER, SEARCHER
DEPORTEE (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) .................... BOWERY GIRL and Company
BETTER WORLD/LONESOME VALLEY .......................... WRITER and Company
Scene Three: Epilogue
“Your Word Singer” .................................................. Company
ANOTHER MAN DONE GONE ............................................ WRITER THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND ............................................ .Company
ABOUT WOODY GUTHRIE
Woody Guthrie was born on July 14th, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. Over the decades, his songs have run around the world like a fast train on a well-oiled track. They’ve become the folk song standards of the nation, known and performed in many languages throughout the world. He wrote over 3,000 songs in his lifetime, many of which have become staples in the canon of American music. He published two novels, created artworks, authored numerous published and unpublished manuscripts, poems, prose, and plays and hundreds of letters and news articles which are housed in the Woody Guthrie Archives in New York. Having lived through some of the most significant historic movements and events of the Twentieth-Century – the Great Depression, the Great Dust Storm, World War II, the social and the political upheavals resulting from Unionism, the Communist Party and the Cold War – Woody absorbed it all to become a prolific writer whose songs, ballads, prose and poetry captured the plight of everyman. While traveling throughout the American landscape during the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s, Woody’s observations of what he saw and experienced have left for us a lasting and sometimes haunting legacy of images, sounds, and voices of the marginalized, disenfranchised, and oppressed people with whom he struggled to survive despite all odds. Although the corpus of original Woody Guthrie songs, or as Woody preferred “people’s songs” is, perhaps, his most recognized contribution to American culture, the stinging honesty, humor, and wit found even in his most vernacular prose writings exhibit Woody’s fervent belief in social, political, and spiritual justice.
In 1996, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Case Western Reserve University presented a ten day celebration honoring Woody Guthrie, entitled Hard Travelin’. It was the first major conference on the legacy of Woody Guthrie complete with a photo exhibition, lectures, films, and two benefit concerts, which were held in support of the Woody Guthrie Archives.
In 2012, to commemorate what would be Woody Guthrie’s centennial year, Woody Guthrie Publications, the Woody Guthrie Archives, and the GRAMMY Museum collaborated on a year-long celebration - from California to the New York Island and across the pond - with gala concerts, exhibits, educational conferences, grassroots events, new publications, album releases and a centennial website; Woody100.com.
Woody Guthrie has been recognized for his monumental contributions and achievements in American culture. He has been the recipient of prestigious awards both from governmental departments and private arts organizations.
• U.S. Department of the Interior, Conservation Service Award 1966
• The National Songwriters’ Hall of Fame inductee 1970
• The Nashville Songwriters’ Hall of Fame inductee 1977
• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum inductee 1988
• The North American Folk Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award 1996
• National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Lifetime Achievement Award 1999
• The Oklahoma Hall of Fame inductee 2006 For more information on the life and legacy of Woody Guthrie, go to www.WoodyGuthrie.org
ABOUT PETER GLAZER
Peter Glazer (Adaptation and Concept) is a playwright, director, author, and educator. His father, folksinger Tom Glazer, was part of the Big City folk movement in the 1940s and 1950s, and performed with Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Josh White, and Pete Seeger, among others. With his group the Priority Ramblers, Tom performed for the support staff at the White House at the invitation of Eleanor Roosevelt. Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Peter’s first work for the theater, was written in 1988 and has been produced at scores of theaters across the US, and garnered numerous awards. His other works for the stage include Foe, adapted from the novel by Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee, O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music with Celtic Harpist Patrick Ball, Michael, Margaret, Pat and Kate with renowned singer-songwriter Michael Smith, and Heart of Spain – A Musical of the Spanish Civil War with composer Eric Bain Peltoniemi. His current project is a stage adaptation of Karen Shepard’s novel The Celestials as a resident artist at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Glazer sits on the Board of Governors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. He is a professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Woody Guthrie’s American Song had its world premiere in July 1988 at the American Stage Festival in Milford, New Hampshire. Since then, it has been seen at scores of theaters across the US and won dozens of awards. The very first workshop was in the early 1980s, with Jeff Waxman, orchestrator and vocal arranger, playing guitar. Jeff has often commented that the show itself is like a folk song, in the way it has evolved over the decades, picking up ideas, turns of melody and harmony, and interpretations from all the accomplished musicians and singers who have been involved in this project from its first days. Whenever I see the show, I hear its present and its past, vividly aware of the contributions of all the wonderful people who have been part of its journey. First and foremost, of course, is Woody Guthrie himself, whose astonishing body of work inspired this show, and is its heart, soul and story. You are now part of that story.
I got the idea for Woody Guthrie’s American Song in 1977, standing in the music aisle at Brentano’s, a bookstore in Greenwich Village. I was reading Robert Shelton’s edited collection of Woody’s writings, Born to Win, which opened with a piece called “The People I Owe,” written in 1946, now excerpted in the opening speeches of the show. Here is a section of the original:
. . . I have heard a storm of words in me, enough to write several hundred songs and that many books. I know that these words I hear are not my own private property.
I borrowed them from you, the same as I walked through the high winds and borrowed enough air to keep me moving. I borrowed enough to eat and drink to keep me alive. I borrowed the shirt you made, the coat you spun, the underwear you fixed, and those socks you wove. I went on and walked down my road, you went on and walked your path. And the weather’s winds, snows, sleets, ices, and hailstones cut down the oat straw, beat through the car top, knocked
holes in shingles and went through awnings broke window lights, but never separated our works. Your works and my works held hands and our memories never did separate. I borrowed my life from the works of your life. I have felt your energy in me and seen mine move in you.
This passage described a particular relationship between artist and audience that Woody took for granted, whereby the flow of information does not move in one direction, from the art object to its viewer, but is always an exchange, a mutual give and take. Not only did Woody see his work and his life as borrowings, he believed that what he made only came to life in the lives and voices of others. “It is you, the reader of the page, that catches the cannon breath and the drum beat off the written page,” he wrote to conclude this essay. “I am no more, no less, than your clerk that writes it down, like a debt always owed and partly paid. This book is a book of debt and part payment.”
Woody Guthrie’s American Song is very much the same, a work of debt and part payment: to Woody, to all the people who inspired him, and to the many thousands of people who have taken this show into their hearts over the years.
— Peter Glazer Emeryville, California
For more information on Woody Guthrie’s American Song, please visit www.woodyguthriesamericansong.com
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BIOGRAPHIES
CARRIE FISHMAN (MAMA, SALOON SINGER, HOBO WOMAN) - Carrie is honored to be in her first show with Mendocino Theater Company, and believes there’s nothing sweeter than harmony. You may have seen her in Gloriana productions such as Dangerous Women, Mamma Mia (Donna), Fun Home (Helen), 100 Years of Broadway, The Sound of Music (Elsa); or 20 years ago in A Little Night Music or The Mikado. Carrie is a Life Coach (www.expeditionlifecoaching.com) and therapist trainee. Carrie thanks the cast, musicians, directors, and crew; and dedicates her performances to her family, traveling this long, dusty road together.
MARIA
RAMOS (DAUGHTER, HOBO GIRL, BOWERY GIRL) - This is Maria’s second production with the Mendocino Theatre Company. Last fall she performed in MTC’s Production of Native Gardens as Tania Del Valle. She has also participated in many productions for Gloriana Musical Theatre, including The Dangerous Woman Cabaret, Mamma Mia as Sophie Sheridan, James and the Giant Peach as Ms. Spider, and Fun Home as Medium Allison. When Maria is not on stage she likes to keep busy with teaching dance classes at the CV Starr Center. She is also working on going back to school in hopes of becoming an elementary school teacher.
BYRON
GREENE (FOLKSINGER, HOBO BOY)Byron is making his debut appearance with the Mendocino Theatre Company in Woody Guthrie’s American Song. Byron spends much of his time playing guitar, banjo, ukulele, piano, and singing. He’s spent the last few years working on honing his own musical style and writing songs; he hopes to release an album sometime in the near future. Aside from musical endeavors Byron enjoys woodworking, architectural design, gardening, and spending time in the forest. He has been living on the Mendocino coast since 2018.
LUCAS KIEHN-THILMAN (SEARCHER, CISCO)Lucas an avid swimmer and lifeguard and feels at home where land meets sea. He dreams of a world in which wilderness thrives alongside humanity and is excited and privileged to debut with Mendocino Theatre Company to share this important story! He has a B.A. degree in Theatre from Seattle University and some of his favorite roles include Graffiti Pete in In The Heights, Ensemble in All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, Paul/Hortensio in Kiss Me Kate (Contra Costa Civic Theatre); Charles Webb in Our Town, Vince in Buried Child, Todd in Far Away, Tom Jr. in Reckless, Staff in Rain (Seattle University); Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Tinman in The Wizard of Oz (New Conservatory Theater Center); Jack/Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Selsdon Mowbray in Don’t Drink the Water (The Bay School of San Francisco).
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STEVE WORTHEN (CRIPPLE WHITEY, DAD, BAR MAN, WRITER)
- Since arriving on the coast in 2003, Steve has been in many theatrical productions. He is so pleased to be on the team of such a great group of talented artists in Woody Guthrie’s American Song. His first two productions occurred at the same time! He sang in Puccini’s la fanciulla del west for the Mendocino Music Festival, and was The Old Actor in Gloriana Opera Company’s (now Gloriana Musical Theatre) The Fantastiks. Steve has sung with Opera Fresca, Mendocino Chamber Opera, Mendocino Community Chorus, and currently is a member of the Fort Bragg First Presbyterian Church choir. From Shakespeare to Hitchcock, Steve has pulled many long weeks in Mendocino Theatre Company productions. He also worked in independent productions, movies, television commercials, radio announcing. During the pandemic Steve worked on live ZOOM and radio productions, then finally retired from non-profit advertising sales for arts organizations, only to turn around and continue his long association with the Skunk Train becoming the Docent and Ferroequinologist for the Mendocino Coast Model Railroad and Historical Society. When not playing with trains, Steve is in the garden with Printha Worthen and their energetic McNabb dog Dixie.
DAVID ALDEN (INSTRUMENTAL DIRECTOR, GUITAR/DOBRO/VOCALS)
- Dave has been a coast resident for over 25 years, getting here via Hawaii, where he was raised; Stanford, where he got his B.A. in History; Michigan, where he got his law degree; and San Francisco where he practiced law for 30+ years. Now retired, he is board member emeritus and an active volunteer with the Noyo Center for Marine Science in Fort Bragg, and a rescue volunteer with The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito. He performs locally with the Americana/Roots duo AllAboutSally.
ZOÉ BERNA (FIDDLE)
- Zoé has played classical and folk music in the Mendocino area since her childhood. She enjoys playing music with others to foster joy. Previously she played electric fiddle with the Vacaville-based country band Whiskey and Honey. She is a fiddle player for Klezmishpoche, providing music for the Mendocino Coast Jewish Community. She enjoys local freelance chamber music and performs with the Symphony of the Redwoods as a sectional violinist alongside her mother and daughter. She is a Family Physician in Fort Bragg and enjoys recreating on horseback, riding on the trails in Jackson State Forest. She is grateful to her husband and son for supporting her involvement in this show.
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EMILY BERNA (FIDDLE) - Emily has played since age 5. She plays with the Symphony of the Redwoods, and has performed locally leading a Mendocino youth string quartet. And also various solo performances around Fort Bragg. Emily plays tuba in school band and attends Fort Bragg High School. She plays a little guitar. In 2018, she was part of Mendocino Theatre Company’s production Childhood . Emily is very passionate about her animals and enjoys horseback riding, specifically dressage. She wants to thank her family who has always supported her in her passions, and her music teachers Joselyn Bartlett and Southey Kulkarni for helping her become the musician she is today.
DANIEL COULSON (ACOUSTIC BASS)
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Daniel has been performing for over 50 years in a variety of musical groups. He has performed all over the world in traditional jazz groups, top 40 ensembles, klezmer groups, bluegrass ensembles, big bands and many more styles. His most recent theater performance was in the Gloriana production of Chicago in 2017.
ALEX MILLER (BANJO) - Alex grew up in Comptche and graduated from Mendocino High School. After college, a year in Americorps, and a year living abroad in England, he returned to the coast with his wife Meghan to raise his family. He is self employed, helps run Lark Camp, and is a part of several bands including the Mendocino English Country Dance band and Klezmichpoca.
MEGHAN MILLER (BASS) - Meghan has a Masters in Medieval Studies from the University of York in England, and teaches at Mendocino High School. She followed Alex to the coast after getting her degree and got her teaching credential a few years later. Together she and Alex raised three music playing boys who they sometimes convince to join them on stage as the “Miller Family Band”. She also helps run Lark Camp and is on the board of the organization that runs it, Lark Traditional Arts.
JIM “JIMBO” GILBERT (BANJO/MANDOLIN)
- Jim is the multi-instrumentalist providing this production of Woody Guthrie’s American Song with musical accompaniment on his banjos, mandolin, guitar, and harmonica. This transplant to the Mendocino Coast was born and raised in Sacramento; steeped in various forms of traditional American music, he has performed for over 25 years with acoustic string bands such as The Miner Flatts, Los BlueGrassHoppers, and The Spillit Quikkers. His musical style can be described as “new-fangled, old-timey” because he draws from past traditions to then put his unique perspective on the same tunes today. Aside from his musical contributions to the Mendocino Theatre Company, Jimbo is a public servant and visual artist. Having earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish with a minor emphasis in Art Education from CSU Sacramento, he serves the community as a classroom teacher here on the coast. When not making music or teaching, Jimbo is a ceramic artist who creates functional as well as sculptural ceramic wares in his studio.
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ELIZABETH “BETH” CRAVEN (DIRECTOR) -
Beth is an award winning theater director, arts administrator, teacher and sometimes stage designer. She has directed over 200 plays that have performed nationally and internationally and has held teaching positions in theatre at Sonoma State University and the University of Tennessee where she was Associate Professor and Head of the MFA Program in Performance until 2005. Beth has served as Artistic or Executive Director for several theaters, including Western Union Theatre Company, Sixth Street Playhouse and Main Stage West. She currently fills the position of Producing Director at Mendocino Theatre Company.
Beth’s 2018 production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the the Nighttime won TBA and SF Bay Area Theatre Critics awards for Outstanding Director, Production, Ensemble, and Scene Design. Her most recent production at MTC was Liz Duffy-Adams play, starring Randal Jaynes and Brady Voss, Born With Teeth
JENNI WINDSOR (MUSICAL DIRECTOR) -
Trained at Westminster Choir College, which led to solos at Carnegie Hall and with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Jenni Windsor taught music at the Friends Academy on Long Island, the laboratory school for the Bank Street College of Education in Manhattan and Julliard before earning her Masters degree from the Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific. Lured to the North Coast by family, she was a featured soloist with the Redwood Community Choir before becoming its Director. She has performed featured roles in The Secret Marriage and The Medium with the Mendocino Chamber Opera and was choirmaster for the Mendocino Music Festival’s production of Carmen. With Gloriana Musical Theater she has been the vocal director of The Wonderful Golden Goose, The Aristocats, Alice In Wonderland, Gloriana’s Broadway, musical director of Next to Normal, director “Rent”, and the director of The Sound of Music. Jenni is the director of Gloriana Studios, which opened recently in the Boatyard Shopping Center. She has directed many musicals along the way including Little Women, Just Another High School Musical, Grease, Footloose: The Musical, Legally Blonde: The Musical, and Into the Woods. In her spare time she teaches music theory, music history and community choir classes for Mendocino College. It has been a privilege to work on Woody Guthrie’s American Song in collaboration with MTC.
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PATRICIA PRICE (STAGE MANAGER)
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Patricia has stage managed many shows for Mendocino Theatre Company. Her first show was A Trip to Bountiful in 2011. Since then, she has stage managed roughly 25 more shows. She has also done Set Design and Props. Her first theatre job was as a Dresser and Backstage hand for La Cage Aux Folles. She was the Assistant Stage Manager for Gloriana’s Broadway & Stage Manager for Rent, Next to Normal, & Set Designer for Once Upon a Mattress and Mamma Mia for Gloriana Musical Theater. She is a Producer/Stage Manager for local burlesque troupe Les Filles Rouge and house manager at Crown Hall for the Mendocino Film Festival. Patricia is an ASE certified parts person & manages NAPA Auto Parts in Fort Bragg. In her “free time” she is a professional fire performer and poi spinner/instructor. She is an overbearing but lovable mother & wife who couldn’t do ANY of this without their never-ending patience & support which she is eternally grateful for.
JEFF ROWLINGS (SET & LIGHTING DESIGNER)
- Jeff is a San Francisco and Mendocino based set & lighting designer, and production manager. Mendocino Theatre Company designs include Paradise, The Moors, Dolls House Part 2, Ideation and Rumors. Jeff was the Production Manager for American Conservatory Theater; Production Manager/Resident Designer for San Diego Rep; and Production Manager/Resident Designer for the Magic Theatre. He co-founded Foghouse Productions which produced R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe in San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle and Culture Clash in America in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Recent and notable designs include lights for Dan Hoyle’s Talk To Your People at the Marsh in SF; set and lights for Viola Davis’ west coast premiere of Paradise in Los Angeles; lights for Aurora Theatre’s Temple, Detroit ’67 and Eureka Day; set and lights for Fogg Theatre’s The Cable Car Nymphomaniac; lights for Word for Word’s Retablos and Smut; and lights for Marin Theatre Co’s Hotter Than Egypt, Jazz, and The Oldest Boy. Additionally, Jeff is President of the Board for Mendocino Theatre Company.
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SUSAN COLLINS (COSTUME DESIGN)
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Susan has been costuming for the Mendocino Theatre Company and Gloriana Musical Theatre for over twenty years. In that time she has gotten to know many theater people and learned a lot about all aspects of theater. Susan enjoys working in specific eras and her favorite is the ‘40’s. Her favorite shows have been Anything Goes for Gloriana and Born Yesterday for MTC. Susan helps manage and maintain the costume storage and rental facility, known as PAPA, in Fort Bragg.
BRUCE PRICE (ELECTRICIAN)
- Bruce has been in theater most of his life, and began doing shows regularly in the 7th grade. He has worked with both Gloriana Musical Theatre and Mendocino Theatre. As Electrician, Bruce’s most recent shows include; The Children, Born With Teeth, A Thousand Clowns (for MTC); First Date, and Romeo & Juliet (for GMT).
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GENEROUS SPONSOR OF WOODY GUTHRIE'S AMERICAN SONG
