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TABLE OF CONTENTS PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 TITLE PAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A NOTE FROM THE GRAND’S DIRECTOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 DIRECTOR’S NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 CAST OF CHARACTERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 WHO’S WHO ON THE CREATIVE STAFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 PRODUCTION STAFF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 GRAND THEATRE DONATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 GENERAL INFORMATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
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elcome to the Grand Theatre! We are delighted to have you join us as we continue our 2014-2015 season with our annual American Classics Series. The Skin of Our Teeth earned Thornton Wilder his second Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1943, securing Mr. Wilder’s place as one of America’s great playwrights. Our Town, produced at the Grand Theatre last season, earned Mr. Wilder his first theatrical Pulitzer in 1938. After a sold out run of Forever Plaid, rave reviews for Little Shop of Horrors, and standing room only during January’s Backstage at the Grand Concert series, The Skin of Our Teeth marks the midpoint in a fantastic season that closes in May with the incomparable Always…Patsy Cline. The Grand Theatre also has a Grand Youth Program and a soon-to-be-announced new play by an upand-coming playwright. As you can see, we are in the middle of a full season and I hope you will join us for everything we have to offer at the Grand Theatre. Salt Lake Community College and the Grand Theatre have experienced tremendous expansion during the past several years. Our stunning new Center for Arts and Media combines the latest technology and resources in digital arts education with the best teachers in the valley, putting them all in one environment—sharing, creating, inspiring, and collaborating throughout its 130,000 square feet. The stage has been set for student success here at SLCC. Thank you again for joining us at the Grand Theatre; we truly are glad you are here. Please enjoy the show! Deneece Huftalin President Salt Lake Community College
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Presents
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH by
THORNTON WILDER HALEE RASMUSSEN
MÁIRE NELLIGAN
Scenic Design & Technical Director
Properties Design
SPENCER BROWN
JOE KILLIAN
Lighting Design
Sound Design
AMANDA REISER
JESSE PORTILLO
Costume & Hair Design
Projection Design
CAROLINE CAIN, ERIN E. PRICE
HARRISON CORTHELL
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
LAUREN CARTER Assistant Director
Directed by
MARK FOSSEN “The Skin of Our Teeth” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
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A NOTE FROM THE GRAND’S DIRECTOR
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elcome to the Grand Theatre’s American Classics Series, and the second of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning plays, The Skin of Our Teeth. We are so pleased to bring this thought-provoking tale to life on the Grand Stage through our signature brand of talent and artistry, featuring the best local talent Salt Lake has to offer. I am excited to have Mark Fossen back to direct another installment in the American Classic Series. His work at the Grand on Our Town, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and The Glass Menagerie has earned Mark critical accolades, including a write-up in the Arthur Miller Journal, and I’m very appreciative to have him as part of our Grand Family. We are so proud to call the Grand Theatre the “Community’s Professional Theatre,” where we bring in local artists, actors, directors and designers to help produce the amazing theatre you are about to see. We hope you enjoy the show, and join us in May, when we bring back local darling Erica Hanson to revive the title role in the ever-popular Always…Patsy Cline!
Sincerely,
Seth Miller Interim Director
Special Thanks to
Cultural Vision Fund for their generous financial support
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OUR AMERICA
FebruAry 6–MAy 17, 2015
THE LATINO PRESENCE IN AMERICAN ART From the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
PRESENTING SPONSOR: SPONSORS: S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation MARCIA AND JOHN PRICE MUSEUM BUILDING umfa.utah.edu Olga Albizu, Radiante, 1967, oil, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of JPMorgan Chase. Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Generous support for the exhibition has been provided by Altria Group, the Honorable Aida M. Alvarez; Judah Best, The James F. Dicke Family Endowment, Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins, Tania and Tom Evans, Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, The Michael A. and the Honorable Marilyn Logsdon Mennello Endowment, Henry R. Muñoz III, Wells Fargo and Zions Bank. Additional significant support was provided by The Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center. Support for “Treasures to Go,” the museum’s traveling exhibition program, comes from The C.F. Foundation, Atlanta.
DIRECTOR’S NOTE “We came through the depression by the skin of our teeth, — that’s true! —
one more tight squeeze like that and where will we be?”
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n the fall of 1942, in the midst of an America lurching from economic depression to war, Thornton Wilder premiered The Skin Of Our Teeth. This play was Wilder’s homage to James Joyce, transformed into a three-act mashup covering the history of man from Cain and Abel through the Ice Age and the Great Flood, and right on up to the modern day. Far from the closely observed small-town life of Our Town’s Grover’s Corners, the town we meet here —Excelsior, New Jersey—is a fantasy filled with dinosaurs and mastodons as well as Homer and Moses.
Thornton Wilder described Our Town as “the life of a village against the life of the stars.” The Skin of Our Teeth might be described as “the life of a family against the life of mankind” I’ve been lucky enough to work on the American Classics for five years now with the Grand Theatre. Of the playwrights I’ve been lucky to celebrate, I think Thornton Wilder is the closest to my heart. Unlike the tortured souls of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, Wilder is filled with faith, hope, and charity. The Skin of Our Teeth is Wilder at his best: full of love for humanity and an appreciation for the canvas that our existence is painted on. Wilder understands the vastness of space and time and knows that we are small … yet he finds beauty, laughter, and joy in that perspective. He knows we are all part of something larger than ourselves. Right now, a lot of us feel we’re only surviving “by the skin of our teeth” and that one more tight squeeze might be more than we can handle as a family, as a nation, and a planet. Like Wilder’s 1942 audience, we seem to be tossed from crisis to crisis. The journey of the Antrobus family is here to tell us that we just need to hold on to what’s important: our family and our knowledge. With that, we can always survive. With that, we can always build again. With that, we can always build better. Mark Fossen Director
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CAST OF CHARACTERS Cast
In order of appearance Sabina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARAH DANIELLE YOUNG Mr. Fitzpatrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAKE TRUMBO Mrs. Antrobus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KRISTIN HOUSLEY Henry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL T. BROWN Gladys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARCELLA PEREDA Mr. Antrobus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON TATOM* Act I Ensemble Announcer, Judge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANDREW MAIZNER Dinosaur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BAILEY WALKER Mammoth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSHUA WOOD Telegraph Boy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HYRUM HOUSLEY Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTIAN SEITER Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AARON KRAMER Homer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GORDON S. JONES Miss E. Muse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISABELLA REEDER Miss T. Muse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALYSSA FRANKS Miss M. Muse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARIANNE BESS Act II Ensemble Convener. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GORDON S. JONES, ISABELLA REEDER, BAILEY WALKER, JOSHUA WOOD Chair Pusher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AARON KRAMER, CHRISTIAN SEITER Bingo Caller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARIANNE BESS Fortune Teller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALYSSA FRANKS Broadcast Official. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANDREW MAIZNER Asst. Broadcast Official. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTIAN SEITER Opposing Candidate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSHUA WOOD Act III Ensemble Fred Bailey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AARON KRAMER Ivy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISABELLA REEDER Hester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BAILEY WALKER Tremayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GORDON S. JONES
Synopsis of Scenes
Time Now and Always
Act I The Home of Mr. and Mrs. George Antrobus in Excelsior, New Jersey
Act II The Boardwalk at Atlantic City
Act III The Home of Mr. and Mrs. George Antrobus in Excelsior, New Jersey ~ There is a five minute intermission between each act ~
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* The Actor appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST MARIANNE BESS (Miss M. Muse, et al.) is delighted to be making her debut at the Grand. She is a Theatre Studies major at the University of Utah. She is very grateful to her husband, Bob, for all his support. MICHAEL T. BROWN (Henry) is a senior in the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah. He has recently appeared in One Man, Two Guvnors at Pioneer Memorial Theatre, and as Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Pinnacle Acting Company). Michael was also recently a part of PTC’s Play-by-Play Series, playing the role of Ben in Speculator Spirits. University credits include: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Leo in In the Next Room: or the Vibrator Play, Will in Blue Stockings, Russell in Geography Club, and Tournel in A Flea in Her Ear. ALYSSA FRANKS (Fortune Teller) is thrilled to be making her debut performance with the Grand Theatre. A Utah native, Alyssa received her Bachelor’s degree in Acting from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in Liverpool, England. Alyssa was most recently featured in Pinnacle Acting Company’s 2014 summer play reading series. Favorite Roles include Eva in Wasatch Theater Company’s Happy; Imogen in Cymbeline (New World Shakespeare Company); Mother in Blood Wedding (UK); Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (UK); Echo in Eleemosynary (Pinnacle); multiple roles in An Ideal Husband (Pinnacle); and multiple roles in Innovation: A Physical Theatre Piece (Salt Lake School for Performing Arts). Alyssa is excited to next be working on Wasatch’s Page to Stage Festival in May 2015. HYRUM HOUSLEY (Telegraph Boy) was last seen as Algernon in The Importance of Being Ernest at Providence Hall Jr. High. He played multiple roles including Little Shrek in the Herriman Arts Council production of Shrek, The Musical last summer. He has also performed in Peter Pan, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
Schoolhouse Rock, all with Herriman Arts Council. Hyrum is a 7th grader at Providence Hall Jr. High and will be touring this spring with the Providence Hall Choir. KRISTIN HOUSLEY (Mrs. Antrobus) is returning to the stage after a 24 year hiatus. She has her masters degree in acting from the FSU/ Asolo Conservatory. During her schooling, she participated in an actor exchange program with the Moscow Art Theatre in Moscow, Russia. She has performed on stage, screen, and television. Memorable roles include: Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Samantha in the Asolo writers workshop of Star of Hope. Of late, Kristin serves on the Herriman Arts Council and has been production manager of their summer musical. GORDON S. JONES (Homer, et al.) was last on this stage in Oliver!, but he first appeared on it in 1958, in You Can’t Take It With You. A member of the board of Draper Arts Council and Babcock Performing Readers, Gordon appears in shows all along the Wasatch Front. When not on stage, he is probably attending a production somewhere, or working a crossword puzzle (or both). AARON KRAMER (Professor, et al.) is a recent graduate of the Theater Studies program at the University of Utah. Aaron was last seen on the Grand’s stage in Our Town.Other past roles include: Jaques in As You Like It (Davis Arts Council), Kent in Reasons To Be Pretty (Studio 115), Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (Babcock), and Brad in The Rocky Horror Show (Babcock). ANDREW MAIZNER (Announcer, et al.) fell in love with acting when Mrs. Hinckle made him choose either detention or Drama Club back in the 8th grade. After working in academic, community and summer-stock theater, Andy took a hiatus to ski, tend to family and earn an actual living. Returning to the stage here in Utah a number of years ago, Andy has recently
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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST appeared as Nat in Herb Gardener’s I’m Not Rapapport (Holladay Arts); Gonzalo in The Tempest (Around The Globe); Rabbi Binder in Philip Roth’s The Conversion of the Jews (BRT); Al Lewis in Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys (Pinnacle Acting Company); Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew (UNIPAC); Screwtape in Screwtape (Silver Summit Theater); Donald in A Night With the Family and Vaughn in Spark (Pygmalion Theater Company). MARCELLA PEREDA (Gladys) graduated from the University of Utah earning a BFA with dual emphases in Acting and Stage Management. She is thankful for her many opportunities to work at the Grand, and excited that this will be her first time here as an actor. She has performed at Pioneer Memorial Theatre in Much Ado About Nothing and A Few Good Men; her credits in college include Metamorphoses, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, The Adding Machine and Street Theatre. ISABELLA REEDER (Miss E. Muse, et al.) is thrilled to be performing in her first-ever Grand Theatre production! Isabella recently spent a year abroad in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s BA Acting Programme and is now excited to be attending school at the University of Utah! Recent credits include the Maid in the off-off Broadway production of She Stoops to Conquer, Jean in the UK based musical Keep
the Home Fires, and Frankie in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at the RCS. CHRISTIAN SEITER (Doctor, et al.) is a recent graduate of the Actor Training Program at the U of U. Recent roles through university include Vasquez in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Camille in A Flea in Her Ear, and Silenus/Hades/Eros in Metamorphoses. Christian has portrayed Abel Wesley, a role originally written for him, in Do Not Hit Golf Balls Into Mexico in numerous revival productions. Christian has played Abel in Los Angeles at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, at Salt Lake Acting Company, and Off-Broadway at Repertorio Español as part of a special reading. JASON TATOM (Antrobus) is new to the Grand Theatre, but is unbelievably excited to be doing this play, with this cast, and this director. Some of Jason’s local credits include: Our Town and Midsummer’s Night’s Dream at Pioneer Theatre Company, and Lady Macbeth and Exposed at Plan-B Theatre Company. Jason has also been seen at the Salt Lake Acting Company, The Egyptian Theatre in Park City, and numerous films, television shows, commercials, and even a live action video game. Jason also had a sizable role in the soon to be released independent comedy Waffle Street, starring Danny Glover and James Lafferty. Jason is a member of Actor’s Equity Association, and a
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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST & CREATIVE STAFF proud graduate of the dearly departed National Theatre Conservatory. JAKE TRUMBO (Fitzpatrick) returns to the Grand Theatre for his second show after appearing in last year’s Our Town. He has been performing for over 10 years in stage/ film/voice with roles in Beowulf (Weygan) at Meat & Potato Theater, As You Like It (Oliver) and Romeo and Juliet (Capulet) for Davis Arts Council’s Summer Shakespeare series, as well as singing parts in The Fantasticks! (El Gallo), Cinderella (The Herald), and Annie (Drake), among others. He is a graduate of Weber State University. BAILEY WALKER (Girl, et al.) is excited to be in her first show here at the Grand Theatre! Originally from Louisville, KY, Bailey is currently a sophomore at the University of Utah in the BFA Musical Theatre Training Program. Some past shows include: Bare (Rory) at Utah Rep, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Female Understudy) at Salt Lake Shakespeare, Hairspray (Penny), Seussical (Jojo), and many more. JOSHUA WOOD (Mastodon, et al.) is very pleased to be making his first appearance at the Grand Theatre. He is a student in the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah. Joshua was recently involved in the creation
and performance of Whispering Gallery, a devised play performed at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. SARAH DANIELLE YOUNG (Sabina) is thrilled to be back at the Grand Theatre, having performed in Our Town last year and worked behind the scenes on numerous shows in the past. Other recent credits include Marry Christmas, Suffrage (Plan-B Theatre Company), These Shining Lives (People Productions), and As You Like It (Davis Arts Council). Favorite roles include Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Davis Arts Council) and Lust in Kyle Lewis’ Blue (Theatre Arts Conservatory). She holds a BA in Theatre Studies (University of Utah). WHO’S WHO ON THE CREATIVE STAFF SPENCER BROWN (Lighting Design) has been designing shows for the Grand Theatre since 2004, starting with Children of Eden. Since then he has designed numerous shows here, including Our Town, Miss Evers’ Boys, Godspell, All My Sons, Songs of Singapore, Inherit the Wind, The Trip to Bountiful, Having Our Say and The Glass Menagerie. He has designed many musicals for the Hale Center Theatre including Scarlet Pimpernel, Joseph, Christmas Carol and Fiddler, to name a few.
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WHO’S WHO ON THE CREATIVE STAFF Spencer teaches lighting and stage design at Westminster College and holds an MFA in lighting from the University of Massachusetts and a BFA in Production Design from the University of Utah. CAROLINE CAIN (Stage Manager) is a graduate of SLCC and is currently a senior at the University of Utah earning a BFA in Stage Management. Caroline has worked for the Grand Theatre since 2008 and during that time has stage managed Forever Plaid, Rings, Not the Messiah (2013/2014), Songs of Peggy Lee and Heat; Production Stage Managed Our Town, and Asst. Stage Managed The Crucible, Wizard of Oz, Always Patsy Cline, Messiah, Miss Ever’s Boys and Urinetown. At the U of U she has stage managed The Children’s Hour, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Salt Lake Shakespeare and assistant stage managed Avenue Q and The Eccentrics. LAUREN CARTER (Asst. Director) is studying acting at the University of Utah, and has a particular love for Shakespeare and other classical theatre. Favorite performances include Henry V, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Music Man, and competition pieces from Two Noble Kinsmen and Henry VI, Part 1. She is grateful for the opportunity to work on The Skin of Our Teeth and has loved working with and learning from the cast and crew. HARRISON CORTHELL (Asst. Stage Man.) is thrilled to be working on his first show at the Grand. New to the Salt Lake City area, Harrison has worked as an intern for Pink Pony Express in Amsterdam, Netherlands and as the Student Technical Director for the New Hampshire Educational Theatre Guild. Harrison is currently the Program and Facilities Manager for the Denmark Arts Center in Denmark, Maine while pursuing a BFA in Technical Theatre at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Favorite past shows include: The 39 Steps (Director), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Lighting
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Design), Elephant’s Graveyard (Asst. Stage Manager), The Tempest (Sound Design), and The Line (Lighting Design). MARK FOSSEN (Director) is grateful for the opportunity to stage another American Classic at the Grand, after directing The Glass Menagerie, The Crucible, Death Of A Salesman and Our Town. Other directing credits include The Children’s Hour at The University of Utah, August: Osage County for Utah Repertory & Silver Summit, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and As You Like It at Davis Arts Council, An Ideal Husband at Pinnacle Acting Company, and The Fables Project at Wasatch Theatre Company. He is a 2014 graduate of the University of Utah with a BA in Theatre Studies, and is an alumnus of the Plan-B/Meat & Potato Director’s Lab. JOE KILLIAN (Sound Design) holds a BFA in sound design and stage management from the University of Utah. Joe is a free-lance designer of sound effects, soundscapes and arranged music for film, video games and the performing arts. His work on Confessions of a Mormon Boy was seen in London and at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland this past summer. Theatrical designs include four seasons with Salt Lake Shakespeare Company; and a several shows at the Grand, including Death of a Salesman, Our Town, Voice of the Prairie , The Crucible, Miss Evers’ Boys and Eurydice. An online portfolio can be found at: www.joekillian.com MÁIRE NELLIGAN (Properties Design) received a BFA in theatre from Marietta College before attending graduate school at AU. She worked as a techie, a designer, an actor, and a director in the Midwest and Southwest before moving to Salt Lake. Máire took over as Properties Master for the Grand several seasons ago, debuting with Man of La Mancha. While her favorite show tends to be whichever she is currently working on, Miss Evers’ Boys and The Wizard of Oz are the-grand.org
WHO’S WHO ON THE CREATIVE STAFF particularly memorable, and dressing La Cage aux Folle may well go down as the most fun ever. Máire also works part-time for SLCC’s Fine Arts Department. Past performances include roles in Fuddy Meers, On the Verge and Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Directing experiences include The Good Doctor and Kaleidoscope. JESSE PORTILLO (Projection Design) is an Assistant Professor at the U of U’s Department of Theatre where he teaches Lighting Design. He served as a Guest Artist at Baylor University and Millikin University. He regularly designs lighting for Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, and Plan-B Theatre Company productions. Jesse received his BFA from the U of U and an MFA in Lighting Design from Indiana University. ERIN E. PRICE (Stage Manager) is a graduate of the University of Utah. She has stage managed for the Grand Theatre, Lyric Opera Ensemble, the Babcock Theatre, Studio 115, Salt Lake Shakespeare and Youth Theatre. She has also been an Assistant Stage Manager for Utah Opera’s Little Women. HALEE RASMUSSEN (Set Design) received her BFA in the Performing Arts Design Program
from the University of Utah with a double emphasis in technical direction and set design. She is now a member of the staff at the U of U as the Assistant Technical Director and Scenic Charge Artist for the Department of Theatre. Halee is happy to be back for her fourth year designing at The Grand Theatre. She also has design credits with Utah Lyric Opera, Utah Cultural Arts Center, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theatre Company, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Salt Lake Shakespeare Company, Alligator Press Productions, and the University of Utah. AMANDA REISER (Costume Design) is proud to join the Grand Theatre team for a third season. She had a great time working on Little Shop of Horrors earlier this season. Her favorites from the last two years at the Grand are Noises Off, Our Town, La Cage aux Folles, and Into the Woods. Recent credits are She Loves Me at Hale Centre Theatre and costuming her 5th season with Salt Lake Shakespeare Company with Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Last Five Years other credits with them are Two Gentlemen of Verona, Comedy of Errors, Henry VI Part I, and Taming of the Shrew. She has a BFA in Costume Design from the University of Utah.
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PRODUCTION STAFF Resident Staff Executive Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard E. Scott Interim Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seth Miller Operations Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe Killian Patron Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Grimes Photographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Fidel
Front of House Box Ofďťżfice Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dean Abbas, Kenneth Ek, Orlia Parker, Michelle Johnson Santana, Nadia Uwera, Chief Usher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cheryl Gren Ushers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chad Hansen, Chuck Payne, Brian Powell, Peggy Sprouse
Running Crew Lightboard Operator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trever Willson Sound Technician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Mullaney Deck Technician & Spot Operator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Megan Willis
Build Crew Asst. Projection Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zoe Fetters Asst. Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brandon Felter Carpenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Josh Martin Scenic Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Krischelle Hansen Master Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seth Miller Electricians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Megan Buelte, Emily Mullaney, Megan Willis, Trever Willson
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