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OCT. 22 – NOV. 6, 2021

ELLEN SIMON

BY

P I O N E E R T H E A T R E C O M P A N Y The Roy W. and Elizabeth E. Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre

Karen Azenberg Artistic Director

Diane L. Parisi Interim Managing Director

presents

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BY ELLEN SIMON

BEN CHERRY LAURA J. HALL VINCE McGILL ELIZABETH RAMOS T. RYDER SMITH

Set Designer

JO WINIARSKI Original Music

WILL VAN DYKE

Costume Design

Lighting Design

PHILLIP R. LOWE

PAUL MILLER

Hair and Makeup Designer

Production Stage Manager

SAMANTHA M. WOOTTEN

MARY P. COSTELLO

DIRECTOR

KAREN AZENBERG Casting by

BOB CLINE CASTING ASS was originally produced by Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, Utah in October 2021; Karen Azenberg, Artistic Director; Diane L. Parisi, Interim Managing Director.

The theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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CAST In order of appearance

Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BEN CHERRY* Tory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LAURA J. HALL* Ana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ELIZABETH RAMOS* Jule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T. RYDER SMITH * Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VINCE McGILL* This production is performed with one 15-minute intermission

Production Stage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary P. Costello* Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Gregory* *Member of Actors’ Equity Association

SETTING: New York City, 1990

SHOW STAFF 1st Assistant Stage Manager...........Emily Nacrissa Griffith 2nd Assistant Stage Manager............Maxwell Paris Light Board Programmer.................. Nikayla Nielson Light Board Operator.........................David O. Smith Costumed Deck Crew..........................Danny Borba, Ireland Nichols, Aathaven Tharmarajah

This production is generously sponsored by:

Deck Crew................Kira Kadansky, Graece Melton Live Mix Engineer............................ Matthew Mitchell Wardrobe Supervisor..................Amber Nanci Rolfe Wardrobe Running Crew.................... Megan Edgar, Kinsey Simpkins, Liz Wiand

The Bireley Endowment Sandi Behnken

Season support is provided by:

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PLAYWRIGHT’S NOTE So, the title.

You may be wondering if I am applying an admittedly in-your-face label to someone in particular? To a certain character in the play maybe, or to someone from my own life? It could simply refer to a sculpture emerging in stone.

But as I myself do come from a complicated family, let’s start there.

Our communication was admittedly patchy at times, even though we are mostly all writers, and usually pretty good at expressing ourselves. Is there a play somewhere in there, I thought? Maybe they aren’t writers. That seemed too close for comfort and probably annoying to watch. Like paint drying. Paint? Maybe one’s an artist?

A great artist who sculpts body parts? Which body part? Oh. That could work, if I dare.

I began writing this play around fifteen years ago, wanting to move away from romantic comedies, to try something intimate, theatrical, and thematically deeper.

I thought of my own playwright-father’s advice to 1) write what you know, and 2) make sure there is conflict. I also thought about my favorite plays, all family-based stories, and so fashioned a family completely different than my own, while also being quite similar in how they behave badly. We at my house could be articulate grumblers and finger-pointers amid all the love. I wanted to try and walk the line between comedy and drama, to see how broadly I could amplify the funny while still being real. And I wanted to create a familiar dynamic similar to what I had experienced growing up, but to also find a story that took on a life of its own, grounded in outrage and truth, that also had to earn the cheeky title that I can’t even share with my own grandson!

My wish for you tonight: hold on to your hats, and please enjoy…

Playwright Ellen Simon

Ellen Simon spent her youth watching her father, playwright Neil Simon, work on Broadway before launching her own successful career as a screenwriter and playwright.

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L-R: Laura J. Hall, Ben Cherry, Elizabeth Ramos, and T. Ryder Smith

WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST BEN CHERRY (Will) Broadway: Indecent, Fiddler on the Roof. National tour: Mary Poppins. Off-Broadway: Goldstein. Select regional: The Repertory Theatre of St Louis: Angels in America, Part 1 and 2; The Guthrie: Indecent; Pioneer Theatre Company: Oslo, Lifespan of the Fact; Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Kansas City Rep: Indecent; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Mothers and Sons; The Arden: Passion; Utah Shakespeare Festival (four seasons): Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Secret Garden, The Tempest; Milwaukee Repertory Theatre: Route 66, Life Could Be a Dream, The Andrews Brothers; Delaware Theatre Company: The Nerd, 10 Months. Television: “The Following,” “Smash,” “I Love You…But I Lied.” Awards: MAC Award, Best Debut. Training: The University of Michigan, North Carolina School of the Arts. BenCherry.com LAURA J. HALL (Tory) is thrilled to return to PTC for her fourth mainstage production, and her first time playing a non-British person! Other PTC productions include Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Something’s Afoot, A Christmas Carol: The Musical, and the Play-By-Play reading of The Fifth Domain (not British, but technically not on this stage...it tracks). She made her Broadway debut in Wonderland, toured with Diane Paulus’ revival of Pippin, and has worked regionally at Sacramento Music Circus, Gateway Performing Arts Center, Adirondack Theatre Festival, and Weathervane Theatre. Back in New York, Hall frequently collaborates with composers, lyricists, and playwrights in developing new work. TV: “The Blacklist,” “Shades of Blue,” and “The Today Show.” Hall is also the proud co-founder of Uproar Theatrics, a new theatrical licensing company. Heartfelt thanks to Bob and Karen. Instagram: @laurahappyhall VINCE McGILL (Ray) is thrilled to be returning to PTC. He appeared in 2019’s Sweat. He has also appeared on stages across the country, including the Dallas Theater Center, The Barter Theatre, ZACH Theatre, Shakespeare Dallas, Lyric Stage, and the African American Repertory Theater.

Favorite roles include Brucie in Sweat, Harmon Wilks in Radio Golf, Floyd Barton in Seven Guitars, Walter Lee in A Raisin in the Sun, and Othello. Awards include Best Actor in both Austin and Dallas, Texas.

ELIZABETH RAMOS (Ana) is very excited to return to PTC having previously appeared as Miss Mary Bennet in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley directed by Julie Kramer. She also had

the pleasure of doing PTC’s 2018 Play-by-Play Series in Matthew Ivan Bennett’s Art & Class directed by Jennifer Curfman. Off-Broadway: Then They Forgot About the Rest (INTAR, Dir. David Mendizábal); The Idea of Me (Cherry Lane Theatre, Dir. Jose Zayas); A Month in the Country (Classic Stage Company, Dir. Erica Schmidt). Regional: Native Gardens (Gulfshore Playhouse, Dir. Kristen Coury); Tiny Beautiful Things (Long Wharf Theatre, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Two River Theatre, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll); Fade (TheaterWorks, Dir. Jerry Ruiz). Television credits include “Law and Order: SVU” and the upcoming horror-comedy feature film STAG directed

by Alex Spieth. Training: Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprenticeship and BFA from CSU Fullerton.

T. RYDER SMITH (Jule) Previously at PTC: Much Ado About Nothing.

Broadway: Oslo, War Horse, Equus.

Off-Broadway: world premieres by Sarah Ruhl, David Greenspan, Christina Masciotti, Katori Hall, Richard Foreman, Anne Washburn, Romulus Linney. T. has received the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble, Lebensraum; OBIE Award, Outstanding Ensemble, Oslo; Craig Noel Award, Outstanding Lead Performance, Lincolnesque; Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Solo Performance, Underneath the Lintel. Regional theater: world premieres of Salome, Big Love, Creditors, We Are Pussy Riot, and Scenes from Court Life. Film/TV: The Report, “Bull,” “Hunters,” “Instinct,” “The Blacklist,” “White Collar,” the PBS series “The Abolitionists,” and Brainscan.

Experimental films by Daniel Fish, Marie Losier, and Lawrence Krauser. Vocal: “The Venture Bros.” TV series, the “Bioshock” video games, and numerous audiobooks (2021 Audie Award, narrator, Fire in Paradise). Upcoming: feature film Ikonophile Z; the hinge collective film SOR; Rachel Rose’s installation/film Enclosure.

ELLEN SIMON (Playwright) wrote the screenplays for One Fine Day and Moonlight and Valentino, based upon her stage play. She also worked on How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, as well as doing rewrites for numerous other films. Her plays have been performed at Duke Broadway Preview Series, Stages Repertory in Houston, and The Pasadena Playhouse. Ellen wrote for the television series, “thirtysomething,” and created a sitcom pilot for NBC. She is most grateful to Karen Azenberg and PTC for the 2018 staged reading of Ass in their Play-by-Play series, and now for their mainstage production.

KAREN AZENBERG (Director) This marks Karen Azenberg’s tenth season as Artistic Director of PTC. Favorite projects include the world premieres of Alabama Story and “i”; the regional premieres of Sting’s The Last Ship and Les Misérables; and The Curious Incident

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST of the Dog in the Night-Time, Newsies, Sweet Charity, and The Play That Goes Wrong. Originally from New York, her work there includes Lyrics and Lyricists (92nd St. Y), Blocks (a collaboration with Jonathan Larson), Prom Queens Unchained, and choreography for Richard Greenberg’s The Dazzle (Roundabout Theatre Company).

Among her other credits are National Tours of Carousel and Brigadoon, West Side Story (over 15 productions), and productions at Indiana Repertory, Geva Theatre Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Goodspeed, and Utah Shakespeare Festival. Karen is a past president of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

Her favorite productions are her son Alexander and her daughter Emelia.

WILL VAN DYKE (Composer) currently serves as the Music Supervisor/Orchestrator/Arranger of the hit revival of Little Shop Of Horrors Off-Broadway. Will also Orchestrated and Arranged Pretty Woman on Broadway and continues to supervise worldwide. Other credits: Kinky Boots, Rent, The Addams Family, Grease, and Wicked. As a composer: “i” (Pioneer), The Gravedigger’s Lullaby (TACT), Straight (Acorn), Writing Kevin Taylor (Village), The Lion King Experience titles (Disney). Will also writes musicals with Jeff Talbott and has a band.

His EPs The Mayor and Forks Don’t Break are available everywhere you stream music. For more info and music: willvandyke.com or @wvdmusic.

JO WINIARSKI (Scenic Designer) Jo’s previous designs at PTC were this past winter’s Holiday Windows, The Lifespan of a Fact, and Ain’t Misbehavin’. Jo’s Off-Broadway credits include Accidentally Brave, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Other New York credits include Abingdon Theatre Company, New Georges, The New Group, Keen Company, and Clubbed Thumb. Regional design credits include Guthrie Theater; Arizona Theatre Company; Utah Shakespeare Festival (over 40 shows); The Old Globe; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Dallas Theater Center; and Geva Theatre Center.

Additional credits include Wishes for Disney Cruise Line.

Jo was art director on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (episodes 1-844) and received an Emmy nomination for “A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All.” PHILLIP R. LOWE (Costume Designer) is an MFA graduate of Utah State University and was the Kennedy Center’s 2002 recipient of the National Barbizon Award for his costume design of The Lion in Winter. Phil spent five seasons as Costume Director for Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre where his favorite credits include: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma!, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Seussical. Phil has also designed over 25

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productions for SLC’s Plan-B Theatre Company, including the world premiere of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Other local credits include: La Cage aux Folles, White Christmas and Urinetown at Park City’s Egyptian Theatre, Musical of Musicals: The Musical, and Xanadu at The Grand Theatre, and Iphigenia in Tauris for the Classical Greek Theatre Festival.

PAUL MILLER (Lighting Designer) Previously at Pioneer: Cagney, Mamma Mia, Sweeney Todd, Curious Incident…, I Hate Hamlet, A Few Good Men, Much Ado About Nothing, In The Heights. Broadway: Amazing Grace, The Illusionists, Legally Blonde, Freshly Squeezed, Laughing Room Only, Elf (The Theatre at MSG); Off-Broadway: Desperate Measures, Clinton!, Pageant, Vanities - the Musical, Waiting for Godot, Addicted, Nunsense, Balancing Act, City Center Encores!. Regional: The Old Globe, Dallas Theatre Center, Chicago Shakespeare, Idaho Shakespeare, Asolo Repertory, American Conservatory Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Westport Playhouse. Television: Live from Lincoln Center, Netflix, New Year’s Eve from Time’s Square for the last 20 years. International: Stratford Festival, London’s West End, Vienna, Milan (Teatro alla Scala), Brazil, The Philippines, South Africa, and China.

MICAH LAMBERT MAXSON (Sound Designer) Micah hails from Ogden, Utah where in three years he earned his BA in Theatre Arts, emphasizing in Sound Design, at Weber State University. During his time there, Micah facilitated his education by honing his skills as an audio engineer, working for premier audio production companies in the Salt Lake area, in addition to working directly for performance venues across the Wasatch Front. After graduating in 2018, Micah went on to work with Carnival Cruise Line in an international capacity as a production engineer and audio technician, facilitating hundreds of shows across dozens of Caribbean ports.

Micah is happy to be home and remembers fondly attending PTC shows as a high school student where he proudly works now.

SAMANTHA M. WOOTTEN (Hair & Makeup Design) is excited to join PTC and the University of Utah as Wig Master. Previous career highlights include Wig Master for the Washington National Opera in D.C., Wig and Makeup Designer for Glimmerglass Opera in N.Y., Associate Wig Master for the Los Angeles Opera in CA, and Wig Master for the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.

MARY P. COSTELLO (Production Stage Manager) has worked on over 60 productions during 11 seasons with PTC. Favorites include Sting’s The Last Ship, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Les Misèrables, In the Heights, Next to Normal, and Rent.

WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY (PTC): Now celebrating its 60th season, the award-winning PTC is Utah’s premier professional theatre and a leading arts organization of the West. Led by Artistic Director Karen Azenberg and Interim Managing Director Diane L. Parisi, PTC promotes community-building and education through presenting world-class productions; developing new socially resonant and universal work; hosting talks, lectures, and workshops that engage a versatile and inclusive demographic, while celebrating diversity in culture and society; and serving as the connecting bridge between art and scholarship as an affiliate of the University of Utah.

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA): founded in 1913, represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers nationwide. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #equityworks

Other stage management teams: Indiana Repertory Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Boston Theatre Works, Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Proud Equity member. #blacklivesmatter #translivesmatter JENNIFER GREGORY (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be a part of PTC. Prior to this, she stage-managed in Chicago, where her credits included X-Marks the Spot (Tour, Chicago Children’s Theatre); Bloomsday, Frankenstein, Puff: Believe It or Not, The Skin of Our Teeth, and Born Yesterday (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); A Parcel from America (Irish Theatre of Chicago); The Little Flower of East Orange (Eclipse Theatre Company); and Disgraced, A Christmas Carol, Another Word for Beauty, The Matchmaker, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, and War Paint (Goodman Theatre). Outside of Chicago, Jennifer has also worked at Mason Street Warehouse, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Kitchen Theatre Company, and PTC for the season opener Ain’t Misbehavin’.

EMILY NACRISSA GRIFFITH (1st Assistant Stage Manager) graduated from Utah Valley University with a Bachelor of Science in Theatre Arts with emphases in performance and design/technology. Griffith earned the Kennedy Center’s Meritorious Achievement Award for her work as the production stage manager of UVU’s Next to Normal, which received the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival national award for Outstanding Production.

MAXWELL PARIS (2nd Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working for Pioneer as an Assistant Stage Manager. He is a junior in the stage management program at the University of Utah and has worked as a dresser for PTC for three seasons. Some of his favorite dressing credits include: La Cage Aux Folles, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, and Mamma Mia!. He has also enjoyed working as a stage manager at the U for It Doesn’t Rain Enough and The Odyssey. He thanks his friends and family for their endless support, and Amber for her continuous guidance.

BOB CLINE (Casting) is the founder of Bob Cline Casting in New York. He has cast film, TV, commercials, over 75 national tours, and numerous regional theaters across the country and has been associated with the casting for PTC for many years. Cline is currently a proud faculty member in Pace University’s theatre program, in charge of the senior BFA musical theatre majors. He is the Associate Director of Broadway Artists Alliance, enjoys working with The Open Jar Institute, and often teaches through The Growing Studio and The Actor’s Loft.

pioneer theatre company gratefully acknowledges the following businesses and individuals for their contributions to this production:

Intermountain Healthcare Kent Carlson Amber Clark Kolff Dialysis Craig Coleman Steven Sheffield Brooke Morgan John Mack Micki Martinez

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FRIENDS OF PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY Pioneer Theatre Company Board of Trustees

Stan D. VanderToolen, Chair Michele Mattsson, Vice Chair

Budget Chair Lamont Richardson Karen Azenberg Margaret Woolley Busse Dhiraj Chand Sydney Cheek-O’Donnell Glen Clayburn John A. Dahlstrom, Jr. Craig N. Darrow Geoffrey Fattah Danielle Good

Development Chair David R. Peterson

Marketing Chair Jeff Paris

Sandra Hollins Theresa Martinez Angelica Matinkhah Eric Maxfield Diane L. Parisi Daniel A. Reed, PhD Margaret Sargent John W. Scheib, PhD Spencer Stewart

Catherine W. Stringham Michael Tonkin Scott Verhaaren Heidi DeWitt Woodbury Emeritus A. Scott Anderson Edward F. Bates William H. Child

Outreach Chair Amy Wadsworth Paul M. Durham Spencer F. Eccles David E. Gee Kathie Horman Dan Lofgren James L. Macfarlane Kevin R. Murray Harris Simmons J. Douglas Whisenant

Pioneer Theatre Guild Officers

Glen Clayburn, President Heather Benson, President-Elect Peggy Stanley, Vice President Anne Neeley, Secretary Kris Burton, Treasurer For information regarding PTC Guild membership, call Carolyn at 801-601-8847

Corporate, Foundation, and Public Support

Pioneer Theatre Company is pleased to recognize the many businesses, foundations, public institutions, and corporate sponsors that support our mission. Thank you for your generous contributions.

Season Support Executive Producers Salt Lake County Zoo Arts and ($25,000 – $49,999) Parks Fund Dominion Energy Utah Division of Arts and George S. and Dolores Doré Museums Eccles Foundation Simmons Family Foundation Presenting Sponsors Steiner Foundation, Inc. ($50,000 and above) The Shubert Foundation Emma Eccles Jones Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation Foundation Harris H. and Amanda P. Simmons Family Foundation Producers ($10,000 – Meldrum Foundation $24,999) Zions Bank Andrea Golding Legacy Foundation Charles Maxfield and Gloria F. Parrish Foundation Marriner S. Eccles Foundation

Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation W. Mack and Julia S. Watkins Foundation Trust Benefactors ($5,000 – $9,999) Hillcrest Investment Company, LLC Holland & Hart, Llp Robert and Barbara Patterson Family Memorial Foundation Union Pacific Foundation Directors Club ($2,500 – $4,999) Anonymous Beesley Family Foundation

Parr Brown Gee & Loveless Salt Lake City Arts Council Salt Lake County Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Family Foundation Associates ($1,000 – $2,499) Riverton Music Snow, Christensen & Martineau Foundation General Partners (up to $999) Smith & Wilcox Blue Skies Foundation Strong & Hanni, Law Firm

Special Gifts

Gifts to capital projects, artistic programming, and endowments secure the future of Pioneer Theatre Company. The donors listed are recognized for their important contributions to sustaining and enhancing artistic excellence.

Meldrum Theatre Project Meldrum Foundation Sandi Behnken IJ & Jeanné Wagner Charitable Foundation Zions Bank

Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation Nancy and George D. Melling Lee and Audrey Hollaar W. Mack & Julia S. Watkins Foundation Trust

Play-by-Play David E. & Sherrie Gee Lee and Audrey Hollaar Lino Endowment Chris Lino

Mattsson Endowment Marc & Barbara Mattsson True Endowment Roger and Sara Boyer Kem and Carolyn Gardner

Annual Fund Support From Individuals Individual Sponsors ($5,000 and above) Most individual donors to PTC choose to support the general work of the company. There are also opportunities to contribute gifts of $5,000 or more to specific productions or projects. For more information call 801-581-6960.

Anonymous Donors (2) Judy Brady and Drew W. Lynda Madera Jacobsen Roger and Mary Lowe A.Scott and Jesselie Anderson Browning Linda J. Leckman Alice Steiner Sandi Behnken Mark and Kelly Capone Helga Lloyd Michael Tonkin and Rosanne Lynette and Marsden Blanch Craig and Stephanie Darrow Lofgren Family Silva Danielle M. Good Directors Club ($2,500 – $4,999) The Directors Club is a giving level recognizing donors who make an annual contribution of $2,500 or more to PTC. Members of the Directors Club receive exclusive benefits throughout the theatre season. For more information call 801-585-3196.

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Dale A. and Rachel B. Kimball Robert Lence David and Donna Lyon James L. Macfarlane

Eric and Lara Maxfield Kevin R. and Deon Murray Jeff Paris Gregory and Cynthia Phillips

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Sandra Haak Maxine R. Haggerty Craig Hansen C. David Hansen Francis and Joan Hanson Kenneth and Maria Hardwick Janet Harnsberger Jonathan D. Hartford Don Harward and Kathleen Bingham Craig Hatch Patricia Haussler John and Carol Hayes Sandra Hayes Alan and Rosena Heal Heidi Bruce Catherine Ann Heiner Ryan and Adrienne Heinz Pat Hemingway Patti Hendricks Thomas Higbee Shelley M. Hill-Worthen Eileen Hilton Michael and Katherine Hodkin Sally Hoffelmeyer-Katz Jason L. Hoggan Nicholas and Ladonna Holland Wendy and Lion Holliday Madeira Hornbaker Elaine Hughes Mary Anne Hunter Tera Hunter Kathleen and Stephen Ivey Colin Jackson Brent and Eve James Elaine B. Jensen Heidi Jentzsch David and Denise Johnsen Karen and Fred Johnsen Mark and Sheila Johnson Nancy Johnson Catherine C. Jones Julie Jones Candice Jorgensen Kathy Jorgensen Alexander and Andrea Jueschke Abraham Julander Diane Julian Ben and Jenn Kalm Rochelle Kaplan and Arthur Lipson Kathleen M. Kaufman Kaye Kearns Robert Keeler Michael and Amy Kennedy Fonda Kersey Deborah Keyek-Franssen Richard and Gene Klatt Shirley M. Knox Susan Kohler and Stephen Proser Carolyn and Peter Kowalchik Paul Baron and Jeanette Kruse Baron Jana C. Kuhn Randall Woodrow Lalonde Mary Lamb Guttorm and Claudia Landro Kent and Denise Landvatter Roni Lane Janice and Harvey Lansing Gary and Fran Lapin Erica R. Larabee Evelyn and James Lee Allene K. Lemons In Memory of Helga Lloyd Anna and Claude LePendu Joan Lind Pauline Lindsay Aaron Linford Uri Loewenstein and Elizabeth Tashjian Howard and Anne Lowe Charles and Patricia Lownds Diane Luke Michael W. Luskin Elaine Lyon Bonnie R. Macfarlane Jane MacFarlane Kevin Mack K.L. Mackay Kristin Madden

FRIENDS OF PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY Mary Mahler Gary and Ruth Manville John and Pamela Marks Milo Marsden Marsha Mathur Angie Matinkhah Michael and Mary Mattsson Larae and George Maxwell Karen McArthur Bernard Grosser and Karen McArthur Russ McKell Patricia and Daniel Meldrum Elliott Merrill Tracie Merrill-Wilson Ann Miller Mary Elizabeth Mitchell Sweelin O Montandon Peggy Montrone James R. Moore and Kathryn Lindquist Sue Moore Edward B. Moreton Julie Morriss Ross Murray Jane and Gary Myers Gary and Jane Myers Mr. and Mrs. J. Naatz Maura K. Naughton Anne Neeley Ashley and Brett Neilson Craig Nelson and Stephen Greene John and Margaret Neville Jean and Ralph Nuismer Jill A. Nutting William D. Ohlsen Kathi Ohlson Patti O’Keefe Tracy O’Keefe Julie Olson Tim Orton

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LOGE GALLERY PRESENTS

ART ALSO BEGINS WITH “A” A CURATED EXHIBIT BY UTAH ARTISTS

by Barbara Kidd

Visit the Art Also Begins with “A,” in the Loge Gallery of Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, running throughout the production of the world premiere of Ass, until November 6, 2021.

For more information: pioneertheatre.org/loge-gallery • Box Office: 801-581-6961

PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY STAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR . . . . . . . . . . KAREN AZENBERG INTERIM MANAGING DIRECTOR. . . DIANE L. PARISI DEVELOPMENT ARTISTIC Resident Fight Choreographer. . . . . . . . . Christopher DuVal Director of Development. . . . . . . . . . . Diane L. Parisi Resident Scenic Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Maxwell Manager of Individual Giving. . . . . . . . . . Merrill Matheson Resident Sound Designer . . . . . . . . Micah Lambert Maxson Development Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Morgan Werder PRODUCTION

MANAGEMENT

Production Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . Reed Rossbach Production Stage Manager. . . . . . Mary P. Costello Stage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Gregory 1st Assistant Stage Manager. . . . . Emily Nacrissa Griffith Technical Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Mack Charge Artist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Jensen Scenic Artist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amanda McMall Stage Technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clifford Merritt, Aiden Welch, Michael Davies Painters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nikolas Gonzalez, Brooke Morgan, Trish Whitekettle Props Master. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laura A. Walters Props Artisan . . . . . . . . . . Christa Kinch, Barbara Nelson Master Electrician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David O. Smith Technical Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lee Hollaar Costume Shop Manager. . . . . . . . . . Phillip R. Lowe First Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K.L. Alberts Asst. Costume Shop Manager. . . . Wendy Schow-Massine Cutter/Drapers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wendy Schow-Massine, Margo Seamons Millinery/Crafts Artisan. . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilson Leibering Stitchers. . . . . . . . . . . . Amanda Andrews, Colleen Pierce Wardrobe Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Nanci Rolfe Costume Rental Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Do’nel Ault PTC/University of Utah Interns. . . . . . . . . . . Danny Borba, Jonathan Onyango, Marco Say, Aathaven Tharmarajah, Caden Tudor, Victoria Wolfe

Management of Finance and Admin.. . . . . . Mary Dy Company Manager & Operations. . . . Amanda Bowen Asst. Company Manager & Operations. . . . Micki Martinez COVID Safety Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Hadden MARKETING

Director of Marketing and Comm.. . . . Kirsten Park Publicity Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeni Fitzgibbon Photography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BW Productions PTC Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Modern8 PATRON SERVICES

Director of Patron Services. . . . . . . . . Heidi Bruce House Manager/Asst. Patron Services. . . . . . Nikki Baum Coordinator, Patron Services. . . . . . . Jenifer Christensen Front of House. . . . . . . . . Clara Boas, Alexis Brinkerhoff, Caroline Esparza, Amona Faatau, Abigail Higbee, Taryn McClure, Katina Nikols, Sasha Pinegar, Jordan Reynosa, Tom Roche, Joseph Rockwell, Anna Roelofs, Caprice Schulte, Ian Shannon, Sophia White

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