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Table of Contents Welcome �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 6 WINTER........................................................................................................... 7 Acknowledgements......................................................................................... 8 Cast of Characters........................................................................................ 11 Corporate Partners ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������12 In the Room with Julie Jensen...................................................................... 14 Who’s Who ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������16 Coming Next: DIARY OF A WORM, A SPIDER, AND A FLY.................................. 18 Panel Discussion: Death and Dignity ............................................................ 24 University Professional Theatre Program....................................................... 27 Sponsors Friends and Supporters................................................................. 28 SLAC Micro Mini Season................................................................................ 31 Salt Lake Acting Company Staff ���������������������������������������������������������������������32 Board of Trustees ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������33 NPSS Reading: LAURA AND THE SEA by Kate Tarker....................................... 35 Green Room Gallery...................................................................................... 35 For Our Audience ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������36

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Welcome

Artist Mark Gollaher

Welcome to the National New Play Network’s (NNPN) Rolling World Premiere of WINTER by Julie Jensen. SLAC has been a core member theatre of NNPN since its founding in 1998. We are honored and grateful to be a part of this organization. NNPN values new plays’ vital role in the cultural health of our communities and our nation. NNPN proudly claims that hundreds of thousands of audience members around the world have seen plays that were created and honed with their support. Through the passionate leadership of Executive Director, Nan Barnett, WINTER will also be produced by Central Works Theater Company in Berkeley, CA and Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago, IL.

Margaret Pabst Battin Author, Professor

Anne Cullimore Decker Actor

Julie Jensen Playwright

WINTER brought together these three great women who are gifts to our community with deep Utah and Salt Lake Acting Company roots. Three very different women who have the same attributes: courage, authenticity, vibrancy. They’re generous in sharing their passions and, in that same spirit of giving, put forth great energy to mentor and enlighten. Add director Tracy Callahan to the mix and the success of WINTER can be attributed to this beautiful culmination of women who have mastered the art of collaboration. Salt Lake Acting Company is profoundly honored to join forces with them.

Thank you for being here, Cynthia Executive Artistic Director

presents

WINTER By

Julie Jensen Inspired by ROBECK in ENDING LIFE: Ethics and the Way We Die

by Margaret Pabst Battin, © 2005 Oxford University Press

Director

Tracy Callahan

Set Design

Light Design

Costume Design Dramaturg

Dennis Hassan

James M. Craig

Sound Design

Props Design

Nancy Hills

Cynthia L. Kehr Rees Janice Jenson

Char Nelson

Production Stage Manager

Justin Ivie*

University Professional Theatre Program

Assistant Set Design

Allie Baranowski

Assistant Costume Design

Heather Wood

WINTER is produced at SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY as a part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Other partnering theaters are RIVENDELL THEATRE ENSEMBLE (Chicago, IL) and CENTRAL WORKS THEATER COMPANY (Berkeley, CA).

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Acknowledgements The Salt Lake Acting Company gratefully acknowledges the following foundations and government agencies for their very generous sponsorship.

Their support is truly essential to SLAC’s success and vitality.

Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks (ZAP) Funds Salt Lake County Cultural Facilities Support Program National Endowment for the Arts Utah Division of Arts & Museums Salt Lake City Arts Council The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Emma Eccles Jones Foundation George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation B.W. Bastian Foundation John & Marcia Price Family Foundation Terence Kearns Stephens Charitable Fund Edgerton Foundation Marriner S. Eccles Foundation National New Play Network Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation Jarvis & Constance Doctorow Family Foundation Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Foundation Anonymous R. Harold Burton Foundation The Richard K. & Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation Sorenson Legacy Foundation McCarthey Family Foundation Henry W. & Leslie M. Eskuche Foundation C. Comstock Clayton Foundation Utah Humanities The PI Fund Weinholtz Family Foundation Whittenburg Foundation

This project is supported in part by Salt Lake County’s Zoo Arts and Parks program, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the Salt Lake City Arts Council.

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Cast of Characters

EVAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Justin Bruse ANNIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne Cullimore Decker ROBECK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob Nelson* LD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrea Peterson RODDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S.A. Rogers* ANNIS UNDERSTUDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kathryn Atwood* * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

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In The Room with Julie Jensen

Playwright Julie Jensen sits down with SLAC's Erika Ahlin and Cynthia Fleming

Erika: Tell me how your relationship with SLAC began.

Julie: I was at a conference and I ran into Ed Gryska. He was from Salt Lake Acting Company and he said to me, “You haven’t sent us any work.” So I sent him STRAY DOGS, which is a play set in Utah that had won a big prize at Arena Stage, and had been produced there, and my mother hated it. She said, “Don’t you ever bring me to another play like that.” So I didn’t. Al Nevins was the Literary Manager at that point, and Nancy Borgenicht and Ed were running the theatre. They read STRAY DOGS and said, “Oh yeah this person writes.” After that we were kind of in touch, particularly Nancy and me.

Then SLAC produced WHITE MONEY, which I tried to rewrite this summer. It’s a play about politics; it’s very exaggerated. Then I realized in this climate you cannot make a satire about American politics, because the reality is far worse than anything you can think of.

WHITE MONEY was a weird, weird play and it won this big ass award. It was with Salt Lake Acting Company so they did the World Premiere and it’s been on a few times since then but it’s really hard to do. So anyway, that was the beginning of it.

Erika: How many plays have you written?

Julie: I don’t really know. It’s something over 35. I always said I would write as many as Shakespeare, not to compare myself, of course.

Cynthia: Tell me how you and Tracy met and how did you know that you two could team up?

Julie: She called up four or five years ago. I knew who she was but I didn’t really know her and hadn’t worked with her. I knew her work and I had certainly seen things here that she directed, but had never seen anything at Weber. She said that

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their department was going to do nothing but new plays next year. (And by the way they are going to do it again next year, following this year, nothing but new plays.)

She said, “You got anything you would be interested in working with me on?” And I said, “Sure.” I told her I was working on a play about Christmas called CHRISTMAS WITH MISFITS, and also that I had received a commission from the Kennedy Center to adapt this novel called MOCKINGBIRD, which is about an autistic girl. And she said, “My son has autism. I would really be interested in that.” So I said, “Ok, read MOCKINGBIRD. See what you think.” She called me in March and said it would be in the following year that she would want to start working on it. So by January I had a draft. And the deal was she was going to work on it 3 times a week for 3 hours a day for 3 ∞ MONTHS! The Kennedy Center came out and saw the production and I said, “I really want to work with her.”

Cynthia: So did she really help in the developing of it?

Julie: Absolutely.

Cynthia: It was a great production.

Julie: It was. It was a wonderful production. I just loved it. It was so fun. I went up there once a week and watched them do whatever they were doing that day. And Tracy would feel a little nervous about saying, “I don’t think this scene works” or “What’s this doing?” but now we both take each other’s places. I mean I feel absolutely fine saying “She doesn’t giggle through that.” “You start the beat here not here.” Even though that’s a director’s thing and I wouldn’t dream of saying shit like that to actors directly without going through a director, but we both do it. She says things like “Could you do something with that part right there?” And I do. So we

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Julie: I want it to be. I really love the subject. My mother died of Alzheimer’s. I promised I would think about it every day.

Not Alzheimer’s, particularly, but getting the fuck out. I haven’t done that exactly.

It’s been 20 years. But that is a tragedy when people outlive the love other people have for them. They become a burden and they lose their dignity. My mother had gone from this dignified woman to this crazy, weird, strange acting woman.

So it’s important. I think we have to do something about this. There is a line in the play: “Nursing homes are full of mindless people who have all said, ‘I will not live like that. I will not be one of them,’ and yet they are.” We have to do it ourselves or we lose the chance. Because nobody else is going to say, “Well would you like me to kill you now?” No that is not the way it’s going to be done and nobody is going to do it. We have to do it ourselves.

And we have to go before the last possible minute, because if we go right up to the edge, we will fall in there and we will lose our brains and be unable to do it.

trust one another.

Erika: What are you most excited and/or scared about with this production?

Cynthia: So after MOCKINGBIRD did you say let’s do it again?

Julie: She did the production of MOCKINGBIRD in Washington and then she did the production at Pygmalion. And I said, “Ok this is what I am going to do in the summer. I’m going to write this play.” I was writing it for Anne Decker because she brought me the material. Anne said, “There is this person I know who wrote a book about this woman’s right to die.” I said, “I’ll read it.” And then we went to lunch with Peggy. I kept saying that this could work. I met with Peggy and Anne every couple of weeks or so. We would have little meetings about being old, what we were afraid of, how we would die if we chose to, what we would tell people. You know, just ideas of what we thought about that subject.

Erika: The story is so relatable.

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Julie: I have lived with it for a really long time. Plays usually take a couple years, but this one, because I had the actor and stuff, it was fast. Cynthia came in and said yes early. So it’s faster than usual, but you live with it in your head. It has never been on its feet, so it was very exciting to see the run through last night.

I’m not exactly afraid. That’s one of the things about having a really good director. She is incredible with actors. They understand completely what she is saying.

She is there, focused, trying to help it, take it to the next level. She can do crap with it I can’t even imagine. At last night’s rehearsal she said, “Ok now see, starting here the style shifts a little bit so that we are going to go into a weirder world.” And then I look at the play; I didn’t write it like that.

I didn’t do that. She’s seeing something I didn’t see. And I’d say she’s right.

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WHO’S WHO Justin Bruse (Evan)

has been performing in the Salt Lake area for the past 16 years, at various theaters in the valley.

Some of his favorite roles include Marc in ART (Pinnacle Acting Company), Tilden in BURIED CHILD (Silver Summit Theatre Company), and Mortimer Brewster in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (Hale Centre Theatre). He was last seen at SLAC in their production of Kathleen Cahill’s CHARM. Justin is proud to be involved in this touching and important production, and hopes you enjoy the show. Special thanks to Jaime and Savannah Bruse.

Anne Cullimore Decker (Annis) loves

working in small intimate spaces which makes SLAC one of her most favorite venues. She has had the privilege and pleasure of acting and directing at this theatre. Her most recent production at SLAC was a two hander, in David Kranes’ A LOSS OF APPETITE. Other productions here are Aden’s Ross’ K-MILLE, J.T. Rogers’ SEEING THE ELEPHANT, MADAGASCAR (all premieres); THREE TALL WOMEN, RABBIT HOLE, THE CLEAN HOUSE, and a favorite of hers and many others, MASTER CLASS, where she had the pleasure of performing the role of Maria Callas in two separate productions. Other recent productions at other theatres: STAGE KISS at Wasatch Theatre (Rose Wagner) ; THE CRUCIBLE at Pioneer Theatre Co.; 33 VARIATIONS at Leonardo; RARE BIRD, HAMLET at Babcock; RIGHTEOUS & VERY REAL HOUSEWIVES OF UTAH COUNTY at Fort Douglas Post Theatre; Staged reading of QUEENS FOR A YEAR at Hartford Stage, Hartford, Conn. Utah Opera’s A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, and CALL ME MADAM;

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MORNING’S @ SEVEN, MY FAIR LADY at Utah Shakespeare Festival. Her most recent film was: A DARLING COMPANION playing Muriel, the mother to Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest, and mother-in-law to Diane Keaton. Anne earned both her Bachelors Degree & Masters of Fine Arts degrees at the University of Utah.

She taught in the Honors and Actor Training Program at University of Utah for 14 years before retiring. In 2015, the University of Utah bestowed her with an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree. Being a part of WINTER from its early inception, followed by multiple workshops, drafts and readings to a fullfledged production has been a rare and treasured privilege. Thank you, Ms. Julie.

Bob Nelson* (Robeck)

taught at BYU (chair 19982004), and “came home” in 2005 to chair U of U Theatre. Now back in the classroom full-time, he enjoys history, dramatic literature, dramaturgy, new-play development, acting, directing, and Shakespeare. Stage roles: DR. PRETORIUS, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (Sackerson); all nine adult males, SPRING AWAKENING (Uof U); Thomas Jefferson, THIRD CROSSING (Plan-B Theatre). Film: Father Vernon, “Evil Angel”; Isaac Hale, “Emma Smith” and “Joseph Smith.” Voiceover: narrator, “The Light of Men” and “The Restoration”. Directing: 45 SECONDS FROM BROADWAY and CALIFORNIA SUITE (Neil Simon Festival); FIRST WATER PROJECT (Salt Lake Acting Company). Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Andrea Peterson (LD) is originally from Texas, but moved to Salt Lake City by way of Boston, NYC, and Miami. She has a bit of wanderlust. She

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WHO’S WHO spent most of her life acting on stage, some of her favorite stage roles have been playing in the spoof THE HUNGER GAME OF THRONES as the ‘Katniss’ character and getting to play Katherine in TAMING OF THE SHREW. Recently, Andrea has been doing film projects that have taken her from playing a tragic ingenue in a romance that never happens in the film, “Collide,” acting as a mime in the silent film, ‘No Walk in the Park,’ and most recently playing a hot mess in the web series ‘You Again.’ Although, Andrea loves acting, she considers herself a story-teller in whatever facet that life might allow and owns DoYouSee Productions under which she directs, writes, shoots, and edits independent films, music videos, and documentaries. When she is not involved in filmmaking, Andrea’s wanderlust takes over and you can find

her hiking through the mountains, on a plane to another country, or relaxing in her backyard with her husband Travis Peterson and their constant shadow, their dog Finn.

S.A. Rogers* (Roddy)

was last seen at Salt Lake Acting Company in BLACKBERRY WINTER as Grey Mole. He has been in a number of short films including DOWN THE HOLE and THE ARCHITECT. Other local work includes Pioneer Theatre Company’s productions of MARCH TALE (Play By Play new play reading series) as Robert Cecil, A FEW GOOD MEN as Commander Stone and OF MICE AND MEN as Slim. In Houston, Texas he performed with the Classical Theatre Company (CTC) as Telegin in UNCLE VANYA and Dimas in THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE. Prior

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WHO’S WHO to working with CTC, he performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where his roles included Gascon/Ensemble in CYRANO DE BERGERAC, First Murderer/ Ensemble in RICHARD III, Policeman in MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, and Second Knight in KING LEAR. His audio book vocal recordings include RETURN POLICY, THE ALMOST TRUE STORY OF RYAN FISHER, THE END IS NOW, AND STRENGTH AND COURAGE FOR CAREGIVERS. S.A. is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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in GRANT & TWAIN, HOLD PLEASE, MERE MORTALS (directed by Tracy Callahan) among other plays and numerous readings. Her first show at SLAC was Julie Jensen’s LAST LISTS OF MY MAD MOTHER in 1997 where she played Sis. Kathryn has most recently appeared at the Rose Wagner as the ghost of Queen Elizabeth I in THE KING’S MEN for Sting & Honey Company. For them she has also appeared as Paulina in Shakespeare’s THE WINTER’S TALE, Julie Tesman in Ibsen’s HEDDA GABLER and Nyx in Javen Tanner’s SLEEPING BEAUTY’S DREAM. She was in Pygmalion’s THE GOOD BODY as Eve Ensler and Nancy in FROZEN. Before moving here, Kathryn toured internationally and played on stages in London & New York. She is delighted to be a part of a vibrant

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WHO’S WHO theatre community here in Utah, and is originally from Massachusetts, but this is now home, where she lives happily with her wonderful husband, Jacques, and two rescue dogs.

Julie Jensen (Playwright) has been

writing plays for over 30 years. She has won a dozen awards, among them The Joseph Jefferson Award in Chicago for best new work, the LA Weekly Award for best new play, and The David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award. She has been commissioned by a dozen theatres including Kennedy Center (twice) and Actors Theatre of Louisville (twice) and Salt Lake Acting Company (twice). She has received grants from NEA, TCG, Pew Charitable Trusts, among others. Her work has been produced in NYC, London, and theatres nationwide, from Arizona to Alaska, from Michigan to Massachusetts, California to Connecticut.

Her work is published by Dramatists Play Service, Dramatic Publishing, and Smith and Krause. She has taught playwriting at five universities, directed a graduate playwriting program, and has written a book on the craft. She is currently the Resident Playwright at Salt Lake Acting Company, board member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, and the Regional Representative of the Dramatists Guild of America. Her play MOCKINGBIRD, recently nominated for a Helen Hayes Award, will be produced by six professional theatres this season. And WINTER, part of the National New Play Network’s Rolling World Premiere, will open at Salt Lake Acting Company and later at theatres in Chicago and Berkeley, CA. SLAC has produced eight world premieres of her work; this is the ninth.

Plan-B Theatre and Pygmalion in Salt Lake City have also produced her work.

She is gratified to have spent her life in the theatre, never to have lost interest in its potential, and counts herself lucky

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to have benefitted from the efforts the extraordinary people who work in it.

Tracy Callahan (Director) is excited

to be back at SLAC directing the world première of Playwright in Residence Julie Jensen’s script, WINTER. Past directing projects at SLAC include VENUS IN FUR, MANNING UP, COURSE 86b IN THE CATALOGUE, SIX YEARS and HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE. Tracy is a freelance director and actor in the Salt Lake area where she has had the opportunity to work with Wasatch Theatre, Process Theatre, DarkHorse Theatre, Pygmalion Theatre, Hale Center Theatre and Utah Reparatory Theatre. She has been Head of The Acting and Directing Program at Weber State for the past 21 years where she has directed over 36 productions. This is the second time Tracy and Julie have collaborated on a production. Their first collaboration was Julie Jensen’s play MOCKINGBIRD which was commissioned by the Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts in Washington DC and also performed at Weber State and Pygmalion Theatres.

Tracy is a founding member of the Process Theatre Company.

Dennis Hassan (Set Design) is happy to be returning to SLAC after designing STREETLIGHT WOODPECKER. Dennis is the Co-Artistic Director of the Lyric Repertory Company and Professor of Scenic Design at Utah State University.

He has designed over 150 productions from Hawaii to Maine. Favorites include: AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY, LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, SWEENEY TODD, PHANTOM, AIDA, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, SECRET GARDEN, OLIVER! and AMADEUS.

James M. Craig (Lighting Design)

has designed the lighting for more than 50 shows at Salt Lake Acting Company since 1997, most recently for STUPID F**KING BIRD, TRIBES, BLACKBERRY

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WHO’S WHO WINTER, SATURDAY’S VOYEUR 2015, MR. PERFECT, RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN, I’LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS, SATURDAY’S VOYEUR 2014, GRANT & TWAIN, GOOD PEOPLE, VENUS IN FUR, SATURDAY’S VOYEUR 2013, and THE EXIT INTERVIEW. He has also designed lights for Plan-B Theatre, Utah Contemporary Theatre, Utah Musical Theatre, The Egyptian Theatre Company, Peery’s Egyptian Theatre, Odyssey Dance Theatre, The Grand Theatre, Weber State University, The Emily Company, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Stage Company, The Generic Theatre, Little Theatre of the Rockies, U of U Youth Theatre, U of U Lyric Opera Ensemble, The Sundance Film Festival and Theatre Inc. Currently Jim is the Technical Director for the Park City Institute.

He holds a BS in Theatre from Weber State University, and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. http:// jamesmcraig.tumblr.com/

Cynthia L. Kehr Rees (Sound

Design) is thrilled to be returning to Salt Lake Acting Company to design sound for WINTER. Previous design credits for Salt Lake Acting Company include Julie Jensen’s WAIT!, DUST EATERS, and BILLION DOLLAR BABY. Ms. Rees’ most recent collaborations with Salt Lake Acting Company include the productions of COURSE 86B IN THE CATALOGUE, THE PERSIAN QUARTER, CHARM, ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART 1: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES, and THE OVERWHELMING. Other theatres where you may have heard Ms. Rees’ work locally include Utah Musical Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre Company, and The Grand Theatre. Her regional design credits include designs for Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The National Theatre in Washington D.C., and Seaside Music Theatre.

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Cynthia received a BFA in Theatrical Design and Technology from Otterbein College, and an MFA in Sound Design from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Ms. Rees is a member of USA local 829 designers union.

Nancy Hills (Costume Design) was

born in a Studebaker in San Mateo, California. She is a Full Professor and head of the Theatre Costume Design program at Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts in Logan, Utah. Her favorite plays to design are period pieces which include LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, GOOD NIGHT DESDEMONA, GOOD MORNING JULIET, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, AMADEUS, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, THE MISER, ENCHANTED APRIL, OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD, EMMA, and THE MISER.

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WHO’S WHO She also designed at the Artist Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon including NEXT TO NORMAL, AND SO IT GOES, THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and BLITHE SPIRIT and the Salt Lake Acting Company World Premiere of STREETLIGHT WOODPECKER. She is a member of the Costume Society of America, the Costume Society of Great Britain and the U.S. Institute of Theatre Technology.

In 2013 she was the recipient of the Janet Arnold Award from the Society of Antiquaries in London where she was funded to take patterns from two historic clothing collections in Herefordshire; the Hereford Museum and Art Gallery housed at the Resource Center in Hereford and the Charles Wade collection housed at Berrington Hall in Leominster United Kingdom. Both Berrington Hall and The Hereford Museum hosted exhibits of

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white garments made from the patterns.

Those exhibits were called Symphony in White and Shades of White.

Janice Jenson (Prop Design) Janice has worked at Salt Lake Acting Company for the past 5 years as stage manager, Company Manager, and Associate Producer and is excited for her new role as Producing Director. Janice is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association and has stage managed over twenty shows at SLAC, including the last six SATURDAY’S VOYEUR’s. Previously, Janice has worked at Park City’s Egyptian Theatre, Dark Horse Company Theatre, Plan-B, and Tuacahn Center for the Arts.

In 2008 Janice was selected as a USITT Stage Management Mentee, where she stage managed THE HISTORY OF DRAG. Janice is a graduate of BYU in Theatre

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Char Nelson (BFA, U of U)

(Dramaturg), earned her MA from Middlebury College’s Breadloaf School of English where she worked with the professional resident company’s newplay development projects for four summers as an actress and observer.

She also studied at Oxford (Lincoln College). She has worked with new plays pre-school to college, and with serious youth offenders. She created and taught a BYU Independent-Study Playwriting course. She chaired the National Playwriting Program for KCACTF Region VIII and co-coordinated the New Play Development Workshop for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She was the Utah rep for the Dramatists’ Guild of America.

She loves working with Julie Jensen!

Heather Wood (Assistant Costume

Designer) was born in Smithfield, Utah. She has been involved in theatre since she was 10 years old.

After graduating from Sky View High School, she went to Snow College and received an associate’s degree.

She currently is attending Utah State University and will be receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Costume Design and Technology. Heather has spent the past three summers working at the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre company. Some of the shows that she was involved in are: LES MISÉRABLES, THE STUDENT PRINCE, MAN OF LA MANCHA, LA BOHEME, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, RAGTIME, and PETER PAN.

Allie Baranowski (Assistant Set

Design) Is a current student at Utah

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We would like to acknowledge the businesses and organizations that support this theatre by advertising in our playbill. Because of them our programs are produced at no cost to us. Salt Lake Acting Company’s playbill is generously produced by Mills Publishing. If you would like to advertise in our program please contact Dan Miller at 801.467.9419 or dmiller@ millspub.com. We thank our current supporters and hope you will as well.

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WHO’S WHO State University and will be graduating this coming Spring semester in Theatre Arts emphasis in Film Production. She will be pursuing a graduate degree in Scenic Design in the upcoming year.

Allie had the opportunity to be Scenic Charge this summer for the Lyric Repertory Company where she painted ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU AND SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES. I was also a painter for Tuacahn’s HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. I came to Utah State as a film student with no prior knowledge of theatre.

After one scenic painting class, I found a love for painting and painting sets.

Allie is working towards getting into a scenic design grad program and to eventually getting a job at Disney Parks one day as a park painter. Allie feels she is been so lucky to find my passion at school and I’d like to thank all of my professors who have helped her along this path that she now walks.

Justin Ivie* (Stage Manager) is a

proud member of Actors’ Equity. He is thrilled be a part of SLAC’s 46th season! Justin stage-managed last season’s production of STREETLIGHT WOODPECKER, and SLAC audiences may recognize him from his acting work as Dev in STUPID FUCKING BIRD, Jones in TOO MUCH MEMORY, and a member of eight different casts of SATURDAY’S VOYEUR (including a turn as Heavenly Father this past summer.)

His many other acting credits include appearances with Pioneer Theatre Company, Utah Musical Theatre, Egyptian Theatre Company, Old Lyric Repertory Theatre and many other others - both locally and in Chicago.

Justin recently directed SLAC’s readings of GRANT & TWAIN and BANG-BANG

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(PAUSE) BANG. As a director, he has staged DRIVING MISS DAISY and many seasons of THE SENIOR THEATRE PROJECT and SENIOR STAGES for Walk-Ons, Inc. He has also directed Arthur Miller’s THE PRICE for The OtherSide Players and JACOB MARLEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL for OurSpace Theatre Company. A Weber State alumnus, Justin earned his MFA in Acting at Northern Illinois University. He has taught theatre and communications at LDS Business College, NIU, Triton College, and Weber State. Justin also designs scenery, props and theatrical masks, writes an occasional play, and sometimes even plays his banjo (when he’s pretty sure no one is listening).

Cynthia Fleming (Executive Artistic

Director) has been in the world of dance and theatre professionally for over 37 years, during which time she performed in the Broadway, National and International companies with A CHORUS LINE. Since 1995 she has worn many hats at SLAC, including Choreographer, Director, Box Office Manager and Director of Audience Services. She developed SLAC’s high quality customer service titled: Mayberry meets Space Odyssey, which is the foundation for the record breaking number of subscribers. She conceived and created the position of Director of Communication and Audience Development and assembled the communication team to generate a renewed energy and excitement about the theatre. In 2010 she became CoExecutive Producer and is now honored to be SLAC’s Executive Artistic Director.

Cynthia remains a working artist in the theatre and has choreographed many SLAC productions including SATURDAY’S VOYEUR for 15 years and directed/choreographed this musical

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WHO’S WHO for 5 years. Cynthia is proud to serve SLAC and its mission to engage and enrich community through brave contemporary theatre.

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Lake Acting Company is celebrating its 46th season, and continuing its mission is to engage and enrich community through brave contemporary theatre.

Founded in 1970, SLAC is a not-forprofit 501(c)3 professional theatre dedicated to producing, commissioning, and developing new works and to supporting a community of professional artists. SLAC has been nationally recognized by the Shubert Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Edgerton Foundation, among others.

SLAC operates under a SPT Actors Equity Association contract and is a Constituent Member of Theatre Communications Group (a national organization for nonprofit professional regional theatres), and the National New Play Network (a national alliance of non-profit professional theatres that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays).

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and directors; and the organization’s member accessed Collaboration, Festival, and Travel banks and online information sessions - have helped cement the Network’s position as a vital force in the new play landscape. NNPN also strives to pioneer, implement, and disseminate ideas and programs that revolutionize the way theaters collaborate to support new plays and playwrights. Its most recent project, the New Play Exchange, is changing the way playwrights share their work and others discover it by providing immediate access to information on more than 9,500 new plays by living writers. NNPN’s 30 Core and more than 75 Associate Members - along with the more than 150 affiliated artists who are its alumni, the thousands of artists and artisans employed annually by its member theaters, and the hundreds of thousands of audience members who see its supported works each year - are creating the new American theater. nnpn.org

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)

– founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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University Professional Theatre Program SLAC is delighted to partner with local universities to heighten theatre students’ educational experience by taking them out of the classroom and hiring them at a professional theatre. During WINTER we are thrilled to have Allie Baranowski (Assistant Set Design) and Heather Wood (Assistant Costume Design) as part of the University Professional Theatre Program (UPTP.) "I hope to get real world experience in theatre in the professional business. I want to see what its like outside of the educational setting. I’d like to build my portfolio so that I can have a better chance at getting into graduate school in the following Fall semester." -Allie Baranowski | Assistant Set Design | Utah State Univeristy "I hope to be exposed to new and upcoming theatre as well as to be a part of theatre that is happening in my home state. I think that this will be a good transition from working in an educational setting to working in a professional one."

-Heather Wood | Assistant Costume Design | Utah State University

Set Designer Dennis Hassan with UPTP student Allie Baranowski

UPTP student Heather Wood with Costume Designer Nancy Hills

Sponsors: The John & Marcia Price Family Foundation, Terence Kearns Stephens Charitable Fund, Maschoff & Brennan Corporation, and Marian Jacobsen

SLAC is proud to partner with Compassion and Choices, An organization dedicated to the care and rights of terminally ill patients, including those seeking physician aid in dying. Learn more at compassionandchoices.org

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Sponsors, Friends and Supporters Salt Lake Acting Company is a 501(c)3 non-profit professional theatre, and as such depends on the generosity of the following individuals, foundations, corporations, and public agencies who make the theatre’s work possible and invest in its future. The giving tiers below are for donations received as of September 28, 2016 We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your contribution to and partnership with SLAC! For information about SLAC’s Giving Program, and to correct any information below, please call Olivia Custodio at 801.363.7522 or email olivia@saltlakeactingcompany.org.

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Ron and Ann Allen Margaret Anderson Claire Aplington & Keith Olson $50,000-$99,999 Ken Barfield The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Byron and Deborah Barkley $1,000-$2,499 Terry and John Becker Tony Basso $20,000-$49,999 Jerome Bennett Brian Benevento Anonymous Rick and Janis Bennion Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts George S. and Dolores Doré Kenneth and Karen Brewster David Borgenicht and Eccles Foundation Kate and Bert Bunnell Suzanne Simons Edgerton Foundation John and Wendy Carver Nancy Borgenicht in support Emma Eccles Jones Kristina and Keith of the Tony Larimer Foundation Christensen Performing Arts Award The National Endowment for Matthew Classen & Patricia Callister, Nebeker and the Arts Potter McCullough Salt Lake County Cultural Will and Melissa Connelly Kim Caramelli and Michael Facilities Program Deanna Donaldson Walker Terence K. Stephens Dramatists Guild Fund for the C. Comstock Clayton Utah Division of Arts and Playwrights’ Lab Foundation Museums Eric Eide and Shellie Messner Cliff Coury and Stanna Eide Frampton $5,000-$19,999 Bryan and David Eldredge in Henry W. and Leslie M. B. W. Bastian Foundation memory of Marie Larimer Eskuché Foundation James Dabakis Fadel Law Firm David Felt and Lynda Wendel Lawrence T. and Janet T. Dee Dorothy Foster Laura Fisher and Bob Bissland Roxane Googin Foundation Cynthia and Jeff Fleming Jarvis and Constance Martin and Glynis Gregory Robert and Marcia Harris Doctorow Family John and Ilauna Gurr Chris and Peter Helfrich in Foundation Tina and Larry Howard memory of Tony & Marie Marian Jacobsen Marriner S. Eccles Foundation Larimer Larry H. Miller Charities Julie Jensen Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Holland and Hart Steven Labrum & Jenney Janet Hough Foundation Wilder Roy and Anne Jespersen McCarthey Family Foundation Kyle A. Mantas and Cody Brett Johnson with John and Marcia Price Family Christensen Storagecraft Foundation Ken McArthur Jocelyn Kearl and Lisa Killpack Dan Miller National New Play Network Betsy Ross and Rick Anderson Key Bank Foundation Adrianne and Marty Moore Howard Mann Salt Lake City Arts Council Laurel and Joel Morris Marghie Mannos Dale Smith Gerry Nichols and Marcia Maschoff and Brennan Donna and Michael Weinholtz Henderson Davis Mullholand Family Foundation Eric Parrish Mystery Escape Room Carolyn Pedone and John Zelie and Carl Pforzheimer $2,500-$4,999 Rose The PI Foundation, Inc. Anderson and Karrenberg Joseph Pierce R. Harold Burton Foundation Joann and Bill Price Pure Water Solutions of Gary and Joann Rieben Dorsey and Whitney America LLC Tina & Jonathan Ruga Foundation Robin and Gordon Roberts Shana Scheibe Kevin and Linsey Harkness Max and Teri Savage Don and Colleen Sorensen Richard K. and Shirley S. Savage Scaffold and Alice Steiner Hemingway Foundation Equipment Leland Swaner Peter and Nicole Mouskondis James M. Steele and Linda Ray and Liz Thomason Kim Neville & Paul Frankel Wolcott Allen Nevins from his family U.S. Bank Foundation Suzanne Stensaas and Utah Humanities Parsons, Behle and Latimer Richard Kanner Brian Wilkinson and Mimi Pacificorp/Rocky Mountain Helga Van Miegroet and Charles Power Anthony Turhollow Wilkinson-Ferrari and Co. Jeff and Joan Shreeve with Stephanie Steele Storagecraft Dorothy Ware

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Salt Lake Acting Company 2016/2017 Cynthia Fleming

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Accountant/Human Resources

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Emilie Starr, Amy Ware

Marketing & Audience Development

Beret Brems, Bobby Cody, Natalie Gotter, Kelsey Jensen, Natalie Keezer, Merry Magee, Riley Nevins, Jeanette Puhich, Morag Shepherd, Kildem Soto, PJ Volk, Hayden Warzek, Annette Wright House Managers & Front of House Staf f

Production Staff

Brittany Restrepo

Master Electrician

Maxwell Seltenrich Audio Consultant

Megan Branson & Lilly Smith Scenic Artist

Eric Reichert, Quimby Roundy, Matthew Sincell, Matthew Windham Carpenters

William Peterson, Harrison Corthell, Laicey Brown, Trever Wilson Electricians

Jessie Marker Wardrobe

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Nancy Borgenicht & Allen Nevins Artists in Residence

Kathleen Cahill & Julie Jensen

Michael Yount Cover Design

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David Daniels, dav.d photography Photographer

Dr. Osman Sanyer House Physician

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Brian Wilkinson President Wilkinson Ferrari & Co

Sheila Rappazzo Yorkin Vice President Westminster College

Terilyn Whittenburg Treasurer Lincoln Financial Advisors

Colleen Sorensen Secretary COSO Consulting, LLC

Marian Jacobsen Past President Byron Barkley Board Member at Large Wilson Davis & Co.

Kimberly Neville Board Member at Large Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

Ken Barfield

Shannon Roberts

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WINTER

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NPSS

Free New Play Sounding Series reading

LAURA AND THE SEA

by Kate Tarker

Monday, November 21, 2016 @ 7pm LAURA AND THE SEA was workshopped this past February in SLAC's second annual Playwrights' Lab. From there, it went on to the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, and we are happy to bring it back to SLAC for the New Play Sounding Series.

It’s company outing day, and Laura, one of the top travel agents of her generation, is having the best/ worst day of her life. So much so that she decides to end it all. Afterwards, her colleagues try to piece things together on a memorial blog, but how do you mourn someone you didn’t know that well?

A comedy about depression, or: a treatise on travel agents who don’t travel.

GREEN ROOM

Winter can be a season of hibernation, withdrawal, reflection–and yes, sometimes death.

The issues surrounding end-of-life experiences for humans are particularly complex, and our desire to be humane can conflict with religion, access to effective drugs, or the law. Many people feel they have the right to control their own deaths, and others feel that God alone can make that decision. Regardless of one’s belief, it is a fact that winter always comes–as a season, and as an end to a life.

The artists in the Green Room Gallery have depicted winter in all its harshness and all its beauty. Many thanks to: Eileen Guernsey Brown; Darryl Erdmann; Susan Gallacher; Jane Grau; Elise Lazar; Joy Nunn; Sandi Olson; Theresa Otteson; Cassandria Parsons; Hadley Rampton; Marilyn Read; Paula Rudd; Bessann Swanson; Linda Dalton Walker; Annalee Wood; and Daren Young.

Mt. Pleasant Victorian by Susan Gallacher

WINTER

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For Our Audience

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You make everything possible.

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For tickets call the SLAC Box Office at 801-3637522 or visit us online at saltlakeactingcompany. org. Box office hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm, with extended hours during run of show.

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Late Patrons:

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Wheelchair Accessibility:

The Upstairs Theatre is not wheelchair accessible, please call for further details. An ADA approved restroom is available in the lobby.

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