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Index of Pages (click on page number to be taken directly to that page) Portland Presents Advertiser Listing................................... Page 9 Portland Symphony Orchestra Information............... Page 16-21 Merrill Auditorium Information .................................... Page 26-27 Portland Stage Information .......................................... Page 32-37 Portland Ovations Information ................................... Page 39-44 IN THE PROGRAM The Great Leap at Portland Stage Experience Handcrafted Theater....................................... Page 57 Board of Trustees & Staff .............................................. Page 58-59 Introduction from Anita Stewart.................................. Page 70-71 Production Title Page ........................................................... Page 72 Biographies..................................................................... Page 74-85 Land & Slavery Acknowledgment .................................... Page 86 Centerspread Topics...................................................... Page 88-91 Portland Stage Sponsors ..................................................... Page 92 Annual Fund Supporters .............................................. Page 94-99 Portland Presents - Return to Index - 03
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16 - Return to Index - Portland Presents Colleen Khoury, Chair Sally Bancroft Ken DeborahVincentAustinSusanCaroleBlaschkeCaseDenchH.FarrarKarenFosterE.Furey,Jr.GalarneauEdGardner Phyllis Givertz Jerome F. Goldberg Linda L. Graffam Peter Haynes Deborah F. Hammond Jerry W. Johnston Jeffrey D. Kane Jim DavidKonkelLeopoldGregLink Senator George Mitchell Robert Nanovic Kenny Nelson Leonard M. Nelson Mary P. Nelson Merle Nelson Ellie NormanHerbertOsborneParisRapkinJohnI.Riddle Sally Ann Serunian Ed Simensky Ann E. Verrill,PatriciaSpauldingSpockCarlyleVossKayWhitmore General Counsel President’s Council Senior Director •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Carolyn Nishon, Executive Director Directors •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Beth Ansheles, Director of Finance John Elliott, Director of Community Engagement & Corporate Sponsorships Gusta Johnson, Interim Director of Marketing & Communications Eva Tartaglia, Director of Artistic Operations Leah Robertson, Director of Development Staff •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Kayla Adelman, Marketing Manager Lindsay Chard, Donor Relations & Database Manager Sarah A. McCullough, Graphic Designer Sara Hallie Richardson, Annual Fund Manager Brian Shank, Orchestra Librarian Alyson Spencer-Reed, Finance Coordinator Martin Webster, Orchestra Personnel Manager & Grant Writer Hillary Winslow, Special Events Manager & Board Liaison Administrative Staff Board of Trustees President ••••••••••••••••••••• Wendy Suehrstedt Vice Presidents ••••••••••••••••••••• RickStephanieAbbondanzaBoweLucasDesmond Vicki GretchenGordanJohnsonMaryB.Neal Trustees ••••••••••••••••••••• SallyVickyDanBancroftCreweDevlin Nicolás Alberto Dosman Talya Edlund Janice P. Gerry Elizabeth Mitchell Hunt Michael Johnson James P. Karen Richard Kelly Colleen Khoury Nina Miller Nicola Morris Jen AprilOlivierLendallSegalSmithteBoekhorstWilliamThorntonSethWebberBredaWhiteYlvisakerTardiff Distinguished Service Trustees Jeremiah D. Newbury Peter S. Plumb 2223_Perm Pages.indd 1 8/12/22 2:04 PM
Portland Presents - Return to Index - 17 At InstrumentsHome Learn how to make your own instruments with simple items you can find around your house! KinderKonzerts These early-age performances are designed to engage K-3rd grade students while providing an introductory overview of orchestral instruments and music. Watch all these amazing videos at PortlandSymphony.org PSO EverywhereEducation Your digital resource for all things educational at the PSO! PSO Masterclass Learn from PSO musicians as they introduce you to the ins and outs of being a professional musician. Long Story Shorts Learn everything you need to know about your favorite composers in less than 2 minutes! Meet Instrumentsthe Meet the different instruments that make up an orchestra from the PSO musicians who play them! EDUCATION PARTNER: 2223_Perm Pages.indd 2 8/12/22 2:04 PM
18 - Return to Index - Portland Presents Watch this beloved holiday tradition (now in its 43rd year!) in person or online! Magic of Christmas will be led by Music Director Eckart Preu and feature special guests! Celebrate the season with Christmas classics new and old including the beloved “Sleigh Ride”! MondayPortlandSymphony.orgPortTIX:207.842.0800Friday|11AM3PM* BUY TICKETS TODAY! IN-PERS ON C ONCERTS starting at just $30! ONLINE CONCERTS starting at just $10! * Box office hours subject to change. WATCH ON DEMAND: FRI, DEC 16, 2022–SUN, JAN 1, 2023 WATCH AT MERRILL AUDITORIUM FRI, DEC 9 | 2:00 PM (PREVIEW) & 7:30 PM SAT, DEC 10 | 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM SUN, DEC 11 | 1:00 PM & 5:00 PM FRI, DEC 16 | 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM SAT, DEC 17 | 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM SUN, DEC 18 | 1:00 PM & 5:00 PM In order to ensure the health and safety of our community during the COVID-19 pandemic, dates, programs, and offerings may be subject to change. Preu Eckart Preu, Music Director and other special guests! AT MERRILL AUDITORIUM Available to watch in-person or from the comfort of your own home! SAFETY:CONCERT visitPlease portlandsymphony.org latestthefor protocolssafetyCOVID-19 2223_Perm Pages.indd 3-4
Portland Presents - Return to Index - 19 OPENING NIGHT: DANCE† TUES, SEPT 20, 2022 | 7:30 PM Eckart Preu, Music Director Inbal Segev, cello VIOLINS OF HOPE: VERDI’S REQUIEM† SUN, OCT 23, 2022 | 2:30 PM TUES, OCT 25, 2022 | 7:30 PM Eckart Preu, Music Director Sein Lee, Principal cello Charles Dimmick, Concertmaster ChoralArt Masterworks Summer Hassan, soprano Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, mezzo soprano Raúl Melo, tenor Mark Walters, bass THOMAS CONDUCTSWILKINSYOUR PSO SUN, NOV 20, 2022 | 2:30 PM Thomas Wilkins, guest conductor THE RITE OF SPRING† SUN, JAN 29, 2023 | 2:30 PM MON, JAN 30, 2023 | 7:30 PM Eckart Preu, Music Director Pepe Romero, classical guitar THE RACHMANINOFFROMANTICS:& SCHUMANN TUES, FEB 14, 2023 | 7:30 PM Eckart Preu, Music Director George Li, piano RAVEL’S BOLÉRO SUN, MAR 12, 2023 | 2:30 PM Nir Kabaretti, guest conductor Gilles Apap, violin ECKART CONDUCTS MÁRQUEZ†‡ SUN, APR 2, 2023 | 2:30 PM TUES, APR 4, 2023 | 7:30 PM Eckart Preu, Music Director Ina Zdorovetchi, Principal harp MOZART & BRAHMS TUES, MAY 23, 2023 | 7:30 PM Eckart Preu, Music Director Alon Goldstein, piano CLASSICAL DIGITALPOPS! *Box office hours subject to change †Available on demand. ‡This concert will be professionally recorded to promote the works of living Mexican Incomposers.ordertoensure the health and safety of our community during the COVID-19 pandemic, dates, programs, and offerings may be subject to change. SAFETY:CONCERT visitPlease portlandsymphony.org latestthefor protocolssafetyCOVID-19 . OPENING NIGHT: DANCE WED, SEPT 28–FRI, OCT 28, 2022 VIOLINS OF HOPE: VERDI’S REQUIEM WED, NOV 2–FRI, DEC 2, 2022 THE RITE OF SPRING WED, FEB 8–FRI, MAR 10, 2023 ECKART CONDUCTS MÁRQUEZ‡ WED, APR 12–FRI, MAY 12, 2023 THE MUSIC OF QUEEN SAT, OCT 15, 2022 | 7:30 PM SUN, OCT 16, 2022 | 2:30 PM Brent Havens, guest conductor MiG Ayesa, vocals GET HAPPY! A JUDY GARLAND SAT,CELEBRATIONNOV5,2022 | 7:30 PM SUN, NOV 6, 2022 | 2:30 PM Michael Berkowitz, guest conductor Joan Ellison, vocals LOUIS ARMSTRONG & FRIENDS SAT, MAR 18, 2023 | 7:30 PM SUN, MAR 19, 2023 | 2:30 PM Byron Stripling, guest conductor & trumpet Carmen Bradford, vocals THE NAT KING COLE SONGBOOK SAT, APR 15, 2023 | 7:30 PM SUN, APR 16, 2023 | 2:30 PM Eckart Preu, Music Director Denzal Sinclaire, vocals LIGHTS! CAMERA! POPS! SAT, MAY 6, 2023 | 7:30 PM SUN, MAY 7, 2023 | 2:30 PM Bob Bernhardt, guest conductor BECOME SUBSCRIBERA TODAY! PortTPortlandSymphony.orgIX: MON—FRI207.842.0800|11AM—3PM* PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 2022-23 SEASON 8/12/22 2:04 PM
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Violins of Hope
Violins of Hope is a collection of restored instruments played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust. 2022OCT Remembering the Holocaust, the PSO seeks to build connections in our community, strengthen long-treasured relationships, and create meaningful ways for people to reflect and to unite through music. The PSO’s Violins of Hope Maine (October 2022) will commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the resistance of the Terezín prisoners, the soaring inspiration of Verdi, and the preservation of beloved traditions through musical instruments. Violins of Hope Maine will include a month-long residency with Violins of Hope, and it will include education and community events coordinated in partnership with the following community partners: ChoralArt, Holocaust & Human Rights Center of Maine, Maine Jewish Museum, Maine Jewish Film Festival, and the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine. VIOLINS OF HOPE: VERDI’S REQUIEM The Violins of Hope residency will culminate in two performances of Verdi's Requiem, with PSO musicians performing on Violins of Hope Eckartinstruments.Preu, Music Director Sein Lee, Principal cello Charles Dimmick, Concertmaster ChoralArt Masterworks Summer Hassan, soprano Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, mezzo soprano Raúl Melo, tenor Mark Walters, bass Max BRUCH: Kol Nidrei John WILLIAMS: Theme from Schindler’s List Giuseppe VERDI: Messa da Requiem 23SUNDAY2:30PMTUESDAY257:30PM A MONTH OF EVENTS ANDREMEMBERTOREFLECT We would like to thank the following sponsors: 8/12/22 2:04 PM
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Each year we host a variety of concerts, dance performances, children’s programming, comedy shows, corporate meetings and non profit events with over 150,000 patrons in attendance annually!
Welcome to Merrill Auditorium, Portland’s Premier Performing Arts Venue
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October 27th 2022 - DIRTY DANCING IN CONCERT
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October 19th 2022 - ZZ TOP
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November 25th-Decmeber 4th 2022Maine State Ballet presents THE NUTCRACKER
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March 25th 2023Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ presents BACH’S BIRTHDAY BASH
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October 29th 2022 - Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ presents THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
December 17th-23rd 2022Portland Ballet presents A VICTORIAN NUTCRACKER
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32 - Return to Index - Portland Presents Written by Lauren Yee SEPT. 14 - OCT. 2 Written by Steven Dietz based on the original 1899 play by William Gillette & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle OCT. 26 - NOV. 13 Written by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, & Jaston Williams NOV. 30 - DEC. 24 Flex Pass Tickets that Fit Your Schedule $43 Weekends As Low As Per Show Standard Ticket Support the Arts $55 Weekend Matinees Per Show Seated Subscription Support the Arts $31 As Low As Per Show SUBSCRIPTIOBEST-SELLINGNPACKAGE Subscribers are the Backbone of OrganizationOur Our subscribers have stood by us as we worked to find new ways to connect to our community during the pandemic. We are proud to have won the Maine Tourism Innovation & Creativity Award for the performing arts industry’s efforts.
Portland Presents - Return to Index - 33 Written by Richard Blanco & Vanessa Garcia JAN. 25 - FEB. 12 Co-Conceived by Todd Kreidler MARCH 1 - 19 Written by Bekah Brunstetter APRIL 5 - 23 Rush35 provides an affordable and inclusive gateway into live theater for audiences age 35 and under by offering low-cost rush tickets to ANY Portland Stage Mainstage production. $15 ALSOAs Low Same-Day*As *Tickets are available at the Box Office beginning at 12 noon on the day of the performance. (1 ticket per Rush35 member, per performance; must show ID at pickup) Exclusive access to monthly pre-performance parties & more! A SEASON TAILORED TO OUR AUDIENCES.
34 - Return to Index - Portland Presents Portland Stage is known for its role in cultivating new voices in theater and for creating a significant body of theatrical work that has gone on to success beyond our stage. By incubating new work and supporting writers, Portland Stage has established Maine as a place to launch original and compelling plays. NEW WORK FOSTERING EXPERIMENTATION & ARTISTIC RISK playGarciaDilger)(photoRichardPlaywrightsBlancobyCraig&Vanessaandtheir Sweet Goats and SeñoritasBlueberry , soon to be a audiences.ZoomvirtuallyperformedwheretheLittlepartselectedTheseason.productionMainstagethisplaywastobeaofthe2022FestivalofUnexpected,itwasoverforSince its debut in 1990, the Little Festival of the Unexpected (LFU) has established a tradition of nurturing artists, invigorating audiences, and exploring new voices, visions, and forms of theater. Past LFU scripts, include Almost, Maine (LFU 2003) and Papermaker (LFU 2014). Written by Richard Blanco & Vanessa Garcia A SEASON TAILORED TO OUR AUDIENCES.
Portland Presents - Return to Index - 35 Education is central to Portland Stage’s mission. Vital education programs are offered in schools for students from pre-K through high school, and to children ages 4-18 through classes in our Susie Konkel Theater for Kids storefront space. Portland Stage’s Education Programs provide over 14,000 student experiences each year. EDUCATION INSPIRING LITERACY, CULTURAL AWARENESS, COLLABORATION, & CREATIVITY Top TheaterPortlandexperienceinteractivestudentsEllsworthAbove:workshop.astudentElementaryFeature:enjoyingin-schoolActorNolanandduringantheaterattheStageforKids.PLAY ME A STORY presented by Portland Stage Theater for Kids allows participants to enjoy dramatic readings of picture books, then participate in an interactive acting workshop with professional theater artists. A SEASON TAILORED TO OUR AUDIENCES.
36 - Return to Index - Portland Presents With a season of six Mainstage shows, Portland Stage brings a wide range of performances to Maine. Every Mainstage show is handcrafted in our historic building in the Portland Arts District. Over one season, Portland Stage creates over two hundred live performances and serves 50,000 people from around the state and beyond. MAINSTAGE HANDCRAFTED THEATER MADE IN MAINE Photos from the 2022 production of Last Ship to Proxima Centauri by Greg Lam Top MicalPhotos(AEA)Chavez-RichmondSide:TomMcGuiganAbove:&KanagawaKennedyFeature:(AEA)JamalJames(AEA)Marcy(AEA)&Ford(AEA)OctaviabyHutson A SEASON TAILORED TO OUR AUDIENCES.
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This season is full of stories that come from the heart. Stories of family and friends, of caring, of finding new ways forward with humor and grace. You will meet a 5’5” Chinese basketball player intent on making the team; a Cuban American transplant to Maine making new friends and learning more about her roots in the process (a first play by poet Richard Blanco); a Black playwright, spinning stories and bringing to light a life in the theater; a baker concocting sweet ways to resurrect her marriage and make peace with another; Dr. Watson as he remembers the final adventure with his best friend Sherlock; and the entire town of Tuna, Texas.It will be fun, it will be moving, it will make you remember what it means to come together and share.
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In Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap, we meet a student, a coach, a cousin, and a translator who become wrapped up in each other’s lives as they try to make their mark on the world. Yee’s story is as fast-paced and full of surprises as the game of basketball that lives at its center. The ball court becomes a chessboard where players’ passions collide and compete.
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Do we follow our dreams, or do we wait for later?
As The Great Leap unfolds, Yee adds the seismic shifts of a world in flux to the mix. And it is through those transformations that she asks a question relevant to this moment. When your world is changing, do you stand still, or are you willing to take theToleap?abetter tomorrow……
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This play has a sneaky way of engaging you, whether you love basketball or not. While sports fans will thrill at Yee’s references and find joy in a world they know well, we can all understand the desire to succeed and the exhilaration of reaching a goal. However, those dreams come with consequences. Whether starting for the team, playing in a band, or making partner, we recognize that other things often suffer when you push to do something well. Do you end up with piles of laundry, low grades, or a failing relationship, and if so, was what you were aiming for worth it?
Yee also explores what it means to be a part of a family—how we care for one another and what makes us close. Whether it’s school, neighborhood, church, theater, or team, we often develop relationships with the people who are part of our daily lives that feel closer to us than our aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, mothers, or fathers.
THE GREAT LEAP SETTING The spring and summer of 1989 in San Francisco and Beijing CAST Connie ....................................................................Eileen Doan Saul .................................................................Jim Shankman* Manford .......................................................... Ray Yamamoto Wen Chang .......................................... Norman Garcy Yap* ARTISTIC/PRODUCTION Director .............................................Natsu Onoda Power*** Scenic Designer ........................................... Anita Stewart** Costume Designer ...........................................Nicole Wee** Lighting Designer ................................... Alberto Segarra** Sound Designer .............................................. Kathy Ruvuna Projection Designer ................................. Dylan Uremovich Stage Manager ............................................Myles C. Hatch* Assistant Director / Dramaturg ............... Rachel Ropella Production Assistant..........................................Brady Willis Lead Electrician............................................ Audrey Kastner Light Board Operator .......................................Ashley Ward Wardrobe........................................................... Andrej Nawoj Run Crew Swing ........................................ Elizabeth Randall Special Thanks: Adam Thibodeau This theater 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. *Members of the Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. **The representedinSoundLighting,Costume,Scenic,andDesignersLORTareby United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.***TheChoreographersDirectorsStageand Society is the theatrical union that unites, empowers, & protects professional Stage Directors theChoreographersandthroughoutUnitedStates. The Great Leap is presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com The Great Leap was originally developed and produced by Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company, Chris Coleman, Artistic Director. New York Premiere presented by Atlantic Theater Company, New York City, 2018. The Great Leap was Developed with the support of The Playwright’s Center. Developed in The New Strands Residency, a program of the American Conservatory Theater, Carey Perloff, Artistic Director - Peter Pastreich, Executive Director. A workshop production of The Great Leap was presented by New York Stage and Film & Vassar at the Powerhouse Theater, Summer 2017. Written by Lauren Yee SEPTEMBER 14 - OCTOBER 2 72 - Return to Index - Portland Presents
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The Hangar Theatre creates and presents performances of exceptional quality in New York State’s Finger Lakes region while teaching and mentoring the next generation of theater artists. We enrich our community, at both the local and national level, with work and classes that inspire, entertain, and enlighten. The Hangar produced its first fully realized performances in summer 1975 in a newly renovated theater space converted from a WPAera airplane hangar--once an essential training ground for WWII pilots—on the banks of beautiful Cayuga Lake. The project was community driven from the start, led by Ithaca-area theaterlovers aspiring to create a vibrant central arts campus for the region and tourists alike. Now a year-round venue engaged in its 47th season, the Hangar Theatre Company offers professional theatrical productions during an expansive and diverse summer season (June-August) and hosts local and national musical acts, community arts groups and events, and education programs offseason (September-May).
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Lauren Yee was the second most produced playwright in America for the 2019/20 theatrical season ( American Theatre magazine). Her plays include Cambodian Rock Band (South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, City Theatre, Merrimack Rep) and The Great Leap (Denver Center, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theater, Guthrie Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Arts Club, InterAct Theatre, Steppenwolf). Honors: Doris Duke Artists Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/ ATCA Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize, Primus Prize, Hodder Fellowship, #1 and #2 plays on 2017 Kilroys List. New Dramatists, Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab, Playwrights Realm alum. TV: Pachinko (Apple), Soundtrack (Netflix). BA: Yale. MFA: UCSD. www.laurenyee.com
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Natsu Onoda Power is a DC-based director who also adapts texts for the stage, designs sets, and builds objects. Recent credits include the Studio Theatre; Baltimore Center Stage; Olney Theatre Center; Mosaic Theater; Theater J; Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. She has received two Elliot Norton Awards for her direction and design for Astro Boy and the God of Comics at Company One Theatre, Boston, and two Helen Hayes Awards for her adaptation and set design for The Lathe of Heaven at Spooky Action Theater, DC. She is a Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University.
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Jim Shankman (Saul) Broadway credits: Grease and Once in a Lifetime. Off-Broadway: Perfect Crime. Regional: Joel Singer, Oslo (St. Louis Rep); Walter Franz, The Price (Triad Stage); Roy Cohn, Angels in America (Playhouse On Park); Saunders, A Comedy of Tenors (Bristol Riverside); Vanya in Uncle Vanya (Columbia Chekhov Project); Willy Shotz in his own play The Screenwriter Dies of His Own Free Will, which won a 2015 FringeNYC Best Playwriting Award; Izzy/Danny in his solo play Kiss Your Brutal Hands, for which he won a Best Actor award at the 2013 United Solo Festival; Jericho and Sick at New Jersey Rep; Moonlight and Magnolias and As Bees in Honey Drown at Dorset Theatre Festival; End Days and Opus at Florida Stage. His novel Tales of the Patriarchs is available at Amazon.com. www.jimshankman.com
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CAST BIOGRAPHIES
Eileen Doan (Connie) (she/her/he/him) is an actor, singer-songwriter, and musician in Chicago. Previous credits include: Cambodian Rock Band (Victory Gardens Theater, City Theatre, and Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Theater Wit); Anytown and New Kid (George Street Playhouse); and Unto These Hills (Mountainside Theatre). TV: Night Sky (Amazon). Her independent album Small Love is available to stream on all platforms. She is proudly represented by DDO Artists Agency. @eileeneileend | eileendoan.com
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Ray Yamamoto (Manford) Japanese-American Actor/Writer, based in Los Angeles.
Norman Garcy Yap (Wen Chang) is excited to be making his Portland Stage debut. Recent credits include Zhang Lin in Chimerica at TimeLine and The Great Leap at Steppenwolf. Film/TV roles include Chicago Med, Mayday/Air Emergency, The Trafficker, and the title character in the awardwinning feature Sun King. Norman is a Reelworld E20 Alum, McGill University and Robbins Research Mastery University graduate, and a proud member of Actors’ Equity, SAG-AFTRA, and ACTRA. He is grateful for his agents and support team and most especially his wife, Emily, and their two children. Visit www.NormanGarcyYap.com for updates and to learn more.
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Anita Stewart (Scenic Designer) has worked as a set and costume designer at leading theaters across the country, including the Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Canadian Opera Company, Minnesota Opera, A.R.T., Steppenwolf, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Boise Contemporary Theater, New Jersey Shakespeare, and Portland Stage. Anita’s desire to play a meaningful role as an artist in a specific community brought her to Portland Stage as Artistic Director, a company for which she had previously done significant freelance design. Anita holds an MFA in design from the Yale School of Drama.
Nicole Wee (Costume Designer) National Tour: Martin Luther on Trial and The Great Divorce (Fellowship for the Performing Arts). Off-Broadway: Desperate Measures (New World Stages), Sideways (The Peccadillo Project), Closer Than Ever, and Storyville (Henry Hewes and Audelco nominations - Outstanding Costume Design, York Theatre Co.), The Body Politic (59E59), Surely Goodness and Mercy (Keen Co.), The Sensational Josephine Baker (Emerging Artists Theatre). Regional: The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage), Vietgone (Geva Theater Center), The White Snake (Baltimore Center Stage), Indecent (Chautauqua Theater Co.), Back Home Again (Lesher Center for the Performing Arts), Crazy For You, Spamalot (Muhlenberg SMT), I Do! I Do! (Peterborough Players), Tosca (Boheme Opera N.J.), Ruined (regional premiere, Best Costume Design — Best of the Suncoast 2010, Florida Studio Theatre). Interim Director: Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Adjunct, MFA: New York University
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Alberto Segarra (Lighting Designer) (he/him/El) is a Washington, DC–based lighting designer. Recent selected DC credits include: Acoustic Rooster & Beastgirl at The Kennedy Center; Quixote Nuevo at Round House Theatre; Yoga Play at Keegan; The Thanksgiving Play and The Joy That Carries You at Olney Theatre Center; El Perro del Hortelano at GALA Theatre; Blood at the Root at Theater Alliance (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design); Dear Mapel at Mosaic Theater; and An Act of God at Signature Theatre. Regional credits include: The Three Musketeers at Cleveland PlayHouse; 1776 and The Gift Horse at New Repertory Theatre and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at BlueBarn Theatre. He is graduate of from the University of Maryland, College Park; a USA 829 member and Faculty Member; at Duke Ellington School for the Arts in Washington DC. Upcoming projects include: The Till Trilogy at Mosaic Theater; and Two Jews Walk into a War at Theater J. albertosegarra.com.
Kathy Ruvuna (Sound Designer) is a New York based sound designer originally from San Antonio, Texas. Recent credits include Bodies They Ritual (Clubbed Thumb); Sweat (Alley Theatre); I and You, Read to Me (Portland Stage); Pipeline, Cry It Out, Radio Golf (Everyman Theatre); Good Faith (Yale Repertory Theatre); Twelfth Night (Two River Theater); In the Southern Breeze, Ni Mi Madre (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Hands Up (National Black Theatre); Bernarda’s Daughters (BRIClab); Circle Jerk, This American Wife (Fake Friends). She holds a BFA in Sound Design from The Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University, and an MFA in Sound Design from the Yale School of Drama.
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Dylan Uremovich (Projection Designer) is a DC-based lighting and multimedia artist. His other collaborators include Everyman Theatre, Mosaic Theater, Pointless Theatre Company, CulturalDC, Infinity Theatre Company, Dance Place, S.J. Ewing & Dancers, Orange Grove Dance, Xing Dance Theater, and the Kennedy Center. His twin artistic obsessions are telling amazing stories and creating interactive designed environments. Check out more of his work at UremovichDesign.com
Myles C. Hatch (Stage Manager) is happy to continue The Great Leap journey and begin his 23rd season with Portland Stage. Historically, Myles has worked with such diverse theaters as the Hangar Theatre, Theatre By The Sea, The Freeport Shakespeare Festival, Maine State Music Theatre, The Theater at Monmouth, Arden Theatre Company, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Everyman Theatre, Rep Stage, Horse Cave Theatre, New Stage Theatre, Round House Theatre, Source Theatre Company, Washington Stage Guild, Washington Jewish Theatre, Asolo Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse, and the YALE Summer Cabaret. In his free time, Myles is a weaver and currently enjoying restoring a 100 year old loom. Myles is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
LAND & ACKNOWLEDGMENTSLAVERY
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We recognize that the American Theater has also exploited, misrepresented, and excluded communities of Latine, Asian, Indigenous, and Middle Eastern descent for centuries. Portland Stage is recommitting to telling authentic stories from diverse backgrounds that all of our audiences can experience and enjoy.
We encourage you to learn more about the peoples who stewarded the land that you now reside on whether you're from here in Portland or are visiting from away. For more information about the Wabanaki Confederacy, visit mainewabanakireach.org, and to find out whose land you are on, visit native-land.ca.
We also want to acknowledge that the history of Maine is deeply connected to the institution of slavery in the United States, and that residents of Maine participated in both slavery and the transatlantic slave trade even after slavery was outlawed in the District of Maine. While it may be easy to think of Maine and more specifically Portland as a very White place, we recognize that this is simply not the case and we are working to dismantle these harmful ideas. We encourage our audiences to visit the Abyssinian Meeting House (learn more at abyssinianmeetinghouse.org) or the Eastern Cemetery here in Portland, and to explore scholarship on the subject, like Lives of Consequence by Patricia Q. Wall, to learn more about this oftneglected part of Maine’s history.
We are gathered on the unceded land of the Aucocisco and Abenaki peoples of the Wabanaki Confederacy. Portland Stage asks you to join us in acknowledging the Wabanaki community, their elders both past and present, as well as future generations. Portland Stage also acknowledges that it was founded upon exclusions and erasures of many Indigenous peoples, including those on whose land this institution is located. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to beginning the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism through our work at Portland Stage.
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CHINA AND BASKETBALL: A SLAM DUNK
According to the Chinese Basketball Association, 300 million Chinese people—roughly the population of the entire United States—play basketball. In fact, in 1935, it became a national pastime. Though it may seem surprising, basketball is one of the cornerstones of popular culture in China, so much so that NBA China was formed in 2008. With over 150 million followers on Chinese social media, the NBA has found its largest international market.When Chairman Mao and the Communist Party took control in 1949, most Western influences, such as books and music, were banned, but basketball was not one of them. Mao strongly felt that the sport was integral to the culture and encouraged people to keep playing. Makeshift hoops appeared throughout neighborhoods as the youth found an alternative to ping pong. College and commercial teams sprung up, offering many young people a chance to connect with their peers, particularly those without siblings due to the one-child policy, a government program introduced in the late 1970s that limited most families to one child each as a way to address rapid population growth.
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During the 1980s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was met with a growing divide between those who were content with the strict way the government functioned and those who wanted more civil liberties, like free speech. Students were the primary catalysts in the latter group, and started hosting protests to advocate for change. On April 15, 1989, Hu Yaobang—a former high—ranking government official who had lost favor with the CCP after suggesting that the government find a compromise with the more liberal students—died unexpectedly of a heart attack. Tens of thousands of mourners gathered in Tiananmen Square on April 22, the day of his funeral, and over the coming weeks more protesters joined, bringing the number to an estimated 1 million on the most attended days.
THE LEGACY OF THE TIANANMEN SQUARE SQUARE MASSACRE
By Meredith G. Healy
There was disagreement amongst leaders in the CCP about the best course of action. Was it wise to dispel the protesters with force, or would the gatherings run their course in their own time? During the last two weeks of May, martial law was declared in Beijing and Western reporters were no longer allowed to be in the city. On the night of June 3, 1989, troops entered the square with explicit orders to clear it of all protesters…
Edited for length and clarity by Rachel Ropella
INTERVIEW WITH THE DIRECTOR, NATSU ONODA POWER
Natsu Onoda Power (NOP): It’s so lame, but I’ve actually been really jealous of sports all my life. Because why do people pay so much money to go to sports games, and they’ll complain about a $60 theater ticket? People pay hundreds of dollars for seats for their favorite team. But whenever I go to a game, there’s this great sense of community, of belonging, and enthusiasm. The second reason that I’m jealous is that it’s all about superhuman skills on display. You get to marvel at amazing athleticism and skills. And I feel like in theater, we often end up doing a lot of work to make our skills invisible. Like, we paint metal to look like wood, and we paint wood to look like metal. And so we spent all this time making skills invisible.
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RR: I think it’s interesting how physical theater can be, but we try to make it so subtle.
Rachel Ropella (RR): The Great Leap is a very athletic play. What was your connection to basketball or sports before you began to direct this show?
NOP: I’ve tried to incorporate basketball in my work twice before. I got people to train actors to use basketball in choreography, but it didn’t go well because actors are trained to act and not to play basketball. Right? So I thought that this play’s adaptation of basketball to verbal actions on stage and within relationships and structure is so ingenious. It’s like I’ve always been jealous of sports and this play has sort of transformed my jealousy into something that I can embrace.
RR: So you’ll be in a new space and get to see the actors for the first time in a while for the same show. What does that feel like?
NOP: Because the rehearsals were such a fast process in Ithaca, I’m really looking forward to seeing how the actors’ relationships with the characters have developed in the few weeks that they’ve had. I knew the character of Wen Chang as one person in rehearsal, but because Norm (Garcy Yap) has been spending time with the character by himself, I might now see a different portrayal of Wen Chang.
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NOP: It’s so predictable, but it’s the second-to-last scene: the game. When we staged it, we felt that it was so physically challenging—it’s really fast. But then by the time we opened, they got it down so well that it didn’t seem as challenging. I felt like it was more impressive when they were struggling with it. So I’m excited to up the game of the choreography within the basketball game while we are at Portland Stage!
RR: know this co-production was originally performed at Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York, and now you’ve moved it here to Portland Stage. What is it like to rehearse a play, knowing that you must have two theaters with very different stages in mind?
RR: You really might! While working with this cast again at Portland Stage, what is one moment within the play that you’re excited to revisit with these actors?
NOP: Well, luckily, I have a wonderful design team that is the same and I have a wonderful stage manager who’s going to be at both. I think stage managers are amazing humans, I rely on them so much, and they’re often underappreciated. So I just want to give a shout-out to Myles [C. Hatch], who’s going to be the glue to hold it all together.
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Portland Stage is thrilled to welcome back Northern Light Mercy Hospital as our 2022-23 COVID Testing Partner. Mercy Hospital is a not-for-profit community hospital in Portland, Maine, founded in 1918 to provide excellent healthcare, especially to the poor and disadvantaged. Portland Stage is tremendously grateful for Mercy’s partnership in ensuring that our artists, staff, and audiences remain healthy and safe.
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