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With the launch of our strategic plan, we are more committed than ever to our mission — to engage and inspire through the transformative power of live theatre.

With a goal to create one million engagements by our 50th anniversary, we will present works by legendary playwrights and composers, reintroduce our family package, and “launch” a new project from Off-Center.

This season Broadway and Theatre Company audiences will both experience works by two highly acclaimed artists: Stephen Sondheim (A Little Night Music and Company) and Pulitzer Prizewinner Lynn Nottage (Clyde’s and MJ).

We will kick off the 25th Anniversary tour of MAMMA MIA! and welcome back Disney's Frozen, which originated right here in Denver. We have shows inspired by some of the biggest names in music — Tina Turner, Sting, Michael Jackson, Cher and Ruth Brown.

We are welcoming families with Little Red, Annie, Shrek The Musical, Bluey’s Big Play, The Hip Hop Nutcracker, and A Christmas Carol.

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The prolific novelist, Toni Morrison, wrote in her book Beloved, “Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

Though Morrison was writing about enslaved people escaping from a plantation, her words aptly describe rock ’n’ roll legend Tina Turner’s life journey. During her life, Tina never shied away from sharing her story of trial and triumph. Her autobiography, I Tina was adapted into the 1993 film What’s Love Got to Do With It? And now, her story is told on stages around the world in the Tony Awardwinning TINA — The Tina Turner Musical.

Written by Katori Hall and directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the musical premiered on London’s West End before transferring to Broadway in 2019. Featuring hits such as “Proud Mary,” “I Can’t Stand the Rain,” “Simply the Best,” and “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” the musical follows Tina from her modest beginnings in the Jim Crow South to surviving an abusive marriage and becoming one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. The musical shows how Tina became a living example of reinvention.

Tina, whose given name was Anna Mae Bullock, was born in Brownsville, Tennessee in 1939. Her parents moved the family to Nutbush when she was a child, but their toxic relationship kept Tina and her sisters bouncing between their parents and grandparents during childhood. When the couple split, and Tina’s mother Zelma Currie moved to St. Louis, she left Tina with her maternal grandmother. That decision strained their relationship for the rest of their lives, but Tina found solace in music.

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Naomi Rodgers performing "River Deep—Mountain High" as ‘Tina Turner’ in the North American touring production of TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL..

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For Roz White, who plays Zelma, Tina is the epitome of bravery. White remembers watching Tina’s “Let’s Stay Together” video on MTV at the age of 14. By then, White knew she had a voice, but hadn’t had a role model for a girl with a deeper sound until Tina’s Private Dancer album came out. From then on, White says her grandmother would ask her to sing Tina’s songs whenever she had friends over to play cards. As White got older, she recognized that the ferocity in Tina’s voice and dance moves was rooted in a deeper story.

By the time Tina graduated from high school, she worked cleaning houses and as a nurse’s aide during the day, and sang in clubs at night. In the late 1950s, she met musician and band leader, Ike Turner, who renamed her Tina and helped her secure a recording contract. By 1960, they formed the Ike & Tina Turner Revue and toured the South while releasing Billboard hits. Then, came the 1966 hit “River Deep – Mountain High” and higher hemlines. The single was immensely popular in Europe, and led to Tina gracing the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and to the duo opening up for The Rolling Stones.

This is where her signature moves also caught the eye of little girls around the world. Standing at 5’4” Turner moved her legs when she was dancing like she was running for her life. She shook her body as if possessed by the Holy Spirit, trying to free her of the limited expectations placed on Black women from the South at that time.

Tina’s shimmy and high kicks also became her ticket to freedom. She had followed in her mother’s footsteps

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— ROZ WHITE, “ZELMA”

Tina’s Turner’s illustrious career is marked by 12 Grammy Awards, a sold out 50th anniversary world tour, and an induction into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 2021 at the age of 81. However, Tina’s true success was ownership of her freed self. She found a pathway to inner peace through Buddhism and meditation; a unique sense of style; a new sound, and the courage to stand on her own. She was never defeated by tragedy, even when she couldn’t see a way out.

“She’s someone who society thought would have a minimal future,” White says. Instead, “she surpassed everything projected on her by her family and the world. The world says a little girl from Nutbush can’t sell out a stadium in Brazil, but she did.”

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and was in an abusive marriage with Ike. Glamorous gowns and glitter disguised the fact that she was fighting for her life behind-the-scenes. In 1976, with four boys, mounting legal fees and pennies to her name, Tina left her marriage to Ike. Just two years after the passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which allowed women to have credit cards, loans and mortgages without a husband or male relative to co-sign, Tina struck out on her own. It was also at a time when divorce was still taboo and when women over the age of 35 were regarded as past their prime.

Tina set out to prove them all wrong. For the next seven years, she scraped to make ends meet, performing in clubs, festivals and lounges in the U.S. and Europe. In her mid-40s, she released her fourth solo album, Private Dancer, donning leather corsets, fish net tights, a blonde wig and red lipstick. This was a new Tina. Turner won three Grammy Awards from Private Dancer, including Record of the Year for “What’s Love Got to Do with It.” She spent the better part of the next decade selling out arenas as well as rebuilding her life and her finances after the fallout of her marriage to Ike. However, she also found love along the way — both within herself and with her husband, record label executive Erwin Bach. The two met while Turner was on tour in Europe and lived in Switzerland for most of their relationship. The two were together until she passed on May 23, 2023.

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STUCK IN LIMBO CLYDE’S IS A WORKPLACE COMEDY

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There’s a truck stop in eastern Pennsylvania that sells the usual fare: burgers, fries, wraps, sandwiches. There is the occasional elevated offering like the Manuel Luis Echegoyen La Fiesta Burger, a beef patty topped with cotija, avocado, salsa verde and jalapeños. For the most part though, the menu is fairly uninspired, like a ham and cheese sandwich… on white.

But for the kitchen staff, creating each sandwich, no matter how simple, is a work of art, an opportunity to connect with another person. “The sandwich is your pulpit, it’s where you preach the gospel of good eating,” Rafael, one of the cooks, explains.

Welcome to Clyde’s the truck-stop setting for Lynn Nottage’s play of the same name. In it, characters may be talking about sandwiches (and describing some mouthwatering ones), but the story is really about any art.

“I think the play is very intentionally about creative expression and having room to shape your own narrative through art,” Nottage told the Los Angeles Times. “That is really at its core. How do you take the simple ingredients that you have in front of you and create something that is singular and special? Something that when people bite into it, they understand fully who you are and you have a communion.”

Nottage has been seeking communion with audiences for years with plays such as Intimate Apparel, about a black seamstress at the turn of the 20th century; and Ruined (produced by DCPA Theatre Company in 2011), about women in the Congo. More recently she wrote the book for MJ, a jukebox musical about pop star Michael Jackson (touring to Denver in April 2024). Along the way, she’s scooped up two Pulitzer Prizes. Clyde’s might be her most popular play to date. It was the most produced show of 2022 and seems apropos for a society emerging out of lockdown. The truck stop, the play tells us, is a liminal space.

“You here cause you done run outta options, ain’t nobody gonna hire you except for Clyde,” Letitia, another one of the cooks explains. “Cuz if you here, you done something. We all done something. And we just biding our time ’till we can get to another place.”

Everyone working at Clyde’s was once incarcerated, and most of them are now just stuck, marking time: Owner Clyde refuses to change her restaurant, Letita circles back to old flames, Rafael has a stalled love story, and another chef, Jason, is trying to escape a racist past tattooed all over his body.

Jason may be familiar to some audiences. He’s a character in Nottage’s play Sweat (produced by DCPA Theatre Company in 2019), about a factory shutting down in Reading, Pennsylvania.

In it, Jason turns violent against a scab during a factory strike and gives someone a traumatic brain injury. After being released, he’s now washed up at Clyde’s, and his racist gang tattoos do nothing to endear him to Rafael or Letitia, both people of color.

The characters wonder, if I can just dedicate myself to getting better at making a sandwich, what else could improve about my life?

— JAMIL JUDE, DIRECTOR

Jude was also motivated to take on the play because of how it tackles radical imagination and freedom through craft. “The characters wonder, if I can just dedicate myself to getting better at making a sandwich, what else could improve about my life?” explains Jude.

And the play’s central question becomes, can a sandwich really make a difference? Nottage purposefully picked something humble. A sandwich is just a sandwich after all — despite the new found appreciation everyone who has seen “The Bear” has for what it takes to run a good sandwich shop. While the characters wax on about their dream sandwich and strive to put together a tuna melt with reverence, the audience would be forgiven for reluctantly agreeing with Clyde, who comments: “That bitch ass sandwich ain’t gonna change a damn thing.”

Can you even dare to dream when you were incarcerated only to emerge from prison to flip burgers at a godforsaken truck stop?

Montrellous acts as the Orpheus to the other chefs. He’s come into limbo to lead them out through example. They have a perfect right to dream unabashedly, he encourages, and to dedicate themselves to an art form no matter how humble.

And when they finally do look out on that horizon, they may see that getting out of limbo is as simple as hanging up their aprons and walking out the door.

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The three battle each other and Clyde, their foul-mouthed, foultempered boss. She is constantly ready to put someone down physically or emotionally the moment she senses anyone is getting out of line or having fun.

Montrellous, the head chef, who smells like canola oil and patchouli, is Clyde’s antithesis and the calm center of the play. He was also formerly incarcerated, but is a mentor to other cooks.

“He has a servant’s heart,” says Sekou Laidlow, who plays Montrellous.

“And that kind of depth of humanity is what I think people should witness, particularly from one who has endured the confines of prison. It is a direct critique of what society says Black men are.”

The play’s emotional depths are one thing that drew director Jamil Jude to the show. He was last at the DCPA in 2022 when he directed Choir Boy. For that show, he had to get his actors to showcase the soul-stirring nature of gospel music. For this one, he needed his performers to learn… knife skills?

Yep. There’s actual cooking on stage (with real knives). “It’ll be a little smell-o-vision for the audience,” Jude says. But also culinary skills were necessary to “learn just how these characters go about their job in this kitchen,” Jude adds.

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With Sebastián Arroyo, Brianna Buckley, Katherine George, Quinn M. Johnson, Sekou Laidlow Stage Managers: Alexa Burn, Wendy Blackburn Eastland SCENIC DESIGN BY Isabel and Moriah Curley-Clay

COSTUME DESIGN BY Samantha C. Jones

LIGHTING DESIGN BY Charles R. MacLeod

SOUND DESIGN BY Chris Lane

INTIMACY CHOREOGRAPHY BY Alex Campbell

FIGHT DIRECTION BY Geoffrey Kent

CASTING BY Grady Soapes, CSA and Bass/Valle Casting

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT BY Peggy Carey

DIRECTED BY

Jamil Jude The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

THE KILSTROM THEATRE • OCT 27 – NOV 26, 2023 CLYDE’S is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

World Premiere by the Guthrie Theater Originally commissioned by Joe Dowling and produced by Joseph Haj, Artistic Directors Broadway Premiere produced by Second Stage Theater, New York, 2021 (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Khady Kamara, Executive Director)

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CAST

(In order of appearance) Montrellous....................................................................................................................................................................Sekou Laidlow Clyde............................................................................................................................................................................. Brianna Buckley Letitia.........................................................................................................................................................................Katherine George Rafael..........................................................................................................................................................................Sebastián Arroyo Jason......................................................................................................................................................................... Quinn M. Johnson SETTING A truck stop sandwich shop in Berks County, Pennsylvania CLYDE’S will be performed without an intermission.

Associate Costume Designer..............................................................................................................................Madison Booth Stage Manager..................................................................................................................................Wendy Blackburn Eastland Assistant Stage Manager................................................................................................................................................Alexa Burn Stage Management Apprentice...................................................................................................................................... Nia Pitts The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States.

WHO’S WHO ACTING COMPANY SEBASTIÁN ARROYO (Rafael) is a Salvadoran-born American actor currently residing in Harlem. NYC. Theatre: Coriolanus (Shakespeare in the Park), American Dream (TeatroLATEA), The Motherfu**er with the Hat (Pennsylvania Center Stage). Film: Down Low (FilmNation Entertainment). TV: “Law and Order: Organized Crime,” “The Blacklist.” When not acting, Sebastián is most likely writing and producing indiefolk and electronic music under the pseudonym asa march, hitting the bags at his boxing gym, or daydreaming of surfing in his home country. Sebastián is a frequent collaborator at The Mercury Store in Brooklyn and was a member of LAByrinth Theater Company’s Intensive Ensemble. Training: BA, Penn State.

MFA, The Juilliard School.

BRIANNA BUCKLEY (Clyde) (She/They) is a performer, educator, director and activist.

Brianna is making her DCPA debut. Regional credits include: The Ripple, the wave that carried me home (Berkeley Repertory Theatre/Goodman Theatre); Cullud

Wattah (Victory Gardens Theater); At the Wedding (TheatreSquared); The One and Only Ivan Tour (Lifeline Theatre); How to Catch Creation (Goodman Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Queen of the Mist (Firebrand Theatre); Othello (Babes With Blades Theatre); Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Raven Theatre), and many more. TV/Film: “Night Sky,” “The Chi,” Growing Pains. Special Awards: Non-Eq Jeff Award (Best Supporting Actor), “Hot New Faces of Chicago Theatre” (Chicago Tribune).

Rep by Gray Talent Group. SAG KATHERINE GEORGE (Letitia). Recent acting credits include: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Lenfest Center for the Arts), The Cooking Project (NYTW), Locked Up B*tches (Flea Theater), and The Unusual Tale of Mary and Joseph’s Baby (NYC Fringe Festival). She co-stars in the film Crabs in Barrel (winner of HBO’s 2021 Latinx Short Film competition). As a vocalist, she has traveled around the country and recently served as a background vocalist for Jennifer Lopez at her NBC Fourth of July performance and Live Spotify Studio Session. Member of the Dominican Artist Collective. Special Awards/Training: MFA, Columbia University.

QUINN M. JOHNSON (Jason) (He/Him).

Regional credits include: Clyde’s (Studio Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Our Town, Merchant of Venice (The Shakespeare Theatre Company); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Short North Stage). International Credits include: The Bacchae (International Festival of Greek Drama); The Changeling, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Lady From the Sea (RADA), and his original play He’s fine, and we’re fine too, co-written and conceived in an ensemble and premiered at The Bloomsbury Festival in London.

Training: RADA / The Academy at STC. SEKOU LAIDLOW (Montrellous). Actors Express, Toni Stone (Alliance Theatre/ Milwaukee Repertory Theater). Broadway: Airline Highway (Manhattan Theater Club), Boys in the Band (Booth Theatre).

Regional: Hamlet (Playmakers Repertory Company); Succession (North Carolina Black Repertory Company); Skeleton Crew, Civil War Christmas (Baltimore Center Stage); A Doll’s House (Huntington Theater); Father Comes Home from the Wars (American

PLAYWRIGHT LYNN NOTTAGE is a playwright and a screenwriter, and the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Recent work includes the book for MJ the Musical (Broadway), the libretto for the Intimate Apparel Opera (LCT), and Clyde’s (Broadway, 2ST, Goodman Theatre), and co-curating the performance installation The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre).

Past work includes Sweat, Ruined, the book for The Secret Life of Bees; Mlima’s Tale; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Intimate Apparel; Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por’knockers; and POOF!.

She has also developed This is Reading, a performance installation in Reading, Pennsylvania. Ms. Nottage is a member of the Theater Hall of Fame, and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (among other awards). She is also an Associate Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

DIRECTOR JAMIL JUDE is a director, producer, playwright, and dramaturg. Selfidentifying as an “Artist Plus,” Jamil feels most at home bringing socially relevant art to the community. Jamil is the Artistic Director at Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre in Atlanta, as well as the Co-Founder of The New Griots Festival. Jamil is a former participant in the Leadership U: One-on-One program (The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ TCG). The program provided him a residency at Park Square Theatre, in St. Paul, where he worked as the Artistic Programming Associate. Prior to that, he served as the National New Play Network Producer in Residence at Mixed Blood Theatre Company for three seasons. Before joining the staff at Mixed Blood, Jamil served as a New Play Producing Fellow at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. His interest in social justice and theatre continues to drive his work, including co-founding a culturally relevant theatre company, Colored People’s Theatre, in Washington, DC. Jamil has helmed productions for D.C. area companies such as Olney Theatre and Forum Theatre, DCPA and Curious Theatre in Denver, Colorado, as well as various Twin Cities’ theatre companies, including Park Square Theatre, History

Theatre, Freshwater Theatre, Theatre in the Round, Stages Theatre Company, Daleko Arts and Lakeshore Players.

Jamil has also taught and directed at Augsburg College and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. CREATIVE TEAM BASS/VALLE CASTING (Casting).

New York: Broadway’s Gem of the Ocean. Off- Broadway: Radio Golf, Jitney. Public Theater’s: New Works Now, Minetta Lane, Women’s Project, La MaMa, Epic Theatre, Drama League, Jewish Repertory Theatre, Women in Film and Television. Regional: Hartford Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, Trinity Rep, Syracuse Stage, Huntington Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Dallas Theatre Co., Berkeley Rep, Playmaker’s Rep, Alliance Theatre, Virginia Stage, Geva, CenterStage, Long Wharf Theatre, Arizona Theatre Co. Film: Pushing Hands, Gravesend, First We Take Manhattan. Audition Coach at many of the nation’s top universities and actor training programs.

ALEX CAMPBELL (Intimacy Choreographer) (She/Her). Acting regional work includes: Twelfth Night and The Tempest (Great River Shakespeare Festival); Men on Boats, As You Like It, The Cherry Orchard, Henry IV Part 1 and 2 (Connecticut Repertory Theatre). Colorado credits include: King Hedley II, The Bluest Eye (Theatreworks); Cinderella, Bye Bye Birdie, Shrek the Musical, In the Heights, and Reefer Madness (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center); Little Shop of Horrors (Thin Air Theatre Co.), and Hairspray!

(Performance Now! Theatre Company).

Alex is a Teaching Artist and currently in the DCPA Theatre for Young Audiences production of Little Red. Training: MFA, UConn 2020.

PEGGY CAREY (Production Manager) joined the DCPA team last season as an Associate Production Manager. Before then, she was working at The Public Theater (New York, NY) as an Associate Production Manager, managing hundreds of readings, developments, and events, as well as hiring stage management teams. Additionally, she helped to originate the Ithaca Fringe Festival as Production Director and has worked at Actors Workshop of Ithaca, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and the Kitchen Theatre. She is passionate about new works and educating a new generation of artists.

ISABEL and MORIAH CURLEY-CLAY (Scenic Designers) design work can be seen on many regional stages. Recent credits: Phenomenal Woman (NC Black Rep, Ensemble Theatre Houston); Network, Shear Madness (Florida Studio Theatre); Kim’s Convenience (Aurora Theatre, Horizon Theatre); Hands Up (Alliance Theatre); Two Trains Running (Triad Stage); Fannie (True Colors, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Pittsburgh

City Theatre); Reparations (Billie Holiday); Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Ruby (Alabama Shakespeare). Selected recognitions: AUDELCO 2020, Giorgees Award 2022, 18+ Suzi Bass Awards.

Moriah and Isabel were featured in American Theatre magazine’s Inaugural Roll Call, 7 Theatrical People to Watch.

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SAMANTHA C. JONES (Costume Designer). Recent credits include: King James (Manhattan Theatre Club); Every Brilliant Thing, The Lonely Few, Power of Sail (Geffen Playhouse); STEW (Pasadena Playhouse); Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Center Theatre Group); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Huntington Theatre Company); Once On This Island (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); School Girls, Lottery Day (Goodman Theatre); Dreamgirls (Paramount Theatre); King James and The Roommate (Steppenwolf Theatre); The Color Purple (Drury Lane Theatre); What-A-Christmas, Skeleton Key (Alley Theatre), and productions at Chicago Children’s Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, Porchlight Music Theatre, Jackalope Theatre, Cleveland PlayHouse, Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Current Productions: The Nacirema Society (Goodman Theatre). Upcoming productions: Dreamgirls (Goodspeed Musicals). samanthacjones.com.

GEOFFREY KENT (Fight Director).

Previous DCPA credits (20 seasons) include Vietgone, Richard III, Superior Donuts, Dracula, Tommy, Romeo & Juliet and more. Other work includes the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (14 seasons) including Three Musketeers, Henry 4 part 1, Julius Caesar and more; Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Henry 6 part 1, Treasure Island; Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s Cymbeline, Romeo & Juliet; American Shakespeare Center’s Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra; Opera Colorado’s Carmen, Porgy & Bess; Aspen Sante Fe Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet.

Geoffrey is one of only twenty Fight Masters with the Society of American Fight Directors. www.geoffreykent.com CHRIS LANE (Sound Designer) is a music producer, DJ, teacher, entrepreneur, mixing engineer, and award-winning sound designer. Born in Baltimore, now based in Atlanta, Lane has served as Sound Designer and Audio Engineer for various productions across the nation in theatre, film, and performance tours. Credits include work at: Alliance Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, True Colors Theatre Company, Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Old Globe, Westport Country Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Geva Theatre Center, The Kennedy Center, and more. He is also Founder and CEO at Multiband Studios. Check out the growing BIPOC design team at www.multibandstudios.com.

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Repertory Theater); The Mountaintop (Philadelphia Theater Company); Of Mice and Men (Pioneer Theater Company), and more. TV/Film: “The Resident,” “Kingdom Business,” “Ordinary Joe,” “Women of the Movement,” “The Good Wife,” “The Carrie Diaries,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order,” “The Wire,” Black Adam, and more. Training: The Juilliard School of Drama.

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CHARLES R. MACLEOD (Lighting Designer). At the DCPA (300+ productions/40 seasons): Recent designs include: In the Upper Room, As You Like It, Sweat, Native Gardens, One Night in Miami, Appoggiatura, The Diary of Anne Frank, Lydia, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1001, The 39 Steps, Gem of the Ocean, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, Lord of the Flies. For DCPA Cabaret: The Other Josh Cohen, The Improvised Shakespeare Company®, Xanadu, First Date, The Secret Comedy of Women (Denver and national tour), The Last Five Years, Always…Patsy Cline. For DCPA Education: Corduroy, Goodnight Moon. Mr. MacLeod has been a member of the Theatre Company since 1983. charlesmacleod.com GRADY SOAPES, CSA (Casting) (He/ Him) is the Director of Casting and Artistic Producer with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Grady has cast over 40 DCPA productions including Rattlesnake Kate, Theater of the Mind, The Chinese Lady, The Who’s Tommy, and The Wild Party. Choreography credits include A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, Goodnight Moon, Anna Karenina, As You Like It, Drag Machine, Lord of the Butterflies, DragON (Denver Center); Into the Woods, The Liar (Arvada Center); Comedy of Errors (Colorado Shakespeare Festival). Grady also works as a Casting Director for Sylvia Gregory Casting where he has cast multiple commercials, TV, film and video game projects.

STAGE MANAGEMENT ALEXA BURN (Assistant Stage Manager). Credits include The Royale (American Players Theatre), Bald Sisters (San Jose Stage); The Three Musketeers, Chicken and Biscuits, The Great Leap, Grand Horizons, and Hood (Asolo Repertory Theatre); A Leg Up and Clue (Bristol Riverside), The Code (American Conservatory Theatre SF), and A Little Night Music (42nd Street Moon). Alexa was also a stage manager at the Disneyland Resort for many years, working with the Disneyland Band, Dapper Dans, and many more. She is thrilled to join the DCPA family!

WENDY BLACKBURN EASTLAND (Stage Manager). At the DCPA: Laughs in Spanish. Tours: Hamilton (Angelica Tour), Wicked. Regional: Sweat (People’s Light); A Doll’s House, Part 2, Every Brilliant Thing, and Cabaret (Arden Theatre Company); Real Women Have Curves, Frankenstein, Hairspray, Bella: An American Tall Tale, Public Works Dallas (Dallas Theater Center); Native Gardens (Trinity Rep).

THEATRE COMPANY LEADERSHIP TEAM CHRIS COLEMAN (Artistic Director) is passionate about the connection between stories and community. He joined the DCPA Theatre Company as Artistic Director in November of 2017 and has directed A Little Night Music, Hotter Than Egypt, Much Ado About Nothing, Rattlesnake Kate, Twelfth Night, A Doll’s House, Anna Karenina, and Oklahoma!. Previously, Chris served as Artistic Director for Portland Center Stage in Oregon for 18 years. Under his leadership, PCS renovated the city’s historic Armory into a new home, saw annual attendance nearly double, workshopped 52 new plays that went on to productions at over 100 theaters around the US and UK, and became a national leader in how theaters engage with their community.

In 1988, Chris founded Actor’s Express in Atlanta (in the basement of an old church), a company that continues to be a cultural force in the Southeast today. He has directed at major theaters across the country, including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Alliance Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Baltimore Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, ACT/Seattle, the Asolo, Pittsburgh Public, 59E59, and New York Theater Workshop. He and his husband, actor/writer Rodney Hicks, live in Reunion with their 100 lb. English blockhead yellow lab and their 18 lb. terrier mix. Since moving to Colorado, he has hiked Hanging Lake, wandered the Cliff Dwellings of Mesa Verde, explored a working mine in Creede, and rafted down the Arkansas River.

CHARLES VARIN (Managing Director) and his team are responsible for the administrative, financial, and business operations for Theatre Company and Off-Center productions and other artistic initiatives. Since joining the Theatre Company in 2006, he has played a major role in executing the artistic vision of the organization and facilitating the production of shows such as Theater of the Mind, Sweet & Lucky, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Sense & Sensibility the Musical, The 12, Sweeney Todd with DeVotchKa and many more.

Charles is passionate about artistic innovation and firmly believes in DCPA’s long-standing commitment to new plays and new voices.

In addition to DCPA staff, the following crew worked on this production: Jaclyn Bjornson, Loren Marten Thank you Jovanina’s Broken Italian and Volunteers of America for their support in the development of this production.

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is one of the largest non-profit theatre organizations in the nation, presenting Broadway tours and producing theatre, cabaret, musicals, and innovative immersive plays. In its 2021/22 season, the DCPA engaged with more than 703,000 visitors, generating a $203 million economic impact in ticket sales alone.

TAKING PHOTOS AT THE THEATRE We welcome you to take photos in the theatre before and after the performance.

If you post on social media, please credit, and tag the DCPA and the design team: @denvercenter #DCPATheatreCompany #Clydes Director: Jamil Jude Scenic Designer: Isabel and Moriah Curley-Clay Costume Designer: Samantha C. Jones @samanthacjonesdesign Lighting Designer: Charles R. MacLeod @chasmac4444 Sound Designer: Chris Lane Casting: Grady Soapes, CSA @grayzvander and Bass/Valle Casting Photos and the video and/or audio recording during any part of the performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.

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Director, Rain Young ........................Stage Management Emily Kettlewell .................Associate Director, Accounting Services Apprentices Annual Giving Marketing Michaele Davidson ....Accountant, Treasury Scene Shop Marc Ravenhill ....................Associate Director, Heidi Bosk ...........Associate Director, Press & Donor Relations Promotions, Broadway & Cabaret Jennifer Jeffrey....................Director, Financial Eric Moore.............................. Technical Director Planning & Analysis Albert “Stub” Allison, Robert L. Orzolek, Megan Stewart........................Manager, Events Erin Bunyard.............Senior Digital Strategist Kristina Monge .......................................Specialist, Josh Prues ....Associate Technical Directors Sofia Contreras .....................Graphic Designer Accounts Payable Jeremy Althoff, Tyler D. Clark, EDUCATION & Brenda Elliott, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Paul Koob..............Senior Graphic Designers Jennifer Siemers ...........Director, Accounting Amy Wynn Pastor, Audrey Smith..............Associate Accounting Kyle Scoggins .....................Scenic Technicians Allison Watrous ................. Executive Director TJ Forlenza ............................................Copywriter Manager Louis Fernandez III.....Lead Scenic Technician Stuart Barr ............................. Technical Director Michael Garcia ..........Manager, Web Content Brian “Marco” Markiewicz ....Lead Carpenter Leslie Channell .......................................... Director, Claire Graves............................................... Director, HUMAN RESOURCES Produced Programs Business Operations Laura Maresca ..............................Vice President Prop Shop Lyndsay Corbett ...................Teaching Artist & Brittany Gutierrez...................................Manager, Brian Carter..................................................Director Meghan Markiewicz ...........................Supervisor Communications Manager, Playwriting & Bobby G Andrew Guilder ...HR & Recruiting Specialist Sara Pugh ........................Associate Supervisor Rachel Ducat.................Executive Assistant & Linda Horan...............................Project Manager Paul Johnson..............................................Payroll & Bennet Goldberg, Georgina Kayes, Business Manager Jeff Hovorka .... Director, Sales & Marketing, Compliance Manager Ashley Lawler .............................................Artisans Broadway & Cabaret Rya Dyes .................................................Registrar & Monica Robles...............Supervisor, Mailroom Andrew McGlothen................Prop Carpenter Emma Hunt ........................................Coordinator, On Site Class Manager Communications & PR Kinsey Scholl .................Operations Specialist Paint Shop Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski........................ Director, Jana Mitchell....................Charge Scenic Artist Education & Curriculum Management Emily Kent........Director, Insights & Strategy INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Kristin Hamer MacFarlane, Gavin Juckette ......Teaching Artist & Theatre Lucas Kreitler .........Junior Graphic Designer for Young Audiences Program Manager Michael Ryan Leuthner ........................ Director, Lisa Roebuck.................................Vice President Melanie Rentschler .....................Scenic Artists For security purposes, the IT team has been omitted.

Digital Marketing Emma Kimball..................Assistant Registrar & Costume Shop Office Coordinator Emily Lozow .............Assoc. Director, Sales & Janet Macleod... Director/Design Associate OPERATIONS Marketing, Broadway & Cabaret Jesús Quintana Martínez ....................... Director, Meghan Anderson Doyle ....Design Associate Vincent Bridgers ........................Senior Analyst Community Engagement Kyle Malone................................Director, Design Stephanie Cooper, Adam Busch .................................

Junior Analyst Timothy McCracken................Head of Acting Dan McNulty.........................Marketing Analyst Amoreena Knabb, Ingrid Ludeke, Rick Mireles ...................................................Manager, Hannah Selwyn ....Manager, Email Marketing Aaron Chavez ....................................................Lead Carolyn Plemitscher ................................. Draper Community Engagement Brad Steinmeyer .............................Coordinator, Ruben Cruz, Jordan Latouche.... Engineers David Saphier......Teaching Artist & Manager, Broadway & Cabaret Simone Gordon .................Associate Director Costume Crafts In-School Programming Whitney Testa..................Executive Assistant, Kyle Greufe, Tara Perticone...............Analysts Kevin Copenhaver....................................Director Charlotte Talbert ......................................Librarian Marketing & Broadway Brandon LeMarr ......................................Manager Chris Campbell.........................................Assistant Rachel Taylor .....Teaching Artist & Manager, Julie Whelan ...........................................Associate, Sarah Martinez ..............................Administrator Wigs Literary Engagement & Resiliency Produced Programs Jacob Parker .......................Associate Director Diana Ben-Kiki......................................Supervisor Justin Walvoord ....................Teaching Artist & Mikayla Woods.................................Coordinator, Joseph Reecher ......................Senior Engineer Abby Schmidt^, Manager, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot Produced Programs Cordelia Taylor ..................................Coordinator Marisa Sorce^ ..............................Wig Assistants Samuel Wood.........................Teaching Artist & Suzanne Yoe.......................Director, Content & House Crew Communications OFF-CENTER District Liaison Douglas Taylor+...................................Supervisor FACILITIES Ticketing & Audience Services Charlie Miller ...Executive Director & Curator James Berman+, Forest Fowler+, Jennifer Lopez ...........................................Director Courtney Ozaki ............................

Line Producer Glen Lucero..................................................Director William Loving+, Dave Mazzeno+, Christina Adamoli*, D.J. Dennis*, Dwight Barela, Mark Dill, John Howard, Kyle Moore+, THEATRE COMPANY Zak Merten, Bryon Willingham ... Engineers Edmund Gurule*, Hayley Solano*, Matt Wagner+ ...................................Stagehands Sam Stump*...................Counter/Show Leads Jodi Benavides, Calli Lavarnway+, Administration Bryan Faciane............Lead Security Officers Kirsten Anderson*, Scott Lix*, Charles Varin .......................Managing Director Kelley Reznik+ ........................................Assistants Liz Sieroslawski*, Calum Abeywickrema, Brian Adams, Greg Swan* ..................... Subscription Agents Madysen Hunter....................Business Admin/ Wardrobe Mayte Armendariz, David Bright, Assistant Company Manager Heidi Echtenkamp .............................Supervisor Samy Alkaihal, Tamika Cox*, Tyler Edwards, Manuel Amaya Loera, Alex Koszewski ................ Company Manager Robin Appleton^, Amber Krimbel^, Mekenzie Dalton*, Elliot Davis*, Gabe McNally-Nakamura, Zeah Edmonds*, Jen Gray*, Noa Halpern, Ann Marshall........................... General Manager David La Beaux^, Lauren LaCasse^, Isabella Samaniego, Lisa Parsons Wagner^, Shayne Thullen.................Security Specialists Natalie Jaramillo*, Phi Johnson-Grimes*, Artistic Kami Williams^..........................................Dressers Judy Briggs...........................................Front Desk Noah Jungferman*, Alison Orthel*, Chris Coleman ..........................

Artistic Director Lane Randall*, Holly Stigen*, Quentin Crump........................................Manager, Andrew Sullivan*, Robert Warner*, Grady Soapes ....................Artistic Producer & * Member, I.A.T.S.E. Local B-7 + Member, I.A.T.S.E. Local 7 Security & Guest Relations Joseph Williams*..........................Ticket Agents Casting Director ^ Member, I.A.T.S.E. Local 719 Merry Davis ..........................Financial Manager Jessica Eckenrod.................Artistic Associate Staff list current through September 25, 2023

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SPECIAL THANKS The DCPA would like to extend an extra measure of gratitude to our Encore Society members, who have made a long-term commitment to the theatre by including us in their estate plans.

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JOIN THE ENCORE SOCIETY Leslie Alexander and Sophia Dotson in A Little Night Music. Photo by Amanda Tipton Photography

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Partnering with Communities As the human energy company, Chevron’s dedication to developing people drives its culture and community partnerships. The company is proud to support the Denver Center for the Performing Arts as a vital element in the state’s creative energy. The arts are for everyone, and Chevron’s contribution enables youth theater, budding teen playwrights, Denver’s own theater company and more.

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We help underserved and rural learners, refugees and immigrants explore career pathways through Mi Casa Resource Center, Aims Community College and four-year schools.

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PROUD SEASON SPONSOR OF DCPA BROADWAY & DCPA THEATRE COMPANY

We are so grateful to our partners and to the thousands of donors and event participants over the years that have helped to improve and enrich the lives of those in our community.

— THE DENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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The Denver Post is proud to support the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, both through sponsorship of its acclaimed theatre productions as well as with grant funding through The Denver Post Community Foundation. Our longstanding partnership with DCPA has given countless individuals of all ages, the opportunity to experience and develop a lifelong appreciation for the arts.

The Denver Post Community Foundation believes in giving back to the communities in which it serves and proudly supports hundreds of nonprofit programs and events. Support is given in many ways: through The Denver Post Community Foundation, employee volunteering, and in-kind advertising.

The Denver Post Community Foundation, a recognized 501 (c)(3) nonprofit agency, raises funds through individual and corporate donations, through its unique Signature Events and Programs, and through the annual holiday Season To Share campaign. The overall mission is to improve and enrich the lives of those in our community through support of programs that benefit arts and culture; children and youth; education and literacy; and the provision of basic human services. To date, over $10,040,250 has been raised and distributed.

• Signature Events and Programs These well-established events and programs have become staples in the community. They offer partners, participants and volunteers something unique each year. They include: Pen & Podium Literary Lecture Series, Passport To The Arts, and the Colorado State Spelling Bee. • The Denver Post Season To Share The Denver Post Season To Share holiday fundraising campaign kicks off on October 29, 2023 and runs through December 31, 2023. Donations up to $1,000,000 will be matched at $.50 per dollar, by our matching partner The Denver Children’s Foundation, making an even greater impact for our neighbors in need. These funds will support more than 50 local nonprofit agencies who prepare children and youth for success in the classroom and in life, protect children and families in need with medical care, nourish those experience hunger, and house those in need of a permanent home. Visit seasontoshare.com for more information.

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The Denver Post Pen & Podium Series

(right) Award-winning author, Barbara Kingsolver

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APPLAUSE • OCT – NOV 2023 • 303.893.4100 • DENVERCENTER.ORG

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CELEBRATE THE COLORADO SYMPHONY’S CENTENNIAL WITH THESE CONCERTS AND MORE ALL SEASON LONG!

S P E C T A C U L A R

Disney in Concert: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 with Peter Oundjian

OCT 27-28

NOV 3-5

Revolution:

Two Titans: Mozart & Mahler

Elvis Christmas Spectacular

DEC 1-3

DEC 19

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