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BY JANICE SINDEN

HHello and welcome to the theatre!

This issue of Applause celebrates the culmination of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s 46th season with everyone’s favorite bloodthirsty plant, Audrey II, in Little Shop of Horrors followed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning family dramedy, The Hot Wing King

The DCTC will return this fall with a lineup of classic plays, thought-provoking dramas, never-before-seen world premieres, and the perennial favorite, A Christmas Carol Once titles are conﬁrmed, watch for a program insert announcing the lineup. You won’t want to miss a thing!

Over in the Buell Theatre, we will host the return engagements of the wildly outrageous musical comedy THE BOOK OF MORMON, and the creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky

The Addams Family These will be followed by the brand-new Broadway tour, & Juliet, which imagines what Juliet would have done if she didn’t end it all over Romeo. We round out the summer with the return of MAMMA MIA!, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, and an all-new version of Some Like It Hot Plus, we’ve just announced a variety of cabaret shows to keep you in stitches. Saturday Night Live’s Tim Meadows comes to town with his troupe, Bluebird Improv (May 16-18), followed by Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song (May 28-June 19).

In a double header, crowd favorite Dixie Longate, returns with Dixie’s Tupperware Party (July 16-Aug 17) and Dixie’s Never Wear a Tube Top... (Aug 20-Sep 7).

Finally, we are delighted to host Colorado’s own Tony Awardwinning Annaleigh Ashford who comes home to headline our annual gala on June 14. Join us at Saturday Night Alive to beneﬁt theatre and education.

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STUDENT PLAYWRIGHTS COMMAND THE STAGE

BY SUZANNE YOE

PProfessional playwrights are not the only ones whose work is ﬁlling stages at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts this spring (see page 28). The works of three Colorado high school students were showcased in the Weeks Conservatory Theatre at the culmination to the DCPA’s annual Middle & High School Playwriting Competition.

The program, which began in 2012/13 to foster emerging student writers, has received more than 3,200 script submissions over the past 13 years.

This year the competition received 176 middle school 10-minute plays and 119 high school one-act plays from schools across the state. From those, a panel of artistic, literary, and theatre education professionals selected three winners in each category. The winning high school scripts were then presented in professional readings as part of the Colorado New Play Summit.

“Through the creative writing process…I found my voice as an activist and playwright,” said Nicole Siegler, Senior at Denver School of the Arts and author of A Day in Black Shoes. Her play centers around a young African American boy who embarks on a journey of self-discovery and awakening to the complexities of race and identity “I gave myself permission to feel angry or sad or confused about how and why the color of my skin can, in some unfortunate cases, dictate how others treat me in society.”

Aspiring novelist and playwright Hannah Harr, Senior at Je erson County Open School, discovered her own process through the program. “I learned that trying to force the creative process on myself is not the best way for me to write.… [Rather], until I have an idea that I can run with, trying to make myself write ends up frustrating me more than anything else.” Following her own advice, Hannah found her voice. Trapped in an elevator afterlife in Little Girl, Little Ghost, Oliver Finley’s spirit sees hope when Charlie, his lost love’s lookalike, arrives, igniting his desperate quest to be seen.

Penelope Letter, Junior at Peak to Peak Charter School, borrowed inspiration from one of the greats in their play, Waiting for Download or Samuel Beckett’s Revolutionary Playlist. The comedy recounts three friends as they wait in a dim room, clinging to hope that a phone update will bring the change and power they’ve long been denied.

“I would eventually like to put all the strange ideas I have in my head onto a page,” Penelope said. “I’d like to ﬁnish some of the million stories I’ve started but haven’t yet ﬁnished!”

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RRoyalty comes in many forms. A proud and gleaming crown. A leader, whether head of the household, a proud parent, or the coach of a team. Or even the playful banter between lovers, endearments of “Queen!” that make another person feel warm and shining from the inside out, worthy of love and devotion. This potent mix of splendor and joy makes The Hot Wing King ’s portrayal of Black friends and family so irresistible.

W I NG K I NG PITS FAMILY AGAINST FAME

BY AMANDA L. ANDREI

Welcome to Memphis, Tennessee, where contestants are spicing their chicken wings, testing their marinades, and prepping for the annual Hot Wang Festival. The culinary team New Wing Order has been trying for ﬁve years to win the top prize, and head chef Cordell is determined that this will be the year they come home as the victors. And while perfecting recipes and ﬂavors may be at the top of his mind, bubbling around him are the rest of his crew: good friends Big Charles and Isom, and his lover Dwayne, whose house he recently moved into. It’s a home that buzzes with activity, jokes, and warmth, a place where these men treat each other with vulnerability, tenderness, and wit.

“Many of the characters reﬂect my identity as a gay Black man,” says director Timothy Douglas, reﬂecting on what he is looking forward to most in helming this comedy-drama and winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize.

“The world is so immediate for me in terms of the characters, the speciﬁc joys, challenges, and underlying elements speciﬁcally in Black culture, and in being queer and Black that we don’t necessarily talk about because we vibe together in community.”

Indeed, Memphis-born playwright Katori Hall has given the audience an invitation into this kitchen and community, using cooking and competition as the rituals that bring people together. The bodacious men dance, ﬂirt, and posture as easily as jesters in a court or princes at a ball as they playfully prep their ingredients. Bone-in wings. Garlic. Parmesan, parsley, peli-peli pepper. Even blueberries (to go with blue cheese as the aptly named “Blueberry Birds” special). All of this spice, ﬂavor, and heat are symbolic of deeper Black history and culture.

“The way Katori is dealing with spice, creation, and creativeness within food making is an homage, and honoring what we as a people know in daily life and our bones,” remarks Douglas. “During times of slavery, we were only given the scraps, the parts of the animal that the privileged didn’t deem suitable for eating. Those scraps and discards became the main part of the meal, and how it became palatable was how it was spiced. It’s a representation of care — the augmenting, creating, and inventing of how you spice — it’s in the bones of the play and something these characters know well.”

And over the course of the play, these characters come to know each other more intimately as blood and chosen family, encountering each other in complementary and clashing ways.

Amid the taste testing and marination, the New Wing Order’s weekend is interrupted when

Everett and TJ, Dwayne’s 16-year-old nephew and brother-in-law, show up at the house. Although skeptical of Cordell and Dwayne’s lifestyle, and dealing with his own pressures around fatherhood, TJ leaves his son with them to take care of business. During a basketball game, Everett and Cordell have a confrontation that draws Dwayne into the fray and reveals a deep social injustice and past family grief.

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world is so immediate for me in terms of the characters, the speciﬁc joys, challenges, and underlying elements speciﬁcally in Black culture, and in being queer and Black that we don’t necessarily talk about because we vibe together in community.

— TIMOTHY DOUGLAS, DIRECTOR

It’s a moment that makes Dwayne and Cordell face each other’s secrets and desires — how Cordell is not ready to reveal their relationship to his former family, and how Dwayne grapples with his role as a brother, uncle, and father ﬁgure. It’s a choice of how to accept and love each other in full dignity — a choice that an ideal king would make, serving as a caretaker and loving guardian — and Cordell realizes that his craving for recognition may be at odds with his love for Dwayne. As Big Charles later says to him, “All lil’ black boys deserve love, even the ones trapped in the bodies of grown ass black men.”

Douglas also notes the resonance of kingliness and how this comedy brings back an earthy humor to the concepts of sovereignty and familial love. “In some circles of black men, we talk about being ancestrally descended from chiefs,” says Douglas, “and I remember looking at the character page and seeing ‘Cordell the Head Chef’ and I saw ‘Chief’ — and isn’t he the chief of the kitchen?” The play can serve as an opportunity “to think in terms of ancestral blood ﬂow, how we see ourselves and intuit our bloodlines, how we imagine and identify our queerness, how it was absorbed or not, and how we create this for ourselves.”

And these men certainly create this loving kinship and queerness for themselves, whether singing to Luther Vandross in the kitchen, shooting hoops on the basketball court, or exchanging kisses outside the house (and promptly being aﬀectionately ribbed for it). Because by the end of the weekend, as the festival comes to a close and the family reckons with their relationships — how they will choose to give and receive love from each other — one clear image emerges.

“It’s a king,” says Douglas. “It’s all these men representing a diﬀerent angle of that crown.”

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CONTRASTING DOO-WOP AND DEATH IN LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

BY JOANNE OSTROW

LLittle Shop of Horrors, the ’80s musical about a lowly ﬂower shop clerk who makes a Faustian bargain with his man-eating plant, was an unexpected success that has now won the adoration of generations.

The show has sci-ﬁ roots in an early short story by H.G. Wells. “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid” about a carnivorous plant dates to 1894. A dark comedy version, “Green Thoughts” by John Collier, came along in 1932. And Arthur C. Clarke wrote his take with “The Reluctant Orchid” in 1956.

Those early works inspired the nasty little farcical horror B-movie by Roger Corman, The Passionate People Eater, famously shot on the cheap in two days on the set of another B-movie in 1960.

It was not until 1982 that Howard Ashman and Alan Menken adapted the Corman flick into the beloved musical Little Shop of Horrors, which began at the tiny WPA Theater Off-Off-Broadway and became a surprise smash hit. (In 1986 it was adapted back into a movie directed by Frank Oz and given a “happier” ending.)

Combining the bloody terror of early Sixties B-movies with the girl-group sound of the period (think the Ronettes, the Chiﬀons, the Shangri-Las), the tone contrasts dark and light, morbid and cheerful, doo-wop and death.

Throughout, the young musical geniuses — lyricist Ashman and composer Menken — aimed at a mashup of silly and horrifying. (A favorite example, note the lyrics rhyming “shang-a-lang ” with “sturm and drang ”.)

The result was less nasty, more hip and funny.

The bones of the show are classic musical theater, while the ﬂesh is suitably creepy. According to the book Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors (2022) by Adam Abraham, Ashman wanted Little Shop to be “an old-fashioned musical” that “just happens to be about a man-eating plant from outer space.”

At the DCPA when he was planning the season, Theatre Company Artistic Director Chris Coleman thought, “we’ve done sweeping classical musicals, but we haven’t done something silly. Wouldn’t that be fun?”

After spending time with the show, Coleman said, “I realize how brilliantly built it is. I don’t know that I understood that watching it, in terms of story and how each song contributes to the story and moves it along.”

Coleman said, “I ﬁnd it funny that these two young aspiring musical theatre geniuses, who were wanting a piece of American success, took this pretty cheesy, not very interesting ﬁlm and made something very funny, very infectious out of it. What ’s delicious is to see a plant with an incredible soulful singing voice.

Illustration by Kyle Malone.

“But what it’s really about is, how much would it take for you to sell your soul? They take a group of characters in the worst part of town who just ‘gotta get outta here.’ They’re all seeking an escape from skid row at any cost.”

It’s all good, gory fun. “If you’re going to talk about end of world, you might as well laugh as you’re doing it.” Yet in directing, Coleman said, the task was to avoid any notion of a send-up or satire. “The temptation is to wink-wink, nudge-nudge,” he said.

As he was auditioning actors in New York, he “encouraged people to trust the simplicity of the character,” telling them, “Your job is to need what the character needs.” He instructed actors, “The characters are from the island of misﬁt toys, slightly broken humans, oddballs but oddballs with enormous heart. You are trying to ﬁgure out how to trust that. That’s when it gets really beautiful. You have to know that it’s okay for sadness to be present and that the story will still hold up and the humor will emerge. The actor’s job is to let the story unfold.”

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ﬁnd it funny that these two young aspiring musical theatre geniuses, who were wanting a piece of American success, took this pretty cheesy, not very interesting ﬁlm and made something very funny, very infectious out of it.

— CHRIS COLEMAN, DIRECTOR

Props and puppets are another key element, of course. “I don’t want to give anything away,” Coleman said, “but the goal is for the plant to have an incredible and surprising progression through the play. It’s like a science experiment, trying to get it to do all the things you want it to do, and also make it reasonably comfortable for the actors. We’re trying to ﬁnesse it in a way that feels fun for the audience and not horrifying for an actor to do eight times a week.”

The show catapulted Ashman and Menken into Disney careers that changed the course of modern musicals. After the 1986 Little Shop of Horrors ﬁlm, they were tapped to contribute music to Oliver and Company, followed by The Little Mermaid — which sparked what is now considered the Disney Renaissance (including Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin among other animated musicals, with numerous Academy Award nominations and wins along the way).

The clever horror-comedy-rock musical that started it all continues to oﬀer theatre audiences a needed escape, at least a temporary way to get outta here.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

APR 11 – MAY 25 • WOLF THEATRE

ASL-interpreted, audio-described, and open-captioned performance: May 4 at 1:30pm

Stay for a post-show discussion on April 30 & May 14

COMING UP FROM BROADWAY SOME LIKE IT HOT

A brand-new tour is coming to town, and it’s the perfect way to beat the summer heat. Some Like It Hot, a musical based on the quintessential 1959 ﬁlm, is set to grace the Buell Theatre stage from July 8 - 20.

Some Like It Hot arrived on Broadway in 2022 with high energy. The show features music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray), a book by Amber Ruﬃn and Matthew López (The Legend of Georgia McBride), and direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon).

Altogether, the musical earned 13 Tony Award nominations, winning for Best Choreography and Best Costumes, as well as the Grammy Award® for Best Musical Theater Album.

Set in Prohibition-era Chicago, the story follows two musicians who are forced to ﬂee after witnessing a mob hit. To escape the clutches of the gangsters, they embark on a cross-country train ride that will change their lives forever.

Entertainment Weekly praised the show, calling it “a booze-soaked boisterous good time from start to ﬁnish,” ﬁlled with toe-tapping tunes, humor, and plenty of dancing that immerses audiences in the Jazz Age.

Deadline called Some Like It Hot “a tap-dancing, razzling-dazzling embrace of everything you love about musical theater.” With Tony Award-winning choreography and costuming, this roaring 30s spectacle is one you don’t want to miss.

Edward Juvier (Osgood), Tavis Kordell (Daphne) and the First National Touring Company of SOME LIKE IT HOT Photo by Matthew Murphy.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY REFLECTS AMERICAN VALUES IN A FUNHOUSE MIRROR

TThe opening musical number of The Addams Family tells audiences just why the strange and macabre clan has stuck around for nearly a century. “When you’re an Addams, the standard answers don’t apply.”

Wait, nearly a century? And they’re still relevant? Yes, it really has been that long — the comic strip by Charles Addams was originally published in The New Yorker as early as 1938.

The reason? There’s something relatable, even aspirational, about the eccentric Addams.

In a sense, the Addams reﬂect an idealized family, embodying true love, support, and unwavering loyalty –only cloaked in all black. “When you’re an Addams, it’s family ﬁrst and family last.” Even extended family members are invited to this close-knit group, including long-dead ancestors.

At the same time, the Addams stand in stark contrast to a conventional portrayal of family in popular media, especially during their origins in the 1930s and 40s. The Addams reﬂect American values in a funhouse mirror, showcasing both the darkness and the saccharine sweetness of suburban life.

But that never inhibited their popularity — it only intrigued people more. In a Christmas 1946 comic strip, the family is depicted pouring boiling oil on carolers. A bit grotesque perhaps, but the image was so well received it was later sold on Christmas cards.

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BY EMMA HOLST

Addams’ comics found comedy in the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the everyday, featuring ordinary people harboring melancholic tendencies.

That’s exactly what Addams Family enthusiasts ﬁnd so intoxicating about the kooky group. At their core, the Addams are conﬁdent in their singularity, knowing what makes you unique can never be a bad thing. They’re just like you, only they embrace the darkness, the things that make them “strange.”

In The Addams Family musical, Wednesday has fallen in love with a “normal” boy. Deep in the throes of passion, her family grows concerned as Wednesday becomes a little more ordinary, herself. At a family dinner, instead of wearing her signature black dress, she arrives wearing… gasp…yellow!

In the topsy-turvy evening that follows, the Addams emphasize the importance of staying true to yourself, no matter where that takes you. “Who cares about the world outside and what it wants from you. When you’re an Addams, you do what Addams always do!”

Authenticity will take you far, even to the moon.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

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Elder Price CLAYTON LUKENS (at certain performances)

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Elder Cunningham DIEGO ENRICO

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Mrs. Brown JEWELL NOEL

Guards DeVON BUCHANAN, JUSTIN FORWARD, THOMAS ED PURVIS

Mafala Hatimbi LAMONT J. WHITAKER

Nabulungi KEKE NESBITT

Doctor JARRET MARTIN

Elder McKinley CRAIG FRANKE

Joseph Smith ..................................................................................................................... TREVOR DORNER

General DEWIGHT BRAXTON JR.

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Ensemble

KEMARI BRYANT, DeVON BUCHANAN, JUSTIN FORWARD, LARS HAFELL, ALESHA JETER, KISAKAYE, EVAN LENNON, CLAYTON LUKENS, JARRET MARTIN, JOEY MYERS, JEWELL NOEL, ALEXIS IJEOMA NWOKOJI, THOMAS ED PURVIS, NOAH SILVERMAN, DYLAN KNIGHT WEAVER, BRIGHAM WILLIAMS

UNDERSTUDIES

Understudies never substitute for the listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For Elder Price—CRAIG FRANKE, CLAYTON LUKENS, DYLAN KNIGHT WEAVER For Elder Cunningham—LARS HAFELL, EVAN LENNON, JOEY MYERS

For Mafala Hatimbi—DeVON BUCHANAN, THOMAS ED PURVIS For Nabulungi—CHARITY ARIANNA, BHRIANNA VEILLARD For McKinley/Moroni—LOREN STONE, NOAH SILVERMAN For Price’s Dad/Joseph Smith/Missionary President/et al—LARS HAFELL, DYLAN KNIGHT WEAVER For General—DeVON BUCHANAN, JUSTIN FORWARD

SWINGS

CHARITY ARIANNA, DYLAN BIVINGS, DeVON BUCHANAN, ANDREW BURKE, CONNOR OLNEY, REYNEL REYNALDO, LOREN STONE, BHRIANNA VEILLARD

DANCE CAPTAINS

CONNOR OLNEY, THOMAS ED PURVIS

THE BOOK OF MORMON ORCHESTRA Conductor/Keyboard 1—BRADEN CHUDZIK; Associate Conductor/Keyboard 2—DAVID WILLIAMS; Guitar—ARI FRIEDMAN; Bass—ISAAC SURPRENANT; Drums—JARED SHAW; Reeds—ALEX JASHINSKI; Trumpet—SEAN McKAY; Trombone—PATRICK McGIHON; Violin/Viola—JESSICA GEHRING. Keyboard Programmer—RANDY COHEN

THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

SAM McLELLAN DIEGO ENRICO

KEKE NESBITT

CRAIG FRANKE

LAMONT J. WHITAKER

TREVOR DORNER DEWIGHT BRAXTON JR.

CHARITY ARIANNA

DYLAN BIVINGS KEMARI BRYANT

DeVON BUCHANAN

ANDREW BURKE

JUSTIN FORWARD

LARS HAFELL

ALESHA JETER

KISAKAYE EVAN LENNON

CLAYTON LUKENS

JARRET MARTIN

JOEY MYERS

JEWELL NOEL ALEXIS IJEOMA NWOKOJI

CONNOR OLNEY

THOMAS ED PURVIS REYNEL REYNALDO

NOAH SILVERMAN

LOREN STONE

BHRIANNA VEILLARD

DYLAN KNIGHT WEAVER

BRIGHAM WILLIAMS

SAM McLELLAN (Elder Price). National tours: Anastasia (Dmitry), Fiddler on the Roof (Sasha). Select credits: Mamma Mia! (Sky), The Last Five Years (Jamie). Fun fact, The Book of Mormon in Chicago was one of the first shows Sam ever saw in 2013! Thanks to Michele Cavallero and the Take 3 team, his parents Ben & Beth, the casting and creative team, and everyone at NETworks. BFA Musical Theater from University of WisconsinStevens Point. @samclellan and TikTok @sammclellan_

DIEGO ENRICO (Elder Cunningham) is elated to be making his professional debut in his dream role alongside this incredible team. He’s a graduate of Molloy Universities CAP21 Theatre Arts Conservatory (class of 2024 babyyy!). Diego gives infinite thanks to his family, friends, and mentors for the support they’ve given him. Especially his brother, Mamita y Papito, and Hannita. Enjoy the show! IG: @diego_is_rico

KEKE NESBITT (Nabulungi). National tour debut! Penn State UniversityBFA Musical Theatre. Previous credits include The Wild Party (Kate), These Girls Have Demons (Dayna), and Rent (Joanne). Keke would like to thank her friends, family, mentors, and The Book of Mormon team for their love and support. Kekenesbitt.com @Keiona.Nesbitt

CRAIG FRANKE (Elder Mckinley). Hello! Craig is happy to be back ringing doorbells! Off-Broadway: The Imbible (New World Stages). Regional: Young Frankenstein, La Cage Aux Folles, Jersey Boys, The Producers. From the Hudson Valley, NY, he is a proud alum of Indiana University, BFA Musical Theatre. He’d like to thank Jen, Justin, and Carrie for their trust, his friends and family for their continued support @Craigcfranke

LAMONT J. WHITAKER (Mafala Hatimbi) was born and raised in Miami, FL. BFA, AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, CA. National tour: Summer, The Donna Summer Musical Other credits: Grease, A Bronx Tale (regional premiere), The Color Purple, Legally Blonde (West Coast premiere). He is excited to be back with his big Mormon family. Huge thanks to Gregg Baker Management for all your hard work!

TREVOR DORNER (Price’s Dad/ Missionary Voice/Joseph Smith/Mission President) is thrilled to join the national tour cast of The Book of Mormon Born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, Trevor received a BFA in Musical Theatre from

WHO’S WHO

Ohio Northern University. National tour: Million Dollar Quartet. Regional: Murder for Two, The Full Monty, Sister Act, Footloose. Special thanks to the family and friends who have supported me along the way. Trevordorner.com @trevordorner

DEWIGHT BRAXTON JR (General) is a New York based actor, singer and playwright who hails from Detroit, MI. He is happy to be back on tour with his big Mormon family. BA from Wayne State University . TV/ Film: “Dickinson” (Apple tv), Set In Motion (Amazon). Regional: The Wiz, Lion King Jr. Off Broadway: eight improv at the Broadway comedy club. @dewightbraxtonjr. Dewightbraxtonjr.com.

CHARITY ARIANNA (Swing) is a singer, songwriter and actress, based in New York. Having performed in the Drowsy Chaperone (Trix) and Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth Bennet), she realized her passion for performing and went on to train extensively at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy where she studied roles from shows such as Mean Girls (Regina George), Rent (Joanne). Her ultimate goal is to spread love through performing. She wants to encourage every black girl to take up space just as she has and to know that they are never alone! @charityarianna

DYLAN BIVINGS (Swing) is a New York based Actor/Writer and received his BFA in Theatre Arts from Five Towns College. Past credits include: Off-Broadway - The Black Count of Monte Cristo, Wicked City Blues and Frankenstein the Musical. RegionalAida, Evita, Samson The Musical, and We Will Rock You. Big thanks to Avail Artists Management and the BoM Casting team for this opportunity!! @dmacbivings

KEMARI BRYANT (Ensemble) is thrilled to be returning to his BOM fam! UNC Greensboro — BFA Musical Theatre. He was most recently seen making his Off-Broadway debut in SCOUTS. Love and thanks to Hudson Artists Agency, friends, mentors, and family. kemaribryant.com

DeVON BUCHANAN (Ensemble/ Swing) is excited to return to Uganda. National Tours: Escape To Margaritaville (Ted/Ensemble). Regional: Kinky Boots (Lola/Simon), All Shook Up (Chad), Memphis (Bobby). Shoutout to my agency, About Artists Agency; Friends and Family. divadevo86

ANDREW BURKE (Swing). National tour debut! Houston native and recent graduate of CCM - BFA Musical Theatre.

Select credits: Stephen Flaherty Tribute (Carnegie Hall), Beautiful (NSMT), Mamma Mia! (TUTS), Spring Awakening (Melchior), Newsies (Davey). Many thanks to the BOM team and his family and friends! andrewburke.biz, @andrew.w.burke

JUSTIN FORWARD (Ensemble) is thrilled to be returning to tour life! National tour: Waitress. Off-Broadway: With or Without You. Regional: Tick, Tick, Boom!; Godspell; Grease. Thanks to the creative team, my family and friends for their endless love and support, and Danny and Meghan at Hudson Artists Agency! @jforward92 / Justinforward.com.

LARS HAFELL (Ensemble). National tour debut! Lars Hafell is a Kentucky native and graduate of MSM, based in NYC. Favorite regional credits include Mary Poppins (Bert), Footloose (Willard) and Rocky Horror (Brad). He is so thankful for the support from his family. @larshafell

ALESHA JETER (Ensemble) is elated to be joining The Book of Mormon National Tour. She graduated from Manhattan School of Music (’23 BM Musical Theatre) in the Spring of 2023. She would like to thank her parents and sister for being her rock. Her most recent role was as Auntie in the Kennedy Center’s TYA National Tour of Show Way the musical. @aleshajeter

KISAKYE (chi-sah-cheh) (Ensemble) is feeling beyond blessed in making her national tour debut! Endless love to God, gratitude to her biggest investor - Mommy, and deep appreciation to every single soul who has and continues to pour into her artistry. Huge flowers to Take3Talent & Eddie, NYC/ CA mentors, and life-changing friends and family. Cheers to #TeamDugavuUganda proud! @kiisakye

EVAN LENNON (Ensemble) is thrilled to be returning to the Mormon tour for a third year! Regional: Newsies at Casa Mañana, Guys and Dolls (Harry) at Sharon Playhouse, Grease at Mountain Rep. Evan is an OU Musical Theatre BFA Graduate. Love to Mom, Dad, Ryan, and Kate for their support. evanlennon.com @evanlennon

CLAYTON LUKENS (Ensemble) is thrilled to join the touring company of Book of Mormon! Lukens recently got his BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Arizona. Huge thanks to his family, friends, and everyone at Hell’s Kitchen Agency. Bear Down! @claytonlukens www.claytonlukens.com

JARRET MARTIN (Ensemble) is thrilled to be making their National Tour Debut!

Select Credits: Regional Premiere of Rocky The Musical (Walnut Street Theatre), In The Heights (Benny), The Color Purple (Harpo), The Wizard of Oz (Lion/Zeke). Many thanks to the cast and crew. Forever grateful to my family, friends, and H.K. Agency for their never-ending love and support! @jays.bubble_

JOEY MYERS (Ensemble). National tour debut! Joey is a Missouri native who is a proud graduate of Missouri State University. He would like to thank those to whom he will always be indebted; his family, friends and teachers. Huge thank you to all the unsung heroes to whom this show would be impossible to do without. Thank you! @joeydmyers

JEWELL NOEL (Ensemble) is thrilled to be joining the BOM family! Jewell is a Brooklyn New York native. Off Bway: BABY! (OOTB) National Tour: PAW Patrol Live!: The Great Pirate Adventure 1st & 2nd tour, PAW Patrol LIVE! 1st China tour. Regional Credits: Camae (The Mountaintop), Leading Player (Pippin), Corky (Meteor Shower). Jewell extends her love and gratitude to her family, friends and agent for their constant support. ForZ! Jewellnoel.nyc

ALEXIS IJEOMA NWOKOJI (Ensemble). Nashville, TN native. Recently seen in Bull (CBS). Nat’l Tour: Paw Patrol Live! Regional: Caroline or Change (Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe), Sister Act (Mcleod Summer Playhouse). Commercials: Galderma, Amazon. Proud Alum of Southern Illinois University. Special thanks to Mom! @alexisnwokoji

CONNOR OLNEY (Swing, Co-Dance Captain) is thrilled to be ringing doorbells across the country! Regional credits: Grease (MTWichita), The Sound of Music (Fireside), Singin’ in the Rain (Wagon Wheel). Endless thanks to Jen, Justin, TPG, and his family for their continued love and support. Go Noles! @the1andolney

THOMAS ED PURVIS (Ensemble, Co-Dance Captain). Credits: Rent (25th Anniversary Farewell Tour; Swing, u/s Benny), Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You Tour (Ensemble), Choir Boy (Speakeasy Stage Company). The Boston Conservatory at Berklee (BFA Musical Theater 21’). “To whom much is given, much is required” (Luke 12:48).

@ThomasEdPurvis

REYNEL REYNALDO (Swing) is so excited to be joining the touring company of Book of Mormon. National tours: On Your Feet! (2nd national). Regional: Mary Poppins, Head Over Heels, Shrek The Musical, Mamma Mia, Sister Act, just to name a few. Dance credits: SuperBowl XLIV, FloRida,

Queen Latifah, Daddy Yankee, Miami Heat, Miami Dolphins, Austin Mahone. Many thanks to God, mom and dad, my family, my manager Lisa Calli, APMCOTA and Slowburn Theatre Company for always supporting me. @iamreynelreynaldo

NOAH SILVERMAN (Ensemble) is thrilled to be making his national tour debut! Regional: The Prom (Kevin), On the Town(Ozzie), A Curious Incident (Christopher). AIDA Cruises (Lead Vocalist). Penn State, Walnut Hill. Love to his family, friends and team at Henderson Hogan. @ndsilverman

LOREN STONE (Swing) is excited to be making his national tour debut with The Book of Mormon! Regional: The SpongeBob Musical (SpongeBob SquarePants), White Christmas (Phil Davis), Singing in the Rain (Cosmo Brown), Jersey Boys (Frankie Valli u/s). Special thanks to the entire Mormon team, the FSE family, his family, friends, and mentors who have helped him chase his dreams. University of Florida Alum - BFA Musical Theatre. loren-stone.com @lo__sto

BHRIANNA VEILLARD (Swing) is absolutely delighted to be making her national tour debut! Special thanks to the casting and entire creative team! Endless love to God, mentors, her friends and family including her biggest supporter her mom. @bhriannaveillard

DYLAN KNIGHT WEAVER (Ensemble). National Tour debut! Dylan Knight Weaver is from Boulder, Colorado and a recent grad of Syracuse University. Regional: Melchior in Spring Awakening (OTL Theater Collective), Matthew in 108 Waverly (Plays of Wilton), Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid (Syracuse Stage). Huge thanks to my friends and family as well as Jim Keith and the whole MTA team, couldn’t do it without you all! @dkweaver

BRIGHAM WILLIAMS he/him (Ensemble). National Tour: Debut. Off Broadway: Adam (Saw: The Unauthorized Musical Parody ), David (KC@Bat). Education: Millikin University ‘22 BFA Musical Theatre. Thanks to FSE Talent, family, and friends. @brighamwilliams

TREY PARKER (Original Co-Director, Book, Music, Lyrics) wrote and directed his first feature film, Cannibal! The Musical, while attending the University of Colorado in Boulder. A few years later, Trey co-created the hit animated series “South Park” with Matt Stone, his college friend and Cannibal! producer. Debuting on Comedy Central in 1997 and currently in its 23rd season, “South Park” has won five Emmy Awards as well as the coveted Peabody Award. The same year “South Park” debuted,

Parker wrote, directed and starred in the film Orgazmo Two years later, Parker and Stone released the critically acclaimed feature film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut The musical, which Parker directed and co-wrote, earned an Oscar nomination for Best Song and the first ever New York Film Critics Circle Award for an animated film. In 2004, the pair returned to theaters with Team America: World Police, an action movie co-written and directed by Parker that starred a cast of marionettes. It has been a long-time dream of Parker’s to write a musical for Broadway. He won four Tonys for The Book of Mormon, including Best Musical, as well as the Grammy for The Best Musical Theater Album. Trey Parker is originally from Conifer, Colo. ROBERT LOPEZ (Book, Music, Lyrics) is the co-creator of the smash hit, Tony Award-winning Broadway musicals Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon Along with his wife and collaborator Kristen Anderson-Lopez, he wrote the songs for Disney’s Frozen, earning an Oscar and a Grammy for the movie’s signature song “Let It Go,” and a Grammy for the Frozen soundtrack. The pair adapted Frozen for Broadway which opened Spring 2018. Lopez and Anderson-Lopez also co-wrote the Oscar-winning song “Remember Me” from Pixar’s Coco, original musical Up Here, the score for Disney’s Winnie the Pooh and Finding Nemo: The Musical (playing at Walt Disney World since 2006). Lopez shared two Emmy Award wins for his music for Nickelodeon’s “The Wonder Pets” and an Emmy nomination for the musical episode of “Scrubs” and the song “Moving Pictures” which opened the 87th Academy Awards. His work has also been featured on TV shows, including “South Park,” “The Simpsons” and “Phineas and Ferb.” Lopez is one of only 15 artists to win all four major entertainment industry awards (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards). He has also won Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Lucile Lortel, Frederick Loewe and Edward Kleban awards. A graduate of Yale, Lopez now resides in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters. Thanks Buzzetti, Mom, Dad, Billy, Katie, Annie and especially Kristen for all the love and support.

MATT STONE (Book, Music, Lyrics) met Trey Parker at the University of Colorado, and together they made a short animated piece called The Spirit of Christmas This launched their most recognized work, the critically acclaimed and award-winning television show, “South Park.” The animated series is in its 23rd season on Comedy Central and has won Stone five Emmy

Awards and the coveted Peabody Award. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which Stone produced and cowrote, earned an Oscar nomination and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film. In addition to “South Park,” Stone has partnered with Parker on the low-budget Cannibal! The Musical, the superhero comedy Orgazmo and the marionette action thriller Team America: World Police Stone won three Tonys for The Book of Mormon, including Best Musical, as well as a Grammy for the Best Musical Theater Album. Matt Stone is originally from Littleton, Colo.

CASEY NICHOLAW (Original CoDirector and Choreographer). Represented on Broadway as director/ choreographer of The Prom, Mean Girls (2018 Tony nominations for Best Direction and Choreography), Disney’s Aladdin (2014 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award nominations for Best Choreography) and co-director and choreographer of The Book of Mormon (2011 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for codirector and nominations in the same categories for Choreography), Olivier Award-winner for Best Choreography. Represented on the West End as director and choreographer of Dreamgirls, The Book of Mormon and Aladdin Other Broadway credits as director/choreographer: Tuck Everlasting, Something Rotten! (2015 Tony nominee, Best Director), Elf The Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Monty Python’s Spamalot directed by Mike Nichols (2005 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations Best Choreography). Additional New York credits for City Center Encores!: the highly acclaimed productions of Most Happy Fella, Anyone Can Whistle and Follies (direction/choreography).

JENNIFER WERNER (Director and Choreographer) is currently the Supervising Associate Director of The Book of Mormon Worldwide. Associate Director: Follies, The Most Happy Fella, and Call Me Madam (City Center Encores!). Regional: NC Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Casa Manana, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, and the Engeman Theatre. Choreography: As Long As We Both Shall Laugh (Roundabout Theatre), The Black Suits (Center Theater Group/LA), NFL National commercials, ABC’s Upfronts, The Drama League Awards, Cabaret worldwide. Choreography Off Broadway: Bloodsong of Love (Ars Nova), The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (Lucille Lortel Theatre), ReWrite (Urban Stages), and Things to Ruin (Second

Stage). Direction/Choreography: Broadway Bounty Hunter (Greenwich House Theater), and Punk Rock Girl!, licensed by Concord Theatricals/BMG Music/ Lively McCabe. jenwerner.com

SCOTT PASK (Scenic Design) has designed over 50 Broadway productions, receiving three Tony Awards for The Book of Mormon, The Coast of Utopia, and The Pillowman. Recently: American Buffalo (Tony Nom.); Mr. Saturday Night; The Prom; The Bands Visit (Tony Nom.); Mean Girls (Tony nom.); Waitress; & Oh, Hello! on Broadway. Also, Pippin (Tony nom); Something Rotten!; The Visit; An Act of God; It’s Only a Play; I’ll Eat You Last; A Steady Rain; Pal Joey (Tony nom); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (first revival, Tony nom, Drama Desk Award); A Behanding in Spokane; Nine; Promises, Promises; Speed-the-Plow; Take Me Out; Martin Short…; The Vertical Hour; Sweet Charity; Urinetown. London: The Book of Mormon, The Playboy of the Western World, The Country Girl, Love Song, On An Average Day (all West End); Tales from Hollywood, Take Me Out, and The Same Deep Water as Me (Donmar). Also Peter Grimes (Met Opera), Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna.

STEPHEN OREMUS ( Musical Supervisor/Vocal Arranger/ Co-Orchestrator ) Broadway: Kinky Boots (Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and Grammy Award); The Book of Mormon (Tony and Drama Desk awards for Best Orchestrations and Grammy Award). Worldwide music supervisor/arranger of Wicked; music supervisor/vocal arranger/orchestrator of Broadway productions/tours of The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q, All Shook Up and 9 to 5: The Musical. Conductor/contributing arranger for the Oscar-winning Disney film Frozen. Music director of “The Wiz Live” on NBC TV and The 87th Academy Awards telecast; arranging Lady Gaga’s tribute to The Sound of Music and orchestrator/conductor for Lady Gaga’s performance of “Till It Happens to You” on The 88th Academy Awards Music director/conductor for Rufus Wainwright’s concerts: Rufus Does Judy and House of Rufus.

JUSTIN MENDOZA (Associate Music Supervisor) is the Music Director/ Conductor of The Book of Mormon on Broadway and is honored to help tell this story around the country. Other NY/Tour credits: In the Heights (Conductor), Wicked (Associate Conductor), Fugitive Songs. Eternally grateful for my amazing parents, family, friends, and teachers. For my husband Eric, I am the most proud to be your mission companion for life.

BRADEN CHUDZIK (Music Director/ Conductor).Buffalo, NY native. National Tours: Mean Girls, Legally Blonde. Select Regional: Naples Players, The Palace (NH), Kavinoky, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, Starring Buffalo. All my thanks and love to Chas, Tina, and Mom. Go Bills!

RANDY COHEN ( Keyboard Programmer). Randy Cohen and Randy Cohen Keyboards have programmed over 95 Broadway shows including Hamilton, Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen, Frozen, Pretty Woman, Ain’t Too Proud, Bring It On, In The Heights, SpongeBob, Summer, Once On This Island, Anastasia, Kinky Boots, Bandstand, On Your Feet, and Rock of Ages

ANN ROTH (Costume Design) is a Tony Award-winning costume designer with over 100 theater design credits. Select designs include the original Broadway productions of The Odd Couple, Purlie, Seesaw, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, They’re Playing Our Song, Hurlyburly, The House of Blue Leaves, The Book of Mormon and The Nance (Tony Award). Film credits include The English Patient (Academy Award), The Post, Julie & Julia, The Reader, Doubt, Mamma Mia!, Cold Mountain, The Hours, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Birdcage, Klute, Working Girl, Silkwood, 9 to 5, Hair and Midnight Cowboy. Roth was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2011.

BRIAN MacDEVITT (Lighting Design). Recent NYC: The Music Man, The Book of Mormon, Plaza Suite, The Minutes, Carousel, Fish in the Dark, This is Our Youth, Death of A Salesman, The Enchanted Island at the Met Opera. Dance: American Ballet Theatre, Tere O’Connor Dance, Merce Cunningham, Lar Lubovitch, Director: Proof, Theatre Three; Spring Awakening, Machinal, The Visit, Clarice Smith Arts Center; Between Riverside and Crazy, Studio Theater. Awards: five Tonys, Obie, Bessie, Outer Critics, Hewes, Drama Desk awards, et. Al. Member: Naked Angels. Faculty: University of Maryland. Father: Jake and Georgie.

CHAD PARSLEY (Sound Design) Production Sound for national tours: Beautiful the Carole King Musical, Blue Man Group Speechless, Rock of Ages. Head Sound: Beautiful the Carole King Musical 1st National Tour, Book of Mormon 1st National, Jersey Boys Chicago Company. Currently Head Advance Sound Hamilton Phillip and Peggy companies. Regional: Skylight Music Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

BRIAN RONAN (Original Sound Designer) has over 40 Broadway

designs including Funny Girl, Mrs. Doubtfire, Springsteen on Broadway, The Prom, Tootsie, Mean Girls, Sting’s The Last Ship, Beautiful, The Book of Mormon, Anything Goes, American Idiot, Next to Normal, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens and Cabaret Off Broadway designs include Bowie’s Lazarus, Giant, Rent, Everyday Rapture, Saved, 10 Million Miles, and Bug. He is the recipient of Obie, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Olivier and Tony awards. He has had the opportunity to work with the most talented composers, directors, designers, actors, musicians, and stagehands in the world for which he is eternally grateful.

LARRY HOCHMAN (Co-Orchestrator)

Tony Award: The Book of Mormon. Tony nominations: Fiddler on the Roof; A Class Act; Spamalot; The Scottsboro Boys; Something Rotten!; She Loves Me; Hello, Dolly! Five Emmy Awards as composer of “The Wonder Pets” (Nickelodeon). Other Broadway: The Addams Family, Jane Eyre. Twenty-eight regional and OffBroadway shows. Films: multiple Disney films and The Informant! (Marvin Hamlisch). Composer: The Little Mermaid II, Spielberg’s “Amazing Stories,” In Memoriam (symphonic poem). Recordings, concerts: Sir Paul McCartney, Not the Messiah (Eric Idle), Mandy Patinkin, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Barry Manilow, Boston Pops, San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic.

GLEN KELLY (Dance Arrangements) arranged music and wrote original lyrics for Bullets Over Broadway. He supervised and arranged Mel Brooks’ The Producers and Young Frankenstein. Other arranging credits include Beauty and the Beast, Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone, A Christmas Story, The Scottsboro Boys, Aladdin and Something Rotten! He won a Drama Desk Award for his original score to The Nance.

JOSH MARQUETTE (Hair Design) N.Y./ London: Dreamgirls, Paramour, Tuck Everlasting, School of Rock, Something Rotten!, Aladdin, Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon, Trip of Love, First Date, Elf, Dogfight, The Best Man, Look Back in Anger, The Drowsy Chaperone, Pig Farm, …Trailer Park Musical, Altar Boyz, Show Boat at Carnegie Hall and Mamma Mia! Encores!: Most Happy Fella; No, No, Nanette; and Follies. West Coast: Robin and the 7 Hoods, Peep Show, Minsky’s, Vanities. Television: “The Slap”, “30 Rock”, “Saturday Night Live”

CARRIE GARDNER, C.S.A. (Casting). Broadway: Book of Mormon, Trouble In Mind, The Humans, All My Sons, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Significant Other,

Sunday in the Park, Long Day’s Journey, Therese Raquin, The Real Thing, Violet, Rocky, Machinal, Edwin Drood, The Importance of Being Earnest, American Idiot, Spring Awakening. Off-Broadway: Toni Stone, Merrily, Skintight, Amy and the Orphans, Bobbie Clearly, Bad Jews, Indian Ink, Dinner with Friends, Tom Durnin, Sons of The Prophet, Tigers Be Still, Ordinary Days, Speech & Debate.

JOHN MEZZIO (Music Coordinator) has conducted national tours including State Fair starring John Davidson, Victor Victoria starring Toni Tennille, and Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt and Deborah Gibson. Additionally, Mr. Mezzio was Associate Conductor for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express at the Las Vegas Hilton. National tours: Oklahoma!, The Producers, Spring Awakening, Memphis, Beauty and the Beast, and Elf the Musical.

RYAN BUCHHOLZ he/him (Company Manager). National Tours: 1776, Elf, Fiddler on the Roof, Hairspray, Mean Girls. Regional: Powerhouse Theater. He holds a degree in Theatre from the University at Albany.

GABRIELLA SHEAD ( Assistant Company Manager). A native of Denver, CO, her life in theatre began with Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, where she studied, performed, and stage managed a number of CPRD’s productions. After graduating from Arizona State University, with a degree in Arts Administration (mentored by Colleen Jennings Roggensak), she became Production Assistant for A Beautiful Noise, Life of Pi and The Wiz ALINA GOODMAN (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be joining the Book of Mormon National tour! Alina is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in Stage Management. Prior touring PSM roles: CoComelon: Live! JJ’s Journey; International tour of Stranger Things: The Experience; National Tour of The Polar Express Train Ride. Love to my family!

KADEN DOLPH (Assistant Stage Manager) is overjoyed to be on the road with The Book of Mormon! National tour: Jesus Christ Superstar 50th Anniversary Tour. Regional: Tuacahn Amphitheater, Pittsburgh CLO, Denver Center, Turn It Up Dance Challenge, and The Nutcracker Ballet at Colorado Dance Theatre. Many thanks to the NETworks team. Endless love to family, friends, and Dexter. @kadendolph GENTRY & ASSOCIATES (General Management) has managed nearly 250 national and international touring theatrical productions over the past 25 years. Current and upcoming productions include A Beautiful Noise,

Beetlejuice, The Book of Mormon, Come From Away, Funny Girl, The Great Gatsby, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Mean Girls, Peter Pan, The Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music, and The Wiz

ALLIED GLOBAL MARKETING (Tour Marketing & Press) is a full-service integrated marketing agency working with the world’s largest entertainment, consumer, and lifestyle brands, including 80+ Broadway shows over three decades. Current tours: Ain’t Too Proud, Back to the Future, Beetlejuice, Hadestown, Mamma Mia!, Mean Girls, Mrs. Doubtfire, Pretty Woman, Riverdance, Some Like It Hot. Upcoming tours: Elf The Musical, The Great Gatsby, Kinky Boots, The Notebook, The Outsiders, Suffs

THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Booking Agency) has represented 28 Tony Award® winning Best Musicals and Plays. Current tours include The Book of Mormon, Chicago, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Funny Girl, Hadestown, Hairspray, Hamilton, Mamma Mia!, Mean Girls, MJ The Musical, Mrs. Doubtfire, My Fair Lady, Pretty Woman, Six, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, To Kill A Mockingbird, Waitress and The Wiz. Future tours include: A Wonderful World, How to Dance in Ohio, The Karate Kid, Parade, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Some Like It Hot and Sweeney Todd.

SETH WENIG (Executive Producer) has been with NETworks since its inception in 1995. He spearheaded the international tours of Fosse starring Ben Vereen and Ruthie Henshall. Seth has produced the Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific and the National Theatre production of War Horse. Together with Cameron Mackintosh, Seth served as Executive Producer for both the U.S. and U.K. tours of the National Theatre’s My Fair Lady, the 25th Anniversary U.S. tour of Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera tour, Miss Saigon. Currently, Funny Girl, The Book of Mormon, and Life of Pi. He is most proud of his greatest productions – Marlo and Camden.

NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS

(Producer) is an industry-leading producer of touring theatrical productions, committed to delivering quality entertainment to audiences worldwide for over 25 years. Current and upcoming productions include A Beautiful Noise, Beetlejuice, The Book of Mormon, Come From Away, Funny Girl, The Great Gatsby, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Mean Girls, Peter Pan, The Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music, and The Wiz.

STAFF FOR THE BOOK OF MORMON

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Seth Wenig

Hannah Rosenthal

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

Gentry & Associates

Gregory Vander Ploeg

Steven Varon-Moore

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

NETworks Presentations

Jason Juenker

TOUR PRESS AND MARKETING

ALLIED GLOBAL MARKETING

Andrew Damer

Jennifer Gallagher Scott Praefke

Jessica Cary Davis Adina Hsu Amenkha Sembenu

Jessica Steans-Gail Emily Toppen Anne Waisanen

CASTING

C12

Carrie Gardner CSA

TOUR DIRECTION THE BOOKING GROUP

Meredith Blair

Rich Rundle Brian Brooks

Jonathan Pearson Maryruth Grabez thebookinggroup.com

Production Stage Manager Alina Goodman

Assistant Stage Manager Kaden Dolph

Pre-Production Assistant Stage Manager Kyrah Michael

Company Manager Ryan Buchholz

Assistant Company Manager Gabriela Shead

Tour Supervising Associate Director Stephen Sposito

Associate Director Leonard Sullivan

Associate Scenic Design Frank McCullough

Associate Costume Design Matthew Pachtman

Assistant Costume Design Joshua Goodwin

Associate Wig and Hair Designer Tod L McKim

Associate Lighting Design

Assistant Lighting Design

Joe Beumer

Olivia LoVerde

Moving Lighting Programmer Parker Conzone

Assistant Sound Designer Philip Franzone

Head Carpenter Mason Chadd

Assistant Carpenter Autumn Munsell

Flyman

Luca Fragiotta

Head Electrician Lorna Young

Assistant Electrician David Krasner

Head Audio Samuel Kim

Assistant Audio Robert Isley

Head Props Joshua Kahn

Wardrobe Supervisor Tsung Ju Yang

Assistant Wardrobe Lilijana Branch

Wigs/Hair Supervisor Jasper Somers

Crew Swing

Emily Simpson

Production Wardrobe Tyler Guse, Brendan Van Stee

Production Carpenter pesci

Production Electrician Lars Stolpe

Production Sound Alexander Pregel

Production Properties Cailin Kucera

Keyboard Programmer Randy Cohen

Dance Captains Connor Olney, Thomas Ed Purvis

Physical Therapy NEURO TOUR Physical Therapy, Inc.

Production Assistant Nicholas Carlstrom

Safety Consultant Bryan Huneycutt

Production Photography Julieta Cervantes

Video Services HMS Media

Creative Services BLT Communications, Inc.

Website Services/Design BLT Communications, Inc.

Merchandise The Araca Group

Merchandise Manager Adam Dixon

Accounting NETworks Presentations LLC

Legal Services F. Richard Pappas, Esq.

HR Services K+K Reset, LLC

Housing Road Concierge

Travel Agency Kessler & Co. / Direct Travel

Trucking

FOR NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS

Chief Executive Ofﬁcer Orin Wolf

President/Chief Production Ofﬁcer

Chief Operating Ofﬁcer/Chief Financial Ofﬁcer

Business Affairs

Seth Wenig

Margaret Daniel

Scott W. Jackson

Executive Producers Mimi Intagliata, Hannah Rosenthal, Trinity Wheeler

Vice President of Finance

Sr. Director/Finance

Controller

Director of Tour Accounting

Tax Director

Tax Assistant

Accounts Payables & Receivables Clerk

Sr. Director/Booking and Engagements

Scott Levine

John Kinna

Jennifer Gifford

Laura S. Carey

Pat Guerieri

Deborah Brown

Lisa Loveless

Amanda Laird

Directors, Booking & Engagements Stacey Burns, Colin Byrne

Director of Sales

Director of Marketing

Zach Stevenson

Heather Hess

Sr. Director/General Management Gregory Vander Ploeg

General Managers Madeline McCluskey, Rebecca Shubart, Steven Varon-Moore

Associate General Managers Amanda Lenti, Heather Moss, Shira Wolf

Sr. Director/Production Management

Sr. Production Manager

Production Managers

Jason Juenker

Hector Guivas

Matthew Reardon, Alex Williams

Technical Director pesci

Production Coordinator Aimeé Mangual Pagán

Director of Operations Pearce Landry-Wegener

Resource Director

People Operations/Payroll Manager

Ofﬁce Manager

Kayla Rooplal

Sara Clayton

Michelle Adye

Executive Assistant Isabella Schiavon

Music Coordinator

Warehouse Manager

John Mezzio

Joseph Spratt

Warehouse Costume Shop Assistant Grace Santamaria

CREDITS

Scenery built by PRG-Scenic Technologies and Great Lakes Scenic Studio. Scenery fabrication by PRG-Scenic Technologies, a division of Production Resource Groups, LLC, New Windsor, NY. Lighting equipment provided by Christie Lights. Sound equipment provided by Masque Sound. Costumes by Eric Winterling, Inc; Gilberto Designs, Inc.; Katrina Patterns; Izquierdo Studios, Ltd; Studio Rouge, Inc. Millinery by Rodney Gordon, Inc. Custom fabric printing by First 2 Print LLC.; Jeff Fender Studios; Eyewear provided by Dr. Wayne Goldberg. Custom footwear by LaDuca Shoes, Inc., Props executed by Cigar Box Studios, Tom Carroll Scenery, Jerard Studios, Daedalus Design and Production, Joe Cairo, J&M Special Effects, Jeremy Lydic, Josh Yoccom, Anna Light. Wigs made by Hudson Wigs, Kendra Driskill of Magnolia Wigs. Makeup provided by MAC Cosmetics. Keyboards from Yamaha Corporation of America. Drums by Pearl Drums. Cymbals provided by Zildjian Cymbals.

Rehearsed at Boulevard Carroll Studio, New York; The NEW 42ND STREET Studios

Special Thanks to Broadway in Utica, Utica, NY; Danielle Padula, Executive Director. The Carson Center, Paducah, KY; Mary Katz, Executive Director. Insurance Broker Services EPIC Entertainment & Sports

Financial Services and banking arrangements by Flagstar Bank N.A.

All stage work performed by employees represented by IATSE.

United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.

ACKNOWLEDGES THE FOLLOWING SUPPORT IN ITS 2024/25 BROADWAY SEASON

PLEASE BE ADVISED

• LATECOMERS and those exiting the theatre are seated at predetermined breaks in designated areas.

• PHOTOS, RECORDING & CELL PHONE USE are prohibited.

• CHILDREN 6+ are welcome in our theatres and must be ticketed.

• DRINKS are allowed in provided containers.

• ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES, LARGE PRINT PROGRAMS & BOOSTER SEATS are available in most theatres. Ask an usher to direct you.

• BRAILLE PROGRAMS are available with 2 weeks’ notice to amcmullen@dcpa.org or 303.446.4836

Members of Denver Theatrical Wardrobe, Wigs, Hair and Make-up, IATSE Local 719

Leslie Lambert

Robin Appleton

Julie Bassignani

Vonnie Clough

Craig Cory

Cyndie Cory

Steve Davies

Anne Davis

Amber Krimbel

Carolyn Dore

AnnSue Gunter

Judy Holabird

Will Holabird

Lauren LaCasse

Kelsey Lambert

Mark Anthony

Perry Elliott

Kiko Marra

Sarah Lambert

Sharon Millikan-Hale

Callie Morrow

Tim Nelson

Lisa Parsons Wagner

Laura Payne

Dave Poole

Alan Richards

Elisa Spadi

Amy Tepel

Eliza Vlasova

Barbara Wilson

DPAC House Crew

Albert Sainz Sr.

Josh Thurman

Derek Tovar

Allen Olmstead

David A. Wilson

The Denver Performing Arts Complex is owned and operated by Denver Arts & Venues for the City and County of Denver.

City and County of Denver

Mike Johnston, Mayor

Denver Arts & Venues

Gretchen Hollrah, Executive Director

Tariana Navas-Nievas, Deputy Director

Clark Transfer

The Director and Choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.

Denver Arts & Venues, Arts Complex Operations

Mark Heiser, Venue Director

Jody Grossman, Assistant Venue Director, Booking

Todd Medley, Facilities Superintendent

Kelly Graham, Safety, Security and Garage Operations Manager

Carol Krueger, Patron Services Manager

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THE BOOK OF MORMON IS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON

REPRINTED BY PERMISSION OF THE BOOK OF MORMON

NNot just any musical wins nine Tony Awards, a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and tours in 13 countries around the world, all while playing to packed audiences on Broadway for over 14 years. But then, The Book of Mormon, a musical comedy by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q co-creator/Frozen composer Robert Lopez, is not just any musical. The comedy has been seen by over 20 million audience members globally, with over 12,000 performances worldwide.

The conception of The Book of Mormon began after Parker and Stone met with Lopez after a performance of Avenue Q. They discovered a mutual interest in telling a story about Joseph Smith and the Mormon religion. A short time after that initial meeting, Lopez, Parker and Stone took a trip to Salt Lake City for inspiration, and The Book of Mormon musical was born.

The musical follows the adventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word When The Book of Mormon opened on Broadway in 2011, after nearly seven years of development, it instantly became a mega-hit. One of Broadway’s Legacy shows, and now in its fourteenth year of performances, it just celebrated its 5,000th performance, making it the 12th longest-running show in Broadway history. It has set house records at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre more than 50

times. Since then, The Book of Mormon has played in 40 U.S. states, six Canadian provinces and 134 cities across the globe. Critics dubbed the production “the funniest musical of all time” and the “best musical of this century.”

In 2013, The Book of Mormon opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London’s West End. The day after opening the show grossed a record $3.2 million — the highest single sales day in West End and Broadway history. The West End production subsequently won four Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. The Book of Mormon has also toured in Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Germany and more.

What Stone, Parker and Lopez have created is a show that has inﬂuenced and entertained multiple generations. Audiences continue to enjoy an evening of humor and heart. The Book of Mormon is more than a success. It is now a global phenomenon.

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THE BOOK OF MORMON

MAY 6 – 18 • BUELL THEATRE

ASL Interpreted, Audio Described and Open Captioned performance: May 17 at 2pm

Sam McLellan and company in THE BOOK OF MORMON North American tour.

Photo by Julieta Cervantes.

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A MOUTH-WATERING SEASON FINALE

The 2024/25 Theatre Company season wraps with a pair of award-winning comedies that are guaranteed to leave you hungry for more.

FEAST ON A BELOVED SCI-FI MUSICAL THAT HAS ROCKED THE GLOBE FOR GENERATIONS!

NOW – MAY 25

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Directed by Chris Coleman

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CORPORATE EVENTS

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Whether you’re planning a Board meeting, corporate retreat, or employee appreciation event, look to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts for your corporate needs. From planning and logistics to lighting design and catering, we’re able to pull oﬀ showstopping aﬀairs for the ultimate show of appreciation for your clients and guests!

Working with our theatrically trained, in-house Event Services team, you can select from the spectacular Seawell Ballroom or intimate Directors Room plus your choice of:

• Eight caterers

• Customized bar package from Sodexo Live!

• Dramatic lighting design and Broadway-caliber sound

SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE

Called the “Super Bowl of Theatre” by OnStage Colorado, the Colorado New Play Summit rests at the pinnacle of new play development in America. This year’s 19th annual event on March 1 & 2 was no exception.

More than 1,500 tickets were distributed to readings of new works from some of the industry’s brightest playwrights:

• bogfriends by jose sebastian alberdi is an exploration of love, power dynamics, and the preservation of the past that connects six characters from diﬀerent times and places as they navigate their relationships around an ancient Irish bog.

• In How to Conquer America: A Mostly True History of Yogurt by David Myers, Arlene Hoﬀman’s ad campaign transforms yogurt into a lucrative phenomenon. But when her late father interferes, she must confront family, culture, and appropriation in a heartfelt take on the American Dream.

• In Renaissance Rome, artists battle for a coveted commission, but poet Beatrice seeks to shape the content, as If God Were Blue by Carey Perloﬀ explores art, power, faith, and the creative struggle.

• Held hostage in her oﬃce, psychologist Dr. Devra Mendoza must outmaneuver danger, confronting buried truths about the world, her work, and herself in Rust on Bone by Bianca Sams, a gripping psychological thriller.

Playwrights featured at the Colorado New Play Summit include (l-r) Jake Brasch, Carey Perloﬀ, Sandy Rustin, Bianca Sams, jose sebastian alberdi, and David Myers.

Attendees also enjoyed the world premieres of Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir and Sandy Rustin’s The Su ragette’s Murder, both of which were read in 2023. Since its founding, the Summit has introduced 70 new plays, over half of which have received full Theatre Company productions before going on to more than 250 subsequent engagements across the country.

Photo by Harper Anne Finch.

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June 7 & 8

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June 28 & 29

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MUSIC THERAPY CAN CHANGE THE BRAIN AND MAKE PEOPLE FEEL BETTER

BY LINNEA COVINGTON

HHave you ever listened to your favorite song and instantly felt better? This response, said Angela Wibben, Board-Certiﬁed Music Therapist at UCHealth, can be used to care for patients.

“Music and the arts are inherently therapeutic,” said Wibben who is also a classically trained percussionist. “There is no music center of the brain. When we use music interventions for rehabilitation, music activates a cross-covering of neural networks.”

While the use of music in therapy dates back centuries, UCHealth began to utilize it in 2016 as part of person-centered, collaborative care. Now UCHealth has tripled its efforts. “Until the Spring of 2024,” Wibben continued, “The University of Colorado Hospital had one staff music therapist for the entire hospital. With the support of our comprehensive data, our healthcare community, and generous philanthropy from donors, we have been able to expand the team to three board-certified music therapists on staff.”

What began in the World War II era to treat individuals in the midst of trauma has developed into a rigorous curriculum. “Now we have our own national board certiﬁcation, and in order to be a music therapist you need to earn at least an undergraduate degree in music therapy,” said Wibben, who has worked in the ﬁeld for 12 years, eight of those at UCHealth.

“Music therapy has been shown to improve the quality of life of our patients as well as…to help them heal and support their physical, cognitive, emotional, spiritual, and social goals,” said Wibben. “During a music therapy session our patients may talk about lyrics to explore their meaning in their lives, write songs to express emotions, improvise on instruments to decrease anxiety, use the qualities of rhythm and pitch to help them relearn how to speak after a neurologic injury, or listen to live music to help relax or decrease pain.”

However, when Wibben comes into a room with a cart of instruments, not everyone understands what’s going on.

“I usually start with a broad approach. I ask what is the most challenging part about being in the hospital. For some it’s the pain, the anxiety, and for others it’s being away from social supports and communities, pets or loved ones,” she explained. But music “can help empower people in their healing process.”

It doesn’t matter if you are a musician or have a favorite genre. The real key, she said, is to ask people what music they love and let the comfort and joy of the song course through them. That’s where the healing comes in.

PROUD PARTNER OF THE DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

CCBS Colorado’s Dillon Thomas is known as Your Reporter in Northern Colorado, but around here, he’s better known as Colorado’s connection to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. CBS Colorado’s team of Your Reporters covers Colorado’s vibrant arts scene like no one else and Dillon’s coverage of the DCPA is unique and far-reaching. His commitment has put him on the road with America’s top traveling productions, including MJ the musical, TINA — The Tina Turner Musical and SIX. “Telling the stories of these extraordinary performers and showing our viewers the long hours behind the scenes and the intense eﬀort these shows require is one of my great honors,” Thomas says. “I’m very proud to represent CBS Colorado and showcase all the incredible talent that the DCPA brings to our theatres throughout the year.”

As one of the largest nonproﬁt theater organizations in the country, the DCPA provides a great avenue for connecting with our community and our clients through the arts.

— NICOLE AMENT, SHAREHOLDER AT BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK AND DCPA TRUSTEE

PROUD CORPORATE MEMBER OF THE DCPA

FFounded in 1968 by three University of Colorado graduates, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck provides its clients a value that no other western law ﬁrm can match— an integrated approach that combines sensible business solutions with a federal, state and local government perspective. The ﬁrm’s 300 lawyers and policy professionals provide multidisciplinary legal counsel that drives results and connects business leaders to the information they need to make decisions.

For more than 55 years, Brownstein has called downtown Denver home. Long before the term “corporate social responsibility” arrived on the scene, our founders, Norm Brownstein, Jack Hyatt and Steve Farber, created a culture of giving back to the local community from the ﬁrst day the ﬁrm opened its doors.

Today, Brownstein continues to foster this value— investing in its communities through board service, volunteerism, sponsorships, donations and pro bono legal services. Its commitment to philanthropy goes beyond words and dollars, empowering employees to volunteer their time and talents in a way that is meaningful to them. From hosting hands-on volunteer opportunities to helping employees identify nonproﬁt and civic board positions that ﬁt their passions, Brownstein’s employees give back to make the communities where they live and work stronger.

“As a member of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Board of Trustees, I get to see firsthand the impact that the DCPA has on our community,” said Nicole Ament, Shareholder, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. “As one of the largest nonprofit theater organizations in the country, the work of so many people on and off the stage helps celebrate artistic achievements, create educational experiences and foster conversations. It also provides a great avenue for connecting with our community and our clients through the arts.”

Brownstein is proud to support the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the success of Colorado’s creative economy.

DCPA

Janice Sinden President & CEO

Donna Hendricks Executive Assistant, President & CEO

Julie Schumaker Manager, Board Relations

ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

Jane Williams CFAO

Sara Brandenburg Director, Accounting Services

Jennifer Jeﬀrey Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Kristina Monge Associate Accountant

Rachel Rodriguez Manager, Treasury & Reconciliations

Jennifer Siemers Director, Accounting

BROADWAY & CABARET

John Ekeberg Executive Director

Administration

Ashley Brown Business Manager

Alicia Bruce General Manager

Lisa Prater Operations Manager

Garner Galleria Theatre

Abel Becerra Technical Director

Jason Begin+,

Anna Hookana+ Core Stagehands

DEVELOPMENT

Jamie Clements Vice President

Connor Carlin Associate Director, Major & Planned Gifts

Sarah Darlene Manager, Grants & Reports

Caroline Eppers Manager, Auctions & Partnerships

Kara Erickson-Stiemke Coordinator

Emily Kettlewell Associate Director, Annual Giving

Caitie Maxwell Senior Director, Major Gifts

Marc Ravenhill Director, Donor Relations

Megan Stewart Associate Director, Special Events

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Allison Watrous Executive Director

Stuart Barr Technical Director

Leslie Channell Director, Business Operations

Lyndsay Corbett Teaching Artist & Manager, Bobby G

María Corral Director, Community Engagement

Heather Curran Teaching Artist & Manager, Playwriting

Elliot Davis Evening Registrar & Oﬃce Coordinator

Rachel Ducat Executive Assistant & Business Manager

Rya Dyes Registrar & On-Site Class Manager

Gavin Juckette Teaching Artist & Manager, TYA Engagement & Music

Timothy McCracken Head of Acting

Rick Mireles Manager, Community Engagement

David Saphier Teaching Artist & Manager, In-School Programming

Charlotte Talbert Librarian

Rachel Taylor Teaching Artist & Manager, Literary Engagement & Resiliency

Justin WalvoordTeaching Artist & Manager, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot

Samuel Wood Director, Education & Curriculum Development

EVENT SERVICES

Samantha Egle, Cody Gocio Senior Sales & Event Managers

Stori Heleen-O’Foley Event Technical Manager

Shane Hotle Audio Engineer

David Mandlowitz Video Engineer

Natalia Marroquin, Phil Rohrbach Sales & Event Managers

DCPA TEAM

Tara Miller Event Sales & Operations Director

Brook Nichols Event Technical Director

Kate Olsen Event Sales Coordinator

Benjamin Peitzer Event Technical Lead

Michael Harris, Alex Taylor Lighting Designers

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Lisa Roebuck Vice President For security purposes, the IT team has been omitted.

MARKETING & SALES

Angela Lakin Vice President

Whitney Testa Executive Assistant, Marketing & Broadway

Marketing

Heidi Bosk Associate Director, Press & Promotions, Broadway & Cabaret

Erin Bunyard Senior Digital Strategist

Soﬁa Contreras, Lucas Kreitler Graphic Designers

Brenda Elliott, Paul Koob Senior Graphic Designers

Harper Anne Finch Manager, Social Marketing

TJ Forlenza Copywriter

Claire Graves Director, Produced Programs

Brittany Gutierrez Associate Director, Communications

Linda Horan Program Manager

Jeﬀ Hovorka Director, Sales & Marketing, Broadway & Cabaret

Emma Holst Associate, Communications & Content

Emily Kent Director, Insights & Strategy

Michael Ryan Leuthner Director, Digital Marketing

Emily Lozow Associate Director, Sales & Marketing, Broadway & Cabaret

Kyle Malone Director, Design

Dan McNulty Analyst

Todd Metcalf Media Producer

Hannah Selwyn Manager, Email Marketing

Sergio von Kretschmann Manager, Website

Julie Whelan Manager, Produced Programs

Mikayla Woods Coordinator, Produced Programs

Suzanne Yoe Director, Content & Communications

Ticketing & Audience Services

Jennifer Lopez Director

Jessica Alverson*, Tamika Cox*, Zeah Edmonds*, Lauren Estes*, Jen Gray*, Noa Halpern*, Noah Jungferman*, Max McCord, Noelle Norris*, Alexander Roy*,

Holly Stigen*, Lily Valdez, Bronwen

VanOrdstrand*,

Rob Warner* Ticket Agents

Kirsten Anderson*, Scott Lix*,

Liz Sieroslawski*,

Greg Swan* Subscription Agents

Jon Collins Manager, Subscription

Katie Davis Manager, VIP Ticketing

D.J. Dennis*, Luke Fish*, Edmund Gurule*, Lane Randall*, Hayley Solano*, Sam Stump*, Andrew Sullivan, Alfonso Vazquez* Counter/Show Leads

Billy Dutton Associate Director, Operations

Danielle Freeman Manager, Customer Service

Claire Hayes, Ella Mann, Robert McCowan Managers, Box Oﬃce

Chris Leech Coordinator, VIP Ticketing

Katie Spanos Associate Director, Subscriber Services

Group Sales

Jessica Bergin Associate Director

Tucker Kamin Manager, Audience Development

Elias Lopez Coordinator

Maddie Young Associate, Education & Group Sales

OFF-CENTER

Charlie Miller Executive Director & Curator

Cat Huck Assistant Operations Manager

Courtney Ozaki Creative Producer

Mike Pingel Operations Manager

OPERATIONS

Sarah Arzberger Administrator

Vincent Bridgers Manager

Adam Busch Analyst

Aaron Chavez Lead

Ruben Cruz, Jordan Latouche Engineers

Simone Gordon Associate Director

Kyle Greufe Senior Analyst

Maria Herwagen Junior Analyst

Brandon LeMarr Manager

Alison Orthel, Tara Perticone Analysts

Joseph Reecher Senior Engineer

Cordelia Taylor Coordinator

PEOPLE & CULTURE

Laura Maresca CPCO

Equity & Organization Culture

Seán Kroll Coordinator

Human Resources

Brian Carter Senior Business Partner

Andrew Guilder HR & Recruiting Specialist

Michaela Johnson Interim Mailroom Assistant

Paul Johnson Manager, Payroll & Compliance

Jocelyn Martinez Business Partner

Kinsey Scholl Manager, Operations

THEATRE COMPANY

Administration

Charles Varin Managing Director

Emily Diaz Business Admin./ Asst. Company Manager

Alex Koszewski Company Manager

Ann Marshall General Manager

Artistic

Chris Coleman Artistic Director

Jessica Eckenrod Artistic Associate

Grady Soapes Artistic Producer & Casting Director

Leean Kim Torske Director, Literary Programs

Madison Cook-Hines Literary Assistant

Costume Crafts

Kevin Copenhaver Director

Chris Campbell Assistant

Costume Shop

Janet MacLeod Director/Design Associate

Meghan Anderson Doyle Design Associate

Katarina Kosmopoulos First Hand

Ingrid Ludeke,

Carolyn Plemitscher Drapers

House Crew

Douglas Taylor+ Supervisor

James Berman+, Forest Fowler+, Dave Mazzeno+, Kyle Moore+, Piper Stormes+, Matt Wagner+ Stagehands

Joseph Price+, Kelley Reznik+ Assistants

Lighting Design

Charles MacLeod Director

Connor Baker+ Production Electrician

Lily Bradford Assistant

Paint Shop

Kristin Hamer MacFarlane Charge Scenic Artist

Melanie Rentschler, Sasha Seaman Scenic Artists

Production

Jeﬀ Giﬀord Director

Julie Brou Administrative Assistant/ Oﬃce Manager

Matthew Campbell Production Manager

Peggy Carey Associate Production Manager

Prop Shop

Meghan Markiewicz Supervisor

Sara Pugh Associate Supervisor

Bennet Goldberg, Georgina Kayes, Ashley Lawler Artisans

Andrew McGlothen Prop Carpenter

Scene Shop

Eric Moore Technical Director

Albert “Stub” Allison, Robert L. Orzolek, Josh Prues Associate Technical Directors

Jeremy Banthoﬀ, Tyler D. Clark, Amy Wynn Pastor, Kyle Scoggins Scenic Technicians

Louis Fernandez III Lead Scenic Technician

Brian “Marco” Markiewicz Lead Carpenter

Scenic Design

Lisa Orzolek Director

Kevin Nelson, Nicholas Renaud Assistants

Sound Design & Technology

Alex Billman Supervisor

Meagan Holdeman+, Timothy Schoeberl+, Dimitri Soto+ Technicians

Elena Martin Associate Supervisor

Stage Management

Anne Jude Supervisor

Corin Davidson, Harper Hadley, Brandon T. Holmes, Kristen O’Connor, Malia Stoner Stage Managers

Anna Cordova, Sam Forrest, Megan Franco Apprentices

Wardrobe

Heidi Echtenkamp Supervisor

Robin Appleton^, Amber Krimbel^, Lauren LaCasse^, Lisa Parsons Wagner^, Nicole Watts^, Kami Williams^ Dressers

Wigs

Diana Ben-Kiki Supervisor

Abby Schmidt^, Marisa Sorce^ Wig Assistants

VENUE OPERATIONS

Glen Lucero Vice President

Merry Davis Financial Manager

Jane Deegan Administrator

Kristi Horvath Director of Venue Operations

Facilities

Craig Smith Director

Dwight Barela, Mark Dill, Bryan Faciane, John Howard, Iver Johnson Engineers

Abraham Cervantes, Lindsey Cervantes, Carmen Molina, Judith Primero Molina, Juan Loya Molina,

Blanca Primero Custodians

Michael Kimbrough Manager, Engineering

Brian McClain Manager, Custodial

Patron Experience

Evan Gendreau Associate Director

Kaylyn Kriaski, Leilani Lynch, Aaron McMullen, Stacy Norwood, Wendy Quintana, Valerie Schaefer Assistant Managers

Kelly Breuer, Nora Caley, Amy Howard, Robin Lander, Barbara Pooler, Ayden Smith House Managers

Safety & Security

Quentin Crump Director

Jacquelyne Schmidt Manager, Health & Safety

Timothy Allen, Jodi Benavides Lead Security Oﬃcers

Mayte Armendariz, David Bright, Ariana Cuevas, Ethan Kemberlin, Jack Leatherwood, Ian Nelson, Jason Porquis, Isabella Samaniego, Zach Stemley, Pamela Winston, Tori Witherspoon, Angel Zanudio Security Specialists

Judy Briggs Front Desk

Rateliff sings Rateliff with the Colorado Symphony APR 11-12

Beethoven & Brahms with Christopher Dragon MAY 16-18

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring MAY 23-25

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Augustin Hadelich MAY 30-JUN 1