FUN HOME Digital Program

MUSIC BY JEANINE TESORI BOOK & LYRICS BY LISA KRON BASED ON THE GRAPHIC NOVEL BY ALISON BECHDEL DIRECTED BY ADDIE GORLIN-HAN CHOREOGRAPHED BY KATIE ROSE MCLAUGHLIN MUSIC DIRECTION BY JASON HANSEN

APR 2 - MAY 4, 2025 • THE RITZ THEATER

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Artistic Director JUSTIN LUCERO

Managing Director ELISA SPENCER-KAPLAN

PRESENTS

FUN HOME

Music by JEANINE TESORI Book & Lyrics by LISA KRON Based on the graphic novel by ALISON BECHDEL Directed by ADDIE GORLIN-HAN** Choreographed by KATIE ROSE MCLAUGHLIN** Music Direction & Supervision by JASON HANSEN Scenic Designer

Costume Designer

Lighting Designer

Sound Designer

Hair & Makeup Designer

Props Designer & Supervisor

ELI SHERLOCK

ALICE TRENT

RICH HAMSON

KATHARINE HOROWITZ

EMMA GUSTAFSON

Intimacy Director

Associate Choreographer & Additional Choreography

ALLI ST. JOHN

JOEY MILLER

Director of Production

ALLEN WEEKS

MADELAINE FOSTER Assistant Director

JAY OWEN EISENBERG

Technical Director

BETHANY REINFELD

With gratitude to our Production Sponsors DR. TOM KNABEL & KENT ALLIN This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Originally Produced on Broadway by Fox Theatricals, Barbara Whitman, Carole Shorenstein Hays, Tom Casserly, Paula Marie Black, Latitude Link, Terry Schnuck/Jane Lane, The Forstalls, Nathan Vernon, Mint Theatricals, Elizabeth Armstrong, Jam Theatricals, Delman Whitney, and Kristin Caskey and Mike Isaacson.

The world premiere production of FUN HOME was produced by The Public Theater Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director Patrick Willingham, Executive Director In New York City on October 22nd, 2013 FUN HOME was developed, in part, at the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at White Oak and the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort.

FUN HOME is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com

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CAST Alison Small Alison Medium Alison Bruce Helen Christian John Joan & Understudy Medium Alison Roy / Mark / Pete / Bobby Jeremy

SARA MASTERSON* EVE SCHARBACK MONTY HAYS SHAD HANLEY* ANN MICHELS* TRUMAN BEDNAR BROCK HEURING EMMA SCHULD BERTO BORROTO

UNDERSTUDIES

STAGE MANAGEMENT

for Helen & Joan EMILY DUSSAULT

Stage Manager SHELBY REDDIG*

for Alison LIV KEMP for Bruce JOEY MILLER*

Assistant Stage Manager AUSTIN SCHOENFELDER*

for Roy / Mark / Pete / Bobby Jeremy JOSHUA ROW for Small Alison, Christian & John VIOLET STOWERS

BAND Conductor & Piano Drums Electric & Upright Bass Acoustic & Electric Guitar Winds

Jason Hansen† Paul Hill† Joan Griffith† Geoff LeCrone† Zelda Younger†

PRODUCTION TEAM Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Casting Supervisor Dramaturg Associate Production & Company Manager Lighting Supervisor & Light Board Operator Audio Supervisor & Sound Board Operator Costume Supervisor Costume Shop Assistant, Stitcher, Wardrobe Maintenance & Dresser Swing Head Scenic Carpenter Lead Carpenter Scenic Charge Carpenters / Props Artisans Lead Scenic Artist Electricians Audio Technicians Dresser Stage Management Swing Light & Sound Board Operator Swing Child Actor Supervisor Cultural Consultant

Shelby Reddig* Austin Schoenfelder* Sheena Janson Kelley Elissa Adams Christian Erben Andrew Norfolk Corinne Steffens Amber Brown Ash Kaun Matthew Smith Whitley Cobb Sara Herman Halle Pelfrey, Phoebe Saul, Kris Schmidt Erika Soukup Dante Benjegerdes, Lane Bode, Sam Brown, Wesley Cone, Shannon Elliott, Kate Peters, Carl Swanson, Tristan Wilkes Richard Graham, Julie Zumsteg Laura Jones Joelle Coutu* Richard Graham Bridget Brooks Ray Gorlin

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers **Associate Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union ^Member of the United Scenic Artists, a national union that represents designers and scenic painters for the American theater † Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians

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RUN TIME: 90 minutes with no intermission

MUSICAL NUMBERS “It All Comes Back (Opening)” - Small Alison, Bruce, Alison & Company “Welcome to Our House on Maple Avenue” - Helen, Alison, Small Alison, Christian, John, Bruce & Roy “Not Too Bad” - Medium Alison “Come to the Fun Home” - John, Christian & Small Alison “Helen’s Étude” - Alison, Roy, Bruce, Small Alison, Helen, John, Christian & Medium Alison “Party Dress” - Small Alison, Bruce, Medium Alison & Alison “Changing My Major” - Medium Alison “Maps” - Alison “Raincoat of Love” - Bobby Jeremy & Company “Pony Girl” - Bruce “Ring of Keys” - Small Alison “Days and Days” - Helen “Telephone Wire” - Alison & Bruce “Edges of the World” - Bruce “Flying Away (Finale)” - Alison, Medium Alison & Small Alison

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NOTES ON FUN HOME In my very first days with Theater Latté Da last year, I kept hearing one title consistently mentioned as the “perfect Latté Da show” and it became palpable that FUN HOME was something our community was eager for. Even as a brand-new member of the community, I wholeheartedly agreed. Elissa Adams and I took that energy to heart and, after some careful persistence, we found a way to overcome a hold on the performance rights and secured permission to finally bring this extraordinary musical to our stage. Now, the moment has arrived, and we are beyond thrilled to share it with you.

FUN HOME is based on the graphic memoir of the same title by American cartoonist Alison Bechdel. Her name may ring some bells: her trailblazing comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” is considered one of the first representations of lesbians in popular culture, as well as the origin of what has become known as “the Bechdel test,” a (then, tongue-in-cheek) measure of the representation of women in fiction that has taken on a life of its own. Bechdel has become a groundbreaking figure in the world of literature and culture, even earning a MacArthur “Genius” Award for her contributions. And with her Minnesota/Twin Cities ties, her work and life resonates with us in unique ways. In the theater world, however, it is through the Tony Award-winning, Pulitzer Prize finalist musical adaptation of her masterwork that Alison Bechdel’s name has become iconic—as a character embodying self-discovery, bravery, and the pursuit of truth.

When it came time to bring this show to life, inviting guest director Addie Gorlin-Han was one of the easiest (and best!) decisions I made in my first months here. Addie’s work speaks for itself, but what has particularly stood out for me have been her theatrical insights and instincts, as well as her deep commitment to theater as a powerful vehicle for community-building. As both a theatermaker and a human, she is an impressive force, and I am honored to have her lead this production.

FUN HOME is a magnificent telling of one person’s specific journey, but in our production, under Addie’s direction, I am certain it will resonate with all who experience it. Thank you to those (many) of you for urging me to include this all-time favorite in my very first season of programming.

Justin Lucero Artistic Director

At the beginning of the play, Alison opens a box from her father’s past; she pulls out random relics (antiques, linens, a dead mouse, etc.) which serve as catalysts connecting her to childhood memories. She’s made the decision to interrogate her fathers’ death head-on-- “she wants to know what’s true, dig deep into who, and what and why and when, until now gives way to then.” Because of this, I loved the idea of her returning to a metaphorical warehouse, a big storage room of memories, where her father’s antiques are stored and which she hasn’t encountered in the last 20 years.

What also strikes me about the play and the graphic memoir is that Alison could have worked through all of these memories with contempt, anger at her father, resentment and bitterness towards her family-- and to be clear, she doesn’t shy away from complicated, messy truths of it all. But she does so with an overwhelming sense of love.

This is a musical that so effectively asks us to care— to pause and turn inwards for a moment—to listen not only to these meaningful words and gorgeous music—but it also asks us to dial in and hear our own gentle heartbeats and tune to the radio waves of others.

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Addie Gorlin-Han Director

Theater Latté Da is in our 27th season of presenting original and reimagined musical theater.

Theater Latté Da is the leading nonprofit professional theater in the Twin Cities that exclusively produces musical theater. Since our inception, TLD has presented 97 Mainstage productions, including 17 world premieres and 16 area premieres. Each has garnered critical acclaim and earned its artists and TLD a host of awards, including: seven IVEY Awards for overall excellence, National Endowment for the Arts, the Gabriel Award for Broadcast Excellence, the American Theater Wing National Theater Company Award, and the 2019 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience.

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CREATING A MUSICAL FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CREATORS OF FUN HOME

Sam Gold, Jeanine Tesori, and Lisa Kron at the opening of Fun Home at the Public Theater

Fun Home, the musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel of the same name, began its journey to the stage in 2009. The show premiered at New York’s Public Theater to rave reviews in 2013, was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and opened on Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatre in April, 2015. It was nominated for five Tonys and won the award for Best Musical.

Below, composer Jeanine Tesori, playwright Lisa Kron and director Sam Gold discuss the developmental process of crafting a musical from a graphic novel (excerpted from an article by Suzy Evans published in American Theatre magazine).

Someone suggested the book to Lisa Kron as source material for a musical, and having little experience in the form aside from writing some parody lyrics, she immediately shared the idea with Tesori. Kron had seen Tesori’s Caroline, or Change three times and knew the composer’s musical sophistication was right for the piece. However, Tesori couldn’t immediately picture it as a musical, and Kron’s heart sank. But then Tesori said, “And that’s why I want to do it.”

“That’s something that I’m very interested in—the difference between telling a story and dramatic action,” Kron says. “There was this adult character who was doing things that are very difficult to dramatize—making a book, telling the story of her father, remembering something—how do you dramatize that?”

“We had to find our own parallel storytelling to Alison’s,” Fun Home’s original director, Sam Gold says. “We had to have our own originating impulse, and I felt the music needed to be that impulse, not the imagery of the book.”

Composer Jeanine Tesori drew inspiration from the cartoons to write her score. “There’s a beauty in the line, and it’s not so dense,” Tesori notes, comparing Bechdel’s drawings to Maurice Sendak’s early work. “There’s a way that the reader completes the line, and that to me is a theatrical experience.”

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AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CREATORS OF FUN HOME (CONT.) While Gold relied on music instead of cartoons, he did take inspiration from the graphic novel form.

Kron and Tesori came up with the conceit of the three Alisons—three actresses play the main character as a youth, during her college years and in middle age—but the story does not move sequentially.

“In a graphic novel you have several ways of conveying information—the visual information, the frame, and then the thought bubbles inside that frame and the caption below it. The story gets told through juxtaposition,” Gold explains. “This is a musical that happens in three timelines simultaneously, and all three of them have to live at the same time, so we could be bold about conveying dramatic information through the juxtaposition.

This event’s happening: What does it mean that this person from a whole other time and place is in relation to it?”

“It was the worst!” Tesori exclaims. “This show cannot be modular. Something has to happen in order for this to happen, and then this and then this. I felt so underprepared for this kind of storytelling, because I couldn’t find my own way of answering the why?

There are some parts where I’m like, I don’t know how we found that. We just kept at it.”

Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori. Photo by Brigitte Lacombe.

Gold, Kron and Tesori were grateful to have many opportunities to work with actors and designers before they reached production. “The only way that this could have been made was on its feet,” Kron explains. “You just never knew with this show until you put it on its feet what was going to have life in it and what was going to be dead, because it is told through those physical juxtapositions. Kron and Tesori drew some from their own youthful experiences and particularly enjoyed obsessing over the minutiae of growing up in the 1970s. Tesori derived a lot of inspiration from the female singer/songwriters who emerged during that time, including Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Melissa Manchester. “I hope to continue the tradition, in a theatrical way, of what those women were doing,” she says.

The fact that there are very few father/daughter narratives portrayed onstage is something Gold finds shocking. Over the course of the piece’s development, he became a father to a daughter, which “completely shifted my emotional connection to the piece.”

“There’s always been this question about Alison’s work—why is it so universally powerful to people?” Gold continues. “She has such an idiosyncratic life story, but she’s tapping into something I hadn’t even thought about—that story of father/daughter love that hasn’t really been brought up in dramatic literature.”

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DRAWING THE LINE: ALISON BECHDEL’S DRAWINGS BECOME LYRICS The challenge for the musical’s creative team was how to transform the graphic drawings in Bechdel’s book into musical moments. Here are three examples of pages from the novel, Fun Home, and the songs that evolved from those moments.

“It All Comes Back (Opening)” I wanna play airplane I wanna play airplane I wanna play airplane!

I wanna put my arms out and fly!

Like the Red Baron in the Sopwith Camel!

No, wait— Like Superman! Up in the sky!

‘Till I can see all of Pennsylvania...

“Ring of Keys” Do you feel my heart saying “hi”?

In this whole luncheonette Why am I the only one who sees you’re beautiful?

No, I mean...Handsome!

“Changing My Major” I don’t know who I am I’ve become someone new Nothing I just did is anything I would do Overnight, everything changed.

I am not prepared I’m dizzy. I’m nauseous. I’m shaky I’m scared Am I falling in to nothingness Or flying into something so sublime?

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Dear Friend, Small Alison Bechdel asks, “Do you feel my heart saying hi?” for good reason. This hello crucially originates in her heart, not her head. It is up to her to trust that her heartsong will be heard loud and clear by its intended recipient; to trust that this unspoken message will cut through the silence and settle safely in the strong hands of the older butch who catapults Alison into self-discovery. I remember sending similar heartsongs to the first visibly queer strangers I encountered as a tiny tomboy in the early 1990s. Like Small Alison, I didn’t have the words to articulate who I was. I lacked the language to express why I desperately needed to connect with these adults whose hearts, I suspected, beat in sync with mine.

Thankfully, the language of love is a wordless thing. It is fluid, flexible and accessible to all, including the youngest among us. The real challenge lies in continuing to take this sacred language seriously as we age.

This task is often a more rigorous one for queer and trans adults, those of us whose hearts, minds, and bodies have been under scrutiny since we were young.

We must confront the harsh world that insists we abandon ourselves and instead, lean into our hearts even harder. If you feel you can no longer hear your own heartsong, let me remind you: You did not make it this far in order to hide.

If you are a young person in the audience, welcome.

I truly believe this show is for you.

If you are an adult in the audience, I encourage you to imagine your younger self sitting beside you today (I hope you brought enough tissues to share with them). As you watch, find a moment to take their small hand in yours. Isn’t it remarkable, how your laughter sounds the same?

If your younger self is reading the program with you, perhaps you can read this part together: I am here because you stayed.

I am here because you stayed.

I am here because you stayed.

Thank you for being here.

From my heart to yours,

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Photo by Lauren B. Photography; ft: Dwight Leslie, Morgen Chang, T. Mychael Rambo, Max Wojtanowicz, Dana Lee Thompson

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BIOGRAPHIES SARA MASTERSON (ALISON) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Sara could not be more thrilled to be a part of this wonderful project. Previous credits: Falsettos (Theater Latté Da), Rent (Artistry Minnesota), A Christmas Carol (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Little Shop of Horrors (Idaho Shakespeare Festival/Great Lakes Theater), Next to Normal (Syracuse Stage), Fun Home (Portland Center Stage), Mamma Mia! (Bucks County Playhouse), The Secret Garden (Idaho Shakespeare Festival/Great Lakes Theater), How to Succeed in Business … (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), Love Story (Playhouse Square) and A Little Night Music (New London Barn Playhouse). She is a proud graduate of the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music. In addition to her work on stage, she can also be found being vulnerable on Youtube every week (channel name Sara Elysabethe). Visit saramastersonactor.com or follow her on Instagram @saraelysabethe. For mom, dad and mama p.

EVE SCHARBACK (SMALL ALISON) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Debut. Eve is 10 years old and loves being the Exact Middle of five children. She lives with her parents and beloved siblings, and enjoys sneaking to her grandparents’ house right next door to get treats. Eve spends her days playing soccer and cello, singing and creating, and re-arranging the room she wishes she didn’t have to share. Theatrical credits: Susan Waverly in White Christmas at DalekoArts, Marta in The Sound of Music at Artistry, Zoya in The Christmas Spider at Skylark Opera Theatre. Eve is thrilled to be making her Theater Latté Da debut with this incredible cast and story.

MONTY HAYS (MEDIUM ALSION) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Debut. THEATER: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: The Prom; Artistry: Shrek the Musical, The Music Man; Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol; Children’s Theatre Company: The Wizard of Oz, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Alice in Wonderland. They are currently a student at Metro State University in Saint Paul and can be found at the Theater Latté Da box office. They’d like to dedicate this performance to their parents, Joey, Mickey, and Marie. Instagram: @monthlyhays SHAD HANLEY (BRUCE) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Debut. THEATER: OffBroadway: A Stoop On Orchard Street, The Magdalene; National Tours: Les Trois Mousquetaires, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere; Gallery Players: Violet; Astoria PAC: Forever Plaid, A New Brain, Children of Eden; Rising Phoenix: Titus Andronicus; Duluth Playhouse: Les Misérables, Disney’s Mary Poppins and Beauty and the Beast, Rock of Ages, The Full Monty, La Cage Aux Folles, Cabaret, Mamma Mia!; History Theatre: Beyond the Rainbow; Artistry: Victor/Victoria; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: The Music Man, Footloose, The Prom, Jersey Boys, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, White Christmas.

ANN MICHELS (HELEN) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Five Points, Parade, Sunday in the Park with George, Wings. THEATER: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: White Christmas, Jersey Boys, The Prom, Footloose, The Music Man, Holiday Inn, Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast, Bye Bye Birdie, Jesus Christ Superstar, Easter Parade, Anything Goes; Guthrie Theater: Dial M for Murder, Sunday in the Park With George, The Cocoanuts, My Fair Lady, The Primrose Path, Roman Holiday, THEATER LATTÉ DA - 14

BIOGRAPHIES A Streetcar Named Desire, A Christmas Carol, She Loves Me, The Pirates of Penzance; Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: Annie, White Christmas, Paint Your Wagon; History Theatre: Blended Harmony, Sweet Land the Musical, These Shining Lives, The Christmas Schooner; Artistry: Victor/Victoria; Children’s Theatre Company: A Wrinkle in Time, Mr. McGee and the Biting Flea; Jungle Theatre: Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Nautilus Music Theatre: Man of La Mancha, The Last Five Years; Illusion: The Cocoanuts; Old Log: Rancho Mirage; Theatre de la Jeune Lune: The Magic Flute; Torch: Dangerous Liaisons; Buffalo Gal Productions: Broadway’s Legendary Ladies.

TRUMAN BEDNAR (CHRISTIAN) THEATER LATTÉ DA: NEXT Festival: My Ántonia. THEATER: Children’s Theatre Company: The Mainlanders Workshop, Morris Mickelwhite and the Tangerine Dress, Corduroy; Zephyr Theatre: School of Rock; Minnesota Public Radio: Smash Boom Best podcast, Forever Ago podcast.

TRAINING: Truman has 8 years of ballet training, including invitations/ scholarships to Miami City Ballet, Chatauqua Institute, and School of American Ballet. Truman is endlessly thankful to Theatre Latté Da for the incredible experience of working with the cast and crew of Fun Home.

BROCK HEURING (JOHN) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Debut. THEATER: Guthrie: A Christmas Carol; 4 Community Theatre: The SpongeBob Musical, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, Suessical the Musical; Good Works Community Theatre: Annie, Big Fish; Faith Community Theatre: Peter Pan. Brock is currently a 6th grader at Wayzata West Middle School and is so thrilled to be a part of this incredible production.

EMMA SCHULD (JOAN & UNDERSTUDY MEDIUM ALISON) THEATER LATTÉ DA: NEXT Up Workshops: Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife Gloria (Ruby), Love Them First (Iris). THEATER: Artistry: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Marcy Park); Trademark Theater: The Reunion (Liz); Lyric Arts: Our Town (Emily Webb); Texas Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing (Ursula, Beatrice US), Sweeney Todd (Ensemble, Beggar Woman US), Julius Caesar (Ensemble, Calpurnia US), Peter and the Starcatcher (Prentiss US). TRAINING: University of Minnesota-Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Hi Mom and Dad! emmahyschuld.com BERTO BORROTO (ROY / MARK / PETE / BOBBY JEREMY) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Debut. THEATER: Guthrie: Cabaret (upcoming); Park Square Theatre: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Airness; Artistry: The Sound of Music; Lyric Arts: The SpongeBob Musical; TELEVISION: Wheel of Fortune. Also an awardwinning drag performer (Aranya). TRAINING: University of Minnesota/ Guthrie Theater BFA Acting Program. @aranyaxberto EMILY DUSSAULT (UNDERSTUDY FOR HELEN & JOAN) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Debut. THEATER: History Theatre: Boy Wonder; Theatre Elision: Sea Cabinet, Islander, Gone Missing; Gremlin Theatre: Dial M for Murder; Six Points Theatre: The Last Schwartz; Artistry: Blithe Spirit, Les Misérables, Sunday in the Park With George; Winding Sheet Outfit: Blood Nocturne. UPCOMING: Theatre Elision: FUN HOME - 15

BIOGRAPHIES Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. TRAINING: B.A. in Theatre, Coe College.

LIV KEMP (UNDERSTUDY FOR ALISON) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Debut.

THEATER: Guthrie: A Christmas Carol; Ten Thousand Things: Helen; History Theatre: I Am Betty (2023, 2024); Yellow Tree Theatre: Toil and Trouble; Playwright’s Center: The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics, Alien of Extraordinary Ability. Also a web designer for artists and theaters in the Twin Cities and beyond. TRAINING: University of Minnesota/Guthrie Actor Training Program. livkemp.com, anecdotedesigns.com.

JOEY MILLER (ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER & UNDERSTUDY FOR BRUCE) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Chicago. DIRECTING/CHOREOGRAPHY: Great Theater: Beauty and the Beast; Theatre L’Homme Dieu: Beautiful; The Carole King Musical; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: The Prom; Artistry: Shrek the Musical; The Ordway: Gotta Dance; Old Log Theater: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder; Cedar Summerstock: Forever Plaid, Seussical.

PERFORMING: Guthrie: Little Shop of Horrors; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Footloose, Mamma Mia!, Holiday Inn, Newsies, Beauty and the Beast; Artistry: Songs for a New World; The Ordway: West Side Story, A Chorus Line, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Pirates of Penzance.

TRAINING: BFA Music Theatre, Viterbo University. Joey is also a licensed massage therapist.

AEA. JOSHUA ROW (UNDERSTUDY FOR ROY, PETE, MARK / BOBBY JEREMY) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Scotland, PA. THEATER: Children’s Theatre Company: Milo Imagines the World; Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol, Into The Woods; Open Window Theatre: Our Town. TRAINING: B.S. in Theatre, University of Northwestern, St. Paul. www.JoshuaRow.com @Joshuarowyourboat. Ephesians 1:3 VIOLET STOWERS (UNDERSTUDY FOR SMALL ALISON, CHRISTIAN & JOHN) THEATER LATTÉ DA: is thrilled to be involved in her first Theater Latté Da production. THEATER: Eagan Summer Community Theater: Anastasia, SpongeBob the Musical; Open Door Community Theater: School of Rock; Stagedoor Manor: Once Upon a Mattress; and many school shows including fanfavorite characters such as Ariel, Anna, Alice, Chip, Willy Wonka, and more.

SHELBY REDDIG (PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: School Pictures, The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets, Christmas at the Local, Falsettos, Next to Normal, We Shall Someday, Hello, Dolly!, Merrily We Roll Along, Jelly’s Last Jam, La Bohème, Puttin’ on the Ritz.

THEATER: Children’s Theatre Company: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Snow White, The Hobbit, Corduroy; MN Opera: Albert Herring; Mixed Blood Theatre: Prescient Harbingers, The Mermaid Hour: Remixed; Perseverance Theater: A Christmas Carol; Jungle Theater: Fly By Night: The Musical; Stages Theatre: Charlotte’s Web. TRAINING: BA in Theater and English from St. Olaf College.

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BIOGRAPHIES AUSTIN SCHOENFELDER (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, The Color Purple, Falsettos, Hello, Dolly!, Christmas At The Local, Merrily We Roll Along, Jelly’s Last Jam. THEATER: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: (Spotlight Operator) Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Jersey Boys, The Prom, Footloose, The Music Man; Park Square Theatre: (Asst. Stage Manager) Holmes and Watson, (Run Crew) The Rocky Horror Show.

PAUL HILL (DRUMS) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Falsettos, Next to Normal, Merrily We Roll Along, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy; Children’s Theatre Company; An American Tail (World Premiere), A Year With Frog and Toad, Seussical, Cinderella; Guthrie: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol, The Pirates of Penzance, Caroline, or Change; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Over 20 productions including Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, Mamma Mia! and Disney’s Newsies; Broadway touring: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (local musician), Ordway; White Christmas, Beauty and the Beast. Paul is a regular sub/extra musician with the Minnesota Orchestra and MN Opera including many world premieres. Shout-out to his favs Nickie and Snow! More info about Paul at PaulHillPercussion.com

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JOAN GRIFFITH (UPRIGHT & ELECTRIC BASS) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, Merrily We Roll Along. THEATER: Guthrie: Twelfth Night; Park Square Theatre: Pacific Overtures, Jacques Brel; Bloomington Civic Theater: Light in the Piazza, Follies, The Baker’s Wife; Children’s Theatre Company: Frog and Toad; Theater Mu: Walleye Kid; Artistry: The Bridges of Madison County, Songs for a New World, Shrek the Musical. TRAINING: University of Missouri

GEOFF LECRONE (ACOUSTIC & ELECTRIC GUITAR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: The Color Purple, Jelly’s Last Jam, Spring Awakening. THEATER: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Mamma Mia!; Children’s Theatre Company: Milo Imagines the World, The Wiz, Last Stop on Market Street, Three Little Birds; Guthrie: The Parchman Hour; National Tour Stops: MJ the Musical, Mrs. Doubtfire, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Mean Girls; Ordway: In the Heights, Annie, Mamma Mia!, 42nd Street, Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Penumbra Theatre: Black Nativity, Black Light, Girl Shakes Loose. TRAINING: University of St. Thomas.

ZELDA YOUNGER (WINDS) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Assassins. THEATER: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Grease, White Christmas, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Jersey Boys, The Prom, The Music Man, Holiday Inn; Children’s Theatre Company: Cinderella; Artistry: Footloose, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; UNM Theater: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; History Theatre: Glensheen, Sweet Land the Musical, A Servant’s Christmas, Lord Gordon Gordon; Theater Workshop of Nantucket: The Sound of Music; Park Square Theatre: Rocky Horror, Flower Drum Song; Old Log Theater: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Also plays with several bands including Ice Climber and The Invincible Czars.

TRAINING: B.M Music Performance, Lawrence University.

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BIOGRAPHIES JEANINE TESORI (MUSIC) Jeanine Tesori is a composer of musical theatre, opera, and film. Her musicals include Kimberly Akimbo, Soft Power, Fun Home, Shrek the Musical, Caroline, Or Change, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Violet. She is a two-time recipient of the Tony Award for Best Score and a two-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her operas include A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck; The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me; Blue, which received the MCANA Award for Best New Opera; and Grounded. She is one of the first women to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. In addition to her work as a composer, Tesori is the Co-Founder of tall popPy, inc, an artist-led social enterprise that seeks to instigate systemic change in theatre. She has also served as Supervising Vocal Producer on Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, Founding Artistic Director of New York City Center’s ENCORES! OFF-CENTER series, and lecturer in music at Yale University.

LISA KRON (BOOK & LYRICS) Lisa Kron has been writing and performing theater since coming to New York from Michigan in 1984. Her work has been widely produced in New York, regionally, and internationally. Her plays include the musical Fun Home, a musical written with composer Jeanine Tesori and based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel; The Ver**zon Play, which premiered 2012 Humana Festival; In The Wake which received Lortel and GLAAD Media Award nominations, was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, named a “Best Play of 2010” by TimeOut and Backstage, and was included in the Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2010-2011; Well, which premiered at the Public Theater, was named a “Best Play of 2004” by the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Newark Star Ledger, Backstage, and the Advocate, included in the Best Plays Theater Yearbook of 2003-2004, and moved to Broadway where both she and Jayne Houdyshell received Tony nominations for their performances. 2.5 Minute Ride, which had its New York premiere at the Public Theater, received OBIE, L.A. Drama-Logue, New York Press, and GLAAD Media Awards, and continues to be performed by Lisa and others all over the world; 101 Humiliating Stories, which received a Drama Desk nomination for its PS122 premiere and was a part of Lincoln Center’s 1993 “Serious Fun!” performance series. Lisa is a founding member of the legendary OBIE and Bessie Award-winning collaborative theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers whose plays, Oedipus at Palm Springs, Brave Smiles, Brides of the Moon and The Secretaries have all been produced by their theatrical home, New York Theater Workshop, and have been performed widely throughout the country both by the Brothers and by other companies. Their plays are published by T.C.G. in the anthology, “Five Lesbian Brothers/ Four Plays” and also by Samuel French.

ADDIE GORLIN-HAN (DIRECTOR) (she/her) is a director, producer, and educator invested in the regional theater movement, new play development, and theater for all-ages; she is based at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis where works as Associate Producer. THEATER LATTÉ DA: Fun Home. THEATER: Guthrie: A Christmas Carol; History Theatre and Theater L’Homme Dieu: The Root Beer Lady; Arkansas Repertory Theater: Into the Woods feat. Hillary Clinton; Alabama Shakespeare Festival: And Then They Came for Me, Remembering the Story of Anne Frank; Mixed Blood Theatre: The Song of Summer, Charm, and According to Coyote; Cloudgate: Strange Heart Beating; Children’s Theatre Company T.A.T.: The Laramie Project; Phoenix Theater & Children’s Hospital: I and You; Cutting Ball Theatre: Five Tries. Fellowships: THEATER LATTÉ DA - 18

BIOGRAPHIES National Directors Fellowship, NNPN Producer-in-Residence, Cutting Ball Theater Directing.

K-12 teaching credential via Teach for America. B.A. Dartmouth College, National Theater Institute, M.F.A. Brown University/ Trinity Rep (Directing). American Theater’s Roll Call: People to Watch 2024, proud mom of Owen (3) and Benny (1). www.addiegorlin.com.

JASON HANSEN (MUSIC DIRECTOR, CONDUCTOR & PIANO) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets, Falsettos, Next to Normal, Hello, Dolly!, Christmas at the Local, Merrily We Roll Along, Jelly’s Last Jam, Bernarda Alba, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, A Little Night Music, Once, Assassins, C., Into The Woods, Our Town, Aida; NEXT Festival: She’s Come Undone, The Last Babushka, A Child’s Christmas In Wales; THEATER: Children’s Theatre Company: An American Tail, Cinderella, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, Dr. Seuss’ The Sneetches; Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol, Little Shop Of Horrors, Into The Woods, Guys and Dolls, Othello; Mixed Blood Theatre: Passing Strange, Next to Normal, Avenue Q; History Theatre: Blended Harmony, I Am Betty, Sweet Land; Stages Theatre Company: Once on This Island, Tuck Everlasting; Theater Mu: Twelfth Night, A Little Night Music; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Newsies; Ten Thousand Things: Romeo and Juliet; Arkansas Repertory Theatre: The Gift Of The Magi; Northern Sky Theater, Illusion Theater, Artistry, TigerLion Arts, Open Eye Figure Theatre, Jungle Theater, the MN Fringe Festival, the Hennepin Theatre Trust; Alive & Kickin’; AWARDS: 2018 MN Theater Award (Latté Da’s Assassins).

KATIE ROSE MCLAUGHLIN (CHOREOGRAPHER) Katie Rose McLaughlin is an Obie & Drama League Award-winning Choreographer & Director based in New York City. She has performed with the Tony Award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune and as Esmeralda in Redmoon Theater’s Hunchback at Shakespeare Theatre in DC, Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago and at the New Victory Theater in NYC where it received a New York Times Critics’ Pick. From 2020-2022 she created work as the co-Creative Director for the award-winning Theater in Quarantine which has produced over 20 different evenings of work, four NYT Critic’s Picks and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. She is currently Associate Choreographer for Dead Outlaw, directed by David Cromer and choreographed by Ani Taj, which will open on Broadway in April 2025. katierosemclaughlin.com @katierosierose ELI SHERLOCK (SCENIC DESIGNER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Color Purple, Hello, Dolly!, Jelly’s Last Jam, Chicago, Assassins. THEATER: Jungle Theater: Dinner for One; Mixed Blood Theatre: The Ally; The 5th Avenue Theatre: The Wiz; Geva Theatre: The Color Purple; Flint Repertory Theater: Spring Awakening, Little Shop of Horrors, Ragtime; The Hangar Theatre: Ragtime; Antaeus Theatre Company: She. Additionally in the Twin Cities, Eli has designed with History Theatre, Artistry, Park Square Theatre, 7th House Theater, Yellow Tree Theater, Walking Shadow Theater Company, Lyric Arts, Theater in the Round, Concordia University, and the University of Minnesota. FILM/ TV: Art Dept. Assistant for Spiderman: No Way Home (AP), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Maddness: LA Unit, Moon Knight (AP). TRAINING: UCLA, University of Michigan. Eli is currently a guest lecturer and designer-in-residence for the year at the University of Michigan. www.elisherlock.com FUN HOME - 19

BIOGRAPHIES RICH HAMSON (COSTUME DESIGNER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Falsettos, Hello, Dolly!, La Bohème, Spring Awakening, Cabaret, C., The Light in the Piazza, Gypsy, Floyd Collins, Man of La Mancha, A Christmas Carole Petersen, Evita.

THEATER: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, resident costume designer with over 32 productions; Children’s Theatre: Annie, Shrek the Musical, Mulan, Disney’s High School Musical; Guthrie: Other Desert Cities, Lake Hollywood, Thief River, A Body of Water; MN Opera: Così fan tutte; Illusion Theatre: Snow, The Warrior Within; The Jungle: Orson Welles presents Moby Dick, The Blue Room, Souvenir; Park Square Theatre: over 15 productions including A Tale of Two Cities, The Heiress and many more.

ALICE TRENT (LIGHTING DESIGNER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Alice Trent is a freelance lighting and projection designer. With her MFA in Lighting and Digital Media Design from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, she’s designed extensively throughout the midwest and south. She’s worked as an assistant lighting designer at the Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Drama League, and Town Hall Arts Center of Denver.She has been honored to receive the 2019 Barbizon Lighting Company Johnathan Resnick Lighting Design Award and the 2019 SETC Spiegel Theatrical Artist Award. She placed 1st in the 2019 SETC Projection Design Competition for her work on King Charles III, and was a 2020 Gilbert Hemsley Internship Program Finalist.

KATHARINE HOROWITZ (SOUND DESIGNER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Falsettos, Candide. THEATER: Guthrie Theater, Children’s Theatre Company, Jungle Theater, Great River Shakespeare Festival, History Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre, Theater Mu, Gremlin Theatre, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, Creede Repertory Theatre, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival.

TRAINING: B.A. in Theatre, University of Iowa. Katharine is a 2017 McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center. www.katsound.com EMMA GUSTAFSON (HAIR & MAKEUP DESIGNER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Passion*, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, The Color Purple, Next to Normal, Hello, Dolly!, Merrily We Roll Along. THEATER: MN Opera: Barber of Seville*, The Snowy Day, Elixir of Love, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, Song Poet, Daughter of the Regiment, Rinaldo, Anonymous Lover; Geva Theatre Center: Little Women, A Christmas Carol; Park Square Theatre: Holmes/Poirot; Theater Mu/ History Theatre: Blended Harmony; Jungle Theater: Cambodian Rock Band; Open Eye Figure Theatre: The Chinese Lady; Ten Thousand Things: Emilia, Thunder Knocking On The Door; Children’s Theatre Company: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Bina’s Six Apples, Annie; Mixed Blood: Roe. TRAINING: B.A. in Theatrical Design, Augsburg University; Wig Apprentice, Santa Fe Opera; Cosmetology License, Aveda Institute Minneapolis (* denotes upcoming production) ALLI ST. JOHN (INTIMACY DIRECTOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: The Color Purple.

INTIMACY: Guthrie Theater: The Importance of Being Earnest, Into the Woods, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol; Children’s Theatre Company: Head Over Heels, The Garden; Theater Mu: 50 Boxes of Earth; Walking Shadow Theatre Co: Witch; University of Minnesota: Anna in the Tropics; The James Plays; Macalester THEATER LATTÉ DA - 20

BIOGRAPHIES College: Eurydice; Utah State University: Spring Awakening. DIRECTING: Phipps Center for the Arts: Prancer; Children’s Performing Arts: Heathers: Teen Edition; Lakeshore Players: 10-minute Play Festival; Matilda Jr (Murray Middle School). OTHER: Founding Artistic Director: Thought Bubble Theater Festival; Published in Howlround Theater Commons (2021) and The Journal of Consent Based Performance (2022). TRAINING: Theatrical Intimacy Education; B.A. in Theater (Acting/Directing), Baldwin Wallace University; M.F.A. in Theater for Youth and Community, Arizona State University. allistjohn.com

JAY OWEN EISENBERG (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Re-Cast, Puttin’ On The Ritz, NEXT Festival. REGIONAL THEATRE: Guthrie: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Jungle Theater: RICH DOGS (w/WeAreMarried), The Courtroom, Small Mouth Sounds; Penumbra Theatre: The White Card; Mixed Blood Theater: Hir, Charm; Pillsbury House + Theatre: ≈[almost equal to]; Open Eye Figure Theatre: Constance in the Darkness; History Theatre: Woah, Nellie! OFF-BROADWAY: Ars Nova: 2 ROSSES (w/WeAreMarried); The Public Theater: The Record; Atlantic Theater Company: Books Cook! AWARDS: Minnesota State Arts Board 2017 Artist Initiative Grant. Also a writer, director, cultural consultant, and teaching artist with arts organizations across the Twin Cities. TRAINING: B.F.A. in Theatre, New York University Tisch School of the Arts (Experimental Theater Wing).

MADELAINE FOSTER (PROPS DESIGNER/SUPERVISOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: School Pictures, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA. THEATER: Peninsula Players: I Oughta Be In Pictures, The Angel Next Door, Million Dollar Quartet, Mary’s Wedding, The Stranger; Indiana Repertory Theatre (Assistant Prop Supervisor and Carpenter): Little Shop of Horrors, The Folks at Home, Fannie, A Christmas Carol, Frankenstein, Clue, Shakespeare’s Will, Oedipus, Flyin’ West, Sense and Sensibility, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, The Reclamation of Madison Hemings, Fahrenheit 451, The Book Club Play, The House That Jack Built, Mrs. Harrison, Cyrano, No. 6, Tuesdays with Morrie, This Wonderful Life, Murder on the Orient Express, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, Morning After Grace, And So We Walked, The Little Choo-Choo That Thinks She Can; Theater at Monmouth: The Story of My Life, An Iliad, Richard II, The Importance of Being Earnest, As You Like It. TRAINING: B.A. in Theatre, William & Mary.

ELISSA ADAMS (DRAMATURG) THEATER LATTÉ DA: C., Lullaby, Assassins, Five Points, Underneath the Lintel, Once, A Little Night Music, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, To Let Go And Fall, Chicago, Bernarda Alba, Jelly’s Last Jam, Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical, Merrily We Roll Along, Christmas At The Local, Hello Dolly!, Next to Normal, Falsettos, Stones in His Pockets, The Color Purple, Johnny Skeeky, Scotland, PA, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, School Pictures, NEXT Up & NEXT Festival (Producer). THEATER: Director of New Play Development at Children’s Theatre Company (1998- 2017); Sundance Theatre Lab; Playwrights’ Center; TRAINING: MFA in Dramaturgy, UC San Diego.

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BIOGRAPHIES BETHANY REINFELD (TECHNICAL DIRECTOR) describes Technical Direction as “Building worlds for characters to come to life in”. She has done 30 plus productions and 5 NEXT Festivals with Latte Da. She holds a M.F.A in Theater and Drama with a specialization in Technical Direction from UW Madison. She also has a B.F.A. in Design Tech with an emphasis in Technical Direction and Scenic Design from UMD. She has worked with Mixed Blood Theatre, Normandale Community College, Yellow Tree Theatre, Jungle Theater and Sesame Street Live/VEE Corporation to list a few.

SHEENA JANSON KELLEY (CASTING SUPERVISOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: 2023-2024 Season (The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets), 2024-2025 Season (Cinderella, Fun Home) THEATER CASTING: Artistry: Godspell, Shrek: The Musical; Children’s Theatre Company: Casting Director 2014-2018; Ordway Center for Performing Arts: 42nd Street, Smokey Joe’s Café, Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol (staged reading); OTHER: A Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experience (Netflix, Shondaland).

CORINNE STEFFENS (AUDIO SUPERVISOR & SOUND BOARD OPERATOR) Corinne currently works all across the Twin Cities as a freelancer in all things theater tech, with an emphasis on sound and musical theater. Credits include: Theater Latté Da: School Pictures, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, The Color Purple, Christmas At The Local, Falsettos, Hello, Dolly!, Jelly’s Last Jam; US National Tour: All Is Calm, Emojiland the Musical; Guthrie Theater: Little Shop Of Horrors, Into The Woods, Vietgone; Lyric Arts: The Rainmaker, Peter And The Starcatcher. Corinne is also the Tech Director for the MN Fringe Festival.

ANDREW NORFOLK (LIGHTING SUPERVISOR & LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: School Pictures, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets, Christmas at the Local, Falsettos, Next to Normal, We Shall Someday, Hello, Dolly!. OPERA: The Santa Fe Opera: Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Falstaff, Tristan und Isolde, M. Butterfly. LIGHTING DESIGN: Lyric Arts: The Pavilion, 9 to 5 - The Musical; UMD Theatre: MAXA - The Maddest Woman In The World, The Little Prince; Stage 2 Theatre Company: Firebringer, The Spoon River Project, The Trail to Oregon. TRAINING: B.F.A. in Theatre, Lighting Design Emphasis, University of Minnesota - Duluth.

AMBER BROWN (COSTUME SUPERVISOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Johnny Skeeky, Stones in His Pockets, Christmas at the Local, Falsettos, Next to Normal, We Shall Someday, Hello, Dolly!, Merrily We Roll Along, Twelve Angry Men, Jelly’s Last Jam, La Bohème, All is Calm. THEATER: Mixed Blood Theatre: Interstate, Autonomy, CorazÓn Eterno, Agnes Under the Bigtop; Old Log Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong; Pillsbury House Theatre: Great Divide III: She Persists, West of Central, Great Divide II: Plays on the Politics of Truth, Almost Equal To, The Great Divide: Plays for a Broken Nation; Park Square Theatre: Aubergine; Gremlin Theatre: Journey’s End; Bucket Brigade: Life Goes On; Full Circle Theater: Under This Roof; Loudmouth Collective: Testament of Mary; 7th House Theater: Rhinoceros; Macalester College: Letters Home, Distracted, 12 Ophelias, Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

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BIOGRAPHIES ASH KAUN (COSTUME SHOP ASSISTANT, WARDROBE MAINTENANCE & DRESSER SWING) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets, Christmas at the Local, Falsettos, Next to Normal, We Shall Someday, Hello, Dolly!, Merrily We Roll Along, Twelve Angry Men, La Bohème, To Let Go and Fall. THEATER: Guthrie: Shakespeare’s History Plays; Exposed Brick Theatre: Muyehpen; Jungle Theater: 5, Christmas at Pemberley (series); Mill City Summer Opera: Carmen; North Hennepin Community College: She Kills Monsters; Park Square Theatre: Airness, Jefferson Township Sparkling Junior Talent Pageant, Romeo and Juliet, The Agitators; Penumbra Theatre: Benevolence, This Bitter Earth; Ten Thousand Things Theater: Thunder Knocking on the Door; Theater Mu: Fast Company. TRAINING: B.F.A. in Directing/Design/Playwriting, Augsburg University.

SARA HERMAN (SCENIC CHARGE) THEATER LATTÉ DA: School Pictures, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets, Christmas at the Local, Falsettos, Next to Normal, We Shall Someday, Hello, Dolly!, Merrily We Roll Along, Twelve Angry Men, La bohème, Jelly’s Last Jam, Chicago, Peter and the Starcatcher.

THEATER: Minnesota Opera: Dinner At 8; Mill City Opera: Così fan tutte; Jungle Theater: Fly By Night; Circus Juventas: Twisted, Hugge, Steam, Nordrsaga, Alice in Wonderland, 1001 Nights. TRAINING: B.A. University of MN Morris, Colbalt Studios.

LAURA JONES (DRESSER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA. THEATER: MN Opera: La Bohème, Trouble in Tahiti & Service Provider, The Song Poet, Edward Tulane, Carmen; Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol (‘23, ‘22, ‘21), Murder on the Orient Express, Sweat; Orpheum Theatre: Cats, Moulin Rouge!: The Musical; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Artistry: RENT, Newsies, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,Godspell; Pangea World Theater: Hecuba.

JOELLE COUTU (STAGE MANAGEMENT SWING) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Stage Manager: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, NEXT Festival 2023 & 2024, Stage Manager Swing: Next to Normal, Christmas at The Local, Stones in His Pockets, The Color Purple. THEATER: Lyric Opera of the North: Cavalleria Rusticana; Skylark Opera Company: Three Decembers, Eugene Onegin, Amahl and the Night Visitors; Illusion Theater: We Take Care of Our Own, Present; History Theatre: Runestone! A Rock Musical, Not in Our Neighborhood; Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company: Pirates of Penzance. TRAINING: B.A in Theater and Television Design, Valparaiso University.

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Curtain Call ($10,000–$24,999) Annette Atkins Carol and Kim Culp David Feroe and Linda Svitak Joyce G. Gordon* Penny Meier Jennifer Melin Miller and David Miller Lisa Meyer and Sam W. Grabarski Sr. Dr. Deanna Oliveira

James R. Olson Cara Sjodin and Scott Stensrud Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner John Sullivan Fremajane Wolfson Alex Wright The Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation

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Curt D. Nelson Jennifer and Jay Novak Gary Reetz Colleen C. Ryan and Tom Merz Ann and Pat Ryan Linda and Steven Sandvig The LTC Janis Verruso Charitable Fund Patricia Zalaznik

Show Stopper ($1,500–$4,999) Anonymous (2) Elissa Adams and Michael Margulies Theresa Alewine John Bale E. Thomas Binger and Rebecca Rand Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation David Bjork and Jeff Bengtson Lee and Craig Blowers Jeffrey D. Bores and Michael Hawkins Allan Bradley and Derrill Pankow Jimmy Burnett Carol Chomsky and Steve Liss Marguerite Cowles Edward and Kathryn Craig Tanner Curl and Emily Dussault Julie A. Darst Charitable Giving Account David and Margaret Dines Carol M. Downie and Gregory J. Thomas Joe and Lois Duffy Meghan and Sean Elliott Steve Euller and Nancy Roehr John Fishpaw and Kim Krohn Ron Frey and Steven Thompson Dr. Lynn Glesne Andrew and Tina Grzeskowiak Diane Harder and Thomas Eckstein Jean and Jim Hartman Kate Haugen Sandy and John Hey Bill Jones Judy and Frank Jossi THEATER LATTÉ DA - 26

Deirdre and Wes Kramer David and Sheila Lein Mac and Mary Lewis Carol Lichterman David and Susan Lima Peggy and Dave Lucas Pat and Sara Mack Margery Martin and Dan Feidt* Kristin and Jim Matejcek James Lockhart and Janie Mayeron Jodi and Mike Mooney Bridget and Sam Morehead Tom and Conchy Morgan Nicholas Naumann and Joe Chadwick Dr. Katherine J. Nevins Judy Nobles Glyn Northington and Stan Kolden Sandra Overland Steve Passeri and Tim Evens Patricia Ploetz John Polta and Anne Tuthill Polta Prospect Creek Foundation of Bruce and Martha Atwater Maria and David Reamer Daniel and Emily Shapiro Kris Lang-Shasky and John Shasky Ted and Mary Jo Shen Rolf* and Janet Skjei Russell Kaplan and Elisa Spencer-Kaplan Neil Neumann and Sandy Spidel Neumann Jon and Kristine Stevens *In remembrance

Dianne Van Tasell and Steven Eggimann Ka Vang Erin and Mark Vannelli Bill Venne and Douglas Kline Gregory L. Vilmo Ruth and David Waterbury Tom and Carol Watzke Windfelt Betsy and Alan Weiner

Marjorie and Irving Weiser Frank and Frances Wilkinson Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Dick and Diane* Wright Ann Wynia Adam Yust Peter Zenner

Entr’acte ($500 - $1,499) Anonymous (7) Frank and Barb Abramson Addicks Hoch Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Robert Allen and Timothy Anderson Grant Amadio Stuart Appelbaum and Jean King Ward and Kathleen Armstrong Marcia Aubineau Michael Bahr and Morrie Hartman Richard Beens Patricia Benson and Phil Strait Dr. Ethan Berke David and Janet Berry Marjolijn Bielders-Vries Chris Boppre Susan S. Boren and Steve King William and Rita Bourne Mary Brady Judith and Arnie Brier Barbara Brin and John Beal Dawn Brintnell and Andrew Wattenhofer Lucinda Brown Scott Cabalka Virginia and Stuart Campbell Jane Carlstrom Cynthia Case and John Foley Cynthia Chapman Tom Clausen and Chris Ulrich John Cook and Carolyn Burnett Tiffany Cooper-Allen and Torrie Allen Jeanne and David Cornish Gretchen and David Crary Peggy Crosby and David Pederson Ingrid and Chris Culp Meredith Dayton Olson Mary Lou and Thomas* Detwiler JaNelle Dexheimer Russell Doby Gerald Dove Nathan Dungan and Susan Hawks Meghan and Sean Elliott Sharon Engel Paula Engelking and JW Peck Doris Engibous John J. Erickson *In remembrance

Lucas Erickson Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Nancy Evert Linnea Fahnestock Becky and Damon Farber David Ferris Dennis and Joyce Findley Barbara Frame Matt Fulton Elaine Gaston and Mark Scannell Mary Beidler Gearen Lisa Gehrig Janice Gepner and Eric Newman Christa and Chris Getchell Brian Gilligan and Steve Pospisil Bob and Becky Glesne Renee Goodell Clifford and Karen Greene Kathy Gremillion Thomas and Mary Gross Joan Growe Peggy Hall and Lee Barry Richard Hamer Kath Hammerseng and Mo Kennedy Christie Hammes Richard Hamson Phillip Handy Roxanne Hart and Scott Nelson The Hedman Connelly Fund Joanne and Allen Hinderaker Martha P. Hoffman Nanette Hoover Richard Ihrig and Colleen Cooper Bernadette and Jeffrey Janisch Sandi and Jim Jensen Mike Jereczek and Jan Sigmund Denise Johnson and Karl Erickson Jeraldin and Steven Johnson Steve and Debra Johnson Steve Johnson and Susan Iverson Ed and Martha Karels Kurt and Gina Kastel Miriam and Erwin Kelen Cyndi and Greg Klaus James Kunz Al Kvaal FUN HOME - 27

Greg Kvam and Pat Johnson Arline Lansangan Datu Marcia C. Leatham Andrew Leshovsky and Louis Berg-Arnold Meg Lewis and David Sebberson Jeff Lin and Sarah Bronson Mary Lincoln and Mark Schneider David A. MacNaughton and Gayle R. Zoffer Katherine Majkrzak Duayne and Dianne Malewicki Susan L. Maples Keith Martinsen Paul and Julie Mattson Drew Mattson Kevin Mayo Darcy McCormick Mary H. and J. Milo Meland Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Gretchen Alberts Mellies Douglas and Cindy Merrigan Cynthia Meyer Tyler and Emily Michaels King Lisa Michaux David Miller Sonny and Amy Miller David and Leni Moore Family Foundation Richard Moore, Jr. Peter and Karla Myers Dirk and Laura Nelson Amy and Mike Newton Nicholson Family Foundation, Pondie and Mark Taylor Carol Nietz Karle and Diane Nolte Ann and David O’Fallon Ben Olk III and Kris Berggren Philip Oxman and Harvey Zuckman Mary Ann Palmer Jaime Pedraza and Stephen Gronewold Daniel Peterson and Mark Nelson Karlyn Peterson and Gavin Wilkinson Shannon Pierce and Rachael Kroog Patti Pinkerton Nancy and James Proman Quiring Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Fred Quirsfeld and Linda Campbell Pat and Gene Radecki Megan Reardon John Seeger Reay and Karen Hanson

Sadie Reiners Jonathan Riehle and Angela M. Bohmann Barbara Roen Kenneth and Beth Roering Robert Rosenbaum and Maggie Gilbert Tom and Molly Rothstein Family Peggy and Bill Roush Susan and John Ryan Kenneth and Kathy Sabota Mary and Peter Sandberg Mark Sateren Noel Schenker Paul Schumann The Schwantes Family Singers Judy Schwartau Miriam Seim Don Helgeson and Sue Shepard Fund of Central Minnesota Community Fund Kathryn Sherwood Steven and Karen Sonnenberg Roxanne and Bill Soth Ann and Eldon Spencer Lynne Stanley Anne Steinfeldt Cheryl Stever Toya Stewart Downey Marcia and John Stout Dana and Stephen Strand Kari Groth Swan Ron and Margaret Tabar Rabindra Tambyraja, MD Jean Taylor Lezlie and Louis Taylor Marlo and William Turcotte Libby and John Utter Daniel Vogel Jeanne Voigt Michael Wagner David C. Warner Margaret Weber Corliss Weeks Dorene and Alan Wernke Sue and Jim Westerman Jim and Martha Williams Gayle Woodbury Jodi and Jim Young Jane Zilch Abby Zimmer and Sean O’Brien Nancy Zingale and Bill Flanigan

Overture ($250 - $499) Tom and Cindy Adamson Albrecht Family Foundation Dan Avchen and David Johnson Kurt Bachmayer and Lisa Dalke THEATER LATTÉ DA - 28

Paul and Mary Bacigalupi Mary Bahneman Daniel Barnes and Elaine Wilson Daniel Baseman and Raymond J. Ottman

Judy Bearman and Ken Kaffine Timothy Beekman Joan Berg Tim and Beth Beutell Chris Bewell Cheryl Brown Julie Bubul Sheryl and Mike Burkhardt Kathryn and Winston Cahill Angela and Neil Christy Patricia Contag Kenneth and Gwen Crabb Kathryn and Larry Decker Virginia and John Dell Dennis and David Delude-Nafus Nicole Demario Holly Denis Sunny Didier Sandy Doll and Ron Christenson Kate Donaldson Tina Edstam Marsha Eisenberg Larry Espel and Cyndi Hasselbusch Chris Estee John J. Feigal Dr. Patricia Ferrieri Brad and Kathy Fisher Sarah Fjelstul Kim Ford Ron and Barb Fraboni Family Fund Heather and Bill Froehlich David Gardner and Ronda Willsher Patrick and Heidi George Donna H. Gies and Richard Hamer Robin Gillette Jerry Girton Barbara Golden John and Joanne Gordon Karen and John Gray Dolores Gutierrez Mark and Mary Jo Hallberg Dr. Jo-Ida C. Hansen Dr. Shannon Harris Robb Heckmann John and Diane Herman Hugh Huston Diane and Paul Jacobson Mark and Jeanne Jacobson Donald and Pamela Jakes Bonita Janda Suzanne Jebe Paul Amann and Cory Johnson Scott and Julie Kammer Jeremiah and Pamela Kearney Dr. Thomas Kelly Matt Kiser and Chris Nichol

Dodie and John Kostishack Kathleen Kraemer John and Nanciann Kruse Susan Law Judy and Steve Lewis Kathleen S. Lindblad Dennis Louie Beth and Mike MacDonald Zoreh Mahdavi Ruth B. Markowitz Kimberly McDevitt Peg McKee and Dean Adams Kathleen McLaughlin and Daryl Skobba Lisa McLean Laura Migliorino Bonnie Mulligan and Charlie Greenman Katie Nelsen Joan Nelson Marcia and Russ Palma Diane Paulu Sandra, Andrew, and Rick Penning Pike Willett Family Fund David Pote and Linda Tapsak Nick and Judy Priadka Anne Pudas Debra and Lawrence Que John and Elizabeth Quinn Bonnie Reiland Tom Renshaw Marilyn and Jim Rosenbaum James Roth Sue Salmela and Paul Burnett Carol B. Schirmers Betsy Schmiesing Barbara Schmitt Gale Sharpe Tonia and Mike Shupien Pamela Sjodin The Pros from SLP Rosemary Soltis Lisa Stevens and Jeffrey Hatcher Michele Stowers Sulasalmi Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Craig and Janet Swan Julie A. Sweitzer Tammy Taylor Jennifer, Daniel, Raina, and Zoey Tenenbaum Teresa and Mike Tennis Deborah Thorp John and Jennifer Urbanski Katherine and Martijn van de Ruijtenbeek Jennifer Van Wyk Tammi Veale Lynn and Chuck Wallin Lisa Weisman Daniel Weninger FUN HOME - 29

Elisabeth Wierum Travis Wilson Missy and Kent Wilson Sally Wingert and Tim Danz Jan Withiam

Jeanette Woessner Donna and Mike Wolsted Carol A Woodbury David Young and Edward Williams, Jr.

Honor and Memorial Gifts In honor Justin Lucero Robert Frame

In honor of Judy Tischleder Ka Vang

In honor of Lane 3 at Latté Da’s Local Legends Bowling Classic Reece Gray

In memory of William A. Velte Mary Lee B. Blomgren

In honor of the Latté Da Board of Directors Sara Huelle In honor of Bridget Morehead Medtronic In honor of Addie Gorlin-Han Jodi and Mike Mooney In honor of Sandy Hey Sally Parks In honor of Cara Sjodin The Schwantes Family Singers In honor of Rita Hattouni Tonia and Mike Shupien In honor of Timothy Thomas Cheryl Thomas

In memory of David Norris Paul Kaefer In memory of Vicki Lutz Keith Lutz In memory of Peter Rothstein’s mother, Jean Elizabeth Ryan Rothstein Gretchen Albert Mellies In memory of Dorris Rose Jesseli Moen Carol Peterson In memory of Pamela Espeland John Whiting In memory of Bill Withiam Jan Withiam

Legacy Circle We gratefully recognize the following individuals who have chosen to include Theater Latté Da in their estate plans. These estate gifts will sustain our artistic excellence and fiscal health for years to come: Mary Anne Ebert and Paul Stembler Stephen Fischer Joyce G. Gordon* Dr. Jo-Ida C. Hansen John Hemann Dr. Tom Knabel and Kent Allin

Carol Lichterman Patti Pinkerton Ella Thayer Bill Venne and Douglas Kline Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Jane Zilch

If you have included Theater Latté Da in your estate plans but are not listed here, or if you would like to learn more about legacy giving to Theater Latté Da, please contact Development Director Sara Huelle at sarahuelle@latteda.org.

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Theater Latté Da was envisioned by Co-Founder Peter Rothstein as a home for the future of the American musical.

Latté Da has lived this vision since our beginning, with 15 of our 26 mainstage seasons including world premieres.

Theater Latté Da is embarking on an ambitious milestone: supporting the development of 25 new musicals or plays with music by 2025. Through NEXT 25x25, we will invest in the future of the great American Musical and its playwrights, composers, and lyricists through world premieres, the annual NEXT Festival, our NEXT Up development program, and NEXT Generation commissions.

To make a gift in support of NEXT 25x25, please contact sarahuelle@latteda.org

NEXT Festival presentation of My Ántonia. Photo by Gillian Constable.

NEXT 25x25 Supporters

Elissa Adams and Michael Margulies Addicks Hoch Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Nancy Agneberg Theresa Alewine Jan and Greg Aplin John Arechar Abby Areshenko Peter Bachman John Bale Oby Ballinger Les Bendtsen and Rick Buchholz Ray DeSpiegler and Michael Birch David Bjork and Jeff Bengtson Betsy Bonestroo Chris Boppre Jeffrey D. Bores and Michael Hawkins Andrea Brennan Dawn Brintnell and Andrew Wattenhofer Jeffrey Brockman and Shane Swanson Cynthia Brown Jimmy Burnett Suzanne Butzow William and Andrew CollisPrather Margie Commerford Anita Cook Tiffany Cooper-Allen and Torrie Allen Carol and Kim Culp Ingrid and Chris Culp Pam and Tim Dagoberg

Audrey Dammer and Jim Boyer Fran and Barb Davis Michael DiMucci Gerald Dove Charla and Jeffrey Eccles Matt Erickson Kittie Fahey David Ferris Stephen and Lynn Filipas Gloria Freeman Mary Freeman Ron Frey and Steven Thompson Matt Fulton Patrick Gage Jim and Sonja Gindorff Bradley Greenwald and John Novak Nancy Guldberg Roger and Pam Hamilton Kath Hammerseng and Mo Kennedy Ryan Hanson Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie Marlys and Norman Harris Jean and Jim Hartman James Haskins Peter and Emily Hebig Kim Heckmann John Hering and Matt Vonk Sandy and John Hey Lisa and Dan Hoene Wyn Huynh and Bob Zehrer Birdie Jackson Mary Jacobson Sandi and Jim Jensen Martin Johansen

Jim Johnson Bill Jones Kathryn Culp Kerfoot and Mike Kerfoot Paul Kluge Dr. Tom Knabel and Kent Allin Allison Knigge Jonna Kosalko and Dan Rabin Mark Kraus Rebecca and Andrew Lahl Christine Larsen and Scott Peterson Kate and Greg Lawson Ariane Laxo Roger J. and Yvonne E. Leick Jeff Lin and Sarah Bronson Elisabeth Loeffler Mary Lundberg-Johnson Pat and Sara Mack Mary and Mark Maher Kristin and Jim Matejcek Kevin Mayo Penny Meier Jennifer Melin Miller and David Miller Gretchen Alberts Mellies Douglas and Cindy Merrigan Barb and Kevin Minnerath Beth Mitchell Laurie Mount Mark Nelson Nancy Nelson Glyn Northington and Stan Kolden Sharon O’Connor

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Rita and Ben* Olk Ben Olk, III and Kris Berggren Cindy Olk Mary Olk Michael Ostrem Jim Payne Daniel Peterson Shannon Pierce and Rachael Kroog Maria and David Reamer Jaime A. Roman and Jim Bernier Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara Soto Kristin and Harps Singh Mary Rothstein David and Liz Rudrud Jean Ryan Sheryl Saterstrom Rachel Schachter Bradley Schmeling Judy Schwartau Gayle Severson Daniel and Emily Shapiro

Wendy Short Hays Jacob Sirek Cara Sjodin and Scott Stensrud Hilary and Peter Smith Jim Smith Susan Snyder and Tom Westlund George and Mary Kay Fortier Spalding Russell Kaplan and Elisa Spencer-Kaplan Neil Neumann and Sandy Spidel Neumann Ann and Tom Stanley Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner Cheryl Stever Tim Strand John L Sullivan Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation Brian and Carrie Svendahl Kari Groth Swan Dennis Tkach Christine Tommerdahl

Chris Van Klei Kathryn Vann Erin and Mark Vannelli Carolyn Vanous Jennifer VanWyk Bill Venne and Douglas Kline The LTC Janis Verruso Charitable Fund Carol Wahl Daniel Weninger Beth Wiggins Frank and Frances Wilkinson Jim and Martha Williams Laurie Windisch Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Gayle Woodbury David Young and Edward Williams, Jr. Adam Yust Josh Zenner Peter Zenner

Corporate Matching Gifts

In-Kind Supporters

Ameriprise Financial CenterPoint Crowe Consulting Dorsey & Whitney Intel Foundation Medtronic Microsoft UnitedHealth Group U.S. Bank Voya Financial Wells Fargo

Cornerstone Copy Center Stagetime Productions

Listings reflect donations made between between March 28, 2024 to March 28, 2025. Please accept our apologies for any errors or omissions.

*In remembrance

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Board of Directors Glyn Northington, Chair Les Bendtsen, Secretary Bridget Morehead, Treasurer Theresa Alewine Tiffany Cooper-Allen John Arechar Marcia Aubineau Ethan Berke Stephen Bubul Jimmy Burnett Tanner Curl Carol Chomsky Toya Stewart Downey Keith Ford Judy Jossi Tom Knabel Jeff Lin Justin Lucero, ex-officio Elisa Spencer-Kaplan, ex-officio Lezlie Taylor Ka Vang Fremajane Wolfson Adam Yust

Staff Justin Lucero Artistic Director

Elisa Spencer-Kaplan Managing Director

Elissa Adams Associate Artistic Director & Director of New Work

Sara Huelle Director of Development

Allen Weeks Director of Production & Operations

Production Amber Brown Costume Supervisor

Marketing & Guest Services Connor Berkompas Box Office Associate

Whitley Cobb Carpenter

Naomi Brecht Box Office Manager

Christian Erben Associate Production & Company Manager

Morgan Gray Marketing Associate

Sara Herman Scenic Charge Ash Kaun Costume Shop Assistant

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Andrew Norfolk Lighting Supervisor Shelby Reddig Production Stage Manager Bethany Reinfeld Technical Director Accounting Chris Hagen Legal Counsel Michael Sinder Co-Founders Peter Rothstein Denise Prosek

Tre’ Miller Front-Of-House Associate Allison Nahr Box Office Associate Madeline Schulz House Manager Jeremiah Stich Guest Services Manager Kathleen Sullivan Concessions Lead Connor Berkompas, Casey Haeg, Jennica Kruse, Janet Lewis and Courtney Rust Concessionaires Development Gillian Constable Development Associate & Access Coordinator

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THINGS TO KNOW

RESTROOMS

We have fully remodeled our lobby restrooms to make them All Gender restrooms. Each contains five fully private stalls with ADA accessible facilities.

ACCESSIBILITY

Accessible Seating: Accessible seating is available at the Ritz Theater in Row E, Sidebar P, and Sidebar Q. All other seating requires stairs for access.

Courtesy Wheelchairs: Courtesy wheelchairs are available for use for patrons who may have mobility challenges. Please see our House Manager or Box Office Manager for use.

Bariatric Chairs: Bariatric chairs are available at the Ritz Theater in Sidebars P and Q. ASL Interpreted Performances: We offer ASL-interpreted performances for every production during our season. These performances are usually offered the second Thursday in each production.

Audio Described Performances: Professional audio describers provide narration of on-stage action, costumes, and scenery during the performance. Listening devices are available for patrons to use during the AD scheduled performances.

Open Caption Performances: We offer open captioning for select weekend performances.

Captions of the text are displayed on a screen near the stage, more easily read from our sidebar seats. Check the performance calendar for the open captioning dates or call the Box Office at 612.339.3003 for details.

Assistive Listening Devices: We offer assistive listening devices for all performances. Please stop at the Box Office to check one out for use during the performance.

Braille Programs: Please see an usher or our Guest Services Manager to request a braille program for any performance.

Large Print Programs: Large print programs are available upon request. Please see the Box Office or request a copy from an usher.

AUDIENCE INFO & POLICIES COVID-19 Policy: As of the start of this season at the Ritz Theater, we are no longer requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result. Masks are welcome but optional, EXCEPT for select Sunday matinee performances when they are required. This policy is subject to change.

Photos & Video: Photos of the set are allowed before or after the show and during intermission, but not when artists are onstage. Video or audio recording of any kind is strictly prohibited.

Phones: The ringing of cellular phones or texting is highly disruptive during a performance.

These devices should be turned off during the performance.

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MUSIC & LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM BOOK BY JAMES LAPINE BASED ON THE FILM PASSIONE D’AMORE DIRECTED BY ETTORE SCOLA DIRECTED BY JUSTIN LUCERO MUSIC DIRECTION BY JASON HANSEN

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