Snow Queen (2014)

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SEASON FOURTEEN 10 Plays. Two Cities. One Triad Stage.

Fresh off our Lucky 13th Season, Triad Stage is thrilled with the future’s possibilities. We have never been the kind of people to settle for the way things are, so we’re taking bigger chances, making better theater and daring aspirationally to bring together great stories, bold design and world-class acting with TEN PLAYS, TWO CITIES and ONE TRIAD STAGE. The journey from our very first opening night to the beginning of our teenage years today has been an incredible adventure.

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Preston Lane Artistic Director Co-Founder

Rich Whittington Managing Director Co-Founder

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Kathy Manning Board of Trustees Chair

AT The Pyrle Theater | Greensboro, NC The 39 Steps | Aug 31 - Sept 28, 2014 a hilarious comedy adapted by Patrick Barlow, from the novel by John Buchan, from the movie of Alfred Hitchcock

The Member of the Wedding | Oct 19 - Nov 9, 2014 a treasured classic

by Carson McCullers

Snow queen | Nov 28 - Dec 21, 2014 a winter adventure

by Preston Lane with original music by Laurelyn Dossett

Dirty Blonde | Jan 25 - Feb 15, 2015 a love story with music

by Claudia Shear with an original score by Bob Stillman

Crimes of the heart* | April 5 - 26, 2015 a Southern comedy by Beth Henley * presented in connection with Beth Henley’s ABUNDANCE in Winston-Salem

Common Enemy | June 7 - 28, 2015 a world premiere drama

by Preston Lane

AT HANESBRANDS THEATRE | Winston-Salem, NC Underneath the lintel or the mystery of the abandoned trousers | Sept 17 - Oct 5, 2014 a mysterious journey

by Glen Berger

A Christmas Carol | Dec 3 - 21, 2014 a holiday classic

by Charles Dickens, adapted by Preston Lane

Other Desert Cities | FEb 11 - March 1, 2015 a contemporary comic drama

by Jon Robin Baitz

Abundance* | May 6 - 24, 2015 a wild western by Beth Henley * presented in connection with Beth Henley’s CRIMES OF THE HEART in Greensboro 5

Preston Lane Artistic Director

Richard Whittington Managing Director

VF Corporation presents

Written and Originally Directed by Preston Lane Original Music and Musical Direction by Laurelyn Dossett Directed by Dani Keil Scenic Design by Howard C. Jones

Costume & Puppet Design by Bill Brewer

Lighting Design by Laura J. Eckelman

Sound Design by David E. Smith

Casting by Cindi Rush Casting

Stage Manager Emily J. Mails

Production Sponsors Cone Health Ice Age Management / McDonald’s Graffiti Ads Snow Queen was commissioned by Triad Stage in 2013.

The play is performed without an intermission.

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Cast (in alphabetical order)

Snow Queen .......................................................... Emily Gardner Hall* Tall Tree / Crooked Creek / Wild Dreamon / Little Frona-Belle ............................ Amy Hamel*◊ Cade .......................................................................................... Dylan Lowe Widow Mason / Black Eyed Susan / Wild Dreamon / Aunt Mona-Lee .............................. Patti Perkins* Gertie .................................................................................. Autumn Routt The Story Weaver ............................................................... Gayton Scott* Great Wind / Stranger Feller / Crow / Mountain Cat / Storm ................................................ Jamison Stern* Water Witch / Wild Dreamon / Aunt Mary-Pat / Chicken / Redbird ................. Cinny Strickland* Sun Warrior / Ironweed / Lost / Whitetail Stag / Blizzard / Ensemble ......................... Brady Wease◊ Musician ............................................................................... Scott Manring Musician .................................................................................... Faye Petree Musician ..................................................................................... Ben Singer Stage Manager .................................................................... Emily J. Mails* Setting

The play takes place in the mountains, long, long ago.

Songs

The Winter of Ten Thousand Years Four Little Birdies in the Lonesome Pine Cade’s Lament Goin’ Where I Ain’t Never Been Before (Traditional*) Redbird Heart Hey Hey Summertime March of the Wild Dreamons Long Darkest Night *All songs by Laurelyn Dossett except as marked.

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Emily Gardner Hall * (Snow Queen) Triad Stage: Snow Queen (2013).

Regional: Stockholm (Stageworks/Hudson, U.S. premiere). Film: Evelyn (NYU), Frank and Azalee Austin (NYU). Education: MFA, New York University. NYU: The Cherry Orchard, Restoration, Freedom House (world premiere), Macbeth, The Humans Are In Trouble, She Stoops to Conquer, All’s Well That Ends Well, All My Sons, Eurydice. www.emilygardnerhall.com

Amy Hamel * ◊ (Tall Tree / Crooked Creek / Wild Dreamon / Little Frona-Belle) Triad Stage: Snow Queen (2013), Tennessee Playboy.

Broadway: Cats (Bombalurina, Tantomile). National Tour: Cats (Demeter). Regional: As Thousands Cheer (Kravis Centre for Performing Arts); Oklahoma!, The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof (Royal Palm Dinner Theatre); Sugar Babies ( Jupiter Theatre); Fiorello!, Hair (Florida Repertory Theatre). Educational: Spamalot!, Top Girls, Hedda Gabler (UNCG), Noodle Doodle Box (Theatre 232). Education: MFA Acting, UNCG. BA Theatre Arts, Palm Beach Atlantic University. Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.

Dylan Lowe (Cade) Dylan is 10 years old and is thrilled to be making his Triad Stage debut in Snow Queen. Regional/Local: Oliver (2012), Believe (2012), The Jungle Book (2012), The Hobbit (2013), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (2013), The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2013), Seussical JR (2014) and We Are Monsters (2014). Feature Films: Dark Awakening (2015), Selfless (2015), A Walk in the Woods (2015). Short Films: TalentED (2013), Lucky (2014), The Lunchbox (2014). TV Commercials: AllerEase (2013), Hanesbrands (2013), First Citizens Bank (2014).

Patti Perkins * (Widow Mason / Black Eyed Susan / Wild Dreamon / Aunt Mona-Lee) Triad Stage Debut. Broadway: Billy Elliot, The Full Monty, All Over Town (Directed by Dustin Hoffman), Shakespeare’s Cabaret (Tony-nominated for best score). Lincoln Center: A Man of No Importance. Regional/Local: The Kennedy Center, The Guthrie, Arena Stage, Buffalo Studio Arena, Bristol Riverside, Two Rivers, among others. Film/TV: Law & Order, One Light to Live.

Autumn Routt (Gertie) Triad Stage: Snow Queen (2013), A Christmas Carol (2012). Regional/Local: Thoroughly Modern Millie (High Point Community Theater); The Hermit of Fort Fisher (Paramount Acting Company); Miracle on 34th Street (High Point Community Theater); Willy Wonka (Gallery Players); Les Misérables (Arts Alive).

Gayton Scott * (The Story Weaver) Gayton is thrilled to be back at Triad Stage where she originated the role of The Story Weaver last season. Prior to that she played Roma Avery in Reynolds Price’s New Music Trilogy. Broadway: Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters directed by Sam Mendes, Present Laughter starring Frank Langella, The Women at 8

The Roundabout. Off-Broadway: Bunty Berman Presents . . . . and Abigail’s Party both at The New Group directed by Scott Elliott among others. Regional: Pioneer Theater, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Barrington Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf, Williamstown among others. Film/TV: Forbidden Love, P.S I love You, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, Great Performances (PBS).

Jamison Stern * (Great Wind / Stranger Fella / Crow / Mountain Cat / Storm) Triad Stage: Around The World in 80 Days (Passepartout) Broadway: How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Palm Springs Who), By Jeeves (Bingo Little) National Tours: Little Shop Of Horrors (Seymour/ Orin), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere). Regional: Torch Song Trilogy (Human Race Theatre), Young Frankenstein (Fulton Theatre); Fully Committed, Invention of Love, Black Comedy, Flea In Her Ear (Alley Theatre); Chapter Two, 25th Annual...Spelling Bee (Theatre Aspen); (title of show) (Theatreworks Palo Alto); The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Skspr (abridged) (Cincinnati Playhouse); Sweet Charity (Oklahoma Lyric); Sound Of Music (Westchester Broadway); She Loves Me, It’s Only Life (Rubicon Theatre). Film/TV: Essential Ingredients, Day Zero, The Entrepreneurs, Law & Order.

Cinny Strickland * (Water Witch / Wild Dreamon / Aunt Mary Pat / Chicken / Redbird) Triad Stage: All’s Well that Ends Well, Steel Magnolias, Providence Gap, Beautiful Star (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009). Other NC credits: Paper Lantern Theatre Company, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Blowing Rock Stage Company, The Actors’ Ensemble, The Broach Theatre, Wilmington’s Dog Eat Dog Theatre. Regional: Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Monomoy Theatre, Bristol Riverside Theatre. Education: BFA-Drama, UNCSA; AB-Political Science, Princeton University.

Other: guest artist, UNCSA School of Music; guest artist, Princeton University’s Theatre Intime; guest artist, Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Brady Wease ◊ (Sun Warrior / Ironweed / Lost / Whitetail Stag / Blizzard) Triad Stage: All’s Well that Ends Well. Regional/Local: A Year with Frog and Toad (NCTYP), Jack and the Jelly Beanstalk (THTR 232).

UNCG Theatre: Twelfth Night (Sebastan), Spamalot (2013), Romeo & Juliet (2013), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (2012). Education: BFA Acting, UNCG 2016 .

Scott Manring (Musician) is known for his fluency in many musical styles on a variety of stringed instruments. His thirty plus years of teaching include long associations with The Guitar Shop, David Sheppard Instruments, and currently String Studios. He has performed on nearly all local/regional stages. Festival performances include the Sacramento Jazzfest, Miami Art Deco Festival, Spoleto, MerleFest.

Scott has also appeared in theater, with symphonies and on recordings. His work with Triad Stage includes Snow Queen, Providence Gap, the world premiere of Bloody Blackbeard and the touring production, Blackbeard.

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Faye Petree (Musician) Raised on the family farm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Faye Petree (FayePetree.com) is mostly steeped in campfire jams of traditional Bluegrass music and has been awarded honors at multiple fiddle competitions. That, alongside classical training in small doses, experimental improv and her old soul, Faye is versed in Americana music of every genre. All of which has made for a unique mash and manifested appearances with countless acts across the universe. Faye has just released her first album, entitled GypsyFiddle, featuring her newly developed vocals and songwriting, laden with her familiar fiddle licks and a rendition of tradition. Read and share in her adventures at GypsyFiddle.com. In her down time, she enjoys yodeling, aeronautical pyrotechnics and walking waterfalls.

Ben Singer (Musician) After scaling back a successful career writing music software, Ben found that North Carolina’s musical traditions struck a deep chord. From Piedmont blues to bluegrass, guitar and banjo opened a door both to his parent’s music and to a strong community of musicians. Ben combines these styles with his formal training in jazz and classical music and with a wide array of influences to create a voice both unique and authentic. Ben performs original music as a singer/ songwriter and as Modern Robot, which plays live soundtracks to classic silent films and other weird movies. Ben is a frequent collaborator with many of Greensboro’s musicians as a performer, studio musician, recording engineer, and video producer.

Preston Lane (Writer / Artistic Director) is in his 14th season at Triad Stage where he has directed over 50 productions. Preston is a 2014 finalist for the SDC Zelda Fichandler Award, a recipient of an NC Arts Council Playwright Fellowship, the Betty Cone Medal of the Arts and is the Artistic Partner for Theatre for An Appalachian Summer Festival. Other productions include the US premiere of Inexpressible Island (Dallas Observer Best of Dallas Awards: Best Director, Best Production) and The Night of the Iguana (Dallas Morning News: 2002 Top Ten Theatre List). As a playwright, Preston’s plays and adaptations have been produced at Triad Stage and other theaters and universities. His work with musician Laurelyn Dossett includes Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star, Bloody Blackbeard, Providence Gap and Snow Queen. Preston has taught at UNCG, NC A&T, UNCSA, Greensboro College, SMU, and the Professional Actors Workshop at the Dallas Theater Center. He is an alumnus of the Drama League of New York’s Director’s Project. A native of Boone, NC, Preston received his BFA from UNCSA and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Laurelyn Dossett (Composer / Musical Director / Musician) Laurelyn Dossett has partnered with Preston Lane on five plays featuring regional folklore and original music: Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity, Bloody Blackbeard, Providence Gap and Snow Queen.

Commissioned by the NC Symphony, she composed and performed “The Gathering: A Winter’s Tale in Six Songs” in 2011. A song from 10

Brother Wolf, “Anna Lee,” was featured on Levon Helm’s Grammy-winning record Dirt Farmer; her song “Leaving Eden” is the title track of the Grammy-nominated recording by the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She has received the Betty Cone Medal of Arts and the NC Arts Council Fellowship for songwriting. She lives with her family in Greensboro, NC. Dani Keil (Director) Triad Stage: Snow Queen (2013, Assitant Director), Tennesse Playboy (Assistant Director). Regional/Local: Proof (Ayden Community Theatre), Angels in America: Part One and Two and The Miracle Worker (Peoria, IL). Education/Other: Hedda Gabler, Quake, Judith of Bethulia, Long Christmas Ride Home, Crazy Eights (UNCG). Puppetry credits: The Secret Garden (East Carolina University), The Oresteia (Bradley University) and Schweik in the Second World War (Illinois State University). Dani was a high school drama teacher in Michigan, California and Illinois. Education: MFA (UNCG), MA (Illinois State University), BA (Western Michigan University).

Howard C. Jones ◉ (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: The Member of the Wedding, My Fair Lady, New Music trilogy, A Christmas Carol, Around the World in 80 Days, Ghosts, Picnic, The Night of the Iguana, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Tobacco Road, Hedda Gabler (recipient of a World Stage Design 2005 honor), August Snow, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Matchmaker and A Streetcar Named Desire. Regional: Starlight Theatre, Goodspeed Opera, Missouri Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, American Heartland Theatre, Royal New Zealand Ballet and NC Shakespeare Festival. UNCSA faculty member since 1996. Prior to that, founder and owner of Cobalt Studios, an apprentice scene painting studio in upstate New York.

Bill Brewer ◉ (Costume & Puppet Designer) Bill designs for theatre, ballet, opera, film and television across the country and abroad. Recently at Triad Stage: Wait Until Dark, Kingdom of Earth, Trouble in Mind, The Illusion, Ain’t Misbehavin’: The “Fats” Waller Musical Show, and New Music trilogy. United States: Berkeley Rep; Minnesota Rep; Pioneer Theatre Company; Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre; American Stage; Lucas Film; Sweeney Todd, starring Jean Stapleton; Peter Pan, starring Cathy Rigby. Abroad: ballet, contemporary dance and film in Paris; ballet in Milan; designs featured in World Stage Design and Prague Quadrennial exhibits. As a director and producer, Bill’s award-winning production of Side by Side by Sondheim ran in San Francisco for two years. Bill teaches costume design at UNCSA and is a member of United Scenic Artists 829.

Laura J. Eckelman (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage debut. New York: Crave, Somewhere in the Pacific, Scenes from an Execution (PTP NYC), Evolution (Associate LD, 59E59).

Regional: Romeo and Juliet, Bossa Nova (Yale Rep), Animals Out of Paper (Perseverance).

Other: Associate Lighting Designer for Asphalt Orchestra; Assistant Professor of Drama at Washington College; guest designer at Connecticut College; S&R Washington Award, 2012.

Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama; BA, Middlebury College. www.laurajeckelman.com

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David E. Smith ◉ (Sound Designer) David is director of the UNCSA theatre sound design program. David spent eight years with the Royal National Theatre in London, England.

Triad Stage: Snow Queen, Tennessee Playboy, Trouble in Mind, The Illusion, A Doll House, Dial “M” for Murder, Masquerade, A Christmas Carol and The Glass Menagerie among others.

Regional: Arena Stage, North Shore Music Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Playhouse. Local: Paper Lantern Theatre Company, Little Theatre of Winston-Salem. David was recently selected as a finalist in World Stage Design 2013 held in Cardiff, Wales, with music for four of the productions he composed for Triad Stage: Dial “M” for Murder, Oleanna, A Christmas Carol and A Doll House.

Denise Gabriel ◊ (Resident Movement Director) Triad Stage: A Christmas Carol, Tennessee Playboy, Kingdom of Earth, The Illusion, A Doll House, Masquerade, The Glass Menagerie, Providence Gap. Previous regional theatre credits include Resident Movement Director at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Clarence Brown and Working Theatre, NY. International credits: Shanghai Theatre Academy, Salzburg Austria at Schloss Leopoldskron and Artscape Theatre Center and Dance for All (Cape Town, South Africa). Directing credits: This Wide Night by Chloe Moss (Paper Lantern Theatre Company; Triad Stage’s UpStage Cabaret). Ms. Gabriel is a Founding Board Member of American Theatre for Movement Educators and theatre faculty member at UNCG. Christine Morris * ◊ (Resident Vocal Coach) At Triad Stage since 2006. Other coaching includes A Thousand Clowns (starring Tom Selleck); Kudzu (with The Red Clay Ramblers); and Sheridan’s The Critic at American Players Theatre in Wisconsin. As an actor for Triad Stage: Taw Avery in New Music: Better Days; Cordie Grindstaff in Providence Gap; Mme. Pernelle in Tartuffe; various ladies & King George in Bloody Blackbeard. UNCG Theatre faculty. Member of Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA).

Cindi Rush, C.S.A. (Casting Director) New York: Silence! The Musical, My Mother’s Jewish Lesbian Wiccan Wedding (NYMF Winner 2010), Jay Alan Zimmerman’s Incredibly Deaf Musical, Bonnie and Clyde, Rooms, Jacques Brel, Six Dance Lessons, The Thing About Men, Urinetown, The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival. Regional: Penguin Rep, Triad Stage, Act II Playhouse, Arena Stage, Goodman, Humanafest. Film: Ghoul, The Woman (Top 9 Sundance 2011), In the Family, Offspring, Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door, Headspace.

Tours: “Barney”, “Curious George”, “Kidz Bop”. Consultant for National Alliance for Musical Theatre (2004–2008), Consultant for NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing.

Bryan Conger (Dramaturg) is the Artistic Associate at Triad Stage. Triad Stage directing credits include: Pump Boys and Dinettes, My Fair Lady; tick, tick . . . BOOM!; A Christmas Carol (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014); The Mystery of Irma Vep; Billy Bishop Goes to War; Associate Director for New Music (2011); Assistant Director for A Christmas Carol (2010); Around the World in 80 Days and Ghosts. UNCG: Sister Mary Ignatius . . . (THTR 232); Oklahoma!; Balm in Gilead and Blind Date. Education: MFA, UNCG. Bryan is currently on faculty at UNCG. 12

Emily J. Mails * (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: The Mountaintop, Wait Until Dark, Tennessee Playboy, My Fair Lady, Kingdom of Earth, A Christmas Carol (2012), Shipwrecked!, Trouble in Mind, The Illusion, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Mystery of Irma Vep (2011), The America Play, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Oleanna, Bloody Blackbeard, Mad at Miles, The Santaland Diaries (20082011), Dracula (2008) and “MASTER HAROLD” ...and the boys. Regional: A Thousand Cranes (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Rigoletto (Greensboro Opera); Crime and Punishment, Merry Wives of Windsor, Into the Woods (Orlando Shakespeare Festival).

Education: BFA in Technical Production, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Richard Whittington (Triad Stage Managing Director / Co-Founder) has served as Managing Director of Triad Stage since its inception. Rich earned an MFA in Theatre Management from the Yale School of Drama and has a BFA in Acting and Directing from Marymount Manhattan College. In 2007, Rich was appointed by the Governor to serve on the board of the NC Arts Council, where he is currently a member of the Executive Committee. He has previously served on the boards of ArtsNC and Downtown Greensboro, Inc. and has served on numerous grant panels throughout the state as well as for the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Rich has taught Theatre Management at Greensboro College and NC A&T University and has guest lectured at UNC Chapel Hill, UNC School of the Arts, Wake Forest University and UNCG. A native of Dallas, Texas, Rich served as Artistic Administrator for the Dallas Theater Center and Associate Producer of Dallas’ The Big D Festival of the Unexpected.

Experience also includes work at the Roundabout Theatre in New York and StageWest in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 2010, Preston and Rich were honored with Downtown Greensboro, Inc.’s J. Edward Kitchen Leadership Award. In 2013, they received the Adelaide F. Holderness/H. Michael Weaver Award from UNCG for distinguished public service. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States ◊ Student or Faculty Member with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Theatre Department ◉ Student or Faculty Member with the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions.

Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

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FROM THE DIRECTOR, DANI KEIL Preston Lane’s Snow Queen brilliantly interweaves Laurelyn Dossett’s original music, song, dance, and puppetry within the story’s magical elements, creating a fantastical world. At the heart of which is an emphasis on the vital and transformative powers of stories.

When I discovered last year his adaptation used puppetry, I clamored to be his assistant for the production. With a lifelong puppetry fascination, I have dabbled in designing and performing puppetry throughout my career. This lifelong fascination led me to a puppetry procession workshop in the Italian Alps. Excited about the possibilities of greater exploration, I traveled to the mountain village of Morinesio where the folklore is depicted in puppets created by visiting artists. The weeklong exploration cumulated in a midsummer festival in which I, fellow visiting artists, and the locals paraded our puppets through the town. A combination of ritual and theatre, the procession celebrated the cycle of the seasons. Somehow during the week of preparation and the day long festivities, I transformed, becoming more and more a part of the village. At the center of it all were these towering puppets, and I needed to know how exactly do puppets wield this hypnotic power? Why is this form of storytelling so transformative? I haven’t figured it out yet, and back as the director of Snow Queen this year I am still exploring.

In Morinesio, my study of puppets unlocked a key understanding of them. I have discovered that puppetry is an art that demands audiences be special collaborators in the storytelling. As the audience endows the puppet with life, a deep bond between the performer and the audience forms. The connection is electrifying in its intensity. Dare I say it is life giving? --The puppet now a living, breathing character.

The tale of the Snow Queen demands the same involvement from our inspiring, young protagonist, Gertie. She bravely journeys into the story, going deeper and deeper, determined to write a new ending. As the audience is a vital part of the telling of the tale of the Snow Queen, I invite you to bravely collaborate as storytellers with us.

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Read More

FROM THE WRITER I grew up longing for snow.

ONLINE blog.triadstage.org

My friends and I learned to read the clouds as they crept across the Blue Ridge, passionately debating their direction, color, speed and density to determine whether or not we would have to go to school the next morning. And the only greater joy than peering out the windows late at night to see flakes of white illuminated by the porch light was waking to a world of white, soft winter.

It wasn’t just the thrill of missing math class, but the promise of a whole day of adventure in a familiar world suddenly transformed that made such holidays out of bad weather. My backyard descended sharply into a forest of rhododendron and pines, and a small creek wound through the valley at the bottom of the hill. The woods beyond that creek were wilderness as far as a child could explore. White and silent in a day of snow, they were a wondrous kingdom where the only color was the flash of a redbird wing . . . keep reading online at blog.triadstage.org/from-the-writer-longing-for-snow

FROM THE COMPOSER

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My parents moved from the deep south to the far north, and since I was four, I had to go with them. I went from being a girl flitting about in a red calico sundress to being a girl trapped in a stiff one-piece snowsuit, navy blue.

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My first St. Paul winter, my brother was born on a clear January day.

I watched as my mother carried him up the front sidewalk: an aisle of white, five feet tall, shoveled high on either side of dry concrete. It was eight degrees below zero at noon. Later that same winter, I gleefully modeled my new off-seasonbought bathing suit in those same drifts. I stayed outside in my bare feet longer than I should have . . . keep reading online at blog.triadstage.org/a-letter-from-laurelyn-dossett

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Hans Christian Andersen THE MAN BEHIND THE MAGIC

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orn in 1805, Hans Christian Andersen’s love of fairy tales began with the bedtime stories his father would read. Tales filled with love, danger and destiny filling the young boy’s eyes with wonder and his heart with love. Andersen’s father understood the power of imagination and would conjure his own fantasies of their family lineage. He insisted that the humble family belonged to the highest echelons of society and should therefore act as royalty. This fantastical upbringing led Andersen to publish over 150 fairy tales during the course of his prolific career. He became one of the most beloved children’s authors of the nineteenth century.

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The death of Andersen’s father marked the beginning of a long journey to discover his calling. Andersen was sent to boarding school and pursued careers as a banker, a doctor, and even a singer at the Royal Danish Theatre.

That last career ended suddenly when Andersen’s voice dropped, robbing him of his beautiful soprano range. With few avenues left to pursue and years of emotional duress from failed endeavors to cope with, Andersen turned to pen and paper to continue his voyage.

Andersen’s writings included works of poetry and novels, but it was his books of fairy tales that first brought him fame — beginning with the aptly named “Fairy Tales.”

The Hans Christian Andersen Award is now among the most prestigious recognitions for children’s authors — an homage to the writer’s many classic fairy tales including “The Snow Queen,” “The Ugly Ducking,” “The Princess and the Pea,” “Thumbelina” and “The Little Mermaid.”

These timeless tales survive Andersen long after his death in 1874 and continue to inspire the minds of children everywhere.

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INSPIRING

IMAGINATIONS

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fter nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

— Philip Pullman 18

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he purpose

of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

— Brandon Sanderson

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ike all great art, fairy tales both delight and instruct; their special genius is that they do so in terms which

speak directly to children.

— Bruno Bettelheim

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ou can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

— C. S. Lewis

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airy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

— Neil Gaiman

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he way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

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— W. H. Auden

Triad Stage began as a dream...

Co-founders Preston Lane and Richard Whittington forged their artistic partnership as graduate students at the Yale School of Drama. After managing a theater in Connecticut for two years, they undertook the three-year task of opening their own theater in the heart of historic Greensboro.

In September 1999, Triad Stage purchased the former Montgomery Ward building, which had been built in 1936 and sat vacant for almost 40 years. Renovations transformed the five-story building into a world-class theater center now called The Pyrle Theater, complete with a 300-seat theater and thrust stage, rehearsal hall, offices, two spacious lobbies and other audience amenities.

Photo courtesy of Greensboro Historical Museum

The Grand Opening took place in January 2002 with Tennessee Williams’ modern classic Suddenly Last Summer.

In 2008, Triad Stage finished a second round of renovations to The Pyrle. A scene shop annex was added in the basement. The top floor underwent major construction to create the 90-seat UpStage Cabaret performance space, the Sloan Rehearsal Hall, and the studio and office facilities of WUNC Public Radio’s new Greensboro Bureau.

In 2011, Triad Stage purchased a 30,000 square foot building near the Greensboro Coliseum Complex to serve as the theater’s new production facility, relocating its scene, costume and properties shops as well as its warehouse.

In 2013, with significant support from The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, Triad Stage announced a major expansion of programming to be produced at the Hanesbrands Theatre in downtown Winston-Salem.

The Pyrle Theater, Greensboro

Hanesbrands Theatre, Winston-Salem

Now in its 14th season, Triad Stage has over 3,000 Season Passholders and more than 400 annual donors. The company has received accolades on national, state and local levels, including being named “One of the 10 Most Promising Emerging Theatre Companies” by the American Theatre Wing and “One of the Best Regional Theaters in America” by the Drama League of New York.

Triad Stage has been voted the Triad’s “Best Live Theater” by the readers of the News & Record’s GoTriad ten years in a row and named “Professional Theatre of the Year” by the North Carolina Theatre Conference in 2003 and 2011. Its production of Tobacco Road was listed among the “Best of 2007” by The Wall Street Journal, its production of The Glass Menagerie was named “Best North Carolina Production of 2010” by Triangle Arts & Entertainment, and 2012’s production of Reynolds Price’s New Music trilogy was named among the “Best Productions” of the year in Triangle Theatre by Independent Weekly.

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“ Major funding for Triad Stage is provided by ArtsGreensboro and contributions from patrons like you.”

When you support ArtsGreensboro, you not only make tonight’s performance possible, you also help support hundreds of other arts events, exhibits & exciting projects across Greensboro, including the National Folk Festival, coming to Greensboro beginning in the Fall of 2015.

Visit our website at artsgreensboro.org to connect with the thriving arts scene of a great city. Together, we put the Arts first in Greensboro.

Whether you are renewing your gift, or a first-time donor, give securely online now at www.artsgreensboro.org or simply give us a call weekdays at 336.373.7523, extension 243. Thank you.

GREENSBORO CULTURAL CENTER I 336.373.7523 I ARTSGREENSBORO.ORG Thanks to Triad Stage for donating this space to help reduce our fundraising costs.

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Core Values Triad Stage is guided by core values that inspire all aspects of our operations. These core values are a daily reminder to our entire company of why and how we produce theater for our community.

EXCELLENCE

INCLUSION

We strive for bold, daring excellence in all of our endeavors as we seek to create professional theater with regional and national impact.

Our community’s varied diversity must not only reflect itself in Triad Stage’s casting and staffing, but also in the selection of the stories we choose to tell.

COLLABORATION

ARTISTIC RISK

We celebrate and encourage an artistic process rooted in collaboration. We seek to mirror this process in all aspects of our operations and actively seek partnerships with other organizations to benefit the well-being of our communities.

Striving to constantly challenge ourselves, we reserve the right to take artistic risks and make mistakes.

IMAGINATION

REJUVENATION

Triad Stage delights in the imaginative process. We uphold freedom of expression as indispensable to the power of imagination.

We are committed to revitalizing our historic downtowns by greatly enhancing the cultural life of the Piedmont Triad through entertainment and by providing an economic impact benefiting other area businesses.

COMMUNITY

A SOUTHERN VOICE

As individuals are united in their shared experience of the theatrical event, strangers become friends, common ground is discovered, and dialogue begins.

In imagining the lives of others, our capacity for empathy is strengthened.

By placing the best of Southern writing in juxtaposition with classic and contemporary world drama, we foster a unique Southern voice, allowing our audience the pride of saying, “This theater is ours.”

LEARNING

NORTH CAROLINA

Theater is a valuable part of a lifetime of learning. Our work and the dialogue it creates should spark curiosity and inspire creative ways of thinking for our artists, staff and audience.

We seek to play a leading role in the North Carolina arts community. We actively work to create an artistic home for artists with North Carolina connections and to provide a bridge to the profession for emerging artists.

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“One of the top ten most promising emerging theatres in America.”

-The american theatre wing (founder of the tony awards®) “An immensley powerful piece of theatrical goods.”

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House Rules and Other Helpful Information

____________________________________________________________ • Food and beverages purchased at the lobby bar are allowed inside the theater, but we ask that you are respectful of your fellow audience members and enjoy them quietly.

• Smoking is strictly prohibited throughout the building.

• Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the House Manager.

• Personal electronic devices, including cellular phones, must be turned off prior to the performance.

• Listening assistance devices are available at the Box Office.

• Photographing or sound recording of the performance is expressly prohibited by law. So, no cameras or recorders, please. Your cooperation is appreciated.

• For the enjoyment of all audience members, every attendee must have a ticket and sit in his or her own seat (no “babes in arms” or children in laps).

Thank you for respecting all Triad Stage facilities. If you have any questions, please ask the bartender, House Manager or a Box Office Associate for clarification.

Triad Stage is very proud of the name of our theater building — The Pyrle Theater — made possible by a generous donation by Tobee and Leonard Kaplan in honor of Tobee’s mother, Pyrle Gibson.

Pyrle Gibson (1909-2000) was a woman with a

great sense of humor, who found goodness in all people and beauty in the world around her. Her family always came first in her life and with them she shared her love of theater, music and the thrill of sports. The theater is named for her in loving memory by the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the Kaplan family with whom she shared her love, wisdom and joy of life.

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Annual Campaign contributors as of November 6, 2014 PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($10,000+) Vanessa & Roy Carroll Clem & Hayes Clement Kyle Jackson, MD Kathy Manning & Randall Kaplan The Michel Family Foundation Linda & Tom Sloan Pam & David Sprinkle Betty & Bob Strickland The Shubert Arts Foundation The Winston-Salem Foundation Susan & Eric Wiseman The Honorable Aldona Wos & Mr. Louis DeJoy CENTER STAGE ($5,000– $9,999) Anonymous Lindsey & Frank Auman Steve & Jackie Bell Brandon Bensley Joseph M. Bryan, Jr. Pat & Pete Cross Rob DaVanzo Haynes & Ginger Griffin Maureen & Bob Ihrie Tobee & Leonard Kaplan J.A. King Sylvia & Norman Samet Bill Soles Harrison & Martha Turner FRONT ROW ($2,500–$4,999) Mary Katherine & Durant Bell Joanne Bluethenthal Louise & Jim Brady Dr. Helen Brooks Jeb Brooks Lisa & Willie Bullock Linda & Jim Carlisle Kristin & Craig Carlock Joann & Bill Cassell Holly Chambers & Richard Steedle Rebecca & Rick Craig

FRONT ROW continued Jean & Ralph Davison Bill & Hoppy Hervey Christine & Chris Hobson Laura & Alan Irvin Joia Johnson Ron Johnson & Bill Roane Barbara Kretzer Ernest & Shelby Lane Carol & Seymour Levin Donna & Bob Newton Mindy & Chad Oakley Julie Olin Margaret & Brad Penn Debby L. Reynolds The Roberts Family Foundation Dabney & Walker Sanders Kay Stern Ruthie & Alan Tutterow Jane & Jonathan Ward

STAGE HAND continued Tim & Carolynn Rice John Riley Pat & Gordon Soenksen Amy Speas Mary & Will Truslow The Thomas Ralph Wear III Family Len & Judy White Courtney & Richard Whittington Judy & Bob Wicker T. Henry & Dell B. Wilson Family Fund Woodruff Family Law Group Lynn Wooten & Paul Russ

GALLERY ($500–$999) Lee & John Atkinson Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Babcock Phil Barrineau Annette Benson STAGE HAND ($1,000–$2,499) Bill & Gay Bowman Anonymous (2) Nancy & Jim Bryan Kate R. Barrett Lori & Murray Clayton Betty & Dennis Barry Sherry Dickstein & The Bennett Family Trust Kurt Lauenstein Sylvia & Michael Berkelhammer Mary Dubuisson & Jeff White Joe & Betty Brantley Bob Hansen Carol & Jeff Burgess Susan Ireton & Valerie Leschber Sally & Alan Cone Maggie Jeffus & Ted Thompson Michael & Barbara Curry Amy & John Kelly Carol & David DeVries Ray & Doris Kiszely Joe & Karen Grady Harriette & Bob Knox Rusty & Van Gunter Greg & Barb Laskow Beth Harrington Mimi Levin Tomasita & Sam Jacubowitz Rob & Karen Melhem David & Emily Johnston Jane & Dan Moore Preston Lane Peg & Skip Moore Mike & Kathy Lewis Rod & Linda Mortenson Sue & Neil Lutins Jane & Ron Norwood Kellie Melinda April & David Parker Cissy & Bill Parham Lloyd & Jane Peterson Richard A. Parker Meredith & Gary Piatt The Poteat-Smiths David & Claudia Reich Todd & Kim Rangel Kelly Sigle & George Marple 37

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FRIEND continued Myrna Carlock IHO Linda Carlisle Kathy & Bill Cissna Pat Shore Clark Louann Clarke Benita & Ron Cole Faye & Michael Collins Diane Conrad Pat W. Copeland Mr. & Mrs. David Craft Catherine Crowder Jack & Kathi Dubel Pam & Alan Duncan Debra Dykes Mona Gillis Edwards Nancy & Jim Edwards Gerald Freedman Larry French Dr. Deborah Friedman Silvia & Thomas Gahm Myra & John Gebbie Betty Godwin Dr. & Mrs. David L. Gutterman Deb & Jay Gyure Barbara H. Hall Ron & Becky Hampton Susan Hanks Anne & Bill Hardin Karyn Harrell & Cindy Kimbrell, DVMs Jerry & Melissa Harrelson Judith & Cyril Harvey Angela Hays Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Hedgpeth Pat Hester Wes & Rose Hood David & Rodna Hurewitz Sallie & Hoke Huss Ms. Judith Hyman Heather & Jay Jahnes Christina & Kenneth Johnson Sue & Jim Kennedy Eleanor Ketcham Martha & Charles Kirkman Suzannah Kleese Bonnie & John Knab David & Virginia Knox Derek Krueger & Gene Rogers Carolyn C. Lester Michele & Pat Levy Grey Lineweaver Annabel Link Ann Lynch & Russell Williams Jack & Judy MacDowall Barbara & Dennis Machuga

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Board of Trustees

Triad Stage Staff

Officers

Artistic

Kathy Manning, Chair Mindy Oakley, Vice Chair Susan Schwartz, Vice Chair Tom Styers, Treasurer Amy Speas, Secretary Alan Tutterow, Past Chair Linda Sloan, Founding Chair Preston Lane, Artistic Director Richard Whittington, Managing Director

Members at Large

Kate Barrett, Jeb Brooks, Pearl Burris-Floyd, Linda Carlisle, Craig Carlock, Karen Dyer, Drew Hancock, Chris Hobson, Tomasita Jacubowitz, Christina Johnson, Frankie Jones, John Kelly, Samantha Magill, Dan McAlister, Donna Newton, Cissy Parham, Margaret Penn, Todd Rangel, Debby L. Reynolds, Paul Russ, Dabney Sanders, Tom Sloan, Kathleen Smith, David Sullivan, Ernestine Taylor

Winston-Salem Advisory Council Linda Carlisle, Chair Wendy Brenner, Mary Walker Fry, Drew Hancock, Sue Henderson, Joia Johnson, Carroll Leggett, Susan Little, Cathleen McKinney, Angie Murphrey, Tog Newman, Randi Palmer, Gordon Peterson, Nancy Peterson, Milton Rhodes, Keith Vaughan, Lydia Vaughan, Sue Wall, Jason Wenker

Greensboro Advisory Council

Holly Chambers, Judy Wicker, Co-Chairs Hayes Clement, Ralph Davison, Danny Gatling, Sandra Hughes, Lesley Hunt, Ron Johnson, Tobee Kaplan, Ancella Livers, Dennis Quaintance, Sylvia Samet, Joy Shavitz, Ralph Shelton, Harrison Turner

Preston Lane, Artistic Director Bryan Conger, Artistic Associate Tamera Izlar, Artistic Associate Haylee Pittenger, Dramaturgy Intern

Administrative

Richard Whittington, Managing Director Jason Bogden, General Manager Jessie Alexander Gulley, Company Manager

Development

Jennifer Woodward, Director of Development Cedric Blue II, Development Associate

Marketing & Communications Megan Mabry, Marketing & Social Media Manager Ainsley Johnston, Sales Manager Ellis Anderson, Marketing Associate Anna Lowe, Marketing Intern

Audience Services

Sherry Barr, Director of Audience Services Justin Nichols, Box Office Manager Rachel Rutz, Assistant Box Office Manager Anna Lowe, Bonnie Pachasa, Alysa Rambo, Savannah Relos, Joseph Rollins, Amanda Wils, Box Office Associates Alysa Rambo, Joseph Rollins, House Managers Janita Colbert, Jessie Alexander Gulley, Carrie Miller, Lobby Bar Associates

Production

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Triad Stage Staff continued

“Snow Queen” continued

Mary Beth Pazdernik, First Hand Andy Cutler, Wardrobe Supervisor & Rentals Coordinator Liz Stewart, Master Electrician Gabriel Clausen, Sound Supervisor Eric Hart, Props Master Lisa Bledsoe, Props Assistant Jason Korff, Lead Carpenter Skip Johnson, Carpenter Jessica Holcombe, Scenic Artist

Megan Lampron, Ellen McCauley , Assistant Stage Managers Sarah Sparks, Wardrobe Assistant Adam Schoonmaker, Deck Crew

For “Snow Queen” Chris Anderson, Light Board Operator Jonathan Fredette, Associate Sound Designer Matthew Gulley, Sound Board Operator

Special Thanks Lomax Construction Amanda Warriner The University of North Carolina School of the Arts The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Image Creations Film and Video VanderVeen Photographers Snow Queen artwork by Bluezoom

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