The Mountaintop

The MountainTop

by Katori Hall

October 20 – November 10, 2013 Presented as a co-production with PlayMakers Repertory Company.

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by Preston Lane with original music by Laurelyn Dossett inspired by THE SNOW QUEEN

by Hans Christian Andersen DECEMBER 1 – 22 A young girl. A lost friend.

A magical journey.

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THE LUCKY SEASON / 2013 – 2014 The theater is a superstitious place. In a live art form where so much can go so terribly wrong, most actors have their own rites and rituals to hopefully placate the theater spirits and guarantee a good performance.

And there are — of course — numerous rules that every artist knows.

You never say the name of Shakespeare’s Scottish play inside a theater.

You never whistle. Peacock feathers are forbidden. You never wish a performer “good luck.” And a light must always be left on in an empty theater.

Fortunately, with so many superstitions guiding our behavior, theater artists have the great benefit that what is considered unlucky outside a theater is lucky inside. Walk under ladders and open your umbrellas, and nothing bad will ever happen.

And since that is true, Triad Stage is thrilled to invite you to season 13.

If you’re one of those people who avoid the dreaded number on Fridays, elevators or planes, you’ll be just fine as we welcome you to our luckiest season yet.

And, of course, all of us at Triad Stage feel very lucky to get to share our stories with you.

Preston Lane Artistic Director

Richard Whittington Managing Director

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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 creating a professional not-for-profit regional theater to serve the communities of the Triad.

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 commenced in the spring of 2001, transforming the five-story building into a theater center now called the Pyrle Theater, complete with a 300-seat theater and thrust stage, rehearsal hall, offices, two spacious lobbies, special events areas and other audience amenities.

Photo courtesy of Greensboro Historical Museum

The theater’s grand opening took place in January 2002 with Tennessee Williams’ modern classic Suddenly Last Summer.

Since then, Triad Stage has produced over 90 productions, holiday shows and special events, and has sold over 400,000 tickets.

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 turn what was previously a storage center into 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 a new production facility, relocating its scene, costume and properties shops as well as its warehouse.

Now in its 13th 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 New York Drama League. Triad Stage has been voted the Triad’s “Best Live Theater” by the readers of the News & Record’s Go Triad nine 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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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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Preston Lane Artistic Director

Richard Whittington Managing Director

by Katori Hall directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges Scenic and Costume Design by Junghyun Georgia Lee

Lighting Design by Xavier Pierce

Video Design by Nicholas Hussong

Sound Design by Robert Dagit

Assistant Director Jeffrey Meanza

Dramaturg Adam Versènyi

Vocal Coach John Patrick

Movement Coach Craig Turner

Casting by Pat McCorkle, CSA and Joe Lopick McCorkle Casting, Ltd.

Stage Manager Emily J. Mails

Production Sponsor: O.Henry Hotel Presented as a co-production with PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, NC Joseph Haj, Producing Artistic Director Hannah Grannemann, Managing Director Michael Rolleri, Production Manager The Mountaintop was developed at the Lark Play Development Center, New York City, and was first produced by Theatre 503 in June 2009 and further produced at Trafalgar Studio One in July 2009

by Sonia Friedman Productions and Jean Doumanian, Tali Pelman for Ambassador Theatre Group, Bob Bartner, Freddy DeMann, Jerry Frankel, Ted Snowdon and Marla Rubin Productions Ltd. The Mountaintop was developed at the 2008 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, a program of the Playwrights Foundation (Amy L. Mueller, Artistic Director).

The Mountaintop is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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Cast (in order of appearance) Martin Luther King, Jr. ........................................................ Cedric Mays* Camae .....................................................................................Lakisha May* Stage Manager......................................................................Emily J. Mails* Setting 3 April 1968.

Room 306, Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee.

The play will be performed without an intermission.

Lakisha May* (Camae) PlayMakers & Triad Stage debut. International: The Egg (Theatre Royal Bath, England). Regional: American Conservatory Theater, Alliance Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, California Shakespeare Theater. Television: Boardwalk Empire (HBO). Education: MFA, American Conservatory Theater; BA, Spelman College.

Cedric Mays* (Martin Luther King, Jr.) PlayMakers & Triad Stage debut.

Regional: Bud, Not Buddy (Chicago Children’s Theatre); Fish Men, A True History of the Johnstown Flood (Goodman Theatre); Gem of the Ocean (Guthrie Theater). Television: The Mob Doctor, The Chicago Code (Fox Television); Detroit 1-8-7 (NBC). Education: University of North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Drama.

Raelle Myrick-Hodges (Director) Triad Stage debut. PlayMakers: A Raisin in the Sun, I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady From Rwanda, Topdog/ Underdog. Raelle directed Macbeth for Georgia Shakespeare Festival in a production touted as “theatrically innovative,” “chilling and gorgeous,” and created new works at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum. As Artistic Director at Brava Theater, 2008-12, she produced and presented more than 60 works, including twelve world premieres and nine regional premieres, and developed a full-time production program for women in technical direction and arts administration. She is Summer Theater Director for the Perry-Mansfield Arts Camp, the country’s oldest arts camp for youth. She recently returned from Chiapas, Mexico, where she is an artist-in-residence at En Donde Era La ONU (“Where the United Nations Used to Be”) working with visual artists Emory Douglas, Rigo 23, Caleb Duarte and Mia Rollow to create 17 murals and develop five live art presentations. She will return to EDELO to present new works this spring.

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Junghyun Georgia Lee (Scenic and Costume Designer) Triad Stage debut. Junghyun Georgia Lee is a set and costume designer based in New York City. She has collaborated with many directors, playwrights and choreographers across the US, Europe and South Korea. She has designed for PlayMakers Repertory Company (costumes, All My Sons and set, Pride and Prejudice), Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, The Juilliard School, American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Syracuse Stage, TheaterworksUSA, The Play Company, Sungnam Art Center (Korea) and National Theater of Korea. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama and is a founding member of CHANCE MAGAZINE for theater design.

Xavier Pierce (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage debut. Recent credits include Two Trains Running (Two River Theatre Company); DRUMLINE LIVE! (National and International Tours); Clybourne Park (associate lighting designer, Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway).

Regional credits include Westport Country Playhouse, Intiman Theatre, Crossroads Theatre Company, Peterborough Players, Performing Arts Center, South Miami-Dade Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe Opera, Utah Shakespearean Festival and Arena Stage, where he was Allen Lee Hughes Lighting Design Fellow. Mr. Pierce lit the grand opening of the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center with director Heidi Marshall. He is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, MFA in Design for Stage and Film, and a Visiting Assistant Professor in Lighting Design at the University of Illinois. Upcoming: Fences (McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre); The Piano Lesson (Olney Theatre Center).

Robert Dagit (Sound Designer) Triad Stage debut. Robert Dagit returns for his second season as PlayMakers’ resident Sound Designer/Engineer. His work at PlayMakers includes Surviving Twin, Cabaret, A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park, It’s a Wonderful Life, Imaginary Invalid, Red and Spring Training. Work at other theatres include Quilters (University of Southern Indiana); Into the Woods (University of Findlay); Guys and Dolls (New Harmony Theatre); Young Playwrights Festival (CenterStage – Baltimore); Ain’t Misbehavin’, Big: The Musical (Music Theater Louisville); South Pacific, La Calisto (University of Illinois Opera); The Ionesco Pair, The African Company Presents Richard III (University of Illinois Theatre); An Evening with Sutton Foster (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Armory Free Theatre); Ellnora: The Guitar Festival (Krannert Center for the Performing Arts); and the world premiere of My Ántonia (Station Theatre). Robert received his BA from the University of Southern Indiana and his MFA in Sound Design and Technology from the University of Illinois: Urbana/Champaign.

Nicholas Hussong (Video Designer) Nicholas previously served as Artistic Associate of Design at Triad Stage, where his sixteen credits include The Illusion, The Glass Menagerie, Providence Gap and The America Play. Nicholas Hussong is a third year MFA candidate in Design at the Yale School of Drama, concentrating in Projection Design. While at Yale, Nicholas served as Associate Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret’s 45th anniversary season.

Last year, he designed projections for Sunday in the Park with George, two new songs for The Baseball Music Project, Palmer Hefferan’s Forming the Year’s First Sky, and collaborated with Lauren Dubowski, Cole Lewis and Masha Tsimring, creating a new piece, Ain’t Gonna Make It. Also at Yale, he designed projections for Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and collaborated on 12

Basement Hades. He is beginning work on These Paper Bullets at Yale Repertory Theatre.

Jeffrey Meanza* (Assistant Director) Triad Stage debut. PlayMakers: Acting: Angels in America, Amadeus with the North Carolina Symphony, Nicholas Nickleby, Well, Amadeus; Vocal Coach: Pride and Prejudice, In the Continuum. New York (Off-Broadway): Celebrate Good Times (Macbeth) (West End Theater). Regional: Tall Grass Gothic (Emigrant Theater, Minneapolis); West Coast premiere of William Finn’s A New Brain (Shotgun Players, Berkeley); world premieres of Cleopatra: The Musical, Barebacking: A Sex-Panic!

Comedy (Theater Rhinoceros, San Francisco); West Coast premiere of Sheila Callaghan’s CRUMBLE, Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake (Impact! Theater, Berkeley). Film: The Fall, Dagober, The Fay Lindsay Jones Story. Education/ Other: Jeffrey holds a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (Travis Bogard Memorial Prize for Artistic Excellence) and an MFA from the Professional Actor Training Program in the Department of Dramatic Art at UNC-Chapel Hill (Louise Lamont Award for Excellence in Acting). He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and serves as PlayMakers’ Associate Artistic Director.

Adam Versènyi (Dramaturg) Triad Stage debut. Dramaturg: Resident Dramaturg, PlayMakers Repertory Company, 1988-present; 7 Stages; NEA Playwrighting Fellows Program; Theatre Previews at Duke; Critics Panel, IV Hispanic Theatre Festival (Teatro Avante); Florida Studio Theatre; Yale Repertory Theatre; La MaMa E.T.C.; Festival Latino (New York Shakespeare Festival). Directing: The Nutcracker (PlayMakers Repertory Company); The Agony of Ecstasy; El Dia Que Me Quieras; The Black American Dream; Hughie; The Indians Were Angry; Bitter Blood; The Lesson; No Exit. Publications: Dictionary of Literary Biography: Latin American Dramatists, Ed.; The Theater of Sabina Berman: The Agony of Ecstasy and Other Plays; El Teatro en America Latina; Theatre in Latin America: Religion, Politics, and Culture from Cortes to the 1980s. Other: Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Colombia, South America. Member, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Faculty: UNC-Chapel Hill; Deep Springs College; Escuela de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia; Escuela Nacional de Arte Dramatico, Bogota, Colombia. Education: DFA, Yale School of Drama.

John Patrick (Vocal Coach) Triad Stage debut. PlayMakers: Cabaret, Clybourne Park, A Raisin in the Sun, It’s a Wonderful Life, Imaginary Invalid, Red, An Iliad, Penelope, Noises Off, Henry IV & Henry V, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Parchman Hour, In the Next Room, A Number. Regional: A Streetcar Named Desire, I Am My Own Wife, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Whipping Man, Master Class, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol (Gulfshore Playhouse); The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice (Trinity Shakespeare Festival). Teaching: New York University Graduate Acting Program, NYU Steinhardt School, Rutgers University, Miller Voice Method Studio, New York Film Academy. Acting: Off-Broadway: Blue Man Group. Regionally: Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Dallas Theater Center, Amphibian Stage Productions (regional premiere of Gutenberg! The Musical!) John has also been seen in film, television and national and regional commercials.

Education: MFA Acting, Rutgers University; BFA Acting and Musical Theater, Texas Christian University. Teacher-training under Scott Miller, NYU Graduate Acting Program.

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Craig Turner (Movement Coordinator) Triad Stage debut. University: Movement Training at the University of Washington, National Taiwan University, Ohio University, Pennsylvania State University, Ohio State University, Boston University, California Institute of the Arts. Positions: Professor, UNC Professional Actor Training Program, Head of Movement Training, Head of Graduate Studies; served as Chair of the Movement Program of the American Theatre Association. Regional: Movement Coach and advisor in more than 150 professional productions including Seattle Repertory Company, Denver Center Theatre. Television: Fight Direction, Kay O’Brien, Surgeon. Publications: Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay (1990), “The Association Process in Stanislavski’s ‘Threshold of the Subconscious’” (2009), and other journal articles on mask and acting process. Memberships: Association for Theatre Movement Educators, International Jugglers Association, International Association for Neurolinguistic Programming (Master Practitioner/Modeler Certified). Skills: Stage combat, mime, juggling, mask and performance training, movement analysis, stress mastery training, physical transformation and characterization techniques, meditation and focus work, Taijiquan—Wu Style, Ki no Kenkyukai Ki-Aikido, Chinese calligraphy.

McCorkle Casting, Ltd. (Pat McCorkle, Casting Director; Joe Lopick, Associate Casting Director) Triad Stage debut. Renowned Casting Director Pat McCorkle (C.S.A.) has, for over 30 years, cast Broadway productions such as End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Amadeus, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers and A Few Good Men, among many others. Notable Off-Broadway projects include the acclaimed Hit the Wall, Tribes and Our Town (Barrow Street), Falling, Freud’s Last Session, Ears on a Beatle, Almost Maine, Killer Joe and Driving Miss Daisy. A partial list of feature film casting includes Premium Rush, Ghost Town, Secret Window, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, Basic, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, and for television, humans for Sesame Street, Californication (Emmy nomination), Max Bickford, Hack, Strangers with Candy and Chappelle’s Show, among others. www.mccorklecasting.com Emily J. Mails* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Wait Until Dark, Tennessee Playboy, My Fair Lady, Kingdon 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.

PlayMakers Repertory Company (Co-Producer) PlayMakers is the professional theatre in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presenting a 6-play Mainstage Season in the 500-seat Paul Green Theatre, along with the 3-play PRC2 series in the more intimate 265-seat Kenan Theatre, both located in UNC’s Center for Dramatic Art. PlayMakers presents reimagined classics as well as the best in contemporary theatre. The artists appearing onstage and working behind the scenes to make PlayMakers’ productions 14

truly memorable and entertaining are nationally recognized talents. PlayMakers has been named “One of the Best Regional Theaters in America” by The Drama League of New York and “one of America’s leading theatre companies” by American Theatre magazine.

INDY Week calls PlayMakers the “Best Live Theater Company in the Triangle.” The North Carolina Theatre Conference honored PlayMakers as “Professional Theatre of the Year” and Triangle Business Journal named the theatre company among the 2013 inaugural recipients of its Leaders in Diversity Award. www.playmakersrep.org *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

Up Next on the MainStage

December 1–22, 2013

by PRESTON LANE with original music by LAURELYN DOSSETT inspired by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’s classic fairy tale THE SNOW QUEEN

SPONSORED BY

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The Playwright: Katori Hall Katori Hall is a playwright and performer hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. Her award-winning play Hoodoo Love premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2007. It was developed under Lynn Nottage as part of the theatre’s 2006 Mentor Project. Hoodoo Love received three AUDELCO nominations (Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, August Wilson Playwright Award). Her other plays include: Remembrance, Hurt Village, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, The Mountaintop, On the Chitlin’ Circuit and Freedom Train (KCACTF Ten-Minute Play national finalist).

Her work has been developed and presented at the following venues: the American Repertory Theatre, Kennedy Center, Photo by Xanthe Elbrick Cherry Lane Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Schomburg Center, BRICLab, Women’s Project, World Financial Center, Lark Play Development Center, New Professional Theatre, The O’Neill, The Juilliard School, Stanford University and Columbia University.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lecompte du Nouy Prize, North Manhattan Arts Alliance Fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts Commission Grant, New Professional Theatre’s Writers’ Festival award, Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award for Drama, New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting and Screenwriting, Royal Court Theatre Residency, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award. She has also been a Kennedy Center Playwriting Fellow.

As an actor, her credits include Law & Order: SVU; The President’s Puppets (The Public Theater); Growing up a Slave, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (American Place Theatre), the world premiere of Amerika (Theatre de la Jeune Lune/American Repertory Theatre); Spring Awakening (Moscow Art Theatre School); Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Schooled (WOW Café Theatre) and Black Girl (Sande Shurin Theatre). As a journalist, her work has been published in The Boston Globe, Essence, Newsweek and The Commercial Appeal.

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a major in African-American Studies and Creative Writing. She was awarded top departmental honors from the university’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS). In 2005, she graduated from the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Acting.

She is now a student in the The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Program. She is a proud member of the Women’s Project Playwrights’ Lab, Lark Playwrights’ Workshop, and the Dramatists Guild. www.katorihall.com 16

Triad Stage Co-Founders Richard Whittington (Managing Director/CoFounder) 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.

Preston Lane (Artistic Director/Co-Founder) is in his 13th season at Triad Stage where he has directed over 35 productions.

Preston is the recipient of the 2008 Betty Cone Medal of the Arts and is in his fourth year as the Artistic Partner for Theatre for An Appalachian Summer Festival. He was formerly Artistic Associate at the Dallas Theater Center, where his productions included 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).

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.

As a playwright, Preston’s adaptations have been produced at Triad Stage, Dallas Theater Center and Sonoma Rep. His work with musician Laurelyn Dossett includes Brother Wolf (Triad Stage, An Appalachian Summer Festival, The Human Race Theatre Company and St. Olaf College), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage and WaterTower Theatre), Bloody Blackbeard and Providence Gap. Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star and Ghosts are published by Playscripts Inc.

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 previously 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.

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 NCSA and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

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.

Follow Preston on Twitter at @aprestonlane.

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MLK and 1968

January 5

Martin Luther King, Jr. is greatly supportive of Dr. Benjamin Spock; William Sloane Coffin, the chaplain of Yale University; novelist Mitchell Goodman; Michael Ferber, a graduate student at Harvard; and Marcus Raskin, a peace activist, when they are indicted on charges of conspiracy to encourage violations of the draft laws by a grand jury in Boston. The charges are the result of actions taken at a protest rally the previous October at the Lincoln Memorial. The four will be convicted and Raskin acquitted on June 14th.

January 10

The 10,000th US airplane is lost over Vietnam.

January 17

President Lyndon Baines Johnson delivers the State of the Union Address. Martin Luther King Jr. is “very disappointed” by the address and castigates the President for delivering “a spiritless message.” Since delivering a speech at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, in which he came out strongly against the Vietnam War, King has been increasingly outspoken about his opposition to the war.

January 31

At half-past midnight on Wednesday morning, the North Vietnamese launch the Tet Offensive at Nha Trang. Nearly 70,000 North Vietnamese troops will take part in this broad action, taking the battle from the jungles to the cities. The offensive will carry on for weeks and is seen as a major turning point for the American attitude toward the war. At 2:45 that morning the US embassy in Saigon is invaded and held until 9:15AM.

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by Adam Versènyi, Dramaturg

February 2

Richard Nixon, a Republican from California, enters the New Hampshire primary and declares his presidential candidacy. Martin Luther King, Jr. tells his aides that a Republican ticket of New York’s Nelson Rockefeller and Illinois’ Charles Percy would be the Movement’s best hope for a Republican Presidential ticket.

February 4

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a sermon at his Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta that will come to be seen as prophetic. His speech contains what amounts to his own eulogy. After his death, he says, “I’d like somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to give his life serving others. I’d like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to love somebody . . . that I tried to love and serve humanity. Yes, if you want to, say that I was a drum major for peace . . . for righteousness.”

February 18

The US State Department announces the highest US casualty toll of the Vietnam War. The previous week saw 543 Americans killed in action, and 2,547 wounded.

March 12

The New Hampshire primary election brings shocking results. The Eugene McCarthy campaign, benefiting from the work of 2,000 full-time student volunteers and up to 5,000 on the weekends immediately preceding the vote comes within 230 votes of defeating President Lyndon Johnson. King, while supportive of McCarthy’s candidacy, does not believe that he will be able to win the nomination against the sitting president.

March 16

Senator Robert Kennedy, former Attorney General and brother of former President John F. Kennedy, ends months of debate by announcing that he will enter the 1968 Presidential race.

On the same day, although it will not become public knowledge for more than a year, US ground troops from Charlie Company rampage through the hamlet of My Lai, killing more than 500 Vietnamese civilians from infants to the elderly. The massacre continues for three hours until three American fliers intervene, positioning their helicopter between the troops and the fleeing Vietnamese and eventually carrying a handful of wounded to safety.

pictured left: South Vietnamese Rangers defend Saigon during the Tet Offensive. pictured right: Memphis Sanitation Strike and March, March 28, 1968.

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MLK and 1968

March 28

Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a march in Memphis that turns violent. After King himself had been led from the scene, one 16-year-old black boy is killed, 60 people are injured, and over 150 arrested.

March 31 President Lyndon Johnson announces the first in a series of limitations on US bombing in Vietnam, promising to halt these activities above the 20th parallel.

April 3

Martin Luther King Jr., although exhausted, is convinced by Ralph Abernathy to address a crowd of two thousand gathered at the Mason Temple in Memphis and delivers a sermon that concludes, “I have been to the mountaintop, and I have seen the Promised Land.”

I have been to the mountaintop, and I have seen the Promised Land.

— Martin Luther King Jr., April 3, 1968

April 3, 1968 Dr. King delivers “The Mountaintop” speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis, TN.

Photo taken on the night of Dr. King’s assassination; photo by Henry Groskinsky for Life Magazine.

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by Adam Versènyi, Dramaturg

April 4

Martin Luther King, Jr. spends the day at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, working and meeting with local leaders on plans for his Poor People’s March on Washington to take place late in the month. At 6PM, as he greets friends in the courtyard and the car sent for him, King is shot with one round from a 30.06 rifle. He will be declared dead just an hour later at St. Joseph’s hospital. After an international manhunt, James Earl Ray will be arrested on June 27 in England, and convicted of the murder. Ray died in prison in 1998.

Robert Kennedy, hearing of the murder just before he is to give a speech in Indianapolis, Ind., delivers a powerful extemporaneous eulogy in which he pleads with the audience “to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” Many believe that Kennedy’s words spare Indianapolis from the rioting that follows King’s death elsewhere.

James Brown appears on national television, in an attempt to calm feelings of anger in the US following the assassination.

The King assassination sparks rioting in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, Newark, Washington, D.C. and many other cities. Across the country 46 deaths will be blamed on the riots.

Robert F. Kennedy speaks to a crowd in Indianapolis on the night of Dr. King’s assassination.

AP Photo/Leroy Patton, Indianapolis News.

The first day of rioting in Chicago after Dr. King’s assassination; photo by Cy Wolf, Chicago Tribune.

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Think you know all about Triad Stage?

A few facts might surprise you.

FABLE: My ticket price covers the cost of the production.

FACT: Ticket sales and services account for only 55% of our total budget; we depend on contributions for the remaining 45%. Your ticket price essentially covers just half of what you experience when you come to Triad Stage. If we had to survive on ticket sales alone, every seat to every performance would be at least $50 (our current average ticket price is $22).

FABLE: The productions at Triad Stage are touring shows created elsewhere.

FACT: Each and every set, costume and prop is created right here in Greensboro. Triad Stage employs 16 full-time and 16 part-time professionals who see the show from inception to the stage. We also hire 247 actors, directors, designers and technicians during the season. These artists are both local talent and nationally recognized leaders in their field.

FABLE: Triad Stage will move to the new Performing Arts Center.

FACT: Triad Stage owns and operates two buildings — the theater and

administrative offices at 232 South Elm Street and the Scene Shop on Holbrook Street. Triad Stage will continue to build, create and perform in these spaces.

Fabric room at the Scene Shop

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Annual Campaign Contributors Triad Stage wishes to thank the following individuals, corporations and foundations who have contributed generously to our 2013 Annual Campaign.

Annual Campaign contributors as of September 16, 2013.

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($10,000+) Clem & Hayes Clement Kathy Manning & Randall Kaplan Kyle Jackson, MD Linda & Tom Sloan Susan & Eric Wiseman The Honorable Aldona Wos & Mr. Louis DeJoy

CENTER STAGE ($5,000–$9,999) Anonymous Lindsey & Frank Auman Joseph M. Bryan, Jr. Pat & Pete Cross Rob DaVanzo The John G.B., Jr. and Jane R. Ellison Family Foundation Haynes & Ginger Griffin Maureen & Bob Ihrie

Tobee & Leonard Kaplan Marge Michel Mindy & Chad Oakley Sylvia & Norman Samet Bill Soles Pam & David Sprinkle Robert Strickland Family Foundation Dr. & Mrs. W. Harrison Turner III

FRONT ROW ($2,500–$4,999) Steve & Jackie Bell Ms. Brandon Bensley Joanne Bluethenthal Jim & Louise Brady Dr. Helen Brooks Jeb Brooks Lisa & Willie Bullock Linda & Jim Carlisle Kristin & Craig Carlock Holly Chambers & Richard Steedle The Copeland Family

Rick & Rebecca Craig Christine & Chris Hobson Laura & Alan Irvin Ron Johnson & Bill Roane Barbara Kretzer Ernest & Shelby Lane Carol & Seymour Levin Bob & Donna Newton Richard A. Parker Debby L. Reynolds Dabney & Walker Sanders 34

FRONT ROW CONTINUED Kay Stern Ruthie & Alan Tutterow Jane & Jonathan Ward

STAGE HAND ($1,000–$2,499) Carol & Jeff Burgess Joann & Bill Cassell Jean & Ralph Davison Carol & David DeVries Dionis & Gordon Griffin Rusty & Van Gunter II Beth & Edward Harrington Bill & Hoppy Hervey David & Emily Johnston Sue & Neil Lutins Misty McCall Kellie Melinda Julie Olin

Cissy & Bill Parham The Poteat-Smiths John Riley Kim & Bassam Smir Pat & Gordon Soenksen Willie Taylor Margaret M. Thompson May Toms Len & Judy White Judy & Bob Wicker Woodruff Family Law Group Ann & Ben Zuraw

GALLERY ($500–$999) Annette Benson Tony & Barbara Blake Bill & Gay Bowman Lori & Murray Clayton Sherry Dickstein & Kurt Lauenstein Mylene & Andy Duffy Bert & Debbie Fields Patti & Douglass Gilbert Mr. Bob Hansen Tony Hooimeijer & Cynthia Soemita Rep. Maggie Jeffus & Ted Thompson Olive B. & William W. Jordan Amy & John Kelly Ray & Doris Kiszely Harriette & Bob Knox Connie Mahan Judy & Dan McGinn

Rob & Karen Melhem Jane & Dan Moore Peg & Skip Moore Lloyd & Jane Peterson Todd & Kimberly Rangel David & Claudia Reich Kelly Sigle Jim & Linda Starmer Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Stone Tom & Maggie Styers Ernestine & Stuart Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Tew Mary & Will Truslow Jeff & Shirley Vestal Lynn Wooten & Paul Russ

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PATRON ($250–$499) Dr. Phil Barrineau Dee & Wes Bartlett Mary & Frank Biggerstaff Patrick & Elizabeth Burns Mr. Harvey Colchamiro Benita & Ron Cole Janet Ward Black & Gerard Davidson Mylene & Andy Duffy Richard & Nancy Evans Jim & Dana Fisher Kay & Chip Hagan Melinda Hamrick Sherry & Bob Harris Cindi & Dave Hewitt Sam & Anne Hummel Susan Ireton & Valerie Leschber Tomasita & Sam Jacubowitz Randall T. Johnson Ken & Ginger Karb Robin & Tim Lane Louise & Bill Latture Denise Lute Nancy Y. Madden David & Kathy Mazzola Bonnie & Dan McAlister Amanda McGehee

Jim & Fray Metcalfe Eberhard Mueller-Heubach Al & Linda Munns Jane & Ron Norwood Marion O’Brien William Osborne Carol & Russell Remy The Rose Family Beatrice Schall Susan & Jerry Schwartz Donna & Mark Shapiro Amy Speas Michiko Stavert Christine Stinson Adeline & David Talbot Suzanne & Tom Tilley CompuSystems Bryan & Billie Toney Davis & Lisa Vu B.J. Weatherby & Verne Nielsen David Westfall & Barbara Ann Peters Jack & Karen Whiteside Mr. Jim Wilkie W. Fred Williams Carmen & Robert Wood Nancy Young

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J. Roger & Jackie E. Brown Alex & Maureen Burns Julia Smith Capone Kathy & Bill Cissna Louann A. Clarke Faye & Michael Collins Diane Conrad Pat W. Copeland Mr. & Mrs. David Craft Catherine Crowder 36

Larry & JoAnn Currie Linda Cykert Gerald & Marge Doty Pam & Alan Duncan Debra Dykes Nancy & Jim Edwards Jean & Robert Finley Dr. Deborah Friedman Robert W. Fuller Denise Gabriel Silvia & Thomas Gahm Felice Gavin Mr. & Mrs. Edward N. Gideon, Jr. Betty Godwin A Happy Birthday to Dr. Willie L. Taylor Guilford College Art Appreciation Club Jay & Deb Gyure Libby Haile & Donald Martin Barbara Hall Karyn Harrell & Cindy Kimbrell, DVMs Anne & Bill Hardin Jerry & Melissa Harrelson Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Hedgpeth Pat Hester Wes & Rose Hood David & Rodna Hurewitz Sallie & Hoke Huss Ms. Judith Hyman Mr. Milton Kern Bonnie & John Knab Bob & Levina Kollar Kelly Krantz Derek Krueger & Gene Rogers Hugh & Anita Lawson Carolyn C. Lester Mandy Lotz in honor of Sherry Barr Jack & Judy MacDowall

Bud & Reba Maxson Tom & Marilou May Donald & Eleanor McCrickard Angus & Wynn McGregor Carol H. Melvin Benedicte & Christian Mengel Gary & Nancy Miller Barbara & Bill Moran The Nashes Judith ( J. T.) Nebenzahl Floyd & Joann Nesbitt Margaret & Vernon Newlin Gaynelle Bass Nichols John & Emily Odom Zack & Nancy Osborne Jill A. Painter Caroline Panzer Margaret Y. Price Jesse Pugh Carla & Stephen Robinson Ms. Cary Root Debbie & Eugene Russell Robin & Connie Saul Matthew Sergio & Steve Stonecypher Lee & Mary Ellen Shiflett Beverly & Lawrence Snively Suci Sorensen Glenn & Marylou Strohl Joan Sullivan in loving memory of John L. Sullivan Janice & John Sullivan Peggy R. Tager Jean Loy Toms Mr. Robert Walker Wes & Sarah Ward William E. Waters Andrea West Mary & Robert Woodrow Earle & Lynette Wrenn

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MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES American Express Compass Financial The Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Kinder Morgan Foundation Lincoln Financial Foundation Reynolds American Foundation Schneider Electric/Square D Foundation Weaver Foundation

FOUNDATION SUPPORT City of Greensboro Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Roberts Family Foundation The Shubert Arts Foundation

LEGACY DONORS Anonymous Sylvia Samet Linda & Tom Sloan Martha & Harrison Turner Ruthie & Alan Tutterow Legacy Donors have made bequests in support of Triad Stage.

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 greatgrandchildren of the Kaplan family with whom she shared her love, wisdom and joy of life.

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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.

ArtsGreensboro is the new brand of the United Arts Council. Visit our new website at artsgreensboro.org and connect with the thriving arts scene of a great city. Together, we put the Arts first in Greensboro.

Give online securely right now at www.artsgreensboro.org, or simply give us a call weekdays at 336-373-7523, extension 243. Thank you!

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Partnerships Triad Stage has a strong belief in creating partnerships. We are committed to sharing resources, ideas and talent with other organizations to benefit the well-being of our community. Working together we can expand audiences, provide more employment for artists, and strengthen the local arts community�which benefits us all.

This season’s partnerships include (but are not limited to) the following artists and organizations:

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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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Board of Trustees

Staff

Officers

Artistic

Kathy E. Manning, Chair Mindy Oakley, Vice Chair Susan Schwartz, Vice Chair Tom Styers, Treasurer Holly Chambers, Secretary Alan Tutterow, Immediate Past Chair Linda Sloan, Founding Chair Preston Lane, Artistic Director Richard Whittington, Managing Director

Preston Lane, Artistic Director Bryan Conger, Artistic Associate William Gwyn, Artistic Intern Price Felker, Dramaturgy Intern

Administrative

Richard Whittington, Managing Director Jason Bogden, Business Manager Megan Mabry, Marketing & Social Media Manager Robin Campbell, Company Manager Cedric Blue II, Development Assistant Kim Doty, Marketing Assistant Anna Lowe, Marketing Intern

Members at Large

Kate Barrett, Jeb Brooks, Linda Carlisle, Craig Carlock, D. Hayes Clement, Lynda Clifford, Jim Fisher, Chris Hobson, Tomasita Jacubowitz, Christina Johnson, John Kelly, Dan McAlister, Donna Newton, Julie Olin, Cissy Parham, Todd Rangel, Debby L. Reynolds, Paul Russ, Dabney Sanders, Tom Sloan, Kathleen Smith, Amy Speas, Ernestine Taylor, Margaret Thompson

Audience Services

Sherry Barr, Director of Audience Services Justin Nichols, Box Office Manager Amanda Waterhouse, Asst. Box Office Manager Teresa Clifton, House Manager Joseph Rollins, UpStage Cabaret House Manager Bonnie Pachasa, Rachel Rutz, Joseph Rollins, Box Office Associates Jenna McMillan, Carrie Miller, Bar Staff Janita Colbert, UpStage Cabaret Bartender

Advisory Council

Judy Wicker, Chair Ralph Davison, Danny Gatling, Sandra Hughes, Lesley Hunt, Ron Johnson, Tobee Kaplan, Ancella Livers, Dennis Quaintance, Sylvia Samet, Joy Shavitz, Ralph Shelton, Harrison Turner

Production

Tim Kottyan, Production Manager Nick Rutz, Technical Director Emily J. Mails, Resident Stage Manager Eric Hart, Properties Master Kathleen Ludwig, Costume Shop Manager Liz Stewart, Master Electrician Jonathan Fredette, Sound Supervisor Amanda Warriner, Lead Carpenter Andrew Landon Cutler, Wardrobe Supervisor Mary Beth Pazdernik, Stitcher/Rentals Coordinator Meredith Riggan, Scenic Artist Ariel Magno, Prop Assistant Najaya Ruffin, Sound Assistant Daniel Perez, Projections Technician

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No food is permitted inside The MainStage Theater. Drinks are permitted, but not in glass bottles or in cups with ice. No outside food or drink is permitted inside The UpStage Cabaret. If you have any questions, please ask the bartender or House Manager for clarification. Smoking is prohibited throughout the building.

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How to Reach us: Triad Stage 232 South Elm Street Downtown Greensboro North Carolina 27401

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