Like Heaven Playbill Fall 2018

LIKE HEAVEN

by Elaine Romero

September 16 - October 7, 2018 Tornabene Theatre

The University of Arizona • College of Fine Arts School of Theatre, Film & Television proudly presents Arizona Repertory Theatre's production of

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Oct 14 thru Nov 4

by Elaine Romero

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Previews: Oct 14 at 1:30pm, Oct 15 at 7:30pm Evenings: Oct 17-19, Oct 25-27, Nov 2-3 at 7:30pm Matinees: Oct 21, Octo 27-28, Nov 4 at 1:30pm

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Voice and Dialect Coach David Mordenf*

Stage Manager Tim Wils

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Previews: Feb 3 at 1:30pm, Feb 4 at 7:30pm Evenings: Feb 6-9, Feb 14-16, Feb 22-23 at 7:30pm Matinees: 10, Feb 16-17, Feb 24 at 1:30pm

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Mar 11 thru Mar 31

Scenic Designer Clare Rowef

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Previews: Mar 11-12 at 7:30pm Evenings: Mar 13-16, Mar 21-23, Mar 29-30 at 7:30pm Matinees: Mar 17, Mar 23-24, Mar 31 at 1:30pm

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*Member of Actors' Equity Association

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©Member of The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society f School of Theatre, Film & Television Faculty Member Unless otherwise noted, all designers, performers and technicians are School of Theatre, Film & Television students. †BFA Senior Capstone See Production Staff page for details.

Tornabene Theatre Previews: Apr 7 at 1:30pm, Apr 8 at 7:30pm Evenings: Apr 10-13, Apr 18-20, Apr 26-27 at 7:30pm Matinees: Apr 14, Apr 20-21, Apr 28 at 1:30pm

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THE CAST April ...................................................................................... Rebecca Galcik Callie ........................................................................................... Anza Keller Trudy ......................................................................... Eavan Clare Brunswick Sapphire................................................................................ Gabriela Giusti

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES The story takes place at 514 Poplar St. in Independence, Kansas.

ACT I SCENE 1 .......................................................................... April, Callie, Trudy, Sapphire

~15 Minute Intermission~ ACT II SCENE 1 - TWO WEEKS LATER .......................................................................... April, Callie, Trudy, Sapphire

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PRODUCTION STAFF DIRECTION, DRAMATURGY AND MANAGEMENT Production Manager Jenny Langf*± Assistant Stage Managers Liana Carrasco, Gemma Dick SCENERY AND PROPS Assistant Technical Director Carpenters

Charge Artist Scenic Artists Painters Props Master Props Assistants Deck Crew

Benjamin Nelson Rylee Garvine, Sara Harpenau, Henry McCormick, Taylor Moss, Dan Movick, Andrew Nunley, Marli Ray, Monique Robine, TAR 111 Ally Frieders Jason Jamerson, Rebekah Clark, Sarah Tamas Megan Corbell Caleb Brown Lauren Duggin, Brenden Rohrbacher Dymond Bradley, Ken Chambers, Adora Harvey, Catie Labranche, Jesse Miyoshi, Brenden Rohrbacher, Nicole Williams

LIGHTING Assistant Lighting Designer Master Electrician Assistant Master Electrician Programmer

Light Board Operator

Electricians

Brian Graham Mack Woods Fred Reese, Mandy Spartz Fred Reese, Mandy Spartz, Mack Woods Christina Harrison Tori Mays, Forrest Tallbull, Reinold Kellici, Daniel Kersh, Tyler Petersen, Chris Mason, Megan Mahoney, Cole Rowerdink, Tina Nguyen, Tyler Berg , Molly Feeney, TAR 220 Lab

COSTUMES Costume Director

Assistant Costume Designers Drapers

First Hands

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SOUND Assistant Sound Designer Production Sound Operator Audio Crew

Maryann Trombinof Shaelyn Ellershaw Maryann Trombinof, Rachel Wilkins Ren Gieselhart, Tenaya Tidwell, Megan Wiese Shaelyn Ellershaw, Rachel Wilkins Annabeh Amarajuriya, Maia Bickerstaff, Paige Gagliardi, Sarah Martino Manny Montano TAR 113 Max Baines, Noah Dettman, Molly Feeney, Tina Nguyen, Hunter Sweetser, Darrin Wood

†Connor Greene - BFA Senior Capstone Project in Lighting Design, Deanna Fitzgerald, Major Professor

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DIRECTOR'S NOTES Like Heaven represents an important project for the Arizona Repertory Theatre. It is the first time since we opened the Tornabene Theatre almost two decades ago, with two original scripts, that we will have the opportunity to produce a new work in conjunction with the playwright. The process of working with a writer of Elaine Romero's status has been an incredible opportunity for our students. It has been a wonderfully rich experience with many hard-won insights as we try to find a voice for each of these characters. In many ways this is the same struggle that each of the characters in Like Heaven are engaged in. Everyone in this play is struggling to find their authentic voice rather than the ones they grew up being told they should use.

Finding one's voice involves facing hard-won truths and charting one’s own path and each character approaches these incredibly difficult goals in their own way. The journey is not always clean and it often involves facing difficult truths about both ourselves and others but if we are able to have the courage to speak our truth in our own voices the insights we discover are more than worth it.

~ Brent Gibbs, Director

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PLAYWRIGHT'S NOTES Our stellar UA cast has mastered the changes as I have rewritten Like Heaven throughout our process. Brent Gibbs is a playwright’s director. We’ve listened to the play a lot. In writing and rehearsing a play, the play reveals itself to you. This process knows no shortcut. Playwrights write plays to find out what they are.

If you know my body of work, you might see Like Heaven as my anomaly play. A playwright finds her passion-portal into each play. How does a Latinx playwright, obsessed with politics, find her passion-portal into a lusty comedy set in small-town Kansas?

A director from L.A. had this idea of bringing U.S. playwrights to live in Pulitzerprize winning playwright William Inge’s childhood home in Independence, Kansas.

Edward Albee once said of the residency, “WHY the hell would you send playwrights to a place Bill could not wait to escape?” But the director did. Two by two. And like pairs of animals being loaded onto Noah’s Ark, we went.

The director asked us to write 10-minute plays overnight to be produced the following day. They paraded a 1920’s dress and a suitcase in front of us. A young mom, I’ll call Joanna, auditioned that day. Her husband had taken a job there a week earlier. She had a half-finished theatre degree and two kids. (I told her that her college wanted her to finish that degree. Two years later, she wrote me that I had been right.) I imagined her at the foot of one of those aging Victorian homes that grace Independence, suitcase in hand and a blues song stuck in her throat. I had to fight to cast her. My producers assured me they knew all the “good actors, but behind her eyes I saw April’s sadness. Her eyes were my lifeline. She was my Like Heaven.

After presenting the short play, I hit the pause button and waited. I wrote the fulllength play that next year in Minnesota bluff country, free of Independence’s local glare. Through workshop productions and readings, I fell in love. I fell in love with each of these women and their plights. They felt fully formed from their first words, like old friends I hadn’t spoken to in awhile, old friends who used to be different women then they are today. Not self-actualized yet, these women take the smallest of steps. No one would cast them as role models to put on display. We revel in these flawed human beings, sorting through their lives, like dirty laundry.

Though it would be tempting to make Like Heaven behave, I’ve been true to her voice, to that play I found behind Joanna’s eyes. The other day, I got the good news, a woman was named Artistic Director of an illustrious festival in Kansas. She might be the young woman who auditioned for me that day in Independence. So, this is for her, for someone may have thought she’d ruined her life by quitting college, falling in love, and having a couple kids, because life can turn itself around when we start to steer. To steering!

She dedicates her work, on this production, to the living memory of Sam Smiley.

~ Elaine Romero, Playwright

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PROFILES Brent Gibbs (Director) - heads the Acting Program at the UA where he teaches Acting and Stage Combat. A Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors he has taught classes in stage combat around the U.S. and in Europe and has worked on fights for theatres from Thailand to New York. He was the first Fight Director to win the Arizona State Theatre Award for Excellence in Choreography. As the Artistic Director for the Arizona Repertory Theatre he has directed Execution of Justice; The Crucible; On the Razzle; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Absurd Person Singular; The Rivals; Rain. Some Fish.

No Elephants.; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Scenes from an Execution; Biloxi Blues; Broadway Bound; Bus Stop; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Medea; Rum & Coke; The Tamer Tamed; Dracula; The Voice of the Prairie; How I Learned to Drive; Boeing Boeing; The Glass Menagerie, Epic Proportions, Tigers Be Still, and Frankenstein as well as many others.

Elaine Romero (Playwright) – Elaine Romero is an award-winning U.S. playwright. Her plays have been presented across the U.S. and abroad, and widely published and anthologized. Graveyard of Empires and A Work of Art recently premiered.

Title IX was included in the 2017 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Modern Slave was presented at the 2017 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference where Romero was the Featured Playwright. Modern Slave received a reading at Victory Garden Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, and The Road Theatre. Romero’s work has been published by Samuel French, Playscripts, Simon and Schuster, among others. Her short play, Bloody River, recently appeared in When the Promise is Broken, a collection of plays inspired by Bruce Springsteen songs. Playwright-in-Residence at the Arizona Theatre Company, Romero runs the National Latino Playwriting Award. In June, she worked as an Artistin-Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, where she drafted, The Sleep of Reason, the final play of her war tetralogy. At Erik Ehn’s Silent Playwrights’ Retreat at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in August, she drafted Halsted. In addition to the work done here at UA, Like Heaven was developed through the Playwrights’ Center’s New Plays on Campus at the University of Missouri (Columbia) and at the South of Broadway Theatre in Charleston, SC. She recently had a reading of Revolutions/Revoluciones in Spanish at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, under the direction of Mexican director, Bruno Bichir and a cast from Mexico City. The UA Studio Series previously produced her show, Mother of Exiles. Undocumented will be produced at Cal State Dominguez Hills in October. She is the Über Director for the Studio Series show, Erased, which includes several short works, commissioned by the MFA

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in Generative Dramaturgy students. Elaine is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona in the School of Theatre, Film, and Television. She is grateful to Brent Gibbs and the cast of Like Heaven for a wonderful collaboration.

Clare Rowe (Scenic Designer) – is an Associate Professor of Scenic Design and Production for the School of Theatre, Film & Television, teaching classes in scene painting, rendering, and design.

She holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has designed and painted scenery for professional/academic theatre and opera, as well as for commercial trade shows and theme parks. Professional musical theatre designs include, Peter Pan for Musical Theatre Southwest and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever for the Music Theatre of Wichita. Her Arizona Repertory Theatre design credits include; Oklahoma! (twice), Twelfth Night, The Full Monty, Avenue Q, The Secret Garden, What I Did Last Summer and The Music Man, just to name a few! She is the author of Drawing and Rendering for Theatre, Focal Press, 2007.

Patrick Holt (Costume Designer) – is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film, & Television. His work has been seen at The Guthrie Theater, The Kansas City Rep, The Pioneer Theater Company, The Utah Shakespearean Festival, Playmakers Repertory Company,The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Kennedy Center, The American Dance Festival, The John Houseman Theater, The Public Theater. He has also worked with HBO, CBS, A&E Network, World of Wonder, and Bonneville Media. Patrick has designed over 25 productions for the Arizona Repertory Theatre and is a member of United Scenic Artists.

Connor Greene (Lighting Designer) – Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Connor Greene is a BFA candidate in Lighting Technology. He is excited to be executing his first design for Arizona Repertory Theatre. Previous shows at ART include ALD for Proof and Evita, Master Electrician for Tigers Be Still and The Pajama Game, and LD for Endgame for the U of A Studio Series. Other experience includes an electrics internship at Williamstown Theatre Festival and a Master Electrician/Programmer position at The Post Playhouse. Connor would like to thank his families, of both blood and water, and his countless mentors for their endless patience and support.

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Tyler Berg (Sound Designer) – is currently in his third year at The University of Arizona, studying for his bachelor’s in Theatre Production and Design, with an emphasis in Sound. He started his career with Arizona Repertory Theatre as Production Sound Engineer for Tigers Be Still and Assistant Production Sound Engineer for The Addams Family, the Musical last fall. Tyler began working with the Fred Fox School of Music as technical staff in 2017. He has been the audio engineer for hundreds of events, including concerts, shows, conventions, and operas. This past summer, Tyler traveled to Conway, Arkansas to join Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre as the Sound Intern.

His work included Assistant Sound Engineer for My Fair Lady and Henry IV, Pt. 1, Sound Engineer for AST’s outdoor show, The Winter’s Tale, and Touring Sound Engineer for Much Ado About Nothing. There, Tyler also became certified in digital audio networking.

He plans to return next year as the Sound Engineer for the company. Tyler is thrilled to help open ART’s 2018-2019 season with this outstanding production.

He will also be the Sound Designer for ART’s production of Richard III, opening this spring.

Kyle McGinnis (Technical Director) – is a senior year BFA technical director. He is originally from San Jose, California where he found his calling for set construction and design. Previously, he has been the ATD for ART’s productions of Twelfth Night, Tigers Be Still, and Doubt. Professionally, he has worked for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder, CO, and at the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona. He thanks his loving parents and supportive mentors in his ongoing journey.

David Morden (Voice & Dialect Coach) – is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Movement. For Arizona Repertory Theatre, he directed Lend Me a Tenor and Inspecting Carol and has served as voice and/or dialect coach on The Merchant of Venice, Doubt, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelfth Night, Born Yesterday, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Cabaret, Othello, and Nine, among others. He also acted in ART’s production of Proof and directed Medea/ Medea/Medea Redux for the UA Studio Series. For the past four seasons, David served as Voice and Text Coach for Santa Cruz Shakespeare (most recently coaching Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Venus in Fur), where he also directed Orlando for the 2016 SCS intern company. Internationally, he has performed and taught at Jagriti Theatre in Bangalore, India.

Tim Wils (Stage Manager) – is a senior from Westhampton Beach, NY pursuing his BFA in Stage Management. Tim is thrilled to be stage managing his first production with ART. Previously, he has

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Gabriela Giusti (Sapphire) – is thrilled to be a part of Like Heaven! Gabriela is a BFA Acting major from Chandler, Arizona. Here at ART, she has been a part of Twelfth Night, Tigers Be Still, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Merchant of Venice. She would like to thank her family, who has been so supportive of their kid chasing her dreams.

Rebecca Galcik (April) – is so excited to be in the first production of Like Heaven. Rebecca is a BFA acting major from Gilbert, Arizona. Past ART credits include The Merchant of Venice (Jessica), Tigers Be Still and Proof. Other past theatre credits include Footloose (Vi Moore), The Addams Family (Morticia Addams) and Legally Blonde the Musical (Vivienne).

She would like to thank Brent Gibbs and Elaine Romero for giving her this opportunity along with her supportive friends and family who have helped her follow her dreams.

stage managed Meet Generation Z with the Studio Series, as well as worked as an Assistant Stage Manager on The Pajama Game, Tigers Be Still, and Twelfth Night. He would like to thank Brent, Elaine, and the cast for creating a beautiful show, his ASMs, Gemma and Liana, for all their hard work, his friends and family for all their support, and Jenny Lang for being amazing.

Anza Keller (Callie) – drawn in by divine inspiration; feverish infatuation; or simply blind optimism and willful ignorance, has become a passionate hostage to the art of acting and the strange, ethereal world of film. She is a senior in the BFA Acting Program and has appeared most recently before this as Sister James in Arizona Repertory Theatre’s Doubt: A Parable. Her love for film has garnered her work on the sets of SHOWTIME’s Ray Donovan, as well as the

third installment of the John Wick franchise, John Wick 3: Parabellum. She is indebted to her fearless director Brent Gibbs for consistently imparting both the wisdom and courage she’s not sure how she ever lived without, and is also humbled by the opportunity to originate a role written with all the poetic beauty, heart, and humanism of Elaine Romero’s work.

~ ACTOR PROFILES ~ Eavan Clare Brunswick (Trudy) – hails from a small town in southern Oregon, called Klamath Falls. Her love of acting and film brought her here to Tucson, where she is a Junior at the University of Arizona, and majoring in both Theatre and Film Production. She is very excited to be returning to the ART stage, where she will be originating the role of Trudy. Eavan’s past ART credits include The Merchant of Venice, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Tempest, and A Comedy of Errors. She has also recently worked as a production assistant on the USA TV show Mr. Robot and most recently on the film John Wick 3: Parabellum. She would like extend her thanks to her director Brent Gibbs and the playwright Elaine Romero for giving her the amazing opportunity to originate this role, as well as the stage management team for all of their hard work. Finally, she would like to send her love to her parents and little sister for always being there, in the audience and in life.

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In Memoriam...

Sam Smiley

Feb. 15, 1931 - Aug. 15, 2018

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Dr. Sam Smiley, well-known playwriting and screenwriting professor, author, actor, theatre director, painter, and poet, passed away peacefully at age 87 on August 15, 2018 at home in Tucson, AZ. He is survived by Ann, his loving wife of almost 66 years (married September 7, 1952); sons, Mark (Cathy) of Ashburn, VA, Steve (Sally) of St. Louis, MO, and Sean of Tucson, AZ. He has seven grandchildren: Justin (Jackie) Smiley, Sarah (Anthony) Harrison, Austin Smiley, Shavana Smiley, Cody Smiley, Clark Smiley, and Jenny Smiley. Five great-grandchildren are: Laila, Hazel, and Eden Smiley; Aaron and Liam Harrison.

Sam possessed a warm, vivacious personality making friends with everyone. He leaves a great influence on students all over the country; many of those students are now professional actors, playwrights, screenwriters, or teachers. A dog lover, life-long athlete, swimmer and diver, and marathon runner, he set the record for age 60 and over in the Tucson Marathon. One year he ran the Boston Marathon. In 1948, at age 17, he was chosen as a USA Olympic alternate in platform diving.

The only child of Raymond Smiley and Ada Holland Smiley, Sam was born in Columbus, IN, on February 15, 1931. He received his BFA at Illinois Wesleyan University (1952), MFA from University of Iowa (1954) and his Ph.D. from Indiana University (1967).

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At the University of Arizona, Dr. Smiley served as Head of the Department of Theatre Arts (1987-88) and Director of Dramatic Writing (1987-93). He was Head of Dramatic Writing at Indiana University (1973-87), a Professor at the University of Missouri (1969-73), Director of Theatre and Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Evansville (1957-69), and he began his teaching career at Georgia College. He was a popular consultant in communications and writing including work on feature films and television shows.

Sam published four books. Based on Aristotle’s theory, he developed a set of principles essential to effective dramatic writing. This theory is explained in his famous Playwriting: The Structure of Action by Yale University Press. Many of the 32 plays he published were performed professionally. He also published a book of poetry and wrote a series for television. He acted in movies including The Untouchables, Hoosiers, and Terminal Velocity. He appeared in off-Broadway productions in New York. His home is full of his many beautiful paintings, some of which won awards.

He became a member of The College of Fellows of the American Theatre in 1983. He worked with theatres in Paris, Dublin, Madrid, and Barcelona, one of his favorite cities.

Sam created the theatre program at the University of Evansville, which remains a top theatre program today. He designed the innovative Shanklin Theatre, which opened in 1967, at the University of Evansville.

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THEATRE POLICIES House Policies: Please turn off watch alarms, mobile phones, pagers, and all other electronic devices. Food, beverages and smoking are not permitted inside the theatre. The use of cameras or recording devices of any kind are strictly prohibited. Children five and under and strollers are not permitted inside the theatre.

Seating Policy: Productions begin on time. Generally, each theatre will open for seating 30 minutes before curtain. There is no late seating.

Refunds: Tickets are non-refundable. All ticket sales are final.

Emergency Messages: Physicians and other patrons expecting emergency calls during a performance are asked to leave their paging devices with the House Manager.

Lost and Found: Lost and found items will be reported to the Fine Arts Box Office at (520) 621-1162. **The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited**

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STUDIO SERIES presents

ERASED $7 All Seats | tickets.arizona.edu | (520) 621-1162

Oct 4-6, 2018 at 8pm | Oct 7, 2018 at 2pm Harold Dixon Directing Studio | UA Drama Building, Room #116

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THEATRE PROGRAM FACULTY & STAFF ADMINISTRATION

FACULTY Mr. Peter Beudert, Professor Emeritus Mr. Kevin Black, Professor of Practice Dr. Kevin J. Byrne, Assistant Professor Dr. Harold Dixon, Professor Emeritus Ms. Deanna Fitzgerald, Associate Professor &

Interim Co-Director Mr. Brent Gibbs, Professor Mr. Danny Gurwin, Assistant Professor Mr. Richard T. Hanson, Assoc. Professor Emeritus Mr. Patrick Holt, Associate Professor Ms. Christie Kerr, Assistant Professor Mr. Joe C. Klug Assistant Professor Mr. Ted Kraus, Assistant Professor Dr. Frank LaBan, Professor Emeritus Ms. Jenny Lang, Assistant Professor of Practice Dr. Jessica Maerz, Associate Professor Ms. Claire Mannle, Instructor Mr. Matthew Marcus, Instructor Dr. Laura McCammon, Professor Emerita Dr. Bobbi McKean, Associate Professor Mr. David Morden, Assistant Professor Mr. Greg Pierotti, Assistant Professor Mr. Monte Ralstin, Professor of Practice Ms. Jaime Reed, Assistanct Professor of Practice Ms. Elaine Romero, Associate Professor Ms. Clare P. Rowe, Associate Professor Mr. Hank Stratton, Assistant Professor Mr. Albert Tucci, Director & Professor Emeritus Mr. Richard Tuckett, Associate Professor Dr. Patricia VanMetre, Associate Professor Emerita Mr. Jeffrey L. Warburton, Assoc. Professor Emeritus Ms. Dianne J. Winslow, Professor Emerita Mr. David Yarnelle, Assistant Professor of Practice

School Interim Co-Directors

Deanna Fitzgerald & Yuri Makino Artistic Director Brent Gibbs Managing Director Jenny Lang Advising Services Christina Beasley, David Yarnelle Asst. to the Director for Admin.

Justine Collins Business Manager Stacy Dugan Office Specialist Stephanie Chao Student Academic Specialist Daniela Tascarella

FILM & TELEVISION EVENTS

Documentary films created

by BA and BFA students.

The Loft Cinema Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 7pm FREE & Open to the Public

GRADUATE STUDENTS Rebekah Clark, Elizabeth Eaton, Lauren Duggin, Jason Jamerson, Anna Jennings, Tori Mays, Ryan B. Moore, Dan Movick, Andrew Nunley, Vanisha Renee Pierce, Monique Robin, Fly Steffens, Forrest Tallbull, Angelina Valencia, Rachel Wilkins

PRODUCTION Production Manager Jenny Lang Technical Director Ted Kraus Staff Assistant Technical Director & Automation Specialist Tony Cordaro Lighting Supervisor Deanna Fitzgerald Costume Director Richard Tuckett Costume Shop Manager Maryann Trombino Costume Design Advisor Patrick Holt Paint Supervisor Clare P. Rowe Properties Supervisor Joe C. Klug Sound Supervisor Matt Marcus Program Chair for Generative Dramaturgy Kevin Byrne

Senior thesis films created by the BFA graduating class.

Fox Tucson Theatre Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 7pm General Admission $5

Short fiction films by BA and BFA students.

The Loft Cinema Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 7pm FREE & Open to the Public

MARKETING & AUDIENCE SERVICES

THEATRE PROGRAM ADVISORY BOARD

Marketing Director Julie Vance Assistant Marketing Specialist Jordan Lorsung Bobbi McKean Gloria Linden (President), Greg Knopf (Vice President), Outreach Coordinator Fine Arts Box Office Manager Charles Cannon Jane Brown (Secretary), Cindy Ashton, Judith Bard, Assistant Box Office Manager Frank Solano Bill Bennett, Steve Browning, Lindsey Burlingame, Box Office Staff Benjamin Ancharski, Julie Cohn, Carol Cunin, Carol Elliott, Elyse Golob, Logan Cleverly, Alex Cowan, Erin Crowther, Annie Dixon, Christine Harland, Tim Kelly, Kwan Lee, Pricilla Antonio Heredia, Karsten Hultquist, Thomas Kile, Mรกrquez, Leslie Freed Novick, Judy Ranzer, Ed Thomas Koenig, Elissa Maugans, Moses Maugans, Kailee Steinhoff, Tony Terry Nafziger, Olivia Niccum,Taylor Ross, Jade Salmon, Joshua Swain, Victoria Villanueva, Jeremy Yampolsky Life Members Pat Ballard, Walter Kutscher, Mary Parnell, Lillian Rosenzweig

Associate Members Doris Coris, Taffie Eiff, Joe Gootter (Past President), Ken Greenfield, Joan Horwitz, Jane Kivel, Schuyler Lininger, Bill Neumann (Past President), Caren Newman, Sharmin Pool, Vivi Sabbagh, Victoria Terzano, Don VandeGriff, Jo Ann Zirkle

House Managers Benjamin Ancharski, Annie Dixon, Thomas Kile, Thomas Koenig, Moses Maugans, Kailee Nafziger, Olivia Niccum, Jade Salmon, Victoria Villanueva, Jeremy Yampolsky Season Graphic Designers

UA Center for Creative Photography Wednesdays throughout Year FREE & Open to the Public

- Movies about Film & Television Feature films presented by faculty & preceded by a short student film.

See page 10 for dates and films.

Whitespace Design & Ed Flores Photography

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