Arizona Repertory Theatre's THIS Program

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

by Melissa James Gibson Director *§ Hank Stratton Scenic Designer Costume Designer † Ivy Zipporah Wahome Alyssa M. LeBlanc

Lighting Designer Ryan Moore

Sound Designer f Matt Marcus

Technical Director Jack Meng

Stage Manager Jon Thompson

Voice & Dialect Coach f* Kevin Black

Musical Direction Mike R. Padilla

Assistant Director/ Dramaturg Kalan Benbow

*Member of Actors' Equity Association

** Member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829

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©Member of The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Unless otherwise noted, all designers, performers and technicians are School of Theatre, Film & Television students. f School of Theatre, Film & Television Faculty Member

†BFA Senior Capstone Project See Production Staff page for details.

THIS is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York Original music by Peter Eldridge

THIS was commissioned by Playwrights Horizons with funds provided by The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World premiere of THIS Off-Broadway in 2009.

Arizona Repertory Theatre is the professional theatre training company of the UA School of Theatre, Film & Television.

THE CAST Jane..................................................................................Heather Marie Cox

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Marrell.....................................................................................Rhetta Kampel Tom......................................................................................... Zackry Colston Alan........................................................................................... Micah Bond

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Jean Pierre........................................................................... Aaron Arseneault * Member of Actors' Equity Association Actors’ Equity Membership Candidate

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UNDERSTUDIES: Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance. Taylor Pearlstein for Jane - Amanda Rahaman for Marrell - Brett Dixon for Tom - Josh Dunn for Alan - Nick Freitas for Jean Pierre.

Special Acknowledgements Thanks to BFA junior Grace Kirkpatrick for her voice over performance and good will.

Special thanks to Melissa James Gibson for her insight and assistance in mounting this production.

Congratulations to the cast & crew of

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SCENE BREAKDOWN

This takes place over the course of several weeks, in and around the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.

The time is the present.

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This is performed in one act, without an intermission.

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PRODUCTION STAFF Direction, Dramaturgy and Management Assistant Director & Dramaturg Production Manager Deck Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Kalan Benbow Jenny Langf* Rachel Victoria Miller Brandon Rosenfeld

Scenery & Props Assistant Technical Director Master Carpenter Carpenters

Charge Artist Scenic Artist Props Master Assistant Props Master Props Artisans

Deck Crew

Ruth Richardson Inga Kalvaitis Joshua K. Barnhill, Steven Davis, Hanna Lockhart, Angela McMahon, Stefan NikolichZugich, TAR 111 Students Jessica Ploog Alison Conover, Andrea Pratt Cortni Elkins Tommy Chek Yejia Cao, Amy Sue Hazel, Dorann Matson, Mara Tunnicliff, Samantha Visbal Victoria Celano, Robert Dema, Alex Gossard, Shevonda Joyner, Hannah Launius, Devon Prokopek, Nikki Ruffalo, Justen Zhang

Lighting Assistant Lighting Designer Master Electrician Asst. Master Electricians Light Board Operator Lead Programmer Programmers Electricians

Kristian Rarig Carlos Sanchez Brie Gonzales, Hanna Lockhart Reinold Kellici Carlos Sanchez Brie Gonzales, Hanna Lockhart Fatimah Amill, Eve Bandi , Brie Gonzales, Gabriel Gutierrez, Joshua Hemmo, Gregory James Houston, Catherine S. Kaminsky, Reinold Kellici, Hanna Lockhart, Domino Mannheim, Patrick Charles W. McClanahan, Mercer Pinkston, Sam Schwartz, Mitch Van Dyke, Shannon Wallace, Candice “CJ” Washburn

Costumes Costume Director Assistant Costume Designer Drapers Wardrobe Crew Heads Wardrobe Crew

Maryann Trombinof Emma Smith-Siegert Joy Halliday, Julio C. Hernandez Abigail Hackney, Emma Smith-Siegert Charlie Hall, Marissa Munter, Matt Osvog, Kailyn Toussaint

Sound

Musical Direction & Piano Assistant Sound Designer Sound Board Operator Audio Crew

Mike R. Padilla Garrett Seaton Dorann Matson Daniel Colecchia, Kiara Johnson, John Millerd, Marcus Myler, Amber Rudick, Garrett Seaton

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DRAMATURG’S NOTES This is a title that some will scoff at and maybe they're right to, but when tasked with describing something as nebulous as the human condition, This becomes oddly precise, especially when one has the ability to see the vulnerabilities of each character. Melissa James Gibson originally set out to write a play about adultery but—as she quickly discovered—adultery isn't all that interesting on its own. However, when you add a dead husband, a couple on the precipice of disaster, a man whose only calling is to remember things and a hot borderless doctor, things become infinitely more charged.

When someone close to you dies, it often triggers an intense recognition of your own mortality; a recognition that can be utterly paralyzing. On the other hand, if you're approaching middle age, if your friends are having children, if the spark leaves your marriage, if you meet someone who is really hot and creating an actual impact on the world, or if you sleep with your best friend's husband, your newfound motion might be a tailspin.

Melissa James Gibson has provided us with a cross-section of grief and the many ways we choose to deal with it. This's "this" is different for every character, but all of their "this's" are centered around a fundamental inability to see outside of themselves. This tribe is relentlessly self-involved to the point where conversations become overlapping monologues and the introduction of a cultured French doctor threatens to tear their worlds to pieces. "This" is their very small lives; lives that have probably always been small, but we're frozen in that state with a loved one's death. "This" is their insistence on pity, their never-ending game of "whose life is worse,” their constant need for validation from each other, and their inability to see their immense privilege.

You might be wondering what the upside to all of this is, but those of us who have been involved in a slo-mo tailspin know that once you hit bottom, you can only go up. When the ashes settle, and all is said and done, we're left with raw material and an opportunity to reinvent ourselves; become someone else.

This is an invitation to hit bottom and bounce back, to find purpose in your life, and rejoice in the small victories.

- Kalan Benbow, Assistant Director & Dramaturg

Learn more through exciting discussions!

Pre-Show Discussion: Sunday, Feb. 8th at 12:45 pm Engage in an intellectually - stimulating conversation with Dramaturgy BFA student Kalan Benbow, who has been serving as Assistant Director & Show Dramaturg for This over a 6-week rehearsal process.

Post-Show Discussion: Sunday, Feb. 15th, immediately after the performance in the Marroney Theatre. Meet the actors and production team during a Q&A segment.

All discussions are free and open to the public.

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PROFILES Hank Stratton (Director) – received critical acclaim this summer for the role of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady for Moonlight Stage Productions. He starred in the Broadway revival and television film adaptation of The Man Who Came to Dinner, opposite Nathan Lane. For three seasons, he appeared in the CBS drama, The Unit, in addition to recurring roles on Heroes and American Dreams. His television work includes films for NBC, CBS, Hallmark and HBO, along with numerous guest appearances, including The Closer, Desperate Housewives, Hawaii Five-O, ER and Frasier. He had the privilege of playing Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival. Additionally, he starred in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning production of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, the Sam Mendes/Rob Marshall collaboration of Cabaret, and the off-Broadway hit, Jeffrey. He returns to Arizona Repertory Theatre having worked on this season’s The Full Monty and The Man Who Came To Dinner in 2013. He directed The Laramie Project for the University of Michigan, and produced a concert benefiting the Matthew Shepard “Erase Hate” Foundation. He has served as a guest artist for educational institutions around the country, including master classes at UCLA, AMDA, The Academy for Classical Acting and the Professional School of the Arts.

Hank is a co-founding instructor of Six Days of Broadway, a musical theatre performing arts camp at the prestigious Segerstrom Center in Southern California. He is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Ivy Zipporah Wahome (Costume Designer) – originally from Kenya, is a senior in the BFA Design/Tech program with an emphasis in Costume Design. This is her first assignment as Costume Designer at Arizona Repertory Theatre. She was an Assistant Costume Designer for Arizona Repertory Theatre’s The Glass Menagerie and Lend Me A Tenor.

Her other credits with the company include Draper and First Hand Stitcher. A graduate from Pima Community College's Liberal Arts program with an emphasis in Fashion Design, she also interned as a Costume Designer for the Horizons for Refugees Families in Tucson.

Currently, Ivy works as a First Hand at the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre Costume Shop.

Following graduation, Ivy intends to pursue her work as a Designer. She would like to thank all her professors and family for all the support.

A Note from a Theatre Program Advisory Board Member

As an alumnus of the UA, I am excited to see how great the Arizona Repertory Theatre is!

I support the program because I want to see it maintain its high level of professionalism.

If you like wonderful live theatre, I urge you to offer your financial support, also.

- Tom Pothoff

Alyssa M. LeBlanc (Scenic Designer) – is a second-year MFA Scenic Design student, all the way from the snowy regions of New Hampshire. This is her first design with the UA, working on all previous shows as a Scenic Artist. Alyssa also served as the Paint Charge Artist on The Man Who Came to Dinner, Lend Me a Tenor and The Full Monty.

Ryan Moore (Lighting Designer) – is a junior in the BFA/Design Tech program. His work at Arizona Repertory Theatre include Assistant Lighting Designer for The Glass Menagerie and this season's Frankenstein, as well as Lighting Designer for the UA Studio Series show, Mr. Marmalade. This is Ryan's first main stage design for Arizona Repertory Theatre. He would like to thank his family and very close friends for their inspiration to follow his passion in light.

Matt Marcus (Sound Designer) – is the Faculty Sound Designer for the UA School of Theatre, Film & Television and is delighted to be working with a terrific cast, crew, and creative team on this production of This. Recent Arizona Repertory Theatre credits include sound designs for Avenue Q, Love Song, Nine, The Fantasticks, Oklahoma!, Lend Me a Tenor and The Full Monty. Other productions include the debut of Love, Sweet Love, a musical featuring the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David,

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PROFILES along with national tours of Aida and Smokey Joe’s Cafe for Theater League; The King and I; Camelot; Bubblin’ Brown Sugar; and Dreamgirls for Theater of the Stars; and a national tour of Will Rogers' Follies for Dallas Summer Musicals. In addition to his work in the theatre, Matt has run live sound for hundreds of national and international recording artists.

He worked with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater and the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, and he currently designs and engineers sound for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. On hiatus from his audio career in the late 20th century, Matt was Property Master for the PBS children’s television program, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.

He is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, and is the Vice President of Local 415.

Jack Meng (Technical Director) – is a first year MFA student in Technical Direction. He has worked on past shows such as Lend Me A Tenor, Frankenstein and The Full Monty. Prior to coming to the UA, Jack worked for two years at the Broadway Rose Theatre Company in Tigard, Oregon, as well as with many other theatres around the Portland Metro Area. Jack is very thankful to have the opportunity to be a T.D. during his first year.

Jon Thompson (Stage Manager) – is a junior in the BFA Design/Tech program with an emphasis in Stage Management. His Arizona Repertory Theatre credits include: Frankenstein, Oklahoma!, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Boeing Boeing, Love Song and Avenue Q. Other credits include: Beauty & the Beast: A Fairy-­ Tale Thriller, Elephants Graveyard, and Murder for Two with the Arizona Theatre Company. He wants to thank the friends, family and faculty that have given him so much support and made this possible.

Kevin Black (Voice & Dialect Coach) – is an Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Theatre, Film & Television, teaching Acting and Voice and Movement. He has coached dialects for Arizona Repertory Theatre’s Oklahoma!, Boeing Boeing, How I Learned to Drive, Hay Fever, Violet, and Bus Stop, and he was the Dialect Coach for ATC’s productions of Around the World in 80 days & The Importance of Being Earnest. He regularly appears in Arizona Repertory Theatre productions, including Cymbeline, As You Like It, Dracula, The Diary of Anne Frank, Leading Ladies, Titus Andronicus, and Henry IV, Parts I & II. A long-time member of Actors’ Equity Association, Kevin has acted at such venues as The New York Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theater at the Folger, Primary Stages (NYC), The Pearl Theater Co. (NYC), The Alliance Theater (GA), Indiana Rep, Delaware Theater Co., GeVa Theater (NY), Laguna Playhouse (CA), and Pacific Repertory Theater (CA). He played Paul in Invisible Theatre’s US premiere of Mesa; at ATC, he played George Wilson in The Great Gatsby; and appeared in The Last Red Book, The Narrows, and The Tortilla Curtain for ATC’s Cafe Bohemia. This spring, he will be playing the role of Capulet in ATC's production of Romeo and Juliet.

Mike R. Padilla (Musical Direction) – For over 30 years, Mike has worked as a Music Director and as an actor for many theatre companies including Foothills Music Theatre, Ray of Light, Playhouse West, Hillbarn, SALOC, Invisible Theatre, Plaza Dinner Theatre, The Gaslight Theatre, Old Tucson and Arizona Repertory Theatre. Recently, Mike was the Music Director/Pianist for the Great American Playhouse. Mike spent 17 years in San Francisco working as a cabaret pianist/singer in clubs such as the Top of the Mark and Mason’s at the Fairmont Hotel, as well as coaching piano and voice students. He also performed in Japan.

He studied acting and voice with Studio ACT and the San Francisco Academy of Performing Arts where he was a staff member. Mike’s teachers/mentors include Richard Nickol, Monte Ralstin, Peter Mintun, Edna Fisher and David Kelsey. When not working with students here at the UA, Mike coaches voice and piano students.

Kalan Benbow (Assistant Director & Dramaturg) – is a senior in the BFA Theatre History/Dramaturgy program. She has had the privilege to work on The Fantasticks, The Glass Menagerie and Frankenstein with Arizona

PROFILES Repertory Theatre, as well as with The Rogue Theatre on Jerusalem and on their upcoming production of The Merchant of Venice. She believes that courageous and candid theatre can change the world, and thanks her parents, Kimbra and Keith Benbow, for their boundless love and support. She could not do this without them.

~ ACTOR PROFILES ~ Heather Marie Cox (Jane) – is a senior and in her final year in the BFA Acting program.

This is her sixth Arizona Repertory Theatre production and she could not be more grateful for this opportunity. The last four years at the UA have fostered incredible growth and allowed her to feel confident that she has the skill set she needs in order to be successful after graduation. The family and friends that she has made here will never be forgotten. Working on This has been the perfect experience to end her college career.

Past credits include Cecily in Arizona Theatre Company's The Importance of Being Earnest, and a multitude of Arizona Repertory Theatre credits including Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frankie in The Voice of the Prairie, and various roles in Frankenstein, Julius Caesar and As You Like It. She would like to thank her family, friends and would like to extend a special thanks to Dianne Winslow, Brent Gibbs, and Stephen Wrentmore. She could not have asked for better mentors. Their support and encouragement continually keeps her striving to improve her craft.

Rhetta Kampel (Marrell) – is a junior BFA Musical Theatre major and is thoroughly honored and excited to be part of such a wonderful show with This phenomenal cast and crew. Past Arizona Repertory Theatre credits include Joanie in The Full Monty and the Attendant/Egeus u/s in A Midsummer Nights Dream. Thank you to Hank and the rest of the production team. For Momma and Damon. “Follow your bliss.”

Zackry Colston (Tom) – is a Sabino High School alum. You may have seen him in past shows, local films or comedy clubs. Shouts out to Brando, PSH, and Hoffman for footsteps to follow. Thanks to Hank for the unflinching faith. Hope you dig the show.

Micah Bond (Alan) – is overjoyed to return to the stage in Arizona Repertory Theatre’s production of This. This is Micah’s penultimate show as a Musical Theatre major at the UA. He appeared most recently as The Creature in Arizona Repertory Theatre’s Frankenstein. You may also have seen him on the Arizona Repertory Theatre stage as Jud Fry in Oklahoma!, Beverly Carlton in The Man Who Came to Dinner, or as Trekkie Monster in Avenue Q. Micah would like to give special thanks to Hank Stratton, the cast and crew and to his endlessly supportive family. www.MicahBond.com Aaron Arseneault (Jean Pierre) – is currently a sophomore Musical Theatre major with the UA. He is very excited to mark his second performance at Arizona Repertory Theatre with the production of This. Past credits elsewhere include Willard (Footloose), Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), The Pirate King (Pirates of Penzance), Finch (H2$), and Marius (Les Miserables). He thanks his parents for all of their unconditional love and support they give him day in and day out. He also thanks the cast and crew for all of their dedication to this production.

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THE

STUDIO SERIES

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directed by Mark Pinate

Written by Virginia Grise

Meet Playwright Virginia Grise on opening night!

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Deemed the darkest tale of the human heart ever written, Othello is a timeless, tragic tale of love, deceit, jealousy & murder.

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