A Civil War Christmas - Artists Repertory Theatre

A R T I S T S R E P E R T O R Y T H E AT R E

A Collaboration with Staged! by

Paula Vogel Daryl Waters Paul Angelo Andrew Bray

original music by directed by

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NOV 22 - DEC 23

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A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS

BY PAULA VOGEL DIRECTED BY PAUL ANGELO ORIGINAL MUSIC BY DARYL WATERS MUSIC DIRECTION BY ANDREW BRAY

Dámaso Rodríguez, Artistic Director | Sarah Horton, Managing Director

CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

A Collaboration with Staged! by

Mrs. Keckley & Ensemble Ayanna Berkshire*^

John Wilkes Booth, Chester Saunders & Ensemble Val Landrum*^

Paula Vogel

Ward Hill Lamon, James Wormley Daryl Waters Ensemble & Ensemble Amy original music by directed by

Jimmy Garcia*

Paul Angelo Andrew Bray

music direction by

Hakanson

Rose & NOV 22 - DECEnsemble 23 Mary Todd Lincoln & Ensemble Crystal Ann Susannah Mars*^

Muñoz +

John Hay, Anna Surratt & Ensemble

Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman & Ensemble

Willy Mack, Louis Weichmann & Ensemble

Laila Murphy

Ted Rooney*

Seth Rue*

Mary Surratt, Moses Levy & Ensemble

Decatur Bronson, John Surratt & Ensemble

George Keckley & Ensemble

John San Nicolas*^

Vin Shambry*^

Blake Stone

Raz & Ensemble

Hannah & Ensemble

Jessa & Ensemble

Kai Tomizawa

Andrea Whittle*

Miya Zolkoske

SETTING: CHRISTMAS — THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION. Stage Manager............................................................................................Jamie Lynne Simons* Assistant Stage Managers.........................................................................Karen Hill & Michelle Jazuk*^ World Premiere production presented by Long Wharf Theatre, Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director; Joan Channick, Managing Director.

Originally commissioned by Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., Molly Smith, Artistic Director A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS: AN AMERICAN CELEBRATION is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited.

* Member of Actors Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Actors Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. www.actorsequity.org

^ Artists Repertory Theatre Resident Artist

+ Equity Membership Candidate

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A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS

BY PAULA VOGEL DIRECTED BY PAUL ANGELO ORIGINAL MUSIC BY DARYL WATERS MUSIC DIRECTION BY ANDREW BRAY

CREATIVE TEAM Director.........................................................................................................Paul Angelo ° Music Director.............................................................................................AndrewABray Collaboration with Staged! by Scenic Designer...........................................................................................

Tim Stapleton Paula Vogel original music Lighting Designer........................................................................................

Peter West by Daryl Waters Costume Designer......................................................................................Bobby Brewer-Wallin^ directed by Wig & Hair Designer...................................................................................

Lauren Noyes Paul Angelo music direction Props Master................................................................................................

Emily Wilken by Andrew Dance & Movement Choreographer.......................................................

Kristen Bray Mun Voice & Text Director.................................................................................Mary McDonald-Lewis ^ NOV 22 - DEC 23 Dramaturg....................................................................................................Luan Schooler Assistant Music Director............................................................................Steven Cantor Assistant Scenic Designer.........................................................................Samie Pfeifer Production Assistants................................................................................Amanda Kishlock, Karen Hill + Dresser..........................................................................................................Lauren Noyes Wardrobe.....................................................................................................Will Bailey Costumer......................................................................................................Clare Hungate-Hawk Board Op......................................................................................................Dave Petersen

THE MUSIC With special permission from the playwright, Artists Rep commissioned these local musicians from various musical and cultural backgrounds to re-arrange the original score by Daryl Waters. See page 22 for more on them and their music.

Okaidja Afroso James Beaton

Darrell Grant Brian Adrian Koch

Edna Vázquez Holcombe Waller

Daryl Waters Mark & LaRhonda Steele

THE MAKERS These Makers from Art Design Portland (ADX) and Portland Apparel Lab (PAL) created pieces for A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS. See page 21 for more on them.

Dawn Moothart, Textile Artist, Portland Apparel Lab Thomas Phillips, ADX Director of Fabrication Bill Wessinger, ADX Fabrication Technician Rio Wrenn, Textile Artist, R.A.W. Textiles * Member of Actors Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Actors Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. www.actorsequity.org

° Stage Director and Choreographers Society

^ Artists Repertory Theatre Resident Artist

+ Equity Membership Candidate

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A MESSAGE FROM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DÁMASO RODRÍGUEZ “For they had the hope of Peace, which may be sweeter than Peace itself.”

–Chorus in Paula Vogel’s A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS Welcome to Artists Rep. Though the word “Christmas” is on the title page of today’s playbill, I think of Paula Vogel’s A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS as our “post-election play.”

This year’s holidays coincide with the aftermath of what has been an exhausting, polarized civil war of words and ideologies.

Can we recover from this? Can we hope for a future built on constructive dialogue aimed at the resolution of conflict? It’s easy to despair, but I find comfort in reflecting on our much darker, more troubled past.

Vogel’s story is set on Christmas Eve in 1864, but this play — like all theatre — ultimately takes place in what Thornton Wilder called “perpetual present time.”

In other words, this story is both 1864 and 2016; a contemporary telling of our shared history by our community for our community.

It’s in this spirit that we have commissioned seven local luminary musicians with wildly different musical styles to create contemporary interpretations of 19th Century carols, marches and spiritual music. Using Daryl Waters’ original score as a foundation, we

invited each artist to stay true to their own 21st Century musical aesthetic. Today you’ll hear jazz, folk, rock, pop, blues, Latin guitar and Ghanaian rhythms performed live by an extraordinary cast of actor/singer/musicians representing contemporary Portland. Bobby BrewerWallin’s costumes allow the actors to play themselves as the Chorus while also donning elements of period clothing to make subtle shifts into myriad characters.

The resulting performance is a dialogue between the United States’ troubling past and our still-struggling present. The very fact that this diverse company of artists has worked in unison to tell this difficult story and to sing together with joy — and that you’re here to participate as an audience — gives me hope in the possibility of achieving that “more perfect union” to which we continue to aspire.

No matter your religion or tradition, the holiday season affords many of us a much-needed opportunity to celebrate our shared humanity as one community. On behalf of all of us at Artists Rep, I wish you a happy holiday season!

Until next year,

THIS PRODUCTION IS A COLLABORATION WITH STAGED! Staged! produces contemporary musical theatre and nurtures the talents of young people. Known for innovative programming and never putting musicians in a pit, Staged! offers unparalleled training, mentoring and performing opportunities for youth. Staged! was founded by Artistic Director Chanda Hall in 2005 and is part of Artists Rep’s ArtsHub. We Grow Artists.

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DIRECTOR’S NOTES BY PAUL ANGELO

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aula Vogel in one of America’s greatest playwrights. A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS is her gift to her nation.

Ours is a complex story of a society’s struggle to reach its highest self. Our shared history as Americans is rife with contradiction: a history celebrated by some and criticized by others. Is America the beacon of Freedom we like to believe or is America a fractured society that alienates anyone outside accepted notions of White European heritage? The answers for these questions aren’t found easily.

In A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS, Paula Vogel gives us a story that celebrates the best of who we can be but never allows us to forget our work, as a people, is not finished. We wanted to embody the highest ideals in Paula’s play. A story that is our story. It belongs to all of us. We all can, and must, claim it — own it.

Tonight you will see Americans of all kinds telling our shared American story.

Paula Vogel gives us a story that celebrates the best of who we can be but never allows us to forget our work, as a people, is not finished.

Tonight is not a history lesson, but an exercise in doing all we can, as Americans, to claim our story. The cast you see on stage and the music you hear are a direct reflections of that ideal. Tonight we embrace ourselves as a society and hold up a mirror to the world we live in today, while never forgetting that our destinies are inexorably linked by a complicated and shared history. Wherever we go we will be together, and as is so often the case, there is more that unites us than divides us.

I hope you enjoy our gift to you. Thank you for sharing your evening with us.

DIRECTOR BIO PAUL ANGELO Director Paul Angelo makes his Artists Rep debut as a director with A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS. As an actor, he has been seen here previously in ITHAKA by Andrea Stolowitz.

He serves as the associate artistic director of Staged! musical theatre and as a director in residence with defunkt theatre. A resident of Portland since 2005, he has directed five musicals for Staged!. LES MISERABLES, which received two Portland Area Musical Theatre Awards (PAMTA) including

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Outstanding Ensemble; BIG RIVER, also awarded two PAMTAs; and the Portland Premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s ‘13,’ which earned four PAMTA nominations including Outstanding Direction. Also, Jason Robert Brown’s PARADE, nominated for five PAMTAs, including Outstanding Direction and awarded Outstanding Ensemble; and DOGFIGHT by Pasek and Paul, four PAMTA nominations including Outstanding Direction. Other Portland directing credits include THE HOMECOMING by Harold Pinter, LET A HUNDRED FLOWERS BLOOM by David Zellnik, BLASTED by Sarah Kane

PLAYWRIGHT BIO PAULA VOGEL Playwright Paula Vogel’s play HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, as well as her second OBIE Award. HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE has since been produced all over the world. Other plays include A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS, THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME, THE MINEOLA TWINS, HOT ‘N’ THROBBING, THE BALTIMORE WALTZ, DESDEMONA, AND BABY MAKES SEVEN and THE OLDEST PROFESSION. Her play INDECENT will open on Broadway in April 2017. Her plays have been produced by Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, Roundabout and Circle Repertory

(defunkt theatre), HAMLET by William Shakespeare, EQUIVOCATION by Bill Cain and COYOTE ON FENCE by Bruce Graham (Post5 Theatre), ROMEO AND JULIET (Portland Actors Conservatory) and RUTHLESS! THE MUSICAL (Stumptown Stages). Paul will direct THAT PRETTY, PRETTY OR THE RAPE PLAY by Sheila Callaghan for defunkt theatre in Spring 2017. Paul is a proud member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC). Training: BFA: Musical Theatre, SUNY Fredonia. MFA: performance, Alabama Shakespeare Festival. www.paulangelo.net

Company. Her plays have been produced regionally all over the country at the Center Stage, Intiman, Trinity Repertory, Woolly Mammoth, Huntington Theatre, Magic Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theatre, Berkeley Repertory and Alley Theatres to name a few. Harrogate Theatre and the Donmar Theatre have produced her work in England. Her plays have been produced in Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand as well as translated and produced in Italy, Germany, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, Romania, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Canada, Portugal, France, Greece, Japanese, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil and other countries. John Simon once remarked that Paula Vogel had more awards than a “black sofa collects lint.”

Some of these include induction into the Theatre Hall of Fame, the Thornton Wilder Award, Lifetime Achievement from the Dramatists Guild, the William Inge Award, the Elliott Norton Award, two Obies, a Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the PEN/ Laura Pels Award, a TCG residency award, a Guggenheim, a Pew Charitable Trust Award, and fellowships and residencies at Sundance Theatre Lab, Hedgebrook, The Rockefeller Center’s Bellagio Center, Yaddo, MacDowell and the Bunting. But she is particularly proud of her Thirtini Award from 13P, and honored by three awards in her name: the Paula Vogel Award for playwrights given by The Vineyard Theatre, the Paula Vogel Award from the American College Theatre Festival, and the Paula Vogel mentorship program, curated

by Quiara Hudes and Young Playwrights of Philadelphia.

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David & Christine Vernier SEASON SPONSORS

Partial support for open captioning performances provided by Theatre Development Fund.

Artists Repertory Theatre is a participant in the Audience (R)Evolution Cohort Grants program, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for the professional not-for-profit American Theatre.

Artists Repertory Theatre receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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FROM INSIDE THE ROOM Artists Rep staff, supporters and Guild members gather for the first rehearsal of A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS when the cast, design team and stage crew read the script together for the first time.

Photos by Owen Carey.

Blake Stone

Miya Zolkoske & Andrea Whittle

Kai Tomizawa

Laila Murphy

Ted Rooney

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Val Landrum

Amy Hakanson

Vin Shambry Andrew Bray (Music Director)

Jimmy Garcia

John San Nicolas Seth Rue

DĂĄmaso Rodriguez (Director)

Crystal Ann MuĂąoz

Ayanna Berkshire & Susannah Mars Scenic Design by Tim Stapleton Set model by Samie Pfeifer

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WHO’S WHO:

The Historical Figures of A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS

Mary Surratt (John San Nicolas) was an American boarding house owner who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.

John Surratt (Vin Shambry) was a conspirator in the kidnapping and assassination plots against Lincoln. After Lincoln’s death, he fled the country.

Mary Todd Lincoln (Susannah Mars) was married to Abraham Lincoln. She suffered overwhelming personal losses during the war, and struggled with mental and physical instability.

Louis Weichmann (Seth Rue) was a conspirator in the plots to assassinate Lincoln.

Afterward, he agreed to testify against Mary Surratt and Lewis Payne in exchange for his own freedom.

Decatur Bronson (Vin Shambry) is a fictional character that is a compilation of two Black Union Army sergeants, Decatur Dorsey and James Bronson, who were each awarded the Medal of Honor.

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Ulysses S. Grant (Seth Rue) led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

John Wilkes Booth (Val Landrum) was an actor and coconspirator in a plot to kidnap President Lincoln. He is infamous for assassinating Lincoln at the Ford Theater.

Lewis Payne (John San Nicolas) was a co-conspirator with John Wilkes Booth in the plots to kidnap and assassinate Lincoln.

Later regarded as one of America’s finest poets, Walt Whitman (Ted Rooney) spent the war years visiting wounded soldiers in Union field hospitals and, even though untrained, working as a volunteer nurse.

James Wormley (Jimmy Garcia) was a free-born African American who operated several successful businesses in Washington DC during and after the Civil War. Ely Parker (Crystal Ann Muñoz) was a Seneca Indian with legal training; he served as adjutant to General Grant.

Elizabeth Keckley (Ayanna Berkshire) was born into slavery and later purchased her freedom.

She was a dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln.

John Hay (Laila Murphy) was the Assistant Private Secretary to Abraham Lincoln.

Philip Reid (Seth Rue) was the enslaved man who was responsible for the completion of the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol.

Ward Hill Lamon (Jimmy Garcia) was Lincoln’s personal friend and self-appointed bodyguard.

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ACTOR BIOS AYANNA BERKSHIRE Mrs. Keckley & Ensemble Ayanna is overjoyed to bring a piece of the holidays to the Artists Rep stage with such a unique show and talent-riddled roster of friends and artists, both on and off the stage. Ayanna is an Artists Rep Resident Artist and most recently played Shelley in GRAND CONCOURSE by Heidi Schreck.

Other great roles include Roxanne in THE UNDERSTUDY and Esther in INTIMATE APPAREL (Artists Rep), The Lady (u/s) in THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS (Ahmenson Theatre - Los Angeles), RACE (Artists Rep), BACK BOG BEAST BAIT, BANG. CURTAIN. END OF SHOW, THE INVESTIGATION OF THE MURDER IN EL SALVADOR (defunkt theatre), FUENTE OVEJUNA (Teatro Milagro) and PURE GOLD BABY (Seers Network) to name a few. Film credits include TWILIGHT, EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES, WENDY AND LUCY, THE DUST FACTORY and THE RECORD KEEPER. Plus upcoming films, BOUNDARY SPRINGS and THE SOUND. Television credits include PORTLANDIA, GRIMM, PARENTHOOD, CASTLE, GREY’S ANATOMY, AWAKE, LEVERAGE, SIGNIFICANT MOTHER and CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM.

JIMMY GARCIA Ward Hill Lamon, James Wormley, Gen. Robert E. Lee & Ensemble After studying at Southern Oregon University and performing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Jimmy is happy to be back in

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Portland where he began his acting career years ago on the stages of Miracle Theatre, Stark Raving Theatre and Portland Center Stage. In Southern Oregon, he performed a variety of roles working with such esteemed directors as Bill Rauch, Libby Appel and Pat Patton to name a few. He has also performed a variety of musicals at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre under the careful artistic direction of the enigmatic Jim Giancarlo. Jim, you are loved and you are missed (1947–2014). You can see Jimmy perform musically in dance venues all around the Pacific Northwest in Portland’s premiere salsa band, SalsaNova.

Look for Jimmy in Profile Theatre’s production of ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE as part of their Quiara Alegría Hudes 2017 season.

AMY HAKANSON Ensemble It’s been a few years since Amy was involved with live theatre and she is thrilled to be working with Artists Rep. She has performed as a pit musician with Staged!, Lakewood Theatre Company, triangle productions!, Live On Stage and Stumptown Stages, and was involved with Original Practice Shakespeare Festival for several years as an actor and musician. She is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist, in addition to being an avid player of American and Scandinavian folk music. Amy has played the violin for 20 years, and also plays the nyckelharpa, banjo, guitar, Hardanger fiddle, cello, mandolin and bass; she recently spent a year studying the Swedish nyckelharpa at the Eric Sahlström Institute. She has performed onstage with many local bands and is currently a member of Hayley Lynn and Friends and Rainlanders.

VAL LANDRUM John Wilkes Booth, Chester Saunders & Ensemble Val Landrum grew up the daughter of a man obsessed with the Civil War and as a result has visited Gettysburg, PA so much, she could probably give you a walking tour. Fun fact: Sherman’s March actually visited her ancestor’s property, although the visit probably wasn’t such a ‘fun fact’ for them. She is a proud and grateful Resident Artist here at Artists Rep where she was seen most recently in AMERICAN HERO. Val has worked in several world-class regional theatres and has some TV and film credits. She has also been seen locally in productions for Portland Center Stage, Third Rail, CoHo and Profile to name a few. Val teaches Theatre at Oregon Children’s Theatre (where she will be directing ORPHANS in the Spring of 2017) and is on staff at the Portland Actors Conservatory.

SUSANNAH MARS Mary Todd Lincoln & Ensemble Susannah Mars is delighted to be back at her artistic home, Artists Rep, where she a Resident Artist and curator of the Artists Rep In Concert series. Based in Portland, Oregon, for over 25 years, she has appeared in over 100 productions, concerts and recordings around the country. Most recently, she was Mrs. Lovett in Portland Opera’s SWEENEY TODD. Find out more about Susannah at www.susannahmars.com and subscribe to her podcast “Adventures in Artslandia,” on iTunes.

CRYSTAL ANN MUÑOZ Rose & Ensemble Crystal is delighted to be working with Artists Rep! This year she was nominated for a Drammy Award for her work as Olivia in TWELFTH NIGHT with Portland Shakespeare Project, and she recently participated in their PROSCENIUM LIVE series, reading Ellen Margolis’ PERICLES WET. Other Portland credits include ORLANDO, EYES FOR CONSUELA (Profile Theatre), THE HUNTSMEN (Portland Playhouse), IN THE HEIGHTS (Stumptown Stages), A PIGEON AND A BOY, THE MINISTRY OF SPECIAL CASES (Jewish Theatre Collaborative), KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (triangle productions!), GUAPA (Milagro Theatre), and in 2013, Crystal won a Drammy for her work as Matilde in THE CLEAN HOUSE with Lunacy Stageworks. Crystal holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Idaho.

LAILA MURPHY John Hay, Anna Surratt & Ensemble Laila Murphy is thrilled to be a part of A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS and the promotion of peace.

Favorite regional productions include LES MISERABLES (Eponine) with Broadway Rose, SHOW BOAT (Julie) with Lakewood, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (Erzulie) with Stumptown Stages, and LES MISERABLES (Fantine) with MPAA. She has also performed in the Portland Opera chorus. As a flutist she has performed with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera, Broadway Across America and in many pit orchestras

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ACTOR BIOS around town. She is a proud graduate of Northwestern University School of Music.

Love to the cast, crew, family and friends!

reboot of BLUE DOOR. Seth studied at ACT and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

TED ROONEY

JOHN SAN NICOLAS

Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman & Ensemble

Mary Surrat, Moses Levy & Ensemble

This is Ted’s first role in a play at Artists Rep! Regional Theatres: Profile Theatre, Ahmanson (LA), Williamstown, The McCarter, The Wilma, The Arden, Portland Center Stage, Idaho Shakespeare. Ten off-off Broadway credits and 10 plays with The Actors Co-op (LA): UNCLE VANYA, THE FOREIGNER, MAN OF LA MANCHA, TERRA NOVA, DAMN YANKEES, TWELFTH NIGHT... Ted has 35 TV guest-star credits over 20 principal film roles and over 35 commercials (Yep that was Ted playing Abe Lincoln for both: a sleep aid commercial hanging with a beaver, and debating/wrestling with Douglas for a Mountain Dew spot. This, however, is his first “legit” Abe). Ted grew up here in Portland with his eight brothers and sisters. He received his BA in Theatre from Lewis and Clark and his MFA from Temple U.

SETH RUE Willy Mack, Louis Weichmann & Ensemble Seth is delighted to be making his debut at Artists Rep with such an incredible group of people! Seth was seen earlier this year in ANTIGONE PROJECT or BLUE DOOR (Drammy nomination for Best Actor) at Profile Theatre, and in the World Premiere of DISTRICT MERCHANTS at the Folger in DC. Look for him in the Spring at Oregon Contemporary Theatre in Eugene in a

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John is proud to be a Resident Artist at Artists Rep and has previously performed here in TREVOR, JACK GOES BOATING, THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT, EXILES, THE INVISIBLE HAND, THE LIAR and GRAND CONCOURSE. He will be returning this season in THE TALENTED ONES. John has lived in Portland since 2005 and has performed with numerous local companies including Portland Center Stage (TWIST YOUR DICKENS: THE SECOND CITY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL and SHAKESPEARE’S AMAZING CYMBELINE), Portland Playhouse (BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, BINGO WITH THE INDIANS) and Third Rail Rep (A NOBLE FAILURE, THE PAIN AND THE ITCH). He recently starred in Fusion Theatre Company’s production of DISGRACED in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has appeared on the television show LEVERAGE and has made several appearances on PORTLANDIA. John is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

VIN SHAMBRY Decatur Bronson, John Surratt & Ensemble Vin is honored to be in this show! Vin is a Resident Artist at Artists Rep and has performed with Oregon Children’s Theatre, Staged!,

Portland Opera and CoHo Productions.

Before returning home to Portland, Vin performed on Broadway as Tom Collins in RENT and John in MISS SAIGON, and toured nationally with RENT, MISS SAIGON, HONK and BIG RIVER. Vin was recently voted Portland’s Best Actor

by Willamette Weekly reader’s poll (2016), has won three Portland Drammys (2011), and an Audelco Award for Best Actor in a Play for BLACK MAN RISING (2006).

Vin has a BFA in Musical Theatre from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC (2005). Vin is an accomplished writer and acclaimed live storyteller whose work can be heard on The Moth podcast and PDX Back Fence. He is also working on a collection of short stories about his childhood. www.vinshambry.com

BLAKE STONE George Keckley & Ensemble Blake Stone is thrilled to make his Artists Rep debut. Blake has worked with many theatres in Portland, and throughout Oregon, including Staged!, triangle productions!, Portland Center Stage and Post 5. Notable roles include Dromio of Syracuse in THE BOMB-ITTY OF ERRORS, Ram Sweeney in HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL and Tom Robinson in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Blake can be seen next playing the role of Mila in the new work SWIMMING WHILE DROWNING with Miracle Theater Group. Blake would like to thank all of his friends and family for their continued support in his career, and to everyone who is supporting local theatre by being in attendance. Enjoy the show and happy holidays.

KAI TOMIZAWA Raz & Ensemble Kai Tomizawa is extremely thrilled to be making her debut at Artists Rep. She was recently awarded both a 2016 Drammy and a PAMTA for Best Young Performer in her role as Junie B. Jones with Oregon Children’s Theatre. Kai has been involved in theatre since the age of four. She most recently played the roles of Alice in NWCT’s original jazz musical, ALICE IN WONDERLAND and Junie B. in OCT’s musical, JUNIE B. JONES. Kai is also a budding playwright and was a 2016 Oregon finalist in a national playwright contest, Playwrights for Change. When not studying, singing or acting, you will most likely see Kai riding her unicycle, making short films with her family or harmonizing with her sister, Mika. Kai sends a heartfelt thanks to her friends and family for their love and support.

ANDREA WHITTLE Hannah & Ensemble Andrea is so excited to perform with Artists Rep. She is a native of Miami, Florida and has been living and acting in Portland for a year now. She is a former Portland Playhouse Apprentice. She was last seen in THE EVERY 28 HOURS PLAYS with Confrontation Theatre, with Profile Theatre in ANTIGONE PROJECT, and at Portland Playhouse in PETER AND THE STARCATCHER. When not onstage, Andrea is proud to serve as Managing Director of the up-and-coming company, Confrontation Theatre. She feels extremely blessed to be able to use her gift to give a voice to the voiceless and to be living her dreams out loud.

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ACTOR & CREATIVE TEAM BIOS MIYA ZOLKOSKE Jessa & Ensemble Miya is excited to return to Artists Rep for her second performance. She was previously seen as a Perkins girl, Alice, in THE MIRACLE WORKER last winter, and absolutely loved that entire experience!

Miya has been active in local theatre with the Voices for the Performing Arts (VPA) in Sherwood, where she has been in the Disney Junior productions of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, PETER PAN and ALADDIN. She is also an active member of the First Note Choir with the VPA. When Miya is not pursuing her acting she enjoys basketball, track and spending time with her family.

ANDREW BRAY Music Director Andrew Bray has music directed productions with Staged!, Jewish Theatre Collaborative, Profile Theatre, Lakewood Center for the Arts, Original Practice Shakespeare Festival and numerous educational programs. Favorite productions include LES MISERABLES (PAMTA Award - Outstanding Ensemble), 13 THE MUSICAL (Drammy Award - Best Pit Ensemble), BIG RIVER, URINETOWN, INTO THE WOODS, GODSPELL and ASSASSINS, among others. With a passion for education, Andrew is a performance instructor for Staged’s S! Conservatory.

His sound designs have textured the productions ASSISTANCE (Theatre Vertigo), NESTING (Shoebox Theatre), ROMEO AND JULIET (Portland Actors Conservatory), MACBETH (Anonymous Theatre) and numerous others. Favorite roles include Leo Frank in PARADE, Jake in LET A HUNDRED FLOWERS BLOOM, Matt in RED LIGHT WINTER,

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Lead in HEARTBEATINGS, Jimmy in REEFER MADNESS, and Lt. Cable in SOUTH PACIFIC. He is a proud graduate of the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, and thanks Jim Kirkwood for his unending inspiration.

TIM STAPLETON Scenic Designer Tim Stapleton is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. A professional scenic designer for 36 years, he has also taught theatre courses for Willamette University, Central Washington University, Lewis & Clark College and Slippery Rock University. His favorite projects with Artists Rep include BREAKING THE CODE, KILLER JOE, THE QUALITY OF LIFE and last season’s THE MIRACLE WORKER. Tim’s paintings have been exhibited in Huntington, West Virginia, with The Kentucky Arts Commission, at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, the Mina Dresden Gallery and The California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. His short stories and poetry have been published by Inkwater Press, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Mission at Tenth, and also online

by Four and Twenty Short Form Poetry, and I’m From Driftwood. Tim holds an MFA in Creative Inquiry.

PETER WEST Lighting Designer Peter West’s early lighting work for modern dance companies such as Cirque/ Portland Dance Theatre was followed by many ballets for Oregon Ballet Theatre.

At Portland State University’s Opera Program, he lit THE MERRY WIDOW, STREET SCENE, DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES, LA RONDINE, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and LE NOZZE DI FIGARO. He designed lighting for CARMEN, MARTHA,

DER ROSENKAVALIER, ANDREA CHÉNIER, DON GIOVANNI and DON PASQUALE for Portland Opera. He has designed and produced corporate events and trade shows worldwide for Nike, Nordstrom, Nintendo, Skechers, Intel, Hewlett Packard and Dr. Martens. His architectural projects include lighting for The Museum at Warm Springs, the UC Berkeley Anthropological Museum, Niketown Atlanta and the renovation of the Salem Grand Theatre. At Milagro Theatre, he lit over a dozen productions and earned four Drammy Awards. Recent work for Artists Rep includes SEVEN GUITARS, THE MOTHERF***ER WITH THE HAT, EXILES, WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT… and CUBA LIBRE.

BOBBY BREWER-WALLIN Costume Designer Bobby Brewer-Wallin, Associate Professor of Theatre and department chair, designs costumes for theatre, dance, television and film. With an MFA in costume design from CalArts he joined the Theatre Department faculty at Willamette University in 2000.

In addition to designing costumes for all main stage productions, he teaches courses in costume design, costume history, the thesis course for theatre majors with an emphasis in solo performance, and a first-year seminar titled Walking, Knowing, Making: A Peripatetic Exploration Of Place. Recent productions include VINCENT IN BRIXTON and THE FEATHERED MANTLE + THE WEAVER AND THE DRESS at Willamette University, THE SNOWSTORM at CoHo Theatre, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE at Third Rail, RICHARD III and KING LEAR at Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, and THE MIRACLE WORKER, THE LIAR, THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH

THE HAT, ITHAKA and (I AM STILL) THE DUCHESS OF MALFI at Artists Rep.

LAUREN NOYES Wig & Hair Designer At Artists Rep, Lauren designed hair and wigs for THE MIRACLE WORKER. Other hair and wig design credits include the national tour of MAGIC TREEHOUSE: THE MUSICAL, BLITHE SPIRIT and ANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS at Wells College, LUCIA MAD at Hobart/William Smith Colleges and THE MEDICINE SHOW performed at the NYC International Fringe Festival. Lauren has previously worked as a Wardrobe Technician & Supervisor for various theatres including The Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, North Shore Music Theatre and Westchester Broadway Theatre. When not freelance designing, Lauren is the Associate Wardrobe Supervisor at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

KRISTEN MUN Dance & Movement Choreographer This is the third show that Kristen has done with Staged! and she is so excited to be back. Kristen Mun works as a fight choreographer and stage manager in the Portland area. Outside of Portland she has worked at Actors Theatre in Louisville, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theatre and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is forever grateful to Adam and her family for their love and support.

MARY MCDONALD-LEWIS Voice & Text Director Mary McDonald-Lewis has been a professional artist since 1979. She resides in Portland, Oregon, and is an international dialect coach for film,

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CREATIVE TEAM BIOS television and stage. She also works as a voice actor, on-camera actor, stage actor and director. A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS is MaryMac’s 26th show with the company, and you can also hear her work at Portland Center Stage, where she is also resident dialect coach, and on other stages around town. She is deeply grateful to the patrons and audience members of Artists Rep, whose support allows the theatre to provide her services to the actors.

MaryMac loves what she does, and she thanks Finnegan, Sullivan and Flynn for always wagging their tails when she comes home.

Mum Puppettheatre. She has a BFA in Applied Theater Arts from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

LUAN SCHOOLER

Assistant Stage Manager (12/3–close)

Dramaturg

As a stage manager in Portland theatre for more than a decade, Michelle has worked with Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Broadway Rose Theatre, Theatre Vertigo, Staged! and Third Rail Repertory. However, her usual home has always been with Artists Rep where she is Resident Stage Manager and one of the company’s newest Resident Artists. Chelle is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Luan Schooler is pleased to be in her second season at Artists Rep. In addition to providing production dramaturgy, she is the director of Table|Room|Stage, the new play development program. Previously, she has worked at regional theatres including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Perseverance Theatre, California Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center and the Cleveland Play House.

KAREN HILL Assistant Stage Manager (10/25–12/3) Karen is happy to be back for another show with Artists Rep. Karen has also worked with the Oregon Children’s Theatre, Portland Shakespeare Project and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

She has a BFA in Stage Management from Southern Oregon University.

MICHELLE JAZUK

STEVEN CANTOR

JAMIE LYNNE SIMONS

Assistant Music Director

Stage Manager

Steven is grateful for the opportunity to work on this production. Past credits include FLY BY NIGHT (Broadway Rose), PETER & THE STARCATCHER and LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (Portland Playhouse), THE SNOWSTORM (CoHo/Many Hats), HEATHERS (Staged!/triangle!) and PARADE (Staged!). Thanks to Andrew and Paul. Love to Annabel and Augie.

Jamie Lynne Simons is delighted to return to Artists Rep after being part of the beautiful THE MIRACLE WORKER last season. Other local credits include THE NETHER, THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM and OR, (Third Rail Rep), YOU FOR ME FOR YOU and MR. BURNS (Portland Playhouse). She previously lived on the high seas for half a decade working on cruise ships and traveling as far as Tasmania and St. Petersburg, Russia. Prior to that Jamie studied, lived and worked in Philadelphia for many years and was in the original cast of ANIMAL FARM at the now-defunct

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THE MAKERS BIOS DAWN MOOTHART

BILL WESSINGER

Textile Artist | Creator of fabric backdrop and multi-use sliding curtains

ADX Fabrication Technician Creator of piano/harp

For four years, Dawn has run her own company, specializing in sewn-goods product development. She works with designers and innovators throughout the Portland region to help get their prototypes built and ready for manufacturing. She co-founded the Portland Apparel Lab (PAL) in 2014, recognizing that despite a talent-rich and diverse apparel design community, the city remains resource-poor, lacking the services and industry relationships necessary to grow successful brands. With the help of ADX, PAL recently launched as a makerspace for softgoods, the first step toward creating an ecosystem for apparel innovation in Portland.

Bill is a teacher, boat builder, sculptor, furniture maker and lifelong woodworker.

As a sixth generation Portlander, he draws inspiration from his deep roots and love of the Pacific Northwest. When he is not working with wood he can often be found in one of his hand-built boats on the water or hiking in the mountains. Through his recent furniture building, he has become fascinated by the ways in which furniture shapes how a room is used. Depending on how furniture is designed, pieces that serve the same purpose may divide spaces or leave them open. Some pieces are largely static while other pieces can create a dynamic space. Bill works to minimize the environmental impact of the pieces he makes through the use of materials from sustainable sources and by building quality pieces that, with minimal upkeep, will last for generations.

THOMAS PHILLIPS ADX Director of Fabrication Creator of piano/harp A firm believer that form follows function, Thomas has spent much of his history in pursuit of activities involving the hand-craft and the human scale. After receiving his architecture undergrad from Syracuse University, Thomas traveled to the Pacific Northwest to escape the “live-to-work” mentality of the Northeast in search of a new lifestyle, new friends and professional experiences. Almost immediately he wandered into ADX and found his niche within the community.

Although a far commute from home, the mixed environment of makers, artists, designers and craftsman easily justified the countless hours spent working, making and influencing others. Outside of professional pursuits he enjoys climbing at the local rock gyms, long-distance running, board games, food cart lunches, brick-and-mortar happy hours and all of the craft beer that Portland can offer.

RIO WRENN Textile Artist | Dyer of fabric backdrop Rio studied sculpture at the University of Washington and graduated in 2002. In the last year of her education she discovered rust printing and has been exploring, developing techniques and exhibiting her textiles ever since. In 2009, Rio started R.A.W. Textiles as a means to develop her textiles for fashion. Currently, Rio lives in her native home of Portland and has started teaching and collaborating with designers across the country. The bulk of Rio’s work is created by using silks and ancient techniques such as shibori in combination with plants, insects and rust. Many of the plants she uses are harvested from her garden and other local gardens. The relationship between the plant growth cycle and the bees and birds that feed from them are a wonderful ecosystem that thrives and, in the end, helps to facilitate the language that Rio will then translate into abstract beauty.

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The music of Artists Rep’s production of A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS is built on Daryl Waters’ original score of the play. Local musicians were commissioned to make new arrangements of many of the songs, and the result is a new score that merges their work with Daryl Waters’.

SONG TITLE

COMPOSER/LYRICIST

ARRANGER

All Quiet Along the Potomac

J.H. Hewitt / Lamar Fontaine

Daryl Waters

Silent Night

Franz Xaver Gruber / Joseph Mohr

Daryl Waters

I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day

John Baptiste Calkin / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

James Beaton

Take No Prisoners

Daryl Waters

Darrell Grant

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Lee Hays

Darrell Grant

Rise Up Shepherd and Follow

Traditional Spiritual

Mark & LaRhonda Steele

I’m A-Gone Away to Shiloh

Secessionist Folksong

Brian Adrian Koch

Marching Through Georgia

Henry Clay Work

Brian Adrian Koch

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Traditional

James Beaton

Sew the Collar, Finish the Hem

Daryl Waters

Holcombe Waller

What Child Is This?

William Chatterton Dix

Holcombe Waller

Maryland, my Maryland

James Ryder Randall

Daryl Waters

Questo é Amore

Edna Vázquez

The Holly & The Ivy

Traditional

Edna Vázquez

O Tannenbaum/O Christmas Tree

Ernst Anschütz

Daryl Waters

Ding Dong Merrily on High

George Ratcliffe Woodward

Daryl Waters

We’ll Build Us a Temple of Freedom (Lincoln & Liberty)

Jesse Hutchinson

Holcombe Waller

The Yellow Rose of Texas

Traditional

Edna Vázquez

Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming/ Yellow Rose of Texas

Michael Praetorius / Traditional

Holcombe Waller

Balm in Gilead

Traditional Spiritual

Mark & LaRhonda Steele

Mourner’s Kaddish

Traditional

Daryl Waters

An African Village

Okaidja Afroso

Children Go Where I Send Thee

Traditional Spiritual

Okaidja Afroso

Ain’t That A-Rockin’ All Night

Traditional Spiritual

Darrell Grant

THE MUSIC ARRANGERS BIOS JAMES BEATON A native of the Bronx, James Beaton is an awardwinning composer, music director and pianist living in Portland, Oregon. After graduating from The Evergreen State College, he toured and recorded extensively with the rock band Everclear, with numerous appearances on film and television, before co-founding the notorious cabaret band The Balls.

With Storm Large, his collaborator for the past 15 years, James composed and music directed CRAZY ENOUGH, which debuted in 2009 at Portland Center Stage with further productions in Australia and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Since 2010, they have premiered new works annually with the Oregon Symphony. In 2014, James was nominated for a Drammy for the musical direction of the rock opera LIZZIE. Current projects include composing THE EVERLEIGH CLUB, with Ms. Large and Rinna Groff and a new musical for Portland Center Stage’s Northwest Stories series.

DARRELL GRANT Since the 1994 release of his debut CD Black Art, selected as one of the year’s top 10 jazz CDs by The New York Times, Darrell Grant has built an international reputation as a pianist, composer and educator. He has performed extensively as a bandleader and solo artist throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe in venues ranging from clubs and concert stages to major jazz festivals. His critically acclaimed albums as a leader include Spirit, Truth and Reconciliation and The Territory. Darrell was inducted into the Jazz Society of Oregon Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2011, he was the first recipient

of the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Prize in the Arts from Portland State University, where he is a Professor of Music and directs the Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute. He is the composer for the OPB special JazzTown, and was awarded a 2015 Individual Artist Grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council.

BRIAN ADRIAN KOCH Brian Adrian Koch is a Portland-based performing artist. He received his BA in Theater Arts at Portland State University. He is an actor, director, writer and musician as well as a founding member of Blitzen Trapper.

OKAIDJA AFROSO Okaidja’s unique artistic vision has led him to combine his native rhythms with unforeseen pairings of musical flavors.

His sound is a spicy fusion of spirited Ghanaian music with diverse cross-cultural influences. He is a dynamic vocalist, a gifted multi-instrumentalist, and an exultant dancer. www.okaidja.com

MARK & LARHONDA STEELE LaRhonda Steele began her musical journey in Jones, Oklahoma at age 13 singing her first solo in church one Sunday morning. Her journey has taken her to Portland, Oregon and beyond. She has enjoyed working with and recording with

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THE MUSIC ARRANGERS BIOS local and international artists including Gino Vannelli, Curtis Salgado, Janice Marie Scroggins and Thara Memory.

Mark Steele is a multifaceted pianist and arranger who is stylistically rooted in jazz. Born in South Bend, Washington, his musical journey has led him to performing with jazz greats Joe Pass, Lionel Hampton and pop artist Michael Sembello. Mark currently works as the Music Director of Save to Serve ministries. Mark and LaRhonda currently lead the Portland Interfaith Gospel Choir and the couple’s compilation of original music “Artistic Differences” can be found on iTunes.

EDNA VÁZQUEZ Edna Vázquez is a Portland-based singersongwriter who performs original compositions that pay homage to her international influences with a passion that comes through in every note of her music. Edna has performed as part of productions at Miracle Theatre since 2010 and composed music in 2013 for Profile Theatre’s production of Sam Shepard’s masterpiece, EYES FOR CONSUELA where she also played the

part of Ejekatl, Wind Spirit of the Untold.

Edna’s music and performance is deeply rooted in universal human emotion and she has traveled far and wide spreading her message of light, love and cultural healing.

HOLCOMBE WALLER Holcombe Waller is a Portland-based singer, composer and performing artist who composes for concerts, film, dance as well as for his own interdisciplinary performance projects.

He is known for his arresting, elastic vocals and subtle but knife-twisting folk and pop songwriting that dances with the elements around themes of nostalgia, intimacy and the search for spiritual meaning. He was awarded a 2011 United States Artists Berresford Fellowship in Music, an award which noted his mournful, folk-inflected style as well as his approach to music “as total theater.” He is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Mapfund Grant, and he is also a Creative Capital grantee and an Oregon Arts Council Joan Shipley Fellow. Over a career spanning 13 years, Waller has self-released five albums on his

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own label, has toured four interdisciplinary performances, and has ventured numerous collaborations with film and dance makers.

Most recently, he premiered Requiem Mass: LGBT / Working Title in the 2015 TBA Festival. Currently, he is developing a one-person performance investigating the history of coal and oil trains in the Columbia River Gorge. More info at www.holcombewaller.com

DARYL WATERS Daryl Waters received Tony and Grammy Award nominations for his original music in BRING IN ’DA NOISE, BRING IN ’DA FUNK. For Broadway, he also composed the music for Regina Taylor’s DROWNING

CROW, won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for his orchestrations in MEMPHIS, and composed SHUFFLE ALONG and HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME. Additionally, he did arrangements for AFTER MIDNIGHT and wrote the dance music arrangements for THE COLOR PURPLE and JELLY’S LAST JAM. He has worked with, and learned from, many entertainment legends, including Cab Calloway, Nell Carter, Sammy Davis, Jr., Luther Henderson and Eartha Kitt, for whom he served as music director for 22 years. Mr. Waters is a graduate of Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina.

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STAFF Artistic Director: DĂĄmaso Rodriguez Managing Director: Sarah Horton

ARTISTIC Artistic Producer: Shawn Lee Associate Producer: Kristeen Willis Crosser Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy: Luan Schooler ArtsHub Director: Jerry Tischleder Resident Artists: Linda Alper, Ayanna Berkshire, Bobby Brewer-Wallin, Owen Carey, Chris Harder, Michelle Jazuk, JoAnn Johnson, Kevin Jones, Val Landrum, Sarah Lucht, Susannah Mars, Gilberto Martin Del Campo, Mary McDonald-Lewis, Michael Mendelson, Allen Nause, Amy Newman, Vana O’Brien, Rodolfo Ortega, Sharath Patel, Gregory Pulver, John San Nicolas, Vin Shambry, Andrea Stolowitz, Joshua Weinstein, Megan Wilkerson, Carol Ann Wohlmut

ADMINISTRATIVE Director of Finance & Administration: Jim Neuner Finance & Administrative Assistant: Vonessa Martin Executive Assistant: Allie Rangel

MARKETING & AUDIENCE SERVICES Director of Communication & Engagement: Nicole Lane Marketing Director: Sarah Bills Marketing & Publications Manager: Jessica Gleason Digital & Graphic Design Specialist: Jeff Hayes Music Events Specialist: Susannah Mars Marketing Dept. Intern: Maddie Odegaard Audience Services Director: Karen Rathje Assistant Audience Services Manager: Christina DeYoung Box Office Manager: Jon Younkin Box Office Associates: Jessie Duncan, Jessica Hillenbrand, Jack Ridenour, Dayne Wedeking House Managers: Jessie Duncan, Deborah Gangwer, Karl Hanover, Robyn Hodges, Valerie Liptak, Tara McMahon, Cecily Overman Concessions: Geraldine Gladden, Paul Jacobs, Jennifer Zubernick Resident Photographer: Owen Carey Video Designer: ShutterSky Pictures

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DEVELOPMENT Development Director: Sarah Taylor Annual Fund & Events Manager: Kisha Jarrett

PRODUCTION Production Manager: Kristeen Willis Crosser Company Manager & Casting Associate: Vonessa Martin Operations & Sound Technician: David Peterson Resident Stage Managers: Michelle Jazuk, Carol Ann Wohlmut Interim Technical Director/Scene Shop Foreman: Nathan Crone Master Carpenter: Eddie Rivera Master Electrician: Ronan Kilkelly Scenic Charge: Sarah Kindler Voice & Text Director: Mary McDonald-Lewis Resident Fight Choreographer: Jonathan Cole

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Marcia Darm, MD, Chair Mike Barr, Vice-Chair Jeffrey Condit, Treasurer Patricia Garner, Secretary Cody Hoesly, Past Chair Julie Ball Michelle Bowler-Failing Denise Frisbee Andrew Glass Blake Johnson Susanne Kuhn Michael Parsons Andrea Schmidt Barbara Sepenuk Elisa Wickstrom

FOR THIS PRODUCTION Carpenters: Ben Serreau-Raskin, Charlie Capps, Alex Agnes, Michael Wax, Jake Sapp Electricians: Zahra Garrett, Brett Israel, William Jenks, Duncan Lynch, Jeff Ruggiero, Ben Serreau-Raskin Painters: Emily Wilken, Samie Pfeifer Stitchers: Virginia Kilkelly, Darcy Sharpe, Kathleen Reid

ON OUR WALLS: THE GEEZER GALLERY PRESENTS

american outsider art: Kearns collection

In conversation with A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS, Geezer Gallery will exhibit the lifelong Outsider Art collection of Jane Kearns. This exhibition provides a visual illustration of the Civil War era using unconventional materials. Highly collectible and admired, Outsider Art breaks the mold of the mainstream art world through one-of-a-kind pieces portraying the inner workings of the artists’ psyches.

All artwork on sale through Geezer Gallery.

Holiday Gift Market

Seasonal Food for all occasions

Dec 17 • Noon - 7pm Discover the work of skilled Portland artisans just in time for the holidays.

Enjoy unique crafts and art from 20 vendors, hosted by Artists Rep in partnership with ADX and Portland Made. Come sip a beverage and shop in a festive setting this season!

A part of the Stage|Craft initiative, supported by the Audience (R)Evolution Cohort Grants program, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group. A collaborative partnership between Artists Rep, Hand2Mouth Theatre, Disjecta Contemporary Arts Center Portland (ADX), Portland Apparel Lab (PAL) and Portland Made.

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OUR SUPPORTERS We built the set, sewed the costumes, adjusted the lights, called the cues, and rehearsed, and rehearsed, and rehearsed.

YOU GAVE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.TAKE A BOW. This list celebrates Artists Rep donors of $100 or more who gave between October 1, 2015 and October 21, 2016.

Join this cast of characters with a gift today. Call Sarah Taylor at 503.972.3017 or visit www.artistsrep.org.

PRODUCERS ($25,000+) The Collins Foundation Susan Dietz Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Robert & Mercedes Eichholz Foundation Fred W. Fields Creative Heights Initiative of the Oregon Community Foundation Ronni Lacroute/ WillaKenzie Estate Meyer Memorial Trust James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation The Regional Arts & Culture Council, including support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County & the Arts Education & Access Fund Renaissance Foundation The Shubert Foundation William Swindells Theatre Communications Group David & Christine Vernier The Estate of David E. Wedge PATRONS ($10,000–$24,999) Anonymous (1) The Boeing Company Ginger Carroll in memory of J. Michael Carroll KINK 101.9 FM The Kinsman Foundation The Estate of Jean B. O’Neill Rafati’s Catering

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Marcy & Richard Schwartz John & Jan Swanson Darci & Charlie Swindells Work for Art, including contributions from more than 75 companies & 2,000 employees STAGEMAKERS ($5,000–$9,999) Anonymous (2) Julia & Robert S. Ball Karl & Linda Boekelheide Robert & Janet Conklin Margaret Dixon Tom Gifford & Pat Fisher Patricia & Bennett Garner Mark Horn & Mark Wilkinson Hotel deLuxe Arthur & Virginia Kayser Romy Klopper Hugh & Mair Lewis Charitable Fund of the Southwest Washington Community Foundation Maletis Beverage Mentor Graphics Foundation Opsis Architecture Oregon Arts Commission, a State Agency David Pollock Charlotte Rubin Standard Insurance Company Bill & Cornie Stevens Straub Collaborative Ed & Rosalie Tank Troutman Sanders Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust

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Suzanne Benton Pamela Berg Catherine Blosser Winhard Bohme Betty & Fred Brace Teresa & James Bradshaw James Breedlove Peggy Bromley Dan Brook & Teresa St. Martin Gerry & Nancy Brown Jim Brunke A. Sonia Buist, M.D. David & Phyllis Burks Lauretta Burman Carol Burns Marlene Burns & Jon Dickinson Thomas A. Burns Alana & Grant Byington Cambia Health Foundation Janis & Dunbar Carpenter Michael Carter & Teresa Ferrer Jean Carufo & Barbara Engelter Tom & Anne Caruso Lou & John Chapman Molly Cochran & Sam Ellingson Bradley Coffey Mary Cohen Rick & Jean Collins Abigail & Michael Corbet Marie-Jose & Martyn Corden Deborah Correa Marilyn Couch Susan Cowles John Crabbe & Jeri Jenowsky Bruce Croffy Fran & Roddy Daggett Ann Dart & Ralph Beaumont Elaine & Earl Davis Barbara & George Dechet Carolyn DeLany-Reif Wolfgang Dempke & Alise Rubin Becky Denham Jewel Derin Elaine & Bill Deutschman De & Donald Doorlag Ed Doyle & Judy Posey Ross Dwinell K. Eaton

Laury Ellis & Kathy Fode Greg & Carol Flakus Kathleen Flynn Heidi Franklin Marc Franklin Rhonda & David Frick-Wright Dwain & Judith Fullerton Kay Gage & Ketan Sampat John & Chris Gardner Andy Ginsburg & Danielle L. Erb Linda Gipe Patrick Gleason & Susan Gratch Gwendolyn & Bruce Graff Gretta Grimala Candace Haines John Hall & Jean Jensen Hall Dick Hamlet & Corinne Williams John & Judie Hammerstad Meredith Hartley & Jeremiah Pyle Brian Hefele Thomas Hellie & Julie Olds Laura Henderson Joe & Rita Henery Hewlett Packard Charles & Margaret Hickman Barbara & Ron Higbee Barbara Holisky John & Judy Hubbard Kristine & Steve Hudson Carol & T.A. Hull Robert & Cecilia Huntington Deborah Indihar Intel Involved Volunteer Matching Grant Constance Jackson & Xavier Le Héricy Alice Jacobson & AJ Arriola David & Colleen Jannuzzi Katharine Jansen Betsy & Jerold Jeronen Colleen & Jeff Johnson Phyllis Johnson Lynne Johnston Erika & Tom Kane Ron & Ruth Katon Karen Kemper

Nancy G. Kennaway Janice Kettler Heather Kientz Doris & Eric Kimmel Larry King & Daniel Hutchison Frederick Kirchhoff Tom & Judy Kovaric Louise Kurzet Ted Labbe & Kelly Rogers Cathy & Loran Lamb-Mullin Elyse & Ron Laster Kelly & Brenda Lawrence Mary Lawrence Mark J. Lee Richard Lewis & Meg Larson Ralph London Leslie Louderback Jane Luddecke & Robert Anderson Glenn & Rie Luft Dr. Christine Mackert Jim & Midge Main Caroline Mann John & Renee Manson Michael & Deborah Marble Ellen Margolis Joann Marks Susannah Mars & Gary Johnson Ms. Nancy Matthews Lynn Mayer Robert McAdams Carla McKelvey Anne McLaughlin Katie McRae Deb & Erich Meihoff Mariellen Meisel Jeannette & Bill Meyer Monique’s Boutique Don & Connie Morgan Nancy & Art Moss Alice Galloway Neely Bennie Norris Patricia Oldham Bob & Bonnie Olds Carlton & Roberta Olson Pairings Portland Nancy Park Katherine Patricelli & Dennis Reichelt Jan & Bill Perry Marilyn & Gaynor Petrequin Kevin Phaup Donna Philbrick

Scott Phinney & Mona Clair Roger Porter Terrance & Barbara Porter Dee Poujade Ana Quinn Jay & Barbara Ramaker Dick & Linda Reedy Isaac Regenstreif Betty & Jacob Reiss Martha & David Richards Rebecca Robinson, In memory of Gary D. Robinson Charles & Judith Rooks Ms. Cara Rozell Laurens & Judith Ruben Joanne & James Ruyle Darrell Salk & Tricia Knoll John T. Sarr William & Meredith Savery

Sheldon & Jean Schiager Luan Schooler Jean Scott & Myrth Ogilvie Joyce Semradek David & Frances Sessions Gil Sharp & Anne Saxby Laurel & Dan Simmons Constance Smith Judy Snider Barbara & Bill Stalions Phil Stanton Marcia D. Starr Marc Stein Robert & Veronika Stein Kathleen & Leigh Stephenson-Kuhn Milan & Jean Stoyanov Pat & Larry Strausbaugh Scott Stuart & Brenda Meltebeke

Vicki L. Barron Sumann Gary Taliaferro Roberta Taussig Bahram & Susan Tavakolian Margaret Thompson Marilee Thompson Tracy Thornton Steve & Linda Tubbs Roberta & Ward Upson Stephen Urion Kathy & Ron Varekamp David & Julie Verburg Pamela Vohnson & David Streight Sue & Jim Walcutt George Waldmann Marilyn Walkey & Mike McClain Judi & J. Wandres Janet F. Warrington Robert & Ann Watt Mike & Linda Wells Victoria Wetle Walt & Kim Weyler

Kristin Wheary David Wheeler Karen Whitman & Brad Shiley Larry & Erleen Whitney Pat & Frank Wilson Carol Ann & Patrick Wohlmut Susan Woods John & Pat Zagelow Kurt & Heather Zimmer

THE NO BAH-HUMBUG HOLIDAY QUIZ Choose the best answer to the following questions: Did you know a. Only 50% of our income comes from earned revenue including ticket sales. b. 50% of our annual operating budget comes from donations. c. Both a and b The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation will a. Match all new donations made to Artists Rep (which means your $100 donation = $200). b. Match the increased portion of your gift greater than last season. c. Both a and b The last day a donation counts for the 2016 tax year is a. April 15, 2017. b. A donation made on New Year’s Eve. c. A donation postmarked on or before December 31, 2016. (There’s still time!)

This holiday season, I want to a. Be visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet-To-Come. b. Have a Mr. Grinch heart (that’s three sizes too small). c. Support the challenging, entertaining, and diverse work at Artists Rep.

If you answered c for all questions, congratulations, you earned 100%!

Consider making the season brighter with your year end gift to Artists Rep. You can give online, by mail, by phone or in person at the Box Office. Contact Annual Fund and Events Manager, Kisha Jarrett at kjarrett@artistsrep.org or 503.241.9807 ext 112 to learn more about donor benefits.

Or visit us online at www.artistsrep.org.

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