The Talented Ones - 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

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Yussef El Guindi Jane Unger

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APR 25 - MAY 21

OUR 2016/17 SEASON

Catch our final show of the season, The Importance of Being Earnest with all-female, all-star Portland cast.

May 16 – Jun 11.

THE TALENTED ONES

BY YUSSEF EL GUINDI DIRECTED BY JANE UNGER

Dámaso Rodríguez, Artistic Director | Sarah Horton, Managing Director

CAST Omar........................................................................................................ John San Nicolas ^* Cindy........................................................................................................ Khanh Doan* Patrick...................................................................................................... Heath Koerschgen + Young Omar/Omar’s Father............................................................. Michél Castillo + Dancer Cindy......................................................................................... Madeleine Tran

CREATIVE TEAM Director.................................................................................................... Jane Unger*** Dramaturg.............................................................................................. Luan Schooler Scenic Designer.................................................................................... Daniel Meeker# Costume Designer............................................................................... Darrin J. Pufall Lighting Designer................................................................................. Kristeen Willis Crosser# Composer/Sound Designer.............................................................. Rodolfo Ortega^ Choreographer..................................................................................... Sarah Jane Hardy Fight Choreographer.......................................................................... Jonathan Cole*** Props Master.......................................................................................... Kaye Blankenship Voice & Text Director ........................................................................ Mary McDonald-Lewis ^ Stage Manager..................................................................................... Michelle Jazuk*^ Production Assistant.......................................................................... Esther McFaden + Assistant Choreographer................................................................. Camille Trinka Board Operator.................................................................................... Jason Coffey SETTING: OMAR AND CINDY’S HOME. THE PRESENT. THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION. SHOW SPONSORS: DAVID POLLOCK | HUGH & MAIR LEWIS | RICHARD & MARCY SCHWARTZ | WORK FOR ART The Talented Ones was commissioned for Table|Room|Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre’s New Play Development Program, in 2015.

The Talented Ones was developed through a LAUNCH PAD preview production at the University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Theater and Dance in 2015, Risa Brainin, Director.

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 # The scenic, costume, lighting, projection and sound designers are represented by United Scenic Artists + Equity membership candidate *** The Director and/or Choreographer is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

LORT League of resident theatres

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A MESSAGE FROM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DÁMASO RODRÍGUEZ “It’s like all of it’s been this relay race, and it’s our turn to carry the baton.”

– Cindy, in Yussef El Guindi’s The Talented Ones.

Welcome to Artists Rep and to the World Premiere of playwright Yussef El Guindi’s The Talented Ones.

Today’s production marks the first full production born of our recently established new play development program, Table|Room|Stage. In 2014, with start-up funding from the Oregon Community Foundation, we announced our plans to commission eight new plays over the course of two years. Behind the scenes, we set the goal of seeing as many of these new plays as possible through to their full productions, and committed to helping the plays find future life at theatres around the country.

Artists Rep’s Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy Luan Schooler and I then created the following guiding principles as a way of evaluating the projects we were considering for development and production. We are specifically interested in work that: • Stands at an angle to the world and shows us something anew • Explores the edges, depths and heights of human experience • Uses language with originality and vibrancy • Embodies a muscular narrative structure and rigorous intelligence • Offers a distinctly theatrical experience • Risks failure rather than repeats formula • Has an opinion and seeks to change the conversation

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We believe The Talented Ones, and Yussef El Guindi’s prolific and nationally acclaimed body of work, exemplifies all of these traits and is the kind of provocative, timely and complex playwriting that Artists Rep has consistently produced for nearly 35 years. It also happens to be a wildly entertaining theatre experience sure to make you think, feel, laugh and gasp.

Thank you for being a part of our audience today! I hope you enjoy The Talented Ones and will join us again soon for our fresh and unconventional take on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, which wraps up our 2016/17 season.

Until then,

P.S. Have you checked out our recently announced 2017/18 season? (See page 18).

The upcoming lineup includes some of the most talked about and acclaimed new plays in recent memory. I hope you’ll consider making a date to see them all as a season ticket holder!

PLAYWRIGHT BIO YUSSEF EL GUINDI Playwright Yussef El Guindi’s productions include Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat at Golden Thread Productions; An Evening with Activists at Cutting Ball Theater; Collaborator at Macha Monkey Productions; Threesome at Portland Center Stage (winner of a Portland Drammy for Best Original Script), ACT, and at 59E59; The Ramayana (co-adaptor with Stephanie Timm) at ACT; Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World (winner of the Steinberg/ American Theater Critics Association’s New Play Award in 2012; Gregory Award 2011; Seattle Times’ “Footlight Award” for Best World Premiere Play, 2011) also at ACT, and at Center Repertory Company (Walnut Creek, CA); and Language Rooms (Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, as well as ACT’s New Play Award), co-produced by Golden Thread Productions and Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco; at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia (premiere), and at the Los Angeles Theater Center.

Other past productions: Jihad Jones and The Kalashnikov Babes, produced at Golden Thread Productions, InterAct Theater and Kitchen Dog theater, as part of the National New Play Network.

His play Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat, also produced by Silk Road Theater Project, won the M. Elizabeth Osborn award. His plays, Back of the Throat (winner of L.A. Weekly’s Excellence in Playwriting Award for 2006), as well as Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World, Jihad Jones and

The Kalashnikov Babes, Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s and Karima’s City, have been published by Dramatists Play Service. The latter one-acts have also been included in “The Best American Short Plays: 2004–2005,” published by Applause Books. Ten Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith (winner of Chicago’s “After Dark/ John W. Schmid Award” for Best New Play in 2006) is included in “Salaam/ Peace: An Anthology of Middle-Eastern American Playwrights,” published by TCG, 2009. Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat is included in the anthology “Four Arab American Plays” published by McFarland Books. Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World was included in the September, 2012 issue of “American Theatre Magazine.” Threesome was published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. and Language Rooms was published in Rain City Projects’ anthology “Manifesto Series Volume 3.” Yussef is the recipient of the 2010 Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award, and Seattle’s 2015 Stranger’s Genius Award.

He holds an MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and was playwright-inresidence at Duke University.

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INTERVIEW WITH YUSSEF EL GUINDI

By Luan Schooler, Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy

Yussef El Guindi is an Egyptian-American playwright, whose work consistently explores the immigrant experience with fierce intelligence, compassion and humor.

Because of these qualities, we selected him to inaugurate Artists Rep’s new play development program, Table|Room|Stage.

The Talented Ones was workshopped here in Spring 2016, and we are very pleased to share this first fruit of T|R|S with you now.

El Guindi’s plays are widely produced in the U.S. and have garnered many awards.

He is the recipient of the 2010 Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award, and Seattle’s 2015 Stranger’s Genius Award. Recently, his play Threesome was produced by Portland Center Stage, ACT in Seattle, and at 59E59 in New York. In addition to The Talented Ones, his current projects include a co-adaptation with Philip Kan Gotanda of the Japanese epic, The Tale of the Heike, slated for production at ACT in Seattle in 2018.

The Talented Ones was inspired at least in part by your personal experience.

What was that and how does it inform the play?

Personal experience-wise: born in Egypt, immigrant by the age of 3. Raised in England. Rendered less Egyptian but not quite English enough for the English.

Not quite Egyptian enough in Egypt when I returned for my undergraduate studies. Hauled myself to America, where eventually I became a citizen.

And here’s the thing about becoming an American citizen: in spite of the antiimmigrant flair-ups that periodically course through this country, the key ingredient in the U.S. is its self-renewal through the continuous blood transfusion of new immigrants. In Europe, even if you become a citizen, you will always remain a

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foreigner in the eyes of a lot of Europeans.

Not so in the States—in theory. The naturalization ceremony is actually very moving and effective in initiating newcomers. In its ritual, in the oath you take, it basically says/promises that regardless of your origins you are all now part of a new family. And the fact that you were foreign born does not make you any less American than the native born.

And America, in theory (I stress in theory) is not a blood thing—as it is in Europe—but an idea thing. To be American is to try and aspire to an idea of citizenship and nationhood. I think that’s why there’s more flag-waving and ostentatious shows of patriotism here than in Europe. While those flag-waving rallies can feel a bit jingoistic, I think they are a sort of communal chant to try and remind ourselves of a shared idea that is supposed to cohere us all into citizens.

Becoming a citizen of another country as an adult makes you hyper aware of the sorts of dynamics sketched above.

All of that informed the writing of The Talented Ones.

Many of your plays explore some aspect of the immigrant journey, and frequently, how that journey collides with the American Dream. Has that terrain changed since you began writing plays?

That particular vein of exploration continues. I’m always startled by just how much more material there is to mine.

What helps with the writing of these plays is that they’re deeply personal, while at the same time allowing me to connect with a larger, collective journey experienced by other immigrants.

And at the end of the day, my feeling is that the immigrant state of mind can be

glimpsed by anyone who feels displaced, foreign, or at odds with—and trying to fit into—new surroundings. Which basically covers everyone! Who doesn’t at times feel slightly alien and separate from their environment, and the people that surround them? When we open our mouths and try to communicate with someone we are making an “immigrant” journey of sorts from our own familiar view of the world, to that stranger’s point of view. When it comes to human relations, it’s all terra incognito with unexpected borders, and much traveling to try and comprehend each other better.

Is there something in particular that you wish Americans understood better about the immigrant experience?

Uprooting yourself and trekking to a new land is psychologically and physically an arduous undertaking. You hopefully gain much in doing so, but there is also much loss as well. Uprooting means leaving behind that which has nurtured you (family, friends, culture, religion, smells, sounds, the familiar) and entering a world where you might not know the language, or the nuances of day-to-day interaction; nor understand the mainstream culture that’s mainstream because it embodies the values and norms that give comfort to the populace, but not yet to you because it’s all so unfamiliar. (And because you’re a newcomer, and therefore somewhat suspect, that mainstream culture will probably be reflecting you back via negative images and stories—in films, TV shows, the news. So not only are you to trying to find your place in the mainstream, that mainstream is blasting you from the rooftops with repeated negative portrayals and references.)

In addition, you might have to emigrate, or flee as a refugee, without your family.

You have no support system in place yet.

Legally, because your rights are not the same as a U.S. citizen, you are walking on very thin ice all the time. The world you are trying to build might collapse at any moment. You walk around alternatively feeling like you’re integrating into your surroundings, perhaps even doing financially well via these new found opportunities, or you’re feeling like someone with a neon sign blinking over their head that reads, “alien amongst you.”

Even after 34 years, and citizenship gained, I still occasionally feel that neon sign blinking overhead. And when certain “nativist” political currents run through the mainstream, and darken the world you’re trying to create, that neon sign shines even brighter.

If there was one thing that you would like audiences to take away from seeing The Talented Ones or any of your plays, what would that be?

My wish is always that audiences enjoy themselves. The bottom line of every one of my plays is simple enough: I hope you were stimulated, engaged and entertained by what you saw.

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

Madeleine Tran

John San Nicolas & Khanh Doan

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Heath Koerschgen

Scenic design by Daniel Meeker

MichĂŠl Castillo Director Jane Unger

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DIRECTOR’S NOTES

By Jane Unger

Working on the World Premiere of a new play with an exciting writer, a talented cast and dramaturg, is the theatrical equivalent of birthing a baby—a singular joy.

Yussef El Guindi began writing The Talented Ones in 2013 and completed the first draft in 2014. Between then and now, this play has assumed an uncanny timeliness. We’ve gone from being a melting pot nation to an increasingly xenophobic one. As with many things since the 2016 election, this play, at the heart of which beats the immigrant experience, takes on an enhanced perspective.

The Talented Ones takes us on a rollercoaster ride of an American marriage through the unique lens of the immigrant experience. Cindy says “It’s an immigrant thing…. We’re the ones who have to prove it was all worth it. Leaving home. Living among strangers who don’t give a damn about you. …Because this is only really our home if we succeed. That’s the whole point of uprooting yourself.”

Cindy and Omar are the product of families that took great risks and uprooted their lives to recreate new homes in the United States. In his writer’s notes, El Guindi expressly states that Cindy and Omar “can be of any ethnicity.” Their experience applies to any ethnic group coming to this country. Recently, I observed a naturalization ceremony at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland and over 30 countries were represented. I daresay that, just like Cindy and Omar, everyone in that courtroom embodied hope for a better life and the promise of dreams fulfilled, believing that U.S. citizenship holds a key to opportunity and success.

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“The Talented Ones holds up a mirror to all of us who have ever held onto dreams and expectations.

It also opens a door into the world of the outsider, newcomers to this country whose obstacles are not as obvious as a border crossing.”

Currently our nation is focused on the difficulty of getting into this country. This is not a play about how hard it is to get here but what happens once you are here.

The Talented Ones looks at the next step in the Americanization process, what happens to the ‘dreamer’ generation once they become adults expected to fulfill their parents’ dreams. And how are these new citizens perceived and treated? Does anything really change or will they forever be treated as outsiders?

Regardless of background, many marriages come to a crossroads, a place where reality meets fantasy. One or both partners confront the idea of the person they thought they had married with the reality of the person to whom they are married. If the fantasy and the reality become irreconcilable, dreams evaporate and trouble erupts.

The Talented Ones holds up a mirror to all of us who have ever held onto dreams and expectations. It also opens a door into the world of the outsider, newcomers to this country whose obstacles are not as obvious as a border crossing.

Last month, I heard the great novelist Colum McCann talk about the power of storytelling as the true currency of democracy. By taking on someone else’s story, we develop a better understanding of those around us. I invite you to take on the story of The Talented Ones for a better understanding of a question many of us are asking: What does it mean to be an American citizen in today’s America?

DIRECTOR BIO JANE UNGER Director Most recently at Artists Rep, Jane directed Mothers and Sons and the staged reading of The Talented Ones as part of the Table|Room|Stage program. Jane is the founding Artistic Director of Profile Theatre Project in Portland whose mission celebrates the playwright by presenting a full season of plays by a single writer. In her 15 years helming Profile, she featured the following playwrights: Arthur Kopit, Tennessee Williams, Constance Congdon, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Romulus Linney, Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, John Guare, Neil Simon, Horton Foote, Lee Blessing and Athol Fugard. During that time, Jane produced 55 productions, (directed 35), 31 staged readings, (directed eight, acted in three), and 20 concert

readings through the One Night Stand series she conceived and implemented.

Jane worked directly with many of these writers on new play development, including the World Premiere of Romulus Linney’s Klonsky and Schwartz, codirected by Linney and Unger. Other directorial work includes Triad Stage, Inge Theatre Festival, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Creede Repertory Theatre, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Storefront Theatre, Miracle Theatre, CoHo Productions, JAW, Portland Center Stage and New Rose Theatre. Among the awards Jane has received, she is especially proud of Profile being among the first 10 recipients honored by the American Theatre Wing in 2010 with a National Theatre Company Grant, Portland’s Drammy Award for Best Director for Wings and the Drammy Lifetime Achievement Award for her founding of Profile Theatre Project. janeeunger.com

The 2016/17 Artists Repertory Theatre season PRESENTED BY SHOW SPONSORS

David & Christine Vernier MAJOR CORPORATE & FOUNDATION SUPPORT

David Pollock Hugh & Mair Lewis Richard & Marcy Schwartz 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.

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ACTOR BIOS JOHN SAN NICOLAS Omar John is proud to be a Resident Artist at Artists Rep, where he has performed in A Civil War Christmas, Trevor, Grand Concourse, The Liar, The Invisible Hand, Exiles, The Motherfucker With the Hat and Jack Goes Boating.

Other credits include Twist Your Dickens: A Second City’s Christmas Carol and Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline at Portland Center Stage, Three Sisters with Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, A Noble Failure and The Pain and the Itch with Third Rail Repertory, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Bingo With the Indians with Portland Playhouse, Far Away with Shaking the Tree and Invasion! with Badass Theatre Co. He produced, directed and starred in the World Premiere production of Play by D.C. Copeland. He teaches scene study classes at Jana Lee Hamblin’s Act Now Studio and has appeared on the television shows Leverage and Portlandia. John will be starring as Sherlock Holmes in Clackamas Repertory Theatre’s upcoming production of Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville (opens June 30). John is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

KHANH DOAN Cindy Khanh is happy to be making her debut with Artists Rep. In Portland, she has also appeared in You For Me For You at Portland Playhouse and Redwood Curtain at Profile Theatre. She is based out of Seattle, where she’s performed in A Tale for the Time Being (Book-It Repertory Theatre); Ramayana and A Christmas Carol (A Contemporary Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Village Theatre); Miss Saigon (5th Avenue);

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Macbeth and Julius Caesar (Wooden 0); Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Seattle Children’s Theatre).

Khanh is a Core Company Member for A Contemporary Theatre’s 2017 season, where she will appear this Fall in King of the Yees and The Crucible. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

HEATH KOERSCHGEN Patrick Heath is extremely grateful to share the stage for the first time at Artists Rep. He was last seen as George Buckman in Flora & Ulysses at Oregon Children’s Theatre. He’s performed with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Vertigo, Lakewood Theatre, Portland Shakespeare Project, Jewish Theatre Collaborative, NWCT, Post5, Corrib Theatre and was nominated for a Portland Drammy Award for Best Actor in 2015 for The Seven Wonders of Ballyknock at Lakewood Theatre. His TV and film credits include Grimm and By God’s Grace. He holds a BFA in performance from Southern Oregon University. He would like to dedicate this work to his Mom, Clara and Nyx for their support, strength and unyielding love.

MADELEINE TRAN Dancer Cindy Maddie is ecstatic to be appearing at Artists Rep! She was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington but is currently going into her senior year at the University of Portland studying Music. In keeping with her lifelong appreciation for theatre, she has also been a part of the university’s theatre department, where she has been delighted to appear in Next to Normal, She Kills

CREATIVE BIOS Monsters and Good Kids, as well as other productions. She has also appeared with Mocks Crest Productions and hopes to continue performing in the Portland area both during and after the conclusion of her education. As the daughter of a Vietnamese immigrant, she is proud to be part of a production that brings the experience of immigrants and their children to light.

MICHÉL CASTILLO Young Omar Michél is a San Diego native, has lived in Portland, OR since 2011 and is honored to make his Artists Rep debut with this show! He has recently been seen in Swimming While Drowning at Milagro Theatre and American Idiot at triangle productions! and has performed in numerous plays, readings and workshops with other companies such as Staged!, Lakewood Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Oregon Children’s Theatre, and more. Michél would like to thank Jane Unger and Dámaso Rodríguez for this opportunity, this amazing cast and crew, as well as his family, and mentor Rodney Hicks. Michél has recently committed to the BFA musical theatre program at Boston Conservatory for the class of 2021.

LUAN SCHOOLER Dramaturg Luan honed her dramaturgy chops at Perseverance Theatre in Alaska, working with then-artistic director Molly Smith on new plays and devised works with wide-ranging artists including Paula Vogel, John Murrell, John Luther Adams and Darrah Cloud. As Literary Manager/Dramaturg for Berkeley Rep, she worked with many luminary writers, including David Edgar, Naomi Iizuka, Salman Rushdie, Dominique Serrand, Rinde Eckert and Robert Fagles, and astute directors Tony Taccone, Mark Wing-Davey, Stephen Wadsworth and Lisa Peterson, among others. She has also worked at Denver Center Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (where she is turging Lisa Peterson’s translation of Hamlet for OSF’s Play On! project), California Shakespeare Festival, A Traveling Jewish Theatre and Shaking the Tree. Luan joined Artists Rep in April 2015 to lead the new play development program, Table|Room|Stage, and has served as dramaturg on Feathers and Teeth, Marjorie Prime, A Civil War Christmas, American Hero, Trevor, The Miracle Worker, We Are Proud To Present… and The Skin of Our Teeth.

DANIEL MEEKER Scenic Designer Previously at Artists Rep, Daniel designed the scenery for Mothers and Sons, (I Am Still) The Duchess of Malfi and The Cherry Orchard. Current projects include Big Night Out, Cosi Fan Tutte, The Difficulty Crossing a Field and The Matchgirl Passion for Portland Opera; The Language Archive for Portland Playhouse; 26 Hours for Profile Theatre. Recent projects include Wild & Reckless and Lauren Weedman Doesn’t Live Here Anymore at The Armory; Women in Jeopardy at the Pioneer Theatre

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CREATIVE TEAM BIOS Company; How I Learned What I Learned and Peter and the Starcatcher at Portland Playhouse; James and the Giant Peach and Ramona Quimby for OCT; The How and The Why at CoHo; Eugene Onegin and L’italiana in Algeri for Portland Opera; lighting director for the Pickathon Festival.

Daniel is a graduate of Ithaca College and The Yale School of Drama, and a member of United Scenic Artists.

DARRIN J. PUFALL Costume Designer Recent and favorite theatrical productions include: Falsettos, The Rocky Horror Show, (Live on Stage, Portland, OR); Enchanted April, Shipwrecked! (Company of Fools, Hailey ID); Noises Off (The Idaho Shakespeare Festival); Mothers and Sons, The Monster-Builder, The Cherry Orchard, Gracie and the Atom, All My Sons, (Artists Repertory Theatre); Die Fledermaus, The Gondoliers, Yeomen of the Guard, The Mikado, A Little Night Music, The Pirates of Penzance (Mocks Crest Productions); Little Women, The Importance of Being Earnest, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Light in the Piazza (Boise State University); James Joyce’s The Dead, The Double Inconstancy (Reed College); Our Town, The Man of Mode, Waiting for Godot, Vincent in Brixton, Hello, Dolly!, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (University of Florida); the regional premiere of Avenue Q, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Funny Girl (Forestburgh Playhouse, Forestburgh, New York). Darrin holds an MFA in Costume Design and Technology from the University of Florida and currently serves as an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts/ Costume Design at Boise State University.

Darrin was recognized with a 2010 Portland Drammy Award and a Portland Area Musical Theatre Award (PAMTA) for his work on A Little Night Music (Mocks Crest Productions, 2009).

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KRISTEEN WILLIS CROSSER Lighting Designer Kristeen received her BA from Centre College in Danville, KY and received her MFA in lighting design from Wayne State University, Hilberry Company in Detroit, MI. Previously, she designed lights for several Artists Rep productions, including Feathers and Teeth, Marjorie Prime, American Hero, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Miracle Worker, The Understudy, Tribes, Foxfinder, The Cherry Orchard and Eurydice. She designed the set for We Are Proud To Present…, Broomstick, 4000 Miles and Foxfinder. She has designed scenery and/or lighting for several area theatres including Northwest Children Theatre’s Shrek The Musical; Profile Theatre’s True West and Master Harold And The Boys (2013 Drammy) and Thief River; CoHo Production’s Frankie And Johnny In The Clair De Lune and The Outgoing Tide; Miracle Theatre’s Oedipus El Rey (2012 Drammy); and Third Rail Repertory Theatre’s The Aliens, A Bright New Boise (2014 Drammy) and Gideon’s Knot (2014 Drammy). As always, she is grateful to her husband, Mike, for all of his love and support.

RODOLFO ORTEGA Composer/Sound Designer Rodolfo received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the University of Arizona and his Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music where he studied piano and composition. As a Resident Artist at Artists Rep, Rodolfo has composed music and designed sound for dozens of productions over the years including this season’s productions of Trevor and Feathers and Teeth. Additionally he has composed several musicals for Northwest

Children’s Theater including Hansel And Gretel, Snow White, Pinocchio, El Zorrito, Little Mermaid and Peter Pan. Rodolfo has also composed the scores for The MonsterBuilder at Aurora Theater, Tenth Muse for OSF, and Romeo And Juliet and Three Musketeers for Denver Center. He has also composed many of the productions at Santa Cruz Shakespeare where he is the Associate Artist in Composition, including their recent productions of Hamlet, Macbeth, Midsummer Night’s Dream and Henry The Fourth Part One and Part Two.

SARAH JANE HARDY Choreographer Sarah Jane Hardy is the Artistic Director for Northwest Children’s Theater in Portland. Recently, Sarah Jane directed Mary Poppins which received seven Drammy Awards including Best Director

of a Musical, Best Choreographer and Best Production of a Musical; and six Portland Area Musical Theatre Awards including Outstanding Director and Outstanding Production. Other recent NWCT directing and choreographing credits include the world premieres of The Tail of Sleeping Beauty with Puppets!, Sherlock Holmes, The Jungle Book, Cinderella, El Zorrito, Rapunzel Uncut, Snow White, Robin Hood, Pinocchio, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Alice in Wonderland and Hansel and Gretel; as well as Elephant & Piggie’s “We’re in a Play” James and the Giant Peach, Seussical (2005/2012), Willy Wonka, Go, Dog. Go!, Annie, Narnia (2010, 2004), Goodnight Moon, The Wizard of Oz, The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, Crazy for You, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and more. Other Portland work includes directing The Lesser Magoo for defunkt

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CREATIVE TEAM BIOS CONTINUED theatre (for which she received a Drammy) and The Secret Garden for Staged! As a 2017 recipient of Theater for Young Audience’s Ann Shaw Fellowship, Sarah Jane traveled to Indonesia to study under Balinese shadow puppet master I Made Sadia.

JONATHAN COLE Fight Choreographer Jonathan has worked throughout the Northwest as a director, actor and fight director, and is a tenured faculty member of the Theatre Department at Willamette University. He is one of two Society of American Fight Directors Certified Teachers of stage combat in Oregon, and co-owns Revenge Arts, one of the largest stage combat consortiums in the United States. His choreography is most often seen on Artists Rep’s stage, where he recently choreographed fights for Feathers and Teeth, American Hero, Trevor, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Miracle Worker, The Liar, Exiles and The Playboy Of The Western World. Jonathan’s choreography has also been seen at Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Portland Shakespeare Project, Clackamas Repertory Theatre and Profile Theatre.

KAYE BLANKENSHIP

(Third Rail), Ramona Quimby (Oregon Children’s Theatre), Snowstorm (CoHo), In The Next Room (Profile Theatre), and Waxwing with String House Theatre, where she is also a founding member.

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, television and stage. She also works as a voice actor, on-camera actor, stage actor and director. The Talented Ones is MaryMac’s 28th 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. Mary holds her MFA in Directing from the University of Portland. MaryMac loves what she does, and she thanks Finnegan, Sullivan and Flynn for always wagging their tails when she comes home. www.marymac.com

Props Master

MICHELLE JAZUK

Kaye is a props, scenic, and lighting designer originally hailing from Sammamish, Washington. She earned her BA in theatre from Lewis & Clark College.

After a year working in New York, she is back in Portland and excited to work with Artists Rep again after previously designing props for American Hero and Marjorie Prime. Favorite past shows include The Antigone Project (Profile), Annapurna (Third Rail), Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Live (Mills Entertainment), A Winter’s Tale (Anon It Moves), Static

Stage Manager

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As a stage manager in Portland theatre for more than a decade, it has been Michelle’s pleasure to collaborate with several companies. She has worked with Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Broadway Rose Theatre, Theatre Vertigo, Staged!, and also, Third Rail Repertory.

However, her usual home was always with Artists Rep where some of her favorite projects include Cuba Libre, Tribes, The

Big Meal, Ten Chimneys, God of Carnage, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, All My Sons, House, Garden, Orson’s Shadow and Theatre District. She is also proud to recognize her time with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where she was a Stage Management Intern where some of her favorite projects included Metamorphoses, One, Drawer Boy, Sing Hallelujah! and Always Patsy Cline. She is lovingly appreciative of the continued support from her family. Chelle is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

and Publishing. Recent credits include The Angry Brigade (SM) at Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (PA) with Profile Theatre, Upside Down: A Musical Tale After The Christ (SM) with the Upside Down Theater Company, and To Kill A Mockingbird, Blues For Mister Charlie, The Heidi Chronicles and Julius Caesar (SM Intern) at Trinity Repertory Company.

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ESTHER MCFADEN Production Assistant Esther is excited to be back at Artists Rep after working on Trevor and The Skin of Our Teeth. She is a graduate of Emerson College with a BFA in Stage & Production and BA in Writing, Literature

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STAFF Artistic Director: Dámaso Rodríguez

DEVELOPMENT

Managing Director: Sarah Horton

Development Director: Sarah Taylor

ARTISTIC

Annual Fund & Events Manager: Kisha Jarrett

Artistic Producer: Shawn Lee

PRODUCTION

Associate Producer: Kristeen Willis Crosser

Production Manager: Kristeen Willis Crosser

Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy: Luan Schooler

Company Manager & Casting Associate: Vonessa Martin

ArtsHub Director: Jerry Tischleder

Operations & Sound Technician: David Peterson

Artistic Directing Fellow: Josh Rippy

Resident Stage Managers: Michelle Jazuk, Carol Ann Wohlmut

Resident Artists: Linda Alper, Ayanna Berkshire, Bobby Brewer-Wallin, 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

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 Michele Bowler-Failing Denise Frisbee Andrew Glass Blake Johnson Susanne Kuhn Michael Parsons Pancho Savery Andrea Schmidt Elisa Wickstrom

Music Events Specialist: Susannah Mars Audience Services Director: Karen Rathje Assistant Audience Services Manager: Christina DeYoung

FOR THIS PRODUCTION

Box Office Manager: Jon Younkin

Scenic Artists: Kelly Tobuko, Emily Wilken

Box Office Associates: Jessica Hillenbrand, Jack Ridenour

Carpenters: Ben Serreau-Raskin, Connor Stava, Charlie Capps

House Managers: Deborah Gangwer, Karl Hanover, Valerie Liptak, Tara McMahon, Miranda Russ

Electricians: Zahara Garrett, Duncan Lynch, Corey McCarey, Kelly Terry

Concessions: Geraldine Gladden, Paul Jacobs, Jennifer Zubernick

Wardrobe: Will Bailey

Video Designer: ShutterSky Pictures

Costumer: Clare Hungate-Hawk

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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 March 20, 2016 and March 21, 2017. Join this cast of characters with a gift today. Call Sarah Taylor at 503.972.3017 or visit www.artistsrep.org.

GAME CHANGERS ($100,000+) Anonymous Robert & Mercedes Eichholz Foundation James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation Renaissance Foundation The Estate of David E. Wedge VISIONARIES ($50,000–$99,999) Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Ronni Lacroute/ WillaKenzie Estate Meyer Memorial Trust The Regional Arts & Culture Council, including support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County and the Arts Education & Access Fund Theatre Communications Group David & Christine Vernier PRODUCERS ($25,000–$49,999) The Collins Foundation Roy & Diane Marvin Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation The Oregon Community Foundation The Shubert Foundation William Swindells PATRONS ($10,000–$24,999) Anonymous (2) Julia & Robert S. Ball The Boeing Company Ginger Carroll in memory of J. Michael Carroll Marcia Darm MD & Bruce Berning Andrew & Eva Glass The Kinsman Foundation The Estate of Jean B. O’Neill Rafati’s Catering Marcy & Richard Schwartz John & Jan Swanson Work for Art, including contributions from more than 75 companies and 2,000 employees

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STAGEMAKERS ($5,000–$9,999) Anonymous (2) Mike Barr Karl & Linda Boekelheide Jeffrey G. Condit Robert & Janet Conklin Dark Horse Wine Margaret Dixon Denise & Robert Frisbee Patricia & Bennett Garner Tom Gifford & Patti Fisher Mark Horn & Mark Wilkinson Hotel deLuxe Intel Matching Gift Program 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 Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust Charlotte Rubin Standard Insurance Company Bill & Cornie Stevens Straub Collaborative Ed & Rosalie Tank US Bank Foundation OCF Joseph E. Weston Public Foundation DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($2,500–$4,999) Anonymous (2) Molly Butler & Robin Manning The Commerce Bank of Oregon Stephen Fuller Diane Herrmann Cody Hoesly & Kirsten Collins The Jackson Foundation Drs. Dolores & Fernando Leon Mark Spencer Hotel Bob & Linda Palandech Kay Parr Michael Parsons & Katelyn Randall Lorraine Prince

Alan Purdy Charlie & Miriam Rosenthal Steve & Trudy Sargent Drea Schmidt & Emilee Preble James G. & Michele L. Stemler Lora & Andy Woodruff

BACKSTAGE PASS ($1,000–$2,499) Anonymous (2) Kip Acheson & Elizabeth Carr Carole Alexander Ruth Alexander Rachael & Scott Anderson Phyllis Arnoff Asplund Tooze Foundation Bruce Blank & Janice Casey Nita Brueggeman Denise Carty & Roger Brown Family Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Cathedral Park Place Richard & Nancy Chapman Michael & Lynne Chartier Nathan Cogan Family Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation Allison Couch & Tom Soals Susan Dietz Betty & Richard Duvall Marc Franklin & Mary Lou Moriarty Carol Fredlund & John Betonte Free Geek Dan Gibbs & Lois Seed Bob Hanson & Paula Brown Curtis Hanson Pam Henderson & Allen Wasserman Higgins Restaurant Dr. Kathleen P. Holahan Robert Holub Jessie Jonas Bruce & Cathy Kuehnl Susanne Dziepak Kuhn Leslie R. Labbe Kirsten & Christopher Leonard Jim & Eva MacLowry

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SUPERSTARS ($500–$999) Anonymous (2) Kirby & Amelia Allen Cheryl Balkenhol Patsy Crayton Berner Leslie & Richard Bertellotti Earle & Kathleen Bevins Lesley Bombardier Douglas Campbell Cecile Carpenter Charles & Barbara Carpenter Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation Marie-Jose & Martyn Corden

Jim & Vicki Currie Edward & Karen Demko Cheri Emahiser Leslye Epstein & Herman Taylor Peg & John Espie Sharon M. Fekety Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Vladimir Fiks Kyle & Charles Fuchs Don & Judy Fuller David Giramma & Carrie Hooten Susan & Dean Gisvold Penny & Alan Greenwood Richard L. Hay Kirk Hirschfeld Mike & Judy Holman Sarah & Alan Horton Douglas & PJ Jones Judith & Gregory Kafoury Beth & Chris Karlin Keeton Corporation Carol Kimball PJ Kleffner Jody Klevit Live Wire Radio Leonard & Susan Magazine Kathleen McCarthy & Steve Scherr, in honor of Sarah Lucht & Don Alder Dan McKenzie

Andy C. McNiece & Nancy L. Haigwood Robert & Jessica McVay Dolores & Michael Moore Don & Connie Morgan Katherine Moss Chris & Tom Neilsen Robert & Melinda Newell Barry & Jane Newman David & Anne Noall Kristine Olson Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Ted Olson & Linda Nelson, In Loving Memory of Madeline Nelson Alfred & Eileen Ono Olliemay Phillips Bernie & Pamela Pliska John Ragno Brennan P. Randel Scott & Kay Reichlin Mary & Mark Roberts Dámaso Rodríguez & Sara Hennessy Marilynn & Richard Rytting Meredith Savery Dianne Sawyer & Pete Petersen The Carol Schnitzer Lewis Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation

Wayne D. Schweinfest Peter & Jeanette Scott Ursula Scriven Jinny Shipman & Dick Kaiser Elizabeth Siegel Nick & Sandra Snell Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Darsee Staley & Dave Linder Scott Stephens & Leslie Houston Wendy Sternberg & Winhard Bohme Greg & Martha Struxness Donald & Roslyn Sutherland Paul Thompson & Portia Sipes Karen Whitaker Pam Whyte & Ron Saylor Cynthia Yee

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OUR SUPPORTERS CONTINUED Leslie Homer Lynnette & Don Houghton Lois Hrella Gary & Joy Hunt Nancy & Marlin Icenogle Joni & Bill Isaacson Janice Isenberg Marianne KeddingtonLang & William Lang Edward & Elaine Kemp Karen Kemper Sally & Lucien Klein Carol & Jeff Kilmer Leslie Kolisch & Roland Haertl Bill & Shelley Larkins Kelly & Brenda Lawrence Joy & Roger Leo Peter & Janice Linsky Dorothy Lyman John Lynch Sheila Mahan Linda & Ken Mantel Earlean Marsh Meg McGill & Mark Ramsby Ruth Medak Bob Mensel Judy & Steven Miller David & Anne Munro Evelyn & Tom Murphy Pacific Power Matching Gift Program

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Senator Bob Packwood Ron & Shirley Pausig Karen & John Rathje Helen Richardson & Don Hayner Vern Rifer Rebecca Ross Darrell Salk & Tricia Knoll Erika Schuster & Clay Biberdorf Mary Ann Seth-Wish & John Wish Jon & Ann Sinclair H. Joe Story David & Rosemarie Sweet John & Sandra Swinmurn Diane Taylor Sarah & Robert Taylor Chris Ullom Barbara Van Fleet Tony & Gail Vander Heide Anthony Wilcox Carl Wilson & Evan Boone Helen Youngelson-Neal Alan & Janet Zell

FRIENDS ($100–$249) Anonymous (4) John Ahlen & Don Main Michael Allen & Anne Schagen Thomas Robert Anderson

Andina Restaurant Kristin Angell Ruby Apsler Ernest & Tina Argetsinger Herman Asarnow & Susan Baillet Arlene Aschraft Nancy Ashton Ruth Beiser Bach Susan Bach & Douglas Egan Dale Bajema & Diana Coleman Ann Balzell & Joe Marrone, in memory of Deforest Arn Piper Linda Barnes & Robert Vanderwerf Zemie Barr George Bateman Mary Beach Alan & Sherry Bennett Suzanne Benton Pamela Berg Catherine Blosser Joe Blount Teresa & James Bradshaw James Breedlove Peggy Bromley Gerry & Nancy Brown Jim Brunke Lauretta Burman Marlene Burns & Jon Dickinson

Thomas A. Burns Alana & Grant Byington Don Caniparoli Janis & Dunbar Carpenter Michael Carter & Teresa Ferrer Jean Carufo & Barbara Engelter Tom & Anne Caruso Chamber Music Northwest Lou & John Chapman Russ & Mary Chapman Julie Child Bradley Coffey Ilaine Cohen CoHo Productions Rick & Jean Collins Leslie & Alan Comnes Anne Conway & Louis Baslaw Abigail & Michael Corbet Harriet Cormack Marilyn Couch Fran & Roddy Daggett Ann Dart & Ralph Beaumont Elaine & Earl Davis Marvin & Abby Dawson Barbara & George Dechet Carolyn DeLany-Reif Jewel Derin Elaine & Bill Deutschman Diana Dorney

Ed Doyle & Judy Posey Anne Driscoll The Ellermeiers Laury Ellis & Kathy Fode Kathleen Flynn Heidi Franklin Patricia Frobes & Richard Smith Kay Gage & Ketan Sampat John & Chris Gardner Andy Ginsburg & Danielle L. Erb Linda Gipe Melissa & Bob Good Gretta Grimala Candace Haines John Hall & Jean Jensen Hall Dick Hamlet & Corinne McWilliams John & Judie Hammerstad Gail & Irvin Handelman Ulrich Hardt Kimberly Harrison Meredith Hartley & Jeremiah Pyle Brian Hefele Thomas Hellie & Julie Olds Charles & Margaret Hickman Mary Higgins Barbara Holisky & Gary McDonald Laurie Holland John & Judy Hubbard Carol & T.A. Hull Deborah Indihar Constance Jackson & Xavier Le Héricy Katharine Jansen Betsy & Jerold Jeronen Colleen & Jeff Johnson Phyllis Johnson Erika & Tom Kane Ron & Ruth Katon Nancy G. Kennaway Heather Kientz Doris & Eric Kimmel Larry King & Daniel Hutchison Frederick Kirchhoff Anneliese Knapp Tom & Judy Kovaric Norman Krasne Gary & Martha Kruger Louise Kurzet Ted Labbe & Kelly Rogers Robert & Helen Ladarre Barbara LaMack Elyse & Ron Laster Kelly & Brenda Lawrence Mary Lawrence Mark J. Lee Richard Lewis & Meg Larson Scott Lewis Literary Arts Little Red’s Bakeshop Ralph London Leslie Louderback Henry C. Louderbough Una Loughran

Steve Lovett Jane Luddecke & Robert Anderson Dr. Christine Mackert John & Renee Manson Joann Marks Susannah Mars & Gary Johnson Ms. Nancy Matthews Robert McAdams Anne & Kathy McLaughlin Kathy McLaughlin Katie McRae Cynthia Meduri Deb & Erich Meihoff Mariellen Meisel Linda Meng Libby & Miles Merwin Monique’s Boutique Nancy & Art Moss Multnomah Whiskey Library Patricia Oldham Joan Oramas Oregon Ballet Theatre Nancy Park Katherine Patricelli & Dennis Reichelt Jan & Bill Perry Marilyn & Gaynor Petrequin Pierre & Linda Pham Kevin Phaup Donna Philbrick Scott Phinney & Mona Clair Sue Pickgrobe & Mike Hoffman Roger Porter Terrance & Barbara Porter Portland Baroque Orchestra Dee Poujade The Qualls Family Charitable Fund Carole Quick Ana Quinn Sharon Ralston Jay & Barbara Ramaker Edward & Kara Lynn Rankin Dick & Linda Reedy Betty & Jacob Reiss Bob & Marilyn Ridgley Mark Rittenbaum Rebecca Robinson, In memory of Gary D. Robinson Charles & Judith Rooks Ms. Cara Rozell Jane Sage John T. Sarr Curtis Schade Sheldon & Jean Schiager Jean Scott & Myrth Ogilvie David & Frances Sessions Mary & KC Shaw Laurel & Dan Simmons Constance Smith Judy Snider Karen & E. Smith Neil Soiffer & Carolyn Smith

Marc Stein Robert & Veronika Stein Kathleen & Leigh Stephenson-Kuhn Milan & Jean Stoyanov Pat & Larry Strausbaugh Scott Stuart & Brenda Meltebeke Gary Taliaferro Roberta Taussig Bahram & Susan Tavakolian Leslie Taylor & Doug Beers Tektronix Matching Gift Program Robert Thinnes Margaret Thompson Marilee Thompson Tracy Thornton Steve & Linda Tubbs Roberta & Ward Upson Kaye Van Valkenburg

David & Julie Verburg Pamela Vohnson & David Streight Sue & Jim Walcutt George Waldmann Marilyn Walkey & Mike McClain Judi & J. Wandres Janet F. Warrington Laura Watson Robert & Ann Watt Mike & Linda Wells Ann Werner Victoria Wetle Walt & Kim Weyler Karen Whitman & Brad Shiley Pat & Frank Wilson Carol Ann & Patrick Wohlmut John & Pat Zagelow Kurt & Heather Zimmer

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STARTS MAY 16 • TICKETS ON SALE NOW An all-female, all-star Portland cast leads this production of Oscar Wilde’s magnificent 19th Century comedy of manners and social status. Lovely Gwendolyn and adorable Cecily don’t care who they marry as long as his name is Earnest (so manly and respectable!). Jack and Algernon are utterly smitten and only too happy to ditch their given names to bamboozle their way into the ladies’ hearts.

Imperious Lady Bracknell is aghast, agog and practically apoplectic, but her efforts to impose propriety prove useless against Cupid’s earnest truth. High jinx, bon mots and cucumber sandwiches are served.