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UPLIFTING FAMILY CLASSIC

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A Message from Artistic Director and Director of The Miracle Worker, Dámaso Rodriguez “Who’s that?

I hear you in the darkness there.”

–The Witch in John Biguenet’s Broomstick “…what is she without words? With them she can think, have ideas, be reached, there’s not a thought or fact in the world that can’t be hers.”

– Annie Sullivan in William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker THANKS FOR JOINING US TODAY! WE ARE FINISHING UP OUR 2015 SHOWS WITH A PAIR OF PLAYS— ONE NEW AND ONE FAMILIAR— THAT REPRESENT THE WIDE RANGE OF WORK YOU CAN ALWAYS EXPECT FROM US AT ARTISTS REP.

On our Morrison Stage, you’ll experience the Northwest premiere of Broomstick, an intimate conversation with a mysterious old woman who just may be a witch. John Biguenet’s acclaimed and widely-produced new work is more than seasonal Halloween fare or a solo piece. It’s a complex character study, confessional and storytelling tour-de-force; funny, chilling and ultimately moving. Pay close attention to his artful, subtle use of iambic pentameter and rhyming couplets. To this compelling theatrical potion, add the extraordinary presence of Vana O’Brien—a Portland theatre icon and Artists Rep cofounder—and an unforgettable night of intimate, provocative theatre is served.

Running on our Alder Stage, amidst the yearend holiday rush, is William Gibson’s Tony and Academy Award-winning classic, The Miracle Worker. Why stage The Miracle Worker in place of Christmas or holiday-related fare? This miraculous and true tale of hope, redemption and triumph is exactly in line with the spirit of the season, while being a story that believers (and non-believers) of any faith can share with loved ones of almost any age. Our production of The Miracle Worker features a remarkable cast and creative team of some of Portland’s finest professionals and continues our long-time commitment to staging first-class productions of classics alongside the best new, contemporary writing. I hope you’ll find Gibson’s account of Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller as surprisingly fresh as I did while working to tell this inspiring, ever-powerful story.

On behalf of all of us at Artists Rep, I wish you a happy holiday season!

Until next year,

Dámaso Rodriguez

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BY JOHN BIGUENET

DIRECTED BY GEMMA WHELAN***

DÁMASO RODRIGUEZ, Artistic Director SARAH HORTON, Managing Director

The 2015/16 Artists Repertory Theatre season is presented by:

CAST Witch......................................................................Vana O’Brien^* Understudy to Vana O’Brien................................Sarah Lucht^*

CREATIVE TEAM Director..................................................................Gemma Whelan*** Scenic Designer.....................................................Kristeen Willis Crosser^ Lighting Designer..................................................Carl Faber** Costume Designer.................................................Gregory Pulver^ Composer/Sound Designer...................................Rodolfo Ortega^ Properties Master..................................................Amy Katrina Bryan Dialect Coach.........................................................Mary McDonald-Lewis Hair and Makeup Designer..................................Ashley Hardy Fiber Artist.............................................................K. Franklin Porter

David & Christine Vernier

SEASON MEDIA SPONSORS

STAGE MANAGEMENT & CREW Resident Production Stage Manager...................Carol Ann Wohlmut* Production Assistant.............................................Jessica Evans Irvine Board Op................................................................Jason Coffey

SEASON SPONSORS

THIS PRODUCTION RUNS APPROXIMATELY 90 MINUTES WITH NO INTERMISSION. Broomstick was first produced in a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by New Jersey Repertory Company (Long Branch, NJ), Montana Repertory Theatre (Missoula, MT), and Southern Repertory Theatre (New Orleans, LA) with support from the National New Play Network’s Continued Life of New Plays Fund.

Permission granted by Abrams Artists Agency, 275 Seventh Ave, 26th Floor, New York, NY, 10001.

Photo, video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited.

ARTISTS REP’S MISSION is to engage diverse audiences in fresh, thought-provoking and intimate theatre.

We are committed to world-class acting, directing, design and stagecraft that support new playwriting and aspire to embody great literature, moving audiences to truly feel—to experience—storytelling in a way that only the best live theatre can.

* 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 ** The lighting designer of Broomstick is represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE. ***Stage Directors and Choreographers Society ^ Artists Repertory Theatre Resident Artist

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SPECIAL THANKS:

Patrick Wohlmut, Mike, Eleanor, Maureen and Leon O’Brien, Robert Riley, Victoria King, Wendy Westerwelle, and Portland Piano Company

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

A Note from Broomstick Director GEMMA WHELAN “...there comes a time for everyone when what you feared the most when you were young returns to haunt your life in other forms…”

–Broomstick The Witch in Broomstick could be a character in a Shakespeare play who conjures up storms by the strength of her passion. She could have sprung from the imagination of the Brothers Grimm. She could be one of the myriad women in history who were drowned or burned at the stake for being too powerful, too close to nature, having some perceived flaw like a wart or a birthmark, or simply for being old.

Our Witch is there as long as people seek her out, as long as people do wrong— lie, cheat, murder—and expect no consequences.

We’re so glad you ventured here, to the cottage deep in the dark woods. We’re so happy you came to pass some time, or maybe you’ll stay on. Your choice of course…

PLAYWRIGHT JOHN BIGUENET Playwright Biguenet is an American author, columnist and playwright. His play The Vulgar Soul won the 2004 Southern New Plays Festival and was a featured production in 2005 at Southern Rep Theatre; he and the play were profiled in American Theatre magazine.

Rising Water was the winner of the 2006 National New Play Network Commission Award, a 2006 National Showcase of New Plays selection, and a 2007 recipient of an Access to Artistic Excellence development and production grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the 2007 Big Easy Theatre Award for Best Original Play. Shotgun, the second play in his Rising Water trilogy, premiered in 2009 at Southern Rep Theatre, with subsequent productions at Orlando Shakespeare Theater and Florida Studio Theatre, both in 2010, and other theaters; it won a 2009 National New Play Network Continued Life of New Plays Fund Award and was a 2009 recipient of an Access to Artistic Excellence development and production grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Shotgun is published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Mold, premiering at Southern Rep Theatre in 2013, completed his trilogy of plays about the flooding of New Orleans. The trilogy has had over 25 productions and readings around the country and been the subject of

articles in American Theatre, The American Scholar, and elsewhere; it will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 2015. He was awarded a Marquette Fellowship for the writing of Night Train, which he developed on a Studio Attachment at the National Theatre in London and which premiered at New Jersey Rep Company in 2011. After performances at five new-play festivals and reading series, Broomstick won a National New Play Network Continued Life of New Plays Fund Award, premiering in an extended run at New Jersey Repertory Company in 2013 and going on to be produced at Montana Repertory Theatre, Southern Rep Theatre, Fountain Theatre (Los Angeles) and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey in 2014. In 2008, Biguenet was named “Theatre Person of the Year” at the Big Easy Theatre Awards, the region’s major professional theatre awards. He received the Louisiana Writer Award, the state’s highest literary honor, in 2012.

He has served as a the first guest columnist for The New York Times since 2005, when he chronicled Hurricane Katrina from his native New Orleans and detailed the city’s reconstruction process. Having served twice as president of the American Literary Translators Association and as writer-inresidence at various universities, he is currently the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans.

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DIRECTOR GEMMA WHELAN Director Gemma is very happy to return to Artists Rep, where she previously directed the world premiere of Ithaka by Andrea Stolowitz. She is the founding Artistic Director of Corrib Theatre. For Corrib she has directed Little Gem by Elaine Murphy, The Hen Night Epiphany

by Jimmy Murphy, St. Nicholas by Conor McPherson and A Night in November

by Marie Jones (Drammy nomination for Direction, Drammy award for Solo Performance). In Portland she also directed Words that Burn by Cindy Williams Guttierez for Los Porteños at Milagro Theatre as well as at Profile, CoHo, Boom Arts and JAW. She was the founding Artistic Director of Wilde Irish Productions in the San Francisco Bay Area. For Wilde Irish: Michael Mac Liammoir’s The Importance of Being Oscar (Dean Goodman Award for Direction, Dean Goodman Award for Solo Performance), the U.S. premiere of Ariel by Marina Carr, Frank McGuinness’ Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. Other favorites: Jane Chamber’s Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (Cable Car Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Directing) and Eileen Atkin’s Vita and Virginia (Curve Magazine, Best Theatre of the Year Award), both at Theatre Rhinoceros; Tom Kempinski’s Duet for One (Zephyr Theatre), Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls (Phoenix Theatre) and Equus by Peter Schaffer (Little Theatre Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Directing).

Gemma received the Gerald Duff Award for Continuing Contribution to Theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Educational credits include Mills College (Chair, Drama Dept), UC Berkeley, American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, Portland Actors Conservatory, Portland State University, Literary Arts (Delve), Pacific University, Willamette University and Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Singapore). She is an award-winning filmmaker and a published novelist. BA Trinity College Dublin, MA Theatre UC Berkeley, MFA Cinema, San Francisco State University.

Member SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society). www.gemmawhelan.com

WHAT MAKES A WITCH?

BY LUAN SCHOOLER Director of New Play Development and Dramaturgy

The scene is set...

Throughout recorded history, the belief in witchcraft and fear of witches has held powerful sway in the human psyche.

From Old Testament admonitions against sorcery, to fairytales where children are murdered by wicked hags, to American Horror Story: Coven that titillates with its brew of sexy horror, our fascination has a long cultural history.

Who are the witches? We have two primary resources for understanding them historically: records of the centuries of witch hunts in Europe and America, and fairytales from around the world.

Propelled by Catholics, Protestants, ecclesiastical and secular courts alike, the trials and executions for practicing witchcraft took up to a million lives, mostly in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Although men and children were also among the victims, the vast majority were poor women, generally older and disproportionately widows. Published in 1487, the Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches) codified the beliefs of witches and their powers, and also offered guidelines on how they should be interrogated in order to elicit true confessions.

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Women, according to the Malleus, were credulous, carnal and deceitful beings who could easily succumb to evil. Patriarchal beliefs at the time also meant that women in general were considered mentally, physically and spiritually weak. Strong, intelligent women were an anomaly. Witches were women with secret knowledge, hidden ambitions, dangerous sexuality and access to powerful spells– clearly a threat to society and every man’s soul.

Interestingly, the property of accused witches was often awarded to either the accuser or the Church after sentencing —a conflict of interest that wasn’t considered problematic.

The witches of fairy tales have much in common with the women we see persecuted in historical records. They

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tend to feature old women—ugly hags who live deep in the woods, ready to lure the young and pure to their tasty death. Filled with uncanny knowledge and dreadful powers, witches choose to live on the fringe where civilization gives way to sinister darkness and chaos.

Although there are a few good witches in fairy tales (like Glinda the Good Witch of The Wizard of Oz), the vast majority are wicked: cruel, cannibalistic, unlovable and crazed by jealousy.

In Hansel & Gretel, the witch’s bread and sugar house lures two hungry children into her trap. (It’s worth noting that—at the behest of their stepmother—their father took the children deep into the woods and left them to be eaten by beasts. Evil stepmothers and wicked witches are often paired in these tales.)

Once inside the witch’s home, the girl is forced to do chores while the boy is caged and fattened up so the witch can eat him for dinner. Fortunately, the girl is clever. She tricks the witch into climbing in the oven and rescues her brother while the “old woman was burned up, miserably.”

Witches today, especially in Europe and North America, have quite a different character. Generally, they are part of NeoPagan or Wiccan spiritual movements that worship preChristian gods and goddesses, and endeavor to respect the sacredness of nature. While they do cultivate knowledge and skills to harness the forces of nature through rituals (like casting spells), today’s witches are committed to using their talents for healing, community and enhancing the richness of life.

Wicca is an acknowledged religion today, and representatives of the Covenant of the Goddess (“the world’s largest religious organization for Neo-Pagan Witches”) have participated in the Parliament of the World’s Religions since 1993. There, with their colleagues from many other religions, they “seek peace, justice and sustainability, and commit to work for a better world.” Rather different from putting little children into the stew!

CREATIVE BIOS

BIOS VANA O’BRIEN

KRISTEEN WILLIS CROSSER

Witch Vana has been involved with Artists Rep since 1981, when she and a small group of fellow theatre artists started the new company in the Portland YWCA. Since that time, she has worked on several different Portland stages and seen Artists Rep grow to its current size and well-respected status. Favorite Artists Rep productions include Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All For You, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Top Girls, Mound Builders, Country Girl, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, Artificial Jungle, The Laramie Project, A Perfect Ganesh, Superior Donuts and The Big Meal. In other Portland theatres, some memorable roles for Vana are in Greek, Faith Healer, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Seagull, Noises Off and particularly the play she and her daughter, Eleanor, performed together at CoHo Theatre: Collected Stories.

Vana joined Artists Rep’s Southeast Asia Arts America tours in 1991 and 1994 performing in Driving Miss Daisy, The World of Carl Sandburg, Three Tall Women and scenes from American comedies. Vana is a Resident Artist at Artists Rep and a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

SARAH LUCHT Understudy to Vana O’Brien is honored to serve as Ms. O’Brien’s understudy. She and Vana have worked together in numerous productions, including here at Artists Rep: The Artificial Jungle, Present Laughter, String of Pearls and Design for Living. Other Artists Rep credits include Enchanted April, Dinner With Friends, Distracted, Othello, And So It Goes and Ten Chimneys. Other favorite roles include Masha in The Seagull (Cygnet Productions), Dotty and Belinda in Noises Off (over the years at Lakewood Theatre) and Bananas in House of Blue Leaves (Profile Theatre). Sarah is a Resident Artist at Artists Rep and teaches and leads acting workshops in the Northwest and in Canada. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Scenic 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 The Understudy, Blithe Spirit, Tribes, The Invisible Hand, The Playboy of the Western World, The Monster-Builder, Foxfinder, Ten Chimneys, Red Herring, And So It Goes…, The Cherry Orchard and Eurydice. She designed the set for 4000 Miles and Foxfinder. She has designed scenery and/or lighting for several area theatres including Northwest Children Theatre’s Peter Pan, Willy Wonka and Pinocchio; Profile Theatre’s True West, My Children, My Africa, 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 Mariela in the Desert and 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). Kristeen is a Resident Artist at Artists Rep. As always, she is grateful to her husband, Mike, for all of his love and support.

CARL FABER Lighting Designer Carl is thrilled to be back at Artists Rep for the 2015/16 season, after designing last year’s 4000 Miles and The Price.

Other recent credits include Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Profile Theatre), Mary Poppins (NWCT, PAMTA nomination), Trouble in Mind (Arena Stage), Wilderness (Uferstudios, Berlin), The Experiment (Boston Institute of Contemporary Art) and Brother Brother (Theater Freiburg, EU/US Tour). Carl is a Founding Member and Resident Designer for the NYC-based Woodshed Collective, where he has designed numerous immersive productions. He has toured with indie rock acts Bon Iver and The National, served as Grounds Lighting Designer at the 2015 Eaux

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Claires Music Festival in Eau Claire, WI created by Justin Vernon, and was the Lighting Supervisor at the Williamstown Theatre Festival from 2008-2009 (Artistic Director, Nicholas Martin). He assisted Tony-award winning designer Brian MacDevitt on the Broadway and Touring productions of The Book of Mormon, and has numerous Broadway assisting/associate credits, including Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, August: Osage County and Dividing the Estate.

He attended The Catlin Gabel School here in Portland and holds a BA in Drama from Vassar College where he was the recipient of the Kazan Prize for Excellence. Member: United Scenic Artists Local USA-829. Upcoming: Grand Concourse (Artists Rep), The Realistic Joneses (Third Rail), Orlando (Profile Theatre). www.carlfaber.com.

GREGORY PULVER Costume Designer Gregory is thrilled to be a Resident Artist here at Artists Rep and working with such a talented team on Broomstick! Other Artists Rep designs include Cuba Libre, Tribes, Foxfinder, Red Herring, God of Carnage and Design For Living. Gregory is currently Theater Program Director and Associate Professor of costume design, makeup and choreography for the University of Portland Drama Department and previously was Associate Professor of Costume Design at Western Washington University for 12 years. Mr. Pulver holds an MFA in costume design and choreography from Humboldt State University, CA. He is the 1993 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Costume Design Winner for his work on The Threepenny Opera. He is a member of the international board of advisors for The Last Frontier Theatre Conference and participates yearly as a guest artist, mentoring new American playwrights.

Among designing both sets and costumes for Bag&Baggage Theatre and costumes for Broadway Rose Theatre, Gregory has also designed for several short films and TV spots in Washington including a dance-for-the camera film.

Gregory is also an accomplished director, singer, actor and dog owner.

CREATIVE BIOS RODOLFO ORTEGA Composer & Sound Designer Rodolfo Ortega 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. He has composed music and designed sound for the recent productions of Artist Repertory Theatre’s The Understudy, The Liar, 4000 Miles, Blithe Spirit, Exiles and Intimate Apparel. For Profile Theatre Company, his credits include designing the music for A Lesson Before Dying, Lips Together Teeth Apart and Master Harold and the Boys. Additionally he has composed several musicals for Northwest Children’s Theatre including Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Pinocchio, El Zorrito, Little Mermaid and Peter Pan. He has composed many productions at Miracle Theatre including Lorca in a Green Dress, Adriente Paciencia and Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue. Rodolfo has also composed the scores for Oregon Children’s Theatre’s production of Charlotte’s Web, Tuck Everlasting, BFG, Holes and Cyrano. 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 Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Man in the Iron Mask and Henry the Fourth Part One and Part Two. Additionally he has composed the music for Denver Center Theatre Company’s productions of Three Musketeers and Romeo and Juliet. For the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he composed the music for Tenth Muse. For the 2000-2001 season Rodolfo was awarded the Drammy in Sound Design and Composition for a season of outstanding work and in 2001-2002 season he was again awarded the Drammy for his compositions for Tuck Everlasting at Oregon Children’s Theatre and in 2004 year he received the Drammy in Composition for Lorca in a Green Dress. Rodolfo is a Resident Artist here at Artists Rep.

AMY KATRINA BRYAN

CAROL ANN WOHLMUT

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Resident Production Stage Manager

Amy is thrilled to be working on Broomstick and happy to be at Artists Rep, where she last worked on the The Understudy and 2015 Risk/ Reward Festival. After being accepted as an Acting Apprentice at Portland Playhouse, Amy began her career as a theatre artist in Portland. Since 2014, Amy has worked with Portland Playhouse, Bad Ass Theatre Company, CoHo Productions, Northwest Children’s Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and Hand2Mouth, most recently making her sound design and stage management debut in Schizo at Shaking the Tree Theatre. Amy is a playwright and actress currently working on expanding her solo piece, The Amy Show, which just finished a tour through Portland’s high school and college theatre departments. You can catch her next behind the scenes at Northwest Children’s Theatre and CoHo Productions!

Carol Ann is proud to be working her 17th season at Artists Rep. Her Artists Rep stage management credits include The Liar, The Invisible Hand, Blithe Spirit, The Playboy of the Western World, Mistakes Were Made, Ithaka, Red Herring, God of Carnage, The Cherry Orchard, Ah, Wilderness!, Othello, Design for Living, Three Sisters, Blackbird, Mars on Life: The Holiday Edition, Mars on Life – LIVE!, Rabbit Hole, Blackbird, Mr. Marmalade, Assassins, Enchanted April, The Seagull, Art, The Shape of Things, Two Sisters and a Piano, Copenhagen, Top Dog/ Underdog and The Weir. Carol Ann has worked in Portland theatre for 25 years with such companies as Portland Center Stage, Civic Theatre, Musical Theater Company, Portland Repertory Theatre, Tygres Heart Shakespeare Co., New Rose Theatre, Columbia Theatre, Carousel Company, Stark Raving Theatre, triangle productions!, Miracle Theatre, Firehouse Theatre, Northwest Children’s Theatre, Vanity Productions and others. She has toured in New York and Ireland. She also guest lectures on the craft of Stage Management.

MARY MCDONALDLEWIS Dialect Coach Mary McDonald-Lewis has been a professional artist since 1979. She resides in Portland 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. Last season at Artists Rep, MaryMac coached Intimate Apparel, Blithe Spirit, The Invisible Hand, The Price and Tribes; this year, she has coached Cuba Libre and will be coaching The Miracle Worker, We Are Proud to Present and Grand Concourse.

As house coach for Portland Center Stage, she managed Threesome and Three Days of Rain, which featured two stars from the NBC hit show Grimm, which she also coaches. Listen for her work on Streetcar Named Desire at PCS soon! Her favorite new client is Patrick Stewart. MaryMac loves what she does, and is a Resident Artist at Artists Repertory Theatre.

JESSICA EVANS IRVINE Production Assistant Jessica is so glad to be back backstage with Broomstick! She began working at Artists Rep as an Artistic Intern in 2014, and has since worked as a Production Assistant on The Monster-Builder, Exiles, Blithe Spirit, The Invisible Hand, and The Liar. She has also worked as a dramaturg and/or assistant director for Intimate Apparel, Tribes, Portland Shakespeare Project’s The Tempest, and Casting Manager for Portland Shakespeare Project’s Twelfth Night. This summer and fall, Jessica could be found working as the Publications Specialist in Artists Rep’s Marketing Department.

She is a graduate of UC Irvine with BAs in Drama and Comparative Literature, and a proud Northern Californian who has found a second home in Portland.

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DÁMASO RODRIGUEZ, Artistic Director SARAH HORTON, Managing Director

The 2015/16 Artists Repertory Theatre season is presented by:

CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) A Doctor/Anagnos............................................................ Michael Mendelson*^ Kate.................................................................................... Amy Newman*^ Keller.................................................................................. Don Alder* Helen.................................................................................. Agatha Olson Martha............................................................................... Josephine McGehee Percy................................................................................... Saorsa Seid Aunt Ev.............................................................................. Susannah Mars*^ James................................................................................. Joshua J. Weinstein *^ Annie Sullivan................................................................... Val Landrum*^ Viney.................................................................................. Josie Seid Boy Voice/Jimmy............................................................... Harper Lea

David & Christine Vernier SEASON MEDIA SPONSORS

CREATIVE TEAM Scenic Designer................................................................. Tim Stapleton Lighting Designer.............................................................. Kristeen Willis Crosser^ Costume Designer............................................................. Bobby Brewer-Wallin Sound Designer................................................................. Rodolfo Ortega^ Properties Master.............................................................. Will Bailey Dialect Coach..................................................................... Mary McDonald-Lewis^

SEASON SPONSORS

STAGE MANAGEMENT & CREW Stage Manager.................................................................. Jamie Lynne Simons* Assistant Stage Manager................................................. Karen Hill Production Assistant......................................................... Michael Stahler Board Op............................................................................ Dave Petersen

THERE WILL BE ONE 15 MINUTE INTERMISSION

SHOW SPONSORS The Miracle Worker is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Photo, video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited.

Bob & Janet Conklin Romy Klopper SPECIAL THANKS

to Portland Piano Company * 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 Directors and Choreographers Society ^ Artists Repertory Theatre Resident Artist

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

DIRECTOR DÁMASO RODRIGUEZ Director Dámaso is a CubanAmerican director born in Miami, Florida. He is in his third year as Artistic Director of Artists Repertory Theatre. In 2001 he co-founded the Los Angeles-based Furious Theatre Company, where he served as Co-Artistic Director until 2012.

From 2007-2010 he served as Associate Artistic Director of The Pasadena Playhouse. His directing credits include work at Artists Rep, The Pasadena Playhouse, Intiman Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Laguna Playhouse, A Noise Within, The Theatre@Boston Court, Naked Angels and Furious Theatre.

Rodriguez is a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, the Back Stage Garland Award, the NAACP Theatre Award and the Pasadena Arts Council’s Gold Crown Award. His productions have been nominated for multiple LA Weekly Theatre Awards and LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards.

In 2012, Rodriguez was honored by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation as a Finalist for the Zelda

Fichandler Award. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

Recent directing credits at Artists Rep include the world premiere musical Cuba Libre, the Portland premieres of David Ives’ adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s The Liar, Nina Raine’s Tribes, Exiles by Carlos Lacámara, the US premiere of Dawn King’s Foxfinder, and the West Coast premieres of Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal and Jeffrey Hatcher’s Ten Chimneys. Other credits include Ruth & Augustus Goetz’ The Heiress (starring Richard Chamberlain), Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes (starring Kelly McGillis) and Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow (starring Sharon Lawrence) at The Pasadena Playhouse; the reading of Steven Drukman’s The Prince of Atlantis for the Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory, Clifford Odets’ Paradise Lost at Intiman Theatre; Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, Tennessee Williams’ The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms and Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma at A Noise Within. Furious Theatre credits

include the Los Angeles premieres of Craig Wright’s Grace, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s Boom and Hunter Gatherers, Bruce Norris’ The Pain and the Itch, Yussef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat, Richard Bean’s The God Botherers, Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things, and the world premieres of Alex Jones’ Canned Peaches in Syrup and Matt Pelfrey’s An Impending Rupture of the Belly and No Good Deed, among others. In 2016, Rodriguez will return to Los Angeles to direct Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet at the acclaimed classical repertory theatre, A Noise Within. More information at www.damaso-rodriguez.com.

ARTISTS REP’S MISSION is to engage diverse audiences in fresh, thought-provoking and intimate theatre.

We are committed to world-class acting, directing, design and stagecraft that support new playwriting and aspire to embody great literature, moving audiences to truly feel—to experience— storytelling in a way that only the best live theatre can.

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PLAYWRIGHT

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

WILLIAM GIBSON (1914–2008) Playwright

Hollywood fame quickly led to two Broadway hits: The Miracle Worker (1958) which was originally written as a television movie, and a two-person romantic drama, Two for a Seesaw (1959). Anne Bancroft, then-unknown, starred in both plays; she and Gibson each won Tony awards for their work. In 1964, The Miracle Worker was adapted into an Oscar-winning film. However, Gibson was dissatisfied with Broadway and Hollywood’s creative processes; he was offended by how producers sacrificed artistic integrity for financial profit. The rest of his career never achieved the success of The Miracle Worker, although Golda’s Balcony, his one-woman play about Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, became an OffBroadway hit in 2002.

Many of Gibson’s plays tell the stories of women triumphing despite all odds. After reading Anne Sullivan’s autobiography as a teenager, Gibson was forever fascinated by her story—a young woman tasked to teach a child what she herself had only recently learned. His script draws primarily from Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan’s autobiographies, as well as Sullivan’s published letters.

The Miracle Worker takes its title from a quote by author Mark Twain, who was a friend of Helen Keller: “Helen is a miracle, and Miss Sullivan is the miracle-worker.”

Michael Mendelson

Gibson was born in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City in 1914. As a child, he fell in love with the library and read whenever he could.

He was determined to avoid a soulless desk job and spent his early years roaming, writing and taking odd jobs: acting, playing piano and organizing for the Young Communist League. After he met his wife Margaret Brenman, an eminent psychiatrist and social activist, he was able to write full-time. Her work in mental institutions inspired Gibson’s first novel, The Cobweb, about the intricate politics of a psychiatric hospital.

An immediate hit, the book was adapted into a film by Vincente Minnelli in 1955.

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A Life of Advocacy

By JESSICA EVANS IRVINE, Publications Specialist The Miracle Worker shows Helen Keller’s accomplishments up to age seven, but the rest of her life was just as extra-ordinary.

After mastering manual sign language as a child, Keller quickly learned to speak, type and read Braille. She went Helen Keller on to graduate from (1880–1968) Radcliffe College cum laude—the first Deaf-Blind person to do so. While a student at Radcliffe, she published two books: The Story of My Life and Optimism.

During her lifetime, she would receive honorary doctoral degrees from universities in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Soon after graduating college, Keller jumped into a life of advocacy. She traveled the country, with Anne Sullivan Macy always at her side. Together, they fought for Deaf-Blind people’s rights to full citizenship, education, employment and healthcare. She was also a vehement suffragette, a fierce socialist and one of the first supporters of both the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP. She understood that what kept disabled people oppressed (and, similarly, people of color, women and the lower classes) did not come from their personal failures, but from systematic, institutional disenfranchisement.

Q&A WITH ACTOR AGATHA OLSON Helen is the focal point of The Miracle Worker yet she barely makes a sound in the play.

Artists Rep interviewed Agatha Olson, who plays Helen, about her experiences as a young actor and her approach to taking on such a famous and fascinating role.

process of getting to know who I am playing... When you’re in a play, you can make little adjustments— like more fire, less sass, a little sadness—the kinds of things that make sense. If you’re not happy with your performance one night, you have a chance to do it better the next night. The only thing that’s final…in a play is the last scene on closing night…

ARTISTS REP: How did you get

The hardest part for me is having to say goodbye to a play. When you work on a play with people for a few months, you become a little family. You all have your little jokes and everyone supports each other… Sometimes, it is even hard to say goodbye to a character, because you feel like they were your friend, too.

involved in acting? What made you choose to make it your career?

AO: It was quite by accident. When

Third Rail Rep was doing The Pain and the Itch, the little girl in the cast had to break her contract near the end of the run…I guess that you could say that I got into acting because people were willing to take a chance on me. As for acting as a career, I am not sure what the future will be for me. I would love to go on acting. One thing I can tell you for sure is that theatre will always be a part of my life in one way, or another.

ARTISTS REP: How is playing a

historical character different from playing a fictional one?

AO: When you play a fictional

character, there’s room to be creative. The writer makes the character from scratch and you get to put the frosting on…But if you are cast as a historical person, you have to use your imagination to figure out how to be true to life…

It would help to know how that person felt about themselves, how they viewed life, how others treated them, who they cared about and the big events of their life.

“THE WELFARE OF EACH IS BOUND UP IN THE WELFARE OF ALL.” –HELEN KELLER

During WWI, Keller was a staunch pacifist and protested American military involvement.

However, she also helped establish agencies for blind and deaf veterans in the United States, and then travelled to Europe to provide the same assistance to veterans and refugees alike.

She was one of the founding members of the American Foundation for the Blind in 1924, and expanded the foundation worldwide as she and Sullivan advocated for disabled rights across the globe.

ARTISTS REP: What do you love

During WWII, she again worked with blind and deaf veterans on their recovery and transition back into civilian life, although she was over 60 at the time. In 1964, Keller was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She died in 1968 and is still remembered as one of the most important activists of the 20th Century.

most about being an actor? What is the hardest part?

AO: Acting brings me joy. I feel

like I don’t have to care about what people think, because it’s not about me. I have the opportunity to let go of who I am and explore the possibility of what it is to be someone else. I also love the whole

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ARTISTS REP: What is your dream

role, regardless of gender/age/race/ species?

AO: After I read Helen Keller’s

biography last winter, she became one of my heroes. When I saw Patty Duke play Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, I said to my family that I would love to play that part. So, when I learned that Artist Rep was going to put on The Miracle Worker, I flipped! ...You could say that one of my dreams is coming true. I would [also] love to play “Juliet” in Romeo and Juliet someday.

ARTISTS REP: How do you keep

up your skills when you’re not working on a show?

AO: In general, I’m a silly person

and I love to make up my own characters. I would say that I am acting about 80% of the time. I try to see as many plays as I can—I’ve learned a lot just watching other actors do their magic. I also listen to stories on NPR or podcasts—it helps me to understand the world and how other how other people live. The more I know about other people, the easier it is for me to understand plays and the characters in them.

BIOS MICHAEL MENDELSON A Doctor/Anagnos Michael is the Artistic Associate and a Resident Artist here at Artists Rep. Recent credits include Walter in The Price, Christopher in Tribes and Charles in Blithe Spirit.

Other Artists Rep productions include The Quality of Life, Mistakes Were Made, Ten Chimneys, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol, The Playboy of the Western World.

Other Artists Rep productions include The Playboy of the Western World, God of Carnage, The Cherry Orchard, Superior Donuts, Othello, Design for Living, Holidazed, Becky’s New Car, Three Sisters, Eurydice, Orson’s Shadow, Mr. Marmalade, Theater District, Present Laughter and Love! Valour!

Compassion!. Other local credits include Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night (Portland Shakespeare Project), King Lear and Betrayal (Oregon Shakespeare Festival/ Portland), Eyes for Consuela, Burn This, The Lisbon Traviata, Klonsky and Schwartz, The Heidi Chronicles and The Glass Menagerie (Profile Theatre), Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Iago in Othello (Northwest Classical Theatre Company), Fuente Ovejuna (Miracle Theatre), Edward II, Bent and Jeffrey (triangle productions!), As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale (Tygres Heart Shakespeare), The Rivals, Comfort and Joy, Macbeth and Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Portland Center Stage), A Christmas Carol (A Contemporary Theatre) and A Hatful of Rain, Laughing Wild, Waiting for Vern and The Importance of Being Earnest (New Rose Theatre). New York credits include The Merchant of Venice (Revolving Shakespeare Co.), Leontes in The Winter’s Tale (Theatre 1010), The Normal Heart (Lincoln Center/ Clark Studio Theatre), Behind These Eyes (Genesius Guild) and Rebecca In Waiting (The Barrow Group).

Regional credits include work at PCPA Theatrefest, Paper Mill Playhouse, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, Penobscot Theatre Company, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, First Stage Milwaukee, Idaho Rep, Attic Theater and the Wisconsin, Utah and Berkeley Shakespeare Festivals.

Michael received a BFA from Wayne State University and an MFA from the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program.

AMY NEWMAN Kate Amy is grateful to be back on the Alder Stage where she was last seen as Clarice in The Liar.

The Miracle Worker is Amy’s 10th production at Artists Rep! Previously at Artists Rep: Tribes, The Playboy of the Western World, Red Herring, All My Sons, Design for Living, Ah, Wilderness!, The Cherry Orchard, and the Portland premiere of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol. At Portland Center Stage, she played Nurse Flinn in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and various roles in three JAW festivals. With Third Rail Rep: Noises Off, Gidion’s Knot (2014 Drammy award, Best Actress), Middletown, and most recently Or,. She has also worked locally with defunkt theatre, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Profile Theatre, Liminal and Theatre Vertigo (2010 Drammy Award, Best Supporting Actress in God’s Ear). Amy trained at The Acting Studio of Philadelphia with George DiCenzo and has a BA in Theatre from Temple University. Amy is an Artists Rep Resident Artist and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

DON ALDER Keller Don has appeared at Artists Rep in The Monster-Builder, Ah Wilderness!, Fortinbras, Love!

Valour! Compassion!, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! and The Fox. Favorite roles include Estragon in Waiting for Godot for Northwest Classical Theatre Collaborative, Denny in The Steady Rain for Hellfire Productions (Drammy Award); Don Armado In Love’s Labor’s Lost for Northwest Classical Theatre Company; McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest for Brundog Productions and Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross for Cygnet Productions. Don has also worked for Arkansas Rep, Lakewood Theatre, Profile Theatre, Broadway Rose, Portland Center Stage, Salem Rep, Portland Rep, Sun Valley Rep, New Rose Theatre and others.

Don’s film and television roles include Grimm, Leverage, The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang, Path of Evil, Lie Detector, Dandelion, Harvest of Fear, Kicking Bird, Homeward Bound, The Temp, Come See the Paradise, The Gas

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Café, Alibi, Things They Never Told Me, Duplicates, Nowhere Man, Rose Red and Say Uncle.

AGATHA OLSON Helen Agatha is delighted to return to Artists Repertory Theatre. Most recently, she made her Playwrights West debut in Dear Galileo (CoHo Productions).

She had the privilege of joining the cast of second-year conservatory students in Six Characters in Search of an Author (Portland Actors Conservatory). Other Portland theatre credits include: The Turn (The Reformers), The Big Meal and The Lost Boy (Artists Repertory Theatre), The Pain and the Itch (Third Rail Repertory Theatre) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for The Fall Festival of Shakespeare (Portland Playhouse). She was recently one of six finalists in Young Playwrights for Change, OCT’s playwriting competition for middle school students. Agatha participated in a flash reading of Claire Willett’s original script, Carter Hall, in the 2014 Fertile Ground Festival.

JOSEPHINE MCGEHEE Martha Josephine is grateful for the chance to participate in her first show at Artists Rep. She is a member of Northwest Children’s Theatre’s studio program and performed in their second stage productions of Little Shop of Horrors, Hairspray, West Side Story and Hair. She also works as a class assistant at NWCT where she enjoys introducing young children to theatre. She attends Beaverton’s Arts & Communication Magnet Academy and loves to sing with the Advanced Concert Choir. She has performed in various ACMA productions and was most recently seen in their summer musical, Once Upon a Mattress. Outside of school, she trains at the Jessica Jaeger Vocal Studio in voice and piano.

SAORSA SEID Percy Saorsa is new to Artists Rep but has been diligently building his repertoire in his short career. He has worked with Portland Actors Conservatory as

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the Son in Six Characters in Search of an Author. As part of the showcase for the PAC Summer on Stage training program, he had roles in Cyrano/Big Nose as well as two devised plays; Twelfth Day and Attention Lakeport. He is continuing his artistic training as a student at the Arts and Communication Magnet Academy.

SUSANNAH MARS Aunt Ev Susannah is delighted to be back at her artistic home, Artists Rep, where she is a Resident Artist and is currently curating 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. Recently, she was “Parthy” in Portland Opera’s Show Boat, where she will return in the spring of 2016 to play “Mrs. Lovett” in their production of Sweeny Todd. She is a member of Actors Equity Association. www.susannahmars.com.

JOSHUA J. WEINSTEIN James Joshua is a Resident Artist here at Artists Rep and thrilled to make his return for the 2015/16 season. Previously at Artists Rep: 4000 Miles (Leo), Tribes (Daniel), Foxfinder (William) and Red Herring (James). Josh will also be seen in Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present... later this season. He is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Many thanks to Dámaso, the cast, crew, and design team and Brandy. Always.

VAL LANDRUM Annie Sullivan Val is a big fan of miracles. Her favorite miracle right now is the fact that she is lucky enough to get to work with so many amazing artists on this project. Some of her other Artists Rep credits include The Liar, Blithe Spirit, The Motherfucker With the Hat, The Big Meal, Red Herring, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Cherry Orchard, A Streetcar Named Desire and Killer Joe. She is originally from Chicago where she received most of her training at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, but has made Portland her home for the

last 13 years. Val has worked at several regional theatres across the country and has been fortunate to have worked locally with Portland Center Stage, Third Rail, Portland Playhouse, CoHo, Profile Theatre and Oregon Children’s Theatre. You may have seen her in some TV shows or movies where she normally plays a detective who solves the case by hard work, not miracles. Val is proud and grateful to be a member of the Resident Artists Company here at Artists Rep. She teaches locally for Oregon Children’s Theatre, Portland Center Stage and is on staff at Portland Actors Conservatory. When she is not earning her living trying to create miracles on stage or in front of a camera, she enjoys hanging out on the floating home she shares with her husband, Chris, and their awesome cats.

JOSIE SEID Viney Josie is thrilled for her Artists Rep main stage debut. She was a member of The Hillsboro Story touring cast with Artists Rep and has appeared in several productions in the Portland area. Some of her favorite roles were as “The Soothsayer” in Portland Actors Ensemble’s production of Antony and Cleopatra, Calpurnia and Mr. Gilmer in Public House’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Trix, in Broadway Rose’s The Drowsy Chaperone, as well as being a member of the Drammy Award-Winning ensemble of The Brother/Sister Plays with Portland Playhouse. She has also had the honor of appearing in readings for Cottonwood in the Flood, Alan’s Confectionary, and My Walk Has Never Been Average in Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival.

HARPER LEA Boy’s Voice/Jimmy Harper’s first time on stage was at Artists Rep and this theatre is very special to him. He is so happy to return for his third performance and to be with this outstanding cast and crew. He was previously seen in The Lost Boy as Walter Ross and The Big Meal as Boy (multiple roles). Harper has been in two Northwest Children’s Theater main stage productions: Peter Pan and The Jungle Book. He participates in school plays and staged readings, and was nominated

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for a ‘Young Performer’ Drammy Award last year. Harper is 13 years old and in seventh grade at Arbor School of Arts & Sciences. He would like to thank all of the amazing teachers there as well as his Mom and Dad, and Quincy.

TIM STAPLETON Scenic Designer Tim Stapleton is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. Currently, he is the Resident Scenic Designer for Portland Actors Conservatory. A professional scenic designer for 36 years, he has also worked with Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council as a liaison to Social Services and taught theatre courses for Willamette University, Central Washington University, Lewis & Clark College and Slippery Rock University.

Some of his favorite projects with Artists Rep include Indiscretions (Drammy Award), The Laramie Project, Breaking the Code, Killer Joe (Drammy Award), The Night of the Iguana and last season’s The Quality of Life. 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, paintings and poetry have been published by Inkwater Press, Pine Mountain Sand, Gravel Literary Journal, Mission at Tenth, and also online by FOUR and TWENTY short form poetry, The Verse Marauder, and I’m From Driftwood. Tim holds an MFA in Creative Inquiry.

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 The Understudy, Blithe Spirit, Tribes, The Invisible Hand, The Playboy of the Western World, The Monster-Builder, Foxfinder, Ten Chimneys, Red Herring, And So It Goes…, The Cherry Orchard and Eurydice. She designed the set for 4000 Miles and Foxfinder. She has designed scenery and/or lighting for several area theatres including Northwest Children Theatre’s Peter Pan,

CREATIVIE BIOS Willy Wonka and Pinocchio; Profile Theatre’s True West, My Children, My Africa, 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 Mariela in the Desert and 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). Kristeen is a Resident Artist at Artists Rep. As always, she is grateful to her husband, Mike, for all of his love and support.

BOBBY BREWER-WALLIN Costume Designer Bobby Brewer-Wallin, Associate Professor of Theatre, 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 bobrauschenbergamerica and The Country Wife 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 Liar, The Motherfucker with the Hat, Ithaka, & (I Am Still) The Duchess of Malfi at Artists Repertory Theatre. In the fall of 2014, Bobby took a one semester sabbatical to work in collaboration with Struan Leslie and Lisa-Gaye Dixon on a new work called My Case is Altered: Tales of a Roaring Girl that explores our current perception of gender identity, race, and body image. My Case is Altered: Tales of a Roaring Girl premiered at Willamette University October 2015.

RODOLFO ORTEGA Composer & Sound Designer Rodolfo Ortega 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. He has composed music

and designed sound for the recent productions of Artist Repertory Theatre’s Broomstick, The Understudy, The Liar, 4000 Miles, Blithe Spirit, Exiles, and Intimate Apparel. For Profile Theatre Company, his credits include designing the music for A Lesson Before Dying, Lips Together Teeth Apart and Master Harold and the Boys. Additionally he has composed several musicals for Northwest Children’s Theatre including Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Pinocchio, El Zorrito, Little Mermaid and Peter Pan. He has composed many productions at Miracle Theatre including Lorca in a Green Dress, Adriente Paciencia and Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue.

Rodolfo has also composed the scores for Oregon Children’s Theatre’s production of Charlotte’s Web, Tuck Everlasting, BFG, Holes and Cyrano. 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 Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Man in the Iron Mask and Henry the Fourth Part One and Part Two. Additionally he has composed the music for Denver Center Theatre Company’s productions of Three Musketeers and Romeo and Juliet. For the Oregon Shakespeare Festival he composed the music for Tenth Muse. For the 2000-2001 season Rodolfo was awarded the Drammy in Sound Design and Composition for a season of outstanding work and in 2001-2002 season he was again awarded the Drammy for his compositions for Tuck Everlasting at Oregon Children’s Theatre and in 2004 year he received the Drammy in Composition for Lorca in a Green Dress. Rodolfo is a Resident Artist here at Artists Rep.

MARY MCDONALDLEWIS Dialect Coach Mary McDonald-Lewis has been a professional artist since 1979. She resides in Portland 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. Last season at Artists Rep, MaryMac coached Intimate Apparel, Blithe Spirit, The Invisible Hand, The Price and Tribes; this year, she has coached Cuba Libre and will be coaching The Miracle Worker, We Are Proud to Present and Grand Concourse. As house coach for Portland Center Stage, she

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managed Threesome and Three Days of Rain, which featured two stars from the NBC hit show Grimm, which she also coaches. Listen for her work on Streetcar Named Desire at PCS soon! Her favorite new client is Patrick Stewart. MaryMac loves what she does, and she thanks Finnegan, Sullivan and Flynn for always wagging their tails when she comes home.

JAMIE LYNNE SIMONS Stage Manager Jamie is a Northwest native who now calls Portland home. After having lived on the high seas for years working with Carnival Cruise Lines, traveling as far as Tasmania and St. Petersburg, Russia, she is charmed by the Rose City and happy to set down roots here. Recently, she has worked on Or, with Third Rail Repertory Theatre. Last season she enjoyed filling in at the Portland Playhouse for Mr. Burns and working backstage with Action/Adventure Theatre for How to Stop Dying. Prior to trotting the globe, she lived in Philadelphia where her favorite credits include 11th Hour Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, Arden Theatre Company, Mum Puppettheatre (she was a member of the Barrymore nominated ensemble adaptation of Animal Farm), Enchantment Theatre Company, Center City Opera Theater, The Berserker Residents, Swim Pony Productions and The Lefty Lucy Cabaret.

Other wonderful regional credits: Cleveland Play House, Delaware Theatre Company’s Young Playwrights Festival, Glimmerglass Opera and the Virginia Shakespeare Festival. Jamie trained at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and has a B.F.A. in Applied Theater Arts.

She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

KAREN HILL Assistant Stage Manager Karen is excited to be back at Artists Rep after working on Cuba Libre this year and Exiles last season. Most recently, she stage managed Twelfth Night with Portland Shakespeare Project. She has also worked with Oregon Children’s Theatre, Third Rail Repertory, Portland Center Stage and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is grateful every day that she gets to create beautiful art, and she would like to thank her husband, Mike, for supporting this crazy lifestyle.

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

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STAFF Artistic Director: Dámaso Rodriguez Managing Director: Sarah Horton

ARTISTIC

Artistic Producer: Shawn Lee Artistic Associate: Michael Mendelson Visiting Artistic Associate: Jerry Tischleder Director of New Play Development and Dramaturgy: Luan Schooler Resident Artists: Linda Alper, Ayanna Berkshire, Owen Carey, Kristeen Willis Crosser, Chris Harder, JoAnn Johnson, Kevin Jones, Val Landrum, Sarah Lucht, Susannah Mars, Gilberto Martin Del Campo, Mary McDonaldLewis, 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

ADMINISTRATIVE Director of Finance & Administration: Jim Neuner Finance & Administrative Assistant, Casting Associate: Vonessa Martin

MARKETING & AUDIENCE SERVICES Marketing & PR Director: Nicole Lane Marketing & PR Manager: Jessica Gleason Marketing & Promotions Specialist: Sarah Bills Digital & Graphic Design Specialist: Jeff Hayes Publications Specialist: Jessica Evans Irvine Music Events Specialist: Susannah Mars Audience Services Manager: Karen Rathje Assistant Audience Services Manager: Christina DeYoung

Gary Taliaferro Roberta Taussig Bahram & Susan Tavakolian Leslie Taylor & Douglas Beers Tektronix Matching Gifts Theatre Vertigo Third Rail Repertory Theatre Margaret Thompson Marilee Thompson Tracy Thornton Karen Tobin Robert Todd Pam Triplett Don & Sue Trotter Jean Tyler & Bruce Rothman University of Portland Theatre Department

P 16 Artists Repertory Theatre

Box Office Systems Manager: Jon Younkin Box Office Associates: Jessie Duncan, Jessica Hillenbrand, Joe Myhra House Managers: Jessie Duncan, Karl Hanover, Valerie Liptak, Tara McMahon Concessions: Jessie Duncan, Karl Hanover, Tim Thompson, Jennifer Zubernick Resident Photographer: Owen Carey Video: ShutterSky Pictures

DEVELOPMENT

Development Director: Sarah Taylor Donor Relations Specialist: Laura Murray

PRODUCTION

Associate Technical Director: Rudy Schuepbach Resident Production Stage Managers: Michelle Jazuk, Carol Ann Wohlmut Master Carpenters: Nathan Crone, Eddie Rivera Master Electricians: Ruth Nardecchia, Jon Plueard Scenic Charge: Sarah Kindler Fall Production Interns: Lexie Quandt

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Marcia Darm, MD, Chair* Mike Barr, Vice-Chair Susanne Kuhn, Treasurer* Michele Bowler-Failing, Secretary* Cody Hoesly, Past Chair* Julie Ball Jeffrey Condit Denise Frisbee* Patricia Garner Blake Johnson Michael Parsons Barbara Sepenuk David Vernier Elisa Wickstrom* * Member of the Executive Committee

Roberta Upson Barbara Van Fleet David & Julie Verburg Julie & Ted Vigeland Pamela Vohnson & David Streight Voicebox Karaoke Sue & Jim Walcutt Marilyn Walkey & Mike McClain Judi & J. Wandres Janet F. Warrington Robert & Ann Watt Frederick Wearn George Weghorst Barbara Wegner Victoria Wetle Ethel Wheatley

Susan Whereat Karen Whitaker Elizabeth White Karen Whitman Fred Williams & Mary Beth Yosses Carol Ann & Patrick Wohlmut Rick Woodford & Gregory Pulver Lora & Andy Woodruff Susan Woods Kathleen Worley Maureen Wright & Lane Brown Aileen & Duncan Wyse Cynthia Yee Yoga Pearl