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MARISSA WOLF Dear friends, Welcome to a wonderful, bright spring at The Armory! Our final shows in the 2018–2019 season are rich, buoyant offerings that will leave you laughing and leaning forward on the edge of your seats. The Breath of Life by David Hare offers a gorgeous, intimate dayand-a-half with two women who wrestle with dogged memories of a shared past. Our superstar team of Gretchen Corbett and Julia Brothers, directed by beloved JAW regular Ken Rus Schmoll, crack open this play with sharp humor and incredible depth. Bringing another burst of playful humor to the stage, Native Gardens by Karen Zacarías offers a wild ride through the sociopolitical world of the U.S. and Mexico border, with a tongue-incheek look at two couples who share a garden wall. Directed by the incomparable Melissa Crespo, the play unearths powerful, human truths with a dazzling comedic style. Finally, buckle up for the special event of the season as Storm Large takes the stage in her limited-run performance of Crazy Enough. I’ve been told that audiences have begged for the return of this glorious, funny, wrenching show since its premiere 10 years ago, and I’m thrilled to welcome this powerhouse performer back to The Armory. Thank you so much for joining us! We’d love to see you again at the theater next season. Enjoy the show!

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THE CAST (in order of appearance) Julia Brothers...............................Frances Beale Gretchen Corbett........................Madeleine Palmer Setting: The Isle of Wight, 2002

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THE CAST & CREATIVE TEAM Gretchen Corbett, Madeleine Palmer Gretchen has appeared on and off Broadway and in leading roles in prominent regional theaters across the country, including the New York, New Jersey and Oregon Shakespeare Festivals, Circle in the Square Theatre, the Eugene O’Neill International Festival of Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Center Theatre Group. She has appeared in numerous films and television series. Her local stage appearances include productions for Portland Center Stage at The Armory, Portland Playhouse, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, CoHo Productions, and Sojourn Theatre. She received lead actress awards for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Happy Days, Molly Sweeney, It Had to Be You, and A Lesson from Aloes in Portland and for The Fox and Voice of the Prairie in Los Angeles. Gretchen is also an awardwinning theater director. Julia Brothers, Frances Beale Julia is so excited to be at Portland Center Stage at The Armory for the first time! Recent credits: God in Weightless: A Rock Opera by The Kilbanes, directed by Becca Wolff, at The Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival, American Conservatory Theater, and Z Space. Other world premieres: playing Arthur Miller in Jeremy Tiang’s Salesman 之死 for Laguardia Performing Arts Center’s Rough Draft Festival. Broadway: George Is Dead by Elaine May (directed by John Turturro). Off-Broadway: Clever Little Lies by Joe DiPietro at Westside Theatre. Regional: Walter Anderson’s The Trial of Donna Caine at George Street Playhouse. Women in Jeopardy! at Geva

Theatre Center; Be Aggressive and Ambition Facing West at TheatreWorks; and Seagull (as adapted by Libby Appel), Magic Forest Farm, and Fortune at Marin Theatre Company, among others. Julia is a company member of B Street Theatre and PlayGround, and an artistic associate at Merrimack Repertory Theatre and Arizona Theatre Company. A recipient of several regional theater awards, Julia was also named an MVP for theater by San Francisco Chronicle. David Hare, Playwright Playwright and filmmaker David Hare has written over 30 stage plays, including Plenty, Pravada (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy’s View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Moderate Soprano, and I’m Not Running. For film and television he has written over 25 screenplays, which include Licking Hitler, Dreams of Leaving, Saigon: Year of the Cat, Wetherby, Damage, The Hours, The Reader, Denial, and The Worricker Trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos, and Salting the Battlefield. Most recently, David created the four-part series Collateral for BBC and Netflix, starring Carey Mulligan and Billie Piper. His new film about Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West, The White Crow, opened in the UK in March, and his update of Ibsen’s classic Peter Gynt opens at the National Theatre in June. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the 20th century, five of the top 100 were his. Ken Rus Schmoll, Director Ken has directed readings in six of the last 10 JAW Festivals at Portland Center Stage at The Armory. His work has been seen in New York City at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, BAM, Lincoln Center’s LCT3, Clubbed Thumb, Page 73, Foundry Theatre, and Encores! Off-Center, among others. Regionally, he has directed plays at American Conservatory Theater, Marin Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Two River Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and the Humana Festival for New American Plays, among others. He is the recipient of two Obie Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award nomination, and a Drama League Award nomination. Upcoming productions include Zhu

Yi’s You Never Touched the Dirt for Clubbed Thumb, David Greenspan’s adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey at Miami New Drama, Jordan Tannahill’s Botticelli in the Fire at Marin Theatre Company, and Mia Chung’s Catch as Catch Can at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Lizzie Bracken, Scenic Designer Lizzie is delighted to be back at Portland Center Stage at The Armory after designing for The Magic Play last season. Regional: The Magic Play at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Olney Theatre Center, and Goodman Theatre; Lord of the Flies, The Book Thief, Blacktop Sky, and See What I Wanna See at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Additional credits include On Clover Road with American Blues Theater; Burning Bluebeard with The Ruffians; Endgame, Ivywild, and Six Characters in Search of an Author with The Hypocrites; PopWaits and 44 plays for 44 Presidents with The Neo-Futurists. Lizzie received her M.F.A. from The University of Texas at Austin and her bachelor’s degree in architecture from The University of Notre Dame. Prior to her career in theater, Lizzie was a designer with Fairfax and Sammons Architects. Brynn Almli, Costume Designer Brynn is a California-based costume designer working in theater, film, television, dance, and special events. Originally from Minneapolis, she studied comparative literature, sculpture, and fashion design before earning an M.F.A. in Design for Stage and Film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She lived and worked in New York City for six years before relocating to the Bay Area. Recent theater credits include Sagittarius Ponderosa (NAATCO), Birdbath (Kitchen Table Works), Plenty (NYU Graduate Acting), and Alphabetical (Columbia University). She has assisted on productions for Broadway, Hartford Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, Theatre For A New Audience, Guthrie Theater, New York Musical Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Solomon Weisbard, Lighting Designer Born in Portland, Solomon spent the last 13 years as a New York Citybased lighting designer for all types of performance. With director Robert

Wilson, productions in Germany at Festspielhaus Baden Baden and in Italy at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Regio di Parma, Ancient Theatre of Pompeii, Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, and Teatro Mercadante di Napoli. Local credits include Portland Playhouse’s A Christmas Carol (Drammy nomination), pen/man/ship (Drammy nomination), Jitney, You for Me for You. Select OffBroadway: Duat (Soho Rep); Men on Boats (world premiere, Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb); America Is Hard to See (HERE); The Film Society (Keen); and four productions with The Barrow Group. Regional theater: Arden Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Magic Theatre, Portland Stage, Quintessence, Westport Country Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre. M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. Sharath Patel, Sound Designer Before arriving in the Pacific Northwest, Sharath spent nearly a decade as a lead sound designer in New York City. Designs include Wolf Play, Teenage Dick, Skeleton Crew (Artists Repertory Theatre); Nina Simone: Four Women (Alabama Shakes); Christmas at Pemberley Pt.2 (Marin Theater Company); Ibsen in Chicago (Seattle Repertory Theatre); The Crucible, The Royale (ACT Theatre); As You Like It (California Shakespeare Theater); Free Outgoing (East West Players); WIG OUT! (American Rep/ CompanyONE). Regional/international credits include designs in Washington, D.C., Norfolk, Raleigh, Aspen, Dublin, India, France, England, Germany, and Romania. Sharath is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, IATSE, and the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association. He is an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Department of State and a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre. M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. sharathpatel.com. Jane Guyer Fujita, Dialect Coach Jane is a New York-based voice specialist and dialect coach on faculty at New York University’s Graduate Acting Program. Production coaching includes: Broadway, Ensemble Studio Theater, LCT3, The Flea Theater, La MaMA, The Playwrights Realm, Primary Stages, The Public Theater, Signature Theatre, Theater for the New City, Page 73, American Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, Yale Repertory Theater,

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Hudson Valley Shakespeare, The Curran Theater, Actors Shakespeare Project. Film: Sidney Hall, Strange Love, Freedom, The Makeover. TV: Seven Seconds, Power, Z: The beginning of everything, Red Oaks, The Family. She earned her M.F.A. from the ART Institute at Harvard, where she studied voice and speech pedagogy under Nancy Houfek. Janine Vanderhoff, Stage Manager Janine is thrilled to be back for her fourth season at Portland Center Stage at The Armory. She recently stage managed Tiny Beautiful Things, A Christmas Memory/Winter Song, and The Color Purple. Other favorites include: Wild and Reckless, The Oregon Trail, and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. In New York, Janine worked on The Lion King, as well as with many Off-Broadway and regional companies. Portland credits: Sweeney Todd (Portland Opera), Play, How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes and The Other Place (Portland Playhouse). Touring: The Graduate, Cats, The Vagina Monologues, Jekyll & Hyde, and Show Boat. Production management: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart “Democalypse 2012 Republican National Convention” (Tampa, FL); Straz Center (Tampa, FL); The Fox Theatre (Atlanta, GA). Proud NYU graduate and AEA member. Sarah Stark, Production Assistant Sarah is a recent Portland transplant from Chicago. She has previously worked as a production assistant at The Armory for productions of Tiny Beautiful Things, The Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens, and A Life. Regional and Chicago stage management credits include: Silent Night, The Cunning Little Vixen, Porgy and Bess (The Glimmerglass Festival), Little Shop of Horrors (American Blues Theater); Civility! (The Syndicate); Ellen Bond, Union Spy (The House Theatre of Chicago); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Belleville, Urinetown: The Musical (The University of Chicago). Sarah is thrilled to be continuing her education as a stage management apprentice this season.

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NATIVE GARDENS Written by

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Melissa Crespo

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Lux Haac

Dawn Chiang

Elisheba Ittoop

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Kristen Mun*

Alexis Ellis-Alvarez Molly Shevaun Reed

Harriet Bass Will Cotter Chip Miller

Performed with one intermission. Presented in association with Syracuse Stage and Geva Theatre Center. Native Gardens was commissioned and first produced by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park under Blake Robison (Artistic Director) and Buzz Ward (Managing Director). Native Gardens is produced by special arrangement with The Gersh Agency, 41 Madison Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10010. Videotaping or other photo or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. If you photograph the set before or after the performance, please credit the designers if you share the image.

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Paul DeBoy*

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Erick González*

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Monica Rae Summers Gonzalez*

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Martin Hernandez

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PLANTING SEEDS OF DISSENT AND HOPE AN INTERVIEW WITH NATIVE GARDENS PLAYWRIGHT KAREN ZACARÍAS By Kelundra Smith

Playwright Karen Zacarías was under a tight deadline to deliver on a new play commission, and though ideas fluttered through her mind, nothing quite stuck. Then, while she was at a dinner party, friends suggested that she write a play about a dispute they were having with their neighbor. After other party attendees started sharing their stories of neighborly nuisances, Zacarías realized that most conflicts in the world could be boiled down to differences over property, taste, class, and culture. This planted the seeds for her comedy Native Gardens, which finds two couples, one white and one Latinx, at odds over property lines and best practices in gardening. You’ve written a few plays that deal with the foibles of suburban life. For example, The Book Club Play pokes fun at suburban academic types. Where does that come from for you? Well here, I was very interested in having my Latinx characters be characters that you don’t see a lot onstage. You don’t usually get to have a Ph.D. candidate or a lawyer who’s Latinx. For me, Native Gardens is always about, in a warm-hearted sense, undermining expectations — so the engineer in the play is a woman. We’ve seen this dynamic before, but there are different ways to approach it, so as the audience is laughing, they’re also being challenged. In this comedy, these neighbors take their stakes — winning a gardening competition and making partner at a law firm — so seriously. But neither seems to have regard for how they’re impacting the natural life around them or each other’s lives. People are constantly making judgments, and sometimes they don’t go on the generous side — they’re assuming the worst of someone. The play ended up becoming a symbol of what’s going on in our country, a way to be able to talk about important topics like entitlement, white privilege, and the border through the lens of horticulture and make it funny. It’s been a really interesting sociological experiment to see what this play does to audiences across the country. Most communities can relate to what’s going on no matter what side of the fence they’re on. You write in the play that the difference between a weed and a flower is judgment. What is America’s weed and flower to you? The idea that immigrants, who are the bedrock of this country, become the scapegoat for every single problem going on. This country goes through phases like that, like with the Irish, the Germans, and the Italians, but you’d think we would learn. This country’s ability to reinvent itself and diversity are what makes it beautiful. It’s a country founded on ideas, and the idea that we are made up of many tribes and colors of people is what makes us beautiful. At the time of this interview, the government is shut down over a wall at the Mexican border, but you wrote this play before many people saw this coming. Did you imagine the play would be this relevant? As a Mexican immigrant in this country, I can tell you that the anti-Mexican sentiment that President Trump has used as the bedrock of his policy was already there before the winds started shifting. That it would literally start to become a conversation about a wall — or a fence — I just happened to choose a symbol that became the symbol for what we’re all talking about right now. The roots existed long before the election, and I think that’s why people can identify with it. I thought it was really important that all four people have redeeming values, so that you want them to resolve it. I was much more interested in exploring hope. What do you want audiences to take away from the experience of seeing this show? You go in, and you’re judging each couple and changing your mind about who’s right, but at the end of the play, the person you’re judging is yourself. My hope is that people will take a moment to ponder what it will take for them to be a better neighbor. I want simple things out of my plays. You can still laugh, have fun, and talk about hard things in a way where nobody’s off the hook. Monica Rae Summers Gonzalez and Erick González; photo by Goat Factory Media Entertainment/ Courtesy of Geva Theatre Center.

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THE CAST Anne-Marie Cusson, Virginia Butley Portland Center Stage at The Armory debut. Broadway: Magic/Bird (understudy). Off-Broadway: Stalking the Bogeyman; Echoes of the War; Far and Wide. Regional: Equus, Collected Stories (Palm Beach Dramaworks); Good People, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Asolo Repertory Theatre); All My Sons (Delaware Theatre Company); The Diary of Anne Frank (Virginia Stage Company); Arms and the Man (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); The Clean House (Geva Theatre Center); Defying Gravity (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); A Moon for the Misbegotten (New Repertory Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, The Count of Monte Cristo (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). National Tour: Steel Magnolias. Film: The Good Shepherd; My Dead Boyfriend; A Nice Girl Like You; several indie films. TV: Veep; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; As The World Turns.

Paul DeBoy, Frank Butley Portland Center Stage at The Armory debut. Broadway: Mamma Mia! (Broadhurst), Sight Unseen (Manhattan Theatre Club, cover). Tours: Mamma Mia!, North America; Martin Luther on Trial, Fellowship for Performing Arts. Regional: Native Gardens (Geva Theatre Center); The Christians (Syracuse Stage/The Wilma Theater); Appoggiatura (Indiana Repertory Theatre); All The Way (DCPA Theatre Company); Everything is Wonderful, We Will Not Be Silent (Contemporary American Theater Festival); The 39 Steps, The Pillowman, and 15 others (The Repertory Theatre St. Louis); My Fair Lady, The Real Thing (Pioneer Theatre Company); Sylvia, The Clean House, The Caine Mutiny (Cincinnati Playhouse); Blithe Spirit (Olney Theatre Center). Film/TV: All four Law & Orders, The Blacklist: Redemption, Royal Pains, The Following, A Dirty Shame. @pauladeboy

Erick González, Pablo Del Valle Portland Center Stage at The Armory debut. New York: El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba; Valor, Agravio y Mujer; En el Nombre de Salomé, El Loco por Fuerza, Aire Frio (Repertorio Español). Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth in Macbeth, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Iachimo in Cymbeline (Frog and Peach Theatre Company). Angelo in Measure for Measure, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Marc Antony in Julius Caesar, Orlando in As You Like It (Hip to Hip Theatre Company). Marfa Lights (INTAR Theater), Noche Tan Linda (Pregones/PRTT), Farragut North (Premiere Stages). TV: Madam Secretary, StartUp. Film: A Nice Girl Like You. Proud member of the Upstart Creatures. erickgonzalezactor.com

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THE CAST & CREATIVE TEAM Monica Rae Summers Gonzalez, Tania Del Valle Portland Center Stage at The Armory debut. Monica hails from New York and received her B.F.A. in acting from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts in the School of the Arts at Purchase College, State University of New York. TV: Orange Is the New Black and Shades of Blue. Off-Broadway: The Siblings Play (Cherry Lane Theatre). Regional: Scapino (Gulfshore Playhouse). Other New York credits include Ten Days in a Mad-House (Strangemen Theatre Company), Antigone (The Tank), Cost/ Benefit (F*IT Club), and Tally Ho!, or Navigating the Future (Theater for the New City). Many thanks to HCKR Agency, Cathy Kanner, Harriet Bass Casting, and her phenomenal family and friends. @_monicarae_

Crystal Ann Muñoz, Gardener Crystal is honored to make her Portland Center Stage at The Armory debut. Hailing from Oregon, Crystal is a two-time Drammy Award winner whose Portland credits include The Importance of Being Earnest, A Civil War Christmas (Artists Repertory Theatre), Olivia in Twelfth Night (Portland Shakespeare Project), Water by the Spoonful, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Orlando, Eyes for Consuela (Profile Theatre), The Huntsmen (Portland Playhouse), Guapa (Milagro Theatre), A Pigeon and a Boy (Jewish Theatre Collaborative), Kiss of the Spider Woman (triangle productions!) and In the Heights (Stumptown Stages). In her spare time, Crystal enjoys reading scary novels and playing tag with her dog Diego.

Anthony Green, Gardener Tony holds a B.F.A. in acting and a Master of Theatre Studies in Production and Design from Southern Oregon University. Most recently, he was seen in the role of Leonte in The Island in Winter, or La Isla en Invierno at Bag&Baggage Productions. Tony won the 2018 OTAS Best Supporting Actor Award for his portrayal of Bob Ewell in Lakewood Theatre Company’s production of To Kill a Mockingbird. Other Portland credits include Lydia, Into the Beautiful North, American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, ¡O Romeo!, How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and Oedipus el Rey (Milagro Theatre); The Crackwalker (Sowelu Theatre); Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (Profile Theatre); Hir (Defunkt Theatre); Davita’s Harp (Jewish Theatre Collaborative); and King Lear, King John, and Mary Stuart at Northwest Classical Theatre Collaborative.

Lucas Salazar, Gardener After six years bouncing around Asia, Lucas is thrilled to finally have a city as beautiful as Portland to call home! In a former life, Lucas studied theater at the University of Iowa, acted and composed music with small theaters in Los Angeles, trained with Blue Man Group, and stilt-walked along with anyone who would have him. More recently, he’s been traveling abroad, writing children’s music, and creating educational programs for ESL learners in China and Taiwan. All the available creative energies have taken him on a path he’d have never foreseen, but he’s beyond grateful that it has lead him to being invited to perform at Portland Center Stage at The Armory! Many thanks to everyone involved. Here’s to the road ahead.

Martin Hernandez, Gardener Martin is excited to be making his debut at Portland Center Stage at The Armory! Previous Portland theater credits include his Drammy-nominated portrayal of Seth in John Hughes High: The 1980s Teen Musical with Staged!, Wilbur in Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Musical at Oregon Children’s Theatre, and several mainstage productions at Northwest Children’s Theater. Martin thanks Clara, Chip, and Will for this opportunity, and his family for their endless love and support.

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Karen Zacarías, Playwright Karen Zacarías was recently named by American Theatre Magazine as one of the 10 most-produced playwrights in the United States. Her award-winning plays include The Copper Children, Destiny of Desire, Native Gardens, The Book Club Play, Legacy of Light, Mariela in the Desert, The Sins of Sor Juana, and the adaptations of Just Like Us, Into the Beautiful North, and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. She is the author of 10 renowned TYA (Theater for Young Audiences) musicals, including Ella Enchanted. She is a core founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons and founder of the award-

winning Young Playwrights’ Theater. She is an inaugural 2019 Sine Fellow for Policy Innovation at American University and just received the 2019 Lee Reynolds Award. Karen lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and three children. karenzacarias.com

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Shoko Kambara, Scenic Designer Musicals: Little Girl Blue (world premiere, George Street Playhouse); Next to Normal (Syracuse Stage); Holiday Inn, Always … Patsy Cline, and Guys & Dolls (Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival); Chicago (Hangar Theatre); Nice Work If You Can Get It (National Tour, Worklight Productions). Plays: A Christmas Carol, Dégagé (Hangar Theatre); Animals Out of Paper (Hudson Stage Company); The Turn of the Screw, The Bombitty of Errors (Syracuse Stage); Shining City (Nevada Conservatory Theatre, Las Vegas). Opera: The Prince of Players (world premiere, Houston Grand Opera); The Little Mermaid (Arkansas Repertory Theatre); The Barber of Seville (Opera Philadelphia, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, St Louis Theater Circle Award for Outstanding Set Design, Opera Omaha); Don Pasquale (Juilliard School). shokokambara.com

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Melissa Crespo, Director Melissa is a New York-based director of theater, opera, and film. Upcoming: world premiere of Daughters of the Rebellion by Guadalís del Carmen (Montclair State University) and Form of a Girl Unknown by Charly Evon Simpson (Salt Lake Acting Company). Recent: Wickedest Woman by Jessica Bashline (Strange Sun Theatre), Graveyard Shift by Korde Arrington Tuttle (San Francisco Playhouse), Brother Toad by Nathan Louis Jackson (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), ¡Figaro! (90210) by Vid Guerrerio (The Duke on 42nd Street and LA Opera). Her fellowships and residencies include Time Warner Fellow (WP Theatre), Usual Suspect (New York Theatre Workshop), The Director’s Project (Drama League), Van Lier Directing Fellow (Second Stage Theatre), and the Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow (Arena Stage). melissacrespo.com

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THE CREATIVE TEAM Victory Theater/Ibex Puppetry); Well Intentioned White People (Barrington Stage Company); ¡Figaro! (90210) (The Duke on 42nd Street/ Ragman Ventures); Destiny of Desire (The Garden Theatre); Nibbler (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater/The Amoralists); Crossing the Line (Amphibian Stage Productions); A Lesson from Aloes (Juilliard School); The Road to Damascus (59E59 Theaters/The Directors Company); Leave Me Green (The Gym at Judson); The Erlkings (Theatre Row); Powwow Highway (HERE/Amerinda). Education: M.F.A. in design for stage and film from Tisch/ NYU. luxhaac.com

Taper Forum, Guthrie Theater, and Syracuse Stage. On Broadway, Dawn designed the lighting for Zoot Suit and was co-designer for Tango Pasion. Off-Broadway, she has designed for Roundabout Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club. Dawn was resident lighting designer for New York City Opera, where her designs included A Little Night Music. Awards include two Dramalogue Awards, two Syracuse Area Live Theater Awards, and nominations for the American Theatre Wing/Maharam Award, Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award, and San Francisco Bay Area Drama Critics’ Award.

Dawn Chiang, Lighting Designer For Portland Center Stage at The Armory, Dawn designed the lighting for Other Desert Cities and The Old Settler. Her designs for numerous regional theaters include Arena Stage, DCPA Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Mark

Elisheba Ittoop, Sound Designer/ Original Compositions Elisheba’s designs and original music have been heard at The Kennedy Center, The Public Theater, American Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC Theater, Guthrie Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Steppenwolf Theatre, Signature Theatre, Oregon

Shakespeare Festival, National Gallery of Art, Soho Rep, Huntington Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, DCPA Theatre Company, Two River Theater, Woolly Mammoth, Ford’s Theatre, Folger Theatre, Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, and Bonnaroo Music Festival. Elisheba was a recipient of the Kenan Fellowship at the Kennedy Center and winner of the 2008 USITT Rising Star Award. She has produced podcasts and written music for NPR, CNN, Audible, WGBH, WFMT/Glimmerglass, and Spotify Bootcamp. Education: NYU, North Carolina School of the Arts. elishebaittoop.com Kristen Mun, Stage Manager Kristen is originally from the island of Oahu and holds a B.F.A. from Southern Oregon University. She is excited to return for her sixth season at Portland Center Stage at The Armory. Previous credits at The Armory include stage manager for

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Until The Flood, Sense and Sensibility, Constellations, and Major Barbara; assistant stage manager for The Color Purple, Fun Home, and Astoria: Part Two; and production assistant on many others. Kristen is also a freelance fight choreographer and teacher. Thank you to Adam and her family for always having her back. Alexis Ellis-Alvarez, Production Assistant Alexis is thrilled to be working as a stage management apprentice for Portland Center Stage at The Armory. Credits at The Armory include The Color Purple, A Christmas Memory/ Winter Song, Buyer and Cellar, and Crossing Mnisose. Outside of Portland, credits include Huntington Theater Company as the production assistant for Tartuffe; ArtsEmerson as the assistant stage manager for the world premiere of Mala; and Cygnet Theatre as the production assistant for Animal Crackers. Alexis studied stage and production management at Emerson College, where she worked on Antigone Project as the stage manager and Guys and Dolls as the production assistant. Alexis would like to send love to her parents and sister, who have always been extremely supportive of her. Molly Shevaun Reed, Production Assistant Molly is thrilled to join Portland Center Stage at The Armory this season as a stage management apprentice, where credits include Sense and Sensibility, Twist Your Dickens, Until The Flood, and The Color Purple. Originally from Denton, Texas, Molly has worked in stage management, props design, and has developed new work as a director in Dallas and Portland. Local credits include stage manager for Spectravagasm X, director/designer/ producer for Endless Oceans, and assistant director/production assistant for The Few at CoHo Productions. Dallas credits include stage manager for Dry Land at Upstart Theater and director/designer for the world premiere of Nomad Americana at WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival (formerly titled Rooting at Nouveau 47 Theatre). Love and thanks to Cam, Fam, Lyss, and Bear.

Syracuse Stage, Co-Producer Originally constructed as the Regent Movie House in 1914, the physical space of Syracuse Stage has seen many films, musicians, actors, and artists pass through its doors over the course of the past century. The Syracuse Stage that exists today is a nonprofit professional theater company founded in 1974 and a longstanding member of the League of Resident Theatres. Since its inception, Syracuse Stage has produced over 300 shows. It now produces six to seven shows per season, while offering educational programs, pre- and post-show events, and fundraising events each year. As Central New York’s only LORT theater company, it is one of the largest performing arts organizations in the area. Syracuse Stage has a strong commitment to giving the community access to a range of high-quality productions; it brings in actors, designers, and directors who are among the leading theater professionals locally and across the nation. syracusestage.org

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Marissa Wolf

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Cynthia Fuhrman

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CRAZY ENOUGH Written & Performed by

Storm Large Music Co-created by

Storm Large & James Beaton Music Director

Scenic Designer

Lighting Designer

James Beaton

Derek Easton

Daniel Meeker

Sound Designer

Stage Manager

Evan Duckworth

Mark Tynan

THE BAND James Beaton, Keys

Scott Weddle, Guitar

Matthew Brown, Bass

Greg Eklund, Drums

Performed with no intermission. Crazy Enough was originally conceived by Chris Coleman and commissioned by Portland Center Stage at The Armory. Crazy Enough was developed at JAW: A Playwrights Festival in 2008 and had its world premiere production at The Armory in the Ellyn Bye Studio in 2009. Videotaping or other photo or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. If you photograph the set before or after the performance, please credit the designers if you share the image. The Actor and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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TAKING THE ARMORY BY STORM This historic building has seen its fair share of ammunition, but nothing has ever exploded onto our stage quite like Storm Large. Here’s a little blast from the past of our flaming hot relationship with Storm. Storm made her Portland Center Stage at The Armory debut in 2007 as Sally Bowles in Cabaret. The show was a smash hit. It also stoked the fires of Storm’s love of theater and ultimately paved the way for Crazy Enough. Crazy Enough was the first theater piece Storm had ever written. Fortunately, she had help from a crack team of local writers who supported her throughout the process. Dubbed the “Big Brain Trust,” it included Marc Acito, Courtenay Hameister, Christine McKinley, Cynthia Whitcomb, and Daniel H. Wilson. Back in 2009, prior to the world premiere of Crazy Enough, Marc Acito reflected on the development: “When I think of Storm, I think of how she thinks, of a woman whose brain roams to the outer reaches of acceptability and whose mouth runs right along with it. ... Every artist needs outside perspective. In Storm’s case, it was particularly necessary because writing this show required that she take a long walk deep into the forest of her own life, which, as you will soon learn, was often a dark and scary place. The rest of us sat at the mouth of the forest, picnicking and enjoying Storm’s songs and tales, occasionally consulting the map or stepping in to hack away some brambles so she could swing from the trees. ... And, like you will at this performance, we reveled in the sheer force of nature that is Storm Large.” Storm wrote eight new songs for Crazy Enough, with the help of longtime collaborator and co-founder of The Balls, James Beaton. They released a studio recording to coincide with the opening. It’s still available at cdbaby.com for those who didn’t snag it the first time around. Crazy Enough blazed onto the stage on April 3, 2009. It was originally slated for 8 weeks in the Ellyn Bye Studio, but it became a massive hit. After selling out almost every performance, the show was extended twice and played for 143 performances. To this day, it is still the longest-running production in our company’s history. The extensions meant a special treat. On June 25, 2009, Storm played a performance of Crazy Enough on her 40th birthday. We surprised her by handing out party hats at the door and having the entire audience sing to her after the performance. She was floored. Now, 10 years later, we get the enormous honor of sharing another milestone with this incredible woman. This year’s run kicks off on her 50th birthday! So thank you for coming out for this landmark reunion. Please join us as we raise a glass and keep the celebrations running all week long for the one-and-only STORM LARGE.

When you write a song, you hope it’s a hit. There’s a combination of rhythm, melody, and harmony that makes you jump up and down, and you hope it hits everybody else the same way. So maybe this show can help other people who feel like freaks and misfits. It might help them to hear how I made it through.” —Storm Large in an interview with The Oregonian in 2009 before Crazy Enough opened.

Written by Claudie Jean Fisher, Associate Director of Marketing & Communications.

Storm Large in Cabaret (2007); photo by Owen Carey.

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THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS OF CRAZY ENOUGH CURTIS T. THOMPSON M.D & ASSOCIATES Curtis T. Thompson M.D. and Associates is thrilled to again sponsor Storm Large’s Crazy Enough. Storm’s compelling and personal story, paired with lively, touching, and sometimes raw music, makes this production an amazing experience!

THE HAROLD & ARLENE SCHNITZER CARE FOUNDATION/ ARLENE SCHNITZER & JORDAN D. SCHNITZER We believe theater is a reflection of our lives. We are very lucky to have Portland Center Stage at The Armory bring such thought-provoking work to our community. The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation is proud to support this production of Crazy Enough. We have such respect and admiration for Storm Large’s talent, and we’re thrilled she has made Portland her home.

Photo of Storm Large by Lauren Domela.

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THE CREATIVE TEAM Storm Large, Writer & Performer Storm is a musician, actor, playwright, and author. She shot to national prominence in 2006 as a finalist on CBS’s Rock Star: Supernova. Storm spent the ’90s singing in clubs throughout San Francisco. She moved to Portland to pursue a career as a chef, but a lastminute cancellation in 2002 at Dante’s turned into a standing Wednesday night engagement for Storm and her new band, The Balls. It wasn’t long before she had a cult-like following in Portland and a renewed singing career that was soon to be launched onto the international stage. Storm made her debut at Portland Center Stage at The Armory in 2007 as Sally Bowles in Cabaret. The company then commissioned her to create the autobiographical musical Crazy Enough, which she developed at JAW: A Playwrights Festival in 2008. Crazy Enough premiered in 2009 in the Ellyn Bye Studio, playing to packed houses during a record-breaking 143performance run. The show inspired Storm’s album and memoir of the same name. The memoir was named Oprah’s Book of the Week and won the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Storm went on to perform a cabaret version of Crazy Enough at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Adelaide Festival in Australia, and Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in New York. In 2011, she made her debut as guest vocalist with the band Pink Martini, singing four sold-out concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center. She continues to perform with the band, touring nationally and internationally. As a soloist, Storm has made repeated appearances at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and The Hollywood Bowl. Storm has also sung with Grammywinner k.d. lang, pianist Kirill Gerstein, punk rocker John Doe, singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer George Clinton. Storm and her band Le Bonheur also tour concert halls across the country.

James Beaton, Music Director/Keys Originally from the Bronx in New York City, James is an award-winning composer, music director, and pianist living in Portland, Oregon. After graduating from The Evergreen State College, he toured and recorded extensively with the rock band Everclear, with numerous appearances on film and television, before co-founding the notorious cabaret band The Balls. With Storm Large, his collaborator for nearly two decades, James composed and music directed Crazy Enough, which debuted at Portland Center Stage at The Armory in 2009, with further productions in Australia and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Since 2010, they have premiered new works annually with the Oregon Symphony. In 2014, James was nominated for a Drammy Award for the musical direction of the rock opera Lizzie. James continues to compose and tour internationally. He is delighted to be returning to The Armory. Scott Weddle, Guitar Scott is originally from Montana and graduated from Lewis and Clark College. He was a member of the Portland Americana band The Flatirons before founding the Portland group Amelia. Scott played drums in the original 2009 production of Crazy Enough and has accompanied Storm on the guitar ever since. He returned to Portland Center Stage at The Armory in 2014 to play guitar in LIZZIE. Scott also records and performs with his talented singer/ songwriter wife, Sarah Gwen, and makes music under the name Neighbor Boy. Matthew Brown, Bass Born in Oregon, Matt is a multiinstrumentalist who studied music at the University of North Texas and Mount Hood Community College. Matt currently plays regularly with Storm Large, Redray Frazier, and Miss Michael Jodell. He’s also been a member of She & Him, The Motels, and The Baseboard Heaters. Greg Eklund, Drums Unable to be involved in the original debut of Crazy Enough due to the birth of his second child, Greg was asked by Storm and James to play on Crazy Enough’s original soundtrack. He joined Storm’s band later that year, and for the last decade, has performed with her on stage from Portland’s own Dante’s to The

Kennedy Center and the Sydney Opera House. He performed in Crazy Enough at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010 and the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2011. For his work with ’90s Portland rock band Everclear, Greg was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame in 2012. He would like to thank his wife, Ellina, and sons, Desmund and Dekker, for their love and support over the past 10 years. Derek Easton, Scenic Designer Derek is excited to be working as a scenic designer for Portland Center Stage at The Armory for the first time, starting small and looking forward to the next opportunity. Derek has also been The Armory’s technical director for the last two years. His past credits include scenic, lighting, and video design for over 50 shows at Theatre Cedar Rapids in Iowa, as well as being the company’s technical director for seven years. Prior to that, Derek worked for Actors Theatre of Louisville’s lighting department, and did lighting design work with Aspen Music Festival and School’s opera program, Theatreworks, in Colorado Springs and for StageOne Family Theatre in Louisville. If you are interested in seeing more of his work, visit derek-easton.com.

Daniel Meeker, Lighting Designer Portland Center Stage at The Armory: lighting for Twist Your Dickens, Lauren Weedman Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, and Wild and Reckless; scenery for A Christmas Memory/Winter Song, The People’s Republic of Portland, and Red (Drammy Award); scenery and lighting for Kodachrome, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Typographer’s Dream, LIZZIE (Drammy Award for lighting), The Last Five Years, and The Mountaintop. Local design credits include shows for Portland Playhouse, Portland Opera, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Profile Theater, and Artists Repertory Theatre. Outside of theater, Daniel is the lighting director for Pickathon and the principal designer of The American Art Fair and The Winter Antiques Show. Daniel is a graduate of Ithaca College and The Yale School of Drama, and a member of United Scenic Artists. Evan Duckworth, Sound Designer Evan is excited to pick up his first design credit here at The Armory. Hailing from Chicago, he bounced around the Midwest mixing and programming before making his way out to Portland last July. Recent credits include

programming work for Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s 2017–2018 season, serving as A1 for Million Dollar Quartet at The Little Theatre on the Square, and returning to his alma mater to design The Phantom of the Opera. Since starting at The Armory, he has served as A1 on The Color Purple and Sense and Sensibility. Mark Tynan, Stage Manager Imagine being in a room full of artists, watching the birth of an idea, a movement given purpose, a sentence, phrase, scene, act given life. Then imagine that room translating to the stage with lighting, sound, costumes, scenery, and props; then you can imagine what Mark’s job is like. Special thanks to the stage management apprentices, Alexis EllisAlvarez, Molly Reed, and Sarah Stark. Prior to Portland Center Stage at The Armory, Mark toured nationally and internationally with musicals including Dreamgirls, The King and I with Rudolf Nureyev, How to Succeed…, Grand Hotel, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, and Jersey Boys. Other Portland credits include several summers with Broadway Rose Theatre Company in Tigard. Regional credits include Alley Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and Casa Mañana Theatre.

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MARISSA WOLF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Portland Center Stage at The Armory is the largest theater company in Portland and among the top 20 regional theaters in the country. Established in 1988 as a branch of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the company became independent in 1994. An estimated 160,000 people visit The Armory annually to enjoy a mix of classic, contemporary, and world premiere productions, along with a variety of high quality education and community programs. Eleven productions are offered this season, in addition to roughly 400 community events created — in partnership with 170+ local organizations and individuals — to serve the diverse populations in the city. As part of its dedication to new play development, the company has produced 26 world premieres and presents an annual new works festival, JAW: A Playwrights Festival. Home to two theaters, The Armory was the first building on the National Register of Historic Places, and the first performing arts venue in the country, to achieve a LEED Platinum rating.

Currently in her first season as artistic director of Portland Center Stage at The Armory, Marissa previously served as associate artistic director/ new works director at Kansas City Repertory Theatre and artistic director of Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco. Select directing credits include Fire in Dreamland by Rinne Groff (The Public Theater; world premiere at KCRep); Man in Love by Christina Anderson and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens (KCRep); 77% by Rinne Groff (San Francisco Playhouse); Precious Little by Madeleine George (Shotgun Players); The Lily’s Revenge (Act II) by Taylor Mac (Magic Theatre); and The Late Wedding by Christopher Chen (Crowded Fire Theater). She’s been nominated for Best Director by Broadway World San Francisco and the Bay Area Critics Circle. Marissa held the Bret C. Harte Directing Fellowship at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and has a degree in drama from Vassar College, with additional training from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

CYNTHIA FUHRMAN MANAGING DIRECTOR Cynthia has worked in professional theater since 1982 (with two detours, which she highly recommends). She was manager of public relations at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland and, as director of marketing and communications, was among the staff who traveled north to open OSF’s Portland branch and eventually transitioned it to become the independent Portland Center Stage. She also spent five seasons as director of marketing and communications at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Theater detours include her roles as COO for eyescream interactive, the Northwest’s largest internet marketing agency at the time, and communications director for Portland’s Office of Sustainable Development, a crash course in promoting all things green. In 2008, she returned to Portland Center Stage at The Armory as director of marketing and communications and was named managing director in 2017. Cynthia holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in humanities and attended the University of Oregon, the American University of London, and Southern Oregon University.

MARISSA WOLF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

We welcome all races, all countries of origin, all sexual orientations, all gender identities, and people of any religion or none at all. We at The Armory humbly acknowledge that the Portland metropolitan area rests on the traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes who made their homes along the Columbia (Wimahl) and Willamette (Whilamut) rivers. Today, Portland’s diverse and vibrant Native communities are 70,000 strong, descended from more than 380 Tribes, both local and distant. We take this opportunity to offer respectful recognition to the Native communities in our region today, and to those who have stewarded this land throughout the generations.

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Portland Center Stage at The Armory operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Portland Center Stage at The Armory is part of LORT, Theatre Communications Group, Portland Business Alliance, and Travel Portland.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE

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THANK YOU PORTLAND CENTER STAGE AT THE ARMORY is honored to collaborate with corporate and community partners who demonstrate a commitment to civic leadership, and advocate for our value as a vital community and cultural resource. We would like to recognize the generosity and support of the businesses, foundations, organizations, and individuals that help make the 2018–2019 season possible. As of April 12, 2019

$25,000+ GBD Architects Gerding Edlen Meyer Memorial Trust James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency Oregon Cultural Trust The Regional Arts & Culture Council, including support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County, the Arts Education & Access Fund, and more than 1,000 donors to the RACC’s Arts Impact Fund The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation/Arlene Schnitzer & Jordan Schnitzer The Shubert Foundation The Standard Curtis T. Thompson, M.D. & Associates, LLC U.S. Bank The Vista The Wallace Foundation

$10,000–$24,999 AHA! Sheri & Les Biller Family Foundation Broughton & Mary Bishop Foundation Goulder Family Foundation The Henry Lea Hillman, Jr. Foundation Hoffman Construction Company Jackson Foundation KeyBank The Kinsman Foundation Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund M Financial Moda National Endowment for the Arts NW Natural

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DONORS $25,000+ Anonymous (2) Keith & Sharon Barnes Don & Mary Blair Mary & Tim Boyle Andy & Nancy Bryant Glenn Dahl & Linda Illig Jess Dishman Dream Envision Foundation Brigid Flanigan Diana Gerding Rob Goodman Heather Killough James & Morley Knoll Hilary Krane & Kelly Bulkeley Ronni S. Lacroute Ralph & Jean Quinsey Pat & Trudy Ritz/Ritz Family Foundation Barbara & Phil Silver The Stern Family Dan Wieden & Priscilla Bernard Wieden

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Everything is more dramatic in French. From Molière, Racine, Hugo, Feydeau, Artaud, and Sartre to Reza and Zeller, works by French playwrights have astounded, amused, and touched audiences with their inspired language for centuries. Rehearse some new lines in French for yourself at the Alliance Française. Mention pourquoi pas for a little gift.

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1984

by George

Orwell

Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan

A new play by

LA RUTA by

Isaac Gomez

THE STRANGE UNDOING OF PRUDENCIA HART by

David Greig

SCHOOL GIRLS;

OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY by

Jocelyn Bioh

A co-production with Portland Center Stage @ The Armory

INDECENT by

Paula Vogel

A co-production with Profile Theatre in association with PSU’s Theatre Program In 1793, during France’s Reign of Terror — a playwright, an assassin, a former queen, and a Caribbean spy walk into a room and attempt to save the soul of France.

LOOKING FOR TIGER LILY by

Anthony Hudson

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Dance

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STAFF MARISSA WOLF

CYNTHIA FUHRMAN

Artistic Director

Managing Director

ARTISTIC

Emily S. Ryan,

Chip Miller, Associate Producer Benjamin Fainstein, Literary Manager Will Cotter, Producing Associate

ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE Lisa Comer, Finance Director Caitlin Upshaw, Director of HR, Equity & Inclusion

Lydia Comer, HR Manager Ticia Evans, Accounting Manager Alan King, Accountant Chris Beatty, IT Administrator Clement Mugabo, IT Associate Kate Webb, Executive Assistant

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Kelsey Tyler, Education & Community Programs Director

Jonas Angelet, Community Programs Manager Clara-Liis Hillier, Education & Community Programs Associate

Matthew B. Zrebski, Resident Teaching Artist

DEVELOPMENT Lisa Sanman, Development Director Jennifer Goldsmith, Associate Development Director

Eric Steinhauser,

Patron Services Assistant Manager

Madelyn Clement, David Harper,

Marlene A. Montooth, Grants Manager Celia Ferrer, Development Events Manager Jack E. Ridenour, Development Associate

Patron Services Representatives

Tonea Lolin, Hope McCaffrey, Patron Services Sales Associates

PRODUCTION Liam Kaas-Lentz, Director of Production Katie Nguyen, Associate Production Manager Kristen Mun, Mark Tynan, Janine Vanderhoff, Stage Managers, AEA Alexis Ellis-Alvarez, Molly Shevaun Reed, Sarah Stark, Stage Management Apprentices Derek Easton, Technical Director Amanda Nelsen, Scene Shop Coordinator Nick Foltz, Master Carpenter Christian Cheker, Nathan Crosby, Michael Hall, Phil A. Shaw, Carpenters Mary Reischmann, Scenic Charge Artist Shawn Mallory, Kiona McAlister Scenic Painters

Michael Jones, Properties Supervisor Lauren Chilton, Lead Properties Artisan Emma Van Halsema, Properties Artisan Alex Wren Meadows, Costume Shop Manager Sydney Dufka, Paula Buchert, Eva Steingrueber-Fagan, Cutters/Drapers

Larissa Cranmer, Associate Draper Barbara Casement, Costume Crafts Artisan Bonnie Henderson-Winnie, Wardrobe Supervisor

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Sharon Martell, Director of Marketing & Communications

Claudie Jean Fisher,

Associate Director

of Marketing & Communications

Aiyana Cunningham,

Group Sales &

Promotions Manager

Kate Kerns,

Marketing &

Communications Associate

Jessica Miller, Wig Supervisor Em Douglas, Lighting Supervisor Trent Alexz Eccles, Master Electrician & Programmer, U.S. Bank Main Stage

Alex Agnes, Master Electrician & Programmer, Ellyn Bye Studio

Avi Sheehan, Lighting Apprentice Casi Pacilio, Resident Sound Designer & Sound/Video Supervisor

Evan Duckworth, Associate Sound & Video Supervisor

Mikey Mann, Graphic Designer Kate Szrom, Multimedia Designer Christian Bisgard, Webmaster

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OPERATIONS

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Jacob Foster, Tim Taylor, Facilities Assistants

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Senior Patron Services Representatives

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Assistant to the Costume Shop Manager

Individual & Planned Giving Manager

EVENTS & RENTALS

FRONT OF HOUSE Nsilo Berry, Wynee Hu, Alicia Pedroza, Hannah Rice, Concierges RaChelle Schmidt, Volunteer Coordinator Michael Rocha, Lead House Manager Jenna Barganski, Nhu Nguyen, Hannah Rice, House Managers

FOOD & BEVERAGE Melissa Larrabee, Café & Bar Manager Erin Rubin, Kitchen & Catering Manager Marguerite McLean, Bar Lead Ryan Smith, Café Lead Natalie Myers-Guzman, Kitchen & Catering Lead

Leesidhe Blackburn, Kitchen Assistant Ari Binks, Justin Charles, Natalie Fund, Kim Gautier, Katrina Hall, Jamie Inman, Jeremy Laney, Jeremiah Loewen, Drew Patton, Will Ramis, Andrew Rubin, Dani White, Food & Beverage Staff

FOR THIS PRODUCTION The Breath of Life Evan Duckworth, Sound Operator & Engineer Heather Taylor, Wardrobe Assistant Avi Sheehan, Assistant Lighting Designer Connery MacRae, Myke Rodriguez, Ben Rosenthal, Megan Thorpe, Mark Twohy, Lauren Williams, Claire Zaro, Electricians

Native Gardens Evan Duckworth, Sound Operator & Engineer Heather Taylor, Wardrobe Assistant

Native Gardens & Crazy Enough Don Crossley, Joel Ferraro, Ian Hale, Mary Michels, Kai Rain, Myke Rodriguez, Ben Rosenthal, Megan Thorpe, Mike Wax, Connor Ward, Claire Zaro, Electricians

Crazy Enough Alex Meadows, Costume Coordinator

VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE Connie Guist, Office Assistants Chair Karen Watson, Supporting Cast Chair

SUPERSTAR STAFF EMERITUS Sarah E. Mitchell, Rest in Power, Smitch

DONOR TRIBUTES

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Tribute gifts as of March 28, 2019

Ted Austin Chair, Senior Vice President, U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management

In memory of Dave Bany Randy Foster

Betsy Henning Vice Chair, CEO & Founder, AHA! Strategic Communications

In memory of Alan Beard Julie & Ted Vigeland

Sarah J. Crooks Vice Chair, Partner, Perkins Coie, LLP

In memory of Alan Beard GBD Architects

Brigid Flanigan Treasurer, President, Shamrock Holdings, LLC Steve E. Wynne Secretary, Executive Vice President, Moda Health

In loving memory of Ben Buckley Joan Peacock In honor of David Coleman Jean Himmelstein

Mary Boyle Immediate Past Chair, Civic Volunteer Scott Andrews Principal, Melvin Mark Companies

In memory of Carol Howard Hal Howard

Sharon Barnes Community Activist Phil Beyl President, GBD Architects

In memory of Kory Mahaffy Julie & Ted Vigeland

Saskia M. de Boer Partner, Stoel Rives, LLP

In loving memory of Sarah E. Mitchell The Armory

Greg Chandler Vice President, IT, The Standard Gustavo J. Cruz Jr. Senior Counsel, Farleigh Wada Witt

In honor of Rose Riordan and her 22 years of artistic direction at Portland Center Stage Mary Boyle

Kelly K. Douglas Manager, State Investments, LLC Lana Finley Community Activist

In honor of Janna Starr Lynda Bersani

Diana Gerding Community Volunteer Mike Golub President Of Business, Portland Timbers

In memory of Julianna Waibel PCS Investment Committee

Tasca Gulick Community Activist

In honor of David E. Wagner Bill Dickey

Lani Hayward Community Activist Renée Holzman Community Volunteer

In honor of Michelle Weisenbach & Mike Penfield Kathi & Ted Austin, Paul & Lisa Nourigat, Katie Carle

Linda Illig Retired, Community Volunteer Yuki Lynne Johnston Advocate for the Arts

In memory of Elaine Whiteley The Armory

Jim L. Knoll President, James L Knoll, PC Dedre Marriott Retired, Former CEO & Professor

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Joseph F. Mitchoff CEO, Viridian Reclaimed Wood Karen L. O’Connor Partner, Stoel Rives, LLP

The Armory Legacy Circle honors those who have

Turid Owren Partner, Tonkon Torp, LLP

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Dana Rasmussen Retired, Attorney Joseph Sawicki Vice President & General Manager, Design-To-Silicon Division, Mentor Graphics

Dr. Ann E. Smith Sehdev Physician, Cascade Pathology Doug Smith Retired, Sr. Vice President, AMEC Foster Tyler Tatman Finance Controller, Intel Corporation Rosemarie Thompson Managing Partner, Roselake Property & Designs, LLC Michelle Weisenbach Oregon & SE Washington Market President & Commercial Bank Leader, Key Bank J. Greg Ness Armory Theater Fund Chair, Director Emeritus, Chairman, CEO & President, Standard Insurance Stancorp Financial Group H. Pat Ritz Director Emeritus, Chairman & CEO, Footwear Specialties International Julie Vigeland Director Emeritus, Civic Volunteer In Memoriam: Bob Gerding

Anonymous (2) Dr. Gene Baker & Regina Brody Keith & Sharon Barnes Judy Bradley & Dave Mitchell Jess Dishman William & Karen Early Cynthia M. Fuhrman* Diana Gerding Jennifer & Tim Goldsmith Leslie S. Homer Dr. Barbara Hort Carol & Charles Mackey John Maul & Kay Campbell Joe Mitchoff & Curtis Thompson Virginia S. Mullen Jean O’Neill Joan Peacock Lisa Sanman Douglas & Teresa Smith Eric Steinhauser & Gregg Macy Larry & Elizabeth Volchok

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New Artistic Director On April 20, 2019, Bag&Baggage introduced Cassie Greer as their new Artistic Director. Greer has been with B&B since 2011, first as an actor and then in a variety of education, outreach, and artistic support roles, culminating in the Associate Artistic Director position sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s held since 2017. Artslandia is thrilled to bring you the inside scoop on this exciting appointment.

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Congratulations on your new position! What’s it like to be stepping into the shoes of Scott Palmer, the Founding Artistic Director who’s been with the company for nearly 15 years? Thank you so much! And oh man, are these some big shoes! Running this company is a daunting, thrilling, incredible opportunity, and I’m grateful to our Board of Directors for leading us through a thoughtful transition process and giving me so much support. While there’s no way I will ever be Scott Palmer (or want to be!), I do have the advantage of having worked with him in a variety of capacities over the past eight years—experience that has, more or less, amounted to a personal masterclass in artistic leadership, Bag&Baggage style. Among Scott’s most exemplary qualities—and probably the thing that has drawn most people to B&B over the years—is his incredible vision and his ability to unite artists and audiences behind a central idea or mission. This is true whether we’re talking about a show concept or a fundraising campaign, and I have learned staying relevant, appealing directly to concepts that actually matter to people in our community, thinking outside the box about creative expression, and unapologetically, passionately pursuing our goals (be they artistic or financial) is the way this company has achieved success. I’m excited to pick up this torch and run with it using everything I’ve learned from Scott, as well as bringing my own brand of leadership to Bag&Baggage. We have a fantastic team here in Hillsboro, and while our founder will definitely be missed, I’m eager to see where we can go as we continue to bring all of our voices and talents to build upon the foundation he has created. You and Managing Director Beth Lewis comprise one of the youngest all-female leadership teams of a mid-sized professional theater in the U.S. How did that come to be? What are your thoughts about that superlative? Yeah, that’s a pretty incredible statistic. And my feelings are mixed: on one hand, it’s amazing to be able to make this claim, and I feel extremely fortunate that my career path has taken me so quickly to a place where I’m able to step into a leadership position of this kind. On the other hand, I think about the many young, fresh, creative, female voices that are never given the kind of platform that I am being given, and I wonder how we can do our work better as theater companies in America to flip the narrative that white, male leadership is somehow safer, more acceptable, or more trustworthy than female leadership, or leadership by people of color. We limit ourselves so much as artists if we’re unwilling to let underrepresented voices come to the forefront. If you think about it, so much of the work at the heart of acting training is about learning to take risks and adopt uncomfortable perspectives; yet when we look at those same concepts on the company level, the theater sometimes seems risk-averse. And I totally get it—this is an extremely complicated conversation, particularly when we’re living in a society that seems to be increasingly devaluing and underfunding the arts. But the reason that theater is such a powerful artistic medium is that it appeals to our human empathy in a present, visceral way, and if we as theater companies are unwilling to take some of the same risks and expand our worldview in the same way that we ask our artists to do, I think we’re only holding ourselves back. There was that great New York Times article a few weeks ago

about doors opening for women and people of color in artistic leadership, and it’s great to know that Bag&Baggage is part of this current national wave; but as that article concluded, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and if we want our art form to survive, my appointment as Artistic Director of a midsized company as a 30-something woman needs to be the most unremarkable thing in the world. Scott was the playwright on many of the previous adaptions the company premiered. What is the plan for the future now that he’s moved on? True! One of the things Scott is internationally recognized for is his approach to adapting the classics—Shakespeare in particular. At B&B, we value text-based work, and almost all of our Shakespeare adaptations have looked at either the material that influenced Shakespeare or the material that was most immediately influenced by him (i.e., Restoration-era plays)—and sometimes both—mashing these up together in a new take on the story. This process of adaptation has become pretty familiar to our artists: I personally have acted in eight Scott Palmer Shakespeare mashups, for example, and had the opportunity to do my own adaptation in this vein with As You Like It or, Love In A Forest that we produced last summer. So, one answer is that we’re well-equipped to continue to explore the work of the Bard, and other classics, in this fairly academic and text-based way. Another answer is that this is only one pretty specific approach to adaptation, and the fact that we won’t be producing at least one Scott Palmer show per season opens us up to feature other adapted work that includes the voices of more women and people of color. For example, we just wrapped up the first season of a multiyear initiative called the Problem Play Project, which commissions Oregon-based playwrights of color to take on Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays” and adapt them through the lens of their own lived experience, cultural background, and social values. This is emblematic of the type of work we’d be interested in producing more of, and there are so many playwrights and storytellers out there—even right here in the Portland theater community—who are doing compelling and relevant adaptations of classical material. Scott’s absence gives us just a little more space to explore these. .

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