Peter and the Starcatcher - Portland Playhouse

BY RICK ELICE | MUSIC BY WAYNE BARKER BASED ON THE NOVEL BY DAVE BARRY & RIDLEY PEARSON DIRECTED BY BRIAN WEAVER & REBECCA LINGAFELTER

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April 27 – May 29 www.portlandplayhouse.org

4/18/16 1:32 PM

PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS

OUR SEASON IS MADE POSSIBLE BY

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER

(PRODUCER LEVEL)

Harold Goldstein & Carol Streeter Ronni Lacroute Phillip Terranova

A play by Rick Elice

Based on the Novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Music by Wayne Barker Originally produced on Broadway by Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes, and Disney Theatrical Productions.

CAST

APRIL 27 – MAY 29

Sam Dinkowitz Doren Elias

Mrs. Bumbrake Grempkin

Duffy Epstein

Slank

Nick Ferrucci

Boy

Scott Engdahl Isaac Lamb*

Lord Aster Black Stache

Sean McGrath

Prentiss

Darius Pierce*

Smee

Jen Rowe

Molly

Chip Sherman Benjamin Tissell Andrea Whittle Quinn Fitzgerald

Ted Alf Captain Scott Understudy

Rebecca Lingafelter

Director

Brian Weaver

Director

Amy Frankel Alexandra Geffl Daniel Meeker Laura Shirk Charles Alli Green Sara Ludeman Kelly Wetherald Steven Cantor David Levine Kristina Mast Christian Andrews

(PLAYWRIGHT LEVEL) Ellyn Bye Barry Bloom Jeff & Esther Clark Steve & Elsie Weaver Linda Wrather & Anthony Finnocchiaro Our mission is to create a space where people of all backgrounds can come together to celebrate the complexity of our shared human experience. We envision a world awakened by the wonder of theatre.

The photographic, video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is prohibited.

CREATIVE TEAM

Eric Nordin

(BELL TOWER LEVEL) American Theatre Wing The Collins Foundation Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Lagunitas Brewing Company Meyer Memorial Trust James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Newman’s Own Foundation Oregon Arts Commission Oregon Cultural Trust PGE Foundation Playhouse on Prescott LLC Raymond Family Foundation Wrather Family Foundation Willamette Week Give!Guide

Music Director/Pianist Choreographer Percussionist Scenic and Lighting Designer Costume Designer Assistant Costume Designer Properties Designer

*Appears Courtesy Actors’ Equity Association. 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 Portland Playhouse receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Assistant Director Assistant Music Director Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Technical Director

Peter And The Starcatcher is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI) All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th St. New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE PETER AND THE STARCATCHER | P1

CAST SAM DINKOWITZ (Mrs. Bumbrake)

This is Sam’s first production with the Playhouse, and he couldn’t be more thrilled. Recent local credits: Passion Play with Profile Theatre/Shaking the Tree. Static at Third Rail Repertory, Twist Your Dickens 2013-15 at Portland Center Stage, Wait Until Dark with Northwest Classical Theatre, The Tempest and Taming of the Shrew with Portland Shakespeare Project, Lost Boy at Artists’ Repertory Theatre, A Pigeon and a Boy at Jewish Theatre Collaborative, Dracula: A Musical Nightmare at Stumptown Stages, and Julius Caesar, Henry IV, and Arabian Nights at Post5 Theatre. Other credits include: Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Macbeth, Othello, A View from the Bridge, Coriolanus, and A Servant of Two Masters) Utah Shakespeare Festival (Diary of Anne Frank, Pericles). Sam received his BFA from Southern Oregon University in 2009.

DOREN ELIAS (Grempkin)

Doren is making his long anticipated Playhouse debut. Since having arrived in Portland in 2008, he has appeared at several local theaters including ART, JTC, CRT, OCT and others. He has worked as an actor, director and teacher in many other cities around the country. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA. he attended The University of Texas. He spent seven years as a company member with Lamb’s Players Theatre in San Diego.

Most recently, Doren was the Associate Artistic Director for Clackamas Rep Theatre and directed last year’s How to Succeed in Business. He and his wife KB Mercer, who appeared in Portland Playhouse’s first season, run The Traveling Lantern Theatre Company.

Doren is honored to be a part of this production and perform with this stellar cast.

DUFFY EPSTEIN (Slank)

Duffy Epstein is proud to return to Portland Playhouse, where he has previously appeared in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, After The Revolution and The Other Place. Other favorite Portland roles include Harold in I Want To Destroy You (Theater Vertigo), Cash in The Pain And The Itch (Third Rail), Ziggy in Sideman (Artists Rep) and Matt in Talley’s Folly (Mt Hood Rep). This one is for Glenda.

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NICK FERRUCCI (Boy)

Nick Ferrucci is excited to be working with Portland Playhouse for the first time. He holds an MFA in Acting from Northern Illinois University and a BFA in Theatre from Southern Oregon University. He has studied with the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia, and The Second City in Chicago.

Other theatres: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Sierra Repertory Theatre, Profile Theatre, Commonweal Theatre Company, Heritage Theatre Festival, Jewish Theatre Collaborative, and Bright Star Touring Theatre. Film: The Falls, One Foot In The Gutter.

TV: Grimm. Nick also plays drums in the Portland based band Tender Age. www.NickFerrucci.com

SCOTT ENGDAHL (Lord Aster)

Scott’s recent performances have included Max in The Lost Boys at the Siren Theater, Rose in the Golden Girls at the Funhouse Lounge, Dr. Wicked Whiskers in Oregon Children’s Theater’s Geronimo Stilton: Mouse In Space, and Sister Mary Mathew in No Mans Land at Action/Adventure Theater. He can also be seen in season six of Portlandia, and as Rodney in the web series The Benefits Of Gusbandry.

ISAAC LAMB (Black Stache)

Isaac Lamb is an award winning actor, director, and world-renowned creator of viral video content. He is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and a proud company member of Third Rail Repertory Theatre. Select Local credits: The Aliens, The Mystery of Irma Vep, and Belleville (Third Rail); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Small Fire, Great Expectations (PCS); Assassins, Playboy of the Western World (ART); Sound of Music, Ripper (Broadway Rose); Mr. Burns: a post electric play, Famished (Portland Playhouse), and The Three Sisters (PETE). National Tour: Defending the Caveman, Broadway’s longest running one-person show.

Select Regional: Sweet Charity (Red Mountain), Timeless: Barbara Streisand (Staples Center), One Sunday in Mississippi (Bannister).

Film: North Starr (Sundance ’08).

Proud member AEA.

SEAN MCGRATH (Prentiss)

Sean returns to Portland Playhouse for the first time since 2012’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Portland

audiences may also know him from Great Expectations (PCS), Maple and Vine (CoHo), Weekend at Bernie’s (Funhouse), or the ten years he spent onstage with Live Wire Radio. TV and film credits include Grimm, Librarians, Deep Dark, Twilight, and a bevy of local and national commercials.

He is also the proud creator of Bath Night sketch comedy in which he writes and directs. He’d like to thank the cast, crew, friends who come out to the show, Ma, Pa, and Brother.

He studied under Sanford Meisner, Michael Chekhov, and Stella Adler... approved educational video tapes.

DARIUS PIERCE (Smee)

Darius Pierce has been a Portland actor for almost 15 years. Past local productions include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Portland Playhouse); The Beard of Avon, Twelfth Night, The Santaland Diaries, Stupid F&%king Bird (Portland Center Stage); Les Miserables, My Fair Lady (Broadway Rose); The Realistic Joneses (Third Rail Repertory). He has also performed in Seattle, Providence, D.C., and New York. Less often, he is found on screen, examples being Grimm, Leverage, and Portlandia. Darius is a Company Member at Third Rail Repertory Theatre and co-founder of the Anonymous Theatre Company.

JEN ROWE (Molly)

Jen Rowe was previously seen at Portland Playhouse in Mr. Burns: A post-electric Play, A Christmas Carol (3 years), After the Revolution, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Twelfth Night. She directed How We Got On. She produced and directed: Waiting, The Unseen, Mercury Fur, Phaedra’s Love and Unda with The Quick and Dirty Art Project. Other performances: Speech and Debate (ART), JAW festival (5 years, PCS), Distracted (ART), Middletown (Third Rail).

TV credits include Grimm (NBC) and The Librarians (TNT).

CHIP SHERMAN (Ted)

Chip is thrilled to be learning to fly with such an amazingly talented cast and crew. Favorite past Portland performances: How We Got On (Portland Playhouse), Mr. Kolpert (Third Rail), Twelfth Night (Post 5).

Chip is a proud company member at 11: Dance Co. He would like to thank; his cast and crew, his Mother and his

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM Beau. This summer Chip will be using his new found flight to relocate to Seattle where he can be seen in Island Stage Left’s productions of Romeo and Juliet and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).

It’s been fun Portland, till next time.

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”

BENJAMIN TISSELL (Alf)

Ben is thrilled to be making his Portland Playhouse debut in this delightful project. He has appeared throughout the Portland area in such roles as George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Father Flynn in Doubt. Ben is also an occasional director, having directed for such companies as Lakewood Theatre, Northwest Children’s Theatre and Valley Repertory Theatre, for whom he both composed and directed a musical last season. Ben is a teacher at heart, working as a guest artist and Clackamas High School and with the high school community at Eastridge Church. Apart from theatre, Ben writes, records and performs his own original music. Recordings, upcoming shows, media and a full list of theatre credits can be found at BenjaminTissell.com. Ben studied theatre at George Fox University, graduating in 2011. He would like to express his gratitude for a cast, crew and company so dedicated to the wonder of storytelling. “The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.” -G.K. Chesterton

ANDREA WHITTLE (Captain Scott)

Andrea is from the Magic City of Miami, Florida, and a recent graduate from Florida A&M University where she received her B.A. in Theatre Performance. Her favorite productions include: The Color Purple (ensemble), Since 76’ (Sage) and Home (Woman).

She is so grateful to be apart of Portland Playhouse. Everything that I am is because of my university and my family and for them both I am so very thankful.

BRIAN WEAVER (Director)

Brian has directed at Portland Playhouse: The Other Place, The Light in the Piazza, Detroit, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Angels in

America, Gem of the Ocean, Dying City, The Missing Pieces, Radio Golf, bobrauschenbergamerica, Fiction, and After Ashley; and acted in Bingo with the Indians and Mauritius; regional credits include American Buffalo (Third Rail Repertory); Scapin and Titus Andronicus (Intiman Theatre); Ice Glen and Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare & Company); and Where has Tommy Flowers Gone?

(Berkshire Theatre Festival). Brian is a founding member of New World Theatre, and the Founder/Artistic Director of Portland Playhouse.

REBECCA LINGAFELTER (Director)

Rebecca Lingafelter is thrilled to be back at Portland Playhouse codirecting with Brian following their collaboration on Twelfth Night for Pickathon in 2012. Other directing credits include Realistic Joneses (Third Rail), Tongues (Profile), Elective Affinities (Boom Arts), 448 Psychosis, and As You Like it (Lewis & Clark).

She is a company member at Third Rail Repertory Theatre and co-artistic director of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE). Upcoming projects include directing Procedures for Saying No (PETE) and Bright Half Life (Profile). Rebecca is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Lewis & Clark College. Columbia University, MFA.

KELLY WETHERALD (Assistant Director)

Kelly is thrilled to be assistant directing Peter and the Starcatcher and working with Portland Playhouse this season. Prior to moving west, Kelly worked in Washington DC and NYC after receiving her BA in Theatre and minor in Nonprofit Business from James Madison University. Kelly has directed, assisted, produced and taught with a variety of companies such as the New York Musical Festival, The Lincoln Center, The CRY HAVOC Company, No Rules Theatre Company, Tale Told Productions and Moonlit Wings Productions. She is a MFA Directing candidate at University of Portland and is currently working on a devised piece addressing homelessness in the Portland community.

ERIC NORDIN (Music Director)

Eric Nordin is a composer, playwright, music director, pianist and educator.

He was awarded a 2014 Portland Area Musical Theater Award (PAMTA) for the Portland Playhouse production of

A Light in the Piazza. Additionally, he has won five Portland Drammy Awards, including last year’s Best Production of a Play, for The Snowstorm as playwright and pianist. This is Eric’s fourth show as Music Director at Portland Playhouse.

(2012’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and 2015’s Mr. Burns)

STEVEN CANTOR

(Assistant Music Director) Steven would like to thank Brian and Eric for the opportunity to work on this production. Past credits include Light in the Piazza and Mr. Burns (Portland Playhouse), Parade (Staged), Snowstorm (Many Hats/CoHo), and Heathers -The Musical (Staged/ Triangle). Love to Annabel.

AMY FRANKEL (Choreographer)

Amy has choreographed numerous shows in the Portland area including Candide for the Portland Opera; Grey Gardens, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and A Christmas Carol for Portland Center Stage; A Chorus Line and The King and I for The Broadway Rose Theatre Co.; and Beauty and the Beast with Pixie Dust Productions at the Newmark Theatre. Amy has won Portland Drammy Awards for her outstanding performances in in 42nd Street, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and The Pain and the Itch. She is a company member of Third Rail Repertory Theatre. Before moving to Portland, Amy danced both on Broadway and in the national tour of 42nd Street. She just recently went back to school to receive her Bachelors of Science in Nursing, and is now working as a registered nurse at the Portland VA Hospital.

ALEXANDRA GEFFEL (Percussionist)

Alexandra is a native to Portland, having initially studied with many local teachers and drummers. She has a B.A. in Music from Biola University (La Mirada, CA), where she studied with Cliff Hulling and played in various ensembles. Alexandra plays drum set, classical percussion, marimba, cajon and various Latin and African percussion instruments; specializing in classical, rock, jazz, and musical theater. She performs regularly with the bands The Cabin Project and Skull Diver as well as working as a freelance percussionist throughout Portland. Learn more at her website: zannydrums.weebly.com PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE PETER AND THE STARCATCHER | P3

BY THE NUMBERS

306

ESTIMATED AUDIENCE MEMBERS

OF OUR 2015 FALL FESTIVAL OF SHAKESPEARE PARTICIPANTS...

Are comfortable speaking in public.

96%

99%

Are successfully able to manage stressful situations

92%

Are comfortable expressing criticism for other’s work.

88%

82% 96%

Are comfortable trying new things.

Are comfortable sharing their feelings with others.

Are comfortable receving criticism for their own work.

WOULD YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE FALL FESTIVAL OF SHAKESPEARE AGAIN?

MAYBE NO

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I AM COMFORTABLE UNDERSTANDING SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS

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Franklin

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THIS IS MY FIRST YEAR PARTICIPATING IN THE FALL FESTIVAL

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41%

RETURNING PARTICIPANT

FIRST YEAR

I BELIEVE THIS PROGRAM WAS A VALUABLE EXPERIENCE

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4.2

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4.6

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Strongly Disagree

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WEEKS

HOW MANY YEARS HAS EACH SCHOOL BEEN INVOLVED IN THE FALL FESTIVAL OF SHAKESPEARE?

YES

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10

EDUCATORS

SCHOOLS

Years (including 2015)

STUDENT PARTICIPANTS

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SPOTLIGHT BOARD MEMBER & FORMER APPRENTICE

NATASHA TERRANOVA WHEN WERE YOU FIRST INTRODUCED TO PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE? By happy accident, several years ago I was chatting with a friend who was on his way to see Fiction at The Playhouse and he offered to bring me along. I remember stepping out of crisp fall air into the warm, soft light of the church.

Occasionally in small theaters there exists an ambiance that seems to emanate from a play backwards and forwards through time. Maybe Einstein wrote about this phenomenon at some point. It’s as if the energy generated during the show creates some sort of space-time event such that the essence of the creation not only carries a resonance in its audience for many years to come but also cascades over the preshow audience from the moment they walk in the door and begin to mingle with each other and with the theater space itself. Arguably, perhaps, this is less a mystical event than a testament to raconteurs who know what they’re doing. Tomato/tomato, I say. In any case, such was my experience on the night I saw Fiction in the fall of 2009, and I’ve been hooked on The Playhouse ever since.

WHAT DO YOU FIND MOST REWARDING ABOUT BEING INVOLVED WITH THE PLAYHOUSE? More than anything, my interactions with Portland Playhouse serve as a reminder of the unity that exists all around us and is always available if we decide we want to see it. The culture here helps me to stay in touch with the place deep inside myself that is always still. Communing with that still place makes anything possible: new ideas arise; habitual thinking falls away; assumptions about the way things are, and therefore must be, lose their rigidity; ways of thinking and doing become less fixed; and perhaps most importantly, stillness reveals a place from which to deeply listen.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE MEMORY? I will always remember the sensation imbuing me as the packed church flooded out onto Prescott Street after the final performance of Radio Golf. It was the same experience I had as a 12-year-old when leaving our neighborhood theater after seeing a show that inspired me. There was a grassy hill near that theater and when the play let out I would log roll down that hill over and over, sprinting up to the top just to fling myself back down again as hard and as fast as I could. Children, I think, intuitively understand how vital stories are to our perception of the world around us and in informing the kind of reality we choose to create here.

We grown-ups, on the other hand, often have a harder time remembering what’s important. Leaving The Church on that sunny day in June of 2010, wholly sensing the same unity between artifice and reality that galvanized my long ago log rolling days, I hopped on my bicycle and raced downtown in record time, flinging myself wholeheartedly into the business of the day with a renewed sense of optimism.

Although I was headed to SW Montgomery Street that day, if somebody had asked, I’m pretty sure I’d have sworn up and down I was on my way to 1839 Wylie Avenue.

EDUCATION AT PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE We encourage students of all ages to explore human behavior in a safe and nurturing environment.

We do this by utilizing Shakespeare text, Viewpoints, yoga, voice work, actor/director collaboration, and individual mentorships in all areas. Our programs build confidence and self-esteem, challenge and examine social perspectives, foster relationships through artistic collaboration, and create empathy through story telling.

We offer the Fall Festival of Shakespeare for middle and high school students, residencies in schools and businesses, and a year-long apprentice program for college graduates.

Get your school involved!

Email nikki@portlandplayhouse.org or call our office at 503-4885822 to learn more about bringing our Fall Festival of Shakespeare or a residency to your school.

Know someone interested in becoming a Portland Playhouse Apprentice?

Visit www.portlandplayhouse.org/apprentice-company for more information or to apply.

APPRENTICE COMPANY SOLO SHOWS June 6 & 7, 7pm Each year our Apprentice Company builds solo shows over the last four months of their leadership. The devising process is deeply personal and reflective, it pushes our young artists to experiment, allows them to see who they really are, and invites each artist to create in a supportive environment. The work is scary and revealing, as it should be. My hope is to awaken in each artist a desire to create even when no one will hire them. Our work must move through us, and as artists we must be able to create from nothing.

JOIN US IN JUNE TO SEE THESE UNIQUE AND MOVING PERFORMANCES. PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE PETER AND THE STARCATCHER | P5

CREATIVE TEAM CONTINUED DAVID LEVINE (Stage Manager)

David is a lifelong Portlander who has worn many career hats, most recently and happily as a middle school teacher at Oregon Episcopal School. He comes from a long line of teachers-turnedactors, dating back to 1950’s summer camp in the Catskills. His own, similar small-stage performances include Seven Menus, The Real Inspector Hound, and The Music Man. Most recently he was the assistant stage manager for A Christmas Carol and You For Me For You at Portland Playhouse.

KRISTINA MAST

(Assistant Stage Manager) Kristina Mast is a stage manager from Corvallis, Oregon, and a 20142015 Portland Playhouse apprentice.

Portland Playhouse credits include assistant stage manager for Mr. Burns, a post-electric play and production assistant for How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes. Other stage management work includes [or, the whale], All Well, and Drowned Horse Tavern with Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, Smokey Joe’s Café at Stumptown Stages, and assistant stage manager for One Man, Two Guvnors at Clackamas Repertory Theater.

DAN MEEKER

(Scenic and Lighting Designer) Previously for Portland Playhouse: scenery for How We Got On, lighting for The Other Place (Drammy nomination) and scenery and lighting for The Light In The Piazza, Detroit, Mother Teresa is Dead, The Huntsmen, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and The Brother/Sister Plays, among others.

Other credits include: lighting for The Yellow Wallpaper at COHO; scenery for Mothers And Sons at Artists Rep; scenery and lighting for Vanya Sonia Masha and Spike, Lizzie (Drammy Award for lighting), The Last Five Years, and The Mountaintop and lighting for Twist Your Dickens at Portland Center Stage; scenery for Outside Mullingar and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for The Pioneer Theater Company

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in Salt Lake City, UT; scenery for Ramona Quimby for Oregon Children’s Theater. Dan is also the principal lighting designer for the Pickathon Festival. Upcoming projects include: James & The Giant Peach for OCT and L’italiana in Algeria and Eugene Onegin for Portland Opera. Dan is a member of the faculty of Portland State University; he is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Yale School of Drama, and a member of United Scenic Artists.

LAURA SHIRK CHARLES (Costume Designer)

Laura recently moved to Portland from New York City where she spent the last thirteen years making costumes for Broadway shows. She now works for Michael Curry Design in Scappoose.

ALLI GREEN

(Assistant Costume Designer) Alli graduated from Skidmore College with a BA in Art History and has a shared background in visual arts and costuming. Brought up as a stitcher and wardrobe specialist by Saint Michael’s Playhouse in Colchester, Vermont, she is pleased to join Portland Playhouse as this season’s costume design apprentice. She approaches this project with gratitude toward many mentors both back east and here in Portland.

SARAH LUDEMAN (Properties Designer)

Sara Ludeman is a local designer. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, she graduated from Portland State with her B.A. in History and Theater. She works as both a costume and prop designer. She began her career through Profile Theater’s intern program and has since moved on to design for multiple companies in both the Portland and Salem area. Costume design credits include True West at Profile Theater 2014, American Night at Milagro (2014), Under the Influence at Outwright Play Festival (2015) and Passion Play at Shaking the Tree (2015). Property design credits include Eyes for Conseula at Profile Theater (2014).

CHRISTIAN ANDREWS (Technical Director)

Christian was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he cut his teeth in grammar school theater.

High school brought an interest in special effects and film, and a dream to work on a Star Wars movie. After attending the prestigious Chabot Community College in Hayward, Christian went on to work in concert production, and eventually toured with U2. Then he settled down, got married, and joined the stagehand’s union. Next thing he knew, he was working on a Star Wars film! Now Christian lives with his lovely wife, amazing daughter, 3 cats, and 4 ducks in Beaverton, and he loves it.

QUINN FITZGERALD (Understudy)

Quinn is a member of the Portland Playhouse Acting Apprentice company for the 2015-2016 season.

Originally from LA, She recently obtained her BFA in Acting and BA in Communication from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Past credits include A Christmas Carol and You For Me For You (Portland Playhouse), Bloody Poetry (UCSB), The Importance of Being Earnest (UCSB), Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (UCSB) and Spring Awakening: A New Musical (Out of the Box). Offstage, music and song-writing dominate her free time. She hopes to get herself and her guitar to a few open-mic nights while in Portland! Thanks to her parents, the other ¾ of her quadruplet, Brian, Rebecca and the cast and crew.

SPECIAL THANKS

University of Portland Props Department, Portland Center Stage, Clackamas High School, Lakewood Theater, Declan Glover, Joan Hartzel, Portland Opera Costume Shop, Ashton Hull and the Lewis and Clark Costume Shop, Kathy Andrews and What Sew Ever, Rex Putnam High School, Steve Harper and Indigo Design LLC, Kathy Wells and Classic Pianos

THANK YOU

Portland Playhouse gratefully acknowledges our supporters. Their generosity allows us to activate surprise, delight and challenge in our lives. We envision a world awakened by the wonder of theatre.

This list represents contributions and pledges received from January 1st, 2015 through December 31, 2015. We make every attempt to acknowledge your name accurately. If you find a mistake, please don’t hesitate to call us at 971-533-8743. We want to hear from you.

CORPORTATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT BELL TOWER $25,000+

Meyer Memorial Trust James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation Playhouse on Prescott LLC

$10,000–$24,999

American Theatre Wing The Collins Foundation Doris Duke Charitable Foundation National Endowment For The Arts Newman’s Own Foundation Oregon Arts Commission Oregon Cultural Trust PGE Foundation Raymond Family Foundation Wrather Family Foundation Willamette Week Give Guide

ROOF RAISER $7,500–$9,999

Herbert A. Templeton Foundation

SEAT RISER $5,000–$7,499

AT&T Foundation Bloomfield Family Foundation The Boeing Company B.P. Lester & Regina John Foundation The Kinsman Foundation Regional Arts & Culture Council Juan Young Trust

SUPPORTING BEAM $2,500–$4,999

The Campbell Foundation Sharon M. Fekety Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation GRANTMAKERS of Oregon & Southwest Washington

The Jackson Foundation Multnomah County Oregon Community Foundation RBC Wealth Management The Standard OCF Joseph E. Weston Foundation

STEPPING STONE $1,000–$2,499

Lincoln Restaurant The Looker Foundation Multnomah County Cultural Coalition NW Natural ¿Por Qué No? Marian & Elihu Schott Family Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Urban Pacific Real Estate

UNDER $1,000

Adidas America, Inc. Cupcake Jones Fred Meyer Rewards Program Fifty Licks LLC Hewlett Packard Lincoln High School National Instruments (Employee Engagement Fund) Wendy & Richard Rahm Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Stash Tea

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT PRODUCERS $25,000-$49,999 Harold Goldstein & Carol Streeter Ronni Lacroute Phillip Terranova

PLAYWRIGHTS $10,000–$24,999

Ellyn Bye Linda Wrather & Anthony Finnocchiaro Steve & Elsie Weaver

DIRECTORS $5,000–$9,999

Barry Bloom Jeff & Esther Clark

DESIGNERS $2,500–$4,999

Jonathan Betlinski Ann Brayfield & Joseph Emerson Duncan & Cindy Campbell Dorothy & Brooks Cofield Michael Cowan Jess Dishman Erin & Kirk Hanawalt Kathy Immerman & Tony Melaragno Karen & Dave Johnson Marge & Stephen Kafoury Michelle Mark & Michael Ecker Sandy Polishuk

ACTORS $1,000–$2,499

Roy & Kay Abramowitz Dale Bajema & Diana Coleman Barbara Bannister Mary & Don Blair Karl & Linda Boekelheide Robert Conklin Sharon M. Fekety Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Paul Hart & Jan Jacobsen Joan Hartzell & Jeff Hansen Judith & Gregory Kafoury Glenn Lamb & Sue Knight Roberta Lampert & James Piper Steve & Mikki Lipsey Craig Olson Pete & Bonnie Reagan Mary Rosenberg Bing & Carolyn Sheldon Linda & Chet Skibinski Peter Stevens Michael Weaver & Suzi Carter David & Kathleen Young

STAR $500–$999

Kip Acheson & Elizabeth Carr Ron & Naomi Bloom Ellen & Eric Broderson Aaron Caughey & Susan Tran Dr. Nathan Cogan Ken & Annie Edwards Ronnie-Gail Emden & Andy Wilson Diane Freaney Vicki & Luke Groser David & Barre Hardy Diane Herrmann Kimberly Howard Merilee Karr & Dave Goldman Janet R MacDonell & Neil Falk Elaine Martin & Jay Hoover Dan Meeker & Katie Raye Stanley & Susanne Penkin Wendy & Richard Rahm Stephen & Kate Robinson Karen & Randy Rowe Jane Schiffhauer Ernie & Mary Swartz Kim Thomas & John C. Morrison Gabrielle B Wallin Wendy Ware & Daniel Gleason Jill & Michael Weier Carolyn Wieden Mark Williams

CAMEO $250–$499

Sona Andrews George & Elizabeth Barton Polley & Edward Bowen Roger Brown & Denise Carty Evelyn Brzezinski Nancy Catlin John Dunn Alison Ebbott & Bill Hasan Sara & Steve Elgee Angela Freeman & Matt Moule Corbett Gordon Fred & Cheryl Grossman

Liz Hawthorne & Lawrence Mohr Garen Horgen Angela Hult Valerie Ilsley & Bruce Murray Walter Jaffe & Paul King Jeff Kilmer Matt Jones & Kristin Mihalko Carole Morse Michael Ossar & Gretchen Holden Miriam Ruth Robert G. Sadin Jennifer Schuberth & John Urang Elizabeth Scully Isabel Sheridan George Soule & Maurice R. Horn Les & Elizabeth Stoessl David Stout David & Rosemarie Sweet Brian & Nikki Weaver Veronica L. Williams Lynn Youngbar

FRIEND $100–$249

Anonymous (1) Steven & Bonnie Altshuld Mary Andrews Sue Armitage & Bob Greene Todd S. Baran Eric Baxter Nick Baylies Sarah & J. Bills Renee & Dick Binns Gabe Bloom Rebecca Boenke Ron & Linda Borkan Patricia Bradley Dana Breashears Cathy Briggs Duane & Charlotte Brown T. J. Browning Jim Brunke Carol Bunten & Daniel Rosenberg Grant Byington Joseph Callahan Don Caniparoli & Sarah Rosenberg Louis Cantor Dania Caron

MaryAnne Cassin & Ken Meyer Jennifer Cohen Karol Collymore Liana Colombo Jeffrey G. Condit Shamus Cooke Ginnie Cooper Gretchen Corbett Deborah Correa Laurie Cox & Robert Skall Linda S. Craig Ron Crosier Fran Daggett Eloise Damrosch Marvin & Abby Dawson William Deresiewicz & Aleeza Nussbaum Mary Devlin William Diebold & Deborah Freedberg Patti Dobrowolski & Julie Boardman Lori & Scott Eberly Pamela Echeverio & Howard Cutler Norman Eder Leslye Epstein & Herman Taylor Pamela Fairchild & Ted Lamb Katie Farewell Pat & Paul FergusonSteger Melissa & Daniel Fisher Samuel Gaty William Giles Joshua Gilley Lynn Goldstein Tracy Gratto Dana Green David Greenberg Maria Grumm Kathleen & Bruce Harder Georgia Harker James Harter Lynne & Gary Hartshorn Thyra Hartshorn Jan & Tom Harvey Evan Hayashi Tina & James Hein Amy Henninger Eric & Shirley Hoem Laurie Holland Andrea & Ruben Iniguez

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Kevin Irving & Nicolo Fonte Curt Jantz Dianne & Alan Johnson Maria Katzenbach Ruth Kauffman Lucy Keating Frederick Kirchhoff & Ronald Simonis Dahv Kliner Bill Kwitman & Monica Moriarty Theodore Labbe Sally Leisure Glen & Sandy Libonati Hollie Lindauer Deborah Lockwood Mary Lyons & Laurence Daane George Machan Christine Mackert MD Douglas MacReynold Michelle Maida David Maier & Kaye Van Valkenburg Amy & Richard Manning Renee & John Manson Phillip Margolin Shirley Mason Pat L. McAleer Charles McGee Anne E McLaughlin Landry & Aino Molimbi Madeline Moore Eli Morris Christopher Ott Hugh Owens & Lauren Turner Jane Pansky Patricia Perkins in memory of Russ S. Perkins Mary Christine Perry Annie H Popkin & David Parker Reynolds Potter Scott Pratt Karen Pride Deborah Redman & Don Whittemore Kay & David Reingold Martha & David Richards

Forrest & Sharon Rae Richen Joe Rodriguez David Roth & Tangela E. Purdom Allison Rowden Charlotte Rubin Joanne Ruyle Darcy Schmitt K. C. & Mary Shaw Bert Shaw Roger & Janice Shea Carole Shellhart & Bob McGranahan Mark & Gail Sherman Lillian Shirley Hamilton & Francesca Sims Jon & Ann Sinclair Ann Sitomer Richard Smith & Patricia Frobes Patricia A. Southard Martha Spence Karen Springer Gary Taliaferro Sylvia Tesh Jeanne & Brian Thomas Michael Troyer Vanessa Anne Usui & Kimberly Stafford Jennifer Van Meter Gina Warren Lori & Andrew Watson Amy Weaver Tom Wells Karen & Emmett Wheatfall Janet Whitaker Joyce White Priscilla Bernard Wieden & Dan Wieden Cynthia Williams Ann Wilson Jan Woita Phyllis Wolfe Merri Souther Wyatt Mary Beth Yosses & Fred Williams Jonathan & Merrie Ziady

PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE STAFF

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BRIAN WEAVER

ALIX KOLAR

Harold Goldstein, Chair Angela Freeman, Vice-Chair Curt Janz, Treasurer Michelle Mark, Secretary Andrew Clark Karol Collymore Michael Cowan David Hardy Joan Hartzell Kimberly Howard Marge Kafoury Andy Ricetti-Eberly Pancho Savery George (Bing) Sheldon Mary Swartz Natasha Terranova Jennifer Watson Brian Weaver Mark Williams

OWEN WALZ

APPRENTICE COMPANY

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

MICHAEL WEAVER DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

ELENA HEIN

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

NIKKI WEAVER

EDUCATION DIRECTOR

KARL HANOVER

AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER

ANNA MARIE BROWN, LA’ TEVIN ALEXANDER

FRONT OF HOUSE MANAGERS

THYRA HARTSHORN

PRODUCTION MANAGER BOOKKEEPER DESIGN & TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE

MIRIAM COOK, ASHLEY WILLIAMS

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES

Elizabeth Bartz Collette Campbell Quinlan Fitzgerald Alli Green Andrea Whittle

GET

INVOLVED! There are all sorts of ways to join our community: • Volunteer as a beer-tender, usher, or greeter and earn a ticket to see the show!

• Check out our Raffle or Wishlist (we’re especially in need of bus tickets/passes, bicycles for apprentice transportation, meal and housing donations, and gift certificates of all sorts)

• Help out in our office, run an event committee, or lend a hand with fundraising

Your contributions are greatly welcome and we’d love to hear from you!

Contact Anna at volunteer@portlandplayhouse.org for more information or to get involved.

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