Portland Playhouse presents
SC RLET Book, Music & Lyrics by
Michelle Horgen Directed by Brian Weaver and Jessica Wallenfels FEBRUARY 28—MARCH 25 THANK YOU TO OUR 2017–2018 PRESENTING SEASON SPONSORS CAROL STREETER & HAROLD GOLDSTEIN OUR SHOW SPONSORS
RONNI LACROUTE
The Boeing Company, Nicole & Alex Brodeur, Portland Playhouse is a space where all people Dave & Karen Johnson, Kinsman Foundation, The National Endowment forto the Arts, can come together celebrate the complexity The Oregon Community Foundation, of our shared human experience. Jackie Seto & Wade Olsen
PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS
Scarlet
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Book, music & lyrics by Michelle Horgen Directed by Brian Weaver and Jessica Wallenfels CAST
FEBRUARY 28–MARCH 25
Hester Prynne
THE 2017–2018 SEASON IS PRESENTED BY Rebecca Teran*
Arthur Dimmsdale
Isaac Lamb*
Roger Chillingsworth
Darius Pierce*
Richard Bellingham
Del Lewis*
Robert Winthrop
Don Kenneth Mason*
Anne Hibbins
Susannah Mars*
Jailor
Maxwell Rochette
Elias Bailey
John Kish
Clara Winthrop
Rachel Lewis^^
Sarah Winthrop
Dana Green*
Mme. Shepard
Tina Mascaro^
Mme. Dudley
Kayla Kelly^
Samuel Maverick
“ranney”*
Mme. Martin
Liza Jensen
Pearl Prynne
Rainbows (Eva Hudson Leoniak)
Abigail Martin
Lauren Clark
Pearl/Abigail swing
Zia Murphy
ORCHESTRA Piano
Eric Nordin
Oboist
Alan Juza/Ann van Bever
Cellist
Dale Tolliver
Carol Streeter & Harold Goldstein Ronni Lacroute OUR WORK IS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Mary & Don Blair, Ellyn Bye, Colas Construction, The Collins Foundation, Joel Hamberg Painting, Greg Hinckley & Mary Chomenko, Kinsman Foundation, Lagunitas Brewing Company, James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, Roy & Diane Marvin Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation, James B Wiley Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation, Raymond Family Foundation, SERA Architects, Judy Shih & Joel Axelrod, The State of Oregon, In Memory of Phyllis L. Weaver, Steve & Elsie Weaver, Wrather Family Foundation, Friends of Sandra Zickefoose
Our work is supported by Oregon Cultural Trust
CREATIVE TEAM Music Director
Eric Nordin
Musical Staging
“ranney”*, Jessica Wallenfels
Stage Manager
Stephanie Mulligan*
Scenic and Lighting Designer
Daniel Meeker+
Costume Designer
Alison Heryer+
Voice and Text Director
Mary McDonald-Lewis
Properties Designer/Asst. Stage Manager
Thomas Chapman*
Technical Director
Christian Andrews
Asst. Music Director
Steven Cantor
Asst Stage Manager
Lilo Alfaro^
Stitchers
LAGUNITAS BREWING, ME FITNESS, MISSIONARY CHOCOLATES, NOSSA FAMILIA COFFEE ROASTERS, STUMPTOWN COFFEE ROASTERS
Hadley Yoder, Jea Alford, Fuchsia Lin
The Regional Arts and Culture Council, including support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County and the Arts Education & Access fund makes our work possible.
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.
The photographic, video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is prohibited. *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 +Member of United Scenic Artists ^Current Portland Playhouse Apprentice Company Member ^^Former Portland Playhouse Apprentice Company Member
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ACT I This is the Way Ensemble I Won’t Kneel Hester and Ensemble Be Thou My Vision Dimmsdale and Ensemble Jingle Bang Jingle Dimmsdale and Maverick Before You Fall (for a Puritan Girl) Maverick and sailors Fallen For You Hester and Dimmsdale In With Dimmsdale and Ensemble Sleep My Angel, Sleep Hester Tell Me Hester and Dimmsdale Borrow From Tomorrow Hester and Ensemble
ACT II Our Place in Heaven Ensemble Our Game of Two Hester and Pearl A Life Most Ordinary Chillingsworth Comfort Ye Hester, Pearl, Dimmsdale, Chillingsworth, Winthrop & Bellingham O Papa Pearl Call Me A Witch Hibbins To Love a Child Sarah, Clara, Hibbins and Hester Tortured, Tormented and Lost Dimmsdale With You Hester and Dimmsdale Sleep my Angel (reprise) Pearl Dimmsdale’s Ascent (instrumental) Breathe Hester, Sarah, Clara, Hibbins
STEPPING BEYOND THE
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“She had wandered, without rule or
guidance, in a moral wilderness, as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest…. The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter As one of the first American books to be massproduced, The Scarlet Letter holds a special place in the literary canon, prefiguring more than a century of historical fiction and other popular culture that has used dramatic convention and religious allegory to capture—and, perhaps more important, critique—the social mores of times past. Its portrait of characters grappling with their own humanity in a climate of stifling moral judgment is one that is endlessly adaptable to nearly any and every time period.
counterparts have throughout history taken for granted. Our collective, long-held zero-sum outlook on women’s rights—anything given to women will take away from men—may be deeply inaccurate, but the fear in which it is grounded seems to grow stronger by the year. Despite creating one of literature’s most famous proto feminist characters in Hester Prynne, Nathaniel Hawthorne himself was no stranger to zero-sum thinking. In 1855, five years after The Scarlet Letter was published and quickly became a bestseller, Hawthorne was fretting that the rise of female novelists threatened the value of his own work. Writing to William D. Ticknor (of Ticknor and Fields, his publisher), Hawthorne wrote that “America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash—and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed.”
That Hawthorne viewed as unthinkable the History demands a complex, nuanced lens, idea that readers could simultaneously apprecibut humans—even those who know better— ate his work and the work of female novelists still continue to default to black-and-white remains a little dispiriting, but it doesn’t lessen beliefs when viewing and judging their fellow the strength of the women of The Scarlet Letter, humans. Good and evil, with us or against all of whom chafe us, moral and immoral, against the societal virgin or whore: Art exists MICHELLE HORGEN’S REALIZATION OF THE in part as a reminder that STORY IN MUSICAL FORM OFFERS A NEW WAY expectations of their our stories are far more TO TAKE IN THE WORK’S UNIVERSAL THEMES— gender or discard them altogether. complex, and The Scarlet LOVE, SIN, MORALITY, AND JUDGMENT... Hawthorne’s letter Letter has been such a resimply refused to acknowledge that the female minder for every generation that has read the novelists he disdained were also defiantly book or seen one of its many film adaptations. pushing back against those same expectaMichelle Horgen’s realization of the story in tions, and perhaps suffering the very same musical form offers a new way to take in the characterizations his own novel critiqued—pawork’s universal themes—love, sin, morality, ternalistic censure, community ostracization, and judgment—as well as a take on Hester even charges of witchcraft. Prynne and her daughter, Pearl, that foreAll of this is to say that here, in 2018, as women grounds questions about “a woman’s place” are still fighting to be viewed by legislators, rethat remain stubbornly unresolved—indeed, ligious leaders, and employers as fully human, in places not addressed at all. That Horgen with the same liberties and opportunities as does so in the context of a musical, and with men, the time seems more than right for an a light hand and plenty of humor, reflects how update of Hester Prynne’s story. In broadenthe themes of The Scarlet Letter resonate in ing the narrative to include two new female the present time. Simply put: How are we still characters (Sarah Winthrop and her daughter, ostracizing and humiliating women who step Clara, who serve as counterparts to Hester and beyond the societal boundaries they had no Pearl), Scarlet fully engages the question of voice and no hand in creating? the stark, limited choices available to women It’s a question that women ask themselves in Puritan New England. What options did daily in variety of tones, as news headlines and women in this time and place have if they cultural events address women as though they truly thought for themselves, sought autonomy, are not more than 50 percent of the world’s were loved for—rather than in spite of—their population, as though their “issues” are not thirst for knowledge and independence? And human issues that impact all of us. From horwhat did they hope the world would open up rified astonishment (“How is this still hapfor their daughters that it had not for them? pening?”) to sarcastic humor (“Really? This Posing such universal questions in the medium is still happening?”), women have daily cause of a musical—with all the hope and intensity to wonder when, or if, they will ever have the that they demand—makes Scarlet feel as timely freedom to live the kind of complex, flawed, as it is timeless. messy, even contradictory lives that their male PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE SCARLET | P3
SCARLET | CAST & CREATIVE TEAM REBECCA TERAN (Hester Prynne) Portland
Playhouse debut. The Waterman (ARS NOVA); Molly Murphy and Neil De Grasse Tyson On Our Last Day on Earth (Playwrights Horizon); Hester Prynne in the staged reading of Scarlet (MerryGoRound Playhouse/The Pitch/NYMF); Daphne’s sister Miriam in Fly By Night (Broadway Rose Theatre Co.) Graduate of Shenandoah Conservatory.
ISAAC LAMB (Arthur Dimmsdale) Isaac
is thrilled to be returning to Portland Playhouse having last been seen here as Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher. Isaac is an award winning actor, director, producer and a world renowned creator of viral videos whose work has been viewed over 35 million times. He is proud to have worked at nearly every professional theatre in Portland and to call Third Rail Repertory Theatre his home.
SUSANNAH MARS (Anne Hibbins) is thrilled
to be back at Portland Playhouse after playing Margaret in The Light in the Piazza. She is a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre and also serves as their Music Events Specialist. She’s appeared at Portland Opera as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd and also played Mother in Ragtime, and Mama Rose in Gypsy at Portland Center Stage. At Artists Rep she’s performed her holiday show Mars On Life for three seasons, and played Diana in Next To Normal, among others. She was on NBC’s Grimm as Drew Wu’s psychiatrist, Dr. Richet. Ms. Mars is the proud recipient of six Portland Drama Critics awards. Subscribe to her podcast Adventures In Artslandia on iTunes. www.susannanhmars.com.
DARIUS PIERCE (Roger Chillingsworth)
is excited to be a part of this production and team! He was previously at Portland Playhouse as Smee in Peter and the Starcatcher and Monroe in Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson. Other favorite productions include The Santaland Diaries (Portland Center Stage); Stupid F$%king Bird (Woolly Mammoth); Lungs, The Realistic Joneses (Third Rail Repertory); Feathers and Teeth (Artists Repertory Theatre); My Fair Lady, Les Misérables (Broadway Rose); 1776 (Lakewood Theatre). He is a co-founder of Anonymous Theatre Company and a proud member of Third Rail Repertory Theatre, the sketch troupe Night Bus.
DEL LEWIS (Richard Bellingham) actor,
director, educator is thrilled to perform with Portland Playhouse. Since 2010 he has acted for Third Rail Rep., Portland P4 | PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE SCARLET
Center Stage, Artists Rep. and Sowelu Ensemble. Broadway career credits include Jacob Rothschild inThe Rothschilds and roles in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway and with the 1st National Company. OffBroadway: notably Streets of New York and All In Love .Recent TV: The Librarians, “Young Pete” (415) and Grimm, “Mr. Higginbotham” (518). Del has directed professionally and has taught theatre at Northeastern University-Boston, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and East Carolina University.
DON KENNETH MASON (Robert Winthrop)
After years of tears, bribes and embarrassing himself in public, Don is delighted to make his debut with Portland Playhouse! Other Portland credits include That Play You Didn’t See: The Musical, and a star turn in Out of Work Again –The Whining Continues. (Drammy Nomination). Proud Member of Actors’ Equity since 2011.
RACHEL LEWIS (Clara Winthrop) Rachel
is honored to join in on creating Scarlet after some time at the table and on her feet during the recent workshops. She’s enjoyed collaborating with the Playhouse post-apprenticeship (2016/2017), and was last seen in A Christmas Carol. Other Portland credits include Trails (Amy) and The Addams Family at Broadway Rose last season. Though she is a native Floridian, Rachel is smitten with the west coast, and excited to call this place her artistic home for now. Gratitude to all of the cast, crew and staff for the experience.
DANA GREEN (Sarah Winthrop) is delighted
to be making her premiere at Portland Playhouse. Other Portland credits include Constellations, Great Expectations, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Portland Center Stage), d.b.(Coho) , Gidion’s Knot, The Realistic Joneses (Third Rail) and Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Profile Theatre). She has spent four seasons with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and has performed at numerous regional theaters including The Old Globe, South Coast Repertory, Yale Repertory Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Television credits include Early Edition, Grimm, The Librarians, and Here And Now.
“ranney” (Musical Staging and Samuel Maverick) was last seen as Doub in Ameri-
can Stage Theatre’s Jitney (2016 Outstanding Lead Role in a Play - Theatre Tampa Bay). Roles include: Sterling in AST’s Radio Golf (2015 Outstanding Feature Role in a Play - TTB); Boy Willie in Center Theatre Company’s The Piano Lesson (Critic’s Choice - Best Actor - Creative
Loafing); and Adriana/Antipholis/others in Ambassadors Theatre’s The Bomb-ditity of Errors (Stage Award - Best Ensemble). One man shows include And the Horse You Rode in On (Projects Arts Centre - Dublin), Whatever (Peoples Improv Theater - New York), and Cufflinks and Jolly Ranchers for Dummies (Edinburgh Fringe Festival Scotland). itsranney.com
MAXWELL ROCHETTE (Jailor) is a twenty-
nine year old man from Vancouver, Washington. Scarlet is his sixth play appearance, in which he is the jailor. His first five were Oklahoma, Little Shop of Horrors, Up the Fall, The Wizard of Oz, and In a Single Breath. He likes to play video games, watch movies and shows, play with his beagle, Elsa, and even works at Safeway. He dreams of being a great actor for many projects to come.
JOHN KISH (Elias Bailey) is making his
ecstatic Portland debut at Portland Playhouse! A Circle in the Square alumni and a 2013 Broadway Rising Star singer who just finished directing two shows back to back in Bend, Oregon (Spring Awakening/ Peter and the Starcatcher). Previously, he was seen in Bend’s A Chorus Line, Next to Normal, Young Frankenstein, Peter Pan, and Glass Menagerie. He is also founder of Bend’s Topsoil Theatrics LLC and the popular Cocktail Cabaret series. Thanks to family, friends and Matt for loving me endlessly and always reminding me to be the best version of myself!
TINA MASCARO (Mme. Shepard) was in
Virginia when 13 dwarves invited her on an adventure. Now she’s an apprentice at Portland Playhouse and loving it! She is absolutely thrilled to be part of Scarlet. Favorite credits include A Christmas Carol (Portland Playhouse), Oklahoma!, Out West (Regent University), Elmo Rocks! (Busch Gardens Williamsburg), and many Superbook Academy music videos. Thanks Michelle, Eric, Jessica and Brian for making this an amazing experience. Ephesians 6:19–20
KAYLA KELLY (Mme. Dudley) recently gradu-
ated from Stephen F. Austin State University, with a BA in Arts. She’s from Houston, Texas. She loves playwriting, improv-ing, and sketch comedy. She’s thankful to be working along Portland Playhouse this season and is excited for what the year has in store!
LIZA JENSEN (Mrs. Martin) has rediscovered
her love for theatre and could not be happier. This is her first show with Portland Playhouse and is pretty darn excited. Previously, she has been in shows with PHAME here
in Portland, and done community theatre in Colorado. She would like to thank Brian Weaver for this amazing opportunity.
“RAINBOWS” A.K.A EVA LEONIAK (Pearl
Prynne) is proud to be part of Portland Playhouse’s Scarlet. In 2017 Rainbows played Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol at Portland Playhouse. She was The North Star in Broadway Rose’s A Very Merry PDXmas in 2016. Rainbows is very imaginative and she was an extremely musical child from an early age. She loves to compose music on the piano, write short musicals and build Lego worlds. Along with her more traditional homeschool courses, Rainbows studies voice, piano, and acting.
LAUREN CLARK (Abigail Martin) 8, lives in
Lake Oswego, and has been in short films, TV shows, and theater productions. She is on a competitive hip hop team, is learning drums, and sings vocals in a youth band. Lauren is homeschooled and has driven around the US in an RV with her mom and sister one time already. She is excited to visit the Everglades, Miami, and Key West this spring on her next road trip adventure!
ZIA MURPHY (Pearl/Abigail Swing) is thrilled
to be part of this welcoming cast and crew! Zia loves to sing, dance, make slime, read, and watch home organization shows. She also plays piano and does commercial and voice over work. Favorite role to date is Gretl in LOHS’ The Sound of Music along with her big sister, Malaika. She has trained with Spotlight Musical Theatre Academy. Zia is a fifth grader at Oak Creek Elementary School and hopes you enjoy the show!
MICHELLE HORGEN (Playwright/Composer)
With a Master’s in Music with a focus on conducting, Michelle is often seen at the piano or holding a conductor’s baton. She has directed the PSU vocal jazz ensemble, spend time as the choral director for Lower Columbia College, and as a freelance pianist and conductor. And after spending fifteen years teaching choir and theater in public schools where she directed and accompanied dozens of musicals, she took a year off to finish writing the first draft of Scarlet. During that year she launched a successful kickstarter campaign to fund a demo album, and began submitting the show to festivals. When Scarlet was accepted into the FingerLakes Musical Theater Festival in Auburn, NY and then the New York Musical Theater Festival in New York City, she took the leap and left the classroom to focus on composing and writing full-time. She is thrilled to have this first full staging at Portland Playhouse. Love and gratitude to husband Garen for taking this leap with her.
UP NEXT!
AUGUST WILSON’S
FENCES DIRECTED BY LOU BELLAMY
Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson examines black life and race relations in 1950s Pittsburg. Husband, father, former athlete, garbage collector, 53-year old Troy struggles to define himself both inside and out of his 1950s Pittsburg home. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Fences asks “What makes us choose the things we keep at a distance and what we decide to let in?” Director Lou Bellamy (Obie award for Two Trains Running) is the founding Artistic Director of Penumbra Theatre Company, which has produced more August Wilson productions than any company in the world, including the premiere of Jitney! This will be the seventh of Wilson’s 10-play “American Century Cycle” to be staged at Portland Playhouse. ASL interpreted performance: Wednesday, May 9.
MAY 2–JUNE 10
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SCARLET | CAST & CREATIVE TEAM BRIAN WEAVER (Director) Co-founded Port-
land Playhouse in 2008 with Nikki and Michael, and has directed productions of Peter and the Starcatcher; Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play; Radio Golf; Gem of the Ocean; Angels in America; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; The Light in the Piazza; and bobrauschenbergamerica. Regional credits include Intiman Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival and Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Brian is on the Board of Outside In.
JESSICA WALLENFELS (Director) creates new
work that is music and movement-driven with her company, Many Hats Collaboration. Wallenfels also works as a director/ choreographer, most recently directing Pete the Cat for Oregon Children’s Theatre and choreographing Weaving Women Together for Portland Playhouse. Her work has been seen at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and Artists Repertory Theatre. She has guest directed at Portland State University, Willamette University, and Pacific University, and is currently an MFA candidate in directing.
ERIC NORDIN (Music Director) 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 2015’s Best Production of a Play, for The Snowstorm as playwright and pianist. Coming spring of 2018, keep an eye out for the world premiere of his latest original musical John Hughes High: An 80’s Teen Musical presented by Staged! at Artists Rep’s ArtsHub.
STEPHANIE MULLIGAN (Stage Manager)
stage manages and directs. Recent projects include Parnassus On Wheels, As You Like It, Threesome, and Carousel. Stephanie received her BA in Theatre Arts from Linfield College. She is an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Department of State, and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
DANIEL MEEKER (Scenic and Lighting Designer) Recent Playhouse productions
include: set and lighting for A Christmas Carol and The Language Archive and lighting for How I Learned What I Learned, and later this season Fences. In Portland, numerous productions with Portland Center Stage, Portland Opera, Artists Repertory Theater, Oregon Children’s Theater, CoHo, and Profile. Every August Daniel is the lighting director for the Pickathon Festival. P6 | PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE SCARLET
He is a graduate of Ithaca College and The Yale School of Drama, and a member of United Scenic Artists.
ALISON HERYER (Costume Designer) is
a costume designer for theater, film and print. She has designed extensively around the country, including productions at Steppenwolf Theatre, New Victory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theater, Portland Opera, ZACH Theatre and La MaMa. She recently won the 2016 Drammy Award for Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Portland Center Stage. Alison is a member of United Scenic Artists and faculty in the School of Art+Design at Portland State University.
MARY MCDONALD-LEWIS (Dialect Coach)
has been a professional artist since 1979. She resides in Portland, and is a dialect coach for film, television, and stage. She also works as a voice actor, on-camera actor, stage actor, and director. MaryMac is delighted to coach Scarlet for Portland Playhouse in its grand new space! You can also hear her work at Portland Center Stage and Artists Repertory Theatre, where she is voice and text director. Mary holds her MFA in Directing from the University of Portland. She thanks Finnegan, Sullivan and Flynn for always wagging their tails when she comes home. marymac.com
LILO ALFARO (Assistant Stage Manager) Lilo
is honored to be working with this cast and company. Previous performance credits include: singing ASM in A Christmas Carol, princess character performer at childrens’ birthday parties, and class presentations in PSU’s business communications course.
HADLEY YODER (Assistant Costume Designer) Recently graduated from Portland
State University, Hadley is excited to join Portland Playhouse’s Scarlet as assistant costume designer. She has worked in costuming with PSU Theater and Opera, Portland Opera, and Enlightened Theatrics. She’d particularly like to thank Alison Heryer for being a fantastic mentor in her design journey!
ALAN JUZA (Oboist) is an active musician in
the Portland area. He is a member of the Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Portland Opera Orchestra and Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra, and has performed with the Oregon Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Peter Britt Music Festival, and Houston Symphony, among many others. He is currently Principal Oboe with the Vancouver (WA) Symphony. Alan teaches oboe at Pacific University in Forest Grove, and works at the Montessori School of Beaverton.
DALE TOLLIVER (Cellist) has been a symphonic
second show with Portland Playhouse. A native San Franciscan, now a Portland based director, he often designs his own sets and props with his Technical Director husband, Phil Shaw. He has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, Theatreworks, Arena Stage, and Artists Rep.
and freelance cellist since 1969. Mr. Tolliver is a veteran of theater pit orchestras (also since 1969, but who’s counting?). He also enjoys making “purty noise” as the continuo ‘cellist with Portland’s Bach Cantata Choir, and as a founding member of both Trio Adrato and Threeplay. His work in symphony orchestras and free-lance engagements has found him on-stage in such diverse municipalities as Vienna, Austria, Knoxville, Tennessee, and DeWitt, Iowa.
CHRISTIAN T. ANDREWS (Technical Direc-
ANN VAN BEVER (Oboist) is an avid supporter
THOMAS CHAPMAN (Properties Designer/ Assistant Stage Manager) This is Thomas’
tor) builds scenery, props and special
effects for clients with exceptional taste. He has been technical director at Portland Playhouse for several seasons because they are cool people, and deserve well made sets.
STEVEN CANTOR (Assistant Music Director)
is grateful for the opportunity to work on this production. Past credits include Peter and the Starcatcher, Mr. Burns, A Light In The Piazza (Portland Playhouse), Snowstorm (Coho/Many Hats), Heathers (Staged!/Triangle), American Idiot (Triangle), Fly By Night and Trails (Broadway Rose), A Civil War Christmas (Artists Rep) and Parade (Staged!). Thanks to Brian and Eric. Love to Annabel and Augie
of the arts in Portland. She plays English horn in the Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, oboe and oboe d’amore in the Bach Cantata Choir Chamber Orchestra and principal oboe in the Oregon East Symphony. She has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in music from Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX) and a law degree from Marquette University Law School (Milwaukee, WI). She has a thriving studio of 12 students and enjoys freelancing throughout Oregon and Washington. In addition to music, Ann loves traveling, cooking, reading and word games.
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FRIEND ($100–$249) Anonymous Anonymous Gift in memory of Timothy Fisher Christine & Keith Abernathy Sheryl Acheson Oluyinka Akinjiola & Rudy Slizewski Sona Andrews Dale Bajema & Diana Coleman Kimberly Bakken Gwenn Baldwin Eric Baxter Jan & Larry Beaudoin Karen Belsey Patsy Crayton Berner Susan Bexton Michael Bishop Suzanne Blair Anthony Body Linda & Karl Boekelheide Michele Bowler-Failing in honor of Harold Goldstein & Carol Streeter Patricia Bradley Amber & John Broughton
Carolyn Buhl Mary Byers-Grose & Donald Grose Joseph Callahan Naomi Campbell Don Caniparoli & Sarah Rosenberg Alonzo & Phinizea Chadwick Patrick Clancy & Beth Caruso Milt Coleman Karol Collymore Jeffrey Condit Susan Cooksey Ginnie Cooper in memory of Bing Sheldon Ron Crosier John Cunningham & Mary Beth Pinon Fran Daggett Marvin & Abby Dawson Tatyana Dembrow Mary Devlin Jack & Suzanne Downing Alison Ebbott & Bill Hasan Vida Edera Jane Ediger Sara & Steve Elgee Benjamin Emerson & Jessy Friedt in memory of Kirk Reeves Adolph & Carolyn Evans Judith & Paul Fardig Edward & Jeanette Feldhousen David Felt & Lynda Wendel Thabo & Melissa Fisher Teri & Tobey Fitch Karen Fitts Peter FitzGerald & Judy Butler Joan Fondell Gabrielle Foulkes Katie Frederick Carolyn Gazeley Marian & Steve Gold Lisa Gramp Kathryn Grantz M. Jane Greenbaum Luke & Vicki Groser Christine Hamm Donna Hammar in memory of Luke Hammar, Louis Goeschl, Mike Olson, and Ed Carr Janet Hanus Wayne Harrel Jan & Tom Harvey Dawn Hayami Amy Henninger & Andre Leger Maddelyn High & Eric Rosewall Judy Hilsenteger Barbara Holisky & Gary McDonald Laurie Holland Philip Hostetler Beth Hutchins & Pete Skeggs Andrea & Ruben Iniguez
Jeri Jenkins Stan Jewett Nicholas Johantgen Eric Johnston Laura Jones & David Livermore Charlene Jones Susan Jonsson Lore Joplin Peter Jorgensen Lucy Keating Meri Kemp Jan Kennedy Ferguson & Charles Colwell Ferguson Robert Kerr & Claire Randall Janice & Mark Kettler Jeff Kilmer Lois & Philip Kreider Deborah Krum Jo Strom & Derek Lane Margaret Larson & Richard Lewis Del Lewis Susan Lienhart Clint Lindhorst & Cristi Miles Tom Lisicki Jasmine Love George & Maryann Machan Victor Mack Christine Mackert Michelle Maida John & Renee Manson Laura Mark Joseph Marrone & Ann Balzell Marsie Martien Jean & Jim Mascaro Mary Louise McClintock & Thomas Balmer Betty Ann & Robert McKay Richard Meeker & Ellen Rosenblum Casey Meredith Jeannette & Bill Meyer Jeffrey Mills Patricia Mizutani & Richard Rosenhaft Kim & Michael Moreland Carole Morse Melissa Mungai Allen & Frances Nause Adrienne Nelson Susan Newman & Phil Goldsmith Marc O’Carroll Eileen Odum Wendy Beth Oliver Jean Omelchuck Wade Owens & Lauren Turner Justin Palfreyman Maria & Ronald Patterson Charlotte Perry Guido & Kate Pinamonti Eiko Politz Annie Popkin & David Parker Scott Pratt & TJ Browning Nancy Pyburn John Ragno Carol Ramsey & JR Gustafson
PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE SCARLET | P7
DONORS CONT.
Liz Rantz Deborah Redman & Don Whittemore in memory of Flippy and Bob Richard Rees Betty & Jacob Reiss Marvus Rice Joseph Rodriguez Rebecca Rooks Chuck Roselli & Dinah Teramura Jacqueline Rothenberg Rhonda Ruby & Rich Herstek Sandra Russill Susan Rust Steven Saftig Dianne Sawyer & Richard Petersen Gretchen Schnepper & Darby Granberry Josie & Rodger Seid Sally Sellers & Michael Subocz Mary Ann Seth-Wish & John Wish KC & Mary Shaw Janice & Roger Shea Carole Shellhart & Bob McGranahan Mark & Gail Sherman Tom Shipley & Christi Thomas Russell Shirai Shalanda & Shawnte Sims Carol Slegers Richard Smith & Patricia Frobes Olivia Solomon Phyllis Spaulding Karen & Charles Springer Carol Stout Kimberly Suriano Gary Taliaferro Kim Thomas & John Morrison Kay Toran
Emily Trappey Megan Viehmann & Brennan O’Brien Anne Wagner Diane & Terri Walker Donna Webber Abel Weinrib & Carmen Weinrib-Egido Gabe Wells Aaron & Georgia West Caroline & Paul White Susan Wilcox Carol Witherell Kathy Wolff & Anthony Dal Molin Bill Wright & Melissa Mulder-Wright Diane Yatchmenoff & Tom Crancer Minnie Young Jon & Merrie Ziady
ORGANIZATIONS BELL TOWER ($25,000+) The Collins Foundation James F. And Marion L. Miller Foundation Joel Hamberg Painting M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Oregon Community Foundation Oregon Cultural Trust Raymond Family Foundation Regional Arts & Culture Council SERA Architects Wrather Family Foundation BELL TOWER ($10,000–$24,999) Firstenburg Foundation Jordan Brand National Endownment for the Arts
Oregon Arts Commission PGE Foundation Shapiro Didway The Shubert Foundation Inc. Herbert A. Templeton Foundation Travel Oregon The Urang-Schuberth Family Fund Christine & David L. Vernier Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation The Wyss Foundation
STEPPING STONE ($1,000–$2,499) Cofield Law Office Sharon M. Fekety Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Marquam Auction Agency
UNDER $1,000 Adidas America, Inc. Arts People Black United Fund Of Oregon Nathan Cogan Family Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation ROOF RAISER ($7,500– $9,999) Colas Construction, Inc. Hoover Family Foundation Delta Inn, Inc. Newman’s Own Foundation The William Diebold & Deborah Freedberg Fund SEAT RISER Hewlett Packard ($5,000–$7,499) Lam Research Foundation B.P. Lester & Eric & Hollie Lindauer Fund Regina John Foundation of The Oregon Community The Boeing Company Foundation Charlotte Martin Foundation Northeast Coalition Of Culver Glass Neighborhoods Humber Design Group Oregon Jewish Community The Jackson Foundation Foundation The Kinsman Foundation Pure Environmental Solutions Lagunitas Brewing Company Wendy & Richard Rahm Fund Schlesinger Foundation of The Oregon Community Tonkon Torp LLP Foundation OCF Joseph E Weston Public Mary & Richard Rosenberg Foundation Charitable Foundation Juan Young Trust Shugoll Research, Inc. SUPPORTING BEAM The Standard ($2,500–$4,999) Stash Tea Alder Geotechnical Services, LLC Tripwire Fund of the Oregon HMF Beaudoin Family Foundation Community Foundation Multnomah County Volunteers of America Ned Ludd The Winston O. Weaver Family Oregon Humanities Foundation Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust Worksource Portland Metro
P R E S E N T E D AS PART OF THE
2018 Vanport Mosaic Festival
PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE STAFF Co-founder/Artistic Director Brian Weaver Co-founder/Education Director Nikki Weaver Co-founder/Managing Director Michael Weaver Marketing and PR Director Sarah Bills Front of House Manager La’Tevin Alexander Ellis Audience Services Associates Quinlan Fitzgerald, Charles Grant Development/Database Specialist Katie Frederick Asst. Education Director Corinne Gaucher Production & Company Manager Thyra Hartshorn Development Director Elena Hein Bookkeeper Alix Kolar
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Harold Goldstein, Chair Joan Hartzell, Vice-Chair Mark Williams, Treasurer Michelle Mark, Secretary Jill Ahlstrand Andrew Clarke Michael Cowan Angela Freeman Fred Grossman David Hardy Greg Hinckley Kimberly Howard Curt Jantz Marge Kafoury Andy Ricetti-Eberly Stephen Robinson Pancho Savery Natasha Terranova Jennifer Watson George ‘Bing’ Sheldon (In Memorium)
APPRENTICE COMPANY
LEFT HOOK
A timely drama about gentrification and community displacement in 1970s Portland, set in an Albina boxing club.
BY RICH RUBIN
May 24 - June 10 Thurs - Sat 7 pm / Sunday at 2 pm
DAMARIS WEBB
Please visit www.vanportmosaic.org for tickets to Left Hook and all Festival events.
DIRECTED BY
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center - 5340 N. Interstate Avenue
Kristopher Adams Lilo Afaro Kayla Kelly Tina Mascaro