DRACULA
originally dramatized by John L. Balderston and Hamilton Deane from Bram Stoker’s world-famous novel, Dracula adapted and originally directed by William McNulty directed by Drew Fracher
Sept. 6 – Oct. 31, 2019
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DRACULA
originally dramatized by John L. Balderston and Hamilton Deane from Bram Stoker’s world-famous novel, Dracula adapted and originally directed by William McNulty directed by Drew Fracher
Sept. 6 – Oct. 31, 2019
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Welcome to Actors Theatre’s 56th season! Our fall wouldn’t be complete without the delightfully eerie Halloween tradition of Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula. This season we celebrate a special anniversary of our partnership with Fifth Third Bank. For 25 years, this electrifying production has been a Louisville staple that drips with suspense…and blood. We’re so grateful for this sponsorship. With the support of Fifth Third Bank, as well as our student matinee series sponsor, Yum! Brands Foundation, we are able to continue to terrify and captivate audiences. This time of year is a celebration of many traditions. Once again, we’ve joined with our partners at Fifth Third Bank, the American Red Cross and Fourth Street Live! Entertainment to host the city’s largest blood drive, which took place September 4. It was inspiring to witness the Louisville community come together with such an altruistic spirit. Whether you come every year or this is your first theatre experience, Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula offers something special to everyone. Packed with action and adrenaline, it’s a compelling story that pits a group of disparate heroes against the diabolical strength of Count Dracula. This narrative invites us to question and combat systems of power, while being thoroughly engaged by thrilling spectacle. Dracula is the perfect example of theatre’s ability to be both meaningful and entertaining. This year we offer our first relaxed performance of Dracula, in conjunction with sensory friendly performances for this season’s shows. The relaxed performance provides the opportunity to get up and move about at specific times and, when possible, lighting in the theatre will be left on. If you would be more comfortable attending a relaxed performance, you may exchange your ticket for the show on September 21 at 3 p.m. We also offer performances that will be audio-described and that provide open captioning. At any show, you may also use assistive listening devices, available at Coat Check. Also available for check-out are sensory friendly aids, including fidgets, noise-canceling headphones and stress balls. At the entrances to the theatre, you can find large print programs available. If you have questions or suggestions about ways we can make your visit easier, please contact Allison Hammons, Director of Volunteer and Audience Relations, at 502.584.1265 ext. 3072 or email AHammons@ActorsTheatre.org. To learn more about Accessibility at Actors Theatre, please visit ActorsTheatre.org/Accessibility. I invite you to share your thoughts with us directly at Leadership@ActorsTheatre.org. Thank you for joining us, and enjoy the show!
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL based on the book by Charles Dickens
adapted by Barbara Field | directed by Drew Fracher
Nov. 23–Dec. 23, 2019
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Dracula originally dramatized by John L. Balderston and Hamilton Deane from Bram Stoker’s world-famous novel, Dracula adapted and originally directed by William McNulty directed by Drew Fracher
FEATURING Xavier Bleuel *, Santino Craven *, Brylee Deuser, Christopher Garofalo +, Rebecca Hirota *, Jen Jarnagin +, Ella Jenkins, Noah Keyishian +, Germainne LeBron +, Alex Lin + , Megan Massie, Brandon Meeks *, Brendan Miller, Mollie Murk +, Kat Peña +, Vaughn Michael Ramirez, Neill Robertson *, and Ashtonn Thompson + Scenic Designer Paul Owen Costume Designer Lorraine Venberg Lighting Designer Tony Penna † Sound Designer Matthew M. Nielson † Media Designer Philip Allgeier Fight Director Jake Guinn Intimacy Director J. Ariadne Calvano Stage Manager Stephen Horton * Dramaturg Hannah Rae Montgomery Presented by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com) The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers of the United States. † Designers that are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA – 829 of the IATSE. + Member of the Professional Training Company of Actors Theatre.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS THE CAST OF CHARACTERS
(in order of appearance) Count Dracula Santino Craven * Van Helsing Rebecca Hirota * Ms. Sullivan Kat Peña + Renfield Neill Robertson * Dr. Seward Brandon Meeks * Mr. Briggs Noah Keyishian + Lucy Megan Massie Jonathan Harker Xavier Bleuel * Undead Ensemble Brylee Deuser, Christopher Garofalo +, Jen Jarnagin +, Ella Jenkins, Germainne LeBron +, Alex Lin +, Brendan Miller, Mollie Murk +, Vaughn Michael Ramirez, Ashtonn Thompson +
UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of performance. For Count Dracula: Brandon Meeks *; For Van Helsing: Jennifer Pennington; For Ms. Sullivan: Zoë DePreta +; For Renfield: Patrick Steadman Taylor +; For Dr. Seward/Mr. Briggs: Christopher Garofalo +; For Lucy: Mollie Murk +; For Jonathan Harker: Michael Allyn +; For Undead Ensemble: Michael Allyn +, Aizhaneya Carter +, Teresa Langford +, and Andrew G. Rodriguez +
SETTING Dr. Seward’s sanatorium and environs in Purley, England.
INTERMISSION There will be one 15 minute interrmission
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS Casting Dialect Coach Fight Captain Production Assistant Production Assistant/Child Talent Guardian Stage Management Apprentices 8
Karie Koppel, Elissa Myers Casting D’Arcy Smith Brandon Meeks * Margaret Rial Andie Burns Connor Feagin +, Maggie Hoffecker +
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The Making of Dracula
Bram Stoker, author of Dracula (published in 1897).
BORN ABRAHAM STOKER IN 1847 in a seaside town north of Dublin, Ireland, Bram Stoker suffered a mysterious ailment in his childhood that kept him unable to walk until he was seven. Both of his parents were storytellers: his father, a civil servant, told vivid tales about the theatre. His mother told him Irish folk tales as well as stories from her childhood—stories about drinking the blood of the family cow for nourishment during the Potato Famine and about the cholera epidemic of 1832, during which some victims were mistaken for dead and buried alive.
As a young man, fully recovered from his childhood illness, Stoker worked as a Clerk to the Registrar of Petty Sessions for the Irish government. (His first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland [1866], was significantly more exhaustive and less sensational than his most famous work.) Stoker filled his evenings with theatre, eventually volunteering as the drama critic for Dublin’s Evening Mail. During this time he wooed Florence Balcombe from her other suitor, Oscar Wilde. After their marriage, Stoker published several short stories, including a volume of fairy tales based on the cholera outbreak of his mother’s youth. When he was 29, Stoker met the famed British actor Henry Irving. The two became friends, and when Irving formed his own company soon thereafter, Stoker became his acting manager. He held the job for 28 years. Irving—known for his brooding and
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P L AY N OT E S temper, as well as definitive performances of heroes and villains alike—would prove a powerful creative influence for Stoker, who is theorized to have crafted Count Dracula as a star vehicle for Irving (and to have based some of the Count’s less savory characteristics on Irving’s domineering personality). Bram Stoker spent seven years plotting, re-plotting, researching and crafting the action and prose of Dracula. The novel is written in diary entries, letters and newspaper clippings, and Stoker’s research took him around England, plotting train and boat schedules with a diligence befitting a former civil servant.
A uniformed nurse was ready to administer smelling salts to fainthearted patrons at all London performances of Dracula (1927). At one performance, 39 audience members took advantage of the offer.
Although it introduced one of the most famous vampires of all time, Stoker’s work met with mixed reviews and middling sales in his lifetime. Perhaps more disappointing, after hearing the reading Stoker staged for his benefit shortly before the novel’s publication, Henry Irving called the work “dreadful.” Stoker
never lived to see Dracula adapted for the stage, although it became a theatrical sensation relatively soon after Stoker’s 1912 death, and has gone on to inspire countless movies, television shows and novels in the 122 years since its initial publication. From the folk tales of his youth to the theatrics that saturated his daily life, Stoker crafted a character for the ages. Take a deep breath and enjoy the explosion of action and effects, passion and terror in this year’s production of Dracula. ~ Adrien-Alice Hansel
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UNDERWRITER We are so pleased that you chose to join us for this fright-filled performance of Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula. For 25 years, we have had the pleasure of bringing fun and fear to Actors’ patrons through the spirit of Dracula. Based on our howling history, you are sure to find yourself on the edge of your seat with suspense and screaming for more. But don’t let us scare you away! We hope you and yours will join us soon to meet some other favorite spirits in the beloved Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol. Thank you for allowing the Fifth Third Bank family to play a special role in your holiday traditions. Sincerely, Michael K. Ash Kentucky Regional President Fifth Third Bank
S T U D E N T M AT I N E E S P O N S O R As part of the Yum! Family Series, the YUM! BRANDS FOUNDATION is honored to sponsor Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Student Matinee Series for the 2019–2020 season. Together, we bring the unique experience of live theatre to more than 15,000 schoolchildren from across the region. As a longtime supporter of Actors Theatre, we wish to thank you for joining us in celebrating 56 years of inspiring performances and live theatre excellence, all of which have enriched the lives of so many throughout the community.
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BIOGRAPHIES THE ACTING COMPANY Xavier Bleuel (Jonathan Harker) is excited to be making his debut at Actors Theatre. Selected Regional Theatre: The Winter’s Tale at the Goodman Theatre; The Star at ACT (Seattle); Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis; The Tempest at Island Stage Left; Love’s Labour’s Lost and Pericles at the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival; 12 Ophelias at The Penthouse Theatre; Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika and Incident at Vichy at the Jones Playhouse. Bleuel is represented by Gray Talent Group in New York, L.A. and Chicago.
Rebecca Hirota (Van Helsing) is making her Actors Theatre debut. Selected New York: Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club), Romeo & Juliet (Classic Stage Company), Bullet Catchers (Judson Memorial) and The Tower (HERE Arts Center). Selected Regional: Caviar on Credit (Guthrie Theater), The Most Deserving (The Denver Center), Junk (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Jane Eyre (Cincinnati Playhouse & Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Vietgone and Fault (TheatreSquared) and 36 Views (The Huntington and Quantum Theatre). Television: Law & Order, Elementary, Unforgettable and Gossip Girl. Education: M.F.A. in Acting, Columbia University; B.A. in Psychology, Boston University.
Santino Craven (Count Dracula) is returning for his second year of Dracula. Regional Theatre: Father Comes Home from the Wars (u.s.) and A View from the Bridge (u.s.) at the Goodman Theatre; The Royale at Yellow Tree Theatre; The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry at Pillsbury House Theatre; A Civil War Christmas and Lonely Soldiers at the Minnesota History Theatre; Dracula and The Great Gatsby at the Hilberry Theatre. Television: Chicago P.D. (NBC). Additional Credits: Craven received his M.F.A. from Wayne State University. He is represented by Gray Talent Group.
Megan Massie (Lucy) is making her Actors Theatre debut. Film: Wretch, Reading Kate. Other Theatre: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest, and Henry V at Kentucky Shakespeare; The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Cymbeline with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; To Kill a Mockingbird with Harrisburg Shakespeare; Dead Man Walking with the Kentucky Opera. Additional Credits: Massie received her B.F.A. from West Virginia University. She is represented by Heyman Talent Agency.
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BIOGRAPHIES Brandon Meeks (Dr. Seward) is making his Actor’s Theatre debut. Regional Theatre: The Matchmaker at People’s Light and Theatre. Other Theatre: Frankenstein and Hamlet at StageOne; Byhalia, Mississippi at Off The WALL Productions; RED at Bunbury Theatre; The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry VIII, The Tempest, King John, Romeo and Juliet and The Comedy of Errors at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; The Winter’s Tale and A Christmas Carol at Roxy Regional Theatre. Additional Credits: Brandon received his B.A. from the University of Louisville. For more information, please visit www.brandonmeeks.com. Neill Robertson (Renfield) returns for his third consecutive year of Dracula. Other Theatre: As You Like It, King Lear, Othello, Henry IV Parts I and II, The Comedy of Errors, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Titus Andronicus in Butchertown, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest with Kentucky Shakespeare; Hamlet with StageOne; Cabaret and Misalliance with Commonwealth Theatre Center; Auctioning the Ainsleys and The Language Archive at Theatre [502]; Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Pandora Productions. Additional Credits: Robertson is a 2005 graduate of the Studio Program at the American Music and Dramatic Academy in New York.
YOUNG ACTORS Brylee Deuser (Undead Girl) is thrilled to be returning to Actors Theatre for her 4th production of Dracula. Deuser is twelve years old and in sixth grade at Highland Hills Middle School. Her past experience includes Little Bunny Foo Foo, Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula and I Now Pronounce at Actors Theatre; The Music Man at Derby Dinner Playhouse; Mary Poppins at Hayswood Theatre; and Miracle on 34th Street at Clarksville Little Theatre. When not onstage she enjoys riding horses, singing and dancing. Ella Jenkins (Undead Girl) is thrilled to be back at Actors Theatre for Dracula this season! At Actors Theatre: Dracula and Little Bunny Foo Foo. Other Theatre: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Gladys Herdman and Baby Angel) and Alice in Wonderland at StageOne; Tarzan at Trinity High School; and Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, Willy Wonka and Cinderella at St. Margaret Mary. Jenkins is a seventh grader at St. Margaret Mary. She enjoys singing, acting, dance, piano and everything art!
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BIOGRAPHIES Other Theatre: The Little Mermaid and School of Rock at Classic Melodies Performance Institute; The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at StageOne Family Theatre; The Lion King Jr. and Once On This Island at Theater Works of Southern Indiana; Oliver and The Wizard of Oz at Jewish Community Center and Pleasure Ridge Park High School. Additional Credits: Miller recently competed in the Access Broadway Festival with Classic Melodies in New Jersey, where his middle school group took top honors for their performance of Bye Bye Birdie and Classic Melodies won the Broadway Cup for best overall Performing Arts School. Vaughn Michael Ramirez (Undead Boy) is thrilled to return to Actors Theatre for his seventh season. At Actors Theatre: Dracula, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Macbeth and Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol. Other Theatre: Fidelio at Kentucky Opera; Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Kentucky Shakespeare. Television: Mother Goose Club Playhouse, multiple commercials and educational videos. Additional Credits: Awards include 2015 Louisville’s Got Talent 1st Place, 2014 Broadway World’s Best Performance by a Child Actor and the national titles “2018 Mr. Junior Dance America” and “2014 Mr. Petite Dance America.” He is working toward being an Eagle Scout and is in the MST Magnet Program at Meyzeek.
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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING COMPANY Christopher Garofalo (Undead Ensemble) Regional Theatre: Romeo and Juliet at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Stupid Fucking Bird at The Arden Theatre Company and Love’s Labour’s Lost at Quintessence Theatre Group. OffBroadway: Julius Caesar at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park and SCRAPS at The Flea Theater. Additional Credits: Garofalo has interned with Roundabout Theatre Company and EPIC Theater Ensemble in NYC and is part of the resident acting company at The Flea Theater. He received a B.F.A. in Acting from The University of the Arts. For more information, please visit cjgarofalo.com. Jen Jarnagin (Undead Ensemble) Credits Include: Locked Up Bitches, The Trojan Women and Serials at The Flea Theater; The Arsonists at DENIZEN Theatre; Dirt at The Wild Project; and The Leader Project, The Forgiveness Project and The Awareness Project with OutsideIn, New York City’s first arts re-entry program for the formerly incarcerated. Jarnagin is a proud graduate of Stella Adler Studio of Acting and Upright Citizens Brigade. She also works extensively in New York City jails teaching acting and playwriting. For more information, please visit jenjarnagin.com.
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BIOGRAPHIES Noah Keyishian (Mr. Briggs) Theatre Credits Include: Favors (Cohen) at Manhattan Repertory Theatre and Iphigenia Among the Taurians (Thoas) at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Film/ Television: The feature film Happy Yummy Chicken (Clive Harrington), dir. by Anna Loyd Bradshaw and short films That Thing I Had That One Time (Able), dir. by OJ Reyes; Status-Driven (Alex), dir. by Francis Agyapong and Phill Gladkov; Sasquatch (Preston), dir. by Samantha Panger; Separation Celebration (Coleman), dir. by Amanda Madden; and Wax Lover’s Playlist (Spits), dir. by Mai Senaar. Television pilot H.I.T.S. (Guy); dir. by Andrea Clinton, and the web series Looking Through the Windows (Xavier) dir. by Cris Thorne. Additional Credits: Keyishian received his B.A. from Bard College in Environmental and Urban Studies. Germainne LeBron (Undead Ensemble) Credits Include: Eight Tales of Pedro (Alfonso/Pedro) at The Secret Theatre; Os Confederados (Getulio/Diego) and Lucha Libre (El Principe/Chacho) at Columbia University’s Schapiro Theater; River Rouge (Deblasio) at The Lenfest Center for the Arts at Columbia University; Elvira: The Immigration Play (Gustavo) at Collaboraction Theatre Company, Chicago, Illinois; Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio/Verges) at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden;
King Lear (Cornwall) at The Brick Theatre. Tours: Julius Caesar (Mark Antony/ Metelous), regional tour with Stages on the Sound; Hamlet (Laertes, Rosencrantz and Queen Player) and Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Dwight) with Red Monkey Theater Group regional tours. Additional Credits: LeBron is a proud graduate of The City College of New York and The Borough of Manhattan Community College. For more information, please visit germainnelebron.com. Alex Lin (Undead Ensemble) Regional Theatre: Julius Caesar (Portia, Cassius u/s) at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Henry VI Part III (Margaret) at Commonwealth Shakespeare, The Crucible (Abigail) and Pippin (Leading Player) at Princeton Summer Theatre. Off-Broadway: Maverick at The Connelly Theatre (world premiere), [title of show] (Heidi) at Playwrights Horizons Downtown. Additional Credits: Lin is a recent graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a Jersey native. She is also a big fan of space exploration and works as a content writer for A24 Films’ new space media outlet, Supercluster. Mollie Murk (Undead Ensemble) Credits Include: Titus Andronicus (Lavinia), Macbeth (Banquo/ Porter), Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Kentucky Shakespeare Festival; Rapunzel
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BIOGRAPHIES and The Velveteen Rabbit at Derby Dinner Playhouse; As You Like It (Rosalind), The Tempest (Ariel) and the House Theatre of Chicago’s The Sparrow (Emily Book) at Hope College; and productions at Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Striketime Dance Company, and Suspend Aerial Arts. Additional Credits: B.A. in theatre and dance/choreography, Hope College; internships at Seattle Children’s Theatre and Lookingglass Theatre; training at Shakespeare & Company; Michigan WILDE Award Nominee and KCACTF Irene Ryan Acting Finalist. Proud member of the Ring of Keys Network: RingofKeys.org/mollie-murk. Kat Peña (Ms. Sullivan) Theatre Credits Include: Eight Tales of Pedro (Escolastica) at The Secret Theatre; King Lear (Goneril) at The Brick; As You Like It (Celia) at the Smiling Hogshead Ranch; Marat/Sade (Simonne) at Columbia University’s Schapiro Hall; Elvira: The Immigration Play at Collaboraction Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois; Big Green Theater Festival at The Bushwick Starr. Tours: Water by the Spoonful (Yaz) regional tour with Red Monkey Theater Group; Las Mariposas at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre and regional tour with The People’s Theatre Project. Film: Reina (Michelle), directed by Phil Vickery; As You Like It (Celia) with Cafecito Films. Additional Credits: Peña is a current member of The Actor’s Project NYC. B.A. in Theater from City College of New York. For more information, please visit katpena.com. 16
Ashtonn Thompson (Undead Ensemble) is an Okie from Muskogee. His university credits include Actually (Tom), We Are Proud to Present… (Actor 1/ Black Man), Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika (Belize), Everyman (Everyman) at the Gilson Lab Theatre; A Christmas Carol (Solicitor 1) at the Elsie C. Brackett Theatre; Let the Right One In at the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Touring Credits Include: The Seussification, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon) and The Bremen Town Musicians (Dog) for the Children’s Theatre Helmerich Literature Alive Tour. Thompson is a proud graduate of the University of Oklahoma where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama with an acting emphasis. He is extremely excited to begin his professional career with his fellow apprentices at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
DIRECTOR Drew Fracher is happy to be back at Actors Theatre directing another season of Dracula. Also at Actors, he has directed A Christmas Carol (eight seasons) and A Christmas Story. Regional Theatre: Henry IV Part 1, Macbeth and One Man, Two Guvnors at Georgia Shakespeare; Sense and Sensibility, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Tempest at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; Much Ado About Nothing and The Winter’s Tale at Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival; and Opus and When We Were Young and Unafraid at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. Most recently he directed Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for AthensWest Theatre
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BIOGRAPHIES in Lexington. Additional Credits: Productions at Florida Stage, American Stage Theatre Company, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, The Human Race Theatre Company, and the Alabama and Kentucky Shakespeare Festivals. As a fight master of the Society of American Fight Directors, Fracher has choreographed fight scenes and violence in productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville and more than 50 theatres nationwide.
DESIGNERS Philip Allgeier (Media Designer) became the Media Technologist for Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2008. Since joining the company, he has designed media for over 50 productions, including many world premiere productions in the Humana Festival of New American Plays, such as The Christians, The Glory of the World and
The Hour of Feeling. Additional Credits at Actors Theatre Include: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Mountaintop, At the Vanishing Point, The Last Five Years, Peter and the Starcatcher, Angels in America (Parts One and Two) and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. Allgeier has also designed media for productions at Playwrights Horizons, Mark Taper Forum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Syracuse Stage and others. Allgeier is a graduate of Western Kentucky University. Matthew M. Nielson (Composer/Sound Designer) Regional Theatre: Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Baltimore Center Stage, Smithsonian Institution, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Denver Theatre Center, Portland Center Stage, Milwaukee Repertory
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BIOGRAPHIES Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Delaware Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrington Stage Company, Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Theater Alliance and Olney Theatre Center; orchestrations and arrangements for a regional tour of Peter and the Starcatcher. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater and 59E59. Film/TV: Those Who Wait, Elbow Grease, Blue, From Hell to Here, Death in Time, The Long Road, Epix Drive-In, UFC on FOX and NBC Sports. Awards: Helen Hayes Awards and several film festival awards. Additional Credits: Nielson wrote and produced the audio series Troublesome Gap and runs a production music library and audio post-production house for film/TV.
For more information, please visit www.CuriousMusic.com. Paul Owen (Scenic Designer) celebrated his 50th year as a theatrical designer in 2010. From 1960 to 1970, he served as resident designer for Nina Vance’s Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, designing sets, lights and costumes for the majority of the productions. Owen left the Alley in 1970 and joined the staff of Actors Theatre as resident designer in 1971. He continued in that capacity until semi-retiring in 2009. During those 38 years, he designed approximately 1,500 productions, including all of the state, national and international tours, as well as a number of guest designs for other regional theatres. Owen has designed several productions since his retirement, the most recent being Atomic
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BIOGRAPHIES Bombers at the University of Louisville and the musical Honk for a venue in Marshalltown, Iowa. Owen was honored in 1993 with The Kentucky Governor’s Award for Artistic Achievement. In 2005 he received the Eddy Award from Entertainment Design Magazine on behalf of Actors Theatre, and in 2010 he was awarded the Hanover College Medal for Excellence in the Arts. Tony Penna (Lighting Designer) returns to Actors Theatre for his 20th year lighting Dracula. Other Actors Theatre credits include being the resident lighting designer from 2000-2004, during which time he designed over 50 plays and musicals. Regional Theatre: The Warehouse Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Baltimore Center Stage, Studio Arena Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Lean Ensemble Theater, the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, South Carolina Repertory Company and the historic Shuler Theater in Raton, N.M. In New York his designs have been seen at La MaMa, Medicine Show, Culture Project and HERE. Additional Credits: Penna teaches stage lighting, stage management and computer drafting at Clemson University and is a member of United Scenic Artists. He is on the resident design staffs of The Warehouse Theatre and Lean Ensemble Theater. Lorraine Venberg (Costume Designer) At Actors Theatre: Over 70 shows, including A Christmas Carol, The Delling Shore, Cry Old Kingdom, The Whipping Man, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; In The Next Room (or the Vibrator Play); Elemeno Pea; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom;
Crime and Punishment; A Christmas Story; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Glengarry Glen Ross; This Beautiful City; The Tempest; Spunk; Dracula; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; The Chosen; Gem of the Ocean; Intimate Apparel; The Crucible; Twelfth Night; Love, Janis; Fences; Pure Confidence and Memory House. Other Theatre: Studio Theatre, The New Victory Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Victory Gardens Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Cleveland’s Playhouse Square, Arden Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theater (Cyrano de Bergerac) and City Theatre. Additional Credits: Costume Designer for Leonard Bernstein’s Mass with the Louisville Orchestra; at the Kentucky Opera, Venberg worked as Costume Designer for Three Decembers (with Denyce Graves) and The Mikado, and as Costumer for Dead Man Walking, The Barber of Seville, Madame Butterfly, Abduction from the Seraglio, Macbeth, La Boheme, La Fanciulla del West and Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Venberg is a member of United Scenic Artists.
CREATIVE STAFF J. Ariadne Calvano (Intimacy Director) At Actors Theatre: How to Defend Yourself (2019 Humana Festival). Other Credits: Directing: Women Laughing Alone with Salad at Theatre [502], The Love of Three Oranges at Obscene/Courageous Theatre, The Rope at the University of Colorado Boulder, and The Taming of the Shrew and Eurydice at the University of Louisville. Intimacy choreography: Almost, Maine and A Raisin in the Sun at the University of Louisville. Additional Credits: Calvano received her Ph.D. from
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BIOGRAPHIES the University of Colorado Boulder. She is an Assistant Professor of Acting and Movement at the University of Louisville’s Department of Theatre Arts. For more information, please visit ariadnecalvano.com. Jake Guinn (Fight Director) is an Atlantabased fight director and movement artist. Blending martial movement and kinetic flow arts, Guinn is constantly flying back and forth between his own performances and directing scenes for the stage. You can see his performance work on truTV’s Fake/Off (season two) as a member of On the Fly Productions’ aerial athletes. He is the program coordinator for the Imperial Opa Circus School based in Atlanta, Ga. This summer, Guinn completed the final part of his testing and is now recognized as a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors.
PRODUCTION Stephen Horton (Production Stage Manager) At Actors Theatre: Dracula (2011–2019), The Corpse Washer, Pipeline, Marginal Loss, Little Bunny Foo Foo, We’re Gonna Be Okay, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Wellesley Girl, 4000 Miles, Dot, The Brothers Size, Tribes, Brownsville song (b-side for tray), The Pirates of Penzance, Tom Jones, Cry Old Kingdom, The Whipping Man, True West, The Veri**on Play, ReEntry, A Devil at Noon, Barefoot in the Park, Sirens, Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas. Regional Theatre: Coming Back Like a Song!, Deathtrap, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Lion in Winter, Edith, In the Mood, The Who’s Tommy, A Delicate Balance, The Guardsman, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Faith Healer, Noël Coward 20
in Two Keys, The Book Club Play, The Caretaker, Educating Rita, My Pal George and Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? at Berkshire Theatre Group; The Elephant Man, The Foreigner, Doubt, Bertrand Priest, Hello, Dolly! and The King and I at Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Other Theatre: The Hound of the Baskervilles at The Cape Playhouse and The Last Train to Nibroc at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater.
DRAMATURG Hannah Rae Montgomery is the resident dramaturg at Actors Theatre. Dramaturgy credits at Actors include Pipeline, The Magic Play, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, 4000 Miles, Luna Gale, At the Vanishing Point, The Mountaintop, True West, Romeo and Juliet and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity in the Brown-Forman Series, and the world premieres of The Corpse Washer, God Said This, Airness, Cardboard Piano, Residence, That High Lonesome Sound, Remix 38, Cry Old Kingdom, The Delling Shore and How We Got On in the Humana Festival. She has also worked as a dramaturg at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Yale Repertory Theatre and Yale Cabaret. Montgomery holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.
AUTHORS John L. Balderston (1889–1954) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts. In 1927, after a career as a journalist during World War I, Balderston revised Hamilton Deane’s stage adaptation of Dracula for its U.S. production. The 1931 film version of Dracula launched his screenwriting career. In addition to Dracula, Balderston
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BIOGRAPHIES contributed to the screenplays for Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy and Dracula’s Daughter. He adapted many novels for the screen, including Gone with the Wind (1939), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) and Gaslight (1944), which earned him his second Academy Award nomination (the first was for 1935’s The Lives of a Bengal Lancer). His 1929 play Berkeley Square was the basis for the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
Helsing. When the production moved to London in 1927, Deane, as a publicity stunt, hired a nurse to be present at each performance to assist any audience members who reacted badly to the play by fainting or taking ill. Deane also played Dracula during the play’s twodecade run, revamping of Bram Stoker’s title character. The suave gentleman vampire who lives on in the popular imagination is actually Deane’s creation and remains his lasting legacy.
Hamilton Deane (ca. 1880–1958) was an Irish actor, playwright and director whose stage career spanned forty years and included heading The Deane Theatre Company. Deane was also the first to adapt Dracula for the stage. His version opened in 1924 in Derby, England, with Deane assuming the role of Van
William McNulty Since joining the resident acting company of Actors Theatre in 1976, McNulty has been seen in over 150 productions, playing such diverse roles as Jamie in Moon for the Misbegotten, Charlie in The Foreigner, Roy Cohn in Angels in America, Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra and Danforth
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BIOGRAPHIES in The Crucible. During those 40 years, he has also directed more than 30 productions, including Seascape, Skylight, Bad Dates, A Tuna Christmas and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Other theatres where he has acted and/or directed include New York’s Public Theater, Washington’s Arena Stage, the Alliance Theatre of Atlanta, Cleveland Play House and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. He played Marc Rothko in a critically acclaimed production of Red at Florida Repertory Theatre. His adaptation of Dracula has been produced at academic and professional theatres throughout the country and the world. It has been staged at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Chung Ying Theatre of Beijing, among others. In 2009, McNulty was awarded a Fox Fellowship Distinguished Artist Grant by Theatre Communications Group, an award given to only three actors in any given year. Bram Stoker (1847–1912), born Abraham Stoker, was a novelist, a short story writer and the business manager
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“[Bram] Stoker worked for the Irish government before becoming acting manager for Henry Irving’s theatre company.” of the Lyceum Theatre in London. Born north of Dublin, Stoker worked for the Irish government before becoming acting manager for Henry Irving’s theatre company. His novels include his most famous work, Dracula (1897), as well as The Primrose Path (1875), The Shoulder of Shasta (1895), The Man (or The Gates of Life) (1905), The Lady of the Shroud (1909) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). He also published several collections of short stories. Stoker was a drama critic for Dublin’s Evening Mail in the 1860s and eventually served on the literary staff of London’s Daily Telegraph during the 1890s.
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A R T I S T I C D I R E C TO R Robert Barry Fleming Artistic Director Fleming served as Associate Artistic Director at Cleveland Play House from 2016-2019. Prior to Cleveland Playhouse, he served as the Director of Artistic Programming at Arena Stage; world premieres he commissioned, developed and championed during this tenure include the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award winner Dear Evan Hansen, Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Sovereignty, John Strand’s The Originalist, Katori Hall’s Blood Quilt, Karen Zacarías’ Destiny of Desire, and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner, Sweat, by Lynn Nottage. Fleming was an Associate Producer for the OffBroadway premiere of The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams, starring Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif. He was also an Associate Professor (tenured) and Chair of the University of San Diego Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Department. His most recent directing and choreography credits include Next To Normal (Tantrum Theater), The Royale (Cleveland Play House), Destiny of Desire
(Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Caroline, or Change (Tantrum Theater) and Between Riverside and Crazy (Cleveland Play House). As part of the 2018 Cleveland Play House New Ground Theatre Festival, Fleming directed a reading of the new musical Minton’s Place by acclaimed contemporary music composer Nolan Williams, Jr., with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Nikkole Salter. His professional acting credits include stints on Broadway (Ragtime directed by Frank Galati, Stand-Up Tragedy directed by the late Ron Link) On-Broadway and Off-Broadway (the leading role in Insurrection: Holding History by Robert O’Hara at The Public Theater), joining Actors’ Equity Association with the national tour of Cats (Original Bus and Truck), playing major regional theatres (The Old Globe, The Guthrie, A Contemporary Theater, The Mark Taper Forum with the world premiere of George C. Wolfe’s Jelly’s Last Jam as Young Jelly) and appearing on television (Emmy-winning Disney Channel series Adventures In Wonderland, Family Matters, The George Carlin Show) and in films (Academy Award-winning L.A. Confidential and Twilight Of The Golds).
INSIDE THE COFFIN October 26 | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Bingham Theatre General Admission: $15
Join us as our production team shows off and explains many of the tricks and special effects in Dracula. Santino Craven in Fifth Third Bank’s Dracula, 2018. Photo by Jonathan Roberts.
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KENTUCKY WOMEN: ENID YANDELL JULY 17, 2019 – JANUARY 12, 2020
To celebrate her 150th birthday, the Speed is presenting a fresh
look at Enid Yandell’s career, contextualizing the world in which she lived, as a young woman living and working in turn-of-the-century Louisville, Paris, and New York City.
Exhibition season support provided by: Dav Fam Art Fund Cary Brown and Steven E. Epstein Paul and Deborah Chellgren Debra and Ronald Murphy Eleanor Bingham Miller
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Alex Alvarez * Turney P. Berry Colin Crawford William W. Crawford Jr. Angie M. Evans * Kirsten Ford Linda Gaines † Layla George Jan M. Grayson Lena Hamel Aaron Jahn
Barbara W. Juckett Jonathan Lowe Todd Lowe Stewart Lussky Jennifer Mackin Theresa Reno-Weber Theodore S. Rosky ‡ Marsha Beck Roth ‡ Bob Saunders † Scott Schaftlein * John E. Selent
Seema Sheth Wendy Sirchio Allan Tasman MD ‡ Mac Thompson Robbie Tindall * Karl N. Victor, III Karen Wunderlin
John J. Buchino, MD Mary Beth Clark Irwin H. Cutler, Jr. Gayle S. Dorsey Jane Driskell Douglass Farnsley Mrs. Harry S. Frazier, Jr. Clarence E. Glover Jack Guthrie
Ian Y. Henderson Frank B. Hower, Jr. Christine Johnson David M. Krebs Eleanor Bingham Miller Steven J. Paradis Donna King Perry Benjamin K. Richmond Donna Burks Sanders
Rev. Alfred R. Shands W. Kennedy Simpson Kathi Stearman Sherry Steinbock William M. Street Amanda Foard Tyler Ann C. Wells Jessica White
Vice President for Service Robert Lutz
Board Members Linda Cauble Wanda Cundiff Lew Ketcham Melanie Knight Tom Morton Val Slayton, M.D. Sue Terdan
‡ Denotes Sustaining Director † Denotes Ex-Officio * Denotes Executive Committee Member
ADVISORY COUNCIL Carolee Allen James B. Appleberry Lynn Ashton Irving W. Bailey Stanley Bayersdorfer Karen Bearden Winfrey Blackburn, Jr. Neville Blakemore, Jr. Cornelia W. Bonnie
ACTORS ASSOCIATES BOARD President Linda Gaines
Secretary Barbara Ketcham
Immediate Past President Caroline Martinson
Vice President for Communication Rita Bell
Financial Secretary Bill Bolte
Vice President for Fundraising Barbara Nichols
Treasurer Doris Elder
Coordinator, Gift Shop Operations Pennie Miller Service Coordinator Mary Korfage
Vice President for Hospitality Patti Slagle
Cast of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 2018. Photo by Jonathan Roberts.
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Theatre Forward advances the American theatre and its communities by providing funding and other resources to the country’s leading nonprofit theatres. Theatre Forward and our theatres are most grateful to the following funders:
THEATRE EXECUTIVES ($50,000-$99,000) Bank of America* The Schloss Family Foundation♦ Wells Fargo*♦ BENEFACTORS ($25,000-$49,999) Buford Alexander and Pamela Farr*♦ BNY Mellon Steven & Joy Bunson*♦ Citi DeWitt Stern* Goldman, Sachs & Co. MetLife Morgan Stanley James S. & Lynne Turley*♦ Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP* PACESETTERS ($15,000‑$24,999) American Express* Bloomberg Cisco Systems, Inc.* The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. EY* Alan & Jennifer Freedman*♦ Frank & Bonnie Orlowski*♦ Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
National Endowment for the Arts♦ Pfizer, Inc. Southwest Airlines♦† Theatermania/Gretchen Shugart*♦ George S. Smith, Jr.*♦ UBS DONORS ($10,000‑$14,999) Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Epiq Systems* Karen A. & Kevin W. Kennedy Foundation Lisa Orberg♦ Presidio* Thomas C. Quick* RBC Wealth Management♦ Daniel A. Simkowitz*♦ S&P Global TD Charitable Foundation♦ Isabelle Winkles*♦ SUPPORTERS ($2,500‑$9,999) Mitchell J. Auslander*♦ Disney/ABC Television Group* Paula A. Dominick*♦ Dorfman and Kaish Family Foundation, Inc. ♦ Dramatists Play Service, Inc.*
Kevin & Anne Driscoll John R. Dutt* ♦ Bruce R. and Tracey Ewing*♦ Jessica Farr* Mason & Kim Granger* ♦ Brian J. Harkins* ♦ Gregory S. Hurst* ♦ Howard and Janet Kagan ♦ Joseph F. Kirk* ♦ John R. Mathena *♦ Ogilvy & Mather† Jonathan Maurer and Gretchen Shugart*♦ Dina Merril & Ted Hartley* Newmark Holdings* Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. * John Thomopoulos*♦ Evelyn Mack Truitt* Leslie C. & Regina Quick Charitable Trust As of August 2017 * Theatre Forward/DeWitt Stern Fund for New American Theatre † Includes In-kind support ♦ Educating through Theatre Support
Theatre Forward supporters are former supporters of National Corporate Theatre Fund and Impact Creativity. For a complete list of funders visit theatreforward.org.
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The Galt House Hotel Heine Brothers’ Coffee Hilliard Lyons Hyland Glass Katie and Fred Ryser-Cycle The Kentucky Center for the Arts J.B. Speed Art Museum Chris and Julie Kay Kentucky Shakespeare Kentucky Space LLC Louisville Ballet Louisville Marriott Downtown Mike’s Kentucky Kitchen Ted and Mary Nixon A U D I E N C E
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C O R P O R AT E S U P P O R T PRESIDENT CIRCLE Brown-Forman Corporation DIRECTOR CIRCLE Fifth Third Bank Yum! Family Series BENEFACTOR CIRCLE BB&T D.D. Williamson & Co., Inc. GE Appliances Hilliard Lyons LG&E and KU Energy Old Forester Theatre Forward
GUARANTOR Derby City Litho Hardscuffle, Inc. Republic National Distributing Company The Voice-Tribune White Clay Consulting
PARTNER Bearno’s Pizza Falls City Brewing Company Heine Brothers’ Coffee Mike’s Kentucky Kitchen National Arts Club
SUPPORTER AT&T Kentucky Cellar Door Chocolates Churchill Downs, Inc. Highland Cleaners McCarthy Strategic Solutions, LLC
LEGACY CIRCLE The Legacy Circle recognizes individuals who have made arrangements to support Actors Theatre in their estate plans. Anonymous Michael and Rachel Adkins Bryan R. Armstrong, Esq.
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Nancy L. Doctor Peter M. and Sarah D. Fuller Todd P. Lowe and Frances C. Ratterman
Robert T. and Eleanor N. Maddox Miriam Spectre Marcus and Jerome H. Kauper
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F O U N D AT I O N A N D G O V E R N M E N T S U P P O R T PRESIDENT CIRCLE Fund for the Arts Humana Foundation PRODUCER CIRCLE The Roy Cockrum Foundation The Shubert Foundation DIRECTOR CIRCLE Kentucky Arts Council National Endowment for the Arts The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
BENEFACTOR CIRCLE Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Gheens Foundation Jennifer Lawrence Arts Fund at the Fund for the Arts Shakespeare in American Communities
Louisville Metro Government The Robert W. Rounsavall, Jr. Family Foundation, Inc.
GUARANTOR Edgerton Foundation Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County
PARTNER The William E. Barth Foundation Parking Authority of River City (PARC)
SUPPORTER The Elizabeth George Foundation Norton Foundation, Inc.
THE HAROLD AND MIMI STEINBERG CHARITABLE TRUST
THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION
JENNIFER LAWRENCE ARTS FUND AT THE FUND FOR THE ARTS
DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports Actors Theatre of Louisville with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting Actors Theatre of Louisville.
TEACHER ADVISORY COMMIT TEE Jenni Aberli, JCPS Literacy Specialist; Faith Anderson, Ballard High; Katie Blackerby Weible, YPAS; Brent Braun, Pleasure Ridge Park High; Judy Chandler, retired Bullitt County; Terrilyn Flemming, The Brown School; Kevin Gose, Valley High School; Jennifer Girardin, Oldham County High; Amy Miller, New Albany High; Kipp McDaniel, Seneca High School; Tom Hayes, Bardstown High; Kyrstin Price, KY School for the Blind; Kim Joiner, Noe Middle; Georgette Kleier, YPAS; Alison Lambert, Oldham County High; Tiffany LaVoie, Western Visual and Performing Arts Middle School; Amanda McFarland-Smith, Southern High; Patti Miller, Jeffersonville High; Kate Nitzken, Louisville Archdiocese; Steven Rahe, Western Visual and Performing Arts Middle School; Hannegan Roseberry, Community Montessori; Amanda Simmons, Mercy Academy; Patti Slagle, Louisville Writing Project; Tiffany Smith, Eastern High; Shelby Steege, Atherton High School; Robbie Steiner, Floyd Central High; Frank Ward, Trinity High; Amy Zuccaro, Trinity High.
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Christina Lee Brown Anonymous Crawford Charitable Fund Anonymous Mrs. Harry S. Frazier, Jr. Caroline Martinson Jacqueline R. and Theodore S. Rosky Ms. Elizabeth Rounsavall John E. Selent
PRODUCER CIRCLE Sandra Frazier Mr. and Mrs. Mac Thompson
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John and Natalie Bajandas Brooke and Matthew Barzun Turney P. Berry and Kendra Foster Mrs. Edith S. Bingham Lena and Matthew Hamel Augusta and Gill Holland, Jr Mary Gwen Wheeler and David A. Jones, Jr. Todd P. Lowe and Fran C. Ratterman Bruce Merrick and Karen McCoy Thomas and Mary Jo Mueller J. A. Paradis III Marsha and David Roth Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Rounsavall III Alfred Shands The Wunderlin Company
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Mr. and Mrs. David Daulton Sarah and Peter Fuller Jim and Marianne Welch
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Alejandro and Carol Alvarez Ms. Patricia W. Ballard Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Bonnie Bruce Broussard Meredith Wilson Brown Dr. Joseph J. Buchino Victoria and Paul J. Diaz Bill and Joyce Holmes Barbara and Bill Juckett Michael and Elizabeth Keyes Nana Lampton Anonymous Fairleigh and Abby Lussky Kevin E. Moore and Mike Porto Dr. Catherine Newton and Dr. Gordon Strauss Al and Jamie Paradis Carol and Charlie Pye Linda and Chris Valentine 30
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Jesse and Kim Adams Keith Auerbach, M.D. Adam Beam Madelyn Buzzard Mees Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Callen Heather McHold and Stephen P. Campbell Mark B. Carter Ken and Carolle Jones Clay Michael and Gina Del Negro Nancy L. Doctor Mr. and Ms. Donald Finney Ken and Judy Handmaker Michelle and Michael Hanington Dan and Lisa Jones Jennifer Fortner Letcher Anonymous Holland and Sherry McTyeire Susan S. and Robert H. Means Anonymous Rick and Becky Reed Jonathan and Julie Roberts Kris and Wendy Sirchio Mr. and Mrs. Robbie Tindall Selden Y. Trimble V David and Melissa Weedman Jane Welch Will and Becky West L. David Wilson Phoebe A. Wood
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Michael Alt Phillip Anderton Mr. James B. Appleberry Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Arnold Rita Jane Bell Sharon and Stephen Berger Neville Blakemore, Jr. and Gray Henry Mr. and Mrs. Neville Blakemore III Christen and Mike Boone Maggie Brandt and Bert Lyons Norma B. Braver Tom and Sylvia Brite Dr. and Mrs. John J. Buchino William Burbank John Burger Dr. Phil Cochran and Ms. Marie B. Hertzman-Cochran Larry Combs Kevin and Mera Cossey Corlett Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Costel Brad Asher and Susan Coventry Sherri and Chuck Crosby A U D I E N C E
Irwin and Carol Cutler Jeffrey Eckmann Dr. Richard Edelson and Donna Smith Fr. John G. Eifler Daniel and Kirsten Ford Jan M. Grayson Mr. John R. Gregory Anonymous Scott and JoAnn Haner Arvida and Edward Harris Mrs. James C. Hennessy Dennis Hillen Anna Hitron and Thomas Johnston Jonathan and Janet Hodes Georg and Benita Hofstetter Koman Steve Knight Mary Korfhage David and Carol Krebs Mr. Robert E. Kulp, Jr. Rabbi Laura Metzger and Cantor David Lipp Jonathan Lowe Ms. Stewart Lussky and Mr. Bob Jones Susan McNeese and Phil Lynch Robert T. and Eleanor Maddox Sally and Charlie Moyer Duane and Anne Murner Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Murphy Anonymous John Poole Chris Price George W. Rapp Jr. and Lynne Meena Theresa and Ben Reno-Weber Walter and Susan Sales Scott Schaftlein and Andrew Newton Dr. Marilyn Schorin Venkat Sharma Darrell and Nancy Shelton Kennedy and Sara Simpson Patti Slagle and Steve Zimmerman Larry Fleischer and Les Stanfield Mr. Sam Stewart Charlotte and John Clay Stites Mrs. James W. Stites, Jr. John L. Tate and Phyllis McMurry-Tate Kelly Terlau Rose Mary Rommel Toebbe Porter Watkins and George Bailey Dr. Melissa L. Weaver John Weeter, MD and Linda Weeter Sarina and Robert Weiss Thomas and Susan Wobbe Stephen and Coretta Wolford
I N D I V I D UA L S U P P O R T PRINCIPAL ARTIST Teresa Bridgewaters Beth Welch
SUPPORTING ROLE
Maureen Awbrey and Diane Kyle Mr. and Mrs. W. Robinson Beard Stephen and Jeannie Bodney Stanley Bond Charles and Robyn Kane Linda W. Cauble Helen Cohen Mr. Curtis R. Conlin and Mr. Chris Welsh Gayle and Earl Dorsey Susan E. Ellison Philip and Mary Eschels Ron and Hulyn Farr Robert Gable Vincenzo and Pat Gabriele Bill Goetz and Karen Williams Deborah Greenwald Sonya and Ara Hacet Cindy and Dwayne Jarboe Carol Jones Robert Knapp Ed Kruger and Jeff Rodgers Henry and Marty Kuehn Charles and Donna Lavelle Matt Linville and Kelly Will Mr. Joseph and Dr. Janine Malone Grodon McLeod Guy E. and Elizabeth S. Montgomery Mary J Oberst Patrick Owen and Norman P. Dixon Lue and John Peabody Laura Petry William A. Pierce Erik Prentice Russell and Betty Prough Janet and Richard Rink Arthur Shechet and Marilyn Robie Bonnie and John Roth Ron Rubin, in honor of Jeff Rodgers and Actors Theatre leadership Kevin and Cheryl Sandefur Beth Sarkar Mr. Robert S. Saunders Peggy and Phillip Shake
Ellen and Max Shapira Dr. and Mrs. Roger J. Shott Mrs. Yandell R. Smith Ilam E. Smith Dr. John Roberts and Dr. Janet L. Smith Vertner Smith and Barbara West Bob Sokoler Sarah and Wright Steenrod Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Stewart Jay Trumbo Brittany Vencill Melany Wessels
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Imram Aslam Rebecca Begley and Robert Weekly Daniel Briscoe Rebecca S Brown Erin Burke and Chris Klein Ashley Novak Butler Tiffany Ramos Cardwell Tich Changamire Richard and Elizabeth Clay Melanie and Rowan Claypool Vicki Coombs Jane Cornett Thomas and Paige Cox Colin Crawford William Curley and Linda Huss Conrad Daniels Matt and Emilie Delahanty Leonidas Deters and Penelope Shaw Dr. and Mrs. Walter Feibes Bill and Kathy Fensterer Gregg and Leslie Fowler Layla K. George and Mike Clark Salem and LuAnn George Jr. James and Grace Giesel Mary Jane and Peter Glauber Jeffrey Goldberg Dr. and Mrs. Richard Goldwin Tyson and Suzanne Gorman Tara and Mike Guenthner Carrie Syberg Barbara B. Hardy Kathy and Shaun Herbig Louis Hettinger Hollie Hopkins
Rhonda and Steve Houghland Nick and Mica Jochim Donna Y. Kays Todd and Kim Kennedy Rob King Kevin Klein Melanie Knight Warner and Willie Ann Lansing John Littig Karen Long Joe Lyons John Maltby Alex Marti Stephen and Virginia Mattingly Mr. Neil E. Mellen and Dr. Mavin H. Martin Claire Alagia and Creighton Mershon, Sr. Mike and Lauren Minor Susan Moremen Joanna and Robert Myers Patrick and Natalie Oster Mr. G Paul Owen Jr. Dustin Page and Bryan Miller Patrice E. Paton Lisa Petry David Gerald Polston Dr. Trudi Rash Mr. C. Glenn Reid Taylor Rich Benjamin K Richmond Alex Roma Seema Sheth and Andreas Wokutch Ted and Rae Shlechter Mary Ann Smania Matthew and Amy Smith Dr. J. C. States and Ms. G. R. Russo Paul Stropkay and Katherine Firth Dr. Wayne Villanueva and Janet C. Witzleben Karl Victor Craig and Kelley Welch Mitzie and Jim Wittliff Ms. Ruth Wukasch Carol and Bill Young David and Bonnie Zepka Kelly Zullo
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T H E AT R E S TA F F ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, Robert Barry Fleming ARTISTIC Artistic Producer ....................................................Emily Tarquin Artistic Manager ......................................Zachary Meicher-Buzzi Company Manager .........................................................Dot King
LITERARY Literary Director .................................................... Amy Wegener Literary Manager ..............................................Jenni Page-White Resident Dramaturg ......................... Hannah Rae Montgomery Literary Associate ..................................................... Jessica Reese
LEARNING & CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT Learning & Creative Engagement Associates........Janelle Renee Dunn, Abigail Miskowiec Teaching Artists ................................. Liz Fentress, Claire Hagan, Alyssa Rae Hendricks, Keith McGill, Talleri McRae, Morgan Younge
ADMINISTRATION General Manager ............................................. Jeffrey S. Rodgers Human Resources Manager ........................................Marie Tull Systems Manager .......................................................... Dot Krebs Executive Assistant ............................................... Norman Dixon
AUDIENCE SERVICES & SALES Ticket Sales Director ............................................Kim McKercher Season Tickets Manager ......................................... Julie Gallegos Patron Services Managers ............ Steve Clark, Kristy Kannapell Patron Services Associates..... LaShana Avery, Sophia Bierman, Leah Boroff-Bodoin, Kristine Farley, Marty Huelsmann
VOLUNTEER & AUDIENCE RELATIONS Director of Volunteer & Audience Relations.. Allison Hammons House Managers .....Jesse Ba-vrfield, Tiffany Bush, Jan Hubert, Hilary Jones, Steve Renner, Abigail Rogers
DEVELOPMENT Director of Development .......................................Lori Kay Scott Director of Community Partnerships ...............Carrie Hagovsky Development Coordinator ................................ Matthew Brown
FINANCE Finance Director .......................................................Peggy Shake Accounting Manager ................................................. Jason Acree Accounting Assistant .......................................Christine England
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Marketing & Communications Director .................Steve Knight Marketing Manager ................................................Melissa Hines Festival & Events Manager .....................................Erin Meiman Public Relations & Communications Manager...............Elizabeth Greenfield Marketing & Communications Coordinator....Charlotte Stephens Graphic Designer ............................................ Mary Kate Grimes Assistant Graphic Designer ...........................Sheyenne Santiago Group Sales Manager ...............................................Sarah Peters Outbound Customer Service Representative ... David Meredith
OPERATIONS Operations Director ............................................... Carlo Stallings Building Services Supervisor ..................................Ricky Baldon Building Services ..........................Deonta Burns, Glen Gardner, Michael Sweatmon, Cedrick Yelder
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PRODUCTION Production Manager ................................................ Paul Werner Assistant Production Manager ................................. Bryn Weiler Production Stage Manager ................................Stephen Horton Resident Stage Managers ................................Jessica Kay Potter, Katherine Thesing Resident Production Assistants ...... Andie Burns, Margaret Rial
SCENIC Technical Director .............................................. Justin Hagovsky Associate Technical Director ...............................Braden Blauser Scene Shop Manager ...................................Javan Roy-Bachman Master Carpenter ......................................................... Alexia Hall Scenic Carpenters .................. Hannah Allgeier, Pierre Vendette Deck Carpenters ................. Gracie Lawson, Brooke McPherson Scenic Charge Artist ..................................................Colleen Doty
COSTUMES Costume Director .........................................................Mike Floyd Crafts Master .......................................................... Shari Cochran Draper/Tailor ..............................................................Jeffery Park First Hands ....................................Faith Brown, Allison McCann Stitchers .................................. Celeste Collado, Maureen Strobel Costume Design Assistant ................... Isabel Martin, Tiffany Yu Wig Supervisor .............................................................Katie Ward Wig & Makeup Assistant .................................... Rebecca Traylor Wardrobe Manager ....................................................Anna Jenny Wardrobe Assistant....Camila Benencia Courreges, Chloe Hixson
LIGHTING Lighting Supervisor ...............................................Jason E. Weber Associate Lighting Supervisor ..................................Dani Clifford Lead Lighting Technician ..............Wylder Cooper, Tyler Warner Lighting Technician ..........................Blake Anderson, Will Blair, Troy Johnson, Lindsay Krupski, Steven York
SOUND Sound Supervisor ........................................................Paul Doyle Assistant Sound Supervisor ............................... Lindsay Burdsall Sound Technician ................... Marion Ayers, Victoria Campbell
PROPERTIES Properties Director .................................................Mark Walston Associate Properties Master ............................... Heather Lindert Assistant Properties Master ............................... Katelin Ashcraft Carpenter Artisan ....................................................Ryan Bennett Soft Goods Artisan ................................................Jessie Combest
VIDEO Media Technologist ............................................... Philip Allgeier
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING COMPANY Director ....................................................Christine Albright-Tufts Artistic Coordinator ............................................... Jonathan Ruiz Acting................Michael Allyn, Kaitlyn Boyer, Aizhaneya Carter, Zoë DePreta, Christopher Garofalo, Jen Jarnagin, Noah Keyishian, Teresa Langford, Germainne LeBron, Alex Lin, Gabriela Llarena, Alex Might, Mollie Murk, Kat Peña, Andrew G. Rodriguez, Patrick Steadman Taylor, Ashtonn Thompson, Isaiah J. Williams Communications.....................................................Austin French Company & Artistic Management.......................Ellen Greetham Costumes...................................................................... Emily Brod Directing...................................................... Cara Hinh, Julia Rufo
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T H E AT R E S TA F F Dramaturgy & Literary Management..........Kathryn de la Rosa, Liam E. Gibbs Education & Teaching Artistry........................ Michaela Barczak, Matthew Dryburgh Festival & Events Management............................... Abby Tauber Lighting..........................................................................Siena Wise Marketing............................................................ Sarah Jae Leiber Producing & Casting..................................................Sujotta Pace Production Management.......................................Carol Almonte Properties........................................................... Peter deGuzman Scenic.................................................................... Patrice J. Nelms Sound....................................................................... Joshua Brown Stage Management......................... Sophie Antovel, Julia Bregy, Connor Feagin, Maggie Hoffecker
USHER CAPTAINS Dolly Adams, Shirley Adkins, Marie Allen, Terryl Allen, Katherine Austin, Libba & Chuck Bonifer, Tanya Briley, Judy Buckler, Brenda Cease, Maleva Chamberlain, Donna Conlon, Terry Conway, Ella Cullen Laurie Eiden, Doris Elder, Joyce French, Carol Halbleib, LuAnn & Tom Hayes, Candace Jaworski, Holly Kissel, Barbara Nichols, Teresa Nusz, Dalen Payton, Beth Phipps, Nancy Rankin, Tim Unruh, Lily, Wobbe.
ACTORS THEATRE’S COMPANY DOCTOR Dr. Andrew Mickler, F.A.C.S.
Actors Theatre of Louisville was founded in 1964 by Richard Block in association with Ewel Cornett. Jon Jory was Producing Director from 1969 to 2000. Alexander Speer was Executive Director from 1965 to 2006.
ARTISTS UNDER COMMISSION In addition to reading script submissions from around the country, Actors Theatre of Louisville builds relationships with playwrights and encourages the creation of new work by commissioning plays from artists whom we admire. A new play commission engages a writer to pen a piece specifically for Actors Theatre of Louisville and allows us to support the work’s development from the earliest stages of inspiration onward. Some notable past full-length plays commissioned by Actors Theatre and produced in the Humana Festival of New American Plays include The Christians and The Thin Place by Lucas Hnath, Cry it Out by Molly Smith Metzler, For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday by Sarah Ruhl, Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo, Maple and Vine by Jordan Harrison (co-commission with Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Big Love and The Glory of the World by Charles Mee, and Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies (winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama).
COMMISSIONED WRITERS CURRENTLY INCLUDE: Jeff Augustin, Lisa Sanaye Dring, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Sarah Gubbins, Jane B. Jones, Rajiv Joseph & Bill Sherman, and Alexis Scheer
TICKET INFORMATION Box Office Hours (During Performances) Subject to change.
Monday: Tuesday-Thursday: Friday-Saturday: Sunday:
10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. 12 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 12 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. 12 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Order by phone: (502) 584-1205 • 1-800-4ATL-TIX Phone orders are subject to a $3 per ticket processing fee. All orders subject to a $2 per ticket Historic Landmark Fee. Online fees vary, based on ticket cost. Order Online: ActorsTheatre.org Address: 316 West Main Street Louisville, KY 40202-4218 USA
SPECIAL OFFERS Season Ticket Packages A range of ticket packages are available, including incredible benefits. Call our Box Office for options or visit ActorsTheatre.org/SeasonTickets. Groups Discounts ranging from 5% to 20% are available to groups of ten or more. Call (502) 585-1210 for details. Ages 60+, military, students (full-time with valid ID), and patrons with disabilities receive 10% off single tickets. Day of Performance: Patrons with disabilities and students $24. Gift Certificates Perfect for all occasions, gift certificates are available in any amount and can be purchased at the Box Office or online at actorstheatre.org. Ticket Exchange Ticket holders may exchange their tickets either by phone or in person. As soon as possible after exchange needs are known, please call or visit our Box Office to make arrangements. Ticket exchanges may be made until 5 p.m. the day of the date on the tickets or one hour in advance of a matinee—only for another performance of the same play. Upgrade fees may apply. PLEASE NOTE Ticket discounts are subject to availability, cannot be combined with other discounts, and are not valid on previously purchased tickets. Historic Landmark and phone fees apply. Not valid during blackout performances or special programming. Seating restrictions may apply. Visit ActorsTheatre.org/ TicketOptions for more information. GALLERY HOURS (During Performances) Tuesday - Friday: 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. Saturday - Sunday: 1 p.m. - 10 p.m. Closed Mondays and non-performance days
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SERVICES & AMENITIES NO SMOKING
FOOD & BEVERAGE Food is not permitted in the theatre.
No smoking of any kind is permitted within the facility.
Beverage Service Beverage service is available at the lobby bar TuesdaySunday, one hour before all shows and at intermission. Post-performance beverage service is available at MilkWood. Beverages can be pre-purchased for intermission at the bar before all performances.
ACCESSIBILITY
MilkWood Open Tuesday-Sunday at 5:30 p.m. MilkWood, a restaurant operated by Chef Edward Lee, is located on the lower level of Actors Theatre. Food is available at the bar in the restaurant without reservations; however, reservations are recommended for table service. For reservations, please call (502) 584-MILK (6455) or visit MilkwoodRestaurant.com.
LATE ARRIVAL POLICY Late Seating in the Pamela Brown Auditorium or the Bingham Theatre is at the discretion of the House Manager, who can be located in the lobbies upon your arrival. Due to the intimate nature of the Victor Jory Theatre, latecomers will not be seated.
PARKING Accessible parking is available on the Mezzanine Level of the Actors parking garage and on the Ground Floor Level for vans. There are additional marked spaces next to the Main Street elevators on Levels 3 through 6. The Actors parking garage elevators, located along Main Street, provide direct access to theatre lobbies. For information on discount parking for theatre events or traffic updates and alerts, please visit our website at ActorsTheatre.org or contact our Box Office at 502.584.1205.
EMERGENCY PROCEDURE In the event of a fire, a severe storm or an earthquake, you will be instructed by an announcement from the stage indicating the best method of exit. Please notice the multiple red exit signs in the theatre. For your safety, please exit in a calm and orderly manner.
ELECTRONIC DEVICES Please silence your phone or watch alarm so it will not disrupt the performance. Use of cellular phones, pagers, cameras, recording devices or any device that will light up the rows behind you are strictly prohibited in the auditorium. If you feel you may need to be contacted in case of an emergency, check your phone or pager with the house manager. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.
NO FIREARMS Firearms are strictly prohibited on these premises.
CHILDREN Children under age four are not permitted unless the production specifically appeals to very young children. All children attending an event, regardless of age, must have a ticket. Because it can be distracting to others in the theatre, if your child is disruptive or excessively restless, you may be asked to step outside.
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Accessible ramps, elevators, parking, restrooms, water fountains and wheelchair seating are available for patrons with disabilities. Booster seats are available for check-out at the Box Office with a refundable deposit. Parking is located on levels M and 3–6 of the garage. Accessible restrooms are located on the first floor and Mezzanine Level. Sound Enhancement All theatres are equipped with an FM wireless system for hearing enhancement. Lightweight receivers with earphones or magnetic induction loops are available free of charge, with a refundable deposit, from the House Manager or an usher. Audio-Described Performances Selected performances, generally during a weekend matinee, are audio described for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Describers provide a live, objective, and descriptive delivery of the visual elements of the performance in between the dialogue. A schedule is available at the Box Office. Provided by The Kentucky Center. Caption Theatre Caption Theatre is provided for selected performances for patrons who have hearing loss and may not benefit from hearing amplification. The audible elements are shown on an LED sign, in real time, as each line is spoken or sung. Reservations for this service should be made at the time of ticket purchase to ensure the best seating for this service. Provided by The Kentucky Center. Sensory Friendly Sensory-friendly items such as noise-reducing headphones, fidgets and stress balls are available for check-out, with a refundable deposit, from the House Manager or an usher. A schedule of sensory-friendly and relaxed performances is available at the Box Office. Large-Print Programs Large-print programs are available at the entrance to all theatres on both levels. VOLUNTEERS Volunteer opportunities are available as a member of Actors Associates or the Usher Corps. Call (502) 584-1265 ext. 3072 or visit actorstheatre.org/participate. RENTALS Looking for a unique space to hold an event? Actors Theatre boasts a variety of different spaces for events ranging from meetings to conferences. Call (502) 584-1265 for details. BACKSTAGE TOURS Backstage Tours arranged by advance request. Call (502) 584-1265.
All programs, activities and services are provided equally without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
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