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Book-It Repertory Theatre Proudly presents
the Cider House Rules Part One: Here in St. Cloud’s Adapted by Peter Parnell From the novel by John Irving Directed by Jane Jones**
based on the original direction by Tom Hulce & Jane Jones
Conceived for the Stage by Tom Hulce, Jane Jones, and Peter Parnell CAST
in alphabetical order
Mary Murfin Bayley Eric Chappelle Peter Crook* Melinda Deane* Joe Feeney Heather Gautschi Emily Grogan Julie Jamieson Laura Kenny* Samara Lerman David Anthony Lewis* Jon Lutyens Stephanie McAlexander Ben McFadden Richard Nguyen Sloniker Connor Toms* Terri Weagant Jonathan Wright ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION STAFF Devorah Spadone Production Stage Manager Victoria Thompson Assistant Stage Manager Elizabeth Kent Stage Management Intern Andrea Bush Andrew D. Smith Pete Rush Danny Wheetman Edd Key Kristyne A. Hughes Lucinda Stroud
Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Composer Music Director Properties Designer Assistant Director & Dramaturg
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Technical Director Production Manager Scenic Painter Assistant Scenic Painter Master Carpenter Costume Assistant Costume Shop Intern Master Electrician
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States **The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national teatrical labor union.
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The Cider House Rules, Part One: Here in St. Cloud’s was originally produced in New York by Atlantic Theatre Company on May 6, 1999. The Cider House Rules, Part One: Here in St. Cloud’s was originally produced by the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Washington, and subsequently produced by Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles California. The play is performed through arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., in New York.
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CAST
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Mary Murfin Bayley.......................................Billy Winkle/Nurse Receptionist Eric Chappelle...............................................................................Musician Peter Crook*.....................................................................Dr. Wilbur Larch Melinda Deane*.............................................................Nurse Edna/Mother Joe Feeney...........................................................Curly Day/Draper Grandson Heather Gautschi............Mrs. Eames’ Daughter/Eclampsia Patient/John Larch Emily Grogan...........................................John Wilbur/Homer’s Mom/Candy Julie Jamieson............................................................Nurse Angela/Prostitute Laura Kenny*........................................Mrs. Draper/Mrs. Claus/Mrs. Grogan Samara Lerman...............................................Mrs. Eames/Kate O’Shaunessey David Anthony Lewis*..........Station Master/Mr. Draper/Larch’s Dad/Musician Jon Lutyens.....................................Fuzzy Stone/Jennings/Mary AgnesMusician Stephanie McAlexander.........................Smoky Fields/13-year-old Girl/Singer Ben McFadden.................................................Young Larch/Snowy Meadows Richard Nguyen Sloniker......................Truck Driver/Megan O’Rourke/Wally Connor Toms*..........................................................................Homer Wells Terri Weagant.....................................................Grown-up Daughter/Melony Jonathan Wright...............Wilbur Walsh/Grant Winkle/House Officer/Musician
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Continued from page 2 myself embracing and re-visiting the telling of this story in honor of Book-It’s 20th Anniversary Season. This project was planted in Seattle, it came to define us artistically, and to return to it with yet another company of extraordinarily gifted actors (22 in total between the two parts of the story) who choose to make Seattle their home, reminds me daily of what a privilege it is to come to work. John Irving has written a mighty story, Dickensian in scope, spanning eight decades. It is a beautiful story. A heartbreaking story. A hard story. We have been joined in the rehearsal room by doctors and community members who have generously shared their own stories and guided us through this emotional polemic. Thank you all—we could not have created this work without you. There is no period in history, no culture known to woman/man, that has not needed, or chosen, to control fertility and reproduction, and probably no period or culture where the ubiquitous desire to exert that control has not complicated, entangled, and entrapped lives… but that’s enough from me on the subject: I am going to opt out of expressing my personal thoughts as to why we as a company originally chose (and choose again now) to present it; I know John Irving will make that abundantly clear by evening’s end. Thank you for joining us for this very special anniversary production, for your support over the past 20 years and for your enduring belief in our work. We feel so very fortunate to be here, to be celebrating literature, to be enriching the world with art, but most of all we feel blessed to count you among our Book-It family. Thank you!
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1840
Maine is the first state in the Union to outlaw abortion for all pregnancies, whether or not the baby was “quick” (has moved independently of the mother, usually 3-4 months after conception).
1865
The U.S. Civil War ends; Slavery is abolished; President Lincoln is assassinated.
1845
Crawford Long uses ether as anesthesia in an obstetrical procedure for the first time. The first public demonstration of Ether in surgery takes place the following year, October 16, 1846 , in an ampitheater in the Bulfinch Building at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, later named the Ether Dome.
1846 Oil painting by Ernest Board “The first use of ether in dental surgery” depicts the first public demonstration of the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic. William Thomas Green Morton, a local dentist, used ether to anesthetize Edward Gilbert Abbott. John Collins Warren, the first dean of Harvard Medical School, then painlessly removed a tumor from Abbott’s neck. Image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images. Dr. Long was later honored in the ‘Famous American Series’, postal issues of 1940.
1887
Wilbur Larch enters Harvard Medical School.
1895
Wilbur Larch is born in Portland, Maine.
Wilhelm Roentgen pioneers the use of X-Rays in medical imaging.
1867 1873 Dr. Joseph Lister begins to promote antiseptic surgery to prevent post-operative sepsis infection, which accounted for the death of almost half of the patients undergoing major surgery. He used carbolic acid to kill airborne germs, as well as to clean his hands, instruments, and bandages. It took until 1879 for Lister’s principle of antiseptic surgery to gain almost universal acceptance.
1900 Having cleared the landscape of trees, Ramses Paper Company closed down its mill in St. Cloud’s Maine and moved downstream, leaving only aged prostitutes and their orphaned children in town.
Congress passed An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use. The Comstock Laws as they are commonly known deemed obscene all materials discussing contraception or abortion, whether public or private, and banned their transmission through the U.S. Postal Service. Anthony Comstock was named a special agent and Postal Inspector for the U.S. Postal Service, a position he held for the next 42 years. At the height of his power, Comstock made it illegal for medical students to receive anatomy textbooks through the mail. The arrest of abortionist Ann Lohman (a.k.a. Madame Restell) by Anthony Comstock. From the February 23, 1878 edition of The New York Illustrated Times.
1920
Prohibition of alcohol began in the U.S. and continued until 1933. Women won the right to vote
The development of Latex along with advances in assembly line automation revolutionized condom production. Throughout the 1920s, condoms shift from being individually made by dipping glass molds into a raw rubber solution to assembly line production. Latex condoms were cheaper, stronger, and thinner than rubber condoms, and had a shelf life of five years (compared to only three months for rubber).
1901
Karl Landsteiner discovers the ABO blood group system.
1907
The American Civil Liberties Union is founded to provide attorneys and legal expertise in cases where Civil Rights are allegedly being violated. At the time of its founding, the U.S. Supreme Court had yet to uphold a single free speech claim. The Ku Klux Klan begins to form cells in Maine. With 150,000 members, it was the state with the largest Klan presence outside of the South.
Dr. Larch opens St. Cloud’s Orphanage and Hospital.
1939
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Children in the Albany Orphan Asylum nursery. Photo: courtesy of the Parsons Child and Family Center, Albany, New York. Published in “Mother Donit Fore the Best”: Correspondence of a Nineteenth-Century Orphan Asylum by Judith A Dulberger, 1996.
1911-18
German troops parade through Warsaw after the surrender of Poland. Warsaw, Poland, September 28-30, 1939. —National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.
1923
Homer Wells is born and named by Nurse Angela.
1940
1925
Homer Wells delivers David Copperfield.
Melony is left at St. Cloud’s.
World War I Dr. Larch serves as an army doctor in France.
1941
1929
Wally and Candy fall in love. Several months later Candy discovers she is pregnant and they go to St. Cloud’s.
The Stock Market Crashes beginning the Great Depression.
1918
Margaret Sanger is charged under the Comstock Act as disseminating contraceptive information. Her conviction is reversed on appeal on the grounds that contraceptives could legally be promoted for the cure and prevention of disease. Margaret Sanger founds American Birth Control League. First birth control clinic opens a year later.
1922
Margaret Sanger, 1922. United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division.
The German Air Force attacks the United Kingdom in The Battle of Britain.
1935
Congress passed the Aid to Dependent Children program as part of the New Deal, which solidified the movement away from institutions like orphanages towards adoption or federally-funded programs that enabled children to stay with their mothers.
1937
The U.S. enters World War II with the Lend-Lease Act, which supplied the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, China, France, and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material. President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
Melony gives Homer the lucky pony photograph. Homer begins his obstetric training with Dr. Larch.
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Mary Murfin Bayley Billy Winkle/Nurse Receptionist
Mary’s favorite recent roles include Miss Havisham in Book-It’s workshop production of Great Expectations at Orcas Center and Sheree in Dixie Swim Club directed by Doug Bechtel. While living in Italy during the past two years, she performed with a Commedia dell’Arte group under Roberto Andrioli at Teatro Cestello and studied traditional Florentine theater with Manuelita Baylon. Mary received her BA in theatre from Reed College and studied at the Hagen Berghof Studio in New York. Favorite past roles include Mirandolina in Mistress of the Inn, Amelia Tilford inThe Children’s Hour, and Beth and Ellen in Pinter’s Landscape and Silence. Mary is thrilled to be part of The Cider House Rules cast.
Eric Chappelle Musician
Eric is pleased to join in this production of The Cider House Rules. He was previously on stage at The 5th Avenue Theatre as a townsperson in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and in Buddy!. He has played fiddle in many productions of Das Barbecü including the original Seattle Opera production, two productions at ACT Theatre, and one at The Goodspeed Opera House. Eric composed music for ACT’s production of The Clean House and he created numerous sound designs there. Rodeo Radio at The Empty Space, Pumpboys and Dinettes at Tacoma Actors Guild, and The Italian Straw Hat at The Bathhouse Theatre are among his favorite productions in which he has appeared.
Peter Crook* Dr. Wilbur Larch
Peter appeared in BookIt’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Silver Water. Other favorite credits include Rock’N’Roll, Stuff Happens, and A Number at ACT Theatre; The Fever and The Designated Mourner at New City Theater; Frozen at The Empty Space; Buddy at The 5th Avenue; Richard II at Seattle Shakespeare; Angels in America at INTIMAN; The Notebooks of Leonardo and The Beard of Avon at Seattle Rep; and over a dozen shows with Seattle Children’s Theatre. Regional credits include The Old Globe Theatre and New York Shakespeare Festival. On Broadway and on tour he was Mozart in Amadeus. TV and film credits include “Designing Women,” “Max Headroom,” Chaplin, Clean Slate, and Snow Falling on Cedars. He is a graduate of
The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and The Juilliard School.
Melinda Deane* Nurse Edna/Mother
Melinda is delighted to return to Book-It where she last appeared as Adele in The Awakening. She has performed in regional theaters around the country including the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Virginia Stage Company, Portland Center Stage, Oregon Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, and the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts. Some of her favorite roles include Rosalind in As You Like It and Gittel in Two For the Seesaw. Melinda received her training at The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria and the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She was given a Drama-Logue Award for her performance as Julie Jordan in Carousel. She can be seen in the movie Bound for Glory.
Joe Feeney Curly Day/Draper Grandson
Joe Feeney is excited to be a part of the wonderful cast of The Cider House Rules. He grew up in Richland, WA and graduated from the University of Washington in 2005.
Heather Gautschi Mrs. Eames’ Daughter/ Eclampsia Patient/ John Larch
Heather is thrilled to be making her Book-It debut. She has been seen on many Seattle stages, including Theater Schmeater, Balagan Theatre, LiveGirls!, ArtsWest, and GreenStage. Favorite roles include Mary Lane in Reefer Madness, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus, Millie in Picnic, and Ana in the world premiere of Mud Angel. Heather is also an alumnus of the improv company, Unexpected Productions. She received her BA in Theater from Oberlin College.
Emily Grogan John Wilbur/Homer’s Mom/Candy
Emily is delighted to be with Book-It once again, particularly to be working on this play, as watching the original production was such a defining moment for her while still a student at Cornish. Most recently Emily was
seen as Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona for Seattle Shakespeare Company, and her most recent Book-It role was Mrs. Elton in Emma. Other Book-It credits include Miss Adrian in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Cassandra in Broken for You, Anchor Woman in The Highest Tide, Helen in Howards End (Seattle Times Footlight Award 2002), and Jane in the original production of Pride and Prejudice.
Laura Kenny* Mrs. Draper/Mrs. Claus/ Mrs. Grogan
Laura was recently seen as Juanita in Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean for Woman Seeking…a theatre company and Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest at Village Theatre. She has worked at San Diego’s Old Globe, Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C., McCarter Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, INTIMAN, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and more. She received a Footlight Award for Wintertime at ACT. Her film and TV work includes “Rose Red,” Harry and the Hendersons, 10 Things I Hate About You, Mad Love, and “Northern Exposure.” A proud Union member, Laura has been in AEA for 26 years, is a local Board member for AFTRA, and the local SAG Council VP.
Julie Jamieson Nurse Angela/Prostitute
Julie is very, very happy indeed to be returning to the Book-It stage. Other Book-It roles include Big Red in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Carolyn in The Highest Tide, and Mrs. Bolton in Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Recent roles include Mrs. Gottlieb in Dead Man’s Cell Phone at ArtsWest; the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet at Seattle Shakespeare Company; and Jose #3 at Theater Schmeater. Julie has three absolutely great children.
Samara Lerman Mrs. Eames/Kate O’Shaunessey
Samara is delighted to be back on the BookIt stage where she has previously been seen as Myrna and Darlene in A Confederacy of Dunces and Debbie in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Samara has worked nationally and locally with Seattle * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Shakespeare Company, Balagan Theatre, Theater Schmeater, Theatre 9/12, Harlequin Productions, 14/48 Festival, Centerstage, The Napa Valley Shakespeare Festival, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz.
DAvID ANThONy lewIS* Station Master/Mr. Draper/Larch’s Dad/ Musician
David is very excited to make his Book-It debut in this production. He graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in 1999 with a BFA in Acting and will always be grateful for the training and work ethic he learned there. Regional credits include Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Orlando in As You Like It, Proteus in Two Gentlemen of Verona, and two seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Local credits include Mr. Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Worcester in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and the Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol.
JON lUTyeNS Fuzzy Stone/Jennings/ Mary Agnes/ Musician
Jon is pleased to be making his BookIt debut with this tremendous piece. He has worked as an actor, musician, and educator around the area for five years, appearing with The 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, ArtsWest, SecondStory Repertory, and several others. This marks Jon’s first Seattle summer appearing indoors, having spent the last several summers touring with Seattle Shakespeare Company and Wooden O in various roles. Favorite recent roles include Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Irwin in The History Boys, and Georg in She Loves Me. Jon holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Western Washington University.
STePhANIe MCAleXANDeR Smoky Fields/ 13-year-old Girl/Singer
Stephanie is a recent graduate of the University of Washington’s Drama department. She is very pleased to be making her professional debut at Book-It. Some of her favorite roles at the UW include Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods, Elizabeth Donderstock in The Book of Liz, Emily in Our Town, and Jeannie in Hair. Stephanie is very much looking forward to struggling as an actor in Seattle.
BeN MCFADDeN Young Young Larch/ Snowy Meadows
Ben is happy to return to Book-It, having been seen in The Highest Tide in 2008. He has also appeared on the stages of ArtsWest, SecondStory Repertory, Balagan Theatre, and in the parks with GreenStage. Ben is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, where he was lucky enough to play the role of Homer in the school’s production of The Cider House Rules. Returning to work on such a beautiful script is a true blessing. Ben is also an active playwright and recently had his newest play, This is a Play about Choices, produced as a staged reading by Backwards Ensemble Theatre Company.
RIChARD NGUyeN SlONIkeR Truck Driver/Megan O’Rourke/Wally
Richard is a local writer, performer, and educator. He was last seen in Henry V with the Seattle Shakespeare Company as the Dauphin. He’s also appeared as Seth Gale in Abe Lincoln in Illinois at INTIMAN, Bernardo in West Side Story at Village Theatre, Pete in Bunnicula at Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Redford in Flipzoids at the Northwest Asian American Theatre. He’s an alumnus of A Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and holds an MFA from the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program. He is married to Serin Ngai and has a beautifully talented daughter, Viola.
CONNOR TOMS* Homer Wells
Connor is thrilled to be making his Book-It debut with this truly inspired show. He has worked at INTIMAN, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Wooden O, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Capitol Hill Arts Center, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, The New Victory Theater in New York City, and others. He is engaged to his best friend, local actress Hana Lass (née Slamtoss).
TeRRI weAGANT Grown-up Daughter/ Melony
Terri is stoked to be making her BookIt main stage debut in The Cider House Rules. She recently toured Washington State with Book-It’s
educational program Book-It-All-Over. Terri received her BFA in Acting from Cornish College of the Arts. She is company member of Balagan Theatre and has worked with Theater Schmeater, Capitol Hill Arts Center, Consolidated Works, and Centerstage. She was awarded the 2009 TPS Members Voice Award for Outstanding Actress for her work with Theater Schmeater and Balagan Theatre. Last year Terri toured her production of Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe to Southeast Alaska where she will return later this summer to serve as the Master of Ceremonies for the Southeast Alaska State Fair.
JONAThAN wRIGhT Wilbur Walsh/Grant Winkle/House Officer/ Musician
Jonathan is an award winning actor and composer as well as an Emmy-nominated producer. He is currently co-producing, writing, and starring in a children’s television/web show called “Team Marco Polo.” A native of Napa, California with a BA in Theatre Arts from CSU Sacramento, Jonathan has participated in nearly 100 theatrical productions in the last 15 years. As a relative newcomer to Seattle, he is thrilled to be appearing in his first Book-It production!
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PETER PARNELL Adapter
Peter was nominated for Best Play from the Drama League for The Cider House Rules. His other plays include QED which was produced on Broadway; An Imaginary Life, Flaubert’s Latest, Hyde in Hollywood, Romance Language, and The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket all at Playwrights Horizons in New York City; and Sorrows of Stephen at Public Theater, NYSF. He has written extensively for television as a producer for both “The West Wing” and “The Guardian.” Peter is the co-author with Justin Richardson of The Lion Who Hugged and And Tango Makes Three—which was the most challenged book of 2006, 2007, and 2008, as well as the most banned book of 2009, and is performed as part of Book-It All Over’s Danger: Books! series.
Jane Jones** Director, Founder, & Founding Co-Artistic Director
Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 23 years of staging literature, she has performed, adapted, and directed works by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 30 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s most prominent regional theatres including The Guthrie, American Conservatory Theater, The McCarter, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Locally, she has been seen at Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, The Empty Space, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, and INTIMAN. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Backstage West Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane recently directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, and A Tale of Two Cities. Book-It performances include roles in Ethan Frome, Silver Water, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Breathing Lessons, and Rhoda: A Life in Stories. In 2008 she, Myra Platt, and
Book-It were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is also a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award.
TOM HULCE Original Direction & Concept
Tom has produced Spring Awakening (Tony Award, Best Musical), Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads (Obie Award, Drama Desk, New York Drama Critics Award, Best Play), and the feature film A Home at the End of the World, directed by Michael Mayer. He has acted in Equus and A Few Good Men on Broadway, The Normal Heart in London, Eastern Standard at Seattle Rep, and Hamlet at D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre. His films include Amadeus, Dominick and Eugene, Parenthood, Animal House, and Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame I and II. He has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, four Golden Globes, and two Emmys (winning for The Heidi Chronicles).
Andrea Bush Scenic Designer
Andrea returns to Book-It having designed for Emma earlier this season. Her work has recently been seen at Washington Ensemble Theatre’s Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom and Titus. Other work includes Contemporary Classics’ production of Zanna, Don’t!; Annie Get Your Gun with Seattle Musical Theatre; Girl Gone for Cornish College of the Arts; as well as Arcadia, The Good Woman of Setzuan, and Kirk Mechem’s opera Tartuffe while earning her MFA at University of Washington. Andrea is a co-artistic director at Washington Ensemble Theatre and acts as their resident scenic designer.
Pete Rush Costume Designer
Pete is a scenic and costume designer for the theatre. Local credits include The Adding Machine for New Century Theatre Company; Swansong, Henry IV, Henry V, Electra, and The Merchant of Venice for Seattle Shakespeare Company; several productions at ArtsWest, Seattle Public Theatre, SecondStory Repertory; and Night Flight and The House of the Spirits for BookIt. Regional credits include George Street Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Hangar Theatre, and People’s Light and Theatre Company. Pete also works as a visual artist, specializing in large-scale installation art. He holds a BFA in Theatre from Boston University, and is a two-time artist-inresidence at Cornell University. Visit www.peterush.com.
Andrew D. Smith Lighting Designer
Andrew returns to Book-It having previously designed Emma, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. His recent work includes Electra, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Henry V with Seattle Shakespeare Company; The Mistakes Madeline Made with Washington Ensemble Theatre; and Of Mice and Men. New York credits include I, Kreon and The Private Life of the Master Race with Roust Theater Company and Suzan Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays with Classical Theatre of Harlem and the Public Theater. His work has been seen at On The Boards, Velocity Dance Center, Broadway Performance Hall, Theater Off Jackson, and he is an artistic associate at Cardinal Stage Company. Andrew holds a BA from Duke University and an MFA from the University of Washington, where he currently teaches design.
DAN WHEETMAN Composer
Dan is honored to be working with BookIt again; he was the composer and musical director for The Cider House Rules in its original journey from Seattle to L.A. and New York. A Seattle-based writer, musician, actor, and singer, he was nominated for a Tony Award as co-author of It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues at Lincoln Center, for which he also won an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award. He received an Ovation Award for musical direction for Back Home Again, a John Denver Holiday Concert, co-written with Randal Myler; a Drama-Logue Award for musical direction for Lost Highway: Hank Williams at Mark Taper Forum. Fire on the Mountain, also written with Mr. Myler, was performed across the country to sold-out crowds. Two new plays premiered this year; Mama Hated Diesel at Denver Center Theatre and Lowdown Dirty Blues at Chicago’s Northlight Theatre.
Edd Key Music Director
Edd is pleased to join Book-It in reprising The Cider House Rules for their 20th Anniversary. He has been associated with the project since its earliest days and was a member of the ensemble in the 1998 Mark Taper Forum production. Other Work at Book-It includes I am of Ireland, Cowboys are My Weakness, The Awakening, Broken For You, and Red Ranger Came Calling (musical co-created with Myra Platt). As a composer, his popular collaborations with Eddie Levi Lee for The Empty Space include The Salvation of Iggy Scrooge, Rodeo Radio, and Wuthering! Heights! The! Musical! (in which he appeared at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville). He has music directed and acted in This Land for Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Big River and Smoke on the Mountain at Taproot Theatre, and All the King’s Men at INTIMAN. www.theredbarnstudio.com
Kristyne A. Hughes Properties Designer
Kristyne is thrilled to be working with Bookit again, she was the properties designer for Emma and The River Why earlier this season. She is a proud graduate of the UW School of Drama. She has worked locally with Washington Ensemble Theatre on Hunter Gatherers, and RoboPop!; Youth Theatre Northwest on Alone in the Dark, Adventure Playhouse, and Pinocchio; ReAct Theatre on Angels in America: Perestroika and The Last Five Years; SIS Productions on Sex in Seattle: Episode 17; and Open Circle Theatre on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. She most recently did props for Cancer: The Musical at Washington Ensemble Theatre and will be stage managing Beauty and the Beast at Youth Theatre Northwest this summer.
Lucinda Stroud Assistant Director/Dramaturg
Lucinda Stroud, a recent graduate of the University of Puget Sound, is excited to unite her loves of literature and theatre in working with Book-It Repertory Theatre as a literary and artistic intern this season.
LARRY RODRIGUEZ Technical Director
Larry hails from the Philippines where he worked as Technical Director and Lighting Designer for the Pioneer Theater Company and The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA). He was also Theater Manager of The Far Eastern University— which houses the Philippines’ first cultural center where early theater and vaudeville shows started during the 1940s—and was behind the ambitious renovation of the entire facility in 1998. Before leaving the Philippines Larry also worked as Director of Photography on television commercials and music videos; was involved in over 50 productions from stage, to television and film; and represented the country in International theatre festivals. Larry moved to Seattle in 2005 and joined BookIt Repertory Theatre as their Technical Director and Production Manager. He also serves as the resident lighting designer of Next Stage and as Technical Director of Holy Names Academy Theatre & Film Department. He studied Lighting Design and Sound Engineering in Tokyo, Japan.
Anders Bolang Production Manager
A graduate of Whitman College and the Yale School of Drama, Anders served as production manager for Tacoma Actors Guild and as technical director for the California Theatre Center and Whitman College. As a carpenter, he has created scenery for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, INTIMAN, and Yale Rep, among others. On stage, Anders has performed at Baltimore Center Stage,
Delaware Theatre Company, Yale Rep, Book-It, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Harlequin Productions, Tacoma Actors Guild, and as a guest artist with The Boston Pops. In New York, he has performed at the Performing Garage, NY Theatre Workshop, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Anders has appeared in “As the World Turns” and “One Life to Live,” the feature films Police Beat and Helene and in industrial training films, voice-overs.
Devorah Spadone Production Stage Manager
Devorah is proud to be the production stage manager at Book-It during the celebration of our 20th Anniversary Season! The Cider House Rules: Part One is her 23rd production with the company. Some of her favorite productions are Moby-Dick, or The Whale, The Highest Tide, Peter Pan, A Tale of Two Cities, The House of the Spirits, Little Women, Plainsong, and Giant. Devorah also works as a stage manager for events, fundraisers, festivals, and tours. She was the stage manager for the The Ethereal Mutt Limited’s 2008 production of Saving Tania’s Privates by Tania Katan at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Some of her favorite local places to work are Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Bumbershoot, Folklife, and Giant Magnet (formally the Seattle International Children’s Festival).
Victoria Thompson Production Assistant Victoria is thrilled to be working with Book-It this season after previously working on Emma, A Confederacy of Dunces, Night Flight, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, and Moby-Dick, or The Whale. She recently stage managed A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s touring program. Other favorite productions include Pride and Prejudice, Holy Mo and Spew Boy, The Taming of the Shrew, and Fixing Christmas.
Elizabeth Kent
Stage Management Intern Elizabeth is a recent graduate of Seattle Pacific University with a BA in Theatre Production and is thrilled to be an intern at Book-It this season. Last summer she was privileged to intern at Seattle Children’s Theatre for their summer season. Recent productions include The Alto Part, See Rock City, Honk!, and She Stoops to Conquer. She also served as the touring stage manager for the SPU University Players for two years.
Jocelyne Fowler
Costume Shop Intern A recent graduate from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre with a concentration in costume design and construction, Jocelyne is BookIt’s 2009-10 season costume shop intern. Previously, she worked with the Seattle
Children’s Theatre as a costume assistant during their 2009 summer season.
Myra Platt Founding Co-Artistic Director
Myra is the founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Jane Jones. She studied literature and theater at Northwestern University (BS Analysis and Performance of Literature) and Circle in the Square (NYC). As actor, director, adapter and composer, she has helped Book-It produce over 60 world-premiere stage adaptations. Last season, Myra played Judith in The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and adapted and directed the worldpremiere production of Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. She has also directed Persuasion by Jane Austen. She has adapted and directed The House of the Spirits, Giant, Red Ranger Came Calling, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone Call, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. She directed Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday. She co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones and composed music for Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, The Awakening, the first workshop production of The Cider House Rules, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. In 2008 she, Jane Jones, and Book-It, were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region.
CHARLOTTE M. TIENCKEN Managing Director
Charlotte is an arts administrator, director, producer, and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting fields for 20 years. Before moving back to the Seattle area in September 2003, she was general manager at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts for four seasons. Currently, she is president of Scarlet Productions, her own consulting firm, and is an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Most recently she was executive director of Tacoma Actors Guild. Charlotte is a member of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is past president of the Board of Arts Northwest, the presenting service organization for Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. She has served on the board of the Pat Graney Dance Company, sat on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission, and served on the Board of Theatre Puget Sound, a regional service organization for theatres in the Puget Sound area.
Book-It would like to express our gratitude to the following for their generosity in supporting our 2009-10 Season:
LITERARY LEGENDS $50,000+ Matthew N. Clapp, Jr. • Google*
LITERARY champion $25,000+ The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation • ArtsFund The Boeing Company Charitable Trust • National Endowment for the Arts • Ann Ramsay-Jenkins • Gladys Rubinstein • Theatre Communications Group • Washington State Arts Commission • Anonymous
LITERARY HEROES $10,000+ American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 • Jeff & Amanda Cain Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Stellman Keehnel Beth McCaw & Yahn Bernier • National Endowment for the Arts • Safeco Insurance Foundation • Polly Schlitz • The Seattle Foundation • Shirley & David Urdal • Washington State Arts Commission Literary Classics $5,000+ 4Culture Bank of America City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs KUOW 94.9 Public Radio* Lucky Seven Foundation The Medtronic Foundation The Norcliffe Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc Target Thomas & Lucy Flynn Zuccotti Leadership Circle $2,500+ Monica Alquist Emily Anthony & David Maymudes The Baker Foundation Avery Brooke Boeing Matching Gift Program Steve Bull & Christiane Pein Canonicus Fund Cande & Tom Grogan Ellen & John Hill Bruce E. H. Johnson & Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Melissa & Donald Manning
Leadership Circle Cont. Mary Metastasio Shawna L. Peery Shawn & Mike Rediger Lynne & Nick Reynolds Deborah Swets Jim & Kathy Tune U.S. Bancorp Foundation Kris & Mike Villiott Elizabeth Warman Nobel Award Society $1000+ ArtsFund/Wells Fargo Cultural Education Enhancement Fund Cheryl Boudreau Elizabeth Bourne Adelaide Brooks Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb Catherine C. Clark Amy & Matthew Cockburn Collected Design Allan & Nora Davis Emily Davis Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal Fales Foundation Trust
Nobel Award Society Cont. Stephanie & Stuart Feldt KeyBank Foundation Marsha Kremen Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas Ed Littlefield & Julia Derby Kevin McKeon & Jane Jones Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Lynn Murphy Whitney Neufeld-Kaiser Colette Ogle Glenna Olson Judy Pigott Larry & Michell Pihl Myra Platt ** PONCHO Puget Sound Business Journal Savage Color* Martha Sidlo Warren Sly Ten Mercer* David Thompson & Judith Jesiolowski Sara Thompson Washington Women’s Foundation Judith Whetzel April J. & Brian Williamson Sally S. & David Wright Andrew & Trish Zuccotti Pulitzer Award Society $500+ Abeja* Pamela Bailey Julia Bent Luther Black & Christina Wright Patricia Britton** Kelly Brown Zimmie Caner & Tom Edwards The Carey Family Foundation Mary Anne Christy & Mark Klebanoff D. A. Davidson & Co. Matching Fund Dante’s Inferno Dogs/Dante Rivera** Dottie Delaney Peter DeNormandie Mark Dexter Élévage* R. Brooks Gekler
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1. a concluding part added to a literary work, as a novel. 2. a speech, usually in verse, delivered by one of the actors after the conclusion of a play. 3. the legacy you can leave to support arts and literacy well into the future.
With 20 successful years as a foundation, Book-It is looking toward the future with purpose and confidence. Strategic plans, excellent artistry, and a clear mission are only part of what will carry us forward. Your financial support fulfills the promise of our present and our future. If you are looking for a way to help us continue the work we do on stage and in our community, please consider making a planned gift to Book-It. You will help ensure future financial stability and the longevity of the company as we continue to fulfill our mission of literacy and inspiring our audiences to read. As you make your own plans and provisions for the future, we hope you’ll remember Book-It. There are many options for planned giving and we would be happy to discuss them with you. Please call Managing Director Charlotte Tiencken, 206.216-0877, ext 105 or email charlotte@book-it.org. Thank you.
Book-It is a company of professional actors and directors who perform classic and contemporary works of fiction for the stage.
Our mission is to transform great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive production and to inspire our audiences to read. We strive to return theatre to its roots, to the place where the spoken and the written word intersect and where the story comes alive for the audience. What you see and hear at a Book-It performance is literary prose spoken by the characters of the story as if it were dialogue in a play—often word-for-word in a short story and, in adaptations of larger works, selected narrative. This is the Book-It Style™. We ask our audiences to use their imaginations, thereby becoming participants in a Book-It performance. Book-It All Over, the educational outreach program of Book-It Repertory Theatre, is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages to read. We tour a diverse range of stories to schools, libraries, and community centers throughout the Pacific Northwest, conduct long-term residencies in schools, offer teacher professional development for school staff, and present low-cost student matinées of our mainstage shows.
Mary Metastasio, President Melissa Manning,Vice-President Kristine Villiott,Treasurer Lynne Reynolds, Secretary Monica Alquist Steven Bull Jeffrey J. Cain Jane Jones Lynn Murphy Myra Platt David Quicksall Deborah Swets Elizabeth J. Warman
James Dean Laura Ferri Gail Sehlhorst Heather Guiles Andy Jensen Jennifer Sue Johnson Jane Jones Daniel Harray Reginald André Jackson David Klein
Jane Jones, Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director Myra Platt, Founding Co-Artistic Director Charlotte M. Tiencken, Managing Director Annie Lareau, Education Director Patricia Britton, Marketing & Development Director Larry Rodriguez, Technical Director Gail Sehlhorst, Literacy Assessment Director Rachel Alquist, Box Office Manager Anders Bolang, Production Manager Tom Dewey, Box Office Representative Nicole Fierstein, Box Office Representative Kate Godman, Grants Associate Sara Lachman, Education & Development Assistant
James Lapan Mary Machala Kevin McKeon Myra Platt David Quicksall Stephanie Shine Susanna Wilson
Sophie Lowenstein, Development Assistant Michael Monteleone, Videographer Susanna Pugh, House Manager & Volunteer Coordinator Pete Rush, Costume Shop Manager Jacob Sherman, Box Office Representative Devorah Spadone, Production Stage Manager Bill Whitham, Bookkeeper Rachel Wilsey, Marketing Associate Education Intern: Kelsey Hamilton • Literary & Artistic Interns: Mike Jones, Lucinda Stroud • Marketing Interns: Naomi Brodkin, CJ Graham, Emma Kelley • Photography Intern: Laine Mullen • Theatre Management Intern: Amanda Ooten • Acting Interns: Kiri Callaghan, Cole Cook, Laine Mullen, Enrique Olguin • Costume Shop Intern: Jocelyn Fowler • Stage Management Intern: Elizabeth Kent
House Theatre, Seattle Center BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Center 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA 98109 www.book-it.org
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