I AM OF IRELAND | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | THE D O G OF THE SOUTH | LIT TLE BEE | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
Managing Director Daniel Y. Mayer; photo by John Ulman.
the fate of
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When I interviewed for the position of managing director of Book-It, I was asked what prompted me to apply for the position. Of course, I replied that I was attracted to the mission of Book-It; transforming great literature into great theatre. I also added that I care about the fate of mid-size theater in Seattle and wanted to help ensure that Book-It continues to thrive in that unique and special role of one of the only mid-size theaters in town. Mid-size theaters like Book-It represent the best of both worlds—they have the capacity to produce ambitious works like The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Pride and Prejudice, but they are lean on personnel and nimble enough to experiment, and to have all staff working together as a team with minimal administration. As a midsize theater, Book-It can respond to
social issues and produce timely shows such as Little Bee, and are large enough that they have a consistently solid artistic reputation and are recognized for their contribution to the arts. In the Seattle area, a mid-size theater is defined as having a budget between one and two million dollars. Book-It Repertory Theatre is a leader in the mid-size theater community. This is a testament to the creativity, stamina, and perseverance of its founding co-artistic directors Jane Jones and Myra Platt. This season we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their vision of producing simple and sensitive productions that inspire audiences to read. But it must be cautioned that the fate
There are only three mid-size theaters left in Seattle. of mid-size theaters in our community is a precarious one and that there are only three mid-size theaters left in Seattle: Book-It, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Taproot. There used to be many mid-size theaters in Seattle and the reasons for their demise are many, but
most relate to lack of revenue. These theaters—The Empty Space, Alice B, the Group Theatre, and Pioneer Square—are totems of Seattle’s great theatre history. Seattle’s mid-size theaters must be nurtured or their numbers will continue to dwindle, and Book-It is no exception. Your support through subscription and donation will keep this company thriving and will enable it to be a leader in the arts community for the next twenty-five years! Thank you for joining us this evening for The Dog of the South and welcome to Book-It Repertory Theatre!
Dan Mayer Managing Director
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JANE JONES & MYRA PLATT, FOUNDING CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTORS | DANIEL Y. MAYER, MANAGING DIRECTOR
THE DOG OF THE SOUTH by Charles Portis Adapted by Judd Parkin | Directed by Jane Jones
cast Thomas J. Foster Jim Gall* Jorge Gomez Gin Hammond* Suzy Hunt* Shannon Loys Nikolai Mell† Christopher Morson Cheyenne B. Reynosa† Bill Ritchie Joshua C. Williamson Laura Karavitis* David Hartig
Webster / Ensemble Dr. Reo Symes / Ensemble Officer / Ensemble Melba / Ensemble Mrs. Symes / Ensemble Norma / Ensemble Religious Pilgrim / Ensemble Ray Midge Waitress / Ensemble Mr. Meigs / Ensemble Guy Dupree / Ensemble Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Artistic Team Christopher Mumaw Marnie Cumings Chelsea Cook Nathan Wade Anthea Carns Gin Hammond
Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound Designer Dramaturg Dialect Coach
* Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The director is a member of SDC Stage Directors and Choreographers Society † Book-It Acting Intern
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Lucky Seven Foundation Additional generous support is provided by individuals and by The Ex Anima Fund, The Williams Miller Family Foundation, and Spark Charitable Foundation. Many thanks to all our supporters!
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Why do we fall hopelessly in love with certain books? It’s a strange, unscientific process, as mysterious as why we fall in love with our significant others and spouses. From the moment I read the opening paragraph of Charles Portis’ The Dog of the South, I knew I had lost my heart to Ray Midge, the story’s hapless hero. On the surface, Midge and I have very little in common. I’m a Northerner, a man of mature years, the married father of three; Midge is a Southerner to his core, a boy-man in his twenties whose
It takes guts to soldier on when everyone and everything in the universe is telling you to quit. marriage has unraveled in a spectacularly humiliating fashion. We are nothing alike, and yet my identification with him is complete. Why?
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Adapter Judd Parkin and Director Jane Jones; photo by Josh Aaseng.
Because Ray Midge is a hero of great and heart-breaking courage. That may seem an odd way to describe a penniless cuckold who’s driving a broken-down ’63 Buick. Certainly, no one will ever compare Midge to Napoleon, except perhaps for his diminutive stature. No, Midge is a hero in the vein of Don Quixote and Buster Keaton, a hopeless romantic, born out of time and place, who is repeatedly clobbered by windmills. He refuses to be defeated by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, and he keeps coming back for more. It takes guts to soldier on when everyone and everything in the universe is telling you to quit. That’s real heroism. That’s courage. In another writer’s hands, The Dog of the South might be a dark melodrama, or even a tragedy. But Charles Portis is no ordinary writer. Roy Blount Jr. once said of Portis, “he could be
Cormac McCarthy if he wanted to, but he’d rather be funny.” Portis’ stories deal with the weighty themes of great literature—love, God, man’s place in the cosmos, and so forth—but he comes at these issues from an absurdist comic slant. Portis’ heroes don’t stand on a blasted heath like Lear and howl at the furies—they’re too busy worrying about that weird clicking noise in their car’s carburetor. So welcome, dear theatregoer, to the wonderfully off-kilter world of The Dog of the South. I would recommend you fasten your seatbelts, except this old Buick doesn’t have any—so just hold on tight and enjoy the ride.
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Charles Portis was born in El Dorado, Arkansas on December 28, 1933, and grew up in several Arkansas towns. As a young man, Portis served in the Marine Corps in the Korean War, reaching the rank of sergeant. After his discharge in 1955, Portis returned to Arkansas to pursue a degree in journalism at the University of Arkansas. Portis began his writing career as a reporter, first at the UA student paper and then as a reporter and columnist at the Arkansas Gazette. After two years at the Gazette, Portis moved to the New York Herald Tribune. His four years there coincided with the rise of the civil
rights movement, and he frequently returned to the South to report on civil rights-related events, including biting accounts of Ku Klux Klan rallies and riots. He served for a year as the Herald Tribune’s London bureau chief, before making the move back to Arkansas and into fiction in 1964. Portis garnered a good deal of praise for his first novel, Norwood (1966), the story of an ex-Marine driving from Texas to New York at the behest of a con man. Norwood established Portis’ style: deadpan humor, madcap adventures, a keen eye for eccentricities and a fascination with cars, guns, and the American West. His second novel, the classic Western True Grit (1968), was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post and was so immediately successful that it was adapted for the screen the very next year. The 1969 film won John Wayne his only Oscar, for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn. (True Grit’s enormous popularity has long been a point of contention for Portis fans: opinions are divided on whether it rightly stands out as his masterpiece, or whether it overshadows his later, greater works.) Eleven years passed between writing True Grit and The Dog of the South (1979), wherein Portis returned to the present day and forayed south of the border. Another six years passed between The Dog of the South and Masters of Atlantis (1985), “the oddest ball among his works,” and six more
before Gringos (1991). Portis’s last published fiction was the melancholy short story “I Don’t Talk Service No More” (1996), and most recently, he published a memoir piece, “Combinations of Jacksons,” in the Atlantic Monthly (May 1, 1999) and the collection Escape Velocity (2012). The 2010 remake of True Grit (which Portis was not involved with) revitalized interest in his novels, and brought several of them back into print. Charles Portis currently resides in Little Rock, where he mostly avoids reporters. by Anthea Carns
The Portis Canon 1966: Norwood 1968: True Grit 1979: The Dog of the South 1985: Masters of Atlantis 1991: Gringos To read more about Charles Portis, visit our website.
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Tales of thE RoAd
The open road, the quest, the first step on the journey away from home–storytellers have been fascinated by tales of travel and trips from time immemorial. Charles Portis’ The Dog of the South is a quintessential road trip story, filled with colorful locations, odd characters, and an everyman with a goal. Ray Midge is driving in the footsteps of centuries of heroes–some looking for enlightenment, some for love, and some just for their next buzz. by Anthea Carns
The Odyssey
Journey To the WEst
Homer’s epic poem, a sequel of sorts to The Iliad, tells the story of the Greek soldier Odysseus and his ten-year journey home to his wife after the Trojan War. Along the way, Odysseus outsmarts monsters like the Cyclops and the witch Circe, spends years as the captive of the seductive nymph Calypso, travels to the underworld, and narrowly escapes the Sirens before finally making it back to Ithaca.
This 16th century Chinese novel, also known as Monkey in English, is an account of a Chinese Buddhist monk who travels to India to retrieve a set of sacred scrolls. Xuanzang, also known as Tripitaka, is accompanied by the Monkey King and the disgraced immortals Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing, all three of whom are searching for redemption. Their adventures have been adapted into novels, several movies, and a cult TV show.
the Grapes of WrATH John Steinbeck’s 1939 classic tells the story of the Joad family, driving their old truck along Route 66 from Oklahoma to California in search of work during the Great Depression. The tragic plight of the Joads and their quest for a better life, away from the Dust Bowl, has inspired music, movies, plays, and an opera.
Even Cowgirls GEt the bluEs Tom Robbins’ 1976 novel features the unusually large-thumbed Sissy Hankshaw, who puts her thumbs to use hitchhiking across the country. Her travels introduce her to tycoons, mystics, and the titular cowgirl, Bonanza Jellybean.
From our production of Cowgirls in 2008.
Thelma & Louise Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis hit the road in a Thunderbird, intending to take a two-day vacation; things soon go wrong, though, and the two women find themselves on the run from the law. The 1991 film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Actress nods for both its stars, and won Best Original Screenplay.
Alice In WonderlanD Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) follow Alice as she wanders through fantastical lands, meeting iconic characters like the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, the Caterpillar, and the Cheshire Cat.
We’re touring Alice to schools now! Catch an at-home performance on May 6 or 19. See A-11 for details.
On the ROad On the Road (1957) defined the Beat generation. Jack Kerouac based the novel on his own travels with fellow Beat author Neal Cassady. Protagonist Sal Paradise and his friend Dean Moriarty criss-cross the continent by bus and by car in search of meaning and self-understanding.
The MotOrcyClE DiarIes In 1952 Che Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado take a year off from their medical studies to explore South America on a thirteenyear-old motorcycle. The nine-month journey opens Guevara’s eyes to the situation of the working-class, the ostracized, and the marginalized. His memoirs from the trip were first published as The Motorcycle Diaries in Cuba in 1993.
The Wizard of Oz There’s no road more familiar than L. Frank Baum’s Yellow Brick Road. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) introduced American children to the world of Oz and beloved characters like the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion. Everyone is headed to the Emerald City for something—a heart, a brain, courage—but like Odysseus, Dorothy Gale just wants to get home.
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson first published this classic account of his road trip to Las Vegas—and his drug trips in Las Vegas—in Rolling Stone in 1971. Thompson called Fear and Loathing a “failed experiment” in gonzo journalism, a blending of fiction and fact, and many critics initially panned the novel for its drug use and meandering plot, or lack thereof.
o BrOther, WhEre ART thou? The Coen Brother’s 2000 classic brought the story of The Odyssey to 1937 Mississippi: Odysseus becomes Ulysses Everett McGill, an escaped convict trying to con, hitchhike, and sing his way home before his wife remarries.
What’s your roadtrip story? We want to hear your best story from the open road! Draw a map and share a memory in the lobby.
meet the
Cast
THOMAS J. FOSTER
Webster / Ensemble This is Thomas’ debut with Book-It. He is very excited about this opportunity and being the only child actor in the cast! Thomas has a true love for theatre; he is only ten years old, but has studied performing arts at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute for the past three years. There he has performed in their summer youth productions, most recently in the musicals Rooted and Keepers of the Fire. A fifth-grade Discovery program scholar at Campbell Hill Elementary, Thomas enjoys studying art, science, and participating in drama troupe. When he’s not acting, you can find him reading a book, drawing anime, or practicing Taekwondo.
JIM GALL*
Dr. Reo Symes / Ensemble Some of Jim’s favorite Book-It credits include If I Die in a Combat Zone…, Pride and Prejudice, Moby-Dick, or The Whale, and Border Songs. His most recent credits include a national tour of The Miracle Worker with Montana Rep as Captain Keller, The Two Gentlemen of Verona with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, and The Bunner Sisters with Athena Productions at Theatre Off Jackson. Other favorite roles include Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird and Mountain McClintock in Requiem for a Heavyweight. Locally Jim has worked at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Rep, Intiman, Village Theatre, and ACT Theatre, to name a few. Jim has been named best actor by the Seattle Times’ Footlight Awards three times. He is proud to be married to the beautiful Kelly Kitchens.
JORGE GOMEZ
Officer / Ensemble Jorge graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2006 with a BA in Spanish and a minor in theatre. In 2009 he graduated with his Masters of Education in higher education leadership from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, where he also studied film. Since then, he has worked as a cinematographer * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
† Book-It Acting Intern
for Desert Rose Productions and Sinner Magazine in Las Vegas. He has performed with The Rose Theater in Omaha, Traveling Lantern Theatre Company in Portland, Ore., Open Door Theatre in Arlington, Wash., and most recently finished a tour of Book-It’s bilingual show La Mariposa. www.behance.net/georgiegomez
GIN HAMMOND*
Melba / Ensemble Gin is a Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre grad, and thrilled at the opportunity to work with this busload of talented artists. She received a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for her performance in The Syringa Tree, and has performed in Russia, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and England. A certified voice-over geek, Hammond’s voice can be heard on commercials, audiobooks, and a variety of video games including Undead Labs: State of Decay, DotA 2, Aion, and Halo 3 ODST. Enjoy the ride.
SUZY HUNT*
Mrs. Symes / Ensemble Earlier this season, Suzy performed in Book-It’s I Am of Ireland. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. Locally she has performed at ACT Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Empty Space, The 5th Avenue Theatre, and Intiman. Regionally she has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, the Guthrie, Denver Center Theatre, the Alley, Arizona Theatre Company, and the Spoleto Festival. Plum roles include Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret, Stella in Light Up the Sky, the Countess in The Women, and Carrie in Trip to Bountiful. Next up is Seattle Shakespeare Company’s production of Tartuffe.
SHANNON LOYS Norma / Ensemble Shannon last performed at Book-It in their two most recent productions of Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. Her theatre adventures have taken her everywhere from Washington, D.C., playing patients for medical school training, to Scotland and France with original, devised work. Around town, you may have seen her in staged readings with Endangered Species Project,
and you have certainly seen her posters, as she is Book-It’s full-time graphic designer.
NIKOLAI MELL†
Religious Pilgrim / Ensemble Nikolai is excited to graduate from Cornish College of the Arts (BFA ‘15) with a degree in theatre. His favorite roles include Tuzenbach in The Three Sisters, El Gallo in The Fantasticks, and Commander Gomez in Fuenteovejuna; he will be playing the part of Hero in Seattle Musical Theatre’s upcoming production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. He is delighted to be a part of Book-It’s brilliant ensemble and is thrilled to make tonight a memorable night of theatre.
CHRISTOPHER MORSON
Ray Midge Christopher is extremely happy to return to Book-It for The Dog of the South! His past roles with Book-It include Huck Finn in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored and Say in their touring production of Pink and Say, where he enjoyed engaging with students and teaching the Book-It Style. You may have seen him this past summer in a leather jacket and wielding a mini water gun as Speed in Two Gentlemen of Verona with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre or in their mainstage production of Twelfth Night as Sebastian. Christopher has also been working his way into the Seattle film scene–catch him in the season one finale of “Z Nation” as Johnny or in the new online fantasy mini-series, Chaldea. He holds a BFA in theatre from Cornish. www.christophermorson.com
CHEYENNE B. REYNOSA†
Waitress / Ensemble Cheyenne is extremely proud to be a part of the cast of The Dog of the South and to work with such diligent actors and a driven director. Some of Cheyenne’s favorite roles include The Governor from Bonnie and Clyde, Pascuala from Fuente Ovejuna, and ensemble roles in the production of Penelopiad. She is currently a theatre student at Cornish College of the Arts, graduating this spring.
BILL RITCHIE
Mr. Meigs / Ensemble Over the past 40 years, Bill has been a member of the acting companies of The Old Globe in San Diego, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and a founding member of the Oregon Repertory Theatre (along with Book-It’s Jane Jones). He has appeared in a number of Book-It productions, including Anna Karenina, Red Ranger Came Calling, Breathing Lessons, and Ethan Frome. His favorite role was playing Scrooge for four seasons in A Christmas Carol.
JOSHUA C. WILLIAMSON
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Guy Dupree / Ensemble This is Joshua’s Book-It debut, and he has loved his experience with this show. Joshua is a local actor and Cornish alum who recently has been seen working with Centerstage Theatre in Federal Way in My First Time and this year’s holiday pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk.
Artistic
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JUDD PARKIN
Adapter Judd is delighted to return to Book-It, where he adapted Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored in 2013. He began his career as an actor and director with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and at other regional theatres around the country. He later worked as an executive for NBC and ABC, where he oversaw the development and production of over 250 movies and miniseries. In recent years, Judd has produced and written numerous television films, including the acclaimed CBS miniseries Jesus, the Christopher Award-winning Nicholas’ Gift, and the Lifetime Television Christmas favorite Comfort and Joy. He is the author of the novel The Carpenter’s Miracle, which he adapted and produced for UP TV. Judd is currently writing the limited series “World Changers” for NBC.
JANE JONES
Director See bio on page A-10.
CHRISTOPHER MUMAW
Scenic Designer Christopher is grateful to be working on his second production with Book-It, having previously designed for their Gregory Award-winning production of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This past year he has designed scenery for SPRAWL with Pete Rush at Washington Ensemble Theatre, Judy’s Scary Little Christmas with ArtsWest, and worked as a set designer for the Amazon Studios television pilot “The Man in the High Castle.” Past designs include The Rape of Lucretia at St. Mark’s Cathedral with Vespertine Opera Theater, Little Women with ArtsWest, and The Last Five Years with Cornish College of the Arts. Upcoming projects include The Magic Flute with Vespertine Opera Theater and Grease with The 5th Avenue Theatre. ChristopherMumaw.com
MARNIE CUMINGS
Lighting Designer Marnie is very happy to be back working with Book-It after designing Truth Like the Sun last year. Recent work includes The Rape of Lucretia at St. Mark’s Cathedral with Vespertine Opera Theater, The Barber of Seville with Tacoma Opera, and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme at the Cornish Playhouse. Marnie received her MFA from the University of Washington in 2012 and is thrilled to have been continually designing since.
CHELSEA COOK
Costume Designer Chelsea Cook is a freelance costume designer, shop manager, and small business owner. Favorite designs include Ernest Shackleton Loves Me and Spring Awakening with Balagan Theatre; The Addams Family with Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre; Trails, Lizzie Borden, and Hairspray with Village Theatre; and She’s Come Undone with Book-It. Her work has also been seen at ACT Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, SecondStory Repertory, Intiman, Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society, and iDiom Theatre. She has been on management staff at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, and the Intiman Theatre Festival. Chelsea graduated with a BA in performance production at Cornish College of the Arts, and also owns an educational sewing and craft company.
NATHAN WADE
Sound Designer Nathan is a long-time Book-It veteran whose musical and audio handiwork has been featured in stage adaptations of Truth Like the Sun, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Border Songs, Moby-Dick, or The Whale, and Don Quixote. His sound/music design for Jesus’ Son was nominated for a 2014 Gregory Award. www.nathanwademusic.com
LAURA KARAVITIS*
Stage Manager Laura returns to Book-It after assistant stage managing Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. She began her career touring internationally as a personal assistant and illusion specialist for magician David Copperfield, and has stage managed at several regional and fringe theatres across the country. Favorite credits include August: Osage County with Balagan Theatre; One Man, Two Guvnors and The Mystery of Edwin Drood with Barnstormers Theatre in New Hampshire; Violet, The Full Monty, and Dead Man’s Cell Phone with Barter Theatre in Virginia; and The Little Dog Laughed with Good Medicine Theatre in Nevada. She recently relocated to Cincinnati with her husband, David, and their little cocker spaniel sidekick, Yoshi. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity, but an even prouder alumna of Washington State University. www.stageleftlaura.com
DAVID HARTIG
Assistant Stage Manager David is thrilled to be back at Book-It again where he previously worked on Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Recent local credits include Summerland, part of the New Play Festival with Seattle Rep, and his Wisconsin credits include The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, All My Sons, The Admirable Crichton, The Critic, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest with American Players Theatre; Cabaret, My Name is Asher Lev, The Bomb-ity of Errors, Othello, and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) with Milwaukee Repertory Theater; and A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine with Peninsula Players Theatre. David has spent the last three seasons as the touring stage manager for the Eugene Ballet Company, where he recently stage managed the world premiere of Toni Pimble’s Mowgli: The Jungle Book Ballet.
ANTHEA CARNS
Dramaturg Anthea is pleased to be working with Book-It once again. She has worked in Pennsylvania, Alaska, and Washington as a dramaturg, director, writer, and arts administrator. Her co-written play Bad Hamlet was an official selection of the 2011 Last Frontier Theatre Conference; more recently she worked on Book-It’s Pride and Prejudice and Burmer Music’s Dante’s Inferno. Her current projects include branching into original fiction and exploring digital media. www.antheacarns.com
GIN HAMMOND
Dialect Coach See bio on preceding page.
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Artistic
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JANE JONES
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 27 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, Jim Lynch, 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. Most recently, she played the role of Miss Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. 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, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane 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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, Truth Like the Sun, 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, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Production. 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 20year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence award from Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was a finalist for the American Union for Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award.
MYRA PLATT
Founding Co-Artistic Director As co-founder, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 100 world premiere mainstage productions and over 30 education touring productions. Most recently she directed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the 2014 Gregory Award for Outstanding Production and received a Seattle Times 2014 Footlight Award. She directed Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the
Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday, and she adapted and directed The Financial Lives of the Poets, The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, 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 adapted The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones, and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. Her acting credits include Prairie Nocturne, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, The Awakening (West Los Angeles Garland Award), Howards End, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II (original production). She has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum. Myra is the recipient, with Jane Jones, of a Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Anniversary grant, the 2010 Women of Influence from Puget Sound Business Journal, and was named by Seattle Times an Unsung Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region.
Economics. He has taught at Columbia College in Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University School of Law; in Seattle he has been a lecturer at Cornish College of the Arts, Edmonds Community College, and the EDGE Artist Professional Development Program at Artist Trust. Mayer is the co-chair of the Arts Advisory Council of 4Culture and on the board of directors of Khambatta Dance Company and Coyote Central.
affiliations ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION
This theatre operates under an agreement within AEA, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
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DANIEL Y. MAYER
Managing Director Daniel is delighted to join the staff of Book-It as its managing director. Most recently, he spent eight years as executive director of the Kirkland Performance Center. Prior to that, Mayer worked in a variety of arts nonprofits in the Seattle area including Photographic Center Northwest, Spectrum Dance Theater, On the Boards, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Sand Point Arts & Cultural Exchange, The Empty Space, and the Bellevue Philharmonic. Dan returned to his hometown of Seattle 16 years ago from New York where he worked as a consultant to POZ Publishing and Condé Nast Publications and as executive director at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts for five years. Earlier, Mayer lived in Washington, D.C. where he was the executive director of artsave, an artist rights project founded by People for the American Way, a civil liberties organization founded by Norman Lear. Mayer began his legal career in Chicago as executive director of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, a pro bono legal assistance organization for artists of all genres. During this time he was also a fellow at the Office of Policy, Planning and Research at the National Endowment for the Arts. Mayer is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Claremont McKenna College, and also studied at the London School of
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staff BRYAN BURCH Interim Production Manager
LINDSAY CARPENTER† Assistant Director
TREVOR CUSHMAN Assistant Lighting Designer / Master Electrician
KELSEY RODGERS Assistant Costume Designer
KATHLEEN LE COZE Resident Properties Master
ELIZABETH STASIO† Stage Management Intern
DAN SCHUY Interim Technical Director / Scenic Carpenter
ANDERS BOLANG Master Carpenter
SUZI TUCKER Scenic Carpenter
CARMEN RODRIGUEZ Charge Artist
JESSICA JONES Sound Board Operator
ANNA CURTIS Wardrobe Head † Book-It Intern
COMING UP AT BOOK-IT
ArtsFund strengthens the community by supporting the arts through leadership, advocacy and grant making.
Campaign 2014 Donors Thank you to all our donors for sharing and supporting our vision of a community with a dynamic and world-class arts and cultural sector where the arts are accessible to all and valued as central and critical to a healthy society. Pledges and donations made between 7/1/13 - 6/30/14
Visit www.artsfund.org for a full list of our donors and to learn more about ArtsFund
$350,000 and up
$250,000 - $349,999
$50,000 - $249,999
Support from The Boeing Company, Microsoft Corporation, POP, Sellen Construction and Starbucks Coffee Company includes employee workplace giving.
$25,000 - $49,999
$10,000 - $24,999
$5,000 - $9,999
ADP/Cobalt* Getty Images* K&L Gates* KeyBank KING Broadcasting* King County Employees* Perkins Coie* Russell Investment Group Safeco Insurance Stoel Rives LLP* Washington State Combined Fund Drive* Weyerhaeuser Company*
Amazon.com Amgen Foundation BNY Mellon Wealth Management Comcast The Commerce Bank of Washington* Davis Wright Tremaine LLP* Delta Air Lines Delta Dental of Washington DLA Piper* Dorsey & Whitney LLP* JPMorgan Chase Nordstrom, Inc. R.D. Merrill Company Union Bank
Alaskan Copper & Brass Company and Alaskan Copper Works APCO Worldwide Clise Properties Inc. Columbia Bank Ernst & Young LLP Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle* Financial Resources Group Fishing Company of Alaska Foss Maritime Company Gaco Western, Inc. Gensler Architects Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Arts Benefactor Circle
William Beeks Sandy and Chris McDade Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence and Mary Ellen Hughes Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Joshua Green Foundation, Inc. John Graham Foundation
Jim and Gaylee Duncan Ray Heacox and Cynthia Huffman Peter and Peggy Horvitz Glenn Kawasaki Patricia Britton and Stellman Keehnel Deborah Killinger Thomas and Gwen Kroon Charlotte Lin and Robert Porter Moccasin Lake Foundation Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation Herman and Faye Sarkowsky Sequoia Foundation Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation Mary Snapp James and Katherine Tune Arlene Wright
Conductor’s Circle
First Chair
$10,000 - $24,999
$5,000 - $9,999
Nancy Alvord Judi Beck and Tom A. Alberg Carl and Renee Behnke Allan and Nora Davis
Chap and Eve Alvord Casey Banack Steve Behnen and Mary Hornsby Michael and Anne Bentley
Gold Club $200,000 and up
Raynier Institute & Foundation $100,000 - $199,999
Neukom Family Mary Pigott $50,000 - $99,999
Stephen P. and Paula R. Reynolds Pete and Julie Rose $25,000 - $49,999
Toby Bright Matthew Clapp Melanie Curtice Mrs. Jane Davis and Dr. David R. Davis Kevin and Lynne Fox Heather Howard Ann Ramsay-Jenkins and the William M. Jenkins Fund Ed Kim Loeb Family Charitable Foundations Douglas and Joyce McCallum Rosanne Esposito - Ross and Louis Ross Douglas and Theiline Scheumann Vijay and Sita Vashee Douglas and Margaret Walker Dr. Clyde and Mrs. Kathleen Wilson Ann P. Wyckoff Lynn Hubbard and David Zapolsky Encore $2,500 - $4,999
Jon Anderson Kim A. Anderson
Jones Lang LaSalle Medical Consultants Network, Inc.* Nintendo of America Inc. Raisbeck Engineering RealNetworks Foundation Sparling, Inc.
*Includes employee workplace giving
Bob and Clodagh Ash John H. Bauer Lisa Lawrence Beard Annette and Daniel Becker John and Shari Behnke Sue and Artie Buerk C. Kent and Sandra C. Carlson Peter and Susan Davis Karl Ege Lea Ennis Michael and Melanie Fink William Franklin Rod Fujita Lynn and Brian Grant Maria Gunn Darren Hamby Aya Hamilton Richard and Marilyn Herzberg Kevin and Eddy Hoffberg Mari Horita Dan and Connie Hungate Randle Inouye Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation James Kraft John and Tina Lapham
Tim Mauk and Noble Golden Blanche and Stephen Maxwell Rachel and Doug McCall Bruce and Jolene McCaw Anthony R. Miles Alison and Glen Milliman Douglas E. and Nancy P. Norberg Mary Ellen Olander Glenna Olson and Conrad Wouters Tyler Petri Kathleen Pierce in memory of Douglas Beighle Ms. Carol Powell Marlene Price Scott Redman Joanne Salisbury Stanley D. and Ingrid H. Savage Schoenfeld-Gardner Foundation Jane Simpson Bonnie and Jim Towne Joseph D. Weinstein Gail and Bill Weyerhaeuser
honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support!
Literary Legends’ Circle $75,000+
Leadership circle, cont.
Nobel Prize Circle, cont.
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Anne Repass Shirley Roberson Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches Martha Sidlo Deborah Swets Kathy & Jim Tune U.S. Bank Elizabeth Warman
Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West Janet Vail Vanguard Charitable H. Randall Webb & Judy Brandon Beverly Welti & John Pehrson Virginia Sly & Richard Wesley Judith Whetzel Williams Miller Family Foundation Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood
Literary CHampions’ Circle $25,000+ ArtsFund The Boeing Company Charitable Trust Sonya & Tom Campion Matthew Clapp The Hearst Foundations, Inc. Lucky Seven Foundation Beth McCaw & Yahn Bernier National Endowment for the Arts Mary Pigott Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Gladys Rubinstein+
producers’ circle $10,000+ 4Culture City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Ellen & John Hill Stellman Keehnel Nordstrom Michell & Larry Pihl Safeco Insurance Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Shirley & David Urdal Kris & Mike Villiott Washington State Arts Commission Mary Ann and Robert Wiley Fund— United Way
Partners’ circle $5,000+ Arthur N. Rupe Foundation The Boeing Company Joann Byrd Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness Gretl Galgon Lucy Helm Holly & Bill Marklyn Cheryl & Tom Oliver Lynne & Nick Reynolds Drella & Garth Stein April Williamson
Leadership circle $2,500+ Monica Alquist Boeing Gift Matching Program Amy & Matthew Cockburn D.A. Davidson & Co. Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Joni Ostergaard & Will Patton Christiane Pein & Steven Bull
Nobel Prize Circle $1,000+ Anonymous (4) Adobe Systems Incorporated All One Family Fund Stephen Bauer Janet Boguch & Kelby Fletcher Karen Brandvick-Baker & Ross Baker Amanda & Jeff Cain Mary Anne Christy & Mark Klebanoff Carol & Bill Collins Carolyn & George Cox Emily Davis Nora & Allan Davis The Ex Anima Fund Mary Frances & Harold Hill Jean Gorecki Heather Howard Humanities Washington Judith Jesiolowski & David Thompson Pamela Johnson Clare Kapitan & Keith Schreiber Deborah Killinger Lea Knight Stephen & Ellen Lutz Lee & Darcy MacLaren Melissa & Don Manning Peter Maunsell Mary Metastasio Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Steve Miller & Pamela Cowan Minar Northey LLP Joyce Latino & John O’Connell Colette Ogle Deborah & Jeff Parsons Puget Sound Business Journal Reeya Raman Stephen & Paula Reynolds Stephen Robinson Sage Foundation Pamela & Nate Searle Gail & John Sehlhorst Mary Snapp The Seattle Foundation Spark Charitable Foundation Karen & D. Thompson Challinor
Pulitzer Prize Circle $500+ Anonymous Christina Amante Connie Anderson Kathleen Best Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal Elizabeth Braun Patricia Britton Don Brown Sally Brunette Linda & Peter Capell Diana & Chuck Carey Nancy Cleveland Mark Dexter Katie Enarson Kim & Rob Entrop Jane & Stanley Fields R. Brooks Gekler Mark Hamburg Laura Hanson Phyllis Hatfield Margaret Winsor & Earle Hereford Mary Horvitz Joleen Hughes Hughes Media Law Group Jane Austen Society of Puget Sound Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon Pam Kendrick Jacqueline Kiser Larry Lewin Craig Lorch Ellen Maxson Ann McCurdy & Frank Lawler Jim McElroy Merck Foundation Richard Monroe Eleanor Moseley Pollnow & Charles Pollnow Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters Meta Pasternak Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert Corliss Perdaems Judy Pigott Myra Platt & Dave Ellis
honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support!
Pulitzer Prize Circle $500, cont.
National Book Award Circle, cont.
Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.
Roberta Reaber & Leo Butzel Bradley Renner Janey L. Repensek Paula Riggert Rebecca Roe & T.A. Greenleaf Martha & Donald Sands Polly Schlitz Charyl & Earl Sedlik Jo & Michael Shapiro Marcia & Peter Sill B. Richal Smith Eric Taylor Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Ruth Verhoff Leora & Robert Wheeler Christina Wright & Luther Black Mary Zyskowski
Elaine Mathies • Ruth McCormick • Susan Mecklenburg • Christine Mosere • Hillary Namba • Inez Noble Black • Sherry Perrault • Gloria Pfeif • Scott Pinckney • Anne Pipkin • Olivia Pi-Sunyer • Gordon Prouty • Linda Quirk • Doris & Charles Ray • Beth Rutherford • Debby & Dave Rutherford • Lena Saba • Donna & Robert Saunders • Frank Schumann • Schwab Charitable Fund • Colleen & Barry Scovel • William Severson & Meredith Lehr • Diane Stark • Christine Stepherson • Paul Stucki • LiAnn Sundquist • Jill Sylwester • Jennifer Lee Taylor • Melinda Teeny • Alan Tesler • Kerry Thompson & Shari Zehm • Ruth Valine & Ed McNerney • Matthew Villiott • Pat Walker • Jerry Watt • Sandra Waugh • Kristi & Tom Weir • Gregory Wetzel • Bo Willsey • Janet & Lawrence Wilson • Michael Winters • Daniel & Sherri Youmans • Juliet Ziegler
Suzanne Goren • Anke Gray • Pamela Greenwood • Heather Griffin • Laurie Griffith • Jim Hamerlinck • Lian Handaja • Faith Hanna • Rachel Hansen • Janet & Corina Hardin • Jill Hashimoto • Elizabeth Heath • Diana Hice • Patricia Highet • Stephanie Hilbert • Sandy Hill • Cynthia Huffman • Kristina Huus Campbell • IBM Matching Grants Program • Wendy Jackson • Lani Johnson • Robert Jones • Gil Joynt • Joan Kalhorn • David Kasik • Malia & Chang Kawaguchi • Amie Kidane • Shannon Knipp • Larry Knopp • Art Kobayashi • Alan Kristal • Fay Krokower • Gerald Kroon • Sandy Kubishta • Barb & Art Lachman • Erika Larson • Judd Lees • Sylvia Levy • Sandy Lew-Hailer • Bonnie Lewman • Nancy Lomneth & Mark Boyd • Sheila Lukehart • Carol Lumb • Kjristine Lund • Scott Maddock • Kathleen Maki • Elizabeth Mathewson • Susan McCloskey • Kathy McCluskey • Deirdre & Jay McCrary • Patricia McCreary • Jim McDermott • Morna McEachern • Marcie & John McHale • Nancy McSharry & Andy Jensen • Bonnie Miller • Gary Miller • Shyla Miller • Donna Miller-Parker • Marion & George Mohler • Susan Jones & Christopher Monck • Becky Monk • Cornelia & Terry Moore • Elizabeth Morrison & Geoff Crooks • Susan Mozer • Milly Mullarky • Dawna Munson • Patricia Graves & David Nash • Judy Niver • Pam & Scott Nolte • Deanna Norsen • Northwest Asian Weekly • Mikel O’Brien • Kevin O’Morrison • Timothy O’Sullivan • Lauren Packman • Sam Pailca • Kelly & Dave Pearson • Donna Peha • Steve Pellegrin • Carol & Ed Perrin • Barbara Peterson • Robert Pillitteri • Felicia Porter • Susan Porterfield • Joan & William Potter • Jason Powell • Andrea Ptak • Barbara & Daniel Radin • Connie Reed • Roberta & Brian Reed • Esther Reese • Jane Reich • Nancy Reichley • Jeannette Reynolds • Eric & Karen Richter • Rebecca Ripley • Roberta Roberts • Amy Robertson • Beth Rollinger • Fernne & Roger Rosenblatt • Harriett Cody & Harvey Sadis • Donna Sand • Betty Sanders • Claudia Sanders • Lisa Schafer • Andy Schneider • Cindi Schoettler • Greg Scully • Lavonne & Josh Searle • Julie Howe & Dennis Shaw • Mark Siano • Charly Silva • Sumeer Singla • Marilyn Sloan • George Smith • Warren Smith • Diane Snell • Janice & Pat Strand • Streamline Consulting, LLC
National Book Award Circle $250+ Anonymous (4) • 3 Rudders, LLC • Rachel Alquist • Sarah & Robert Alsdorf • Virginia Anderson • Joel Aslanian • Dan Atkinson • Laura-Mae & Sylvie Baldwin • Bob Blazek • Susan Bradley • Mary Anne Braund & Steve Pellegrin • Margaret Bullitt • Molly Thompson & Joe Casalini • Sylvia & Craig Chambers • Mary Chambers • Mala Chandra • Wendy Cohen & John Chenault • Susan Chiavelli • Susan Cotterell • Dottie Delaney • Rebecca Dietz • David Dong • Beth Dubey • Lauren Dudley • Jim & Gaylee Duncan • Lori Eickelberg & Arni Litt • Laura Einstein • Lynne Ellis • Judith Endejan • Constance Euerle • Mary Fallon • Jane Faulkner • Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman • Elizabeth & Paul Fleming • Denise & James Fortier • Jayn & Hugh Foy • Listbeth & Alan Fritzberg • Jamie & Steve Froebe • Norman Garner • Claire Gebben • Julia Geier & Phil Borges • Elizabeth Gilchrist • Vicki & Gerrie Goddard • Katharine Godman • Terry Graham • Diane Grover • Pamela & W.B. Harer • Kat Hazzard • Nancy & Bruce Herbert • Lloyd Herman & Richard Wilson • Barbara Hieronymus • Chris Higashi • Carolyn Holtzen • Elizabeth Hubbard • Melissa Huther • Joyce & John Jackson • Edwin Jones • Kris Jorgensen • Janine King • Mary Klubben • Karen Koon • Tami & Robert Kowal • Eleni Ledesma • Lennon Keegan Family • Lynn Manley & Alexander Lindsey • Cynthia Livak & Peter Davenport • Stephen Lovell • Molly & Mike Martinez
Pen/Faulkner Award Circle $100+ Anonymous (7) • Carole Aaron • Douglas Adams • Lynne & Shawn Aebi • Andrea Albers • Rachel Allen • Heather Allison • Christopher Alston • Katherine Anderson & Robert DiPietrae • Marjorie Anderson • Cinnimin Avena • Anne Banks • Jo Ann Bardeen • Mary & Doug Bayley • Susan Bennett • Lenore & Dick Bensinger • Julia Bent • Maribeth Berberich • Deb Bigelow • Richard Billingham • Lindsay & Tony Blackner • Rebecca Bogard • Mary Wilson & Barry Boone • Brad Borst • Betty Bostrom • Gina Breukelman • Rebecca Brewer • Jonathan Buchter • Rachel & David Bukey • Barbara Buxbaum • Carrie Campbell • Michela Carpino • Joyce Chase • Marilyn & David Chelimer • Carl Chew • Deborah Christensen • Marianna Clark & Charles Shafer • Jack Clay • Catherine Clemens • Shelly Clift • Susan Connors & Eric Helland • Joe Copeland • Kay & Garry Crane • Gordon Crawford & Rebecca Herzfeld • Shelly Crocker • Amy Curtis • Kate Curtis • Robin Dearling & Gary Ackerman • Sandra & Paul Dehmer • Richard Detrano • Susan Dyer • Marilyn Endriss • Randy Engstrom • Joyce Erickson • Judith Erickson • Polly Feigl • Laura Fischetti • Jessica Foss • Susan Fuchs • Kai Fujita • Steve Fury & Nancy Lawton • Jean & Mike Gannon • Susan George • Siobhan Ginnane • Mitzi Gligorea • Ann Glusker
Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.
O. Henry Award Circle, cont.
Constance Swank • Amy Sweigert • Gail Tanaka • Margaret Taylor • Terry Tazioli • Anne Terry • Jennifer Teunon & Adam Smith • Catherine Thayer • Cappy Thompson • Richard Thorvilson • Eric Thuau • Jennifer Tice • Marcellus Turner • Eugene Usui • Marcia Utla • Elizabeth Valentine • Karen Van Genderen • Pieter Vandermeulen • Verizon Foundation • Jorie Wackerman • Colin Wagoner • Todd Warren • Susan Warwick • Deb Watson • Jennifer Weis • Julie Weisbach • Laurie Wenzel • Edna & Adam Westerman • Dan Whalen • Jean & David White • Sara White • Chelene Whiteaker • Paula & Bill Whitham • Margaret Whittemore • Jane Wiegenstein • Melinda Williams • Blake Wilson • John Wilson • Lauren Wilson • Patricia Wilson • Elana Winsberg • Nicole Winters • Jodie Wohl & Richard Hert • Irene Yamamoto • Kim York
Arlyn Losey • Robert Lowe • Susan Lynette • M. Joan Maguire • Betty Ngan & Tom Mailhot • Cecilia Matta • Eile McClellan • Theresa McLean • Jeanne Metzger • Kathleen Moore • Mark Morgan • Shirley Munro • Donna Murphy • Martha Noerr & Jeff Keane • Marion & Curtis Northrop • Nancy & Stephen Olsen • Amy Olsson • Janice O’Mahony • Pat O’Rourke • Susan Palmer • Julia Paulsen • Annie Pearson & Jacyn Stewart • Nan Peele • Harold Pelton • Alison Peters • Susan Petitpas • Carolita Phillips • Wilson Platt • Kim Port • Marion Reed • Mildred Renfrow • Rhein Haus • Ginger Rich • Maren Richter • Carla Rickerson • Virginia & Thomas Riedinger • Jo Ann Roberts • J.D. Royer • Michele Ruess • David Rush • Jennifer Russell • Joshua Ryder • Rebecca Sadinsky • Clint Sallee • Michael Sandner • Deanna & Bo Saxbe • Julie Schoenfeld • Heidi Schor • B. Charlotte Schreiber • Noah Seixas & Dana Standish • Sally Sheck • Linda Snider • Barbara Spear • Eloise Stachowiak • Dale Stammen • Jane Stevens • Julie Stohlman • Sheila Striegl • Sarah Thomas & Tom Sykes • Annette Thompson • Deborah Torgerson • Marilyn Tracey • Rebecca Barnett & Roger Tucker • Kathleen Vasquez • Jonna Ward • Cristina Wenzl • Richard White • Christopher Wiggins • Kim Winward • Woodland Park Zoo • Kathy Young • Sam Zeiler
O. Henry Award Circle $50+ Judith Alexander • Marilee Amendola • Amgen Foundation • Hilari Anderson • Sonia & Kendall Baker • Anne & Roger Baker • Beverly Barnett • Sybil Barney • Susan Bean • Brook Becker • Beth & Benjamin Berman • Colleen Bernier • Ellen Bezona & Shawn Baz • John Bigelow • Crai Bower • Bridge Partners LLC • Carolyn Burger • Melanie Calderwood • Tracy Chellis • Greta Climer • Frank Cohee • Samantha Cooper • Susan Corzatte • Maureen Crawford • Margaret Curtin • Nancy Cushwa • Lara Davis • Claudette Davison • Terence DeHart • Ellen Downey • Dan Drais • Betty Eberharter • Karen Elledge • Nancy Ellingham • Brent Enarson • Nancy Erickson • Fidelity Charitible Gift Fund • Judi Finney • Mary Ellen Flanagan • Gregory Flood • Susan Ford • Lisa Foss • Mike Garner • Alan Garrett • Nina Gerbic • Neil Gerth • Carla Granat & Stephen Smith • Scott Guettinger • Shuko Hashimoto • Kate Hemer • John Hirschel • Kate Hokanson • Kathy Holloway • Glenn Horton • Rebecca Hsia • Zhen Huang • Beatrice Hull • Heather Hutchinson • Hanah Igama • Alison Inkley • Tricia Jackson • Michael Johnson • Elizabeth Jones • Patricia Rytkonen & William Karn • Trina Kauf-Jones • Jim Kelly • Vicki & James King • Jean & Harris Klein • Shirley Knight • David Krakora • Stewart Landefeld • Barbara Laubacher • Jo Anne Laz • Teri J. Lazzara • Shawn LeValley • Liberty Mutual Insurance • Madalene Lickey
in-kind donors 3 Rudders, LLC • Alaska Distributors • Blue Highway Games • Bookwalter Winery • Brimmer & Heeltap • Buckley’s • Christine Mosere • DeLille Cellars • Eltana • Fox’s Gem Shop • Irish Reels Film Festival • Kimberly King • Lloyd Martin Restaurant • Mary & Doug Bayley • Mediterranean Inn • Perennial Tea Room • Poquito’s • Puget Sound Business Journal • Rhein Haus • Schilling Cider • Seattle Children’s Theatre • Seattle International Film Festival • Seattle Repertory Theatre • Seattle Shakespeare Company • Seattle Theatre Group • Something Silver • Ten Mercer • Toulouse Petit Kitchen and Lounge • Turgeon Raine • UW World Series • Vashon Allied Arts • Virginia Mason Medical Center • Woodhouse Wine Estates • Woodland Park Zoo
Gifts in Honor & memory Polly Schlitz, Blake Wilson, and Patricia Wilson in honor of Myra Platt’s birthday Deborah Swets in memory of Jack Slater Kathy Holloway in memory of Nancy Cushwa Susan Bennett, Sonja Coffman, and Kathleen Maki in honor of Sara Elward & Joadey eStar’s wedding + deceased This list reflects gifts received October 1, 2013 – January 9, 2015. Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgements. Please email Development Associate Leslie Witkamp at lesliew@book-it.org with any changes.
$1,820,000 budget 53% of budget from contributions 648 individual donors 54 business, foundation & government donors
20 full- and part-time staff 200 actors, designers, and technicians
9 interns 137 volunteers 16,000 patrons at Mainstage, Circumbendibus, and Special Editions productions 60,000 students and educators at Arts & Education programs
OUR MISSION IS TO TRANSFORM GREAT LITERATURE INTO GREAT THEATRE THROUGH SIMPLE AND SENSITIVE PRODUCTION AND TO INSPIRE OUR AUDIENCES TO READ.
book-it staff Jane Jones
Myra Platt
Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director
Daniel Y. Mayer
Founding Co-Artistic Director
artistic
marketing & communications
Josh Aaseng
Literary Manager
administrative
Casting Associate
Anthea Carns
Bill Whitham Bookkeeper
Stuart Frank, President
Shannon Loys
production
Thomas Oliver, Vice-President
Publications & Media Manager
Literary & Artistic Intern
Sarah Roza
Lindsay Carpenter
Anders Bolang
Publications Intern
Scene Shop Manager
Patron Services
Natasha Ransom
Education Associate
Dana Masters
Tour Manager
Tom Dewey
Education Intern
Nikita Ares
development
services
Box Office Associate
Sally Brunette
Adam Smith Photography Alan Alabastro Photography Chris Bennion Photography John Ulman Photography The Makeup Session Robert Thornburgh, Custodian Tom Wahl, IT Support
Ana Duenas
Director of Development
Box Office Associate
Leslie Witkamp
Anna Heinen
Development Associate
Box Office Associate
Anna Strickland
Amelia Reynolds
Development Intern
Box Office Associate
Shirley Roberson, Secretary Monica Alquist
Ross Baker
Public Policy Director, Virginia Mason Medical Center
Joann Byrd
Journalist & Editor, Retired
Jane Jones
Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It
Margaret Kineke
Senior V.P., D.A. Davidson & Co.
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Mary Metastasio
Senior Portfolio Manager, Safeco, Retired
BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE
Myra Platt
2010 Mayor’s Arts Award-winner, recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Arts Award and the 2014 Inaugural Sherry Prowda Literary Champion Award, Book-It Repertory Theatre began 27 years ago as an artists’ collective, adapting short stories for performance and touring them throughout the Northwest. The company incorporated as a non-profit in 1990. Today, with over 100 world-premiere adaptations of literature to its credit—many of which have garnered rave reviews and gone on to subsequent productions all over the country—Book-It is widely respected for the consistent artistic excellence of its work.
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Costume Shop Intern
Box Office Associate
Kristine Villiott, Treasurer
Elizabeth Stasio
Ali Rose Schultz
Haley Alaji
Educator
Jocelyne Fowler
Stage Management Intern
Box Office Manager
Amelia Reynolds
Community Leader
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Costume Shop Manager
House Manager
Katie McKellar
Interim Production Manager Technical Director
Dana Masters
education
Bryan Burch Dan Schuy
Marketing Intern
Literary & Artistic Intern
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Patricia Britton
Director of Marketing & Communications
Gavin Reub
Managing Director
Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It
David Quicksall
Independent Theatre Artist & Teacher
Anne Repass
Community Leader
Stephen Robinson
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