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OUR 2016-1 7 SEASON A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING • TREASURE ISLAND • A MOVEABLE FEAST • WELCOME TO BRAGGSVILLE

Riley Shanahan and Harriette Dunn-Feliz; photo by Adam Smith.

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he magic created while seated with friends around tables laden with food is the balm that has, for as long as there have been tables and wine and friends, seen us through the darkest days. Ernest Hemingway certainly derived comfort from the hearth fire of friendship in troubled times — A Moveable Feast is his love letter to the youthful struggles he shared with his friends in Paris. Those friends who met in Gertrude Stein’s salon inspired and fed one another as creatives, lovers, and burgeoning luminaries. It is a long practice of artists to gather together in this way providing a foil to one another’s creativity. At Book-It we are no exception; the company began as an artists’ collective. We keep this tradition alive by seeking always to welcome new friends to our metaphorical table. Now, with our newest friends, our partners at Nordo’s Culinarium, we have recreated Gertrude’s salon where you can experience A Moveable Feast accompanied by the unforgettable tastes of Paris. Like all the artists and dreamers who’ve come together to share their work and wonder aloud, we hope you will feel inspired to think grand thoughts and love more deeply tonight fueled by the passions of the great artists in our story. May you laugh, eat, drink, and make great memories. Welcome friends!

—Kayti Barnett-O’Brien General Manager, Book-It

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ur favorite memories of Paris—no surprise— are memories of food. The crust of the bread, the funk of the cheese, the long, languorous meals, these, to us, are Paris. If A Moveable Feast encapsulates the life of an artist in Paris’ most romantic era, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook captures the food. A cookbook that reads like an adventure novel, or a travel memoir. Our tattered copy barely had a spine when this production finally gave us a good reason to try of her recipes. And what decadence we found there. We have transformed Nordo’s Culinarium into the salon that Alice and Gertrude presided over and our kitchen is teeming with the sounds and smells of Alice’s recipes. The worlds of Café Nordo are usually conjured from scratch. For us to collaborate with Book-It was like having great friends bring wonderful ingredients to our home—a beautiful piece of literature, but also a real time in history with real people who ate and drank and laughed over real food and wine. Together we have cooked these ingredients into a feast for all of your senses that we hope resides with you for a long time to come. Your own Moveable Feast. Thank you for joining us!

—Erin Brindley Executive Artistic Director Café Nordo

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A MOVEABLE FEAST

BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Conceived by Jane Jones and Judd Parkin Adapted by Judd Parkin • Directed by Jane Jones Original Music by Annastasia Workman

CAST

in alphabetical order

Susanna Burney Raymond Chapman* Harriette Dunn-Feliz Andre Nelson Opal Peachey Riley Shanahan Jen Taylor*

Gertrude Stein / Ensemble Ezra Pound / Cézanne / Ensemble Hadley Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald / Ensemble Lisette Ernest Hemingway Alice B. Toklas / Sylvia Beach / Zelda Fitzgerald

Annastasia Workman Dexter Stevens Sari Breznau Michael Owcharuk Kevin Hinshaw

Music Director / Piano / Accordian Clarinet / Bass Clarinet Trumpet / Banjolele / Percussion / Vocals Piano / Accordion (alternate) Clarinet / Bass Clarinet (alternate)

Emma Pihl

Stage Manager

PRODUCTION AND ARTISTIC TEAM Erin Brindley Terry Podgorski Ryan Dunn Chelsea Cook Evan Mosher Rebecca Fredrickson Gin Hammond Robin Macartney

Chef Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound Designer Dramaturg / Assistant Director Dialect Coach Properties Designer

* Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

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DIRECTOR

elcome to Book-It’s Production of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast at Nordo’s Culinarium, the building once home to the Elliott Bay Book Company.

This very room for years housed Elliott’s used book section.

I remember it well; it elicits great joy to think that these walls once held all those musty, distinguished works of literature. Especially since the denizens that will guide you through tonight’s story are the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Alice B. Toklas, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Oh yes, and Sylvia Beach, who founded the famous Shakespeare and Company, creating the first public lending library in Paris to feature literature written in English. The inexpensive membership to her library was a welcome privilege for the cash poor Hemingways, who were hungry to devour any and all modern books of the time.

When Ernest and Scott finally meet, Scott offers to try and recover the only copy of The Great Gatsby he owns from a friend, so he can lend it to Hemingway. Funny to reflect that Scott only possessed one copy of the book during his Paris days.

And what days they were. Thousands of expatriates from America and all corners of Europe found their way to Paris in the 1920s as the city became a refuge for artists and intellectuals after the trauma of the First World War. The city—with its plethora of restaurants, coffeehouses, publishing houses, and salons—offered an environment for intellectual freedom for many young artists to debate the meaning of life and challenge new forms in art and literature. With the advent of Prohibition in the U.S., many found refuge in the city by the Seine. Also, the Parisians’ great acceptance for all manner of sexual preference— homosexuality had not been against the law since the late 1700s—made a comfortable environment for amour.

So, immerse yourself in our Paris. Imagine yourself sitting in on a salon in the very famous flat belonging to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas at 27 Rue de Fleurus.

An invitation to this apartment was much sought after by anyone thought to be on the rise of artistic brilliance. I think you all qualify by the brilliance you show in choosing tonight to be our guest. “…for Paris is a moveable feast.”

_ Jane Jones

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ane Jones and I have loved A Moveable Feast—first separately, and now in concert—an almost embarrassing number of years. My own contribution to this sum is close to 50. I first encountered Hemingway when I read his Nick Adams stories in a high school English class. I discovered A Moveable Feast shortly afterward, and it’s not an exaggeration to say it was a life-changer for me—it made the idea of being an artist seem like a viable life choice; that had never occurred to me before. It helped that Hemingway was from the Chicago area, as I was.

In the first two projects Jane and I worked on together, the element of romance, for whatever reason, wasn’t a central factor in either story. This is notable only because Jane and I are both from-the-floor-up, unabashed romantics, it’s been the glue of our long friendship. So in recent years, we’ve kidded each other that we needed to find a great sweeping romance to develop. One day I got a brief email from Jane asking if (A) I knew A Moveable Feast and (B) if I liked it. I quickly wrote back yes and yes, because I knew this project could be the great sweeping romance we’d joked about.

Because what is A Moveable Feast about if not about love? And a multiplicity of loves, at that—of art, the people who make it, a city, a place in time, and, most of all, the love of craft.

The people in A Moveable Feast were the defining figures of their age. The inaccuracies and outright lies of Hemingway’s memoir are well-documented, but that doesn’t undermine the power of the book, and its overriding theme that work and art can provide a form of deliverance. Hemingway encouraged us to read A Moveable Feast as fiction, arguing that simple facts can’t reveal the truth as fiction can. I’ve grudgingly come to accept his argument—after all, how can simple facts contain the complex and wildly human contradictions of a Gertrude Stein, an Ezra Pound, or a Scott and Zelda? This tale needs the sweep of a great novelist to convey the largeness of the characters and mood of the times, and luckily for us, Hemingway answered the call in his own inimitable way.

Blustering, yes; self-aggrandizing, to be sure. But without these qualities Hemingway would not be Hemingway. The titanic figures in our story have inhabited Jane’s and my imaginations for a long time, and we now joyously present them for your pleasure.

_ Judd Parkin

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: LIFE AND LOVES Hemingway set off for Paris, where he forged friendships with the likes of Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound, and wrote his first novel: The Sun Also Rises. He also met and fell in love with Pauline Pfeiffer, ending his marriage to Hadley.

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orn July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, Ernest Miller Hemingway was raised by his physician father and musician mother. A writer from an early age, Hemingway was first published at 17 by his school newspaper and, rather than attending college, went to work for the Kansas City Star as a reporter directly after high school. He credits his training as a journalist for his short, vigorous style.

Because of his bad eyesight, he could not join the Army during World War I, and instead enlisted as an ambulance driver. In Italy he was severely wounded by mortar fire, and as he recovered, he fell in love for the first time: with a nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky. She broke off their relationship and married an Italian officer, events that would later inspire A Farewell to Arms.

Shortly after returning from the war, two things happened that changed Hemingway’s life: he met Hadley Richardson, whom he married, and he met author Sherwood Anderson [Winesburg, Ohio; Dark Laughter], who convinced him that Paris was the best city for a writer to write in. Armed with letters of introduction from Anderson,

Hemingway and Pauline moved to Key West in 1928 for the birth of their first child, and lived happily enough until Hemingway’s 1937 trip to Europe to report on the Spanish Civil War. He fell in love with fellow journalist Martha Gellhorn, ending his marriage to Pauline. Hemingway and Martha married in 1940 and alternated between Ketchum, Idaho and Cuba. Marital bliss was not to last; Hemingway began antagonizing Martha while they were reporting on World War II, even causing her to lose her newspaper position. Their divorce was finalized in 1945, and he married Time correspondent Mary Welsh.

Hemingway and Mary traveled extensively, gallivanting across Europe and traveling on safari through Africa.

HEMINGWAY: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY NOVELS 1926 The Sun Also Rises 1929 A Farewell to Arms 1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1952 The Old Man and the Sea

(Pulitzer Prize) NONFICTION 1932 Death in the Afternoon 1935 Green Hills of Africa 1964 A Moveable Feast COLLECTIONS 1923 Three Stories and Ten Poems 1925 In Our Time 1927 Men without Women 1961 The Snows of Kilimanjaro

and Other Stories

During this period, Hemingway also wrote The Old Man and the Sea, which won a Pulitzer Prize and led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

On a visit to Paris in 1956, Hemingway retrieved several trunks containing notebooks and material from his

Hemingway and Hadley in Switzerland.

Paris years that he had stored in 1928 inspiring him to write A Moveable Feast.

After a period of intense writing in Cuba, the Hemingways moved back to Idaho.

Tragically, Hemingway’s family was haunted by suicide and mental illness; his father, brother Leicester, and sister Ursula all ended their own lives. He was progressively plagued by depression, memory problems, paranoia, and thoughts of suicide. In December 1960, he was treated with electroconvulsive therapy (shock therapy) at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. The treatment increased his difficulty with memory and his frustrations at his deteriorating ability to write.

In the early morning hours of July 2, 1961, Hemingway shot himself in the head with his favorite shotgun.

Dramaturgy by Rebecca Fredrickson, Book-It Artistic Intern

AMERICANS IN

“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.” _F. Scott Fitzgerald

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he 1920s saw a great number of Americans moving to

Paris. By one estimate, 35,000 Americans migrated to Paris between 1920 and 1927. These were writers, artists, and tourists flocking to the City of Light for a variety of reasons, both logistical and emotional. For one thing, the exchange

A group of wome n celebrate a réveillon in Paris , circa 1925.

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Raymond Chapman*

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both logistical and emotional. For one thing, the exchange rate was extremely favorable; in 1920, the dollar was worth 15 francs. This made the cost of living extremely affordable and allowed people like the Hemingways to live off relatively small incomes from personal savings or trust funds.

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Paris also became a major destination for Americans seeking to escape the puritan strictness of early 20th century American society. For example, France had decriminalized homosexuality in 1791, which made Paris a sort of mecca for homosexuals, particularly lesbians. Open lesbians, such as the legendary Natalie Clifford Barney, served as examples for homosexuals who were forced to hide their sexuality in other parts of the world. Paris was also home to many couples in other “non-traditional” arrangements, including open marriages, polyamory, and widespread promiscuity. Hadley and Ernest, as a happily

Opal Peachey

Lisette As a founding company member of Café Nordo, Opal is thrilled for this collaboration with Book-It. She was last seen on the Book-It boards as Rosa in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. She has originated roles in nine Café Nordo productions since 2009 and was last seen as Time Engineer Dutch Elm in Christmas is Burning. A Cornish College of the Arts alum, you may have witnessed her collaborations as playwright and lyricist for original cabaret musicals Seattle Vice, Modern Luv, Bohemia, and Twister Beach.

And – even though she is a Washingtonian born and bred – please remember: “Vous reviendrez toujours à Paris.”

Andre Nelson

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(Marxiano Productions/Café Nor y, Seattle Repertory Theatre, pan Com with Seattle Shakespeare atre, Freehold’s Engaged Mount Baker Theatre, Annex The ks around Seattle as a sound wor also re Theatre, and others. And ructor at Freehold Theatre. designer, puppeteer, and acting inst

Lisette

rkin to function ated by adapter Judd Pa Lisette is a character creator for the story. She is Gertrude Stein as a narrator and facilit id. While the majority of her dialogue and Alice B. Toklas’ ma apter, portions of her interactions with is fictionalized by the ad ectly from his recollections of the maid Hemingway are taken dir rtrude and Alice. who actually served Ge

* Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Alice B. Toklas

monogamous, married, heterosexual couple, often found themselves in the minority among their friends. Additionally, while America was under Prohibition, American expatriates in Paris were able to take full advantage of free-flowing alcohol.

Many of the Americans who made Paris home were artists, and there was continually a thriving colony of writers. For Hemingway, this made Paris an invaluable literary apprenticeship. He became acquainted with all of the most famous authors, learned everything he could from them, and then made their teachings his own. He even expressed his desire to do so in a 1925 letter to Scott Fitzgerald: “I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to each you.” Although his own talent and discipline are certain, this time of mentorship and learning undoubtedly shaped him into the successful legendary author he became.

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) was a Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

He was raised in Illinois and eschewed college in favor of reporting for The Kansas City Star before enlisting as an ambulance driver in World War I. After a severe injury, he returned to America and met his first ated wife, Hadley. They moved to Paris, where Ernest cultiv Sun The , novel first his many literary friendships and wrote to ion addit in s novel more seven write would Also Rises. He would He . ction nonfi short stories and works of full-length traveled also marry three more times and have three sons. HeIdaho. His and West, Key , extensively, famously living in Cuba by shotgun. deteriorating mental health led to his 1961 suicide

Riley Shanahan

Ernest Hemingway Riley is happy that you are here. Previously with Book-It he played Irwin Chance in The Brothers K and ensemble in SlaughterhouseFive. He has also appeared at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Intiman Theatre Festival, and ArtsWest Playhouse. He most recently played Chorus in Ajax (Outside The Wire’s Theater of War), Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility (Pacific Conservatory Theatre). His film credits include Second Nature (Cross Films), Suburbicon (Paramount Pictures), and two upcoming University of Southern California films. Riley graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in 2014. For more: https://rileyasernest. wordpress.com

Alice Babette Toklas (1877-1967) is best known for her partnership with Gertrude Stein. Born and raised in San Francisco, Alice studied piano performance for a short time at the University of Washington. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, she moved to Paris and met Gertrude the same day. Alice has been described as Gertrude’s “confidante, lover, cook, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general organizer.”

After Gertrude’s death in 1946, Alice began writing herself, producing two cookbooks and an autobiography. Because her relationship with Gertrude was not legally recognized, Gertrude’s family managed to claim all of the paintings and money that had been willed to Alice. She died in poverty at the age of 89 and is buried next to Gertrude in Paris.

Zelda Fitzgerald Sayre (1900-1948),

Zelda Fitzgerald, née elist. She was was a famous socialite and nov Alabama, ery, om ntg Mo born and raised in 1918 when he and met her future husband in Sheridan. As p Cam rby was stationed at nea geous dancer, a young, active, social, and gor eventually was but ors, she had many suit tt’s first novel. Their marriage won over by the success of Scot drunkenness by both, Scott’s was famously stormy; constan both rumored and actual plagiarism of Zelda’s diaries, anddeteriorated and she spent most infidelity. Zelda’s mental healthin and out of psychiatric clinics. of her life from 1930 onwards te her only novel, the semiWhile institutionalized, she wroMe the Waltz. She was killed in a autobiographical portrait Save hospital fire in 1948.

Sylvia Beach

Nancy Woodbridge “Sylvia” Beach (1887-1962) founded the Paris bookstore “Shakespeare and Company.” Born in Baltimore, she moved to Paris in 1917 to study modern French literature.

Her French partner, Adrienne Monnier, was a bookseller and owner of one of the first lending libraries in Europe. Inspired by Monnier, Beach set up shop across the street. She offered hospitality, support, and even money to many aspiring writers, but her lifelong passion was the work of James Joyce; she singlehandedly published Ulysses. During World War II, occupying Germans forced Beach to close her doors, and she was interned for six months at Vittel. After her release, her famous bookstore never re-opened for business*. Beach lived in Paris until her death in 1962. *The name lives on under different ownership at a different location in Paris.

Jen Taylor*

Alice B. Toklas / Sylvia Beach / Zelda Fitzgerald At Book-It, Jen has appeared in Pride and Prejudice, Truth Like the Sun, Giant, and The House of Mirth. Jen is a founding member of New Century Theatre Company (The Adding Machine, Orange Flower Water, O Lovely Glowworm, and Holy Days) and has also worked at ACT Theatre (Dangerous Liaisons, Yankee Tavern, A Christmas Carol), Seattle Shakespeare Company (Cymbeline, Pygmalion, Much Ado About Nothing), Portland Center Stage (Cyrano, Doubt, Twelfth Night), San Jose Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Empty Space, and Village Theatre. She is a voice actor in radio, television, audiobooks, and numerous video games including the Halo series as Cortana and Dr. Halsey. If you have a Windows Phone or PC, she is the voice of your personal assistant.

MEET THE

MUSICIANS Anastasia Workman

Music Director / Piano / Accordian Annastasia is thrilled and honored to be the house composer for Café Nordo, a role she has fulfilled since Nordo’s inception. As a musician and performer, she is currently a pianist at Pacific Northwest Ballet, keyboardist/ accordionist/ songwriter for the spaghetti western band Two Horses Too Many, and the teacher of many delightful piano students. Native to Great Falls, Montana, Annastasia now lives in Seattle, a safe 641 miles away. She put herself on the map at age four with the single “Hearts Are Red,” a smash hit at family gatherings and church potlucks. Some years later she secured Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Redlands in California, shortly after which she completed the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program. annastasiaworkman.com.

Dexter Stevens

Clarinet / Bass Clarinet Dexter is excited to play in the Culinarium with a host of friends old and new. When not playing at the coolest joint in Pioneer Square, Dexter can be found in pit orchestras around Seattle and playing lead reeds for the Seattle Rock Orchestra.

Sari Breznau

Trumpet / Banjolele / Percussion / Vocals Sari is a circus performer, choir director, stage-craftsman, and multiinstrumentalist best known for her work with Circus Contraption, Orkestar Zirkonium, Future Fridays, Cherdonna, and the Singing in the Rain Family Choir.

Michael Owcharuk

Piano / Accordion (Alternate) Michael is a composer, arranger, pianist, and accordionist. His love of all music compels him to work in many genres: jazz, new music, modern chamber, orchestral music, Slavic folk, rock, and music for theatre, dance, and film.

Michael leads the Michael Owcharuk Quartet and is a member of Crystal Beth and the Boom Boom Band. Additionally, he works musically supporting and collaborating with a diverse range of artists. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Cornish College of the Arts and his music has been featured on/by: NPR, KEXP, KBCS, SIFF, Bumbershoot, Earshot Jazz, The 14/48 Projects, Seattle Rock Orchestra, Bushwick Book Club Seattle, Book-It, Café Nordo, Seattle Theatre Group, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Karin Stevens Dance, and many others.

MEET THE

ARTISTIC STAFF Judd Parkin

Playwright He was glad to be working for the third time with Book-It. It was a good and honorable thing. They were fine people, as were his new friends at Café Nordo. A man could go into battle with such people.

His café crème had grown cold, and this made him sad. The garçon offered to bring him a new one, but it was too late for that.

He knew he must go home and write that Hallmark Christmas movie. He and the garçon stared at each other and neither of them moved. After a while he went out and left the café and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

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 30 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 35 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s most prominent regional theatres. 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 Repertory Theatre, 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).

Recently Jane directed Book-It’s Great Expectations at Portland Center Stage, where her credits also include Pride and Prejudice, Cyrano and Twelfth Night (2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production).

For Book-It, she has directed What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, The Dog of the South, 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 20-year 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.

Erin Brindley

Chef, Café Nordo Co-Founder Erin Brindley began integrating dining and theatre to critical acclaim in 2004, winning the Backstage Award for Most Memorable Play for Innocent When you Dream. In 2007, she returned to her hometown of Seattle to become managing director of Circus Contraption and eventually directed their final show, The Show to End All Shows. In 2009, she and Terry Podgorski developed the concept of integrating food and storytelling that is Café Nordo, and has produced, directed, and designed menus for all nine of Nordo’s original Mainstage shows. She holds a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and taught herself a thing or two about cooking along the way.

Terry Podgorski

Scenic Designer, Café Nordo Co-Founder Terry has self-produced theatre for 20 years since attending the University of Michigan. From 2000-2009 he worked with Seattle’s Circus Contraption as tour manager, lighting designer, set designer, and eventually production manager touring the U.S., Canada, and Portugal. When Circus Contraption wound down, he teamed up with Erin Brindley to create Café Nordo.

After an itinerant five years in which he wrote and designed eight Café Nordo productions, he and Brindley founded Nordo’s Culinarium in Pioneer Square in April 2015. As producer and artist, Terry has written and designed two new productions and worked beside hundreds of artists that have come through the Culinarium doors to create a unique dining theatrical experience. He is honored to work with the talented team at Book-It.

Ryan Dunn

Lighting Designer Ryan is a Seattle-based lighting and scenic designer whose work has been seen recently at Strawberry Theatre Workshop (Rhinoceros), Intiman Theatre Festival (Orpheus Descending),

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Washington Ensemble Theatre (Urban Tanuki Samurai), Café Nordo (Hotel Nordo, To Savor Tomorrow), ArtsWest Playhouse (Mothers and Sons, Death of A Salesman, Violet, My Mañana Comes), Pacific Northwest Ballet (Le Corsaire, Next Step 2014), and Village Theatre Kidstage (Urinetown), among others.

Ryan is a graduate of the University of Washington, the resident designer for The Horse in Motion, a company member of Washington Ensemble Theatre, an affiliate artist with Umbrella Project, and the technical associate at ACT Theatre.

Chelsea Cook

Costume Designer Chelsea is thrilled to be back for her fifth show at Book-It and third show at Café Nordo. Previous shows include What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, The Dog of the South, The Brothers K, and She’s Come Undone (Book-It); Sauced and To Savor Tomorrow (Café Nordo). Her work has also been seen at Village Theatre, ArtsEmerson, George Street Playhouse, ACT Theatre, Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, and more. Favorite designs include Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Balagan Theatre, ArtsEmerson, George Street Playhouse), Into the Woods (STAGEright), The Addams Family (Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre), Pump Boys & Dinettes, Lizzie Borden (Village Theatre/ Festival). Upcoming productions include Ernest Shackleton Loves Me at the Second Stage Theatre in New York.

Evan Mosher

Sound Designer Evan Mosher is a Seattle sound designer, musician, and actor. He is also a company member/performer and resident sound designer and engineer with Café Nordo.

He’s happy to be collaborating with Book-It again after designing sound for Little Bee. His designs have also been heard at Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Public Theater, Washington Ensemble Theatre, ArtsWest Playhouse, Satori Group, Azeotrope, Splinter Group, New Century Theatre Company, and in two design residencies at Whitman College.

He’s also a founding member of art-pop band, “Awesome”, with whom he’s made melodic noise and peculiar performance since 2004.

When 19-year-old good ol’ boy D’aron Davenport and his friends take a road trip from UC Berkeley to protest an annual Civil War reenactment in D’aron’s rural hometown in Georgia, things don’t go as planned. A coming-of-age novel for a new generation, Welcome to Braggsville reminds us of the promise and perils of youthful exuberance, while painting an indelible portrait of contemporary America.

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MEET THE

ARTISTIC STAFF Emma Pihl

Stage Manager Emma is happy to return to Book-It, having just stage managed Treasure Island earlier this season. Emma’s previous shows with Book-It also include Pride and Prejudice, I Am Of Ireland, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Truth Like the Sun, and Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, as well as Pink and Say, one of Book-It’s educational touring shows. Emma has also worked with Seattle Shakespeare Company (The Winter’s Tale, Titus Andronicus), Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O (As You Like It), ACT Theatre and The 5th Avenue Theatre (Assassins), Seattle Children’s Theatre (Elephant and Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”), Village Theatre (Cabaret), New Century Theatre Company (The Flick), and Taproot Theatre (The Explorer’s Club). Emma is a proud member of New Century Theatre Company.

Rebecca Fredrickson

Dramaturg / Assistant Director As the literary and artistic intern at BookIt, Rebecca is excited to be working on this production after sailing the high seas with Treasure Island! She recently moved back to Seattle after acquiring her MA in Shakespeare Studies in Stratford-upon-Avon.

In the past, she has directed Romeo and Juliet for the Shakespeare Institute Players, performed dramaturgy for A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Azusa Pacific University, and acted as the assistant musical director for Beauty and the Beast, Shrek The Musical, Les Miserables, and Thoroughly Modern Millie at Studio East.

Gin Hammond

Dialect Coach Gin Hammond received her MFA from the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theater.

She is an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, which she has taught in London, Cambridge, and Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as in Seattle at the Cornish College for the Arts and the Freehold Theatre Lab Studio. She is cofounder of the Seattle Voice Institute where she teaches a wide array of vocal techniques such as voice-over, public speaking, and accent/dialect skills. 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.”

Robin Macartney

Properties Master Robin is excited to be working with the wonderful people at Book-It. Professional credits include design work with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Café Nordo, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Pork Filled Productions, Theatre22, Youth Theatre Northwest, Live Girls! Theater, Annex Theatre, ArtsWest Playhouse, New Century Theatre Company, and Bainbridge Performing Arts. She is the resident set designer/ front of house manager at the Theatre Off Jackson as well as the scene shop supervisor for the University of Puget Sound’s Theatre Department.

Jane Jones

Founding Co-Artistic Director

See Director bio.

Myra Platt

Founding Co-Artistic Director

As a founding member of Book-It, Myra has helped produce over 100 worldpremiere mainstage productions and over 30 education touring productions. Most recently she directed and adapted the twopart epic of David James Duncan’s novel, The Brothers K, and directed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, (2014 Gregory Award for Outstanding Production, Seattle Times Footlight Award). She was nominated for Outstanding Director 2012 (Financial Lives of the Poets) and 2014 (Kavalier & Clay). Directing: Little Bee, The Financial Lives of the Poets, The River Why, Persuasion, Night Flight: An Operetta, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Spirits, Plainsong, Cry the Beloved Country, Sweet Thursday, 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.

Adapting: Little Bee, The Financial Lives of the Poets, The River Why, Night Flight: An Operetta, 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. Adapted: The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones. Composing: Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight: An Operetta (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling: A Musical (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. Acting credits include: Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, New City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum; for Book-It: Prairie

Nocturne, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, The Awakening (West Los Angeles Garland Award), Howards End. She originated the role of Candy Kendall in The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II directed

by Jane Jones and Tom Hulce. 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 The Seattle Times a 2010 Unsung Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region.

PRODUCTION

STAFF Dan Schuy Production Manager

Benjamin Radin Technical Director Greyson Stowers Scenic Artist Angelo Domitri Master Electrician / Sound Board Operator AidanFinn Poteet Assistant Stage Manager Wardrobe Head Rachel Miller Stage Management Intern SPECIAL THANKS: The Virginia Inn

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.

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Honoring Book-It Contributors LITERARY LEGENDS CIRCLE $75,000+ Sage Foundation

LITERARY CHAMPIONS CIRCLE $25,000+ ArtsFund The Boeing Company Matthew N. Clapp, Jr. Grousemont Foundation N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier Shirley & Dave Urdal

LITERARY HEROES CIRCLE $10,000+ Anonymous Sonya & Tom Campion Jane Cremin Gretl Galgon Lucy Helm Ellen & John Hill Stellman Keehnel Williams Trading, LLC Lucky Seven Foundation Ellen & Stephen Lutz Holly & Bill Marklyn Nesholm Family Foundation The Norcliffe Foundation Mary Pigott Safeco Insurance Fund

PARTNERS CIRCLE $5,000+

Anonymous ArtsWA Charlotte Martin Foundation Amy & Matthew Cockburn Emily Davis Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood Nordstrom Michell & Larry Pihl Lynne & Nick Reynolds Robert Chinn Foundation Ellen & Michael Rosenberg True-Brown Foundation

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE $2,500+

John Aldaya & Tom DeFelice Monica Alquist Donna & Anthony Barnett Carolyn & George Cox D.A. Davidson & Co. Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness Laura & Erik Hanson Lydig Construction

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE, CONT. Ellen Maxson Shyla Miller Shirley Roberson* Kate & Stephen Robinson Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches BECOME A PRODUCER

Learn how to help Book-It create vibrant theatre by contacting Book-It’s development staff at development@book-it.org.

Nancy & Warren Smith Drella & Garth Stein Tulalip Tribes Charitable Contributions U.S. Bank Foundation Kris & Mike Villiott Elizabeth Warman D.A. Davidson & Co. Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness Laura & Erik Hanson

NOBEL PRIZE CIRCLE $1,000+

Anonymous (3) Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Cinnimin Avena Ruth Bailey James Barnett Stephen & Salli Bauer Lenore & Dick Bensinger Karen Brandvick-Baker & Ross Baker Sally Brunette Bryan Burch Diana & Chuck Carey Karen & Tom Challinor Clipper Seafoods, LTD. Donna Cochener Carol & Bill Collins Laura & Greg Colman* Allan & Nora Davis DeNormandie, Sidlo & Associates PLLC Earl B. Gilmore Foundation Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Jayn & Hugh Foy Shannon & Graham Gardner Craig & Darcy Greene Margaret Griffiths* Clay Gustaves Barbara Hieronymus Mary Frances & Harold Hill Dave Thompson & Judy Jesiolowski Karr Tuttle Campbell Debbie Killinger

NOBEL CIRCLE, CONT.

Marianna & Agastya Kohli Tami & Rob Kowal* Richard LeBlanc Leslie Fund, Inc. Darcy & Lee MacLaren Melissa & Don Manning Marcia Mason Doug & Kimberly McKenna Mary Metastasio Terry & Frank Michiels Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Moccasin Lake Foundation Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters Terri Olson Miller & Tom Miller Deborah & Jeff Parsons* Myra Platt & Dave Ellis Michelle Rebert & Tom Laughlin Shawn & Mike Rediger Jo Ann & Jim Roberts Nathan Rodriguez Eleni Ledesma & Eric Rose John Schaffer Charyl Kay & Earl Sedlik SEI Giving Fund Martha Sidlo Mary Snapp Christine & Josh Stepherson Deborah Swets* Kelly Munn & Steven Thues Gen & Chuck Tremblay Katherine & James Tune Karen & Ron Van Genderen Ruth & Jerry Verhoff Judith Whetzel Hope & Ken Wiljanen Jay Hereford & Margaret Winsor Christina Wright & Luther Black Wyman Youth Trust

PULITZER PRIZE CIRCLE $500+

Anonymous (3) Connie Anderson Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb Elizabeth Braun Joann Byrd Tré Calhoun Cathy & Michael Casteel Robert Hovden & Ron DeChene Mark Dexter & Deborah Cowley Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal Sara Elward Kim & Rob Entrop Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Merck Foundation R. Brooks Gekler

Honoring Book-It Contributors PULITZER PRIZE CIRCLE, CONT.

Jean Gorecki & Dick Dobyns Mark Hamburg Ellen Hastings Lake & Company Real Estate Kathryn Hazzard Karyn Henry* Chris Higashi Eric Tishkoff & Wendy Hilliker Sallie Hirsch Heather Howard John & Joyce Jackson Craig Lorch Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon Jamie & Jeremy Joseph Melissa & Bill Joyce Mr. & Mrs. Gareld John Kneepkens John O’Connell & Joyce Anne Latino Tami & Joe Micheletti Ann Morris & John Sobieck Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Cheryl & Tom Oliver Cathy & Jeff Peda Christiane Pein & Steven Bull Olivia Pi-Sonyer & Andrew DeVore Doris & Charles Ray Janey L. Repensek Michael & Jo Shapiro Margaret Silver Jenness & John Starks Janice Strand Paul Stucki & Christina Chang Gail Tanaka Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Wendy & Rhea Thompson Vanguard Charitable Leora & Robert Wheeler

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD CIRCLE $250+

Anonymous (6) • Heather & Mark Barbieri • Leslie Bateman • Carla & Bradley Berg • Nancy L. Bittner • Inez Noble Black • Bob Blazek & Monique Kleinhans • Marisa N. Bocci • Janet Boguch & Kelby Fletcher • Patricia Britton • Jonathan Buchter • Kris Campbell • Linda & Peter Capell • Mary Casey-Goldstein • Mary Therese Chambers • Shelton-de Clercq Family • Robin Dearling & Gary Ackerman • Wendy del Valle • Dottie Delaney • Denise Derr • Lynn Dissinger • Carol & Kelly Dole • Arni Litt & Lori Eickelberg • Lynne & Hollie Ellis • Expedia Gives Matching Gift Program • Jane & Stan Fields • A. Fisher • K Denice Fischer-Fortier & James Fortier • Alan & Lisbeth Fritzberg • Siobhan Ginnane • Carla Granat & Stephen Smith • Diane Grover • Diana & John Hice • Patricia Highet • Sandy

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD CIRCLE, CONT.

Hill • Lisa & William Holderman • Ann Hollar & Steve Orser • Cynthia Huffman & Ray Heacox • Melissa Huther • Tom & Angie Johnson • Janet Jones • Kristin Jorgensen • Alice Braverman & Patrick Kafer • Pam Kendrick • Karen Koon • Meredith Lehr & William Severson • Patricia Keegan & Connor & Thomas Lennon • Brock Loen • Douglas & Sherry Luetjen • Mary Anne Stusser Martin & Charles Martin • Molly & Mike Martinez • Paul Martini • Elaine Mathies • Ruth McCormick* • Mary McHugh • Jill & Joe McKinstry • Susan & Bob Mecklenburg • Richard Monroe • Min Moon • Martha Mukhalian • Christina Papadakis • Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert • Corliss Perdaems & Carl Kassebaum • Sherry Perrault & Michael Harding • Yumi Petersen • Raquel Phillips • Judy Pigott • Barb & Dan Radin • Laura & Brian Readdy • Paula Riggert • Rebecca Ripley • Robert Romeo* • Jain Rutherford • Troy & Margot Saharic • Mig Schaaf • Gail & John Sehlhorst • David Shellenbarger & Marsha Ose • Virginia Sly • Alice C. Smith • Spencer Family Charitable Fund • Constance Standish & David Darby • Colleen & Brad Stangeland • Julie Stohlman • Liann & Stephen Sundquist • Jen Taylor • Jennifer Teunon & Adam Smith • Shari & Kerry Thompson • Elizabeth Valentine • Ruth Valine & Ed McNerney • Linda Walton & Andy Hoyal • Jerry & Vreni Von Arx Watt • Suzanne & Brent Weaver • John Pehrson • Gregory Wetzel • Bill & Paula Whitham • Carol & Bryan Willison • Bo Willsey

PEN/FAULKNER AWARD CIRCLE $100+

Anonymous (14) • Doug Adams & Scott Fitzgerald • Melissa Albert • Judith Alexander • Cortney Anderson-Sanford • Joel Aslanian • Brian Atwater • Maxine Bailey • Anne & Roger Baker • Jo Ann & Tom Bardeen • Brenda Bennett • Julia Bent • Maribeth Berberich • Diane Bisset • Lindsay & Tony Blackner • Barry Boone & Mary Wilson • Cheryl Boudreau • Mary Anne Braund & Steve Pellegrin • Jeff Youngstrom & Becky Brooks • Angela & Curtis Brown • Don & Karen Brown • Stan & Alice Burgess • Lori Mudge • Kathleen Caldwell • Zimmie Caner • Jeanne Carpenter • Joyce Chase • Melissa Chase • Carl Chew • Catherine Clemens • Johanna & Colin Coolbaugh • Samantha Cooper • Mary & Robert Cooper • Rebecca Crichton • Mike & Janice Cummings O’Mahony • Margaret Curtin & James Wilder • Sandra & Paul Dehmer • Anthony J. Derrick • Nelson Dong & Diane

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Wong • Marcia Donovan* • Beth L. Dubey* • Donna Dughi • Helen Dunbar • Marilyn Endriss • Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman • Judi & Steve Finney • Laura Fischetti • Carolyn & Robert Fletcher • Jean & Mike Gannon • Mike Garner • Shelley Gibson • David Quicksall & Rachel Glass • Mitzi Gligorea • Terry Graham • David Nash & Pat Graves • Mike Grimm • Linda Haas • Alle Hall & Cliff Meyer • Judith Hamilton • Marina & Hunter Hanahan • Lenore Hanauer • Faith Hanna • Amani Harris • Phyllis Hatfield • Signy & James Hayden • Elena Hein • Lloyd Herman & Richard Wilson* • Stephanie Hilbert • Mariko & John Hirasawa • Beth Hogg • Erika Holden • Julie Howe & Dennis Shaw • Elizabeth Hubbard • Harriet Huber • Mary & Robert Hunter • Terry Holme & Jeanne Iannucci • Annie Jamison • Russell Janney • Janof Architecture • Kent Johnson & Cody Blomberg • Susan Jones & Christopher Monck • Gil Joynt • Joan Kalhorn • David Kasik & Jan Levine • Kael Sherrard & Anne Kiemle • Owen Kikuta • Emily Krebill • Alan Kristal • Kristen Laine & Jim Collins • Stephanie Lakinski • Patricia Lambert • Lois Levy • Sylvia & Wayne Levy • Bonnie Lewman • Mary Frances Lyons • Elizabeth Mathewson • Susan McCloskey • Ann McCurdy & Frank Lawler • Paul & Anna McKee • McVicars Family • Kelly Meagher • Medina Foundation • Elaine Mew • Ellen & Mark Mills • Cornelia & Terry Moore • Margaret Morrow • Catherine Mudge • Lynn Murphy • Susan Nivert • Grace Nordhoff & Jonathan Beard • Karen O’Connor • Martha Oman • Onehope Foundation • Carrie Oshiro • Mona & Kurt Own • Cheryl Papadakis • Julie Paul • Janet L Pauli • Louise Perlman • Roger & Christine Pihl • Anne & Lee Pipkin • John & Sandra Platt • Wilson Wyoming Platt • Felicia Porter & George Gilbert • Susan Porterfield • Andrea Ptak & Aaron Houseknecht • Benjamin Radin • Roberta & Brian Reed • Nancy Reichley • Jeannette Reynolds • Karen & Eric Richter • Jennifer Ridewood • Nancy Risdon • Beth Rollinger • Fernne & Roger Rosenblatt • Ann Rowberg • Jennifer L. Cells Russell • Beth Rutherford • Lisa Schafer • Carol Schapira & Michael Levin • Lee Scheingold • Shannon Schneider • Julie & Jeff Schoenfeld • Heidi Schor • B. Charlotte Schreiber • Kinza & Philip Schuyler • Pamela & Nate Searle • Lavonne & Josh Searle • Patti & Mark Seklemian • Marilyn Sherron • Marcia & Peter Sill • Caren Skube • Marilyn Sloan • Penny & Dan Smith • Barbara Snyder • Joy Southworth • Diane Stark • Pat Starkovich • Audrey & David Stokes • Anne Terry

DÉJÀ VU IS A GOOD THING! GIVE MONTHLY TO BOOK-IT PEN/FAULKNER AWARD CIRCLE, CONT.

• Michele & Alan Tesler • Richard Thorvilson • Marcellus Turner • Eugene Usui • Marcia Utela • Dana Van Nest & Paul Casey • Pieter & Tjitske Vandermeulen • Kathleen Vasquez • Mike Vila • Jorie Wackerman • Amy Wald • Cathy Wales • Scott Warrender & John Bianchi • Susan Warwick • Washington State Employee Combined Fund • Laura Weese • Joella Werlin • Melinda Deane & Danny Wheetman • Jean & David White • Sara White & Robert Jordan • Jane Wiegenstein • D.D. Wigley • Shannon Williams • Melinda Williams • Rob Williamson • Anthony & Gina Winkler • Michael Winters • Pamela Wolf • Jean Worthen

GIFTS IN HONOR & MEMORY On behalf of Margaret Kineke D.A. Davidson & Co. In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Emma Dottie Delaney

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Nastasia Guimont and Chandler Thomas in Goin’ Someplace Special. Photo by Chris Bennion.

Last summer, Book-It Arts and Ed provided Professional Development Workshops to 36 Teachers in Washington, Texas, and Illinois.

Thus far, 726 students have experienced extended in-school residencies in King and Snohomish Counties. That number will top 1,000 students by the end of the school year—almost double last year’s numbers.

Our Touring Stories this year have so far visited 47 venues, performed 50 performances for a 16,106 audience members. By the end of year we will have visited 135 venues, performed 150 shows and reached upwards of 60,000 audience members.

To see where our touring shows have visited, go to our website book-it.org and click on “Education.”

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