30 Years of Great Literature on Stage
F
or three decades, Book-It has brought your favorite books alive. As we say goodbye to co-founding artistic directors Jane Jones and Myra Platt, join us for a celebration of community, artistry, and story!
Howl’s Moving Castle By Diana Wynne Jones Adapted & Directed by Myra Platt Music & Lyrics by Justin Huertas
November 29 – December 29 This Book-It favorite is back with some new songs, new scenes, but all the same magic and joy! Sophie finds an unlikely ally in the dread wizard Howl, and with his help she realizes she’s had the power to decide her own fate all along.
The Turn of the Screw By Henry James Adapted by Rachel Atkins Directed by Carol Roscoe
February 12 - March 8
2019–2020 Season
It’s time for a tale of love and ghosts and delicious dreadfulness. When ghastly specters try to possess two young children, only their governess perceives the threat. And only you can decide what is real.
Everything is Illuminated
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
By Jonathan Safran Foer Adapted & Directed by Josh Aaseng
By David Wroblewski Adapted by Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon Directed by Jane Jones
September 11 – October 6 Jonathan treks to Ukraine to uncover the truth of a family legend. With the help of Alex and his grandfather, Alex, his quixotic search brings a vision of the past to vibrant, terrible, charming life before our eyes.
June 3 – 28 Something’s rotten in the state of Wisconsin. Edgar and his beloved dogs are the only ones who know the horrible truth about his father’s death, but he can’t find a way to tell his story. This achingly beautiful retelling of a Shakespearean tragedy is sure to move and haunt you.
Join the Celebration - Subscribe Today! book-it.org 206.216.0833 boxoffice@book-it.org
encorespotlight.com A-1
ARTS & EDUCATION PROGRAMS
2019-2020 Touring Season
Bring the joy of literature and the wonder of theatre to your school, community group, or event A touring package includes a performance (35 and 45 minutes), a study guide, and a copy of the book. Tours can be performed in gyms, classrooms, auditoriums, or meeting rooms for audiences ranging in size from 10-500 (maximum).
Oct–Dec, 2019
COST: $675-$950 (depending on location)
Book early for the lowest prices! Scholarships available for Title One Schools. 206.428.6266 education@book-it.org book-it.org
MY NAME IS CELIA
ME LLAMO CELIA
The Life of Celia Cruz
La vida de Celia Cruz
By/por Monica Brown Illustrated by/illustrado por Rafael López
Celebrate the life and music of the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz. It’s a story that’ll make you feel like dancing!
Bilingual performance in English and Spanish.
Jan–Mar, 2020
CROWN: An Ode to the Fresh Cut By Derrick Barnes Illustrated by Gordon C. James
Join us at the barbershop, where young black boys learn the endless possibilities of a fresh cut and a dope imagination.
Mar–Jun, 2020
WORDY BIRDY By Tammi Sauer Illustrated by Dave Mottram
Come listen to one fun and chatty bird as her friends save her from danger and her own bad habits.
A-2 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE
CAST
(in alphabetical order)
Shanna Allman
Brod/Ensemble
Susanna Burney
Lista/Ensemble
Sean Lally*
Jonathan/Ensemble
Peter Sakowicz
Alex/Ensemble
Michael Winters*
Grandfather/Ensemble
MUSICIANS Michael Owcharuk
Composer/Music Director/Piano
Brooke Haze
Violin/Accordion/Cello/Piano/ Additional Music
STAGE MANAGERS Nina Trotto*
Stage Manager
Darian Clogston
Assistant Stage Manager
Quinn Chase
Production Assistant
ARTISTIC TEAM Catherine Cornell
Scenic Designer
Andrew D. Smith
Lighting Designer
Chelsea Cook
Costume Designer
Dominic CodyKramers
Sound Designer
Cedric Wright
Props Designer
Shannon Loys
Puppetry & Projections Designer
Natalie Shih
Assistant Costume Designer
Sally Ollove
Dramaturg
Zane Exactly
Puppetry Consultant
Marianna De Fazio
Dialect Coach
Chih-Hung Shao
Assistant Lighting Designer
By J o n at h a n Sa f r a n F o e r A da pt e d & D i r e ct e d by J o s h A as e n g
*Member of Actor’s Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States encorespotlight.com A-3
DRAMATURGY Jane Jones
Ukraine: A Borderland through Time
Founder & Co-Founding Artistic Director
By Sally Ollove
Kayti Barnett-O’Brien Managing Director
Myra Platt Co-Founding Artistic Director, Emeritus
Season Support
A shtetl in the Pale of Settlement.
O
ne theory claims that the name Ukraine derives from the Slavic word for “borderland” (oкраина). Whether or not the etymology is accurate, the term fits. Ukraine’s existence has been defined by its position as a border between East and West. Ukrainians didn’t have to move to change citizenship, countries formed around them again and again. Broken into pieces, shuttling between Poland, Austria, Russia, and Czechoslovakia, Ukrainians rebelled for independence at every chance they got, but did not succeed until 1991. By then, there were other borders in place that could not be crossed. Temporal boundaries determine its direction even today: a time before the Soviet Union and a time after. A time before the Holocaust and a time after. These borders bisect family trees and divide people from their homeland. They can never be crossed, they can never be healed, they can only be observed.
Additional generous support is provided by numerous local businesses, family foundations, and hundreds of individuals. Many thanks to all our supporters.
The history of the Jewish people in Europe is also one of boundaries: literal and metaphorical fences that determined where and how they could live. Unwelcome in most European nations, Jews searched for places of safety where they could live
their lives with some measure of autonomy, especially regarding religious traditions. Even Jewish daily life was constrained as government after government tried to deal with its “Jewish Problem.” Their movements restricted and subject to invasive rules that governed where they could settle and what they could do once they did, all Jewish life was precarious. At any moment they could be told to pack up and leave. At any moment, they could be the target of violent campaigns against them.
Brod’s Trachimbrod Facing persecution in medieval Western Europe, Jewish families flocked East to the relative freedom of Poland and what would become Ukraine. While suspicious of their religious practices, Polish nobles were eager to welcome Jews, believing that they
would help modernize the economy. With the arrival of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569 came a period known as the Paradisus Iudaeorum or “Paradise of the Jews.” Though officially Catholic, the Commonwealth was relatively tolerant of other religions, and the Jewish population in particular experienced a large degree of autonomy. From 1569-1648, a Golden Age of Jewish culture flourished; it was a time of great thinkers and artists. According to some estimates, by the 17th century, three-quarters of the world’s Jewish population lived in the Commonwealth, many of them in the southeast, in what would become Ukraine. “Paradise” is perhaps overstating things: Jewish communities were regularly targeted for violence, and many Jews were employed as tax collectors for the Polish nobility, which hardly endeared them to their neighbors.
A map of Ukraine between the wars.
(continued on next page) ➤ encorespotlight.com A-5
DRAMATURGY (cont.)
As Jewish communities flourished in the Commonwealth, in neighboring Russia, there were so few Jewish people that the Empire considered them non-existent. This changed dramatically when the Commonwealth declined in the 18th century and was partitioned between Austria, Prussia, and Russia. Catherine the Great saw an opportunity to expand her Empire and suddenly Russia was faced with what was called “The Jewish Problem.” Catherine’s solution was the Pale of Settlement: a region which eventually included what is now Ukraine and extended up to the Baltic Sea in which Jews were permitted to live. Jews wishing to live outside of the Pale had to apply and then register; few did. Jewish communities organized into shtetls, or small towns, sometimes attached to larger towns or cities. Within the shtetls, residents organized around secular and religious demands. Jewish daily life in the Pale looked both very similar to that of their Christian neighbors—potatoes were planted, cows milked, goods sold at market—and markedly different—the Sabbath was observed on Saturday, men wore a kippahs and tallitot. With the ascension of the liberal Alexander II in 1855, restrictions on Jewish movement was relaxed, only to be tightened again when Alexander was assassinated in 1881. Facing unfounded suspicion of Jewish involvement in the assassination plot, Jewish communities were targeted in a wave of pogroms. Several periods of violence led to mass immigration back to Western Europe or to the United States. By the dawn of the twentieth century, many shtetl residents had family across the ocean.
Safran’s Trachimbrod The state of Jewish autonomy took a turn again as the Bolsheviks battled different factions for control of Eastern Europe in 1917. Over this period, Jews were alternately seen as agents of capitalistic excess or fomenters of communism depending on allegiance, A-6 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE
leading to thousands killed in a period of increased pogroms. Once the dust settled, the area in which Trachimbrod would have been was suddenly Polish, though most of what would become Ukraine was in the Soviet Union. Unlike their Jewish compatriots in the Soviet Union, Poland’s Jews had a reasonable amount of freedom and autonomy. Though they were regarded suspiciously by some Gentiles, others just saw them as neighbors. While impossible to determine which nations had it the worst during WWII, Ukraine is certainly a contender, with the Red Army and the German Army passing through twice in advance and retreat. For many Ukrainians, the experience was a nightmare: even those who collaborated with one army were subject to violence from the other. There were mass deportations to the West of (non-Jewish) Ukrainian civilians to work as slave labor in Germany. Red Army POWs were rounded up and put into labor camps, where they starved. The country, which had been loosely promised independence by Nazi diplomats, saw their chance at independence slip away again. In 1941, the Nazi regime used mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen) to eliminate Eastern Europe’s Jewish population, notably that of Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic states. These units would descend on Jewish towns and neighborhoods and kill everyone they could find by rounding them up and either shooting them or locking them into burning buildings, frequently synagogues. The Nazi units were aided by auxilary police made up of Ukranians, some who joined by force and some who volunteered. The largest of these massacres took place at a ravine, Babi Yar, in which over 30,000 of Kiev’s Jews were killed over two days in September 1941. Noting the psychological toll it was taking on members of the Einsatzgruppen, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and an architect of the Holocaust, sought a way to help his men distance themselves from the killing. His efforts would lead first to vans with gas and then to the death camps which would be established shortly after. In mid-1943, the Red Army began to retake Ukraine and the German
army began a slow retreat. By then over 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews had perished and 2.2 million Ukranian civilians had been taken as slave labor. Entire Jewish towns had vanished: not content with merely killing the residents, Einsatzgruppen would raze the homes of their victims. What they left, the Red Army took when they recaptured the territory. Even stones, bricks, and metal that had made people’s homes was repurposed by the armies. This was the fate of Trochenbrod, the town where Jonathan Safran Foer’s family was from, which Foer drew from when imagining the last moments of the fictional Trachimbrod as described in the play. Though the country had not been free to determine its own course during the war, the betrayal of friends and neighbors turned collaborator continued to reverberate through generations.
Alex’s Ukraine After WWII, all of Ukraine was unified again, this time behind the Iron Curtain. Many Ukrainians preferred to think of the country as a victim of many occupations rather than as Nazi collaborators, and they had new injustices and hardships to face. Independence finally came to Ukraine in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ukraine suddenly had to decide very quickly what its national identity was. With the Iron Curtain down, Western products flooded into Ukraine. At the same time, Russia campaigned hard to maintain influence in the region which had been “the breadbasket” of the Soviet Union, thanks to the most fertile soil in the region. Cultural identity was diverse, due in part to the many years in which Ukraine was divided between empires. By 1997, when the events of the play take place, morale was low. The early promise of independence had given way to the reality of corruption and political infighting. And, as in much of the former Soviet Union, the economy was in tatters. People were starving, relying on personal gardens and plots for sustenance as the government sold off the 80% of the country’s agricultural land to political insiders.
From a photo series by Adam Hinton, an American graduate student in 1993. In this photo, a family sits in their car on New Year’s Day to keep warm.
There was a massive wave of immigration out of the country for Europe, America, and other Western nations that lasted throughout the 1990s, including the highest level of Jewish immigration since before World War II. All of this would lay the groundwork for the Orange Revolution, which is still 7 years away. The citizens of 1997 Ukraine struggled to make new lives in a new country with a new future.
Our Trachimbrod As we stand on this side of history, the side where we can only see the shtetl through the horrors of the Holocaust, we are facing a new border in time. A time before and after the last person with a living memory of the Holocaust. How we choose to remember, and what we do with that memory will determine our future. ■
encorespotlight.com A-7
BIRTHDAY BASH!!!
We’re turning
30!
And we want to celebrate our three decades of theatre, books, and all kinds of fun with you! Have a beer with Jane and Myra, enjoy a bite to eat, and chat with old Book-It friends (or make some new ones). It’ll be fun, you should be there!
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 6pm-8pm $10 entry No host bar / food provided Lagunitas Brewing Company 1550 NW 49th St, Ballard
Join us at The Rainier Club, Seattle for an afternoon of inspiration, education, and celebration! Book-It’s Arts & Education Program reaches over 55,000 students and teachers annually
info@book-it.org
with innovative, hands-on learning.
book-it.org/events
You can be a part of bringing the joy of theatre to children across the state!
If you have any questions about the event, or would like to sponsor a table, please contact Director of Development Sally Brunette at sallyb@book-it.org or 206.428.6258.
A-8 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE
BIOS
Susanna Burney (Lista/Ensemble)
Susanna Burney has performed on many local stages including Seattle Shakespeare Company (The Government Inspector, Romeo & Juliet, As You Like It), Wooden O (Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, Othello), 18th & Union (Framed), West of Lenin, Seattle Children’s Theatre, On the Boards, Printer’s Devil, Annex, and Theater Schmeater. Book-It credits include A Moveable Feast (Gertrude Stein), She’s Come Undone (Roberta), Howards End (Ruth Wilcox), as well as several educational tours and residencies. Recent credits include Everybody at Strawberry Theatre Workshop, and this Christmas, she’ll be appearing, yet again, in a Scot Augustson original holiday extravaganza at Café Nordo. Susanna is also a director, teacher, and audiobook narrator. She received her BFA in Theatre Performance from Boston University.
THE CAST (in alphabetical order)
Peter Sakowicz (Alex/Ensemble)
Peter Sakowicz is excited to make his debut with Book-It. He is a Seattle native and a graduate of the University of Washington School of Drama. Recent theater credits include Aesop in The Fabulous Fable Factory (Theater Schmeater), Mayloi in Claim of Thrones (Jet City Improv), and Ensemble in Brooklyn Bridge (Seattle Children’s Theatre). Thank you to everyone who made this production happen, thank you to the cast and crew for being generous and inspiring every day, and thank you Mx audience for coming to the show! Enjoy!
Michael Winters (Grandfather/ Ensemble)
Shanna Allman (Brod/Ensemble) Sean Lally (Jonathan/ Ensemble)
Shanna Allman was last seen this summer wielding weapons and curses as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet with Wooden O. Previous work indoors with Seattle Shakespeare Company includes Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer, Marya in The Government Inspector, Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Marianne in The Miser, and Helena/Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (tour). Other Seattle acting credits include Mary Bennet in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Taproot Theatre Company); How I Learned to Drive, Rhinoceros, Our Town, and The Laramie Project (Strawberry Theatre Workshop); and The Violet Hour and The War Party (Seattle Public Theater). Shanna is an ensemble member with the all improv company, Unexpected Productions, as well as co-creator and performer of the improv groups Prepared with Ted and Alice and The Bastards Grimm. This production marks her debut with Book-It. Later this fall, she will play Marie Antoinette in The Revolutionists with Theatre22.
Sean Lally has been working as an actor and devisedtheatre artist for the past 11 years. As co-founder and co-producing artist of Found Theater Company, he directed, co-devised, performed in, and wrote music for six performance pieces produced in the Philly Fringe Festival. As an individual artist in Philadelphia, Sean conducted his own performance research under the moniker, My Dear Anacolutha; collaborated with several experimental companies, including The Bearded Ladies and Subcircle; and worked as an actor at regional theater outfits, like the Arden Theatre Company, EgoPo Productions, and Lantern Theater Company. After a short stint in London, where he consulted as a puppeteer on a Channel4 pilot yet to be released, he moved to Seattle in December 2018. Upon his arrival, he performed in John at ArtsWest and is excited to have the opportunity to work with the wonderful people at Book-It.
Michael Winters last appeared at Book-It in Breathing Lessons. Work in other Seattle theatres includes Seattle Rep, ACT, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Intiman, and The 5th Avenue Theatre. Elsewhere, he has appeared with ACT, San Francisco; The Denver Center Theatre Company; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Berkeley Rep; The Studio, Washington D.C.; and Playmakers Rep, in Chapel Hill, NC; among others. He appeared, briefly, on Broadway in 2000 and has worked on television, including 7½ seasons of Gilmore Girls. He was a Fellow of the Lunt/Fontanne Institute in 2016 and the grateful recipient of a Fox Fellowship.
encorespotlight.com A-9
BIOS THE MUSICIANS
with Lady Rizo, playing piano and doing backup vocals. Brooke released her first single, “Shadow on the Wall,” on iTunes and Spotify and will continue releasing a single every month until June 2020.
Michael Owcharuk (Composer/ Music Director/ Pianio)
Michael Owcharuk is a composer, arranger, pianist, music director, sound designer, and educator. His love of all music compels him to work in a variety of styles: jazz, classical, new music, rock, pop, Slavic folk, and music for theatre and dance. He leads the Michael Owcharuk Quartet and is a member of Crystal Beth and the Boom Boom Band and the Kate Olson Ensemble. He works musically supporting and collaborating with a diverse range of artists, maintains a private piano instruction studio, and is an accompanist for the Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Michael’s music and work has received awards from 4Culture, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Jack Straw Productions, and has been featured on/by: NPR, KEXP, SIFF, Bumbershoot, Earshot Jazz, the 14/48 Projects, Café Nordo, Seattle Theatre Group, Seattle Rep, ACT, ArtsWest, Live Girls!, Freehold Theatre, Theatre22, Theatre Puget Sound, Seattle Public Theater, Sound Theatre, Verlaine & McCann Present, Karin Stevens Dance, Coriolis Dance, and many others. Michael is thrilled to be back working on his second production with Book-It!
Brooke Haze (Violin/Accordion/ Cello, Piano/ Additional Music)
Brooke Haze is making her theatre debut with this production. Originally from Spokane, Haze has studied at Andrews University and the Roosevelt College of Performing Arts. Along with composing theatrical progressive rock, she is a singer and performer, having taken the stage at Central Saloon, Club Sur, and Louie G’s, among others. She toured
A-10 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE
THE STAGE MANAGERS Nina Trotto (Stage Manager) With Book-It Repertory Theatre: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Prairie Nocturne (Assistant Stage Manager). Seattle Shakespeare Company: Shakespeare in Love and Medea (Stage Manager); Timon of Athens, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V (Assistant Stage Manager); and Winter’s Tale (Production Assistant). Seattle Children’s Theatre: The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi; Pinocchio; and Danny, King of the Basement (Production Assistant). In New York: Broadway— M. Butterfly (Production Assistant)); Ars Nova: ANT Fest (Stage Manager); and Ibex Puppetry—crane on earth, in sky (Production Stage Manager). Nina spent two years as the schedule and production manager for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. www.ninatrotto.com Darian Clogston (Assistant Stage Manager) is very excited to take part in, Everything Is Illuminated, as her first production with Book-It. She graduated last May from Emerson College in Boston, with a BFA in Stage and Production Management, and is breaking into the Seattle theatre scene. Previous credits include Seattle Musical Theatre’s, Mamma Mia (stage manager,) Fantastic.Z Theatre’s, 7th Annual New Works Festival (stage manager,) and Centastage’s, Noir Hamlet (stage manager,) along with assistant stage manager for Boston Ballet’s 2018 summer lineup. Darian thanks her friends and family for their support, along with everyone involved in illuminating everything. Quinn Chase (Production Assistant) is incredibly grateful to be involved with Everything is Illuminated as their first production with Book-It. In the fall, Quinn will return for their third year at Cornish College of the Arts as a Performance Production major, with a focus in Stage Management. Their Seattle credits include Il trovatore with Seattle Opera (intern), Love and Information and Jesus Christ Superstar at Cornish (ASM), and They/Them the Festival at Annex Theatre (stage manager). Quinn is also the vice chair of Cornish College of the Arts’ USITT Student Chapter. Quinn would like to thank their mentors and friends for the never-ending support and encouragement that has gotten them this far.
THE ARTISTIC TEAM Josh Aaseng (Adapter/Director/Associate Artistic Director) is a director and writer based in Seattle who has worked nationally and internationally at such theatres as the Guthrie (Minneapolis), PS 122 COIL Festival (NYC), Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival (Netherlands), and in Seattle at ACT, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and On the Boards, among others. Josh’s work has been recognized with two Seattle Times Footlight Awards, as well as Seattle Theater Writers Critics’ Circle awards for excellence in playwriting and direction. Josh is the Associate Artistic Director for Book-It Repertory Theatre, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer, who served in Ukraine, 2006-2008. Catherine Cornell (Scenic Designer) A selection of Catherine’s work includes: ACT (The Year of Magical Thinking); Red Bull Theatre (Mac Beth); Seattle Rep (Mac Beth, Buyer and Cellar); Heritage Theatre Festival (Harvey); Book-It (American Junkie, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Tale for the Time Being, Slaughterhouse-Five, Truth Like the Sun, and their Arts and Education Tour); Seattle Public Theater (Dry Land, The Liar); ACTLab (Red Light Winter, 25 Saints, and Buzzer); Village Theatre KIDSTAGE (Les Miserables, Crazy For You); Strawberry Theatre Workshop (Frost/Nixon); NCTC (Bright Half Life); STAGEright (Into the Woods); University of Michigan (Cloud Nine); and many more. www.catcornell.com Andrew D. Smith (Lighting Designer) is a Seattle-based lighting designer, most recently lighting The Picture of Dorian Gray. National work includes Arizona Theatre Company (Native Gardens), Indiana Repertory Theatre (The Diary of Anne Frank), Cornerstone Theatre Company, Flint Youth Theatre, Horizon Theater Company, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Roust Theater, and Cardinal Stage Company. Seattle work has been seen at Seattle Rep, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, New Century Theatre Company, Washington Ensemble, Azeotrope, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Seattle Public Theater, Theatre Off Jackson, ArtsWest, On The Boards, Velocity Dance Center, and Broadway Performance Hall. Andrew holds a BA from Duke University and an MFA from the University of Washington, where he currently teaches. Chelsea Cook (Costume Designer) is a Seattle-based freelance costume designer and small business owner. Her work has been seen at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Book-It, Village Theatre, George Street Playhouse, ArtsEmerson, Second Stage Theatre,
SPECIAL THANKS Café Nordo, ACT, Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, and more. Select favorite designs include Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Off-Broadway Alliance Award, Second Stage Theatre); O+E (Seattle Opera Chamber); She’s Come Undone (Gregory Award Nomination, Book-It); What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Book-It); Medea, She Stoops to Conquer (Seattle Shakespeare Co.); and Hand to God (Seattle Public Theater, Outstanding Production Gregory Away Winner). Chelsea has been on staff at Seattle Rep, Village Theatre, and the Intiman Theatre Festival. Upcoming productions include The Revolutionists (ArtsWest) and The Cost of Living (Seattle Public Theater). Dominic CodyKramers (Sound Designer) is honored and excited to be designing at Book-It for the first time. He is a senior instructor at Seattle University and active in promoting shared governance there. Recent local theatre soundscapes include John at ArtsWest, and A Christmas Carol (past 5 years), Buzzer (Gregory Award nominee), and Mr. Burns at ACT. His work has also been heard at Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Beckett Fest, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, West of Lenin, upstart crow, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Madcap Melodrama, and the Flying Karamazov Brothers. Other West Coast design credits include Universal Studios Hollywood Theme Park, PCPA TheatreFest, Pasadena Playhouse, San Luis Obispo Little Theatre, Santa Clarita Rep, Hudson Theatre, and Oregon Cabaret Theatre. Dominic earned an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BA from UNC-Asheville, his hometown. He is a proud member of United Scenic Artists 829. Cedric Wright (Props Designer) Illuminated marks Cedric’s 6th production with Book-It! He has worked throughout Seattle and Los Angeles building props and puppets, and generally making magic. Recently his work has been seen at Seattle Public Theater, ACT, Village Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Washington Ensemble Theatre, and more! cedricwright.com Shannon Loys (Puppetry & Projections Designer) has been designing graphics for Seattle arts organizations for over 12 years. You’ve seen her posters on coffee shop walls all over the city, advertising shows for Seattle Rep, Book-It, Seattle Children’s Theatre, ArtsWest, Seattle Public Theater, Teatro ZinZanni, New Century Theatre Company, Intiman, and many more. Non-theatre clients include Kaiser Permanente, Arcora Foundation, Launch, Full Life Care, and Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. Shannon is a self-taught graphic designer. www.shannonical.com
Natalie Shih (Assistant Costume Designer) is a Seattle-based costume designer. Since graduating from Cornish College of the Arts in 2017, she has designed for a number of companies in the Seattle area. Recent credits include Caught (Intiman); The Rules of Charity (Sound Theatre Company); Persimmon Nights and the Kimchi Kittens (Café Nordo); Ironbound, Dry Land (Seattle Public Theatre); M. Butterfly (ArtsWest); and Straight White Men (Washington Ensemble Theatre). www.natalieshih.com
Seattle Center Theatre Puget Sound Illana Cone Kennedy Holocost Center for Humanity Richard Arum Lindsay Evans Zane Exactly Dan Garlington
Sally Ollove (Dramaturg) is a Philadelphia- and Seattle-based dramaturg and director. She is the associate artistic director and resident dramaturg of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret in Philadelphia. Formerly the literary manager at Arden Theatre Company, resident dramaturg of Azuka Theatre, and the programming director of The Jewelbox Theater at the Rendezvous, in Seattle. Other credits include TheatreExile, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and The Foundry (Philadelphia); ACT (Seattle); One Coast Collaboration, Frank Boyd & Libby King (On the Boards); among others. She has served as adjunct faculty at Rowan University, University of the Arts, and Intiman’s Emerging Artist program. Sally is a graduate of the ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, a member of the 2011 Director’s Lab at Lincoln Center, and a 2016 recipient of the LMDA Bly Creative Capacity Fellowship.
Village Theatre
AFFILIATIONS
This theatre operates under an agreement with AEA, the union of professional actors and stage manager in the United States. Actos Equity Association (AEA), founded in
Zane Exactly (Puppetry Consultant) is a non-binary puppeteer, theatre maker, and visual artist. They work primarily in puppetry arts, where they have worked as a puppet builder and puppeteer for nearly a decade. Recent projects have included: shadow puppetry; projection design; puppet design and fabrication; set and prop design; mask design; miniature fabrication; and performer. Zane is a founder of Dust In Your Eyes, a shadow puppetry and projection company, with their partner, Cassie. Their work was recently featured at the National Puppetry Festival in Minneapolis, MN. www.dustinyoureyes.com
1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States.
Marianna de Fazio (Dialect Coach) has coached several Book-it productions, including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Brothers K, and, most recently, Jane Eyre. She coaches at theaters around town, including Taproot Theater, ArtsWest, Theater22, and others. In addition to dialects, Marianna coaches accent modification for ESL speakers, as well as public speaking: www.mariannadefazio.com/coach United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 of the IATSE is the union representing Lighting and Sound Designers in the live performance.
BIOS BOOK-IT REP
Kayti Barnnett-O’Brien (Managing Director)
Jane Jones (Founder, Founding Co-Artistic Director) Jane Jones is the founder 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. 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 in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director), and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane’s most recent directing credits include Native Gardens at Arizona Theatre Company and American Junkie and Retuning the Bones at Book-It. With Portland Center Stage she directed Cyrano, Twelfth Night (Drammy awards, Best Direction and Production) and Book-It’s adaptations of Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice. For Book-It, her credits include The Maltese Falcon, A Moveable Feast, 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.
A-12 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE
Kayti Barnett-O’Brien (Managing Director) has been with Book-It since 2015, first serving as general manager (2015-2017) and managing director (2017-present). She looks forward to ushering Book-It into its next chapter through new strategic planning and equity initiatives. Kayti was previously the managing director at New Century Theatre Company, and a former board member for Theatre Puget Sound. Kayti is a member of the Leadership for Social Change cohort with artEquity and holds an MFA in Arts Leadership from Seattle University.
Myra Platt (Founder, Founding Co-Artistic Director Emeritus) Myra Platt helped produce over 90 world-premiere mainstage productions and over 30 education touring productions. Most recently she adapted and directed Behold the Dreamers, Howl’s Moving Castle, and The Brothers K: Parts I and II, and she directed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2014 Gregory Award for Outstanding Production and The Seattle Times Footlight Award). Past credits include the following: ADAPTING and DIRECTING: The Brothers K: Parts I and II, Little Bee, The Financial Lives of the Poets, The River Why, Night Flight (an operetta with music by Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (a musical with Edd Key), The House of the Spirits, Giant, Plainsong, Cowboys Are My Weakness, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (2002 original production), Roman Fever, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. DIRECTING: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; Persuasion; Cry, the Beloved Country; and Sweet Thursday. ADAPTING: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (2017 with Malika Oyetimein), The Art of Racing in the Rain, and Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant (with Jane Jones). PERFORMING: Prairie Nocturne, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, The Awakening (West Garland Los Angeles Award), and Howards End. Outside of Book-It, Myra has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New City Theatre, and Mark Taper Forum, among others. She originated the role of Candy Kendall in The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, directed by Jane Jones and Tom Hulce. In 2010, Myra, and Jane Jones received a Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Anniversary grant and the 2010 Women of Influence from Puget Sound Business Journal. In 2008, Myra and Jane (and Book-It) were honored to be named by The Seattle Times as one of seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound Region.
DONOR LIST
PRODUCER Diana Carey
BECOME A PRODUCER You can bring a book to our stage! By becoming a Producer, you earn exclusive access and recognition during the production process of a mainstage show. Learn more by contacting us at development@book-it.org.
(This list reflects gifts received July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019)
ADVOCATES CIRCLE— $100,000 + The Sage Foundation
LITERARY LEGENDS CIRCLE— $50,000 + Mary Pigott The True-Brown Foundation
LITERARY CHAMPIONS CIRCLE— $25,000 + Grousemont Foundation Holly & Bill Marklyn Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Shirley & Dave Urdal
LITERARY HEROES CIRCLE—$10,000+ 4Culture ArtsFund Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BMGI The Boeing Company Patricia Britton & Stellman Keehnel Sonya & Tom Campion Laura & Greg Colman The Elizabeth George Foundation Anne Fisher Ravens Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness Clay Gustaves Lucy Helm Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Nancy Lomneth & Mark Boyd
Lucky Seven Foundation Norcliffe Foundation Michell & Larry Pihl Safeco Insurance Fund Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Kris & Mike Villiott
PARTNERS CIRCLE—$5,000+ Anonymous John Aldaya & Tom DeFelice Amy & Matthew Cockburn D.A. Davidson & Co. Emily Davis Sara Elward Gretl Galgon Hazel Miller Foundation Dan Kuhn Ellen Maxson Nordstrom Kathy & Brad Renner Shirley Roberson Polly Schlitz The U.S. Bank Foundation Williams Companies
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE—$2,500+ Adobe Matching Gifts Program Monica Alquist and Gary Miller ArtsWA Carolyn & George Cox Caroline L. Feiss & Gordon B. Davidson Tina D. Ganguly & Tim Whitwell Horizons Foundation Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon Mary Metastasio Moccasin Lake Foundation Lynne & Nick Reynolds Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches Charyl Kay & Earl Sedlik Nancy & Warren Smith Drella & Garth Stein Lordia & Jeremy Williams
NOBEL PRIZE CIRCLE—$1,000+ Anonymous (3) Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Valarie Baker Patti Baker Emily & Quazie Barahal Jim & Marilyn Barnett Salli & Stephen Bauer The Block Leavitt Foundation Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb Sally Snyder Brunette Karen & Tom Challinor
José Clair & Austin Ward Donna Cochener Deborah Cowley & Mark Dexter Nora & Allan Davis Judi & Steve Finney Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Caroline Fox Jayn & Hugh Foy Suzanne Fry & Richard Moore Kai Fujita Helen Goh & Jeff Kadet Jean Gorecki & Dick Dobyns Jeffrey Gural Michelle & Mark Hamburg Lenore Hanauer Foundation Laura & Erik Hanson Mary Frances Hill Lisa & William Holderman Lynn Hubbard & David Zapolsky Judith Jesiolowski & David Thompson Jamie & Jeremy Joseph Mr. & Mrs. Gareld John Kneepkens Alan Kristal & Jason Lamb Lagunitas Brewing Company Leslie Fund, Inc. Julie Little Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood D.V. & Ida McEachern Charitable Trust Margaret Meyer Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Shyla Miller & Russ Young Christopher Mumaw Rene & Chuck Murry Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Deborah & Jeff Parsons Christiane Pein & Steve Bull Sherry Perrault & Michael Harding Myra Platt & Dave Ellis Point B Barb & Dan Radin Elizabeth Rutherford SEI Giving Fund Martha Sidlo Jon Staenberg Colleen & Brad Stangeland Christine & Josh Stepherson David & Elise Stokes Gail Tanaka Team Soapbox C. Rhea & Wendy Thompson Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Katherine & James Tune Ruth & Jerry Verhoff Elizabeth Warman Judith Whetzel Paula & Bill Whitham Hope & Ken Wiljanen Williams Miller Family Foundation Carol & Bryan Willison Margaret Winsor & Jay Hereford encorespotlight.com A-13
DONORS PULITZER PRIZE CIRCLE—$500 + Anonymous (5) Virginia L. Anderson Cinnimin Avena Tanya Bednarski & Greg Johnson Julie Bernstein & Roy Zimmermann Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program Alice Braverman & Patrick Kafer Linda & Peter Capell Diana Carey Sylvia & Craig Chambers Children Count Foundation Sally & Curt Clausen Carol & Bill Collins Loveday Conquest Lynn Dissinger Carol & Kelly Dole Anna & David Dong Dropbox, Inc. Matching Gifts Program Gaylee & Jim Duncan Julie Edsforth & Jabe Blumenthal Susan Lynn Ehlers Pat Fallon Laura Finn Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman Spencer Freeman Marlene Friend R. Brooks Gekler Margaret Griffiths Faith Hanna Kathryn Hazzard Cynthia Hennessy Trish & Doug Honig Christy & TJ Houk Russell Janney Dave Johnson Portia D. Jones & Jonathan Hibbs Tom Keener Rosemary Kelly & Douglas Zatzick Allison Kramer Emily Krebill Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Jonathan Kuhn Teresa McCann Becky Monk Richard Monroe Grace Nordhoff & Jonathan Beard Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters Christy & George Papadakis Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert Karen Perry Shannon Phillips &Tarik Burney Olivia Pi-Sunyer & Andrew DeVore Puget Sound Energy Foundation Rayna Quin Monica Ramsey Shawn & Mike Rediger Kate & Stephen Robinson
Joana & Michael Shapiro Knud Stubkjaer Cassandra Tate & Glenn Drosendahl Amanda Twiss Susan Ward Suzanne & Brent Weaver Gregory Wetzel Leora & Robert Wheeler Christina Wright & Luther Black Ann Wyman Merrily Wyman Poly Zel
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD CIRCLE—$250+ Anonymous (3) Louis Allard Heather & Mark Barbieri Diane Barbour & Jim Rulfs Donna & Anthony Barnett Leslie & Peter Bateman Susan Bean & Ray Walton Shari Bitcon Nancy L. Bittner Lindsay & Tony Blackner Karen Brandvick-Baker & Ross Baker Bryan Burch Alice & Stan Burgess Kristina Huus Campbell Beth Cooper & Dan Schuy Pamela Cowan & Steve Miller Sandy & Paul Dehmer Dottie Delaney Jennifer Diggdon Beth L. Dubey Lynne & Hollie Ellis Marilyn Endriss Evergreen Cares Foundation Corinne Fligner & Mark Wener Faye & Dick Gillett Siobhan Ginnane & Dan Whalen Carla Granat & Stephen Smith Pat Graves & David Nash Gail Gray Diane Grover Katharine Harmon & John Fulford Amani Harris Barbara Hieronymus Ellie Hochman & Sandy Voit Crissy House Winifred Hussey Angie & Tom Johnson Catherine Johnson Hillary & Martin Kelly Debbie Killinger Eileen Kirkpatrick & Noel Howes Mary Klubben & Brian Hahn Tami & Rob Kowal Meredith Lehr & William Severson
A-14 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE
Elaine Mathies Mary Jean & Mel McDonald Gaye McNutt Sarah Meardon Jacque Mesplay Michelle Muri Jaime Neal Karen O’Connor Cheryl & Tom Oliver Mona & Kurt Owen Cheryl Papadakis Lara Papadakis & Tobin Weldele Corliss Perdaems & Carl Kassebaum Wilson Platt Linda Quirk Benjamin Radin Paula Riggert Karen Robins Dana Rudy Ellen & Joe Rutledge Julie Sarkissian Sharon Siehl & Jason Mendoza Laura Skelton & Thomas Buford Candace Smith & Steven Bolliger Jenness & John Starks Julie Stohlman Ericka Stork Mary Anne Stusser Martin & Charles Martin Liann & Stephen Sundquist Deborah Swets Robin Thomas Shari & Kerry Thompson Karen & Ron Van Genderen Michael Wade Nancy Ward Audrey Watson Kayla Weiner Eddie Westerman & Adam Westerman Melinda Williams Diane Wong & Nelson Dong Ann Young
PEN/FAULKNER AWARD CIRCLE—$100 + Anonymous (15) Katie Adrian Carol J. Allen Lisbet Nilson & Mark Ashida Robert Atkinson Shawn Auld Anne & Roger Baker Jo Ann & Tom Bardeen Chris Barnett-O’Brien Tessa & Chris Bennion Julia Bent Diane Bisset Inez Noble Black Bonnie & Webb Bowie
John Bradshaw Katrina Brede Bridge Partners LLC Becky Brooks & Jeff Youngstrom Adelaide Brooks & Robert Pennell Kim Brotherton Don & Karen Brown Carrie Bryant Zimmie Caner & Tom Edwards Karen Carlson P. Caswell Joe Chantry Catherine Clemens Richard O. Coar John Coburn The Coca-Cola Company Elizabeth Coppinger Kate & Elliot Curtis Roy & Raye Davis Anna Dawson Robin Dearling & Gary Ackerman Wendy del Valle Diane Dewitt Kathy Dickeman Marcia Donovan Anne & Don Downing Susan M. Dyer Jonathan Eisler Tami Erhart Linda & Terry Finn K. Denice Fischer-Fortier & James M. Fortier David Fisher Ben Fitch Gayle Fitzgerald & Peter Dixon Gyda & Randi Fossland Marsha & Pat Freeny Jean & Mike Gannon Clarence R. Gillett Jack & Vicki Goldstein Seznick Tim Gouran Craig & Darcy Greene Kim & Rodney Gregory Birgit Grimlund & Robin Reiels Linda Haas Steve Hamilton & Paul Neal Lisa Hanna John Hardtla & Evin Cramer Lloyd Herman & Richard Wilson Pat Highet Lauren Hill Wendy Hilliker & Eric Tishkoff Colleen Hinton Ann Hollar & Steve Orser Margaret Hooks Ingrid Ingerson Wendy Jackson Susan Jones Annette & Robert Jones Kris Jorgensen & Margey Rubado Joan Kalhorn
Angie Kamel Paul Kassen Pam Kendrick Erin & Steve Kennebeck Nancy Kennedy & Scott Newcombe Sally Kentch Eddie Key Linda Korbus & Gregory Flood Julia Kuhn Jen Kulik Akshay Kulkarni Michael Lamb & Adam Grutz Marie, Cynthia, & Bev Laper Sylvia & Wayne Levy Audrey Lew & John Tilden Larry Lewin Bonnie Lewman Brock & Karin Loen Craig Lorch Mary Frances Lyons Maureen Malley & Jeffrey Capeloto Malling Family Serge Martinez E.R.M. Maunz Ruth McCormick Rachel McCracken Paul & Anna McKee Ann McKee & Dale Hoff Medtronic Foundation Tami & Joe Micheletti Marion & George Mohler Beth Morrison & Geoff Crooks Nancy Morse Ken & Nan Munsey Susan Nivert & Barbara Glenn Northwest Literacy Foundation Martha Oman Marsha Ose & David Shellenbarger Carla Patterson Julie Paul Kerry Quint Neave Rake Mike Ramey Esther M. Reese Nancy Reichley & Tim Higgins Therese Roberson Jain Rutherford Debby & Dave Rutherford Jamie Scatena Paul Schiavo Julie & Jeff Schoenfeld Lavonne & Josh Searle Gail & John Sehlhorst Patti & Mark Seklemian Cahilan Shine Stephen F. Silha Marcia Sill Goldie Silverman Jen Skancke Paula Stokes & John Sullivan Katherine Streeck
Margaret Swain & Larry Stark Jen Taylor Sally H. & Robert Telzrow Anne Terry Ginny Trethewey Eugene Usui Marcia Utela Michelle Valentine Ruth Valine & Ed McNerney Alyson van der Toorn John VanGilder Callie Vassall Jorie Wackerman Stephany Watson Joella Werlin Tim West Jean & David White Sara White & Robert Jordan Mary Williamson Bo Willsey Michael M. Winters Jodie Wohl & Richard Hert Diane Yen-Mei Wong & Nelson G. Dong Janet Yale
O’HENRY AWARD CIRCLE—$50 + Anonymous (12) Doug Adams & Scott Fitzgerald Judith Alexander Dayton Allemann Tony Angell Amy Arvidson Brian Atwater Becky Barnett & Roger Tucker Kayti Barnett-O’Brien Joan Reddy & Greg Boris Cynthia Brookbank Chris Brown Judy Buckham Kathleen Caldwell Dee & Rick Childs Ann Colowick Margaret Curtin & Jim Wilder Juliette Delfs Donna & Rob Dughi Karen Eames Nancy E. Ellingham Rae Ann Engdahl Michelle Errecart Dot Fuller Neil Gerth Rachel Greene Marga Rose Hancock Karin & Frederic Harder Lisa & Scott Harpster Shuko Hashimoto Paul Heppner
Stephanie M. Hilbert Kate Hinely Carol & Glen Horton Ed & Katy Huston Treg Isaacson Eva Jackson Carl Janz Kent Johnson Melissa & Bill Joyce Julie Ketter Marjorie Kittle & David Williams John M. Kloeck Nancy Koning Luanne Kreutzer Elizabeth & Robert Lamson Jo Anne Laz Realm Lovejoy Valerie Lynch & Putnam Barber Susan Lynette Penny & Jackson McNees Miriam & Pip Meyerson Judy Moise Carrie Mood Sean Morishige Sue & Hal Mozer Vivienne Ngyuen Elaine Nonneman Pam & Tim O’Sullivan Savitha Reddy Pathi Sara Patton Kathryn Pearson Louise Perlman Roberta & Brian Reed Jeannette Reynolds Kim Roberts & Joe Ewing Beth Rollinger Ellen Roth Patricia Rytkonen & William Karn Martha Shapiro Sally Sheck Audrey & John Sheffield Eileen D. Simmons & Roger A. Berger Julie C. Smith & David M. Strauss Elaine Springer Christine Stensland Ian Stewart & Nathan Wilson Kali Swenson Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West Meranda Tuttle Linda L. Wallace Kellini Walter Laura Weese Natalie Weizenbaum & Elizabeth Cady Betty Wiese Suellen Wigen Sue & Dave Williams Richard Wilson Dorothy Wysham
GIFTS IN HONOR & MEMORY In honor of Emily Davis Stephanie M. Hilbert In honor of Jane Jones & Myra Platt Margaret Winsor & Jay Hereford In honor of Clare O’Regan Marie, Cynthia, & Bev Laper In honor of Zoe Papadakis Julie Bernstein & Roy Zimmermann In memory of Barbara Snyder Anonymous
SUSTAINING DONORS— THE EPILOGUE SOCIETY Members of the Epilogue Society have included Book-It in their will or other estate planned giving vehicles to ensure their support of Book-It will live on and inspire future generations. Judy Brandon & Randy Webb Joann Byrd Mary Carson Sara Elward Chris Higashi Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon Myra Platt & Dave Ellis Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Lynne Reynolds Colleen & Brad Stangeland Melinda & Danny Wheetman
To learn more about joining the Epilogue Society and planned giving options at Book-It Repertory Theatre, please contact Sally Brunette, Director of Development, 206.428.6258 or sallyb@book-it.org. Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgments. Please contact Development Assistant Annika Bennett at annikab@book-it. org with any changes or corrections.
encorespotlight.com A-15
Mission Statement:
Christopher Mumaw Scenic and Experiential Designer
Aly Guzman-Dyrseth Box Office Sales & Data Specialist
To transform great literature into great theatre, through simple and sensitive production, and to inspire our audiences to read.
Sherry Perrault Senior Manager, Bader Martin, P.S
Jasmine Lomax, Caroline Rensel, Thalia Shelver, Catherine Blake Smith, Dylan Zucati Front of House
Board of Directors
Anne Fisher Ravens Senior Associate, Point B
Officers
Shirley Roberson Senior Associate, Hughes Media Law Group
Stuart Frank, President Casting Mgr, Entertainment, Holland American Margaret Kineke, Vice President Sr. VP, Financial Consultant, Davidson Co. Linda Brown, Secretary Community Volunteer Laura Colman, Treasurer Healthcare & Human Resources Executive, Retired
Board Members John Aldaya Chief Financial Officer, Carrix Mark Boyd Community Volunteer José Clair Supply Chain Analyst, The Boeing Company Tina Ganguly Community Volunteer Clay Gustaves Senior Land Representative, Williams Companies Jane Jones Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It Repertory Theatre
Myra Platt Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Emerita
Steven Schwartzman Attorney, U.S. Postal Service, Western Law Department Christine Stepherson Founder, Team Soapbox Lordia Williams Senior Human Resources Manager, Amazon Web Services
Book-It Staff
Dana Jones Bookkeeper Tom Wahl IT Support
Production Dan Schuy Production Manager Shawna Grajek Assistant Production Manager Benjamin Radin Technical Director Jocelyne Fowler Costume Shop Manager Shelby Choo Master Carpenter Jessica Christensen Scenic Charge Artist / Properties Master Cynthia Moore Scenic Artist Blaine Taylor Scenic Artist Toby Folkert Scenic Carpenter Adrian Delahunt Scenic Carpenter Charles Minshall Scenic Carpenter Danny Herter Master Electrician/Board Op Anna Bowen Dresser
Jane Jones Founder/Co-Founding Artistic Director Kayti Barnett-O’Brien Managing Director Myra Platt Co-Founding Artistic Director Emeritus
Artistic Josh Aaseng Associate Artistic Director Shawna Grajek Casting Associate
Contact Us Box Office:
Education
Center Theatre at Seattle Center Armory 305 Harrison St. Seattle, WA 98109
Gillian Jorgensen Director of Education Jordi Montes Tour Manager
206.216.0833 boxoffice@book-it.org
Marketing & Communications Torrie McDonald Director of Marketing Jeff James Graphic Design & Illustration, J. James Art & Design
Administrative Office: 401 Mercer St. Seattle, WA 98109
Development
206.216.0877 info@book-it.org
Mary Metastasio Senior Portfolio Manager, Safeco, Retired
Sally Brunette Director of Development Matthew Sythandone Development Associate Annika Bennett Development Assistant
Becky Monk Editorial Director, Microsoft Alumni Network
Patron Services
A-16 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE
Administrative
Sasha Bailey Patron Services Manager
bookitrep bookitrep Book_It