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Patron Services Manager Scott Herman

When I came on as Book-It’s new patron services manager last August, people knew I had some strong views about customer service. I’ve even been called a policy geek. Multiple times. What they may not have known was that they were hiring Seattle’s biggest cheerleader. As a born-and-bred Pacific Northwesterner and a proud Seattleite, I sometimes have trouble shutting up about it. My coworkers are already sick of me talking about all the great things our city has to offer. But I find it hard to keep quiet when there are so many fantastic things to enjoy here, especially when it comes to food and drinks. I’m never done exploring. So imagine my excitement when Jane, Myra, and everyone else encouraged me to insert a little (or a lot) of myself into the job, completely reimagining your patron experience here at Book-It. And that’s what I’ve done. I’ve been scouring the Northwest, looking for the best we can offer you for our bar and concessions. My approach was to emphasize quality over quantity, and to keep things as local as I possibly could. After a lot of looking—and tasting (call it market research)—I’m very excited with what we have to offer, and I hope you will be too. We have three new bar sponsors: we’re serving the fantastic Hilliard’s Beer, and have you tried craft cider yet? If you haven’t, Schilling Cider will change the way you think about apples. We’re serving coffee from Olympia, crackers from Kent, and amazing baked goods from Street Treats, Seattle’s first dessert food truck. (Try the brown butter krispy treats. They will change your life.) And, believe it or not, we found a local winery that is as book-crazy as we are, Bookwalter Wines.

So grab a glass of your favorite beverage, take in that last bite of krispy treat (You think I’m kidding? Try one!), and enjoy Frankenstein. And our lobby. And Seattle. It’s all fantastic stuff, and the best part? It’s all within an arm’s reach.

Scott Herman Patron Services Manager

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frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Adapted and Directed by David Quicksall

cast Ian Bond Nathaniel Grams Jim Hamerlinck Bill Johns Frank Lawler Parker Matthews † Heather Persinger Zach Simonson † Sascha Streckel Connor Toms* Ruth Eitemiller David Hartig

Henry Clerval / Felix / Ensemble William Frankenstein / Ensemble

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Alphonse Frankenstein / De Lacey / Ensemble Walton Ensemble Margaret / Caroline Frankenstein / The Female Ensemble Elizabeth Lavenza / Safie / Ensemble Victor Frankenstein Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Artistic Team Andrea Bryn Bush Andrew D. Smith Jocelyne Fowler Nathan Wade Lenore Bensinger Kathleen Le Coze Rachel Glass Will Abrahamse

Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound Designer / Composer Guest Artist Properties Master Dialect Coach Production Manager

* Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States † Book-It Acting Intern

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MARY (godwin) Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)

BY ANDREA KOVICH

“The Author of Frankenstein,” as she signed her subsequent novels and tales at a time when it was considered improper for a woman to publish work under her own name, Mary (Godwin) Wollstonecraft Shelley was a remarkable woman with a literary career to rival her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Born in 1797 to two of the leading political writers of the time, Mary’s writings reflect the social criticism of her distinguished literary parents. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, (who died ten days after Mary’s birth) was the author of the influential feminist manifesto A Vindication of the Right of Woman, and her father, William Godwin, wrote the famous critique An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice.

In 1812-13, she met a young, radical admirer of

Godwin, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. By the summer of 1814, the pregnant 16-year-old Mary eloped with the already-married Percy to France, taking her stepsister along.

This first of five pregnancies ended with a premature birth; she soon became pregnant again, and gave birth to son William early in 1816. That summer, Mary and Percy, with baby William and stepsister Claire, took a summer residence by Lake Geneva near Lord Byron’s residence, the Villa Diodati. At one of their evening gatherings, the fateful suggestion to write a ghost story instigated the creation of Frankenstein. Just her second work, it became one of the most enduring, creative literary works of the Romantic period—Mary was just 18 years old.

The tumultuous years before the novel’s publication in January 1818 were fraught with events that would influence the novel and the revised edition of 1831. Toward the end of 1816, her half-sister Fanny commited suicide, Percy’s first wife did as well (Mary and Percy were married shortly afterwards), her third baby was born in September of 1817 but died the next summer, her son William died from malaria in 1819, and her fourth and only child to survive to adulthood, Percy Florence, was born. A few weeks after Mary’s nearly fatal miscarriage in 1822, her husband drowned in a storm off the coast of Tuscany.

Mary returned to London with Percy Florence in 1823, where she saw the first of many stage adaptations of Frankenstein. Capitalizing on the story’s revived popularity, her father oversaw a new printing of the novel that year, which included her name on the title page. She worked through her grief publishing collections of Percy’s poems, and continued her own writing. She published her second most famous novel The Last Man and a revised version of Frankenstein in 1831 that included her own introduction.

Her son eventually inherited the Shelley estate, where she spent the years before her death from a brain tumor in 1851 at the age of 53.

The Modern Prometheus: Unpacking a Metaphor In Greek mythology, Prometheus was the immortal Titan who defied Zeus, stole fire from Mount Olympus to bestow upon mankind, and was punished by being bound to a rock where an eagle was sent to feed upon his liver—which would grow back the next day, only to be eaten again. In the classic Western tradition, Prometheus was seen as the symbol of the transgressor or overreacher who must suffer for his hubris. The Romantics (Shelley and Byron in particular) developed a “modern” metaphor by exploring the radical duality in the Promethean pysche—its capacity for both creation and destruction.

Simply put, the lone genius follows his own creative impulses for the good of all mankind and unleashes a destructive force that leads to ruin.

—David Quicksall

the lady who won a gentleman’s bet

BY ANDREA KOVICH

The lingering volcanic debris from the eruption of Mount Tamboro caused dramatic sunsets and is thought to have inspired the strange atmospheric tint (an eerie orange) in JMW Turner’s painting Chichester Canal, circa 1829.

It was during the dreary summer of 1816, historically known as the “Year Without a Summer,” that the spark of Frankenstein was first generated.

Mount Tamboro in Indonesia had erupted twice the previous spring, causing peculiar weather and other unusual phenomena around the world. Incessant rain and fierce lightning storms visited Switzerland where Mary Godwin and her lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, had taken a house on the eastern banks of Lake Geneva in the shadow of the Alps. Nearby Lord Byron and John Polidori, the poet’s personal physician and traveling companion, had rented the Villa Diodati. The neighbors often gathered there to entertain themselves during the storms, conversing about such topics as literature, poetry, recent advances in science, and the principle of life.

As the story goes, one evening in June, the party had been amusing themselves by reading aloud from Fantasmagoriana, a French translation of German ghost stories. The stories were chilling but clumsily written, which prompted Lord Byron to propose that they each write their own supernatural story. The other literary members of the group agreed to the challenge and the ghost-story contest began. However, it seems that the two poets found it difficult to write in prose; Lord Byron composed a fragment of a tale that he never completed and there is no evidence that Percy Shelley produced anything. The two quickly abandoned the task, leaving a few days later for a journey among the Alps. Polidori, who had originally come up with an idea about a skull-headed lady, was inspired by Byron’s fragment and used it to write his novella The Vampyre, which became the precursor to the vampire classic Dracula.

In her introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary describes how she struggled to come up with a story that would thrill readers and probe the deepest fears of human nature. The late-night discussions had filled her with various disconnected thoughts, but they failed to come together to create a story and she was suffering from acute writers block. But one night, she experienced a frightening waking dream:

d “My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guide my in arose that es imag ssive succe me, gifting the ds mind with a vividness far beyond the usual boun al ment acute of reverie. I saw—with shut eyes, but arts d llowe unha of nt vision—I saw the pale stude I saw kneeling beside the thing he had put toget her. and out, hed stretc man a of asm phant us the hideo e, then, on the workings of some powerful engin half y, uneas an with show signs of life, and stir vital motion.”

The dream so terrified her that she decided to use it as the foundation for her supernatural story. The next day she began writing with the legendary words: “It was on a dreary night of November...”

The Writers

Mary Godwin

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

John Polidori

to be put on a shelf... or, thrown in the trash.

I dig up this rather grim (and, I would argue, goofy) anecdote for a couple of reasons: first, I have always been attracted to macabre and horrific stories; second, that the irrepressible urge to create has never diminished in me. As I from grew older, my creative urges led me into the theater, where I still continue to “make stuff” as an actor, director, and writer.

Yet, inside the grown artist, is still that macabre kid who drew machines that killed people, dismembered their bodies, and put them back together as a new form.

Which brings me to Mary W. Shelley—another macabre “kid” who was only 19 years old when she wrote Frankenstein (a fact I still find astounding). Mary’s formative years were surrounded by intellectual and aesthetic revolutionaries, beginning with her parents, Mary Wollstonecraft (who died soon after giving her birth) and William Godwin. In the highly regarded salons held by her father, Mary met the young radical thinker and poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. They ran off together...ended up at Lake Geneva with that other bad boy “The Creature in the Hovel” by David Quicksall of letters, Lord Byron. History was made, as the legend goes, My earliest memories always include the act of creating art. when Byron challenged everyone to a ghost story writing I was constantly animating the figments of my imagination contest. Not only did Mary “win” the contest, but she put with pencil, ink, and paint—it was an impulse to create that together a beautiful distillation of what Harold Bloom calls I seemed to have no “the archetypal world control over... and, of the Romantics.” A more significantly, an Promethean struggle impulse that I didn’t with the self that want to have control contains at its center over. It felt good. As I the irrepressible need grew older, my artistic to create...or as Mary abilities improved. My Shelley labeled it “the imagination deepened fatal impulse.” by crawling into the At its core, the darker recesses of my creation of art is a creativity and joining self-driven act—the the monsters that following of an resided there. Yes, I “Book Ride” by David Quicksall, age 11 “impulse” to generate adored monsters...of every kind—especially meaning out of an idea, a fanciful image in the mind’s eye... the ones from movies: vampires, werewolves, aliens, grotesque or, even a crazy machine that transforms people into objects. creatures, and (of course) Frankenstein (the name that I A lesson I take from Frankenstein is a simple one—what if I thought belonged to the monster). had followed that “fatal impulse” to create a machine to its Around the age of 11 or so, I began obsessively drawing more deadly conclusion? My life would certainly have taken machines. Innocuous enough; however, these machines turned a different turn. We all can learn from Victor Frankenstein’s people into inanimate objects. Above center is a section from story—the endgame of following any creative impulse can lead an actual drawing of mine that has survived through the to glorious achievement... and disastrous ruin. ensuing years.

I called this contraption a “Book Ride.” Essentially, one goes down the slide, is killed, goes through the “shreader,” is turned into paper, and... eventually is transformed into a book Adapter & Director

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Cast Ian Bond

Henry Clerval / Felix / Ensemble

Ian is new to Seattle; he moved from Cincinnati, where he spent the past three years as a resident ensemble member of the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Favorite roles at CSC include Romeo, Mr. Darcy, Hamlet (tour), Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility, Banquo in Macbeth, and Al Joad in The Grapes of Wrath. He has also performed with Cincinnati Opera in Porgy and Bess, Know Theatre of Cincinnati in When the Rain Stops Falling, and Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte in Little Dog Laughed. So far in Seattle, he has performed at the Seattle Fringe Festival in Hunting Dinosaurs, with Sound Theatre Company in Holiday of Errors, and can be seen next in Taproot Theatre Company’s Diana of Dobson’s.

Nathaniel Grams

William Frankenstein/ Ensemble

Nate has been interested in acting for as long as he can remember.

A veteran of several Seattle Children’s Theatre acting classes, Nate appeared last summer in Seattle Children’s Theatre’s Medieval Mayhem. He played one of the Pennypacker children in the Endangered Species Project staged reading of The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker. Nate attends The Evergreen School in Shoreline. He is thrilled to be a member of the Frankenstein cast.

Jim Hamerlinck

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Jim is honored to be back on the Book-It stage, where he last appeared as Orlick in Great Expectations. Since then, he has worked on an episode of NBC’s “Grimm” and in the feature film You Can’t Win directed by Robinson Devor. Jim finds inspiration in the small things, as evidenced by his photography. www.quietseattle.com

* Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Intern

Bill Johns

Alphonse Frankenstein / De Lacey / Ensemble Bill is thrilled to be back at Book-It again.

Previously, he has appeared in Sense and Sensibilty as Mr. Dashwood and Sir John, in A Confederacy of Dunces as Mr. Gonzales and Dorian Greene, in Peter Pan as Smee, and in Broken for You as Bruce, Sam, and Dermit. He has also worked locally with ACT Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Village Theatre, Taproot Theatre Company, Seattle Public Theater, Annex Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and continues to work on various TV, film, voice-over, and video game projects. He is married to author Stephanie Kallos and has three children— Brynn, Noah, and Sam. Look for him as well in Book-It’s upcoming The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay as The Mighty Molecule.

Frank Lawler Walton

Frank is delighted to be back at Book-It where he was last seen in Great Expectations.

Previous Book-It shows include Persuasion, The House of Mirth, and Rebecca. Frank most recently performed as Will Shakespeare in Sound Theatre Company’s Holiday of Errors (which he also co-wrote). He has acted in many area productions, including The Pitmen Painters at ACT Theatre, Tartuffe at Taproot, Pygmalion at Sound Theatre Company, The Elephant Man at Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Arms and the Man at Seattle Public Theater, The 39 Steps at SecondStory Repertory, Henry V at Harlequin Productions, and Twelfth Night at Seattle Shakespeare Company. Frank is a native of Ottawa, Canada, a graduate of Harvard University, and past president of the board of directors of Theatre Puget Sound. www. franklawler.com

Parker Matthews† Ensemble

Parker deeply regrets that he made it through high school without ever going through a Goth phase, although he is at least slightly cheered to be in this Gothic horror play, which is probably the closest he’ll ever get. Life is full of disappointments. However, he is absolutely not disappointed to join this wonderful ensemble for his first show with Book-It!

He was recently seen as Wagner/The Good Angel in a new adaptation of Doctor Faustus, Brutus in Handwritten Productions’ Julius Caesar, and The Hiker Who Regrets This Whole Trip in Hiking Around Mt. Rainier in Four Days.

Heather Persinger

Margaret / Caroline Frankenstein / The Female Heather is pleased to return to the Book-It stage after appearing in Border Songs. Recently she has performed in Much Ado About Nothing and Coriolanus with Seattle Shakespeare Company, The Language Archive and Boston Marriage with Seattle Public Theater, Sextet with Washington Ensemble Theatre, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, and All’s Well That Ends Well with Greenstage.

She has also worked with Pony World, Theatre Simple, and 14/48. Nationally, Heather has performed with Shakespeare & Company, Hedgerow Theatre, Creede Repertory Theatre, Williamette Repertory Theatre, and Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival.

She has trained with the National Theatre Institute, and holds a BFA from Chapman University and an MA from the University of Oregon.

Zach Simonson† Ensemble

Zach is thrilled to be a part of this tremendous team! Recent Seattle credits include Rope with Ghost Light Theatricals, American Buffalo with Seattle Repertory Theatre, Tigers Be Still with Catapult Theatre Project, and The Thrilling Adventures of the Famous Lewis and Clark! with Annex Theatre.

Sascha Streckel

Elizabeth Lavenza / Safie / Ensemble Sascha is a recent Seattlite hailing from Texas with her BFA from Stephens College in Missouri. She has worked locally with Gregory-Awarded “Theatre of the Year” Annex Theatre (of which she is a proud staff member), Pork Filled Players, GreenStage, Live Girls!, and others. She performed this fall in the Seattle Fringe Festival for the second year, and her production of Operation Hibernation was nominated for a Broadway World Award. In 2013 she wrapped filming

for The Devil Walks in Salem and a local webseries, House of Glass; both will premiere this year. Sascha is also a proud teaching artist for all ages and has worked throughout Seattle with Y.E.S. Theatre 9/12, Stone Soup Theatre, Seattle’s Littlest Performers, and Sweet Pea Cottage. www.saschastreckel.com

Connor Toms*

Victor Frankenstein

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This is Connor’s fourth production with BookIt, but only his first written by someone other than John Irving: The Cider House Rules, Parts I & II and Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. He has also worked at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Intiman, ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Wooden O, Seattle Children’s Theatre, the New Victory Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and many more in and around Seattle.

He can be seen next in The Importance of Being Earnest at Seattle Shakespeare Company alongside his wife, Hana Lass– recipient of the Slamtoss Foundation’s “Greatest Wife of All Time, Ever” award for three years running.

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works with the company include She’s Come Undone, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II. Her work has been seen at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Public Theater, Contemporary Classics, Seattle Musical Theatre, Azeotrope, The 5th Avenue Theatre, AMT Touring Co., and Cornish College of the Arts. Andrea was formerly an ensemble member and resident designer at Washington Ensemble Theatre. She also received the 2010 Gregory Award for outstanding scenic design as well as a Seattle Times Footlight Award.

Andrew D. Smith Lighting Designer

Andrew is a Seattle-based lighting designer, and is pleased to be working again with Book-It, where he previously designed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.

Recent productions include Red Light Winter and 25 Saints with Azeotrope, Pippi Longstocking with Seattle Children’s Theatre, Intiman Summer Festival 2013, and The Seagull Project with ACT Central Heating Lab. Andrew has worked nationally at Flint Youth Theatre, Horizon Theater Company, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Roust Theater, and Cardinal Stage Company. He received the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Award for Outstanding Lighting Designer, as well as the 2010 Seattle Times Footlight Award.

Andrew holds a BA from Duke University and an MFA from the University of Washington, where he currently teaches.

David Quicksall Adapter / Director

David’s work as a director was last seen in 2011 at Book-It in Border Songs. Past productions he has adapted and directed for Book-It are Moby-Dick, or The Whale (a Seattle Times Footlight Award recipient), If I Die In A Combat Zone Box Me Up And Ship Me Home, Dracula: Jonathan Harker’s Journal, and Don Quixote (co-adapted with Annie Ludlam). David has also directed The Tempest and Coriolanus (Seattle Weekly’s “Play of the Year”) for Seattle Shakespeare Company. As an actor, David has worked at Book-It, Seattle Shakespeare Company The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, ACT Theatre, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. David is also proud to be a member of Book-It’s terrific board of directors.

Andrea Bryn Bush Scenic Designer

Andrea is thrilled to be designing with Book-It Repertory Theatre again. Previous

Jocelyne Fowler Costume Designer

Jocelyne has designed Anna Karenina and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet for Book-It Repertory Theatre, Richard II at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Henry V and The Tempest for Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, Legally Blonde for Seattle Musical Theatre, Shrek: The Musical, Little Women, and The Sound of Music for Youth Theatre Northwest, Jesus Christ Superstar with Harlequin Productions, and other local theatres. Upcoming work can be seen in Spring Awakening at Youth Theatre Northwest and Young Frankenstein at Seattle Musical Theatre.

Nathan Wade

Sound Designer / Composer Nathan is a local composer and sound designer who spends much of his time balancing music with fatherhood. As a long-time Book-It veteran (often with co-

conspirator David Quicksall), his musical and audio handiwork has been featured in stage adaptations of Jesus’ Son, Border Songs, Moby-Dick, or The Whale, Don Quixote, and Dracula: Jonathan Harker’s Journal. www.nathanwademusic.com

Lenore Bensinger Guest Artist

Lenore is a playwright and dramaturg. Her last Book-It project was the wonderful Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored.

Coming up, after Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay late this Spring at Book-It. She’s currently “turf ” for several projects, including the amazing Marisol, coming up in February with The Collision Project. Her most current project, Meanwhile, is an astrophysics musical with a produced workshop at Roosevelt High School and now continuing in multiple big bang universes.

Kathleen Le Coze Properties Master

Kathleen is Book-It’s properties master for the ‘13-14 season, after graduating from Cornish College of the Arts’ performance production department last spring. Her debut was Jesus’ Son as well as being props artisan for She’s Come Undone. Other credits include props master for Trust Me with Village’s KIDSTAGE program in Issaquah, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Washington Ensemble Theatre, and properties artisan for Much Ado About Nothing with Seattle Shakespeare Company.

You can continue to see her work with Book-It, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and other various projects at Village’s KIDSTAGE program in Issaquah.

Rachel Glass Dialect Coach

Rachel has coached adults and children in dialects and foreign languages since the 1990s. She dialect coached for Moby-Dick, or The Whale and Dracula at Book-It, and for several regional productions of A Christmas Carol. She works with actors in stage, television, and film in L.A., the Bay Area, NYC, Nashville, and Seattle. She has worked on several interactive foreign language lab DVDs for Hyperglot. Training includes A.C.T. (San Francisco), Drama Studio London, and The Canadian National Voice Intensive. As an actress, Rachel has worked nationally on stage and in feature films, television, and video. On the radio, Rachel is a regular on Seattle’s Imagination Theatre with Jim French Productions, which

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requires countless voices and dialects. She has done numerous voiceovers, both regional and national, and records audio books professionally.

Ruth Eitemiller Stage Manager

Ruth is happy to join Book-It for another production, having stage managed Anna Karenina last season and assistant stage managed Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant and Sense and Sensibility in previous seasons.

Her recent credits include A Christmas Carol and the U.S. premiere of Sugar Daddies at ACT Theatre, The Trial with New Century Theatre Company, and The Wizard of Oz at Seattle Children’s Theatre.

Other favorite productions include O Lovely Glowworm, Dancing at Lugnasa, and The Adding Machine. She is a proud member and current assistant production manager for New Century Theatre Company.

David Hartig

Assistant Stage Manager

David, a Wisconsin native, is thrilled to be working on his first production in Seattle and is excited it is with Book-It. Wisconsin credits include All My Sons, The Admirable Crichton, The Critic, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest with American Players Theatre; Cabaret, My Name is Asher Lev, The Bomb-ity of Errors, Othello, and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) with Milwaukee Repertory Theater; and A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine with Peninsula Players Theatre.

David has spent the last two seasons as the touring stage manager for the Eugene Ballet Company, where he recently stage managed the world premiere of Toni Pimble’s Mowgli: The Jungle Book Ballet.

Will Abrahamse

studied technical theatre and architecture at Washington State University and The University of Idaho.

Myra Platt

Founding Co-Artistic Director As co-founder, director, adapter, actor, and composer, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 100 world premieres. Most recently she adapted and directed The Financial Lives of the Poets, nominated in the 2013 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Production. Her other adapting/directing credits include The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone Call, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Directing credits include Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday. She adapted The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones, and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland.

Her acting credits include Prairie Nocturne, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, The Awakening (West Los Angeles Garland Award), Howards End, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II (original production).

Myra has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum. Myra is the recipient, with Jane Jones, of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Founders Award, the 2010 Women of Influence from Puget Sound Business Journal, and was named by Seattle Times an Unsung Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region.

Production Manager With more than a decade in theatre and nearly 100 productions under his belt, Will’s work as a set designer and scenic artist has been seen on the stages of Tacoma Musical Playhouse, ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, Seattle Public Theater, and Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, among others. He has served as the technical director for Tacoma Musical Playhouse and ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery. Throughout the years, Will has worked closely with the drama programs of Auburn Riverside High School and Enumclaw High School, helping to foster the next generation of theatre technicians. Will * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Intern

Jane Jones

Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 25 years of staging literature, she has performed, adapted, and directed works by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 30 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s most prominent regional theatres. Most recently, she played the role of Miss Havisham in

Book-It’s Great Expectations. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director).

Jane directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, 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 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award.

charlotte m. tiencken Managing Director

Charlotte is an administrator, director, producer, and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting fields for 28 years. Before moving back to the Seattle area in September 2003, she was general manager at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. As president of her own consulting firm, Scarlet Productions, she has worked with companies across the country, including Chitresh Das Dance Company in San Francisco, Ben Munisteri Dance in New York, Seattle Theatre Group, EnJoy Productions in Seattle, and Westwind, in Oregon among many others. She has taught at Seattle Pacific University, the University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, and the University of Puget Sound. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. for seven years. Charlotte is a member of SDC, the union of stage directors and choreographers and is past president of the Board of Arts Northwest. She has served on the Board of the Pat Graney Dance

Company, on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission and 4 Culture, and was president of the Board of Theatre Puget Sound. Her most recent directing credits include Into the Woods for Vashon Drama Dock, Eugene Onegin for Vashon Opera, and Rashomon for Seattle Pacific University. She lives on Vashon Island with her husband Bill, three cats, and two dogs.

production

staff

special thanks to Nick Albrect Lenore Besinger Eloise Boyle & Jim Grams Rebecca Brown Izumi Fairbanks Jack, Patty, and Steve Fleischman Rachel Glass Bill Johns Raimonda Modiano

Andrea Kovich† Assistant Director / Dramaturg

emma pihl† Stage Management Intern

Devon Bright Master Electrician

Anders Bolang Master Carpenter

Carmen Rodriguez Charge Artist

Trevor Cushman Key Electrician / Light Board Operator

Sarah Anthony Sound Engineer / Sound Board Operator

Courtney Kessler Wardrobe † Book-It Intern

affiliations actors’ equity association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans.

AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark.

Book-It Repertory Theatre is a proud member of

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honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support!

LITERARY Legends $75,000+

Leadership Circle, cont.

Nobel Award Society, cont.

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Mary Pigott Anonymous

The Ex Anima Fund Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness** Lucy Helm HomeStreet Bank Key Bank Mary Metastasio** Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters Joni Ostergaard & Will Patton** John Schaffer Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches** The Seattle Foundation Jim & Kathy Tune Elizabeth Warman** Robert Wiley

Mary Snapp Deborah Swets** Shirley & David Urdal Williams Miller Family Foundation Judith Whetzel Anonymous

LITERARY CHampions $25,000+ ArtsFund The Boeing Company Charitable Trust Matthew N. Clapp, Jr. The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Gladys Rubinstein

LITERARY HEROES $10,000+ 4Culture N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier John & Ellen Hill Stellman Keehnel Lucky Seven Foundation The Norcliffe Foundation Nordstrom Ann Ramsay-Jenkins The Seattle Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Shirley & David Urdal Kris & Mike Villiott April J. Williamson Anonymous

Literary Classics $5,000+ ArtsWA Joann Byrd** Sonya & Tom Campion Matthew N. Clapp, Jr. Lynne & Nick Reynolds Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Tom & Cheryl Oliver** Larry & Michell Pihl PONCHO Garth & Drella Stein** Seattle Office Of Arts & Culture Anonymous

Leadership Circle $2,500+ Monica Alquist** Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Boeing Gift Matching Program Karen Brandvick Baker & Ross Baker Steven Bull & Christiane Pein** Amy & Matthew Cockburn George & Carolyn Cox

Nobel Award Society $1,000+ Rachel Alquist** Salli & Stephen Bauer Bookwalter Winery** Patricia Britton** Janet Boguch & Kelby Fletcher Amanda & Jeff Cain** Bill & Carol Collins D.A. Davidson & Co. Allan & Nora Davis Emily Davis Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal Firesteed Cellars* Mary Francis & Harold Hill Cande & Tom Grogan Amy & Thaddeus Hanscom Hilliard Brewery* Heather Howard Judith Jesiolowski & David Thompson KeyBank Foundation Lea Knight Susan Leavitt & Bill Block Melissa & Don Manning Holly & Bill Marklyn Marcia Mason Ellen Maxson Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Minar and Northey LLP Lynn Murphy Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Puget Sound Business Journal Shirley Roberson** Martha Sidlo Virginia Sly & Richard Wesley

Pulitzer Award Society $500+ Ruth Bailey Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb Don Brown The Carey Family Foundation Catherine Clark & Marc Jacques Pamela Cowan & Steve Miller Deborah Cowley & Mark Dexter Emily & Tony Cox Dottie Delaney Beth L. Dubey Katie & Brent Enarson Jane & Stan Fields R. Brooks Gekler Jean Gorecki & Dick Dobyns Laura & Erik Hanson Phyllis Hatfield Meg Holgate & Bruce Bradburn Humanities Washington Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon** Clare Kapitan & Keith Schreiber Pam Kendrick Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Stephen E. Lovell Ellen & Stephen Lutz Darcy & Lee MacLaren Lynn Manley & Alexander Lindsey Kaaren & James McElroy Sarah Merner & Craig McKibben Richard Monroe Meta L. Pasternak Charles & Doris Ray Roberta Reaber & Leo Butzel Anne Repass Schilling Cider* Pamela & Nate Searle Seattle International Film Festival* Gail & John Sehlhorst Michael Jo Shapiro Meg Silver Karen & B. Richal Smith Linda Snider Wendy Thompson & C. Rhea

honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support!

Pulitzer Award Society, cont.

National Book Award Society, cont.

Pen / Faulkner Award Circle, cont.

Molly Thompson & Joe Casalini Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Kerry P. Thompson Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West Janet & Stan Vail Ruth & Jerry Verhoff Jennifer Weis Robert & Leora Wheeler Margaret Winsor & Jay Hereford Christina Wright & Luther Black Sally Wright Lucy Zuccotti Anonymous (2)

Aileen Mosier Colette Ogle Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert Susan Petty & Richard Adair Scott Pinckney Kim Port & Norman Garner Heather Pullen & Frank Schumann* Linda Quirk Bradley Renner Paula Riggert Jo Ann & Jim Roberts H. Stewart Ross Don & Marty Sands Donna Marie & Dr. Robert Saunders Seattle Shakespeare Company* Richard & Irene Strand LiAnn & Stephen Sundquist Gail Tanaka Taproot Theatre* TV Land* Ruth Valine & Edward McNerney Colin Wagoner Vreni von Arx Watt & Jerry Watt Blake & Cathy Wilson WorldWise Jewelry*

Expedia Gives Matching Gift Program • The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies* • Jane Faulkner & Marc Kittner • Polly Feigl • Caroline Feiss • Chandler & Janice Felt • James & Denise Fortier • Jessica Foss • Kai Fujita • Mike & Jean Gannon • Cezanne Garcia • Siobhan Ginnane • Vicki & Gerrie Goddard • Jean Godden** • Suzanne Goren • Anke Gray • Jake Greenberg • Pamela Greenwood • Eleanor Hamburger • Faith Hanna • Larry Hanson • Marcia L. Harper • Elizabeth Hastorf • Ellen & David Hecht • Rebecca Herzfeld & Gordon Crawford • Chris Higashi • Patricia Highet • HighGradeComics.com* • Terri Hiroshima • Susan Hoffman • Kate Hokanson • Lisa Holderman • Mark & Carolyn Holtzen • Hourglass Footwear* • Cynthia Huffman & Ray Heacox • Melissa Huther • Wendy Jackson • Lani Johnson • Kris Jorgensen & Margey Rubado • Gil Joynt • Joan Kalhorn • David Kasik & Jan Levine • Amie Kidane • Mary J. Klubben • James Knapp • Larry Knopp • Art Kobayashi • Alan Kristal • Joyce Anne Latino & John O’Connell • Eleni Ledesma & Dr. Eric Rose • Lois Levy • Christine Lewis • B. Parker Lindner • Carol Lucas • Carol Lumb • Kjristine Lund • Steve MacDonald • Nancy Manula • Elaine Mathies • Kathy McCluskey • Lee & Phil McCluskey • Deirdre & Jay McCrary • Marcie & John McHale • Susan Mecklenburg • Jeanne Metzger • Bonnie & Curry Miller • Shyla & Donald Miller • George & Marion Mohler • Becky Monk • Terry & Cornelia Moore • Elizabeth Morrison & Geoff Crooks • Christine Mosere** • Dawna Munson • David Nash & Pat Graves • Riley Neldam* • Pam & Scott Nolte • Deanna & Craig Norsen • Northwest Asian Weekly* • Northwest Folklife* • Mikel O’Brien • Martha Oman • Kevin & Linda O’Morrison • Pat O’Rourke • Blair Osborn & Alice Cunningham • Donna & Robert Parker • Deborah & Jeff Parsons • Kelly Pearson • Corliss J. Perdaems • Sherry Perrault • Barbara B. Peterson • Gloria Pfeif • Phoenix Theatre* • Robert Pillitteri • Ruthanne Pipkin • Myra Platt & Dave Ellis • Felicia Porter • Susan Porterfield

National Book Award Society $250+ Alderbrook Resort & Spa* Christina Amante Kim Anderson Virginia L. Anderson Rex Barker Susan Bradley Elizabeth Braun Mary Anne Braund & Steve Pellegrin Carol Butterfield Linda & Peter Capell Sylvia & Craig Chambers Christina Chang & Paul Stucki Samantha Cooper Gaylee & Jim Duncan Sara Elward Joyce Erickson Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman Jayn & Hugh Foy Alan Fritzberg Katharine Godman & Jerry Collum Terry Graham Diane Grover Pamela Harer & Dr. Benson Nicholas Hart Robert Hunter Nancie Kosnoff Larry Lewin Cynthia Livak David Loren & Julie Lyss Dora Mahan Elizabeth Mathewson Ruth McCormick Ann McCurdy & Frank Lawler Louise McNerney Eleanor Moseley

Pen / Faulkner Award Circle $100+ ACT Theatre* • Doug Adams • Shawn & Lynne Aebi • Andrea Albers • John Aldaya • Rachel Allen • Christopher Alston • Cinnimin Avena • Maxine Bailey • Jo Ann & Tom Bardeen • Susan Bennett • Deb & Bill Bigelow • Richard P. Billingham • Inez Noble Black • Lindsay & Tony Blackner • Rebecca Bogard • Rhonda Bolton • Brad Borst • Jonathan Buchter • Emily Burns • Christine Calderon • Melanie Calderwood • Carri Campbell • Cashmere Mountain Bed & Breakfast* • Kevin & Jocelyn Ceder • Gerry & Kristine Champagne • Joyce Chase • Lynne & David Chelimer • Marianna Clark & Charles Schafer • Jack & Cynthia Clay • Catherine Clemens • Nancy Cleveland • Shelly Clift • Joe Copeland • Garry & Kay Crane • Sandra & Paul Dehmer • Dorothy & Jim Denton • Doe Bay Resort* • Susan M. Dyer • Sarah L. Easterbrook • Kathleen Edwards • Lynne & Hollie Ellis • Marilyn Endriss • Randy Engstrom • Constance L. Euerle

Pen / Faulkner Award Circle, cont.

O. Henry Award Circle, cont.

O. Henry Award Circle, cont.

William & Joan Potter • Jason Powell • Marissa Price • Gordon Prouty • Andrea Ptak & Aaron Houseknecht • David Quicksall & Rachel Glass** • Daniel & Barbara Radin • Bruce & Sonia Ransom • Brian & Roberta Reed • Connie Reed • Carolyn Rees • Esther Reese • Arnold Reich • Jane Reich • Sarah Reisenauer • Jane Repensek • Karen & Eric Richter • Rebecca Ripley • Roberta Roberts • Barbara Rollinger • Ellen Roth • Kristine Ruppelt • Rebecca Sadinsky • Donna Sand • Claudia Sanders • Linda Schenkel • Kinza Schuyler • Seattle Repertory Theatre* • Seattle Theatre Group* • Mark Seklemian • Aime & Mike Servais • • Sumeer Singla • Marilyn Sloan • George & Susan Smith • Warren Smith • Jill Snyder • Starbucks Coffee Company And Foundation* • Janice Strand • Eric & Cassandra Taylor • Terry Tazioli • Anne Terry • Alan & Michele Tesler • The Two Tides* • Cappy Thompson • Richard Thorvilson • Eric Thuau • Jennifer Tice • Tom Douglas Restaurants* • Caren Toney • Deborah Torgerson • Marcia Utela • Karen & Ron Van Genderen • Susan VanZanten • Verizon Foundation* • Village Theatre* • Jorie Wackerman • Susan Warwick • Deb Watson • Sally & Charles Weems • Kayla Weiner • Tom & Kristi Weir • Gregory Wetzel • Jean & David White • Sara White & Robert Jordan • Bill & Paula Whitham • Jane Wiegenstein • Rob Williamson • Janet & Lawrence Wilson • Mary Wilson & Barry Boone • Michael Winters • Daniel Youmans • Diane Zahn • Shari Zehm • Juliet Ziegler • Anonymous (5)

Richard Detrano • Lynn Dissinger • Marcia Donovan • Downtown Dog Lounge* • Jane & Dan Drais • Lorna Dykes • Nancy Ellingham • Margot & Dave Elsner • Daisy & Joel Emans • Nancy Erickson • Shannon Erickson Loys** • Mary Ellen Flanagan • Carolyn & Rob Fletcher • Lisa Foss • Lisbeth & Alan Fritzberg • Kris & Lori Fulsaas • Alan Garrett • Neil Gerth • Elizabeth Gilchrist • Ann Glusker & Peter Hunsberger • Joan & Steve Goldblatt • Lian Handaja • Harry’s Daughter Jewelry* • Enid Havens • Anne Helmholz • Kate Hemer • Catherine Hennings • Dale Hicklin • Stephanie Hilbert • Carol Horton • Hanah Igama • Douglas Jackson • Tricia Jackson • Joan Karkeck • Millett & Patricia Keller • Anne Kiemle • James & Vicki King • Shannon & Richard Knipp • Sandy Kubishta • Barb & Art Lachman • David & Cynthia Lantry • Teri J. Lazzara • LeMay - America’s Car Museum* • Dorothy Lennard • Bonnie Lewman • Liberty Mutual Insurance* • Madalene Lickey • Adelaide Loges • John Lombard & Jenny Haykin • Nancy Lomneth & Mark Boyd • Arlyn Losey • Mary Frances Lyons • Betty Ngan & Tom Mailhot • Anthony Martello • Melodie Martin • Susan McCloskey • Theresa & J. Douglas McLean • Merck Partnership For Giving • Susan Min • Patricia Mines • Christopher Monck & Susan K. Jones • Susan & Harold Mozer • Phill Mroz • Museum of Flight* • John Narver • Malinda Newstrom • Judy & Stephen Niver • Curtis & Marion Northrop • Nancy & Stephen Olsen • Timothy O’Sullivan • Nan Peele • Ed & Carol Perrin • Alison Peters • Nancy Reichley & Timothy Higgins • Jeannette Reynolds • Louis & Betty Ann Richmond • Virginia & Thomas Riedinger • Ann Rowberg • J.D. Royer • Beth Rutherford • Debbie Rutherford • Patricia Rytkonen & William Karn • Clint Salee • Michael Sandner • Sheila & George K. Saul • B. Charlotte Schreiber • Seattle Children’s Museum* • Seattle Children’s Theatre* • Earl & Charyl Kay Sedlik • Noah Seixas & Dana Standish • Audrey & John Sheffield • Marcia & Peter Sill • Eloise Stachowiak

Street Treats* • Sheila Striegl • Constance Swank • Tom Sykes & Sarah Thomas • Theo Chocolate* • Marcellus Turner • Elizabeth Valentine • Jeanne Van Aalst • Kathleen Vasquez • Julie Weisbach • Richard White • Richard Wilson & Lloyd Herman • Robert Winsor & Valerie Yockey • Anonymous (3)

O. Henry Award Circle $50+ Judith Alexander • Amgen Foundation • Hilari Anderson • Susan & John Anderson • Rosalie Antupit • Anne & Roger Baker • E H Baker • Sonia & Kendall Baker • Anne Banks • Sybil Barney • Shawn Baz & Ellen Bezona • Susan Benson • Cheryl Boudreau • Broadway Center For The Performing Arts* • Melissa & Sean Bruce • Marilyn Bunday • Stan & Alice Burgess • Deborah Christensen • Mary E. Comtois • Beverly Corwin • Deborah Daoust • Lara Davis • Robin Dearling & Gary Ackerman

Gifts in Honor & memory Jeanne Metzger in Honor of Joann Byrd Corliss Perdaems in Memory of Judy Runstad’s father, Gerry Wright Manville Nancy L. Celms, Kate C. Hemer, Connie Hungate, and Margaret M. Marshall in Memory of William Rees Phillips Barbara Rollinger in Memory of Stephanie Prince’s mother, Mildred Prince Linda Snider in Memory of mother, Pearl R. Snider Sonja M. Coffman in Memory of Helen Robinson Kinza Schuyler in Memory of mother, Jeanette P. Weber

*denotes in-kind donation **denotes in-kind plus monetary support This list reflects gifts received February 1, 2013 – January 15, 2014.

Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgements. Please email Donor Relations and Development Manager Rachel Alquist at development@book-it.org with any changes that may be required.

Our mission is to transform great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive production and to inspire our audiences to read.

2010 Mayor’s Arts Award-winner and recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Arts Award, Book-It Repertory Theatre was founded 24 years ago as an artists’ collective, adapting short stories for performance and touring them throughout the Northwest. Today, with over 100 world-premiere adaptations of literature to its credit—many of which have garnered rave reviews and gone on to subsequent productions all over the country—Book-It is widely respected for the consistent artistic excellence of its work.

board of directors Joann Byrd, President

Margaret Kineke

Thomas Oliver, Vice-President

Mary Metastasio

Kristine Villiott, Treasurer

Joni Ostergaard

Shirley Roberson, Secretary

Will Patton

Monica Alquist

Myra Platt

Ross Baker

David Quicksall

Karen Brandvick-Baker

Stephen Robinson

Steven Bull

Steven Schwartzman

Amanda Cain

Deborah Swets

Stuart Frank

Elizabeth J. Warman

Journalist & Editor, Retired Educator

CPA, Minar and Northey LLP Senior Associate, Hughes Media Law Group Dir. of Events & Special Projects, Puget Sound Business Journal Public Policy Director, Virginia Mason Medical Center Marketing & Corporate Communications, HomeStreet Bank Architect, Workshop for Architecture + Design Librarian, Olympic College Project Manager, Partner Capability Development, Starbucks

Jane Jones

Senior V.P., D.A. Davidson & Co. Senior Portfolio Manager, Safeco, Retired Attorney, Retired Attorney, Foster Pepper PLLC Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It Independent Theatre Artist & Teacher Writer

Attorney, U.S. Postal Service, Western Area Law Department V.P. for Membership, Washington State Hospital Assocation Dir. Global Corporate Citizenship, NW Region, The Boeing Co.

Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It

book-it staff & interns Jane Jones, Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director Myra Platt, Founding Co-Artistic Director Charlotte M. Tiencken, Managing Director Josh Aaseng, Literary Manager Will Abrahamse, Production Manager Rachel Alquist, Donor Relations & Development Manager Michelle Berweiler, House Manager Anders Bolang, Master Carpenter Patricia Britton, Director of Marketing & Communications Tom Dewey, Lead Box Office Associate Jocelyne Fowler, Costume Shop Manager Scott Herman, Patron Services Manager Shannon Erickson Loys, Publications & Media Manager Katie McKellar, Tour Manager Christine Mosere, Director of Development Natasha Ransom, Education Associate

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