A Novel Approach to Theatre
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Antoine de S a int- E x u p é r y ’ s
A New Operetta by Myra Platt Music by Joshua Kohl
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EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES * My Ántonia * Moby-Dick, or The Whale The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears * Night Flight
A Novel Approach to Theatre Book-It aims to put our mission to the test. We want to make sure our work supports and furthers a right we believe to be fundamental for every human being: to read.
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o, here we are. The last show of our 19th season. We have hitchhiked across America with Sissy Hankshaw, traveled through the wheat plains of Nebraska in open wagons with Ántonia, sailed around the Horn with Captain Ahab hunting the mighty white whale, followed Sepha Stephanos through the streets of D.C. chasing the ghosts of his Ethiopian past, and now we’re flying high above the Andean Mountains delivering the mail. How many, many miles we have journeyed this season. And yet, we feel, we have only just begun. This has been a remarkable year. There is a movement afoot at Book-It that is connecting us to our future. As we swiftly approach our 20th anniversary, our staff and Board of Directors have just put the finishing touches on a comprehensive, visionary and thoughtful long-range plan that maps out our following three years in detail and sets a course for our next 20. We have a dream. We envision a literacy-based theatre arts complex where the confluence of theatre, literature and education nourishes the literacy and artistic vitality—the joys and needs—of our community. This center will house and inspire our mission, which for 20 years has been to transform great literature into great theatre and to inspire our audiences to read. It will pursue the success of our mission by embracing and supporting our core company values: collaboration, intimacy, diversity and accessibility. We want to celebrate our rich history of building community partnerships and reach new audience members through our main stage and outreach programs, which currently touch over 70,000 people a year in
our region. But, we are indeed ambitious and see the potential for more. Book-It aims to put our mission to the test. We want to make sure our work supports and furthers a right we believe to be fundamental for human being; to read. It is a good dream. A noble mission. And thanks to you, our audiences, and many, many foundations both national and local, donors, angels, readers, actors, directors, designers, educators, volunteers, everyone who has ever bought a ticket or made a donation, loaned us a wheelbarrow or sewed on a button, talked to a friend, recommended a show, booked a tour through your PTA, handed out flyers, made the cast cookies, mentioned us on your Facebook page, wherever, whatever, we thank you for allowing us to live this dream! What a journey it has been. Thanks for that. Enjoy this flight tonight, as Book-It embraces its first operetta. There are so many continents of creativity for us to discover with the Book-It Style—the possibilities are breathtaking. Next year’s season is already being typed into plays by our mighty adapters. Do re-subscribe! It is going to be a great year. And if you’ve never subscribed, why not make this the year to jump aboard? We guarantee to take you down miles of aisles with our stories— across centuries, continents and cultures—we’d love to have you along for the ride. And, as always, read on and spread the word.
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Notes From the Director
What Exupéry says about man’s addiction to possibility and the costs to his personal life is exquisite. Man’s desire to soar combined with his need to conquer is held in a delicate balance with his ultimate pursuit of securing a happy future.
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hen I moved here in 1988, my introduction to the Northwest was Mt. Rainier, gigantic and literally looming in the window of my father’s little Bonanza V-Tail airplane, the wing tips almost scraping the snow… The relationship between man and flight invites seductive dreams and elicits profound risk. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is considered a hero, not only in France but in Argentina and around the world. There is even a monument in his honor on Tupungato peak in the Andes. His two passions were writing and flying; he was a true philosopher and a dreamer. But he was also a pragmatist—an essential aspect to being a pilot. My father, artist Walter Wilson, whose two passions are painting and flying, lives by principals and philosophies rooted in the discipline of his early pilot training. My mother, Patricia, is passionate about words and stories and couldn’t tolerate that my father was not a reader. Turning him on to Saint-Exupéry’s writing, she instantly changed that fact. While piloting a plane, my father’s whole being shifts—with the world blooming below him. He has logged nearly 4,000 flying hours, and you can bet there is a story attached to each one. When he was grounded from flying after a heart attack over ten years ago, he gave me a copy of
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Night Flight, thinking I should adapt it for Book-It. “No one else has captured the art of flying like Exupéry,” he told me, “his language sings.” Ever since then, I have fantasized about Night Flight on stage as an operetta. So. Here we are. 1930 Buenos Aires. The tango just hit the scene. I love the parallel of tango music and dance to that of flying. Is it sexy because it’s so bold and sometimes dangerous? Or is it the other way around? Joshua Kohl and I have worked to create a score that not only reflects the period and Argentinean styling, but also one that suits Exupéry’s poetic telling of this story. While not an epic, Night Flight is a grand story of heroics—both in the air and on the ground—the pioneers of a new realm, and of the solitary chief responsible for upholding practical experience and duty to guarantee success. What Exupéry says about man’s addiction to possibility and the costs to his personal life is exquisite. Man’s desire to soar combined with his need to conquer is held in a delicate balance with his ultimate pursuit of securing a happy future.
Myra Platt
BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Jane Jones & Myra Platt, Founding Co-Artistic Directors * Charlotte M. Tiencken, Managing Director
PROUDLY PRESENTS
NIGHT FLIGHT by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Adapted & Directed by Myra Platt Original Music by Joshua Kohl and Myra Platt CAST (in alphabetical order)
John Bogar* Tom Butterworth Sylvie Davidson Brian Demar Jones Lauren Kottwitz Ellaina Lewis John Patrick Lowrie* Mike Oliver Sage Price John Ulman Brandon Whitehead* Devorah Spadone Dani Prados Victoria Thompson
Fabien Leroux The Pilot’s Wife Pellerin Elise Simona Fabien Rivière The Wireless Operator Latécoère/Airdrome Hand/Waiter The Europe Mail Pilot Robineau Production Stage Manager Stage Manager Production Assistant
MUSICIANS Marchette DuBois Accordian, Evan Flory-Barnes Double Bass, Alex Guy Violin/Viola, and Nina Darko Vukmanic Guitar Joshua Kohl Matthew Smucker Geoff Korf Pete Rush Rob Whitmer Larry Rodriguez
ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION STAFF Composer & Music Director Elena Hartwell Scenic Designer Rachel Atkins Lighting Designer Sonia Dawkins Costume Designer Erika Eie Sound Designer Marchette DuBois Technical Director & Chris Smith Production Manager Laura Hendrichsen Ayako Yamada
Properties Designer Dramaturg Choreographer Assistant Director Assistant Music Director Assistant Lighting Designer Master Carpenter Costume Assistant
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
Night Flight is dedicated to the memory of Sam Rubinstein, a true adventurer Season Support provided by: ArtsFund/John Brooks Williams and John H. Bauer Endowment for Theatre Production Support provided by:
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meet the author
A Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in plane cockpit in 1944 during World War II. Photo by John Phillips © Time LIFE.
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
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ntoine de Saint-Exupéry was fascinated by flight from a young age. Born in 1900, he attended Jesuit schools in France and Switzerland. Although a poor student, he developed an interest in the science of flight. In 1921, he joined the military service and was ultimately sent for training as a pilot. He gained his commercial pilot’s license in 1926 and began flying a mail route for the Compagnie Latécoère from France to Morocco, which inspired his first novel, Courrier Sud (Southern Mail), a largely autobiographical work. After the book’s publication in1929, Saint-Exupéry moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he met and married Consuelo Gómez Carillo, a French-Salvadoran writer and artist. His second novel, Vol de nuit (Night Flight), loosely based on his life as an airmail pilot in South America, was published in 1931. The book was met with great success; it won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 1933 movie starring Clark Gable and Lionel Barrymore. Terre des Hommes (Wind, Sand, and Stars), a memoir of his most dangerous experiences flying mail routes across the Sahara Desert and Andes Mountains published in 1939, put him at the height of his fame. It won the National Book Award in the United States and the Grand Prix du Roman. At the onset
of World War II, he rejoined the French Air Force and was decorated for bravery. After Germany’s defeat of France in 1940, Saint-Exupéry moved to America and wrote Flight to Arras, a novel which documented his flights over enemy lines. A year later, he published his most famous work, The Little Prince. Although he was over age and in poor health, he began flying again for the Free French Forces in 1943. On July 31, 1944, Saint-Exupéry took off from an airbase on Corsica for a solo photographic mission collecting intelligence on German troop movements in southern France— and disappeared. He was never seen again. In 1998, a French fisherman found an ID bracelet with SaintExupéry’s name on it. In May 2000 a Lockheed Lighting P-38 was discovered in the sea off the coast of Marseille; in 2004, the remains were confirmed to have been his plane. In March 2008, an 85-year-old former German pilot claimed that he had shot down Saint-Exupéry’s plane in 1944—but his story is unverifiable. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s death remains a mystery.
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A Patagonia glacier located in the southern tip of Argentina. Photo: Matty Wilsey
The Andes Mountain Range as seen from a plane, between Santiago de Chile and Mendoza, Argentina. Photo: Jorge Morales Piderit.
Aeropostale At the end of World War I many pilots were left without jobs. For some, flying was their only skill and had become their life. Many of these pilots went on to fly postal routes and long-distance flights. In 1918 in Toulouse, France, Pierre Latécoère, a factory owner, proposed an airmail route that he declared would eventually span 8,000 miles (12,875 kilometers) from Toulouse, to the southern tip of South America. He gathered a fleet of biplanes left over from wartime and a team of pilots who had flown in the war and were already accustomed to taking chances with their lives. Airmail from Toulouse first reached Spain, then the French colonies in Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco in 1919. Fatal accidents were common; more than 100 occurred in the first ten years of mail service flights. The routes lengthened each year until, by the middle of 1925, pilots regularly flew 2,900 miles down the west coast of North Africa and across the Sahara Desert to Dakar, Senegal, where the mail had to be transported by ship across the South Atlantic to the city of Natal, Brazil. In April 1927, the Latécoère Line changed its name to Aéropostale, and in November of that year, they began regular flights across the South Atlantic from Natal to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Aéropostale expanded to Paraguay in early 1929 and, in July 1929, began a regularly scheduled route across the Andes Mountains to Santiago, Chile, on the Pacific coast of South America. The route even went as far as Tierra del Fuego on the southern tip of Chile and South America, just as Latécoère had predicted in 1918.
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Wh o’ s Who - THE CAST JOHN BOGAR* Fabien, The Patagonia Mail Pilot John is delighted to return to the BookIt family for Night Flight bringing with him warm memories of working on Persuasion last season. In the interim, John has played Antony in Antony and Cleopatra for Harlequin Productions and The Man in Seattle Shakespeare Company’s production of Turn of the Screw. Also with Seattle Shakespeare: The School For Scandal, Macbeth, and Othello. Around town, John has been seen on the stages of Wooden O, INTIMAN, The Empty Space, The Bathhouse, and many others dating back a couple of decades now. He holds an MFA from Columbia University.
THOMAS BUTTERWORTH Leroux, The Mechanic Tom has been in love with the Book-It family since appearing in My Ántonia last fall. In the Seattle area, Tom also has performed at SecondStory Repertory, Seattle Musical Theatre, Centerstage, and The Driftwood Players. In February, he played the Stage Manager in Driftwood’s production of Our Town. Tom and the love-of-his-life, Libby, have been happily married for 28 years, raising five children together in New Canaan, Connecticut. On their periodic visits “back East,” Tom has appeared with the New Canaan Town Players as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons, the Inspector in An Inspector Calls, and in May 2010 will play Niels Bohr in Copenhagen.
SYLVIE DAVIDSON The Pilot’s Wife Sylvie is happy to return to Book-It, where last spring she played Angie in The Highest Tide. Other local credits include work at Seattle Children’s Theatre, Live Girls! Theatre, and Island Stage Left. Most recently, she played Elizabeth in ACT Theatre’s production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A graduate of Knox College in Galesburg, IL, Sylvie also works as a teaching artist with Living Voices and is a member of the Seattle band Waiting for Lizzie.
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BRIAN DEMAR JONES Pellerin, The Chile Mail Pilot Brian is proud and absolutely delighted to be making his debut with Book-It Repertory Theatre at the Moore Theatre. He recently graduated from the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington with an MFA in Acting. His credits include The 5th Avenue Theatre’s recent production of Hello, Dolly! starring Jenifer Lewis and Pat Cashman, and Joseph in Taproot Theatre’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Other favorite credits include Twelfth Night, Our Lady of 121st Street, La Cage Aux Folles, Les Miserables, and UW’s production of Big Love. For more information please visit his website at www.bdemarjones.com.
LAUREN KOTTWITZ Elise, The Clerk Lauren is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts Theater Department (2009). She originated the role of Elise in the Cornish College Night Flight residency and workshop performance this February, and is delighted to reprise the role and work again with the marvelous Myra Platt. Recently, Lauren has been seen on the Cornish stage as Caliban in The Tempest, Azizah in Arabian Nights, and Amelia Tilford in The Children’s Hour.
ELLAINA LEWIS Simona Fabien, The Singer Ellaina has sung roles such as Monica in Menotti’s The Medium, Treemonisha in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, Erzulie in Once on This Island, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Gertrude in Hansel and Gretel, Sally Hemmings in Garett Fisher’s Sally Hemmings, and Despina in Così fan tutte. She has performed for Puget Sound Opera, Seattle Choral Company, Sonia Dawkins/Prism Dance Theatre, ArtsWest, Northwest New Works Festival, Northwest Opera in Schools, Seattle Opera Guild, Greg Thompson Productions, The Eastside Performance Group, The Ladies Musical Club, Classic Cascade Symphony, Everett Symphony, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. She has loved the Argentine Tango for many years and has been honored to sing for Seattle’s Tango Cabaret on several occasions providing the live music between dance numbers.
JOHN PATRICK LOWRIE * Rivière, The Chief John Patrick has led a varied career as a composer, musician, conductor, author, actor, and director for the last 35 years. National credits include Charley in Death of a Salesman and Mr. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank (National Tours), Tito in Lend Me a Tenor (Meadowbrook), Wotan in Das Barbeqü (Dallas Theatre Center) and Mayor Potts in the film Clawed. He has leant his voice to Sherlock Holmes in the radio drama The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and to numerous video games: Team Fortress 2 (The Sniper), MatrixOnLine (Agent Gray), NOLF 1 & 2 (Bruno Lawrie), and Half-Life 2 (Odessa Cubbage). John’s Northwest credits include Alex in Love-LiesBleeding (Boise Contemporary Theatre), Inspector Bones in Jumpers (ACT), Jerome in Henceforward... (Portland Rep.), Joseph Pulitzer in Stunt Girl, Buck Jasper in Play It By Heart, and The Chairman in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Village Theatre).
MIKE OLIVER The Wireless Operator Mike is grateful to be returning to Book-It Repertory Theatre after being a part of My Ántonia and Moby-Dick, or The Whale earlier this season. Mike has been seen around Seattle in Big River: the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and As You Like It at Taproot Theatre, as well as The Worm for Emerald City Scene. He is a recent graduate of the University of Washington where his previous roles included Cinderella’s Prince/ Wolf (Into the Woods), Paris (Romeo and Juliet), Brad Majors (The Rocky Horror Show), Trinculo (The Tempest), and Mihai (Mad Forest). Mike is also a collaborator with Washington Ensemble Theatre.
SAGE PRICE Latécoère/Airdrome Hand/Waiter Sage is thrilled to continue working on this project with Book-It after taking on the role of Rivière in Cornish College Night Flight residency and workshop performance this February. Sage will enter his senior year of theater training at Cornish College of the Arts this fall. His most memorable roles at Cornish include Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, Sid Sorokin in The Pajama Game, and Yang Sun in Good Person of Szechwan, as well as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at Washington State University.
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Musicians JOHN ULMAN The Europe Mail Pilot
Originally from Bakersfield, California, John began his acting career performing in two seasons of the Kern Shakespeare Festival. He went on from there to receive his BA in drama from UC Irvine. John has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland and has toured nationally in several productions with California Theatre Center. Locally, John has been seen in ArtsWest’s The Vertical Hour, Capitol Hill Arts Center’s God’s Country, Book-It Repertory Theatre’s Bud, Not Buddy, Rhoda: A Life in Stories, and My Ántonia, several Book-It-All-Over touring productions, and Seattle Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cyrano de Bergerac, and All’s Well That Ends Well. When not acting, John works as a photographer.
BRANDON WHITEHEAD* Robineau, The Inspector Brandon is very pleased to return to Book-it, where his previous shows include The House of the Spirits, Waxwings, and Pride and Prejudice. Recent local credits include Sir Danvers Carew/Inspector in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Mr. Fezziwig/ Topper in A Christmas Carol, both at ACT; Monsieur Fleurant in The Imaginary Invalid and the Sea Captain/Priest in Twelfe Night, both at Seattle Repertory Theatre; Ben Jonson in Swansong with Seattle Shakespeare Company; and Aslaksen in Enemy of the People with Strawberry Theater Workshop. Brandon has also worked with Seattle Children’s Theatre, Theater Schmeater, Annex Theatre, and many others, as well as performing regularly in Ian Bell’s popular Brown Derby Series at Re-bar. His film credits include Expiration Date, Taos, and Police Beat.
MARCHETTE DUBOIS Accordian/Assistant Music Director Marchette is delighted to be a part of Night Flight. She has played accordion in several theater productions recently, including UMO’s Production of Rubble Women and Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab’s Dracula: A Case Study, for which she also composed the music. Outside of the theater, Marchette is active as a musician, composer, and teacher. Her regular ensembles include Hell’s Bellows, Seattle’s premier accordion quartet; Operadisiac, an operatic burlesque troupe; and Ensemble Sub Masa, a Balkan music quartet.
EVAN FLORY-BARNES Double Bass Evan has played in styles ranging from flamenco to hip-hop, Brazilian jazz to rock. His intention is to break down boundaries of genre and illuminate possibility that all can connect to and through music. Evan plays with the groups Threat of Beauty, Industrial Revelation and The Teaching among many others.
ALEX GUY Violin/Viola Alex has composed and performed for modern dance, circus, theater and numerous bands. She worked extensively with the Degenerate Art Ensemble and currently tours under the name Led to Sea. Her musical endeavors have taken her all over the world, and she will release her second solo record this fall.
NINA DARKO VUKMANIC Guitar Nina finished her music studies with Prof. Andreas von Wangenheim. Although formally trained on the classical guitar, she supports various Seattle combos on bass or fretless guitar. She recently appeared at the Theatre off Jackson in Brian Kooser’s Puppet Theatre production of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. www.darkoweb.net
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 heath 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.
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ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION STAFF MYRA PLATT Adaptor, Director and Founding Co-Artistic Director Myra is the founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Jane Jones. She studied literature and theater at Northwestern University (BS Analysis and Performance of Literature) and Circle in the Square (NYC). As actor, director, adaptor and composer, she has helped Book-It produce over 55 world-premiere stage adaptations. Most recently, Myra directed the world-premiere production of Persuasion by Jane Austen. She has adapted and directed The House of the Spirits, Giant, Red Ranger Came Calling, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone Call, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. She directed Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday. She co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones and composed music for Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, The Awakening, the first workshop production of The Cider House Rules, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. In 2008 she, Book-It, and Jane Jones 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.
JOSHUA KOHL Composer/Music Director This is Joshua’s second time working with Book-It Repertory Theater, his first being A Tale of Two Cities directed by Jane Jones. Joshua loves Book-It and is thrilled to be working with Myra on this exciting project! He is also composer and codirector of Degenerate Art Ensemble (www. degenerateartensemble.com) with which he has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe—most recently spending a week in residence at the New Museum in New York City. Other theater and dance works include The Beard of Avon and Twelfth Night for Portland Center Stage and c(H)ord with the dance company inkBoat at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
MATTHEW SMUCKER Scenic Designer Matthew is pleased to return to Book-It where his work has included designs for Giant, The House of Mirth, and Cry, the Beloved Country. Matthew’s designs have appeared locally at ACT Theatre, Seattle Rep, INTIMAN, Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Empty Space, Village Theatre, and Tacoma Actors Guild; and nationally at Arizona Theatre Company, Portland Center ENCORE ARTS PROGRAMS
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ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION STAFF Stage, San Jose Repertory, Kansas City Repertory, and Childsplay Theatre. Matthew was a founding ensemble member of Deus X Machina and a longtime company member of Annex Theatre. Matthew teaches at Seattle University and received his MFA in scenic design from the University of Washington
GEOFF KORF Lighting Design Geoff has designed lighting for more than 250 productions, including 93 world premieres, over the past 25 years. His work has been seen on Broadway, Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, INTIMAN, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum, Cornerstone Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, The Guthrie Theater, The Goodman, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Trinity Repertory, Long Beach Opera, San Francisco Opera, and the Children’s Theatre Co. of Minneapolis. He has been a member of the Ensemble of Cornerstone Theater in Los Angeles since 1996. Geoff also serves as the head of design at the University of Washington where he has taught since 2001. He is a graduate of California State University, Chico and the Yale School of Drama.
PETE RUSH Costume Designer
LARRY RODRIGUEZ Technical Director & Production Manager Larry hails from the Philippines and has been passionate about the theater since 1994. He was technical director and lighting designer for the Philippines’ pioneer theater company – The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA). He also studied Lighting Design and Sound Engineering in Tokyo, Japan. Larry was a theater manager for three years with The Far Eastern University, which houses the Philippines’ first cultural center where early theater and vaudeville shows started during the 1940s; he was behind its ambitious 1998 renovation and refurbishing of the entire facility. He has also worked as director of photography for companies that produced television commercials and music videos. Before leaving the Philippines he was involved in over 50 productions from stage, television, and film, and represented the country in International theatre festivals. He moved to Seattle in 2005 and joined Book-It Repertory Theatre. This is his fourth season and is continually grateful for having the opportunity to work among great talents. Larry was recently brought on as the resident lighting designer of Next Stage, a newlyformed Seattle theatre company.
ELENA HARTWELL Properties Designer
Pete Rush is a scenic and costume designer for the theatre. Local credits include The Adding Machine for New Century Theatre Company; Swansong, Henry IV, The Turn of the Screw, and The Merchant of Venice for Seattle Shakespeare Company; and several productions at ArtsWest, Seattle Public Theatre, SecondStory Repertory, and The House of the Spirits for Book-It. Regional credits include George Street Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Hangar Theatre, and People’s Light and Theatre Company. Pete also works as a visual artist, specializing in large-scale installation art. He holds a BFA in Theatre from Boston University, and is a two-time artist-in-residence at Cornell University. Visit www.peterush.com.
Elena wears many hats in the theater, including playwright, director, educator, and technician. Her work has been seen across the U.S. and the U.K. Recent projects include directing As You Like It with North Seattle Community College; writing and performing In Our Name, produced in New York, Eugene, and Seattle and published in Plays and Playwrights 2008 and Best Monologues for Women 2008; and directing Goldilocks and the Three Bears with StoryBook Theater. This is her third show with Book-It after working on Moby-Dick, or The Whale and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears earlier this season. She is cofounder of Iron Pig, company member at Live Girls! Theater, Literary Manager for Northwest Playwrights Alliance, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.
ROB WITMER Sound Designer
RACHEL ATKINS Dramaturg
Rob’s previous credits with Book-It include The Secret and The House of Mirth. His recent work as a sound designer includes The Mistakes Madeline Made for Washington Ensemble Theatre; The Adding Machine for New Century Theatre Company; End Days, War Party, and Stop Kiss for Seattle Public Theatre; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Wooden O. Rob can also be found playing with many musical groups, including The Toucans steel drum band and the absurdist garage art-pop band, Awesome. A-10
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Rachel Atkins is the scriptwriter/education director for Living Voices, the educational theatre company with whom she has nine different multi-media shows in ongoing national tours. Rachel has created numerous scripts for Book-It and Book-It All Over and her adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma will be part of the 2009-10 20th Anniversary season. Her work has also been seen locally at Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Empty Space, 14/48, and Annex Theatre, where she was Hothouse 2004 playwright. She
currently works as a master teaching artist for Seattle Repertory Theatre, Book-It, and Arts Impact. Rachel has more than 16 years of writing, teaching and directing experience in Seattle, New York, and France. She graduated from Dartmouth College and holds her Masters in Educational Theatre from New York University.
SONIA DAWKINS Choreographer Sonia Dawkins is the founder and artistic director of Sonia Dawkins/Prism Dance Theatre. She received her BFA and MFA with the emphasis in Choreography and Education. She has been the artist-inresidence at North Carolina School of the Arts, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Pennsylvania Ballet, and she has danced and choreographed with the National Dance Theatre of Jamaica. Sonia has been a member of the faculty and a choreographer for Pacific Northwest Ballet and Company since 1998. Her choreographic works have been premiered on many companies including Nevada Ballet Dance Theatre, Tallahassee Ballet, Seattle Theatre Group’s Dance This, Bulgarian Dance, the Pacific Northwest Ballet in their debut at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and others. She also choreographed The Breach and The Three Musketeers for Seattle Rep. This marks her first work with Book-It.
DANI PRADOS Stage Manager Dani is thrilled to be trying out a different hat with Book-It for Night Flight. She moved to Seattle one year ago and has worked with a number of companies in town. Favorite light designs include Kid Simple, Vinegar Tom, Don’t You Dare Love Me, the Bare Bones Dance Benefit, and Mother Courage. She recently directed a workshop production of Passenger[s] for GESAMTKUNSTWERK! Theatre Company, and does various master electrician and other technical work around town. She has previously directed, stage managed, and designed lights in New York, Chicago and London.
ERIKA EIE Assistant Director Erika is a graduating senior at Cornish College of the Arts, focusing primarily on Original Works. She is currently a literary intern with Book-It and is truly excited to be working alongside Myra and Josh in this beautiful show. Most recently Erika assistant directed the Night Flight workshop at Cornish College and has been developing two new plays of her own, Wings Over Argentina and Memory Nest.
ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION STAFF VICTORIA THOMPSON Production Assistant
CHARLOTTE M. TIENCKEN Managing Director
Victoria is thrilled to be working with Book-It again after completing The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and Moby-Dick, or The Whale. She is new to Seattle having just graduated last spring from Trinity Western University in Vancouver, BC with a BA in Theatre. She loves being involved with theater in any way she can. Recently she was the stage manager for The Little Death at the Eclectic Theater Company here in Seattle. Some of her favorite productions to work on have been Pride and Prejudice, Holy Mo and Spew Boy, The Taming of the Shrew, and Fixing Christmas.
Charlotte is an arts administrator, director, producer and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting fields for 20 years. Before moving back to the Seattle area in September 2003, she was general manager at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts for four seasons. Currently, she is president of Scarlet Productions, her own consulting firm, and is an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Most recently she was executive director of Tacoma Actors Guild. Charlotte is a member of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is past president of the Board of Arts Northwest, the presenting service organization for Washington, Idaho and Oregon. She has served on the board of the Pat Graney Dance Company and sat on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission. She recently completed her term on the Board of Theatre Puget Sound, a regional service organization for theatres in the Puget Sound area.
JANE JONES Founding Co-Artistic Director Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 23 years of staging literature, she has performed, adapted, and directed works by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 30 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s most prominent regional theatres including The Guthrie, American Conservatory Theater, The McCarter and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Locally, she has been seen at Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, The Empty Space, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, and INTIMAN. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at the Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Backstage West Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane recently directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, and A Tale of Two Cities. Book-It performances include roles in Ethan Frome, Silver Water, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Breathing Lessons, and Rhoda: A Life in Stories. In 2008 She, Book-It, and Myra Platt were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is also a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award.
DEVORAH SPADONE Production Stage Manager Devorah is proud to be the production stage manager at Book-it Repertory Theatre, where Night Flight will be her 19th production with the company. She stage managed this season’s The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, Moby-Dick, or The Whale, and My Ántonia. She recently worked on the 20/20 revue fundraising event that benefited the Vitamin Angels. In addition, she has worked with The Ethereal Mutt Limited on Saving Tania’s Privates by Tania Katan at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008, and on Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s production of Leni here in Seattle. She has also worked for Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Bumbershoot, Folklife, UW, 14/48 and Giant Magnet (formerly the Seattle International Children’s Festival).
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Family Fun Series 2009-10
Book-It All Over
presents Family Day performances of its touring shows on the mianstage—turning the Center House ouse Theatre into a wonderland of books and crafts for our patrons of all ages. Bring the whole family and enjoy the performance, a drama workshop, a book fair and theme-related crafts.
RAVEN AND COYOTE TRICKSTER TALES by Gerald McDermott Sept. 26, 2009 A delightful combination of Gerald McDermott’s award-winning Native American trickster tales: Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest and Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest. Grades K-6.
CATCHING THE MOON by Crystal Hubbard Feb. 20, 2010 Based on a true story, of a young girl named Marcenia Lyle who, growing up in the 1930s, overcomes unbeatable odds to become the first woman to play for an all-male baseball team. Grades K-8.
JOHNNY APPLESEED: A TALL TALE Retold by Steven Kellogg June 12, 2010 The true story of a hero who brings apples and hope to the early settlers of America, and recounts the exaggerated stories that grow out of his extraordinary experiences. Grades K-8.
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Honoring Book-It Contributors Book-It would like to express our gratitude to the following for their generosity in supporting our 2008-09 season:
LITERARY LEGENDS $50,000+ The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Matthew N. Clapp, Jr. The William Randolph Hearst Foundation
LITERARY CHAMPION $25,000+ "OPOZNPVT t ArtsFund
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Join us as we Celebrate 20 Years!
For the last two decades, Book-It has brought great literature to the stage with passionate commitment to quality, diversity of works, and to the artists and community who bring our work to life
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES CZ +PIO ,FOOFEZ 5PPMF t 4FQUFNCFS o 0DUPCFS This cult classic and comic masterpiece of the southern literary canon is the tale of the slothful Ignatius J. Reilly, writer, cultural critic, bastion of morality, advocate for the disenfranchised and nemesis of industry, as he ventures out into the working world to support his despairing mother. Its kaleidoscopic cast of Big Easy characters completes Toole’s comic masterpiece.
EMMA CZ +BOF "VTUFO t 0DUPCFS o /PWFNCFS Jane Austen’s fourth novel is a sparkling comedy of 19th-century manners centering on the well-intentioned Emma and her sometimes indiscreet, often misapplied, and always entertaining eorts as matchmaker. Austen’s deliciously droll descriptions and generous happy endings are Book-It fan favorites.
THE RIVER WHY CZ %BWJE +BNFT %VODBO t 'FCSVBSZ o .BSDI Young Gus leaves his quirky, ďŹ shing-obsessed family to search for his PXO USVUI 8JUI FWFSZ DBTU PG IJT QPMF UIF ;FO MJLF SFQFUJUJPO PG IJT angling activities leads him on a journey of self discovery. Set in the PaciďŹ c Northwest, audiences will at once feel kinship with Gus and his burgeoning concerns for stewardship of the land we live upon and the rivers that sustain us.
NOVEL WORKSHOP SERIES "QSJM .BZ t %BUFT BOE 5JUMFT 5#" In the spirit of Book-It’s artists’ collective beginnings, company members will explore potential adaptations that have been “waiting in the wings� and test the plausibility of these novels as future additions to the repertory. Patrons will witness the birth of many new works through this series.
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES PART ONE: HERE IN ST. CLOUD’S by Peter Parnell, adapted from the novel by John Irving +VOF o And for the icing on our 20th Anniversary cake,
we are thrilled to produce The Cider House Rules, Part One: Here in St. Clouds—the ďŹ rst full-length novel adapted in the Book-It Style™. This is the story of orphan Homer Wells’ life in a Maine orphanage and his education under the tutelage of Dr. Larch, who saves not only babies, but mothers too, by performing illegal abortions when necessary. The 1996 production at Seattle Rep put Book-It on the national theatre map and we can’t wait to bring this gem from our repertory to the Center House Theatre stage.
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S p e c i al T han ks Special thanks to the following organizations and individuals for their generous support of Night Flight: Maria Fe Bernardo; Bill Danner; Chris Higashi; The Museum of Flight: Dan Hagedorn, Senior Curator and Ted Huetter, PR Director; The Sta of Seattle Theatre Group; Seattle Wood Design; Adam Smith; and Michael Tufano.
Book-It Repertory Theatre Board, Staff & Company BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mary Metastasio President Gail Frasier Sehlhorst Vice-President Kristine Villiott Treasurer -VDZ 'MZOO ;VDDPUUJ Secretary Monica Alquist Steven Bull Je Cain Mary Anne Christy Melissa Manning Lynn Murphy Lynne Reynolds Deborah Swets Elizabeth J. Warman
BOOK-IT STAFF +BOF +POFT .ZSB 1MBUU ‰ Founding Co-Artistic Directors Charlotte M. Tiencken — Managing Director Annie Lareau — Education Director Patricia Britton — Marketing & Development Director ;BDI "EBJS ‰ Box O ce Representative Rachel Alquist — Box O ce Manager Brady Brophy-Hilton — Education Associate Tom Dewey — Box O ce Representative Kate Godman — Grants Associate Emma Kelley — Marketing Intern Sara Lachman — Education Assistant Alison Loerke — Events & Special Programs Assoc. Sophie Lowenstein — Development Assistant Susanna Pugh — House Manager & Volunteer Coordinator Larry Rodriguez — Technical Dir. & Production Mngr. Devorah Spadone — Production Stage Manager Bill Whitham — Bookkeeper Rachel Wilsey — Marketing Associate
COMPANY MEMBERS James Dean Laura Ferri Gail Frasier Sehlhorst Heather Guiles Andy Jensen Jennifer Sue Johnson Jane Jones Daniel Harray Reginald AndrĂŠ Jackson David Klein James Lapan Mary Machala Kevin McKeon Myra Platt David Quicksall Stephanie Shine Susanna Wilson
Book-It is a company of professional actors and directors who perform classic and contemporary works of fiction for the stage.
OUR MISSION IS TO TRANSFORM GREAT LITERATURE INTO GREAT THEATRE THROUGH SIMPLE AND SENSITIVE PRODUCTION AND TO INSPIRE OUR AUDIENCES TO READ. We strive to return theatre to its roots, to the place where the spoken and the written word intersect and where the story comes alive for the audience. What you see and hear at a Book-It performance is literary prose spoken by the characters of the story as if it were dialogue in a play—often word for word in a short story and, in adaptations of larger works, selected narrative. This is the Book-It Style™. We ask our audiences to use their imaginations, thereby becoming participants in a Book-It performance.
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