Owen Meany's Christmas Pageant (2012)

by John Irving (Taken from the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany) Adapted by Jane Jones & Myra Platt Directed by Jane Jones

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owen meany’s christmas pageant

From the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Adapted by Jane Jones & Myra Platt | Directed by Jane Jones | Music Direction by Myra Platt

Josh Aaseng Andrew DeRycke* Daniel A. Guttenberg Harry Todd Jamieson Ashley Marshall Richard Nguyen Sloniker Kathleen Stoll Ben McFadden

Owen Meany Dudley Wiggin Mr. Fish Harold Crosby Mary Beth Baird Dan Needham Barb Wiggin Johnny Wheelwright

And an ensemble of kings, shepherds, donkeys, turtledoves, Mary, Joseph, babies, and more: Rachel Brow Rachel Brun Thomas Dang Elizabeth Deutsch Shannon Erickson Jana Gueck Elaine Colette Huber Adria LaMorticella Jordaán Montes Jay Myers Mickey Rowe Amberlee Williams Victoria Thompson Christine Rattigan

Dan Schuy Andrew D. Smith Jocelyne Fowler Myra Platt Clare Strasser Anders Bolang

Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Original Music Properties Designer Production Manager

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

The Lucky Seven Foundation

The Norcliffe Foundation

Additional generous support is provided by individuals, and by City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, The Medtronic Foundation, Nordstrom, Horizons Foundation, The Ex Anima Fund, Fales Foundation Trust, U.S. Bancorp Foundation, KeyBank Foundation. Thank you to all our supporters!

John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1942. He attended Philips Exeter Academy, where his stepfather taught Russian History, and where he began to wrestle competitively, a sport he credits with teaching him discipline and perseverance. A year into college, Irving went abroad, studied at the University of Vienna and roamed Europe on a motorcycle, absorbing many of the experiences that would later find their way into his novels.

After returning to the U.S., he enrolled in the University of New Hampshire, and graduated in 1965. He married and became a father at 23. Already set on a writing career, he earned an MFA from the distinguished Creative Writing program at the University of Iowa, where his instructors included Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. MFA in hand, Irving returned to New England with his growing family in 1967, and took a job as Assistant Professor of English at Windham College in Vermont.

His first novel, Setting Free the Bears (1968), drew on his European experiences—the darkly comic story was inspired by an actual incident from the last days of World War II. It introduced many of the themes and techniques he has explored throughout his career: the disasters of history and the capriciousness of fate, dramatized through interlocking stories within stories. His second novel, The Water-Method Man (1972), revisited the Austrian locale of Setting Free the Bears, while also satirizing academic life in America. That same year, Irving was appointed Writer-in-Residence at the University of Iowa; Irving’s novel, The 158-Pound Marriage (1974), was written there. In 1975, he took a job as Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, and even as he began to enjoy success as a writer, also served as Writer-in-Residence at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and Brandeis University.

Many bestselling novels have followed: The World According to Garp (1978, National Book Award), The Hotel New Hampshire (1981)—both presented casts of vividly imagined

Author John Irving; courtesy of Allen and Unwin

eccentric characters, and both of which were made into films; The Cider House Rules (1985) was a critical success and also picked up by Hollywood—he wrote the screenplay himself, and received the 2000 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay; A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989); a collection of short stories, Trying To Save Piggy Sneed (1996), that includes a “miniature autobiography,” The Imaginary Girlfriend, embodying his reflections on writing and wrestling; A Widow for One Year (1998); A Son of the Circus (1994); The Fourth Hand (2001); Until I Find You (2004); and the most recent bestseller, Last Night in Twisted River (2009).

Throughout his work, he has expressed a warm affection for humanity in all its astounding variety. His writing reflects a deep admiration for the courage and good humor of men, women, and children in confronting the cruelties and catastrophes of life—all for which his work draws frequent comparisons to the work of Charles Dickens.

He now splits his time between New England and Ontario.

Excerpted from the American Academy of Achievement’s biography, retrieved on 5/28/10 from www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/irv0bio-1

BIBLIOGRAPHY Setting Free the Bears (1968) The Water-Method Man (1972) The World According to Garp (1978) The Hotel New Hampshire (1981) The Cider House Rules (1985) A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) A Son of the Circus (1994) The Imaginary Girlfriend (non-fiction, 1995)

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (collection, 1996) A Widow for One Year (1998) My Movie Business (non-fiction, 1999) The Cider House Rules: A Screenplay (1999) The Fourth Hand (2001) A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound (2004) Until I Find You (2005) Last Night in Twisted River (2009) In One Person (2012)

Left: Kymberli Colbourne, Stephen Hando, and Andy Jensen (2000); photo by Erik Stuhaug. Middle: Ashley Marshall, Josh Aaseng, and Connor Toms (2011); photo by Alan Alabastro. Stephen Hando and Ian Fraser (2001); photo by Erik Stuhaug.

Notes director

We gathered this past Monday to commence our rehearsal process for Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, from the 8th time over a span of 16 years. the My friends and colleagues always inquire what it’s like to “re-mount” a show so many times.

I think they worry I will not be challenged by it. And I am always astonished by these concerns. I feel it’s the equivalent of pulling off a beautifully executed pirouette or a triple time step…..or summoning a perfectly pitched harmony from the ether… it takes such care and attention to detail.

Getting the soul of the piece is delicate and tricky. Each new cast member brings a fresh and complicated dynamic to the process. Every year I have them share their memories of Christmases past, their participations in Pageants during their youth and just how much of the Nativity story they were actually capable of wrapping their brains around. The stories are hilarious and confounding. I know this is why I am so dedicated to these chapters from John Irving’s A Prayer for Own Meany. He tells it like it is. The blessed and cursed holidays, when we gather as family to rejoice in our communion and curse our circumstances. To love and adore our traditions and to secretly be checking out the closest exit routes. We sing the words to the carols incorrectly; we often

worship and adore the event yet forget the teachings and as children we make up our own interpretations of all the wonders this traditional holiday has to offer. It is magical. It is historical. But it is also stressful. Thankfully, John Irving brings his own particular blend of humor and pathos to our rescue.

Every year I laugh and cry through these rehearsals, we all do. And every year I wish I could return to those magical days of childhood when my parents were still alive and loaded us into the station wagon and drove to St. John’s Episcopal Church to witness or participate in Christmas Eve Mass. And then eventually after all the egg nog and the notes to Santa and the reading of the nativity story, my parents would plead with me to sing their favorite Christmas Carol; “Deck the Halls with Balls of Charlie,” because that’s the way I learned it. To this day I still sing it that way.

I hope this wonderful and wacky evening puts you in touch with your memories too. It is one of our Book-It family favorites.

Happy Holidays!

jane jones

Co- Adapter & Director

Jane Jones, John Irving, and Myra Platt in 1997; photo by Stephen Hando.

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Original recipe makes 5 servings 1 pound ground beef 1 medium onion, chopped 1 (10.75 ounce) can Campbell's Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup (Regular or 98% Fat Free) 1 tablespoon ketchup 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 3 cups frozen Tater Tots Directions 1. Cook beef and onion in 10-inch skillet over medium high heat until beef is well browned, stirring to break up the meat. Pour off fat.

2. Stir soup, ketchup and Worcestershire into skillet. Spoon beef mixture into 12x8 inch shallow baking dish. Arrange potatoes around edge of casserole 3. Bake at 425 degrees F for 25 minutes or until potatoes are done.

1 lg. can crushed pineapple 12 to 15 lg. marshmallows or 1 1/2 c. miniature marshmallows 1 pkg. lime Jello 1 c. cottage cheese 1/2 c. chopped nuts 1 c. whipped cream Directions Drain pineapple and add water to make 1 1/2 cups juice.

Put in saucepan and boil for 1 minute. Add marshmallows and melt. Add lime Jello and dissolve. Let cool until thickens. Add crushed pineapple, cottage cheese, nuts and whipped cream and stir.

1 (2 lb.) rabbit 2 lbs. onions (very small, white) 1 clove garlic 1/2 cup olive oil 1/2 cup vinegar 2 tbsp. tomato paste 4 bay leaves 1 tsp. whole black pepper Salt to taste

1 chicken, cut up 1 1/2 lg. onio ns, sliced 10 to 12 oz. Coca Cola 10 to 12 oz. catsup Direction s Lay chicken in baking dish. Mix Coca Cola 350 and catsup. Pour over chicken. Bake at degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hour s.

Directions Cut rabbit into pieces. Saute in olive oil. Peel onions and leave whole. Add remaining ingredients. Cook gently until tender. More may be added if necessary.

Variation: Veal tongue may be substituted for the rabbit.

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meet the

Cast

josh aaseng Owen Meany

Josh is honored to reprise the role of Owen Meany this year. Acting credits include Neighborhood 3 with Washington Ensemble Theatre, Marya Sea Kaminski’s Condo Millennium, Wonderland with theater simple, and The Tempest and King Lear with NYU. Additionally, he has been in readings and workshops with Book-It Repertory Theatre, New Century Theatre Company, and The Satori Group. Josh has also had the privilege of working as a director, assistant director, and stage manager at theatres in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, and Montana. He graduated with honors from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Rachel Brow

Norah / Shepherd

Rachel is delighted to be making her Book-It debut this Christmas season. Having graduated last spring from the University of Washington, her recent stage credits include Logainne in The...Putnam County Spelling Bee, Eurydice in Eurydice, and Wendla in Spring’s Awakening with the Undergraduate Theater Society, as well as Heidi in The Secret in the Wings and Moth in Love’s Labour’s Lost on the main stage.

Most recently, she performed as Mari in the multimedia project Costly Desires.

Rachel Brun Tabby / King

Rachel is a recent graduate of the University of Washington where she majored in drama and comparative history of ideas and minored in dance. She recently appeared in The Town Theatre’s production of Domesticity and STAGEright’s production of Calling Nancy Drew as George Fayne. Some of her favorite roles at the UW include Lady Macduff, Lennox, the Third Witch, and Third Murderer in Macbeth, and Sharice in Stone Cold Dead Serious with the Undergraduate Theater Society; and Miranda in Rough Magic and Florette in The Two Orphans with the UW School of Drama. Other roles include Rosannah in Brilliant Traces at the Market Theatre and Mrs. Winthrop in The Secret Garden at Village Theatre’s KIDSTAGE.

Thomas Dang King

Thomas is currently a student studying drama and dance at the University of Washington and is delighted to be returning to Book-It where he recently appeared in Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Other credits include All I Ever Wanted with Fearless Theater Company, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom and Chatroom with Kent’s Theatre Battery, Footloose with Stage Notes, Sarah Was Here with Boundless Arts Performance Collective, and Harp Song for a Radical with the UW School of Drama. Thomas looks forward to graduating in spring 2013 and working more with companies like Book-It. http:// thomasdang.wix.com/thomasdang

andrew derycke*

Dudley Wiggin

Andrew has appeared at Book-It since the 20th Century. Among memorable roles, he appeared as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities, and Wayne in Border Songs. Recently, Andrew happily contributed to Book-It’s Circumbendibus, playing numerous roles in Jesus’ Son. Other theatres he has appeared at include the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ACT Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, American Player’s Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Oregon Repertory Theatre, Seattle Group Theatre, Harold Clurman Theatre, Cortland Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and both the Eugene and Seattle Operas.

Elizabeth Deutsch

Mrs. Crosby / Shepherd

Elizabeth is very happy to be making her Book-It debut in this season’s production of Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. She has appeared in numerous productions in Seattle with BASH Theatre and The Community Theatre. Elizabeth also played Marina in Freehold Theatre’s recent Engaged Theatre Tour of Pericles. Other favorite roles include Laura in Horton Foote’s Courtship and Jess/Girl in Neil LaBute’s Autobahn.

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

shannon erickson

Mrs. Meany / Donkey

Shannon now proudly counts herself among the Owen Meany veterans, having been in the pageant in 2011. She studied drama and history at the University of Washington and her theatre adventures have taken her everywhere from Washington, D.C., playing patients for medical school training, to Scotland and France (twice!) with original, devised work.

Most recently you may have seen her acting with Endangered Species Project in their monthly staged readings.

jana gueck

Aunt Martha / Donkey

Jana is thrilled to be coming back for the second year in Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. Since last season she has been seen in local theatres as Tricia in Costly Desires with Drybones Theater Company, Patty Simcox in Grease with Renton Civic Theatre, Grace in Cinderella with Snoqualmie Falls Forest Theater, and Virtue in Anything Goes with Northwest Savoyards. She has also been on the set of “Dead of Night” as Teresa with NBC Peacock Productions/Investigation Discovery. Jana graduated from Western Washington University with a BA in theatre arts in 2010.

daniel A. guttenberg Mr. Fish

Daniel is a proud graduate of the Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy and happy to be returning to Book-It and Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. Other roles in the Puget Sound area include Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion and Ellard in The Foreigner with Sound Theatre Company; Ivan in The Seafarer with Harlequin Productions; Capulet in Romeo and Juliet and Henry in Henry VIII with GreenStage; and Birdboot in The Real Inspector Hound with Stone Soup Theatre.

Daniel was most recently seen as the Soothsayer in Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Antony and Cleopatra, directed by John Langs.

Elaine Colette Huber

Shepherd

This is Elaine’s first production with BookIt. She is a graduate of the University of Washington drama

program and the American Conservatory Theater’s Summer Training Congress in acting and classical acting. Favorite past roles include Katie in Freak Playground, Helen in Return of Helen, Showman in Woyzeck, and Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

harry Todd jamieson Harold Crosby

Harry is very pleased to be reprising his role as Harold with Book-It in this wonderful show. He is a graduate of Western Washington University, where he received his BA in theatre. Around Seattle, Harry has worked as an actor, director, teacher, and sound designer with Book-It, Seattle Shakespeare Company and its Wooden O Theatre, Theater Schmeater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Balagan Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, Consolidated Works, and Cornish College of the Arts, among others.

Harry is son to an incomparable mother, and brother to two amazing sisters.

Adria LaMorticella

Choir Captain / Cow

Adria appears on stage at Book-It for the first time in Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. Most recently, Adria was seen as Thing 2 in Seattle Children’s Theatre production of The Cat in the Hat. Adria has lived in Seattle since her graduation from Western Washington University in 2008.

Since then she has performed in various Seattle productions including King Arthur and the Knights of the Playground with Balagan Theatre, The Comedy of Errors with GreenStage, 14/48, and Suffering, Inc. with Pony World Theatre.

ashley marshall Mary Beth Baird

Ashley is excited to be reprising the role of Mary Beth Baird at Book-It where she was also seen as Harriet Smith in Emma. She spent her senior year of college as Book-It’s associate artistic intern and had the privilege of assistant directing The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears with Jane Jones. Her most recent roles include Martine in A Doctor in Spite of Himself at Intiman and Natalie in Distracted at ArtsWest. She graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with honors and holds a BFA in theatre.

Ben McFadden

Johnny Wheelwright

Ben is incredibly grateful to be back on the boards with Book-It. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, he was last seen here as Young Doctor Larch in The Cider House Rules. Ben most recently appeared at Seattle Children’s Theatre as Angelo in Danny, King of the Basement.

A seasoned touring actor, he has worked with both Seattle Shakespeare Company and Book-It’s Arts & Education Programs.

He has also worked on the mainstage with Seattle Shakespeare Company, ArtsWest, Balagan Theatre, Theater Schmeater, 14/48, and Second Story Repertory. He’ll appear next summer in The Financial Lives of the Poets at Book-It.

Jordaán Montes

Grandmother / Donkey

Jordaán is thrilled to be once again involved in this Christmas gem of a show, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant! A few of her recent stage credits include Sally and Thor Save the World with Balagan Theatre, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Vengeance at Sundown with Ghostlight Theatricals, and Savage in Limbo with Unexpected Productions.

Jay Myers

Uncle Alfred / Mr. Meany / King

Jay is a recent graduate of the University of Washington drama and psychology departments where his roles included Dumaine in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Prospero in Rough Magic, Macbeth in Macbeth, Father in Eurydice, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Barfee in The...Putnam County Spelling Bee, Tin Soldier/Ensemble in Secret in the Wings, and Sherlock in Sherlock Holmes.

Mickey Rowe

Simon / Shepherd

Mickey is thrilled to make his Book-It debut.

He is a graduate of the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and the University of Washington. He has performed in The Barber of Seville, Billy Budd, Tosca, Fallstaff, The Turn of the Screw, Der Rosenkavalier, La Bohème, and I Puritani with Seattle Opera; The Cat in the Hat, The Wizard of Oz, Night of the Living Dead, and High School Musical with Seattle Children’s Theatre; Romeo and

Juliet with Arts on the Waterfront; and has collaborated on and performed in worldpremiere productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and with the Washington Ensemble Theatre. He will next reprise his role in La Bohème at Seattle Opera.

richard nguyen sloniker Dan Needham

Richard is thrilled to be back with the cast of Owen Meany.

He recently appeared in Ramayana at ACT Theatre. He has performed at the Guthrie Theater, Intiman, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Book-It, the Northwest Asian American Theatre, SIS Productions, Village Theatre, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. Richard is an instructor in acting in several Seattle communities, and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington’s School of Drama.

He holds an MFA from the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program, is a graduate of the prestigious Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and has a BS in cellular, molecular, developmental biology. He is married to Serin Ngai, and has a talented daughter, Viola.

kathleen stoll Barb Wiggin

Kathleen is delighted to once again reprise her ear-twisting stewardess role, Barb Wiggin.

Previous Book-It credits include Snow Falling on Cedars as Etta Heines and Eleanor Chambers, and she was in the premiere production of the musical, Red Ranger Came Calling as Old Timer 2. Her other roles include Maud Dunlop in The Music Man and Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, both with Village Theatre, Mona Kent in Dames at Sea with Classics Unlimited, Nettie in Carousel, Mrs. Sowerberry in Oliver!, Miss Jones in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, all with Civic Light Opera, and Ensemble in Me and My Girl at The 5th Avenue Theatre.

Amberlee Williams Hester / Donkey

Amberlee is honored for this to be her first production with Book-It. She graduated from Oklahoma State University and has found Seattle to be a wonderful new place to call home.

Favorite past Seattle roles include Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Chava in Fiddler on the Roof, and Wendla in Spring Awakening.

meet the

Artistic

staff

jane jones

Director, Co-Adapter, 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 24 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, 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 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, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts One and Two, 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. Book-It was also honored with a 2012 Governor’s Arts Award in September.

myra platt

Co-Adapter, Music Director, Original Music, & Founding Co-Artistic Director

As co-founder, director, adapter, actor, and composer, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 100 world-premiere stage adaptations.

Most recently she adapted Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain. Her 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 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.

As an actress, Myra most recently appeared as Susan Duff in Prairie Nocturne, Judith in The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Edna in The Awakening, and Margaret in Howards End. Outside of Book-It, Myra has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum. Myra is thrilled to have been a recipient with Jane Jones of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Founders Award, the 2010 Women of Influence from Puget Sound Business Journal, and to have been named by Seattle Times an Unsung Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region.

Horizon Theater Company, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Roust Theater, and Cardinal Stage Company. Andrew received the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards 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.

dan schuy

clare strasser

Dan is happy to be revisiting one of his favorite productions in which he has participated at Book-It. Dan is the designer/ technical director for the theatre department at North Seattle Community College, a position he has held for over 22 years, and has been on the staff of the Bellevue Youth Theatre for the past 12 years as a designer and theatre day camp director. Additionally, he has designed ArtsWest’s On The Verge, Black Gold, Measure For Pleasure, Love Song, Evil Dead: the Musical (Broadway World Award, Best Scenic Designer 2010), and Shipwrecked: an Entertainment; Seattle Public Theater’s Three Days of Rain, Dying City, and The Happy Ones; and at SecondStory Repertory and Theater Schmeater. Next up will be Anna Karenina at Book-It.

Clare is excited to be working with Book-It again where she previously worked on Red Ranger Came Calling, Great Expectations, Sense and Sensibility, and last year’s Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. Clare is a designer and founding member of The Satori Group with whom she designed iLove: and Hello Again, The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador, TRAGEDY: a tragedy, Artifacts of Consequence, and Fabulous Prizes. She has also worked at Seattle Public Theater and Washington Ensemble Theatre. Her next project is reWilding with The Satori Group in the spring.

Scenic Designer

andrew d. smith Lighting Designer

Andrew is pleased to return to Book-It, having designed Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Cider House Rules, Emma, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Locally, his work has been seen at Seattle Repertory Theatre, New Century Theatre Company, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Public Theater, Azeotrope, Theater Off Jackson, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, ArtsWest, On The Boards, Velocity Dance Center, and Broadway Performance Hall. Andrew has worked nationally at Flint Youth Theatre,

jocelyne fowler Costume Designer

Jocelyne’s design credits include Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant at Book-It; Legally Blonde at Seattle Musical Theatre; Eugene Onegin at Vashon Opera; The Sound of Music, The Crucible, and The Who’s Tommy at Youth Theatre Northwest; The Americans Across the Street at Harlequin Productions; Everything in the Garden, Jason and Medea, and The Cherry Orchard at Theatre 912; Zombie Prom, The Dancing Princess, The Princess and the Pea, and Children of Eden at SecondStory Repertory; and more at ReAct, Live Girls!

Theatre, Ghost Light Theatricals, and Seattle Pacific University. Upcoming work can be seen in Book-It’s Anna Karenina and Youth Theatre Northwest’s Little Women.

Properties Designer

victoria thompson

Production Stage Manager

Victoria is excited to be back at BookIt Repertory Theatre to work on Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. Her previous credits include The Art of Racing in the Rain, Border Songs, Great Expectations, Red Ranger Came Calling, The Cider House Rules, Parts One and Two, Emma, A Confederacy of Dunces, Night Flight, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, and Moby-Dick, or The Whale—all with Book-It, Love Horse with Washington Ensemble Theatre, and Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Othello with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s educational touring program.

production

staff Christine Rattigan

Assistant Stage Manager

Christine is very excited to be working on her first show at Book-It. Most recently she has stage managed Godspell and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Studio East.

She is also currently working on Romeo and Juliet and Into the Woods also at Studio East.

Christine completed the stage management internship at Seattle Repertory Theatre during the 2011-12 season. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon with a BA in theatre arts and English, where she also stage managed Burning Vision and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Christine is also working as the education associate for Studio East.

anders bolang

Production Manager

A graduate of Whitman College and the Yale School of Drama, Anders served as production manager for Tacoma Actors Guild and as technical director for the California Theatre Center and Whitman College. As a carpenter, he has created scenery for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Intiman, and Yale Rep, among others. On stage, Anders has performed at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Delaware Theatre Company, Yale Rep, Book-It, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Harlequin Productions, Tacoma Actors Guild, and as a guest artist with the Boston Pops. In New York, he has performed at the Performing Garage, NY Theatre Workshop, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Anders has appeared on “As the World Turns” and “One Life to Live,” the feature films Police Beat and Helene, and in industrial training films and voice-overs.

charlotte m. tiencken

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 Cyrano de Bergerac for the Vashon Park District, Fool for Love at Stone Soup Theatre, and On the Verge at Seattle Pacific University. She lives on Vashon Island with her husband, Bill, three cats, and two dogs.

affliations 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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Alex Miller †

Dramaturg & Assistant Director

kristyne hughes Properties Master

Tim samland

Master Carpenter

Devon Bright

Master Electrician

Carmen Rodriguez Charge Artist

Ann Fisar Robert Fiser Scenic Artists

toby jones dana pErreault Carpenters

Michelle Jamieson Grant Wardrobe

James SChreck Sound Engineer

Nina Trotto

Board Operator

bill danner

Scene Shop Manager † Book-It Intern

Managing Director

Charlotte is an administrator, director, producer, and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting fields for 25 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, Inc. 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. Ms. Tiencken is a member of SDC, the union of stage

special thanks to Eltana Bagels, University of Washington, North Seattle Community College

a tempest in a pot of tea When we first started out, times were tough. Some of you may remember the blue tea kettle marked “donations” placed at the theatre exit after each performance. We literally counted on what was collected from friends like you as we divided the money among the cast as pay at the end of the evening. Our very first major donation, a check for $1,000, was deposited in that tea kettle.

Wouldn’t you know it; we are still using that very same tea kettle in the lobby all these years later (and a bedazzled addition.) We have a soft spot for this little tea kettle and tonight we ask you to consider joining the tradition by making a gift to Book-It. To us, the tea kettle shows that together we can bring the best literature to the stage and continue to keep our mission of “inspiring audiences to read” alive and thriving.

As may you know, your ticket alone does not pay for the cost of making Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant come to life, and your gift in our kettle will go a long way toward helping us continue to bring you the most novel theatre in Seattle.

Please give a little, or give a lot, or just say hello to our tea kettle on your way out.

Thank you and Happy Holidays. We hope all of your traditions bring you good cheer in 2013!

honoring book-it

contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support:

LITERARY LEGENDS $50,000+ The Boeing Company • The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation • Gladys Rubinstein

LITERARY CHAMPIONS $25,000+ ArtsFund • Matthew N. Clapp Jr. • Lucky Seven Foundation • Ann Ramsay-Jenkins LITERARY HEROES $10,000+ 4Culture • N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier • Jeff & Amanda Cain Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Stellman Keehnel • The Norcliffe Foundation Lynne & Nick Reynolds** • The Seattle Foundation • The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Shirley & David Urdal • Anonymous (2) Literary Classics $5,000+

Nobel Award Society $1,000+

Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Mary Ann & Robert Wiley Mary Pigott Andrew & Trish Zuccotti** Larry & Michell Pihl Sonya & Tom Campion CenturyLink Foundation Green Diamond Resource Company Nordstrom The Medtronic Foundation City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs

Stephen & Salli Bauer Janet Boguch & Kelby Fletcher Cheryl Boudreau Patricia Britton** Amy & Matthew Cockburn George & Carolyn Cox Davidson & Co. Matching Gifts Program Allan & Nora Davis Mark Dexter & Deborah Cowley The Eureka Foundation Expedia Gives Matching Gift Program Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Peter Godman & Munira Rahemtulla Jean Gorecki & Dick Dobyns Amy & Thaddeus Hanscom Lucy Helm Harold & Mary Frances Hill Heather Howard KeyBank Foundation Lea Knight Agastya Kohli Ed & Laura Littlefield Lynn Manley & Alexander Lindsey Donald E. Marcy Holly & Bill Marklyn Sarah Merner & Craig McKibben Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Will Patton & Joni Ostergaard Peter & Jane Powell** Puget Sound Business Journal Jo Ann & Jim Roberts Matt Sauri John Schaffer Martha Sidlo Virginia Sly & Richard Wesley B. Richal & Karen Smith Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Jared Watson Judith Whetzel Shannon Williams Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters Merrily Wyman & Karen Bryant Anonymous (1)

Leadership Circle $2,500+ Monica Alquist** Boeing Gift Matching Program Karen Brandvick-Baker & Ross Baker** Steve Bull & Christiane Pein** Joann Byrd** Canonicus Fund D. Thompson & Karen Challinor Tony & Emily Cox The Ex Anima Fund Expedia, Inc Fales Foundation Trust Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness** Tom & Cande Grogan John & Ellen Hill Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon** Margaret Kineke & Dennis West** Darcy & Lee MacLaren Mary Metastasio** Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Lynn Murphy** Tom & Cheryl Oliver** Myra Platt & Dave Ellis** David Quicksall & Rachel Glass** Steven Schwartzman** Seattle Center Foundation Garth & Drella Stein Deborah Swets** Jim & Kathy Tune U.S. Bancorp Foundation Kris & Mike Villiott** Elizabeth Warman** Richard Weening April J. Williamson Lucy Flynn Zuccotti**

Pulitzer Award Society $500+ Earl Alexander* All One Family Fund Ruth Bailey

Pulitzer Award Society, cont.

Lindsay & Tony Blackner Leo Butzel & Roberta Reaber Diana & Chuck Carey The Carey Family Foundation Catherine Clark & Marc Jacques Amy & Paul Curtis Dottie Delaney Diane Douglas Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal The Film School* Firesteed Cellars* Laurie Griffith Dr. Benson & Pamela Harer Phyllis Hatfield Humanities Washington Clare Kapitan & Keith Schreiber Pam Kendrick Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Annie Lareau** Frank Lawler & Ann McCurdy Bill Block & Susan Leavitt Craig Lorch Stephen E. Lovell Sheila Lukehart & Jim Brinkley Ellen & Stephen Lutz Steve Miller & Pamela Cowan Blair Osborn & Alice Cunningham Meta L. Pasternak Pamela & Nate Searle Seattle International Film Festival* Tamara Stenshoel William & Lynette Thomas Kerry P. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Frederick W. Titcomb Judith Tobin & Michael Baker Pop Cap Games Matching Gifts Program Robert & Leora Wheeler Steve Wilson & Julie Lin Jay Hereford & Margaret Winsor David & Sally S. Wright Mary & Gerald Zyskowski Anonymous (2)

National Book Award Society $250+ :Nota Bene Cellars* The 5th Avenue Theatre* Doug Adams Shawn & Lynne Aebi Christina Amante Connie Anderson Virginia L. Anderson Ma Barker & Mom Chow The Bayless Family Luther Black & Christina Wright Barry Boone & Mary Wilson Gail & Doug Boushey John Bradshaw Adelaide H. Brooks & Robert Pennell Jeff Youngstrom & Becky Brooks David & Rachel Bukey Wendy Cohen & John Chenault Emily Davis Virginia Davison Sandra & Paul Dehmer Mary DeLorme & Mark Schleck Yasue Drabble

honoring book-it

contributors National Book Award Society, cont.

Pen/Faulkner Award Circle $100+

Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.

Jim & Gaylee Duncan Pamela & Kenneth Eakes Brent & Katie Enarson Joyce Erickson Stan & Jane Fields Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman Robert Foster Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program Katharine Godman & Jerry Collum** Laura Hanson Wendy Hilliker Cynthia Huffman & Ray Heacox Brent Johnson Sarah Kohut & Jim Grant Dr. Eric Rose & Eleni Ledesma Arni Litt & Lori Eickelberg Elizabeth Love Melissa & Don Manning Josie & Doug Manuel Marcia Mason Ruth McCormick Jim McDonald Jean McKeon Metropolitan Market* Charles Montange Marc & Emily Mora Betty Ngan & Tom Mailhot Deborah & Jeff Parsons Linda Quirk Charles & Doris Ray Esther Reese Bradley Renner Anne Repass Linden Rhoads Paula Riggert Lawrence & Karen Robins Don & Marty Sands Dr. Robert Saunders & Donna Marie Frank Schumann & Heather Pullen Gail & John Sehlhorst Aime & Mike Servais Michael & Jo Shapiro St. Clouds Restaurant* Standard Insurance Company Employee Giving Campaign Richard & Irene Strand Kimberly & Mike Strand LiAnn & Stephen Sundquist Tammy Talman Ten Mercer* Terry Tazioli Samuel Teitzel Emory & Laura Thomas Molly Thompson & Joe Casalini Edward & Genevieve Tremblay Sheila Valencia & Walter Parker Ruth Valine & Edward McNerney Karen & Ron Van Genderen Sandra Waugh Eddie Westerman Rachel Wilsey & Sam Bernstein Janet & Lawrence Wilson Richard Wilson & Lloyd Herman Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood Anonymous (1)

ACT Theatre* Carol Adams Amgen Foundation Amy Arvidson Cinnimin Avena Michelle Badion Jo Ann & Tom Bardeen Mary Murfin & Doug Bayley** Lindsay Bealko Rebecca Benton Deb & Bill Bigelow Watson & Jane Blair Marlin & Ellen Blizinsky Marisa Bocci Rebecca Bogard Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb Jonathan Bridge Broadway Center For The Performing Arts* Billie Butterfield Melanie Calderwood Jane Camden Carri Campbell Hugh Campbell Michela Carpino & Rick Klingele Carl & Terry Chadsey Gerry & Kristine Champagne Lynne & David Chelimer Jack & Cynthia Clay Sonja M. Coffman Jane Commet Eric Helland & Susan Connors Robert & Mary Cooper Samantha Cooper** Covestic, Inc. Jim Wilder & Margaret Curtin Nancy & Bruce Deane Robin Dearling & Gary Ackerman Robert Hovden & Ron DeChene Dorothy & Jim Denton Nancy Dirksen Lynn Dissinger Mary Dombrowski Dan Drais Vasiliki Dwyer Susan M. Dyer Sarah L. Easterbrook Eight Bells Winery* Lynne Ellis Marilyn Endriss Kim & Rob Entrop Jane Faulkner & Marc Kittner Ellen Ferguson Laura Ferri Mary Ellen Flanagan Nanette Fok Jayn & Hugh Foy Kai Fujita Laurel Garcia & Shi Kai Wang Cezanne Garcia Julia Geier & Phil Borges Bill Gill Joan & Steve Goldblatt Dona Golden Anke Gray Pamela Greenwood Michael Grimm

Nancy Guppy Dr. Rena Hamburger Faith Hanna Larry Hanson Marcia L. Harper Brenda Hartman Ellen & David Hecht Rebecca Herzfeld & Gordon Crawford Rita Hibbard Susan & Jim Hogan David Hogan* Nancy Holcomb Lisa Holderman Carolyn Holtzen Mary & Eric Horvitz Karen L. Howard Julie Howe & Dennis Shaw Melissa Huther Eva Jackson Lorna Jordan Kris Jorgensen & Margey Rubado David Kasik & Jan Levine Rebecca Kavoussi Katherine King Mary J. Klubben Dean W. Koonts Francis J. Kwapil Christine Lewis Cynthia Livak Mary Frances Lyons Joan Machlis Nancy Manula Elizabeth Mathewson Elaine Mathies Susan McCloskey Kathy McCluskey Deirdre & Jay McCrary Maggie McDonald James & Kaaren McElroy Marcie & John McHale Margaret Metastasio John Mettler Jeanne Metzger Elaine Mew Shyla & Donald Miller Donna & Robert Parker Katie Mitchell Becky Monk Terry & Cornelia Moore Morfey’s Cakes* Eleanor Moseley Pam & Don Myers Kim Namba Donna & Dennis Neuzil Dorothy & Aaron Nicholls Pam & Scott Nolte Jeanette O’Connor Chris Ohweiler Jeanne Leader & Stephen Ooton Pacific Northwest Ballet* Pacific Office Automation, Inc. Jeff & Lauren Packman Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert Steve Pellegrin & Mary Anne Braund Cheryl Peterson Gloria Pfeif

Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.

Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.

O. Henry Award Circle, cont.

Jennifer Phillips Paula Pimental Anne & Lee Pipkin Mary Poole PopCap Games* Susan Porterfield Judith Powers Puget Sound Energy Foundation Michelle Quackenbush Racha Noodles & Thai Cuisine* Diana Rakow Michelle Rebert Brian & Roberta Reed Dennis & Jean Reichenbach Jeannette Reynolds Karen & Eric Richter Roberta Roberts Marga Rose Hancock H. Stewart Ross Beth Rutherford Donna Sand Kathy Saunders Marc & Stacie Scattergood Seattle Repertory Theatre* Mark Seklemian Allen E. Senear Meredith Lehr & William Severson Craig Shank & Meredith Stelling Peter Sill & Marcia Joslyn Sill Shellie Slettebak Marilyn Sloan George & Susan Smith Diane Snell Christine Stepherson Paul Stucki & Christina Chang Diane & Richard Sugimura Debra & Mark Szalwinksi Theresa Tamura Gail Tanaka Eric & Cassandra Taylor Anne Terry Kristin & Mark Thomas T.S. McHugh’s* Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West** Marcia Utela Ruth Verhoff Village Theatre* Jorie Wackerman Margot & Thomas Washington Washington State Employee Combined Fund Sally & Charles Weems Kayla Weiner Jay Weinland & Heather Hawkins Jennifer Weis Morton & Judy Weisman Adam Westerman Gregory Wetzel Melinda Deane & Dan Wheetman Sara White & Robert Jordan Jane Wiegenstein Hope Wiljanen Carol & Bryan Willison Lauren Wilson Bruce Winchell Juliette Yamane Robert Winsor & Valerie Yockey

Sam Zeiler & Dawn Frankwick Anonymous (7)

Margey Thoresen • Marcellus Turner • UW World Series* • Deborah VanDerhei • Verizon Foundation • Tom & Kristi Weir • Julie Weisbach • Irina West • Jean & David White • Bill & Paula Whitham** • Margaret Whittemore • Connie & Les Wiletzky • Michael Winters • Samantha Wykes • Wendy Yoker • Anonymous (6)

O. Henry Award Circle $50+ William G. Anderson • Jennifer Sue & Russ Banham • Tina Baril & Dafydd D. Rhysjones** • Roger Tucker & Becky Barnett • Shawn Baz & Ellen Bezona • Maribeth Berberich • John Bianchi & Scott Warrender • Nancy L. Bittner • Audrey Blair • Diane Blake • Julia Bolz • Anne Boyer • Bridge Partners LLC • Tisha Cain • Pamela Cain • Gwyneth W. Casazza • Meggen Chadsey • Carl Chew • Catherine Clemens • Carol Crosby • Reidun Crowley • Nancy Cushwa • Stephanie Czerwonka • Marilyn & Don Davidson • Sherri Del Bene • Marcia Donovan • Beth L. Dubey • Lorna Dykes • Nancy Ellingham • Margot & Dave Elsner • Dr. E.M. Faustman • Polly Feigl • Chandler & Janice Felt • Barbara & Timothy Fielden • Laura Fischetti • Deb Fredrikson • Elizabeth Gaskill • Elizabeth Gilchrist • Ann Glusker & Peter Hunsberger • Google Matching Gifts Program • Linda Gould • Kathryn Greenberg • Jean Grief • Laurie Greig • Scott Guettinger • Corina Hardin • Wier Harmon • Terri Helm-Remund • Lorayne Hendrickson • Catherine Hennings • Barbara & Randy Hieronymus • Chris Higashi • Kate Hokanson • Cole Hornaday • Robert Hunter • Susanne Hussong • Alison Inkley • Lawrence Jackson • Joan Kalhorn • Malia & Chang Kawaguchi • Vickie Kawakami • Millett & Patricia Keller • Sherrie & Ken Kilborn • King County Employee Chartiable Campaign • Shannon & Richard Knipp • Kristi’s Grooming Company* • Fay Krokower • Barb & Art Lachman • Asha & Lillian Lahiri • Ken Lanier • Larry Lewin • Dr. Donald & Alice Lewis • Bonnie Lewman • Madalene Lickey • Adelaide Loges • Nancy Lomneth & Mark Boyd • Frank Lott • Carol Lumb • Melodie Martin • Ginny Mason • Ellen Maxson • Phil & Lee McCluskey • Theresa & J. Douglas McLean • Mecca Café* • Merck Partnership for Giving • Julie & Mike Metzger • Gary Miller • Sarah Mixson • Sara & Paul Mockett • George & Marion Mohler • Christine Mosere** • Susan & Harold Mozer • Martha Mukhalian • Nancy & Stephen Olsen • Kevin & Linda O’Morrison • On The Boards* • Pat O’Rourke • Helen Ortiz • Timothy O’Sullivan • Susan Parker • Sherry Perrault • Ed & Carol Perrin • Katherine Phelps • Laura Ploudre • Portage Restaurant* • Thomas W. Pratt • Patricia & Jackie Pritchard • Andrea Ptak & Aaron Houseknecht • QFC* • Barbara & Daniel Radin • Nancy Reichley & Timothy Higgins • RN74* • Shirley Roberson • T.A. Greenleaf & Rebecca Roe • Kristine Ruppelt • Patricia Rytkonen & William Karn • Scarecrow Video* • Julie Schoenfeld • B. Charlotte Schreiber • Nancy Schroder • Ann Schuh • Seattle Art Museum* • Seattle Children’s Theatre* • Seattle Men’s Chorus* • Audrey & John Sheffield • Janna Silverstein • Barbara Spear • Noah Seixas & Dana Standish • Pat T. Starkovich • Jane Stevens • Julie Stohlman • Anne Stoltz • Janice Strand • Steve Suzuki • Taproot Theatre* • Awnie Thompson

Gifts in Honor & in Memory Beth Amsbary in honor of Rachel Alquist, cheerful voice of Book-It Nancy L. Celms, Kate C. Hemer, Connie Hungate, and Margaret M. Marshall in memory of William Rees Phillips Corliss Perdaems in memory of Judy Runstad’s father, Gerry Wright Manville Barbara Rollinger in memory of Stephanie Prince’s mother, Mildred Prince Sonja M. Coffman in memory of Helen Robinson *denotes in-kind donation **denotes in-kind plus monetary support This list reflects gifts received September 1, 2011 – November 7, 2012. Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgements. Please email Development Associate Samantha Cooper, samanthac@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 Governer’s Arts & Heritage Award, Book-It Repertory Theatre was founded 23 years ago as an artists’ collective, adapting short stories for performance and touring them throughout the Northwest. Today, with 99 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 Steven Bull, President Architect, Workshop for Architecture + Design Joann Byrd, Vice President Journalist & Editor, Retired Kristine Villiott, Treasurer CPA, Minar and Northey LLP Thomas Oliver, Secretary Educator Monica Alquist Dir. of Events & Special Projects, Puget Sound Business Journal Karen Brandvick-Baker Communications Team, HomeStreet Bank Amanda Cain Librarian, American Philanthropic, LLC Stuart Frank Project Manager, Partner Capability Development, Starbucks Jane Jones Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It Margaret Kineke Senior V.P., D.A. Davidson & Co.

Mary Metastasio Senior Portfolio Manager, Safeco, Retired Lynn Murphy Realtor, Windermere Real Estate Co. Myra Platt Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It David Quicksall Independent Theatre Artist & Teacher Lynne Reynolds I.T. Consultant, Covestic, Inc. Shirley Roberson, Board Intern Senior Associate, Hughes Media Law Group Steven Schwartzman Attorney, U.S. Postal Service, Western Area Law Department Deborah Swets V.P. for Membership, Washington State Hospital Assocation Elizabeth J. Warman Dir. Global Corporate Citizenship, NW Region, The Boeing Co. Lucy Flynn Zuccotti Project Archaeologist, Cardno ENTRIX

book-it staff & interns Jane Jones, Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director Myra Platt, Founding Co-Artistic Director Charlotte M. Tiencken, Managing Director

Natasha Ransom, Education Associate Gail Sehlhorst, Director of Education Victoria Thompson, Production Stage Manager Robert Thornburgh, Custodian Charles W. West, Legal Consultant Bill Whitham, Bookkeeper

Josh Aaseng, Literary Manager Rachel Alquist, Box Office Sales Manager Anders Bolang, Production Manager Patricia Britton, Director of Marketing & Communications Amanda Cain, Grants Associate Samantha Cooper, Development Associate Tom Dewey, Lead Box Office Associate, Group Sales Shannon Erickson, Publications & Media Manager Jocelyne Fowler, Costume Shop Manager Emily Grogan & Jennifer Sue Johnson, Casting Associates Annie Lareau, Director of Touring & Outreach Christine Mosere, Director of Development Erin Pike, House Manager & Volunteer Coordinator

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2012-13 interns Artistic Interns: Alex Miller & Allison Dunmore Education Interns: Georgina Cohen & Amberlee Williams Education / Costume Intern: Megan Mills Marketing Intern: Melissa Carter Production Intern: Bobbin Ramsey

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