Pride and Prejudice Program

NOVEMBER 25 - DECEMBER 28, 2014

I AM OF IRELAND | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | THE D O G OF THE SOUTH | LIT TLE BEE | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

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On behalf of everyone at Book-It Repertory Theatre I want to welcome you to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

We are thrilled to bring this fan favorite back for the holiday season during our Silver Jubilee. I am struck that a novel published in 1813 remains so relevant today and holds such strong a sway on popular culture; it has been adapted repeatedly for movies and television (including a Bollywood version), served as the inspiration for Bridget Jones’ Diary, and even spawned a teen web series, zombie and vampire versions, and a graphic novel. None of the fame, however, overshadows the story at the heart of the book: that of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy overcoming their “prejudice” and “pride” to find love.

I first came to Book-It in 2005, brought by a friend who had read the book being staged (Kent Haruf ’s Plainsong). I became an immediate fan. I’m a lifelong reader and theater-goer, but I’d never seen such a transformative adaptation before, one that brought the characters and the story—the book itself—to vivid life. My partner and I became subscribers and over the years have enjoyed the pleasure of introducing many of our friends to Book-It. We now have a regular group we go with, and created our own “book club” by reading each work before seeing the show.

In 2012, I joined the board of directors and was elected president in June 2014. I am honored and humbled to be serving the organization at this critical time in our history. Started as an experimental artist’s collective in 1987, we have grown into a thriving regional company that provides an experience unlike any other because of our commitment to bringing books to the stage and encouraging a love of reading. Like many non-profits, we face some headwinds, including: expanding our reach and attracting new audiences, and remaining culturally relevant in the digital age.

I am happy to introduce Daniel Mayer, our new managing director, who we selected to help us build on our strong foundation and chart our course for the future. Working with Dan, and the rest of the staff and board, I am confident we will continue to grow and evolve while staying true to our mission.

The support Book-It enjoys from our community is heartening—I sincerely thank you for joining us. Enjoy the show, and as you consider your holiday gifts we would be so grateful if you’d remember Book-It.

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Board President Stuart Frank at Guilty Pleasures 2014; photo by Alan Alabastro.

Meet our new managing director!

daniel mayer

Please don’t hesitate to drop me a note at stuartmfrank@gmail.com.

Very sincerely,

Stuart Frank

Book-It’s new managing director, Daniel Mayer.

President, Book-It Board of Directors

Read more about Dan on page A-12

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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen Adapted and directed by Marcus Goodwin

cast Allan Armstrong Jesica Avellone John Bianchi Rachel Brow Amy Danneker Trick Danneker Kimberly King* Rebecca Olson Richard Nguyen Sloniker* Sascha Streckel Kate Sumpter Jen Taylor* Brian Thompson* Connor Toms* Steve West† Victoria Thompson Emma Pihl

Sir William Lucas / Mr. Gardiner Mrs. Long / Mrs. Hurst / Charlotte Lucas / Mrs. Gardiner Mr. Hurst / Mr. Collins Miss Lydia Bennet Miss Kitty Bennet / Miss de Bourgh Mr. Bingley Mrs. Bennet / Lady Catherine de Bourgh Miss Jane Bennet Mr. Darcy Miss Mary Bennet / Miss Darcy Miss Bingley / Mrs. Reynolds Miss Elizabeth Bennet Mr. Bennet Mr. Cartwright / Mr. Wickham Jenkins / Mr. Pattinson / Jacobs / Mr. Denny / Colonel Fitzwilliam Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Artistic Team Greg Carter Craig Wollam Jocelyne Fowler Jen Raynak Anthea Carns Laura Ferri Gin Hammond

Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound Designer Dramaturg Dance Choreographer Dialect Coach

Originally produced by Book-It in 2000, 2004, and at Portland Center Stage in 2005. * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Acting Intern

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The cast of Pride and Prejudice rehearse one of the dances.

I first staged this production of this wonderful novel fourteen years ago and to return to it now after so long is as poignant as encountering a long lost friend—I imagine it must feel the same for people who know and love this novel so well when they reread it after many years—except this friend hasn’t aged at all and never will, because like all great stories, it is ageless.

Meanwhile, I being that little bit older, find the story’s themes of forgiveness and second chances more moving and richer than I did back in 2000. Behind a story that fizzes and sparkles with wit and unforgettable comic characterizations, is a story, as the title suggests, of people constantly misreading other people and passing judgments on them, only to find that they were wrong.

In tragedies characters realize their mistakes too late, but here in this story, because it is a comedy, it is not too late, and Darcy and Elizabeth realize and apologize and are forgiven by each other. You can’t get enough of apology and forgiveness in this day and age, or any age, and that this happens around the central storyline of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth’s love for each other, makes it one of the most bewitching novels with a happy ending that has ever been written.

The cast of Pride and Prejudice at rehearsal.

Director/Adapter Marcus Goodwin

Jane Austen herself didn’t have such a happy ending in love: she never married and was proposed to only once in her life.

After accepting her one and only marriage proposal, the next morning she realized she had made a mistake and changed her mind, and she was never proposed to again.

One of the magical things a fiction writer can do is to perfect an imperfect world, and to give it meaning, so I like to imagine that Jane Austen gave herself in this novel the happy ending she never had in her own life. She created Elizabeth, a character probably more like herself than any other she created, and she turned her own life inside out, and this time the story ran the other way round with the “comic” rather than “tragic” ending: starting with a proposal that is refused, comes the realization of a mistake, then improbably a second chance, a second proposal and this time an acceptance, which feels right and earned, and that is wonderful and moving, and an opportunity for those of us telling this story on stage to make theatrical magic.

Marcus Goodwin Adapter & Director

book-it loves jane austen Book-It first fell in love with Jane Austen in 2000 and for 14 years we have been enchanted by the way her text and the Book-It Style merge on stage. So much of what we love of her narratives are her keen, witty, and perceptive observations of behaviors of the human race. Using Austen’s unspoken narrative as dialogue, we can relish these unsurpassed zingers and incorporate them into the worlds and points of view of our productions.

-Jane Jones

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2000, 2004

PERSUASION 2008

EMMA 2009

SENSE AND SENSIBILIT Y 2011

Jane Austen was born December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke in England, the seventh child of a country clergyman and his wife. George and Cassandra Austen educated their children primarily at home where they could benefit from the extensive library and the schoolroom atmosphere created by Mr. Austen’s live-in pupils. Jane’s closest friend was her only sister, Cassandra, almost three years her senior. Her brothers variously entered the militia, banking, the clergy, and one was adopted by wealthy cousins to be their heir.

When her father retired in 1801, she moved to Bath, and then on to various other locales with her mother after her father’s death in 1805. Unlike her heroines, Jane Austen never married, though she did receive one proposal. In 1811, at the age of 35, Austen published Sense and Sensibility, which identified the author as “a Lady.” Pride and Prejudice followed in 1813, Mansfield Park in 1814, and Emma in 1815. Austen died after a long illness on July 18, 1817, and a few days later was buried in Winchester Cathedral. She was 41 years old. Her gravestone, which is visited by hundreds of admirers each year, does not even mention that she was an author.

Her novels Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published together in December 1817 with a “Biographical Notice” written by her brother Henry, in which Jane Austen was, for the first time in one of her novels, identified as the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. In 1869, the publication of “A Memoir of Jane Austen” by her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, rekindled popular interest in her books and cemented her place in the literary canon. Her novels have been continuously in print since 1833.

The above 2002 portrait of Jane Austen was painted by Mellisa Dring. Read about the research that went into creating this new likeness at Jane Austen’s Regency World online: www.janeausten.co.uk/regencyworld/pdf/portrait.pdf Photo credits from top to bottom: the ensemble of Pride and Prejudice; photo by Erik Stuhaug; Kevin McKeon and Chiara Motley in Persuasion; photo by Erik Stuhaug; Sylvie Davidson and Ashley Adair in Emma; photo by Adam Smith; Jessica Martin and Kjerstine Anderson in Sense and Sensibility; photo by Alan Alabastro.

LOVE and MONEY

THE MARRIAGE OF

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ANTH E A C ARNS

In a society where single women had few legal rights of their own, it’s little wonder that the Bennet sisters and their peers have matchmaking on their minds.

In Austen’s lifetime, a smart match was the goal for almost every young gentlewoman. It was in part an economic imperative: few unmarried women had any prospect of being able to support themselves without help from a male relation.

A well-off husband meant financial security and comfort for most women. Inheritance laws were such that hardly any young women were in a position to inherit the entirety of a fortune, and any young lady who did inherit a large sum was sure to have suitors buzzing about her immediately. Moreover, unmarried women were expected to live with their families or guardians, no matter their fortunes. With the respectability of marriage came some measure of freedom.

Marriage was a desirable state for young men as well, of course, particularly those not of large fortune, and for single wealthy men, marrying and producing a legitimate heir would ensure that their fortune—along with any lands or hereditary titles—would stay within the family.

Love was not considered a necessity for a marriage in the Regency era. It might develop, over the years, but it needn’t exist beforehand. Attitudes were changing in Austen’s lifetime, however. The Enlightment of the 18th century had introduced the philosophy of “the pursuit of happiness;” one outgrowth of this was the idea that marriage should be a place of happiness and affection, as well as economic stability.

Austen herself was very conscious of the practical reasons for marriage. More than once, her characters, male and female, voice sensible arguments in favor of marrying for security. In 1796, Austen had a close relationship with her “Irish friend,” Tom Lefroy, but family obligations and finances made a match impossible. But when a very good match proposed to Austen in 1802, she refused him, unwilling to wed where she did not love. Later, her niece Fanny wrote to her for relationship advice and Austen told her:

And now, my dear Fanny, having written so much on one side of the question, I shall turn round and entreat you not to commit yourself farther, and not to think of accepting him unless you really do like him. Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection…

Austen’s heroines often wrestle with the same dilemmas: should security come before love, or vice versa?

And if a young lady and a gentleman should find themselves fond of one another—what came next? How would they go about making their feelings known?

Of course, there were expectations for carrying on a courtship, which mostly consisted of a long list of things one was not supposed to do. Too much personal correspondence between unmarried men and women was considered improper. Too much familiarity was frowned upon: the lady and her beau were not supposed to address one another by their first names. Too much time spent together unchaperoned, outside socially acceptable settings such as dances or walks, would be inappropriate at best. And showing too much enthusiasm was not to be thought of: a lady should be pleasant to the man she admired, but never more affectionate or demonstrative than decorum allowed.

Somehow, in spite of all these strictures, couples communicated their feelings for each other. Once a gentleman felt fairly certain of the answer, he could make the proposal of marriage. He was expected to seek the lady’s father’s consent at some point, but it was perfectly acceptable for him to speak to the lady first. Once all parties involved had agreed, and the business details of the lady’s dowry, the gentleman’s marriage gift, her pin money, and so forth had been settled, the upcoming wedding would be announced for three consecutive weeks at the local church, a practice called “reading the banns.”

For those in a real hurry, with little money or care for their reputations, eloping was always an option. While English law required parental consent and the reading of the banns before a couple could wed, Scottish law required only that both participants be consenting, and have a witness to the union.

The town of Gretna Green, just over the Scotland-England border, thus became a popular destination for eager couples.

An elopement of this kind would certainly cause a scandal, particularly in aristocratic families—but the wedding would be legally binding, and the couple bound to each other, even if their marriage had begun in less than ideal circumstances.

What was the ideal marriage, then—the fairy tale that the Bennet girls might dream of? The gentleman and the lady

should be of the same social class; their families should both be respectable, and between the two of them their wealth should be enough to keep them comfortable; their courtship and marriage should be conducted with decorum. Meet all those requirements, and your marriage might fairly be called “ideal.”

But to all this, add love, and you might truly have the makings of a Regency fairy tale ending.

JUST HOW RICH IS MR. DARCY?

It’s hard to make an exact comparison between Georgian currency and today’s currency, but £1 in 1813 would have roughly the same buying power as £60 today. With the current exchange rate, that’s about US$95, which makes Mr. Darcy’s annual income almost $1,000,000! (Source: Bank of England’s inflation calculator)

£400 A YEAR

An income that approaches the comforts of genteel life. It usually brings a cook, a housemaid and, perhaps, a boy.

£500 A YEAR

This sum, according to domestic economists, fills the cup of human happiness. It would allow for three servants, but no horses or carriage.

£700 TO £1,000 A YEAR

This higher range of upper professional incomes marks the most prosperous pseudo-gentry families. Its most significant consumer marker was the ownership of a carriage.

£2,000 A YEAR

At this level we have the landed gentry however, domestic economy must still hold a tight rein, especially when, as with Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, there were five daughters to marry off!

ABOVE £4,000 A YEAR

Incomes of £4,000 a year and above (Darcy’s, Bingley’s, Crawford’s, Rushworth’s) leave behind the “cheeseparing” cares of middle-class incomes, to enter a realm of unlimited genteel comforts. To spend more than this, according to contemporary wisdom, “a man must go into horse-racing or illegitimate pleasures.”

(Landowning as a Business 1882).

(Source: The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, ed. Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster at the Jane Austen Center, Bath, UK)

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Cast

ALLAN ARMSTRONG

Sir William Lucas / Mr. Gardiner Allan last appeared with Book-It as Mr. March in Little Women in 2005. In Washington he has played several roles for Seattle Shakespeare Company, including Holofernes in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Aegeon and Dr. Pinch in The Comedy of Errors, and the duke in The Merchant of Venice. He has also performed with Seattle Repertory Theatre and Theater Schmeater, and participated in ten staged readings with the Endangered Species Project.

In the San Francisco Bay Area he was worked with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the California Shakespeare Theater.

JESICA AVELLONE

Mrs. Long / Mrs. Hurst / Charlotte Lucas / Mrs. Gardiner Jesica is delighted to be working with BookIt, having previously performed in Jesus’ Son. She is a New York transplant, where she was a founding member of award-winning CollaborationTown, and was seen at La MaMa ETC, the OntologicalHysteric Theater, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, and in the Off-Broadway premiere of Pentecost. She plays the violin and was nominated for an Innovative Theatre Award for her compositions for CTown’s The Astronomer’s Triangle. In Seattle, she has performed with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, and 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival. As a teaching artist, she has worked with Intiman, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Studio East, and Wedgwood Drama Studio. She received her BFA from Boston University.

JOHN BIANCHI

Mr. Hurst / Mr. Collins John is thrilled to be working again with Book-It Repertory Theatre, where he last appeared as Mr. Pucci in She’s Come Undone. John has also appeared in Book-It’s original adaptations of Emma, Howards End, and Don Quixote. John received his MFA from Rutgers University’s Professional Actor Training Program, and has called Seattle home for the last 20 years.

He has worked with many local theaters including ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Annex Theatre, Theater Schmeater, and Seattle Public Theater, among others.

Some favorite roles performed include Mr. Elton in Emma, Septimus in Arcadia, DeFlores in The Changeling, David in

Santaland Diaries, and all eight characters of the solo show, 21A by Kevin Kling.

RACHEL BROW

Miss Lydia Bennet Rachel is delighted to return to the Book-It stage as one of her most favorite literary troublemakers! She last performed here in Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. Most recently, she played Robin in Horse Girls with Annex Theatre. Other favorite roles include Wendla in Spring’s Awakening, Eurydice in Eurydice, and Logainne in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Rachel holds BAs from the University of Washington in both creative writing and drama performance and works as a children’s performer with Live Wires Entertainment.

AMY DANNEKER

Miss Kitty Bennet / Miss de Bourgh Amy is delighted to be making her Book-It debut! She most recently appeared in Seattle Repertory Theatre’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Elsewhere in Seattle, she appeared as Mary Bailey in the Theater Anonymous production of It’s a Wonderful Life, Undo with Annex Theatre, Pygmalion with Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Dog Sees God with Balagan Theatre, as well as several performances with14/48:The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival, Harlequin Productions, and Olympia Little Theatre (all credited as Amy Hill). She will appear in Manic Pixie Dream Wife, a new web series premiering in spring of 2015. Amy received her bachelor’s degree in theatre education from Central Washington University.

TRICK DANNEKER Mr. Bingley Trick previously appeared at Book-It in The Financial Lives of the Poets and Great Expectations.

Other local credits include Arcadia, Back Back Back, The 13th of Paris, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, “Master Harold”… and the Boys, Stop Kiss, and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow with Seattle Public Theater; The Boy at the Edge of Everything, The Cat in the Hat, Pharaoh Serket…, The Green Sheep, Bluenose, and The BFG with Seattle Children’s Theatre; Eurydice with ACT Theatre; The Servant of Two Masters, Speech & Debate, and The Great Gatsby with Seattle Repertory Theatre; as well as performances with 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre

Festival, Theater Anonymous, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Theater Schmeater, and Harlequin Productions. Trick received his bachelor’s degree in theatre performance from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

KIMBERLY KING*

Mrs. Bennet / Lady Catherine de Bourgh Kimberly has worked in U.S. theatres from coast to coast including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, South Coast Repertory, Aurora Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, and Princeton University’s McCarter Theatre, to name a few. She appeared in Book-It’s production of Pride and Prejudice at Portland Center Stage.

Locally Kimberly has worked with Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, and Intiman.

REBECCA OLSON

Miss Jane Bennet This is Rebecca’s first mainstage production with Book-It. Recent theatre credits include Heather in Gidion’s Knot at Seattle Public Theater, Katherine in Love’s Labour’s Lost at Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Heidi in Ballard House Duet, a Custom Made Play Project produced with Washington Ensemble Theatre. Locally Rebecca has worked with Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, Seattle Shakespeare Company and their Wooden O Theatre, Theater Schmeater, and Unexpected Productions, among others. Regionally she has performed with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Salt Lake Acting Company.

Rebecca is the founder of the Custom Made Play Project and a member of the Sandbox Artist Collective, frequently performing in the Sandbox Radio Live! series. She is a graduate of the University of Utah Actor Training Program.

RICHARD NGUYEN SLONIKER*

Mr. Darcy Richard is a writer, performer, and educator. He was last seen in Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s British farce Black Comedy. He last appeared with Book-It as Malcom Turner in Truth Like the Sun. He’s performed at the Guthrie Theater, ACT Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Azeotrope, a company he co-founded.

He’s been twice nominated for Gregory Awards as an outstanding lead actor. Richard

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SASCHA STRECKEL

Miss Mary Bennet / Miss Darcy Sascha hails from Texas and is delighted to be a part of the thriving Seattle theatre community. Last seen on the Book-It stage in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, she has worked locally with Book-It, Annex Theatre, Seattle Fringe Festival, Porkfilled Productions, GreenStage, LiveGirls!, and others. Sascha is the development director at Annex Theatre, a founding member of Studio4Seattle, and an artistic associate of Theatre22. She is also a proud teaching artist of all ages and has worked throughout Seattle with Y.E.S., Theatre 9/12, Stone Soup Theatre, Seattle’s Littlest Performers, and Sweet Pea Cottage. www.saschastreckel.com

KATE SUMPTER

Miss Bingley / Mrs. Reynolds Kate is thrilled to be making her Book-It debut! Originally from Portland, Oregon, she moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington’s School of Drama and School of International Studies. Kate is a company member of The Satori Group, and performed recently in West of Lenin’s Life=Play, and Henry IV with Freehold’s Engaged Theatre project, which toured prisons and army bases.

She has also performed with Washington Ensemble Theatre, Seattle Musical Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Catapult Theatre, and GreenStage, and co-wrote and performed in Ithaca I’ll Never See, which ran at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Kate is a British citizen, a classically trained singer, and plays sports–any sport–when she can.

JEN TAYLOR*

Miss Elizabeth Bennet Previous Book-It shows include Truth Like the Sun, The House of Mirth, Giant, Pride and Prejudice, and In A Shallow Grave. Jen also adapted Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility for Book-It and is clearly a little obsessed with Jane Austen.

She has performed with Seattle Shakespeare

Company, ACT Theatre, Village Theatre, Intiman, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Portland Center Stage, The Empty Space, and is a founding member of New Century Theatre Company. Jen works as a voice actor in radio, television, audiobooks, and numerous video games including the Halo series as Cortana and Dr. Halsey.

BRIAN THOMPSON*

Mr. Bennet In 1956 Brian graduated from Seattle’s Roosevelt High School having won Best Actor Awards in the maiden edition of their one-act play festival. He went that fall to The Goodman in Chicago, and by Christmas he appeared in his first professional engagement in The Immoralist starring the illustrious Geraldine Page. She gave him an autographed photo with the inscription, “Theatre is worth all the trouble.”

Nearly 60 years later, having founded and served as artistic director of the Bathhouse Theatre, performed in all Seattle’s major theatres and in Portland, Ashland, Berkley, San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. as well as Dundalk, Ireland and Vancouver, B.C., he can wholeheartedly confirm her prediction. He is delighted to be reprising Mr. Bennet for the third time and working with Marcus Goodwin for the second.

CONNOR TOMS*

Mr. Cartwright / Mr. Wickham Connor was last seen at Book-It as the titular character in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. He appeared also in one of the many Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageants and as Homer Wells in The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, for which he received a Gregory Award nomination for Outstanding Actor. He has performed at Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, Intiman, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Arizona Theatre Company, and many more. He and his wife have recently become “those people,” the kind who never shut up about their new cats.

STEVE WEST†

Jenkins / Mr. Pattinson / Jacobs / Mr. Denny / Colonel Fitzwilliam Steve is ecstatic to make his Book-It stage debut with such a capital team. A Washington, D.C. transplant, he received BFAs in both theatre and in business from UW, and since then has been seen on

stages all over Seattle. Some of his favorite roles include Eddie in The Rocky Horror Show, Tim in Noises Off, Lord Fancourt Babberly in Charley’s Aunt, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Serge in Art. Radio listeners may also have heard his voiceover work from time to time as well. In his spare time, Steve loves whiling away the hours and going on adventures with friends and family, and looks forward to continuing the pursuit of his lifelong dream of walking the boards.

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is a motion capture performer for video games, most notably as the Guardian in Bungie’s Destiny. He holds an MFA from the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program, is a graduate of the Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and has a bachelor of science degree in molecular, cellular, developmental biology.

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MARCUS GOODWIN

Adapter / Director Marcus is hugely excited to return to this production and this wonderful story after a 14-year hiatus, not least because it was the first Book-It show with which he was ever involved. Other Book-It work includes directing Emma and adapting The House of Mirth and Howards End. Elsewhere in Seattle he’s directed The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Seattle Shakespeare Company and My Wonderful Day at Seattle Public Theater, where he will be directing Humble Boy in January. Outside theatre, he tries to run the gamut from high art to absolutely no art at all, writing some TV drama episodes for the BBC, while trying generally to keep quiet about his involvement as a writer in reality TV.

GREG CARTER

Scenic Designer Greg is the founding artistic director of Strawberry Theatre Workshop, where he directed This Land: Woody Guthrie, Inherit the Wind, The Laramie Project, Gutenberg!

The Musical!, and An Enemy of the People. He is the technical director at Cornish College of the Arts, where he teaches classes in stage management, scenic design, and scenic construction. He is the former production manager at Book-It, where he designed scenery for productions on the stages of Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, Intiman, and On the Boards.

His Book-It designs include The Awakening, Ethan Frome, In a Shallow Grave, Cowboys Are my Weakness, and the 2000 production of Pride and Prejudice. He has also designed scenery for Portland Center Stage, Cornish, Seattle Symphony, and more than a dozen Strawshop productions. * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Acting Intern

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CRAIG WOLLAM

Lighting Designer Craig is pleased to be recreating Pride and Prejudice with such good friends, having designed the original production at On the Boards and its subsequent remount at ACT Theatre. Previous Book-It designs include Sweet Thursday, Travels with Charley, Red Ranger Came Calling, and Ethan Frome, to name a few. As a freelance designer, Craig’s work has been seen locally at Intiman, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Opera, Seattle Rep, Seattle Public Theater, and Spectrum Dance Theater. His out-of-town designs include work at Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles, Arizona Theatre Company, Colony Theatre in Miami, 14th Street Playhouse in Atlanta, Spoleto Festival in Italy, and Actors Playhouse in New York. Craig is also the co-founder of Seattle Scenic Studios, a nonprofit resource for theatres.

JOCELYNE FOWLER

Costume Designer Jocelyne has designed Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, Anna Karenina, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet for Book-It; Richard II for Seattle Shakespeare Company; Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V, and The Tempest for Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre; Young Frankenstein and Legally Blonde for Seattle Musical Theatre; Spring Awakening, Shrek: The Musical, Little Women, and The Sound of Music for Youth Theatre Northwest; Clybourne Park and Jesus Christ Superstar for Harlequin Productions; and Chess: The Musical for SecondStory Repertory, as well as other local theatres.

JEN RAYNAK

Sound Designer Jen has been designing sound for theatre and film in Portland since the mid ’90s, including six years as a company member of Third Rail Repertory Theatre and a ten-year stint at Portland Center Stage. It was at PCS, in 2005, that Jen first worked with Book-It on Pride and Prejudice. Recent sound designs include Let A Hundred Flowers Bloom with defunkt theatre and The Aliens with Third Rail Repertory Theatre. By day, Jen is the Carproelsofly Department head in Portland’5 Centers for the Arts’ Winningstad Theatre.

VICTORIA THOMPSON

Stage Manager Victoria is the production stage manager for Book-It Repertory Theatre where she has worked on numerous productions including The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, She’s Come Undone, and The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier & Clay. Other credits

include Tails of Wasps with New Century Theatre Company; Waiting for Godot and Richard II with Seattle Shakespeare Company; The Tempest and Twelfth Night, or What You Will with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre; and Love Horse with Washington Ensemble Theatre.

EMMA PIHL

Assistant Stage Manager Emma is happy to be working with Book-It again on Pride and Prejudice, having worked on I Am of Ireland earlier this season. She spent last year as Book-It’s stage management intern, working on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Truth Like the Sun, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Jesus’ Son, and She’s Come Undone, as well as Pink and Say, one of Book-It’s educational touring shows. Emma’s other stage management credits include The Tempest, Marry Me a Little, and The Imaginary Invalid with St. Olaf College and the original production of Waiting… A Song Cycle with St. Olaf’s Deep End Productions.

ANTHEA CARNS

Dramaturg Anthea is excited to be working on Pride and Prejudice, her first production with Book-It, where she is an artistic intern. She has worked in Pennsylvania, Alaska, and Washington as a dramaturg, director, writer, and arts administrator. Her co-written play Bad Hamlet was an official selection of the 2011 Last Frontier Theatre Conference; more recently she worked on Burmer Music’s Dante’s Inferno in Bellevue. Her current projects include branching into original fiction and exploring digital media. www.antheacarns.com

LAURA FERRI

Dance Choreographer Laura is delighted to be once again in the world of Jane Austen, having choreographed the dances for Book-It’s Emma, Sense and Sensibility and the earlier productions of Pride and Prejudice, in which she also played Mrs. Bennet. Previously, she choreographed the dances for Anna Karenina, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and My Ántonia, as well as adapted and directed Book-It Special Editions of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Stories for Boys, and The Call of the Wild.

A Book-It company member for over 20 years, she has also directed Broken for You and Prairie Nocturne for the main stage and annually stages the Danger: Books! series for Book-It’s Arts and Education Program.

GIN HAMMOND

Dialect Coach Gin is a Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre grad, a certified voice geek, and is very happy to be coaching another terrific Book-It show. Gin has performed in Russia, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and England; teaches voice, voice-over, and public speaking; and can be heard on commercials, audiobooks, and a variety of video games including Undead Labs: State of Decay, DotA 2, Aion, and Halo 3 ODST.

MYRA PLATT

Founding Co-Artistic Director As co-founder, director, adapter, actor, and composer, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 100 world premiere mainstage productions and over 30 education touring productions. Most recently she directed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the 2014 Gregory Award for Outstanding Production. Directing credits include Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday, and her adapting/directing credits include The Financial Lives of the Poets, 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. She adapted The Art of Racing in the Rain, coadapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones, and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland.

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

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

JANE JONES

Founder, Founding Co-Artistic Director Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 27 years of staging literature, she has performed, adapted, and directed works by such literary giants

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staff as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Jim Lynch, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 30 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s most prominent regional theatres. Most recently, she played the role of Miss Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, Truth Like the Sun, The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2008 she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence award from Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was a finalist for the American Union for Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award.

DANIEL Y. MAYER

Managing Director Daniel is delighted to join the staff of Book-It as its new managing director. Most recently, he spent eight years as executive director of the Kirkland Performance Center. Prior to that, Mayer worked in a variety of arts nonprofits in the Seattle area including Photographic Center Northwest, Spectrum Dance Theater, On the Boards, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Sand Point Arts & Cultural Exchange, The Empty Space, and Bellevue Philharmonic. Dan returned to his hometown of Seattle 16 years ago from New York where he worked as a consultant to POZ Publishing and Condé Nast Publications and as executive director at Volunteer Lawyers

for the Arts for five years. Earlier, Mayer lived in Washington, D.C. where he was the executive director of artsave, an artist rights organization founded by People for the American Way, a civil liberties organization founded by Norman Lear. Mayer began his legal career in Chicago as executive director of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, a pro bono legal assistance organization for artists of all genres. During this time he was also a fellow at the Office of Policy, Planning and Research at the National Endowment for the Arts where he gained an overview of the national arts scene and an understanding of arts policy.

Mayer is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Claremont McKenna College, and also studied at the London School of Economics. He has taught at Columbia College in Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University School of Law; in Seattle he has been a lecturer at Edmonds Community College and the EDGE Artist Professional Development Program at Artist Trust. Mayer is the co-chair of the Arts Advisory Council of 4Culutre and on the board of directors of Khambatta Dance Company and Coyote Central.

WILL ABRAHAMSE Production Manager

ELIZABETH STASIO† Stage Management Intern

KATHLEEN LE COZE Resident Properties Master

ANDERS BOLANG Master Carpenter

DAN SCHUY Scenic Carpenter

SUZI TUCKER Scenic Carpenter

CARMEN RODRIGUEZ Charge Artist

TREVOR CUSHMAN Master Electrician / Light Board Operator

JESSICA JONES Sound Engineer / Sound Board Operator

COURTNEY KESSLER Wardrobe Head † Book-It Intern

affiliations ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION

This theatre operates under an agreement within AEA, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. 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 of excellence. www. actorsequity.org

THEATRE PUGET SOUND THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP

special thanks to Jane Austen Society of North America Perennial Tea Room Queen Mary Tea Shop Somewhere in Time, Unlimited Storiarts Literary Apparel

T H E D AT E S AV E SAT U R DAY , M A RC H 7 , 2 0 1 5

WE’RE PU LLI NG OUT ALL THE STOPS FO R A G ALA CELEBRAT ION OF BOO K-IT’S 25 YEA RS!

FROM THE DESK OF MISS ELIZABETH BENNET

The marriage of literature with theatre— I do not think even Lady Catherine de Bourgh could frown on such a union. As one can see at Book-It, it is a most advantageous and propitious match.

My affection for the written word and for the arts compels me to write you; this holiday season consider, if you will, supporting Book-It with a special year-end gift.

May I even be so bold as to suggest joining their Silver Jubilee Society with monthly donations? Gifts of the recurring nature are, after all, what truly sustain the arts.

Enclosed is a list of methods by which you may bestow your donation. (My friends at Book-It assure me that the Ws in triplicate and the “org” make an address of sorts. I confess, it is unlike any address I have ever seen, but I trust you will make sense of it.)

Book-It is indeed grateful for the generous patronage that has already come its way this year. As the calendar comes to a close, I hope, dear reader, that you will heed your own charitable impulses and loose your purse strings for art, and for your community.

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Elizabeth Bennet P.S. I would be remiss to not also express my thanks to the Perennial Tea Room for so graciously providing the tea that is on sale in the lobby! Do visit them at 1910 Post Alley.

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

Literary Legends’ Circle $75,000+

Leadership Circle, cont.

Pulitzer Prize Circle, cont.

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

U.S. Bank Elizabeth Warman April Williamson

Diana & Chuck Carey Nancy Cleveland Mark Dexter & Deborah Cowley Katie Enarson R. Brooks Gekler Jean Gorecki & Dick Dobyns Linda & Gordon Griesbach Laura & Erik Hanson Phyllis Hatfield Jay Hereford & Margaret Winsor Hughes Media Law Group Humanities Washington Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon Clare Kapitan & Keith Schreiber Pam Kendrick Jacqueline Kiser Darcy & Lee MacLaren Ellen Maxson Jim McElroy Steve Miller & Pamela Cowan Richard Monroe Eleanor Moseley & Charles Pollnow John O’Connell & Joyce Latino Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters Meta Pasternak Judy Pigott Myra Platt & Dave Ellis Kathy & Brad Renner Paula Riggert Stephen Robinson Rebecca Roe & T.A. Greenleaf Marty & Donald Sands Polly Schlitz Cheryl & Earl Sedlik Pamela & Nate Searle Margaret Silver Eric Taylor Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West Janet & Stan Vail Ruth & Jerry Verhoff H. Randall Webb & Judy Brandon Leora & Robert Wheeler Christina Wright & Luther Black Mary & Gerald Zyskowski

Literary CHampions’ Circle $25,000+ Arts Fund The Boeing Company Charitable Trust The Hearst Foundations, Inc. Lucky Seven Foundation N. Elizabeth McCaw and Yahn W. Bernier National Endowment for the Arts Mary Pigott Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Gladys Rubinstein+

producers’ circle $10,000+ 4Culture City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Ellen & John Hill Stellman Keehnel Nordstrom Michell & Larry Pihl Safeco Insurance Foundation Shirley & David Urdal The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Kris & Mike Villiott Washington State Arts Commission Mary Ann and Robert Wiley Fund

Partners’ circle $5,000+ Arthur N. Rupe Foundation Joann Byrd Gretl Galgon Lucy Helm Cheryl & Tom Oliver Lynne & Nick Reynolds Drella & Garth Stein

Leadership Circle $2,500+ Monica Alquist Boeing Gift Matching Program Amy & Matthew Cockburn D.A. Davidson & Co. Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness HomeStreet Bank Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Holly & Bill Marklyn David Maymudes & Emily Anthony Will Patton & Joni Ostergaard Christiane Pein & Steven Bull Joanne Repass Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches Deborah Swets Kathy & Jim Tune

Nobel Prize Circle $1,000+ Ross Baker & Karen Brandvick-Baker Stephen Bauer Janet Boguch & Kelby Fletcher Amanda & Jeff Cain Karen & D. Thompson Challinor Mary Anne Christy & Mark Klebanoff Carol & Bill Collins Carolyn & George Cox Emily Davis Nora & Allan Davis The Ex Anima Fund Mary Frances & Harold Hill Heather Howard Judith Jesiolowski & David Thompson Deborah Killinger Lea Knight Susan Leavitt & Bill Block Ellen & Stephen Lutz Melissa & Don Manning Peter Maunsell Mary Metastasio Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Minar Northey LLP Colette Ogle Deborah & Jeff Parsons Puget Sound Business Journal Shirley Roberson The Seattle Foundation Charyl Kay & Earl Sedlik Gail & John Sehlhorst Martha Sidlo B. Richal Smith Mary Snapp Spark Charitable Foundation Susan & Robert Spieth Family Charitable Fund Beverly Welti & John Pehrson Richard Wesley & Virginia Sly Judith Whetzel Williams Miller Family Foundation Tim Wood & Anne McDuffie

Pulitzer Prize Circle $500+ Connie Anderson Jabez Blumenthal & Julie Edsforth Elizabeth Braun Patricia Britton Don Brown Sally Brunette

National Book Award Circle $250+ Rachel Alquist Robert & Sarah Alsdorf Christina Amante Virginia Anderson Joel Aslanian Dan Atkinson Laura-Mae & Sylvie Baldwin

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

National Book Award Circle, cont.

National Book Award Circle, cont.

Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.

Bob Blazek Susan Bradley Mary Anne Braund & Steve Pellegrin Margaret Bullitt Linda & Peter Capell Joe Casalini & Molly Thompson Sylvia & Craig Chambers Mala Chandra John Chenault & Wendy Cohen LeAnne Chow & Rex Barker Rebecca Dietz & Michael Drumheller David Dong Beth Dubey Lauren Dudley Lori Eickelberg & Arni Litt Lynne Ellis Judith Endejan Kim & Rob Entrop Mary Fallon Jane Faulkner Jim Feldman & Liz Fitzhugh Jane & Stan Fields Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Jayn & Hugh Foy Lisbeth & Alan Fritzberg Jamie & Steve Froebe Norman Garner Elizabeth Gilchrist Vicki & Gerrie Goddard Katharine Godman Terry Graham Diane Grover Faith Hanna W.B. & Pamela Harer Kat Hazzard Nancy & Bruce Herbert Lloyd Herman & Richard Wilson Barbara Hieronymus Chris Higashi Elizabeth Hubbard Melissa Huther Joyce & John Jackson Edwin Jones Janine King Mary Klubben Karen Koon Jonah, Robert & Tami Kowal Larry Lewin Cynthia Livak Craig Lorch Stephen Lovell Harriette Lowman Ruth McCormick Ann McCurdy & Frank Lawler Christine Mosere

Hillary Namba Inez Noble Black Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert Corliss Perdaems Gloria Pfeif Scott Pinckney Olivia Pi-Sunyer Gordon Prouty Linda Quirk Doris & Charles Ray Carolyn Rees Janey L. Repensek Debby & Dave Rutherford Donna, Carol & Robert Saunders Frank Schumann & Heather Pullen Christine Stepherson Paul Stucki & Christina Chang LiAnn & Stephen Sundquist Jill Sylwester Jennifer Lee Taylor Michele & Alan Tesler Kerry Thompson & Shari Zehm Christina & Matthew Villiott Pat Walker Jerry Watt & Vreni VonArx Watt Sandra Waugh Gregory Wetzel Janet & Lawrence Wilson Sherri & Daniel Youmans Juliet Ziegler

Robin Dearling & Gary Ackerman • Sandra & Paul Dehmer • Dottie Delaney • Susan Dyer • Marilyn Endriss • Randy Engstrom • Joyce Erickson • Constance Euerle • Arlene Fairfield • Polly Feigl • Laura Fischetti • Denise & James Fortier • Jessica Foss • Susan Fuchs • Kai Fujita • Steve Fury & Nancy Lawton • Jean & Mike Gannon • Claire Gebben • Julia Geier & Phil Borges • Susan George • Siobhan Ginnane • Mitzi Gligorea • Suzanne Goren • Anke Gray • Pamela Greenwood • Heather Griffin • Laurie Griffith • Jim Hamerlinck • Lian Handaja • Rachel Hansen • Jill Hashimoto • Patricia Highet • Stephanie Hilbert • Sandy Hill • Kathy Holloway • Carolyn & Mark Holtzen • Cynthia Huffman & Ray Heacox • Joleen Hughes • Kristina Huus Campbell • IBM Matching Grants Program • Wendy Jackson • Lani Johnson • Kris Jorgensen & Margey Rubado • Joan Kalhorn • David Kasik & Jan Levine • Amie Kidane • Shannon & Richard Knipp • Larry Knopp • Art Kobayashi • Alan Kristal • Fay Krokower • Gerald Kroon • Sandy Kubishta • Erika Larson • Eleni Ledesma & Dr. Eric Rose • Judd Lees • Sandy Lew-Hailer • Nancy Lomneth & Mark Boyd • Sheila Lukehart & Jim Brinkley • Carol Lumb • Kjristine Lund • Kathleen Maki • Molly & Mike Martinez • Elizabeth Mathewson • Elaine Mathies • Susan McCloskey • Kathy McCluskey • Deirdre & Jay McCrary • Patricia McCreary • Jim McDermott • Marcie & John McHale • Nancy McSharry & Andy Jensen • Bonnie & Curry Miller • Gary Miller • Shyla Miller • Donna Miller-Parker • Marion & George Mohler • Christopher Monck & Susan Jones • Becky Monk • Cornelia, Terry & Tallis Moore • Elizabeth Morrison & Geoff Crooks • Milly Mullarky • Dawna Munson • David Nash & Patricia Graves • Pam & Scott Nolte • Deanna & Craig Norsen • Northwest Asian Weekly • Mikel O’Brien • Martha Oman • Linda & Kevin O’Morrison • Timothy O’Sullivan • Paige & Jeff Packman • Sam Pailca • Kelly & Dave Pearson • Sherry Perrault • Carol & Ed Perrin • Barbara Peterson • Robert Pillitteri • Anne & Lee Pipkin • Felicia Porter • Susan Porterfield • Joan & William Potter • Jason Powell • Andrea Ptak & Aaron Houseknecht • Barbara & Daniel Radin • Connie Reed • Roberta & Brian Reed • Esther Reese • Jane Reich • Jeannette Reynolds • Karen & Eric Richter

Pen/Faulkner Award Circle $100+ Carole Aaron • Andrea Albers • Rachel Allen • Heather Allison • Christopher Alston • Katherine Anderson & Robert DiPietrae • Marjorie Anderson • Cinnimin Avena • Anne Banks • Jo Ann & Tom Bardeen • Mary Murfin & Doug Bayley • Susan Bennett • Lenore & Dick Bensinger • Kathleen Best • Deb & Bill Bigelow • Richard Billingham • Lindsay & Tony Blackner • Rebecca Bogard • Barry Boone & Mary Wilson • Brad Borst • Betty Bostrom • Gina Breukelman • Jonathan Buchter • Barbara Buxbaum • Carrie Campbell • Michela Carpino & Rick Klingele • Kristine & Gerry Champagne • Joyce Chase • Lynne & David Chelimer • Carl Chew • Deborah Christensen • Marianna Clark & Charles Schafer • Cynthia & Jack Clay • Catherine Clemens • Shelly Clift • Susan Connors & Eric Helland • Joe Copeland • Kay & Garry Crane • Gordon Crawford & Rebecca Herzfeld • Shelly Crocker • Amy Curtis • Kate Curtis

Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.

O. Henry Award Circle, cont.

Rebecca Ripley • Roberta Roberts • Beth Rollinger • Eric Rose • Kristine Ruppelt • Beth Rutherford • Donna Sand • Claudia Sanders • Lisa Schafer • Andy Schneider • Greg Scully • Lavonne & Josh Searle • William Severson & Meredith Lehr • Dennis Shaw & Julie Howe • Sumeer Singla • Marilyn Sloan • Susan & George Smith • Warren Smith • Diane Stark • Janice & Pat Strand • Streamline Consulting, LLC • Amy Sweigert • Gail Tanaka • Margaret Taylor • Terry Tazioli • Anne Terry • Jennifer Teunon & Adam Smith • Catherine Thayer • Cappy Thompson • Richard Thorvilson • Eric Thuau • Jennifer Tice • Caren Toney • Marcia Utela • Elizabeth Valentine • Karen & Ron Van Genderen • Jorie Wackerman • Colin Wagoner • Todd Warren • Susan Warwick • Deb Watson • Kristi & Tom Weir • Jennifer Weis • Julie Weisbach • Eddie & Adam Westerman • Dan Whalen • Dan Wheetman & Melinda Deane • Sara White • Chelene Whiteaker • Paula & Bill Whitham • Margaret Whittemore • Jane Wiegenstein • Melinda Williams • Blake Wilson • Elana Winsberg • Michael Winters • Nicole Winters • Jodie Wohl & Richard Hert • Kim York

Shirley Knight • David Krakora • Barb & Art Lachman • Stewart Landefeld • Barbara Laubacher • Jo Anne Laz • Teri J. Lazzara • Shawn LeValley • Bonnie Lewman • Liberty Mutual Insurance • Madalene Lickey • Arlyn Losey • Robert Lowe • Tom Mailhot & Betty Ngan • Morna McEachern & Grant Brockmeyer • Theresa & J. Douglas McLean • Jeanne Metzger • Susan & Harold Mozer • Judy & Stephen Niver • Marion & Curtis Northrop • Nancy & Stephen Olsen • Janice & Mike O’Mahony • Pat O’Rourke • Susan Palmer • Julia Paulsen • Annie Pearson & Jacyn Stewart • Nan Peele • Harold Pelton • Alison Peters • Wilson Platt • Kim Port • Marion Reed • Mildred Renfrow • Ginger Rich • Betty Ann & Louis Richmond • Maren Richter • Carla Rickerson • Jo Ann Roberts • J.D. Royer • Joshua Ryder • Lena Saba • Rebecca Sadinsky • Clint Sallee • Michael Sandner • Deanna & Bo Saxbe • Cindi Schoettler • Heidi Schor • B. Charlotte Schreiber • Noah Seixas & Dana Standish • Sally Sheck • Linda Snider • Barbara Spear • Eloise Stachowiak • Jane Stevens • Julie Stohlman • Sheila Striegl • Constance Swank • Tom Sykes & Sarah Thomas • Annette Thompson • Deborah Torgerson • Marcellus Turner • Vashon Allied Arts • Kathleen Vasquez • Jonna Ward • Richard White • Christopher Wiggins • Kathy Young

O. Henry Award Circle $50+ Douglas Adams • Lynne & Shawn Aebi • Judith Alexander • Amgen Foundation • Hilari Anderson • Kendall & Sonia Baker • Anne & Roger Baker • Beverly Barnett • Sybil Barney • Susan M. Bean • Brook Becker • Lin Berryman • Ellen Bezona & Shawn Baz • Crai Bower • Bridge Partners LLC • Melanie Calderwood • Tracy Chellis • Frank Cohee • Samantha Cooper • Margaret Curtin • Nancy Cushwa • Lara Davis • Richard Detrano • Ellen Downey • Jane & Dan Drais • Betty Eberharter • Karen Elledge • Nancy Ellingham • Brent Enarson • Nancy Erickson • Mary Ellen Flanagan • Gregory Flood • Lisa Foss • Dawn Frankwick & Sam Zeiler • Mike Garner • Alan Garrett • Nina Gerbic • Neil Gerth • Ann Glusker & Peter Hunsberger • Joan & Steve Goldblatt • Scott Guettinger • Laura & Bob Hammer • Kate Hemer • John Hirschel • Kate Hokanson • Carol & Glenn Horton • Zhen Huang • Hanah Igama • Alison Inkley • Tricia Jackson • Michael Johnson • Elizabeth Jones • Robert Jones • Gil Joynt • William Karn & Patricia Rytkonen • Malia & Chang Kawaguchi • Jim Kelly • Vicki & James King • Jean & Harris Klein

in-kind donors Alaska Distributors • Rachel Alquist • Ross Baker & Karen Brandvick-Baker • Blue Highway Games • Boeing Global Corporate Citizenship Office • Bookwalter Winery • Patricia Britton • Sally Brunette • Buckley’s • Steven Bull • Chihuly Glass House • 3 Rudders, LLC • DeLille Cellars • Eltana • Fox’s Gem Shop • Irish Reels Film Festival • Margaret Kineke & Dennis West • Eleni Ledesma • Holly & Bill Marklyn • McMenamins • Perennial Tea Room • Queen Anne Olive Oil • Schilling Cider • Seattle Children’s Theatre • Seattle International Film Festival • Seattle Repertory Theatre • Seattle Shakespeare Company • Seattle Sounders • Seattle Theatre Group • Something Silver • T.S. McHugh’s • Ten Mercer • Toulouse Petit Kitchen and Lounge • Turgeon Raine • UW World Series • Virgina Mason Medical Center • Woodhouse Wine Estate • Woodland Park Zoo

Gifts in Honor & memory Susan Bennett, Sonja Coffman, and Kathleen Maki in Honor of Sara Elward and Joadey eStar’s Wedding Kathy Holloway in Memory of Nancy Cushwa Polly Schlitz and Blake Wilson in Honor of Myra Platt’s Birthday Deborah Swets in Memory of Jack Slater EH Baker in Honor of Ross Baker and Karen Brandvick Baker + deceased This list reflects gifts received September 1, 2013 - October 28, 2014 Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgements. Please email Development Assistant Anna Strickland at annas@book-it.org with any changes that may be required.

support

book-it There are many ways to support Book-It, and we hope you will consider these alternatives: Make a gift online at book-it.org, donate stock, or even leave a bequest in your will (simply identify Book-It Repertory Theatre, Tax ID#91-1514734).

For more information on any of these options, contact Director of Development Sally Brunette, 206-428-6258 or sallyb@book-it.org

OUR MISSION IS TO TRANSFORM GREAT LITERATURE INTO GREAT THEATRE THROUGH SIMPLE AND SENSITIVE PRODUCTION AND TO INSPIRE OUR AUDIENCES TO READ.

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BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE

2010 Mayor’s Arts Award-winner, recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Arts Award and the 2014 Inaugural Sherry Prowda Literary Champion Award, Book-It Repertory Theatre began 27 years ago as an artists’ collective, adapting short stories for performance and touring them throughout the Northwest. Today, with over 100 world-premiere adaptations of literature to its credit—many of which have garnered rave reviews and gone on to subsequent productions all over the country—Book-It is widely respected for the consistent artistic excellence of its work.

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