Adapted and Directed by Kelly Kitchens
SEPTEMBER 18 - OCTOBER 13, 2013
increase long-term organizational and funding sustainability. With the completion of our three-year strategic plan (which you can view on our website), we are moving forward to achieve specific goals and objectives that will help to: • Expand Book-It’s education, mainstage, and outreach programming • Increase Book-Its capacity for the development of new work and steward new scripts for future productions • Increase Book-Its ability to hire the best artists, designers, and staff, and to continue to maintain our high-quality production values
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The Book-It staff, circa June 2013.
Welcome to the 24th Season at Book-It! I am so excited about this coming season and here’s why: We’re producing four amazing novels that I know you’ll love; We’re continuing our second stage Circumbendibus with a performance at one of the great new spaces in Seattle, West of Lenin; Our Arts and Education program is thriving and growing; plan to join us for our first annual Food for Thought Breakfast on October 24 in support of our education initiatives (see page A-11); We have had to say goodbye to some of our wonderful staff who have gone on to do very exciting things with their lives, but we are thrilled about the new staff members who have joined the Book-It family: Scott Herman, Patron Services Manager; Michelle Berweiller, House Manager; and Will Abrahamse, Production Manager; We are already planning our 25th Anniversary season, which will be filled with more world-premiere adaptations, and new events and programs; The Board of Trustees and I are working hard to help Book-It achieve a critical operating capacity that will
• Begin planning for a new and/or improved performance and rehearsal space that will meet our growing needs •
Maintain a six-month cash reserve
With all our new initiatives and projects, it feels really great to be at Book-It! Of course, to make it all happen, we count on your support. We hope you’ll consider making a multiyear pledge to support Book-It and its mission: To transform great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive production and inspire audiences to read. You may know that the cost of your ticket covers about 50% of what it actually costs to bring these amazing novels to life on stage. The gifts you make will ensure that Book-It can continue to thrive for many years to come. To learn more about supporting Book-It, and to see the people who already do, turn to page A-11. Thank you for joining us for our opening production of the season, Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone. I look forward to seeing you at the theatre throughout the year.
Charlotte Tiencken Managing Director
Book-It Repertory Theatre’s
2013-14 Season She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb September 18 - October 13, 2013
Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley february 12 - march 9, 2014
truth like the sun by Jim LYnch april 23 - may 18, 2014
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon june 7 - july 13, 2014
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She’s Come Undone
by Wally Lamb Adapted and Directed by Kelly Kitchens
cast John Bianchi Susanna Burney Trevor Cushman † Rachel Fitzgerald Julie Jamieson David Anthony Lewis* Jocelyn Maher Cobey Mandarino* Trevor Y. Marston Andre Nelson Allie Pratt † Betsy Schwartz* Victoria Thompson Miranda C. Pratt*
Mr. Pucci / Ensemble Roberta / Ensemble Eric / Ensemble Dottie / Ensemble Grandma Dr. Shaw / Thayer / Ensemble Dolores Tony / Ensemble Jack / Ensemble Dante / Ensemble Jeanette / Kippy / Ensemble Bernice / Ensemble Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Artistic Team Andrea Bryn Bush Robert J. Aguilar Chelsea Cook Dustin Morache Catherine Cornell Tom Dewey Will Abrahamse
Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound Designer Properties Master Fight Choreographer Production Manager
* Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States † Book-It Acting Intern
Season Support
Media Support Seattle Office of
Additional generous support is provided by individuals, and by Green Diamond Resource Company, The Ex Anima Fund, and The Williams Miller Family Foundation. Many thanks to all our supporters!
The History of the Mind A Timeline of American Mental Health Care and Resources Dramaturgy by Malia Zurcher
The U.S. has come a long way in the treatment and the recognition of mental illness. In the 1960s and ’70s—the time covered in She’s Come Undone when Dolores needs help—many improvements to mental health care were underway. However, mental healthcare reform is still relatively recent. This delay has largely been due to a widespread misunderstanding and stigmatized notion of mental illness dating back to ancient Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and Indian cultures. Instead of seeing mental issues as an illness, poor mental health was widely believed to be a sign of spiritual taint, punishment from the gods, or demonic possession. This attitude persisted throughout the Middle Ages and into the 18th century, when better understanding and care of the mentally ill came into motion. Here are some mileposts on the way to today’s mental health treatment practices:
Late 18th century
1946
1840s
1950s
Phillippe Pinel, a French physician, takes over a French asylum and banishes the use of chains and shackles to restrain patients. He moves patients from dungeons to rooms with natural lighting, and allows patients to spend time outdoors, paving the way for a larger mental health reform. American mental health activist Dorothea Dix grows so disgusted with the mistreatment of mental health patients in Massachusetts that she rallies for 40 years to help create 32 state mental hospitals.
Late 19th century
Due to overcrowding and inhumane treatment, mental health patients are still not receiving proper care in state hospitals. Nellie Bly, a New York World reporter, goes undercover as a patient to expose the mistreatment of the mentally ill. Her work helps provide more funding to improve mental health treatment.
1908
Clifford Beers publishes the autobiography A Mind That Found Itself, which exposes the inhumane treatment he received at a Connecticut mental hospital. He founds the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, which later becomes the National Mental Health Association. The NMHA is dedicated to bringing awareness to and advocating for mental health, and is the largest organization of its kind in the U.S.
1930s
Lobotomies and electro-convulsive therapy (shock treatments) become two of the leading mental health practices in the nation. Lobotomies are used for the next 20 years to treat depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, and obsessions.
U.S. President Harry Truman signs the National Mental Health Act, which helps establish the National Institute of Mental Health. The NIMH begins research into the brain, behavior, and the mind, in an effort to reduce the prevalence of mental illness. Anti-psychotic drugs are made available and effectively control the symptoms of psychotic patients. Behavior therapy is developed to help treat phobias. Therapies such as Gestalt Therapy focus on therapist/client relationships and help patients fully realize their potential.
1963
The Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act closes most state psychiatric hospitals in the U.S., and does not allow anyone to be admitted unless they are a threat to themselves or others. In a push to de-institutionalize mental health, another act comes to pass in 1963: the Mental Retardation Facilities Act. Together, these acts grant federal funding to the development of community-based mental health services.
1979
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill forms, and provides mental health patients with support, advocacy, education, and research.
1980
About one third of the homeless population is considered mentally ill.
1981
The Reagan Administration revokes the Mental Health Systems Act, which cuts funding to community mental
healthcare and pushes mental healthcare policy-making into the same systems as physical healthcare. Many mentally ill people without health insurance go without adequate healthcare.
1986
The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression is founded, and becomes the largest nongovernmentally funded organization to raise funds for research on brain disorders.
1990
The Americans with Disabilities Act is passed, prohibiting discrimination against people with mental or physical disabilities/ illnesses.
2008
The Mental Health Parity and Addictions Equity Act ensures that the limits on mental health insurance are the same as those on physical health insurance.
resources
Dolores overcomes many periods of darkness in She’s Come Undone, and finds that she does not need to walk through her challenges alone. Here are some resources if you or anyone you know can relate to Dolores’ story: The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1 (800) 273-TALK The Child-Help USA Crisis Line For anyone reporting/living through child abuse. 1 (800) 4-A-CHILD The King County Mental Health Plan Offers specialized mental health care, including treatment for addiction/substance abuse. www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/ MentalHealth.aspx The Crisis Clinic Provides a 24-hour hotline with King County treatment referrals for those who do not have access to mental health care, includes resources for addiction/substance abuse. (206) 461-3222 Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress Located in Seattle, WA and dedicated to providing care to anyone affected by sexual assault/trauma. (206) 744-1600. Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN) National Sexual Assault Hotline Confidential help and support for anyone affected by sexual assault. 1 (800) 656-HOPE. www.rainn.org
Sources The Kim Foundation: www.thekimfoundation.org Mental Health America: www.mentalhealthamerica.net Unite for Sight: www.uniteforsight.org/mental-health/module2 PBS: A Brilliant Madness. www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/timeline National Alliance on Mental Illness: www.namidupage.org/advocacy/ advocacy-toolkit/advocacy-time-line www.goodtherapy.org/Gestalt_Therapy.html Electronic Journal of Sociology: www.sociology.org: “Ronald Reagan and the Commitment of the Mentally Ill: Capital, Interest Groups, and the Eclipse of Social Policy” by Alexander R. Thomas. www.sociology.org/ content/vol003.004/thomas.html Health Affairs: www.content.healthaffairs.org: “Mental Health in the Mainstream of Health Care” by Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied www.content.healthaffairs.org/content/26/6/1539.full
notes director
When I read She’s Come Undone almost 20 years ago, it was a book I couldn’t put down; and it became a story that stayed from with me across the years. Perhaps a letter written about the same time to Wally Lamb by a then mentally ill young man helps explain why Dolores Price captured my heart and my imagination. He wrote:
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I didn’t write to bear [sic] my soul or anything, Mr. Lamb, but when I was an inpatient at the Institute for Living for two and a half years, I read a lot and thought a lot, and one of my ridiculous thoughts/fantasies was that if I were to have a literary character dinner party, I would invite, being 27 but still pathetically immature, [Salinger’s] Holden Caulfield, [Hemmingway’s] Jake Barnes, [Kate Chopin’s] Edna Pontellier, and [John Updike’s] Rabbit Angstrom (the young one). What I wanted to tell you is that I’m extending an invitation to Dolores Price for that dinner party…I wasn’t fat as a kid like Dolores, but when I got to the I.O.L. and they hit me with Thorazine, etc., etc., suddenly (now) I weigh a hundred pounds more than I did in college .And though I never tried to drown myself as Dolores did—I was a razor man— the scene with the [dead] whale was amazing. I felt like she was fighting for me... And at the end, I felt happy for her and really lifted. Thanks for writing your book. Give my love to Dolores! Shalom, David F. I, like David F. and countless others, made a friend for life with Dolores Price and her story; and I, too, felt like she was fighting for me. She is an unexpected, imperfect heroine who makes us feel we are not alone in our struggles. Her triumph gives us hope that we, too, can find a measure of peace and grace no matter what life throws at us or what we throw back. Ultimately, it is a story that affirms, scary though it may be at times, that having the courage to forgive ourselves and others and having the courage to offer and accept love is the best risk of all.
Kelly Kitchens Adapter & Director
Author Wally Lamb
Top to bottom: Director Kelly Kitchens; Jocelyn Maher and David Anthony Lewis; Jocelyn Maher. Rehearsal photos by Shannon Erickson.
Wally Lamb is the Connecticut-born and bred writer of several novels, the first of which was She’s Come Undone. While teaching high school English, he changed direction, went to graduate school and began writing novels. She’s Come Undone was published eight years after he received his MFA from Vermont College. His subsequent works, I Know This Much Is True (1998—another Oprah Book Club selection) and The Hour I First Believed (2008), have also garnered notable critical acclaim. His newest novel, We Are Water, has an October 2013 release date. In addition to his own writing, Lamb has edited two bestselling anthologies of writing authored by inmates at the maximum security women’s prison in Connecticut, where he has taught since 1999. Wally Lamb and his family live in Connecticut.
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Cast John Bianchi
Mr. Pucci / Ensemble
John is thrilled to be working with BookIt Repertory Theatre again, having performed in the original adaptations of Emma, Howards End, and Don Quixote. He has also appeared locally at ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Annex Theatre, Theater Schmeater, Seattle Public Theater, Seattle Musical Theatre Workshop, Centerstage Theatre, and Capitol Hill Arts Center. 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.
Susanna Burney
Roberta / Ensemble
Susanna’s Book-It credits include Howards End, Trains, and many school tours. Other local acting credits include Demon Dreams and the Samuel Beckett solo piece Rockaby at West of Lenin; Torso, Teensploitation, A Terrible Price for Whimsy, and The Chris Schussler Incident with Printer’s Devil; Electra, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and As You Like It with Seattle Shakespeare Company; and As You Like It and Othello with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre. She has also worked with Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Empty Space, House of Dames, Theater Schmeater, 14/48, ConWorks, and Annex. Susanna has performed in New York, New England, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and the Edinburgh Festival. Film credits include The Beans of Egypt, Maine, and John Carpenter’s The Ward.
Trevor Cushman † Eric / Ensemble Trevor is elated to be performing in Book-It’s She’s Come Undone. He was last seen playing Alan Seymour in ReAct’s production of Picnic. Other roles include Robert in A Language of Their Own, also with ReAct; Mr. Samsa in Metamorphosis with British American Drama Academy; and Rudy in Kind Ness with Whitman College. Trevor has a BA in theatre from Whitman College. * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Intern
Rachel Fitzgerald
Dottie / Ensemble
Rachel is thrilled to be performing with Book-It for the first time. Seattle audiences may recognize her as Helen in FAT PIG with Artattack Theater, as one of the Amtrak Cascade Fairies, or touting the virtues of spatulas for King County Recycling. Favorite roles include the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet with Harlequin Productions and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Lucy in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown with Como Lakeside, and Zubaida Ula/Catherine in The Laramie Project with Tacoma Little Theatre. Once upon a time in New York City, Rachel performed on “Saturday Night Live” and was Rosie O’Donnell’s stand-in and body-double.
Jocelyn Maher
Dolores
Jocelyn is incredibly grateful to be making her Book-It debut in She’s Come Undone. She is a recent graduate from the University of Washington, where she earned her BA in drama performance and communications. Along with her time at UW, Jocelyn has worked with various other companies around the Puget Sound area including Bainbridge Performing Arts, Young American’s Theatre Company and Twelfth Night Productions. Past roles include Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Barbara in boom!, Vera in Distracted, Barbara in August: Osage County, Mrs. Bergman in Spring’s Awakening, Chloe in Arcadia, Lisabette in Anton in Show Business, and roles in The Laramie Project and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Julie Jamieson Grandma
Julie was last seen on Book-It’s stage as Nurse Angela in The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II. She also played Big Red in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and Caroline in The Highest Tide. She recently played Polina in The Seagull, performed at ACT Theatre’s Central Heating Lab, and she plans to tour with that production to Uzbekistan. Other favorite roles include Catherine in Arms and the Man and Alta in Language Archive at Seattle Public Theater; and the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet and Montjoy in Henry V with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre. Julie is the mother of three fantastic children, of whom she couldn’t be more proud.
David Anthony Lewis*
Dr. Shaw / Thayer / Ensemble
David is happy to return to Book-It–he played several dozen roles in the most recent production of The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, and played Levin in Anna Karenina last season. He graduated from Cornish College of the Arts late in the last millennium and has been fortunate to continue working ever since. Favorite roles include le Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Edward Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Franz Liebkind in The Producers, and The Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol.
Cobey Mandarino* Tony / Ensemble
Cobey was last seen in Book-It’s production of The Financial Lives of the Poets. He moved to Seattle last year from New York City where he was an actor, director, writer, and teacher for more than 15 years. He has worked with Roundabout Theatre, Public Theater, Huntington Theatre, and Soho Rep, among others. Cobey was a cast member of the revival of David Rabe’s Streamers, directed by Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis, which earned him and his fellow cast members a top ten pick of 2009 by Charles Isherwood of The New York Times. He has appeared on “Law & Order,” “Saturday Night Live,” and “Six Degrees,” and is currently shooting motion capture for the lead role in an untitled Warner Brothers video game. Cobey holds his MFA in acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University. www.cobeymandarino.com
Trevor Y. Marston
Jack / Ensemble
Trevor is delighted to be making his Book-It debut. He is a graduate of the PATP at the University of Washington and most recently starred in the feature film Pacific Aggression directed by Shaun Scott. Favorite roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar and Friar Laurence in Romeo & Juliet with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Educational Touring Program; Peter in Prelude to a Kiss with ReAct; and Simon in
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Andre Nelson
Dante / Ensemble
Andre is delighted to be back on stage with Book-It. Recently Andre has been in productions of Pygmalion with Seattle Shakespeare Company, The Art of Racing in the Rain with Book-It, River Ice with Playwrights’ Theatre, and a workshop production of The Weatherman Project with Seattle Repertory Theatre. He is particularly proud of being in the Freehold Engaged Theatre’s production of King Lear, which toured to Washington prisons, and The Platform Playwright’s Festival, a showcase of plays written by homeless and at-risk youth. Andre also plays in the local rock band Loyal Kites. He has a BFA in theater from Cornish College of the Arts.
Allie Pratt †
Jeanette / Kippy / Ensemble
Since making the move from California to Seattle last year, Allie has worked with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Live Girls! Theater, and award-winning Seattle-based playwright Wayne Rawley. She is thrilled to be making her Book-It debut. She has trained at PCPA Theaterfest and recently received her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. www.alliepratt.com
Betsy Schwartz* Bernice / Ensemble
Betsy closed out BookIt’s last season playing the majority of the women characters in The Financial Lives of the Poets. Prior to that, her last BookIt credit was Olga Ivanovna in Romance With Double Bass. Betsy has performed at Intiman, ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Village Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, The Empty Space, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. Betsy is a company member of New Century * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Intern
Theatre Company, where she appeared in Foreclosure, On the Nature of Dust, and Orange Flower Water. She is also a founding member of the upstart crow collective and played Arthur in the 2006 production of King John. Betsy holds an MFA from the Professional Actors Training Program at Southern Methodist University, and a BFA in theatre from the University of New Mexico.
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Caucasian Chalk Circle, Ferdinand in Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Richard/Max in The Lover with University of Washington’s School of Drama.
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Kelly Kitchens
Adapter / Director
Kelly is a professional actor, director, adapter, and teaching artist who has been living and working in Seattle since 1997. She is the artistic associate of Seattle Public Theater, a member of Actors’ Equity Association, and a member of the Sandbox Artists Collective. Locally she has worked with Book-It, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Opera, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Endangered Species Project, Theater Schmeater, Taproot Theatre, Annex Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare’s Wooden O Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, Sandbox Radio, 14/48, and Washington Ensemble Theatre. Recent projects include directing The Understudy for Seattle Public Theater; directing Wagner Sketches for Seattle Opera; stage directing the Our Earth cycle of original operas for Seattle Opera, touring; and performing the role of Kate in The Taming of the Shrew and directing The Tempest both with Seattle Shakespeare Company. Upcoming projects include directing Romeo and Juliet and Othello for the touring program of Seattle Shakespeare Company and The Santaland Diaries and Arcadia for Seattle Public Theater. She holds her BA in theatre and English from Vanderbilt University and her MFA in acting from the University of Texas.
Andrea Bryn Bush Scenic Designer
Andrea is thrilled to be designing with BookIt again. Previous works with the company include The Financial Lives of the Poets, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II. Her work has been seen at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Public Theater, Contemporary Classics, Seattle Musical Theatre, Azeotrope, The 5th Avenue Theatre AMT Touring Company, and Cornish College of the Arts.
Andrea was formerly an ensemble member and resident designer at Washington Ensemble Theatre. She also received the 2010 Gregory Award for outstanding scenic design as well as a Seattle Times Footlight Award.
Robert J. Aguilar Lighting Designer
Robert is delighted to be designing for Book-It once again! Upcoming designs elsewhere include 7 Spots on the Sun for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Bo-Nita for Seattle Repertory Theatre, Little Shop of Horrors for the 5th Avenue Theatre, and Begin Again for zoe|juniper. Recent designs include Next to Normal for Contemporary Classics, Trails for Village Theatre, I Am My Own Wife for Seattle Repertory Theatre, Hairspray in Concert for The 5th Avenue Theatre, and A Crack in Everything for zoe|juniper. He has also designed for ACT Theatre and Seattle Children’s Theatre. Robert is the managing director and resident lighting designer of Contemporary Classics; he is the lighting associate for Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Chelsea Cook
Costume Designer Chelsea is very excited to be designing her first show for Book-It. She is a freelance costume designer and shop manager, having also worked at Seattle Repertory Theatre and the Intiman Theatre Festival. Favorite designs include Trails and Lizzie Borden with Village Theatre, Spring Awakening with Balagan Theatre, Cabaret with Second Story Rep, and Radiance, a new play workshop with Seattle Repertory Theatre. Her work has also been seen at ACT Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society, and iDiom Theatre. Chelsea is also a member of Washington Ensemble Theatre.
Dustin Morache Sound Designer
Dustin is excited for his first show at BookIt Repertory Theatre as well as getting the chance to help to tell this tough, truthful, and inspirational story! Dustin is a local sound and light designer who graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a degree in theatre. His work has been seen and heard at Seattle Public Theater, Seattle Musical Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Seattle Pacific University Theatre, Nathan Hale High School Theatre, Infinity Box Theatre Project, Downtown Theatre Project, and Stop Talking Film Productions.
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Catherine Cornell Properties Master
Catherine is a scenic and prop designer in the Seattle area. After earning her BFA from the University of Michigan, she hit the local theatre scene designing shows such as Master Harold… and the boys for West of Lenin and Undo for Annex Theatre. She found a wonderful home at Book-It as prop artisan for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored and The Financial Lives of the Poets and set designer for their Arts and Education Program. Her pre-Seattle credits include working as a scenic artist on Walt Disney Pictures’ Oz: The Great and Powerful, scenic designer for Cloud Nine for the University of Michigan, and scenic designer for Cabaret for MUSKET. www.catcornell.com
Tom Dewey
Fight Choreographer Tom is honored to join the team of She’s Come Undone. As an actor and fight choreographer, his work has been seen around the Puget Sound Region. For BookIt, he has choreographed the fights for Great Expectations and The Financial Lives of the Poets. He also played the role of Fisher in Border Songs. Other credits include Brad in Gloucester Blue at Harlequin Productions, Titus Lartius in Coriolanus with Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew with GreenStage. Tom is an actor combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and a proud graduate of the theatre arts and history programs at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma.
Victoria Thompson Stage Manager
Victoria is the production stage manager for Book-It Repertory Theatre where she has worked on numerous productions including Moby-Dick, or The Whale, The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, and most recently Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored. Other credits include The Tempest and Twelfth Night, or What You Will with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, The Skriker with Janice Findley Productions, Love Horse with Washington Ensemble Theatre, and several productions with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Educational Touring Program.
Miranda C. Pratt*
Assistant Stage Manager
Miranda is very excited to be back at Book-It after stage managing
last season. Miranda is the production manager at Seattle Shakespeare Company and has worked as a stage manager with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, 14/48, Theater Schmeater, Paradise Theatre School, and Balagan Theatre. Prior to moving to Seattle, she worked at the La Jolla Playhouse and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Miranda has a BFA in stage management from Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts in St. Louis, Mo.
The Awakening (West Los Angeles Garland Award), Howards End, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II (original production). Myra has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum. Myra is the recipient, with Jane Jones, of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Founders Award, the 2010 Women of Influence from Puget Sound Business Journal, and was named by Seattle Times an Unsung Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region.
Will Abrahamse
Jane Jones
Production Manager With more than a decade in theatre and nearly 100 productions under his belt, Will’s work as a set designer and scenic artist has been seen on the stages of Tacoma Musical Playhouse, ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, Seattle Public Theater, and Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, among others. He has served as the technical director for Tacoma Musical Playhouse and ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery. Throughout the years, Will has worked closely with the drama programs of Auburn Riverside High School and Enumclaw High School, helping to foster the next generation of theatre technicians. Will studied technical theatre and architecture at Washington State University and The University of Idaho.
Myra Platt
Founding Co-Artistic Director As co-founder, director, adapter, actor, and composer, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 100 world premieres. Most recently she adapted and directed The Financial Lives of the Poets, nominated in the 2013 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Production. Her other adapting/directing credits include The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone Call, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Directing credits include Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday. She adapted The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones, and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. Her acting credits include Prairie Nocturne, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears,
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, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2008 she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Intern
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staff 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence award from Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was a finalist for the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award.
Malia Zurcher † Assistant Director / Dramaturg
emma pihl † Stage Management Intern
Kathleen Le Coze Properties Artisan
charlotte m. tiencken Managing Director
Charlotte is an administrator, director, producer, and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting fields for 28 years. Before moving back to the Seattle area in September 2003, she was general manager at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. As president of her own consulting firm, Scarlet Productions, she has worked with companies across the country, including Chitresh Das Dance Company in San Francisco, Ben Munisteri Dance in New York, Seattle Theatre Group, EnJoy Productions in Seattle, and Westwind, in Oregon among many others. She has taught at Seattle Pacific University, the University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, and the University of Puget Sound. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. for seven years. Charlotte is a member of SDC, the union of stage directors and choreographers and is past president of the Board of Arts Northwest. She has served on the Board of the Pat Graney Dance Company, on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission and 4 Culture, and was president of the Board of Theatre Puget Sound. Her most recent directing credits include Into the Woods for Vashon Drama Dock, Eugene Onegin for Vashon Opera, and Rashomon for Seattle Pacific University. She lives on Vashon Island with her husband Bill, three cats, and two dogs.
Devon Bright Master Electrician
Anders Bolang Master Carpenter
Carmen Rodriguez Charge Artist
Andrew Cross Light Board Operator
Glen Milligan Sound Board Operator
Lauren Karbowski Wardrobe † Book-It Intern
special thanks to Annie Lareau OCD Seattle King County Sexual Assault Resource Center Richard Gold Pongo Teen Writing
affiliations actors’ equity association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark. Book-It Repertory Theatre is a proud member of
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food for thought Help kids fall in love with words. Teach kids to tell their stories. Unleash the creative impulse in teachers and students. The Book-It Repertory Theatre Board of Trustees invites you to
Food for Thought
A Fundraising Celebration of our Arts & Education Program
Thursday, October 24, 2013 Please join us!
• Meet the visionary educators and artists who lead our Arts & Education Program. • See how our residency programs and workshops partner with school principals and teachers to provide a lifechanging learning experience for students. • Experience our program in action.
For more more information, visit our website: www.book-it.org
L to R: West Woodland residency; photo by Chris Bennion, Skippyjon Jones on tour; Foster High School students participate in a workshop, photo by Chris Bennion.
honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support! LITERARY LEGENDS $75,000+ The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
LITERARY CHAMPIONS $25,000+ ArtsFund • ArtsWA • The Boeing Company • Matthew N. Clapp, Jr. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Mary Piggott • Gladys Rubinstein
LITERARY HEROES $10,000+ 4Culture • N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier • Sonya & Tom Campion Ellen & John Hill • Stellman Keehnel • Lucky Seven Foundation The Norcliffe Foundation • Ann Ramsay-Jenkins • Kris & Mike Villott The Seattle Foundation • The Shubert Foundation, Inc. • Shirley & David Urdal April J. Williamson • Anonymous (2)
Literary Classics $5,000+
Leadership Circle, cont.
Boeing Gift Matching Program Joann Byrd** Jeff & Amanda Cain** Sonya & Tom Campion CenturyLink Foundation City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Green Diamond Resource Company Humanities Washington Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Emily Anthony & David Maymudes The Medtronic Foundation Nordstrom Larry & Michell Pihl PONCHO Lynne & Nick Reynolds** Garth & Drella Stein** The Ex Anima Fund Richard Weening Mary Ann & Robert Wiley Andrew & Trish Zuccotti**
Puget Sound Business Journal David Quicksall & Rachel Glass** Shirley Roberson** John Schaffer Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches** Martha Sidlo Deborah Swets** Jim & Kathy Tune U.S. Bancorp Foundation Elizabeth Warman** Lucy Zuccotti**
Leadership Circle $2,500+ Monica Alquist** Karen Brandvick Baker & Ross Baker** Steven Bull & Christiane Pein** Tony & Emily Cox George & Carolyn Cox Allan & Nora Davis Myra Platt & Dave Ellis** Expedia, Inc. Firesteed Cellars* Jamie & Leesha Ford Amy & Thaddeus Hanscom Lucy Helm Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness** Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon** Darcy & Lee MacLaren Mary Metastasio** Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Lynn Murphy** Tom & Cheryl Oliver** Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters
Nobel Award Society $1,000+ Rachel Alquist** Stephen & Salli Bauer Patricia Britton** D. Thompson & Karen Challinor Catherine Clark & Marc Jacques Amy & Matthew Cockburn Bill & Carol Collins Collins Group Davidson & Co. Matching Gifts Mark Dexter & Deborah Cowley Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal Ellen Maxson Expedia Gives Matching Gift Program Firesteed Cellars* Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Peter Godman & Munira Rahemtulla Tom & Cande Grogan Jay Hereford & Margaret Winsor Harold & Mary Frances Hill Heather Howard David Thompson & Judith Jesiolowski Clare Kapitan & Keith Schreiber KeyBank Foundation Lea Knight Agastya Kohli Pam Kendrick** Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Ed & Laura Littlefield Lynn Manley & Alexander Lindsey Melissa & Don Manning
Nobel Award Society, cont. Donald E. Marcy Holly & Bill Marklyn Marcia Mason Ellen Maxson Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood Sarah Merner & Craig McKibben Susan & Furman Moseley Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Peter & Jane Powell** Jo Ann & Jim Roberts Matt Sauri Marc & Stacie Scattergood Seattle Center Foundation Seattle International Film Festival* Virginia Sly & Richard Wesley B. Richal & Karen Smith Mary Snapp Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Jared Watson Judith Whetzel Shannon Williams Williams Miller Family Foundation Merrily Wyman & Karen Bryant The Wyman Youth Foundation Anonymous (2)
Pulitzer Award Society $500+ Earl Alexander* All One Family Fund Virginia L. Anderson Ruth Bailey Kayti Barnett* Luther Black & Christina Wright Lindsay & Tony Blackner Janet Boguch & Kelby Fletcher Bruce Bradburn & Meg Holgate Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb Diana & Chuck Carey The Carey Family Foundation Sylvia & Craig Chambers Steve Miller & Pamela Cowan Tony & Emily Cox Amy & Paul Curtis Emily Davis Dottie Delaney Diane Douglas Jim & Gaylee Duncan Joyce Erickson Stan & Jane Fields The Film School* Jean Godden** Jean Gorecki & Dick Dobyns Laurie Griffith Phyllis Hatfield Jeffrey M. Kadet Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Annie Lareau** Frank Lawler & Ann McCurdy Bill Block & Susan Leavitt
honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support!
Pulizter award society, cont.
National Book Award Society, cont.
Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.
Craig Lorch Stephen E. Lovell Ellen & Stephen Lutz Ruth McCormick James & Kaaren McElroy Louise McNerney Sarah Merner & Craig McKibben Richard Monroe Will Patton & Joni Ostergaard Eleanor Pollnow PopCap Games Matching Gifts Charles & Doris Ray Anne Repass The Rodman Foundation Pamela & Nate Searle Meg Silver Linda Snider St. Clouds Food & Spirits* William & Lynette Thomas Molly Thompson & Joe Casalini Kerry P. Thompson Wendy Thompson & C. Rhea Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West** Robert & Dolores Tindal Judith Tobin & Michael Baker Edward & Genevieve Tremblay Vashon Watersports* Ruth & Jerry Verhoff Jennifer Weis Steve Wilson & Julie Lin David & Sally S. Wright Anonymous (1)
Elizabeth Love • Dora Mahan • Nancy Manula • Marcia Mason • Ruth McCormick • Jim McDonald • Jean McKeon • Louise McNerney • Jeanne Metzger • Richard Monroe • Charles Montange • Marc & Emily Mora • Aileen Mosier • Colette Ogle • Deborah & Jeff Parsons • Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert • Steve Pellegrin & Mary Anne Braund • Corliss J. Perdaems • Gloria Pfeif • Charles & Doris Ray • Bradley Renner • Anne Repass • Linden Rhoads • Paula Riggert • Don & Marty Sands • Dr. Robert Saunders & Donna Marie • Frank Schumann & Heather Pullen • Seattle Repertory Theatre* • Seattle Shakespeare Company* • Gail & John Sehlhorst • Aime & Mike Servais • Craig Shank & Meredith Stelling • Michael & Jo Shapiro • Marcia & Peter Sill • The Standard Employee Giving Campaign • Richard & Irene Strand • Janice Strand • Kimberly & Mike Strand • Paul Stucki & Christina Chang • LiAnn & Stephen Sundquist • Suzanne Suneson* • Tammy Talman • Gail Tanaka • Taproot Theatre* • Terry Tazioli • Ten Mercer* • The 5th Avenue Theatre* • Emory & Laura Thomas • TV Land* • Sheila Valencia & Walter Parker • Ruth Valine & Edward McNerney • Karen & Ron Van Genderen • Village Theatre* • Colin Wagoner • Sandra Waugh • Robert & Leora Wheeler • Elisabeth White • Rachel Wilsey & Sam Bernstein • Blake & Cathy Wilson* • Janet & Lawrence Wilson • Anonymous (1)
National Book Award Society $250+
Pen/Faulkner Award Circle $100+
ACT Theatre* • Richard Adair & Susan Petty • Shawn & Lynne Aebi • Alderbrook Resort & Spa* • Christina Amante • Cinnimin Avena • The Bayless Family • Cheryl Boudreau • Gail & Doug Boushey • John Bradshaw • Elizabeth Braun • Adelaide H. Brooks & Robert Pennell • Jeff Youngstrom & Becky Brooks • Rachel & David Bukey • Carol Butterfield • Melanie Calderwood • Sylvia & Craig Chambers • Samantha Cooper** • Sandra & Paul Dehmer • Dottie Delaney • Mary DeLorme & Mark Schleck • Yasue Drabble • Beth L. Dubey • Pamela & Kenneth Eakes • Sara Elward • Brent & Katie Enarson • Joyce Erickson • Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman • James & Denise Fortier • Terry Graham • Cezanne Garcia • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program • Katharine Godman & Jerry Collum** • Diane Grover • Erik & Laura Hanson • Frederic & Karin Harder • Nicholas Hart • Mark & Carolyn Holtzen • HomeStreet Bank • Robert Hunter • Sarah Kohut & Jim Grant • Nancie Kosnoff • Alan Kristal • Dr. Eric Rose & Eleni Ledesma • Lois Levy • David Loren & Julie Lyss
Carol Adams • Doug Adams • Shawn & Lynne Aebi • John Aldaya • Connie Anderson • Virginia L. Anderson • Amy Arvidson • Michelle Badion* • Maxine Bailey • Jo Ann & Tom Bardeen • Mary Murfin & Doug Bayley • Susan Bennett • Shawn Baz & Ellen Bezona • Deb & Bill Bigelow • Inez Noble Black • Lindsey & Tony Blackner • Watson & Jane Blair • Marisa Bocci • Rebecca Bogard • Rhonda Bolton* • Barry Boone & Mary Wilson • Jonathan Bridge • Broadway Center For the Performing Arts* • Emily Burns • Billie Butterfield • Barbara Buxbaum • Christine Calderon • Jane Camden • Carri Campbell • Hugh Campbell • Linda & Peter Capell • Michela Carpino & Rick Klingele • Cashmere Mountain Bed & Breakfast* • Kevin & Jocelyn Ceder • Joyce Chase • Lynne & David Chelimer • Marianna Clark & Charles Schafer • Jack & Cynthia Clay • Nancy Cleveland • Harvey Sadis & Harriett Cody • Jane Commet • Susan Connors & Eric Helland • Robert & Mary Cooper • Garry & Kay Crane • Blair Osborn & Alice Cunningham • Jim Wilder & Margaret Curtin • Melinda Deane & Dan Wheetman
Robin Dearling & Gary Ackerman • Dorothy & Jim Denton • Nancy Dirksen • Lynn Dissinger • Doe Bay Resort* • Marcia Donovan • Dan Drais • Lorna Dykes • Sarah L. Easterbrook • Kathleen Edwards • Lynne & Hollie Ellis • Marilyn Endriss • Kim & Rob Entrop • Constance L. Euerle • The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies* • Jane Faulkner & Marc Kittner • Caroline Feiss • Chandler & Janice Felt • Deborah & Keith Ferguson • Ellen Ferguson • Laura Ferri • Barbara & Timothy Fielden • Mary Ellen Flanagan • Nanette Fok • Jayn & Hugh Foy • Kai Fujita • Mike & Jean Gannon • Laurel Garcia & Shi Kai Wang • Bill Gill • Siobhan Ginnane • Vicki & Gerrie Goddard • Joan & Steve Goldblatt • Dona Golden • Linda Gould • Anke Gray • Pamela Greenwood • Michael Grimm • Nancy & Joseph Guppy • Dr. Rena Hamburger • Faith Hanna • Larry Hanson • Marcia L. Harper • Elisabeth Hastorf • Brenda Hartman • Ellen & David Hecht • Rebecca Herzfeld & Gordon Crawford • Barbara Hieronymus • Patricia Highet • HighGradeComics.com* • Terri Hiroshima • Susan Hoffman • Susan & Jim Hogan • David Hogan* • Kate Hokanson • Nancy Holcomb • Lisa Holderman • Mary & Eric Horvitz • Hourglass Footwear* • Karen L. Howard • Melissa Huther • Marcia Johnson • Lorna Jordan • Kris Jorgensen & Margey Rubado • Gil Joynt • Dr. David Kaplan & Dr. Ann Nelson • Joan Kalhorn • David Kasik & Jan Levine • Rebecca Kavoussi • Katherine King • Mary J. Klubben • James Knapp • Shannon & Richard Knipp • Dean W. Koonts • Frances J. Kwapil • Meredith Lehr & William Severson • Larry Lewin • Christine Lewis • Christine Lewis • Madalene Lickey • Arni Litt & Lori Eickelberg • Cynthia Livak • Mary Frances Lyons • Steve MacDonald* • Joan Machlis • Josie & Doug Manuel • Nancy Manula • Kate Marks • Elizabeth Mathewson • Elaine Mathies • Jim McClaine • Kathy McCluskey • Lee & Phil McCluskey • Deirdre & Jay McCrary • Maggie McDonald • Marcie & John McHale • Metropolitan Market* • Elaine Mew • Bonnie & Curry Miller • Shyla & Donald Miller • Donna & Robert Parker • George & Marion Mohler • Becky Monk • Terry & Cornelia Moore • Morfey’s Cakes* • Christine Mosere** • Pam & Don Myers • Kim Namba • David Nash & Pat Graves • Riley Neldam* • Dr. David Kaplan & Dr. Ann Nelson • Donna & Dennis Neuzil • Betty Ngan & Tom Mailhot • Dorothy & Aaron Nicholls • Pam & Scott Nolte • Deanna & Craig Norsen • Northwest Folk Life* • Chris Ohlweiler • Martha Oman • Pacific Northwest Ballet* • Jeff & Lauren Packman • Will Patton & Joni Ostergaard • Steve Pellegrin & Mary Anne Braund • Sherry Perrault
Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.
Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.
Ed & Carol Perrin • Barbara B. Peterson • Cheryl Peterson • Phoenix Theatre* • Paula Pimental • Anne & Lee Pipkin • Mary Poole • PopCap Games* • Kim Port & Norman Garner • Susan Porterfield • Peter & Jane Powell • Racha Noodles & Thai Cuisine* • Diana Rakow • Bruce & Sonia Ransom • Michelle Rebert • Brian & Roberta Reed • Arnold Reich • Dennis Reichenbach • Nancy Reichley & Timothy Higgins • Sarah Reisenauer • Jane Repensek • Jeannette Reynolds • Karen & Eric Richter • Roberta Roberts • Lawrence & Karen Robins • Marga Rose Hancock • H. Stewart Ross • Ellen Roth • Beth Rutherford** • Rebecca Sadinsky • Donna Sand • Kathy Saunders • B. Charlotte Schreiber • Seattle Art Museum* • Seattle Children’s Theatre* • Mark Seklemian • Meredith Lehr & William Severson • Julie Howe & Dennis Shaw • Shellie Slettebak • Marilyn Sloan • George & Susan Smith • Diane Snell • Jill Snyder • Starbucks Coffee Company* • Christine Stepherson • Seattle Theatre Group* • Diane & Richard Sugimura • Debra & Mark Szalwinksi • T.S. McHugh’s Irish Pub & Restaurant* • Theresa Tamura • Gail Tanaka • Eric & Cassandra Taylor • Anne Terry • Kristin & Mark Thomas • Cappy Thompson • Tom Douglas Restaurants* • Caren Toney • Richard Thorvilson • Jennifer Tice • The Two Tides* • Deborah Torgerson • Marcia Utela • Jorie Wackerman • Margot & Thomas Washington • Sally & Charles Weems • Kayla Weiner • Jay Weinland & Heather Hawkins • JD Wessling • Eddie Westerman • Gregory Wetzel • Sara White & Robert Jordan • Bill & Paula Whitham** • Jane Wiegenstein • Hope Wiljanen • Rob Williamson • Janet & Lawrence Wilson • Lauren Wilson • Richard Wilson & Lloyd Herman • Michael Winters • Wright Runstad & Co. • Juliette Yamane • Robert Winsor & Valerie Yockey • Diane Zahn • Shari Zehm • Sam Zeiler & Dawn Frankwick • Anonymous (5)
Nancy Ellingham • Margot & Dave Elsner • Daisy & Joel Emans • Shannon Erickson** • Dr. EM Faustman • Chandler & Janice Felt • Laura Fischetti • Mary Ellen Flanagan • Carolyn & Rob Fletcher • Deb Fredrikson • Julia Geier & Phil Borges • Elizabeth Gilchrist • Ann Glusker & Peter Hunsberger • Laurie Greig • Scott Guettinger • Corina Hardin • Wier Harmon • Harry’s Daughter Jewelry* • Anne Helmholz • Catherine Hennings • Chris Higashi • Robert Hunter • Susanne Hussong • Alison Inkley • Lawrence Jackson • Malia & Chang Kawaguchi • Vickie Kawakami • Millett & Patricia Keller • Art Kobayashi • Tracy Krauter • Kristi’s Grooming Company* • Fay Krokower • Barb & Art Lachman • Asha & Lillian Lahiri • David & Cynthia Lantry • LeMay - America’s Car Museum* • Dr. Donald & Alice Lewis • Adelaide Loges • Nancy Lomneth & Mark Boyd • Frank Lott • Carol Lumb • Ginny Mason • Charles Mayes • Susan McCloskey • Mecca Café* • John Mettler • Gary Miller • Sara & Paul Mockett • Susan J. Moser • Susan & Harold Mozer • Martha Mukhalian • Museum of Flight* • John Narver • Malinda Newstrom* • Judy & Stephen Niver • Warren Northrop • Ellen Nottingham • Heidi Noun & Michael Collins • Nancy & Stephen Olsen • Martha Oman • On The Boards* • Pat O’Rourke • Helen Ortiz • Timothy O’Sullivan • Katherine Phelps • Carolita Phillips • Laura Ploudre • Portage Restaurant* • Thomas W. Pratt • Andrea Ptak & Aaron Houseknecht • Daniel & Barbara Radin • Samantha Redsell • Nancy Reichley & Timothy Higgins • RN74* • Elizabeth Roberts • T.A. Greenleaf & Rebecca Roe • Ann Rowberg • Patricia Rytkonen & William Karn • Sheila & George K. Saul • Scarecrow Video* • Julie Schoenfeld • Nancy Schroder • Ann Schuh • Seattle Children’s Museum* • Seattle Men’s Chorus* • Earl & Charyl Kay Sedlik • Allen E. Senear • Audrey & John Sheffield • Janna Silverstein • Barbara Spear • Pat T. Starkovich • Julie Stohlman • Anne Stoltz • Street Treats* • Steve Suzuki • Alan & Michele Tesler • Theo Chocolate* • Awnie Thompson • Margey Thoresen • Darcia Tudor • Marcellus Turner • UW World Series* • Deborah VanDerhei • Tom & Kristi Weir • Julie Weisbach • Jean & David White • Margaret Whittemore • Connie & Les Wiletzky • Rob Williamson • Wendy Yoker • Anonymous (4)
O. Henry Award Circle $50+ Amgen Foundation • Elizabeth Amsbary • William G. Anderson • Susan & John Anderson • Jennifer Sue & Russ Banham • Tina Baril & Dafydd D. Rhysjones • Roger Tucker & Becky Barnett • Tom Bartholomew • Maribeth Berberich • Nancy L. Bittner • Audrey Blair • Diane Blake • Brad Borst • Bridge Partners LLC • Melissa & Sean Bruce • Tisha Cain • Pamela Cain* • Cory Carlson • Carl Chew • Deborah Christensen • Catherine Clemens • Combined Federal Campaign • Carol Crosby • Reidun Crowley • Nancy Cushwa • Stephanie Czerwonka • Deborah Daoust • Marilyn & Don Davidson • Sherri Del Bene • Downtown Dog Lounge* • Virginia & Richard J. Dunn
Gifts in Honor & memory Beth Amsbary & Lisa Dart-Nakon in Honor of Rachel Alquist Nancy L. Celms, Kate C. Hemer, Connie Hungate, and Margaret M. Marshall in Memory of William Rees Phillips Jeanne Metzger in Honor of Joann Byrd 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 Linda Snider in Memory of mother, Pearl R. Snider Kinza Schuyler in Memory of mother, Jeanette P. Weber *denotes in-kind donation **denotes in-kind plus monetary support This list reflects gifts received March 1, 2012 – August 15, 2013. Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgements. Please email Donor Relations and Development Manager Rachel Alquist at development@book-it.org with any changes that may be required.
Our mission is to transform great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive production and to inspire our audiences to read. 2010 Mayor’s Arts Award-winner and recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Arts Award, Book-It Repertory Theatre was founded 24 years ago as an artists’ collective, adapting short stories for performance and touring them throughout the Northwest. Today, with over 100 world-premiere adaptations of literature to its credit—many of which have garnered rave reviews and gone on to subsequent productions all over the country—Book-It is widely respected for the consistent artistic excellence of its work.
board of directors Joann Byrd, President
Jane Jones
Thomas Oliver, Vice-President
Margaret Kineke
Kristine Villiott, Treasurer
Mary Metastasio
Shirley Roberson, Secretary
Myra Platt
Monica Alquist
David Quicksall
Ross Baker
Steven Schwartzman
Karen Brandvick-Baker
Deborah Swets
Steven Bull
Elizabeth J. Warman
Amanda Cain
Lucy Flynn Zuccotti
Journalist & Editor, Retired Educator
CPA, Minar and Northey LLP Senior Associate, Hughes Media Law Group Dir. of Events & Special Projects, Puget Sound Business Journal Public Policy Director, Virginia Mason Medical Center Marketing & Corporate Communications, HomeStreet Bank Architect, Workshop for Architecture + Design Librarian, Olympic College
Stuart Frank
Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It Senior V.P., D.A. Davidson & Co. Senior Portfolio Manager, Safeco, Retired Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It Independent Theatre Artist & Teacher Attorney, U.S. Postal Service, Western Area Law Department V.P. for Membership, Washington State Hospital Assocation Dir. Global Corporate Citizenship, NW Region, The Boeing Co. Project Archaeologist, Cardno ENTRIX
Project Manager, Partner Capability Development, Starbucks
book-it staff & interns Jane Jones, Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director Myra Platt, Founding Co-Artistic Director Charlotte M. Tiencken, Managing Director Josh Aaseng, Literary Manager Will Abrahamse, Production Manager Rachel Alquist, Donor Relations & Development Manager Michelle Berweiler, House Manager Anders Bolang, Master Carpenter Patricia Britton, Director of Marketing & Communications Amanda Cain, Grants Associate Tom Dewey, Lead Box Office Associate Jocelyne Fowler, Costume Shop Manager Scott Herman, Patron Services Manager Shannon Erickson Loys, Publications & Media Manager Katie McKellar, Tour Manager Christine Mosere, Director of Development
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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 Box Office Associate: Hannah Schirman Volunteer Opening Night Party Coordinators: Linda Davis & Carol Phillippi Production Photographer: Alan Alabastro IT Support: Tom Wahl
2013-14 interns Artistic Interns: Andrea Kovich, Kathryn Stewart, Malia Zurcher Education Interns: Kristina Hess, Rachael LeValley Casting Intern: Amberlee Williams Stage Management Intern: Emma Pihl High School Intern: Adam Westerman
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