Slaughterhouse-Five Program

Robert Bergin, Todd Jefferson Moore, and Erik Gratton. PHOTO: John Ulman DESIGN: Shannon Loys PICTURED:

JUNE 9 - JULY 3, 2015

ADAPTED & DIRECTED BY

JOSH AASENG

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

imagined truth “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

OSCAR WILDE, THE IMPORTANT OF BEING EARNEST

A New Season of Children’s Stories Turn to page A-12 to see which titles we’re adapting in our 2015-16 Touring Season!

As an actress, director, musician, and arts educator, I have made my living traveling between two truths—the imaginary and the real. And I will continue to traverse that connection of imaginary and real truth as Book-It’s director of education.

You might think the idea that truth has two meanings is incomprehensible. But look at Kurt Vonnegut’s worlds in SlaughterhouseFive—the real, World War II world and the other-worldly Trafalmadore—the story straddles both worlds giving it its own life.

As an artist and arts educator, the notion of two worlds built of opposite, interdependent truths best describes what we do both on stage and in the classroom.

As an artist, the world of imaginary truth is where I first adventured with Laura Ingalls Wilder and Nancy Drew before my interest shifted to Pecola, Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya, and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. In this world I created art

as Frida Kahlo Rivera, analyzed poetry while in the skin of Dorothy Wordsworth, and inhabited the Bard’s comedic and tragic kingdoms. I have introduced this world to my son who, at age eleven, enjoys exploring the planet Tatooine with Luke Skywalker, adventuring the seas with Poseidon, and finding the magic at Hogwarts.

As an arts educator, it’s in the world of real truth that real work happens and real lives are changed. Real truths have proven the arts foster analytical, practical and creative thinking skills in students while better preparing them for the 21st century workforce. It’s real truth that the arts opportunity gap is widest for children in high poverty schools and that the persistent lack of access to arts education is detrimental to our future. It’s in this world that I work to provide opportunities and programming that celebrates an interactive relationship between youth and literature that encourages the joy of reading, enhances student and teacher learning—and celebrates imaginary truth.

With deep respect for Oscar Wilde, I argue that truth is pure and often simple, as long as you fully embrace which truth you are experiencing at the time. For me, I will continue to travel between the two as often as I can.

Enjoy the show,

Annie DiMartino Director of Education

Meet Annie DiMartino, Our New Director of Education Annie joins us following her tenure at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, where she was in charge of all educational programming and oversaw their Next Stage Resident/Intern Program. We are thrilled to have her on the Book-It team.

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Book-It revisits Jane Austen’s match-making classic in honor of the 200th anniversary of its publication.

An evening of stories adapted from the 1981 collection by Northwest native Raymond Carver.

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

by Kurt Vonnegut Adapted and directed by Josh Aaseng

cast Robert Bergin Rory

Eaden†

Jim Gall* Erik Gratton* Martyn G. Krouse Jocelyn Maher Cobey Mandarino* Benjamin McFadden Todd Jefferson Moore* Eleanor Moseley Joshua Ryder Riley

Billy Pilgrim Ensemble Vonnegut / Ensemble Billy Pilgrim Bernard O’Hare / Ensemble Valencia / Barbara / Ensemble Derby / Ensemble Lazzaro / Ensemble Billy Pilgrim Mary O’Hare / Ensemble Weary / Ensemble

Shanahan†

Ensemble

Slown†

Ensemble

Jason

Sydney Tucker

Montana Wildhack / Ensemble

Artistic Team Catherine Cornell Scenic Designer Ben Burris & Zane Exactly Puppet Designers & Consultants

Kent Cubbage Lighting Designer

Pete Rush Costume Designer

Myra Platt Music Director Louise Butler* Stage Manager

Matt Starritt Sound Designer

Gin Hammond Dialect Coach

Lindsay Carpenter Dramaturg / Assistant Director

Emily Penick Choreographer

Tom Dewey Fight Choreographer

Victoria Thompson* Assistant Stage Manager

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

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Additional generous support is provided by individuals and by The Ex Anima Fund, The Williams Miller Family Foundation, and Spark Charitable Foundation. Many thanks to all our supporters!

God Bless You, Mr. VOnnegut

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When I first picked up a copy of Slaughterhouse-Five, I was in my early twenties and we had just shocked and awed the nation of Iraq with our superior military science. In fact, I watched the bombing of Baghdad on live television during spring break. My generation’s wars are broadcast live, and we get to watch as cities are destroyed in real-time.

I wonder what the destruction of Dresden would have looked like on CNN. Like many young idealists who first encounter Slaughterhouse-Five, I was immediately taken with its biting humor and anti-war sentiment. But, as I have perennially reread the book and now as I work with a tremendous group of artists on this production, I have come to admire it for all the questions it asks, and for the few answers it provides. How do we make sense of the tens of thousands of innocent civilian deaths in Dresden in the midst of a necessary and justifiable war? If wars and human massacres are inevitable, then what are we to do? Shrug and say, “So it goes”?

Ignore the awful times and focus merely on the good?

Perhaps most compelling to me is Kurt Vonnegut’s (often hilarious and irreverent) exploration of what war does to the individual and how one returns home after experiencing its atrocities. In 2015, we are still discussing these issues, and “PTSD” is common parlance in our society. We’re aware of the internal wounds the men and women bear home from the battlefield, and at least have a vocabulary to approach a healing process. But what was it like for the young men returning home 70 years ago? These things were less understood and even less publicly discussed.

Like the character Billy Pilgrim (and his real-life author), many World War II veterans struggled years later to find real peace on the home front. With very few resources compared to today’s returning veterans, those men were left to construct their own methods of coping with what they experienced overseas. Some of those methods were constructive, some destructive, and some altogether unique—like this tale of Billy Pilgrim.

Josh Aaseng Adapter & Director

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born in 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana. A soldier at age 20, Vonnegut became a Prisoner of War during the Battle of the Bulge and survived the Dresden Bombing while in a slaughterhouse 60 feet underground.

After returning from the war, he married and had three children. His first novel was published in 1952. In 1957, Vonnegut’s life was altered drastically when his sister died from cancer and her husband died in a train crash two days later. Vonnegut and his wife took in three of their children to raise with their own.

Slaughterhouse-Five, published in 1969, transformed Vonnegut from a writer with a small cult following into a popular literary icon. He became increasingly outspoken about his political beliefs. He was especially critical of George W. Bush’s presidency and the increases in American militarization following September 11, 2001. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007, though his legacy lives on.

THE VONNEGUT BIBLIOGRAPHY NOVELS

COLLECTIONS

Player Piano (1952) The Sirens of Titan (1959) Mother Night (1961) Cat’s Cradle (1963) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (1965) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Breakfast of Champions(1973) Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976) Jailbird (1979) Deadeye Dick (1982) Galápagos: A Novel (1985) Bluebeard (1987) Hocus Pocus (1990) Timequake (1997)

Canary in a Cathouse (1961) Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons (1974) Palm Sunday (1981) Nothing Is Lost Save Honor (1984) Fates Worse than Death (1991) Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) A Man Without a Country (2005) Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) Look at the Birdie (2009) While Mortals Sleep (2011) Kurt Vonnegut: The Cornell Sun Years 1941-1943 (2012)* We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012)* Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (2012)* Sucker’s Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing (2013)* If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Advice for the Young (2013)*

PLAYS Penelope (1960) Fortitude (1968) Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus-5: A Space Fantasy (1972) Make Up Your Mind (1993) Miss Temptation (1993) L’Histoire du Soldat, adaptation (1993)

*published after Kurt Vonnegut’s death

DID YOU KNOW? The full title of Slaughterhouse-Five is: Slaughterhouse-Five or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

by Kurt Vonnegut, A Fourth-Generation GermanAmerican Now Living in Easy Circumstances on Cape Cod [and Smoking Too Much], Who, as an American Infantry Scout Hors de Combat, as a Prisoner of War, Witnessed the Fire Bombing of Dresden, Germany, ‘The Florence of the Elbe,’ a Long Time Ago, and Survived to Tell the Tale. This is a Novel Somewhat in the Telegraphic Schizophrenic Manner of Tales of the Planet Tralfamadore, Where the Flying Saucers Come From. Peace.

BOMBING DRESDEN 70 YEARS LATER, THE CONTROVERSY CONTINUES DRAMATURGY BY LINDSAY CARPENTER BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

Before the firebombing, Dresden in Germany was known as a historic city, reputed for its art, architecture, and culture and nicknamed the Elbflorenz or “Florence of the Elbe.” The bombing of Dresden on February 13-15, 1945 remains deeply controversial. Disputes continue over why the city was bombed, its innocence, and even the number of people killed.

On February 13, 1945, Dresden experienced a combined attack by the American USAAF and Britain’s RAF that lasted until February 15. Over a thousand tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiaries were dropped on the city. The attack destroyed eighty percent of the main city center and fifty percent of the remaining area. Dresden was in ruins.

Dresden’s bombing is often described as a senseless crime. At the time of the bombing, the city was filled with thousands of refugees from all over Europe and lacked enough air raid shelters to protect and hold the number of people staying in the city. The city was seen as innocent of war, lacking sufficient air defenses to defend itself, and given how close the Allies already were to the end of the war, the city’s destruction is often explained as an Allied revenge, meant only to terrorize Germans.

Yet Dresden’s image as an innocent city is partly myth. Claims that it was an open city—“a city declared to be unfortified and undefended and so, by international law, exempt from enemy attack” (Oxford Dictionary)—are false. It was not officially,

under law, an open city. That said, many in World War II perceived it as such.

Furthermore, it was not removed from the war as many critics claim. Dresden did have war-related industries and was a railway hub for German soldiers on their way to the Russian front. Though it had suffered little damage by 1945, it had experienced previous air raids during the war. Nonetheless, the attack was unexpected and flew in the face of the prevailing belief that the Allies had chosen Dresden to be their postwar administrative capital and planned to spare the city. Plus, with the Eastern Front drawing nearer, Dresdeners were more afraid of an attack from the east than from the air.

Among the controversies over Dresden’s bombing is the question of how many people were killed. It’s impossible to say for sure, especially since it’s unknown how many refugees had entered Dresden by that point.

Estimates range from 8,000 deaths to 500,000, though more recent assessments typically fall between 35,000 and 135,000 with 35,000 as the generally accepted amount. Kurt Vonnegut cites 135,000 deaths in Slaughterhouse-Five.

Though general awareness of the Dresden bombing on February 13-15, 1945 has increased exponentially, in great part due to Slaughterhouse-Five, the event remains controversial. Were the Allies justified in destroying the city? Did it serve any strategic purpose? Was it an acceptable target or an innocent city massacred out of revenge? And how many civilians were actually killed so close to the end of the war?

AFTER BEFORE

AFTER

“From ‘Irritable Heart’ to ‘Shellshock’” 2012. <http://io9.com/5898560/from-irritable-heart-to-shellshock-how-post-traumatic-stress-became-a-disease>; “New Name Could Mean Less Stigma.” 2012. Washington Post. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/new-name-for-ptsd-could-mean-less-stigma/2012/05/05/gIQAlV8M4T_story.html>; National Institute of Mental Health. “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).” <http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml>; Bowe, Meghan Kathleen. “Framing Memory: The Bombings of Dresden, Germany in Narrative, Discourse and Commemoration after 1945. 2009. <http://bit.ly/1DOc3Rz>; History.com. “Bombing of Dresden.” <http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-dresden>; Taylor, Alan. “Remembering Dres-

NAMING TRAUMA While the term Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is relatively new (introduced in 1980), the condition is not.

During World War II, it became increasingly accepted that all men were vulnerable to the symptoms, though many doctors and generals had little patience or sympathy for those who experienced it. The condition has been called by more than 80 names over the centuries. As the term changed, so too has the stigma and treatment surrounding the condition.

Nostalgia

Diagnosis for Swiss soldiers in 1678

Homesickness or “Heimweh”

Term given by German soldiers in 1600-1700s

Maladie du pays

French name, 1600s-1700s.

Translates “Disease of the country”

Estar roto

Spanish name, 1600s-1700s.

Translates “To be broken”

Soldier’s Heart, Irritable Heart, or Da Costa Syndrome

Jacob Mendez da Costa’s diagnosis, based on chest-thumping, anxiety, and other symptoms in U.S. Civil War veterans

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or

Neurasthenia Hysteria

Victorian term for those with excessive neurosis or nervousness

Shell Shock

Common term from WWI

Combat Exhaustion or Combat Fatigue

Popular term during WWII and the Korean War

PTSD

Introduced in 1980 when it was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTS or PTSI

Post-Traumatic Stress Injury

Within the last decade, specialists have begun dropping the “Disorder” part of PTSD. The change is due to the stigma surrounding the word disorder. Another alternative substitutes “Injury” for “Disorder.”

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PTS SYMPTOMS ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Symptoms of PTS can disrupt a person’s daily routine and make it difficult to sleep, eat, and concentrate. Reminders of the traumatic moment or event can trigger these symptoms.

Re-experiencing symptoms

• Flashbacks • Nightmares • Scary thoughts

Avoidance symptoms

• Avoiding places, events, or objects that remind the person of the experience

• Feeling emotionally numb • Feeling strong guilt, depression, or worry • Losing interest in activities that were previously enjoyable

• Having trouble remembering the traumatic event Hyperarousal symptoms:

• Easily startled • Feeling tense or on edge • Difficulty sleeping • Angry outbursts

den: 70 Years After the Firebombing.” The Atlantic; 2015.; Kennedy, David M. “Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.” 1999.; “Dresden WWII bombing pre-and after pictures (English).” <http://www.alien8.de/dd/page-1.html>; Ellmers, Frank. “Dresden Survives as Potent World War II Symbol.” 2005. Los Angeles Times. <http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/13/news/adfg-dresden13>; “The WWII Dresden Holocaust – ‘A Single Column of Fame’.” Rense.com. <http://www.rense.com/general19/flame.htm>; Fowler, George. “Holocaust on Dresden.” 1995. The Barnes Review. <http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/dresden-e.html>

meet the

Cast

ROBERT BERGIN

Billy Pilgrim Robert is thrilled to make his Book-It debut with SlaughterhouseFive. He recently appeared as Steve Hubbell in A Streetcar Named Desire at Civic Rep, and also as Bertrand and the Director in 5 by Beckett with Sound Theatre Company. Other credits include Harrison in Terre Haute with Bridges Stage Company, Middle Scrooge in A Christmas Carol with ACT Theatre, and Patrick Rowen in The Kentucky Cycle with Bainbridge Performing Arts. Robert also performed in the award-winning web series Wrecked, from Honey Toad Studios. He is a company member of Washington Ensemble Theatre, and holds an MFA from the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program.

RORY EADEN†

Ensemble Rory is a Seattle-based actor, singer, and guitar player making his Book-It debut with SlaughterhouseFive. He is a proud recent graduate of Cornish College of the Arts where he received his BFA in musical theater. Recent credits include Singin’ in the Rain with Showtunes Theatre Company, The Messiah and All Things Irish with The Inverse Opera, the regional premiere of Bonnie and Clyde the musical with Cornish College of the Arts, The Secret Garden and Grand Hotel at Cornish Playhouse, and a number of vocal performances and cabarets around town including the Columbia Tower Club and the Paramount Theatre. So it goes.

JIM GALL*

Vonnegut / Ensemble Some of Jim’s favorite Book-It credits include The Dog of the South, If I Die in a Combat Zone…, Pride and Prejudice, Moby-Dick, or The Whale, and Border Songs. His most recent credits include a national tour of The Miracle Worker with Montana Rep as Captain Keller, The Two Gentlemen of Verona with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, and The Bunner Sisters with Athena Productions at Theatre Off Jackson. Other favorite roles include Atticus Finch in To Kill * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Acting Intern

a Mockingbird and Mountain McClintock in Requiem for a Heavyweight. Locally Jim has worked at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Rep, Intiman, Village Theatre, and ACT Theatre, to name a few. Jim has been named best actor by the Seattle Times’ Footlight Awards three times. He is proud to be married to the talented and beautiful Kelly Kitchens.

ERIK GRATTON*

Billy Pilgrim Erik is ecstatic to perform with Book-It and to help tell this story in particular. He moved to Seattle in 2012 and has worked at Village Theatre in Mary Poppins and played the title roles in their productions of The Foreigner and The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes. Other favorite projects across the country include the one-actor show Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol and playing some of Shakespeare’s best characters including Hamlet, Rosalind, and Jacques. He also played a beaver on “Grimm” and is the cohost of The Lazy Muses Podcast. Up next is Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play at ACT Theatre this fall.

MARTYN G. KROUSE

Bernard O’Hare / Ensemble Martyn is pleased to make his Book-It debut in Slaughterhouse-Five.

A Seattle-based actor and voiceover artist, Martyn has been seen in acclaimed productions at several Seattle theatres including Seattle Shakespeare Company, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Sound Theatre Company, and Annex Theatre, among many others. He has also appeared in a number of feature films, including A Bit of Bad Luck, and on the network television show “Grimm.” He lives in South Seattle with his partner, Amy-Ellen, his daughters, Mary Rose and Amelia, and their leopard gecko, Sam. www.martyngkrouse.com

JOCELYN MAHER

Valencia / Barbara / Ensemble Jocelyn is very thankful to be returning to Book-It with Slaughterhouse-Five.

She was last seen on the Book-It stage portraying Dolores Price in She’s Come Undone, for which she earned a Gregory Award nomination for Outstanding Actress. She has worked with various companies around the Puget Sound

area including Seattle Public Theater, The Horse In Motion, Macha Monkey, 14/48, and ACT Theatre. Jocelyn holds a BA in drama performance from the University of Washington.

COBEY MANDARINO*

Derby / Ensemble Cobey will be originating the role of Mike in Jenny Connell Davis’ new play, Goddess of Mercy, at the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival this summer. His latest film, Refraction, is premiering at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival. Cobey’s Seattle theatre credits include Dick Whittington and His Cat with Seattle Children’s Theatre and She’s Come Undone and The Financial Lives of the Poets with Book-It. His New York theatre credits include productions at Roundabout Theatre, The Public Theater, Soho Rep, and American Theatre of Actors. He and his fellow castmates earned The New York Times’ Ensemble of the Year honors for Roundabout Theatre’s revival of David Rabe’s Streamers.

His television credits include “Grimm” and “Law & Order” on NBC and “Six Degrees” on ABC.

BENJAMIN MCFADDEN

Lazzaro / Ensemble Ben is absolutely thrilled to be returning to the Book-It stage for his sixth production.

Previous Book-It credits include The Financial Lives of the Poets, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, The Cider House Rules, Parts I & II, and The Highest Tide. A Northwest native and a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, Ben has worked with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Sandbox Radio Live, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, 14/48 Projects, Balagan Theatre, ArtsWest, Theater Schmeater, Greenstage, and many others. On top of acting, Ben also loves working with young people as a teaching artist. You can catch Ben next in Vincent Delaney’s The Art of Bad Men with MAP Theatre, directed by Kelly Kitchens.

TODD JEFFERSON MOORE*

Billy Pilgrim Todd happily returns to Book-It where he appeared in The Financial Lives of the Poets and A Tale of Two Cities. Other recent local appearances include The Ramayana at ACT Theatre; Crash, The

ELEANOR MOSELEY

Mary O’Hare / Ensemble Eleanor is delighted to be back at Book-It, last appearing here in The Art of Racing in the Rain. Recently seen in The Long Road with Arouet, in August she’ll play Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter at SecondStory Repertory. Other favorite local credits include Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, The Torchbearers, The Ladies of the Corridor, The Familiar, The Way of All Fish, and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Recent film work includes Regulate, You’re So Vain, Children of Light, and The Dark Horse. An aspiring playwright, her scripts have been staged at Seattle Fringe Fest (2014), The Northwest Playwrights’ Alliance, and will be part of the upcoming Seattle Play Series.

JOSHUA RYDER

Weary / Ensemble Josh is honored to be making his Book-It mainstage debut with Slaughterhouse-Five.

Last season he toured The Phantom Tollbooth with Book-It’s Arts and Education Program.

Josh is a proud graduate of the University of Washington’s drama department, and since then has worked at Village Theatre, Theater Schmeater, Seattle Musical Theatre, and frequents Studio East’s Storybook Theater.

He’s an avid believer in “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt” and thanks you for coming.

RILEY SHANAHAN†

Ensemble Riley is a Sacramento native, graduate from Cornish College of the Arts, and is thrilled to be working with Book-It. Most recently, he appeared (and disappeared) in Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Tartuffe featuring R. Hamilton Wright. Up next, you can see Riley perform at the 2015 Intiman Theatre Festival.

Some favorite school credits include Wait— Is This Graded?! and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Cornish and The Crucible with

University of Oregon. He is also a voice-over artist, teacher, and film actor. He dedicates his performance to his late grandpa, Bob “Timer,” who served as a naval captain on the USS Mugford in WWII and to all those suffering from PTSD—may they find peace. †

JASON SLOWN

Ensemble Jason is thrilled to make his Book-It debut in Slaughterhouse-Five.

He is a recent graduate of Cornish College of the Arts with a BFA in acting and he spent a summer training in St. Petersburg, Russia where he received a certificate of achievement in the Stanislavsky system.

School credits include Professor/Jerry/Brian in Jim Cartwright’s Road, Egeus/Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Andrei in Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, and Robert in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. He lives in Seattle.

SYDNEY TUCKER

Montana Wildhack / Ensemble This is Sydney’s first show with Book-It. Past credits include Late Night Bites with Ghost Light Theatricals, The Adventures of Owl and Pussycat with theater simple, At Capacity with soikowski research | performance, and Quickies 14 with LiveGirls! Theater. You may have also seen her on stage at 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival or performing around town as her burlesque alter ego, Daisy O’Day. Sydney is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts. www.sydneytuckerperformer.com

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Edge of Peace, and The Wizard of Oz at Seattle Children’s Theatre; Crime and Punishment, Uncle Vanya, and The Grapes of Wrath at Intiman; Waiting for Godot, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Electra, and The Miser at Seattle Shakespeare Company; and Dancing at Lughnasa, OPUS, and Thom Pain (based on nothing) at Seattle Rep.

Artistic

staff

JOSH AASENG

Adapter / Director Josh is an actor and director based in Seattle. Directing credits include Jesus’ Son, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Passion, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (assoc. dir.) and The Seagull (asst. dir.). He is a consulting director on Frank Boyd’s The Holler Sessions, which premiered at On the Boards in January, and which will be presented at the Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in the Netherlands this August. Josh is the literary manager for Book-It Repertory Theatre,

a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

CATHERINE CORNELL

Scenic Designer Catherine is happy to work with Book-It yet again after designing Truth Like the Sun, Jesus’ Son, and several touring shows in their Arts and Education Program. Other scenic design credits include Master Harold… and the Boys with West of Lenin; Henry IV with Freehold Theatre; Red Light Winter and 25 Saints with Azeotrope; Undo, Zapoi!, and Precious Little with Annex Theatre; Into the Woods with STAGEright; and Cloud Nine with University of Michigan. Catherine is also a skilled prop artisan (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored; The Financial Lives of the Poets; and She’s Come Undone with Book-It Repertory Theatre) and scenic artist (Oz: The Great and Powerful by Walt Disney Pictures). www.catcornell.com

KENT CUBBAGE

Lighting Designer This is Kent’s fourth show with Book-It, following Geek-Out, Jesus’ Son (Gregory Award-nominated for lighting), and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

Recent theatre and dance designs include Moisture Fest, Sam Boshnack Quintet/Karin Stevens, and Converge at Velocity; Twelfth Night with Seattle Shakespeare Company; and The Explorers Club and Appalachian Christmas Homecoming with Taproot. He also recently assistant designed An Evening of One Acts with ACT Theatre and A Room With a View and A Chorus Line with The 5th Avenue Theatre.

Other recent endeavors include designing lights for Emerald City Comic-Con, The Dismemberment Plan, and Josh Rouse and showing his large-scale interactive lighting art at Sea Compression. He is a resident designer at the Triple Door, the Neptune, the Crocodile, and Theater Off Jackson, and teaches and designs at Seattle University.

PETE RUSH

Costume Designer Pete previously designed costumes for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Truth Like the Sun, The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and Night Flight for Book-It, along with scenery for Sense and Sensibility.

Seattle designs include Hamlet, Electra, Antony & Cleopatra, A Doll’s House, The Merchant of Venice, and Cymbeline for Seattle Shakespeare Company; Rapture, Blister, Burn, and Little Shop of Horrors for ACT Theatre; Jasper in Deadland and RENT for The 5th Avenue Theatre; The Adding Machine for New Century Theatre Company; Sprawl, BedSnake, Sextet, and

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Artistic

staff

Tall Skinny Cruel Boys for Washington Ensemble Theatre; as well as productions at ArtsWest and Seattle Public Theater.

Regional credits include Hangar Theatre, George Street Playhouse, and Berkshire Theatre Festival.

MATT STARRITT

Sound Designer Matt is a freelance sound designer for both theatre and dance and a writer from Seattle.

He is currently the sound design associate at Seattle Repertory Theatre, and is a parttime lecturer for the UW’s School of Drama.

In Seattle he has designed for Book-It, The Cherdonna and Lou Show, Intiman and the Intiman Theatre Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Waxie Moon, and was a founding member of the Washington Ensemble Theatre. Nationally, he has designed for the Alley Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company, Illusion Theatre, and South Coast Repertory.

LOUISE BUTLER*

Stage Manager Louise is glad to return to Book-It having previously worked as assistant stage manager for The Art of Racing in the Rain and Border Songs. Louise has been a part of stage management teams for Village Theatre (Around the World In 80 Days, Mary Poppins, In The Heights, The Foreigner, Trails, Big River), Seattle Shakespeare Company (King Lear, A Doll’s House, As You Like It, Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, Wittenberg; Wooden O’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V, and Macbeth; and the educational touring productions of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth), Balagan Theatre (Carrie, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, The Full Monty, Closer, Othello), Showtunes Theatre Company (Miracle on 34th Street), Theater Schmeater (Twilight Zones), the Northwest Folklife Festival, Giant Magnet, and 14/48.

VICTORIA THOMPSON*

Assistant Stage Manager Victoria is a freelance stage manager. She was the production stage manager at Book-It for three and a half seasons where she worked on several productions including Pride and Prejudice, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Jesus’ Son, and She’s Come Undone.

Other credits include The Holler Sessions with Frank Boyd presented by On the Boards, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with ACT Theatre, Waiting for Godot and Richard II with Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Tails of Wasps with New Century Theatre Company.

LINDSAY CARPENTER

Dramaturg / Assistant Director Lindsay is excited to be working on Slaughterhouse-Five. Previously with Book-It she worked as the assistant director for The Dog of the South and as dramaturg for I Am of Ireland. She is also their year-long literary artistic intern. Lindsay’s primary focus is as a playwright and director, and she has had her plays produced and workshopped in Seattle (Theatre Battery, Eclectic Theatre), Boston (Boston Shotz, Bare Bodkin), and California (Barnyard Theatre, ACME Theatre). In April, she received the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Undergraduate Playwriting Award for her play Borders.

BEN BURRIS

Puppet Designer & Consultant Ben is excited to be making his designer debut with Book-It! A Seattle actor and part of the absurdist comedy group Le Frenchword, Ben is also a puppeteer with Thistle Theatre, a local children’s puppet theatre. You may have seen him recently in Zapoi! at Annex Theatre, SnowGlobed with Playing in Progress, and The Boy at the Edge of Everything at Seattle Children’s Theatre. www.BenBurris.com

ZANE EXACTLY

Puppet Designer & Consultant Zane is a visual artist turned theatre artist and has a BFA in sculpture. He works for Thistle Theatre as a puppeteer and in repair/tech. He is also part of the clown/puppet duo Good Evening, Mr. Homunculus, who have their own show at Annex Theatre this fall: Mad Scientist Cabaret. He is a fanatical horror fan, a ravenous reader, a producer of puppets, and an admirer of alliteration.

GIN HAMMOND

Dialect Coach Gin is a Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre grad, a certified voice geek, and is very happy to be collaborating with this army of talents. She teaches voice, voice-over, public speaking, and dialect coaching at the Seattle Voice Institute, 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.

EMILY PENICK

Choreographer Emily is the artistic associate at ACT Theatre. Recent movement credits include fight choreography for Othello with Seattle Shakespeare Company, movement direction for Mary’s Wedding with New Century Theatre Company, choreography for Don Nordo Del

Midwest with Café Nordo, and choreography/ direction of Distance, a dance and poetry piece. Recent directing credits include The Other Woman, Wandering, and the world premiere of the devised short play Pot of Gold at The Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Favorite associate directing credits include Bethany with ACT Theatre, The Seagull with American Players Theatre, and War is F**king Awesome with Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company.

Emily, who was born in California, raised in Princeton, New Jersey, and who earned her MFA in directing from Ohio University, is grateful to call Seattle’s thriving theatre community home. emilypenick.com

TOM DEWEY

Fight Choreographer Tom is honored to join the team of Slaughterhouse-Five. 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, The Financial Lives of the Poets, She’s Come Undone, and Little Bee. 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.

MYRA PLATT

Founding Co-Artistic Director As co-founder, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 100 world premiere mainstage productions and over 30 education touring productions. Most recently she adapted and directed Little Bee and directed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the 2014 Gregory Award for Outstanding Production and received a Seattle Times 2014 Footlight Award. She directed Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday, and she adapted and directed 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, and Cowboys Are My Weakness, among others. 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, * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

† Book-It Acting Intern

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staff 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 a Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Anniversary grant, 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 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 Cyrano, Pride and Prejudice, and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed The Dog of the South, 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.

BRYAN BURCH

DANIEL Y. MAYER

ELIZABETH STASIO†

Managing Director This past November, Daniel joined the staff of Book-It as its managing director. Most recently, he spent eight years at 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 the 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 project 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. 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 Cornish College of the Arts, and the EDGE Artist Professional Development Program at Artist Trust. Mayer is the co-chair of the Arts Advisory Council of 4Culture and on the board of directors of Khambatta Dance Company and Coyote Central.

special thanks to The 5th Avenue Theatre, ACT Theatre, ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, Macall Gordon, Kirk Honda, PsyD., R90 Lighting, The Red Badge Project, Roosevelt High School, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle Scenic Studio / Craig Wollam, Thistle Theatre, Village Theatre

Interim Production Manager

KARLA DAVENPORT Properties Manager

Stage Management Intern

CHARLOTTE COOK† Directing Intern

DAN SCHUY Interim Technical Director

ANDERS BOLANG Master Carpenter

SUZI TUCKER Carpenter

CARMEN RODRIGUEZ Scenic Charge Artist

TREVOR CUSHMAN Master Electrician / Light Board Operator

JESSICA JONES Sound Engineer / Sound Board Operator

ANNA BOWEN Wardrobe Supervisor Puppets built at Thistle Theatre studios by Ben Burris and Zane Exactly.

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

Literary Legends’ Circle $75,000+

Nobel Prize Circle $1,000+

Nobel Prize Circle, cont.

ArtsFund N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier

Anonymous (6) Connie Anderson Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Salli & Stephen Bauer Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb Patricia Britton Sally Brunette Karen Bystrom Mary Anne Christy & Mark Klebanoff Amy & Matthew Cockburn Carol & Bill Collins Nora & Allan Davis Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal The Ex Anima Fund Polly Feigl Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Mark Hamburg Liz Harris Phyllis Hatfield Signy & James Hayden Mary Frances & Harold Hill Judith Jesiolowski & David Thompson Thomas Jones Jamie & Jeremy Joseph Debbie Killinger Jacqueline Kiser Lea Knight Joyce Latino & John O’Connell Melissa & Don Manning Holly & Bill Marklyn Peter Maunsell Ellen Maxson Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood Merck Foundation Lisa Merrill Susan & Furman Moseley Joni Ostergaard & Will Patton Myra Platt & Dave Ellis Kathy & Brad Renner Paula & Stephen Reynolds Kathryn & Stephen Robinson Nathan Rodriguez Christine Sanders Martha & Donald Sands John Schaffer The Seattle Foundation Charyl & Earl Sedlik Gail & John Sehlhorst Martha Sidlo Virginia Sly Mary Snapp Spark Charitable Foundation Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Kathy & Jim Tune

Ruth & Jerry Verhoff Judith Whetzel Williams Miller Family Foundation Patricia Wilson Margaret Winsor & Jay Hereford Christina Wright & Luther Black Wyman Youth Trust

Literary CHampions’ Circle $25,000+ 4Culture Boeing Company Sonya & Tom Campion Matthew Clapp The Norcliffe Foundation Mary Pigott Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Shirley & David Urdal Kris & Mike Villiott

producers’ circle $10,000+ City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness Lucy Helm Ellen & John Hill Stellman Keehnel Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Nordstrom Lynne & Nick Reynolds The Shubert Foundation, Inc.

Partners’ circle $5,000+ Arthur N. Rupe Foundation Joann Byrd Gretl Galgon Mary Metastasio Michell & Larry Pihl Anne Repass Drella & Garth Stein

Leadership circle $2,500+ Monica Alquist Karen Brandvick-Baker & Ross Baker Catherine Clark & Marc Jacques Carolyn & George Cox D.A. Davidson & Co. Emily Davis Caroline Feiss & Gordy Davidson Ellen & Stephen Lutz Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Cheryl & Tom Oliver Deborah Parsons Christiane Pein & Steven Bull Schwab Charitable Fund Shirley Roberson Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches Colleen & Brad Stangeland Deborah Swets U.S. Bank April Williamson

Pulitzer Prize Circle $500+ Jennifer & Russ Banham Donna & Anthony Barnett Lenore & Dick Bensinger Elizabeth Braun Cathy & Michael Casteel Mary Chambers Dorothy & Sean Corry Pamela Cowan & Steve Miller Deborah Cowley & Mark Dexter Dottie Delaney Rebecca Dietz & Michael Drumheller Lauren Dudley Sara Elward Jane & Stanley Fields Jean Gorecki Diane Grover Laura & Erik Hanson Barbara & Randy Hieronymus Mary Horvitz Heather Howard Hughes Media Law Group Melissa Joyce Clare Kapitan & Keith Schreiber Karen Koon Emily Krebill Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Eleni Ledesma & Eric Rose Steve Loeb Darcy & Lee MacLaren Richard Monroe Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Andrea Niculescu Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert Sandra Perala & John Platt Gloria Pfeif Judy Pigott Scott Pinckney Roberta Reaber & Leo Butzel Paula Riggert Jo Ann & Jim Roberts Rebecca Roe & T. A. Greenleaf Polly Schlitz Pamela & Nate Searle Jo & Michael Shapiro

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

Pulitzer Prize Circle, cont.

National Book Award Circle, cont.

Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.

Marcia & Peter Sill B. Richal Smith LiAnn Sundquist Cassandra Tate & Glenn Drosendahl Susan Tate Jennifer Lee Taylor Janet Vail Gregory Wetzel Leora & Robert Wheeler Jean & David White Paula & Bill Whitham Merrily Wyman Shari Zehm & Kerry Thompson Mary Zyskowski

Sarah Ryan & Douglas Larson • Kim & Kenneth Schiewetz • Cindi Schoettler • Marilyn Sloan • Jenness & John Starks • Christine Stepherson • Maria Strickland • Paul Stucki • Cassandra & Eric Taylor • Alan Tesler • Jennifer Teunon & Adam Smith • Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West • Marcia Utela • Ruth Valine & Ed McNerney • Karen Van Genderen • Matthew Villiott • Pat Walker • Sandra Waugh • Suzanne Weaver • Kristi & Tom Weir • Eddie & Marty Westerman • Hope & Ken Wiljanen • Rob Williamson • Bo Willsey • Mary Wilson & Barry Boone

Stephanie Hilbert • Sandy Hill • Mary Hinderliter • Beth Hogg • Kate Hokanson • Julie Howe & Dennis Shaw • Cynthia Huffman • Melissa Huther • IBM Matching Grants Program • Jill & James Jago • Liz Ann Jones • Robert Jones • Susan Jones • Ted Jones • Kris Jorgensen • Gil Joynt • Gay Jungemann • Joan Kalhorn • David Kasik • Malia & Chang Kawaguchi • Shannon Kelly • William Kennedy • Katherine King • Arleen Klasky • Jean & Harris Klein • Shannon Knipp • Nancie Kosnoff • Noelle Kowalick • Alan Kristal • Fay Krokower • Gerald Kroon • Sandy Kubishta • Erika Larson • Molly Lawless • Nancy Lawton & Steve Fury • Judd Lees • Meredith Lehr & William Severson • Lois Levy • Sylvia Levy • Sandy Lew-Hailer • Madalene Lickey • Erika Lim • Cynthia Livak & Peter Davenport • Nancy Lomneth & Mark Boyd • Carol Lumb • Heather Macmaster • Scott Maddock • Anthony Martello • Daniel Y. Mayer • Susan McCloskey • Kathy McCluskey • Deirdre & Jay McCrary • Patricia H. McCreary • Jim McDermott • Morna McEachern • Anna & Paul McKee • Jill & Joe McKinstry • Meg McLynn • Jeanne Metzger • Elaine Mew • Tami Micheletti • Iryna & Irwin Michelman • Gary Miller • Shyla Miller • Patricia Mines • Marion & George Mohler • Cornelia, Terry, & Tallis Moore • Margaret Morrow • Phill Mroz • Milly & Ralph Mullarky • Kerry Mulvaney • Betty Ngan & Tom Mailhot • Judy Niver • Pam & Scott Nolte • Laura O’Hara • Chris Ohlweiler • Nancy & Stephen Olsen • Timothy O’Sullivan • Sam Pailca • Susan Palmer • Michael Patten • Donna Peha • John Pehrson • Carol & Ed Perrin • Barbara Peterson • Robert Pillitteri • Anne Pipkin • Felicia Porter • Susan Porterfield • Joan & William Potter • Gordon Prouty • Andrea Ptak • Pamela Queen & Richard Murphy • Linda Quirk • Laurie Radheshwar • Marion Reed • Roberta & Brian Reed • Carolyn Rees • Marcia Repaci • Janey L. Repensek • Jeannette Reynolds • Karen & Eric Richter • Carla Rickerson • Rebecca Ripley • Roberta Roberts • Amy Robertson • Robert Romeo • Kate Roosevelt • Fernne & Roger Rosenblatt • Debra Rourke • Jennifer Russell • Rebecca Sadinsky • Donna Sand • Betty Sanders • Donna, Carol, & Robert Saunders • Lisa Schafer • Kinza & Philip Schuyler • Greg Scully • Lavonne & Josh Searle • Audrey & John Sheffield • David Shellenbarger • Tom Sherrard • Marilyn Sherron • Mark Siano • Eileen Simmons & Roger Berger • Catharine Simon • George Smith • Warren Smith • Diane Snell • John Spady • Barbara Spear • Dana Standish & Noah Seixas • Diane Stark • L.K. Stephenson • Jane Stevens • Janice & Pat Strand • Streamline Consulting, LLC • Sheila Striegl • Amy Sweigert • Gail Tanaka • Anne Terry • Catherine Thayer • Sarah Thomas & Tom Sykes

National Book Award Circle $250+ Anonymous (8) • Douglas Adams • Sheena Aebig & Eric Taylor • Mito Alfieri & Norman Cheuk • Christina Amante • Kim Anderson • Susan Bennett • Inez Noble Black • Bob Blazek • Betty Bostrom • Mary Anne Braund & Steve Pellegrin • Margaret Bullitt • Kristina Huus Campbell • Linda & Peter Capell • Kate Carruthers • Sylvia & Craig Chambers • Joyce Chase • Carl Chew • Sandra & Paul Dehmer • Carol & Kelly Dole • Gaylee & Jim Duncan • Lori Eickelberg & Arni Litt • Laura Einstein • Jane Faulkner • Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman • Jamie & Steve Froebe • Norman Garner • Claire Gebben • Elizabeth Gilchrist • Terry Graham • Carla Granat & Stephen Smith • Patricia Graves & David Nash • Janet & Corina Hardin • Nancy & Bruce Herbert • Lloyd Herman & Richard Wilson • Chris Higashi • Tom Hoffmann • Lisa & William Holderman • Carolyn Holtzen • Elizabeth Hubbard • Joyce & John Jackson • Pam Kendrick • Janine King • Mary Klubben • The Kowal Family • Richard LeBlanc • Larry Lewin • Todd London • Craig Lorch • Stephen Lovell • Sheila Lukehart • Lynn Manley & Alexander Lindsey • Elizabeth Mathewson • Elaine Mathies • Ann McCurdy & Frank Lawler • Christine & Sandy McDade • Marion McGowan • Marcie & John McHale • Jennifer Mcintyre • Susan Mecklenburg • Donna Miller-Parker • Christine Mosere • Linda & Kevin O’Morrison • Lauren Packman • Judd Parkin • Meta Pasternak • Corliss Perdaems • Sherry Perrault • Olivia Pi-Sunyer • Sharon Prosser • Barbara & Daniel Radin • Doris & Charles Ray • Michelle Rebert • Nancy Reichley • Beth Rollinger • Debby & Dave Rutherford

Pen/Faulkner Award Circle $100+ Anonymous (7) • Carole Aaron • Lynne & Shawn Aebi • Heather Allison • Kimberly Allison • Gail Anderson • Marjorie Anderson • Virginia Anderson • Joel Aslanian • Cinnimin Avena • Sonia & Kendall Baker • Diane Barbour & Jim Rulfs • Jo Ann Bardeen • Rebecca Barnett & Roger Tucker • Mary & Doug Bayley • Ellen Bezona & Shawn Baz • Deb Bigelow • Lindsay & Tony Blackner • Rebecca Brewer • Vibeke Brinck • Becky Brooks & Jeff Youngstrom • Don Brown • Jonathan Buchter • Rachel & David Bukey • Alice Burgess • Carol Butterfield • Barbara Buxbaum • Kathleen Caldwell • Zimmie Caner • Casey Family Programs • Mary Casey-Goldstein • Kristine & Gerry Champagne • Marilyn & David Chelimer • Lisa Clark • Jack Clay • Catherine Clemens • Harriett Cody & Harvey Sadis • Frank Cohee • Susan Connors & Eric Helland • Debra Covert-Bowlds • Kay & Garry Crane • Janice Cummings O’Mahony • Amy Curtis • Kate Curtis • Claudette Davison • Robin Dearling & Gary Ackerman • Chas DeBolt • Ronald DeChene & Robert Hovden • Richard Detrano • Lynn Dissinger • Marcia Donovan • Marcia Douglas • Susan Dyer • Lorna Dykes • Betty Eberharter • Jeremy Eknoian • Nancy Ellingham • Judith Endejan • Marilyn Endriss • Joyce Erickson • Judith Erickson • Constance Euerle • Janice & Chandler Felt • Deborah Ferguson • Laura Fischetti • Mary Ellen Flanagan • Sarah Fleming • Carolyn Fletcher • Gregory Flood • Jennifer Fontaine • K Denise & James Fortier • Toni Freeman • Susan Fuchs • Lori Fujimoto & Jim Simon • Kai Fujita • Carol Furry & Ronald Kessler • R. Brooks Gekler • Susan George • Mitzi Gligorea • Ann Glusker • Vicki & Gerrie Goddard • Suzanne Goren • Anke Gray • Laurie Greig • Laurie Griffith • Geneva, Kirk, & Carla Griswold • Jim Hamerlinck • Faith Hanna • W. Benson Harer • Jill Hashimoto • Elizabeth Hatch • Elizabeth Heath • Anne Helmholz • Rebecca Herzfeld & Gordon Crawford • Rita Hibbard & Roger Neale • Diana Hice

Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.

O. Henry Award Circle, cont.

Cappy Thompson • Molly Thompson & Joe Casalini • Richard Thorvilson • Jennifer Tice • Deborah Torgerson • Grace Urdal • John Urdal • Eugene Usui • Elizabeth Valentine • Roxann Van Wyk • Pieter Vandermeulen • George Von Fuchs • Jorie Wackerman • Colin Wagoner • Bennet Wang • Todd Warren • Susan Warwick • Jerry Watt • Jennifer Weis • Julie Weisbach • Laurie Wenzel • Terry Westerkamp • Dan Whalen • Jennifer Whitaker • Sara White • Chelene Whiteaker • Margaret Whittemore • Jane Wiegenstein • Melinda Williams • Carol & Bryan Willison • John Wilson • Elana Winsberg • Michael Winters • Jodie Wohl & Richard Hert • Irene Yamamoto • Kim R. York • Daniel & Sherri Youmans • Diane Zahn & Mark McDermott • Julie Ziegler • Lucy Zuccotti

David Krakora • Art & Barb Lachman • Danielle Lavilla & Michael Huber • Jo Anne Laz • Teri Lazzara • Sandia Lell • Shawn LeValley • Bonnie Lewman • Robert Lowe • Patricia Lynch • Kiran Mascarenhas • Cecilia Matta • Eile McClellan • Marcia McGovern • Eileen McLanahan • Joan Merrill • Ellen Mills • Kathleen Moore • Mark Morgan • William Mowat • Susan Mozer • Deborah & Michael Murphy • Donna Murphy • Martha Noerr & Jeff Keane • Ellen Nottingham • Darla O’Brian • Pat O’Connor • Amy Olsson • Frank Pariso • Julia Paulsen • Annie Pearson & Jacyn Stewart • Kathryn Pearson • Louise Perlman • Suzanne Perry • Brad Peterson • Susan Petitpas • Carolita Phillips • Jean Picha-Parker • Michelle Plants • Wilson Platt • Candace Plog • Paula Podemski • Kim Port • Jeremy Reinholt • Mildred Renfrow • Caroline Rhoads • Ginger Rich • Virginia & Thomas Riedinger • Ellen Roth • Michele Ruess • David Rush • Joshua Ryder • Patricia Rytkonen & William Karn • Deanna & Bo Saxbe • Jamie Scatena • Tami Schendel • Julie Schoenfeld • Heidi Schor • Frank Schumann • Mark Seklemian • Carol Shafer • Sally Sheck • Linda Snider • Lynn Sorensen • Dale Stammen • Julie Stohlman • Constance Swank • Sally & Greg Thomas • Amber Walker • Jonna Ward • Doug Weese • Alberta Weinberg • Kayla Weiner • Elizabeth Weir • Dorothy Wendler • Cristina Wenzl • Christine Wick • Christopher Wiggins • Kim Winward • Kairu Yao • Kathy Young • Sam Zeiler

O. Henry Award Circle $50+ Anonymous (8) • Rebecca Adler • Judith Alexander • Gail Allen • Marilee Amendola • Amgen Foundation • Susan & John Anderson • Diana Armstrong • Roger & Anne Baker • Anne Banks • Brook Becker • Brenda Bennett • Chris Bennion • Beth & Benjamin Berman • Carolyn & Daniel Bernhard • Colleen Bernier • Michael Betts & Klint Keys • John Bigelow • Cleo Bloomquist • Cheryl Bohn • John Bortnem • Crai Bower • Eloise Boyle • Erin Branigan & Jim Horrigan • Becky Brauer • Bridge Partners LLC • Carolyn Burger • Diana & Chuck Carey • Cory Carlson • Jessica Case • Phyllis Caswell • Tracy Chellis • Deborah Christensen • Greta Climer • Richard O. Coar • Mary & Robert Cooper • Teresa Cooper • Kevin Corrigan • Susan Corzatte • Sharon Cox • Maureen Crawford • Caroline Cumming • Margaret Curtin • Terence DeHart • Hady DeJong • Nancy Dirksen • Ellen Downey • Yasue Drabble • Carol & Greg Druse • Andi Duncan • Roger Edmonson • Bernice EgeZavala • Karen Elledge • Brent Enarson • Virginia Enstad • Fidelity Charitible Gift Fund • Laura Fine-Morrison • Judi Finney • Susan Ford • David Gassner • Nina Gerbic • Siobhan Ginnane • Jake Greenberg • Scott Guettinger • Lynn Hartung • Shuko Hashimoto • Trining Hawkins • Linda Heinen • Kate Hemer • Catherine & Tim Hennings • Karyn Henry • Ray Hoffman • Meg Horrigan & Terry Foster • Carol Horton • Susan Howell • Mary Howland & Michael Shope • Rebecca Hsia • Harriet Huber • Beatrice Hull • Robert Hunter • Heather Hutchinson • Alison Inkley • Wendy Jackson • Avis Jobrack • Michael Johnson • Patricia Karsky • Trina Kauf-Jones • Anne Kiemle & Kael Sherrard • Vicki & James King • James Knapp • Shirley Knight • Larry Knopp • Art Kobayashi • Mary Catherine Kolb

Gifts in Honor & memory Anonymous in memory of Willis Strange The Book-It Babes in memory of Ivan Doig D.A. Davidson & Co. on behalf of Margaret Kineke John Hirschel in honor of Tom Oliver’s birthday Lisa Holderman in honor of Margaret Kineke

Book-It’s Wish List Can you donate any of the following to Book-It? Please contact Sally Brunette, Director of Development for more information. sallyb@book-it.org

Thank you!

1 laptop (PC) for box office Four years old or newer.

2 computer monitors with DVI ports 1 MacBook (Pro or Air) or Mac Mini Four years old or newer.

2 tablets (PC or Apple) Two years old or newer.

2 handheld barcode scanners 1 portable CD player 1 digital camera

Two years old or newer.

1 inkjet desktop printer 1 clothing rack 1 metal shelving unit (adjustable) 2 large suitcases (rolling)

Iryna and Irwin Michelman in memory of their daughter Elizabeth Ann Michelman Meta Pasternak in honor of Joann Byrd John Pehrson in memory of his wife Beverly Welti Polly Schlitz, Blake Wilson, and Patricia Wilson in honor of Myra Platt’s birthday Deborah Swets in memory of Jack Slater

The donor list reflects gifts received April 1, 2014 – May 15, 2015.

Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgements. Please email Development Associate Leslie Witkamp at lesliew@book-it.org with any changes.

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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Dana Masters

Literary Manager

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Interim Technical Director

Patron Services

education

Anders Bolang

Dana Masters

Scene Shop Manager

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Annie DiMartino

Director of Education

Jocelyne Fowler

Tom Dewey

Costume Shop Manager

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Katie McKellar Tour Manager

Elizabeth Stasio

Ana Duenas

Stage Management Intern

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Amelia Reynolds

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Jane Jones

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Board Intern Technical Account Manager, Microsoft

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. The company incorporated as a non-profit in 1990. 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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