Snow Falling on Cedars

Book-It Repertory Theatre

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ear wonderful patrons,

WELCOME!

We welcome you to Book-It’s 51st world premiere production. It is our tremendous pleasure to also welcome David Guterson, one of our esteemed Northwest writers, to the Book-It stage. We have long been intrigued with his beautiful story of historical revelations and fictional truths about the region in which we live and love and yet for many of us, still need to learn about.

As many of you may know, our City Planners are proposing a master plan to makeover the Seattle Center, including a renovation of the Seattle Center House. We are keeping abreast of the Century 21 committee proposals and how the master plan would impact our future. If the levees go through and a re-model springs into action, we will be forced to find temporary, if not permanent alternative housing for Book-It. Our loyal board of trustees and many of our devoted caretakers are putting their heads together so we can anticipate and gracefully transition from our current home to a viable venue.

We would appreciate and welcome any leads, or maybe you know of a well benefited arts-patron who would just love to build us a theatre? Whatever happens, we will be anticipating change in our immediate future and though the circumstances are ambiguous, we are thrilled at the possibilities of what this could mean for Book-It in working toward furthering our mission and realizing our dream: to be a nationally-known

theatre arts center where Book-It’s partnership of theatre, literature and education can nourish literacy and the artistic vitality of our community.

We thank you for your sincerest support and hope you enjoy this exceptional story.

Jane Jones & Myra Platt Founding Artistic Directors

Join Book-It’s 2007-2008 Season SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson September 21 - October 14, 2007

PETER PAN by

J.M. Barrie

November 30 - December 23, 2007

PERSUASION by Jane Austen February 8 - March 2, 2008

THE HIGHEST TIDE by Jim Lynch April 18 - May 10, 2008

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B o o k - I t p r o u d ly p r e s e n t s Jane Jones & Myra Platt Fo u n d i n g A r t i s t i c D i r e c t o r s

Charlotte M. Tiencken Interim Managing Director

David Guterson’s

Snow Falling on Cedars Adapted & Directed by Kevin McKeon CAST

(in alphabetical order)

Tim Gouran Kathy Hsieh Andy Justus Jim Lapan Mona Leach Eddie Levi Lee* Bert Matias Chiara Motley George Mount* Jonah Von Spreecken Kathleen Stoll Will Wassmann Jim Winkler

Corey Eriksen Doris Black Katherine Davis Jason Gorgen Mary E. Cannon Larry Rodriguez Amy Gembala

Carl Heine/Ensemble Fujiko Imada/Ensemble Kabuo Miyamoto/Ensemble Carl Heine Sr./Ensemble Hatsue Imada/Miyamoto Nels Gudmundsson Zenhichi Miyamoto/Hisao Imada/Ensemble Susan Marie/Ensemble Alvin Hooks/Ensemble Ishmael Chambers Etta Heine/Ensemble Ensemble Art Moran/Ensemble

ARTISTIC AND PRODUCTION STAFF

Set Designer Lindsey E. Callihan Costume Designer Megan Smithling Lighting Designer Gordon Carpenter Sound Designer Ellory Hartnett Stage Manager Ilvs Strauss Technical Dir./Production Mgr. Lynne Ellis Assistant Costume Designer Anne Gish

Properties Designer/Scenic Painter Assistant Director/Dramaturg Fight Choreographer Dialect Coach Sound Board Operator Master Electrician Properties Assistant

*Member of Actor’s Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. Copyright © 1994 by David Guterson.

The play is performed through arrangement with Georges Borchardt, Inc., for David Guterson. All rights reserved.

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Author Bio

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avid Guterson was born in Seattle in 1956 and received his M.A. from the University of Washington, where he studied under the writer Charles Johnson. After college, Guterson taught high school English and began writing for Harper’s magazine, where he was a contributing editor. His nonfiction work has also appeared in, among other publications, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post.

In 2002, Guterson co-founded Field’s End, an organization for writers through which he has continued to teach.

He also mentors writers from the University of Washington’s Creative Writing program.

Guterson’s books include a collection of short stories, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind (1989), winner of the Washington State Governor’s Award, and a book of essays called Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense (1992). He is also the author of the novel Snow Falling on Cedars, which won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award,

an ABBY from the American Bookseller’s Association, A Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Association Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

Guterson’s subsequent novels include East of the Mountains (1998) and Our Lady of the Forest (2003). A new novel is forthcoming in the summer of 2008.

My work comes from inner disturbances, from seeing injustices and accidents and how they affect people’s lives in a tragic way… I’m interested in themes that endure from generation to generation. Fiction is socially meaningful. Every culture is sustained by certain central myths. At its heart, fiction’s role is to see that these roles and myths are sustained.

-- David Guterson

N ot e s Fro m t h e D i r e c to r

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By Kevin McKeon

had an art teacher one time who called oil painting “the true painter’s art,” because oils are tricky. You need to work them, but not too much. They can blend and run together and then you have nothing but mud on your hands.

I am reminded of a well-wrought oil painting when I read Snow Falling on Cedars. Part of the appeal of this muchadmired novel is its non-linear structure. It unfolds almost impressionistically, allowing a little information here, a little more over here, to paint a picture for the reader. I see it as a bold task for an author to depart successfully from a familiar, chronologically-linear format. And I think that in the hands of a lesser artist, the plot could have gotten lost, the colors could have deadened, and the result could have been, well, less than a masterpiece.

But those very elements that make this novel a rich and rewarding experience for the reader can try the patience of an audience in the theatre. I’ve walked out of shows that are indulgent with detail the way a novel is. I’ve cursed a meandering plot when I can’t follow it. A novel and a play are two entirely different things, and this book’s legacy looms large.

So it was helpful to remind ourselves, as a theatre company, that both the novelist’s and the actor’s tasks are to tell a story. Though an author has the advantage and the luxury

of words to convey the innermost feelings of a character, we have the ability of the actors to bridge the details, to experience the words and to turn them into moments that convey what the author intended. As eloquent as David Guterson is, we had to proceed with the mission to make our actions speak as clearly as his words.

Like any piece of good art the book resonates with me, and I know what it means on a subliminal level. Yes, it concerns racism, but most importantly it is a story of recognizable human experience. People are flawed, people hate, people fall in love, do things they shouldn’t do. Both a good book and a good play should allow us to understand WHY they do those things, allow us insight into people’s reasoning and actions. Then we can relate to what they are experiencing, and recognize those impulses within ourselves.

Guterson has crafted rich characters whose lives are all complex, but their reasoning is clear: Given the circumstances, everybody believes they are doing the right thing. We are given the opportunity, at least, to understand the motives behind every character’s actions, whether or not we agree with them. Understanding is the key word.

And understanding, as they say, is somewhere along the path to enlightenment, isn’t it?

N ot e s Fro m t h e D r a m a t u rg “For the Conduct and Control of Alien Enemies”

By Megan Smithling

No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

(5th Amendment to the Bill of Rights)

Those accused of a crime shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation.

(6th Amendment to the Bill of Rights)

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t began with a simple action, the presidential signing of a piece of paper, meant to calm a nation brutally attacked and on the edge of world war. In reality, the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Roosevelt two months after the devastating bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 called up a long-seated and thinlyveiled racism against the Japanese population of the West Coast. After California, Washington boasted the second largest Japanese population on the West Coast, with 15,000 persons of Japanese descent living in the state, a large proportion of these in Seattle and on Bainbridge Island.

Executive Order 9066 permitted the war department to restrict or remove from certain areas persons who might be considered a danger to the war effort. Less than a month after its signing, General John De Witt, commander of the West Coast armed forces, ordered the internment of all persons of Japanese ancestry in coastal California, Oregon and Washington, as well as Southern Arizona. This forced removal was sanctioned by political leaders and residents of California and Washington. Newspapers and magazines fanned the flames. Residents had as little as two weeks to dispose of their personal belongings, sell homes and businesses, and report for “relocation.” Fear and confusion

Bainbridge Island evacuees boarding ferry at Eagledale, March 31, 1942.

Courtesy: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, MOHAI.

were rampant. Many were taken advantage of, their belongings and property bought by their white neighbors for next to nothing.

By early August 1942, 110,723 persons of Japanese ancestry had been removed from their homes along the Pacific Coast. They were placed in temporary assembly centers, then shipped by bus and train to hastily constructed camps in remote and inhospitable locations. Eventually, 120,000 men, women and children remained incarcerated until the close of the war in 1945.

The Japanese population of Bainbridge Island was among the first to be transported and interred. 9,600 people were “relocated” to Manzanar, in the windswept desert of Southern California.

The camp was overcrowded. Food was poor and sanitation lacking; inmates’ constitutional rights were ignored and military police had orders to shoot anyone trying to escape. The crowded conditions and extreme lack of privacy contributed to a breakdown of family structure--families no longer ate together, children Fumiko Hayashida holding daughter Natalie at Eagledale dock, Bainbridge Island, March 31, 1942. ran loose in the camp, ferry Courtesy: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, MOHAI. parents lost their authority.

No person of Japanese ancestry living in the United States or its territories was ever charged with espionage or sabotage. No convictions were made. Nor was any chance given for them to prove their innocence; they were simply held.

Roosevelt revoked Executive Order 9066 in December 1944, but Japanese Americans returning to their homes were met with hostility. Their homes and farms were destroyed, run down, or taken over by unscrupulous neighbors.

Carefully stored belongings had been vandalized or stolen.

Many, unable to return to the Northwest, resettled in other areas of the country, far from family, community, and culture.

Reparations were not offered until 1990, a long-overdue admission by the American government that they denied the constitutional rights of Japanese Americans during the war; a denial based on race, and excused by fear.

Who’s Who - The Cast TIM GOURAN (Carl Heine/ Ensemble)

Tim was last seen at Book-It as Jett Rink in Giant, and Mad Mark in If I Die in a Combat Zone. Tim most recently appeared as Jonathan Powell in Stuff Happens at ACT. Other credits include Fuddy Meers, Born Yesterday, and A Christmas Carol at ACT. The Wrestling Season, The Shakespeare Stealer, ...Charlotte Doyle, and The Secret Garden all at the Seattle Children’s Theatre. He has also worked with the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Theater Schmeater, Annex Theatre and The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis.

KATHY HSIEH (Fujiko Imada/ Ensemble)

Kathy is an awardwinning actor, writer and director. She is currently featured in the short film Fortune Hunters with Kelvin Yu and Gedde Watanabe showing at film festivals throughout the United States and Asia. As an actor she has worked with the Seattle Rep, ACT, Intiman, Taproot, ReAct, Freehold, Empty Space, Living Voices and more. She is an Executive Producer for SIS Productions and writes and acts in their hit Asian American theatre series Sex in Seattle. Her script B4 was selected as part of the recent International Centre for Women Playwrights’ Chicago Her-rah Festival 2007 and she is featured in The Dramatist Magazine as “50 to Watch.” As an artist she has been honored by the National Association of Asian American Professionals in Seattle as their Artist of the Year in 2003 and by ArtsFund. By day she works for the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

ANDY JUSTUS (Kabuo Miyamoto/Ensemble)

Andy is delighted to be making his first appearance with Book-It. He is currently touring schools as Mr. Sasaki in Book-It All Over’s Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes. He can mostly be seen in South Lake Union performing at Open Circle Theater where he is an active company member.

He would like to thank Lynn and Jeff at Bargreen, his parents, the talented cast and crew of Snow Falling on Cedars and his wife Toni for their love and support.

JIM LAPAN (Carl Heine Sr./ Ensemble)

Jim is happy to be back on the Book-it stage, where previous acting credits include Sweet Thursday, Baseball Stories, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and the title role in Grendel. He is equally proud of his work with Book-It All Over, where he performed, taught extensively and co-founded the residency program. He has also performed at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Village Theatre, Wooden O, and most recently in Bug at Theater Schmeater. Jim is a graduate of the University of Washington’s P.A.T.P. He has a wonderful son named Martin.

MONA LEACH (Hatsue Imada/ Miyamoto)

Mona is thrilled to be working with BookIt again. She toured locally with Book-It’s education wing, Book-It All Over, playing Sadako of Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes and Nimble of Ereth’s Birthday. Mona has also worked with theatre companies such as Repertory Actors Theatre, SIS Productions, Living Voices, Live Girls!, Pork Filled Players, Theatre Babylon, and Northwest Asian American Theatre.

Favorite past roles include: Lena in The Joy Luck Club, Little Girl in Tomato Plant

Girl, and Jenny in The Shape of Things.

Mona was most recently seen in a local car commercial and in the short film Fortune Hunters which is currently touring the film festival circuit. Thanks to Jason for your never-ending support.

EDDIE LEVI LEE (Nels Gudmundsson)

Eddie is a director, actor and playwright.

For eight years he was the Artistic Director of Seattle’s Empty Space Theatre. He has directed and acted at venues all over the country; New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Louisville, and Seattle to name a few. His acting work includes the TV shows In The Heat Of The Night, Northern Exposure, and Unsolved Mysteries. Most recently, he played Toby Belch in Twelfth Night for Arizona Theater Company, the title role in King Lear at Peace College in North Carolina, and Klinglehoff in The Underpants at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre. As a director, he has staged nearly a hundred plays in Seattle, Atlanta, and Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. Some of his published plays include Tent Meeting, Some Things You Need To Know Before The World Ends, A Final Evening With The Illuminati, and The Salvation of Iggy Scrooge. He lives with his wife, actress V. Joy Lee.

BERT MATIAS (Zenhichi Miyamoto/Hisao Imada/Ensemble)

Newly relocated from Chicago with his wife Judie, Bert is thrilled to be cast in his first Seattle performance, Snow Falling on Cedars, with the Book-It Repertory Theatre.

Before coming here last July, his previous acting jobs in Chicago included a dialogue scene with Vince Vaughn’s title character Fred Claus in the upcoming Warner Bros. Christmas movie. Bert’s last stage role in Chicago was in last winter’s Factory Theatre’s Operation Infiltration: Experiment in Terror. Other Chi-

Who’s Who - The Cast cago theatre groups Bert has appeared with include The Pegasus Theatre, The Raven, Pintig, Rasaka, The Prop Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Profiles Ensemble, Theatre-on-the Lake, etc. He has also appeared on stage in Equity productions with the Lifeline Theatre, the Bailiwick Theatre and The Purple Rose Theatre (in Chelsea, Michigan). Cable and regular network viewers may remember him as the numismatist with the metal detector in a national TV commercial for the U.S. Mint that is still running.

CHIARA B. MOTLEY (Susan Marie/ Ensemble)

Chiara is Book-It’s 2007/2008 Acting Apprentice. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Drama. In 2006, she appeared in Stanford Summer Theatre’s season, Wicked Wit: Rakes and Rebellion in the Restoration , as Hillaria in Restoration Comedy and Charlotte in Don Juan. Other roles include: Savage in Savage in Limbo, Alcandre in Tony Kushner’s adaptation of The Illusion, Yerma in Yerma, and Holofernes in Love’s Labour’s Lost. She has also worked with Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis as an intern and ensemble actor. She is happy to be making her debut at Book-It.

GEORGE MOUNT (Alvin Hooks/ Ensemble)

George has appeared in several Book-It productions over the years, including Grendel, Jane Eyre, The Beat at BookIt, and most recently in Waxwings. In addition, he played Say in the Book-It All Over production of Pink and Say. George is the founding Artistic Director of Wooden O Theatre and just finished playing Shylock in their outdoor production of The Merchant of Venice. Also for Wooden O, he played Hamlet, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing and Caliban in the Tempest. Directing credits for Wooden

O include Julius Caesar, The Tempest and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Among his other Shakespeare credits are Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors and Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew, both with Seattle Shakespeare Company.

He has also performed with Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Taproot, Unexpected Productions, Theater Schmeater and Annex.

JONAH VON SPREECKEN (Ishmael Chambers)

Jonah is excited to return to the Book-It stage this season after appearing in past productions of Dracula, Breathing Lessons, Howard’s End, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, as well as My Father’s Dragon with Book-It All Over.

He has worked with various local theatre companies including Annex Theatre, ACT, Consolidated Works, C.H.A.C., and Theatre Off Jackson. He has collaborated with local playwright Scot Augustson for his productions of, WHY? WHY? WHY? Gilgamesh, IA, Plants & Animals, and A Terrible Price For Whimsy. Over the past three years, Jonah has written and performed in shows on the Canadian Fringe Circuit including Gloomology and The Excursionists, a collaboration with Christopher Bange. He also created The Snowflake Factory, a holiday show for The Northwest Film Forum in December 2005. This past spring, he co-produced/co-founded Seattle’s solo theatre festival, SPF:1. He sends his love and thanks to Mom, Dad, Adam, Brittany and T.C.A.V.

KATHLEEN STOLL (Etta Heine/ Ensemble)

Kathleen is delighted to be back with BookIt. Her last appearance was in the original musical debut of Red Ranger Came Calling as Old Timer 2. Her favorite character was the ear-twisting stewardess Barb Wiggins in the last production

of Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant.

Other productions include: Music Man as Maud Dunlop at the Village Theatre, Dames at Sea as Mona Kent with Classics Unlimited, Carousel as Nettie, Oliver as Mrs. Sowerberry, How to Succeed in Business as Miss Jones, Rags, Where’s Charlie as Donna Lucia at CLO, and Me and My Girl at the 5th Avenue Theatre.

Many thanks to her two children and husband ---a happy mom and wife makes a great performer.

WILL WASSMANN (Ensemble)

Snow Falling on Cedars is Will’s first foray into Seattle professional theater. He is a sixteen year old home school student who attends Fife High School for electives. Will has proven to be a versatile actor in numerous high school and community productions, playing everything from the leading man to the villain. He hopes to become a professional actor, and is very much honored to have received this internship with Book-It. In his spare time, Will studies Shito-Ryu karate, and was recently awarded his black belt after ten years of training. He also plays trumpet in a select jazz band and works part-time as a life guard and swim instructor. Will thanks his parents, Maury and Shari Wassmann, for their support, along with his drama teachers Teresa and David Hockman, band director Karl Sorensen, karate sensei Chuck Sweigart, and vocal coach Andrew T. Miller.

JAMES B. WINKLER (Art Moran, Ensemble)

James is thrilled to be back at Book-It for another great show, cast and production team. He was last seen here as Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities. Jim’s most recent role was Glen in Wonder of the World at React. Other favorites include Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Tom in Dinner With Friends, Andrew Wyke in Sleuth (Cen-

W h o ’ s W h o - A R T I S T I C & P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F terstage), Uncle Sulley in The Seagull, Bone Daddy in The Mystery of Attraction (Theater Schmeater), George in Moon Over Buffalo and Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy (Bellevue Civic and TAG). Filmwise, he also played Agent Riles in Max Rules, a shot-in-Seattle movie, and if you find “Samsung Fresh Films” online and watch the short film 24 Hour Service, you can vote for it if you like it. Jim trained with Stella Adler in New York, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and locally, with Laurence Ballard.

ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.

Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including heath and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark.

JANE JONES (Founder/Co-Artistic Director)

Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding Co-Artistic Director of BookIt Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 20 years of staging literature, she has performed 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 25 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s most prominent regional theatres including The Guthrie, American Conservatory Theatre, The McCarter and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Locally, she has been seen at The Rep, ACT, Empty Space, Seattle Children’s Theatre,

Tacoma Actors Guild, and Intiman.

Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, Twin Peaks, and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at the Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Backstage West Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane recently directed Pride and Prejudice at Portland Center Stage. For Book-It, she directed The House of Mirth, Rebecca, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, and A Tale of Two Cities. Book-It performances include roles in Ethan Frome, Silver Water, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Breathing Lessons, and Rhoda: A Life in Stories.

MYRA PLATT (Founding Co-Artistic Director)

Myra is co-founder of Book-It Repertory Theatre with Jane Jones. She studied literature and theatre at Northwestern University (B.S. Analysis and Performance of Literature) and Circle in the Square (NYC). As actor, director, adapter and composer, she has helped Book-It produce 50 world-premiere stage adaptations. Most recently, Myra adapted and directed the world-premiere production of The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. She has also adapted and directed Giant, Red Ranger Came Calling, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud (by James Joyce), A Telephone Call (by Dorothy Parker), and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. She has also directed Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, Sweet Thursday, and Danger: Books!. She co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones and composed music for Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, The Awakening, the first workshop production of The Cider House Rules, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. As an actress, Myra appeared as Margaret Schlegel in Howards End, Elaine in The

Dying Gaul at Intiman, and as Edna in Book-It’s production of The Awakening (for which she received an Honorable Mention/Backstage West Los Angeles Garland Awards). She originated the role of Candy Kendall in John Irving’s The Cider House Rules at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and at the Mark Taper Forum. She is the proud mother of Wilson.

CHARLOTTE M. TIENCKEN (Interim Managing Director)

Charlotte M. Tiencken is an arts administrator, director, producer and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting fields for 20 years. Before moving back to the Seattle area in September of 2003, she was General Manager at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts for four seasons. Currently, she is President of Scarlet Productions, her own consulting firm, and is an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Most recently she was Executive Director of Tacoma Actor’s Guild. Charlotte is a member of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is past President of the Board of Arts Northwest, the presenting service organization for Washington, Idaho and Oregon. She has served on the board of the Pat Graney Dance Company and sat on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission. She most recently completed her term on the Board of Theatre Puget Sound, a regional service organization for theatres in the Puget Sound area.

KEVIN MCKEON (Adapter/Director)

Kevin has been a contributor both on and off the Book-It stage since moving to Seattle in the mid-90’s. As an actor he has appeared in Cowboys Are My Weakness, Double Indemnity, Ethan Frome, The Awakening, Sweet Thursday, Red Ranger Came Calling and Plainsong. For the company he has adapted Kent Haruf ’s Plainsong, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities

W h o ’ s W h o - A R T I S T I C & P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F (with Jane Jones), Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons (which he also directed), and Snow Falling on Cedars. Kevin has taught acting at U.C. Davis, Cal Arts, Cal Poly Pomona and the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, California, where he was also a company member.

COREY ERIKSEN (Scenic Designer)

Corey is excited to be designing his first show for Book-It. Previously he designed Back of the Throat, A Eulogy for Citizen, Getting Out and Mystery of Attraction at Theater Schmeater; Ruthless! for Village Theatre; and The Winter’s Tale, The Rose Tattoo and Cloud 9 at the University of Portland. This fall Corey’s work will also be seen at Washington Ensemble Theatre. Corey earned his degree in drama from the University of Portland in 2003 and then spent two years as technical director for Theater Schmeater and a year as an intern at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. Recently, Corey started working with Blanchet High School, and is looking forward to continuing with their fall play.

DORIS BLACK (Costume Designer)

Doris is pleased to be returning to BookIt after her recent design of Rhoda: a Life in Stories. Some other examples of her theater design work include: Comedy of Errors and Love’s Labour’s Lost for Seattle Shakespeare Company, Black Nativity for Intiman, Angels in America and Kiss Me Kate for the University of Puget Sound, “A” My Name is Alice and Forbidden Xmas for Tacoma Actor’s Guild, The Jungle Book and Something Big Has Been Here for Youth Theatre Northwest, As You Like It for Wooden O, The Wizard of Oz and Children of Eden for Civic Light Opera, Noises Off and Fiddler on the Roof for Village Theatre and designs for the Seattle Men’s Chorus/Women’s Chorus.

Her film work includes the Costume Design for Police Beat, Cthulhu and Dark Horse. She works for periodcorsets.com, a company that produces period undergarments such as corsets and bustles. She

received her M.F.A. in Costume Design from the University of Washington.

a good book (or several), singing, dancing, and spending time with friends.

KATHERINE DAVIS (Lighting Designer)

LARRY RODRIGUEZ (Technical Dir./Prod Mgr.)

Katie is pleased to be working with Book-It for the first time. She recently returned from Los Angeles where she spent a year studying scenic design at CalArts. Her design work in Seattle includes, among other things, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Rooms, Another Day in Baghdad, Secret Histories, Blasted, Getting Out, and Are We Scared? She is currently making lampshades for the Twilight Artist Collective and working for Seattle Opera. She also wants to thank Ilvs Strauss for introducing her to Book-It, general moral support, and all of those opening night dates.

JASON GORGEN (Sound Designer)

Jason has been working as a sound, lighting designer and stage manager in Seattle since 2001. Recent projects include A Tale of Two Cities at Book-It, The Water Engine with Strawberry Theater Workshop, and Adventures in Mating at Theater Schmeater. You can also find him every Thursday at the Noc-Noc with Sinner Saint Burlesque.

MARY E. CANNON (Stage Manager)

Mary is delighted to be making her debut piloting the booth at Book-It, having previously kept everything running smoothly backstage as the Assistant Stage Manager for Rhoda: A Life in Stories. She spends much of her life haunting the halls of the Center House Theater, finding the lost and fixing the broken, having performed as Production Assistant for Seattle Shakespeare Company since November 2005. She has also stage managed Proof at Tacoma Actors Guild, Wit at Seattle Public Theatre, and multiple shows at both GreenStage and Centerstage. When these leave her with any time to spare, she can be found designing and building props, playing Ultimate Frisbee or Scrabble, devouring

Larry hails from the Philippines and has been passionate about the theater since 1994. He was Technical Director and Lighting Designer for the Philippines’ Pioneer Theater Company – The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA). He also studied Lighting Design and Sound Engineering under the Tutelage of Shigeo Saito, Kunihiko Ichiki and Naomi Matsumoto in Tokyo, Japan. Larry was a Theater Manager for three years with The Far Eastern University, which houses the Philippines’ First Cultural Center where early theater and vaudeville shows started during the 1940’s. He was behind its 1998 ambitious renovation and refurbishing of the entire facility. Larry also ventured out of theater by working as Director of Photography for companies that produced television commercials and music videos.

Before leaving the Philippines he was involved in over 50 productions from stage, television and film, and represented the country in international theatre festivals.

He moved to Seattle in 2005 and joined Book-It Repertory Theater. This is his third season and is continually grateful for having the opportunity to work among great talents.

AMY GEMBALA (Assistant Costume Designer)

Amy is a recent graduate of the University of Washington and is very excited to be working with Book-It for the first time. Her recent credits include Into the Woods, Twelfth Night, and The Last Five Years at UW and A New Brain with Contemporary Classics. She would like to thank her husband and son for their continuing support and understanding of her sometimes crazy schedule.

W h o ’ s W h o - A R T I S T I C & P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F LINDSEY E. CALLIHAN (Properties Designer/ Scenic Painter)

Lindsey is a recent graduate from Seattle University with her bachelors in Fine Arts with Dramatic Emphasis and Departmental Honors. Studying (both in and out of school) in property design as well as set design, puppetry fabrication, backstage management, FX makeup, and painting, she often has her artistic finger in many different pies. She currently works with Teatro ZinZanni as a Backstage Manager and Properties Artisan. In the last five years, she has frequented various Seattle theaters with her properties design and special FX makeup design. This is her debut appearance with Book-It and she is very thrilled to be working on a world premier play.

MEGAN SMITHLING (Assistant Director/Dramaturg) As a dramaturg and teaching artist, Megan has collaborated locally with Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Book-It Repertory Theatre and Tacoma Actor’s Guild.

Formerly from the other coast, she

worked as a teaching artist and company dramaturg with Hampshire Shakespeare Company in western Massachusetts, and served as dramaturg for Hartford Stage Company’s My Hartford: The Oral History Project, a community-based exploration of the diverse communities of Hartford, CT. In her free time, she teaches dramaturgy and research methods at Cornish College of the Arts, and works for Theatre Puget Sound.

GORDON CARPENTER (Fight Choreographer)

Gordon is happy for the opportunity to work for Book-It. He most recently choreographed fights for Seattle Shakespeare Company’s chamber production of Macbeth, in which he also played the part of Macduff. Over the years he has worked as an actor for many Seattle area theaters and choreographed fights for Seattle Shakespeare Company and Montana Shakespeare In The Parks.

LYNNE ELLIS (Master Electrician)

Lynne wrestled electrons for Rhoda, A Tale of Two Cities , Broken for You, and The House of Mirth. She also tamed pho-

tons for The School for Scandal with Seattle Shakespeare Company. Sometimes she is an assistant at ACT, sometimes a lighting designer at Theater Schmeater.

When not climbing ladders, she climbs hills on her bike.

ILVS STRAUSS (Sound Board Operator)

Ilvs cannot tell you how excited she is to be back working for Book-It. Previous shows she worked on include Broken For You, Bud, Not Buddy, A Tale of Two Cities, and Rhoda: A Life in Stories. She has worked as a techie for various companies such as On the Boards, CHAC and theatre simple. Aside from programming lights and monitoring sound, Ilvs has served as Assistant Technical Director for the Degenerate Art Ensemble and TD/Co-Artistic Director for QPOC Liberation Project. There is also event production work with One Reel and NW Folklife listed on her record. Further down the list reads something about a background as an analytical chemist and something about graduating magna cum laude with a degree in said field of science. She sends her love to The House in the Sky. End transmission.

Book-It All Over’s 2007-2008 Season TOURING STORIES

STUDENT MATINEES

Coming to libraries, schools and community centers near you!

Discounted performances for school groups!

Danger Books!

Snow Falling on Cedars

A Celebration of Intellectual Freedom Grades: 6-Adult / Tours: Sept-Nov

Sept 27, Oct 4, Oct 10

Peter Pan

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Dec 5, 6, 7, 12 & 13

Grades: K-8 / Tours: Sept-Dec

Persuasion Feb 13, 15, 27 & 28

by Eleanor Coerr

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman

by Alan Schroeder

Grades: 3-8 / Tours: Jan-Apr

The True Story of The Three Little Pigs performed with

The Stinky Cheese Man

by Jon Scieszcka

Grades: K-6 / Tours: Feb-Jun

The Highest Tide Apr 30, May 1, 7 & 8

Contact us!

206.770.0880 or education@book-it.org www.book-it.org

Contributors

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in-kind

Book-It would like to express our gratitude to the following for their generosity.

LITERARY LEGENDS ($ 50,000+)

Matthew N. Clapp, Jr. Paul G. Allen Family Foundation The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ Theatre Communications Group

LITERARY TITANS ($ 30,000+)

The Seattle Foundation / Dorothy I. Anderson Fund LITERARY HEROES ($10,000+) Artsfund Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Boeing Company Harvest Foundation The Lucky 7 Foundation Seattle Post-Intelligencer*

LITERARY CLASSICS ($5,000+) Foundations/Corporations 4Culture Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs Mellon Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Nesholm Family Foundation Safeco Insurance Washington State Arts Commission Individuals Sonya and Tom Campion Amy and Thaddeus Hanscom Anne and Steven Lipner Beth McCaw and Yahn Bernier Kathy and Jim Tune Linda Talley and Ron Norris Shirley and David Urdal C. Bagley Wright

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE ($2,500+) Foundations/Corporations Boeing Gift Matching Program Eulalie Bloedel Schneider Foundation Fales Foundation Trust Horizons Foundation Howard S. Wright Construction Co. J. Lohr Winery* John H. Bauer Endowment for Theatre Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc. PONCHO Stoel Rives, LLP Ten Mercer* Valve Corporation WA Commission for the Humanities Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation

Individuals Emily Anthony and David Maymudes Avery Rogers Brooke John Bullwinkel and Martha Hutton Linda and Peter Capell Mary Anne Christy and Mark Klebanoff Emily Davis Stephanie and Stuart Feldt Seann W. Hallisky Ellen and John Hill Mary Metastasio Colette Ogle Jacqueline and Brian Park Christiane Pein and Steve Bull The Pillitteri Family Shawn and Mike Rediger Lynne and Nick Reynolds Deirdre Runnette Kris and Mike Villiott Helen Wattley-Ames and Bill Ames Judith Whetzel Lucy Flynn Zuccotti and Thomas Zuccotti

NOBEL AWARD SOCIETY (1000+)

Foundations/Corporations Gladys and Sam Rubinstein Foundation ING Matching Gift Program Marklyn Family Foundation Sage Foundation Schiff Foundation US Bank Wells Fargo Williams Kastner & Gibbs, PLLC Individuals Kim Anderson D. Thompson and Karen Challinor Donald Chamberlain Dr. and Mrs. Oliver Cobb John and Alexandra Davis Julie Edsforth and Jabez Bumenthal Mimi Gardner Gates Candace and Thomas Grogan

Laura Hull and John Atwill Ed McNerney and Ruth Valine Louise McNerney and Jan Sobieralski* Peenut the Dog Myra Platt Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Mary Beth Shaddy and Robert Bleeg Brad and Colleen Stangeland Diane Stevens Patricia Torode and John Q Torode April J. and Brian WilliamsonThomas Zuccotti PULITZER AWARD SOCIETY (500+) Anonymous Rosa Ayer Kira Bacon & Anne Bostwick Becky Brooks and Jeff Youngstrom Diana and Charles Carey Jean Gorecki and Dick Dobyns Dorsey and Whitney Lavinia and Ray Downs Zimmie Caner and Tom Edwards Liz Fitzhugh and Jim Feldman Harold and Mary Francis Hill Toni J. S. Hoffman Bruce E.H. Johnson Jacqueline Kiser Martha Kongsgaard Darcy and Lee MacLaren Lex Lindsey and Lynn Manley Ruth McCormick Anne McDuffie and Tim Wood Michell and Larry Pihl Betty Ann and Louie Richmond H. Stewart Ross Evelyne Rozner Pamela and Nathan Searle Heidi Sherman and Jake Sedlock Margaret Silver Mary Snapp H. Randall Webb Sally and Charles Weems

Contributors Judith and Morton Weisman Richard B. Wesley Bob and Leora Wheeler Richard Wilson Deborah Willingham Christina Wright and Luther Black Andrew and Trish Zuccotti NATIONAL BOOK AWARD SOCIETY (250+)

Nancy and Craig Abramson Laurie and Steve Arnold Sarah Brooke and Tony Pasqualini Heather Carmichael Olson Christina Chang Evelyn and Jim Chumbley Linda Cody and Richard Nelson Whitney and Adam Cornell Mary Dombrowski Joyce Erickson and Kenneth Brown Cinthia Fischer and Chris Linnett Marni I. Gittinger Helen and Max Gurvich David Hamilton Stephanie Hilbert Charmian Jondall and Samuel McCormick Pam Kendrick Debbie Killinger Evelyn and Seymour Klebanoff Tor and Carol MacIlroy Collette and Brendan MacLean Glenda Maledy Brad Mathews Jean and Tom McKeon Cynthia and Stephen McWilliams Sarah Merner Sandra and Richard Monroe Steve Pellegrin and Mary Anne Braund Heather Pullen and Frank Schumann Martha Sidlo Marcia Joslyn Sill and Peter Sill Dorothy Best Strand and Michael B. Slade Kerry Thompson Sara Thompson and Richard Gelinas Jean Viereck and Robert Leventhal Patty and Walter Wilson William Seach Margo and Tom Wyckoff Valerie Yockey and Bob Winsor

PEN/FAULKNER AWARD CIRCLE (100+)

Shawn Aebi ∙ Virginia Anderson ∙ Artsfund Matching Gifts Program ∙ Ruth Bacharach ∙ Suzy and Tony Ball ∙ Sandra and John Barney ∙ Judith Benjamin ∙ Julia Bent ∙ Martin Berg ∙ Susan and Don Berger ∙ Sharon Black ∙ Lindsay and Tony Blackner ∙ Kelly Bosworth ∙ Donna and James Brudvik ∙ Laury and Bill

- M ay 1, 2 0 0 6 - A u g 10 , 2 0 0 7 * Denotes Bryant ∙ Rachel Bukey ∙ Juliann Buron ∙ Tracy Burrows and Steve Bennett ∙ Barbara Buxbaum ∙ Happie Byers ∙ Joann Byrd ∙ Martha Byrne ∙ Marcie Campbell McHale and John McHale ∙ Joyce Chase ∙ Lynne and David Chelimer ∙ Rosa and Rene Claringbould ∙ Jack D. Clay ∙ Gayle and Richard Collins ∙ Loretta and Bob Comfort ∙ Carol and Clayton Cook ∙ Jenny and Richard Cummins ∙ Cathy and Phil Davis ∙ Kathleen and Robert Davis ∙ Sandra Davis ∙ Melinda J. Deane and Dan Wheetman ∙ Nancy and Bruce Deane ∙ Sandra and Paul Dehmer ∙ Paul and Sandy Delmer ∙ Dottie Delaney ∙ Victor Denenberg ∙ Mary E. Dickinson ∙ Michelle Dunn ∙ Rita Durand ∙ Betty Jean Eberharter ∙ Sara Elward ∙ Marilyn Endriss and Peter Dygert ∙ Jean Burch Falls ∙ Barbie Faubion ∙ Ruth Flanders, Melissa Huther, and Kathy Long ∙ K. Denice Fischer Fortier and James M. Fortier ∙ Gail Frasier ∙ Sandy Fry and Jim Mueller ∙ Barbara Garrick ∙ Janice M. Giles and S. Edward Parks ∙ Jane Graham ∙ Stacy Grano ∙ Charles Gravenkemper ∙ Pat Graves and David Nash ∙ Mary Gulbrandsen ∙ Cheryl Hadley ∙ Ann Hagedorn ∙ Faith Hanna ∙ Lisa Hanscom ∙ Frances Broyles Hare and ∙ Steve Hare ∙ Brad Hawkins ∙ Ellen and David Hecht ∙ Teresa Hedges ∙ Kate Hokanson ∙ Nancy Holcomb ∙ Cynthia Holdren and Robert A. Gold ∙ Trish and Doug Honig ∙ Diane Hostetler and Ross Johnson ∙ Ron Hovde ∙ M.E. Hubbard ∙ Melissa Huther and Gordon Hof ∙ Eva Jackson ∙ Kris Jorgensen ∙ Clare Kapitan and Keith Schreiber ∙ Peggy and ∙ David Kasik ∙ Glenn and Julie Kouhia ∙ Nancy Lawton and Steve Fury ∙ Meredith Lehr ∙ Kathryn Lew ∙ Laura K. Lindenmayer ∙ Mary Kae and Kelland P. Lindsey ∙ Leo Longo ∙ Craig Lorch ∙ Ellen and Stephen Lutz ∙ Marsha and William Madigan ∙ Josie and Doug Manuel ∙ Else Mans ∙ Julie B. and Lyle A. Margulies ∙ Rachel McCall and Douglas McCall, Jr. ∙ Kathy McCluskey ∙ Anna and Paul McKee ∙ Lynn Meyer ∙ Cornelia and Terry Moore ∙ Joan Moritz ∙ Margaret Morrison ∙ Glenn Morrissey ∙ Ed Murphey ∙ Leslie Nellermoe and Darrell McKissic ∙ Robin and Andrew Nelson ∙ Joann G. Nicon ∙ Maren Norton ∙ Rosanne Olson and Ed McMahon Jr. ∙ Pat O’Rourke ∙ Lauren P. and Jeff Packman ∙ Jane Pearson ∙ Corliss Perdaems ∙ Carol and Edward B. Perrin ∙ Kit and Bill Phillips ∙ Susan Porterfield ∙ Lisa and Patrick Quinn ∙ Laurie Radheshwar ∙ Roberta Reaber and Leo Butzel ∙ Esther M. Reese ∙ Daniel Rhodes ∙ Karen and Eric Richter ∙ Virginia and Thomas Riedinger In Memory of Peter Kirk Todd ∙ Ferne and Roger Rosenblatt ∙ Jean Ross and Robert A. Radcliffe ∙ Suzanne Rowen ∙ Anne Sarewitz ∙ Satori Software ∙ Robert C. Saunders ∙ Susan

in-kind

Schaefer ∙ Marguerite and Jim Schellentrager ∙ Ann R. Schuh ∙ Stephanie Searing and Randy Barnard ∙ Ruth V. Schroeder ∙ Craig and Meredith Shank ∙ Joana and Michael Shapiro ∙ Kathryn Mary Sheehan ∙ Sandra and Larry Smith ∙ Barbara Spear ∙ Helen Stusser ∙ Allison Swanberg ∙ Gail Tanaka ∙ Bobbi Tarvin ∙ Kamella Tate ∙ Sally H. and Robert Telzrow ∙ Kate Thayer ∙ Sarah English Tune and Sean Doherty in Memory of Frances Mickey ∙ Jorie Wackerman ∙ Washington Mutual Matching Gift Program ∙ Washington Post Matching Gifts Program ∙ Mary Wilson ∙ Shauna Woods ∙ Barbara Wright and Dwight Gee ∙ Wright Runstad & Co. ∙ Dr. Sharon Zerr-Peltner

O. HENRY AWARD CIRCLE 50+

Anonymous ∙ Doug Adams ∙ Judith Alexander ∙ Nancy and Richard Anders In Memory of Brian Neu ∙ David Andersen ∙ William G. Anderson ∙ Diana Delimitros Argeres and ∙ Peter Argeres ∙ Roland Baker ∙ Tina C. Baril ∙ Shawn Baz ∙ Rick Bohrer ∙ John Bradshaw ∙ Lael Ellis Braymer ∙ Rebecca Brown ∙ Gia Bullard in Celebration of Peggy Keene’s Birthday ∙ Ernest Burgess ∙ Elizabeth and Mark Chamberlin ∙ Christina Chang in Memory of Naomi Stucki ∙ Susan and Dennis Chiavelli ∙ Harriett Cody ∙ Kay and Garry Crane ∙ Nancy Cushwa ∙ Gale Davis ∙ Ronald DeChene and Robert Hovden ∙ Richard Detrano ∙ Sally Dittamore ∙ Marie Doman ∙ Marti and Robert Duncan ∙ Aimee Dunne ∙ Susan Dyer ∙ Rukshana Edwards ∙ Harris Emmons ∙ Giving Express Program ∙ Ann Glusker and Peter Hunsberger ∙ Carla and Kirk Griswold ∙ Lenore and Charles Hale ∙ Patricia and George Henderson ∙ Jessica Hickey ∙ Mary Holm ∙ Wendy Jackson ∙ Richard Kelly ∙ Jean and Harris Klein ∙ John Kobasic ∙ Cheryl Lawrence ∙ Edythe Lurie ∙ Gloria Jean Macdonald ∙ Kit MacPherson ∙ Kim Maeda ∙ Melissa and Donald Manning ∙ Maryann and Chuck Martin ∙ Donna Miller-Parker and Robert Parker ∙ Carolyn Hojaboom ∙ Susan Mozer ∙ Therese S. Ogle ∙ Robert Parker ∙ Terry Paugh ∙ Elizabeth L Pelham∙ Susan Peskura ∙ Marjorie Priest ∙ Puget Sound Matching Gifts Program ∙ Barbara and Daniel Radin ∙ Meredith and David M. Regal ∙ Dennis Reichenbach ∙ Beth Rollinger ∙ Marian and Peter Rose ∙ Sheila Saul ∙ Leslie Savim ∙ Thomas Scearce ∙ Jacqueline Cooke Scheibert ∙ B. Charlotte Schreiber ∙ Deborah Shaddy ∙ Audrey and John Sheffield ∙ Heidi Sherman and Jake Sedlock In Memory of Frances Mickey ∙ Thea Singer ∙ Diane Snell ∙ Dana Standish and Noah Seixas ∙ Pat Starkovich ∙ LaJuana Swilley ∙ David Tarshes ∙ Kimberlee Tempel ∙ Richard Thorvilson ∙ Cynthia Todd in Celebration of Peggy Keene’s Birthday ∙ Susan Warwick and Eric Froines ∙ Audrey Watson ∙ Jean and Dave White ∙ Margaret C. Whittemore ∙ M. Claire Zimmerman Listings reflect donations in aggregate for one calendar year, May 1, 2006 - August 10, 2007. Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with this list.

Please email Kara Vollman at kara@book-it.org if any changes should be made to your listing.

SPECIAL THANKS Special thanks to the following organizations and individuals for their generous support: The Seattle Public Library

MOHAI

Barnes & Noble

Guylian Chocolate

Seattle Shakespeare Company

Bailey/Coy Books

J. Lohr Winery

Theatre Puget Sound

KUOW

Morfey’s Cake Shoppe

A & A Printing

Seattle PI

Ten Mercer

Joanna Greene

The Pollard Group

TS McHughs

L.B. Morse

ArtsFund

St. Clouds Restaurant

Ken Holmes

4Culture

Seattle Center

Palomino

Erik Stuhaug

Gin Hammond

Five Spot Cafe

John Ulman

Brian Curry and Ten Mercer

MOACA

Racha Noodles

B O O K - I T R E P E R T O R Y T H E AT R E B OA R D & S TA F F BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mary Anne Christy President

BOOK-IT STAFF

Jane Jones & Myra Platt - Artistic Directors

COMPANY MEMBERS

Charlotte M. Tiencken - Interim Managing Director

Linda Talley Vice President

Annie Lareau - Education Director Tanja Baumann - Marketing Director

Mary Metastasio Treasurer

Kara Vollman - Development Associate Brady Brophy-Hilton - Education Associate

Lucy Flynn Zuccotti Secretary

Sara Lachman - Education Intern Larry Rodriguez - Technical Dir./Prod. Mgr.

Steve Bull Linda Capell Stephanie Feldt Gail Frasier Melissa Manning Mary Marino Ron Norris Lynne Reynolds

Rachel Alquist - Box Office Manager Heather Guiles - Bookkeeper Tom Stewart - House Manager

James Dean Laura Ferri Gail Frasier Heather Guiles Andy Jensen Jennifer Sue Johnson Jane Jones Daniel Harray Reginald Andre Jackson David Klein James Lapan Mary Machala Kevin McKeon Myra Platt David Quicksall Stephanie Shine Susanna Wilson

Book-It is a company of professional actors and directors who perform classic and contemporary works of fiction for the stage. Our

mission is to transform great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive production and to inspire our audiences to read. We strive to return theatre to its roots, to the place where the spoken and the written word intersect and wheere

the story comes alive for the audience. What you see and hear at a Book-It Performance is literary prose spoken by the characters of the story as if it were dialogue in a play - often word for word in a short story and, in adaptations of larges works, selected narrative.

These is the Book-It Style. We ask our audiences to sue their imaginations, thereby becoming participants in a Book-It performance.

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