by jim lynch conceived by jane jones + kevin mckeon adapted by kevin mckeon directed by jane jones
april 23 - may 18 , 2014
Director of Development Sally Brunette settling into her new office.
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How long have you been coming to Book-It productions? I remember attending one of the original Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant productions presented at North Seattle Community College in the 1990s. Whether you’ve seen many shows, or this is your first one, you are in for a real treat today. Jim Lynch writes novels rooted in the Northwest and Truth Like the Sun promises to deliver another story filled with local history and lore. As the new director of development at Book-It Repertory Theatre, I’m so excited to share my passion of theatre and literature with Book-It’s many friends and supporters. For me, seeing a beloved book come to life on the stage is a thrill that never gets old. I look forward to meeting you in the coming year, watching a production together and talking about Book-It productions past, present, and future. I encourage you to become more involved with Book-It as a donor, a volunteer, or cheerleader in the community. We rely on your support to produce our mainstage productions, and to operate our Arts & Education program that exposes more than 100,000 students throughout the state to theatre, trains teachers to integrate theatre into their teaching, and offers student matinées of mainstage productions. We are working with educators, artists, and literacy experts to develop a literacy curriculum that integrates theatre with classroom instruction to increase literacy skills in young students, as well.
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Currently, we are conducting our spring fundraising appeal and I encourage you to support Book-It financially one of two ways: On May 6, the Seattle Foundation will once again sponsor the one-day, online charitable giving event, GiveBig, which raised $11.1 million for local charities last year. Seattle Foundation matches a share of every contribution with funds from a $1 million “stretch” pool provided by corporate sponsors, local philanthropists and The Seattle Foundation so your contribution goes even farther. Last year Book-It raised more than $30,000 from 173 donors and we aim to increase those numbers this year. To help with this goal, go to Book-It’s website, www.book-it.org, on May 6, click on the GiveBig icon and make a donation online. Or, if you prefer, make a gift at your convenience online or mail a check to Book-It Repertory Theatre 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109.
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Truth Like the Sun
by Jim Lynch Conceived by Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon | Adapted by Kevin McKeon | Directed by Jane Jones**
cast Solomon Davis Chris Ensweiler* Emily Fortuna† Cynthia Geary Brian Gunter* Laura Hanson Joe Ivy Chad Kelderman* Jonah Kowal Kevin McKeon Nikki Mejia† Anthony Rosenthal Luke Sayler† Richard Nguyen Sloniker Jennifer Lee Taylor* Leslie Wisdom Susannah Butler* Jeremiah Givers
Omar / Gance / Ensemble Roger Morgan Jenny Sunshine / Ensemble Birnbaum / Mrs. Morgan / Ensemble Charlie McDaniel / Yates / Dawkins / Ensemble Linda / Ensemble Denny Carmichael / Ensemble Bill Steele / Ensemble Elias / Ensemble Teddy Severson / Ensemble Annie / Ensemble Elias / Ensemble Reporter / Ensemble Malcolm Turner / Ensemble Helen Gulanos Meredith Stein / Ensemble Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Artistic Team Catherine Cornell Marnie Cummings Pete Rush Nathan Wade Joy Marzec Kathleen Le Coze
Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound Designer Iconographer Properties Master
* Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States **Member SDC Stage Directors and Choreographers Society † Book-It Acting Intern
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Additional generous support is provided by individuals, and by Green Diamond Resource Company, The Ex Anima Fund, and The Williams Miller Family Foundation. Many thanks to all our supporters!
adapting
truth like
the sun A conversation between Truth Like the Sun Author Jim Lynch and Director Jane Jones: Jim Lynch: So Jane, why is it you keep adapting my novels to the stage? I’m flattered but there are so many books out there. Why mine? Jane Jones: Well…ok, gotta admit, I think you’re great. Great. And you write about our region and community from an insider’s perspective. You’re local for Pete’s sake, and your narrative really suits the Book-It Style. And Jim...what dialogue! An actor’s dream. You write people we either think we know or want to know. Killer. Why do you keep letting Book-It adapt your work? JL: I’ve had faith in Book-It ever since I met you in a coffee shop and you breathlessly asked for the rights to The Highest Tide. And I consider having you guys perform my first three books to be among my highest honors. I think Book-It is great at boiling novels down to their humor and emotion. (Huck Finn was a great example of that. The powerful way you built that Huck-Jim friendship.) And it’s humbling to see you attract such great actors to play people I invented. It amazes me how many readers have told me they’ve enjoyed my books on your stage. It’s a flattering and surreal experience for authors to have Book-It perform their books. I’ve heard similar raves from Tom Robbins, Wally Lamb, Stephanie Kallos, Jess Walter, Ivan Doig, Garth Stein, and others. Did you realize when you and Myra started this craziness that you were going to fulfill authors’ dreams of
Author Jim Lynch and Director Jane Jones
having a performance that cuts so close to their words?
Tell me about adapting Truth. What’s been challenging about it? What’s been fun about it? And are you satisfied that you’ve come up with a cool way to jump back and forth in time?
JJ: Well…In the very beginning it was really an exercise. We never dreamed any of this. It was a way for us to find terrific material to present as theatre and within JJ: Putting the “Fair” on stage has probably a short time we settled on a mission been the trickiest. We have a cast of 15 that included “inspiring our audience to and are representing an event that drew read.” It was about two years before we 115,000 people a day at closing. But we ever had a “live” author attend any of our like challenges, and a lot of really smart performances. It’s an honor to be so highly regarded by the very impressive list of I’ve had faith in Book-It ever since ROCK STAR writers you just listed. I’m blushing. I met you in a coffee shop and you Speaking of “live breathlessly asked for the rights to authors,” are you secretly terrified we will leave out The Highest Tide. your favorite part of your own novel? Who are you looking the most forward to seeing on stage in Truth Like the Sun? (I hope we haven’t cut that artists are spending a lot of time making those impressions. And the really cool part! Yikes!) thing, of course, is we have your words. So far the most fun has been watching JL: I like not knowing what you’re going these characters walk off your page and to do. I have faith in your choice of into the rehearsal room. We really love scenes and material. And I’m well aware getting to know these guys. Lots of that I know very little about your art. laughs in the room. And Kevin McKeon, The beauty of it is that I know you will who gets full credit for the adapting (I nail plenty of scenes and surprise and am a co-conceiver), has a great touch, entertain me and hopefully others with so working on this with him has been a how they play out. My candid brother- blast. Plus, I kinda like him. Guess that’s in-law told me that he thought your why I married him. version of The Highest Tide was better The back-and-forth’s in time are than the book. ...As far as my hopes or inspired by you–something you suggested fears on the play, I hope the leads relish to me in another coffee shop when we their roles, that Roger is dazzling and first talked about Truth. Hope it works! mysterious and that Helen is a formidable Why did you decide to write about the and appealingly worthy adversary. I hope that the crowds immerse themselves in Fair? the iconic mojo of the 1962 World’s Fair. To have this book performed at Seattle JL: I wanted to write a novel that cut to the core of Seattle. And the World’s Fair Center seems perfect.
Local* Authors & Book-It A complete list of the local authors Book-It has produced, including the year their work was on our stage.
BERKELEY BREATHED
Kellan Larson in The Highest Tide (2008). Photo by Erik Stuhaug.
has always loomed in the recent past as this coming-out party for this young, ambitious city. The audacity of the fair is what struck me as quintessentially Seattle, that this little-known outpost could outmaneuver New York for the big show. So I wanted to mesh the fair with modern Seattle and see if I couldn’t come up with a storyline that could weave the two Seattles together into something illuminating. Hey, I’m glad Kevin’s working on the play. That sounds ideal—a talented theatre couple brainstorming on their pillows about how to best adapt my work. To be honest though, seeing you do my novels is awkward and nerve-wracking. I never get to see anybody but my wife read my books. So it’s a little uncomfortable listening to a couple hundred people respond to my words and story, even if it is in a completely different form and art. I catch myself laughing at my own jokes, which feels vain. And everybody always wants to know, “Do you like it do you like it do you like it?” I’m guessing it’s probably a bit awkward for you to have the author in the house as well, eh?
remember the first day you came to The Highest Tide rehearsal, witnessing Book-It for the very first time, I will never forget it...all those characters walking straight out of your brain into flesh and blood; yeah, I was nervous for sure. I’m sorry you feel vain about your jokes though, ’cause you’re really funny. Really. We are cracking up in rehearsal. Do you miss your life as a journalist? We had three reporters from the P-I come talk to the actors, which was amazing! I see you differently now. Were you a “shoe leather” reporter? JL: I’m not sure what a shoe leather reporter is but I probably was one. I hurled myself into the work and loved it for a while, particularly stalking and describing big shots and politicians. And I bounced around to enough newsrooms to gather a lot of greatest hits about the business. So Truth is, in stome ways, a tribute to the newspaper business and the twilight of competitive newspaper towns. Do I miss it? I miss the camaraderie and adrenaline, but I’d rather make things up for a living.
JJ: Well...it’s probably one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever done. I
Red Ranger Came Calling (2003, 2004, 2010)
IVAN DOIG
Prairie Nocturne (2012)
DAVID JAMES DUNCAN The River Why (2010)
JAMIE FORD
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2012)
DAVID GUTERSON
Snow Falling on Cedars (2007)
DENIS JOHNSON Jesus’ Son (2013)
STEPHANIE KALLOS
Broken for You (2006)
JIM LYNCH
The Highest Tide (2008), Border Songs (2011), Truth Like the Sun (2014)
JONATHAN RABAN Waxwings (2004)
TOM ROBBINS
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (2008)
GARTH STEIN
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2012)
JESS WALTER
The Financial Lives of the Poets (2013)
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To read more about Book-It’s relationship with local authors, check out our featured article by Misha Berson in the April issue of American Theatre Magazine -->
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...and short stories by
ALISON BAKER NICHOLSON BAKER RAYMOND CARVER TESS GALLAGHER W.P. KINSELLA ALEX WILBER
*Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho
in truth like the sun,
Roger Morgan goes undercover amid the nightlife of Seattle as a researcher from UW. In reality, sociology professor William J. Chambliss conducted a study of the gambling and organized crime in Seattle, interviewing everyone he could in an “informal, casual way.” He hung out in pinball halls and played in highstakes poker games, spoke to threatened cardroom owners, and befriended local bartenders, prostitutes, and thieves. These are some of his notes and observations on the time, with the rest being available in On The Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents by William J. Chambliss.
day: the business a tolerance policy It began with the “Tolerance Policy” in 1954. The city passed an ordinance that showed tolerance toward gambling, which permitted establishments to hold card games, allowing a maximum of one dollar bets. It also allowed bingo halls, pinball machines and panorama shows to be licensed by the city. However, this did not make gambling legal. The state laws still expressly forbid gambling. This created a situation in which legitimate businesses depended on illegitimate business to turn a profit. A restaurant owner might purchase a seeminlgly legitimate business, from a front man for a group that owned a number of businesses that specialized in high-stakes poker games, bookmaking, and prostitution. Then he would be told that his business could not function without the bookmaking and illegal gambling in the back. No one would come to a cardroom where they could only bet a dollar! With most businesses violating the state gambling law, the police could harass or close down whatever cardrooms they chose. The expression “pay to stay” became common. Owners had to pay the beat cops about $250 a month, with another $200 set aside for the upper brass. If these payments were refused, the least that could happen is that they would shut down your business. By taking bribes, individual officers were able to double their salaries, and joked that if someone “cleaned up the city,” they’d all be on welfare since no one could live on their original salary. The graft network extended beyond what anyone might have imagined. Money was passed up the chain of command to the Assistant Chief of Police, who built a grand house for himself and his son. The King County Prosecutor and Sheriff both lived in expensive houses, and the prosecutor even owned a fifty-foot yacht. He directed money to state and local politicians who were supporting this criminal network.
day& night
the truth about seattle 1945-1946
by kathryn stewart
Further Reading: Chambliss, William J. On The Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1978)
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One of the reasons we fail to understand crime is because we put crime into a category that is separate and distinct from normal business. Much crime does not fit into a separate category. It is primarily a business activity.” —william j. chambliss
night: the vices Vice flourished all over Seattle: down Pioneer Square and on 1st, up Capitol Hill, in the various ethnic ghettos. As mentioned in the play, the city was “wide open” for those with vices of all kinds.
The Back Cardroom Most establishments also held a back cardroom of some kind, to take advantage of that “tolerated” gambling. The players were usually regulars, mostly middle aged down-and-outers. Although betting more than a dollar, they played conservative cards, and there was a sense in the air that the players were all familiar.
Pinball Pinball was one of the many ways to gamble in 1960s Seattle. The machines were rigged so that a player could insert multiple dimes, increasing the odds and amount they could win. There were still the unknowing who wandered in and played for fun. However, most players could be seen meandering over to the cash register after their games to collect their winnings.
Porno reels Dime-operated “panoramas” played two-minute reels of women undressing and couples engaged in various forms of sex. The inexperienced patron would rush in, spend their dime, and see 120 seconds of something interesting. However, some knew that the films, designed to encourage users to reinvest, became more and more explicit in their sexuality with each subsequent dime. These “initiated” customers knew that it took five dimes to move from undressing to finale, and waited patiently until the last reel was queued up before investing their money.
High Stakes Poker Games Usually held in fancier bridge clubs, as opposed to the dozens of back cardrooms in restaurants and bars, high stakes poker games often included members of “respectable” society: medical doctors, dentists, and lawyers, whose fees could be hidden from the IRS. One such player noted, “There may be better tax dodges than gambling, but no other way is half so much fun.”Many of the high stakes poker games had stakes bet in an evening that exceeded $100k.
Dens of sin Cardrooms, bridge clubs, chili parlors, and restaurants were also the scene of other illegal activity: drug distribution, illegal liquor sales, exchange of stolen merchandise, and the arranging of illegal, high-interest loans.
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Cast
Solomon Davis Omar / Gance / Ensemble
Solomon has performed in numerous plays for Taproot, Seattle Playwrights’ Collective, Unexpected Productions, Emerald City Scene, and tours around the country with his one-person show Remember Being Born?. He is currently the director of improvisational theatre at Taproot and a teacher at The Northwest School. This is his first production with Book-It Repertory Theatre.
Chris Ensweiler* Roger Morgan
Chris is honored to be making his BookIt Repertory Theatre debut. He most recently appeared as Mr. Pim in A.A. Milne’s Mr. Pim Passes By, directed by Karen Lund at Taproot. In Seattle, Chris has also performed with Seattle Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company and their Wooden O Theatre, Balagan Theatre, The Hansberry Project at ACT Theatre, Endangered Species Project, and 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival. Regional credits include Alliance Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Georgia Shakespeare, Tennessee Shakespeare Company, and The Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, Ohio.
Emily Fortuna† Jenny Sunshine / Ensemble
Emily is thrilled to work with Book-It Repertory Theatre on Truth Like the Sun. Elsewhere around Seattle, she’s appeared in Close Enough with Stone Soup Theatre, The Diary of Anne Frank with Renton Civic Theatre, LAPDSMU with Ghost Light Theatricals, and The Long Christmas Dinner and The Fall of the House of Usher with The Driftwood Players. When not acting, she can often be found programming computers for a popular search engine company that starts with a “G.”
* Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Intern
Cynthia Geary
Birnbaum / Mrs. Morgan / Ensemble Cynthia is happy to return to the BookIt stage, where she previously performed in Giant, The Awakening, and A Confederacy of Dunces. Her most recent theatre credits include Theatre 9/12’s productions of Blithe Spirit and The Equation. Cynthia is best known to TV audiences for her Emmynominated role, Shelley Tambo, on the series “Northern Exposure.” Some of her feature films include 8 Seconds, Smoke Signals, Expiration Date, Crimes of the Past, Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas, and the soon-to-bereleased Nothing Against Life.
Brian Gunter*
Charlie McDaniel / Yates / Dawkins / Ensemble
Brian is happy to be living in Seattle and happy to be working with Book-It for the first time. Originally from Wichita, Kans., he has lived in Chicago, the Bay Area, and upstate New York, and has performed with many regional theatres across the country, including Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, Florida Studio Theatre, Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Missouri Rep, Sierra Rep, Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, First Stage Milwaukee, and many more. He has also performed in Europe with Vienna’s English Theatre, touring in Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic. In January he was in the world premiere of East Towards Home at Theatre for the New City in New York.
Laura Hanson
Linda / Ensemble
Laura is extremely honored to make her Book-It debut in this wonderful adaptation of Jim Lynch’s amazing book, Truth Like the Sun. She has performed in many theatrical productions in the Puget Sound area. A few favorite roles include Chloe in My Old Lady with Harlequin Productions (where she had the opportunity to work with internationally acclaimed playwright Israel Horovitz), Doris in Same Time, Next Year, Edna in The Prisoner of Second Avenue, and two turns in Blithe Spirit as both Elvira and Ruth. In addition to theatre, Laura has appeared in numerous indie films, commercials, voice-
overs, and corporate/industrial videos for such companies as Boeing, Microsoft, and Nordstrom.
Joe Ivy
Denny Carmichael / Ensemble
This is Joe’s second show with Book-It, previously appearing in Prairie Nocturne. Other Seattle theatre credits include Odin’s Horse with Mirror Stage Company, A Lie of the Mind at ACT Theatre, The New New News with Newswrights United, and Zastrozzi with Balagan Theatre. Regional theatre credits include Six Degrees of Separation, Conversations with My Father, and Angel Street with Portland Rep; Chekhov in Yalta and A Hatful of Rain with New Rose Theatre; and King Lear with Oregon Shakespeare Festival. A two-time winner of the best supporting actor award from Hollywood Drama-Logue and Portland Drama Critics, Joe’s film and TV work includes “Leverage,” “Silk Stalkings,” “Designing Women,” Conversations with God, Home Invasion, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Fifteen and Pregnant, and A Bit of Bad Luck.
Chad Kelderman*
Bill Steele / Ensemble
Chad was recently seen as The Cat in Cat in the Hat at Seattle Children’s Theatre. Locally, his credits include Wittenberg with Seattle Shakespeare Company; Animal Farm with Seattle Children’s Theatre; The Royal Family with Intiman; The Forest and Miss Lulu Bett with Endangered Species Project; The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Tacoma Actors Guild; and As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Great Expectations, and The Servant of Two Masters with The Bathhouse Theatre Company. Chicago credits include The Misanthrope, The Barber of Seville, and The Play’s the Thing with Court Theatre; Troilus and Cressida with Chicago Shakespeare; and Don Juan and Wuthering Heights with Bailiwick. Chad is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.
Jonah Kowal
Elias / Ensemble
Jonah is elated to make his professional debut at Book-It Repertory Theatre! He is a secondgrade homeschooler
Kevin McKeon
Teddy Severson / Ensemble
Kevin McKeon has performed locally at several Seattle theatres. Recent favorite roles include Fasch in Bach at Leipzig at Taproot, Arthur in Superior Donuts at Seattle Public Theater, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Seattle Shakespeare Company, and several pieces at John Kazanjian and Mary Ewald’s The New City. For Book-It, Kevin was recently seen in Jesus’ Son, and over the years in A Confederacy of Dunces, Persuasion, Plainsong, Cowboys Are My Weakness, The Awakening, Double Indemnity, and Ethan Frome.
Nikki Mejia†
Annie / Ensemble
Nikki is excited to be making her professional theatre debut with Truth Like the Sun at Book-It Repertory Theatre. One of only two Latino theatre artists to be graduating in 2014 from Cornish College of the Arts, she feels honored to have received this internship as a stepping stone into the Seattle theatre community. Her theatre credits at Cornish include Ajax in Iraq, Sganarelle, or the Imaginary Cuckold, The Jealous Husband, Balm in Gilead, and many readings of her colleagues’ new works.
Anthony Rosenthal
Elias / Ensemble
Growing up, Anthony’s love of acting and musical theater began while playing all the male roles alongside his sister in the living room. At age five, he taught himself how to read because he wanted to read along with his beloved Beatles while watching them on YouTube. During a trip to NYC when he was eight, Newsies on Broadway inspired him a lot! Shortly after he and his family moved to Seattle, he enrolled in ballet at PNB, where he is still taking classes. He recently finished a run with The 5th Avenue Theatre in Oliver! an orphan and a pickpocket in Fagin’s gang.
In his spare time he loves to write books and scripts and film stop-motion movies.
Luke Sayler†
Reporter / Ensemble
Luke has been working in theatre in the Pacific Northwest for more than ten years. In 2009 he graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a BFA in theatre, original works. Luke is very happy to be working with Book-It and all these brilliant people he’s admired for years. Recently, he was seen on stage as Bottom in GreenStage’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Algernon in The Driftwood Player’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Red Knight of Day in Blood Ensemble’s A Saga of Baba Yaga at Ghost Light Theatrical’s Battle of the Bards.
Richard Nguyen SLoniker
Malcolm Turner / Ensemble
Richard is happy to be back at Book-It, where he last appeared in The Financial Lives of the Poets. He recently appeared in 25 Saints and Red Light Winter with Azeotrope, a company he co-founded. He has performed at the Guthrie Theater, ACT Theatre, Intiman, Seattle Rep, Seattle Shakespeare Company, the Northwest Asian American Theatre, SIS Productions, Village Theatre, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. Richard holds an MFA from the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program, and has a BS in cellular, molecular, developmental biology. He is married to Serin Ngai, and has a talented daughter, Viola.
Jennifer Lee Taylor*
Helen Gulanos
Jennifer’s previous Book-It roles include Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, Leslie Lynton in Giant, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, and Widow Rance in In A Shallow Grave. Jen also adapted Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility for Book-It. She has performed with Seattle Shakespeare Company, ACT Theatre, Village Theatre, Intiman, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and The Empty Space, and is a founding member of New Century Theatre Company. Jen works extensively as a voice actor in radio, television, audiobooks, and video.
Leslie Wisdom Meredith Stein / Ensemble
Leslie is honored (ecstatic!) to make her Book-It debut. She has appeared in musical theater, plays, and children’s theater throughout the region since 2009. Favorite roles include Madelaine True in The Wild Party with Sound Theatre Company; Mrs. Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady at Mount Baker Theatre; Maud Dunlop in The Music Man and Camelot with Lyric Light Opera; and an evil queen in Rumpelstiltskin and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at SecondStory Repertory (where she won the 2012 BroadwayWorld Seattle Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play/Local, for her role as Teresa Salieri in Amadeus.) She performs with The Inverse Opera and studies with Anne Allgood, Jadd Davis, and Paul Linnes. Next up is Funny Girl at Village Theatre.
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who has taken acting classes and camps at both Studio East and Village Theatre. He especially enjoyed performing in ‘Twas the Night at Studio East two years in a row. In addition to acting, Jonah enjoys reading, film-making, and computer programming.
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kevin mckeon Adapter
Kevin McKeon has adapted several novels for Book-It including Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities (with Jane Jones), Plainsong, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, and David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars, which has had subsequent productions at Hartford Stage, Portland Center Stage, Theatreworks in Palo Alto, California, and Centerstage in Baltimore, among others. His adaptation of Anna Karenina was commissioned by Portland Center Stage, premiered there in 2012, and was subsequently performed at Book-It last season.
Jane Jones
Director / Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director Jane is the founder and founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 25 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
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America’s most prominent regional theatres. Most recently, she played the role of Miss Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2008 she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence award from Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was a finalist for the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award.
Marnie Cummings
Catherine Cornell
Sound Designer
Scenic Designer
Catherine has spent the last year and a half discovering what it means to be a Seattleite. Her local credits include West of Lenin’s Master Harold... and the boys, Annex Theatre’s Undo, and Azeotrope’s Red Light Winter and 25 Saints. She has enjoyed working with Book-It Repertory Theatre designing scenery for Jesus’ Son and touring shows in their Arts and Education Program and props for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, The Financial Lives of the Poets, and She’s Come Undone. Her preSeattle credits include working as a scenic artist on Oz: The Great and Powerful with Walt Disney Pictures, scenic designer for Cloud Nine with University of Michigan, and scenic designer for Cabaret with MUSKET. www.catcornell.com * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Intern
Lighting Designer
Marnie is very happy to be back working with Book-It after designing The Financial Lives of the Poets and Anna Karenina last year. Recent work includes The Rape of Lucretia at St. Mark’s Cathedral with Vespertine Opera Theater, The Barber of Seville with Tacoma Opera, and Le Bourgeois Gentihomme at the Cornish Playhouse. Marnie received her MFA from the University of Washington in 2012 and is thrilled to have been continually designing since.
Pete Rush
Costume Designer
Pete previously designed costumes for 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 for ACT Theatre; RENT for The 5th Avenue Theatre; The Adding Machine for New Century Theatre Company; BedSnake, Sextet, and Tall Skinny Cruel Boys for Washington Ensemble Theatre; as well as productions at ArtsWest, SecondStory Repertory, and Seattle Public Theater. Regional credits include Hangar Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. His work can currently be seen in Little Shop of Horrors at ACT Theatre / The 5th Avenue Theatre.
Nathan Wade
Nathan is a local composer and sound designer who spends much of his time balancing music with fatherhood. As a long-time Book-It veteran, his musical and audio handiwork has been featured in stage adaptations of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Jesus’ Son, Border Songs, MobyDick, or The Whale, and Don Quixote. www.nathanwademusic.com
Kathleen Le Coze
Properties Master
Kathleen is Book-It’s properties master for the ‘13-14 season. She just finished working on Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and Jesus’ Son, as well as working as props artisan for She’s Come Undone. Other credits include props master for Trust Me and The Little Mermaid Jr. with Village’s KIDSTAGE program in Issaquah, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Washington Ensemble Theatre, and properties artisan for Much Ado About Nothing and The Importance of Being Earnest with Seattle Shakespeare Company. You can continue to see her work
with Book-It, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and other various projects at Village’s KIDSTAGE program.
Susannah Butler* Stage Manager
Susy is very excited for the opportunity to work with Book-It on this production. Recent credits include High Society with Showtunes Theatre Company, Much Ado About Nothing with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Both Our Houses and Madwoman of Chaillot with Endangered Species Project, and Food of Love with Sandbox Radio.
Jeremiah Givers
Assistant Stage Manager
Jeremiah is pleased to be working on Truth Like the Sun. He most recently completed an internship with Seattle Rep, where he assisted on an adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles and the new work A Great Wilderness. His next project will be with Freehold’s Engaged Theatre tour, which takes theatre into under-served populations in the Puget Sound region. He is a proud graduate of Cornish College of the Arts.
Myra Platt
Founding Co-Artistic Director As co-founder, director, adapter, actor, and composer, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 100 world premieres. Most recently she adapted and directed The Financial Lives of the Poets, which received nominations in the 2013 Gregory Awards, including Outstanding Director and Outstanding Production. Her other adapting/directing credits include The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone Call, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Directing credits include Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday. She adapted The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones, and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. Her acting credits include Prairie Nocturne, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, The Awakening (West Los Angeles Garland Award), Howards End, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II (original production). She has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum. Myra is the recipient, with Jane Jones, of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Founders Award, the 2010 Women of Influence from
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staff 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.
charlotte m. tiencken
Kathryn Stewart† Dramaturg / Assistant Director
emma pihl† Stage Management Intern
Managing Director
Devon Bright
Charlotte is an administrator, director, producer, and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting fields for 30 years. Before moving back to the Seattle area in September 2003, she was general manager at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. As president of her own consulting firm, Scarlet Productions, she has worked with companies across the country, including Chitresh Das Dance Company in San Francisco, Ben Munisteri Dance in New York, Seattle Theatre Group, EnJoy Productions in Seattle, and Westwind, in Oregon among many others. She has taught at Seattle Pacific University, the University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, and the University of Puget Sound. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. for ten years. Charlotte is a member of SDC, the stage directors and choreographers society, and is past president of the Board of Arts Northwest. She has served on the Board of the Pat Graney Dance Company, on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission and 4 Culture, and was president of the Board of Theatre Puget Sound. Her most recent directing credits include Into the Woods for Vashon Drama Dock, Eugene Onegin for Vashon Opera, and Rashomon for Seattle Pacific University. She lives on Vashon Island with her husband Bill, three cats, and two dogs.
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Trevor Cushman Key Electrician / Light Board Operator
Josh Blaisdell Sound Engineer / Sound Board Operator
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Lacee Hart Costume Assistant † Book-It Intern
special thanks to Tracy Robinson and The Seattle Center Foundation The Seattle Times and The Seattle Times Newsroom KUOW The Week in Review (All of you!) Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) Seattle Post-Intelligencer Kathy Best Eileen Brady Joann Byrd Glenn Drosendahl Rita Hibbard Joy Marzec Steve Sher Marcie Sillman
Thanks to everyone who joined us at Guilty Pleasures 2013! Thanks to everyone, we raised just north of $104,000 toward our programming. Help us thank our committee and supporters who made this marvelous mayhem possible: Guilty Pleasures Committee: Stuart Frank, Chair Rachel Alquist, Tina Baril, Pam Kendrick, Christine Mosere, Tom Oliver, Lynne Reynolds, Charlotte Tiencken, Kris Villiott Community Partners: Alaska Distributors Warehouse, Anonymous Donors (2), Karen Brandvick Baker & Ross Baker, Blue Highway Games, J. Bookwalter Winery, DeLille Cellars, Fox’s Gem Shop, Ted Jones, Margaret Kineke & Dennis West, Left Bank Food and Cake Company, Holly & Bill Marklyn, Poppy Restaurant, Queen Anne Olive Oil, Schilling Cider, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Theatre Group, Something Silver, Ten Mercer, Toulouse Petit Kitchen & Lounge, Turgeon-Raine Jewellers, UW World Series at Meany Hall, Virginia Mason, Woodhouse Wine Estates, Woodland Park Zoo And thank you to Seattle Theatre Group and the staff at the Neptune Theatre, to John Platt and St. Clouds Food & Spirits, Gerrie Goddard and Firesteed Winery, Vashon Community Care Center, and to Carol Dole and Rebecca Dietz from Well Done Events!
the amazing adventures of
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Book-It brings you the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon on stage June 7 - July 13, 2014. It’s a tale of escape, transformation, magic, and moxie—and a one-of-a-kind epic theatrical event!
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (K&C) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.
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...and was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch has said his dream project would be a movie of K&C. But...stuck in development hell since the early 2000s, the movie is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, published by Dark Horse Comics (with Chabon’s blessing), is a real-life comic inspired by K&C. It took Chabon “four years, four months and four days” to write K&C. Chabon writes a minimum of 1,000 words a day.
Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel (creators of Superman) were partly the inspiration for the characters Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. They naively sold their rights to Superman for next to nothing and lived in near-poverty for the rest of their lives. Trivia compiled by Lindsay Carpenter.
honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support!
in memory of gladys rubinstein It is with sadness that we acknowledge the death of long-time friend and patron, Gladys Rubinstein. Gladys had a big heart for Book-It. She and her husband, Sam, supported mainstage programming for many years. We will miss her.
LITERARY Legends $75,000+ The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Mary Piggott
LITERARY CHampions $25,000+ ArtsFund The Boeing Company Charitable Trust The Hearst Foundations, Inc. Gladys Rubinstein+
LITERARY HEROES $10,000+ 4Culture Ellen & John Hill Stellman Keehnel Lucky Seven Foundation N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier The Norcliffe Foundation Nordstrom Ann Ramsay-Jenkins The Seattle Foundation The Shubert Foundation Shirley & David Urdal Kris & Mike Villiott April J. Williamson Anonymous
Literary Classics $5,000+ ArtsWA Joann Byrd Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness Gretl Galgon Holly & Bill Marklyn Cheryl & Tom Oliver Michell & Larry Pihl PONCHO Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Drella & Garth Stein Anonymous
Leadership Circle $2,500+ Monica Alquist Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Boeing Gift Matching Program
Leadership Circle, cont.
Nobel Award Society, cont.
Amy & Matthew Cockburn Carolyn & George Cox The Ex Anima Fund Lucy Helm HomeStreet Bank Key Bank Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Mary Metastasio Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters Joni Ostergaard & Will Patton Shirley Roberson John Schaffer Kathy & Jim Tune Elizabeth Warman Robert Wiley
Shirley Roberson Virginia Sly & Richard Wesley Williams Miller Family Foundation Judith Whetzel Anonymous
Nobel Award Society $1,000+ Salli & Stephen Bauer Karen Brandvick Baker & Ross Baker Patricia Britton Janet Boguch & Kelby Fletcher Amanda & Jeff Cain Carol & Bill Collins D.A. Davidson & Co. Emily Davis Nora & Allan Davis Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal Firesteed Cellars* Mary Francis & Harold Hill Cande & Tom Grogan Hilliard Brewery* Heather Howard Judith Jesiolowski & David Thompson KeyBank Foundation Lea Knight Susan Leavitt & Bill Block Ellen & Stephen Lutz Melissa & Don Manning Marcia Mason Ellen Maxson Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Minar and Northey LLP Lynn Murphy Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Colette Ogle John Pehrson Christiane Pein & Steven Bull Puget Sound Business Journal Lynne & Nick Reynolds Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches Martha Sidlo Mary Snapp Deborah Swets
Pulitzer Award Society $500+ Ruth Bailey Bookwalter Winery* Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb Don Brown The Carey Family Foundation Catherine Clark & Marc Jacques Nancy Cleveland Pamela Cowan & Steve Miller Deborah Cowley & Mark Dexter Emily & Tony Cox Dottie Delaney Beth L. Dubey Katie & Brent Enarson Jane & Stan Fields R. Brooks Gekler Jean Gorecki & Dick Dobyns Amy & Thaddeus Hanscom Laura & Erik Hanson Phyllis Hatfield Hilliard’s Beer Meg Holgate & Bruce Bradburn Humanities Washington Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon Clare Kapitan & Keith Schreiber Pam Kendrick Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Stephen E. Lovell Darcy & Lee MacLaren Lynn Manley & Alexander Lindsey Ellen Maxson Kaaren & James McElroy Sarah Merner & Craig McKibben Richard Monroe Meta L. Pasternak Doris & Charles Ray Roberta Reaber & Leo Butzel Anne Repass Pamela & Nate Searle Seattle International Film Festival* Gail & John Sehlhorst Jo & Michael Shapiro Meg Silver Karen Smith & B. Richal Linda Snider Wendy Thompson & C. Rhea Molly Thompson & Joe Casalini Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas
honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support!
Pulitzer Award Society, cont.
National Book Award Society, CONT.
Kerry P. Thompson Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West Turgeon Raine Jewellers* Janet & Stan Vail Ruth & Jerry Verhoff Virginia Mason Medical Center* Sally Wright Jennifer Weis Leora & Robert Wheeler Margaret Winsor & Jay Hereford Christina Wright & Luther Black Lucy Zuccotti Anonymous
Nancie Kosnoff Larry Lewin Cynthia Livak Julie Lyss & David Loren Dora Mahan Elizabeth Mathewson Ruth McCormick Ann McCurdy & Frank Lawler Louise McNerney Eleanor Moseley Aileen Mosier Deborah & Jeff Parsons Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert Susan Petty & Richard Adair Scott Pinckney Kim Port & Norman Garner Heather Pullen & Frank Schumann* Linda Quirk Bradley Renner Paula Riggert Jo Ann & Jim Roberts H. Stewart Ross Don & Marty Sands Donna Marie & Dr. Robert Saunders Schilling Cider* Seattle Shakespeare Company* Jill Slyvester Something Silver* Irene & Richard Strand LiAnn & Stephen Sundquist Gail Tanaka Cassandra & Eric Taylor Jennifer Lee Taylor Taproot Theatre* TV Land* Ruth Valine & Edward McNerney Colin Wagoner Jerry Watt & Vreni von Arx Watt Sandra Waugh Cathy & Blake Wilson WorldWise Jewelry*
National Book Award Society $250+ Alderbrook Resort & Spa* Rachel Alquist* Sarah & Robert Alsdorf Christina Amante Kim Anderson Virginia L. Anderson Dan Atkinson Rex Barker Susan Bradley Elizabeth Braun Mary Anne Braund & Steve Pellegrin Carol Butterfield Linda & Peter Capell Sylvia & Craig Chambers Mala Chandra Christina Chang & Paul Stucki Wendy Cohen & John Chenault Samantha Cooper Gaylee & Jim Duncan Lori Eickelberg & Arni Litt Sara Elward Kim & Rob Entrop Joyce Erickson Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Flying House Productions* Fox’s Gem Shop* Jayn & Hugh Foy Alan Fritzberg Jamie Froebe Vicki & Gerrie Goddard Katharine Godman & Jerry Collum Terry Graham Diane Grover Pamela & Dr. Benson Harer Nicholas Hart Kat Hazzard Robert Hunter Ted Jones
Pen / Faulkner Award Circle $100+
ACT Theatre* • Doug Adams • Lynne & Shawn Aebi • Alaska Distributors* • Andrea Albers • John Aldaya • Rachel Allen • Chris Alston • Katherine Anderson & Robert Di Pietrae • Cinnimin Avena • Maxine Bailey • Jo Ann & Tom Bardeen • Susan Bennett • Lenore Bensinger • Kathy Best • Deb & Bill Bigelow • Richard P. Billingham • Inez Noble Black • Lindsay & Tony Blackner • Blue Highway Games* • Rebecca Bogard • Rhonda Bolton • Brad Borst • Gina Breukleman • Jonathan Buchter
Pen / Faulkner Award Circle, CONT.
Emily Burns • Christine Calderon • Melanie Calderwood • Carri Campbell • Michela Carpino & Rick Klingele • Cashmere Mountain Bed & Breakfast* • Jocelyn & Kevin Ceder • Kristine & Gerry Champagne • Joyce Chase • Lynne & David Chelimer • Marianna Clark & Charles Schafer • Cynthia & Jack Clay • Catherine Clemens • Nancy Cleveland • Shelly Clift • Joe Copeland • Kay & Garry Crane • Sandra & Paul Dehmer • DeLille Cellars* • Dorothy & Jim Denton • Doe Bay Resort* • Susan M. Dyer • Sarah L. Easterbrook • Kathleen Edwards • Lynne & Hollie Ellis • Marilyn Endriss • Randy Engstrom • Constance L. Euerle • Expedia Gives Matching Gift Program • Jane Faulkner • Polly Feigl • Caroline Feiss • Janice & Chandler Felt • Denise & James Fortier • Jessica Foss • Kai Fujita • Jean & Mike Gannon • Cezanne Garcia • Siobhan Ginnane • Rachel Glass & David Quicksall • Jean Godden* • Suzanne Goren • Anke Gray • Jake Greenberg • Pamela Greenwood • Laurie Griffith • Eleanor Hamburger • Faith Hanna • Larry Hanson • Marcia L. Harper • Elizabeth Hastorf • Ellen & David Hecht • Rebecca Herzfeld & Gordon Crawford • Chris Higashi • Patricia Highet • HighGradeComics.com* • Terri Hiroshima • Susan Hoffman • Kate Hokanson • Lisa Holderman • Carolyn & Mark Holtzen • Hourglass Footwear* • Cynthia Huffman & Ray Heacox • Joleen Hughes • Melissa Huther • Kristina Huus Campbell • Wendy Jackson • Lani Johnson • Kris Jorgensen & Margey Rubado • Gil Joynt • Joan Kalhorn • Amie Kidane • Mary Klubben • James Knapp • Larry Knopp • Art Kobayashi • Alan Kristal • Joyce Anne Latino & John O’Connell • Eleni Ledesma & Dr. Eric Rose • Meredith Lehr & William Severson • Jan Levine & David Kasik • Lois Levy • Christine Lewis • B. Parker Lindner • Carol Lucas • Carol Lumb • Kjristine Lund • Steve MacDonald • Nancy Manula • Mike Martinez • Elaine Mathies • Kathy McCluskey • Lee & Phil McCluskey • Deirdre & Jay McCrary • Marcie & John McHale • Nancy McSharry & Andy Jensen • Susan Mecklenburg • Jeanne Metzger • Bonnie & Curry Miller • Shyla & Donald Miller • Marion & George Mohler • Becky Monk • Terry & Cornelia Moore • Elizabeth Morrison & Geoff Crooks • Christine Mosere • Dawna Munson • David Nash & Pat Graves • Riley Neldam* • Pam & Scott Nolte • Deanna & Craig Norsen Northwest • Asian Weekly* • Northwest Folk Life* • Mike O’Brien • Martha Oman • Kevin & Linda O’Morrison • Pat O’Rourke • Blair Osborn & Alice Cunningham
Pen / Faulkner Award Circle, CONT.
Paige & Jeff Packman • Donna & Robert Parker • Kelly Pearson • Corliss J. Perdaems • Sherry Perrault • Barbara B. Peterson • Gloria Pfeif • Phoenix Theatre* • Robert Pillitteri • Ruthanne Pipkin • Myra Platt & Dave Ellis • Felicia Porter • Susan Porterfield • Joan & William Potter • Jason Powell • Marissa Price • Gordon Prouty • Andrea Ptak & Aaron Houseknecht • Barbara & Daniel Radin • Sonia & Bruce Ransom • Roberta & Brian Reed • Connie Reed • Carolyn Rees • Esther Reese • Arnold Reich • Jane Reich • Sarah Reisenauer • Jane Repensek • Karen & Eric Richter • Rebecca Ripley • Roberta Roberts • Barbara Rollinger • Ellen Roth • Kristine Ruppelt • Beth Rutherford • Rebecca Sadinsky • Donna Sand • Claudia Sanders • Linda Schenkel • Andy Schneider • Kinza Schuyler • Seattle Repertory Theatre* • Seattle Theatre Group* • Mark Seklemian • Aime & Mike Servais • Sumeer Singla • Marilyn Sloan • Susan & George Smith • Warren Smith • Jill Snyder • Starbucks Coffee Company & Foundation* • Diane Stark • Janice Strand • Margaret Taylor • Terry Tazioli • Ten Mercer* • Anne Terry • Michele & Alan Tesler • The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies* • The Two Tides* • Cappy Thompson • Richard Thorvilson • Eric Thuau • Jennifer Tice • Tom Douglas Restaurants* • Caren Toney • Deborah Torgerson • Marcia Utela • Karen & Ron Van Genderen • Susan VanZanten • Verizon Foundation • Village Theatre* • Jorie Wackerman • Susan Warwick • Deb Watson • Sally & Charles Weems • Kayla Weiner • Kristi & Tom Weir • Eddie Westerman • Gregory Wetzel • Dan Whalen • Jean & David White • Sara White & Robert Jordan • Bill & Paula Whitham • Jane Wiegenstein • Rob Williamson • Lauren Wilson • Janet & Lawrence Wilson • Elana Winsberg • Mary Wilson & Barry Boone • Michael Winters • Woodhouse Wine Estates* • Daniel Youmans • Diane Zahn • Shari Zehm • Juliet Ziegler • Anonymous
O. Henry Award Circle $50+ Judith Alexander • Amgen Foundation • Hilari Anderson • Susan & John Anderson • Rosalie Antupit • Anne & Roger Baker • E H Baker • Sonia & Kendall Baker • Anne Banks • Sybil Barney • Susan Bean • Susan Benson • Ellen Bezona & Shawn Baz • Cheryl Boudreau • Broadway Center For The Performing Arts* Melissa & Sean Bruce • Marilyn Bunday • Alice & Stan Burgess • Deborah Christensen • Mary E. Comtois • Beverly Corwin • Nancy Cushwa • Deborah Daoust • Lara Davis
O. Henry Award Circle, CONT.
O. Henry Award Circle, CONT.
Robin Dearling & Gary Ackerman • Richard Detrano • Lynn Dissinger • Marcia Donovan • Downtown Dog Lounge* • Jane & Dan Drais • Beth Dubey • Lorna Dykes • Nancy Ellingham • Margot & Dave Elsner • Daisy & Joel Emans • Nancy Erickson • Shannon Erickson Loys • Mary Ellen Flanagan • Carolyn & Rob Fletcher • Lisa Foss • Lisbeth & Alan Fritzberg • Kris & Lori Fulsaas • Alan Garrett • Neil Gerth • Elizabeth Gilchrist • Ann Glusker & Peter Hunsberger • Joan & Steve Goldblatt • Lian Handaja • Harry’s Daughter Jewelry* • Enid Havens • Jenny Haykin & John Lombard • Anne Helmholz • Kate Hemer • Catherine Hennings • Dale Hicklin • Stephanie Hilbert • Carol Horton • Zhen Huang • Hanah Igama • Douglas Jackson • Tricia Jackson • Susan K. Jones & Christopher Monck • Joan Karkeck • Patricia & Millett Keller • Jim Kelly • Anne Kiemle • Vicki & James King • Shannon & Richard Knipp • Sandy Kubishta • Barb & Art Lachman • Cynthia & David Lantry • Teri J. Lazzara • LeMay - America’s Car Museum* • Dorothy Lennard • Bonnie Lewman • Liberty Mutual Insurance* • Madalene Lickey • Adelaide Loges • Nancy Lomneth & Mark Boyd • Arlyn Losey • Mary Frances Lyons • Anthony Martello • Melodie Martin • Susan McCloskey • Ruth McCormick • Theresa & J. Douglas McLean • Merck Partnership for Giving • Susan Min • Patricia Mines • Susan & Harold Mozer • Phill Mroz • Museum of Flight* • John Narver • Malinda Newstrom • Judy & Stephen Niver • Betty Ngan & Tom Mailhot • Marion & Curtis Northrop • Nancy & Stephen Olsen • Timothy O’Sullivan • Nan Peele • Carol & Ed Perrin • Alison Peters • Nancy Reichley & Timothy Higgins • Jeannette Reynolds • Betty Ann & Louis Richmond • Virginia & Thomas Riedinger • Ann Rowberg • J.D. Royer • Beth Rutherford • Debbie Rutherford • Patricia Rytkonen & William Karn • Lena Saba • Clint Salee • Michael Sandner • Sheila & George K. Saul • B. Charlotte Schreiber • Seattle Children’s Museum* • Seattle Children’s Theatre* • Charyl Kay & Earl Sedlik • Noah Seixas & Dana Standish • Audrey & John Sheffield • Marcia & Peter Sill • Eloise Stachowiak • Jane Stevens • Street Treats* • Sheila Striegl • Constance Swank • Theo Chocolate* • Sarah Thomas & Tom Sykes • Toulouse Petit Kitchen and Lounge* • Marcellus Turner
UW World Series at Meany Hall * • Elizabeth Valentine • Jeanne Van Aalst • Vashon Arts Alliance* • Kathleen Vasquez • Julie Weisbach • Richard White • Woodland Park Zoo* • Richard Wilson & Lloyd Herman • Valerie Yockey & Robert Winsor • Anonymous
Gifts in Honor & memory Brad Borst in Honor of Karen Brandvick-Baker and Ross Baker Nancy L. Celms, Kate C. Hemer, Connie Hungate, and Margaret M. Marshall in Memory of William Rees Phillips Shelly Clift in Honor of Brad Borst Jeanne Metzger in Honor of Joann Byrd Corliss Perdaems in Memory of Judy Runstad’s father, Gerry Wright Manville Barbara Rollinger in Memory of Stephanie Prince’s mother, Mildred Prince Sonja M. Coffman in Memory of Helen Robinson Linda Snider in Memory of mother, Pearl R. Snider Kinza Schuyler in Memory of mother, Jeanette P. Weber *denotes in-kind donation + deceased This list reflects gifts received February 1, 2013 – March 25, 2014. Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgements. Please email Donor Relations and Development Manager Rachel Alquist at development@book-it.org with any changes that may be required.
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2010 Mayor’s Arts Award-winner and recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Arts Award, Book-It Repertory Theatre was founded 24 years ago as an artists’ collective, adapting short stories for performance and touring them throughout the Northwest. Today, with over 100 world-premiere adaptations of literature to its credit—many of which have garnered rave reviews and gone on to subsequent productions all over the country—Book-It is widely respected for the consistent artistic excellence of its work.
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