2008—Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Kirk Douglas Theatre 2007/2008 Season

First Production

About Face Theatre and Lookingglass Theatre Company Production of

Clay

Written and Performed by Matt Sax Developed in collaboration with and Directed by Eric Rosen September 13 – October 14, 2007 Second Production

Center Theatre Group and FITLA — International Latino Theatre Festival of Los Angeles — Present the Teatro de los Andes Production of

En Un Sol Amarillo (Memorias De Un Temblor)

In a Yellow Sun (Memories of an Earthquake) Directed by César Brie October 26 – November 25, 2007 Third Production

Center Theatre Group and The Public Theater present

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Written by Alex Timbers Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman Directed by Alex Timbers World Premiere January 13 – February 17, 2008

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON

Fourth Production

No Child…

Written and Performed by Nilaja Sun Directed by Hal Brooks March 6 – April 13, 2008 Fifth Production

Keep Your Pantheon Duck Variations

Two Plays by David Mamet Directed by Neil Pepe May 11 – June 8, 2008 Sixth Production

Of Equal Measure

By Tanya Barfield Directed by Leigh Silverman World Premiere June 29 – July 27, 2008

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CEnter Theatre Group Board of Directors

2007/2008 Officers Honorary Chairman

Lew R. Wasserman † Chairman

Richard Kagan President

Martin Massman Vice PresidentS

Judith Beckmen Barbara Fodor Andrew S. Kane Louise Taper Secretary

Martin C. Washton Assistant Secretary

Frederick R. Waingrow Treasurer

Harold Applebaum Assistant Treasurer

John Ohanesian PAST PRESIDENTS

Lew R. Wasserman† Marshall Berges† Armand S. Deutsch† Walter Mirisch Henry C. Rogers† Richard E. Sherwood† J. David Haft* Lawrence J. Ramer* Stephen F. Hinchliffe Jr. Phyllis Hennigan Richard Kagan

BOARD Members

William H. Ahmanson Ronald J. Arnault* Pamela Beck Dannielle Campos Ramirez Marcy Carsey Geoffrey Cowan Gordon Davidson* Cástulo de la Rocha Charles Dillingham Amy R. Forbes Shelley Freeman Ava Fries Eric R. Garen Patricia Glaser Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Susan Grode J. David Haft* Brian Hargrove Tommy Hawkins Phyllis Hennigan Charlton Heston* Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Ernest M. Hiroshige Leonard Hirshan* James B. Hunt* Samuel X. Kaplan* Darrell L. Krasnoff Nancy Olson Livingston* O. Kit Lokey Carol Mancino Walter Mirisch Diane Morton* Jo Muse Dr. Steven Nagelberg Edward B. Nahmias Mike Navarro Susan M. Palm Gina Posalski Lawrence J. Ramer* Michael Ritchie Dr. J. Nathan Rubin Eva Stern James A. Thomas Corina Villaraigosa *Director Emeritus † Deceased

A Note from the Artistic Director I am not, and never have been, hip. I drive a Volvo, wear Banana Republic, read presidential biographies and have gray hair.

However, I hope that I would recognize something hip if I saw it. And though the definition of the term has changed with each generation adopting it, I think there is something inherently “hip” (“groovy” in my salad days) in a contemporary rock musical about one of our most controversial and fascinating presidents.

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson’s irreverent look at American history comes to us thanks to the incredible talents of writer/director Alex Timbers and composer/lyricist Michael Friedman, hipsters both.

They are well known to New York audiences, and I am honored that they agreed to premiere this piece here in Los Angeles.

The first time I met Michael Friedman was about 10 years ago when he was an intern at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and I was the Artistic Director. That relationship makes this production even more special to me. I feel very strongly that we have a responsibility to give opportunities to the artists and theatre professionals of tomorrow and Michael is someone whose career I have championed from day one.

To that end, I have continued to look for and promote young talent and it is a cornerstone of our efforts here at Center Theatre Group.

In August of 2005, we announced the beginning of an official partnership with the University of Southern California School of Theatre. Since then, virtually every department of CTG has benefited from the enthusiasm, fresh ideas and youthful perspective of over 50 interns. In addition, the amazing ensemble of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson includes four talented USC theatre students. I am grateful to the BBAJ creative team and the staff of CTG who have given their time and the wisdom of their experience to all of the interns.

It is truly exciting to see talent flower, and I am eagerly anticipating the “hip” and “cool” plays and musicals these interns will bring to audiences, thanks to the opportunities they have had here.

But for now, let’s focus on the rockin’ good time of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.

Michael Ritchie

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and The Public Theater Present

the

World Premiere of

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON Written by

Music and Lyrics by

Alex Timbers

Michael Friedman

With (in alphabetical order)

Anjali Bhimani Will Collyer Diane Davis Zack DeZon Erin Felgar Kristin Findley Jimmy Fowlie Patrick Gomez Sebastian Gonzalez Will Greenberg Greg Hildreth Brian Hostenske Adam O’Byrne Matthew Rocheleau Ben Steinfeld Ian Unterman Benjamin Walker Taylor Wilcox Set Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Sound Design

Robert Brill

Emily Rebholz

Jeff Croiter

Bart Fasbender

Music Direction/Orchestrations

Projection Design

Casting

Dramaturg

Gabriel Kahane

Jake Pinholster

Bonnie Grisan

Mike Sablone

Associate Producer

Production Stage Manager

Stage Managers

Kelley Kirkpatrick

David S. Franklin

Elizabeth Atkinson Michelle Blair

Choreography by

Kelly Devine Directed by

Alex Timbers This production is performed without an intermission.

January 13 – February 17, 2008 Kirk Douglas Theatre

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CAST

(in alphabetical order)

Rachel, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anjali Bhimani*

Male Soloist, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will Collyer*

Elizabeth, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diane Davis*

Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zack DeZon

Female Soloist, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Felgar*

Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristin Findley

Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jimmy Fowlie

Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick Gomez

Lyncoya, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sebastian Gonzalez*

Clay, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will Greenberg* Red Eagle, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg Hildreth*

Van Buren, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Hostenske*

Calhoun, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam O’Byrne* 1

John Quincy Adams, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Rocheleau*

Monroe, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ben Steinfeld*

Defense Attorney, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian Unterman*

Andrew Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benjamin Walker*

Storyteller, Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Taylor Wilcox* Band

Band Leader, Guitar, Piano, Banjo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gabriel Kahane

Bass Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlie Rosen

Drums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mike Schadel

Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ben steinfeld*

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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The Two Andrew Jacksons Was “Old Hickory” a great president or an American Hitler?

by Carl Byker

Is he a president whose accomplishments we should celebrate or a president whose failures we should apologize for?

It’s a question certain to spark a fierce debate about our current chief executive.

But before we begin lamenting the divisiveness of modern politics, it’s worth remembering that Americans have elected more than a few presidents through the years who have been celebrated by some even as they have been deeply detested by others.

Among the most instructive examples for our own times is Andrew Jackson. During Jackson’s two terms, many idolized him — for he was the first man of humble origins to rise to the presidency, and he then helped found the Democratic Party to stand up for other humble men. But many other Americans intensely despised President Jackson for his advocacy of Indian removal — the forcing of tribes east of the Mississippi to resettle west of the river — and his ownership of slaves; Jackson’s opponents in Congress were convinced that his vision of an “imperial presidency” would destroy the nation the founding fathers had created.

Yet what’s most interesting about Jackson is not that his contemporaries had wildly divergent opinions about him, but that Americans have kept disagreeing about whether or not he was a good president ever since.

You might think, for example, that teenagers today have less than no interest in Jackson — but you’d be wrong. One night recently, a 13-year-old friend who knew I was making a television biography of Jackson came racing into the house in advance of her parents, got right in my face and screamed, “You’re making a film about a very bad man!” Her outrage had been triggered by learning, like millions of other eighth-graders taking American history, how the Cherokees had been driven from their homes by American soldiers and forced to march west into the wilderness so that white Americans could steal their land.

The villain of the story, of course, was Jackson. For some students, his villainy takes on added weight because he’s their first exposure — just after they’ve learned about the remarkable accomplishments of the founding fathers — to the idea that the United States can also do evil things. Jackson scholar Dan Feller of the University of Tennessee says many of the young people he talks to today view Jackson as almost an American Adolf Hitler.

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But try telling people in the South that Jackson is the moral equivalent of Hitler and you might just get a punch in the mouth for your trouble. In the South, “Old Hickory” is still hugely popular, not only for his triumph in the Battle of New Orleans but because he was the man most responsible for adding Florida to the United States.

In fact, until the 1950s, many Northern liberals also revered Jackson. Arthur Schlesinger’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Jackson, published in 1945, barely mentioned Indian removal, instead celebrating Jackson’s championing of the working class.

In Feller’s view, what transformed Jackson’s reputation among liberals in the 1950s and 1960s was that the civil rights movement gave many people a new understanding of the horrors of slavery and Indian removal. And as Feller said, “If you’re talking about Hitler, you don’t say, ‘Well, he built roads and put the German people to work,’ because it simply doesn’t matter, given the horror of the other things he did. And that’s how some people today view Jackson.”

To Robert Remini, that’s not fair. The most distinguished living biographer of Jackson, Remini thinks that Americans love to blame Jackson for Indian removal so that we as a nation don’t have to take responsibility for it. Remini said, “Americans need to realize that it wasn’t just Jackson who removed the Indians, it was the American people who did it. And not only that, we’ve kept on doing similar things.

We ‘removed’ Japanese Americans during World War II, and the Congress and the Supreme Court and the vast majority of Americans approved of it. And we, as a nation and as a people, continue to do morally questionable things today.”

It’s an interesting point. Maybe one reason we celebrate and vilify our presidents with such intensity is because it makes us more comfortable to think that they alone are responsible for what’s going on. But when people look back on us in 150 years — as we today look back on Jackson — and they consider the most controversial issues of our age — say, for instance, the war in Iraq and global warming — perhaps they’ll hold not just the president but all of us responsible for the choices that were made.

It’s a thought that’s worth keeping in mind as we begin to choose our next president: Which candidate are you willing to risk your historical reputation on?

Carl Byker is the director of Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency, which aired on PBS in January.

This article first appeared in the Los Angeles Times on December 13, 2007. Reprinted with permission.

Photo Credit:

1817 steel engraving of Jackson. collection of emil edward hurja.

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Andrew Factual Jackson

by Mike Sablone

It is believed that Andrew Jackson fought in upwards of 100 duels, the results of which stayed with him throughout his life. After one particular duel, physicians recommended the amputation of an injured arm. He was barely conscious, but before passing out said, “I’ll keep my arm.”

Fearful to disobey him, they treated his wound but left a bullet inside.

That bullet lived in his arm for almost 20 years. It eventually settled so close to the skin that you could see it move. Jackson was convinced to have it removed late in his life and did, with no benefit of anesthesia, and without missing a day of work. Jackson had other bullets from other duels still inside of him, the most dangerous of which was lodged next to his heart and caused him nearly constant pain.

Illustration of a British officer striking young Jackson. library of congress.

Jackson’s pet parrot attended his funeral, but, unfortunately, had to be removed from the service due to his non-stop swearing.

A mob gathered at the White House for the party after Jackson’s inauguration and it quickly grew out of control, as mobs are wont to do. It was determined that the only way to preserve the White House was to move the liquor outside. Once that was done, the mob didn’t hesitate to jump out the windows to get to it quicker.

A vast remodeling took place at the White House during Jackson’s tenure. Many complained about his excess spending (buying spittoons for the East Room), while others argued that it was money well spent (the spittoons in essence saved the 500-yard Brussels carpet, which was bought for $1,058.25, from his copious tobacco spittle).

The White House in Jackson’s time. library of congress.

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Probably the most famous White House party Jackson threw was in honor of a giant gift that he had received. And by “giant gift,” we mean a “1,400 pound wheel of cheddar cheese.” Jackson cured it in the vestibule of the White House for two years until the unveiling. The usual mob arrived and devoured the entire wheel in less than two hours.

As a young man, Jackson had a penchant for causing trouble.

One evening as he and his friends celebrated they decided that no one else should be allowed to use their drinking glasses ever again and gleefully smashed them on the floor.

Finding no reason to stop there, they then turned their attention to splitting the table. After the table, the chairs, then, logically, it was time for the curtains. They were ripped from the windows and put on top of the other detritus, which they then set ablaze. Years later people from North Carolina had a very hard time understanding how the Andrew Jackson they knew eventually grew up and got himself elected president.

Jackson was a notoriously quickacting judge. Angry that one Russell Bean refused to come to court, Jackson stormed out to find an armed Bean essentially holding a crowd hostage. Jackson strode up, a pistol in each hand, and demanded that Bean surrender.

Bean immediately put down his weapons. When asked why, Bean later responded, “I looked him in the eye, and I saw shoot, and there wasn’t shoot in nary other eye in the crowd.”

Portrait drawn from life on September 23, 1829,

by James Barton Longacre. l.c. handy studios, washington.

The Cast

ANJALI BHIMANI

will collyer

diane davis

zack dezon

erin felgar

kristin findley

jimmy fowlie

patrick gomez

sebastian gonzalez

will greenberg

greg hildreth

brian hostenske

adam o’byrne

matthew rocheleau

ben steinfeld

ian unterman

benjamin walker

taylor wilox

gabriel kahane

charlie rosen

mike schadel

The Band

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Who’s Who ANJALI BHIMANI (Rachel, Ensemble).

Broadway: Bombay Dreams, Metamorphoses (Tony nomination – Best Play). Off-Broadway: The American Pilot (MTC), Brundibar and But the Giraffe (New Victory), Pentecost (Barrow Group), Portraits (Union Square), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Metamorphoses (Second Stage). Regional: Mirror of the Invisible World (Goodman), The Great Game (Theatre Previews – Duke), Comedy on the Bridge and Brundibar (Berkeley Rep/Yale Rep), Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare), The Vagina Monologues (Apollo Theatre), Metamorphoses (Taper, Lookingglass, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep), The Odyssey (McCarter, Seattle Rep, Goodman), Arabian Nights (Lookingglass, BAM, Steppenwolf), Pentecost (Berkeley Rep). Television: Shark, Journeyman, Law & Order: SVU, The Sopranos. Film: The Medicine Show.

WILL COLLYER (Male Soloist, Ensemble).

Education: UCLA, B.A. in Theatre Arts.

Regional Theatre: Conversations With My Father (TheatreWorks). Selected Los Angeles Theatre: Town Without Pity (Lyric), Unfinished American Highwayscape #9 & 32 (Boston Court), Eric Larue (Elephant), Ann E. Wrecksick (Cavern Club), Hair (Reprise!), Once Upon a Mattress (UCLA, directed by Carol Burnett). Film: Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, Claustrophobia, and the shorts, Come Nightfall (UCLA, Sundance), Borderless (USC). Television: Numb3rs, Las Vegas, Charmed, Jack & Bobby, Judging Amy, CSI: Miami, Boston Public, A Christmas Carol: The Musical. www.willcollyer.com DIANE DAVIS (Elizabeth, Ensemble).

Broadway: Festen, Old Acquaintance.

Off-Broadway: Regrets Only (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional: Mother of Invention (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Television: Without a Trace, Law & Order and the Showtime pilot Filthy Gorgeous. Education: Graduate of the NYU Graduate Acting Program.

ZACK DeZON (Ensemble). Los Angeles Theatre: Chairman in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Massman Theatre), Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Village Gate Theatre), Prez in The Pajama Game (Bing Theatre). Regional: Lumiere in Disney’s P 10 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical (Redlands Bowl).

ERIN FELGAR (Female Soloist, Ensemble). Theatre: All’s Well That Ends Well, Miss Julie (Yale Rep); On The Razzle, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Sky Girls (New Harmony Project); Zero Hour, Balm In Gilead, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Yale School of Drama); The Last Five Years, Sincerity Forever (Yale Cabaret). Training: BFA from the University of Evansville; MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

KRISTIN FINDLEY (Ensemble).

Regional Theatre: Demeter in the City (Cornerstone Theater Company), Mansfield Park (USC), Ashgirl (USC).

Education: University of Southern California. Awards: 2004 Recipient of the Nevada State Thespian Scholarship Award for Acting, 2007; Recipient of the University of Southern California Ruth and Albert McKinlay Scholarship Award for a continuing student who is an outstanding B.A. performer.

JIMMY FOWLIE (Ensemble). New York: Broadway Rocks (Alice Tully Hall), American Made (Lincoln Center). Los Angeles: Pentecost, 4:48 Psychosis, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Boston: The Who’s Tommy. Film: Mr. Sadman, Pirates of the Caribbean 3. Education: Walnut Hill School for the Arts; currently a senior in the BFA Acting program at USC. PATRICK GOMEZ (Ensemble). Education: Current Theatre (B.A.) and Broadcast Journalism senior at the University of Southern California. USC: Carousel (Billy), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (John Jasper), Urinetown (McQueen), Sweetest Hangover, The Pajama Game, Anything Goes. Regional Theatre: Seeking Penance (CASA 0101), The Longest Night (Houston Revels). Film: Americanizing Shelley.

SEBASTIAN GONZALEZ (Lyncoya, Ensemble). Theatre: The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s production of South Pacific at the Hollywood Bowl, starring Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Music Videos: Several for popular L.A.-based band Quetzal.

Commercials: Allstate, Crest, Ikea,

Tuyo Mobile. Print: Target, Gamesa.

Television: Kids’ Choice Awards, Till Death; he also lent his voice for Promo, a new hour-long television comedy show on L.A.T.V. Film: Kemo-Sabe, Mascot.

Thanks: His family and agents at Stage 9 for all their help and support.

WILL GREENBERG (Clay, Ensemble).

Regional Theatre: Once in a Lifetime (Williamstown), Angel City, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, Dogg’s Hamlet/ Cahoot’s Macbeth, A Murder of Crows, Geography of a Horse Dreamer (The Blue House). Film: A Day Without a Mexican, West Bank Story (Academy Award winner for Best Short Film), Crazy. Television: Desperate Housewives, Boston Legal, Pepper Dennis, LAX. Founding Member of The Blue House Theatre and the sketch comedy troupe Summer of Tears (Winner of Best Sketch Troupe at the 2007 HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen).

Education: BFA in Acting USC ‘02. Has dimples.

GREG HILDRETH (Red Eagle, Ensemble).

New York: Church (Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company), As You Like It (poortom productions), Silence (The Roundtable Ensemble), Hell House (Les Freres Corbusier; Alex Timbers, director). Regional: The Corn is Green, The Front Page, Romeo and Juliet, Anything Goes (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Hotline, Tumor, Cloud Tectonics, Bingo with the Indians, I Have Loved Strangers, Triangle: A New Musical, Spring Awakening (Williamstown Theatre Festival workshop), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Huntington Theatre Company), Romeo and Juliet (New Repertory Theatre).

Training: BFA from Boston University and LAMDA. BRIAN HOSTENSKE (Van Buren, Ensemble). Regional: The Clown in The Winter’s Tale and Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Young Soldier in Mother Courage (La Jolla Playhouse). UCSD: Sir Andrew in Twelfth Night, Paris in Labyrinth of Desire, The Bridegroom in Blood Wedding, Freedom Fund Lady in Fucking A. Evansville: Cliff in Cabaret, Pierre in Madwoman of Chaillot, Peachy Weil in The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Education: MFA from University of California, San Diego and a BFA from University of Evansville.

ADAM O’BYRNE (Calhoun, Ensemble).

Canada: I Henry IV, London Assurance, Orpheus Descending, Measure for Measure, The Brothers Karamazov (Stratford Festival), The Winter’s Tale (Stratford Conservatory). Regional: Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella (Yale Rep), Antony and Cleopatra (Hudson Valley Shakes), Waiting for Godot (International Festival of Arts and Ideas). Television: YETI (Sci-Fi). Education: Yale School of Drama.

MATTHEW ROCHELEAU ( John Quincy Adams, Ensemble). Center Theatre Group debut. Credits: L.A. premiere of Zanna, Don’t! (West Coast Ensemble), Paul Williams’ and Garry Marshall’s Happy Days: A New Musical (Falcon Theatre), Ragtime (Musical Theatre West – Ovation nomination, Inland Theatre League Award), Sweeney Todd (Starlight Theatre), plus productions at the Colony Theatre, Cabrillo Music Theatre, Performance Riverside and the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood. Film: Alive and Well. Education: BFA from Boston’s Emerson College. Other: Founding member of the Academy Repertory Company in association with the Academy for New Musical Theatre here in L.A. Originally from Ottawa, Canada. AEA Member.

Plays (Ars Nova), Hell House (St. Anne’s Warehouse), Bloody Mary (CSV), Pearl (Rattlestick), Masterpiece Theater (Ontological-Hysteric), Second Amendment Club (West End), Shrug Like You Mean It (Kraine), Barhoppers Series (Third Man @ The 55). Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival (five seasons). Film: Kill The Day, I Graduated, But…, Pretty Much Fiction. Television: Numb3rs. Other: Ian is a founding member of Third Man Productions and an artistic associate of Les Freres Corbusier.

BENJAMIN WALKER (Andrew Jackson).

Broadway: Inherit the Wind (director – Doug Hughes; Tony nominee, Best Revival). Off-Broadway: Bye Bye Birdie (Roundabout Theatre workshop, director – Robert Longbottom), The Threepenny Opera (Roundabout Theatre workshop, director – Scott Elliott), Spring Awakening (Lincoln Center workshop, director – Michael Mayer), Arrangements (Atlantic Theatre Company, director – Christian Parker). Williamstown Theatre Festival: Romeo and Juliet (director – Will Frears), Lady Windemere’s Fan (director – Moises Kaufman). Film: Upcoming The War Boys (director – Ron Daniels), Flags of Our Fathers (director – Clint Eastwood), The Notorious Bettie Page (director – Mary Harron), Kinsey (director – Bill Condon).

Training: Graduate of The Juilliard School.

BEN STEINFELD (Monroe, Ensemble).

Regional Theatre: Misalliance (Portland Center Stage), Charles Strouse’s You Never Know, Shakespeare’s Henriad and six others (Trinity Rep), Cabaret & Main, Design for Living (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Romeo & Juliet, Pirandello’s Henry IV (Bread Loaf), plus SpeakEasy Stage Co., Seven Angels Theatre and others. New York: Readings and appearances at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons and the Cherry Lane. Workshops: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul, Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home. Concerts: Mr. Smith’s Bowl of Notes (N.J. Symphony Orchestra). Education: Brown University.

Training: Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium MFA Acting Program. Please visit www.bensteinfeld.net

TAYLOR WILCOX (Storyteller, Ensemble).

Off-Broadway: Expats (The New Group), Mother Courage, Medea, The Miser (Jean Cocteau Rep.), Hell House (Les Freres Corbusier), The Maids X 2 (Ego Po). Other New York Theatre: The Lacy Project (Ohio Theatre), Wrong Number (The Source), as well as work with the Royal Court Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Mint and Ars Nova.

Regional Theatre: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Williamstown workshop), Paradise Now (Williamstown). Film: Casting About, internet series ichannel.

Education: Boston College, Université de Paris: Sorbonne, Circle in the Square, William Esper.

IAN UNTERMAN (Defense Attorney, Ensemble). New York: Johnny Applefucker (Soho Think Tank/Ohio Theatre), Heddatron (HERE), The Wikipedia

CHARLIE ROSEN (Bass Guitar). Center Theatre Group: 13 (Kirk Douglas Theatre, workshop, on-stage band, guitar), 13 (Mark Taper Forum, world premiere,

music associate, Keyboard II, Band Swing). Other: Monterey Jazz Festival, Playboy Jazz Festival, 13 original cast album. Education: Berklee College of Music (Boston-Summer Program Scholarship), Colburn School (Los Angeles), CENTRUM Jazz Workshop (Washington).

MIKE SCHADEL (Drums). Los Angeles: Music director of Creation Nation, composer and central scrutinizer in the Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at The Knightsbridge Theatre, drummer in The Joan Rivers comedy show band at the Canon Theatre. Television: 7th Heaven, Keenan and Kel, Rescue 77, Safety School (NBC pilot), The George Wendt Show.

ALEX TIMBERS (Writer, Director).

Artistic Director of award-winning theatre company Les Freres Corbusier.

Off-Broadway: Gutenberg! The Musical!

(Drama Desk nomination – Best Director of a Musical; the Actors’ Playhouse), A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant (OBIE Award; New York Theatre Workshop; two Garland Awards – Best Director and Best Musical; Powerhouse Theatre, Santa Monica), underground (BAM; International Tour), Hell House (Drama Desk nomination – Unique Theatrical Experience; St. Ann’s Warehouse), Boozy (“Ten Best of 2005” – New York Daily News, Time Out New York). Workshops: Disney Theatricals, Playwrights Horizons, New York Stage and Film.

Fellowships: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Drama League, Sundance Theatre Lab. NYTW Usual Suspect.

Education: Yale (magna cum laude).

MICHAEL FRIEDMAN (Composer, Lyricist) is the composer/lyricist for The Civilians’ Gone Missing, [I Am] Nobody’s Lunch, Canard, Canard, Goose?, This Beautiful City, and for The Brand New Kid and the upcoming Saved and Alice in Wonderland. He is the co-author, with Steve Cosson, of Paris Commune.

N.Y.: NYSF/Public, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, Second Stage, Soho Rep, TFANA, The Acting Company.

Regional: Kennedy Center, Huntington, La Jolla, Hartford Stage, Humana, ART, Berkeley Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Williamstown. London: Soho and Gate Theatres. Edinburgh Festival.

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Artistic Associate: NYTW; Princeton University Hodder Fellow; MacDowell fellow; founding Associate Artist of The Civilians. 2007 Obie Award for sustained excellence.

KELLY DEVINE (Choreographer).

Broadway: Jersey Boys (associate choreographer, Tony – Best Musical).

Off-Broadway: Frankenstein (37 Arts), Ann E. Wrecksick (Ars Nova Theater).

Regional: Zhivago and Private Fittings (La Jolla Playhouse); Sneaux (Matrix Theatre – LA Weekly Theater Award – Best Choreography); Wozzeck (San Diego Opera); Scenes from An American Life (Ventura Court Theatre); The Wiz (La Jolla Playhouse – associate choreographer). Film/Television: Zombie Prom, 30 Days Until I’m Famous, Happy Texas, So Little Time, Two of a Kind, Boychik, Passport to Paris, Mary Kate & Ashley Live Fashion Show. Commercials: Cingular Wireless, American Idol Promo, Oldsmobile. Upcoming projects: Romeo and Juliet (director – Des McAnuff) and Cabaret (Stratford Festival).

ROBERT BRILL (Set Designer). CTG: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, The First Picture Show, Another American: Asking and Telling, Romance. Broadway: Assassins (Tony Award nomination), Cabaret, A Streetcar Named Desire, Laugh Whore, The Good Body, Anna in the Tropics, Design for Living, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Buried Child and The Rehearsal. Selected Credits: Sinatra, On The Record, The Wiz, Wozzeck, La Bohème, American in Paris, East of Eden, The House of Martin Guerre, A Clockwork Orange and The Laramie Project. He is a founding member of Sledgehammer Theatre and recipient of the 2004 Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration.

EMILY REBHOLZ (Costume Designer).

New York: The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (HERE), Have You Seen Steve Steven? (13P), The Lacey Project (Ice Factory, Ohio Theatre), MOMMA (PS 122), Gutenberg! The Musical!

(Actors Playhouse), The Private Lives of Eskimos, I (heart) Kant (Committee Theatre). Regional: Marat/Sade (Bard College), Doubt, Expecting Isabel (Asolo Repertory), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Demon Dreams, Polaroid Stories, P 12 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

Twelfth Night (Williamstown), Safe in Hell (Yale Rep). Yale: Three Sisters, The Real Thing, Measure for Measure. Other: designed costumes for photographer Gregory Crewdson, including “The Dream House,” published by New York Times Magazine. Education: B.A., Northwestern University; MFA, Yale School of Drama.

JEFF CROITER (Lighting Designer). New York: Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway, Rufus Wainwright’s Judy Garland Concert at Carnegie Hall, The Works (New Victory), concerts at the New Amsterdam including Chess and On The 20th Century, The Voysey Inheritance, The Accomplices, The Internationalist (Lortel nomination), Burleigh Grime$, Drumstruck, Jacques Brel…, I Love You Because, Almost, Maine, Lone Star Love, Dedication, Trumbo, Matt & Ben, Cam Jansen, Barbra’s Wedding, Passion Play, The Eros Trilogy, Miss Witherspoon, Privilege, The Dazzle and Fiction. Regional: Old Globe, McCarter, Huntington, ACT, Williamstown, Paper Mill, Geffen Playhouse, Trinity Rep, Berkshire Theatre Fest., Cincinnati Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, Theatreworks, Goodspeed and NYS&F. BART FASBENDER (Sound Designer).

Off-Broadway: Hell House (Hewes Award nomination), Boozy, Heddatron directed by Alex Timbers (Les Freres Corbusier); Bad Jazz, The Attic, Arabian Night, Sakharam Binder, Trust (The Play Company); The Screwtape Letters (FPA/Aruba Productions); Terrorism, Strangers Knocking (The New Group); A View From 151st Street (LAByrinth); All This Intimacy, Swimming in the Shallows, Spanish Girl (Second Stage); underground directed by Alex Timbers (Dorfman Dance/Brooklyn Academy of Music); Slag Heap, Bhutan, Huck and Holden, Women on Fire (Cherry Lane).

Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, N.Y. Stage and Film, Barrington Stage, American Dance Festival, Yerba Buena PAC, Virginia Premiere Theatre, The Northeast Theatre.

GABRIEL KAHANE (Music Director, Orchestrations). Composer/Lyricist: Caravan Man (Williamstown), Ted Kaczynski Killed People with Bombs (SPF with Michael Friedman), A Lie of

the Mind (NYU). MD: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Williamstown), Hell House (St. Ann’s Warehouse), A Very Merry Unauthorized Scientology Pageant (NYTW), Landscape of the Body (Signature). Recitals with Grammywinner Thomas Quasthoff in Los Angeles, London, Munich, Berlin, Verbier. As singer-songwriter: Ravinia Festival, Joe’s Pub, Feinstein’s at the Regency, two EPs: Five Songs and Walking Away from Winter. Debut fulllength drops Spring 2008. BA, Brown University. Recently recorded with Sufjan Stevens on Songs for Christmas Vol. VI. Proud to have been with BBAJ from the beginning!

JAKE PINHOLSTER (Projection Designer).

Professor of Media Design at Arizona State University in the Herberger College School of Theatre and Film, one of the first design training programs in the country to offer a chance to specialize in projection/video design for live performance. Associate artist with Les Freres Corbusier. Off-Broadway: Escape from Bellevue, Dixie’s Tupperware Party, Boozy (LFC). New York: David Dorfman Dance’s underground (BAM), HeddaTRON (LFC), My Renaissance Faire Lady, Voyage of the Carcass. Regional: Current Nobody (La Jolla Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company).

BONNIE GRISAN (Casting Director).

CTG: Come Back, Little Sheba, Sleeping Beauty Wakes (KDT). Casting Director: NYSF/Public Theater’s New Work Now! Festival (2005); New York Stage and Film (2004 and 2005). Casting Associate with McCorkle Casting – Broadway: The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; OffBroadway: Nerds:// A Musical Software Satire (NYMF), Ears on a Beatle, Address Unknown; Regional: George Street Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, Long Wharf Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater; Film: Funny Money, Bereft, The Wool Cap (TNT). Casting Associate: Cavedweller, Far Away (New York Theatre Workshop).

Film: Suburban Girl, Tenderness (Koblin/ Harding Casting), Pride & Glory (Finn/ Hiller Casting).

MIKE SABLONE (Dramaturg) is the literary associate at CTG. World Premieres: Yellow Face (CTG), Henry Flamethrowa (Trinity Rep), Radio

Free Emerson (The Gamm). Other Dramaturgy: iWitness (CTG), The Cider House Rules (Trinity Rep). Film: Taffy Master for The Love Letter, special thanks for 11:14, and can be seen in the widescreen version of Outside Providence.

THE PUBLIC THEATER (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Mara Manus, Executive Director) was founded by Joseph Papp in 1954 and is now one of the nation’s preeminent cultural institutions, producing new plays, musicals, and productions of classics at its downtown headquarters and at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The Public’s mandate to create a theatre for all New Yorkers continues to this day onstage and through extensive outreach and education programs. Each year, over 250,000 people attend Public Theaterrelated productions and events at six downtown stages, including Joe’s Pub and Shakespeare in the Park. The Public has won 40 Tony Awards, 138 Obies, 39 Drama Desk Awards and four Pulitzer Prizes. www.publictheater.org.

DAVID S. FRANKLIN (Production Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: Highlights – Bandido!, Gross Indecency, Like Jazz, Nickel and Dimed, Intimate Apparel, The Goat, An Enemy of the People, Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème, Art, 3hree, A Perfect Wedding, Romance, The Cherry Orchard, Curtains, Nightingale, Distracted, Come Back, Little Sheba, The History Boys. Other Los Angeles: Los Angeles Theatre Center in its heyday from 1985-1990, Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse. Regional: Seattle Rep, Intiman Theatre. New York: The Public Theater. Tours: Europe – Quotations From a Ruined City, Law of Remains (with Reza Abdoh’s Dar a Luz company); North America – Ann Magnuson’s You Could Be Home Now. ELIZABETH ATKINSON (Stage Manager). Regional: 13, Stuff Happens, iWitness, Yellow Face (Mark Taper Forum); Dead End (Ahmanson); A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Clay (Kirk Douglas Theatre); the Finale of 365 Days/365 Plays (Center Theatre Group and Grand Performances), Paint Your Wagon, Speed the Plow (Geffen Playhouse). Other L.A.: Stickfly (Los

Angeles Theatre Works), Wilhelm Reich in Hell (Son of Semele), Absence of Weather (Moving Arts). Proud member of Actors’ Equity.

MICHELLE BLAIR (Stage Manager).

CTG: Distracted, Nightingale, Without Walls, Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates, all wear bowlers (also at the Barbican Theatre, Berkeley Rep. and La Jolla Playhouse), Flight, Nothing But The Truth, Stones In His Pockets, Topdog/Underdog and “QED” at Lincoln Center Theatre. Michelle has worked extensively with Cornerstone Theater Company, where she is also a member of the Ensemble, as well as with various companies in Los Angeles such as the Pasadena Playhouse and with Culture Clash on their show Zorro in Hell.

Education: Graduate of the University of Southern California and the University of Amsterdam.

MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is now in his third season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director and has led a total of over 40 productions to the Ahmanson, Taper and Douglas stages. During this time he premiered two musicals, The Drowsy Chaperone and Curtains, both of which moved to Broadway and received a total of 21 Tony Award nominations (more than any other theatre company outside of New York); he produced 12 world premieres including the musicals 13 and Sleeping Beauty Wakes, and the plays Water & Power, Nighthawks and Yellow Face; and he presented a broad range of plays and musicals ranging from Dead End to Romance to The Black Rider to blockbusters such as Jersey Boys and Edward Scissorhands. In addition, Michael inaugurated CTG’s New Play Production Program, designed to foster the development and production of new work. From 1996 to 2004 Michael served as producer of the Williamstown Theatre Festival where he presented American premieres, major revivals of American classics, and he developed and presented new works. Williamstown was the recipient of the 2002 Regional Theatre Tony Award.

CHARLES DILLINGHAM (Managing Director) for the past 15 years has supervised all development, marketing, administrative and financial aspects of Center Theatre Group. Prior to CTG, he was CEO of The Entertainment Corporation USA, which presented the Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Opera, Kirov Ballet, Kirov Opera and Royal Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House and on tour.

He was executive director of American Ballet Theatre, managing director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Theatre Company, general manager of ACT in San Francisco, and an independent producer. He served on the board of LA Stage Alliance and on theatre advisory panels at the California Arts Council and the NEA. He is a member of the Board of Councilors at the USC School of Theatre as well as for the Board of Arts for L.A. DOUGLAS C. BAKER (General Manager) is now in his 18th season at CTG. Previously, he managed Broadway and touring productions including Tru, Born Yesterday, The Gospel at Colonus, Annie, A Chorus Line, Working, The Wiz and Legends! starring Mary Martin and Carol Channing which premiered at the Ahmanson Theatre in 1986. From 1982–85, Baker was executive director of the Independent Booking Office in New York City. He is a graduate of Albion College, is an active member of the Broadway League, the IPN and the NAMT and is a proud member of ATPAM. KELLEY KIRKPATRICK (Associate Producer). Since arriving at CTG in 2005, Kelley has served as associate producer on Clay, Curtains, Dead End, Water & Power, Yellow Face, iWitness, Nightingale, all wear bowlers, Solomania!, Come Back, Little Sheba. Prior to his arrival at CTG, Kelley was the production stage manager for over 40 shows on and off-Broadway including productions at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, the Atlantic Theater Company, the Huntington Theatre Company and 12 seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

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Additional Staff for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre – including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts and a Guggenheim fellowship.

The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989 Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

THE USC SCHOOL OF THEATRE, recognized internationally as a leader in theatre education, is ranked among the top five undergraduate theatre programs in the nation. Blending artistic training in a conservatory environment with the academic advantages of a major research university, the School offers B.A., BFA and MFA degrees taught by a faculty of theatre artists working at the highest level of their profession. Guest speakers and lecturers include some of the most distinguished talents from stage, screen and television. The location of the campus, in the center of the entertainment industry, makes the School distinctive among colleges and universities in the U.S. Visit us at http://theatre.usc.edu/

Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katie Coleman Assistant Choreographer . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Tatad Assistant Costume Designer . . . . . Elizabeth A. Cox Assistant Lighting Designer . . . . . Christopher Kuhl Assistant Projection Designer . . Michael Matthews Second Assistant Projection Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallas Nichols Sound Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philip G. Allen Fight Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian Unterman Projection Supervisor . . . . . . . Jason H. Thompson Projection Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Justin Waller Deck Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lorely Trinidad Deck Crew . . . . . . . . . . Laura Estrada, Seth Kolarsky Light Board Operator . . . . . . . . . . . Aaron Staubach Production Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . Meghan Hong Follow Spot Operators . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Whitcomb, Christopher Williams Deck Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thaddeus Reed Guitar Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Dominguez Wardrobe Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . Dian Camarillo Wardrobe . . . . . . . . . . Colleen KH Hagerty, Bich Vu Prop Artisans . . . . . . . . Andrew Thiels, Mia Torres, Kitty Murphy-Youngs Prop Scenic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melissa Ficociello Prop Shopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Graff British Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andy Ward Rehearsal Pianist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brent Crayon On Location Education Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jodi Green Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Moll Technical Crew Lou Albrusezze, Chris Batstone, Victor Cobos, Katrina Coulourides, Ben Courtney, Jennifer Dallas, Prince DeLeon, Lauren Drzata, Richard Kim, Juan Lozano, Caroline Law, Christopher Maldanado, Eliseo Matias, Mark “Lunchbox” Migdal, David Petersen, Katherine Polebaum, Jimmy Southworth, Charlotte Wheeler, James K. Wong, Ghost and Fred.

CREDITS Set construction by The Scenic Route. Guitar set up by Renson Guitars. Costumes provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop and additional staff: Tailor - Swantje Gragert-Tuohino; Stitcher - Ophelia Brown, Lisa Hill, Lisa Elliott, Sally Blankfield, Tami Blake, Wesley Crain; Crafts - Ilona Muschenetz; Shopper - Elizabeth A. Cox; USC intern - Kathryn M. Poppen; FIDM Interns - Junlyn Delas Alas, Kristin Hemsley, Kat Phuong Ho, Carolyn Jamerson, Mikael Sharafyan. Rehearsal and production photography by Craig Schwartz.

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Special Thanks Anne Davison, Roger Rees, Tom Schumacher, Amanda Charlton, the Williamstown Theatre Festival Act One Company, Michael Ritchie, Kelley Kirkpatrick, Mike Sablone, Mame Hunt, Oskar Eustis, Jenny Gersten, Thomas Pearson, Patrick Herold, John Buzzetti, Ryan Karels, Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum, Rich Huntley, Aaron Lemon-Strauss, Jim Nicola, Linda Chapman, Kurt Deutsch, Brent Crayon, Lincoln Madley, Jon Sound.

Heather Kulibert – Los Angeles Opera; Scenic Highlights; Norman Balos – House of Props; Tom McAlister, Denise Maroney; Paul Carey; Lenny Coltun, Norik Renson and Renson Guitars, Jenice Rosen, Donna Doherty at Rosebrand, Felix Lighting, Kinetic Lighting; Julie Brinley, Deirdre Devin, Michael Gigante, Lauren Rayner, Vicki Tisdale, Craig Wolynez; Jamie Tolbert Franklin.

This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.

The Director and Choreographer are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

Center Theatre Group is a member of the American Arts Alliance, the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), Independent Producers’ Network, League of American Theatres and Producers, LA Stage Alliance and the National Alliance of Musical Theatre, and is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the nonprofit professional theatre.

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

During the performance, please turn off all pagers, telephones and other electronic devices.

Please Note: In order to minimize disruption to the audience and actors, entrance to the theatre is at the discretion of management once the performance begins.

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Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director Charles Dillingham, Managing Director Douglas c. baker, General Manager ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Producer KELLEY KIRKPATRICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Producer DIANE RODRIGUEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Producer/Director of New Play Production ANN E. WAREHAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Producer PIER CARLO TALENTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager mike Sablone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary Associate Jesus Reyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Play Production Associate corey madden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artist LUIS ALFARO, TANYA BARFIELD, FRANK BASLOE, jonathan Butterell, BRIDGET CARPENTER, JULIA CHO, MICHAEL FRIEDMAN, KATE FODOR, MELISSA JAMES GIBSON, JESSICA GOLDBERG, STEPHEN ADLEY GUIRGIS (Fadiman Award), JOE HORTUA, LISA KRON, Michael John LaChiusa, LISA LOOMER, DAEL ORLANDERSMITH (Fadiman Award), LOUIE PEREZ, Robert Reale, William Reale, LUIS TORRES . . . . . . . . Commissioned Artists PERFORMING FOR LOS ANGELES YOUTH (P.L.A.Y.) CELESTE THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Department Manager KIMIKO L. BRODER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Educational Programs Manager RACHEL FAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editorial Manager DAN Harper, Emily Weisberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Educational Programs Associates Christine Mantilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Administrative Assistant CASTING ERIKA SELLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director Bonnie Grisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director tad shafer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION Nausica Stergiou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate General Manager JEFFREY UPAH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate General Manager EMILIE BECK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Manager LINDSAY ALLBAUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to Mr. Ritchie Alana beidelman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to Mr. Dillingham SUZANNE HEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Manager KATIE BRUNER SOFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant to the General Manager TONY ROMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theatre Manager (Douglas) Meredith Anne Patt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Performance Manager (Douglas) Sondra Mayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Concessions Manager (Douglas) PRODUCTION ALYS E. HOLDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Production CELESTE SANTAMASSINO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager (Douglas) KATE COLTUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Production Manager (Douglas/P.L.A.Y.) SHANNON NICKERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical Director (Douglas) RICHARD PETERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Douglas) ADAM PHALEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Head Audio (Douglas) WILLIAM ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Carpenter (Ahmanson) TERRY CALLAWAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Ahmanson) STAN STEELMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Propertyman (Ahmanson) ROBERT SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Soundman (Ahmanson) SHAWN ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flyman (Ahmanson) DENNIS SEETOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson/Taper) MICHELE ARVIZO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hair Supervisor (Ahmanson) CHRISTINE L. COX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Manager (Ahmanson) DANA VASQUEZ-EBERHARDT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Administrator GUSTAVO MENDOZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transportation Director AFLAMU JOHNSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Driver DAWN HOLISKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prop Director MICHELLE PHIPPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Prop Coordinator CANDICE CAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Shop Director DIAN CAMARILLO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Shop Coordinator KATHY CHRISTIANSEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Draper DIANNE K. GRAEBNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Milliner/Crafts/Dyer KEN TAMBE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Business Manager JULIO A. CUELLAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Custodian JONATHAN BARLOW LEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager (Taper) JESSE AASHEIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Production Manager (Taper) HOWARD DOLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Carpenter (Taper) ROBERT RUBY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Propertyman (Taper) FINANCE, INFORMATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES EDWARD L. RADA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chief Financial Officer MICHAEL F. THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Controller JANIS BOWBEER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Controller FELICISIMA LAPID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts Payable Supervisor ALEGRIA SENA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff Accountant DANNY LAMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff Accountant KACEY CAMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Administrative Assistant MILES TEVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Human Resources Manager ANTHONY GOLDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payroll Manager sarah venuti yates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payroll Specialist STAN GRUSHESKY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Information Systems SEAN PINTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patron Database Administrator RANDOLPH LIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior System Administrator

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Allison Morrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Office Manager DAMON JOSEPH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Office Services SINGER LEWAK GREENBAUM & GOLDSTEIN, LLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Auditor MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Legal Counsel GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Legal Counsel DEVELOPMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Development PATRICK OWEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deputy Director of Development NATALIE BERGESON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Donor Contributions LIZ LIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Donor Communications BRUCE W. RISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Major Gifts CHARITY WU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Individual Giving KIM LA TOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director of Corporate Giving BECKY BIRDSONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Relations Manager JEAN LAMBORN KLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manager of Institutional Support ERICA LOTZER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Events Manager regina williamson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Major Gifts Officer SANDRA Ebejer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grants Writer CAITIE HANNON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grants Associate LAURA KING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Major Gifts Coordinator STEFANIE LAU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Events Coordinator HELEN OTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to the Development Director Meropi peponides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Corporate Giving Coordinator MANDY RATLIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Database Manager jennifer Yirak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Assistant LINDA WALKER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patron Concierge AL BERMAN, GINA EAST, JULIETTE GARRISON, JUSTINE KLINEMAN, Rick Lee, JUAN PEREZ, HOLLY RAMOS, JESS STROUP, eleanor whitledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Advisors MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS JIM ROYCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Marketing and Communications NANCY HEREFORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Press Director PHYLLIS MOBERLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Press Associate JASON MARTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Press Associate KEN WERTHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Press Associate DELPHINE VASKO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Press Assistant CHRISTOPHER KOMURO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Art Director IRENE KANESHIRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Designer CHARITY CAPILI, nishita doshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Designers MICHAEL ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advertising & Promotions Director NELLA VERA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director of Marketing C. RAUL ESPINOZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Associate Eric Sims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Production Manager KRISTEN BARDWIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advertising Associate ART PRIROMPRINTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Assistant TICKET SALES AND SERVICES JOSEPH CARTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ticket Sales Director LLOYD “SKYPP” CABANAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant SANDY CZUBIAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience and Subscriber Services Manager JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, SCOTT TAYLOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Asst. Supervisor Carla Galvez, gabriela noriega, BILL WALTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Services Associates SAM AARON, LIZ ALAN, CARRIE BRADAC, ZAND BROUMAND, adam burch, RJ CANTU, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., PETER COLBURN, HESPER COLOHAN, MICHAEL HURLEY, KAY LOCHARD, JUSTINE PEREZ, prachaya prajuntasen, RICHARD RAGSDALE, LEX SAVKO, TRAVIS WOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Representatives DANUTA SIEMAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor LIGIA PISTE, CELIA RIVAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Senior Representatives irene chuang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Representative SARAH K. GONTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Office Treasurer KISHISA ROSS, GISELE FRAZEUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Treasurers YULIZA BARRAZA, ANGELICA CERDA, michael kempisty, LEROY PAWLOWSKI, DAVID LEE PERKINS, MICHAEL SALTZMAN, GEORGE SOVIAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Office Staff LINDA FONSECA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Group Services Manager NADJAH DABNEY, NIIKA TANIGUCHI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Group Services/Outreach Sales Agents Jennifer HARTMANN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Education Services Agent KERRY KORF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Director SUSAN F. TULLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Manager paul cuen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Supervisor BETH HARTMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Assistant Carole Baxter, Lynn Bommer, Jay Burns, jen cain, Marc “Byron” Drotman, Lou George, kate hall, Jerry Johnston, elaine Kao, Edwin Klein, SHEP KOSTER, Paul “Joseph” Marcoux, joann paoLantonio, Carol “Colette” Poretz, MATT PELFREY, EDWARD “MAX” RAZOR, Ken Salley, Michael Smith, jeffrey stubblefield, greg tittinger, douglas woods, CHRIS ZYCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Representatives