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We look forward to seeing you at La Jolla Playhouse at your upcoming performance of Tribes. Below is some additional information about the production and the venue to enhance your theater-going experience. Parking Parking is free for all subscribers. For all others parking is $2 (subject to change), Mon-Fri. Upon arrival to campus, please purchase your parking permit from one of the automated pay stations located next to the information kiosk. Simply park, note your space number, and pay $2 at the pay station. Pay stations accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express or cash ($1 and $5), and do not give change. You will not need to return to your car. Parking is free on the weekends. ASL Interpreted Performances The following performances will have American Sign Language interpretation: - Saturday, July 6 at 2:00 pm - Tuesday, July 9 at 7:30 pm - Tuesday, July 9 at 7:30 pm - Friday, July 19 at 8:00 pm - Sunday, July 21 at 2:00 pm Audience Engagement Events The Playhouse offers unique opportunities for audience members to delve deeper into the play with these special performance series options: Insider Events: Meet with a staff member 1 hour prior to the performance for an insider’s discussion. - Saturday, July 13 at 1:00 pm - Wednesday, July 17 at 6:30 pm Talkback Tuesday: Join cast and crew for a discussion following the performance. - Tuesday, July 2 following the 7:30 pm performance - Tuesday, July 9 following the 7:30 pm performance ACCESS Performance: During this performance, La Jolla Playhouse provides American Sign Language interpretation for audience members who are deaf or hard of hearing and audio description for patrons who are blind or have low vision. - Saturday, July 6 at 2:00 pm Discovery Sunday: Explore the themes of the production with special guest speakers. - Sunday, July 21 following the 2:00pm performance
ADDITIONAL EVENTS Foodie Friday: Buy a ticket to Tribes and enjoy a complimentary microbrew tasting from Stone Brewing Company. Plus, the finest San Diego food trucks will be on hand. - Friday, June 28 at 6:00 pm - Friday, July 19 at 6:00 pm Accessibility A golf cart is available to assist patrons with accessibility issues to and from the parking lot. Please notify the Box Office prior to your performance if you are in need of this service; additionally, you may pull into the five minute parking in front of the theatre, and a friendly La Jolla Playhouse greeter will assist you. Pardon Our Dust – Theatre District Landscape Improvement Project Landscape improvements will include new walkways, exterior plazas, enhanced signage and lighting, as well as permanent seating areas. Additionally, eucalyptus grove restoration will reinforce the unique character of the Theatre District and its connection to the greater UC San Diego campus. La Jolla Playhouse productions will continue without interruption, but please look for signs and ushers to be your guide around the fenced-in work areas. For more information please contact Patron Services. Dining We recommend the following nearby restaurants: Dolce, Pane E Vino 16081 San Dieguito Road Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 dolcepaneevino.com
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TRIBES CONTENT WARNING This production contains strong language, adult content and cigarettes.
MISSION: La Jolla Playhouse advances theatre as an art form and as a vital social, moral and political platform by providing unfettered creative opportunities for the leading artists of today and tomorrow. With our youthful spirit and eclectic, artist-driven approach, we will continue to cultivate a local and national following with an insatiable appetite for audacious and diverse work. In the future, San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse will be considered singularly indispensable to the worldwide theatre landscape, as we become a permanent safe harbor for the unsafe and surprising. The day will come when it will be essential to enter the La Jolla Playhouse village in order to get a glimpse of what is about to happen in American theatre.
La Jolla Playhouse has received La Jolla Playhouse has received the the highest rating from Charity highest rating from Charity Navigator, Navigator, the nation’s premier the nation’s premier charity evaluator. charity evaluator. P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINe
CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
A MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Without language, who are we? Language lies at the core of who we are as a species, as a tribe. It is how we distinguish similarities and differences, likes and dislikes, and the gamut of emotions from love to hate. It is how we identify and understand – and misunderstand – ourselves, each other and the world. Nina Raines’ Tribes shows us the gritty intimacy of a family for whom language is a weapon. We are thrust into the midst of a family dinner during which everyone says terrible things to each other in a dazzling game of linguistic and intellectual one-upmanship and dressing down. Billy, one of the family’s three siblings, sits quietly on the sidelines. Deaf since birth, the torrent of words is just white noise to Billy. He is, at once, part of the family tribe, but also excluded from it. When Billy finds a tribe of his own, the family is forced to confront their messy, unresolvable choices. In director David Cromer’s smart, theatrical staging of the play, the family’s love for each other is palpably present, particularly in the heartbreaking silences. The ways in which we communicate and “not hear” is a truth at the heart of Raines’ story. Cromer and the Tribes design team deftly show us how we are all, in various ways, hearing-challenged. I find a universal resonance in Tribes. Each family member struggles to be heard and understood – just as we all do in our own families. One of the many virtues of the play is learning that we all belong to a tribe of one kind or another.
UP NEXT: SIDEWAYS
July 16 - August 18 Des McAnuff Directs a new play based on the acclaimed novel Sideways is the story of two friends – Miles, a frustrated novelist, and Jack, a no-name TV actor and director – and their journey through wine, women and disappointment. During one last blowout road trip before Jack is to be married, the two men run tangle-footed into their midlife crises, all the while exploring the stellar Santa Ynez wine region.
by REX
PICKETT directed by DES McANUFF
LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE presents Michael S. Rosenberg Managing Director
Christopher Ashley Artistic Director
by
NINA RAINE Directed by
DAVID CROMER Featuring
Thomas DellaMonica*, Russell Harvard*, Meghan O’Neill*, Lee Roy Rogers*, Jeff Still*, Dina Thomas* SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN Video & Projection Design CASTING STAGE MANAGER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Producing Director Associate PRODUCTION MANAGER
Scott Pask Tristan Raines Keith Parham Daniel Kluger Jeff Sugg Pat McCorkle Casting, Ltd.; Pat McCorkle, Joe Lopick Rosy Garner* Leighann Enos* DANA I. HARREL Marc D. Stubblefield
Tribes was commissioned and first presented by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre on October 14, 2010. Tribes was presented by Barrow Street Theatre, New York, NY in 2012. Tribes is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, New York.
THE CAST (in order of appearance)
Thomas DellaMonica......................................................................................................... Daniel Lee Roy Rogers...................................................................................................................... Beth Jeff Still.........................................................................................................................Christopher Dina Thomas........................................................................................................................... Ruth Russell Harvard.......................................................................................................................Billy Meghan O’Neill....................................................................................................................Sylvia Setting Present day Tribes is performed with a 15-minute intermission. Assistant Director La Jolla Playhouse Dramaturg Liaison Wig and Makeup Designer Sign Language Interpreter Assistant Scenic Designer Assistant Costume Designer Assistant Lighting Designers Assistant Sound Designer Assistant Projection Designer Costume Assistant Production Assistant Stage Management Intern
Seth Sikes Shirley Fishman Leah Loukas Elizabeth Greene John Zuiker Erick Sundquist Heather Graff, Wen-Ling Liao Rebecca Kessen Eric May Jenny Foldenaver Katie Chen McKenzie Riley
Acknowledgements Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc. • Sharp Business Systems Special thanks to Starkey Hearing Foundation – StarkeyHearingFoundation.org, Dr. Rose Dulude – DuludeAndAssociates.com, Jennifer Clifford and Elizabeth Fry from Interpret San Diego
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association. This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.
This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.
La Jolla Playhouse is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the nonprofit professional theatre.
(L-R): Jay Armstrong Johnson, Allison Case and Hunter Foster in Hands on a Hardbody, photo by Kevin Berne
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COMPELLING STORIES AWARD-WINNING ARTISTS Support for the 2013-2014 Season provided in part by:
directed by
by REX PICKETT DES McANUFF
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE I-5
West Coast Premiere HIS GIRL FRIDAY Adapted by JOHN GUARE from The Front Page by BEN HECHTand CHARLES MacARTHUR His Girl Friday Directed by CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
MAY 28 – JUNE 30
JULY 16 – AUGUST 18
AUGUST 6 - SEPTEMBER 1
LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY DIRECTS THIS ROMANTIC NEWSROOM COMEDY
DES McANUFF DIRECTS A NEW PLAY BASED ON THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE ACCLAIMED MOVIE
THE SECOND CITY RETURNS TO THE PLAYHOUSE WITH AN ORIGINAL, SIDESPLITTING TRIBUTE TO SAN DIEGO
BILL RUSSELL music by HENRY KRIEGER directed by BILL CONDON
book and lyrics by
DANIEL BEATY MOISÉS KAUFMAN
written and performed by directed by
Co-production with Kansas City Repertory Theatre
In Association with The Kennedy Center
by
AYADAKHTAR directed by KIMBERLYSENIOR
OCTOBER 9 – NOVEMBER 3
NOVEMBER 5 – DECEMBER 15
FEBRUARY 11 – MARCH 9, 2014
MOISÉS KAUFMAN DIRECTS A NEW PLAY WITH MUSIC ON THE LIFE OF ACTOR AND ACTIVIST PAUL ROBESON
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER BILL CONDON DIRECTS THIS RE-IMAGINED BROADWAY MUSICAL
WORLD PREMIERE PLAY BY PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT AYAD AKHTAR
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THE COMPANY Thomas DellaMonica, Daniel La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Tribes (Billy/Daniel u/s, Barrow Street Theatre). Other New York credits: staged readings of First Dance (Union Club); The Town of No One (Project Y Theater Co.); and Sound (The Civilians). Regional: Tribes (Billy/Daniel u/s, Mark Taper Forum); Much Ado About Nothing (Balthasar/Watchman u/s, Two River Theatre). B.F.A. from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. This one’s for all the Daniels in the world. Russell Harvard, Billy La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Mr. Harvard is well-known for appearing in the award-winning film There Will Be Blood as Adult HW. He portrayed Matt Hamill, a UFC fighter retiree and former NCAA wrestler, in The Hammer, based on a true story. He has directed three high school musical productions including Grease and The Wizard of Oz at Texas School for the Deaf. Theatre credits include Barrow Street Theatre’s Tribes (Theatre World Award, Lucille Lortel, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Deaf West Theatre’s Aesop Who? (Aesop); Kennedy Center and VSA Arts’ Nobody’s Perfect (Assistant Director); Center Theatre Group’s Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Groundkeeper’s Son/Orderly); Gallaudet University’s A Streetcar Named Desire (The Ghost of Allan Grey) and Amaryllis Theatre’s Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio). Film/TV credits include ASL Films’ Versa Effect (Seth) and Gerald (Corey); Golden Summer Productions’ Words (Owen); Fox’s Fringe (Joe) and CBS’ CSI: NY (Cole). www.russellharvard.net Meghan O’Neill , Sylvia La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Other credits: Tribes (Barrow St. Theater, Mark Taper); As You Like It (Guthrie Theatre); Macbeth, Blithe Spirit (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Untold Crimes (Guthrie Lab). Sketch and Comedy: Matt&Meghan (TONY critic’s pick); ‘Fraidy Cat: A (sort of) Solo Show (Ars Nova, W.I.C. Festival, Sketchfest NY, Charleston Comedy Festival); Queens City Radio, JCrew Crew, Animals, Girl Camp, Livia Scott Sketch Program. Contributor to Reductress, Slacktory, NYMag. Proud member of The Story Pirates. Training: Guthrie Actor Training Program, National Theatre London, Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Second City, UCB, Magnet Theatre. www.meghanoneill.org Lee Roy Rogers, Beth La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Tribes and Orson’s Shadow – Drama Desk Award Nomination (Barrow Street Theatre); When the Rain Stops Falling, u/s (Lincoln Center); Children of a Lesser God (Keen Company); Death Bed (Apparition); 365Plays/365 Days (Public/Barrow St.). Regional: Superior Donuts (Capitol Repertory); Circle Mirror Transformation (Kansas City Repertory); The Man Who Came to Dinner, Orson’s Shadow, A Fair Country (Steppenwolf); The Price (Writers’ Theatre); Copenhagen (Delaware Theater); Still Waters (Victory Gardens); Prin (Joseph Jefferson Award). Festivals: Barbican, Williamstown, Westport, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, New York Fringe. Film: Road to Perdition. TV: Law & Order: CI, Canterbury’s Law, Book of Daniel.
Jeff Still, Christopher La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: August: Osage County (also national tour); Lombardi (understudied Dan Lauria). Off-Broadway: Tribes, Our Town, Adding Machine and Orson Welles in Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street Theatre). Regional: Tribes (Mark Taper Forum); Our Town (Broad Stage, Santa Monica); Mark Rothko in RED (Pittsburgh Public Theatre); Vince Lombardi in Lombardi: The Only Thing (Madison Rep, Wisconsin); Salieri in Amadeus (Cardinal Stage, Bloomington), the world premiere of Tracy Letts’ Bug (Gate Theatre in London, England) and 12 shows with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Dina Thomas, Ruth La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Tribes. Regional: See How They Run (Barrington Stage); Release Point (Berkshires Playwrights Lab); Green Whales (National New Play Network); Distracted (Unicorn Theatre). Dina is currently working on her one-woman show, Tales of a Non-génue and Other ‘Short’ Stories. Education: M.F.A. in Acting from University of Missouri–Kansas City. Nina Raine, Playwright Ms. Raine began her career as a trainee director at the Royal Court Theatre after graduating from Oxford. She dramaturged and directed Unprotected at the Liverpool Everyman (TMA Best Director Award, Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award). Her debut play, Rabbit, premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre in 2006 and transferred to the West End before going to New York. Rabbit won the Charles Wintour Evening Standard and Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. Nina also directed her second play, Tiger Country, at Hampstead Theatre. She directed Jumpy at the Royal Court Theatre, later transferring to the West End, and Shades (Critics Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Most Promising Newcomer). Her commission for the Royal Court Theatre, Tribes, directed by Roger Michell, won an Offie Award and was nominated for Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best New Play. Tribes in New York won the Drama Desk Award for Best New Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. Nina just opened Longing by William Boyd at Hampstead Theatre. David Cromer, Director Mr. Cromer most recently directed Nikolai and The Others at Lincoln Center Theater and Really Really at MCC in New York. He recently remounted his production of Our Town at the Huntington Theatre in Boston. This production, which originated at the Hypocrites in Chicago in 2008, has played the Broad Stage in Los Angeles and Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre. His other New York credits are Tribes and Orson’s Shadow both at Barrow Street, When the Rain Stops Falling at Lincoln Center, Adding Machine at the Minetta Lane and The House of Blue Leaves and Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway. Credits in his native Chicago include Sweet Bird of Youth at the Goodman Theatre; Rent at About Face/American Theatre Company; Picnic, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Price and Booth at Booth at Writers theatre; Cherrywood, Mojo and The Hot l Baltimore at Mary-Arrchie; The Cider House Rules at Famous Door; A Perfect Mendacity, The Dazzle, Orson’s Shadow, Golden Boy at Steppenwolf and Angels in America for The Journeymen. For his work he has received five Jeff Awards, three Lortels, two Obies and a 2010 MacArthur Fellowship.
THE COMPANY Scott Pask, Scenic Design La Jolla Playhouse: Restoration, Cry-Baby. Selected Broadway: Pippin (Tony Award nomination), I’ll Eat You Last, The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), The House of Blue Leaves, HAIR, Pal Joey (Tony nomination), 9 to 5, Speed-the-Plow, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), November, Cry-Baby, The Ritz, The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Hewes Awards), The Pillowman (Tony Award), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Vertical Hour, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Take Me Out (London, NYSF), Nine, Sweet Charity, La Cage aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors, Amour, Urinetown. Selected Off-Broadway: Tribes (Barrow Street), HAIR (NYSF), Blackbird (MTC), Bash. London: The Playboy of the Western World (Old Vic), The Country Girl, Love Song, On an Average Day, Tales from Hollywood (Donmar), National Theatre, Almeida, Opera North. Peter Grimes (Met Opera, 2008). Multiple Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Hewes and Lortel Award nominations. Tristan Raines, Costume Design La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Bare (New World Stages); Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre/CTG-LA); Murder in the First (59E59); Falling (Minetta Lane); Yosemite (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Getting the Business (Theatre Row); The Bilbao Effect (Center for Architecture). Other New York: The House of Von Macrame (Bushwick Starr); Goldor $ Mythyka (New Georges); YANK: The Musical (The Old Globe workshop); 83 Down (Hard Sparks); Lake Water (IRT Theater); Corner Pocket (Extant Arts); Keep Your Baggage with You (Lesser American); Gormanzee (Flea Theater); Comedie of Errors (New Lions Productions). Regional: Book of Grace, ARTiculation (Company One); My Name Is Rachel Corrie (New Rep: Boston); Lucia di Lammermoor (Huntington Theater/Opera). Education: B.S. from Northwest Missouri State University; M.F.A. from Boston University; studied at Imperial College, London. www.tristanraines.com Keith Parham, Lighting Design La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. New York: Hit the Wall, Tribes, Mistakes Were Made and Red Light Winter (Barrow Street Theatre); Through the Yellow Hour (Rattlestick Theatre); Stop the Virgens (Karen O at St. Ann’s Warehouse); Ivanov, Three Sisters (Classic Stage Company); A Minister’s Wife (Lincoln Center Theatre); Adding Machine (Minetta Lane); Crime and Punishment, Sunset Limited (59E59). Chicago: The Silent Language, The Dumb Waiter, Fulton Street Sessions, Baal (TUTA Theatre, Company Member); Teddy Ferrara, Sweet Bird of Youth, Red, Mary, The Seagull (Goodman); The Birthday Party, Time Stands Still, Sunset Limited, Red Light Winter (Steppenwolf). International: Stop the Virgens (Sydney Opera House); Homebody/Kabul (National Theatre of Belgrade, Serbia). Also Arena Stage, The Alley Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Trinity Repertory, Shakespeare on the Sound and Chicago Opera Theatre among others. Awards: Obie, Lortel, After Dark and Michael Maggio. Daniel Kluger, Sound Design La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. New York: Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater); The North Pool, Somewhere Fun (Vineyard); Tribes, Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre); House for Sale (Transport Group); A (radically condensed and expanded) SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING I’LL NEVER DO AGAIN…After David Foster Wallace (directed by Daniel Fish), The Common Pursuit (Roundabout); A Map of Virtue (13P); Lidless (Page73); The Temperamentals (Daryl Roth); Enjoy! (The Play Co); Jailbait (Cherry Lane); Uncle Vanya, Ivanov, Platonov, The Seagull (Brian Mertes, Lake Lucille). Regional: Pig Iron, The Arden Theatre Company, Two River Theatre Company, People’s Light & Theatre, TheatreWorks (Palo Alto), American Players Theatre. Awards: Henry Hewes, Lortel nomination, Barrymore nomination. www.danielkluger.com
Jeff Sugg, Video & Projection Design La Jolla Playhouse: 33 Variations. Mr. Sugg is a Brooklyn-based designer and multi-award winner. Other theater credits include: Broadway: Bring It On: The Musical, Magic/Bird, 33 Variations, Chinglish. Off-Broadway: Last Five Years, This Clement World, Tribes, Compulsion, The Book of Grace, Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, The Truth: A Tragedy, The Accidental Trilogy. Regional: The Elephant Man (Alley); Mountaintop (Alley/Arena); As You Like It (Shakespeare Theater); A Time to Kill (Arena Stage). He has also worked with many renowned companies and artists including Cynthia Hopkins, Laurie Anderson and The Wooster Group. He has won a Lortel, an Obie, a Bessie and two Hewes Awards. Pat McCorkle Casting, LTD. Casting La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Pat McCorkle, Casting Director; Joe Lopick, Associate Casting Director. Pat McCorkle (C.S.A.) has, for over 30 years, cast memorable Broadway productions of End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Amadeus, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers and A Few Good Men, among many others. Notable Off-Broadway projects include Hit the Wall and Tribes (Barrow Street), Falling, Our Town, Toxic Avenger, Almost Maine, Freud’s Last Session, Ears on a Beatle, Killer Joe, Mrs. Klein, Driving Miss Daisy. A partial list of feature film projects includes: Premium Rush, Ghost Town, Secret Window, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, Basic, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, and for TV: humans for Sesame Street, Californication (Emmy nomination), Max Bickford, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop and Chappelle’s Show, among others. Rosy Garner, Stage Manager La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, South Pacific, The 39 Steps. Off-Broadway: Tribes, The 39 Steps, Stop the Virgens, Saturn Returns, Angela’s Mixtape. Regional: The 39 Steps, Present Laughter, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Huntington Theatre Company); Quartermaine’s Terms, Children, The Understudy, Cold Hard Cash, Dissonance (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Boeing Boeing (Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theater). International: Stop the Virgens (Sydney Opera House). Ballet: The Nutcracker (New York City Ballet); La Sylphide and Seranade, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, New Visions (Boston Ballet). Alumna of Boston University. Leighann Enos, Assistant Stage Manager La Jolla Playhouse: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, A Lonely Boy’s Guide to Survival (and Werewolves) – POP Tour 2013. Regional: Twelfth Night (TYA Tour 2013 & Summer Shakespeare Intensive 2010), Nobody Loves You, Odyssey: A Music Theatre Event, August: Osage County (The Old Globe); Magnolia, Rock ‘n’ Roll (Goodman Theatre). UC San Diego: June Moon, Space Between, The Threepenny Opera, reasons to be pretty, Topdog/Underdog. University of Florida: The Rocky Horror Show, The Mikado, West Side Story, La Traviata. M.F.A. in Stage Management, UC San Diego. B.A. in Criminology, University of Florida.
THE COMPANY Christopher Ashley, La Jolla Playhouse Artistic Director has served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director since October, 2007. During his tenure, he has helmed the Playhouse’s productions of His Girl Friday, Glengarry Glen Ross, A Dram of Drummhicit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Restoration and the musicals Xanadu and Memphis, which won four 2010 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Prior to joining the Playhouse, he directed the Broadway productions of Xanadu (Drama Desk nomination), All Shook Up and The Rocky Horror Show (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), as well as the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration productions of Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along. Other New York credits include: Blown Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey (Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets Only, Wonder of the World, Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, The Night Hank Williams Died, Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award), among others. Mr. Ashley also directed the feature film Jeffrey and the American Playhouse production of Blown Sideways Through Life for PBS. Mr. Ashley is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award, the Drama League Director Fellowship and an NEA/TCG Director Fellowship. Michael S. Rosenberg, Managing Director has served as Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse since April, 2009. During his four years at the Playhouse, he has worked in partnership with Artistic Director Christopher Ashley to produce 15 world premieres, 9 Playhouse commissions and the hit musicals Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Hands on a Hardbody and Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin. He was also instrumental in bringing the Page To Stage workshop of John Lequizamo’s Diary of a Madman to the Playhouse, which transferred to Broadway. Additionally, he fostered the growth of the Playhouse’s award-winning Performance Outreach Program (POP) tour, achieving the most performances at local schools in Playhouse history. Previously, Rosenberg was Co-Founder and Executive Director of Drama Dept., a New York non-profit theatre company, where he produced new works by the likes of Douglas Carter Beane, Warren Leight, Isaac Mizrahi, Paul Rudnick and David and Amy Sedaris. He has been a part of the producing teams for the Broadway productions of Grey Gardens and American Buffalo and the national tour of Little House on the Prairie. He serves on the boards of La Jolla Country Day School and the Theatre Communications Group.
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Debby Buchholz, General Manager has served as general manager of La Jolla Playhouse since 2002. She is a member of the Executive Committee and of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT). In 2009, she received a San Diego Women Who Mean Business Award from The San Diego Business Journal. Previously she served as Counsel to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. She was a faculty member of the Smithsonian Institution’s program on Legal Problems of Museum Administration. Prior to the Kennedy Center, she served as a corporate attorney in New York City and Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of UC San Diego and Harvard Law School. Ms. Buchholz and her husband, noted author and White House economic policy advisor Todd Buchholz, live in Solana Beach and are the proud parents of Victoria, Katherine and Alexia. Des McAnuff, Director Emeritus served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director from 1983 through 1994, and from 2001 through April, 2007. Under his leadership, the Playhouse garnered more than 300 awards, including the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Playhouse to Broadway credits: Jersey Boys (four Tony Awards); Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays (Tony Award); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (five Tony nominations); director and co-author with Pete Townshend on The Who’s Tommy (Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Director) and Big River (seven Tony Awards), among others. Film credits: Quills, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Iron Giant (nine Animation Society awards) and Cousin Bette. Recipient of the Drama League’s 2006 Julia Hansen Award, Mr. McAnuff served as Artistic Director at Canada’s Stratford Festival from 2007 through 2012. He recently directed the hit musicals Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and Jesus Christ Superstar at the Playhouse.
WHAT IS ACCESS AT THE
LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE? La Jolla Playhouse believes that theatre is and should be accessible to ALL people, and we are committed to removing barriers that would prevent those with disabilities from joining us in artistic expression. Access supports the creation of an accessible theatrical performance space where all patrons, of all abilities have the opportunity to experience a main stage production. During the run of each production, the Playhouse regularly offers two key accessibility services to our patrons with disabilities during Access Performances: American Sign Language (ASL) Interpretation and Audio Description. ASL Interpretation During Access performances, the Playhouse provides ASL interpretation for the Deaf. Our dedicated interpreters spend hours rehearsing prior to each show to ensure that the content and themes present in each performance are not lost in interpretation. We also provide ASL trained ushers to assist Deaf patrons if needed. La Jolla Playhouse wants every patron’s visit to be comfortable from the moment they enter the theatre. Besides our usual Access performance for Tribes taking place on Saturday, July 6 at 2:00 pm, the Playhouse has scheduled four additional ASL-Interpreted performances on Sunday, June 30 at 7:00 pm; Tuesday, July 9 at 7:30 pm; Friday, July 19 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, July 21 at 2:00 pm. La Jolla Playhouse would like to especially thank Dr. Melanie Nakaji, who has served as the Playhouse’s Deaf Community Liaison for Tribes, connecting the Playhouse with members of the Deaf community, consulting with staff on ways to ensure accessibility, and serving as an invaluable resource in addressing questions and issues relating to the production. Audio Description Audio Description is available to patrons who are blind or have low vision. Listeners are guided through live, descriptive narration of staged productions using concise, objective descriptions of props, costume design and visual elements such as stage design. This accommodation uses rich language to highlight key visual elements that create “word pictures” during a performance. Description occurs in between dialogue and gives the essential movements of the scenes. Additionally, our trained audio describers provide spoken program notes prior to curtain to create detailed word pictures that illustrate the artistic world on stage. Touch Tours Prior to Access Performances a special pre-show Touch Tour is available. At these presentations, descriptive narration accompanies a tactile experience that may include touching costume fabrics, set pieces and props that are used in the production. This experience is helpful in guiding viewers to important elements of the play that might be missed if based on vision alone.
PATRON SERVICES PATRON SERVICES is located in the lobby area of each theatre. A representative is available to answer questions and hand out assisted listening devices, restaurant guides, performance schedules and subscription information. BARS AND CONCESSIONS are open one hour prior to curtain and during intermissions. To avoid the rush, intermission beverages can be ordered before the show. Concessions by: PARKING is free for subscribers; $2 for the general public on weekdays (free on weekends). Upon arrival to campus, please enter your parking space number and pay the automated paystations located in the parking lot. Spaces that are not paid for are subject to ticketing by UC San Diego Campus Police. CAMERAS AND RECORDING DEVICES are strictly prohibited in the theatre. Please check these items with the House Manager and turn off your camera phone. PLEASE SILENCE all electronic devices including cellular phones, watches and pagers before the performance.
ACCESSIBILITY La Jolla Playhouse provides wheelchair-accessible seating and parking. Wheelchair seat locations are available for wheelchair users and a companion at all performances; be sure to advise the reservationist that you require a wheelchair location. Additionally, a golf cart is available to assist patrons with accessibility needs to and from the parking lot. Please notify the Box Office prior to your performance if you are in need of this service; additionally, you may pull into the five minute parking in front of the theatre, and a friendly La Jolla Playhouse greeter will assist you.The Playhouse also provides assisted listening devices for patrons who are hard of hearing. Devices are available, free of charge, at the Patron Services Center prior to performances (subject to availability). Please see above for more information. Listening Devices Provided in Part by
LATECOMERS or PATRONS WHO LEAVE THEIR SEAT DURING THE PERFORMANCE will be admitted to the standing room section of the theatre at the discretion of the House Manager. They may take their assigned seats at intermission. La Jolla Playhouse accepts no responsibility for inconvenience to latecomers.
Safety in the Theatre District La Jolla Playhouse is constantly working with the UC San Diego Police Department and UC San Diego Transportation and Parking Services, which operates the parking lot and security system, to maintain and improve security conditions for patrons and staff members. Additionally, patrons and staff are welcome to use UC San Diego Community Service Officers (CSOs) for an escort to their cars by calling (858) 534-WALK (9255). Further questions regarding security may be addressed to UC San Diego Police at (858) 534-HELP (4357). DOCTORS AND PARENTS expecting calls during the performance should leave their names and seat numbers with the House Manager before the show. Leave the following number with your service: (858) 550-1030. BABES IN ARMS Out of respect for fellow audience members and the performers, babes in arms are not permitted in the theatre during performances. THEATRE TOURS Tour the stages and production shops of the Playhouse facilities and learn more about the history of La Jolla Playhouse and the role that it plays in the community. Contact (858) 550-1070 x101.