Secret Garden ASIDES by David Spears

2016|2017 SEASON

ISSUE 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Title Page 2 Cast 4 Director’s Word

8 Orchestra and Musical Numbers

10 A Bit of Earth, A Bit of Magic By Drew Lichtenberg 14 Marsha Norman By Hannah Hessel Ratner 18 In the Garden By Gretchen H. Gerzina 22 Find Your Secret Garden 24 Cast Biographies 30 Play in Process 32 Artistic Biographies 41 For STC 48 From Mary to Martha By Anna Alison Brenner

DEAR FRIEND, WELCOME to Sidney Harman Hall and to this evening’s performance of The Secret Garden. I am very grateful for the opportunity to share this with you. It promises to be a beautiful show, but more importantly, it has something lovely and timeless to say to all of us. In an era when it is sometimes hard to believe that there is any kind of “garden” out there, it is a blessing to be able to do a show like this. In their Tony Award®-winning adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved classic novel, Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon have picked up where Burnett left off, examining trauma and loss, the way that people—especially the young—can close themselves off to the world, and the manner in which they can emerge from that pain, better than when they began. It is also lovely to be welcoming collaborators both new and old. Marsha Norman needs no introduction—her decades-long career has seen her win both the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award ®—but I have known Marsha since I asked her to take over the playwriting program at Juilliard more than 20 years ago. It is a joy to be reunited with her in Washington and I am pleased to have Lucy Simon, Marsha’s collaborator, joining us as well. It was very important to us to continue to feature the work of female writers on our stages in the wake of the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival. Marsha and Lucy have been working extensively with David Armstrong, the director of tonight’s production. What you are going to see marks not just a revival of the 1991 Broadway production, but an active reworking, one that represents the culmination of decades of conversation and collaboration. Finally, I want to recognize David Armstrong and his company, The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, for partnering with us on this project. It was David who first brought this idea to us. His company has done extraordinary work in rediscovering old musicals, looking at them again with the best designers and actors. We hope this is the start of a long and fruitful partnership between our two theatres. I look forward to seeing you at the theatre.

50 Support 58 Family Feature

Warm regards,

60 About STC 60 About ACA 62 Up Next: King Charles III 65 Audience Services

Michael Kahn Artistic Director Shakespeare Theatre Company

Cover: Anya Rothman, photo by Scott Suchman

Recipient of the 2012 Regional Theatre Tony AwardÂŽ

Artistic Director Michael Kahn Executive Director Chris Jennings

In association with The 5th Avenue Theatre David Armstrong, Executive Producer and Artistic Director Bernadine C. Griffin, Managing Director Bill Berry, Producing Artistic Director presents:

book and lyrics by Marsha Norman music by Lucy Simon based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett Performances begin November 15, 2016 Opening Night November 21, 2016 Sidney Harman Hall Director/Choreographer David Armstrong

Resident Casting Director Carter C. Wooddell

Music Supervisor/Music Director/ Additional Arrangements by Rick Fox

Literary Manager/Dramaturg Drew Lichtenberg

Scenic Designer Anna Louizos Costume Designer Ann Hould-Ward Lighting Designer Mike Baldassari Sound Designer Justin Stasiw Original Orchestrations by William David Brohn New Orchestrations by Christopher Jahnke Casting Director Laura Stanczyk, CSA

Voice & Text Coach/Dialect Coach Lisa Nathans Assistant Director Craig Baldwin Assistant Choreographer Trina Mills Associate Music Director Brandon Adams Directorial Assistant Charlie Marie McGrath Production Stage Manager Joseph Smelser* Assistant Stage Manager Elizabeth Clewley* Kristy Matero*

Original Broadway Production Produced by: Heidi Landesman Rick Steiner, Frederic H. Mayerson, Elizabeth Williams Jujamcyn Theatres/TV ASAHI and Dodger Productions Originally produced by the Virginia Stage Company, Charles Towers, Artistic Director Musicals at the Shakespeare Theatre Company are made possible by the Beech Street Foundation. The Secret Garden is sponsored by the HRH Foundation. This production is dedicated to the memory of Ellie Merrill, former STC Trustee and beloved patron of the arts. Restaurant Partner: Carmineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Secret Garden is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. *Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

CAST THE SECRET GARDEN Mary Lennox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Archibald Craven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Neville Craven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Medlock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Martha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dickon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ben Weatherstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colin Craven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Winthrop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Anya Rothman Lizzie Klemperer* Michael Xavier* Josh Young* Catherine Flye* Daisy Eagan* Charlie Franklin* Seán G. Griffin* Henry Baratz Mary Jo DuGaw*

THE SPIRITS Fakir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ayah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rose Lennox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Captain Albert Lennox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lieutenant Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Major Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Claire Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vishal Vaidya* Maya Maniar* Brittany Baratz* Jason Forbach* Jared Michael Brown* Greg Stone* Mary Jo DuGaw* Billie Wildrick*

THE OTHERS Major Shelly/Butler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soldier/Footman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soldier/Cook/Nurse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soldier/Housemaid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ethan Watermeier* Alex Alferov* Happy McPartlin* Hayley Travers

UNDERSTUDIES Alex Alferov* (Fakir/Lieutenant Wright/Dickon), Brittany Baratz* (Lily), Jared Michael Brown* (Dr. Neville Craven), Jordan Campbell (Swing), Graydon Hipple (Colin Craven), Koral Kent (Mary Lennox), Happy McPartlin* (Ayah/Claire Holmes/ Mrs. Medlock/Mrs. Winthrop), Katherine Riddle (Swing), Greg Stone* (Archibald Craven), Hayley Travers (Rose Lennox/Alice/Martha), Ethan Watermeier* (Captain Albert Lennox/Major Holmes/Ben Weatherstaff)

There will be a 15-minute intermission. The Shakespeare Theatre Company 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, and employs members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and United Scenic Artists. The Company is also a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for not-for-profit professional theatre, and is a member of the Performing Arts Alliance, the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), American Alliance for Theatre and Education and D.C. Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

director’s ord

Photo by Mark Kitaoka

tales are able to hold our interest for a lifetime. Even after repeated readings and exposure to multiple versions of these stories in various media, they never lose their impact. We connect with these stories and characters so deeply that we are able to become engrossed in the action every time, even though we know From the day it was first published exactly what is going to happen. For in serial form in The American me that is the true definition of a Magazine in 1910, Frances Hodgson “classic”: a great story that is open Burnett’s classic novel The Secret to endless retelling and an infinite Garden has enchanted and captivated both adults and children alike. Over number of reinterpretations. The Secret Garden is that kind of the 106 years that have followed, tale. On the surface it has all the countless editions of the novel elements of a great Gothic myshave been published and at least a tery. Dark secrets lurk behind dozen major film and television the doors of Misselthwaite Manor. adaptations have been produced, Ghostly apparitions wander the including a 2015 multimedia web hallways and strange voices cry out series and a 39-episode Japanese anime version! The novel has also in the night. Most intriguingly, hidden somewhere behind cold, frequently been adapted for the ivy-covered walls is a secret garden stage, most successfully in this 1991 that all are forbidden to enter! ® Tony Award -winning Broadway Into this world comes Mary musical by Marsha Norman and Lennox—a spoiled, difficult child, Lucy Simon. whose only living relative is the What is it about classic stories brooding and melancholy lord that make us want to experiof the manor, Archibald Craven. ence them over and over again? Both have been traumatized by sad, Children often want to have a lonely childhoods and the sudden story repeated to them, sometimes deaths of close family members. right after we have just finished And both have responded by reading it. shutting down their emotions and We outgrow most of the stories we loved as children, but a few

turning their backs on life. For Mary and Archie it is safer to feel nothing than to experience the pain and grief that threatens to engulf them. Frances Hodgson Burnett was remarkably ahead of her time in so truthfully portraying characters struggling to overcome anxiety and depression—what we might today call post-traumatic stress disorder. Remarkably, she was able to combine Gothic mystery, realistic psychological drama and magic realism into a cohesive and captivating whole. In this version, Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon have done an exceptional job of weaving the dramatic and thematic threads of the novel into a complex and dramatic musical. Ultimately, in order to heal and grow, Mary and Archibald must see themselves in the mirror of the other’s face. They must learn to care for the garden as well as each other. Eventually the healing power of nature will work its spell on them as well. Like the secret garden itself, they are “wick.” Just below the surface, life is waiting to be reborn. As Dickon sings to Mary:

When there’s sun and water sweet enough to feed it It will climb up through the earth a pale new green. Perhaps the reason The Secret Garden has had such staying power is that at its heart it is the story of life itself—the changing of the seasons, the cycle of nature. As the seasons progress, this grand drama of rejuvenation is enacted over and over again, year after year, millennium after millennium. What dies in the winter is inevitably born again or gives life to something new in the spring. I invite you to come to our garden and experience the timeless story that Marsha Norman, Lucy Simon and Frances Hodgson Burnett have cultivated so vividly. David Armstrong

When a thing is wick it has a way of knowing When it’s safe to grow again, you will see. 5

SMALL STORIES AT HOME IN A DOLLHOUSE

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Through January 22, 2017 Step into the enchanted world of London’s smallest residents. Accompanied by voices and imagined stories of a tiny cast of characters, the United Kingdom’s best-loved dollhouses, dating from 1712–2001, come to life in Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse, only at the National Building Museum. Exhibition organized by

401 F Street NW • www.nbm.org Metro Red Line, Judiciary Square

ORCHESTRA

Conductor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flute/Piccolo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oboe/English Horn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clarinet/Bass Clarinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . French Horn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trumpet/Flugelhorn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trombone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Violin/Mandolin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Violin/Viola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guitars/Mandolin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Percussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contractor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Rick Fox Brandon Adams Dave Lonkevich Mark Christianson Anne Ament Michael Hall Chris Royal Paul Schultz Teri Lazar Tiffany Richardson Aron Rider Gerry Kunkel Greg Watkins Chris Barrick Bruno Nasta

FOR THIS PRODUCTION Dance Captain: Billie Wildrick* Indian Dance Consultant: Dr. Ratna Roy Associate Scenic Designers: Kayla D. Nault, Hilary Noxon Assistant Sound Designer: Kevin Heard Orchestral Reduction/Assistant Orchestrator: Ethan D. Pakchar Music Preparation: Anixter Rice Music Service Keyboard Programmer: Jim Harp/Synthlink, LLC Music Assistant/Keyboard Coordinator: Jordon Cunningham Young Performer Supervisor: Katelyn Manfre Production Assistant: Rebecca Shipman Overhire Stitchers: Michele Macadaeg, Zina Rajic, Sandy Smoker-Duraes, Rayna Richardson Overhire Wardrobe Crew: Kelly Sinnott, Natalie Flango Overhire Wig Crew: Emily Stern Overhire Wig Builders: Alina Gerall, LaShawn Melton, Melissa Sibert, Emma Tremmel Overhire Carpenters: Chris Foote, Will Hendricks Overhire Scenic Painters: Pallas Bane, Kory Sato, Sam Shelton Followspot Operators: Calvin Anguiano, Alexander Taggert A2: Madeline Clamp Overhire Run Crew: Christian Campbell, Jessica Lucey 8

Special thanks to Mary Beth Barenborg and Anthony Lukas at Of Iron & Oak for providing Archibald's chair.

MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT I India - Lily, Fakir, Mary The House Upon the Hill - Spirits I Heard Someone Crying - Mary, Lily, Archibald, Spirits Skip, Skipped the Ladies - Martha A Girl in the Valley - Archibald, Lily It’s a Maze - Ben, Mary Winter’s on the Wing - Dickon Show Me the Key - Mary, Dickon The Girl I Mean to Be - Mary A Bit of Earth - Archibald Lily’s Eyes - Neville, Archibald I Heard Someone Crying (Reprise) Mary, Spirits The Storm - Mary, Spirits

ACT II Wick - Dickon, Mary Disappear - Neville Lily’s Eyes (Reprise) - Archibald Come to My Garden - Lily, Colin Come Spirit, Come Charm - Mary, Fakir, Ayah, Dickon, Martha, Spirits A Bit of Earth (Reprise) - Lily, Rose, Albert Disappear (Reprise) - Neville Hold On - Martha Letter Song - Mary, Archibald, Martha Where in the World - Archibald How Could I Ever Know - Lily, Archibald Finale - Company

ASIDES Production Program and Publication of the SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY Managing Editor Laura Henry Buda

Publisher Michael Porto

Creative Director David Spears

Advisors Alan Paul Samantha K. Wyer

Contributing Editors Anna Alison Brenner Drew Lichtenberg Hannah Hessel Ratner

Graphic Designer Kent Kondo

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a bit of earth, a bit of agic

about the play

By Drew Lichtenberg Production Dramaturg

hen The Secret Garden first appeared in 1910, it did not resemble the story that millions of children and their parents have come to know and love. At first titled “Mistress Mary,” individual chapters of the story, 27 in all, appeared each week in The American Magazine, a magazine for adults. (It would be published in its entirety, under its current title, the following year.) This was the golden age of the written word as a form of popular storytelling, before the rise of radio and talking pictures commenced our shift from a literary culture to an aural and visual one. Much like modern television episodes, each chapter was designed to function as its own self-contained story within a larger narrative, complete with a beginning, middle and end. Children and adults alike read these stories as a form of entertainment, much like modern forms of all-ages amusement such as comic book movies or animated films. Though stories for children had existed ever since Aesop, the idea of “children’s literature” as a self-conscious genre is largely an invention of the post-war academy. Stories were just stories. From the beginning, however, The Secret Garden was uniquely capable of appealing to the young and old alike. “You do realize,” Burnett wrote to her English publisher, “that it is not a novel, but a child’s story […] It is an innocent thriller of a story to which grownups listen spellbound, to my keen delight.” She continued, sounding spell-bound herself: “I love it myself. There is a long deserted garden in it whose locked door is hidden by ivy and whose key has been buried for 10 years. It contains also a sort of faun who charms wild creatures and tame ones and there is a moorland cottage woman who is a sort of Madonna with twelve children—a warm bosomed, wise, simple Mother thing.”

Madonnas and fauns. Doors covered in ivy. A world equal parts modernity and eternity, science and magic, death and life. In Burnett’s imagination, and in those of countless readers since, the secret garden serves as a landscape of oxymoron, of opposites colliding and coexisting in a sublime harmony. In other words, it is a world of the aesthetic experience, irreducible to simple meanings or explanations. Nature doesn’t judge. The plot of The Secret Garden reflects the dominant literary influences of Burnett’s postVictorian era. The story begins with Mary Lennox, age 10, orphaned by a fatal outbreak of cholera in the Kiplingesque Indian Raj. Chapter two whisks her off to her reclusive uncle’s mansion in the Yorkshire moors, combining Jules Verne’s round-the-world-in-a-day narrative economy with the Gothic landscapes of the Brontë sisters. (Mary even learns the Yorkshire dialect, and what “wuthering” means.) Once there, she discovers her uncle’s titular secret garden, kept locked for the last 10 years. The story—and the girl herself— begins to blossom with her apprehension of the world of nature, much like a certain Alice. Upon closer inspection, however, The Secret Garden is built on even more foundational elements of storytelling structure than post-Victorian trends. Like Plato’s cave, most fairy tales and nearly all of Shakespeare’s plays, the

work charts a pilgrim’s progress from the ordinary, indoor world of “civilization” to the outdoor world of nature, one where social bonds become suspended and all creatures can live in a state of suspended grace. Put another way, The Secret Garden is a winter’s tale, one that moves from things dying to things newborn, leaving behind the plague-ridden realm of things dead, dormant or hibernating to a landscape of sun, blue skies and blossoming life. In each chapter, oscillating between bright scenes in her sunny garden and rainy days spent exploring the gloomy house, this pattern is repeated, deepening in meaning each time. But neither of these are the reasons for The Secret Garden’s lasting fascination, its ability to enrapture child and adult alike. Burnett had built a career on tough, adult themes. Her breakthrough success was 1877’s That Lass o’ Lowrie’s, a working-class Lancashire tale with a strong female protagonist—and

her young characters are similarly spirited and unsentimentalized. No angelic little orphan Annies here. In the book’s second sentence, Mary is described as “the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen,” and she remains for much of the action a spoiled, homely and mean child, used to bossing others around. Halfway through, she meets her cousin, Colin, an bedridden boy who is even more unpleasant—given to violent, hysterical tantrums and suffering from hypochondriacal delusions of death and dying. In The Secret Garden, Burnett depicts the interactions of these two not-very-nice children with the ironic poise of a real parent, while also imbuing their experience of nature with the tactile detail of children curiously discovering a new world. Like all great children’s authors, Burnett understood how much children love the “thinginess” of things. Part of the magic of The Secret Garden lies in

precisely this collision of opposites: seeing robin redbreasts nesting or planting flower bulbs is just as magical as the stirrings of grown-up consciousness, taking ownership of one’s mind and body in the world. In fact, in Burnett’s construction, they are one and the same. In Burnett’s book these details add up slowly, chapter by serialized chapter, slowly gaining the weight of something approaching epiphany. By the end, it is a powerful enough recognition to enclose the similarly gloomy, disagreeable adults within its redemptive glow—and ultimately, to bathe audience members young and old in its warmth, beckoning them to return again and again.

marsha orman: cultivator of a theatrical garden about the artist

By Hannah Hessel Ratner Audience Enrichment Manager

arsha norman is on a mission. The award-winning playwright’s career has covered Broadway, Hollywood and numerous theatres worldwide. Her accolades include a Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award® and, in 2016, the Dramatists Guild Career Achievement Award. She has codirected the playwriting program at Julliard for nearly a quarter of a century. And at this point in her career she is determined to tell the story of women. “We have to tell the whole human story,” Norman explains. “If we don’t tell the story of what women and girls have accomplished, done, seen, said, brought about, missed out on, we are missing half of the stories of life on the planet.” Norman was not aware of the story of Mary Lennox when, in the late 1980s, she was approached by producer and set designer Heidi Ettinger to adapt The Secret Garden. The opportunity was unexpected but welcome—though Norman

had never written a musical before, she often daydreamed about it, imagining those around her breaking into song. But her success to that point was as a writer of dramas, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning ’night, Mother and other plays that dealt with intensely dark issues such as suicide or prison. Now Ettinger and Norman had to figure out how to put a 10-year-old girl at the center of a multi-milliondollar musical. As the process unfolded, later incorporating composer Lucy Simon, they determined that the success of the musical would be found in the strength of the young Mary. She remembers, “We were thinking: let’s cause the musical theatre world to turn around for a moment and look at this girl as a valid and powerful hero." To focus on Mary, Norman had to make changes to the original story’s plot and structure. In Burnett’s book, Mary recedes

from the center of the story as knew it was her duty in transitionColin gains focus. She knew as an ing the work to the stage not to lose adaptor she needed to be careful the heart that people love. not to alienate a generation of “What people love about this readers who had grown up with the story,” Norman reflects, “is the novel. “I quickly discovered it was safety and protection that awaits one of the most beloved books of all Mary. What spoke to me was the time. I even discovered there was implicit promise that parents want a Secret Garden secret oath. I would to make to their children, that mention that I was working on it, whatever happens (even if I die of and people would immediately put cholera at a dinner party) you will their hands over their hearts and find a safe place to grow up, where say, ‘Ohhh. That was my favorite people will take care of you, and book from my childhood’—in those love you: you will find a home.” same exact hushed words.” But Norman discovered the Adaptors have to remember the core of The Secret Garden’s appeal is readers and, if living, the author— not only the story of the search something she had to consider for home that she likens to The with her adaption of The Color Purple, Wizard of Oz. Mary is not just a girl currently enjoying a revival on caught in circumstances out of Broadway. Though she sees the her control—the final resolution adaptor’s obligation to the origiis brought about by Mary’s own nal as important, she says simply, actions. “By helping others, she is “I’m not afraid of it.” Since The herself healed…She does this with Secret Garden novel is public domain, the most natural and simple and Norman had more flexibility to human desires. She’s helping Colin restructure the story. But with the because he needs help. The end. balance of obligation in mind, she That’s who Mary Lennox is.

“The novel speaks to the power story resonated beyond simple of the natural world to heal a family entertainment. Many have broken soul, and instructs the commended the production for its reader that it is through helping ability to speak to people who are others that you yourself are saved. grieving by showing the resilience The book says: Go outside. Don’t of the human heart. It remains dwell on your losses. Trust your a show that viewers connect with ability to help others. Eat simple very deeply. Norman used to hear food. Exercise. These ideas come from people touched in childhood up over and over in the book. by the book—but now generations And clearly, they are instructions of young people have been brought we still need to learn, given their up on the musical. prominence in today’s medical Seeing the impact of Mary’s story literature. She wrote this book in deepened Norman’s commitment 1911. That she was ahead of her to telling more stories of women time is putting it mildly. Or perand to providing support for haps it reminds us that as humans, female playwrights. As an educawe keep hearing the same good tor, that commitment has become advice. But do we take it? That’s a an imperative. Each year Julliard whole other topic.” accepts an equal number of male The humanitarian spirit at and female writers. With over the heart of The Secret Garden led 20 years of playwrights finishing to the enormous success of the the program, Norman started 1991 musical. On Broadway the to realize that she was leading a soaring melodies and hopeful

“controlled experiment”—and she Her work gained prominence was unhappy about the outcome. alongside the successes of Wendy The female graduates, she points Wasserstein, Tina Howe and Beth out, have not been recognized or Henley. She thought they had elevated in theater as they should succeeded. But, she now sees that have—or even produced at the same the wave of success was short lived, level as their male peers. observing, “After a couple of years “That’s not okay with me,” she the door slammed shut behind us.” declares. “It’s not okay to train Knowing this history, she is even people that I know are going to more determined to make changes have a harder struggle than the that stick. “Asking theatres to help men to be recognized. That’s just us tell the stories of women seems not right.” So, instead of just like a thing we shouldn’t have to noting the imbalance, Norman has do—but it turns out it is.” turned into an advocate and leader With this in mind, her writfor change. ing is focused on stories that she With fellow playwrights Julie is afraid will go untold without Jordan and Theresa Rebeck, cultural support. She is currently Norman founded The Lilly Awards writing a musical about two of the Foundation. The group strives many women who fought in the to honor the work of women in Civil War dressed as male soldiers. American theatre. In addition to Marsha Norman uses the phrase annual awards, they provide tools “powerful luminous female energy and fund resources like The Count, a at work” to describe Mary Lennox. national survey that tracks the rates It is a phrase that resonates with of production for female writers, Norman’s work to spotlight the as well as writers of color. Beyond stories of women, stories that are the Foundation, she is striving, relevant and demanding to be told, along with Jordan—her “comrade just like The Secret Garden: “People and colleague in the struggle”—to still feel lost; people still suffer make real changes that can help disruptions in families that cause female playwrights lower barriers, them to feel like they don’t know including ways to fund childcare. where their home is.” Through After “dragging my children all these stories, Norman aims to creover the country whenever I had ate real change, moving us towards workshops,” she knows first-hand a world where “children will be that childcare is a fixable problem able to grow up and find a place faced by many female playwrights where they belong and live in joy at their most productive age. and hope”—the very world that we She crafted her own balance of glimpse in Mary’s garden. motherhood and career at a time when change seemed inevitable.

in the garden:

the life of frances hodgson burnett

By Gretchen H. Gerzina

Frances Hodgson Burnett in the garden, c. 1903–1924. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

ew people realize that The Secret Garden, the book most readers associate with Frances Hodgson Burnett, was only one of 53 novels she wrote and published, and that most of her books were for adults, not children. Although she had a lifetime of love for children and gardens, she would be amazed to know that this book is the one for which she is most remembered today—even though it was one that was closest to her heart. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s love affair with gardens began when she was a small child living in Manchester, England. In 1852, when she was just three, her family moved to St. Luke’s Terrace, which backed onto fields owned by the Earl of Derby, leading Burnett to recall it later in life as the “back garden of Eden.” She remembered it as a place of gardens and perpetual summer, where a small child could daydream beneath the trees and beside the flowers, ignoring the industrial city that surrounded

this suburb of light and air. There were farms and country cottages close by and she became friendly with a family of market gardeners who kept pigs. Just a year later, however, her father Edwin Hodgson died and his widow and five children embarked upon a decade of moving house, each time to a slightly less desirable neighborhood. Each move took Burnett further and further away from gardens, until in 1865 her mother decided to make the riskiest move of all: to join her rogue of a brother, who boasted of his accomplishments in America, in the American South during the last months of the Civil War. There the Hodgson family found itself ensconced in an unexpected place: a log cabin in a very small town outside of Knoxville, Tennessee. There, but for the generosity of their neighbors, they would have starved. Their financial difficulties were quite real, but young Fanny (a name she quickly abandoned) found Tennessee a true Garden of Eden after the pollution of Manchester and the smuts that floated down like snow from its factory chimneys. She had read in the back of ladies’ magazines that they paid money for stories and, having invented them for her friends back in England, she thought she might take a chance at being paid to write. The first story she sent came back with comments, but instead of revising she mailed

it again to another magazine. The editor was puzzled and surprised to find an accomplished work with an English setting coming out of Tennessee; was she English or American? That evening she sat down and wrote a second one for him. Both stories were accepted immediately, and with the check that arrived she launched a career that saw her eventually become America’s highest-paid woman writer. She was only 18 and none of her work was ever rejected. By 1886, Frances had married a Tennessee doctor, had two sons and had written the blockbuster novel Little Lord Fauntleroy—her 18th novel, which made her hugely famous on both sides of the Atlantic. Now as Frances Hodgson Burnett she had money of her own, and she bought, in cash, a 17-room house in Washington, D.C. From the moment of its first appearance as a serial in Saint Nicholas Magazine to its publication as a book a year later in 1886, Fauntleroy became a household name. Largely forgotten or ridiculed today, it was the Harry Potter of its day. The image of a sturdy and very masculine little boy in a velveteen jacket shot around the world and was to haunt her son Vivian, from whose photograph it was taken from, for the rest of his days. The story—and the plays and films it spawned—started a fashion craze that mothers loved and boys hated, as they were forced into wide lace collars and long curls, probably not helped when

girls were always given the stage and film role. Even though writing was how she made her living, it also enabled Burnett to travel, buy beautiful clothes and furnish houses in England and America. Not only a writer of novels and stories, however, Burnett also produced plays. Thirteen of her works appeared in London’s West End theatres and on Broadway, generally written and produced by her. Prescient enough to understand the increasing role of movies, she later built clauses guaranteeing her the film rights to her books. It’s fascinating, therefore, that The Secret Garden did not become a stage musical or a popular film until late in the 20th century, although apparently a now-lost film was made in 1919, five years before Burnett’s death. Although writing and gardening could not shield her from life’s tragedies, they did help her get through some of her life’s greatest sorrows. When her 16-year-old son Lionel tragically died of tuberculosis in her arms in Paris in 1890, she had his casket covered in violets. When her second marriage ended—a marriage that she was probably blackmailed into by a young English doctor and aspiring actor ten years her junior—she and her sister Edith retreated to a house that would become Frances’s most cherished home: Maytham Hall, in Rolvenden, Kent, which she first leased after her divorce from her American husband.

Rumors always surrounded her and there were plenty of reasons for her wanting to escape. From the time that Little Lord Fauntleroy first made her famous, she was constantly in the press and in the public eye. She crossed the Atlantic 33 times in her lifetime, and whenever one of the ships she traveled on docked, she was met by a crowd of newspaper and magazine reporters who wanted to know about her difficult health, her latest book and her love life. When she filed for divorce, her lawyer made sure she was safely on board a ship heading for England before serving the papers. Gardens were, for her, a retreat. At Maytham, she had set up an outdoor study, with a table and

An advertisement of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s published works. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library.

chair under the trees near the rose garden, and wrote each morning in the company of a robin that grew tame, the inspiration for Mary Lennox’s robin in The Secret Garden, which was later written in America. When she moved back to America for good she built a beautiful house with spacious gardens in Plandome on Long Island and next door built a cottage for her surviving son Vivian and his family. The photographs show a magnificent place, with expanses of roses sloping down to the Long Island Sound. As she grew older she spent her winters in Bermuda with her sister Edith and kept a full-time gardener. Burnett claimed that The Secret Garden was the first children’s story to appear in an adult magazine. She wrote to her friend Ella Hepworth Dixon after the story’s serial publication that “it was our Rose Garden as it would have been locked up for years and years and years—and some hungry children had found

it. You cannot think how everyone loves that story. People write to me with a sort of passion of it.” The Secret Garden begins and ends in gardens, one a garden of death in India, and the other a garden of revitalization and resurrection in England. Burnett believed to the end of her own life in the healing and resurrecting power of gardens. The last chapter of The Secret Garden is called “In the Garden,” and the last thing that Burnett wrote, on her deathbed, was a magazine article by the same name. As in The Secret Garden, she always saw gardens as places of healing and return to health. After she died, the little article was republished as a book with watercolor pictures and photographs of her own gardens at Plandome. It ends with the words that have come to symbolize her other life’s work: “As long as one has a garden one has a future,” she wrote, “and as long as one has a future one is alive.”

Excerpted from the full article published in the e-book Guide to the Season Plays 2016-17, available for purchase for Kindle or Nook. Season ticket holders receive a complimentary print copy of the Guide each season. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is the author and editor of several books, including Mr. and Mrs. Prince, Carrington; Black London (a New York Times notable book); Black Victorians, Black Victoriana; Frances Hodgson Burnett; and others. She is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College, where she also chairs the English Department, the first African-American woman to do so in the Ivy League. She has won grants from Fulbright and the National Endowment for Humanities and hosts The Book Show, a nationally syndicated weekly radio program that airs on 90 stations across the country, interviewing current authors of literary fiction, biography and history.

find your secret arden mapping the play

It may be wintertime in Washington, D.C., but you can still find gardens all over the city if you look hard enough. During the run of The Secret Garden, STC is inviting the D.C. community to share and explore all the beautiful spots and tucked-away spaces in our area.

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Visit ShakespeareTheatre.org/ GardenMaps to see our interactive map of D.C. gardens, all submitted by our patrons and community. And share yours: email SocialSTC@ShakespeareTheatre.org with the subject line â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Secret Gardenâ&#x20AC;?.

Go exploring now, right after the Smithsonian Gardens and the show! In the lobby, pick National Park Service. up The Best Pocket Parks, Tucked-Away Inspired by the National Greenspaces, Hidden Oases and Secret Museum of American History’s Gardens of Penn Quarter Map and take "Within These Walls" exhibition, a stroll around our neighborhood. the organic Victory Garden on “Winkler Botanical Preserve is the museum’s east lawn showcases hidden between 395 and the heirloom vegetables, herbs and Mark Center. It’s a great place to flowers that were available during take small children on the weekWWII, inviting visitors to smell, end. If you’re early and quiet, you touch and get to know the plants. might see the foxes, or deer, or A meadow oasis just off the the blue-tailed skinks that live in National Mall, the Pollinator the rock walls. The tadpoles are Garden is home to over 250 variethuge and you can catch crayfish in ies of plants, which in turn provide the stream. I still see something habitats for butterflies, beetles and new every time I go.” –Chris Young bees. Open 24/7/365, this garden “Tucked away in Northeast looks as beautiful covered in snow D.C. is a Franciscan monastery as it does when Monarch butterflies with one of the most tranquil garfloat between flowers. dens in the region. It feels like you Did you know Frances Hodgson were transported to another place Burnett lived in D.C. for or another time with the peaceroughly 10 years? She became a fulness of the gardens meticulously well-known Washington socialmaintained by the monks yearite and hosted literary salons on round." –David Lloyd Olson Tuesday evenings. The story goes Exploring the U.S. Botanic that her grandest house was located Garden is like touring the at 1215 I Street NW—not far from world, with plants on display from Penn Quarter, but now occupied every corner of the globe. Look for by office buildings. a special article from the Botanic Garden staff at ShakespeareTheatre. org, part of a special series of posts from expert D.C. gardeners like

CAST BIOGRAPHIES

ALEX ALFEROV* Soldier/Footman REGIONAL: Ford’s Theatre: 110 in the Shade; Arena Stage: Fiddler on the Roof; Olney Theatre Center: The Diary of Anne Frank, Complete Works of Shakespeare [Abridged]; Signature Theatre: Kid Victory; Constellation Theatre Company: Avenue Q; Keegan Theatre: Spring Awakening; Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences: Cerulean Time Capsule; Imagination Stage: Lyle the Crocodile; Adventure Theatre: Big Nate; American Century Theater: Come Blow Your Horn. TELEVISION: I Was Possessed, Point of Honor. TRAINING: Catholic University of America: BM in Musical Theatre.

BRITTANY BARATZ* Rose NATIONAL TOURS: Knuffle Bunny, Chasing George Washington. REGIONAL: Kennedy Center: Elephant and Piggie, Snow White, Rose Red & Fred, Broadway Today!; Inspire Theatre: Man of La Mancha; Palm Beach Dramaworks: A Little Night Music; Olney Theatre Center: 1776; Kentucky Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet; Inscape Chamber Orchestra: Trouble in Tahiti; Capitol Hill Arts Workshop: Alice Adams; Stonington Opera House: Burt Dow: Deep Water Man; Brooklyn Academy of Music: Four Saints in Three Acts; Gloria Maddox Theatre: The Dining Room; Carnegie Hall: Some Enchanted Evening. INTERNATIONAL: Knuffle Bunny. TELEVISION: Who the [Bleep] Did I Marry?. TRAINING: University of Maryland, T. Schreiber Acting Conservatory. WEB: BrittanyBaratz.com.

HENRY BARATZ Colin Craven REGIONAL: Signature Theatre: Elmer Gantry; Olney Theatre Center: Carousel; Ford’s Theatre: Ragtime (reading). OPERA: Washington National Opera: Carmen. FILM: The Sultan and the Saint. TELEVISION: PBS Kids: Dinosaur Train (commercial). OTHER: MTI iTheatrics/ Disney Theatrics Choreography DVD; Adventure Theatre MTC: Legally Blonde, Jr. TRAINING: ATMTC Academy, Linda Townsend Management. JARED MICHAEL BROWN* Lieutenant Wright REGIONAL: Kennedy Center: Shakespeare in Washington: The Comedy of Errors (Antipholus of Syracuse); Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: Paint Your Wagon; Centerstage Theatre: Ring of Fire; 5th Avenue Theatre: Paint Your Wagon, The Sound of Music, Jasper in Deadland, Oliver!, Secondhand Lions, Pirates of Penzance, Titanic: The Musical, Oklahoma!, Cinderella; Village Theatre: Around the World in 80 Days, The Mousetrap, Iron Curtain; Seattle Children’s Theatre: Dick Whittington & His Cat, James & the Giant Peach; Showtunes Theatre: Finian’s Rainbow, High Society, George M!; Stumptown Stages: It’s A Wonderful Life (George Bailey). INTERNATIONAL: Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Edinburgh): Return to the Forbidden Planet (Captain Tempest). OTHER: National Cast of Ragtime (Tateh). TRAINING: University of Evansville: BFA in Theatre Performance. WEB: JaredMichaelBrown.com.

MARY JO DUGAW* Claire/Mrs. Winthrop NEW YORK: OffBroadway: Cherry Lane: Patience, The Red Mill. REGIONAL: 5th Avenue Theatre: Most Happy Fella, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Candide, Music Man, Titanic (Concert); Village Theatre: Mary Poppins, Les Misérables, Kiss Me, Kate (Times Footlight Award: Best Actress, Musical), My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Sound of Music, After the Fair, Cabaret. INTERNATIONAL: Dubrovnik Symphony: Soprano soloist. FILM: Gory, Gory, Hallelujah, A Legend in His Own Mind. TELEVISION: Stephen King’s Rose Red. OTHER: Seattle Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, Vancouver Symphony: Soprano soloist; Play On! Chamber Music Ensemble: founding member; Movie/Video Game Vocals: Ghost Rider, Millions, The Empty Mirror, Halo, World of Warcraft, Age of Empires. TEACHING: Private Voice Studio; Vocal Consultant: Mary Poppins, Les Misérables. TRAINING: University of Portland: BM in Vocal Performance; Cornish College of the Arts; Music Academy of the West; private voice study: Marni Nixon. WEB: MaryJoDuGaw.com. DAISY EAGAN* Martha NEW YORK: Broadway: The Secret Garden (Tony Award®, nominations for Drama Desk and Outer Critic’s Circle Awards), Les Misérables (original Broadway production), James Joyce’s The Dead; Off-Broadway: Playwright’s Horizons: James Joyce’s The Dead. REGIONAL: North Carolina Theatre: Wit; Pasadena Playhouse: Stoneface; Blank Theater Company: The Wild Party (L.A. Weekly Award: Best Featured Actress, Musical); La Jolla Playhouse, TheatreWorks: Be Aggressive (Garland Award Honorable Mention); South Coast Repertory: On the Mountain, A View From The Bridge. FILM: Ripe,

Losing Isaiah, Judgment. TELEVISION: Girls, The Mentalist, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, Numbers, The Unit. OTHER: Proud member of 30 Minute Musicals Theater Company in Los Angeles. Daisy is a published, award-winning writer. WEB: DaisyEagan.com. CATHERINE FLYE* Mrs. Medlock STC: Design for Living, Major Barbara, Camino Real, A Woman of No Importance, Volpone, Richard III, Mary Stuart, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night. REGIONAL: Cape Playhouse: My Fair Lady; Arena Stage: Shirley Valentine, My Fair Lady, Oliver!; Folger Theatre: Henry V, Comedy of Errors, School for Scandal, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Clandestine Marriage, All’s Well That Ends Well, She Stoops to Conquer, The Dresser, Lettice and Lovage, Private Lives; Round House Theatre: Pride and Prejudice, Wintertime, Woman in Mind, Absurd Person Singular, Emerald City; Studio Theatre: Moonlight, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Kennedy Center; Ford’s Theatre; MetroStage; Washington Stage Guild; Olney Theatre Center. INTERNATIONAL: Jermyn Street Theatre (London): Joyce Grenfell, Ivor Novello; Happy and Glorious! (written and performed for the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations). AWARDS: 13 Helen Hayes Award nominations for acting and directing. OTHER: Artistic Director of Interact Theatre Company. TRAINING: Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. JASON FORBACH* Captain Albert Lennox NEW YORK: Broadway: Les Misérables (Tony® nomination—Best Revival); OffBroadway: New Group: The Music Teacher; 59e59: A.W.O.L.; McGinn/ Cazale: As You Like It. NATIONAL TOURS: Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Tour; Phantom of the Opera (Las Vegas). REGIONAL: Sacramento Music Circus;

Paper Mill Playhouse; North Shore Music Theater Opera/Symphonic; Carnegie Hall; Boston Lyric Opera; Opera Boston; Central City Opera; Fresno Grand Opera; Omaha Symphony; Las Vegas Philharmonic; New Jersey Festival Orchestra. TELEVISION: America’s Got Talent, 68th Annual Tony Awards®. OTHER: Recordings: The Music Teacher (Bridge Rec.), An American Victory (Broadway Rec.), Solomon’s Song (Broadway Rec.), A New Leading Man, Remembering to Dream and Revolutionary. TRAINING: New England Conservatory: MM in Opera Performance. WEB: JasonForbach.com; @jtforbach. CHARLIE FRANKLIN* Dickon NEW YORK: Broadway: The Book of Mormon, The Bridges of Madison County. REGIONAL: Denver Center for the Performing Arts: Lord of the Flies; Virginia Stage Company: SCKBSTD. OTHER: Manhattan Concert Productions at Lincoln Center: Parade. TRAINING: Pace University Musical Theatre Program: BFA. WEB: CharlieFranklin.net; @chazafranklin.

SEÁN G. GRIFFIN* Ben Weatherstaff NEW YORK: Broadway: Dancing at Lughnasa, Ned and Jack (dir. Colleen Dewhurst), The National Health, Ah! Wilderness, Poor Murderer, The Queen and the Rebels. FILM: The Book of Stars, The Dark Horse, The Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover, Sleep Tight, November. TELEVISION: Ally McBeal, ER, Malcolm in the Middle, Titus, Grounded for Life, Girlfriends, Fired Up, Northern Exposure, Murder She Wrote. OTHER: Seán has worked at most regional theatres in his 55-year career, including The 5th Avenue in Seattle, and was a company member at Long Wharf Theatre and Seattle Rep’s Acting Company. Proud member of Equity since 1968.

LIZZIE KLEMPERER* Lily Craven NEW YORK: Broadway: Bright Star (by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Tony® nomination—Best Musical); Off-Broadway: Madison Square Garden: A Christmas Story; City Center Encores: The Most Happy Fella. NATIONAL TOURS: The Addams Family, Little House on the Prairie. REGIONAL: Kennedy Center: Bright Star; Pioneer Theatre Company: The Music Man (Marian); North Shore Music Theater: Les Misérables (Eponine); Sacramento Music Circus: Hair (Crissy); Big River (Mary Jane). TRAINING: University of Michigan: BFA in Musical Theatre. MAYA MANIAR* Ayah REGIONAL: Front Porch Theatricals: In the Heights. FILM: Adam Bloom. TELEVISION: Late Night with Seth Meyers. OTHER: Cabaret: 54 Below, Pittsburgh CLO. TRAINING: Carnegie Mellon University: BFA in Music Theatre. HAPPY MCPARTLIN* Soldier/Cook/Nurse NEW YORK: Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody (dir. Neil Pepe); OffBroadway: Black & White Blues; Other NY: War Paint (dir. Michael Greif), Merchant of Venice, Love’s Labour’s Lost. NATIONAL TOURS: Memphis (dir. Christopher Ashley), Hairspray, The Full Monty. REGIONAL: Stages Repertory: Next To Normal (BATEH award, Best Actress); Ford's Theatre: Come From Away (dir. Christopher Ashley), 110 in the Shade (dir. Marcia Milgrom Dodge); Paper Mill Playhouse & TUTS: Curtains; Geva Theater: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Theatre by the Sea: The Drowsy Chaperone; Ogunquit: Les Misérables, Sunset Boulevard; Bucks County Playhouse: Urinetown, Into the Woods. TELEVISION: Hostages, Onion

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Sportsdome. TRAINING: NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Classical Studio. WEB: HappyMcPartlin.com. ANYA ROTHMAN Mary Lennox NATIONAL TOURS: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! REGIONAL: Delaware Theatre Company: Because of Winn-Dixie; Millbrook Playhouse: The Sound of Music; Ash Lawn Opera: Fiddler on the Roof. TELEVISION: Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trips. AWARDS: Junior Theater Festival All-Star; Virginia Film Festival Best of the Young Filmmakers Academy. GREG STONE* Major Holmes NEW YORK: Broadway: Les Misérables, Oklahoma! (dir. Trevor Nunn), Urban Cowboy, The Pirate Queen; Off-Broadway: Of Thee I Sing, Juno, Summer of ’42, Under The Bridge; Carnegie Hall: Kristina: At Carnegie Hall. NATIONAL TOURS: Les Misérables (Jean Valjean), Miss Saigon (Chris), Whistle Down the Wind (Snake Preacher). REGIONAL: North Carolina Theatre: Oklahoma! (Curly); Musical Theatre Witchita: The Full Monty (Jerry); Village Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar (Pilate), Billy Elliot (Big Davey); 5th Avenue Theatre: Pirates of Penzance (Samuel), Music Man (Ewart), Titanic in Concert (Thomas Andrews).

HAYLEY TRAVERS Soldier/Housemaid REGIONAL: Studio Theatre: Silence! The Musical; Imagination Stage: Jack and Phil Giant Slayers Inc.; Indianapolis Symphony: Yuletide Celebration!. OTHER: American Pops: Make Someone Happy; Fairfax Symphony: I'll Be Seeing You, An Enchanted Evening; National Broadway Chorus: founding member. TRAINING: American University: BA in Musical Theater. WEB: HayleyTravers.com.

VISHAL VAIDYA* Fakir NEW YORK: OffBroadway: City Center Encores: 1776; Public Theater: The Visitor (workshop, dir. Daniel Sullivan). REGIONAL: Ford's Theatre: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (William Barfée), A Christmas Carol; Adventure Theatre: A Year With Frog and Toad (Helen Hayes nomination); Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park/ Baltimore Center Stage: The Secret Garden (dir. Marcia Milgrom Dodge); Olney Theatre Center: Cinderella, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Godspell, Big River; Kennedy Center/Children's Theater Company: Barrio Grrrl!; Toby's Dinner Theatre: Oklahoma!, RENT. OTHER: World Tenors Unleashed (workshop); B-Side Productions: A Man of No Importance; member of the Musical Theater Factory. TRAINING: American University. WEB: @TweetsByVish. ETHAN WATERMEIER* Major Shelly/Butler STC: Man of La Mancha (Ensemble, u/s Padre/ Captain/ Duke/Dr. Carrasco); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (u/s Marcus Lycus/Miles Gloriosus); The Life of Galileo (multiple roles, staged reading). NATIONAL TOURS: Les Misérables (Javert, Factory Foreman/ Combeferre). REGIONAL: Aspen Music Festival; Olney Theatre Center; Strathmore Music Center; Vital Theatre Company; Little Theatre on the Square; New London Barn Playhouse. OPERA: Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera; Composition premieres by Mark Adamo, Tom Cipullo, Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, John Musto and Rachel Portman. AWARDS: Winner of the Lotte Lenya International Competition. OTHER: Member of National Association of Teachers of Singing, VASTA, Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance, Artist Roster of Sing

for Hope; Founding Panelist for podcast OperaNow. TEACHING: American University; University of Virginia; Catholic University of America; University of Maryland, College Park. TRAINING: Northwestern University: BM; The Manhattan School of Music: MM; University of Maryland, College Park: Doctoral Studies; STC Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University: MFA Candidate. BILLIE WILDRICK* Alice NEW YORK: Broadway: Scandalous; Off-OffBroadway: Bless You All. REGIONAL: 5th Avenue Theatre: Pajama Game (Babe, upcoming), Carousel, Pirates of Penzance, Sunday in the Park…, Candide, Wonderful Town, Into the Woods, Hair, Company; ACT Theatre: Vanities, First Date, Das Barbecü; Village Theatre: Cabaret, Lizzie Borden, Hello, Dolly!, Man of La Mancha; Ordway Theater: A Christmas Story, Guys and Dolls. AWARDS: Seattle: 3 nominations and a Gregory Award; 3 Footlight Awards. OTHER: Original Cast Recordings: Scandalous, A Christmas Story; Directing: Sidecountry Theatre: Murder Ballad (West Coast premiere); Showtunes: The Unsinkable Molly Brown (upcoming). WEB: BillieWildrick.com. MICHAEL XAVIER* Archibald Craven INTERNATIONAL: West End: Love Story (Oliver, Laurence Olivier Award Nomination: Best Actor in a Musical), Sunset Boulevard (Joe Gillis, opposite Glenn Close), My Fair Lady (Freddy), The Phantom of the Opera (Raoul), The Pajama Game (Sid Sorokin), Spamalot (Sir Galahad); London: Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: Into the Woods (Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince, Laurence Olivier Award Nomination: Best Supporting Performance in a Musical) and The Sound of Music (Captain von Trapp); Assassins (John Wilkes Booth); Sweet Charity (Charlie/

Oscar/Vittorio); Shakespeare's The Wars Of The Roses, King Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III (Suffolk/George of Clarence). U.K.: Chichester Festival Theatre: Love Story (Oliver), Oklahoma (Curly); Sheffield Crucible: Show Boat (Gaylord Ravenal), Leicester Curve (Cornelius). TOURS: Mamma Mia (Sky), Wonderful Town (Bob Baker), Rock (Rock Hudson), The Mikado (Nankipoo), Miss Saigon. OTHER: Olivier Awards 2013-2015 (Host); U.K. Theatre Awards 2013-2015 (Host); Royal Shakespeare Company 50th Anniversary Concert; John Spedan Lewis in John Lewis 150th Birthday Celebration. FILM: Never Let Go (Tom). WEB: MichaelXavier.co.uk; @michaelxavieruk. JOSH YOUNG* Dr. Neville Craven NEW YORK: Broadway: Amazing Grace (John Newton, Original Cast), Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas, Tony Award® Nomination & Theatre World Award). NATIONAL TOURS: Les Misérables (Marius), West Side Story (Tony, 50th Anniversary International Tour). INTERNATIONAL: Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada): 2 seasons including Evita (Che, Broadway World Award), Grapes of Wrath (Connie Rivers, Broadway World Award). OTHER: Solo albums available on iTunes and in the STC gift shop. TRAINING: Syracuse University: BFA. WEB: Josh-Young.com; @joshpaulyoung.

PLAY IN PROCESS

BELOW: Sam Shelton (Scenic Overhire) and other production staff construct hedges at the STC Scene Shop. Photos by Chris Young, Prop Shop Director. Scenic rendering and design created by Anna Louizos.

TOP LEFT: Costume renderings and design for Mary, costume designer Ann Hould-Ward. TOP RIGHT: Anya Rothman (Mary) at a costume fitting. Photo by Christian Gardner. BOTTOM LEFT: Costume renderings and design for Lily, costume designer Ann Hould-Ward. BOTTOM RIGHT: Randall Exton (Draper) works on Lilyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dress, worn by Lizzie Klemperer. Photo by Christian Gardner.

ARTISTIC BIOGRAPHIES

MARSHA NORMAN Book and Lyrics NEW YORK: Broadway: ‘night, Mother (1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Blackburn Prize, Hull-Warriner, and Drama Desk Awards), The Secret Garden (1991 Tony Award®—Best Book, Drama Desk Award), The Color Purple (2016 Tony Award®—Best Revival), The Bridges of Madison County (currently on national tour); other plays include Getting Out and The Master Butcher’s Singing Club. AWARDS: Peabody Award (HBO’s In Treatment), Margo Jones Award, Sidney Kingsley Award, William Inge Lifetime Achievement Award in Playwriting, Dramatists Guild Career Achievement Award, Theatre Hall of Fame, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, among others. TEACHING: Co-chair, with Chris Durang, of the Playwriting Program at The Juilliard School for 20 years. She writes and lectures frequently on playwriting and the musical book, and holds 18 honorary degrees from American colleges and Universities. OTHER: Founder and President of The Lilly Awards Foundation; serves on the Dramatists Guild Steering Committee. WEB: MarshaNorman.com.

LUCY SIMON Music NEW YORK: Broadway: The Secret Garden (Tony®, Drama Desk, Grammy nominations), Doctor Zhivago; OffBroadway: A… My Name is Alice. NATIONAL TOURS: The Secret Garden, A… My Name is Alice. REGIONAL: The Secret Garden. INTERNATIONAL: The Secret Garden, Doctor Zhivago. OPERA: Malmo Opera (Sweden): Doctor Zhivago.

FILM: A Secret Wish. TELEVISION: The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleading Murdering Mom (HBO, Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for writing/performances). AWARDS: Drama Loge Award: The Secret Garden; GRAMMY Award (Best Recording for Children): In Harmony, In Harmony 2. OTHER: Recordings: 3 albums as The Simon Sisters (Kapp Records), Lucy Simon, Stolen Time (RCA); Original Cast Albums: The Secret Garden (Broadway, London, Australia). DAVID ARMSTRONG Director/Choreographer NEW YORK: Broadway: Scandalous. REGIONAL: The 5th Avenue Theatre: Executive Producer and Artistic Director; Candide, Sweeney Todd, Hair, A Little Night Music, Company, Hello, Dolly!, Oliver!, Anything Goes, Jaques Brel…, A Room With A View, Yankee Doodle Dandy!, Scandalous, Paint Your Wagon (the world premiere of a revised production). Under his leadership The 5th Avenue Theatre has established itself as one of the nation's leading musical theatre companies especially noted for its development and production of new works including the premieres of 17 new musicals since 2001; Paper Mill Playhouse; Kennedy Center; ACT Theatre; Ordway Center; Berkshire Theatre Festival; St. Louis Repertory; Cincinnati Playhouse; Olney Theatre Center; Ford's Theater. OTHER: Created the books for Yankee Doodle Dandy! and TheatreWorksUSA’s A Christmas Carol, which premiered at New York’s Lucille Lortel Theatre; devised and directed the musical revue Hot & Cole which has been produced by dozens of theaters across America and internationally.

RICK FOX Music Supervisor/Music Director/ Additional Arrangements NEW YORK: Broadway: Doctor Zhivago, Jesus Christ Superstar (2012), Rent, Blood Brothers. REGIONAL: Goodspeed Musicals; La Jolla Playhouse; Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Dallas Theatre Center; Arena Stage: Smokey Joe’s Café. INTERNATIONAL: Six years as Director of Music, Stratford Festival (Canada): Music Director: West Side Story, Evita, Cabaret, Tommy; Orchestrator: Cabaret, Jacques Brel, Evita, Kiss Me, Kate; Composer: Caesar and Cleopatra (with Christopher Plummer); Toronto: Music Director/Conductor: Canadian premieres of The Lion King, The Producers, Rent, The Who’s Tommy, Phantom of the Opera (with Colm Wilkinson). TELEVISION: Music Director: Colm Wilkinson and Patti Lupone in Concert (PBS). AWARDS: Four-time Dora Award winner, ninetime Dora Award nominee (Outstanding Musical Direction); Bob Tilles Music Chair (Chicago); BroadwayWorld.com Award (Music Direction, Jesus Christ Superstar). OTHER: Festivals: Williamstown Festival, NAMT Festival, Charlottetown Festival, New York Stage and Film Festival. WEB: RickFoxMusic.com. ANNA LOUIZOS Scenic Designer NEW YORK: Broadway: School of Rock (sets/costumes, also West End), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Tony® nomination), In the Heights (Tony® nomination), High Fidelity (Tony® nomination), Holiday Inn, Dames at Sea, Honeymoon in Vegas, It Shoulda Been You, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Avenue Q, The Performers, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Curtains, Baby It’s You, All About Me, To Be Or Not To Be, Steel Magnolias, Golda’s Balcony; Off-Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company: Just Jim Dale, Sons of the Prophet, The Foreigner, Speech and Debate, Crimes of the Heart; Second Stage: The Substance of Fire, Vanities, the Musical, Birdie Blue; Primary Stages: The

Tribute Artists, Olive and the Bitter Herbs, In Transit; New World Stages: Altar Boyz; Jane Street Theater: tick, tick…BOOM!. REGIONAL: 5th Avenue Theatre: Disney’s Aladdin; Goodspeed Musicals: Me and My Girl, Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas, Band Geeks, Radio Girl; Center Theatre Group: Minsky’s; Dallas Theater Center: Fly, Arsenic and Old Lace, Sarah Plain and Tall; Adventure Theatre MTC: Based on a Totally True Story. INTERNATIONAL: Stratford Festival (Canada): Pirates of Penzance. AWARDS: USITT 2016 Distinguished Achievement Award, NAACP 2011 Theatre Award (In the Heights). OTHER: Art Director: Sex and the City, Founder of Broadway Design Exchange: broadwaydesignexchange.com. ANN HOULD-WARD Costume Designer STC: Man of La Mancha, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Romeo and Juliet. NEW YORK: Select Broadway: The Color Purple, The Visit, The People in the Picture, A Free Man of Color (Drama Desk nomination), A Catered Affair (Drama Desk nomination), Beauty and the Beast (Tony Award®), Into the Woods (Tony®, Drama Desk nominations), Falsettos, Sunday in the Park With George (Tony®, Drama Desk nominations), Saint Joan, Little Me; Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company: Dead Poets Society (upcoming), Passion; Second Stage: Notes from the Field (upcoming), Russian Transport, The Blue Flower, Road Show, Lobster Alice, Cymbeline. REGIONAL: over 100 regional theatre credits. INTERNATIONAL: Beauty and the Beast (over 35 international companies); Salzburg Festival (Austria): West Side Story; Mikhailovsky Theatre (Saint Petersburg, Russia): The Bronze Idol; West End (London): Dear World, Imagine This; Germany: Schuh des Mantu; Norwegian Ballet: Othello. AWARDS: Fashion Institute of Technology’s Patricia Zipprodt Award. MIKE BALDASSARI Lighting Designer NEW YORK: Broadway: Sam Mendes/ Rob Marshall’s Cabaret (1998 &

2014), First Date, Holler If Ya Hear Me. NATIONAL TOURS: 12+ including Ragtime, Camelot, Spamalot, Ring of Fire, Man of La Mancha, Fame, Will Rogers Follies, Grease, Yeston’s Phantom. INTERNATIONAL: Beauty and the Beast in eight different languages; various productions in more than 25 countries. FILM: Ghostbusters (2016), Nine (dir. Rob Marshall), Rock of Ages, Joyful Noise, Sex and the City 2, Going the Distance, Neil Young Trunk Show (dir. Jonathan Demme). TELEVISION: The (RED) Concert/Broadcast from Times Square with U2, Bruce Springsteen, Carrie Underwood and Kanye West; U2’s Top of The Rock performance for The Tonight Show; multiple episodes of Documentary Now!, many of Saturday Night Live’s Digital Shorts and Late Night with Seth Meyers pre-tapes; comedy specials for Dana Carvey, John Mulaney and Bridget Everett; televised concert highlights include Mary J. Blige, Tim McGraw, Sam Smith, Garth Brooks in Central Park; family entertainment: Yo Gabba Gabba. CONCERTS: Production Designer for many Alice in Chains tours; co-designed Neil Young’s Harvest Moon and Chrome Dreams Tours. AWARDS: Tony® and multiple Emmy Award nominations. WEB: Mike-o-matic.com.

JUSTIN STASIW Sound Designer STC: Kiss Me, Kate. NEW YORK: Broadway: Something Rotten (associate sound designer), Side Show (associate sound designer, Drama Desk nomination), It’s Only a Play (associate sound designer), Jekyll and Hyde (sound engineer), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (sound engineer, sub.). REGIONAL: 59e59: Songbird; 5th Avenue Theatre: Paint Your Wagon, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, Jasper in Deadland, A Christmas Story; ACT Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors; Atlantis Manila: Jersey Boys, Ghost; Casa Mañana: Sweeney Todd. OTHER: Member of International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees and United Scenic Artists.

WILLIAM DAVID BROHN Original Orchestrations NEW YORK: Broadway: Current productions: Wicked, Miss Saigon (upcoming, spring of 2017). NATIONAL TOURS: Wicked. INTERNATIONAL: Wicked, Half a Sixpence (London), Mary Poppins, Miss Saigon. OPERA: Arrangements for Artist Concerts: Marilyn Horne, Renée Fleming, Frederica von Stade, Plàcido Domingo. FILM: Prokofiev Adapatations: Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible. AWARDS: Tony® (Best Orchestrations, Ragtime). OTHER: Collaborations: André Previn, John Williams, Keith Lockhart. Mentored by Arranger Robert Russell Bennett. TRAINING: Michigan State University, New England Conservatory. CHRISTOPHER JAHNKE New Orchestrations NEW YORK: Broadway: Porgy and Bess (2012 Tony® Nomination for Best Orchestrations), Les Misérables (performed worldwide since 2006), Legally Blonde, Cry Baby, Grease (2007 Broadway Revival); Dessa Rose (Stephen Flaherty & Lisa Ahrens); Lincoln Center Theater: A Man of No Importance. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Tom the Musical (George Stiles & Paul Leigh), Just So (George Stiles & Anthony Drewe), Wind in the Willows (Stiles/Drewe), The Witches of Eastwick (additional orchestrations and dance arrangements). OTHER: Music Supervisor: Memphis, Escape to Margaritaville (arranging/supervising for Jimmy Buffett); collaborated with/contributed orchestrations and arrangements for Lady Gaga (The Sound of Music, 2015 Oscars), Darlene Love, Steven Van Zandt, Rufus Wainwright, Adam Schlesinger, the Radio City New York Spectacular, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular; frequent collaborator with 15-year-old child prodigy pianist and composer, Emily Bear; assisted legendary orchestrator William David Brohn on Broadway and/or London West End productions of Sweet Smell of Success,

Ragtime, The Three Musketeers (Stiles/ Leigh), The Witches of Eastwick, Mary Poppins, Wicked. LAURA STANCZYK, CSA Casting Director STC: Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Kiss Me, Kate, Salomé, The Metromaniacs, The Tempest, Man of La Mancha, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, Strange Interlude, Old Times. NEW YORK: Broadway, Off- Broadway, National Tours: Side Show, After Midnight, A Night With Janis Joplin, Follies, Cotton Club Parade, Lombardi, Ragtime, Impressionism, The Seafarer, Radio Golf, Coram Boy, The Glorious Ones, Flight, Translations, Tryst, Dirty Dancing; Atlantic Theater Company: The Cripple of Inishmaan (also national tour); Encores! Summer Stars: Damn Yankees, Urinetown (also national tour); Lincoln Center Festival: Gate/Beckett. REGIONAL: Alliance Theatre: Bull Durham; Center Theatre Group: Harps and Angels; Alley Theatre: Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Monster at the Door; Kennedy Center: Side Show, The Guardsman, Follies, Master Class, The Lisbon Traviata, Ragtime, Broadway: Three Generations; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Golden Age; Royal George Theatre: Don’t Dress for Dinner; seven seasons of casting for McCarter Theatre Center. INTERNATIONAL: Druid Theatre Company: My Brilliant Divorce; Gaiety Theatre, Dublin/West End: The Shawshank Redemption; Druid Theatre Company/Dublin Theatre Festival: Long Day’s Journey into Night; Has consulted for the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, Rough MagicTheatre Company in Dublin, the Gate Theatre in Dublin, the Druid Theatre in Galway. CARTER C. WOODDELL Resident Casting Director See page 44. DREW LICHTENBERG Literary Manager/Dramaturg See page 42. 36

LISA NATHANS Voice & Text Coach/Dialect Coach REGIONAL: Signature Theatre: Freaky Friday (World Premiere, Bridgett Carpenter/Tom Kitt/Brian Yorkey); Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol; The Road Theatre Company: John Gabriel Borkman: An American Adaptation; Hollywood Fringe Festival: Wolfgirls (Best of Fringe Award). OTHER: Private Coaching for film, television, theatre, individuals, corporations: communication and presentation skills, accent modification, accent acquisition; Workshop Development: Guthrie Theater Company, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum: Speaking on Stage; Member: Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association. TEACHING: University of Maryland: School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (Assistant Professor, Voice and Acting); CalArts; Stella Adler Academy Los Angeles; Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts; Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama; Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; University of Washington (PATP); University of Minnesota (Guthrie Theater BFA Program). TRAINING: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama: MFA (Voice Studies); Linklater Voice Designation; Certified Colaianni Speech Practitioner. CRAIG BALDWIN Assistant Director STC: The Tempest (2016 Free For All), The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, The Critic. The Real Inspector Hound, Tartuffe, The Metromaniacs, The Tempest. NEW YORK: 59E59: C.O.A.L. (Confessions of a Liar); New York International Fringe Festival: Magic Kingdom, The More Loving One (FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award: Best Overall Production/ Play); Marymount Manhattan College: Columbinus; August Strindberg Rep Theatre: Mr. Bengt’s Wife; Atlantic Acting School: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; HERE Arts Center: Ingmar Bergman’s Persona; Classic Stage Company: MacB**h (workshop); Outhouse Theatre Co: Mercy Thieves (U.S. Premiere), The Boys (U.S. Premiere); Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab: MacB**h (workshop).

REGIONAL: Opera House Arts: Antony and Cleopatra; SUNY Purchase College: The Miser. INTERNATIONAL: The Aliens by Annie Baker (Sydney Premiere); 4 Minutes, 12 Seconds (Australian Premiere). OTHER: Red Bull Theater (Associate Artistic Producer), Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab (Member). TRAINING: The Julliard School. WEB: CraigBaldwin.net. TRINA MILLS Assistant Choreographer REGIONAL: The 5th Avenue Theatre: The Sound of Music, RSP Spamalot, RSP Carousel, assisted on various productions; ACT Theatre: ASSASSINS; ArtsWest: American Idiot. OTHER: Choreography: Seattle Sea Gals NFL cheerleaders. TRAINING: British Dancing Academy; Western Washington University: BA in acting with minor in dance performance, choreography and instruction. BRANDON ADAMS Associate Music Director REGIONAL: West Coast Premieres: The Last Five Years, It Shoulda Been You, Flower Drum Song (D. H. Hwang revision); Center Rep: Life Could Be a Dream (dir. Roger Bean), Blues in the Night, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Lucky Stiff, Xanadu; 42nd Street Moon: Fanny, Little Me, Oh, Kay!, Grass Harp, Sitting Pretty, Louisiana Purchase, Nymph Errant, Do I Hear a Waltz; Marin Theatre Company: Old Wicked Songs; Woodminster: Ragtime, Kind and I, Brigadoon; Theatre Under the Stars: Fiddler on the Roof. INTERNATIONAL: Tours with Grammy Award®-winning Pacific Boychoir Academy: Vietnam, China, Spain, Russia, Australia, Brazil (pianist). AWARDS: San Francisco/Bay Area: Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award: She Loves Me, The Musical of Musicals, the Musical!; Shellie Award: She Loves Me, Les Misérables; Garland Award, Let’s Face It!; TBA Award nominations: Anything Goes, Life Could Be a Dream. OTHER: San Francisco: I’m Hip (Ana Gasteyer); SF Performing Arts Library and Museum: A Conversation with Mary

Rodgers. TEACHING: Lecturer in Musical Theatre: San Francisco State University, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, American University. TRAINING: Dartmouth College: BA in Music; Indiana University: MM in Choral Conducting. WEB: BrandonDavidAdams.weebly.com. CHARLIE MARIE MCGRATH Directorial Assistant STC: Romeo & Juliet (Assistant Director), The Tempest (Directorial Assistant 2016 Free For All). BROADWAY: SDCF Observer, A Time to Kill (dir. Ethan McSweeny). REGIONAL: Assistant Director: Goodman Theatre: Smokefall (dir. Anne Kauffman); Court Theatre: A Long Day’s Journey Into Night (dir. David Auburn); Northlight Theatre: Mothers and Sons (dir. Steve Scott). OTHER: Director, Piccolo Theatre: Private Eyes; The Side Project: Lysistrata; AstonRep Theatre Company: Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Dead Writers Theatre Collective: Game of Love and Chance (Remount), House of Mirth; Open Door Repertory Company: Game of Love and Chance, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks; Proud Kate Theatre Project: The Ruby Sunrise, November, Dumb Waiter; G&S Opera Company: HMS Pinafore. TRAINING: Northwestern University. WEB: CharlieMarieMcGrath.com. JOSEPH SMELSER* Production Stage Manager STC: The Taming of the Shrew, The Critic, The Real Inspector Hound (also at Guthrie Theater), Kiss Me, Kate, Tartuffe, Man of La Mancha, The Tempest (Mainstage, 2016 Free For All), A Winter’s Tale (2014 Free For All), Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (in rep), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Measure for Measure, Wallenstein and Coriolanus (in rep), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mainstage, 2015 Free For All), The Government Inspector, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Strange Interlude, Much Ado About Nothing, The Heir Apparent, All’s Well That Ends Well. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Let Me Down Easy; Seattle Repertory Theatre:

An Ideal Husband, A Doll’s House, Play On!, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter Brook’s The Tragedy of Hamlet, Golden Child, Don Juan, Purgatorio, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (with Lily Tomlin); American Conservatory Theater: The Rivals, The Circle, The Government Inspector, Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo, Vigil; Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Journey to the West, An Almost Holy Picture, Having Our Say; Regional Tour: Let Me Down Easy and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (both with Anna Deavere Smith). TRAINING: Oberlin College: BA. ELIZABETH CLEWLEY* Assistant Stage Manager STC: Stage Manager: The Metromaniacs, The Importance of Being Earnest; Assistant Stage Manager: The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound, Salomé, Tartuffe, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale (Mainstage and Free For All), Private Lives, Wallenstein, The Government Inspector, The Servant of Two Masters, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar (Free For All), Old Times, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night (Free For All), The Liar. REGIONAL: Hartford Stage: Stage Manager: Hartford Stage 50th Anniversary Gala; Assistant Stage Manager: Macbeth, La Dispute; Theater of the American South: Stage Manager: Driving Miss Daisy; Cape Fear Regional Theatre: Stage Manager: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Tuesdays with Morrie. INTERNATIONAL: International Festival of Arts and Ideas; Kennedy Center - International VSA Festival. TRAINING: East Carolina University: BFA in Stage Management. KRISTY MATERO* Assistant Stage Manager STC: The Tempest. REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Women Laughing Alone with Salad, Marie Antoinette, Stupid Fucking Bird, 38

Appropriate, The Convert, K of D, Full Circle, Antebellum, Boom, Maria/Stuart, How Theatre Failed America and If You See Something Say Something (with Mike Daisey), Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (with The Neofuturists); Signature Theatre: God Of Carnage, And The Curtain Rises; Kennedy Center: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Seven Guitars, Jitney, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg; Pig Iron Theatre Company: Hell Meets Henry Halfway, Welcome to Yuba City; Milwaukee Repertory Theater: To Kill A Mockingbird, Lombardi; Scena Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest; Theatre Alliance: Ambition Facing West, White Rabbit Red Rabbit; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Two Gentlemen of Verona. OPERA: Washington National Opera: The Ring Cycle, La Cenerentola, Dialogues of the Carmelites, The Magic Flute, Moby Dick, Anna Bolena; Opera Saratoga: Elisir d'amore; Spoleto Festival USA: Flora or Hob in The Well, Louise, Amistad, Faustus, The Last Night, Don Giovanni. OTHER: Member of Actors’ Equity Association, American Guild of Musical Artists. THE 5TH AVENUE THEATRE The 5th Avenue Theatre is one of America’s leading musical theatre companies, acclaimed for its development and production of new work, as well as it’s vibrant new productions of classic musicals. Since 2001, the Seattle-based company has produced 17 new musicals, including nine shows that have moved on to Broadway, including the current hit Disney’s Aladdin, and two that have received the Tony Award for Best Musical (Hairspray and Memphis) Unique in its spectacular Chineseinspired design, this exquisite theatre opened in 1926 as a venue for vaudeville

The designers at this theatre are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

and film. Today, under the leadership of Executive Producer and Artistic Director David Armstrong, Managing Director Bernadine C. Griffin and Producing Artistic Director Bill Berry, this non-profit theatre company attracts an annual attendance of more than 300,000, including one of the largest theatre subscription audiences in North America. In addition to its mainstage productions, The 5th Avenue Theatre is committed to encouraging the next generation of theatregoers through its extensive educational and outreach programs. For more information about The 5th Avenue Theatre please visit 5thAvenue.org.

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STC BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Michael R. Klein, Chair Robert E. Falb, Vice Chair John Hill, Treasurer Pauline A. Schneider, Secretary Michael Kahn, Artistic Director TRUSTEES Nicholas W. Allard Ashley M. Allen Stephen E. Allis Anita M. Antenucci Jeffrey D. Bauman Michael Beriss Landon Butler Dr. Paul Carter Peter Cherukuri Lady Darroch Gloria Dittus Debbie Driesman Dr. Mark Epstein Stefanie Erkiletian Dr. Natwar Gandhi Barbara Harman Stephen A. Hopkins Lawrence A. Hough W. Mike House Jerry J. Jasinowski Norman D. Jemal Scott Kaufmann Sudhakar Kesavan Kevin Kolevar Abbe David Lowell Gail MacKinnon Bernard F. McKay Melissa A. Moss Irene Pollin

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Stephen M. Ryan Jonathan Sherman George Stamas James Stone Karen Wawrzaszek Rob Wilder Michele Williams Tom Woteki Suzanne S. Youngkin EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEE Chris Jennings, Executive Director EMERITUS TRUSTEES R. Robert Linowes*, Founding Chairman James B. Adler Heidi L. Berry* David A. Brody* Melvin S. Cohen* Ralph P. Davidson* James F. Fitzpatrick Dr. Sidney Harman* Lady Manning Kathleen Matthews William F. McSweeny V. Sue Molina Walter Pincus Eden Rafshoon Emily Malino Scheuer* Lady Sheinwald Mrs. Louis Sullivan Daniel W. Toohey Sarah Valente Lady Westmacott Lady Wright

FOR SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY

MICHAEL KAHN Artistic Director STC: The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound, The Metromaniacs, Henry IV, Part 1 and 2, Wallenstein, The Government Inspector, Strange Interlude, The Heir Apparent, Old Times, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Liar, Richard II, The Alchemist, Design for Living, The Way of the World, Antony and Cleopatra (2008), Tamburlaine, Hamlet (2007), Richard III (2007), The Beaux’ Stratagem, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Othello, Lorenzaccio, Macbeth (2004), Cyrano, Five by Tenn (at the Kennedy Center), The Silent Woman, The Winter’s Tale (2002), The Duchess of Malfi, The Oedipus Plays, Hedda Gabler, Don Carlos, Timon of Athens, Camino Real, Coriolanus, King Lear (1999), The Merchant of Venice, King John, A Woman of No Importance, Sweet Bird of Youth, Peer Gynt, Mourning Becomes Electra, Henry VI, Volpone, Henry V, Henry IV, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Richard II, Much Ado About Nothing (also at McCarter Theatre Center), Mother Courage and Her Children, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, King Lear (1991), Richard III (1990), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra (1988), Macbeth (1988), All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale (1987), Romeo and Juliet. NEW YORK: Broadway: Show Boat (Tony nomination), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Whodunnit, Night of the Tribades, Death of Bessie Smith, Here’s Where I Belong, Othello, Henry V; Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Five by Tenn, Sleep Deprivation Chamber, Funnyhouse of a Negro, The Rimers of Eldritch, Three by Thornton Wilder, A Month in the Country, Hedda Gabler, The Señorita

from Tacna, Ten by Tennessee; New York Shakespeare Festival: Measure for Measure (Saturday Review Award). The Acting Company: Artistic Director, 1978–1988. TEACHING: Richard Rodgers Director of Juilliard Drama Division July 1992–May 2006, faculty member 1967–; Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University. Previously: New York University; Circle in the Square Theatre School; Princeton University; British American Drama Academy; founder of Chautauqua Theatre Conservatory. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: A Touch of the Poet; Signature Theatre: Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill, Otabenga; Studio Theatre: Cloud 9, Torch Song Trilogy. Guthrie Theater: The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound, The Duchess of Malfi; American Repertory Theatre: ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore; The Old Globe: The Metromaniacs; American Shakespeare Theatre: Artistic Director for 10 years, more than 20 productions; McCarter Theatre Center: Artistic Director for five seasons, including Beyond the Horizon, filmed for PBS; Chautauqua Theatre: Artistic Director, including The Glass Menagerie with Tom Hulce; Goodman Theatre: Old Times (MacArthur Award), The Tooth of Crime (Jefferson nomination); Ford’s Theatre: Eleanor. OPERA: Roméo et Juliette for Dallas Opera; Vanessa for the New York City Opera (2007); Lysistrata or The Nude Goddess for Houston Grand Opera and New York City Opera; Vanessa for Washington Opera and Dallas Opera; Show Boat for Houston Grand Opera; Carmen for Houston and Washington Operas; Carousel for Miami Opera; Julius Caesar for San Francisco Spring Opera. 41

INTERNATIONAL: Love’s Labor’s Lost at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival; The Oedipus Plays at the Athens Festival; Five by Tenn for The Acting Company’s tour of Eastern Europe; Show Boat for the National Cultural Center Opera House in Cairo; The White Devil for the Adelaide Festival. BOARD MEMBERSHIPS: Theatre Communications Group; New York State Council on the Arts; D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts; Opera America’s 80s and Beyond. AWARDS: Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.); Theater Hall of Fame; seven Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Director; 2016 Theatre Communications Group Theatre Practitioner Award; 2011 CAGLCC Excellence in Business Award; 2010 WAPAVA Richard Bauer Award; 2007 Mayor’s Arts Award Special Recognition for Shakespeare in Washington; 2007 Stephen and Christine Schwarzman Award for Excellence in Theatre; 2007 Sir John Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts; 2005 Person of the Year from the National Theatre Conference; 2004 Shakespeare Society Medal; 2002 William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre; 2002 Distinguished Washingtonian Award from The University Club; 2002 GLAAD Capitol Award; 1997 Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline; 1996 Opera Music Theater International’s Bravo Award; 1990 First Annual Shakespeare’s Globe Award; 1989 Washingtonian Magazine Washingtonian of the Year; 1989 Washington Post Award for Distinguished Community Service; 1988 John Houseman Award. HONORARY DOCTORATES: University of South Carolina; Kean College; The Juilliard School; The American University.

CHRIS JENNINGS Executive Director STC: Joined the Company in 2004. ADMINISTRATION: General Manager: Trinity

Repertory Company (1999–2004), Theatre for a New Audience (1997– 1999); Associate Managing Director: Yale Repertory Theatre; Assistant to the Executive Producer: Manhattan Theater Club; Founder/Producing Director: Texas Young Playwrights Festival; Manager: Dougherty Arts Center. MEMBERSHIPS: Currently serves on the Board of the Theatre Communications Group, D.C. Downtown BID, THE ARC, D.C. Arts Education Collaborative, the Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association, Theatre Washington, and is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (served on AEA and SSDC Negotiating Committees); has served as a panelist for the NEA, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and Pew Theatre Initiative. AWARDS: Arts Administration Fellowship: National Endowment for the Arts. TRAINING: University of Miami: BFA in Theatre/Music; Yale School of Drama: MFA in Theatre Management. DREW LICHTENBERG Literary Manager/ Dramaturg STC: Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound, Kiss Me, Kate, Salomé, Tartuffe, Man of La Mancha, The Metromaniacs, The Tempest, As You Like It, Private Lives, Henry IV, Part 1 and 2, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus, Wallenstein, Hughie, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Government Inspector, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Servant of Two Masters, Strange Interlude, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, The Heir Apparent. REGIONAL: STC/McCarter Theatre Center: The Winter’s Tale; Center Stage: Caroline, or Change, Cyrano, Around the World in 80 Days; Yale Repertory Theatre: Lulu (dir. Mark Lamos); Williamstown Theatre Festival: The Front Page, The Physicists, The Corn Is Green;

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Kate, Salomé, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Free For All), Tartuffe, Dunsinane (supernumerary), Man of La Mancha, The Metromaniacs (STC and The Old Globe), The Tempest, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale (Free For All), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, the ReDiscovery Reading Series. Other Casting Experience (McCorkle Casting, Ltd.): NEW YORK: Broadway: Belasco Theatre: End of the Rainbow (dir. Terry Johnson), Booth Theatre: High (dir. Rob Ruggiero); Off-Broadway (partial): Barrow Street Theatre: Tribes (dir. David Cromer), Our Town (dir. David Cromer), The Acting Company, Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater: Freud’s Last Session (dir. Tyler Marchant), Cherry Lane Theatre: A Perfect Future (dir. Wilson Milam), SoHo Playhouse: The Irish Curse (dir. Matt Lenz), Beckett Theatre: An Error of the Moon (dir. Kim Weild); NYC Other: Lincoln Center Institute: Hamlet, Fly, Sheila’s Day. NATIONAL TOURS: The Acting Company, Riverdance. REGIONAL: Alley Theatre, Center Stage, Barrington Stage Company, The Broad Stage, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Crossroads Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, The Guthrie Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, TheaterWorks Hartford. RADIO: BBC Radio: The Piano Lesson (dir. Claire Grove). TELEVISION: Sesame Workshop: The Electric Company, Pilot: 27 East. FILM: Columbia Pictures: Premium Rush (dir. David Koepp), Choice Films: Junction (dir. Tony Glazer). TEACHING: Guest Lecturer, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, BFA and MFA acting students.

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from ary to an interview with daisy eagan faces and voices By Anna Alison Brenner Artistic Fellow

On June 2, 1991, 11-year-old Daisy Eagan became the youngest girl ever to win a Tony Award®. Now, 25 years later, Eagan returns to The Secret Garden yet again— this time as Martha, not Mary—in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production. I was fortunate enough to catch up with Daisy and discuss The Secret Garden and life in the theatre.

Anna Alison Brenner: What initially drew you to the theatre?

Daisy Eagan: My first memory of seeing theatre was when I was eight. I had been bullied a lot as a child so I was drawn to the idea that through theatre and acting I could pretend to be someone else. AAB: Do you find that that same thing—that ability to get on stage and pretend to be someone else—still draws you to the theatre today?

DE: My attraction to the theatre has definitely grown as I’ve gotten older. What I get to do for a living is play dress-up—not to downplay the importance of theatre as a mechanism for telling history and creating change. Now, I truly feel most alive when I’m on stage connecting with an audience. AAB: What’s it like returning to this musical after all these years? 48

martha:

DE: When I performed in the Lincoln Center concert production of The Secret Garden this past February, it actually wasn’t as strange playing another role as I thought it might be. The songs have so much significance to me, as they helped me make it through my mother’s illness. Now, as Martha, I get to actually sing that song [“Hold On”]. It’s almost as if I’m singing to myself as a kid. AAB: Did you ever think you’d return to the show later on in life?

DE: I had definitely thought about it before, although not entirely seriously. People had started to ask as I’d gotten old enough to play Martha. It was difficult for me to audition because it felt as though it would be a bit humiliating if I didn’t get cast. My agent and I discussed it a lot; we had sort of half-joked about it. But the Lincoln Center concert came up and it was a great opportunity.

AAB: Has your perspective on the show changed as you’ve gotten older?

DE: In certain ways my perspective is a bit locked back where it was 25 years ago, since I’ll always be able to relate to the show through Mary’s story. But now my life is different. I’m a mother. So now I can still relate to Mary, but also to Lily—as a mom—and to Martha— since she’s Mary’s only maternal figure in the show. I didn’t understand how deep that maternal connection was (on Martha’s end), whereas I always understood Mary as lonely and older than her years. I also have experienced love and heartbreak, so I can now relate to Lily and Archie’s story in a way I couldn’t as an 11-year-old. AAB: What was it like winning a Tony Award® at such a young age?

DE: It was incredible; such a whirlwind. I always understood its significance—although, at the time, I did think that I’d always be that successful. I didn’t realize the reality of the industry, that careers go up and down. It just sort of felt like this is how it was going to be from now on. But I wouldn’t change the experience for the world. I was very fortunate. AAB: If you could give any advice to a young actor, what would it be?

the same thing for their entire life. Tastes and wants will change over time and that doesn’t mean you’ve failed—it just means you’ve grown. When acting stops being fun is the time to think about why you’re still doing it—and time to rethink your choices. It’s really not worth it if it doesn’t make you happy. But if it does make you happy, you do need to remember to always keep studying and training, because no matter how successful you are already, you need to keep your instrument in shape. I’d also say that they should be curious about—and study—other things outside of acting and theatre, because doing so will make you a more well-rounded person, which is very important. AAB: Would you give any specific advice to Anya Rothman and Henry Baratz (STC’s Mary and Colin, respectively)?

DE: It’s easy to write both Mary and Colin off as brats, but the truth is more complex than that. Mary’s just a hurt little girl who needs a hug. I hope they understand how fortunate they are to be doing this. The Secret Garden is a beautiful show— and their playground is a professional stage. They’re so lucky, and I’m really excited for them.

DE: I would say that it’s not common for someone to want to do 49

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famil feature

exploring the garden

What grows in Mary’s garden? Listen closely during the show and you’ll hear characters talking about all different kinds of flowers. How many do you recognize? Match the picture of the flower with its correct name.

Columbine Ivy Lilac Lily Poppy Rose Snowdrop

Bumblebees are buzz pollinators, meaning they land on flowers, hold on tight and buzz, shaking pollen loose. Bumblebees are extra special—the bees buzz at the same pitch every time they pollinate (Middle C).

See page 61 for more information about Family Week (December 11–18) at Shakespeare Theatre Company.

Word Search Find the flower names and more: F Q D M N S N A E N O K C I D Y L O I P B N N E A R T H H T Q O L R C B I O K Q H H P Q T R O I S Z B U X W C K Z O Y J C N U A M I E D M D A D P Q A G M L U H S J U M P R O P E S S E L I O T O R K W O O Y S P F O E R L Y R A M W O C P I I C J W Z L A U A L I L Y V J R O M X S A Z C H M K H Y F N I T H Q I Z M C V C E U N I I T W T W N X I J R W Y Q C O B S O C N X T R H H X R I H W O D R E Q O F Q D O Z I I H X R I

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There are trees older than dinosaurs: Charles Darwin called the Ginkgo tree a “living fossil.” Scientists have found fossilized Ginkgo leaves that date back 270 million years.

The official flower of the District of Columbia is the crimson-colored “American Beauty” rose. 59

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the king who would be man By Robert Avila

ritish royals thesE days can have a hard time getting any respect. Lacking a serious role aboard the ship of state, they pitch alongside it, buffeted by alternating waves of admiration and scorn, celebrity and caricature. Perhaps that’s why, all-too-human one moment, gilded cutouts the next, these Kardashians of the Old World continue to fascinate Americans, too. Witness the cross-pond success of films like The Queen (2006) and The King’s Speech (2010) or a play like The Audience (2013). The latest British import comes with a king-size twist, as its plot moves the royal family into a near and credible future. In brief, it goes like this: Prince Charles ascends to the throne. But confronted with his first official, essentially pro forma task—signing off on a new law curbing press freedom in the wake of a phone-hacking scandal—he withholds the royal rubber stamp. And all hell, as they say, breaks loose. In conjuring a crisis of state in which the current British royal family plays a central and pivotal role, playwright Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III not

only returns the House of Windsor to center stage, but also grants its members Shakespearean proportions. Amid allusions to the Bardian canon, subplots and machinations abound (looking at you, Kate Middleton), while a rather high-profile ghost stalks the castle. The characters even speak in iambic pentameter. If that sounds kind of heavy, it shouldn’t feel that way when King Charles III takes its bow, courtesy of co-producers American Conservatory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Washington, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company. A major hit on the West End and Broadway, Bartlett’s bold foray into the “future history play” not only manages its blank verse with aplomb but also finds occasion for as much comedy and romance as high drama—all the while taking its characters and the political contradictions at the crux of the story very seriously. “There is a big drama going on, actually more than one drama—a big political crisis and a big family crisis,”

says actor Robert Joy, who steps into the title role. “I think it’s incumbent upon us to communicate that” relationship, he says, “and that’s what I’m after.” Joy speaks sympathetically of the predicament Charles finds himself in, and the general crisis it unleashes, which resonates unexpectedly post-Brexit and circa the right and left populism of Trump and Sanders. “There’s a bifurcation in Charles,” he says. “It’s clear from the very first scene. He’s aware that his presence as a mon-

King Charles III sidney harman hall Performances begin February 7 For tickets, visit ShakespeareTheatre.org or call 202.547.1122. arch is a performance, in a way, and he’s trying to figure out who he is as an individual. As a father and a husband and a son—all those aspects of himself are not just important but foundational.” Indeed, a persistent theme in King Charles III, which picked up an Olivier Award for Best New Play after its 2014 world premiere at London’s Almeida Theatre, is the yearning of its royal characters—from Charles to Kate to the Hal-like Prince Harry—for some scope and agency beyond their formal, somehow inanimate roles (“statue” and “doll” are variously used as self-descriptors). With the line between politics and reality TV growing fainter by the year, there’s something timely, to put it mildly, in a ceremonial celebrity attempting to exert real political power—an identity

crisis that pushes the country to the brink of revolution. “I think we're in a moment where many people mistrust authority and the status quo,” says Bartlett, one of the most admired young playwrights working in Britain today, in a recent email correspondence. “They view people in power as an elite that is out of touch with the reality of modern life, and only interested in preserving their privilege.” “What's interesting,” he adds, “is how that railing against the establishment has often found leaders who— strangely—epitomize the establishment. Nigel Farage or Boris Johnson in Britain. Donald Trump in the U.S. King Charles III depicts perhaps a similar moment— when the king becomes a figurehead for a lot of people to hold the government to account.”

Robert Avila is a Bay Area freelance writer. Excerpted from the article that originally appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on September 4, 2016.

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THE ACADEMY FOR CLASSICAL ACTING The Academy for Classical Acting Director: Alec Wild ACA Program Coordinator: Bekah Eichelberger Faculty Members: Isabelle Anderson, Christopher Cherry, Dody DiSanto, Edward Gero, Leslie Jacobson, Lisae Jordan, Michael Kahn, Floyd King, Roberta Stiehm, Brad Waller PRODUCTION Director of Production: Tom Haygood Associate Directors of Production: Kimberly Lewis Barna, Gordon Nimmo-Smith Production Administrator: Emmy Landskroener Resident Production Stage Manager: Joseph Smelser Stage Managers: Michael B. Paul, Brandon Prendergast Assistant Stage Managers: Elizabeth Clewley, Kate Kilbane, Kristy Matero, Jessica Skelton, Maria Tejada, Teresa Wood Production Assistant: Rebecca Shipman Stage Management Fellows: Mark Palumbo, Sara Patterson Costume Director: Wendy Stark Prey Floor Manager: Julie Rose Resident Design Assistant: Lynda Myers Drapers: Denise Aitchison, Randall Exton, Tonja Petersen First Hands: Sara Cardwell, Jennifer Rankin, Sandra Thomas Stitchers: Stephanie Goad, Michele Ordway, Donna Sachs Lead Crafts Artisan: Joshua Kelley Costume Crafts Artisan: Kathryn Hansen

AUDIENCE SERVICES Lansburgh Theatre 450 7th Street NW Sidney Harman Hall 610 F Street NW Ticket and Group Sales: Tickets: 202.547.1122 Toll-free: 877.487.8849 Group Sales: 202.547.3230 ext. 3405 Box Office fax: 202.608.6350 Bookings: 202.547.3230 ext. 2321 Box Office phone hours (both theatres): Daily: noon–6 p.m. (Box Office window open until curtain time) The Lansburgh Box Office is closed on the weekends if there is no performance at the Lansburgh Theatre. Concessions and Gift Shops: Food and beverages are available one hour before each performance. Pre-order before curtain for immediate pick-up at intermission. Lansburgh Theatre and Sidney Harman Hall gift shops are open before curtain, at intermission and for a short time after each performance. Connect with us: Facebook.com/ShakespeareinDC Twitter @ShakespeareinDC YouTube.com/ShakespeareTheatreCo Flickr.com/ShakespeareTheatreCompany Instagram @ShakespeareinDC Latecomers will be seated at management’s discretion.

Wardrobe Supervisors: Jeanette Lee Porter, Monica Speaker Wig Master : Dori Beau Seigneur Costume Design Fellows: Jen Gillette, Heather Grandprey Costume Production Fellows: Madeline Corson, Celeste Jennings, Grace Kang Technical Director: Kelly Dunnavant Scene Shop Foreman: David P. Stock Scene Shop Administrator: Charles Cobb Carpenters: Justin Carnes, John Cincioni, Jr., Matthew Grisdela, Zack Mancini Charge Scenic Artist: Sally Glass Scenic Artist: Jose Ortiz Scenic Painter: Laura Genson Scenic Art Intern: Molly Hall Prop Shop Director: Chris Young Assistant Prop Shop Director: Kimberley E. Cruce Props Painter/Sculptor: Eric Hammesfahr Props Artisan: Justin Titley Soft Goods Artisan: Rebecca Williams Master Electrician: Sean R. McCarthy Assistant Master Electrician: Lauren Lee Harman Electrician: Brian Flory Lansburgh Electrician: Samantha Brewer Audio/Video Supervisor: Brian Burchett Assistant Audio/Video Supervisor: Alexis Macchiaroli Live Mix Engineer: Ryan Gravett Lansburgh Board Operator: Kurt Davis Stage Operations Supervisor: Dan Collier Assistant Stage Operations Supervisor: Will Gautney Stage Carpenters: Jess Rich, Rachel Wolf Run Crew: Reggie Fortune, Craig Gatling

Accessibility Our theatres are accessible to persons with disabilities. Please request special seating at time of ticket purchase and arrive 30 minutes before curtain for priority seating. Open-captioned performance of The Secret Garden: Thursday, December 8 at 8 p.m. Audio-described performance of The Secret Garden: Saturday, December 10 at 2 p.m. Sign-interpreted performance of The Secret Garden: Tuesday, December 13 at 7:30 p.m. An audio-enhancement system is available for all performances. Both headset receivers and neck loops (to use with hearing aids outfitted with a “T” switch) are available at the coat check on a first-come basis. Programs in large print are available at the coat check. Support for the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Accessibility Program provided by

THE VIDEO AND/OR AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS PERFORMANCE BY ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED. As a courtesy, turn off pagers, telephones, watch alarms and all other electronic devices during the performance. Audience members may be reached during a performance by calling house management at 202.547.3230 ext. 2517. Specify seat location. 65

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