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Russ Tutterow Artistic Director

Brian Loevner Managing Director

33 years developing playwrights and new plays

Bonnie Metzgar Artistic Director

Jason L. Held Executive Director

present

THE KID THING By Sarah Gubbins Directed by Joanie Schultz Featuring: Halena Kays Park Krausen* Steve O’Connell Kelli Simpkins* Rebekah Ward-Hays Scenic Design Chelsea Warren

Lighting Design Sarah Hughey

Costume Design Izumi Inaba

Sound Design Miles Polaski

Properties Design Katherine Greenleaf

Stage Management Jenniffer J. Thusing*

September 1, 2011 – October 16, 2011 The Kid Thing is funded in part by the Edgerton Foundation for New American Plays Awards.

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Chicago Dramatists and About Face Theatre Present A World Premiere Production

The Kid Thing

by Resident Playwright and About Face Theatre Artistic Associate Sarah Gubbins Directed by Joanie Schultz

CAST Darcy......................................................................................................................Kelli Simpkins* ^ Leigh............................................................................................................................Park Krausen* Nate..................................................................................................................................Halena Kays Margot.............................................................................................................Rebekah Ward-Hays Jacob........................................................................................................................Steve O’Connell “The Kid Thing” runs approximately two hours with a fifteen minute intermission.

Please turn off all cell phones and electronic pagers.

The use of cameras, video recorders, and audio recorders is forbidden.

P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Stage Manager.............................................................................................Jenniffer J. Thusing* Production Manager................................................................................................. Emily Duffin House/Bar Manager....................................................................................................Stacey High Assistant Director.................................................................................................... Aaron Pfeiffer Public Relations............................................................................. Noreen Heron & Associates Technical Director................................................................................................ Micah Hofferth Scenic Design.................................................................................................. Chelsea M. Warren Costume Design.......................................................................................................... Izumi Inaba Lighting Design.......................................................................................................Sarah Hughey Sound Design............................................................................................................. Miles Polaski Props Design.................................................................................................Katherine Greenleaf Dramaturg.................................................................................................................... Robert Koon Master Electrician................................................................................................ Andrew Iverson Graphic Design and Photographer.................................................................... Paul Grigonis Casting................................................................................................................ Two Birds Casting Script Assistant....................................................................................................... Jimmy Walden * Member of Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. ^ Denotes About Face Theatre Artistic Associate

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A B O U T FAC E T H E AT R E About Face Theatre creates exceptional, innovative, and adventurous plays to advance the national dialogue on gender and sexual identity and to challenge and entertain audiences in Chicago, across the country, and around the world.

Founded in 1995 by Kyle Hall and Eric Rosen, About Face Theatre has emerged as a major force in Chicago theatre and is among the nation’s most respected companies dedicated to the exploration of gender and sexuality.

Since its inception, About Face has developed and produced 30 new productions for Chicago audiences, including 25 world premieres. Plays developed at About Face have been seen across the country to critical acclaim and major recognition, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, 1 Black Theater Alliance Award, 13 Joseph Jefferson awards, and 14 After Dark awards. Other Community honors include the Human First Award, the GLSEN Pathfinder Awards, a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association, the Cook County Community Empowerment Award, induction into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, and the 2007 Equality award from the Human Rights Campaign.

In addition to its award-winning mainstage performances, About Face is home to the nationally recognized About Face Youth Theatre, dedicated to the empowerment of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning) youth and their allies through the creation of original productions and touring shows that reach up to 5,000 young people across the region each year.

For more information, visit www.aboutfacetheatre.com or call 773-784-8565.

A B O U T C H I C AG O D R A M AT I S T S Welcome to Chicago Dramatists. Since 1979, our mission has stayed true and fast: to discover and nurture the playwrights of the future. The productions in the 2011-2012 Season are some of the best new plays by our Resident Playwrights, and represent the wide spectrum of material that Chicago Dramatists fosters.

Working with over 500 playwrights annually, Chicago Dramatists’ most important sign of achievement is its nurturing of compelling, challenging and diverse plays that move on to productions, earn awards, and define the American theatre. The upcoming 2011/2012 Broadway season will include a production of “Stick Fly” by Resident Playwright Lydia R. Diamond, which was originally developed in part at Chicago Dramatists. Moreover, in the past year, our plays have seen over 800 productions, awards, readings or festival presentations, helping enrich the lives of thousands of theatre patrons across the country, exporting Chicago voices to the nation, and boosting Chicago Dramatists’ status as one of the nation’s foremost new play development theatres.

Chicago Dramatists boasts 37 Chicago Resident Playwrights, while our associate membership – The Playwrights Network – serves nearly 200 writers, nationwide.

Chicago Dramatists also nurtures playwrights and new plays through our Playwrights Studio Classes, the popular 10-Minute Workshop, educational programs at challenged high schools, and The Saturday Series.

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The Saturday Series is our foremost development program. Since 1979, over 1,500 plays have been presented in this weekly staged reading series. Saturdays at 2:00 pm, year-round, audiences can see and discuss some of the best new work in development in Chicago. Please join us!

For more information on our many programs, please visit our web site at www.chicagodramatists.org.

Chicago Dramatists is a professional theatre producing in accordance with Actors’ Equity Association, Chicago Area Theatres Contract, and is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the League of Chicago Theatres, the Producers Association of Chicago Theater (PACT), Bucktown/Wicker Park Chamber of Commerce, Oak Park Chamber of Commerce and the West Town Chamber of Commerce.

BIOGR APHIES Kelli Simpkins*^ (Darcy) is honored to be performing in The Kid Thing. She is an Artistic Associate of About Face Theatre and was last seen in Pony. Recent acting credits include In Darfur, The Laramie Project Tour: TLP and TLP EPILOGUE in repertory; Late: A Cowboy Song, Celebrity Row, Fair Use, Good Boys And True, Execution of Justice and The People’s Temple.

Kelli is a member of NYC’s Tectonic Theatre Project and is one of the original creator/performers of The Laramie Project.

She is a certified Tectonic moment work teacher. FILM/TV: A League of Their Own, Chasing Amy, Law & Order: C.I., and HBO’s The Laramie Project (Emmy Nomination: Ensemble Writing).

Park Krausen* (Leigh) Park has performed with the Lincoln Center Living Room Series, The Labyrinth Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, The Alliance Theatre, Actors Express, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Georgia Shakespeare (Associate Artist), Out of Hand Theatre (Core Company), Théâtre du Rêve, (current Artistic Director). Favorite roles include Shakespeare’s Juliet, Ophelia, Desdemona, Portia and Puck; Chekhov’s Irina and Varya; Roxanne in Cyrano and Beckett’s Not I and Footfalls. She has worked internationally in France, the Netherlands and Poland. She holds a B.A. in Theater and in French from Emory University, and did her graduate work at Le Conservatoire National Superieur D’Art Dramatique in Paris.

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Halena Kays (Nate) is so pleased to be back in Chicago. She is the co-founder and former artistic director of Barrel of Monkeys and the new AD of The Hypocrites. She is a Northwestern and UT-Austin grad and a former member of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care unit.

In Chicago she was recently on stage in Oedipus, Mud and 4.48 Psychosis (The Hypocrites), The Children’s Hour (Timeline), The Golden Truffle (Redmoon), Fair Use and Theatrical Essays (Steppenwolf ). For the Neo-Futurists she co-created and directed Daredevils and Daredevils Hamlet as well as the premiere of the site-specific extravaganza, Fake Lake. Halena has been nominated for a Jefferson Citation for Best Supporting Actress, named one of “30 under 30” to watch by SixOSix magazine, and received a signed letter from Mr. Rogers saying she was “special” in 1978.

Rebekah Ward-Hays (Margot) is honored and excited to work with Chicago Dramatists and About Face for the first time - especially telling this story. She was recently seen as Nan/Lina in Three Days of Rain with BackStage Theatre Company, Hope in HOUSE Theatre’s Wilson Wants It All (Jeff Citation Best New Work), and Lemon in BackStage Theatre Company’s Aunt Dan and Lemon (Jeff Nomination, Principal Actress). Other work with BSTC (with whom she is an ensemble member) includes The Memory of Water, Waiting for Lefty (Jeff Nominations, Best Supporting Actress and Ensemble), and Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth (Jeff Citation, Principal Actress). Additional theatre credits in-

B I O G R A P H I E S ( c o n t .) clude The Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court, Remy Bumppo, Northlight, Fox Valley Repertory, Strawdog Theatre, the side project, Dog + Pony Theatre, and Collaboraction.

Film credits include “Helix”,“Little Adults”, and “Just Like A Woman”.

Steve O’Connell (Jacob) Chicago and regional credits include work with Timeline, BoHo, Red Tape, Circle, Metropolis, Infusion, Madison Rep, and The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. Film credits include the Chicago indie Masterz In Motion and the Lifetime original Last Man Standing. As a writer, Steve’s work has been performed at both the Chicago and New York Fringe Festivals and most recently at City Lit Theatre, where his adaptation of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner took first prize at the 2011 Art of Adaptation Festival. Love and thanks to Megan and Will. www.steveoconnell.net Sarah Gubbins^ (Playwright) Other plays include Fair Use (produced at Actor’s Express and Steppenwolf Theatre’s First Look Rep), In Loco Parentis (What’s Next Lab), fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life (up-coming production at Steppenwolf Theatre 2012) and The Water Play (PlayLabs up-coming). Her plays have been read or developed at Chicago Dramatists, the Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis, American Theater Company, About Face Theatre, Next Theatre Company, Actor’s Express and Collaboraction. She was the 2010-2011 Carl J. Djerassi Playwriting Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and will be a 2011-2012 Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. Her plays have been finalists for the Alliance Theatre’s Kendeda Award and twice finalists for the Heideman Award. She recently collaborated with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange on A Matter of Origins. She has been commissioned by the Steppenwolf Theatre and DePaul University.

Sarah is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and an Artistic Associate at About Face Theatre. She holds an M.F.A. in Writing for the Screen + Stage from Northwestern University.

Joanie Schultz (Director) is a freelance director based in Chicago. Last year she directed The Metal Children at Next Theatre, Wreckage for Caffeine Theatre, and Shining City for Redtwist Theatre. She also recently directed A Brief History of Helen of Troy and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (Jeff Award for Best Ensemble) for Steep Theatre Company; The Ring Cycle for the Building Stage; Many Loves for Caffeine Theatre; A Perfect Wedding and Stone Cold Dead Serious for Circle Theatre. Ms. Schultz has directed Savitri and The Telephone for Chicago Opera Theater and National Opera Week; and Acis and Galatea, the Chicago Cultural Center summer opera, which was the first fully-staged opera at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.

She recently directed new play workshops at The Goodman Theatre, Next Theatre, and Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Upcoming work includes the world premiere of Sarah Gubbins’ play fml: How Carson McCullers saved my life, at Steppenwolf for Young Adults; Ask Aunt Susan by Seth Bockley at the Goodman Theatre; and The Girl in the Yellow Dress at Next Theatre. Ms. Schultz holds an MFA from Northwestern University; was a Drama League Fellow; The Goodman Theatre’s Michael Maggio Directing Fellow; the SDC Denham Fellow; a participant in the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; and currently teaches directing at Columbia College Chicago.

Jenniffer J. Thusing* (Stage Manager) is happy to be home again at Chicago Dramatists. For the past 2 seasons, she has served as stage manager and for the previous 3 seasons, served as props designer here. In addition, she and her partner Robert Groth designed the set for Dramatists’ Aiming for Sainthood at Pritzker Pavilion. Jenniffer also works as a teaching artist through the Beverly Arts Center. Her work as co-scenic designer was also seen on Seanachai Theatre’s The Weir and That Was Then.

Jenniffer is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. www.jennifferjthusing.com Chelsea M. Warren (Scenic Design) Chicago projects include: scenery for Pornography, A Brief History of Helen of Troy and The Hollowlands (Steep Theatre); They’re Playing Our Song (Fox Valley Rep), Educating Rita (Shattered Globe); Precious Little Chicago Dramatists 5

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(Rivendell Theatre); Sinbad (Adventure Stage Chicago), A Separate Peace (Steppenwolf for Young Adults), K. (Hypocrites), and Mrs. Caliban (Lifeline Theatre); production design for Acis & Galatea (Chicago Cultural Center and Millennium Park Stage), XYZ puppetry workshop of Tiny Rooms (About Face). International work includes: La Femme des Sables (Companie Unikaji in Paris and Zagreb) and Stones/Air (Barossa International Sculpture Park in Southern Australia). Ms. Warren received her MFA in Stage Design from Northwestern University. chelseaMwarren.carbonmade.com; blogminic.blogspot.com Izumi Inaba (Costume Design) is thrilled to be working with Chicago Dramatists for the first time. Her past favorite design works include Stage Door (Griffin), Eurydice (Wheaton College), Woyzeck (The Hypocrites), and most recently As You Like It (Two Pence Shakespeare). Izumi is a recipient of a Non-Equity Jeff Award 2011 Artistic Specialization for Cats makeup design for Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre.

She will be designing The Ugly One (Sideshow) and Spring Awakening (Griffin) next. B.A. in Theatre and Dance, SUNY at Buffalo, and M.F.A. in stage design, Northwestern University.

Sarah Hughey (Lighting Design) This is Sarah’s first design with Chicago Dramatists as well as for About Face Theatre. Chicago lighting design credits include work with Fox Valley Rep, Silk Road Theatre Project, Lifeline, Steep, Griffin, Seanachai, City Lit, Gift, A Red Orchid Theatre, Provision, American Musical Theatre Project, Lookingglass, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming projects include work with the House Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, and Northlight Theatre.

Sarah earned her MFA from Northwestern University and teaches lighting design at Columbia College and Northwestern.

Miles Polaski (Sound Design) is a sound designer, composer, musician and DJ in Chicago. He has been a company member, sound designer and music curator with 2nd Story since 2007. In 2010 Miles received a Jeff Award for his sound design on Mouse in a Jar with Red Tape Theatre.

Miles has had the pleasure of working with many Chicago theatre companies.

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Favorite past credits include The Original Grease (American Theatre Company); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Gift Theatre); Uncle Vanya (TUTA); Cadillac (Chicago Dramatists); A Christmas Story (Fox Valley Rep.); Talk Radio (The Gift Theatre); Dr. Egg (Redmoon); The Hairy Ape (The Hypocrites/Goodman Theatre); Diversey Harbor (Theatre Seven); Bloody Bess (Backstage Theatre); and Of Mice and Men (Steppenwolf Theatre).

Emily Duffin (Production Manager) This is Emily’s third season with the Chicago Dramatists and first production with About Face Theatre Company. Most recently she stage managed the opera Don Bucefalo and production assisted on Rigoletto and La Cenerentola with an opera training program called La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria, Italy. In Chicago, she has worked with TimeLine Theatre Company, Sinnerman Ensemble, The Side Project, Pegasus Players, and 16th Street Theatre. In December, she will be working in Denver, Colorado with the Denver Center Theatre Company. Special thanks to Mom and Dad. Katherine Greenleaf (Properties Design) is a freelance props designer in Chicago. Past work with AFT includes The Homosexuals. Past work in Chicago includes Cherrywood (Mary-Arrchie), The Wreck of the Medusa (Plagiarists), Brainpeople (Urban Theater Company), A Brief History of Helen of Troy (Steep), Arnie the Doughnut (Lifeline), Caucasian Chalk Circle (Theater Mir), Acis and Galatea (Chicago Cultural Center). Katherine has also worked with Prop Theater, Rhinofest, and Court Theater. Katherine is a 2009 graduate of the University of Chicago.

Jason L. Held (AFT Executive Director) has a long history advocating for social and economic justice. He has worked for a variety of non-profits and political campaigns in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Atlanta in the areas of organizing, strategic development, lobbying and fundraising. After working on Tammy Duckworth’s 2006 bid for Congress in Chicago’s western suburbs, he served as the Manager of Grants and Annual Fund for Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois. He has also served as the

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Staff Director for the Center for Justice & Democracy-Illinois, a consumer protection advocacy organization, and as the Director of Development for The Illinois Safe Schools Alliance, whose mission is to promote safety, and support healthy development for LGBTQ youth in Illinois schools and communities. He serves on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Board of Governors and is active in other organizations advocating on behalf of LGBTQ equality.

Bonnie Metzgar (AFT Artistic Director) is an award-winning producer, director, playwright, and dramaturg. Previous direction for AFT shows includes The Homosexuals, Pony and Stupid Kids. Before joining About Face, she was a professor and director of the graduate playwriting program at Brown University. In addition to teaching, Metzgar also served as Artistic Director of Brown’s New Plays Festival for three years with Paula Vogel.

Most notable is Metzgar’s involvement as co-creator of the 365 Festival–a national festival based on 365 Days/365 Plays, a yearlong play cycle written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Metzgar was the artistic leader for this landmark international event, a shared global premiere by hundreds of theatres, universities and art spaces throughout the U.S. and abroad. Time Magazine named the 365 Festival one of its top ten theatre events in 2006. Also, from 2004 to 2007, Metzgar was Associate Artistic Director of Curious Theatre Company in Denver, where she curated new works and directed for the mainstage. From 1995 to 2003, she served as Associate Producer at the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival under George C. Wolfe. As founding producer of Joe’s Pub from 1998 to 2001, Metzgar was the creator of a now worldfamous performance venue. Her responsibilities included providing creative vision for all aspects of the new venue.

he created programming partnerships with the Chicago Park District, Gallery 37, and the Department of Aging. Over five years, Mr. Loevner grew TriArts into a Jeff nominated theatre with strong support from the theatre community. Brian has also produced and production managed over 80 shows with companies such as Famous Door Theatre, Timeline Theatre, Collaboraction, and The Actor’s Gymnasium. Further, he has worked as a business consultant, assisting sole proprietors and small companies in setting up accounting and office systems. He attended Virginia Tech University and George Mason University where he majored in Theatre Arts with a focus on Arts Management. As an arts educator, he taught circus arts, clowning, and general theatre for three years at Louisa Mae Alcott School in Lincoln Park.

All my love to Lucy and Carly.

Russ Tutterow (Chicago Dramatists Artistic Director) Russ has nurtured the art and careers of countless playwrights at Chicago Dramatists, where he has been Artistic Director since 1986. In 2005, he received the Artistic Leadership Award from the League of Chicago Theatres for his “outstanding achievement in developing new plays and his long time contribution to Chicago theatre.” Most recently, he directed Chicago Dramatists’ productions of A Steady Rain by Keith Huff (Jeff Award for Production and New Work, Jeff Award nomination for Direction), Hickorydickory by Marisa Wegrzyn, Jade Heart by Will Cooper, How I Became an Interesting Person by Will Dunne, 10 Virgins

by Laura Jacqmin, Water by Alice Austen (Jeff Award nomination for New Work), and Voyeurs de Venus by Lydia R. Diamond (Jeff Award for New Work). Mr. Tutterow also has directed, managed or taught for such Chicago theatres as Goodman, Victory Gardens, Royal George, Mercury, Briar Street, Prop, Zebra Crossing, Igloo, and Cullen, Henaghan & Platt Productions, as well as Café LaMama Hollywood, and served on the 2005 FirstLook Council at Brian Loevner (Chicago Dramatists Steppenwolf Theatre. He holds an M.A. Managing Director) is a theatre manager, in Theatre from Northwestern University producer, production manager, actor, and and a B.A. in Theatre from Ball State Uniarts educator. He was a founder and the versity. The street behind Chicago DramaManaging Director of Theatre Conspiracy tists (May Street at Chicago Avenue) was in Washington D.C. for four seasons. In recently proclaimed “Russ Tutterow Way” 1998, he co-founded TriArts, Inc., where by the City of Chicago.

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A B O U T FAC E T H E AT R E I S : BONNIE METZGAR • Artistic Director JASON L. HELD • Executive Director SARA KERASTAS • Education Programs Director CRAIG STEADMAN • Accountant Marketing Services Provided By: JANE BEACHY BOARD OF DIRECTORS President William J. Michel, Vice President Michael Sullivan, Secretary Stephen Tubbs, Treasurer Ivan Noah Uldall, Rob Abernathy, Nate Berkus, Kyle Hall, Chris Landgraff, Dwight McBride, Eric Rosen, Heather Schmucker, Benjamin Sprunger, Denis Weil ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES Patrick Andrews, Scott Bradley, Megan Carney, Philip Dawkins, Scott Duff, Mitchell Fain, Scott Ferguson, Sarah Gubbins, Jessica Hudson, David Hyman, Patricia Kane, Elizabeth Ledo, Amy Matheny, Paul Oakley Stovall, Rebecca Rugg, Tanya Saracho, Arturo Soria, Dan Stermer, Benjamin Sprunger, Kelli Simpkins, Donnell Williams EMERITUS ASSOCIATES Amy Beck, Alexandra Billings, Joel Butler, Brad Cawley, Geoffrey M. Curley, Jane C. Cho, Shelley Echerd, Steve Futterman, Brian Goodman, Zavier Hairston, Kyle Hall, Ted Hoerl, Julia Fabris McBride, James McKay, Andre Pluess, Mark E. Smith, Ben Sussman, Jessica Thebus INTERNS Alexis Chaney, Andrew Cutler, Hutch Pimentel, Jessica G. Smith About Face Theatre Administrative Offices 1222 W Wilson, 2W Chicago IL 60640 Phone: 773-784-8565| Fax: 773-784-8557 www.aboutfacetheatre.com

A B O U T FAC E T H E AT R E S A L U T E S I T S D O N O R S About Face Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the many individuals, corporations, foundations, and government grantors who make each Season and the About Face Youth Theatre possible. We work diligently to keep our donor lists accurate and up-to-date. Please bring any unintentional errors, additions, or corrections to the attention of Jason L. Held at (773) 784-8565 x107.

Corporate and Foundation Supporters Alphawood Foundation Anonymous Bank of America Blue Cross Blue Shield Illinois The Boeing Company Chase Community Giving The Chicago Community Trust Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Howard Brown Health Center Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation James S. Kemper Foundation 8 Chicago Dramatists

Jean and Richard Kohn Charitable Foundation The Lifeboat Foundation MAC AIDS Fund McDonald’s Motorola MUKTI Queer Youth Theatre Fund The Northern Trust Company Pepsico Foundation Pfizer Foundation The Polk Bros. Foundation Prince Charitable Trusts, MacArthur Fund The Otto T. and Hazel Rhoades Foundation

Sara Lee Foundation The Shubert Foundation Government Supporters This project is partially supported by a CityArts grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.

The Illinois Arts Council, A State Agency National Endowment for the Arts

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C H I C AG O D R A M AT I S T S Over 30 Years Developing Playwrights and New Plays RUSS TUTTEROW • Artistic Director BRIAN LOEVNER • Managing Director CYNTHIA FRAHM • Development Director MEGHAN BEALS MCCARTHY • Associate Artistic Director ROBERT KOON • Dramaturg STACEY HIGH • Audience Services Manager SUELLEN BURTON • Director of Corporate and Community Relations INTERNS Sahar Assaf, Michael Brandt, Aoife Carolan, Carolan, Rosie Chevalier, Liz Dacy, Lisa Dover, Adam Gordon, Max Gosman, Allyssa Hynes, Mary Seigel, Tezeru Teshome and Matthew Willis

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RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHTS Alice Austen, David Barr III, Scott T. Barsotti, Derrell Capes, Mary Ruth Clarke, Randall Colburn, Cheryl Coons, Christopher De Paola, Lydia R. Diamond, Will Dunne, Marsha Estell, Joseph Fedorko, Dana Lynn Formby, John Green, Sarah Gubbins, David Scott Hay, Jim Henry, Andrew Hinderaker, Ron Hirsen, Laura Jacqmin, Nambi E. Kelley, Robert Koon, Aline Lathrop, M. E. H. Lewis, Susan Lieberman, Arlene Malinowski, Ruth Margraff, Mia McCullough, David Alan Moore, Carlos Murillo, Tania Richard, Roger Rueff, Emily Schwartz, Steven Simoncic, Jon Steinhagen, Marisa Wegrzyn, Mark Young BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Neill Shanahan, Vice President Patrice Fletcher, Secretary Carla Salvo, Treasurer Steven Shapiro, Maaike Almeida, Cheryl Coons, Brian Loevner, Mary Rownd, Roger Rueff, Clifford Shapiro, Lisa Shives, Arthur Sussman, Russ Tutterow and Therese Weber DISTINGUISHED EMERITUS BOARD Sandra Blau, Michael J. Keating, Ellen Krasnow and Dianne S. Rossell ADVISORY BOARD Susan V. Booth, Dean Corrin, Michael Cullen, Steven Dietz, Ann Filmer, Gary Garrison, Arthur Kopit, Rondi Reed, Bruce Sagan, Steve Scott, Dana Singer, Chuck Smith, Edward Sobel and Michele Volansky DISTINGUISHED RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT ALUMNI Carson Grace Becker, Rebecca Gilman, Evan Guilford-Blake, Keith Huff Evan Guilford-Blake, Joel Drake Johnson Brett Neveu and Tanya Saracho ASSOCIATE ARTISTS Roslyn Alexander, Abu Ansari, Lance Baker, Anna C. Bahow, Barry Bennett, Kristie Berger, Judy Blue, Daniel Bryant, Suellen Burton, Anna Carini, Justin Cholewa, Aaron Christensen, Wendye Clarendon, Victor Cole, Michelle Courvais, Kirsten D’Aurelio, Philip Dawkins, Cat Dean, Peter DeFaria, Sandra Delgado, Diane Dorsey, Ilesa Duncan, Cameron Feagin, Ann Filmer, Christine Gatto, Gregory Gerhard, Danny Goldring, Cheryl Graeff, Marguerite Hammersley, Kevin Heckman, Richard Henzel, Michael Kessler, Doug MacKechnie, Richard Marlatt, Morgan McCabe, Meghan McCarthy, Walt McGough, Michael Joseph Mitchell, Anthony Moseley, Ron O. J. Parson, Coya Paz, Jeff Pines, Joe Plummer, Tania Richard, John Sanders, Steve Scott, Kimberly Senior, Richard Shavzin, Aaron Snook, Edward Sobel, Stephen Spencer, Craig Spidle, Randy Steinmeyer, Don Stroup, Mark Ulrich, Penelope Walker, Andrea Washburn, Wendi Weber, Alice Wedoff, Ron Wells and Kerith Wolf FOR INFORMATION ON CHICAGO DRAMATISTS’ PLAYWRITING PROGRAMS CALL OR WRITE Chicago Dramatists • 1105 W. Chicago Avenue • Chicago, IL 60642 Office & Box Office: (312) 633-0630 • Fax: (312) 633-0840 E-mail: newplays@chicagodramatists.org Or visit our web site at www.chicagodramatists.org

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C H I C AG O D R A M AT I S T S R E S I D E N T P L A Y W R I G H T U P DAT E S Arlene Malinowski has been touring with her new solo show Aiming for Sainthood, which was produced by Victory Gardens. She’s a “Visiting Artist” for the Quad Cities Art Program for 2011, was nominated for a 3Arts/Ragdale Fellowship and has been teaching solo playwriting at Chicago Dramatists.

Derrell Capes has been a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists since 1998, and his plays have been produced from San Diego to Washington D.C. His latest project is a commissioned work for the Conservatory Program at Act One Studios, which is scheduled for production in November, 2011.

Tania Richard’s play Selecting Memory was recently performed at Northeastern Illinois University and will be part of the Dramatic Reading Series at Fleetwood Jourdain in August. Her award-winning plays include For Your Information, Happy.Go.Lucky. and How Far? Too Far? Her monologues appear in New Monologues for Women by Women. As an actress she has appeared on Broadway, at Steppenwolf, The Goodman, and The Second City, among others. She teaches acting in Columbia College’s Film Department.

Randall Colburn’s play Hesperia will open at Writers’ Theatre in February of 2012 after a critically acclaimed run at The Right Brain Project in the summer of 2010. This coming spring, his work will be featured in Tympanic Theatre’s The Nebraska Project and his dark comedy, The Improv Play, will open with InFusion Theatre at the DCA’s Storefront space in April.

Susan Lieberman won a Jeff Citation for Arrangement for Two Violas, a Jeff Award nomination for Prairie Lights and regional Emmy nomination for WBBM-TV and WGN-TV teleplays. She is pleased to have worked with many Chicago theatre organizations including Stage Left, Chicago Dramatists, American Theatre Company, Visions & Voices Theatre, Theatre Building Chicago, Raven, 20% Theatre, ShPIel Performing Identity and Adventure Stage, as well as Bloomington Playwrights Project, Pandora Productions and other theatres throughout the U.S.

Carlos Murillo’s plays have been produced widely throughout the US, and have also been seen in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Chile. He heads the playwriting program at The Theatre School of DePaul University, and is a proud resident playwright of Chicago Dramatists and New Dramatists. His play dark play or stories for boys will have its Chicago premiere at Collaboraction. He is currently working on a commission for Steppenwolf.

Joseph Fedorko is completing his sixth season producing and writing sketches for the political comedy revue Democracy Burlesque. He also co-wrote and performed in The Chicago Countdown To 1953, a radio comedy broadcast on Chicago radio station WCPT and available online.

Dana Lynn Formby is an ensemble member of Mortar Theatre Company and part of The Unnamed Ladies Writer Group.

Her plays have been read at such places as Premiere Stages, New York Theatre Workshop, Illinois Shakespeare Festival and Chicago’s Victory Gardens. Her play Corazón de Manzana is opening the 2011 DCA Store Front Fall season in the loop.

She holds an MFA in playwriting from Ohio University, and runs Chicago Dramatists Instant Theatre Program.

Will Dunne is the author of the bestseller The Dramatic Writer’s Companion: Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories (University of Chicago Press).

His plays have been selected three times for presentation at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center and performed internationally in three languages. Honors include a Charles MacArthur Fellowship for comedy, four Bay Area Critics Circle Awards, and two DramaLogue Playwriting Awards. His work has been staged locally at Chicago Dramatists, 16th Street Theatre, and Second City.

Robert Koon’s play, Ohio and the Lake: Navy Pier, was produced this summer as part of Theatre Seven’s THE CHICAGO LANDMARK PROJECT. He also appeared in The Sultan’s Dilemma for the International Voices Project at Silk Road Theatre Project, Chicago Dramatists 13

C H IC AG O D R A M ATI S T S R E S I D E NT PL AY W R I G HT U PDATE S ( c o n t .) and in the side project’s anniversary reading of Robert Tenges’s People We Know.

Scott T. Barsotti acted a whole lot in 2011, performing in Carmilla with WildClaw Theatre, The Dream Journal of Doctor Jekyll with The Mammals (for which he was also a co-writer), and Lifeline Theatre’s production of Watership Down. Scott recently contributed writing to Theatre Seven of Chicago’s 2011 production of WE LIVE HERE. His newest play, KILL ME, is scheduled for production by WildClaw Theatre in February 2012.

Distinguished Resident Playwright Alumnus Evan Guilford-Blake’s 40 plays (almost all developed at Chicago Dramatists) have been produced internationally. He has won 34 playwriting competitions, including four for An Uncommon Language and, twice, the Tennessee Williams Festival; he is the only playwright to do so. Nineteen of his scripts are published. He’s also won numerous awards for his short fiction. He and his wife (and inspiration) Roxanna now live in the Atlanta area. More information: www.guilford-blake.com/evan.

Brett Neveu has had numerous productions including plays with The Royal Court Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, TimeLine Theatre Company and A Red Orchid Theatre as a Red Orchid Theatre ensemble member and Chicago Dramatist Resident Alumnus.

Jim Henry’s award winning plays have been produced throughout the US and in Australia. His first play, The Angels of Lemnos, had its world premier at Chicago Dramatists and won a Jeff Award for Best New Work. Jim’s newest play Brother of All will be produced by Chicago Street Theatre in May 2012.

Ron Hirsen has been a Resident Playwright since 2007. His Elegy premiered at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia (2002), and The Frugal Repast, developed

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at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, premiered at the Abingdon Theatre in New York (2007). Abingdon recently did a reading of his The Well-Tempered Clavier.

Land Where My Fathers Died received the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award for 2008. A number of his plays have been heard in Saturday Series readings at Chicago Dramatists.

David Barr III is an award-winning author who has had several plays published including Death of the Black Jesus, Ev’ry Time I Feel The Spirit, The Face of Emmett Till, Black Caesar, and Point of Revue. In Chicago his works have been seen at Goodman, Pegasus, Chicago Theatre Company, and Black Ensemble. His docudrama My Soul IS A Witness toured nationally twice and appeared in The Hindu MetroPlus Theatre Arts Festival in Chennai, India. His numerous awards include a 1991 Joseph Jefferson Citation for Actor In A Principal Role (Victims-Organic Theater Greenhouse), three Illinois Arts Council fellowships, and a Joseph Jefferson Citation for New Work for The Upper Room (Pegasus). His screenplay adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s The Gilded Six Bits aired on Chicagoland PBS affiliates WTTW/WYCC and was screened at the 14th Annual International Black Harvest Festival in Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center. His co-written screenplay adaptation of Death Of Innocence was optioned by HBO. David’s been a proud Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists since 1993.

Steven Simoncic’s past productions include Heat Wave, Words with C, Maraschino Red, and Something Blue. His plays have received productions, readings and workshops at Stage Left, Victory Gardens, American Blues Theatre, The Side Project and Chicago Dramatists, Pegasus Players, Gorilla Tango, and The Soho Theatre in London. His play, Broken Fences, is being workshopped at Stageplays Theatre in New York. Steven has been nominated for a Pushcart prize, won an Emmy, and was a winner at the 2010 NAAA Playwriting Festival in London.

C H I C AG O D R A M AT I S T S D O N O R S Chicago Dramatists thanks the following foundations for their generous support of our mission in developing new plays and playwrights for the American theatre. $50,000 Chicago Community Trust $25,000 - $30,000 Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation $15,000 - $20,000 The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Shubert Foundation

$10,000 - $14,999 Alphawood Foundation The Arts Work Fund The Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation James S. Kemper Foundation Northern Trust Charitable Trust Prince Charitable Trust Seabury Foundation

City Arts Program 3 Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs The Edgerton Foundation The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The Dramatists Guild The Illinois Arts Council, A State Agency New American Play Award

$2,500 - $9,999 Chicago Community Trust, Arts Engagement Exchange

T H A N K S TO O U R D O N O R S THE GREEN ROOM CLUB MAJOR GIVING PROGRAM Donors of $250 or more annually are welcomed to the Green Room Club and take part in its exclusive events with the theatre artists whose work they make possible. We would be honored to welcome you to the Club!

ANGELS $15,000 Jimmy John & Leslie Liaiutaud PRODUCERS $2,500 - $10,000 Gene and Jianhua Cordon Daniel R. & Carol K. Cyganowski Patrice Fletcher Cynthia & Tracy Gessele Steven & Betsy Peterson Jan & Bruce Tranen Neill & Janet Shananhan Lisa Shives & Shane Meegan Art & Rita Sussman SHOW STOPPERS $1,500 - $2,499 Anonymous Michael Keating Janice V. Nowak Eva & T. Powell Carla Salvo Thomas D. Patton PRINCIPAL PLAYERS $1,000 - $1,499 Maaike and Almeida Anonymous Antonio Baeza Derrell Capes Paul & Mary Lillios John Mahoney David Mair & Matt McGrane Tom Patton Steven & Frances Shapiro

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Gifts were made in honor of: Cheryl Coons, Will Dunne, Patrice Fletcher, Cynthia Frahm, Rebecca Gilman, Chris Hodak, Norton Kay, Susan Lieberman, Brian Loevner, Mia McCullough, Mary Rownd, Neill Shanahan, Steven Shapiro, Steven Simoncic, Russ Tutterow, and Mark Young Thank you to all of you who joined us for THE BLUE MOON BALL on Thursday, June 16th and celebrated 25 years of artistic leadership from Russ Tutterow! Our lead corporate sponsors were Cole Taylor Bank, DePaul University, Northshore Sleep Medicine, and Vertical Incorporated. For a full list of supporters and photographs of the gala, please visit www.chicagodramatists.org

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