DePaul - A Lie of the Mind

Dexter Bullard, Artistic Director presents

by Sam Shepard Director – Carlos Murillo Dramaturg – Brittany Squier Vocal Coach – Claudia Anderson Violence Designer – Nick Sandys Scenic Designer – Alexander Long Costume Designer – Taylor S. Payne Lighting Designer – Jared Gooding Original Music and Sound Design – Jeff Gary Stage Manager – Brent Eugene Beavers February 3 – 12, 2012

DePaul’s Merle Reskin Theatre 60 E. Balbo Drive, Chicago, IL 60605 Email: theatreboxoffice@depaul.edu http://theatreschool.depaul.edu (312) 922-1999

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CAST (in

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Frankie...........................................................................................................................Adam Brown Jake ......................................................................................................................................Alex Koch Beth ........................................................................................................................... Gemma Clarke Mike ...............................................................................................................................Julian Hester Lorraine................................................................................................................ Laura Welsh Berg Sally ...................................................................................................................................Sarah Price Baylor ............................................................................................................... Matthew Browning Meg ..........................................................................................................................Daniela Colucci Gunshots and theatrical haze will be used in this production.

There will be two 10-minute intermissions.

A Lie of the Mind is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

SPECIAL THANKS Lisa Portes

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P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Assistant Directors.....................................................Christopher Kielbasa, Michael Osinski Assistant Stage Managers.................................................Todd Boger, Meredith Matthews Assistant Scenic Designers.....................................................Kirk V. Hughes, Rachel Watson Assistant Costume Designer...............................................................................Anne Stebbins Assistant Lighting Designer......................................................................... Elizabeth G. Smith Assistant Sound Designer................................................................................................. Kami Siu Director of Production......................................................................................... Chris Hofmann Production Coordinator...............................................................................................Alexis Links Technical Director..................................................................................................Shawn Watson Assistant Technical Director.............................................................................Claudia Peterson Scene Shop Technical Director................................................................................. Tim Combs Reskin Technical Director................................................................................................Jen Leahy Reskin Assistant Technical Director.................................................................... Max Raynolds Technical Assistant............................................................................................ Aaron Pijanowski Scene Shop Foreman ........................................................................................... Gerry Reynolds Scenic Artist..................................................................................................................Joana White Master Carpenter............................................................................................... Nicholas Fleming Property Master...................................................................................................Wayne W. Smith Costume Shop Manager...........................................................................................Myron Elliott Staff Cutter/Draper......................................................................................... Dawn G. McKesey Assistant Draper/Cutter..................................................................................Jordan Wrobleske 1st Hand.............................................................................................................................. Olivia Ball Staff Stitcher.............................................................................................................So Hui Chong Master Electrician........................................................................................................ Drew Meyer Rep Master Electrician...................................................................................................Nick Belley Reskin Master Electrician..............................................................................................Ron Seeley Make-up Supervisor................................................................................................Nan Zabriskie Make-up Assistants...............................................................Megan Truscott, Molly C. V. Ryan Scenery and Property Crew...........................Emily Adler, Anna Slotterback, Hugh Smith Costume Crew....................................................................................Jared Hecht, Carter Petray, Greg Pinsoneault, Castille Ritter, Wesley Toledo Make-up Crew........................................................................................................... Andrew Wnuk Lighting Crew............................................................................Claire Cleary, Danielle Fleming, Lindsay Rosenfeld, Aimee Sweet Sound Crew.....................................................................................................................Matt Reich Sign Language Interpreter Coordinator...............................................................David Jones Sign Language Interpreters................................................ Diana Thorpe, Vera Washington Director of Marketing and Public Relations............................................................Anna Ables Manager of PR and Special Events....................................................................... Andrea Tichy Publicity/Production Photos................................................... Anna Ables, Michael Brosilow Publicity and House Crew.................................................. Emily Denton, Katie Hemingway, Maggie Mohr, Max Stewart Box Office Manager........................................................................................................ Julia Curns House Manager................................................................................................................ Alicia Graf Theatre Manager.........................................................................................................Leslie Shook

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D R A M AT U R G Y N O T E At the heart of Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind, is the question: how do we form our identity? Science dictates that our five senses allow us to feel sensations.

These sensations are then transmitted via our nervous system to our brain where they are organized and stored as memory. It is these memories that create our perception of who we are. But Sam Shepard, along with other artists, thinkers, and iconoclasts (Frank Lloyd Wright, Peter Brook, Timothy Leary, Kate Bush) resist a purely Western worldview and look to other sources.

George Gurdjieff, a spiritual teacher in the early 20th century, refuted this science and taught his students to: “Try for a moment to accept the idea that you are not what you believe yourself to be, that you overestimate yourself, in fact that you lie to yourself.” In 1985, Sam Shepard dedicated A Lie of the Mind to “L.P.,”—Lord Pentland, the businessman who established the Gurdjieff Foundation of California.

Two years earlier, while writing A Lie of the Mind, Shepard wrote to Joseph Chaikin (his longtime friend and collaborator) discussing his struggle with, “this whole question of being lost…one’s identity being shattered under severe personal circumstances – in a state of crisis where everything that I’ve previously identified within myself suddenly falls away. A shock state…I don’t think it makes much difference what the shock itself is … the resulting emptiness or aloneness is what interests me. Particularly to do with questions like home? Family? The identification of others over time? People I’ve known who are now lost to me even though still alive?”

In A Lie of the Mind Shepard shatters our preconceptions of identity through the lens of two families as they realize that the fantastic can be real. ~ Brittany Squier, 4th year BFA Dramaturgy/Criticism BIOGR APHIES Laura Welsh Berg (Lorraine) 2nd Year MFA/ Acting. Laura was a company member of the Idaho Shakespeare and Great Lakes Theatre Festivals for four years, where credits include: All’s Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, Love’s Labours Lost, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Major Barbara, Hay Fever, Measure for Measure, The Crucible, Arsenic and Old Lace, She Stoops to Conquer, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Into the Woods, and A Christmas Carol. Other regional/Chicago credits include: Twelth Night, Arms and the Man, Mill Fire, and The Farmsworth Invention.

Adam Brown (Frankie), 4th year BFA/Acting.

Theatre School credits include Story Theatre, The Lady in the Van, Antigone, The Secret Garden, Language of Angels, Hedda Gabler, Pinkalicious, 4.48 Psychosis, and Faustus. Regional credits include A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville), The Tempest (Old Globe, San Diego), Young American Shakespeare Festival (Walden Theatre). He produced and appeared in the 2009 Walden Theatre Alumni Company Summer Festival (Art, Betrayal, The Pavilion).

Matthew Browning (Baylor), 2nd Year MFA/ Acting. Matt hails from Gary, West Virginia.

Previous Theatre School credits include: Harold Pinter’s Celebration and A Body of Water by Lee Blessing. Other credits include: The Curse of the 4 DePaul University

Horned Bobby at Steep Theatre’s 5th Annual Reading Symposium, As You Like It for Muse of Fire Theatre Company in Evanston Illinois, and Zoo Story, Fantasticks, and Bat Boy! The Musical at the Concord Repertory Theatre in Athens, West Virginia.

Gemma Clarke (Beth), 4th year BFA/Acting.

Gemma is originally from Seattle, Washington, where her most recent theatre credits include ArtsWest Theatre Conservatory’s Production of Hair as Jeannie. Her recent credits at The Theatre School include Dr. Wink in Pinkalicious, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, and Starbuck in Eric Simonson’s adaptation of Moby Dick.

Recent educational credits include studying with the French Centre Artistique International Roy Hart.

Daniela Colucci (Meg) 3rd year BFA/Acting.

Daniela is from Van, Texas. Theatre School Credits include The Witches directed by Ernie Nolan, The Diary of Anne Frank directed by Dan Kerr-Hobert, The Blue Room directed by Ann Wakefield, and The Marriage directed by Meaghan McCarthy.

Julian Hester (Mike), 4th Year BFA/Acting. Julian comes to Chicago from Raleigh, North Carolina.

Theatre School credits include Bruno in The Witches, Cabaret, Rodolpho in A View from the

B I O G R A P H I E S ( C O N T.) Bridge, Bridegroom in Lorca’s Blood Wedding, 4.48 Psychosis, Coronado, The Lady in the Van, and Almost, Maine.

Alexander Koch (Jake), 4th Year BFA/Acting.

Alexander is from Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He studied film at Western Michigan University before transferring to The Theatre School, and performed as Claude in Hair, Lee Harvey Oswald in Assassins, and Ralph in Reefer Madness at the Whole Art Theatre. He was also a member of the improv comedy group Crawlspace Eviction. Some of his Theatre School credits include Jack/Ernest in The Importance of Being Earnest, Justus in Normal, Victor in Cabaret and Mr. Marks in Intimate Apparel. He recently starred in a short film entitled The Ghosts, which premiered at the Brooklyn International Film Festival.

Sarah Price (Sally), 4th Year BFA/Acting. Sarah hails from Apex, North Carolina. Her previous Theatre School roles include Josie in Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker, Celine in The Monster Under the Bed directed by David Catlin, Bride in Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, and, most recently, Masha in The Seagull by Anton Chekhov.

Sam Shepard (Playwright) worked as a stable hand, herdsman, orange picker, sheep shearer, bus boy, waiter and musician before beginning his career as a playwright in New York in 1964 with the Theatre Genesis production of two one-act plays, Cowboys and The Rock Garden, at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery in New York City. His first full-length play, La Turista, was performed at the American Place Theatre and won an Obie in 1967. In 1979 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Buried Child, and in 1984 he gained an Oscar nomination for his part as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. Other plays by Sam Shepard include Mad Dog Blues (1971), True West (1980), Simpatico (1993) and Eyes for Consuela (1998). His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1992 he received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy. In 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

Carlos Murillo (Director) Carlos Murillo has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2007. His plays have been produced at Theater der Stadt Aalen in Germany, Vígszínház in Budapest, Hungary, Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Summer Play Festival, En Garde Arts, Soho Rep, Hangar Theatre Lab, Theatre @ Boston Court, Circle X, Son of Semele, Actor’s Express, Salt Lake Acting Company, City Theatre of Miami and elsewhere. His work has also been seen at The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Goodman Theatre, South Coast Rep, Portland

Center Stage, Madison Rep, Sundance Institute, The Playwrights’ Center, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Chautauqua Conservatory, Annex Theatre, UC Santa Barbara, Loyola University Museum of Art, and others. His work has been published by Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, Inc., Smith & Kraus, Heinemann, and Theatre Forum. Awards include a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellowship, two Rockefeller MAP grants, two National Latino Playwriting Awards from Arizona Theatre Company, and he is the 2009 Otis Guernsey Award winner from the William Inge Theatre Festival. He has received commissions from The Goodman, Steppenwolf, Berkeley Rep, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, South Coast Rep, and En Garde Arts. Carlos has taught at the University of Iowa, the Kennedy Center, and is an Associate Professor at The Theatre School of DePaul University where he heads the playwriting program. Carlos is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists. He lives in the south side of Chicago with his wife Lisa Portes and their two children Eva Rose and Carlos Pablo.

Christopher Kielbasa, (Assistant Director) 3rd Year BFA/Playwriting. Christopher is from Chicago, Illinois. He has worked on the crews for A Streetcar Named Desire, 1001, The Three Musketeers, and Haroun and the Sea of Stories.

His 10-minute play, The Son, was a part of the DePaul 10-Minute Workshop of Student Plays at Chicago Dramatists in 2011.

Michael Osinski, (Assistant Director) 1st Year MFA/Directing. Michael comes to Chicago by way of Philadelphia, where he was the co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Flashpoint Theatre Company. Professional directing credits include Far Away, Autobahn, Schoolgirl Figure, and three other local premieres at Flashpoint; staged readings for the Wilma Theater and Ego Po Productions in Philadelphia; and assistant directing Conquest of the South Pole at Strawdog Theatre Comapny and The Old Masters at Steppenwolf’s First Look Festival of New Work.

Brittany Squier, (Dramaturg) 4th Year BFA/ Dramaturgy/Criticism. Her dramaturgy credits include Faustus directed by Krissy Vanderwarker, Cabaret directed by Barry Brunetti, After the End directed by Krissy Vanderwarker, Pinkalicious directed by Lisa Portes and Crave directed by Azar Kazemi. She served as the literary intern at the Goodman Theatre where she worked as one of the assistant script supervisors on Chinglish. In the spring she is directing Wait Until Dark as part of The Theatre School at DePaul University’s Lab Series. She is the founder and editor of The Grappler, the Dramaturgy and Criticism program’s blog, which can be viewed at ttsdramaturgyblog.wordpress.com.

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B I O G R A P H I E S ( C O N T.) Claudia Anderson (Vocal Coach), Head of Voice and Speech. Claudia has taught voice and speech, acting and singing since 1974, for Edgewood City Schools in Ohio, Wright State University, Southern Methodist University and California Institute of the Arts, as well as intensives for ACT in San Francisco, The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Los Angeles and Shakespeare & Co. in Massachusetts. She is a founding member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and continues to be active in the organization, having served on the board as conference planner and presenter. She has professional voice and dialect coaching credits with Next, Court, Lookingglass, Raven, and TimeLine Theatres in Chicago; in Los Angeles she worked with A Noise Within, Rubicon Theatre and The Mark Taper Forum. Her book on IPA and dialects, Bringing Speech To Life, written with Louis Colaianni, is published by Joy Press.

Nick Sandys (Violence Designer) Nick Sandys has been adjunct faculty at The Theatre School since 1994, teaching all the stage combat classes and choreographing violence for many of the shows. He is a Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors, and his Jeff-Award winning fight direction has been seen all over Chicagoland (including over 35 productions at Lyric Opera where he is the Resident Fight Director, and over 25 at Goodman Theatre), as well as regionally and at The Metropolitan Opera in NYC. Nick is also an award-winning actor and director. He is an Artistic Associate at both Remy Bumppo Theatre and at First Folio Theatre, and has also performed at Goodman, Northlight, Chicago Shakespeare, Writers’ Theatre, Next Theatre, Lookingglass, Marriott Lincolnshire, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Light Opera Works, Chamber Opera Chicago, as well as regionally and Off Broadway. His acting has received eight Joseph Jefferson Nominations, as well as an After Dark Award, a Dallas Critics Circle Award, and he was named Best Actor of 2011 by Chicago magazine. Nick holds MAs in English Literature from both Cambridge University and Loyola University Chicago, and he is the recipient of a 2011 Achievement Award from The Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Charitable Foundation For The Arts.

Alexander Long, (Scenic Designer) 4th Year BFA/Scenic Design. Alec most recently hails from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has designed for two other shows at The Theatre School, Romeo and Juliet and The Ernie Play, a new work by Melanie Plank. Outside of The Theatre School, he produced This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan for Sankofa Theatre Co. and worked as a set designer on detective film You Bet. Kirk V. Hughes, (Assistant Scenic Designer) 3rd Year BFA/Scenic Design. Since 2008, Kirk has designed over 50 shows professionally at theatres in Florida such as The Asolo Repertory Theatre, Banyan Theatre Co., Florida Studio 6 DePaul University

Theatre, and TheatreZone (Resident Set Designer, 2008-2010). Favorite credits include: Fat Pig, Marat/Sade, Falsettos, The Beast of Broadway (starring David Garrison), High Spirits (starring Georgia Engel), and the critically acclaimed production of The Who’s Tommy, included in the AACT International Theatre Festival in Venice.

Rachel Watson, (Assistant Scenic Designer) 3rd Year BFA/Scenic Design.

Taylor S. Payne, (Costume Designer) 3rd Year BFA/Costume Design and Technology. Taylor is from Encinitas, California. She has served as an assistant costume designer for The Theatre School’s productions of The Secret Garden and Much Ado About Nothing, as well as assistant draper/cutter on the premiere of The Ernie Play. This summer Taylor received certificates in Wig Ventilating and Maintenence from the Wigs and Hair Chicago Program.

Additionally, she practiced millinery craft with Jane Smith in Fullerton, California. Earlier this season she worked as the crafts person on The Witches, where she made several hats for the production. She currently works in the makeup shop and does wig, makeup, and blood work for various productions at The Theatre School.

Jordan Wrobleske, (Assistant Draper/Cutter) 3rd Year BFA/ CostumeTechnology. Jordan hails from Houston, Texas, where she received numerous awards from her community. Her Theatre School credits include The Secret Garden, Hedda Gabler, Mayday Mayday Tuesday, and The Witches. Jordan has also worked as a stitcher for Chicago Children’s Theatre. She serves as Director of Costumes for The DePaul Theatre Union and is a member of the DePaul chapter of USITT. Jordan currently works as a campus tour guide and a freelance artist and photographer.

Jared Gooding, (Lighting Designer) 4th Year BFA/Lighting Design. A native of Houston, Texas, his design credits include the world premiere of The Ernie Play, stagings of Sadako and the Thousand Cranes, and A Brown Tale. He is currently working on designs for The Theatre School’s production of Barrio Grrrl! A Musical this Spring.

Elizabeth G. Smith, (Assistant Lighting Designer) 4th Year BFA/Lighting Design. Elizabeth hails from Orlando, Florida. Her previous Theatre School credits including Lighting Designer for The Witches directed by Ernie Nolan and A View from the Bridge directed by Krissy Vanderwarker; as well as Assit. Lighting Designer for The Secret Garden, Romeo and Juliet, and Loose Knit. She will serve as Lighting Designer for The Theatre School’s upcoming production of The Rivals.

This past summer Elizabeth served as Electrics Intern at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

B I O G R A P H I E S ( C O N T.) Nick Belley, (Rep Master Electrician) 3rd Year BFA/Lighting Design Theatre School design credits include: Synergy, The Lonely Soldier, and Normal. Nick has also served as the assistant lighting designer for The Theatre School’s production of Pinkalicious: The Musical and master electrician for productions of The Ernie Play and Cabaret. Professional Chicago design credits include: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, and Tartuffe. Assistant: Snapshots, Precious Little, and Working. www.nickbelley.com Jeff Gary, (Sound Designer) 4th Year BFA/Sound Design. Recent professional designs include: La Cage aux Folles (Oregon Shakespeare Festival Daedalus Project), Local Produce 2 (Ashland Contemporary Theatre). Recent student designs include: Traveling in Packs (CSSD London), Mayday Mayday Tuesday, Medea, Much Ado About Nothing, The Skriker, Cabaret, Four Twins, Pygmalion, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (The Theatre School). Jeff was the FAIR Assistant Sound Designer at Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the 2011 Season, and assisted multiple designers on productions of The Pirates Of Penzance (Kai Harada, Joanna Lynn Staub), Henry IV, pt 2 (Paul James Prengergast), Love’s Labours Lost (Paul James Prendergast), Ghost Light (Andre Pluess) and The African Company Presents Richard III (Todd Barton). Music Production Includes: Sobriquet, Everything Ends, Hello Fractured Sky. Awards Include: Student Merritt Award 2011 and The Julia K. & Adolph Olsansky Endowed Scholarship.

Shawn Watson, (Technical Director) Graduating 3rd Year BFA/Technical Theatre. Shawn is from Peculiar, Missouri. Past Theatre School credits include Mayday Mayday Tuesday, Much Ado About Nothing, The Skriker, and Faustus.

Claudia Peterson (Assistant Technical Director) 3rd Year BFA/Theatre Technology. Claudia is from Geneva, Illinois. This past summer she worked for the Dorset Theatre Festival in Dorset, Vermont. Theatre School credits include Assistant Technical Director for Hedda Gabler and Master Carpenter for The Witches.

Brent Eugene Beavers, (Stage Manager) 4th Year BFA/Stage Management. Regional credits include Robin and the Seven Hoods, Jane Austen’s Emma, Engaging Shaw, Allegiance (NYC Workshop) (The Old Globe). Chicago: Caffeine Theatre, Collaboraction, DePaul Opera Theatre, and Cock and Bull Theatre. Theatre School favorites include Pinkalicious: The Musical, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Pillowman. Brent will serve as the Stage Manager for the 2012 Theatre School Awards for the Excellence in the Arts and the 2012 Graduate Showcase.

Todd Boger, (Assistant Stage Manager) 3rd Year BFA/Stage Management. Interlochen Center for the Arts: Aida, Carousel, Guys and Dolls, 2009 Cabaret Performance Series. The Minneapolis Children’s Theatre Company: Romeo & Juliet,

Fashion 47 (World Premier) directed by Diane Paulus, High School Musical (Staged World Premier). Youth Performance Company: Junie B. Jones. The Theatre School: The Ernie Play by Melanie Plank directed by Shade Murray, Romeo & Juliet, 1001, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Secret Garden. This spring, Todd will stage manage The Rivals directed by Catherine Weidner, and assistant stage manage the 2012 Theatre School Awards for the Excellence in the Arts. Todd works in The Theatre School’s makeup shop and has worked on Intimate Apparel and Nancy Drew and the Sign of the Twisted Candles.

Dexter Bullard (Artistic Director) Head of Graduate Acting. Recent directing credits include Mistakes Were Made at A Red Orchid Theatre and at Barrow Street Theatre OffBroadway, Reverie with Second City at The Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, Lady at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre Off-Broadway, Gas for Less at the Goodman Theatre. In 2004, Dexter was awarded the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction Off-Broadway for Tracy Letts’ Bug, as well as a Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Director. In 1995 Dexter co– founded Plasticene, whose critically–acclaimed experimental works have been featured in Chicago, Europe and New York City. With Plasticene, he has directed and collaboratively created twelve original works, including The Palmer Raids (2003) and One Fal$e Note (2006).

Since 1996, Dexter has directed with The Second City, developing revues at both Chicago and Detroit. Back in 1990, Dexter founded The Next Lab at The Next Theatre where he directed Bouncers, for which he received a Jefferson Citation and an After Dark Award.

John Culbert (Dean). In Chicago, John has designed scenery and/or lighting for the Buckingham Fountain, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Garfield Conservatory, Chicago Park District, Field Museum of Natural History, Goodman Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Chicago Opera Theatre and more than thirty productions at Court Theatre. At the Court Theatre, he received several Joseph Jefferson nominations and a Jeff Award for The Triumph Of Love. Other Chicago productions include Regina for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Hughie for the Goodman Theatre, Glass Menagerie, Man Of La Mancha for Court Theatre and A Year With Frog And Toad for Chicago Children’s Theatre. John has designed scenery and/or lighting for the Boston Lyric Opera, St. Louis Opera, Baton Rouge Opera, Southern Repertory, Cleveland Orchestra, McCarter Theatre and Bristol Riverside Theatre. At The Theatre School he has designed productions of The Misanthrope, Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, The Women, The Snow Queen, Rip Van Winkle and Stage Door.

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THE THEATRE SCHOOL SHOWCASE A Lie of the Mind

by Sam Shepard directed by Carlos Murillo February 3 - 12, 2012 (previews 2/1 & 2/2) The Rivals

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan directed by Catherine Weidner April 13 - 22, 2012 (previews 4/11 & 4/12) I am Bradley Manning

by Sarah Gubbins directed by Geoff Button An ensemble piece to be performed by MFA III actors.

May 9 - 13, 2012 CHICAGO PLAYWORKS FOR FAMILIES AND YOUNG AUDIENCES Nancy Drew and the Sign of the Twisted Candles based on the book by Carolyn Keene adapted and directed by Damon Kiely January 14 – February 28, 2012 Barrio Grrrl! A Musical book and lyrics by Quiara Alegría Hudes music by Bill Sherman, directed by Lisa Portes musical direction by Mark Elliott March 27 – May 12, 2012 NEW DIRECTORS SERIES At The Greenhouse Theatre Center Venus

by Suzan-Lori Parks directed by Reshmi Hazra February 10 – 19, 2012 (previews 2/8 & 2/9) NEW PLAYWRIGHTS SERIES The Death of Gaia Divine

by Jacob Schuler directed by John Jenkins May 4 – 13, 2012 (previews 5/2 & 5/3)

8 DePaul University

T H E AT R E S C H O O L FAC U LT Y / S TA F F John Culbert – Dean Dean Corrin – Associate Dean Linda Buchanan – Associate Dean for Curriculum Christine Binder – Chair, Design and Technical Theatre Barry Brunetti – Chair of Theatre Studies Trudie Kessler – Chair, Performance Department ADMINISTRATION Anna Ables — Director of Marketing and Public Relations Jason Beck — Director of Admissions Mitsu Beck – Executive Assistant John Bridges — Assistant Dean, Director of Administration, Alumni Relations Tessa Craib-Cox – Director of Development Anastasia Gonzalez – Budget Manager Joshua Mangilia - Technical Operations Manager Andrea Tichy — Manager of PR and Special Events Melissa Tropp – Admissions Assistant Jeanne Williams – Coordinator of Academic Services AJ Links – Production Coordinator Dexter Zollicoffer – Diversity Advisor ACTING & DIRECTING Dexter Bullard – Head of Graduate Acting, Artistic Director/The Theatre School Showcase John Jenkins – Head of Undergraduate Acting Lisa Portes – Head of Directing, Artistic Director/ Chicago Playworks Greg Allen Jane Drake Brody Linda Gillum Noah Gregoropolous Nick Johne Damon Kiely

Susan Messing Matt Miller Joseph Slowik, emeritus Ann Wakefield Catherine Weidner

MOVEMENT Patrice Egleston – Head of Movement Laura Dixon Julia Neary Gabriel Halpern Nick Sandys Pullin Natasha Julius Clifton Robinson Alie McManus Mary Schmich Kimosha Murphy VOICE AND SPEECH Claudia Anderson – Head of Voice and Speech Eva Breneman Kathy Keyes Mark Elliott Jason Martin Phyllis E. Griffin Diane Robinson Trudie Kessler Phil Timberlake

DESIGN Christine Binder – Head of Lighting Design Linda Buchanan – Head of Scene Design Nan Cibula-Jenkins – Head of Costume Design Victoria DeIorio– Head of Sound Design Nan Zabriskie- Head of Make Up Jeff Bauer John Boesche Rachel Healy Jason Knox

Jack K. Magaw Birgit RattenborgWise Joanna White

TECHNICAL THEATRE Shane Kelly – Head of Theatre Technology Janet C. Messmer – Head of Costume Technology Narda E. Alcorn – Head of Stage Management Claude Binder Russell Poole Jason Brown Michael Rourke Richard Bynum Jim Savage David Castellanos Alden Vasquez Kevin Depinet Laura Whitlock David Naunton THEATRE STUDIES Barry Brunetti – Head of Theatre Arts Carlos Murillo – Head of Playwriting Alan Salzenstein – Head of Arts Leadership Marcie McVay – Interim Head of Theatre Management Rachel Shteir – Head of Dramaturgy Sharon Bridgeforth– Visiting Multicultural Faculty Member Suzanne Bizer Ernie Nolan Alan Donahue Bill O’Connor Criss Henderson Coya Paz-Brownrigg Jim Jensen Roche Schulfer Chris Jones Sandy Shinner Jan Kallish LIBERAL STUDIES Bea Bosco Lou Contey Shanesia Davis Jen Goode Carolyn Hoerdemann

Reggie Lawrence Dan Moser Chris Peak James Sherman Rachel Slavick

TECHNICAL STAFF So Hui Chong – Stitcher Tim Combs – Technical Director Myron Elliott – Costume Shop Manager Chris Hofmann – Director of Production Jen Leahy – Reskin Technical Director Dawn G. McKesey – Assistant Costume Shop Manager Max Raynolds– Reskin Assistant Technical Director Aaron Pijanowski – Technical Assistant Gerry Reynolds – Scene Shop Foreman Ron Seeley – Master Electrician Wayne W. Smith – Property Master, Safety Officer Joanna White – Scenic Artist

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M E R L E R E S K I N T H E AT R E S TA F F Dean ....................................................................................................................................... John Culbert Theatre Manager ................................................................................................................ Leslie Shook Director of Marketing and Public Relations .................................................................Anna Ables Manager of Public Relations and Special Events ................................................... Andrea Tichy Marketing Assistants ............................................................... Meredith Matthews, Jenna Moran Webmaster .....................................................................................................................Joshua Maniglia Box Office Manager ...............................................................................................................Julia Curns Assistant Box Office Manager .................................................................................Stefanie Rahaim Ticket Agents ...................................................................................Brent Beavers, Michelle Burton, Cecilia Falter, Brandon Mack, Meghan Owen, Anastasia Schriber Group Sales Representative ..................................................................................... Linda RM Jones Group Sales Assistants ................................................... Christopher Knoerzer, Shane Sweeney Administrative Assistant .......................................................................................................Liz Calvert Office Assistants ................................................................................................................. Jourdi Waller Chicago Playworks House Manager ..................................................................... LaKisha Jackson Theatre School Showcase House Manager .................................................................... Alicia Graf Reskin Technical Director ......................................................................................................Jen Leahy Reskin Assistant Technical Director ...........................................................................Max Raynolds Technical Assistant ....................................................................................................Aaron Pijanowski Master Electrician .................................................................................................................. Ron Seeley

T H E T H E AT R E S C H O O L S T U D E N T WO R K E R S Faculty Assistants .......................................................... Brent Beavers, Belinda Bing, Todd Boger, Celeste Cooper, John Crosthwaite, Devon Doherty, Liz Fiala, Joseph Flynn, Reshmi Hazra, Emily Hitmar, Garvin Jellison, Toni Kendrick, Constance Lee, Jillian Rothman, Brae Singleton, Kelly Sloan, Krenee Tolson, Krissy Vanderwarker, Olivia Wallace Admissions Assistants .................................................Nick Belley, Karly Bergmann, Taylor Blim,.

Anna Bosy, Dan Johnson, and Morgan Madison Administration Assistants ....................................Jacob Abbas, Olga Aguilar, Cameron Benoit, Meredith Boe, Mark Bonham, Bella Coelho, Brian Crawford, Pamela Davis, Caroline Donnelly, Rhiannon Falzone, Holly Haupert, Jerry Kurian, Mark Lancaster, Ariel Rubin, Brittany Squier, Suneel Tripuraneni, Jess Troy, Sean Wiberg Costume Shop .................................................................. Olivia Ball, Jessica Burgwald, Kara Dent, Constance Lee, Adrienne Littlefield, Chloe Patten, Taylor Payne, Elise Petrucci, Megan Turner Door Monitors ..........................................................Jacob Abbas, Lauren Genta, Lorena Gomez, Lauren Lundy, Morgan Madison, Ceci Settles Make Up Shop...................................................... Jessica Burgwald, Belinda Bing, Todd Boger,

Taylor Payne, Sarah Jo White, Sarah Price, Matt Sherrill, Molly Ryan, Megan Truscott Mat Cleaners .........................................Jared Green, Patricia Lavery, Manuel Ortiz, Sean Parris Prop Shop .......................................................................Michael David, Toni Kendrick, Tierra Novy, Jillian Rothman, Megan Truscott, Rachel Watson Merle Reskin Theatre Crew ..........................................Chris Barker, Belinda Bing, Claire Cleary, Jean Compton, Sam Hillyer, Garvin Jellison, Brae Singleton, Elizabeth Smith, Aimee Sweet, Shawn Watson Scene Shop ............................................................. Ian Blinstrup, Quentin Brown, Kelly Claussen, William Deleguardia, Nicholas Fleming, Jared Gooding, Toni Kendrick, Alexander Long, Andrew McCarthy, Claudia Peterson, Seth Randall-Tapply, Kyle Vanover, Anders Wahl, Shawn Watson Studio Coordinators ...................................................................Matthew Baca, Elizabeth Thomas 10 DePaul University

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NO SMOKING In compliance with the City of Chicago Clean Air Ordinance, smoking is prohibited in the Merle Reskin Theatre. We appreciate your cooperation.

EMERGENCY EXITS Please note the location of emergency exits in the theatre.

NO CELLULAR PHONES, TEXT MESSAGING, RECORDING DEVICES, PHOTOGRAPHY, PAGERS, FOOD AND BEVERAGES Please do not use the above listed items in the theatre. Patrons with electronic pagers or cellular telephones are asked to either turn off their equipment in the theatre or check them with the House Manager prior to curtain. We discourage text messaging during the performance. The light from the screen can bother other patrons. We allow photographs to be taken before and after but never during the performance. You may also check cameras and recording equipment with the House Manager who will secure them until final curtain.

As a special favor, we ask that young people do not chew gum. Water fountains are located in the lower lobby and in the lobbies of the mezzanine and balcony.

RESTROOMS Restrooms are located in the lower lobby, the mezzanine, and balcony. An accessible restroom is located on the main floor inside of the theatre.

LOST AND FOUND If you find an item or have lost an item, please contact the House Manager. You may also call (773) 325-7968 the next day to determine if an item has been found.

EMERGENCY TELEPHONE CALLS Patrons with electronic pagers are requested to either turn off their pagers in the theatre or check them with the House Manager prior to showtime. Should you need to give an emergency telephone number where you can be reached during a performance, please alert the House Manager of your seat location and give the Box Office telephone number for emergencies, (312) 922-1999. After Box Office hours, use (773) 325-7968 as an emergency number.

PARKING ARRANGEMENTS We have arrangements with two parking lots: Multi-Park, 635 S. Wabash at Balbo, and LAZ Parking, One East 8th Street at State. Please ask the Box Office for details about rates and payment.

SENNHEISER INFRA-RED LISTENING SYSTEM FOR OUR HEARING-IMPAIRED PATRONS We require the security deposit of a driver’s license or other identification during the performance. The I.D. will be returned when you return the headset.

LARGE PRINT PROGRAMS You may request a large print program from the ticket taker or the House Manager.

SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING Selected performances at the Merle Reskin Theatre will be interpreted in American Sign Language. Call the Box Office or see the website for the schedule.

OTHER ACCOMMODATIONS Please alert us to anything you may require when you attend performances. We will do our best to assist you.

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T H E T H E AT R E S C H O O L AT D E PAU L U N I V E R S I T Y Mission Statement The Theatre School at DePaul University educates, trains, and inspires students of theatre in a conservatory setting that is rigorous, disciplined, culturally diverse and that strives for the highest level of professional skill and artistry.

A commitment to diversity and equality in education is central to our mission. As an integral part of the training, The Theatre School produces public programs and performances from a wide repertoire of classic, contemporary and original plays that challenge, entertain, and stimulate the imagination. We seek to enhance the intellectual and cultural life of our university community, our city and the profession.

For admissions information, telephone (773) 325-7999 or 1-800-4-DEPAUL. Chicago Playworks for Families and Young Audiences Chicago Playworks offers a live theatre experience to students, teachers and parents in the Chicago metropolitan area. It is our mission to provide theatre for children that reflects their experiences in a contemporary, multi-ethnic, urban environment.

Founded as the Goodman Children’s Theatre in 1925, Chicago Playworks is the city’s oldest continuously operating children’s theatre. It has been the first theatre experience for audiences of Chicago’s young people for more than seven decades and was one of the first major theatres for children in the United States. In 1997 and again in 2003, Chicago Playworks was honored by the Illinois Theatre Association with the Children’s Theatre Division Award, for its outstanding long-term contribution to children’s theatre. In 1980, Chicago Playworks was awarded the prestigious Sara Spencer Award by the Children’s Theatre Association of America (now the American Alliance for Theatre and Education).

Chicago Playworks is a vital aspect of the training at The Theatre School at DePaul University. Students gain pre-professional experience in an extended run before a most demanding and appreciative audience. Chicago Playworks presents three unique productions to more than 35,000 young people each season and has entertained more than 1 million schoolchildren and families since 1925.

The Theatre School Showcase Contemporary Plays and Classics Presenting diverse and exciting productions, The Theatre School Showcase blends imagination and cultural impact with three plays, and rounds-out the season with a fourth production featuring the graduating MFA in Acting candidates. The Theatre School Showcase offers a unique opportunity to see tomorrow’s industry leaders today, by introducing the raw creativity and dedicated collaborations of artists at the beginning of their careers. Their work is powerful, imaginative, and new.

Merle Reskin Theatre Celebrating a century of performances this season, the Merle Reskin Theatre, built as the Blackstone Theatre in 1910, was designed by Chicago architects Marshall & Fox. The stone façade and mansard roof of the Beaux-Arts style building have been modified only slightly over the years. The interior finish of French walnut and gold was designed by Plamondon & Tetze to give the appearance of a European opera house. Prior to DePaul’s purchase of the theatre in 1988, it had been home to vaudeville, the Federal Theatre Project and the touring productions of the Shubert Organization. The Theatre School brings an audience of more than 35,000 people to the theatre each season.

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T H E T H E AT R E S C H O O L B OA R D Sustaining Members David Dunning, Chair Sondra Healy, Chair Emeritus Joseph Antunovich Kathleen M. Bette Mary Spalding Burns Kyle DeSantis James Fitzpatrick John M. Lenckos Catherine McBreen Irene Michaels Carol Morse Penny Obenshain Vonita Reescer

Merle Reskin John Samolis Patricia Costello Slovak Msgr. Kenneth Velo Professional Associates Scott L. Ellis, Hon. Co-Chair Zach Helm Criss Henderson Paul Konrad Paula Lisbe Amy K. Pietz John C. Reilly

Bernard Sahlins Charlayne Woodard Dennis Zacek Honorary Board Dr. John Ransford Watts, Dean Emeritus Dr. Bella Itkin-Konrath, Faculty Emeritus Joseph Slowik, Faculty Emeritus Lord Piers Wedgwood

D E PAU L U N I V E R S I T Y A L U M N I The Office of Alumni Relations provides many opportunities to help graduates maintain a lifelong connection to classmates and the university. Alumni can connect with current students, participate in volunteer opportunities and attend a variety of events and programs throughout the year and across the country. For more information about the alumni community, please visit alumni.depaul.edu or call (800) 437-1898.

DONORS Listings in the honor roll reflect contributions and pledge payments made to The Theatre School between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.

President’s Club Gifts of $1,000 and above annually qualify for membership in the President’s Club, DePaul’s honor society of donors. The President’s Club comprises giving circles named for former university presidents. *$1,000,000 lifetime giving + Donor has made a special philanthropic pledge to DePaul University between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010 ~ Denotes President’s Club membership, Fr. Richardson Circle, for recent graduates $50,000 + Fr. McCabe Circle *Dr. Dominic Parisi & Helen Parisi *+Merle Reskin $25,000-$49,999 Fr. Levan Circle +Gerhard Bette & Kathleen Bette +Lawrence Bundschu *Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Geico *+ Sondra Healy, GSD ‘64 (Life Trustee) & Denis Healy +William Obenshain & Penny Obenshain Turtle Wax, Inc. $10,000-$24,999 Fr. Corcoran Circle American Airlines Antunovich & Associates Joseph Antunovich & Leslie Antunovich ComEd

*Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust *Richard Driehaus, COM ‘65; MBA ‘70; DHL ‘02 (Life Trustee) & Inese Romanovska +Nik Edes Scott Ellis, GSD ‘78 Exelon Corporation Health Care Service Corporation Magellan Corporation +Power Construction Company, LLC +Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation John Samolis Gordon Segal & Carole Segal *+Father Charles Shelby, C.M., MS ‘72 $5,000-$9,999 Fr. O’Connell Circle Bank of America Barclays Bank PLC

Bulley & Andrews, LLC Joseph Burns & Mary Burns Chicago Drama League The Cleveland Foundation James & Catherine Denny Foundation *+James Denny Sr. (Life Trustee) & Catherine Denny +David Dunning & Toni Dunning Edgewater Management, Inc. Fifth Third Bank Illinois Tool Works, Inc. John Lenckos Paul Mc Breen, JD ‘86 & Catherine McBreen, JD ‘86 Carol Morse Mortenson Construction Northern Trust Corporation Kathy O’Donnell R4 Services Patrick G. & Shirley W. Ryan Foundation Andrea Saccone A Lie of the Mind 13

D O N O R S ( C O N T. ) Sarah Siddons Society, Inc. Patricia Slovak Staples, Inc. Steppenwolf Theatre Co. Walsh Construction Co. of Illinois W. E. O’Neil Construction Co. $2,500-$4,999 Fr. O’Malley Circle Rochelle Abramson, MED ‘89 & Elliott Abramson David Blowers Emma Byrne Katherine Frekko Kenneth A. Lattman Foundation, Inc. Daniel Lyons, MUS ‘83; MM ‘91 & Monica Abramson-Lyons, THE ‘87 National Restoration Systems, Inc. Northern Trust Charitable Giving Program Ann O’Brien Terry Perucca Schiff Hardin, LLP Robert Segal Maureen Huntley, GSD ‘82 & Paul Sheahen Robert Shook, GSD ‘72 & Leslie Shook Richard Sieracki & Linda Sieracki Thornton-Tomasetti Group, Inc. $1,000-$2,499 Fr. Richardson Circle Teresa Aguilera, THE ‘98 Alpine Pictures, Inc. Suzanne Bizer Lois Brennan Broadway in Chicago Paul J. Byrne, MFA ‘99 & Jaime Byrne Ryan Carroll, GSD ‘82 Chapman & Cutler, LLP *Philip H. Corboy Foundation Tessa Craib-Cox John Culbert & Kitty Culbert Dell USA, LLP *Mary Dempsey, JD ‘82 (Trustee) & Philip Corboy Sr. William Devers Ernst & Young Foundation William Ibe, LAS ‘80 J. C. Anderson, Inc. Anthony Johnson, THE ‘95 & Candace Johnson Jack Karp Bob & Linda Kozoman Larry Kugler James Luebchow Irene Michaels 14 DePaul University

Millard Group, Inc. Susan & Bob Morrison Mason Parson Family Foundation Patricia Parson, SNL ‘78 (Trustee) The Peoples Gas Light & Coke, Inc. Phil Varchetta & Associates Roger Plummer (Trustee) & Joanne Plummer PSEG Thomas Reedy Bernard Sahlins & Jane Sahlins Rosemary Schnell Segal Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. R. Michael Shehorn Charles Smith Phil Varchetta, COM ‘49 Susan Vargo, THE ‘98 Monsignor Kenneth Velo Wedgwood USA Bonnie Zimmer $500-$999 Katherine Abelson Rosemary S. & John F. Bannan John Bowab John Bridges Russell Bruzek, GSD Child’s Play Touring Theatre Patricia Cox Joseph Cushing James Fitzpatrick Arny Granat Mark L. Hawkins, COM ‘01; MBA ‘06 John & Kelly Hoogenakker KI Mark Kijek, MD & Barbara Kijek, MD Kirkegaard Associates Virginia Larson Gerald McLaughlin Dr. Richard Meister & Joan Meister Elizabeth Soete & Raymond Narducy Henry Nord, JD ‘49 (Life Trustee) Professional Decorating & Painting, Inc. Schuler & Shook, Inc. Beverly Shaw Weiss & Company, LLP $250-$499 Rebecca Borczon, GSD ‘78 Linda Buchanan Herbert Felsenfeld, GSD ‘63; GSD ‘65 Hobart Senior High School James Jensen BJ Jones Shane Kelly

Donald Livesay Janet Messmer David Mold, MFA ‘97 Gregory Reger, COM ‘73 David Saltiel ~Ronald Seeley Jr., THE ‘06 Showtime Network Norbert Sieracki, COM ‘49 Stearns Family Charitable Fund Neele & Bonnie Stearns Joanne Velasquez (Trustee) & Arthur R. Velasquez Catherine Weidner Dennis Zacek, LAS ‘63 $100-$249 Anonymous (1) Linda Boskelly Nicholas Bowling, MFA ‘96 Jane Brody Jeffrey Bruckerhoff, THE ‘94 Mark & Linda Burns Dean Corrin Carole Doris, JD ‘76 & Dr. Peter Doris Dr. William Dumbleton & Susanne Dumbleton, PhD Charles Gerace, GSD ‘66 & Brigid Duffy, GSD ‘65 Gilbert Gonzalez & Anastasia Gonzalez Dr. Donald Ilko John Jenkins & Nan CibulaJenkins Anida Johnson Cohen Damon Kiely Yasmine Kiss, THE ‘98 David Lively & Elizabeth Gillette Lively William McKenna & Marilyn McKenna Dawn McKesey Zorine Morton, GSD Janine Poronsky, JD ‘86 Lindy Russell-Heymann, THE ‘00 Alan Salzenstein James Sieracki & Linda Sieracki Steven Sieracki & Mary Sieracki Joseph Slowik, GSD ‘53 & Patricia Slowik Jennifer Smith, THE ‘91 Carri Speicher Dr. John Ransford Watts & Joyce Watts Matching Gifts The Peoples Gas Light & Coke, Inc. Ernst & Young Foundation PSEG

S C H O L A R S H I P I N F O R M AT I O N A priority at The Theatre School is to make sure any student who has the talent to be admitted to our conservatory training program, can attend regardless of their financial means. For the vast majority of our students, pursuing their passion for the theatre profession is a financial struggle. We work hard every year to make funding available to help our students reach their professional goals.

NEW ENDOWED AND EXPENDABLE SCHOLASHIPS The total in endowed scholarship accounts is $1,997,080.81.

EXPENDABLE SCHOLARSHIPS The Gala Live Auction at The Theatre School Gala added another 5 expendable $10K scholarships to be awarded in the 2010-11 academic year. Donors: Joseph and Leslie Antunovich Sondra and Denis Healy A scholarship in memory of Deborah Ann Goldwater John Simon and Millie Rosenbloom Richard Driehause The Evans, Kozoman and Obenshain Scholarship DONATIONS TO EXISTING SCHOLARSHIPS Merle Reskin made a $15,000 pledge payment to the Merle Reskin Endowed Scholarship.

Alum Scott Ellis made a pledge payment of $10,000 to the Joseph Slowik Scholarship and to an expendable scholarship for 10-11.

Alum Robert Shook and Leslie Shook made a pledge payment to the Lighting Design Scholarship.

Andrea Ganzel Saccone made an additional gift to the Mark Ganzel Memorial Scholarship.

Gerald McLaughlin made additional gifts to the Michael Maggio Endowed Scholarship.

The following alums and friends made donations to the Itkin and Slowik Endowed scholarships: Becky Borczon, Richard and Barbara Bull, John Castaneda, Nancy Costikyan, Tessa Craib-Cox, Joan and Michael Dry, Herbert Felsenfeld, Al Fenske, Charles Gerace and Brigid Duffy Gerace, Michelle Gross and Betty Bayard, Patricia and Christopher Hoffman, William Hollis and Coleen Maloney-Hollis, Christina James, Sandi Juhlin, , Betty Martinez , Denise McCauley, William McDonnell, Dawn McKesey, Cynthia McWilliams, Janet Messmer, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Million, Jeffrey Neal, Rich Pierrelouis, James Rau, Kenneth Ruta , Maureen Huntley Sheahen and Paul Sheahen, Robert and Leslie Shook, Carlo da Silva, Kevin Slaughter, Ted Wass, Kevin White, Jann Wilson.

If you are interested in making a gift to support student scholarships or a program at The Theatre School, please call Tessa Craib-Cox, Director of Development at 773-325-7929

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A L U M N I FAC T S Participation: Over 700 alumni were listed in Theatre School News during its fourteenth year of production. TSN is an electronic alumni activity newsletter published monthly (except July).

Though originally created as a vehicle to communicate alumni activities among alumni, it is now also used for admissions, recruitment, fund raising, advertising and promotion. It is also responsible for gradually increasing the number of alumni within the school’s database with active electronic and snail-mail addresses and phone numbers. The statistics below are based on issues between August 2010 and June 2011. http://theatreschool.depaul.edu/tsn The listings included the following selected alumni activities:  Alumni worked at 119 different Chicagoland area theatre companies including Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman, Victory Gardens, TimeLine, Next Theatre and The Second City.  Alumni worked at 55 different theatre and film festivals internationally including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, West Hollywood International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, the 46th Annual Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago Humanities Festival, Just For Laughs Festival, and the San Francisco Film Festival.  Alumni have worked at 104 different schools including NYU, Yale, Notre Dame, University of Chicago, UC Irvine, University of Houston School of Theatre, USC School of Theatre, The Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, Columbia College, Harvard, School at Steppenwolf , The American Film Institute, and Oakland University.  Alumni worked on 63 Broadway/touring shows including Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Chinglish, That Face, 1001, Middletown, Twelfth Night, Peter Pan, Educating Rita, Puppet Up Uncensored, Logengrin, Hercules, The Front Page, The Seagull, Memory, Hot L Baltimore, Pinkalicious, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, House of Blue Leaves, The Tempest.  Alumni worked at 88 other theatres on the East Coast.  Alumni worked at 71 different theatres on the West Coast.  Alumni worked in 40 different states.  Alumni worked in 14 countries other than the United States including Sweden, Canada, Honduras, New Zealand, Portugal, Japan, Switzerland, England, Korea, Amsterdam, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Germany.  Alumni worked on 104 films this year including Horrible Bosses, Unstoppable, The Other Guys, Cedar Rapids, Love and Other Drugs, Tron: Legacy, The Dilemma, Conviction, Hop, The Crazies, Dinner for Shmucks, Terri, Jack and Jill, and We Need to Talk About Kevin.  Alumni worked on 415 theatre productions.  Alumni worked on more than 28 different television channels ABC, FX, Disney, CBS, Nickelodeon, CW, Bravo, MTV, Showtime, SyFy, TBS, NBC, VH1, and HBO, on 50 different programs including Boardwalk Empire, Southland, Vampire Mob, Bones, Desperate Housewives, Castle, True Blood, HawthoRNe, Rookie Blue, The Glades, The Event.  Alumni have multiple television shows in syndication or online including Weeds, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Sopranos, and The X-Files.  Alumni worked on 62 commercials or voiceovers for products Butterfinger, Budweiser, Kraft, McDonald’s, Dannon, Cartoon Network, Crown Royal, Zest, Pillsbury, L’Oreal, Verizon, Staples, Illinois Lottery, Panasonic, Hall’s Fruit Breezers, and Pringles.  Alumni worked at more than 25 production companies including Warner Brothers Pictures, Miramax, Tribeca Productions, Saturn Films, Spyglass Entertainment, MGM, 20th Century Fox Productions, Sony Pictures, Disney and New York Stage and Film.  45 alumni are Artistic or Co-Artistic Directors of theatres.  Alumni were featured in numerous articles in publications including Time Out Chicago, The Advocate, Esquire, USA Today, gay.com, New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times, American Theatre Magazine, and The New Yorker.  Alumni were recognized with 28 awards or award nominations, including Tony Award, Fullbright Scholarship, Humanitas Prize  Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize, After Dark Award, Lumen Award, Network One-Act Festival, the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artist.

Mini Versions of Theatre School News were created for each admissions‑related festival, conference and open house, and for the eight regional audition/interview locations.

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