Alison C. Vesely Artistic Director
David Rice Executive Director
by Matthew Lombardo Alison C. Vesely, SDC Director
Scenic Design Angela Miller
Costume Design Elsa Hiltner
Lighting Design Shelley Holland
Dialect Coach Christine Adaire
Sound Design David Rice
Stage Manager Kate Danziger, AEA
Tea at Five is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. First Folio Theatre is in residence at Mayslake Hall on the grounds of the Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook. The Estate is owned and operated by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. This program is provided by First Folio Theatre, a not-for profit organization. This program made possible in part by grants from the Illinois Arts Council (a state agency), and the DuPage Community Foundation. First Folio Theatre is a member of the League of Chicago Theaters and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre. Major Corporate Sponsorship Provided By: Hinsdale Bank & Trust Co. and the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
AN AGENCY OF T H E S TAT E O F I L L I N O I S
Opening – Sept. 17, 2011 First Folio Theatre 1
CAST Katharine Hepburn...........................................................................................................Melissa Carlson* *Denotes a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers.
Understudy Alexandra Burch Setting Katharine Hepburn’s home in Fenwick, Connecticut Act One – September 21, 1938 Act Two – February 14, 1983 There will be one 15-minute intermission The use of cameras, videotape recorders, or audio recorders during this performance is strictly prohibited by copyright laws. First Folio Theatre is a professional theatre employing members of the Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
F I R S T F O L I O P R O D U C T I O N H I S TO R Y First Folio has received 1 Joseph Jefferson Award, 21 Joseph Jefferson Nominations and 2 After Dark Awards 1997 The Tempest 1998 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1999 The Taming of the Shrew 2000 Romeo and Juliet; Much Ado About Nothing 2001 Macbeth; As You Like It 2002 Antigone; Twelfth Night (Jeff Recommendation) 2003 The Comedy of Errors 2004 Hamlet; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2 Jeff Nominations); Staged Reading Series (Indoor space premiere) 2005 The Importance of Being Earnest (Jeff Nomination); The Taming of the Shrew; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 2006 Private Lives (Jeff Nomination); The Tempest; The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe (Jeff Nomination) 2007 Angel Street (Jeff Recommendation); Richard III (Jeff Nomination); The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe 2008 Jeeves Intervenes (Jeff Nomination); Driving Miss Daisy (2 Jeff Nominations); Much Ado About Nothing (2 Jeff Nominations, 2 After Dark Awards); The Passion of Dracula 2009 Design for Living, A Moon for the Misbegotten (4 Jeff Nominations, 1 Jeff Award), Macbeth, The Castle of Otranto 2010 Jeeves in Bloom (1 Jeff Nomination); Will Rogers: An American Original; Twelfth Night (2 Jeff Nominations); The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe 2011 Blithe Spirit (Jeff Recommendation); The Woman in Black; Romeo and Juliet (2 Jeff Recommendations) More information can be found at www.firstfolio.org 2 First Folio Theatre
CAST MELISSA CARLSON (Katharine Hepburn) returns to First Folio where she has previously played the title role in Antigone, as well as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. Her credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Short Shakespeare! (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Berlin ’45, Pyretown, The Action Against Sol Schumann (Victory Gardens), The Real Thing, How I Learned to Drive, All My Sons (Illinois Theatre Center), Dylan (Seanachai Theatre Company), Edward II (Red Hen), Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare on the Green), Titus Andronicus, (Shakespeare’s Motley Crew), Six Degrees of Separation, (Raven Theater), Tattoo (Trap Door Theatre) and A Yard of Sun (Famous Door Theatre). She has also worked with Court Theatre, The Lyric Opera, and Collaboraction’s Sketchbook series in Phlegm and Room 21. She also serves as Director of Education for The Shakespeare Project of Chicago where she has acted in over ten TSP productions in and around the Chicago area. Television credits include:
The CBS series Early Edition and MTV’s upcoming series Underemployed written and directed by Craig Wright (Six Feet Under, Dirty, Sexy Money). She is grateful to David and Alison for this extraordinary and unique opportunity as well as to her friends and family who have lent their unending love and support throughout this incredible journey. Melissa is a proud member of The Actor’s Equity Association. ALEXANDRA BURCH (u/s Katharine Hepburn) is thrilled to be making her debut at First Folio after returning from London, England where she studied European Approach to Theatre for five months. Ali is a student at Loyola University Chicago where her credits include Mary in Our Country’s Good and Phebe in As You Like It. Outside of Chicago, other credits include Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Melissa in Frat Trees (Walden Theatre). Last summer, Ali made her film debut as Emilia in Projection. Love and many thanks to First Folio cast and crew, her lovely family, friends and Bohrs.
P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Alison C. Vesely (Director) is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder (with her husband David Rice) of First Folio Theatre where she directed The Woman in Black and Blithe Spirit earlier this year. Last season she directed the world premieres of Will Rogers: An American Original and The Castle of Otranto, as well as the Chicago premiere of Jeeves in Bloom. In 2009, she was nominated for a Jeff Award for her direction of A Moon for the Misbegotten, which was also nominated for Best Production. Previous First Folio directing credits on the indoor stage include Design for Living, The Passion of Dracula, Driving Miss Daisy, Jeeves Intervenes, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe, Angel Street, Private Lives, A Connecticut Yankee…, and The Importance of Being Earnest. On the outdoor summer stage Alison has directed Richard III, The Tempest (1997 & 2006), The Taming of the Shrew (1999 & 2005), Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Antigone, As You Like It, Macbeth (2001), Much Ado About Nothing (2000), Romeo and Juliet,
and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1998). Onstage at First Folio she has been seen as Widow Kitty in The Taming of the Shrew and Amelia in The Comedy of Errors. Before founding First Folio, Alison was the Classics Project Director for Footsteps Theatre, a women’s theater company specializing in all-female productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Alison worked as the Folio Director and Dramaturge on many productions at Footsteps, including Romeo and Juliet, A Midsommer Night’s Dreame, and Macbeth. She also performed in these productions, earning an After Dark Award for the title role in their production of Macbeth. Other directing credits include Twelfth Night (Wayne State Univ., fall 2011), Richard III (Hilberry Theatre, Detroit), Richard III (Footsteps and Shakespeare’s Herd at the Chicago Cultural Center), Real Human Dialogue, Riders to the Sea, Kiss Me Kate, and Scrooge. Alison has been an adjudicator for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and the Irene Ryan Awards First Folio Theatre 3
P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F ( c o n t . ) as well as serving a three-year term on the Theater Program Grants Panel for the Illinois Arts Council. She is a proud graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University and a member of the Society for Directors and Choreographers. Matthew Lombardo (Playwright) made his professional debut in the 1979 production of Damn Yankees at Hartford Stage. A Connecticut native like Katharine Hepburn, Lombardo left for the bright lights of New York City and quickly built an impressive resume, writing and directing many plays both in New York and regionally. He directed Torch Song Trilogy and the OffBroadway comedy End of the World Party. He was both playwright and director for Mother and Child and Guilty Innocence. Other plays he’s written include House of Atreus, The Kennel Club, Trolls and Looped, about Tallulah Bankhead, which recently premiered at The Pasadena Playhouse. He is currently working on a new drama titled High. When asked where he got the idea to write Tea at Five, Lombardo says,“My good friend, Nancy Addison, who was Kate’s dear friend, (and I) were flipping through channels and Star Trek: Voyager came on, and I saw (Kate Mulgrew’s) beautiful face, and I said, ‘Someone has to write a play for this woman about Katharine Hepburn.’ And my friend Nancy said, ‘Well you’re a playwright you idiot, why don’t you write it?’ So I did. And that’s how it came about. I really…I had no intention of writing a play about Hepburn…” Lombardo dedicates Tea at Five to his mother, Julia, without whom he says,“There would be no words.” David Rice (Executive Director, Sound Design) is co-founder (with his wife Alison C. Vesely) of First Folio, where he has produced over 30 shows. He is currently appearing in My Fair Lady, the inaugural production of the new Broadway Series at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora. As a playwright he specializes in stage adaptations of literary works, including The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe (Jeff Award Nomination for New Adaptation in 2007) and The Castle of Otranto. His adaptation of Dean Monti’s Why Dogs Don’t Talk was chosen for City Lit Theater’s first annual Art of Adaptation Festival. As an actor, he has been seen at First Folio as Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy, Chris the Sly in The Taming of the Shrew, Egeus and Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Aegeon 4 First Folio Theatre
in The Comedy of Errors, Feste in Twelfth Night and Friar Francis in Much Ado About Nothing. David has also appeared as Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy with Charlotte Rae (Briar Street Theatre); George Reed in 1776 (Marriott’s Lincolnshire); Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened... (Kinetic Theatre); and in numerous other plays and musicals, including Follies (Candlelight Dinner Playhouse), Kuni-Leml (Illinois Theatre Center), and Room Service (Bailiwick). David originated the role of Mr. Toad of Toad Hall in Doug Post’s musical version of The Wind in the Willows at the Organic Theater. Die-hard trivia fans might be interested to know that David was a 4-time winner on Jeopardy! David has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Assn. since 1991. Christine Adaire (Dialect Coach) is delighted to coach her first show at First Folio Theatre. She has worked as an actor, voice coach and director in regional theatres, including: The Guthrie Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience (NYC), Shakespeare Santa Cruz, American Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare & Company and Illinois Shakespeare Festival. She also coached the national tour of Mary Poppins. Ms. Adaire has served on the faculties of DePaul University, The National Theatre School of Canada, the University of MassachusettsAmherst and the University of WisconsinMilwaukee. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at Roosevelt University and teaches in the Theatre Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Kate Danziger (Stage Manager) is excited to return to First Folio for her ninth production with the company. She most recently stage managed their production of Romeo and Juliet. She has also stage managed The Woman In Black, Macbeth and Twelve Night and assistant stage managed Angel Street, The Tempest, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and The Taming of the Shrew at First Folio. Other Chicago credits include Escanaba in da Moonlight and The House of Bernarda Alba (Circle Theatre); Blancaflor (tireswing theatre); Siskel and Ebert Save Chicago (Factory Theater); and Being 11 (Serendipity Theatre Collective). In the fall of 2010, Kate was the stage manager and company manager for the world
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Little Theatre on the Square, where she also designed It Had to Be You, as well as High Fidelity for Route 66 Theatre Company. Shelley Holland (Lighting Design) is returning to First Folio this fall after lighting The Woman in Black last spring. Ms. Holland is an ensemble member of The Shattered Globe Theatre and recently designed Educating Rita and The Beauty Queen of Leenane at SGT. Favorite SGT productions include: Glass Menagerie (Jeff Nomination), Judgment at Nuremberg, Talk Radio, and Manchurian Candidate. Additional lighting design credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma and Scrooge at Theatre at the Center in Munster, IN; Threepenny Opera and Stalag 17 (Jeff Citation) for American Blues and The Full Monty at Drury Lane Water Tower. Shelley holds an M.F.A. in Lighting Design from Northwestern University and a B.S. in Mathematics/Theatre from Eureka College. She and her husband Bruce have two beautiful girls (Mary and Kathryn). Shelley is a fitness instructor, enjoys riding motorcycles with Bruce and takes great pleasure in working on her 100+ year old home. Beth Zupec (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be returning to First Folio where she previously assistant stage managed Romeo & Juliet, Blithe Spirit, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe, Twelfth Night and Jeeves in Bloom. Previous Chicago credits include stage manager/ assistant director for Apocalypso (Point of Contention) stage manager for The Wind in the Willows (City Lit) The Miracle Worker (Village Players Theatre) assistant stage manager for One Flea Spare (Eclipse) The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Village Players) and stage manager intern for Funk It Up About Nothin’ and Willy Wonka (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). Beth also served as the casting intern at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Beth is a graduate of the University of Kansas where some of her credits include A Flea in Her Ear, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and In Darfur. She will be working with Fox Valley Repertory on their production of It’s a Wonderful Life this coming winter.
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A R T I S T I C A S S O C I AT E S U P DAT E Michael F. Goldberg is currently working on a new show centering on the lighting of Michael McNamara and the music of Pantera. He has also been very busy chauffeuring his boys to soccer, basketball and hockey practices/games this winter as well as trying to maintain a backyard ice rink. Michael is very much looking forward to First Folio’s upcoming extravaganza The Merchant Project in summer 2012. Christian Gray recently played Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet for First Folio. He is currently playing Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie for Oak Park Festival Theatre. Elsa Hiltner – See Staff Biography Melanie Keller just finished a summer with fellow Artistic Associate Kevin McKillip in Door County, Wisconsin at Peninsula Players, appearing in the hilarious comedy The Fox on the Fairway. And this fall, she will be back at Signal Ensemble Theatre, where she will appear in two Chicago premiere productions by exciting Canadian playwright, Hannah Moscovitch. Later this coming season she will return to First Folio to appear with Nick Sandys in The Turn of the Screw as well as playing Portia in The Merchant of Venice. Kevin McKillip is currently trodding the boards at his usual summer haunt, Peninsula Players in Door County, Wisconsin, where he will be appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest, A Few Good Men, and God of Carnage. He will
return to the First Folio stage next winter in Unnecessary Farce. Michael McNamara recently recreated the lighting for Eclipse Theatre’s production of After the Fall at Theatre on the Lake and has been named as the co-author for the leading collegiate textbook in theatrical lighting design, J. Michael Gillette’s Designing with Light. He continues as the head of lighting at Purdue University where he will design their production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane in February. Angela Miller – See Staff Biography Hayley L. Rice just finished a production of The Women at Circle Theater and is currently busy preparing a special benefit performance for Focal Point Theater, where she is a company member. She will be seen at First Folio next summer as Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice. Hayley is also a casting associate for First Folio. Nick Sandys directed Romeo & Juliet this past summer for First Folio and also played Charles Condomine in last spring’s production of Blithe Spirit. Currently he is directing Persuasion for Chamber Opera Chicago, as well as playing Wentworth. Then he will appear in Remy Bumppo’s production of O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra and understudy for Lyric Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos. This coming spring he will appear in The Turn of the Screw for First Folio.
F I R S T F O L I O T H E AT R E S TA F F Artistic Director....................................................................................................................Alison C. Vesely Executive Director....................................................................................................................... David Rice Director of Educational Outreach....................................................................................Megan Schutt Volunteer Coordinator........................................................................................................Kris Biendarra Graphic Designer................................................................................................................. Carol Alleman Marketing ............................................................................................................... Noreen Heron & Assoc. Technical Director...............................................................................................................Kyle Gettelman Master Carpenter..................................................................................................................Miguel Garcia Master Electrician................................................................................................................Ricky Harbecke Photography................................................................................................................................. David Rice Auditor ...................................................................................................................................... Paul Wieland Insurance Provider......................................................................................................... Paczolt Insurance Casting Assistants...................................................................Hayley Rice, Melanie Keller, Nick Sandys Volunteer Ushers and Concessions...............................The Saints and First Folio’s Volunteer Corps 8 First Folio Theatre
F I R S T F O L I O B OA R D O F T R U S T E E S President.......................................................................................................................... Alan Becker Vice-President...........................................................................................................Ellen Callahan Secretary..................................................................................................................... Theresa Wilkie Treasurer..................................................................................................................... Chris Beaulieu Trustees........................................................ John Bauer, Margaret Bennett, Richard Berman, Barbara Disko, Brian McKillip, Patricia Noska, David Rice, Alison C. Vesely Advisory Board Robert J. Schillerstrom (DuPage County Board Chairman) D. “Dewey” Pierotti (Forest Preserve Board Chairman) Dr. Richard Strier (Professor of English, University of Chicago) Dr. Michael Shapiro (Professor of English, Loyola University) Dr. Peter Kanelos (Professor of Dramatic Literature, Loyola University) David LaBrash (President, Clarendon Hills Bank) Melissa LaBrash (CPA) First Folio invites all persons interested in joining our Board of Trustees, our Board of Advisors, the Folio Society, or our staff of volunteers to contact us at (630) 9868067 for more information on how you can become a part of the Western Suburbs premier professional theater! DONORS LIST (Donations received between August 15, 2010 and August 15, 2011) Lifetime Bard’s Club Members (For Outstanding Support) Anonymous Susan & Alan Becker JeanE Charnas Joyce Chelberg Meg & Jim Fletcher Brian McKillip Susan & Brian (Coach) O’Connor John Plosnich BARDOLATOR ($5,000 +) Anonymous Illinois Arts Council Alan & Susan Becker Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation DuPage Community Foundation HAMLET ($1,000+) Anonymous (2) Bank of America Margaret Bennett Rick Berman Dr. & Mrs. John Buntrock
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