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Next to Normal Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey Music by Tom Kitt Directed by Mark Clements December 6, 2011 – January 15, 2012 Quadracci Powerhouse Rep Lab Short–Play Festival January 12 – 16, 2012 Stiemke Studio The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) By Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield Directed by Sean Graney January 13 – March 11, 2012 Stackner Cabaret To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee Adapted by Christopher Sergel Directed by Aaron Posner January 31 – March 4, 2012 Quadracci Powerhouse In the Next Room or the vibrator play By Sarah Ruhl Directed by Laura Gordon March 7 – April 22, 2012 Stiemke Studio Always . . Patsy Cline Written and originally directed by Ted Swindley – based on a true story Directed by Sandy Ernst March 16 – May 6, 2012 Stackner Cabaret Othello By William Shakespeare Directed by Mark Clements April 3 – May 6, 2012 Quadracci Powerhouse
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For 58 years, Milwaukee Repertory Theater has been providing the highest level of professional theater to Milwaukee and Wisconsin. With the start of the 2010/11 season, The Rep embarked on a new era. Award-winning international director Mark Clements was appointed as The Rep’s Artistic Director, joining Managing Director Dawn Helsing Wolters, who began her tenure in 2009. Mark’s inaugural season included Cabaret, the first full-scale musical to be mounted in the Quadracci Michael Brosilow Powerhouse, classic and new works that included Kit Kat girls Amanda Danskin, Tiffany Topol and Lili World and American Premieres such as Liberace! Thomas and Emcee Lee E. Ernst in Cabaret. and Bombshells, and bold artistic collaborations. The Rep’s dynamic new leadership team is committed to broadening and deepening the audience experience and infusing all three Rep venues with exciting and energizing theater, including Rep Platforms exhibits in our lobbies and Late Nite series in the Stackner Cabaret. Milwaukee Repertory Theater currently offers 12 productions: five in the Quadracci Powerhouse, two in the Stiemke Studio, four in the Stackner Cabaret and the annual revival of A Christmas Carol in the historic Pabst Theater. Additionally, with the start of last season, The Rep launched Rep Lab, a short-play festival featuring our own Artistic Intern Ensemble. The Rep’s Education Department serves over 20,000 students annually with special performances and a variety of in-school workshops and residencies designed to build important life skills, as well as to engage, inspire and enrich. Under the artistic vision of Mark Clements, education programs are a central component to the work of The Rep. New initiatives have included: Resident Acting Company Members leading workshops; more than Michael Brosilow Reese Madigan and Laura Gordon in Death of a Salesman double the number of student matinees; new intensive behind-the-scenes Immersion Days; collaborations with area colleges and universities; Adult Acting Classes and a new Teen Council. If you would like to learn more about any of The Rep’s current or new programs, please contact Jenny Kostreva, Education Director, at jkostreva@milwaukeerep.com or 414-290-5370.
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Patty and Jay Baker Theater Complex Quadracci Powerhouse Mark Clements Artistic Director
Dawn Helsing Wolters Managing Director
by Eric Simonson based on the book When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi Written by David Maraniss Directed by Sanford Robbins
Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Video/Projection Designer Dialect Coach Fight Coach Casting Director Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Director
Linda Buchanan Holly Payne Thomas C. Hase Lindsay Jones John Boesche Jill Walmsey Zager Lee E. Ernst* Sandy Ernst Becky Merold* Kristy Matero* Joshua Baggett
Production Manager Lighting & Sound Director Technical Director Properties Director Charge Scenic Artist Costume Director
Melissa Nyari Vartanian Craig Gottschalk Tyler Smith James Guy Jim Medved Holly Payne
The Original Broadway production of Lombardi was presented by Fran Kirmser, Tony Ponturo and Friends of Lombardi in association with The National Football League. Lombardi is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, The Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Media Sponsor
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CAST LIST
Vincent Lombardi .......................................................... Lee E. Ernst* Michael McCormick................................................ Gerard Neugent* Marie Lombardi.........................................................Angela Iannone* Paul Hornung..............................................................Reese Madigan* Dave Robinson......................................................... Cameron Knight* Jim Taylor..................................................................... Arthur Lazalde* GREEN BAY PACKERS F. Tyler Burnet, Cody Craven, Nathaniel French, John Mark Jernigan, Joseph Kemper, Eric C. Lynch PACKER CHEERLEADERS N’Tasha Anders, Eva Balistrieri, Melissa Graves, Elizabeth Telford, Jenna K. Vik
THE TIME: Mostly November, 1965; but also 1958, 1959 and 1964
THE PLACE: Various locations in Green Bay, WI, and Englewood, NJ Lombardi is performed without an intermission.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Member of The Rep’s 2011/12 Resident Acting Company.
A C K N OW L E D G M E N T S A N D S P E C I A L T H A N K S Thanks to the following people for their invaluable help, guidance and support of Lombardi: Green Bay Packers Administrative Staff: Tim O’Connolly, Julie Leung, Kate Hogan, Mark Wagner, Krissy Zegers Our friends at Miller Lite, Mader’s and InterContinental Hotel Milwaukee Eric Simonson and David Maraniss Vernon J. Biever photos for the lobby display courtesy of Gallery of Sports Art, Inc. Grant Goodman Coach Joe Goodman 3 – Lombardi
Lombardi The Man By David Maraniss, Author, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi Washington, D.C., May 2010
Vince Lombardi
The year 2010 marked the fortieth anniversary of Vince Lombardi’s death. He died of colon cancer at Georgetown University Hospital on September 3, 1970, only eleven seasons after he had begun his incandescent run as the greatest professional football coach in history, a period during which his teams finished as champions five times. That he accomplished immortal status in barely a decade at the top is amazing enough, but there is something else about his life and death that is equally surprising. His players called him the Old Man, and that is the image the name Lombardi evokes — the quintessential father figure coach, staring at us, pushing us, with his squat build and Vince Lombardi with Jerry Kramer. square jaw, his professorial glasses and camel-hair coat, his gap-toothed smile and satchelful of expressions, real and mythical, about winning and the pursuit of excellence. Yet most fans who grew up watching him during the glory years of the Green Bay Packers are now older than Lombardi was when he died. The Old Man was gone at fifty-seven. Four decades after his passing, Lombardi lives on, larger than his sport, while other great coaches of his era, from George Halas to Bear Bryant to Woody Hayes, recede with time, confined to the narrow world of football. Walk into the office of an insurance salesman in Des Moines, a college financial officer in Richmond, a hockey team president in New Jersey, and there is the Lombardi credo, framed and hanging on the wall. The Lombardi bust at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton has the shiniest nose, touched more than any other by the faithful, the sporting equivalent of rubbing St. Peter’s foot in Rome. The ambition of every player and coach in the league is to be associated with his aura, to bask in the glow of the ultimate prize awarded to the Super Bowl champions — the Lombardi Trophy. Watch any NFL promotion on television and, inevitably, there is the profile of Lombardi, the block of granite on the sidelines.
Paul Hornung blocks for Jim Taylor.
The title of this book was taken from a scene in Richard Ford’s novel Independence Day in which his main character, a former sportswriter named Frank Continued on next page Lombardi – 4
Bascombe, makes a pit stop at the Vince Lombardi Service Area at exit 16W on the New Jersey Turnpike. The “Vince,” as Ford called it, then had a collection of Lombardi memorabilia from days when pride still mattered. Ford put the phrase inside parentheses, and I thought when I first read the passage that he intended it with a certain irony, a suspicion that he later confirmed when I asked him. That is the spirit in which I use it as well. In examining Lombardi’s place in American life, one question resounds through the decades: Could the Old Man prevail in today’s world? Several myths have to be dealt with before that question can be considered rationally. The first is the myth of the innocent past. The past Packers practicing. was never innocent. The essence of human nature does not change. There were as many roustabouts, rabble-rousers, and cheaters in Lombardi’s era as there are today, and far more economic stratification and racism. The main difference is that the culture has changed, giving players more wealth, separating them more from the masses, providing them more temptations. Next comes the myth of the most famous saying attributed to Lombardi: “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” He said it a few times, but it did not originate with him, nor did it reflect his philosophy. Another coach, Red Sanders, coined it decades before Lombardi came along, and it entered the broader public domain through a John Wayne movie in which it was uttered by a young actress, playing a tomboy daughter of a football coach, who is talking to a social worker played by Donna Reed; not exactly the most macho setting. To Lombardi, it was the pursuit of excellence that mattered most. He was often harder on his teams when they played poorly but won than when they played well and lost. And finally there is the myth of Lombardi’s leadership methods. It was Henry Jordan, a defensive tackle for the old Packers, who uttered the oft-repeated phrase “Lombardi treats us all alike, like dogs.” Memorable, but inaccurate. Lombardi was an adept psychologist who treated each of his players differently. He rode some mercilessly but stayed away from others, depending on how they responded. He did not mind oddballs — his teams were full of them — as long as Vince Lombardi with wife, Marie. they shared his will to excel. Lombardi was a Jesuit in his football instruction, as in most other things. Like Saint Ignatius of Loyola, he believed in free will, that each man was at liberty to choose between action and inaction, good and evil, the right play and the wrong play. He made things simple for his players by taking nothing for granted, repeating the same lessons to them over 5 – Lombardi
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and over, every day, every year. He would spend hours diagramming one play, the Packer Sweep, so that his players knew how to adjust to whatever defense the opposition might employ. The point of his repetition was a timeless idea that is as applicable in jazz and dance and writing and other art forms as in football — freedom through discipline. All of this, Lombardi the teacher, the psychologist, the adapter, the philosopher, would serve him well in today’s world. The man and the myth are always at play in the Lombardi story, converging and separating. Many yearn for the Old Man out of a longing for something they fear has been irretrievably lost. Every time a player dances and points at himself after making a routine tackle, or a mediocre athlete and his agent hold out for millions, whenever it seems that individual ego has overtaken the concept of team, people wonder, mournfully, what Lombardi would say about it. Others think Lombardi represents something less romantic, a symbol of the American obsession with winning, a philosophy that if misapplied can have unfortunate consequences in sports, business, and life. The concerns on both sides are valid, but the stereotypes from which they arise are misleading. Lombardi was more complex and interesting than the myths surrounding him. These are the contradictions — the depth of a simple man, the imperfections of a perfectionist, the ambiguity of his meaning in American culture — that drove me as I researched this biography.
“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” -Vince Lombardi
Lombardi – 6 Author David Maraniss (center) with the cast of Lombardi, Lee E Ernst, Rep Artistic Director Mark Clements and Director Sanford Robbins.
PROFILE ON T H E R E P ’ S N E W BOA R D PR ESIDE N T Judy Hansen, long-time Rep supporter, Board Member and Broadway Producer, is the new President of The Rep’s Board of Trustees. She follows Northwestern Mutual executive John Kordsmeier as Board President. This is the second time Judy has assumed this leadership role, having also served as Board President from 1995 – 98. It was that experience 15 years ago which inspired her to enroll into the prestigious Yale School of Drama in 2002 to learn more about non-profit theater management. She enrolled the first year as a Special Student and then was invited back for a second year as a Research Fellow. At Yale School of Drama, she also taught classes in board governance to theater management students based on her real-world experience. After her academic study at Yale, Judy had the opportunity to intern for two seasons with veteran Broadway Producer Jeffrey Richards. Through the internship she learned about the commercial side of theater. All these formative experiences led Judy, along with her sister Kit Seidel, to form their own Broadway producing company, JK Productions, four years ago. Since they went into business, they have produced many Broadway shows including: Talk Radio with Liev Schreiber; November with Nathan Lane; Race with James Spader; Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansberry; Speed-the-Plow; Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino; and Hair, for which they won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in the 2008/09 Season. Last summer, Judy and Kit remounted a commercial production of Hula Hoop Sha-Boop, a popular musical created for The Rep’s Stackner Cabaret in 1990. Working with the original creative team of Hula Hoop, they updated the script to create a re-tooled version of the original production. The show had a successful August run in the Stackner Cabaret. They are now shopping Hula Hoop to other markets for sit-down productions, as well as looking for licensing opportunities. In 2008, when Artistic Director Joe Hanreddy announced that he would be leaving The Rep, Judy’s strong theatrical background made her uniquely qualified to head up the search committee to find The Rep’s next Artistic Director. She also sat on the committee to find The Rep’s Managing Director. She couldn’t be more pleased with the team they found. When asked why she wanted to be Board President a second time – a Rep first – she said “I’m very excited about the direction The Rep is heading under the leadership of Mark Clements and Dawn Helsing Wolters. The energy in the building and in the audience is phenomenal. We will continue to build and expand on the quality of the work that is being presented on the stage under Mark’s creative leadership and vision. I plan to continue what John Kordsmeier began under his leadership and build on the momentum we’ve created. We want to continue with artistic outreach, intensify our educational initiatives such as the Big Read program, as well as our community engagement efforts. I’m eager to begin our strategic planning process so we can lead The Rep into the future. I’m excited about what’s in store next.” About the production of Lombardi you are about to see, Judy added, “After Kit and I saw Lombardi in New York, we thought this would be a great play for The Rep to do and we recommended it to Mark for this season. Eric Simonson is from Wisconsin; Vince Lombardi is a beloved Packer’s coach; the Green Bay Packers are the reigning Super Bowl champs – this couldn’t be a more perfect combination! For our production of Lombardi, we are working with the Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation on a fundraiser on November 10th for their charity and Miller Lite is our public tailgating partner. We are delighted with the new partnerships between the theater, the community and The Rep Board of Trustees that are happening around this production.”
“I’m very excited about the direction The Rep is heading under the leadership of Mark Clements and Dawn Helsing Wolters. The energy in the building and in the audience is phenomenal.” -Judy Hansen 7 – Lombardi
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CAST Lee E. Ernst, Vince Lombardi/ Fight Coach Rep Resident Acting Company Member. Lee returns to The Rep after a summer spent directing Hamlet at Texas Shakespeare Festival and playing Jessup in A Few Good Men and Bingham in A Fox on the Fairway for Peninsula Players in beautiful Door County. Lee joined The Rep’s Resident Acting Company in 1993 and was most recently seen at The Rep as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Leon/Nick in Speaking in Tongues and Bob Cratchit in The Rep’s production of A Christmas Carol and The Emcee in Cabaret. Other roles at The Rep include Sharky in The Seafarer, Quimby in Seven Keys to Slaughter Peak and The Postman in The Government Inspector, Frank Lloyd Wright in Work Song, Levin in Anna Karenina, Truffaldino in Servant of Two Masters, George in Of Mice and Men, Clov in Endgame, and the title roles in Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Richard III, The Foreigner and Tartuffe. Lee has also played leading roles with American Players Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, New American Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company and ACT. Lee is recipient of The AriZoni Best Actor Award, Minerva Laureate, Shepherd Express Best of Milwaukee and is an Inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. Mr. Ernst received his MFA from The University of Delaware – PTTP – under Sandy Robbins. Angela Iannone, Marie Angela Iannone is thrilled to return to Milwaukee Rep for the 2011/12 Season. A familiar face to Milwaukee, Madison and Chicago theater patrons, Ms. Iannone was most 11 – Lombardi
recently seen at Milwaukee Rep as Fraülein Kost in Cabaret, at In Tandem Theatre as Kate Hepburn in Tea at Five and at Next Act Theatre as the Countess Orsini in A Sleeping Country. Other roles include Medea in Medea, Maria Callas in Master Class, She in Purgatorio, Ariel in The Tempest, Roxie in Chicago, Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Chorus in Henry V, Lady MacBeth in MacBeth and Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar. Ms. Iannone is a member of The Women Who Can’t Sing cabaret group and is a Joseph Jefferson Award-winner. Her play, The Edwin Booth Company Presents…, premieres this November. Cameron Knight, Dave Robinson Cameron is thrilled to be back at The Rep! Last seen on the Quadracci Powerhouse Stage in Cyrano de Bergerac, he is most recently from Los Angeles by way of Delaware, where he was a company member of the Resident Ensemble Players and an instructor of African American Theatre and Acting at the University of Delaware. Previous theaters include: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Kennedy Center, Richmond, Michigan, Texas and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals, Plowshares Theatre Company and Meadow Brook Theatre. Training: MFA: University of Delaware – PTTP. Reese Madigan, Paul Hornung Reese Madigan is honored to be a part of this Lombardi team portraying one of the greatest football players of all time. Last season at The Rep, he appeared as Hannay in The 39 Steps and Biff in Death of a Salesman. Other favorite Rep roles include Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Edmund in King Lear and Segismundo
C A S T A N D C R E AT I V E T E A M in Sueño. Also in Milwaukee, he appeared as Paul Hornung and JFK in Next Act Theatre’s production of Lombardi: The Only Thing. He’s worked on and Off-Broadway and at many major regional theaters across the country. Many thanks to Mark and Sandy. For Ed Burgess. Gerard Neugent, Michael McCormick Rep Resident Acting Company Member. Gerard just completed his ninth season with Milwaukee Repertory Theater and his fifth season as a member of the Resident Acting Company. He most recently appeared as Happy in Death of a Salesman, Clown 2 in The 39 Steps, Stan Laurel in Laurel and Hardy, Lou Max in Seven Keys to Slaughter Peak, Jimmy/Lendall/ Randy/Phil/Dave in Almost, Maine, Johnny in Happy Now? and Hlestakov in The Government Inspector. Previously, he was seen as Simon Panteleyevich Yepikhodov in The Cherry Orchard, Charles Bingley in Pride and Prejudice, Fabrizio in Mirandolina and in multiple roles in Greater Tuna, Rogers/Young Pedgift in the world premiere of Armadale, Antony Wilding in Enchanted April, Norman in The Norman Conquests, Rick Steadman in The Nerd, Edgar in King Lear, Ellard in The Foreigner, Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Steindorf in Back at Leipzig and Camille in A Flea in Her Ear. Gerry is a proud Marquette grad who lives in Milwaukee with his wife, Kate, and their two sons, Gerry and Peter. Arthur Lazalde, Jim Taylor Arthur Lazalde is delighted to be a part of this, his first Milwaukee Rep production. Past credits include: The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (Mint Theater Company);
As You Like It (Harold Clurman Theater Lab); Creditors (Studio Tisch); Feud (New York Theatre Experiment); Taming of the Shrew, Beaux Stratagem, Othello, Coriolanus and Much Ado About Nothing (Texas Shakespeare Festival); 1776 (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Coriolanus (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Oliver! (Egyptian Theatre Company) and From Jerusalem with Love (Palestinian National Theater). MFA: NYU Graduate Acting Program. www.arthurlazalde.com. Eric Simonson, Playwright Eric Simonson has written plays and adaptations for Steppenwolf Theatre Company including: Nomathemba (written with Ntozake Shange and Joseph Shabalala); Carter’s Way; and, most recently, Honest (for First Look) and Fake. Other plays include: The Last Hurrah; Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright (with Jeffrey Hatcher); Edge of the World; Lombardi: The Only Thing and Speak American. His work has been produced in Japan and throughout the United States at theaters including The Huntington Theatre Company, LA Theatre Works, City Theatre of Pittsburgh, The Kennedy Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Madison Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Crossroads Theatre Company. His adaptation of Moby Dick at Milwaukee Repertory Theater was chosen as one of Time Magazine’s top ten productions of 2002. Mr. Simonson is also an accomplished theater, film and opera director. His production of Steppenwolf’s The Song of Jacob Zulu received six Tony Award® nominations, including one for Best Direction. He co-directed (with Campbell Scott), Hamlet for Hallmark Entertainment, as well as three documentaries for HBO: A Note of Triumph Lombardi – 12
C R E AT I V E T E A M (Academy Award®), On Tiptoe (Academy Award® nomination; IDA Award for distinguished achievement), and Studs Terkel: Listening to America (Emmy nomination). His adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s SlaughterhouseFive (originally produced at Steppenwolf), received its OffBroadway premiere in December at New York’s 59E59 Theater, and his play Lombardi recently completed an eight-month run on Broadway. He is currently overseeing the development of three new operas for Minnesota Opera’s OperaWorks. His play Louder, Faster (co-written with Jeffrey Hatcher), premiered at City Theatre in May of 2011. Mr. Simonson is the recipient of the Princess Grace Statue Award for sustained artistic achievement, and City Theatre’s Frankel Award. He is a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and of unions SAG, WGA, AGMA and SDC. David Maraniss, Book Author David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. He won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, shared in the Post’s 2008 Pulitzer for coverage of the Virginia Tech tragedy and edited a series on Walter Reed that won the 2008 Pulitzer Gold Medal. He has also been a Pulitzer finalist three other times. He is the author of critically-acclaimed books on Bill Clinton, Vince Lombardi, Roberto Clemente, Vietnam and the Rome 1960 Olympics, and is at work on Out of This World, a multigenerational biography of Barack Obama. Visit the author at www.DavidMaraniss.com.
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Sanford Robbins, Director Sanford (Sandy) Robbins’ previous productions for Milwaukee Rep include The Birthday Party, A Christmas Carol, True West, The Voysey Inheritance, Bad Dates and Cyrano de Bergerac. Other directing credits include productions for the Alley Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival and American Players Theatre. He has directed the international premieres of Sam Shepard’s plays for the national theaters of several foreign countries, including the Moscow Art Theatre Studio and the National Theatre of Cyprus. His production of Shepard’s The Tooth of Crime received the Thalia Award for Best Production in Finland, an award won the previous year by Ingmar Bergman. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Resident Ensemble Players (REP), the professional theater at the University of Delaware. Linda Buchanan, Scenic Designer, USAA Linda Buchanan has designed hundreds of stage productions at regional theaters throughout the country and abroad. She has received the Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration, Jefferson Awards for Scene Design for House and Black Snow (Goodman Theatre), and I Hate Hamlet (Royal George), and a Helen Hayes Award for Dancing at Lughnasa (Arena Stage). Recent design work includes The 39 Steps (The Cleveland Play House, Syracuse Stage and Indiana Repertory Theatre), and The Gospel According to James (Indiana Repertory Theatre and Victory Gardens Theater). Notable past projects include the American Premiere of House and Garden at Goodman Theatre, the musical
C R E AT I V E T E A M adaptation of Wings (Goodman Theatre, NY Public Theatre), and the premiere production of Marvin’s Room and ten subsequent regional productions and commercial productions in New York and London. Buchanan was Resident Designer at Court Theatre (1976 – 1984), and Design Director of R.D. Design Associates (l985 – 1989) where her work included the State of Illinois Center dedication ceremony and over 100 environments for corporate theater and special events. Buchanan is Associate Dean for Curricular Development at The Theatre School at DePaul University, where she is also Head of the Scene Design program. She has also taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia College. Her work has been published in Interior Design, Contract, Exhibit Builder, American Theatre and TCI (Theatre Crafts International) and ED (Entertainment Design). Holly Payne, Costume Designer Currently the costume director at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Holly graduated with an MFA in costume design and technology from the University of Arkansas. She has designed also at Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Shakespeare, University of Tulsa, American Players Theatre, Florentine Opera, First Stage Children’s Theater and Theatre Squared in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Some of her favorite designs at The Rep have been Bomb-itty of Errors in the Stackner Cabaret and My Name is Asher Lev and Speaking in Tongues in the Stiemke Studio. Thanks to The Rep’s fantastic costume shop for all their great work and much love to ACB for being a fantastic partner. Thomas C. Hase, Lighting Designer His work in the United States includes: Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, BAM, Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera, Dallas
Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Goodspeed Opera House, The Portland Opera, New Orleans Opera, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Center Stage, Alliance Theatre Company, Dallas Theater Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Maine State Music Theater. Recently he designed John Doyle’s Company on Broadway and The Rise and Fall of The City of Mahagonny at Los Angeles Opera, both to international critical acclaim and released on DVD. Internationally his work includes: The Barbican in London, Abbey Theatre, the Finish, the Columbian and Dutch National Operas, Opera North, UK, Canadian Opera Company, Luminato Festival Toronto, Opera de Marseille, Staatstheater Kassel, Theater Erfurt, Bavarian State Opera, Vancouver Opera, the Singapore Arts Festival, Tokyo Metro Arts Center and over 100 designs for theater, opera and ballet at the Stadttheater Giessen, Germany. As Ping Chong and Company’s Lighting Designer, his work was seen worldwide. He recently premiered Riverdance’s new production Magik Macabre in Dublin as well as the blockbuster European revival of The Wiz for Stage Holdings in Holland. Concurrent with his many freelance projects, Mr. Hase is the Resident Lighting Designer and Director for the Cincinnati Opera. Lindsay Jones, Sound Designer A composer/sound designer for theater and film, Lindsay is very excited to be returning to Milwaukee for Lombardi, which will be his 29th show for The Rep. Off-Broadway credits include: The Brother Sister Plays (Public Theatre); The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons); Top Secret (NYTW); and many others. Regional credits include Hartford Stage Company, South Coast Repertory, Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, The Old Globe, Lombardi – 14
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C R E AT I V E T E A M Steppenwolf Theatre Company, as well as many others. International credits include Royal Shakespeare Company in England, Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada, as well as productions in Austria, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Scotland. Lindsay has received five Joseph Jefferson Awards and 15 nominations, two Ovation Awards and three nominations, Los Angeles and San Diego Drama Critics Circle Awards, two Drama Desk Award nominations as well as nominations for Henry Hewes Design Awards, Barrymore, AUDELCO and NAACP Theatre Awards. Lindsay was also the first Sound Designer to win the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award. Recent TV/film scoring: Family Practice for Sony Pictures/Lifetime Television and A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2006 Academy Award winner, Best Documentary, Short Subject), for HBO Films. Find out more at www.lindsayjones.com. John Boesche, Video/Projection Designer John Boesche’s scenic and projection designs have been seen by Chicago audiences at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Goodman Theatre, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, Royal George Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Victory Gardens and others. Broadway credits include The Glass Menagerie at Roundabout Theatre Company, directed by Frank Galati. Regionally, his work has been seen at Arizona Theatre Company, Asolo Theatre Company (Sarasota), Denver Center Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse (Los Angeles), McCarter Theatre (Princeton), Milwaukee Repertory Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival (NYC), Seattle Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare at the Folger (Washington D.C.), South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa), and Theater on the Square (San Francisco), among others. Mr. Boesche received a Joseph Jefferson Special Award for 17 – Lombardi
projection design in 2005. In addition to his work in theater Mr. Boesche designs media for dance, opera and live musical performance as well as his own gallery installations, history museums and outdoor events. Sandy Ernst, Casting Director Sandy made her first casting trip to NYC with American Players Theatre founders Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso exactly 30 years ago, and continued casting with APT as both a member of the directing staff and the Production Stage Manager for the next 15 years. She has served as Milwaukee Rep’s Casting Director for over a decade, seeing up to a thousand auditions each season. Sandy made her first foray into film as Casting Director for the independent feature film Baraboo and as Casting Consultant on Waterwalk. Jill Walmsley Zager, Dialect Coach Jill is happy to be back at The Rep with Lombardi. Other Milwaukee Rep credits include Yellowman, Ten Chimneys, Cabaret, My Name Is Asher Lev, Laurel and Hardy and The 39 Steps. Jill is currently the co-Head of Voice and Dialects and Company Coach at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Regionally she has worked at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, Drury Lane Water Tower, Apple Tree Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, Utah Shakespeare Festival and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. Jill earned her Master’s Degrees at CSSD (London) and Northwestern. She lives in San Francisco and St. Francis, WI and is married to James Zager, the Head of the Theater Program at Carroll University. Mark Clements, Artistic Director Mark Clements began his tenure as The Rep’s Artistic Director
C R E AT I V E T E A M with the 2010/11 season. He is an award-winning international theater director whose work has appeared in over 100 major theaters throughout Europe and the United States. Recent productions include: Death of a Salesman, Bombshells and Cabaret at The Rep; Oliver!, Born Yesterday, Great Expectations and Les Miserables (2008 Barrymore Award – Best Production of a Musical) and Of Mice and Men (2007 Barrymore Award – Best Director and Best Production of a Play), all for Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia; The Milliner (Off-Broadway, World Premiere), CSC, New York; My Fair Lady, Copenhagen; The Browning Version (Barclays/TMA Regional Theatre Award) at Derby Playhouse and Blunt Speaking (World Premiere), Chichester Festival Theatre U.K. and Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York both starring Corin Redgrave. Other productions include: Speaking in Tongues (U.S. Premiere) with Kevin Anderson and Karen Allen (SDC’s Joe Calloway Award, Best Director Nomination), Roundabout Theatre Company; Speaking in Tongues (European Premiere; Barclays/TMA Best Director Nomination), Hampstead Theatre, London; Creator/Director – Soul Train (Laurence Olivier Award Nomination), West End and three U.K. national tours; and the U.K. national tours of The Glass Menagerie, The Gingerbread Lady and Love & Marriage, all for Bath Theatre Royal productions. Mark served as an Associate Artistic Director for Moving Theatre Company, the production company founded by Vanessa and Corin Redgrave. He has also been Associate Director for New End Theatre and New Players Theatre, both in London, Royal Theatre in Northampton and Torch Theatre in Wales. Additionally, Mark served as Artistic Director of the awardwinning Derby Playhouse in the U.K. from 1992 to 2002, where he produced over 100 productions, directed 47, including nine transfers to London’s West End and many
U.K. national tours and international collaborations with leading companies in Europe and the U.S. He serves on the National Advisory Board for the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program at Ten Chimneys. Dawn Helsing Wolters, Managing Director Dawn Helsing Wolters joined Milwaukee Repertory Theater as Managing Director in 2009. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the League of Resident Theatres, the Bridge Committee for the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, the National Advisory Board for the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program at Ten Chimneys and the Advisory Board for the Chicagobased Stillpoint Theater Collective. Dawn came to Milwaukee from Chicago, where she was Executive Director of Court Theatre from 2005 to 2009. While in Chicago, Dawn served on the board of The League of Chicago Theatres, chairing its Nominating Committee and consulting in leadership development, capacity building and fundraising. She also served on the Chicago 2016 Olympic Arts and Culture Advisory Group. As a founding board member of the Hyde Park Cultural Alliance, she helped lead the group’s transition to an independent notfor-profit organization, chairing its Governance Committee. Dawn served as Director of Development at Center Stage in Baltimore, and held marketing and public relations positions at Center Stage and Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. While completing her MFA in Theatre Management at Yale School of Drama, she was Associate Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre and Managing Director of the Summer Cabaret. Dawn has served in an advisory capacity for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Lombardi – 18
C R E AT I V E T E A M Commission, The University of Chicago’s Graham School of General Studies and for Goucher College’s graduate Arts Administration program and been a guest lecturer and panelist at colleges and universities. Becky Merold, Stage Manager This is Becky’s tenth season and 20th production with Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Becky spends her summers at Utah Shakespeare Festival, where she recently stage managed Richard III and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other regional theater credits include: In Tandem Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and The New Harmony Theatre. Becky is a cum laude graduate from the Conservatory of Theater Arts at Webster University. Becky would like to thank the whole Milwaukee Rep community for making this her second home. Kristy Matero, Assistant Stage Manager Kristy is thrilled to work on her first production with Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Regional: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The K of D, Full Circle, Antebellum, Boom, Maria/Stuart and Hell Meets Henry Halfway; Signature Theatre: And The Curtain Rises; The Kennedy Center: The August Wilson Festival; Actors Theatre of Louisville: Italian American Reconciliation, dark play or stories for boys, Mary’s Wedding and The Chosen; The Civilians: Gone Missing; Pig Iron Theatre Company: Welcome to Yuba City; Spoleto Festival USA: Don Giovanni, Faustus, The Last Night, Louise and Flora or Hob in The Well. Special thanks to Sharon Riley and Bob Titley for their hospitality and support. 19 – Lombardi
Jason Simpson, Stage Management Intern Jason graduated with a BS in Theater from State University of New York at Brockport. He worked as a stage management intern for Geva Theatre, Rochester, NY; stage manager for Tibbits Opera House and assistant stage manager for Bristol Valley Theater. Jason hails from Upstate New York, near Rochester where his passion for theater developed. His goal is to continue his education in the future and work as a professional stage manager. He is thrilled to have the opportunity to learn and work with The Rep, while experiencing life in Milwaukee with his cat, Juliet. Joshua Baggett, Assistant Director Artistic Intern Ensemble Member. Joshua couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with the 2011/12 Artistic Intern Ensemble. He joins The Rep after just recently graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies from the University of Central Florida. While at UCF, Josh co-founded Relevant Theatrics Theatre Company, a small theater project in Orlando where he worked as Artistic Director and CoProducer. Selected directing credits include: Waiting for Godot; Tick Tick Boom (Relevant Theatrics); Corpus Christi (Orlando Fringe Festival); Auto Da Fe (Valencia State College) and Al Lit Her Asian (Playwright’s Round Table). Thanks to friends and family for their support. Visit www.joshuabaggett.com. Understudies Vince Lombardi, Joseph Kemper; Michael McCormick, John Mark Jernigan; Marie Lombardi, Melissa Graves; Paul Hornung, Cody Craven; Dave Robinson, Eric Lynch; Jim Taylor, F. Tyler Burnet
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BOA R D OF T RUST E ES OFFICERS President Judy Hansen Vice President, Audience Development Joseph A. Rock Vice President, Trustees Susan Esslinger Vice President, Development James Braza Vice President, Personnel Dwight L. Morgan Vice President, Strategic Planning/ Immediate Past-President John Kordsmeier Secretary Pete Hotz Treasurer Kathleen A. Gray At Large Jane A. Chernof
TRUSTEES Eliza Audley Judy Berdan Wendy Blumenthal Randy Bryant Michelle Crockett Norman Dyer Patrick Gallagher Connie Gavin John N. Greene Stephen Isaacson Kristine Lueders Robert H. Manegold Michael McNeely Wally Morics Abigail Nash Lisa Quezada Catherine Robinson Micky Sadoff Joseph A. Schlidt Tom Scrivner Michael Smith Patrick Smith Sean Torinus Stephen VanderBloemen Bob Welke Karin Werner Stacy Williams Kristie Zahn
FR IENDS OF THE R EP OFFICERS President Judy Berdan Vice President of Fundraising Cathy Jakicic Vice President of External Services Jim Gehrke Vice President of Internal Services Jim Mergener Secretary Dan Roskom
Treasurer Diane Dalton Immediate Past-President Lisa Gehrke
DIRECTORS AT LARGE Eunice Beckendorf Susan Esslinger Don Fraker Amy Gehrke Connie Kordsmeier Sue McComb Brittany Roskom Cindy Wiktorek
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T H E R E P | PAT R O N S E R V I C E S Contact Info Ticket Office Phone Number: Fax Number: Mailing Address: E-mail:
414-224-9490 414-225-5490 Milwaukee Repertory Theater Patty & Jay Baker Theater Complex 108 E. Wells Street; Milwaukee, WI 53202 tickets@MilwaukeeRep.com
Hours of Operation: Monday – Sunday Noon to 6pm On days with performances the Ticket Office will remain open until show time. Administrative Office Phone Number: 414-224-1761 Fax Number: 414-224-9097 Mailing Address: Milwaukee Repertory Theater Patty & Jay Baker Theater Complex 108 E. Wells Street; Milwaukee, WI 53202 Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 5:30 pm Emergency Phone Number If you anticipate the need to be reached during a performance, leave your name and seat location with your contact information, along with instructions, to direct emergency phone calls to the House Manager at 414-290-5379 or 414-224-1761, ext. 379.
SERV ICES Access
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Deaf or Hard of Hearing Services: The Quadracci Powerhouse (QP) and the Stiemke Studio are equipped with an infrared listening system which ensures clarity of sound from any seat in the house. Performances are offered in American Sign Language for a Thursday evening of all QP productions and one Sunday matinee for all Stiemke Studio productions. We also offer a Captioned Theater performance during the last Sunday matinee performance of all QP productions. Please call The Rep Ticket Office at 414-224-9490 for more information. Script synopses are available upon request for QP and Stiemke Studio productions by calling 414-224-1761. Blind or Low Vision Services: Large print programs are available in the Quadracci Powerhouse and Stiemke Studio from any usher. Every Rep production has one audio-described performance. Using an earpiece attached to a small hand-held receiver, patrons hear a live, real-time description of the action on stage. Call the Ticket Office for more information. A descriptive tape is available for each QP and Stiemke production by calling 414-224-1761. 23 – Lombardi
Wheelchairs All Rep stages are fully accessible. Please contact the Ticket Office at 414-224-9490. Late Arrivals Out of courtesy to the actors and audience, patrons arriving after the performance has started will be seated at the discretion of House Management. Parking Milwaukee Center offers onsite parking with indoor access to The Rep operated by InterPark. Enter from Kilbourn Avenue or Water Street. Parking Passes You may purchase parking passes to the Milwaukee Center’s garage for $7.00 in the Quadracci Powerhouse, Stiemke Studio, Stackner Cabaret theater lobbies during Rep performance times. SAVE TIME AND MONEY! Policy on Children Children under age five are not admitted in the theater. Recording Equipment and Cameras The use of recording equipment and cameras in the theater is strictly forbidden.
S E R V I C E S (c o n t .) Smoke-Free Sunday Matinee One Sunday matinee in the Quadracci Powerhouse and Stiemke Studio will eliminate onstage smoking if used for that production. Please refer to The Rep’s Patron Guide for performance dates or call the Ticket Office at 414-224-9490. (All onstage smoking is tobacco free and complies with Wisconsin state law.)
Weather Policy The Rep does not cancel or reschedule performances due to inclement weather, nor do we offer refunds.
THE REP EXPERIENCE Concessions Enjoy a drink or dessert in the Quadracci Powerhouse or Stiemke Studio lobby prior to the performance or at intermission. Please remember that food and drink (except bottled water) are not allowed in the theater. Gift Shop Located in the Quadracci Powerhouse is The Rep’s new Gift Shop, which offers show-specific merchandise and Rep logo products, as well as books and scripts of current and past productions. You can also purchase parking passes and Rep Gift Certificates.
Rep In Depth Get an insider’s look at the play from a member of the cast or artistic team with a discussion that begins 45 minutes prior to every performance in the Quadracci Powerhouse and Stiemke Studio. Rep Talkbacks After select performances, engage in a deeper conversation with members of the cast, artistic team and occasional special guests. Get talkback schedules by calling the Ticket Office at 414-224-9490 or online at www.MilwaukeeRep.com.
Cellular Phones/Electronic Paging Devices Please remember to turn off your cell phones and electronic paging devices. In case of emergency, these items may be left with the House Manager. Also, as a courtesy to your fellow theatergoers and the actors on stage, please refrain from text messaging during the performance. Thank you!
T H E R E P ’ S S TA C K N E R C A B A R E T Avoid a last minute rush and enjoy a delicious pre-show dinner at The Rep’s Stackner Cabaret. Offering an affordable full range of entrées, light fare, drinks and desserts from our kitchen, the Stackner Cabaret features a full-service bar and is open for cocktails, desserts and light bites after the show as well. Open to the public and patrons attending productions in any of our three venues. For dinner reservations, call 414-224-9490. To view the menu and other information, visit www.MilwaukeeRep.com
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T H E S TA F F Props ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Mark Clements
ARTISTIC Associate Artistic Director............... Sandy Ernst Associate Artistic Director..........Brent Hazelton Artistic Associate....................Michael M. Kroeker
EDUCATION Education Director........................Jenny Kostreva Education Coordinator................Leda Hoffmann Education Assistant...................... Neal Easterling Teaching Artists........ Tom Bruno, Marcy Kearns, Cheryl Ann Lisowski, Shannon Sloan-Spice Education Intern.................. Samantha Martinson Big Read Project Coordinator................................... Sharveta Parker Big Read Project Intern.................. Eric Scherrer
RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY Jonathan Gillard Daly, Lee E. Ernst, Laura Gordon, Gerard Neugent, James Pickering, Deborah Staples
ARTISTIC APPRENTICES/INTERNS Acting Interns............. N’tasha Charmel Anders, Eva Balistrieri, F. Tyler Burnet, Cody Craven, Nathaniel French, Melissa Graves, John Mark Jernigan, Joseph Kemper, Eric C. Lynch, Elizabeth Telford, Jenna K. Vik Acting Apprentice.......Alexander Pawlowski IV Directing Interns.......................... Joshua Baggett, JC Clementz Literary Intern...................................... Adam Seidel
PRODUCTION Production Manager..... Melissa Nyari Vartanian Assistant Production Manager........................................... Liza Tognazzini Production Purchaser........................Peter Koenig Assistant Stagehand............ Samantha Donnelly
Costumes Costume Director.................................. Holly Payne Costume Shop Assistant...................... Amy Horst Senior Draper..................................Alex B. Tecoma Draper...................................................April McKinnis First Hand...................... Rey Dobeck, Jef Ouwens Associate First Hand...................... Jessica Jaeger Stitchers...................... Jade Jablonski, Carol Ross Crafts Artisan/Milliner............... Kate McLaughlin Show Assistant/Shopper............ Jenny Thurnau Wig & Make-up Supervisor................Lara Dalbey Head Wardrobe.............................. Jennifer Vinent Wardrobe/Stitcher...................... Abbey Peterson, Jaime Schnittke Intern.............................................. Nicole Thompson
Lighting & Sound Lighting & Sound Director....... Craig Gottschalk Assistant Sound Supervisor................. Erin Paige Assistant Lighting Design Intern................................ Tylar Talkington Electrics Interns......... Casey Miller, Drew Ogden
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Properties Director................................James Guy Assistant Props Director/ Props Craft Artisan...........................Anna Warren Props Artisan.......................................... Sarah Heck Soft Props Artisan..............Margaret Hasek-Guy Props Carpenter/Artisan............... Erik Lindquist Prop Painter/Graphic Artist.........Jill Lynn Lyons
Scenic Technical Director.................................. Tyler Smith Assistant Technical Director..............Natalie Bell Charge Scenic Artist........................... Jim Medved Scenic Artists........................ Susannah M. Barnes, Shannon Mann Scenic Artist Intern....................... Erin Wegleitner
Stage Management Production Stage Manager........ Briana J. Fahey Stage Managers..........Richelle Harrington Calin, Sarah Deming-Henes, Sarah Hoffmann, Rebecca Lindsey, Kristy Matero, Becky Merold, Mark S. Sahba, Laura F. Wendt Stage Management Interns................Hannah Brown, Jason Simpson Stage Management Apprentice............................................David Hartig
Resident Stagehands & Carpenters Bill Burgardt, Glenn Dassow, Sam Garst, Rick Grilli, Dave Hicks, John Nusslock, Robert Schultz, Jim Zinky
MANAGING DIRECTOR Dawn Helsing Wolters
ADMINISTRATION General Manager..................... Timothy O’Connell Company Manager.................... Dawn Marie Ross Administrative Assistant.............................. Erin Burgess-Ellingen Receptionists.....................Andrea Roades-Bruss, Michael Evans, Nathaniel French, Grace Hern, Katherine Ketter, Samantha Martinson, Maria Roades, Jenna Vik, Alicia Wahl Intern............................................................. Lisa Rowe
DEVELOPMENT Development Director.... Annie Jansen Jurczyk Incoming Development Director...................Tamara Hauck Individual Giving Manager.............. Anne Cauley Development Events Manager..................... Rebecca Kitelinger Interns....... Sarah Kordsmeier, Dan Gorchynsky
FINANCE Finance Director......................... Leslie Fillingham Payroll Specialist..................................... Gail Getka Finance and Production Accountant................. Lisa Schieffer Accounting Assistant........................ Marie Holtyn
T H E S TA F F (c o n t .) HOUSEKEEPING
Ticket Office
Housekeeping Supervisor..........Charles McClain Housekeeping Staff............................Regail Blade, Kaye Johnyakin, Dennis Reed, Rosie L. Williams
Chief Building Engineer............ Mark A. Uhrman Lead Engineer....................................... James Ross Engineer..................................................... Todd Ross Part-time Engineer.........................Brittany Scites
Patron Relations Manager... Christine Yündem Assistant Ticket Office Manager.........................James Thibodeau Ticket Office Staff.............. Beata Chrzanowska, Carla Crump, David Dziatkiewcz, Andrew Guyette, Alisha Hall, Jaime Lacy, Lori Locke, Johnell Major-Wesley, Kelly Peterson, Lindsey St. Arnold, Britt Wegner, Theodore Woo
MARKETING
Teleservices
MAINTENANCE
Marketing Director.................................Lisa Fulton Marketing Manager..........................Ryan Odorizzi Graphic Designer........................... Megan Gadient Events and Promotions Manager................... Lindsay Adams Marketing Interns......................Erin McGarry, Kaitlin Schlick Photographer.............................. Michael Brosilow Videographer...........................The Stage Channel
Public Relations Public Relations Director............Cindy E. Moran PR Interns..............Doug Clemons, Jennie Jones Jessica Wolfe
Gift Shop Staff..............................Lisa Rowe, Erin Wegleitner
House Management House Manager................................. Daniel Colwell Assistant House Managers............ Carynne Dati, Dan Gorchynsky, Johnathan Koller, Andrew Peck
DCM Room Manager........................... Theodore Reimer
STACKNER CABARET Manager................................................ Kristen Olsen Cabaret Staff.......................... Kathleen Borchardt, Lara Dalbey, Terese Dick, Matthew Flannery, Caitlin Hagness, Tanya Haynes, Tim Gould, Ryan Helm, Alex Hermann, Mariel Hildenbrand, Josh Johnston, Dennis McElroy, Katrina Nipko, Beth Ormsby, Michael Passow, James Passow, Jeanne Pfannenstiel, Marna Riordan, Claire Rydzik, Rachel Sanders, Micheal Shorty, Stephan Shanklin, Rachel Stenman, David Stachlewicz, Jane Stratton, Tomika Vukovoch, Megan Watson, Jenni Watson, Rebecca Witt
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DONORS
Milwaukee Repertory Theater is supported in part by:
The Rep would like to thank all of the organizations and individuals listed below who generously contributed to The Rep. This list reflects gifts received from July 1, 2010 to August 30, 2011. CORPORATION, FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY DONORS $50,000+ The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation MillerCoors The Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation The Shubert Foundation United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF) $25,000 – $49,999 CAMPAC (Milwaukee County) The Friends of The Rep Greater Milwaukee Foundation Northwestern Mutual Foundation Wisconsin Arts Board $10,000 – $24,999 Helen Bader Foundation, Inc. Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Briggs & Stratton Corporation Foundation Mae E. Demmer Charitable Trust Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Charitable Trusts Harley-Davidson Foundation Dorothy Inbusch Foundation, Inc. Johnson Controls Foundation The Charles E. Kubly Foundation M&I Wealth Management MPS Foundation Rockwell Automation Rogers Memorial Hospital Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation 29 – Lombardi
$5,000 – $9,999 Badger Meter Frieda & William Hunt Memorial Trust The Sheldon and Marianne Lubar Fund of the Lubar Family Foundation The Maihaugen Foundation We Energies $1,000 – $4,999 Associated Bank Aurora Health Care Robert W. Baird & Co. Cleary Gull Davis & Kuelthau DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C. Law Firm Fiduciary Management, Inc. Foley & Lardner LLP The Gardner Foundation Godfrey & Kahn Hays Companies of Wisconsin, LLC Evan and Marion Helfaer Foundation High Point Fund: Supporting African American Performing Arts Dorothy Inbusch Foundation, Inc. KPMG LLP Marcus Hotels & Resorts Charles D. Ortgiesen Foundation Park Bank Foundation Quarles & Brady Serigraph Inc Target The VanderBloemen Group LLC Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. INDIVIDUAL DONORS VISIONARY ($10,000+) Einhorn Family Foundation George and Audrey Grove Judy Hansen
Jacqueline Herd-Barber and Michael Barber John and Constance Kordsmeier Robert H. and Carol O. Manegold Sally S. Manegold Gordana and Milan Racic Kathleen H. Seidel David and Julia Uihlein BENEFACTOR ($5,000 – $9,999) James and Mary Braza Julia and Bladen Burns Shirley Debouzek Ruth DeYoung Kohler Jim and Pati Ericson Keyes Family Kristine and Wayne Lueders Catherine and Buddy Robinson Teddy and Karin Werner PRODUCER ($2,500 – $4,999) Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Aster Kathe and Bill Biersach Wendy and Warren Blumenthal Robert and Carolyn Burrell Jane and Stephen Chernof Larry and Patty Compton Kay and John Crichton Susan and Gee Esslinger Kirt and Dixie Fiegel Kathleen Gray and Ronald R. Hofer Peter and Linda Hotz Henry and Margery Howard Jeffrey and Jacqueline Jahnke Judy and Gary Jorgensen David and Camille Kundert Franklin Loo and Sally Long Paul McElwee and Gayle Rosemann Anthony and Donna Meyer Dwight L. Morgan Greg and Rhonda Oberland Ruth Olsen
DONORS
DIRECTOR ($1,500 – $2,499) Isabel L. Bader Mark and Gerry Biehl Karen and Bill Boyd Lisa and Tom Braun Cheryl and Mark Brickman Juan Manuel Carrasquillo Byron and Suzanne Foster Patrick and Molly Gallagher Greater Milwaukee Foundation: Margaret Heminway Wells Fund John and Tameica Greene Thomas and Lawrine Handrich Norma and Bill Harrington Edward Hashek and John Jors Carla and Robert Hay Dawn Helsing Wolters and Tony Wolters Dr. and Mrs. Burton Hoffman Janet and Graham Hume Stephen and Roberta Isaacson Maja Jurisic and Don Fraker Judith Keyes Robert and Gail Korb John and Nancy Larson Phoebe R. and John D. Lewis Foundation Susan and Robert Lueger Kevin and Rosanne Lyons
Michael and Sandra McNeely Richard and Maribeth Meeusen Geraldine Mesching Robert and Dianne Morris Abigail and David Nash Cornelia Riedl Paul and Lynn Rix Joe and Katy Schlidt Nita Soref Maureen Swokowski and Hillerian Hess Wilfred Wollner Kristine and David Zahn Clare and Judy Zempel PRODUCTION MANAGER ($1,000 – $1,499) Anonymous (2) Fran and Lowell Adams Helen and Bruce Ambuel Daniel and Amy Argall John and Carol Bannen Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Barthel Jill and Frits Broekhuizen Elaine Burke Dr. and Mrs. Bruce M. Camitta Jim Cauley and Brenda Andrews Mark Clements Peter and Elizabeth Dietz George and Sandra Dionisopoulos Aly El-Ghatit Peter Foote and Robin Wilson Karen and Gardner Friedlander Richard S. and Ann L. Gallagher Lloyd and Mary Ann Gerlach Franklyn and M. Anne Gimbel Stephen and Bernadine Graff
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With ticket sales covering only 70% of what it costs to produce our shows, The Rep relies on the generous support of our audience and friends. Please consider giving a gift today to help continue our history of presenting exciting and innovative work. To donate please visit or call: www.MilwaukeeRep.com • 414-290-5376
Greater Milwaukee Foundation: Anthony and Andrea Bryant Family Fund Lois and Donald Cottrell Fund B R. Christie Hanna Susan and John Harrits Annie Jansen Jurczyk and John Jansen Charles and Mary Kamps Pam Kriger Steven Kuhnmuench Dr. Paul W. Loewenstein and Ms. Jody Kaufman Loewenstein Thomas and Debra Longtin Vince and Jan Martin Larry Martin and Linda Rice Mary E. McAndrews Daniel and Constance McCarty Hazelyn McComas Karen McDiarmid Patti and Jack McKeithan Jim and Sally Mergener Cathy and Wally Morics David Olson and Claire Fritsche Bruce and Peppy O’Neill Dr. David Paris Bob and Mary Lou Parrish Anthony Petullo Jim and Gwen Plunkett James and Lys Reiskytl Susan Riedel Patrick Schmidt and Dewey Caton Bonnie and Bill Stafford Frank and Elsa Sterner Anne and Fred Stratton Sean and Cathie Torinus Stephen and Christine VanderBloemen Thomas Warden Sargit Warriner Dr. and Mrs. Paul Weisman Donald and Kate Wilson Bettie Zillman
Myjal Kilgore and Jonathan Butler-Duplessis. Michael Brosilow.
Lisa Quezada Joseph A. and Sarah Rock Micky and Ron Sadoff Jay and Anne Schamberg June Schloerb Thomas and Meredith Scrivner Patrick Smith Brian Stark and Debra Altshul-Stark Mike and Peg Uihlein Robert and Malissa Welke Stacy and Blair Williams
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