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To Kill a Mockingbird

By Harper Lee Adapted by Christopher Sergel Directed by Aaron Posner January 31 – March 4, 2012 Quadracci Powerhouse

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Mark Clements Artistic Director

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Book by Harper Lee Adapted by Christopher Sergel Directed by Aaron Posner

Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Casting Director Chicago Casting Director Children’s Director Dialect Coach Fight Director Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Children’s Stage Manager Assistant Director

Kevin Depinet Rachel Healy Jesse Klug James Sugg Sandy Ernst Claire Simon Erin Weaver Jill Walmsley Zager Lee E. Ernst Sarah Deming-Henes* Kristy Matero* Jason Simpson JC Clementz

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

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CAST LIST

Jean Louise/Neighbors....................................... Deborah Staples* Scout........................................................................... Mallorey Wallace Jem........................................................................... John Brotherhood Dill.................................................................................. Thomas Kindler Atticus Finch................................................................... Lee E. Ernst* Calpurnia............................................................................... Ora Jones* Tom Robinson................................................................Jerod Haynes* Bob Ewell....................................................................... James DeVita* Heck Tate........................................................Jonathan Gillard Daly* Judge Taylor............................................................James Pickering* Mayella Ewell................................................................... Eva Balistrieri Mr. Gilmer.......................................................................... David Lively* Walter Cunningham.....................................................F. Tyler Burnet Reverend Sykes................................................................. Lee Palmer* Mr. Radley.................................................... Alexander Pawlowski IV Musician........................................................................................Fred Pike Musician.................................................................................Cody Craven ENSEMBLE: N’Tasha Charmel Anders, Nathaniel French, Melissa Graves, Max Hunter, John Mark Jernigan, Joe Kemper, Eric C. Lynch, Elizabeth Telford, Jenna K. Vik Time: 1935 Place: Maycomb, Alabama There will be one intermission for this production. *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.

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DIR ECTOR’S NOTES To Kill A Mockingbird is my wife’s favorite novel.

And she is not alone. I’ve heard many people (though, to be honest, fierce and fabulous young women most of all . . .), say that this is one of their favorite books of all time.

I’ve also heard many say it had a profound effect on them and their entire world view.* And of course people love the movie as well . . .

Why? Why does this gentle story of a (slightly) odd family and a (relatively) inconsequential trial in a small southern town in the 1930s strike such deep chords? Why does it resonate so strongly?

I have a few ideas. And so do a lot of the other artists working on this production. Hopefully, if you know the story already, you may gain some new insights from seeing our production. Or, if you are lucky enough to be encountering this story for the first time, hopefully this production will be a rich and worthwhile first taste. Either way, if we do our jobs well, we will leave you wanting to see, read and experience more.

Whatever your background, our job is the same. We are doing our best to inhabit and present the wonderful, complex, flawed human beings that inhabit Harper Lee’s Maycomb, Alabama. Every day in rehearsal is a process of discovering more of the passions, motivations, fears, hopes and struggles that are the fabric of their daily lives. We do all this so that hopefully we can illuminate new colors for you in this extraordinary story.

It is a pretty great job.

And it’s a pleasure to do it with the fabulous group we’ve assembled. The 26 actors that you’ll see on stage are only the tip of the iceberg. Another 100 and more designers, assistant directors, prop artists, painters, stage managers, musicians, marketers, carpenters, electricians, administrators, technicians, fundraisers, front-of-house folks and many more work tirelessly to bring an endeavor of this scale to fruition. They’re an amazing group.

And I’d be utterly remiss if I didn’t mention the three exceptional young actors who sit at the center of this production, and their amazing parents.

We’ve all been inspired by the courage, tenacity and talent that our young actors have brought to the work every single day. And we are all deeply grateful for all that their parents have done to make this whole project possible.

Thanks for coming.

And thanks for engaging with this wonderful story for the first – or the twentieth- time.

Warmly, Aaron Posner Director *Interestingly, another book I’ve heard that about a lot is the one I did here last season, My Name Is Asher Lev. I think this speaks powerfully to the kind of resonant, worthwhile stories that Mark and the whole team here at The Rep are interested in sharing with you, the audience . . .

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M ESSAGE FROM T H E BOA R D PR ESIDE N T Welcome to Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s production of To Kill a Mockingbird! I couldn’t be more pleased to share with you that The Rep was recently awarded a prestigious grant from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) to host The Big Read in Milwaukee in conjunction with this production. The Big Read is a NEA initiative designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.

Since our well-attended kick-off event on September 26th, The Rep has held numerous Big Read events throughout the Milwaukee community at libraries and a host of partner organizations. There have been a total of 24 pre-production events which have included readings from the novel by local actors, students and community members followed by a moderated discussion about the novel as well as film screenings and a day-long event at Southridge Mall held in conjunction with Time Warner Cable. Once our production of To Kill a Mockingbird opens, there are numerous other events planned.

As you can see, we’ve been busy! (To read more about upcoming Big Read events and the depth of involvement around this play, please see information on page 8.)

One of our goals with this production has been to expose young people to the written work and for them to then see the story come to life on stage. We have several student matinees scheduled for To Kill a Mockingbird as well as two Rep Immersion Days. Started in the 2010/11 season, Rep Immersion Days are full days in which MPS students spend the entire day at The Rep, beginning with departmental tours, demonstrations and discussions, followed by an intimate lunch with artists and theater staff and ending with attendance at a matinee performance. As the students move through the various departments at The Rep, they meet with company members and receive valuable insights into all elements of theater, including the processes of designing costumes, props and a look at the various career paths in the arts. All this adds to their deeper, richer experience of the play and the issues that the book and the play explore.

With our production of To Kill a Mockingbird, as with many of our other productions, The Rep has made a strong commitment to deepen its community engagement and outreach initiatives and partnerships, not only with the work that you will see on stage, but in expanding the conversation with the issues and ideas that our creative work explores. Our hope is that with productions like Next to Normal and To Kill a Mockingbird, and the special educational initiatives around them, you are becoming a part of the larger community conversation. We welcome your thoughts and comments on that larger discussion.

Judy Hansen Board President

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The Big Read The Big Read is a literacy initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts. Milwaukee Rep was selected as a recipient for the NEA Big Read grant for To Kill a Mockingbird, in conjunction with the theatrical production.

Throughout the season, The Rep has worked with community partners to host book discussions and events. Over 500 people attended the kickoff event in September.

Over 600 students are working with The Rep in classroom residencies exploring this iconic story. Including those students, over 3,500 students will attend a matinee of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Ways to Get Involved in The Big Read Join us for one of the events listed on the next page or participate in one of the programs below.

Passport Program The Passport program rewards frequent attendees of The Big Read events with prize vouchers and a grand prize drawing.

After receiving your Passport, a member of The Rep staff will stamp it for each event you attend. For more information and contest rules, pick up your passport in the lobby of the Quadracci Powerhouse or at any Big Read event!

Big Read Blog The Big Read Blog hosts weekly discussion questions about the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird. To participate in the discussion, go to www.BigReadMilwaukee.com/blog.

Big Read Art Contest View the winning submissions of the Big Read Art Contest located throughout the lobby of the Quadracci Powerhouse.

For more information visit www.BigReadMilwaukee.com or call 414-290-5370.

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Join us for these Events All events are free!

Book Discussions Hear the novel come to life as excerpts of To Kill a Mockingbird are read by community volunteers.

A moderated discussion about themes of the novel will follow. Join us for these free events: Tuesday, February 21 • 1:30pm – 2:30pm Frank L. Weyenberg Library (Mequon) 1345 N. Cedarburg Rd., Mequon, WI Saturday, February 25 • 1pm – 3pm McDonalds – Wisconsin Ave. & 25th St. 2455 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI Big Read Passport GRAND PRIZE drawing will be held at this reading. Be sure to turn in your stamped passport before this event!

Wednesday, February 29 • 7pm – 8pm Greendale Public Library 5647 Broad St., Greendale, WI

Panel Discussions & Keynote Address

All events take place at The Rep located at 108 East Wells Street Sunday, February 5 • 4:30pm – 5:30pm Panel Discussion with Artists from The Rep’s Production Learn more about the process of bringing this beloved novel to life on stage.

Monday, February 13 • 7pm – 10pm Keynote Address with Mary McDonagh Murphy Author of “Scout, Atticus & Boo” will lead a keynote address followed by a screening of her documentary “Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird”.

Sunday, March 4 • 4:30pm – 5:30pm Panel Discussion with Milwaukee Community Representatives from the Milwaukee Community will come together to discuss the significance of To Kill a Mockingbird in our community today.

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HARPER LEE

Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee, while stating that To Kill a Mockingbird is not an autobiography, said an author “should write about what he knows and write truthfully.” She looked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama for inspiration for the characters, events, and themes of To Kill a Mockingbird. Born on April 28, 1926, Harper Lee grew up in a small Southern town decades before the Civil Rights Movement.

Her father was a lawyer, newspaper editor and state senator. In one of his final criminal cases, he defended two black men accused of murdering a white store clerk. Both men were hanged. Her mother was a reclusive figure in their small town. A homemaker, she suffered from depression and mood swings. While it is a work of fiction, a reader of To Kill a Mockingbird will notice the connections to the small Alabama town in which Harper Lee grew up.

Harper Lee became friends with Truman Capote in kindergarten.

They lived next door until third grade when Capote moved to New York to live with his mother. He would return to Monroeville most summers. Truman Capote provided the inspiration for the character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird. In their adult years, Harper Lee accompanied him to Kansas to research his own novel, In Cold Blood.

After graduating from the University of Alabama and attending law school for one semester, Harper Lee left Alabama and moved to New York City to become a writer. She spent eight years working odd jobs before attempting to publish her manuscript in 1957. After a series of rewrites, To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960. It was on the best seller list for eighty-eight weeks and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. The 1962 film adaptation won three Academy Awards.

Harper Lee has never published another book. She currently splits her time between her apartment in New York City and her sister’s home in Monroeville. To Kill a Mockingbird has sold more than 30 million copies in eighteen different languages.

“Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

–Excerpt from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

HISTORICAL CONTEXT The Great Depression Many characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are suffering from extreme poverty as a result of the Great Depression. The October, 1929, stock market crash wiped out 40 percent of the values of common stock in the United States. Confidence in the economy evaporated and businesses closed, factories shut down and banks failed. By 1932, one out of every four Americans was unemployed. Hundreds of thousands of families were left with nothing – many families roamed the country in search of food, shelter and employment.

“Money was different. There wasn’t much of it around, even though Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.”

–Jean Louise Finch Wife and children of a sharecropper in Washington County, Arkansas. (Circa 1935).

Jim Crow Laws To Kill a Mockingbird explores life in 1930s Alabama at a time when Jim Crow Laws enforced racial discrimination. African-Americans in the southern states were subject to laws implementing racial segregation under the supposed principle of “separate but equal.”

State and local officials posted “Whites Only” and “Colored” signs on schools, hotels, water fountains, restrooms and buses.

Under Jim Crow, southern white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan reached a membership of six million. Lynching became a public spectacle. In the notorious 1931 “Scottsboro Boys” case, nine young African-American men were accused of raping two white women. All-white juries returned guilty verdicts ignoring clear evidence that the women had suffered no injury.

Miscegenation laws banning marriage or intimate relationships between blacks and whites were upheld and often enforced in the United States until 1967.

“The Scottsboro Boys" meet with their attorney Samuel Leibowitz.

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CAST BIOGR A PHIES N’Tasha Charmel Anders, Ensemble

two summers with the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Minnesota where she was seen in The Tempest, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Pericles. In spring of 2010, Eva studied abroad in Tuscany, Italy at the Accademia dell’arte where she received intensive training in physical theatre, specifically commedia dell’arte and clowning. She graduated last spring with a BA in Theatre from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and will be spending the first two months of summer with Riverside Shakespeare in Iowa City.

Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

N’Tasha is excited to be experiencing her first Midwest winter here in Milwaukee, WI. N’Tasha is a BFA graduate from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. Some of her favorite roles include Fezziwig’s Daughter in The Rep’s production of A Christmas Carol, Winnie in Seattle Public Theater’s My Wonderful Day, The Girl in Eclipsed and Little Becky Two Shoes in Urinetown, The Musical at Cornish College of the Arts. N’Tasha is thrilled to be a part of this production of To Kill a Mockingbird with this amazing cast and crew.

Kendal Briscoe, Scout (Understudy)

Eva Balistrieri, Mayella Ewell Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

Eva Balistrieri is honored to be a part of The Rep’s 2011/12 Artistic Intern Ensemble. So far this year, she understudied the role of Uta Hagen in Ten Chimneys, cheered on the Packers in Lombardi and played Martha Cratchit in her 10th season of The Rep’s A Christmas Carol. Other Rep credits include Betty Parris in The Crucible and Kitty Bennet/Georgiana Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. Eva spent

Kendal Briscoe, a sixth grader at Butler Middle School, is thrilled to be making her debut at Milwaukee Repertory Theater.

Kendal has previously appeared as Peggy in The Hundred Dresses at First Stage Children’s Theater, as Duffy in the musical Annie at Sunset Playhouse, as well as several productions at Elmbrook Church.

Kendal would like to thank her family for their support and The Rep for this wonderful opportunity.

John Brotherhood, Jem John is a homeschooled seventh grader living in Mequon.

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CAST BIOGR A PHIES be making his Milwaukee Repertory Theater debut. John was last seen in It’s a Wonderful Life at the Sunset Playhouse. He has also performed in several productions at First Stage Children’s Theater, where his most recent roles include Leroy Herdman in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, John in Gossamer and Theo in Twelve Days – A Milwaukee Christmas. John feels privileged to be working with such a talented and accomplished cast of performers in To Kill a Mockingbird. He would like to express his gratitude to Sandy Ernst for making this opportunity possible and both Aaron Posner and Erin Weaver for taking him on such a wonderful and amazing journey with this classic play.

F. Tyler Burnet, Walter Cunningham/ Ensemble Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

F. Tyler Burnet is honored to be an acting intern at The Rep. This season he has understudied the roles of Sydney Greenstreet in Ten Chimneys and Jim Taylor while wearing #66 in Lombardi. F. Tyler also performed as the Ghost of Christmas Future in A Christmas Carol. He has an MFA in acting and formerly taught at The Second City in Chicago.

Cody Craven, Musician Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

Cody Craven hails from the breezy ag-town of Davis, CA. After tossing his mortarboard in the air, he set off for California’s sunny central coast to The Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, where he graduated last year.

Now he’s thrilled to be battling the Milwaukee climate for his place

in this season’s Acting Internship.

His past credits include Link in Hairspray, the Emcee in Cabaret, Harry in Company, Steve in Hair and the world premiere of the Jose Cruz Gonzales play Invierno, where he played AJ. Last April, Cody was lucky enough to work with The Rubicon on the new musical Hello!

My Baby with Georgia Stitt, Cherie Steinkellner and Brian Macdonald.

Cody would like to thank his family, far and wide, for their support and The Rep for this incredible opportunity.

Jonathan Gillard Daly, Heck Tate Rep Resident Acting Company Member.

Jon was most recently seen at The Rep in its annual production of A Christmas Carol performed at the historic Pabst Theater. Jon has been a member of The Rep’s Resident Acting Company since 1998, and is a founding member of the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, MN. A veteran of regional theaters throughout the U.S., he has appeared with American Players Theatre, Clarence Brown Theater Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Chicago’s Court Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival and PCPA Theaterfest. He is also a playwright.

His musical memoir, The Daly News, was produced at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in 2008, and his newest play, To the Promised Land, will be receiving its premiere production at First Stage Children’s Theater next year. Jon has been married for 29 years to director and text coach Gale Childs Daly.

Their two children, Sam and Emily, are in graduate school and college, respectively; and their parents are slowly getting used to the empty nest. Any advice from veterans of this process will be greatly welcomed!

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CAST BIOGR A PHIES James DeVita, Bob Ewell A native of Long Island, NY, James is very happy to be back at Milwaukee Rep. He was last seen at The Rep as Ricky Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross.

In addition to acting, James has also published two novels, The Silenced and Blue, with Harper Collins, and has written over 19 plays. His work has been awarded the NEA Literature Fellowship for Fiction and the AATE honored his body of work in Youth Theater with the 2007 Chorpenning Award. James is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild of America.

Lee E. Ernst, Atticus Finch/ Fight Director Rep Resident Acting Company Member.

Lee was just seen performing the role of Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol at the Pabst Theater and Vince Lombardi in The Rep’s Quadracci Powerhouse production of Lombardi. He has been a member of The Rep’s Resident Acting Company since 1993. Last season at The Rep he was seen as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Leon/Nick in Speaking in Tongues, and The Emcee in Cabaret. Other roles at The Rep include Sharky in The Seafarer, 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. This past summer Lee directed Hamlet at Texas Shakespeare Festival and played Jessup in A Few Good Men and Bingham in A Fox on the Fairway for Peninsula Players in beautiful Door County. Lee has also played leading roles with American Players Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, 13 – To Kill A Mockingbird

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. Nathaniel French, Ensemble Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

Nathaniel French has appeared in the ensembles of A Christmas Carol and Lombardi, and understudied the role of Alfred Lunt in Ten Chimneys. Other recent credits include Our Town, Chatroom, Room Service and Charlotte’s Web. Originally from St. Petersburg, FL, Nathaniel is a recent graduate of Southern Methodist University, where his full-length play Meltdown premiered as part of the New Visions, New Voices festival. In addition to acting, Nathaniel is a freelance journalist, having written book reviews, features and opinion columns for The St. Petersburg Times.

Melissa Graves, Ensemble Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

Melissa is delighted to be a 2011/12 Rep Acting Intern. Her Milwaukee Rep credits include Ten Chimneys (Hattie U/S), Lombardi (Marie U/S & Cheerleader), A Christmas Carol (Belle/Lucy/Mrs. Dilber/Mrs. Fezziwig U/S & Ensemble) and Rep Lab’s Land of the Dead (Woman) and Bright.Apple.Crush. (Nancy).

Some of Melissa’s professional credits include The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Maryland Shakespeare

CAST BIOGR A PHIES Festival, Imagination Stage, The Theater at Monmouth and The Tennessee Williams Festival. Melissa received a BA from Ohio University and an MFA from the University of Houston. She will spend the summer with American Players Theatre.

Jerod Haynes, Tom Robinson Jerod Haynes is honored to be working with Milwaukee Repertory Theater. A Chicago native, Jerod’s credits include Contribution and Greensboro 4: Down Payment on Manhood at ETA Creative Arts Theater and the understudy for Jackie in Jackie and Me at Chicago Children’s Theatre. Jerod has worked with Mortar Theatre’s staged readings of Mr. Welfare and For Flow. Jerod recently wrapped on the FX pilot Powers and has done several short films.

Jerod would like to thank God, his family, his coaches at Acting Studio Chicago/ActOne Studios, Grossman and Jack Talent Agency and his little princess, Jalaiya.

Max Hunter, Ensemble Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

Max Hunter hails from Bedford, NY and is currently a junior at Dartmouth College where he is a Theatre and Music major. Select Dartmouth roles: The Rocky Horror Show (Riff-Raff); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus); Hamlet (Hamlet); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Leaf) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck). Other favorite roles include The Emcee in Cabaret, Mark in Rent, Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden, Dr. Parker in Bat Boy: The Musical and Robbie Hart in The Wedding Singer. Many thanks to The Rep for this opportunity! This performance is dedicated to my ever-supportive parents.

John Mark Jernigan, Ensemble Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

John Mark Jernigan is so incredibly excited and honored to be a part of this year’s Acting Intern Ensemble at The Rep! Originally from Gainesville, FL, he received his BFA in Musical Theatre from Shorter College in Rome, GA. Throughout his college career, some of his favorite roles include Cliff in Cabaret, Orin in Little Shop of Horrors, Nanki-Pooh in The Mikado and Hot Mikado, Chris in Beau Jest and Man in Somewhere America. He is forever thankful and blessed by his beautiful family, all the way back in Florida, and his best friend and fiancé, Charlie.

Ora Jones, Calpurnia Ora Jones returns to Milwaukee Repertory Theater having first appeared in Half Life directed by Laura Gordon. Ora has also performed with Gordon in Going to St. Ives at Next Act Theatre. Her Chicago credits include Middletown, The Brother/Sister Plays, The Unmentionables and The Violet Hour at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Animal Crackers, The Beard of Avon, Marvin’s Room and Proof at Goodman Theatre and The Madness of George III, A Flea in Her Ear and Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Other credits include Our Town at Writers Theatre, A Year with Frog and Toad at Chicago Children’s Theatre and Execution of Justice at About Face Theatre. Ora’s film credits include Were the World Mine, Stranger than Fiction, The Weatherman and Save the Last Dance.

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CAST BIOGR A PHIES Joe Kemper, Ensemble Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

Originally from Huntington, WV, Joe has an MFA in Acting from the University of Central Florida, where he appeared as Marvin in Falsettos, Frederick/ Phillip in Noises Off, Wang in The Good Woman of Setzuan and Bartholo in The Marriage of Figaro. He recently completed a six month national tour of Eureka! with Boston’s Chamber Repertory Theatre, and was last seen in New York as Ryan in Gay Haiku (SingD Productions). Joe’s favorite New York and regional credits include Wilson in Charles Mee’s Fire Island at Sixth Borough Theater Company; Oliver in As You Like It, Lennox in Macbeth and Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden at Orlando Shakespeare Theater and Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice at Atlantic Shakespeare Company. Joe currently resides in New York City and is thrilled to be joining The Rep for its 2011/12 season!

Thomas Kindler, Dill Thomas, an eighth-grader at Wisconsin Hills Middle School in Brookfield, is thrilled to be making his debut on the Milwaukee Rep stage. He has previously appeared at First Stage Children’s Theater as Alexander in Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and as Gregory in Miss Nelson Is Missing.

Thomas is a black belt in Karate and enjoys playing many sports. He thanks all his family and friends for their continued support!

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David Lively, (Mr. Gilmer/Ensemble) David is happy to be part of The Rep’s 2012 season.

His Chicago credits include: Camelot with George Hearn at The Ravinia Festival; Henry IV (Henry IV-Chicago and RSC Stratford Upon Avon, U.K.); The Madness of George III, Romeo and Juliet, Amadeus, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, King John, The Winter’s Tale, The School for Scandal, Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Cabaret, 1776, Anything Goes, Sherlock’s Last Case, Camelot, The Mousetrap, My Fair Lady and The Foreigner at Drury Lane Theater; My Fair Lady, The Drowsy Chaperone, Beauty and the Beast and 1776 at Marriott Theatre; Hay Fever at Court Theatre. He also appeared in the national tour of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Twelve Angry Men where he played Juror 11. His regional theater credits include Indiana Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Virginia Stage Company, Geva Theatre, New Stage Theatre and The Kennedy Center.

David’s television credits include The Chicago Code, Prison Break (FOX), What About Joan, Cupid (ABC) and George Washington (CBS). Film credits include: Contagion and The Opera Lover.

David is proud to be a four-time Joseph Jefferson Award nominee and AEA member.

Eric C. Lynch, Ensemble Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

Eric Lynch is delighted to be a 2011/12 Acting Intern at The Rep. He recently appeared as the Milkman in Milwaukee Rep’s production of A Christmas Carol, was part of the ensemble in Lombardi and also understudied Eugene Gaines in Yellowman. Eric recently graduated

CAST BIOGR A PHIES with a BFA from Ohio University, and is proud to be involved in this production of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Lee Palmer, Reverend Sykes Lee is honored to return to The Rep as part of this incredible cast. Born in small-town Alabama, Lee spent much of his childhood in a world not unlike that of Harper Lee’s story. Previous Rep productions include Benito Cereno, A Christmas Carol (Dick Wilkins), Williams and Walker (Walker/Choreographer) and Psychedelic Sundae (Richie/ Choreographer). Lee has worked with most of Milwaukee’s professional theaters, as well as Mill Mountain (Virginia), Congo Square (Chicago) and Island Center of St. Croix (U.S. Virgin Islands). Most recently, Lee played David Keaton in Next Act’s production of The Exonerated. Other credits include Five Guys Named Moe – Tour (Eat Moe), Sophisticated Ladies (Gregory), The Piano Lesson (Boy Willie) and A Soldier’s Play (Captain Davenport). Training: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Joffrey Ballet and Ballet de Danse Eddy Toussaint (Montreal). This show is dedicated to Dre, Jazz, Anya and Mia.

to work with such a brilliant artistic team to bring this wonderful story to life. Many thanks to his family and his one-in-a-million true love, Mariel.

James Pickering, Judge Taylor Rep Resident Acting Company Member.

Jim returns to the Quadracci Powerhouse stage for the first time since his triumphant portrayal of Sheriff Walter Derwinski in Seven Keys to Slaughter Peak. Most recently with The Rep, he completed his 14th run as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol next door at the historic Pabst Theater, finishing on Christmas Eve with his 450th performance in the role. Favorite Rep roles over the past few seasons are Richard Harkin in The Seafarer, Dave Moss in Glengarry Glen Ross, Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and

Alexander Pawlowski IV, Mr. Radley Acting Apprentice.

Alex played the Customs Officer and had a cameo as Brunhilda in The Rep’s production of Cabaret last year, and portrayed the gravedigger’s assistant Mr. Mudd in two productions of A Christmas Carol.

Most recently, he was seen in three roles in Rep Lab, and in the spring, he’ll be a member of the biker gang in Mark Clements’ Othello.

Playing one of American literature’s most iconic characters has been an absolute joy and it is truly a privilege

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CAST BIOGR A PHIES Hugh in Translations. Jim works as a voice talent locally, most notably having narrated The Making of Milwaukee, the Emmy Awardwinning documentary for public television. He is a founding member of Optimist Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park, and will appear in their production of MacBeth this coming summer. He is grateful beyond words for the astonishing outpouring of love, kindness and condolence expressed by friends, colleagues and patrons near and far.

Fred Pike, guitar/ banjolele Fred Pike is a Rep season-ticket subscriber who’s thrilled to be on The Rep stage.

Normally Fred is buried deep in the orchestra pit, playing guitar, bass, mandolin or keyboards in musical theater venues around town. Recent favorites include Rent and Spitfire Grill (Skylight Opera Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (various venues) and guitar for multiple shows at Greendale Theater (Rent, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Avenue Q). By day, Fred is the COO/CFO at Northwoods Software, as well as a ski instructor at Sunburst. Thanks and love to CC and Mugsie for loaning me to The Rep. Deborah Staples, Jean Louise Resident Acting Company Member.

Deborah has been with The Rep for 16 seasons, where some of her favorite roles include Lydia Gwilt (Armadale); Billie Dawn (Born Yesterday); Nancy (Frozen); Catherine (Proof); Natalya (A Month In The Country); Nora (A Doll’s House) and the title roles in Mary Stuart, Anna Karenina and everyone in The Blonde, The Brunette and

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The Vengeful Redhead. She recently completed her seventh season with American Players Theatre, playing Elvira in Blithe Spirit and Ariel in The Tempest. Regionally, Deborah has performed wonderful roles with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, New American Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Shaw Chicago, Iowa Shakespeare Festival, Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival and Meadow Brook Theatre.

Next up: Emilia in Othello!

Elizabeth Telford, Ensemble Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

Elizabeth Telford is thrilled to be part of To Kill a Mockingbird. A recent Shorter University graduate and a native of Georgia, Elizabeth has worked at Stephen Foster Outdoor Drama, performing in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Stephen Foster: the Musical and at The Prizery Summer Theatre, performing in The Sound of Music, Annie, Dames at Sea, Side by Side by Sondheim and The All Night Strut.

She is delighted to be part of her fifth show this season at The Rep! Nick Unora, Dill (Understudy) Nick Unora is a 10-year-old student at St. Gregory the Great school.

Previous performances include Guys and Dolls (Catholic Memorial High School, 2011), White Christmas (CMH, 2010) and All My Sons (West Allis Central High School, 2009).

Nick enjoys playing soccer with the Croatian Eagles, choir, cub scouts, basketball and swimming.

Nick also plays the piano and performs German dances with the D’Wendlstoana Bavarian Culture Society.

C A S T/C R E AT I V E T E A M Jenna K. Vik, Ensemble Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

Jenna Vik is excited to be in To Kill a Mockingbird, her fifth production at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Jenna is a native of Woodbury, MN, and a 2010 graduate of Central College in Pella, IA, where she studied Theatre, Spanish and Secondary Education.

Following graduation, Jenna held an Acting Internship at Iowa Theatre Artists Company in Amana, IA, where she performed in four original productions. Jenna also spent six months touring Italy with Theatrino, a children’s theater company that teaches English through drama. She feels incredibly blessed to be part of the 2011/12 Artistic Intern Ensemble at The Rep. Mallorey Wallace, Scout Mallorey is thrilled to be making her debut at Milwaukee Rep in the wonderful role of Scout. Some of her favorite roles include Annie in Annie and Gretl in The Sound of Music at The Fireside Dinner Theatre and Junie B in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells at First Stage Children’s Theater. Following To Kill a Mockingbird, Mallorey is cast as Louise in Sunday in the Park with George at the Skylight Opera Theatre. As a sixth grader at Lake Country School, she enjoys acting, singing, dancing and playing the French horn. When she’s not on stage, she enjoys hanging out with friends and playing with her dog, Oreo. Mallorey thanks her family for their support in making her dreams of being on stage come true.

Cole A. Winston, Jem (Understudy) Cole has been singing and acting since first grade when he began doing children’s theater in the Chicago area. He recently played the role of Winthrop in The Music Man at Skylight Opera Theatre. Previously he played the lead role in Pinocchio with First Stage Children’s Theater, Charles Dalrymple in Brigadoon at Lake Country Playhouse and in March 2011 won “Waukesha Idol, Jr.” Cole, also a student of vocal performance, has sung the National Anthem at Brewers, Bucks and Marquette games. When not on stage, Cole enjoys music, reading, golf and travel.

Aaron Posner, Director Aaron is a Helen Hayes and Barrymore Awardwinning director and playwright.

He is a founder and former Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre, and has directed at major regional theaters from coast to coast, including The Folger Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, The Alliance, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arizona Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, California Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Round House Theatre, The Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Theater J., American Players Theatre and many more.

His adaptations include Chaim Potok’s The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion and Mark Twain’s A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage, all of which are published and produced regularly, both nationally and internationally. Aaron was raised in Eugene, OR, and attended Northwestern University. He is an Eisenhower Fellow and now lives near Washington, D.C.

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C R E AT I V E T E A M Kevin Depinet, Scenic Designer

Jesse Klug, Lighting Designer

Mr. Depinet is delighted to be working at The Rep once again where he last designed My Name is Asher Lev! Chicago credits include productions with: Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Court Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook and Chicago Children’s Theatre.

Broadway credits include associate designer for August: Osage County and The Motherf**ker With the Hat. Regional credits include productions with: McCarter Theatre, Denver Theatre Center, The Arden Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre and Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Film credits include scenery for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies. Upcoming projects include the scenic design for Detroit at the Royal National Theatre of England and The Iceman Cometh at Goodman Theatre. Mr. Depinet studied at Ball State University and the Yale School of Drama, and now serves as an adjunct professor of Design at DePaul University.

Jesse returns to The Rep after designing last year’s production of My Name is Asher Lev. Jesse’s recent credits include the National Tour of The Screwtape Letters.

Off-Broadway credits include: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Second Stage Theatre, Hewes Nomination); The Screwtape Letters (Westside Arts); Romulus (Guggenheim Museum) and The Hourglass (NYMTF). Regional credits include Marriott Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Drury Lane Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Lookingglass Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, American Theatre Company, Fulton Theatre, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Portland Center Stage, Boars Head Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Noble Fool and Chicago Dramatist. Jesse is the Resident Lighting Director for Drury Lane Theatre, Route 66 and Chicago Tap Theatre. He has received a Jeff Award and was an After Dark Award winner. www.jessekluglightingdesign. com.

Rachel Healy, Costume Designer James Sugg, Sound Designer Rachel is honored to return to Milwaukee Repertory Theater where her previous works include Ten Chimneys, Death of a Salesman, The Seafarer, The Cherry Orchard, State of the Union, Endgame, Translations and Inventing Van Gogh. Based in Chicago, Ms. Healy’s designs have been seen on various stages including Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, American Players Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, First Stage Children’s Theater, The Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre, American Theater Company, Next Theatre and Timeline Theatre. Rachel’s designs can also be seen on stage in Goodman Theatre’s “New Stages Amplified” and American Players Theatre’s The Critic.

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James Sugg is a member of Pig Iron Theatre Company with whom he has created 18 original pieces. James has also worked with Milwaukee Rep, Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Wilma Theater, Arden Theatre, Folger Theatre, Headlong Dance Theater, Rainpan 43 and Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental. He is the composer of the musicals A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage (book and lyrics by Aaron Posner), James Joyce Is Dead and So Is Paris (Pig Iron), The Sea (a one-man electric chamber opera) and Cherry Bomb (book and lyrics by Jen Childs). His work has been recognized with two Obies, four Barrymores for Outstanding Sound Design, the F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Theater Artist and a Pew Fellowship.

C R E AT I V E T E A M Sandy Ernst, Casting Director/ Associate Artistic 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.

Simon Casting/Claire Simon, CSA, Casting Director A casting director since 1996, Claire Simon casts film, television as well as theater and her most recent projects include casting the first season of Fox’s Ride-Along and ABC’s Detroit 1-8-7. She also cast A&E’s The Beast, Eagle Eye, The Informant and 20th Century Fox’s Prison Break, for which she won the Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement for Dramatic Casting.

Besides the pleasure of casting for Milwaukee Rep, she has cast for Cleveland Play House, Guthrie Theater, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, The Clarence Brown Theatre, Asolo Theater Company, The Jupiter Theatre and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.

Most recently she cast The Million Dollar Quartet at the Apollo Theatre and Working for the Drury Lane Water Tower in Chicago.

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C R E AT I V E T E A M Erin Weaver, Children’s Director Erin Weaver is an actress, teaching artist and director based outside of Washington, D.C. She recently played Thomasina in Arcadia at the Folger Theatre for which she won a Helen Hayes award for Best Supporting Actress. Other favorite roles include Emily in Our Town, Mary in Mary’s Wedding, Mary in A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage, and a variety of heroes and heroines in five Pantos at People’s Light & Theatre Company. She has worked regionally at the Arden Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Roundhouse Theatre, Act II Playhouse, Two River Theater Company and many more.

Erin is part of a highly theatrical family and started her professional career at ten as Young Eponine/ Cosette in the second National Tour of Les Miserables in Philadelphia.

Erin is an Honors Graduate from the University of the Arts and is a Masters Candidate in Theater Education at NYU.

Jill Walmsley Zager, Dialect Coach Jill is happy to be back at The Rep for To Kill a Mockingbird. Other Milwaukee Rep credits include A Christmas Carol, Lombardi, 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 the 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.

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C R E AT I V E T E A M 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 LuntFontanne 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 as President of the Milwaukee Arts Partners consortium, 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 Chicago-based Stillpoint Theater Collective in addition to being a new member of the Rotary Club of Milwaukee. 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 not-for-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 Commission, and 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.

Sarah DemingHenes, Stage Manager Sarah is excited to be back at The Rep, where she previously worked on Song Man Dance Man. Sarah has also recently worked at American Players Theatre and First Stage Children’s Theater. Thanks to family, friends and a nice fellow for unfailing kindnesses.

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C R E AT I V E T E A M Kristy Matero, Assistant Stage Manager Kristy is overjoyed to be back for her second production with Milwaukee Repertory Theater after working on Lombardi this fall.

Kristy’s regional credits include: The K of D, Full Circle, Antebellum, Boom, Maria/Stuart and Hell Meets Henry Halfway at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; And The Curtain Rises at Signature Theatre; The August Wilson Festival at The Kennedy Center; Italian American Reconciliation, Dark Play Or Stories For Boys, Mary’s Wedding, Gone Missing and The Chosen at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Welcome to Yuba City at Pig Iron Theatre Company and Don Giovanni, Faustus, The Last Night, Louise and Flora or Hob in The Well at Spoleto Festival U.S.A. Special thanks to Sharon Riley and Bob Titley for their hospitality and support.

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.

JC Clementz, Assistant Director, Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

JC was recently the Assistant Director for The Rep’s productions of A Christmas Carol and Yellowman. He joins The Rep after working in the casting/ literary office at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre, where he also assistant directed their production of Speaking in Tongues.

As a stage manager, JC has traveled throughout Europe as the ASM for NY Harlem Productions’ international tour of Porgy and Bess.

He holds an MFA in Directing from Western Illinois University.

Special Thanks

Jason Simpson, Children’s Stage Manager

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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

FR IENDS OF THE R EP OFFICERS President Judy Berdan Vice President of Fundraising Cathy Jakicic

Treasurer Diane Dalton Immediate Past-President Lisa Gehrke DIRECTORS AT LARGE

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Hours of Operation: Monday – Sunday Noon to 6 pm 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 – 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.

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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.

Wheelchairs All Rep stages are fully accessible. Please contact the Ticket Office at 414-224-9490.

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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 and The Rep’s Ticket Office. 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.

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.)

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.

The Rep’s 2012 Save the Date for The Rep’s 2012 Gala - Saturday, May 12 as we gather for a bright, enchanting Night of Stars! This year’s Gala will feature a glitzy cocktail hour, star-filled entertainment, stunning auctions and dinner and dancing!

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T H E S TA F F 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.........Marcy Kearns, Cheryl Ann Lisowski, Shannon Sloan-Spice Big Read Project Coordinator...........................................Laura Webb Big Read Project Intern.................. Eric Scherrer Education Intern................................. Jordan Hunt

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, Charlie Wright 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 Leigh Dalbey Head Wardrobe.............................. Jennifer Vinent Wardrobe/Stitcher...................... Abbey Peterson, Jaime Schnittke Intern.............................................. Nicole Thompson Haircut by............................................Kevin McElroy, Robert Laurence Hair Studio

Lighting & Sound Lighting & Sound Director....... Craig Gottschalk Assistant Sound Supervisor................. Erin Paige

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Assistant Lighting Design Intern................................ Tylar Talkington Electrics Interns........Casey Miller, Drew Ogden

Props 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, Nathaniel French, Grace Hern, Katherine Ketter, Samantha Martinson, Maria Roades, Jenna K. Vik, Alicia Wahl

DEVELOPMENT Development Director....................Tamara Hauck Institutional Giving Manager.................................................... Nina Jones Individual Giving Manager.............. Anne Cauley Events Manager......................Rebecca Kitelinger Interns....... Sarah Kordsmeier, Dan Gorchynsky

FINANCE Finance Director......................... Leslie Fillingham Payroll Specialist..................................... Gail Getka Finance and Production Accountant..................... Lisa Krakau Accounting Assistant........................Marie Holtyn

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Housekeeping Supervisor...............Bruce Meilick Housekeeping Staff............................Regail Blade, Kaye Johnyakin, Dennis Reed, Rosie L. Williams

Ticket Operations Manager...................................... Michelle J. Usadel Assistant Ticket Office Manager.........................James Thibodeau Ticket Office Staff................Beata Chrzanoswka, Carla Crump, David Dziatkiewicz, Andrew Guyette, Alisha Hall, Caleen Kennedy, Jaime Lacy, Lori Locke, Johnell Major-Wesley, Kelly Peterson, Michelle Russell, Britt Wegner, Theodore Woo

MAINTENANCE Chief Building Engineer............ Mark A. Uhrman Lead Engineer....................................... James Ross Engineer..................................................... Todd Ross Part-time Engineer.........................Brittany Scites

MARKETING Marketing Director.................................Lisa Fulton Patron Relations Manager...................................... Christine YĂźndem Marketing Manager..........................Ryan Odorizzi Marketing Coordinator...................Kaitlin Schlick Graphic Designer........................... Megan Gadient Photographer.............................. Michael Brosilow Videographer...........................The Stage Channel

Public Relations Public Relations Director............Cindy E. Moran PR Interns............ Doug Clemons, Jessica Wolfe

Gift Shop Staff..............................Lisa Rowe, Erin Wegleitner

STACKNER CABARET Manager................................................ Kristen Olsen Cabaret Staff.......................... Kathleen Borchardt, Lara Leigh Dalbey, Terese Dick, Matthew Flannery, Caitlin Hagness, Tanya Haynes, Tim Gould, Alex Herrmann, Mariel Hildenbrand, David Mercado, Katrina Nipko, Beth Ormsby, Michael Passow, James Passow, Jeanne Pfannenstiel, Marna Riordan, Claire Rydzik, Rachel Sanders, Micheal Shorty, Stephan Shanklin, Rachel Stenman, Jane Stratton, Megan Watson, Charles Wallace, Jenni Watson, Rebecca Witt, Greta Wohlrabe

House Management House Operations Manager.......Jared Holloway Stiemke House Manager............. Jonathan Koller Assistant House Managers............ Carynne Dati, Dan Gorchynsky, Andrew Peck

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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 between January 4, 2011 and Janaury 4, 2012.

CORPORATION, FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY DONORS $50,000+ The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Greater Milwaukee Foundation The Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation MillerCoors The Shubert Foundation United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF) $25,000 – $49,999 CAMPAC (Milwaukee County) The Friends of The Rep The Faye McBeath Foundation National Endowment of the Arts Northwestern Mutual Foundation $10,000 – $24,999 Helen Bader Foundation, Inc. Robert W. Baird & Co. Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Briggs & Stratton Corporation Foundation Mae E. Demmer Charitable Trust Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Charitable Trusts Harley-Davidson Foundation The Charles E. Kubly Foundation M&I/BMO Harris MPS Foundation Rockwell Automation Rogers Memorial Hospital Wisconsin Arts Board 31 – To Kill A Mockingbird

$1,000 – $9,999 Associated Bank Aurora Health Care Badger Meter Bell Ambulance Cleary Gull Davis & Kuelthau DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C. Law Firm Fiduciary Management, Inc. Foley & Lardner LLP The Gardner Foundation Godfrey & Kahn Greater Milwaukee Foundation: Margaret Heminway Wells Fund Hays Companies of Wisconsin, LLC High Point Fund: Supporting African American Performing Arts Frieda & William Hunt Memorial Trust Johnson Controls Foundation KPMG LLP The Sheldon and Marianne Lubar Fund of the Lubar Family Foundation Marcus Hotels & Resorts Milwaukee Arts Board Charles D. Ortgiesen Foundation Park Banks Foundation Quarles & Brady Serigraph Inc Target The VanderBloemen Group LLC We Energies Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C.

INDIVIDUAL DONORS VISIONARY ($10,000+) Julia and Bladen Burns Einhorn Family Foundation Jim and Pati Ericson George and Audrey Grove Judy Hansen John and Constance Kordsmeier Patricia Lindner 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 Jacqueline Herd-Barber and Michael Barber Ruth DeYoung Kohler Keyes Family David and Camille Kundert Kristine and Wayne Lueders Catherine and Buddy Robinson Teddy and Karin Werner PRODUCER ($2,500 – $4,999) Kathe and Bill Biersach Wendy and Warren Blumenthal Robert and Carolyn Burrell Jane and Stephen Chernof Larry and Patty Compton Robert L. Corcoran 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

DONORS Judy and Gary Jorgensen Judith Keyes Franklin Loo and Sally Long Paul McElwee and Gayle Rosemann A & V Meinerz Foundation Anthony and Donna Meyer Dwight and Marleen Morgan Greg and Rhonda Oberland Ruth Olsen Anthony Petullo Jay and Anne Schamberg Thomas and Meredith Scrivner Michael F. Smith Mike and Peg Uihlein Robert and Malissa Welke Stacy and Blair Williams Kristine and David Zahn DIRECTOR ($1,500 – $2,499) Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Aster Eliza and Tim Audley Isabel L. Bader Mark and Gerry Biehl Karen and Bill Boyd Lisa and Tom Braun Cheryl and Mark Brickman Randy Bryant and Cecilia Gore Elaine Burke Mr. and Mrs. Norman Dyer Patrick and Molly Gallagher Connie Gavin and Bob Rothacker John and Tameica Greene Thomas and Lawrine Handrich Norma and Bill Harrington Susan and John Harrits Carla and Robert Hay Dawn Helsing Wolters and Tony Wolters Dr. and Mrs. Burton Hoffman Stephen and Roberta Isaacson Maja Jurisic and Don Fraker Robert and Gail Korb Phoebe R. and John D. Lewis Foundation Susan and Robert Lueger

Michael and Sandra McNeely Richard and Maribeth Meeusen Geraldine Mesching Vivian Moller Robert and Dianne Morris George and Julie Mosher Abigail and David Nash Cornelia Riedl Paul and Lynn Rix Joseph A. and Sarah Rock Micky and Ron Sadoff Joe and Katy Schlidt Patrick Smith Nita Soref Wilfred Wollner Clare and Judy Zempel PRODUCTION MANAGER ($1,000 – $1,499) Anonymous Fran and Lowell Adams Helen and Bruce Ambuel Daniel and Amy Argall Janet Balding John and Carol Bannen Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Barthel Dr. and Mrs. Bruce M. Camitta Juan Manuel Carrasquillo Jim Cauley and Brenda Andrews Mark Clements Cherchian Family Foundation George and Sandra Dionisopoulos Aly El-Ghatit Dwight and Lin Ellis/ Crysdahl Foundation Karen and Gardner Friedlander Richard S. and Ann L. Gallagher Lloyd and Mary Ann Gerlach Franklyn and M. Anne Gimbel Stephen and Bernadine Graff

Greater Milwaukee Foundation: Donald and Barbara Abert Fund (JM) R. Christie Hanna Edward Hashek and John Jors Kenton and Janet Howenstine Janet and Graham Hume Aaron and Christy Jagdfeld Charles and Mary Kamps Otho Kile Jr. Charitable Trust Pam Kriger Steven Kuhnmuench Dr. Paul W. Loewenstein and Ms. Jody Kaufman Loewenstein Thomas and Debra Longtin Vince and Jan Martin Mary E. McAndrews Daniel and Constance McCarty Hazelyn McComas 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 Elaine N. Peterson Karen Plunkett and Thomas Muenster James and Lys Reiskytl June Schloerb Susan Riedel Patrick Schmidt and Dewey Caton John Shannon and Jan Serr Bonnie and Bill Stafford Frank and Elsa Sterner James and Elaine Sweet Maureen Swokowski and Hillerian Hess Sean and Cathie Torinus Stephen and Christine VanderBloemen Thomas Warden Sargit Warriner Dr. and Mrs. Paul Weisman Donald and Kate Wilson Bettie Zillman

Please play a role this season and support The Rep’s important artistic and education programming. For more information, visit http://www.milwaukeerep.com/tickets/support/.

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Shakespeare's timeless tragedy in a stunning new light.

One of Shakespeare’s most tragic heroes squares off against literature’s greatest villain in a visceral, sexy, hard-driving story of intrigue, betrayal and vengeance.

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