BJ Jones
Timothy J. Evans
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
presents
BY
Alan Ayckbourn DIRECTED BY
Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Production Dramaturg Production Stage Manager
BJ Jones
Keith Pitts, USA Rachel Laritz, USA JR Lederle Andre Pluess, USA Kristin Leahey Laura D. Glenn, AEA
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OPENING NIGHT: NOVEMBER 18, 2011 At the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie
Season’s Greetings is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
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Rob Riley*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harvey Francis Guinan* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bernard Heidi Kettenring*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belinda Maggie Kettering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pattie Matt Schwader*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Neville John Byrnes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eddie Ginger Lee McDermott*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Amy Carle*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phyllis Steve Haggard* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clive Understudies Lucy Carapetyan (Belinda/Phyllis), Jim Heatherly (Bernard), Caroline Rau (Pattie/Rachel), Eric Damon Smith (Neville/Clive), Ron Thomas (Eddie) Understudies will not substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance
*Member of the Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers.
Season’s Greetings will be performed with one 15-minute intermission. A D D I T I O N A L P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Casting Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lynn Baber Dialect Consultant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eva Breneman Puppet Consultant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Maugeri Puppet Creator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wendee Goles Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cody Estle The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. SPECIAL THANKS Hazel Lister Frank Maugeri and Wendee Goles from Red Moon Opening Night Sponsor:
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FROM THE DIRECTOR While prepping for the first Season’s Greetings production meeting, I started to think about Christmas holidays that were anything but joyous. We’ve all had them: some are amusingly agonizing, some tragic, some tediously uneventful, and all rarely live up, or down, to expectations.
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Or the Christmas week that I was a “Rent-a-Santa” for the local department store, and went to customers’ houses to ho-ho-ho at their children and hand out presents. One father told me to pass out the gifts, then shooed his children away, brought out a bottle of tequila and demanded I join him for a shot and a Dos Equis. I told him I didn’t drink, but he was having none of it. I left the house weaving, heading for the next unfortunate customer who was wondering where Santa was. The week before Christmas, I was assigned to a family who had me hand out gifts to their only child. When I said in my best Santa voice, “I bet you can’t wait till Christmas morning, eh?” his mother shushed
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FROM THE DIRECTOR me by saying, “Billy won’t be here for Christmas morning, Santa!” I later learned that Billy was having an operation on Christmas Eve and the best present he could receive was waking up on Christmas Day in the ICU. Leave it to me to stick Santa’s boots into my mouth. We’ve all had these Blue Christmases. I suppose the purpose of the holiday, and its communal celebration no matter what your religious belief, is to gather together with your loved ones (or your tolerated ones) and reflect on your shared history, your thrilling victories, and bruised defeats. Without these rituals, we would have no measuring stick as we pass through our eyelash blink of time. They mark the years. These events reveal our humanity, and our deep need for each other, whether we realize it or not. Without those holidays we wouldn’t realize the powerful longing to belong: to a family, to a group of friends, to a community. Without them, how would we know we exist? And there are millions who never experience the exquisite ache of personal responsibility that holidays require. Alone and friendless there is no one to resent or begrudge. No one to tell us we’re alive. Given that alternative, I’ll take all comers. I hope that kid who celebrated an early Christmas woke up anew on Christmas morning. And Gram dropping the turkey makes a great story and a cherished memory. The years have seasoned it deliciously. -BJ Jones
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Interview with Sir Alan Ayckbourn by Resident Dramaturg Kristin Leahey KRISTIN LEAHEY: Since Season’s Greetings first premiered in 1980, have your views of the characters and the conflicts they experience at the Bunker home changed? ALAN AYCKBOURN: I don’t think they have, really. Most of the conflicts between the characters are basic human ones, after all. As years pass, the gifts may grow ever more sophisticated, miraculous and expensive but people, sadly, in general fail to follow suit. KL: Both Absurd Person Singular (1972) and Season’s Greetings (1980), set during Christmas and Boxing Day, address love and complicated and entangled relationships. Why do these questions and confusions arise during the holiday season? AA: Christmastime is usually the occasion for families to congregate, bringing together people who spend the rest of the year avoiding each other. None of us choose our relatives and there is no special reason, other than family duty, to like them any more than a houseful of total strangers. Indeed, strangers would in many ways be preferable. Relatives are often similar enough to irritate and sufficiently different to infuriate us. KL: Have you seen many productions of Season’s Greetings? AA: I haven’t seen that many productions other than the two or three I have directed myself. The differences were essentially to do with scenic choice. It’s a play set in the hall. By the time I came to write it, I’d already set plays in living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms so the hall was the logical next step, which leaves the choice of how much of the rest of the house we are able to see to individual directors and designers. In a recent successful production at London’s National Theatre, I suspect on account of the sheer size of the large Lyttelton stage, we got to see most of the house, including an attic bedroom which was, to use a current phrase, ‘too much information,’ I felt. KL: What traditional English holiday festivities do you participate in? Do you attend pantos (British pantomimes), for instance? AA: Like many I celebrate Christmas with my immediate family plus the occasional guest who happens to be stuck in the vicinity. Looking eagerly forward to it beforehand and usually breathing a huge sigh of relief when it’s over. No, I never go to pantos. From an early age I disliked them, ever since I realized they were glorified excuses for adults to palm off old jokes and sometimes patronise young audiences. When I ran the Theatre (the Stephen Joseph) here, I regularly used to write a play for family audiences - proper plays - not really that dissimilar to Season’s Greetings, in fact.
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PROFILES John Byrnes (Eddie) is delighted to make his Northlight debut with Season’s Greetings. Recent Chicago credits include Waiting For Lefty (American Blues), This (Theater Wit), Port (Griffin), Thieves Like Us (House), All My Sons (Timeline), The Overwhelming (Next). A proud member of The Hypocrites, he has appeared in a number of their productions, including Frankenstein, The Hairy Ape, Our Town, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 4.48 Psychosis, Machinal, Arcadia and Ajax, among others. Regional credits include work with the Huntington Theatre, New Repertory, Boston Playwrights’, the Vineyard Playhouse and the Minnesota Fringe Festival. John has also taught theater extensively throughout Chicagoland. He will next perform in The Hypocrites’ Six Characters In Search of an Author. John would like to thank his dear friends, Max and Tallulah, for keeping him human. Amy J. Carle (Phyllis) makes her Northlight debut. Chicago credits include: Animals Out of Paper, Sex With Strangers, Hedda Gabler (Steppenwolf); Orlando (Court); The Sins of Sor Juana, Rock ‘N’ Roll, Desire Under the Elms (Goodman); Peter Pan, Trust (Lookingglass); Refuge (Collaboraction, Jeff nomination); SubUrbia, The Lights (Jeff nomination), Ecstasy, WAS, The Planets (Roadworks Productions). Regional credits: Fully Committed and The Diary of Anne Frank (Madison Repertory); Morning Star (Kansas City Repertory). Off Broadway National Tour: The Vagina Monologues. Television: Chicago Code (FOX), Law & Order (NBC), The Guiding Light (CBS). 6 Northlight Theatre
Francis Guinan (Bernard) was last seen at Northlight in Inherit the Wind. He is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company Ensemble and has appeared in 40 Steppenwolf productions including, most recently, Endgame, American Buffalo, Fake, The Seafarer, Kafka On The Shore, and August: Osage County. Other recent stage appearances: Rantoul and Die (American Blues, Jeff nomination - Supporting Actor); Do The Hustle (Writers’); The Seagull (Goodman); A Guide For The Perplexed (Victory Gardens, Jeff Award - Supporting Actor). On television, Mr. Guinan can currently be seen as the Governor of Illinois in the new Starz Network series Boss filmed here in Chicago. Other numerous TV appearances include The Beast and Grey’s Anatomy. Film credits include appearances in the short film Typing, as Master Pakku in The Last Airbender, Low Tide, Constantine, Hannibal, Guinevere. For Kate, always. Steve Haggard (Clive) was last seen at Northlight as Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer. Other Chicago credits: The Mandrake, Kimberly Akimbo (A Red Orchid); As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare); Old Glory, The Subject was Roses, Our Town (Writers’); Power (Remy Bumppo); A Christmas Carol (Goodman). Regional credits include The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Hay Fever, The Winter’s Tale, Ah Wilderness, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Belle’s Stratagem (American Players Theatre). Steve is an ensemble member at A Red Orchid Theatre. Love to Mom and Q.
P R O F I L E S ( c o n t .) Heidi Kettenring (Belinda) appeared at Northlight in Sense & Sensibility, readings of House On Stilts and Auctioning the Ainsleys, and Side Show. Chicago credits include three years in the Broadway in Chicago production of Wicked, as well as work with Writers’, Marriott Lincolnshire, Court, Chicago Shakespeare, Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace and Evergreen Park, Theatre at the Center, and American Theatre Company. Regionally she has appeared at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, Peninsula Players and Bar Harbor Theatre. Heidi has also sung concerts for the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Pensacola Symphony and can be heard singing on a Disney Princess children’s book. She is a five-time Jeff nominee, an After Dark Award winner, and the recipient of the Sarah Siddons’ Chicago Leading Lady Award. Heidi will be seen as Harper in the upcoming Angels In America at Court. Proud AEA member and wife of actor David Girolmo! Maggie Kettering (Pattie) is pleased to make her Northlight debut. She most recently appeared as Mrs. Grigson in Shadow of a Gunman (Seanachai Theatre), Lady Percy in Henry VI, Parts 1 & 2 (Oak Park Theatre Festival), and as Lady Capulet in two productions of Romeo & Juliet: one for Babes with Blades, the other—along with Adriana in Comedy of Errors—for the Michigan Shakespeare Festival. Other Chicago credits include Cathy in Orange Flower Water (Backstage Theater), Lady MacDuff (First Folio), Sylvia in Private Lives (City Lit). Regionally, she appeared in 9 Parts of Desire (Contemporary American Theatre
Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It and Inherit the Wind (Warehouse Theatre). She holds an MFA from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program, and is a founding member and former Artistic Associate for Mythmakers Theatre Company. Ginger Lee McDermott (Rachel) is very excited to be working with Northlight Theatre again, following last year’s Sense & Sensibility. She recently appeared in Jade Heart with Chicago Dramatists. Other Chicago credits include Bianca in Othello (Chicago Shakespeare); the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro (Remy Bumppo); and Ann Putnam, Sarah Good and Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible (Steppenwolf). Regional credits include Proof (Orlando Theatre Project) and A Doll’s House (Pendragon Theatre). She has also appeared on television as “the Mom” on The Dooley and Pals Show. Rob Riley (Harvey) is happy to return to Northlight where he appeared in The Cripple of Inishmaan, and to be reunited with BJ Jones, with whom he appeared in Travesties (Wisdom Bridge), The Dining Room (Goodman), and The Playboy of The Western World (Steppenwolf). Recently Rob portrayed The Mayor in The Front Page (Timeline) and Richard Feynman in QED (Northwestern University). Other credits include Ground (Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Crowd You’re In With, Moonlight and Magnolias, and A Touch of the Poet (Goodman); I Sailed with Magellan, The End of the Tour, Unspoken Prayers, Cahoots, and Before My Eyes (Victory Gardens); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Chicago Northlight Theatre 7
P R O F I L E S ( c o n t .) Shakespeare); The Weir (Steppenwolf); and Cadillac (Chicago Dramatists). He also appeared in several mainstage revues at The Second City. Matt Schwader (Neville) last appeared on the Northlight stage as Desmond in A Life. Chicago Credits: John in A Life in the Theatre, A Christmas Carol (Goodman); Titus Andronicus (Court); As You Like It, Othello, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Measure for Measure, Merry Wives of Windsor, Moliere Comedies (Chicago Shakespeare); Juliet in Shakespeare’s R&J (coproduction Apple Tree and Chicago Shakespeare); All Night Strut (Marriott); Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Remy Bumppo); Polish Joke (Noble Fool Theatricals). Regional credits: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Indiana Repertory, and the Utah & Notre Dame Shakespeare Festivals. Matt is a company member of American Players Theatre in Spring Green, WI where he played Raskolnikov in Crime & Punishment this past season. He holds an MFA from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program and is a proud member of AEA and AFTRA. BJ Jones (Director/Northlight Artistic Director) is in his 14th season as Artistic Director of Northlight Theatre, where he has piloted the world premieres of last season’s hit The Outgoing Tide with John Mahoney and Rondi Reed, Craig Wright’s Lady, Larry Gelbart and Craig Wright’s Better Late, Rounding Third with George Wendt, and Sky Girls. As a producer he guided the world premieres of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, The Gamester, and Studs Terkel’s ‘The Good War’. Mr. Jones has directed at Steppenwolf, Cherry Lane Theatre NY, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Asolo Theatre, 8 Northlight Theatre
Intiman Theatre, TimeLine and Next Theatre. Directorial work includes Northlight’s Grey Gardens, The Lady with All the Answers, The Retreat From Moscow, A Skull in Connemara, The Cripple of Inishmaan, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore, as well as productions of A Number, Twelfth Night, Glengarry Glen Ross (Suzie Bass Nominee - Best Director), Pygmalion, The Price (Jeff Nomination - Best Director), and 100 Saints You Should Know. A two-time Jeff Award winner, he has appeared at Northlight in dozens of productions and has performed at virtually every major theatre in Chicago, including The Guys, House & Garden (Goodman), The Royal Family and Playboy of the Western World (Steppenwolf), and Candide and Comedy of Errors (Court). Film/TV credits include The Fugitive, Body Double, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Early Edition, Cupid and Turks, among others. Keith Pitts (Scenic Design) is pleased to return to Northlight after She Stoops to Conquer. Keith has been designing around Chicagoland and Wisconsin since 2000. Scenery credits include: Heartbreak House, Old Glory, As You Like It, The Savannah Disputations, The Puppet Master of Lodz and Othello (Writers’); To Master the Art, Frost/Nixon, Weekend, and Harmless (TimeLine); Welcome to Arroyo’s, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, True West, Top Dog/Underdog, Speech and Debate, EndGame, Two Rooms, American Dead, Orpheus Descending, Heritage, The Trip to Bountiful, and A Lie of the Mind (American Theatre Company); The Piano Teacher and The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Next); The Fox on the Fairway, Panic, Wait Until Dark, Noises Off, Master Class, Death Trap, Into the Woods, Fools, Broadway Bound, The Taffetas, Proof, A Man for All Seasons, The Odd Couple, and The Foreigner (Peninsula Players).
P R O F I L E S ( c o n t .) Rachel Laritz (Costume Design) is thrilled to be joining Northlight for the seventh time after designing The Outgoing Tide, Sense & Sensibility, Low Down Dirty Blues, A Life, Po Boy Tango, and Better Late. Other regional work includes productions at Utah Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory, Pearl Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Remy Bumppo, Court, Peninsula Players, Timeline, Route 66, Next Act, Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Skylight Opera, Children’s Theatre Madison, and the University of Michigan. Other professional credits include: NBC’s Law & Order, American Players Theatre, Chicago Opera Theatre, Garsington Opera (London, England) and the Spoleto Festival USA. She is a recipient of a 2009 Jeff Award for Voysey Inheritance. JR Lederle (Lighting Design) Northlight credits include The Outgoing Tide, A Life, Grey Gardens, Better Late (also at the Galway Arts Festival, Ireland), The Retreat From Moscow and Lady. Other credits include Our Town (Lookingglass); Eurydice (Victory Gardens); Pulp (About Face); The Island, Old Times, Fiction, Aren’t We All, An Immigrant Class (Remy Bumppo); Bus Stop, The Turn of The Screw (Jeff Award – Lighting Design), The Lion In Winter (Writers’); Goldbrick, Scribblings From Abroad, Missing Meemaw (in collaboration with Stephan Mazurek), Sex With Strangers, Sonia Flew, The Unmentionables, Love-Lies-Bleeding (also at The Kennedy Center), When The Messenger is Hot (also offBroadway), Jesus Hopped the “A” Train, Orson’s Shadow, and others (Steppenwolf). JR has designed lighting for seven years of the Steppenwolf Traffic Series, and five Steppenwolf performances in Chicago’s Millennium Park. He has served as head of the Lighting Department at Steppenwolf since 1995.
Andre Pluess (Sound Design) previously designed for Northlight’s Lieutenant of Inishmore, Po Boy Tango, Inherit the Wind, The Retreat from Moscow and Red Herring. Design and composition credits include projects for Lookingglass (artistic associate), Court (1999-02 resident artist), Victory Gardens (resident designer), About Face (associate artist), Goodman, Steppenwolf and many other Chicago and regional theaters. Broadway credits: I Am My Own Wife and Metamorphoses. Awards: nine Jeff Awards and Citations, an L.A. Ovation Award, a Drama Critics Circle Award and a Lortel nomination for composition and sound design. Recent projects: After the Quake (Steppenwolf/Long Wharf), Silk (Goodman), Pericles (Washington D.C. Shakes/Goodman), Honour (Berkeley Rep), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Williamstown), The Secret in the Wings (Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, McCarter Theatre), The Clean House (Yale Rep/Goodman). Laura D. Glenn (Production Stage Manager) Most recent Northlight Theatre credit was production stage management for Sense & Sensibility. Additional Northlight production stage management credits include A Life, Souvenir, Better Late (also at the Galway Arts Festival), Retreat from Moscow, Permanent Collection, Cat Feet, Blue/Orange, Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, Sky Girls, Rounding Third, and A Skull in Connemara. Other credits include stage management for Middletown, To Kill a Mockingbird, a parallelogram, Superior Donuts, Betrayal, Love Song, I Never Sang for My Father, The Violet Hour, Purple Heart, The Drawer Boy and many others at Steppenwolf over the past 22 years. International credits include Orange Flower Water and Purple Heart (Steppenwolf) also at the Galway Arts Festival in Ireland; The Man Who Came to Dinner – BITE festival at the Barbican Center in London; the regional and Broadway productions of Buried Child. Northlight Theatre 9
P R O F I L E S ( c o n t .) Kristin Leahey (Dramaturg) is the Resident Dramaturg at Northlight Theatre and formerly the Literary Manager at Woolly Mammoth in Washington, DC. Some of her recent dramaturgical credits include: Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park, Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas, Madeline George’s Precious Little, Tanya Saracho’s El Nogalar and Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed and The Convert. She has worked with Goodman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Victory Gardens, The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Collaboraction, Teatro Luna, Teatro Vista, Steep Theatre, Eclipse Theatre, and A Red Orchid Theatre. A Ph.D. candidate at The University of Texas at Austin, Leahey is a recipient of an Endowed Fellowship. Her publications include articles in Theatre Topics, Theatre History, and Theatre Studies, and she has taught at The University of Texas at Austin and at DePaul University. Alan Ayckbourn (Playwright) Former Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre (Scarborough, UK) and one of Britain’s most performed playwrights, Alan Ayckbourn has written 75 plays. Almost all received their first performance at the Stephen Joseph; more than 35 were subsequently staged in the West End, at the National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Major successes include Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward…, Comic Potential, Things We Do For Love and House & Garden. His plays have been translated into 35 languages, won numerous awards, and have been performed worldwide. He has been inducted into American Theatre’s Hall of Fame, received the 2010 Critics’ Circle Award for Services to the Arts and became the first British playwright to receive both 10 Northlight Theatre
Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre. Timothy J. Evans (Executive Director) joined Northlight Theatre in 2007 and since his arrival has overseen the Theatre’s new branding campaign, Leadership fundraising campaign, new board development, revamped arts education initiatives and a five year strategic plan with McKinsey & Company. Prior to his arrival at Northlight, Tim spent a 20plus year career at Steppenwolf Theatre where he served in management and producing positions. He created, curated and produced Steppenwolf’s acclaimed TRAFFIC Series which included a partnership with Chicago Public Radio for subsequent broadcasts. Tim founded Steppenwolf Films, of which he is still a partner with Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry, to develop film and television projects. He produced the feature films Diminished Capacity with Matthew Broderick (premiered 2008 Sundance Film Festival) and The Last Rites of Joe May with Dennis Farina (premiered 2011 Tribeca Film Festival). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the League of Chicago Theatres, previously served on the board of the Independent Film Project (IFP) and was a charter member of the Governor’s Task Force for Media Development.
N O R T H L I G H T T H E AT R E S TA F F Artistic Director BJ Jones Executive Director Timothy J. Evans _________________ ARTISTIC Artistic Administrator Lynn Baber
ADMINISTRATION General Manager Janet Mullet
PRODUCTION Production Manager Christopher J. Fitzgerald
Director of Development Molly Hansen
Company Manager/ Assistant Production Manager Victoria MartiniRosowicz
Associate Director of Development Emily Hansen
Resident Dramaturg Kristin Leahey
Individual Giving & Events Manager Kelly Harbaugh
Literary Interns Anna Bosy Georgia Knapp
Development Manager Tina Carney
EDUCATION Director of Arts Education Devon de Mayo Education Associate and Performing Arts Camp Director Amanda Jane Dunne Educators Philip Dawkins Joanne Dubach Matt Farabee Sarah Rose Graber Kristyn Hegner Michael Leon Diane Mair Dan Stermer Intern Mara Stern
Director of Marketing & Communications Mara Mihlfried Marketing Associate L. Corwin Christie Director of Finance Lisa Stern Group Sales Coordinator/ Administrative Assistant Michelle Blendermann Public Relations Cathy Taylor PR, Inc. Usher Coordinator Vicki Weisberg, The Saints Legal Counsel Schiff Hardin LLP Insurance Robert Nichols
Production Assistant Victoria Jeans Technical Director Scott Morgan Master Electrician/Light Board Operator Megan Snowder Sound Engineer/Sound Board Operator Jennifer Udoni Costume Supervisor Elsa Hiltner Wardrobe Mistress Jessica Korpela Floor Manager Jason Shivers Properties Master Daniel Katz Scenic Charge Bridgette Lemkuhl Carpenter Julie Allen Christopher Mullen
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Timothy P . Sullivan, Chairman Susan Karol, President Gerhard Bette, Vice President Daniel B . Peterson, Secretary Merril Prager, Treasurer Michael R . Callahan* Timothy J . Evans Howard A . Feinstein Eileen Frank
Michael Guerra Freddi Greenberg Wendy Irwin BJ Jones Paul Lehman* Jordan Margolis Jennifer Newton Rahul Roy Evelyn Salk*
Robert S . Silver Trimmy Stamell* Thomas D . Stringer Greg Taubeneck Matthew Udoni Michael Pauken, ex oďŹƒcio Norman Rosen, ex oďŹƒcio
ADVISORY BOARD Joan Barr Smith*, Co-Chair Wendy Irwin, Co-Chair Steven J . Bernstein Karl Berolzheimer H . Woods Bowman Margo Brown Joe Cappo Jack Crocker Natasha Deutsch
Stephen Engelman Paul Finnegan* Craig Golden Eleanor Hall Lynn Hiestand Harry J . Lennix James Lytle Max McGee Steve Mullins*
Mike Nussbaum Sheldon Patinkin Sandra Rosenbloom Esther Saks* David Seidman* Susan Van Dusen Patricia Vile Bernice Weissbourd George Wendt
ASSOCIATES BOARD Jennifer Newton, Chair Noah Eisner Ross Erlebacher Randal Hamburg Hannah Olsen
Lesli Jennings Leslie Schreiber Abby Strauss Chris Walsh
*denotes past President/Chairperson
North Shore Center for the Performing Arts 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie, IL 60077 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE TELEPHONE: (847) 679-9501 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE FAX: (847) 679-1879 BOX OFFICE TELEPHONE: (847) 673-6300 BOX OFFICE FAX: (847) 679-3704 www.northshorecenter.org General Manager....................................................................................................... Michael Pauken Box Office Manager......................................................................................................... Ron Weaver Box Office Assistant Manager.................................................................................... Heather Packard Box Office Staff...........................................................Paul Adams, Tricia Bulaclac, Alison Burkhardt, Jessica Hester, Jimmy Kaplan, Kaurryne Lev, Myra Levin, Karen Neumann, Maegan Rose, Cyndi Stevens, Director of Marketing and Sales..........................................................................................David Vish Education and Outreach Manager............................................................................ Gina M. Martino Events Manager............................................................................................................ Betty Boduch Events Supervisor/Concessions Manager........................................................................Anthony Marte House Managers.....................................................................................Yuri Lysoivanov, Sherrie Witt Marketing & Communications Manager...................................................................... Joseph Alaimo Office Manager........................................................................................................... Carolyn Adams Operations Manager...................................................................................................Ardelle Winston Operations Staff.........................................................................Melvin Berkowitz, Christopher Jones Luis Narvaez, Hector Perez, Gary Sapperstein, Larry Williams Receptionist..................................................................................................................... Jean George Security......................................................................................................................Greg Kwiecinski Technical Director............................................................................................................. Frank Rose Technical Staff........................................................Dustin L. Derry, Jake Reich, Jay Stoutenborough Ushers provided by the Saints, Volunteers for the Performing Arts. For information call (773) 529-5510. Administrative Office Hours: Monday–Friday 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Box Office Hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. or until curtain; Saturday, Noon–5 p.m. or until curtain. Sunday: Opens two hours prior to curtain. (summer hours may vary)
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