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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MATT SHAKMAN
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JEFFERSON MAYS READ DICKENS WITH HIS FAMILY ON COLD NIGHTS in Connecticut. There was no TV—just books. Marvelous, wonderful books brought to life by a librarian mother who probably could have won a Tony, but instead inspired a son, who did. It was in that drawing room that young Jefferson fell in love with A Christmas Carol. And tonight’s adventure springs from his desire to revive this classic, stripped of the pageantry we’ve come to expect. To return to the ghostly original and find the heart of this great tale of redemption, that never fades and never fails to entertain. Jefferson, Michael Arden and Susan Lyons based their adaptation on the edited version that Dickens himself used for public performances. Well-known in his day as an interpreter of his own famous stories, people flocked to see the author give voice to Scrooge, Marley, Tiny Tim and the rest. But we won’t see the author on stage tonight. No, tonight you will be in the hands of two stage magicians. Jefferson Mays will transform himself into a multitude in front of your eyes. How he does this, I do not know. Director Michael Arden will use the age-old tools of theatre in a brand new way to conjure a spectral world far away from Westwood, California. Helped along by a brilliant design team, they will take you on Scrooge’s journey from darkness into light. I wish to express my gratitude to Hunter Arnold, whose support makes tonight possible, and to all of you for championing theatre in Los Angeles and helping to bring this age-old story to life in a completely new way. Enjoy the show!
Matt Shakman Artistic Director
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Harold A. Brown
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Thank you for joining us for Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This production represents a collaboration of extraordinary artists—Jefferson Mays, Susan Lyons and Michael Arden—coming together to create a singular theatrical experience. As a one-man show, it reminds us of the power of an individual voice. Beyond our stages, a range of Education and Community Engagement programs foster individual voices throughout L.A. Our Literacy Project is an in-depth, year-long, in-school initiative that is serving the entire 10th grade class at Mendez High School in Boyle Heights and Jordan High School in Watts this year. With a focus on critical thinking, creativity and writing, the program gives each student the skills to express ideas and the confidence to find their voice. The generosity of the Geffen community is what makes these life-changing programs and our world-class productions possible. Thank you for your participation and enjoy the show!
Arthur Greenberg
Karl Malden
Martha Henderson
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Gil Cates, Jr. Executive Director
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A CAROLING WE GO Reaching for one of literature’s greatest tales, Jefferson Mays and Susan Lyons set out to transform us all.
By Amy Levinson
AS THEY BEGAN REHEARSALS FOR A CHRISTMAS CAROL WHEREIN MAYS INHABITS UPWARDS OF FIFTY CHARACTERS, I sat down to speak with two of the play’s creators to see what inspired them to take on this story of redemption. Amy Levinson: What inspired you to reimagine A Christmas Carol in this incredibly inventive way? Jefferson Mays: It’s been an idea that’s been kicking around in our heads for quite some time, hasn’t it? Susan Lyons: Yes. JM: I have a very long history with A Christmas Carol, as I’m sure a lot of people do, in that it was read aloud to me by my parents. Some night during the Vietnam War, I remember flickering images of wounded soldiers being evacuated from a distant bat-
tlefield on the television. The basset hound ran out of the kitchen in pursuit of one of the cats, got hopelessly tangled up in the power cord of the television in the living room and dragged it, and it smashed on the ground, its inner workings irreparably damaged. And so we gathered that night. My siblings were home from school and we were going to watch Wild Kingdom as a family, and that plan was scotched. So my father reached for a collection of Charles Dickens’ Christmas books, an old yellowing volume, and began reading A Christmas Carol aloud, passing it back and forth with my mother, each one taking a different stave. And I remember it being an extraordinary, seminal experience. Three hours passed and we were all just sitting there transfixed on a winter’s evening around the fire with this wonderful story of transformation and redemption being read to us by our parents. They always read aloud to us but this GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 5
was sort of the dawn of a new age because the television was destroyed. We passed the book around the table after dinner every night after that. My father had this lovely, detached storyteller’s voice. My mother, however, would embody every character that she was reading. She would become Ebenezer Scrooge or the ferocious, terrifying Jacob Marley or Belle. And I remember, as a child, being rather frightened of that—seeing this woman I knew so profoundly becoming these different people. I think in many ways, the act of being read aloud to from A Christmas Carol was my introduction to the theater. It’s theater in its purest form. The audience of myself and my siblings, the actors my parents, and this cracking good story being told. And then, every Christmas thereafter, it became a family tradition and I grew up reading my own stave. In fact, we made a recording of it sometime in the 80’s. My father read stave one, I read stave two, my mother read stave three. My siblings had moved away by then so it was just the three of us reading the entire, unexpurgated A Christmas Carol. My parents have died in recent years and I’ve never been able to listen to it because the sound of their voices reading this story that we had shared together… So you said initially that this is an inventive retelling, and I’m not sure that it is an inventive retelling. It’s been told so many times, adapted in so many ways. But it is a story that speaks to me on so many levels and seems to me a story that is always necessary but particularly necessary in our current climate. Because it is about charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, kindness, and the potential for change and transformation for the good. What does it mean to lead a good life? What is important in life? I think it’s always useful to be reminded of these things, but especially now. 6 PLAYBILL
We’ve been reading a lot about Dickens’ Christmas Carol and its critical reception. Dickens fell out of favor in the early twentieth century—there was a violent reaction against the Victorians and all they represented and it was well into the century before he experienced an academic rehabilitation. His work was just dismissed as sentimental twaddle. And people attacked A Christmas Carol in particular, saying, “Oh really? Scrooge would have the equivalent of fifteen years of Freudian analysis in just one night?” But I think we’ve moved past that unfortunate period of Dickens-phobia. AL: There’s so much cynicism in suggesting that a single moment can’t change a person’s life. Haven’t we all had the event that marks the “before” and the “after?” JM: Indeed, these epiphanies—this whole project came about because we ran into Matt [Shakman, the Geffen’s artistic director] and his young daughter over at the Tar Pits. He asked if there was anything I was interested in working on and I just blurted out “A Christmas Carol!” He was the one who made it all possible. AL: Susan, did you also have a relationship with the material? SL: My dad was a great Dickens fan, but I grew up in Australia where Christmas happened in the middle of heat waves. So it was always fake snow on the Christmas tree and the windows and spending 110° days cooking turkeys and boiling puddings. We grew up with the idea of an English Christmas in the middle of the tropics. JM: And you played Kate Nickleby in the nine hour production [of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, adapted from a Dickens novel of the same name] at the Sydney Theatre Company. That was a tough role, being bashed about!
SL: Bashed about and then someone comes and marries you at the end.
have time for cynical explanations. It’s been
JM: It’s tough being a Victorian heroine.
put it back together.
SL: It was interesting because why were women in that situation and what was stopping her from having agency in her own fate? The society was structured in a way that in order for her to survive and not end up destitute she had to play by these rules. Dickens returns to these themes often—forbearance, as Jefferson mentioned.
JM: Susan has done such amazing editorial
JM: A Christmas Carol has always appealed to us as a story. I’ve seen a number of adaptations, as we all have. It seems to be the cash cow for most regional theater companies. So often there are productions with a cast of seeming thousands and children of board members playing really well-fed looking Cratchits. Which is not to diminish these productions but something I always feel deprived of in them is Dickens’ own narrative voice—with all of its poetry and social outrage and wit that you miss when you have it divided into scenes. So I’m hoping that we will maintain that narrative voice of Dickens throughout.
that might be added because we’ve cut
SL: Which I think provides a real drive through the story, because it does get out of his control. Scrooge starts out a very controlling, settled man and extraordinary, horrific, ghostly things happen to him that spin him into places where he needs to keep up with them. And he does, but it dictates the hurried rhythm of the piece. It does have that sort of roller coaster effect. One thing that always bothered me about the story is what is it that actually changes Scrooge? He is set in cement and suddenly he’s leaping around and enjoying Christmas and I wonder what makes that change. I think it is to do with the speed with which his senses are being assailed. He doesn’t
a fascinating exercise to pick it apart and
work. SL: We’ve done it together. AL: In terms of the dramaturgy, where did you pull from what Dickens created and when did you diverge from it? SL: It’s all Dickens. There’s the odd sentence something out and we need to complete an idea. Jefferson will recite it for me, and I’ll make adjustments when I hear it aloud. And we’re still cutting. JM: Dickens actually did his own brutal cut for his readings. We are sort of in awe of it because he really went in and slaughtered his darlings. The first time he did it, it ran about three hours and then he got it down to about an hour and a half. So we’ve honored his cuts, we’ve made some further cuts and we’ve also made some restorations. SL: But there’s a difference between the author standing at a podium and telling you the story and one person on stage with the world created around him. We can’t wait to see what Michael Arden [director] and Dane Laffrey [scenic and costume designer] have in mind for the world. JM: All the most magical experiences for me in the theater have been those in which the audience has to lean forward and supply, with their own imagination, elements of the performance. You don’t want to ever give everything to the audience, so I’m hoping we can achieve that. To read more about Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, please visit blog.geffenplayhouse.org. GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 7
THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTION OF
ADAPTED BY
Jefferson Mays, Susan Lyons & Michael Arden SCENIC & COSTUME DESIGNER
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Dane Laffrey
Ben Stanton
SOUND DESIGNER
PROJECTION DESIGNER
Joshua D. Reid
Lucy Mackinnon
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Ross Jackson
Sue Karutz
DIRECTED BY
Michael Arden OPENING NIGHT WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2018 A Christmas Carol is produced with the generous support of Hunter Arnold EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS CIRCLE MEMBERS
Laurie & Bill Benenson • Martha Henderson • Pamela Robinson Hollander & Robert Hollander Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman • Linda Bernstein Rubin & Tony Rubin Kimberly Steward & Josh Godfrey • Miranda & Brett Tollman 8 PLAYBILL
CAST Jefferson Mays* *Indicates member of Actor’s Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
SETTING London, England
TIME Christmas Past, Present and Future
RUNNING TIME Approximately 90 minutes. There will be no intermission.
PLEASE NOTE There is no photography or filming of any kind allowed in the theater. Please turn off all electronic devices, including cell phones. Thank you!
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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES
JEFFERSON MAYS (Performer / Adaptor) Jefferson Mays has appeared at Geffen Playhouse in I Am My Own Wife and Yes, Prime Minister! Broadway credits are Oslo, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Best Man, I Am My Own Wife, Pygmalion, Journey’s End and Of Thee I Sing. Off-Broadway, he has performed in Measure for Measure, Lydie Breeze, Quills and many more. Regional credits include My Fair Lady, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Cherry Orchard, Tartuffe, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale and Peter Pan. Film and television credits include the upcoming I Am the Night and the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Inherent Vice, Rebel in the Rye, I am Michael, The Notorious Bettie Page, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Americans, Mildred Pierce, Law & Order: SVU, Nurse Jackie, The Closer and Dolley Madison. Awards include Tony, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desks, Obies, Outer Critic’s Circle, Helen Hayes, Elliot Norton, Theatre World, Drama League, Jefferson, Drama-logue and Helpmann. Mays received his B.A. from Yale College and an M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego. He is married to Susan Lyons. 10 PLAYBILL
SUSAN LYONS (Adaptor) After graduating from Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art, Susan worked extensively in theater, film, television and radio, playing a wide range of leading roles with all the major companies. She was awarded the Marten Bequest in 1993. Married to Jefferson Mays, she directed him in the national and international tours of I Am My Own Wife.
MICHAEL ARDEN (Director / Adaptor) Michael Arden began his theater career at age ten playing Tiny Tim in the Midland Community Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol in Midland, Texas. He is humbled to be working with the singular Jefferson Mays and all the incredible artists and technicians—including his longtime friend and collaborator Dane Laffrey—on this reimagining of Charles Dickens’ masterpiece. Past directing credits include Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awak-
ening (Tony nomination), Once on This Island (Tony nomination and the 2018 winner of Best Revival of a Musical), The Pride, Merrily We Roll Along, My Fair Lady and Annie at the Hollywood Bowl. He hopes Scrooge’s visitations might inspire us all to lead more honest, empathetic and benevolent lives. God bless us, every one! @michaelarden CHARLES DICKENS (Playwright) Charles Dickens, one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century, was born in 1812, in Portsea, England. In 1824, his father was arrested for debt and while he was imprisoned, Dickens, then only 12, was forced to work at a blacking factory. After his father was released from prison, Dickens attended school in London. In 1827, he was taken out of school and worked in a law office and later as a freelance reporter. In 1833, he began publishing The Pickwick Papers in monthly installments. Over the next six years, Dickens published four novels in serial form including Oliver Twist (18371839) and Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839). In 1842, he went on a lecture tour of the United States and Canada, where he urged the abolition of slavery. He wrote A Christmas Carol, the first of his popular Christmas books, in 1844. In 1853, Dickens gave the first of many public readings from his work. During this period, Dickens wrote his most successful novels, including David Copperfield (18491850), Bleak House (1852-1853), Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1860-1861). After several
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES tours of the British Isles and America to give public readings, Dickens suffered a mild stroke. He died in London in 1870, leaving his final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished. DANE LAFFREY (Scenic & Costume Designer) Broadway: current revival of Once on This Island (2018 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical), Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakening, Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love. Recent Off-Broadway: Apologia (Roundabout Theatre Company), Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties (MCC), Summer and Smoke (Classic Stage), Rancho Viejo (Playwrights Horizons), The Harvest (Lincoln Center Theatre), David Greenspan’s Strange Interlude (Transport Group). Recent Los Angeles: Quack (Center The-
atre Group), Annie (Hollywood Bowl), Sell/Buy/Date (LGBT Center/Geffen Playhouse/Manhattan Theatre Club), Merrily We Roll Along (Wallis Annenberg), The Christians (Center Theatre Group). Other regional: The Old Globe, Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Arena Stage, many others. Dane has been nominated for a Tony Award, two Drama Desk Awards, seven American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Awards and an Ovation Award, and won a 2017 OBIE for sustained excellence in set and costume design. BEN STANTON (Lighting Designer) A three-time Tony Award nominee, Ben Stanton has designed lighting for hundreds of productions on and off Broadway, across the U.S. and Europe. Re-
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cent Broadway designs include Ayad Akhtar’s Junk at Lincoln Center Theater, the Broadway revival of Six Degrees of Separation, Deaf West Theatre’s revival of Spring Awakening, Becky Mode’s Fully Committed, and Fun Home (Broadway, Off-Broadway, first national tour, London). In addition to theater, Ben has designed concerts and tours for recording artists such as Beirut, Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens and St. Vincent. Ben is a Lucille Lortel Award and Ovation Award winner, and was a 2015 recipient of the Obie Award for sustained excellence in Lighting Design. JOSHUA D. REID (Sound Designer) Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol marks Joshua’s Geffen Playhouse debut! Most recent designs include The Royal
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES Family of Broadway (Barrington Stage Company), The Secret Garden (Theatre Calgary), Jerry Springer: The Opera (Signature Theatre), A Time Like This (Carnegie Hall), The New World (Bucks County Playhouse), The Pride (Wallis Annenberg PAC, Ovation Award nomination), Beardo (Hewes Design nomination). Broadway associate design credit selections include: The Ferryman, Iceman Cometh (Tony nomination), Falsettos, The Color Purple, American Psycho, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Visit, Act One (Tony nomination), House of Blue Leaves and Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles. Off-Broadway sound design and associate credits include Bandstand, Passion, Soul Doctor, Dogfight and Carrie. Resident Sound Designer at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. Additional credits listed at ReidSoundDesign.com LUCY MACKINNON (Projection Designer) Lucy Mackinnon is a motion graphics artist, illustrator and designer. Her Broadway credits include Lifespan of a Fact, Six Degrees of Separation and Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakening. Other recent credits include Yen (MCC Theater), Ripcord (Huntington Theatre Company), The Treasurer (Playwrights Horizons), After the Blast (Lincoln Center Theater), The Rose Tattoo (Williamstown Theatre Festival), I Was Most Alive With You (Huntington Theatre Company), Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and Macbeth (Greek National Opera). She has contributed work to multi-media exhibits in such prominent institutions as 12 PLAYBILL
The New York Historical Society and The National Center for Civil and Human Rights. ROSS JACKSON (Production Stage Manager) Ross Jackson is excited to continue his work with the Geffen Playhouse! A native of New Orleans, LA, Ross is now based in Los Angeles. Recent Geffen credits: The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona, Skeleton Crew, Sell/Buy/Date, Ironbound and A Funny Thing Happened... Other credits: Five Guys Named Moe (Ebony Repertory Theater); The Tempest and Deferred Action (Dallas Theater Center); The Crucible and A Lesson Before Dying (Clarence Brown Theatre); Aladdin and His Winter Wish and Sleeping Beauty and Her Winter Knight (Lythgoe Family Panto); Nickel Mines (New York Musical Theatre Festival); The Lady Onstage, Orlando and True West (Profile Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Swan Shakespeare Festival) and several productions with the University of California, Irvine, from which he holds his Master of Fine Arts degree in Stage Management. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Love to Mom, Tom and Megan. SUE KARUTZ (Assistant Stage Manager) Sue Karutz toured with the Robert Wilson/Tom Waits/ William S. Burroughs project The Black Rider (London, San Francisco, Sydney, Los Angeles), Wicked (Chicago, L.A., San Francisco), Les Misérables (more than 100 cities across the U.S., Canada, China and Korea) and Cirque du Soleil’s
Corteo (Russia and Belgium). Her first union contract was in 1997, Off-Broadway on Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly. Other favorite projects have been Lookingglass Theatre Company’s Moby Dick; Berkeley Rep’s One Man, Two Guvnors and South Coast Repertory’s Once. Elsewhere, Sue has been part of stage management teams at La Jolla Playhouse, The National Theatre of the Deaf, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Falcon Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Los Angeles Opera, the Ahmanson and Kirk Douglas theaters, Deaf West Theatre, Alpine Theatre Project, Laguna Playhouse and Utah Shakespeare Festival. She is also a staff stage manager at Disneyland.
MATT SHAKMAN (Artistic Director) Matt Shakman has directed three highly acclaimed productions for the Geffen Playhouse: the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation of Wait Until Dark and Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews. His theatrical work has also been seen at Primary Stages in New York and South Coast Repertory. Matt founded and was the artistic director of the Black Dahlia Theatre in Los Angeles, which
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES was named “one of a dozen young American companies you need to know” by American Theatre magazine and “Best Small Theatre” by Los Angeles magazine. Under his leadership, the Black Dahlia garnered numerous Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and LA Stage Alliance nominations and awards. In 2011, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awarded him the Milton Katselas Award for Career Achievement in Direction. Matt is also well-regarded for his achievements in television and film. He is a director and producer for FX’s long-running show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and has directed episodes of Game of Thrones (DGA nomination), Mad Men, Fargo and The Good Wife. His feature film debut, Cut Bank, starring John Malkovich, Billy Bob Thornton and Bruce Dern,
premiered at the Toronto International and Los Angeles Film Festivals and was released by A24. Shakman is a graduate of Yale University and holds a B.A. in History of Art and Theater.
GIL CATES, JR. (Executive Director) As Executive Director, Gil Cates, Jr. leads the Geffen Playhouse in its mission to inform, entertain and inspire diverse audiences with live theater of the highest caliber—both within and beyond the non-profit theater’s walls. He has proudly
served on the Geffen Playhouse Board since 2012. Gil’s theater credits include the award-winning Names (Matrix Theatre Company) starring Dixie Carter and Greg Mullavey, Three Sisters and David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre (both at Syracuse Stage). Gil’s film credits include The Surface (starring Sean Astin and Geffen Playhouse alumnus Chris Mulkey), Jobs (starring Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, as well as Geffen Playhouse alumni Matthew Modine and Ron Eldard) and the 2011 feature film Lucky (starring Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Tambor). In addition, Gil produced and directed the critically acclaimed Life After Tomorrow, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, which premiered on Showtime. His other films include Deal (starring
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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Charles Durning) and The Mesmerist (starring Geffen Playhouse alumnus Neil Patrick Harris). Gil’s television directorial debut was an episode of the NBC comedy Joey, starring Emmy winner Matt LeBlanc. He studied at the National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, and holds a B.F.A. in Drama from Syracuse University.
REGINA MILLER (Chief Development Officer) Regina Miller has advised non-profit institutions, foun-
dations and corporations on strategy, analysis and fundraising. She has consulted for Array Alliance, The Entertainment Industry Foundation, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project and Kershaw’s Challenge, among others. Prior to the Geffen, Regina worked for the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance, where she produced an innovative human rights exhibition that traveled to 14 international destinations around Europe, Asia and the U.S. She also served as the Director of Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, where she led strategic planning and development while executing policies that advanced the organization’s visibility and growth. Addition-
ally, Regina has a strong passion for teaching. After graduating from University of North Carolina School of the Arts, she taught in preschools and kindergartens in New York. From the age of 13, Regina worked as a professional dancer on Broadway as well as with a number of prominent modern dance ensembles. Fusing two of her interests, she created a highly successful program that incorporated dance therapy and creative movement into an early childhood curriculum as well as writing and producing a television show based on this concept. In addition to being a published author and photographer with Tallfellow Press and Prometheus Books, Regina has taught and lectured at numerous schools in New York, Los Angeles and abroad.
THE NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Supporting artists is central to the mission of the Geffen Playhouse, and play commissions are a cornerstone of that support. To commission a playwright to write a play means making a commitment to their voice, craft and vision, with the hope of sharing the fruits of their work on our stage. The Geffen Playhouse’s New Play Development Program is made possible, in large part, through the leadership and generosity of donations from: The Edgerton Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Fay & Frank Mancuso, Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald, Hilary & Jack Angelo and Mary Bianco, The MOCA Foundation. We are proud to have the following artists under commission: Rachel Bonds Colman Domingo Lindsey Ferrentino Michael Golamco Meghan Kennedy Matthew Lopez Martyna Majok
Michael Mitnick Jiehae Park John Pollono José Rivera Zoe Sarnak Robert Schenkkan Shaka Senghor & Daniel Beaty
Erika Sheffer Jen Silverman Nick Stafford The Vampire Cowboys David Wiener Lauren Yee Anna Ziegler
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PRODUCTION STAFF FOR CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL Assistant Director Zachary Zaret Spectral Visualization Matt Wool* Associate Scenic Designer Matthew Iacozza Associate Lighting Designer John A. Garofalo Associate Projection Designer Shih-lien Eugene Yen Properties Carpenter Patrick Squibb Properties Artisan Miriam Levenson Properties Artisan Allison Mamann Properties Artisan Joshua Shelden Automation Operator Alex Norkus Stage Crew Oliver Brink Stage Crew Tyler Brogla Production Assistant Lizzie Thompson Directors of Photography David Marquez & Nathaniel Chi-Nhan Nguyen-Le
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ARTISTIC CIRCLE $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous (2) Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams Hilary & Jack Angelo Robert C. Baral Laurie & Bill Benenson Berlanti Productions Bright Rentals The Rebecca Susan Buffett Foundation Valarie De La Garza & Michael Centeno City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Dwight Stuart Youth Fund The Edward A. & Ai O. Shay Family Foundation Twentieth Century Fox Carol & Paul Frimmer The Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Foundation Los Angeles County Arts Commission George Lucas Family Foundation Susan & Peter Mallory Patty Glaser & Sam Mudie Marcia Israel Foundation, Inc. Bradley Mindlin Napa Valley Grille James L. Nederlander & Margo MacNabb Nederlander Sherwood Foundation The Simms/Mann Family Foundation STK Los Angeles Shel & Cynthia Stone Elaine Wynn
PRODUCER $10,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (3) Ariel Investments Hank Azaria Cathy & Shel Bachrach Beam Suntory Beth Behrs & Michael Gladis The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Charles A. Black, Jr. Bliss Spa Board of Supervisors County of Los Angeles Eileen & Harold Brown Roma Downey & Mark Burnett California Arts Council
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ANNUAL DONORS Robin Dearden & Bryan Cranston Deutsche Bank Gayle & Dan Devin Susan & Jonathan Dolgen Dream Warrior Group Fielding Edlow & Larry Clarke Lawrence N. Field Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea G.E. Foundation Jennifer Garner Kiki & David Gindler Priscila Giraldo Sue & Steve Glusker Gloria & Peter Gold Mary Ann & Irwin Gold Lori & Ken Goldman Leo S. Guthman Fund Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Waren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman LLP ICM Partners Linda Janger Bernice Jeffrey Sir Elton John & David Furnish Marvin Jubas & Janet Wald Jubas Melina Kanakaredes Mannon Kaplan Sally & Dr. Manny J. Karbelnig KIND Bars Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald Samantha Kurtzman-Counter & Alex Kurtzman Wendy Kurtzman Susan & Yair Landau Drs. Gerald & Barbara Levey Lionsgate Jody Lippman Los Angeles magazine Sherry Martin Anne Stringfield & Steve Martin Merle & Jerry Measer Marcia & Brett Molotsky Kate Moran & Mikki Rosenberg Rio & Frank Morse Newmeyer & Dillion LLP Benedicta & Geoffry Oblath Orlando Hotel Carol & Bill Ouchi Shana & Don Passman Soundis & Danny Passman Cheryl Petersen & Roger Lustberg Pink Sands Club, Canouan Marc Platt The Poker People Mark E. Pollack Pottash/Ferguson Family Foundation Kim & Dale Reed 20 PLAYBILL
Kay & Bob Rehme Judith Reichman, MD Joyce Rey The Richenthal Foundation Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer Ronen Levy Events In Memory of Rikki Rosen Lori & David Rousso Jackie & Jeff Schaffer Jody & Arthur Schmid The Michael Schwab Family Carol ‘Jackie’ & Charles Schwartz Steve & Paula Mae Schwartz Tina & David Segel Sidley Austin LLP Lorraine Spurge & Patrick Mitchell Randy Stabler Audri & Stan Tendler Karen Zoller, MD & David Tillman, MD Karen & William Timberlake The Travel Corporation Stan Vashovsky/AMBULNZ Paul Wachter Warner Bros. Entertainment Lynn & Mark Williams Samantha & John Williams Rita Wilson & Tom Hanks Karen & Rick Wolfen Kevyn Wynn In Loving Memory of Herman Ziegler Ruth & Stan Zicklin Ziffren Brittenham LLP Zimmerman Advertising LLC
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ANNUAL DONORS Jacalyn & Paul Pepperman Daniel & Denise Perlstein Sari L. Polinger Ruth Popkin Alex Register Rabbi Steven & Didi Carr Reuben Donald B. & Susan F. Rice Carrie & Ken Richman Esther & Howard Richmond Dr. Robert Rigg Judi & Tim Ritchie Beth Roberts & Warren Smith Dolores Rogers Eden & Steven Romick Brad & Nancy Rosenberg David Rosenberg Allison & Bennett Rosenthal Charitable Foundation Virginia Ross Daryl & Steven Roth Philip & Janet Rotner David A. & Karen Richards Sachs Ajay Sahgal Janet Salter In Memory of Maxwell Hillary Salter Mark San Filippo Gerald Sauer Dawn & Joel Scherer Jane & Bill Schopf Toni & John Schulman David Schwartz Foundation, John S. Schwartz Dan & Cynthia Schwartz John Schwartz Phyllis & Martin Shephard Doris & Michael Sherman Sherwood Country Club Rita & Jose Sigal Robin & Robert L. Sills Ron Silverman & Soraya Ross Drs. Matthew & Marion Solomon The Somaini Family Arleen & Llyod Sorkin Jordan Strauss Photography Barbra Streisand & James Brolin David & Katherine Stritzinger Eric Strom & Eileen Goodis Chana Taft The Tatasciore Family Anne C. Taubman & David Boyle John Teeples & Nicolas Martinez, Jr. Barbara & Larry Tenan Andrea & David Tenenbaum Robyn Tenenbaum Nancy Thomas Martin Tobias Triada Palm Springs John Turmes Leon & Stephanie Vahn Daniel & Shauna Valenzuela 22 PLAYBILL
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ARTISTIC ADVOCATE $500 - $999 Anonymous (3) Norman & Toshka Abrams Sylvia Almstadt Irene Baron Joanna & Miles Benickes Yvette Bergeron & Dean Bailey Nat & Robin Bernstein Michael J. Bordy Krisena & Scott Borenstein Nina & Hon. Anthony Borwick Rolando Boyce Carol J. Bradshaw Paula Brand Janet & Mark Brown Scott Carter & Bebe Johnson Shelby & Lee Chaden Sandra Chan & Richard Pezner Cindy Clark Becky & Mike Clements Ginger Conrad Shawn Cunningham Robert Daseler Muriel Dance & Alvin Martin Marcia Diamond John Dominguez Roni & Ethan Eller David & Joyce Evans Elizabeth A. Evans Helen Fielding Marjorie & Arthur Fine Judith R. Forman & Richard N. Weiner Gwen & Jacob Friend Lois Gallop Sharlene & Sol Galper Benita & Bert Ginsberg Lori & Robert Goodman Gabi & Rob Greenberg Vicki Greene Roni & David Greenwalt Beverly Hanson Richard Hart Sheila & Chester Hasday Hella Hershon Jack Hileman & Roxanne Huddleston Hilton Union Square hotel Dorothy Hoffman Kelley M. Hogan Brett Johnson Judith & Steaven Jones
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ANNUAL DONORS Col. Tony, Donna & Taylor Daniell Hedva & Dr. Dudley Danoff Steven & Linda Darling Jeffrey S. Davidson Elizabeth De Oliveira & Moacyr Da Silva Bert Deixler Hal & Roberta Delevie Dr. Udayakumar Devaskar Denny & Cathy Dietz Carol Jean Doehring Fred & Marilyn Dorer Sandy & Gerry Dorfman Daryl & Paul F. Doucette Linda Dozier Jacki & Murray Drechsler Chiedu Egbuniwe Ronald Eng Kerry English Lidia & Mauricio Epelbaum Rena & Peter Falk Judy & Mike Fantasia Dr. Francesco Federico Jo & Larry Feldman Mimi Alpert Feldman Abby & Malcolm Field Paul and Karen Finkel Lisa & William Finkelstein Steven Fleenor Keith G. Fleer Lynne & Michael Flynn Fran Fredella & Scott Rubin Sandy & Donald French Carolyn Fried Kenneth J. Friedman & Marilynn J. Friedman Family Foundation Lynn & Barry Friesen Catherine Froloff Laurelle Frome & Brady Frome Gina Furth Lee Gardenswartz Patricia Geffner Leslie & Mort Gerson Linda & Tom Givvin Jill Glasband Dr. Diane & Michael Glazer Richard & Lori Glucksman Hannah Godwin Carol & Neil Goldberg Lorain Goldberg Mark & Molly Goldberg Francine Golden & Marvin Schlossman Ellie & Barry Goldstein Dina Goldstein Jay Gordon & Meyera Robbins Roger Gordon Liz Gottainer & David Sadkin Julie C. Graham, Olivia C. Zeiden, Liam D. Zeiden Shelley Hill Grant Debbie & Glenn Gray Madelyne Green Gary & Jeannie Greenberg Randi & Jerome Greenberg Marcy & Edgar Gross
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Matt Shakman
Gil Cates, Jr.
Artistic Director
Executive Director
ARTISTIC Amy Levinson Associate Artistic Director
Mark San Filippo Associate Director of Planned Giving & Donor Relations
Celia Rivera Assistant Box Office Manager Clifton Adams, Vaneh Assadourian, Britney Campbell, Zoe Halsne, Lexy McAvinchey, Sam Peurach, Jonathan Ramos, Cameron Reck, Bryn Woznicki Box Office Staff
Phyllis Schuringa Artistic Associate / Casting Director
Taylor Cerny Development Associate
Young Ji Artistic Coordinator / Company Manager
Jessie Sherman Development Assistant
Rachel Wiegardt-Egel Manager of New Play Development
EDUCATION
Sue Fleishman Communications Consultant
PRODUCTION
Jennifer Zakkai Director of Education & Community Engagement
FRONT OF HOUSE
Daniel Ionazzi Production Manager Jill Barnes Associate Production Manager / Company Manager Sam Craven-Griffiths Technical Director Rich Gilles Properties Master James Grabowski House Sound Supervisor
Joannarae Ibañez Education Coordinator Celia Rivera Community Engagement Coordinator Brian Allman, Darien Battle, Ramy El-Etreby, David Guerra, Michael McClain, Robert Paterno, Carissa Pinckney, Tara Ricasa, Celia Rivera, Jessica Winward Teaching Artists
Darren Rezowalli Lighting & Video Supervisor
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Ramine Ameli Assistant Lighting Supervisor
Patrick Brown Director of Marketing
Liz Rose Wardrobe Supervisor
ADMINISTRATION
Karen Gutierrez Director of Advertising & Audience Development
Behnaz Ataee Chief Financial Officer
Brian Dunning Director of Content & Creative
Peter Banachowski Senior Accountant & Financial Analyst
Zenon Dmytryk Director of Public Relations
Kisha Wilson Payroll Specialist & Staff Accountant
Zack Hamra Associate Director of Audience Services & Ticketing
Clay Dzygun Office Coordinator Marguerite Harris Receptionist
DEVELOPMENT Regina Miller Chief Development Officer Ellen Catania Senior Vice President of Development Jessica Brusilow Rollins Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations Jamie Mikelich Director of Individual Giving & Spotlight Manager
Kevin O’Brien Marketing Manager Quinn Francis Outreach Coordinator Ramon Garcia Video Producer
Jeni Pearsons Director of Special Events Mel Yonzon Front of House Manager Amy Farkas Lead Concierge Isaac Jay, Nathaniel Meek, Anya Pryjmack, Madison Shamoun, Dennis Woullard House Managers Kailey Bray, Ryan Brophy, Danie Hakimi, Jada Harris, Elza Hofeld, Lucy Houlihan, Otniel Henig, Hunter Lowden, Olivia Lowe, Austin Merrill, Keith Mitchell, JoJo Nwoko, Thea Paino, Chuck Soo-Hoo, Charley Stern, Charmee Taylor, Adam Turney, Isaac Vaughn, Robin Vega Ushers Rob Mersola Bar Manager & Mixologist Manuel Mayorga Weekend Bar Manager Skylar Adams, Adam Carr, Brenda Davidson, Sarah Drescher, Ryan Turner Bartenders/Event Staff
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Karim Bouzzit System Administrator
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
Kristina Leach Social Media Associate
Miguel del Castillo Facility Manager
Wendell Pascual Production Artist
Mario Santillan-Perez Custodial
Janice Bernal Box Office Manager
Juan Carlos Umaña Cleaning Custodial
Alyssa Tyson Box Office Manager
Camerina Martinez Cleaning Custodial
Geffen Playhouse is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. This project was also funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles. Geffen Playhouse, a not-for-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.
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