A CHRISTMAS CAROL - Winter 2021

Cleveland’s Classic Company Presents

Charles Dickens’

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November 26-December 23, 2021

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elcome to Great Lakes Theater’s 33rd annual production of Gerald Freedman’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Nearly 800,000 people have experienced this production in its over-quarter-century on stage at the Mimi Ohio Theatre, nearly half of whom were students and children, many seeing their very first play. We are truly grateful to Mr. Freedman and his extraordinary design team for giving Great Lakes Theater and our entire region this amazing gift of theater, which has transcended generations and united our community in powerful and meaningful ways.

This winter/spring, we invite you to join us across the street at the intimate Hanna Theatre for the continuation of our 60th anniversary season. We hope to see you at our productions of the Tony Award-winning musical celebration of Fats Waller’s Ain’t Misbehavin’; Shakespeare’s sublime comedy, Much Ado About Nothing; and the uproarious romantic thriller, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. From all of us at Great Lakes Theater, we wish you a very happy holiday.

Charles Fee Producing Artistic Director

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We are indebted to so many people for the enduring success of A Christmas Carol, from the artists and technical staff who have kept this production as fresh as the day it opened to those who have supported our work on Dickens’ masterpiece over the years. We express special thanks again this year to the John P. Murphy Foundation, whose support of A Christmas Carol began with our original production in 1989, and has continued ever since. We also appreciate the continued support of production sponsor, US Bank! In addition, we encourage you to look through this playbill at the list of individual members, corporations and foundations that support us. Please consider joining them with a year-end contribution to Great Lakes Theater!

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“ Good night, sweet prince...”

— Hamlet (Act V, Scene ii) GERALD FREEDMAN (1927-2020) Great Lakes Theater’s Artistic Director from 1985-1997 Adaptor & Original Director of A Christmas Carol Visionary Leader | Innovative Creator | Eternal Friend Great Lakes Theater proudly celebrates the memory and legacy of this extraordinary member of our family.

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he mission of Great Lakes Theater (GLT), through its mainstage productions and its education programs, is to bring the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience.

Since the company’s inception in 1962, programming has been rooted in Shakespeare, but GLT’s commitment to great plays spans the breadth of all cultures, forms of theater and time periods — including the 20th century — and provides for the occasional mounting of new works that complement the classical repertoire.

Classic theater holds the capacity to illuminate truth and enduring values, celebrate and challenge human nature and actions, revel in eloquent language, preserve the traditions of diverse cultures and generate communal spirit.

On its mainstage and through its education programs, GLT seeks to create visceral, immediate experiences for participants, asserting theater’s historic role as a vehicle for advancing the common good and helping people make joyful and meaningful connections between classic plays and their own lives.

The company’s commitment to classic theater is magnified in the educational programming surrounding its productions. Since its inception, GLT has had a strong presence in area schools, bringing students to the theater for matinee performances and sending specially trained actor-teachers to the schools for weeklong residencies developed to explore classic drama from a theatrical point of view. GLT is equally dedicated to enhancing the theater experience for adult audiences. To this end, GLT regularly serves as the catalyst for community events and programs in the arts and humanities that illuminate the plays on its stage.

Great Lakes Theater is one of only a handful of American theaters that have stayed the course as a classic theater. As GLT celebrates over a decade in its permanent home at the Hanna Theatre, the company reaffirms its belief in the power of partnership, its determination to make this community a better place in which to live and its commitment to ensure the legacy of classic theater in Cleveland.

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Winter/Spring 2022 Hanna Theatre

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A Jazzy Musical Celebration of Fats Waller Conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Murray Horwitz Created and Originally Directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. Original Choreography and Musical Staging by Arthur Faria Musical Adaptations, Orchestrations & Arrangements by Luther Henderson Vocal & Musical Concepts by Jeffrey Gutcheon Musical Arrangements by Jeffrey Gutcheon & William Elliott

Directed by Gerry McIntyre

Feb. 11 - Mar. 6, 2022

Shakespeare’s Sublime Battle of Wits & Wills

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Charles Fee

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL CHARLES DICKENS

ADAPTED AND ORIGINALLY DIRECTED BY

GERALD FREEDMAN

Company

Zain Abbas Leilani Barrett* Lynn Robert Berg* Josephine Bullock Domonique Champion* Lexi Cowan Aled Davies* Jodi Dominick*

Mark Doyle Jeffrey C. Hawkins* Jack Kanaris Jillian Kates* Jessie Cope Miller* Audrey Morrison Laurien Palmer Avery Pyo

Mia Renard David Anthony Smith* Nick Steen* Tina D. Stump* M.A. Taylor* Hanako Walrath Joe Wegner* Chase Christopher Zadd

Scenic Design John Ezell Gene Emerson Friedman

Costume Design James Scott

Lighting Design Mary Jo Dondlinger Jeff Herrmann Cynthia Stillings

Sound Design Tom Mardikes Stan Kozak

Music Adaptor/ Arranger Robert Waldman

Production Stage Manager Nicki Cathro*

Music Director Matthew Webb

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Choreographer David Shimotakahara

Assistant Stage Manager Sarah Kelso*

*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

Great Lakes Theater student subscriptions are subsidized by a generous gift from Eaton.

There will be one fifteen-minute intermission.

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

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CAST OF CHARACTERS Cleaveland Family

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Father, who will become Bob Cratchit..................................................................... Nick Steen * Mother, who will become Belle and Fred’s Wife....................................................... Jillian Kates* Miss Elizabeth, who will become Fan................................................................ Hanako Walrath Master Richard, who will become Dick Wilkins......................................................... Mark Doyle Miss Abigail............................................................................................................Mia Renard Master Robert.......................................................................................Chase Christopher Zadd Miss Polly...............................................................................................................Lexi Cowan Master William, who will become Tiny Tim.................................................................. Avery Pyo Samuels, who will become Ebenezer Scrooge.................................................. Lynn Robert Berg * Muggeridge, who will become Christmas Present..................................................Leilani Barrett * Jane, who will become Mrs. Cratchit.................................................................. Jodi Dominick*† Nephew Fred..........................................................................................................Joe Wegner * First Charity Man.................................................................................................... M.A. Taylor * Second Charity Man............................................................................................... Aled Davies * Street Singer.........................................................................................................Jack Kanaris Sled Boy................................................................................................................. Zain Abbas Skate Girl........................................................................................................Audrey Morrison Street Children......................................................................Laurien Palmer, Josephine Bullock Marley......................................................................................................David Anthony Smith * Christmas Past....................................................................................... Domonique Champion * Boy Scrooge.............................................................................................................. Avery Pyo Adolescent Scrooge...............................................................................Chase Christopher Zadd Mr. Fezziwig........................................................................................................... Aled Davies * Young Scrooge........................................................................................................Joe Wegner * Mrs. Fezziwig..................................................................................................... Tina D. Stump * Fezziwig Guests................................ Leilani Barrett*, Mark Doyle, Jillian Kates*, Hanako Walrath, Jodi Dominick*†, Jessie Cope Miller*, Mia Renard, M.A. Taylor*, Chase Christopher Zadd

Cratchit Family Peter...................................................................................................................... Mark Doyle Martha............................................................................................................ Hanako Walrath Belinda..................................................................................................................Mia Renard James..................................................................................................Chase Christopher Zadd Sarah..................................................................................................................... Lexi Cowan Miners..................................................................... Domonique Champion*, Jeffrey C. Hawkins * Lighthouse Keeper....................................................................................David Anthony Smith * Helmsman.............................................................................................................. M.A. Taylor * Cynthia.............................................................................................................. Tina D. Stump * Topper......................................................................................................... Jeffrey C. Hawkins * “Ignorance”............................................................................................................ Zain Abbas “Want”......................................................................................................... Josephine Bullock Christmas Future..................................................................................... Domonique Champion * Rich Men............................................. Aled Davies*, Jeffrey C. Hawkins*, David Anthony Smith * Joe the Keeper........................................................................................................ M.A. Taylor * Laundress.......................................................................................................... Tina D. Stump * Charwoman....................................................................................................... Jodi Dominick*† Undertaker...............................................................................................David Anthony Smith * Debtor................................................................................................................Leilani Barrett * Debtor’s Wife................................................................................................ Jessie Cope Miller * Soloist.............................................................................................................. Laurien Palmer Delivery Boy.......................................................................................................... Jack Kanaris

Scene: London, 1864, and in the imagination of the listener

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* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

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From inspiration to the stage

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Scenic designer John Ezell championed the use of innovative methods and materials, such as carved/ painted Styrofoam, in order to realize his large-scale vision for the original production – including the gargoyles that populate Scrooge’s bedroom, a 19' tall cornucopia, and a festive “Christmas Fantasy” finale scenic element. Great Lakes Theater’s scene shop has referenced Ezell’s original renderings to faithfully match his visual instructions when restoring the painted Styrofoam elements ever since.

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n the spring of 1988, Great Lakes Theater made an enterprising decision: to invest in a lavish new take on Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale, A Christmas Carol. Opening night, in November 1989, was 18 months away, but there wasn’t a moment to lose.

There was money to raise. The theater’s production team estimated that the ambitious show would cost $550,000 which was double the amount budgeted for a typical production at the time. The theater’s then-board-chair John Collinson agreed to take the lead in securing corporate support at an unprecedented level.

There was a script to develop. Artistic director Gerald Freedman had a vision for the adaptation: he would frame it within the context of a family reading Dickens’ story aloud before bedtime. The “frame story” would allow Freedman to incorporate Dickens’ narrative voice, as well as evoke the intimacy of the writer’s own public readings where Dickens famously strove to make the audience feel — as he explained to a friend — “as if we had been sitting around the fire.”

There was spectacle to create. Freedman and scenic designer John Ezell were determined that the production would fully exploit the resources of the Ohio Theatre, which served as the home venue for Great Lakes Theater at the time. The Ohio Theatre’s trap doors, fly space and counterweight system were ideally suited for

creating the dramatic scene changes and other stage tricks needed for a ghost story.

There were things to be built. “As the set design evolved,” production manager Tony Forman later explained, “it became clear that there was not enough space in the Ohio Theatre to go quickly and effectively from location to location with complete sets.” Moveable set elements would have to suggest different locations, and technical director Martin Simonsen would have to figure out the turntables, pulleys and levers needed to make them move. But the set elements could only glide quickly if they were lightweight. Victorianera filigrees and other scenic elements had to be carved out of Styrofoam — including a 19-foottall cornucopia filled with 5,000 grapes the size of ping-pong balls. Costume designer James Scott sketched renderings for 80 costumes, 30 of which would be built from scratch by three drapers and five seamstresses. Freedman didn’t originally plan for music to play a major role in the production, but music began to seep in, and sound designer Stan Kozak soon found himself organizing allnight recording sessions.

And then there were practical problems for actors and stagehands to solve. For his sudden and fearsome entrance as the ghost of Jacob Marley, actor John Buck Jr. found that he had to crouch on a ladder with eight lengths of chains arrayed around him, his head and shoulders

pulled in and ready to rear up against the trap door above him. Two stagehands had to help him manage the chains and navigate the ladder.

Onstage, Buck developed a way of flicking the chains, twisting and untwisting them around himself so that they wouldn’t get caught on the grates needed for the fog machines. Soundboard operator John Reilly drilled with him so he could precisely time clanking sound effects with Buck’s movements.

Out of such attention to detail, stage magic was conjured. Designed to be repeated multiple seasons, the show is now in its 33rd year.

Maintaining the production requires the same painstaking commitment each year. The wear and tear of time cannot show on the production’s elaborate costumes and set pieces, which are refurbished on a rotating basis.

In its long history, the Great Lakes Theater production of A Christmas Carol has always hewed to Gerald Freedman’s original direction.

But its annual restaging has given opportunities to emerging directors within the company.

Victoria Bussert, who arrived in Cleveland as a

directing intern to Freedman in 1985, restaged the piece 12 times over the years, more than any other director. Other longtime company members have stepped up in turn to ensure the ever-fresh vitality of the theater’s cherished holiday tradition.

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Actors John Buck Jr. (left) and William Leech (right) portrayed the iconic roles of Jacob Marley and Scrooge in the 1990 staging of A Christmas Carol.

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A Christmas Carol’s Scenic Designer John Ezell, with Technical Director Martin Simonsen, surveys Styrofoam carving in the Great Lakes Theater scene shop.

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playnotes: A Christmas Carol

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A portrait of Charles Dickens painted by Francis Alexander during Dickens’ American tour in 1842, a year before he published A Christmas Carol

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s the year 1843 wore on, Charles Dickens was increasingly hard-pressed. Although the 31-year-old writer had already authored six successful novels, his latest entry, Martin Chuzzlewit, was selling poorly. His publishers wanted their advance back. His spendthrift father stoked his worries. His wife Catherine was pregnant with their fifth child. He needed a best-seller.

A Christmas Carol was one for the ages. Scrooge — the very name has entered dictionaries as a synonym for miser. His phrase, “Bah, humbug,” is still on our lips. In the United States alone, a million copies of the story have been sold. But the book was a gamble at the time.

An image of Dickens at the shoe polish factory, included in one of the earliest biographies of Dickens in 1892

By 1843, the young man already had the wildly successful Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby to his name. But fear of financial failure dogged him. Born in 1812 to John and Elizabeth Dickens, the second of eight children, the novelist later described his father as “a jovial opportunist with no money sense.” The elder Dickens spent several months in Marshalsea Debtor’s Prison in 1824. His 12-year-old son had to go to work in a rat-infested shoe polish factory.

Undaunted by his scant schooling, the younger

“The beauty and blessing of the story ... lie in the great furnace of real happiness that glows through Scrooge and everything around him. ... Whether the Christmas visions would or would not convert Scrooge, they convert us.” – G. K. Chesterton

“That such a book should find an enduring place in the affectionate admiration of mankind is an inevitable result of the highest moral and mental excellence.” – THE ATLANTIC, 1868

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there were 11 printings in 1844.

However, high production costs, competition from a cheap pirated edition and a lawsuit against the pirating printer ate up most of the profits. Dickens didn’t relieve his financial pressures, although he notched a timely and timeless accomplishment.

The festivities that we still associate with Christmas — trees and cards, family gatherings, carol-singing and seasonal food and drink — were just becoming popular in England in the 1830s and Eight illustrations by Punch caricaturist John Leech also marked 1840s. Queen Victoria and her the first edition of A Christmas Carol as a prestige publication.

German-born husband were popularizing his native holiday Dickens pursued respectability relentlessly. custom of decorating live Between 1827 and 1836, he vaulted from law clerk evergreen trees indoors. Antiquarians were to court stenographer to court reporter to publishing anthologies of old English carols and newspaper sketch writer to author of The Pickwick ballads. The Oxford Movement was promoting Papers. And yet, with improvident parents and the restoration of ritual to Anglican worship. siblings and a growing family to support, the writer Dickens had already written several brief could not rest.

Christmas sketches in 1835 and 1836. The time Charles Dickens first gained attention with was right in 1843 for a longer piece that indulged humorous sketches published in newspapers and the growing taste for holiday cheer. periodicals under the pseudonym Boz. He A child-centered depiction of Christmas pioneered the practice of releasing fictional work resonated with Dickens’ personal mythology. in serialized form, several chapters at a time, Commentators have noted that he often put usually once a month. But Dickens and his children at the heart of his work. Witness Oliver publishers decided to present his new seasonal Twist, David Copperfield and Pip of Great story in a hardcover volume, bound in crimson Expectations. Dickens’ sunny memories of early cloth, with pages edged in gilt. Dickens financed childhood, eclipsed by his family’s indigence, left the printing himself, in return for a cut of the an indelible mark. In A Christmas Carol, a bitter profits. The gamble might have paid off. Released man finds redemption in compassion for his own on December 19, the first run of 6,000 copies of A lost childhood and the crippled Tiny Tim. As the Christmas Carol ran out by Christmas Eve. The story’s narrator proclaims, “It is good to be second and third editions sold by year’s end, and children sometimes, and never better than at

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Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.”

The childhood theme of A Christmas Carol may have also prompted the ghost story form.

Later in life, Dickens often recalled how his nanny told gruesome ghost stories. Four of the five stand-alone Christmas stories that he would publish between 1843 and 1848 would contain elements of the supernatural.

But the Christmas setting also spoke to Dickens’ profound sympathy for impoverished children in industrialized cities. In A Christmas Carol, two “Charity Men” solicit money from Scrooge for poor families at Christmas. “We choose this time,” they explain, “because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.” In Great Expectations, Dickens would write of childhood as a time when “there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”

The injustices felt by poor children were on Dickens’ mind in 1843. Earlier that year, he toured tin mines in Cornwall, where children labored in filth. He visited a so-called “ragged” or “charity school” in London — before the advent of universal public education — and was appalled by the students’ destitution. He originally planned to write a political pamphlet titled, An Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the Poor Man’s Child. While he did give a speech about educational reform in Manchester that October, he decided that a Christmas story might have greater impact.

Abstract ideas about education give way in Dickens’ story to spectral images: “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy.” Arguments raged in the newspapers of the day. Economist Thomas Robert Malthus, an older contemporary of Dickens, observed the

Images of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert celebrating Christmas with their family, such as this 1850 engraving from Godey’s Lady’s Book, helped to popularize Christmas trees.

paradoxical cycle of plenty, population growth, overcrowding and population-thinning diseases.

Philosopher Thomas Carlyle countered the laissez-faire capitalist approach to social problems, mocking: “Are there not treadmills, gibbets; even hospitals, poor-rates, New PoorLaw?” In Dickens’ story, Carlyle’s litany becomes a searing refrain — “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”— while Scrooge gives chilling voice to the common perception of Malthus’ solution for overcrowding: “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

We’re still reckoning with Dickens’ probing questions and clinging to the humanity and hope in his answers.

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“A Christmas Carol is a national benefit and to every man or woman who reads it, a personal kindness.”

– William Makepeace Thackeray

THE ARTISTIC COMPANY Actors Leilani Barrett* Muggeridge/Christmas Present/Debtor/Ensemble Three seasons with Great Lakes Theater

Lynn Robert Berg* Samuels/Ebenezer Scrooge ✶ Twenty seasons with Great Lakes Theater Great Lakes Theater: Brutus (Julius Caesar), the title roles of Macbeth and Richard III, Charlie Cowell (The Music Man), The Ghost and Player King (Hamlet), Zoltan Karpathy (My Fair Lady), Gremio (The Taming of the Shrew), Malvolio (Twelfth Night) and Frank Ford (The Merry Wives of Windsor). Other credits: Don Armado (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Watson (The Hound of the Baskervilles) and Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival; Hucklebee (The Fantasticks), Mayhew (Witness for the Prosecution), Friar Laurence (Romeo and Juliet), Jonas Fogg (Sweeney Todd) and Polixenes (The Winter’s Tale) at Idaho Shakespeare Festival. MFA from the University of Delaware Professional Theater Training Program. SLL’M ✶ Rick & Paula Reed ✶T hank you to our Character Sponsors for their generous support of the Great Lakes Theater artistic company.

Domonique is ecstatic to share holiday magic this debut season.

Recent credits: Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Ferdinand in The Tempest; Montana Shakespeare in the Parks: Prince Hal in Henry the Fourth Part One, Master Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Texas Shakespeare Festival: Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing, Bellerose/Cadet 3 in Cyrano de Bergerac, Brakenbury in Richard III; First Stage Milwaukee: Robin Hood in Robin Hood; Shakespeare Walla Walla: Prince of Morocco/Salanio in The Merchant of Venice; Thunderclap Productions: Gregory in From White Plains; Catastrophic Theatre Company: Reverend Benson in Bootycandy; Black Lab Theatre Co.: Johnson in Really Really.

Training: University of Houston.

Aled Davies* Mr. Fezziwig/Rich Man 1/ Ensemble Twenty-one seasons with Great Lakes Theater

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Previous shows on stage include Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, Ragtime, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, August Wilson’s Radio Golf, A Raisin in the Sun, and Intimate Apparel.

Film: Real Steel, Dog Eat Dog, Curvature and The Big Ugly. Other theaters include Ensemble Theatre Cleveland, Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland Play House, The Beck Center, The Second City Cleveland, ACME Hollywood, California. His distinctive voice can be heard in commercials and video games and in animation on Netflix.

Domonique Champion* Christmas Past/Christmas Future/Ensemble Debut season with Great Lakes Theater

Previously for Great Lakes: Prospero in The Tempest, Sir Wilfrid Robarts QC in Witness for the Prosecution, Seyton the Porter in Macbeth, The Gravedigger in Hamlet, Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady, The Old Actor in The Fantasticks, Scrooge/ Samuels in A Christmas Carol, King Lear in King Lear, John Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Your Chairman in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dorn in The Seagull, Deputy Governor Danforth in The Crucible, Prospero in The Tempest and Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. A proud and appreciative member of Actors’ Equity since 1984. GO BROWNS!

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Jodi Dominick* Jane/Mrs. Cratchit/ Charwoman/Ensemble Thirteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous shows include Witness for the Prosecution, The Music Man, Mamma Mia!, Julius Caesar, Wait Until Dark, Les Misérables, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Sweeney Todd, The Mousetrap, Cabaret, Into the Woods, Twelfth Night, An Ideal Husband, The Imaginary Invalid, My Fair Lady, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Richard III and The Tempest.

Eleven seasons at The Idaho Shakespeare Festival, GLT’s sister company. Other theaters: New World Stages, Hudson Backstage Theater, The Beck Center, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Hayworth Theatre, Dobama Theatre and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Jodi is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music.

Mark Doyle Master Richard/Peter Cratchit/Dick Wilkins/ Ensemble Debut season with Great Lakes Theater Mark is a current junior music theater student at Baldwin Wallace University. Most recently, Mark understudied GLT’s production of The Tempest. Other credits include Spring Awakening (u/s Melchior), Twelfth Night (Feste) and The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio) at Baldwin Wallace. Mark is thrilled to be working with everyone at GLT! @mark.c.doyle Jeffrey C. Hawkins* Topper/Miner/Rich Man 3/ Ensemble Eight seasons with Great Lakes Theater

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Favorite GLT: Milo in Sleuth, Mortimer The Fantasticks, Hysterium in Funny Thing… Forum, Reverend Hale in The Crucible and “Jeffrey” in Comp Wrks of Shkspr… . Off-Broadway: Three Wise Guys, BeyondTherapy, Three Men on a Horse, Memorandum and Incident at Vichy.

Regional: Inherit the Wind, Wait Until Dark, The Mousetrap (REP); Book Club Play (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Doubt (Flatrock Playhouse); Peter… Starcatcher, Fall of Heaven (Rep Theatre STL); Romeo and Juliet, She Stoops..., Cymbeline (Idaho Shakes); The Hound of the Baskervilles (Tahoe Shakes); Boeing Boeing, (Delaware Theatre); Camera: Some movies, some TV, most titles for Rockstar Games. Training: PCPA, University of Delaware, associate artistic director The Actors Company Theatre.

Jillian Kates* Mother/Belle/Fred’s Wife/ Ensemble Eight seasons with Great Lakes Theater Select previous GLT roles include Stephano in The Tempest, Marian in The Music Man, Portia in Julius Caesar, Donna in Mamma Mia!, Jane in Pride and Prejudice, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, and Texas-Sally u/s in Cabaret. She also appeared in the ensemble of the Broadway national tour of Wicked and covered the roles of Glinda and Nessarose. Proud graduate of Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, Oklahoma-raised, Brooklyn-based. So much love to the insanely talented creative team, cast, crew and office staff that make up this magical place. @smallfirevintage Jessie Cope Miller* Debtor’s Wife/Ensemble Nine seasons with Great Lakes Theater Jessie is so thankful to return to A Christmas Carol! She most recently played Mrs. Squires in The Music Man and Trebonius in Julius Caesar with GLT. Just over 10 years ago, she played the Witch in Into the Woods during GLT’s inaugural season at the Hanna Theatre. Other credits include A Christmas Carol, Abuela Claudia (In The Heights), Lady of the Lake (Monty Python’s Spamalot), Irene Molloy (Hello, Dolly!) and the Leading Player (Pippin). A graduate of the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music, she’s a proud Actors’ Equity member since 2005.

Many thanks to the entire company. Much love to Marlowe, family and friends. For Dougfred, Always.

David Anthony Smith* Marley ✶/Lighthouse Keeper/ Rich Man 2/Undertaker Nineteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater

Nick Steen* Father/Bob Cratchit/ Ensemble Eight seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous roles with the company include Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, Macduff in Macbeth, Caliban in The Tempest, Laertes in Hamlet and Clifford in Deathtrap. Nick holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Evansville, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the American Conservatory Theater. He’s also a voice actor whose work can be heard on Hulu, and Spotify. Nick has endless gratitude for his family and for his love, Nicki. <4 you, my gorgeous fish! Visit www.NickSteen.com for more.

Tina D. Stump* Cynthia/Mrs. Fezziwig/ Laundress/Ensemble Debut season with Great Lakes Theater Previous shows include Musical Memories (Golde/Asaka/The Witch),

M.A. Taylor* First Charity Man/Helmsman/ Joe the Keeper/Ensemble Nineteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater After a year of darkness, GLT’s annual production of A Christmas Carol brings light once again. Previous credits: Calphurnius, Julius Caesar; Tailor, The Taming of the Shrew; Carter/Dr. Wyatt, Witness for the Prosecution; Murderer, Macbeth; Puck, Midsummer Night’s Dream; Reynaldo, Hamlet; Feste, Twelfth Night; Doolittle, My Fair Lady; and 25 seasons at Idaho Shakespeare. He also worked at PTTP/ Rep, Boise Contemporary Theater and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. He holds an MFA from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP). Many thanks to his families (genetic and professional). May this holiday season be delightful. To the blessed memory of those lost. Peace on Earth.

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At GLT: Andrew Wyke in Sleuth, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Iago in Othello, Sergius in Arms and the Man, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Twenty seasons with The Idaho Shakespeare Festival (Title role in Henry V). Other theaters: The Old Globe, Laguna Playhouse, South Coast Rep, and the Shakespeare festivals of Utah, Colorado, Rhode Island, Nevada and Lake Tahoe. In addition to numerous television appearances, David has starred in four feature films: The Hanoi Hilton, Terror in Paradise, Field of Fire and Judgment Day. ✶ Kris & George Tesar

Leading Ladies, Breakout Session (Sargent Karen Spencer), The World Goes Round (Woman 1), Ella Enchanted (Lucinda), Disney’s Newsies (Medda Larkin), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Armelia), Jacques Brel (Woman 1), The Young Man from Atlanta (Clara) and South Pacific (Bloody Mary). Tina is a native Clevelander. Kindergarten teacher by day, thespian by night, she also sings with Pastor Ron Williams and the Voices of Koinonia and The Welcome Table. Tina would like to thank Victoria Bussert and Charles Fee for making her dream of performing in A Christmas Carol come true. God bless us everyone!

Hanako Walrath Miss Elizabeth/Fan/ Martha Cratchit/Ensemble Debut season with Great Lakes Theater Previous shows include South Pacific with the Cleveland Orchestra (Liat), Kinky Boots (Swing), Be More Chill (Christine), Les Misérables (Cosette), Spring Awakening (Thea u/s) and Into the Woods. Hanako, a ✶T hank you to our Character Sponsors for their generous support of the Great Lakes Theater artistic company.

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junior Music Theatre major at Baldwin Wallace University, is thrilled to be joining Great Lakes Theater and is ecstatic that live theatre is back! Lots of love to my family, Gary, Yoko, and Maiko. @hanakowalrath

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Joe Wegner* Young Scrooge/Nephew Fred/ Ensemble Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater Joe was most recently seen in The Tempest at GLT and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Off-Broadway: Judgement Day (world premiere, Park Avenue Armory.) Regional theater: The Taming of the Shrew (Great Lakes Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival), Archduke (world premiere, Center Theater Group), Guys and Dolls, A Wrinkle in Time (world premiere), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Very Merry Wives of Winsor Iowa, Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, Romeo and Juliet (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Guys and Dolls (Wallis Annenberg Center), The School for Lies (Arkansas Repertory Theatre) and In the Blood (Mixed Blood Theatre). TV/Film: Tales of the City (Netflix).

Education: BFA, Southern Oregon University. www.joewegner.net

Young Company Zain Abbas Sled Boy/Ignorance Debut season with Great Lakes Theater

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Zain is delighted to join GLT’s A Christmas Carol! Previous shows include Oliver!, Robin Hood, Seussical, Honk Jr., Alice in Wonderland Jr., Addams Family, Mystery of Edwin Drood and Frozen Jr. Upcoming: Legally Blonde Jr. (JTF 2022). Theaters: Beck Center for the Arts, Near West Theatre, Olde Towne Hall Theatre.

Zain also enjoys cartooning, tennis, ukulele, and reporting for Scholastic Kids Press.

Special thanks: Sharon Godsey, Rachel Spence and Amy Wooley. Thanks Mom, Dad, Zahra, and Lulu.

Josephine Bullock Street Child/Want/Swing Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous shows include A Christmas Carol, Spamalot Jr., The Lion King and Oklahoma!. TV/Film includes Baby Oopsie and Three Bears Christmas. Josie is an 8th grader at Hathaway Brown School. She studies acting with John D’Aquino and The Beck Center, has spent three summers training and performing at French Woods Festival of the Arts, and last summer trained with the Second City comedy troupe. She’d like to thank her amazing friends, encouraging family and the wonderful team at GLT! Lexi Cowan Miss Polly/Sarah Cratchit Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater Lexi is in 10th grade at Laurel School. She was last seen on the GLT stage as Little Cosette in Les Misérables, and is thrilled to be back!

Lexi earned her first professional acting job at age 3 1/2 and has been working in film and on stage ever since. She has also spent the past five summers training and performing at Stagedoor Manor. You can find out more about Lexi at IMDb.com. Extra thanks to her amazing family, friends and everyone at GLT! Jack Kanaris Street Singer/Delivery Boy/ Tiny Tim Cover Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater Jack is thrilled to return to GLT for A Christmas Carol! He is a freshman at Berea-Midpark High School where he participates in marching band and show choir. Jack has most recently performed with Counterpoint Studio CLE in Newsies and Children of Eden. Jack would like to thank everyone at GLT for the amazing opportunity to work with them again. He’d also like to thank his family, teachers and friends for their love and support.

Audrey Morrison Skate Girl/Ensemble Debut season with Great Lakes Theater Audrey was most recently seen as Uncle Fester in The Addams Family at Westlake High School. Previous shows include A Christmas Story (Esther Jane), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Ensemble), Anne (Annie) and Cinder-Ella (Ella), Theaters: Cleveland Play House, Neat West Theatre, OPA, Beck Center. Audrey is sophomore at Westlake High School and is a member of the show choir, band, student council and drama club. She would like to thank her friends and family for supporting her.

Laurien’s previous shows include A Christmas Story at Cleveland Play House, Aunt Leaf at Helen Theater, Sacco e Vanzetti with the International Opera Theater, Newsies and 13: the Musical with ATNY, Seussical The Musical at Beck Center and Godspell and Addams Family at Near West Theater.

Currently, Laurien studies voice via the Musical Pathway Fellowship at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is a sophomore at Saint Joseph Academy, where she plays on the lacrosse team.

Avery Pyo Master William/Tiny Tim ✶/ Schoolboy Scrooge Three seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous shows include A Christmas Carol, The Music Man, South Pacific, Rise, Around the World in 80 Days and Willy Wonka, Jr. Other theaters: Near West Theatre, Western Reserve Playhouse, Buckeye Community Theatre and Ohio Youth Ensemble. She is thrilled to be returning to the stage to be part of this iconic production. Avery would like to thank her family for helping her to continue chasing her dreams. ✶ Cheryl Barnes

Previous roles and shows include Matilda, Matilda the Musical at Beachwood Community Theater; Amaryllis, The Music Man at Porthouse Theater; Louisa, The Sound of Music at Brecksville Community Theater; Pua, Moana, The Musical, Jr.; and Gabriella, High School Musical, Jr. Mia is an eighth grader at Kimpton Middle School in Stow, Ohio. She would like to thank her family and friends for their unending support, along with the amazing directors, cast and crew at Great Lakes Theater.

Chase Christopher Zadd Master Robert/James Cratchit/Adolescent Scrooge Nine seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous shows include Into the Woods, Alice in Wonderland, Titanic, Newsies, Addams Family, A Christmas Carol, The Music Man, The Secret Garden, Showboat and Xanadu. Chase is a sophomore at Lutheran High School West, and involved in the school’s theater department.

Credits include a featured extra in the Netflix movie The Last Summer and various local commercials. Chase is extremely grateful to GLT for this opportunity once again.

He enjoys anything outdoors, and utilizing his enormous imagination building set designs. He dreams of Broadway often!

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Laurien Palmer Soloist/Street Child Five seasons with Great Lakes Theater

Mia Renard Miss Abigail/Belinda Cratchit/Ensemble Debut season with Great Lakes Theater

Understudies Mateus Cardoso, Aled Davies*, Jeffrey C. Hawkins*, Eden Mau, Ricky Moyer, Mia Soriano

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Directors

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Gerald Freedman Original Director, Adaptor

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Gerald Freedman is Dean Emeritus of the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, one of the leading undergraduate acting conservatories in the nation. A book about Gerald’s life and teachings, The School of Doing, was published last year, and is available at the GLT gift shop and online. An Obie Award winner and the first American invited to direct at the Globe Theatre in London, Gerald is regarded internationally for his direction of productions of classic drama, musicals, operas, new plays and television. He served as leading director of Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival from 1960 to 1971, the last four years as artistic director.

He was co-artistic director of John Houseman’s The Acting Company from 1974 to 1977, artistic director of the American Shakespeare Theatre from 1978 to 1979, and artistic director of Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1985 to 1997. Gerald has staged 29 of Shakespeare’s plays, along with dozens of other world classics. He made theater history with his off-Broadway premiere of the landmark rock musical Hair, which opened the Public Theater in 1967. Broadway direction includes The Robber Bridegroom; The Grand Tour; the revival of West Side Story, co-directed with Jerome Robbins; the premiere of Arthur Miller’s The Creation of the World and Other Business and Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Gerald also directed opera productions for the Opera Society of Washington (Kennedy Center), the San Francisco Opera Company and the New York City Opera. Prior to becoming Dean of the UNC School of the Arts, he also taught at Yale and Juilliard. A native of Lorain, Ohio, he received both his BS and his MA (summa cum laude) from Northwestern University, and trained with Alvina Krause, Emmy Joseph and at The Actors Studio.

Charles Fee Producing Artistic Director Twenty seasons with Great Lakes Theater Directing credits at GLT: Sleuth, Witness for the Prosecution, A Christmas Carol, Misery, Macbeth, Hamlet, And Then There Were None, Dial “M” for Murder, Deathtrap, Blithe Spirit, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well, Hay Fever, The Importance of Being Earnest, Arms and the Man and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Charles holds a unique position in the American theater as producing artistic director of three independently operated, professional theater companies: Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, Ohio (since 2002); Idaho Shakespeare Festival in Boise, Idaho (since 1991) and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival in Incline Village, Nevada (since 2010). His appointments have resulted in a dynamic and groundbreaking producing model for the companies, in which more than 60 plays have been shared since 2002. In 2009, Charles was honored to receive recognition for his leadership by the Cleveland Arts Prize as a recipient of the Martha Joseph Award.

Other awards include The Mayor’s and Governor’s awards for Excellence in the Arts, Idaho. From 1988 to 1992, he held the position of artistic director at the Sierra Repertory Theatre in California. He has also worked with The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, the Milwaukee and Missouri repertory theaters, Actor’s Theatre of Phoenix and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival.

In addition to his work with the companies in Ohio, Idaho and Nevada, Charles is active within the community. He has served as a member of the strategic planning committee for the Morrison Center, as producer of the FUNDSY Award Gala (’96, ’98 and 2000), and as producer of the 1996 Idaho Governor’s Awards in the Arts. Charles has served on the board of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce and as a member of the Downtown Rotary Club. He received his BA from the University of the Pacific and Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Along with his wife,

Lidia and daughter, Alexa, Charles resides in Boise, Cleveland and Lake Tahoe — a feat that is only possible because of the incredible love and support of his family, and the generous communities he serves!

David Shimotakahara Choreographer Thirty-two seasons with Great Lakes Theater

Matthew Webb Music Director Sixteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Matthew is music director for music theater at Baldwin Wallace University for productions that have included Into the Woods, Spring Awakening and Kinky Boots. As music director for Great Lakes Theater, productions include Mamma Mia!, Beehive, Forever Plaid, The Fantasticks, Sweeney

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David Shimotakahara was a member of the Atlanta Ballet, Boston Repertory Ballet, Kathryn Posin Dance Company and Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. He performed with Ohio Ballet under the direction of Heinz Poll from 1983 to 1998. In 1998, he founded GroundWorks Dance Theater, for which he is Executive, Artistic Director. Based in Cleveland, the company is committed to creating and producing new work in dance. Mr. Shimotakahara has choreographed for opera and theater with Cleveland Opera, Great Lakes Theater, Cleveland Play House and the Dallas Theater Center. From 1996 to 2018, he received eight Individual Artist Fellowships for Choreography from the Ohio Arts Council. In

1998, he received a McKnight Foundation Fellowship from the Minnesota Dance Alliance to create new work in the Minneapolis, St. Paul communities. Mr. Shimotakahara was awarded the 2000 Cleveland Arts Prize for Dance. In 2002, his work with GroundWorks Dance Theater was voted “One of 25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. In 2007, he received the OhioDance award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Dance Artform. In 2010 and 2014, Mr. Shimotakahara was a recipient of a Creative Workforce Fellowship, a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, funded by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.

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Todd, Sondheim on Sondheim, Guys and Dolls, Cabaret, Bat Boy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Elsewhere: Lizzie (Playhouse Square), Once (Beck Center) and Hair (Cain Park and Kent State). Previous sound design at Great Lakes: The Tempest, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth and Hamlet.

Many thanks to Sara, Charlie, and his incredible parents, Carol and Jerry.

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Designers Mary Jo Dondlinger Lighting Designer Thirty-three seasons with Great Lakes Theater Career design credits include productions for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Circle in the Square, The Irish Repertory Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, TheatreWorks (Hartford) and many others.

Mary Jo has long been associated with the York Theatre Company off-Broadway where she designed the original production of The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), as well as many other musicals and plays. Most recent credits at Great Lakes Theater are The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Fantasticks, Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd and Sondheim on Sondheim.

John Ezell Scenic Designer Forty-four seasons with Great Lakes Theater

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He is an award-winning associate artistic director and director of design at GLT under Vincent Dowling, Gerald Freedman and James Bundy. He has designed for Broadway; New York Shakespeare Festival; NY Public Theatre; Crossroads Theatre; Roundabout Theatre; Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger; Williamstown; Berkshire; Old Globe; Coconut Grove; Asolo State Theatre; Arizona Theatre Company; Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Dallas Theatre Center; Indiana and Kansas City repertory theaters; Cincinnati Play House in the Park; Hong Kong Repertory Theatre; Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa; the Istanbul Cultural Olympics;

Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts; Lyric Opera; Blackstone Theatre and Second City in Chicago; Cincinnati Ballet; Royal Danish Ballet; Royal Theatre in Copenhagen; Swedish Riksteater and the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm; and CBS, PBS-TV and Swedish State Television. His drawings have been exhibited in New York, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Prague and Brussels. His work received the Award for Experimental Television Art in Milan, Italy; two Corporation for Public Broadcasting Awards for Excellence; and 15 national Critic’s Circle awards, including the 2011– 2012 Connecticut Critics Circle Award for best professional sets at the historic Westport Country Playhouse. He is a Fellow of the College of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Gene Emerson Friedman Scenic Designer Thirty-two seasons with Great Lakes Theater Gene has designed Gerald Freedman’s adaptations of A Christmas Carol and People Who Led to My Plays, as well as The Dearest Friends, The Boor, The Enemies, The World of Sholom Aleichem and What the Butler Saw (Great Lakes Theater Festival). Other designs include Calderon’s Life is a Dream (New York’s Lincoln Center); Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); Second City Does Arizona (Arizona Theatre Company); A Christmas Carol, Death of a Salesman, Master Class, I’m Not Rappaport (Kansas City Rep); The Music Man, Carousel, La Cage aux Folles (StagesSaint Louis); and Death and the Maiden (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). Gene is architectural historian of the Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe [1629] at Zuni Pueblo, and serves as archivist and curator of the Casa de Santo Nino, also at Zuni. He is a tenured associate professor of design at UMKC. His fine art, “Stages Of Conversion,” has been seen at multiple galleries.

Jeff Herrmann Lighting Designer Sixteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous productions for GLT include scenic designs for The Music Man, Mamma Mia!, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, Bat Boy: The Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Into the Woods, Les Misérables, The Secret Garden, My Fair Lady and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, all joint productions with Idaho Shakespeare Festival. A professor of theatre at Baldwin Wallace University, Jeff holds an MFA in scene and lighting design from Southern Illinois University and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.

Stan Kozak, among his more than 50 design credits, most recently designed sound for Bat Boy: the Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Comedy of Errors. His work in 1979 and 1981 with Geraldine Fitzgerald

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Stan Kozak Sound Designer Thirty-five seasons with Great Lakes Theater

on Streetsongs at GLT led to the original cast album. Mr. Kozak was the resident sound designer for four seasons at the Porthouse Theatre Company, including productions of Driving Miss Daisy, Niteclub Confidential and And a Nightingale Sang. His collaborations with Victoria Bussert at BaldwinWallace College include productions of Chess, Hair, Cabaret, West Side Story, Tommy in Concert, the Ohio premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion and one of the first nonprofessional productions of The Phantom of the Opera. For Cain Park, his design credits include The Secret Garden; Fiddler on the Roof; Bat Boy: the Musical; Tick, tick...Boom; Nine; The Wiz and Pippin.

Mr. Kozak has also designed sound for Dobama Theater, Cleveland Opera, Beck Center, the Jewish Community Theater and TrueNorth Cultural Arts. He has served as sound designer for the All-City Musical for the last fourteen seasons, as well as for the Ideastream Gala concert with Bebe Neuwirth in 2005. He was honored to be among the first group of LORT sound designers to achieve recognition in USA 829.

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Tom Mardikes Sound Designer Thirty-two seasons with Great Lakes Theater Tom Mardikes most recently designed sound for GLT’s summer 2005 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. His past designs have been for Julius Caesar, The Dybbuk, King Lear, Hamlet and The Cherry Orchard.

He has worked on more than 250 professional productions nationwide, where he has designed for Kansas City (formerly Missouri) Rep, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Starlight Theatre, the Unicorn Theatre, the Dallas Theatre Center, Syracuse Stage, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, the Roundabout, Buffalo Studio Arena, Alley Theatre, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. In the spring of 2015, he designed sound for Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing for Repertory Theatre St. Louis and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. He is a professor and head of graduate sound design training at the nationally prominent professional theater-training program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 2005, he co-founded Kansas City Actors Theatre that has successfully produced acclaimed productions with its artist-led, artist-driven mission.

James Scott Costume Designer

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James Scott has designed costumes for productions of works by Shakespeare, Moliere, Ibsen, Chekhov, Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini at regional theaters and opera houses across the country. Among his favorite productions are Love’s Labour’s Lost for the New York Shakespeare Festival; Ten Little Indians, Arcadia, The Miracle Worker and The Most Happy Fella for the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; The Merchant of Venice for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Norma and Il trovatore for the Minnesota Opera; Il barbiere di Siviglia for the Washington Opera; MacBeth, Othello and The Taming of the Shrew for the Acting Company’s national tours; Funny Girl, Fiddler on the Roof and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg for the Sundance Theatre; and Sweeney Todd, I pagliacci and Il viaggio a Reims for the Portland Opera in

Oregon. His production credits for Great Lakes Theater span more than 20 years, and include Romeo and Juliet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Rough Crossing, As You Like It and A Little Night Music. Mr. Scott is a graduate of New York and Brown universities, and attended the School of Law at The City University of New York. He is also an elite figure-skater and is thrilled that Cleveland hosted the Gay Games in 2014. He would like to dedicate the design for this production in memory of Susan Gregg, director of Fallen Angels for Great Lakes Theater.

Cynthia Stillings Lighting Designer Thirty-one seasons with Great Lakes Theater Cynthia Stillings designs regionally and nationally, and designed the Great Lakes Theater premiere of Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders. Opera and dance credits include Sweeney Todd, Carmen, Of Mice and Men, The Man of La Mancha and Turandot for Cleveland Opera, where she was resident lighting designer; Tartuffe for Skylight Opera Theatre; and An American Festival for the Cincinnati Ballet. Regional theater credits include Utah Shakespearean Festival, where she designed The Matchmaker, Candida and the world premiere of the new musical Lend Me a Tenor, the Musical; Madison Repertory Theatre; Porthouse Theatre; Cain Park Theatre; The Contemporary American Theatre Company; Phoenix Theatre Circle and an award-winning production of Assassins for Players Theater Columbus. Ms. Stillings is the former Associate Dean of the College of the Arts and Interim Dean of Graduate Studies at Kent State University.

Robert Waldman Music Adaptor and Arranger Thirty-two seasons with Great Lakes Theater Robert Waldman has written primarily for the theater. He began his career as a protégé of Frank Loesser, and his music has been heard in Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Cleveland Play House and Edgardo Mine at the Guthrie Theater, as well as in GLT’s pro-

Stage Management Nicki Cathro* Production Stage Manager Six seasons with Great Lakes Theater Nicki is overjoyed to be returning for her sixth season at Great Lakes Theater.

Previously, she’s worked as the production stage manager for The Tempest, Julius Caesar and A Christmas Carol; the assistant stage manager for Sleuth, The Music Man, Witness for the Prosecution, Misery, Macbeth and Pride and Prejudice; and production assistant for Hamlet, The Hunchback

of Notre Dame and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Nicki earned her BFA in Radio, Television and Film from the University of North Texas, and is a member of AEA. She is beyond thrilled to be back in the theater with her husband and friends.

Sarah Kelso* Assistant Stage Manager Five seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous shows: Sleuth, Million Dollar Quartet, Beehive the 60’s Musical, Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet.

Eleven seasons with Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Sleuth, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Million Dollar Quartet, Beehive the 60’s Musical, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Forever Plaid, The Fantasticks and Steel Magnolias.

Ten seasons with Boise Contemporary Theater: The Wolves, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, With Love and a Major Organ, Good Bitch Goes Down, Hand to God, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and A Skull in Connemara. Sarah is a graduate of Boise State University’s Department of Theatre Arts.

Author Charles Dickens ✶ Charles Dickens was a British author.

Between 1836 and 1870, he wrote 15 novels, including A Christmas Carol, which helped popularize the holiday tradition of gift-giving in Britain and America. He was a strong advocate for poor and working class families — and many of his novels highlighted impoverished characters triumphing against the odds. His novels include Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and David Copperfield. ✶Thomas G. & Ruth M. Stafford

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duction of Glass Menagerie; in New York in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, The Heiress and Voices in the Dark; and Lincoln Center’s Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Ivanov, Dinner at Eight, The Rivals, Jon Robin Baitz’ A Fair Country and Ten Unknowns. Most recently, his work was heard in Wendy Wasserstein’s Third, David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre and Peter Parnell’s The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket. Waldman composed the score for Broadway’s Here’s Where I Belong and The Robber Bridegroom, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, as well as winning most recently the 2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival in NYC, and Florida’s Poinciana and Parker Playhouse’s revue of Lois Wyse’s Funny You Don’t Look Like a Grandmother.

His music has been heard in Arthur Laurents’ 2 Lives; Hartford Stage’s musical, America’s Sweetheart; Long Wharf’s As You Like It and The School for Scandal; Washington Shakespeare Theater’s Richard II and The Country Wife; as well as the Kennedy Center musical, Swing. Performances of Mr. Waldman’s compositions have been heard in films, on television, in ballets and in numerous commercials and concert halls. Illustrated collections of some 40 of his piano compositions for children have been published by G. Schirmer — among them A Swing Bag, A Rag Bag, A ¾ Bag and A Santa Bag. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in musical theater, the Dramatists Guild of America’s Flora Roberts Award for Outstanding Music for the Theater and the JEFF Award in Chicago for Best Original Music for Driving Miss Daisy.

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DONORS The trustees, staff, and artistic company of Great Lakes Theater express our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of supporters of Cleveland’s Classic Company. The donors listed below and on the following pages made generous gifts to our Annual Fund between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021. “I can no other answer make but thanks.” Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene iii

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Make a Contribution Great Lakes Theater serves more than 100,000 students and adults annually through its Hanna and Mimi Ohio Theatre mainstage productions and education programs throughout Northeast Ohio. Please consider joining the Great Lakes Theater family by making a gift to support Cleveland’s Classic Company.

To learn more about our Membership and gift-giving opportunities, please visit the “Support” section of our website (GreatLakesTheater.org) or contact Jeremy Lewis, Development & Donor Relations Manager at (216) 453-4457 or jlewis@greatlakestheater.org.

$100,000 and above Cuyahoga Arts & Culture

The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation

The George Gund Foundation Kulas Foundation

John P. Murphy Foundation

Ohio Arts Council

$50,000 to $99,999 David and Inez Myers Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland

$25,000 to $49,999 Community Foundation of Lorain County

The Reinberger Foundation

The National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.

Shakespeare in American Communities: National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest

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Over 800 patrons generously donated the value of their tickets back to support Great Lakes Theater during pandemic-related disruptions to our 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons. This vital “intermission” support has enabled us to raise our curtain once again. We are truly grateful! Scan the QR code to check out the full list of donors online.

THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY Annual Fund donors of $1,000 and above are members of Great Lakes Theater’s “Shakespeare Society” and are entitled to exclusive benefits, including access to special services, events, and opportunities to connect deeply with Cleveland’s Classic Company. To learn more, contact Jeremy Lewis at (216) 453-4457 or jlewis@greatlakestheater.org.

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The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation The Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation Eaton The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation The Family of Jill Hearey Martha Holden Jennings Foundation Robert° & Janet Neary Don & Anne Palmer Georgianna T. Roberts The Shubert Foundation Thomas G. & Ruth M. Stafford The Stocker Foundation The Treu-Mart Fund, a supporting organization of The Cleveland Foundation and the Jewish Federation of Cleveland The Thomas H. White Foundation, a KeyBank Trust Robert C. & Emily C. Williams

Michelle R. Arendt Walt & Laura Avdey Carol A. Barnak Gina L. Beebe Kim & Bart Bixenstine Mr. Todd M. Burger & Ms. Kristie Beck Homer Chisholm and Gertrube Kalnow Chisholm Fund George A. M. Currall Timothy J. Downing & Ken Press Charles, Lidia & Alexa Fee Dianne V. Foley Lynn M. Gattozzi & Glenn Myers Jeanette Graselli-Brown & Glenn R. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Arthur C. Hall III Mary Elizabeth Huber Faisal Khan & Angela DiCorleto Mr. & Mrs. John J. Lane, Jr. The Laub Foundation Victor C. Laughlin, M.D. Memorial Foundation Trust Susan & John Lebold The Lubrizol Foundation Rita & Charles Maimbourg David & Denise Maiorana Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Mayer Jack E. McGrath Karen Nemec Dr. Scott & Mrs. Judy Pendergast Michael & Barbara Peterman Ms. Ana G. Rodriguez Kim Sherwin Sally J. Staley A.J. & Nancy Stokes Geoff & Catherine Tanner Kris & George Tesar Arthur L. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Paul L. Wellener IV

$5,000 to $9,999 Anonymous (1) Chuck & Bonnie Abbey Dalia & Robert Baker Fred & Mary Behm Bill & Judie Caster Gail Cudak Carol Dolan & Greggory Hill Evelyn Dolejs Natalie Epstein Ernst & Young, LLP The Harry K. and Emma R. Fox Foundation Glenmede Trust Company Elizabeth Grove & Rich Bedell Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Hartwell Diane Kathleen Hupp Paul R. Keen & Denise Horstman Keen Thomas A. Piraino & Barbara C. McWilliams Tim & Lynn Pistell Greg Pribulsky & Donna Heinz John & Barbara Schubert

$1,000 to $2,499 Anonymous (3) Gary D Benz & Betsy A Karetnick Mitch & Liz Blair Mr. Kip T. Bollin & Catherine Bollin Matthew Burke & Victoria Sistek Jack & Janice Campbell

Donald & Annamarie Chick Christopher & Nancy Coburn Mrs. Anthea Daniels & Mr. Matthew Burke Eva & Larry Dolan Rebecca Dunn Dr. Howard Epstein Evans Charitable Foundation Steve Gariepy & Nancy Sin The Giant Eagle Foundation Rich & Barbara Gray The Gries Family Foundation Geoffrey Michael Heller Memorial Fund Mr. & Mrs. Douglas M. Hicks Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc. Katie Kennedy & Doug White Donna M. Koler The Milton A. & Charlotte R. Kramer Charitable Foundation Ms. Cathy Lincoln Eva & Rudolf Linnebach Ken & Mary Loparo Mr. & Mrs. John S. Lupo Mr. & Mrs. William E. MacDonald III Katie McVoy & Justin Cernansky Nordson Corporation Foundation Michael Novak The Perkins Charitable Foundation M.B. Perkins Donor Advised Fund Mr. & Mrs. Wilmer M. Piper John & Norine Prim Uma & Lilena Rajeshwar Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Rosen Otmar & Rota Sackerlotzky Linda Schlageter The Sherwin-Williams Company Christopher & Gail Steward Katherine Stokes-Shafer The Alvah Stone & Adele Corning Chisholm Memorial Fund Diana & Eugene Stromberg Mr. Frederick & Mrs. Elizabeth G. Stueber James L. Wagner Nancy-Anne Wargo Mary C. Warren ° Deceased

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Welcome! The following individuals made their first gift, returned as active donors or increased their gift to Great Lakes Theater’s Annual Fund during the period of July 1, 2021 through October 20, 2021. The Great Lakes Theater family is grateful for your support!

Anonymous (1) Gary Ciolli Mr. Theodore Elrick David V. Foos Carla & Jim Gallagher

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$750 to $999 Robyn & David Barrie John & Laura Bertsch Barry & Suzanne Doggett Gary & Joanna Graeff Dr. & Mrs. Lynn A. Smith

$500 to $749 Anonymous Ms. Carol Arbaczewski Jennifer & Michael Armstrong Joanne R. Bratush Julia & Ben Brouhard Patricia Brownell & James Collins Beverly & Bruce Cameron Bruce & Maryellen Cudney Audrey DeClement Ms. Charlotte A. Estafen Ann & Harry Farmer Mr. Joseph Ferritto Dale & Linda Gabor Bernie & Nancy Karr Eileen Kennedy & Greg Cloyd Bill & Susan Kirchner Jim & Paula Lang Barbara & Mark Mazzone Helen & Harry Mercer David & Leslee Miraldi Roy & Cindy Moore Toni & Linda Moore Ms. Barbara B. O’Connor Thomas & Helen Rathburn Mrs. Sharon L. Rogers Dina & Richard Schoonmaker Jack & Terry Southworth Albert Stratton Wulf & Moira Utian Chris & Mary Weaver Mr. & Mrs. Harold L. Williams Brian Wynne & Patrick Cozzens Mr. Lee C. Zeiszler John & Jane Zuzek

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Anonymous (2) Ms. Louise Acheson The Thomas and Joann Adler Family Donor Advised Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland Bill Amato

Donna M. Koler Ursula Korneitchouk Kenneth & Joan MacGillivray Jennifer & Peter Meckes Lou M. Papes

Mrs. Kathryn Berkshire John & Jeannene Bertosa Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Beyer Gary & Kay Bluhm Cindy & Tim Carr Jim & Berni Cockey Rollin & Anne Conway Dr. & Mrs. Kevin D. Cooper Pete & Margaret Dobbins Mary Eileen Fogarty Jenifer Garfield Robert & Linda Jenkins Gary Nemeth & Gail Jones-Nemeth Larry & Joy Kent Bob & Nanci Kirkpatrick Michael & Lynn Kleinman Ronald G. Kollar Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Kozel Stephen & Carolyn Kuerbitz Robert & Jennifer Larson Mr. & Mrs. Brian Lawler Daniel Leschnik Kenneth E. & Anne R. Love Thomas & Sheryl Love The Mersol Family Steve Z. & Mary Gibbs Mitchell Glenn & Susan Morley Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Patalon Ms. Diane L. Pauley Jeff & Nancy Reinhart Dr. Edward J. Rockwood Amy & Ben Schaum Mr. & Mrs. James L. Wamsley III Dr. & Mrs. Gregory A. Watts John & Dianne Young Ms. Rachel Zbiegien

$125 to $249 Anonymous (3) Judie & Bruce Amsel Matthew Baker Ms. Carol Barasha Mr. Thomas D. Basco Ms. Pamela Benson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Berges Lynn Berner Susan Bobey Tommy Boddy John Bolton Ms. Carole Rupnik Brown Mike & Carole Brown Larry & Andi Carlini Mr. Robert Carlyon

Frederick Perry Bryan Salisbury A.J. & Nancy Stokes

Ms. Joanne Clifford Samuel Cowling Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Craft David & Gayle Cratty Ms. M. Judith & Mr. Ronald J. Crocker Judith Darus Mr. William M. & Mrs. Ruth Ann Delong Mr. & Mrs. Robert Eikenburg Mr. & Mrs. L. William Erb David V. Foos Carla & Jim Gallagher Deborah A. Geier Janet & Patricia Glaeser Ms. Linda Grau Jean E. Gubbins Ms. Edith F. Hirsch Lynn & Mark Hofflund Jessica Holland Ms. Marie Ivkanec Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Janson Stephen Jones Lauren Kawentel Mr. Kenneth R. Kessler William & Marion Kettering Mr. & Mrs. David R. Knowles Ms. Robin Kunikis Gregory & Vickie Leyes Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Linick Charles E. & Donna Loper Philip & Simone Montgomery Ms. Barbara H. Nahra Tom & Mary Neff Joan Niederriter Joan M. Oravec Robert & Margery Orth Frederick Perry Mr. David Porter Ms. Bette M. Prendergast Ms. Jacqueline Y. Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Rowan Mr. Richard Shirey Edward W. & Donna Rae Smith Mr. Byron Solomon & Mrs. Julie Johnson Susan St. John Kathlyn & Harry Stenzel Betsy Sullivan Kara Suzelis Dr. Elizabeth Swenson Sean & Tabitha Swick Dr. & Mrs. Ken Tomecki Dr. Joanne M. Uniatowski

Anne Unverzagt & Richard Goddard Mr. & Mrs. James D. Vail Christine & Daniel Vento Carol A. Vidoli Mr. Kenneth Vinciquerra Mr. & Ms. Michael Wagner Jerry & Carolyn Webb Ms. Martha Webster Ms. Suann M. Winczek Ms. Jean Wingate Thomas M. Wladyka Ms. Constance Wolfe James & Sandra Wood Jason & Gretchen Woods Mr. Ted Zajac, Jr.

$75 to $124 Anonymous (2) Lori Adler Ms. Kimberley Barton Brian & Teresa Bester Roger Bielefeld Tom & Dorothy Bier James & Anita Bridges Mr. David Byrnes Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Charlick Mr. Edward A. Chuhna Gary Ciolli Dr. & Mrs. Dale H. Cowan Chris & Mary Ann Deibel The Eldridge Family Mr. & Mrs. Emerson Clyde & Janice Evans Mr. & Mrs. Fishwick Ms. Jeanne Frey Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Gabb Charles & Julia Gall Givinga Foundation Ms. Pamela S. Goetsch Ms. Wanda Gulley Richard & Esther Haberlen Marian Hancy Gale Hazen Linda A. Heath Jean Heller Curt & Karen Henkle John Higgins & Cicilia Yudha Janice Hornack IBM Corporation Tom & Terri Jecker Amy & Jeff Johnson Deb & Gar Kaminski Marilyn & Howard Karfeld

Endowment Fund Gifts to the Great Lakes Theater Endowment Fund were received from the following donors between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021.

Mrs. Mary Jane Hartwell° Edward S. Godleski

Gifts were received in honor of: Carol Dolan by: The Ashkettle Family Mr. and Mrs. John Azzolina Mary Dolan and David Haracz Paula Drdyen Dianne V. Foley Chad & Ivy Gaizutis Barb Harris Ms. Kathy Leciejewski Jeremy P. Lewis Tanya Scharpf Bob Taylor & Jeff Herrmann Kris & George Tesar Antoanela Vaccaro Laura Weiss Shauna Widman Natalie G. Epstein by: Marilyn Bedol Chad & Andrea Deal Mr. Gene DiVincenzo Dr. Lauren Goldman Mr. & Mrs. Henry Goodman Wulf & Moira Utian Mr. David I. & Mrs. Ann K. Warren Mr. & Mrs. Philip Wasserstrom Mr. Adam Weinsein Mr. & Mrs. Steven Wiesenberger Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival Interns 1977-78 (A Merry Band of Players) by: Ms. Mary C. Gearen Hal Holzer by: Ramona Bause

Gifts were received in memory of:

Matching Gift Corporations

Mrs. Al A. Archambault by: Women’s Committee of Great Lakes Theater

Many companies, like the ones listed below, match all or a portion of their employees’ charitable giving. Is your employer a matching gift company? Find out by contacting your employer or the Great Lakes Theater Development Office at (216) 453-4457.

Charles H. Dickson by: Cerity Partners, LLC Gail Cudak Ann & Harry Farmer Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Hartwell Janet E. Neary Lucy Oliver & Tom Rightmyer Thomas G. & Ruth M. Stafford Bob Taylor & Jeff Herrmann Jean Lewis by: Elizabeth Woolf Kate Lunsford by: John & Judith Fuller Debbie Hunter Tricia & Stephen Mullin Georgianna T. Roberts Neil & Laurie Segall Viola McDowell by: Jack & Janice Campbell Women’s Committee of Great Lakes Theater Carole Nicolosi by: Ms. Joyce L. Adams Jim Sheridan by: Donna Sheridan Jean Terstage by: Marcia J. Terstage Sarah C. Umek by: Sarah Clemons-Ogan Demitra Xinakes by: Ed & Denise Bell The Bornstein Family Sherry & Ira Feuer & Family Anita B. Rosenbaum

Todd Krispinsky by: Ms. Margaretta B. Harris Janet & Bob Neary by: Mr. & Mrs. Doug Neary

Aramark Eaton GlaxoSmithKline Foundation The Lubrizol Foundation Nordson Corporation Foundation PNC Foundation Progressive Insurance Foundation The Sherwin-Williams Company

The Women’s Committee Formed in 1961, the committee is Great Lakes Theater’s longest standing volunteer support group.

Members act as hosts for our actors, provide support in our administrative office and at events, and cheer us on throughout the season. If you would like to become a member, call Joanne Hulec at (216) 252-8717 for more information.

Officers Janice Campbell, President Barbara Chernus, Recording Secretary Bernice Bolek, Corresponding Secretary Nanci Kirkpatrick, Treasurer

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Paul Kershey Ms. Kerry King Mr. & Mrs. Albert Kirby Benjamin R. Kirkpatrick Richard B. Kotila Jacob Kronenberg & Barbara Belovich Al & Cynthia Kuntz Mike Kupiec & Pat Murphy Brian & Renee Lowery David & Cheryl Lundgren Ms. Anne Martin Ms. Margaret Martino Gretchen Mates Ms. Constance May Cathy J. McCall Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. McDonald David & Eileen McGee Jean McQuillan & Richard Christ Rev. Edward E. Mehok Ms. Meribeth A. Pannitto Zachary & Deborah Paris Brian Perry & Ka Pi Hoh Mr. & Mrs. James M. Petras Sandy & Kate Robbins Pauline Ryder Dr. Dave & Faye Sholiton Mr. & Mrs. Alan Shubert Mary Slak Mr. & Mrs. Vernon C. Sponseller Diane Stewart Darren & Missy Toms Thomas Wagner & Malinda Smyth Ms. Kathleen Waits William Wallis Lance Whitson & Terry Juhn Sharon & Yoash Wiener Colleen Williams & Jim Persichitti Ms. Jeanne Wojciechowicz Patrick M. Zohn

°Deceased: The legacy of these generous donors lives on for future generations.

Thank you to our donors! Every effort is made to ensure that our donor records are current and correct. Please contact the Great Lakes Theater Development Office at (216) 453-4457 to share an update or request a revision.

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TRUSTEES Chair

Samuel Hartwell*

President

William Caster *

Secretary

Elizabeth A. Grove *

Treasurer

at Playhouse Square

Kathleen Kennedy *

Trustees

Beth A. Adams Michelle Arendt Jennifer Dowdell Armstrong* Walter Avdey*

Dalia Baker Gary D. Benz Kim Bixenstine* Kip T. Bollin Todd M. Burger* Gail L. Cudak George A. M. Currall Anthea Daniels Carolyn Dickson† Barry Doggett† Carol Dolan* Timothy J. Downing* Dr. Howard G. Epstein* Natalie Epstein† Dianne V. Foley* Lynn M. Gattozzi Arthur C. Hall III* Mary Elizabeth Huber

Diane Kathleen Hupp Denise Horstman Keen Faisal Khan* John W. Lebold* William MacDonald III† Charles Maimbourg David M. Maiorana Ellen Stirn Mavec† Mary J. Mayer John E. McGrath† Katie McVoy* Ingrid A. Minott* Janet E. Neary† Michael Novak Michael J. Peterman† Timothy K. Pistell† David P. Porter† Gregory Pribulsky*

Uma M. Rajeshwar Georgianna T. Roberts† Ana G. Rodriguez John D. Schubert† Peter Shimrak† Thomas G. Stafford*† Sally J. Staley Diana W. Stromberg Catherine Tanner Kristine M. Tesar* Arthur L. Thomas Nancy Wellener * Executive Committee † Life Trustee

STRATEGIC ALLIANCE In 2002, Great Lakes Theater (Cleveland, Ohio) and Idaho Shakespeare Festival (Boise, Idaho) conceived a unique, strategic producing alliance designed to maximize return on organizational investments, increase production efficiencies, create long term work opportunities for artists and share best practices. In 2010, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (Incline Village, Nevada) joined the collaborative — further contributing to the momentum of the revolutionary producing prototype’s success. The long term results have been remarkable. The alliance’s three independent, 501c3 regional theaters have shared over 60 jointly-created productions — each featuring long term, multi-city employment opportunities for artistic company members. This revolutionary producing model has realized its vision and exceeded expectations while simultaneously resulting in notable audience growth for each company.

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STAFF Leadership Charles Fee, Producing Artistic Director Bob Taylor, Executive Director

Management Team Associate Artistic Director.........................Sara Bruner Production Manager.................................... Majel Cuza Director of Educational Services.................Kelly Schaffer Florian Managing Director................................Todd Krispinsky Director of Educational Programming...... Lisa Ortenzi Director of Administration....................Stephanie Reed Director of Marketing & Communications................................... Kacey Shapiro

Artistic Development Development & Donor Relations Manager................................................... Jeremy Lewis Patron Services Coordinator.................. Marilyn Niksa

Education Education Outreach Associate................David Hansen School Residency Program Actor-Teachers ..........Noelle Elise Crites, Kelly Elliott, Tim Keo, Ryan Pangracs, Avery LaMar Pope and Asia Sharp-Berry

Special Thanks Great Lakes Theater is a member of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT) and operates under agreements with LORT, Actors’ Equity Association, American Federation of Musicians, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and the United Scenic Artists, which are unions representing professional actors, stage managers, musicians, stagehands, directors, choreographers, and designers, respectively, in the United States.

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Artistic Associate.........................................Jaclyn Miller

Crafts/Stitcher........................................ Zachary Hickle Stitcher..................................................Christine Kreysa Wardrobe Supervisor....................... Mackenzie Malone Wardrobe Crew..........Esther Haberlen, Zachary Hickle, Leah Loar, Christina Spencer Wig Styling...........................................Wigs & Whiskers Master Electrician.................................... Tammy Taylor Electrics Consultant......................................Paul Miller Electrics...................................................Kristof Janezic Audio Supervisor.....................................Brian Chismar Production Assistant....................................Amy Essick Young Company Supervisor...............Lindsay Mandela Run Crew....................... Amy Essick, Richard Haberlen, William Langenhop, Lindsay Loar, Ralph Melari, Paul Miller, Tammy Taylor, Gary Zsigrai Mimi Ohio Theatre Crew.....Thomas Boddy, Chris Guy, Shaun Milligan, Nathan Tulenson Health and Safety Team........ Jaclyn Miller, Amy Essick, Lindsay Mandela

Production Assistant Production Manager................ Shaun O’Neill Company Manager.......................................Amy Essick Technical Director.......................................Mark Cytron Production Office Assistant.......................Grace Pierce Assistant Technical Director.............Richard Haberlen Master Carpenter.......................................Lindsay Loar Carpenters........................... Ralph Melari, Gary Zsigrai Properties Master............................. Bernadine Cockey Costume Director............................Esther M. Haberlen Assistant Costume Shop Manager/Tailor......Leah Loar First Hand...........................................Christina Spencer

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