PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Playbill - Fall 2018

Cleveland’s Classic Company at the Hanna Theatre presents

Oct. 5 – Nov. 4, 2018

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Welcome..................................................................................................................... 4 About Great Lakes Theater............................................................................................ 5 News & Notes.............................................................................................................. 6 Pride and Prejudice...................................................................................................... 9 Cast of Characters...................................................................................................... 10 Spotlight on Pride and Prejudice................................................................................. 13 The Artistic Company................................................................................................. 23 Donors....................................................................................................................... 32 Trustees..................................................................................................................... 37 Staff.......................................................................................................................... 38 October/November at Playhouse Square....................................................................... 39

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WELCOME Dear Friends,

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n behalf of our artists, staff and Board of Trustees, welcome to Great Lakes Theater’s 57th season! Our mission, “to bring the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience,” guides our mainstage productions as well as our educational programming, in the belief that theater holds the capacity to illuminate truth and enduring values, celebrate and challenge human nature and actions and provide our student audiences a glimpse of a broader world and the wellspring of learning made possible through the arts.

We open this season with the smash hit, feel-good musical, Mamma Mia!. Following in the footsteps of GLT’s recent productions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and My Fair Lady, director Victoria Bussert’s staging highlights the intimacy of the Hanna Theatre, enabling the story-telling magic of pop-hit songs and the enchanting tale of love to take center stage. Playing in rotating repertory with Mamma Mia!, Joseph Hanreddy’s inventive adaption and staging of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice brings a world of irresistible romance and comedy to our Parker Hannifin Stage. I hope you will enjoy witnessing, as I do, our experienced and talented company of artists move seamlessly from a large-scale musical to an elegant classic.

As the curtain rises on our 57th season, we offer special thanks to the Kulas Foundation, which has sponsored our musical productions for the last several years as part of the Kulas Musical Theater Series at Great Lakes Theater. This fall, we are also deeply grateful to John and Barbara Schubert as well as The John and Susan Lebold Family for their generous support of our production of Pride and Prejudice. And when you read through your program, you will see the names of many friends, partners, corporations and foundations whose generous support makes all of this possible. I encourage you to join these donors by becoming a member of the Great Lakes Theater family with your gift.

We extend our sincere gratitude to all of our sponsors and annual members, with continued appreciation to our partners of more than 35 years at Playhouse Square, and the tireless efforts of our Board of Trustees, dedicated administrative staff, gifted artists and the tremendous generosity of this community.

I hope to see you in our audience again soon.

Charles Fee Producing Artistic Director

“ His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, ‘This was a man!’”

— Julius Caesar (Act V, Scene v) DOUGFRED MILLER (1963 - 2018) Consummate Artist | Brilliant Mind Renaissance Man | Eternal Friend

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Great Lakes Theater proudly celebrates the memory and legacy of this extraordinary member of our artistic family.

ABOUT GREAT LAKES THEATER

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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, and 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 the joyful and meaningful connections between classic plays and their own lives.

The company’s commitment to classic theater is magnified in the educational programming that surround 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 approaches 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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Great Lakes Theater’s summer 2018 production of Beehive – The ’60s Musical. (Photo by Roger Mastroianni)

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NEWS & NOTES Team Shakespeare Takes Shape

Chennelle Bryant-Harris Education Assistant

Olivia M. Williams Advancement Associate

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We are pleased to welcome two team members to the Great Lakes Theater administrative staff! Chennelle BryantHarris assumed the role of Education Assistant this summer after four seasons as an Actor-Teacher in our School Residency Program and three years as a member of our Classics on Tour artistic company. And, new to our family, Olivia M. Williams was recently appointed Advancement Associate to support our foundation and corporate engagement efforts. Working with Chennelle and Olivia, we look forward to engaging more students and to deepening and expanding relationships with our generous supporters!

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National Honors

Bash-Breaking News

Classics on Tour

Cleveland’s Classic Company is in select company! Arts Midwest, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, recently announced $1 million in grants to 40 nonprofit, professional theater companies across 27 states to perform the works of William Shakespeare for students through the Shakespeare in American Communities program. Great Lakes Theater is proud to have been selected as one of this season’s grantees for our upcoming production of The Taming of the Shrew.

We are thrilled to be able to introduce future generations to the classics as a result of this prestigious grant award.

Join us for a performance and party on the stage of the Hanna Theatre! Save the date for our 2019 Backstage Bash and make plans to attend on March 16, 2019.

Enjoy an original show, then party backstage with our company of artists while enjoying food stations, live music, games, raffles and an open bar. (What’s better than an open bar for St. Patrick’s Day weekend?!?)

All Backstage Bash proceeds benefit our mainstage and educational programming, which impacts over 100,000 students and adults annually.

We’re bringing an iconic tale to elementary and middle schools in 2019 with Treasure Island, our Classics on Tour production, designed to impart important social lessons and provide a memorable theatrical experience.

Venture out on the high seas with young Jim Hawkins as he searches for the lost treasure of Captain Flint. A brave band of actors embrace clowning, slapstick, puppetry and music in the greatest pirate story ever told. Visit greatlakestheater. org/education to learn more about how to bring a performance of this production to a school near you.

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2018/19 season SUBSCRIBE & SAVE BIG!

The Smash Hit Feel-Good Musical

MAMMA MIA!

September 28 - November 11, 2018 / Hanna Theatre Music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus / Some songs with Stig Anderson Book by Catherine Johnson / Originally conceived by Judy Cramer / Based on the songs of ABBA

A Classic Romantic Comedy

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE October 5 - November 4, 2018 / Hanna Theatre

Based on the novel by Jane Austen / Adapted by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan

Northeast Ohio’s Favorite Holiday Tradition

A CHRISTMAS CAROL November 30 - December 23, 2018 / Ohio Theatre

By Charles Dickens / Adapted and originally directed by Gerald Freedman

Agatha Christie’s Gripping Courtroom Thriller

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION February 15 - March 10, 2019 / Hanna Theatre

By Agatha Christie

Shakespeare’s Uproarious Battle of the Sexes

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW March 29 - April 14, 2019 / Hanna Theatre

By William Shakespeare

A Tony-Winning Rock ‘n’ Roll Tribute

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET May 3 - 26, 2019 / Hanna Theatre

Book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux / Original Concept and Direction by Floyd Mutrux Inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins

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Hanna Theatre | October 5 – November 4, 2018

Charles Fee Producing Artistic Director

With generous support from:

John and Barbara Schubert, in honor of their dear friend, Howard Gray, S.J. &

The John and Susan Lebold Family Presents

JOSEPH HANREDDY & J.R. SULLIVAN BASED ON THE NOVEL BY DIRECTED BY

JANE AUSTEN

JOSEPH HANREDDY

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Company

Lynn Allison* Laura Welsh Berg* Kailey Boyle* Shayla Brielle G.* Kelsey Brown Aled Davies*

Katherine DeBoer* Jodi Dominick* Warren Egypt Franklin* Tré Frazier Melissa Graves* Courtney Hausman

Carole Healey* David Holbert Jillian Kates* Amy Keum* Matt Koenig* Andrew May*

Daniel Millhouse* Mack Shirilla* Jake Slater Eric Damon Smith* Nick Steen* Alex Syiek*

Choreographer Jaclyn Miller Scenic Designer Linda Buchanan

Costume Designer Martha Hally

Production Stage Manager Jessica B. Lucas*

Lighting Designer Paul Miller

Sound Designer Barry G. Funderburg

Assistant Stage Manager Nicki Cathro*

*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 grant from Eaton.

There will be one fifteen-minute intermission.

Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com) The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

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CAST OF CHARACTERS Mr. Bennet.................................................................................................Andrew May* Mrs. Bennet..............................................................................................Carole Healey* Jane Bennet...............................................................................................Jillian Kates* Elizabeth Bennet................................................................................. Laura Welsh Berg* Mary Bennet.......................................................................................Courtney Hausman Catherine Bennet..........................................................................................Amy Keum* Lydia Bennet..............................................................................................Kailey Boyle* Mr. Darcy......................................................................................................Nick Steen* Georgiana Darcy............................................................................................Amy Keum* Mr. Bingley.......................................................................................... Daniel Millhouse* Miss Caroline Bingley............................................................................. Jodi Dominick*† Mr. Collins.........................................................................................Eric Damon Smith* Mr. Wickham.............................................................................................. Matt Koenig* Lady Catherine de Bourgh............................................................................ Lynn Allison* Miss Anne de Bourgh..........................................................................Courtney Hausman Sir William Lucas.........................................................................................Aled Davies* Lady Lucas........................................................................................ Katherine DeBoer* Charlotte Lucas....................................................................................... Melissa Graves* Mr. Gardiner................................................................................................Aled Davies* Mrs. Gardiner........................................................................................Katherine DeBoer Mrs. Reynolds......................................................................................... Melissa Graves* Fitzwilliam.....................................................................................................Alex Syiek* Mr. Denny................................................................................................. Mack Shirilla* Captain Carter...............................................................................Warren Egypt Franklin* Servants/Soldiers.......Shayla Brielle G.*, Kelsey Brown, Warren Egypt Franklin*, Tré Frazier, David Holbert, Mack Shirilla*, Jake Slater, Alex Syiek*

Run Times Act I: 1 hour, 25 minutes

Intermission: 15 minutes

Act II: 1 hour, 4 minutes

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

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first came to Jane Austen’s novels in the early ’90s, middle aged, male, and in the manner of most of my education, by doing research for a play. In this case, it was Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, half of which is set in an English country manor in 1809. A friend urged me to look at Austen, a writer I never had much motivation to read based on a hazy impression of her most popular book, a sentimental romance with an alliterative title beloved of young women, including one of my high school girlfriends. Soon after, I took a battered paperback of Persuasion from a “Take a book, leave a book” shelf at a Chicago commuter train station leaving, as I recall, a copy of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in its stead. Persuasion turned out to be exactly the detailed depiction of the social manners and mores of the Regency era I was looking for, and Austen’s nuanced, compassionate portrayal of lost love, regret and loneliness, spiked with her satirical, subversive, ironic humor was a revelation. Hooked, I binged my way through her other novels, including the crown jewel that I had so misjudged, Pride and Prejudice. Forward to 2009 and looking for a project for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, where I was then the Artistic Director, I teamed with my friend Jim Sullivan to create this adaptation.

Pride and Prejudice is a perfectly written novel, one that is “sacred” to legions of readers. I initially went into the project enthusiastically, but with the dispiriting fear that anything that we changed as we envisioned it for the stage would inevitably make it less perfect, disappoint Austen’s zealous fans and worse, betray the author. A freeing revelation came when I discovered that Austen and her family were great lovers of the theater. Jane wrote and staged “theatricals” at home, attended plays in London and Bath at every opportunity, seeing some productions multiple times, and her letters are full of her reactions to the plays and players she liked and didn’t. With this thought in mind, I approached the writing imagining that she had always intended the story to be on stage and her perfect novel was a few hundred pages of extraordinarily detailed notes for a play that she intended to write but never got to, and that we had her blessing and the freedom to search out the play in these notes, editing, rearranging, and occasionally inventing details, so long as we remained faithful to her characters and journeys.

—Joseph Hanreddy Director, Pride and Prejudice

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match, but must contend with her overly zealous mother, his [class-conscious] sister, and the slippery social ladder [of Regency England]. And when Bingley’s [aloof] friend Fitzwilliam Darcy shows an interest in the spirited and opinionated Elizabeth, the situation becomes more complicated than either of them expect.

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About Pride and Prejudice

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n spring 1812, Jane Austen daily sat at a small table near a parlor window in Chawton cottage, revising the novel that would be published in 1813 as Pride and Prejudice. The celebrity status of Jane Austen today would have been inconceivable to the Jane Austen of 1812. The writer’s name was then unknown beyond her family and friends. But while Jane Austen’s novels were never published under her own name during her lifetime, her work has carried that name much further than she could have ever dreamed.

Jane Austen was born in 1775, in a parsonage in Steventon, Hampshire, England, and died in 1817, in the Hampshire county town of Winchester. Most of her life was spent in Hampshire. The daughter of Rev. George and Cassandra Leigh Austen, Jane was the seventh child in a family of eight and one of only two girls.

Jane Austen’s extended family encompassed many of the socio-economic conditions she depicted with such specificity in her novels. Her father’s people were wealthy wool merchants but his particular family branch had fallen a few notches. The Leighs, her mother’s family, were landed gentry; but since land and money were rarely passed down through the mother, the Austens participated in the Leigh lifestyle as visitors (though one Austen brother would marry back into the Leigh family.) Two of the

Jane Austen’s writing table in Chawton cottage

Austen brothers became clergymen. One spent his career in the Navy, another tried banking.

Jane’s brother Edward was adopted by a wealthy relative whose estate he stood to inherit. Jane’s world expanded when Edward took up residence in a grand house in Kent and another brother, Henry, lived for a time in London.

While the brothers made their way, Jane and her sister Cassandra stayed at home. But theirs was not a life of unruffled domesticity. The rec-

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arriage is an inevitable fact of life for the five Bennet sisters— Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia. With the family estate entailed away to a cousin they’ve never met, their only hope to advance in life is to find and rich and single man—and one has arrived in the form of the very handsome and very well-off Charles Bingley. The kind-hearted and beautiful Jane seems poised to make a

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Jane Austen’s brother Edward was able to provide a living for his mother and sisters at Chawton cottage after 1809.

tor’s income was meager, and financial pressures motivated family decisions. Rev. Austen tutored boarding students in his home. Since space was needed for paying customers and Mrs. Austen was needed to tend to them, the Austens sent all their children to village families to be raised until they were two. Cassandra and Jane were shipped out from time to time to boarding schools or wealthy relatives. The parents and daughters downsized to rented rooms in the resort town of Bath when Rev. Austen retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, the widowed mother and her daughters rotated among various relatives for several years. Stability came when Edward Austen took possession of Chawton in 1809, but anxiety lingered when Edward’s inheritance was challenged in court.

Those experiences of financial insecurity and dependency permeate Jane Austen’s novels.

In novels and in life, marriage offered a way for women to escape such pressures. But neither Jane nor Cassandra ever married. If Cassandra had not destroyed so many of her sister’s letters after Jane’s death, perhaps the question of whether or not Jane Austen knew love firsthand could be answered definitively. As it stands, the mention of a law student named Tom Lefroy in several surviving letters led to an interpretive biography in 2003, Becoming Jane Austen, later a 2007 film, that imagines the kind of life experience that the author created for her characters

Steventon parsonage, as depicted in A Memoir of Jane Austen

— without the happy ending.

Financial concerns did not prevent Jane Austen’s family from nurturing her as a writer.

Rev. Austen had a library of 500 books and provided his daughters with pen, paper, and literary subscriptions. Amateur theatricals at Leigh family gatherings also introduced Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s School for Scandal and other witty comedies of the day. Writing clever prologues and epilogues for such gatherings was a family sport.

Jane joined the fray at an early age. Three volumes of “juvenilia” survive and include a play based on Samuel Richardson’s The History of Sir Charles Grandison and a History of England in

A 1799 letter from Jane to Cassandra | The sisters only wrote to each other when they were apart. Of the many hundreds they wrote, Cassandra destroyed many. Only 161 letters between the two survive.

Oliver Goldsmith’s lively style. As widely as young Jane read, a subscription in June 1796 to Fanny Burney’s Camilla, a comic tale of misunderstanding in love, seems to have spurred her to ine’s point of view. Sense and Sensibility, greater ambition. While visiting her brother attributed anonymously to “a lady,” was the first Edward in Kent from October 1796 to August of Jane Austen’s works to be published, in 1811.

1797, she drafted a book called First Impressions, Pride and Prejudice followed in 1813, Mansfield Park in 1814, and Emma in 1815. Jane’s brother later retitled Pride and Prejudice.

First Impressions may have been, as was Henry revealed his sister’s name to the public for Austen’s first draft for Sense and Sensibility, an the first time when he published Persuasion and “epistolary” novel in which the action unfolds Northanger Abbey after her death in 1817.

Jane Austen lived to know that Sir Walter entirely through letters. Samuel Richardson and Fanny Burney were noted practitioners of the Scott praised her work and that the future King style, which allowed characters to express them- George IV was a fan. But she would have detracselves directly while also enabling the comedy of tors. Charlotte Brontë disparaged Austen’s domestic realism as “a carefully letters landing in the wrong fenced, highly cultivated garden, hands. Jane Austen’s father sent with neat borders and delicate First Impressions to a publisher flowers; but ... no open country, in 1797 but it was rejected. An no fresh air, no blue hill, no early version of Northanger bonny beck.”

Abbey received a more encourJane Austen was a miniaturist aging response in 1803 but who once described to a nephew didn’t see print. “the little bit (two Inches wide) When Jane’s life resettled in of Ivory on which I work with so 1809, she began to recast her fine a Brush, as produces little earlier work. Though letters still effect after much labour.” played an important part in Though fine, her brush could revealing characters, as Mr. still, as poet W. H. Auden would Darcy’s letters do in Pride and observe, “Reveal so frankly and Prejudice, a witty, all-seeing nar- Title page of the first edition of with such sobriety/The ecorator now guided the reader, Pride and Prejudice, “by the while still privileging the hero- author of “Sense and Sensibility” nomic basis of society.”

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While Jane Austen wrote, her sister Cassandra sketched, including this portrait of Jane.

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Through the Ages

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Though Jane Austen’s work was well-enough received during her lifetime, it didn’t immediately arouse the devotion it would later inspire. The tide began to turn when her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, with the help of several siblings and cousins, published a beguiling portrait of a beloved aunt in A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869.

Public interest grew at such a pace that English historian Leslie Stephen invented the term Austenolatry in 1876. An 1883 edition of the author’s collected works further sealed her popularity. Pride and Prejudice has since become one of the most popular novels in English literature, with over 20 million copies sold.

Illustration by William Greatbatch (after George Pickering) for an 1833 edition of Pride and Prejudice Greer Garson in a 1940 film version of Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice attracted early interpreters in the movies and on Broadway.

Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier starred in a 1940 film adaptation, while in 1959 a Broadway musical version, starring Polly Bergen, Farley Granger, and Hermione Gingold, returned to the novel’s original title, First Impressions.

The real explosion of worldwide interest may have been sparked by the 1995 BBC television mini-series starring Colin Firth Cast album for First Impressions. and Jennifer Ehle. A 2003 BBC poll declared Pride and Prejudice to be the second most popular novel in Britain, while a 2013 Daily Mail poll declared that “the most memorable moment in British TV” was the scene in which Colin Firth emerges from a lake in a dripping shirt. Since 1995 all of Jane Austen’s novels have been adapted for film or television, most of them more than once. Modern-day reinterpretations of the novels, such as Clueless and The Bridget Jones Diary series, have also been wildly popular.

“The most memorable moment of British TV:” Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation.

The fan fiction title, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, also became a 2016 movie starring Lilly James.

A 2016 exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library, titled “Will and Jane,” put the beloved author on a first name basis with the bard of Avon and included the actual, aforementioned Colin Firth shirt, along with copies of contemporary fan fiction titles, such as the zany Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

It’s not surprising that Jane Austen’s novels would also find their way to the stage. Jane Austen was an enthusiastic theatergoer. In addition to participating in amateur theatricals with her family, she may have attended theater in Bath, which was second only to London as a theater town at that time. Letters to her sister attest that Jane attended theater several times a week while in London in 1814. She witnessed Edmund Kean’s dynamic Shylock and went back again, with several nieces in tow.

Joseph Hanreddy and collaborator J.R. Sullivan were in the vanguard when they adapted Pride and Prejudice for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in 2009. And interest in adapting Austen’s work for the stage has continued to surge since then.

American Theatre Magazine found that Jane Austen was the second most performed author (after Dickens) on American regional theater stages in 2015-2016.

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Jane Austen saw and was taken with Edmund Kean’s dynamic performance as Shylock during an 1814 visit to London.

Lee Stark, Elizabeth Ledo, and Peter Silbert in the 2009 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice for Milwaukee Repertory Theater

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From page to stage

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Scenic designer Linda Buchanan’s sketch for the unit set she designed for the Great Lakes Theater production of Pride and Prejudice

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uest director Joseph Hanreddy confides that Pride and Prejudice is a “perfect” book. The task of adapting perfection must have been daunting. But when Hanreddy first took it up in 2009, and returned to it in 2018, he must have summoned his inner Vince Lombardi. “Perfection is not attainable,” Lombardi once said, “but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” Hanreddy (and collaborator J.R. Sullivan) chased it with gusto.

Emboldened by Jane Austen’s own love of theater and the energy of her dialogue, Hanreddy inhaled “just about everything that she wrote, including letters.” One of the first things Hanreddy had to reckon with was the novel’s narration. That archly judgmental voice, with its knowing insight into Elizabeth Bennet’s contradictions, is central to the book’s charm. On stage, however, the narration and the book’s many letters ran the risk of impeding pace and directness. Without a narrator to focus attention

on Elizabeth, Hanreddy decided to convey Elizabeth’s centrality in a physical way. She rarely leaves the stage in this adaptation, and Hanreddy challenged himself and his designers to find ways to “bring the scenes” to her. Their solutions are integral to the way the adaptation works.

A change of location costs nothing in a novel, and the economic models for film and television productions of period pieces permit high standards for realism in costumes and locations. But a “realistic” approach to the many location changes in Pride and Prejudice would have been very costly on stage. Instead, Hanreddy explains, he “put the script together in the manner of Shakespeare.” His script supplied indications of location in the dialogue at the top of each scene.

Hanreddy also asked scenic designer Linda Buchanan to create one “unit set” that, with the addition and subtraction of furniture, would encompass all of the play’s locations. To convey a sense of period, Buchanan used architectural

Martha Hally’s costume rendering for Jane Bennet includes some of the accessories—a bonnet and a jacket—that are used to convey changes in time and location.

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Inlaid floral patterns from period furniture and floors inspired decorative details in Buchanan’s scenic design.

elements and decorative details inspired by inlaid wood patterns from period furniture. An otherwise bare stage also provided ample space for the story’s three important balls. Since dance choreography already played a big part in the story, Hanreddy decided to extend the sense of movement into the scene changes as costumed servants move furniture on and off stage in a choreographed way. At Great Lakes Theater, it helped that Hanreddy had available a large cast trained in musical theater and capable of executing the pace and fluidity he was looking for.

Similar parameters were set for costumes; each character had only one costume, and any costume changes primarily took place on stage, in view of the audience. The parameters were met by adding and subtracting shawls, bonnets, and other accessories. Period clothing informed the costume details—from the empire-wasted silhouette that was popular in Jane Austen’s day to the plaid cottons from India that were then the rage.

One last element of the adaptation was entirely in Hanreddy’s court. While Jane Austen could write lively dialogue, it’s often embedded within the long, complex sentences of the narrative voice. To help him at the sentence level, Hanreddy absorbed the rhythm of the more direct language of Austen’s letters. In letters that Jane wrote to younger nieces about their matrimonial prospects, Hanreddy found Jane Austen’s own voice on topics that got to the heart of the matter: “how to pick a life partner, how to find someone who you grow to love more and more rather than less or less.”

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Laura Welsh Berg* Elizabeth Bennet ✶ Thirteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Shows at GLT include Hamlet (Hamlet), Macbeth, And Then There Were None, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III, Sweeney Todd, The Tempest, Hay Fever, My Fair Lady, All’s Well That Ends Well, Major Barbara, Macbeth, Measure for Measure and She Stoops to Conquer. At Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival: Viola in Twelfth Night and Speed in Two Gentlemen of Verona. Chicago credits include The Farnsworth Invention at Timeline Theater, Arms and the Man at Centerstage and Mill Fire at SheilPark. She has a BA in theater from Baldwin Wallace University and an MFA in acting from DePaul University. For Dougfred. ✶ Sponsored by David P. Porter & Margaret K. Poutasse Kailey Boyle* Lydia Bennet Great Lakes Theater debut Kailey is delighted to be making her GLT debut! Some recent favorites include Martha in The Secret Garden (New London Barn

Playhouse), Lizzie Borden in Lizzie (Playhouse Square) and Campbell in Bring It On: The Musical (Beck Center for the Arts). Kailey is a rising junior at Baldwin Wallace University.

Many thanks to Mom, Dad and Jack for their incredible and never-ending support.

Shayla Brielle G.* Servant Great Lakes Theater debut Shayla Brielle G. is thrilled to be making her Great Lakes Theater debut! Some of her favorite credits include Anita in West Side Story at Baldwin Wallace University, Danielle in the regional premiere of Bring It On at the Beck Center for the Arts and Electra in Gypsy at Timber Lake Playhouse. Shayla studied music theater and communications at Baldwin Wallace University. Thanks and love to the support system!

Kelsey Brown Servant Great Lakes Theater debut Kelsey Brown is thrilled to be making her GLT debut this season! Favorite credits include Lizzie understudy in Lizzie (Playhouse Square), Charity in Anything Goes (Baldwin Wallace University) and Cheerleader/Flyer in Bring It On (Beck Center for the Arts). Kelsey is a senior at Baldwin Wallace University and will be receiving a Bachelor of Music in music theater in May 2019. She is over the moon to be performing along with her best friends and would like to thank her amazing professors, friends and family for their continuous love and support. @kelseyannebrown

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Lynn Allison* Lady Catherine de Bourgh Seven seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous productions: Death­ trap, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bat Boy: The Musical, Comedy of Errors, The Seagull, Measure for Measure, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Merry Wives of Windsor, You Can’t Take It With You. Thirteen seasons at GLT’s sister company, Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Steel Magnolias, The Foreigner, Sweeney Todd, Noises Off, Mouse Trap, Romeo and Juliet, An Ideal Husband, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Into the Woods, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Crucible, Major Barbara, The Spitfire Grill, Hay Fever.

Other theaters: Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Company of Fools, Alley Repertory Theater, Boise Contemporary Theater, Opera Idaho and Boise Art Museum.

Aled Davies* Sir William Lucas/ Mr. Gardiner Eighteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previously for GLT: Seyton the Porter in Macbeth, Mr. Fezziwig in A Christmas ✶ Thank you to our Character Sponsors for their generous support of the Great Lakes Theater acting company.

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Carol, Snug/Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Marcellus/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, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. A proud and appreciative member of Actors’ Equity since 1984.

Katherine DeBoer* Lady Lucas/Mrs. Gardiner Great Lakes Theater debut Locally, Katherine has performed at Playhouse Square, Cleveland Play House, Cain Park, Porthouse Theatre and more. Theater highlights: The Will Rogers Follies (national tour); The Winter’s Tale, The Miracle Worker, Crumbs From The Table Of Joy, Light Up The Sky and The Cradle Will Rock (Oberlin Summer Theater Festival); South Pacific (Akron Symphony); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Billy Elliot, Mary Poppins, Carrie: The Musical, Next to Normal (Beck Center for the Arts). Film: Anhedonia, Them That Follow, Love Finds You In Sugarcreek.

Training: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, BA: Baldwin Wallace University, JD: Cleveland Marshall College of Law. katherinedeboer.com Jodi Dominick* Miss Caroline Bingley Eleven seasons with Great Lakes Theater

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Previous shows include 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 and Richard III. Nine seasons at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, GLT’s sister company. Other theaters: New World Stages, Hudson Backstage Theater, The Beck Center for the Arts, 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.

Warren Egypt Franklin* Captain Carter/Servant Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater This is his second season at GLT! Some of his favorite credits include Hud in Hair at the Beck Center for the Arts, Jesus in Godspell at Cain Park, George in Stop Kiss at Festival56, Tom Collins in Rent, Anthony in The Theory of Relativity at Playhouse Square and Bernardo in West Side Story. Warren Egypt is a senior at Baldwin Wallace University, where he is currently earning a BM in Music Theatre. He appears courtesy of AEA. Without the love and support of Anthony, CoCo, Granny, Jake, David and his mentor Vicky, he would not have come this far.

Jeremiah 17: 7-8 Instagram: @warrenegypt Tré Frazier Servant/Soldier Great Lakes Theater debut Tré is a recent graduate of the Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre program and is originally from Hartford, Connecticut. Tré was most recently seen in Tick, Tick...

Boom! (Michael) at Playhouse Square, Hair (Ensemble) at the Beck Center for the Arts, Anything Goes (Sailor Quartet) at Baldwin Wallace University, The Nolan Williams Project (Paul/W.E.B. Dubois) at Cleveland Play House, Angels In America (Belize) at Baldwin Wallace University; Violet (Flick), Guys and Dolls (Benny) and The Winter’s Tale (Leontes) at Festival 56 in Princeton, Illinois. Much love to Mom, Dad, Janae, BWMT and The Hybrid Agency! trefrazier.com | Instagram: @jtfsings Melissa Graves* Charlotte Lucas/ Mrs. Reynolds Great Lakes Theater debut One season at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, GLT’s

sister company. Other theaters: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Folger Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, American Players Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Imagination Stage, First Stage, Theater at Monmouth, CATCO, Southern Colorado Repertory Theatre and Wayside Theatre. Melissa has an MFA from the University of Houston and a BA from Ohio University.

Courtney Hausman Mary Bennet/ Miss Anne de Bourgh Great Lakes Theater debut

Carole Healey* Mrs. Bennet Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater Ms. Healey has acted and directed at most of the major regional theatres in the country including The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Utah Shakespeare Festival (company member for 14 seasons), The Alabama Shakespeare Festival (company member for 3 years), Southwest Shakespeare, Great Lakes Theater, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Denver Theatre Center, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Theatreworks in CA, Portland Stage, Riverside Theatre, Kingshead Theatre in London, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Olney, The Cape Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public and many others. Television and Film: Law and Order, The Guiding Light, The Understudy. MFA – The Professional Theatre Training Program University of Delaware.

David is thrilled to be returning to the GLT stage. Some of his recent credits include Newsies (Crutchie) and Footloose (Jeter/Willard understudy) at Clinton Showboat; Hair (Tribe/Claude understudy), Bring It On (Twig) and In The Heights (Ensemble/Sonnie understudy) at Beck Center for the Arts; West Side Story (Baby John) at Baldwin Wallace; The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Quasimodo) at Players Guild Theatre; The Fantasticks (Matt/Mortimer understudy) at Great Lakes Theater. David would like to thank God, his family and friends, BWMT’19 and the faculty at BW. For more information visit DavidHolbert.com or IG: @_davidholbert.

Jillian Kates* Jane Bennet Five seasons with Great Lakes Theater Jillian is all kinds of thrilled to be back with Great Lakes for her fifth season! Previous roles: Eliza in My Fair Lady, Lily in The Secret Garden, Texas/ Sally understudy in Cabaret and Titania/ Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Jillian has also appeared on the road with the Broadway National Tour of Wicked as Glinda/ Nessarose understudy. She is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace University’s Music Theatre Department under the direction of the brilliant Victoria Bussert. So many thanks and accolades to the entire cast, crew and company. Love to my parents, sibs, squeebs, and Rooves … I love your moves, and your hooves.

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Courtney is overjoyed to be making her GLT debut!

Previous credits include Crissy in Hair (Beck Center for the Arts), Anybodys in West Side Story (Baldwin Wallace University), Tommy Boy/Katherine understudy in Newsies (Forestburgh Playhouse), Purity/Dance Captain in Anything Goes (Baldwin Wallace University) and Mary Poppins (Lexington Theatre Company). Courtney is a senior at Baldwin Wallace University, majoring in Music Theatre. Love and gratitude to her family, BWMT’19 and the cast/crew of GLT!

David Holbert Servant/Soldier Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater

Amy Keum* Catherine Bennet/ Georgiana Darcy Great Lakes Theater debut Amy is super excited to be making her GLT debut!

Favorite credits include Bridget Sullivan in Lizzie (Playhouse Square), Christmas Eve in Avenue Q (Weathervane Playhouse), Erma in Anything Goes (Baldwin Wallace University) and Jeanie understudy in Hair (Beck Center

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for the Arts). She is a Music Theatre major at Baldwin Wallace University and will be graduating in May 2019. Much love to her family, friends, professors and God! @amymkeum

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Matt Koenig* Mr. Wickham Great Lakes Theater debut For three years, Matt was a resident artist at the Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) in Santa Maria, California, where he taught voice and speech and played roles including Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher, the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Tom in The Glass Menagerie, Edward in Sense and Sensibility and Caleb in The Whipping Man. Upcoming: Every Christmas Story Ever Told at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre. Other theaters: Utah Shakes­ peare Festival, McCoy/Rigby Entertain­ ment, Ensemble Theatre Company, Garry Marshall Theatre, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New Swan Shakespeare Festival, Florida Studio Theatre, etc. MFA: University of California, Irvine.

Andrew May* Mr. Bennet Nine seasons with Great Lakes Theater Andrew is excited to be collaborating in Cleveland with his old friend and colleague, Joe Hanreddy, after so many memorable productions with him at the Milwaukee Rep and Utah Shakespeare Festival. Andrew has received rave reviews off-Broadway for his performance of Jamie Tyrone in the Pearl Theatre’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, as Friedrich Mueller in the International Broadway tour of War Horse and in numerous regional theaters across the United States and Canada. Most recently, he has performed at Barrington Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Utah Shakespeare Festival, City Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Great Lakes Theater.

Daniel Millhouse* Mr. Bingley Great Lakes Theater debut

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Theater credits: Pride and Prejudice and Mamma Mia!

(Idaho Shakespeare Festival); As you Like It and Women Beware Women (Shakespeare Project of Chicago); The 39 Steps (Buffalo Theatre Ensemble); Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (A Crew of Patches); Soda Pop Culture Shock and Rotten Onion (Second City Training Center); Troilus and Cressida (Great River Shakespeare Festival); Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (Michigan Shakespeare Festival Touring Company).

Other credits: Call of Duty (Activision/Raven Software). Daniel received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a proud member of AEA and is represented by Gill Talent. danielmillhouse.com Mack Shirilla* Mr. Denny/Servant Three seasons with Great Lakes Theater Mack is thrilled to be back home in Cleveland for his third season with Great Lakes Theater!

Previous credits include Francis (Forever Plaid), Huck Finn (Big River), Mike (Theory of Relativity), Cain/Japeth (Children of Eden), Chad (All Shook Up), Bobby C (Saturday Night Fever), Lockwood (History Boys) and George (Spring Awakening). While off stage, he puts his eye for design to work building web sites and editing video for local businesses through his creative studio, Big Stache Design ltd (bigstachedesign.com).

He sends his love to Mom, Dad, Kristin, his friends and everyone at Abrams Artists Agency for their never-ending love and support. @mackshirillla Jake Slater Servant/Soldier Great Lakes Theater debut Jake is thrilled to be making his GLT debut! Previous credits include Berger in Hair (Beck Center for the Arts), Davey in Newsies, Max in Dial “M” For Murder, Michael in The Bridges of Madison County (Clinton Showboat Theatre) and The Theory of Relativity (Playhouse Square). This fall, he’ll begin his senior year at Baldwin Wallace University. He’d like to thank his parents for everything, the cast and crew of GLT,

Grammy for her never-ending love and support, and his dogs Charlie and Buster. Find out more about Jake at jake-slater.com or on Instagram @jaketslater.

Eric Damon Smith* Mr. Collins Three seasons with Great Lakes Theater

Nick is honored to be returning to the beautiful Hanna.

His previous roles with the company include Macduff in Macbeth, Oberon and Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Laertes in Hamlet, Mike Talman in Wait Until Dark, Lombard in And Then There Were None, Dumaine in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Max in Dial “M” for Murder, Sebastian in The Tempest, and Clifford in Deathtrap. Nick received his BFA from the University of Evansville and MFA from American Conservatory Theater. Nick is on a journey together with the greatest fiancé a guy could ask for - <4 you Nicki.

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GLT/ISF: Blithe Spirit (Charles), Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Sweeney Todd and Richard III. Other credits: Holmes and Watson (Moriarty/Orderly/Sherlock Holmes) and Bud in Gutenberg! The Musical at Milwaukee Rep; The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio), Pericles (Helicanus/Bawd), Fair Maid of the West (Goodlack) and As You Like It at Riverside Theatre. A Chicago-based actor and director, recent directing credits include Cymbeline with Muse of Fire Theatre Co., where he also serves as producing artistic associate and casting director, and The Nether and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime at GLM in Reno, Nevada. Training: Hofstra University. Proud AEA member.

Nick Steen* Mr. Darcy ✶ Six seasons with Great Lakes Theater

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Alex Syiek* Fitzwilliam/Servant Four seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous GLT credits: Clopin in Hunchback of Notre Dame, Snout/Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pistol in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Factory Foreman/Claquesous/ Grantaire in Les Misérables, Richmond in Richard III and Policeman in Sweeney Todd. Other favorite credits: Andrew Jackson in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Color and Light Theatre Ensemble), Bob White in White Christmas (Northern Stage), Mr. Franklin in Passing Strange (14th Street Theatre). BM in music theater performance from Baldwin Wallace University and an MFA in musical theater writing from NYU. Proud member of Actor’s Equity. He would love to thank his mother, father and sister for their support.

Understudies Kelsey Brown, Tyler Collins, Aled Davies*, Katherine DeBoer*, Warren Egypt Franklin*, Tre Frazier, Shayla Brielle G.*, Christiana Gavarone, Courtney Hausman, David Holbert, Mack Shirilla*, Jake Slater, Laura Starnik, Grant Strlich-Waybright, Alex Syiek*, Anna Sylvester, Brooke Turner, Sydnee Williams

Directors Joseph Hanreddy Director Five seasons with Great Lakes Theater

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This is Joe’s fifth production with Great Lakes Theater after directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wait Until Dark, King Lear and Richard III. He served seventeen years as the Artistic Director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater after leading the Madison Repertory Theater and the Ensemble Theater Company in Santa Barbara. Since leaving his leadership of the Milwaukee Rep, he has returned regularly to direct and some of his other recent work includes Molière’s The Misanthrope for the Pearl Theater off-Broadway, many productions for the Utah and Door Shakespeare Festivals, as well as People’s Light Theater in Philadelphia,

Writer’s Theater in Chicago, Connecticut Repertory Theater, Next Act Theater and the REP Delaware. In addition to Pride and Prejudice, he has written several plays and adaptations, including Sense and Sensibility with J.R. Sullivan. In January he will return to Santa Barbara and the Ensemble Theater to direct Death of a Salesman in the 40th Anniversary season of the company he founded. Joe, his wife Jami and their Tibetan Terrier, Odin, live at the northern tip of idyllic Door County, Wisconsin.

Charles Fee Producing Artistic Director Seventeen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Directing credits at GLT: Misery, 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 B.A. 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!

Choreography credit for GLT: Hunchback of Notre Dame. Regional: Guthrie Theatre: The Cocoanuts; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Book of Will, Shakespeare in Love, Twelfth Night,

Kathleen Pirkl Tague Dialect/Text Coach Five seasons with Great Lakes Theater GLT: Dialect and Text Coach for My Fair Lady, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Delaware REP (Resident Ensemble Players): Dialect Coaching for The Elephant Man, The Bells and You Can’t Take it With You. Also at GLT: Annie Wilkes in Misery, Judith Bliss in Hayfever and Queen Elizabeth in Richard III. Kathleen is an acting company member with the Resident Ensemble Players at the University of Delaware (nine seasons), where she also teaches under-

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Jaclyn Miller Choreographer Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater

Yeoman of Guard, Fingersmith (world premiere), Much Ado About Nothing, The Cocoanuts, My Fair Lady, Taming of the Shrew; Portland Opera: Pirates of Penzance (assistant director). Additionally, Jaclyn has worked as an associate director and/or choreographer around the country, including at theaters such as Kirk Douglas Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Gateway Playhouse, Parker Playhouse, Colony Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, AMT San Jose and Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. All my gratitude to Charlie, Vicky, Matt and this fantastic company!

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graduate courses in beginning acting, voice and speech and oral interpretation. Training: North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA), PTTP University of Delaware (MFA).

Designers

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Linda Buchanan Scenic Designer Three seasons with Great Lakes Theater Other theaters: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, Court Theatre, Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, Indiana Rep, Cleveland Play House, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Kansas City Rep, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Seattle Rep, Oregon Shakespeare, Syracuse Stage, Yale Rep and many others. Recent work: Having Our Say (Goodman), Blues for an Alabama Sky (Court Theatre), The Tavern (Utah Shakespeare) and Lucio Silla (Buxton Opera Festival, UK). Notable past projects: premiere production of Marvin’s Room (10 regional productions, commercial productions in New York and London) and American premiere of House and Garden (Goodman Theatre).

Barry G. Funderburg Sound Designer Great Lakes Theater debut Off-Broadway: Wittenberg at The Pearl Theatre Company. Regional theatre design and composition: five productions at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; seventy-seven productions at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, including the world premiere of this adaptation of Pride and Prejudice; thirty-four productions at Utah Shakespeare Festival; Alley Theatre; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Kansas City Rep; Arizona Theatre Company; Clarence Brown Theatre; Resident Ensemble Players (Delaware); Baltimore Center Stage; Alabama Shakespeare Festival; and Indiana Rep. Barry has received two Chicago Equity Jeff Awards, a St. Louis Theater Circle Award, an MFA from Purdue University, and is a member of United Scenic Artists.

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Martha Hally Costume Designer Three seasons with Great Lakes Theater GLT: King Lear, Richard III Regional:

Milwaukee Repertory Theater, CenterStage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Alley Theatre, American Players Theatre, Resident Ensemble Players New York: Women Without Men (Drama Desk & Lortel Nominations); Conflict, Fashions For Men, London Wall, A Little Journey (Mint Theater); The Book of Will (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); The Seafarer, Shining City, Banished Children of Eve, Gaslight, The Field (Irish Repertory Theatre) Opera: Chicago Opera Theater, Virginia Opera, Little Orchestra Society of Lincoln Center, Center For Contemporary Opera (NYC). marthahally.com Paul Miller Lighting Designer Four seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previously: King Lear, My Fair Lady, The Secret Garden, Misery. Broadway: Amazing Grace, The Illusionists, Legally Blonde, Freshly Squeezed, Laughing Room Only. OffBroadway: Desperate Measures, Clinton!, Pageant, Vanities, Waiting for Godot, Addicted, Nunsense, Balancing Act. Regional: The Old Globe, Denver Center, Dallas Theatre Center, Chicago Shakespeare, Idaho Shakespeare, Asolo Repertory, American Conservatory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Pasadena Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Westport Playhouse. U.S. Tours: Elf, The Illusionists, Shrek, Legally Blonde, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray, The Producers, The Sound of Music. Television: Live from Lincoln Center, Netflix, New Year’s Eve from Times Square. International: Stratford Festival, London’s West End, Vienna, Milan, Brazil, Philippines, South Africa, China.

Stage Managers Jessica B. Lucas* Production Stage Manager Seven seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous stage-management credits include Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Wait Until Dark with Great Lakes Theater.

Assistant stage-management credits include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, My Fair Lady, The Secret Garden, King Lear and A

Christmas Carol with Great Lakes Theater.

Jessica earned her BA in theater from the University of Scranton and is a proud member of AEA. GF, you are my favorite.

Nicki Cathro* Assistant Stage Manager Three seasons with Great Lakes Theater

Authors Joseph Hanreddy Joseph Hanreddy served as Artistic Director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater from 1993 to 2010 and previously held the same position for the Madison Repertory Theater and the Ensemble Theater Company in Santa Barbara, California. Over the course of his career he has directed and performed in over 200 original and classic works. His recent Off-Broadway production of Moliere’s The Misanthrope was nominated for a Lucile Lortel Award. In addition to Pride and Prejudice, some of Joseph’s stage adaptations include: Sense and Sensibility (with J. R. Sullivan), Seven Keys To Slaughter Peak, inspired by the novel by Earl Derr Biggers, George M. Cohan’s The Tavern, Pirandello’s Six Characters In Search Of An Author, Yes, No, Maybe So and the Milwaukee Rep’s long running A Christmas Carol.

J.R. Sullivan In addition to adapting Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with Joseph Hanreddy, J. R. Sullivan directed its first production at the

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Previously she worked as an Assistant Stage Manager for Misery and Macbeth, and as a Production Assistant on Hamlet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Great Lakes Theater and Idaho Shakespeare Festival.

She is a proud member of the AEA. Nicki earned her BFA in Radio, Television and Film from the University of North Texas.

She has worked in film production and photography, and is thrilled to return to her first love, tech theatre, alongside her fiancé Nick Steen <4. She thanks her family and Nick for their support. For more information on her media company and endeavors, visit cavernmedia.com.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater in 2009.

Sullivan has adapted several works for the stage, including Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and a one-man show based on the writings of journalist and playwright Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century. As a director, J. R. Sullivan’s work has been seen in regional theaters around the country as well as in New York City. For seven seasons he served as associate artistic director of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, directing productions there of Henry V, Gaslight, King Lear, Hamlet, ‘Art,’ The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Stones In His Pockets and others.

At Milwaukee Rep, he has staged productions of Doubt, Born Yesterday, You Can’t Take It With You, Of Mice And Men, Wit and Proof. J. R. Sullivan’s direction has been seen at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with productions of Room Service and As You Like It. Other theaters that have featured his productions include The Arden Theatre in Philadelphia, The Studio Theatre in Washington DC, Delaware Theatre Company, and in Chicago, The Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Northlight Theatre. In 2009 Sullivan began work as the newly appointed artistic director of the Pearl Theater Company in New York City.

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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, 2017 and June 30, 2018. “I can no other answer make but thanks.” Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene iii

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Make a Contribution Great Lakes Theater served more than 100,000 students and adults last year through its Hanna and Ohio Theatre mainstage productions and education programs throughout northeast Ohio. This would not have been possible without the annual support of the hundreds of generous donors listed below. Please consider joining the Great Lakes Theater family by making a contribution to support Cleveland’s Classic Company. Visit the “Support Us” section of our website (GreatLakesTheater.org) or call us at (216) 453-4442 to learn more about our Membership and donation opportunities.

Sponsors: Company Sponsors $100,000 and above The Cleveland Foundation***

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Please consider becoming a member of the growing list of generous Great Lakes Theater Legacy Society supporters and help ensure that classic theater endures for future generations in northeast Ohio by designating Great Lakes Theater a beneficiary in your will, trust or other estate plans.

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Samuel S. Hartwell The Hershey Foundation Jack & Mary Ann Katzenmeyer Kate Lunsford Thomas* & Margaret Lynch Charitable Trust Mary Anne* & Jack McGrath Janet & Bob* Neary James A . Nelson*

Donald & Anne Palmer Jean Z.* & John S.* Piety Tim & Lynn Pistell Professor Alan Miles Ruben & Judge Betty Willis Ruben The John Sherwin Family George* & Marjorie* Springer Thomas G. & Ruth M. Stafford Arthur L. Thomas Audrey* & Dick* Watts

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Avon Circle ($10,000 to $24,999) The Abington Foundation** The Eva L. & Joseph M. Bruening Foundation*** Eaton Corporation*** First Energy Foundation The GAR Foundation*** Jack & Mary Ann Katzenmeyer*** The Lubrizol Foundation*** Thomas & Margaret Lynch Charitable Trust Janet E. Neary*** The Nord Family Foundation*** Nordson Corporation Foundation*** Don & Anne Palmer*** Tim & Lynn Pistell*** PNC Foundation** Georgianna T. Roberts*** The Shubert Foundation*** Thomas G. & Ruth M. Stafford***

Stratford Circle ($5,000 to $9,999) The Bicknell Fund Mr. Todd M. Burger & Ms. Kristie Beck** Bill & Judie Caster* Ms. Anne B. DesRosiers & Mr. Stephen L. Kadish* Carol Dolan & Greggory Hill*** Evelyn Dolejs** Natalie Epstein*** Ernst & Young, LLP*** The Harry K. & Emma R. Fox Foundation*** Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Hartwell*** Paul R. & Denise Horstman Keen** Diane Kathleen Hupp* Mr. & Mrs. Leslie H. Moeller*** Mary Perkins David P. Porter & Margaret K. Poutasse*** Christopher & Gail Steward Kevin M. & Anne R. White** Robert C. & Emily C. Williams**

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Anonymous (2) Chuck & Bonnie Abbey***

Michelle R. Arendt*** Walt & Laura Avdey*** BakerHostetler, LLP Dalia & Robert Baker*** David & Carolyn Bialosky** Kim & Bart Bixenstine** Glenn & Jenny Brown*** Mr. & Mrs. Homer D. W. Chisholm*** Gail Cudak & Thomas Young*** Timothy J. Downing & Ken Press*** Dianne V. Foley* Lynn M. Gattozzi Derek & Lynne Green Elizabeth Grove & Rich Bedell* Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP Mr. & Mrs. Arthur C. Hall III Mary Elizabeth Huber William W. Jacobs*** Katie Kennedy & Doug White Faisal Khan & Angela DiCorleto* Mr. & Mrs. John J. Lane* The Laub Foundation*** Susan & John Lebold* Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Mayer*** Jack McGrath*** Donald W. Morrison*** Nicholas & Sue Peay*** Dr. Scott & Mrs. Judy Pendergast*** Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Peterman*** Thomas A. Piraino & Barbara C. McWilliams** Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Ruhl*** Kim Sherwin** Sally J. Staley*** Brit & Kate Stenson*** Jason R. Suslak Kris & George Tesar Ulmer & Berne LLP*** University Suburban Health Center Mr. & Mrs. Paul L. Wellener IV*** John & Lori Wheeler* Ms. Rebecca A. Zuti & Mr. Anthony D. DeCello**

Folio Circle ($1,000 to $2,499) Anonymous (1) Jennifer & Michael Armstrong Robyn & David Barrie*** John & Laura Bertsch** H.F. & J.C. Burkhardt*** Calfee, Halter & Griswold, LLP***

Jack & Janice Campbell*** Donald & Annamarie Chick*** Robert & Susan Conrad Carolyn & Charles Dickson*** Ms. Leslie C. Dickson* Barry & Suzanne Doggett*** Dr. Howard Epstein* Charles, Lidia & Alexa Fee** Dale & Linda Gabor* Steve Gariepy & Nancy Sin*** The Giant Eagle Foundation** The Gries Family Foundation*** Drs. Thomas & Cynthia Gustaferro* Geoffrey Michael Heller Memorial Fund Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc.*** Kenneth Karosy*** Donna M. & Alex I. Koler The Milton A. & Charlotte R. Kramer Charitable Foundation* Eva & Rudolf Linnebach* Mr. & Mrs. William E. MacDonald III* Rita & Charles Maimbourg McGrath/Spellman Family Trust Mr. & Mrs. Douglas McGregor Katie McVoy & Justin Cernansky Mr. & Mrs. John C. Morley*** Michael Mumford & Neil Vakharia Karen Nemec** Pamela G. Noble & E. Macke Bentley IV** Mr. & Mrs. Patrick W. O’Connor** Mr. & Mrs. Wilmer M. Piper*** John & Norine Prim*** Ms. Ana G. Rodriguez Linda Schlageter*** Naomi G. & Edwin Z. Singer Family Fund, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland*** Nancy Stokes The Alvah Stone & Adele Corning Chisholm Memorial Fund* Diana & Eugene Stromberg*** Gerald F. Unger*** Mary C. Warren** Julie Sabroff Willoughby* *3-5 consecutive years as a donor. **6-9 consecutive years as a donor. *** 10 or more consecutive years as a donor.

Benefactor ($750 to $999) James Eschmeyer*** Mr. & Mrs. Donald Kimmel*** Ken & Mary Loparo***

Sustainers ($500 to $749)

Patrons ($250 to $499) Anonymous (2) The Thomas & Joann Adler Family Donor Advised Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland*** Dr. & Mrs. Peter & Kathy Alscher Thomas & Joan Baker* Mr. & Mrs. Benham S. Bates** Kathy Berkshire*

Rick & Paula Reed Dr. Edward J. Rockwood*** Otmar & Rota Sackerlotzky*** Jim & Joan Schaefer Jeff & Beth Ann Sedam Mr. Bahman Y. Sharif Dr. Howard & Beth Simon* Katherine Stokes-Shafer Karl & Carol Theil** Frank & Vicki Titas** Robert & Marti Vagi** Raymond & Carolyn Voelker* Nancy-Anne Wargo* Dr. & Mrs. Gregory A. Watts** Chris & Mary Weaver Mr. John Wiedemann & Ms. Pamela Schnellinger* Brian Wynne & Patrick Cozzens** Ms. Margaret E. Zellmer**

Associates ($125 to $249) Anonymous (3) Donna Beletic* Ms. Pamela Benson* Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Berges Roger Bielefeld*** Peter Blohm John Bolton*** Ms. Dorothy F. Borer* Mr. Stanley C. Brandt & Ms. Mary K. Whitmer*** Joanne R. Bratush*** Mike & Carole Brown* V. Elizabeth Brown** Larry & Andi Carlini** Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Charlick** Jean McQuillan & Richard Christ*** John & Donna Clifford*** Joanne Clifford James Collins Stan & Lisa Corwin* David & Gayle Cratty*** Mary J. Decker Mr. Alex Derkaschenko John Doucette Daniel & Joyce Dyer ** Mr. & Mrs. Robert Eikenburg*** Gene & Patricia Ewald

Mary Ann & Joseph Fischer** David V. Foos*** Mr. & Mrs. Gerald R. Frei** Mr. & Mrs. Lou Galizio*** Mrs. Barbara J. Garris Virginia T. Goetz* Kathy Grekco Jean E. Gubbins** Tom & Kirsten Hagesfeld*** Ms. Bonnie Ann Hajek Curt & Karen Henkle** Ms. Robin Herrington-Bowen* Mr. & Mrs. Douglas M. Hicks Rick Hoch* Mark & Lynn Hofflund* Kathy & Jamie Hogg*** Ms. Elizabeth A. Irwin Marie Ivkanec* Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Janson** Deb & Gar Kaminski Marilyn & Howard Karfeld*** Lauren Kawentel** Samuel C. Kennell* William & Marion Kettering** Michael & Lynn Kleinman* Mr. Thomas Knox* Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Kozel*** Jacob Kronenberg & Barbara Belovich*** Fred & Joann Lafferty*** Jennifer & Robert Larson** Gregory Leach* Gregory & Vickie Leyes** Brian & Renee Lowery** James Marino Joseph Marinucci Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. McDonald*** Roy & Cindy Moore*** Pat Murphy & Mike Kupiec Ms. Barbara H. Nahra Tom & Mary Neff** Thomas Neff Ms. Brenda Norton Robert & Margery Orth* Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Patalon* Mr. & Mrs. James M. Petras Mr. & Mrs. Harold I. Pittaway III Mr. William Plesec Ms. Mary L. Pollak* Andrew & Brenda Pongracz* Mr. & Mrs. Louis Pongracz**

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Anonymous (1) Gary D Benz & Betsy A Karetnick Julia & Ben Brouhard** Christopher & Nancy Coburn Evans Charitable Foundation* Mr. Joseph A. Ferritto Janet & Patricia Glaeser*** Gary & Joanna Graeff* William Hasler Mark & Barbara Mazzone** Francis & Viola McDowell** Helen & Harry Mercer*** The Mersol Family*** The Music & Drama Club* Deborah L. Neale*** Thomas & Helen Rathburn** Mrs. Sharon L. Rogers*** Dr. & Mrs. Lynn A. Smith*** Albert Stratton Wulf & Moira Utian Carol Lee Vella*** Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Warren*** Margaret & Loyal Wilson** Women’s Committee of Great Lakes Theater Festival*** Mr. Lee C. Zeiszler** Patrick M. Zohn*** John & Jane Zuzek***

John & Jeannene Bertosa** Paul & Heather Blonsky* Gary & Kay Bluhm** Bernice A. Bolek*** Richard & Mary Ann Brockett* Barbara J. Burke** Tim & Cindy Carr** Mr. & Mrs. Lucien H. Case* Ms. Megan Casserlie* Rollin & Anne Conway** Dr. & Mrs. Kevin D. Cooper** Bruce & Maryellen Cudney*** Audrey DeClement*** Pete & Margaret Dobbins* Ted Elrick Mr. & Mrs. L. William Erb* Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Fairchild Jon & Mary Fancher** Ann & Harry Farmer* Mary Eileen Fogarty*** Deborah A. Geier*** Bob & Mia Graf Lee & Peter Haas** Virginia Hansen*** Tom & Luz Higgason Mrs. Edith Hirsch Mr. Herbert J. Hoppe, Jr.* Robert & Linda Jenkins** Dr. Steven & Lena Kanter Bernie & Nancy Karr*** Eileen Kennedy & Greg Cloyd Larry & Joy Kent** Bill & Susan Kirchner* Bob & Nanci Kirkpatrick*** James & Rosemary Koehler Ronald G. Kollar*** Ursula Korneitchouk* Stephen & Carolyn Kuerbitz* Chris & Laura Larson*** Mr. & Mrs. Brian Lawler** Morton & Lola Litt* Anne R. & Kenneth E. Love** Jennifer & Peter Meckes* Steven & Dolly Minter David & Leslee Miraldi*** Steve Z. & Mary Gibbs Mitchell*** Dale Sr., Dale Jr. & Gayle Montgomery Toni & Linda Moore*** Susan N. Morley Ronald Mortus

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Ms. Bette M. Prendergast James & Susan Prince* Ms. Betsy R. Quinn* Peter E. Renerts Reinhold & Ginny Roedig*** Donna Schuerger*** Steve & Kathy Schultz** Ms. Annette Shaughnessy Donna Sheridan*** Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Slavin*** James Sonday William E. Spatz** Susan St. John** Mr. Arthur D. Stehlik & Mrs. Sherri L. Stehlik Kathlyn & Harry Stenzel*** Ms. Margaret A. Svoboda Sean Swick Joanne M. Uniatowski Anne Unverzagt & Richard Goddard*** Mr. & Mrs. James D. Vail** Christine & Daniel Vento* Ryan Vidmar Carol A. Vidoli*** Ms. Kimberly A. Vivolo* Michael Wagner Ms. Kathleen Waits** Mrs. Betty S. Weiss** Roger & Nancy Welchans Jean Wingate Thomas M. Wladyka* Jeanne Wojciechowicz James & Sandra Wood** John & Dianne Young***

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Anonymous (3) Lori Adler** Carol Barnak Kimberley Barton Thomas D. Basco Brian & Teresa Bester* Tom & Dorothy Bier Dr. & Mrs. Dieter F. Bloser*** Susan Bobey** Phyliss M. Boggs Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Bolton*** Ms. Anita K. Bridges* Mr. & Mrs. Seth Brodsky Daniel Brown Kathy Caldwell Dr. & Mrs. Dale H. Cowan* Samuel Cowling*** Ms. & Mr. M. Judith Crocker* Judith Darus* Chris & Mary Ann Deibel*** The Eldridge Family Mary Emerson Dr. & Mrs. Michael Eppig Janice Evans** Nancy Facchiano Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Field*** Carmela Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Freeman Charles & Julia Gall**

Nicholas & Marsha Gallo Lisa Greb John Greene* Marian Hancy** Jean Heller* Ms. Eleanor W. Helper* Frank & Gerry Hoffert** Ms. Carolyn R. Horn Clyde A. Horn*** Dr. Randal N. Huff Ron & Joanne Hulec*** Mary Immormino James & Gale Jacobsohn Thomas Jecker Dennis Kelly** Mr. Gilbert P. Kenehan** Mr. Kenneth R. Kessler Mr. & Mrs. Albert Kirby Mary Jo Klements David R. Knowles Mr. & Mrs. Gregory G. Kruszka* Leslie Lahr* Ms. Linda V. Lefkovitz* Chuck & Donna Loper Mr. & Mrs. John S. Lupo Susan E. Lust Alex Machaskee Paul S. Malchesky Janet Mann Anne Martin* Gretchen Mates Connie May James L. Mayer Cathy J. McCall*** Mr. David McKissock Rev. Edward E. Mehok*** Antoinette Miller*** Mr. John M. Moss & Mrs. Karen J. Moss Mark Norris Gerald Norton* Joan M. Oravec*** Meribeth Pannitto* Peggy & Michael Partington*** John R. Pendergast Brian Perry & Ka Pi Hoh* Mr. Alan A. Pomiecko Ms. Karen Powers Mr. James E. Racic Judy & Clifford Reeves*** Mr. & Mrs. Gerald P. Rencehausen Ms. Jacqueline Y. Rhodes** Ms. Lori Riga Robinson Family Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland* Ms. Lois Schneider William & Lisa Schonberg Doris A. Schultz** Randall & Sara Shaner Richard Shirey* Dr. Dave & Faye Sholiton* Mary Slak Marg Slesnick Mary Slowey* Roy & Alma Smith* Ms. Dana Snyder Mr. & Mrs. John Southworth*

Dale M. Sroka John & Leslie Stanforth Kara Suzelis Kathryn Sweeny Dr. Elizabeth Swenson* Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Tatman* Edwin Upton Natalie Vloedman Tom Wagner & Malinda Smyth** Mrs. Barbara S. Walker** Rev. & Mrs. David M. Walker*** Mrs. Alice H. Webster* Adam Wilde Colleen Williams & Jim Persichitti Paul Wolansky Nancy N. Yood Arthur & Deborah Zinn** Maxene Zion *3 – 5 consecutive years as a donor **6 – 9 consecutive years as a donor ***10 or more consecutive years as a donor

Endowment Fund Gifts to the Great Lakes Theater Endowment Fund were received from the following donors between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018 Edward S. Goleski Mary Jane Davis Hartwell* Janet & Bob* Neary Jean Z.* & John S.* Piety David P. Porter & Margaret K. Poutasse in memory of Morton G. Epstein Thomas* & Margaret Lynch Charitable Trust

Gifts were received in honor of: Diane Foley by: Mark Freeman Tom Hanks by: Sam Garrett Mary A. Price by: Martha & Wayne Bifano

Gifts were received in memory of: Claudine Clinton by: Pam & Russ Kilpatrick Judith Kutcher by: George A. Hoy, Lawrence R. Gonet, Donald P. Koch, Mr. James W. Kutcher, Ruth Rayle, P. Joyce Rhodes, Billy Taylor Michael Markic by: Nancy Smith

Matching Gift Corporations Eaton Corporation GE Foundation IBM Corporation The Lubrizol Foundation Nordson Corporation Foundation Perkins Charitable Foundation PNC Foundation Schneider Electric North America Foundation The Sherwin-Williams Company Many companies, like the ones listed above, 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) 453-4442.

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 Kathy Berkshire, Co-Vice Chair Barb Chernus, Co-Vice Chair Viola McDowell, Recording Secretary Bernice Bolek, Corresponding Secretary Nanci Kirkpatrick, Treasurer Every effort is made to ensure that our donor records are current and correct. Please call the Development Office at (216) 453-4442 with questions or to report updates and revisions.

TRUSTEES Chair

William W. Jacobs

President

Timothy J. Downing *

Secretary

Kim Bixenstine *

Treasurer

Kathleen Kennedy

Trustees

John E. Katzenmeyer † Denise Horstman Keen Kathleen Kennedy * Faisal Khan * John W. Lebold * William E. MacDonald III † David M. Maiorana Ellen Stirn Mavec † Mary J. Mayer John E. McGrath † Katie McVoy * Leslie H. Moeller Mike Mumford Janet E. Neary † Pamela G. Noble * Michael J. Peterman † Timothy K. Pistell † David P. Porter † Georgianna T. Roberts †

Ana Rodriguez Pablo R. Ros, M.D. John D. Schubert † Peter Shimrak † Sally J. Staley Diana W. Stromberg Catherine Tanner Kristine M. Tesar Gerald F. Unger Thomas D. Warren Nancy Wellener Patrick Zohn Rebecca A. Zuti * 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 50 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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Michelle Arendt Jennifer Armstrong Dalia Baker Gina L. Beebe Gary Benz David L. Bialosky

Todd M. Burger * William Caster * Gail L. Cudak Carolyn Dickson † Leslie Dickson William B. Doggett † Carol Dolan * Dr. Howard G. Epstein Natalie Epstein *† Dianne V. Foley * Stephen H. Gariepy Lynn M. Gattozzi Elizabeth A. Grove * Arthur C. Hall, III Samuel Hartwell * Mary Elizabeth Huber Diane Hupp William W. Jacobs *† Joseph H. James

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

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Director of Educational Services.................Kelly Schaffer Florian Production Manager................................Jeff Herrmann Director of Institutional Advancement.................Todd Krispinsky Director of Educational Programming...... Lisa Ortenzi

Artistic Artistic Associate..............................................Tom Ford

Education Education Outreach Associate................David Hansen Education Assistant.................Chennelle Bryant-Harris School Residency Program Actor-Teachers................. Trevor Buda, Adam Graber, Tim Keo, Adrionna Powell Lawrence, Kimberly Martin, Zyrece Montgomery, Shaun Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, Leah Smith

Finance & Administration Manager of Finance & Administration...................Stephanie Reed

Institutional Advancement Audience Engagement Coordinator........ Jeremy Lewis Marketing & Communications Manager................................................. Kacey Shapiro Annual Fund & Special Events Coordinator......................................Elizabeth Steward Advancement Associate...................Olivia M. Williams

Production Assistant Production Manager...........Corrie E. Purdum Technical Director.......................................Mark Cytron Assistant Technical Director..........William Langenhop Master Carpenter.......................................Lindsay Loar Carpenter/Welder...............................Richard Haberlen

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Properties Master..............................Jessica Rosenlieb Assistant Properties Master..............Bernadine Cockey Costume Director............................ Esther M. Haberlen Assistant Shop Manager/Draper....................Leah Loar Wig Designer............................................ Amber Morrow Wardrobe Supervisor..................... Colleen McLaughlin Wardrobe Crew ..........Zack Hickle, Mackenzie Malone, Christina Spencer Master Electrician.....................................Tammy Taylor Charge Scenic Artist.................................... Ruth Lohse Audio Supervisor.....................................Brian Chismar Dialect/Text Coach........................Kathleen Pirkl Tague Production Stage Manager...............Jessica B. Lucas* Assistant Stage Manager..........................Nicki Cathro* Production Associate................................... Amy Essick Run Crew...............................Ralph Melari, Gary Zsigrai Hanna Theatre Crew............Thomas Boddy, Chris Guy, Shaun Milligan, Nathan Tulenson

Volunteers

Company Doctor.......Dr. Donald Ford & Cleveland Clinic Trinity High School Costume Interns.......Dishaina Goins, Kalicia Straight

Special Thanks Great Lakes Theater is a member of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT) and operates under agreements with LORT, Actorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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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The Woman In Black The Woman In Black Hello, Dolly!

Joan Baez Fare Thee The Woman In Black Well...Tour 2018

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The Woman In Black Pride and Prejudice Plath & Orion

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The Woman In Black Pride and Prejudice Plath & Orion Modern Warrior Live

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Celtic Thunder X Tour Mamma Mia! The Seagull

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Mamma Mia! The Seagull Lucia Micarelli

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Pride and Prejudice Plath & Orion The Seagull

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Plath & Orion Pride and Prejudice Mamma Mia! The Seagull Sweat Robert Dubac: The Book of Moron

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Pride and Prejudice The Seagull Sweat Lauren Daigle

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Plath & Orion Mamma Mia! The Seagull Sweat Fall Ballet Collection

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Plath & Orion Mamma Mia! The Seagull Sweat Fall Ballet Collection Disney Jr Dance Party

Pride and Prejudice Plath & Orion Sweat The Ugly Duckling

Plath & Orion Pride and Prejudice Mamma Mia! Sweat The Ugly Duckling Rocktopia

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The Woman In Black Pride and Prejudice Plath & Orion Shining Star CLE Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood

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Pride and Prejudice Sweat Dreams from 1968: CLE Jazz Orchestra

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Mamma Mia! Eddie B - Teachers Only Comedy Tour Sweat The Ugly Duckling Redemption of a Dogg

Les Misérables Sweat

Les Misérables Pride and Prejudice Sweat

Les Misérables

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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Mamma Mia! Mamma Mia! Sweat Sweat The Ugly Duckling The Ugly Duckling So You Think You Can Dance

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Les Misérables Mamma Mia! Sweat

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Les Misérables Les Misérables Mamma Mia! Mamma Mia! Sweat Sweat The Music of Cream

Les Misérables Mamma Mia! Pride and Prejudice Sweat

28 29 30 31 1 2 3 Les Misérables Mamma Mia! On The Trail of Big Cats

Les Misérables Mamma Mia! Violet

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Les Misérables Violet

Les Misérables Mamma Mia! Violet

Les Misérables Mamma Mia! Violet Ballet Hispanico

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4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Les Misérables Mamma Mia! Violet Ballet Hispanico Double Dare Live!

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Les Misérables Violet Boney James

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Les Misérables Violet The Musical Theater Project Presents: Just for Laughs

A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story

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18 19 20 21 22 23 24 A Christmas Story The Cleveland Pops Orchestra: A Christmas Spectacular Peppa Pig Live!

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