Romeo and Juliet Playbill - Great Lakes Theater (2012)

Cleveland’s Classic Company at the Hanna Theatre presents

R o m e o& J u l i e t April 13–28, 2012

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Welcome to Great Lakes Theater at PlayhouseSquare About Great Lakes Theater.....................................................................................................................................4 Trustees..................................................................................................................................................................5 Donor Spotlight ......................................................................................................................................................7 Romeo & Juliet..................................................................................................................................................... 12 The Cast.............................................................................................................................................................. 13 About The Play/Director’s Note......................................................................................................................14 A Message from the Producing Artistic Director................................................................................................. 16 Great Lakes Theater 50th Anniversary Spotlight................................................................................................. 17 Who’s Who............................................................................................................................................................ 27 Staff .................................................................................................................................................................... 36 April/May On Our Stages..................................................................................................................................... 39

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he mission of Great Lakes Theater, through its main stage 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 Great Lakes 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 Great Lakes Theater’s 2012 spring production of The Mousetrap (Photo by capacity to illuminate truth and Roger Mastroianni) 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 main stage 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 programs that surround its productions. Since its inception, GLT Great Lakes Theater’s 2011 Fall Repertory production of has had a strong presence in area schools, bringThe Taming of the Shrew. (Photo by Roger Mastroianni) ing students to the theater for matinee performances and sending specially trained actor-teach- classic theater. As Great Lakes moves into a new ers to the schools for weeklong residencies devel- era with a permanent home in the Hanna Theatre, oped to explore classic drama from a theatrical the company reaffirms its belief in the power of point of view. GLT is equally dedicated to enhanc- partnership, its determination to make this coming the theater experience for adult audiences munity a better place in which to live, and its through Surround, a series of community pro- commitment to ensure the legacy of classic thegrams that explore the themes of a main stage ater in Cleveland. production. To this end, Great Lakes Theater 1501 Euclid Ave., Suite 300 regularly serves as the catalyst for community Cleveland, OH 44115 events and programs in the arts and humanities P: (216) 241-5490 that illuminate the plays on its stage.

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President Mitchell G. Blair*

Secretary Michelle Arendt*

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Hanna Theatre April 13-28, 2012

Charles Fee Producing Artistic Director

With generous support from:

and John and Barbara Schubert presents

R o m e o& J u l i e t BY

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Directed by

CHARLES FEE Company

J. Todd Adams* Lynn Robert Berg* Laurie Birmingham* Casey Cott Aled Davies* Jodi Dominick* Danielle Dorfman Scenic Designer Gage Williams

Mackenzie Duan Christian Durso* Tom Ford* Jon Gluckner Paul Hurley* Lisa Kuhnen Dan Lawrence* Betsy Mugavero* Lighting Designer Rick Martin

Choreographer Helene Peterson

Melissa Owens* Laura Perrotta* David Anthony Smith* Dudley Swetland* M.A. Taylor* Jordan Whalen Cody Zak

Costume Designer Star Moxley

Sound Designer Peter John Still

Fight Choreographer Ken Merckx Stage Manager Tim Kinzel*

There will be one fifteen-minute intermission.

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Special Student Matinee Series support was generously provided by Ernst & Young, LLP. *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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Romeo and Juliet

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Escalus......................................................................................................................... David Anthony Smith * Mercutio...................................................................................................................................J. Todd Adams * Paris/Abram............................................................................................................................ Jordan Whalen Montague.............................................................................................................................Dudley Swetland * Lady Montague........................................................................................................................Melissa Owens * Romeo................................................................................................................................... Christian Durso * Benvolio........................................................................................................................................ Paul Hurley * Balthasar......................................................................................................................................... Casey Cott Capulet..........................................................................................................................................Aled Davies * Lady Capulet............................................................................................................................ Laura Perrotta * Juliet........................................................................................................................................Betsy Mugavero * Tybalt........................................................................................................................................ Dan Lawrence * Nurse...............................................................................................................................Laurie Birmingham * Peter................................................................................................................................................ MA Taylor * Sampson/ Sister John..............................................................................................................Jodi Dominick * Gregory.............................................................................................................................................Tom Ford * Friar Laurence.....................................................................................................................Lynn Robert Berg * Ensemble.......................................................................... Casey Cott, Danielle Dorfman, Mackenzie Duan, Jon Gluckner, Lisa Kuhnen, Jordan Whalen, Cody Zak There will be one fifteen-minute intermission.

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Background Synopsis: Romeo And Juliet

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erona is home to two feuding noble houses, the Montagues and the Capulets. In response to the constant brawling between members of these families, the Prince of Verona has issued an edict that will impose a death sentence on anyone caught dueling. Against this backdrop, young Romeo of the house of Montague has recently been infatuated with Rosaline, a niece of Capulet.

Rosaline is quickly forgotten, however, when Romeo and his friends disguise themselves and slip into a masquerade ball at Capulet’s house.

During the festivities, Romeo catches his first glimpse of Juliet, Capulet’s daughter. Romeo steals into the garden and professes his love to Juliet, who stands above on her balcony. The two young lovers, with the aid of Friar Lawrence, make plans to be married in secret.

Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, later discovers that Romeo has attended the ball, and he sets out to teach the young Montague a lesson. Romeo is challenged by Tybalt, but tries to avoid a duel between them since he is now married to Juliet (making Tybalt a kinsman). Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend, takes up Tybalt’s challenge and is killed in the ensuing fight. Enraged, Romeo slays Tybalt. As a result, the Prince banishes Romeo from Verona. Romeo bids farewell to Juliet, though he hopes to be reunited with her once the Capulets learn that they are man and wife.

The Capulets, meanwhile, press for Juliet to marry Paris, a cousin to the Prince. Juliet, relying again on Friar Lawrence, devises a desperate plan to avoid her parents’ wishes. She obtains a drug that will make her seem dead for 42 hours. While she is in this state, Friar Lawrence will send word to Romeo of the situation so that he can rescue her from her tomb. Unfortunately, the letter from Friar Lawrence is delayed. Romeo instead hears second-hand news that Juliet has died. Griefstricken, Romeo purchases poison and hastens to Juliet’s tomb to die at her side. Meanwhile, Friar Lawrence has discovered to his horror that his letter did not arrive, and he means to take Juliet away until he can set things right.

At the tomb, Romeo encounters Paris, who mourns for Juliet. Romeo slays Paris, then enters the tomb and drinks his poison. As Friar Lawrence

about the play

comes upon the scene, Juliet awakens only to find the lifeless body of her beloved Romeo. Juliet takes the dagger from Romeo’s belt and plunges it into her heart. Upon this scene, the Prince arrives — along with the Montague and Capulet parents — demanding to know what has happened.

Nothing can be done, nothing can be saved. The families look in horror at the tragic consequences of their fatal feud.

— From www.bardweb.net

Director’s Note “Three civil brawls bred of an airy word ...”

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or Shakespeare’s audience, the experience of civil strife (central to the plot of Romeo and Juliet) was as palpable as the bloody heads of the political and religious dissidents festooning London Bridge. Queen Elizabeth I reigned over a nation engaged in a bitter sectarian conflict — pitting Protestants against Catholics — which began when her father, Henry VIII, severed ties with the Roman Catholic Church and declared himself Supreme Head of the Church in England.

With that, Henry ushered into England the movement known as the Protestant Reformation, as well as a period of horrific sectarian feuding.

Elizabeth I succeeded to the crown following the blood bath of “Bloody Mary’s” CounterReformation and began her reign by executing nearly as many Catholics as Mary had Protestants.

By the time Romeo and Juliet played before an audience in London, Elizabeth had been on the throne for 37 years, not one of which had passed without some fresh attempt to overthrow the government or murder the Monarch herself. For her part, the Queen rarely let a season pass without the public execution of a political rival or enactment of yet another law to enforce loyalty to the crown and the Church of England.

It is in this context that one must imagine Romeo and Juliet. The Prince’s arrival in the first scene of the play would have sent a chill down the spines of every member of the theater, as he admonishes the fighting families with a speech clearly understood by Shakespeare’s contemporaries,

Rebellious subjects, enemies of peace ...

On pain of torture from those bloody hands Throw your mistemper’d weapons to the ground And hear the sentence of your moved Prince.

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This was no idle threat to a theatergoer of the day, nor was it a dramatic flourish on Shakespeare’s part. Torture was a very real punishment for rebellion, and the rack was a favored instrument of coercion used by Elizabeth’s secret police to extract confessions. Elizabeth’s rule has been characterized by some scholars (most recently, Clare Asquith in her intriguing book, Shadowplay) as a period of “unprecedented authoritarianism, a police state ... an age of terror ... torture and brutal execution.” For Shakespeare and his audience, the sword fights onstage cut dangerously close to the bone, driving home the relevance of this old tale of star-crossed lovers and feuding families.

But this is not an argument to suggest that the Prince is really Queen Elizabeth, trying to keep her quarrelsome Protestants and Catholics (Capulets and Montagues) from killing each other off. I’ll leave that provocative discussion to Ms. Asquith! Rather, I am trying to build a case for understanding what has always seemed one of the many difficult problems in producing this extraordinary play: namely, to create an experience of true danger in Verona’s streets, a sense of the nearness of death and destruction that haunts every moment of the play. For it is against this backdrop of extreme danger — so present in Shakespeare’s theater — that the wild rush of emotions and the desperate urgency that drives the action of the play become clear.

Most important of all, in this play that Harold Bloom describes as “the largest and most persuasive celebration of romantic love in Western literature,” is that the danger surrounding the characters of Romeo and Juliet acts to intensify our experience of their love, and that the real danger surrounding Shakespeare’s theater would have amplified that already intense event!

Is it possible that the world we live in today has become too dangerous to serve as a backdrop even for this play? We may risk overwhelming the play with too direct a reference to our own experience.

Shakespeare’s technique is to create distance from the events of his day by choosing well-known stories set in exotic lands and allowing the audience to connect the dots. Our work on Shakespeare’s plays often leads us to draw a

comparison with something we recognize but still have some theatrical distance from, a simile that helps underscore what we find potent or relevant for our audience. The simile gives the director and the design team (and, ultimately, the acting company) a common point of reference, an anchor in the sea of decisions that must be made when creating a production. Sometimes, the point of reference is a specific historical moment (our recent production of The Taming of the Shrew is an example). Other times we refer to a set of conventions or stylistic devices we believe appropriate to the play (Japanese theatrical conventions in our Macbeth). In every case, our success or failure is measured not by the cleverness of the simile but by the experience our audience has of the play.

Our work on Romeo and Juliet has lead us to these decisions: Verona must be a city of danger, a war-torn city just recovering from the first World War (images of the bombed ruins of Italy and Europe after both World Wars have been used in our research, as have more recent images of the ravages of war in the Middle East). The scenic design shows a fragment of a Renaissance wall being supported by scaffolding — a metaphor we all respond to: a 400 year-old piece of art supported by a contemporary framework! The feud of the Capulets and the Montagues must feel all encompassing, not just two households but a broader, political conflict that the Prince is grappling with. Our discussions include the rise of Mussolini and the Fascist party after World War I, which locates the costume designs in the late 1920s. Our intention is that the world of Verona will reflect elements of totalitarianism, a police state, with Prince Escalus and the Montagues representative of an older, aristocratic order and the Capulets as rising industrialists, perhaps aligning with the Fascists; Tybalt as a “Black Shirt.” As with any production at this point in development — one month before rehearsal starts, decisions may change … but this is our starting point.

See you opening night!

Charlie Fee, Director

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A message

Producing Artistic Director

Friends,

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n behalf of our artists, staff and board of trustees, welcome back to Great Lakes Theater’s 50th Anniversary Season!

“It all started with an empty auditorium and a group of concerned citizens.

The hall was fastened to the public high school in suburban Lakewood. The citizens were members of the Lakewood Board of Education who wanted to fill the auditorium during the summer months with cultural offerings. The year was 1961 when Lakewood Board of Education president Dorothy Teare persuaded a peripatetic Shakespeare troupe to make Lakewood Civic Auditorium its home.”

Thus began the 50-year history of Great Lakes Theater under the visionary leadership of Dorothy Teare, and our first Artistic Director, Arthur Lithgow. In the succeeding decades, fortune has shined on our company through a succession of extraordinary leaders, dedicated board members and a community of support undaunted by the challenges of creating and sustaining the artistic and educational mission of “Cleveland’s Classic Theater Company.” We are thrilled to continue our 50th season in as strong a position as we have ever been — both financially and artistically!

Over the course of this golden anniversary season, we will take many opportunities to recognize and honor the extraordinary contributions made by individuals and organizations over the past five decades of Great Lakes Theater. In a symbolic gesture to the thousands of people who have shaped our company, we will honor “Fifty Stars” whose contributions have shone the brightest over our history. We began in July by featuring the name of each honoree for a full week on the marquee of the Hanna Theatre.

Completing the 52 weeks of shining stars will be the names of William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens — in recognition of the significant role their works continue to play in the life of our company.

On May 5, we will celebrate in grand style at the Great Lakes Theater’s 50th anniversary gala, being held at the InterContinental Hotel. We hope you will join us for a “Starry, Starry Night,” an evening of revels, memories and surprises honoring our history and celebrating our future! add (see pg. 30 for details) At the center of our celebration this year, we are creating our most expansive programming in decades — a six-play season of great works performed by a company of stellar artists who define our work onstage and in the community year-round. Building on the momentum of this extraordinarily well-attended season, we continue with Shakespeare’s grand masterpiece of star-crossed love, Romeo and Juliet and — capping our season — the newest work by America’s greatest composer for the theater, Sondheim on Sondheim, in the first production to be seen outside of New York City.

We hope you will join us for both of our remaining productions in celebration of the rich legacy of Great Lakes Theater’s commitment to the classics, the city of Cleveland and our 50-year history as one of the region’s most vital providers of educational programming!

See you in the theater,

Charles Fee, Producing Artistic Director

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Our production of Romeo and Juliet is dedicated to the memory and legacy of longtime Great Lakes Theater trustee Audrey Watts.

(Board Member, 1969-2012; Board President, 1977-79)

“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”

–William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, II, i

Forever Young

Celebrating 50 Seasons of Great classic theater

At a time when the average lifespan of an American theater is seven years, Great Lakes Theater has thrived for fifty. The theater’s enduring legacy is a testimony to the aspirations and commitments of countless people—artists, administrators, educators, and community members—who have made contributions large and small to the success of a theater dedicated to the classics that has perched for five decades on the edge of America’s north coast.

On the following pages, in a symbolic gesture to the tens of thousands of people who have helped to shape our company, we are proud to honor “Fifty Stars” - individuals and organizations whose contributions to the theater have shone the brightest over the course of our history.

Every one of the “Stars” on our list represents at least another fifty who also deserve our gratitude. On this occasion, we are proud to thank all of the individuals that have given generously of their time, shared their talent, provided support or bought a ticket to a Great Lakes Theater performance over the past half century.

We’re extremely grateful and we look forward to the next exciting fifty years!

DID YOU KNOW? Over the past five decades…

We have connected over 4 million adults and students to the classics.

Over 9,000 artists and artisans have been employed by Great Lakes Theater.

We have staged over 300 productions.

Over 2,000 generous members of the northeast Ohio community have served on our company’s Board of Trustees.

Our School Residency Program has had a presence in northern Ohio schools for 30 consecutive years – and, today, impacts the lives of 16,000 students in 100 schools annually.

Our annual operating budget has grown from $50K in 1962 to $3.6M today.

our Fifty stars A Lasting Legacy

In 1961, president of the Lakewood school board Dorothy Teare sought a tenant to fill the high school’s vacant auditorium. She read of the departure of theater director Arthur Lithgow from Stan Hywet Hall and the cancellation of his summer season, and contacted him. A deal was proposed: in exchange for providing the auditorium rent free, Lithgow’s company would perform matinees of William Shakespeare plays for students at no charge. Teare became president of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Association, and Lithgow the company’s first artistic director.

became GLSF’s first full-time year-round employee and in 1974 brought Bill Rudman to intern at Great Lakes. He would become instrumental in the development of the education program, expanding the in-school residency program, helping launch the theater’s adult education program and in 1997 drafting the company’s mission statement. In 1975, Carra’s final season, Great Lakes’ budget of $300,000 was six times the inaugural one, and included grants from The George Gund Foundation, the Festival’s largest long-term educational supporter.

Georgia Nielsen, first president of the volunteer Women’s Committee, coordinated many of that group’s start-up details, including ticket sales, sewing costumes and constructing stage armor.

That first season Audrey Watts was in charge of housing and would go on to launch the Festival’s first Fashion Show, a fundraiser which ensured the undertaking of a second season. She chaired the Women’s Committee and numerous benefits, and was instrumental in conceiving the Festival’s annual London Tour.

In 1976 Vincent Dowling, former deputy director of his native Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, was named Great Lakes’ third artistic director following a search led by board president Marilyn E. Brentlinger. A trustee for 43 years, Brentlinger co-wrote a best practices book on producing not-for-profit benefits which became an industry standard. Her Festival participation was always a family affair: her children played onstage extras, volunteered in the box office, and her husband Paul’s support is ongoing.

Yet were it not for banker Carl Dryer, it is unlikely the company would have survived. Dragged to a history play by his wife in the inaugural season, he was hooked, and agreed to become chairman of finance. Dryer brought in Ernst & Whinney accountants, got early loans forgiven, and connected the Festival with The Cleveland Foundation, one of Great Lakes’ most significant supporters to this day.

Lithgow departed in 1965. Lindsay Morgenthaler, a trustee who joined Great Lakes in 1963 was a key player in cultivating community support for the company, brought a professor of drama from Carnegie Tech to Great Lakes as its second artistic director: Lawrence Carra.

Carra broke the Festival’s tradition of performing Shakespeare in Elizabethan style by producing a contemporary Hamlet in 1968 informed by the shooting of Robert Kennedy. The production mesmerized a drama instructor at St. Joseph Academy, Mary Bill.

Bill joined Great Lakes part-time, crafting grants to underwrite youth tickets. In the tradition of these efforts, Eaton Corporation continues corporate support for this cause, as well as provides ongoing trustee representation on the Festival’s board. In 1970 Bill was granted funding by The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, a dedicated supporter, to expand the education program. She

In 1977 Dowling encouraged Tom Hanks to join Great Lakes as an intern. Hanks worked three seasons at the Festival, building sets, hanging lights, and acting on stage. It was at Great Lakes that he earned his Actors’ Equity card. Since making his mark in Hollywood, he has thrice returned to support Great Lakes and dazzle audiences.

In 1982, Dowling’s The Playboy of the Western World was taped by PBS and won a local Emmy Award. Its scenic design was by John Ezell, who joined Great Lakes in 1976, later becoming Associate Artistic Director. Ezell designed award-winning sets at the Festival for decades, collaborating with every subsequent artistic director.

The Festival was outgrowing its Lakewood home, and in 1980 board president Natalie Epstein, a passionate theater lover who joined Great Lakes in 1977, took a tour of the vacant PlayhouseSquare theaters. Standing on the stage of the dilapidated Ohio Theatre, she fell in love with it. She and Mary Bill teamed up to obtain funding for a renovation, and on July 9, 1982, Great Lakes opened its new home with its inaugural play, As You Like It. After Dowling’s departure, the Festival named Lorain, Ohio native Gerald Freedman its fourth artistic director in 1985. With New York credits including the artistic directorship of the

New York Shakespeare Festival, Freedman brought celebrated actors such as Olympia Dukakis, Hal Holbrook, and Jean Stapleton to Cleveland. Several landmark education programs were launched during these years, including community Surrounds, notably “Festival Fantastico!” in 1988, co-produced by Bill Rudman and Margaret Lynch. Lynch served as an usher in the 1960s, worked in the costume shop in the ‘70s, and later became Great Lakes’ dramaturge, writing program notes, lobby exhibit materials, the company’s exemplary 25th Anniversary history (to which much material from this narrative is indebted), and eventually directing adult education programming.

In 1985 Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival was renamed Great Lakes Theater Festival to reflect the broader body of work produced, and rotating repertory yielded to performance in stock. In 1991 the production calendar was changed from summer to September-May. To help manage this momentous undertaking, Anne DesRosiers was hired as Managing Director, a position she held through 1998. DesRosiers’ strong fiscal sense helped the Festival through some challenging times, with no shortage of artistic, educational, and financial accomplishments along the way.

Offstage, several key board members who would play an essential role in the success of the Festival emerged during the Freedman era. John Collinson joined GLTF in 1981, and in the ’90s put together a bank consortium to have Great Lakes’ debt forgiven. William E. MacDonald III came aboard in 1990 and served for nearly two decades. Retired Vice-Chairman of National City Corporation, a longtime major sponsor of the Festival’s work, MacDonald chaired Great Lakes’ committee on trustees and mentored numerous board members. Ellen Stirn Mavec, president of the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation, joined GLTF in 1986. Her long-term support, including significant support of the Hanna Theatre capital campaign, has been instrumental in the company’s success. Michael J. Peterman, a trustee since 1992, has shared his real estate expertise as Executive Vice President of North Pointe Realty on all property and leasing issues facing the Festival. James O. Roberts joined Great Lakes in 1984. When business obligations prevented his continued participation, his wife Georgianna T. Roberts stepped in, filling his vacancy. Jim was able to return in 1997, and both husband and wife served together as trustees. Their partnership, in personal life and in their relationship with Great Lakes, embodied love of life, love of the arts, and love of education. John D. Schubert, an art and literature aficionado, has been a trustee since 1979. He has provided steady, constant support of the company for over three decades. Laura Siegal first joined Great Lakes in 1989. She and

her husband, Alvin Siegal, have been staunch Festival supporters. The Siegals are passionate about education and theatre and are deeply committed to the production of professional Shakespeare and exposing students to the classics.

Ernst & Young Partners have long played important roles at Great Lakes. John E. Katzenmeyer, Thomas G. Stafford, and Robert D. Neary are among them. A retired E&Y Partner, Katzenmeyer’s watchful fiscal eye and generous support of Great Lakes since he first joined the Festival in 1974 have seen the theater through many tough times. His good humor, personal generosity, love of the classics and deep support of education make him a treasured trustee. Stafford, also a retired Partner at E&Y, joined Great Lakes in 1977. He memorably signed Tom Hanks’ first Equity paycheck, recalling it to be “somewhere in the mid-two figure range.” Neary, a trustee since 1995, is a retired Co-Chairman of E&Y. He was brought to the board by his wife Janet E. Neary, whose commitment to Great Lakes began in 1987. Bob’s strong financial oversight and his leadership in inaugurating the company’s Legacy Society have proven invaluable. Janet’s strategic behind-the-scenes work on the Hanna Theatre campaign exemplifies her continued guidance and commitment. As a couple, the Neary’s dedication to the company’s mission, and their generosity on every level makes them one of the primary forces behind Great Lakes’ success.

Victoria Bussert was hired by Freedman in 1985 as his assistant director, and made her GLTF directing debut in 1988. She served as Freedman’s Associate Director through 1997 and is presently Resident Director. Bussert has become the region’s premiere director of musical theater. She has directed 32 productions at Great Lakes, including staging Freedman’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol a dozen times and working with numerous actors of great talent, including the Festival’s inaugural Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley: William Leach and John Buck, Jr. Leach portrayed Scrooge in the first seven productions of A Christmas Carol. Capturing the true spirit of transformation, his onstage gifts were apparent to all fortunate enough to be in his audience.

Leach’s acting partner in the famous Ghost of Marley scene was John Buck, who portrayed the fettered spirit fifteen times from 1989 through 2003. Buck’s acting gifts are many, but among them are his precision as an actor, his presence in the moment and his masterful vocal tone.

In 1989, Mark Cytron joined Great Lakes as a carpenter. He worked his way up the backstage ranks to become Great Lakes’ Technical Director, a position he also holds at the Idaho Shakespeare

Festival (ISF) and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (LTSF). In 1996, Christopher Flinchum was hired as assistant stage manager, later promoted to Production Stage Manager, and is now the Festival’s Production Manager, overseeing all elements of production for Great Lakes as well as ISF and LTSF. After Freedman’s 1997 departure, Bussert and Ezell served as the Festival’s Co-Artistic Directors in 1997-98, and in time for the following season the board hired Great Lakes’ fifth artistic director, James Bundy.

Bundy broadened the Festival’s aesthetic and cultural definitions of classic, embracing diversity onstage and off, and initiated discussions with the board and PlayhouseSquare about moving Great Lakes to the Hanna Theatre. Programming in this period featured Shakespeare and musicals, included contemporary adaptations of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, and promoted newer works with classic structures and themes such as Thunder Knocking on the Door, From the Mississippi Delta, and the musical Lone Star Love.

In 2001 Bundy promoted Daniel Hahn to the position of Education Director. Hahn’s love of the company’s rich history and his personal dedication to Great Lakes’ mission began in 1995 as an actor-teacher in the school residency program under Kenn McLaughlin. Four years later, Todd S. Krispinsky was hired as Outreach Tour stage manager and made himself indispensable to GLTF, wearing many hats while rising through the ranks.

In 2005 Krispinsky became the Festival’s Director of Marketing and Communications, overseeing double-digit sales increases and garnering national coverage in American Theatre magazine and The Wall Street Journal.

The 2001 season began under the leadership of new board president David P. Porter, who joined Great Lakes in 1998. Bundy had accepted the position of Dean of the Yale School of Drama, and the search for a new artistic director was underway.

Porter’s governance during this era of transition and financial challenge, as well as his personal generosity and dedication to the Festival’s artistic and educational core values, helped sustain Great Lakes at a time of uncertainty.

In the spring of 2002, the Festival landed Charles Fee to helm Great Lakes. Producing Artistic Director of ISF, Fee brought a wealth of experience producing and directing the classics, as well as leading a successful capital campaign for the Boise theatre. With Great Lakes’ working capital funds exhausted, an accumulated deficit looming and merger talks with the Cleveland Play House

in progress, Fee immediately inserted a second Shakespeare play into GLTF’s schedule: his A Midsummer Night’s Dream, originally conceived in Boise. Great Lakes’ future production model had begun: creatively sharing work between companies led by Fee, which now include ISF and LTSF. Fee’s production of Midsummer saw the Festival debut of Cleveland favorite Andrew May, who would continue for eight seasons at GLTF, acting in 17 productions, directing, and serving as Associate Artistic Director. That same year, Heather Sherwin joined Great Lakes as Director of Development, helping to set the company on secure financial footing, and then serving as chief strategist and manager of the Hanna Theatre campaign. Working closely with Sherwin was trustee Robyn Barrie, who joined the board in 1998. Time and again Barrie has chaired annual benefits and worked tirelessly to ensure goals were achieved and fun was had by all.

The culmination of Great Lakes’ capital campaign, chaired by Timothy K. Pistell, a trustee since 1997, came in 2008 with the opening of the completely re-imagined Hanna Theatre. As Executive VP & CFO of Parker Hannifin Corporation, Pistell drew significant corporate and individual support, resulting in a campaign that exceeded its goal. Featuring the Parker Hannifin hydraulic thrust stage, the Hanna retains all of its historical legacy while enjoying the most modern theatrical amenities. In partnership with PlayhouseSquare under the leadership of President and CEO Art Falco, whose unwavering support and advocacy for the project was instrumental, the Festival’s historic move into its new home is the culmination of an extraordinary team effort.

A key player on that team is Bob Taylor, who joined Great Lakes in December 2000 as Development Manager, was promoted to Director of Administration in 2001, and named Executive Director in 2003, a position he also holds at LTSF. Along with Fee, Taylor has led the financial turnaround of the company and the move into the Hanna Theatre.

As Fee embarks upon his tenth season as Producing Artistic Director and Great Lakes Theater honors the 50 Stars whose dedication make this celebration possible, we save the final distinction for you: The Great Lakes Theater Audience. Over 4 million adults and students taking in over 300 productions spanning five decades have made this journey a reality. Thank you for your continued support, and here’s to the next fifty years!

Daniel Hahn, Director of Education

our production history Five Decades of the Classics 1962 As You Like It Richard II Othello Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part II The Merchant of Venice 1963 The Comedy of Errors Romeo and Juliet The Merry Wives of Windsor Henry V Julius Caesar Measure for Measure 1964 The Taming of the Shrew Hamlet Much Ado About Nothing Henry VI Richard III Antony and Cleopatra 1965 Macbeth The Rivals A Midsummer Night’s Dream The School for Wives + Marriage Proposal Henry VI Coriolanus 1966 Twelfth Night She Stoops to Conquer King Lear The Importance of Being Earnest A Winter’s Tale 1967 Romeo and Juliet Love’s Labour’s Lost Cyrano de Bergerac Misalliance All’s Well That Ends Well 1968 The Tempest Hamlet Cymbeline Arms and the Man The Beaux’ Stratagem 1969 The Would-Be Gentleman As You Like It Macbeth Candida Troilus and Cressida

1970 The Merchant of Venice R.U.R. (Rossom’s Universal Robots) Julius Caesar Volpone The Comedy of Errors 1971 Othello You Never Can Tell The Taming of the Shrew Godspell Henry IV, Part I 1972 The Merry Wives of Windsor The Beggar’s Opera Richard III The Marowitz Hamlet Electra 1973 Twelfth Night Tartuffe A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing The Italian Straw Hat 1974 King Lear The Playboy of the Western World Measure for Measure Under the Gaslight The Comedy of Errors 1975 As You Like It The Miser Our Town Celebration of Mime Theater The Frogs A Winter’s Tale 1976 The Tempest Dear Liar Ah, Wilderness!

The Devil’s Disciple Romeo and Juliet 1977 Hamlet Peg O’My Heart In a Fine Frenzy The Glass Menagerie The Importance of Being Oscar The Taming of the Shrew

1978 Polly The Two Gentlemen of Verona What Every Woman Knows The Wild Oats The Nine Days Wonder of Will Kemp King John 1979 Twelfth Night Juno and the PayCock Clarence Do Me a Favorite Blithe Spirit Othello 1980 Henry IV, Part I Charlie’s Aunt My Lady Luck Hughie The Boor The Comedy of Errors Titus Andronicus 1981 The Matchmaker Streetsongs King Lear A Doll’s House Much Ado About Nothing My Lady Luck 1982 As You Like It The Playboy of the Western World Piaf: La Vie L’Amour!

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby A Child’s Christmas in Wales 1983 The Merry Wives of Windsor Blanco!

Waiting for Godot Henry V The Island The Dark Lady of the Sonnets W.S. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby A Child’s Christmas in Wales 1984 The Taming of the Shrew She Stoops to Conquer Our Town Alcestis and Apollo Jeeves Takes Charge Peg O’My Heart A Midsummer Night’s Dream

1985 Twelfth Night The Skin of our Teeth Miss Margarida’s Way Tartuffe The Game of Love Open Admissions Take One Step!

1986 Arsenic and Old Lace Ghosts Barbara Cook in Concert The Show-Off Macbeth 1987 The Boys from Syracuse Broadway The Regard of Flight Romeo and Juliet Hedda Gabler Absent Forever Up From Paradise 1988 Love’s Labour’s Lost Man and Superman Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill A Doll’s House Blood Wedding 1989 Hamlet Grandma Moses: An American Primitive The Threepenny Opera The Seagull A Christmas Carol 1990 King Lear A Delicate Balance The Lady from Maxim’s La Ronde Dividing the Estate A Christmas Carol 1991-92 Coming Home Uncle Vanya Paul Robeson A Christmas Carol Ohio State Murders Mother Courage An Intimate Evening with Dixie Carter 1992-93 Cyrano de Bergerac Rough Crossing A Christmas Carol Now Playing Center School for Wives Othello Sisters, Wives, and Daughters: Portraits of Shakespeare’s Women

1993-94 The Cherry Orchard A Christmas Carol Noel and Gertie The Taming of the Shrew Death of a Salesman 1994-95 Shakespeare for my Father A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Christmas Carol The School for Wives The Bakkhai 1995-96 School for Scandal A Christmas Carol As You Like It The Dybbuk Blithe Spirit 1996-97 She Loves Me A Christmas Carol Antony and Cleopatra What the Butler Saw The Glass Menagerie 1997-98 The Tempest A Christmas Carol Fallen Angels The Most Happy Fella Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1998-99 Richard III A Christmas Carol A Little Night Music A Raisin in the Sun The Beauty Queen of Leenane 1999-2000 Thunder Knocking on the Door A Christmas Carol The Wild Duck Twelfth Night Travels With My Aunt 2000-01 Macbeth A Christmas Carol Gypsy From the Missippi Delta Peter Pan 2001-02 Lone Star Love, or The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas A Christmas Carol ...Love, Langston A Moon for the Misbegotten Romeo and Juliet 2002-03 Much Ado About Nothing A Christmas Carol Anything Goes Arms and the Man A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2003-04 Hamlet Tartuffe A Christmas Carol Private Lives Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2004 The Taming of the Shrew The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) The Importance of Being Earnest Julius Caesar A Christmas Carol 2005 As You Like It A Christmas Carol 2006-07 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Love’s Labour’s Lost A Christmas Carol Hay Fever The Tempest 2007-08 Arsenic and Old Lace Measure for Measure A Christmas Carol The Crucible All’s Well That Ends Well 2008-09 Macbeth Into the Woods A Christmas Carol The Comedy of Errors The Seagull 2009-10 The Mystery of Edwin Drood Twelfth Night Tom Hanks at the Hanna A Christmas Carol Bat Boy: The Musical A Midsummer Night’s Dream John Lithgow: Stories By Heart 2010-11 Othello An Ideal Husband A Christmas Carol The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2011-12 Cabaret The Taming of the Shrew A Christmas Carol The Mousetrap Romeo and Juliet Sondheim on Sondheim

50th anniversary angels Thanks and Many Thanks

The following generous supporters gave a special 50th anniversary gift.

Anonymous Bonnie & Chuck Abbey Dr. & Mrs. James Arnold Jeanette S. Barclay Carol Barnak Robyn & David Barrie Margret Beekel Fred & Mary Behm Jerry and Kathy Berkshire John & Jeannene Bertosa Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Bier Susan Bobey Bernice A. Bolek John Bolton Stanley Brandt & Mary Whitmer Joanne R. Bratush Richard & Mary Ann Brockett J.C. & H.F. Burkhardt Marilyn Callaly Mr. & Mrs. John D. Campbell Anne and Tim Carnahan Mr. & Mrs. Frank Cercone Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Chernus John & Donna Clifford Karen, Ken, & Zoe Conley Kathleen Cooper Ronald & Patricia Cramer David & Gayle Cratty Lowell & Carole Davis Marilyn P. Demeter Daniel Divis Carol Dolan & Greggory Hill Rita & Dennis Dura Dr. & Mrs. Michael Eppig Mr. & Mrs. Morton G. Epstein Gene & Patricia Ewald David V. Foos Mr. & Mrs. David Forte Joy M. Freda Deborah A. Geier Gary & Katie Geoffrion Janet & Patricia Glaeser Jeffrey P. Gluvna & Barbara A. Blake Virginia T. Goetz

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Cleveland’s Classic Company at the Hanna Theatre

2012-2013 Season Enjoy great entertainment in the region’s most extraordinary setting

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A Remarkable Epic of Romance and Renewal

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The Winter’s Tale

Blithe Spirit

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A Marvelously Mod Molière Comedy

By Noel Coward

Shakespeare’s Sublime Battle of Wits and Wills

The Imaginary Invalid Much Ado

By Molière About Nothing Freely adapted by Oded Gross and Tracy Young Originally produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Nov. 30 - Dec. 23, 2012 | Ohio Theatre

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A Christmas Carol

By Charles Dickens Adapted and directed by Gerald Freedman

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May 1 - 19, 2013 | Hanna Theatre

A Tony Award-Winning Musical Comedy

Guys and Dolls

Story and characters by Damon Runyon Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows

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who’s who Acting Company

Laurie Birmingham* Nurse, Romeo and Juliet Great Lakes Theater debut Laurie is blessed to join Great Lakes this season, and it’s her first time ever playing the Nurse! Laurie is a 40-year veteran of regional theaters across the United States. She was a Resident Company member with Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and played many roles over the 17 years she spent there. Some favorites include Josie Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten, Penny Sycamore in You Can’t Take it With You and Claire in A Delicate Balance, to name only a few. Other regional credits include Asolo Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Connecticut Repertory, Meadowbrook Theatre, NY Shakespeare Exchange and the Tony- Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival. Her recent transplant to NYC has proved profitable. She has played two off-Broadway shows: A Little Journey with The Mint Theatre to great reviews; and starred in Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage, which just completed its first national tour. She also narrates for Recorded Books, LLC and has eight titles to date. This show is dedicated to Carole Healey! www.lauriebirmingham.com Casey Cott Great Lakes Theater debut Casey is thrilled to be making his Great Lakes Theater debut. He has been seen in numerous productions throughout Ohio, including Rabbit Hole (Howie), Three Sisters (Tuzenbach), The Music Man (Professor Harold Hill), Guys and Dolls (Sky Masterson) and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (William Barfee).

Casey is a proud sophomore BFA musical theater major at Kent State University. Love and thanks to my family, friends and professors for their constant support.

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Lynn Robert Berg* Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet and Marley/Lighthouse Man/Man2/ Undertaker, A Christmas Carol Ten seasons at Great Lakes Theater Lynn is excited to be back at Great Lakes Theater celebrating his 10th season.

Previously at Great Lakes Theater: Doctor Parker in Bat Boy: The Musical, Banquo in Macbeth, Caliban in The Tempest, Sandy Tyrell in Hay Fever, Marcus Lycus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and the Ghost of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol. Other credits: Macbeth in the Short Shakespeare!

Macbeth tour and The Feast: An Intimate Tempest with Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Malvolio in Twelfth Night at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival; Bill Walker in Major Barbara, Hortensio in Taming of the Shrew, Edmund in King Lear and Hastings in She Stoops to Conquer at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival; Prospero in The Tempest at Maine Shakespeare Festival; The Professor in All

the Great Books (Abridged) at Delaware Theater Company; and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at Writer’s Theater in Chicago. Lynn holds an MFA from the University of Delaware Professional Theater Training Program. SLL’M

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J. Todd Adams* Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet Great Lakes Theater debut Regional: Henry IV pt. 1 (Hotspur), The Three Musketeers (Aramis), Love’s Labor’s Lost (Costard) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck) at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; The Importance of Being Earnest (Jack) and The Real Thing (Billy) at PCPA; Ghosts, Henry IV, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (A Noise Within); Drawer Boy, Lonesome West, Entertaining Mister Sloane (South Coast Repertory); Gross Indecency (Mark Taper Forum); King Lear (San Diego Repertory); Much Ado About Nothing (Arizona Theatre Company); I Pagliacci (Kennedy Center, directed by Franco Zeffirelli); and performances at the Theatre at Boston Court, Grove Theater Center and Utah Shakespearean Festival. Film/Television: Gilmore Girls, The West Wing, Flyboys and Warriors of Virtue. Mr. Adams holds an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater.

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Aled Davies* Capulet, Romeo and Juliet; Major Metcalf, The Mousetrap; Scrooge/ Samuels, A Christmas Carol and Vincentio, The Taming of the Shrew Eleven seasons at Great Lakes Theater Previously for GLT: Scrooge/Samuels in A Christmas Carol, Duke of Milan in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Brabantio in Othello, The Earl of Caversham in An Ideal Husband, Sheriff Reynolds in Bat Boy: The Musical, Oberon/ Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Your Chairman in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Sea Captain/Priest in Twelfth Night, Solinus/Dr. Pinch in The Comedy of Errors, Dorn in The Seagull, Duncan/Old Siward in Macbeth, Deputy Governor Danforth in The Crucible, King of France in All’s Well That Ends Well, Mr. Witherspoon in Arsenic and Old Lace, Escalus in Measure for Measure, Prospero in The Tempest, David Bliss in Hay Fever, Senex in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Boyet in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar, Claudius in Hamlet, Cleante in Tartuffe, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, Buckingham in Richard III and Topper in A Christmas Carol. Aled has been a proud and appreciative member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1984.

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Jodi Dominick* Samson, Romeo and Juliet; Mollie Ralston, The Mousetrap; Jane/Mrs. Cratchit/Charwoman/ Ensemble, A Christmas Carol; Sally Bowles, Cabaret and Ivana/Tailor, The Taming of the Shrew Five seasons at Great Lakes Theater Jodi’s previous roles include Mollie Ralston in The Mousetrap, Sally Bowles in Cabaret, The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, Lady MacDuff in Macbeth, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Helena Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband, Bianca in Othello, Ivana/Tailor in The Taming of the Shrew and Lucetta/Outlaw in Two Gentlemen of Verona. Four seasons at Idaho Shakespeare Festival include Into the Woods, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Twelfth Night, An Ideal Husband, Othello, Two Gentleman of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew and Cabaret. Other credits include Diana in I Love You Because at PlayhouseSquare;

Helen/Frances/Bad Perm, The Break Up Notebook at The Beck Center for the Arts, New World Stages and Hudson Backstage Theatre; Clara, Passion at The Beck Center for the Arts; Woman 1 and 2 in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at The Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare; Debtor’s Wife in A Christmas Carol, Great Lakes Theater; and Gypsy at Great Lakes Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Other shows include Lovelace: A Rock Opera, The Hayworth Theatre (LA); Violet and Bye Bye Birdie, Cain Park; and Closer, Dobama Theatre. Jodi is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music and proud member of AEA. Danielle Dorfman Ensemble, Romeo and Juliet Great Lakes Theater debut Danielle is pursuing a BFA musical theater degree from Kent State University, where she has performed in Rent (Mimi Marquez), Oklahoma! (Gertie Cummings), the Opera Scenes, Quilters (Daughter), The Crucible (Susanna Walcott), Mr. Marmalade (Lucy) and Ragtime. She is thrilled to be a part of this wonderful production.

Mackenzie Duan Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet Great Lakes Theater debut Regional theater: Hello Dolly (Ermengaurd) and Chicago (Ensemble) at Porthouse Theatre.

Others include the Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Pops, Cincinnati Children’s Theatre and the New York Philharmonic Lollipop Children’s Concert Series. Mackenzie is currently a sophomore at Kent State University, where she is pursuing a BFA in musical theater. She is so honored to be working with Great Lakes Theater for the first time, and would like thank her family for their continued support.

Christian Durso* Romeo, Romeo and Juliet Great Lakes Theater debut Christian is thrilled to be a part of Great Lakes Theater and Idaho Shakespeare Festival. New York: Cinephilia (Theatre Row); Nocturne (St. Marks Theatre); Spring Awakening (Blue Heron); A

Jon Gluckner Ensemble, Romeo and Juliet Great Lakes Theater debut Jon is thrilled to be making his debut at Great Lakes Theater! He is currently a junior at Kent State University, pursuing his BFA in musical theater.

For KSU, he has been in the ensembles of Grease and Brigadoon. He also played Angel in Rent and Bobby in A Chorus Line. Jon would like to thank his professors, Terri Kent and Jonathan Swoboda, as well as Cynthia Stillings. ADS+MM! Paul Hurley* Benvolio, Romeo and Juliet; Giles Ralston, The Mousetrap and Young Scrooge/Nephew Fred/Ensemble, A Christmas Carol Two seasons at Great Lakes Theater Paul is thrilled to return to Great Lakes Theater, where he has appeared as Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and performed multiple roles in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Recently, he played Neoptolemus in The Cure at Troy (American Players Theatre), Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Festival St. Louis) and Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company). Other regional credits include work with Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Othello); Milwaukee Repertory Theater (A Christmas Carol, Anna Christie); Madison Repertory Theatre (The Laramie Project); Delaware Theatre Company (Henry V, All the Great Books (Abridged)); Utah Shakespeare Festival (Romeo and Juliet, Doctor Faustus); and seven seasons with American Players Theatre (The Circle, The Belle’s Stratagem, Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost, among others). Paul holds an

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Tom Ford* Gregory, Romeo and Juliet and Mr. Paravicini in The Mousetrap Six seasons at Great Lakes Theater Great Lakes Theater Festival: Mr. Paravicini in The Mousetrap, the Baker in Into the Woods, Ross in Macbeth, Pseudolous in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the King of Navarre in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Casca in Julius Caesar, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, Nicola in Arms and the Man and Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Into the Woods, Macbeth, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew, Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Touchstone in As You Like It, Julius Caesar, the title role in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown and Hucklebee in The Fantasticks. Boise Contemporary Theater: Truman Capote in Tru, I Am My Own Wife (co-produced with ISF). Portland Stage Company: The Snow Queen, Schott in Bach at Leipzig, Lady Enid, et al in The Mystery of Irma Vep, I Am My Own Wife, Billy in Iron Kisses, Kipps in The Woman in Black, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Max in Lend Me a Tenor, Mr. Manningham in Gaslight and Yvan in Art. Broadway: Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Weber’s By Jeeves at the Helen Hayes Theater. New London Barn Playhouse: Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Man in the Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone, Pseudolous in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey, Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, Edna Turnblad in Hairspray,

Sipos in She Loves Me and Max in The Producers.

Other performances: Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors at Pittsburgh Public Theater, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Once Around the City at New York Stage and Film, Rutherford and Son at the Mint Theater, Salvador Dali in Hysteria at Florida Studio Theater, Johnny in Maurice Sendak’s production of Really Rosie and Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at McCarter Theatre.tomfordactor.com

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Midsummer Night’s Dream (EST) and Julius Caesar (Theatre For A New City). Regional: The Winter’s Tale, King Lear, Taming of The Shrew, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Amadeus, The Madness of King George III (The Old Globe) and Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Television: One Life to Live (ABC), Guiding Light (CBS). Christian trained at RADA, earned his BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and earned his MFA from The Old Globe/USD. He is a member of the Los Angeles based IAMA Theatre Company. Also a playwright, his play Shiner will debut this fall in Los Angeles. For Mom, Dad and Courtney, with love. www.christiandurso.com

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May 5, 2012, 6:30 pm–Midnight InterContinental Hotel

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M.F.A. from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program.

Betsy Mugavero* Juliet, Romeo and Juliet.

Great Lakes Theater debut Favorite credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia), As You Like It (Phoebe), The School for Wives (Agnes), Henry V (The Boy), The Utah Shakespeare Festival; Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; The Tempest (Miranda) and

Laura Perrotta* Lady Capulet, Romeo and Juliet; Mrs, Boyle, The Mousetrap; Mother/Mrs. Fred/Ensemble, A Christmas Carol; Fraulein Schneider, Cabaret and The Widow, The Taming of the Shrew Thirteen seasons at Great Lakes Theater Representative roles in New York: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Heartbreak House, Kabuki Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Major Barbara, Boy Meets Girl, The Long Goodbye, Talk to Me Like the Rain ..., Whispers on

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Dan Lawrence* Tybalt, Romeo and Juliet and Detective Sergeant Trotter, The Mousetrap First season at Great Lakes Theater Great Lakes Theater: Detective Sergeant Trotter in The Mousetrap. Regional theater credits include Julius Caesar (Brutus), Timon of Athens (Ventidius) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Dog in the Manager, Julius Caesar and King Lear, starring Stacy Keach and directed by Tony winner, Robert Falls: Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C.; Hamlet (Laertes): Gallery Players and Hudson Valley Shakespeare in New York; and As You Like It (Orlando): Seacoast Repertory in New Hampshire. Dan holds a B.F.A from Ithaca College and has trained internationally at The Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. Much love to Nicole and family for all their support.

Melissa Owens* Lady Montague, Romeo and Juliet Great Lakes Theater debut Melissa is delighted to be working with the prestigious Great Lakes Theater company. She recently appeared in northeast Ohio as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, Domina in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Horatio in Hamlet and Matron in Chicago. As a resident company member at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, Melissa performed in 20 shows over five seasons. Credits include Marguerite in The Scarlet Pimpernel, Montague/Peter in Romeo and Juliet, Shelby in The Spitfire Grill, Lina Lamont in Singin’ in the Rain, Carlotta in Phantom, Rhetta in Pump Boys and Dinettes and Scrooge in Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol. Regional roles include Martha in The Secret Garden (OH), Annie in Quilters (OH), Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst (MI), Lizzie in Haywire (Kennedy Center), Drood in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (MI), Lucienne in A Flea in Her Ear (MO), Ann in 1940s Radio Hour (SC), Nancy in Oliver (SC), Liza Moriarty in Sherlock’s Last Case (SC), Sr. Robert Ann in Nunsense (GA), Anna in The King and I (Germany), Eleanor in The Lion in Winter (Germany), Kristine in A Chorus Line (NY) and Viola in Twelfth Night (NY). Melissa will receive her MFA in acting from Kent State University this spring, and has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity since 1993.

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Lisa Kuhnen Ensemble, Romeo and Juliet Great Lakes Theater debut Lisa is excited to return to her hometown after performing in 48 states, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia and Canada as Demeter in Cats.

Regional theater credits include A Chorus Line (Sheila) directed by Victoria Bussert; Wizard of Oz (Syracuse Stage); A Kiss for Cinderella (Cleveland Play House); 42nd Street and George M! (Carousel Dinner Theatre); Hello Dolly!, Brigadoon, Oklahoma and Chicago (Porthouse Theater) Lisa holds a B.F.A from Syracuse University, and has trained internationally at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Love and thanks to Mom and Dad for singing and dancing with her.

Much Ado About Nothing (Hero), the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater; and Hamlet (Ophelia), Player King Productions in Los Angeles. Betsy holds an M.F.A from the University of California, Irvine.

Much love and thanks to her family, Quinn and Henry for their support!

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the Wind and Private Lives. Cleveland: Hedda Gabler, Broken Glass, Uncle Vanya, King Lear, Jocasta, The Front Page, Angels in America, Three Days of Rain, Closer, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife and How I Learned to Drive. Great Lakes Theater: The Wild Duck, Gypsy, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Arms and the Man, Julius Caesar, The Importance of Being Earnest, Private Lives, Tartuffe and Hamlet. Idaho Shakespeare Festival/Great Lakes Theater: The Taming of the Shrew, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hay Fever, Into the Woods, Twelfth Night, Othello, An Ideal Husband, Cabaret and The Taming of the Shrew.

Beck Center for the Arts: Spring Awakening.

David Anthony Smith* Escalus, Romeo and Juliet and Muggeridge/The Ghost of Christmas Present/Debtor/ Ensemble, A Christmas Carol Nine seasons at Great Lakes Theater Great Lakes Theater audiences have seen him as Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Iago in Othello, Viscount Goring in An Ideal Husband, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Macduff in Macbeth, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Sergius in Arms and the Man, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, Marc Antony in Julius Caesar and Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost. He has performed at the Tony-Award-winning Old Globe Theater in San Diego, South Coast Repertory, 11 seasons with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival (title role in Henry V), Laguna Playhouse, Sierra Rep, Madison Rep, the Shakespeare festivals of Utah, Colorado, Garden Grove, Nevada and The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum (where he played Hamlet for director Ellen Geer). He has played Romeo, Lucio, Bassanio, Tranio, Dromio, Mercutio and other roles ending in “o.” Television credits include Babylon 5, Knots Landing, The Trials of Rosie O’Neil, North and South – Book II, The Young and the Restless and One Life to Live. David has starred in five feature films: The Hanoi Hilton, Field of Fire, Terror in Paradise, After Romeo and Judgment Day. Forever and a day — Natalia.

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Dudley Swetland* Montague, Romeo and Juliet and Topper/Man 3/Miner, A Christmas Carol Fifteen seasons at Great Lakes Theater Last summer, Dr. Swetland appeared as both the Duke and Don Antonio in the Idaho Shakespeare Festival production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. At Great Lakes Theater, he has appeared in many classic roles over the last 15 seasons, including that of Scrooge for 12 years. Other productions include Antony and Cleopatra (directed by Gerald Freedman), As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, along with many non- Shakespearean productions over the last several seasons. (You Can’t Take It With You, The Seagull, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Crucible, etc.) He even dipped his creative toe into the musical theater genre in both She Loves Me and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. After graduating from Ohio State (Ph.D. 1976), he served as a member of the acting faculty at Case Western for nine years (1976-85), was part of the Cleveland Play House artistic staff (1979-88), served as a staff director for four summers at the Champlain Shakespeare Festival (1985-88) and was a master acting coach at the University of Akron for one semester. He has appeared at almost all theatrical venues throughout Cleveland. He remembers fondly working with the late Tony Randall in the John Kenley production of The Man Who Came to Dinner (and feels blessed to have known these two theatrical icons). For many years, he has worked as a voice-over talent throughout northeastern Ohio. Dr. Swetland is truly appreciative of the opportunity afforded him in being a part of Great Lakes Theater.

M. A. Taylor* Peter, Romeo and Juliet; Charity Man 1/Joe the Keeper/ Ensemble, A Christmas Carol and Grumio, The Taming of the Shrew Ten seasons at Great Lakes Theater Mark Anthony (aka M.A.) is delighted to be working on his fifth R & J. He has most recently been seen in A Christmas Carol (Charity Man/Old Joe), The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Speed), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Actor 3), Othello (Gratiano), An Ideal Husband (Phipps), A

Cody Zak Ensemble, Romeo and Juliet Great Lakes Theater debut Cody is currently a junior, earning his B.F.A. in musical theater at Kent State University. He most recently appeared at Kent State in Ragtime and in A Chorus Line as Don. Cody has also performed in the ensembles of Grease, Brigadoon, Oklahoma and Rent. Last summer, he played Link Larkin in the Beck Center’s production of Hairspray. Other roles include Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees, Sonny

Understudies Casey Cott, Jodi Dominick*, Danielle Dorfman, Mackenzie Duan, Tom Ford*, Jon Gluckner, Lisa Kuhnen, Melissa Owens*, David Anthony Smith*, Dudley Swetland*, M.A. Taylor*, Jordan Whalen , Cody Zak

Directors/Choreographers Charles Fee Director, Romeo and Juliet; Producing Artistic Director Ten seasons at Great Lakes Theater Directing credits at GLT: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, 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 Lake Tahoe, Nevada (since 2010). His appointments have resulted in a dynamic and groundbreaking producing model for the companies, in which 37 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, in Boise, 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

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Jordan Whalen Paris in Romeo and Juliet Great Lakes Theater debut Regional theater credits include Mortimer in Mary Stuart (Meadow Brook Theatre), Wally in Cider House Rules (Hilberry Repertory), Slim in Of Mice and Men (Hilberry Repertory), Archer in The Beaux’ Stratagem (Hilberry Repertory), Laertes in Hamlet (Hilberry Repertory), Joe Pitt in Angels in America (StageWest) and Kippy in Take Me Out (StageWest). Jordan holds an M.F.A. from Wayne State University and has trained at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia. Thank you Patrick Gouran and Tony Schmitt and all my teachers for helping me along the way. Much love to my family, friends and dogs.

in Grease and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls.

Love and thanks to my family and friends for their constant support.

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Midsummer Night’s Dream (Flute/Fairy), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Durdles) and Twelfth Night (Fabian). Also among his credits: Candy in Of Mice and Men (directed by Adrian Hall) for PTTP/Rep, Dracula for Boise Contemporary Theater in the title role, Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Gravedigger/Player King in Hamlet for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and Crave & Fully Committed for Tooth & Nail Theater in Salt Lake City. Other productions include Arsenic and Old Lace, The Crucible, She Stoops to Conquer, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tooth of Crime, Translations, An Ideal Husband, All the King’s Men, The Effects of Tobacco, Swan Song, Saint Joan and The Count of Monte Cristo. He holds an MFA from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP).

He wishes to give special thanks to my supportive families, both professional and genetic and the Staff at Great Lakes. And unlike Fausto Carmona, M.A. is his real name. Go Tribe!!

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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 16-year-old 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!

Ken Merckx Fight Choreographer, Romeo and Juliet Seven seasons at Great Lakes Theater Previous shows include Othello, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Crucible, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Julius Caesar and Tartuffe. Mr. Merckx has taught and choreographed stage combat all over the country, including as the resident fight choreographer for A Noise Within (Los Angeles), Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Ken is on the faculty of California State, Fullerton as theatrical combat instructor.

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Helene Peterson Choreographer Romeo and Juliet Three seasons at Great Lakes Theater Festival Helene has worked for Idaho Shakespeare Festival for 18 years, seven of those in ISF’s administrative offices, from 1993 to 2000. Her choreography for ISF includes A Christmas Carol; Twelfth Night; The Tempest; Private Lives; Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Cymbeline; Much Ado About Nothing; You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown; The Fantasticks; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Arsenic and Old Lace; Love’s Labour’s Lost; Greater Tuna; A Tuna Christmas, An Ideal Husband & The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Helene is also the artistic director of DROP dance collective, a teacher and choreographer for Balance Dance Company and is in her tenth year as managing director of Boise Contemporary Theater. Helene holds a BA in international politics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MFA in dance from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She was awarded a Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts for Artistic Excellence in 2006.

Designers Rick Martin Lighting Designer, Romeo and Juliet Nine seasons at Great Lakes Theater Many productions with ISF and GLT. Other theater: US premiere of Kurt Weil’s Marie Galante (Opéra Français de NY), Hekabe, The Illiad and The Rage of Achilles with Music-Theatre Group (New York and Santa Fe) and The Bitter Tears of Petra van Kant (Henry Miller Theatre, New York).

Opera: Le Diable dans le beffroi, La Chute de la Maison Usher (Opéra national de Paris – scenery and lighting), Castor et Pollux, Pelléas et Méllisande and To Be Sung (Opéra Français de NY) and Roméo et Juliette (Spoleto Festival USA). Concerts: Le martyre de Saint Sébastien (Cité de la Musique, Paris & Arsenal, Metz), Orchestre national de Lyon and the Orchestre de Champs-Élysées (Lyon, Poitiers, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, São Paulo). Coming up: Harawi (Opéra Comique scenery and lighting) and The Winter’s Tale (GLT).

Member: USA 829, IATSE. Star Moxley Costume Designer, Romeo and Juliet Seven seasons at Great Lakes Theater Star has worked at Idaho Shakespeare Festival, GLT’s sister company, as a Resident Designer. Her designs there include Macbeth, Hamlet, As You Like It, Henry V, The Three Musketeers, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, She Stoops to Conquer, Arms and the Man, Waiting for Godot, Quilters, The Woman in Black, Much Ado About Nothing and numerous Shakespearience productions, including The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet. Star has designed extensively for Idaho Theater for Youth, beginning with its first production of Aurora and including Androcles and the Lion, Alice in Wonderland, No Fish in the House, Commedia de Lazzi, Little Lulu, Charlotte’s Web, Bremen Town Blues, Jack Frost, The Three Questions, Dreams of a Bird Woman, Feather on the Sea and Boxcar Children. Other designs include Dracula, Three Days of Rain, Tru, Animals Out Of Paper, Drawer Boy, At Home At The Zoo, and Shipwrecked!The Amazing Adventures of Louis DeRougemont (Boise Contemporary Theater).

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Gage Williams Scenic Designer, Romeo and Juliet Ten seasons at Great Lakes Theater Festival Previous designs for Great Lakes Theater include Twelfth Night, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well, Amadeus, You Can’t Take It With You, The Importance

Stage Management Tim Kinzel* Stage Manager, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew; Assistant Stage Manager, A Christmas Carol Three seasons at Great Lakes Theater Stage Manager credits for GLT include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, An Ideal Husband, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Taming of the Shrew. For Idaho Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, An Ideal Husband, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). For Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night. For NYC Cherry Lane Theater and Playwrights Horizon: Asking for It. For Houston’s Stages Repertory Theater: The Giver, Old Stories and Always Patsy Cline. Assistant Stage Manager credits for Great Lakes Theater include The Mystery of Edwin Drood and A Christmas Carol. He has multiple production assistant and intern credits with Alley Theater, Houston Grand Opera and Stages Repertory Theater. Tim cannot ask for a better family and group of friends. He is thankful for their continuous support and encouragement through his journey.

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Peter John Still Sound Designer, Romeo and Juliet Nine seasons at Great Lakes Theater Festival Awards: 2002 Drama Desk nomination for Cymbeline. Education: Oxford University. Great Lakes Theater: The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Tempest, Hay Fever, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Importance of Being Earnest, Nickel and Dimed, Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III and All’s Well that Ends Well. Broadway: Awake and Sing. Royal Shakespeare Company: Cymbeline. West End: several productions, including Sir John Gielgud’s last stage production The Best of Friends. Off-Broadway: Pericles, Don Juan, Waste, Cymbeline and Twelfth Night. Regional: Guthrie Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Intiman Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Portland Stage Company, Boise Contemporary Theater, Playmakers Rep and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Most recently designed Blood and Gifts at the Lincoln Center Theater in fall of 2011.

of Being Earnest, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arms and the Man and Much Ado About Nothing. Gage is the Resident Scenic Designer for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is Chair of the Department of Theatre at the University of Utah. For ISF, Gage has designed numerous productions over the past 18 years, including Hamlet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, Macbeth, A Winter’s Tale, Henry IV, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night and Henry V. In 1994, Gage was awarded a Cable ACE award for art direction on the Showtime film Mastergate, written by Larry Gelbart. Recent television projects include Star Search for CBS, Josh Groban in Concert for PBS and A Motown Christmas for NBC. Gage’s scenic design for Hamlet, directed

by Charlie Fee, was presented in Prague as part of the United States’ exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture. Elsewhere, Gage has designed scenery for Utah Opera, Pioneer Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Childsplay and numerous network television productions.

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Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Arms and the Man, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet. She was delighted to take her design of Twelfth Night to Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival last summer. Star’s designs for Hamlet were exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial International Exhibition 2003, an exhibit considered to be the Olympics of theater design. She also received an award for Macbeth and exhibited at the World Stage Design International Exhibition 2005. She is a recipient of the Boise Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and is nationally recognized as a fiber artist whose work has been featured in exhibitions throughout the U.S., and is part of both public and private collections including the permanent collection of the Boise Art Museum.

Her fiber work was published in the book Fiberarts Design Book. She is currently an Artist in Residence in Boise exploring and exhibiting as an installation artist. She is a member of USA, Local 829.

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Charles Fee, Producing Artistic Director

ADMINISTRATION

Bob Taylor, Executive Director

Audience Engagement Manager................................... Chris Fornadel Development Associate ........................................Joanna Laurenzana Finance Associate ........................................................Tamara Nelson Marketing Intern ............................................................Katie Talstein Trinity High School Interns.....Nicole Bogdanovich, Annamarie Maher, Daniel Telford

2011–12 ARTISTIC COMPANY Fall Repertory, A Christmas Carol, The Mousetrap, Romeo and Juliet DIRECTORS

PRODUCTION

Drew Barr, Sara Bruner, Victoria Bussert, Charles Fee, Matthew Webb, Tracy Young

J. Todd Adams*, Kjerstine Rose Anderson*, Lynn Robert Berg*, Laurie Birmingham*, Neil Brookshire*, Sara M. Bruner*, Phillip Michael Carroll*, Kayleigh Collins, Casey Cott, , Jackson Daugherty, Aled Davies*, Danielle Dorfman, Jodi Dominick*, Mackenzie Duan, Mackenzie Dale Durken, Christian Durso*, Nika Ericson, Tom Ford*, Jon Gluckner, Reggie Gowland*, Danny Henning*, Antwaun Holley, Cameron Andrew Howell, Paul Hurley*, Rachel M. Jones, Jillian Kates*, Mia Knight, Lisa Kuhnen, Dan Lawrence*, Andrea Leach, Darryl Lewis*, Jim Lichtscheidl*, Colleen Longshaw*, Dougfred Miller*, Bailey Carter Moulse, Betsy Mugavero*, Cameron Danielle Nelson, Carly Marie Nelson, Cassidy Josephine Nelson, Courtney Anne Nelson, Shannon O’Boyle*, Melissa Owens*, Ryan David O’Byrne*, Eduardo Placer*, Laura Perrotta*, Maggie Roach, David Anthony Smith*, M.A. Taylor*, Rohn Thomas*, Dudley Swetland*, Sara Whale, Natalie Welch, Jordan Whalen, Rod Wolfe*, John Woodson*, Cody Zak

Stage Manager.................................................................. Tim Kinzel* Production Associate....................................................Alisha Glasser Production Assistant.........................................................Sarah Kelso Technical Director............................................................ Mark Cytron Scene Shop Foreman............................................William Langenhop Assistant Technical Director.................................William J. Amato III Lead Carpenter................................................................ Lindsay Loar Carpenter/Welders...........................Richard Haberlen, Will Ledbetter Master Electrician..........................................................Tammy Taylor Properties Master.............................................................Terry Martin Properties & Scenic Artisan.........................................Fritz Lombardi Charge Scenic Artist........................................................... Angi Grow Scenic Artist.............................................................. Christine Dugan Scenic Intern.......................................................................... C.J. Fore Costume Shop Manager........................................Esther M. Haberlen Assistant Shop Manager/Draper..........................................Leah Loar Draper.......................................................................Ginger Robertson First Hand........................................................................... Carol Fitch Stitchers.................................. Krista Tomorowitz, Rachel Reisenauer Design Assistant/Craft Artisan................................ Krista Tomorowitz Costume Intern..................................................................Brian Shaw Wardrobe Supervisor...........................................................Anji Dunn Wardrobe Crew.........Stephanie Fisher, Beth Foble, Rachel Reisenauer Follow Spot Operators.........................Gregory Falcione, Ralph Melari Hanna Theatre Crew................................... Thomas Boddy, Chris Guy, Shaun Milligan, Robert Prah

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*Members of Actors’ Equity Association

DESIGNERS Norman Coates, Gregory Daniels, Mary Jo Dondlinger, John Ezell, Gene Emerson Friedman, Mary Louise Geiger, Jeff Herrmann, Alex Jaeger, Dan Jankura, Daniel Kluger, Stan Kozak, Dexter Fidler, Michael Locher, Tom Mardikes, Rick Martin, Russell Metheny, Star Moxley, Helene Peterson, James Scott, David Shimotakahara, Kim Krumm Sorenson, Peter John Still, Cynthia Stillings, Robert Waldman, Gage Williams, Charlotte Yetman ACTORS

Artistic Associate.............................................................. Sara Bruner Production Manager......................................Christopher D. Flinchum Director of Education........................................................Daniel Hahn Marketing & Public Relations Director ...................Todd S. Krispinsky Development Director....................................................Holly Tomasch EDUCATION Education Associate............................................Kelly Schaffer Florian Associate Residency Supervisor.................................... David Hansen Supervisor, School Residency Program............................Lisa Ortenzi Actor-Teachers School Residency Program........... Katelyn Cornelius, Melissa Crum, Tim Keo, Debbie Keppler, Brian McNally, Randy Muchowski, Eric Perusek, Carrie Williams

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In the Next Room Every Good Boy Baobab Emilio /Ench. Cow World of Rhythm Zorro Squirm Burpee Alvin Ailey

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