Fun Home & Bad Jews Combo Program

Mad Cow Theatre Presents

JUNE 1-JULY 1, 2018

Sponsored by

Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron Music by Jeanine Tesori Based on the Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel

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Through the combination of passionate, skillful acting and compelling, insightful writing, nurtured by an attentive and ever-changing process, Mad Cow presents entertaining works of theatre to an ever-widening audience — promoting, enhancing, and celebrating the human condition through art.

Mad Cow Theatre is supported in part with public funds from the State of

Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; the Florida Arts Council; the National Endowment for the Arts, the Downtown Development Board; and Orange County through the Arts & Cultural Affairs Program.

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Mad Cow is a 501(c)(3) organization and welcomes all donations including funds, materials, time, and goodwill. We are especially delighted when audience members bring others to share the theatrical experience.

Mad Cow Theatre Staff Executive Director Mitzi Maxwell

Technical Director Waylon Lemasters

Manager of Operations & Community Engagement Audrey McGowen

Development Coordinator Ryan Rosa

Company Manager Jessica Kaschube

Administrator Coordinator Morgan Moots

Patron Experience Manager Erica Bush Sales & Services Specialist Jennifer Thomas

Photographer Tom Hurst Founding Members Rus Blackwell Trudy Bruner Alan Bruun Dennis Neal

Board Members Aurelie Grand Mitzi Maxwell Brian McDowell Jane Oatway Kerby Pickens Susi Rivera Mike Schneider Jean Siegfried Bickley Wilson Wendy Zehngebot

Manager of Art & Design Lisa Buck

Out of respect for the audience and the artists, patrons who leave the theatre during the performance and patrons who arrive late will be re-admitted at the house manager’s discretion.

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Fun Home

Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron | Music by Jeanine Tesori Based on the Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel June 1-July 1, 2018 THE HARRIETT - FEATURING Raina Grabowski Jolie Hart Laura Hodos*

David Lowe Ty Lowrey Joshua Parrott

Sonia Roman* Emilie Scheetz Rhyse Silvestro

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the U.S.

Scenic Designer Rob Wolin +

Stage Manager Katie Rinaldi

Costume Design Mollie LaTorre

Properties Master Lisa Buck

Choreographer Crystal Edwards

Lighting Design Eric Craft

Music Director Robert Stamper

Director Mark Edward Smith Sponsored by

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“Fun Home” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH,INC. Originally Produced on Broadway by Fox Theatricals Barbara Whitman Carole Shorenstein Hays Tom Casserly Paula Marie Black Latitude Link Terry Schnuck/Jane Lane The Forstalls Nathan Vernon Mint Theatricals Elizabeth Armstrong Jam Theatricals Delman Whitney and Kristin Caskey and Mike Isaacson The world premiere production of FUN HOME was produced by The Public Theater Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director Patrick Willingham, Executive Director In New York City on October 22nd, 2013 FUN HOME was developed, in part, at the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at White Oak and the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the3Sundance Resort.

Fun Home Cast Alison....................................................................................... Sonia Roman Small Alison........................................................................ Raina Grabowski Bruce...........................................................................................David Lowe Helen......................................................................................... Laura Hodos Christian......................................................................................... Ty Lowrey John........................................................................................ Rhyse Silvestro Medium Alison..........................................................................Emilie Scheetz Roy/Mark................................................................................ Joshua Parrott Joan................................................................................................Jolie Hart MUSICIANS Larry Hendrixson............................................................................. Drummer Abigail Collins...................................................................................... Cellist Carlos Moros......................................................................... Substitute Cellist

Fun Home is a 70 minute production with no intermission.

PRODUCTION TEAM Assistant Stage Manager.................................... Ellie Flaumenhaft, Jorge Mesa Technical Director................................................................ Waylon Lemasters Scenic Charge ................................................................................ Lisa Buck Scenic Painter .............................................................................. Eric Arroyo

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Lighting/Electrics Crew............................................Matt Horohoe, Jorge Mesa

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 *actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster

the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans.

AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

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Fun Home MUSICAL NUMBERS 1. It All Comes Back.........................................................................Company 2. Welcome To Our House On Maple Avenue............................. Helen, Alison, ................................................................ Small Alison, Christian, John, Bruce 3. Come To The Fun Home................................... John, Small Alison, Christian 4. Helen’s Etude .......................................................... Bruce, Helen, Roy, Kids 5. Party Dress......................................................Small Alison, Medium Alison 6. Changing My Major.............................................................Medium Alison 7. Maps.....................................................................................Bruce, Alison 8. Raincoat Of Love..........................................................................Company 9. Ring of Keys............................................................................Small Alison 10. Days and Days................................................................................Helen 11.Telephone Wire......................................................................Alison, Bruce 12. Edges of the World...........................................................................Bruce 13. Flying Away.......................................Alison, Small Alison, Medium Alison

and THE ZEHNGEBOT-STONEROCK AUG 10-SEPT 2, 2018

Louis Gravance

Directed by Philip Nolen

Fun Home

Alison Bechdel

Jeanine Tesori (Music) has written for Broadway, Opera, film and television. Her Broadway musicals include: Fun Home (2015 Tony Award Winner, Pulitzer finalist); Violet; Caroline, or Change; Shrek the Musical; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Twelfth Night (LCT); John Guare’s A Free Man of Color. Delacorte: Mother Courage.

She has received five Tony nominations, three Obie Awards and three Drama Desk Awards. The hallmarks of her work have been described as “close-to-thesurface emotion, structural rigor and rhythmic drive”. Her operas include: The Lion, the Unicorn and Me; Blizzard on Marblehead Neck. And is the founding Artistic Director of a new concert series at New York City Center called Encores!

lyrics for the musical Fun Home (with music by composer Jeanine Tesori), winner of five 2015 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Lisa and Jeanine were the first all-woman team to ever receive a Tony for best score.Honors : Guggenheim fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artists Award, and the Cal Arts/Alpert Award.

ALISON BECHDEL (Cartoonist) When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality, and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father’s hidden desires. Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.

Lisa Kron (Book & Lyrics) is a writer and performer whose work has been widely produced in New York, regionally, and internationally. Her plays include Well, 2.5 Minute Ride, and The Ver**zon Play. She wrote the book and

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Fun Home CRYSTAL EDWARDS (Choreographer) is thrilled to be on Fun Home’s artistic team. She previously choreographed Animal Crackers for Mad Cow. She holds a BFA in dance from the University of Florida. She dances for Black Label Movement (where she is also managing director) and toured nationally and internationally with Diavolo Dance Theater. Her choreography has been performed by Sarasota Contemporary Dance, multiple Universities as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. She works as a teaching artist for Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and Mad Cow. Big love to the most supportive family – Greg, William and Annabelle and of course all the cows in the pasture.

LISA BUCK (Properties Master) Set designs include The Road to Mecca, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Painting Churches (Mad Cow Theatre), Don Pasquale, Abduction from the Seraglio, and Carmina Burana (Orlando Opera), Madama Butterfly, II Barbieredi Siviglia, Tosca, and The Magic Flute (Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra).

Lisa studied painting at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Cobalt Studios. She has won numerous awards for her painting and has written howto-paint articles for North Light Publications.

ERIC CRAFT (Lighting Designer) previously designed lights for Grounded, Big River, Animal Crackers, Born Yesterday, and Three Sisters as well as the sets for The Brother’s Size and, A View from the Bridge with Mad Cow Theatre. He has worked with Pioneer Theatre Company, Sacramento Theater Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and numerous others. He would like to thank his family for all their support.

JOLIE HART (Joan) is honored to be returning to Mad Cow, where she was seen in Circle Mirror Transformation.

Other credits include Peter Pan (Peter), You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Sally), Assassins (Squeaky Fromme), and Into the Woods (Little Red). It’s vital to tell stories that teach lessons, and the best people are those that exhibit courage and compassion. She is proud to be a part of a story and cast like that.

Love is love.

RAINA DANIELLE GRABOWSKI (Small Alison) At age five, while watching a performance of Charlotte’s Web, Raina asked, “How do I get to that?”

Now 13, she has appeared in The Miracle Worker (Helen Keller), You Can’t Take It With You (Gay Wellington), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Jemima), The Sound of Music (Marta) and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical (Gladys Herdman). She thanks Heather Charles, Jesse Cohen, Gail Chase, and Robby Stamper for their guidance.

LAURA HODOS (Helen) is a singer, actor, improv artist, and cabarista. At Mad Cow, she was Marjorie Taub in The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, John Adams in 1776 and appeared in The Light in the Piazza, Sweeney Todd, and many Orlando Cabaret Festivals. Laura has performed at theatres all over the country, has written and performed 10

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Fun Home solo cabarets, and has been a six-time Carbonell Award nominee. Dickinson College and American Musical and Dramatic Academy grad; proud member of Actors’ Equity. www.LauraHodos.com

Lang, and Janine Papin, for their support in his theatre endeavors.

JOSHUA PARROTT (Roy, Mark) is excited to work with Mad Cow. Joshua earned a BFA in music theatre and a BA in arts administration from Elon University. Regional credits: Alexander in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and Sam in Shakespeare in Love (Orlando Shakespeare Theater), Young Confederate Soldier/Frankie in Parade (Theatre Raleigh), Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (the Prizery) and Male Swing in It’s A Wonderful Life (Dollywood).

MOLLIE LATORRE (Costume Designer) recently received a master’s degree in costume design from Florida State University, where her credits include Cloud Nine, Killer Joe, and Some Girl(s) and the films Interrogation, The Terrible Trio, and Death at Dinner. She has worked at Utah Festival Opera and Music Festival, Olney Theatre Center, and Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Mollie also has a BFA in production design from Savannah College of Art and Design and works in creative costuming at Disney.

KATIE RINALDI (Stage Manager) is in her second season at Mad Cow, where she stage-managed The God Game, Constellations, It Was a Very Good Year, Skylight, Born Yesterday, and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife and assistant stage-managed and acted as fight captain for A View from the Bridge. Katie holds a BFA in stage management from UCF. She also works as an event tech at the Dr. Phillips Center and as a substitute teacher at Trinity Preparatory School.

DAVID LOWE (Bruce) is thrilled to be back at Mad Cow, where he last appeared in 2014 in The Who’s Tommy. Other area theatre credits include Company, A Few Good Men, The Crucible, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Man of La Mancha and many others. David would like to thank Melanie, Blake, Donald, Jean, Max, Marley, and Murphy for their guidance, inspiration, and support.

SONIA ROMAN (Alison) appeared in Mad Cow’s Avenue Q (Mrs. T/Bad Idea Bear). Recent credits include Hairspray (Penny Pingleton) with Encore Performing Arts at the Dr. Phillips Center and Destiny of Desire (Fabiola Castillo) at the Garden Theatre. She can be found swimming with the fishies in Finding Nemo: The Musical at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Proud AEA Member. Many

TY LOWREY (Christian) is proud to join the cast of Fun Home. Ty lives in Orlando with his family and will be in seventh grade at Trinity Preparatory School. Outside theatre, Ty loves animals and enjoys swimming and biking. He would like to thank his family, as well Rhonda Cato, Danielle

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Fun Home thanks to friends, family, and family, and love to her dearest, James.

Wife, Our Town, The Four Quartets, and Blithe Spirit.

EMILIE SCHEETZ (Medium Alison) is thrilled to return to the pasture after playing the Courier in 1776 and Jo/ Joanna in Big River, as well as being featured in It Was a Very Good Year 1970 and 1980. She recently graduated from Windermere Preparatory School, where she played Maria in The Sound of Music earlier this year. She thanks Mitzi, Mark, Ms. Walden, Mom, and Dad. www.emmyshines.com

ROBBY STAMPER (Music Director) New York City – The Julliard School, The Lion King on Broadway, Camp Broadway, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Disney Theatrical Productions,City Center Encores.Orlando – Walt Disney World,Orlando Repertory Theatre,Mad Cow Theatre,The GardenTheatre, Disney Cruise Lines, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts,Central Florida Community Arts. COMPOSER: Helen on 86th Street,The Order of Things (Eugene O’Neill NMTC Semi-finalist), Mother of the Year (The York Theater), It’s About Time (The Duplex; Off-Broadway Alliance Mentorship Project) AWARDS: Dramatist Guild Fellowship Award, Manhattan Association of Cabaret Song of the Year, BMI Musical Theatre Composer Workshop Alumni. www.robbystamper.com.

RHYSE SILVESTRO (John) is excited to be doing his first show at Mad Cow Theatre. Past roles include Jon Webster in Shakespeare In Love, Ollie Herdman in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, and Tommy Stubbins in Doctor Dolittle. He would like to thank his acting coach Sarah-Lee Dobbs for helping him get here. Remember, you are always welcome at the Fun Home.

MARK EDWARD SMITH (Director) For Mad Cow: Silent Sky, Big River, The Amish Project, Three Sisters, 1776, The Big Meal, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Art, My Name Is Asher Lev, James Joyce’s The Dead, and The History Boys.

Favorite directing projects elsewhere: Pulse, The Tricky Part, Boy Gets Girl, A Doll’s House, The Triumph of Love.

As an actor for Mad Cow: Tribes, The Light In The Piazza, Death of a Salesman, The Pitmen Painters, Rashomon, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Heiress, An Inspector Calls, Assassins, The Rainmaker, Pericles, The Seagull, The Constant

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ROB WOLIN (Scenic Designer) Previous designs at Mad Cow: The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Born Yesterday, Fences, Three Sisters, Pygmalion, 1776, Avenue Q, My Name is Asher Lev. Off Broadway: An Evening with Quentin Crisp, Queen of Hearts, many productions for the Glines; assistant designer, Broadway: Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Flower Drum Song, Never Gonna Dance, Liza’s at the Palace; regional-theatre designs for Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Zoetic Stage, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Porthouse Theatre Company, Florida Repertory Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, and many others. www.RFWolin.com

Fun Home Mad Cow Theatre is celebrating its 21st season as one of Orlando’s most respected professional theatre companies, committed to presenting compelling works of theatre for a wide range of audiences, with a passion for both classic and contemporary plays representing the best of American and world literature. Mad Cow Theatre attracts the area’s most talented actors, designers, and directors. A mainstay of the company is its dedication to the

process of creating theatre, incorporating in-depth rehearsal and research periods along with a nurturing collaborative process.

The company’s awards include Arts Innovator of the Year (United Arts of Central Florida), “Best Place to See a Play” (Orlando Sentinel), “Best Live Theatre” (Orlando Weekly), “Best Local Theatre Company” (Orlando Magazine), and “Best Performance Theatre” (Orlando Business Journal).

Meet the Cast

Raina Grabowski

Jolie Hart

Laura Hodos

David Lowe

Ty Lowrey

Joshua Parrott

Sonia Roman

Emilie Scheetz

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Donors List 2017-2018 Mad Cow Theatre has continually expanded at a pace that reflects the need of the city around it, and today is no exception. Mad Cow Theatre is making progress every day thanks to the visionary and generous support of the citizens of Central Florida and individual philanthropists, foundations, and corporations who believe that Orlando’s success is tied directly to a dynamic cultural and artistic scene.

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Mad Cow Theatre Presents

JUN 15-JUL 8, 2018 Family, faith and legacy.

By Joshua Harmon

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Announcing Season 22 2018-2019

The Harriett Theatre

The ZehngebotStonerock Theatre

the Royal FaMily

by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber — A 1920’s classic comedy Sept. 21-Oct. 14, 2018

RaptuRe, BlisteR, BuRn

by Gina Gionfriddo — Contemporary comedy with a bite Oct. 26-Nov. 18, 2018

the MysteRy oF edwin dRood

by Rupert Holmes — A hilarious musical whodunit Nov. 30-Dec. 23, 2018

GloRia

by Branden Jacob-Jenkins — A sharp-toothed dark comedic drama Feb. 15-March 10, 2019

hand to God

by Robert Askins — A ruthless comedy about sex, sinners and sock puppets Jan. 18-Feb. 10, 2019

outside MullinGaR

by John Patrick Shanley — Beautiful story about taking a chance on love June 21-July 14, 2019

top GiRls

by Caryl Churchill — The provocative story of women, success and relationships March 29-April 21, 2019

Fade

by Tanya Saracho —The compelling story of a Latina television writer in LA Aug. 23-Sept. 15, 2019

once Book by Enda Walsh, music by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová — The enchanting musical about love June 7-30, 2019

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by George Bernard Shaw — A rousing comedy of wit and romance Aug. 9-Sept. 1, 2019

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Bad Jews

By Joshua Harmon June 15-July 8, 2018 THE ZEHNGEBOT-STONEROCK THEATRE - FEATURING Rachel Comeau Lea Kalisch Scenic Design Cliff Price

Adam Minossora Adam Reilly Properties Master Lisa Buck

Costume Design Dwayne Allen

Stage Manager Thamara Bejarano Lighting Design Amy hadley

Director Shami McCormick Bad Jews

is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH,INC. ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is committed to producing the highest-quality theatre with the finest artists, sharing stories that endure and providing accessibility to all audiences. A not-for-profit company operating in New York City, Roundabout fulfills its mission each season through the production of classic plays and musicals; development and production of new works by established and emerging writers; educational initiatives that enrich the lives of children and adults; and a subscription model and audience outreach programs that cultivate and engage all audiences. Founded in 1965, Roundabout presents this work on its five stages and across the country through national tours. Since moving to Broadway 20 years ago, Roundabout productions have received 181 Tony nominations, 174 Drama Desk nominations and 195 Outer Critics Circle nominations. More on Roundabout’s mission, history and variety of programs can be found by visiting roundaboutheatre.org World Premiere Produced in New York City by Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director, Harold Wolpert, Managing Director, Julia C. Levy, Executive Director) as part of Roundabout Underground at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre on October 30, 2012

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Bad Jews Cast Daphna........................................................................................ Lea Kalisch Melody...................................................................................Rachel Comeau Jona.................................................................................... Adam Minossora Liam............................................................................................Adam Reilly

There is no intermission for this production of Bad Jews.

PLACE AND TIME A studio apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Present day.

PRODUCTION TEAM Technical Director................................................................ Waylon Lemasters Scenic Charge ................................................................................ Lisa Buck Lighting/Electrics Crew........................................................... Jessica Kashube

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 *actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster

the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans.

AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

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Bad Jews

Joshua Harmon

Joshua Harmon (playwright) born 1983 is a New York City-based playwright, whose works include Bad Jews and Significant Other, both produced off-Broadway by Roundabout Theatre Company.

Harmon has also had his plays produced and developed by the Manhattan Theatre Club, Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, the O’Neill and Actor’s Express.

He has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Eudora Welty Foundation.

Harmon is a graduate of Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Juilliard.

Bad Jews (2012) was the first play of Harmon’s which was performed for longer than three nights. After its success in 2012 in Roundabout Theatre Company’s 63-seat black box theatre, Bad Jews transferred to the company’s 420-seat theatre the next year. Bad Jews

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went on to be the third most-produced play in America in the 2014-2015 season, and earned nominations for best play from the Outer Critics Circle and the Lucille Lortel awards.

The Roundabout Theatre Company produced Significant Other (2015) Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre.

The play involves the lives of four college friends and their search for relationships. It was included in the New York Times Top Ten Productions of 2015.

[13] Significant Other is forthcoming from Samuel French. The play was produced by the SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Massachusetts, in September to October 2016. Harmon explained the premise: “How do you make life work for yourself when you feel that you’re not living the life you’re supposed to be living or want to be living? And how do you deal with that when the changes that you need to make are in some ways outside of your control?” Harmon further noted that he did not intend to write a comedy.

“I honestly thought that I’d written the saddest play ... I don’t write thinking about the comedy. I am genuinely always surprised when something winds up being funny.”

Admissions opened Off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center Theater, in 2018.

The play involves the values and ambitions of a couple who work in an exclusive school and their son.

Skintight is a new play commissioned by the Roundabout Theatre Company. It is expected to premiere Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre in June, 2018. The play revolves around Jodi and her father, and “the nature of love.”

Bad Jews RACHEL COMEAU (Melody) is honored to return to the pasture for the second time this year. Previous roles at Mad Cow include Irina in Three Sisters and Catherine in A View from the Bridge. Since graduating from Rollins College in 2016 she has performed with such companies as Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Tierra Del Sol Studio Theatre, Beth Marshall Presents, and Phantasmagoria.

LISA BUCK (Properties Master) Set designs include The Road to Mecca, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Painting Churches (Mad Cow Theatre), Don Pasquale, Abduction from the Seraglio, and Carmina Burana (Orlando Opera), Madama Butterfly, II Barbieredi Siviglia, Tosca, and The Magic Flute (Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra).

Lisa studied painting at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Cobalt Studios.

She has won numerous awards for her painting and has written how-to-paint articles for North Light Publications.

AMY HADLEY (Lighting Designer) is an independent lighting designer who works with many theaters throughout Central Florida and serves as staff lighting designer for Beth Marshall Presents.

She is excited to be returning for her sixth production with Mad Cow Theatre.

She was part of the creative team for Silent Sky, The Big Meal, 1776, Pygmalion and Fences. When she is not working as a lighting designer, she serves as technical director for the Orlando Fringe.

DWAYNE ALLEN (Costume Designer) attended Duke Ellington School for the Arts in Washington, D.C. He holds a BS degree in apparel management and worked for several years in the apparel industry. Next to performing, his second love is textiles. Noteworthy costume experience include Purlie Victorious, Spunk, and … and Miss Reardon Drinks a Little. Dwayne is excited and thankful to be a part of this production.

Lea Kalisch (Daphna) is a NYC based actress from Switzerland. Recent credits: Awake and Sing (Hennie), God of Vengeance (Hindl)- both productions in Yiddish. Lea is also the lead singer of the spiritual folk- rock group REVIVAL. She attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) and earned her BFA from The New School in NYC. She is delighted to bring the role of Daphna to the stage. Leakalisch.com

THAMARA BEJARANO (Stage Manager) graduated from Central University of Venezuela, where she also taught film. She has been an actress and director and has worked in audiovisual production. At Mad Cow, Thamara was Magdalena in Lorca’s classic The House of Bernarda Alba, stage-managed and played Belisa’s Mother in Lorca’s Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the Garden, stage-managed Alejandro Casona’s No Suicide in Springtime, and adapted, stage-managed and played Mrs. Capulet in Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet.

SHAMI J. MCCORMICK (Director) happily returns to Mad Cow, a theatre of bold vision, creative courage and inclusive values, in her MCT directing debut. Shami is a proud member of AEA,

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Bad Jews CLIFF PRICE (Scenic Designer) has been resident scenic/production designer for Encore! Cast Performing Arts since 2002.

He received a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture and environmental design from the University of Georgia.

Recent credits include Finding Wonderland, Aida, Ragtime, Godspell and Hairspray. He received the 2017 Broadway World Regional (Orlando) Award for best scenic design for Hairspray. Cliff is thankful to Mike Beahm and Clay Price for all their love and support.

AFTRA and an associate member of the Union of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Favorite directing projects include Damn Yankees, On the Town, Our Town and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She thanks her family, Universal Orlando/ Halloween Horror Nights colleagues and directing mentors Larry Arrick, Jeanine Tesori, Keith Levenson, Jennifer Cavenaugh, John Christopher Jones, Stephen Nachamie and Chris Clavelli for encouragement, guidance and inspiration. Once a New Yorker, Shami is now Orlando Strong.

ADAM REILLY (Liam) is feeling truly lucky to be returning to Mad Cow for the ninth time. Past performances have been in It Was a Very Good Year 2018, Silent Sky, Animal Crackers, Three Sisters, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Clybourne Park, Photograph 51, and The History Boys. He attended Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Phillips High School, and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He sends his loving thanks to his family and to Mad Cow Theatre.

ADAM MINOSSORA (Jonah) made his theatrical debut just a year ago and, since then, has appeared as James in The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Beth Marshall Presents/Garden Theatre) and as Phillip in Orphans (Theatre on the Edge).

Deepest gratitude goes to his family at home and at the Truthful Acting Studios for their love. Further thanks go to Mad Cow Theatre and to you, the patrons, for supporting the arts.

Meet the Cast

Lea Kalisch

Rachel Comeau

Adam Minossora

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Adam Reilly

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Music & Lyrics by Neil Bartram Book by Brian Hill

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A Doll's House

JUST MARRIED

Book & Lyrics Brian Hargrove

THE STORY OF MY LIFE is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI www.MTIShows.com

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Henrik Ibsen

h ou l d a n You B ee

Music & Concept Barbara Anselmi

Translated by Christopher Hampton

IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com

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