Heartbreak House Program

MAD COW THEATRE Presents

AUGUST 7-SEPT. 1, 2019

by George Bernard Shaw A rousing comedy of wit and romance.

Directed by Tony Simotes

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Mad Cow Theatre Mad Cow Theatre was founded on the belief that the theatre is a dynamic and powerful means of social understanding, as well as a hugely entertaining art form.

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. A great nation deserves great art!

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 Director of Operations Audrey McGowen Manager of Art & Design Lisa Buck Administrative Intern Kate Revels

Director of Special Projects Jessica Kaschube

Patron Experience Manager Alletta Gentry

Admintstration Communications Manager Morgan Moots

Patron Services Assistants Max Pinsky

Development & Events Manager Erica Bush

Production Coordinator Lauren Barton

Community Engagement Manager Jennifer Thomas Photographer Tom Hurst Founding Members Rus Blackwell Trudy Bruner Alan Bruun Dennis Neal

Board Members Bill Boles Mitzi Maxwell Brian McDowell Kerby Pickens Susi Rivera Melanie Sylvan Sachs Karenna Senors Jean Siegfried Tony Simotes Wendy Zehngebot

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.

Video and photography are strictly prohibited.

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Heartbreak House

By George Bernard Shaw August 7-September 1, 2019 THE HARRIETT - FEATURING Courtney Bahr Richard Bey* Duncan Bahr* Tommy Keesling Kelly Morris Rowan*

Steven Lane* Shami McCormick* Stephen Lima Jaci Pula Russell R. Trahan

Scenic Designer Eric Craft

Properties Master Lisa Buck

Stage Manager Matt Horohoe*

Costume Design Dwayne Broadnax

Lighting Design Eric Craft

Sound Design Gabriella Petro

Director Tony Simotes**

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

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Heartbreak House CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Ellie Dunn ........................................................................................Jaci Pula Hesione Hushabye................................................................... Courtney Bahr Captain Shotover......................................................................... Richard Bey Hector Hushabye ........................................................................Duncan Bahr Lady Ariadne Utterwood.................................................... Kelly Morris Rowan Mr. Mazzini Dunn........................................................................ Steven Lane Alfred “Boss” Mangan............................................................ Tommy Keesling Randall Utterwood..................................................................... Stephen Lima Nurse Guinness..................................................................Shami McCormick The Burglar........................................................................... Russell R. Trahan Heartbreak House is performed with two 10 minute intermission.

PLACE AND TIME Sussex. End of September. The Bohemian estate house of Captain Shotover.

PRODUCTION TEAM Understudy (Mazzini)..........................................................Stephen Middleton Assistant Stage Manager.............................................................Georgia Rost Scenic Construction....................................................................Matt Horohoe Scenic Charge ................................................................................ Lisa Buck Assistant to the Director/Stage Crew...........................................Charis Walter Dialect Coach.................................................................................. Eric Zivot

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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Meet the Playwright GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (Playwright) George Bernard Shaw was born July 26, 1856, in Dublin, Ireland. In 1876 he moved to London, where he wrote regularly but struggled financially. In 1895, he became a theater critic for the Saturday Review and began writing plays of his own.

His play Pygmalion was later made into a film twice, and the screenplay he wrote for the first version of it won an Oscar. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 60 plays and won many other awards, among them the Nobel Prize. Shaw died Nov. 2, 1950, in Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, UK, at the venerable age of 94.

From biography.com George Bernard Shaw

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Heartbreak House COURTNEY BAHR (Hesione Hushabye) is excited to be returning to Mad Cow and grateful to Tony and Mitzi for the opportunity. Past roles here include Birdie in The Little Foxes and Rita in The Water Engine. She has performed with Orlando Shakespeare Theater, the IceHouse Theatre, Bay Street Players, Southern Winds Theatre, and Women Playwrights’ Initiative.

Regional credits include Barter Theatre and a national tour of Cyrano de Bergerac. Many blessings include Duncan, Jackson, Christopher, Juliette and the arts.

Ivanov, Julius Caesar (Yale Repertory Theatre), Museum (Kennedy Center), Romeo and Juliet (Marin Shakespeare Festival). Original cast in plays by James Lapine, Christopher Durang, and Richard Nelson. TV: The Richard Bey Show, People Are Talking. Film: Bruno.

MFA: Yale School of Drama.

DWAYNE BROADNAX (Costume Designer) Dwayne is thankful to be a part of this wonderful production! His MCT noteworthy costume shows: Bad Jews, Gloria, Top Girls and Once.

Dwayne attended the Duke Ellington School for the Arts in Wash, DC and holds a BS degree in apparel management. He worked for several years in the apparel industry, so his 2nd love to performing is textiles.

DUNCAN BAHR (Hector Hushabye) is excited to return to Mad Cow, where he appeared in Born Yesterday. Duncan has toured nationally as D’Artagnan in The Three Musketeers, was a featured character on NBC’s Another World, and will appear on the OWN series David Makes Man. In the Orlando area he hasperformed in Gypsy, Shakespeare in Love, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Barefoot in the Park, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Noises Off. Duncan is married to actress Courtney Bahr and is the proud father of Jackson, Christopher, and Juliette.

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 Barbiere di Siviglia, Tosca, and The Magic Flute (Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra) and is currently designing The Tender Land (UCF). 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.

RICHARD BEY (Captain Shotover) Broadway: Bedroom Farce (National Theatre of Great Britain, understudy).

Off-Broadway: Table Settings, Vienna Notes (Playwrights Horizons), Second Avenue Rag (Phoenix Theatre).

Regional: Hamlet (Wayside Theatre), The Killing of Yablonski (PAF Playhouse), Vietnamization of NJ,

ERIC CRAFT (Scenic Designer) is excited to return to set design after having designed lights for The Royal

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Heartbreak House STEVEN LANE (Mazzini) has grazed the Mad Cow pasture in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Secret Garden, Photograph 51, Hedda Gabler (Lovborg), Legacy of Light (Voltaire), The Heiress (Morris), The Lion in Winter (Geoffrey) and The Drowsy Chaperone (Man in Chair). At other theatres hehas played Che in Evita, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Corneliusin Hello, Dolly!, and Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby. Steven has a bachelor’s in vocal performance from Stetson University and is a grateful member of Actors’ Equity. Thank you to Lauren O’Quinn Burns, Mitzi and Tony. Soli Deo Gloria!

Family, The Little Foxes, Fun Home, and Outside Mullingar. Eric’s set designs at Mad Cow include The Brothers Size, A View from the Bridge, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Top Girls. He has worked at Pioneer Theatre Company, Sacramento Theater Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and numerous other regional theaters. He would like to thank his family for all their support.

MATT HOROHOE (Stage Manager) has appeared in Mad Cow’s productions of The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Sunday in the Park with George, Death of a Salesman, Clybourne Park, and Animal Crackers. He was the stage manager for The Mystery of Edwin Drood and rehearsal stage manager for The Big Meal. Trained at Montclair State University, he is a member of Actors’ Equity and the proud father of two teenagers.

STEPHEN LIMA (Randall Utterwood) Originally from Toronto Canada, Stephen is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC and was a member of their prestigious showcase Company. Recent Mad Cow Theater credits: Marco in A View from the Bridge and Gil Marshall in The Royal Family. Other credits: O’Brien in 1984, Felix in The Odd Couple and Ernesto in Destiny of Desire (Garden Theater) Lysimachus in Pericles, Sebastian in The Tempest, Grempkin / Fighting Prawn in Peter and the Starcatcher, Bedford / Bates in Henry V (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre),

TOMMY KEESLING (Boss Mangan) has performed in nearly 30 productions at Mad Cow, including Arcadia, Pericles, The Seagull, The History Boys, Art, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, A View from the Bridge, and The Little Foxes.

He also appeared in Mad Cow’s productions of two other Shaw plays, Mrs. Warren’s Profession and Major Barbara. Tommy has worked with many other companies in Central Florida, as well as at the Orlando International Fringe Festival and in staged readings with Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s new play festival.

SHAMI J. MCCORMICK (Nurse Guinness) happily returns to Mad Cow, a theatre of bold vision, creative courage and inclusive values. MCT credits include The Big Meal (Woman

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Heartbreak House #1), Pygmalion (Mrs. Higgins), Three Sisters (Anfisa), Rapture Blister Burn (Alice) and Bad Jews (director). She thanks family, Universal Orlando/ Halloween Horror Nights colleagues, and mentors Tom Turgeon, Larry Arrick, Jeanine Tesori, Keith Levenson, Jennifer Cavenaugh, John Christopher Jones, Stephen Nachamie, and Chris Clavelli for encouragement, guidance and inspiration. And always, Daniel.

the Science Play Festival and the Cabaret Festival. A proud Shenandoah Conservatory graduate, she spent several years in New York before moving to Orlando. Kelly performs in regional theatres throughout Florida, sings with the Voices of Liberty at Walt Disney World, makes magic at Universal, and performs at Renaissance fairs with her husband Arthur. kellymorrisrowan.com

GABRIELLA (ELLIE) PETRO (Sound Designer) is thrilled to be a part of another Mad Cow production. Her previous sound designs with Mad Coware Outside Mullingar, The Royal Family, Rapture Blister Burn, and Buyer and Cellar. Ellie is an entertainment technician at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios and graduated from Slippery Rock University in 2017. She thank you for coming to the show and supporting the arts in the City Beautiful.

TONY SIMOTES (Director) is former artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, which he helped found in 1978. Recent credits: The Royal Family, The Little Foxes, A View from the Bridge, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Born Yesterday, Fences, Painting Churches, The God Game, and Constellations (all at Mad Cow), The Three Musketeers (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), The Cradle Will Rock (Rollins College) and The Nerd (Madison Repertory Theatre). Lucy makes it all possible.

JACI PULA (Ellie Dunn) is a pianist, vocalist, and actress. Favorite credits: Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical the Musical (SEU Theatre), the living statue of Artemis in Hippolytus (SEU Theatre), and Shelby Latcherie in Steel Magnolias (Central Florida Community Arts). She looks forward to adding her debut at Mad Cow to the list. Jaci would like to thank her husband Michael for his unfaltering encouragement and support.

RUSSELL R. TRAHAN (The Burglar) is thrilled to be a part of his first Mad Cow Theatre Company production.

Other Central Florida credits include the Theatre Downtown, Playwrights’ Round Table, Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park, Osceola Arts, Central Florida Community Arts, Baggy Pants Theatre, Footlight Theatre, Spotlight Theatre, Mimi’s Community Theatre, and Wayne Dench PAC. Russell would like to thank his partner, David, for his encouragement, support, and love.

KELLY MORRIS ROWAN (Lady Utterword) is thrilled to be returning to Mad Cow, where she had appeared in

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Heartbreak House MAD COW THEATRE (22nd Season) is 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

Courtney Bahr

Duncan Bahr

Richard Bey

Tommy Keesling

Steven Lane

Steven Lima

Shami McCormick

Jaci Pula

Kelly Morris 9 Rowan

Russell R. Trahan

Donors List 2018-2019 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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