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PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY

The resident professional theatre of the University of Utah The Roy W. and Elizabeth E. Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre C. Lowell Lees Stage

Karen Azenberg Artistic Director

Chris Lino Managing Director

presents

August Wilson’s

FENCES

BIKO EISEN-MARTIN JIMMIE “J.J.” JETER JEFFERSON A. RUSSELL GAYLE SAMUELS JEORGE BENNETT WATSON MICHAEL ANTHONY WILLIAMS MEG HOGLUND

Scenic Design TONY CISEK

Costume Design Lighting Design BRENDA VAN DER WIEL MICHAEL GILLIAM

Sound Design JOSHUA C. HIGHT

Hair and Makeup Design AMANDA FRENCH

Fight Choreographer CHRISTOPHER DUVAL

Dramaturg MARTINE KEI GREEN-ROGERS

Production Stage Manager TANYA J. SEARLE

Director TIMOTHY DOUGLAS Casting by Bob Cline Originally produced by YALE REPERTORY THEATRE Lloyd Richards, Artistic Director

“Fences” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. *The theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.


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Fences CAST OF CHARACTERS In order of appearance

Troy Maxson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL ANTHONY WILLIAMS* Bono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JEORGE BENNETT WATSON* Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GAYLE SAMUELS* Lyons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BIKO EISEN-MARTIN* Gabriel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JEFFERSON A. RUSSELL* Cory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JIMMIE “J.J.” JETER* Raynell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MEG HOGLUND Stage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARY P. COSTELLO* This production will be performed with one fifteen-minute intermission.

The Hill District of Pittsburgh, PA. 1957. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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DIRECTOR’S NOTE “I say the only thing I can do here is say goodbye” … from Seven Guitars by August Wilson

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y favorite film quote ever is from Postcards from the Edge, in which Meryl Streep’s character says, “I don’t want life to imitate art, I want life to be art.” Before he evolved into a master playwright, August Wilson was first and foremost a poet, a fact which is clearly heralded in his dramatic writings by way of the seismic and multi-textured speeches rendered through the characters in his American Century Cycle – a play for each decade in the 20th century representing black life in America. Cast of Fences. L-R: Jeorge Bennett Watson (Bono), Jimmie “J.J.” Jeter This Pioneer Theatre (Cory), Michael Anthony Williams (Troy), Gayle Samuels (Rose), Company production of Fences Meg Hoglund (Raynell), Biko Eisen-Martin (Lyons), and Jefferson A. is a culmination of my very own Russell (Gabriel) personal 2016 August Wilson Festival which comes on the heels of my having just directed Jitney (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park) and Seven Guitars (Yale Repertory Theatre). And though I have directed nine of the ten plays from Wilson’s opus multiple times, revisiting these three plays reaffirmed for me that there is no bottom to the constant unearthing of deeper meaning contained within them. Wilson composed dialogue at an operatic scale, and also lived his life just as expansively … something I would come to viscerally understand while directing the world premiere of the final play in the Cycle, Radio Golf, in 2005. Too soon after the premiere of that play, August lost his battle with cancer. When I and others used to ask him what plans he had once the Cycle was completed, he would often respond with something akin to his “giving up the body.” I’d always assumed he was waxing philosophical in his usual and clever wordsmithing, only to be confronted by the fact that he did indeed complete his life and work in his ultimate poetic way. It is true that in nine out of the ten plays a black man dies – or is “sacrificed” – as part of the central plot of the story. This is a tragedy on the human scale, to be sure, but an event that metaphorically nods toward the proverbial blood sacrifice deemed essential for deliverance into the next evolutionary leap: a leap mandated to benefit most those left behind. It only recently occurred to me that the only play in which there is no corporeal transition is Radio Golf, and while recently musing on this fact it finally dawned on me … it was August Wilson himself who was the one to make that ultimate sacrifice just after his completion of the Cycle’s finale. In Seven Guitars one character asks, “I wonder did he know?” and another muses, “I believe every man know something, but most times don’t pay attention to it.” Timothy Douglas

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DRAMATURGICAL NOTE “Sameness” vs. Difference: Chronicling Black Life By Martine Kei Green-Rogers

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ugust Wilson used the work he created and his voice in the theatre to speak to Black experiences, and to advocate for talented Black artists by insisting that artists of color were used to create productions of his work. For example, his 1996 speech “The Ground on Which I Stand” was a call to action for African American artists to form their own theatres and begin their own cultural preservation in order to protest a theatre environment that marginalized the contribution of African American artists. This speech led to many conversations (which the American theatre field continues to have) about the casting and hiring of artists of color for shows. Wilson’s position in this speech was two-fold; that he wanted to provide work for African American theatre artists since they are marginalized in American theatre, and that a natural understanding of the culture was a necessity for his plays – something that an artist outside of the race/culture could not completely understand. Wilson’s dedication to placing the stories of African Americans onstage and using them as the artists to tell these stories has helped launch the careers of numerous directors, actors, designers, dramaturgs, etc. of color in the United States. Inspired by Ed Bullins’s cycle of plays centering on the 20th century, Wilson wrote his own cycle, mostly set in Pittsburgh, which has been named “The American Century Cycle: a play for each decade in the 20th century about the African-American experience.” There is one piece for each decade in the 20th century:  1900s - Gem of the Ocean (2003)  1950s - Fences (1987)  1910s - Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1988)  1960s - Two Trains Running (1991)  1920s - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984)  1970s - Jitney (1982)  1930s - The Piano Lesson (1990)  1980s - King Hedley II (1999)  1940s - Seven Guitars (1995)  1990s - Radio Golf (2005) Fences holds a special place within Wilson’s canon of work. As Wilson describes in an interview with Bonnie Lyons in 1997 (published in 1999 in Contemporary Literature), In Fences [Whites] see a garbageman, a person they really don’t look at, although they may see a garbageman every day. By looking at Troy’s life, white people find out that the content of this black garbageman’s life is very similar to their own, that he is affected by the same things-love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty. Recognizing that these things are as much a part of his life as of theirs can be revolutionary and can affect how they think about and deal with black people in their lives (2-3). At a time when painful divisions between various ethnic and racial communities exist (and there are still issues for artists of color to find their artistic homes in the American theatre scene) – the illustration of “sameness” as well as the ways that race and ethnicity may cause lives in this country to take very different paths is a story that is as important now as it was when Wilson wrote this play in 1987. Revisiting this story in 2017 will help us remember that love, compassion, equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility are American values that should always have a place in our society. Lyons, Bonnie, and August Wilson. “An Interview with August Wilson.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 40, no. 1, 1999, pp. 1–21. www.jstor.org/stable/1208817.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY BIKO EISEN-MARTIN (Lyons) Off-Broadway: Lift (59E59) Regional Theatre: All The Way (Cleveland Playhouse); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Folger); Stick Fly, Under The Skin (Arden Theatre Company); The Ashes Under Gait City (Contemporary American Theatre Festival); The Whipping Man (Syracuse Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Gulfshore Playhouse); Lift (Crossroads Theatre Co); Topdog/Underdog (Marin Theatre Company); Brother Size, Love’s Labours Lost, Three Sisters (Chautauqua Theatre Company); Ruined, The Liar, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, The Taming of the Shrew (Denver Center Theatre Company); King Lear, Our Town, The Taming of the Shrew (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Radio Golf (TheatreWorks); Fuku Americanus (Intersection for the Arts); Rage Is Back (Berkeley Rep. (ws)); Urban Retreat (Philadelphia Theatre Company (ws)); Invasive Species (Peoples Light (ws)). Film: Poetic License. Education: Brown University, National Theatre Conservatory. JIMMIE “J.J.” JETER (Cory) A Winston-Salem, N.C. native, Jeter is a 2016 graduate of The Juilliard School in New York. His recent theatrical credits include: Broadway: My Letter to Broadway (Ensemble). Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio) at Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington D.C.) He will be featured in the short film Hold On at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

(Sunset Baby), Hangar Theatre (The Piano Lesson), Folger Theatre (The Tempest), Everyman Theatre (Gem Of The Ocean, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Hedda Gabler), Marin Theatre Company (Fetch Clay Make Man, The Convert) as well as Kennedy Center National Tours (Harlem), O’Neill Theatre Center, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company and Gulfshore Playhouse. He will next be seen this spring as Booker T. Washington in Ragtime at Ford’s Theatre. Russell is a graduate of Hampton University (B.A., sociology/criminal justice) and the Academy of Classical Acting at George Washington University (M.F.A.). He is a former Baltimore police officer and a founding member of Galvanize, a network for artists of color. GAYLE SAMUELS (Rose) received a best actress nomination from the Connecticut Critics Circle for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Broadway: Sunset Boulevard, Grind, Dancin’, Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (The Metropolitan Opera), Sistahs, Little Shop of Horrors (Ronnette), The Dark Star from Harlem (Josephine Baker). Regional: Seven Guitars, The Sunshine Boys, Crowns, Beehive, Chess, Spunk, Joe Louis Blues, The World Goes Round. TV/Film: Bull, Madame Secretary, The Americans, Twenty Good Years, The Class, Black Nativity, The Tides That Bind, HoneyBee. www.gaylesamuels.com

JEORGE BENNETT WATSON (Bono) Grateful to be making his JEFFERSON A. RUSSELL Pioneer Theatre Company debut, (Gabriel) is pleased to be making Watson was most recently seen in his PTC debut with Fences after Fences at Triad Stages in Greensboro, having recently appeared as N.C., playing Troy Maxson, and in Lifetime Movie Shealy in Jitney at Cincinnati Network’s upcoming untitled affair project as Det. Playhouse in the Park. Regional credits include John Ahern. Watson has trained at Washington D.C.’s several shows at Round House Theatre (Father Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory with Serge Comes Home From The Wars, Two Trains Running, Seiden and Joy Zinoman, with Reed Birney at ESPA/ world premiere of Ironbound, Fahrenheit 451, Primary Stages and with Terry Knickerbocker at Amadeus); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company William Esper Studios and TK Acting Studios. Other (Clybourne Park); Dallas Theatre Center/The theatre highlights include Zooman in Zooman & Goodman (Trinity River Plays); Rep Stage the Sign with Arena Players, (Baltimore), George in PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY | 17


WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY Stopkiss, Woolly Mammoth Theatre (DC), Lincoln in Topdog/Underdog, Studio Theatre (DC), Boy Willie in The Piano Lesson, Arena Stage (DC), Det. Burrows in The Glory of Living, Athena Theatre (Los Angeles), Francis/Scott in Three Sisters After Chekhov, Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble (Los Angeles), and Dutch in New Orleans, Moving Arts (Los Angeles). Television and film credits include NBC’s Homicide: Life in the Streets, HBO’s The Wire, FX’s Justified, Showtime’s Shameless, CBS’s Cold Case and Red Wall Productions’ upcoming film Saving Father. He is a co-founding member of Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop in New York. Watson will next be seen as Enobarbus in Orlando Shakespeare Company’s 2017 production of Antony & Cleopatra. Much love to Romare and Zaïre.

MEG HOGLUND (Raynell) is seven-years-old and in her PTC debut. Meg loves singing, dancing and gymnastics. She can eat more oysters than her dad and tells better jokes than her mom. She and her family are part of the Community V(i)llage. She loves her grandparents and dedicates her performances to her teachers Julie, Natalie, Melanie, Cindy, April and Katie.

TIMOTHY DOUGLAS (Director) returns to PTC after directing Clybourne Park in 2013. NY-based, he is currently serving as an associate artist for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park where he has staged seven productions, including the world premiere of Keith Josef Adkins’s Safe House. MICHAEL ANTHONY Recent credits include Seven Guitars for Yale Rep.; WILLIAMS (Troy) is ecstatic to Disgraced and King Hedley II for Arena Stage; be debuting at Pioneer Theatre Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2 Company! Off-Broadway credits: and 3 for Round House Theatre; Richard II for Persephone at the Brooklyn Shakespeare and Company; Bronte: A Portrait of Academy of Music. Regional credits: Jitney Charlotte, off-Broadway; and the development and Of Mice and Men at Cincinnati Playhouse of Ione Lloyd’s Eve’s Song for Sundance Thein the Park; Jitney and To Kill A Mockingbird atre Institute/MENA Lab in Morocco. Douglas at Ford’s Theater; King Hedley II at Arena counts among his many productions the world Stage; Unexplored Interior at Mosaic Theater premieres of August Wilson’s Radio Golf for Yale Company; Starving at Woolly Mammoth Rep..; Rajiv Joseph’s The Lake Effect for Silk Road Theatre; Jesus Hopped the “A” Train and Two Rising (2013 Jeff Award for Best New Work); Trains Running at Round House Theatre; Venus Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (six Helen Hayes and Omnium Gatherum at Olney Theatre Center; Award nominations) for Theatre Alliance; and Nomathemba with Ladysmith Black Mambazo the premiere of the new translation/adaptation at Steppenwolf Theatre, Crossroads Theatre of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm, off-Broadway, as well as and The Kennedy Center for the Performing his critically acclaimed Caribbean-inspired Much Arts; The Second City Theatre; Master Harold Ado About Nothing for Folger Theatre. and the Boys at Studio Theatre; Fences and Ma www.timothydouglas.org Rainey’s Black Bottom at the Swine Palace; The Colored Museum at Victory Gardens Theater; TONY CISEK (Scenic Designer) has collaborated East Texas Hot Links for the Onyx Theatre with Timothy Douglas on Disgraced and King Ensemble; The Bluest Eye at Theatre Alliance, and Hedley II at Arena Stage; Jitney, Clybourne Park, Two Trains Running for the African Continuum and the premiere of Safe House at Cincinnati Theatre Company at The Kennedy Center for the Playhouse; Father Comes Home From the Wars, Two Performing Arts. Television credits: The Wire Trains Running, Permanent Collection and A Lesson for HBO, FBI Files, and Homicide: Life on the Before Dying at Round House Theatre; Insurrection: Streets for NBC. Film credits: Losing Isaiah, The Holding History and the premiere of Dontrell, Who Replacements, Contact, Unbreakable and The Kissed the Sea with Theatre Alliance; The Trip Brave One. Williams dedicates his complete body to Bountiful at Cleveland Play House; Much Ado of work to his daughter, Margarita Williams. About Nothing at Folger Theatre; the premieres 18 | FENCES


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As You Like It Shakespeare in Love Romeo and Juliet Guys and Dolls A Midsummer Night’s Dream Treasure Island The Tavern How To Fight Loneliness William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged)

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WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY of Night is a Child at Milwaukee Rep. and Line in the Sand at Virginia Stage Company; as well as productions at Portland Center Stage, Indiana Rep., South Coast Rep., Syracuse Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Guthrie. Cisek’s work has also been seen Off Broadway and regionally at Roundabout Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Intiman, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Two River Theater, New York Theatre Workshop and The Kennedy Center. www.tonycisek.com BRENDA VAN DER WIEL (Costume Designer) is part of the design faculty for the University of Utah Theatre Department and serves as head of the Performing Arts Design Program. She designs regularly for that department as well as for Pioneer Theatre and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Recent works in Utah include Hello Dolly, the masks for Animal Farm, Blue Stockings and the Avenue Q puppets for the Babcock Theatre. Some favorite designs for Pioneer Theatre Company include Outside Mullingar, Alabama Story, Rent, Emma, and A Christmas Story. Some favorite designs for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Comedy of Errors, and The Count of Monte Cristo. Her work was seen at Utah Shakespeare Festival this past summer in Mary Poppins, and she will be returning to USF next summer designing Treasure Island and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. MICHAEL GILLIAM (Lighting Designer) returns after this season’s The Last Ship. Broadway credits include: Bonnie and Clyde, Brooklyn, Big River and Stand-Up Tragedy. West End credits: Gershwin Alone. Off-Broadway: Cagney the Musical, Tappin’ Thru Life, Mr. Joy, Striking 12, Blue, End of the World Party, Zooman and the Sign and Menopause The Musical. National Tours include Peter Pan, Brooklyn, Guys and Dolls and Big River. Regional: Pioneer Theatre Company, Arena Stage, The Globe Theatres, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Repertory, Goodman Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, The

Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Prince Music Theater, Denver Center and Arizona Theatre Company. Awards: Los Angeles Ovation Award, Drama-Logue Award, Garland Award and the 1999 Career Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. JOSHUA C. HIGHT (Resident Sound Designer) A graduate with distinction of London’s Alchemea College of Audio Engineering, Hight comes to PTC with many years of experience in professional audio systems repair and design and has established himself as an exceptional live sound engineer in both London and Salt Lake City. Hight is looking forward to a successful fourth season working in theater design with Pioneer Theatre Company. His other projects of note include working with Sommerset House for the 2012 Olympic Games, and PTC’s Elf—The Musical, A Few Good Men, Much Ado About Nothing, Deathtrap, Sweet Charity, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Rocky Horror Show, One Man, Two Guvnors, Alabama Story, The Crucible, I Hate Hamlet, The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Outside Mullingar, It Happened One Christmas, Two Dollar Bill, An Inspector Calls, Cowgirls, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Last Ship, The Glass Menagerie and Oliver!. AMANDA FRENCH (Hair and Makeup) has been a makeup and hair designer for over 25 years. She has worked for Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Utah Opera, Egyptian Theatre Company and the University of Texas at Austin. She is a contributing writer in the tenth edition of Stage Makeup by Corson, Glavan and Norcross, and her work can also be seen in The Costume Technician’s Handbook by Ingham and Covey, and Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre and Film by Ruskai and Lowery. She attended the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati where she studied with Hair and Makeup Designer Lenna Kaleva. She is a member of the United States Institute

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WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY for Theatre Technology (USITT) and a current University of Utah adjunct professor of wigs and makeup. CHRISTOPHER DUVAL* (Resident Fight Choreographer) returns to Pioneer Theatre Company as resident fight choreographer, having fight-directed such productions as Oliver!, The Count of Monte Cristo, Deathtrap, I Hate Hamlet and others. He has also worked throughout the country acting, directing or fight directing at such theatres as Syracuse Stage, Dallas Theatre Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Orange County, Idaho Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Salt Lake Acting Company, Sacramento Theatre Company, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and the Laguna Playhouse. He worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 17 years as a guest teacher, fight director and actor. He holds an M.F.A. in acting from the University of California Irvine, is a certified teacher of stage combat with the Society of American Fight Directors and a master teacher with Dueling Arts International, holds a 2nd degree black belt in Aikido, and is recognized as an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. DuVal is the head of the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah and is the author of Stage Combat Arts: An Integrated Approach to Acting, Voice, and Text Work. MARTINE KEI GREEN-ROGERS (Dramaturg) is currently an assistant professor of theatre at the University of Utah. Her dramaturgical credits include: Fences and One Man, Two Guvnors at Pioneer Theatre Company; Clearing Bombs and Nothing Personal at Plan-B Theatre; the Classical Theatre Company’s productions of Uncle Vanya, Antigone, Candida, Ghosts, Tartuffe and Shylock, The Jew of Venice; productions of Blues for an Alabama Sky, Gem of the Ocean, Waiting for Godot, Iphigenia at Aulis, Seven Guitars, The Mountaintop, Home and Porgy and Bess at the Court Theatre; The Clean House at CATCO; Shakespeare in Love, UNISONS, Comedy of Errors, To Kill A Mockingbird, The African Company Presents Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s

Dream and Fences at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; 10 Perfect and The Curious Walk of the Salamander as part of the 2006 and 2007 Madison Repertory Theatre’s New Play Festival; and A Thousand Words as part of the 2008 WI Wrights New Play Festival. TANYA J. SEARLE* (Stage Manager) is returning for her second season at Pioneer Theatre Company. Searle has worked at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Houston Grand Opera and the Atlanta Ballet. She holds an M.F.A. in stage management from the University of Alabama/ASF and an M.A. in food studies from Chatham University in Pittsburgh. Searle is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. ANALYSHA MULCOCK (1st Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to return for her second season in this position with Pioneer Theatre Company, and recently worked on Oliver!. Some of the shows she has enjoyed working on here are The Glass Menagerie, The Last Ship, The Count of Monte Cristo, It Happened One Christmas, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Music Man, The Crucible, Alabama Story, Peter and the Starcatcher, One Man, Two Guvnors, Sweet Charity, A Few Good Men and Something’s Afoot. Some of her other credits include A Flea in Her Ear and Rare Bird (Babcock Theatre), Sylvia and Songs for a New World (Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts). She would like to thank her family and loving wife for their love and support! NASIRA BARKER (2nd Assistant Stage Manager) is a senior at Westminster College pursuing her B.F.A. in technical performance. Her previous credits consist of being the stage manager for Miss Julie (as produced by Pinnacle Acting Company), Bellwether, Circle Mirror Transformation, and Our Country’s Good, all of which were at Westminster. She was also the 2nd assistant stage manager of Fiddler on the Roof with PTC. Barker is very excited to continue pursuing her passion in stage management.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY AUGUST WILSON (Author, b. April 27, 1945 – d. October 2, 2005) authored Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Fences, Two Trains Running, Jitney, King Hedley II, and Radio Golf. These works explore the heritage and experience of African-Americans, decade-by-decade, over the course of the twentieth century. His plays have been produced at regional theaters across the country and all over the world, as well as on Broadway. In 2003, Wilson made his professional stage debut in his one-man show How I Learned What I Learned. Wilson’s works garnered many awards including Pulitzer Prizes for Fences (1987) and for The Piano Lesson (1990); a Tony Award for Fences; Great Britain’s Olivier Award for Jitney; as well as eight New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, Seven Guitars, Jitney and Radio Golf. Additionally, the cast recording of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom received a 1985 Grammy Award, and Wilson received a 1995 Emmy Award nomination for his screenplay adaptation of The Piano Lesson. Wilson’s early works included the one-act plays The Janitor, Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Malcolm X, The Homecoming, and the musical satire Black Bart and the Sacred Hills. Wilson received many fellowships and awards, including the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships in Playwriting, the Whiting Writers Award, 2003 Heinz Award, was awarded a 1999 National Humanities Medal by the President of the United States, and received numerous honorary degrees from

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colleges and universities, as well as the only high school diploma ever issued by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He was an alumnus of New Dramatists, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 1995 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and on October 16, 2005, Broadway renamed the theatre located at 245 W. 52nd Street “The August Wilson Theatre.” Additionally, Wilson was posthumously inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. Wilson was born and raised in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lived in Seattle, Washington at the time of his death. He is immediately survived by his two daughters, Sakina Ansari and Azula Carmen Wilson, and his wife, costume designer Constanza Romero. BOB CLINE (Casting) is the founder of Bob Cline Casting in New York, and Broadway World recently named him one of New York’s ten best. He has cast film, TV, commercials, over 70 national tours and numerous regional theaters across the country. Independently, or in his association with Rich Cole since 1994, he has cast for Pioneer Theatre Company, the Fulton Theatre, Maltz-Jupiter Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and many, many others. Bob has also been a proud faculty member in Pace University’s Theatre program in charge of the senior B.F.A. musical theatre majors for the last 10 years. Nights when he is not directing shows, he can be found directing students in one of the two audition classes he teaches weekly, for the last 18 years, through The Actor’s Loft. ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA) founded in 1913 represents more than 45,000 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. For more information, visit www. actorsequity.org.

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION Emergency Exits are indicated to your right and left in the theatre. Please identify the exit closest to your seat location in case an emergency occurs. The videotaping, photographing or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. This includes photos taken by phone. CELLULAR PHONES, CAMERAS AND PAGERS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE THEATRE. Even if set to silent or vibrate, they may disrupt wireless sound equipment. Please either leave your phone in your car or check it at the coat check. “TEXTING� is disturbing to the actors, and your fellow audience members. Please refrain from use. If you might need to be reached during a performance, leave your exact seat location with the box office. The number for emergency calls is 801-581-6963. We have a hearing assistance system that allows our hardof-hearing patrons to sit in any seat in the house. Collateral required; inquire at the coat check. We welcome disabled persons. Those with special requirements should request assistance in advance. Refreshments are not permitted in the auditorium, but are available in the main floor lobby during intermission and pre-show.

Bottled water is allowed. Smoking is not permitted in University buildings. Please ask ushers for smoking locations. Evening performances are at 7:00 p.m. Monday thru Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Saturday matinees at 2:00 p.m. Please avoid arriving after curtain time. To avoid disturbing other patrons, latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the House Manager. This policy has been instituted at the request of many of our patrons. Season ticket holders may exchange their tickets for another performance of the same play by returning tickets to the box office at least 48 hours prior to the performance date. Tickets are non-refundable. You may donate your tickets, helping yourself and Pioneer Theatre Company. If you are unable to attend a production, make a tax-deductible gift of your tickets to the Theatre so that we may re-sell them. Call the box office 48 hours prior to the performance date. The Patron Services staff will serve you from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. During the run of a show, the box office is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. No children under age 5 admitted to performances.

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FRIENDS OF PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY Pioneer Theatre Company Board of Trustees Harris H. Simmons, Chair Co-Budget Chair Mark Capone Stan D. VanderToolen Karen Azenberg Gregory N. Barrick Sandi Behnken Colleen Larkin Bell G. Marsden Blanch, M.D. Nate Boyer Doyle Clayburn Fred Esplin

Dan Lofgren, Vice Chair and Development Chair

Marketing Chair Todd Wolfenbarger

Nominating Chair Kevin R. Murray

Christian Gardner David H. Green Pat Hemingway Christopher Lino Matthew L. Moore Gregory D. Phillips Lamont R. Richardson Carolyn Schubach

William Stern Raymond Tymas-Jones, Ph.D. Ruth V. Watkins, Ph.D. Gage Williams Emeritus A. Scott Anderson Edward F. Bates William H. Child

Long Range Planning Chair Linda Leckman, M.D. Paul M. Durham Spencer F. Eccles David E. Gee Kathie Horman James Macfarlane Peter D. Meldrum Bruce T. Reese J. Douglas Whisenant

Pioneer Theatre Guild Officers Doyle Clayburn, President Caprene Thompson, President-Elect Peggy Stanley, Vice President Carol Gibson, Secretary Kris Burton, Treasurer For information regarding PTC Guild membership, call Heather at 801-554-3071.

Corporate, Foundation, and Public Support Pioneer Theatre Company is pleased to recognize the many businesses, foundations, public institutions, and corporate sponsors that support our mission. Thank you for your generous contributions. Season Sponsors Salt Lake County Zoo Arts and Parks Fund George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation

Presenting Sponsors ($50,000 and above) Harris H. and Amanda P. Simmons Emma Eccles Jones Foundation

Zions Bank

Family Foundation

Meldrum Foundation

Executive Producers ($25,000 – $49,999) MediaOne + Questar Corporation

The Shubert Foundation Simmons Family Foundation

Steiner Foundation, Inc. Utah Division of Arts and Museums

Anonymous R. Harold Burton Foundation College of Fine Arts Art Pass Program

L. T. and Janet T. Dee Foundation Marriner S. Eccles Foundation Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation

Cowboy Partners Durham Jones & Pinegar Holland & Hart, LLP

Megadyne Medical Products, Inc. Myriad Genetics, Inc.

Anonymous Donor American Express Matching Gifts Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Family Foundation

Goldman Sachs & Co. Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Foundation George Q. Morris Foundation — In Memory of Gabrielle M. Woods

Ancestry Anserfone + Boyer Company Delvie’s Plastics, Inc. +

Deseret Mutual Benefit Advisors Ernst & Young Gastronomy, Inc. + Love Communications

Anonymous Donor ADP Foundation Bank of American Fork Beans & Brews + Boeing Buds Sandwiches + Cambia Health Solutions Corner Bakery Café + EnergySolutions +

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund GE Foundation IBM International Foundation I.C. Group + Richard H. and Joann O. Keller Family Foundation KeyBank The Leonardo + Massage Center +

Producers ($10,000 – $24,999) The Robert D. Kent, Jr. Trust Pioneer Theatre Guild W. Mack and Julia S. Watkins Foundation

Wheeler Foundation Wells Fargo

Benefactors ($5,000 – $9,999) Charles Maxfield and Gloria F. Parrish Foundation Phillips Ryther & Winchester

S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation Salt Lake City Arts Council Tesoro

Directors Club ($2,500 – $4,999) My Good Fund Trust Parr Brown Gee & Loveless PwC Robert and Barbara Patterson Family Memorial Foundation

Riverton Music The Summit Group U.S. Bank Foundation

Associates ($1,000 – $2,499) John and Marcia Price Family Foundation Snow, Christensen & Martineau Foundation

Thompson Michie Associates LLC Travelers Matching Gifts University Federal Credit Union WCF Insurance

General Partners (up to $999) Microsoft Matching Gifts Program The Natural History Museum of Utah + Real Salt Lake + Red Butte Garden + Spitz + State Farm Insurance Cos. Strong & Hanni, Law Firm Thanksgiving Point + The King’s English +

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FRIENDS OF PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY Special Gifts

Gifts to capital projects, artistic programming, and endowments secure the future of Pioneer Theatre Company. The donors listed are recognized for their important contributions to sustaining and enhancing artistic excellence. Planned Gifts Sally Boynton-Murray • Normon S. • and Grace R. Higson • Chris Lino and Colleen Lindstrom Diane L. Parisi The Estate of Margot L. Shott • deceased Play-By-Play Anonymous (3) Barbara Margaret Bannon Bireley Endowment Mary L. Barnes Devin Calcut Leslie Calvert David L. Click Scott Eckern On behalf of Equality Utah

Goldman Sachs Matching Gifts Matthew L. Moore William Stern Michael and Donna Weinholtz Mark A. Fossen Dennis Gardner Helen Harbold Mary Heers Jason L. Hoggan Lee and Audrey Hollaar Linda Leckman, M.D. Doralee D. Madsen Harriet Mazer Michael and Jan Pazzi Carolyn Rich-Denson Sarah Shippobotham Harris and Amanda Simmons Cynthia Spoor

Richard Lee Wailes, Jr. Ruth Weisman Wells Fargo Matching Gifts Special Projects Lawrence T. and Janet T. Dee Foundation Tom Jepperson Meldrum Foundation Mattsson Memorial Fund William and Donna Vogel

Kem and Carolyn Gardner Francis and Joan Hanson Laurel J. Hart In Memory of Shannon Elizabeth and Amanda LaRae Maxwell Steve and Alisa Parks Questar Corporation In Memory of Mars Spafard Richard Christopher Zarek Spoor Endowment Chris Lino

Meldrum Foundation Endowment The Peter and Susan Stevens Fund Endowment Meldrum Foundation Susan Dolan Stevens and Peter Stevens PTC True and Quasi Endowments Roger and Sara Boyer

Annual Fund Support From Individuals Individual Sponsors ($5,000 and above) Most individual donors to PTC choose to support the general work of the company. There are also opportunities to contribute gifts of $5,000 or more to specific productions or projects. For more information call 801-581-6960. Judy Brady and Drew W. Browning

Hank and Pat Hemingway

Estate of Grace R. Higson

Roger and Mary Lowe

Directors Club ($2,500 – $4,999) The Directors Club is a giving level recognizing donors who make an annual contribution of $2,500 or more to PTC. Members of the Directors Club receive exclusive benefits throughout the theatre season. For more information call 801-585-3196. Gregory N. Barrick Alice Beaumont* Bonnie Jean and H. Brent Beesley Sandi Behnken Colleen Larkin Bell Lynette and Marsden Blanch Kristina and Kenneth Burton Mark and Kelly Capone Ezekiel R. Dumke, Jr.

Paul and Maren Durham Susan F. Fleming David E. and Sherrie Gee Kathie and Chuck Horman Tom and Carol Jepperson * Dale A. and Rachel B. Kimball Linda J. Leckman, M.D. Robert Lence Lofgren Family

Anonymous Donor (2) In Memory of Stephen W. Barlow Art and Rita Brothers Michael and Alison Brown Margaret Cragin-Masarone Tim and Candace Dee In Honor of The Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation

Elizabeth Terry Dunning Ann W. Floor + Dennis and Sherrie Gardner Bob and Mary Gilchrist Devon M. and Julie H. Glenn David H. Green Cindy Spoor and Doug Howard David and Linda Jolley

Anonymous Donors (3) Christine A. Allred John and Linda Ashton Karen Azenberg and Augie Mericola Mary Anne Berzins In Memory of L. Sue Biederman C. Kim and Jane C. Blair Kenneth and Karen Brewster Michael M. Brock Randall J. and Suzan S. Buchmiller * Bruce and Lynn Cohne Philanthropic Fund Morlene Dangerfield Craig and Stephanie Darrow

Al Davis Ashby and Anne Cullimore Decker Michael D. Drews Robert and Liz Ence Jeannine Engel Chesley and Amy Erickson Dorothy Foster* Glen and Elizabeth Gerner Bob and Mary Gilchrist Doris and David Gillette In Honor of Ruth Hale Bonnie Hedman* Jennifer Hedman* Nancy Melich and J.Alexander Hemphill

James L. and Carol C. Macfarlane Peter and Catherine Meldrum Kevin R. and Deon Murray Michael and Jan Pazzi Gregory D. and Cynthia Phillips Edna Firmage Richards Richard Koehn and Sheryl Scott Harris H. and Amanda Simmons James M. Steele

Kevin and Alice Steiner Julie and Val Stokes R. Eric and Michele Thompson * Karen Salzman and Craig Turner Stan and Jill VanderToolen * Chris and Heather Watkins + Todd and Michelle Wolfenbarger

Associates ($1,000 – $2,499) Sheldon R. Furst and Ellen Liu Doralee Madsen Nickie and David McDowell Nancy and George D. Melling Matthew L. Moore * Brenda Mueggenborg John Netto and Catherine PutnamNetto

Lou Ann Stevens Scott K. and Margery Durham Sorensen Tom Whitney + Wood Whitney +

Angels ($500 – $999) Bruce and Saundra Hopkins Larry and Tina Howard Elise Hutchings Brent and Eve James Greg Hatch and Terry Kogan + Chris Lino David and Donna Lyon Mary McCarthey James and Karen Nelson Oren and Liz Nelson Diane L. Parisi John and Susanne Parsons Karen F. and Leon Peterson Wayne and Robyn Petty

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In Memory of Suzann Pyper Amy Wadsworth and David Richardson Zoe and Lon Richardson, Jr. Brian and Janice Ruggles Harold and Debbie Rust In Memory of Darlene Sackett Tom and Marsha Swegle Marsha Tadje Julia and Hugh West Barbara Wheat David and Jeralynn Winder



FRIENDS OF PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY Patrons ($125 – $499) Anonymous Donors (7) Mons Aase Kjersten Adams Craig and Joanna Adamson Darlene Alley Susan Allred Carol A. and James A. Anderson Eric and Judy Anderson Robert and Lois Archuleta George J. Ator Sandra and Marc Babitz Brett Backman Bryan and Tina Bagley Jim and Martha Bale Linda K. Ballard Don Barlow Lynn and Diane Barnett Lonnie and Jill Baskett Beth Q. Beck Reed and Jeanne Benson Eric Biederman John S. Bolinder Jerry and Marcella Borrowman Maxine and Junior Bounous Drs. Glen and Anneli Bowen John P. and Andrea M. Burke Christine and Devin Calcut Kenneth M. and Barbara L. Calney Doug and Barbara Campbell Art and Luana Casper Martin Cathey Robert and Barbara Cherrington Edward and Carleen Clark Robert R. Clark Amalia L. Cochran Kathie and Marshall Coopersmith Dr. and Mrs. Leland B. Cowan Emily Crane Debbie Davis David and Jacqueline Deike Steven and Celia Demman Anne and Sandy Dolowitz David Dolowitz Wilma and Willie Dolowitz Carrie and Randy Drown John S. and Evelyn B. Edwards Mark and Laurie Eliason

Robert and Liz Ence Drs. Richard C. and Ann W. Engar James and Ruth Ewers Leah B. Felt Kathy and Dane Finerfrock Kathy and Craig Fineshriber Larry and Shirley Florence Sarah George and Richard Ford Jan and Stan Foutz John and Cathey Frederick Camille Fung Dennis C. Gassman Pat and Donna Gavura Dietrich and LaDon Gehmlich Kristin Wann Gorang Marian Green Clair and Vivian Hadley Scott A. and Loree D. Hagen Beth C. and Peter T. Hanlon Ken and Gerry Hanni Frank Heath Ross Owen and Larry Herndon Susie and Mark Hindley Kenny and Janeal Hodges Jason Hoggan Ervin R. and Jennifer Holmes Barry N. Holmstead John and Carol Huffman Randy and Nikki Huizenga Dan Humiston and Jackie GianniniHumiston Maria and Andrew Hunt Karen Hyde Gilbert H. and Thelma P. Iker Amy Haselhorst and Richard Irons Bruce and Rhonda Irvine Barbara H. and C. Gresham Ivey Danelle and Paul Jensen Randy and Liz Jensen Michele and Dave Jenson Bruce and Maxine Johnson Mark Johnson Ben and Jenn Kalm Jim and Maggie Kearns Dr. Robert and Julie Kessler The Kohlburrn Family The Kraiss Family

Anonymous Donors (5) Carolyn Abravanel Dominic and Virginia Albo Susan and Ken Albrecht John and Sheryl Allen Natalie Allen-Williams Kathy Aller Bob and Eleanor Anderson Diane Anderson Kirk M. Anderson Jeanine Andrews James M. Anjewierden In Memory of Mary G. Asson Robert L. Backman

Enid Baker Charles Ball Laura Ballantyne Almina Barksdale Joyce and John Barnes Mary L. Barnes Casey Barnett Robert Kyle Barnett Douglas and Jill Barnhart Brett and Janeen Bawden Randy Tillery and Rachel Benator Henri Berry Jean Ann Bills J. Thomas and Sally Bowen

Joan M. and Douglas S. Lake Guttorm and Claudia Landro Richard and Connie Larrabee Frank and Barbara Layden Darryl and Bonnie Lee James L. Moore and Kathryn Lindquist Bradley P. Rich and Dr. Erika Lloyd Helga and Herbert Lloyd Donald and Louise Lochhead Uri Loewnstein Peggy P. McElvain Ronald and Danece Mangone Gary and Ruth Manville Dan and Debbie Markosian Sue Marquardt David and Virginia Martin J. Michael and Mary Mattsson Karen McArthur John M. and Christine McCullough Frank and Diane McElwain Brook and Terry Mercer Walter Merrill Cyndy and Louis Miller Cyndee Miya Stephen and Sandy Morgan Tony and Mary Ann Morgan James Moss Michael E. Nash Sara Lee Neill Tim and Peggy J. Newman Brenda Nibley Patti O’Keefe William D. Ohlsen Carol M. Oliver Maura and Serge Olszanskyj Kristi and Jeff Oritt Ted and Kay Packard James and Bonnie Parkin Dinesh and Kalpana Patel Helen Patterson Lewis Boynton and Sonja Penttila Joe Perrin Fred Lowell Petersen Frank and Patrica Pignanelli Nancy Pitstick Gary Pitts Laszlo and Sandra Preysz

Karen and James Pugmire George C. Rackham, Jr. Beth and Marv Rallison Kay and Richard Randle Joan Rice Carolyn Rich-Denson Brenda L. Richardson David E. Richmond Kathleen and Michael Rodman Christopher and Kori Russell Irene Cannon Salahor Mr. and Mrs. James Schnitz Kent and LaRae Scott Michael Scott and Loretta Falvo-Scott Sheryl A. Scott David and Julianne Seal Thomas and Joan Shreeve Stuart and Mary Silloway Ralph and Kayleen Simmons Patricia and Homer Smith Sharon and Terry Smith Marvin E. and Kathryn T. Smullen Charles and Janice Sparrer Robert A. and Julie A. Sperling Mary O. Stanley Martin D. and Lynda P. Steed * William L. and Saundra Stone Russell T. and Sandra Strauss George Sumner and Tina Hose-Sumner Bangs and Fran Tapscott Del Roy and Joyce D. Taylor Guy L. and Elaine Thompson Julienne Thompson Scott and Lisa Verhaaren Cindy and Mark Vernon Stefanie Voigt Alison Walker Gwen and Clare Wardle Richard and Karla Webb Mike and Jeanne Weber Wayne and Carol Welninski Henry O. Whiteside Tina R. Whitehead Beverly Wilcox P. Yogman and D. Walker Tod and Mary Young

Contributors ($50 – $124) Margaret Jill Bowman In Memory of Reed Brinton Steve and Joan Brinton Michael Brodsky Julie H. Brown Lora Beth Brown Tom and Debra Burdett Jonathan Call Brad and Leslie Campbell Gina Caruso-Flynn Katherine Ann Chadey Chiyoko Chiba Blake and Tonya L. Christensen Cathay N. Christiansen

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Michele Christiansen Ray and Bobbie Christiansen Geraldine Clark Carlyle and Shanna Clarke Patricia and John Clay Patti and Scott Clements Florencia Coletes Kay Conder Dennis W. Coon Joshua J. Cummings Laura D’Anna James Dabakis Earl C. and Linda R. Dallon William Daniloff


FRIENDS OF PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY Michael and Rebecca Davis Ryan D. Davis Verlie G. Delange Kathy and Lawrence Derrick Thomas J. Devereux James R. Dickson Bob and Sue Dintelman Robert Doran Suzanne H. Doutre Polly Drolett Rebecca D. Duberow Natalia Efros Kathryn Egan Steve Eklund Walter and Gloria Elston Lars and Susan Erickson Brent Evans Kenneth Ryan Falkner Barbara Fasenmyer Ralph and Patricia Faulkner Kent Fawcett Shirley Felt Denise W. Ferguson Robert M. Finlayson Kevin Flannery Lou Jean Flint Clynn and Katherine Ford Cecelia H. Foxley Carolyn C. Fredin Richard K. Frerichs Cara Galleni Jean Gardner Marc and Carol Gentner Jaimie Glauser Ralph L. Gochnour Jerry and Linda Good Lewis and Ceselie Goodwin John E. and Anabel W. Greenlee Leslie H. Greenwood Judy Grow Maxine R. Haggerty Patricia K. Hall Francis and Joan Hanson Cozette and Michael Hardy Virginia Harris Alan and Rosena Heal Patti Hendricks Robert C. Heitkamp Duane Hill Randy and Susan Hollis Robert and Virginia Huber Robert N. Imhoff Vince Iturbe Scott Jackson Elaine Jensen Jill Johnson Karen Johnsen

Alana Jonat Kathy Jorgensen Beverly Joseph David Jubelirer Frank and Dorothy Karras Carolyn Kelley Jennie Kerr Shirley and Robert Knox Tatyana Koshevaya Stan and Sophie Kouris Carolyn Kowalchik Bonnie Lantz Allie Lechtenberger Howard and Nancy Lemcke Karin and Steve Liimatta Joan Lind Colleen R. Lindstrom Diane Luke Elaine Lyon Sheena C. McFarland Bonnie R. Macfarlane Ralph R. and Sylvia S. Mabey Cleo and Max Malan Darcia Mallory-Gordon Randy Eugene Mann Ted and Shirley Marakis John David Marks, Sr. Sue S. Martin Jerry G. and Marcia C. McClain Dr. Johanna and Jack McManemin Richard R. and Jean H. Miller Robert Miller Kathy Moore Paul and Marilyn Moore Nick Morgan Sue and Fred Morris Julie Morriss Patricia Mortensen Robyn Raybould and Ross Mosier Joni Moss Robert C. and Carol S. Moss Henny Muldowney Sharon Murphy Denis and Leona Muskat Maura K. Naughton Bonnie Nell Timothy E. Nielsen Rosalie Notarianni Jean and Ralph Nuismer Michael and Marlene O’Hara Tracy O’Keefe Patrick F. O’Neal Sharon Odekirk Linda B. Purcell Ogden Julie Olson Tim Orton Winnifred and John Ospital

Nathan L. and Jennifer A. Pace Kollin Packer Linda D. Page Amy Palmer Kirsten Park Nancy Parker Ron and Mage Parker Paula Paterson Robert W. Payne Megan B. Pedersen Linda S. Pembroke Alecia Peterson Ian Peterson Wendy W. Phippen Colleen Pierce James and Barbara Pierson Van Pilkington Carol Prince Roger and Susan Pyper Tom Quam Elaine Randolph Dr. Robert L. Rayburn Tammy Richards Barbara R. Miller Ridges Ben and Kathy Roa Susan J. Roberts Thomas A. and Maria E. Roberts J. Kyle and JoAnn K. Robertson Julie Robideau Dr. John and Mary Jo Robinson Michael B. Robinson Keri and L. Clark Romney Mark and Mary Ellen Rosen Thom and Shirley Rossa Alan Rowley Rosellee Rowley Mike Roylance Leonard and Alene Russon Rachel and Andrew Sackett Howard Safran Jane and Kent Sakashita Steven Schimmelpfennig C. Duwayne and Alice C. Schmidt Larry P. Schumann Madalyn S. and James Seaman Matthew Seely Tina Seferos Harry and Becky Senekjian Sara Sexton-Lewis Michal Shorten Wesley Sine Cathy Cornell and Karen Skinner A.J. and Leah Smith Deborah Smith Julie Spelman Luann Spendlove Stuart Stanek

Sharon and Robert Steensma N. Kay Stevenson Tamara Stevenson Elizabeth B. Stewart Thomas L. Stewart William and Susan Stillgebauer Shannon and Richard Straight Annie and Cory Strupp Kirk Stueber Richard and Carlyn Sweet Jennifer E. Swenson Irene Tannenbaum Robert and Carol Tayler Jen Taylor Laila Tedford Anne Carson Thompson Joel and Pamela Thompson Denis P. Tillman Kathy D. Van Orman Cari VandeVeegaete Liz and Joseph Veltri Nona Vernon Dave and Barb Viskochil Bill and Heidi Vriens Christopher William Wade Jan D. Wall In Memory of Carleen A. Wallace Stephen Jeffrey Watson Mary Jean and Robert Weber David and Shauna Weight Jeff Weight David Felt and Lynda Wendel David and Dixie West Sam and Kate Wheatley Charles T. White Elizabeth Williamson Patty J. Willoughby Ben Wilson Kyle S. Witt Jody Wong Wendy Woodbury Nancy G. Woodward Arriann Woolf Sally Wyne Betty and Frank Yanowitz Andrey Zharkikh

The donors acknowledged above made gifts and pledges between December 5, 2015 and December 23, 2016. +In-Kind Donation * This donor is recognized at the gift level equal to their donation plus a corporate match. Make your gift go further: Check to see if your company has a matching gift program. If you have any changes or questions regarding your program listing, please call 801-585-3196.

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PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY STAFF ARTISTIC STAFF Artistic Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen Azenberg Resident Scenic Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Maxwell Resident Fight Choreographer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher DuVal Resident Sound Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua C. Hight PRODUCTION STAFF Production Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reed Rossbach Technical Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Mack Production Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary P. Costello* Charge Artist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Jensen Scenic Artist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amanda McMall Painters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cara Pomeroy, Shane Rogers Props Artisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbara Nelson Craftsperson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbara Casement Milliner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sharon Granieri Stage Technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Begue, Cody Curtis, Tori Howsden, Megan Koretz Audio Technician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matt Bashaw Acting Costume Shop Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K. L. Alberts Asst. Costume Shop Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . Wendy Schow-Massine Drapers/Cutters. . . . . . . . . . . Misty Reubens, Wendy Schow-Massine Margo Seamons First Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valerie Bradshaw Master Tailor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Pesek Stitchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amanda Andrews, Kathryn Jensen, Colleen Pierce, Kirsten Watkins Wig Master. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amanda French Wardrobe Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Streed Costume Rental Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Do’nel Ault Master Electrician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Masek Assistant Master Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Naomi Wager Electricians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenifer Christensen, William Hadden, Jennifer Hairr, Lee Hollaar, Jacob Hunt, Graham Melton, Alexander Mencola, William Peterson, Naomi Wager

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Managing Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Lino Box Office/Patron Services Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . Colleen Lindstrom House Manager/Asst. Patron Services. . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Quigley Patron Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . Brigham Bagnes, Jenifer Christensen, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Elisabeth Schmeling, Uaea Masina, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sasha Pinegar, Caprice Schulte, Breean Taylor Business Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jonathan Llenares Asst. Business Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matt Bennett Managing Associate/Company Manager. . . . . . . . . . . John Geertsen Concessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lizzy Anderson, Amanda Bowen, Nathan James, Emelia Mericola, Gwen Porter, Emily Smith, Whitney Stephens, Emily Turner Director of Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diane L. Parisi Director of Annual Giving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaitlin Spas Development Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amanda Bowen Director of Marketing & Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirsten Park Publicity Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madeleine Gail Rex Photographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brent Uberty Administrative Intern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Rubin ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR FENCES AEA Stage Managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary P. Costello* 1st Assistant Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Analysha Mulcock 2nd Assistant Stage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nasira Barker Light Board Operator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Naomi Wager Rail/Deck Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hunter Brown, Graham Melton, Kelsey Petersen, Shane Rogers Sound Board Operator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Doenges Wardrobe Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Streed Wardrobe Running Crew. . . . . . . . . . . . Amanda Andrews, Amber Rolf

*The theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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