The Roy W. and Elizabeth E. Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre
by
JOSHUA HARMON
JAPHET BALABAN
JUDITH LIGHTFOOT CLARKE JOEL LEFFERT
ROBERT MAMMANA MATTHEW MCGLOIN KIM TAFF ALOK TEWARI
MAGGIE GOBLE TRUE LEAVITT JAYNE LUKE ZOE LUPCHO
Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design BRYCE CUTLER SUSAN BRANCH TOWNE JOSÉ S ANTIAGO
Sound Design Dramaturg Hair & Makeup Design JOE PAYNE ALEXANDRA HARBOLD TAMI LEE THOMPSON
Production Stage Manager Casting JAMES O. HANSEN MURNANE CASTING
KAREN AZENBERG ADRIAN BUDHU Artistic Director Managing Director presents Director
KAREN AZENBERG
CHAD ERIC MURNANE, CSA AMBER SNEAD, CSA
Originally commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer with funds provided by Bank of America and received its world premiere there on January 11, 2022
PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC is the inaugural winner of the Theater J Trish Vrandenburg Jewish Play Prize. Adam Immerwahr, Artistic Director; Jojo Ruf, Managing Director
PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC was developed as part of the Martha Heasley Cox Virgin Play Festival at Magic Theater in San Francisco; Loretto Greco, Artistic Director “Prayer for the French Republic” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.. www.concordtheatricals.com
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.
Jordan Cruz, William Hadden, Josh Kulikowski, Abish Noble, Amber Stafford
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NOTES
Joshua Harmon wrote Prayer for the French Republic in 2016 following the contentious American elections, the contentious French elections, and a spike in antisemitism in both countries. I am always fascinated by plays that seem to predict future events, especially those events that seem to ”come true.” They are at once both fascinating and terrifying. In the United States, who could have predicted that in 2024, we would be facing an even more polarizing election cycle, as well as an increase in hate speech, and hate crimes, that are leaving not only Jews but many, many other groups feeling unsafe in the places they call home?
It is the question of what to do when you don’t feel safe that drew me to this play. This is not just a story of, or for, Jewish people. This fear has been felt by so many of our fellow American citizens because of the color of their skin, their religion, who they love, or the pronoun they use. To feel unsafe where you live and where you work, where your family has lived—for a year, a decade, or a century,—is unsettling at best; tragic at worst. How bad does it have to get to make the decision to leave? In this work, an earlier generation of the family made the wrong choice prior to World War II and suffered the consequences, making the family in 2016 more inclined to trust their gut and make another choice, or as one character says “the suitcase or the grave.”
In the United States, what does it say about our cultural identity as a melting pot that we have always been so proud of? Following the anti-Semitic attacks in Paris in 2015, the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, said “If 100,000 Frenchmen of Spanish origin were to leave, I would never say that France is no longer France. But if 100,000 Jews leave, France would no longer be France. The French Republic would be judged a failure.”
—Karen Azenberg, Director
“It’s all circles.”
Playwright Joshua Harmon drew upon his family history, studies abroad in France, and extensive interviews and research to write Prayer for the French Republic, a story which spans over seventy years, interweaving 1944-1946 and 2016-2017 in counterpoint. Across the five generations of Prayer, the Salomon-Benhamou family wrestle with the “impossible and unanswerable questions” of identity, belonging, home, heritage and safety, first in the shadow of World War II and later in the wake of the 2015 terror attacks in France.
2015 saw the deadliest attacks on Paris since the Second World War. In January 2015, Islamic State militants stormed the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, and a separate gunman targeted a kosher market, killing four hostages. Later in November, ISIL gunmen and suicide bombers launched a coordinated attack across the city, targeting bars, restaurants, a football stadium and concert hall, causing the deaths of 130 people and wounding hundreds of others. France declared a state of emergency that would remain in effect for two years. The events spurred the rise of the far-right Front National party, which rallied supporters with calls for a renewed French identity, national sovereignty and promises to suspend immigration. In the slipstream of Brexit and the 2016 American elections, France’s 2017 presidential election reverberated with the same extreme polarization.
In a conversation with Huntington Theatre Company, Joshua Harmon shared his belief that one of the roles of a writer is to “put down what it feels like to be alive right now: the questions we’re asking, our fears, anxieties, desires. The tragedy of history but the beauty of a great drama is that the questions people face at any given moment are likely the questions they will continue to face in the future. So in writing a play, you’re trying to capture something true about the moment you’re in, while also reaching for something deeper, that transcends time and circumstance.”
—Alexandra Harbold, Dramaturg
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WHO’S WHO
JAPHET BALABAN* (Daniel) (he/ him). Pioneer debut. Broadway: Leopoldstadt. Regional: John Proctor is the Villain (The Huntington), Graveyard Shift (Goodman Theatre New Stages), Women Laughing Alone with Salad (Theatre Wit), Ideation (Jackalope Theatre), You on the Moors Now (the Hypocrites), Posh (Steep Theatre), Never the Sinner (Victory Gardens), Balm in Gilead (Griffin Theatre). Film: The Thing about Harry, Bitter Melons. TV: Fargo, Empire, The Chi, Hot Date, Chicago Med and Chicago PD.
JUDITH LIGHTFOOT CLARKE*
(Marcelle) Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Summer: 1976; Casa Valentina (Manhattan Theatre Club). Off Broadway: Linda (MTC), Eve-olution (Cherry Lane), Three Travelers (St. Clement’s), The Normal Heart (Public Theatre), Communicating Doors (Variety Arts), Hamlet (Kaufman). Regional: Romeo & Juliet (The Shakespeare Theatre); Macbeth (Arden), The Graduate (Ivoryton) and theatres including The Alley, Cincinnati Playhouse, Old Globe, People’s Light, Merrimack Rep, Syracuse Rep, Capital Rep, Indiana Rep, Wilma and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Film includes How to Be Single, and Killer. Television includes: New Amsterdam, Unforgettable, Forever, Outlaw, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and Madame Secretary. Graduate of The College of William & Mary. Proud mother of Owen and Beckett.
JOEL LEFFERT* (Adolphe/Pierre) most recently appeared with his wife, Nancy Nichols, in The Sweet Spot, by Alice Jankell, at 59East59 in NY. Before that, he spent three years with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in San Francisco, using the long, lonely pandemic break to develop his one-man A Christmas Carol at Portland Stage in Maine. Life in the theatre has given him the joy of being Albert Einstein, Sherlock Holmes, John Barrymore, Sigmund Freud, Otto Frank, Dracula,
Shylock, Salieri, Richard lll, King Lear, and many more. Broadway credits: world premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Not About Nightingales (also London’s Royal National Theatre) and understudying Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot/No Man’s Land. Recent TV/Film: Jessica Jones, The Enemy Within, Russian Doll, and Paint. JoelLeffert.com
ROBERT MAMMANA* (Patrick) BROADWAY: Les Misérables; NATIONAL TOURS: Show Boat, Les Misérables, The Sound of Music; OFF-BROADWAY: The Twentieth-Century Way; REGIONAL: Pioneer Theatre Company (Mary Stuart), Denver Center (The Constant Wife), South Coast Repertory (Sweeney Todd, Cloudlands), Geffen Playhouse (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Portland Center Stage (Fun Home, Ragtime, Guys and Dolls), Pasadena Playhouse (The Father, Casa Valentina, Sleepless in Seattle), Alliance (Beast on the Moon). T V: The Office (as Sweeney Todd), Frasier, NCIS, CSI, The Good Wife, How To Get Away With Murder, CSI:NY, Elementary. FILM: Baby Money, Just Say Love, Flightplan. AWARDS: 2-LA Drama Critics, LA Weekly. NOMINATIONS: 3-LA Ovation, 3-LA Drama Critics, Helen Hays, 2-Joseph Jefferson. www.RobertMammana.com
MATTHEW MCGLOIN* (Lucien)
Matthew f irmly believes in the power of live theatre to connect & heal. He is honored to return to PTC after appearing in Murder on the Orient Express last season. TV: Law & Order (NBC), Investigation Discovery, History Channel. NY/Off-Broadway: The Hello Girls (Prospect Theater Company/59E59), Bastard Jones (The Cell), CasablancaBox (HERE Arts), Tectonic Theater Project, Abingdon Theatre Company, Dixon Place, The Lark. Select regional: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (American Stage), 2 Pianos, 4 Hands (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, North Coast Rep, Laguna Playhouse, Northlight Theatre), Cabaret (Peterborough Players), The Play That Goes Wrong (Repertory
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Theatre St. Louis), Murder for Two (WHAT), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Signature Theatre), Misalliance, Cinderella (Olney Theatre Center), As You Like It (Folger Theatre), various shows at The Kennedy Center. BFA Acting, UMBC. www.matthewmcgloin.com // @jackie of all traits
KIM TAFF* (Elodie) Pioneer Theatre Company debut! THEATER: Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow (Theatre for The New City), Boeing Boeing (New London Barn Playhouse), The Wolves (Dallas Theatre Center), You Can’t Take It With You and Miracle on South Division Street (Saint Michael’s Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing with Smith Street Stage – NYIT Award for Outstanding Ensemble and Best Revival of a Play. FILM: Upcoming - Hal Hartley’s Where To Land - opposite Bill Sage and Edie Falco, Asking For It - opposite Janeane Garofalo and Stephanie Hsu, Leo and the Shark. TELEVISION: The Blacklist, Food That Built America. BFA: NYU TISCH. Thank you to Karen and everyone at PTC! Much love to Momma and Dougie! www.kimtaff.com / @iamkimtaff
ALOK TEWARI* (Charlie) Broadway: The Band’s Visit. Other Theatre: Monsoon Wedding: The Musical (St. Ann’s/Berkeley Rep); Dom Juan (Bard); India Pale Ale (MTC); The Band’s Visit (Atlantic); Awake and Sing! (Public / NAATCO); A Fable, Through the Yellow Hour, War (Rattlestick); Bunty Berman Presents, Rafta, Rafta… (New Group). Television: Kaleidoscope, The Good Fight, Ramy, FBI, Iron Fist, House of Cards, Madam Secretary, Homeland, and Fringe. Film: Bad Shabbos, The Pirates of Somalia, and Shelter.
MAGGIE GOBLE (Molly) was born and raised in Salt Lake City and is currently a senior in the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah. Most recently Maggie
performed t he role of Agnes in the U of U Theatre’s production of Dancing at Lughnasa (Studio 115). Maggie would like to thank her family, friends and professors for all of their encouragement and support.
TRUE LEAVITT (Young Pierre) is a senior in the University of Utah’s Actor Training Program, and is thrilled to make his PTC debut. Recent credits include Swing in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Salt Lake Acting Company), Caliban in The Tempest, Professor u/s in The Sweet Science of Bruising, and Swing in Somewhere: a Primer for the End of Days (University of Utah).
JAYNE LUKE (Irma) has worked on the PTC stage for many years. Her debut was the year the theatre was built in 1962 with Virginia Tanner’s Children’s Dance Theatre at age 11. She played Abuela in the concert version of In the Heights. Other roles were in The Producers and Death of a Salesman. She choreographed many shows on the PTC stage during the years of 1982-2012.
ZOE LUPCHO (Understudy, Elodie) PTC debut! Zoe is currently a member of the University of Utah’s Actor Training Program and will be graduating in May. Some of her previous roles include Rose in Dancing at Lughnasa, and as an understudy for Celia in As You Like it. This April, she will be in You on the Moors Now as Cathy.
JOSHUA HARMON (Playwright) Plays include Bad Jews, Significant Other, Admissions, Skintight, and Prayer for the French Republic. He and Sarah Silverman co-wrote the libretto for The Bedwetter based on her memoir. His plays have been produced on Broadway and the West End; off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theater Club and Atlantic Theater Company; across
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The University of Utah Department of Theatre presents PLAYWRIGHT William Shakespeare, DIRECTOR Robert Scott Smith October 25 - November 3, Studio 115 (Performing Arts Building)
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WHO’S WHO
the country at Geffen Playhouse, Speakeasy, Studio Theatre, Theater Wit, About Face, Actor’s Express, and The Magic, among others; and internationally in a dozen countries. He is a two-time MacDowell fellow and an Associate Artist at Roundabout. Graduate of Juilliard.
KAREN AZENBERG (Director) This marks Karen Azenberg’s 13th season as Artistic Director at PTC. Favorite projects include last season’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 and The Lehman Trilogy, as well as the world premiere of Alabama Story, the regional premiere of Sting’s The Last Ship, and Newsies, The Play That Goes Wrong, and The Rocky Horror Show. Originally from New York, her work there includes Lyrics and Lyricists (92nd St. Y ), Blocks (a collaboration with Jonathan Larson) Prom Queens Unchained, and choreography for Richard Greenberg’s The Dazzle (Roundabout Theatre Company). Among her other credits are over 15 productions of West Side Story and she has worked with Indiana Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Goodspeed, Theatre Aspen, and Utah Shakespeare Festival. Karen is a past president of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and is a proud Mom to Alexander and Emelia.
BRYCE CUTLER (Scenic Design) Previous designs include Grand Horizons on Broadway; 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist Soft Power at The Public Theater; along with world premieres by John Patrick Shanley, Dael Orlandersmith, Matt Aucoin, and Grammy Award winner Steve Mackey; Other projects include Samsung’s virtual reality television series Interpretation of Dreams; Feel The Pride, an AI powered audio-visual installation with St. Vincent; and a virtual reality arcade for Muse’s 2019 World Tour. Co- founder of the political theater collective Third Space, winner of the 2017 USITT Rising Star Award, a 2019 L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Finalist, and his design for The Lady In Red... was selected for international exhibition at the 2015 Prague Quadrennial. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. BryceCutler.com
SUSAN BRANCH TOWNE (Costume Design) is thrilled to return to PTC, where she has designed 21 shows, including Christmas at Pemberley, A Comedy of Tenors, The Tempest, Hamlet, Tartuffe, My Fair Lady, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Other regional engagements include Denver Center Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage and Geva Theatre. Susan is based in Austin, Texas where she has designed for Ballet Austin, Conspirare, Austin Opera, and over 35 shows for Zach Theatre. Susan has been on faculty at St. Edward’s University since 2012. She holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and has been a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 since 1986.
JOSÉ SANTIAGO (Lighting Design) is a New York City based Lighting Designer. His work has been seen at Chicago Opera, The Paramount Theatre (Aurora, IL), Drury Lane (Chicago), Center REP, Bristol Riverside Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre by the Sea, Bay Street Theatre, Gretna Playhouse, The Gateway, The Engeman Theater, Guild Hall, Penobscot Theatre, 5 Star Theatricals, Slow Burn Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse. He received his MFA in Lighting Design from Florida State University. Proud member of USA829 and represented by Michael Moore A gency. www.jsantiagodesign.com
JOE PAYNE (Sound Design) was the resident sound designer for PTC from 2000 to 2010 and was a guest designer and composer for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in 2017. Currently, he heads the Sound and Media Design MFA at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Joe has designed sound, projections, and/or composed music for more than 250 productions throughout the United States, including twenty seasons at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Riverside Theatre (Vero Beach, FL), Berkeley Rep, Syracuse Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Milwaukee
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Repertory Theatre, and others. Joe is a member of United Scenic Artists USA Local 829 and the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association.
ALEXANDRA HARBOLD (Dramaturg) has served as dramaturg on PTC’s Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, The Lehman Trilogy, What the Constitution Means to Me, Mary Stuart, The Lifespan of a Fact, Sweat, Oslo, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Sting’s The Last Ship, I Hate Hamlet, An Inspector Calls, and Of Mice and Men. Current projects include directing The Heart of Robin Hood and co-creating a new project with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Artistic Director Daniel Charon. Harbold is Co-founder and Co-artistic director of Flying Bobcat and Assistant Professor of Directing for the University of Utah’s Department of Theatre. AlexandraHarbold.com
TAMI LEE THOMPSON (Hair & Makeup Design) Previous credits include: Jersey Boys, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Bonnie & Clyde, and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (Pioneer Theatre Company); Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Goose and A Christmas Story (Barter Theater); Jelly’s Last Jam, The Underpants, A Christmas Carol, Bluish, Intimate Apparel, Moonlight and Magnolias, Tick, Tick… Boom!, and The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (Alliance Theater); A Flea in Her Ear, Da, Born Yesterday, Twelfth Night, Inherit The Wind, and The Philadelphia Story (Asolo Theater); Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, and King Lear (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Bertolt Brecht’s The Life of Galileo (University of Notre Dame); and 42nd Street (Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts).
JAMES O. HANSEN* (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be in his second season here at Pioneer Theatre Company! Other credits include: Joseph… Dreamcoat (starring David Archuleta), Mary Poppins, and Wonderland at Tuacahn Amphitheatre. Clue (starring Sally Struthers), The Wedding Singer, A Christmas Carol, and Flashdance (starring Julia Macchio) at The
Gateway Playhouse. James earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts Management from Dean College. Special thanks to his Mom, Family, and Ostie for their love and support! DHH.
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MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country’s most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. The mission of MTC, since 1972, has been to produce innovative theatre of the highest quality by American and international playwrights, with a focus on presenting New York, American, and world premieres. Over more than four decades, MTC productions have earned numerous awards including 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 28 Tony Awards, 50 Drama Desk Awards and 49 Obie Awards. Some of our most recent premieres include Prayer for the French Republic by Joshua Harmon; Cost of Living by Martyna Majok; The Collaboration by Anthony McCarten; Summer, 1976 by David Auburn; Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau; Morning Sun by Simon Stephens; Lackawanna Blues by Ruben Santiago-Hudson; My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout,
adapted by Rona Munro; Ink by James Graham; Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney; and August Wilson’s Jitney. For more information on MTC, please visit www. ManhattanTheatreClub.com.
PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY (PTC) Now celebrating its 63rd season, the award-winning PTC is Utah’s premiere professional theatre company and leading arts organization of the West. Led by Artistic Director Karen Azenberg and Managing Director Adrian Budhu, PTC presents world-class productions that celebrate diversity in culture and society and serve as the connecting bridge between art and scholarship as an affiliate of the University of Utah.
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< BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, people of color>
Eight BIPOC actors speak the truths of their eight BIPOC playwright counterparts, in a bold declaration that their experiences are not monolithic, dispelling stereotypes, and presenting the depth and breadth of BIPOC experiences here and now in Utah.
Some of these monologues will bring you joy. Some will make you uncomfortable. You will definitely feel the feels. Collectively, they’ll provide space for you to learn how to see us di erently and how to hear us di erently.
How you respond, how you activate what you feel, is up to you.
Wild Kratts Live 2.0 | Nov 15
Gentri | Nov 29–30
Jenny Oaks Baker | Dec 2
A Kurt Bestor Christmas | Dec 5–7
Leslie Odom, Jr. | Dec 8
God Is A Scottish Drag Queen | Dec 13
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas | Dec 16–17
Derek Hough | Dec 18–19
Mat & Savanna Shaw | Dec 20
A Magical Cirque Christmas | Dec 26
Shrek The Musical | Dec 27–29 TICKETS
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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.
Videotaping, photographing, or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. This includes photos taken by phone.
SMART WATCHES, CELL PHONES, AND CAMERAS ARE DISRUPTIVE; even when set on silent or vibrate, they may disrupt wireless sound equipment. Please leave your electronics in the car, or turn them off entirely while in the theatre.
TEXTING is disturbing to the actors and your fellow audience members. Do not text during the performance.
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 coat check.
We welcome all 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 pre-show, and during intermission. Bottled water and approved PTC drink
containers are allowed in the theatre.
University of Utah is a non-smoking campus, both inside and outside all buildings.
Evening performances are at 7:00 p.m. Monday through 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 notifying the box office at least 48 hours prior to the performance date. Tickets are non-refundable.
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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 extended hours Monday through Saturday.
No children under age 5 are admitted to performances.
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Associate Artistic Director/ Director of Outreach ................ Eric Jackson
Resident Fight Choreographer ..... Christopher DuVal
Resident Scenic Designer ........... George Maxwell
Season Artwork ............................ Modern8
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Patron Services Manager .... Jenifer Christensen
House Manager/Asst. Patron Services .... Nikki Baum
Front of House ........... Kat Bailey, Cormac Bywater, Katie Crabtree, Samanta Cuallo, Greta Czachor, Ella Frank, Emma Holland, Yasmine Jensen, Rachel Johnson, Brighton Kidd, Lauren Kitson, Carson Maestas, Christian Maestas, Elijah McCann, Kate Morris, Sasha Pinegar, Shaina Runolfson, Caprice Schulte, Talia Thorpe, Mary El Wells
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