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A Doll’s House, Part 2 18 saltlakeactingcompany.org STACEY JENSON* (Nora) is thrilled to be working with SLAC for the first time (a childhood dream). Since arriving in SLC in August 2016 (after 15 years away), she has appeared in film: Brigsby Bear, Jewtah, Suburban Bliss, and The Glade of Ardet; as well as commercials for the BBB, the AARP, and Travelwise. She has also been seen onstage: GIDION’S KNOT (Pinnacle Acting Company), ION (The Classical Greek Theatre Festival), IDEATION, WHAT WE’RE UP AGAINST, DINNER, PAGE-TO-STAGE (Wasatch Theatre Company). In addition to acting, Stacey teaches private dialect sessions and has served as Dialect Coach for MARY POPPINS (Sandy Arts Guild), CABARET (SLCC), A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (The Grand), DRACULA, ECLIPSED, and THE RIVALS (University of Utah), and served as Dialect Consultant for ANGELS IN AMERICA (The National Theatre, London). She also directed TO BE FRANK… (SLCC). Stacey holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Utah’s Actor Training Program, an MFA in Acting from American Conservatory Theatre, and an MFA with Distinction in Voice Studies from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London). Stacey is an Adjunct Professor with the U of U’s Actor Training Program and SLCC’s Theatre Program.
RACHAEL MERLOT (Emmy) is making her SLAC debut in A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 and she couldn’t be more excited! She was last seen performing as Mom and Prosecutor in DeCaf Acting Company’s award-winning production of BANG BANG, YOU’RE DEAD at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival of 2019. Other credits include THE WAKE OF JAMEY FOSTER (Collard) and LA FRONTERA/THE BORDER (DSU, Music Team Leader). She is immensely grateful for her theatre instructors, whose training continues to guide her every day. Much love and thanks to her family for their support! Keep fighting for what you believe in! PAUL MULDER* (Torvald) was last seen at Salt Lake Acting Company in the world premiere of SEEING THE ELEPHANT and in GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE. Paul graduated from The University of Utah Actor Training Program, and then moved to New York City. Paul performed Off-Broadway in a production of DR. DIETRICH’S PROCESS. Additional Off-off Broadway credits include; TWELFTH NIGHT, DANCING AT LUGHNASA, and ANGEL “UH” GOD. Regional credits include SINS OF THE FATHER at the Walnut Street Theatre, THE SECOND SHEPARD’S PLAY at Delaware Theatre Company. Locally Paul has appeared with SB Dance, Plan B Theatre, The Emily Company, and the Utah Opera Company. Paul keeps busy with many local TV commercials and film productions. Paul is delighted to be back on stage at Salt Lake Acting Company. ANNETTE WRIGHT (Anne Marie) has been acting in almost every theatre around SLC since 1989. Recent credits at SLAC include SATURDAY’S VOYEUR 2019, A
FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY UNIT…, SATURDAY’S VOYEUR (2016, 2017), and BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON. She loves to act in films and TV as well: you’ll see her in Austentatious, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, High School Musical 2, and a handful of Hallmark movies, including I’m Not Ready for Christmas, Christmas Land, and Sharing Christmas. LUCAS HNATH (Playwright) A resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2011, Lucas Hnath’s work has been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, University of Miami, The Culture Project, Target Margin and OntologicalHysteric Theater. Additionally, his plays have been developed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Cleveland Public Theatre. He has enjoyed playwriting residencies with The Royal Court Theatre and 24Seven Lab. He is a two-time winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant for his feature-length screenplays, The Painting, the Machine, and the Apple and Still Life. He is also a recipient of an EST/Sloan Project commission for his play, ISAAC’S EYE. Hnath received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from New York University’s Department of Dramatic Writing and is a lecturer in NYU’s Expository Writing Program. NANCY BORGENICHT (Director) has been part of Salt Lake Acting Company since 1974, serving as Co-Executive Producer with Allen Nevins from 1993- 2005 and Interim Executive Producer
from 2009-2010. She conceived and created SATURDAY’S VOYEUR in 1978. As an actor, she has appeared in SLAC productions of MISS MARGARIDA’S WAY, HUNTING COCKROACHES, ON THE VERGE OR THE GEOGRAPHY OF YEARNING, THE MAIDS, SYLVIA PLATH: A DRAMATIC PORTRAIT, KENNEDY’S CHILDREN, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Her directing credits for SLAC include ANGELS IN AMERICA, WHITE MAN DANCING, OLEANNA, WOMEN AND WALLACE, CABBIES, COWBOYS & THE TREE OF THE WEEPING VIRGIN and SATURDAY’S VOYEUR. She most recently adapted and directed STAG’S LEAP, a Pulitzer Prize winning book of poems by Sharon Olds. ERIK REICHERT (Set Design) is honored to be selected as the set designer for SLACs production of A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2. He has previously set designed for STAG’S LEAP, THE WOLVES, and THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD. He was assistant set designer on FORM OF A GIRL UNKNOWN. He currently works as the Construction Supervisor at SLAC. LA BEENE (Costume Design) is an Assistant Professor of Costume Design and head of the BFA in Design and Technology at Utah Valley University. She has an MFA in Costume Design and Technology and has taught at the University of Utah, Brigham Young University and the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Her recent credits include SHE LOVES ME at UVU, OF COLOR at Plan B Theatre Co., MAMMA MIA at Oregon Cabaret Theatre, ANNE OF GREEN GABLES at BYU, AMAZING GRACE with Utah Festival Opera and Music Theatre, and MARY POPPINS with Center Stage Youth Performers where she is the resident costume designer. She designed A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY UNIT AT MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER OF NEW YORK CITY last season at SLAC. She is thrilled to be back this season. MATT TAYLOR (Lighting Design) is a professional lighting designer for live entertainment and professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI where he leads the MFA program in Lighting Design. His professional work covers a wide range of genres and styles of live entertainment from concerts and cruise ships to traditional theatre and dance productions. He has worked extensively in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta and other major cultural hubs on Broadway, Off Broadway, as well as throughout regional houses. His work can regularly be seen at the Old Globe in San Diego, Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC; Centro de Convenciones Figali in Panamá City, Panamá; Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, and many others. Matt is a proud member of the professional designer’s union, United Scenic Artists Local 829. To see more of Matt’s work, visit www.matttaylordesign.com KATELYN LIMBER (Sound Designer) is thrilled to be working with SLAC again. Her previous credits with SLAC include: MERCURY (Assistant Sound Designer), THE WOLVES (ASM), SILENT DANCER (ASM), SATURDAY’S VOYEUR (ASM) and three heightened readings she sound designed: GRAB THEM BY THE PUSSY, REYKJAVIK, and REMARKABLY NORMAL. She has also sound designed for Pinnacle Acting Company (THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, TITUS
A Doll’s House, Part 2 21 saltlakeactingcompany.org ANDRONICUS, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, GIDEON’S KNOT, MAURITIUS), Utah Repertory Theater (ANGELS IN AMERICA), The Classical Greek Theatre Festival (PROMETHEUS BOUND), and Westminster College (OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD, LOVE AND INFORMATION, and DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR.) katelynlimber.com JUSTIN IVIE (Props Design/Producing Director) came to SLAC as an actor in SATURDAY’S VOYEUR 2004. He’s since appeared in numerous SLAC shows including eleven SATURDAY’S VOYEURS (between 2004 and 2019), TOO MUCH MEMORY (2010), and STUPID FUCKING BIRD (2016). He’s also Stage Managed for seven SLAC shows and directed 2019’s THE CAKE. Justin has performed professionally for three decades and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity since 1998. He’s appeared in over a hundred productions nationally. Utah audiences have seen him in dozens of shows at Pioneer Theatre Company, Egyptian Theatre Company, Utah Musical Theatre, Lyric Repertory Theatre, and many others. He’s worn just about every hat in the business, working as a designer, manager, technician, builder, writer, and director in countless shows. Since 2006, Justin’s been the Managing Director of Walk-Ons, Inc. a Salt Lake company with a mission to bring low-cost theater to under-served audiences. Through their Senior Theatre Project, Walk-Ons has toured to over fifty Utah community centers and retirement facilities with a shifting line-up of original short plays by, for, and about seniors. An alumnus of Weber State University in Musical Theater, Justin earned his MFA in Acting at Northern Illinois University and completed an internship at Dublin’s Gaiety School. HEATHER NOWLIN (Dramaturg) is thrilled to be working on her first SLAC production and the brilliant A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2. She has held a particular fondness for Ibsen ever since assistant directing “Part 1” many years ago. Other credits include LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (dramaturg), THE GLASS MENAGERIE (director), and BLITHE SPIRIT (director) at Southern Virginia University; THE LION IN WINTER (ASM) at Lime Kiln Theatre; CRIMES OF THE HEART (assistant director) and A DOLL’S HOUSE (director, staged reading) at StageRight Theatre; and 8 years as Assistant Marketing and Publicity Director for over 50 shows at Pioneer Theatre Company. BA, Performing Arts/English, Southern Virginia University. medium.com/@heathernowlin JENNIE SANT* (AEA Production Stage Manager) Previous shows at SLAC include PETE THE CAT, FORM OF A GIRL UNKNOWN, SATURDAYS VOYEUR 2018 & 2019, THE CAKE, PINKALICIOUS, HIR, SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY, REYKJAVIK (reading), PLAYWRIGHTS LAB 2016 & 2017, HARBUR GATE, BULLSHARK ATTACK, STUPID F***ING BIRD, TWO STORIES, BLACKBERRY WINTER, I’LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS, VENUS IN FUR, MANNING UP, PERSIAN QUARTER, and, ANGELS IN AMERICA I & II. Other credits include GOLD MOUNTAIN (Spike 150), THRILLER (Odyssey Dance Company), WONDERLAND and PRINCESS WENDY (The Petite Palace), ANNIE (COPA Theatre), NEXT TO NORMAL, LES MISERABLES, THE PRODUCERS, PAINT YOUR WAGON, DOUBT, A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, THE FOREIGNER and VERTICAL HOUR (Pioneer Theatre Company). She has also worked for Salt Lake Shakespeare and Utah Contemporary Theatre.
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TAWNIE ROBINSON (UPTP Assistant Lighting Designer) is just starting her senior year at Utah Valley University studying lighting design in their BFA program. Her upcoming designs are CHARLOTTES’S WEB at UVU and WENDY AND PETER PAN in the Eccles Black Box Theater. Tawnie is thrilled to be here working on her first show with the Salt Lake Acting Company. CYNTHIA FLEMING (Executive Artistic Director) has been in the world of dance and theatre professionally for over 40 years, during which time she performed in the Broadway, National and International companies with A CHORUS LINE. Since 1995 she has worn many hats at SLAC, including Choreographer, Director, Box Office Manager and Director of Audience Services. She developed SLAC’s high quality customer service titled: Mayberry meets Space Odyssey, which is the foundation for the recordbreaking number of subscribers. She conceived and created the position of Director of Communication and Audience Development and assembled the communication team to generate a renewed energy and excitement about the theatre. In 2010 she became CoExecutive Producer and is now honored to be SLAC’s Executive Artistic Director. Cynthia remains a working artist in the theatre and has choreographed many SLAC productions including SATURDAY’S VOYEUR for 16 years and directed/ choreographed this musical for 7 years. Cynthia is proud to serve SLAC and its mission to engage and enrich community through brave contemporary theatre. SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY – Salt Lake Acting Company’s mission is to engage and enrich community through brave contemporary theatre.
Founded in 1970, SLAC is a not-forprofit 501(c)3 professional theatre dedicated to producing, commissioning, and developing new works and to supporting a community of professional artists. SLAC has been nationally recognized by the Shubert Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Edgerton Foundation, among others. SLAC operates under a SPT Actors Equity Association contract and is a Constituent Member of Theatre Communications Group (a national organization for nonprofit professional regional theatres), and the National New Play Network (a national alliance of non-profit professional theatres that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays). 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. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
A Doll’s House, Part 2 23 ** The set designer of A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 is represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 of the IATSE
