Hairy & Sherri

WELCOME

Hello and welcome to Salt Lake Acting Company and to the World Premiere of Hairy & Sherri by Adrienne Dawes. This script was workshopped in our Digital New Play Sounding Series Festival in 2021, and we couldn’t be more proud to bring it to you today.

Since 1994, SLAC’s New Play Sounding Series (NPSS) has served as a constructive, low risk arena in which playwrights can test their new work with a team of professional artists and a savvy new play audience. Through the NPSS, SLAC has developed 111 new plays.

When the pandemic made it unsafe to gather, SLAC reshaped the NPSS into a digital festival. With the help of the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, SLAC was able to increase resources, rehearsal time, and compensation significantly from previous years, which was very much appreciated by the artists during such a difficult time. The work culminated in a free and highly attended digital reading. It was so fun and heartwarming to see our audience in their little boxes on zoom. They eagerly emailed feedback, and encouraged this play to come to full production. This important work is only possible because of our brave, adventurous audience and supporters.

We can’t thank you enough for being here.

With gratitude,

Cynthia Fleming Executive Artistic Director

FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT

Some Thoughts from Playwright, Adrienne Dawes, About How this Play Came to Be.

When I was still in elementary school, my family became a rehabilitative foster home for children with special needs. I took my job as big sister very seriously, enlisting my foster siblings to join messy art projects, casting them in living room musicals and creating short rap songs inspired by them. My family fostered for about 11 years and over time, I grew accustomed to the constant cycle of incoming and outgoing foster siblings. But in the beginning, the first “goodbyes” were truly heartbreaking. Ryshi was a beautiful baby boy that I loved taking care of. Spread out on my mother’s quilt in the living room with an array of brightly-colored toys, I would entertain Ryshi with made up stories and songs. He was only with my family for a few months but in that time, I felt a deep connection to him. When he was returned to his extended family, I was wracked with fear that something bad would happen to him again. I wanted to tell a story that examines the failures of this country’s foster care system and illuminates the racial prejudice ingrained in institutions built to serve low-income communities of color. I think I also want to reconcile the feelings of loss I felt losing what felt like a younger brother to me. I want to find Ryshi in a loving, stable home environment. I want to see Ryshi thrive.

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By Adrienne Dawes Director

Vickie Washington

Lighting Designer Scenic Designer Costume Designer

Jesse Portillo** Michael Horesji Nancy Hills

Sound Designer Props Designer Intimacy/Fight Director

Joseph Killian Erik Reichert Adriana Lemke

Assistant Stage Manager

Tahra Veasley

Production Stage Manager

Bridgette Lehman*

February 8 - March 5, 2023

Professional Theatre Program for Emerging Artists

Assistant Director Actor

Sammee Jackman Devin Losser

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**The Lighting and Designer for Hairy & Sherri is represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 of the IATSE.

“Hairy & Sherri” was developed with PlySpace artist-in-residence program (supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts).

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HAIRY .......................................... David Knoell*

SHARON (SHERRI) .............................. Wendy Joe

RYSHI ONLY ................................... Devin Losser

RYSHI SPEYER .................................. Kiirt Banks

VERA ....................................... Yolanda Stange*

*Member, Actor’s Equity Association

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Hairy & Sherri Rehearsal Space, photo credit Joey Branca

KIIRT BANKS (Ryshi

Speyer) was born and raised in Dallas, TX. As a child he loved listening to his mother’s Motown Records with dreams of becoming a recording artist and actor. After moving to Salt Lake City, he started to get serious about his career. Performing in numerous concerts and plays such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Ragtime, and In the Heights to name a few. Kiirt has been able to make a positive impact through his career.

WENDY JOE (Sharon) is an actor based out of Salt Lake City where she went to school at the University of Utah. Her first project at SLAC was the reading of Hairy & Sherri for the NPSS. Since then, she has done four shows with SLAC: SLACabaret 2021, Four Women Talking about the Man Under the Sheet, Elephant and Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, and SLACabaret: Down the Rabbit Hole. She was also the reader for Tip Top Triangle with Plan-B Theatre. Last year, Wendy ventured into film shooting two movies, Winter Summer Spring or Fall and Cinderella in the Caribbean, both will be premiering within this next year. She also starred in a short film, Liminal Revelations, which will be released this summer. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her sisters, listening to podcasts, performing the closing number of her World Tour in her kitchen, and rewatching Fleabag for the gazillionth time.

DAVID KNOELL*

(Hairy) is a theatre artist and educator living in Utah. This is David’s first performance with Salt Lake Acting Company. He was previously seen on stage at the Great Salt Lake Fringe – Small Box with a

Revolver by Dustin Hageland (2022) and One Man, One Guitar, Superstar (2021). Backstage, David was the AEA stage manager for Mestiza, or Mixed by Melissa Leilani Larson at Plan-B Theatre. Screen credits include local commercials and Love’s Portrait (Hallmark, 2022). David moved to SLC from Chicago where he spent over a decade working as a director, actor, producer, and musician at The Second City Training Center, Chicago Dramatists, Equity Library Theatre, The Playground and others. He worked professionally as an actor in Florida (Disney, Universal, Mad Cow Theatre, Orlando Rep) after earning his MFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Central Florida. David is the Production and Stage Manager for Performing Arts Educators, which produces annual choir and dance performances in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, NYC. David teaches at Weber State, Salt Lake Community College, and Westminster College where he is also Assistant Technical Director. Love to my family in Nebraska and Washington and to my wife, Stephanie.

DEVIN LOSSER

(Ryshi Only) has been acting since he was very young, appearing in movies such as The Mistletones and playing Tino in Surely Goodness and Mercy at Salt Lake Acting Company. He has a great love for the theater and is currently a full-time student at the University of Utah. He loves writing and art, as well as going to the gym and spending time with family.

YOLANDA STANGE*

(Vera) is so excited to return to SLAC, after co-starring in Chisa Hutchinson’s Surely Goodness and Mercy and Elaine Jarvik’s Four Women Talking About the Man Under the Sheet. SLAC is now a place she calls home. She can also be seen in many of your favorite Hallmark

Christmas Movies and is the voice of Suzy on BYUtv’s Nine Years to Neptune. Yolanda is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

ADRIENNE DAWES ( Playwright) is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and teaching artist originally from Austin, TX. Her plays, including Am I White, Teen Dad, and This Bitch: Esta Sangre Quiero, have been developed/ produced by Salvage Vanguard Theater, New Harmony Project, The Fire This Time Festival, Theatre Lab at FAU, Queen City New Play Initiative, Stages Repertory Theatre, Teatro Milagro, National Black Theatre, and English Theatre Berlin, among others. Adrienne received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and studied sketch & improv at the Second City Training Center in Chicago. Recent honors include: Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Alice Judson Hayes Fellow at Ragdale Foundation, and artist residencies with Colt Coeur, PlySpace, & Crosstown Arts. Adrienne is currently a staff writer on an upcoming Hulu/ABC limited series Untitled Orphan Project starring Ellen Pompeo.

VICKIE WASHINGTON (Director) is a theatre artist and cultural worker who directs, acts, produces, and teaches. Selected directing credits include Seven Guitars, Blood Knot, What to Send Up When It Goes Down, The Mountaintop, The Great Lonely Roamer, Schoolgirls; or the African Mean Girls Play, Are you now, or have you ever been…, Harriet Jacobs, Fences, Passing Strange, The Ballad of Jane Elkins, Single Black Female, Sunset Baby, Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963, Fabulation, Angela’s Mixtape, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, Speech and Debate, and The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Colored Minstrel Show. Her directing work has garnered two Irma P. Hall Black Theatre Awards and recognition from the Dallas Observer for best director of the world premiere of Jonathan Norton’s Mississippi Goddamn. Acting credits

include on-camera work in Random Acts of Flyness (HBO); Indie films, They Charge for the Sun, Swimming in Your Skin Again (official Sundance selection); and Steps of Faith. Selected theatre acting credits include A Raisin in the Sun, Dreaming Emmett, Primer for a Failed Superpower directed by Rachel Chavkin, Crowns, …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi, A Lesson Before Dying, for colored girls…, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Piano Lesson, Contribution, From the Mississippi Delta, and The Tempest vickie is founder and producing director of r-t-w~ reading the writers, a readers theatre performance organization. A proud member of Actors Equity, she deeply values the gift of theatre and the powerful ways in which it can be utilized to tell the stories of the African Diaspora.

BRIDGETTE LEHMAN* (Stage Manager) is a graduate from Weber State University with an emphasis in Stage Management and a minor in Sound Production/Recording. She has stage managed and designed in multiple theatres between Ogden and Salt Lake City. Recent credits include: Good Company’s 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, OMT’s Shrek! The Musical, OMT’s Little Women, and WSU’s Something’s Afoot. Bridgette is excited to be working with Salt Lake Acting Company again! She would like to thank her friends and family for supporting her.

TAHRA VEASLEY (Assistant Stage Manager) Tahra is excited to be back at SLAC! Favorite ASM credits include A Year With Frog and Toad (SLAC), Once on This Island, Mamma Mia, Cagney, Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Pioneer Theatre Company), First Date, West Side Story (The Grand Theatre), and Animal Farm (Babcock Theatre). Favorite Stage Management credits include Noises Off ( The Grand Theatre), She Kills Monsters (Kingsbury Hall), Chess The Musical (Marriott Center for Dance), and Eclipsed (Studio 115/KCACTF). She hopes you enjoy the show!

WHO’S WHO

JESSE PORTILLO** (Lighting Designer) lighting designer based in Los Angeles, and an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Cal Poly Pomona. Previous SLAC credits include Passing Strange, SLACabaret 2021, Pete The Cat, Saturday’s Voyeur, Climbing with Tigers, and Harbur Gate . Additional credits include productions for Pioneer Theatre Company, Arizona Broadway Theatre, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre, Ancram Opera House, LOOK Musicals, New Century Dance, Repertory Dance Theater, Samba Fogo, PURE Theatre, Mobile Opera and Plan-B Theatre Company. He holds an MFA from Indiana University, and has previously served on the faculty of the University of Utah and the College of Charleston. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, and an active member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, where he is the Associate Commissioner for Lighting Design and Technology. He is a founding member of La Gente: The Latinx Design Network, and works to make all aspects of live entertainment more diverse, equitable and inclusive by deploying anti-racist approaches in all aspects of his work.

ERIK REICHERT (Props Designer/ Construction Supervisor) Erik’s is excited to be working on Hairy & Sherri as the Properties Designer and Construction Supervisor. Previous shows include Sleeping Giant, SLACabaret: Down the Rabbit Hole, Passing Strange, Egress, Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are In a Play!”, and Four Women Talking About The Man Under The Sheet. He also designed the sets for A Year With Frog and Toad, Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are In a Play!”, Stag’s Leap, The Wolves, The Dance and the Railroad, and A Dolls House, Part 2. and was the asst. set designer on form of a girl unknown. He currently works as the Construction Supervisor at SLAC.

NANCY HILLS (Costume Designer) was born in the family Studebaker in San Mateo, California. She is the head of the Theatre Costume Design program at Utah State University. Her favorite designs are period pieces which include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pride and Prejudice, Amadeus, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Miser, Enchanted April, Our Country’s Good, Emma, A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Sense and Sensibility, The Moors, and Misalliance She designed Next to Normal, And So It Goes, Playboy of the Western World, and Blithe Spirit at Artist Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon, and at Salt Lake Acting Company with productions of Streetlight Woodpecker, Winter, Fun Home, and Silent Dancer. Nancy was a recipient of the Janet Arnold Award/ Society of Antiquaries in London, where she was funded to take patterns from two historic clothing collections in the UK. White reproductions of the garments were constructed and have been exhibited in the UK and the US. Nancy gave a TEDxTalk on the impact of WWII on women’s clothing called, “Make Do and Mend”.

ADRIANA LEMKE (Intimacy/ Fight Director) is a Salt Lake City based theatre-artist and movement professional. Previous Salt Lake Acting Company productions include Sleeping Giant , Surely Goodness & Mercy , and The Wolves . Most recently, she was intimacy director for Head Over Heels (The Grand Theatre) and Man and the Moon (Good Company Theatre). Other fight direction credits include At the Bottom (Pinnacle Acting Company), Ion (The Classical Greek Theatre Festival), Twelfth Night (Salt Lake Shakespeare) Julius Caesar (UofU), Hamlet (Sun Valley Shakespeare).

MICHAEL HOREJSI (Set Designer)

Is an Associate Professor in the Performing Arts Design Program in the Department of Theatre at The University of Utah. He has an MFA in

WHO’S WHO

Design and Technical Theatre from The University of Minnesota. Michael is happy to be designing again for SLAC, where he has done various Scenic, Lighting, and Media designs beginning with 2016’s Saturday’s Voyeur. He has extensive National and International Touring experience with Arena and Theater Shows, as well as sporting spectaculars such as The NBA All Star Jam Session, and The USA Swimming Olympic Trials. Michael has worked as a technician, artisan, and designer for theatres including; Oregon Festival of American Music, The Guthrie Theatre, The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, The Great American History Theatre, and others.

JOSEPH KILLIAN (Sound Designer) holds a B.F.A. in sound design and stage management from the University of Utah and currently serves as the SLAC’s sound engineer. In addition to event management, Mr. Killian is a free-lance designer of sound effects, soundscapes and arranged music for film, video games and the performing arts. His work has been heard in a variety of venues, including Kingsbury Hall, Utah PrideFest, Utah Arts Festival, Plan-B, The Grand Theatre, the Edinburgh Festival and Utah Lyric Opera.

SAMMEE JACKMAN (Assistant Director) has called the Salt Lake Valley home for over 6 years now. They graduated with a Bachelors in Theatre from Idaho State University then began living in NYC stage managing various new works for Red Fern Theatre Company, Rabbithole Ensemble and Less Than Rent. They have recently worked with the Grand Theatre, Plan B, Salt Lake Fringe, Good Company and Egyptian YouTheatre. They also can be seen as a local drag artist, clown and producer at various downtown venues.

JENNIE SANT* (Production Stage Manager/Production Manager) Has been at Salt Lake Acting Company for over 10 years. During that decade she has stage managed over 30 shows,

including NPSS readings and SLAC’s Playwrights Lab. She is pleased to be working on Sleeping Giant. Previous shows include SLACabaret: Down the Rabbit Hole, Passing Strange, Egress, Elephant & Piggie’s “We are in a Play!”, SLACabaret 2021, and Alabaster. Upcoming shows include Hairy & Sherri Other credits include Gold Mountain (Golden Spike 150), Thriller (Odyssey Dance Company), Wonderland and Princess Wendy (The Petite Palace), Annie (COPA Theatre), Next To Normal, Les Misérables, The Producers, Paint Your Wagon, Doubt, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Foreigner, and Vertical Hour (Pioneer Theatre Company). She has also worked for Salt Lake Shakespeare and Utah Contemporary Theatre.

CYNTHIA FLEMING (Executive

Artistic Director) has been on the administrative staff at Salt Lake Acting Company since 1998. During this time, she has overseen multiple departments including Marketing, Communications, Development, Production, and Audience Services. In 2015, Cynthia was named to her current role as Executive Artistic Director. Prior to arriving at Salt Lake Acting Company, Cynthia performed in the Broadway, National, and International companies of the original run of A Chorus Line, directed by Michael Bennett. Cynthia remains a working artist in the theatre and continues to direct and choreograph works both at SLAC and elsewhere. Those credits include SLACabaret 2021, Silent Dancer, Saturday’s Voyeur (16 years as Choreographer, 7 as Director/ Choreographer), Bat Boy, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, as well as guest directing the MFA Playwrights’ Workshop—a partnership with the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival, Stanford University, and the National New Play Network. She has also served as a visiting professor for the University of Utah’s Musical Theatre program. Outside of her theatre-related pursuits, Cynthia is a member of the Women’s Democratic

Club of Utah, as well as 100 Women Who Care SLC. Cynthia is proud to serve SLAC and its mission to engage and enrich the community through brave, contemporary theatre.

SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY

(SLAC)’s mission is to engage and enrich the community through brave, contemporary theatre. Founded in 1970 by Edward Gryska, 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 an SPT Actors Equity Association contract and is a

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* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

** Lighting Designer is represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 of the IATSE.

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SLACabaret 2023

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World Premiere | July 12 - August 13, 2023

You bring the party, we will bring the play! Cabaret tables make their return for SLACabaret 2023 . Laughter and celebration will once again take center stage . Don’t miss it!

Subscriptions start for the rest of the season (2 more plays) start at just $63 . Student and 30/Under discounts available . Plus, accessible performance subscriptions are available: Closed Captioned, Sensory Friendly, Audio Described, and ASL Interpreted .

Tickets are on sale now! Get yours at the Box Office .

PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM FOR EMERGING ARTISTS

Through the Professional Theatre Program for Emerging Artists (PTP), SLAC provides opportunities for students and early-career theatre artists to gain meaningful, fully paid experience by integrating them into the production cycle. This production’s PTP participants are Sammee Jackman and Devin Losser.

“This program has given me a chance to discover my future artistic potential by providing me with mentors and peer support that I haven’t found anywhere else. I am grateful to be able to find new passions and friends in theatre and continue my growth here as an artist.”

– Sammee Jackman, PTP Assistant Director

Our thanks to the following funders for their generous support of this program:

Terence Kearns Stephens

Charitable Trust

The John and Marcia Price Family Foundation

B.W. Bastian Foundation

DevinLosser

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“Hairy & Sherri” was developed with PlySpace artist-in-residence program (supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts).

We are pleased to collaborate with long-time partner Art Access, who has curated the artwork in the Green Room Gallery. Art Access increases accessibility in the arts through opportunities for artists with disabilities and education for community and cultural organizations. Please take a look at the artwork at intermission or after the show.

During the run of Hairy & Sherri SLAC is proud to partner with Utah Foster Care. Please consider making a donation to this vital organization.

Cynthia Fleming

Executive Artistic Director

Joseph Paul Branca Latoya Cameron Director of Development Director of Communications Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Dramaturg

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John Downing Nick Fleming

Natalie Keezer

Accountant/Human Resources Director of Technology & Ticketing Accessibility Coordinator

Adriana Lemke Topher Rasmussen Jordan Reynosa Subscription Specialist Grants & Education Coordinator Audience Relationship Associate

Jennie Sant Cassie Stokes-Wylie Production Manager Literary Manager

Anna Blaes, Kallie Falinda, Chance Johnson -Kildee, Gracie Kilminster, Emily Kitterer, Em Smiley, Lucy Urquhart, Alix Walburn, Taylor Wallace, Nan Weber, Annette Wright Front of House Staff

Erik Reichert Marley Keith Construction Supervisor Lead Electrician

Daniel Garner

David Smith Assistant Lead Electrician Light Programmer

Tichelle Blaylock, Daniel Garner, Ivy Frampton, Marley Keith, Jake Watts Electricians

Joe Killian

Aaron Hoenig Sound Consultant/Engineer Sound Board Operator

Craig Davis, Olivia Ellison, Erik Reichert Carpenters

Grey Rung Scenic Painter

Tahra Veasley

Todd Collins Wardrobe Production Photographer

51st Season promotional artwork created by Courtney Blair

Salt Lake Acting Company’s mission is to engage and enrich community through brave, contemporary theatre.

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Michaela Buccola, Sundance Institute

Annie Fukushima, University of Utah

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FOR OUR AUDIENCE

Your presence at Salt Lake Acting Company is met with sincere gratitude. You make everything possible.

Tickets:

For tickets call the SLAC Box Office at 801-363-7522 or visit us online at SaltLakeActingCompany.org. Remote box office hours are Monday-Friday 11am-5pm, with extended hours and in-person availability during run of show.

Ticket Exchanges:

Season Subscribers can always exchange their tickets, and it’s free! Just call 801-363-7522.

Group Sales:

Discounts are available to groups of 10 or more. Call 801-363-7522 to discuss seating availability or email Natalie@SaltLakeActingCompany.org for your party. We’d love to take care of you and your friends.

Emergency Exits:

Please identify the exit closest to your seat in case of emergency.

ACCESSIBILITY

Late Patrons:

Late patrons will be seated by the House Manager during the first appropriate break.

Wheelchair Accessibility:

We offer various accessible accommodations, including: elevator access to the Upstairs Theatre, an ADA approved restroom in the lobby, four different accessible performances for each production, assisted listening devices, and more. For a full overview of our accessibility offerings, please visit SaltLakeActingCompany.org

The use of film, video or audio recording equipment in the theatre during a performance is expressly prohibited.

Please turn off all cell phones.

Salt Lake Acting Company is excited to announce our new accessibility accommodations! We are committed to ensuring accessibility for people with disabilities and removing all barriers to ensure our theatre is a welcoming space for every person .

Accessibility Considerations

• Assistive Listening Devices

• ASL-Interpreted Performances

• Closed Captioning

• Audio-Described Performances

• Sensory-Friendly Performances

• Digital Programs

• Accessible Seating and Restroom

• Support Animal Access

If you’d like to support our ongoing accessibility efforts, please make a contribution to The Amberlee Fund at the Box Office, by calling (801) 363-7522, or online at SaltLakeActingCompany.Org/Donate