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ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S “WE ARE IN A PLAY” Based on the Elephant & Piggie books by Mo Willems Published by Hyperion Books for Children Script and Lyrics by Mo Willems Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma Music Direction by George Fulginiti-Shakar Choreographed by Jessica Hartman Directed by Jerry Whiddon with Shinah Brashears, Christopher Michael Richardson, Jennie Lutz, Justine Icy Moral, and Caroline Wolfson

Dramaturg Megan Alrutz

Scenic Designer James Kronzer

Lighting Designer Kyle Grant

Sound Designer Associate Sound Designer Properties Artisan Elisheba Ittoop Justin Schmitz Pamela Weiner

Producing Director Kim Peter Kovac

Costume Designer Frank Labovitz Assistant Choreographer Elizabeth Crandall

Executive Producer Mario R. Rossero

Tour Technical Staff Production Stage Manager Technical Director/Lighting Supervisor Sound Supervisor/ATD Props and Wardrobe Supervisor

Becky Reed Gillian Wolpert Jessica McIlquham Tracey Fess

Bank of America is the Presenting Sponsor of Performances for Young Audiences and the National Sponsor of Theater for Young Audiences on Tour. Additional support for Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play! is provided by The Clark Charitable Foundation; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; and the U.S. Department of Education. Funding for Access and Accommodation Programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by Mike and Julie Connors and the U.S. Department of Education. Major support for educational programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by David and Alice Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program. Kennedy Center education and related artistic programming is made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts. Patrons are requested to turn off cell phones and other electronic devices during performances. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed.

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Meet the Cast (in order of appearance)

Gerald........................................................................................Christopher Michael Richardson Piggie....................................................................................... Shinah Brashears Squirrelle, Delivery Dog ...........................................................Caroline Wolfson* Squirrelle...........................................................................................................................Justine Icy Moral Squirrelle, Ice Cream Penguin ............................................................. Jennie Lutz Understudies ..............................................................................Ricky Drummond *Dance Captain.............................................................................. Julia Klavans The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

Please check houseboards for any program changes. This play was commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and was first produced at the Kennedy Center during the 2013–14 season. Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play! is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour is represented by Simon Shaw at Shaw Entertainment Group.

RAGAMALA DANCE COMPANY • NOVEMBER 12 • KINGSBURY HALL Ragamala Dance Company creates dance landscapes that dwell in opposition to find the transcendence that lies in between. The evening will begin with a showcase of Salt Lake’s own talented Bharatanatyam dancers, including ChitraKaavya Dance and Nitya Nritya Dance Company, followed by Sacred Earth, Ragamala co-Artistic Directors Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy’s singular vision of the beautiful, fragile relationship between nature and man.

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Meet the Cast Shinah Brashears (Piggie) is absolutely thrilled to be touring around the country playing a pig! She has made Minneapolis her theater home for the last couple of years and has been seen in productions at The Guthrie, Theater Latte Da and 7th House. Favorite roles include Dainty June/ Agnes (Gypsy), Zaneeta Shinn (The Music Man), Little Red/ Lucinda (Into the Woods) and Cecily Cardew (The Importance of Being Earnest). You may have also seen her in a Hormel Chili commercial or two. A large thank you and I love you to Jordan and Darci.

and I; Constellation Theatre Company: Avenue Q (Helen Hayes Nominee), Journey To The West; Imagination Stage: The Little Mermaid, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (Helen Hayes Award), Peter Pan and Wendy, Double Trouble; Adventure Theatre MTC: What’s a Wolf to Do; Kennedy Center: Children of Eden in Concert. TV/Film: Lifetime Channel’s “Twisted Fate” (Ep. Shattered Truth, Point of No Return). Justine graduated with a B.M. from the Johns Hopkins University Peabody Conservatory. Twitter /Instagram: Justineicymoral

Jennie Lutz (Squirrelle, Ice Cream Penguin) is thrilled to be performing in her first national tour with the Kennedy Center’s Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play! Most recently, Jennie was seen as The Enchantress in the original musical, The Little Mermaid, co-produced by Imagination Stage and The Washington Ballet. Favorite acting credits include: Oliver! (Adventure Theatre MTC~ Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding Ensemble); Honky Tonk Angels (Alhambra Theatre); Sister Act! (Riverside Theatre Center); Grease (Olney Theatre Center); Legally Blonde, RENT, Shrek, Cinderella & A Christmas Carol (Toby’s Dinner Theatre); The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Studio Theatre 2nd Stage); Nunsense (District Arts Collaborative); Breast in Show (Capitol Fringe). Jennie holds a BA in Music Theatre from American University and has worked in the D.C. area as an artist and educator for over 12 years; directing and/or choreographing more than 20 student and inclusive productions. www.jennielutz.com.

Christopher Michael Richardson (Elephant Gerald) is excited to be a part of this production of Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play! Selected regional credits include: Know Theatre of Cincinnati: Andy’s House of [blank]; Commonwealth Theatre: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Theory of Mind and A Christmas Carol; Olney Theatre Center: The Tempest; and he is also a proud member of National Players Tour 65. He dedicates his performance to his parents and his brother, who inspire him in new ways every day.

Justine Icy Moral (Squirrelle) is excited to be in Kennedy Center’s Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play! Tours: South Pacific and Les Miserables. NEW YORK: Joker’s Game (Reading). Regional credits include Dallas Summer Musicals: The King and I; Flatrock Playhouse: Miss Saigon; Olney Theatre Center: The King ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S “WE ARE IN A PLAY”

Caroline Wolfson (Squirrelle, Delivery Dog, Dance Captain). D.C. AREA: Theatre J: The Sisters Rosensweig; The Kennedy Center: Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play! (u/s); Signature Theatre: The Fix, Cabaret (u/s), Cloak and Dagger (u/s); Keegan Theatre: Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight, Hair; Imagination Stage: 101 Dalmatians, Lyle the Crocodile (u/s); Unexpected Stage: Dani Girl; Scena Theatre: Salome; Red Branch Theatre Company: Pinocchio; Washington Savoyards: The Rocky Horror Show; UPCOMING: Theater J: The Sisters Rosensweig; EDUCATION: Syracuse University, B.F.A. Musical Theatre. Ricky Drummond (u/s Gerald) is excited to be back at the Kennedy Center

Meet the Cast after previously understudying the last production of Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play!, as well as Flowers Stink! A proud JMU grad, some of his favorite credits include American Idiot and Dogfight (Keegan), Pirates of Penzance (Toby’s Dinner Theater). As a director, Ricky has worked at Signature Theatre, The Hub, and Keegan (upcoming). As a playwright, his musical, Still Alive, has been read at NextStop and The Kennedy Center. Love to my friends and family for being the bestest! Julie Klavans (u/s Piggie, Squirelles) is thrilled to make her Kennedy Center TYA debut! D.C. Theatre: Guys and Dolls, Olney Theatre Center; Jumanji, Adventure Theatre MTC; Absolutely! Perhaps, Constellation Theatre; The Oregon Trail, Flying V Theatre; (a love story), Source Festival. Regional Theatre: Living on Love, Williamstown Theatre Festival; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. Julia is a proud graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts and University of Maryland, College Park. www.juliaklavans.weebly.com. Actor’s Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our society. actorsequity.org.

Music Theatre International (www. mtishows.com) is one of the world’s leading dramatic licensing agencies, protecting the rights and legacies of composers, lyricists, and book writers. MTI’s core business is issuing licenses, scripts, musical materials, and dynamic theatrical resources to schools as well as amateur and professional theaters across the globe. With more than 400 classic and contemporary show titles from Broadway, Off- Broadway, and London’s West End, MTI shows have been performed by 60,000 theatrical organizations in the United States and in more than 60 countries worldwide. MTI is dedicated to the idea of theater as education and has created special collections for younger audiences. The Broadway Junior Collection features 70-minute adaptations of major musicals designed for middle school children to perform; the KIDS Collection, provides 30-minute musicals for performance by elementary school children; School Editions are musicals that have been annotated for performance by high school students; and the Theatre For Young Audiences Collection features 70-minute musicals designed for adults to perform for children.

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Meet the Artistic Team Mo Willems (Playwright), a No. 1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, is best known for his Caldecott Honor picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. His Elephant and Piggie early reader series have consistently topped the New York Times bestseller lists, been translated into numerous languages, and have been awarded two Theodor Geisel Medals and five Geisel Honors since debuting in 2007. Mr. Willems began his career as a writer and animator for Sesame Street (PBS), where he garnered six Emmy Awards for writing. His television career includes creating The Off-Beats (Nickelodeon) and Sheep in the Big City (Cartoon Network), and serving as head writer for Codename: Kids Next Door (Cartoon Network). Since leaving television he has continued to produce short animated films based on his books that have won numerous awards in festivals around the world. As a performer, Mr. Willems has appeared at numerous venues including the San Francisco Sketchfest, BBC Radio, and NPR. His first play, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical, also a Kennedy Center commission, was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for best new play. A retrospective exhibit of his picture book art, Seriously Silly: the Art and Whimsy of Mo Willems, was on view at the High Museum in Atlanta through January of 2016. The exhibit will be remounted at the New York Historical Society in the spring of 2016 for an extended run. Mr. Willems is honored to be working with the Kennedy Center again for this production. Banana! (www. mowillems.com) Deborah Wicks La Puma (Music) is a composer, music director, and orchestrator. Her work for adults and children has been seen by thousands around the world, from Australia to Bahrain to the East Room of the White House, enjoying both popular and critical success. She also worked with Mo Willems on the world premiere of Knuffle ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S “WE ARE IN A PLAY”

Bunny: A Cautionary Musical at the Kennedy Center. Her other works for young audiences include the upcoming Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences premiere of OLIVÉRio: A Brazilian Twist (with Karen Zacarías), Frida Libre (La Jolla Playhouse), Ferdinand the Bull (based on the book by Munro Leaf), Chasing George Washington: A White House Adventure (Kennedy Center), Einstein Is a Dummy (Alliance Theatre) with playwright Karen Zacarías, and Nobody’s Perfect (based on the book by Marlee Matlin) with Doug Cooney, a musical in English and American Sign Language, commissioned by VSA and the Kennedy Center. Her awards include the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts’ New American Works Grant, two Parents’ Choice Awards, an iParenting Media Award, and two Helen Hayes nominations for Outstanding New Play. A proud Mexican- American who speaks Spanish and Portuguese, she is also a member of the board of directors of TYA USA/ASSITEJ International, ASCAP, and the Dramatist Guild. Jerry Whiddon (Director). Former producing artistic director/founding member, Round House Theatre and Street 70 Theatre. Acted, directed, and taught in D.C. and NYC. Recent directing credits: Guys and Dolls (Olney Theatre); Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol, Give a Pig a Pancake, and The Night Before Christmas (Adventure Theatre); Belle of Amherst (Bay Theatre); Nixon’s Nixon, Orson’s Shadow, and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Round House); and Speed the Plow and Lost in Yonkers (Theatre J). Some favorite roles: Seagull on 16th Street (Trigorin), Blackbird (Ray), A Body of Water (Moss), Tabletop (Marcus), Wintertime (Francois), and Underneath the Lintel (solo). Film, television, radio, narration, voiceover: Heart and Soul – Biography of Frank Loesser, The Wire, An American Affair, My One and Only, A Woman Named Jackie (NBC), The Pelican Brief, On The Block (Yeager Films), and Parade of Witnesses (PBS). All My

Meet the Artistic Team Sons, American Appetites, and A Lesson Before Dying for VOA/LA Theatre Works. Coaching in the corporate world. Teaching: University of Maryland, Catholic University, George Mason University, and Round House. Love to Jean, Amelia, Hannah…they are the center, and the center holds. Jessica Hartman (Choreographer) is thrilled to return to the world of Mo Willems. On Broadway, she served as the Associate Choreographer for Lysistrata Jones and was the Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain and swing for The Boy From Oz, starring Hugh Jackman. She recently choreographed Mamma Mia! at The Muny as well as creating new shows for Norwegian Creative Studios on the Oceania Sirena and Regatta. Off-Broadway/NY credits: Waterfall, Somewhere in Time, Showtune, Citizen Ruth, Break Out in Song (Director/ Choreographer). Other choreography credits include Hairspray and Seussical (CoChoreographer/The Muny), Elephant and Piggie: We Are In A Play (Kennedy Center/ National Tour), West Side Story and Beaches (Associate/Signature Theatre), Next to Normal (Choreographer/Centerstage), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Assistant/Arena Stage), and Carousel (Assistant/Goodspeed). Ms. Hartman is the Artistic Director of Broadway Theatre Connection (BTC), bringing unparalleled musical theater training to cities around the United States. Love and gratitude to my husband, Jason, my parents Frank and Stephanie and my biggest fan, EHL. Up next: H2$ at TUTS and BTC St. Louis! www. BroadwayTheatreConnection.com George Fulginiti-Shakar (Music Director) joyfully returns to the Theater for Young Audiences where he worked on Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Other area productions include Lulu and the Brontosaurus and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Imagination Stage); The Rocky Horror Show and Grey Gardens (Studio Theatre); 1776 (Ford’s Theatre); The Boys from Syracuse and Two Gentlemen

from Verona (concert productions at the Shakespeare Theatre); Oklahoma! (Arena Stage, Helen Hayes Award); and Cabaret (Arena Stage, Helen Hayes Award). Mr. Fulginiti-Shakar teaches at the Theatre Lab and the Studio Conservatory. He is chair of the board of the D.C. Cabaret Network and a founding member of the Alliance for New Music-Theatre. James Kronzer (Set Designer) has designed scenery for numerous Kennedy Center TYA productions, and his work has been seen at virtually every theater in the D.C. area. Credits include Broadway, Off-Broadway, Denver Center, Portland Center Stage, Delaware Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Rep, St. Louis Rep, San Diego Rep, and Arden Theatre. National Tours: The Wizard of Oz, Thomas the Tank, Backyardigans, Barbie Live! In Fairytopia, Seussical the Musical. He also designed scenery for Disney Cruise Lines and Norwegian Cruise Lines. Television credits include numerous specials for Comedy Central, EPIX, and Netflix. He is a member of United Scenic Artists. Frank Labovitz (Costume Designer) is very excited to be a part of this production of Elephant & Piggie! Previous design credits for young audiences include: Lyle the Crocodile, Suessical and Junie B. Jones: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells for Imagination Stage; A Lump of Coal for Christmas and Goodnight Moon for Adventure Theatre; Gimme a Band, Gimme a Banana, Mark Twain’s Riverboat Extravaganza and Sleeping Beauty: a Puppet Ballet for Pointless Theatre Company. Frank is based in Washington, DC. Kyle Grant (Lighting Designer). Regional Theater: Jason Invisible (John F. Kennedy Center), West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre), Mary Poppins, Urinetown, Oliver! (Cabrillo Stage), The Washington Ballet, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Theater J, Lakota Dance Theater (National Tour), Theater UTAHPRESENTS.ORG

Meet the Artistic Team Alliance, Keegan Theater, Rochester University. Broadway: Assistant designer for Stickfly. Other: The Juilliard School, The Washington Opera, Martha Graham Dance Co., Trinity Rep, BAM NYC, Intermezzo Dance Co., TedTalks. Awards: L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase, Opera America 2015. Member: United Scenic Artists. www.kylegrant.net Elisheba Ittoop (Sound Designer). Her designs and original music have been heard at the Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Women’s Project, National Gallery of Art, Soho Rep, Triad Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Trinity Repertory, LaMaMa, 59E59, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Bonnaroo Music Festival, and the Center for Puppetry Arts. Ms. Ittoop was a resident sound designer at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center for the 2010 and 2011 National Playwrights Conferences, recipient of the Kenan Fellowship at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and winner of the 2008 USITT Rising Star Award. Education: NYU and North Carolina School of the Arts. www. elishebaittoop.com. For Alan. Justin Schmitz (Associate Sound Designer). Justin’s work has been featured at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Signature Theatre, Theater J, The Forum Theater, Dixon Place Theater, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Triad Stage, numerous education venues, and many other regional locations. Fellowships include: The Chautauqua Theatre Company (2013), The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to attend The Orchard Project (2011), and to work with Theater J in DC (2015-2016). Justin holds an MFA from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Wisconsin – La Crosse. Visit: www.justinschmitztheatre.com for more information.

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Pamela Weiner (Properties Artisan) is thrilled to be working with the Kennedy Center’s Theater for Young Audiences again. Previous work includes The Gift of Nothing and Orphie and the Book of Heroes. When not at the Kennedy Center, Ms. Weiner is the assistant prop master at Signature Theatre. Beth Crandall (Assistant Choreographer). Recent assistant/associate choreography includes 1776 at NY City Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2016 Gala: Jazz and Broadway, My Fair Lady and West Side Story at the St Louis MUNY, the West Side Story 2nd National Tour, and the independent film Le Pain. She is the associate director/ choreographer for the annual Christmas show Miracles. As a performer Beth has danced on Broadway, on national/ international tours, and at leading regional theaters. She earned her BFA from NYU. Michelle Kozlak (Casting Director), in her tenth season as casting director, is responsible for casting the Kennedy Center’s Theater for Young Audiences productions, as well as the New Visions/New Voices new play festival. In addition to her work with the Kennedy Center, she has also served as the casting director for the VSA Playwrights Discovery Program productions (2008–11), and a casting consultant for the NSO Pops Showboat Concert, as well as the National Gallery of Art’s productions of Who’s in the Hopper and Forward, 54th! Prior to her work as a casting director, she was the national touring coordinator for the Kennedy Center’s Theater for Young Audiences and manager of theater programming. Ms. Kozlak is currently working as a freelance casting director in the Washington, D.C., area and is the producing artistic director and founder of Arts on the Horizon, a nonprofit theater company for children ages 0–6 in Alexandria, Virginia.

Meet the Touring Company Becky Reed (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with the Kennedy Center again. Previous Kennedy Center credit: The Cerulean Time Capsule (with the US Botanic Garden). Other DC-area credits include: PSM: Olney Theatre Center: Marjorie Prime, I And You; Rorschach Theatre: She Kills Monsters, A Maze; Spooky Action Theater & machina eX: Happy Hour; and many shows as ASM at Theater J, Opera Lafayette, Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and others. Becky has a BFA in Theater Management from Auburn University and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Gillian Wolpert (Technical Director/ Lighting Supervisor). Originally from Toronto, Gillian has served as lighting designer for New York Theatre Workshop, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Blessed Unrest, Zoetic Dance, Hartt Dances, Strike Anywhere and many others and has toured with The Acting Company, Sean Curran Dance Company, Joffrey Ballet Concert Group, and numerous other dance and theater projects. Her work has garnered a Guthrie award for her contributions to Canada’s Stratford Festival and a Jessie Richardson nomination for her design of The Unexpected Man in Vancouver. www.gillianwolpert.com.

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Meet the Touring Company Jessica McIlquham (Sound Technician/ATD) is excited to be a part of the Kennedy Center’s Elephant and Piggie: We Are In A Play! She is a stage manager, actress, sound engineer, composer, and musician based in Brooklyn NY, and was touring and recording with her band Beacon James from 2007 to 2015, playing venues like the Chicago Hard Rock Cafe, 7th Street Entry, and The New Earth Barn, and participating in the Volume One Backstage and Sounds Like Summer concert series. She has released three albums and two singles to date. Favorite theater credits include Into The Woods (Baker’s Wife), Once Upon A Mattress

(Winnifred), and Candide (Ensemble). Vlah! www.jessicamcilquham.com. Tracey Fess (Props and Wardrobe Supervisor). Credits include Off Broadway: Bedbugs!!! It’s a musical, Piece Of My Heart, Old Jews Telling Jokes. Tour: 50 Shades the musical parody, Girls Night the musical. New York: NYMF 2014 & 2015, The Last Seder, Promising. Regional: Ocean State Theatre Company 42nd Street, Miracle on 34th Street the musical, Les Misérables.

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Education at the Kennedy Center The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the national champion for arts learning and creativity. Committed to increasing opportunities for all people to participate in, learn about, and understand the arts, the Center offers programs and events that strive to reflect the nation, its communities, and that are accessible and inclusive for all. From performances and exhibits on the Center’s stages and in the community, to classroom and community partnerships, to online resources accessible nearly anywhere, the Center serves the burgeoning artist, the exploring student of any age, the teacher and teaching artist, and even the local and national infrastructure—any person interested in arts learning and utilizing the arts for positive change. The breadth of the Center’s national education programs include: Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child, which works with 23 municipalities and their school districts around the country to develop a long-range strategic plan for arts education; ARTSEDGE, an online resource offering standardsbased materials for use in and out of the classroom; Partners in Education forges relationships between an arts organization and its neighboring school systems to build effective arts education programs for teachers and teaching artists; Explore the Arts provides insight into the cultural and historical context of the works presented on stage and sparks dialogue between audiences and the artists who have created the performances through participatory workshops, demonstrations, panels, master classes, and open rehearsals; the Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards acknowledges teachers of grades K–12 whose efforts have made a significant impact on their students; Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour brings original Kennedy Center productions for students and families into communities and performing arts centers around the country; and in 2016 the Center and the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities announced a strategic partnership to bring the Turnaround Arts initiative to the Center, which empowers high-need, low-performing schools with innovative arts programming and resources to help address broader school challenges and close the achievement gap. The Center’s locally based programs serve educators and students with Changing Education Through the Arts, a program that works with seven schools in the area to affect long-term change in school culture through professional learning in arts integration; professional development opportunities for teachers trains educators to teach the arts or other subject areas through the arts; and Washington, D.C., partnership schools, where the Center provides resources and teaching artist residencies to 22 K–12 schools. Additionally, 100-plus events and performances throughout the season are offered for more than 100,000 local school-aged children. As the national performing arts center and a convener of arts and education leaders, its programming also draws from the resources of National Symphony Orchestra, The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, VSA (the international arts and disability organization), Washington National Opera, and the Performances for Young Audiences series. Believing in the fundamental need to nurture young artists’ growth, the Center offers multiple skill and development programs for students and professionals both locally and nationally including the National Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Fellowship Program, Summer Music Institute, and High School Competition; Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, Opera Institute, and Kids Create Opera Partnership; the biennial New Visions/New Voices forum for development of new plays for young people; Exploring Ballet with Suzanne Farrell; Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead; VSA’s Playwright Discovery Program, Young Soloists, and Visual Arts programs; arts administration internships; and the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, which impacts hundreds of thousands of collegeaged theater students across the country and marks its 49th anniversary in 2017. As an essential component of the living memorial to President Kennedy, the Center’s education division utilizes the arts to embrace the ideals of service, justice, freedom, courage, and gratitude, and to activate and support the Citizen Artists in all our audiences. For more information, please visit kennedy-center.org/education/.

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UTAHPRESENTS ADVISORY BOARD Krista Sorenson, Chair Margaret Billings Bill Bireley Havilah Clarke Troy D’Ambrosio Michael Feehan Mike Ferro

Jake Garn Don Gale Dave Gessel Marian Ingham Ti Kinikini David Kirby Geoffrey Mangum

Robert Mansfield Lori McDonald Chrissy Micek Alice Steiner R. Kyle Treadway Raymond Tymas-Jones

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Meet the Staff STAFF FOR Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play!

KENNEDY CENTER STAFF FOR Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play!

Associate Scenic Designers...........................Jeremy W. Foil Paige Hathaway Assistant to the Lighting Designer.................. Gillian Wolpert Director, Programming for Young Audiences ...................................Kim Peter Kovac Artistic Associate, Programming for Young Audiences .......................................Gregg Henry Manager, Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences (KCTYA)........................ David Kilpatrick Program Coordinator, KCTYA............ Rebecca M. Podsednik Program Assistant, KCTYA................................ Meg Lowey Production Managers......................Owen Burke, Jeffrey Hill Kennedy Center Photographer ........................ Teresa Wood

Senior Vice President of Artistic Planning....................................... Robert Van Leer Senior Vice President of Operations.................. Ellery Brown Vice President, Production .............................. Glenn Turner Senior Manager of Production............ Deirdre Kelly Lavrakas Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales...................................... David Kitto Advertising Creative Manager........................ Scott Bushnell Advertising Services Manager.......................... Suanne Hall Senior Marketing Manager.............................. Monica Holt Marketing Manager.................................... Steven Dawson Director of Ticketing Services............................ Tom Jackson Subscriptions Manager................................ Jennifer Ellerbe Instant Charge Manager................................... Arthur Scott Vice President, Public Relations.....................Eileen Andrews Senior Press Representative for Theater and Education............................ Brendan Padgett Senior Vice President of Development............. Marie Mattson Director of Designated Campaigns....................Donna Cutro Director of Individual Campaigns....................... Leslie Miller Director of Special Events................................Lindsey Ruehl Vice President, Institutional Affairs and Assistant Secretary of the Board...................... Kathy Kruse Vice President, Dance and International Programming...........................Alicia Adams General Counsel...........................................Maria Kersten Assistant General Counsel................................Emily Sexton Assistant General Counsel..............................JoEllen Dinges Senior Vice President of Education..............Mario R. Rossero Vice President, Community Engagement............... Garth Ross Chief Finance Officer.........................................Lynne Pratt Controller........................................................ Carrie Rose Budget Director............................................. John J. Hance Manager of Payroll.........................................Lee Caldwell Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Technology............. Nicole Weaver Chief Human Resources Officer.......................Franci Phelan

The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. The choreographer is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S “WE ARE IN A PLAY”

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