JANUARY 21 – MARCH 23, 2025 STIEMKE STUDIO
You are invited to help Milwaukee Rep power to the finish of its once-in-a-generation capital campaign to build its state-of-the-art new home.
Make your gift today to name a seat in the new Associated Bank Theater Center. Pledges can be paid over a period of up to five years.
Choose from these options:
• Ellen & Joe Checota Powerhouse Theater
$15,000 – VIP Circle
$10,000 – Orchestra
$5,000 – Balcony
• Herro-Franke Studio Theater - $5,000
• Stackner Cabaret - $5,000
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• Honor a loved one or your entire family
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For more information and to make a gift to name a seat, follow the link below or contact Chuck Rozewicz, Chief Development Officer at crozewicz@milwaukeerep.com or 414-290-0717. Naming opportunities for public venues in the new theater center are also available starting at $100,000. To learn more, visit: www.MilwaukeeRep.com/TakeASeat
Mark Clements
Artistic Director Chad Bauman Executive Director
Ellen & Joe Checota Present
Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt
Directed by Robin Herford
Produced by PW Productions and Pemberley Productions
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Sound Designer Sebastian Frost
Stage Manager Kayleigh Laymon*
Lighting Designer Anshuman Bhatia
Vision Productions Imogen Finlayson General Managers Tim Smith and Annie Shea Graney for Pemberley Productions
Company Stage Manager Neil Hillyer Production Manager Anshuman Bhatia
JANUARY 21 – MARCH 23, 2025 | STIEMKE STUDIO
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Visit Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel for a pre-show dinner, then return for drinks and live music. Or, just stay the night. Either way, the fun doesn’t have to end after curtain close.
CAST
The roles of Arthur Kipps and The Actor are shared between three actors in rep.
Arthur Kipps..................................................................................................................................David Acton
Arthur Kipps / The Actor...................................................................................................................Ben Porter
The Actor...................................................................................................................................Mark Hawkins
PRODUCTION SUPPORT
For Pemberley Productions:
General Managers..........................................................Tim Smith, Doreen Sayegh, & Annie Shea Graney
Associate General Manager........................................................................................................Terri Kohler
Technical Advisor...............................................................................Luke Ricca, What IF We Productions
Immigration Consultant..............................................................................................Elise-Ann Konstantin Stage Management Resident.........................................................................................................Jessica Krol Line Producer.........................................................................................................................Jonathan Hetler
The Woman in Black will be performed with one 20-minute intermission.
The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.
SPECIAL THANKS
Thanks to the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, UK, Jon Huyton, Iain Gillie, Janice Taylor, and Brad Fitt.
Milwaukee Repertory Theater 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. The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE and our stagehands and carpenters are members of Milwaukee Theatrical Stage Employees’ Union IATSE Local 18. Milwaukee Rep is an equal opportunity employer. Milwaukee Rep is proud to be a member of The United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF), which provides major annual financial support.
FEB. 25 TO MARCH 30
By William Shakespeare
Get swept away by forbidden romance and heart-pounding passion in this refreshing adaptation of the most celebrated love story of all time. Shakespeare’s star-crossed couple soars to new heights as they risk everything for the joy of being together.
APRIL 22 TO MAY 24
Featuring songs like “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Fever,” “Walk the Line,” and more, don’t miss this irresistible tale of broken promises, secrets, and celebration that is both heartwarming and hilarious in this award-winning smash-hit musical.
David Acton Arthur Kipps
David played Arthur Kipps in The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre in London’s West End, on tour across the UK, in New York, Princeton and Phoenix. For the Royal Shakespeare Company: Macbeth, The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, The Constant Couple, The Man of Mode, The Love of the Nightingale, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, Henry V, Edward III, Eastward Ho!, and The Roman Actor. Theatre also includes: The Two Popes (Frankfurt English Theatre), Gaslight (The Mill at Sonning); A Day By The Sea (Southwark Playhouse); Jane Wenham the Witch of Walkern (Out of Joint); Richard II (Palace of Westminster and Arcola). A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Henry V and Twelfth Night (Propeller); Anjin: The Shogun and the Samurai (Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama and London Sadler’s Wells); The League of Youth, Vertigo, Burial at Thebes and I Have Been Here Before (Nottingham Playhouse); Relatively Speaking and Copenhagen (Newbury Watermill); The Dark Things (Edinburgh Traverse); Richard II (The Old Vic); Much Ado About Nothing (Peter Hall Company); Jason and the Argonauts, Sabbat and Peter Pan (Lancaster Dukes); The Man From the Sleepy Lagoon (oneman show). TV includes: Call The Midwife, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Emmerdale, 14 Diaries of the Great War, 18 Clash of Futures, Downton Abbey, Doctors, Hostage (Fire in the Desert), EastEnders, Silent Witness, Passage, Hollyoaks, Tchaikovsky, The Bill, Blair on Trial, Class of ’76, Casanova’s Love Letters, Fooling Hitler, The Wyvern Mystery, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Casualty. Film includes: The Squadron, For Grace, After Death, Volume, Persuasion. He has been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company.
Mark Hawkins
The Actor
Mark trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: The Wind in the Willows (Queens Hall/Alnwick Playhouse); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (UK tour); The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre and UK & Ireland Tour); The Railway Children (Kings Cross Theatre); Muted (The Bunker); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Middle Temple Hall); Richard II (The Actors Church); Whose Blood (The Old Operating Theatre); The Witch of Edmonton (The Courtyard Theatre); The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (international tour); Julius Caesar (Globe Theatre). Television includes: Joan (ITVX); The Nevers (HBO); Vera (ITV).
Ben Porter
Arthur Kipps / The Actor
Ben is proud to be the first ever actor to play both roles in The Woman in Black. He was nominated for a Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance in New York in 2020 for this production of The Woman in Black. Highlights from theatre includes For the National Theatre: The Invention of Love, The Heiress, An Enemy of the People (also the Ahmanson Theatre Los Angeles), 1984 (West End/US Tour/Melbourne), The Indian Queen (Opera de Lille, France), Bedroom Farce, Ten Times Table and Improbable Fiction (Mill at Sonning Theatre), Boeing Boeing (Manchester Theatre Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor). Orwell: A Celebration (Trafalgar Studios), Restoration (Salisbury Playhouse), The Fall Guy (Manchester Royal Exchange) Bedroom Farce (UK Tour), Macbeth (English Touring Theatre), The Tempest (Liverpool Playhouse), Beckett and What the Butler Saw (West End), Noises Off, and Rookery Nook (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), Happy Yet (Gate Theatre), Bodies (Live Theatre, Newcastle), Doctor Faustus, Frankenstein,
Sauce For The Goose and On The Razzle (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), Ben has also worked extensively with Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough: including Time of My Life, Absurd Person Singular, Communicating Doors, and Arrivals and Departures, (also 59E59 New York). TV includes: Survival of the Fittest, Manchild, Casualty, The Bill, Westbeach, Covington Cross, Crossroads, Side By Side, Hot Stuff. Film credits include: The Circle: Awakening, Rupert, Rupert and Rupert, School for Seduction, Young Blades.
CREATIVE TEAM
Susan Hill
Author
Susan Hill was born in Scarborough and educated at grammar schools there and in Coventry, and took her English degree at King’s College London. Her best-known books, apart from The Woman in Black, are the novels I’m the King of the Castle, Strange Meeting and In the Springtime of the Year. Her books have won the Whitbread Fiction Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has also written non-fiction and children’s books, and been a regular reviewer of books for numerous national newspapers and journals and broadcast regularly. Her most recent books are a trilogy of crime novels featuring Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler: The Various Haunts of Men, The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness. The series has been bought for television adaptation. Susan Hill lives in a farmhouse in rural Gloucestershire from where she runs her own small publishing company, Long Barn Books. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Sir Stanley Wells and has two adult daughters. Of her fiction, Susan Hill writes: “I was born on the north-east coast of Yorkshire, in the beautiful town of Scarborough, in a snowbound February during the Second World War. There were a good many old ladies living there in those days but there never seemed to be any children near to us, so that I spent a lot of my time on my own. But quite contentedly so. I had
imaginary friends and I made up stories about them. As soon as I could, I wrote them down. So there was never a time in my life when I was not a writer. And so it has gone on. At school, between work for O and A levels, I wrote two novels, which were published when I was at university reading English. They were very bad novels, my apprentice work, and they are out of print - but they were the best I could do at the time. It took me some years to find my real voice, and meanwhile, I lived from hand to mouth as a freelance book reviewer, and always, I read, not just the new books, but the things I had grown up with - Dickens, Hardy, the Brontës, everything with atmosphere and a sense of place.” Susan Hill was awarded a CBE in the 2012 Queen’s birthday and diamond jubilee honours.
www.susan-hill.com
Stephen Mallatratt Playwright
June 15, 1947 - November 22, 2004. Stephen wrote his early plays while working as an actor in Alan Ayckbourn’s Scarborough company. Several of these were produced and directed by Ayckbourn at Scarborough, and commissions from other theatres followed. Comic Cuts was written for the contact theatre in Manchester and won the Thames TV Theatre Writers award, and after many regional British productions, culminated ten years later in the West End – retitled as The Glory of the Garden. In addition to original plays he wrote adaptations of books for both TV and theatre – including Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, and Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca. His television work included The Innocents for YTV, and he adapted the Forsyte Saga for Granada. The Woman in Black is now in its 30th year at the Fortune Theatre in the West End, and in its 9th year at the Rafael Solaria theatre in Mexico. It has been translated into at least 12 languages and performed at the last count in 41 countries.
Robin Herford Director
Robin read Philosophy and English at the University of St Andrews, and trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Much of Robin’s early career was involved with Sir Alan Ayckbourn, and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, first as an actor, then as Associate Director and finally a stint as Artistic Director. He has appeared in the original production of more Ayckbourn plays than any other actor, including the enormous 16 play two-hander Intimate Exchanges, performing both in Scarborough and the West End. He is often asked to direct Alan’s plays, and has notched up over 30 productions of them, both in the UK and abroad. His most successful production started life in Scarborough. The Woman in Black, which he commissioned and directed in 1987, has been running in London for over thirty years, and has completed 12 UK tours. Directing, and occasionally performing in this play, has taken him, among other places, to Japan, USA, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. He now directs much more than he acts, varying his choice of play and venue as much as possible. The last two productions he directed were Stray Dogs, a new play about Stalin and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova at the Park Theatre in London, and a new version of The Woman in Black at McKittrick’s Hotel in New York, where it won Best Revival in the Off-Broadway Alliance Awards.
Antony Eden Associate Director
Antony is an award-winning actor, director and producer from the UK. He started acting professionally at nine years old and, since then, he has worked in theatre predominantly as an actor, but also as a stage manager, fight director, lighting designer, director and producer. The first play he staged, at the age of 15, was an amateur production of The Woman in Black, in which he also played the part of the Actor, after seeing the show in the West End. Since then he has played the part of the young actor in Robin Herford’s production over 1400 times in London, on UK tours, in
America and Asia. In 2016 Antony felt honored to be asked by Robin to become Associate Director on the play that kickstarted his love of theatre as a teenager, and has since overseen productions for Robin in USA, Australia and Japan. His directing/producing highlights include: Stray Dogs (Park Theatre, directed by Robin Herford); Killing Time (Park Theatre, UK tour and 59E59 Theater, New York); The Gathered Leaves (Park Theatre); Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Kiss of the Spider Woman (C venues, Edinburgh); Sweet Charity (Bloomsbury Theatre); Recent acting highlights include: Bedroom Farce (The Mill at Sonning); Family Album (SJT, for which he won “Best Supporting Performance in a Play or a Musical” at the UK Theatre Awards 2023); Welcome to the Family (The Old Laundry Theatre, Bowness); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace theatre, West End); A Brief History of Women, Taking Steps (Stephen Joseph Theatre and 59E59 Theater, New York); Television/Film credits include: Say Nothing (FX); Emmerdale (ITV); Derren Brown: Apocalypse (Channel 4); The Landlady, Kevin and Co and Kevin’s Cousins (BBC) and The Bill (Carlton).
Michael Holt Designer
An established and successful designer for drama, opera and ballet Michael has collaborated with leading arts companies around the world. He has been associated with playwright Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough for over 40 years where his numerous designs for this author/director include Way Upstream, Man of the Moment and the much-praised Othello with Michael Gambon. Michael has long associations with repertory companies and independent producers across the UK. West End credits include the long-running West End success The Woman in Black; Absurd Person Singular, Whitehall Theatre; The Glory of the Garden, Duke of York’s Theatre; Rough Justice, Apollo Theatre and June Moon, Vaudeville Theatre. International credits include productions in New York, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore and Norway and Austria. Opera productions
Charles Chung, M.D.
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Dr. Chung received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He provides a full range of general gynecologic services, low- and high-risk obstetrics, and GYN surgeries utilizing hysteroscopic, laparoscopic, and open approaches. Dr. Chung looks forward to starting a conversation, listening to your concerns, and working diligently to help meet your health care goals.
Erica Eggers, M.D.
Urogynecology
Dr. Eggers earned her medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. She is a member of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her areas of expertise include pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, accidental bowel leakage, pelvic and bladder pain, fistulas, and periurethral masses. Dr. Eggers strives to provide patient-centered care with a focus on improvement in quality of life for her patients.
include collaborations with the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen; the Avignon Festival, France; the Knokke Opera Festival, Belgium and The Brisbane Festival, Australia. He has written numerous books on stage design and critical survey of the plays of Alan Ayckbourn.
Anshuman Bhatia
Lighting Designer
Anshuman design’s for Opera, Theater, and Dance have been seen at Arena Stage, Austin Opera, Bard Music Festival, Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts, Chautauqua Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, Dublin’s Civic Theater, Hartford Stage, HERE Arts Center, Keen Company, Kentucky Opera, LoftOpera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Madison Opera, Opera Columbus, Opera Omaha, Opera San Jose, Pacific Symphony, Palm Beach Opera, Primary Stages Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Soho Rep, Atlantic Theater Company, The Juilliard School, The McKittrick Hotel, The Park Avenue Armory, The Public, Virginia Arts Festival, WP Theater, Writers Theatre | Member USA829 | M.F.A. NYU | www.bhatiadesign.com.
Sebastian Frost
Sound Designer
Theatre designs include: Billy Elliot (Royal Danish Opera), My Fair Lady (Leeds Playhouse), Branwen Dadeni (Frân Wen), Candide (WNO), A Little Night Music (Leeds Playhouse); The Last Ship (UK, USA and Canada); 170 Days in Nanjing (Nanjing Opera); Memoirs of a Sailor (Kuwait); Elekron (Macau); An Inspector Calls; Kiss Me, Kate (WNO); Jekyll & Hyde (The Old Vic Theatre); Monsieur Popular ( Theatre Royal, Bath); Queen Coal (Sheffield Crucible); White Christmas, Annie and A Christmas Carol (West Yorkshire Playhouse); operas for Buxton Opera Festival and Grange Park Opera; Calamity Jane (Watermill and UK tour); Drunk and The Witches (Curve Theatre); If Only (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington
Gardens); Decade (Headlong Theatre); Antony and Cleopatra (Liverpool Playhouse); Little Shop of Horrors (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); The Magic Flute (Duke of York’s Theatre); The Common Pursuit, Take Flight and Total Eclipse (Menier Chocolate Factory); Trainspotting (UK tour); Tonight’s the Night (Victoria Palace Theatre); The Bomb-itty of Errors (New Ambassadors); The Donkey Show (Café de Paris); The Mysteries (Queen’s Theatre); Boy Band (Gielgud Theatre); Kat and the Kings (Vaudeville Theatre, Broadway and Cape Town); Summer Begins (Donmar Theatre); The Colour of Justice (Victoria Palace Theatre). Other work includes: immersive sound design for Secret Cinema’s Star Wars; Star Trek, Thunderbirds Are Go, Lumiere Festival (Durham) and the Queen’s golden jubilee celebrations, and Sebastian is the designer for the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Sebastian trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 2008, he received the first ever Best Sound Design of a Musical Tony Award nomination for Sunday In The Park With George on Broadway.
Imogen Finlayson Vision Productions
Imogen trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (New York Company) and the Cours Florent (Paris). This is her fourth time playing the role of ‘the Vision’ having performed in New York and on tour. Recently she won Best Actress for her performance in The Reunion in the Lovesick Film Festival. Other recent credits include: Lucy Light (The New Stage Performance Space), Friends Lovers And Others (the Tank), Groundlings (Plainfield Performing Arts Center), Murder In The First (Soho Playhouse), The Art of Killin It (Future Proof), Nightmare Gothic (Teatro SEA), Caprices (film), Which Way to The Ivy Covered Well (Rochester Festival), Tamerlane (Poe Fest International), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Hermatige), John Wick Immersive Theatre Experience, The Richard Project, Star Spangled and many more.
Kayleigh Laymon Stage Manager
Kayleigh is primarily a stage manager and costumer living and working in NYC. Recent credits: The Merchant of Venice, Our Class (Arlekin Players, Company Manager) The Trial of Elizabeth Cree (University of Michigan, PSM), Brilliance (Industry Reading, PSM), The Creeps (Off-Broadway, PSM), Don Giovanni (University of Michigan, PSM), The Cunning Little Vixen (University of Michigan, PSM), Islander (Off-Broadway, PSM), Radamisto (Philharmonia Baroque, ASM), The Woman in Black (San Francisco Tour, PSM) Lost Immersive (Director) The Speakeasy SF (PSM). She also designs and builds costumes, in addition to being a painter. You can find some of her artwork on Instagram @kayleigh.laymon.
Neil Hillyer Company Stage Manager
Neil is a former member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Although he has worked at the Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Scottish Opera, in the West End, and in Rep…. he much prefers Touring. As well as The Woman in Black, the other career highlight is the Children’s show The Gingerbread Man (Whirligig Theatre Company), written and directed by David Wood. Neil lives on an old Croft in the Outer Hebrides - off the Atlantic coast of Scotland, and his main hobby is attempting to convert his nearest neighbours (the local sheep) into Deep Purple fans.
Pemberley Productions General Managers & Producers
Pemberley Productions is a producing, general management, and tour booking company based in NYC/Chicago. We collaborate with overseas companies and US-based productions to book tours, general manage productions, or produce theatre across North America as well as internationally. Highlights include the long-running West End production
of The Woman in Black (off-Broadway at NYC’s McKittrick Hotel and across the US); the US Tour of Wise Children’s Wuthering Heights; the Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles) production of The Secret Garden; the US Tour of the National Theatre’s An Inspector Calls; and the US Tour of The Last Ship (starring STING). Our upcoming projects include the Baxter Theatre/Handspring Puppet production of Life & Times of Michael K (on tour in Chicago, Boston), Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree (US, Canadian touring), Elizabeth McGovern’s Ava: The Secret Conversations, and The Unfair Advantage, an intimate magic experience (launching a major US tour at La Jolla Playhouse this spring). For information on upcoming tours and projects in development, visit www. pemberleyproductions.com
PW Productions Producers
PW Productions is one of the West End’s most prolific and significant theatre producers, responsible for some of the most successful productions in British theatre since it was founded in 1983 by Peter Wilson MBE. Productions have included Spirited Away at the London Coliseum, Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, Stephen Daldry’s An Inspector Calls, De La Guarda at the Roundhouse, Nigel Slater’s Toast, Ross Willis’ Wonder Boy and many more. The company has acted as General Manager and Production Accountant for more than 500 productions throughout the world. PW Productions, in partnership with promoters and co-producers, has also presented work in Japan, Singapore, Canada, USA, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Austria, Australia and Hong Kong. Recent General Management work includes: Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage, Ava: The Secret Conversations, Sting’s The Last Ship and Spike by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.
Mark Clements ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
ADMINISTRATION
Managing Director..........Melissa Vartanian-Mikaelian
General Manager........................................Ryan Looke
Executive Assistant....................................Kelli Lopina
HR Manager...............................................Liz Merwin
Company Manager.........................…Gabrielle Harper
Management Associate..........................Elena Donley
Receptionists.......................................Michael Evans, Wuanette Exum, Mary Muehleisen
ARTISTIC
Associate Artistic Director..........................Laura Braza
Artistic Producer—
Casting & Special Events…..............Jonathan Hetler
Artistic Producer—
Training & Audience Engagement.....Jeffrey Mosser
Associate Artistic Producer.....Annika Perez-Krikorian
Artistic Producing Associate....María Amenábar Farias
DEVELOPMENT
Chief Development Officer.................Chuck Rozewicz
Director of Development........................Amy Dorman
Director of Major and Planned Giving...Cassidy Skorija
Senior Gift Officer........................................Bill Walton
Associate Director of Development, Events and Stewardship............….Lynsey Gallagher
Associate Director of Development, Institutional Giving…................….Megan Newbanks
Donor Services Manager….............…....Amy McGuire
Development Associate....................Maddy Wysocky
Chad Bauman EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT
Chief Education & Engagement Officer..............................Jenny Toutant
Associate Director of Education...............Zach Woods
Associate Director of Engagement...James Carrington
Education & Engagement Manager.........Xodia Choate Education Coordinator........................Roswell Kaybee Education & Engagement Resident.............Claire Vock Engagement Coordinator..........................….Suze Falk Teaching Artists............................................Cria Ama, Maura Atwood, Ryon Davis, Marvin Hannah, Jacob Horstmeier, Ashley Jordan, Jacob Knuth, Mykal Lake, George Lorimer, Kenneth Montley, Logan Milway, Megan Murray, Samra Teferra, Stephen Thompson, Barry Weber, Raichel West, Saleaqua Winston
FINANCE
Chief Financial Officer..........................Rachel Nielsen Controller..............................................Chelsea Omari Payroll & Benefits Associate............Samantha Doucas Accounting Associate........................Tim Petropoulos
FOOD & BEVERAGE
Director of Food & Beverage...............Donald Parsons Assistant Manager….........................Morgan Sewalish Kitchen Manager...................................Quincy Hardin Restaurant Staff....................................Jacob Abrams, Samantha Brown, Gibson Caldwell, Jocko Coiwin, Susan Davies, Naima Gaines, Gigi Garcia, Matthew Garcia, Eloisa Gloria, Jake Goodman, Alex Herrmann, Teran Johnson, Sabina Kaiser, Mary Krzyzewski, Nicole Kueppers, Miranda Larscheid, Jaslyn Lewis, Angela Livermore, Cassidy Long, Erin McNett, Brooke O’Brien, Latora Powers, Ella Radandt, Azucena Reyes, Jessica Rieder, Mia Rudolph-Schulta, Daniel Soto, Crystal Thompson, Ymani Thorne, Caylen Todd, Lucas Toritto, Desi Wilkins, Shemika Williams, Zofia Zabik
MAINTENANCE
Chief Building Engineer...........................Chris Belcher
Engineers................................................Tiffany Casey, Maurice Goodwin, Todd Ross
MARKETING
Chief Marketing Officer...............................Lisa Fulton
Director of Media Relations...................Frances White
Director of Marketing.................................Don Rebar
Audience Development Director.............Kendall Judy Marketing & Sales Manager.....……...........……Zoë Gatz
Videographer............................................Nicholas Lin
Graphic Designers.........................Benton Melbourne, Geoffrey Vitiello
Photographer...................................Michael Brosilow
Audience Services
Audience Services Manager.......................Mara Grigg
House Managers.....................................Liz Ahlstrom, Karl Hooyman, Julia Rady, Skylar Staebler, Marlowe Timm, Levi Tracy
Guest Services Associates.......................Susan Davies, Alex Haas, Debra Holubowicz, Steve Holubowicz
Sales
Director of Sales......................................Jeremy Scott
Associate Director of Sales..........................Jaime Lacy
Ticket Operations Director........................Jasper Farin
Associate Director of Ticketing...............Joey Gilchrist
Assistant Ticketing Manager…...............David Ellmann
Senior Ticketing Associate..........Melanie Kampschroer
Ticket Associates & Teleservices
Representatives.........................Jenn Averitt-Zweber, Olli Bushman -Stettler, Alyssa Fuller, Dejan Kuzmanovic, Michelle MacDonald, Anya Palmer, Kat Perez-Rivera, Paul Pfannenstiel, Alexa Serrano, Violet Verhein
PRODUCTION
Director of Production.............................Jared Clarkin
Associate Production Manager.....................Nia Burns
Costumes
Interim Costume Director...........................Bina Bieker
Interim Assistant Costume Director.....Amelia Strahan
Design Assistant.......................................Mason Baria
Senior Draper..............................Alexander B. Tecoma
Costumes (cont.)
Draper.................................................Micky Simmons
First Hand..............................................Kas Rodriguez Stitcher.......................Drake Lewerenz, Erynn Vickery
Lead Costume Crafts Artisan........................Lyssa Rad Wig, Hair & Makeup Supervisor...........Allison Lowery
Costume Construction Resident........Moriah Babinski
Wardrobe Lead......................................Megan Evans
Wardrobe Crew......................Anna-Christina Alcozer, Alexis Favia
Stylist.............Kevin McElroy, Robert Laurence Studio Barber................................................Mr. V’s Barberia
Lighting
Lighting Director.....................................Dakota Kroes
Props
Properties Director.............................Kelly Kreutsberg
Prop Crafts Artisans..........................Yvonne Tessman, Tayler Varney
Prop Carpenter/Artisan..........................Erik Lindquist
Prop Graphics Artist..................................Mindy Knoll
Prop Overhire…..............................................Em Allen
Scenic
Technical Director.............................................Joe Fry
Associate Technical Directors...............Sarah Downey, Victoria Esquivel
Charge Scenic Artist..................................Jim Medved
Lead Scenic Artist.................................Shannon Mann Scenic Artist.......................................Caroline Dischell
Sound
Sound Director........................................Nick DePinto
Stage Management
Production Stage Manager...............Kimberly Carolus
Stage Managers...............Terence Orleans Alexander, Jade Bruno, Josh Hart, Mark Johnson, Kira Neighbors, Emily Pfaff, Sydney Smith, Dev Wiensch, Emily Wright
Stage Management Fellow......................Star Howard
Stage Management EPRs.......................Libby Carroll, Jessica Krol
Resident Stagehands & Carpenters
Bill Burgardt, Eliot Garfield, Steve Gillingham, Derek Loehr, Jason Pruzin, Aaron Siegmann, Cole Schulist, Jim Zinky
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MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER BOARD OF TRUSTEES
President President-Elect
Vice President, Trustees
Treasurer
Secretary
TRUSTEES
Ayad Akhtar
Tammy Belton-Davis
Ivor Benjamin
Wendy W. Blumenthal
Julia Burns
Bryan Carson
Joe Checota
Jane Chernof
Marybeth Cottrill
Amy Croen
Robert H. Duffy
SUSTAINING TRUSTEES
Judy Hansen
Adam J. Peck
Kerryann Haase Minton
James Phillips
Bryan House At Large
Dr. Eric A. Durant
Jay Franke
Jason R. Graham
Peter Hammond
Christopher Hermann
Tom Irgens
Debra Johnson
Lynda Johnson
Deborah Kaerek
Michelle Kolp
David Kundert
Andrés Gonzalez
Joan Lubar
Robert H. Manegold
Ray Manista
James Phelps
Dawn Lindsey
Kristine Lueders
Anne L. Noyes
Joe Pickart
Karen Plunkett
Beth Ridley
Allison Scrivner
Clark Slipher
Craig Swan
Benjamin Wagner
Milwaukee Rep acknowledges the remarkable support of these former Rep Trustees who continue their engagement by attending performances, contributing a generous annual gift, and/or membership in the Limelight Legacy Society.
Richard Abdoo
Patsy Aster
Eliza Meyer Audley
James Baillon
Jay Baker
Katharine Banzhaf
Melanie Booth
James E. Braza
Joyce G. Broan
Bladen Burns
Mike Carter
Kristine Cleary
Michelle Crockett
Karen Dean
George A. Dionisopoulos
Norman Dyer
Stephen Einhorn
Thomas R. Ellis
Susan Esslinger
Timothy C. Frautschi
James E. Braza
Joyce Broan
Judy Hansen
Jacqueline Herd-Barber
Molly Kubly Fritz
Patrick D. Gallagher
Connie Gavin
Anne Gimbel
Conrad Goodkind
Kathleen Gray
William Guc
John Halechko
Edward T. Hashek
Janet Hume
John Hunzinger, P.E.
Stephen Isaacson
Judy Jorgensen
Larry Jost
J. Patrick Keyes
John Kordsmeier
Frank Krejci
Mark Kultgen
James LaVelle
David J. Lubar
Marianne Lubar
Susan Lueger
Linda Marcus
Vince Martin
Patti Brash McKeithan
Venora McKinney
Michael McNeely
Sandra McSweeney
Donna Meyer
Douglas Mickelson
Dwight L. Morgan
Wally Morics
Abigail J. Nash
Mark Niedfeldt, M.D.
Gregory C. Oberland
Tonen (Sara) O’Connor
Gina Peter
Anthony Petullo
Kristine Rappé
Catherine Robinson
