YOu’re a Good Man,
Charlie Brown
Book, Music & Lyrics by
Clark Gesner
Based on the comic book by
Charles M. Schulz Directed & Choreographed by
Stephen Nachamie
This production is made possible in part by contributions from
Mr. Robert Dohmen and Patricia Woodbury, FTI Consulting
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Jim Petosa, Artistic Director
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From Jim and Amy
Dear Friends,
After two consecutive record-breaking seasons, we are pleased to kick off 2012 with You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Charles Schulz has long had a gift of depicting childhood lives in ways that reveal a depth of humanity that can produce both humor and pathos. Setting his beloved characters on stage brings them to life for all generations and provides unexpected insights about society as seen through the surprisingly wise eyes of children.
“To take a blank piece of paper and draw characters that people love and worry about is extremely satisfying. It really does not matter what you are called, or where your work is placed, as long as it brings some kind of joy to some person some place.” — Charles M. Schulz
We are excited to welcome back the creative team of director Stephen Nachemie and musical director Christopher Youstra to lead this heart-warming production, which is bound to charm and bring joy to audiences, young and old alike. This production wouldn’t be possible without the essential support of the patrons of Olney Theatre Center, our 2012 Season Sponsor, Mr. Robert Dohmen, and the generous support of our show sponsor Patricia Woodbury of FTI Consulting. Many thanks to all of our supporters. Thank you and enjoy the show.
Jim Petosa, Artistic Director
Amy Marshall, Managing Director
Amy Marshall and Jim Petosa are sponsored by the Dohmen Family Foundation.
Olney Theatre Center is a non-profit arts organization with a mission to create professional theater productions and other programs that nurture artists, students, technicians, administrators, and audience members; to develop each individual’s creative potential using the skill and imaginative possibilities of theater and the performing arts. Contributing Editor: Heather Latiri Ad Sales: 301.924.4485 x121 • Printer: Svec Conway Copyright by Olney Theatre Center. All editorial and advertising material is fully protected and must not be reproduced in any manner without written permission.
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The Broadway Musical Based on the comic strip “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz Book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner Additional dialogue by Michael Mayer Additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Original Direction for this version of “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” by Michael Mayer Originally Produced in New York by Arthur Whitelaw and Gene Persson
featuring
Zack Colonna James Gardiner Jaimie Kelton
Patrick J. Prebula Maria Rizzo
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Robert Andrew Kovach
Seth Gilbert
Stage Manager
Josiane M. Lemieux Production Manager Technical Director
Renee E. Yancey
Eric Knauss
Janine Sunday Vishal Vaidya Paul Wyatt Lighting Designer
Andrew F. Griffin
Sound Designer
Jeffrey Dorfman Company Manager
Mackenzie Douglas
Costume Shop Manager
Jeanne Bland
Musical Director
Christopher Youstra Director/Choreographer
Stephen Nachamie This production is made possible in part by contributions from Mr. Robert Dohmen
and Patricia Woodbury, FTI Consulting.
Produced by arrangement with, and the music and Dialogue material furnished by: TAMSWITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC., 560 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10022 301.924.3400
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Audience Services
Theater Policies Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the house manager. Please do not bring food or drink into the theater (bottled water is allowed) and all buildings are smoke-free. The use of recording or photographic equipment during the show is prohibited. Olney Theatre Center is not responsible for any items left on our campus. All children, including babies, require a ticket. We will ask parents to take their children to the lobby if their behavior is disturbing patrons. Please turn off your cell phone in the theaters. Sign-Interpreted Performances Sign interpretation is available for the third Thursday evening during a show’s run. The service must be reserved two weeks in advance and is based on the availability of qualified interpreters.
Audio-Described Performances Audio-described performances are offered on the third Wednesday evening during a show’s run, which include pre-show program notes, descriptions of the action, scenery and costumes during pauses in the dialogue. Metropolitan Washington Ear can provide an escort to audio-described performances for patrons who are visually impaired. Listening Assistance We offer devices that amplify sound free of charge in exchange for identification. Please ask the house manager for assistance. (This service is not available on the third Wednesday evening of a show’s run.) Post-Show Discussions Join the artistic staff and/or invited guests after the first Saturday matinee for AfterWords. The cast holds a talkback after the third Wednesday evening performance. Please call the Box Office at 301.924.3400 for more information on these events.
Cast
Sally Brown Lucy Van Pelt Snoopy Schroeder Charlie Brown Linus Van Pelt
Jaimie Kelton* Janine Sunday* James Gardiner* Vishal Vaidya* Zack Colonna* Paul Wyatt*
Dance Captain Jaimie Kelton* Female Swing Maria Rizzo Male Swing Patrick J. Prebula Orchestra
Conductor, Piano Violin, Viola Woodwinds Acoustic and Electric Bass Percussion *Member, Actors’ Equity Association
Christopher Youstra Patricia Wnek Patrick Plunk Frank Higgins Alex Aucoin
•National Players Alumnus
†Equity Membership Candidate
Scenes & Setting
time An average day in the life of Charlie Brown. Act One Opening..................................... Sally, Lucy, Snoopy, Schroeder & Linus with Charlie Brown “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”............. Sally, Lucy, Schroeder, Charlie Brown & Linus “Schroeder”..................................................................................................................... Lucy “Snoopy”.....................................................................................................................Snoopy “My Blanket and Me”...................................................................................................... Linus Queen Lucy..................................................................................................................... Lucy “The Kite”......................................................................................................... Charlie Brown “The Doctor Is In”................................................................................. Charlie Brown & Lucy “Beethoven Day”.................................................................................Schroeder & Company Rabbit Chasing................................................................................................Sally & Snoopy “The Book Report”..................Lucy, Schroeder, Charlie Brown & Linus with Sally & Snoopy
– Intermission – Act Two The Red Baron........................................................................................Snoopy & Company “My New Philosophy”..................................................................................Sally & Schroeder “The Baseball Game”....................................................................Charlie Brown & Company “Glee Club Rehearsal”......................Sally, Lucy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Schroeder & Snoopy “Little Known Facts”............................................................ Lucy with Linus & Charlie Brown “Suppertime”...........................................................................................Snoopy & Company “Happiness”.......................................................................................................Full Company
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About The play Director’s Notes GOOD GRIEF, CHARLIE BROWN! The Peanuts Gang: The blockhead who may never pitch a winning baseball game, the fussbudget ever-ready to give an opinion and rule the world, the intellectual who solves the question of the day with reason while clutching his security blanket, the musical prodigy and artistic elitist, the slacker in love with her “sweet babboo” and new philosophies, and the Beagle with the endless wealth of wit and fantasy life. In the last sixty years, these beloved iconic characters have become an indelible part of international pop-culture and daily life. In 1950, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz first brought Charlie Brown and his friends to life — and it was ground breaking. These kids had the anxieties and opinions of little adults and the wonder and a “pre-South Park” innocence we all hope to hold on to as we grow. They remind us that growing up and surviving daily life is never easy — it is challenging and treacherous but sometimes joyous and full of wonder. The Peanuts Gang became quickly became a part of our lives — their images became international symbols, and even of the mascots of NASA’s mission to the moon. In the early 1960s, The Peanuts Gang came into our homes again via several very successful animated television specials — still televised to this day. In 1967, Clark Gesner brought the gang alive on-stage at Theatre 80 St. Marks in New York in the tiny off Broadway hit You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. (which featured soon to be stars Gary Berghoff and Bob Balaban). The musical took Broadway, the West End and the world by storm and has thrived in many tours, regional productions, and television specials (both live and animated). This show, and its wonderful skits and songs became a staple in schools, community theaters and productions of all levels. In 1999 as Peanuts neared its 50th anniversary, director Michael Mayer and composer Andrew Lippa revived the show on Broadway. They took a new look at this revue and updated it with Comic Strips and characters that had come along since the show first opened. They added new songs, new scenes, and a new jazzy orchestration reminiscent of the Vince Giraldi scores of the TV specials and movies. The show had a new life on Broadway, and earned Tonys Awards for Roger Bart (as Snoopy) and Kristen Chenoweth (as Sally), making them both Broadway stars. The world and its technology may have changed since Charlie Brown came on the scene, but these characters are still very much around us: in comic books, video games, and yes, even an iphone app or two. I am very excited to bring the Peanuts gang into the 21st Century and celebrate them with old and new generations of fans. Enjoy the show! — Stephen Nachamie, Director/Choreographer The Art of the Four-Panel Comic Strip What exactly has made Charlie Brown and the Peanuts comic strip so enduring in our American popular culture? The proliferation of TV specials, adaptations, and even the musical you are seeing tonight all display the continued popularity of the Peanuts crew, but where does it draw its staying power from? Of course, we must credit the inventiveness of cartoonist Charles Schulz for creating Charlie Brown, the so-called “shining example of the American success story” by, ironically, being the great American un-success story. Also the diverse cast of characters that Schulz employed, along with his deft and unassuming means of addressing social commentary, proved to be crucial to his lasting success. All of these means are of course important, but we must credit the vehicle that brought the Peanuts gang to newspapers around the world: Schulz’s mastery of the four-panel comic strip. When the Peanuts comic strip was first introduced as Li’l Folks to national readership in 1950, Schulz used the four-panel comic strip structure for the first of numerous times. Much like a well-told joke, the four-panel comic follows a classic comedy formula: the set-up, usually taking place over the first three panels, and then the punchline in the fourth. The most famous example from the Peanuts canon is Charlie Brown trying to kick a football, only to have Lucy pull it away at the last second, leaving him dazed in the dust of the playground. With this simple delivery Schulz could develop his stories and characters daily in these sketches, and as his work continued, we as an American culture grew up along them. While other cartoonists of the time used various layouts for their comics, Schulz and his four-panel Peanuts proved to be the most popular comic strip, perfectly matching his simple and sharp sense of human comedy within four uncomplicated boxes. But how does the discussion of four-paneled cartoon strips have to deal with You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown? It boils down to how we view the structure of the show. The genius of Clark Gesner’s music and lyrics is his maintaining the simplicity and brevity of the comics in his stage adaptation. The musical isn’t a dark evaluation of characters’ psyches or a realistic kitchen sink drama, but a collection of sketches. Gesner greatly respects the work of Schulz: keeping the dialogue brief, the songs witty and thoughtfully engaging, and the characters we have known and loved since childhood exactly as they are. — Michael R. Kelly, Education Associate 301.924.3400
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Zack Colonna (Charlie Brown) is thrilled to be making his Olney Theatre Center debut! National Tour: The Brand New Kid. DC AREA: Adventure Theatre: The Happy Elf; Studio Theatre: Reefer Madness [Helen Hayes Award for Best Resident Musical]; Imagination Stage: Looking For Roberto Clemente, Junebug; Various workshops/ readings with Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Signature Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth. NEW YORK: NY Fringe: Citizen Ruth [Fringe Festival Best Musical ‘09] REGIONAL: New London Barn: West Side Story, La Cage Aux Folles, and Forever Plaid. IMPROV: Boom Box Kids (NYC). EDUCATION: BA in Theatre from George Washington University. James Gardiner (Snoopy) is excited to return to OLNEY THEATRE CENTER as another famous canine after appearing as Buck in Call of the Wild. BROADWAY: Glory Days (Book). REGIONAL: Williamstown Theatre Festival: Home Free! DC AREA: Signature Theatre: The Boy Detective Fails, The Hollow, I Capture the Castle, [title of show], Chess, Les Misérables, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Merrily We Roll Along, Witches of Eastwick, Saving Aimee; Ford’s Theatre: Liberty Smith, A Christmas Carol (Associate Director); Arena Stage: Red Hand Guitar. Library of Congress: West Side Story: 50th Anniversary Concert; Everyman Theatre: Tribute to Dorothy Fields, Irving Berlin; Woolly Mammoth/UM: The Distance From Here; Kennedy Center: The Phantom Tollbooth, The Brand New Kid; Round House Theatre: A Prayer for Owen Meany; Studio Theatre: Dog Sees God. EDUCATION: University of Maryland, BA. UPCOMING: Folger Theatre: Taming of the Shrew. Jaimie Kelton (Sally) is thrilled to be making her Olney Theater Center debut! Past credits include: NYC: The York: Greenwillow (Jabez), NAMT: The Giver (Lilly/Rosemary). Tours: Japan: The Who’s 301.924.3400
Tommy (Little Tommy), Disney Cruise Line: Disney Dreams (Anne Marie), Twice Charmed (Drizella), The Golden Mickeys (Ensemble), REGIONAL: The Depot Theatre: The 25th Annual Spelling Bee (Logainne); North Shore Music Theater: The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy u/s); The Barnstormers: Urinetown (Little Sally)[Barnstormers 2007 Best Supporting Actress Award], Gypsy (Dainty June), Our Town (Emily), The Lion in Winter (Alais). TELEVISION: The Octonauts (Tweak, Pinto), America’s Most Wanted. EDUCATION: BFA in Theater from The Boston Conservatory.
Patrick J. Prebula (Male Swing) Credits include: Fredrick Cultural Arts Center: Spring Awakening (Moritz Stiefel); Columbia University Black Box Theater: Picture This (Edward Chester); Montgomery College: Cabaret (Emcee), The Who’s Tommy (Cousin Kevin), The Rocky Horror Show (Riff Raff); Landless Theater Company: Gleeam (GBC). Maria Rizzo (Female Swing) is thrilled to be returning to Olney Theatre Center where she last performed the role of Marty in Grease. Regional credits include: Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Hairspray (Alt. Amber, Penny u/s, Swing), Cinderella (Ensemble); Upper Darby Performing Arts Center of Philadelphia: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie), Disney’s Beauty & The Beast (Babette). University credits include: Nine (Luisa), Urinetown (Little Becky), Godspell (Sonia). Maria plans to graduate in the spring with a Bachelors in Music from the Catholic University of America. Janine Sunday (Lucy) is pleased to return to Olney Theatre Center where many years ago she performed the role of the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and was in the ensemble of Cinderella. REGIONAL: North Carolina Theater: Man of La Mancha, The King and I. DC Area: The Kennedy OLNEYTHEATRE.ORG
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Center: Sweeney Todd; Signature: Putting it Together; Studio 2nd Stage: Jerry Springer the Opera (Andrea); MetroStage: Closer Than Ever, The Musical of Muscials; American Century: Danny and Sylvia (Sylvia) [Helen Hayes Award nomination]; TFA: The Odyssey of Telemeca (Pureza); Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Jekyll and Hyde (Lucy) [Helen Hayes Award nomination], West Side Story (Maria) [Helen Hayes Award nomination], Titanic (Alice) [Baltimore Theater Award], Miss Saigon (Kim) [Baltimore Theater Award], Aida (Amneris), Kiss Me Kate (Lilli), Beauty and the Beast (Belle); West End: Brigadoon (Fiona ) [Helen Hayes Award nomination]; Landless Theater: Walmartopia (Counselor James). EDUCATION: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Vishal Vaidya (Schroeder) is happy to be back at Olney Theatre Center where previous credits include: Big River and Godspell. NATIONAL TOUR: Barrio Grrrl! REGIONAL: Ford’s Theater: A Christmas Carol; Ken-
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Paul Wyatt (Linus) is thrilled to the clinging to his blanket here at Olney Theatre Center. Paul played Linus at the Emelin Theatre, also directed by Stephen Nachamie. Favorite performances include I Hate Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Pump Boys & Dinnettes, and Grease. Regional credits include Sacramento Music Circus, New York Stage & Film, Weston Playhouse, and St. Michael’s Playhouse. Paul’s band WYATT recently released their first EP in 2011. EDUCATION: The University of Michigan.
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Behind the Scenes
Jim Petosa (Artistic Director) has been Artistic Director for Olney Theatre Center since 1994. Since 2002, he has been Director of the School of Theatre at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. He has also served as a co-artistic director of the Potomac Theatre Project, now PTP/NYC, since 1987. His Olney Theatre Center directing credits include Opus, Dinner with Friends, Trumpery, The Glass Menagerie, Democracy, Brooklyn Boy, In the Mood, An Enemy of the People, The Elephant Man, The Miracle Worker, Copenhagen, The Laramie Project, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Living in Paris [Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction], Collected Stories [Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Direction] and his Look! We Have Come Through! (co-authored with Carole Graham Lehan) [Charles MacArthur Award nomination for Outstanding New Play]. As a guest artist, he has directed at The Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, Washington Jewish Theatre, and Rep Stage. Jim has directed for University of Maryland, College Park; The Catholic University of America; George Washington University; and Middlebury College. Jim is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, and he is a member and has served on the board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Clay Hopper (Associate Artistic Director) has been directing for National Players and Summer Shakespeare Festival since 2003. Credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Amadeus. He also directed Farragut North and Triumph of Love at Olney Theatre Center and Call of the Wild, a musical adaptation of Jack London’s novel by Jon Lipsky, first as a workshop at Boston University, then as a touring production for The National Players on Tour 59, culminating in the World Premier on Olney Theatre Center’s Main Stage in 2009. Other recent credits include On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning at Contemporary America Theatre Festival Actor’s Lab. In 2002 he founded and produced a new play series called New Works/After Hours at Lincoln Center Institute’s Clarke Studio Theatre. Off-off-Broadway: A Home Without by Robert Westfield, Different Zen by Clay Hopper with Third Eye Rep, Earthworms by Albert Innaurato with The Working Group, Triage by Chris Shiea with Miranda Theatre, and The Interrogation by Murphy Guyer with The Miranda Theatre. He has taught acting at Boston University, Woolly Mammoth’s Theatre School, and College of Wooster, where he directed King Lear and was visiting assistant professor in 2006. As assistant 301.924.3400
director he has worked at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Clay received his BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts and his MFA from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. Clay is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
Stephen Nachamie (Director/Choreographer) is thrilled to return to the Olney Theatre Center after directing 1776 and Camelot! New York credits include Luck! (with Faith Prince); Into The Woods for Cap21; Torch Song Trilogy (with Seth Rudetsky); She Loves Me; I Hate Hamlet; Faraway Bayou (starring Nikki James and Sharon Wilkins); Roundind Third (at Penquin Rep) and numerous shows for NYMF. Regional credits include Hello Out There at Goodspeed; Oliver! at the Engeman Theatre; the Boston Premiere of Gutenberg! and tick, tick… BOOM! At New Rep; Dreamgirls and Jesus Christ Superstar at West Virginia Public Theatre; Hank Williams: Lost Highway (Regional Tour); Italian American Reconciliation and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at The Depot Theatre; Almost, Maine, Driving Miss Daisy, The Sunshine Boys and Urinetown at The Barnstormers; The Full Monty and Miss Saigon at Maine State Music Theatre; The King And I and The Marvelous Wonderettes at Gretna Theatre; Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Capital Playhouse; 2 ½ Jews and The Fantasticks at The Emelin Theatre; Cabaret, Chicago and The Music Man at Tri-Arts; Evita at Gateway Playhouse and Pittsburgh Musical Theatre; as well as many industrials. He staged West Side Story for the North Carolina Theatre and an Italian Tour, and A Chorus Line for numerous regional productions and national tour. Stephen has developed works at Goodspeed Opera House, The York Theatre, NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing, BMI and Emerging Artists Theatre, among others. He has been a master-class teacher for The Signature Theatre in VA, PPAS and AMDA. Proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Christopher Youstra (Musical Director) returns to Olney Theatre Center where he has musically directed The Sound of Music, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Annie, Camelot, Peter Pan, 1776, Triumph of Love, and Call of the Wild. Other credits include Ford’s Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors; Round House Theatre: Summer of ’42, A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage, Once on This Island; Studio Theatre’s 2nd Stage: Jerry Springer: The Opera, Pop!, Passing Strange; Studio Theatre: The Adding Machine; Toby’s Dinner Theater: Titanic, Beauty and the Beast, Aida, The Producers, Godspell, Rent, Miss Saigon, OLNEYTHEATRE.ORG
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Ragtime: The Musical, Chicago; Imagination Stage: Sleeping Beauty, Miss Nelson is Missing; Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences: Nobody’s Perfect, Chasing George Washington; Arena Stage; Burn Brae Dinner Theatre; Montgomery College; American University; Musical Theatre Center; Signature Theatre; and Columbia Center for the Theatrical Arts. Christopher has been nominated for five Helen Hayes awards and received the award in 2008 for Titanic. Christopher is director of music at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Columbia, and a composer and an artist mentor (composition). He has worked with both Phoenix Productions and Troika Entertainment national touring company and toured both Europe and Korea with Smokey Joe’s Café. The Dancing Princesses, for which he wrote the music and lyrics, ran last spring at Imagination Stage.
Robert Andrew Kovach (Scenic Designer) is excited to return to Olney Theatre Center. Off Broadway: White’s Lies, The Sphinx Winx, ImaginOcean (Drama Desk nomination). Non Equity National Tour: All Shook Up. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, TUTS, Walnut Street Thatre, MSMT, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, and others. Robert is a proud member of United Scenic Artis (USA 829). Special thanks to the entire Olney team. Seth Gilbert (Costume Designer) Olney Theatre Center: costume designer for Grease; costume coordinator for The Sound of Music, Annie [Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Resident Musical] and Forever Plaid. Regional: Port Huron Civic Theatre: Beauty & The Beast and Sweeney Todd. Academic: University of Michigan Flint: Elegies, Lieutenant of Inishmore and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!; St. Clair County Community College: James and the Giant Peach, Star Spangled Girl and Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her. Education: BS in Costume Design and Technology from the University of Michigan Flint.
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Andrew F. Griffin (Lighting Designer) returns to Olney Theatre Center where he last designed Bad Dates in 2008. A freelance lighting designer based in Washington, DC, he has created the designs for companies including: Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Imagination Stage, Everyman Theatre, Metro Stage, Toledo Opera, Adventure Theatre, Michigan Opera Theatre Children’s Chorus, Studio Theatre, Forum Theatre, SCENA Theatre, Washington Savoyards, the Catholic University of America, the Delaware Shakespeare Festival, and Washington Shakespeare Company. Andrew is also one of the resident lighting designers for Synetic Theater where his design of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award. Jeffrey Dorfman (Sound Designer) recently worked at Olney Theatre Center as the sound designer for The Sound of Music and Witness for the Prosecution. With more than 10 years of experience in music performance, Jeff realized his passion for theatrical sound design in the past few years. He has studied theatre at SUNY Buffalo and University of Maryland, College Park. Winner of a 2009 KCACTF Region 2 Award for Excellence in Sound Design, Jeff utilizes his background in music performance, composition, and theatre arts in order to immerse the audience in worlds of imagination. Recent work includes UMBC’s OTMA and The Laramie Project. Josiane M. Lemieux (Production Stage Manager) Previous Olney Theatre Center credits include The Sound of Music, Witness for the Prosecution, Opus and Dinner With Friends. She was the production stage manager for the national tour and Off-Broadway production of The Acting Company’s Jane Eyre, as well as stage manager for their Murder By Poe and Richard III. Regional: She has production stage managed for 10 years at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, most recently The Taming of the Shrew, The Grapes of Wrath, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Other credits include The Huntington Theatre Company: Circle Mirror Transformation and Stick Fly; Crossroads Theatre Company One Mo’ Time and Yo Soy Latina; In Actu Theatre: Murdering Marlowe; Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey: Whores; and Shakespeare Festival/LA: Twelfth Night. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. OLNEYTHEATRE.ORG
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Joannene Hudak Mr. Richard F. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Clifford L. Johnson B.L. Kornrich Jane Thérèse Larsen Ms. Molly Lester Kathryn Lindquist and Terry Newendorp Mrs. Lillian Litowsky Ms. Marina A. Lowen Susan McCarthy Ms. Juanita A. Mclean Bill Michie Mr. William L. Mitchell and Mr. David A. Vignolo Frederick and Elizabeth Montgomery Dr. Sara Moran Nancy Root Muir Robert W. Neighbors Mr. and Mrs. George Newett Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Nordlinger Michael Ricciardella Charlie and Marie Schaub Marshall and Deborah Sluyter Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Sorensen Jerome and Patti L. Sowalsky Donald and Mary Street Gene & Renate Taylor Peter Threadgill Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Ward Ms. Carole Weikert George A. and Katherine C. Whitehouse Buddy and Kim Wyre Philip and Shirley Yaffee
Advocate $250+ JoAnn and Dean Aulick Dr. Patricia Beaston Patron $100+ Lynn and Alan Berkeley Anonymous (2) Mr. Erik Boas Ken P. and Alice Adler Monica M. and E. James Bradford Mr. & Mrs. John D. Mr. James Bradley Anderson, Jr. Arden M. Brady Gina Angiola Mr. and Mrs. William M. Butler Robert J. Anzelmo James Costrell and Helen Wood Alan and Susan Apter Mr. David Dunn Bill and Sandy Attick Ms. Michelle D. Evans Howard G. Ausden Robert and Carole Fontenrose Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Bailey Lawrence and Joan Friend Mr. Richard Banvard Robert J. and Liane A. Giardina Ms. Louise G. Bargamian William Hanson and Gail Lieberman Elaine B. Baugham-Young and Joshua and Ana Rita Hauge James A. Young, Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Henriksen Howard and Alice Baum Joan Rudick and Jim Herrell Dan the Man Ms. Gay Hill Robin H. and David L. Beatty Mr. Michael Himmel Mr. Marvin S. Beitler
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Thank You Fran and Harvey Berger Jeffrey and Elyse Bernstein Mr. Merle J. Biggin Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Black Ms. Michele Blanchi Diane Boehr Dr. Vera Borkovec Karen Braun Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bufton Watson S. and Jane K. Bullock Barbara and Martin Buzas Thomas and Edna R. Carcaterra Mr. and Mrs. William E. Carnahan Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carty Charles S. Casazza Ms. Cindy Cenname Mr. and Mrs. Sotiros Chaparas Howard and Rosie Chernoff Philip A. and Elaine R. Clarkin Mr. Leonard V. Covello Margaret E. Cusack Mr. Steve Danielson Ronald and Thelma Daub Martin and Belle Davis Mr. and Mrs. Floris McWhorter Davisson Mrs. Nora Davisson Keith and A. Eletheer Decker Frederick Denecke Roy W. Deppa Mr. John M. Dezinno E. Scott Dillon Mr. Michael Ditkoff Brenda L. Dixon-Beck Joseph and Patricia Doane John Doyle Mrs. Gabrielle M. Duvall John and Lois Eberhard Jonathan Eig and Karen Jerome Marilyn and Bennett L. Elisberg Edith Espenshade Mr. Brad Farrell Bob and Pat Fauver Matthew W. and Laura G. Fetters Roger and Rosalind Fields Mr. John M. Flood Roger and Jeanne Folstrom Laurie and Arnold Foudin Marian P. Fox Margie and Marvin Freedenberg Leonard Friedman and Randi Passamaneck Ms. Audrey C. Garrett Jane Anne Gavaghan Tookie Gentilcore
Roger and Barbara Gessay Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Goldstein Ms. Lisa Gould JoAnna Grable Mr. and Mrs. Michael Grace Kimberley and Roger Grant Dawn M. Green Gabriel and Paul Leder and Lisa Greenman Romayne A. Hagyard Freddi and Dick Hammerschlag Susanne and Stephen Hardy Rose-Joyce Hendrix Joseph Hess Mrs. James J. Hill, Jr. Robert Hirano Delegate Sheila Hixson Vicki L. Hodziewich Charles and Pamela Hofmann Alison Drucker and Tom Holzman Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Horman H. David and Alexis Huey Eleanor Iverson John F. Jameson and BJ Shorak Ms. Karen Jerome Carol Jordan Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jourdenais In memory of Gwendolyn Kadesch Carole Kaminsky - In memory of Robert Kaminksy Mr. James Kavanagh Nene Keita - In honor of Aissatou Diakite John and Yvonne Kendall Edward and Nancy Kerns Michael and Christine Kiely Elizabeth S. King Edith M. Kirk Stephen and Katharine Kovarcik Eugenia Krasner Geno Langellotto Ms. Jean A. Larson John and Jeanine Lee Cindy R. Lefkowitz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lent D. Leonard Bob and Kathleen Lesko Phyllis and Mort Lessans Lorraine A. and Robert H. Levan Paul and Susan Linz Laurie Weker Lipton Marcia Litwack Mr. Robert Long Mr. Richard M. Loughlin Ann and Barry Lubin Rosemary A. MacDonald
Brent and Sharon Malcolm The Matathias Family Pat and Stan Mayers Justin and Sally McCarthy Gail L. McCreary Mr. and Mrs. Brent McIntosh John and Rita McKee Laurel and Bob Mendelsohn Mrs. Silvia P. Menendez Ms. Bette Mercer Blanche Messerly Robert and Susan Meyer Frances Michelsen Ms. Enid Miles Ms. Carol Miller Dr. and Mrs. Laurence Miller Nancy Cox Mills & Edward W. Mills Nicholas and Brenda Monaco Peter W. and Cathie Monge Bruce and Janet Montgomery Joseph P. Morra Nancy Morrison O’Connor Ms. Laura Mraz Joan Murray-Reynolds Laura and Tom Myers Stuart and Margaret Natof Ms. Karen Nordahl Mr. and Mrs. Brian W. Nutting Thomas and Catherine O’Connor Timothy C. O’Hara Robert O’Reagan Anna Ossler Lois Proctor Parker Mr. Howard Parris Ms. Sandra Parsons Barbara B. & Richard M. Patterson Norman and Joan Paull Joseph C. Pecar Gary and Alicia Peklo Mr. and Mrs. John Pelosi Janice B. Phalen William Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Paul Picciotta Mrs. Rosemary C. Pompa Maurice and Charlotte Potosky Ms. Suzanne Prebish Susannah F. Prindle Ms. Carol W. Ramella Mrs. Elizabeth M. Read Ms. Virginia Rehbehn Barbara G. Resnick Mary Rich Mr. George Richon Caroline M. Rickerson Revocable Trust Robert C. and Rose Marie Ridgway
Thank You Mr. and Mrs. James C. Ritter Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Rogers Mr. Dwayne Rosenburgh In memory of Philip L. Rothchild Libby S. Rubin Linda and Fillmer Ruegg Ludmilla and Andrew Sabatiuk Ronnie and Les Sax Elizabeth M. Schmidt Ms. Dorothy A. Schmiedeler Edwin and Sondra Schonfeld Marion and Dick Schreitmueller Lynn Shanholtz Bensel and Ruth Selis Mr. and Mrs. Guy Shannon Ruth and Marvin Shapiro Michael J. Silard Ms. Esther Silverman William Simms Cora and Murray Simpson Robert Sjogren
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Slate Jim and Anne Slaughter Carl W. Smith & Michael L. Burke Maureen and Jeff Smith Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sneeringer Eugenia P. Sorgnit Mr. and Mrs. Gary Sowers Janet Springer Ms. Mary A. Steele Elaine and Stanford Steppa Mr. Craig Stevens Herbert and Anne Stiff Mr. Thomas Stocks Andris Strauss Charles and Barbara Szczepanski Alicia B. Taylor Lois Taylor and Stephen Simpson Marvin and Marcia Thomas Charlie and Deborah Thompson Edward L. Tiffey Patricia and Ronald Tipton Mr. and Mrs. James Torri
Kevin Townsend and Jane Pesci-Townsend Mr. John D. Townsley Carrie and John Trauth Molly and Stuart Turkewitz Ms. Mary Sue Vidro Anne K. Voegele & Dieter J. Blume John and Charlotte Walker Mr. Marc Walton & Ms. Toni Stifano Jean Warner Bill and Pearlie Warren Professor and Mrs. Peter P. Weidenbruch, Jr. Michael and Ricki Weiser Sherry Wester Iris Wilder Jim Williams Rosemary Wong Jim and Marca Woodhams Ms. Frances Woodrow Mr. and Mrs. Dan Zimmerman
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Olney Theatre Corporation Board of Directors President.............................................................. Jennifer L. Kneeland Vice President......................................................................Guy Tegler Treasurer.................................................................. Patricia Woodbury Secretary.....................................................................Anthony Morella Assistant Secretary.......................................................... Amy Marshall Chairman Emeritus............................................William H. Graham, Sr. President Emeritus.......................................................Gene Counihan
Board Members Phyllis Bottegal Frances H. Glendening John E. Going W. E. Gregory Robert E. Hebda Arthur Holmes Jeffrey Kaufman Stephen Kaufman
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STAFF Artistic/Production Artistic Director
Jim Petosa
Associate Artistic Directors
John Going, Halo Wines, Clay Hopper
Resident Musical Director
Christopher Youstra
Resident Set Designer James Kronzer Resident Costume Designer
Howard Vincent Kurtz
Resident Lighting Designer
Daniel MacLean Wagner
Production Manager
Renee E. Yancey
Company Manager
Mackenzie Douglas
Technical Technical Director
Eric Knauss
Assistant Technical Director
Administration Managing Director
Amy Marshall
Finance Director
Pauline Mendo
Finance Office
Chyeslan Buso Nene Keita
Facilities Manager
Mark Quackenbush
Assistant to Managing Director Maureen Estrin Business Assistant
Michael Silard
Business Manager
Emem Udofa
IT Manager
Dean Marshall
Communications Sales Director
Weldon C. Brown
Marketing Manager
Heather Latiri
Public Relations
RMR & Associates, Inc.
Jameson Shroyer
Graphic Designer
Laura Myers
Master Electrician
R. S. Buck
Audio Engineer
Kristin Rizzo
Social Media & Marketing Associate Sonie Mathew
Scenic Charge
Betsy Muller
Costume Shop Supervisor Assistant Costume Shop Supervisor
Jeanne Bland Seth Gilbert
Show Staff Assistant Stage Managers
Elisabeth A. Ribar Will Richardson
Running Crew
Ryan Milosevich Christopher Mollen
Light Board Operator
Nicholas Broten
Follow Spot Operator Samantha Brewer Fred T. Paul Wardrobe
Cara Barker Rachael Erichsen
Properties
Kristin Campbell
Production Associates
Cara Barker, Samantha Brewer, Nicholas Broten, Kristin Campbell, Rachael Erichsen, Ashleigh Millett, Ryan Milosevich, Christopher Mollen, Fred T. Paul, Elisabeth A. Ribar, Will Richardson
Olney Theatre Center for the Arts is a professional theater employing members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. 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 theatre as an essential component of our society.
Olney Theatre Center for the Arts is a member of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization representing the not-for-profit American theater; the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington; the League of Washington Theatres; and the Baltimore Theatre Alliance.
Patron Services Manager
Michael R. Burgtorf
Rentals Coordinator
Dan Van Why
Box Office Manager
Henriette Mendo
Assistant Box Office Manager
Marie Henry
House Managers
Casey Augusterfer, Gabe Charles, Cindy Collier, Lina Al Dajani, William Fullmer, Seth Ghitelman, Brittany Graham, Joy Hugo, R. Wesley Meekins, Anna Perritt, Khris-Ann Small
Box Office Associates
Arash Bahari, Stephanie Boyle, Shanna Chuenyane, Dvora Gautieri, Rachel Spory Harper, Leah Keilsohn, Anna Perrit, Joshua Rose, Barbara Scanlan, Amanda Spellman, Emily Townsend
Development Director of Development David Frankenberger, Jr. Development Assistant Maureen Estrin Development Associate Catherine Ichniowski Development Administrator
Valerie Shipman
National Players Director
Clay Hopper
General Manager
Kevin Hasser
Education Associate
Michael R. Kelly