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Among these recommendations is funding to renovate both the Stage and Ricketson theatres. As part of ballot measure 2B, voters will be asked to approve $112 million for five capital improvement projects at the City’s largest cultural organizations. Funding will support deferred maintenance, an education center, replacement of an animal hospital, life safety upgrades and preservation of an architectural icon. We hope you will vote “yes on 2B” to provide world-class theatres for our world-class productions. As I thank the Mayor and City Council, I would be remiss if I did not thank The Joan and Phill Berger Charitable Fund for its generous contribution to The Space Theatre as well as the many donors who give so generously to the DCPA (pages 36 - 41). Your support guarantees our continued success. Here’s to a terrific season ahead!
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And I’m just as excited to look ahead. Our 2017/18 season opens with Macbeth. Directed by Robert O’Hara, this re-imagination of The Scottish Play hearkens back to Shakespeare’s day with its all-male cast. Going head to head with good ol’ Will is the plot of Something Rotten! in which two brothers compete with The Bard by staging the world’s first musical.
We also return to The Space Theatre, which was closed last season for renovations (page 28). Still retaining its in-the-round distinction, The Space is now fully ADA compliant, features flexible staging options, and offers greatly improved lighting, sound and acoustical enhancements. We extend our appreciation to Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver City Council for supporting the project through the Better Denver Bond program, as well as their support of “Our Denver,” the City’s next round of bond initiatives intended to restore, replace and expand city infrastructure (page 8).
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As I mark one year as President & CEO of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, it seems appropriate to look back on the past year’s successes. What a year! We hit a subscription high, surpassed $1 million in net proceeds raised at Saturday Night Alive, launched our Theatre for Young Audiences initiative, developed the pre-Broadway debut of Frozen and welcomed Martin Semple as our third Chairman.
Concurrently, our Associate Artistic Director Nataki Garrett makes her DCPA directorial debut with Smart People, a dramatic comedy in which four Harvard intellectuals try to determine if humans are predisposed to prejudice. Off-Center returns to Stanley Marketplace with The Wild Party, an immersive take on the scandalous 1928 poem by Joseph Moncure March.
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“You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.” — MACBETH ACT I, SCENE 3
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The words above come out the mouth of Banquo, Macbeth’s power-hungry "frenemy". And the first time Director Robert O’Hara came across them, they stuck in his head like courage to a sticking post.
O’Hara is presenting Macbeth just as Shakespeare did — with an all-male cast. Not that anyone will mistake O’Hara’s staging with anything resembling Shakespeare as it was presented in Jacobean times.
“That line is Banquo telling the witches they don’t look like women because they have beards,” said O’Hara, “And right then I was like, ‘Well maybe they're not women. Maybe they are men!’”
“The reason Shakespeare did not use women in his plays wasn’t because it was illegal for women to be on stage,” O’Hara said. “He did it because England was a sexist and misogynistic society that devalued the female.” That’s why, O’Hara says, the bloodthirsty Lady Macbeth must be viewed through the male perspective that created her.
That inherent gender contradiction fueled O’Hara’s vision for the DCPA Theatre Company’s season-opening production of Macbeth, which promises to confront audiences with a sexy, physical vision of Shakespeare the likes of which they have rarely seen before. “This is a world where you can roll up on some witches, and it doesn’t send you off running for the hills screaming at the top of your lungs?” O’Hara said. “Not only that, but they tell you you’re going to be king, and you just go right off and start killing folks. That, to me, is crazy. The witches don’t tell Macbeth to go kill Duncan. They just tell Macbeth he will be king someday. But he couldn’t wait a few days to start killing? Who knows, Macbeth. Maybe the king will choke to death on a chicken bone or something.” 10
“Can you imagine what women must have felt hearing about all these stories with female characters that were written and performed by men? The very nature of the Jacobean patriarchal society would color how characters like Lady Macbeth came about and were presented on the stage.” Masculinity pervades Shakespeare’s text without any help from O’Hara. With the exception of the witches, Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff are the only significant female characters in the entire story. “Lady Macbeth says all this stuff about ‘Unsex me,’ and, ‘If you were a man you’d be more of a man’ by killing the king, as she’s egging her husband on,” O’Hara said.
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O’Hara was interested by what he calls the locker-room mentality, then and now. “I thought, ‘What happens when a bunch of men get together and decide to present this story?” And so O’Hara’s tale takes place in a world where it is warlocks, not witches, who “double, double, toil and trouble.”
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In O’Hara’s world, getting together and performing the story of Macbeth as a kind of passion play is a ritual of these warlocks that has gone on for centuries.
Costume designers are in charge of the overall aesthetic representation of the character. They take the director’s vision and bring the page to life through their choices around color, material and style.
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, The Pit of Acheron is a swamp near Macbeth's castle where the witches are ordered to bring Macbeth. In O’Hara’s production, this pit becomes the setting of his entire play. “As someone living in New York City, it’s interesting to me that millions of people come to pay their respect to the fallen of 9/11 at the World Trade Center. They have built a performance complex right there, and inevitably there will be performances there that deal with 9/11. And that made me think, ‘What if my production in some odd way was the warlocks paying their respect to the fallen in the Macbeth story, which is a real story that took place hundreds of years before?’
Costume choices also go beyond fabric. In DCPA Theatre Company’s reimagined Macbeth, the costume design by Dede M. Ayite involves intricate tattoos customized for each character. The 17-person acting company will sport a variety of tattoo styles from contemporary tribal to traditional Pacific Islander.
“These warlocks are forever linked to their ancestors, and not in a good way. They have been blamed for the actions of Macbeth for centuries. So, what if this is them giving those ancient witches a renewed voice, through this ritual?”
Due to the physical nature of a Shakespearean show steeped in stage combat, the DCPA team has been tasked with bringing Ayite’s vision to life without starting the designs from scratch each night. Ideally, they will create a rotation where each actor will be re-inked every three to five performances.
This concept not only gives the audience the opportunity to see women characters played by men just as they were in Shakespeare’s time, but also to consider the inevitable patriarchal consequences. What will an all-male Macbeth do to the story? “I hope it will do exactly what it probably did when it was first performed,” O’Hara said. “I hope it gives some insight into the world we are living in today.”
“I'm very interested in this locker-room mentality. What happens when a bunch of men get together and decide to tell a story that has women in the story?” — ROBERT O’HARA, DIRECTOR
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1 & 2 DCPA EDUCATION hosted the Bobby G Awards to honor high school musical theatre. Top honors went to Elleon Dobias and Austin Hand who represented Denver in the National High School Musical Theatre Awards in NYC. 3 DCPA THEATRE COMPANY received five Henry Awards for its production of The Book of Will including Best Ensemble and Outstanding New Play. Actor Rodney Lizcano accepted the award on behalf of the Ensemble. 4 CEO Janice Sinden got a lift at the DCPA’S RANDY WEEKS MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT, which raised a record $110,954 to support DCPA Education. 5 DCPA BROADWAY is prepping for Breakin’ Convention (Nov 4 & 5) by hosting a first-of-its-kind community roundtable discussion with members of Denver’s hip hop community. 6 – 8 DCPA EDUCATION launched Theatre for Young Audiences (PreK-third grade) with In a Pickle, which is followed this fall by The Snowy Day and Other Stories... (page 20). Plus, Education welcomed nearly 1,700 students of all ages to its summer acting program, which culminated in Musical Mahyem and The Trip to Bountiful.
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Waitress Dec 19 – 31 Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I Jan 2 – 14, 2018 Zoey’s Perfect Wedding Jan 19 – Feb 25, 2018 American Mariachi Jan 26 – Feb 25, 2018 The Great Leap Feb 2 – Mar 11, 2018 STOMP Feb 13 – 18, 2018 Hamilton Feb 27 – Apr 1, 2018 This Is Modern Art Mar 22 - Apr 15, 2018 Disney's Aladdin Apr 6 – 28, 2018
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Most Broadway newcomers don’t get their first show produced by Tony Award-winner Kevin McCollum, and they don’t typically land Tony-winner Casey Nicholaw as their director-choreographer. But brothers Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick and British comedy writer John O’Farrell, the creators of the Tony Award-nominated Something Rotten!, aren’t like most Broadway first-timers.
“We thought of two writers,” Wayne says. “What if one went to a soothsayer? Then somewhere along the way it was, ‘What if the two writers were brothers? What if the soothsayer’s name was Nostradamus, but he wasn’t the Nostradamus? What if he was a senile, bad soothsayer, his nephew?’ Eventually it was, ‘If we’re going to do this, we should really get serious about it.’”
Growing up in Louisiana, the Kirkpatrick brothers fell in love with musical theater, appearing in high school shows and going to what’s now the Baton Rouge River Center to see touring productions of Broadway hits. In 1983, Karey Kirkpatrick saw his first show on Broadway, My One and Only, starring Tommy Tune and Twiggy, at the St. James Theatre – the theater that’s now home to Something Rotten!.
The brothers buckled down, and in 2010, Karey reached out to his friend Kevin McCollum, producer of original hits like Rent and Avenue Q.
Careers took the brothers and their Something Rotten! collaborator O’Farrell in different creative directions – Karey to success as a screenwriter, songwriter and director, with credits including The Rescuers Down Under, James and the Giant Peach and Chicken Run; Wayne to acclaim as a Grammy Award-winning songwriter (Eric Clapton’s Song of the Year “Change the World” and Garth Brooks’ “Wrapped Up in You” are his); O’Farrell to multifaceted success in the UK as a comic novelist, columnist and TV/film writer. The seeds of Something Rotten! were sewn in the mid1990s when Karey, who now lives in Los Angeles, and Wayne, who calls Nashville home, would get together for holidays or catch up by phone. “We were big history buffs. It started with, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if Shakespeare’s London were a lot like what Broadway was in the 1930s?’” Karey says. “Then it was, ‘What would it be like to be writing plays in the shadow of William Shakespeare, after Romeo and Juliet just opened?’” 16
“We called Kevin and said, ‘What do you need?’ He said that Avenue Q was three songs and an idea,” Karey says. “He came to my house and we pitched him five songs and the idea. He said, ‘I think you’ve got something here.’” Karey brought in O’Farrell, whom he’d met on Chicken Run, to help write the show’s story. The brothers crafted the music and lyrics, eventually writing more than 50 songs. What they had, after plenty of revisions and a multi-year developmental process, is a buoyant musical set in Shakespeare’s day that imagines the creation of the very first musical. Something Rotten! centers around Nick and Nigel Bottom (the last name comes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream), brothers desperate for a hit in Elizabethan London, where William Shakespeare is a rock star-like god of the stage lately given to cribbing plots. Nick’s wife Bea, a can-do gal in the style of Shakespearean heroines who cross-dress to get things done, tries to help. Nigel falls for a pretty Puritan named Portia, whose daddy strongly disapproves. Unreliable soothsayer Thomas Nostradamus, nephew of the Nostradamus, looks into the future and tells Nick that theater’s next big thing will be – tahdah! – “musicals”, where people sing, dance and act all at the same time!
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Something Rotten! is laced throughout with humor for Shakespeare aficionados and musical theater geeks. “We were conscious of not wanting to be so inside that you could only get it if you had seen the most obscure musicals,” Wayne Kirkpatrick says. “We went broad, purposely. We referenced not only the musicals that inspired us, but also musicals people would know even if they hadn’t seen them, or maybe they’d only seen the movie. The same with Shakespeare. Everybody knows some Shakespeare lines. There are a lot of what we refer to as his ‘hits’, that everybody is going to know.” The end result is a show so fresh and funny, audiences of all ages and backgrounds love it. “I think it doesn’t matter how much you know,” says director-choreographer Nicholaw, whose other current Broadway shows are Aladdin (coming to Denver April 6-28) and The Book of Mormon (returning to Denver June 13-July 1). “My nieces and nephews say it’s their favorite show that I’ve done, and they don’t know any of the references.” O’Farrell concludes, “If it works as a musical for people who don’t know musicals or Shakespeare, then I’m happy. It’s about show business and putting on a show. The show works on many levels, but the main level it works on, I hope, is that it’s just a great fun night out.”
“If it works as a musical for people who don’t know musicals or Shakespeare, then I’m happy. It’s about show business and putting on a show.… [I hope that] it’s just a great fun night out.” — JOHN O’FARRELL, Book
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Waitress Ten years ago, Waitress debuted in movie theatres. The filmturned-musical is the story about a down-on-her-luck waitress who is stuck in a dead-end job and is desperate to escape a loveless marriage. When she learns that she is unexpectedly pregnant, she resolves — through grit, determination and lipsmacking pies — to bake up her own recipe for happiness. The film debuted at Sundance, was distributed nationwide and, ultimately, inspired an all-female creative team to transform it for Broadway: sixtime Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles (“Brave,” “Love Song”), screenwriter Jessie Nelson (I Am Sam) and director Diane Paulus (Pippin, Finding Neverland). Tragically, the film’s creator and director, Adrienne Shelly, was killed before Waitress began its journey to the screen and stage. Her legacy is that of one strong, successful woman who inspired three equally strong, successful women to share a simple, heartwarming story — the story of a woman who found the strength within herself to transform her life. Let the story inspire you.
For the no-longer-green creative team, Something Rotten! has been a challenge, an education and a joy, an experience they still savor as the touring production plays cities all over the United States. “This was by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but [it was] so rewarding to sit in a theater and watch all these amazing contributions from people who took it beyond our idea to create this magical, happy experience,” Wayne says. Reprinted by permission.
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Paint a mental picture when you read The Miracle Worker or be splashed when Helen Keller learns to spell “w-a-t-e-r” under the rushing pump. Write a paper on survival of the fittest in Lord of the Flies or feel the heat from the fire pit as boys are consumed by power. Listen to a lecture on racial inequality or watch as young Scout circumvents a lynch mob in To Kill a Mockingbird. Or do both — take the classroom to the theatre for the complete experience. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) has a long tradition of providing Student Matinees to schools throughout the state. These productions often complement required reading with the joy of live theatre so that the words on a page leap to life on stage. And for the first time this season, four of the five DCPA programming lines will provide a studentfriendly production. In total, we will offer 119 student performances to 10 productions, which, together, will serve 36,000 students — expanding the number of students served by 227% percent. And in an effort to broaden access to all children, we are offering 10,000 scholarships to Title I schools. Student-friendly performances include Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, American Mariachi, The Great Leap, Native Gardens and The Who’s Tommy from DCPA Theatre Company; This Is Modern Art from Off-Center; The Snowy Day and Other Stories... from DCPA Education, and Breakin’ Convention and Disney’s Aladdin from DCPA Broadway.
“Most of my students have never been to a show, so this experience was life changing,” shared Tenaly Bleak of Otis School District. And if schools can’t attend on one of the select dates, we offer $10 Student Rush tickets to all DCPA Theatre Company productions one hour before each show on a space-available basis. Many other opportunities are available to students and educators through the generous support of individuals, companies and foundations throughout our community. To learn more about our Student Matinee program, DCPA Education and ways that you can help us broaden access to students throughout the metro Denver area, visit DENVERCENTER.ORG. 20
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SMART PEOPLE
presents
SMART PEOPLE
BY
Lydia R. Diamond
With Esther Chen, Timothy McCracken, Jason Veasey, Tatiana Williams
SCENIC DESIGN BY Efren Delgadillo Jr.
COSTUME DESIGN BY Lex Liang
LIGHTING DESIGN BY Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
SOUND DESIGN BY Curtis Craig
PROJECTION DESIGN BY Kaitlyn Pietras
CASTING BY Judy Bowman, CSA
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION Jeff Gifford
STAGE MANAGER Lyle Raper
DIRECTED BY Nataki Garrett
New York Premiere Produced by Second Stage Theatre, New York, 2016; Carole Rothman, Artistic Director / Casey Reitz, Executive Director Smart People was originally produced by the Huntington Theatre Company Boston, Massachusetts; Peter DuBois, Artistic Director / Michael Maso, Managing Director Smart People was originally commissioned by McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ; Emily Mann, Artistic Director / Jeffrey Woodward, Managing Director Smart People is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.
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SMART PEOPLE
CAST
(In Order of Appearance)
Valerie Johnston............................................................................................................................................TATIANA WILLIAMS Jackson Moore........................................................................................................................................................ JASON VEASEY Brian White............................................................................................................................................... TIMOTHY MCCRACKEN Ginny Yang....................................................................................................................................................................ESTHER CHEN
Assistant to the Director........................................................................................................................................SOPHIA KOOP Stage Manager................................................................................................................................................................ LYLE RAPER Assistant Stage Manager.......................................................................................................................................CORIN FERRIS Stage Management Apprentice...........................................................................................................................AMY LEGORE
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.
SETTING Various locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts ranging from 2007 through 2009, concluding with Barack Obama’s inauguration. There will be one 15-minute intermission.
ACTING COMPANY ESTHER CHEN (Ginny Yang). At the Theatre Company: Debut. Other Theatres: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Behind the Mask, Miss Saigon and Shrek the Musical. TV/Film: “Table Talk,” “Wide Open,” “Redrum.” Training: NYU and Michael Howard Studios. Esther is an actor and stand up comedian from Taiwan. She can be seen performing at Gotham Comedy Club and Broadway Comedy Club. www.TheEstherChen.com Twitter/Instagram: @Pestherchen TIMOTHY MCCRACKEN (Brian White). At the Theatre Company: A Christmas Carol, Jackie and Me, The Giver and others. New York: The Dining Room (Keen Company), Troilus and Cressida (NY Shakespeare Fest), The Sea and The Triangle Factory Fire Project (TACT) and many others. Regional: Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Geva Theatre, Capital Rep and many others. In Colorado: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Arvada Center, Curious Theatre, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, Local Theatre, Stories on Stage. TV/Film: “Small, Beautifully Moving Parts,” “Fishing Naked,” “Law and Order,” “Delocated.” Awards/Training: Drama Desk Award, MFA: National Theatre Conservatory. JASON VEASEY (Jackson Moore). At the Theatre Company: Debut. Broadway/ National Tours: The Lion King. OffBroadway: For the Last Time, Popesical. Regional: I Now Pronounce (Humana Festival Actors Theatre of Louisville), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage Company), Peter and the Starcatcher (Virginia Stage Company), Five Guys Named Moe (Pioneer Theater Company) and many more. Film: American Gangster and the upcoming Mike Mike Tan. Training: University of Northern Colorado.
TATIANA WILLIAMS (Valerie Johnston). At the Theatre Company: Debut. Other Theatres: The Royal Family, A Christmas Carol (Guthrie); Girl Shakes Loose (Penumbra); Pericles (Ten Thousand Things); Daughters of Africa (one woman tour); Pussy Valley, Neighbors (Mixed Blood Theater); Prometheus Bound, Piedra De Sol (Getty Villa Malibu); Old Boyfriends (Strastoni Theater Moscow); LA Views (Company of Angels); BLKS (Ojai Playwrights Conference). TV/Film: Various web series/commercial/print work and has cooked with Martha Stewart. Training: BFA, CalArts. AUTHOR LYDIA R. DIAMOND (Playwright). Awardwinning plays include: Smart People, Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus, The Bluest Eye, The Gift Horse, Harriet Jacobs, The Inside and Stage Black. Theatres include: Arena Stage, Cort Theatre (Broadway), Chicago Dramatists, Company One, Congo Square, Goodman, Hartford Stage, Huntington, Jubilee, Kansas City Rep, Long Wharf, Lorraine Hansberry, McCarter, Mo’Olelo, MPAACT, New Vic, Playmakers Rep, Plowshares, Second Stage, Steppenwolf and TrueColors. Commissions include: Arena Stage, Steppenwolf (4), McCarter, Huntington, Center Stage, Victory Gardens and The Roundabout. A recipient of many playwriting awards, Lydia also was an 2005/06 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute non-resident Fellow, a 2007 TCG/NEA Playwright in Residence at Steppenwolf, an 2006/07 Huntington Playwright Fellow, a 2012 Sundance Institute Playwright Lab Creative Advisor, is a Board Member at Chicago Dramatists, and a 2012/13 Radcliffe Institute Fellow. Lydia is an NU graduate (’91), has an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Pine Manor College and is 2013-14 Playwright in Residence at Arena Stage. DIRECTOR NATAKI GARRETT (Director). Featured in the November 2016 edition of American Theatre magazine’s “One to Watch,” Nataki Garrett is the former Associate Artistic Director of CalArts Center for New Performance. Garrett is a Company Member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors, a NAACP Award nominee and a member of SDC. Recent regional credits include: Hurt
Village (Ubuntu Theater Project), An Octaroon (Woolly Mammoth and Mixed Blood), Pussy Valley (Mixed Blood), Neighbors (Mixed Blood, Matrix), Bullrusher (Skylight Theater Company), Hoodoo Love (Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company), Smoke Lilies and Jade (CalArts Center for New Performance). Radio credits include Biloxi Blues, Tape, 16 Wounded, The Living Room. Opera credits: Wet and Sucktion. For NPR. CREATIVE TEAM JUDY BOWMAN (Casting Director). Recent projects include The Big Dogs (episodic series), “Twelve” (feature film), Mutual Philanthropy (NJ Rep), An Octoroon (Woolly Mammoth/Nataki Garrett), The Legend of Georgia McBride (DTF/Stephen Brackett), and American Buffalo (DTF/John Gould Rubin). Frequent collaborations: Partial Comfort, Project Y, San Francisco Playhouse, the Attic, TheaterMasters Take 10, Kitchen Theatre Company, Jewish Plays Project, and Scandinavian American Theatre Co. Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s MFA film program. CURTIS CRAIG (Sound Designer). At the Theatre Company: Disgraced, Frankenstein, All The Way. Other Theatres: Classical Theater of Harlem, Watertower Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Arkansas Rep, and Pennsylvania Centre Stage. Recent sound design and composition: The First Noel (Apollo Theater); The List (New York Fringe Festival); Creep (Watertower Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Whipping Man, On The Razzle (Clarence Brown Theater). His sound and media design for Gizmo was selected for exhibition at the 2013 World Stage Design expo in Cardiff, Wales. His composition and sound design work for Pentecost — gold medal in sound design at the 2009 World Stage Design exposition in Seoul, South Korea. EFREN DELGADILLO JR. (Scenic Designer). At the Theatre Company: Debut. Los Angeles credits include Sweet Heart Deal (L.A.T.C.), Mojada: A Medea in LA (Getty Villa and Boston Court), Shelter (Center for New Performance), Prometheus Bound (Center for New Performance and Getty Villa), Brewsie and Willie (Center for New Performance and Poor Dog Group), Wirehead (Echo Theatre Company). Outside Los Angeles, his credits include DJ Latinidad (Mixed Blood Theatre, MN), Three Musketeers (The Acting Company, NY), and Othello (Hartford Stage Company).
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LEX LIANG (Costume Designer). At the Theatre Company: Disgraced. Regional: Alliance Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, CSFAC, La Jolla Playhouse, Longwharf, Paper Mill Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage, Syracuse Stage, Tantrum Theatre, among others. NYC/ Off-Broadway: 50+ productions, most recently, 9 Circles. Lex is the Principal/ founder of LDC Design Associates, a NYC design and production company for creative special events. Recent projects: NYC Wine and Food Festival, Tony Awards Gala, Fashion Week Gala, Operation Smile’s 35th Anniversary Gala, GMHC 35th Anniversary Gala. JEANETTE OI-SUK YEW (Lighting Designer). At the Theatre Company: Debut. Recent theatre: The Ugly One, Ludic Proxy (Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Award); Poison (US premiere); So Go the Ghosts of Mexico Part One (Best Lighting Design nomination); Harry and the Thief, Pinkolandia, Or. Other: KPOP, Company XIV’s Nutcracker Rogue (various Drama Desk nominations); Tan Dun’s Water Passion, Thumbprint, Silent Voices, Pelléas and Melisande, Gloria - A Pig Tale (New York Philharmonic). Recipient of NEA/TCG Career Development Program. KAITLYN PIETRAS (Projection Design). At the Theatre Company: Debut. Regional: Unison and Mojada (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Flora & Ulysses, OZ 2.5 (South Coast Repertory); Breaking Through (Pasadena Playhouse). New York: A Fable (Cherry Lane Theatre); The Gin Baby (IRT Theatre). Scenery and projections for Do Like the Kids Do and Shiner (IAMA Theatre Co.). Other selected credits: Cuba Libre (Artists Repertory Theatre); scenery and projections for The Other Place and The English Bride (Road Theatre Co.); Melissa Arctic (Road Theatre Co.); scenery and projections for RII (Theatre @ Boston Court); Thieves, Slipping (Rattlestick West). STAGE MANAGEMENT LYLE RAPER (Stage Manager). At the Theatre Company: 27 seasons as Production Stage Manager until 2010. Other Theatres: PCPA/Solvang Theatrefest, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Berkeley Rep, Lizard Head Theatre, Shakespeare in Santa Fe, Lost Highway, The Explorer’s Club and Muscle Shoals: I’ll Take You There at the Lone Tree Arts Center. She currently serves on the advisory board of the Georgetown Festival of the Arts in Texas. CORIN FERRIS (Assistant Stage Manager). At the Theatre Company: The Secret Garden, Sweeney Todd, All The Way, A Christmas Carol, Looking
Glass Alice. At DCPA Cabaret: An Act of God. Other Theatres: Equivocation, Cymbeline (Colorado Shakespeare Festival), Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, Renaissance Theatre Works, Wild Space, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Training: BFA, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. THEATRE COMPANY LEADERSHIP TEAM CHARLES VARIN (Managing Director) and his team are responsible for the administrative, financial and business operations for Theatre Company and Off-Center productions and other artistic initiatives. Since joining the Theatre Company in 2006, he has played a major role in executing the artistic vision of the organization and facilitating the production of shows such as Sweet & Lucky, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Sense & Sensibility The Musical, The 12, Sweeney Todd with DeVotchKa and many more. Charles is passionate about artistic innovation and firmly believes in DCPA’s long-standing commitment to new plays and new voices. NATAKI GARRETT (Associate Artistic Director). See bio under Director. CHARLIE MILLER (Associate Artistic Director) oversees new and innovative programming at the Denver Center including Off-Center, audience engagement projects, and other strategic initiatives. As co-founder and Curator of Off-Center, Charlie has led its growth from a small theatrical testing center to one of the DCPA’s signature lines of programming. Before joining the Artistic Team full time, Charlie divided his time between Off-Center and the Theatre Company’s Multimedia Department. As DCPA’s award-wining Resident Video Designer, Charlie designed and created projection/video content for 35 productions in nine seasons. Charlie is a Harvard graduate and a sixth generation Denverite. JEFF GIFFORD (Director of Production) is in his fifth season at the DCPA and oversees everything you see on stage except the actors. Guiding world premieres to their first opening night is especially gratifying and Jeff has worked on more than 35 of them. Among his favorites are Dinner with Friends, The Violet Hour, The Beard of Avon, Mr. Marmalade, and the new musical FLY. Jeff holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. The Theatre Company is grateful for the funds provided by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District. Special thanks also to grants from the Helen G. Bonfils Foundation; and contributions from
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SMART PEOPLE EXPOSED How smart is smart? It depends on whom you ask. Playwright Lydia R. Diamond has the inside track.
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By Sylvie Drake Smart People is a loaded title for a loaded play. It opens with projected images: diverse people, young, old, rich, poor, engaged in various activities. When I asked the play’s author, Lydia R. Diamond, what these images meant, she thought for a moment. “I wanted to open with a sense of the diversity of the characters,” she said with gravitas. “I wanted to inspire the director in a certain direction. I write from a very visual place, particularly when it’s about race.” And yes, Smart People is about race. Diamond is meticulous when it comes to intent. Her talents now include writing for film and television as well as theatre and she was in the middle of writing for Showtime’s The Affair when we spoke on the phone in July. This required that she pull her mind off that project to discuss her 2014 play. Four complicated people vie for our attention in Smart People: Brian, a white, tenured Harvard professor of neuropsychiatry with an entitlement issue who’s pursuing a controversial project; Valerie, a young African American struggling to break through as a professional actress (or just be seen?); Ginny, a Chinese-Japanese American professor of psychology at Harvard with a serious shopping habit who focuses on identity issues among Asian American women; and Jackson, an African American medical resident with an attitude, fresh out of Harvard Med and eyeing a career as a surgeon. If these thumbnail descriptions sound rooted in academia, they are. “My mother was a college professor,” Diamond offered. “I grew up in a family of academics.” Her own career has included stints as a professor and, although they are now divorced, she was married to a Harvard professor with whom she has a son. “I was very aware of that self-congratulatory world,” she added, “and what shapes it.” Smart People was triggered by a Princeton study about how we, as a species, tend to dehumanize the lowest of the low. When the study’s focus group was confronted by images of indigent, homeless people, the group registered no reaction. That detail got Diamond’s attention. It confirmed for her that our preconceptions — how we see others — are where prejudice begins.
Nataki Garrett, who joined the DCPA Theatre Company as Associate Artistic Director in January, chose Smart People for her Denver directorial debut because she could relate, she said. Like Diamond, Garrett comes from an African American family of academics. Except that she grew up in Oakland, CA, in the 1980s. “It was the middle of the Reagan scourge, the drug scene, the killings down the street from my house. That was my life.” With President Obama’s ascension to the presidency, “I was living in an extreme dichotomy with my sweet liberal friends because they were saying ‘racism is over,’ except it wasn’t. They weren’t listening to the wider world; they were listening to the sound of their own voice. Their sense of entitlement determined how the world was meant to be: my existence defined by your privilege. “I wasn’t shocked by the [Trump] election and needed to ask myself why,” she continued. “Why wasn’t I…? And then I read Smart People and remembered how selfcongratulatory my sweet liberal friends had been. This belief that you and I are alike just because we’re really good friends, is an illusion. We’re not [alike]. ‘Liberal’ does not protect you from bias; you have to go back to the beginning to understand how we got to here.” Before coming to Denver, Garrett racked up solid credits working in various capacities with a broad range of the country’s best resident theatre companies and schools, most recently California’s CalArts. She was highlighted in American Theatre magazine last year as a person to watch and admits she favors doing cutting edge work by emerging artists. “My mandate in the theatre is to give voice to the voiceless. I’m attracted to plays that seem impossible to stage and that chase us out of our comfort zones.” She selected Efren Delgadillo, Jr. to design the sets for Smart People because, she said, “he favors clean lines and uncluttered spaces. Nothing’s hidden. A neutral place, so we can hear the words.” And Diamond’s words do demand to be heard, because Diamond is an equal opportunity indicter. She
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refutes the notion that bigotry is owned only by certain people. As demonstrated by her stark 2008 play Stick Fly, racism cuts all ways. No one is exempt. Her “smart people” have issues with the wider world, but they also have a hard time talking to each other. Their anger simmers under a fragile surface that erupts easily. As the world’s playwrights all know, communication is mainly miscommunication — a human failing, regardless of the color of one’s skin, yet made worse by it. “I knew Brian had to be a white man,” said Diamond, whose protagonist is “a neuroscientist out to prove that white people are biologically racist. No, that’s not what I believe,” she added quickly. It was a way to jumpstart the discussion.
component. I discover things as I go along.” That the play takes place in the weeks leading up to President Obama’s inauguration is a component that wasn’t there when she started thinking about Smart People. Yet when his presidency became reality, it played into her premise, helping to shape it. As for the recent torrent of racism unleashed by Mr. Obama’s successor, Diamond said only, “I always thought that I would rather people be outspoken about their ideas, but I find it frightening.” Sylvie Drake is a translator, former theatre critic and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, contributor to culturalweekly.com, American Theatre magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and former DCPA Director of Media Relations and Publication.
“I didn’t know what or who the characters around this man would be,” she said. “Creating characters is part of a process that’s purposeful, but also organic. It has a spiritual
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Diamond’s words do demand to be heard, because she’s an equal opportunity indicter. She refutes the notion that bigotry is owned only by certain people…racism cuts all ways. No one is exempt.
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On New Year’s Day 1980, The Space Theatre opened with a production of Orson Welles’ Moby Dick — Rehearsed. It was the second of a trio of plays that were performed to celebrate the opening of the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex.
of seating so that the theatre can be changed show by show to best meet the needs of each production. Additionally, our guests and artists will benefit from state-of-the art acoustics, lighting and sound, and greatly improved sightlines.”
The building was called “elegantly beautiful,” “spectacularly modern” and the “Crown Jewel of the Rockies.” And the free-form, pentagonal and flexible Space Theatre was called “unique” and “unlike any other.”
As in theatre, there are many significant contributors to a successful production. Semple Brown Design (the local, award-winning architectural firm that reconceived the City’s Ellie Caulkins Opera House in 2005), was brought in to reimagine The Space Theatre, which was originally designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche.
Since that star-studded night, The Space Theatre has hosted 175 productions by the Tony Award-winning DCPA Theatre Company. In all that time, it has only received one minor cosmetic update. Now approaching its 40th birthday, The Space was due for a massive overhaul. Thanks in part to a $10 million grant from the Better Denver Bond Program as well as a generous contribution by The Joan and Phill Berger Charitable Fund represented by Phil and Marcie Munishor, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) embarked on its most significant theatre renovation project to date. Led by Vice President of Facilities Management & Event Services Clay Courter and Theatre Company Director of Production Jeff Gifford, the DCPA’s Facilities and Production teams have worked since 2013 to imagine, plan and oversee the renovation project. “Thanks to Mayor Hancock, City Council, the Better Denver Bond Program and the generosity of the Munishors,” noted Courter, “we were able to address critical life-safety issues and ensure full ADA compliance including two fully accessible tech booths for our staff. Additionally, we wanted to create a more welcoming and comfortable environment for our guests with the creation of a designated lobby for The Space Theatre, reduced seating for a more intimate experience and increased restrooms including an inclusive restroom. “The new and improved Space Theatre keeps the intimate, theatre-in-the-round style,” said Gifford, “but it now gives our artists more options with which to play. We have the flexibility to completely remove one section 28
“Altogether, we made lots of changes,” said Chris Wineman of Semple Brown Design, “but we tried not to alter what’s unique about this room — the sense of contained energy, the sense of focus and the wonderful sense of being surrounded…. That leads to a lot of the other aesthetic choices that you see. It’s a palette of colors and textures that is very specifically theatrical because when the lights go down, the architecture is meant to go away.” The architectural vision was then paired with the needs of artists, actors, designers and theatre technicians when Theatre Projects (CT) was brought in to consult on the renovation. “When we came in, we too didn’t want to screw up what was great about what was already here,” said Michael Ferguson of Theatre Projects, “but improve the things that could be improved and leave it functioning at a higher and better level.” One of its major tasks was to convert two entry points into one mezzanine level entrance, which required the upper bowl of seats to be disengaged from the balcony and rotated one-tenth. And the final critical partner was Turner Construction. Based in Greenwood Village, this international construction company may be best known locally for its work on Sports Authority Field at Mile High. "Turner Construction is proud to be a partner of the DCPA through its work on The Space Theatre renovation and other projects,” said Aaron Wiebelhaus, General
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SPECIAL THANKS Special thanks to the many individuals and companies who had the vision and commitment to make a world-class theatre that is equal to its world-class productions. THE JOAN AND PHILL BERGER CHARITABLE TRUST Dr. Marcie and Mr. Phillip Munishor
CITY OF DENVER Mayor B. Michael Hancock Denver City Council City Councilman Albus Brooks Better Denver Bond Program George Delaney Scott Hergenrader Laura Perry Brian Sarahoun Michael Sheehan
Manager. “By helping DCPA bring unforgettable shared cultural experiences to Denver, Turner achieves its goal of being a good steward of this great city and building spaces that have a positive impact on the community." “This project would not have been possible without the All-Star team we assembled for the project,” said Courter. “Turner Construction and all of its subcontractors, Semple Brown Design, Theatre Projects, and the tireless work of our Facilities and Production staffs have transformed ideas, suggestions and designs into a next-generation home for our Tony Awardwinning Theatre Company and our loyal patrons.”
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SEMPLE BROWN DESIGN, ARCHITECT Todd Afflerbaugh Aaron Anderson Rusty Brown Sarah Brown Mary Kay Sunset Chris Wineman
"...we tried not to alter what's unique — the sense of contained energy, the sense of focus and the wonderful sense of being surrounded..."
THEATRE PROJECTS Millie Dixon Michael Ferguson
TURNER CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL CONTRACTOR Adam Aldrich Kayla Donovan Rebecca Kalinowsky Aaron Laird Michael Mersmann Aaron Wiebelhaus
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Since the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex opened its doors in 1979, 4.5 million patrons have come through its doors to laugh, to cry, to think and to be entertained. Year over year, season after season, the productions have been world-class. Now, the theatre in which they are performed has been elevated well beyond its original vision. In the archives from the original opening, the following notation was made and is just as true as it was 40 years ago: The great vagabond poet, Robert W. Service, once said, “The theatre is the house of life.” Anyone connected with the conception, design, construction and nurturing of the incredible Denver Center for the Performing Arts would wholeheartedly agree. As a structure, in its many parts and taken altogether, it is truly a work of art. But its main function is to house the works of men and women who have endeavored to bring art to the world. And where there’s art, there’s life.
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Mr. Robert Blauvelt & Mr. Michael Corrigan
Mr. & Mrs. Daryl Stewart
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Bortz
Mr. Al Stutson
Libby Bortz
Leigh & Darren Markley
Dick & Sonnie Talley
Ms. Betsy Brachfeld
Mr. & Mrs. Morton Marks
Kevin Taylor Restaurant Group+
Ms. Haley Branch
Drs. David & Heidi Markenson
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Colville
Dr. Patricia Baca/The Colorado Trust Directed Contributions Program
Dr. & Mrs. Dennis Lanier
Mr. & Mrs. Jon A. Madsen
Rep. Mike Coffman
Ms. Melanie Davidson
Ms. Debbie LaBrant-Hartung
Mr. Mack Lovvorn
Dr. Tom Reiley & Mrs. Linda Cobb-Reiley
Mr. Hartman Axley
Shell Oil Matching Gifts Program
Ms. Stephanie Levert
Bob & Liana Clark
Kevin & Dawn Collins
Ms. Allison Olsson
Sage Hospitality+
Ms. Keri Christiansen
Peter Baumgartner
Mr. John Blair
Mr. & Mrs. Cole Brannick
Denver Art Museum+ Kyle & Sarah Ehrhardt Doug & Tana English Mr. Lou Eppelscheimer+ Mr. & Mrs. James W. Espy Mr. John Estes Mr. & Mrs. Howard L. Farkas Mr. Andrew Feinstein Mr. Gregory Fulton Galvin Family Foundation GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program The Gilman Family Foundation
THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS Barry J. Goldstein Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation Glenn & Kim Goodwin Henry H. & Lorie Gordon Ronald & Vivian Gordon Ms. Odile Grady Alyson Graves Greenwood Country Club+ Dr. Brian Greffe Lisza Gulyas Mr. Mark Gyetvay Mr. Donald Hagengruber Steve & Maggie Haley The Hamlin Family Fund Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Harrison Rhondda Evans Hartman & the Jackson H. Fenner Foundation
Mr. Harland Ranney
Mr. & Mrs. Michael West
Ms. Cindy Kent & Mr. Tudor Coleman
Ms. Patricia Rawlings
Ms. Deborah Westman
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Ray
Dr. Jeff Wheeler Ms. Ginger White Brunetti
Kinder Morgan Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Reichenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Michael King
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Repp
Diane Kremer
Mrs. Shari Ribordy
Mr. & Mrs. John Kulich
Steven & Joan Ringel
Mr. Joseph Kurgan
Fred & Ayliffe Ris
Craig Zeller in honor of Margot & Allan Frank
Mr. & Mrs. Gary LaPlante
Jerry & Shifra Rosen in honor of Ellie Caulkins
ENSEMBLE ($250 - $499)
Donald & Janenne Rosen
Mr. & Mrs. Eula Adams
Mr. Stephen Row
Ms. Lynna D. Adell
Mr. & Mrs. Kirk Scheitler
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Adler
Ms. Lisa Schmidt
Ms. Kirsten Anderson
Ms. BJ Scott
Anonymous Donors (3)
Ms. Julie Scott
Ms. Nancy Arellano-Meyer
Lisbeth & Earl Sethre
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Arnold
Ms. Pamela Sletten
Mrs. Karen Barker
Mr. David Sloan
Mr. David Barnes
Mr. Brock Smethills & Ms. Kelly Sweeney
Mr. Chris Beatty
Dr. Angela Betker & Dr. Anthony Simon
Mr. & Mrs. David Kiefer
Ms. Miquela Luna Paul Manoogian Mr. & Mrs. Brian McCallin Ms. Michaela McDonnel Mr. Aaron McDowell Mr. & Mrs. Bryce McTavish* Mr. Robert Meade Jr. Gene & Dee Milstein Monty Nuss Photography+
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Williams Mr. & Mrs. Michael Williams Mr. & Mrs. Bob Zaparanick
Haselden Construction
Ms. Rayanne Mori
Mr. Craig Hemenway
Ms. Trish Morris*
Bob & Lisa Hephner
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Mulvany
Mr. Jon Seay & Ms. Robin Heppler
Mr. Stuart Myhill
Cheryl L. Solich & John W. Kure
Ms. Marcia Naiman
Dr. & Mrs. Harlan Spritzer
Ms. Jennifer Betz
Mr. Ben Nesbitt
Stellar Solutions Foundation
Mrs. Bonnie Bills
Janet Nessinger
Ms. Susan Stiff+
Kerri Blum
Denny & Judy O'Brien
Mr. Thomas Suter
Ms. Tara Olley
Mrs. Melanie Tafaro
Ms. Sue Bovey & Ms. Carol Bell
Miss Brea Olson
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Tashiro
Ms. Kristen Brown
Mr. Joe Oltmann
Philip & Page Tatar
Mr. & Mrs. Keith Burge
Gregory & Caitlin Osborn
John & Judith Taubman
William & Georgina Bush
Mr. Marc Paolicelli
Nancy & Jon Tellor Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Ron Butz
Kent Thompson & Kathleen McCall
Mrs. Diana Carney
Catherine Hesse Ms. Patricia Hill Mrs. Anne Hillary Sheila Hoff Mr. & Mrs. Travis Hohn Mr. & Mrs. Guy Holman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Holt* Mr. Jeff Hovorka & Mr. Thad Valdez*
Ms. Leslie Beltrami
Terri Caine
Ms. Kelley Howes
Ms. Dena Pastorini
Mr. Joseph Hyland
Mr. Justin Peltzer
IBM Matching Grants Program
Mr. Fred Stone & Mr. Dan Peregoy
Ibraheem's Rugs & Furnishings Boutique+
Mr. & Mrs. Joe Perrotto
Mrs. Janie Trevor
Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp
Mr. & Mrs. John Tumler
Chris Perschbacher & Travis Fasching
Paco Varela & Tim Wilson
Colorado Symphony Orchestra+
Ms. Renée Verspoor
Ms. Ellen Connor
Ms. Herminia Vigil
Bob & Georgi Contiguglia
Ed & Patty Wahtera
Ms. Lana Cordier-Shelton
Ms. Theresa Wallace+
Mr. Tom Curley
Lee & Jilda Weinstein
Ms. Colleen Curran
Imhoff Ohlson Family Fund Ms. Eleanor Isbill Mr. & Mrs. Jon Isenhart Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jeffery Paul R. Jeselnick & Andy W. Strickland Mr. Jay E. Johnson 40
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Mr. Kirk Petersen Mrs. Kathleen Potter Mr. Steven Powell Koger & Marcie Propst
Ms. Cynthia Treadwell
Two Hands Wines+
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Ms. Cynthia Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Allan Cheuvront Ms. Dianne Clarke Colorado Health Foundation
Carlos & Mary De la Rosa Devils Thumb Ranch+ Mrs. Jacklyn Devine Daniel P. Archer & Julie A. Dionigi Loralee & James Dischner Ms. Stephanie Doss Mr. & Mrs. Roy Drake Mr. & Mrs. Richard Dubreuil Ms. Julie Dugan Ms. Jennifer Dyer Mr. Marshall Essig Ms. Melissa Fetzer Mrs. Brianna Firestone* Ms. Deborah Ford-Williams
Marilyn & Leland Huttner Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. George Johnson Rebecca & George Kalinowsky Dr. Igal Kam
Ms. Margaret Morton Ms. Jennifer Nealson Ms. Gayle Nosal Mrs. Gayle Novak Mr. Jon Olafson Ms. Rhonda Olguin
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Slosky in memory of William Cohodas Kathryn & Hanspeter Spuhler Dr. Apryl Steele Dr. & Mrs. Robert Sterrett
Ms. Marilyn Oliver
Arthur & Stephanie Strasburger
Mr. David Kenney
Jean & Ed Onderko
Ms. Inge Tamm-Daniels*
Dr. & Mrs. Thomas King
Mr. Dennis Orcutt
Kate Testerman
Roberta & Mel Klein
Robin & Stuart Pack
Ms. Linda Thompson
Mrs. Janet Klotz
Chuck & Helina Palmer
Ms. Barbara Thorngren
Peter & Roberta Knott
Cherylee & Craig Parker
Ms. Linda Konde
Ms. Cleo Parker Robinson*
Ms. Barbara Thorngren in memory of Gil Farin
Bob & Nancy Koontz
Ms. Julia Parrino & Mr. Richard D. George
Janine Kempfer & Jaye Lucas
Mr. Craig Truman
Jeff & Leah Peer
Mr. & Mrs. Howard L. Turetzky
Ms. Susan Pensiero
Mr. Jack Turner
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Peters
Mr. Richard Turner
Mr. John Lee
Emi Peterson
Jennifer Leitsch
Ms. Margaret A. Platte
University of Denver, Office of University Advancement
Les Cygnettes
Ms. Jeanne Posthumus Mr. Glen Pray
Ms. Laurie Gaspar
Dr. Charles Lobitz & Dr. Gretchen Lobitz
Mr. & Mrs. Ben Valore-Caplan
Ms. Sheri Raders
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gass
Mr. & Mrs. Harold Logan
Mr. Charles Varin
Ms. M. Lou Raders
Ms. Kathleen Gonzales
Mr. Guy Lopez
Mr. Mark Vera
Mr. Thomas R. Graham & Ms. Judith Pettibone
Mr. Randy Loveland
Mr. Mark C. Reese & Ms. Martha Graves Reese
Colin A. Walker
Mr. Tracy Forst JoAnne Friedman & Steven Trujillo Hon. & Mrs. Herb Galchinsky Karen Garcia Ms. Jennifer Garner Mrs. Velvia Garner
Mrs. Donna Kornfeld Mr. Troy Lakey Professor Richard S. Leaman
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Valas
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Wallace
William & Mary Carol Riaski*
Mrs. Jeri Groves
Ms. Jedeane MacDonald Cone
Ms. Linda Rieger
Ms. Julia Haddad
Mrs. Deb Mager
Sandra Walling in memory of Don Johnson
Bob & Dianne Rizzuto
Ms. Judi Hand
Jerry Maglio
Ms. Tobi Watson*
Mr. Dennis Robinson
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Hartman
Susan & Charlie Maguire
Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Webster
Ms. Tamarah Rodriguez
Ms. Kristin Harvey
Joyce Mahn
Mrs. Wendy Weil
Mrs. Nancy Roeder
Mr. Thomas P. Hayes
Mr. Michael Mallett
Ilana Rubin*
Mr. Doug Wells & Ms. Molly McNamara
Mrs. Joan Hazen
Mr. & Mrs. Louis Martella
Mrs. Lorraine Salazar
Thomas & Kimberly Whyte
Mr. John Helfrich
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mathews
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Saunders
Ms. Susan Helmer
Mr. William Mathews & Ms. Joy Godesiabois
Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Schmitt
Mr. Jim Wilmsen & Mrs. Kim Brown Wilmsen
Hon. Robert Fullerton & Ms. Beverlee Henry Fullerton Jacinto & Pamela Hernandez Ms. Pamela Hirschman Mr. David Hoch Holland & Hart LLP Ms. Leigh Howe Ms. Jill Hutcheson
Mr. Steve McGrath Ms. Leslie McKay Mr. & Mrs. Charles McNeil* Ms. Jane McNellis Ms. Meredith Michalski Eva Milko Mr. Joseph Moenich Mr. & Mrs. William Moore
Ms. Jane Schmitz Ruth E. Schoening Carmel Scopelliti Mr. & Mrs. Karl Seller Ms. Virginia Shank Theresa & Marston Shelton Mr. Mark Sherock Mr. & Mrs. Robert Slosky in honor of Nancy Oberman
Ms. Deborah Woodward* Suzanne M. Yoe* Mr. & Mrs. Michael Zoellner
+ Includes In-Kind Donation * Women's Voices Fund
DCPA TEAM
DCPA Janice Sinden.....................................President & CEO Maggie Lamb...............................Executive Assistant to the CEO
Angeles Reyes Soto....................................Custodians
MARKETING, SALES & PATRON SERVICES Eric Boone.................................Front End Developer
BROADWAY & CABARET
Heidi Bosk......Senior PR & Promotions Manager
John Ekeberg.......Executive Director Broadway
Jonalyn Bradshaw............................Education Sales Coordinator
Alicia Bruce........................................General Manager Abel Becerra................Technical Director, Cabaret
DEVELOPMENT Deanna Haas.............. Chief Development Officer Shawn Bayer..................................Associate Director Chelley Canales............... Development Associate
Flora Jane DiRienzo...............Director of Strategic Partnerships Casey Eickhoff.................Senior Graphic Designer Brenda Elliott....................Senior Graphic Designer Brianna Firestone..................Director of Customer Experience & Loyalty
SHARED SERVICES
Scenic Design Lisa M. Orzolek..............Director of Scenic Design Kevin Nelson, Nicholas Renaud........... Scenic Design Assistants Lighting Design Charles R. MacLeod................ Director of Lighting Lily Bradford...................Lighting Design Assistant
Vicky Miles.............................. Chief Financial Officer
Reid Tennis..............................Production Electrician
Jennifer Jeffrey.........................Director of Financial Planning & Analysis
Multimedia
Julie Schumaker.........................Executive Assistant to the CFO
Sound Design
Topher Blair...............................Multimedia Specialist Craig Breitenbach........................ Director of Sound
ACCOUNTING
Tyler Nelson......................................... Sound Designer
Jennifer Siemers................Director of Accounting
Alex Billman, Frank Haas...........Sound Operators Stage Management
Megan Fevurly....................Development Manager
Hope Grandon.......................PR & Events Manager
Michaele Davidson.................... Senior Accountant
Katie Imhoff..........................Development Manager
Brittany Gutierrez...........................Communications Coordinator
Linda Erickson.............................. Senior Accountant
Kurt Van Raden.........Production Stage Manager
Juliette Hidahl.................................. Accounting Clerk
Christoper C. Ewing..........Senior Stage Manager
Donna Hendricks.......................Executive Assistant to the CMO
Kim Stewart.......................................Staff Accountant
Jeff Hovorka...........Director of Sales & Marketing
HUMAN RESOURCES
Jennifer Kemps......................Group Sales Manager
Shaunda Van Wert........................ Vice President of Human Resources
Kailey Buttrick, Rachel Ducat, Heidi Echtenkamp, Corin Ferris, Chris Lubke, Rick Mireles, Kristen O’Connor, Lyle Raper, D. Lynn Reiland........Stage Managers
Melissa Olson......................Development Assistant Marc Ravenhill...............................Associate Director Valerie Taron...................................Associate Director David Zupancic.............Director of Development
EDUCATION Allison Watrous............................Executive Director of Education
Emily Kent................................. Director of Marketing David Lenk.............................................Video Producer Emily Lozow.........................Marketing Coordinator
Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski......Associate Director of Education and Curriculum Manager
Adam Lundeen..................Marketing Technologist
Stuart Barr............... Education Technical Director
Carolyn Michaels...........................................Copywriter
Claudia Carson..........................................Bobby G and Playwriting Coordinator
Cheyenne Michaels..........Marketing Coordinator
Leslie Channell...............................Business Manager
Kyle Malone....................................................Art Director
John Moore..............................Senior Arts Journalist Adam Obendorf.........................Senior Art Director
Regina Matthews......Director Human Resources Aubrey Antonsen...................................HR Generalist Brian Carter................Human Resources Manager
Scene Shop Eric Moore.........................................Technical Director Robert L. Orzolek............................................Associate Technical Director
Jamie Hawkins....................................HR Coordinator
Albert “Stub” Allison................Assistant Technical Director
Jill Martinez..........................................Payroll Specialist
Louis Fernandez III..........................Lead Technician
Monica Robles..........................Mailroom Supervisor
Tyler Clark, Brian “Marco” Markiewicz, Wynn Pastor, Kyle Scoggins, Kyle Simpson Mara Zimmerman...................... Scenic Technicians
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Joseph Schurwonn........................Financial Analyst
Yovani Pina..................Associate Vice President of Information Technology
Prop Shop
Tim McCracken.................................... Head of Acting
Jill Schwager......................Audience Development Associate
Rick Bennett...............................................Director of IT
Eileen S. Garcia......Assistant Properties Director
Andre Rodriguez............................Teaching Artist & Shakespeare Coordinator
Rob Silk.......................Director of Creative Services
Simone Gordon.......................IT Program Manager
Jamie Stewart Curl, David Hoth, Georgina Kayes, Katie Webster.........................................Props Artisans
Melissa Sumner.........Office Manager & Registrar Linda Eller..............................................................Librarian
David Saphier..................Teaching Artist & School Coordinator
Suzanne Yoe............Director of Communications & Cultural Affairs
Jim Hipp.................................Associate Director of IT Christopher Hoge....VoIP/System Administrator Paul Howell.........................................................Help Desk
Elizabeth Schmit.........................Assistant Registrar
THEATRE SERVICES
Bobby Jiminez.....Senior AudienceView Analyst
Rachel Taylor...................Teaching Artist & At-Risk Coordinator
Carol Krueger...............Theatre Services Manager
David Tschan..............................................Director of IT
Adam Alberti, Ethan Aumann, Nora Caley, Samantha Egle, Jahnice Jones, Hadley Kamminga-Peck, LeiLani Lynch, Aaron McMullen, Gregory Melton, Douglas Murphey, Joyce Murphey, Margaret Ohlander, Dylan Phibbs, Stephanie Prugh, Valerie Schaefer, Lauren Veselak Mica Ward.........................................Theatre Company House Managers
John H. Voorheis..........Manager of Infrastructure
Ilasiea Gray, Chloe McCleod, Maggy Stacy, Justin Walvoord, Robyn Yamada.................................. Teaching Artists
FACILITIES & EVENT SERVICES Clay Courter............................................ Vice President, Facilities & Event Services Dwight Barela, Zachary Brent, Clint Flinchpaugh, Michael Kimbrough.......................................Engineers Quentin Crump............................. Security Specialist Tom Duffin..................Manager, Event Technology George Hartman...................................Chief Engineer Stori Heleen...............Event Technology Specialist Jaymes Kimbrough.....................Event Technology Specialist Clint King....................................... Security Supervisor Brian McClain............................Custodial Supervisor Matt Leaver, Tara Miller, Brittany Schoede............................Events Managers Brook Nichols.............Director, Event Technology Maggi Quinn......Director Facilities Management Will Stowe..................Event Technology Specialist Tara Wenger..........................................Facilities/Event Services Business Manager Dawn Williams..................Director, Event Services Juan Loya, Carmen Molina, Blanca Primero, Judith Primero,
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Nathan Brunetti..................................Digital Manager
Daniel Lindsey, Gustavo Márquez, Lisa McClellan, Clayton Nickell, Gunnar Reinig, Jason Scoggins, Liz Sieroslawski, Brad Steinmeyer, Andrew Sullivan, Tomas Waples, Cindy Yeast................................................Ticket Agents
TICKETING SERVICES Jennifer Lopez.....Director of Ticketing Services Kirk Petersen.........................Assoc. Dir. of Ticketing Services – Patron Relations Micah White...........................Assoc. Dir. of Ticketing Services – Subscription Services Katie Pollard............................Subscription Manager Jessica Bergin, Vincent Bridgers, Tristan Jungferman .............Box Office Managers Billy Dutton..................Senior Box Office Manager Amanda Gomez..................VIP Ticketing Manager Román Anaya, D.J. Dennis, Edmund Gurule, Noah McDermott, Hayley Solano..............................................Show Leads Kirsten Anderson, Roger Haak, Rebecca Hibbert, Scott Lix, Gregory Swan...........................Subscription Agents Ally Beacom, Malcolm Brown, Rena Bugg, Keenan Coke, Kelcee Covert, Jennifer Gray, Shari Hansen, Noah Jungferman, Alia Kempton,
THEATRE COMPANY ADMINISTRATION Charles Varin..................................Managing Director Ryan Meisheid.......Associate Managing Director Allison Taylor................................Company Manager
Robin Lu Payne...........................Properties Director
Paint Shop Jana L. Mitchell.........................Charge Scenic Artist Melanie Rentschler......................Lead Scenic Artist Kristin Hamer MacFarlane.................. Scenic Artist Costume Shop Janet S. MacLeod........................Costume Director/ Costume Design Associate Meghan Anderson Doyle...........Costume Design Associate Carolyn Plemitscher, Louise Powers, Jackie Scott.........................Drapers
Katie Grayson........Assistant Company Manager
Cathie Gagnon.................................................First Hand
ARTISTIC
Costume Crafts
Nataki Garrett.............. Associate Artistic Director
Kevin Copenhaver.........Costume Crafts Director
Charlie Miller..............Associate Artistic Director / Off-Center Curator
Chris Campbell.............Costume Crafts Assistant
Douglas Langworthy...................Literary Director/ Director of New Play Development
Diana Ben-Kiki...............................................Wig Master
Melissa Cashion................................Artistic Producer Grady Soapes..........................Associate Producer / Director of Casting Chad Henry......................................Literary Associate PRODUCTION Jeff Gifford.............................Director of Production Melissa Cashion.....................Associate Production Manager Matthew Campbell................Assistant Production Manager Julie Brou.....................Production & Artistic Office Manager
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Sheila P. Morris............................................................Tailor
Wigs House Crew Doug Taylor*........................Supervising Stagehand Jim Berman*, Jennifer Guethlein*, Stephen D. Mazzeno*, Kyle Moore, Miles Stasica*, Tyler Stauffer*, Matt Wagner* (*IATSE Local 7 Stagehands).............Stagehands Wardrobe Brenda Lawson......................Director of Wardrobe Taylor Malott, Jessica A. Rayburn......................Wig Assistants Robin Appleton, Amber Donner, Anthony Mattivi, Tim Nelson, Lisa Parsons Wagner, Alan Richards........................................................Dressers
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