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work. Karen Zacarías’ stage adaptation of Helen Thorpe’s book, Just Like Us, puts a human face on the immigration debate, as four young Latina women from Denver grapple with the disparity in their legal status. All are real people still living in our state, all are high academic achievers, hard workers and committed to making Kent Thompson a life in the U.S. But two are documented and two are not. We hope this Welcome. We’re thrilled to have you production gives everyone—on either join us to kickoff our 35th Season of side of the debate—a new perspective the Denver Center Theatre Company on the complexities of immigration (DCTC). and the lives of the children caught in This Fall’s lineup features three of the middle. our most important artistic priorities: The Most Deserving is a satirical new American plays, plays of special comedy that could take place in any interest to Denver and Colorado, and small American town as a local arts great American classics. committee tries to figure out how to I was surprised when I re-read give the largest grant in its history Death of Salesman. I had always to “the most deserving” artist. You guessed it—this challenge brings thought it a great play, but its relout the best and worst in everyone evance is startling. It is a haunting involved as they struggle with local story that remains true today, as a man of a certain age is cast aside by politics, churches, indiscretions, the business he has worked in all his agendas, bad behavior, and the truly life. Salesman also is a heartbreaking difficult question: “What is good art, drama of the tension between a father what is not, and who decides?” and his grown sons. You will laugh, Thank you for joining us for the cry, shudder and shake your head— performances and the conversations and, to my astonishment, it’s the first they generate. Tell me what you think—at artisticdirector@dcpa.org. time that the play is being staged at See you at the theatre! n the DCTC. Our other fall offerings are world premieres—two out of four we’re staging this season. Workshopped at our New Play Summit last February, Kent Thompson Just Like Us and The Most Deserving Producing Artistic Director underscore our commitment to new Denver Center Theatre Company

JUST LIKE US SISTER ACT

The dilemma posed by not being a documented immigrant in this country is at the heart of journalist Helen Thorpe’s best-selling book— and Karen Zacarías’ stage adaptation of that book.

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In this production of the play, staged for the first time at The Denver Center, some of the bold looks of the 40s fashion styles will be replaced with clothing that is period appropriate but more specific. Color, always an important element, will not only be a key indicator of personality; it also will represent present day versus past scenes of the play. The dull brown clothing of a salesman, the cool grays worn by the corporate world, the hopeful blue suit of the young man trying to make good, the textiles, all will take a more modern approach and stay true to the period: classic woolens for the men’s suits, cottons for the house dresses, and taffetas for the girls in the restaurant.

Living in a day that is repeating fashion elements from nearly every decade of the 20th century, the costumes of Death of a Salesman will feel more modern than you think. “Our hope is that we recognize these characters as people that are as vital today as they have been in our past,” says Mickelsen.

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MMIGRATiON IRAMiFICATION To be or not to be… documented?

That is the question at the heart of Just Like Us, the book by Helen Thorpe and the play by Karen Zacarías based on that book

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It wasn’t meant to be a book. For Helen Thorpe, a professional journalist, it was stories in The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News about immigration in Colorado that first snagged her attention.

As a reporter who had started out writing for The New Yorker, the weekly New York Observer and later Texas Monthly, among other publications, Thorpe was struck by what illegal status in the United States could mean to young people—what it would feel like “to be in high school and not be able to get a driver’s license, be really cool. It’s not just a logistical thing about getting around town. It’s a social moment. It can be traumatic to realize your peers will have rights and opportunities that you won’t have.”

This awareness eventually became Just Like Us, a real-life, 390-page account of how four young Latina women—two documented and two not—graduate from high school in Denver and confront all sorts of personal and political challenges as they navigate four years of college and beyond.

“I did a story for Westword about a young man coming of age who did not have legal status,” Thorpe explained when we talked in July. “Then I found the women. The young man had been helpful, but the women could put more words to what [their situation] felt like. They were friends, only two of them undocumented, so a little less alone with it, which made it easier for them to talk about

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it. During their senior year of high school, we did a radio documentary,” part of which aired on This American Life, “and I thought I was doing just that: a radio documentary.

It was great, because the medium allowed them to speak in their own voice.”

Thorpe kept interviewing the girls through the following summer when all the talk was about whether they would be financially able to get into college. Miraculously, with the help of a few private donors, they all did.

But at the end of their freshman year, the mother of one of the undocumented girls was arrested.

“That’s when I started thinking of this as a book,” Thorpe said. “The story just seemed…bigger. I wanted to see what was going to happen to them.”

Her investigation morphed into an engrossing, meticulously detailed six-year writing project. hen the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Producing Artistic Director Kent Thompson approached Thorpe with the idea of adapting Just Like Us for the stage, she was flattered, but surprised. They agreed it was a daunting task that would require not only a real playwright, but also one with an affinity for the subject matter. Thompson suggested Karen Zacarías, author of the bracing Mariela in the Desert seen at The Denver Center in 2010, a Mexican by birth—and an immigrant.

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Zacarías was stunned. “Getting that book was relevant in many different ways,” she said. “I read it and cried and sat in a dark room for a really long time. [Immigration] is this complicated alphabet soup that isn’t really dramatic on stage, but really affects the lives of a lot of different people. I also thought it was unadaptable.”

But she recognized its importance and said yes. Thorpe and Zacarías were introduced over lunch in Thompson’s office.

“Karen is such a warm person, so intelligent and wise, I liked her instantly,” Thorpe said. “She probably understands this subject even better than I do. Differently, anyway.

“She posed a question at that lunch that I think she really wanted the answer to, which was how did I feel about becoming one of the characters on stage. She was adamant that, as in the book, she wanted the story of the four young women and the political backstory. She asked if I was comfortable with that. I told her, ‘No, I’m not, but I think you’re right, and I probably won’t be comfortable with it when I see it, but that’s okay because it’s also probably the right decision.’ ” How did it feel to turn over the book to somebody else to adapt?

“I think of theatre with great reverence and see many productions at The Denver Center,” Thorpe replied. “I remember Kent Haruf’s Plainsong. I had loved the book

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“I wondered if the four young women would remain in the legal status they had when I started and if they would make it through college with all of the difficulties they faced.

I found their level of maturity, what they were exposed to, what was expected of them, how much they were shouldering, to be pretty daunting.”

— Helen Thorpe, author Just Like Us

“It was also clear to me that I didn’t understand everything about immigration, because there are many different ways to come to this country and many different circumstances. I had a lot to learn.

“Other bumps…” She paused. “I had never done a project of this scope before.

When I sat down to write the book, I had years’ worth of notebooks. Just organizing all that material was pretty monumental— structuring the book, ordering the story. I went through several drafts before I got it right.”

What became clear was that it was the friendship among the women and the split in their legal status that was at the heart of the story.

“Watching that play out brings the experience to life. And I didn’t know how the story would end. I wondered if the four

young women would remain in the legal status they had when I started and if they would make it through college with all of the difficulties they faced. Their level of maturity, what they were exposed to, what was expected of them, how much they were shouldering, I found that to be pretty daunting.”

Thorpe is currently separated from her husband, John Hickenlooper, the Governor of Colorado, so the next question was significant: Did she have concerns about invasion of her privacy?

“The part I worry about, when I worry,” she replied, “is whether something is fair to John. I have a loyalty to him that’s enduring, so I feel protective of him. I tried always to strike the right balance in the book. It is a hard one to strike.

“The way I ended up handling that is that John came to the public reading, his chief of staff came and other people from the governor’s office. They had an opportunity to get comfortable with the project; if they had any concerns they could have voiced them. But they didn’t. n fact, his chief of staff said she went out for a meal after the reading with several generations of her family and they ended up having this indepth, animated discussion of the immigration issue that they’d never had before.

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and it felt perfectly adapted to the stage yet close to the book. But it never occurred to me that somebody would want to adapt a nonfiction book. I think one of the reasons they thought it might work is that my book has enough dialogue that you could think of it as dramatic.”

Thorpe attended a rehearsal before the public reading last February, as well as the reading, and declared herself happy with both. “I really feel it was my book, but it’s Karen’s play. I’m not trying to look over her shoulder. remember a moment in rehearsal in which the character that is me said something that was not exactly how or what I would have said, and I had a chance to tell Karen. It was a small tweak, but it meant a lot to me. She was very receptive. She ended up not taking my exact language but making a fix that felt comfortable to me.”

How accessible were the girls to the idea of a book about them?

“Over six years, as you can imagine, they had different responses. At first, when we were not yet talking about a book and they were still in the thick of this drama over who was going to get to go to college and who was not, they were motivated to tell their story. So when I’d turn up they were eager to talk.”

The questions came later. Some, six years later. “Okay, so I had agreed to change their names,” said Thorpe. “They chose the names that they ultimately would be identified by—but who else’s names was I going to change? Could I change the name of their school? Could they read the manuscript? How personal was the story going to be?

“I did show them the manuscript before publication. I also agreed to change the names of family members and anyone who was a student at that moment in time, so that if I went into a classroom and someone was speaking, they wouldn’t be surprised later to find themselves in the book. I wanted to protect the students. I felt they were vulnerable being young.”

Any bumps in the road? rust. There were so many reasons why that would be complicated. You had young people in a delicate situation, different ethnicity, different socio-economic status than I have. I tried to reassure them that I was open-minded on the subject of immigration by talking about my parents, my own background,” referring to her own emigration from Ireland as a child.

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“Theatre takes you to a different place from where you are sitting—literally and in life—and provides you with new thoughts, impressions and energy.”

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An award-winning artist, Ralph Nagel has a one-man show of his work at the Littleton Museum, September 20 through October 31, 2013.

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alph and Trish Nagel’s story just keeps unfolding. It starts with an architect and an attorney who met at the University of Pennsylvania. Married at Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut chapel in Ronchamp, France, this couple is anything but ordinary. There seem to be no “roads not taken,” just more byways to discover.

They started the Meridian Retirement Communities, offering seniors the choice of a “social” model for aging (rather than the prevalent “medical” one). To the Nagels, they were not in the retirement community business; they were in the business of relationships with residents and their families, based on respect and trust.

When the climate for doing business in a personal way changed, they sold the Communities and moved on to new chapters in their story, including participating in the development of middle class birthing centers in China operated in co-operation with John Hopkins Medical Center. Ralph also became more involved in education and served as Chairman of the Colorado Commission of Higher Education, as well as a trustee on the board of the University of Denver and at Washington University in St. Louis (one of his alma maters).

Trish, too, shifted her energy from being a long-time partner at the Moye White law firm to the development of products and services that “defy gravity” when conventional thought and action fail. Current projects include The Gifted Child™ (products and services that introduce infants and toddlers to character strengths, social competencies and ethical values that “fill a child’s tool box, not toy box”); Touched by Reading® (focusing on infants and toddlers learning to love to read, rather than being taught how to): and Laughing Matters™ (the importance of giving a child a sustainable gift of laughter).

Another chapter unfolded as Ralph turned to painting, “to use the other side of his brain,” while maintaining his role in business and other community endeavors. Ralph adds something that runs through the Nagels’ many life chapters: the importance of not needing to know the answer before you undertake risk. “When I paint, if I knew what the painting would look like, the opportunity of the painting to become itself would be lost.” So, too, in life.

So why does this busy globe-trotting Renaissance couple make time for theatre in Denver? Ralph and Trish light up. “It creates such energy… you don’t have to be able to act or sing or dance on the stage to feel ‘creative.’

Theatre takes you to a different place from where you are sitting—literally and in life—and provides you with new thoughts, impressions and energy.”

Trish speaks about the importance for young children to experience theatre, reminiscing about her mother’s love of dance, music and theatre shared with her as a child—something they enjoy together to this day. hy support Just Like Us? Ralph has had a longstanding interest in helping low income students go to college. As Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education, he witnessed the evolution of author Helen Thorpe’s thinking on immigration.

Brought to his attention by high school guidance counselors, he saw candidates well qualified for college, some of them class valedictorians, suddenly confronted with the politicization of their dream of going to college. He saw Thorpe’s book as strong material for theatre. When asked by The Denver Center to help underwrite a commission for playwright Karen Zacarías to adapt the book for the stage, he responded generously—and did so again when the time came to move forward with a full production.

The opportunity to tell the story of these four young Latinas, two documented and two not, is a project made possible by the Nagels. For Ralph and Trish, this production is not about making a political statement, but a human one—not to compel a conclusion, but to help reach an informed one. For them, it’s about telling what the late Paul Harvey called the “Rest of the Story.”

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This play is very much alive and it speaks to us today, loud and surprisingly clear.

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he should never have any interest in how people talk.”

The arguments proved that Miller’s script was a live wire, not a sacred text, and that’s how Powell wants it seen at close range in The Space, the DCPA’s in-the-round theatre—as a family story that’s almost too close for comfort. t won’t be the play Powell thought he remembered. The Lomans aren’t a generalized American Family, but a specific Brooklyn family, faintly Jewish (like Miller’s family), whose problems no longer seem to hark back to The Great Depression.

Does paying off the mortgage ring a bell?

Two grown sons back under the family roof. That also feels like today. Happy’s got a job but when will he stop running around?

And Biff—a born leader back in high school, but how long ago was that? Will he find out who he is?

The central problem here is Dad. Suddenly Willy Loman can’t keep his eyes on the road. For a traveling salesman, that’s death. (It’s not revealed what he sells, but Miller once spelled it out: “Himself.”)

How would we diagnose Willy’s condition today? Burnout? Incipient dementia?

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a magnificent display of self-deception, but each side of the case deserves credence. The original Willy, Lee J. Cobb, made you think of a giant in chains. Dustin Hoffman (still available on disk) made him a little guy who wasn’t going to take it lying down.

In his comments on the play, Miller defended Willy as a genuine hero, a man who measured his fate and stood up to it—a brother, in an odd way, to John Proctor at the end of The Crucible.

Powell sees Willy as “a fighter, a twofisted bantam who wants to see his kids do better. There are still a lot of Willy Lomans out there.”

But as Powell went into rehearsal, nothing was written in stone. The play would unreel quickly, unencumbered by a heavy realistic set—maybe just chairs and a table.

The story would be the thing, not what it all meant. Let the audience decide. Powell promises not to miss the talkbacks. hey are apt to be emotional. Hoffman’s scrappy Willy Loman didn’t translate well to TV, but I remember seeing it on Broadway with my cousin in the 80s, both of us probably thinking about our fathers.

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There are two ways to disrespect a play that’s made its mark. One way is to take potshots at it. The other way is to put it on a pedestal.

Just last summer, for example, Entertainment Weekly canonized Death of a Salesman as the greatest play of the past 100 years. Oh, no, I thought. Now they’ll make them read it in high school.

Bad idea. No spirited kid wants to wade through an alleged masterpiece because there’ll be a question about it on the final.

That way lies Cliff Notes and perhaps a lifelong aversion to the author.

Better, in 2013, to let the curious, young and old, pick up a paperback of Arthur Miller’s 1949 drama on their own hook— or, better still, see it on stage at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), as directed by Anthony Powell. thought I knew the play,” Powell says. Not that he had directed it before. But he’d read it, seen it, fallen under its influence. American theatre folk know Salesman the way the Brits know Hamlet. “What happened in Boston, Willy?” The death of the American dream.

Lee J. Cobb. “Attention must be paid.”

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The Lomans aren’t a generalized American Family, but a specific Brooklyn family, faintly Jewish (like Miller’s family), whose problems no longer seem to hark back to The Great Depression.

Does paying off the mortgage ring a bell?

All “baggage,” says Powell today. “I didn’t know the play at all. I keep finding surprises.”

Salesman’s production history also offers surprises. One is its spotty record with the critics. Not the overnight reviewers, but the heavyweight literary critics—the New York Review of Books crowd.

While giving Miller credit for at least trying to write serious plays, this faction tended to gang up on Salesman for being pretentious, muddled, faux-poetic, selfimportant, over-earnest and generally halfbaked. And not a real tragedy either, if that was what you were thinking. (This became a real argument when Salesman was new, with Aristotle’s Poetics pressed into service on both sides.)

Eric Bentley had his doubts. “Is [Willy Loman’s] littleness the product of the capitalistic system? Or is it Human Nature?

What attitude are we to have to it? Pity?

Anger? Or just a lovely mishmash?” nd Mary McCarthy scolded Miller for his obvious “impatience with the particular and his feeling that his play ought to say ‘more’ than it appears to be saying… It is natural therefore that

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Ageism? I once asked Miller in an interview why his plays—not just The Crucible, his study of the Salem witch trials—could so easily apply to our times. Because, he said, our basic problems don’t really change down the years. And smart audiences— common-sense people with challenges of their own—understood it. All that changes is the packaging. lash to Willy and Linda’s midnight kitchen conference at the start of the play. “How can they whip cheese?,” he grumbles. Never mind the label; what’s really in the jar?

Rather than deciphering Willy, our job is to witness his journey. Each step is painfully clear, but the back-and-forth is filtered through Willy’s head, mixing what’s really happening with his private experience of it.

(In His Head was Miller’s original title.)

But here’s another one of those surprises Powell keeps finding. Yes, Willy ends up a victim of the system, a guy who followed the wrong dream. But that’s not how he reads the situation. Powell: “He’s just pulled off the biggest deal of his life and his son is going to worship him for it.”

This can either be seen as pathetic or as

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At one point late in the show, trying to make notes for a review, I was annoyed to find that my pen had jammed up on my pad, which seemed to be damp. What was that all about?

I must be crying. n Dan Sullivan was the theatre critic for the Los Angeles Times for 20 years. He directs the O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics Institute and teaches at the University of Minnesota Journalism School.

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Jackie & Me Nov 15 – Dec 22, Space Theatre Illustration by Kyle malone

In this engaging play by Steven Dietz, based on the novel by Dan Gutman, a rare baseball card is young Joey Stoshack’s ticket back in time, where he meets Jackie Robinson on the day he is signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Thrust into a racial pressure-cooker, Joey learns about courage and grace from one of America’s legends, warming hearts of all ages.

ASL interpreted and Audio Described performance Dec 8 @ 1:30pm.

What makes Scrooge’s story so ripe for dramatic transformation? Indelible characters, an emotion-packed story with a killer ending, special effects, music and, of course, the festive Christmas setting. This poignant, joyous and redemptive story delivers on all scores. It’s a touching human drama, a bold morality tale and a scary ghost story with humor, spectacle, song, dance and a cast of thousands (well, a very large cast). Join us for this inspiring Christmas ritual, whether for the first time or the tenth.

ASL interpreted and Audio-Described performance Dec 15 @ 1:30pm.

And more holiday shows to satisfy every palate!

From David Sedaris’ true adventures working as an “elf” at Macy’s SantaLand Diaries (see local favorite Matt Zambrano don the candy-cane tights again in this cherished Boulder Theatre Ensemble comedy, Nov 29 – Dec 24, Garner Galleria Theatre) to the distinctive holiday music of Mannheim Steamroller Christmas (Nov 30 – Dec 1, Buell Theatre), to Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host: Ira Glass (host of “This American Life,” Dec 7, Buell Theatre), to the circus extravaganzas of Cirque Dreams Holidaze (Dec 10 – 22, Buell Theatre), we hope to ensure that all your holiday wishes will come true.

Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s

The SantaLand Diaries

By David Sedaris

Adapted by Joe Mantello

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A Christmas Carol Nov 29 – Dec 29, Stage Theatre

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SISTER ACT: BLESS THY (PHILLY) SOUL

by Douglas Carter Beane

In 2011, Douglas Carter Beane was called in to help reframe the book of the musical Sister Act, based on the hit Whoopi Goldberg film. In addition to working with Bill and Cheri Steinkellner to ramp up the show (for which he received a Tony® nomination), Beane drafted the article below to tell us all about it, exhibiting a burnished love of his home state of Pennsylvania, as well as an affection for a musical loaded with fun and possessing a big, loudly beating heart.

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TARA CAMPBELL IN SISTER ACT • PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS

o I am at a very la‐di‐dah cocktail party and the topic of conversation finds itself landing on Machiavelli commissioning both Leonardo Di Vinci and Michelangelo to do paintings on a wall. The “oohing” and “aahing” soon gives way to the “Can you imagine being on earth in that golden era?”

Well, I try not to be too smug about it, but I tell them “Yes I can, because I was lucky enough to be in Philadelphia in the 1970s.”

That was the harmonic convergent time when the funky bass, the overproduced strings of that glockenspiel all blended together to create the sound that is now lovingly referred to as “Philly Soul.” It was a shiny snappy “Diamond in the Back” disco ball of a time when the world was shaking its collective bootie to the music that was coming out of our little Lebanon Bologna and scrapple town.

We really didn’t know how magical it was at the time; frankly we were too busy dancing. But it somehow seemed just commonplace to go out and see Phyllis Hyman, Patti LaBelle, Teddy Pendergrass, the Ojays, out dancing to their own music in clubs. A girl would come into some disco at midnight, sing a new song, the next thing you knew it was a song called “Hot Shot” and climbing the dance charts. And wow, I held her Mylar fan when she introduced it at the club Equus.

But let’s start at the beginning of the musical Sister Act and how it came to inhabit this luscious world. First there was a movie. Man was it great.

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Whoever came up with the idea of setting it in Philadelphia in the 70s and take advantage of the Philly soul sound deserves a complimentary cheesesteak. With onions. The music is up there with the most joyful and optimistic tunes ever created. graduation or you’re stuck with nothing to do on a rainy afternoon.

But it somehow just seemed to want to continue to happen. A group of visionaries decided to dream big and turn this iconic piece into a living breathing theatre piece. To do so, it certainly could not be a re‐creation of what was on the film.

Creativity wouldn’t let that happen. It had to be something that was worthy of a live theatre event. Our group? Multi‐Emmy winning TV writers Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, multi-Oscar winning composer Alan Menken and Broadway rising star Glen Slater. Pretty classy outfit.

Sister Act

The germ of the idea was the creation of great American humorist Paul Rudnick and super genius producer Scott Rudin.

According to Paul’s hilarious essay on the topic for The New Yorker, just about everyone in the Los Angeles phone book did a draft of the screenplay. Casting excelled with Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy and Mary Wickes—and Whoopi Goldberg simply cemented her reputation as one of the screen’s great comedic actresses. Catch it again and watch how that smile just melts your heart. sequel was made, the DVDs of both found themselves on the floor of the nation’s minivan. It was just a part of American culture now. A friend to turn to when things are not going well or you want to celebrate someone’s

at the time was called The first choice made by Second Story and was our group was the story of actually a converted Deloris’ life. Whoopi was so church, complete with convincing and heartbreaklight and sound systems ing as a singer whose life and popcorn in the has chosen not to shower baptismal font. her with love. It happens to There was also a performers. You just sensed remarkable success to be that her world of Reno and had, which would enerher Motown medleys in the gize and frustrate Deloris lounge were about as good even more. Evelyn Chamas she was ever going to get. pagne King was cleaning But for the musical, what if out the ladies room at Deloris could sing—I mean Philadelphia International really let go—and, as we records, when she was used to say back in the 70s, Douglas overheard singing. They just pee. And what if she Carter Beane put her on the album was on the brink of a career, Shame and it was number not looking back on one that nine on the US charts. Karen Young (she didn’t happen?

The second choice was the music. The of the “Hot Shot” and the Mylar fan) was film used Deloris’ versions of old Motown working at a McDonald’s. It was a remarkand Brill building tunes. For this idea able time. there was one immediate conflict for I hope you enjoy the show and its story composer Alan Menken—he had already of people who have no business liking done the 60s music to a fare‐thee‐well one another just giving way and doing so. with his tremendous Little Shop of HorA little comedy about the inevitability of rors. Whoever came up with the idea of acceptance. setting it in Philadelphia in the 70s and s I sat there on opening night, I take advantage of the Philly soul sound looked across the aisle and there deserves a complimentary cheesesteak. was Patti LaBelle. The first time With onions. The music is up there with I had seen her in person was dancing at the most joyful and optimistic tunes ever the Second Story—the disco made from created. (I know I can’t go to a birthday a church. The minute Deloris gave way party for one of the kids in my daughter’s with “Raise your voice,” Miss Patti shook kindergarten class without hearing “Ain’t it like she shook it in the 70s. I felt like I No Stopping Us Now.”) was home. n Lyricist Glen Slater knew this world inside and out. The gangster boyfriend is Douglas Carter Beane is a New Yorkdoing songs that a witty Lou Rawls would based playwright and screenwriter who have done in the wink of an eye. And was born in Wilkes-Barre, PA, and grew when the bad guys sing about breaking up in Wyomissing, PA. His most recent into the convent, it’s pure Stylistics. work includes the new adaptation of the The third choice was the addition of book for the Tony®-nominated Rodgers the love story. What if Eddie the cop and and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, his play Deloris had the hint of a little romance The Nance, and the 2007 Tony-nominatgoing? ed The Little Dog Laughed. hen I was called on board by director Jerry Zaks I re‐watched the movie and then was sent the recording of the score. It hit me hard. Here was a show with a big Philly soul. That great sound of funky bases, symphonic strings and lyrics so optimistic they make you smile. How well I Sept 24 – Oct 6 • Buell Theatre remembered those those happy times with Sponsored by Comcast the city of Philly coming into a new life.

ASL interpreted, Audio Described & Open Captioned Discos and eateries and cabarets suddenly Oct 6, 2pm appeared, made from old buildings finding new life.

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Denver Center Theatre Company Resident Professional Theatre • Kent Thompson, Producing Artistic Director

Karen Zacarías Based on the book by Helen Thorpe by

With Richard Azurdia*, Mary Bacon*, Cynthia Bastidas*, Gabriella Cavallero*, Liza Fernandez*, Adriana Gaviria*, Fidel Gomez*, Steven Cole Hughes*, Cajardo Rameer Lindsey*, Ruth Livier*, Amy Luna, Miguel Martimen, Alma Martinez*, Yunuen Pardo*, Casey Predovic*, Felix Solis*, Allison Watrous* SCENIC DESIGN BY Kevin Rigdon

COSTUME DESIGN BY Kevin Copenhaver

LIGHTING DESIGN BY Don Darnutzer

SOUND DESIGN BY Craig Breitenbach

PROJECTION DESIGN BY Charlie I. Miller

ORIGINAL MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS BY Deborah Wicks La Puma

DRAMATURGY BY Douglas Langworthy

Voice and Dialect Coaches Gabriella Cavallero Kathryn G. Maes Ph.D

MOVEMENT COACHING BY Laurence Curry

CASTING BY Elissa Myers Casting/ Paul Fouquet, CSA

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION Jeff Gifford

STAGE MANAGER Kurt Van Raden*

DIRECTED BY

Kent Thompson

PRODUCING PARTNERS Ralph & Trish Nagel Sponsored by

On Just Like Us the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Production Staff is responsible for costumes, wigs, lighting, props, furniture, scenic construction, scenic painting, sound and special effects.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.

THE STAGE THEATRE • OCTOBER 4 – NOVEMBER 3, 2013 2013/14 Season Partners

CAST (in order of appearance) Helen Thorpe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARY BACON* Marisela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yunuen PARDO* Yadira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADRIANA GAVIRIA* Clara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CYNTHIA BASTIDAS* Elissa/Zulema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RUTH LIVIER* Fabián/Tom Tancredo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RICHARD AZURDIA* Josefa/Alma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALMA MARTINEZ* Yolanda/Cynthia Poundstone/Evelyn Elstrom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GABRIELLA CAVALLERO* Kelly Young/Carol Vizzi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALLISON WATROUS* Ramiro/Julio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FIDEL GOMEZ* CU Recruiter/Mike McGarry/Officer Bishop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEVEN COLE HUGHES* Mr. Smith/Jim Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAJARDO RAMEER LINDSEY* Carlos/Cezar Mesquita/Frosty Woolridge/Frederico Peña . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FELIX SOLIS* Irene Chavez/Ana/Lisa Martinez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIZA FERNANDEZ* Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASEY PREDOVIC* ENSEMBLE RICHARD AZURDIA*, CYNTHIA BASTIDAS*, GABRIELLA CAVALLERO*, LIZA FERNANDEZ*, ADRIANA GAVIRIA*, FIDEL GOMEZ*, STEVEN COLE HUGHES*, CAJARDO RAMEER LINDSEY*, RUTH LIVIER*, AMY LUNA, MIGUEL MARTIMEN, ALMA MARTINEZ*, YUNUEN PARDO*, CASEY PREDOVIC*, FELIX SOLIS*, ALLISON WATROUS*

UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for the listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.

LAURENCE CURRY* (Mr. Smith/Jim Spence/Ensemble), RODNEY LIZCANO* (Fabián/Tom Tancredo/Ramiro/Julio/Carlos/ Cezar Mesquita/Frederico Peña/Ensemble), JAMES O’HAGAN-MURPHY (CU Recruiter/Mike McGarry/Officer Bishop/ Ensemble), JEREMY PALMER (Luke/Frosty Woolridge/Ensemble), MERCEDES PEREZ* (Josefa/Alma/Yolanda/Cynthia Poundstone/Evelyn Elstrom/Irene Chavez/Ana/Lisa Martinez/Ensemble), JAMIE ANN ROMERO* (Marisela/Yadira/Clara/Elissa/ Zulema/Ensemble), GABRA ZACKMAN* (Helen Thorpe/Kelly Young/Carol Vizzi/Ensemble)

Place & Time: Denver, Co 2004 to 2010 There will be one 15-minute intermission.

Project Consultant/Associate Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSE ANTONIO MERCADO Production Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTOPHER C. EWING* Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KURT VAN RADEN* Assistant Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MATTHEW CAMPBELL* Production Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BECKY FRYBERGER Assistant to the Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRYCE RUSSELL ALEXANDER *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

executive staff KENT THOMPSON (Producing Artistic Director) is in his ninth season as Producing Artistic Director of the Denver Center Theatre Company. In Denver he directed productions of Other Desert Cities, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Plainsong, Eventide, Amadeus, The Liar and Measure for Measure, among others.

Two of Kent’s major accomplishments since moving to Denver have been the Colorado New Play Summit, a premier national festival for new American plays, and the establishment of the Women’s Voices Fund, an endowment that supports the development of new plays by women.

Prior to moving to Denver he was Producing Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for 16 years. His production of Macbeth was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to tour 13 US military bases in the fall of 2004.

In 1991 Kent created the Southern Writers’ Project (SWP), designed to commission and develop new plays that presented 16 world premieres during his tenure.

He served for eight years on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and as its president for three years. He has served on peer review panels for the NEA (also chair), TCG, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Fulbright Scholars Program, The Wallace Funds, The Doris Duke Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others.

BRUCE K. SEVY (Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Play Development) has directed such memorable Denver Center productions as When We Are Married, Heartbreak House, Mariela in the Desert, The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Doubt, All My Sons, Master Class, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Christmas Carol, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, Molly Sweeney, Amy’s View, Valley Song, Pierre, Dinner With Friends, and The Cripple of Inishmaan.

As Director of New Play Development, he oversees both the artistic and practical components of DCTC’s successful Colorado New Play Summit, including commissions from outstanding American playwrights.

He has directed for Arizona Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Lark Play Development Center, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Northlight Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Eugene O’Neill

Theater Center, Pioneer Theatre Company, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space and Intiman Theatre in Seattle, the Kimo Theatre in Albuquerque, and Utah Shakespearean Festival. His popular production of 2 Pianos, 4 Hands has been seen at more than 20 theatres nationally, including DCTC’s successful 2003 production.

CHARLES VARIN (Managing Director) and his team are responsible for administrative, financial and business operations related to producing DCTC’s season of productions and other artistic and educational initiatives.

Prior to DCTC Charles was General Manager for Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY and also has worked at Glimmerglass Opera, Asolo Repertory Theatre and Florida Studio Theatre. Charles serves on the board of the Mile High Freedom Band and plays tuba with the organization.

JEFF GIFFORD (Director of Production) oversees everything you see on stage except the actors and is thrilled to be joining the Denver Center Theatre Company, leading such a fine group of artisans. Prior to DCTC, Jeff was the Production Manager at the Dallas Theater Center and South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA. 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.

LAURENCE CURRY (Movement Coach).

At the Denver Center: World Premiere Grace, or The Art Of Climbing, Fences, The Madwoman, A Streetcar Named Desire.

Other Theatres: The Brother Size, Collapse (Curious Theatre); Dancer in Rusalka (Opera Colorado); Pippin, Aida (Arvada Center).

TV/Film: “Assassins Code,” “Strangeland,” “Asteroid,” “Twitch,” “Art Zone.” Curry has danced internationally with Lou Bega Savage Jazz and more. He is now Artistic Director of Moving Truth Dance Co. at Street Side Dance in Boulder CO. Training: BA from UNC in Theatre and Dance Performance.

DEBORAH WICKS LA PUMA (Composer). At the Denver Center: Debut.

Other Theatres: Musicals with Karen Zacarías: Ferdinand the Bull, Jane of the Jungle, Einstein is a Dummy, Frida Libre, Looking for Roberto Clemente, Chasing George Washington, Cinderella Eats Rice and Beans.

Awards/Training: Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, NEA New American Works Grant, 2 Parents’ Choice Awards, iParenting Media Award, and two Helen Hayes nominations for Outstanding New Play; MFA Tisch School of the Arts, BA Stanford University, studied with ethnomusicologist Alfredo Lopez Mondragon.

Mexican-American artist and member of the board of directors of TYA USA / ASSITEJ International.

DOUGLAS LANGWORTHY (Dramaturg).

At the Denver Center: World Premiere Sense & Sensibility The Musical, World Premiere Ed, Downloaded, The Three Musketeers (Playwright), Heartbreak House, Artistic staff World Premiere Great Wall Story, World Premiere Two Things You Don’t Talk About GABRIELLA CAVALLERO (Spanish At Dinner, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Coach). At the Denver Center: (21 Seasons) American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, World Premiere Two Things You Don’t Talk Ruined, The 39 Steps, Mariela in the Desert, About At Dinner, Living Out, Mama Hated Othello, When Tang Met Laika, Well. Other Diesels, Garbo in My Eyes, A Christmas Theatres: Adaptor – The Three Musketeers, Carol, Picnic, The Skin of Our Teeth, Cyrano The Visit, Translator – The Good Person of de Bergerac, Inna Beginning, The Miser, Life Szechuan, Book/Lyricist – Tracy’s Tiger is a Dream, Galileo, Man of the Moment, (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Special/ Romeo and Juliet, Stories. Other Theatres: Awards: Literary Managers and Dramaturgs Cabaret, The Heiress, The Women (Arvada of the Americas 2012 Elliott Hayes Award, Center); 26 Miles (Curious); Anna in the National Theatre Translation Fund Award, Tropics (Aurora Fox), Every Secret Thing, The Dramaturg and Director of Play Development Chancellor’s Tale (Modern Muse). Special/ at McCarter Theatre, Director of Literary Awards: Co-founder and Artistic Director of Development and Dramaturgy at the Oregon Modern Muse Theatre Company, 2009 Best Shakespeare Festival, Dramaturg for Target Actress Drama, Boulder Daily Camera; over Margin Theater in New York. Currently 800 recordings of audio books, two Emmy adapting D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love nominations for Best Documentary Narration with director Art Manke.

PBS.

KATHRYN G. MAES Ph.D (Voice and Dialect Coach). At the Denver Center: When We Are Married, Fences, The Three Musketeers, Heartbreak House, World Premiere Great Wall Story. Other Theatres: Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre (Arthur Miller’s American Clock).

Special/Training: Voice and Dialect Coach for numerous professional theatre companies in the United States, Head of Voice at the Denver Center Theatre Company and the National Theatre Conservatory 1989 to 1992. Ph.D. in Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh; Advanced Diploma in Voice Studies, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England.

JOSE ANTONIO MERCADO (Project Consultant/Associate Director). Mercado is a professor at CU Denver where he’s directed Blood Wedding, All in the Timing, and The Comedy of Errors. Prior to CU, Mercado ran the theater program at North High School, directing Zoot Suit, the first high school to play at the Buell Theatre. As an actor, credits include Wit with Kathleen Chalfant, Mayhem and The Berlin Circle with Megan Mullally and 26 Miles at Curious Theatre. He runs a performance studio called Labyrinth and has served on panels for the NEA and the President’s National Endowment for the Humanities. Training: MFA, UCLA.

DESIGNERS

CHARLIE I. MILLER (Projection Designer). At the Denver Center: (6 seasons) CRAIG BREITENBACH (Sound Designer). World Premiere Ed, Downloaded, The Giver, At the Denver Center: World Premiere Sense American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, & Sensibility The Musical, Irving Berlin’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ring of Fire: White Christmas, Ring of Fire: The Music of The Music of Johnny Cash, The House of Johnny Cash, A Christmas Carol, To Kill a the Spirits, Dracula, Reckless, When Tang Mockingbird, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Met Laika, Mama Hated Diesels, Mariela Mama Hated Diesels, Eventide, A Raisin in in the Desert, Sunsets and Margaritas. Offthe Sun, Quilters, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Center: Cult Following, Drag Machine, Noises Off, Third, A Funny Thing…Forum, Sweat, Audio Kicks, The L&J&J Project, King Lear, Amadeus, Crowns, The Clean Square of Ice, DATE*. Other Theatres: House, Measure for Measure, A Flea in Her username: FAUST – honors thesis multimedia Ear, Fire on the Mountain, The Misanthrope, production (Harvard’s New College Theatre), The Three Sisters, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The PHAMALY. Special/Awards/Training: BA Skin of Our Teeth, Betrayal, Spinning Into in Visual and Environmental Studies from Butter, Dinner With Friends, Gross Indecency: Harvard, 2010 and 2011 Denver Post Ovation The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Laramie Awards, 2012 Henry Award, 2013 Best of Project, The Little Foxes. Awards: 2008 Henry Westword Award. Co-Curator of Off-Center @ Award for Plainsong.

The Jones.

KEVIN COPENHAVER (Costume Designer). At the Denver Center: (23 seasons) Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, The Whale, Dracula, Mama Hated Diesels, A Christmas Carol, Noises Off, A Funny Thing…Forum, Living Out, Crowns, Fire on the Mountain, Boston Marriage, Oedipus Rex, Dirty Story, Blithe Spirit, Lobby Hero, Blue/ Orange, Almost Heaven, Scapin, The Miser, Jesus Hates Me, Bernice/Butterfly, Pierre, Inna Beginning, Elevation of Thieves, Servant of Two Masters, Tantalus. Other Theatres: ELISSA MYERS CASTING, Paul Fouquet, Smokey Joe’s Café, Love, Janis, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dream a Little Dream, Titus CSA just completed casting for PBS movie Andronicus, regional premiere Peter and the Souls on Fire to air in 2013. Previously Starcatcher (UDF). Training: BA in Theatre cast seven Broadway shows, including Design, University of Cincinnati CollegeTony-nominated Having Our Say and 25 Conservatory of Music, Centro Maschere e Off-Broadway shows. Additionally, three “Movies of the Week” (with Tyne Daly, Claire Strutture Gestuali, Padua, Italy.

Danes, Christopher Reeve, Ed Asner and DON DARNUTZER (Lighting Designer).

Daniel J. Travanti), five pilots and two PBS At the Denver Center: When We Are specials by Wendy Wasserstein and Terrance Married, Heartbreak House, Mariela in McNally (with Bernadette Peters, Nathan the Desert, Fences, Mama Hated Diesels, Lane, Blythe Danner, Spike Lee and Paul Eventide, Quilters, Richard III, The Trip to Sorvino), the Peabody Award-winning miniseries “Liberty” as well as the Emmy Award- Bountiful, Plainsong, Dracula, You Can’t Take It With You, A Funny Thing…Forum, winning mini-series “Benjamin Franklin,” A Christmas Carol and 40 others. Other and “John & Abigail Adams.” Also cast mini-series “God In America,” “The People v. Theatres: Broadway: It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues. Off-Broadway: Hank Williams: Lost Leo Frank,” “Dolley Madison” and “Louisa May Alcott.” Some regional casting includes Highway, The Immigrant, Almost Heaven: John Denver’s America. Lighting designs for: Denver Center, Geva Theatre, Cleveland Portland Opera, Guthrie Theatre, Arizona Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Magic Theatre. The office has received 13 nominations and has won three Artios Awards American Conservatory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of for “Outstanding Achievement in Casting.”

Louisville, The Alley Theater, Cleveland Play House, Kennedy Center for the KENT THOMPSON (Director). See bio Performing Arts. under Executive Staff.

KEVIN RIGDON (Scenic Designer). At the Denver Center: Reckless. Other Theatres: Steppenwolf Theatre (Resident Designer 1976-1996); Broadway (The Grapes of Wrath, Our Town, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Buried Child, Ghetto, The Caretaker, Speed The Plow, Glengary Glen Ross, The Old Neighborhood), Off-Broadway (True West, Orphans, Balm in Gilead), Lincoln Center Theater, Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar Warehouse, Cameri Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Goodman Theatre, Playhouse in the Park, Atlantic Theatre, Alliance Theatre. Mr. Rigdon is the Associate Director/Design for Houston’s Alley Theatre and the Moores Professor of Theatre at University of Houston.

PLAYWRIGHT HELEN THORPE (Author) lives in Denver, Colorado. Her magazine stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, and 5280. Her radio stories have aired on This American Life and Soundprint. She currently serves on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. Just Like Us is her first book.

KAREN ZACARÍAS (Playwright). Zacarías is thrilled to be back at DCTC where her play Mariela In The Desert, directed by Bruce Sevy, was produced at The Ricketson Theatre.

Other award-winning plays include The Book Club Play, Legacy Of Light, The Sins Of Sor Juana, the adaptation of Julia Alvarez’s How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and many more. Karen just adapted Edith Wharton’s The Age Of Innocence at Arena Stage and the

celebrated libretto of The Sun Also Rises for the Washington Ballet. New projects include a play for the American Revolution series for Oregon Shakespeare Theater, a drama for Cincinnati Playhouse, and a Brazilian themed musical for young people for the Kennedy Center. Her plays have been produced at The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, The Goodman, Round House Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Alliance Theater, Imagination Stage, GALA, Berkshire Theater Festival, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, San Jose Rep, and more. Her awards include: 2010 Steinberg Citation-Best New Play, Francesca Primus Prize, New Voices Award, National Latino Play Award, finalist Susan Blackburn, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play. Karen is a playwrightin-residence at Arena Stage in Washington, DC and teaches at Georgetown University.

She is the founder of Young Playwrights’ Theater, an award-winning theater company that teaches playwriting in local public schools in Washington, DC.

Stage management KURT VAN RADEN* (Stage Manager).

At the Denver Center: (30+ productions) Sense & Sensibility The Musical, Romeo & Juliet, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Three Musketeers, Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, The Taming of the Shrew, A Christmas Carol, The Liar, Superior Donuts, The House of the Spirits, Othello, Eventide, A Raisin in the Sun, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Richard III, Noises Off, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Our House, Pride and Prejudice, Third, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1001.

Other Theatres: 40 productions with The O’Neill Theatre Center (National Playwrights Conference, Cabaret and Performance Conference), The Great River Shakespeare Festival.

MATTHEW CAMPBELL* (Assistant Stage Manager). At the Denver Center: Other Desert Cities, Romeo & Juliet, When We Are Married, The Three Musketeers, Heartbreak House, The Taming of the Shrew, A Christmas Carol, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dracula. Other Theatres: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Arvada Center, Cleveland Play House, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre in Holland, Michigan, Colorado Festival of World Theatre, Country Dinner Playhouse, Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, Omaha Symphony. Served as Assistant Professor of Technical Theater at Brooklyn College. Training: MFA, University

of Iowa; BA, University of Northern Colorado.

ACTING COMPANY RICHARD AZURDIA* (Fabián/Tom Tancredo/ Ensemble). At the Denver Center: American Night: The Ballad of Juan José.

Other Theatres: Living Out (Mark Taper Forum), The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet (Independent Shakespeare Co.), La Posada Magica (Odyssey Theater), For All Time (Cornerstone Theater Co.), Visitors’ Guide To Arivaca (Company of Angels), Iphigenia... [A Rave Fable] (Son of Semele Ensemble), Tropical America (24th Street Theater). TV/ Film: “Southland,” “Weeds,” Hulu’s “East Los High,” Ladron Que Roba A Ladron. Awards: 2012 Henry Award nominee for Supporting Actor & Ensemble (American Night: The Ballad of Juan José), Creative Artist Fund Award.

Brooklyn College, HB Studio, Labyrinth Master Class, Andrew Wade-Royal Shakespeare Company.

GABRIELLA CAVALLERO* (Yolanda/ Cynthia Poundstone/ Evelyn Elstrom/ Ensemble). See bio under Artistic Staff.

LIZA FERNANDEZ* (Irene Chavez/Ana/Lisa Martinez/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: Debut.

Other Theatres: OffBroadway: Natalia Naman’s Lawn People (Cherry Lane), Maggie Bofill’s Drawn & Quartered (INTAR) and G.R. Risco’s Dramatis Personae (Cherry Lane). Others: Lisa Dillman’s Ground (2010 Humana Festival), Tanya Saracho’s House on Mango Street (Steppenwolf), Jason Well’s Perfect Mendacity (Dir. David Cromer/ MARY BACON* (Helen Steppenwolf), Jose Rivera’s Boleros...

Disenchanted (Goodman) and Sonia Flew Thorpe). At the Denver (Steppenwolf). Film: Tinto (Dir. Felix Solis) Center: Room Service.

Other Theatres: Broadway: and Sweets (Dir. Rick Rodgers). Training: Circle...Square Theatre School, Victorian Rock ‘N’ Roll, Arcadia.

Off-Broadway: Giant (The College of the Arts (Australia), and SUNY. Member of Teatro Vista.

Public); Harrison Texas, Motherhood Out Loud, Happy Now? (Primary Stages); Becky Shaw ADRIANA GAVIRIA* (Second Stage); Eccentricities of A (Yadira/Ensemble). At the Nightingale, The Late Christopher Bean, Denver Center: September Shoes, Plainsong Happy Birthday (TACT/Beckett). Regional: (Colorado New Play Children (Williamstown), Dinner With Summit). Other Theatres: Friends (Westport Playhouse), Crimes of the Hermanas, Trade (OffHeart (McCarter), Happy Now? (Yale Rep), Broadway); Lydia (Marin Misalliance (Old Globe), Hazard County (Humana Festival), Don Juan (McCarter), The Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet, The Count of Monte Cristo (Alabama Shakespeare Triumph of Love (Seattle Rep, Long Wharf).

TV/Film: “Law and Order,” “Criminal Intent,” Festival); Anna in the Tropics (Dallas Theater “SVU,” “The Good Wife,” “The Gaveltons,” Center, Arizona Theatre Company, Pasadena “American Experience,” “Mildred Pierce.”

Playhouse); The Birds (Yale Rep). Regional: Various roles with Stories on Stage. TV/Film: CYNTHIA BASTIDAS* “Law & Order: CI,” “Person of Interest,” (Clara/Ensemble). At the Sueños. Training: BFA, Florida International Denver Center: Debut.

University; MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Other Theatres: The Why Me Pen (Public Theater), Kita y Fernanda (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Co), Jackson Heights Trilogy (Theatre 167), Zero (Public Theater), The Way Knights Fall and Chastity of Hearts (Spellbound Rep), Anna in the Tropics (Lehman Stages). Training: MFA Theater-

FIDEL GOMEZ* (Ramiro/Julio/Ensemble).

At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Solitude, The Vault: Unlocked, The Vault: Bankrupt (Los Angeles Theater Center), Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor (LA Shakespeare Festival), Reflecting Back (Cornerstone Theater Company). TV/Film: “7th Heaven,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “NCIS,” “Undercovers,” HBO’s Walkout, Luminarias, Small Time, Waterborne. Training: NYU Tisch School of the Arts, RADA Shakespeare Intensive.

STEVEN COLE HUGHES* (CU Recruiter/Mike McGarry/ Officer Bishop/ Ensemble). At the Denver Center: (11 Seasons) Pride and Prejudice, All My Sons, Measure for Measure, The Misanthrope, Scapin, Blue/ Orange, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Three Sisters, The Lonesome West, Hamlet, Tantalus. Other Theatres: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Richard II (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Is He Dead?, Harry the Great, The Drowsy Chaperone, Unnecessary Farce, I Capture the Castle, The 39 Steps, This Day and Age, cowboyily, Fools, Life is a Dream (Creede Repertory Theatre); Blithe Spirit, A Man For All Seasons (Arvada Center); Lieutenant of Inishmore (Curious Theatre Company). TV/ Film: “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” Training: MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory.

CAJARDO RAMEER LINDSEY* (Mr. Smith/ Jim Spence/Ensemble).

At the Denver Center: A Raisin in the Sun, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Catch, Superior Donuts, Ruined.

Other Theatres: A Raisin in the Sun, Wait Until Dark, To Kill a Mockingbird (Arvada Center); The Brothers Size (Curious Theatre); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Blood Knot (Shadow Theatre). TV/Film: “Medium,” “Crash,” “In Plain Sight,” “Easy Money,” Force of Execution, MacGruber, Assassins’ Code, Silver City. Awards: 2009 Colorado

Cruz Shakes, Berkeley Rep, El Teatro Campesino, Pasadena Playhouse, Pennsylvania Stage, Sundance Theatre Lab, etc. TV/Film: Recurring - “The Bridge” RUTH LIVIER* (Elissa/ (F/X), “Welcome to the Family,” “Corridos: Zulema/Ensemble). At the Tales of Passion & Revolution” (Peabody Award), For Greater Glory, Zoot Suit, Born Denver Center: Debut. in East LA, Barbarosa, Under Fire, etc.

Other Theatres: Neva Special/Training: Member, Academy of (Kirk Douglas Theatre/ South Coast Rep/La Jolla Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences; Ph.D Stanford; MFA USC; C.U.T. (UNAM).

Playhouse); A Perfect Wedding (Kirk Douglas YUNUEN PARDO* Theatre); Lovers and Executioners (SCR); (Marisela/Ensemble). At La Posada Mágica (SCR); Lost Angeles the Denver Center: (Elephant Theatre); The Indian Queen (Long Colorado New Play Beach Opera); Latinologues (Wiltern Summit (Just Like Us).

Theatre/Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream Other Theatres: Song For (East LA Classic Theatre); Hedda Gabler the Disappeared (East LA Classic Theatre); Three Sisters (LA (Sundance ’12), Song for Diversified); ’Dentity Crisis (Friends & the Disappeared (Goodman Theatre), Artists). TV/Film: “Resurrection Blvd.,” Penelope (Steppenwolf), El Nogalar (series regular), “Switched at Birth,” (Goodman Theatre), Mala Hierba (Victory “Beverly Hills 90210,” Drag Me to Hell.

Gardens), Eréndira (Aguijón Theater), Ylse.net.

Enfrascada (16th St. Theater & Renaissance AMY LUNA (Ensemble). Theaterworks). TV: “Another Life,” “Pain is Love” and “La Rosa de Guadalupe.”

At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: In Awards/Training: People’s Choice (Chicago Latino Film Festival), 2011 Chicago Honors the Heights, Juliet & Romeo: The Panopticon, Award (El Nogalar) and Hottest New Faces of Chicago Theater (Chicago Tribune, Chris The Awakening of Angel Jones). The School at Steppenwolf and DeLuna, Enrique’s Columbia College Chicago.

Journey. Awards/ Training: Anthony & Dorothy Riddle Award CASEY PREDOVIC* for Best Performance by a Lead Actress (Go (Luke/Ensemble). At the Lysistrata); BA in Theater Performance from Denver Center: Debut. the University of Colorado-Boulder Other Theatres: NY: MIGUEL MARTIMEN Happy’s Funeral, Sybil’s (Ensemble). At the Last Show, All Fall Down Denver Center: Debut.

(NYMTF); Lost and Other Theatres: Found (NY Fringe which Productions in Colorado then played off-Broadway at The Lortel). and Texas including Regional: Ellard in The Foreigner Romeo and Juliet, A (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Louie Midsummer Night’s Award nomination); Huck Finn in The Dream, The Hobbit, Anna in the Tropics, Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford Stage, Grease, Viva El Paso! and The Cherry Critics Inner Circle nomination). Stock: Orchard. He is also an ensemble member at Scapino, The Matchmaker, Summer of ’42, Visonbox Studio.

Macbeth, Ah, Wilderness (Monomoy Theatre); The Theory of Everything (Lake ALMA MARTINEZ* George Theatre Lab). TV: “Person of (Josefa/Alma/ Ensemble). Interest,” “The Good Wife.” Casey holds a At the Denver Center: BFA from NCSA. Debut. Other Theatres: Broadway: In the Summer House (Dir. Joanne Akalaitis). Off-Broadway: Green Card. Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakes, Santa Theatre Guild (CTG) Henry Award, Denver Post Ovation Award (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone).

FELIX SOLIS* (Carlos/ Cezar Mesquita/Frosty Woolridge/Frederico Peña/Ensemble). At the Denver Center: Debut.

Other Theatres: OffBroadway: Basilica, Havana is Waiting, (Cherry Lane), Our Lady...121st Street and In Arabia...Kings (Dir. Philip Seymour Hoffman), Salome (w/ Al Pacino).

Goodman; Yale Rep, etc. As Director: Knives and Other Sharp Objects (Public).

TV/Film: Regular: “Made in Jersey” (CBS), “NYC 22.” Also “Good Wife,” “Criminal Minds,” “Army Wives,” “Law & Order (all three),” “Fringe,” “The Sopranos,” “West Wing,” Arbitrage, Man On A Ledge, My Soul To Take, The International. Co-writer/ actor/director, Tinto. Special/Awards: Member, Labyrinth Theatre Company; HOLA 2012.

Wilde, The Rivals, Kingdom, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, A Winter’s Tale, A Christmas Carol. Other Theatres: Annie: The Musical, How I Became a Pirate (Theatre Aspen); The Crucible, A Man For All Seasons (Arvada Center); Twelfth Night, Macbeth (Dallas Shakespeare Festival); The Lisbon Traviata (The Open Stage); Greater Tuna (JGP); Stories on Stage and Off-Broadway with Actors Ensemble Theater and DreamScape Theatre Company. TV/Film: Silver City directed by independent filmmaker John Sayles and “Stage Struck” for the Bravo Network. Training: BFA/ Southern Methodist University MFA/ National Theatre Conservatory.

JAMES O’HAGANMURPHY (Understudy).

At the Denver Center: Death of a Salesman.

Other Theatres: RFK: A Portrait of Robert Kennedy, Angels in ALLISON WATROUS* America (Vintage); The (Kelly Young/Carol Vizzi/ Ensemble). At the Denver 39 Steps (Town Hall); Crime and Punishment (Boulder Ensemble); A Lie of Center: A Christmas the Mind (Paragon); Some Girl(s) (Edge); A Carol, John Brown’s Doll’s House (Byers-Evans House). Awards: Body, Scapin, World 2011 Denver Post Ovation nomination Best Premiere Just Like Us Year for an Actor, 2012 Marlowe Best Actor (Colorado New Play Summit). Other Theatres: Girls Only (Garner (A Doll’s House), 2013 Henry nomination (RFK), 2013 Westword Best Actor in a Galleria), Astronomical Sunset (Curious Drama (RFK).

Theatre), Savage and Limbo, American Notes, Crimes of the Heart and Talley’s Folly JEREMY PALMER (Sis Tryst Productions), Equus and The (Understudy). At the Good Doctor (NTC Rep), A Midsummer Denver Center: has Night’s Dream, Wizard of Oz, Amadeus and worked at the Denver Arcadia (PCPA). Training: National Theatre Center with either the Conservatory, MFA. DCTC or Phamaly Theater Company for the UNDERSTUDIES past 18 years. DCTC: LAURENCE CURRY* Death of a Salesman, DATE*, A Christmas Carol, Treasure Island (Jim Hawkins), and (Understudy). See bio Tom Sawyer (US Tom & Huck). Other under Artistic Staff.

Theatres: PHAMALY: Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph), Man of La Mancha (Sancho), How to Succeed… (Finch), Little Shop of Horrors (Dentist), and Fiddler on the Roof (Perchik) as well as many other productions in and RODNEY LIZCANO* around Denver.

(Understudy). At the Denver Center: (9 Seasons). American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose, Merchant of Venice, Spinning Into Butter, Inna Beginning, The Tempest, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar

MERCEDES PEREZ* (Understudy). At the Denver Center: Barrio Babies, Life Is A Dream, A Christmas Carol, The Winter’s Tale, Eliot Ness in Cleveland, The House of the Spirits. Other Theatres: Broadway: Cats, A Chorus Line, Take Me Along. National Tours: Les Misérables, A Chorus Line. Regional: Chess (North Carolina Theatre); Sweet Charity, Nine, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Curtains (Arvada Center); Tartuffe (Theatre Aspen); Goodspeed Opera House, Walnut Street Theatre.

JAMIE ANN ROMERO* (Understudy). At the Denver Center: Sunsets and Margaritas, Romeo & Juliet, The Three Musketeers. Other Theatres: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard II, Romeo & Juliet, Noises Off, Hamlet (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Lost Highway (Lone Tree Arts Center); The Seagull, Boeing Boeing (Theatreworks Colorado Springs); As You Like It (Modern Muse Theatre Company); The Clean House (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company). Awards: Best of Westword Award (Juliet, Romeo & Juliet, Colorado Shakespeare Festival), Denver Post Ovation Award (Ophelia, Hamlet, Colorado Shakespeare Festival).

GABRA ZACKMAN* (Understudy). At the Denver Center: Reckless.

Other Theatres: Dividing the Estate (Arvada Center); Love Song (Cincinnati Playhouse); My Name Is Asher Lev (Arden), Mary Zimmerman’s production of Metamorphoses (Hartford Stage, KC Rep); A Christmas Story (Pioneer); Boeing-Boeing (ACCC); Measure for Pleasure (FST); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stratford, CT); Taming of the Shrew (Georgia, Nebraska Shakes). Hudson Valley Shakespeare: 7 seasons. NY: On The Verge (John Houseman; Edinburgh Fringe); Train Story (Adam Rapp); new plays at Juilliard, Soho Rep, EST, Lincoln Center Studio. TV: “Law and Order,” “SVU,” “AMC”. Audiobooks: Over 200 recorded. Training: Northwestern University; MFA: The Shakespeare Theatre, DC.

Denver Center theatre company Staff

PLEASE BE ADVISED Scene Shop THOMPSON Josh Prues,KENTAssistant PRODUCING Technical Director ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Lead Technicians: Albert “Stub” Allison, Louis Fernandez III Scenic Technicians: Mike Hamer, Justin Hicks, Brian “Marco” Markiewicz, EXECUTIVE Kent Thompson, Producing Artistic Director Keli Sequoia, Ross Wick Prop Shop Bruce K. Sevy, Associate Artistic Director Robin Lu Payne, Properties Director Charles Varin, Managing Director Eileen Garcia, Assistant Properties Director Jeff Gifford, Director of Production Roo Huigen, Lead Props Artisan Props Artisans: Jamie Stewart Curl, Charles ARTISTIC Dallas, David Hoth, Katie Webster New Play Development Paint Shop Bruce K. Sevy, Jana L. Mitchell, Charge Scenic Artist Director of New Play Development Melanie Rentschler, Lead Scenic Artist Douglas Langworthy, Brian Proud, Scenic Artist Literary Manager/Dramaturg Paint Intern: Darcey James Chad Henry, Literary Associate Costume Shop Emily Tarquin, Artistic Associate/ Janet S. MacLeod, Costume Director New Play Coordinator Costume Design Associate: Meghan Anderson Sylvie Drake, Advisor Doyle Kevin Fulton, Intern Drapers: Stephanie Cooper, Carolyn Plemitscher, Louise Powers, PRODUCTION Jackie Scott Jeff Gifford, Director of Production First Hand: Cathie Gagnon Rick Noble, Assistant Production Manager Tailor: Sheila P. Morris Robert L. Orzolek, Interim Technical Director Stitchers: Kelly Jones, Teresia Larsen Christopher C. Ewing, Production Costume Crafts Stage Manager Kevin Copenhaver, Costume Crafts Director Julie Brou, Production and Artistic Judy Craigo, Costume Crafts Artisan Office Manager Wigs Scenic Design Lisa M. Orzolek, Director of Scenic Design Diana Ben-Kiki, Wig Master House Crew Scenic Design Assistants: Reuben Lucas, Doug Taylor*, Supervising Stagehand Lindsey Mayer, Nicholas Renaud Stagehands: Mariah Becerra*, Andrew Lighting Design Hamer, Stephen D. Mazzeno*, Miles Charles R. MacLeod, Director of Lighting Stasica*, Doug Taylor*, Matt Wagner*, Lighting Design Assistant: Lily Bradford Jim Berman* (*IATSE Local 7 Stagehands) Multimedia: Colin Riebel, Production Electrician Charlie I. Miller, Resident Multimedia Wardrobe Specialist Brenda Lawson, Director Topher Blair, Multimedia Assistant/Operator Wig Assistants: Jocelen Barnett, Maria Y. Sound Design Davis John E. Pryor, Director of Sound Dressers: Robin Appleton, Amber Donner, Sound Designers: Craig Breitenbach, Amoreena Kissel, Tim Nelson, Alan Richards, Jason Ducat, Tyler Nelson Brooke Vlasich Stage Management Christopher C. Ewing, Production ADMINISTRATION Stage Manager Charles Varin, Managing Director Stage Managers: Rachel Ducat, Ryan Meisheid, Associate Managing Director Kurt Van Raden Alyssa Stock, Company Manager Assistant Stage Managers: Matthew Allison Taylor, Assistant Company Manager Campbell, A. Phoebe Sacks Cassie Brown, Business Administrator Production Assistant: D. Lynn Reiland Diana Biurski, TCG Management Fellow Stage Management Interns: Becky Fryberger, Pearl Kerber, Kristen Littlepage

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by Douglas Langworthy

Playwright Catherine Trieschmann answers a few questions about her play, The Most Deserving, and tries addressing some of the comedic— and chaotic—issues it raises

Catherine Trieschmann doesn’t write well in urban spaces—she finds them too distracting. So when her husband got a job as philosophy professor at Fort Hays State University, the move from metropolitan Washington, DC to Hays, Kansas (pop. 20,000) wasn’t as difficult for her as one might suspect. Not only did the move bring employee health benefits and a low cost of living, but the slower pace of life provided fertile ground for her playwriting. She says that her years living on the Plains have been the best of her life. But since nearly all of her plays get produced in cities across the country, she still samples city life on a regular basis. In fact, the Denver world premiere of The Most Deserving, her comedy about a small-town arts council struggling to award a grant, makes this the closest job she’s had to home—a mere 400 miles away.

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The genesis of my plays usually involves both a desire to try something new formally and an instinctive pull towards a certain emotional terrain. In this case, I wanted to write a proper comedy—something I had never done before—as well as explore the psychology of patronage: why certain artists are funded and others are not and how those decisions affect individual artists as well as arts communities.

It’s an incredibly unscientific process, and of course, two plays may be of equal merit (whatever that means) but written in completely different styles. How do you choose between them?

— Catherine Trieschmann

What interested you most about the inner workings of a small town arts council?

Small towns have the reputation of fixating on relatively inconsequential things, often losing sight of the bigger picture, which is great terrain for comedy. People do this in large cities as well, of course— lack of perspective being common the world over—but small towns provide a ripe metaphor for the universal tendency.

For example, I remember one particularly heated debate on our City Council about whether or not a businessman ought to be allowed to renovate a building he had bought. The roof had literally caved in, and the City Council was debating whether or not he could remove it. While I found this incident particularly amusing (especially as it played out in the editorial section of the local newspaper), I didn’t want to write a full-length play about building ordinances. The setting of an arts council allowed me to tackle ideas I really care about—aesthetics, patronage, taste—while still mining the humor of life in a small town.

Everett, the artist in the play who makes religious art out of trash, is quite unconventional. He is characterized by members of the arts council as an “outsider artist.” How would you describe outsider art?

I think Everett would probably be an outsider anywhere, and I confess the seeds for that character were probably laid during my childhood in the South, a landscape littered with eccentric characters.

Eccentricity is harder to find in Kansas, where people are generally more reserved (although if you visit “Garden of the Gods” in Lucas, KS, you’ll find eccentricity a-plenty).

“Outsider art” is a somewhat contested label, although I do use it in the play. Also called “folk art” or “visionary art,” it refers to untrained artists or artists creating [art] outside of the traditional conduits, like art schools, museums and galleries.

Often these artists struggle with mental

illness, face difficult economic straits, and/or live on the margins of society.

Their work usually features religious or fantastical imagery and might be made with anything from paint and brush to a box of toothpicks. Some famous examples include Henry Darger and Howard Finster, who lived and worked near my hometown of Athens, Georgia. Here’s an interesting fact: Howard Finster designed the album covers for Reckoning by REM and Little Creatures by Talking Heads.

You mentioned this is your first comedy.

What is the source of this play’s humor?

In The Most Deserving, much of the comedy is derived from the gap between how characters perceive themselves and how others perceive them. It’s a classical comedic trope—from Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid to the mechanicals in A Midsummer’s Night Dream, characters have always amused us with their lack of self-awareness. There is also an overriding concern with status and power, even though no one in the play has much of either in the larger picture, which contributes to their tunnel vision and the overall humor of the play.

I have served on selection committees for various organizations and prizes, and what’s most interesting is how one strong personality can determine how the final decisions are made. At the end of the day, you have to make an argument for one candidate over another, so usually the candidate with the most impassioned and articulate advocate wins.

It’s an incredibly unscientific process, and of course, two plays may be of equal merit (whatever that means) but written in completely different styles. How do you choose between them? Usually the most impassioned advocate gets his or her way, and hopefully that person is pure of heart and not motivated by other agendas!

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How did you come to write The Most Deserving?

The arts council in your play has been charged with awarding an artist who exhibits not only artistic excellence and financial need, but also represents “an underrepresented American voice.”

What happens when social issues get mixed up with aesthetic issues?

The core difficulty in awarding prizes in the arts is that there are no agreed upon objective criteria in determining what is good—or even what is better than something else. When social issues are thrown into the mix, suddenly, there’s the perception of objective criteria, but of course, identity is not always a stable signifier either. Should a transgendered individual be considered for a prize for Women? What percentage Native American must one be to qualify for a prize for Native Americans (or to play “Tonto” for that matter).

What constitutes an “underrepresented American voice” to begin with? Who decides? Hopefully, the play has a bit of fun tossing these questions around; I don’t think I’m spoiling anything by revealing that it certainly doesn’t answer them! n

You’ve said that the character of Dwayne is one of your favorites. In what ways does he charm you?

Most of writing well consists of exhaustive revising, but every now and then the writing gods will gift you with a character or scene fully formed. Dwayne came to me in one great burst; I immediately knew who he was and what he wanted. If I were to psychoanalyze the author, I might say he’s the child inside her dying for acclaim and fearful of her own mediocrity. She may disagree, but what does she know of her own subconscious?

Have you ever been on a funding or awards panel for the theatre? If so, how difficult was it to come to agreement around aesthetic issues?

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ewer Broadway productions were by women playwrights in 2009 than in 1908. Only 18% of plays produced nationwide in 2008 were by women, and only one of eight new plays produced on Broadway were by a female playwright.

The need to hear all voices, to share in stories told by women as well as men is what led Kent Thompson, Producing Artistic Director for the Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC) to establish The Women’s Voices Fund (WVF) in 2005. The fund helps develop the pipeline of new work by women playwrights available for production in theatres nationwide. This endowment supports the commissioning, development and production of new plays by women.

The first of its kind in the nation, The Women’s Voices Fund has enabled the DCTC to: • Produce 25 plays by women, including six world premieres • Employ 14 female directors • Commission 11 female playwrights

T

he WVF is currently at $850,000. By its 10th anniversary in 2015, Thompson hopes to see the WVF hit $1 million, making a significant, clear statement about the DCTC and its long-term commitment to supporting women who tell stories.

“There’s nothing like this anywhere in America. There is nothing like this in the world,” says Michele Lowe, the playwright who wrote Inana and Map of Heaven and was a recipient of all the benefits of the WVF. “The Women’s Voices Fund is a miracle, a living breathing American Theatre miracle.”

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irector Wendy Goldberg adds, “Creating funding for the development and production of new work is a struggle…. This unique fund makes it possible to support the most gifted storytellers of our time.”

A portion of the funds for the WVF comes from DCTC’s Women with Hattitude luncheon, an annual event that draws more than 600 women—and gentlemen—who show their support for theatre with a stunning array of hats of all sizes, shapes and imaginings, and make it a joyous celebration of women in theatre.

Speaking of which, you won’t want to miss two world premieres by two uncommonly talented women this season: playwright Karen Zacarías’ stage adaptation of Just Like Us, the book by Helen Thorpe—and The Most Deserving, a delightful, engaging comedy by Catherine Trieschmann. n

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FOUNDERS: *Dina Brudenell Altman Dina Brudenell Altman in honor of Edward F. Altman, Jr. American Zang Education Foundation Inc. – The Greiner Family Geary Anderson in honor of Alicia Anderson Lee and Sheri Archer *Carol Atha Carol Atha in honor of Carolee D. Atha Carol Atha in honor of Bette Haerther Ursula Awad Barbara Shannon-Bannister Maureen Kelly Barker Mary Reisher Berlin Fran Berlin Gail Classon Berliner Barbara Bridges Brown Family Foundation Diane Bryant *Joy S. Burns Merle C. Chambers Janette W. Chase in honor of Christina J. and Kathryn M. Chase *Isabelle Clark Elaine J. Collins Jack & Suzanne Collins in memory of Joyce A. Korgan Andrea Warner Crispe Jill I. Crow *Katie Cymbala *Dorothy Denny in memory of Barbara Denny Rottkamp Dorothy Denny in honor of Emily Stanford Pam Duke Charleen Dunn Sharon Dwinnell in honor of my sister Peggy Harrington *Dianne G. Eddolls *Anita Edwards in memory of my mother Lois Richardson Anita Edwards in memory of Ty Jurras *Bobbie Farris Natley Farris *Lois Felt Heather Fitzgerald Adrienne Ruston Fitzgibbons Wilbur Flachman in honor of Dr. Marilyn Flachman Nancy Follett Katie Fox Margot Gilbert Frank Jeannie Fuller in honor of Florence Smith Stephanie Weeks Gamble in honor of Sarah Weeks Gamble Lynn Marie Gangone in honor of The Women’s College of DU Robert S. Garner in memory of Dorothy Garner

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Carol Ann Rothman in honor of my granddaughters Brielle and Kara *Ms. Peggy Rottner Florence Ruston Roselyn Saunders Dutchess Scheitler *Donald R. Seawell in honor of Eugenia Rawls Donald R. Seawell in honor of my collaborator, Judi Wolf *Alison Shetter Ruth Silver *Carole Slosky Carole Slosky – in honor of Bob Slosky’s service as a DCPA Trustee Sarah Steinberg Janet Swinburn Bea Taplin Kate Taucher in honor of Katherine A. May Sandy Tenenbaum/ Occasions by Sandy June Travis Lester L. Ward in honor of Rosalind H. Ward *Randy Weeks in honor of Joan Watson Weeks Randy Weeks in memory of Esther M. Weeks Carol E. Wolf Judi Wolf in honor of Donald R. Seawell Christine Yaros in honor of Catherine Hein

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