HARPER LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
SIGHTLINE
BY JANICE SINDENHHappy New Year! I am hopeful that 2023 will be a year filled with joy, respect, and bringing people together. That is what we do best at the Denver Center, and we are grateful you are here with us, whether this is your first time at the theatre or you have been joining us for many years. Welcome!
This issue of Applause opens with the Broadway engagement of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, originally published in 1960 and translated into more than 40 languages. This is a moving story that juxtaposes integrity against bigotry, guilt against innocence, and white against black. Despite the passage of more than 70 years since the book was written, it is all too clear there is still much work to be done to eradicate hatred in its many forms.
With the new year upon us, comes new opportunity. We, at the DCPA are reflecting, reassessing and planning for our future. We’ve set upon a new, ambitious five-year strategic plan that will take us to the eve of our 50th anniversary.
Just as important, we’ve refreshed our core values — those elements that are at the very center of who we are and what we do. Throughout, we have woven in our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. At the center of these values is belonging.
You belong here. You are part of our story and we ask you to share in our values, which also include collaboration, community, creativity, integrity and sustainability. We encourage you to bring your neighbor, a colleague, friend or acquaintance the next time you join us at the theatre. We believe in the transformative power of live theatre and look forward to seeing you here again soon.
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VOLUME XXXIII • NUMBER 4 • JAN - MAR 2023
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Hassan Salem, Chair
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Dr. Patricia Baca
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Richard M. Sapkin
William Dean Singleton Robert Slosky June Travis Ken Tuchman Tina Walls
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HONORARY TRUSTEES
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HELEN G. BONFILS FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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Ruth Krebs David Miller
Robert C. Newman Hassan Salem Robert Slosky June Travis Judi Wolf
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
Janice Sinden, President & CEO
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Allison Watrous, Executive Director, Education & Community Engagement
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JOIN US for Denver’s most glamorous night of the year! Peer behind the curtain and get an insider’s look at the sophisticated stagecraft that brings your favorite DCPA productions to life. Get the best seats in the house for our Tony Award-winning Theatre Company’s production of Laughs in Spanish or Hotter Than Egypt—the choice is yours—and discover how plays are made, from scratch, through post-show conversations and captivating exhibits with real props and costumes from past productions. Immerse yourself in the romance of theatre and make an impact on the arts in style.
HOTTER THAN EGYPT PLAYWRIGHT EXPLORES THE PATHOS AND COMEDY INHERENT IN EVERY DAY LIFE
BY LEO ADAM BIGAIIn Hotter Than Egypt, playwright Yussef El Guindi explores the tragic-funny misunderstandings of a culture clash rich in existential, social, political baggage.
While on holiday in Egypt, middle-aged Americans Paul and Jean find their marriage unraveling in the company of a young couple, Seif and Maha, who serve as their guides and conscience. Cut off from routine, conflicts and intrigues surface that cause everyone to confront harsh, yet humorous truths.
After a well-received 2020 Colorado New Play Summit staged reading, Egypt is back at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts with a fully staged production.
“I was blessed with a great cast and director. [DCPA Theatre Company Artistic Director] Chris Coleman shepherded the first workshop, so it’s gratifying to have it return for a full production under his direction,” said El Guindi.
Born into a family of notable creatives in Egypt, El Guindi studied in the United Kingdom and America, where he eventually settled. The award-winning playwright’s first passion was acting.
“I applied to six acting programs and one program for playwriting. All six acting schools rejected me, while Carnegie Mellon accepted me into their playwriting program. So, basically, I’ve been living Plan B. But I also never let go of my desire to become an actor.”
He worked in theaters in San Francisco, then got a job teaching playwriting and a dramatic literature class at Duke University. But he still pursued an acting career after landing in Seattle, where he resides.
He was in his late 30s when he finally gave up on acting and fully committed to playwriting. Seattle’s ACT Theatre became his creative home.
“Having a place receptive to my work and more than willing to consider it for production is vital. It prompts me to write the next play. And for that I am enormously grateful. Having ACT in my corner is a great boon. Such support is essential for me as a playwright.”
FRAMING THE ARAB-MUSLIM DIASPORA
His work interrogates the fraught Arab-Muslim experience in America.
“Part of the impetus in telling these stories is to counter the sometimes horrendous reductiveness of mainstream depictions of Arabs and Muslims,” he said. “Rather than some agenda-driven goal in writing these plays, it’s really just about presenting fully-formed Arab-Muslim characters in different kinds of stories — and not as plot points in flattened narratives about the region or cultures.
“Presenting them as regular folk in varied storylines becomes a radical act all by itself.”
His Back of the Throat (2005) deals with Arab-American fears in the post-9/11 environment.
As members of ignored or demonized populations push back on negative narratives by telling their own stories, he said, “these formerly marginalized groups very slowly and painfully become a tiny bit more integrated into the mainstream cultural life.”
MINING TRUTH THROUGH FARCE
His chosen form for sussing out truth: farce.
“I was very taken by farce very early on. The manic and merciless quality of the genre appealed to my youthful writer self wanting to get a rise out of the audience. There’s nothing like laughter to plug an audience into a moment, and the play as a whole, hopefully. It’s also very
gratifying as a writer to hear that laughter. But farce is also very close to tragedy in its unrelenting propulsion towards inevitable ends. In both farce and tragedy we are pawns to forces greater than ourselves. We feel powerless, at times, in our attempt to be agents in our own destinies.”
The vagaries of leaving one culture for another make fertile ground for farce.
“You come to a new country and have to adjust to the way it operates, while also letting go of some of the protocols, manners and values of the country you were raised in. The larger the leap, the bigger the adjustment,” he said.
In the wash, misunderstandings occur. “A stranger in a strange land becomes a potential source of comedy as the character tries to figure out what’s what,” El Guindi said. Hotter Than Egypt ’s protagonists stumble about in the mess they make, negotiating new definitions of their relationships, power dynamics and selves.
“Everyone,” he said, “has a moment where they break things down and offer their opinion or analysis.” In Hotter Than Egypt :
● Paul chases a faux new beginning
● Jean demands liberation from a prescriptive life
● Seif doubles down on what matters to him
● Maha’s desperation turns to healthy ambition
What’s meant to be a vacation from reality turns into a crucible of open wounds and greener pastures.
“There is some truth to the feeling there is surely a better alternative ‘over there,’ whether a place or a person, if you could just make it happen. Shorn from old habits and rituals, we are a little lost on holidays, sometimes wonderfully so, and in that in-between place we are able to gain the kind of perspectives hard to come by in our regulated lives back home.
“The sin sometimes is to feel one is absolutely right and the other person is wrong or on much shakier ground than you.” As a cross-cultural wayfarer himself, El Guindi draws on personal experience for these crises of identity and longing. His milieu is his material.
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
His advice to new playwrights is to “endure” in finding their own voice. “Stay at it, practice your craft — which means finding ways to hearing your plays read by others. You’ll only learn in the doing. Make the needed adjustments with each reading-staging. Find like-minded theater practitioners and work with them. Don’t wait for the big theaters to legitimize you. Be a self-starter and make things happen for yourself.”
Playwriting groups are another way to connect. “It’s lovely having this community out there.”
HOTTER THAN EGYPT
FEB 10 – MAR 12 • KILSTROM THEATRE
ASL Interpreted and Audio Described performance: March 5 at 1:30pm
Returning this season — Talkbacks with the cast!
These free post-show discussions are held after select DCPA Theatre Company performances to extend, deepen and enrich your experience. Moderated by DCPA Education & Community Engagement, you’ll have the opportunity to stay after the play to delve into themes and connect with fellow audience members.
Join us after the evening performances on these dates:
LAUGHS IN SPANISH
Thu, Feb 23
Thu, Mar 2 HOTTER THAN EGYPT Tue, Feb 28
Thu, Mar 9
HOTTER THAN EGYPT
THE COLOR PURPLE
Tue, Apr 11
Thu, Apr 13
Thu, Apr 20
THE COLOR PURPLE
LAUGHS IN SPANISH THE 39 STEPS
Thu, Apr 27
THE 39 STEPS
Thu, May 18 Thu, Jun 8
Rather than some agenda-driven goal in writing these plays, it’s really just about presenting fully-formed Arab-Muslim characters in di erent kinds of stories.
— YUSSEF EL GUINDI, PLAYWRIGHTBY MADISON STOUT
OOver the last few years, students from DCPA Education’s Adult program have emerged on professional stages across the area.
Ryan Omar Stack, Business Analyst-turned-Actor, is one such student seizing local opportunities, scoring himself roles in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and The Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experience.
Stack moved to Denver in 2010 to pursue a career in business. After several years, he found himself hungering for a creative outlet and returned to acting. While searching for a place to continue to grow as an actor, he discovered the DCPA.
“It felt new,” Stack shared. “After so long, I was uncomfortable performing in front of people.” But the hesitancy quickly wore off. “The staff was so willing to provide feedback at any time,” Stack explained. “Having people to confer with and learning from people who’ve studied the art and applied it is incredibly helpful.”
Following his time studying with DCPA Education, Stack auditioned around town and became a resident actor at Benchmark Theatre. “I slowly transitioned from performing in front of students and small audiences in master classes to month-long performances in front of paying audiences.”
Following breakout roles in Benchmark’s productions of George Orwell’s 1984, Airness and Parfumerie, Stack joined DCPA Education’s Shakespeare in the Parking Lot sharing abridged performances of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth at high schools and community centers.
“Work gets work,” Stack explained. “As I continued to book more jobs, I gained more confidence and comfortability being in the room. Shakespeare in the Parking Lot gave me the tools needed to get into CSF.”
Now Stack is venturing into less traditional theatre experiences. Recently he worked with Deck Nine Games, providing voice-over and facial motion-capture for the video game Life is Strange: Remastered Collection, and this fall joined the cast of The Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experience
“I love doing jobs where I work with different creatives,” Stack said, “where we can all learn from each other.”
To learn more about DCPA Education, visit denvercenter.org/education
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MUSIC MAYHEM
Illustrations by Kyle MaloneFocused on
HOW PLAYWRIGHT ALEXIS SCHEER’S LAUGHS IN SPANISH HELPED LAND HER A TURN ON BROADWAY
BY JOEL BROWN SCHEER, PLAYWRIGHTSShe just landed a big job on Broadway, but no one should be surprised. Playwright Alexis Scheer has always been determined. As a Miami adolescent, she passed on having a bat mitzvah to take a role in a regional production of Fiddler on the Roof.
“I don’t remember exactly what I told my parents, but I made a really big case that ‘I don’t need the bat mitzvah. I need to do this musical!’” she says, laughing. “And they agreed! I think my dad was like, ‘Yeah, sure, whatever’ and my mother was really relieved that, ‘Oh, we don’t have to pay for a big bat mitzvah.’”
The comic polish on that anecdote shines through in Scheer’s Laughs in Spanish, having its world premiere production at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. The play centers around Mariana, who arrives to open the doors of her gallery in Miami’s ubertrendy Wynwood neighborhood and discovers a catastrophe: She’s been robbed! The walls are empty. All of the art is gone. And tonight she’s hosting a big shindig for Art Basel Miami!
The well-made comedy opens the door for insights about codeswitching, Latina representation, and art-world hype. “I like to be subversive,” Scheer says, “in a subversive way.”
While she’s in Denver for rehearsals, Scheer will also be flying back and forth to New York, where she is writing additional book material for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Bad Cinderella, which begins previews Feb. 17 at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre after a West End run in 2021-22. Laughs in Spanish was the writing sample that helped get her the job, she says.
“My first reaction was total shock,” says Scheer. “Andrew Lloyd Webber is the entry point to theater for so many, including me. A regional theatre production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat that I saw in the second grade is what made me fall in love with theater. I sang ‘I Don’t Know How To Love Him’ from Jesus
The fact that they’re both comedies is something I’m really looking forward to, because things I learn in one room will help me in the other.
— ALEXIA
Christ Superstar to get into The Boston Conservatory (where she earned a degree in musical theater performance). I’ve just always been surrounded by his work. So it was totally surreal when I got the job.”
Bad Cinderella features an original story and book by Oscar-winning writer Emerald Fennell and lyrics by Tony winner David Zippel, directed by Laurence Connor. This Cinderella is a goth outcast in the otherwise perfect town of Belleville who learns that beauty is only skin-deep after getting a big makeover for the royal ball.
“Now we’re in the thick of it, so sometimes I forget the magnitude of it all,” she says. “But then I get these flashes of, like, starstruck-ness, I guess? Once I was sitting at his dining table with him, the lyricist, and director. The director and I were reading one of the scenes out loud, and Andrew starts singing the underscoring he’s going to put in, and I just stopped and thought to myself ‘Holy s**t, I’m sitting next to Andrew Lloyd Webber while he’s writing a musical.’”
Laughs in Spanish was written as Scheer’s thesis play for Boston University’s MFA playwriting program and professionally workshopped at BU’s Boston Playwrights’ Theatre in 2019.
When Scheer was a girl, her parents owned a small button business on 26th Street in pre-gentrification Wynwood, then a rough-andtumble neighborhood far from the glitz of Miami Beach. “I used to go all the time, especially in summer, and my parents called it button camp,” Scheer says. “Just walls and walls and shelves of every kind of button you could ever imagine. I would sit and snap buttons together. I used to have a bag and collect my favorite ones, mostly the glittery ones.”
In 2014, with the neighborhood changing dramatically and realestate values shooting up, they closed the button business and sold out to developers in 2014. “I was thinking a lot about this little warehouse I spent so much time in as a kid, and what its next life would be, and daydreaming about that space as a gallery space and who would occupy that – and I wrote this play.”
Mariana has Jewish and Colombian roots, like Scheer; aside from the missing artwork, her other big problem on this day is a visit from her mother, Estella, a fading Colombian movie star who makes the Kardashians look self-effacing. Not much more helpful are Mariana’s employee Carolina, a painter; Carolina’s boyfriend, a cop; and Mariana’s assistant, Jenny from LA.
Now based in Boston, Scheer is looking forward to Denver so she can make sure the play’s jokes are still on point. As a society we are in a different place than when she started writing, she says. “There’s one joke about the mom not understanding Twitter, and I don’t think you get through a Trump presidency without knowing about Twitter.”
During her Taglit-Birthright trip to Israel a few years ago, she finally got her bat mitzvah, a “quickie” in a Jerusalem basement synagogue. “It feels kinda legit. It was in Israel. That has to count for something!”
Now, she’ll be flying back and forth to sit beside Webber on Broadway.
“I will have the best of both worlds for a few weeks!” Scheer says. “The fact that they’re both comedies is something I’m really looking forward to, because things I learn in one room will help me in the other.”
Company’s 1776
LAUGHS IN SPANISH
JAN 27 – MAR 12 • SINGLETON THEATRE
ASL Interpreted and Audio Described performance: Feb 12 at 1:30pm
2022.
COMING UP FROM BROADWAY
1776
Tony Award-winning Best Musical, 1776, is coming to Denver. Originally staged in 1969, the musical tells the story of the American Revolution, specifically the signing of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams is the central character as he attempts to persuade all delegates from the 13 colonies to vote for independence.
Peter Stone, who wrote the book for 1776, said, “You knew immediately that John Adams and the others were not going to be treated as gods or cardboard characters, chopping down cherry trees and flying kites with strings and keys on them. It had this very affectionate familiarity; it wasn’t reverential.”
But this revival isn’t your traditional historical drama. 1776 features a diverse cast that reflects multiple representations of race, gender, and ethnicity.
Directed by Jeffrey L. Page (Violet) and Diane Paulus (Waitress), co-produced by American Repertory Theater and Roundabout Theatre Company, 1776 is reinvigorated into a thrilling production that “pulsates with energy, snaps with attitude and enlivens history,” (Variety). You may never think about our country— who we are and why—the same way again.
You won’t want to miss this groundbreaking musical at the Buell Theatre on March 21 through April 2, 2023.
The company of Roundabout Theatre Photo by Joan Marcus,IT’S STILL A CRIME TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
BY KELUNDRA SMITHIIn Harper Lee’s celebrated novel To Kill a Mockingbird she wrote, “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
When the book was published in 1960, America was in a crisis of conscience. Teens held sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, which led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The birth control pill was made available to married women.
John F. Kennedy was elected president. The Civil Rights Movement, Cuban Missile Crisis and the War in Vietnam pushed many Americans to ask themselves if liberty and justice had reached everyone. The entire decade would be spent peeling back the layers of these major events.
Those same questions about liberty and justice hang in the air in the 21st century, which is what inspired Academy Award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin to adapt and update the novel for the Broadway stage in 2018.
In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a precocious, 6-year-old girl named Scout is living in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama with her big brother Jem and lawyer father Atticus Finch. Atticus has taken the case of a Black man, Tom Robinson, who has been falsely accused of assaulting a white woman. That summer, Scout’s reality is caught between the innocence of playing with her friend Dill and the reality of a changing world as embodied by their housekeeper, Calpurnia.
Parts of the novel are based on Lee’s lived experiences. She grew up in Monroeville, Alabama, where she died in 2016 at the age of 89. Her father was an attorney, Amasa Coleman Lee, who had taken on early civil rights cases. In one case in particular, he defended two Black men accused of murder, which he lost.
In 1960, Lee was a budding writer in New York City. She worked full-time for what is now British Airways and wrote for various literary magazines on the side. Her friend, novelist Truman Capote, recommended a literary agent for her to meet with, and after that meeting she quit her job at the airline and went to work on To Kill a Mockingbird
At the time the novel was published, it was met with mixed reviews. The Atlantic called it implausible. The Chicago Tribune lauded it as a revelation. The Mobile Press-Register praised the novel for speaking to the times but warned of backlash from the Deep South. Two years later, the novel was adapted into an Academy Award-winning movie with Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. A stage adaptation of the novel has been performed in Monroeville since the 1960s.
Equipped with a perspective on how America has and has not changed in the last 60 years, Sorkin wrote a play that delves into the characters in ways the novel did not at the time. The child characters speak with the awareness of a changing world, so the play really does feel like it’s being told in retrospect. Scout is very clearly the protagonist. He also looked for the flaws in the novel’s most beloved character, Atticus.
In an interview with Salon, Sorkin said, “Atticus believes there is goodness in everyone.
Richard Thomas, who plays Atticus, and Jacqueline Williams, who plays Calpurnia, discuss playing two of the most beloved characters from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Melanie Moore (“Scout Finch”) and Richard Thomas (“Atticus Finch”).He excuses racism all over the place. One of the things Atticus keeps repeating is ‘I know these people.’ These are our friends and neighbors. Our family has lived here for generations. Sure, some of them are stuck in the old ways, but nobody is so far gone that that they’re gonna send an obviously innocent man to the electric chair. He’s wrong about that. I think that all of us, no matter where you are on the political and ideological spectrum have felt over the last few years ‘I thought I knew these guys.’ I had no idea that the person I was living next door to felt and thought things so different from what I did, so the play became relevant in that regard.”
For Emmy winner Richard Thomas (“The Waltons,” “Ozark” and “The Americans”), who plays Atticus, exploring the character’s evolution gives him more to work with onstage.
“Aaron Sorkin has done a lot of the work for me, because he’s taken Atticus off the pedestal,” Thomas said. “We should be grateful for people who try to do what’s right, but we can still be critical. We can interrogate his unassailable virtues, so he goes from being a man in a position of great comfort to discomfort. His loss of innocence is on a parallel course with the children’s throughout the play. Sorkin has created a teachable Atticus, not a man who’s dispensing wisdom, but he’s on a journey himself.”
Thomas, who grew up in New York says he first read To Kill a Mockingbird in middle school like many Americans. He says he recalls loving the book because the experience of childhood felt very real to him. But he also acknowledges something else.
“I could identify the good guys and bad guys, and what was unjust, frustrating and angry, but from a privileged perspective,” Thomas said. “It was before my own particular social awakening took place, so I was kind of an innocent reader of it.”
For Jacqueline Williams, who plays Calpurnia, she read her older brother’s copy of the novel in sixth grade. Williams grew up in Chicago, the daughter of parents who left the South during the Great Migration. She says the novel rang true to her because it reflected real experiences from her family.
“Those who know the book and film will not know Calpurnia in this way,” Williams said. “In that fleshing out, the relationship with the home, the kids, all of that is much clearer in this live version.”
The contrast in their first experiences with the novel is similar to the difference in their characters’ lived experiences in the play. Sorkin takes the African American characters out of the periphery and gives them a voice and point of view, so Atticus and Calpurnia’s conversations are more frank and morally charged than those in the novel. Calpurnia is clearly suppressed by the same system that Atticus is trying to defend Tom against. But, at the same time, Atticus and Cal must function as a unit. Their dynamic drifts into one of parents trying to figure out how to raise children, but the power structure is clearly that of employer and employee.
This is part of what makes To Kill a Mockingbird a necessary text for the times. Like the characters, people are still learning how not to step on each other’s freedom.
“We still need this story. We still have a lot of work to do,” said Williams. “For many decades, a lot of racism was much more in your face in the South, but not so much in the North…Now, it’s all over the country. These killings, shootings and injustices are not new.”
— JACQUELINE WILLIAMS, ACTRESSIn many ways, Lee foretelling the Civil Rights Movement through a child’s eyes proved to be an effective measure for the movement itself. The Children’s Crusade took place in Birmingham in 1963. High school and college students led the Freedom Rides to register African Americans to vote in the Deep South. Watching police and military officers turn dogs and fire hoses on children turned the tide.
The same is true now. The Occupy Movement, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and the fight for climate consciousness are the unfinished business of the 1960s. During the 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations, watching millions of young people protest the murders of unarmed Black people pushed many institutions to reexamine their policies and practices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
“As I grew up, they went from being characters in a book to being the world I was living in, and that’s part of the awakening,” Thomas said. “I’m proud of being a part of youth in the 60s, because when the awakening happened we were really involved. I’m happy to say that’s happening again. I have a 26-year-old son who’s on the barricades and it’s still real, it’s still true, and it jumps off the page… It’s the American story for better and for worse.”
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
JAN 24 – FEB 5, 2023 • BUELL THEATRE
ASL Interpreted, Audio-Described & Open Captioned performance: Feb 5 at 2pm
We still need this story. We still have a lot of work to do.Jacqueline Williams (“Calpurnia”). Photo by Julieta Cervantes.
BARRY DILLER LINCOLN CENTER THEATER UNIVERSAL THEATRICAL GROUP JOHN GORE ORGANIZATION PETER MAY JAMES L. NEDERLANDER
RICHARD THOMAS IN HARPER LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
AARON SORKIN
MELANIE MOORE JACQUELINE WILLIAMS JUSTIN MARK YAEGEL T. WELCH STEVEN LEE JOHNSON JOEY COLLINS DAVID MANIS LUKE SMITH ARIANNA GAYLE STUCKI DAVID CHRISTOPHER WELLS JEFF STILL LIV ROOTH TRAVIS JOHNS
MORGAN BERNHARD DENISE CORMIER CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS STEPHEN ELROD GLENN FLEARY MAEVE MOYNIHAN DANIEL NEALE DORCAS SOWUNMI GREG WOOD AND MARY BADHAM
LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
HARPER LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD CAST
Richard Thomas Melanie Moore Jacqueline Williams Justin Mark Yaegel T. Welch Steven Lee Johnson Mary Badham Joey Collins David Manis Luke Smith Arianna Gayle Stucki David Chistopher Wells Jeff Still Liv Rooth Travis Johns Morgan Bernhard Denise Cormier Christopher R Ellis Stephen Elrod Glenn Fleary Maeve Moynihan Daniel Neale Dorcas Sowunmi Greg WoodCAST
(in order of appearance)
Scout Finch MELANIE MOORE
Jem Finch JUSTIN MARK
Dill Harris STEVEN LEE JOHNSON Bailiff STEPHEN ELROD
Tom Robinson YAEGEL T. WELCH Horace Gilmer LUKE SMITH
Sheriff Heck Tate..........................................................................................................DAVID CHRISTOPHER WELLS
Bob Ewell JOEY COLLINS
Mayella Ewell
ARIANNA GAYLE STUCKI Calpurnia JACQUELINE WILLIAMS Atticus Finch RICHARD THOMAS
Judge Taylor DAVID MANIS Mr. Roscoe GREG WOOD Mr. Cunningham TRAVIS JOHNS Miss Stephanie LIV ROOTH Mrs. Henry Dubose MARY BADHAM Link Deas JEFF STILL Dill’s Mother LIV ROOTH Dr. Reynolds GREG WOOD Boo Radley .................................................................................................................................................... TRAVIS JOHNS Ensemble MORGAN BERNHARD, DENISE CORMIER, HOLLIS DUGGANS-QUEENSS, CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS, STEPHEN ELROD, GLENN FLEARY, MAEVE MOYNIHAN, DANIEL NEALE, DORCAS SOWUNMI, GREG WOOD
UNDERSTUDIES
Understudies never substitute for the listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.
For Scout Finch—MAEVE MOYNIHAN; for Jem Finch—MORGAN BERNHARD, DANIEL NEALE; for Dill Harris—MORGAN BERNHARD, DANIEL NEALE; for Bailiff—CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS, DANIEL NEALE; for Tom Robinson—GLENN FLEARY; for Horace Gilmer—CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS, STEPHEN ELROD; for Sheriff Heck Tate—CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS, GREG WOOD; for Bob Ewell—STEPHEN ELROD, TRAVIS JOHNS; for Mayella Ewell—MAEVE MOYNIHAN, LIV ROOTH; for Calpurnia—DORCAS SOWUNMI; for Atticus Finch—TRAVIS JOHNS, DAVID CHRISTOPHER WELLS; for Judge Taylor—DAVID CHRISTOPHER WELLS, GREG WOOD; for Mr. Roscoe—CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS, DANIEL NEALE; for Mr. Cunningham—CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS, STEPHEN ELROD; for Miss Stephanie—DENISE CORMIER, MAEVE MOYNIHAN; for Mrs. Henry Dubose—DENISE CORMIER, LIV ROOTH; for Link Deas—CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS, GREG WOOD; for Dill’s Mother—DENISE CORMIER, MAEVE MOYNIHAN; for Dr. Reynolds— CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS, JEFF STILL; for Boo Radley—CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS, STEPHEN ELROD; for Ensemble—CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS, DANIEL NEALE
TIME AND PLACE 1934 Maycomb, Alabama
THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION
LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
HARPER LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
RICHARD THOMAS (Atticus Finch) (he/him). Broadway/Off-Broadway: The Little Foxes (Tony nom.), You Can’t Take It with You, Race, Democracy, Incident at Vichy, The Stendhal Syndrome (Lucille Lortel Award), A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, An Enemy of the People, Tiny Alice, The Front Page, The Fifth of July, innumerable Shakespeare productions, and his professional debut at 7 years old in Sunrise at Campobello on Broadway. National tours: The Humans (Elliot Norton Award) and Twelve Angry Men. Thomas is an Emmy Award®-winning actor for his performance in the iconic series The Waltons. Film: Last Summer; Red Sky at Morning; September 30, 1955; Wonder Boys; Taking Woodstock; The Unforgivable. TV: The Americans, Billions, Tell Me Your Secrets and the Netflix series Ozark
MELANIE MOORE (Scout Finch) (she/ her). Broadway: Hello, Dolly; Fiddler on the Roof; Finding Neverland. New York Theater: chekhov/OS/an experimental game (Baryshnikov Arts Center/ Arlekin Players Theatre), Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood (York Theatre Company), A Chorus Line (Encores! at NYCC), Freddie Falls in Love (Signature Theater and The Joyce Theater). Select TV/ Film: So You Think You Can Dance (Season 8 winner and all-star, Fox), The Gilded Age (HBO), Halston (Netflix), Glee (Fox), In the Heights (2021). Special love and thanks to my mom and the rest of my family and friends. And, of course, to Roe and Pippa. Instagram: @melaniekmoore.
JACQUELINE WILLIAMS (Calpurnia) (she/her) is a multi-award winner whose Broadway credits include Horton Foote’s Pulitzer winner and Tony®-nominated The Young Man from Atlanta (Clara) starring Rip Torn and Shirley Knight. Off-Broadway credits include the internationally acclaimed production of From the Mississippi Delta (Phelia/Woman Two co-produced by Oprah Winfrey), The Talented Tenth (Tanya), and Mill Fire (Widow Three). Ms. Williams has a long association with Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Court Theatre, and is a frequent collaborator of Oscar recipient Tarell McCraney and Tina Landau. Extensive regional credits include Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, ACT Seattle,
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Portland Stage Co., Asolo Rep, and Mark Taper where she reprised her role in Head of Passes (Mae) opposite Phylicia Rashad. Tours: Market Theatre of Johannesburg’s Born in the R.S.A (Thenjiwe) and Crowns (Mabel). Film and recurring TV credits include season two of The Chi (realtor Mrs. Harriet Brown), Chicago Fire/Chicago Med/Chicago PD (Sergeant Beccera), Empire (Warden Meyers), Heartlock (Captain Rosalyn), The Breakup (Shondra), The Lake House (Madvi Patel). Upcoming: AMC’s 61st Street (Nurse Florence) and Amazon’s Paper Girls (Dr. Donna Metcalf). Greatest blessing: daughter, Kara.
JUSTIN MARK (Jem Finch) (he/him). Off-Off Broadway: This Beautiful Future (TheaterLab), In a Word (Cherry Lane). Shakespeare Theatre Company DC: Peter Pan & Wendy. TV: FBI Most Wanted, Law & Order SVU, Madam Secretary, Gotham. Education: Juilliard. Hometown: Portland, OR.
YAEGEL T. WELCH (Tom Robinson) (he/him). Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Play That Goes Wrong. National Tour: The Play That Goes Wrong. Off-Broadway: Fly, The Royale (Lincoln Center Theatre), The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek (Signature Theatre Company), The Revenger’s Tragedy (RedBull Theatre), The Acting Company, National Black Theatre. Regional: True Colors Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Studio Theatre, The Wilma Theatre, The Arden Theatre, Arkansas Rep, PlayMakers Rep, Seattle Rep. Company member: Everyman Theatre. TV: The Blacklist, Braindead, Madame Secretary, Elementary, Harlem, and Getaway. Education: Morehouse College BA, Brandeis University MFA, The George Washington University Academy for Classical Acting MFA. Insta: @yaegeltwelchthegreatest
STEVEN LEE JOHNSON (Dill Harris) (he/him). Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird. Off-Broadway: Nantucket Sleigh Ride (Lincoln Center Theater). Regional: Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Indecent (Yale Repertory Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Theater Latté Da); Mary’s Wedding (Chester Theatre Company); Clybourne Park, Uncle Vanya (Guthrie Theater). TV: Chicago Fire, Masterclass, HBO.
Johnson is a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Education: Interlochen, BFA, University of Minnesota/Guthrie; MFA, Yale School of Drama.
MARY BADHAM (Mrs. Henry Dubose) (she/her). At the age of 10, Ms. Badham was chosen for the role of “Scout” for the feature film of To Kill a Mockingbird starring Gregory Peck and earned an Oscar nomination for her performance. At that time, she was the youngest person ever nominated for a supporting role. Since then, she has promoted the book and film’s message about social injustice across the US (including for the National Endowment of the Arts and two White House appearances) and received a US Speaker and Specialist Grant to participate in programs about To Kill a Mockingbird in Russia. Other Film: This Property is Condemned with Robert Redford and Natalie Wood, Let’s Kill Uncle, Our Very Own with Allison Janney. TV: Dr. Kildare and Twilight Zone.
JOEY COLLINS (Bob Ewell) (he/ him). Broadway: The Glass Menagerie, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Lonesome West Off-Broadway: Bug, Vieux Carré, The Antigone Project, Apartment 3A, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Beasley’s Christmas Party Irondale Ensemble Company: Galileo; 1599; St. Joan of the Stockyards; Good Soul of Setzuan; Dead End; alice, Alice, ALICE! Regional: At Home at the Zoo (Jerry, BTCA Award), The Homecoming (Lenny, BTCA nom.) for Berkshire Theatre Group. Regional: IRT, ACT, Rep. Theatre of St. Louis, CATF, Yale Rep, Playmakers Rep, Barrington Stage, McCarter, Berkeley Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, The Old Globe, others. Film: There is a Monster, Dottie’s Thanksgiving Pickle, Enough is Enough, There You Are, Bittersweet TV: Kidnapped, Luke Cage, Law & Order, All My Children. joeycollins.net
DAVID MANIS (Judge Taylor). Broadway: 12 shows, including The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime, War Horse, and The Coast of Utopia. Off Broadway: David Cromer’s Our Town. Extensive regional credits. TV includes The Blacklist, The Good Fight, Bull, Dickinson, Frasier, King Of Queens, and a telekinetic weatherman on The X-Files. As playwright: Words Fail Me and Romeo Rosaline Potpan Juliet.
LUKE SMITH (Horace Gilmer) (he/ him). Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird, American Son, Significant Other. Off-Broadway: Significant Other (Roundabout Theatre), Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre). National Tour: Peter and the Starcatcher. Regional: Barrington Stage, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre. Film: The Irishman, Freedom. Proud graduate of University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
ARIANNA GAYLE STUCKI (Mayella Ewell) (she/her) hails from Ogden, UT and is proud to be making her professional debut in To Kill a Mockingbird after recently gaining her MFA from The Juilliard School. Previous roles include Rosalind in As You Like It, Brutus in Julius Caesar, Dionysus in The Bacchae, and Ashlee in Clare Barron’s Dance Nation. She thanks her Juilliard family, her global community, her mother, and lastly... to her dad, her “Atticus” - this one’s for you. Bachelor of Arts: NYU Abu Dhabi.
DAVID CHRISTOPHER WELLS (Sheriff Heck Tate) (he/him). Broadway: Mothers and Sons, The Coast of Utopia, The Rivals. Regional: Barrington Stage, Dorset Theater Festival, Hartford TheaterWorks, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Seattle Rep, The Old Globe Theater, etc. TV: Madame Secretary, The Good Fight, The Blacklist, Shades of Blue, Elementary, The Mysteries of Laura, Deadbeat. MFA: University of San Diego/Old Globe Theater.
JEFF STILL (Link Deas) Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Minutes, Oslo, August: Osage County, Fish in the Dark, Therese Raquin, Bronx Bombers, Lombardi. Off-Broadway: Oslo, Our Town, Tribes, Orson’s Shadow, Adding Machine: A Musical. Regional: Rothko in Red (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Harry Brock in Born Yesterday (Guthrie), Salieri in Amadeus (Cardinal Stage Co.) and 13 plays with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
LIV ROOTH (Miss Stephanie, Dill’s Mother) (she/her). Broadway: To Kill A Mockingbird (original cast), Venus in Fur, Born Yesterday, Is He Dead?. OffBroadway: Lives of the Saints, All in the Timing (Primary Stages); Desire, Jane Eyre (The Acting Company); Nice Girl (LAByrinth); Blood and Gifts (Lincoln Center Theater); Beyond Therapy (TACT); Wife to James Whelan (Mint Theater Company); Women Beware
Women (Red Bull) Regional: The Member of the Wedding (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Describe the Night (Alley Theatre); Cry It Out (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Other People’s Money (Long Wharf Theatre); Nora, Loot, and Suddenly, Last Summer (Westport Country Playhouse); Surf Report (La Jolla Playhouse); Venus in Fur (TheaterWorks Hartford); Noises Off (Hartford Stage). Film: Chuck. TV: Elementary, Person of Interest, The Good Wife MFA: NYU Graduate Acting.
TRAVIS JOHNS (Mr. Cunningham, Boo Radley) (he/him) has worked on stages all over the country. Theatre credits: West Coast premiere of Barbecue (Geffen Playhouse); West Coast premiere of Boy (LA Theatre Works); National Tour of In the Heat of the Night (LA Theatre Works); world premiere of Atlanta (Geffen Playhouse); the West Coast premiere of National Pastime (Fremont Centre Theatre); Take Me Out (Ensemble Theatre Company). Film: Danny Collins (opposite Al Pacino), Term Life, Swelter (opposite Alfred Molina), Sound of My Voice, Adventures of Power, Dead Man Rising. TV: Westworld, Queen of the South, NCIS, CSI: Vegas, Truth Be Told, Fear the Walking Dead, Goliath, Bosch: Legacy, The Shrink Next Door Travis was raised in Elizabethton, TN, graduated from Wake Forest University, and resides in Los Angeles.
MORGAN BERNHARD (Ensemble) (he/him) is an NYC based actor who grew up in the greater Boston area. He attended Castleton State College, VT where he earned his BAs in Theater Arts and Music Performance, and then went on to earn his MFA in Acting from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in England. Credits: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents, Hamlet (Hamlet/ Horatio), As You Like It (Forest Lord/ Hymen), Million Dollar Quartet (Carl Perkins). TV: The Deuce (HBO). He is extremely excited and grateful to be making his national tour debut with To Kill a Mockingbird. Thanks and love to my parents and siblings Kat, Brian and my partner Julz for always supporting and encouraging me to pursue my dreams and goals. And as always, CJ.
DENISE CORMIER (Ensemble) (she/ her). Broadway: The Minutes, Linda Vista. National Tour: The Graduate. Theatre: Asolo Repertory, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Indiana Repertory, Pioneer
Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Hudson Valley Shakespeare. TV: Search Party, The Affair, Law & Order: CI. MFA: ACAShakespeare Theatre DC. 2017 LuntFontanne Fellow.
CHRISTOPHER R ELLIS (General Understudy) (he/him) is thrilled to be working with such talented artist on such a monumentally important show. Some of his favorite past credits include The Creature in Frankenstein (Cardinal Stage), Lucius in Titus Andronicus (Utah Shakes), and Heck Tate in To Kill a Mockingbird (Utah Shakes).
STEPHEN ELROD (Ensemble) (he/ him). Off-Broadway: Theatre at St Clement’s: Sideways. The Sheen Center: When It Happens to You. Regional: TheaterWorks Hartford: The Who & The What. Shakespeare Theatre Company: Macbeth, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew. South Coast Repertory: Songs of Bilitis.
GLENN FLEARY (Ensemble) (he/him), a New York City native, is thrilled to be a part of To Kill a Mockingbird! NY Credits: Phyllida Lloyd’s Shakespeare Trilogy (St. Ann’s Warehouse), Section 310, Row D, Seats 5 And 6 (59 E 59) TV: Law & Order: SVU, Younger, Golden Boy, FBI. All my love to friends and family. @GlennFleary
MAEVE MOYNIHAN (Ensemble) (she/ her). National tour debut. Regional: Guthrie Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Park Square Theatre, Red Eye Theater, The Children’s Theatre Company, 7th House Theater and Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. TV: Blue Bloods. Education: University of MN/Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program. Huge thanks and love to my family and Mike.
DANIEL NEALE (General Understudy) (he/him) is excited to be making his national tour debut. Daniel is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. Endless thanks to the teachers, family, and friends who made this possible. @daniel.neale
DORCAS SOWUNMI (Ensemble) is thankful and blessed to be a part of this monumental production of To Kill a Mockingbird. Selected theatre credits: Tiny Beautiful Things (The Old Globe); A Raisin in the Sun (Indiana Repertory Theatre & Syracuse Stage, SALT Award for Leading Actress); Nollywood Dreams (Cherry Lane Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure (Stratford Shakespeare Festival);
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Macbeth SS! (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Trust (Lookingglass Theatre); I, Barbara Jordan (Alley Theatre). TV/ Film: New Amsterdam, Search Party, The Last O.G, Blacklist, Modern Love, Holiday in Harlem, Beneath the Fold Dorcas has trained at the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Training at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada, The School at Steppenwolf in Chicago, and Stella Adler Actor’s Studio in New York. She holds an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Love and gratitude to family, and friends.
GREG WOOD (Ensemble) (he/him). Recent regional theatre credits: An Iliad (Poet), Cyrano de Bergerac (Cyrano) at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; The Best Man (William Russell), The Humans (Erik Blake), Noises Off (Lloyd Dallas) at Walnut St. Theatre; A Christmas Carol (Scrooge), Skylight (Tom Sergeant) at McCarter Theatre; Once (Da) at Arden Theatre. Film: The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Happening, A Gentlemen’s Game, Killing Emmett Young. TV: Dr. Death, Evil, The Blacklist, Law & Order, Ed, Hack, Homicide.
AARON SORKIN ( Playwright ). Broadway and Off-Broadway: A Few Good Men (Broadway debut; John Gassner Award for Outstanding New American Playwright), Making Movies, The Farnsworth Invention. Film: Being the Ricardos (Director and Writer; BAFTA and Writers Guild Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Director and Writer; Academy Award, BAFTA, Writers Guild Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay; Directors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Film Feature); Molly’s Game (Director and Writer; Academy Award, BAFTA, and Writers Guild Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay), Steve Jobs, Moneyball Academy, BAFTA, and Writers Guild Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay), The Social Network (Academy Award, BAFTA, and Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), Charlie Wilson’s War, The American President, Malice, A Few Good Men. Television: writer and producer of The Newsroom, The West Wing (Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for four consecutive seasons, Humanities Prize), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Sports Night (Television Critics’ Award for Best Comedy, Humanitas Prize).
BARTLETT SHER (Director) was nominated for the 2019 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for To Kill a Mockingbird. Lincoln Center Theater (resident director): South Pacific (Tony Award; also London and Australia), My Fair Lady, Oslo (Obie Award, Tony Award for Best Play; also National Theatre, London), The King and I (also London), Golden Boy, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Awake and Sing!, The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award noms.), Blood and Gifts, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (also London). Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof (Drama Desk Award), The Bridges of Madison County. Off-Broadway: Waste (Obie Award), Cymbeline (Callaway Award; also Royal Shakespeare Company), Don Juan, Pericles (TFANA, BAM). Previously artistic director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre (2000–2009), company director for the Guthrie Theater and associate artistic director at Hartford Stage Company. Opera: Rigoletto (Staatsoper Berlin); Roméo et Juliette (Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg, Milan, Chicago); Faust (Baden Baden); Two Boys (English National Opera, Metropolitan Opera); Il barbiere di Siviglia (Baden Baden, Metropolitan Opera), Otello, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Le Comte Ory, L’elisir d’Amore (Metropolitan Opera); Mourning Becomes Electra (Seattle Opera, New York City Opera). He serves on the board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Bart is currently directing a chamber opera production of Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center Theater, with a score by Ricky Ian Gordon. His film of Oslo premiered on HBO in May and was nominated for two Emmy Awards.
MIRIAM BUETHER (Scenic Design) was nominated for the 2019 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play for this production. Broadway: Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women (Tony Award nom.); The Children (also costume design); A Doll’s House, Part 2. West End: Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp., The Jungle (also New York, St. Ann’s Warehouse), Sunny Afternoon, Chariots of Fire, Bend it Like Beckham, Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Father. Recent credits include Escaped Alone (Royal Court Theatre, BAM); The Children, Cock, Love and Information (Royal Court Theatre); Shipwreck, Machinal, Albion, Boy Hymn (Almeida Theatre); Earthquakes in London, The Effect (National Theatre); The Trial, Wild Swans (Young Vic);
Anna Nicole, Boris Godunov, Il Trittico: Suor Angelica (Royal Opera House). Upcoming: Spring Awakening (Almeida Theatre). Two-time Olivier Award nominee and winner of the Evening Standard Award, Critics Circle Award, Hospital Club Creative Award and the Linbury Prize for Stage Design.
ANN ROTH (Costume Design) is a Tony and Academy Award-winning costume designer with over 200 Broadway and feature film design credits. Roth was also nominated for the 2019 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play for this production. Select design credits include the original Broadway productions of The Odd Couple, Purlie, Seesaw, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, They’re Playing Our Song, Hurlyburly, Biloxi Blues, Singin’ in the Rain, The House of Blue Leaves, The Book of Mormon, The Nance (Tony Award) and Shuffle Along…. Film: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Academy Award), The English Patient (Academy Award), The Post, Julie & Julia, The Reader, Doubt, Mamma Mia!, The Village, The Stepford Wives, Cold Mountain, The Hours, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Birdcage, The Mambo Kings, Klute, Working Girl, Silkwood, Places in the Heart, 9 to 5, Hair, The Owl and the Pussycat and Midnight Cowboy. TV: Angels in America, Mildred Pierce. Roth was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2011.
JENNIFER TIPTON (Lighting Design) was nominated for the 2019 Tony Award for Lighting Design of a Play for this production. Recent work includes A Doll’s House, Part 2; Richard Nelson’s What Happened?; The Michaels Abroad at Hunter College; Beckett’s First Love on Zoom for TFANA; Intimate Apparel, a small opera, at the Mitzi Newhouse, Lincoln Center which will open when the pandemic permits. Tipton has taught lighting at the Yale School of Drama for the past 40 years. She has received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, the Jerome Robbins Prize and the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture in New York City. In 2008 she was made a United States Artists Gracie Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow. She is a two-time Tony Award winner.
SCOTT LEHRER (Sound Design) received the first Tony awarded to Sound Design for the Lincoln Center Theater revival of South Pacific. Recent Broadway: The Music Man; To Kill a Mockingbird; Carousel; Hello, Dolly!; The Front Page; Shuffle Along…; Fiddler on
the Roof; The King and I; Honeymoon in Vegas; A Delicate Balance; A Raisin in the Sun; Betrayal; Lucky Guy, Chaplin; (Drama Desk Award), Death of a Salesman, the long running revival of Chicago, and 50 City Center Encores!. As a music producer and engineer, projects include the Broadway cast recording of An American in Paris (Grammy nom.), Loudon Wainwright III’s Grammy-winning High Wide and Handsome, Bebe Neuwirth’s Porcelain, and Meredith Monk’s mercy.
ADAM GUETTEL (Original Score) is a composer/lyricist. Guettel was nominated for the 2019 Tony Award for Best Original Score for this production. Theatre: The Light in the Piazza (2005 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations; Grammy nom. for Best Musical Theater Album; cast album on Nonesuch Records), Floyd Collins (1996 at Playwrights Horizons; Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, Obie Award for Best Music; cast album on Nonesuch Records) and Saturn Returns (1998 at The Public Theater; recorded by Nonesuch Records as Myths and Hymns). Other awards include the Stephen Sondheim Award (1990), the ASCAP New Horizons Award (1997) and the American Composers Orchestra Award (2005). He received an honorary doctorate from Lehman College in 2007 and made a member of the Royal Academy of Music in 2019.
SARI KETTER (Associate Director). Selected Associate/Assistant Directing: To Kill a Mockingbird (Broadway), Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway, National Tour) The King and I (London Palladium, National Tour), My Fair Lady (Lincoln Center Theater, National Tour); Guthrie Theater (12 years), Arena Stage, Denver Center Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theater, Steppenwolf at Lincoln Center Theater, The Acting Company, Playwrights Horizons, Hartford Stage. Selected Directing: Guthrie Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Intiman Theater, Great Lakes Theater, Portland Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
KIMBERLY GRIGSBY (Music Director).
Broadway: Head Over Heels; Amélie; Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark; Spring Awakening; The Light in the Piazza; Caroline, or Change; The Full Monty; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown;
Twelfth Night. Off-Broadway: The Lucky Ones, Here Lies Love, The Fortress of Solitude, Coraline, Mother Courage and Her Children, Songs from an Unmade Bed
LUC VERSCHUEREN for CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES (Hair and Wig Design). Broadway: King Lear; Head Over Heels; Carousel; Three Tall Women; Hello, Dolly!; The Crucible; Misery; Sylvia; Betrayal; Les Misérables. West End/Broadway: Tina–The Tina Turner Musical, The Ferryman, Farinelli and the King, Matilda, Billy Elliot. West End: All About Eve, Funny Girl, Prince of Egypt. TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Film: Downton Abbey
KATE WILSON (Dialect Coach). Broadway: Moulin Rouge!, Beetlejuice, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Burn This, True West, Network, The Waverly Gallery, The Cher Show, The Iceman Cometh, Carousel, Lobby Hero, The Crucible. Film: The Tragedy of Macbeth; Women Talking; Lady Bird; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Inside Llewyn Davis. TV: Olive Kitteridge, Mrs. America. Faculty: Juilliard.
EDWARD PIERCE (Design Adaptation and Supervision). Select Broadway/ Tours: Angels in America (TONY nomination), Wicked [all worldwide productions], Phantom of the Opera (World Tour), Love Never Dies (International Tour), Bright Star, Amazing Grace, Holler If Ya Hear Me, The Other Place, A Streetcar Named Desire, Shatner’s World, Billy Elliot, Pippin, 9 to 5, The Pirate Queen, Aida, Ragtime, Cabaret, Noise/Funk Television: NBC’s Maya & Marty and NBC Universal Kids Sprout House. Edward represents designers as President of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829. edwardpierce.com
THE TELSEY OFFICE (Casting). With offices in both New York and Los Angeles, The Telsey Office casts for theater, film, television, and commercials. The Telsey Office is dedicated to creating safe, equitable, and anti-racist spaces through collaboration, artistry, heart, accountability, and advocacy.
BRIAN J. L’ECUYER (Production Stage Manager). National Tours: Hello, Dolly!; The Humans; Fiasco Theatre’s Into the Woods; La Cage aux Folles with George Hamilton and Christopher Sieber; The Lincoln Center Production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific; The Drowsy Chaperone; The
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Deaf West’s Big River. He began his touring career with John Astin’s one man show, Edgar Allan Poe—Once Upon a Midnight across the US, Ireland, and Australia. Brian also completed a long run in Las Vegas with Jersey Boys AEA – union member for over 20 years!
AMY RAMSDELL (Stage Manager) (she/her). National Tours: A Christmas Carol; Hello, Dolly!; Hamilton; Les Misérables; Elf the Musical; Dreamgirls; Once. Past credits include Hamilton (Chicago), Marvin’s Room, God Looked Away with Al Pacino, Billy Elliot, First Date, Bad Jews, Barcelona, Choir Boy, The Country House. Geffen Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, Pasadena Playhouse, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse. Gratitude and love to Mom, Papa and Brian.
HOLLIS DUGGANS-QUEENSS (Assistant Stage Manager). New York: Fairycakes, Space Dogs, 2021 Tony Awards. National Tour: A Chorus Line, Legally Blonde, Warriors Don’t Cry (TheaterWorks USA) Regional: The Producers, My Three Angels, and You Can’t Take It with You at Barnstormers Theater.
CHARLES MEANS ( Production Supervisor). Broadway: To Kill A Mockingbird, The Waverly Gallery, Junk, The Real Thing, Seminar, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, The Pitmen Painters, Next Fall, Oleanna, You’re Welcome America, A Final Night with George W. Bush, Mauritius, Doubt and The Goat or Who is Sylvia?. The Jungle (Curran Theatre). Former faculty and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego.
JUSTIN A. SWEENEY (Company Manager) (he/him). Broadway: Monty Python’s Spamalot. National Tours: Movin’ Out (First National), Les Misérables (25th Anniversary), The Phantom of the Opera (Spectacular New) American Ballet Theatre: national and international tours, including Cuba and Oman. Shout out to Jackson.
GENTRY & ASSOCIATES (General Management). has managed nearly 250 national and international touring theatrical productions over the past 25 years. Current and upcoming productions include 1776, Anastasia, Blue Man Group, Beetlejuice, The Book of Mormon, Elf the Musical, Fiddler on the Roof, Hairspray, Les Misérables, Peter Pan, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
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BROADWAY BOOKING OFFICE NYC (Tour Press and Marketing) is a leading theatrical tour booking, marketing and press company representing award-winning musicals and plays. Currently: Jersey Boys, Beautiful –The Carole King Musical, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Hairspray, To Kill a Mockingbird, Potted Potter, The Crown Live!, world premiere new works Designing Women and Here You Come Again, and a new Broadway-bound production of The Secret Garden. BBO serves as consultant for Transcendence Theatre Company in Sonoma and the North American tour of Les Misérables bbonyc.com
THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Booking Agency) has represented 27 Tony Award® winning Best Musicals and Plays. Current tours include: Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, The Book of Mormon, 1776, Hadestown, Mean Girls, MJ The Musical, Pretty Woman, Six, Tina, To Kill A Mockingbird, Anastasia, Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof, Hairspray, My Fair Lady, R.E.S.P.E.C.T, and Tootsie. Future tours include: Almost Famous, Funny Girl, Mamma Mia!, Mrs. Doubtfire, A Strange Loop, The Devil Wears Prada, and The Wiz
SETH WENIG (Executive Producer) has been with NETworks since its inception in 1995. He spearheaded the international tours of Fosse starring Ben Vereen and Ruthie Henshall. Seth has produced the Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific and the National Theatre production of War Horse. Together with Cameron Mackintosh, Seth served as Executive Producer for both the US and UK tours of the National Theatre’s My Fair Lady, the 25th Anniversary US tour of Les Misérables, the new The Phantom of the Opera tour, Miss Saigon. Currently, Anastasia, The Book of Mormon, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Beetlejuice. He is most proud of his greatest productions – Marlo and Camden.
NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS
(Producer) is an industry-leading producer of touring theatrical productions, committed to delivering quality entertainment to audiences worldwide for more than 25 years. Current and upcoming productions include 1776, Anastasia, The Band’s Visit, Blue Man Group, Beetlejuice, The Book of Mormon, Elf the Musical,
Fiddler on the Roof, Hairspray, Les Misérables, Peter Pan, and To Kill a Mockingbird networkstours.com
BARRY DILLER (Producer) is chairman and senior executive of IAC and Expedia. During his career at ABC, Paramount, and Fox, he oversaw the creation of the ABC Movie of the Week, Saturday Night Fever, Taxi, Grease, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Cheers, Home Alone, and The Simpsons. Broadway credits include The Iceman Cometh; Carousel; Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women; A Doll’s House, Part 2; The Humans; and Betrayal. Through his foundation, he has supported projects for Roundabout Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, The Public Theater and the Motion Picture & Television Fund, and created Little Island, a park and performance center in the Hudson River.
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER (Producer) produces plays and musicals at the Vivian Beaumont, Mitzi E. Newhouse and Claire Tow Theaters at Lincoln Center, on Broadway, nationally and internationally. LCT’s current season includes new worksby James Lapine, Tom Kitt, Michael Korie, Lynn Nottage and Ricky Ian Gordon, and productions at LCT3, which is devoted to producing the work of new artists and developing new audiences. LCT also encourages emerging artists through play readings, workshops and an annual Directors Lab. Open Stages, LCT’s education program, introduces thousands of public school students to theatre annually.
UNIVERSAL THEATRICAL GROUP (Producer), the live theatre division of Universal Pictures, is currently represented on Broadway by the musical phenomenon Wicked. Additional credits include Billy Elliot, Bring It On: The Musical, Shrek, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn and the West End premiere of The Prince of Egypt, currently playing at the Dominion Theatre.
JOHN GORE ORGANIZATION’s (Producer) family of companies includes Broadway Across America and Broadway.com, under the supervision of 13-time Tony-winning producer John Gore (chairman and CEO). Productions include Ain’t Too Proud, Company, Dear Evan Hansen, Girl From the North Country, Jagged Little Pill, The Lehman Trilogy, Moulin Rouge! and Tina—The Tina Turner Musical
PETER MAY (Producer) is president of Trian Partners. ProDucer of The Waverly Gallery; Moulin Rouge!; Tina— The Tina Turner Musical; Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award); The Humans (Tony); An American in Paris; Anastasia; A View From the Bridge (Tony); Three Tall Women; The Iceman Cometh; Carousel; Waitress; The Visit; and many more productions.
JAMES L. NEDERLANDER (Producer). President of Nederlander Organization and son of the late James M. Nederlander. Broadway: Tina—The Tina Turner Musical; Moulin Rouge!; Jagged Little Pill; Thoughts of a Colored Man; The Band’s Visit; On Your Feet!; Hello, Dolly!; Mean Girls; My Fair Lady; The Elephant Man; Movin’ Out; and many others.
ERIC FALKENSTEIN (Producer) produces issue-driven theatre, film and social impact events. He is collaborating with surviving colleagues of Dr. King on a play about his life’s work in the movement. Recent: All My Sons, Bridge & Tunnel, Carmen Jones, The Color Purple, Butler, History Boys, Jitney, Moulin Rouge!, Network, Ragtime, The Visitor, Thurgood, Turn Me Loose, Whoopi. Film: The Butler, Coal River, The Inevitable Defeat….
SUZANNE GRANT ( Producer ). Broadway: Moulin Rouge!, The Lifespan of a Fact, The Waverly Gallery, Three Tall Women, The Iceman Cometh. London: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Red. OffBroadway: The Visitor, Mornings at Seven
SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT (SPE) (Producer) is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation. SPE’s global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition, and distribution; television production, acquisition, and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services and technologies. For additional information, visit www.sonypictures.com/corp/divisions
TULCHIN BARTNER PRODUCTIONS (Producer), an Olivier and Tony Award-winning production company, is thrilled to participate in the return of live theatre. Broadway: Moulin Rouge!, Come From Away. West End: Leopoldstadt, Get Up Stand Up, The Drifters Girl, Life of Pi, The Book Of Mormon. Dedicated to the memory of Alice and Norman Tulchin.
BENJAMIN LOWY ( Producer ).
Credits include Betrayal (Tony Award nomination); Sea Wall/A Life (Tony nomination); Caroline, or Change. Selected co-producer: Company, Angels in America. (Tony Award), Hadestown (Tony Award), Tootsie, Sunday in the Park with George starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
AL NOCCIOLINO (Producer) is president of NAC Entertainment, a diversified theatrical company specializing in the presentation of touring Broadway shows in the Northeast. He has been investing, producing and co-producing national Broadway tours and Broadway shows for over 35 years. Recent Broadway productions include Tina—The Tina Turner Musical; Hello, Dolly!; and The Band’s Visit
DAVID MIRVISH (Producer) is a theatrical producer based in Toronto where he owns and operates four theatres. Mirvish Productions has produced plays and musicals for these and other venues throughout Canada, on Broadway and in London’s West End. In addition, Mirvish Productions has presented over 800 touring productions in Toronto.
WENDY FEDERMAN (Producer). Eleven Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, ten Drama Desk Awards, 18 Outer Critics Circle Awards and 16 Drama League Awards for over 90 productions. A 2019 recipient of Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Boards served: Kennedy Center’s NCPA, MCC, The Foundation for Gender Equality. Upcoming film: Lilly
HENI KOENIGSBERG (Producer). Broadway productions include The Inheritance (Tony Award); Hadestown (Tony); Ain’t Too Proud; The Band’s Visit (Tony); The Lehman Trilogy; Company; Hello, Dolly! (Tony); A View From the Bridge (Tony); Skylight (Tony); A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Tony); A Raisin in the Sun (Tony); and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony). With gratitude, Mr. Blum.
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BOB BOYETT (Producer). Broadway includes Dear Evan Hansen; An Act of God; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Ann; One Man, Two Guvnors; Rock ’N’ Roll; The Drowsy Chaperone; War Horse; South Pacific; Journey’s End; Boeing-Boeing; The Coast of Utopia; The History Boys; Spamalot; Glengarry Glen Ross; and Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
BARBARA H. FREITAG (Producer) and late husband Buddy formed B Square + 4 Productions, a Tony and Olivier Award-winning company. Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Jagged Little Pill, Girl From the North Country and Come From Away. West End: Come From Away. Past highlights include The Lifespan of a Fact, Passing Strange, Memphis and August: Osage County
JASON BLUM (Producer). Founder of Blumhouse Productions, Mr. Blum is a two-time Academy Award-nominated and three-time Emmy Award-winning producer. Film/television credits include Get Out, Whiplash, BlacKkKlansman, “The Jinx” and “The Normal Heart.”
ROXANNE SEEMAN & JAMIE deROY (Producers). Roxanne Seeman is also a songwriter/lyricist, known for songs recorded by Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, Earth Wind & Fire, Phil Collins, The Jacksons, Sarah Brightman and others. Jamie deRoy: Seven Tony Awards, 100-plus Broadway and OffBroadway shows. Current: Tina—The Tina Turner Musical, The Lehman Trilogy, Company, Ain’t Too Proud, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Fairycakes. Film: Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age CORNICE PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is the award-winning partnership of Eric Cornell and Jack Sennott. Recent Broadway: Oklahoma! (Tony Award), What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony nomination), Pass Over, A Christmas Carol. Upcoming: Anne of Green Gables, The Outsiders, The Cottage, The Flamingo Kid
THE SHUBERT ORGANIZATION (Producer). Since its founding in 1900, The Shubert Organization has been in the forefront of the American theatre. Under the leadership of Chairman and CEO Robert E. Wankel, The Shubert Organization owns and operates 17 Broadway theatres and six OffBroadway venues. The company has produced and co-produced hundreds of plays and musicals, including the upcoming Some Like It Hot
Opening Night: April 6, 2022
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CREDITS
Scenery and scenic effects built, painted, and automated by PRG Scenic Technologies, New Windsor, NY, Great Lakes Scenic Studios, F&D Scenic Studios, Scenic Arts Studios, BB Props. Lighting equipment from Christie Lights. Sound equipment from Sound Associates, Inc. Props provided by Q1 Lighting and Scenic, River of Dreams Inc, Cigar Box Studios, Paper Mache Monkey, R.Ramos Upholstery, Carl Tallent, Sydney Gallas. Costumes by Cego Shirting, Eric Winterling, Inc, Giliberto Designs, Inc, Hannah Sorkin and Mia Mooney. Millinery by Rodney Gordon. Fabric dying and painting by Je Fender.
Rehearsed at Gibney Dance Studios, New York, NY.
Special Thanks to Shea’s Performing Arts Center, Bu alo, NY, Al Nocciolino, President, NAC Enterprises.
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The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States.
The Musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.
The Director and Choreographer are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union
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WHAT TO LISTEN TO WHEN HEALING
BY LINNEA COVINGTONPPut on the soundtrack to your favorite musical to feel the difference a song makes. Does the music elevate the mood, get you going, or relax you? There’s so much power when it comes to music, so it’s not surprising this art form is used to help in the healing process.
That’s where music therapy comes in. For Angela Wibben, a board certified music therapist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, she knows a piano concerto or rock ballad isn’t a cure for illness or injury, but it can help. Especially when incorporating Broadway hits.
“People naturally pair movement with music, like working out, dancing, tapping our feet,” said Wibben.
“In the hospital, we provide assessments, design music interventions, and create treatment plans to support patients and families with things like pain management, anxiety reduction, emotional and self-expression,” said Wibben. “We are providing avenues for coping with their illness and hospitalization, or to address rehabilitation needs.”
According to Wibben, to treat a patient, they use music experiences and musical tools to help the clients work through different aspects of care, physical, emotional, social functioning or cognitive therapy.
“People of all backgrounds, ages, and cultures can respond to music, and to music therapy,” said Wibben. “Sessions may include things like relaxing to music, discussing lyrics, improvising, playing instruments or singing, creating musical keepsakes, or writing songs.”
Best part, she said, you don’t have to be able to play a musical instrument or sing well in order to benefit.
“Music therapy research tells us that the most effective music in therapy is music that is familiar, and not too complex or too simple, which, as you can imagine, varies dramatically for everyone,” added Wibben.
DCPA curates playlists exclusively for UCHealth patients and one of the recent ones includes songs from the upcoming 2023 season: “River Deep, Mountain High” from TINA — The Tina Turner Musical, “All I Really Want” from the Alanis Morissette musical Jagged Little Pill, and “Defying Gravity” from Wicked
“I believe music, and music listening, can be an excellent exercise for gaining deeper personal understanding and self-awareness of creative, emotional, self-expressive, and/or rehabilitative outlets for most anyone,” said Wibben. “One of the incredible things about music is that it’s one of the universal cultural features of all human societies and it’s an integral part of the human experience.”
No matter if you’re sick or injured or not.
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Sessions may include things like relaxing to music, discussing lyrics, improvising, playing instruments or singing, creating musical keepsakes, or writing songs.(Photos - Clockwise) Jennafer Newberry as Glinda and Lissa deGuzman as Elphaba in the National Tour of WICKED. Photo by Joan Marcus. / Naomi Rodgers as ‘Tina Turner’ in the North American touring production of TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL. Photo by Matthew Murphy. / Lauren Chanel and the company of the North American Tour of JAGGED LITTLE PILL. Photo by Matthew Murphy, Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade, 2022.
Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.” When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz. Hailed by Time Out New York as “the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years.”
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The people of Transamerica bring expertise, creativity and heart to everything they do—and to the communities where they live and work.
The company’s charitable giving and volunteerism in Denver includes a wide range of causes, with particular focus on youth and families. This reflects a belief that supporting and educating young people helps set them on the path for the kind of future they want.
Contributing to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is consistent with Transamerica’s desire to underwrite programs that foster creativity in the areas of music and performing arts for youth and the underserved.
Transamerica looks forward to continuing to support programs such as the DCPA’s Middle and High School Playwriting Competition. The company is pleased to play a role in advancing literacy, creativity, writing and communication for these talented young individuals.
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Union Pacific is proud to support the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and its commitment to embed diversity, equity and inclusion into its organization and programs. Camp Christmas brings together the local community in a secular celebration to remind everyone that joining together as a community is important during the holiday season and year-round. This program meets the community’s need for an affordable, family-friendly program that showcases differences and unites us through immersive storytelling.
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Roger Haak Manager, VIP Ticketing
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Sarah Martinez Analyst
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Cat V Kerr Associate Props Supervisor Andrew McGlothen Prop Carpenter
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Kevin Copenhaver Director Chris Campbell Assistant
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Diana Ben-Kiki Supervisor
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Douglas Taylor+ Supervisor James Berman+, Forest Fowler+, William Loving+, Dave Mazzeno+, Kyle Moore+, Matt Wagner+ Stagehands
Calli Lavarnway+, Kelley “Reznik” Russell+ Assistants
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Heidi Echtenkamp Supervisor Robin Appleton^, Amber Krimbel^, David La Beaux^, Lauren LaCasse^, Lisa Parsons Wagner^, Kami Williams^ Dressers Jerome Horng^, Marisa Sorce^ Wig Assistants
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