L a s C a s a s F o u n dat i on ’ s 2010 Scholarship for Excellence in the Performing Arts Competition
Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:00 p.m. The Charline McCombs Empire Theatre p r o g r a m
The Foundation for Cultural Arts in San Antonio, popularly known as Las Casas Foundation, has created this scholarship program to honor the talented youth of San Antonio who excel in the area of the performing arts. Through the generous giving of many supportive donors, these scholarships provide financial assistance that can help defray the increasing cost of higher education and can be used at the College or University of the recipient’s choice. Together, our city’s arts patrons are helping provide educational opportunities and the ability to keep the performing arts’ stage stays within reach of the talented youth of San Antonio.
Thank you for joining us for our second year of showcasing promising young talent. We look forward to seeing you at the 2011 Scholarship Competition. Richard Johnston Chair, Scholarship Committee
L a s C a s a s F o u n dat i on ’ s Scholarship for Excellence in the Performing Arts Competition 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:00 p.m. The Charline McCombs Empire Theatre Master of Ceremonies Randy Beamer Anchor News 4 WOAI
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Susan Breidenbach
McKenna Liesman
Accompanist Ryan Garrett
The Foundation for the Cultural Arts in San Antonio, popularly known as Las Casas, is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent of the law. Thank you for supporting Las Casas! The Foundation for Cultural Arts in San Antonio LAS CASAS www.lascasasfoundation.org P.O. Box 15873 ~ San Antonio ~ Texas ~ 78212 phone 210-223-4343 ~ fax 210-223-9876
Performance Schedule Storm Lineberger
Solo Vocal
She Loves Me - She Loves Me
Eve Del Prado
Monologue
The Misanthrope - Moliere
Krizia Benavides
Solo Dance
Cell Block Tango - Chicago
Grace Phipps & Austin Nimnicht
Duet Acting
The Universal Language – David Ives
Zach Williams
Solo Vocal
It’s Hard to Speak My Heart - Parade
Sarai Rodriguez
Monologue
Fuente Ovejuna – Lope De Vega
Lindsey Ashburn
Solo Dance
This Joint is Jumping - Ain’t Misbehavin
Christian Gonzalez & Jerome Tillman
Duet Acting
Blues for Mr. Charlie – James Baldwin
Italie Chavez
Solo Vocal
Gimme Gimme – Thoroughly Modern Millie
Andrew Wofford
Monologue
Sunshine – William Mastrosimone
Tiffany Torres
Solo Dance
Money - Cabaret
Emily Prentice & Ernest Campos
Duet Vocal
I’d Give It All for You - Songs For a New World
10 Minute Intermission Sarai Rodriguez
Solo Vocal
It’s a Perfect Relationship – Bells Are Ringing
James Scully
Monologue
Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
Sydney Vila
Solo Dance
Mr. Monotony - Jerome Robbin’s Miss Liberty
Eve Del Prado & Daniel Kittrell
Duet Acting
The Beauty Part - Sidney Perelman
Ruben Trevino
Monologue
The Rainmaker – N. Richard Nash
Ernest Campos
Solo Vocal
How Glory Goes – Floyd Collins
Lindsey Wilson
Solo Dance
Bye Bye Blackbird - Fosse
Rebecca Brown & Andrew Wofford
Duet Acting
A Hatful of Rain – Michael V. Gazzo
Hayley Galindo
Solo Dance
Life of the Party – Wild Party
Jerome Tillman
Monologue
Prisoner of Second Avenue – Neil Simon
Jazmyn Durr & Omri Russo Duet Acting
One Tennis Shoe – Shel Silverstein
Emily Prentice
Live Out Loud – A Little Princess
Solo Vocal
There will be a break to tabulate the scores Stephanie Lamprea - 2nd Place Vocal 2009
Glitter and Be Gay - Candide
Rosalie Bonner - 1 Place Monologue & 3 Place Vocal 2009
Shy - Once Upon a Mattress
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Ryan Garrett - Las Casas Scholarship Accompanist 2009 & 2010
Scholarship Award Ceremony Las Casas Scholarship Musical Anthology Books Donation-Southwest High School Linda Guerra Tillery/AT&T Essay Award Winners
Judges Bios Dr. Gary Garrison Dr. Gary Garrison is the Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America – the national organization of playwrights, lyricists and composers headed by our nation’s most honored
dramatists:
Tony
Kushner,
John
Patrick Shanley, Marsha Norman, Edward Albee, Theresa Rebeck, Doug Wright, Stephen Schwartz and Stephen Sondheim, among others. Prior to his work at the Guild, Garrison filled the posts of Artistic Director, Producer and full‑time faculty member in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he produced over forty-five festivals of new work, collaborating with hundreds of playwrights, directors and actors. Dr. Garrison’s plays include Verticals and Horizontals, Storm on Storm, It Belongs on Stage (and Not in My Bed), Crater, Old Soles, Padding The Wagon, Rug Store Cowboy, Cherry Reds, Gawk, Oh Messiah Me, We Make A Wall, The Big Fat Naked Truth, Scream With Laughter, Smoothness With Cool, Empty Rooms, Does Anybody Want A Miss Cow Bayou? and When A Diva Dreams. This work has been featured at the Boston Theatre Marathon, Primary Stages, The Directors Company, Manhattan Theatre Source, StageWorks, Fourth Unity, Open Door Theatre, African Globe Theatre Company, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Expanded Arts and New York Rep. His recent work as guest artist or master teacher of playwriting involve such institutions as Sewanee Writer’s Conference, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Inkwell in D.C., Goddard College, Texas Tech University, Southeast Theatre Conference, Northwest Theatre Conference and Boston Playwrights. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, The Playwright’s Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life, Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten‑Minute Play, A More Perfect Ten, two volumes of Monologues for Men by Men (all Heinemann Press), and the Kennedy Center’s Best Student Plays of 2006. He is a the program coordinator for the Summer Playwriting Intensive for the Kennedy Center, the former National Chair of Playwriting for the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival and recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education.
Kaitlin Hopkins Kaitlin Hopkins has performed in theater, television, film and radio for over 25 years. Favorite credits include; Broadway: Noises Off, Anything Goes, The Grinch. Off-Broadway she originated roles in numerous productions including Meredith in Bat Boy- The Musical for which she received Drama Desk and Ovation Award nominations, Bare-a pop opera, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Nicky Silver’s Beautiful Child, Disney’s On The Record and Dirty Dancing (National Tour), She Loves Me (Reprise Series/ Ovation nomination). Kaitlin has made over 50 Film and television appearances including; Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Nanny Diaries, “Law and Order” “Law and Order SVU” & “Law and Order CI”, “Spin City”, “Star Trek-Voyager”, “Star Trek- Deep Space Nine”, “Rescue Me” and three years as Dr Harrison on “Another World”. Kaitlin has served as a panel member for YoungARTS Week for the NFAA and as a judge for The Irene Ryan Awards-Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
Robin Lewis Robin Lewis is a twelve year Broadway and national Broadway touring veteran. Credits include: Fosse, Dance Captain of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and Dance Captain of A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Gardens and The Producers and performed that show with Jason Alexander and Martin Short in Hollywood. Robin can also be seen on the PBS Dance in America movie Fosse: A Celebration in Dance. Lewis is the Co-founder/ Producer and Artistic Director of Texarts in Austin, Texas – which produces professional musical theater at the Paramount downtown and at its new Morris Theater in the Capital Lakes Region.
James Price James Price started in theatre as a professional actor and musician, including on Broadway in The Civil War and Ring of Fire, internationally with Les Miserables, and off-Broadway as an original cast member of the critically acclaimed Batboy: the Musical (cast album) and bare: a pop opera (cast album). James was selected to be a Lark Playwright’s Workshop Fellow for 2007-2008 and take part in a year long development program run by renowned playwright Arthur Kopit. James’ play, Collision Course (semifinalist, O’Neill), has had readings produced at the Actor’s Studio (P/D workshop), Stanford University, The Shotgun Players Theatre in San Francisco, and most recently at the Lark Theatre in New York City. Current projects include a new play, Colony Collapse, about the disappearing honey bees, and a technology play entitled Cellular Connections. He is also the composer/lyricist of a new musical, Cold Feet (finalist, O’Neill NMTC), which is now licensed by Miracle or Two Productions in New York City. In addition, he produced and wrote all the songs for award-winning actress Kaitlin Hopkins’ debut CD, Make Me Sweat, available at cdbaby.com. James, who is a trained classical guitarist, has a degree in economics from the University of Michigan and later studied for two years at the American Conservatory Theatre in the advanced training program. He is a member of the Actor’s Studio Playwrights and Directors Workshop, Actor’s Equity, Screen Actor’s Guild and the Dramatists Guild.
Elizabeth (Rusty) Robertson Elizabeth (Rusty) Robertson was named as one of the Top 100 Marketers by Advertising Age magazine. Rusty Robertson is a founding partner in RSA and the founder of RPR & Associates, which was featured in Success magazine as one of America’s Super 8 companies. She was named one of eight top Entrepreneurs in America in 2007. Rusty is a literary agent and brand marketer who discovered several unique celebrities including the phenomenon Susan Powter and her “Stop the Insanity” weight-loss program, which generated over $180 million in profits within three years. Additional clients include Richard Preston, the best selling author of The Cobra Event, The Hot Zone and Demon in the Freezer, Jack Canfield of the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise, and Opera Diva, Denyce Graves. Rusty continues to brand hundreds of major corporations and has generated over $500 Million for her clients and their companies. She has been a producer of television programs such as Good Morning America, the Susan Powter Show, the Big Date, ABC’s The Home Show, and CBS’s Women of the House. Rusty helped create the Margaret Thatcher Foundation; was instrumental in the launch of the Susan G. Komen Foundation with Nancy Brinker, and the Race For the Cure; co- founded STAND UP TO CANCER in 2008 which she co-produced and aired on NBC, CBS, and ABC simultaneously, and raised over $100 Million dollars on September 5, 2008. Her partners are Sherry Lansing, Laura Ziskin, Katie Couric, Sue Schwartz, and Entertainment Industry Foundation CEO, Lisa Paulsen.
Randy Beamer Randy Beamer is the Emmy Award-winning weekday 5, 6 & 10 pm co-anchor and a photojournalist for News 4 WOAI. He still loves to grab his camera and shoot his own stories as often as possible. Beamer has shot and reported for News 4 from all over the country and even around the world, focusing on all kinds of stories involving -- and important to -- South Texans. Beamer was a National Merit Scholar at Drake University. He also briefly attended the USC Film School in L.A. For several years, the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters have recognized him as one of the top anchors in Texas. He’s won two Emmy Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, along with many others over the years for reporting, anchoring, photography and commentary. And he’d rather you just call him “Beamer.”
Ryan Garrett Ryan Garrett (Accompanist) just completed his sophomore year at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music in Cleveland, Ohio where he majors in music direction for musical theatre. Credits include Chess at Playhouse Square, The Wild Party, Grey Gardens, Pippin, The Cradle Will Rock, and Songs for a New World. He also appeared as Larry in the regional premiere of [title of show] at Playhouse Square. As a composer, he has written a variety of works, among them he scored the incidental music for Proof at AtticRep. Ryan was selected as the recipient of the San Antonio Symphony’s Young Composer Award in 2008 and his piece Return to the City Overture was premiered in March of 2009.
Susan Dee Breidenbach Susan Dee Breidenbach (Stage Manager) has spent most of her free time during the last twenty-two years within the local theatre community. Please applaud, too, for all the techs that help make shows possible. Susan is Media Director with the pharmaceutical manufacturer, Mission Pharmacal.
McKenna Liesman McKenna Liesman (Assistant Stage Manager) graduated from Northeast School of the Arts in 2008 and has just finished her sophomore year in musical theatre at the Webster’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts in St. Louis Missouri.
Scholarship Committee Richard Johnston Chair Eric Dupre’ Valerie Samaniego Finch Jay Higginson Elaine Honigblum Kaufman Charline McCombs Kevin Parman Judge Bonnie Reed Kathy Rhoads Barbara Richmond Laura Richmond Frank Z. Ruttenberg Joci Straus V.T. “Skip” Wood
Board of Directors & Officers 2010 Jocelyn L. Straus
Mary Margaret Amberson
Founding Chairman
Sunny Blumenthal Clifton J. Bolner
Frank Z. Ruttenberg
Elliott Z. Cohen
Chairman
Bob W. Coleman Eric Dupre’
Kathryn L. Rhoads President
Richard Johnston Vice President
Valerie Samaniego Finch Melissa S. Fleming Elaine Honigblum Kaufman John B. Lahourcade John D. Likovich Charline McCombs David Nicolson
Jay Higginson
Kevin Parman
Treasurer
Judge Bonnie Reed
Kevin Parman
Rollette Schreckenghost
Assistant Treasurer
Jill Harrison Souter
Barbara Richmond
Don Thomas Laura G. Richmond Secretary
Linda G. Tillery Pat Wheeler V.T. “Skip” Wood Lynn Zalcberg, Executive Director
Corporate Sponsors Valero Energy Corporation Red and Charline McCombs Family Foundation Charline McCombs Allen Becker Arts Center Enterprises, Inc. The Brown Foundation in Honor of Toby and Barbara O’Connor Radius Foundation Robert and Kathey Anderson Foundation James & Estella Avery Winstead, PC NuStar The Greehey Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John E. Newman Family Charitable Trust American Express Linda Guerra Tillery/AT&T Sheraton Gunter Hotel Las Casas Foundation The Wood Agency
Individual Sponsors Jon & Mary Margaret Amberson Ann Griffith Ash Emory Hamilton Jim and Roxie Hayne Joe and Christina Haynes Christina Altgelt Haynes John Lahourcade Andrew & Dolores Novak Judge Bonnie Reed Kathy Rhoads Barbara Richmond Frank Z. Ruttenberg Joe and Joci Straus Courtney Walker Mark and Lori Wright Bill and Jeanie Wyatt Anonymous
Graphic Design and Production – The Wood Agency
The Foundation for Cultural Arts in San Antonio LAS CASAS www.lascasasfoundation.org P.O. Box 15873 ~ San Antonio ~ Texas ~ 78212 phone 210-223-4343 ~ fax 210-223-9876