Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity by Triad Stage

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BEAUTIFUL STAR Written and Directed by Preston Lane Original Music and Music Direction by Laurelyn Dossett Scenic Design by Robin Vest

Sound Design by Taylor Dankovich

Movement Coach Denise Gabriel

Lighting Design by Ken White

Costume Design by Deborah Bell

Casting By Cindi Rush Casting

Vocal Coach Christine Morris

Production Manager Liza Vest

Dramaturgy Tamera Izlar Stage Manager Emily J. Mails

Production Sponsors Grafitti Ads and Piedmont Natural Gas Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity was commissioned by and originally produced by Triad Stage, Greensboro, NC (Preston Lane, Artistic Director; Richard Whittington, Managing Director). Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity is published by Playscripts, Inc., New York. All rights reserved.

The play is performed with a 15-minute intermission.

CAST

(in alphabetical order) Ethel Green.................................................................................Erin Burniston* Franklin Duncan.......................................................................Dylan Carusona* Tidence Ledbetter............................................................................ Tom Coiner* Linda Green................................................................................. Emma Freeman Rev. Roy Ledbetter..................................................... Carroll “Chip” Johnson* Myrtle Ledbetter ............................................ Emma-Claire Frances Johnson Vernon Sparks ......................................................................... Jasper McGruder* Shelly Ledbetter ........................................................................ Lauren Redding Vestina Ledbetter.....................................................................Cinny Strickland* Ricky Eggars ........................................................................................ Lee Wilson§ Paul Sparks ....................................................................................... Erik Winfield The Beautiful Star Band .............. Emily Damrel, David Louis Goldenberg Jason Hughes, Faye Petree Stage Manager ................................................................................ Emily J. Mails*

The sanctuary of the Open Heart Community Fellowship in the mountains of North Carolina. A December evening in the present day. SONGS ACT I That Beautiful Star † By His Heart and By His Hand † Back to the Garden/The Tempter † Waterbound I Got a Home in that Rock Climbing to Moriah † Rise Up Shepherds

ACT II Early on One Christmas Morn Be Not Afraid † Back to the Garden/Prince of all Darkness † The Stable Shed † Hush Child and Sleep † O Holy Night That Beautiful Star (reprise)

† By Laurelyn Dossett, Pleasant Garden Music, ASCAP. All others traditional. 5

Erin Burniston* (Ethel Green) Triad Stage debut. Regional: La Cage aux Folles (Goodspeed Opera House); Gypsy (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Somewhere In Time (Portland Center Stage); Spring Awakening (Media Theatre); George M! (Westchester Broadway Theatre); Hello Dolly!, Seven Brides..., George M! (Gretna Theatre). Tours: Spring Awakening (Ensemble, Wendla u/s, Dance Captain). Film/TV: Blue Bloods. Education: BFA Music Theatre, Elon University. Dylan Carusona* (Franklin Duncan) Triad Stage debut. Off-Broadway: Powwow Highway (HERE Arts); All for Love (Boomerang Theater); Thieves (AMERINDA Theater); Julius Caesar (NYSF). Regional: Ink (Penobscot Theater). Film/TV: Frozen River (Sundance Grand Jury prize winner), One Life to Live, The Job, Guiding Light. Education: Idyllwild Arts Academy; BFA Acting, SUNY Purchase. Tom Coiner* (Tidence Ledbetter) Triad Stage debut. Regional: Private Lives (Playmakers Rep); On Clover Road, The Full Catastrophe (Contemporary American Theatre Festival); Both Your Houses, Our Betters (Asolo Rep); The Book Club Play, Perfect Wedding (Geva Theatre); The Little Prince, Comedy of Errors (Colorado Shakes). Film/TV: Person of Interest (CBS); Boardwalk Empire, Crime (HBO). Education: MFA Acting, National Theatre Conservatory; BA Kenyon College. Emma Freeman (Linda Green) Triad Stage debut. Local: Dear Edwina Jr., The Lion King Jr. (Greensboro Performing Arts); Oliver! (Cresset Christian Academy). Film/TV: Love It or List It (HGTV, October 2015).

Carroll “Chip” Johnson* (Rev. Roy Ledbetter) Triad Stage: Common Enemy, Tennessee Playboy, Beautiful Star (2006-09), A Lesson Before Dying, The Rainmaker, North Star. Local: Dearly Beloved, Moon Over The Brewery, American Buffalo, True West, A Poster of the Cosmos, Dearly Departed, The Magic City; (Broach Theatre); Wait Until Dark, The Norman Conquests, The Mousetrap (Barn Dinner Theatre). Education: MFA, UNCG. Other: Adjunct professor in the Performing Arts Department at Elon University Emma-Claire Frances Johnson (Myrtle Ledbetter) Triad Stage debut. Emma-Claire is currently a 5th grade student at St. Pius X Catholic School in Greensboro, NC. She appeared in the production of Sleeping Beauty Kids at St. Pius X School in the spring of 2015. This year she has joined the Greensboro Youth Symphony.

Jasper McGruder* (Vernon Sparks) Triad Stage debut. Regional credits include Yale Rep, Arkansas Rep, The Kennedy Center, Flat Rock Playhouse and several productions at the Barter Theatre, including: Driving Miss Daisy, Of Mice and Men, Jimmie Rodgers: The Blue Yodeler, and a production and tour of Looking over the President’s Shoulder. He recently performed at Carnegie Hall honoring African American men on Broadway. Film/TV: Fringe; Malcom X; Unchained Memories (HBO). International performances include Conjur Woman in Rome and the 1992 world tour of Einstein on The Beach. Jasper plays harmonica and has performed in a wide variety of venues. Lauren Redding (Shelly Ledbetter) Triad Stage debut. Regional: Seussical ( Junior Theatre Festival 2013). Local: Wizard of Oz (2012-2014), Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Sleeping Beauty Kids, The Little Mermaid Kids (Community Theatre of Greensboro). Education: Centerstage Theatre Troupe 2012-2013.

Cinny Stickland* (Vestina Ledbetter) Triad Stage: Common Enemy, Snow Queen (2013, 2014), All’s Well that Ends Well, Steel Magnolias, Providence Gap, Beautiful Star (2006-2009). Other NC Credits: Paper Lantern Theatre Company, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Blowing Rock Stage Company, The Actors’ Ensemble, The Broach Theatre, Wilmington’s Dog Eat Dog Theatre. Regional: Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Monomoy Theatre, Bristol Riverside Theatre. Education: BFADrama, UNCSA; AB-Political Science, Princeton University. Other: guest artist, UNCSA School of Music; guest artist, Princeton University’s Theatre Intime; guest artist, Reynolda House Museum of American Art.

Lee Wilson§ (Ricky Eggers) Triad Stage: Crimes of the Heart, All’s Well That Ends Well. Regional/Local: Jack and the Jelly Beanstalk (THTR 232); Periphery (CTG). Educational: Cabaret, Twelfth Night, The Bungler, Quake, Romeo and Juliet, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (UNCG). Education: BFA Acting, UNCG 2016.

Erik Winfield (Paul Sparks) Triad Stage debut. Local: Beaury and The Pirate Beast (Short Tales for Kids 2014), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (UNCG 2015). Erik is a 12-year-old 6th grader at Jackson Middle School. He plays the cello and loves acting.

Emily Damrel (Musician)Triad Stage debut. Emily is a Greensboro native who performs locally with several folk music bands as a bassist, singer and songwriter. She has played at festivals and venues across the state including the IBMA Wide Open Bluegrass festival with Greensboro-based old time band Yer Crooked Cousins. She currently studies double bass, music composition, and music education at UNC Greensboro and teaches music classes at the Boys and Girls Club. David Louis Goldenberg (Musician) Triad Stage debut. David is a mandolin player whose singular approach blurs the lines between the adventurous sounds he hears in his head and the most rugged of fundamentals he is enamored of in traditional music. He is a rare player who maintains a revolving affinity for the foundation of Bill Monroe, Fiddle Tunes, Songwriters and Brazilian music. Constantly experimenting with new ideas and concepts, Goldenberg strives to melodically paint a flowing stream of consciousness. As one of Berklee College of Music’s first graduates, he went on to become a winner of the National Mandolin Contest, Telluride Bluegrass Band Contest, Rockygrass Mandolin Contest and Utah State Mandolin Contest Jason Hughes (Musician) Triad Stage: tick, tick...BOOM! Jason started playing the banjo while attending UNC-Greensboro for jazz drumset performance. He is currently performing with Greensboro’s Yer Crooked Cousins and going into his second season growing vegetables at Clawhammer Farm in McLeansville. Faye Petree (Musician) Raised on the family farm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Faye Petree (FayePetree.com) is mostly steeped in campfire jams of traditional Bluegrass music and has been awarded honors at multiple fiddle competitions. That, alongside classical training in small doses, experimental improv and her old soul, Faye is versed in Americana music of every genre. All of which has made for a unique mash and manifested appearances with countless acts across the universe. Faye has just released her first album, entitled GypsyFiddle, featuring her newly developed vocals and songwriting, laden with her familiar fiddle licks and a rendition of tradition. Read and share in her adventures at GypsyFiddle.com. In her down time, she enjoys yodeling, aeronautical pyrotechnics and walking waterfalls. Preston Lane (Playwright, Director & Triad Stage Founding Artistic Director) is in his 15th season at Triad Stage where he has directed over 50 productions. Preston is a 2014 finalist for the SDC Zelda Fichandler Award, a recipient of an NC Arts Council Playwright Fellowship and the Betty Cone Medal of the Arts. Other productions include the US premiere of Inexpressible Island (Dallas Observer Best of Dallas Awards: Best Director, Best Production) and The Night of the Iguana (Dallas Morning News: 2002 Top Ten Theatre List). As a playwright, Preston’s plays and adaptations have been produced at Triad Stage and other theaters and universities. His work with musician Laurelyn Dossett includes Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star, Bloody Blackbeard, Providence Gap, Snow Queen and the upcoming Radiunt Abundunt. Preston has taught at UNCG, NC A&T, UNCSA, Greensboro 8

College, SMU, and the Professional Actors Workshop at the Dallas Theater Center. He is an alumnus of the Drama League of New York’s Director’s Project. A native of Boone, NC, Preston received his BFA from UNCSA and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Laurelyn Dossett (Composer/Music Director) has partnered with Preston Lane on six plays featuring regional folklore and original music: Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity, Bloody Blackbeard, Providence Gap, Snow Queen and the upcoming Radiunt Abundunt. Commissioned by the NC Symphony, she composed and performed “The Gathering: A Winter’s Tale in Six Songs” in 2011. A song from Brother Wolf, “Anna Lee,” was featured on Levon Helm’s Grammy-winning record Dirt Farmer; her song “Leaving Eden” is the title track of the Grammy-nominated recording by the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She has received the Betty Cone Medal of Arts and the NC Arts Council Fellowship for songwriting. She lives in Greensboro, NC. Robin Vest (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: Abundance, Crimes of the Heart, All’s Well that Ends Well, Mirandolina, The Rainmaker; Dracula, The Diary of Anne Frank, Brother Wolf (2006), The Little Foxes, Bell, Book and Candle, Black Pearl Sings. NYC: MTC, MCC, Playwright’s Horizons, Lincoln Center LCT3, Second Stage Uptown, Juilliard’s Drama Division, Barnard, TACT, Clubbed Thumb, 13p, and WET. Regional: Yentl (Cleveland Playhouse); Animal Crackers (The Goodman); The Mystery of Irma Vep (The Old Globe); Animal Crackers, One Slight Hitch, The Bluebird, A Servant to Two Masters (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Hansel and Gretel (Washington National Opera); Ariadne Auf Naxos (Utah Opera, Vancouver Opera); It Pays to Advertise (Yale Rep). Education: Yale School of Drama. Other: Faculty for Guilford College’s Theatre Studies program. Deborah Bell◊ (Costume Designer) Triad Stage: Brother Wolf (2014), Tennessee Playboy, Doubt, North Star, Proof, A Lesson Before Dying, The Caretaker. Regional: Damn Yankees, The Gondoliers, H.M.S. Pinafore, Rags (Seaside Music Theatre); Cannery Row, Children of Eden (The Western Stage); As You Like It (Colorado Shakespeare Festival). UNCG: Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet, L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Death and The King’s Horsemen, Lakmé. Other: author of Mask Makers and Their Craft (2010-reprinted 2014) and editor of Masquerade: Essays on Tradition and Innovation Worldwide (2015) with McFarland & Company where it has been listed as one of their best-selling books in the Pop Culture category. She has exhibited design work at the Prague Quadrennial. Ken White◊ (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage debut. International: Dante (Edinburg Fringe Festival). Film: Pitch Perfect (Regional Competition – Theatrical Lighting Designer and cameo). Regional/Local: August: Osage County, A Free Man of Color (Swine Palace); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre); Vanessa (LSU Opera); The Full Monty (The Arkansas Repertory Theatre); Galileo Galilei (UNCG Opera); Twelfth Night (UNCG Theatre). Education: MFA, The University of Texas at Austin. Other: UNCG Department of Theatre faculty. Taylor Dankovich (Sound Designer) Triad Stage: Wit. Regional: Oklahoma!, Mary Poppins, Big Fish, Billy Elliot, Les Miserables, The Little Mermaid, Spamalot, A Little Night Music (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma – Audio Technician); Pinkalicious The Musical, With Two Wings, James and the Giant Peach, A Year with Frog and Toad, The Wiz (Hangar Theatre – Assistant Sound Designer). Local: Child’s Play (Atlantic Stage – Sound Designer). Educational: Boeing-Boeing, Lost in 9

Yonkers, Intimate Apparel, The Rocky Horror Show, The Shape Of Things, Into The Woods, Hair, Metamorphoses, She Loves Me. Education: Coastal Carolina University. ◊

Denise Gabriel (Resident Movement Coach) Triad Stage since 2009 where coaching recently includes Common Enemy, Abundance, Snow Queen, and The Glass Menagerie. In 2015 she joined Living Pictures, UK as an Artistic Associate. Other credits include: Resident Movement Director at Alabama Shakespeare Festival (over 30 productions); Midsummer Night’s Dream and Comedy of Errors (Old Globe Theatre); Alchemy of Desire/Deadman’s Blues and King Lear (Cincinnati Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet, The Three Sisters and Nora (Clarence Brown Theatre); Ascension Day (Working Theatre NY). International: Shanghai Theatre, Schloss Leopoldskron Salzburg Austria, and Artscape Theatre Center and Dance for All (Cape Town South Africa). Denise is an Associate Professor at UNCG, a founding board member of American Theatre for Movement Educators, and associate member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ◊

Christine Morris (Resident Vocal Coach) At Triad Stage since 2006, where coaching has included dialects for The Glass Menagerie, Shipwrecked, Snow Queen, Dirty Blonde, Abundance and many others, and voice/text for All’s Well That Ends Well. Other coaching: A Thousand Clowns (starring Tom Selleck); Kudzu (with The Red Clay Ramblers); and Sheridan’s The Critic at American Players Theatre in Wisconsin. Also an actor, roles at Triad Stage include: Silda Grauman in Other Desert Cities, Taw Avery in New Music: Better Days, Cordie Grindstaff in Providence Gap; Marthy Owen in Anna Christie. Christine is an Associate Professor at UNCG and holds memberships in the Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, and Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA). Tamera N. Izlar (Dramaturge) is an Artistic Associate at Triad Stage. As an Advocate of the Arts, she has worked as a director, acting coach, actress, playwright, dramaturge, and storyteller. At Triad Stage, she has served as dramaturge for Wit, Other Desert Cities, and Common Enemy. Dedicated to dramaturgically supporting the playwright, director, and actors, Tamera enjoys exploring traditional and non-traditional ways to access the text. Cindi Rush, C.S.A (Casting Director) New York: Silence! The Musical, My Mother’s Jewish Lesbian Wiccan Wedding (NYMF Winner 2010), Jay Alan Zimmerman’s Incredibly Deaf Musical, Bonnie and Clyde, Rooms, Jacques Brel, Six Dance Lessons, The Thing About Men, Urinetown, The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival. Regional: Penguin Rep, Triad Stage, Act II Playhouse, Arena Stage, Goodman, Humanafest. Film: Ghoul, The Woman (Top 9 Sundance 2011), In the Family, Offspring, Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door, Headspace. Tours: “Barney”, “Curious George”, “Kidz Bop.” Emily J. Mails* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Deathtrap, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Common Enemy, Crimes of the Heart, Dirty Blonde, The Member of the Wedding, The 39 Steps, All’s Well that Ends Well, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Anna Christie, Snow Queen (2013, 2014),The Mountaintop, Wait Until Dark, Tennessee Playboy, My Fair Lady, Kingdom of Earth, A Christmas Carol (2012), Shipwrecked!, Trouble in Mind, The Illusion, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Mystery of Irma Vep (2011). Regional: A Thousand Cranes (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Rigoletto (Greensboro Opera); Crime and Punishment, Merry Wives of Windsor, Into the Woods (Orlando Shakespeare Festival). Education: BFA in Technical Production, UNCG. 10

Richard Whittington (Triad Stage Founding Managing Director) has served as Managing Director of Triad Stage since its inception. Rich earned an MFA in Theatre Management from the Yale School of Drama and has a BFA in Acting and Directing from Marymount Manhattan College. In 2007, Rich was appointed by the Governor to serve on the board of the NC Arts Council, where he is currently a member of the Executive Committee. He has previously served on the boards of ArtsNC and Downtown Greensboro, Inc. and has served on numerous grant panels throughout the state as well as for the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. Rich has taught Theatre Management at Greensboro College and NC A&T University and has guest lectured at UNC Chapel Hill, UNC School of the Arts, Wake Forest University and UNCG. A native of Dallas, Texas, Rich served as Artistic Administrator for the Dallas Theater Center and Associate Producer of Dallas’ The Big D Festival of the Unexpected. Experience also includes work at the Roundabout Theatre in New York and StageWest in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 2010, Preston and Rich were honored with Downtown Greensboro, Inc.’s J. Edward Kitchen Leadership Award. In 2013, they received the Adelaide F. Holderness/H. Michael Weaver Award from UNCG for distinguished public service.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States § Student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Theatre Department. ◊ Faculty Member at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Theatre Department. ◉ Faculty Member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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woman with a great sense of humor, who found goodness in all people and beauty in the world around her. Her family always came first in her life and with them she shared her love of theater, music and the thrill of sports. The theater is named for her in loving memory by the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the Kaplan family with whom she shared her love, wisdom and joy of life.

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Artistic Preston Lane, Founding Artistic Director Bryan Conger, Artistic Associate Tamera Izlar, Artistic Associate Kylah Comer, Artistic Intern Morgan Ellis, Dramaturgy Intern Administrative Richard Whittington, Founding Managing Director Jason Bogden, General Manager Ramon Perez, Company Manager Joseph Rollins, Facilities/House Manager Dawn Erdner, Office Assistant

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