Man of La Mancha

BY WRITTEN BY DALE WASSERMAN, MUSIC BY MITCH LEIGH, LYRICS BY JOE DARION

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Director ......................................................... Preston Lane∞◊◉ Music Director ................................. Dr. Justin P. Cowan◊ Scenic Designer .................................... Josafath Reynoso Costume Designer .................................. K. April Soroko§ Lighting Designer .............................................. Rob Perry§◉ Sound Designer ...................... Christopher Ross-Ewart Projections Designer ............................. Brian McMullen Dramaturg ............................................... Virginia Hirsch◊ Choreographer/Movement Coach ...... Denise Gabriel∞◊ Resident Vocal Coach ............................. Christine Morris*◊ Resident Fight Choreographer ................................ Jim Wren◊ Casting ............................................................... Cindi Rush Stage Manager ......................................... Janine Wochna* Assistant Stage Manager ........................... Katie Caudle*

Conductor: Dr. Justin P. Cowan◊ Guitar: Allan Beck, Aaron Bond◊ Reed I: Ronnal Ford, Pete Goldwine Reed II: Taiki Azuma◊, Abigail Shibley◊, Matt Covington◊ Trumpet I: Flint Angeroth Franks◊ Trumpet II: Doug Woolard, Danny Vittum◊ Horn: Elliott Stanger◊, Jacob Kadan◊ Trombone: Justin Gerringer◊, Dr. David N. Vance◊ Percussion: Chris Eaton◊

CAST (in alphabetical order) Aldonza ....................................................... Sherz Aletaha* José .............................................................. Kemari Bryant◊ The Padre .................................................... Dan Callaway* Paco ........................................................... Bradley Carter◊ Sancho ................................................................... DeMone* Antonia ................................................ Cristina Duchesne◊ Fermina ........................................................... Yansa Fatima◊ Barber/Tenorio .............................................. Josh Foldy*◉ Captain of the Inquisition ........................ Kezia Moore◊ Maria, The Innkeeper’s Wife/Housekeeper ...................... .............................................................. Christine Morris*◊ Pedro ........................................................... Luis Quintero*◉ Anselmo .................................................. J. Andrew Speas◊ Cervantes ............................................... Graham Stevens* The Governor/The Innkeeper ............ Michael Tourek*◊ Juan ........................................................... Forrest Wilson◊ Duke/Carrasco ..................................... Michael Yeshion*

TIME Now and the past

SETTING A prison

SONGS “Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)” “It’s All the Same” “Dulcinea” “I’m Only Thinking of Him” “We’re Only Thinking of Him” “I Really Like Him” “What Does He Want of Me?” “Little Bird, Little Bird” “Barber’s Song” “Golden Helmet of Mambrino” “To Each His Dulcinea” “The Impossible Dream” “The Dubbing”

“Knight of the Woeful Countenance” “The Impossible Dream (Reprise)” “Man of La Mancha (Reprise)” “Aldonza” “A Little Gossip” “Dulcinea (Reprise)” “The Impossible Dream (Reprise)” “Man of La Mancha (Reprise)” “The Psalm” “Finale Ultimo: The Impossible Dream (Reprise)”

This production is part of UNCG's year-long series "The '60s: Exploring the Limits" This play is performed without an intermission.

“Man of La Mancha” is presented by special arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022

Sherz Aletaha* (Aldonza) Sherz, which is pronounced like more than one Cher, has had the pleasure of performing at The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Ars Nova, The Metropolitan Room, in Prospect Theater Company’s Archetypes, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway’s Disaster! and at Dixon Place in Spring Alive (cast album available). On Camera work includes The Detour, The First Wives Club, Three Trembling Cities, Wing Women, and numerous commercials. Follow her at @morethanonecher.

Kemari Bryant◊ (José) is currently attending UNCG as a freshman in the BFA in Acting program. He has been seen as “Jack” in Into The Woods, “Seaweed” in Hairspray, and “Sonny” in In The Heights. He also has a passion for working behind the camera. He just finished directing his second film, Sad Clown, which will be released in May. Dan Callaway* (The Padre) Credits include South Pacific (Triad Stage), Phantom of the Opera (Broadway National Tour); Where’s Charley (NY City Center Encores); Pirates of Penzance (Guthrie Theater); Sunday in the Park with George (NC Summer Rep); Carousel, Light in the Piazza, and Lombardi (Theatre Raleigh); My Fair Lady (Sacramento Music Circus); Putting it Together (South Coast Rep); Oklahoma! and 1776 (Cabrillo Musical Theatre); Sweeney Todd and Spamalot (Musical Theatre West); and several productions with Musical Theatre Guild in Los Angeles. He is on the music theatre faculty at his alma mater, Elon University, and lives here in Greensboro with superstar wife Melissa and son Noah.

Cristina Duchesne◊ (Antonia) is very excited to be making her Triad Stage debut! She is currently attending UNCG to acquire her BFA in Acting and Minor in Musical Theatre. Cristina has played “Amalia Balash” in She Loves Me, “Jo March” in Little Women: The Musical, and “New Wave Girl” in Heathers: The Musical. In her spare time, she enjoys listening to music, reading, and singing. She also has a passion for traveling and immersing herself in different cultures.

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Bradley Carter◊ (Paco) Regional: “Fred/Young Scrooge” in A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage); “Jack” in Into The Woods, “Captain Albert Lennox” in The Secret Garden (Heartwood Regional Theater Company); “Old Tom” (2015) and “Father Martin” (2016) in The Lost Colony; “Dutchy” in Is He Dead?; “Patsy” in A Visit From Scarface (Pioneer Playhouse). Educational: “Joe Keller” in All My Sons (part one) (UNCG); “Garcin” in No Exit, “Julius Caesar” in Julius Caesar (Davis and Elkins College). Education: MFA Acting candidate, UNCG. DeMone* (Sancho) Broadway, National, and International credits include Miss Saigon, Ragtime, Rent, Jesus Christ Superstar, Memphis, Sideshow, The Full Monty, Fairytale Christmas, Elf, Once On This Island, Uncle Vanya, The Mountaintop, The Best of Both Worlds, and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Film and TV credits include SVU, Person of Interest, Hush, The Subject, Bad Street, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, and In The Eyes of God. Directing credits include Off Broadway stagings of The Exonerated (revival), Dutchman (revival), and The King, The Final Hours (world premiere). Other directing credits include Topdog/Underdog, Jitney, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Split Second, Barnum, Crowns, The Winter’s Tale, and Coriolanus. DeMone is the founding artistic director of The New American Theatre Co. NY and is the recipient of a Joseph Jefferson Award and a regional Emmy.

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Yansa Fatima◊ (Fermina) “Dionne” in Hair, “Heather Duke” in Heathers, “Rhoda” in A New Brain (UNCG); Sweeney Todd (NC Summer Rep); “Marta” in Company (Open Space Cafe Theatre); “Alice” in Alice-Land (Red Queen Productions); “Gary Coleman” in Avenue Q, “Dragon/Shrek’s Mom” in Shrek (Community Theatre of Greensboro); “Ilse” in Spring Awakening (Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance).

Josh Foldy*◉ (Barber/Tenorio) Triad Stage: Our Town, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Other Desert Cities, Anna Christie, A Christmas Carol (2010-2014), The Woman in Black (Director), Dial “M” for Murder, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Doubt. Off-Broadway: Urban Stages, The Drilling Company.

Regional: Paper Lantern Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Perseverance Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Virginia Stage Company, Caldwell Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Players Theatre Columbus, Idaho Repertory, Playwrights Center, Alaskan Shakespeare Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre, New Theatre. Television: As the World Turns. Josh teaches in the Drama School at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Education: Northern Kentucky University, Yale School of Drama.

J. Andrew Speas◊ (Anselmo) is pursuing his BFA in Acting at UNCG. He studied at the UNCSA in the Dr. Marilyn Taylor voice studio. Credits include: A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage), Tony Jenkins Black Magic (National Black Theater Festival); Flor To Somewhere, Proceed Moon, The Tourist Trap (Peppercorn Theater). Educational: BLooM: the Musical by Melvin Tunstall III (Developed at UNCG), Hair, A New Brain, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Heathers (UNCG Theater).

Opera Credits: The Italian Straw Hat (UNCSA), The Italian Girl in Algiers (Piedmont Opera).

Kezia Moore◊ (Captain of the Inquisition) An Alabama native, Kezia is honored to be making her debut at Triad Stage. She is currently an MFA Acting student at UNCG, where she recently played “Actor 6” in their production of Proud to Present... Education: BS in CommunicationsTheatre, Troy University.

Christine Morris*◊ (Maria, The Innkeeper’s Wife/ Housekeeper) Triad Stage: “Mrs. Rogers” in And Then There Were None, “Dr. Mildred Grant” in Actions and Objectives, “Silda Grauman” in Other Desert Cities, “Marthy Owen” in Anna Christie, “Taw Avery” in New Music: Better Days; “Cordie Grindstaff ” in Providence Gap, “Mme. Pernelle” in Tartuffe, multiple roles in Bloody Blackbeard, “Sister Aloysius” in Doubt (Appalachian Summer Festival). New York: New York Shakespeare Festival; The Public Theatre; The Actors Studio. Regional: Asolo Theatre; Playmakers Rep; Archipelago Theatre; Manbites Dog; Profile Theatre (Portland, OR); The Tennessee Williams Center (Sewanee). Originated role of “The Woman” in Romulus Linney’s one-woman play Silver River, performed variously around the US including at the Horton Foote Festival of American Playwrights in Texas. Film: Elephant Sighs. Resident vocal coach for Triad Stage; UNCG theatre faculty. Memberships: Actors’ Equity Association (since 1983); SAG-AFTRA; Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA).

Luis Quintero*◉ (Pedro) Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Triad Stage); The River Bride (Stages Reporatory Theater); Around the World in 80 Days (A.D Players); American Maricahi (DCPA/Old Globe); Love’s Labours Lost (The Acting Company); Twelfth Night, Book of Will, Pride and Prejudice (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Our Town (Generations Theater Co.). Tours: The Lightning Thief, A Christmas Carol (Theaterworks USA). Local: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NC Symphony). Education: BFA, UNCSA.

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Graham Stevens* (Cervantes) is a Drama Desk Awardwinning actor and singer, based in New York City.

Off-Broadway: The Robber Bridegroom, Peter and the Starcatcher, In Transit (Drama Desk Award - Outstanding Ensemble), The Lightning Thief, Skippyjon Jones. Regional: Xanadu (Hangar Theatre Co.); Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse); Found (Philadelphia Theatre Co.); Carmen (New York City Opera); The Scarlet Letter (Edinburgh Fringe). Television: Gotham, Search Party.

Training: BA in Theater Studies, Yale University. www.grahamstevens.com Michael Tourek*◊ (The Governor/The Innkeeper) Triad Stage: White Lightning, South Pacific, Common Enemy, Beautiful Star (2006-2009), A Christmas Carol (2010-2012), Around the World in 80 Days, Brother Wolf (2006), The Mystery of Irma Vep (2011). Regional: God of Carnage (Theatre Raleigh); Fiddler on the Roof (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina). Film: Office Christmas Party, Logan Lucky, The Producers, Citizen Ruth, Boss Level (2019). TV: “Ash” on Ozark (Netflix), Resurrection, Banshee, Outsiders, High Maintenance (HBO). Education: MFA Acting: University of North Carolina, Greensboro. www.michaeltourek.com Forrest Wilson◊ (Juan) A North Carolina native, Forrest is making his Triad Stage debut in Man of La Mancha. He is a BFA Acting Major at UNCG. His recent theatrical credits include Step On A Crack (Max), A New Brain (Mr. Bungee/ Dad), Heathers (Ram’s Dad/Big Bud Dean/Coach Ripper), Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Augustus Gloop/Squirrel), As You Like It (Charles the Wrestler). Forrest is also a director, makeup artist and graphic designer.

Michael Yeshion* (Duke/Carrasco) is delighted to make his Triad Stage debut with this production of Man of La Mancha. Some past credits include: “Peron” in Evita (Resident Theatre Company); “Saunders” in Lend Me a Tenor (Resident Theatre Company); “Bill Sykes” in Oliver!

(Forestburgh Playhouse); “Major Holmes” in The Secret Garden (Cincinnati Playhouse & Baltimore Centerstage); “Mother” in Kiss of the Spider Woman (Sanford Meisner Theatre); Evita (North Shore Music Theatre); 110 in the Shade (Ford’s Theatre); and Little Shop of Horrors (Lucille Lortel Theatre). He also sang with the Muppets at Carnegie Hall.

TV: Celebrity Ghost Stories, Mysteries at the Museum and can also be seen on a variety of Collegehumor.com webisodes. As a photographer, Michael enjoys taking headshots, character portraits (featured on Playbill & Broadway World), real estate photography, weddings, and more. Michael holds a BFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University and resides in New York City. For more info visit: michaelyeshion.com @michaelyeshion @michaelyeshionphotography

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Preston Lane∞◊◉ (Director, Triad Stage Founding Artistic Director) Preston grew up in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina with Appalachian ancestry stretching all the way back to Tidence Lane, the first Baptist preacher in what would become Tennessee. His childhood dream was to live in a NC Piedmont city where he could hear trains and interact daily with such big city trappings as revolving doors and escalators. He frequently checked out recorded plays on albums from the old Watauga County Public Library and spent many afternoons listening to Marat/Sade, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, and A Streetcar Named Desire. His central conflict as a child was that on Saturday evenings his parents wanted to watch The Lawrence Welk Show and he wanted to watch Hee Haw. This conflict still dominates much of his work. Besides a brief fascination with being a dump truck driver, Preston never considered any other career than as a theater maker. He became aware of himself as an artist at UNCSA, developed a passion for visual storytelling at Yale School of Drama, and is deeply indebted to a long line of collaborative partners.

He is also thankful for amazing teachers from Miriam Darnell, Sandra Daye, John Foster West, Yury Belov, Earle Gister, Barney Hammond, Lesley Hunt, Ming Cho Lee, Nick Martin and many many others. Preston is honored to pass on the tradition they entrusted to him to the next generation. Gerald Freedman took him under his wing and Richard Hamburger gave him his first real job and mentored him. He founded Triad Stage with Rich Whittington to explore how theater can engage with a community. He’s directed nearly 100 shows, written almost a dozen, and is an honorary citizen of Hawboro, NC. He believes that theater can make our community stronger by exploring stories that unite and challenge us. Preston is grateful to be a theater maker in North Carolina.

Dr. Justin P. Cowan◊ (Music Director) NY Regional: West Side Story, The Producers, Hairspray, Cabaret, Annie Get Your Gun. Other Regional: Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George (North Carolina Summer Rep), Damn Yankees, Avenue Q, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Legally Blonde, How To Succeed... (Ocean State Theatre Company). South Pacific, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Dirty Blonde, A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage). Always...

Patsy Cline (Florida Studio Theatre), [Title of Show], The Fantasticks (Florida Repertory Theatre). Little Shop Of Horrors, Something’s Afoot, A Grand Night For Singing (The Schoolhouse Theatre). The Drowsy Chaperone (Maples Repertory Theatre). Caroline, or Change; Heathers; Hairspray; Into the Woods; Monty Python’s: Spamalot; Mr. Burns: A PostElectric Play; A Year With Frog And Toad; Dani Girl; Cabaret; A New Brain; Melancholy Play: a chamber musical (UNCG School of Theatre).

Church Basement Ladies, The Winter Wonderettes (Prather Entertainment Group). Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Das Barbecü, Songs For A New World, The 25th Annual...Spelling Bee (BIG ARTS Herb Strauss Theatre). DMA Conducting - University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

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Regional: Hair (Serenbe Playhouse); Crowns, The Bluest Eye (Virginia Stage Company); Blues for Mr. Charlie, The Crucible, The Story (University of Richmond); The Snow Queen (Lexington Children’s Theatre). Other: Noche Arabe, Hitler en el Corazon, Astolfo (Argentina); Lamdé (Israel); Variaciones del Pato (Mexico); No Exit (Venezuela); Scenofest Pavilion (Czech Republic). Education: MFA, University of Tennessee. Awards: World Stage Design Gold Medal (Taiwan), USITT Scenic Design Award (US).

K. April Soroko§ (Costume Designer) Triad Stage: Suddenly, Last Summer; Debunked; The Mystery of Irma Rep; Dracula; Driving Miss Daisy; Hedda Gabler; Angel Street; Dial “M” for Murder. Off-Broadway: The White Marriage (Playwright’s Horizons); Napoleon (NY Fringe). Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Othello,

Twelfth Night, The Tempest (NC Shakes); Beehive: The 60s Musical, The Savannah Disputation, Race, Talley’s Folly, The World Goes ‘Round, Das Barbecü, Androcles and the Lion, The Fabulous Lipitones, Native Gardens, The Last Romance, Pump Boys and Dinettes (Florida Studio Theatre); My Old Lady, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Collected Stories (Palm Beach Dramaworks). Associate Professor of Scenic Design at Florida Atlantic University. MFA in Theatrical Design from Yale School of Drama (‘98), BFA in Costume Design from University of Texas at Austin (‘93). www.aprilsoroko.com

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Rob Perry§ ◉ (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: Our Town, Buyer & Cellar, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Deathtrap, Julie’s Dance, Steel Magnolias, All’s Well That Ends Well. Off-Broadway: The Water Engine (Atlantic Theater Company); Reefer Madness (Variety Arts Theatre); Boston Marriage (NY Public Theater); Kingdom of Earth (The Drama Dept.); Lost Lake (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional/Local: anya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Goodman Theatre & Arena Stage); Crowns (The McCarter Theatre); Billy the Kid (LaJolla Playhouse); Coriolanus (The Shakespeare Theatre — DC); Queens for a Year (Hartford Stage). Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama; BFA, North Carolina School of the Arts. Other: Associate Professor of Lighting Design and Director of Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. www.robertperrydesign.com Christopher Ross-Ewart (Sound Designer) Imogen Says Nothing (Yale Repertory Theatre); Suddenly, Last Summer; Brain People (NYU); The Skin of Our Teeth, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus (Yale School of Drama); A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Last Five Years, Crowns (Le Petit Theatre); The Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw (Caravan Farm Theatre); and Explosions for the 21st Century (Summerworks Festival). He is a visiting professor of sound design at Western Michigan University. MFA Yale. www.chrisross-ewart.com Brian McMullen (Projection Designer) Brian has recently worked as the Projection Designer of Beehive (Merry Go Round Playhouse), Nathan Gunn Flying Solo (Laguna Playhouse and San Diego Repertory Theatre), Dance To The Holidays (National Tour), as well as Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Merry Go Round Playhouse). Associate Projection Designer for The Cher Show and Saint Joan (Broadway), On Your Feet (National Tour), From Here to Eternity and Treasure Island (Merry Go Round Playhouse). Assistant Projection Designer for The Parisian Woman (Broadway) as well as a Video Content Creator for the 70th, 71st,and 72nd Annual Tony Awards (CBS).

Brian received his BFA in Theatrical Production and Design from The State University of New York at Fredonia. www.brianpmcmullen.com Denise Gabriel∞◊ (Choreographer) At Triad Stage since 2009 where she has been movement coach on numerous productions including Actions and Objectives, Don Juan, Radiunt Abundunt, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Snow Queen, and The Glass Menagerie. In 2015 she joined Living Pictures, UK as an Artistic Associate. Co-producing credits in Triad’s Upstage Cabaret include: Diary of a Madman (Robert Bowman, Living Pictures UK) and Desire Under the Elms (Abrahamse-Meyer Theatre Company and Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival). Other credits include: Resident Movement Director at Alabama Shakespeare Festival (over 30 productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The 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.

Jim Wren◊ (Resident Fight Choreographer) has staged the violence for over 30 Triad Stage productions, including the battles in Bloody Blackbeard, the fantastical fights in Brother Wolf (2006 and 2014), and the general behavior of the Lesters in Tobacco Road. Education: MFA, University of Florida. Jim is Performance Program Coordinator for the UNCG Department of Theatre, and is a two-time recipient of the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for Excellence.

Virginia Hirsch◊ (Dramaturg) holds a BA in theatre from Arkansas State University and an MFA in Directing from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. During her time in graduate school, Virginia was able to assist and observe on several Triad Stage productions, but is thrilled to be joining the company full-time! Virginia has previously worked as a directing assistant in Tampa, Florida at Stageworks Theatre and the Straz Center, as the founder and artistic director of the Fault Line Player theatre company, and as the resident TYA director at Okoboji Summer Theatre in Okoboji, Iowa.

Cindi Rush (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.” Janine Wochna* (Stage Manager) Janine is delighted to return to Triad Stage having previously stage managed The Passion of Teresa Rae King, Abundance, Underneath the Lintel, and Brother Wolf. At Florida Repertory Theatre: Steel Magnolias, A Christmas Carol, Hay Fever, Outside Mullingar, How the Other Half Loves, Cabaret, and many others over 14 seasons. Four seasons as Resident Stage Manager at the Geva Theatre, and 14 seasons with the Cleveland Play House. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Katie Caudle* (Assistant Stage Manager) Regional: ASM for Mamma Mia!, Aladdin and His Winter Wish, In the Heights (NC Theatre); The Diary of Anne Frank, A Christmas Carol, Glass Menagerie, Macbeth (Sacramento Theatre Company); SM Assistant and Props Coordinator for Disney’s Newsies and Mamma Mia! (Broadway at Music Circus). BFA in Stage Management from East Carolina University.

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. Rich served for nine years on the board of the NC Arts Council, where he participated as 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. 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.

His 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. Rich was a 2016 Artist in Residence at UNCG. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States ◊ Faculty member, student or alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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DIRECTOR’S LETTER When I was young, very young, the not yet Designing Woman Dixie And yet even in this darkest postmodern prison, we yearn to hear the call Carter was in one of my mother’s favorite soap operas, The Edge of Night, for something other, something true-- reminding us all to strive with our and one year Ms. Carter did a season of summer stock productions last ounce of courage and reach the unreachable star. of Man of La Mancha. One of those productions was at the Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville, NC not far from where my mother grew up.

And so, we went. I’m guessing it was the first musical I ever saw and adding it into the strange mixture of dreams and freedom my childhood viewing was increasingly made up of in movies like Free to Be You and Me, Exodus, and Harlan County USA, and plays like Hedda Gabler and The Doll House, it isn’t much a surprise that I grew up to be a bit of an idealist.

When I had finally saved enough of my allowance and bought the Man of La Mancha cast album at the Record Bar in the Johnson City mall, I guess I was also buying into the dream of making this production for you. I wore out that record with repeated after school dream productions.

I saw and loved other musicals after that summer when Dixie Carter sang for me, but most of them were about mere romantic love, a theatrical convention that never interested me. But my first musical was a call to arms for the possibility of what we all could be.

Decades later, I found myself in the Museo Iconografico del Quijote in the take-your-breath-away beauty of Guanajuato, Mexico. By that point, I’d more or less forgotten Man of La Mancha and its now-dated 1960’s performance style—yet in those rooms of Don Quixote and Sancho, I heard the call of the Impossible Dream again. I think, in that museum, I finally understood that Cervantes’ novel is about so many things, but the musical is simply about faith. It is fueled by that faith that found its voice in the 1960’s and that struggles to still be felt and heard in the unwinding of our times. It is the belief that pursuing our common dreams of something better even in the darkest of days gives meaning to our lives.

I left the museum having rediscovered Quixote, but more importantly, having rediscovered the little kid Preston who dreamed his impossible dream. I left Guanjuato determined to bring Man of La Mancha to life at Triad Stage. But, and this will not surprise you who are familiar with the way we handmake our work for you in this laboratory of curiosity and creativity on Elm Street, I was determined to shake off the 1960’s theatricality and place this musical firmly and immediately in our times.

Seeing the images of refugees streaming into Europe and across our southern border and sensing the growing and brutal hostility to challenges to the status quo, it wasn’t hard for the creative team to imagine a world a few years down the road where not only refugees find themselves in makeshift detention centers-- a dystopian world in which a President of either political party has started a new Inquisition and placed this story firmly in a prison set up to punish those who rock the boat.

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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES: THE SPANISH SHAKESPEARE Distilled from excerpts from The Man Who Invented Fiction by William Egginton Miguel de Cervantes was nearly an exact contemporary of William Shakespeare. They died, according to legend, on the same day, in April of 1616.

Together, they straddle the Western canon like a twin colossus, one having created the greatest body of dramatic literature, the other its first (and widely considered) greatest novel.

Unlike Shakespeare, who lived a life of careful circumspection, Cervantes’ life was marked by constant, almost unceasing incident. He was, at various times, an actor, soldier, playwright, tax collector, and prisoner. After five decades of episodic (and quixotic) activity, he died, much as he lived, amid penury and suffering. How ironic, then, that his work has outlived that of almost any other author, and that it speaks to the immortal desire of the human spirit to be free.

Cervantes was born in 1547, about 20 miles from Madrid, to a poor family from the minor nobility. Like Shakespeare, he does not appear to have attended university. He left Spain at the age of 21 for Italy, where, eager to make his name and fortune, he enlisted as an infantryman in a Spanish regiment stationed in Naples. In 1571, he helped defeat the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto. Cervantes fought courageously, sustaining two gunshot wounds to the chest, and a third that paralyzed his left arm for the rest of his life. He would later claim he had “lost the left for the glory of the right.”

In 1575, Cervantes set sail for Spain. Pirates, however, captured his ship, and sold Cervantes into slavery in Algiers. After four separate failed escape attempts during his enslavement, he was finally released after five years when his family was able to pay his ransom. Returning to Spain a wounded veteran with no money and reputation, Cervantes was forced to take odd jobs in the civil service. He eventually married a middle-class woman 19 years his junior by the name of Catalina. As with Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, we know nothing about their relationship. The year after his nuptials, in 1585, he published La Galatea, a pastoral romance and his first work of fiction. Though he made repeated attempt to gain success as a playwright, writing 40 plays over the next 20 years, nearly all of them failed.

From 1587 to 1605, Cervantes purchased provisions for the Armada, collected taxes for the Crown, and won his first poetry prize: three silver spoons. He was excommunicated from the church and imprisoned twice. It was there, in 1597, where he conceived the idea for “a story… that might be engendered in a prison where every annoyance has its home and every mournful sound its habitation.”

Part I of Don Quixote was published in 1605.

It made Cervantes known throughout Europe, but no richer, as he had sold the rights to his publisher. Cervantes was prolific in the last decade of his life, writing novellas, epic poetry, and dramas. Part II of Don Quixote, considered by most critics to be richer than the first, was published in 1615. It found the elder Cervantes reflecting on authorship and identity as his old knight continued his undefinable quest.

Cervantes would complete one more work, the romance Persiles and Sigismunda, published posthumously in 1617. In the dedication, written three days before his death, Cervantes bid farewell to the world “with a foot already in the stirrup,” his travails (and travels) finally over.

A map of Don Quixote’s journey Source: Newberry Library’s Digital Collections for the Classroom

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To learn about supporting Triad Stage through donations or sponsorships, please contact: theater@triadstage.org | 336.274.0067 ext. 213 Triad Stage is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license are available from the State Solicitation Licensing Branch at 919-807-2214. The license is not an endorsement by the State.

Administration Richard Whittington, Founding Managing Director Jason Bogden, Associate Managing Director Ramon Perez, Company Manager Bobby Pittman, Facilities Coordinator Tiffany Albright, Marketing Manager Stacy Calfo, Graphic Designer Mackie Raymond, Marketing/Development Apprentice Allie Stubbs, Administrative Apprentice Audience Services Justin Nichols, Director of Audience Services Mary Reading, Lead Box Office Associate Jahi Bogard, Auntais Faulkner, Josh Kellum, Box Office & Lobby Bar Associates Martha Latta, Nikki Tomeo, Clarice Weiseman, Box Office Associates Production Katie O’Kelly, Director of Production Tannis Boyajian, Technical Director T.J. Scott, Master Carpenter Eric Hart, Props Master Jennifer Speciale Stanley, Costume Shop Manager Grace McEwan, Assistant Costume Shop Manager Troy Morelli, Master Electrician Jessica Holcombe, Scenic Charge Kali Grau, Production/Stage Management Apprentice Sophia Gutkowski, Lighting/Sound Apprentice Eliza Knopps, Carpentry Apprentice Caitlin O’Brien, Costumes/Wardrobe Apprentice Victoria Ross, Props Apprentice

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EXCELLENCE

We strive for bold, daring excellence in all of our endeavors as we seek to create professional theater with regional and national impact.

ARTISTIC RISK

Striving to constantly challenge ourselves, we reserve the right to take artistic risks and make mistakes.

IMAGINATION

Triad Stage delights in the imaginative process. We uphold freedom of expression as indispensable to the power of imagination.

COMMUNITY

As individuals are united in their shared experience of the theatrical event, strangers become friends, common ground is discovered, and dialogue begins. In imagining the lives of others, our capacity for empathy is strengthened.

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Theater is a valuable part of a lifetime of learning. Our work and the dialogue it creates should spark curiosity and inspire creative ways of thinking for our artists, staff and audience.

INCLUSION

Our community’s varied diversity must not only reflect itself in Triad Stage’s casting and staffing, but also in the selection of the stories we choose to tell.

COLLABORATION

We celebrate and encourage an artistic process rooted in collaboration. We seek to mirror this process in all aspects of our operations and actively seek partnerships with other organizations to benefit the well-being of our communities.

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By placing the best of Southern writing in juxtaposition with classic and contemporary world drama, we foster a unique Southern voice, allowing our audience the pride of saying, “This theater is ours.”

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We seek to play a leading role in the North Carolina arts community. We actively work to create an artistic home for artists with North Carolina connections and to provide a bridge to the profession for emerging artists.

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