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I AND YOU by Lauren Gunderson

SETTING: Now. In this city. In Caroline’s room.

CAST

[ IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER ]

Caroline......................................................................Ivette Deltoro Anthony...................................................................Davied Morales

CREATIVE TEAM Director.................................................................Noëlle GM Gibbs Set Designer.......................................................... Ron Gasparinetti Lighting Designer.....................................................Nick Kumamoto Costume Designer.......................................................Jane Lambert Sound Designer........................................................ George Psarras Properties Designer................................................Miranda Whipple Production Manager............................................... Ron Gasparinetti Stage Manager........................................................... Lauren Howry Technical Director................................................... Ron Gasparinetti Run Crew....................................................................Keenan Flagg Set Construction.........................................................Paulino Deleal Joseph Hidde SPECIAL THANKS: The Ornes Family, DJ and Linda Whipple.

529 S. Second Street San Jose, CA 95112 408.295.4200 citylights@cltc.org cltc.org Lisa Mallette

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Kit Wilder

associate artistic director

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development & business manager

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Ron Gasparinetti

production manager & technical director

Ivette Deltoro

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May 19 to June 19, 2016

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MORALES

IVETTE DELTORO (Caroline)

is thrilled to be back on the City Lights stage after most recently appearing in The E l e p hant M an ( D u c h e s s / Pinhead) and the developmental workshop production of Dealing Dreams ( N o r a ) . P r e v i o u s appearances at City Lights include Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War (Clara Krieger), Amadeus (Ensemble) and Coney Island Christmas (Evie Slotnick). She has also appeared in Epic Immersive's Matthew Briar and the Age of Resurrection (Isabela Martinez) at History San Jose. She is a graduate of the Foothill Theatre Conservatory and serves as casting and administrative assistant at City Lights.

DAVIED MORALES (Anthony)

is a rapper and actor who has performed in numerous school plays and musicals at Castillero Middle School, Pioneer High School and, most recently, Foothill College where he received his AA in theatre arts. Davied has worked with numerous Bay Area companies, i n c l u d i n g T h e a t r eWo r k s , Broadway By the Bay and Northside Theatre Company. I and You marks his City Lights debut. @activepoet

LAUREN

GUNDERSON

(Playwright) is the 2014 winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and was a finalist for the 2

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Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for I and You. She studied Southern literature and drama at Emory University and dramatic writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she received a Reynolds Program Graduate Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship. Her work has been commissioned, produced, and developed at companies across the U.S. including South Coast Rep (Emilie, Silent Sky), the Kennedy Center (The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful And Her Dog!), the O’Neill, Denver Center, Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Synchronicity, Olney Theatre, Geva and more. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You, Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Toil and Trouble) and Samuel French (Emilie). She is a playwright in residence at the Playwrights Foundation and a proud Dramatists Guild member. She is from Atlanta, Georgia and lives in San Francisco. laurengunderson.com

NOËLLE GM GIBBS (Director) is

the producing artistic director of Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory (PVTC), where she has worn many hats over the past nine years, including associate artistic director, c h i l d r e n’s c o n s e r v a t o r y d i r e c t o r, c h o r e o g r a p h e r, producer, production manager and designer. Favorite PVTC

directing credits include Proof, Persephone, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Distracted. Noëlle has also worked with TheatreWorks, Magic Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Arabian Shakespeare Festival, Dragon Productions and the Long Wharf Theatre. She teaches acting and directs at Crystal Springs Uplands School and was the proud recipient of the Theatre Bay Area TITAN Award in directing in 2014. Noëlle received BAs in theatre and dance from UC San Diego, studied at the Academia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy and continues to explore ideas of collaboration and audience engagement in her work.

LAUREN HOWRY ( S t a g e

Manager) is happy to be back at City Lights for I and You after stage managing last season’s M. Butterfly. Other recent Bay Area credits include Valley of the Heart (production assistant, assistant stage manager, San Jose Stage), Clybourne Park (stage manager, Palo Alto Players), West Side Story (assistant stage manager, Broadway By the Bay), The Columnist (stage manager, Dragon Productions). When not at a theater, Lauren works as the performing arts coordinator for the wind ensemble Quinteto Latino. She also holds numerous stage management and performance credits in Virginia where she graduated with honors in theatre from Washington and Lee University.

NICK KUMAMOTO (Resident

Lighting Designer) is in his fourth season as resident lighting and projection designer here at City Lights. He is also the master electrician for Opera San Jose and Palo Alto Players, and regularly works as a lighting and video designer for Palo Alto Players and as a lighting designer for Children’s Musical Theatre of San Jose and West Bay Opera. In 2014, he received the Leigh Weimers Emerging

Artist Award for his work as a lighting designer.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

JANE LAMBERT (Costume

Charlie McCollum, president Rick Boyle, vice president Dave Chandler, treasurer Karen DeHart, asst. treasurer Chloe Verrey, secretary Deb Anderson Rachel Bakker Marvin Bamburg Kristin Brownstone Chris del Pilar Virginia Drake Sylvia Head Robert Knight Heather Lerner Michelle Marko Clint Moore Michael Mulhern Derrick Seaver Mary Lou Torre

Designer) is always delighted to design for City Lights, having designed costumes for many of our productions including House of Correction, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Assassins, What the Butler Saw, A... My Name Is Alice, Wise Women, String of Pearls, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Christmas Twist, Voluntary Amnesia, The Goat, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, The Three Musketeers, Another Night Before Christmas, Frank Langella’s Cyrano, Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party, Distracted, The Santaland Diaries, Hamlet, Christmas Shorts, Hedda Gabler, Coney Island Christmas, The Language Archive, Handle with Care and the world premiere of Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War. Jane is the resident costume designer for the California Theatre Center in Sunnyvale, and she has also designed locally for Palo Alto Players, Los Altos Stage Company, Peninsula Center Stage, San Jose Stage Company and Thrill Peddlers in San Francisco.

GEORGE PSARRAS (Resident

Composer, Sound Designer) has designed sound and/or written original music for City Lights productions of The Full Monty, A Few Good Men, Boy Gets Girl, ShakesPod, First Person Shooter, The Three Musketeers, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Equus, Distracted, August: Osage County, Aphrodisiac, Hamlet, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents, Christmas Shorts, Ching Chong Chinaman, Hedda Gabler, Spacebar, The Rocky Horror Show, Amadeus, the world premiere of Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War, the Northern California premiere of Build, M. Butterfly, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Handle With Care, Tigers Be Still and The 2016.05 • BAYSTAGES.COM

ADVISORY BOARD Steve Borkenhagen Rich Braugh Dennise Carter Jerald Enos Frank Fiscalini Tom Gough Phil Hammer John McEnery IV Nick Nichols Joshua Russell Geri Weimers

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Rachel Martin-Bakker, chair Kristin Brownstone Cierra Cass Pat Cross Gina Marie Hayes Margy Kahn Michelle Marko Ross Peter Nelson Bridgette Portman Ann Thomas

Elephant Man. He has also graced the City Lights stage as an actor in many productions, most recently as Merrick in The Elephant Man. For Foothill College, he has written music for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and The Enchanted, and he provided original music and sound design for Manic Pixie Dream Girl at the A.C.T. Costume Shop. A graduate of the Foothill Theatre Conservatory, George has also appeared and worked with numerous other Bay Area companies including TheatreWorks, Golden Thread, Crowded Fire and Dragon Productions. He also works in film and television.

MIRANDA WHIPPLE (Properties

Designer) has designed props for City Lights productions of West Side Story, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Elephant Man. She has also worked at Palo Alto Players and designed props at the Pear Theatre. In 2014, Miranda graduated from Cal State University, Fullerton, with a degree in theatre arts. Her stage management background has served her well on such shows as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Diary of Anne Frank and Hair.

LISA MALLETTE (Executive Artistic

Director) is in her fifteenth season at City Lights and twelfth as executive artistic director, and she is thrilled to see the company continuing such dramatic artistic and administrative momentum. Lisa has appeared onstage at City Lights in the world premiere of Clouds Hill, String of Pearls, Dead Man Walking, August: Osage County and The Language Archive. She has directed Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, A… My Name Is Alice, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Full Monty, Hair, First Person Shooter, Rent, Distracted, Aphrodisiac, Spacebar (world premiere), The Rocky Horror Show (2013), Amadeus, Build, West Side Story and The Elephant Man. Lisa is a member of the Theatre Bay

Area's board of directors and chairs the Theatre Services Committee. She is also the 2014 recipient of the Silicon Valley Creates Artist Laureate Award. A native of San Francisco, she lives on the Peninsula with her two beautiful daughters, Sophie and Olivia.

KIT WILDER (Associate Artistic Director, Grantswriter) is a graduate of Santa Clara University, has received training in London from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has worked for innumerable companies in the Bay Area and beyond as an actor, director and fight director. For City Lights, Kit has directed many productions including String of Pearls, Wise Women, Assassins, The Waiting Room, Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches, The Goat, Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika, A Few Good Men, The Who's Tommy, Frank Langella's Cyrano, Equus, Hamlet, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents, Coney Island Christmas, Handle with Care and the world premiere of Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War (which he co-wrote with Jeffrey Bracco). He has acted in Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show (2003), Clouds Hill, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Full Monty, The Three Musketeers, Art and M. Butterfly (2016 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle Award nomination).

ANNE YOUNAN (Development &

Business Manager) has been a member of the City Lights team for the past eighteen years as special events coordinator, box office technician, company manager, box office and business manager, and now development and business manager. For Anne and City Lights, it all began 26 years ago when she appeared in A Girl’s Guide to Chaos, followed by Mrs. California, Remembrance, Joined at the Head, Definitely Not a Christmas Carol,

Nutcracker This! and Circles - all before taking time off to have her lively daughter, Sarah, in 2000. Upon her return, she appeared in the Spotlight Series presentation of Birth and, most recently, Dead Man Walking. In 2004 she added her spirited son, Jake, to the fold at home, and now relishes her time at City Lights as quality “adult time.”

RON GASPARINETTI (Production

Manager, Technical Director, Resident Set Designer) originally hails from Newark, New Jersey, has been a Bay Area resident for the past two decades, and has designed almost every CLTC show since 2011. His design work has also been seen at Palo Alto Players, Dragon Productions, Pear (Avenue) Theatre, Los Altos Stage Company, Silicon Valley Shakespeare Company, the Jewel Theatre Company, and several other theatre companies in the Bay Area. Ron's scenic designs for Amadeus and Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War right here at City Lights garnered him TBA Award nominations for Outstanding Scenic Design in 2014 and 2015. thesetguy.com

REBECCA WALLACE (Marketing

Director) is a writer, actor and former longtime Bay Area newspaper journalist. Most recently, she was the arts and entertainment editor at the Palo Alto Weekly, working with a team of other scribes to write about theatre, music, dance and visual art in the Palo Alto-Stanford area. During that time, she was chosen for a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship with the NEA’s Arts Journalism Institute at Columbia University. On stage, Rebecca has performed with many local theatre companies and in a few smoky Hungarian bars - she spent a few years in Budapest, where she sang with a country-western band. She now focuses on using her writing experience to help City Lights tell its world of stories.

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MISSION STATEMENT City Lights Theater Company creates provocative live productions that engage, inspire and challenge audiences and artists alike through innovative concepts, intimate staging and uncompromising storytelling.

NONPROFIT PARTNER City Lights recognizes the invaluable contributions to the community by this production's nonprofit partner:

For 165 years, Notre Dame High School in downtown San Jose has been providing a relevant and exciting curriculum to young women of the Silicon Valley. The Performing Arts Department provides students with the opportunity to develop their talents while taking reasonable risks to grow and explore new possibilities. Students can take performing arts classes that meet UC/CSU requirements, as well as participate in student-centered co-curricular programs in dance, music, technical theater and performance theater. 596 S. Second Street, San Jose | 408.294.1113 | ndsj.org

CORPORATE DONORS City Lights gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of the following organizations, corporations, and individuals made during the last twelve months. We regret that recent contributions may not have arrived in time to be acknowledged in the program for this production.

FOUNDATION + GOVERNMENT GRANTS Applied Materials Foundation • Center For Cultural Innovation • City of San Jose, Office of Cultural Affairs • David & Lucile Packard Foundation • The Fleishhacker Foundation Hugh Stuart Charitable Trust • The John S. & James L. Knight Foundation • Kieve Foundation Rutman Family Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund • Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation • The Shubert Foundation, Inc. • Silicon Valley Creates The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

CORPORATE GRANTS Applied Materials Political Action Committee • Armanino LLP • Barry Swenson Builder • Café Stritch Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. • Competitor Group • Focus Business Bank • Group of Minds Hitachi Data Systems • MBA Architects • Pillsbury Law • ROI Communication, INC. • San Jose Water Sigler Wholesale Distributors • Telesky Financial Services • Thomas, Wirig, Doll & Company To Kalon • URI Mechanical • Valley Heating, Cooling, Electrical • Valley Relocation • Veterans Angels, Inc.

MATCHING GRANTS Adobe Employee Matching Program • Ameriprise Giving Program • Apple Matching Gifts Fund Applied Materials Matching • Blackrock Matching Gift Program • David & Lucille Packard Foundation Matching Gifts • eBay Foundation • Google Gifts Matching Program • Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation Hewlett Packard Volunteer Match • IBM Matching Gifts Program

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INDIVIDUAL DONORS We extend to all of our donors a warm and heartfelt thank you for their invaluable support, including our Believers and Followers, who have kindly given up to $249 during the last twelve months.

THE VISIONARIES [$10,000+] Rick + Violet Boyle • Vincent Egizi ★ • Jim Lewis

THE INNOVATORS [$5,000+] Dave + Jeff Chandler ★ • Linda Lee Lester

THE GAME-CHANGERS [$2,500+] Rachel + Tom Bakker ★ • Marv + Bonnie Bamburg • Constance + Paul Boulay ★ • Rich Braugh Karen DeHart • Virginia Drake • Joyce + Ted Gross ★ • Sylvia Head ★ • Robert Knight Steven + Marti Krow-Lucal ★ • Larry + Ivonne Kuechler • Charles McCollum • Mary Lou Torre

THE MOVERS AND SHAKERS [$1,000+] Deb Anderson ★ • Cheryl Booton • Beverly Butler • Pat + Bob Diamond ★ • The Estate of Patricia Eldred Laura Ellingson • David + Kate Gross ★ • Laura Henderson + Jason Silva • Jonathan Karpf + Kathleen Zaretsky ★ • Sam + Kasia Krow-Lucal ★ • Michelle Marko • Ross Nelson ★ • David Richardson + Dan Neumann • Liz + Cathy LaFata-Rutman ★ • Chloe + Charlie Verrey ★ • Geri Weimers

THE DREAMERS [$500+] Tom + Larel Bondi • Joseph Bratt • Kristin Brownstone • Rosalee + Bob Clarke ★ • Sarah Clish ★ Richard + Doris Davis • Carol + Ken Emmons • Joe Raley + Dan Festa • Barbara Fraser • Robin Beresford + Robert Garner • Wanda Ginner • Tom Gough • Phil + Diane Griego, In Memory of Carl Cookson ★ Erik Gutfeldt • Pete + Rebecca Helme Fund • Rose Herrera • Charles "Chappie" Jones Andy + Heather Lerner • Samuel Liccardo • Cliff Maas • Kate + Rush Manbert ★ • Lyle Merithew Glenn Reed • Carl + Marianne Salas • Ellen + Bryan Shaner • Katie Sims Fernicola + Mike Fernicola RuthE + Dave Stein ★ • Mark Tucker • Loretta + Ron Welch • Susanne Wittrig • Paul + Anne Younan ★ Susan Zaslaw + Martin Liss ★

THE DOERS [$250+] Anonymous • Bruce Barton • Martha C Beattie • Bill Berryman • Richard Brenner • Monica Cappuccini Magdalena Carrasco • Susan Hsuching Chen • Chris del Pilar • Richard Ehrman • William Ereneta ★ Frank Fiscalini, In Memory of Carl Cookson • Dan Flynn • Carol Garvey ★ • Margaret Ginsburg ★ Jacquelyn K. Hall Trust Fund • Jane Hiatt • Daniel + Ellen Hoebeke • Sonya + Robert Hubenette Kyra + Hal Hubis ★ • Susan Bass + Daniel Hudkins • Kathleen Kawakami • Nicole Letellier Charles Mendoza + Jean Platner • Barbara Murray ★ • Vivian O'Connell • Daniel Pappone • Raul Peralez Amy + Sal Pizarro • Ray + Meredith Rothrock • Kathryn Schlepphorst • Derrick Seaver • Joyce Sogg Donald Snyder • Nancy Wheeler • Peggy Wood ★

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