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Public Speaker, Astronaut, Doctor......................... Malcolm Rodgers Mechanic................................................................. Justin Gillman ♦ Cop.................................................................................. Ted Zoldan Librarian..................................................................... Jean Forsman Mary Swanson.................................................. Cary Cronholm Rose John Dodge.....................................................................Fred Pitts ♦ Tour Guide, Attendant................................. Jessica Jade Rudholm ♦ Tourist, Woman on Date, Attendant .........................Ashley Cowan ♦ Tourist, Freelancer, Radio Voice......................................Neil Higgins Ground Control, Man on Date, Landscaper...................... Rowan Rivers Aunt, Doctor.............................................Catherine “Cat” Luedtke ♦ Sweetheart...............................................................Gabriella Jarvie

CREATIVE TEAM Director....................................................................................Brian Katz ♦ Stage Manager..................................................................... Cat Howser ♦ Scenic Design.................................................................... Sarah Phykitt ♦ Costume Design..........................................................Brooke Jennings ♦ Lighting Design.............................................................. Maxx Kurzunski ♦ Sound Design.................................................................... Ryan Lee Short Properties Design................................................................. Cat Howser ♦ Video Design..................................................................... Sarah Phykitt ♦ Technical Director................................................................Stewart Lyle ♦ Original Score Composer................................................. Rona Siddiqui ♦ Costume Assistant....................................................................Kitty Torres Choreography................................................................... Kim Saunders ♦ Scenic Painter..................................................................Nicola McCarthy Fight Choreography...................................................................Jon Bailey ♦ Member, The Custom Made Theatre Co.

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Performances:

March 24 to April 23, 2016

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Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

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There will be one intermission.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sheri Abrams Leah S. Abrams Linda Ayres-Frederick Serge Bakalian Phil Bartenetti Norman Berman Nancy Cooper Frank Barbara Janney Brian Katz Marsha Katz Mel Katz Brandy Leggett-Petricka Daunielle Rasmussen Yvonne Steffen

COMPANY MEMBERS Perry Aliado Terry Bamberger Lewis Campbell Stefin Collins Ashley Cowan AJ Davenport Jennifer Dean Giana DeGeiso Danielle Doyle Mark Eisman Stephanie Ann Foster Justin Gillman Ryan Hayes Eric Johnson Shelley Lynn Johnson Tavis Kammet Catherine “Cat” Luedtke Brian Martin Eden Neuendorf Fred Pitts Eric Rice Gabriel A. Ross Jessica Jade Rudholm Kim Saunders Rona Siddiqui Dave Sikula Paul Stout Richard Wenzel Teri Whipple

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR We have the biggest news! Coming this August, we hope you will join us for a special event: Stacy Ross in the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of Steve Yockey’s The Thrush & the Woodpecker: A Revenge Play. Directed by Tracy Ward and also starring Fontana Butterfield and Adam Magill, this thriller is sure to be the hit of the summer season and you can see it for free! All early-bird subscribers to our 2016-2017 will receive one free ticket per subscription to see Stacy in Thrush. Of course, you will also experience our amazing upcoming season detailed on the next page. Subscribe today at custommade.org/subscribe or fill out the form included in this program. Our subscribers receive up to 50% off on their ticket purchases and get a host of other perks. Most importantly, they are our best supporters and are dedicated to helping small theater thrive in San Francisco. Whether renewing or joining our family for the first time, we are grateful for your support and cannot wait to for you to experience these amazing shows!

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Now in our 17th season of production in San Francisco, The Custom Made Theatre Co. is committed to producing plays that awaken our social conscience, focusing on the strength of the ensemble and creating an intimate theatrical experience. PLEASE FILL OUT YOUR AUDIENCE SURVEY! Why? You will reap good karma like: • • • •

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SUBSCRIBE TO OUR 2016-2017 SEASON SEP 2016 • CHESS

lyrics by Tim Rice music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus Set towards the end of the cold war, Chess uses politics and sport as metaphor for a love triangle between a enfant-terrible American superstar (loosely modeled on Bobby Fisher), his Hungarian-born lover/ second and a Soviet player looking to start a new life. With such hits as “One Night in Bangkok,” “Pity the Child” and “I Know Him So Well,” the eclectic score ranges from classical to Euro-pop. It's truly an adult musical.

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OCT 2016 • RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN

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by Gina Gionfriddo (San Francisco Premiere) Not since Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles has a play taken on the complexities of the women’s liberation movement with such intimacy and acerbic wit. Rapture reunites three old friends confronting mid-life questions of paths and purpose, hilariously and painfully exploring the concept of trying out that life you rejected.

Leah S. Abrams executive director

Stewart Lyle technical director

Eden Neuendorf company manager

JAN 2017 • BELLEVILLE

by Amy Herzog (Bay Area Premiere) Young Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville, a stable marriage, and Zack’s noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. When Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he’s supposed to be at work, the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life.

Paul Stout facilities manager

Gabriel A. Ross casting director

Stuart Bousel director of new works

Adam L. Sussman

FEB 2017 • ISAAC’S EYE

by Lucas Hnath (Bay Area Premiere) A hilarious and poignant exploration of love, greatness and the nature of truth that playfully combines contemporary language, historical fact, deadpan humor and scientific inquiry. Hot New York playwight Hnath pits two ruthless thinkers against one another in a battle of wits while playing a thrilling game of meta-theatrics, calling attention to the way we establish truth onstage through deception and imagination.

literary manager

Cat Howser resident stage manager

Brooke Jennings resident costume designer

Maxx Kurzunski resident lighting designer

Liz Ryder

APR 2017 • THE HOUSE OF YES

by Wendy MacLeod Arriving during a hurricane, Marty comes home for Thanksgiving with his fiancé, Lesly, This is not taken well by his twin sister, Jackie-O, who has been recently released from a mental hospital, nor the rest of the family, and a series of seductions and games start to spin out of control. This classic indie play is a love story that is both sensational and devastating.

resident composer

Perry Aliado resident dramaturge

MAY 2017 • KURT VONNEGUT’S MOTHER NIGHT

adapted by Brian Katz (World Premiere) Vonnegut’s third and highly celebrated novel is newly adapted for the stage. The metafictional tale of Howard W. Cambell (last seen in 2014’s Slaughterhouse-Five) is that of duplicitous spies, bumbling white supremacists and a timeless love affair that rejects patriotism and borders - instead fantasizing an idyllic “nation of two.” Mother Night reminds us “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES ASHLEY COWAN (Tourist, Woman

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on Date, Attendant) is originally from Avon, CT. After graduating from Roger Williams University, she moved to New York to become a starving artist before heading to San Francisco as a moderately hungry artist and has been happily enjoying burritos ever since. Ashley is a company member of Custom Made and has appeared in their productions of The Book Of Liz and Release Point. She has also had the privilege of acting, writing and directing with a handful of Bay Area theater companies such as SF Olympians, Atmos Theatre, PianoFight, No Nude Men, UnScripted, Young Performers Theatre and San Francisco Theater Pub. You can keep up with her bi-weekly Theater Pub column Cowan Palace featuring her thoughts on the local theater scene and reality television.

JEAN FORSMAN (Librarian) marks FORSMAN

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her fourth production with Custom Made with Middletown, having appeared here in A Delicate Balance, The Merchant of Venice and The Pain and the Itch. Jean has also worked with Boxcar Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, Shotgun Players and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. This year Jean is featured in a National Park Service's Centennial Celebration PSA as the so-helpful Fruit Stand Lady. Much love to Catz, the ensemble and the 94133.

JUSTIN GILLMAN (Mechanic) is so happy to be back with Custom Made where he is a company member and appeared in The Pain and the Itch and The Book of Liz! Regionally, he has performed with Center REPertory Company, Shotgun Players, San Francisco Playhouse (SFBATCC nominee for Freddy in My Fair Lady), Shakespeare Santa Cruz, 42nd Street Moon, ArtistsRepSF, American Conservatory Theater Fellows, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, The Breadbox (Associate Artist, TBA Award Recipient for Principal Actor in a Play for Katurian 4

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in The Pillowman), Cutting Ball Theater, Playwrights Foundation, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Tides Theatre and No Nude Men Productions. Justin is also artistic director of ArtistsRepSF. He is a proud recipient of the 2015-16 Theatre Bay Area Titan Award. OffBroadway credits include Twelfth Night (Classic Stage Company) and When Last We Flew (Best of NY Fringe). Up next is The Awakening (The Breadbox @ EXIT Theatre, 7.29-8.20.16). He earned his BFA from UC Santa Barbara and his MFA from Columbia University. justingillman.com

NEIL HIGGINS (Tourist, Freelancer, Radio Voice) has been living and making theatre in San Francisco for 10 years now. He has acted with Left Coast Theater Company, Thunderbird Theatre Company, Overcast Theater, SF Theater Pub and SF Olympians. He has written and directed for several companies around the City. This is his first show with Custom Made and he is absolutely thrilled to be working with this company and to be part of this production. GABRIELLA JARVIE (Sweetheart) is excited to return to Custom Made for her third show. She previously performed as Kayla in The Pain and the Itch and as Lee Bouvier in Grey Gardens. She has performed numerous roles at Marin Horizon School and at the Marin Theater Company’s summer productions. Her most recent role was that of Gabriella Montez in her school’s production of High School Musical. Gabriella attends Marin Horizon School in Mill Valley and was selected to return to the Manhattan School of Music musical theater program this summer. CATHERINE “CAT” LUEDTKE (Aunt, Doctor) marks her third show at Custom Made with Middletown. It is her second as a Company member. Previously, she was in The Braggart

Soldier or Major Blowhard and Top Girls (2014 TBA Award nominee, Outstanding Female Actor in a Featured Role), Other recent Bay Area credits include Pygmalion (California Shakespeare Theater), Hay Fever (Stanford Repertory Theater), Villa Design Group Strindberg (National Gallery/Futura Museum, Prague), 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Blood Wedding (The Breadbox), My Beautiful Laundrette (US premiere, New Conservatory Theatre Center), Sheherezade (Wily West Productions) and Rabbit Hole (ArtistsRepSF). catluedtke.com

FRED PITTS (John Dodge) is happy to be back with Custom Made where he last appeared as Father in Eurydice (SFBATTC nominee). He has performed throughout the Bay Area including roles in The Heidi Chronicles, The Diary of Anne Frank and The Odd Couple (Custom Made), Clybourne Park (Palo Alto Players), Eat the Runt (Altarena Playhouse), Julius Caesar (African-American Shakespeare Company), November and Private Eyes (Dragon Productions), The Real Thing (Pear Theatre) and The Miser (Ross Valley). Much love to NK!! ROWAN RIVERS (Ground Control, Man on Date, Landscaper) is delighted to join the cast of Middletown at Custom Made. A 2015 Atlas participant and Titan finalist, he has been seen originating the role of Stanley in the world premiere of Aria's, narrating the audiobook Hilmar written by his insanely talented husband and playing Albert Einstein in the national tour of Eureka! An alumnus of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Rowan enjoys long walks in the fog, quiet evenings at home with his cats, red wine and reading tarot. MALCOLM RODGERS (Public Speaker, Astronaut, Doctor) is thrilled to be back at Custom Made! He was most recently seen here as Gene Dinkel in How the World Began. He has performed in the Bay Area as Brabantio and Lodovico

in Othello at Arabian Shakespeare Festival, Herr Shultz in Cabaret and Bob Jackson in Pack of Lies. Favorite roles include Jaques in As You Like It, Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing, Bradley in Buried Child and Gangster Number One in Kiss Me, Kate! Malcolm is married to actress-director-playwright Mary Ann Rodgers and works in Alameda designing scenery, furnishings and graphics for broadcast, corporate events and interior environments.

CARY CRONHOLM ROSE (Mary Swanson) is thrilled to be working with Custom Made again, following her 2014 portrayal of Marlene in Top Girls. Enthusiastic about contemporary playwrights, she is proud to have acted in Will Eno's Middletown as well as Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries, both San Francisco premieres. In 2015, she understudied Goneril in King Lear at California Shakespeare Theater and was in the sketch comedy show Holidaze for Killing My Lobster. Cary has a BA from Kenyon College and is a graduate of The School at Steppenwolf in Chicago and the British American Dramatic Academy’s Midsummer in Oxford program. In Chicago she worked with Second City, Improv Olympic, The Side Project, Collaboraction, PineBox and the Steppenwolf Garage. After moving back to her hometown of San Francisco she was a co-founder and the associate artistic director at Tides Theater. She is eternally grateful to her family, without whom, pursuing her dreams would not be possible. She dedicates this show to those we love who leave this world too soon and to all the lives that are just beginning. carycronholm.com

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JESSICA JADE RUDHOLM (Tour Guide, Attendant) is thoroughly enjoying being a part of this production. She was most recently seen as Mags hurling curses at everyone in Theatre Pub's production of Dick 3: All Murder All the Time. She is a Custom Made company member where she was last seen in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. 2016.03 • BAYSTAGES.COM

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TED ZOLDAN (Cop) is a graduate of San Francisco Conservatory of Music and has appeared with 42nd Street Moon, Ray of Light Theatre, Boxcar Theatre, West Edge Opera, Cinnabar Theater, Town Hall Theatre Company and Opera San José. Favorite roles include John Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Kirby Witt in The Speakeasy, Rapunzel's Prince in Into the Woods, Iro in The Return of Ulysses, Jimmy in 110 in the Shade, William Barfée in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Harry in Company. This is Ted's second show at Custom Made this season and he is thrilled to trade in his fake beard from The Book of Liz for a badge. WILL ENO (Playwright) was a finalist

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for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2005 for Thom Pain (based on nothing). His The Realistic Joneses appeared on Broadway in 2014, where it received a Drama Desk special award and was named Best Play on Broadway by USA Today. Middletown opened Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre in 2010 and Eno won the 2010 Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play. Eno is a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow, a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow.

BRIAN KATZ (Director) is the founding artistic director of The Custom Made Theatre Co., the resident company here at Custom Made Theatre. For the company he has directed over thirty productions including This is Our Youth (SFBATCC nominee, Best Director, Best Overall Production of 2015), Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby (SFBATCC Best Overall Production of 2012). Other recent projects include Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day (SFBATCC nominee, Best Director), Next to Normal (SFBATCC nominee, Best Overall Production) and the regional premieres of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The Love 6

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Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Red Light Winter among others. He has worked at California Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, Killing My Lobster and other cool places. Brian is an alumnus of Clark University.

CAT HOWSER (Stage Manager, Properties Designer) is a Bay Area stage manager who grew up in nearby San Jose. She graduated from California State University, East Bay with a degree in theatre. She continued her education as a stage management fellow with American Conservatory Theater here in San Francisco. Cat has worked on several shows with Custom Made over the past few years, including Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Late: A Cowboy Song and How the World Began. She would like to thank her amazing actors for their hard work and dedication, her wonderful fiancé for his love and her family for their endless support. BROOKE JENNINGS (Costume Designer) is ecstatic to return to Custom Made. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz’s theatre arts master’s program, Brooke has designed costumes in the Bay Area and New York. Credits include Peter Pan (Berkeley Playhouse) Ondine at Sutro (We Players), A Lie of the Mind, Bad Jews (assistant designer, Magic Theatre), The Singularity, Crooked, Ransom, Texas (Virago Theatre), In Love and Warcraft, This is Our Youth, Grey Gardens, How the World Began, Late: A Cowboy Song, The Crucible (Custom Made), The Rocky Horror Show (City Lights Theater Company) and A Year with Frog and Toad (assistant designer, Santa Cruz Shakespeare). Brooke received a 2015 TBA Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design for her work on We Players’ Ondine at Sutro, directed by Ava Roy and Carly Cioffil. MAXX KURZUNSKI (Lighting Designer) has designed for many Custom Made shows over the past

four years including Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Next to Normal,

Why Torture is Wrong..., In Love and Warcraft and, most recently, Of Serpents and Sea Spray and Sam and Dede. He is the producer for FaultLine Theater at PianoFight and designs lighting for weddings and corporate events with Impact Lighting Audio & Video.

STEWART LYLE (Technical Director) is also the technical director for Berkeley Playhouse and Contra Costa Civic Theatre in El Cerrito. He has designed, tech directed and/or built over 50 shows in the last four years,including Custom Made’s The Pain and the Itch, The Crucible, Three Tall Women (SFBATCC Award nominee), Grey Gardens , This is Our Youth, Of Serpents and Sea Spray,Sam and Dede and the upcoming Six Degrees of Separation. For Alameda’s Altarena Playhouse, he directed and designed Wait Until Dark, Art, Man of La Mancha, The 25th

Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Moonlight and Magnolias, The Fantasticks, Rent, Blood Brothers and the upcoming The Light in the Piazza. For Contra Costa Civic Theatre he directed and designed Children of Eden and designed The Addams Family. A member of Actors' Equity Association, he has appeared in over 100 productions throughout California including roles with TheatreWorks, San Jose Stage, Pacific Repertory Theatre, Center RERertory Company, Diablo Theatre Company, Palo Alto Players, the Mountain Play and, most recently, in Altarena’s Almost Maine and Woodminster’s Les Misérables (Thenardier).

SARAH PHYKITT (Scenic Designer, Video Designer) hails from the East Coast where she graduated from the University of Massachusetts. She spent several years with Broadway tours (Rent, Cabaret and Fosse), in New York managing at The Duke on

42nd Street and freelance designing. After relocating to the Bay Area she has designed scenery and video for 42nd Street Moon, Custom Made, Youth Music Theater Company the MFA program and the Young Conservatory at American Conservatory Theater. Currently her work can be seen onstage at Oasis where she designed the set for Three’s Company Live! Upcoming projects include Stegosaurus with FaultLine Theater and the West Edge Opera’s summer festival. She has also production managed for several companies in the Bay Area including the Jewish Theater, LevyDance, Custom Made and Oasis.

RYAN LEE SHORT (Sound Designer) is excited to be making noises for Custom Made again after designing for this season’s This is Our Youth, Of Serpents and Sea Spray, Sam and Dede and 2012’s The Merchant of Venice. His designs can also be heard at San Francisco Shakespeare Festival where he is a resident artist and TheatreFIRST where his is an artistic associate. Occasionally he makes things louder at SF Sketchfest and in various musicals around the Bay Area. In the harsh light of day, he can be found (to the surprise of those who’ve heard him speak casually) wrangling young children and guiding them through the rigors of long division. Much love to his new wife Laura.

RONA SIDDIQUI (Original Score Composer) is a composer-lyricist based in New York. She and her collaborator Liz Suggs are the recipients of the 2014 ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers-Lorenz Hart Award and she is the 2011 recipient of the ASCAP Foundation-Max Dreyfus Scholarship. In 2014, her musical One Good Day (book and lyrics by Liz Suggs) was selected for the ASCAP/Dreamworks Musical Theatre Workshop with Stephen Schwartz in LA. It was named one of the best new musicals of 2014 by

Festival of New American Musicals. Rona composed the music for The Tin, an original 20-minute musical, which was selected to be part of the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival in 2012. Original scores she has written include The Vagina Monologues, The Good Person of Szechuan, The Clean House and Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer. She received her master's from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. ronasiddiqui.com

KITTY TORRES (Asst. Costume Designer) is super pumped to be assisting in costume design for this show as she did for In Love and Warcraft, Of Serpents and Sea Spray and Sam and Dede. On stage, she's acted in The Crucible, The Desk Set and at the San Francisco Olympians Festival.

LEAH S. ABRAMS (Executive Director) is the co-founder of Custom Made. Directing projects for the company include the world premiere of Gino DiIorio’s Sam and Dede, or My Dinner with Andre the Giant, the Bay Area premiere of Catherine Trieschmann's How the World Began, Wendy Kesselman's adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, Lee Blessing's Two Rooms, Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, Mark Eisman’s Sightlines (New York) and a dozen Beckett shorts including Krapp’s Last Tape, Rockaby, Come and Go and Catastrophe. Having produced all of Custom Made’s shows these last nearly 20 years, she is especially proud of the company’s world premieres of Sam and Dede, Of Serpents and Sea Spray, The Braggart Soldier and Little Brother as well as Bay Area premieres like Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Red Light Winter. Leah heads up Custom Made’s New York programming, works as an HR consultant and is a graduate of Clark University (Young Alumni Award, 2006).

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SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION By John Guare

Directed By Stuart Bousel

Beginning May 19

ONE OF THE “TOP 10 BEST THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES OF 2015”—Huffington Post

THE LION Written and Performed by Benjamin Scheuer Directed by Sean Daniels

“ONLY THE HARDEST HEARTED COULD RESIST!”—The New York Times “AN IRRESISTIBLE WINNER . . . DEEPLY MOVING!”—New York Post

APR 19–MAY 1 AT A.C.T.’S STRAND THEATER

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