Wild Boy by VIA MEDIA / BAYSTAGES

by oliver goldstick

directed by ken sonkin

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When director Ken Sonkin brought this play to my attention last year, I knew right away that it was something special and that it was truly a story that I wanted Dragon to tell. As many of you know, we have a fondness for beautifully theatrical plays that transcend linear timeperiods. Oliver Goldstick’s tale of what it means to be human shows us just how alike we all are in our most basic needs of love and acceptance. In our current state of things throughout the world and here at home, I feel this lesson can’t be stressed enough through any means necessary. Ken has assembled a wonderfully versatile group of actors to tell this powerful story, and an amazingly creative design team to intertwine these two stories in such a playful and cohesive marvel that we know you will all appreciate as much as we do.

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Kimberly Wadycki managing director

Karen Altree Piemme associate director, 2nd Stages

Ashley Taylor Frampton production manager

Jesse Ploog associate production manager, 2nd Stages

Josiah Frampton front of house manager

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DIRECTOR’S NOTES Inside the church where Peter, the Wild Boy is buried, there is a brass tablet that reads: “But proving himself incapable of speaking, or of receiving any instruction, a comfortable provision was made for him at a farm in this parish, where he continued to the end of his inoffensive life.” During the Age of Enlightenment, Peter was scrutinized and poked and prodded so that the great thinkers of his time might pass judgment on him in order to better understand their own existence. He was a simple man who required very little out of life, but the circumstance was such that he was held up to the collective mirror of society, and it was concluded: he must not possess a soul because he couldn’t speak. I am always attracted to stories that deal with the question: “What is normal?” I love how this piece explores relationships in all their human complexity—and that it offers no easy answers. This is not a play about understanding, but rather acceptance. Understanding is an intellectual exercise and because we can never truly “understand” one another, we often default to judgment. But to be compassionate with those who are different than us, to connect with them on their terms (language isn’t necessary), and to be open to what they can teach us—these are the lessons this story reckons with and asks us to consider. “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.”

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The world of autism is a mystery, but working on Wild Boy has exposed me to so many people who are trying to demystify this complex disorder. They are dedicated to bringing dignity and grace to families who deal with this condition every day. While the universal symbol for autism is a jigsaw puzzle piece, Pamela Wolfberg, Ph.D., shared with me that she sees this condition as “more of a mosaic.” Autism is not a disorder with a right or wrong solution like a puzzle. But is, rather, for each person on the spectrum, a unique amalgam of abilities and challenges. To the numerous autism experts and workers with special needs children, you have my heartfelt thanks for letting us peek into your world. You are some of the most patient and courageous people I’ve known. “…Yet to be proud of one’s intelligence, talent, looks, or achievement has always seemed to me to betray a misunderstanding of the whimsical shake of the dice that grants us, or fails to grant us, our humanity.” - Joyce Carol Oates, Nighthawk: A Memoir of Lost Time

Oliver’s stage adaptation is taut, poetic, funny, painful, and terribly human. I feel very privileged to have been a part of his journey on this very special work, and am grateful for his support and his insights during the rehearsal process. I also want to thank Paul Collins and his family for their generosity, and for helping us all breathe life into the people in this play. To the dedicated and gifted company of Dragon Theatre actors, designers, and technicians, I am eternally grateful. Your sensitivity to the material, coupled with your talents, your passion and your humor, has not only made this an incredibly satisfying project for me, but you have also created a provocative and moving evening of theatre.

Ken Sonkin director

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CAST [ IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE ]

Paul Collins............................................................... Ryan O’Donnell Jennifer Collins................................................................ Olivia Haas Morgan, Peter...................................................... Johnathan Tierney Dr. Rapp, Paul’s Mom, Alice Titchbourne, Mrs. Snub..................................... Mary Lou Torre Ivy Tate, Ann Brett, Caroline, Ashley, Shopper............... Isabel Siragusa Marc, King George I, Schoolmaster, Dr. Arbuthnot, Brian,Blackthorp...........................John Stephen King Chad, Kurtz, George II, Trout, Mr. Snub, Headmaster, Fenn...................................... Bryan Moriarty

CREATIVE TEAM Director, Sound Designer................................................ Ken Sonkin Stage Manager.............................................................. Jesse Ploog Assistant Stage Manager............................................. Sigrid Pinsky Set Designer, Lighting Designer ......................... Joshua McDermott Master Electrician.......................................................... Dan Garrett Costume Designer................................................. Brooke Jennings Movement Consultant............................................... Natalie Greene Costume Design Assistant.............................................. Kitty Torres Properties Designer...................................................... Emily James Properties Artisan ................................................................. Liz Coy Dialect Coach, Dramaturge.............................. Kimberly Mohne Hill Dressers.......................... Daniela Talavera Rangel, Brandon Ah Tye Graphic Designer...................................................... Maggie Ziomek Originally developed by Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble. Marilyn Fox, Artistic Director Further developed by University of San Francisco Performing Arts and Social Justice Program. Christine Young, Producer

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES OLIVIA HAAS (Jennifer

HAAS

KING

Collins) moved to New York after graduating from Stanford Univeristy in 2011. There she enjoyed stints at the Public Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club. After realizing that it’s hard to live in New York with no money, she moved to Los Angeles where she enjoyed a longer stint working in film and television. After realizing that she wasn’t actually enjoying that stint, she chose to ditch the entertainment industry and return to the Bay Area where she is thoroughly enjoying her newfound peace of mind. A writer-director at heart, Olivia has had her plays produced both locally and Off-OffBroadway and she has trained as an improviser at The Groundlings in Los Angeles. Wild Boy is her second Dragon production. She last performed in this year’s season opener, U.S. Drag. A big thank you to Ken for this opportunity, and for his support throughout the journey.

JOHN STEPHEN KING (Marc,

MORIARTY

King George I, Schoolmaster, Dr. Arbuthnot, Brian, Blackthorn) is excited to perform for the first time with Dragon Productions. He was last in productions of Catch-22 (Los Altos Stage Company) and Peer Gynt (Artists Rep SF). John recently relocated to the Bay Area from Atlanta where he performed with various theatre companies from 2007 to 2014. Before that, he spent 2002 to 2006 living and performing in Chicago. Companies he has worked with include Give Us Brains Sketch Comedy, the Fern Theatre, the Shakespeare Tavern, Button Theatre, Onion Man Productions, Coup de Theatre, Corn Productions and WNEP.

BRYAN MORIARTY (Chad, Kurtz,

George II, Trout, Mr. Snub, Headmaster, Fenn) last performed as Yossarian in Los Altos Stage Company’s production of Catch-22. Other recent roles include Angie the Ox in Guys and Dolls (Jewel Theatre Company), Courfeyrac in Les Misérables (South Bay Musical O’DONNELL

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Theatre), the Earl of Kent in Mary Stuart (Jewel Theatre Company) and the Backyard Coach Dad in the 2016 television advertising campaign for the San Francisco Giants. Bryan is also a podcaster. He co-hosts two series: Nerds on Film and Nerds on History through his podcast channel at nerdonomy.com. Both are available to download on iTunes.

RYAN O’DONNELL (Paul Collins)

most recently appeared in The Foreigner at Contra Costa Civic Theatre, also directed by the fabulous Ken Sonkin. Other favorite shows include Take Me Out (Dragon Productions), Buried Child (Boxcar Theatre), God’s Ear, Ubu for President and Owners (Shotgun Players), Three Sisters (Porchlight Theatre), Devil On All Sides (PS 122 in NYC with foolsFury), Big Love, Twelfth Night (foolsFury), Rabbit Hole and The Importance of Being Earnest (Town Hall Theatre). Ryan teaches English and drama at University High School in San Francisco and holds an MFA in acting from the Theatre School at DePaul University. He sends big love to his family, and to the hilariously fun and dedicated team of theatremakers in this show.

ISABEL SIRAGUSA (Ivy Tate, Ann

Brett, Caroline, Ashley, Shopper) is ecstatic to be making her Dragon Productions debut! Isabel graduated from Yale University with a degree in theatre studies. She has studied at Shakespeare & Company in the Berkshires, the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia, and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She got her professional start at B Street Theatre in Sacramento performing for thousands of school kids all over Northern California. Favorite theatrical experiences include performing with Clowns Without Borders in South Africa and doing stand up around the Bay Area. Watch for Isabel in the upcoming horror film, Capps Crossing.

JOHNATHAN TIERNEY (Morgan,

Peter) is filled with delight to be a part of Wild Boy. He recently was Hunter in [title of show] (Band Candy Theatre Company) and Peter in Wild Boy and King Ferdinand in Love’s Labour’s Lost (University of San Francisco). Over the past three years, he has made ten short films for his personal enjoyment. In his free time, he creates digital art on Instagram under the alias KingPaleWave. He would like to thank the cast and crew for making this a wonderful show, and he is very grateful for his family and friends and their relentless support.

MARY LOU TORRE (Dr. Rapp,

Paul’s Mom, Alice Titchbourne, Mrs. Snub) is very grateful to be back at Dragon Productions to work with this wonderful group of artists on this amazing play. (Thank you, Ken! Thank you, Meredith!) Previous favorite roles at Dragon include Becky in Becky’s New Car, Bessie in Marvin’s Room and Froggy in The Country Club. She has also worked with City Lights Theater Company, Arabian Shakespeare Festival, The Pear, Bus Barn (now Los Altos Stage Company), theatreQ and Chanticleers. She sends heartfelt thanks to all of you for joining us for Wild Boy.

OLIVER

GOLDSTICK

(Playwright) is an awardwinning playwright, television screenwriter and producer. Originally from Detroit, Goldstick received a degree from the University of Michigan, followed by graduate work at Columbia University, where his plays including Dinah Was (2000) were produced Off-Broadway. Wild Boy, adapted from Not Even Wrong by Paul Collins, had its premiere in Los Angeles at the Pacific Resident Theatre in 2009. Oliver’s plays have earned him Drama-Logue and Hopwood Awards, as well as nominations for NAACP Theatre and Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. He was executive producer and writer for the television series Desperate

Housewives, Lipstick Jungle, Ugly Betty, Everwood, State of Mind, Partners, Coach and Caroline in the City, and is the executive producer and writer for the Emmy Awardwinning ABC series Pretty Little Liars. In association with BBC Worldwide, he is currently filming eight hour-long episodes of The Collection, Amazon’s first original UK drama series which tells the story of an illustrious Paris fashion house (think: Dior) just after World War II.

PAUL COLLINS (Source Author)

is a writer specializing in history, memoir and unusual antiquarian literature. His seven books have been translated into eleven languages, and include Not Even Wrong: A Father’s Journey Into the Lost History of Autism (2004) and The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars (2011). He is a 2009 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts for General Nonfiction. His recent freelance work includes pieces for the New York Times, Slate and New Scientist. Paul appears regularly on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday as its resident “literary detective” on odd and forgotten old books. He is also the founding editor of the Collins Library imprint, McSweeney’s Books, where he has revived such disparate works as a World War I internment camp memoir and an absurdist 1934 detective tale. Paul lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches creative nonfiction as an associate professor in the MFA program at Portland State University. He is currently the chair of the English Department.

SIRAGUSA

TIERNEY

TORRE

KEN SONKIN (Director, Sound

Designer) returns to Dragon Productions after directing Take Me Out in 2014. He is an actordirector who has worked at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, Magic Theatre, Center REPertory Company, Marin Shakespeare Company, 2016.07 • BAYSTAGES.COM

Sonoma County Repertory Theater, Broadway By the Bay, San Jose Stage Company, California Conservatory Theatre, Pacific Resident Theater and Grove Shakespeare Festival (Los Angeles), Seacoast Repertory Theatre (New Hampshire), the Denver Center and Pennsylvania Centre Stage. He holds an MFA from A.C.T. and is a company member of PlayGround and a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Directing credits include Angels in America, Metamorphoses, Sleuth, The Three Musketeers, Twelfth Night, Tartuffe, Humble Boy, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Incorruptible, Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, The Subject Was Roses, Almost, Maine, Golf with Alan Shepard, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Little Shop of Horrors, The Last Five Years, The Full Monty, West Side Story, The Producers and the world premieres of Summerland and A Southern Christmas. Under Bill Ball and Allen Fletcher, Ken was a member of the acting company and core conservatory faculty at A.C.T. He has taught and directed for the National Theatre Conservatory, Stanford University, Northwestern University, Solano College, Sonoma State University, Cornell College and the San Francisco Ballet School. He was the founding director of the professional actor-training program at American Musical Theatre of San Jose and served as artistic director for The Regency Center in San Francisco. Ken teaches the classes “Acting,” “Personal Clown Technique” and “Careers in Theater” at the University of San Francisco.

DAN GARRETT (Master Electrician)

is excited to join the cast and crew in bringing you Wild Boy! It is his second show with Dragon Productions and brings his twelve years of technical theatre experience to Redwood City. A native of the Santa Cruz area, he has supported over eighty productions with twenty different companies in a dozen venues in all aspects of technical theatre work from light to flight. Recent credits include master carpenter for Santa Cruz Shakespeare, lighting designer for When The Rain Stops Falling (Dragon Productions) and lead flight operator for Mary Poppins (Cabrillo Stage). linkedin. com/in/dangarrett 6

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NATALIE GREENE (Movement

Consultant) is a performer, teacher, choreographer and director working in dance, theatre and community engagement. Wild Boy is her first show with Dragon Productions. Natalie was the movement consultant on the premiere of Wild Boy at the University of San Francisco, where she has been adjunct faculty since 2006. She is thrilled to revisit this powerful piece with Ken, Josh and this remarkably talented cast. As a performer and collaborator, Natalie has created several new productions with the innovative devised theatre ensemble, Mugwumpin. Currently Mugwumpin’s interim artistic director, she is in residence at Pro Arts in Oakland and developing a new production slated to premiere in 2017. mugwumpin.org

BROOKE JENNINGS (Costume Designer) is ecstatic to return to Dragon Productions with this stunning production of Wild Boy. A graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz’s theatre arts master’s program, Brooke is an award-winning costume designer working in the Bay Area and New York. Credits include Colossal, The Nether and Stage Kiss (San Francisco Playhouse), Peter Pan (Berkeley Playhouse), HeroMonster and Ondine at Sutro (We Players), A Lie of the Mind, Bad Jews (assistant designer, Magic Theatre), the New York premiere of The Singularity, and Crooked and Ransom, Texas in San Francisco (Virago Theatre), Middletown, Sam and Dede, Of Serpents and Sea Spray, In Love and Warcraft, This is Our Youth, Grey Gardens, How the World Began, Late: A Cowboy Song and 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.

JOSHUA M C DERMOTT (Scenic &

Lighting Designer) graduated from the University of Hawai’i with an MA

in Asian theatre and from Brown University with an MS in physics. He is the technical director for the performing arts department at the University of San Francisco, where he coordinates the tech and design certificate programs and teaches scenic design and stagecraft.

STINA PINSKY (Assistant Stage

Manager) is studying theatre and women’s studies in Washington, DC. She is incredibly thrilled to be making theatre back home in the Bay Area! This Dragon Productions debut and she is incredibly grateful for this opportunity. Previous experience includes serving as a dresser on Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spike (Palo Alto Players) and stage management for As You Like It and King Lear (American University, Washington, DC).

JESSE PLOOG (Stage Manager,

Associate Production Manager - 2nd Stages) graduated from the University of Arizona in 2015 with a degree in scenic design and immediately moved to the Bay Area. Jesse soon began working at various South Bay theatres as a scenic artist and stage manager. She was extremely lucky to be quickly taken in by the Dragon Productions staff, who enabled her to work on multiple shows as a designer and stage manager and become the associate production manager for the 2nd Stages program. Through Dragon, she has been able to continue to fulfill her passion of learning as many different aspects of theatre with an amazing staff and fabulous production teams!

KITTY TORRES (Assistant Costume Designer) is so happy to be a part of the production. She recently completed her first season with the Custom Made Theatre Co. and looks forward to working on the next season as well as an upcoming production of Confessions of a Catholic Child with the Cutting Ball Theater. She is eternally grateful to Brooke Jennings and all that made working on this show so memorable. Thank you all so much for attending. You’re what keeps theatre alive.

MEREDITH HAGEDORN

(Executive Artistic Director, Founder) has been a professional actor and director in regional theaters across the country for almost thirty years. She is thrilled to be celebrating the Dragon’s fifteenth season and the third in its new home in Redwood City. Audiences last saw Meredith on the Dragon stage in 2013 as Allison in Rx and she recently directed The Voice of the Prairie.

ASHLEY TAYLOR FRAMPTON

(Production Manager) matriculated from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Kent University, England with a bachelor’s degrees in theatre arts and in film and digital media. For the last decade, she has worked internationally in both mediums as a stage manager, production manager, master electrician, properties designer, sound technician, editor and performer. She is currently the assistant technical director for San Francisco Sketchfest and a member of Actors’ Equity Association. When not in production, she trains with mêlée weapons at Davenriche European Martial Arts School where she is an assistant instructor and apprentice to Sir Steaphen Fick.

JOSIAH FRAMPTON (Front of

House Manager) is an actor in the Bay Area. His primary experience is in musical theatre throughout the South Bay. He spent the majority of the last three years managing the Old Spaghetti Factory before being invited to join the Dragon team. You recently saw Josiah on the Dragon stage as Christopher in U.S. Drag.

LINDA OLBOURNE (Company

Manager) is an accomplished stage manager and enjoys being the administrative part of a creative team. Having worked in Bay Area theatre for over fourteen years, she currently provides support to

Dragon’s staff, cast and crew each season. Linda continues to work backstage with several theaters while maintaining a day job as an editor of children’s craft books.

K A R E N A LT R E E P I E M M E

(Associate Artistic Director - 2nd Stages) is an accomplished director, actor, dramaturg, workshop facilitator and acting instructor specializing in community access to the arts. Ms. Piemme spent twenty-one years with San Jose Repertory Theatre, where she was the director of outreach and resident dramaturg. She also served as the director of Red Ladder Theatre Company, a nationally-acclaimed, awardwinning resident outreach company, which empowers disenfranchised populations by helping them develop positive life skills through theatre. Ms. Altree Piemme is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association.

KIMBERLY WADYCKI (Managing

Director) graduated from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign with a bachelor’s degree in political science. While pursuing her degree, she was very active at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. She was the founding producer of On the Rocks, a series of student written, directed, and produced one-acts. She sat on the administrative board of the Krannert Center Student Association for three years and was the student representative on the search committee to hire the new executive director of the Krannert Center. After moving back to St. Louis, she was heavily involved with St. Louis Shakespeare and Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre where she worked as a stage manager, board member and production manager. After a six-year hiatus, Kim has “un-retired” to become active with Dragon Productions.

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