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CAST

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Sam.................................................................................Roy Eikleberry Kate............................................................................Alexandra Feifers Dolores..................................................................... Ayelet Firstenberg Madeline True.............................................................Kathryn Fox Hart Burrs.....................................................................Paul Grant Hovannes Oscar D'Armano........................................................James Mayagoitia Phil D'Armano.....................................................Zachariah Mohammed Nadine.................................................................................. Lizzie Moss Mae................................................................................... Lizzie O'Hara Queenie..........................................................................Jocelyn Pickett Max..................................................................................Jason Rehklau Eddie...............................................................Daniel Barrington Rubio Jackie...................................................................... Malakani Severson Black............................................................................ RaMond Thomas

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artistic director

Sara Altier

marketing manager

Daniel Cadigan

artistic associate

Joe D'Emilio

artistic associate

Roy Eikleberry

alumni outreach coordinator

Lee Haskin

volunteer coordinator

CREATIVE TEAM Director...................................................................................Jenn BeVard Music Director ............................................................David Aaron Brown Choreographer.................................................................. Alex Rodriguez Technical Director..............................................................Daniel Cadigan Costume Co-Designers.........................Sibilla Carini, Melissa Wortman Assistant Stage Manager............................................... Connie Carranza Lighting Designer................................................................... Joe D'Emilio Assistant Lighting Designer.......................................... Leonardo Hidalgo Production Manager............................................................ Laraine Gurke Sound Engineer..................................................................Anton Hedman Sound Designer.................................................... Theodore J.H. Hulsker Scenic Designer.........................................................................Erik LaDue Master Electrician..........................................................Kevin Landesman Fight Director..........................................................................Joshua Marx Props Designer.............................................................Anastasia Willison Stage Manager.............................................................................Alex Wolf Electricians................................................Justin DeCell, Laraine Gurke, Kevin Kilkenny, Aaron Mills Spot Operators.............................................Kevin Kilkenny, Aaron Mills

Alex Kirschner

production manager

Eliza Leoni

associate artistic director

Courtney Merrell

sponsorship coordinator

Zachariah Mohammed

social media coordinator

Ben Prince

artistic associate

Christen Sottolano

patron services manager

Alexis Wong

finance manager

Performed by arrangement with Music Theatre International.

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Performances:

May 20 to June 11, 2016 Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

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The performance runs approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes. There will be one intermission.

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“Queenie Was a Blonde”..........................Queenie, Burrs, Company “The Apartment”.......................................Queenie, Burrs, Company “Out of the Blue”........................................................ Queenie, Burrs “What a Party”.................................................................... Company “Raise the Roof”................................................. Queenie, Company “Look at Me Now”.......................................................................Kate “He Was Calm”................................................................... Company “Poor Child”...........................................Black, Burrs, Kate, Queenie “An Old-Fashioned Love Story”................................. Madeleine True “By Now the Room was Moving”......................................... Company “The Juggernaut”............................................................... Company “A Wild, Wild Party”............................................................. Company “Two of a Kind”................................................................ Eddie, Mae “Of All the Luck”.........................................................Black, Queenie “Maybe I Like It This Way”................................................... Queenie “What Is It About Her”................................................ Burrs, Queenie ACT TWO “The Life of the Party”................................................................Kate “Who Is This Man?”.............................................................. Queenie “The Gal for Me”...................................... Black, Queenie, Company “I'll Be Here”............................................................................. Black “Listen to Me”........................................Black, Burrs, Kate, Queenie “Let Me Drown”.............................................. Burrs, Kate, Company “The Fight”..........................Burrs, Eddie, Black, Queenie, Company “Tell Me Something”..................................................Queenie, Black “Come With Me”...................................... Black, Queenie, Company “Jackie's Last Dance”..............................................................Jackie “Make Me Happy ........................................... Black, Burrs, Queenie “How Did We Come to This?”.............................. Queenie, Company

ORCHESTRA Keyboard, Conductor.................................................David Aaron Brown Bass..............................................................................................Ian Earley Guitar........................................................................................Nick Schott Drums......................................................................................Chris Maneri Trumpet............................................................. Justin Smith, Jason Park Reeds I & II..........................Hermann Lara, Brian Lassiter, Eric Sheide

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES ROY EIKLEBERRY ( S a m )

is excited to be making his return to ROLT after appearing in Yeast Nation as Jan-theWretched. Originally from the Appalachian foothills of Ohio, Roy now regularly performs with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC) and other companies throughout the Bay Area including 42nd Street Moon, Opera Paralélle and Mojo Theatre. Recently, Roy appeared with the SFGMC, singing backup for Ms. Patti LuPone. He looks forward to this summer’s GALA Festival in Denver where he’ll sing with both SFGMC and the Lollipop Guild.

ALEXANDRA FEIFERS (Kate)

hails from the "land down under" and has performed in Beauty and the Beast, Children of Eden, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and The Wizard of Oz with Harvest Rain Theatre Company. She played Demeter in Cats and was awarded Del’Arte Chart Awards for her performances in Starlight Theatre Co-Op’s Forbidden Broadway and as Yente in Fiddler on the Roof for which she also garnered a Matilda Award nomination. Alexandra has played Gary Coleman in Avenue Q, Woman 2 in Songs For a New World, Melpomene in Xanadu and was in the ensemble in Little Shop of Horrors. She also wrote, produced and starred in the cabaret Wintour is Coming.

AYELET FIRSTENBERG

(Dolores) is thrilled to be taking part in her ﬁrst Ray of Light production! She recently moved to San Francisco from New York, where she performed in eight productions over two years, including two off-Broadway shows. Favorite credits include playing both Velma and Roxie in two separate productions of Chicago, Rizzo in Grease and Whore #2 in Les Misérables. ayeletfirstenberg.com

KATHRYN FOX HART (Madeline

True) is thrilled to be making her Ray of Light debut in The Wild Party! Hailing from the Bay Area, Ms. Hart received her bachelor of music from the Catholic University of America and has performed around the country, from New York to San Diego and places in between. Favorite productions include Sleeping Beauty Wakes (La Jolla Playhouse), Dogﬁght and Promises, Promises (San Francisco Playhouse), Dogﬁght (OMG, I Love That Show! Productions) and Myths & Hymns (Signature Theatre). Thank you to Megan, mom and dad!

PAUL GRANT HOVANNES (Burrs)

spent most of 2015 with Ray of Light Theatre, appearing as Kurt in Heathers: The Musical, as Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show, and putting his teenage angst to music in the Spotlight Cabaret Sings Like Teen Spirit. He had the honor of portraying Harvey Milk for selections from Andrew Lippa’s I Am Harvey Milk in the recent SFGMC concert Tales of Our City: Our Lives Our Heroes. He sends love and gratitude to everyone at ROLT, his SFGMC brothers, Sara Moore of Circus Center’s Clown Conservatory and the group of weirdos he’s proud to call family.

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JAMES MAYAGOITIA (Oscar

D’Armano) is thrilled to be performing in The Wild Party after performing in last season's productions of the awardwinning Heathers: The Musical (Boy 1) and The Rocky Horror Show (Phantom)! Previous credits include a Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Boxcar Theatre), Paul in A Chorus Line (San Francisco State University) and The Slave in Candide (Lamplighters Musical Theatre). James is a founding member of 11th Hour Ensemble, director, assistant director, 2016.05 • BAYSTAGES.COM

HART

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MAYAGOITIA

classically trained singer and a teaching artist. He holds a BA in drama (magna cum laude) from San Francisco State University.

and U/S: Kira in Xanadu (Guggenheim Entertainment). Many lovings and thanks to her brand new husband.

ZACHARIAH MOHAMMED (Phil

JOCELYN PICKETT (Queenie)

D’Armano) joined ROLT as an actor for 2015’s Heathers: The Musical. Recent credits include Gypsy and The Music Man (Contra Costa Musical Theatre), The Who’s Tommy (OMG, I Love That Show! Productions) and Anyone Can Whistle (St. Mary’s College). He is a graduate of St. Mary’s College of California and serves as ROLT’s social media coordinator.

LIZZIE MOSS (Nadine) was

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last seen on the ROLT stage as Heather McNamara in the regional premiere of Heathers: The Musical, for which she received a TBA Award nomination for Outstanding Performance in a Principal Role. Other credits include Yeast Nation (ROLT), Les Misérables, Dreamgirls and Evita (Broadway By the Bay), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Douglas Morrisson Theatre), Die Fledermaus, Iolanthe, Princess Ida and The Gondoliers (Lamplighters Musical Theatre) and Cinderella (Pacifica Spindrift Players). Lizzie is a graduate of the NYC campus of AMDA. Love and gratitude to all!

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Bay Area actress and recent transplant from NYC. She is thrilled to be joining the ROLT family! Her recent theatre credits include Dejanira in Mirandolina! Mistress of a Tuscan Inn and Erma in Anything Goes (Center REPertory Company), and Rachel/Roscoe in One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Squared). Other theatre credits include Penny in The Real Housewives Musical (Center REPertory Company), Deirdre in Mama’s Boys (Robert Moss Theatre), Penga in Freaky Pets Live! (Abandon Entertainment), Woman 2 in Becoming Britney (The Retro Dome) and Erato 4

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is thrilled to return to Ray of Light Theatre. Past roles include Heather Chandler in Heathers: The Musical, Violet in Violet (TBA Award, Outstanding Performance in a Principal Role), Magenta in The Rocky Horror, Show and Christine Colgate in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. By day, she is a drama specialist at Bullis Charter School. She hopes you enjoy the show! A huge thank you to Patrick.

JASON REHKLAU (Max) recently

graduated from San Jose State University with a BA in musical theatre. Jason was last seen as Tulsa in Gypsy (Contra Costa Musical Theatre), Tommy in The Who’s Tommy (OMG, I Love That Show! Productions), a sailor in Anything Goes (Center REPertory Company) and Marius in Les Misérables (Broadway By the Bay). Favorite roles include Spring Awakening (Melchior), Avenue Q (Princeton), Xanadu (Sonny) and A Chorus Line (Bobby, Mark). Special thanks to mom, dad, and grandma for their support.

DANIEL BARRINGTON RUBIO

(Eddie) trained at Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts (PCPA) and is excited to be making his Ray of Light debut. Recent credits include The Addams Family (Ensemble), Ring of Fire (Man 2), Urinetown (Officer Lockstock), West Side Story (Diesel), Les Misérables (Ensemble), Shrek The Musical (Ensemble), Fiddler on the Roof (Constable), The Wizard of Oz (Ensemble), Chicago (Ensemble), Once on This Island (Ensemble), Cabaret (Herr Schultz), The Fantasticks ( M o r t i m e r ) a n d Seussical (Horton). He would like to thank his friends and family for all their love and support.

MALAKANI SEVERSON (Jackie)

is ecstatic to make his Bay Area theatre debut with ROLT. Born and raised on Oahu, favorite theatre credits include Xanadu (Sonny Malone), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (William Barfee), South Paciﬁc (Billy Whitmore) and Legally Blonde (Carlos). Television and film credits include the indie films B.E. (Ben) and It’s Just Business (Logan), as well as a featured role on Hawaii 5-0 (Aaron Cole). He thanks his support system of loved ones - especially Bubba. He dedicates this performance to his late grandma whose love and presence lives on.

RAMOND THOMAS (Black)

has performed in Memphis the Musical as Delray, Thunder Knocking On The Door as Marvel Thunder, Night of the Living Dead as Ben, Hoodoo Love as Ace of Spaids, Working as Rex/ Utkarsh and Mitch Mahoney in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

ANDREW LIPPA (Book, Music,

Lyrics) was Tony-nominated for the music and lyrics The Addams Family. He wrote the music and lyrics for Big Fish and the words and music to the original theatrical oratorio I Am Harvey Milk, which received its world premiere in 2013 with the San Francisco Gay Mens’ Chorus, starring Mr. Lippa (as Harvey Milk) and Laura Benanti. He also wrote the music for the Broadway production of Aaron Sorkin’s play The Farnsworth Invention. Other musicals include the Drama Desk Award-winning musical The Wild Party (book, music and lyrics), A Little Princess (music), john & jen (music, book co-author), Asphalt Beach (music and lyrics) and You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (additional music and lyrics and arrangements). Mr. Lippa was music director for Kristin Chenoweth's sold-out shows at the Metropolitan Opera House, Carnegie Hall and other venues. Accolades include a Tony and Grammy nomination, the

Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation Award, ASCAP’s Richard Rodgers/New Horizons Award, the Drama Desk and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Mr. Lippa serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild and is a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Music.

JENN BEVARD ( D i r e c t o r )

received her MFA in directing from the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago where she directed and choreographed The Conduct of Life, Waiting for Lefty, Ghosts, The Lover, The Pillowman and The Four Twins by Copi. She has collaborated with the Lucky Plush Productions dance company and the Pavement Group, co-directed and choreographed Counterfeiters b y A a r o n We i s s m a n w i t h Dog & Pony Theatre Co. and worked on West Edge Opera’s production of Lulu at Oakland’s abandoned 16th Street Station. She is thrilled to be returning to direct The Wild Party after assisting on ROLT’s The Rocky Horror Show in 2015.

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DAVID AARON BROWN

(Music Director) is pleased to be returning to ROLT with this production after music directing The Rocky Horror Show with ROLT last year (SFBATCC nomination). A Bay Area native, his past music directing credits include Bridges, Grey Gardens ( T B A n o m i n e e , S F B AT C C winner), Blood Wedding (TBA nominee) and Mr. Irresistible. He is the resident music director at Menlo School and a graduate of Brown University, where he received the Weston Arts Award for Instrumental Performance (Piano). Next up is The Little Mermaid at Throckmorton Theatre.

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THOMAS

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He has acted for ROLT in The Rocky Horror Show (Rocky), Triassic Parq (Morgan Freeman/ Velociraptor of Science; TBA Award), Assassins (Zangara), The Who’s Tommy and Spotlight c a b a r e t s RANT: Take It or Leave It and Let Saigons Be Bygones. A l e x p e r f o r m e d in the national tour of Miss Saigon. Bay Area highlights include Evita (Che, TBA Award), Guys and Dolls (Nicely-Nicely Johnson), Cabaret (Emcee), Cats (Mr. Mistoffelees), Some Enchanted Evening a n d A Chorus Line (Al) with Broadway By the Bay, The Addams Family (Gomez), Mary Poppins (Bert) and Charlie Brown (Snoopy) with Berkeley Playhouse, Rent with Contra Costa Musical Theatre, Cabaret with Center REPertory Company, Legally Blonde and Into the Woods with Diablo Theatre Company, Xanadu with New Conservatory Theatre Center and Insigniﬁcant Others at Pier 39. Films include The Stranger in Us and Love, Concord. For Bam, Thuy and his PIC.

DANIEL CADIGAN (Technical

Director) has served as the resident technical director for ROLT since Assassins in 2011 and has been working in theater for over ten years. Past projects include The Wedding Singer, 42nd Street and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (San Mateo High School), Beauty and the Beast, Miss Saigon, and Ragtime (Broadway by the Bay) and The Color Purple, Rent, and The Crucible with the Department of Theater & Performance Studies at Stanford University.

SIBILLA CARINI (Costume Co-

Designer) is a San Francisco State alum and has been creating costumes in the Bay Area for several years. She is, as always, traveling between the worlds of theatre and ﬁlm, production design and costumes. After her return from New York, she dove head ﬁrst 6

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into costume building for many local companies including M a r i n T h e a t r e C o m p a n y, Lamplighters Musical Theatre and California Musical Theatre. Her passion lies in the world of historical representation, so the opportunity to co-design The Wild Party has been very exciting and working with Melissa is an honor. sibillacarini.com

J O E D’ E M I L I O ( L i g h t i n g

Designer) is based in the Bay Area and has designed for theatre, opera, and dance, and tours as the lighting designer for the American circus company Cirque Mechanics. Recent designs include Lizzie, The Rocky Horror Show, Heathers: The Musical (Ray of Light Theatre), The Letters (Aurora Theatre Company), West Side Story (Broadway By the Bay) and The Full Monty (Contra Costa Musical Theatre). Joe’s designs have been nominated for both TBA and SFBATCC awards, and in 2014, he won a TBA for his lighting design for Triassic Parq. Joe is a graduate of the theatre arts program at San Francisco State University where he received his BA in lighting design.

LARAINE GURKE (Production

Manager) is thrilled to be back at ROLT after stage managing last season’s Lizzie, 2014’s Yeast Nation and 2009’s The Who’s Tommy. Laraine is a freelance stage manager and technician who has worked at various companies throughout the Bay Area including We Players, Aurora Theatre Company, Center REPertory Company, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Broadway By the Bay, Killing My Lobster, Tranimation Studios, Berkeley Playhouse and Altarena Playhouse. Recently, she was backstage at Beach Blanket Babylon for two and a half years and is currently the resident stage manager for Musical Theatre Works, a theatre company for young actors in San Francisco.

ANTON HEDMAN ( S o u n d Engineer) has provided custom sound design, theater sound reinforcement and engineering, DJ services, and live/studio recording for theaters, clubs and corporate and private events since 1991. Recent theatreproductions include The Rocky Horror Show, Lizzie, Heathers: The Musical, Yeast Nation, Triassic Parq, Carrie, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Assassins and Sweeney Todd (Ray of Light Theatre), Footloose (Musical Theatre Works) and Rent (Notre Dame de Namur). Corporate events include Rhythm & Moves, Boris Goldmund Productions, the See Jane Run Half Marathon (AlamedaSeattle-Boise), Aruba Networks, Genentech and Paciﬁca Beach Coalition’s Earth Day celebration. soundproductions.biz

THEODORE J.H. HULSKER (Sound Designer) has been designing sound int he Bay Area since 2010. Selected past work includes Lizzie (Ray of Light Theatre), Woyzeck, Strangers, Babies and Antigonick (Shotgun Players), The Chairs (Cutting Ball Theater), Pansy and American Dream (New Conservatory Theatre Center), The Speakeasy (Boxcar Theatre), Company, Into the Woods, and Tree (San Francisco Playhouse), Great Big Also and Luster (Mugwumpin) and Sleuth (Center REPertory Company). He was the 2012 recipient of the Eric Landisman Fellowship for Emerging Designer. He is also a company member ofMugwumpin, a San Francisco theater company specializing in new and devised work. He also curates a monthly performance and potluck series at his home in North Oakland. theodore-hulsker.squarespace.com

ERIK LADUE (Scenic Designer) is a designer, installation artist and

dérive enthusiast. His Bay Area credits include Next to Normal, Superior Donuts, How The World Began and Late: A Cowboy Song (Custom Made Theatre Co.), Whale’s Wake, REDWOLF, Time Sensitive, Thru the Wall (Ragged Wing Ensemble), Year of the Rooster (Impact Theatre), Company, South Paciﬁc (Youth Musical Theatre Company), Blood Wedding (The Breadbox) and Charlotte’s Web (Marin Theatre Company). Erik also creates installations and found art pieces. erikladue.com

JOSHUA MARX (Fight Director) is a recent transplant from New York. A certified SAFD combatant, Joshua has done fight work all over the country, notably with Alabama Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In the Bay Area, Joshua has done fights for West Side Story (Broadway By the Bay, TBA nominee) and Heathers: The Musical with ROLT (TBA nominee). As an actor, Joshua is a proud member of Actor’s Equity, performing with professional theaters across the United States and abroad. Joshua also runs and manages FloodLight Productions, which specializes in producing interactive, immersive theatre. He is currently directing Oklahoma! at Broadway By the Bay. All his love to his wife, Lizzie (playing Mae on stage). j-marx.com.

ANASTASIA WILLISON (Props Designer) is thrilled to make her debut with ROLT as the props designer for The Wild Party. A recent graduate of San Francisco State University, Anastasia holds a BA in technical theatre production, design and scenic painting. While in school, she assisted with scenic painting and designed props and scenery for productions such as Dead’s Man Cell Phone and Into the Woods. Since then, she has worked

with IATSE Local 16, assisting with props at various theaters including A.C.T. and the Curran. In her last production, The Zoo Story, she collaborated on shadow design and operation for the Aluminous Theatre Company.

ALEX WOLF (Stage Manager) is a graduate of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, and is happy to return to the Bay Area as a professional freelance stage manager. Her stage management work spans six years and includes Los Angeles-based companies such as The Industry LA and The Paciﬁc Theatre Company, as well as Broadway By the Bay locally. Her previous work includes stage managing for Tony Award winner Mel Shapiro and Urban Theater Movement’s Richard Martinez. Alex would like to thank her family and boyfriend for always being supportive of her career in the arts.

MELISSA WORTMAN (Costume Co-Designer) last designed for ROLT's Bay Area premiere of Lizzie. A San Francisco native, Melissa has designed costumes for numerous Bay Area theater and dance companies, including 30+ productions for Lamplighters Music Theatre, A.C.T., Marin Ballet, Dance Through Time, Abydos Theater, Allegro Theater Company and Kitka. Melissa is celebrating her tenth year as resident costume designer for the Bracebridge Dinner, held annually at the historic Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite. She is the recipient of numerous SFBATCC and DramaLogue awards and nominations. She has also constructed costumes for Lucasﬁlms’ Return of the Jedi, Frank Zappa, Oakland Ballet, Woodminster Summer Musicals, Festival Opera, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco Miniature Theatre and Beach Blanket Babylon.

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