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1 Noises off farce for better and for worse It s the best farce of the 20th century, hands down. Like Shakespeare, Frayn takes a farcical situation and adds about five or six layers to it, almost geometrically. That makes things far more complicated and far funnier. 12 APPLAUSE denvercenter.org Michael Frayn s takes no prisoners except, perhaps, the audience by Dan Sullivan Kent Thompson Slamming doors! Falling trousers! Naughty puns! Don t you love farce? Not necessarily. Two hours of what the Brits call a saucy bedroom romp let s call it Hold Onto Your Shorts! can, in my experience, set off a loathing that extends from the jokes to the audience (for laughing at them) to the theatrical process itself. What a childish business it suddenly appears to be. All these people dashing around in costumes, yelling stupid things at each other! Laurence Olivier was right the whole thing s a pack of lies. Who needs actors? Who needs plays? Why don t we all stay home and read novels? Calm down, you tell yourself. Everything in the universe has a purpose, even British farce. This just happens to be a terrible one. Not that nine out of ten farces aren t terrible; but that doesn t invalidate the entire form. It s as ancient a form, after all, as its revered cousins, Tragedy and Comedy. Think of Aristophanes; think of Shakespeare; think of Molière. They all wrote farces. The Importance of Being Earnest is a farce, of sorts. So is Ionesco s The Bald Soprano. Feydeau s farces are so funny that it s frightening; you can see why he ended up in the madhouse. Moreover, great farces have been written in our time, even in London. Michael Frayn s seems as perfect an example of the form as when it opened in 1982, and it will be just as funny when it s as old as Charley s Aunt. is both a farce and an anti-farce. Frayn seems to have started it as a kind of a revenge play, a way of getting back at the theatre, not for the damage he had suffered at its hands then as now, it s given him a satisfying career but for being such a neurotic milieu: so fraught, so obsessive, so full of itself, so... human. In the same spirit, a good son might launch into a memoir of his frustrating, unapproachable father that turns into a tribute to him. Frayn doesn t so much rip the lid off the theatre as document the popular suspicion that the stage attracts people who are basically crazy, but whose pluck you ve got to admire. Following a company of ungifted players as they drag a frowsy piece of fluff called

2 Nothing On through the provinces, Frayn spares us not a single character flaw, temper tantrum, botched line or misplaced prop. If it s not the plate of slippery sardines, it s the disappearing telephone. Meanwhile someone s freaking out backstage. (Act Two lets us watch the havoc from back there.) By Act Three, Nothing On is still crawling forward, the play that won t die, but the actors have entered a nightmare zone where nothing works and no one remembers what comes next. Keep going! they tell themselves. It s the spirit that brought London through the Blitz, but it s not going to help this gang. All this may not look like much on paper. It certainly didn t look like much on film, when director Peter Bogdanovich tried to put on the screen in the early 90s perhaps the worst movie adaptation of all time. Why, then, you may wonder has Frayn s play enjoyed four long runs in London and on Broadway, and a growing reputation as a classic? Isn t it basically a one-joke play? Possibly. But then Jack Benny could have been defined as a one-joke comedian. What counts is the richness of the joke. Within the margins of the theatre (farce needs margins), this one clicks on every level, starting with the ground floor. We are dealing with low comedy here, and Frayn offers us two things we re not supposed to laugh at in real life: a parade of other people s blunders plus the image of a complicated social structure gradually coming to utter and complete ruin, à la HMS Titanic. We can accept the carnage in good conscience because (a) it s only a play and (b) we ve all been there. Does that seem like a contradiction? Not at all. Here s how Kent Thompson, director of The Denver Center s production of Noises Off, puts it: It s the best farce of the 20th century, hands down. Like Shakespeare, Frayn takes a farcical situation and adds about five or six layers to it, almost geometrically. That makes things far more complicated and far funnier. Not only are they doing a bad play, they ve chosen it for all the wrong reasons; they ve rehearsed it ineptly; they re faced with a deadline, and they ve cast it with probably less than stellar people. Probably marks Thompson as a gentleman, as does his reflection that Frayn shows his characters a certain amount of respect. The script can be caustic, but by and large it s a fairly loving tribute to theatre people. We ve all had moments in our theatre careers when we ve behaved as badly as this, when our judgment was this poor. But everyone around us wasn t doing the same [wrong] thing at the same time. This applies to anyone above the age of reason. Even as we re laughing our heads off, the havoc in brings to mind certain real-life incidents from the Michael Frayn past memories that bless and burn, even if they didn t, thank God, happen to us. Politics aside, I ve been fond of our President s father ever since he threw up in the lap of the President of Japan at a state dinner. Pure embarrassment. Then there was the Sunday matinee at a certain well-known resident theatre, not in Denver, where two of the three members of the cast walked out at intermission, leaving the audience to deal with virtually a new cast in Act Two. How do you explain that over the PA? CERN I am leaving out certain scenes from my own life, details not available on request. How could I have done that? What possessed me to say that? Still, one survives. The fear and pity that Aristotle thought peculiar to tragedy also can be purged by a rip-roaring farce, sending the spectator home with an odd feeling of relief. Comedy, they say, is panic leavened by time. also may send you home spent with laughter. Thompson notes that it s a bear to rehearse, especially the splitsecond counterpoint of the backstage scenes. Frayn doesn t ask for a second intermission, but Thompson s throwing one in, both to give the audience the fun of watching Vicki Smith s set do a 180-degree turn and to give everyone a chance to recover some composure. Then it s back to the fray. Ladies and gentlemen, would you please take your seats? The curtain will rise in one minute. Or ten minutes. Or not at all, if our poor players are lucky, but of course they re not. In Noises Off, the show must go on unfortunately. n Dan Sullivan directs the O Neill Theater Center s National Critics Institute, teaches journalism at the University of Minnesota, and formerly reviewed theatre for the Los Angeles Times. Oct 3 Nov 1 Stage Theatre Behind-the-Scenes Perspective October 3, 6pm, The Jones Theatre Noises off Sponsored by HealthONE and Comcast Producing Partners: Margot & Allan Frank and Judi & Bob Newman Tickets: Outside the Denver calling area: TTY: Also available through TicketsWest at all King Soopers or buy & print online at APPLAUSE 13

3 EXECUTIVE STAFF THE GRAND THEATRE Weston-super-Mare Is a Member of the Grand Group Grand Theatre WESTON-SUPER-MARE Proprietors GRAND THEATRE (Weston-super-Mare) Limited General Manager: E. E. A. Gradshaw Commencing Tuesday 15th, January for one week only Otstar Productions Ltd present DOTTY OTLEY BELINDA BLAIR GARRY LEJEUNE in NOTHING ON by ROBIN HOUSEMONGER with SELSDON MOWBRAY BROOKE ASHTON FREDERICK FELLOWES Directed by LLOYD DALLAS Designed by GINA STAIRWELL Lighting by CHUCK SPANNER Costumes by PATSY BUTTON WORLD PREMIERE PRIOR TO NATIONAL TOUR Cast in order of appearance Mrs. Clackett Roger Tramplemain Vicki Philip Brent Flavia Brent Burglar Sheikh DOTTY OTLEY GARRY LEJEUNE BROOKE ASHTON FREDERICK FELLOWES BELINDA BLAIR SELSDON MOWBRAY FREDERICK FELLOWES The action takes place in the living-room of the Brent s country home on a Wednesday afternoon For OTSTAR PRODUCTIONS LTD Company and Stage Manager TIM ALLGOOD Assistant Stage Manager POPPY NORTON-TAYLOR Production Credits Sardines by Sardine Services, Miss Ashton s lenses by Double Vision Optical Ltd, Antique silverware and cardboard boxes by Mrs. J. G. H. Norton-Taylor, Stethoscope and hospital trolley by Sevem Surgical Supplies, Stratjacket by Kumly Restraints Ltd, Coffins by G. Ashforth and Sons We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of EUROPEAN BREWERIES in sponsoring this production.

4 BEHIND THE DRESSING ROOM DOORS DOTTY OTLEY makes a welcome return to the stage to create the role of Mrs. Clackett after playing Mrs. Hackett, Britain s most famous lollipop lady ( Ooh, I can t ardly old me lolly up! ) in over 320 episodes of TV s ON THE ZEBRAS. She was born in Malta, the only daughter of Lt. Cdr. Clive Otley, R.N., D.S.M, and trained at the Estelle Birkwood School of Drama and Allied Arts, winning the Bronze Medal, and going on to the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, where she gained invaluable experience as ASM in successful productions of AS YOU DESIRE and STARCHED APRONS. Understudying Bee Duffell in HADDOCK S EYES at the New Lindsey Theatre, Notting Hill Gate, and Margaret Lockwood in PETER PAN at the Scala, was followed by The King s Theatre, Peebles for a season, and then the Duke s Players at Lyme Regis for the better part of two seasons, and this in turn led to a prolonged stay in Australia, where she enjoyed some of the biggest successes of her career. When she gets the time she intends writing her memoirs, she says. BELINDA BLAIR (Flavia Brent) has been on the stage since the age of four, when she made her debut in SINBAD THE SAILOR at the Old Croydon Hippodrome as one of Miss Toni Tanner s Ten Tapping Tots. She subsequently danced her way around this country, Southern Africa, and the Far East in shows like ZIPPEDY-DOO-DA!, and HERE COMES LES GIRLS! A damaged tendon led to her first straight parts in GOOD TIME GIRL, LADIES OF THE NIGHT, and RING TWICE FOR RITA. More recently she has been seen in such comedy hits as DON T MR. DUDDLE!, WHO S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?, and TWICE TWO IS SEX. She is married to scriptwriter Terry Wough, who has contributed lead-in material to most of TV s chat shows. They have two sons and three retrievers. GARRY LEJEUNE (Roger Tramplemain) was twice winner of the Rose Bruford Medal for Effort. His many successful tours have brought him to Weston-super-Mare only once before, when he was starring in THE ADVENTURES OF A WINDOW DRESSER. He has made innumerable television appearances, but is perhaps best-known as Cornetto, the ice-cream salesman who stirs the hearts of all the lollipop ladies in ON THE ZEBRAS. Recently made his big screen debut in UP THE VIRGIN SOLDIERS, for which he was nominated as Best Male Newcomer under Forty in any British Low-Budget Comedy Film by readers of the SUN newspaper. SELSDON MOWBRAY (Burglar) first trod the boards in A MID- SUMMER NIGHT S DREAM with the Ben Greet Players, with whom he toured for three years, playing among other roles, Moth, Mustardseed, and Nerissa (!) After war service in the Artists Rifles, outstanding seasons with various repertory companies across the length and breadth of Great Britain led to his first West End play, KELLY S EYE. Then alfresco in Regent s Park for several seasons, playing leads. To Stratford thence for Mercutio, King John, and the Porter in MACBETH. To Hollywood for several good supporting roles, including Stand-In to Robert Newton. Back home he played King Lear in Portsmouth, and joined the BBC Rep for two months in Great War No. Two saw him back in Khaki. Invalided out in 1940 he continued to serve by joining Ensa, and performing all over the world in many different Theatres of War. To Dublin in 1946, where he set up his own touring company playing the Classics, and rivaling the great Agnew Macmaster. Returned to England in 1952 and set up his own tour a revival of MR. CINDERS. Since then, apart from an occasional excursion to tread the green, he has been busy writing his autobiography, which he is thinking of titling HANGING ON THE WALL. BROOKE ASHTON (Vicki) is probably best know as the girl wearing nothing but good, honest, natural froth in the Hauptbahnhofbrau lager commercial. But she has enjoyed a flourishing stage career, extending from a widely acclaimed Dandini in Hull to six months in the Lebanon with PIXIE PEARLS. Her television appearances range from Girl at Infants School in ON THE ZEBRAS to Girl in Strip Joint in ON PROBATION. Cinemagoers saw her in THE GIRL IN ROOM 14, where she played the Girl in Room 312. FREDERICK FELLOWES (Philip Brent) comes from a theatrical family his parents were a popular specialty dance act of the thirties and forties, The Funny Fellowes. He taught at a prep school near Hayward s Heath before bowing to family tradition and joining the Osmosis Players. There followed successful seasons in Nairobi, Ventnor, and Southwold, and he was most recently seen in the controversial all-male version of THE TROJAN WOMEN. He is happily married, and lives near Crawley, where his wife breeds pedigree dogs. If she ever leaves me, he says, it will probably be for an Irish wolfhound! ROBIN HOUSEMONGER (Author) was born in Worcester Park, Surrey, into a family unremarkable in every way except for an aunt with red hair who used to sing all the high twiddly bits from THE MERRY WIDOW over the tea table. He claims to have been the world s most unsuccessful gents hosiery wholesaler, and began writing to fill the long hours between one hosiery order and the next. He turned this experience into his very first play, SOCKS BEFORE MARRIAGE, which ran in the West End for nine years. Several subsequent plays have been produced, and at least one of them broke box office records in Perth, Western Australia. NOTHING ON is his seventeenth play. LLOYD DALLAS (Director) read English at Cambridge, and stagecraft at the Salisbury. A Commonwealth Scholarship took him to Princeton, where he spent his time commuting to New York to see Miller and Musicals on Broadway, and Lee Strasberg and Tallulah Bankhead at a party on East 10 th St. Since then Lloyd has directed plays in most parts of Britain, winning the South of Scotland Critics Circle Special Award in In 1972 he directed a successful season for the National Theatre of Sri Lanka. In recent years Lloyd has probably become best-known for his brilliant series of Shakespeare in Summer productions in the parks of the inner London boroughs. TIM ALLGOOD (Company Stage Manager) trained for a career in Market Research, and became interested in the theatre only through a chance holiday visit to a local production of THERE S A GIRL IN MY SOUP. He had got himself taken on by the company as Assistant Stage Manager before he realized the girl in question was not only in the soup, but also married, with two growing children! During a production of HAMLET at the Lyceum, Portsmouth, he took over the part of Polonius at short notice, but subsequently found himself more in demand on the technical side. His most recent job was with BETROTHED, a thriller by Sam Brennicle, both on the tour prior to its West End opening in December, 1980, and again on the tour which followed the conclusion of its successful West End run in January, POPPY NORTON-TAYLOR (Assistant Stage Manager) is from a family found more often on the boards of leading companies than on the boards with touring companies. Her father is a chairman of European Breweries, but has been terribly sweet about it all so far! After schools in Cheltenham and Montreux she found life far too full to leave time for work. So this is her first job and she is enjoying the challenge enormously. Her hobbies include riding, ski-ing, tennis, reading good books, and loving anything small and furry.

5 NOISES OFF DENVER CENTER THEATRE COMPANY Resident Professional Theatre Kent Thompson, Artistic Director by Michael Frayn Directed by Kent Thompson Scenic Design by Vicki Smith Costume Design by Kevin Copenhaver Lighting Design by Charles R. MacLeod Sound Design by Craig Breitenbach Fight Direction by Geoffrey Kent Vocal and Dialect Coaching by Michael Cobb CAST Dotty Otley/Mrs. Clackett... Kate Skinner* Garry Lejeune/Roger Tramplemain... David Ivers* Brooke Ashton/Vicki... Kate MacCluggage* Lloyd Dallas (Director)...Sam Gregory* Poppy Norton-Taylor (ASM)... Morgan Hallett* Tim Allgood (SM)...Michael Keyloun* Frederick Fellowes/Philip Brent...Brent Harris* Belinda Blair/Flavia Brent...Megan Byrne* Selsdon Mowbray (Burglar)...Philip Pleasants* ACT ONE: The living room of the Brent s country home. Wednesday afternoon. (Grand Theatre, Weston-super-Mare, Monday, January 14) 10-minute intermission ACT TWO: The living room of the Brent s country home. Wednesday afternoon. (Theatre Royale, Goole, Wednesday matinee, February 13) 10-minute intermission ACT THREE: The living room of the Brent s country home. Wednesday afternoon. (Municipal Theatre, Stockton-on-Tees, Saturday, April 6)

6 PRODUCTION STAFF Production Manager Edward Lapine Stage Manager Christopher C. Ewing* Assistant Stage Managers Mark D. Leslie*, Kurt Van Raden* NOISES OFF *Members of Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. +Mat Hostetler and Leigh Miller appear in this production courtesy of Actors Equity Association. On, the Denver Center Theatre Company s Production Staff is responsible for costumes, wigs, lighting, props, furniture, scenic construction, scenic painting, sound and special effects. UNDERSTUDIES Mat Hostetler +(Lloyd Dallas), Kate Hurster (Belinda Blair/Flavia Brent), Chris Kendall (Selsdon Mowbray), Billie McBride* (Dotty Otley/Mrs. Clackett), Leigh Miller +(Garry Lejeune/Roger Tramplemain, Tim Allgood), Melissa Ortiz (Brooke Ashton/Vicki, Poppy Norton-Taylor) is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. THE STAGE THEATRE October 3 - November 1, /09 Season Sponsors

7 executive staff Artistic Director Kent Thompson leads the Rocky Mountain West s flagship professional resident theatre into Season 30 with a renewed excitement and an invigorating challenge to climb to the summit and explore the future of American theatre in the pioneering spirit of the West. Since the Tony Award-winning company s opening performance in 1979, Denver Center for the Performing Arts Founder Donald R. Seawell, Founding Artistic Director Edward Payson Call and long-time Artistic Director Donovan Marley nurtured a commitment to classics, the best of contemporary plays and the development of new works. In his first three seasons, Kent broadened artistic offerings to include more plays by women and Latinos. The new season will be produced by an expanded and more diverse resident company of artists, craftspeople and managers, reflecting the many cultures and communities of Colorado and the Rockies. The company s most exciting artistic endeavor is the expansion of the new play program. Building upon the past successes of the Denver Center Theatre Company s new play program from Quilters to The Laramie Project, 1001, Lydia, Plainsong and Our House Kent is positioning The Denver Center to take the lead as a center of great new American writing for the stage, specifically through the creation of plays that explore what it means to be an American in the 21st century. This new challenge is especially evident in the company s new annual showcase for its commissioned plays, the Colorado New Play Summit, which in February of 2009 will feature two world premiere productions. To insure the futures of the American theatre and the Colorado New Play Summit, new plays by both established and emerging playwrights have been commissioned by the Denver Center Theatre Company this season. EXECUTIVE STAFF Kent Thompson Artistic Director Kent is in his fourth season as Artistic Director of the Denver Center Theatre Company. In his first three Denver seasons he directed productions of Plainsong, Irving Berlin s White Christmas, Amadeus, King Lear, A Flea in Her Ear and Measure for Measure. Two of Kent s major accomplishments since moving to Denver have been the establishment of the Women s Voices Fund, endowing the commissioning and development of new plays by women at The Denver Center, and the Colorado New Play Summit, quickly becoming a premier national festival for new American plays. Prior to moving to Denver he was Producing Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF) for 16 years. For ASF, he directed the world premieres of Disguises, Aaronville Dawning, A Lesson Before Dying, Lizard and productions of Macbeth, Sheppey,, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, A Man for All Seasons, Richard II, The Circle, Antony and Cleopatra, Oliver!, Othello, The Tempest, Hamlet, The Cherry Orchard, Peter Pan, Twelfth Night, Season s Greetings and Big River among others. His production of Macbeth was selected by Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), to tour to 13 military bases throughout the United States in the fall of In 1991 Kent created the Southern Writers Project (SWP), a program designed to commission and develop new plays that presented 16 world premieres during his tenure, including plays by Craig Warner, James McLure, Kia Corthron, Romulus Linney, Keith Glover, Carlyle Brown, Barbara Lebow, Doris Baizley and Regina Taylor. He served for eight years on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-profit professional theatres, also serving as its president for three years. He has served on peer review panels for the NEA (also chair), TCG, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Fulbright Scholars Program, The Wallace Funds, The Doris Duke Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Bruce K. Sevy Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Play Development As the Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Play Development, Bruce directed last season s Pride and Prejudice and Doubt while expanding the company s new play program the Colorado New Play Summit and supervising the commissioning of new plays from 18 recognized and rising playwrights. Bruce has directed many productions for DCTC including All My Sons, Master Class, Mrs. Warren s Profession, A Christmas Carol, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, Molly Sweeney, Amy s View, Valley Song, the premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher s Pierre, Dinner With Friends, and The Cripple of Inishmaan. He has directed for Arizona Theatre Company, The Cleveland Play House, Lark Play Development Center, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Northlight Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Eugene O Neill Theatre Center, Pioneer Theatre Company, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space and Intiman Theatre in Seattle, the Kimo Theatre in Albuquerque, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Capital Repertory Theatre and the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. His production of 2 Pianos 4 Hands has been seen at more than 20 theatres around the country, including

8 the DCTC in He has served on panels for the Washington State Arts Commission, Artists Trust, TCG, Massachusetts Cultural Council, ATHE and has been a reader for the O Neill Theatre Center. Charles Varin General Manager In his third season in Denver, Charles is General Manager for the Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC). He and his team are responsible for overseeing the financial and administrative activities of the DCTC, creating and executing employment contracts and coordinating the travel, housing and other needs of the Company s resident and guest artists. Prior to DCTC, Charles spent 12 years working for Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York. During his tenure, Geva opened a second stage, grew from seven to 11 full productions per season and saw a significant increase in education and new play program activity. Edward Lapine Production Manager Ed is in his fourth season as Production Manager at Denver Center, directing the company s design, shop and technical areas. Prior to moving to Denver, Ed had completed ten years as Production Manager at the American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) in San Francisco. His other professional work included positions in technical management at The Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California. Ed has worked in film production in Southern California and also worked outside of the arts as a partner in a company developing products in the nanotechnology field. He holds a BA degree from Williams College and an MFA degree in Production Management from the Yale School of Drama. Jeff Hovorka Director of Media & Marketing A native of Denver, Jeff is the Director of Media and Marketing for The Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He holds a BA in Journalism and English from Benedictine College and has been involved in some aspect of theatre all of his life. Jeff s background includes television and advertising agency work, but he has worked in marketing and public relations at the DCPA for more than 15 years. In those years he served under Denver Center Attractions (DCA) touring Broadway division as the Director of Media and Marketing, as Associate Producer for Always Patsy Cline and handled press and/or marketing for Patsy, Forever Plaid, Forbidden Broadway, The World Goes Round, Swingtime Canteen, The Taffetas, The Last Five Years and Denver s longest-running musical, I Love You, You re Perfect, Now Change, all at The Garner Galleria Theatre. During his tenure with DCA, he also held the position of General Manager of The Galleria Theatre. Jeff feels blessed at having the opportunity to combine the things he loves the most marketing and promoting live theatre in his hometown. Daniel Renner Education Director; Dean, National Theatre Conservatory Daniel s career has spanned acting, directing, producing, teaching and arts administration in regional theatres throughout the country. He has worked in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and many regional theatres including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC, and was an associate artist and director with the Intiman Theatre in Seattle for 10 years. Daniel also serves on the boards of TCG and ASSITEJ/USA, and editorial boards of The Teaching Artist Journal and TYA Today. He is the recipient of a citation from The Kennedy Center for his contributions to arts education, received a TCG Observership Grant for work in diversity programming and new theatre education models, and was honored by PBS and major Washington corporations for innovation in education. A R T I S T I C S T A F F Marco Barricelli Director: Glengarry Glen Ross Marco is the Artistic Director at Shakespeare Santa Cruz. He is making his Denver Center debut directing his second production for Kent Thompson. The first was The Miracle Worker in Alabama. His acting credits include Tamara on Broadway and Agamemnon off- Broadway. He was an Associate Artist (actor/director/teacher) at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco for eight years. As an actor there he appeared in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Enrico IV, American Buffalo, The Real Thing, Moon for the Misbegotten, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Invention of Love, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Rose Tattoo, among many others. Theatre credits also include Silence with the Japanese theatre company Subaru in Tokyo; the title roles of Cyrano de Bergerac, Hamlet, Henry V, and Richard III, and many other plays, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; and productions at The Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, Long Wharf Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Kenyon Festival Theatre, among others. Screen credits include The Book of Daniel (recurring character), executive staff artistic staff

9 artistic staff L.A. Law, and Romeo and Juliet. Marco taught acting for a decade at various institutions, including the international school of theatre Prima del Teatro in Tuscany, Italy. He is a Fox Fellow and a graduate of the Juilliard School. Michael Cobb Vocal and Dialect Coach: Michael was the vocal coach for the Denver Center productions of Plainsong, Pride and Prejudice, King Lear, Measure for Measure, September Shoes, A Flea in Her Ear and A Christmas Carol, and is the Head of Voice and Speech at the National Theatre Conservatory. At the American Repertory Theatre he coached under directors Robert Woodruff (Oedipus), Mark Wing- Davey (The Provok d Wife) and Martha Clarke (A Midsummer Night s Dream), as well as on its co-production with the 2005 Tony Award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune of The Miser. As a performer, Michael has appeared in leading and featured roles at Trinity Repertory Company, where he was a member of the resident acting company under Adrian Hall and Anne Bogart, at the Dallas Theatre Center, at TheatreWorks in Colorado Springs, and on PBS, among many others. He has taught at the ART/MXAT Institute, the American Studio of the MXAT, Rhode Island College, Saint Lawrence University and the State University of New York at Potsdam. Michael is a graduate of the ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training and Trinity Rep Conservatory, and holds a Master of Arts in Theatre Studies from Brown University. Sarah Felder Vocal and Dialect Coach: Glengarry Glen Ross Sarah hails from the Big Apple, but has roots in the midwest. Her NYC work on Broadway includes Cabaret, A View from the Bridge, The Sound of Music and The Crucible. NY Public Theatre including its Shakespeare Training course, Kushner s The Dybuk, and at The Delacourt Cymbeline directed by Andre Serban, Taming of the Shrew, Tartuffe and Julius Caesar. Off Broadway credits include the premiere of Steven Sondheim s Saturday Night at Second Stage, A Flea in Her Ear directed by Bill Irwin, and Lobby Hero directed by Mark Brokaw. Also in NY, Puddin Head Wilson, Master Harold and Othello, for The Acting Company. Six years at The Shakespeare Theatre in DC include Volpone, Mourning Becomes Electra, Comedy of Errors, Love s Labors, All s Well, Othello with Patrick Stewart, and Peer Gynt. Five years at Arena Stage includes the original House Arrest by Anna Deavere Smith, Ghosts, Uncle Vanya, Oyamo s I AM A MAN, Keith Glover s Thunder Knocking, and Candide. Regional theatre work includes The Guthrie with Mr. Peter s Connections an Arthur Miller Premiere and Ah,Wilderness!, Long Wharf, Mark Taper and The Alley Theatre. Most currently she has served at Alabama Shakespeare Festival for six years as Voice Consultant and on MFA Faculty. Trained at Juilliard, she has served on the MFA Faculties of NYU and Catholic University. In NY, she began as an actress, and created the role of Siobhan Ryan, on ABC s Ryan s Hope. Geoffrey Kent Fight Director: Geoffrey s prior stagings with the Denver Center Theatre Company include Plainsong, King Lear, 1001, The Pillowman, Season s Greetings, The Ladies of the Camellias, Jesus Hates Me, A Flea in Her Ear, Dirty Story, King Hedley II, The Lonesome West and A Skull in Connemara. Other Fight Direction includes Three Musketeers, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It and Othello for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Macbeth and Zorro for TheatreWorks; Carmen, Don Giovanni and Porgy and Bess with Opera Colorado; Lieutenant of Inishmore and Bug with Curious Theatre Company; Much Ado About Nothing for the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis; Romeo and Juliet with the Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet; and Gloriana for Central City Opera. For 2007, Geoffrey was the The Denver Post reader s choice for Theatre Person of the Year. Geoffrey is the president of the Society of American Fight Directors and teaches for the National Theatre Conservatory. Douglas Langworthy Dramaturg: Glengarry Glen Ross, The Trip to Bountiful Douglas was Dramaturg on the Denver Center Theatre Company productions of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Lydia, The Diary of Anne Frank and You Can t Take It With You. Prior to Denver, Douglas served as Dramaturg and Director of Play Development at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ for two years and Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) for seven. While at OSF he developed a new adaptation of Dumas The Three Musketeers with Linda Alper and Penny Metropulos and a new translation of Brecht s The Good Person of Szechuan, both for the 1999 season. In the 2004 season, he collaborated with director Ken Albers on a new adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt s The Visit. In 2007 he collaborated with Penny Metropulos and Linda Alper to write lyrics and book for the new musical Tracy s Tiger, based on the novella by William Saroyan, with music by Sterling Tinsley. Douglas has translated 15 plays from the German, which include Spring

10 Awakening by Frank Wedekind, Medea by Hans Henny Jahnn, and The Prince of Homburg, Penthesilea and Amphitryon (National Theatre Translation Fund Award). He also was the dramaturg for Target Margin Theater in New York, which produced his translation of Goethe s Faust. For Target Margin, he also co-wrote the libretto for The Sandman, a new opera with music by Thomas Cabaniss. Kent Thompson Director: (See bio under Executive Staff) D E S I G N E R S Craig Breitenbach Sound Designer: Craig s previous design work for the Denver Center Theatre Company includes 3 Mo Divas, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Irving Berlin s White Christmas, Third, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, King Lear, A Christmas Carol, Amadeus, Crowns, The Clean House, Measure for Measure, A Flea in Her Ear, Fire on the Mountain, Oedipus Rex, The Misanthrope, The Three Sisters, Love s Labor s Lost, The Skin of Our Teeth, Betrayal, Spinning Into Butter, Dinner With Friends, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Laramie Project, The Show-Off, 1933, and The Little Foxes. Last season Craig received a Henry Award for his work on Plainsong. Kevin Copenhaver Costume Designer: Kevin designed the costumes for A Funny Thing Forum, Living Out, A Christmas Carol, Fire on the Mountain, Boston Marriage, Dirty Story, Blithe Spirit, Lobby Hero, Blue/Orange, Almost Heaven, Scapin, The Miser, the world premieres of Jesus Hates Me, Bernice/Butterfly, Pierre, Inna Beginning, The Elevation of Thieves, The Servant of Two Masters, was the costume and hat designer for Crowns, was the costume and mask designer for Oedipus Rex, and was Mask and Armor Design Assistant to Dionysis Fotopoulos on Tantalus. He has been with the Company for 19 seasons serving as Costume Crafts Director and a costume designer. Kevin holds a degree in Theatre Design from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and is a graduate of the Centro Maschere e Strutture Gestuali in Padua, Italy where he studied with master Commedia Dell Arte maskmaker, Donato Sartori. Additional costume design work in Colorado includes Smokey Joe s Café, Colorado Catechism, The Underpants, Love, Janis, Dinner With Friends, Lobby Hero, The Syringa Tree and How I Learned to Drive. He recently designed Dream a Little Dream: The Nearly True Story of the Mamas and the Papas at The Cleveland Play House. Jason Ducat Sound Designer: Glengarry Glen Ross Jason has just received his MFA in sound design from Purdue University. Design credits from Purdue include Marat/Sade,, Seven Guitars, The Winter s Tale, and The 2005 Fall DanceWorks. Before going back to school Jason spent five years as the Sound Engineer for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, in addition to freelancing as a sound designer around the Chicago area. Other sound design credits include Lab Coats on Clouds for the Prague Quadrennial, The Princess and the Pea and The Little Mermaid at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Elemental Theatre Company, Sideways Stories from Wayside School at Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, The Importance of Being Earnest at The Simple Theatre, Tribulation and the Demolition Squad at Chicago Dance Crash, A Midsummer Night s Dream and Dancing at Lughnasa at The University of South Florida. Bill Forrester Scenic Designer: Glengarry Glen Ross Bill is happy to be returning to the Denver Center where he designed All My Sons. Bill has designed Season s Greetings, Steel Magnolias, Shirley Valentine, All My Sons and The Real Thing for Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Light Up the Sky for Alliance Theatre; Shadowlands, Dracula, A Midsummer Night s Dream, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Valley Song, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Art, My Fair Lady, Much Ado About Nothing, Oh Coward, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, and The Pajama Game for Arizona Theatre Company; A Marvelous Party for Geva Theatre; Guys and Dolls and Pirates of Penzance for Kansas City Rep; Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for Portland Center Stage; Story Theatre for Yale Repertory Theatre; 19 productions for Utah Shakespearean Festival; and more than 80 productions for A Contemporary Theatre, The Empty Space, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children s Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle where he resides. Future projects include The Most Happy Fella for the Indiana University School of Music and The Importance of Being Earnest for The Village Theatre in Seattle. artistic staff DESIGNERS

11 DESIGNERS York Kennedy Lighting Designer: Glengarry Glen Ross York s designs have been seen in theatres across America and Europe including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, The Old Globe, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Goodspeed Musicals, the Whitney Museum in New York and The Denver Center. His awards for theatrical lighting design include the Dramalogue, San Diego Drama Critics Circle, Back Stage West Garland, AriZoni Theatre Award and the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. In the dance world he has designed and toured with Malashock Dance throughout Eastern Europe and the United States. As an architectural lighting designer, he has designed the lighting for numerous themed environment, theme park, residential, retail, restaurant and museum projects all over the world including the Sony Metreon Sendak Playspace (2000 I.E.S. Award) in San Francisco, Warner Bros. Movie World in Madrid, Le Centre de Loisirs in Morocco and The LEGO Racers 4D attraction in Germany, Denmark, England and the USA. His recent theatre projects include The Shakespeare Festival at The Old Globe, Speed-The-Plow at American Conservatory Theatre and By the Waters Of Babylon at The Geffen. A graduate of the California Institute for the Arts and the Yale School of Drama, York lives in Berkeley, CA. Charles R. MacLeod Lighting Designer: A Colorado native, Charles has participated in more than 270 productions over the last 26 seasons with the DCTC. Past Denver Center credits include The Merry Wives of Windsor, Lydia, The Diary of Anne Frank, Third, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Mrs. Warren s Profession, 1001, Season s Greetings, Living Out, After Ashley, The Ladies of the Camellias, Gem of the Ocean, All My Sons, The Madwoman, A Selfish Sacrifice, Dirty Story, Blithe Spirit, Visiting Mr. Green, Lobby Hero, Blue/Orange, Copenhagen, King Hedley II, Behind the Broken Words, Betrayal, Jitney, Uncle Vanya, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Waiting to be Invited, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, A Christmas Carol, The Quick-Change Room, Oleanna, Love, Janis, Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, Life Lines, Lost Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Arcadia, Seven Guitars, Molly Sweeney, The Servant of Two Masters, Sylvia, Valley Song, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Taking Leave, Kingdom, Master Class, Travels With My Aunt, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Desire Under the Elms (both the Denver production and Japan tour). For Denver Center Attractions, Charles has designed the lighting for Girls Only, The Last Five Years, The Taffetas, My Way, The World Goes Round, Swingtime Canteen and Always Patsy Cline. David Kay Mickelsen Costume Designer: Glengarry Glen Ross In 15 seasons at DCTC, David designed The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pride and Prejudice, Amadeus, Gem of the Ocean, Madwoman, Selfish Sacrifice, Merchant of Venice, Streetcar Named Desire, King Hedley II, After Ashley, Lonesome West, Hamlet, Jitney, Spinning Into Butter, Dinner With Friends, A Skull in Connemara, Pork Pie, Wit, Amy s View, The Show-Off, Side Man, Waiting to be Invited, Barrio Babies, Master Class, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Misalliance, Sylvia, Eliot Ness... In Cleveland, Treasure Island, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Taking Leave, Imaginary Invalid, Coming of the Hurricane, Quick-Change Room, Two Trains Running, Seven Guitars, Comedy of Errors, One Foot on the Floor, Peter Pan, You Never Can Tell, The Dresser and Room Service. David also has designed at The Guthrie; Arizona Theatre Company; Fords Theatre; Geva; Seattle Rep; ACT; Portland Center Stage; Ensemble Studio Theatre; the Oregon, Utah, Colorado, and Illinois Shakespeare festivals; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Geffen Playhouse; Cleveland Play House; Pennsylvania Center Stage; Pioneer; Northlight; Berkeley, Tennessee, Missouri, San Diego, New Mexico, St. Louis Repertory theatres; Pasadena Playhouse; Williamstown; Sundance; Laguna Playhouse, CTC (Minneapolis). He has also worked with the Santa Fe Opera and La Jolla Playhouse. Originally from Canby, Oregon, David lives in Long Beach, CA. Vicki Smith Scenic Designer: Designing her 21st season at the Denver Center, Vicki s work includes Doubt, Plainsong, Pride and Prejudice, A Funny Thing Forum, Mrs. Warren s Profession, A Christmas Carol, The Ladies of the Camellias, Fire on the Mountain, The Misanthrope, Blithe Spirit, Picnic, Scapin, The Three Sisters, The Lonesome West, Pierre, Hamlet, Dinner With Friends, A Skull in Connemara, Pork Pie, The Little Foxes, Much Ado About Nothing, Amy s View, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Side Man, The Miser, Master Class, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Peter Pan, One Foot on the Floor, Room Service, You Never Can Tell, Man of the Moment, Coming of the Hurricane, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Living, Hedda Gabler, Tartuffe, To Kill a Mockingbird, The American Clock, Twelfth Night, A Little Night

12 Music, I m Not Rappaport and Table Manners. She has designed for Kansas City Repertory, Geva, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Arizona Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory, Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Repertory, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Penumbra in Minneapolis, Children s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Anchorage Opera, Minnesota Opera, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, ACT in Seattle, Alley Theatre in Houston, Berkeley Repertory, and San Jose Repertory. She was Associate Designer at A.C.T. in San Francisco for two seasons and received her MFA from the University of Washington. Her DCTC design for Pierre was selected for the Prague Quadrennial Design Exposition P L A Y W R I G H T s Michael Frayn Playwright: An honored English playwright and novelist, Michael Frayn is best known as the author of the comedy and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. He is one of a small number of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and fiction having had critical and commercial successes with his novels Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies. His works often raise philosophical questions in a humorous context. Frayn is married to biographer and literary journalist Claire Tomalin. David Mamet Playwright: Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet was born in Chicago in He studied at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York. He has taught at Goddard College, the Yale Drama School and New York University and lectures at New York s Atlantic Theater Company, of which he is a founding member. He is the author of the plays The Cryptogram, Oleanna, Speedthe-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He also has written screenplays for the films House of Games and the Oscarnominated The Verdict, as well as The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy and Wag the Dog. His plays have won the Pulitzer Prize and the Obie Award. S T A G E M A N A G E M E N T Christopher C. Ewing* Stage Manager: Christopher s DCTC credits include The Merry Wives of Windsor, Plainsong, Pride and Prejudice, You Can t Take It With You, Mrs. Warren s Profession, 1001, Living Out, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Christmas Carol, The Clean House, Gem of the Ocean, A Flea in Her Ear, Crowns, Fire on the Mountain, The Misanthrope, Blithe Spirit, John Brown s Body, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Love s Labor s Lost, The Skin of Our Teeth, Almost Heaven, The Immigrant, A Skull in Connemara, the world and British premiere of Tantalus, The Laramie Project, Gross Indecency, The Elevation of Thieves, Travels With My Aunt, Treasure Island, Taking Leave, Molly Sweeney, The Comedy of Errors, Life With Father, Fables, You Never Can Tell, The Dresser and Appalachian Strings. Since graduation from Loretto Heights College with a BFA in Theatre Design/Technology, Christopher has worked in the Denver area as a technician and stage manager. He also stage managed for the Colorado Ballet and Denver Center Attractions. Mark D. Leslie* Assistant Stage Manager: Mark spent the holidays at the Denver Center Theatre Company last season as assistant stage manager for White Christmas. Mark, a Chicago native, is one of the resident stage managers at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery. During his 20 seasons there he has stage managed over 60 productions including, most recently, West Side Story, Over the Tavern, Richard III, Henry VI, Disney s Beauty and The Beast, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Bird Sanctuary starring Elizabeth Franz and Hayley Mills, A Christmas Carol, As You Like It, All My Sons and the Shakespeare in American Communities Military Base tour of Macbeth directed by Kent Thompson. Mark also has worked at The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina on Hilton Head Island, Maine State Music Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, and at Actors Theatre of Louisville s Humana Festival. A. Phoebe Sacks* Stage Manager: Glengarry Glen Ross A Colorado native, Phoebe is thrilled to be returning to the DCTC again this season. Credits include Into the Woods at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Priscilla: A Teenage Ride Through Rock and Roll Hell at The Dairy Arts Center; Hats! and Menopause The Musical at Denver Civic Theatre; Lobby Hero and The Syringa Tree at Lizard Head Theatre; Gee s Bend, Lobby Hero, Visiting Mr. Green, designers playwrights stage management

13 stage management acting company Copenhagen, King Hedley II, The Lonesome West, Dinner With Friends and the world premieres of Almost Heaven and The Immigrant at Denver Center Theatre Company, among others. She is a proud member of Actors Equity and holds a B.A. in Technical Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado. Kurt Van Raden* Assistant Stage Manager: Kurt, a native of Colorado, returns to the Denver Center for his seventh season. He served as Assistant Stage Manager on The Merry Wives of Windsor, Our House, Pride and Prejudice, Third, Mrs. Warren s Profession, 1001, Season s Greetings and Living Out, and Production Assistant on After Ashley, Jesus Hates Me, September Shoes, The Madwoman, A Selfish Sacrifice, Dirty Story, Visiting Mr. Green, A Christmas Carol, Picnic, Blue/Orange and The Three Sisters. Stage management credits include UCCS TheatreWorks in Colorado Springs, Janus Jazz Aspen at Snowmass, Minnesota s Great River Shakespeare Festival and Aspen Dance Connection. A C T I N G C O M P A N Y Megan Byrne* Belinda Blair in Megan made her Denver Center debut as Rhonda and Dr. Gilbert in The Sweetest Swing in Baseball. Her New York credits include No End of Blame with the Potomac Theatre Project (NYIT Nomination Best Featured Actress), Speak Truth to Power at The Culture Project, Silent Laughter at Lamb s Theatre, The Voice of the Turtle with Keen Company, and Either/Or and Dido Furens at the New York Fringe Festival. Megan has performed regionally at Virginia Stage Company, Geva Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center and the Kennedy Center. She can be seen in the films Before the Devil Knows You re Dead, directed by Sidney Lumet and the upcoming Ghost Town, The Rebound and Julie and Julia (with Meryl Streep and directed by Nora Ephron). Megan s television appearances include The Prince of Motor City (ABC pilot), Kings, All My Children, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 3 Lbs., Ed and a recurring role as computer specialist Myra Camp on Law & Order. She received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and a BA from Middlebury College. Sam Gregory* Lloyd Dallas in Sam performed at the Denver Center last season in Doubt, Plainsong, The Diary of Anne Frank and You Can t Take It With You. Prior DCTC appearances include The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, King Lear, Season s Greetings, Amadeus, After Ashley, Measure for Measure, A Christmas Carol, A Flea in Her Ear, The Misanthrope, A Hotel on Marvin Gardens, You Never Can Tell, The Imaginary Invalid, A Midsummer Night s Dream, School for Wives, Hedda Gabler and Tartuffe. He also performed locally at the Paragon Theatre Company as George in Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Regional credits include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, San Jose Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre, Eureka Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse and The O Neill Theatre Center. He has appeared on the television series NY Undercover and daytime dramas One Life to Live and As the World Turns. Morgan Hallett* Poppy Norton- Taylor in Morgan is delighted to find herself back in Denver again. Broadway credits include Translations, directed by Garry Hynes, and Long Days Journey into Night, directed by Robert Falls. Off-Broadway, Morgan appeared in Rebel Voices at Culture Project and Priceless at Studio Ensemble Theatre. Previous DCTC credits include Love s Labor s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, The Lonesome West, Pierre, Hamlet, Tantalus and The Cripple of Inishmaan. Regional credits include Worksong at City Theatre; Love, Janis at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Marine s Memorial; Splitting Infinity at Geva Theatre Center; Vincent in Brixton at Virginia Stage Company; A Death in the House at Alliance Theatre Company; and Translations at McCarter Theatre Center. Film and TV credits include The Reader, Population 436 and Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Morgan holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory.

14 Brent Harris* Frederick Fellowes in Brent has appeared at the Denver Center Theatre Company as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus and as Angelo in Measure for Measure. He recently played the Earl of Oxford in The Beard of Avon at Portland Center Stage (Drammy Award, Outstanding Lead Actor) and Larry Olivier in Orson s Shadow at the Philadelphia Theatre Company (Barrymore Award nomination, Outstanding Lead Actor). He was a company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where he performed in Present Laughter, Much Ado About Nothing, The Royal Family, Love s Labor s Lost, Dr. Faustus and Richard II. Other regional theatre appearances include The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, American Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cape Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Virginia Stage Company, The Pearl Theatre Company, The Actors Company Theatre, and many others. Television credits include Guiding Light and Out of the Box. Mike Hartman* Shelly Levene in Glengary Glen Ross Mike appeared in last season s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Plainsong, White Christmas and You Can t Take It With You. Other DCTC credits include A Christmas Carol, A Funny Thing Forum, Pure Confidence, King Lear, Season s Greetings, All My Sons, Dirty Story, Oedipus Rex, The Madwoman, John Brown s Body, The Scarlet Letter, The Taming of the Shrew, The Grapes of Wrath, The Living and They Shoot Horses, Don t They? Mike appeared in Cowboyily at Creede Repertory and at The Guthrie in the new play The People s Temple. Mike is a past Associate Artist at The Cleveland Play House where he performed in On Golden Pond, Proof, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Art, Harvey and 12 Angry Men. Mike also has worked at Cincinnati Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Center Stage, Kennedy Center, Geva Theatre, Virginia Stage and others. On Broadway he appeared in the Tony-winning The Grapes of Wrath with Steppenwolf Theatre, The Kentucky Cycle and Sherlock Holmes. Mike is a Henry Award and Denver Post Ovation Award winner and a graduate of Otterbein College. Lawrence Hecht* Dave Moss in Glengarry Glen Ross Lawrence has appeared at the Denver Center as Tupolski in The Pillowman and Mick Dowd in A Skull in Connemara. He is Head of Acting at the National Theatre Conservatory where he has been teaching and directing for the last 11 years. Most recently, he acted at Shakespeare Santa Cruz portraying Lear in King Lear and Duke Frederick in As You Like It. He has appeared here in Denver in Vigil for Modern Muse Theatre Company. Lawrence was a company member, resident director and Conservatory Director with American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco for more than 20 years. As an actor, teacher and director he has worked at many theatres including PCPA, Arizona Theatre Company, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Francisco s Magic Theatre, the American Musical Theatre, Lizard Head Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company, Denver University, University of San Francisco and Stanford University, to mention a few. He has been a member of Actors Equity Association for more than 30 years. Chris Hietikko* Baylen in Glengarry Glen Ross Chris is thrilled to be in Denver. In New York City, Chris has appeared in The Runner Stumbles at TACT, Trip to the Beach at Rattlestick, Successful Life of 3 at Drama League, Gunplay at Triangle Theatre, and All Men Are Whores at Theatre Row. His regional credits include Wonderful World at Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival; The Misanthrope and A Christmas Carol at McCarter Theatre Center; Bedroom Farce at The Old Globe; Humble Boy, Closer, Betrayal, Death of a Salesman and Man and Superman at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival; Dracula, Caine Mutiny and The Mousetrap at Cincinnati Playhouse; Romeo and Juliet and O Pioneers at Pioneer Theatre Company; and The Illusion at Two Rivers Theatre Company. Chris appeared in the films Interference, Borrowed Lives, Popcorn Man and Jokes DOT COM. His television credits include Crossing Jordan, Strong Medicine, Jimmy Kimmel Live, General Hospital, Passions and All My Children. acting company

15 acting company Mat Hostetler+ Understudy in, Glengarry Glen Ross; A Traveler in The Trip to Bountiful Mat was thrilled to make his first appearance with the Denver Center Theatre Company last season as Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Most recently, Mat appeared with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival as d Artagnan in The Three Musketeers, Ferdinand in Love s Labour s Lost and Malcolm in Macbeth. Currently a third-year MFA Acting candidate at the National Theatre Conservatory, Mat recently appeared in King John, Surf City and The Grapes of Wrath. Other credits include Amber Waves at Indiana Repertory, A Life in the Theatre at The Hudson Guild in Los Angeles, Crimes of the Heart, and two seasons at Creede Repertory Theatre including The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Foreigner and Little Shop of Horrors. Film and TV credits include Six Feet Under, Cold Case, JAG, Navy NCIS and the recently released independent film The Utopian Society. Mat received his BA in Theatre from The University of Kansas. Kate Hurster Understudy in, The Trip to Bountiful Kate is in her third and final year at the National Theatre Conservatory as an MFA candidate. Favorite roles include Gwen in Fifth of July, Lady Anne in Richard III, Eleanor in King John, and Artie in Eleemosynary. Kate spent the last two summers with Chautauqua Theater Company, most recently in Reckless (with Vivienne Benesch) and A Midsummer Night s Dream. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and was a 2006 Barrymore Award nominee. David Ivers* Garry Lejeune/ Roger Tramplemain in This is David s eighth season with the Denver Center Theatre Company having appeared in Plainsong, Pride and Prejudice, You Can t Take It With You, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pure Confidence, The Pillowman, Amadeus, After Ashley, Measure for Measure, All My Sons, The Madwoman, Oedipus Rex, A Christmas Carol, The Misanthrope, The Merchant of Venice, Love s Labor s Lost and as Bartley in the 2000 production of The Cripple of Inishmaan. He made his Denver Center directorial debut last season with The Merry Wives of Windsor, and this past summer directed Cyrano de Bergerac at the Utah Shakespearean Festival where he has been a company member for 12 seasons. In that time, he has appeared in more than 25 productions including Jake in Stones in His Pockets and Berowne in Love s Labour s Lost. David has worked across the country with Portland Center Stage; the Oregon, Idaho and Alabama Shakespeare festivals; A Contemporary Theatre; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Tacoma Actors Guild; Artists Repertory Theatre; Portland Repertory Theatre and as a guest director and teacher at many universities. Chris Kendall Understudy in Chris appeared as Pistol in the DCTC production of The Merry Wives of Windsor and worked as an understudy for Plainsong. Earlier this year he reprised his Ovation-nominated performance as Karl Marx in the Mercury Café production of Howard Zinn s Marx in Soho. In March, he completed shooting for a feature film A Test of Wills with Listen Productions. Other local roles include that of Ross for the cowboy-themed Macbeth mounted by Listen Productions at the Buntport Theatre last fall. Michael Keyloun* Tim Allgood in Michael last appeared at the Denver Center Theatre Company in the world premiere production of Jesus Hates Me. Regional credits include Leo Bloom in The Producers at Pioneer Theatre Company, Taming of the Shrew at Capital Repertory, The Underpants at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Lend Me a Tenor and Born Yesterday at Cape Playhouse and Tartuffe at La Jolla Playhouse. In New York, Michael has been seen in Five Wishes at Atlantic Theater Stage II, Her Majesty the King at HERE Arts Center, and theatrainplays at NYMF/ Neighborhood Playhouse. Other favorites include Tusenbach in The Three Sisters, Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, and Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Michael earned his MFA from the University of California, San Diego.

16 Kate MacCluggage* Brooke Ashton/ Vicki in Kate most recently appeared in The Farnsworth Invention by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Des McAnuff on Broadway. Other New York theatre includes The Tempest with Pulse Ensemble and the world premiere of Down Goes Rocky with the Bad Plays Festival. Regionally credits include Olivia in Twelfth Night, Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard, and Danielle in Aux Cops at Chautauqua Theatre Company; and New Haven s International Festival of Arts and Ideas at the Long Wharf Theatre. She appeared in the film Natural Causes (official selection, SXSW, IFF Boston and Sarasota film festivals), and on ABC s All My Children. She recently graduated from NYU s Graduate Acting Program, where favorite roles included Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa, and the title role in Major Barbara. Kate earned a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Acting from NYU. Billie McBride* Understudy in, The Trip to Bountiful Billie s Broadway credits include Torch Song Trilogy, Safe Sex and Kurt Weill Cabaret. Off Broadway, she appeared in Honky Tonky Trash, Safe Sex and Bosom Buddies. She toured in Gypsy with Angela Lansbury and The Gingerbread Lady with Nancy Kelly. Television credits include The Shining, The Laramie Project, It s a Miracle, All My Children, Perry Mason Mysteries, Return of Ironsides and Unsolved Mysteries. Denver Theatre includes Poignant Irritation at The Mizel; The Full Monty, The Women, To Kill a Mockingbird, Moon Over Buffalo, Picnic and Children s Hour at Arvada Center; Nickel and Dimed at Curious; Wit at Nomad; and Ten Little Indians and Never Too Late at CDP. Billie understudied roles at DCTC in Wit and Uncle Vanya. She was nominated for an Emmy for narration of a PBS Documentary and won Denver Post Ovation Awards for Best Actress for Wit, Best Supporting Actress for Over the Tavern and was a threetime Theatre Person of The Year nominee. Billie can be heard on Leigh Miller+ Understudy in ; Traveler in The Trip to Bountiful Leigh, currently a third-year student at the National Theatre Conservatory, appeared last season as Rugby in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Leigh spent his summer at the Chautauqua Theater where he appeared as Happy in Death of a Salesman, as Jim in Sick, as well as a mechanic and fairy in A Midsummer Night s Dream. At NTC, Leigh enjoyed playing the title role in King John, Pa in The Grapes of Wrath, and The Big Kahuna in the original production of Surf City. He graduated from Colorado College, went to Los Angeles to confirm the rumors of a heartless industry, but instead, gained a real-world education for which he is tremendously grateful. Leigh appeared in Terrence McNally s Los Angeles premiere of Corpus Christi as well as the Seattle Children s Theatre West Coast premiere of The Wrestling Season and the new play series at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, CA. Leigh performed the role of Kippy at Curious Theatre in Richard Greenberg s Take Me Out. Vince Nappo* John Williamson in Glengarry Glen Ross Vince is excited about being back at the DCTC. He most recently appeared at the New York Fringe Festival in Flux Theatre Ensemble s Other Bodies. Other New York credits include Phallacy at Cherry Lane Theatre and The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta (performing alongside F. Murray Abraham) for Theatre for a New Audience. The Merchant of Venice transferred to The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England and played in its Complete Works Season. Vince has performed regionally at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company and PlayMakers Repertory Company. He has performed internationally at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Stephen Joseph in the Round and the Sherman Theatre. He is a graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Melissa Ortiz Understudy in This is Melissa s second season working for the DCTC. As a third-year student of the National Theatre Conservatory, some of her favorite roles include Ophelia, in the Solo-Shakespeare project Assured Loss Before the Match be Played, Rhonda in Richard Caliban s Surf City and Shirley in 5 th of July. Born in Puerto Rico and raised acting company

17 acting company in Florida, Melissa has enjoyed singing, dancing and acting since she was a little girl. She received her BA in Music from Rollins College. Ian Merrill Peakes* Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross Ian makes his home just outside of Philadelphia. He most recently played the title role in Macbeth in a co-production between Two River Theatre and The Folger. Regional credits include The Crucible and Twelfth Night at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Game of Love and Chance (Helen Hayes Nomination), Measure for Measure and Two Gents at Folger Shakespeare Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Pittsburgh Irish and Classic; Peterborough Players; and Hamlet at Boarshead Theatre. In Philadelphia, Ian appeared in All My Sons (Barrymore Award) at the Arden; Walnut Street; People s Light; Invention of Love at the Wilma; Sideman (Barrymore Award) at Philadelphia Theatre Company; Red Light Winter (Barrymore Nomination) at Theatre Exile; Romeo and Juliet (Barrymore Nomination) at Philadelphia Shakespeare; Othello, Henry IV Part I and Much Ado at Penn Shakespeare Festival. His TV credits include Still Standing, Hack and Homicide. Ian was the winner of the 2003 F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Artist in Philadelphia. Philip Pleasants* Selsdon Mowbray in Philip has performed at the Denver Center as Sir Hugh Evans in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Harold McPheron in Plainsong, Mr. Dussel in The Diary of Anne Frank, Jack Jameson in Third, A Funny Thing Forum, Pure Confidence, King Lear, A Christmas Carol, Amadeus, The Ladies of the Camellias, Measure for Measure, and A Flea in Her Ear. He appeared in the world premiere of Treason off-broadway in New York. He has worked at Seattle Repertory, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Huntington Theatre, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Cleveland Play House and others. On Broadway he played the Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus, directed by Sir Peter Hall and starring Sir Ian McKellen, and later played Antonio Salieri on the national tour. TV credits include Another World and All My Children and the Peabody Award-winning Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys. For 20 years Philip appeared with Alabama Shakespeare Festival. He fondly recalls performing the title role in the world premiere of Horton Foote s drama Vernon Early. James Michael Reilly* James Lingk in Glengarry Glen Ross Jim s credits at The Denver Center include Paul Sycamore in You Can t Take It With You, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and Dr. Jim Bayliss in All My Sons. He has appeared off-broadway as The Duke/Angelo etc. in The Comedy of Errors at Aquila Theatre Company. Credits at regional theatres include Inherit the Wind at Geva Theatre; A Christmas Carol at Alabama Shakespeare Festival; A Christmas Carol at Indiana Repertory Theatre; The Comedy of Errors, The Rivals, That Scoundrel Scapin, A Midwinter Night s Dream, The Three Sisters, As You Like It, All s Well That Ends Well, Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged), Arms and the Man, and The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Art at Delaware Theatre Company, and The Odd Couple at Human Race Theatre Company. He also has appeared on television s Law & Order. Jim received his MFA in Acting from Indiana University. Michael Santo* George Aaronow in Glengarry Glen Ross Michael returned to the Denver Center last season in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Recent credits include Welch in God of Hell for Magic Theatre, Andre Said in the world premiere of said Said for Alliance Theatre, Walter in The Price for Aurora Theatre, Matt in Talley s Folly for Pasadena Playhouse, and Oliver in Pentecost at The Old Globe. Previously he appeared as Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing coproduced by Hartford Stage and The Shakespeare Theatre, Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac with Marin Shakespeare Company, Toby Belch in Twelfth Night at Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Arizona Theatre Company, Queensberry in the West Coast premiere of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at Theatre On The Square, and at American Conservatory Theatre in the US premiere of Tom Stoppard s The Invention of Love. Other regional theatres include San Jose Repertory, Seattle

18 Repertory, Intiman Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Alaska Repertory, Cleveland Play House, and Portland Stage. Kate Skinner* Dotty Otley/Mrs. Clackett in Kate just completed Uncle Vanya starring Peter Dinklage at the Bard SummerScape Festival. On Broadway she created the role of Mrs. Braddock in The Graduate and played Sonya in Uncle Vanya opposite Tom Courtenay. Off- Broadway she has appeared at the Summer Play Festival, the Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons and the Promenade. Kate s favorite regional credits include Martha in Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Nat in Rabbit Hole, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Ellida in The Lady from the Sea, Julie in The Royal Family, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire and Carol in Orpheus Descending. She recently filmed Kiddie Ride with James Gandolfini and her other film credits are Mona Lisa Smile, The Rage: Carrie II, and Claire Dolan. On television, Kate has appeared in all versions of Law and Order several times and has had recurring roles on All My Children, As the World Turns and One Life to Live. She is most happily married to author/actor, Ron McLarty. The Denver Center Theatre Company is grateful for the funds provided by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District. The Denver Center Theatre Company is a division of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, a not-for-profit organization serving the public through the performing arts. The Denver Center Theatre Company is supported in part by grants from the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs; the Helen G. Bonfils Foundation; and contributions from corporations, foundations and individuals. The DCTC operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States; and the Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers. The DCTC also operates under an agreement with Denver Theatrical Stage Employees Union, Local No. 7 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada. The Denver Center Theatre Company is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre. The Directors and Choreographers are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union. The actors and stage managers employed in these productions are members of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Backstage and Ticket Services Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada. (or I.A.T.S.E.) Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE Member of the Colorado Theatre Guild TO OUR PATRONS LATECOMERS will be seated at designated seating breaks only. THE TAKING OF PHOTOGRAPHS and the use of recording equipment is strictly prohibited in the theatres. TURN OFF CELLULAR PHONES in the theatres. You may check cell phones at Patron Services before the performance. TURN OFF PAGERS OR ALARM WATCHES in the theatres. If you are expecting an emergency call, please notify Patron Services. WE ASK THAT CHILDREN UNDER SIX YEARS OF AGE not be brought to the theatre. TO OUR COUGHING PATRONS: Complimentary cough drops are available at Patron Services or from an usher. Denver Center Theatre Company wishes to thank the following for their generosity Terry Shapiro, Photographer MARIE Shapiro, Photography Services ROACH PHOTO / ROACH GALLERY for actor lobby photo assistance. denver office of Cultural affairs John W. Hickenlooper, Mayor Complimentary cough drops are courtesy of Ricola, Inc. Acting Company *Member Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. +Mat Hostetler and Leigh Miller appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association.

19 denver center theatre company EXECUTIVE Kent Thompson, Artistic Director Bruce K. Sevy, Associate Artistic Director Charles Varin, General Manager Edward Lapine, Production Manager Jeff Hovorka, Director of Media & Marketing ARTISTIC New Play Development Bruce K. Sevy, Director of New Play Development Douglas Langworthy, Literary Manager/Dramaturg Chad Henry, Literary Associate Janann B. Eldredge, New Play Coordinator Sylvie Drake, Advisor Dramaturgs Douglas Langworthy, Scott Horstein, Paul Walsh Commissioned Playwrights Lee Blessing, Constance Congdon, Steven Dietz, Ami Dayan, José Cruz González, Jason Grote, Steven Cole Hughes, Michele Lowe, Rogelio Martinez, Julie Marie Myatt, Theresa Rebeck, Eric Schmiedl, Octavio Solis, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder Directors Marco Barricelli, Jesse Berger, Israel Hicks, Art Manke, Penny Metropulos, Michael Pressman, Bruce K. Sevy, Kent Thompson Choreographer Christine Rowan Music Director Gregg Coffin Composers Steven Cahill, Gregg Coffin, Barbara Damashek, David de Berry, Lindsay Jones, Adam Wernick Casting Bruce K. Sevy, Casting Director New York Casting: Paul Fouquet / Elissa Myers, C.S.A. DENVER CENTER THEATRE COMPANY A division of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts Acting Company Sara Kathryn Bakker, Harvy Blanks, Kathleen M. Brady, Larry Bull, Megan Byrne, Drew Cortese, Stephanie Cozart, Jeff Cribbs, Jenn Miller Cribbs, Sam Gregory, Morgan Hallett, Brent Harris, Wendelin Harston, Mike Hartman, Lawrence Hecht, Chris Hietikko, John Hutton, David Ivers, Julie Jesneck, Andy Jobe, Chris Kendall, Michael Keyloun, Daria LeGrand, Kate MacCluggage, Billie McBride, Kathleen McCall, Chris Mixon, Randy Moore, Vince Nappo, Chloe Nosan, Leslie O Carroll, Jeanne Paulsen, Ian Merrill Peakes, Philip Pleasants, James Michael Reilly, Terrence Riggins, Jeffrey Roark, Christine Rowan, Michael Santo, Jeanine Serralles, Kate Skinner, Kim Staunton, Nisi Sturgis, Marcus Waterman, Charles Weldon National Theatre Conservatory Actors Christian Haines, Rob Hille, Mat Hostetler, Kate Hurster, Leigh Miller, Melissa Ortiz, Kathleen Wallace Designers Scenic Designers David M. Barber, William Bloodgood, Tom Buderwitz, Bill Forrester, Michael Ganio, Lisa M. Orzolek, Vicki Smith Costume Designers Bill Black, Angela Calin, Kevin Copenhaver, Deborah M. Dryden, David Kay Mickelsen Lighting Designers Don Darnutzer, York Kennedy, Charles R. MacLeod, Ann Wrightson Sound Designers Craig Breitenbach, Jason Ducat, Morgan A. McCauley Multimedia Charlie I. Miller, Resident Multimedia Specialist Coaches Michael Cobb, Vocal and Dialect Sarah Felder, Dialect Geoffrey Kent, Fight Director Kathryn G. Maes, Dialect Assistants to the Directors D. Lynn Reiland PRODUCTION Production Staff Edward Lapine, Production Manager Janann B. Eldredge, Assistant Production Manager Dan McNeil, Technical Director Lyle Raper, Production Stage Manager Julie Brou, Production & Artistic Office Manager Resident Design Staff Lisa M. Orzolek, Director of Scenic Design Charles R. MacLeod, Director of Lighting John E. Pryor, Director of Sound Tim Borden, Scenic Design Assistant Shannon Fox, Lighting Assistant Reuben Lucas, Scenic Design Assistant Stage Managers Christopher C. Ewing, Stage Manager Lyle Raper, Stage Manager A. Phoebe Sacks, Stage Manager Christi B. Spann, Stage Manager Mark D. Leslie, Asst. Stage Manager Kurt Van Raden, Asst. Stage Manager Rick Noble, Production Assistant D. Lynn Reiland, Production Assistant Dennis Culpepper, Production Intern Melissa Leach, Production Intern Christine Nickel, Production Intern Scene Shop Robert L. Orzolek, Shop Foreman Josh Prues, Assistant Technical Director Albert Stub Allison, Lead Technician Doug Sager, Lead Technician Nichole Carter, Scenic Technician Luke Dokken, Scenic Technician Justin Hicks, Scenic Technician Brian Markiewicz, Scenic Technician Ian McLeod, Scenic Technician Wendy Beckwith, Apprentice Prop Shop Robin Lu Payne, Properties Director Roo Huigen, Props Artisan Lead Jamie Stewart Curl, Props Artisan Charles Dallas, Props Artisan Nikki Mayer, Props Artisan David Hoth, Props Artisan Paint Shop Jana L. Mitchell, Charge Scenic Artist Melanie Rentschler, Lead Scenic Artist Austin Shrader, Scenic Artist Jennifer Raddatz, Scenic Artist Karin Mirick, Scenic Technician Aidé Nijera, Intern Julie Lemieux, Intern

20 Costume Shop Janet S. MacLeod, Costume Director, Costume Design Associate Meghan Doyle, Costume Design Associate Stephanie Cooper, Draper Cathie Gagnon, First Hand Sheila P. Morris, Tailor Carolyn Plemitscher, Draper Jackie Elizabeth Scott, Assistant Draper Beth Walker, Stitcher Sharon Whitted, Stitcher Costume Crafts Kevin Copenhaver, Costume Crafts Director Diana Ben-Kiki, Wig Master Sonya Reynolds, Wig Artisan Judy Craigo, Costume Crafts Associate House Crew Christopher F. Kendall, House Foreman* Beth Chervenak, Stagehand Jeremy Schwartz, Production Electrician Stephen D. Mazzeno, Electrician* Miles Stasica, Electrician* Mariah Becerra, Stagehand* Doug Taylor, Stagehand* Matt Wagner, Stagehand* Ron White, Stagehand* *IATSE Local 7 Stagehands Wardrobe Brenda Lawson, Director Sonya Reynolds, Wig Assistant Lisa Rokicki, Wig Assistant Robin Appleton, Dresser Amber Donner, Dresser Stephanie Ivers, Dresser Amoreena Kissel, Dresser Tim Nelson, Dresser Alan Richards, Dresser Brooke Vlasich, Dresser ADMINISTRATION Administration Charles Varin, General Manager Amy E. Allison, Assistant General Manager Lisa Parsons, Company Manager Kristen Carroll, Assistant Company Manager Michelle Fortunato, Business Administrator DCPA Marketing Jeff Hovorka, Director of Media & Marketing Melissa Marano, Director of Marketing, Denver Center Theatre Company Chris Wiger, Publicity and Public Relations Manager/ Denver Center Theatre Company Genevieve Miller, Public Relations Manager/Denver Center Attractions Anita Edwards, Web Services Manager Molly Riddle, Advertising and Promotions Manager Steve Grupe, Director of Group Sales Tina Risch, Group Sales/ Community Services Manager Sarah Hom, Group Sales Assistant Manager Dan French, Group Sales Associate Cleo Maez, Group Sales Associate/ Student Matinee Manager Mark Onderdonk, Marketing Business Manager Heidi Bosk, Tour Administrator Jamie Alexander, Audience Development Coordinator Kevin Wagner, Intern Publications Sylvie Drake, Director of Publications Suzanne Blandón, Associate Director of Communications Brenda Elliott, Senior Graphic Designer Kyle Malone, Senior Graphic Designer Kim Conner, Graphic Designer Seth Holt, Production Coordinator Phone Campaign Wid Horner, Manager Karla Satterlee, Assistant Manager Staff: Russell Costen, Ben Elmadari, Stephanie Larason, Ruth Pidick, Soraya Soleimanpour, Eugene Vowell, Brandi Walker, Charlene Zanjani House Management Bill Love, House Manager Valerie Schaefer, Assistant House Manager Theatre Managers: Nora Caley, Randy Dodd, Rebecca Cribelli, Rick Herndon, Leilani Lynch, Greg Melton, Doug Murphey, Joyce Murphey, Vern Selby First Year NTC Students Theatre Managers: Chad Callaghan, Tom Coiner, Quentin Crump, John DiAntonio, Tamara Hoffman, Mandi Masden, Genesis Oliver, Allison Pistorius, Lincoln Thompson, Caitlin Wise Department of Education Daniel Renner, Education Director Tam Dalrymple Frye, Academy Director Marti Steger, Programs Manager Jeff Wilson, Technical Director National Theatre Conservatory Michael Cobb, Head of Voice and Speech Robert Davidson, Head of Movement Linda Eller, Librarian Jennifer Forsyth, Registrar Larry Hecht, Head of Acting Denver Center Theatre Academy Hilary Blair, Teaching Artist Laurence Curry, Teaching Artist Jannett Matusiak, Academy Registrar David Saphier, Teaching Artist DCPA Ticketing Services Kirk Petersen, Director of Ticket Services Bruce Albright, Associate Director of Ticket Services David Smith, Manager of Subscription Services Jennifer Lopez, Box Office Show Manager Box Office Managers: Benjamin Koucherik, Alex Spalding, Laura Yaeger Show Leads: Colin Ahern, Patye Gibbons, Miles Hooley, Joelle Parrott, Steve Rupp, Travis Warner Subscription Agents: Bill Harris, Kimberly Horn, Frances Martinez, Jan Miller Ticket Agents: Kirsten Anderson, Nicholas Brown, Michael Chapman, Patricia Conner, Trevor Curtis, Jessica DelVecchio, Kevin Dykstra, Mary Huckins, Nick Jungferman, Noah Jungferman, Tristan Jungerferman, Andrew Kleiman, Desmond Lee, Scott Lix, Christin Mason, Eileen Rhoadarmer, Greg Swan, Robert Warner Jim Hipp, Box Office Show Manager Bobby Jiminez, Senior Paciolan Analyst Development Department Dorothy Denny, Executive Vice President Linda Mitchell, Associate Director David Zupancic, Associate Director Katharine Tyson, Associate Director Mary Mosher, Major Gifts/Membership Coordinator Christopher Goetz, Development Associate Mark Tilsher, Business Administrator denver center theatre company

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