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A CHRISTMAS
CAROL
by Charles Dickens
adapted by Barbara Field
directed by Drew Fracher
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Louisville Ballet
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nce again, artistic vision cultivated in warm Decembers of the southern hemisphere
is flowing into Louisville. After a global search for a new artistic director, the
Louisville Ballet Board of Trustees has selected Robert Curran, choreographer and
former principal dancer of The Australian Ballet, who also has a bachelor’s degree
in business studies. Like his predecessor, Curran brings a variety of influences to his work and a
broad and flexible approach to potential repertoire. I met with Curran last month at the company’s
Main Street headquarters to learn more about his vision for the future.
by Scott
SD: Australia is a big country. Where did
you dance there?
RC: The Australian Ballet is based in
Melbourne but performs only about
50 of its 200 shows there. Most of the
performances are given throughout
Australia and around the world.
SD: You spent your entire career as a
dancer with that company?
RC: Yes, I joined The Australian Ballet in
1996 and danced with them for sixteen
years, retiring in 2011.
SD: Traveling around the world?
RC: That is something anybody in Australia
is required to do, since we live so far
away from everyone else in the world.
SD: Are you from Melbourne?
RC: I was born in Canberra, grew up in
New South Wales, finished high school in
Sydney and did two years at the Australian
Ballet School before joining the company.
SD: A lot of men come to ballet late. Girls
often begin as soon as they are walking.
RC: I came to it very early. I was four. A lot
of people do come to it late, especially in
Australia and especially coming from the
country as I was. Young male ballet dancers
were a rarity in Australia in the ’80s. That
has since changed. Worldwide, acceptance
of male dancers is completely different now.
SD: So you see a change throughout the
industry?
Dowd
RC: Yes. Perceptions of gender, what masculinity and femininity are, have changed
dramatically in the past thirty years.
SD: Considering the climate of the times,
how did you become interested at such a
young age?
RC: My grandmother insisted that I learn
to dance because my grandfather was a
very good ballroom dancer. The story goes
that had he not been such a good dancer
my grandmother probably wouldn’t have
married him.
SD: Did you get to see him dance?
RC: No, he died many years before I was
born. But I was born on his birthday and,
being my grandmother’s first grandchild
and a boy, I had to learn to dance. She
was the force that propelled me in the
beginning, but very quickly it became a
force much greater than either of us.
SD: Was she able to see you dance
professionally?
RC: She did. Although once I was enrolled
in ballet, she was incredibly disappointed.
That is not what she had in mind. When I
started making noises about making it my
career, she was even more disappointed.
She didn’t see that there was any kind of
a sustainable future in ballet as a career.
But once I joined The Australian Ballet and
certainly once I rose through the ranks as
quickly as I did, she started to realize what
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was going on. She turned around very
quickly and became my biggest advocate.
SD: You spent a large percentage of your
dance career as a principal. What were
some of your favorite roles?
RC: The Australian Ballet has a very broad
repertoire that includes a considerable
amount of classical works. The list of my
favorites is not necessarily linked to the
roles themselves, as much as the experiences I had in rehearsing and performing
those roles. There are some roles like
Albrecht from Giselle that served as huge
learning curves for me. When I joined The
Australian Ballet, I felt more confident and
competent as a partner than a lot of the
young men who were joining the company
at the time. I was able to maximize those
skills. That led me to more roles and more
fruitful and educational partnerships with
senior ballerinas. I got to dance Giselle with
some of the most celebrated ballerinas of
The Australian Ballet: Miranda Coney, Lisa
Bolte, Nicole Rhodes and especially Lucinda
Dunn. Lucinda and I forged an amazing
professional relationship. One of the other
works that became important to my career
was Balanchine’s Theme and Variations.
SD: What was going on at that time?
RC: With Theme and Variations, I had to
step up very quickly and very frequently.
Like all ballet companies at some time or
another, The Australian Ballet was dealing
with injuries and there was a week when
there was just me. The Australian Ballet
does seven performances a week, and I
had to do all of them along with whatever
else was in the program. I grew a lot during
that time, so when I hear the Theme and
Variations music, I remember very fondly
the challenges that came out of it.
SD: Louisville Ballet has a strong
relationship with the Balanchine Trust.
RC: Balanchine is an incredibly important
part of the fabric of this country’s ballet
industry. His works certainly have a very
significant place in my mind and will
continue to play a significant role in the
future of the Louisville Ballet.
SD: You have said, “There is no good time
to stop dancing, but there is a right time.”
When did it occur to you that it was time
to consider the next stage of your career?
RC: I had been thinking about the next
stage for a really long time. Acting on it was
circumstantial in that once you’ve been
dancing with The Australian Ballet for a
certain number of years as a principal,
you have some extra time on your hands.
In the early years, I was dancing two
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hundred shows a year. Once I became a
principal, that fell to about one hundred.
Once that initial workload passed, I was
performing about fifty shows a year. With
the lighter workload, I had to reallocate my
time. Ballet dancers are, as a group, very
goal-oriented, and I wasn’t going to sit at
home watching TV. I was fortunate in that
The Australian Ballet has a very well-funded
dancer reeducation program, and I chose to
take advantage of that. I thought business
would be a good idea, so I started studying.
At the same time, I found myself becoming
a mentor for a lot of the younger dancers.
The Australian Ballet School started offering
a teacher-training program, and I thought
that would be a good idea if I were going
to continue being a mentor.
SD: How did you begin choreographing
your own works?
RC: A friend came back from Europe and
wanted to find a platform for his creative
voice in Australia. I thought it would be
great to work with him both in the studio
and in a business sense. That is how JACK
Productions was born. None of it was
planned as a step-by-step series of goals.
The opportunities materialized out of a
series of circumstances. It wasn’t until much
later in my career that somebody pointed
out to me that I should be considering a
path toward artistic leadership. That’s
when I started to consciously develop the
skills that would benefit me in this role.
SD: What other sorts of things did you do
to prepare yourself?
RC: I began participating in retreats around
the world and shadowing important figures
in the industry.
SD: When did you finally make the
decision to retire from dancing?
RC: Honestly, it was when the thought of
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A U D I E N C E
F r o m t h e T h e at r e
Welcome to Actors Theatre!
We are thrilled to celebrate the wonder of the holidays by bringing you Fifth Third
Bank’s A Christmas Carol. This year we are giving you the opportunity to get into the
holiday spirit with a dazzling new production. Dickens’ much-loved story and all your
favorite characters are still here—Tiny Tim is still tiny, Scrooge still says “bah humbug,”
Fezziwig still throws extravagant parties, and Jacob Marley is still dead as a door
nail—but we’ve redesigned the set, costumes, props and more to create a wonderful
new show. Whether this is your first or 39th time seeing A Christmas Carol, thank you
for making this magical tradition and Actors Theatre a part of your holiday season.
If you’re still looking for the perfect presents for friends and family, we encourage you
to consider giving the gift of theatre this holiday season. Actors Theatre has an array
of stories and experiences to offer in 2015. We’ll introduce you to more exhilarating
theatre with The Brothers Size and At the Vanishing Point—plus, nine world-premiere
productions, showcasing the very best of contemporary writing for theatre, during the
39th Humana Festival of New American Plays.
You can share the joy of live performance with friends and family, and create a
memory that lasts long after the applause, by giving them a Gift Certificate or Season
Ticket Package. Our Choose Your Own Season Ticket Package gives you the option of
selecting from three to five plays with flexible dates, making it easy to enjoy a truly
unique experience. Visit one of our customer service representatives in the theatre’s
lobby during intermission, go online to ActorsTheatre.org or call 502.584.1205 for
details. Again, thank you for participating in the work we do!
From our family to yours, we wish you the best this holiday season and many blessings
for the New Year.
Les Waters, Artistic Director
Jennifer Bielstein, Managing Director
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Les Waters
Artistic Director
Jennifer Bielstein
Managing Director
A Christmas Carol
based on the book by Charles Dickens
adapted by Barbara Field
directed by Drew Fracher
November 25 – December 23, 2014
FEATURING
Taylor Abels+, Julien Allen, Nadia Allen, Cameron Benoit+, Josh Bonzie+,
Larry Bull*, Ali Burch+, Elise A. Coughlan, Tom Cunningham, Celina Dean*,
Ure Egbuho+, John Ford-Dunker+, Sherman Fracher*, Shanara Gabrielle*,
Andy Gaukel*, Joseph Glaser, Erika Grob+, Ann Hodapp*, EmmaLee Kidwell,
Joe Lino+, Aaron Lynn+, Riley McNerney, William McNulty*, Collin Morris+,
Brian Muldoon+, Lee Palmer*, Benjamin Pelteson*, John Preston*,
Bailey Ramirez, Calvin Ramirez, Vaughn Michael Ramirez,
Emily Stout*, Gabe Weible and Casey Wortmann+
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Media Designer
Production Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Antje Ellermann †
Kristopher Castle
Thomas C. Hase †
Matt Callahan †
Philip Allgeier
Paul Mills Holmes*
Katie Shade*
Produced by special arrangement with Plays For Young Audiences
A partnership of Seattle Children’s Theatre and Children’s Theatre Company–Minneapolis
The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers of the United States.
† Designers that are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA – 829 of the IATSE.
+ Member of Actors Theatre’s Apprentice/Intern Company.
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Production Credits
The Cast of Characters
(in alphabetical order by actor)
Petunia, Caroler
Taylor Abels+
Topper, Dick Wilkins, Grasper
Josh Bonzie+
Marley, Old Joe
Larry Bull*
Sophia, Mother Urchin
Ali Burch+
Fan, Party Guest
Elise A. Coughlan
Mrs. Cratchit
Celina Dean*
Dorthea, Marigold
Ure Egbuho+
Mrs. Fezziwig, Mrs. Dilber
Sherman Fracher*
Ghost of Christmas Past, Mrs. Blakely
Shanara Gabrielle*
Fred, Mr. Fezziwig
Andy Gaukel*
Martha Cratchit, Party Guest
Erika Grob+
Mrs. Grigsby, Cook
Ann Hodapp*
Belinda Cratchit, Party Guest
EmmaLee Kidwell
Ali Baba, Party Guest
Aaron Lynn+
Ebenezer Scrooge
William McNulty*
Young Ebenezer
Collin Morris+
Ghost of Christmas Present, Forrest
Lee Palmer*
Bob Cratchit
Benjamin Pelteson*
Narrator
John Preston*
Tiny Tim
Vaughn Michael Ramirez
Belle, Mrs. Fred
Emily Stout*
Townspeople, Party Guests and CarolersJulien Allen, Nadia Allen,
Cameron Benoit+, Tom Cunningham,
John Ford-Dunker+, Joseph Glaser,
Joe Lino+, Riley McNerney,
Brian Muldoon+, Bailey Ramirez,
Calvin Ramirez, Gabe Weible,
Casey Wortmann+
UNDERSTUDIES
Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is
made at the time of performance.
For Marley/Old Joe: Josh Bonzie+, For Belle/Mrs. Fred: Ali Burch+,
For Bob Cratchit: Joe Lino+, For Fred/Mr. Fezziwig: Brian Muldoon+,
For Mrs. Cratchit: Casey Wortmann+, For Ebenezer Scrooge: Larry Bull*
SETTIN G
Christmas Eve in London.
Intermission
There will be one 15-minute intermission.
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Additional Production Credits
Dialect Coach
Katie Glasheen
Movement Director
Delilah Smyth
Music Supervisor
Chris Bryant
Puppetry Consultant
Andy Gaukel*
Casting
Zan Sawyer-Dailey
Directing Assistant
Sophie Blumberg+
Sp e c i a l T h a n k s
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and Fifth Third Bank is honored to bring
you and your family a favorite holiday classic! Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol
is sure to fill your heart with joy and a new sense of compassion for those around
you. Thank you for helping us haul out the holly and allowing us to share this
holiday tradition.
Happy Holidays,
Tom Partridge
President and CEO
Fifth Third Bank (Kentucky)
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sponsor Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Student Matinee Series for the 2014-2015
season. Together, we bring the unique experience of live theatre to more than
17,000 schoolchildren from across the region. As a longtime supporter
of Actors Theatre, we wish to thank you for joining us in celebrating
50 years of inspiring performances and live theatre excellence, all of
which have enriched the lives of so many throughout the community.
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P l ay NOt e s
A Christmas Carol, Reimagined:
Thoughts from the Scenic Designer
and Costume Designer
“We set out to devise a new production, authentic
to our particular sensibility as artists, while also
honoring the history of the piece here in Louisville.
It was great to work with Drew Fracher, who has
been so familiar with the show—and many
of its returning actors—while also being
open-minded and curious about what
we might change. We’ve talked about
A Christmas Carol being a ghost story, and
I hope that it will be startling and scary at times.
Apart from the ghosts and their appearances
on stage, what I find frightening, and moving,
is seeing the potential in one’s adult life to
set the wrong priorities and to wind up
alone and impoverished at the end of it.
“This year we will be employing projections,
Sketch of Ghost of Christmas Present costume
by Costume Designer Kristopher Castle.
designed by Philip Allgeier, to complement the
physical scenery. One of the challenges we set for
ourselves was to create a sense of London in the 1800s as well as moments when the
stage appears empty. There will be scenes that look warm and lively, complete with
food and Christmas decorations, and others that evoke how vast the world can be, for
better or worse, around a greedy and solitary person.”
~ Antje Ellermann, Scenic Designer
“My goal as Costume Designer was to translate the vast societal shift, from the
beginning of Scrooge’s life until his epiphany, through the clothing. The ‘present day’
for our new production of A Christmas Carol is set in 1837, Queen Victoria’s first year on
the throne and fifty or so years into the Industrial Revolution (also, coincidentally, the
same year the Old Bank of Louisville building—now Actors Theatre’s lobby—was built).
Scrooge’s memories of his school days and of Fezziwig’s party are set in the 1770s and
1780s, at the dawn of that Revolution, and during a somewhat simpler time, before
rampant capitalist greed and machines had considerably devalued human labor.
“The costume department is building nearly every costume piece in this
production—including those finishes that are outside of the everyday cutting and
sewing: embroidery, trapunto, crocheting and knitting—along with all of the wigs,
hats and accessories. It was important to me that as many costume pieces as possible
be made by hand, as living proof that skilled human labor is vital and should
be celebrated.”
~ Kristopher Castle, Costume Designer and Costume Director at Actors Theatre
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Biographies
THE ACTING COMPANY
Larry Bull (Marley, Old
Joe) At Actors Theatre:
Appropriate (2013 Humana
Festival), A Christmas Carol,
A Christmas Story and
The Mystery of Irma Vep.
Recent Credits Include:
King Henry in King Henry
IV Part 1 and Sir John Middleton in Sense
and Sensibility at the Utah Shakespeare
Festival. Regional Theatre: Utah Shakespeare
Festival, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival,
Virginia Stage Company, Geva Theatre Center,
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Denver Center
Theatre Company, Gulfshore Playhouse,
Chautauqua Theater Company, Huntington
Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Company,
Merrimack Repertory, Vineyard Playhouse,
Kennedy Center, Asolo Repertory Theatre,
Cincinnati Playhouse, The Repertory Theatre
of St. Louis, Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
Broadway: The Coast of Utopia at Lincoln
Center. Off-Off Broadway: Kenneth—What
Is the Frequency? with 78th St. Theatre Lab,
part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Additional Credits: Bull received Chicago’s
Joseph Jefferson Award for his performance
in Of Mice and Men.
Tom Cunningham
(Fiddler, Townsperson,
Party Guest, Caroler) is
happy to be returning to
Actors Theatre. Cunningham
previously appeared in
Woody Guthrie’s American
Song at City Theatre in
Pittsburgh, at Arkansas Repertory Theatre
and at the Victoria Theatre. He has also
appeared in Starlight Productions’ The Grapes
of Wrath. Additional Credits: Cunningham’s
band, the Coffee Zombies, has played for
contra dancers from Ann Arbor to Atlanta
and from Wisconsin to Washington, D.C.
His one-man show, FiddleTales, featuring
his fiddling, storytelling and singing, has
been seen hundreds of times in five states.
Cunningham is on the roster of the Arts in
Healing program of The Kentucky Center
for the Arts.
Celina Dean (Mrs.
Cratchit) is thrilled to
return to Actors Theatre
for a fifth year in A
Christmas Carol. Regional
Theatre: The Change at
Dad’s Garage Theatre
Company, The Dazed
and the Restless at The Second City L.A.,
Lobster Telephone at iO West Theater,
Winter’s Tale Project at Village Theatre.
Canada: Little Fish, Lucky Stiff at Fringe
Theatre Adventures; Grease at Citadel
Theatre Company; and Burlesque at Panties
Productions. Additional Credits: Dean
toured across the U.S. this spring and
summer as part of the band No Way North,
after opening for Kenny Loggins at the Saban
Theatre in Beverly Hills, and produced and
performed in Stewart Lemoine’s The Exquisite
Hour with her amazing husband, Josh Dean.
Sherman Fracher (Mrs.
Fezziwig, Mrs. Dilber)
At Actors Theatre:
A Christmas Carol.
Additional Theatre
Credits: The Glass
Menagerie at Marin
Theatre Company; The
Christmas Story and Macbeth at Georgia
Shakespeare; String of Pearls, Sight Unseen,
Three Days of Rain, Private Eyes and Side
Man at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati; Bug
at Actor’s Express; The Grapes of Wrath, A
Streetcar Named Desire, The Lion in Winter,
Much Ado About Nothing, The Seagull, An
Ideal Husband, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and
Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Arcadia,
The Beard of Avon and Shakespeare’s Will
with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; and
Steel Magnolias and Anton in Show Business
with The Human Race Theatre Company.
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Shanara Gabrielle (Ghost
of Christmas Past, Mrs.
Blakely) is happy to be
joining Actors Theatre for
the first time. Regional
Highlights Include: Blithe
Spirit at Great Lakes
Theater/Idaho Shakespeare;
Clybourne Park, The Comedy of Errors and
Macbeth at The Repertory Theatre of St.
Louis; Ilona in She Loves Me at the Guthrie
Theater; Black Pearl Sings! at The Black
Rep; The Love List at American Heartland
Theatre; Othello, Love’s Labour’s Lost and
Twelfth Night at Great River Shakespeare
Festival; Cooking With Elisa at Upstream
Theater; Guys and Dolls and Lend Me a
Tenor at Northern Stage. New York Highlights
Include: The Wild Party, The Truth, Meet Me
In St. Louis, The American Girls Revue and
In The Mood. Film & Television Highlights
Include: Chicago Fire, Conviction, Guiding
Light, numerous commercials and
independent films. Additional Credits:
B.F.A. from Webster Conservatory, Princess
Grace Foundation Award, AEA, SAG-AFTRA.
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Andy Gaukel (Fred,
Mr. Fezziwig, Puppetry
Consultant) returns for
his second season in
A Christmas Carol. As
an actor and puppeteer,
Gaukel has worked in
television, Off-Broadway
and in regional theatre. Credits Include:
Much Ado About Nothing and The Merry Wives
of Windsor, among others, at Cincinnati
Shakespeare Company; Paula Vogel’s The
Long Christmas Ride Home at Trinity Repertory
Company and Long Wharf Theatre; Twist
Festival D.C. at University of Maryland; and
Mabou Mines’ development of La Davina
Caricatura. Off-Broadway: Basil Twist’s
Symphonie Fantastique at New World Stages.
Additional Credits: In April 2013, Gaukel
undertook a Creation Residency at the
Institut International de la Marionnette in
Charleville-Mézières, France. A graduate of
University of Kentucky’s Department of
A-8
Theatre, Gaukel also holds an M.F.A. in
theatre from Trinity Repertory Conservatory.
This spring, Gaukel devised and directed a
new piece, Roob & Noob, combining object
theatre and a live Rube Goldberg machine
for the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Gaukel
is currently on the faculty at Bellarmine
University and The University of Kentucky.
Ann Hodapp (Mrs.
Grigsby, Cook) is back
for her twenty-third year
with this production. At
Actors Theatre: She was
proud to be a part of
Les Waters’ production of
Our Town last February.
Choreography credits include Below the
Belt, Cheek to Cheek, The Boys Next Door,
In Darkest America, Ring Round the Moon,
Executive Dance and past productions of
A Christmas Carol. Acting credits include
Brothers of a Common Country, Born
Yesterday, Lettice and Lovage, Isle of Dogs,
A Narrow Bed, Does Anybody Here Do
the Peabody? and The Gift of the Magi.
Broadway/Off-Broadway: Fearless Frank;
The Grass Harp; Drat!; You’re a Good Man,
Charlie Brown; Two; The Magic Show; and
Side By Side By Sondheim. Additional
Credits: Hodapp teaches acting and has
taught musical theatre workshops for
Actors Theatre’s Ain’t Misbehavin’, plus
many recent arts education projects.
William McNulty
(Ebenezer Scrooge) has
played more than 150
roles during his 33
seasons in residence at
Actors Theatre. Among
them are Jamie in Moon
for the Misbegotten,
Johnny in Frankie and Johnny in the Claire
de Lune, Roy Cohn in Angels in America,
Charlie in The Foreigner, Enobarbus in
Antony and Cleopatra, Norman in The
Norman Conquests and Nixon in Nixon’s
Nixon. Directing credits include Educating
Rita, Full Gallop, Seascape, The Lover, A
Slight Ache, Dracula, Skylight and The
A U D I E N C E
Beauty Queen of Leenane. Other Theatre:
Washington’s Arena Stage, The Public
Theater in New York City, B Street Theatre,
Florida Stage and Moscow Art Theatre.
Most recently he was seen as Van Helsing
in Actors Theatre’s wildly popular
production of Dracula (his own adaptation,
which he also directs). Additional Credits:
McNulty is a 2007 recipient of the Fox
Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship,
one of three grants awarded annually
in the Distinguished Artist category.
Lee Palmer (Ghost of
Christmas Present,
Forrest) is making his
Actors Theatre debut.
Regional Theatre: To Kill
a Mockingbird, Williams
& Walker, Psychedelic
Sundae, A Christmas Carol
and Benito Cereno at Milwaukee Repertory
Theater. Other Theatre: Five Guys Named
Moe, both on tour and at Mill Mountain
Theatre; Race, Microcrisis, Perfect Mendacity
and The Exonerated at Next Act Theatre;
Timon of Athens, A Few Good Men, Bridge
at Mo Duc and The Millionairess at
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, among
many more. Additional Credits: As a
choreographer, Palmer trained with Alvin
Ailey American Dance Theatre, Joffrey
Ballet (New York) and Ballet du Danses
Eddy Toussaint (Montreal). He is currently
represented by Lily’s Talent, Chicago.
Benjamin Pelteson (Bob
Cratchit) is making his
Actors Theatre debut.
Regional Theatre: King
Lear, Cymbeline and The
Sign In Sidney Brustein’s
Window at the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival;
Angels in America at The Wilma Theater
(Barrymore Nomination); The Merchant of
Venice at Shakespeare Theatre Company;
Murder of Isaac at Center Stage; Lady
Windermere’s Fan (dir. Moises Kaufman) at
Williamstown Theatre Festival; and The
Laramie Project at Pittsburgh Public
Theater, among others. New York:
Photograph 51 at Ensemble Studio Theatre;
and Mines of Sulphur at City Opera/Lincoln
Center. Television: Homeland, Law & Order,
Unforgettable and Silly Little Game (ESPN).
Directing: Associate Director of Angels in
America at Intiman Theatre Festival.
Additional Credits: Pelteson received his
B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon (Helen Wayne
Rauh Award for Acting) and additional
training at The Moscow Art Theatre School.
John Preston (Narrator)
Regional Theatre:
Rough Crossing at Yale
Repertory Theatre;
Measure for Measure
at Utah Shakespeare
Festival; Peter and the
Starcatcher at La Jolla
Playhouse; Race at Philadelphia Theatre
Company; The Constant Wife at Asolo Rep;
Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Syracuse Stage;
Pure Confidence at Cincinnati Playhouse
in the Park; As You Like It at the New
York Shakespeare Festival; The Taming
of the Shrew at Denver Center Theatre
Company; The Morini Strad at Portland
Stage; and Othello at Georgia Shakespeare.
Off-Broadway: Binge with Slant Theatre
Project; So Help Me God with Mint Theater
Company; Taboos (U.S. premiere) at SoHo
Playhouse. Film & Television: Ready? OK!
(feature), Feet of Clay (short), Law & Order
and As the World Turns. Additional Credits:
Preston received his B.F.A. from Florida
State and his M.F.A. from Alabama
Shakespeare Festival.
Emily Stout (Belle, Mrs.
Fred) At Actors Theatre:
Remix 38, Our Town, The
Tens, A Christmas Carol and
Dracula. Other Theatre:
Technodoulia dot Com at
New York Fringe Festival;
The Taming of the Shrew
at Interlochen Shakespeare; The King Stag
at Perry Mansfield Center; and Eurydice, The
Centaur Battle of San Jacinto, Happy-ish
and Wedding Band at Fordham University.
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Additional Credits: Stout received her B.A.
in theatre from Fordham University and
additional training from the Interlochen
Arts Academy. Stout was also a member of
the 2013-2014 Actors Theatre Apprentice/
Intern Company.
YOUNG ACTORS
Julien Allen (Party Guest, Caroler) is ecstatic
to return for his fourth season in A Christmas
Carol. At Actors Theatre: Our Town. Other
Theatre: Peter Pan (Hook) and Alice in
Wonderland (Cheshire Cat) at Clarksville
Little Theatre. Additional Credits: Allen is a
home-schooled seventh grader who enjoys
piano, karate, writing, art and engaging in
fantastical adventures with his siblings.
Nadia Allen (Party Guest, Caroler) is
delighted to make her Actors Theatre
debut in A Christmas Carol. Other Theatre:
Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland at
Clarksville Little Theatre. Additional
Credits: Allen is a home-schooled third
grader who enjoys violin, reading, art,
sewing, knitting, and wandering in the
whimsical world of make-believe.
Elise A. Coughlan (Fan, Party Guest, Caroler,
Harpist) returns to Actors Theatre for her
sixth season in A Christmas Carol. Other
Theatre: Peter Pan (Wendy), High School
Musical (Kelsi) and Aladdin, Jr. (Narrator)
at St. Patrick School. Additional Credits:
Coughlan is an eighth grade honor student.
She studies harp at The Louisville Harp
Academy and she dances competitively
with a jazz team.
currently a sophomore musical theatre
major at the Youth Performing Arts School.
She is excited to return to Actors Theatre
for her second year in A Christmas Carol.
She most recently appeared in Now We’re
Really Getting Somewhere at YPAS.
Riley McNerney (Party Guest, Caroler) is
very excited to be performing in Actors
Theatre’s A Christmas Carol. He has studied
acting with Looking for Lilith Theatre
Company for five years and currently takes
voice lessons with Garrett and Elizabeth
Sorenson. In addition to acting and
singing, McNerney likes to play soccer,
baseball and basketball.
Bailey Ramirez (Party Guest, Caroler) is
thrilled to rejoin the cast of A Christmas
Carol for a third season. Regional Theatre:
Moth in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at
Kentucky Shakespeare; Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at
StageOne. Television: Ramirez is one
of the four main characters in a national
Girl Scout Cookie video. She is currently
shooting a series of videos for an
internationally viewed, Emmy® Awardwinning children’s educational program.
Additional Credits: Several regional and
national awards in solo dance, including
2014 Ms. Junior Dance of Louisville.
Joseph Glaser (Peter Cratchit, Party Guest)
is excited to return to Actors Theatre, where
he was last seen in the 2006 Humana
Festival’s Natural Selection as Terrence.
As a senior at St. Xavier High School, he is
the president of his ITS chapter and was
last seen as Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey.
Calvin Ramirez (Party Guest, Caroler) is
blessed to return for a fourth season
in A Christmas Carol. Regional Theatre:
Mustardseed in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream at Kentucky Shakespeare; Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
at StageOne. He has sung with Kentucky
Opera, Louisville Orchestra and Choral
Arts Society of Louisville; and was a
Louisville Master Chorale featured treble
soloist (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem).
Television: WWE SummerSlam 2013
commercial. Additional Credits: WUOL
Classical Young Artist Competition Finalist,
Louisville Youth Choir Merit Scholar.
EmmaLee Kidwell (Belinda Cratchit,
Townsperson, Party Guest, Caroler) is
Vaughn Michael Ramirez (Tiny Tim) is
delighted to return to Actors Theatre for a
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second season. Regional Theatre: Fidelio
with Kentucky Opera; Changeling Boy in
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Kentucky
Shakespeare. Additional Credits: He has
won several awards competing with 360
Dance, and was recently awarded the
national title “2014 Mr. Petite Dance
America” at Kids Artistic Revue National
Solo Dance Competition, Panama City,
Fla., for his portrayal of Olaf the Snowman.
He is a Cub Scout at St. Patrick’s School
and enjoys reading and drawing.
Gabe Weible (Boy Scrooge, Tom Cratchit,
Party Guest) is happy to be returning to the
A Christmas Carol cast. At Actors Theatre:
Randy in A Christmas Story (four years);
Ainsley in Appropriate (2013 Humana
Festival). He is a sixth grader at Noe Middle
School, where he studies percussion and
loves math.
THE APPRENTICE COMPANY
Taylor Abels (Petunia, Caroler) Other
Theatre: Trenchcoat In Common, The
Tempest and It’s a Wonderful Life: The Live
Radio Play at California State University,
Fresno; Next to Normal, The Light in the
Piazza, Master Class and [title of show] at
Stageworks Fresno; Ordinary Days at
Organic Theater Factory; Side Show, Into
the Woods and The Who’s Tommy at Musical
Theater Works. Additional Credits: Abels
graduated with a B.A. in theatre from
California State University, Fresno.
Cameron Benoit (Townsperson, Party
Guest, Caroler) Other Theatre: The Raven
and the Messenger at The Annoyance
Theatre; The Three Little Pigs at Emerald
City Theatre Company; Pleasant Dreams at
Two Lights Theatre Company; The Rivals,
Spring Awakening, The Turn of the Screw,
The Misanthrope and Vincent: The Musical
at DePaul University. Additional Credits:
Benoit studied improv at iO Chicago and is
a graduate of Walnut Hill School for the
Arts. He received his B.F.A. in acting from
The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Josh Bonzie (Topper, Dick Wilkins, Grasper)
At Actors Theatre: Dracula. Other Theatre:
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told at
Oklahoma City Theatre Company; Julius
Caesar, Miss Evers’ Boys and The Zoo Story
at the University of Oklahoma; and Macbeth
at Reduxion Theatre Company. Additional
Credits: Bonzie received the KCACTF Irene
Ryan Best Partner award and received his
B.F.A. in drama from the University of
Oklahoma.
Ali Burch (Sophia, Mother Urchin) At Actors
Theatre: Dracula. Chicago Theatre: Tea at
Five at First Folio Theatre; the English
premiere of hamlet.is.dead no gravity at
Red Tape Theatre; and the world premiere
of Monstrous Regiment at Lifeline Theatre.
Other Theatre: Measure for Measure, As You
Like It, Our Country’s Good and Savage/Love
at Loyola University Chicago; and Hello Out
There at Savage Rose Classical Theatre
Company. Additional Credits: Burch
graduated from Loyola University Chicago
with a B.A. in theatre and minor in English.
Burch is also a Walden Theatre graduate.
Ure Egbuho (Dorthea, Marigold, Caroler)
Other Theatre: The Conductor at B Street
Theatre; Little Shop of Horrors at Sacramento
Theatre Company; Hairspray and Caroline,
or Change at Pacific Conservatory of
Performing Arts; In the Blood, Twelfth
Night, Metamorphoses, Same Differences,
A Broadway Christmas, For Colored Girls…,
Cabaret and …Still I Said Nothing at
California State University, Sacramento.
Additional Credits: Egbuho minored in
dance and musical theatre and received a
B.A. in theatre arts and journalism from
California State University, Sacramento.
John Ford-Dunker (Undertaker, Robinson
Crusoe, Party Guest, Caroler) Regional
Theatre: Hands on a Hardbody at Park
Playhouse; and Wonderful Town at
Quisisana. Other Theatre: Next to Normal
(dir. Tyler Marchant), The Producers,
Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Importance
of Being Earnest (Irene Ryan Nomination),
Stags & Hens, The Normal Heart, Big Love
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(dir. Tyler Marchant), Almost, Maine (dir.
Tyler Marchant), Spring Awakening, Sunday
in the Park with George and Soldiers Circle
at University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
(UWSP). Additional Credits: Ford-Dunker’s
ten-minute play Fire in the Blood was
produced as part of the 2013 Fringe
Festival at UWSP. He is a N.F.A.A. Young
Arts Silver Award Winner in Theatre,
Spoken/Musical and holds a B.F.A. in
musical theatre from the University of
Wisconsin–Stevens Point.
Erika Grob (Martha Cratchit, Party Guest)
At Actors Theatre: Dracula. Other Theatre:
2013 WTA Scene Showcase at Stage 773;
Contractions (understudy) at The Studio
Theatre; Alexander and the Terrible…Day
(understudy) at Adventure Theatre; Capital
Fringe Festival; Source Festival; Three
Sisters, Glengarry Glen Ross, Talking With…,
Measure for Measure, Romeo and Juliet,
Dead Man Walking and The Good Doctor
at American University. Additional Credits:
Grob studied at the St. Petersburg State
Theatre Arts Academy and received her
B.A. in musical theatre from American
University.
Joe Lino (Puss in Boots, Townsperson,
Party Guest, Caroler) At Actors Theatre:
Dracula. Regional Theatre: This Is Our
Youth (dir. Anna Shapiro) at Steppenwolf
Theatre Company. Other Theatre: The Nina
Variations, The 39 Steps (dir. Bill Osetek),
Hauptmann, Romeo and Juliet, Still Life
with Iris, A Christmas Carol, Somebody’s
Children, Way of Water, Six Characters in
Search of an Author and Andre’s Mother at
Ball State University; and The Shadowbox at
Muncie Civic Theatre. Additional Credits:
Lino received the Irene Ryan Regional
Alternate Award. He also received his B.F.A.
in acting from Ball State University.
Aaron Lynn (Ali Baba, Party Guest, Cellist)
New York City: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
at Hamlet Isn’t Dead Theatre Company.
Other Theatre: Cymbeline (dir. Kelly
Hunter) at British American Drama
Academy; A Steady Rain, Noises Off,
A-12
Macbeth, Scapin, Icarus and Aria, Spirits
to Enforce, Antigone, Hamlet and Hunting
Cockroaches at Kenyon College. Additional
Credits: Lynn received the Kenyon College
Paul Newman Trophy for best male
acting performance of the year for his
performance as Denny in A Steady Rain.
He also received the Thomas Turgeon
Memorial Award for best actor as Denny
in A Steady Rain and was nominated for
best actor for his role as Scapin in Scapin.
Lynn received his B.A. in drama at Kenyon
College, where he was also a music minor.
Collin Morris (Young Ebenezer) Regional
Theatre: Lost in Yonkers (dir. Brian Yorkey),
Fairystories and To Kill a Mockingbird at
Village Theatre; Pippin at The 5th Avenue
Theatre; High School Musical at Seattle
Children’s Theatre. Other Theatre: Spring
Awakening at Linfield College. Additional
Credits: Morris has trained at The Acting
Studio, Inc., The Tom Todoroff Studio in
New York and has a B.A. in political science
from Linfield College.
Brian Muldoon (Townsperson, Party Guest,
Caroler) Other Theatre: As You Like It at
South Dakota Shakespeare Festival; All’s Well
That Ends Well at Bare Bodkins Theatre Co.;
Arcadia, Silent Laughter, Coyote on a Fence,
Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Servant of
Two Masters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Are Dead and Spring Awakening at the
University of South Dakota. Additional
Credits: Muldoon received his B.F.A. in
theatre from the University of South
Dakota.
Casey Wortmann (Townsperson, Party Guest,
Caroler) Regional Theatre: Twelfth Night at
Nebraska Shakespeare; and Love’s Labour’s
Lost and Macbeth at Door Shakespeare. Other
Theatre: She Kills Monsters at Steppenwolf
Garage Rep; Big Love at Strawdog Theatre
Company; Hot ’N’ Throbbing at Interrobang
Theatre Project; Bob: A Life in Five Acts,
Peribañez and Betrayal at Northwestern
University. Additional Credits: Wortmann
received her B.A. in theatre from
Northwestern University.
A U D I E N C E
DIRECTOR
Drew Fracher is very excited to be back at
Actors Theatre to direct this newly designed
production of A Christmas Carol. Fracher
has also directed A Christmas Story and A
Tuna Christmas at Actors Theatre. Regional
Theatre: Last summer’s One Man, Two
Guvnors at Georgia Shakespeare; Sense and
Sensibility, A Streetcar Named Desire and
The Tempest at Cincinnati Shakespeare
Company; and Opus and Moonlight and
Magnolias at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati.
Additional Credits: Productions at Florida
Stage, American Stage Theatre Company,
Know Theatre, The Human Race Theatre
Company, and the Alabama and Kentucky
Shakespeare Festivals. As a fight master
of the Society of American Fight Directors,
Fracher has choreographed action in
productions for over 30 years at more
than 50 theatres nationwide, including
Actors Theatre’s Dracula, Tom Jones and
numerous Humana Festival productions.
DESIGNERS
Philip Allgeier (Media Designer) is a
Louisville native who has performed
multiple media-related duties for television
networks and live events across the
country. Since starting with Actors in 2008,
Allgeier has designed media for over 30
productions, including Tribes, The Last Five
Years, The Mountaintop, Gnit, Romeo and
Juliet, The Hour of Feeling, The Elaborate
Entrance of Chad Deity, The Mystery of
Irma Vep, A Devil at Noon, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Rock & Roll: The Reunion
Tour and Dracula. Additional Credits:
Futura for Theatre [502]. Allgeier is a
graduate of Western Kentucky University.
Matt Callahan (Sound Designer) served
as the resident sound designer at Actors
Theatre of Louisville for eight seasons
and over 50 productions, including the
world premieres of The Hour of Feeling,
Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the
Floorboards, Bob, Elemeno Pea, Ground,
Sirens, Wild Blessings, The Hard Weather
Boating Party, Slasher, The End, Rock &
Roll: The Reunion Tour, dark play or stories
for boys, Great Falls, This Beautiful City, The
Scene, The Unseen, Six Years, Pure Confidence
and Hazard County. Regional Theatre:
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati
Playhouse in the Park, Ensemble Theatre
Company, Cleveland Play House, Geva
Theatre Center, Milwaukee Repertory
Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis,
Arizona Theatre Company, Philadelphia
Theatre Company, Walnut Street Theatre,
Prince Music Theater and Steppenwolf
Theatre Company Garage and Studio. Other
Credits: Resident sound designer for the
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference in
2008 and 2009.
Kristopher Castle (Costume Designer) At
Actors Theatre: Remix 38, the Ten-Minute
Plays (2013 and 2014 Humana Festival),
Noises Off, Sleep Rock Thy Brain, True West,
Death Tax, The Veri**on Play and The Edge
of Our Bodies. Regional Theatre: [title of
show] at Signature Theatre and Passing
Strange and Jerry Springer: The Opera at
The Studio Theatre. Other Theatre: My Way
Little Girl at The Kennedy Center Millennium
Stage; Cinderella at North Shore Music
Theatre; La Bohème and Die Fledermaus at
Catholic University of America; The Shape of
Things, Once Upon a Mattress, Castro’s Beard,
Little Shop of Horrors and Eleemosynary at
Barrington Stage Company; and The Secret
Garden, Oklahoma! and Forever Plaid at
Paper Mill Playhouse.
Antje Ellermann (Scenic Designer) At
Actors Theatre: Gnit, Appropriate and
Long Day’s Journey into Night. Regional
Theatre: Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley
Repertory, Steppenwolf Theatre Company,
Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York
Stage & Film, Trinity Repertory Company,
Huntington Theatre Company, Arena Stage,
Denver Center Theatre Company, Cleveland
Play House, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Geffen
Playhouse, MoMA, Bard Summerscape and
Pittsburgh Opera Center. Off-Broadway:
The Belle of Amherst at Westside Theatre;
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The Open House by Will Eno at Signature
Theatre; The Broken Heart and Hamlet at
Theatre For A New Audience; Dancing at
Lughnasa at Irish Rep; Liberty City at New
York Theatre Workshop; Nine Parts of
Desire at Manhattan Ensemble Theater.
Additional Credits: CT Critics Circle Award
for The House that will not Stand, Helen
Hayes Award, Ovation Award and Lucille
Lortel Award for Nine Parts of Desire and
Emmy Award for Becoming American.
Antjeellermann.com.
Thomas C. Hase (Lighting Designer)
Selected credits from over 30 years include:
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Alliance
Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Center Stage,
Syracuse Stage, Maine State Music Theatre,
Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Los Angeles
Opera, New York City Opera, BAM/Next
Wave Festival, Seattle Opera, Florida Grand
Opera, Minnesota Opera, Michigan Opera,
Company on Broadway, Opera Malmö
(Sweden), Barbican and Sadler’s Wells
(London), Abbey Theatre and RIVERDANCE
(Dublin), Finnish, Dutch and Columbian
National Operas, Opéra de Marseille
(France), Theater Erfurt and Bayerische
Staatsoper (Germany), Canadian Opera
Company and Luminato Festival (Toronto),
Singapore Arts Festival, Tokyo Metro Arts.
Additional Credits: Hase has been the
resident lighting designer and director for
Cincinnati Opera for 19 years. Haseltd.com.
CREATIVE TEAM
Chris Bryant (Music Supervisor) At Actors
Theatre: Musical director for the New
Voices Young Playwrights Festival and The
Late Seating Series. Other musical directing
credits include StageOne Family Theatre,
Music Theatre Louisville and CenterStage at
Jewish Community Center, Louisville.
Additional Credits: Composer of Burke and
Hare, which was performed at the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival. He also works as a musician
and actor with StageOne, Derby Dinner
Playhouse and Kentucky Shakespeare.
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Katie Glasheen (Dialect Coach) At Actors
Theatre: Tribes and Dracula. Regional
Theatre: Cincinnati Playhouse in the
Park, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company,
Ensemble Theatre, Carnegie Center for the
Arts and The Showboat Majestic. London,
England: Upstairs at the Gatehouse, dANTE
or dIE, Riverside Studios and Peut-étre
Theatre. Additional Credits: Glasheen
is also an actor, choreographer and
Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama
at the University of Cincinnati, College
Conservatory of Music. She was most
recently onstage at Know Theatre of
Cincinnati as Isobel in Bull and will
appear this December as Angela in their
production of The Bureau of Missing
Persons. Glasheen holds an M.A. in voice
from the Royal Central School of Speech
and Drama, University of London, a B.A.
in acting from Butler University, and
serves as Associate Editor for the Voice
and Speech Trainers Association scholarly
journal The Voice and Speech Review.
Delilah Smyth (Movement Director) At
Actors Theatre: Tom Jones, A Christmas
Carol and A Christmas Story, The Veri**on
Play, Sense and Sensibility, The Cherry
Sisters Revisited, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream and Brink!. Smyth’s other works
include Memories of Green and If you ain’t
right, git right! with the Louisville Ballet;
Eugene Onegin and The Pearl Fishers with
Kentucky Opera; and The Rocky Horror
Picture Show with Acting for a Cure. Smyth
is the recipient of a Kentucky Arts Council
Fellowship, an award given for outstanding
work created by Kentucky choreographers,
composers and writers.
PRODUCTION
Paul Mills Holmes (Production Stage
Manager) is in his twenty-third season at
Actors Theatre. At Actors Theatre: Holmes
has stage managed more than 100 plays in
the regular season, including productions
for 20 Humana Festivals. Regional Theatre:
The Glass Menagerie, Betsey Brown, Indians
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and Three Sisters at McCarter Theatre Center.
Broadway: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Smile
and Oh! Calcutta! Off-Broadway: Little
Shop of Horrors, Steel Magnolias and Oil
City Symphony. Additional Credits: Directed
Little Shop of Horrors in Tel Aviv and Tokyo.
Thirty-eight seasons at Pennsylvania’s
Totem Pole Playhouse.
Katie Shade (Assistant Stage Manager) At
Actors Theatre: The Grown-Up, Our Town,
Dracula, Sleep Rock Thy Brain, A Christmas
Story, Romeo and Juliet, The Hour of Feeling,
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Sense
and Sensibility, BOB, Barefoot in the Park,
Heist!, Phoenix and A Christmas Carol. Other
Theatre: Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, A
Winter’s Tale and Bad Dates at Shakespeare
& Company; The Fabulous Lipitones and
Carousel at Goodspeed Musicals. Additional
Credits: Shade holds a B.F.A. in theatre
management from Auburn University.
She is also an alumna of the 2009-2010
Apprentice/Intern Company at Actors Theatre.
PLAYWRIGHTS
Charles Dickens was born in Landport,
Portsmouth, on February 7, 1812. His
father, John, worked as a clerk in the Navy
Payroll Office. In 1822, he was transferred
and the family moved to London, where
they lived in Camden Town. When John
Dickens was locked up in a debtor’s prison
in 1824, the 12-year-old Charles was forced
to leave school and go to work in a bootblack factory. Although ultimately John
Dickens was released and Charles returned
to school, his personal experiences of
poverty and factory work marked him
indelibly and would later inform his
writing. The best-known works of his
prolific career include Nicholas Nickleby,
David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities,
Great Expectations and, of course,
A Christmas Carol.
Barbara Field (Adaptor) has had her works
performed across the U.S. and in Europe.
At Actors Theatre: A Christmas Carol,
Camille and Neutral Countries (1983
Humana Festival, Great American Play
Contest winner for Best Play). Regional
Theatre: A Christmas Carol, Pantagleize,
Marriage, Monsieur de Molière, Great
Expectations, Camille and Playing With
Fire at the Guthrie Theater. Credits also
include The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis,
Seattle Children’s Theatre, Yale Repertory
Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company
(Minneapolis), Child’s Play Theatre
Company, South Coast Repertory, Indiana
Repertory Theatre, Pennsylvania Stage,
Arden Theatre Company, Kennedy Center
Theater for Youth and Family, A Noise
Within, Alabama Shakespeare Company
and many more. Additional Credits:
Field is a co-founder of The Playwrights’
Center in Minneapolis, where she makes
her home.
CASTING
Zan Sawyer-Dailey, now in her thirtieth
season at Actors Theatre, currently serves
as associate director, coordinating artistic
resources and personnel, including casting
for all productions and readings. She
oversees departments involved in education
and community outreach, professional
theatre training, casting and company
management. She is a master teacher for
the Apprentice Company as well as at
University of Louisville. She teaches audition
technique and business protocol, and holds
a B.A. in theatre arts from Butler University
and an M.F.A. in arts administration from
Florida State University.
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E x e c u t i v e Off i c e r s
Les Waters
Artistic Director
Jennifer Bielstein
Managing Director
Obie Award winner
Les Waters recently
directed Lucas Hnath’s
The Christians, Thornton
Wilder’s Our Town, Will Eno’s Gnit,
Todd Almond’s Girlfriend and Eugene
O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night at
Actors Theatre. Waters also previously
directed Big Love by Charles Mee at
the Humana Festival in 2000, and the
site-specific production of Naomi
Iizuka’s At the Vanishing Point, a play
about Lexington photographer Ralph
Eugene Meatyard and the community
of Butchertown, at the 2004 Humana
Festival. From 2003 to 2011, he served
as associate artistic director at Berkeley
Repertory Theatre. In the last 10 years,
his shows have ranked among the
year’s best in The New Yorker, The
New York Times, Time Out New York,
Time Magazine and USA Today. His
productions have been seen in New
York at The Public Theater, Second
Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club,
Connelly Theater and Clubbed Thumb,
and regionally at theatres such as the
Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf Theatre
Company, Goodman Theatre, Yale
Repertory Theatre, American
Conservatory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse
and American Repertory Theater. In
2009, he made his Broadway debut
with In the Next Room or the vibrator
play. He led the M.F.A. directing
program at University of California,
San Diego from 1995 to 2003.
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Ms. Bielstein serves
on the boards of the
Louisville Downtown
Development
Corporation, Greater Louisville, Inc.,
National Corporate Theatre Fund, the
Arts and Cultural Attractions Council
and is Vice President of the League of
Resident Theatres. Ms. Bielstein was
recognized with the Pyramid Award
of Excellence in Leadership from the
Center for Nonprofit Excellence,
received the honor of being voted
Today’s Woman magazine’s Most
Admired Woman in the Arts, and was
acknowledged in both Louisville
Magazine’s 15 Metro People to Watch
and Business First’s 40 under 40. She
is a member of the 2008 Leadership
Louisville class and recently served
as a review panelist for the National
Endowment for the Arts. Ms. Bielstein
moved from Chicago, Ill., where she
was most recently the executive director
of Writers’ Theatre and also worked
for Steppenwolf Theatre Company,
About Face Theatre, Northlight Theatre,
Apple Tree Theatre, Lincoln Park Zoo
and served on the board of the League
of Chicago Theatres. Ms. Bielstein is
a graduate of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in business
administration and theatre, Stanford
Graduate School of Business’s Executive
Program for Non-Profit Leaders in
the Arts, and Bellarmine University’s
Masters in Business Administration
where she received the MBA Faculty
Merit Award and was inducted into
Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society
for business programs.
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THE BROTHERS
SIZE
by
Tarell Alvin McCraney
directed by Tea Alagić
Jan. 6–Feb. 1
2015
502.584.1205 | actorstheatre.org
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A U D I E N C E
Ac to r s T h e at r e B oa r d s
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Todd P. Lowe *
Vice President
Elizabeth Rounsavall*
Treasurer
Linda Valentine*
Secretary
Philip C. Eschels*
John Bajandas
Nathan Bayne †
Turney Berry
Neville Blakemore Iii
Ishmon F. Burks
Jeffrey P. Callen, MD
Carolle Jones Clay*
Elizabeth W. Davis*
Laura Douglas*
Gill Holland*
Barbara W. Juckett*
Christopher Kay
Michael J.Keyes*
Mary Korfhage †
Stewart Lussky
Debra M. Murphy
Al Paradis
Theodore S. Rosky*
Marsha Beck Roth
Bob Saunders †
Marilyn Schorin, PhD RD
Matt B. Schwartz
Wendy Sirchio
Michael Stillman, MD
Allan Tasman, MD
John L. Tate
Mac Thompson
Roanne H. Victor ‡
Jaleigh White
Karen Wunderlin
Mary Beth Clark
William W. Crawford, Jr.
Irwin H. Cutler, Jr.
Gayle S. Dorsey
Jane Driskell
Douglass Farnsley
Mrs. Harry S. Frazier, Jr.
Clarence E. Glover
Jack Guthrie
Ian Y. Henderson
Frank B. Hower, Jr.
Christine Johnson
David A. Jones, Jr.
David M. Krebs
Helen W. MacKinnon
Eleanor Bingham Miller
Steven J. Paradis
Donna King Perry
Benjamin K. Richmond
Donna Burks Sanders
Rev. Alfred R. Shands
W. Kennedy Simpson
Kathi Stearman
Sherry Steinbock
William M. Street
Amanda Foard Tyler
Karl N. Victor, Jr.
Ann C. Wells
Jessica White
Vice President for
Service
Dana Cooley
Robert Lutz
Pennie Miller
Moray Peoples
Carol Pye
Nancy Rankin
Marie Rosedale
Judy Silva
Patti Slagle
Sue Terdan
Sharon Van Omum
David Wallace
‡ Denotes Sustaining Director
† Denotes Ex-Officio
* Executive Committee
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Carolee Allen
James B. Appleberry
Lynn Ashton
Irving W. Bailey
Stanley Bayersdorfer
Karen Bearden
Winfrey Blackburn, Jr.
Neville Blakemore, Jr.
Cornelia W. Bonnie
John J. Buchino, MD
ACTORS ASSOCIATES BOARD
President
Mary Korfhage
Secretary
Sheldon Rifkin
Immediate Past
President
Deb Riall
Vice President for
Communication
Rita Bell
Treasurer
Doris Elder
Vice President for
Fundraising
Barbara Nichols
Financial Secretary
Bill Kuntz
interACT
Vice President for
Hospitality
Caroline Martinson
Board Members
Elizabeth Bergmann
Paul Bergmann
Terry Conway
Elizabeth Cooley
Wanda Cundiff
Jack Francis
Linda Gaines
Board Members
Bryan Armstrong
Sasha Belenky
Nick Covault
Doug Davis *
Emily Lamb
Ben Moore
Lindsey Ransdell *
BOARD
President
Nathan Bayne*
Treasurer
Christine Koenig*
A U D I E N C E
Jon Salomon*
Abby Shue *
Rebecca Weis
*Denotes Executive Committee
Member
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C o r p o r at e S u pp o r t
Presidents Circle
Brown-Forman Corporation
The Humana Foundation
Producers Circle
Yum! Family Series
Directors Circle
Fifth Third Bank
LG&E and KU Energy
National Corporate Theatre
Fund
VIA Studio
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Benefactors
D.D. Williamson & Co., Inc.
The Galt House Hotel
GE Appliances
The Glenview Trust Company
Hilliard Lyons
JP Morgan Chase
PNC Foundation
Tequila Herradura
Welch Printing Company
Guarantors
AT&T Kentucky
Kentucky Select Properties
Kindred Healthcare
Louisville Marriott Downtown
McCarthy Strategic Solutions, LLC
Republic National Distributing
Company
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Supporters
Derby City Litho
Hardscuffle, Inc.
Miller Transportation
UPS
Partners
Bearno’s Pizza
Essential Media
Heine Brothers Coffee
NFocus
Panera Bread
Stoll Keenon Ogden
Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, LLP
F o u n d at i o n a n d g ov e r n m e n t S u pp o r t
Benefactors
Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation
Louisville Metro Government
Producers Circle
National Endowment for the
Kentucky Arts Council
Arts
The Paul Ogle Foundation, Inc.
NCTF/Edgerton Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Fund for New American
Theatre
Directors Circle
Princess Grace Foundation
50th Anniversary NCTF/
Shakespeare in American
Ford Foundation Fund for
Communities
New Work
The Gheens Foundation
The Harold and Mimi
Steinberg Charitable Trust
Presidents Circle
Fund for the Arts
Guarantors
Horseshoe Foundation of
Floyd County
Partners
The William E. Barth
Foundation
Community Foundation of
Louisville
The Cralle Foundation
Dramatists Guild Fund
Hearst Foundation
Kentucky Department of
Tourism
Theatre Communications
Group
• Member of the Fund for the Arts.
• Member of American Arts Alliance.
• Receives general operating support from The Shubert Foundation, Inc., the philanthropic arm
of The Shubert Organization, which owns and/or operates 21 theatres in New York
and various cities in the United States.
• Supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency,
in Washington, D.C.
• The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports Actors Theatre of Louisville with
state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
• Thriving arts programs and diverse cultural activities are part of the fabric that makes
Louisville a great community to live in. Louisville Metro Government is proud to play a role
in supporting Actors Theatre of Louisville.
• Special thanks to the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting Actors
Theatre of Louisville.
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N at i o n a l C o r p o r at e T h e at r e F u n d
National Corporate Theatre Fund (NCTF) is a not-for‑profit created to increase and strengthen support from the
business community for this country’s most distinguished professional theatres. The following donors support
these theatres through their contributions to NCTF.
CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE
($250,000+)
Edgerton Foundation*
Ford Foundation
The James S. and Lynne P. Turley
Ernst & Young Fund for Impact
Creativity**
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
($100,000+)
CMT/ABC**†
The Hearst Foundations**
PACESETTERS
($15,000‑$24,999)
American Express*
Bloomberg
Southwest Airlines**†
Theatermania.com/
Gretchen Shugart
George S. Smith, Jr.**
James S. Turley*
UBS
White & Case LLP*
DONORS
($10,000‑$14,999)
Christopher Campbell/Palace
Production Center†
Paula Dominick**
Dorsey & Whitney Foundation
Epiq Systems*
Alan & Jennifer Freedman**
BENEFACTORS
Ruth E. Gitlin*
($25,000-$49,999)
Buford Alexander and Pamela Farr* Marsh & McLennan Companies
Jonathan Maurer and
BNY Mellon
Gretchen Shugart**
Steven Bunson**
McGraw Hill Financial
Cisco Systems, Inc.*
Lisa Orberg**
Citi
Frank Orlowski**
Ernst & Young
RBC Wealth Management**
Priscilla and Keith Geeslin*
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Flom*
LG&E and KU Energy*
Stoddard Family Foundation*
MetLife
Pamela J. Wagner*
Morgan Stanley
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Pfizer, Inc.
Roe Green Foundation*
Douglas and Janet True*
THEATRE EXECUTIVES
($50,000-$99,000)
Bank of America
The Schloss Family Foundation**
Wells Fargo**
*NCTF/Edgerton Foundation Fund for New American Theatre
†Includes In-kind support
**Impact Creativity
SUPPORTERS
($2,500‑$9,999)
Helen Ashley*
Mitchell J. Auslander**
Dantchik Family
Elwood B. Davis*
Dorfman and Kaish Family
Foundation, Inc.
Dramatists Play Service, Inc.*
John R. Dutt**
Bruce R. and Tracey Ewing**
Jessica Farr*
Richard Fitzburgh
Mason and Kim Granger*
Colleen Hempleman*
Gregory S. Hurst
Howard and Janet Kagan*
Joseph F. Kirk**
Adrian Liddard*
Michael Lawrence and
Dr. Glen Gillen*
The Maurer Family Foundation**
John R. Mathena
John G. Miller
Ogilvy & Mather†
Theodore Nixon*
Edison Peres
Thomas C. Quick
Seyfarth Shaw LLP*
Sills Cummis & Gross *
Ann Steck*
Karen and Stewart Tanz*
John Thomopoulos**
Evelyn Mack Truitt
Michael A. Wall
Isabelle Winkles*
Impact Creativity is an urgent call to action to save theatre education programs in 19 of our largest cities.
Impact Creativity brings together theatres, arts education experts and individuals to help over 500,000 children
and youth, most of them disadvantaged, succeed through the arts by sustaining the theatre arts education
programs threatened by today’s fiscal climate. For more information on how “theatre education changes lives,”
please visit: www.impactcreativity.org.
I n - K i n d D o n at i o n s
Bearno’s by the Bridge
Brown Jordan International
Brown-Forman Corporation
Cellar Door Chocolates
Derby City Litho
Doe-Anderson
Fifth Third Bank
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Heine Brothers Coffee
Hound Dog Press
Humana Inc.
Louisville Marriott Downtown
MilkWood
Miller Transportation
National Corporate Theatre Fund
A U D I E N C E
nFocus Magazine
Parking Authority of River City
Stoll Keenon Ogden
VIA Studio
Welch Printing Company
I n d i v i d ua l S u pp o r t
Visionary Circle
Anonymous*
Christina Lee Brown
Mrs. Harry S. Frazier, Jr.
Premiere Circle
Keith Auerbach, M.D.
Christen and Mike Boone
Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson
COL. Ishmon and Terri Burks*
Producers Circle
Harold and Anne Butler
2 Anonymous
Stephen Campbell
Sandra Frazier
Ken and Carolle Jones Clay
Todd P. Lowe and Fran C. Ratterman Ann and Stewart Cobb
Mary and Ted Nixon
Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Costel
Jacqueline R. and Theodore S. Rosky* Nancy L. Doctor
Philip and Mary Eschels
Directors Circle
Ewing Fahey
John and Natalie Bajandas
Ken and Judy Handmaker
Brooke and Matthew Barzun
Bill and Joyce Holmes
Mrs. Edith S. Bingham
Barbara and Bill Juckett
Jonathan and Jennifer Blum*
Paul and Tracy Klein
Mr. and Mrs. David Daulton
Ms. Stewart Lussky and Mr. Bob Jones
Augusta and Gill Holland
Mr. and Mrs. Holland N. McTyeire IV
Mary Gwen Wheeler and
Susan S. and Robert H. Means
David A. Jones, Jr.*
Madelyn Buzzard Mees
Michael and Elizabeth Keyes
Eleanor Bingham Miller
Nana Lampton
Janet Morris Musson
Bruce Merrick and Karen McCoy
Dr. Catherine Newton and
J. A. Paradis III
Dr. Gordon Strauss
Ms. Elizabeth Rounsavall
Vivian Ruth Sawyer and
The Rev. Alfred R. Shands
Thomas T. Noland, Jr.*
Bill and Lindy Street
Carol and Charlie Pye
John L. Tate and Phyllis McMurry-Tate Rick and Becky Reed
Mr. and Mrs. Mac Thompson
Jonathan and Julie Roberts
Sandy and Bill Schreiber
Designers Circle
Matt and Cindy Schwartz
Sarah and Peter Fuller, In Memory of Kris and Wendy Sirchio
George Kisslinger
Habdank Foundation
Jim and Marianne Welch
Colin McNaughton and
Ann Speed McNaughton
Investors Circle
Linda and Chris Valentine*
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Ballard Jr.
Players Circle
Turney P. Berry and Kendra Foster
Anonymous
Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham
Rachel and Michael Adkins*
Mr. and Mrs. Neville Blakemore III
Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Arnold
Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Bonnie
Dr. S.P. Auerbach
Campbell and Sarah Brown
Rita Jane Bell
Meredith Wilson Brown
Sharon and Stephen Berger
Dr. Joseph J. Buchino
Robin Berrington
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Callen
Neville Blakemore, Jr. and Gray
Charles and Mary Beth Clark
Henry
Crawford Charitable Fund
Maggie Brandt and Bert Lyons
Fairleigh and Abby Lussky
Norma B. Braver
Thomas and Mary Jo Mueller
Dr. and Mrs. John J. Buchino
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Murphy*
Dr. Phil Cochran and
Paradis Foundation
Ms. Marie B. Hertzman-Cochran
Marsha and David Roth
Joan and Gregg Coleman
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Rounsavall III Terry Conway
Paul Michael Schmucker
Kevin and Mera Cossey Corlett
Drs. Richard Harvey and
Brad Asher and Susan Coventry
Marilyn Schorin
Irwin and Carol Cutler
John E. Selent
Linda and Gordon Dabney
Sarah and Robert Shaw
Ruth Dietrich in Memory of
Cathy and Allan Tasman, MD
John G. Dietrich
Roanne Victor
Ashley Doherty
Phoebe Wood
Fr. John G. Eifler
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Mr. and Mrs. Donald Finney
Randy and Ginny Fox
Emily and Bob Gable
Kiki and David Gindler
Roy and Georgia Goldman
David and Nicole Goldstein
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Gregory
Sonya and Ara Hacet
Barbara B. Hardy
Jane Hardy and David Schmidt
Arvida and Edward Harris
Thomas and Yvonne Heitz
Jonathan and Janet Hodes
Stephanie Horne
Mr. and Mrs. Chase L. Kirkwood
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Koenig
Mary Korfhage
Joanne Kuhns
Mr. Robert E. Kulp, Jr.
Melony J. Lane
Lee and Angela Leet*
Rabbi Laura Metzger and
Cantor David Lipp
JoAnn and Frank Luecke
Susan McNeese and Phil Lynch
Adam Jalil Maamry Memorial Fund
Robert T. and Eleanor Maddox
Mr. and Mrs. John Mann Jr.
Caroline Martinson
Sharon and John McCrillis*
Bill and Mim McKenzie
Andrew and Lizzy Mueller
Sean Muldoon
Duane and Anne Murner
Edmund G. Nasief
Brian and Debbie O'Rourke
Al and Jamie Paradis
Lue and John Peabody
Jim Phillips
Chris Price
George W. Rapp Jr. and Lynne Meena
Edward and Sandy Robinson
Barbara and Halsey Sandford
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Saunders
Kennedy and Sara Simpson
Patti Slagle and Steve Zimmerman
Charlotte and John Clay Stites
Barb Tafel
Dr. Peter and Margaret Fife Tanguay
Glenn and Ann Thomas
Carl M. and Ellen B. Thomas
Rose Mary Rommel Toebbe
Terry and Amanda Tyler
Patricia M. Varga
Porter Watkins and George Bailey
David and Melissa Weedman
John Weeter, MD and Linda Weeter
Will and Becky West
Deborah Wexler and John Nutt
Jaleigh and Michael White
Paul Widman
Stephen and Coretta Wolford
Ed and Anne Wunsch
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I n d i v i d ua l S u pp o r t
Artists
Tyson and Suzanne Gorman*
Tim and Kathy Hess
Patrons
Dr. Frederick Albrink
Steve Baker
Mr. and Mrs. W. Robinson Beard
Becky and Kenneth Blacketer
Mr. Stephen Bodney
Bethany Breetz and Ronald Loughry
Tom and Sylvia Brite
Eli Brown & Sons, Inc.
Gail and Lawrence Caruso
Linda W. Cauble
Helen Cohen
Barbara and Richard Conklin
Drs. Larry and Christine Cook
Steve Cooper
Mary Michael and Sam Corbett
John and Laura Cornett
Dr. and Mrs. William L. Cromwell
Thomas and Mary Diebold
Laura M. Green Douglas
Richard and Ann Edelson
Jack E. Francis*
Glen Elder and Jim Gibson
Susan E. Ellison
Craig and Merrell Grant
Dr. and Mrs. Diller B. Groff
Lena and Matthew Hamel
Scott and JoAnn Haner
Allen Harris
Hollie Hopkins
Cindy and Dwayne Jarboe
Charles and Robyn Kane
Cecilia Kloecker
Scott Koloms
Dr. and Mrs. Forrest Kuhn
Maureen Awbrey and Diane Kyle
Sally and Stanley MacDonald
The MacLean Foundation, Inc.
Miriam Spectre Marcus and
Jerome Hutton Kauper,
in honor of Roanne Victor
Sally and Charlie Moyer
Sean Mudd
Christopher P. Murphy
J. Gordon and Christine Pendleton
Lawrence Pernosky and
Ms. Susan Hill
Janet and Richard Rink
Bonnie and John Roth
Bill and Connie Schleuning
Peggy and Phillip Shake*
Ellen and Max Shapira
Dr. and Mrs. Roger J. Shott
Prentice and Lee Smith
Ilam E. Smith
Mrs. Yandell R. Smith
Jane O. Smith
Vertner Smith, III and Barbara West
Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Stewart
Richard and Rachael Swope
John Tederstrom and Mark Cannon
Jennifer and Brent Thomas
Carla F. Wallace
Jerry Ward
Sarina and Robert Weiss
Beth Welch
Mrs. James S. Welch
Scott Williamson
Rev. and Mrs. James Wilson
Mitzie and Jim Wittliff
Ms. Ruth Wukasch
The Wunderlin Company
Pacesetters
2 Anonymous
Dr. and Mrs. Erle Austin
Ms. Susan Barry*
Jim and Pat Beckett
Mrs. Donald S. Bornstein
Allen Bush and Rose Cooper
Daniel Clark and Lisa Gunther Clark
Greg Clark
Vicki Coombs
Teri Corson
Dr. Keith P. Cross
William Curley and Linda Huss
David and Gretchen Davis
David & Paulette Dubofsky
Harlene S. Farrell*
Dr. and Mrs. Walter Feibes
Bill and Kathy Fensterer
Kristi Fiscus
Mr. Douglas D. Ford
Gregg and Leslie Fowler
Kirsty Gaukel*
Mary Jane and Peter Glauber
Clarence and Bettie Glover
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Goldwin
Gordon and Martha Gutmann
Nina Heizer
Carl Helmich
Roberta and Ian Henderson
Michael A. and Jeanie S. Hendricks
Chris and Marcia Hermann
Lawrence Herzog
Ilma M. Hirsch
Anna Hitron and Thomas Johnston
Joyce Smith Honaker
Pattie Imperial
Dr. Arthur H. Isaacs
Judy Kaleher
Donna Y. Kays
Ed Kruger and Jeff Rodgers
Drs. Carol Kulp-Shorten and
David Shorten
Bob and Bo Manning
Mr. Neil E. Mellen and
Dr. Mavin H. Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Neumayer
Robert Niederhauser
Donna M. Peak
Joan Pike
Lindsey R. Ransdell*
Ruth Roederer Popp
Marc Rothman
Dr. Richard Schrader and
Mrs. Cindy Schrader
Dr. J. C. States and Ms. G. R. Russo
Megan Wanlass
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Weber
Don and Mary Wells
Mrs. Joan Whittenberg*
Carol and Bill Young
Dr. Kenneth and Shelly Zegart
*This gift was made possible in part or in full through a Fund for the Arts Partnership Grant
T e a c h e r A d v i s o ry C o m m i t t e e
Jenni Aberli, JCPS Literacy Specialist; Faith Anderson, Ballard High; Katie Blackerby Weible, YPAS; Catharine
Birch, retired JCPS; Brent Braun, Pleasure Ridge Park High; Sylvia Bruton, Spalding University; Ishmon Burks,
Board of Directors/JCTC; Judy Chandler, Bullitt East High; Mckenzie Cox, Academy at Shawnee; Charity Devine,
Eastern High; Terrilyn Fleming, Central High; Jennifer Girardin, Oldham County High; Kevin Gose, Valley High;
Amy Harpenau, New Albany High; Tom Hayes, Bardstown High; Kyrstin Johnson, KY School for the Blind; Kim
Joiner, Noe Middle; Georgette Kleier, YPAS; Alison Lambert, Oldham County High; Tiffany LaVoie, Western
Middle; Amanda McFarland-Smith, Southern High; Brian Miller, Fern Creek High; Patti Miller, Jeffersonville
High; Carrie Nath, KY Governor’s School for the Arts; Kate Nitzken, Louisville Archdiocese; Andy Perry, Atherton
High; Alonzo Richmond, Silver Creek High; Marsha Roth, Board of Directors; Amanda Simmons, Mercy
Academy/Assumption High; Patti Slagle, Actors Associate/retired JCPS; Tiffany Smith, Eastern High; Robbie
Steiner, Floyd Central High; Carol Stewart, Bellarmine University; Frank Ward, Actors Associate/Trinity High;
Amy Zuccaro, Trinity High
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A U D I E N C E
Services & Amenities
TICKET INFORMATION
Box Office Hours (During Performances)
Monday: 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday - Wednesday: 10 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Thursday - Friday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday: 12 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Order by phone
(502) 584-1205 ■ 1-800-4ATL-TIX
Phone orders are subject to a $2 per ticket
processing fee. All orders subject to a $1 per ticket
Historic Landmark Fee. Online fees may apply.
Order Online: ActorsTheatre.org
Address: 3 16 West Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202-4218 USA
Discounts
Ticket discounts subject to availability, cannot
be combined with other discounts and are not
valid on previously purchased tickets. Historic
Landmark and phone fees apply. Not valid
during closing week of holiday productions.
Seating restrictions may apply. Visit
ActorsTheatre.org/TicketOptions for more
information.
Season Ticket Packages
Discounted ticket packages are available, including
a range of shows and benefits. Visit ActorsTheatre.
org/SeasonTickets or call our Box Office for options.
Groups
Discounts ranging from 5% to 20% are available
to groups of ten or more. Call (502) 585-1210 for
details.
Ages 60+, Military, Students and Patrons with
Disabilities
60+, military, students (full-time with valid ID) and
patrons with disabilities receive 10% off single
tickets.
Day of Performance: Patrons with disabilities and
students $19.
Gift Certificates
Perfect for all occasions, gift certificates can be
purchased at the Box Office and are available in
any amount.
Ticket Exchange
Ticket holders may exchange their tickets either
by phone or in person. As soon as possible after
exchange needs are known, please call or visit
our Box Office to make arrangements. Ticket
exchanges may be made until 5 p.m. the day of
the date on the tickets or one hour in advance of
a matinee—only for another performance of the
same play. Upgrade fees may apply.
GALLERY HOURS (During Performances)
Tuesday - Friday: 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday: 1 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Closed Mondays and non-performance days
FOOD & BEVERAGE
Food is not permitted in the theatre.
Beverage Service
Beverage service is available on the mezzanine
level Tuesday-Sunday, one hour before all shows
and at intermission. Post-performance beverage
service is available at MilkWood. Beverages can be
pre-purchased for intermission at the mezzanine
bar before all performances.
MilkWood
Open Tuesday-Sunday at 5:30 p.m.
Sunday brunch available from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
MilkWood, a restaurant operated by Chef Edward
Lee, is located on the lower level of Actors Theatre.
Food is available at the bar in the restaurant
without reservations; however, reservations are
recommended for table service. For reservations,
please call (502) 584-MILK (6455) or visit
MilkwoodRestaurant.com.
Late Arrival Policy
Late Seating in the Pamela Brown Auditorium or
the Bingham Theatre is at the discretion of the
House Manager, who can be located in the lobbies
upon your arrival. Due to the intimate nature of the
Victor Jory Theatre, latecomers will not be seated.
Parking/Traffic
Actors Theatre holds ample parking spots in the
Actors Theatre Garage on the southwest corner of
Third Street and Main Street for theatre patrons
when there are Actors Theatre and Yum! Center
events on the same day. For information on discount
parking for theatre events or traffic updates and
alerts, please visit our website at ActorsTheatre.org or
contact our Box Office at (502) 584-1205.
EMERGENCY PROCEDURE
In the event of a fire, severe storm or earthquake, you
will be instructed by an announcement from the stage
indicating the best method of exit. Please notice the
multiple red exit signs in the theatre. For your safety,
please exit in a calm and orderly manner.
ELECTRONIC DEVICES
Use of cellular phones, pagers, cameras, recording
devices or any device that will light up the rows
behind you are strictly prohibited in the auditorium.
If you feel you may need to be contacted in case of
an emergency, check your phone or pager with the
house manager. Please deactivate your watch alarm
so it will not disrupt the performance. The video
and/or audio recording of this performance by any
means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.
NO Firearms
Firearms are strictly prohibited on these premises.
CHILDREN
Children under age four are not permitted unless the
production specifically appeals to very young
children. All children attending an event, regardless
of age, must have a ticket. Because it can be
distracting to others in the theatre, if your child is
disruptive or excessively restless, you may be asked
to step outside.
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Services & Amenities
NO SMOKING
This is a smoke-free facility. Thank you for not smoking.
ACCESSIBILITY
Accessible ramps, elevators, parking,
restrooms, water fountains and wheelchair
seating are available for patrons with
disabilities. Parking is located on levels M, 2, 3 and
4 of the garage. Accessible restrooms are located on
the first floor and mezzanine level.
Sound Enhancement
All theatres are equipped with an FM
wireless system for hearing enhancement.
Lightweight wireless receivers with
earphones or magnetic induction loops are
available free of charge, with a refundable deposit,
at Coat Check (October-March) or the Box Office.
Audio-Described Performances
Selected performances, generally during a
weekend matinee, are audio described for
patrons who are blind or have low vision.
Describers provide a live, objective, and descriptive
delivery of the visual elements of the performance
in between the dialogue. A schedule is available at
the Box Office. Provided by The Kentucky Center.
Caption Theatre
Caption Theatre is provided for selected
performances for patrons who have
hearing loss and may not benefit from
hearing amplification. The audible elements are
shown on an LED sign, in real time, as each line is
spoken or sung. The service is offered on selected
dates of all productions in the Pamela Brown
Auditorium and Bingham Theatre. Reservations for
this service should be made at the time of ticket
purchase to ensure the best seating for this service.
Provided by The Kentucky Center.
VOLUNTEERS
Volunteer opportunities are available as a member
of Actors Associates, interACT or the Usher Corps.
Call (502) 584-1265.
RENTALS
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Actors Theatre boasts a variety of different spaces
for events ranging from meetings to conferences.
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BACKSTAGE TOURS
Backstage Tours arranged by advance request. Call
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Actors Theatre
Gallery
The Kentucky Watercolor Society:
Aqueous USA 2014
37th Annual Juried Exhibition
November 7–December 23, 2014
Lemons With An Old Pitcher by C. Krupinski.
The Kentucky Watercolor Society and the Actors
Theatre Gallery are proud to present Aqueous USA
2014, the 37th annual exhibition of nationally
known water media artists from around the country.
Sixty-eight paintings were selected by nationally
recognized juror Frederick Graff. The exhibition opens
on November 7 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and ends on
December 23, 2014. This show is consistently ranked
as one of the top national watercolor exhibitions and
will feature many prominent artists from across the
country, many of whom are featured regularly in
books and in national publications. There are over
$9,000 worth of cash, material and purchase awards
contributed from national and local sponsors, and
most paintings will be for sale.
About the Juror: Frederick Graff is among a select
group of artists who are signature members of all
three major watercolor societies. He graduated from
Miami University and pursued additional graduate
work at both Kent State University and the University
of Akron and studied with the late Franklin A. Bates.
He has been conducting numerous watercolor
workshops, demonstrations and critiques for the last
38 years, and his work has been featured in
Watermedia Techniques For Releasing the Creative
Spirit, the International Artist magazine and many
other publications.
Visit Actors during the First Friday Gallery Hop,
or go to ActorsTheatre.org for more information.
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T h e at r e S ta ff
Artistic Director, Les Waters • Managing Director, Jennifer Bielstein
ARTISTIC
Associate Artistic Director....Meredith McDonough
Associate Director......................Zan Sawyer-Dailey
Arts Administration
Coordinator...................Zachary Meicher-Buzzi
Company Manager....................................Dot King
Arts Administration Intern.......... Rebecca Trimbur
Directing Interns....Sophie Blumberg, Rachel Dart
Literary
Director............................................. Amy Wegener
Literary Manager........................Kimberly Colburn
Literary Associate.......... Hannah Rae Montgomery
Dramaturgy/Literary Management
Interns......................Robyn Carroll, Ariel Sibert
Education
Education Manager............................Jane B. Jones
Education Coordinator........... Betsy Anne Huggins
Education/Teaching Artist
Interns.................. Casey Flyth, Ben Niewoehner
Teaching Artists..........Justin Dobring, Liz Fentress,
Keith McGill, Karin Partin Wells
Apprentice/Intern Company
Director...............................................Michael Legg
Assistant Director................................ John Rooney
A/I Administration Intern................ Sam Barickman
Apprentices..............................................................
Taylor Abels, Cameron Benoit, Josh Bonzie, Ali
Burch, Ure Egbuho, John Ford-Dunker, Erika Grob,
Kayla Jackmon, Lexi Lapp, José Leon,
Joe Lino, Aaron Lynn, Max Monnig, Collin Morris,
Mallory Moser, Brian Muldoon, Madalena Provo,
Blake Russell, Lorenzo Villanueva, Casey Wortmann
ADMINISTRATION
General Manager........................ Jeffrey S. Rodgers
Human Resources Manager.................Cora Brown
Systems Manager.................................Dottie Krebs
Executive Assistant............................. Janelle Baker
Administrative Services Coordinator.....Alan Meyer
AUDIENCE SERVICES & SALES
Ticket Sales Director.......................Kim McKercher
Training Manager.................................. Steve Clark
Season Tickets Manager....................Julie Gallegos
Box Office Manager...................... Kristy Kannapell
Customer Service
Representatives......................Cheryl Anderson,
LeShana Avery, Matthew Brown,
Marty Huelsmann, Ben Niewoehner,
Joe Sandage, Kelly Scott
Volunteer and Audience Relations
Director..........................................Allison Hammons
House Managers............ Jamie Adling, Elizabeth Cooley,
Will Farrell, Sterling Franklin, Rebecca Trimbur
Lobby Manager................................... Tiffany Walton
Coat Check Supervisor....................Tanisha Johnson
Coat Check Attendant......... Casey Flyth, Jory Morris
DEVELOPMENT
Director............................................... Julie Roberts
Associate Director,
Individual Giving.........................Kate Chandler
Associate Director, Institutional
Partnerships............................ Danielle Manley
Grants Manager.......................... Justin Williamson
Development Coordinator......................Liz Magee
Development Intern........................... Jamie Adling
FINANCE
Director................................................Peggy Shake
Accounting Coordinator....................... Jason Acree
Accounting Assistant............................ Jillian Innes
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Director............................................... Steve Knight
Associate Director of
Communications.......................... Kirsty Gaukel
Communications Manager............ Sara E. Durham
Marketing Manager............... Melissa Dowty Hines
Graphic Designer...........................Mary Kate Zihar
Assistant Graphic Designer................. Amie Villiger
Group Sales Manager...........................Sarah Peters
Group Sales Associate.........................Chris O’Leary
Marketing and Communications
Interns......... Caroline Ruark, Hannah Wehlage
OPERATIONS
Director.............................Mike Schüssler-Williams
Operations Manager............................... Barry Witt
Maintenance................. Ricky Baldon, John Voyles
Building Services...........Patricia Duncan, Joe Spencer
Receptionist....................................... Griffin Falvey
PRODUCTION
Production Manager............................Paul Werner
Assistant Production Manager.....Michael Whatley
Production Management Intern.......Megan Arbough
Production Stage Manager........ Paul Mills Holmes
Resident Stage Managers.............Stephen Horton,
Katie Shade
Resident Assistant Stage Manager............Jessica Potter
Production Assistants........... Joshua Mark Gustafson,
Leah Pye
Stage Management Interns
........................Philippa Panayiotou, Julie Phillips,
Sean Ravitz, Chelsey Haslett Sorbo
Scenic
Technical Director.......................... Justin Hagovsky
Assistant Technical Director...........Braden Blauser
Scenic Charge...................................Kieran Wathen
Shop Foreman........................ Javan Roy-Bachman
Master Carpenter................. Ashley Crockett Guido
Carpenters............. Alexia Hall, Brandon Hickman,
Eric Kneller, Ian Lootens,
Pierre Vendette
Deck Carpenters....Matthew Krell, Peter Regalbuto
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Costumes
Director........................................ Kristopher Castle
Assistant Costume Director.............. Beatrice Vena
Costume Coordinator................... Christine Leidner
Crafts Master..................................... Shari Cochran
Wig and Makeup Supervisor.......... Jehann Gilman
Wardrobe Manager..................................Jacob Freund
Bingham Wardrobe
Supervisor.............................Christopher Ersing
Draper/Tailor................. Jeffery Park, Evan Prizant
First Hand......Tamara Langman, Natalie Maynard
Stitcher Captain..............................Elizabeth Hahn
Stitcher.................................................Faith Brown
Dresser...............................................Katelyn Bowman
Costume Journeymen........................Molly Herman*,
Adrienne Nixon*
Wig Journeyman.................................... Marissa Kulp*
Costume Intern..................................Maggie McGrann
Lighting
Supervisor............................................Jason Weber
Assistant Lighting Supervisor............. Dani Clifford
Master Electrician............................ John Newman
Lighting Technicians............................ Jon Harden,
Victoria Bain, Katie Carr
Sound
Supervisor.............................................. Paul Doyle
Assistant Sound Supervisor.............. Jessica Collins
Sound Technicians..... Russell Goddard, Rachel Spear
Properties
Director..............................................Mark Walston
Properties Master......................... Joe Cunningham
Assistant Properties Master................ Heather Lindert
Carpenter Artisan..............................Karl Anderson
Soft Goods Artisan...........................Jessie Combest
General Artisan..................................... Brad Baute
Props Journeyman..................... Samantha Sayers*
VIDEO
Media Technologist..........................Philip Allgeier
Media Intern................................. Abigail Sweeney
*Denotes Paul Owen Fellow
Usher Captains
Dolly Adams, Shirley Adkins, Marie Allen, Katherine
Austin, June Blair, Libba & Chuck Bonifer, Tanya
Briley, Maleva Chamberlain, Donna Conlon, Terry
Conway, Laurie Eiden, Doris Elder, Reese Fisher,
Joyce French, Carol Halbleib, Sandy Kissling, Nickie
Langdon, Barbara Nichols, Cathy Nooning, Teresa
Nusz, Judy Pearson, Beth Phipps, Nancy Rankin,
Bob Rosedale, Kirsten Swikert, Tim Unruh, David
Wallace, Megg Ward
Actors Theatre’s Company Doctors
Dr. Andrew Mickler, F.A.C.S.
Dr. Edwin Hopson, DC, CSCS
Dr. Bill Breuer, MCH, DC, FAPHP
Members of the Apprentice
Company receive additional
training at the Louisville
Ballet School.
Actors Theatre of Louisville was founded in 1964 by Richard Block in association
with Ewel Cornett. Jon Jory was Producing Director from 1969 to 2000.
Alexander Speer was Executive Director from 1965 to 2006.
Artists under Commission
In addition to reading script submissions from around the country, Actors Theatre of
Louisville builds relationships with playwrights and encourages the creation of new work
by commissioning plays from artists whom we admire. A new play commission engages a
writer to pen a piece specifically for Actors Theatre of Louisville and allows us to support
the work’s development from the earliest stages of inspiration onward.
Some notable past full-length plays commissioned by Actors Theatre and produced in
the Humana Festival of New American Plays include The Christians by Lucas Hnath,
Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo, Maple and Vine by Jordan Harrison (co-commission with
Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Big Love by Charles Mee and Dinner with Friends by Donald
Margulies (winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama).
Commissioned writers currently include:
Jeff Augustin
Lydia R. Diamond
Jackie Sibblies Drury
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Diana Grisanti
Cory Hinkle
Charles Mee
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Molly Smith Metzler
Sarah Ruhl
Charise Castro Smith
it didn’t bring me to a state of emotional
upheaval. That’s when I realized it was
going to be okay for me to look objectively
at my future. Three weeks later, I decided
to retire. It was as much a surprise to me
as it was to everyone else that I was
retiring at thirty-five. But everything
landed exactly where it needed to for me
to make that decision.
SD: Bruce Simpson worked to bring new
movements to the Louisville Ballet. Some
of that came out of his experiences in
South Africa. Tell me about your experience with indigenous dance in Australia
and give me your thoughts on how that
fits in with the future of ballet.
RC: That’s a really interesting question.
Companies like Bangarra Dance Theatre
with links to the indigenous cultures
make a unique contribution to the world.
Observing how much respect they have
for traditions going back more than forty
thousand years and how they synergize
that with current urban indigenous issues
and current performance technologies was
a fascinating experience for me. Every arts
genre has that same valuable, unique,
cultural contribution, and coming to
understand that changed my whole focus
on dance—and ballet in particular. It gave
me new insights into its value and importance. I began to look differently at what
ballet offers and what it can give to a
dancer as well as to an audience. When I
think about Louisville Ballet and what it
has to offer, there is much more than
coming to see a performance in a theatre
in that traditional sense. There is a facility
one observes in a classical ballet dancer
whether they are wearing their uniform
or not. The question becomes, “How
can we integrate the tradition that has
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created that in their bodies and demeanor
into a random, one-off act of art?” What
does that tradition bring to a pop-up
storefront performance or gallery dance
event? How can that tradition inform an
educational outreach event in new ways?
We need to push the traditions behind
classical ballet further out into the
community without being limited by
pointe shoes and tutus.
SD: That is the opposing side of tradition:
once it becomes codified, it risks confining
the artistic impulses that created it. How do
you address current expectations through
this process?
RC: Yes, that is a challenge I relish. Ballet
doesn’t necessarily need a floor with Marley,
pointe shoes, lights and a proscenium. We
don’t need to take that with us every time
we go out into the community; we have a
unique product in those dancers, whether
they’re wearing jeans and runners or tights
and tutus. No other dance form produces
that physique, that approach to movement,
that strength in range. We need to take our
product out into the community in different
ways. I think there is room for choreographers and collaborators to think outside the
proscenium. They can find new expressions
for the postural, flexible, articulate, detailed
approach they have to their work.
SD: Louisville Ballet is in the midst of one
of its most time-honored traditions: The
Brown-Forman Nutcracker, choreographed
by Val Caniparoli. It’s also being performed
at The Australian Ballet and all around the
world.
RC: That’s a coincidence. I’ve done The
Nutcracker in the traditional sense only
twice in my career with The Australian
Ballet. Australia’s Christmas is in the
summer, so The Nutcracker is not a holiday
tradition. I’m actually really excited about
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doing it here. The music is, arguably
perhaps, the best ballet score ever written.
I get chills when I think about performing
the Grand pas de deux (Act II) and the
Snow pas de deux (Act I). The music for
both finales is sublime. I feel incredibly
fortunate that the company has a production of this standard. The Brown-Forman
Nutcracker has a high level of integrity
both in terms of production values and
story.
SD: Val Caniparolli’s interpretation of
another classic story follows The BrownForman Nutcracker after the New Year on
February 13 and 14. Have you worked
with Val before?
RC: Yes, I worked with him briefly in
Singapore when I was guest ballet master
there. His A Cinderella Story is perfectly
timed around Valentine’s Day. I’m excited
to see another new take on Cinderella. I’ve
seen quite a few in the past twelve months
as I’ve been traveling, including Alexei
Ratmansky’s for The Australian Ballet. Val
has a very unique perspective in terms of
its era. This is not the Disney version. I’m
also excited by his musical choices. He’s
using a jazz score composed by Ron Paley
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from the Richard Rodgers songbook that
I think is going to make it very accessible.
SD: Will a vocal component be added?
You have said in the past that one of the
traditions you would be comfortable
breaking with is the exclusive use of mime
and pantomime in ballet.
RC: I don’t believe so in this work.
SD: But you don’t chafe at the idea of
something in the future?
RC: Not at all. Pantomime in my mind
has a negative connotation that has led to
some stereotypical associations with ballet.
Working with this company on Giselle this
fall, it was a joy to bring the reality back
into these traditional works. It is reality
that gives these classical works their
relevance for me. That’s another reason
I’m excited about A Cinderella Story.
Because it has a different cultural context,
it’s another opportunity to explore the
deeper elements of the story and take
ballet a little further away from the fluffy,
light, insubstantial reputation it has.
SD: You are part of a new generation of
artistic leadership in Louisville. Have you
spent time with Louisville Orchestra’s new
artistic director, Teddy Abrams?
RC: Oh, yes. Orchestras all over the country
are facing enormous challenges in their
operating models, and I think having
someone like Teddy is a huge advantage
for this community. He is so progressive
and open-minded and proactive. When
we get together, the discussions become
very lofty, frightening and inspiring all at
the same time. It’s pretty cool when we
get going.
SD: Could you give me your thoughts on
where you see the potential for Louisville
and Louisville Ballet right now?
SD: When I began researching this
company with an eye toward coming here,
every touch point made the possibility
more exciting. I think Louisville is a rare
gem in this country. The breadth of the
arts offerings in this city and the support
from the community are amazing. I feel so
lucky to be working here. I’m very excited
to be a part of what is here, and I feel
confident that this community can
support the growth I envision.
The Brown-Forman Nutcracker will be performed December 6 to 21 in Whitney Hall
of The Kentucky Center for the Arts. For
more information about the production
and the rest of the 2014-2015 Season, go
to louisvilleballet.org. For tickets, call
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December 14
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December 19 & 20
The New York Pops
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December 24 & 28
New York String Orchestra
Jaime Laredo, conductor
12/24: Liang Wang, oboe
12/28: Augustin Hadelich, violin
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12/10–14: Russell Maliphant Co.
12/16–1/4: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
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Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about
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Jake Gyllenhaal makes his Broadway debut in a
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