Presented by

* Denotes members of Actors Equity Association, the professional union for actors and stage managers in the United States

+ Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829

The director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographer Society

By Stephen Massicotte

Performed by Hallie Cooper and Mark Jude Sullivan*

Set Designer Tony Cisek+ Lighting Designer Jeremy Pivnick+

Costume Designer Megan Guthrie-Wedemeyer Sound Designer/Composer Joe Shea Production Manager Shara Abvabi

Stage Manager Christina Bryan Directed and Produced by Jeremy Skidmore

The performance is one hour and fifteen minutes. There is no intermission.

Producing Director for the Playhouse Diane NammProduction Photography by Tia Chen

Graphics and Program Design by Leslie WongThe Media Hound PR, Marina Anderson

“We wish to express our gratitude to the

Performers’ Unions:

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION

AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS

AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS

SAG-AFTRA

THE STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY

through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooper-ation in permitting the Artists to appear on this

program.”

Special Thanks: Stephen Massicotte, Chad Smith, Center Theatre Group, Peter Wylie, Ali Grussel, Daniel Botello, Emily Rowan, Aubrey Deeker,

Kathleen Coons, Takeshi Kata

HALLIE COOPER (Mary/Flowerdew) is thrilled to be a part of the Mary’s Wedding team at the Malibu Playhouse. She was last seen as the lead role in Tucumcari at the Whitmore Theatre. Hallie is the co-creator of the webseries “The Naked Truth” which premiered on YouTube this January. She is a co-founder of Classic Theatre Group in Virginia where she appeared as Nina in The Seagull, Masha in Three Sisters, and the title

role in Miss Julie. You can see her as a recurring guest star in YouTube’s “Average Joe.” Cooper, a native Angeleno, earned her BFA Acting degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She is an active company member of The Road Theatre, both acting and directing. She sends a big thank you to KMR and Firestarter. www.halliecooper.com

CAST

MARK JUDE SULLIVAN (Charlie) is excited to make his Malibu Playhouse debut in Mary’s Wedding. Recent LA theatre credits include Immediate Family (Mark Taper Forum), The Whipping Man, The Liar and Romeo and Juliet (LA Theatreworks), Lobby Hero and Betrayal (InHouse Theatre). Broadway: To Be or Not To Be (Manhattan Theatre Club). NY: The Dining Room (Keen Company - Drama Desk Award), Surface to

Air (Symphony Space). Regional: The Whipping Man and The Sisters Rosensweig (Old Globe Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Actors Theatre of Louisville), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Measure for Measure and Melissa Arctic (Folger Shakespeare Theatre), The Cripple of Inishmaan and The Shape of Things (Studio Theatre), Big Death, Little Death and After Ashley (Woolly Mammoth Theatre - Helen Hayes Award Nom.), and The Master and Margarita and Family Stories (Rorschach Theatre). Film: Bear With Us. TV: ABC’s Pan Am, ABC Family’s Ms. Education, CBS’s As The World Turns. Mark’s new comedy series Sing It! will premiere this spring.

DANIEL BOTELLO (Understudy for Charlie) graduated from Cal State Fullerton in 2014 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. He is a Los Angeles based actor, screenwriter, and poet. This is his first production at the Malibu Playhouse. Special thanks to Jeremy Skidmore for the opportunity to be a part of this production, and Mark Ramont for his constant

guidance, support, and encouragement. Read his poetry at danielbotellopoetry.wordpress.com. Enjoy the performance!

EMILY ROWAN (Understudy for Mary/Flowerdew) is overjoyed to be working on Mary’s Wedding. Hailing from Maryland, she recently received her BFA in Acting from the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Regional theatre credits include Mercury is Perpetually in Retrograde (Williamstown Theatre Fest. Workshop) and The White Devil (StageX). Film credits include

DEPARTURE (Rabbit Bandini), POOR HOLLY, A LADY, & WE. Huge thanks to Jeremy, Malibu Playhouse, and (of course) her family.

STEPHEN MASSICOTTE (Playwright) premiered Mary’s Wedding in 2002 at the Alberta Theatre Projects’ playRites Festival and was the winner of the 2000 Alberta Playwriting Competition, the 2002 Betty Mitchell Award, and the 2003 Alberta Book Award. Mary’s Wedding has received upward of a hundred productions, has been translated into French, and has been adapted into an opera by the Pacific Opera Victoria. His play The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion premiered as a co-production between the Tarragon Theatre and the Great Canadian Theatre Company and was a hit off Broadway. It won the 2007 Canadian Author’s Association Award for Best English Language Play and the 2007 Alberta Book Award for Drama. His most recent play, The Clockmaker, pre-miered at the Alberta Theatre Projects’ 2010 playRites Festival and won the 2010 Betty Mitchell Award for Best New Play and the 2011 Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best English Language Play. Stephen wrote the feature films The Dark and Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning for which he won the award for Best Script/Drama over 60 Minutes at the 2004 AMPIA’s. He also wrote the award winning short film June and, most recently, Historica Canada’s Winnipeg Falcons and Nursing Sisters Heritage Minutes.

SHARA ABVABI (Production Manager) has been working with the Mali-bu Playhouse as the production manager and resident lighting designer since the beginning of 2015. She is a Kansas City native, earning her BA as a The-atrical Design and Technology major at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. From 2010-2014, she was the primary lighting designer for The Pulse PAC, named the Best Dance Studio in Kansas City. She designed lights for Prometheuschoreographed by Ronnald Tice, at the Kaufman Center for the Performing Arts, the world premier of Dante’s Inferno: The Ballet at the Maydenbauer Center in Seattle, and the touring production of Joy Luck Club. Shara recently stage managed RENT at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills and is currently touring as the lighting designer and stage manager for Always...Patsy Cline starring Sally Struthers and Carter Calvert.

CHRISTINA BRYAN (Stage Manager) is a recent graduate from the Univer-sity of Southern California, where she majored in Stage Management & Tech-nical Production. Some recent credits include Get. That. Snitch. (Great Minds Creative Productions), I Gelosi (Helsinki West), and Follow (Watts Village Theatre Company). In her rare but precious free time, Christina enjoys dining out, making friends with neighborhood cats, and growing jalapeño peppers.

PRODUCTION

TONY CISEK (Scenic Designer) has collaborated with Mr. Skidmore on My Name is Asher Lev, The Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Round House Theatre); Angels In America (Forum Theatre); Crave (Signature Theatre); Ambition Facing West, Painted Alice, Slaughter City (Theater Alliance) and the world premiere of Jim Lehrer’s Bell (National Geographic). He has designed for companies across the US including Roundabout Theatre, Arena Stage, Guthrie Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, South Coast Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Portland Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Indiana Rep, Syracuse Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Cleveland Play House, Folger Theatre, The Kennedy Center, and the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Tony has received four Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, four Drammy Awards in Portland, and a Barrymore Award nomination in Phil-adelphia. He holds an MFA in Design from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. www.tonycisek.com

MEGAN GUTHRIE-WEDEMEYER (Costume Designer) is delighted to be working at the Malibu Playhouse. She is graduating this year from the Uni-versity of Southern California with a BFA in costume and scenic design. Her recent credits at USC include MARISOL, MANSFIELD PARK, SUMMER BRAVE, FORTINBRAS, TIME OF YOUR LIFE, and VINEGAR TOM. She has assisted on costumes at the Hollywood Bowl for several of their sum-mer musicals including SPAMALOT and HAIRSPRAY. She also worked at PCPA on their productions of OKLAHOMA, NOISES OFF, and THE SAN PATRICIOS. In addition, Megan has designed the costumes for numerous short films and music videos.

JEREMY PIVNICK (Lighting Designer) has designed over 300 productions in Los Angeles with companies such as Theatre @ Boston Court, East West Players, Rubicon Theatre Company, Falcon Theatre, International City Theatre, Echo Theatre Company and many others. His production sin New York have included EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH (Cherry Lane), DESPERATE WRITERS (Union Square Theatre), THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES (Westside Theatre), GOOD BOBBY (59E59 Theatre), CORPUS CHRISTI (Rattlestick Theatre), and MOSCOW (Connelly Theatre). Regional the-aters Jeremy has designed for include Pasadena Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, Northlight (Chicago) , San Jose Rep, South Coast Rep, Capitol Rep, and Theatre Aspen. Internationally he has designed CORPUS CHRISTI in Edinburgh and Dublin. His awards include: 5 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, 4 Backstage West Garland Awards, 3 LA Drama Critics Circle Awards and the LADCC Angstrom Award for Career Achievement. www.jeremypivnick.com

JOE SHEA (Sound Designer & Composer) recently moved from Nebraska to the Los Angeles. He has a BFA in Technical Theatre from the University of Nebraska with an emphasis in sound and lighting design. Currently working at USC as an Assistant Theatre Manager, Joe has designed for over a dozen theatre companies. Aside from theatre, he also does recording, mixing, mastering, and composing for film projects and has worked as the audio engineer for over 200 bands. www.joe-shea.com

JEREMY SKIDMORE (Director/Producer) moved to Los Angeles one year ago after being based in Washington, DC for 15 years. While in Washington, he served for two years as Co-Founder and President of the Capital Talent Agency, two years as Artistic Producer of the Source Festival, and six years as Artistic Director of Theater Alliance. Currently serving as Guest Artistic Director of the Malibu Playhouse, Jeremy has directed or taught all over North Carolina and in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Nebraska, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London, Oslo, Galway, Kilimanjaro, Tokyo, Macau, and Tai Pei. He has as a BFA in directing from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MBA from American University.

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CarpentersSean Kloc, Chad Smith, and Peter Wylie

Scenic PainterKatie Polebaum

ElectriciansShara Abvabi and Wes Sheer

 

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BOARD OF DIRECTORSAndi Howard, Chair

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ADVISORY BOARDMarie Ferro, Lou Gossett, Jr., Gabby Reece

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APRIL 28 - MAY 22, 2016THE PAVILION

From the Emmy nominated writer of Six Feet Under. Peter returns to his twenty-year high school reunion with dreams of winning back Kari, the girl he left behind after an unex-pected pregnancy ended their relationship. Standing in Peter’s way is Kari’s resentment, an entire village of characters (all played by a single virtuosic Narrator), and the momentum

of space and time all converging on a single moment in one small town. Nomi-nated for the Pulitzer Prize.

“A gloriously theatrical treat by Craig Wright, ‘The Pavilion’ turns the dramas of ordinary lives into the patchwork pattern of the universe.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel

For tickets go to www.MalibuPlayhouse.org

Directed by

Jeremy Skidmore

The PavilionBy Craig Wright

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2016EINSTEIN’S GIRL

Created and Performed by Gia Mora A one-woman show about the science of love

Smart, sexy, sassy actor/vocalist Gia Mora, a.k.a. Einstein’s Girl, unleashes her signature blend of intellectual prowess and animal instinct on an unlikely pair of human languages: love and theoretical physics.

Combining beloved jazz standards with standup comedy and original music, Mora uses cutting edge mathematics as a metaphor for 21st century interpersonal relations. Come see why audiences and reviewers alike are raving about this hilarious and deeply touching original one-woman tour-de-force. Featuring Charlie Barnett on piano. Einstein’s Girl is currently playing in selected cities across the United States.

MALIBU PLAYHOUSESEASON 2015-2016