DIFFERENT STAGES’ REPERTORYBegun as Small Potatoes Theatrical Company

1981: August Strindberg’s Creditors and The Stronger. 1982: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 1983: George Bernard Shaw’s Candida; Anton Chekhov’s The Brute, Swan Song, and Celebration. 1984: Luigi Pirandello’s Right You Are (If You Think You Are); Jane Martin’s Talking With… 1985: Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9; William Shakespeare’s As You Like It; Carl Sternheim’s The Underpants; Michael Weller’s Moonchildren. 1986: Amlin Gray’s How I Got That Story; William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale; Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon. 1987: Michael Weller’s Loose Ends; Aristophanes’ The Wasps; Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart; Ar-thur Schnitzler’s Anatol. 1988: Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan and Lemon; Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood; Moss Hart’s Light Up the Sky; Jean Racine’s Phaedra; Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The Misanthrope. 1989: Caryl Churchill’s Fen; Charles Ludlam’s The Artificial Jungle; William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. 1990: Eric Overmeyer’s On the Verge; Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Milan Kundera’s Jacques and His Master; Tom White’s The Trouble with Tofu; William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. 1991: George Kelly’s The Show-Off; George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Keith Reddin’s Life and Limb; Mozart/Lorenzo da Ponte’s Così fan Tutte; Jean-Bap-tiste Molière’s The Learnèd Ladies. 1992: Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind; Carlo Gozzi’s The Raven; Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck; Charles MacArthur’s Johnny on a Spot; George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer. 1993: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good; Charles Ludlam’s The Secret Lives of the Sexists; Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending. 1994: Constance Congdon’s Tales of the Lost Formicans; William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline; George M. Cohan’s The Tavern; Marlayne Meyer’s Etta Jenks. 1995: Pierre Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love; Tom Stoppard’s Travesties; Larry Kram-er’s The Destiny of Me; Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Diary of a Scoundrel. 1996: Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest; Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee; William Congreve’s The Way of the World. 1997: Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh; Dorothy Parker’s Here We Are; Alan Ayckbourn’s Drinking Companion; Terrence McNally’s Noon; George M. Cohan’s Seven Keys to Baldpate; Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock. 1998: Tom Stoppard’s Ar-cadia; Aeschylus’ Agamemnon; Giles Havergal’s Travels with my Aunt; Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. 1999: Edit Villareal’s My Visits with MGM; Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The Hypochondriac (tr. Martin Sorrel); Edward Percy and Reginald Denham’s Ladies in Re-tirement; Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. 2000: Peter Parnell’s The Rise and Rise of Dan-iel Rocket; Ann Ciccolella’s Fruits and Vegetables; George S. Kaufman and Marc Connel-ly’s Merton of the Movies; Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan. 2001: Milcha Sanchez-Scott’s Roosters; George Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple; J. B. Priestly’s Dangerous Corner; Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke. 2002: Ann Ciccolella’s Ma-dame X; David Linsay-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers; Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest; Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba. 2003: Christopher Durang’s Bet-ty’s Summer Vacation; Horton Foote’s The Traveling Lady, William Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona; Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband; Moliere’s The Miser. 2004: John Patrick’s The Hasty Heart; Tom White’s The Misses Overbeck; Brian Friel’s Molly Swee-ney, George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man. 2005:William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Edit Villareal’s Marriage is Forever; Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death; John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. 2006: Two into War (The Gifts of War and The Retreating World); Amy Freed’s The Beard of Avon; Agatha Christie’s The Hollow; Christopher Durang’s Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge. 2007: Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage, W. Sommerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife; Moliere’s The Miser. 2008: Tennessee Williams’ Garden District: Something Unspoken & Suddenly Last Summer, Diana Son’s Stop Kiss; Tom White’s What I Want Right Now; George Bernard Shaw’s Getting Mar-ried. 2009: Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon; Caryl Churchill’s A Number; J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls; Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth. 2010: Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice; Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children; Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web; Paul Osborn’s Morning’s at Seven. 2011: Charlotte Jones’ Humble Boy; Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana; W. Somerset Maugham’s Too Many Husbands; Lisa Kron’s Well. 2012: Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour; Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile; Lennox Robinson’s Is Life Worth Living?; George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart’s You Can’t Take it With You. 2013: Doug Wright’s Quills; David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People; Emlyn Williams’ Night Must Fall; Joseph Ketterling’s Arsenic and Old Lace

Different Stages presents

The Language Archiveby Julia Cho

Director ..................................................................................................... Karen JambonStage Manager ....................................................................................... Michelle SymonsSet Design ......................................................................................................... Ia EnsteraLight Design .............................................................................................James JenningsSound Design ...........................................................Acorn Design, LLC / Jeff MillerCostume Wrangler ......................................................................................Paula Gilbert

CASTGeorge ..........................................................................................................Trevor BissellMary .................................................................................................................Circe SturmEmma .......................................................................................................... Eva McQuadeAlta ....................................................................................................Jennifer UnderwoodResten .............................................................................................Norman BlumensaadtLanguage Instructor/Conductor ................................................. Katherine SchroederBaker/Zamenhof .......................................................................................... Brian Miller

There will be one intermission.

Commissioned and Originally Produced by Roundabout Theatre CompanyNew York, NY, Todd Haimes, Artistic Director.

The Language Archive received its world premier at South Coast Repertory, Produced by special arrangement with Roundabout Theatre Company.

The Language Archive’s development was supported by The Eugene O’Neil Theatre Center during a residency at the National Playwrights Conference

2009.

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.

This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through

the Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an invest-ment in Austin’s future.

Visit Austin at:NowPlayingAustin.com

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND SPECIAL THANKSCirce Sturm, Bonnie Cullum, Paula Gilbert, Douglas Kelley,

Pollyanna Theatre Company, Doug Shea

FUNDING AND DONATIONS

Director Level $5000+The City of Austin

Actor Level $1000 - $5000Karen Jambon & Jennifer Underwood, Bobbie & Larry Oliver,

Jack Grimes, Ameriprise Financial

Stage Manager Level $500-$999AMD Foundation, Ann Bower, Craig Kanne,

Connie McMillan

Designer Level $250-$499Irene Dubberly, Emily & Kent Erington, Royce Gehrels,Harvey Guion, Bruce McCann, Sarah & David Seaton

Stage Hand Level $100-$249Pamela Bates, Marla Boye, Andy & Renee Brown, Bonnie & Frank Cahill, Melanie & Travis Dean, Diane Herrera, Roy & Leona Kaskin, Bill Kemp, Steven Kinslow, The Pfizer Foundation, Annette Sherman, David Smith, Keith Yawn, Tom White,

Betty Wood, Brian Graham-Moore, Anonymous

Audience Level $20-$99Patricia Bennett, Cecilia Berg, Charles Ramirez Berg, Mary Alice Carnes, Paula Gilbert, Reba Gillman, Dianne & Donna Le Roy, Cade & Al Minder, Gerald

Moore, Rebecca Robinson, Miriam & Larry Rubin, Kelly Slupek, Brian Graham-Moore

In-Kind DonationsKaren Jambon, Bill Peeler

PRODUCTION STAFF

Set Crew .....................................................Elaine Jacobs and Gary HernandezProperties .........................................................................Norman BlumensaadtWebmaster ..............................................................................Martina Ohlhauser Photography ................................................................................Bret BrookshireGraphic Artist ................................................................................... Dean ShultzProgram Design ..........................................................................Emily EringtonPublicity .............................. Jean Budney, Carol Ginn, Norman Blumensaadt

ABOUT DIFFERENT STAGESDifferent Stages, Inc. has been a community-based organization since its in-ception in 1981 and incorporation in 1984. It produces works by playwrights who we believe to be defining forces in theatre. We seek to entertain with per-formances that reveal life in all its comedy, tragedy and intensity; and we hope to educate by choosing plays that provide exceptional insight into the human condition. By challenging ourselves as artists, and our audiences as participants, we endeavor to provide the community with vigorous and exciting live theatre.

Producing Artistic DirectorNorman BlumensaadtBoard of Directors

Karen Jambon, T.J. Moreno, Norman BlumensaadtOperating Board

Norman Blumensaadt, Sarah Seaton, Royce Gehrels, Paula Ruth Gilbert

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTJulia A Cho is the author of The Piano Teacher, Durango, The Winchester House, BFE, The Archi-tecture of Loss and 99 Histories, which have been produced at SCR, The Vineyard Playhouse, The Public Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Playwrights Hori-zons, New York Theatre Workshop, East West Players and The The- atre @ Bos-ton Court among others. An alumna of The Juilliard School and NYU’s Graduate Dramatic Writing Program, Ms. Cho is a member of New Dramatists. The Lan-guage Archive was commissioned by Roundabout Theatre Com-pany and developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. It recently won the 2010 Susan Smith Black-burn Prize.

 

2013-14Season

~COMEDY CLASSIC~Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

Nov. 22-Dec. 15, 2013 The Vortex

~NEW AMERICAN PLAY~The Language Archive by Julia ChoJan. 10-Feb. 1, 2014 City Theatre

~MYSTERY~Child’s Play by Robert Marasco

April 4-May 26, 2014 City Theatre

~A KIND OF LOVE STORY~Pygmalion by George Bernard ShawJune 27-July 19, 2014 The Vortex

CAST BIOGRAPHIES

TREVOR BISSELL (George) is excited to be making his debut with Different Stages. Working with this group has filled his heart with much tintinnabulation. Other recent thespian personifications in Austin include; Othello in City Theatre’s Othello and Black in Trinity Street Players’ The Sun-set Limited (B. Iden Payne Nominee-Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama). Trevor has worked with the City Theatre, Last Act Theatre Company and Present Company. Having only materialized in Austin Theatre in 2012, working with this resplendent troupe has been a delight that fills him with a tremendous bout of Lethologica. NORMAN BLUMENSAADT (Resten) is the Producing Artistic Direc-tor for Different Stages. As an actor, he has worked in Shakespeare festivals in Odessa; Dallas, Texas; and Madison, New Jersey. For Different Stages, he has recently appeared in You Can’t Take It With You, Humble Boy, Eurydice, A Number, The Miser, Arms and the Man and Playboy of the Western World. He won a B. Iden Payne Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for The Tri-umph of Love. Among the numerous shows that he has directed, a selection includes Arsenic and Old Lace, Quills, Is Life Worth Living?, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Well, The Beard of Avon, An Ideal Husband, and The Constant Wife. In celebration of his long and outstanding work in the Austin theater scene, the Austin Circle of Theaters bestowed upon Norman the 1998 Deacon Crain/John Bustin Award. His productions of The Normal Heart and The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? won B. Iden Payne Awards for Best Production of a Drama. His production of Arcadia, the first of at least five productions in Austin, won the Austin Critics Circle Award for Best Comedy. Next he directs George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.

EVA McQUADE (Emma) is so excited to be working with Different Stag-es! Eva has appeared on stage and screen with recent productions including: Manglehorn (movie), Nekkid (writer/actor, FronteraFest 2013), Homebound (movie), The Merchant of Venice (The Baron’s Men; received a Broadway World nomination for her role as Launcelot Gobbo), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Baron’s Men; received a B. Iden Payne nomination for her role as Snug/The Lion), Our Town (Zach Scott Theatre), and Romeo & Juliet (Aus-tin Shakespeare). Peace and love to all friends and family for their encour-agement, especially to her always supportive husband.

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BRIAN MILLER (Baker/Zamenhof) is thrilled to be making his debut with Different Stages. He recently appeared at City Theatre in 12 Angry Men (B. Iden Payne nomination for Outstanding Cast Performance), and with Paradox Players in The Best Man. Upcoming appearances include The Odd Couple at City Theatre. Brian moved to Austin from Boston 7 years ago. He thanks his family - Vicky, Geneva, and Baxter - for their generous patience and support for his thespianic pursuits.

KATHERINE SCHROEDER (Language Instructor/Conductor) is new to Different Stages and to Austin, although she did appear here in a production of Cuckoo’s Nest at the Gaslight Theatre, more years ago than she cares to contemplate. We’re talking decades. Most of her theatrical experi-ence was acquired in NYC, but she also did a good bit of work in the last few years at UTPA in the Valley. She is delighted to be here.

CIRCE STURM (Mary) has performed in numerous theatre productions around Austin, including most recently in The Re-Set Project with Lucky Cha-os Theatre Company. Other favorite roles include Claire in Proof, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Amy Lee Fullernoy in Lone Star, Babbette in Jessica Kubzansky’s Inventory, and Lucia in Dancing on God’s Waterlillies. Circe is repre-sented by DVA Talent for stage, commercial, film, and voice over work, but by day she is a professor of cultural anthropology at UT Austin. She wants to thank Karen Jambon for giving her this opportunity and all the talented cast and crew of The Language Archive for making her debut with Different Stages such a wonderful experience.

JENNIFER UNDERWOOD (Alta) last appeared with Different Stages in the role of Abbey Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, and before that as Ann Kron in Well, for which she won a B. Iden Payne award for Best Fea-tured Actress in a Comedy. Other roles for Different Stages include Flora in Humble Boy, Grace Anne in The Carpetbagger’s Children, Esther in Morning’s at Seven, the title role in Miss Witherspoon, Mrs. Venable in Suddenly Last Summer, Lotte Shoen in Lettice and Lovage, Queen Elizabeth I in The Beard of Avon, Catherin Petkoff in Arms and the Man, Mrs. Siezmagraff in Betty’s Summer Vacation, (B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy), the title role in The House of Bernarda Alba, Gertie in Fuddy Meers, Mrs. Dudgeon in The Devil’s Disciple, Kate in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Kate in All My Sons

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DIRECTION AND DESIGN BIOGRAPHIES

KAREN JAMBON (Director) most recently directed Good People for Dif-ferent Stages and Next Fall for Paradox Players. For Different Stages she has directed Fuddy Meers, Betty’s Summer Vacation (B. Iden Payne nominations for Best Play), and Playboy of the Western World (Critic’s Circle nomination for best play) as well as Morning’s at Seven, Stop Kiss, and Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge. Karen has also directed for The VORTEX Repertory Com-pany, Sam Bass Theatre, Loaded Gun Theory, and Scottish Rite Children’s Theatre. She was most recently seen as Martha in Different Stages’ produc-tion of Arsenic and Old Lace. Karen wants to thank the cast and crew for their talent, faith, and commitment.

ACORN DESIGNS, LLC (Sound Design) is a Sound Design and Con-sulting firm with over 30 years of experience in theatre sound design and concert sound and has recently moved into retail sales. Acorn Designs was founded by Jeff Miller to provide an affordable sound alternative for the non-profit arts. Jeff has served as Sound Engineer on Broadway and Na-tional Tours of A Chorus Line, South Pacific, Zorba, Singin’ in the Rain, and The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, as well as numerous films, videos, and commercials.

IA ENSTERÄ (Set Design) is a freelance Production Designer for theatre and film, and is making her Different Stages debut with this production. Her previous playmates have consisted of Breaking String Theatre (Uncle Vanya, Martial Arts, and Vodka, F**king, Television), Hyde Park Theatre (Slowgirl, Middletown, The Aliens), Hidden Room Theatre (Invisible, Inc), Zach Scott (This Wonderful Life), St.Edwards University (Bus Stop, Importance Of Being Earnest), to name just a few. She’s excited to finally be working with Different Stages.

PAULA GILBERT (Costume Wrangler) has been costume designer/builder or wrangler on several of Different Stages shows. The cast is to be commended on helping a great deal. Thank you to Karen, also, for the sup-port for The Language Archive.

JAMES JENNINGS (Light Design) has been in the entertainment lighting and sound industry for more years than he cares to admit and has worked on so many plays and musicals he lost count. He has also designed for pageants, dance, and television productions. Designs for live music per-formances include Cory Morrow, Ellie Goulding, Dirty Vegas and others. James has also done lighting for the annual ICE! event at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine. And last but certainly not least, he has lit two of The Presi-dents of the United States. He has spent several years as a lighting designer and technical director for corporate events. In 2012, James returned to the-atrical lighting and has designed 6 shows for the Trinity Street Player includ-ing Blood Brothers and The Sunset Limited. He also worked on projects for City Theatre, the EmilyAnn Theatre & Gardens, and Austin Theatre Project. This is his first time working with Different Stages and is excited about working with such a talent cast.

MICHELLE SYMONS (Stage Manager) is very excited to be working on her second Different Stages production. She recently stage managed The Music Man at The Georgetown Palace Theatre. Favorite productions in Aus-tin include Qualities of Starlight, Good People and WATER. A big thank you to the cast and crew for their dedication and talent. Much love to KM.