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SET DESIGNER BERT SCOTT*** is entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory eatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT eatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists. Anonymous • The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Naomi Bloom & Ron Wallace Bruce & Janet Bunch • Gholi & Georgia Darehshori • Ed & Ellie Fox • Dr. & Mrs. Mark & Lynne Gorovoy John & Marjorie Madden • Sue & Jack Rogers • Arthur Zupko STARRING ensemble members DAVID BREITBARTH* • CARRIE LUND* • BRENDAN POWERS* and BRITT MICHAEL GORDON • BRIAN HATCH • LARRY JOHN MEYERS* MARGARET LOESSER ROBINSON* • LOU SUMRALL* • KATE YOUNG* DIRECTED BY ensemble member ROBERT CACIOPPO** COSTUME DESIGNER STEFANIE GENDA*** ensemble member LIGHTING DESIGNER JOSEPH P. OSHRY*** 2015-16 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS SPONSORED BY NAOMI BLOOM AND RON WALLACE • MEDIA SPONSOR FLORIDA WEEKLY FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE 2015-2016 SEASON HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT ROBERT CACIOPPO, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PRESENTS ASST. STAGE MANAGER GRACIE DOD PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER JANINE WOCHNA* ensemble member THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. SOUND DESIGNER JOHN KISELICA

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SET DESIGNERBERT SCOTT***

This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists.

Anonymous • The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Naomi Bloom & Ron WallaceBruce & Janet Bunch • Gholi & Georgia Darehshori • Ed & Ellie Fox • Dr. & Mrs. Mark & Lynne Gorovoy

John & Marjorie Madden • Sue & Jack Rogers • Arthur Zupko

STARRINGensemble members

DAVID BREITBARTH* • CARRIE LUND* • BRENDAN POWERS* and

BRITT MICHAEL GORDON • BRIAN HATCH • LARRY JOHN MEYERS* MARGARET LOESSER ROBINSON* • LOU SUMRALL* • KATE YOUNG*

DIRECTED BYensemble member

ROBERT CACIOPPO**

COSTUME DESIGNERSTEFANIE GENDA***

ensemble member

LIGHTING DESIGNERJOSEPH P. OSHRY***

2 0 1 5 - 1 6 G R A N D S E A S O N S P O N S O R S

SPONSORED BY NAOMI BLOOM AND RON WALLACE • MEDIA SPONSOR FLORIDA WEEKLY

FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE

2 0 1 5 - 2 0 1 6 S E A S O NHISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT

ROBERT CACIOPPO, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

P R E S E N T S

ASST. STAGE MANAGERGRACIE DOD

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERJANINE WOCHNA*ensemble member

THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

SOUND DESIGNERJOHN KISELICA

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Laura Warwick........................................................MARGARET LOESSER ROBINSON*†

Michael Starkwedder..............................................................................LOU SUMRALL*†

Miss Bennett.............................................................................................CARRIE LUND*†

Jan Warwick.........................................................................BRITT MICHAEL GORDON*†

Mrs. Warwick.............................................................................................KATE YOUNG*†

Henry Angell..................................................................................DAVID BREITBARTH*†

Sergeant Cadwallader...............................................................................BRIAN HATCH*†

Inspector Thomas.......................................................................LARRY JOHN MEYERS*†

Julian Farrar....................................................................................BRENDAN POWERS*†

TIME & PLACERichard Warwick’s Study in South Wales near the Bristol Channel. Early November, 1958.

Act I, i: 11pmAct I, ii: 11am, the Next Day

Act II: That Evening

THE UNEXPECTED GUEST will be performed with one 15-minute intermission.The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTAGATHA CHRISTIE is the author not only of The Mousetrap, the longest running stage production in history but also Witness for the Prosecution and And Then There Were None to name but a few of her greatest stage successes. Her novels have sold more than 2 billion copies around the world, and she is only outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Born in 1890, in Torquay, Devon, England, to an American father and English mother, she wrote her first play Black Coffee (the only play in which she chose to feature Poirot) in 1930 having been disappointed by the way The Murder of Roger Ackroyd had been adapted into Alibi in 1928. She adapted her bestselling novel And Then There Were None for stage in 1943, giving it a different ending, followed by, in quick succession, Appointment with Death (1945), Murder on the Nile (1946) and The Hollow (1951). With The Mousetrap (1952), Witness for the Prosecution (1953), and Spider’s Web (1954), she became the only female playwright to have three plays running in the West End at the same time. Later plays include Towards Zero (1956) co-adapted with Gerald Verner, Verdict (1958) possibly her most unusual play, Go Back for Murder (1960), and Rule of Three (1962) a series of three one act plays. After a hugely successful career and a wonderful life, Ms. Christie died peacefully on 12 January 1976. You can read Agatha Christie’s own account of her life in An Autobiography which was published after her death in 1977.

CAST

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†Member of Florida Repertory Theatre’s Ensemble of Theatre Artists.See page 23 for the entire ensemble.

(in order of appearance)

**

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DAVID BREITBARTH*†

(Henry Angell) happily returns to Florida Rep for his fifth consecutive season. Previously: Tribes, Social Security, Lend Me A Tenor, and Rumors. 20 years an Associate Artist at Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, over 70

productions there include: Both Your Houses, The Grapes of Wrath, Glengarry Glen Ross, Clybourne Park, God of Carnage, Once in a Lifetime, Twelve Angry Men, The Front Page, The Immigrant, world premieres of Men of Tortuga and Perfect Mendacity, The Winter’s Tale, A Few Good Men, A Flea in Her Ear, Rounding Third, Art, and Nicholas Nickleby. Broadway 1st National Tour: Spring Awakening. Film and television: Frasier, Taken!, Law & Order, and Fame. David is a proud 2013 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow, selected by the prestigious Ten Chimneys Foundation.

BRITT MICHAEL GORDON

(Jan Warwick) is grateful to be returning to Florida Repertory Theatre having previously participated in Florida Rep’s Performance Internship, during which he played Billy in Tribes. Britt most recently reprised the role of Billy in Mad Cow

Theatre’s production of Tribes this past summer. His performance as Don in Broward Stage Door’s production of Butterflies Are Free earned him a Silver Palm award for outstanding new talent. Britt received his BFA in Acting from Florida State University, where he performed in several main stage productions including Monty Python’s Spamalot (King Arthur), David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow (Bobby Gould), and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (Mr. Marks). Britt has also contributed to multiple films through FSU’s College of Motion Picture Arts including Killer Kart, which won Best Short-Horror Comedy at LA’s Screamfest 2012.

BRIAN HATCH (Sergeant Cadwallader) was last seen here at Florida Rep during the 2012-2013 season, where he made his regional debut as Colonel Starling in Camping with Henry and Tom, as well, he played Leo in The Little Foxes and various other characters

in three TYA shows that season. Since then, Brian has worked as a professional actor out of Atlanta. His theatre credits include Deathtrap at Georgia Ensemble Theatre, R&J at Fabrefaction, The Rocky Horror Show at Actor’s Express, Madeline’s Christmas at Horizon Theatre and others. He can currently be

seen on-screen as the narrator of Mississippi State University’s 2015 brand videos and next spring as a supporting character on House of Cards, season four. Upcoming: the Georgia premiere of Peter and the Starcatcher at Georgia Ensemble Theatre. Brian wishes to thank Bob, Carrie, and Jason for bringing him back to his first theatrical home. He sends love to his first family, the Hatches, his second family, the Coynes, his little furball, Toby, and his exceedingly better half, Molly Coyne.

CARRIE LUND*† (Miss Bennett) has been a company member and the Associate Producer of Florida Rep since its inception in 1998 and has acted in over 90 productions in Southwest Florida. In 2012, she was named Best Actress of the Year and

named one of the “Power Women of the Year” by Florida Weekly. She produced and acted on Sanibel Island from 1984-1998 at the Pirate Playhouse and on Captiva Island with Carrie Lund Presents. She taught theatre at Florida Gulf Coast University in its early years, produced theatre companies in her hometown of Erie, PA and New York City, and performed in regional theatres in NY, VT and NC, as well as the Three River Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Playhouse, and American Ibsen Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA. In 1987, the Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce awarded her the Distinguished Citizen Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. Carrie has been in all seven Florida Rep shows reviewed by The Wall Street Journal: One Slight Hitch, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Little Foxes, God of Carnage, Sylvia, You Can’t Take It with You, and Dancing at Lughnasa. Other selected credits include Florida Rep’s Dividing the Estate, Tribes, Heart Song, Clybourne Park, Rumors (2002, 2011), August: Osage County, Noises Off (1998, 2010), The Last Romance, Enchanted April, Rabbit Hole, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, All My Sons, and Private Lives. Her work as a voiceover artist can be heard on NPR and industrial DVDs. Married to Robert Cacioppo, she enjoys the accomplishments of their best productions: Matt, graduate of UCF and Julia, graduate of FSU.

LARRY JOHN MEYERS*

(Inspector Thomas) is happy to return to the Gulf Coast and Florida Rep after his work here in Clybourne Park during the 2013-14 season. Since then he has performed in Caryl Churchill’s A Number (Chester Theatre, Massachusetts),

Theresa Rebeck’s O, Beautiful (Centre Stage, State College, Pennsylvania), Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (PICT Classic Theatre, Pittsburgh), and

CREATIVE TEAM

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DRAMATURGICAL NOTES

UNITED KINGDOM: An island country located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe. The United Kingdom comprises the whole of the island of Great Britain—which contains England, Wales, and Scotland—as well as the northern portion of the island of Ireland. The name Britain is sometimes used to refer to the United Kingdom as a whole. The capital is London, which is among the world’s leading commercial, financial, and cultural centres. Other major cities include Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester in England, Belfast and Londonderry in Northern Ireland, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, and Swansea and Cardiff in Wales.

WALES: A constituent unit of the United Kingdom that forms a westward extension of the island of Great Britain. The capital and main commercial and financial center is Cardiff. Famed for its strikingly rugged landscape, the small nation of Wales—which comprises six distinctive regions—was one of Celtic Europe’s most prominent political and cultural centers, and it retains aspects of culture that are markedly different from those of its English neighbors.

MAJOR WELSH CITIES: Cardiff (capitol), Swansea, Newport, Wrexham, Rhyl.

NORFOLK: A mostly rural county on the east coast of the Island of Great Britain. It is bordered on the north and east by the North Sea. Major towns and cities include Norwich, Great Yarmouth, and Thetford.

SEA FOG ON THE BRITISH COAST: A number of factors determine the locational extent of sea fog and whether it will disperse quickly or linger throughout the day…During the night, when temperatures on land drop, the sea fog can penetrate a long way inland and linger till the next morning.

GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

1958 YEAR IN REVIEW• Elizabeth II is in her sixth year as head of

the British Monarchy.• Harold Macmillan is the British Prime

Minister; Dwight D. Eisenhower is President of the U.S.

• Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union.

• NASA is formed.• Bobby Fischer wins the U.S.

Chess Tournament• The first Trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner

service begins with flights between London and New York on the new British Comet Jet.

• General Charles de Gaulle becomes Prime Minister of France.

• The Wham-O company introduces the Hula Hoop; over 100 million are sold.

• My Fair Lady opens on London’s West End starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

• Popular Films: The Bridge on the River Kwai, South Pacific, Gigi, Vertigo

• Popular Singers: Elvis Presley, Billie Holiday, Ricky Nelson, Frank Sinatra,

• The Everly Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, Jerry Lee Lewis

A BRIEF HISTORY OF FINGERprint identification

in forensics

1888: Sir Francis Galton, British anthropologist and a cousin of Charles Darwin, began his observations of fingerprints as a means of identification in the 1880’s. 1891: Juan Vucetich, an Argentine Police Official, began the first fingerprint files based on Galton pattern types. At first, Vucetich included the Bertillon System with the files.1892: Juan Vucetich made the first criminal fingerprint identification in 1892.1897: Two Indian fingerprint experts credited with primary development of the Henry System of fingerprint classification. The Henry classification system is still used in English-speaking countries.1901: The Fingerprint Branch at New Scotland Yard was created in July 1901 using the Henry System of Fingerprint Classification. 1946: By 1946, the FBI had processed 100 million fingerprint cards in manually maintained files; and by 1971, 200 million cards.

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DRAMATURGICAL NOTES

CHECK OUT THESE NEW BOOKS ABOUT AGATHA CHRISTIE AND HER WORK

Agatha Christie: A Biography by Janet HorganUsing family papers and other protected material, Janet Morgan sheds light on Agatha Christie’s life, work and relationships.

Little Grey Cells: The Quotable PoirotDiscover the man behind the moustache in this book of one-liners by the world’s most famous Belgian detective, revealing the wit and wisdom of Hercule Poirot and his creator, Agatha Christie.

Curtain Up - Agatha Christie: A Life in TheatreCurtain Up is the first ever book devoted to Agatha Christie’s writing for the stage. It offers a revealing and witty insight into how Agatha Christie became the world’s most successful female playwright.

A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha ChristieChristie used poison to kill her characters more often than any other murder method, with the poison itself being a central part of the novel, and her choice of deadly substances far from random.

A LOOK AT THE WORK of agatha christie

DAME AGATHA CHRISTIE (1890-1976): Christie is the author of over 80 novels and short stories, writer of the world’s longest running stage play, mastermind behind countless murders, creator

of world-famous detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and is commonly referred to as the Queen of Crime. She defined a genre of mystery writing, and followed in the footsteps of Edgar Allen Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. An author whose works are counted as some of the most best-selling in the world behind the Bible and Shakespeare, her play The Mousetrap, is still playing today after 63 years—it opened just six months after the coronation of young Queen Elizabeth II. 2015 marks a world-wide celebration of her 125th Anniversary.

HERCULE POIROT: Hercule Poirot is one of the most famous fictional characters of all time, and has been synonymous with waxed moustaches, and perfectionism for over ninety years. His first appearance was in Christie’s first published story, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920.

The character has been played onscreen by Peter Ustinov, Albert Finney, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina, and most notably by David Suchet in the PBS series that ran from 1989 to 2013 (pictured left).

MISS MARPLE: Miss Jane Marple doesn’t look like your average detective. Quite frankly, she doesn’t look like a detective at all. But looks can be deceiving. Her first appearance in literature was in Christie’s 1930 novel, Murder at the Vicarage.

Miss Marple has been played on screen by Joan Hickson, Geralidine McEwan, Margaret Rutherford, Helen Hayes, and Angela Lansbury in the 1980 film, The Mirror Crack’d (pictured left)—a portrayal that launched Lansbury’s longtime portrayal of Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote.

FURTHER READING

SOURCESwww.agathachristie.com/about-christie/ • www.Britanica.com • www.wikipedia.com

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Shakespeare’s Othello (Pittsburgh Public Theatre). His film credits in the past year include Low Tide In Serf City, The Mutineer, The Race, Final Greetings, and Concussion. Larry has been a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association since 1983.

BRENDAN POWERS*† (Julian Farrar) Florida Rep credits over the past eight seasons include Dividing the Estate, Around the World in 80 Days, The Fantasticks, Doubt, Opus, Boeing-Boeing, and The Glass Menagerie. He is married to fellow Rep ensemble member Rachel Burttram

and also serves as a Development Associate. Other credits include the Tony Award-winning play, Art, and The Big Knife, both with Alec Baldwin, the Noel Coward revue, Oh, Coward! at Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre, God of Carnage, August: Osage County, Our Town, Arsenic and Old Lace, and numerous others. TV work includes FBI Agent Rick Cranston on Graceland (USA Network), and David Weller in the Netflix original series, Bloodline, starring Sissy Spacek. He can also be seen driving the big blue Cadillac in a series of national commercials for Alabama Road Trips. His cartoon captions have been winners for various contests including The New Yorker, Hartford Courant, Denver Post, Moment Magazine, Clinical Psychology, Inside Higher Ed, and the Greensboro News-Record. www.BrendanPowers.com

MARGARET LOESSERROBINSON* (Laura Warwick) Credits include: Guenevere in Camelot (Theatre Under the Stars), Jane Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a Musical (NYMF), Mina in Dracula (The Denver Center), The 39 Steps (The Cape Playhouse),

The Foreigner and Dial ‘M’ for Murder (The Fulton Theatre), The Broken Heart (Theatre for a New Audience), Man and Superman and New Girl in Town (Irish Rep). Margaret has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied literature and printmaking, and is a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. You can read more about Margaret at www.MargaretRobinson.net.

LOU SUMRALL* (Michael Starkwedder) This is Lou’s first go-round at Florida Rep, and he is grateful for this opportunity. Since graduating from Rutgers in ‘92, Lou has performed in theatres across the country and has taken some gigs in television and film.

KATE YOUNG* (Mrs. Warwick) returns to Florida Rep where she was last seen as Julia in Lend Me A Tenor. Other Florida appearances include Miami Theatre Center (Hedda Gabler), Gulfshore Playhouse (The Importance of Being Earnest, Naples

Daily News Award for Best Comedy, 2013), and freeFall Theatre (The House of Bernarda Alba, Theatre Tampa Bay Awards nominations, 2013). Upcoming this winter in Orlando, Kate is looking forward to Mad Cow Theatre’s Outside Mullingar. Regional credits include the Human Race Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Royal George, Drury Lane, Light Opera Works, Northlight, ShawChicago, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, and Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival. Her performances have been recognized with Jefferson nominations and DayTony Awards as well as with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Tribune Review citations. Her film and television credits include Houseguest, Roommates, Diabolique, Citizen Cohn, and What She Doesn’t Know. A native San Franciscan now living in Chicago, Kate trained in London at LAMDA, Brown University, the University of Pittsburgh, and New England Conservatory. www.kateyoung.biz

GRACIE DOD (Asst. Stage Manager) is a recent graduate from Samford University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and a concentration in stage management. While studying at Samford, she stage managed many shows including Macbeth, The Wizard of Oz, and Moon Over Buffalo. Over the past two summers, Gracie has worked with The Berkshire Theatre Group in Massachusetts where she worked on shows such as Mary Poppins, Cedars, Seussical, and A Hatful of Rain. She also stage managed Shrek and The Little Mermaid in her hometown at Suwanee Academy of the Arts. Gracie would like to thank her friends, family, and her new and amazing Florida Rep family.

STEFANIE GENDA***† (Costume Designer) Florida Repertory Theatre: One Slight Hitch, Clybourne Park, Alone Together. Regional Theater: tick, tick...BOOM!, Marry Harry (American Theater Group), The New Moon, Sweethearts (Light Opera of New York), The Pavilion (Mile Square Theater), Othello (American Shakespeare Center), My Fair Lady, One Touch of Venus, Die Fledermaus (Ohio Light Opera). University Theater: She Stoops to Conquer, Barnum, The Cripple of Inishmaan (The Hartt School), Life is A Dream (The College of Wooster), and Much Ado About Nothing (Rutgers Theater Company). Film/TV: How You Look at It (Short Film), The Americans (FX, shopper). Stefanie has also worked on several productions both on and off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater, the Manhattan Theatre Club,

CREATIVE TEAM

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The Public and MCC Theater. She holds a BA in Theatre from the College of Wooster and an MFA in Costume Design from Rutgers University.

JOHN KISELICA (Sound Designer) is a graduate of West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in lighting and sound design. He is the Resident Sound and Lighting Designer for Endstation Theatre Company in Central VA and acts as the Lighting and Sound Supervisor for year round consultation and project specific work. He has worked on a national tour, Buddy: the Buddy Holly Musical, as the master electrician after a contract with Royal Caribbean International as a stage technician. Commercial theatrical work includes installing Prodigy Hoists, an automated rigging system from Electronic Theatre Controls. John is excited to be here for his second year as the Resident Sound Designer and Master Electrician at Florida Repertory Theatre. John continues to freelance in addition to his seasonal position with Florida Rep in the professional, academic, and community theatre circles.

JOSEPH P. OSHRY*** (Lighting Designer) is glad to be returning to Florida Repertory Theatre. Since 1986 he has designed lighting for over five hundred productions with such organizations as Asolo Rep, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Maltz-Jupiter Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Tampa, New Orleans Opera, Carreno Dance Festival, Ballet Eddy Toussaint USA, and the Interlochen Dance Ensemble in Michigan. Joseph has received two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and is a two-time recipient of the Theatre Tampa Bay award for outstanding lighting design. Further, he serves on the Advisory Board of Tampa Rep and is a member of the Slice Creative Network in Orlando. He is also a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 New York. Joseph lives in Bradenton with his wife Dee. www.josephoshry.com

BERT SCOTT*** (Set Designer) is happy to join Florida Rep for his first production here. Bert’s Off-Broadway designs include According to Goldman, Bass for Picasso, The Unexpected Guest, The Cocktail Hour, The Middle Ages, The Rules of Charity, and many others. Regionally, Bert has designed for Stages St. Louis, Theatre West Virginia (where he served for seven seasons as Resident Designer), The Opera Company of Philadelphia, The Mark Twain Playhouse (Branson, MO), Theatre by the Sea and Ocean State Theatre (Rhode Island), North Shore Music Theatre (Boston), The Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Orlando Rep, and Nickelodeon (Slime Time Live! on Norwegian Cruise Lines and several

productions of Dora the Explorer Live! in the US and Canada). Bert is an associate professor of theatre and the coordinator of the Theatre Design & Technology BFA program at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

JANINE WOCHNA*† (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to return to Florida Rep having previously stage managed Tribes, Around the World in 80 Days, Collected Stories, Time Stands Still, Talley’s Folly, and many others over 11 seasons. Regional theatre credits include: Brother Wolf, Underneath the Lintel, and Abundance at Triad Stage, four seasons as Resident Stage Manager at the Geva Theatre, and 14 seasons at the Cleveland Play House. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American Actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of theatre as an essential component of our society. Today,

Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

Florida Professional Theatres Association (FPTA) is a statewide organization of professional theatre companies and theatre professionals interested in the development

and promotion of professional theatre throughout Florida. Florida Repertory Theatre is a proud FPTA member theatre.

The National New Play Network is the country’s alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new

plays. The NNPN strives to pioneer, implement, and disseminate ideas and programs that revolutionize the way theaters collaborate to support new plays and playwrights. Florida Repertory Theatre is proud to be an Associate Member of the National New Play Network.

Florida Repertory Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American Theatre.

CREATIVE TEAM

SPECIAL THANKSBRUCE STRAYHORN

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Adapted by Philip Grecian

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