Sacred Fools Theater Company Presents

by ANNE WASHBURN score by MICHAEL FRIEDMAN lyrics by ANNE WASHBURN

directed by JAIME ROBLEDO

STARRING Scott Golden ................................................................................... Matt / Scratchy Heather Roberts .....................................................................................Jenny / Marge Tracey A. Leigh * ........................................................................................Maria / Bart

Joe Hernandez-Kolski ....................................................................... Sam / Homer

Tegan Ashton Cohan * .....................................................................Colleen / Itchy Eric Curtis Johnson ‡ * ...........................................................................Gibson / Burns Dagney Kerr .............................................................................................Quincy / Lisa Emily Clark ‡ ......................................................................................................... Edna

Aaron Mendelson *...........................................................................................Ned

Understudies Jeff Scott Carey * (Gibson / Burns), Adriana Colón (Colleen / Itchy / Quincy / Lisa),

Dana DeRuyck (Maria / Bart), Ashley Eskew (Jenny / Marge),

Sean Faye ‡ (Matt / Scratchy), Shiah Luna (Edna), Michael Shaw Fisher (Sam / Homer)

Stage Manager: Ellen Boener

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors & Stage Managers in the United States

Member of Sacred Fools Theater Company ‡ Associate Member of Sacred Fools Theater Company

produced for Sacred Fools by BRIAN W. WALLIS

Mr.Burns, a Post-Electric Play is performed in three acts, each taking place in a different theater within the Broadwater. There will be a swift transition between Acts I

and II, and one full 15 minute intermission between Acts II and III.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc. produced the New York City premiere of the play off-Broadway in 2013.

Originally produced in June, 2012 by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, DC, Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director; Jeffrey Herrmann, Managing Director.

Mr. Burns was Commissioned by The Civilians, New York, NY Steven Cosson, Artistic Director

For the language of the remembering of the Simpsons episode "Cape Feare," the author would like to credit the Civilians actors involved in the initial workshop: Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Maria Dizzia,

Gibson Frazier, Matt Maher, Jennifer Morris, Colleen Werthmann and Sam Breslin Wright.

This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule.

Act I - The very near future Act II - 7 years after that

Act III - 75 years after that

This organization is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

SACRED FOOLS THEATER COMPANY

at the Broadwater, 1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, CA 90038 www.SacredFools.org ● Social Media: SacredFoolsLA

PRODUCTION STAFF Director / Sound Designer / Choreographer (Act III)................................................................... Jaime Robledo

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Produced for Sacred Fools by ....................................................................................................Brian W. Wallis ●

Associate Producer..............................................................................................................Allison Faith Sulock ●

Assistant Director............................................................................................................................... Matt Almos ‡

Musical Director .............................................................................................................. Ryan Thomas Johnson ‡

Associate Music Director......................................................................................................................Emily Clark ‡

Stage Manager ................................................................................................................................. Ellen Boener Assistant Stage Manager.....................................................................................................................Jeff Dinnell Set Designer .......................................................................................................................................Joel Daavid Associate Set Designer .............................................................................................................. DeAnne Millais

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Scenic Charge ................................................................................................................................Marine Walton Assistant Scenic Artists ...................................................................................... Joyce Hutter

‡ & Paul Sheargold

Scenic Painter...............................................................................................................................Summer Reese Lighting Designer...................................................................................................................... Matthew Richter

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Costume Designer ..................................................................................................................Linda Muggeridge ●

Mask Designers .....................................................................................Linda Muggeridge ● & Aviva Pressman

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Makeup Designer / Costume Assistant............................................................................................Mandi Moss ●

Prop Designer.............................................................................................................................. Brandon Clark ●

Choreographers (Act II).......................................................................................Lauren Van Kurin ● & Erin Parks

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Dance Captain ....................................................................................................................................Dagney Kerr Fight Director ...................................................................................................................................Edgar Landa

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Build Crew ............................................................................ Tor Brown ‡, Drew Fitzsimmons & Will McMichael

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Publicity & Show Photography..............................................................................Jessica Sherman Photography Graphic Design .............................................................................................................................Katelyn Schiller

● Member of Sacred Fools Theater Company ‡ Associate Member of Sacred Fools Theater Company

SPECIAL THANKS: Unbound Productions, Grosh Backdrops and Drapery, Loft Ensemble, LA Stage Alliance Warehouse Co-Op, Chairman Barnes, Bryan Bellomo, Andrew Blackwood, Brendan Broms, Suze Campagna, Brittany Carriger, Kristyn Chalker, Perry Daniel, Kathy Bell Denton, Bob DeRosa, Padraic Duffy, Hugh Englehart, Matt Ford, Aaron Francis, Doug Gabrielle, Eric Giancoli, Gregory Guy Gorden, Monica Greene, Lana Rae Jarvis, Kristen Klehr, Burgandy Kohout, Tim Kopacz, Nick Levy, Rob Lecrone, Richard Levinson, Dan Mailley, Missy Mannila, David Mayes, Chris McGowan, Michelle McGregor, Tifanie McQueen, Richard Miraan, Nikki Muller, Madalina Nastase, Wren Nunns, TJ O’Brien, Jonas Oppenheim, Guy Picot, Paul Plunkett, Nadia Protsenko, Marz Richards, Al Richter, Martha Richter, Diana Saucedo, Paul Sheargold, Jacob Sidney, Ruth Silveira, Clayton Snyder, John Sylvain, Alisa Tangredi, Bart Tangredi, Jon Tosetti & JJ Valle

Mr. Burns, a post-electric play is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

DIRECTOR'S NOTE

I came across MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY four years ago. My colleague and West Side dive bar buddy, Jonas Oppenheim, sent me a script with no explanation other than I might be interested in it. This bonkers play that occurs over the course of 80 years about how storytellers, the stories they tell, and The Simpsons, survive an apocalypse, burrowed itself into my brain. After a lovely chat with Anne Washburn next to a beehive in a community garden in Brooklyn, I learned I wouldn't immediately be able to get the performance rights. A large production in San Francisco was the next stop on Mr. Burns' journey (see the cast credits for some serendipity). So I put the show away and moved on to other things. That is, until I was gifted an opportunity to direct this show three years later.

The delay was a blessing. I got more experience under my belt and as history marched on, MR. BURNS became more and more prescient. It turned out, this was the right play for me, at the right theater, at the right time.

Natural disasters have stacked up with alarming frequency. Hurricane Maria has turned Puerto Rico post-electric. Houston, is bailing out from a direct hit of its own. Toxic sludge seeps into water and poison smoke fills the air. Nuclear destruction of C. Montgomery Burnsian proportions is one misunderstood tweet away from leveling nations. American society is on the knife edge of reformation and collapse. The post-apocalyptic future of MR. BURNS in all its remixed profundity, terror, and silliness doesn’t seem so great a stretch.

I write my director's notes as an oral history of "how it all began" – a preface to the production, and a clarion call that we are all in this together. As you move from space to space within the newly christened Broadwater, you will share both in the story itself and in how the telling of the story evolves. When we lose everything, we tend to go back to the beginning and build up from there. In a play about salvaging pop culture (or any culture, for that matter), telling tales around a campfire is as good a place as any to start.

I am so grateful to Sacred Fools Theater Company for supporting this play and giving me the run of the place. Thank you to the cast and crew for your time, sweat, and Chablis. Thanks to Artistic Directors Scott Leggett, Danielle Ozymandias, Alicia Rock, Bryan Bellomo, and Aviva Pressman for their guidance and for taking the incoming fire required to fulfill their roles. Thank you David LM McIntyre for your graciousness and passion. Thank you Allison Sulock for doing all the things I didn't know had to be done and finally, thank you Brian Wallis for making the things in my brain happen on stage and for being kind when you say "I told you so."

--Jaime Robledo

ABOUT THE CREATORS Anne Washburn (Playwright, Lyrics) Anne Washburn's plays include 10 out of 12, Antlia Pneumatica, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, A Devil At Noon, I Have Loved Strangers, The Internationalist, The Ladies, Mr. Burns, The Small and transadaptations of Euripides' Orestes & Iphigenia in Aulis. Her work has premiered with 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, The Almeida, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Two River Theater Company, Vineyard Theater and Woolly Mammoth. Honors include a Guggenheim, a Whiting, an Alpert Award, a PEN/Laura Pels award for artist in mid-career, a NYFA Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. Next Up: The Twilight Zone at the Almeida, Little Bunny Foo Foo at Actor’s Theater of Louisville.

In Memoriam: Michael Friedman (Score)

September 24, 1975 – September 9, 2017 Versatile composer and lyricist Michael Friedman passed recently at the age of 41 due to complications of HIV/AIDS, according to the Public Theater, which announced his death. Perhaps best known as composer for the musical Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Michael Friedman also composed the score for MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY. Most recently, Mr. Friedman was

artistic director of Encores! Off-Center, an annual summer program at New York City Center that presents staged concert performances of Off Broadway musicals. His other recent credits include the musicals Unknown Soldier, Pretty Filthy, The Fortress of Solitude, and Love's Labour's Lost. This prolific composer also received a 2007 Obie award for sustained excellence. Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar said in a statement, "Michael Friedman was one of the most brilliant, multi-talented theater artists of our time. He was also a miracle of a human being: loving, kind, generous, hilarious, thrilling. His loss leaves a hole in the theater world that cannot be filled, and a hole in the hearts of those who loved him that will last forever." Our hearts go out to his family and loved ones, and everyone who has been touched by his work.

"Love never dies in memory" – Anne Washburn

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A L S O P L A Y I N G A T S A C R E D F O O L S :

SERIAL KILLERS: Season 13

LATE-NIGHT SATURDAYS @ 11PM

ON THE BROADWATER MAINSTAGE

Cycle 1: Oct. 14– Dec. 9 (except Nov. 25)

Cycle 2: Jan. 20 – Mar 24 | Playoffs: Apr 7 – May 12

Each week, three continuing stories face off against two new tales. At the end of the show, you vote for the

three stories that you would like to see continue on to next Saturday night, where their subsequent episodes will

then be pitted against two completely new storylines. Each week's serials could live on for weeks... or be

quietly smothered in their sleep – it’s up to you. But whichever pieces you vote for, one thing is for certain - by

the end of the evening, you will be a Serial Killer.

THE PLAYOFFS: Our THIRTEENTH year of serialized storytelling culminates as this season's sixteen most

popular storylines go head to head in a weekly elimination round. Only the last two serials left standing

after your votes are tallied will get to finish their stories... and win cash prizes!

WINNER: BEST LATEWINNER: BEST LATEWINNER: BEST LATEWINNER: BEST LATE----NIGHT THEATER FACTORYNIGHT THEATER FACTORYNIGHT THEATER FACTORYNIGHT THEATER FACTORY, L.A. Weekly Best of L.A., L.A. Weekly Best of L.A., L.A. Weekly Best of L.A., L.A. Weekly Best of L.A. "...one of the surest late-night gut-busting laugh bets in town." – L.A. Weekly

TEN TOPS: An Exhilaratingly Eclectic Open Stage

10 Performers. 7 Minutes Each. Show Us What You've Got!

Next: MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 in the Broadwater Black Box

Show @ 8pm ● Performer Signup: 7:30pm

TEN TOPS returns monthly beginning in December;

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10 performers get 7 minutes each to do whatever they want (EXCEPT stand-up)!

Arrived too late to be one of the ten? Sign up for the Charisma Round and get 3 minutes and we'll keep the show

going! Optional theme for October's show: "Be Real Scary." It's your chance to tell ghost stories on the woodland

set of Act I of "Mr. Burns" – or do anything else you want! "I’m pleased to have encountered a night in which I didn’t

know what to expect, and was, every time, genuinely surprised and always entertained." –L.A. Splash

WE THE PEOPLE created & curated by Kimberly Atkinson & Amir Levi

Bimonthly Mondays @ 8pm in the Broadwater Black Box Upcoming Shows: Nov. 20 ● Jan. 15 ● March 12

A curated staged reading series of new works theatrically exploring,

sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, and everything in between, the social and political concerns

facing our country today. We The People: Where artists and audiences come together to Resist, Persist,

and Express It. To find hope, unity, and to take action. Every other month, artists will receive a prompt

and a deadline. The 3-5 minute pieces will then be curated into a night of theatre. As part of the

performance series, all proceeds will go to a related non-profit. Admission is Donate-What-You-Can!

FAST & LOOSE - A Foolish Tradition! Next: NEW YEAR'S EVE – Sat, Dec. 31 @ 8pm (Party Afterwards!)

Performing on the Broadwater Mainstage

Several new short plays are written overnight, rehearsed the next day and

performed that evening! "One of the best theater experiences in town!" –BackStage

T i c k e t s / I n f o : S a c r e d F o o l s . o r g

CAST

Emily Clark (Edna/Associate Music Director) has graced the Sacred Fools stage before as understudy for both Skullduggery and A Kind of Love Story, and she’s become a regular performer at Serial Killers, including last year’s winner: Jane Austen’s Emma Frankenstein. Most recently, Emily was part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, performing in and music directing for 13th Grade (Pick of the Fringe), and she’s a regular cabaret

host around town at (Mostly) Musicals and Play Club Cabaret. Emily spends her days teaching the performing arts to kids, including Musical Theatre History and Technique at the new CS Arts San Gabriel Valley. She is the artistic director of The Unknown Artists, Play Club West, and has been known to cosplay as Marge Simpson from time to time... uaplayclubwest.wordpress.com

Tegan Ashton Cohan (Colleen/Itchy) appeared at The Pasadena Playhouse as Natalie Talmadge in Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton, a role she originated at Sacred Fools. She has been reviewed by Variety as “Mthe highlight of the productionM” for her work in the US premiere of The Mysteries, and was nominated “Best Female Comedic Performance” by the L.A. Weekly Awards

for the role of Ophelia in Hamlet Shut Up. She runs a clown company, a ladies’ supper club, a D&D game, and a coven. She received her degree in Theatre from Wellesley College, and studied at The National Theatre Institute, Shakespeare & Company, The Second City, and The Meisner Center. Thanks ever to the Fools and Foolish!

Scott Golden (Matt/Scratchy) This is Scott's fifth show with Sacred Fools. Previous credits include Absolutely Filthy- The Deceased, The Mother Ship- Willy/Werner, and the title character of Candide. Scott studied theatre at Florida State and improv with the Groundlings. He took home Best Comedy at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival with Easy Targets. Scott can also be seen in over 50 national commercials as well as television and film and is an avid Chablis drinker.

Joe Hernandez-Kolski (Sam/Homer) is psyched to return to Sacred Fools as a new company member. Fools was Joe’s first theater company when he moved to LA. Theater credits include: Hello Again (Chromolume Theatre), Luis Alfaro’s Painting In Red (Playwright’s Arena), Richard Montoya’s Federal Jazz Project (San Diego Rep), The Stones (Center Theater Group), The Bomb-itty of Errors (New Ambassadors, London). A two-time HBO Def Poet, Joe’s first solo show

was published as part of an anthology, Say Word! Voices of Hip-Hop Theater. He runs an open-mic for L.A. high school performers called Downbeat 720. He received an Emmy as producer/host of the televised version. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the School at Steppenwolf. For more info: pochojoe.com.

Eric Curtis Johnson (Gibson/Burns) with the Fools: appeared as Rumfoord in Sirens Of Titan; Mycroft in both Watsons; Deckard in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; The Dads in Neighborhood 3; The Man Who Could Sell Anything in Poona the Fuckdog; and JFK in The Magic Bullet Theory. At A Noise Within in Pasadena: Creon in Jean Anouilh's Antigone; Kurt in Strindberg’s The Dance Of Death; Bob

Cratchit in A Christmas Carol; Noakes in Arcadia; and Decius in Julius Caesar. Other favorite roles: Gary in Noises Off (Rubicon Theater); Driscoll in Kong (SkyPilot Theater); and many different roles in Magnum Opus Theatre (Thursty!). You should watch Borderline season 1 on Amazon Prime. Plus there's ecurtisjohnson.com and facebook.com/ecjactor to like and follow.

Dagney Kerr (Quincy/Lisa/Dance Captain) has performed on many L.A. stages, from Theater of NOTE to the Geffen Playhouse, and is thrilled to add Sacred Fools to that list. She's written and performed in her own one-act plays (Dalton, Initial Velocity) and short films (Business Meeting, Like). Other recent theater credits include ICU (Circle X), Loopholes (Hudson), and Frankenstud (2 Cents/Hollywood Fringe). Her play Stay just won best script and audience

favorite awards in the Silver Springs One-Act Festival, and her play Swindled Heart just premiered in the L.A. Play Noir series. Dagney recently guest starred on The Middle and The Incredible Life of Darrell, and regularly appears in national TV commercials, but she'll always be remembered as Kathy, the demon roommate on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

DENIM DOVES by Adrienne Dawes ● lyrics by Cyndi Williams

original music & arrangements by Ellen Warkentine ● directed by Rosie Glen-Lambert

OPENING JANUARY 19, 2018 Fri-Sat @ 8pm * Sun @ 7pm | Previews: Fri-Sat, Jan. 12-13 & Thurs, Jan. 18 @ 8pm

WEST COAST PREMIERE! In a not-too-distant future, nestled deep in the woods of what was once a

small Midwestern town, a modest compound is home to five denim-clad sister wives and their naive

husband, "Penis." When a mysterious sixth wife arrives to join the sisterly Braid, clad in scandalous

acid-wash and singing forbidden songs of ancient riot grrls, will she compromise the security of this

pious sect? And who, if anyone, will produce a long-awaited heir from the night of The Seedling,

their semi-annual procreation ritual? Performing on the Broadwater Mainstage.

THE ART COUPLE by Brendan Hunt ● directed by Lauren Van Kurin

OPENING FEBRUARY 16, 2018 Fri-Sat @ 8pm * Sun @ 7pm | Previews: Fri-Sat, Feb. 9-10 @ 8pm

WORLD PREMIERE! Long before Felix met Oscar, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin were ill-fitting

roommates in the south of France; a fateful co-habitation that would change the face of art - and Van

Gogh's face, too. It's a lesser-known tidbit of theatre history that these two masters were also the subjects of

Neil Simon's original draft of "The Odd Couple." Sacred Fools now presents the first-ever performance of this

abandoned script, and the odd tale of how it was written. Performing in the Broadwater Black Box.

AKUMA-SHIN by Kenley Smith ● directed by Scott Leggett

OPENING MARCH 30, 2018 Fri-Sat @ 8pm * Sun @ 7pm | Previews: Fri-Sat, March 23-24 @ 8pm

WEST COAST PREMIERE! In 1956, a giant kaiju (monster) destroys Tokyo and sends seismic waves of

fear, anger and ignorance through generations. Facts are questioned, history is alternatively written

and modern politics is set against primal religion in this ferociously civilized cautionary tale of two

nations coping with their own damaged legacies. Can humanity reckon with the monsters that rise

against us, the ones that live within us all? Performing on the Broadwater Mainstage.

Late-Night Fridays in March (Dates tba):

DISASTEROID! by Zachary Bernstein ● directed by Guy Picot

When tax auditor and amateur astronomer Edgley is misled by

scientific authorities to believe a giant asteroid is weeks away from

destroying the Earth, he departs his humdrum life for adventure.

Along with his philanthropist married client Mabel, they roam the

planet in search of love, life, and the meaning of the universe. Performing in the Broadwater Black Box.

For more info and more shows TBA, keep watching SacredFools.org!

Tracey A. Leigh (Maria/Bart) An Obie Award and NAACP Theatre Award recipient, credits include Burglars of Hamm’s Easy Targets (Best Comedy, 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival Award); Quincy/Bart in the A.C.T./Guthrie Theatre co-production of MR. BURNS; Collective Rage and Colony Collapse (The Theatre @Boston Court); All the Way, Death of a Salesman, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) and Safe in Hell (Southcoast Repertory); Twelfth Night, Romeo and

Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Center/LA); Elmina’s Kitchen (Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble); The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King (EST/LA); The Vagina Monologues national tour; and Off-Broadway productions at P.S. 122, Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, and Signature Theatre. Television appearances include Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds, Strong Medicine and Law and Order. Thank you, Mark.

Aaron Mendelson (Ned) Sacred Fools: The Coarse Acting Show, Live! From the Last Night of My Life, Rose and the Rime, Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini. Other theaters: (NY) Circle in the Square: Harry Partch's The Wayward, The New York Pop'ra Company: Senator Joe, AMAS Rep: Capitol Cakewalk, La MaMa: ASIAD. (LA) A Noise Within: Twelfth Night, Shakespeare Center/LA: Othello, East L.A.

Classic Theater: Romeo and Juliet, Quantum Theater: Julius Caesar, New Mercury Theater: Twelve Angry Men. Regional: River Arts Rep: La Galue, Groton Theater: The Crucible.

Heather Roberts (Jenny/Marge) is excited to be making her Sacred Fools debut. Her regional credits include Henry V, Romeo & Juliet, and All’s Well That Ends Well with Tennessee Shakespeare Company; The Ghost Sonata, The Queen Family’s Very Special Holiday Special and Harry Potter Hamlet with The Actors’ Gang; Dead Man’s Cell Phone with International City Theater, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet with Ark

Theater, Twelfth Night with a Noise Within, Marat/Sade with Balagan Theater, Mame with The 5th Avenue Theater, and All's Well That Ends Well with Seattle Shakespeare Company. She is a member of The Actors' Gang in Culver City, as well as a teaching artist in their Prison Project.

UNDERSTUDIES

Jeff Scot Carey (u/s Gibson / Burns) Broadway: 101 Dalmatians (Madison Square Garden) and Rent (Tenth Anniversary Concert) National Tours: Grease, South Pacific, Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians, and Rent. World Tour: Rent. Off-Broadway: Tails, Dorian Gray, and Back Home. L.A. Theatre: 13th Grade (The Unknown Artists/HFF), Skullduggery (Sacred Fools), The Max Factor Factor (NoHo Arts Center), Doomsday Cabaret (Orgasmico), Bagels (NMI), A

Christmas Memory (Sierra Madre Playhouse) and 35mm (The Unknown Artists.) Film/TV: One Life to Live, All My Children, Magnanimous, The Reformation, Egyptian Holiday and The One You Marry. As a writer, his play Bottom Nine was performed last month in Hollywood at the Dorie, and he also wrote and directed the acclaimed Mockumentary webseries Slightly Dramatic, available at slightlydramatic.com.

Adriana Colón (u/s Colleen/Itchy/Quincy/Lisa) is a bilingual voice actor and stage director. Her career began with a street theatre troupe in Puerto Rico, and her passion for new work prospered at Harvard, where she graduated with a Special Concentration in "Performance and the Body." She is a proud alumna of the Signet Society. Adriana is a member of Sacred Fools Theater, Director's Lab West, and World-Voices

Organization. Recent projects include The Box: Los Angeles (Sacred Fools), The Faggot King, or Edward II (School of Night), An Audience With (Santa Monica Playhouse), Must Be Comfortable With (Broads' Word Ensemble), Total Novice (HFF), B O X (Edinburgh Fringe), How We Chose to End the World, La Casa de Bernarda Alba, and Bitch: A Play About Antigone. adrianacolon.com @adrilingua

Dana DeRuyck (u/s Maria/Bart) is a Sacred Fools company member who's thrilled to be a part of this (post) electric production. Los Angeles theater: Inkwell Theatre (Sisters Three), Sacred Fools (A Gulag Mouse, Miravel, A Woman of No Importance, Bill & Joan, The Magic Bullet Theory), The Porters of Hellsgate (Breaking Bard, Sherlock Through the Looking-Glass, King Lear), Broads' Word Ensemble (Must Be Comfortable With, Fifty Shades of Shrew), Hollywood Fringe Festival (Robot Monster

the Musical, Lamprey: Weekend of Vengeance). She's appeared in Nickelodeon's iCarly and award-winning webseries 20 Seconds to Live. Season 2 of her webseries Fixing Shakespeare with Communication is now streaming; also sketch comedy with Mornings & Mondays, Dreamwolf, and Dynamite Kablammo. She raises a glass of chablis to every one of you. danaderuyck.com

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Ashley Eskew (u/s Jenny/Marge) is excited to be making her Sacred Fools Debut! Recent credits include originating the role of Claws in Fair and Hermione in The Oresteia Project. Other favorites: Rose Baum in The American Clock, Belle in Beauty and the Beast and the titular role in Evita. This year, she can also be seen on your TV as one of the faces of HD Radio. In the summers, she is honored to be a part of the A Broaderway family with an incredible community of artists including Idina Menzel and

Jeanine Tesori. She is proud graduate of Northwestern and holds her MFA from USC. Fight On!

Sean Faye (u/s Matt/Scratchy) was most recently seen in the West Coast premiere of Rose and the Rime at Sacred Fools, and is thrilled beyond belief to return to the Fools and to finally put his decades of Simpsons knowledge to practical use. Some favorite roles include Crumpet in The Santaland Diaries, The Vice President in The Apollo of Bellac, and Warwick in Henry VI Trilogy. Sean is an Associate Member with Sacred Fools and a Resident Artist and Producer with the

Porters of Hellsgate. So much love to Kate!

Shiah Luna (u/s Edna) is a California native actress who just wrapped filming the feature film "The Dead Site" playing the highly inquisitive lead "India" in Louisiana & "Vanishing Point" playing a mysterious Native woman named Isabella that leads a people to nature and spirituality. Last year, she played the sister of activist Oscar Zeta Acosta in the new PBS Film and an American Soldier in the post apocalyptic

sci-fi drama “Age of the Living Dead” set to release later this year. Shiah loves exploring roles with dynamic emotional range connecting to the heart & passion of humanity. She is also a singer/ songwriter who releases music and enjoys writing for other recording artists!

Michael Shaw Fisher (u/s Sam/Homer) is an actor, producer and writer of musicals in Los Angeles. His latest, Shakespeare’s Last Night Out, won an Ovation Award for Best Book for an Original Musical. Michael also penned and performed in Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to Hamlet at Sacred Fools, the Ovation-nominated Doomsday Cabaret (2012), Best Fringe Musical-winning Exorcistic: The

Rock Musical Parody Experiment (2013) He can currently be seen at Three Clubs as William Sexpeare in the 2017 "Top of Fringe" winning Shakesleque: To Thine Own Cherry Be True.

CREW

Jaime Robledo (Director/Sound Designer/Choreographer: Act III) is a proud company member of Sacred Fools and participant in the Los Angeles theater community. He’s been given creative and financial opportunities he never thought possible because of his work and growth in the small theater world of L.A. Jaime’s work at Sacred Fools includes: director/writer of Watson, director of Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton, and Astro Boy and the God of Comics. He’s directed the World Premiere of Hearts Like Fists at Theater of N.O.T.E, wrote and directed shows for the grand opening of Shanghai Disney, and let Bruce Campbell run roughshod over a rowdy crowd for Evil Dead Live in Concert at the Ace Hotel. He’s won a bunch of awards and has a website: jrobledo.com. Brian Wallis (Lead Producer) received his first producing credit on the multi-award-winning Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara at the Matrix Theatre in 2008. Shortly after that, he teamed up with director Jaime Robledo and they went on to create several more hits at Sacred Fools including Neighborhood III, the two original Watson plays, Stoneface at both Sacred Fools and at the Pasadena Playhouse, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Astro Boy and the God of Comics. He’s excited to team up again with Jaime on their seventh (maybe eighth?) production together where they’re once again upping the ante for how big of a mess they can get themselves into. Matt Almos (Assistant Director) is a founding partner of Burglars of Hamm theater company, and had a hand in the writing and directing of The Behavior of Broadus, Land of the Tigers, Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk, Easy Targets and many other Burglar shows. He recently finished a 13 year stint with Walt Disney Imagineering, and currently works as a freelance creative consultant in the themed entertainment industry.

Ellen Boener (Stage Manager) is ecstatic to be making her Sacred Fools debut with MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY. This is Ellen’s second production in the city after moving to Los Angeles on August 1st. Her first production was Arsenic and Old Lace with The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (Assistant Director). Prior to L.A., Ellen lived in San Francisco, where she worked closely with TheatreFIRST as their Artistic Development Intern and Stage Manager (Hela and VS, world premiere productions). Her own original production, Car Play, directed alongside Liam Collier, premiered last June under the auspices of T1 Presents in Berkeley. Other credits include We Players’ Beowulf (Director’s Assistant), Romeo and Juliet (Production Intern); The Breadbox Theatre’s MacBitch (Assistant Director). Thank you all for supporting Sacred Fools and enjoy the show!

Joel Daavid (Set Designer) Texan /LA resident since 1993. Joel has become an award-winning set designer since attending the American Film Institute for Cinematography. His career accomplishments include cinematography for film work as well as stage directing and design. Joel's most notable awards include the Ovation, L.A. Weekly, NAACP and LADCC Theater Awards. He directed/designed the award winning production of The Miracle Worker

at the Matrix and Edgemar Theatres and the new production of Tennessee Williams’ Baby Doll at the Lillian Theatre. Joel directed/designed the multi-award winning Frankenstein for Theatre Tallahassee and the epic story of Camille (Claudel) at the Greenway Arts Alliance. jdaavid.com

Jeff Dinnell (Assistant Stage Manager) is pleased to be a part of MR. BURNS and Sacred Fools. He hails from Santa Cruz, Ca., where he produced and appeared in numerous plays. You can catch his world premiere as a playwright at the Zephyr Theatre in February.

Ryan Thomas Johnson (Musical Director) began his association with Sacred Fools as music director for Forbidden Zone. He has since written original scores for their productions of Watson, Astro Boy, Candide, Neverwhere, and Stoneface, for which he won an Ovation Award. His work has been performed by the Orpheus Choir of Munich. As a rock musician, he has worked with Sia Furler, Kid Koala, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As a band member of Batlord, Renfield, and Uberband, he has toured four countries, played countless clubs and three weddings. He is currently playing with the bands Earth Moon Earth and The Fuxedos, holing himself up in his studio writing chamber music, or thanking his understanding wife for putting their kid to sleep while he ran off to rehearse MR. BURNS.

Edgar Landa (Fight Director) is an actor/director and creates fights & violence for theatres large and small. Credits include: The Model Apartment (Geffen Playhouse); That Pretty Pretty, or, The Rape Play (Son of Semele); Hit the Wall (Los Angeles LGBT Center), El Henry (San Diego Rep/La Jolla Playhouse); The Reunion (South Coast Repertory); Parfumerie (The Wallis); The Nether (CTG/Kirk Douglas Theatre). Edgar serves on the faculty of the USC School of Dramatic Arts and is a long-time collaborator of Son of Semele Ensemble. He is an AEA member and Pro99 supporter of intimate theatre in Los Angeles. edgarlanda.com

DeAnne Millais (Associate Set Designer) is a proud member of Sacred Fools Theater Company. For the Fools, she's designed the sets for Taste (Stage Raw Award winner; Ovation Award nominated), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (L.A. Weekly Theater Award nominated), Occupation, Astro Boy and the God of Comics, Past Time and Skullduggery. She's designed props and scenic for Evil Dead in Concert at the Ace Hotel (her severed leg dancing canes can be seen on Instagram) and La La Land in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl. She's also created environmental design for Clown Bar (RedWhite+Bluezz / Pasadena Playhouse), exhibition design for the Pasadena Playhouse, experience design for Escape Room LA / The Theatre, and produced over 200 special events. She's excited to work with her mentor, Joel Daavid, once more. deannemillais.com

Linda Muggeridge (Costume & Mask Designer) is honored to be a part of this fascinating production! Thanks and mad respect to Jaime Robledo for a fifth production as my boss, and same to also-boss Brian Wallis. Proud to be a Sacred Fools member and glad they let me stay when I can't act at all. Thanks also to Kraft Engel Management for two shows at the Hollywood Bowl this year (La La Land and Willy Wonka), to Seth Cohen of PV Peninsula High School and everybody else who hires me so I can pay my kids' tuitions. Love to Gil, Hannah, Sadie, Aviva and Dylan and all my precious Foolies and students. Grateful you came tonight, kind person who is reading this!

Aviva Pressman (Mask Designer) is an actor, singer, VO Artist, clown, visual artist, and general badass. She can currently be heard on Stan Lee's anime The Reflection and can next be seen onstage in Sacramento Theatre Company's A Christmas Carol. She bled for this show. Seriously, her thumb may never be the same.

Matthew Richter (Lighting Designer) is an award-winning lighting and sound designer based in Los Angeles. He is the resident designer for the LA LGBT Center, where he also works full time. Recent designs include Hit the Wall (LADCC Award and Ovation Nomination),and The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Revisited, both for the L.A. LGBT Center, A Gulag Mouse (Ovation Nomination), Astro Boy and the God of Comics (Stage Raw nomination), both for Sacred Fools, Rio Hondo (Stage Raw nominations) for Theatre of NOTE, and Plasticity at the Hudson. Matt also serves as half of the experimental ambient folk duo Lanfair Field (lanfairfield.com). For more information, please go to mattrichter.net.

Allison Faith Sulock (Associate Producer) is pretty much Lisa Simpson, so of course, she had to work on this show! Previously, Allison was Associate Producer for Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to Hamlet at Sacred Fools and has since become a company member. She has toured the world with musical artists including Paul McCartney, Beyoncé, and David Gilmour; and worked on shows for SeaWorld, Blue Man Group, and Disney on Ice. Her first foray into L.A. theatre was as co-producer, multi-instrumentalist, and costume designer for Shakespeare's Last Night Out. Learn more about her theatrical design, production, and music background at museinitiative.com

Lauren Van Kurin and Erin Parks (Choreographers: Act II) make up the outrageously entertaining dance troupe Smooth Movementz along with David Haverty. They almost always pee their pants from laughing whilst choreographing. They hope you feel their joy.

Marine Walton (Scenic Charge) is a sought-after professional faux finisher, scenic artist and muralist. She's had the privilege of working with some of the most talented, creative, and award winning designers in L.A., as well as traveling to complete commissions and projects outside of California. For portfolio and bookings please visit marinewalton.blogspot.com.

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ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

MANAGING DIRECTOR: Padraic Duffy

ARTISTIC DIRECTORS: Bryan Bellomo, Scott Leggett & Aviva Pressman

BUSINESS MANAGER Pete Caslavka

LITERARY MANAGER Angela Sauer

PUBLICITY Scott Golden & Paul Plunkett

MARKETING DIRECTOR JJ Mayes

PRODUCTION MANAGER Heatherlynn Gonzalez

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Emily Kosloski

COMMUNITY OUTREACH Crystal Keith

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Emily Kosloski

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Joe Jordan

FACILITIES MANAGER Bruno Oliver

CASTING COORDINATOR Kimberly Atkinson

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION Amir Levi

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS Bart Tangredi

BUILD/DESIGN COORDINATOR DeAnne Millais

BOX OFFICE MANAGER John Wuchte

EVENTS COORDINATOR Erin Holt

CLEANING COORDINATOR Perry Daniel

OFFICE MANAGER Ruth Silveira

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE: Ed Goodman, Crystal Keith & Cj Merriman

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Adam Bitterman, Padraic Duffy, Brian Finkelstein, Lauren Hollingsworth, Carrie Keranen, Bruno Oliver, Paul Plunkett & John Sylvain

ADVISORY BOARD: Sarah Al-Atrakchi, Carlyn & Patrick Duffy, Richard Elfman, Greg Louganis, Amber Ruffin, French & Vanessa Stewart

COMPANY MEMBERS ( FOUNDING MEMBER, * MEMBER EMERITUS)

Kimberly Atkinson Lemon Baardsen Libby Baker Jax Ball Chairman Barnes Bryan Bellomo Joshua Benton Zachary Bernstein Adam Bitterman * Curt Bonnem Brendan Broms Suze Campagna Pete Caslavka Kristyn Chalker Brandon Clark Tegan Ashton Cohan Adrianna Colón Shaela Cook Perry Daniel Marianne Davis Rago Isaac Deakyne Kathy Bell Denton

Bob DeRosa Jennifer Christina DeRosa Dana DeRuyck Padraic Duffy Erik Engman Annette Fasone Peter Fluet Aaron Francis Eric Giancoli Scott Golden Heatherlynn Gonzalez Marian Gonzalez Ed Goodman Gregory Guy Gorden Julia Griswold Rowan Hall Joe Hernandez-Kolski Erin Holt Victor Isaac Lana Rae Jarvis Crystal Keith Carrie Keranen

Corey Klemow Emily Kosloski Bryan Krasner Rebecca Larsen Rob Lecrone Scott Leggett Amir Levi Richard Levinson Sabrina Lloyd Mike Mahaffey David Mayes JJ Mayes David LM McIntyre Will McMichael Tifanie McQueen Aaron Mendelson Cj Merriman K.J. Middlebrooks DeAnne Millais Mandi Moss Linda Muggeridge Nikki Muller

Lisa Anne Nicolai Natasha Norman Bruno Oliver Danielle Ozymandias Andrew Joseph Perez Guy Picot Paul Plunkett Bo Powell Aviva Pressman Shaunessy Quinn Ari Radousky Matt Richter Jaime L. Robledo Alicia Conway Rock Ben Rock Diana Romo Leon Russom Erika Salomon Angela Sauer Rebecca Schoenberg Michael Shaw Fisher Jessica Sherman

Jacob Sidney Ruth Silveira Travis Snyder-Eaton Vanessa Claire Stewart Glenda Suggs Allison Faith Sulock John Sylvain * Alisa Tangredi Bart Tangredi Michael Teoli Pat Towne Lauren Van Kurin Brian Wallis Nathan Wellman Shelley Wenk * Dan Wingard John Wuchte

M I S S I O N S T A T E M E N T

Sacred Fools Theater Company is dedicated to creating and fostering a dynamic, empowered artistic community in Los Angeles. The company is run solely by the ensembled artists. We have an ongoing commitment to the development of new plays and projects which challenge traditional expectations of the theatrical experience. Our goal is to produce work which invigorates, enlightens and entertains. We believe that theater is a popular and vital art form which inspires and transforms its audience and its members.