G A S LI G H T G A S LI G H T Historic Arcade eatre • Fort Myers River District Robert Cacioppo, Producing Artistic Director PRESENTS SPONSORED BY BERNESE DAVIS & ‘TWEEN WATERS INN ISLAND RESORT RACHEL BURTTRAM* , TONY CORMIER* , CARRIE LUND* , HERMAN PETRAS* , RACHEL SWINDLER DIALECT COACH GREG LONGENHAGEN SET DESIGNER SCOTT COOPER*** LIGHTING DESIGNER TODD O. WREN*** COSTUME DESIGNER ROBERTA MALCOLM SOUND DESIGNER KATE SMITH ANGEL STREET (GASLIGHT) is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. 2010-11 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS is entire season sponsored in part by in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, 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. STAGE MANAGER AUDREY M. BROWN* Arthur Zupko • John & Marjorie Madden • Cheryl & David Copham Gholi & Georgia Darehshori • City of Fort Myers Public Art Committee ROBERT CACIOPPO** DIRECTED BY STARRING BY PATRICK HAMILTON
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GASLIGHTGASLIGHTHistoric Arcade Theatre • Fort Myers River District
Robert Cacioppo, Producing Artistic Director
P R E S E N T S
S P O N S O R E D B YBERNESE DAVIS & ‘TWEEN WATERS INN ISLAND RESORT
RACHEL BURTTRAM* , TONY CORMIER* , CARRIE LUND* , HERMAN PETRAS* , RACHEL SWINDLER
DIALECT COACHGREG LONGENHAGEN
SET DESIGNERSCOTT COOPER***
LIGHTING DESIGNER TODD O. WREN***
COSTUME DESIGNERROBERTA MALCOLM
SOUND DESIGNERKATE SMITH
ANGEL STREET (GASLIGHT) is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
2010-11 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS
This entire season sponsored in part by in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, 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.
STAGE MANAGERAUDREY M. BROWN*
Arthur Zupko • John & Marjorie Madden • Cheryl & David CophamGholi & Georgia Darehshori • City of Fort Myers Public Art Committee
ROBERT CACIOPPO**D I R E C T E D B Y
S T A R R I N G
BY PATRICK HAMILTON
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SPECIAL THANKS
TIME & PLACE
1880. A house on Angel Street, located in the Pimlico District of London.
ACT ILate afternoon.
There Will Be One Fifteen-Minute Intermission between Act I and Act I.
ACT IIScene I: Immediately afterwards.
Scene II: Later the same night
The use of any photographic or recording devices is strictly prohibited!
(In Order of Appearance)
Bella Manningham ............................................................................... Rachel Burttram*Jack Manningham ...................................................................................... Tony Cormier*Nancy .................................................................................................... Rachel Swindler*Elizabeth ....................................................................................................... Carrie Lund*Inspector Rough ...................................................................................... Herman Petras*Policemen ................................................................ Timothy Cobb, Matthew Natale Rush*
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.
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.
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Special thanks to Robb & Stucky Interiors for their continued generosity and support of Florida Rep’s scenic needs.
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THE CREATIVE TEAMTHE CREATIVE TEAM
RACHEL BURTTRAM (Bella Manningham) is over the moon to be back at the Rep. You may remember Rachel from her job as an Associate Director, or from the numerous roles she has played here including: Trying, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Glass Menagerie, Doubt, Rabbit Hole, Proof, Amy’s View (opposite Carol Lawrence) and Mousetrap to name a few. Since her departure, Rachel has worked opposite Tony-nominated Daniel Sunjata at Actors’ Studio in NYC on the new play Pushkin. Israel Horovitz directed her in his new play Inconsolable at Gloucester Stage. She performed Almost, Maine at the oldest summer stock theatre in the nation, Barnstormers’
Theatre. Look for Rachel on a TV near you in USA’s Burn Notice, national Wal-Mart and HH Gregg commercials. She is a proud member of Equity and is eligible for the Screen Actor’s Guild. Thanks to my Florida Rep fam for all your love and support!
TONY CORMIER (Jack Manningham) was most recently seen in Florida Rep’s production of Noises Off as Lloyd Dallas. He originated the role of Kip in Tennessee Williams’ Something Cloudy, Something Clear; he played the title role in the Obie-award winning production of Pericles, was Dapper in The Alchemist and Ferdinand in The Tempest, all at New York’s Jean Cocteau Rep. Elsewhere Off-Broadway he was Marcus in Titus Andronicus and Dumaine in Love’s Labours Lost. Regionally he’s played Robert Kennedy in Detroit and Oscar Wilde in Tampa. At Roanoke’s Mill Mountain Theatre he was Hornbeck in Inherit the Wind. He played Gooper in Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof , was The Man in The Blue Room and was seen as Lennox in Macbeth, Oliver in David Edgar’s Pentecost, and James in Peter Nichols’ Passion.
CARRIE LUND (Elizabeth) was last seen as Belinda Blair in Florida Rep’s production of Noises Off. Carrie has been the Associate Producer with Florida Rep since its inception and has acted in over 90 productions in Southwest Florida. Selected credits include: Boeing-Boeing, You Can’t Take It With You, Relatively Speaking, The Last Romance, Alone Together, Dancing at Lughnasa, Enchanted April, Rabbit Hole, Indian Blood, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, All My Sons, I’m Not Rappaport, Deathtrap, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Same Time Next Year, and Private Lives. Her work as a voiceover artist can be heard on NPR and industrial
DVDs. In another lifetime she founded the Pirate Playhouse on Sanibel Island in 1984, served as a theatre faculty at Florida Gulf Coast University, produced theatre companies in her hometown of Erie, PA and New York City, performed in regional theatres in NY, VT and NC, as well as the Three River Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Playhouse and American Ibsen Theatre. In 1987, the Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce awarded her the Distinguished Citizen Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. Her favorite role is mom to Matthew and Julia and wife to Robert.
HERMAN PETRAS (Inspector Rough) is returning for his second production at he Rep, after playing Selsdon Mowbray in Noises Off. He also recently played St. Clair Byfield in Glorious at Arkansas Rep. Before that he was Merlyn and understudied Pellinore in Camelot at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. Earlier, he played Nunzio in Over The River And Through The Woods at the John W. Engeman Theater in Northport, NY. He has toured Europe and Southeast Asia with West Side Story, logging in nearly 300 performances as Doc. National tours include the dual role of Harry/Baptista in Kiss Me, Kate, Mr. Scheinkopf in Fame: The Musical, and Horace
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Vandergelder opposite Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly. Regional credits include Maurice in Beauty and The Beast, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Gloucester in King Lear, Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and various television appearances on All My Children, Law & Order and Saturday Night Live.
RACHEL SWINDLER (Nancy) is thrilled to be an intern this season at Florida Repertory Theatre! Educational Credits Include: Marcy in Dog Sees God, Jenny in Company, Agnes in Dancing at Lughnasa, Follies Girl and Ziegfeld’s Favorite U/S in Will Rogers Follies and Kafka in All in the Timing. She has also worked with the New York-based entertainment company, RSW and Associates. Rachel is a recent graduate of Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she received her BA in Musical Theatre.
PATRICK HAMILTON (Playwright) was one of the more successful playwrights and novelists of the 1930s and ‘40s, and saw his two greatest plays turned into extremely popular movies. He made his stage debut in 1921 at the age of 17, but failed at this career and soon turned to working as a typist and stenographer in London, writing in his spare time. Hamilton didn’t return to writing for the stage until 1938, when he brought forth his magnum opus: the play Gaslight (produced under that name, Angel Street, and 5 Chelsea Lane). The play put Hamilton on the map permanently, enjoying a long run in London and becoming the first of his works to reach the screen. Hamilton was inactive during the second half of the 1950s as his health failed. He died in 1962, at the age of 58. Hamilton was a man uniquely attuned to the dark side of human relations as a motivating force and, in many ways, was far out in front of the popular sensibilities and perceptions of his era, a fact reflected in the continued popularity of his work more than 40 years after his death.
SCOTT COOPER (Set Designer) has designed scenery for American Stage, Jobsite, Gorilla, Jaeb (Straz Center for the Performing Arts), Stageworks and FreeFall theaters in the Tampa Bay area. His work has also been seen at the Goodman and Steppenwolf Theaters in Chicago. He has received Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay outstanding Scenic Designer in the Tampa Bay area for four consecutive years. He has been nominated twice for the Jefferson Award in Scenic Design in Chicago for his designs of Bus Stop and American Buffalo, both at American Theater Company. He is otherwise kept busy by teaching design at USF. He is a proud member of the United Scenic Artists Local 829.
ROBERTA MALCOLM (Resident Costume Designer) is excited to enter her seventh season in residence at the Rep and 31 years as a costumer. She has designed, drafted, constructed and dressed over 200 productions across the United States. A member of USITT and IATSE, it has been her privilege and pleasure to design/wardrobe for John Ritter, Florence Henderson, LeVar Burton, Dean Jones, Cloris Leachman, Conrad John Shuck, Tony Bennett, Patti LaBelle, Margaret O’Brien and a host of other stage and screen luminaries. Thanks to Robert Cacioppo, John Martin and the board for their continuing commitment to quality in the regional visual arts.
AUDREY M. BROWN (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to return to Florida Repertory Theatre. Audrey has worked extensively with People’s Light & Theatre, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Riverside Theatre, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte Repertory Theatre & Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. She was the American Equity Stage Manager for the Royal Shakespeare Company with two of their Davidson College residencies. She has also worked with The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. & Dallas Theatre Center. A member of AEA since 1991, Audrey currently lives in Charlotte with her two golden retrievers & husband, Graham Smith.
KATE SMITH (Sound Designer) is happy to return for her second season at Florida Rep. She is a native of Pennsylvania and a graduate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Kate has worked in many aspects of theater. Lighting Design credits include: Picnic (2009 KC/ACTF
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Region II Barbizon Award in Lighting Design), Burying Barbie and Brilliant Traces. Violet Sharp (costume design), Anything Goes (stage manager). Kate has also worked for Brevard Music Center in NC as the Master Electrician, and spent last summer with the University of Findlay’s Summer Stock in Ohio as a costume assistant.
MARCIE SMITH (Assistant Stage Manager) is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana. This is her first season with Florida Repertory Theatre. She was involved in many productions both on stage and off at the Indianapolis Civic Theatre. She recently stage-managed the Diaghilev Tribute Ballet at Indiana University, where she completed her stage management degree.
TODD O. WREN (Lighting Designer) is delighted to participate in Florida Rep’s continued growth. A special thanks goes to Robert for his commitment to the arts and to you, the audience, for your support. Todd’s theatrical credits include: Goodspeed Musicals, Arkansas Repertory, Barter Theatre, Tennessee Repertory, John F. Kennedy Center, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Charlotte Repertory, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Downtown Cabaret Theatre, Town and Gown Theatre, Casa Manana and Flatrock Playhouse. Todd is a member of United Scenic Artists, New York Local #829.
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Please join us in recognizing and thanking our most recent donors for the 2010-2011 Season. We appreciate your generosity!
