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Ten ChimneysBy Je�rey HatcherDirected by Joseph HanreddyAugust 30 - September 25, 2011Quadracci Powerhouse
From My HometownConceived by Lee SummersWritten by Lee Summers, Ty Stephens & Herbert Rawlings, Jr.Directed by Kevin RamseySeptember 9 – October 30, 2011Stackner Cabaret
YellowmanBy Dael OrlandersmithDirected by May AdralesSeptember 28 – November 13, 2011Stiemke Studio
LombardiBy Eric SimonsonBased on the book When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David MaranissDirected by Sanford RobbinsOctober 11 – November 13, 2011Quadracci Powerhouse
A Christmas CarolBy Charles DickensAdapted by Joseph Hanreddy & Edward MorganDirected by Joseph HanreddyDecember 2 – 24, 2011Pabst Theater
Song Man Dance ManCreated & Performed by Jon PetersonDirected by Brent HazeltonNovember 4, 2011 – January 8, 2012Stackner Cabaret
Next to NormalBook and Lyrics by Brian YorkeyMusic by Tom KittDirected by Mark ClementsDecember 6, 2011 – January 15, 2012Quadracci Powerhouse
Rep LabShort–Play FestivalJanuary 12 - 16, 2012Stiemke Studio
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)By Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess WinfieldDirected by Sean GraneyJanuary 13 – March 11, 2012Stackner Cabaret
To Kill a MockingbirdBy Harper LeeAdapted by Christopher SergelDirected by Aaron PosnerJanuary 31 – March 4, 2012Quadracci Powerhouse
In the Next Room or the vibrator playBy Sarah RuhlDirected by Laura GordonMarch 7 – April 22, 2012Stiemke Studio
Always . . Patsy ClineWritten and originally directed by Ted Swindley – based on a true storyDirected by Sandy ErnstMarch 16 – May 6, 2012Stackner Cabaret
OthelloBy William ShakespeareDirected by Mark ClementsApril 3 – May 6, 2012Quadracci Powerhouse
Milwaukee Repertory Theater 2011/12 SeasonWe’ve Got A Ticket Package To Fit Your Lifestyle!
www.MilwaukeeRep.com • 414-224-9490
Season tickets start as low as $60! Save up to 20% o� single ticket prices, receive discounts on additional tickets and special savings at the area’s best restaurants!
Stiemke Studio. Photo by Michael Brosilow.
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Mark Clements Dawn Helsing WoltersArtistic Director Managing Director
YELLOWMAN
By Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by May Adrales
Scenic Designer Mimi Lien
Costume Designer Holly Payne
Lighting Designer Gina Scherr
Sound Designer Josh Schmidt
Casting Director Sandy Ernst
New York Casting Director Stephanie Klapper
Dialect Coach Jill Walmsley Zager
Stage Manager Richelle Harrington Calin*
Assistant Director JC Clementz
Production Manager Melissa Nyari Vartanian
Lighting & Sound Director Craig Gottschalk
Technical Director Tyler Smith
Properties Director James Guy
Charge Scenic Artist Jim Medved
Costume Director Holly Payne
Yellowman was originally commissioned and developed by McCarter Theatre and produced by McCarter Theatre, Wilma Theater and Long Wharf Theatre, and developed
in part with the support of the Sundance Theatre.
Originally produced in New York City by the Manhattan Theatre Club on October 22, 2002.
Yellowman is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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Alma ................................................................................Erica Bradshaw*
Eugene .................................................................................. Ryan Quinn*
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
There will be no intermission for this production.
C A S T L I S T
NEXT UP IN THE STIEMKEMarch 7 – April 22, 2012
By Sarah RuhlDirected by Laura Gordon
“Sometimes all it takes to get electricity going onstage is a little actual electricity!”
– The New York Times
Pulitzer Prize Nominee!
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I could barely contain my excitement when Mark Clements invited me to direct Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman. It had long been my wish to direct the play. And now, ten years after I assisted on the world premiere as a directing intern at Long Wharf Theatre, I would have the chance. Working on that show was to date one of the most profound experiences in my early career. Inspired by Dael Orlandersmith’s passion for giving voice to the underrepresented and her unabashed bravery to shed light on difficult subjects, I was truly shaped as an artist by the experience. Embracing the simplest, most essential components of theater, Yellowman solely relies on storytelling and the power of the shared human experience. The actors, Erica Bradshaw and Ryan Quinn, intrepidly step on stage to share the love story between Alma and Eugene, a complex story rooted in a long history of racism and economic oppression. Much has changed in the world in the last yen years, but walking along the dusty dirt roads, I gathered not much had changed in St. Stephen and Russelville, South Carolina, where Yellowman takes place. On a research trip to the area, I photographed the world that Alma and Eugene inhabited, taking pictures of houses, the corner store and the golden, sun drenched grasses of the Carolinian lowlands. In my interviews, many spoke of the economic depression, lack of job opportunity and education. Many did not know how to email or surf the Internet and cellular service was spotty at best. They were friendly, eager to talk to me – even though they initially suspected I was part of the FBI, as no one “came around down heah” to take an interest in them. They also wanted to take pictures of me, having never seen a person of Asian descent. This is an isolated world, somehow left decades behind the economic development of the surrounding areas of Charleston and Hilton Head. In this small isolated world, a hierarchy of power is developed, where light skin is privileged over dark. It is this world that the two star-crossed lovers, Eugene and Alma, try to change through their optimism and love for one another. They grapple with the same oppression and hardship their parents before them faced – and their parents before them faced. It is a cycle of violence and prejudice that can be traced back to slavery. Ten years after its world premiere, Yellowman remains just as potent, poetic and powerful. It is not just a Southern story – not just an African-American story. Oppression exists in all races and in every part of the country. The play is universal as it exposes the cyclical violence and abuse within families and societies. We tell this story in hopes that it might bring to light the danger of such cycles and inspire others to take responsibility to change detrimental learned behavior, such as racism, alcoholism and abuse. Special Thanks to my interviewees: Ricky Poinsette, Helen Smalls, Aaron Lampkin, BBD and Alfred, the most famous barber of Russelville.
May AdralesDirector
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Once stretching from Jacksonville, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida, the culture of the Gullah – or Geechee – people has a strong heritage full of traditional crafts, art, music and stories told in their own melodic language that is now confined mostly to the coastal regions of southern South Carolina and northern Georgia. Though the peoples of all these islands share much of the same language and culture, the people of South Carolina often refer to themselves as Gullah where those of Georgia are often referred to as Geechee. Both names are thought to arise from di�erent tribes in and around Sierra Leone in Africa.
In Yellowman, the characters live in an area about 40 miles from the Atlantic coast on the shore of Lake Moultrie, a large flooded cypress swamp. St. Stephen and the more rural Russelville, where Eugene and Alma – Yellowman’s lead characters – grew up, are populated not by the Gullah people themselves, but from those who left their culture behind to seek economic opportunities further inland. The older generations, like Eugene’s father and Alma’s mother, have stronger connections to the Gullah, whereas the younger generations, like Eugene, his father and Alma, may disdain their shared heritage.
Gullah culture is a creole society. The Gullah people descend from many di�erent African tribes, and many of their traditions emphasize the things that they had in common. The people are known for their fishing tradition, their weaving of sweetgrass baskets, their ironwork on many of the gates of Charleston, and their traditional storytelling – made famous in the book Uncle Remus: Legends of the Old Plantation published by Joel Chandler Harris in 1881. Though many of the strong adherents to the traditions of the Gullah remain only on the islands along the coast of
South Carolina and Georgia, their influence can be felt all over the region, from the traditional “southern” dishes like she-crab soup, beans and rice, yams, okra and collard greens, to musical instruments like the banjo. As the community became less isolated in the past 60 years, many people have moved away, gone to college and sought out better economic opportunities in other parts of the country. Many of these people, however, bring their children back to
The Culture of the Gullah
“The Old Plantation,” South Carolina, about 1790.
Mrs. Queen Ellis of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, making a sweetgrass basket, 1976.
family gatherings where they meet grandparents, are exposed to Gullah lore, and learn from the local environment. Though the traditional community is rather small, a survey conducted by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in 1979 found over 100,000 Gullah speakers, 10,000 of which spoke only Gullah. Other more recent studies have suggested that as many as 500,000 people with ties to the Gullah culture live throughout the Southeast.
The Gullah Language
An excerpt from I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Translated to Gullah by Alphonso Brown
“Ie say tuh unnuh teday, mye frien’, eeb’n dough we duh face dees haad time yuh ob teday ‘n temorruh, Ie still hab uh dreem. ‘E uh dreem wuh
staat way down een America dreem.Ie hab disshuh dreem dat one day dis America gwi’ come up ‘n be tru’
mout’ ob de law wah call de Creed: “We hol’ dees trut’ fuh be sef-ebbuhdent, dat all man duh mek equal.”
“I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the di�culties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in
the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be
self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
Gullah is what linguists call an English-based creole language. Creole languages usually form when people of di�erent cultures and linguistic backgrounds are thrown together and must find a way of communicating. These situations usually arise around port cities, trade routes, colonial settlements and slavery. The new hybrid language typically melds linguistic influences from the di�erent constituent languages. In the case of Gullah, the majority of the vocabulary comes from English, but a large minority of the words comes from several African languages. The grammar, sentence structure and pronunciation of the English words are also altered by this cross pollination of languages.
Mrs. Ida Wilson selling sweetgrass baskets, 1965.
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By Neal Easterling, Rep Education Assistant and a South Carolina Low-country Native. For more information about the themes and topics in this production, pick up a Yellowman PlayGuide in the lobby.
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Erica Bradshaw,Alma
Erica Bradshaw is excited to make her Milwaukee Rep debut. An actor, director and
writer, her TV appearances include The Good Wife, Rescue Me, Six Degrees, The District and Law & Order: SVU. Off-Broadway: the world premiere of Arthur Miller’s Mr. Peter’s Connections. Regional credits: As You Like It (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Romeo and Juliet (Seattle Shakespeare Company); The Syringa Tree (Delaware Theatre Company – 2006 Barrymore nomination for best actress); The Good Body (three-person world premiere); The Vagina Monologues (City Theatre, Pittsburgh) and The Good Body (Hartford Stage Company). LA: The Exonerated (nominated for five Ovation awards). Commercials/VO: Tribeca Film Festival, LG Mobile, Ricola, Advil and McDonalds. This year Erica debuted her solo performance show White America Hero (New York City), with love and support from her family.
Ryan Quinn, Eugene
Ryan Quinn is making his Milwaukee Rep debut. He couldn’t be happier returning to Wisconsin,
having grown up only a few miles south of The Rep in Racine. He recently finished his sixth season with The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival playing Laertes in Hamlet and Passepartout in Around the World in 80 Days. Off-Broadway credits include: Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra for Theater for a New Audience. Regional credits: Hamlet and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Old Globe); The King Stag (Yale Repertory Theatre) and King Lear (Princeton Repertory Shakespeare Festival). New York: Binibon
(The Kitchen); Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night (The National Shakespeare Company); Frag (HERE Arts Center) and The Woman of Manhattan (The Gloria Maddox Theatre). MFA: Yale School of Drama. Many thanks to May and The Rep for this opportunity. Much love to Mom, Hanna and his wife, Katie. For Dad, who taught me how to tell stories.
Dael Orlandersmith, Playwright
Dale first performed Stoop Stories in 2008 at The Public Theater as part of the Under the
Radar festival and was subsequently produced in 2009 at The Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. Her play Monster premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in November 1996. The Gimmick, commissioned by McCarter Theatre, premiered on their Second Stage and went on to great acclaim at Long Wharf Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop. Yellowman was commissioned by and premiered at McCarter Theatre in a co-production with The Wilma Theater and Long Wharf Theatre. Ms. Orlandersmith premiered a new work in collaboration with David Cale at Long Wharf Theatre called The Blue Album in 2007. Mark Taper Forum commissioned Bones, which they produced in spring 2009. Ms. Orlandersmith has toured extensively with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Real Live Poetry), throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. She is currently developing a play called Horsedreams which premiered at New York Stage and Film last summer. She is also completing work on a commission from Atlantic Theater Company and a memoir called Character. Yellowman and a collection of Ms. Orlandersmith’s earlier works have been published by Vintage Books and Dramatists Play Service. Ms. Orlandersmith attended Sundance Institute Theatre Lab for
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four summers developing new plays. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, The Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a Guggenheim and The 2005 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for a playwright in mid-career. In 2006, Ms. Orlandersmith won a Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwrights Fellowship. She won an OBIE Award for Beauty’s Daughter, which she wrote and starred in at The American Place Theatre. Ms. Orlandersmith was a Pulitzer Prize Award Finalist and Drama Desk Award Nominee as an actress in and for Yellowman, which premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2002. She was a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist with The Gimmick in 1999 and won for Yellowman.
May Adrales, Director May Adrales is thrilled to be directing Yellowman at The Rep. She recently directed
the world premieres of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them at Actors Theatre of Louisville and Mary at Goodman Theatre. She has directed work at The Public Theater, Second Stage Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Partial Comfort Productions and Long Wharf Theatre. Awards: TCG New Generations grantee; Bill Foeller Directing Fellowship; SSDC Denham Award; Van Lier Fellowship; Drama League Directing Fellow; New York Theater Workshop Fellow and SoHo Rep Directors Lab and Women’s Project Directors Lab. She served as Director of On Site Programming at the Lark Play Development Center (2008 – 2010) and Artistic Associate at The Public Theater (2006 – 2008). MFA, Yale School of Drama.
Mimi Lien, Scenic Designer
Mimi Lien is a designer of sets/environments for theater, dance and opera. She was born in New Haven, CT, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Having arrived at set design from a background in architecture, her work often focuses on the interaction between audience/environment and object/performer. Notable designs include: Born Bad (Soho Rep); Neighbors (The Public Theater); Queens Boulevard (Signature Theatre); Strange Devices from the Distant West (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Welcome to Yuba City (Pig Iron Theatre Company) and In the Red and Brown Water (Alliance Theatre Company). Mimi is an Artistic Associate with Pig Iron Theatre Company, resident designer at Ballet Tech and she was a semi-finalist in the Ring Award competition for opera design in Graz, Austria. Her work has been recognized by a Barrymore Award, three Barrymore nominations, American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award nomination, Bay Area Critics Circle nomination and she was a recipient of the 2007 – 2009 NEA/TCG Career Development Program.
Holly Payne, Costume Designer
Currently the costume director at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Holly graduated with an MFA in costume design and technology from the University of Arkansas. She has designed at Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Shakespeare, University of Tulsa, American Players Theatre, Florentine Opera, First Stage Children’s Theater and Theatre Squared in Fayetteville, AK. Some of her favorite designs at The Rep have been Bomb-itty of Errors in the Stackner Cabaret, and My Name is Asher Lev and Speaking in Tongues in the Stiemke Studio. Thanks to The Rep’s fantastic costume shop for all their great work and much love to ACB for being a fantastic partner.
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Gina Scherr, Lighting Designer
Regional credits include: Safe in Hell (Yale Repertory Theatre) and G_d Doesn’t Pay Rent Here (The Empty Space Theatre). Off-Broadway: Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (Women’s Project); Binibon (The Kitchen); Our Lot and Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb); The Wife (Access Theater); The Apple Trilogy; Lover. Muse. Mockingbird. Whore; Nutcracker Rouge (Company XIV); Pitch and Waxing West (East Coast Artists at LaMaMa ETC) and The Movado Hour (Baryshnikov Arts Center). Other theater: Mrs. Packard (Fordham University); La Finta Pazza (Yale Baroque Opera Project); Richard III and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New School). Gina received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. www.ginascherr.com.
Josh Schmidt, Sound Designer Milwaukee Rep credits include: Yankee Tavern, State of the Union, I Am My Own Wife, Tuesdays with Morrie and Carolin’ Carolyn Rides Again. Recent Milwaukee credits: Adding Machine (Skylight Opera Theatre); The Magic Bicycle (First Stage Children’s Theater) and A Place for Everything (Wild Space Dance Company). Broadway credits: House of Blue Leaves and Brighton Beach Memoirs (with Fitz Patton). Off-Broadway: As Composer/Co-Author – A Minister’s Wife (Lincoln Center for the Arts); Adding Machine (Minetta Lane) and Whida Peru (59E59). Incidental Scores: When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center) and Fifty Words (MCC Theater). As Sound Designer credits include Crime and Punishment (59E59), among many others. Chicago: Detroit (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Odradek (The House Theatre of Chicago); Baal (TUTA) and A Streetcar Named Desire (Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe). Regional: Ten seasons at
American Players Theatre including the original musical Gift of the Magi (with James DeVita). Associate Artist: Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe, Alley Theatre in Houston and First Stage Children’s Theater. Member: ASCAP. USA Local 829, AFM Local 802. Awards: Lortel, Outer Critics, Jeff, ASCAP, NEA/TCG American Musical Voices Honoree Grant. Upcoming: Red at Philadelphia Theatre Company, A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre (DC), Time Stands Still and The March at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and What We’re Up Against(Alley Theatre). http://web.me.com/josh_schmidt.
Stephanie Klapper, New York Casting Director
Klapper Casting’s work has been seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, internationally, on television, Internet and film. Selected recent Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include: Dividing the Estate (2009 Tony Nomination); Secrets of the Trade; In Transit; Happy Now?; The Late Christopher Bean; The Cocktail Party; Hamlet; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard III; An Oak Tree Ny/La (Artios award winner); Indoor Outdoor; The Subject Was Roses and Rosmersholm (The Pearl Theatre Company). She is the Resident Casting Director for Primary Stages, New York Classical Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company and more. NY Casting: The Cherry Sisters (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Eric Rosen and Matt Sax’s Venice (Kansas City Repertory Theatre/CTG); Moises Kaufman’s Into The Woods and Mary Zimmerman’s The Arabian Nights. She has worked at numerous regional theaters and on many independent feature films. She is a member of Casting Society of America and League of Professional Theatre Women.
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Jill Walmsley Zager, Dialect Coach
Jill is happy to be back at The Rep with Yellowman. Other Milwaukee Rep credits include Ten Chimneys, Cabaret, My Name Is Asher Lev, Laurel and Hardy and The 39 Steps. Jill is currently the co-Head of Voice and Dialects and Company Coach at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Regionally she has worked at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, Drury Lane Water Tower, Apple Tree Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, Utah Shakespeare Festival and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. Jill earned her Master’s Degrees at CSSD (London) and Northwestern. She lives in San Francisco and St. Francis, WI, and is married to James Zager, the Head of the Theater Program at Carroll University.
Mark Clements, Artistic Director
Mark Clements began his tenure as The Rep’s Artistic Director with the 2010/11 season. He
is an award-winning international theater director whose work has appeared in over 100 major theaters throughout Europe and the United States. Recent productions include: Death of a Salesman, Bombshells and Cabaret at The Rep; Oliver!, Born Yesterday, Great Expectations and Les Miserables (2008 Barrymore Award – Best Production of a Musical) and Of Mice and Men (2007 Barrymore Award – Best Director and Best Production of a Play), all for Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia; The Milliner (Off-Broadway, World Premiere), CSC, New York; My Fair Lady, Copenhagen; The Browning Version (Barclays/TMA Regional Theatre Award) at Derby Playhouse and Blunt Speaking (World Premiere), Chichester Festival Theatre U.K. and Lucille Lortel
Theatre, New York both starring Corin Redgrave. Other productions include: Speaking in Tongues (U.S. Premiere) with Kevin Anderson and Karen Allen (SDC’s Joe Calloway Award, Best Director Nomination), Roundabout Theatre Company; Speaking in Tongues (European Premiere; Barclays/TMA Best Director Nomination), Hampstead Theatre, London; Creator/Director – Soul Train (Laurence Olivier Award Nomination), West End and three U.K. national tours; and the U.K. national tours of The Glass Menagerie, The Gingerbread Lady and Love & Marriage, all for Bath Theatre Royal productions. Mark served as an Associate Artistic Director for Moving Theatre Company, the production company founded by Vanessa and Corin Redgrave. He has also been Associate Director for New End Theatre and New Players Theatre, both in London, Royal Theatre in Northampton and Torch Theatre in Wales. Additionally, Mark served as Artistic Director of the award-winning Derby Playhouse in the U.K. from 1992 to 2002, where he produced over 100 productions, directed 47, including nine transfers to London’s West End and many U.K. national tours and international collaborations with leading companies in Europe and the U.S. He serves on the National Advisory Board for the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program at Ten Chimneys.
Dawn Helsing Wolters, Managing Director
Dawn Helsing Wolters joined Milwaukee Repertory Theater
as Managing Director in 2009. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the League of Resident Theatres, the Bridge Committee for the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, the National
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Advisory Board for the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program at Ten Chimneys and the Advisory Board for the Chicago-based Stillpoint Theatre Collective. Dawn came to Milwaukee from Chicago, where she was Executive Director of Court Theatre from 2005 to 2009. While in Chicago, Dawn served on the board of The League of Chicago Theatres, chairing its Nominating Committee and consulting in leadership development, capacity building and fundraising. She also served on the Chicago 2016 Olympic Arts and Culture Advisory Group. As a founding board member of the Hyde Park Cultural Alliance, she helped lead the group’s transition to an independent not-for-profit organization, chairing its Governance Committee. Dawn served as Director of Development at Center Stage in Baltimore, and held marketing and public relations positions at Center Stage and Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. While completing her MFA in Theater Management at Yale School of Drama, she was Associate Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre and Managing Director of the Summer Cabaret. Dawn has served in an advisory capacity for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Commission, The University of Chicago’s Graham School of General Studies and for Goucher College’s graduate Arts Administration program and been a guest lecturer and panelist at colleges and universities.
Richelle Harrington Calin, Stage Manager
Richelle Harrington Calin has been a member of Actors’ Equity Association
since 2000 and has been stage managing at Milwaukee Rep since 2004. Previous Milwaukee Rep credits: Tomfoolery, Bach at Leipzig,
The Clean House, Intimate Apparel, Gem of the Ocean, A Christmas Carol, The Voysey Inheritance, Life Could Be a Dream, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Night is a Child, I Am My Own Wife, Greater Tuna, Pride and Prejudice, Shear Madness, The Lady with All the Answers, Yankee Tavern, Route 66, Cabaret, Bombshells and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Hannah Brown, Stage Management Intern
Hannah Brown, a native of LaGrange, GA, recently graduated
from Shorter University with a BA in Theatre. She recently stage managed Curtains at Shorter along with The Wedding Singer, Romeo and Juliet and The Trojan Women. She is extremely excited to be working at The Rep as a Stage Management Intern!
JC Clementz, Assistant Director
Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.
JC is excited to join The Rep’s 2011/12 Artistic
Intern Ensemble after working in the casting/literary office at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre, where he also assistant directed their production of Speaking In Tongues. As a stage manager, he has traveled throughout Europe as the ASM for NY Harlem Productions’ international tour of Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.Favorite directing credits include: An Enemy of the People, Rabbit Hole, Frozen and A Man of No Importance. JC received his MFA in Directing from Western Illinois University.
UnderstudiesAlma, N’Tasha Charmel Anders; Eugene, Eric C. Lynch
Joseph A. SchlidtTom ScrivnerMichael SmithPatrick SmithSean Torinus
Stephen VanderBloemenBob Welke
Karin WernerStacy Williams
Kristie Zahn
OFFICERS
PresidentJudy Berdan
Vice President of FundraisingCathy Jakicic
Vice President of External ServicesJim Gehrke
Vice President of Internal ServicesJim Mergener
SecretaryDan Roskom
TreasurerDiane Dalton
Immediate Past-President
Lisa Gehrke
DIRECTORS AT LARGEEunice Beckendorf
Susan EsslingerDon Fraker
Amy GehrkeConnie Kordsmeier
Sue McCombBrittany RoskomCindy Wiktorek
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Smoke-Free Sunday Matinee One Sunday matinee in the Quadracci Powerhouse and Stiemke Studio will eliminate onstage smoking if used for that production. Please refer to The Rep’s Patron Guide for performance dates or call the Ticket Office at 414-224-9490. (All onstage smoking is tobacco free and complies with Wisconsin state law.)
Weather Policy The Rep does not cancel or reschedule performances due to inclement weather, nor do we offer refunds.
Cellular Phones/Electronic Paging DevicesPlease remember to turn off your cell phones and electronic paging devices. In case of emergency, these items may be left with the House Manager. Also, as a
courtesy to your fellow theatergoers and the actors on stage, please refrain from text messaging during the performance. Thank you!
T H E R E P E X P E R I E N C E
Concessions Enjoy a drink or dessert in the Quadracci Powerhouse or Stiemke Studio lobby prior to the performance or at intermission. Please remember that food and drink, (except bottled water), are not allowed in the theater.
Gift ShopLocated in the Quadracci Powerhouse is The Rep’s new Gift Shop, which offers show-specific merchandise and Rep logo products, as well as books and scripts of current and past productions. You can also purchase parking passes and Rep Gift Certificates.
Rep In Depth Get an insider’s look at the play from a member of the cast or artistic team with a discussion that begins 45 minutes prior to every performance in the Quadracci Powerhouse and Stiemke Studio.
Rep TalkBacks After select performances, engage in a deeper conversation with members of the cast, artistic team and occasional special guests. Get TalkBack schedules by calling the Ticket Office at 414-224-9490 or go online at www.MilwaukeeRep.com.
T H E R E P ’ S S TAC K N E R C A B A R E T
Avoid a last minute rush and enjoy a delicious pre-show dinner at The Rep’s Stackner Cabaret. Offering an affordable full range of entrées, light fare, drinks and desserts from our kitchen, the Stackner Cabaret features a full-service bar and is open for cocktails, desserts and light bites after the show as well. Open to the public and patrons attending productions in any of our three venues. For dinner reservations, call 414-224-9490. To view the menu and other information, visit www.MilwaukeeRep.com
Tickets: www.MilwaukeeRep.com • 414-224-9490
Although the Super Bowl trophy is named for him, few know the real story of Lombardi the man. This family-friendly tribute takes you into the life
and times of one of America’s most inspirational personalities.
Quadracci Powerhouse
“SEE IT!!”– New York Post
By Eric Simonson Directed by Sanford Robbins
October 11 – November 13, 2011
Media Sponsor:
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Photography: Brian AchDesign: Todd Edward Ivins
Based on the book When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss
StarringLee E. Ernstas Lombardi
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Let your soul take flight.Official Airline of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.
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ARTISTIC DIRECTORMark Clements
ARTISTICAssociate Artistic Director .............. Sandy Ernst Associate Artistic Director .........Brent Hazelton Artistic Associate ...................Michael M. Kroeker
EDUCATIONEducation Director .......................Jenny KostrevaEducation Coordinator................Leda HoffmannEducation Assistant ..................... Neal EasterlingTeaching Artists ....... Tom Bruno, Marcy Kearns,
Props Properties Director ...............................James GuyAssistant Props Director/ Props Craft Artisan ..........................Anna WarrenProps Artisan ......................................... Sarah HeckSoft Props Artisan..............Margaret Hasek-GuyProps Carpenter/Artisan............... Erik LindquistProp Painter/Graphic Artist ........Jill Lynn Lyons
ScenicTechnical Director .................................Tyler SmithAssistant Technical Director .............Natalie BellCharge Scenic Artist .......................... Jim MedvedScenic Artists ....................... Susannah M. Barnes,
Shannon MannScenic Artist Intern ...................... Erin Wegleitner
Sarah Deming-Henes, Sarah Hoffmann, Rebecca Lindsey, Kristy Matero,
Becky Merold, Mark S. Sahba, Laura F. Wendt
Stage Management Apprentices ........Jen Anderson, David HartingStage Management Interns ...............Hannah Brown, Jason Simpson
Resident Stagehands & CarpentersBill Burgardt, Glenn Dassow, Sam Garst, Rick Grilli, Dave Hicks, John Nusslock,
Robert Schultz, Jim Zinky
MANAGING DIRECTORDawn Helsing Wolters
ADMINISTRATIONGeneral Manager .................... Timothy O’ConnellCompany Manager ................... Dawn Marie RossAdministrative Assistant .............................Erin Burgess-Ellingen Receptionists ....................Andrea Roades-Bruss,
Michael Evans, Nat French, Grace Hern, Katherine Ketter, Samantha Martinson,
Maria Roades, Jenna Vik, Alicia WahlIntern ............................................................ Lisa Rowe
DEVELOPMENTDevelopment Director ...Annie Jansen JurczykDirector of Corporate & Foundation Relations ...................Tamara HauckIndividual Giving Manager ............. Anne CauleyDevelopment Events Manager ....................Rebecca Kitelinger
FINANCEFinance Director ........................ Leslie FillinghamPayroll Specialist ....................................Gail GetkaFinance and Production Accountant ................Lisa SchiefferAccounting Assistant ....................... Marie Holtyn
MAINTENANCEChief Building Engineer ........... Mark A. UhrmanLead Engineer ...................................... James RossEngineer.....................................................Todd RossPart-time Engineer ........................Brittany Scites
Michael Passow, James Passow, Jeanne Pfannenstiel, Marna Riordan,
Claire Rydzik, Micheal Shorty, Stephan Shanklin, Rachel Stenman,
David Stachlewicz, Jane Stratton, Tomika Vukovoch, Megan Watson,
Jenni Watson, Rebecca Witt
T H E S TA F F (c o nt .)
New this year! Located in the Quadracci Powerhouse next to the Lobby Bar is The Rep’s Gift Shop! Open before or after all Quadracci Powerhouse performances. Stop by to pick up exclusive items including theater merchandise, Rep products, parking passes and Rep Gift Certificates.
T h e a t e r P r o d u c t s
& R E P M e r c h a n d i s e
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Milwaukee Repertory Theater is supported in part by:
The Rep would like to thank all of the organizations and individuals listed below who generously contributed to The Rep. This list
reflects gifts received from July 1, 2010 to August 30, 2011.
D O N O R S
CORPORATION, FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY DONORS
$50,000+The Lynde and Harry
Bradley FoundationThe Richard and Ethel
Herzfeld FoundationThe Shubert FoundationUnited Performing Arts
Fund (UPAF)
$25,000 – $49,999CAMPAC (Milwaukee
County)The Friends of The RepGreater Milwaukee
FoundationMillerCoorsNorthwestern Mutual
FoundationWisconsin Arts Board
$10,000 – $24,999Helen Bader Foundation,
Inc.Patty and Jay Baker
FoundationBriggs & Stratton
Corporation FoundationMae E. Demmer Charitable
TrustElizabeth Elser Doolittle
Charitable TrustsHarley-Davidson
FoundationGE HealthcareDorothy Inbusch
Foundation, Inc.Johnson Controls
FoundationThe Charles E. Kubly
FoundationMPS FoundationRockwell AutomationRogers Memorial HospitalJane Bradley Pettit
$1,000 – $4,999Associated BankAurora Health Care Robert W. Baird & Co. Cleary Gull Davis & Kuelthau DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C.
Law Firm Fiduciary Management, Inc.Foley & Lardner LLPThe Gardner FoundationGodfrey & Kahn Hays Companies of
Wisconsin, LLC Evan and Marion Helfaer
FoundationHigh Point Fund:
Supporting African American Performing Arts
Dorothy Inbusch Foundation, Inc.
KPMG LLP Marcus Hotels & Resorts Charles D. Ortgiesen
FoundationPark Bank FoundationQuarles & BradySerigraph Inc TargetThe VanderBloemen Group
LLCWhyte Hirschboeck Dudek
S.C.
INDIVIDUAL GIVING
VISIONARY($10,000+)Einhorn Family FoundationGeorge and Audrey GroveJudy HansenJacqueline Herd-Barber and
Michael Barber John and Constance
KordsmeierRobert H. and Carol O.
ManegoldSally S. ManegoldGordana and Milan RacicKathleen H. SeidelDavid and Julia Uihlein
BENEFACTOR($5,000 – $9,999) James and Mary BrazaJulia and Bladen BurnsShirley DebouzekRuth DeYoung KohlerJim and Pati EricsonKeyes FamilyKristine and Wayne LuedersCatherine and Buddy
RobinsonTeddy and Karin Werner
PRODUCER ($2,500 – $4,999) Dr. and Mrs. R. H. AsterKathe and Bill BiersachWendy and Warren
BlumenthalRobert and Carolyn BurrellJane and Stephen ChernofLarry and Patty ComptonKay and John CrichtonSusan and Gee EsslingerKirt and Dixie FiegelKathleen Gray and Ronald
R. HoferPeter and Linda HotzHenry and Margery HowardJeffrey and Jacqueline
JahnkeJudy and Gary Jorgensen
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David and Camille KundertFranklin Loo and Sally LongPaul McElwee and Gayle
RosemannAnthony and Donna MeyerDwight L. MorganGreg and Rhonda OberlandRuth OlsenLisa QuezadaJoseph A. and Sarah RockMicky and Ron SadoffJay and Anne SchambergJune SchloerbThomas and Meredith
ScrivnerPatrick SmithBrian Stark and Debra
Altshul-StarkMike and Peg UihleinRobert and Malissa WelkeStacy and Blair Williams
DIRECTOR ($1,500 – $2,499) Isabel L. BaderMark and Gerry BiehlKaren and Bill BoydLisa and Tom BraunCheryl and Mark BrickmanJuan Manuel CarrasquilloByron and Suzanne FosterPatrick and Molly GallagherGreater Milwaukee
Foundation: Margaret Heminway Wells Fund
John and Tameica GreeneThomas and Lawrine
HandrichNorma and Bill HarringtonEdward Hashek and
John JorsCarla and Robert HayDawn Helsing Wolters and
Tony WoltersDr. and Mrs. Burton
HoffmanJanet and Graham HumeStephen and Roberta
IsaacsonMaja Jurisic and Don FrakerJudith KeyesRobert and Gail Korb
John and Nancy LarsonPhoebe R. and John D.
Lewis FoundationSusan and Robert LuegerKevin and Rosanne LyonsMichael and Sandra
McNeelyRichard and Maribeth
MeeusenGeraldine MeschingRobert and Dianne MorrisAbigail and David NashCornelia RiedlPaul and Lynn RixJoe and Katy SchlidtNita SorefMaureen Swokowski and
Hillerian HessWilfred WollnerKristine and David ZahnClare and Judy Zempel
PRODUCTIONMANAGER ($1,000 – $1,499)Anonymous (2)Fran and Lowell AdamsHelen and Bruce AmbuelDaniel and Amy ArgallJohn and Carol BannenDr. and Mrs. R. P. BarthelJill and Frits BroekhuizenElaine BurkeDr. and Mrs. Bruce M.
CamittaJim Cauley and
Brenda AndrewsMark ClementsPeter and Elizabeth DietzGeorge and Sandra
DionisopoulosAly El-GhatitPeter Foote and Robin
WilsonKaren and Gardner
FriedlanderRichard S. and Ann L.
GallagherLloyd and Mary Ann
GerlachFranklyn and M. Anne
Gimbel
Stephen and Bernadine Graff
Greater Milwaukee Foundation:
Anthony and Andrea Bryant Family Fund
Lois and Donald Cottrell Fund B
R. Christie HannaSusan and John HarritsAnnie Jansen Jurczyk and
John JansenCharles and Mary KampsPam KrigerSteven KuhnmuenchDr. Paul W. Loewenstein
and Ms. Jody Kaufman Loewenstein
Thomas and Debra LongtinVince and Jan MartinLarry Martin and Linda RiceMary E. McAndrewsDaniel and Constance
McCartyHazelyn McComasKaren McDiarmidPatti and Jack McKeithanJim and Sally MergenerCathy and Wally MoricsDavid Olson and Claire
FritscheBruce and Peppy O’NeillDr. David ParisBob and Mary Lou ParrishAnthony PetulloJim and Gwen PlunkettJames and Lys ReiskytlSusan RiedelPatrick Schmidt and
Dewey CatonBonnie and Bill StaffordFrank and Elsa SternerAnne and Fred StrattonSean and Cathie TorinusStephen and Christine
VanderBloemenThomas WardenSargit WarrinerDr. and Mrs. Paul WeismanDonald and Kate WilsonBettie Zillman
D O N O R S
With ticket sales covering only 70% of what it costs to produce our shows, The Rep relies on the generous support of our audience and friends. Please consider giving a gift today to help continue our history of presenting exciting and innovative work.
To donate please visit or call:www.MilwaukeeRep.com • 414-290-5376
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December 2 – 24, 2011Pabst Theater
By Charles DickensAdapted by Joseph Hanreddy & Edward Morgan
Directed by Joseph Hanreddy
"A Present That Just Keeps Giving!
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