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7 Chronology | The Life of Thornton WIlder

8 Title Page | OUR TOWN

9 Cast | OUR TOWN

10 Artistic Director’s Message | Tribute to William C. Nelson

11 OUR TOWN & Our World by Dr. Felicia Hardison Londré

15 Company | OUR TOWN

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

COMMITTEE CHAIRSExecutive

Scott BoswellDevelopment

Abigail WendelEndowment

William R. BlessingFinance

Robert BratcherGovernance

Irvin V. Belzer

DISTINGUISHED DIRECTORSHonorary Vice-Chairman

John H. Johntz, Jr.Bunni CopakenDouglas N. GhertnerNancy P. Hatch

DIRECTORSDebby BallardSteve BernsteinKristopher DabnerAnn DickinsonPhil FrerkerCourtney GoddardLaura HallJohn L. HoffmanJeff KingSharon Lindenbaum*Gregory MacfarlaneArlene MockapetrisLeo Morton*David OliverJeanette PrengerGeorge ShadidDarin ShankMyra SiegelJo Ann SullivanBert TrucksessWayne Vaught*Richard Wetzel

*Ex-Officio UMKC

ADVISORY DIRECTORSDonald J. Hall Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. John B. Francis (1917-2004)

DIRECTOR EMERITI

Emily BallentineMary Shaw BrantonThomas R. BrousWilliam L. BruningLinda CozadBarbara FayRobert FirnhaberMark S. GilmanBetty L. HensonJ. Gordon KingsleyJeannette NicholsMarvin W. OzleySally RheinfrankEugene M. StraussSally West

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YEARSFIRST

1897 Born in Madison, Wisconsin (April 17)

1906 Moves to Hong Kong in May and to Berkeley, California, in October

1906-10 Emerson Public School in Berkeley

1910-12 China Inland Mission School, Chefoo, China (1 year)

1912-13 Thacher School, Ojai, California (one year). First play known to be produced: The Russian Princess

1915 Graduates from Berkeley High School; active in school dramatics

1915-17 Oberlin College; pub-lishes often in Oberlin Literary Magazine

1920 B.A. Yale College (3-month service in 1918 with U.S. Army in 1918); many publications

1920-21 American Academy in Rome (8-month residency)

1920s French teacher at Law-renceville School, Lawrence-ville, NJ (’21-’25 & ’27-’28)

1924 First visit to the Mac-Dowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire

1926 M.A. in French literature, Princeton University

The Trumpet Shall Sound pro-duced off-Broadway (American Laboratory Theatre)

The Cabala (first novel)1927 The Bridge of San Luis Rey

(novel- Pulitzer Prize)1928 The Angel That Troubled

The Waters (first published collection of drama-playlets)

1930s Part-time faculty, Univer-sity of Chicago (comparative literature and composition); lectures across the country; first Hollywood screen-writing assignment (1934); extensive foreign travel

1930 The Woman of Andros (novel)

Completion of home for his family and himself in Hamden, Connecticut

1931 The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays (six one-act plays)

1932 Lucrece opens on Broadway staring Katharine Cornell (trans-lation of André Obey’s Le Viol de Lucrèce)

1935 Heaven’s My Destination (novel)

1937 A Doll’s House (adaptation/ trans.) opens on Broadway with Ruth Gordon

1938 Our Town (Pulitzer Prize) and The Merchant of Yonkers open on Broadway

1942 The Skin of Our Teeth opens on Broadway (Pulitzer Prize)

Screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Shadow of a Doubt

1942-45 Service with Army Air Force in North Africa and Italy (Lieut. Col. at discharge –Bronze Star and O.B.E.)

1948 The Ides of March (novel); performing in his plays in sum-mer stock in this period

The Victors opens off-Broadway (translation of Sartre’s Morts sans sépulture)

1949 Major role in Goethe Convo-cation in Aspen; lectures widely.

1951-52 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard

1952 Gold Medal for Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters

1953 Cover of Time Magazine (January 12)

1955 The Matchmaker opens on Broadway staring Ruth Gordon

The Alcestiad produced at Edin-burgh Festival with Irene Worth (as A Life in the Sun)

1957 German Peace Prize1961 Libretto for The Long

Christmas Dinner (music by Paul Hindemith—premieres in Mannheim, West Germany)

1962 “Plays for Bleecker Street” (Someone from Assisi, Infancy, and Childhood) premiere at NYC’s Circle in the Square

Libretto for The Alcestiad (music by Louise Talma—premieres in Frankfurt, West Germany)

1963 Presidential Medal of Freedom

1964 Hello, Dolly! starring Carol Channing opens on Broadway.

1965 National Book Committee’s Medal for Literature

1967 The Eighth Day (National Book Award for Fiction)

1973 Theophilus North (novel)1975 Dies in sleep in Hamden,

Connecticut (December 7)

For more info, please visit thorntonwilder.com and thorntonwildersociety.org.

CHRONOLOGY | The Life of THORNTON NIVEN WILDER

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scenic design STEPHEN DOBAY

costume design ALISON SIPLE

lighting design HEATHER GILBERT

sound design/music director JONATHAN MASTRO

production stage manager MARY R. HONOUR*

assistant stage manager BROOKE REDLER*

associate director MICHAEL PADDEN

Directed by DAVID CROMER

Eric Rosen, Artistic Director Angela Lee Gieras, Executive Director

Jerry Genochio, Producing Director

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by THORNTON WILDER

The EXCLUSIVE SPONSOR for this production is

* Denotes Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

With additional support from the WILLIAM T. KEMPER FUND FOR CLASSIC THEATRE and

the CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGE FUND — Miller and Jeannette Nichols

Videotaping, photography or other video or audio recording of this production is STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Stage Manager Jeff Still* Mrs. Gibbs Stephanie Rae Roberts* Mrs. Webb Kati Brazda* Doc Gibbs Craig Benton* Joe Crowell, Jr. Seth Macchi Howie Newsome Todd Carlton Lanker* Rebecca Gibbs Mariem Diaz Emily Webb Linsey Page Morton* Sponsored by Myra & Lester Siegel, Jr. Wally Webb Andrew Stout George Gibbs Derrick Trumbly* Sponsored by Herb & Bonnie Buchbinder Professor Willard Logan Black* Editor Webb Charles Fugate* Simon Stimson Patrick Du Laney* Mrs. Soames Peggy Friesen* Si Crowell Brian Huther Sam Craig Jamie Dufault Joe Stoddard Gary Neal Johnson* Citizen Alisha Espinosa Citizen Nícole Marie Green Constable Warren Jerry Genochio Citizen Emily Nan Phillips Citizen Michael Thayer Farmer McCarty Richard C. Brown*

*Denotes Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The entire play takes place in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. OUR TOWN will be performed with TWO 10-MINUTE INTERMISSIONS.

(In Order of Appearance) OUR TOWN | CAST

Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Mis-souri Arts Council, a state agency. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which be-lieves that a great nation deserves great art.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829 IATSE.

The Director is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the ArtsKC Fund. and the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund

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Welcome to the beginning of KC Rep’s 50th Anniversary Season! We’ve been planning this year-long celebration of the Rep’s astonishing five decade run in Kansas City for ages, and I am incredibly excited to honor the legacy of the figures in our history who had the foresight, generosity, genius, and force of will to create one of the nation’s great regional theaters.

OUR TOWN, as director David Cromer has told me, is a love letter to our town. Truly the DNA of our company is pulsing through this production — an internationally renowned director, a project of enormous scope and vision, 19 brilliant actors who make their homes in our town, incredibly talented visiting artists, students and faculty from UMKC Theatre — truly everything Dr. Mac envisioned is exemplified by this stunning, deeply original work that both honors Thornton Wilder’s masterpiece and reminds us why OUR TOWN endures as a shatteringly powerful work of art. I can’t imagine a better way to honor this landmark anniversary season.

As I write this, however, I am still reeling from the news that our beloved friend WILLIAM C. NELSON, Rep board leader and chairman for many years, passed away just before rehearsals began. Bill was a force to be reckoned with, and his vision, passion, and determination helped transform the Rep into a leading national theater. Bill believed passionately that the elevation of the Rep to new heights was essential for Kansas City, a town he loved deeply. I can think of no better honor than to celebrate his legacy with this extraordinary production.

Bill, thank you for believing in the power of the theater to change the world, and in dedicating so much of yourself to the Rep to make our town a better place. Our artists, staff, and board dedicate this production to your memory, and our celebration of our 50 years to you and our founding leaders.

As members of Bill’s beloved Rep audience, we thank you for joining us for this production and for this season, and we ask that you do Bill the greatest honor: spread the word, bring your friends and family all season, and help the Rep reach ever greater heights.

Yours,

Eric Rosen, Artistic Director Kansas City Repertory Theatre

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

When Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town (1938), the United States, like

much of the world, was still in the grip of economic depres-sion. This and other social problems raised doubts about the effectiveness of democratic forms of government. On the international scene, totalitari-anism—with effective appeals to nationalism and law and order—made frightening gains. Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin had already consolidated their power, and Franco was soon

to follow suit. The arts, ever responsive to the times, played their necessary role in provok-ing the public to think about and evaluate conditions. Artists worked in myriad forms, from gritty realistic depictions of life at its most difficult, as in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, to pure escapism like Walt Dis-ney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Wilder’s Our Town man-aged remarkably to integrate both the challenge and the affirmation, as it re-examined basic assumptions about life in

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the course of its nostalgic trip down a memory lane solidly paved with traditional values.

Our Town is one of few Ameri-can classics that survive on both popular appeal and liter-ary merit. It won the Pulitzer Prize and — given the astound-ing number of amateur produc-tions each year, in addition to many professional revivals like ours — it has possibly been seen by more people than any other American play. Recently I had the pleasure of listening to three Kansas City actors who had performed in the Rep’s 1990 production of Our Town and had later played differ-ent roles in one or two other productions of it. The richness within the play’s apparent sim-plicity led them to find unex-pected new values each time. We think we know this play well, but it surprises us afresh.

Yet Our Town was not an immediate success in its original production. It provides an interesting case study of how today’s classic arises from yesterday’s avant garde. Wilder’s theatrical minimalism — which we can readily accept nowadays as a stimulus to the imagination — was revolutionary in the scenically-literal theatre of 1938, and it alienated many theatregoers. They could not get past the

simplicity of staging, the mimed use of props, the multiple characters played by the stage manager, and the temporal discontinuities. Even the stagehands’ union opposed the play on the grounds that it made them superfluous. The original producer, Jed Harris, ultimately agreed to hire some stagehands, but nearly came to blows with them over the issue of actors moving their own chairs. In the 77 years since then, many plays have borrowed Wilder’s devices, and audiences have broadened their latitude of acceptance to encompass all kinds of departures from realism.

The surprises in today’s Our Town have more to do with content than form. Radiating warmth and sweetness, the play can be seen as a celebra-tion of the turn-of-the-century American small town where the cherished values of work and family best flourished. Robert Coleman’s review of the original production stated that “it captures the mind and the spirit of the country as have few plays of our time.” But at the same time, Wilder skillfully allows a darker vein to surface. Money is a major concern in Grover’s Corners, but education is not. Nor is marriage senti-mentalized. The Stage Manager

denies that alcohol is a prob-lem, and we see that towns-people choose “just not to notice” Simon Stimson’s drink-ing problem. Perhaps Stimson’s musical calling is stifled in the small town, which admittedly lacks any significant cultiva-tion of the arts. More recently, it has been suggested that Stimson suffers as a gay man with no way out of the closet. George Gibbs never goes to college, and Mrs. Gibbs never fulfills her dream of visiting Paris. The $350 that might have paid for her trip is presumably the $350 legacy that buys a cement drinking fountain for live-stock. In all such instances, neither Wilder nor his Stage Manager at-tempts to point up a moral or to com-ment on the characters’ actions.

They simply show

things the way they were at a certain place and time. That tolerant avoidance of value judgments is one of the beau-ties of the play.

By focusing on a very particu-lar place and time — Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, between 1901 and 1913, with occasional references to earlier and later dates — Wilder cre-ates a sense of the universal. From the twins born in Polish Town in 1901 to the “millions”

of ancestors who witness Emily’s wed-ding, all are interconnected in a cosmic pattern cul-minating (like the address on Jane Crofut’s envelope) in “the Mind of God.” The same human activities oc-cur repeatedly from ancient Babylon to “people a thousand years from now.” But change is also a constant, as Emily must realize: “Why

Photo of author/playwright Thornton Neville Wilder as Mr. Antrobus in his play, The Skin of Our Teeth, (1948)

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can’t I stay for a while just as I am?” The play encompasses both wonderment at the vast-ness of the universe (evoked in repetitions of the word “mil-lions”) and a sense of pain at the overlooked value of the smallest moments in quotidian existence.

In Our Town — as in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), in his second Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), in his National Book Award novel The Eighth Day (1967), and in other works — Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) explored his perennial theme: the relation-ship between the minutiae of daily life and the cosmic sweep of time, humanity, and the uni-verse. However, a decade before he wrote Our Town, Wilder had commented: “Someday some-one will discover that one of the principal ideas behind my work is the fear of catastro-phe...” and he expressed his “…apprehension about the future, the whole mystery of tomor-row.” Such sentiments in 1927 undoubtedly grew out of Amer-ica’s involvement ten years earlier in the Great War (when Wilder’s older brother Amos had fought in France). With the world rearming and moving toward its second World War even as Wilder was writing

Our Town, it is not surprising that he set the last act of the play in 1913, a time we now see as civilization’s end of in-nocence before catastrophe overtook the world in August 1914. Nor could Wilder refrain from alluding to the toll of that war, as when the Stage Manag-er tells us that the newsboy Joe Crowell would graduate head of his class and have a great career in engineering ahead of him, “but the war broke out and he died in France. All that education for nothing.”

Thornton Wilder once referred to his plays as having “relatively slight ideological content.” But the example of the newsboy from a small New England town caught up and cut down by forces of history on another continent at least prompts reflection about the individual’s place in the world. To those who questioned the viability of a democratic system, Wilder’s response in 1941 echoed elements of Our Town: “That deep sense of responsibility from neighbor to neighbor is the finest thing a democracy can show.”

Dr. Felicia Hardison Londré, Curators’ Professor of Theatre at UMKC, is Immediate Past Dean of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. As a theatre historian, she specializes in French, Russian and Kansas City theatre.

THE COMPANY Our Town

CRAIG BENTON (Doc Gibbs) KC Rep/ Missouri Repertory Theatre: August: Osage County, A Christmas Carol (2 seasons as Bob Cratchit), The Royal Hunt of the Sun. Local: A View from the Bridge, A Funny Thing Hap-pened On The Way to The Forum, (Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); Bee Luther Hatchee (Unicorn Theatre); Big River (Musical Theater Heritage); Harvey, Becky’s New Car, Miracle On South Division Street, Out of Order, The Foreigner, You Can’t Take It With You, Barefoot in the Park, Propos-als, Beau Jest, Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo, Arsenic and Old Lace,

Father of the Bride, Cash on Delivery, Never Too Late, Rumors, Aspirin and Elephants, Social Security, On Golden Pond, Norman Is That You?, Game Show (New Theatre). Moonlight and Magnolias, Tuesdays With Morrie, Death Trap, A Christmas Story, The Dinner Party, Play It Again Sam (American Heartland Theatre); Over the River and Through the Woods (American Heart-land Theatre, New Theatre); Regional: The Odd Couple (Great Plains Theatre Festival). Off Off Broadway: Hanky Panky (NYC Midtown International Theatre Festival). TV & Film: “Mar-ried With Children”, “Wings”, “Herman’s Head”, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, “Jake and the Fatman”, “Knots Landing”, “The Bold and the Beautiful”, “The Young and the Restless”; The Lawnmower Man, Kuffs, Kansas, Suspension, Raising Jeffrey Dahmer, Truman, More Than Puppy Love, Dead Silence, Soldiers Of Change, There Was a Little Boy. Education: BS in The-atre, Kansas State University; School of Performing Arts, Wichita. Upcoming: Shear Madness (New Theatre). AEA Member

LOGAN BLACK  (Professor Willard) KC Rep: A Christmas Carol. Local: Seminar (Unicorn Theatre); Antony and Cleopatra, A Midsummer Night’s Dream  (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival);  Afflicted  (The Coterie); Journey’s End (Kansas City Actors Theatre and UMKC co-pro-duction, WW I Museum). Regional: Hamlet, The School for Scandal (The Riverside Festival Theatre); Henry IV parts I & II  (Oak Park Festival The-atre); Much Ado About Nothing, To Kill a Mockingbird (Colorado Shake-speare Festival); Romeo and Juliet, Dial “M” for Murder (Pioneer Theatre Company): The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Blithe Spirit (Okoboji Summer The-atre).  Education: MFA, UMKC. Upcoming: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (The Coterie)www.logan-black.com

KATI BRAZDA (Mrs. Webb) KC Rep: debut. Broadway: A Moon for the Mis-begotten. Off-Broadway: Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre, David Cromer, Director); Bill W and Dr. Bob (SoHo Playhouse); Lovers (The Actors The-atre Company “TACT”); Trying (Promenade Theatre); Regional: Our Town (George Street Playhouse, David Esbjornson, Director); Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas (Center Stage, Rebecca Taichman, Director); Our Town (Broad Stage Santa Monica); On Golden Pond (Geva Theatre); The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Moon for the Misbegotten (Palm Beach Dra-

maworks); Twelfth Night (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); Enemies, A Love Story (Wilma Theatre); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Dallas Theatre Center); Bluish (Alliance Theatre); Finding the Sun (Eric Rosen, Director), The Story, The Death of Bessie Smith (Goodman Theatre); The Ac-tion Against Sol Schumann, Trying (Victory Gardens Theatre); Pericles, Cymbeline (Court The-atre); Next Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, About Face, among others. Upcoming: L’Hotel (Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Ted Pappas, Director). AEA Member.

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RICHARD C. BROWN (Farmer McCarty) KC Rep/ Missouri Repertory Theatre: Imaginary Invalid (Aragon), Tartuffe (Tartuffe), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Guildenstern), Peter Pan (Captain Hook), Bus Stop (Dr. Lyman), Look Homeward Angel (Ben), Love Letters. Local: Come Blow Your Horn (Alan), Never Too Late (Charlie), and Sidney Bruhl in Deathtrap (Tiffany’s Attic Dinner Playhouse); Harvey (Elwood P. Dowd), My Fair Lady (Henry Higgins ), No Time For Sergeants (Sergeant King), and the Aunt in Charlie’s Aunt (Waldo Astoria Dinner Play-house); Room Service (Gribble, The Folly Theatre); On Golden Pond (Norman, The Bell Road Barn). Regional: The Foreigner (Charley, The Alley Theatre, Houston); Nicholas Nickelby (New-man Noggs, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival), Henry V (Dauphin), and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot (Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival). AEA Member.

MARIEM S. DIAZ (Rebecca Gibbs) KC Rep: debut. Local: The Audio Cart (KC Fringe Festival 2014); Mere Mortals…or What You Will, The Epic Project, Troilus and Cressida (UMKC Theatre). Educational: Breaking Up, Traces of Memory, Blood Wedding, Unfinished Women, Momentary Memories (Get-tysburg College). Education: BA in Theatre Arts, Gettysburg College; Sec-ond year MFA student, UMKC. Upcoming: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Unicorn Theatre).

PATRICK DU LANEY (Simon Stimson) KC Rep: A Christmas Story (Santa), Into the Woods (The Steward). Local: Inspecting Carol (Wayne, Unicorn Theatre/UMKC/Kansas City Actors Theatre co-production); The Country Wife (Pinchwife), Tartuffe, title role (UMKC Theatre); Oklahoma! (Jud, New Theatre). Mr. Du Laney is a founding member of The Alaska Shakespeare Festival. Upcoming: Vanya in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Old Creamery Theatre). Education: MFA in acting, UMKC. AEA Member.

JAMIE DUFAULT  (Sam Craig)  KC Rep: Romeo and Juliet.  Local: Almost, Maine, Big Love,  King Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost  (UMKC Theatre).  Regional:  Twelfth Night, Henry V

(Great River Shakespeare Festival);  Macbeth, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice (The Colonial Theatre); The Graduate, The Comedy of Errors  (Courthouse Center for the Arts); But-terflies are Free  (Newport Playhouse);  The Belle’s Strategem  (2nd  Story Theatre);  A Lie of the Mind  (Rumble Productions);  Buster Keaton: Fade to Black  (Daydream Theatre Company). Film: Murder University, A Date With Your Family, Unchained, Hands Off!, Winner. Awards: Best Male Lead

2011 (Buster Keaton: Fade to Black, Motif Magazine); Best Actor, Shudder Fest 2012 (Murder University). Education: BA in Journalism and Film Media Studies, Minor in Theatre (Magna Cum Laude, University of Rhode Island); MFA third-year candidate, UMKC. Upcoming: Peri-cles (UMKC Theatre).

ALISHA ESPINOSA (CItizen) KC Rep: debut. Echoes of Octavia (Melt-ingPot KC); Comedy of Errors (Kansas Classical Repertory Theatre); Wa-ter by the Spoonful (Unicorn Theatre); Afflicted: Daughters of Salem (The Coterie). Regional: Henry V (CNY Shakespeare). Educational: Almost, Maine, Seven Guitars, Kansas City Swing (UMKC Theatre). Education: Third year MFA student, UMKC.

THE COMPANY Our Town

PEGGY FRIESEN (Mrs. Soames) KC Rep/ Missouri Repertory Theatre: A Christmas Carol (28 seasons), The Syringa Tree, Man and Superman, Indian Ink, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, WMKS, A Delicate Balance, If We are Women, M. Butterfly, Our Town, The House of Blue Leaves. Local: Steel Magnolias (Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); The Year of Magical Thinking (Spinning Tree Theatre and The Living Room); The Mousetrap, A Lesson From Aloes, The Cripple of Inishmaan (Kansas City Actors Theatre); 101 Dalmatians, Frindle (Coterie Theatre); Stories My Grandmother Told Me,

Little Foxes, The Dinner Party (American Heartland Theatre); Nickel and Dimed, Spinning Into Butter, Frozen, Wit (Unicorn Theatre). Regional: The Exonerated (Contemporary American Theatre Company, Columbus, Ohio); Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, and harpist in The Fantasticks (Okoboji Summer Theatre); The Tempest (as Prospero, Guest Artist at Stephens College). New York: Hanky Panky (Midtown International Theatre Festival). Ms. Friesen also performs as a professional harpist. Film & TV: Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil, Robert Altman’s Kansas City, Stephen Soderbergh’s King of the Hill, The Big Brass Ring with William Hurt, Monday After the Miracle, A Will of Their Own, Truman, My Antonia, Sarah, Plain and Tall II. AEA Member.

CHARLES FUGATE (Editor Webb) KC Rep: A Christmas Carol (Dick-ens), Cabaret (Ernst), Carousel (Bascombe), The Foreigner (Rev. Da-vid),  Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Larrabee). Local: A Little Night Music,  Shipwrecked! and Hello Again (Spinning Tree Theatre); Journey’s End,  The Mousetrap and The Real Inspector Hound (Kansas City Actors Theatre); Master Of The Universe  and Carousel  (The Living Room); Kander & Ebb’s Kiss Of The Spiderwoman (Molina) and Ragtime (Father) (Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); Next Fall, Bat Boy, Laramie Project (Unicorn Theatre); Disney’s Geppetto & Son (Geppetto, world premiere), Franken-stein (world premiere, title role), Our Town (Doc Gibbs) (Coterie Theatre); Music Man (Char-lie Cowell), Narnia (Mr. Tumnus), Anything Goes, Cinderella, Footloose (Starlight Theatre).  Regional:  Man Of La Mancha (Quixote) and South Pacific (Emile) (Great Plains Theatre).  Arthur Kopit’s INDIANS (Buffalo Bill, Rockhurst College guest artist). Vocal perfor-mance:  Kansas City Chorale, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra.   @charlesfugate, www.charlesfugate.com AEA Member.

JERRY GENOCHIO (Constable Warren) KC Rep: debut.  Six (Kansas City Fringe Festival).  Regional. Pippin, Dark of the Moon (SMSU Theatre); Camille, The Rover, As You Like It, 1984, Beyond the Horizon, Emily (Florida State University);  Plaza Suite, Harvey, Carousel, The Lion in Winter, Hair, Wait Until Dark (Northwest Repertory Theatre).   Mr. Genochio is also Producing Director at KC Rep and will direct the upcoming productions of A Christmas Carol and An Iliad.

NÍCOLE MARIE GREEN (Irma, u/s Mrs. Gibbs, u/s Mrs. Webb) KC Rep: debut. Local: The Winter’s Tale (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); Afflicted: Daughters of Salem (world premiere, The Coterie); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Big Love!, Almost, Maine, Eat This!, Burnt By the Sun, King Lear (UMKC Theatre). Regional: Enchanted April (Elmwood Playhouse); The Sword and the Stone, A Christmas Carol (Traveling Lantern Theatre Company); The Odd Couple (Antrim Playhouse); Noises Off (Nyack Theatre); Servant of Two Masters, All’s Well That Ends Well, Carousel (Flagler Theatre). Upcoming: A Christmas Carol (KC Rep), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (The Coterie). Education: Third year MFA acting student at UMKC.

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BRIAN HUTHER (Si Crowell) KC Rep: debut. Local: The Mistakes Mad-eline Made, The Death of Cupid (The Living Room Theatre). Educational: You Can’t Take It With You, Night of January 16th, Pirates of Penzance, The Music Man (MidAmerica Nazarene University). Education: BA, Mass Com-munications, Theater/English minors, MidAmerica Nazarene University).

GARY NEAL JOHNSON (Joe Stoddard) KC Rep/ Missouri Repertory Theatre: (Associate Artist): Death of a Salesman, A Christmas Carol, The Foreigner, Little Shop of Horrors, August: Osage County, Cabaret, Bus Stop, Winesburg Ohio, The Drawer Boy, King Lear, Give ‘Em Hell, Harry, Guys and Dolls, Saint Joan, Inherit the Wind, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Oleanna, Anti-gone, A Delicate Balance, Treasure Island, Julius Caesar, M. Butterfly, Our Town, Of Mice and Men, Nicholas Nickleby, Translations, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, et al. Local: King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Mea-sure for Measure, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Heart of America Shakespeare); Wizard of Oz, Annie (Starlight Theatre); The Mousetrap, The Real Inspector Hound, A Lesson from Aloes. (Kansas City Actors Theatre); Regional: King Lear (Goodman Theatre); The Voysey Inheritance (American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco); King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.); Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice (Utah Shake-speare Festival), Witness for the Prosecution (Arrow Rock Lyceum Theater). AEA Member.

TODD CARLTON LANKER (Howie Newsome) KC Rep: Laramie Proj-ect Epilogue (Workshop, Moisés Kaufman, Director), The Glass Menagerie (David Cromer, Director), King Lear (Larry Carpenter, Director). Local: As You Like It, Othello (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); Pride and Prejudice (Mr. Darcy, Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (American Heartland Theatre); Game Show, Lend Me a Tenor, Becky’s New Car (New Theatre); Reality, Honest (Unicorn Theatre); Our Town (George Gibbs, The Coterie); Head (Kyle Hatley, Director/Play-

wright, KC Fringe Festival). Regional: You Can’t Take It With You (Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Michael Haney, Director); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck, twothirds theatre); Lord of the Flies, The Real Thing, The Things They Carried (Ding an Sich). Education: BA, Samford Univer-sity, Wheaton College; MFA in Acting and Directing, UMKC. AEA Member.

SETH MACCHI (Joe Crowell, Jr.) KC Rep: debut. Local: More 4Play, Bad Auditions (KC Fringe Festival 2014); The Mistakes Madeline Made (The Living Room); Educational: Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens (Bill Russell, Director), The 39 Steps, The Foreigner, Shakespeare in Hol-lywood (University of Kansas). International: Orestes (Oiniades Summer Theatre Festival, Katohi, Greece). Film: Adira (Hidden Distict Studios). Mr. Macchi is a member of the Kansas City Improv Company. Writer/actor for Round 2 of Founty City Sketch Comedy.

LINSEY PAGE MORTON (Emily) KC Rep: debut. Regional: Lost in Yonkers (Bella, Northlight Theatre); The Iceman Cometh (Goodman The-atre); JoanDark (co-production, Goodman Theatre and the Linz 2009 Fes-tival in Austria); The Dresser (Steppenwolf Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (David Cromer, Director), Another Part of the Forest, Bus Stop (Jeff Award Nomination), and Spite for Spite (Writers Theatre); The Crucible and Hannah and Martin world premiere (Timeline Theatre); Enchanted April (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre). Directing: Assistant Director, The

Normal Heart (Nick Bowling, Director, Timeline Theatre). Film: Joshua, The Quiet, Freudian Slip. Ms. Morton is a company member and casting director at Pine Box Theatre Company. AEA Member.

THE COMPANY Our Town

EMILY NAN PHILLIPS (Citizen) KC Rep: debut. Local: Afflicted: Daughters of Salem (world premiere, The Coterie); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Almost, Maine, Big Love, Burnt by the Sun, EAT THIS! KC Chews on the Politics of Food, King Lear (UMKC Theatre). Regional: Love, Sex and the I.R.S., The Foreigner (Prairie Repertory Theatre); Bye Bye Birdie (Playhouse 2000); The Wizard of Oz (Fredericksburg Theatre Company). Educational: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tartuffe, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Urinetown: The Musical, The Secret Garden, Beauty and the Beast (West Texas A&M University). Education: BA in Musical Theatre, magna cum laude, West Texas A&M University; Third year MFA student, UMKC. Ms Phillips recently interned with the Guildford Shakespeare Company, Surrey, UK. Upcoming: Rudolph (The Coterie).

STEPHANIE RAE ROBERTS (Mrs. Gibbs) KC Rep: A Christmas Carol. Local: The Mask of the Broken Heart (writer/performer), Boom! An In-ternational Lost and Found Family Marching Band (writer/director/per-former), (Fishtank Performance Studio); Tallahassee (co-writer/director, Kansas City Fringe Festival); Eat This! KC Chews on the Politics of Food (writer/director), The King Stag (co-director), Slammed! KC Speaks Out on the Recession and Meanwhile (writer/director, UMKC Theatre). Re-gional: Living Voices (national tour, Seattle WA); An Evening in Amer-

ica (Seattle Mime Theatre); Three Pigs (Dell’Arte International). International: Dead on Her Feet (choreography, The North Wall, Oxford and London, UK); Square One (German tour); The Handwriting, the Soup and the Hats (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Awards: 2010 Char-lotte Street Foundation Generative Performing Artist Fellow; Arts KC’s Inspiration Award; The Pitch: “Best Face Time” (The Mask of the Broken Heart) and “Best ‘Dinner Theatre’” (Eat This!). Education: BFA Cornish College of the Arts; MFA Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Ms. Roberts is an Associate Professor, UMKC Theatre. AEA Member. http://sraerob.wix.com/stephanieraeroberts

JEFF STILL (Stage Manager) KC Rep: debut. Broadway: August: Osage County (also National Tour), Lombardi, Bronx Bombers. Off-Broadway: Our Town, Tribes, Orson’s Shadow, Adding Machine, City of Conversation. Regional: Born Yesterday (Guthrie Theatre); Our Town (Broad Stage); Tribes (Mark Taper Forum and La Jolla Playhouse); RED (Pittsburgh Pub-lic Theatre); Amadeus (Cardinal Stage); Orson’s Shadow (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Lombardi: The Only Thing (Madison Rep); Tracy Letts’ Bug (world premiere, Gate Theatre, London). Chicago: The Price (Writers’ Theatre); The Caine Mutiny Court Martial; “Doc” in Place of Angels, the one-man show about Vietnam Vet Bob Adams (Red Orchid Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare The-atre); A Clockwork Orange, Golden Boy, Wolf Lullaby, Mother Courage, The Dresser, Sonia Flew, among others (Steppenwolf Theatre). Film & TV: Public Enemies, The Express, The Hudsucker Proxy, “Law & Order”, “Early Edition”, The Untouchables, Good Night Sweet Wife, To Sir with Love II. AEA Member.

ANDREW STOUT (Wally Webb) KC Rep: A Christmas Carol (Tiny Tim/Scrooge as a boy), Carousel, Pippin. Local: Master of the Universe (Young Victor, world premiere, The Living Room); Oliver! (title role, Gladstone Theatre in the Park); Children of Eden (Shawnee Mission Theatre in the Park); The King and I, Oliver! (Jewish Community Center, Shirley White Theatre); Titanic the Musical (Leawood Stage Company); Music Theatre for Young People. International: Alice in Wonderland (Port Elizabeth Op-era House, South Africa). Film: The Boy That Stayed. Upcoming: A Christ-

mas Carol (Simon, KC Rep). Andrew is a seventh grader at Mill Creek Middle School.

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MICHAEL THAYER (Citizen) KC Rep: debut. Local: Mere Mortals, Troilus and Cressida (UMKC Theatre). Regional: Children of Hercules (American Thymele Theatre); The Imaginary Invalid (National Theater for Arts and Education tour); Arsenic and Old Lace (Wayside Theatre). Educational: In a Room Somewhere, Bent, Pitching to the Star, Much Ado About Nothing, The Sneeze, Escape from Happiness (University of Maine). Education: BA, Theatre, summa cum laude University of Maine; Second year MFA student, UMKC.

DERRICK TRUMBLY (George) KC Rep: debut. Regional: Our Town (Huntington Theatre Company, David Cromer, Director); Rent (American Theatre Company/About Face Theatre, David Cromer, Director); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway In Chicago, James Lap-ine, Director); Mamma Mia!, Las Vegas (Mandalay Bay); Yank! (Workshop, Roundabout Theatre Company, David Cromer, Director); Shenandoah, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Marriott Theatre Lincoln-shire); Cymbeline (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Hair, Ragtime, Table

Manners, The Three Musketeers, Bye Bye Birdie (Weathervane Theatre Company); Shenan-doah (David Bell, Director); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Marriott Theatre, Ra-chel Rockwell, Director); Cymbeline (Barbara Gaines, Director). Film & TV: “Crisis”, “Chicago Fire” (NBC); “The Mob Doctor” (Fox); Conversations w/ My Ex (Fifty2&Nine Pro.); Coop’s Night In (Elantra Films). www.derricktrumbly.com. AEA Member.

MARY R. HONOUR (Production Stage Manager) KC Rep/Missouri Repertory Theatre: Stage Management: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Romeo and Juliet, The Santaland Diaries, The Foreigner, American Buffalo, Death of a Salesman, Little Shop of Horrors, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (including the New York production at New Victory Theatre), The History of Kisses, Peer Gynt (including the co-production at La Jolla Playhouse), Circle Mirror Transformation, Harriet Jacobs, Bus Stop, A Flea in Her Ear, Winesburg, Ohio, The Glass Menagerie, Radio Golf, The Drawer Boy, A Marvelous Party!, A Christmas Carol, Doubt, Two Pianos, Four Hands, The Syringa Tree, Love, Janis, Jitney, The Trip to Bountiful, Man and Superman, The Voysey Inheritance, Little Women, The Front Page, Incognito. Regional: Kansas City Starlight Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Light Opera Works. Ms. Honour is also stage manager for the Rep’s annual fundraising event A Fearless Fête. AEA Member.

BROOKE REDLER  (Assistant Stage Manager) KC Rep: Stage Manager:  The Whipping Man,  A Christmas Carol,  August: Osage County, Cabaret,  30th anniversary production of A Christmas Carol, Saved, Palomino; Assistant Stage Manager: Bus Stop, A Flea in Her Ear, Winesburg, Ohio, A Christmas Carol, Radio Golf, The Drawer Boy, A Marvelous Party!, Bad Dates, The Syringa Tree, Love, Janis; Production Assistant: Clay, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, Jitney. Local: Peter Cottontail III (Production Stage Manager, Starlight Theatre); Aladdin Jr., The Sound of Music  (First Assistant Stage Manager, Starlight Theatre);  Anything Goes, The King and I, Cinderella (Second Assistant Stage Manager, Starlight Theatre); King Henry V, Romeo and Juliet (Assistant Stage Manager, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); Off Broadway: The Faire, Breathing Time, From White Plains (Production Stage Manager, Fault Line Theatre). Regional: Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, (Stage Manager, Baltimore Center Stage);  Peter and the Starcatcher, Richard II  (Stage Manager,  Utah Shakespeare Festival);  The Drowsy Chaperone, Is He Dead? and Harry The Great (Stage Manager, Creede Repertory Theatre);  Big River  and  Promises, Promises  (Assistant Stage Manager, Stages St. Louis). Opera:  Moscow, Cherry Town, Medea  (Production Stage Manager, Long Beach Opera); The Good Soldier, Schweik (Assistant Stage Manager, Long Beach Opera); Santa Fe Opera, two seasons. AEA Member.

THE COMPANY Our Town

DAVID CROMER (Director) New York: Women or Nothing (The Atlantic Theater Company); Really Really (MCC Theater), The House of Blue Leaves on Broadway, When the Rain Stops Falling (2010 Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction) and Nikolai and  the Others (Lincoln Center Theater);  A Streetcar Named Desire (Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Writ-ers Theatre in Chicago); Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway and Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street Theatre). Mr. Cromer’s production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town ran for 19 months Off Broadway and received the 2009 Lortel Awards for Direction and Outstanding Revival, as well as a 2009 Obie Award for Direction. This production has also been produced at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica and The Huntington Theater Company in Boston and will be produced by the Almeida Theatre in London later this year.  Mr. Cromer’s New York production of The Adding Machine at the Minetta Lane garnered him 2008 Obie and Lortel Awards for Direction. Originally from Chicago, his credits there include A Streetcar Named Desire, Picnic and The Price (Writers Theatre); Cherrywood, Mojo, and The Hot l Baltimore (Mary-Arrchie), Our Town (The Hypocrites), The Cider House Rules (co-directed with Marc Grapey at Famous Door), An-gels in America (The Journeymen), The Dazzle, Orson’s Shadow and Golden Boy (Steppenwolf Theatre), among others. David is a 2010 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.

MICHAEL PADDEN (Associate Director) KC Rep: The Glass Menagerie (Assistant to Direc-tor David Cromer). New York Directing: Zurich, NY (Essential Theatre Group); Barn, Sex and Death in London (Rising Phoenix Repertory Theatre); Open (New Gorges Wintry Mix). New York Assistant Directing: Hit the Wall (Eric Hoff, Barrow Street Theater); The House of Blue Leaves (David Cromer, Broadway, Walter Kerr); When the Rain Stops Falling (David Cromer, Lincoln Center Theater); Brighton Beach Memoirs (David Cromer, Broadway, Nederlander The-atre). Education: BA in Theatre, Northwest Missouri State University.

STEPHEN DOBAY (Scenic Designer) KC Rep: debut. Regional (with David Cromer): Our Town (Broad Stage, Huntington Theatre, Almeida Theatre in London), Come Back Little Sheba (Upcoming). Other credits include: Under My Skin (Little Shubert); Adult (Abrons Art Cen-ter); The Realists (Here Theatre); The Last Will (Abingdon Theatre); Long Day’s Journey into Night (York Shakespeare); Holy Crap (laMaMa Theatre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (3STC); Al-legro, The Cottage, Blood Brothers, A Hard Wall at High Speed, The Pillowman (APAC); Bus Stop (Olney Theatre); A Loss of Roses (Arkansas Repertory Theatre); Dublin by Lamplight (Mc-Carter Theater). Opera: The Bartered Bride, Merry Wives of Windsor, Don Pasquale, The Italian Girl in Algiers (Boston Midsummer Opera); Un Giorno di Regno, Zanetto, Il Secreto di Susanna (Odyssey Opera); The Play of Daniel (GEMS, the Cloisters); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Four Note Opera, Der Zwerg, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, L’Heure Espagnole (OperaHub) www.ste-phendobay.com

HEATHER GILBERT (Lighting Designer) KC Rep: debut. Regional (with David Cromer): Our Town (The Hypocrites, Chicago; Barrow Street Theatre, New York; The Broad Stage, Los Angeles; Huntington Theatre, Boston); A Streetcar Named Desire (Chicago Writers Theatre and Williamstown Theatre Festival); Rent (American Theatre Company and About Face The-atre); The Farnsworth Invention (Alley Theatre, Houston). Chicago: Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Hypocrites, Next Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Writ-ers’ Theatre, and more. Regional: Milwaukee Rep and Actors Theatre of Louisville . Upcoming: Dee Snider’s Rock & Roll Christmas Tale (Alchemy Productions, the Gilbert and Sullivan Reper-tory Company with The Hypocrites) and the Almeida Theatre, London production of Our Town with this creative team. Awards: 1999-2001 recipient of the NEA/TCG Development Program Award and a 3Arts Award (2012). Education: MFA, The Theatre School at DePaul. Ms. Gilbert is Head of Lighting Design at Columbia College.

JONATHAN MASTRO (Sound Designer/Music Director) KC Rep: debut. New York: Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (original music by Elliot Goldenthal), David Cromer’s Our Town (original music, music direction, Simon Stimson), Hit the Wall (Barrow Street The-atre); Paris Commune (The Civilians/BAM Next Wave);Taming of the Shrew Theatre For a New Audience). Mr. Mastro is also Emily Bergl’s Music Director (54 Below, Cafè Carlyle, Oak Room,

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etc.). Regional: Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Broad Stage, Barrel of Monkeys. Upcoming: Our Town (Almeida Theatre, London); Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre, David Cromer, Director). jonathanmastro.com. 

ALISON SIPLE (Costume Designer) KC Rep: Arabian Nights. Regional: All Our Tragic, The Tennessee Williams Project, The Mikado (The Hypocrites);  Ask Aunt Susan (Goodman Theatre);  The How and the Why  (Timeline Theatre); Anatole  (First Stage); Lord of the Flies  (Steppenwolf TYA);  Motortown  (Steep Theatre);  Pirates of Penzance  (A.R.T.). Off Broadway:  Our Town  (Barrow Street Theatre); The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide  (The Hypocrites at 59e59).  Upcoming: Our Town  (Almeida Theatre, London); lookingglass ALICE (Lookingglass Theatre); HMS Pinafore (The Hypocrites). Awards: 3Arts Grant (2011), Equity Jeff Award for The Mystery of Irma Vep (2010, Court Theatre); non-Equity Jeff Award for Cabaret (2011, The Hypocrites); non-Equity Jeff awards for Time and the Conways (2006, Griffin Theatre) and Leonce und Lena (2005, The Hypocrites). Education: BA Northwestern University. Ms. Siple is a company member of The Hypocrites, an Artistic Associate with the Lookingglass Theatre, and an Associate company member of the Steep Theatre. alisonsiple.com.

ERIC ROSEN (Artistic Director) was the founding Artistic Director of Chicago’s About Face Theatre (AFT) from 1995 to 2008, and is a writer, director and producer. Original projects include Venice (KC Rep, Center Theatre Group-LA, Public Theater-NYC, “Best Musical of 2010”–TIME Magazine); Wedding Play (Steppenwolf/AFT, Jefferson nomination); Winesburg, Ohio (Step penwolf/AFT-Jeff Award, Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company—Barrymore Award, KC Rep); Clay (AFT, Lookingglass Theatre-Chicago, Center Theatre Group, KC Rep, Lincoln Cen-ter/CT3-Drama Desk Nomi nation, Jeff Award); and Undone, Whitman and Dream Boy (Jeff Award, several productions across the country). In addition to Venice, other Rep directing credits include: Clay; Winesburg, Ohio; world premiere of A Christmas Story, The Musical! (a hit musical on Broadway—three Tony nominations, including Best Musical); Cabaret; August: Osage County; The Whipping Man; Pippin; Death of a Salesman; Ro meo and Juliet; and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Additional directing credits include productions at Lincoln Center, Center Theatre Group, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Alliance, Lookingglass, Chicago Shake-speare, Hartford Stage, 5th Avenue, Prince, Cincinnati, Melbourne (Australia) and workshops at Sundance, O’Neill, Playwrights Horizons, and the Public Theater. He has developed and produced over 40 world premieres, including Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award- winning I am My Own Wife and work by Mary Zimmerman, Frank Galati, Stephen Flaherty, Moisés Kaufman, David Cale and The Civilians, among others. He holds a doctorate in perfor-mance studies from Northwestern University, has twice served as an NEA panel ist, and serves on the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group, the national organization of non-profit theatres.

ANGELA LEE GIERAS (Executive Director) As Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s chief administrative and operating officer, Gieras partners with artistic director Eric Rosen to fulfill the Rep’s artistic vision and mission. She is responsible for the day-to-day administrative, operational, and human resources functions of the theatre and serves as the primary staff representative to the Rep’s board of directors and UMKC. Gieras began her career in arts ad-ministration at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, South Carolina, and went on to serve as the associate managing director of the Dallas Theater Center, where she oversaw marketing and public relations, human resources, financial management, artist contracting, and facilities management. Just prior to joining the Rep, she served as director of development at Florida Theatre in Jacksonville, where she represented the organization in the community and led Florida Theatre’s fundraising strategy. Gieras earned an MBA. and MA in arts administration from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, where she was a member of Beta Gam-ma Sigma honor society, the highest national recognition a student in business can achieve. She currently serves on the Alumni Board for SMU’s Cox School of Business.

THE COMPANY Our Town

PRODUCING DIRECTOR Jerry Genochio

ADMINISTRATIONManager, Information Services

Michelle BlaineAssistant General Manager

Andrea CollignonStaff Accountant

Jeanette BichageAccounts Payable Associate

Kimberly WealthallExecutive Assistant

Amy M. Abels Owen

ARTISTICResident Director

Kyle HatleyPlaywright-In-Residence

Nathan Louis JacksonAssociate Producing Director

Daniel R. EarnestAssistant Artistic Director

Chip MillerCompany Manager

Melissa Koerner

MARKETING/COMMUNICATIONSDirector of Marketing & Communications

Brendan S. MartinPublicist

Ellen McDonaldMarketing Manager

Gerry EadensDesign/Publications Specialist

Thaylia SmithDigital Media/Public Relations Coordinator

Andi EnnsPublications Assistant

Nancy Marcy

DEVELOPMENTSenior Director for Advancement

Jennifer IngrahamDirector of Development

Mollie Alexander SpeerManager, Individual Giving

Carrie LenahanManager, Institutional Giving

Ed MathenySpecial Events/Campaign Coordinator

Amanda MiddaughDevelopment Associate

Keri Losche Noerrlinger

EDUCATION/COMMUNITY PROGRAMSDirector of Education/Community Programs

Melinda McCraryEducation Associate

Amy M. Abels Owen

FRONT OF HOUSEHouse Manager

Kelly CooperAsst. House Mgr./Volunteer Coordinator

Sandra RodriguezAssistant House Managers

Warren Deckert LaVera Fleeks Christina Obenshain

Front of House Staff Nattanii Boonanant Sophie Laufer Linda Fleeks Mary Lou Garrett Linh Hoang Barb Lutman Bailey Moore Danyelle Owens Adrian Peabody Ping Ying Choo Thao Phan Rachel Prowell Saitejasree Ramala Jane Schaefer Zane Snipes Christopher Steinauer Craig Thompson Marissanne Lewis-Thompson

PRODUCTIONTechnical Director

W.R. ShinoskiAssistant Technical Director

Tom GaultScene Shop Foreman

John OwenMaster Carpenter

Daniel TranerStage Supervisor

Michael NolanCarpenters

Daniel d’Egnuff William Howard Michael Hudgens Heather Klausner Nate Rose

Properties Master Michael Schall

Assistant Properties Master Grace Hudson

Properties Artisan Nancy Wagner

Properties Artisan/Carpenter Mark Hambrect

Materials Coordinator D. Patrick Farmer

Charge Scenic Artist Alice Bracken-Carroll

Assistant Charge Scenic Artist Jessica Seacrest

Costume Shop Manager Gayla Voss

Assistant Costume Shop Manager Polly Bilski

Head Cutter Michele Richmond

Cutter Kathleen Bradford

Stitchers Jana Jessee Heather Schmidt

Milliner Carol Brookover

Props/Costume Rental Manager Gary Campbell

Wardrobe Supervisor/Rental Associate Marianne Rowse

Head Electrician Rachael Shair

Master Audio Engineer Jeffrey Keirsey

Production Audio Engineer Trenton Spears

TICKET OFFICEManager, Ticketing Services

Catie PedersenGroup Sales/Audience Development Manager

Rick Duplissie Assistant Box Office Manager

Shaun Culley Ticketing Agents Robin Harmon Latifah Sayles Christina Lieffring

Teleservice Manager Steve Hurla

Teleservice Agents Alysia Engle Mallory Flora Alicia Vaughn-Bey Denisha Vaughn-Bey

STAFF Our Town ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Eric Rosen Angela Lee Gieras

Production Assistants Katie Fernandez Matthew Henrickson Meghan Newman Crew Zach York

Electrician Margaret Spare

Dressers Carole Jo Bradley Chelli Tillman

Acting Theodore Swetz Carla Noack Scott Stackhouse

Costume Design Lindsay W. Davis Margret Fenske Sarah M. Oliver Lighting Design Victor En Yu Tan

Period Style/Movement Jennifer Martin

Tracy TerstriepPhysical Theatre

Stephanie RobertsProfessor of Theatre Arts

Ricardo Khan

Scenic Design John Ezell Gene Emerson Friedman

Sound Tom Mardikes (Dept.Chairman) Greg Mackender

Stage Management Sadie DeSantis

Technical Direction Chuck Hayes Chaz Bell

Theatre History/Dramaturgy Dr. Felicia Londré

Voice/Dialect Scott Stackhouse

UMKC THEATRE FACULTYADDITIONAL STAFF / Our Town

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Thank You!Kansas City Repertory Theatre is grateful for the contributions of the many individuals and organizations that help make our productions and education programs possible.

Please consider making a gift to KC Rep. We would love to add your name to our list of sup-porters!Donors who have supported KC Rep for 10 or more consecutive years are acknowl-edged with an (*). Donations made through the Greater Kansas City Community Foun-dation are recognized with a (^). Gifts made through the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City are recognized with a (~).

This listing is as of August 8, 2014.

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PARTNERS ($1,000-2,499)

AnonymousArvest BankMarcia H. Bailey *Sarah & Jon BaumScott & Ginny BeallJune BeaverRuth Beedle & Tom PopeJudy & Doug Black *Becky BladesBlitt FamilyAndrea & Stephen BoughBoulevard Brewing Company (in-kind)Mrs. W. Coleman Branton *The Breidenthal-Snyder FoundationBrookside & Lane Associates, |

Andrew Muir & Steve LaneMary Lou & Tom Brous *Michael BrownBob & Karen Brush *Capitol FederalCBIZ MHM, LLCCurt CrespinoKarren & Tom CrouchDark Horse Distillery (in-kind)Leodis & June DavisBarry Eisenhart & Pat McCormickErik & Bev ElvingKimberly England & Rob FreelandD. Michael EnosSally FirestoneGregory M. Glore - Trustee of the Francis

Family FoundationAngela & John Gieras

Dr. Valerie E. Chow & Judge Jon R. Gray (Ret.)

Laura Greenbaum ^John & Innes HaleDeborah HaysRosalie Henry *Dr. & Mrs. Glenn R. Hodges *The Ingram Family Foundation *JE Dunn Construction CompanyNancy L. KainJoy & Jerry Kaplan *Richard B. & Martha J. KatzJonathan & Nancy Lee KemperDemi Lloyd & David Kiersznowski /

DEMDACORegina & Bill KortRev. Susan Langhauser *Teresa LaRocco & Lyle KrehbielJoseph & Michelle LeggioTroy Lillebo & Brian EllisonWilliam J. & Frances LynnEva & Gregory MacFarlaneJan MarcasonTerry & Cathy MatlackJanice & Bill McCollumJean & Tom McDonnellMarilyn & Harold Melcher *James & Patricia Cleary Miller

through the Miller-Mellor AssociationDan NilsenRobert M. Noll, Jr.Debra W. Parmet *Heather N. PaxtonFred Pryor & Jami HeptingRalph & Leisa ReidMichael Rogers & Jean MemkenAnne & Norbert RussMichelle & Darin ShankJoe & Susan SimsSnow & Co. - Artful Frozen Cocktails

(in-kind)Morton & Estelle SoslandDr. Linda H. Talbott*Tension Envelope Foundation ^Rev. Paul TurnerMark A. & Nancy J. Viets * ^Shirley WhiteLaura & Lantz WelchFrank & Helen WewersShirley WhiteDr. Michael J. & Cindy S. WurmHenry E. Wurst Family Foundation *

PATRONS ($500-$999)

3 Girls Cupcakes (in-kind)A. Bommarito WinesAnonymousAileen V. & Redman Callaway Fund ^Andrews McMeel Universal Foundation *Hunter Arnold & Jim CzeszewskiBarbara & Richard Atlas *Robert H. & Kathleen M. Bender *Bonnie Blythe & Douglas DeeBeverly & Robert “Bucky” BrooksJill BuntingBurleson Orthodontics &

Pediatric Dentistry

Larry E. & Mary E. CookLois & Thomas DavidsonConnie & Fred De Sieghardt *Kathy & Bruce DurkeeJoseph & Diana Eisenach *Peggy & Terry ElliottMichael G. FittTim & Cathy GoodgerStephanie & Ken HanawayNancy W. HawleyRobert & Beverly HechlerHelix Architecture & DesignMarc & Nina HollabaughDr. Patrick HughesTom & Carol HynekJennifer & Jason IngrahamIsaac & Rena JonathanBrad & Jane KleindlArthur & Carol Faucher KowalskiLarry Lavigne, IIElaine & Benjamin Mann *UMKC Theatre DepartmentDr. W. Kendall McNabneyMidland Loan Services (in-kind)Susan L. MoreyLaura Smith Muir & R. Andrew MuirSara & David O’Connell *Jane & Charles OlsenJoAnn & Marvin Ozley *Roshann ParrisTom & Janice PearsonScott, Dallas & Mia PioliJeff & Angela PlacePeter PowellBob & Ann Regnier ^ /

Bank of Blue ValleyDean & Danielle RodenboughDouglas & Elsie Smith *Frank & Robin SterneckStuff (in-kind)Jon TaylorMark Thornhill & Maria DoniganTom Tivol Jewels (in-kind)Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc.Clyde & Katie WendelLeanne Wiedemann & Rob Krumlauf

SUPPORTERS ($250-$499)

AnonymousJoan & Earl AdamRichard & Karen AdlerChris & Regi Ahrens *Ellen & John Aisenbrey *James AtwoodBack2body (in-kind)Ivan & Karla BatlleDiane & Murray BlackwelderRoger & Jeanne BlessingBlue Heron Foundation / Joan & Bert

Berkley ^Dan & Jobeth BradburyArden & Mary Ann CarrJames & Ellen CopakenDr. Newton Jones & James CorrickBill & Rebecca Crain *G. B. Crump *

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Kit & Jay CulverTom & Margaret CummingsTeal & Marty DakanBethany & Lee DerroughDerek Dinoni & Chad TowndrowDavid EaheartDave & Jeannette EarlesEmbrace Your Humanity (in-kind)Craig EvansEllen FeldhausenHannah FenleyCynthia FinterDouglas & Caryn Firebaugh *Kate ForristallSuEllen & Harvey FriedJohn GeorgeKaren R. Glickstein & Donald J. SwartzChris GlissmanRonald & Susan Goldsmith

Philanthropic Fund * ~Ray GrieshaberAlice W. & Richard Gutierrez *Dennis & Donna HainesJason Haney & Pamela WagnerCaroline & George HelmkampShirley & Barnett C. Helzberg, Jr. ^ ~Kim & Ted Higgins *Bill & Irma Lou Hirsch ^Jeanne Hollister *Dick & Kathy HonanJoan HoranBlair & Lyn HosfordBrad & Karla HughesChuck & Laurie JarrettDottie JensenJohn & Elaine JepsonCol. & Mrs. Charles M. JohnsonDoug Kallenberger & Lynn BlixrudDonna KastlLynn & Ann KindredKip Knight & Peggy DayDr. & Mrs. Kevin KochPatricia KonopkaJane & Mike KressSara & Ed KurtzMichael LallyJames & Kathy LaursenMr. & Mrs. Duane R. Lee *Joan & Bernie Levine *Bonnie & Chris LimbirdDennis & Laurie McCormackP. Alan McDermott *Joyce McInerneyCarl & Beth MigliazzoMelanie & William MillerRonald Newton & Sheryl LeVotaJean O’BrienMark & Lynne O’ConnellJane OlsonDeanna K. PattonMary Ann Pinkerton *George & Wendy Powell *Rob & Joy PreacherJim Price & Fran WarkowCynthia & Stuart RiderDavid RoseConnie & David RossRosso at Hotel Sorella (in-kind)Anton & Barbara Schaefer

Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Schellhorn *Mary Ann & Stephen SchmitzShatto Milk Co (in-kind)Mike SiglerLori F. & Chad J. SimmonsJayson & Jill SitesMollie AlexanderRyan Sprott & Molly MaxwellJames & Carol StanfordMr. & Mrs. Rodger StelterBarbara & Arthur Stern *Orleen & Dan Stoltz *Eugene M. Strauss / Barney Goodman

Donor Advised Fund * ~Carolyn & Thomas Summers *Dr. & Mrs. L. Brent TalbottDeborah TaylorThirsty Palette (in-kind)Thomas TinderBill & Nancy TopperTed TrimpaDeb & Paul TurpinTyr Energy, IncUMKC Conservatory of MusicWayne Vaught & Eileen Amari-VaughtSandra K. & Stanley J. VogelWanda Allen Designs (in-kind)Heinz Wehner *Sara E. WelchMr. & Mrs. David L. West *Anne & Keith WiedenkellerMichele & John WilinskiCheryl & Bernie WilliamsMichael Wright & Christa CavanaughNancy YangHerbert & Lisa Young *Ron Zoglin & Deborah Shouse,

The Creativity Connection ^

FRIENDS ($100-$249)

Anonymous (5)Kristina AberleDennis AguiarBen & Susie AlexanderDon & Christine AlexanderVirgie AlexanderBrad Allen & Gene CooperAmerican Jazz Museum (in-kind)Marilyn & Chris AndersonDavid & Donna AntrimStephen & Susan ArboElizabeth & Robert ArensLinda & Erik AveryMo & Denise AyersJames P Aylward, IVCarol BaileyErika Bailey & Fausto EspinosaLee & Claudia Barewin *Eric BarrSarah & James BarrowsSherrie & Thomas BellBelle Epoque Salon (in-kind)Mrs. Lois J. Beres *Laura & Dennis BergesonDiane & John Berkshire *Renee & Mark BernhardtKathleen & James BettermanHelen A. Betts

Candy & Marty BirchLoretta & Linda BirkenmeierAllen & Libby BlairCharles & Jeanne BleakleyJon & Deb BlongewiczCornelius BoersmaJackie & Don BorgeMarcene Borthwick & Richard FawcettSharon & Jim BorthwickJana BoschertJohn & Marge BottRuth & John Bourdo *Nancy BowmanGus & Linda BreytspraakJanice K. BryanMr. William C. BucknerJames & Rose BuffingtonLydia Butler & Art KentDavid CaleCardinal Health Foundation IncFrank & Marilynn CarrollJullianna Carroll (in-kind)Kevin CaseDr. Maurice & Naomi Cashman *Paul M. ChapmanPeggy & Stan ChappellCharles Schwab FoundationRobert ClaassenMildred & Bill CliftonCynthia Coleman & David ReevesCongregant of Congregation Kol AmiSarah & Clayton CookBill & Sheri CopelandDr. & Mrs. Richard L. Cronemeyer *Dr. Doug & Barbara CusickEdmund P. & Donna J. CytackiDon & Patricia DagenaisPat & Liz DanielsDean & Patricia DavisonDeer Creek Golf Club (in-kind)Jennifer DehaemersJerry & Linda DenkRaelene & Gayle DietzSteve & Kelly DillmanMichael DoddDarlene DomannRobert Dona & Sharon JohnsonDenise Doolin-MuirBonnie & Robert DownsMr. & Mrs. Stephen DoyalDavid & Kathryn DoyleEric & Katie DufurDr. Kirk & Carolyn DuncanChris & Diana DurkinJean & Tom Eblen *Eclectics Gallery (in-kind)Linda & Bill EddyJim & Anne EdsonEilenberger’s Automotive (in-kind)Dwight & Teri ElliottKurt KnapsteinDrs. William Everett & Lynda PayneSandra & Fred FarrBarbara & Bill FayDale & Don FeagansEugene B. FellingKaren Fenton & Tom LeisingErnie & Cyndi FergusonSusan Fershee

George & Erica FletcherRobert & Mary FloranceDoug FordKatie Van Luchene & Jerry FouldsMark & Sandi FowlerElaine Frank-RaganBernie Fromm Donor Advised Fund ~Sondra Gale *Pam & Dr. Fred GeerJerry Genochio &

Dawnnie Mercado-GenochioDon Goldman & Martha Gershun ~Brian & Mary GillespieJim & Bobbie GillilanKeith Goering & Mary Ann

Dvorcheck *Gerry GoldbergEdith I. Grafing & Dr. Keith G. GrafingGrand Street Cafe (in-kind)Janice & James GrebeDoreen & Norman GreczynAnita Toby Grow*Richard K. Gutknecht, M.D.Allen & Gail Gutovitz Charitable

Fund ~Bill & Mary HammondSandra & Gerald HandleyChad E. HarrisAnne A. & James M. HarveyKristin Hatch & Delaina MillerAlice & Mel HawkAnn & Ron HayesHayward’s Pit BBQ (in-kind)Heartland Men’s Chorus (in-kind)Richard & Julie HellmanSarah Hale HenryBetty L. Henson *Mary Ann & James HeryerShawn & Melissa HickeyPaget & Tom HigginsChristopher & Aimee HodgesSharon & Reed HoffmannBruce & Cindy HogleTom & Kathryn Holder ^Dr. Bonnie Buchele &

Mr. Bruce HopkinsBill & Brucie HopkinsSusie & Jim HornerRocky & Susan HorowitzCarol & Dennis Hudson ^Leslie & Mark Huffhines *David HunkerDuane & Gwen HuntSteven IrwinMargaret JacksonAnna Jaffe & Michael HorineJohn & Deb Jenson *Robert & June JohansonPatricia & Arlen JohnsonGreg & Mary Ann JohnsonJudy JohnsonSheri JohnsonHarry JonasChris & Carol JonesSandra JulianGordon JulichKansas City Actors Theatre (in-kind)Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey

(in-kind)

SUPPORT KC REP SUPPORT KC REPMr. & Mrs. William S. Kanter ~Dr. Andrew & Lynn KaufmanBill & Becky KavanaughDuane & Cosette KellyConnie KennedyR.D. & Jo Ann KerleyLesley KetzelDr. & Mrs. John KillipKay & Phillip KingShannon KingRandy KleinMarli KlumbRick & Cindy KoesterJoe Ann & Arnie Kratchman *Jane & Bruce KunzJames W. & Sherry C. LacyJohn Lantos & Martha MontelloMarti & Ron LeeAllen & Barbara LefkoJane F. LeiferCarrie & Patrick LenahanMuriel O. Levinson *Cheryl LewkowskyMelanie & Nick LombardoJoseph & Victoria LositoDon & Judy LoveMarilyn & Bruce LowreyMr. & Mrs. Howard LubowLyric Opera of Kansas City (in-kind)Rev. Nancy J. LytleMark MagnusonCarlene & Sean MarraBarbara Hall Marshall * ^Joyce & Mike MartinDavid & Cindy MathewsGail Mathews & Peter WydevenMr. & Mrs. Charles MaxwellRobert & Heather MaynardPatricia & Patrick McAnanyDr. & Mrs. Lynn McCanse *Carolyn McDillMary Linda McDonnellAnne McGeeDenise & Paul McGillivrayRichard & Darcy McGrathRebecca & Thomas McKeelNorma J. McKelvyCarrie McNally & Rick MaechlingGerald & Jean McNamaraChristine & Garrett MeierMary & B.J. Melia

Nancy & Ken Mellard *Marilyn K. MendelsonSharon & Michael MilensSally Milgram & Saul HonigbergCraig & Patricia MillerJohn & Ellen Miller *Julie & William J. MillerStephen B. Millin, Jr.Thomas & Nancy MillsJulie MilnerAnn & Chad MiltonDenise MinetWilliam & Mary Jane MitchellM. Devon & V. Dayle MixerJulie & Glenn MoiseMary Dian & Warren MoltonMike & Brooke MoreheadEric MorgenthalerHeather MorrisHeather & Tom MorrowJyoti & Jhulan MukharjiJohn & Charlotte MullinMrs. Sere S. MyersMarilyn & Kenneth MylesDrs. Geri & John NeubergerSharon NewcombAnthony & Joan NoltingM. Nonbello & R. D. PerezMr. & Mrs. William V. NorthHilda OgilvieBonnie & Douglas PearsonJohn PearsonDr. Deloras PembertonChad PendletonMargaret PerezWanda PerkinsCarolyn PhelpsMarsha PiepolPiropos Restaurant Briarcliff (in-kind)Drs. Susan & Charles PorterTodd Potter & Melissa Ix PotterPaulPMaggie PressonJoseph & Lainey PuglisiQuality Hill Playhouse (in-kind)Pamela S. RatliffMr. & Mrs. R L ReboriDr. Carl B. Reed & Melody A. MillerRita & Don Reed *Dr. Howard B. ReifeCarolyn & Robert Reintjes

Barbara R. Reno *Anne & Charles RhoadesTim RhoadesRobert E. RiedelBrian RifkinBruce & Linda RobersonCharles & Cristine Roberts *Leon & Ann RobertsonChar Rooney*Paula & Jack RoweSandra & Jay Rozen, M.D.Thomas RyanMarilyn & Robert RymerSalon Beyond (in-kind)Sasha’s Baking Co (in-kind)Todd F. SchellhaseBarbara Schepers & Garry HannaBecky & Thomas SchlosserJack & Errett SchmidIrene & Jerry SchmittMark & Janice SchonwetterDr. Kenneth Schultz &

Mr. Michael AkinsJames & Kathy SearJanet W. SearsSuzette & Matthew SecrestRichard & Penny SenftenGail E. ShawRuth G. Shechter *Joshua & Pam SheltonDel & Bev SherwoodRoger & Anne SherwoodSuzy ShupeMr. & Mrs. Timothy A. SickelDennis SiefersPaula SimkinsDorothy & Johnny SimpsonAngela & Chris SmartPamela & Gary SmedileHoustin SmithRebecca & Phillip SmithSally SmithThaylia Smith & Patrick ConwayValerie & Thomas SmithCarol Snyder *Charles & Paige SnyderMary P. SpeckKarlie SpeicherSpin! Neapolitan Pizza (in-kind)Gerald & Karen StanleyDan & Linda Stinnett

LeAne & Peter StorySteven & Nan Streen *Eric & Ruth StrombergTom StrumilloTim & Kelly SynekBill & Chris TaftVirginia TaylorDiane TealTheater League (in-kind)Kurtis ThielKent & Sue ThoeniLeota ThomasDr. Marty ThomasRuss & Maralee ThompsonKathy & Dennis TilsonJim & Alan’s Auto Repair /

Alex & Djana TrofimoffLinda S. TroutJill TruittTim & Cindie UngerSandy VallineCliff & Leslie Van Blarcom *Laura VernonRussell ViersDavid & Mimi VoyseyDavid WagnerPat & Jack WahlstedtCarol A. WallaceBrett WeaverAudrey V. WegstSheila & Tom WeifordCharles & Linda WellsMelissa & Cyril WelterR. David WentzDavid N. WetzelRoy & Diane WhitleyMary WigginsDon & Jan WilcoxonBob & Kakie WilliamsGeraldine WilsonHelen & John WindsorRose, Robin, Isaac & Peter WitteSteve & Lori WolfeJennifer & Allen WolffTeddi WolffMike & Maggie WoodChristine Yannitelli &

Dennis ManskeDr. & Mrs. John S. YungmeyerChip & Aline ZimmerJudith Zivanovic

For a complete list of donors, including those under $100, please visit KCRep.org.

Thank you for your generous support!

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THE VANGUARD SOCIETYBy joining KC Rep’s Vanguard Society with a planned gift, the following individuals ensure the theatre will continue to provide outstanding productions and community programs. If you are interested in learning more about remembering the Rep in your will, please call 816.235.5262.

AnonymousDr. & Mrs. Keith W. Ashcraft *

Mrs. Betty Thomas BakerMary Lou & Tom Brous *

Richard R. CawthornElizabeth Dermond

Ann Dickinson * ^Pam & Dr. Fred GeerCourtney Goddard

Lorraine & Richard HansenEllen & Irv Hockaday

Helen Louise Kassebaum TrustDr. & Mrs. J. Gordon Kingsley

Lothar KrauseRev. Susan Langhauser *

Dr. Mary Jo RahatzRuth G. Shechter *Tim & Cindie Unger

Brad Voelker

GIFTS IN HONORIn honor of Charles Clay from Karlie Speicher

In honor of Pat Conway & Thaylia Smith’s engagement

In honor of our lovely daughters, Holley, Snow, & Leighton by Douglas & Chris Fain

In honor of Debi George from John George - Enjoy the arts!

In honor of Bill & Kit Hallman from Kevin Stockard

In honor of Michael P. Henry from Sara & Dad

In honor of George Shadid from Steve & Kelly Dillman

GIFTS IN MEMORYIn memory of Evert Asjes III from Gerry Goldberg

In memory of Evert Asjes III from Clyde & Katie Wendel

In memory of Evert Asjes III from Bernie Fromm

In memory of Evert Asjes III from Diane & John Berkshire

In memory of Lillian Darling Dubinsky from Rosemary & Steven Nochlin

In memory of Lyman Field from JoAnn Field

In memory of George Keathley & Stanley Klimczyk from Joann Edwards

In memory of Jack Mathes from Bobbie Mathes

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