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THEATER ON THE L AKE

Hello friend! Are you sitting down? Good. Because you’re about to experience the 2012 season of Theater on The Lake, for the first time selected through a process involving two artistic curators. We thought curators only worked in gardens and museums, but there you have it. We’re curators. Seriously, though, we love being working artists in Chicago, a city so rich with imaginative and emotional theater that it makes choosing only eight plays for you a hair-graying, heartbreaking, but ul-timately exciting, proud-parents moment. Here, you will encounter world premieres and Chicago premieres; scripts written out of necessity, scripts written through workshopping with an ensemble, scripts adapted from great works, and scripts written right before your very eyes—carved out of the air and the summer moment. The shows you’ll experience this summer have stopped us in our tracks, made us think, laugh, and cry. But perhaps most importantly, they’ve made us dream. Someone once said that a play never really closes until every single person who saw it stops dreaming about it. These plays have been running in our dreams for quite some time. Perhaps because of you, they will remain open forever.

Your Artistic Curators,Meghan Beals McCarthy & Michael Patrick Thornton

Special thanks to the League of Chicago Theatres for being not only a tremendous resource to the Chicago theatre community but also for partnering with Theater on the Lake to make our 2012 season unforgettable.

FROM THE SUPER INTENDENT

June 13, 2012

Thank you for joining us for the 60th anniversary season of Theater on the Lake: The Chicago Summer Theater Festival. As part of this landmark year, we’ve brought Michael Patrick Thornton and Meghan Beals McCarthy from the local theater community on board as our new co-artistic curators. Together they have planned eight weeks of the best theatrical productions the city has to offer on our unique open-air stage.

In addition, you’ll find pre and post-show programming at Theater on the Lake this season to round out our celebration of the city’s rich cultural heritage. The Chicago Park District is dedicated to showcasing premier theatrical productions and providing high quality, affordable cultural programming to patrons through-out our neighborhood parks no matter where they live.

We value your support of our parks and programs and encourage you to enjoy the lake breeze, the skyline view and the wonderful performances. Here’s to another successful season, and we invite you to join us for additional cultural programming in our parks.

Michael P. KellyGeneral Superintendent & CEOChicago Park District

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CAST in order of appearance

Carl ...............................................................................................*Brian Parry

Alan ............................................................................................. John Ferrick

Elliot ..................................................................................Michael Sherwin

Dorian ...................................................................................... Paul Dunckel

Grace .............................................................................................. Emily Tate

*Redtwist company member

Time: 2007, and before that. Place: New York City, London, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C

Opus is performed without intermission.The total running time is approximately 90 minutes.

Opus is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

On Thursday, July 5, you are invited to stay after the performance for a post-show discussion.

presents…

Nominated for 5 Non-Equity Jeff Awards

Production Ensemble

Director, Jason W. Gerace

Winner: Sound Design, Christopher Kriz

Winner: Artistic Specialization-Music Coach, Zhanna Bullock

NOMINATED

NON-EQUITY WING

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REDTWIST PRODUCTION STAFF

Director .....................................................................................Jason W. Gerace

Assistant Director ...................................................................... Amy Szerlong

Stage Manager ........................................................................... Allison Queen

Asst. Stage Manager ...........................................................Olivia Leah Baker

Music Coach ............................................................................. Zhanna Bullock

Set Designer .............................................................................Eric Broadwater

Assistant Set Designer ..............................................Lauren Angelopoulos

Lighting Designer .........................................................*Christopher Burpee

Sound Designer ................................................................. *†Christopher Kriz

Costume Designer ................................................................... Joelle Beranek

Properties Designer .................................................................... Mike Dunbar

Dramaturg/Lobby Display ..................................................Cassandra Rose

Technical Director .........................................................................Frank Sjodin

Vocal Coach ......................................................................... Mary Reynard Liss

Set Construction ..............................Lauren Angelopoulos, Frank Sjodin

Graphic Design/Marketing .............................................. *Jan Ellen Graves

Producers.............................................*Michael Colucci, *Jan Ellen Graves

*Redtwist Company Member†Member, United Scenic Artists

Special thanks to The Elizabeth F Cheney Foundation,

who funded the musical aspects of this production

Also, thanks to Michael Hollinger, Kristin Leahey, Peter J. Storms, Renee Leight,

Holly Bittinger, Chase McCurdy, Mortar Theatre Company, The Saints, Theater on the Lake, League of Chicago Theaters

This program/production is also partially supported by grants from

The a state agency


REDTWIST CAST PROFILES

Paul Dunckel (Dorian) is an ensemble member of the Piven Theatre appearing in many productions there including King Lear, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Book of Days, Mad Forest, Our Country’s Good, Great Expectations, and American Voices. Other Chicago credits include Life is a Dream and The Night Season (Vitalist Theatre), The Night of the Iguana, The Seagull and A Few Good Men (Raven Theatre), In Times of War (Stage Left), and The Farnsworth Invention (Timeline

Theatre – 2010 Jeff Award winner, Best Production). Paul was also recently seen on the Fox Television drama The Chicago Code. This is his first production with Redtwist Theatre.

John Ferrick (Alan) is made his Redtwist debut with Opus. An en-semble member of Strawdog Theatre since 2001, his credits there include Red Noses, Conquest of the South Pole, Old Town (After Dark Award-Best Musical), Three Sisters, Marathon ’33 (Jeff Award-Best Ensemble), Tooth of Crime (Second Dance), Julius Caesar, Fuddy Meers, Knives in Hens, The Green Bird, and Our Country’s Good. John is also a company member of A Crew of Patches (Romeo and Juliet,

Julius Caesar, Macbeth) and a newly made Artistic Associate of the DIVISION theater. Additional Chicago credits include Lifeline Theatre (The Count of Monte Cristo, Watership Down, Treasure Island), Stage Left (Andrew Hinderacker’s Kingsville), The Hypocrites (Cabaret—Jeff Award, Best Musical), and Goodman (Arcadia—u/s).

Brian Parry (Carl) recently appeared at Redtwist as Johnnypateen-mike in The Cripple of Inishmaan. Other Redtwist roles include Alfons Jorgenson in Elling. John in Shining City (Jeff Award, Best Actor in a Supporting Role), Tobias in A Delicate Balance (one of three Redtwist nominees for Best Production in 2011), Martin Dysart in Equus, Ken Hoyle in Three Hotels, Shelly Levene in the gender-bent Glengarry, Glen Ross and Jack Lewis in Shadowlands. Elsewhere he’s been seen

as Snelgrave in Eclipse Theatre’s production of One Flea Spare, Pere Marriott in Lifeline Theatre’s original adaptation of Mariette in Ecstasy and as Bobby’s Father in Steep Theatre’s Coronado.

Michael Sherwin (Elliot) is excited to be back to Redtwist for his third show; after previously playing Rev. Todd in Man from Nebraska and Frank Asli in Elling. Last summer, Michael played Henry IV in The His-tory of King Henry IV with OPFT. Previous work includes title characters in Hamlet (NWRT), Investing Van Gogh (Bailiwick), David Bowie Christmas Special (NMTC), and Killer Joe (NNT). A Glenview native, Michael has a BFA in Acting and a BS in Technical Theatre/ Design from ENMU.

Emily Tate (Grace) is very happy to be making her Redtwist debut. Chicago credits include Sense and Sensibility at Northlight Theatre, Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Remy Bumppo, Downward Facing at Dream Theatre, and The Chaos Festival with Point of Contention. Other theatre includes Gaslight at Utah Shakespearean Festival, and Cyrano de Bergerac and A Christmas Carol at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. She graduated from Centre College with a B.A. in Dramatic Arts and Psy-

chology, and was a member of the 2006-2007 Acting Apprentice Company at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. She lives in Lincoln Square with her husband, director Ian Frank, and their charming dog Bristow.

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Lauren M. Angelopoulos (Assistant Set Designer) is a set designer, scenic artist, and makeup designer with a BFA from DePaul University’s Theatre School. She is currently working with Emergent Theatre as their production manager and resident designer, and also as projections designer for Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre with recent credits including Constant Motion at Harris Theatre of MiIllenium Park. She has painted Willy Wonka for the Jewish Youth Ensemble in Skokie, Jeeves in Bloom for First Folio, and The Musical of Musicals, the Musical for Dominican University.

Olivia Leah Baker (Assistant Stage Manager) is currently attending the Illinois Insti-tute of Art in Chicago for fashion design with high hopes of becoming a costume designer. She worked with the St. Louis Backdoor Theatre Gang on Guys & Dolls, Pajama Game, Macbeth, and Timeless Clock; Equus (2010), A Delicate Balance, Dracula, Man from Nebraska, Bug, That Face, Elling and The Cripple of Inishmaan at Redtwist Theatre; The Last Night of Ballyhoo with Project 891 Theatre, and made costumes for The Stagedoor Johnnies.

Joelle Beranek (Costume Designer) is delighted to design her seventh show at Redtwist, where past work includes Waiting for Godot, Lobby Hero, and Man from Nebraska. A graduate of Northwestern University, Joelle has most recently de-signed A Behanding in Spokane for Profiles Theatre, Bus Stop and The Cherry Orchard for Raven Theatre, The Miracle Worker, Man of La Mancha, and Phantom of the Opera for The Jedlicka Performing Arts Center. Other design credits include work with Light Opera Works, Moraine Valley Community College, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, and a variety of work in educational/children’s theater. Joelle is on staff as resident costume designer at Northbrook Theatre for Young Audiences, and also works as an event/wedding planner.

Zhanna Bullock (Music Coach) recently received the Non-Equity Jeff Award for Ar-tistic Specialization for Opus. She was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia and graduated from Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory. She worked with Saint Petersburg State Conservatory Opera and Ballet Theatre. She performed with various chamber and symphony orchestras as well as chamber music ensembles such as Nevsky Piano Trio, Baltic String Quartet, and Astoria String Quartet, and a string quartet for Celebrity Cruises and Princess Cruises. In 2008, she arranged her own Violet String Quartet, and performed around the city and recorded a CD. For the last 8 years in Russia she had been working with “Zazerkalie” State Opera Theatre. In 2010, she moved to Chicago. and currently works with Upbeat Music School, Kinor Center as a violin/viola teacher.

Christopher Burpee (Lighting Designer) is excited to be a part of the Opus team. Previous Redtwist design credits include The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Man From Nebraska, Shining City, Lobby Hero, Dracula, A Delicate Balance, Equus, The Pil-lowman, Lettuce and Lovage, Waiting for Godot, The Ride Down Mt Morgan, Aura, The Goat, and Marvin’s Room. Other recent designs include Christmas Carol at NEIU, and Pippin for BoHo at Theatre Wit. Chris is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University, with a BFA in lighting design. When not designing, Chris freelances as a stagehand and lighting technician for theatre, concerts, and corporate events.

Eric Broadwater (Set Designer) is currently an Assistant Professor of Scene Design at the California State University Stanislaus. He has maintained a professional career as both a Scenic Designer and Scenic Artist in small and regional theaters all over the country including the Barrington Stage Company, Lyric Theatre of OKC and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is currently the season designer for Townsend Opera Players in Modesto Ca. and has designed over 30 shows, including musicals,

REDTWIST STAFF/CREW PROFILES


REDTWIST STAFF/CREW PROFILES opera, and ballet in both the academic and professional environments. Recent Chicago Credits include Inherit the Whole with Mortar Theatre Co.

Frank R. Sjodin (Technical Director, Set Construction) recently worked on The Cripple of Inishmaan at Redtwist. Besides building sets, he also works as a performer and operates the clown troupe Play Mechanics. Outside Chicago, he has built sets and props at Long Lake Theater in Hubbard, MN, and trained kids in scenic carpentry with the Gooseberry Park Players in Moorhead, MN. Recent technical work in Chi-cago has included building his own props and puppets for Play Mechanics, masks and props for The Hobbit with Theatre-Hikes, and shadow puppets for Little Triggers with The Ruckus.

Michael Colucci (Producer) is the founder and Artistic Director of Redtwist Theatre, and has directed many of the plays here, including That Face, Equus (2010), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Three Hotels, A View from the Bridge, Les Liaisons Dangere-uses, All My Sons, Broken Glass, and Praying Small. He has also been seen on stage at Redtwist as Dr. Sweet in Bug, Martin in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge, and Joe Keller in All My Sons. In addition, Michael has worked at various theatres in Chicago, including Court, Victory Gardens, TimeLine, and American Blues. He is also a member of the Jeff Committee’s Artistic and Technical Team.

Mike Dunbar (Properties Designer) is the owner of Illumivation Studios, through which he creates lighting, sound, and scenic designs, and performs a variety of pro-duction tasks for theater shows and other live events. Mike is a founding collective member of Bailiwick Chicago and a founder and resident actor of Shadow & the Wall Productions. He is a graduate of Second City Conservatory, writing program and acting program, as well as Comedy Sportz.

Jason W. Gerace (Director) recently received the Non-Equity Jeff Nomination for his direction of Opus. As the Artistic Associate of American Theater Company, he has directed the most recent productions of It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play as well as associate directed the world premieres of The Big Meal (Dir. Dexter Bullard) and Welcome to Arroyo’s (Dir. Jaime Castaneda), assistant directed Yeast Nation and Speech & Debate (Dir. PJ Paparelli); curated The Silver Project, a festival of new plays by national and Chicago playwrights celebrating ATC’s 25th season, presented during the 2010 TCG National Conference. Other Chicago credits include assistant directing for Amy Morton, Kimberly Senior, Jeremy Wechsler, and Jessica Thebus. Regional directing credits include Hamlet (Oklahoma Summer Shakespeare), A Christmas Carol (Oklahoma City Theatre Co.). Jason originally hails from Anchorage, Alaska and holds an MFA in Directing from The University of Oklahoma, where he twice received the R.J. Jones Award for Excellence in Direction, as well as the Applause Award for out-standing contributions to University Theater. When not directing plays he is happy to be a husband to Amy and a daddy to Ruby. He is an associate member of SDC.

Jan Ellen Graves (Producer, Marketing) recently appeared on Redtwist ’s stage in The Cripple of Inishmaan, the Jeff Award-Winning Best Production of Man from Nebraska (Nancy) and the Jeff Nominated production of A Deli-cate Balance (Edna). Other Redtwist credits include roles in Equus, Lettice and Lovage, The Ride Down Mount Morgan, Marvin’s Room, Doubt, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Three Hotels, A View from the Bridge, and All My Sons. In 2009, she directed the Jeff-nominated world-premiere of Aura and previously di-rected The American Clock at Redtwist. She is Redtwist’s Managing Director.

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Coming Nextto

RedtwistTheatre

Final show of the 2011-2012 Season

July 28 thru Sep 2, 2012 (Previews July 24-27)In Williams’ deeply personal memory play, Tom Wingfield reveals to us a critical moment in his family’s life. Brimming with false hope and desperation, this vivid and penetrating drama explores the disguise of illusion and a family’s struggle to survive. Josh Altman (Redtwist Literary Manager) directs company member and Jeff Award-winner, Jacqueline Grandt as Amanda Wingfield.

Christopher Kriz (Sound Designer) recently received the Non-Equity Jeff Award for Sound Design in Opus. He works nationally as a composer and sound designer. Recently for Redtwist, Chris designed The Cripple of Inishmaan, Elling, Bug, Man From Nebraska, and Shining City. In Chicago, Chris has designed over 200 productions for companies including Northlight, Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens and TimeLine. Regional credits include the national tour of America Amerique (Jena Company) and the upcoming The Fall Of The House (Theatre Squared). Recent Chicago credits include The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (Steppenwolf Theatre), The Count Of Monte Cristo (Lifeline Theatre), Cloud 9 (Gift Theatre), Old Times (Strawdog Theatre), Festen (Steep Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (First Folio), and The Woman In Black (Fox Valley Rep). www.christopherkriz.com

Allison Queen (Stage Manager) has recently been working on The Cripple of Inish-maan and The Glass Menagerie at Redtwist. She studied stage management at The University of Oklahoma where she received a BFA in Drama. Since moving to Chicago, she has worked at dozens of theaters including Oak Park Festival Theatre, Theatre-Hikes, Oracle, Raven Theatre, Theatre Wit, Factory Theatre, Lincoln Square Theatre, and Collaboraction.

Cassandra Rose (Dramaturg) received her BA in Playwriting from Columbia College Chicago in 2010 along with an imaginary minor in dramaturgy. Recent dramaturgy work has included The Cripple of Inishmaan, Elling, That Face, and Bug (here at Redtwist), Thirst, and Brief Looks From The Afterglow (Cold Basement Dramatics) and Equus (Columbia College). Cassandra is also a founding company member of Cold Basement Dramatics as Associate Artistic Director.

Amy Szerlong (Assistant Director) most recently served as an assistant director for The Amish Project and The Original Grease at American Theater Company. She also directed The Chicago Guide to Reckless Living for ATC’s short-play festival, Big Shoulders. In Chicago, Amy has served as the Development Intern at Goodman Theatre and the Assistant to the Artistic Director at American Theatre Company. Amy is a 2010 graduate of the University of Richmond where she majored in theatre with a concentration in arts management. Opus is her first collaboration with Redtwist Theatre.


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Who We AreAward-winning storefront theatre in the heart of Edgewater’s Bryn Mawr Historic District in Chicago for 10 years.

Our MissionTo do white hot drama, in a tiny black box, with a little red twist.

What We Do

We stage at least five contemporary dramas per year in our intimate 40-50 seat black box theatre.We do white hot drama, from name-brand blockbusters, to risky new work, and obscure buried treasures, that pack emotional force, examine moral dilemmas, and reveal greater truths…by transforming our tiny black box and its explosive immediacy into a thematic asset, specifically tailored for every show and intended to close the gap between actor and audience, thus blurring the line between seating and staging…by utilizing a little red twist in the concept and design of each production, to provide a totally unique theatre experience that is simultaneously intimate and comfortable, yet intense, edgy, and thrilling, at a distance only inches away.

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CAST

Stephen ............................................................................................................. Brian Plocharczyk*Paul .................................................................................................................................. Mike DaileyMolly ......................................................................................................................Melanie Derleth*Tom ................................................................................................................................. Sandy Elias*Ben .................................................................................................................... Ian Daniel McLarenIda ...............................................................................................................................Sarah Denison Waiter/Frank ..........................................................................................................Marvin Quijada

*Stage Left Ensemble Member

Running time is approximately one hour and fifty minutes, including one ten minute intermission


PROFILES

Michael Dailey (Paul Zara) is thrilled to be back together with the Farragut North gang and the good folks of Stage Left. He is a company member

and associate artistic director at Strawdog Theatre. Theatre On The Lake audiences may have seen him in re-mounted Strawdog productions of Red Noses, Detective Story or Julius Caesar on this very stage. He has enjoyed working around town with The Black Ensemble, Writer’s Theatre, Shattered Globe, Steppenwolf, About Face and Noble Fool, among others. Next up for Michael is Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom this fall, directed by Joanie Schultz as a part of Strawdog’s 25th anniversary season.

Melanie Derleth (Molly) is thrilled to return to the role of Molly. A proud ensemble member, her Stage Left credits include Farragut North, An Enemy of

the People, The Face of a Ruined Woman (LeapFest 7) and Anna is Saved (LeapFest 6). Other Chicago credits include My Name is Rachel Corrie (Rachel), It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play (Mary Hatch/Ma Bailey), Talk Radio (Linda), and AjaxAntigone (Ismene/Tecmessa). Melanie is a graduate of Indiana University and hails from Deerfield, IL. Next up, she will appear in Mia McCullough’s Impenetrable at Stage Left this fall.

Sarah Denison (Ida) is thrilled to be reprising her role as Ida at Theatre on the Lake. A native of Chicago, she worked in Los Angeles before

returning to raise her two young daughters. Previous television and film credits include: ER, Gilmore Girls,

Crossing Jordan, Judging Amy, and The Adventures of Joe Dirt. Here in Chicago, she has had the opportunity to work with many wonderful theatre companies including Infamous Commonwealth Theatre, Remy Bumppo, and Bailiwick Repertory. She is so grateful to be working with Vance and this terrific cast again and thanks her wonderful husband for making it possible.

Sandy Elias (Chucky) is an ensemble member at Stage Left, where his appearances include The Fisherman, Farragut North, An Enemy of

the People, and The Meaning of Lunch (LeapFest 7). Since moving back to Chicago three years ago, (Sandy is a proud graduate of the Northwestern University Theatre School), he has also appeared in Kin (Griffin) The Front Page (Timeline) the Chicago premiere of Gossamer (Adventure Stage Chicago), J.B. and Proof (Chicago Fusion Theatre), and Black Comedy (Piccolo Theatre Ensemble). Before moving home, Sandy was an associate artist at the Southwest Shakespeare Company where he appeared in over half the works of Shakespeare. But it’s great to be home!

Ian Daniel McLaren (Ben) is thrilled to be returning for the remount of Farragut North. Previous Chicago credits include work with

The Gift Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, About Face, TimeLine, Collaboraction, Chicago Children’s Theatre and, most recently, fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life at Steppenwolf. He is a proud graduate of the School at Steppenwolf and an Instructor at Black Box Acting Studio. Love and thanks to Conor, wp10, and the BB family for their constant support.

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Brian Plocharczyk (Stephen) is excited to be returning to Farragut North to reprise the role that earned him his second Jeff Nomination for

Principal Actor in a Play. Some of Brian’s favorite Chicago roles include Edward Hyde in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (City Lit), Tom in The Glass Menagerie (Oak Park Village Players), Freely in Mother Bear (Mortar) and Justin Hammond in After Ashley (Stage Left) which garnered him his other Jeff nomination. Brian starred in the short film OMG by Revision Entertainment, which recently won a Platinum Remi Award for Excellence at the World-Fest International Film Festival. Brian is also a voice over actor, commercial actor, stage combat and stunt performer, as well as a karate instructor. He would also like to thank his wife and family for their support. Check out www.brianplo.com for more info.

Marvin Quijada (Frank/Waiter) is a Chicago native and would like to thank Stage Left Theater for this opportunity. He was last seen in Next theaters After

the Revolution. In other news, Marvin has worked with Chicago Shakespeare, Lookingglass, Silent Theater, Urban Theater, Goodman, Silk Road Rising, Steppenwolf, and Teatro Vista; where he is an ensemble member. Marvin is also an ensemble member with Silent Theater and can be seen doing clown/ mime work in their monthly variety show, The Wild Party Variety Hour. Thanks for checking out the show.

Beau Willimon (Playwright) is a playwright and screenwriter. He is a recipient of the Lila Acheson Wallace Juilliard Playwriting Fellowship, two-time winner of the Lincoln Center Le Comte du Nouy Award, the Seymour

Brick Memorial Playwriting Prize, winner of the 2005 Dayton Playhouse FutureFest, and was a 2008 Playwright-in-Residence at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Beau is currently working on commissions for Manhattan Theatre Club and the National Theatre of Great Britain. He has written films for Warner Brothers and Fox 2000, and is work-ing on a television pilot called House of Cards directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey. A resident of Brooklyn, Beau holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Vance Smith (Director) joined Stage Left as Artistic Director in the fall of 2009. His Stage Left credits include directing Beau Willimons’ Farragut North, Andrew Hinderaker’s Kingsville, Jayme McGhan’s Mother Bear (Leap-Fest 7) and Alex Lewin’s The Interview (LeapFest 9) as well as performing in M.E.H. Lewis’ Fellow Travellers and in The Eight Reindeer Monologues. In 2007, Vance founded Black Sheep Productions, where he served as Artistic Director and directed Steve Spencer’s Another Day in the Empire and Camp Freedom!, Andy Gershenzon’s The End and produced Will Eno’s The Flu Season. He has also directed workshops, one-acts and readings at Stage Left, Chicago Dramatists, the side project and Theatre Seven. As an actor, Vance recently appeared in The Homecoming at Mary Arrchie Theater (Jeff nomination for supporting actor), and has also worked with Lifeline, Timeline, Hypocrites, Remy Bumppo, Northlight, Victory Gardens, Collaboraction, Factory, and many others. Vance attended the School at Steppenwolf in 2005 and graduated from Tulane University.

Kristin Toerpe (Stage Manager) is excited to join the Farragut North team at Theater on the Lake. Her Stage Left credits include production managing Kingsville, Leapfest 8, The Fisherman, and stage managing The Eight Rein-deer Monologues. Her management


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experience also includes working with theaters such as LiveBait, Lincoln Square Theater, Dragoncello Theater Co., Grippo Productions, Simple Theater, Mortar Theatre, Provision, and Oil Lamp Theater. She would like to thank her parents, friends, family, and her new husband, Tim.

Alice Magelssen (Production Manager) works as a production manager, stage manager and props master in Chicago. She has worked with Rubicon Theatre Project, A Red Orchid, Timeline Theatre, Oracle Theatre, Harold Washington College and The New Colony. She is The New Colony’s Company Stage Manager. She is thrilled to be back with Stage Left for the remount of Farragut North. Roger Wykes (Scenic Designer) recent designs include The Last Duck (Jack-alobe Theatre), Cities of Light (Piven Theatre Workshop), Farragut North (Stage Left Theatre), The Crowd You’re in With (16th Street Theater) This, The Four of Us (Theater Wit), Oh Boy!, The Body Snatchers (City Lit Theater) Kid Sister (Profiles Theatre) and shows at Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, Pro-methean Theatre Ensemble, About Face Theatre, among others. http://rogerwykes.carbonmade.com.

Jessica Harpenau (Lighting Design) is an ensemble member at Stage Left, where her credits include Here Where it’s Safe, Farragut North and the upcoming production of Pygmalion next winter. Favorite lighting design credits include The Mamet Reg: Oleana and Speed the Plow at American Theater Company, Killer Joe (Winner of the 2010 Jeff Award for Outstanding Production), Men of Tortuga and Graceland with Profiles Theater, Spin with Theater Wit, Ruby Wilder at the NYC Fringe Festival with Not Waiting Productions, Lovers and Volpone with City Lit Theater, Camp Freedom! and Flu Season with Black Sheep, C.S. Lewis On Stage with Provision Theater Company, Sunday on the Rocks at the Balliwick Arts Center, Private Lives

of Eskimos with Mill Theater Company. Lindsay Monahan (Properties Design) is thrilled to return to Stage Left after designing properties for LeapFest 9 and Farragut North. She also designs props for The Artistic Home, Diamante Productions, Storytown for Improv Olympic, and occasionally the Annoy-ance Theatre and Second City. Lindsay would like to thank her family and her love, Mike Glazer. She is so cool.

Adam Smith (Sound Designer) is an ensemble member at Stage Left, where his credits include The Fisherman, Far-ragut North, An Enemy of the People, Kingsville, Here Where It’s Safe, The Day of Knowledge and LeapFest (6 and 9). His other recent credits include sound design for The Giver and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (T.Y.A. Series), Haywire! (Hell in a Handbag), 2006-2008 Ten Minutes, The Gathering Note, and Madwoman of Chaillot (A/I Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville); Adam is a founding member of LBK Productions and Off Target Productions.

Katie Horwitz (Assistant Director) returns to Stage Left after assistant directing The Fisherman, Farragut North, Mother Bear (LeapFest 7) and Warped (Leapfest 9). She is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio where she intern di-rected with New Edgecliff Theatre and Clear Stage Cincinnati. Since then she has directed at her alma mater Butler University as well as assistant directed Midsummer at Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, Crime and Punishment at Indiana Repertory Theatre, As You Like It with Two Pence Shakespeare and directed Intimacy with 20% Theatre Company’s Snap Shots. Katie has also been seen on stage as Friar Lawrence/The Prince in Romeo and Juliet with Babes with Blades, Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln with Lincoln Amphitheatre, Yulia in a staged reading of Talking American with Indiana Repertory Theatre, Karen in Ordinary People with Clear Stage Cincinnati, as well as many others.

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PROFILES (c o n t.)

Elizabeth Flauto (Costume Design) design credits include, in Chicago: An Enemy of the People, Here Where It’s Safe, Leapfest 6 (Stage Left Theatre), Waiting for Lefty (American Blues Theatre), Snap-shots (Northlight Theatre), Enron (Time-line Theatre), Hair (Paramount Theatre Aurora), First Look Repertory of New Works 2010 (Steppenwolf Theatre), Lost Boys of Sudan (Victory Gardens), Funny Girl (Drury Lane), Married Alive (Noble Fool Theatricals/Fox Valley Rep), John and Jen (Apple Tree Theatre). New York: Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons); Secrets of a Soccer Mom (Jerry Orbach Theatre/Snapple Center); Captain Louie (York Theatre, Little Shubert). Hope Summer Repertory Theatre: Children of Eden, Taking Steps, Into the Woods, Room Service, Lost in Yonkers, The Hypochon-driac. Barrington Stage Company: A Streetcar Named Desire, Private Lives, The

Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Uncle Vanya, Ring Round the Moon, Importance of Being Earnest. Proud Member United Scenic Artists 829. Love to K.

Maggie Carlin (Dramaturg) is pleased to be again working with Stage Left Theatre as Dramaturg on Farragut North. She is currently the Casting Coor-dinator at Caffeine Theatre. In the past she has had the privileged of working at 16th Street Theatre as an Assistant Di-rector and Dramaturg, Premiere Theatre and Performance in Art Administration, TimeLine Theatre and Provision Theatre as a Casting Assistant, and Northlight Theatre as Literary/Dramaturg Assis-tant. She holds a B.A. in Theatre-Acting from Columbia College Chicago.

Special Thanks to Tara Malpass and Andy Quijano.

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STAGE LEF T SEASON 31

August 1-October 7, 2012the world premiere of

IMPENETRABLEby Mia McCullough ^directed by Greg Werstler *In a well-to-do Northshore suburb, a local spa causes outrage with a billboard ad featuring a gorgeous woman in a bikini, superimposed with arrows highlighting “problem” and offering “solutions.” Stage Left favorite Mia McCullough (Chagrin Falls, Spare Change, Echoes of Another Man) is back with a play developed in LeapFest 7.

January 5-February 10, 2013A co-production with Boho Theatre!!

PYGMALIONby George Bernard Shawdirected by Artistic Director Vance SmithIn this classic play that inspired the musical My Fair Lady, Professor Higgins, a Vic-torian dialect expert make a bet that he can teach Cockney flower-girl Eliza Doo-little to pass as a “proper lady.” Stage Left teams with fellow Theater Wit Resident Company Boho Theatre to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this timeless story.

April 20–May 26, 2013the Chicago premiere of

RABBITby Nina RaineIt’s Bella’s twenty-ninth birthday party: a wild night at the bar where friends can’t stand each other, ex-lovers can’t let go, and only one person knows the birthday girl’s father is dying. Nina Raine’s Rabbit is a brutally funny, surprisingly poignant look at how men and women see each other and relate in a world where nobody knows the rules anymore.

Summer, 2013

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THEATER ON THE L AKE 2012

Managing Director .......................................................................................... Samantha ChavisManaging Director Emeritus ................................................................. Krista Bryski RichardArtistic Curator ................................................................................... Meghan Beals McCarthyArtistic Curator ..................................................................................Michael Patrick ThorntonProduction Manager .............................................................................Maude Graham-NiedsAssistant Production Manager ....................................................................... Cortney HurleyBox Office Manager ........................................................................................... Matthew PierceBox Office Staff ............................................................................... Erika Geller, Andrea YoungHouse Manager ............................................................................................................. Kitty BakerMaster Electrician ............................................................................................. Jacob SnodgrassTechnical Director ......................................................................................................Patrick FriesSound ......................................................................................................Red Line Event ServicesSound Board Operator ........................................................................................... Brian ShaderLighting Board Operator............................................................................... Karen ThompsonLighting Crew ...............................................Elizabeth Boros-Kazai, Andrew Glasenhardt, Sarah Lackner, Megan SnowderPress/PR: Chicago Park District ..........................................................................Marta Juaniza

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