Anthony Moseley, Executive Artistic Director Martin Kamenski, Managing Director

Lulu...................................................................... Sandra Delgado*+ (AEA)Papo..................................................................... Juan Villa+Jóse Colón............................................................ Eddie Torres + (AEA)Maria Colón.......................................................... Diane HerreraMagdalena Colón.................................................. Rinska PrestinaryJesús Colón.......................................................... Remy OrtizGuy Next Door...................................................... Warren LevonEd......................................................................... Josh OdorSarah.................................................................... Patrese McClainFirst Gas Station Attendant.................................... John WilsonElizabeth.............................................................. Molly ReynoldsLas Gas Station Attendant...................................... Jermy OaseGas Station Attendants..... Greg Hardigan, Max Lesser, Patrick ZielinskiEd Understudy....................................................... Max LesserFirst Attendant Understudy.................................... Greg HardiganLast Attendant Understudy..................................... Patrick ZielinskiPapo Understudy .................................................. Shaun ConwayJesue Understudy ................................................. Rudy GalvanGas Station Attendant Understudy......................... Sam JackelSarah Understudy................................................. Mildred LangfordLulu Understudy.................................................... Selene MojicaMagdelena Understudy......................................... Raquel Quadreny Elizabeth Understudy............................................ Laura Shatkus

Guy Next Door Understudy....................................... Reggie Vaughn

Cast

Director................................................................... Anthony Moseley*Stage Manager........................................................ Mackenzie Brown (AEA)Production Manager................................................ Sarah Moeller*Creative Director..................................................... Sam Porretta*Set Designer............................................................ Regina GarciaLighting Designer..................................................... Jeremy Getz*Costume Designer.................................................... Elsa Hiltner*Sound Designer........................................................ Miles Polaski*Composer................................................................. Mikhail FikselProp Master.............................................................. Deb LindellASM/Floor Manager................................................. Lauren GlassLighting Assistant..................................................... Jordan KardaszCostume Design Assistant......................................... Lucie AdlerDramaturg............................................................... Kristin Leahey Casting Director/Assistant Director............................ Sarah Gitenstein*Technical Director...................................................... Tim Borntrager*Photography............................................................. Saverio TrugliaGraphic Design......................................................... Marianna LevantOnline Program Design............................................. Candice ConnerCarol Fox and Associates........................................... Madeline LongMarketing Coordinator.............................................. Diana Pando Fight Choreographer................................................. David Woolley

Crew

* collaboraction company member + teatro vista company member(AEA) Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers

This play began as a thought about my cousin, who suddenly disappeared from my life.

I heard he died in prison and I thought how could such a gentle boy’s life end like that?

Then, I received a commission from the Public Theater in NYC—while Shelby Jiggetts was artistic associate—to write a play about race. I wanted to write a play about someone like my cousin with his rage and about his family and how his violence affected them.

So although this is essentially a work of fiction, it is also a work from the heart.

Thank you to Anthony, Eddie and all the amazing actors, designers & crew who have breathed life into my play and took the risk to present a truth that is both raw and painful, and made this production soar.

A Note from Migdalia CruzPlaywright

Thanks also to Candido Tirado (NYU), Michael Garcés (INTAR; SCR), Antonio Sonera (Milagro Theater Group), who directed this play in all its other incarnations, and especially to all the brave actors, designers & crew who made my journey possible. I want to thank Teatro Vista, Collaboraction & the Goodman (esp. Tanya Palmer) for giving this play a home.

You have all blessed me with your talent and devotion to my work.

And a special thanks to Jim and Antonia whose love make me feel safe.

I would like to dedicate this production to the life of Luis Saguar, a fine actor we lost too soon.

I hope he is playing dominoes and drinking some coffee in Heaven with my Pop.

A Note from Kristin Leahey Dramaturg

“The present experience is always ghosted by previous experiences and associations while these ghosts are simultaneously shifted and modified by the process of recycling and recollection.” The Haunted Stage, Marvin Carlson

Our world is consumed by ghosts. Perhaps they are not the supernatural, ectoplasm disembodied beings manifested in our childhood dreams or, more likely, nightmares; rather they are those feint traces of memory, those fleeting images that trick us into believing they are mere illusion. The modern man’s ghost is a remembrance manifested by the mind; it is each individual’s archive of feeling, touch, sound, thought and action mixed with a heavy dose of imagination. Our hauntings may be invoked by the simplest occurrence that only holds

meaning for, we, the haunted and is rendered absurd by all other mortals. A passing glance from a stranger on a train, a song played on a distant radio, the smell of a slow drag of a cigarette, a caress become intense instances of recalled horror or sadness or joy. In these, often, sensory recollections we locate our ghosts, our fears, and our fortitude. They are the things we carry that make an imprint on our history, our present, and our future. As the living, we either allow the shadows to suffocate us or we find a way to survive as they continue to linger in our presence: we find a means to exhale.

“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.” Tim O’Brien

Running TimeAct I 55 minutes

10 minute intermissionAct II 50 minutes

Setting Lulu’s October wedding day: 1991

The Bronx, New York a 1st floor apartment: 1977

Death Row in an Ohio Federal Prison: 1987-1991

Darien, Connecticut in Ed and Lulu’s studio apartment: 1987-1991

A gas station in Lorain, Ohio: 1987

We can do such amazing and beautiful things together when we

believe in each other. Thank you to all who have believed and

helped bring this production to life. I am honored and humbled to

serve as the Director of this production.

Anthony

A Note from Anthony MoseleyDirector

Biographies: CastSandra Delgado*+ (AEA) (Lulu) is a founding member of Collaboraction and an ensemble of Teatro Vista. Collaboraction acting highlights include Guinea Pig Solo, Casanova and Refuge. She also produced the highly popular Sketchbook festival from 2005-2008 and this year created, directed and performed in para Carmen, as part of Sketchbook 9. Ms. Delgado served as Teatro Vista’s Associate Artistic Director from 2006-2008. Acting credits with the company include the Midwest premiere of Massacre (co-production with the Goodman); Dreamlandia, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner and Two Sisters and a Piano (co-production with Apple Tree). In Chicago, she has also appeared on the stages of Steppenwolf, the Goodman, Victory Gardens, Lookingglass, About Face and Chicago Children’s Theatre. Outside of Chicago, Ms. Delgado has been seen Off-Broadway at INTAR; at Actors Theatre of Louisville and at Missouri Repertory. This fall, she will appear as Esperanza in Steppenwolf’s new adaptation of The House of Mango Street.

Juan Fransisco Villa+ (Papo) Proud ensemble member of Teatro Vista. Chicago Stage credits: World Premiere of Massacre: Sing to Your Children (Teatro Vista/Goodman), Chicago Premiere of Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue (Teatro Vista/Riven-dell at Stepenwolf), Chicago Premiere of Take Me Out (About Face at Steppenwolf), World Premiere of Coast of Chicago (Walkabout at Lookinglass), Still Life (Pegasus Players), Sins of Sor Juana (Teatro Vista), Short Eyes (Blindfaith),The Adventures of Kid Zero (DBA Studios). New York Stage credits: Dreams of Home (Monarch Theater), Elliot; A Soldier’s Fugue (Stage Works), Throat (INTAR), Cyrano de Ber-

geaurac (Hangar Theatre), Midsummer Nights Dream (Hangar Theater), Pistola y Corazon (Sintroca/Onteological), Van Gogh in Nueva York (Lark Play Develop-ment), Yamaha 300 (Lark Play Development), Post No Bills (Rattlestick). Para mis tios y mi familia.

Eddie Torres + (AEA) (Jóse Colón) is Co-Founder and Artistic Di-rector of Teatro Vista. Torres most recently appeared as Tybalt in the Spanish language reading of Romeo & Juliet with Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Recent Chicago credits include: Carlos in The Cook, Electricidad, Zoot Suit (Goodman Theatre); Massacre Sing to your Children (Teatro Vista/Goodman Theatre); Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (Teatro Vista/Rivendell/Steppenwolf); The Crossing, Broken Eggs, Santos y Santos, El Paso Blue (Teatro Vista) and Anna in the Tropics (Vic-tory Gardens). Directorial credits for Teatro Vista include: The Show Host, Ambrosio, Broken Eggs (Theatre on the Lake),The Boiler Room and Aurora’s Motive. Torres holds a BA in The-atre from Roosevelt University and an MFA in Film from Columbia College. He has served on panels for the Illinois Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts and the MAP Fund.

Diane Herrera (Maria Colón) is very happy to be making her debut with Collaboraction and Teatro Vista with El Grito del Bronx. Diane is an Artistic Associate with Teatro Luna, and has performed in several Teatro Luna productions, including

S-E-X-Oh! The Remix at 16th Street Theatre and The Maria Chronicles. She also wrote and performed in A Dozen Guns N Rosas at Gorilla Tango. Diane’s solo work includes writing and performing the solo piece The Dress, as part of Teatro Luna’s production Solo Latinas, and writing Pregnant Pause , one of the four solo pieces featured in Teatro Luna’s Solo Tu. Her solo piece, The Job, premiered at Sola Voce Estrogenius in New York. Diane is also a sketch comedy veteran, an alum of Salsation! and Midtown, two Chicago-based sketch comedy troupes. L.A. sketch comedy credits include writing and performing in the sketch comedy show Barrio Speedwagon at IO West. Diane is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory, and has a BFA in Playwriting from The Theatre School at DePaul University (formerly the Goodman School of Drama). She would like to thank Eddie, Alicia Rose and the new kid for all of their love and support.

Rinska Prestinary (Magdalena Colón) was born on the tropical island of Puerto Rico with the Caribbean wind blowing at her side in 1988. Today in 2009 she tries not to remind herself of all the money she owes to Sallie Mae as she finishes her last year at Columbia College Chicago majoring in Directing. She is quite aware that she has chosen a degree that will earn her tons of money and begs everyone not to knock on her door all at once. Rinska was last seen on the Steep stage in, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, in which she got nominated for Supporting Actress and won with the title of Outstanding Ensemble with her new found family. She would also like to say thank you to everyone that has worked on this production, you and not only her real family and her Arabian one and her AV family but to her new Bronx’s family “you guys weren’t as lame as I thought.” VIVA LA RELVOLUCION. And lastly she would like to remind everyone that she is a proud Dominican and to please shut off your phones. Thank you.

Remy Ortiz (Jesús Colón) is thankful to be working on an important project with such great people! Chicago credits include: Sketchbook (Collaboraction), A Big Blue Nail (Victory Gardens), A Park in Our House (Victory Gardens), and The Wood Demon (The Library Theater). Remy is a founding member of The Vintage Theater Collective in Chicago. He graduated with his BFA from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Acting Training Program.

Warren Levon (Guy Next Door) makes his Collaboraction, Teatro Vista and Goodman debut with the spectuacular and profound production of El Grito Del Bronx. He most recently worked as an understudy with Next Theatre in The Overwhelming. Other credits this season include Roll of Thundrer, Hear my Cry at Apple Tree Theatre (TYA), and Jesus Hopped the A Train at Raven Theatre. Other notable credits include A Raisin in the Sun (Peoples Jazz Theatre), Othello (performed title role -Wycc TV), A Soldier’s Play (New Branch Theatre), Bang the Drum Slowly (Steep Theatre), and THE VISIT (Halcyon Theatre). His most recent film work is Lioness of Lisabi (www.lionessfilm.com) and just finished shooting Fallen Souls with Knight Phoenix Productions. Warren thanks God for yet another blessed opportunity to do what he loves. He thanks his family for their love and support. Warren is very excited to act along side this tremendously talented cast and crew and hopes that you not only enjoy the show, but leave this show entranced, enlightned, and inspired.

Josh Odor (Ed) is working with Collaboraction, Teatro Vista and the Goodman for the first time. He was just seen in Little Brother (Jeff recommended) with the Griffin Theatre and will be playing Vic Flemming in Moonlight and Magnolias this

fall with the Buffalo Ensable (directed by Kurt Naebig). In Chicago Josh has worked with About Face, Apple Tree, Steep Theatre, Artistic Home, Uma Productions, New Colony, Prop Theatre, Circle Theatre and Pine Box (company member), as well as worked regionally with the Long Wharf in New Haven and The Maltz-Jupiter in Jupiter, FL. His film credits include The Express and The River Within. This Iowa native got his MFA from Cal State Fullerton and is a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf. Thanks Mom.

Patrese McClain (Sarah) is so excited to be a part of the amazing production! Past theatre credits include: Ruined: u/s Salima & Josephine (Goodman Theatre) Piano Lesson: u/s Grace(Court Theatre). Patrese received her BFA from Howard University and her MFA from Penn State University. She thanks her family and friends for their continued support!

John Wilson (First Gas Station Attendant): Collaboraction credits include: Sketchbook 7: Autobiography and Sketchbook 8: Hackneyed. Other recent Chicago credits include a stage reading of Household Sprits at the Goodman, the critically acclaimed Our Bad Magnet with Mary Arrchie Theater Company (Jeff Nominated for Best Non-Equity Ensemble). He has also worked with Steep, Infamous Commonwealth, Redmoon, Stage Left, WNEP, Side Studio, and City Lit among others. He will next be

seen in the Chicago premier of The Sugar Syndrome at Chicago Dramatist in early September. John is a graduate of the school at Steppenwolf.

Molly Reynolds (Elizabeth), a native Chicagoan, was last seen in Wildclaw Theatre’s The Great God PAN. Other recent work includes Hunger & Thirst at A Red Orchid Tehatre, Marathon 33 at Strawdog Theatre (Jeff, AFter Dark awards; Best Ensemble) and Saved at Mary Archie Theatre, where she also performed in Buried Child and Hot L Baltimore. Some other past productions; Fuente Ovejuna (Court Theatre) Chicago Conspiracy Trial (Remains), Weetsie Bat (Organic), Inspecting Carol (Steppenwolf). She also works in voiceover and film, including Bullet on a Wire and Road to Perdition.

Jeremy Oase (Last Gas Station Attendant): This is Jeremy’s second show with Collaboraction following SKETCHBOOK ‘09. He is a Northern California native and a School at Steppenwolf graduate. He has most recently appeared in What I Am Supposed To Be at Collaboration, Animals and Plants at Gorilla Tango, and NEED/HEDGES3 with Pinebox Theater Company.

Gregory Hardigan (Gas Station Attendant, First Attendant Understudy) is very happy to be working with Collaboraction and Teatro Vista on this great show. He is a member of The Hypocrites, and has appeared in over a dozen of their productions; most recently The Hairy Ape (Ensemble) at the Goodman, The Threepenny Opera (Macheath) at Steppenwolf Garage and Miss Julie (Jean) at the Chopin. Other shows include As Told by the Vivian Girls (Henry Darger) with Dog and Pony, The Hothouse (Lobb) with A Red Orchid, Salao with

Redmoon/Chicago Shakespeare, and Seagull with Redmoon/Steppenwolf. As a playwright, his work has been performed in Chicago, New York, Washington DC, London UK, Brighton UK, Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore. Love to Margaret.Max Lesser (Gas Station Attendant, Ed Understudy) has been living and working in Chicago for the last two plus years. Chicago theater credits include working with Redmoon theater company, TheaterWit, Collaboraction, Stage Left, IO, GreatworksTheater Co., Fifth Floor productions and NewLeaf theatre. He has shot a handful of commercials and short films most recently appearing in Lakeshore Entertainments Cyrus and Eric Bednarowitz’s Carpe Millenium. Before coming to Chicago, Max lived in Los Angeles were he appeared in ABC’s hit show According to Jim a half a dozen times in varying roles. He is also a writer and worked in L.A. developing a pilot with Grey’s Anonatomy’s Ellen Pompeo, and Christopher Kelly. Special thanks to mom and dad.

Patrick Zielinski (Gas Station Attendant, Last Attendant Understudy) has called Chicago home for over ten years now. This is Patricks second show with Collaboraction, and his first with Theatro Vista. He is proud to share his time and his talent with such a fine cast and crew. Many thanks and much love to his beautiful wife Jennifer.

Anthony Moseley* (Director) has been the Executive Artistic Director of COLLABORACTION since 1999, where he has led the company through a period of remarkable growth. During this period he has developed a Board of Directors, strategic planning process, operations staff, a for-hire division called Experience Design that offer Collaboraction’s creative and production services to private clients and produced over 100 productions and events including Collaboraction’s critically acclaimed productions of JON, The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild; a road trip, Guinea Pig Solo, and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Collaboraction recently received a “Hopie” award from the Lester and Hope Abelson Foundation for recognition in creativity and innovation. Mr. Moseley is the co-creator and Festival Director of the annual SKETCHBOOK Festival, an electrifying blend of theatre, music and art makes up “premiere short play festival in the Midwest”. His past Collaboraction directing credits include Mud by Maria Irene Fornes, the Chicago premiere of Refuge by Jessica Goldberg (2000 Jeff Citation nomination for Best Direction), To Kill a Mockingbird by Christopher Sergel based on the novel by Harper Lee, the Chicago premiere of The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He One Loved in the Former Soviet Union by David Greig, the Chicago premiere of Guinea Pig Solo by Brett C. Leonard, the world premiere of The Pull Toy (and His Pasian) by Robert McEwen, the world premiere of Heroes and Villains by Dan Janoff and numerous world premiere short plays at Sketchbook. Mr. Moseley produced, directed and wrote Nightlight (Independent Film Channel) and The Bee (winner of Audience Choice Award

Biographies: Crew

– Short Film, 2002 N.Y. Int’l Independent Film Festival). As an actor, Mr. Moseley was in the world premiere of Jose Rivera’s Massacre, produced by the Teatro Vista in Association with the Goodman Theatre in the Owen Theatre. He as has also performed in Collaboraction’s When You Comin’ Back Red Ryder (1999 Jeff Citation nomination for Best Actor), Beyond Therapy, Three Sisters, Spandex and Sympathy and Pong. Mr. Moseley has also been performed in numerous commercials, televisions shows and movies including Prison Break and The Beast. Anthony was the 2007 Michael Maggio Fellow for early-career directors at Goodman Theatre. He recently directed Phillip K. Dicks’ Flow My Tears the Policeman Said as the MFA 3rd year Final Project at The DePaul Theatre School’s Merler Reskin Theatre, a 1200 seat broadway touring house. He graduated in ’95 from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in Finance before having his quarter-life crisis and pursuing a career in theater and arts.

Migdalia Cruz (Playwright) has written over forty plays, operas, screenplays, and musicals including: Salt, Featherless Angels, Miriam’s Flowers, Another Part of the House, and Frida: The Story of Frida Kahlo. Her work has been produced across the U.S. and abroad in venues as diverse as Houston Grand Opera, National Theater of Greece’s Experimental Wing (Athens), Old Red Lion (London), INTAR & Playwrights’ Horizons (NY), Foro Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz/Centro Hellenico (Mexico City), and Cornerstone (L.A.). Here in Chicago, Latino Chicago Theater Company produced seven world premieres of her work when she was writer-in-residence from 1991 to 1998. Among her awards: 2008 International Festival of Playwrights of Color (Toronto, Canada), a 2007 & 2008 US/Mexico translation exchange residency at the Lark, 2005 MCC award, a Kennedy Center New American Plays award, a PEW/TCG Residency, three Sundance residencies, a McKnight, and two NEAs. She received her MFA degree from

Columbia University, and is an alumna of New Dramatists. Recent work: Fur/Pelaje was presented at the Ateneo Puertorriqueño (PR), 4/07; Telling Tales, produced by U. of PR (Rio Piedras), 11/09, and produced by RiotAct Theater (Jackson, WY), 5/07; the Bronx part of Song For N.Y.: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting, produced by Mabou Mines (NY), 9/07; Dreams of Home, produced by Monarch Theater Company (NY), 10/07; Fur, produced by U. of Wyoming (Laramie), 10/07, and by U.N.M. (Albuquerque), 3/08. She is currently adapting the anti-Nero Satyricon to what’s left of America.

Mackenzie Brown (AEA) (Stage Manager) is excited to be working with Collaboraction and Teatro Vista. Recent productions include: Rock ‘N’ Roll, Goodman Theatre; The Selfish Giant and If All the World Were Paper, Chicago Children’s Theatre; UNLOCK’D, Ravinia Festival Association. Mackenzie also served as Floor Manager at the Goodman Theatre where productions included: Passion Play: a three part cycle, Robert Falls’ Shining City, In the Continuum, and A Christmas Carol. She has worked regionally with Stage One Productions, H&A Summer Dinner Theatre, Wichita Grand Opera. Future productions include The Hundred Dresses, Chicago Children’s Theatre. She is also a company member with Red Tape Theatre Company. This one is for my Dad.

Sarah Moeller* (Production Manager) is a Collaboraction company member, resident production manager and director. Her past credits with Collaboraction include Production Manager for Heroes and Villains, JON, Gold Brick and The Siddhartha Project, Stage Manager for The Pull Toy and his Paisan, Sketchbooks 6, 7 & 8, director for SLP’s 365 Project and the premiere studio series project, Tone Clusters. She is also a company member at Eclipse Theatre Company where she works as a dramaturg,

director and stage manager. When she isn’t working in the theater she can be found teaching elementary music around Chicago.

Sam Porretta* (Creative Director) is a Chicago based designer, director & actor, and has been a Collaboraction Company member since 2004. There he has designed environments/sets for Jon, Sketchbook ’04 -‘08, Guinea Pig Solo, Carnaval ’05 -’06 & ‘09, Beggar’s Banquet ’04 -’06, Suffering City, Krisis, and Prom. He’s also designed sets for Serendipity Theatre Collective (Girl 20), Theater Wit (Men of Steel), and Field House Lab (Orpheus Now). As a performer, he has worked with notable Chicago companies such as Redmoon, The Hypocrites, Strawdog, and Trap Door. He devoted last year to studying design methodologies at the alternative design school Archeworks. There he worked in a multidisciplinary design team along with members of Chicago 2016 (Olympic Bid Committee) creating strategies to engage Chicago’s ethnic and cultural communities in the Olympics.

Regina Garcia (Set Designer) Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Regina attended New York University’s Department of Design for Stage and Film where she received her MFA in Scenic Design. Recently completed projects include: Blues in the Night by Sheldon Epps, and My Secret Language of Wishes by Cori Thomas, both directed by Ron Himes at The St. Louis Black Rep; and Hope VI by Nambi E. Kelley, directed by Ilesa Duncan at Chicago Dramatists. Regina is also working with John Toenjes, amongst others, on a re-envisioning of Trisha Brown’s Astral Convertible to open at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in 2010. She has worked with renowned Latino theaters including Repertorio Español, PRTT, INTAR, and was the Resident Scenic Designer at Pregones Theater for more than eight years. She has also

designed for directors Giovanna Sardelli, Thomas Kail, Victor Maog, Leah Gardiner, Jorge Ali Triana, Michael J. Garces, Robert Anderson, Daniella Topol, Miriam Colon and Bartlett Sher, amongst others. She is a recipient of a Princess Grace Award for her work with Pregones, and a Latino ACE Award for her designs for Borinquen vive en el barrio. She is a Founding Company Member of Boundless Theatre Company, San Juan/New York. Regina is an Assistant Professor of Scene Design at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a Fellow of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers. http://www.GarciaPortfolio.com.

Jeremy Getz* (Lighting Designer) is thrilled to be working with Teatro Vista and Collaboraction and the Goodman on the World Premier of EL Grito. A Collaboraction company member since 2000 he has designed lighting for nearly all company productions and events including The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, The Cosmonaut’s last Message, Tulsa Lovechild, Refuge, and all Sketchbook Festivals. For the past eight years, he has served as guest artist and lighting designer for Albany Park Theatre Project. In addition, Jeremy has lit productions for many Chicago-based organizations including Theater Wit, Teatro Vista, Chicago Dramatics, Oak Park Festival Theater, and Ensemble Espanola. When not in the theater Jeremy works as a project manager and Programmer for Intelligent lighting Creations, Upstaging Inc, and several other Chicago Lighting and event companies. He has also designed the lighting for several local nightclubs and restaurants, including Avec, RedNofive, Hydrate and OHM. He also has served as the technical director at Northside College Prep High School for the last 7 years.

Elsa Hiltner* (Costume Designer) is thrilled to be designing with Collaboraction and Teatro Vista on EL GRITO DEL BRONX! Earlier this season she designed costumes for Collaboraction’s SKETCHBOOK 2009, JON, and has costumed many events with Collaboraction in the past year. Other favorite Chicago credits include DRIVING MISS DAISY (Nominated for a Jeff Award for Best Costume Design), JEEVES INTERVENES, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, DESIGN FOR LIVING, and A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN (First Folio Theatre); THE AUTUMN GARDEN and BOURBON AT THE BORDER (Eclipse Theatre); THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (Signal Ensemble). She is also designing and drafting as the Spectacle Costume Shop Manager at Columbia College Chicago. For more information about her Chicago and Seattle area designs, visit www.elsahiltner.com.

Miles Polaski* (Sound Designer) is a sound designer, composer and musician in Chicago, IL. He is the resident sound designer with Collaboraction and a music director/curator with Serendipity Theatre’s 2nd Story. In 2008, Miles worked on music for Lie of the Mind at Strawdog Theatre which won a non-equity Jeff Award and his sound design for White People at The Gift Theatre was nominated for an equity Jeff Award. In 2007, he was nominated for two non-equity Jeff Awards for his sound design and original compositions for Equus at Actor’s Workshop. Miles has had the pleasure of working with many Chicago theatre companies, since moving to Chicago in 2004, including TUTA, Chicago Dramatists, Noble Fool Theatricals, The House Theatre of Chicago, Chicago Shakespeare, Light Opera Works, Redmoon, The Hypocrites, Theatre Seven, Infamous Commonwealth, Backstage Theatre, among others. Before moving to Chicago, Miles worked as an actor and sound designer at The Barter Theatre, state theater of Virginia.

Mikhail Fiksel (Composer) has been an Artistic Associate with Collaboraction since 2005 and his most recent projects with these fine folks have been Jon, various Sketchbooks and Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (2007 Orgie Award for Original Composition). He is also a Teatro Vista company member (2006 Jeff Award for Sound Design, Blindmouth Singing). In addition, he is an ensemble member of Serendipity Theatre Collective and Strawdog Theatre Company (where he recently received the 2008 AfterDark award for Original Score for Old Town and the 2008 Non-Equity Jeff Award for Original Incidental Music, A Lie of the Mind). Other recent projects include Oedipus (The Hypocrites), The Revenants (Wildclaw Theater); The Cherry Orchard, R.U.R. (Strawdog); Stupid Kids (AboutFace); You are Here, Living Green, A Park in Our House and My Children, My Africa (Victory Gardens); Maria’s Field, Romeo&Juliet and Uncle Vanya (TUTA); Fake Lake (Neofuturists), Winter Pageant Redux, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Princess Club and Once Upon a TimeMassacre (The Goodman Theatre w/ Teatro Vista), and various productions with Adventure Stage Chicago where he is a resident designer and Loyola University where he teaches Sound Design. Outside of theatre stages, he can be found recording and performing, sometimes under a moniker “dj white russian” or with his band Seeking Wonderland who he would like to thank for the help in recording the music for this production. (Redmoon Theatre).

Deborah Lindell (Prop Master) started working with Collaboraction this year as Assistant Production Manager for Sketchbook ‘09. She is currently properties master for My Fair Lady at Light Opera Works, properties designer and production

manager for Waiting for Godot and Pillowman at Redtwist Theatre, and stage manager for Gossamer at Adventure Stage. Since moving to Chicago from Minnesota in December, Deborah has also worked with the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, The House Theatre of Chicago, and Cabaret Vagabond, in addition to being Resident Props Designer at Redtwist Theatre.

Lauren Glass (ASM/Floor Manager)

Lucie Adler (Costume Design Assistant) is a junior at the DePaul Theatre School where she majors in Theatre Arts with a Costume Design . She was the assistant costume designer on several shows at DePaul this year including A Streetcar Named Desire, Alice, and Urinetown. Before that she also worked on Much Ado About Nothing with the First Folio Shakespeare Company in Oakbrook.

Kristin Leahey (Dramaturg) is a dramaturg, who works nationally, with a focus in new play development. Some of her dramaturgical credits include premiere and other works produced at the Kennedy Center, Zach Scott Theatre, Indianapolis Repertory Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, The Goodman Latino Theatre Festival, the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Teatro Luna, Teatro Vista, Adventure Stage, Eclipse Theatre, and Red Orchid Theatre (where she serves as the company’s literary manager). She is a Ph.D. candidate in dramaturgy at the University of Texas at Austin. As a recipient of a University of Texas Endowed Fellowship, she is able to conclude her doctoral work in Chicago this fall. In addition, she teaches with the Communication Department at DePaul University (kristinleahey@hotmail.com).

Sarah Gitenstein* (Assistant Director & Casting Director) is a company member with Collaboraction and has worked with the organization for over five years. For Collaboraction, Sarah has assistant directed The Pull Toy and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. She performed in Sketchbook 8, and played Beatrice in Beatrice and Beau (Audience Choice Award winner) for Sketchbook 9. Other Chicago credits include work with Dramatist Personae, Pavement Group, Teatro Vista, and Timeline Theater. Sarah is currently co-producing InFusion Theater’s Incubator Series with Cecilie Keenan. You can see her in the New Colony’s fall production at the Royal George Theater. Love to my family.

Tim Borntrager* (Technical Director) was born and raised in the Appalachian mountains. He has lived in Chicago for five years, where he is an ensemble member of Collaboraction and works extensively in fringe theatre.

Saverio Truglia (Photographer) Saverio Truglia is a photographer of all things darkly humorous and out-of-place. He is a commercial photographerhired to create national print advertising campaigns for beer, gum and banks plus magazines like Time, Rolling Stone and Fast Company. He’s a long time contributor to Collaboraction and is honored to be part of the El Grito del Bronx production.

Marianna Levant (Graphic Designer)

Madeline Long (Carol Fox and Associates)

Diana Pando (Marketing Coordinator)

David Woolley, SAFD (Fight Director) is a Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors; Artist in Residence at Columbia College of Chicago, teaching stage combat and overseeing the violence in the theater department; and, is Guido Crescendo in Dirk and Guido: the Swordsmen!, now in their 20th season and currently performing at the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Woolley is happy to be back playing with Teatro Vista again. Previously he staged the fights for Massacre. Past Goodman stagings include: Edmond, Time of Your Life, A Flea in Her Ear, Zoot Suit, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Music of the Spheres. A free-lance fight director with over 300 productions staged over the past twenty-five years here in Chicago with side trips to New York, LA, London and Dublin- his favorite past staging includes: Affair of Honor; the Picnic, Babes With Blades; Pyrates!, Defiant Theatre; Three Musketeers, Emanon Theater company; ten years as resident fight director for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and three years of Dungeonmaster: the Ultimate Role-Playing Fantasy Trip for Moose Productions. Woolley is the recipient of a special Jeff Award for Consistent Excellence in Stage Combat Choreography and an Off Loop Theater Award for Best Fight Direction. David would like to especially thank JoAnn for putting up with his tomfoolery.

Martin Kamenski (Collaboraction Managing Director) joined Collaboraction in 2007 as Business Manager and within a few years was named Managing Director. Since then he has produced Heroes and Villains, JON, Goldbrick, and the ninth annual SKETCHBOOK festival. Now more than ever, theater audiences deserve programming that not only pays lip service to diversity, but explores it deeply. He is thrilled to take part in this production alongside Teatro Vista and the Goodman Theatre. In addition to his work with Collaboraction, he is President of Rockstar CPA and a member of the Board of Directors of Matter Dance Company and the Global Alliance of Artists.

Collaboraction Staff & MembersCOLLABORACTION STAFFManaging Director: Martin KamenskiDirector of Development: Michelle KelleyProduction Manager: Sarah MoellerAssociate Artistic Director: Joel MoormanAssociate Artistic Director: Seth Bockley

COLLABORACTION BOARDCo-President: Ed RafalskiCo-President: Jonathan Aberman Treasurer: Nik RokopSecretary: Dana LaChapelle Chairman Emeritus: Harry AraderBoard Emeritus: Manuela Guidi Kim Kerr Paul Klein

Richard LaChapelle David Rosen Elaine Roth Gary Sherman

DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL Chair: Matt WoodburnDana AndersonYvonne Cheng Matt Dufour Beth Gomez Anne Harvey Lorna Juett Anthony Qaiyum Katie Rahn Patrick Ryan

Christine Sanders Graham Thomas Carmelita Tiu Rachel Yeomans

COMPANY MEMBERSAnacron AllenSeth BockleySandra DelgadoSarah GitensteinAnthony MoseleyElsa HiltnerMiles PolaskiSarah MoellerIsabelle LibmannMark HicksTim BorntragerJoel Moorman

Liviu PasereJeremy GetzGalina ShevchenkoSam PorrettaEric ZiegenhagenJohn Zinn

COLLABORACTION STAFFManaging Director: Martin KamenskiDirector of Development: Michelle KelleyProduction Manager: Sarah MoellerAssociate Artistic Director: Joel MoormanAssociate Artistic Director: Seth Bockley

COLLABORACTION BOARDCo-President: Ed RafalskiCo-President: Jonathan Aberman Treasurer: Nik RokopSecretary: Dana LaChapelle Chairman Emeritus: Harry AraderBoard Emeritus: Manuela Guidi Kim Kerr Paul Klein

Richard LaChapelle David Rosen Elaine Roth Gary Sherman

DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL Chair: Matt WoodburnDana AndersonYvonne Cheng Matt Dufour Beth Gomez Anne Harvey Lorna Juett Anthony Qaiyum Katie Rahn Patrick Ryan

TEATRO VISTA STAFFLaura Wurz

TEATRO VISTA COMPANY MEMBERSHIPCharin AlvarezDesmin BorgesCheryl Lynn BruceMarcus CastilloLauri DahlDeb DavisLiza FernandezKhanisha FosterRicardo GutierrezErick JuarezJon Lyon

Joe MinosoMarcela MunozTony SanchoEddie Torres

ENSEMBLE - TENUREDSandra DelgadoSandra MarquezJuan Francisco Villa

ENSEMBLE - AUXILIARYMax Arciniega, Jr.Ivonne CollLaura CrotteDave GipsonMaricela Ochoa

Teatro Vista Staff & Members

TEATRO VISTA STAFFLaura Wurz

TEATRO VISTA COMPANY MEMBERSHIPCharin AlvarezDesmin BorgesCheryl Lynn BruceMarcus CastilloLauri DahlDeb DavisLiza FernandezKhanisha FosterRicardo GutierrezErick JuarezJon Lyon

Joe MinosoMarcela MunozTony SanchoEddie Torres

ENSEMBLE - TENUREDSandra DelgadoSandra MarquezJuan Francisco Villa

ENSEMBLE - AUXILIARYMax Arciniega, Jr.Ivonne CollLaura CrotteDave GipsonMaricela Ochoa

Carmen SeverinoCecilia Suarez

ENSEMBLE - EMERITUSSabrina DuarteGustavo MelladoTony Ramos

JUNIOR ENSEMBLEChristina NievesMarvin QuijadaGabe Ruiz

ARTISTIC ASSOCIATESBrian Sidney BembridgeMikhail FikselChristine Pascual

RESIDENT DIRECTORSCecilie KeenanLisa Portes

RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHTSKristoffer DiazTanya Saracho

TEATRO VISTA BOARDBetty Goodwin CleelandCesar NuñezTom GreensfelderJim Doyle

DRIEHAUS MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation has chosen the world premiere of El Grito Del Bronx to be the first production to offer patrons The Driehaus Foundation Money Back Guarantee. Created in order to encourage audiences and theater companies to take a chance on

new, controversial work by removing the financial risk, the program gives any audience member who was unsatisfied with the production a full refund of his or her ticket price. A $10,000 allotment has been designation for ticket refunds by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

200 DONORS CLUBEl Grito del Bronx NEEDS 200 FRIENDS! ARE YOU IN?As you may know, ticket sales alone do not cover all of the cost associated with creat-ing great works of art. Collaboraction & Teatro Vista, like all non-profit art produc-ers, depends on the generosity of donors such as yourself. To ensure the success of El Grito del Bronx, Collaboraction & Teatro Vista are asking for 200 art supporters to take a stand for great art. We are confident that with the support of at least 200 people, at any donation level, we will be able to reach all of our budgetary goals for El Grito del Bronx. But we can only do it with your help!

Donate today and join the 200 Donors Club.

1. Nik Rokop2. Mike McNamara3. Jeremy Getz4. Christine Sanders5. Brandon McMahon6. Kurtis Pozsgay7. John Lyon8. Patrick Ryan9. Michelle Kelley10. Gonzalo Cordoux11. Stella Moseley12. Matthew Schaefer13. Jake Singer

14. Alexis Aguilu15. Martin Kamenski16. Laurie Dahl17. Tom Greensfelder

Special ThanksThe staff of the Goodman Theatre Betty CleelandStephen Bradarich and West Grand Studios Tim BorntragerKevin FootlickeTito RodriguezMiersa CuevasKrannert Center for the Performing ArtsNorthside College Prep Strawdog theater companyManuela Guidi

Collaboraction also receives generous support from The Alphawood Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, the City Arts Assistance Program, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Lester & Hope Abelson Foundation (a donor advised fund at the Chicago Community Trust), the MacArthur Fund for the Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and the Ronald A. Greene Memorial Fund (a donor advised fund at the Chicago Community Trust).

This program is sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Art Council, a state agency.

Collaboraction’s Donors* Indicates a Board Member† Indicates Board Emeritus• Indicates Staff∞ Indicates Company+ Indicates Development Council member

All Donations From 2007 - Present

BENEFACTORS: $2500 & BEYONDJon* & Carolyn AbermanHarry † & Susan AraderSteve Bradarich & West Grand StudiosJeffrey Asperger & Sharon ChinnaswamyPaul Klein* & Amy CrumMark & Libby Gitenstein

Michael Grillo*Richard* & Dana LaChapelleDavid & Kelsey Tanner O’ConnorDr. Edward Rafalski*, PhD, MPHNik Rokop*Erin West

PLATINUM: $1000 - $2500Justin AnselmoJonathan & Michelle BednarshEllen Stone BelicCleve CarneyBetty CleelandMarilyn Davis RabkinMike EpiscopeJudy GreerManuela Guidi†Matthew La ChapelleDale & Irene MurrellRob & Mary O’ConnorKay Schmidt

Jim StoneTodd & Elizabeth Warnock

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Jenny WilsonJohn WilsonJohn Zinn∞

2008 IN-KIND DONORS & SPECIAL THANKSA Red Orchid TheatreAmy Krushinski

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1530 S. State Street, Chicago Restrictions: 1 ticket per table and/or reservation, 1 per visit. Expires on 7/31/09.

Bring your ticket to the El Grito Del Bronx Performance (from July 17th performance)

and it will be applied as a $10 Gift Certificate off your next visit to Tapas Valencia.

BEGGARS’ BANQUET

To, join the Host Committee, donate to the auction, or be involved in the event, contact Michelle@collaboraction.org.

www.Collaboraction.org for more information.

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In support of Collaboraction’s Creative Fearlessness

September 19, 2009