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Directed byRod A. LAnsbeRRy

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Producing Artistic Director of Musical TheatreRod A. LAnsbeRRy

Casting bywojcik | seay casting, llc

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is presented through an exclusive arrangement with R & H Theatricals and Two Knights Rights Limited. www.rnh.com.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

March 24–April 16, 2017

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Jesus .......................................................................................................Billy Lewis, Jr. *Judas ..........................................................................................Napoleon M. Douglas *Mary Magdalene ...............................................................................Jenna Bainbridge *Caiaphas ....................................................................................................Stephen Day *Annas ...................................................................................................... Joe Callahan *Pilate ................................................................................................... Markus Warren *Herod .................................................................................................. Wayne Kennedy *

ensembLePeter ........................................................................................................ Brett Ambler *Martha .........................................................................................Piper Lindsay Arpan *James the Elder, Soldier ................................................................... Michael BouchardEsther ....................................................................................................Rae Leigh Case Judas Tormentor ...................................................................................... Satya ChavezJames the Younger .................................................................................... Reace Daniel *Bartholomew, Soldier .....................................................................Aaron M. Davidson *Andrew, Soldier ...........................................................................................Adam Estes *John ........................................................................................................ James Francis Second Priest .....................................................................................Damon Guerrasio *Jude .........................................................................................................Barret Harper Ruth, Maid by the Fire ........................................................... Kitty Skillman Hilsabeck *Matthew .................................................................................................Drew HorwitzPhilip, Soldier ..............................................................................................Rob JanzenSimon Zealotes ...................................................................................Matt LaFontaineThomas, Soldier ................................................................................... Daniel LanghoffJudas Tormentor ................................................................................ Sheryl McCallum *Judas Tormentor ......................................................................................Norrell Moore *First Priest ................................................................................................ Tyler NielsonMary .............................................................................................................Sarah Rex *

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Herod: Michael Bouchard; Maid by the Fire: Rae Leigh Case; Mary Magdalene: Satya Chavez; Second Priest: Reace Daniel*;Annas: James Francis; Pilate: Damon Guerrasio*; Apostles, First Priest: Barret Harper; Apostle: Drew Horwitz;

Jesus: Rob Janzen; Judas: Daniel Langhoff; Caiaphas: Sheryl McCallum*; Apostles: Tyler Nielson; Judas Tormentors: Sarah Rex*.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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

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Music Director, Conductor, Keyboards: David NehlsAssistant to the Music Director, Percussion: Keith Ewer

Bass: Jon Cullison; Guitar: David DeMichelis; Trumpet: Michael Hengst; Trombone: Wade Sander;Cello: David Short; Guitar: Jason Tyler Vaughn.

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AcT iOvertureHeaven On Their MindsWhat’s The Buzz? / Strange Thing MystifyingEverything’s AlrightThis Jesus Must Die HosannaSimon Zealotes / Poor JerusalemPilate’s Dream The TempleEverything’s AlrightI Don’t Know How To Love HimDamned For All Time / Blood Money

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AcT iiThe Last Supper GethsemaneThe ArrestPeter’s DenialPilate and Christ King Herod’s SongJudas’s DeathCould We Start Again PleaseTrial Before Pilate / 39 LashesSuperstarCrucifixionJohn 19:41

Billy Lewis, Jr. (Jesus) is making his Arvada Center debut in one of his all time favorite musicals. Last seen on television and Netflix as Mason McCarthy on Fox’s GLEE. Other credits: Claude in Hair and We

Will Rock You (National Tours); Melchior in Spring Awakening, and Cousin Kevin in The Who’s Tommy (ReVision Theatre, NJ).

Napoleon M. Douglas (Judas) is making his s e cond appea rance on the Arvada Center stage, most recently seen in Sister Act. Other Credits: A Christmas Carol (DCPA Theatre Company); Hairspray

(Memphis Playhouse on the Square); Sweeney Todd, Memphis, Oklahoma!, Miss Saigon, and White Christmas (Midtown Arts Center); and Superior Donuts (Stage West Theatre Company). Training: Bachelor of Arts, Drake University. Napoleon is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association.

Jenna Bainbridge (Mary Magdalene) is a Colorado Theatre Guild Henry A w a r d - n o m i n a t e d actress that has been acting around Colorado for the last ten years. Jesus Christ Superstar marks her Arvada Center debut.

Favorite credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, and Henry V (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Jekyll & Hyde, Little Women, and Dracula (Aurora Fox); Evita, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and Sideshow (Phamaly Theatre Company); and Cinderella (BDT Stage). Training: Bachelor of Arts in Music from the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver.

Stephen Day (Caiaphas) is a multiple Denver award nominee and winner including Javert in Les Misérables and Max in Sunset Boulevard, both garnering Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Awards. Eleven other

Arvada Center productions: ZaZa in La Cage aux Folles, Molokov in Chess,

Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Headwaiter in She Loves Me, and Monsignor O’Hara in Sister Act. Regional: The Drowsy Chaperone, Gypsy, The Producers, and Beauty and the Beast. Local: Spamalot, Peter Pan, Sondheim on Sondheim, 9 to 5, Guys and Dolls, Grand Night for Singing, and Colorado Symphony with Marvin Hamlisch.

Joe Callahan (Annas) is making his debut at the Arvada Center. He was recently seen as Willie Conklin in the national tour of Ragtime (Phoenix Entertainment). Other credits include: Les Misérables and Peter Pan

(Connecticut Repertory Theatre); and Million Dollar Quartet, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, South Pacific, Robin Hood, and Motones vs. Jerseys (Midtown Arts Center). He has also performed internationally with The Unexpected Boys and on Holland America Line. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Western Carolina University.

Markus Warren (Pilate) has performed at the Arvada Center in ten productions including Enjolras in Les Misérables, Manfred in Sunse t Boulevard, Fred Anderson in A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Elle’s Dad in

Legally Blonde, and The Duke/Dr. Carasco in Man of La Mancha. Regional credits: The Phantom in Phantom (BDT Stage), Emile DeBeque in South Pacific, Cowardly Lion in Wizard of Oz, Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince in Into the Woods, and Juan Peron in Evita (Candlelight Dinner Playhouse).

Wa y n e K e n n e d y (Herod) has appeared at the Arvada Center as Tateh in Ragtime, Herr Schultz in Cabaret , and Thenardier in Les Misérables. Locally, he is a 26-year veteran of Boulder’s Dinner

Theatre/BDT Stage.

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Brett Ambler (Ensemble, Peter) has been seen at the Arvada Center as Emmett Forrest in Legally Blonde, as both a guard and prisoner in Man of La Mancha, and an ensemble member of Death Takes a Holiday. Other credits:

Animal Crackers (DCPA Theatre Company); Seussical and You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Virginia Repertory Theatre); The Drawer Boy (Barksdale Theatre); The Cotton Patch Gospel and Altar Boyz (Swift Creek Mill Theatre); and Buddy –The Buddy Holly Story, Avenue Q, The Full Monty, and Spamalot (BDT Stage).

Piper Lindsay Arpan (Ensemble, Martha) has performed in 14 prior Arvada Center productions: Rita in White Christmas, Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime, Kitty Farrelly in A Man of No Importance, FAF in

Hairspray, Renee in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mary in Sunset Boulevard, Helga in Cabaret, Olga in Nine, Sister Act, Tarzan: The Stage Musical, She Loves Me, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Christmas Carol: The Musical, and Miracle on 34th Street, which she also choreographed. Favorite credits include: Spamalot on Broadway, The Producers (movie), and Radio City Rockettes. Piper has received Colorado Theatre Guild Henry, Denver Post Ovation, and Marlowe Awards for choreography, direction, and on-stage performance.

Michael Bouchard (Ensemble, James the Elder, Soldier, u/s Herod) is returning to the Arvada Center where he was last seen in Saturday Night Fever. Michael is an ensemble member with the Boulder Ensemble

Theatre Company and a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. He is also the 2009 winner for Best Season by an Actor by the Denver Post; 2011 Denver Post and Westword winner for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy; 2015 Westword winner for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy.

R a e L e i g h C a s e (Ensemble, Esther, u/s Maid by the Fire) was last seen at the Arvada Center in I’ll Be Home for Christmas. Other credits: White Christmas, Saturday Night Fever, and Curtains (Arvada

Center); A Chorus Line (Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars); Big Fish, Spamalot, and The Color Purple (Aurora Fox); Peter Pan (Parker Arts, Culture & Events Center); Home for the Holidays (Lone Tree Arts Center); Footloose, Mary Poppins, Shrek The Musical, and CATS (BDT Stage); and Swing!, Hair, and Sweet Charity (Town Hall Arts Center).

Satya Chavez (Ensemble, Judas Tormentor, u/s Mary Magdalene) is making her debut with the Arvada Center. Her recent credits include: La Cantante in The Happiest Song Plays Last (Curious Theatre);

Bianca in Othello (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Juanda in The Ghost of Lote Bravo (Kennedy Center); Yellow Woman in Black Elk Speaks and Sympathy the Learned in Arabian Nights (Aurora Fox); and Rusty in Footloose (BDT Stage). Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Colorado Boulder. Awards: 2014 National Irene Ryan Acting Award, Kennedy Center.

Reace Daniel (Ensemble, James the Younger, u/s Second Priest) was last seen at the Arvada Center in Sister Act. Other credits: RENT (Town Hall Arts Center); The Wedding Singer (Aurora Fox); and [title of show]

(Ignite Theatre). Reace is a resident director at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center coaching the next generation of theatre artists. Reace also teaches yoga throughout the greater Denver area and will be appearing next in Drag On at the DCPA Theatre Company.

Aaron M. Davidson (Ensemble, Bartholomew, Soldier) returns for his third production at the Arvada Center. Prior productions include Mordred in Camelot and Miracle on 34th Street. Pre-Broadway

trial: Helldrivers of Daytona (Royal George

Theatre); Junior Claus (Little Theatre on the Square); and Carousel (West Virginia Public Theatre). Locally he was last seen in Faith (Local Lab 2014) and as Joey Stoshack in Jackie and Me (DCPA Theatre Company). He is a professional jazz pianist, and sings across the nation with The Four C Notes recreating the music of Frankie Valli. Training: Point Park University.

Adam Estes (Ensemble, Andrew, Soldier) Previ-ous Arvada Center shows include Saturday Night Fever, La Cage aux Folles, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Other theatrical credits include perfor-mances with Goodman

Theatre, Writers Theatre, Milwaukee Rep-ertory Theater, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Madison Repertory Theatre, Ravinia Festival, Penin-sula Players, Lake Dillon Theatre, In Tandem Theatre, Third Avenue Playhouse, Florentine Opera, First Stage, Skylight Music Theatre, and The Fireside Dinner Theatre. Adam has also appeared in numerous television commercials and recorded extensively for Hal Leonard.

J a m e s F r a n c i s (Ensemble, John, u/s Annas) is making his Arvada Center debut. Other credits: The Beast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Vintage Theatre Productions); Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods,

Lt. Joseph Cable in South Pacific, Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Carol, and Hello Dolly (Candlelight Dinner Playhouse); Simon Stride in Jekyll & Hyde and Dr. Jack Seward in Dracula The Musical (Aurora Fox); and Everett in Swing! (Platte Valley Players).

Damon Guerras io (Ensemble , Second Priest, u/s Pilate) has appeared at the Arvada Center in Saturday Night Fever, Junie B Jones: The Musical, Charlotte’s Web, and Lyle the Crocodile. Other credits include:

Water by the Spoonful (Curious Theatre); All My Sons and Red Hot & Cole (Cherry Creek Theatre); The Fantasticks! (Midtown Arts Center); Spamalot and Shrek The Musical (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre); The Music Man, Boeing-Boeing, and Completely Hollywood Abridged (Town Hall Arts

Center); Love Child, Minimum Wage, and Complete World of Sports Abridged (Avenue Theater); and Something’s Afoot (American Southwest Theatre Company).

B a r r e t H a r p e r (Ensemble, Jude, u/s Apostles, First Priest) has performed at the Arvada Center in How I Became a Pirate. He was most recently seen in A Christmas Story and as Franz in Rock of Ages

(Arizona Broadway Theatre). Other credits: Dead Man Walking (Central City Opera); Footloose (Broadway Palm); The Producers (Arizona Broadway Theatre); The Fantasticks (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Legally Blonde (Mac-Haydn Theatre); Spamalot (BDT Stage); Hairspray (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre); and Forever Plaid (Town Hall Arts Center). Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Colorado.

K i t t y S k i l l m a n Hilsabeck (Ensemble, Ruth, Maid by the Fire, Dance Captain) has performed in 38 productions at the Arvada Center. She performed on Broadway and on the national tour of The

Phantom of the Opera. Other Regional credits: Swing!, Evita, and Guys and Dolls (Country Dinner Playhouse); Swing! and Carousel (Boston); ten years with the Hubbard Street Dance Company (Chicago); four years with Harbinger (Detroit); and Agnes de Mille Project, Mussawwir and Diamond Dance (New York City). Actors’ Equity member for 26 years.

D r e w H o r w i t z (Ensemble, Matthew, u/s Apostle) Credits include: As You Like It (DCPA Theat re Company); Equivocation and Cymbeline (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Mickey in Blood Brothers

(Downtown Cabaret Theatre); Cain/Japheth in Children of Eden (Western Stage); seasons with the California and Carolinian Shakespeare Festivals; Burn This and Medea (Edge Theater Company); On Golden Pond (Barth Hotel); Electra Onion Eater (Buntport Theater); Abundance, American Notes, Crimes of the Heart, and Savage in Limbo (Sis Tryst Productions); and Godspell and You Can’t Take It With You (Miners Alley Playhouse).

Rob Janzen (Ensemble, Philip, Soldier, u/s Jesus) is performing in his first production at the Arvada Center. Rob last appeared as Mary Sunshine in Chicago (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre). Other credits:

Young Frankenstein, Anything Goes, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Hair, Tommy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Damn Yankees, and RENT (Town Hall Arts Center). Awards: 2012 Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award nomination, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical. Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre, Metropolitan State University of Denver.

M a t t L a Fo n t a i n e (Ens emb l e , S imon Zealotes) has performed in nearly 30 productions at the Arvada Center including A Year With Frog and Toad, White Christmas, Memphis, Tarzan: The Stage Musical,

A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Camelot, Curtains, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The 1940’s Radio Hour, Ragtime, Cabaret, All Shook Up, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Miss Saigon. Regional credits include: Che in Evita, George Bailey in A Wonderful Life, Baker in Into the Woods, Action/Riff/Bernardo in West Side Story, and Berger in Hair.

D a n i e l L a n g h o f f (Ensemble, Thomas, Soldier, u/s Judas) has performed in 23 productions at the Arvada Center, including Ragtime, Les Misérables, A Wonde r fu l L i f e , Charlotte’s Web, and

Schoolhouse Rock. Other credits: Cervantes/Quixote in Man of La Mancha and Tateh in Ragtime (Performance Now Theatre Company); Reverend Hale in The Crucible (Firehouse Theatre); Dan Goodman in Next To Normal (Town Hall Arts Center); Galahad in Spamalot (Aurora Fox); and Man 2 in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (DCPA Theatre Company).

Sh e r y l M c Ca l l u m (Ensemble, Judas Tor-mentor, u/s Caiaphas) was last seen as Ruby in Arvada Center’s I’ll Be Home for Christmas. Broadway : Disney’s The Lion King. Off-Broadway/Regional: St.

Louis Woman, One Touch Of Venus, and The Boys From Syracuse (Encores! City Center); The World Goes ’Round (Caldwell Theatre Company); and The King and I (Sacramento Music Circus). European Tour: Blackbirds Of Broadway. Local Credits: Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet (Curious Theatre Company); and Uncle Jed’s Barbershop (Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre). Television: Law and Order and Golden Boy.

N o r r e l l M o o r e ( E n s e m b l e , Ju d a s Tormentor) was last seen at the Arvada Center in I’ll Be Home for Christmas, Sister Act, and Legally Blonde. Other credits: Shakespeare Cabaret (Globe Theatre); I Don

<3 U Ne Mor (Lucille Lortel/New York Fringe); Catch Me If You Can (Aurora Fox); Shrek The Musical and Sisters of Swing (BDT Stage); Anything Goes and Hair (Town Hall Arts Center); Cabaret (Ignite Theatre); and Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson (Ben Dicke Productions). Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, Marymount Manhattan College. Member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Tyler Nielson (Ensemble, First Priest, u/s Apostles) has performed all around Denver. His credits include: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Moritz in Spring Awakening, and Marc Antony in Julius Caesar (Fearless Theatre);

Tommy in The Who’s Tommy (Equinox Theatre); Bobby Strong in Urinetown, The Emcee in Cabaret, and Tobias in Sweeney Todd (Longmont Theatre); and Cinesias in Lysistrata Jones, and Rock and Roll Boyfriend in American Idiot (Ignite Theatre). Directing credits include American Idiot, I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, and End of All Things.

Sarah Rex (Ensemble, Mary, u/s Judas Tor-mentors) was last seen at the Arvada Center as Sister Mary Martin of Tours in Sister Act. She has performed at the Arvada Center in eight shows, including Candy

in Saturday Night Fever, Paulette in Legally Blonde, Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Ellen in Miss Saigon, and Joanie in The Full Monty. Local Credits: Woman #1 in Forbidden Broadway and The Woman in Five Course Love (DCPA Theatre Company); Rhetta in Pump Boys and Dinettes and Leslie Gore/Carole King in Beehive (Country Dinner Playhouse); and Lady of the Lake in Spamalot (Aurora Fox).

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Tim Rice (Lyrics) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Tony and Grammy Award-winning lyricist and author who has worked in music, theatre and films since 1965. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, including Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and his work for Walt Disney Studios, including Aladdin and The Lion King. Rice was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1994 and is an inductee into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.

Andrew Lloyd Webber (Music) is the composer of some of the world’s best-known musicals including CATS, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Phantom of the Opera. Over his career, he has been awarded seven Tony Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar. Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1992. He is passionate about the importance of music education, and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has become one of Britain’s leading charities supporting the arts.

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Rod A. Lansberry (Director) is now in his 23rd year at the Arvada Center. Recent directing credits include: Sister Act, Death Takes a Holiday, Saturday Night Fever, A Man of No Importance, and Memphis. Other directing credits include the award-winning musicals Ragtime, Hairspray, The Women, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, and Man of La Mancha. As the Producing Artistic Director of Musical Theatre for the Arvada Center, he has produced more than 70 productions.

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David Nehls (Musical Director) This is David’s 50th production at the Arvada Center. New York/Composing credits include: The Great American Trailer Park Musical, The Watercoolers, Breach, and It’s A Wonderful Life, among others. His musical, The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical, premiered in 2013 at Stages Repertory Theater in Houston.

Gail P. Luna (Assistant to the Director) Broadway: Mary Poppins, The Lion King, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Smokey Joe’s Café, and West Side Story. Also: Two Men of Florence written by Richard N. Goodwin, starring Edward Herrmann and Jay O. Sanders; The Drawer Boy with John Mahoney; and Harold and Maude with Estelle Parsons; World Rock Symphony Orchestra Britain Rocks Canada; production stage manager/production manager for Fallsview Casino; Gloria Gaynor, Frankie Valli, Elaine Stritch, Audra McDonald, Barbara Cook, Taylor Swift, and Darius Rucker in concert.

Keith Ewer (Assistant to the Musical Director, Percussionist) has been the house percussionist at the Arvada Center since 1987. Keith works as a freelance musician, arranger, composer, and music teacher in the Denver area. He is also the music director for A Year With Frog and Toad that also plays here at the Arvada Center.

Kitty Skillman Hilsabeck (Choreographer) Directing credits: Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Arvada Center); The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Swing!, Bat Boy The Musical, The World Goes ’Round, Illusions, and Alexander. She was the Artistic/Producing Director of the Lake Dillon Theatre and Lake Dillon Foundation for the Performing Arts. Choreography credits: This is her 40th production for the Arvada Center. Also Guys and Dolls, Swing!, Phantom, Bat Boy The Musical, The World Goes ’Round, Oliver, and The Great American Trailer Park Musical.

Brian Mallgrave (Scenic Designer) serves as Resident Scenic Designer for the Arvada Center. Recent designs include: Sister Act, Tartuffe, Death Takes a Holiday (2016 Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award Nomination), The Archbishop’s Ceiling, Harvey (2015 Henry Award Nominations), and She Loves Me (2015 Henry Award).

Other companies he has worked for locally include Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Curious Theatre Company, and Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of Theatre Arts from University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Shannon McKinney (Lighting Designer) designed Tartuffe, Sister Act, Death Takes a Holiday, Saturday Night Fever, Memphis, and Man of La Mancha at the Arvada Center. Recent credits: Porgy and Bess (Aurora Fox); Comedy of Errors (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Constellations (Curious Theatre); and Tribes (DCPA Theatre Company). Regional designs include productions for Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and Alliance Theatre. Shannon has received six Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Awards for Outstanding Lighting Design.

David Thomas (Sound Designer) Arvada Center credits: I’ll Be Home for Christmas, White Christmas, A Man of No Importance, She Loves Me (Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award nominee), Memphis (Henry Award winner), End of the Rainbow (Henry Award nominee), Man of La Mancha (Marlowe Award winner), and several others. Assistant designer on numerous Broadway productions, including Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony-nominated sound design). He has designed extensively in New York City off- and off-off-Broadway. Regional designs: Yale Repertory Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bucks County Playhouse, and Theatre Aspen.

Clare Henkel (Costume Designer) designed Nine (Denver Post Ovation Award), Miss Saigon, Cabaret, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dividing the Estate, End of the Rainbow, Curtains, The Great Gatsby, Camelot, The Archbishop’s Ceiling, Death Takes a Holiday, Tartuffe and Bus Stop. Also DCPA Theatre Company, Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego and San Jose Repertory Theatres, and Colorado, Lake Tahoe, San Francisco and Idaho Shakespeare Festivals. Clare has taught at University of Colorado Boulder, University of California Davis, and University of California Berkeley. United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829.

Diana Ben-Kiki (Wig and Makeup Designer) recently designed Tartuffe for the Arvada Center Black Box Theatre. Other Arvada Center shows have included Death Takes a Holiday, Legally Blonde, Curtains, and The Great Gatsby. She has been the Wig Master at the DCPA Theatre Company for the last 19 seasons where credits include: Book of Will, Frankenstein, Sweeney Todd, All The Way, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Other local design credits include: Theatre Aspen, Galleria Theatre, and Lone Tree Arts Center.

Lisa Cook (Stage Manager) Arvada Center for 13 seasons where credits include: I’ll Be Home for Christmas (world premiere), Death Takes a Holiday, White Christmas, Saturday Night Fever, A Man of No Importance, Memphis, Blithe Spirit, and Hairspray. Also: Red Hot & Cole, 4000 Miles, and Driving Miss Daisy (Cherry Creek Theatre). 2015 Recipient Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award for Outstanding Stage Management.

Miranda Baxter (Assistant Stage Manager) returns to the Arvada Center for her sixth show. Regional credits include: stage manager for Outside Mullingar (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company); stage manager for In the Red and Brown Water, All the Rage, and The Tricky Part, and assistant stage manager for The Brothers Size, The Whipping Man, and After the Revolution (Curious Theatre Company). She received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Philosophy from Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN.

Wojcik | Seay Casting (Casting) is Scott Wojcik and Gayle Seay. Along with Holly Buczek, they cast all mediums. National and International Tours: Motown, Vocalosity, Flashdance, Dreamgirls, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Jekyll & Hyde, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Chorus Line and more. Off-Broadway includes: Othello: The Remix, Church & State The Play, The Portal, Tennessee Williams’ The Two Character Play, Handle With Care, Triassic Parq and more. Regional: Multiple seasons/shows for Riverside Theatre, FL; The Engeman Theatre, NY; Theatre Raleigh, NC; Stages St Louis, MO; Theatre Aspen, CO; and Tuacahn Performing Arts Center, UT.

Assisted listening devices and large print programs are available upon request.

PRODUCTIONAdam Stolte ......................... Production ManagerJacob Kenworthy ....Assistant Production ManagerLisa Cook* .................................... Stage ManagerMiranda Baxter* ..............Assistant Stage Manager

Scene ShopNick Cimyotte ........................ Technical DirectorDavid Cimyotte .......................... House ForemanTim Krueger..................Master Carpenter/WelderKorri Marshall .......................... Lead Scenic ArtistKrista Fernandez ...............................Scenic ArtistJacob Auten ................................Scenic CarpenterTodd Malcolm ...........................Scenic CarpenterLogan McGuire ..........................Scenic CarpenterMichael Walker ..........................Scenic CarpenterFrank Cason .................................Stage CarpenterTyler Clark ...................................Stage CarpenterDusty Sloan ..................................Stage Carpenter

Prop ShopMeghan Markiewicz ....Properties Shop SupervisorMelissa Green .................................. Props ArtisanThomas Meche, Jr. .......................... Props Artisan

ADMINISTRATIONPhilip C. Sneed ....................... Executive DirectorClark Johnson .................Chief Operating OfficerDanna Luo .........Director of Financial OperationsTeresa Chamberland ......Director of Advancement and PhilanthropyCynthia DeLarber ........Director of Advancement, Communications, and Patron ServicesMelanie Mayner ............Public Relations Manager

ARTISTICRod A. Lansberry .....................Producing Artistic Director of Musical TheatreLynne Collins .................Artistic Director of PlaysLisa Hoffman .............................Artistic AssociateBrian Mallgrave ............. Resident Scenic Designer Gail P. Luna.....................Assistant to the DirectorKeith Ewer ........ Assistant to the Musical DirectorKitty Skillman Hilsabeck ...............Dance Captain

Costume Shop and WardrobeBrenda King ....................Costume Shop ManagerCrystal McKenzie ............Costume Shop AssistantSamantha R. De La Fuente-Meche ...... First HandAnneke Ciup ........................Wardrobe SupervisorBrianna Diaz ............................................ StitcherJessie Page ....................................Stitcher/DresserKathy Page ............................................... StitcherAlma Henderson ..........................Costume CraftsMegan O’Connor ....Wig Maintenance TechnicianEve Moy .......................................Costume Intern

ElectricsJon Olson ..................................Lighting DirectorLucy Himsl ..........................................ElectricianBryan Hudson ......................................ElectricianWesley Reeves.......................................ElectricianTom Fletcher ........................................ElectricianLauren Hergenreter ..............................ElectricianEvan Schmidt .......................................Electrician

SoundGrant Evenson ..............................Audio DirectorMorgan McCauley ................... Sound TechnicianElizabeth Jamison ..................... Sound Technician

On this production, the Arvada Center Theatre’s production staff and crew have created or coordinatedall elements of set, lighting, props, sound and costumes.

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