Don’t Dress for Dinner

By Marc Camoletti

Adapted by Robin Hawdon

Director Kurt Naebig+*

Lighting Designer Costume Designer Jon Gantt + Kimberly G. Morris

Properties Designers Sound Designer Jillian Luce, Brad Sauper Galen G. Ramsey +*

Scenic Designer Fight Director Michael W. Moon+ John Tovar

Artistic Director Associate Artistic Director Connie Canaday Howard +* Amelia Barrett +*

CAST (in order of appearance)BERNARD .................................................................................................................Brad WalkerJACQUELINE ......................................................................................Connie Canaday Howard+*ROBERT .................................................................................................. Robert Jordan Bailey+*SUZETTE ................................................................................................................. Rebecca CoxSUZANNE .................................................................................................Laura Leonardo OwnbyGEORGE ...................................................................................................................Nick DuFloth

Time and Place: 1992, a country home some distance from Paris

There will be a 15-minute intermission.

Please note: Adult language and themes

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without a flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices, such as cell phones and

watches. The use of cell phones and texting is strictly prohibited.

Presented by arrangement with Samuel French

Sept. 8 to Oct. 9, 2016McAninch Arts Center, Playhouse Theatre

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PRODUCTION STAFF DIRECTOR’S NOTEStage Manager .................................................................................................Danielle WisemanAssistant Stage Manager .................................................................................... Patrick Wood◊∞Production Manager....................................................................................................Jon Gantt+Technical Director ............................................................................................Michael W. Moon+Scenic and Lighting Technicians ................Mitch Allen, Jacob Coats, Olivia Morgan, Dan Sullivan, Scott Wagoner, Patrick Wood, Miles ZableRunning Crew ...........................................................................................................Dan SullivanCostume Shop Manager ...................................................................................Kimberly G. MorrisCostume Shop Assistant ..........................................................................................Patricia DuchWardrobe Assistant ............................................................................................. Valerie Espinoza

+ Member of Buffalo Theatre Ensemble* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers◊ BTE Stage Manager Scholarship recipient∞ John Belushi Stage Management Scholarship

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble Acting ShadowsDuring the 2016–17 season Buffalo Theatre Ensemble is piloting a new opportunity for select students with background training in acting and/or directing. This is an invited opportunity for some select students who are working at the level of at least Acting II and/or Directing to shadow a theatre professional and gain meaningful insight into developing a character.

Acting Shadows ..............................................................Nathan Thomas Dittemore, Koshie Mills, Renata Naomi, Marisa Warner

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble wishes to thank the College of DuPage Board of Trustees and the McAninch Arts Center staff for their generous support!

Directing a play is an interesting proposition. Long before first rehearsal, the research begins: directors go through the show line by line, moment by moment, thinking of how the production should look, feel, sound and what kind of emotions we want to stir in the audience. Then we begin talking with and meeting with the designers so that we can bounce ideas for costumes, set, lighting, and sound off each other. Soon the casting process commences and the show really starts to form in the mind’s eye of the director…because now we can imagine real people inhabiting the world everyone has created. And then finally the first day of rehearsal…That’s when the real fun arrives.

A farce is a difficult style for actors and directors to work in…and yet the job of the director is a joyful one. Every rehearsal for a month is packed with laughs. The director gets to witness every comedic and wonderful moment as the actors create it. It’s as if we have been hired to laugh all night. There is such a feeling of exuberance in the rehearsal room and it floats us out the door late in the evening.

Our hope is that this silly and fun show can bring some of that joy and exuberance into your life this evening.

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Rebecca Cox (Suzette) originally hails from Ogden, UT and holds a BA in Theater from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. She is thrilled to be back at Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, having previously played Miss Poppenguhl in

Moonlight and Magnolias. Other Chicago-area credits include The Nurse/Lady Capulet in Shattered Globe’s Down and Dirty Romeo and Juliet and Edith in Blithe Spirit at Oak Park Festival Theatre. She can also be seen as Sandra alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari in the film 30 Minutes or Less. When not acting, she can be found reading (sometimes in Spanish), cooking, crafting, and volunteering with adult English Language Learners.

Nick DuFloth (George) is honored to be back at Buffalo Theatre Ensemble. He was last seen playing Barnardo in Hamlet. DuFloth comes from Columbia College Chicago and holds an AA from College of DuPage, where

he was the recipient of the John Belushi Memorial Scholarship. He was a co-founder and ensemble member of Silent Theatre Company, working as an actor, writer and director, last seen in The Seven Secret Plays of Madame Caprice. DuFloth has been onstage with T.U.T.A., Lifeline Theater, Speaking Ring Theater, PROP Theater and many other Chicago companies. He can be seen on screen in Hitwomen – Webisode series, Dead of Winter and featured in the music video Crossfire by musician, Stephen.

Laura Leonardo Ownby (Suzanne) is thrilled to be making her debut on the Buffalo Theatre Ensemble stage. Most recently, she played Masha in Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spike, directed by BTE company member, Kurt

Naebig. She has also been seen in Noises Off (Belinda Blair) and A Christmas Story (u/s Mother/Miss Sheilds) at Theatre at the Center, Anne of Green Gables (Mrs. Blewett) at Provisions Theater, In the Company of Men (Coworker) at Profiles Theatre, Unnecessary Farce (u/s Karen Brown and Mrs. Meekly) at First Folio Theatre. Other favorite roles include Anna in The Quick Change Room, Nancy Westlund in Ghost in the Machine, Olive Madison in The Odd Couple (Female Version), Germaine in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Marcelle Cot in Hotel Paradiso and Alma Winemiller in Summer and Smoke. She is very excited to be working with such a talented group of artists in BTE’s Don’t Dress for Dinner.

Brad Walker (Bernard) began his acting career in Chicago performing in theatre, improv revues as well as commercial work. Relocating to NYC provided an opportunity to continue his studies under Wynn Handman and perform on stage, television

and in film before returning. Television credits include All My Children, Guiding Light, Chicago Hope and a recent episode of Chicago Fire as an arsonist! Recent stage credits include Downsize (Walkabout Theatre), Betrayal (Athenaeum Theatre), Three Sisters (Steppenwolf - Understudy), and The Baltimore Waltz, Rabbit Hole, and Private Lives at BTE where he’s so happy to be performing again!

Robert Jordan Bailey+* (Robert) Ensemble Member. Bailey last appeared in BTE’s Leading Ladies. Other BTE credits include Glass Menagerie, Homeward Bound, Hamlet, Bedroom Farce, Angels in America,

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, 70 Scenes of Halloween, Blithe Spirit, Fuddy Meers, Art, Sylvia, Three Days of Rain, Baltimore Waltz, Noises Off, The Woman in Black, I Was a Beautiful Day (US premiere), Moonlight and Magnolias, Private Lives, Shining City, and Drawer Boy. Some of Bailey’s other favorite credits include: a critically acclaimed production of A Moon for the Misbegotten (Tyrone), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Valmont) and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Sam) with Circle Theatre; Our Town (George), Equus (Dysart) and Rope (Rupert) with Bailiwick Repertory; Relationship Hell with Strawdog; Shadowlands (C.S. Lewis) with Borealis; and the premiere of Jamie Pachino’s Children of Cain with the Playwrights Center. Before Chicago, Bailey spent a year at the professional regional theatre Players’ Theatre in Columbus, OH, where he played Peter in Prelude to a Kiss and Young Skrudge in the musical A Country Christmas Carol. Bailey also spent two summers in stock with Southern Appalachian Repertory where he played Cliff in Cabaret and originated the roles of Lonny in The Battle of Shallowford and E.J. Fikes in Echo 4 mi.

Connie Canaday Howard+* (Jacqueline) Artistic Director and Ensemble Member. Having directed numerous productions for BTE, some of Canaday Howard’s favorites include: Noises Off, Into the Woods, Dancing at

Lughnasa, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Rabbit Hole, and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Favorite acting roles with the company have been Annie in The Real Thing, Harper in Angels in America, and Ruella in Communicating Doors. Canaday Howard is a member of Actors’ Equity, and is on the Artistic Team of the Jeff Committee. In addition, she is Director of Theatre at the College of DuPage, with some favorites being Grease, Rumors, Taming of the Shrew, and The Three Musketeers. Canaday Howard holds a MFA in directing, and has worked regionally with Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, City Theatre Company, Belvoir Terrace, Drama Workshop, Down River Dinner Theatre, Ingersoll Theatre, Charlie’s Showplace, and tours of both theatre and dance, as well as helping to create and perform several improvisational shows. She is the state-wide co-chair of the Theatre Panel for Illinois Articulation Initiative, and she was COD’s Outstanding Faculty for 2003–2004.

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Galen G. Ramsey +* (Sound Designer) retired from College of DuPage after 15 years as the resident Property Master and occasional sound/set designer for the college theatre program, Buffalo Theatre Ensemble and DuPage Opera Theatre. Previously he was the resident Equity Stage Manager at Victory Gardens Theatre for 12 years. Ramsey’s professional career began at the Cherry County Playhouse while still in college where he worked with Ted Knight, Vivian Vance, Donald O’Conner, Dick Shawn, the Smothers Brothers and Broderick Crawford. Favorite memory: receiving his union card (Actors Equity) for assistant stage managing Born Yesterday with Mr. Crawford.

Brad Sauper (Properties Designer) is ecstatic to be working again where he got his production and design roots with the triumphant return of the Buffalo Theatre Ensemble to College of DuPage. He is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Scenic Design for theater. His love of properties started under the guidance of Galen Ramsey producing the shows Into the Woods, Don Giovanni and The Emperor’s New Clothes. From there, he designed multiple shows at Columbia College including Angels in America and Ghosts. After graduating, his credits expanded working with Matthew Singletary in the productions of Stop Kiss at The Raven Theater and Cat’s Paw at Profiles Theater. Additional credits for productions built/worked on include Curtains, Seussical and Pump Boys and Dinettes for Drury Lane Oakbrook; as well as Richard III at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Kama Sutra the Musical at Theatre Building Chicago. Most recently he has propped BTE’s The Underpants and Leading Ladies, Northlight Theater’s production of Stella and Lou and 4000 Miles and Wild Claw Theater’s production of The Shadow over Innsmouth. Currently he is working as a corporate scenic designer and draftsman for Production Plus Technologies in Burr Ridge, IL, and also as a prop designer/set dresser/

actor trainer for Zombie Army Productions, producing Statesville Haunted Prison in Crest Hill and New this year Hellsgate in Lockport.

John Tovar (Fight Director). As one of only 46 ranked Fight Directors and one of only 161 Certified Teachers in the world with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), Tovar has taught stage combat workshops and certification courses around the country. He has choreographed violence and movement for more than 150 productions and has won a Joseph Jefferson Award for his Fight Direction in The Opponent at A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago. Other companies Tovar has choreographed for include Steppenwolf, Route 66, Lookingglass, The Gift, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Irish Theater of Chicago, About Face, Buffalo Theatre Ensemble and Actors Theatre of Indiana, among many others. He is also the executive director of MACE (Movement and Combat Education) based out of Illinois. MACE runs the largest stage combat workshop in the world, the Winter Wonderland Workshop, held every January outside Chicago. For information about MACE, go to www.macenfp.org. Currently, Tovar is working on his MFA degree in Directing (with an emphasis on Fight Direction) at Illinois State University.

Amelia Barrett +* (Associate Artistic Director) has acted in numerous BTE productions over the years, most recently playing Eppie Lederer in Lady with All the Answers. She has appeared with regional companies such as Idaho Repertory Theatre, internationally at the Edinburgh Festival and in Chicago venues such as City Lit. In addition, she directs for the company, her most recent project was The Underpants. Barrett is Professor of Theater at College of DuPage. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity, Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Film and Radio Artists. She holds a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Texas at Austin and a Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis from Columbia College Chicago.

Kurt Naebig +* (Director) has directed numerous BTE shows including Leading Ladies; Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted; The Drawer Boy; Moonlight and Magnolias; Italian American Reconciliation; The Melville Boys; Lost In Yonkers; Sylvia; Fuddy Meers; The Country Club; Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me; and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof here. He recently directed a web series called VC (Venture Capitalists: The Web Series) and co-directed the web series Humane Resources. Naebig is also an actor and graduate of The Juilliard School and has been on stage at Steppenwolf Theatre, Portland Stage, Milwaukee’s Pabst Theatre, National Jewish Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare and A Red Orchid Theatre. Favorite roles include Merrick in The Elephant Man, Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire, Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Valene in The Lonesome West, Trotter in The Mousetrap and Bobby in American Buffalo. He has also appeared in such films as Public Enemies, Road to Perdition, The Express, Witless Protection, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Dillinger, Howard Beach: Making the Case for Murder, and TV episodes of APB, Chicago PD, Sense8, Chicago Fire, The Chicago Code, Detroit 1-8-7, ER and Prison Break. Naebig is a teacher, the former artistic director of The Theatre of Western Springs and an Acting Coach at Acting Studio Chicago.

Jon Gantt + (Lighting Designer) is the technical coordinator for the McAninch Arts Center and has been a lighting and scenic designer for College of DuPage and the resident professional companies since the opening of the Arts Center in 1986. For more than 35 years, he has designed scenery and lighting for many professional and university theaters in and around Chicago. Notable past production designs include The Ruling Class, The Man of La Mancha, The Praying Mantis, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Evita, Sweeney Todd, and his Jeff-nominated scenic design for the world premiere of The Grab at Theatre Building Chicago.

Jillian Luce (Properties Designer) joins Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s Don’t Dress for Dinner as Co-Prop Designer, after assisting Brad Sauper in prop design for BTE’s The Underpants and Leading Ladies; Northlight Theatre’s production of Stella and Lou and 4000 Miles; WildClaw Theatre’s production of The Shadow over Innsmouth; and Trapped in a Room with a Zombie, in Chicago. She currently works as a theater technician for the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, as a freelance stagehand at various theaters throughout Chicagoland, and also as a prop designer/set dresser and stage manager for Zombie Army Productions, producing Statesville Haunted Prison in Crest Hill and brand-new this year, Hellsgate Haunted House in Lockport.

Michael W. Moon + (Scenic Designer) has been an ensemble member since coming to the MAC in 1993. He has designed more than 50 shows for BTE in that time. His memorable designs have included Noises Off (both times), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fuddy Meers, Lies and Legends and The Underpants.

Kimberly G. Morris (Costume Designer) is excited to work with Buffalo Theatre Ensemble on this project. Based in Addison, she is the costume and makeup designer for College of DuPage. She also freelance designs and builds costumes, wigs, makeup, props, puppets and special effects for numerous venues around the country. Favorite past projects include 100 Dresses and A Year with Frog and Toad with Chicago Children’s Theatre; Blue Planet with Akvavit Theatre; Neverwhere and Island of Dr. Moreau with Lifeline Theatre. Upcoming projects include A Woman of No Importance and A Christmas Carol for College of DuPage and The Promise of a Rose Garden with Babes With Blades Theatre Company.

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Danielle Wiseman (Stage Manager) is a graduate of Illinois State University with a degree in Theatre, specializing in stage management, scenic painting and props. She is also an alumni of College of DuPage, as well. This is her first time stage managing for Buffalo Theatre Ensemble. Her past credits include Noises Off (Properties Designer), Anonymous (Scenic Charge Artist), Picnic (Stage Manager), A Flea in Her Ear (Assistant Stage Manager), Rock n’ Roll (Assistant Stage Manager), A Christmas Carol (Stage Manager), and Fools (Stage Manager).

Patrick Wood ∞◊ (Assistant Stage Manager) is eager to make his debut with Buffalo Theatre Ensemble. Wood is a student at College of DuPage where he works on and off stage both acting and in the technical side of things. He wants to pursue acting and writing in the future and hopes to be on stage with BTE one day. Favorite credits include: Caesar (Mark Antony), Pride and Prejudice (Mr. Bingley), The Skriker (Stage Manager), The Man Who Came To Dinner (Stage Manager) all at College of DuPage; Guys and Dolls (Liverlips Louie) at Summer Place Theatre. Wood is the recipient of the 2016 BTE Stage Management Scholarship, and 2016 John Belushi Stage Management Scholarship.

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MAC Design and Technical StaffTechnical Production Coordinator ............................................................................................Jon GanttTechnical Director ....................................................................................................... Michael W. MoonCostume and Make-up Design Coordinator ............................................................... Kimberly G. MorrisProduction Manager............................................................................................................ Joe HopperAssistant Production Managers ...................................................................Ben Johnson, Elias MoralesSound and Equipment Manager ..............................................................................................Bob Murr Stage Hands ................................................................ Bobby Bryan, Amanda Hantson, Sabrina Zeidler

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