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Song Man Dance ManCreated & Performed by Jon PetersonDirected by Brent HazeltonNow – January 8, 2012Stackner Cabaret

A Christmas CarolBy Charles DickensAdapted by Joseph Hanreddy & Edward MorganDirected by Joseph HanreddyDecember 2 – 24, 2011Pabst Theater

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By Charles DickensAdapted by Joseph Hanreddy and Edward Morgan

Directed by Joseph Hanreddy

Scenic Designer Marjorie Bradley Kellogg

Costume Designer Martha Hally

Lighting Designer Nancy Schertler

Sound Designer Barry G. Funderburg

Associate Lighting Designer Aimee Hanyzewski

Musical Director Randal Swiggum

Music Arranger John Tanner

Choreographer Cate Deicher

Dialect Coach Jill Walmsley Zager

Casting Director Sandy Ernst

Children’s Director Shawn Gulyas

Make-up/Hair/Wig Designer Lara Leigh Dalbey

Production Stage Manager Briana J. Fahey*

Assistant Stage Manager Sarah Hoffmann*

Assistant Stage Manager David Hartig

Children’s Stage Manager Jason Simpson

Assistant Director JC Clementz

Production Manager Melissa Nyari Vartanian

Lighting & Sound Director Craig Gottschalk

Technical Director Tyler Smith

Properties Director James Guy

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C A S T L I S T

Ebenezer Scrooge ................................................................James Pickering*Mr. Grimgrind/Mr. Fezziwig/Mr. Topper ................................... Drew Brhel*Rev. Waghorn/Ghost of Jacob Marley/Jacob Marley/Sailor Captain/Old Joe .........................................................................................Mark Corkins*Mr. Philpot/Mr. Oatway/Fezziwig Worker/Barnaby, Madeline’s Husband/Businessman/Mourner.......................................................................................Jonathan Gillard Daly*Bob Cratchit/Businessman ........................................................Lee E. Ernst*Mrs. Oatway/Belle/Lucy, Catherine’s sister/Mourner.........................................................................................................Kelley Faulkner*Mrs. Dilber/Mrs. Fezziwig/Madeline, Catherine’s sister..........................................................................................................Laura Gordon*Fred/Fezziwig Worker ..........................................................Steven Marzolf*Young Scrooge/Lighthouse Man/Businessman/Mourner....................................................................................................Kern McFadden*Mr. Scadger, the gravedigger/Mr. Twyce/Ghost of Christmas Present................................................................................................ Jonathan Smoots*Ghost of Christmas Past/Mrs. Miggott ........................ Deborah Staples*Catherine, Fred’s wife/Cook/Mourner ......................................Emily Trask*Mrs. Cratchit .............................................................................. Jenny Wanasek*Ghost of Christmas Future .....................................................F. Tyler BurnetDick Wilkins ...............................................................................Casey KitzmanMilkman ...............................................................................................Eric LynchMr. Mudd ....................................................................Alexander Pawlowski IVFan ...............................................................................................Megan WatsonMartha Cratchit............................................................................Eva BalistrieriPeter Cratchit .............................................................................. Jordan HorneTiny Tim ..................................................................................... Simon JohnsonBelinda Cratchit ...................................................................Sophie KobylinskiAlice Cratchit ..........................................................................Meguire HennesMary Cratchit........................................................................Bronwyn ThomeyPercy Smudge ................................................................................Mitch RoehlBoy Scrooge ................................................................................Liam HartnettRemembrance/Ignorance ........................................................... Gabe SmithForgiveness/Want .....................................................................Georgina Pink

A Christmas Carol Children’s Ensemble:Jacob Badovski, Zoe Francis, Morgan Gamblin,

Nathaniel Johnson, Max Pink, Alison Pogorelc, Benjamin Schulz

A Christmas Carol Ensemble:N’Tasha Anders, Eva Balistrieri, F. Tyler Burnet, Madeleine Ernst,

Nathaniel French, Melissa Graves, Joseph Kemper, Casey Kitzman, Eric Lynch, Alexander Pawlowski IV, Kaitlyn Serketich, Charlie Wright

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

Member of The Rep’s 2011/12 Resident Acting Company.

There will be one 15-minute intermission.


If you’re new to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, let me assure you that after this less than cheery beginning, the story becomes considerably more buoyant as

Marley’s surviving business partner, one Ebenezer Scrooge, is escorted throughout and beyond the reaches of London to see and hear Christmas celebrated in the warm and fuzzy traditions of family dinners, gift-giving and heart-warming Christmas carols. Historians maintain that in actuality those traditions had largely fallen away by the mid-1800s and that Dickens was describing a Christmas, less as it was practiced and more as he thought it should be. If so, his strategy succeeded splendidly. Today when we yearn to recapture the “real” Christmas, more often than not we turn to Dickens, likely not realizing how many of the Christmas rituals he renders so vividly were as imagined as the triad of spirits that magically transport Scrooge across the boundaries of time and space.

Because so many of us come to the story via one of the countless films, cartoons, “treatments” and spin-offs, rather than the novella itself, it’s a surprise how many who profess to love the story don’t really know it. When Ed Morgan and I started work on this stage adaptation in 1998, our goal was to create a version that was as theatrical, visually spectacular, musically joyous and ultimately uplifting as we could possibly make it – without shortchanging the spine of the novella – the depth of Dickens’ insight into the lonely, bitter soul who lives at the story’s center.

Those opening lines, of course, are key to the whole thing. Dickens drives away at the fact of Marley’s death as if somehow there were doubts – as if at any moment Marley’s corpse might suddenly resurrect. (Spoiler alert – it does.) A Christmas Carol is a story of the spiritual rebirth of one whose soul has died, so, poetically, it must begin

with the finality of death. Ultimately, the trigger that allows Scrooge to find joy in life and become “as good a friend and as good a man as the city of London knew” is when the Ghost of Christmas Future in the shape of a gothic reaper forces him to glimpse under the blanket that covers his own corpse and recognize the waste of spending so many of his precious years in his “money changing hole.”

As much as A Christmas Carol is about spiritual renewal and reconnecting with family, it’s also about money and poverty. “If they would rather die,” Scrooge rants, speaking of the starving poor, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” The words sting as sharply today as they did in 1843. If Dickens left us an image of all of the goodness that Christmas can engender, he also left us with a nightmare vision of inner-city poverty that lives in our own cities as inhumanely as it did his. And yet, our appreciation of Dickens and the endurance of A Christmas Carol come more from a novelist’s ability to penetrate an individual human soul, than from his ability to articulate a political manifesto. George Orwell, a passionate socialist who was to write his own apocalyptic vision of the future in 1984, pointed out in an essay on Dickens that, “He has no plan to change society; his target is ‘human nature,’” and that Dickens’ only real lesson is “that capitalists ought to be kind, not that workers ought to be rebellious.” Orwell dubs Dickens’ outrage “a generous anger.”

Ultimately in this simple story, Dickens asks a profoundly simple thing: that at this “festive time of the year,” those of us who have been blessed with privileges and good fortune should take the time to be truly grateful – and to act in ways, both big and small, in which we can be kind and generous to our “fellow-passengers to the grave.” That, he posits, is what it truly means to “know how to keep Christmas well.”

DI R E C T OR ’ S NO T E S

“Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker and the chief

mourner. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.”

Joseph HanreddyDirector


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November, 2011Dear Friends,The Patty and Jay Baker Foundation is proud to be a

key partner in The Rep’s production of A Christmas

Carol again this year. Our support of the Tiny Tim

Ticket Program allows us to share the joy of this

holiday tradition with members of our community

who otherwise would not be able to attend.

This year, we dedicate the Tiny Tim Ticket Program

to Annie Jansen Jurczyk, a long-time staff member

of The Rep who just recently ended her tenure as

Director of Development. While Annie has moved

on to new adventures, her passion and devotion to

The Rep will remain for years to come in The Rep’s

Access programs and in her leadership of The Rep’s

Christmas Carol Families program, which raises more

than $20,000 each year to support local charities

helping families in need during the holidays. You’ll

see costumed actors in the lobby following today’s

performance collecting for this wonderful program.

Annie’s joyful spirit, hard work and boundless

energy on behalf of others embodies the message of

Dickens’ timeless classic. We hope that everyone feels the joy of giving this

holiday season!Patty and Jay Baker

Through the continued generosity of Patty and Jay Baker, The Rep is providing tickets to the following 30 organizations this year

through the Tiny Tim Ticket Program:

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M E S S AG E F ROM T H E R E P ’ S M A NAG I NG DI R E C T OR

Welcome Friends!

As all great stories do, A Christmas Carol reveals new layers of meaning as we grow. It reminds us that no matter how advanced our culture becomes, there are simple, fundamental human truths that hold the power to transform our lives.

A few weeks ago, as the company gathered together to start the first day of rehearsals for A Christmas Carol, Director Joe Hanreddy shared a thought that gave me new insight into Dickens’ most familiar tale and its meaning for me today: A Christmas Carol is about community.

As human beings, our greatest longing is for connection. Ebenezer Scrooge embodies all of the things that hold us back – fear, pride, self-protection and loneliness itself. Scrooge’s wealth, position and success did not bring him happiness. On the contrary, his single-minded ambition separated him from everyone around him.

In today’s increasingly virtual world, we experience more and more of life through devices and pictures on a screen. But the very technology that connects us instantly and globally keeps us insulated from the people right in front of us. Walk into any Starbucks full of people and you’ll notice the quiet as people sit together, totally absorbed in solitary little bubbles of activity.

Nothing can equal the power of interaction – a live experience shared with other people. I think that’s what draws us to theater. And that’s why we keep coming back, year after year, to timeless stories like A Christmas Carol. Yes, the familiar characters and carols bring back holiday traditions and memories. But Dickens’ story holds much more than nostalgia. It reminds us of what really matters – each other!

Thank you for sharing this experience with us at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. If you enjoy it, come back again to experience another of the 12 stories we share each season.

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“I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall put my readers out of humour with

themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.”

–Their faithful Friend and Servant,C.D. [Charles Dickens] December, 1843

Indeed, few have the heart to lay Dickens’ timeless classic A Christmas Carol aside. Moreover, few can keep their hands o� of it. Its acclaim and appeal were instantaneous – within a month of its debut in England in 1843, Dickens had taken two literary pirates to court over his copyright. Two months after its publishing, eight theater companies had adapted and mounted the story on stages. By 1844, English literary critics declared the book “a national institution.”

At once, A Christmas Carol became a labor of love for its author. Dickens’ sister-in-law wrote that she had never seen him write with such fervor. He “wept, laughed and wept again, and excited himself in a most extraordinary manner, in the composition . . . thinking whereof, he walked about the black streets of London, fifteen or twenty miles, many a night.” By the end of November he had completed his story. On December 19, 1843, A Christmas Carol, In Prose, Being A Ghost Story of Christmas, appeared on the stands only six weeks after Dickens sat down to write it. The praise was immediate and universal. W.M. Thackeray called it “a national benefit, and for every man and woman who reads it, a personal kindness.”

Thackeray’s statement was fitting for several reasons. In the 19th century, the British associated Christmas festivities only with country life – with manor houses, baronial feasts and peasant revels. In the rapidly growing urban areas, that traditional English celebration of Christmas had begun to disappear. Instead of opulent celebrations of

their country cousins, the urban English chose to mark the holiday as a time of rest, a time for reading aloud and staying at home. As A Christmas Carol became a large part of the Christmas celebration of 1843, many credit Dickens with creating the basic Christmas traditions that we enjoy today. Through A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens proved to his

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C A S T B IO G R A P H I E S

Eva Balistrieri, Martha Cratchit

Artistic Intern Ensemble Member.

Eva Balistrieri is honored to be back in the Cratchit household for her 10th season of A Christmas Carol with The Rep. Other Rep credits include: Lombardi (Ensemble); Ten Chimneys (u/s Uta Hagen); Pride and Prejudice (Kitty Bennet/Georgiana Darcy) and The Crucible (Betty Parris). Eva spent two summers with the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Minnesota where she was seen in The Tempest, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Pericles, and understudied Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew. In spring of 2010, Eva studied abroad in Tuscany, Italy, at the Accademia dell’arte where she received intensive training in physical theatre – specifically commedia dell’arte and clowning. She graduated this past spring from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside with a BA in Theatre where her favorite roles were Ann Deever in All My Sons and the melancholy Dane himself in Hamlet. Thank you to The Rep for this opportunity and to my family, for their unwavering love and support.

Drew Brhel, Mr. Grimgrind/Mr. Fezziwig/Mr. Topper Drew Brhel giddily returns to The Rep for

his third A Christmas Carol. No stranger to Milwaukee audiences, Drew has appeared over the past 25 years with just about every theater in town. Favorite roles include: Bobchinsky (the twin with the lisp) in The Government Inspector (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Herr Biedermann in The Firebugs and Emil in Three

Viewings (Next Act Theatre); Sterling in Mauritius, Porfiry in Crime and Punishment and Richard Greatham in Hay Fever (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre) and Herr Schultz in Cabaret (Skylight Opera Theatre) as well as roles with First Stage Children’s Theater, Windfall Theatre, In Tandem Theatre, Nevermore Theatre and Cornerstone Theater. Drew is also an eight-season veteran of American Players Theatre and has appeared in Shakespeare festivals from coast to coast.

F. Tyler Burnet, Ghost of Christmas Future


F. Tyler Burnet is honored to be an acting intern at The Rep. This season, he has understudied the role of Sydney Greenstreet in Ten Chimneys, and understudied Jim Taylor while wearing #66 in Lombardi. He has an MFA in acting, and used to teach at The Second City in Chicago. Come see all of the interns in Rep Lab January 12 – 17 in the Stiemke Studio!

Mark Corkins, Rev. Waghorn/Ghost of Jacob Marley/Jacob Marley/Sailor Captain/Old Joe

Mark is pleased to return to The Rep’s annual production of A Christmas Carol. He first played Young Scrooge here in 1987! Since then Mr. Corkins has performed often with The Rep as a Member of the Resident Acting Company. Favorite productions include: Dracula, Edward Albee’s Seascape, King Lear, True West, Endgame and The Cherry Orchard. Mark has also spent 12 summers in Spring Green with American Players Theatre. Highlights include: Antony


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& Cleopatra, The Government Inspector, Ring Round the Moon, Uncle Vanya and The Importance of Being Earnest. Mr. Corkins has also had the privilege to teach, train and perform in Germany, Finland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.

Jonathan Gillard Daly, Mr. Philpot/ Mr. Oatway/Fezziwig worker/Barnaby, Madeline’s husband/Business-man/Mourner

Resident Acting Company Member.

Jonathan first appeared in A Christmas Carol at the Pabst Theater in 1995, in which he played Bob Cratchit, opposite Jim Pickering as Scrooge. He succeeded Mr. Pickering as Scrooge from 2000 to 2003. Since then he has returned to the Pabst as Cratchit, Philpot, Twyce, Old Joe, and various and assorted partygoers, miners, undertakers and once as a Drunken Prisoner. Jon has been a member of The Rep’s Resident Acting Company since 1998, and is a founding member of the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, MN. A veteran of regional theaters throughout the United States, he has appeared with American Players Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Chicago’s Court Theater, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival and PCPA Theaterfest. He is also a playwright. His musical memoir, The Daly News, was produced at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in 2008, and his newest play, To the Promised Land, will be receiving its premiere production at First Stage Children’s Theater next year. Jon has been married for 29 years to director and text coach Gale Childs Daly. Their two children, Sam and Emily, are in graduate school and



college, respectively; and their parents are slowly getting used to the empty nest. Any advice from veterans of this process will be greatly welcomed!

Lee E. Ernst, Bob Cratchit/Businessman


Lee was just seen performing the role of Vince Lombardi in The Rep’s Quadracci Powerhouse production of Lombardi. He has been a member of The Rep’s Resident Acting Company since 1993. Last season at The Rep he was seen as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Leon/Nick in Speaking in Tongues, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and The Emcee in Cabaret. Other roles at The Rep include Sharky in The Seafarer, Frank Lloyd Wright in Work Song, Levin in Anna Karenina, Truffaldino in Servant of Two Masters, George in Of Mice and Men, Clov in Endgame and the title roles in Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Richard III, The Foreigner and Tartuffe. This past summer, Lee directed Hamlet at Texas Shakespeare Festival and played Jessup in A Few Good Men and Bingham in A Fox on the Fairway for Peninsula Players in beautiful Door County. Lee has also played leading roles with American Players Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, New American Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company and ACT. Lee is recipient of The AriZoni Best Actor Award, Minerva Laureate, Shepherd Express Best of Milwaukee and is an inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. Mr. Ernst received his MFA from The University of Delaware-PTTP.

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Kelley Faulkner, Mrs. Oatway/Belle/Lucy, Catherine’s sister/Mourner

Kelley Faulkner is happy to be

in A Christmas Carol for a second year. Other Rep credits include Sally Bowles in Cabaret, and the title role in the upcoming Always . . . Patsy Cline. Regional credits include: Claire in Proof (TheatreFest); Nancy in Oliver!; Emily Arden in State Fair (Walnut Street Theatre); Roxie in Chicago (New Candlelight Theater); Woman 2 in Give My Regards To Broadway (Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts); The Music Man and Street Scene (New York City Opera). National Tour: Miss Watson in Big. Readings/Workshops: Sketches of Life (directed by Maurice Hines), Wildlife, Wingman and Muscleman vs. Skeletonman:

A Love Story. BFA in Acting from Montclair State University. Namaste!

Laura Gordon, Mrs. Dilber/Mrs. Fezziwig/Madeline, Catherine’s sister


Laura has been a member of The Rep’s Resident Acting Company since 1993, performing in many productions including: Death of a Salesman, The Lady with All the Answers, Pride and Prejudice, Enchanted April, Doubt, The Crucible, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Mary Stuart, Copenhagen and Twelfth Night. Directing projects include: The Winter’s Tale for the Utah Shakespeare Festival; Going to St. Ives for Forward Theatre; Old Times for American Players Theatre; Well for



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Eric Lynch,Milkman


Eric Lynch is delighted to be a part of Milwaukee Rep’s production of A Christmas Carol. As a 2011/12 Acting Intern at The Rep, Eric recently appeared in the Ensemble of Lombardi and also understudied Eugene Gaines in Yellowman. A recent Ohio University graduate (BFA), Eric is proud to be involved in this great holiday tradition!

Steven Marzolf, Fred/Fezziwig Worker

Steven is so excited to return to The Rep, having been

a part of the 2003/04 Intern Company. Some of his past credits include productions at: The Old Globe Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Writers’ Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, Provision Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare Festival, Riverside Theater and In Tandem Theatre. Steven received his MFA from The Old Globe/University of San Diego in the fall of 2010. “Merry Christmas to All!”


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City and is proud to be making his debut at The Rep, one of his favorite theaters. New York City credits include: Red Bull Theater: Wild Oats (Revelation Readings); The Pearl Theatre Company: The Misanthrope; The Irish Repertory Theatre: Banished Children of Eve and The Guerilla Shakespeare Project: King John. Regional: Public Theatre of Maine, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Utah Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Shakespeare and Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. Education: BFA from The Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University

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James Pickering, Ebenezer Scrooge Resident Acting Company Member.

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Jim returns to haunt the wonderful Pabst Theater in the 36th rendition of A Christmas Carol. In addition to having played Ebenezer Scrooge 13 times for The Rep in three different adaptations, he has spent

37 seasons as a member of its Resident Acting Company. Among his favorite Rep roles are blind Richard Harkin in The Seafarer, Dave Moss in Glengarry Glen Ross, Big Hughie in Translations and Nils Bohr in Copenhagen. He is a Founding Member of Optimist Theatre Company’s Shakespeare in the Park, and was most recently seen by Milwaukee audiences in The Exonerated at Next Act Theatre. He is active as a voice talent as well, having narrated the Midwest Emmy Award-winning Making of Milwaukee. In last year’s Shepherd Express poll, he was voted Critics’ Choice for Best Actor. He and his beautiful wife, actress Rose Pickering, were named Milwaukee’s Outstanding Artists a decade ago, and were granted permanent ‘Wall of Fame’ berths by Milwaukee Magazine. Let Mr. Dickens’s story bring us all into the light.


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Jonathan Smoots, Mr. Scadger, the gravedigger/Mr. Twyce/Ghost of Christmas Present/Scrooge Understudy

Jonathan Smoots returns with delight to participate in the telling of this remarkable story. Other Rep credits include: Speaking in Tongues (Pete/Neal/John); The Seafarer (Mr. Lockhart); A Month in the Country (Herr Schaaf); The Voysey Inheritance (Major Booth); You Can’t Take It with You (Kolenkhov); A Doll’s House (Torvald); Arsenic and Old Lace (Jonathan Brewster); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Pato) and An Ideal Husband (Sir Robert Chiltern). As a resident actor at American Players Theatre, he has played dozens of roles over 23 seasons; recently Sneer in The Critic, Undershaft in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Marcus Hubbard in Another Part of the Forest. Jonathan lives in Shorewood with Laura, his wife, and Toby, their Golden Retriever.

Deborah Staples, Ghost of Christmas Past/Mrs. Miggott

Resident Actor Company Member.

Deborah has been in over 50 productions at The Rep, the most recent being Speaking in Tongues and Death of a Salesman. Deborah just returned from her seventh season at American Players Theatre where she played Ariel in The Tempest, Elvira in Blithe Spirit and an Italian diva in The Critic. She has also played wonderful roles with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, New American Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Shaw Chicago Theater Company, Iowa Shakespeare Festival, Wisconsin

Shakespeare Festival and Meadow Brook Theatre. Deborah can be seen later this season at The Rep in To Kill a Mockingbird and Othello. Happy Holidays!

Emily Trask, Catherine, Fred’s wife/Cook/Mourner

Emily could not be happier to be returning to

Wisconsin and Milwaukee Rep. Previously at The Rep she was seen in Armadale, Tartuffe, Chaps!, Yes. No. (Maybe So . . .), A Doll’s House, Napoli Millioñaria, Mary Stuart and as Martha Crachit in A Christmas Carol. Emily has spent five seasons with the Utah Shakespeare Festival (favorite roles include Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Ophelia in Hamlet, Katharine in Henry V and Lily in The Secret Garden). Other theaters include Next Act Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Yale Repertory Theatre and Yale Cabaret; she just finished playing Miranda in The Tempest at Pioneer Theatre Company and can be seen at the Folger Theatre in D.C. this February in The Gaming Table. Emily graduated from the Yale School of Drama this past May (favorite shows include: Arcadia; Jean Anhouil’s Eurydice; Twelfth Night; La Ronde and The Maids). Thanks to Sandy, Brent, Joe and Mark and love to my Wisconsin friends and family.

Jenny Wanasek, Mrs. Cratchit Jenny is delighted to be returning to A Christmas Carol. Previous

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Joseph Hanreddy, Director/Co-Adapter

Joseph Hanreddy has directed original and

contemporary plays, as well as classics by Shakespeare, Schiller, Chekhov, Pirandello, Gogol, Oscar Wilde, John Millington Synge, George Farquhar, Tom Stoppard, W.S. Gilbert and Brian Friel; many at Milwaukee Repertory Theater where he served as Artistic Director from 1993 to 2010. He has also directed stage adaptations of novels by Goethe, Tolstoy, Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and Shusaku Endo. Over the last two seasons, his adaptation (with J.R. Sullivan) of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has received productions at several of America’s leading regional theaters. His direction of Molière’s

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Edward Morgan, Co-Adapter

Edward Morgan is a freelance director, writer and teacher. He just directed

A Christmas Carol at Clarence Brown Theatre. Earlier this season, he directed The Exonerated for Next Act Theatre and A Rising

Wind (written with John Kishline) was taped for MPTV. In August, he toured India as director/actor of Kishline’s Success on a tour sponsored by U.S. State Dept. Last spring, his Faulkner adaptation, Twenty Seven, was part of Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s New Play Festival. Mr. Morgan was MRT’s Associate Artistic Director for six seasons. He has also worked at Virginia Stage Company, Merrimack Rep, Round House Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Trinity Rep, the Shakespeare Theatre and others. He and his work have been honored with Helen Hayes Nominations and Awards, and he was a Director’s Project Fellow through the Drama League of New York. Mr. Morgan is also a Casting Partner for Cirque du Soleil. His upcoming projects include teaching and directing in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, and acting in Success in March in Next Act Theatre’s new space.

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Martha Hally, Costume Designer

Martha Hally’s designs for The Rep include: Seven Keys to Slaughter Peak, The Government Inspector, King Lear, Armadale, Pride and Prejudice, Sueño, The Voysey Inheritance and The 39 Steps, among others. She has designed costumes at regional theaters across the country including Pittsburgh Public Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Center Stage, Dallas Theater Center, The Alley Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Recent New York designs include: the Off-Broadway productions of Richard II (The Pearl Theatre Company); Wife to James Whelan and Is Life Worth Living? (Mint Theater Company); The Late Christopher Bean and Bedroom Farce (TACT); Banished Children of Eve; Gaslight and TheField (Irish Repertory Theatre) and Secret Order (59E59). Martha has designed operas for Chicago Opera Theater, Virginia Opera, Manhattan School of Music and The Center for Contemporary Opera in NYC.

Nancy Schertler, Lighting Designer

Nancy Schertler’s Milwaukee Rep credits include A Flea in Her Ear, A Christmas Carol, The Crucible, Escape from Happiness, Moby Dick, Anna Christie, The

Marjorie Bradley Kellogg, Scenic Designer

Marjorie Bradley Kellogg’s most recent design in the general Milwaukee area was in the summer of 2009 for The Philanderer at American Players Theatre. Her designs for opera include the world premiere of Richard Danielpour’s Margaret Garner for Michigan Opera, plus The Tender Land for Skylight Opera Theatre and Paul Bunyan for the Manhattan School of Music. Broadway credits include a season as resident designer for the National Actors Theatre, as well as Any Given Day, the George C. Scott revival of On Borrowed Time, Lucifer’s Child (starring Julie Harris), American Buffalo with Al Pacino, Da, Requiem for a Heavyweight, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Solomon’s Child, Arsenic and Old Lace, Steaming and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Designs for Circle in the Square include Spokesong, Heartbreak House and Present Laughter. Off-Broadway, Ms. Kellogg has worked for New York Shakespeare Festival’s Public Theater, Signature Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons and Roundabout Theatre Company, among others. She received the 2006 USITT Distinguished Achievement Award in Scene Design, and earlier, the 2002 Ruth Morley Design Award and the 1995 Mary L. Murphy Award for Excellence in Design. She shared the first Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration in 1994. Other honors include the 1983/84 Boston Theater Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Drama-Logue awards for 1988 and 1991 and the New York Drama Desk nomination for both the 1982/83 and 1983/84 seasons. She has worked in London, Moscow, in film and television and in the American resident theaters for 30 years. She was a 1992 – 94 Pew Charitable Trust Residency fellow



Front Page, Engaged, Noises Off and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. Broadway productions include Bill Irwin’s Fool Moon and Largely New York for which she earned a Tony nomination. Off-Broadway: Hilda (director Carey Perloff), Texts for Nothing, a Flea in Her Ear, The Regard Evening, (director Bill Irwin) and Falesettoland (director James Lapine). This season she will design The Shakespeare Theatre’s Bard to Broadway series and Ford Theatre’s upcoming production of 1776. Additional regional theater credits include numerous productions for American Conservatory Theater, Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis, Portland Center Stage and Seattle Repertory Theatre. Nancy enjoys a decade’s long association with Arena Stage in Washington D.C., where she has collaborated with directors Zelda Fichandler, Douglas C. Wager, Kyle Donnelly, Liviu Ciulei and Molly Smith. Opera credits include the world premieres of The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, Shadowboxer, Clara and Later the Same Evening, an opera inspired by five paintings of Edward Hopper, a joint project commissioned by the University of Maryland and the National Gallery of Art.

Barry G. Funderburg, Sound Designer

Barry Funderburg is excited to return for his 14th season of A Christmas Carol and to be working again with Joe Hanreddy. Memorable Rep productions include Ten Chimneys, The 39 Steps, The Cherry Orchard, Pride and Prejudice, Armadale, Mary Stuart, Work Song and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. Off-Broadway, Barry recently designed the critically acclaimed New York premiere of Wittenberg at The Pearl Theatre Company. Other regional theater credits include Fake, Carter’s Way and Mother Courage and Her Children at Steppenwolf

Theatre Company and productions at Utah Shakespeare Festival, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, City Theatre (Pittsburgh), Centerstage (Baltimore), Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Peninsula Players, American Players Theatre, LA Theatre Works and Indiana Repertory Theatre. Chicago credits include Next Theatre, Theatre at the Center and Lookingglass Theatre Company. Barry has received four Chicago Equity Jeff Award nominations, the 1996 and 2008 Jeff Awards for Sound Design and an MFA in sound design from Purdue University.

Aimee Hanyzewski, Associate Lighting Designer Aimee Hanyzewski is pleased to be back for the seventh season as the Associate Lighting Designer for A Christmas Carol. Aimee is the Resident Lighting Designer and Assistant Production Manager for Roosevelt University in Chicago where, in addition, she freelances with local companies. Randal Swiggum, Music Director

This is Randy’s lucky 13th season as music director of A Christmas Carol. Previous Rep shows include The Crucible, Work Song, The Mill on the Floss and Moby Dick, for which he created original music. He has also served as music director and vocal coach for Madison Repertory Theatre, Madison Opera, Theatre X, JCC Theatre Company and Acacia Theatre Company. Well known as an educator and conductor, Randy has taught at Lawrence University, UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and Whitefish Bay High School. A native of Mount Horeb, WI, his degrees in music, theater and orchestral conducting are from UW-Madison where he is currently a PhD candidate in musicology. Besides a busy schedule of guest conducting orchestras and choirs around the

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“These days it seems our lives are becoming become more frantic and complex. Less time, more to do. However, Christmas is the one period of the year in which we seem willing to slow down, take a chance and open our hearts. Beneath our busy and driven lives we discover there is the need to love and be loved. The need to connect with the humanity around us to be accepted and accepting of others. That is why A Christmas Carol means so much to me. If a character like Scrooge – the darkest and most self-centered person one could ever encounter can transform – then perhaps there is hope for each of us too. My fervent wish is that the spirit of A Christmas Carol awakens the kindness and compassion in us all. And, reminds us that we can do so in this very moment. Enjoy the show and share your open heart to everyone you meet. Be bold and remember, as Scrooge said, “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”

“This year I would like to dedicate my work to my mother Norma Simmons Wells. She taught me

to believe in myself, embrace life fully, love everyone without reservation and the importance of laughter. Thanks mom! This one’s for you.” – John Tanner

Cate Deicher, Choreographer

Cate Deicher studied dance and movement analysis at UW-Madison and Milwaukee, and at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Study in New York. She founded the Department of Dance and Movement Studies at Alverno College in 1988, and currently serves as the academic coordinator of the Graduate Program in Laban Movement Analysis at Columbia College Chicago. She designs and teaches movement courses for students of architecture and nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and on occasion writes about movement studies for various publications. She is delighted to be working on A Christmas Carol once again.

Jill Walmsley Zager, Dialect Coach

Jill is happy to be back at The Rep with A Christmas Carol. Other Milwaukee Rep credits include Lombardi, Yellowman, Ten Chimneys, Cabaret, My Name Is Asher Lev, Laurel and Hardy and The 39 Steps. Jill is currently the Co-Head of Voice and Dialects and Company Coach at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Regionally, she has worked at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, Drury Lane Water Tower, Apple Tree Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, Utah Shakespeare Festival and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. Jill earned her Master’s Degrees at CSSD (London) and Northwestern. She lives in San Francisco and St. Francis, WI, and is married to James Zager, the Head of the Theater Program at Carroll University.



Sandy Ernst, Casting Director/Associate Artistic Director

Sandy made her first casting trip to NYC with American Players Theatre founders Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso exactly 30 years ago, and continued casting with APT as both a member of the directing staff and the Production Stage Manager for the next 15 years. She has served as Milwaukee Rep’s Casting Director for over a decade, seeing up to a thousand auditions each season. Sandy made her first foray into film as Casting Director for the independent feature film Baraboo and as Casting Consultant on Waterwalk.

Shawn Gulyas, Children’s Director Shawn is happy to be celebrating this Christmas season with the young actors in A Christmas Carol. He quite likes angels. Shawn wishes a Merry Christmas to his family and friends and counts his blessings.

Lara Leigh Dalbey, Make-up/Hair/Wig Designer

Lara is the Wig and Make-up Supervisor for The Rep. This is her 12th A Christmas Carol. She moved from Arizona where she had done work for the Arizona Opera Company, Arizona Theatre Company and Arizona Dance. Her work has also been seen at Opera in the Ozarks (Arkansas), American Players Theatre, Skylight Opera Theatre and at Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe, IL.

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Sarah Hoffmann, Assistant Stage Manager

Sarah is pleased to return to Milwaukee Rep having last

been a part of the A Christmas Carol stage management team in 2004. Most recently, Sarah stage managed the wonderful production of Seussical at First Stage Children’s Theater. She has also worked at Renaissance Theaterworks, American Folklore Theatre in Door County and American Players Theatre in Spring Green. And as always, Sarah is continually grateful to be working in the arts.

David Hartig, Assistant Stage Manager

David is thrilled to be back at Milwaukee Rep for his second

season. Previous Rep shows include Cabaret, My Name is Asher Lev, Bombshells, Rep Lab and Bomb-itty of Errors. He has also worked with American Players Theatre, Peninsula Players and is a graduate of the Theater Program at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Thank you for coming out to support the arts!



Jason Simpson, Children’s Stage Manager

Jason graduated with a BS in Theater from State University

of New York at Brockport. He worked as a stage management intern for Geva Theatre, in Rochester, NY; stage manager for Tibbits Opera House and assistant stage manager for Bristol Valley Theatre. Jason hails from Upstate New York, near Rochester, where his passion for theater developed. His goal is to continue his education in the future and work as a professional stage manager. He is thrilled to have the opportunity to learn and work with The Rep, while experiencing life in Milwaukee with his cat, Juliet.

JC Clementz, Assistant Director


JC was recently the Assistant Director for The Rep’s production of Yellowman. He joins The Rep after working in the casting/literary office at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre, where he also assistant directed their production of Speaking in Tongues. As a stage manager, JC has traveled throughout Europe as the ASM for NY Harlem Productions and the international tour of Porgy and Bess. He holds an MFA in Directing from Western Illinois University.

Understudies

Ebenezer Scrooge, Jonathan Smoots*; Mrs. Cratchit, N’Tasha Anders; Catherine, Fred’s wife/Cook/Mourner/Ghost of Christmas Past/Mrs. Miggott, Eva Balistrieri; Rev. Waghorn/Ghost of Jacob Marley/Jacob Marley/Sailor Captain/Old Joe/Scadger/Mr. Twyce/Ghost of Christmas Present, F. Tyler Burnet; Martha Cratchit, Madeleine Ernst; Young Scrooge/Lighthouse Man/Businessman/Mourner/Ghost of Christmas Future, Nathaniel French; Mrs. Oatway/Belle/Lucy, Catherine’s sister/Mourner/Mrs. Dilber/Mrs. Fezziwig/Madeline, Catherine’s sister, Melissa Graves; Fred, Joseph Kemper; Mr. Grimgrind/Mr. Fezziwig/Mr. Topper/Mr. Mudd, Eric Lynch; Fan, Kaitlyn Serketich; Bob Cratchit, Mr. Philpot/Mr. Oatway/Barnaby, Madeline’s husband/Businessman/Mourner, Charlie Wright

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

Special Thanks

To all of the parents of the children in A Christmas Carol

To the staff and management of the Pabst Theater

ACC Run Crew

Jon AltendorfDan DoughtyJames FyksenKurt HolzhauerTerrie LittleNeal RaaschDebbie SteidlJeff SharrowRobert Zenoni


A CH R IS T M A S C A ROL E NSE M B L E

The ensemble cast of A Christmas Carol is composed of actors from The Rep’s Artistic Intern Company. The Rep draws actors, directors and dramaturgs from a pool of some of the finest emerging and mid-professional theater artists found at a wide variety of training programs and theaters nationwide. Artistic Interns generally spend an entire season with The Rep and form a large part of the core of The Rep’s artistic production staff. The Artistic Intern Company allows The Rep to mount ambitious and engaging productions in an economically feasible manner, while at the same time nurturing and assisting in the development of the next generation of American theater artists. Directing Interns serve as Assistant Directors for mainstage productions and Acting Interns, in addition to serving as the ensemble company in larger productions, understudy all roles in the Quadracci Powerhouse and Stiemke Studio and A Christmas Carol, as well as playing small principal roles of their own throughout the season. The Rep thanks them for their hard work and diligent dedication.

Row 1: Eva Balistrieri, Joshua Baggett, N’Tasha Anders; Row 2: John Mark Jernigan, Jenna K. Vik, Hannah Brown, JC Clementz; Row 3: Alexander Pawlowski IV, Melissa Graves, Elizabeth Telford; Row 4: F. Tyler Burnet, Nathaniel French; Row 5: Eric Lynch, Joseph Kemper, Cody Craven, Jason Simpson

The Perfect Gift for anyone on your list!

REP GIFT CERTIFICATES!

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Ticket OfficePhone Number: 414-224-9490Fax Number: 414-225-5490Mailing Address: Milwaukee Repertory Theater Patty & Jay Baker Theater Complex 108 E. Wells Street; Milwaukee, WI 53202E-mail: [email protected]

Hours of Operation:Monday – Sunday Noon to 6 pmOn days with performances the Ticket Office will remain open until show time.

Administrative OfficePhone Number: 414-224-1761Fax Number: 414-224-9097Mailing Address: Milwaukee Repertory Theater Patty & Jay Baker Theater Complex 108 E. Wells Street; Milwaukee, WI 53202

Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday 8:30 am to 5:30 pm

Emergency Phone Number If you anticipate the need to be reached during a performance, leave your name and seat location with your contact information, along with instructions, to direct emergency phone calls to the House Manager at 414-290-5379 or 414-224-1761, ext. 379.


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T O T H E AU DI E N C E

Concessions Enjoy a drink before the show or during intermission in the Cudahy Irish Pub. Please remember that food is not allowed in the theater.

Late Arrivals Out of courtesy to the actors and audience, patrons arriving after the performance has started will be seated at the discretion of House Management.

ParkingMilwaukee Center offers onsite parking with indoor access to The Rep operated by InterPark. Enter from Kilbourn Avenue or Water Street.

Parking PassesYou may purchase parking passes to the Milwaukee Center’s garage for $7.00 in the Quadracci Powerhouse, Stiemke Studio and Stackner Cabaret theater lobbies and The Rep’s Ticket Office during Rep performance times. SAVE TIME AND MONEY!

Policy on Children Children under age five are not admitted in the theater.

Weather Policy The Rep does not cancel or reschedule performances due to inclement weather, nor do we offer refunds.

Recording Equipment and Cameras The use of recording equipment and cameras in the theater is strictly forbidden.

Speakers’ BureauMembers of The Friends of The Rep are available to speak to your social group or club. Our program can be designed to fit your group’s special interests. Classroom presentations are also available. Call 414-224-1761 for further information.

WheelchairsWheelchair seating is limited. If you need wheelchair access, please contact the Ticket Office at 414-224-9490.

Cellular Phones/Electronic Paging DevicesPlease remember to turn off your cell phones and electronic paging devices. In case of emergency, these items may be left with the House Manager. Also, as a courtesy to your fellow theatergoers and the actors on the stage, please refrain from text messaging during the performance. Thank you!


T H E R E P ’ S S TAC K N E R C A B A R E T

Avoid a last minute rush and enjoy a delicious pre-show dinner at The Rep’s Stackner Cabaret. Offering an affordable full range of entrées, light fare, drinks and desserts from our kitchen, the Stackner Cabaret features a full-service bar and is open for cocktails, desserts and light bites after the show as well. Open to the public and patrons attending productions in any of our three venues and our annual

production of A Christmas Carol. For dinner reservations, call 414-224-9490. To view the menu and other information, visit www.MilwaukeeRep.com

Please sing along!

JOY TO THE WORLD THE LORD IS COME

LET EARTH RECEIVE HER KING LET EVERY HEART

PREPARE HIM ROOM AND HEAVEN AND NATURE SING AND HEAVEN AND NATURE SING

AND HEAVEN AND HEAVEN AND NATURE SING

JOY TO THE WORLD THE SAVIOR REIGNS

LET MEN THEIR SONGS EMPLOY WHILE FIELD AND FLOODS ROCKS HILLS AND PLAINS

REPEAT THE SOUNDING JOY REPEAT THE SOUNDING JOY

REPEAT, REPEAT THE SOUNDING JOY

JOY T O T H E WO R L D


JOU R N E Y H OU S E – P L E A S E G I V E G E N E ROU S LY !

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embody this belief through our mission of working with the community utilizing a self-help philosophy in order to increase education, reduce unemployment and crime, strengthen families and revitalize neighborhoods. Journey House begins with the conviction that everyone has (a) the right to a high quality of life and (b) the basic assets for attaining it. At the same time, members of urban Milwaukee communities face challenges to their quality of life, and must therefore develop specific academic, employment and life skills in order to become full participants in the benefits and responsibilities of civic society. For this reason, Journey House exists as a community-based opportunity oasis where men, women and children on Milwaukee’s diverse Near South Side can build these vital skills and reach their goals.

Journey House’s time-tested commitment to its community has earned the agency a strong reputation within and beyond its target neighborhood. Indications of client and community support of Journey House include consistent neighborhood approval of CDBG funds for agency programs, widespread word-of-mouth publicity and an extensive network of local partnerships. Sixty-eight percent of the population in the area

Journey House serves (zip codes 53204 and 53215) is Hispanic.

Journey House’s location places them in one of Milwaukee’s most culturally diverse, high crime and gang activity and economically challenged neighborhoods. The Historic Clarke Square neighborhood has been a high-crime area where federal, state and local resources have come together to enforce the law, prevent crime and revitalize the community. Each youth that walks through their doors has been affected directly or indirectly by drugs (easy money or use), violence, gang/street mentality, abuse, poverty, lack of language skills and low educational skills.

Milwaukee’s Near South Side faces serious social and economic challenges. The need for educational, workforce, recreational, college and career support of the population Journey House serves is great. These challenges impact the quality of life for community residents. Many of these community members lack the academic, literacy, and employability skills they need to obtain family-sustaining jobs. As a result, The Journey House “Education is a Family Journey” focus provides a significant response to this community challenge by integrating youth leadership and education programming. For more information, please visitwww.journeyhouse.org.

PLEASE REMEMBERTO GIVE GENEROUSLY!

Following all A Christmas Carol performances costumed actors will be in the Pabst Theater lobby

collecting donations for Journey House.


B OA R D O F T RU S T E E S

F R I E N D S O F T H E R E P

OFFICERS

PresidentJudy Hansen

Vice President, Audience Development

Joseph A. Rock

Vice President, TrusteesSusan Esslinger

Vice President, DevelopmentJames Braza

Vice President, PersonnelDwight L. Morgan

Vice President, Strategic Planning/Immediate Past-President

John Kordsmeier

SecretaryPete Hotz

TreasurerKathleen A. Gray

At LargeJane A. Chernof

TRUSTEESEliza AudleyJudy Berdan

Wendy BlumenthalRandy Bryant

Michelle CrockettNorman Dyer

Patrick GallagherConnie Gavin

John N. GreeneStephen IsaacsonKristine Lueders

Robert H. ManegoldMichael McNeely

Wally MoricsAbigail Nash

Catherine RobinsonMicky Sadoff

Joseph A. SchlidtTom ScrivnerMichael SmithPatrick SmithSean Torinus

Stephen VanderBloemenBob Welke

Karin WernerStacy Williams

Kristie Zahn

OFFICERS

PresidentJudy Berdan

Vice President of FundraisingCathy Jakicic

Vice President of External ServicesJim Gehrke

Vice President of Internal ServicesJim Mergener

SecretaryDan Roskom

TreasurerDiane Dalton

Immediate Past-President

Lisa Gehrke

DIRECTORS AT LARGEEunice Beckendorf

Susan EsslingerDon Fraker

Amy GehrkeConnie Kordsmeier

Sue McCombBrittany RoskomCindy Wiktorek


Milwaukee Repertory Theater is supported in part by:

The Rep would like to thank all of the organizations and individuals listed below who generously contributed to The Rep between

November 4, 2010 and November 4, 2011.

D O N O R S

CORPORATION, FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY DONORS

$50,000+The Lynde and Harry

Bradley FoundationGreater Milwaukee

FoundationThe Richard and Ethel

Herzfeld FoundationMillerCoorsThe Shubert FoundationUnited Performing Arts

Fund (UPAF)

$25,000 – $49,999CAMPAC (Milwaukee

County)The Friends of The RepThe Faye McBeath

FoundationNational Endowment of the

ArtsNorthwestern Mutual

Foundation

$10,000 – $24,999Helen Bader Foundation,

Inc.Robert W. Baird & Co. Patty and Jay Baker

FoundationBriggs & Stratton

Corporation FoundationMae E. Demmer Charitable

TrustElizabeth Elser Doolittle

Charitable TrustsGE HealthcareHarley-Davidson FoundationThe Charles E. Kubly

FoundationM&I/BMO HarrisMPS FoundationRockwell AutomationJane Bradley Pettit

FoundationRogers Memorial HospitalWisconsin Arts Board

$1,000 – $9,999Associated BankAurora Health Care Badger MeterCleary Gull Davis & Kuelthau DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C.

Law Firm Fiduciary Management, Inc.Foley & Lardner LLPThe Gardner FoundationGodfrey & Kahn Hays Companies of

Wisconsin, LLC Evan and Marion Helfaer

FoundationHigh Point Fund:

Supporting African American Performing Arts

Frieda & William Hunt Memorial Trust

Dorothy Inbusch Foundation, Inc.

Johnson Controls Foundation

KPMG LLP The Sheldon and Marianne

Lubar Fund of the Lubar Family Foundation

The Maihaugen FoundationMarcus Hotels & Resorts Milwaukee Arts BoardCharles D. Ortgiesen

FoundationPark Bank FoundationQuarles & BradySerigraph Inc TargetThe VanderBloemen Group

LLCWe EnergiesWhyte Hirschboeck Dudek

S.C.

INDIVIDUAL DONORS

VISIONARY ($10,000+)Einhorn Family FoundationGeorge and Audrey GroveJudy Hansen

Jacqueline Herd-Barber and Michael Barber

John and Constance Kordsmeier

Patricia LindnerRobert H. and Carol O.

ManegoldSally S. ManegoldGordana and Milan RacicKathleen H. SeidelDavid and Julia Uihlein

BENEFACTOR ($5,000 – $9,999) James and Mary BrazaJulia and Bladen BurnsShirley DebouzekRuth DeYoung KohlerJim and Pati EricsonKeyes FamilyKristine and Wayne LuedersCatherine and Buddy

RobinsonTeddy and Karin Werner

PRODUCER ($2,500 – $4,999) Dr. and Mrs. R. H. AsterKathe and Bill BiersachWendy and Warren

BlumenthalRobert and Carolyn BurrellJane and Stephen ChernofLarry and Patty ComptonKay and John CrichtonSusan and Gee EsslingerKirt and Dixie FiegelKathleen Gray and Ronald

R. HoferPeter and Linda HotzHenry and Margery HowardJeffrey and Jacqueline

JahnkeJudy and Gary JorgensenDavid and Camille KundertFranklin Loo and Sally Long


D O N O R S (c o n t. )

Paul McElwee and Gayle Rosemann

Anthony and Donna MeyerDwight and Marleen

MorganGreg and Rhonda OberlandRuth OlsenAnthony PetulloLisa QuezadaJoseph A. and Sarah RockMicky and Ron SadoffJay and Anne SchambergJune SchloerbThomas and Meredith

ScrivnerPatrick SmithBrian Stark and Debra

Altshul-StarkMike and Peg UihleinRobert and Malissa WelkeStacy and Blair Williams

DIRECTOR ($1,500 – $2,499) Isabel L. BaderMark and Gerry BiehlKaren and Bill BoydLisa and Tom BraunCheryl and Mark BrickmanJuan Manuel CarrasquilloByron and Suzanne FosterPatrick and Molly GallagherConnie Gavin and Bob

RothackerGreater Milwaukee

Foundation: Margaret Heminway Wells Fund

John and Tameica GreeneThomas and Lawrine

HandrichNorma and Bill HarringtonEdward Hashek and John

JorsCarla and Robert HayDawn Helsing Wolters and

Tony WoltersDr. and Mrs. Burton

HoffmanStephen and Roberta

IsaacsonMaja Jurisic and Don FrakerJudith KeyesRobert and Gail Korb

John and Nancy LarsonPhoebe R. and John D.

Lewis FoundationSusan and Robert LuegerKevin and Rosanne LyonsMichael and Sandra

McNeelyRichard and Maribeth

MeeusenGeraldine MeschingRobert and Dianne MorrisAbigail and David NashCornelia RiedlPaul and Lynn RixJoe and Katy SchlidtNita SorefMaureen Swokowski and

Hillerian HessWilfred WollnerKristine and David ZahnClare and Judy Zempel

PRODUCTION MANAGER

($1,000 – $1,499)Anonymous (2)Fran and Lowell AdamsHelen and Bruce AmbuelDaniel and Amy ArgallJanet BaldingJohn and Carol BannenDr. and Mrs. R. P. BarthelElaine BurkeDr. and Mrs. Bruce M.

CamittaJim Cauley and Brenda

AndrewsMark ClementsGeorge and Sandra

DionisopoulosAly El-GhatitPeter Foote and Robin

WilsonKaren and Gardner

FriedlanderRichard S. and Ann L.

GallagherLloyd and Mary Ann

GerlachFranklyn and M. Anne

GimbelStephen and Bernadine

Graff

Greater Milwaukee Foundation:

Anthony and Andrea Bryant Family Fund

Lois and Donald Cottrell Fund B

R. Christie HannaSusan and John HarritsJanet and Graham HumeAnnie Jansen Jurczyk and

John JansenCharles and Mary KampsPam KrigerSteven KuhnmuenchDr. Paul W. Loewenstein

and Ms. Jody Kaufman Loewenstein

Thomas and Debra LongtinVince and Jan MartinLarry Martin and Linda RiceMary E. McAndrewsDaniel and Constance

McCartyHazelyn McComasKaren McDiarmidPatti and Jack McKeithanJim and Sally MergenerCathy and Wally MoricsDavid Olson and Claire

FritscheBruce and Peppy O’NeillDr. David ParisBob and Mary Lou ParrishJim and Gwen PlunkettKaren Plunkett and Thomas

MuensterJames and Lys ReiskytlSusan RiedelPatrick Schmidt and Dewey

CatonJohn Shannon and Jan SerrBonnie and Bill StaffordFrank and Elsa SternerAnne and Fred StrattonJames and Elaine SweetSean and Cathie TorinusStephen and Christine

VanderBloemenThomas WardenSargit WarrinerDr. and Mrs. Paul WeismanDonald and Kate WilsonBettie Zillman

Please play a role this season and support The Rep’s important artistic and education programming. For more information, visit

http://www.milwaukeerep.com/tickets/support/


ARTISTIC DIRECTORMark Clements

ARTISTICAssociate Artistic Director .............. Sandy Ernst Associate Artistic Director .........Brent Hazelton Artistic Associate ...................Michael M. Kroeker

EDUCATIONEducation Director .......................Jenny KostrevaEducation Coordinator................Leda HoffmannEducation Assistant ..................... Neal EasterlingTeaching Artists ....... Tom Bruno, Marcy Kearns,

Cheryl Ann Lisowski, Shannon Sloan-Spice

Education Intern ................. Samantha MartinsonBig Read Project Coordinator ..........................................Laura WebbBig Read Project Intern .................Eric Scherrer

RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY

Jonathan Gillard Daly, Lee E. Ernst, Laura Gordon, Gerard Neugent,

James Pickering, Deborah Staples

ARTISTIC APPRENTICES/INTERNSActing Interns ............ N’tasha Charmel Anders,

Eva Balistrieri, F. Tyler Burnet,Cody Craven, Nathaniel French,

Melissa Graves, John Mark Jernigan, Joseph Kemper, Eric C. Lynch,

Elizabeth Telford, Jenna K. Vik, Charlie Wright

Acting Apprentice ......Alexander Pawlowski IVDirecting Interns .........................Joshua Baggett,

JC ClementzLiterary Intern ..................................... Adam Seidel

PRODUCTIONProduction Manager ....Melissa Nyari Vartanian Assistant Production Manager .......................................... Liza Tognazzini Production Purchaser .......................Peter KoenigAssistant Stagehand ........... Samantha Donnelly

CostumesCostume Director .................................Holly PayneCostume Shop Assistant .....................Amy HorstSenior Draper..................................Alex B. TecomaDraper ..................................................April McKinnisFirst Hand ..................... Rey Dobeck, Jef OuwensAssociate First Hand ..................... Jessica JaegerStitchers ..................... Jade Jablonski, Carol RossCrafts Artisan/Milliner .............. Kate McLaughlinShow Assistant/Shopper ........... Jenny ThurnauWig & Make-up Supervisor ...............Lara DalbeyHead Wardrobe.............................. Jennifer VinentWardrobe/Stitcher ..................... Abbey Peterson,

Jaime SchnittkeInterns ..............Nicole Thompson, Jessi Veverka

Lighting & SoundLighting & Sound Director ......Craig GottschalkAssistant Sound Supervisor ................ Erin PaigeAssistant Lighting Design Intern................................ Tylar TalkingtonElectrics Interns ........Casey Miller, Drew Ogden

Props Properties Director ...............................James GuyAssistant Props Director/ Props Craft Artisan ..........................Anna WarrenProps Artisan ......................................... Sarah HeckSoft Props Artisan..............Margaret Hasek-GuyProps Carpenter/Artisan............... Erik LindquistProp Painter/Graphic Artist ........Jill Lynn Lyons

ScenicTechnical Director .................................Tyler SmithAssistant Technical Director .............Natalie BellCharge Scenic Artist .......................... Jim MedvedScenic Artists ....................... Susannah M. Barnes,

Shannon MannScenic Artist Intern ...................... Erin Wegleitner

Stage ManagementProduction Stage Manager .......Briana J. FaheyStage Managers .........Richelle Harrington Calin,

Sarah Deming-Henes, Sarah Hoffmann, Rebecca Lindsey, Kristy Matero,

Becky Merold, Mark S. Sahba, Laura F. Wendt

Stage Management Interns ...............Hannah Brown, Jason SimpsonStage ManagementApprentice ...........................................David Hartig

Resident Stagehands & CarpentersBill Burgardt, Glenn Dassow, Sam Garst, Rick Grilli, Dave Hicks, John Nusslock,

Robert Schultz, Jim Zinky

MANAGING DIRECTORDawn Helsing Wolters

ADMINISTRATIONGeneral Manager .................... Timothy O’ConnellCompany Manager ................... Dawn Marie RossAdministrative Assistant .............................Erin Burgess-Ellingen Receptionists ....................Andrea Roades-Bruss, Michael Evans, Nathaniel French, Grace Hern,

Katherine Ketter, Samantha Martinson, Maria Roades, Jenna K. Vik, Alicia Wahl

Intern ............................................................ Lisa Rowe

DEVELOPMENTDevelopment Director ...................Tamara HauckInstitutional GivingManager ....................................................Nina JonesIndividual Giving Manager ............. Anne Cauley Events Manager .....................Rebecca KitelingerInterns ...... Sarah Kordsmeier, Dan Gorchynsky

FINANCEFinance Director ........................ Leslie FillinghamPayroll Specialist ....................................Gail GetkaFinance and Production Accountant ................Lisa SchiefferAccounting Assistant ....................... Marie Holtyn

T H E S TA F F


HOUSEKEEPINGHousekeeping Supervisor .........Charles McClainHousekeeping Staff ...........................Regail Blade,

Kaye Johnyakin, Dennis Reed, Rosie L. Williams

MAINTENANCEChief Building Engineer ........... Mark A. UhrmanLead Engineer ...................................... James RossEngineer.....................................................Todd RossPart-time Engineer ........................Brittany Scites

MARKETINGMarketing Director ................................Lisa FultonMarketing Manager .........................Ryan Odorizzi Graphic Designer .......................... Megan GadientMarketing Interns .....................Erin McGarry, Kaitlin SchlickPhotographer..............................Michael BrosilowVideographer ..........................The Stage Channel

Public RelationsPublic Relations Director............Cindy E. MoranPR Interns ........... Doug Clemons, Jessica Wolfe

Gift ShopStaff .............................Lisa Rowe, Erin Wegleitner

House ManagementAssistant House Managers ........... Carynne Dati,

Dan Gorchynsky, Johnathan Koller, Andrew Peck

Ticket OfficePatron Relations Manager .....................................Christine YündemAssistant Ticket Office Manager.........................James ThibodeauTicket Office Staff ...............Beata Chrzanowska,

Carla Crump, David Dziatkiewicz, Alisha Hall,

Andrew Guyetle, Jaime Lacy, Lori Locke,

Johnell Major-Wesley, Kelly Peterson, Katherine Sterner, Lindsey St. Arnold, Britt Wegner,

Theodore Woo

STACKNER CABARETManager ...............................................Kristen OlsenCabaret Staff ......................... Kathleen Borchardt,

Lara Leigh Dalbey, Terese Dick, Matthew Flannery, Caitlin Hagness, Tanya Haynes,

Tim Gould, Alex Herrmann, Mariel Hildenbrand, David Mercado,

Katrina Nipko, Beth Ormsby, Michael Passow, James Passow,

Jeanne Pfannenstiel, Marna Riordan, Claire Rydzik, Rachel Sanders,

Micheal Shorty, Stephan Shanklin, Rachel Stenman, Jane Stratton,

Tomika Vukovoch, Megan Watson, Charles Wallace, Jenni Watson, Rebecca Witt, Greta Wohlrabe

T H E S TA F F (c o nt .)


Last May our friend and colleague Ed Burgess suddenly, and totally unexpectedly, passed away in his sleep. Ed was one of the most vital and fully alive human beings imaginable and those of us who knew and worked with him are only beginning to come to grips with the reality that he’s no longer with us. Ed was a masterful dancer, actor, choreographer and movement specialist whose artistry enhanced dozens of Rep productions, including many a production of A Christmas Carol. He was possessed with a truly epic passion for performance, chairing the Dance department at UWM and

bringing it to national prominence, while choreographing, directing and performing with many Milwaukee dance and theater companies. His final performance, completed only a couple of days before his passing, was as Nijinsky in Theatre Gigante’s production of Isadora and Nijinsky, a play he co-wrote with Isabel Kralj and Mark Anderson. Ed was my creative partner on many productions and he had a hand in crafting many of the theatrical moments that live brightest in my memory. His love for actors and his natural connection to them was truly magical to watch, as was the effortless manner in which his innate charisma elevated the energy in our rehearsal halls. His sly and gentle humor, personal grace, generosity and genuine good will unfailingly brought out the best in people. During this first Christmas in which Ed’s creativity and buoyant spirit isn’t part of our Christmas family, we miss him fiercely.

Ed Burgess

A Christmas Carol

–Joseph Hanreddy Director


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