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Patty and Jay Baker Theater Complex Stackner Cabaret

Mark Clements Dawn Helsing WoltersArtistic Director Managing Director

Created by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield

Directed by Sean Graney

Scenic Designer Tom Burch Costume Designer Holly Payne Lighting Designer Noele Stollmack Fight Director Lee E. Ernst Casting Director Sandy Ernst Stage Manager Becky Merold* Stage Management Intern Hannah Brown Assistant Director Michael Cotey

Production Manager Melissa Nyari Vartanian Lighting & Sound Director Craig Gottschalk Assistant Sound Supervisor Erin Paige Technical Director Tyler Smith Properties Director James Guy Charge Scenic Artist Jim Medved Costume Director Holly Payne

*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.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was first performed [more or less in its entirety] by the authors on June 19, 1987, at the Paramount Ranch in Agoura, California, and subsequently at the 1987 Edinburgh Festival

Fringe. Additional premieres with different casts include the Arts Theatre, London [1992], the Westside Theater Off-Broadway [1995], and the Criterion Theatre in

London’s West End [1996].

Produced through special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc. The script to this play may be purchased from BPPI at BroadwayPlayPubl.com.

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Joe Dempsey*

Ernie González*

Gerard Neugent*

*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 intermission.

S H A K E S P E A R E P L AY S

TragediesTitus AndronicusRomeo and JulietHamletJulius CaesarOthelloAntony and CleopatraKing LearCoriolanusTimon of AthensMacbeth

HistoriesHenry VI, Part IHenry VI, Part IIHenry VI, Part III King JohnHenry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part IIHenry VRichard II Richard IIIHenry VIII

ComediesThe Taming of the ShrewThe Comedy of Errors Two Gentlemen of VeronaLove’s Labour’s LostA Midsummer Night’s

DreamThe Merchant of VeniceMuch Ado About NothingAs You Like ItThe Merry Wives of

WindsorTroilus and Cressida Twelfth NightAll’s Well That Ends Well Measure for MeasurePericles, Prince of Tyre The TempestCymbelineThe Winter’s Tale

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Joe Dempsey

Joe Dempsey returns to Milwaukee Rep after interning and receiving his Equity card

here over two decades ago. While here, he appeared in Three Sisters, The Miser and Laughing Wild, as well as shows at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and First Stage. Joe lives in Chicago and has acted at the Goodman, Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Victory Gardens and Chicago Shakespeare, as well as many others, and regionally at City Theatre (Pittsburgh), Center Stage (Baltimore), Cincinnati Playhouse, Kansas City Rep, St. Louis Rep and Madison Rep. He’s been a member of the Neo-Futurists and The Second City National Touring Company. Joe dedicates this to Rose Pickering who did the best Masha. Ever.

Ernie González

Ernie González is a regular at Ohio Shakespeare Festival; selected credits include: Love’s Labour’s

Lost (Costard); As You Like It (Touchstone); and The Comedy of Errors (Dromios). In Chicago, Ernie is an Associate Artistic Director of The Agency Theater, a member of Funny Bones Improv – performing regularly at Children’s Memorial Hospital – and a former writer/performer with The Second City’s Diversity Ensemble. Ernie has appeared on commercials and television shows on The Animal Planet, The Discovery Chanel, Telemundo and Univision.

Gerard Neugent

Resident Acting Company Member.

Gerard just completed his ninth season

with The Rep and his fifth season as a member of the Resident Acting Company. He most recently appeared as Michael McCormick in Lombardi, Happy in Death of a Salesman, Clown 2 in The 39 Steps, Stan Laurel in Laurel and Hardy, Lou Max in Seven Keys to Slaughter Peak, Jimmy/Lendall/Randy/Phil/Dave in Almost, Maine, Johnny in Happy Now? and Hlestakov in The Government Inspector. Previously, he was seen as Simon Panteleyevich Yepikhodov in The Cherry Orchard, Charles Bingley in Pride and Prejudice, Fabrizio in Mirandolina, multiple roles in Greater Tuna, Rogers/Young Pedgift in the world premiere of Armadale, Antony Wilding in Enchanted April, Norman in The Norman Conquests, Rick Steadman in The Nerd, Edgar in King Lear, Ellard in The Foreigner, Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Steindorf in Back at Leipzig and Camille in A Flea in Her Ear. Gerry is a proud Marquette grad who lives in Milwaukee with his wife, Kate, and their two sons, Gerry and Peter.

Adam Long, Creator

Adam Long began his professional life as an accountant for an anti-nuclear political action committee by day and bassist for an acoustic punk band by night. Then he put on a skirt and a wig and became a founding member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Adam toured with the RSC, spent five years following The Grateful Dead, performed stand-up comedy in Canada, became a Buddhist and finally settled in England where he lives in London with wife Alex, son Joe, daughter Tilly and friend John.

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Daniel Singer, Creator

Daniel Singer, a native Californian, trained in London for a career as a theatrical impresario. Following the creation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Daniel hung up his doublet-and-hose to design theme park attractions for Walt Disney Imagineering. He’s particularly proud of his work on Disneyland’s Toontown. After 12 years as an Imagineer, Daniel left Disney to become a freelance bohemian; these days he restores old houses, sculpts, gardens and continues to write plays in hopes of another hit.

Jess Winfield, Creator

Jess Winfield was an original member of the RSC, co-author of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), and performed with the troupe from its founding in 1981 until 1992, when he realized he had played the title role of Hamlet more times than John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier combined and suddenly felt very old. He left the troupe to write and produce animated television for the Walt Disney Company. He left Disney after ten years to write My Name Is Will – A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare (Twelve Books), depicting excessive drug use and promiscuous sex by both a would-be young Shakespeare scholar in the 1980s and the 18-year-old Immortal Bard himself in the 1580s. He and Daniel Singer revised the Complete Works in honor of its 20th anniversary and directed it in the West End. He now lives in Hollywood with his wife (and original RSC costume goddess) Sa, and is working on his second novel.

Sean Graney, Director

Sean Graney is happy to return to Milwaukee Rep where he last directed Yankee

Tavern (2009/10 Season). He is the Founding Artistic Director of

The Hypocrites in Chicago; he has directed most of their shows. He was a participant in the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors 2004/06. He won two Joseph Jefferson Citations for Direction. He has also directed The Comedy of Errors, What the Butler Saw and The Mystery of Irma Vep (Court Theatre); Edward II (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The Elephant Man for Steppenwolf Young Audiences; Honus and Me and The Hundred Dresses, (Chicago Children’s Theater). He wishes to thank you for spending your time and money on theater.

Tom Burch, Scenic Designer

Tom Burch is pleased to make his Rep debut. Based in Chicago, his credits include shows at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Northlight Theatre, Court Theatre and several shows with Sean Graney at The Hypocrites; his most recent was Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses. Regional work includes shows at Peninsula Players, Arizona Theatre Company, Actors Theater Louisville, Cleveland Play House, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Off-Broadway at Barrow Street Theatre. His work can be seen online at www.tomburch.com. Holly Payne, Costume Designer

Holly Payne is currently the Costume Director at The Rep. She graduated with an MFA in costume design and technology from the University of Arkansas. Holly has also designed at Skylight Opera, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Shakespeare, University of Tulsa, American Players Theatre, Florentine Opera, First Stage Children’s Theater and Theatre Squared in Fayetteville, AR. Some of her favorite Rep designs have been Lombardi in the Quadracci Powerhouse, Bomb-itty of Errors in the Stackner Cabaret and My Name is Asher Lev and Speaking in Tongues in the Stiemke Studio. Thanks to The Rep’s fantastic costume shop for all their great work and much love to ACB for being a fantastic partner.

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Noele Stollmack, Lighting Designer

Noele’s previous design work at The Rep includes: Yankee Tavern, Mirandolina, I Am My Own Wife, Armadale, Enchanted April, Tartuffe, King Lear, Half Life and Bad Dates. Lighting and scenery design includes Dido and Aeneas, Venus and Adonis, Rio de Sangre, Macbeth, Tristan und Isolde and Magic Flute for the Florentine Opera, Rape of Lucretia for Toledo Opera, Pagliacci at Opera Columbus, as well as lighting and scenic realization for Meredith Monk’s international tours of mercy & impermanence. Noele’s lighting has appeared in numerous venues including The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sydney Opera House, Opera Ontario, Opera Pacific, Portland Opera, Vancouver Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New Orleans Opera, Madison Opera, Nashville Opera, The Alley Theatre, American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and First Stage Children’s Theater.

Lee E. Ernst, Fight Director

Resident Acting Company Member.

Lee was just seen performing the

role of Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and 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. Mr. Ernst has also staged fights and other violence for scores of productions at The Rep and throughout the country: Kansas City Rep, Madison Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, American Players Theatre, MCT, NAT, Subaru (Tokyo), and at numerous universities and high schools, where he has choreographed fights and conducted workshops for nearly three decades. Lee taught an SAFD

class for two years at UWM/PTTP, and is adjunct faculty with University of Delaware-PTTP. 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 is recipient of The AriZoni Best Actor Award, AriZoni for Best Fight Choreography, 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.

Sandy Ernst, Casting Director/Associate Artistic Director

Sandy made her first casting trip to New York City

with American Players Theatre founders Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso exactly 30 years ago, and continued casting

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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.

Becky Merold, Stage Manager

This is Becky’s tenth season and 21st production with The Rep. Becky

spends her summers at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, where she recently stage managed Richard III and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other regional theater credits include: In Tandem Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and The New Harmony Theater. Becky is a cum laude graduate from the Conservatory of Theater Arts at Webster University. Becky would like to thank the whole Milwaukee Rep community for making this her second home.

Hannah Brown, Stage Management Intern

Hannah Brown, a native of LaGrange, GA,

recently graduated from Shorter University with a BA in Theatre. She recently stage managed Curtains at Shorter along with: The Wedding Singer, Romeo and Juliet and The Trojan Women. She is extremely excited to be working at The Rep as a Stage Management Intern!

Michael Cotey, Assistant Director

Michael Cotey is Artistic Director and Co-founder of Youngblood Theatre Company.

A graduate of UW-Milwaukee’s BFA acting program, directing credits include: Spirits to Enforce (Youngblood); As You Like It (First Stage’s Company Class); Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s Young Playwright Festival and Pink Banana. Performing credits include Milwaukee Rep, Utah and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals, Youngblood, First Stage Children’s Theater, Milwaukee Shakespeare and In Tandem. Most recently you may have seen him as Dr. Faustus in An Apology. Michael will appear on stage in 2012 with Youngblood and direct the fourth and final Youngblood show of the season. Much love to Eleanor. www.MichaelCotey.com

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