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FIRST SEASON PRODUCTION

THROW ME ON THE BURNPILE AND LIGHT ME UPWritten and Performed by Lucy AlibarDirected by Neel KellerWorld PremiereSep 10 – Oct 2, 2016

SECOND SEASON PRODUCTION

VICUÑABy Jon Robin Baitz Directed by Robert EganWorld PremiereOct 23 – Nov 20, 2016

DOUGLAS+ SPECIAL EVENT

THE WHOLEHEARTEDConceived and Created by Stein | Holum Projects Written and Co-directed by Deborah SteinPerformed and Co-directed by Suli HolumWorld Premiere ProductionDec 2–11, 2016

DOUGLAS+ SPECIAL EVENT

ADLER & GIBBBy Tim CrouchDirected by Tim Crouch, Andy Smith, and Karl JamesAmerican PremiereJan 17–29, 2017

THIRD SEASON PRODUCTION

GOOD GRIEFBy Ngozi Anyanwu Directed by Patricia McGregorWorld PremiereFeb 26 – Mar 26, 2017

BLOCK PARTYCelebrating Los Angeles TheatreApr 14 – May 21, 2017

FOURTH SEASON PRODUCTION

KING OF THE YEESBy Lauren YeeDirected by Joshua Kahan BrodyWorld Premiere ProductionJul 9 – Aug 6, 2017

2016/17 ANNIVERSARY SEASON

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Special Thanks to Center Theatre Group’s

Most Generous Annual Patrons

Center Theatre Group wishes to thank

the following donors for their significant gifts

and for their belief in the transformative

power of theatre.

This list includes cash gifts received by Center Theatre Group between

May 15, 2015 and July 15, 2016.

INSPIRING OUR FUTURE $1 MILLION AND ABOVEThe Ahmanson FoundationAnnenberg FoundationBrindell Roberts GottliebElisabeth Katte Harris Trust

$500,000 AND ABOVEJerry & Terri KohlDeena & Edward NahmiasLaura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation

$250,000 AND ABOVEAnonymous (1)Center Theatre Group AffiliatesKirk & Anne DouglasAnn & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.The James Irvine FoundationThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$150,000 AND ABOVEAnonymous (1)Bank of AmericaThe Blue RibbonPatricia Glaser & Sam MudieJPMorgan Chase & Co.The Norman and Sadie Lee FoundationJody & David LippmanDeidra Norman SchumannDonna Schweers & Tom GeiserThe Shubert Foundation, Inc.Wells Fargo Foundation

$100,000 AND ABOVECindy & Gary FrischlingKiki & David GindlerAliza Karney Guren & Marc GurenLos Angeles County Arts CommissionRenee & Meyer LuskinLloyd E. Rigler — Lawrence E. Deutsch FoundationEva & Marc SternSue Tsao

$75,000 AND ABOVEVicki KingCheryl A. Shepherd


SEPTEMBER 10 – OCTOBER 2, 2016 KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE

Directed By

Neel Keller

Presents the World Premiere of

Sound Design

Adam PhalenTakeshi Kata

Scenic Design

Laura Bauer

Costume Design

Elizabeth Harper

Lighting Design

Jason H. Thompson

Projection Design

Lindsay Allbaugh

Associate Producer

Maggie Swing

Production Stage Manager

Written and Performed By

Lucy Alibar

Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up will be performed without an intermission.

MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE Managing Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director

GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director

Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up was developed, in part, at the 2015 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at MASS MoCA.


Neel Keller: Lucy, when did you realize that your childhood was remarkably different in some ways than most people’s childhoods, and that it would be of interest to people to hear about?

Lucy Alibar: It might have been the reaction to Beasts of the Southern Wild, and just hearing aspects of the South that people didn’t recognize. Like how you have Deer Day at school, where that day of school’s off because it’s the first day of hunting season.

Keller: And there’s always someone who doesn’t come back to school the next day because they’re in the hospital getting buckshot pulled out of their…

Alibar: I think it was actually more that people, no matter where they were from, would relate to certain aspects of it—the weird teachers and that sense that you have as a kid that adults who are in positions of authority are actually unqualified to be there. It’s all about being a kid, and you’re basically a prisoner to these crazy people.

Keller: And what have you found that is different, as we worked on it, about making it into a theatre piece versus a film or a book?

Alibar: In film there’s a push to show and not tell, and as much as I enjoy doing that, what gets lost is sometimes this storytelling aspect—

which I think is a very southern thing—where the story becomes this larger-than-life tale that’s embellished. The feeling I wanted you to have is that you’re talking with your friend at a bar, or even that person you don’t know at a bar—not that I’m at a bar, but—

Keller: —how do we make people in the theatre feel like they’re at the outdoor patio of a bar or at a barbeque in some friend’s backyard?

Alibar: Yeah, the barbeque aspect was really important.

Keller: I think it’s about you being able to conjure up and relive the emotion of the humor and the drama of those stories, but be telling them to us. We never pretend that the audience is not there. It’s not that kind of theatre at all. It’s very much direct storytelling.

Alibar: I forgot at some point that other people would be hearing these stories, and that I’d be telling them. They started out as just me writing about my childhood.

Keller: So how much of these stories are true?

Alibar: Did we have approximately 8,000 feral cats? I remember there being so many cats everywhere. It feels like a child’s truth, in a way, and that to me is the key of this story: that she believes that this is true, that you’re absolutely hearing this from a 9-year-old looking out at this world and explaining it to you.

Hear more of Lucy Alibar and Neel Keller’s conversation on the Center Theatre Group Podcast at CenterTheatreGroup.org.

with Lucy Alibarneel keller

A Conversationand

“...how do we make people in the theatre feel like they’re at the outdoor patio of a bar or at a barbeque in some friend’s backyard?”

We interrupted Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up writer and performer Lucy Alibar and director Neel Keller in the midst of rehearsals and asked them to explain what makes this play a totally unique piece of theatre.

Lucy Alibar and Neel Keller.


WHO’S WHO

LUCY ALIBAR (Writer and Performer) has written for Zoetrope, the Oxford American, and the Wall Street Journal. Her plays have been seen at Sundance Theatre Lab, National Theatre Studio, Joe’s Pub, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her first movie, Beasts of the Southern Wild (an adaptation with Benh Zeitlin of her play, Juicy and Delicious), received the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes Film Festival Caméra d’Or. For her work on Beasts, she was nominated for the Scripter, BAFTA, and Academy Award. Alibar is the winner of the Ray Bradbury Nebula Award, the Humanitas Prize, and the Nantucket Film Festival New Voices in Screenwriting Award. She is a Sundance Screenwriting Fellow. She’s since been privileged to work for Pixar, Escape Artists/Amazon, Julia Roberts/New Line Cinema, and Guillermo del Toro/Universal Studios (The Secret Garden). Burnpile is currently being adapted into a pilot for FX. Alibar is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and an associate editor at Oxford American.

NEEL KELLER (Director and Center Theatre Group Associate Artistic Director). For Center Theatre Group, Neel has directed Sheila Callaghan’s Women Laughing Alone With Salad, the World premieres of Dael Orlandersmith’s Forever, Kimber Lee’s different words for the same thing, Jennifer Haley’s The Nether, and Jessica Goldberg’s Good Thing, the American premiere of David Greig’s Pyrenees, and the Irish comedy Stones in His Pockets. Earlier this year he directed the World premiere of Julia Cho’s Office Hour at South Coast Repertory. His next project is the World premiere of Dael Orlandersmith’s Until The Flood at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Other favorite productions include Howard Gould’s Diva, Tom Babe’s Downed American, and David Greig’s The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union. Neel has directed productions at theatres around the country including New York Theatre Workshop, Long Wharf Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Remains Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Berkshire Public Theater, and City Theatre. Neel is a member of The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and the Directors Guild of America.

TAKESHI KATA (Scenic Design). Kirk Douglas Theatre: Forever, Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, and Palomino. L.A.: The Mystery of Love & Sex, November, Other Desert Cities (Taper); The Night Alive, American Buffalo, The Seafarer, Boston Marriage, Ruth Draper Monologues, and Slowgirl (Geffen); Happy Days (Boston Court). NY: Gloria (Vineyard Theatre), Through a Glass Darkly, Storefront Church, and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic Theater Company); Adding Machine (Minetta Lane Theatre). Regional: Alley Theatre, American Players Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Goodman, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Old Globe, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Yale Repertory. Kata has won an Obie Award and has been nominated for Drama Desk, Ovation, and Barrymore awards. He is an Assistant Professor at USC, School of Dramatic Arts.

LAURA BAUER (Costume Design). Broadway: A Life in the Theatre, Speed the Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, Talk Radio, Top Girls, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, November, and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. She is a company member of the Atlantic Theater Company in New York and has worked extensively with Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Remains Theatre in Chicago. Mark Taper Forum: The Mystery of Love & Sex, Appropriate, The Subject Was Roses, and November. Kirk Douglas Theatre: Palomino. Film: Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown and Stephen Frears’ High Fidelity, among many others. TV: many pilots and two series (CBS and NBC).

ELIZABETH HARPER (Lighting Design). Center Theatre Group: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Women Laughing Alone With Salad, A Raisin in the Sun, and Immediate Family. Regional credits include Office Hour, Venus in Fur, Reunion, and tokyo fish story (South Coast Repertory); Play Dead, Wait Until Dark, Bad Jews, and Good People (Geffen Playhouse). She is a five-time Ovation Award nominee, a nominee for the NAACP Theatre Award, and an LA Weekly Theater Award winner. She has served as a lighting consultant for art installations at LACMA and Greene Naftali Gallery. Her industrial lighting projects include events for Microsoft, Ubisoft, and Universal Studios. Harper is a guest lighting design instructor and lecturer at California Institute of the Arts.


ADAM PHALEN (Sound Design). Select shows include Other Desert Cities, Marjorie Prime (Mark Taper Forum); The New Electric Ballroom, The Word Begins (Rogue Machine Theatre); 9 Circles (Bootleg Theater; LADCC nominee, Best Sound Design), Against Oblivion (South Coast Repertory); Tempest Redux (Odyssey Theatre); St. Jude, Facing Our Truth, Titus Redux, The Paris Letter, Flight (NAACP Award, Best Sound Design), ¡Gaytino!, Taking Flight, Of Equal Measure, Taking Over, Eclipsed, Bones (Kirk Douglas Theatre). Phalen is the Head Audio at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

JASON H. THOMPSON (Projection Design). Center Theatre Group: Grey Gardens (Ahmanson), Chavez Ravine (LA Ovation Award), The Steward of Christendom, Venice (LA Ovation Award), This Beautiful City, Palomino, Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up, Behavior of Broadus (Sacred Fools Theater Company). International: Tri Sestri (Vienna State Opera), Tarzan, and Frozen Sing A-Long (Shanghai Disneyland). Key Projects: Hopscotch and Invisible Cities (The Industry), Cage Songbooks (Carnegie Hall), Venice, The Great Immensity (Public Theater), Cunning Little Vixen (Cleveland Orchestra), Wingman (Ars Nova), Baby It’s You! (Broadway). Additionally, he has worked at a number of regional theatres including The Guthrie, Kansas City Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, Signature Theatre in DC, Geffen Playhouse, and South Coast Repertory. Jason was the video consultant on the recent Petersen Automotive Museum renovation and has designed video content for Stars on Ice for the last 10 years. He is a member of USA Local 829. www.jasonhthompsondesign.com

MAGGIE SWING (Production Stage Manager). Geffen Playhouse: Big Sky, Barcelona, Guards at the Taj, Discord, The Country House, The Judy Show, and American Buffalo. European Tour: The Apple Family Plays. Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (The Public Theater); Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company); Slowgirl (Lincoln Center). Regional: Bell, Book and Candle (co-production with Long Wharf Theatre), The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Dividing the Estate, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Bluest Eye, Our Town (Hartford Stage Company).

MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 12th season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 190 productions to the Ahmanson, Taper, and Douglas stages since his arrival in 2005. From 1996 to 2004 Michael

was the Producer of the Williamstown Theatre Festival and prior to that he was a Production Stage Manager in NYC. At Center Theatre Group, he premiered six musicals that moved to Broadway—The Drowsy Chaperone (which won 13 Tony Award nominations), Curtains (eight Tony nominations), 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Leap of Faith. He has produced 40 World premieres including the musicals Minsky’s, Venice, and Sleeping Beauty Wakes, and the plays Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer Prize finalist that also moved to Broadway), Water & Power, and Yellow Face, and he presented a broad range of plays and musicals ranging from Dead End to The Black Rider to Edward Scissorhands to blockbusters such as God of Carnage, Mary Poppins, Jersey Boys, and August: Osage County. In addition, Michael inaugurated Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Development Program, designed to foster the development and production of new work.

STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE (Managing Director) joined Center Theatre Group in 2014 as its new Managing Director. He was previously the President and CEO of The Music Center (2002 – 2014) and held the position of CEO of the Los Angeles Opera concurrently from 2008 – 2012. Prior to The Music Center, Rountree served the J. Paul Getty Trust for 22 years, starting in 1980 as Deputy Director of the Getty Museum. In 1984, he was appointed Director of the Getty Center Building Program, with responsibility for managing all aspects of project development, design, and construction of the Getty Center in Los Angeles. In January 1998, he was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Getty Trust. He currently serves as a Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Occidental College and is a trustee of The Ahmanson Foundation, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and the Grand Park Foundation. He advises numerous nonprofit institutions on matters relating to nonprofit management and building programs. His involvement was critical to the building of Walt Disney Concert Hall at The Music Center, serving on the boards of the LA Phil and Walt Disney Concert Hall, Inc.

DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 27th season at Center Theatre Group. Previously, he managed Broadway and touring productions including Tru, Born Yesterday, The Gospel at Colonus, Annie, A Chorus Line, Working, The Wiz, and Legends!, which premiered at the Ahmanson Theatre in 1986 and starred Mary Martin and Carol Channing. Doug is a member of the Achievement Hall of Fame of Chagrin Falls Schools in Ohio and a graduate of Albion College. He is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network, and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents


and Managers. In May 2013 Doug received the Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.

LINDSAY ALLBAUGH (Associate Producer) is a member of Center Theatre Group’s artistic staff and has served in varying capacities for the past 12 years. Currently, Lindsay is developing and producing the inaugural Block Party program for Center Theatre Group, bringing three 99-seat theatre productions to the Douglas 2016/17 Season. Lindsay also serves as the artistic coordinator for Center Theatre Group’s Sherwood Award. Selected producing credits include—Mark Taper Forum: Bent, What the Butler Saw, Steward of Christendom, Waiting for Godot; Kirk Douglas Theatre: Endgame, Women Laughing Alone With Salad, Chavez Ravine, Race, different words for the same thing, The Nether. Co-Artistic Director of the Elephant Theatre 2004 – 2014.

NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Manager, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre) has worked professionally supporting artists in theatres of all shapes, sizes, and

locales including many seasons at Center Theatre Group as General Manager and, previously, as Audience Development Director. She oversees mainstage productions at the Taper and Douglas, as well as new play commissions and developmental productions through Center Theatre Group’s New Play Development. Nausica has taught at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, and advises and works with local nonprofits including Hollywood Orchard.

GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre—including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989, Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

Associate Lighting Designer ..............................................................Ric ZimmermanAssociate Projection Designer ............................................................. Kaitlyn Pietras

Assistant Costume Designer ....................................................Whitney OppenheimerScenic Artist .....................................................................................Katie PolebaumSound Board Operator ................................................................... Matthew ColleranVideo Technician .....................................................................................Ryan TirrellVideo Operator .....................................................................................Corwin EvansCarpentry Crew .......Richard Dunn, Kate Harrow, Bo Foxworth, Connor Hayes, Nick ..................................DeAcetis, Donavan Martinelli, Stephen Boatright, Nick SwaderElectrics Crew .......................Sean Meyer, Juan Lozano, Brent Oakes, Amelia Olsen, .............................................................. Alif Marchi, Ryan Tirrell, Vanessa RodriguezProp Crew .................... Donavon Martinelli, Eric Babb, Mara Holland, Patrick SmithProp Shopper ...........................................................................................Erin Walley

FRONT-OF-HOUSE LEADSTrevor Algatt, Bradford Barnes, Stephen Lydic, AJ Meijer,Eduardo Fernandez-Bauman, Tarah Pollock

CONCIERGESOlivia Choate, Eric Eberle, Carmen Echevarria, Amber Espinosa-Jones, Angela Garcia, Joan Kubicek, Sarah Lindsley, Adrienne Marquand, Chelsey Maus, Janice Motuapuaka, Nicole Naito, Daniel Rashid, Denise Reynoso, Leve Ross, Diana Spieller, Jor-el Vaasborg

DISCUSSION LEADERSChase Anderson-Shaw, Candice Clasby, Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Jay Lee, Stephen Lydic, Isabella Petrini, Tarah Pollock

CONCESSIONSAbilene Gonzalez, Monica Greene, Mike Lanahan, JoAnn Mendelson, Jason Vaughn

STAGE DOOR ATTENDANTSBen Durham, Michael Hanson, Ian Ray

SPECIAL THANKS FROM LUCY ALIBARRachel Chavkin, Leigh Silverman, Paul Lazar, Oliver Butler, Mina Morita, Maureen Towey, Janice Paran

CREDITSCostumes provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop. Production photography by Craig Schwartz.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and

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

The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc., an independent national labor union.

Center Theatre Group is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), the American Arts Alliance, the Broadway League, Independent Producers’ Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and the Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

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Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication and extraordinary efforts. MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE Managing Director

DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director

ARTISTICNEEL KELLER ................................... Associate Artistic DirectorKELLEY KIRKPATRICK ..................... Associate Artistic DirectorDIANE RODRIGUEZ ......................... Associate Artistic DirectorLINDSAY ALLBAUGH ................................. Associate Producer PATRICIA GARZA ........Artistic Development Program ManagerJOY MEADS ... Literary Manager/Artistic Engagement Strategist

DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), STEVE CUIFFO, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, WILL ENO (FADIMAN), MATT GOULD, DANAI GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, DAVID HENRY HWANG, JOE ICONIS, NAOMI IIZUKA, BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS, RAJIV JOSEPH, KIMBER LEE, GRIFFIN MATTHEWS, LAURAL MEADE, RICHARD MONTOYA, DAN O’BRIEN, DENIS O’HARE, LEE OVERTREE, LISA PETERSON, PLAYWRIGHTS ARENA, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), RIMINI PROTOKOLL, RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, KEN ROHT, MATT SAX, ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH, RIPE TIME, TRACEY SCOTT WILSON (FADIMAN) ..... Commissioned Artists

TOM JACOBSON, ALLISON MOORE, JANINE NABERS, SYLVAN OSWALD, DARIA POLATIN, CHARISE CASTRO SMITH, MARTIN ZIMMERMAN ............................. L.A. Writers’ Workshop Members

EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPSLESLIE K. JOHNSON ....................... Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and ImpactKATHRYN MACKENZIE .......... Department Operations DirectorTRACI KWON ....................... Arts Education Initiatives DirectorCAMILLE SCHENKKAN .......Next Generation Initiatives DirectorJESUS REYES ....................... Community Partnerships DirectorFELIPE M. SANCHEZ ................................... Program AssociateJENNIFER HARRELL ................................ Operations AssistantKHANISHA FOSTER............................ Resident Teaching ArtistDEBRA PIVER ..................................... Resident Teaching Artist

MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIONNAUSICA STERGIOU ..................................... General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre)JEFFREY UPAH ............ General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre)KATIE SOFF .......................................... Asst General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPD) JAMES VIGGIANO ........................................Company Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre)CASEY MCDERMOTT ..............General Management Associate

ERIC SIMS ................................. Director of Theatre Operations (Kirk Douglas Theatre)TOM BURMESTER ...................... Audience Experience Design/ Front of House Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre)MAX OKEN...................Facility Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JAQUELYN JOHNSON ...............Associate Audience Experience ...................Designer (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Mark Taper Forum)LAUREN BAXA ...................... Assistant Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre)SONDRA MAYER ....................................Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre)

ALANA BEIDELMAN .................................. Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director EVELYN STAFFORD ................................... Executive Assistant to the Managing DirectorSUZANNE MAYBERRY ................... Interim Casting Coordinator

PRODUCTION DAWN HOLISKI ..... Production Department Operations DirectorJOE HAMLIN ............................................... Technical Director/ Ahmanson Production ManagerSHAWN ANDERSON ..... Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre)STAN STEELMON ... Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre)JIM BERGER ................ Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre)ROBERT SMITH ...........Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre)MICHAEL GARDNER................................ Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre)PATRICE K. MADRIGAL ............. Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre)CHRISTINE L. COX .......... House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre)

JONATHAN BARLOW LEE ......................... Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum)KATE COLTUN .......................... Associate Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum)EMMET KAISER .............Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) ROBERT RUBY ........ Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) WILLIAM MORNER ...... Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE.......... Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum)

DENNIS SEETOO .... Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) RICK GEYER ...................................Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) LINDA WALKER ............. House Manager (Mark Taper Forum)

CHRISTY WEIKEL ......................................Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre)CHRISTOPHER REARDON ........ Assistant Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre)AARON STAUBACH ...................................... Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre)ADAM PHALEN ................. Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre)SEAN MEYER .............. Light Board Programmer and Operator (Kirk Douglas Theatre)KATIE POLEBAUM ......Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre)CAMBRIA CHICHI .....................................Wardrobe Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre)

KRYSTIN MATSUMOTO ............ Assistant Production ManagerCHAD SMITH ............................... Associate Technical DirectorLEE O’REILLY ................................ Assistant Technical DirectorSEAN KLOC.........................................................Shop Foreman

ANDREW THIELS ..................................................Prop DirectorMERRIANNE NEDREBERG ................. Associate Prop Manager JON WARD .......................................... Associate Prop Manager CANDICE CAIN .............................................. Costume DirectorBRENT M. BRUIN ................................Costume Shop ManagerMADDIE KELLER.........................................Costume GeneralistWHITNEY OPPENHEIMER ................................. Shop AssistantSWANTJE TUOHINO ......................................................... TailorELIZABETH LEONARD .................................. Facilities ManagerJULIO A. CUELLAR ..........................................Driver/CustodianBO FOXWORTH, BRIAN SLATEN .................................. DriversPETER WYLIE ....................................... Production Coordinator

FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCESCHERYL SHEPHERD ...............................Chief Financial OfficerSUZANNE BROWN .................................................... ControllerJANIS BOWBEER ....................................... Assistant ControllerXOCHITL RAMIREZ .................... Accounts Payable CoordinatorALEGRIA SENA .............................................. Staff AccountantSHYNASTY WILKES ........................................ Staff AccountantAMEETA SHARMA .......................................... Payroll ManagerJEFF LOUIE ................................................... Payroll Specialist

STAN GRUSHESKY ................. Director of Information SystemsMANDY RATLIFF.................. Sr. Database & Web AdministratorASH LEWIS ......................................... Help Desk Administrator

JODY HORWITZ ..........................Director of Human ResourcesPJ. PHILLIPS .....................Senior Human Resources GeneralistSINGER LEWAK, LLP .................................................... AuditorMICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF........ Legal CounselGIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER ........................... Legal Counsel

INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENTYVONNE CARLSON BELL ......................................... Director of Institutional AdvancementPATRICK OWEN ........................................... Deputy Director of Institutional AdvancementNATALIE BERGESON ................ Director of Donor EngagementLIZ LIN ................................................ Director of Development Artist and Entertainment RelationsCHARITY WU ..................... Director of Major Gifts StewardshipBECKY BIRDSONG ....... Major Gifts and Planned Giving OfficerKATY HILTON ........................................... Associate Director of Foundation and Government Support LAURA HITE ..........................................Manager of Major GiftsDANIELLE LESNER .... Associate Director of Donor EngagementMANDI OR .......................................... Special Events ManagerROBBIE MARTIN ...... Associate Director of Corporate RelationsJENNIFER CHAN ............................ Special Events CoordinatorDONALD JOLLY .......................... Donor Experience CoordinatorJAZMINE JONES .......................... Donor Relations CoordinatorKIM OKAMURA ............................................... Grants ManagerERIN SCHLABACH .............Manager of Major Gifts StewardshipERIC SEPPALA ........... Board Liaison and Executive Assistant to the Director of Institutional AdvancementMATTHEW SUTPHIN ........Institutional Advancement Associate

AL BERMAN, JOHN COPELAND, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, DAVID GARVER, MIKE RATTERMAN, BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ, NICOLE SCIPIONE, PAUL VITAGLIANO .............Donor AdvisorsKARLA GALVEZ ................................ Donor Services AssociateWAUKENA CUYJET, MURRAY E. HELTZER, JULIE NADAL ...................................... Development Volunteers

MARKETING DEBORAH WARREN .................................Director of MarketingKYLE HALL............................Advertising & Promotions DirectorARIE LEVINE ......................... Marketing & Advertising ManagerKIYOMI EMI ............................ Audience Development ManagerGARRETT COLLINS ......................... Audience Loyalty ManagerJOHN POTTER ........................................... Executive Assistant

DEANNA MCCLURE................................................ Art DirectorIRENE T. KANESHIRO .......................... Senior Design ManagerMICHAEL CORREA ........................................ Graphic DesignerJAVIER VASQUEZ ........................................... Graphic Designer

COMMUNICATIONSJAMES SIMS ..................................Director of CommunicationsJASON MARTIN ............................................. Head of PublicityPHYLLIS MOBERLY .......................................... Senior PublicistKRISTI AVILA .....................................................Junior PublicistSARAH ROTHBARD ..............Senior Manager, Communications ...............................................................................and EditorialJOHN JOHNSON .........................Communications CoordinatorARIELLE LAUB .............................Communications CoordinatorSARAH GOLDBAUM ............................. Digital Media SpecialistHAL BANFIELD .........................................Multimedia Producer

TICKET SALES AND SERVICESSHAWN ROBERTSON .............................. Ticket Sales DirectorSKYPP CABANAS .......................... Ticket Operations ManagerRACHYL UNDERWOOD ..............Ticket Operations Coordinator

MICHAEL ZOLDESSY ........................... Account Sales ManagerSAVANNAH L. BARKER ...................Account Sales Coordinator

SANDY CZUBIAK .............................. Audience and Subscriber Services DirectorJENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE .............. Audience Services SupervisorsALICE CHEN ..................... Audience Services Asst. SupervisorGARY HOLLAND, DEBORAH REED ............ Audience Services Sales AssociatesSAM AARON, JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, KIMBERLY ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., MICHAEL ESPINOZA, ANASTASHIA GARCIA, SANDRA PEDROZA, EILEEN PEREZ, JUSTINE PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, TEVIN WILLIAMS .............. Audience Services Representatives

DANUTA SIEMAK ..................... Subscriber Services SupervisorCHRISTINA GUTIERREZ Subscriber Services Asst. SupervisorIRENE CHUANG, LIGIA PISTE, PETER STALOCH ....................................... Subscriber Services Senior RepresentativesSARAH K. GONTA ................................... Box Office Treasurer ANGELICA Carbajal, KISHISA ROSS ......... Assistant Treasurers MICHAEL KEMPISTY, KEVIN LAUVER, LEROY PAWLOWSKI, MICHAEL SALTZMAN, CRIS SPACCA ................................................... Box Office Staff

KERRY KORF ..................................... Priority Services DirectorSUSAN F. TULLER ......... Priority Services Operations ManagerCANDICE WALTERS ................. Priority Services Sales ManagerPAUL CUEN ..................................... Priority Services ManagerKRISTEN SCHRASS ........ Priority Services Assistant SupervisorBEALENE AHERN, ADRIENNE BROWN, ESTEBAN CRUZ, ERIC CZULEGER, MAGGIE DODD, NIC DRESSEL, SOFIJA DUTCHER, MARC “BYRON” DROTMAN, FRANK ENSENBERGER, SAM ELSE, LOU GEORGE, SHEP KOSTER, KIMBERLY KURZINGER, SARAH MARCUM, DEVEN SIMONSON, MICHAEL SMITH, JEFFREY STUBBLEFIELD, DIANE WARD ................................................... Representatives

INTERNSMICHAELA BULKLEY, MADISON DAHM, ANGELINA FINAU, TRICIA GUNTER, HOWARD HO, MILLIE KREITLOW, JOCELYN LOPEZ, JALON MATTHEWS, EMILY MONEYMAKER, MARIE RIOS, MICHAEL STANCLIFF, SARAH STEIKER, REBECCA WEAR, KRISTIN YAMAKA

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