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June 10 - July 24, 2016 Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre

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Dreamgirls ............................. 5

Cast/Musicians/ Creative Support Team ........ 7

Artist Bios .............................. 8

DTC Leadership .................. 15

Dreamgirls Musical Numbers ................ 16

A Note From the Director ... 18

Board of Trustees/ Theatre Forward ................. 22

The Benefactors ................. 23

Friends@DTC ...................... 24

DTC Guild ............................ 25

Corporate Contributors ..... 26

Institutional Contributors ... 27

Staff ...................................... 30

Dallas Theater Center’s Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company ... 31

Donor Spotlight: Jim Bennett ......................... 32

2015-2016 SEASON


book and lyrics by

Tom Eyen music by

Henry Kriegeroriginal broadway production

directed and choreographed by

Michael Bennett

orchestrations by

Harold Wheelerwith

Kristen BondDerrick DavisJeremy Davis

Ayanna EdwardsHassan El-Amin

Clinton GreenspanChristopher Figaro Jackson

Tiana Kaye JohnsonJoshua Keith

Gabriel LawsonTraci Elaine Lee

Walter LeeEbony Marshall-Oliver

Micah Ndiba

Alex OrganGabrielle Reyes

Alexis SimsWillie Smith III

Jay StatenEric LaJuan Summers

Marisha Wallace

CAST/MUSICIANS/CREATIVE SUPPORT TEAMKevin Moriartyartistic director

Jeffrey Woodwardmanaging director

presents

hair and wig designer

J. Jared Janasstage manager

Megan Wintersproduction manager

Barb Hicks

scenic designer

Bob Lavalleecostume designer

Karen Perry lighting designer

Lap Chi Chusound designer

Aria Music Design

new york casting

Tara Rubin Castinglocal casting

Travis Ballenger

directed by

Joel Ferrell

choreographed by

Rickey Tripp

music director, music supervisor and conductor

Michael O. Mitchell

Dallas Theater Center’s Production Staff is responsible for the sets, costumes, lighting, props, furniture, scenic painting, sound, special effects and wigs used in this production.

Dreamgirls is presented by arrangement with Tams-Whitmark Music Library, Inc., 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, 10022

DREAMGIRLS

DALLAS TOURISM PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTGay and Lesbian Fund for Dallas

Dallas Theater Center Guild • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP • Haynes and Boone, LLPMunck Wilson Mandala, LLP • Vinson & Elkins LLP

sponsors

produced on broadway by

Michael Bennett, Robert Avian, Geffen Records and The Shubert Organization



cast, in alphabetical order

Lorrell Robinson ......................................................................................... KRISTEN BONDCurtis Taylor, Jr. .........................................................................................DERRICK DAVIS* Marty Madison ...................................................................................... HASSAN EL-AMIN*C.C. White ......................................................................................CLINTON GREENSPANMichelle Morris ......................................................................................TRACI ELAINE LEE*Deena Jones .................................................................................................. ALEXIS SIMS*James "Thunder" Early .................................................................ERIC LAJUAN SUMMERS*Effie White ........................................................................................MARISHA WALLACE*

Female Ensemble .....................................AYANNA EDWARDS, TIANA KAYE JOHNSON*, EBONY MARSHALL-OLIVER*, GABRIELLE REYES,

Male Ensemble ............................... JEREMY DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER FIGARO JACKSON*, JOSHUA KEITH*, GABRIEL LAWSON, WALTER LEE*, MICAH NDIBA,

ALEX ORGAN*, WILLIE SMITH III*, JAY STATEN*

Understudies ...........................JEREMY DAVIS, AYANNA EDWARDS, GABRIEL LAWSON, MICAH NDIBA, GABRIELLE REYES

musicians

Music Director / Music Supervisor / Conductor........................................... MICHAEL O. MITCHELLAssociate Music Director / Associate Conductor ...............................................VONDA K. BOWLINGSynthesizer ....................................................................................................BRIAN PIPERGuitar ..................................................................................................... TODD PARSNOWBass ............................................................................................................. BEN ADKINSDrums ...................................................................................................TERENCE HOBDYTrombones .................................................................ERIC SWANSON, WES WOODROWTrumpets ............................................................................ ANDREW BEZIK, DAN EVANSPercussion ..................................................................................................GENE GLOVERReeds .............................................................................. RANDY LEE, DREW ZAREMBAMusic Contractor ......................................................................................DEBBIE BROOKSSynthesizer Programmer ......................................................................... BRIAN McDONALD

creative support team

Associate Director ......................................................................................CHRISTIE VELAAssistant Director ................................................................................. CONNER PALMOREAssistant Choreographer ......................................................................... ANTUAN RAIMONEAssistant Set Designer ........................................................................... MICHELLE HARVEYAssistant Costume Designer ...............................................................BETTY FENNER DAVISAssistant Sound Designer .............................................................. CHRISTOPHER LaporteAssociate Lighting Designer ...................................................................ALEXANDER FREERDance Captain .................................................................................................. JAY STATEN*Stage Manager ....................................................................................... MEGAN WINTERS*Assistant Stage Manager .......................................................................... CHEYNEY COLES*Production Assistant ................................................................................RACHEL GARRETT

SETTING: United States TIME: 1960s-1970s

CAST/MUSICIANS/CREATIVE SUPPORT TEAM

The scenic, costume, lighting sound and projection designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

This theater operates under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors & Stage Managers in the United States. DTC is a member of the League of Resident Theaters; a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the nonprofit professional theater; the Dallas Chamber of Commerce; and the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau.

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

Member, Brierley Resident Acting Company

sound designer Aria Music Design

music director, music supervisor and conductor

Michael O. Mitchell

DALLAS TOURISM PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTGay and Lesbian Fund for Dallas

Dallas Theater Center Guild • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP • Haynes and Boone, LLPMunck Wilson Mandala, LLP • Vinson & Elkins LLP

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KRISTEN BOND (Lorrel l Robinson) DTC: Stagger Lee. Education: Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Music, Dance), Tyler Junior College (Dance), KD Studio Actors’ Conservatory (Musical Theatre). Dance: Dallas Black

Dance Company II (former member), Echo Theatre (Choreographer), WaterTower Theatre (co-choreographed with Akin Babatunde). Jubilee Theatre: The Color Purple (Nettie). Lyric Stage: The Human Comedy (Beautiful Music), West Side Story (Francesca). Echo Theatre: Her Song (Adelaide Hall). WaterTower Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors (Chiffon), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Theater Three: Lost in the Stars (Irena).

DERRICK DAVIS (Curtis Taylor, Jr.) is a proud Actors' Equity Member. Broadway: The Lion King (Mufasa/Scar cover). National Tour: The Lion King (Mufasa). Regional: The Lion King (Las Vegas); Show Boat; Earl Wilson Jr.’s You’re It!. Opera: Amahl and the Night

Visitors, Die Fledermaus. TV: Dangerous Liaisons; Dancing With the Stars; Live With Regis and Kelly; The View. Film: Can a Song Save Your Life. Concert: Featured Soloist, Las Vegas Philharmonic’s Rogers & Hammerstein Concert. Albums (iTunes): “Life Music” and “A Christmas Journey.” Producer: NYC’s #1 curated weekly open-mic: “Lights Out on Broadway.” TheRealDerrickDavis.com

J E R E M Y DA V I S ( M a l e Ensemble; Understudy, Marty Madison and Curtis Taylor, Jr.) is making his DTC debut in Dreamgirls. He’s a native of Mexia, TX., and has been seen in several productions including: The Color Purple (Mister), RENT (Tom Collins),

and Shrek the Musical (Shrek). He was recently seen as Amonasro in Uptown Players concert version of Aida and Noah/Ensemble in Jubilee Theatre’s God’s Trombones. He is thrilled to be a part of this amazing cast and he feels blessed to share the stage with these amazing talented people from around the world. Jeremy would like to thank his friends and family for their continuous love and support.

AYANNA EDWARDS (Female Ensemble; Understudy, Effie White) is enthusiastic to make her DTC debut in Dreamgirls! A recent graduate of KD Conservatory’s Musical Theater program, she has appeared in numerous plays and musicals around the metroplex, including

TILL (2016); Edges (2015); Shrek the Musical (2015); Futures (2014); Ebony Scrooge (2013); and Aida (2013), to name a few. Film: Flawless (2015), Carter High (2015). She is a proud member of the group Artists Unplugged. Ayanna thanks Joel Ferrell, Rickey Tripp, Michael Mitchell and the entire crew and cast for working tirelessly to put this production together.

HASSAN EL-AMIN (Marty Madison) is a member of DTC’s Brierley Resident Acting Company and a community artist at DTC, where his acting credits include: All the Way; A Christmas Carol; The Mountaintop; Colossal; Stagger Lee; Driving Miss Daisy; Les

Misérables; Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure; A Raisin in the Sun; Clybourne Park; FLY; The Odd Couple; King Lear; God of Carnage; The Wiz; Henry IV; and Death of a Salesman. Regional credits: Fences; Seven Guitars; Radio Golf; Jitney; Blues for an Alabama Sky; The Lion King; The Tempest; Julius Caesar; Othellov Stick Fly; Whipping Man; and Soldier’s Play. Theaters: Kennedy Center; Mark Taper Forum; Goodman; Arena Stage; Guthrie; Alliance; Huntington; Denver Center; Portland Center Stage; Trinity Repertory; Milwaukee Repertory; San Diego Repertory; Penumbra; African American Repertory Theatre; Colorado, Oregon, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. Education: MFA, University of Delaware.

CLINTON GREENSPAN (C.C. White) DTC: Romeo and Juliet. Regional: Bonnie & Clyde, Sweet Charity (WaterTower Theatre); Hot Mikado (Theatre Three); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Uptown Players); In the Heights (Collin Theatre Center); Peter Pan, Fiddler

on the Roof (Casa Mañana Theatre); West Side Story (Garland Summer Musicals); Pleasures and Palaces (Lyric Stage); The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley (Dallas Children’s Theater). International Tour: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. He played Michael/Billy in As We Lie Still performed at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Studied Musical Theatre at KD College.

ARTIST BIOS



C H R I S T O P H E R F I G A R O JACKSON (Male Ensemble) is a graduate of Chicago Academy for the Arts. Dance: River North Dance Chicago, Ailey ll and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Theater: Kill Kill or Die, Freedom: The Musical, and Disney’s The Lion King! (National Tour). He is

currently on faculty at The Ailey School & is also adjunct professor of dance at NYU. In 2008, he had the honor to perform for President Barack Obama at The Kennedy Center in D.C. He is the current Associate Director of the Victory Dance Project, and he is thrilled to join the DTC family.

TIANA KAYE JOHNSON (Female Ensemble) is a member of DTC's Brierley Resident Acting Company, and has an MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University. DTC: The Mountaintop and The Book Club Play (Lily). SMU: Look Homeward, Angel (Eliza

Gant). Prairie View A&M University: Once on This Island (Madame Armand/Andrea/Storyteller), To Be Young Gifted and Black (Lorraine Hansberry), and Jelly’s Last Jam (Anita). Tiana is a proud company member of Progress Theatre Touring Ensemble based in Houston, Texas. She enjoys serving the community and inspiring social change through the arts. Tiana can be seen next at DTC in A Christmas Carol.

JOSHUA KEITH (Male Ensemble) is elated to be in DTC’s Dreamgirls. National Tours: Dirty Dancing (Featured Ensemble, 1st Tito Cover, De Todo Un Poco Soloist). Regional: A Christmas Carol, All Shook Up (North Shore Music Theatre); In the Heights (Walnut Street Theatre); A Chorus Line (Maine State Music

Theater); Cutman: A Boxing Musical (Goodspeed Musicals); Debbie Allen’s OMAN! OMAN! (The Kennedy Center). B.F.A Howard University. Many Thanks to my amazing family, and to my loving fiancé, I love you. Look how far we’ve come! Joshua 1:8. Facebook: Joshua Keith - Instagram: joshuakeith1

GABRIEL LAWSON (Male Ensemble; Understudy James "Thunder" Early) is overjoyed to be a part of his first show at DTC. Being raised in the, extremely talented, theatre community of the DFW area, he was most recently seen in Jubilee Theatre’s The Color

Purple (Harpo), Lyric Stage’s The Human Comedy, and Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre’s Hairspray. After graduating from Texas Christian University, Gabriel moved to New York to pursue a recording artist career and continue performing in theatre. He will always give thanks to God, his family and his “GoodVibes” for their love and support!

TRACI ELAINE LEE (Michelle Morris) is thrilled to be back at DTC with Dreamgirls. DTC: A Christmas Carol; Stagger Lee; Les Misérables; The Fortress of Solitude; and Cabaret. Regional/Local: Les Misérables (ZACH Theatre); The Little Shop of Horrors;

The Full Monty (WaterTower Theatre); The Drowsy Chaperone (Theatre Three); Avenue Q (Theatre Too); RENT; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Little Women (Collin College). She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre with a dance emphasis from Sam Houston State University. Traci is a resident of New York and is represented by Avalon Artists Group.

WALTER LEE (Male Ensemble) is ecstatic to be joining the cast of Dreamgirls! Not a stranger to DTC, Walter was previously seen in The Rocky Horror Show (Columbia) and Cabaret (Frenchie). Previous roles include: Pageant (Miss Texas) and Songs for a New

World (Man 1) at Uptown Players; RENT (Angel) at Casa Mañana; Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Victor), Parade (Jim Conley) at WaterTower Theatre. Walter thanks his family and friends for supporting his craft! “If it’s not pure talent, sell it like it is and the audience will never know.” - Walter Lee

EBONY MARSHALL-OLIVER (Female Ensemble) is excited to be making her DTC debut! Regional credits include Memphis; The Color Purple; In Real Life; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Neat; Pretty Fire; to name a few. She’s a graduate of the American Musical and

Dramatic Academy in NYC. She can be heard as the voice of the Sour Kangaroo on the original Off-Broadway cast recording of Seussical. All glory to God and a big thank you to my husband, son, and family for their support!

AYANNA EDWARDS (Female Ensemble; Understudy, Effie White) is enthusiastic to make her DTC debut in Dreamgirls! A recent graduate of KD Conservatory’s Musical Theater program, she has appeared in numerous plays and musicals around the metroplex, including

TILL (2016); Edges (2015); Shrek the Musical (2015); Futures (2014); Ebony Scrooge (2013); and Aida (2013), to name a few. Film: Flawless (2015), Carter High (2015). She is a proud member of the group Artists Unplugged. Ayanna thanks Joel Ferrell, Rickey Tripp, Michael Mitchell and the entire crew and cast for working tirelessly to put this production together.

HASSAN EL-AMIN (Marty Madison) is a member of DTC’s Brierley Resident Acting Company and a community artist at DTC, where his acting credits include: All the Way; A Christmas Carol; The Mountaintop; Colossal; Stagger Lee; Driving Miss Daisy; Les

Misérables; Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure; A Raisin in the Sun; Clybourne Park; FLY; The Odd Couple; King Lear; God of Carnage; The Wiz; Henry IV; and Death of a Salesman. Regional credits: Fences; Seven Guitars; Radio Golf; Jitney; Blues for an Alabama Sky; The Lion King; The Tempest; Julius Caesar; Othellov Stick Fly; Whipping Man; and Soldier’s Play. Theaters: Kennedy Center; Mark Taper Forum; Goodman; Arena Stage; Guthrie; Alliance; Huntington; Denver Center; Portland Center Stage; Trinity Repertory; Milwaukee Repertory; San Diego Repertory; Penumbra; African American Repertory Theatre; Colorado, Oregon, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. Education: MFA, University of Delaware.

CLINTON GREENSPAN (C.C. White) DTC: Romeo and Juliet. Regional: Bonnie & Clyde, Sweet Charity (WaterTower Theatre); Hot Mikado (Theatre Three); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Uptown Players); In the Heights (Collin Theatre Center); Peter Pan, Fiddler

on the Roof (Casa Mañana Theatre); West Side Story (Garland Summer Musicals); Pleasures and Palaces (Lyric Stage); The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley (Dallas Children’s Theater). International Tour: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. He played Michael/Billy in As We Lie Still performed at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Studied Musical Theatre at KD College.

ARTIST BIOS



M I C A H N D I B A ( M a l e Ensemble; Understudy, C.C. White) is blessed to be making his DTC debut! He is currently working on his Bachelor of Music (BM) in Musical Theatre at the University of Central Oklahoma. Work includes: Chicago (Jewel Box Theatre),

Guys and Dolls (Summerstock Productions Inc), and Shrek the Musical (Pollard Theatre). Micah would like to thank his instructors at UCO, his voice teacher Regina Grimaldi, and his mother for all her support.

ALEX ORGAN (Male Ensemble) is a member of DTC’s Brierley Resident Acting Company, where his credits include: All the Way; A Christmas Carol (2014, 2015); Sense and Sensibility; The Rocky Horror Show; Les Misérables; The Fortress of Solitude; Fly By

Night. Local/Regional: Second Thought Theatre (The Great God Pan, Othello, Red Light Winter); Undermain Theatre (The Flick; Profanity); Theatre Three (The Farnsworth Invention); WaterTower Theatre; Trinity Shakespeare Festival; Shakespeare Dallas; Lyric Stage; Epic Theater Ensemble; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; and the Elm Shakespeare Festival. Film/TV: Law & Order: SVU and Second Guessing Grandma. Alex is the Artistic Director of Second Thought Theatre where he recently directed A Behanding in Spokane and Cock. MFA Yale Drama. Alex can be seen next at DTC in Constellations, the first show of the 2016-2017 season.

GABRIELLE REYES (Female E n s e m b l e ; U n d e r s t u d y, Deena Jones and Lorrel l R o b i n s o n ) D T C d e b u t . Television credits: Mad Men; Scandal; Aquarius; Switched at Birth. Film credits: The Whitney Houston Story; Yes, We’re Open; Driving While

Black; Godbox. Graduated with a BFA in Acting from the University of Oklahoma.

ALEXIS SIMS (Deena Jones) is thrilled to be in Dallas with this fabulous cast and crew! Favorite credits include Cirque du Soleil’s Banana Shpeel (Lead Singer), Smokey Joe’s (Brenda), and Shout! (Green Girl). New York: The Public Theater, The Duke On 42nd

Street (Standard Time), and Matthew Corozine Studio. Regional: Dreamgirls (Deena); Runaways (Deidre); And the World Goes ‘Round (Woman 1); Once on this Island (Erzulie); Jelly’s Last Jam (Hunnie); and A Chorus Line (Cassie). AEA. Take 3 Talent. University of Michigan. Mom, Dad, Matty, Gran, and Grandma - this is for you.

WILLIE SMITH III (Male Ensemb le ) i s a na t i v e o f Char lo t te , NC . , who hasperformed at Weir Dancing, Inc.; Debbie Allen Dance Academy; PHILADANCO!;and International Ballet Classique. A graduate of Northwest School of the Arts, he received

his BFA in Ballet Performance from The University of the Arts. Willie was a member of Eleone Dance Theatre, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and is a current member of Camille A. Brown & Dancers. Performances: Pennsylvania Ballet; Ballet Noir; Waheed Works; Ballet Folklorique D’Haiti; and on America’s Got Talent. Assistant Choreography: Desmond Richardson, Troy Powell, Ray Mercer and Camille A. Brown.

J A Y S T A T E N ( M a l e Ensemble/Dance Captain) is a Washington DC native, Jay began his training at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Marymount Manhattan College. DTC: Stagger Lee. NYC: Cabin in the Sky (Encores! New York City

Center). Broadway: After Midnight. Dance Companies: PHILADANCO!; Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theatre. TV: NBC’s Smash, Amici (Italian TV). Workshops and Developmental Labs; Shuffle Along with Dir. George C. Wolfe and choreography by Savion Glover, Radio City New York Spring Spectacular, Superfly The Musical with Director/ Choreographer Bill T. Jones. Thanks, Mom! #CESD

ARTIST BIOSERIC LAJUAN SUMMERS (James “Thunder” Early) was seen on Broadway in the original company of Motown: the Musical playing Jackie Wilson, Billy Gordon of The Contours, and Rick James among others, and earning him the 2013 Fred and Adele

Astaire Award. Other Broadway: Disney’s Aida (Mereb); Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Jetsam); Elf (2012 original cast); and The Wedding Singer (original cast). Film/TV: Reunion 108, The Carrie Diaries, and Get On Up (voice of Little Richard). Eric has also performed for the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Greensboro, and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras! ericlsummers.com

MARISHA WALLACE (Effie White) is excited to make her DTC debut in her dream role. Marisha is in the Original Broadway Cast of Something Rotten!. She has performed at the 2014 and 2015 Tony Awards®. Broadway: Disney’s Aladdin (Fortune Teller/OBC).

National Tour: Book of Mormon (1st National). Film/TV: Disney’s Frozen Fever. Regional: Oklahoma! (Ado Annie), A Night with Janis Joplin (Blues Singer), Dreamgirls (Effie). East Carolina University alum! Thanks to God, Mom, Family, Casey Nicholaw, Steven Unger, BRS/GAGE and my husband and my rock Dom! @marishawallace marishawallace.com

Special thanks to the Dallas Theater Center Guild,

underwriters for the role of Effie White.

TOM EYEN (Author and Lyricist) is best known for works at opposite ends of the theatrical spectrum. Mainstream theatergoers became acquainted with him in 1981, when he partnered with composer Henry Krieger and director Michael Bennett to write the book and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Eyen's career started, however, with avant garde plays and musicals that he wrote and directed Off-Off Broadway in the early 1960s. This eventually led to Off-Broadway success in the 1970s, with the controversial nudity-filled performance-art play, The Dirtiest Show in Town and Women Behind Bars, a camp parody of women's prison exploitation films. Eyen died in Palm Beach, Florida at the age of fifty.



ALEXIS SIMS (Deena Jones) is thrilled to be in Dallas with this fabulous cast and crew! Favorite credits include Cirque du Soleil’s Banana Shpeel (Lead Singer), Smokey Joe’s (Brenda), and Shout! (Green Girl). New York: The Public Theater, The Duke On 42nd

Street (Standard Time), and Matthew Corozine Studio. Regional: Dreamgirls (Deena); Runaways (Deidre); And the World Goes ‘Round (Woman 1); Once on this Island (Erzulie); Jelly’s Last Jam (Hunnie); and A Chorus Line (Cassie). AEA. Take 3 Talent. University of Michigan. Mom, Dad, Matty, Gran, and Grandma - this is for you.

WILLIE SMITH III (Male Ensemb le ) i s a na t i v e o f Char lo t te , NC . , who hasperformed at Weir Dancing, Inc.; Debbie Allen Dance Academy; PHILADANCO!;and International Ballet Classique. A graduate of Northwest School of the Arts, he received

his BFA in Ballet Performance from The University of the Arts. Willie was a member of Eleone Dance Theatre, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and is a current member of Camille A. Brown & Dancers. Performances: Pennsylvania Ballet; Ballet Noir; Waheed Works; Ballet Folklorique D’Haiti; and on America’s Got Talent. Assistant Choreography: Desmond Richardson, Troy Powell, Ray Mercer and Camille A. Brown.

J A Y S T A T E N ( M a l e Ensemble/Dance Captain) is a Washington DC native, Jay began his training at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Marymount Manhattan College. DTC: Stagger Lee. NYC: Cabin in the Sky (Encores! New York City

Center). Broadway: After Midnight. Dance Companies: PHILADANCO!; Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theatre. TV: NBC’s Smash, Amici (Italian TV). Workshops and Developmental Labs; Shuffle Along with Dir. George C. Wolfe and choreography by Savion Glover, Radio City New York Spring Spectacular, Superfly The Musical with Director/ Choreographer Bill T. Jones. Thanks, Mom! #CESD

ARTIST BIOSERIC LAJUAN SUMMERS (James “Thunder” Early) was seen on Broadway in the original company of Motown: the Musical playing Jackie Wilson, Billy Gordon of The Contours, and Rick James among others, and earning him the 2013 Fred and Adele

Astaire Award. Other Broadway: Disney’s Aida (Mereb); Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Jetsam); Elf (2012 original cast); and The Wedding Singer (original cast). Film/TV: Reunion 108, The Carrie Diaries, and Get On Up (voice of Little Richard). Eric has also performed for the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Greensboro, and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras! ericlsummers.com

MARISHA WALLACE (Effie White) is excited to make her DTC debut in her dream role. Marisha is in the Original Broadway Cast of Something Rotten!. She has performed at the 2014 and 2015 Tony Awards®. Broadway: Disney’s Aladdin (Fortune Teller/OBC).

National Tour: Book of Mormon (1st National). Film/TV: Disney’s Frozen Fever. Regional: Oklahoma! (Ado Annie), A Night with Janis Joplin (Blues Singer), Dreamgirls (Effie). East Carolina University alum! Thanks to God, Mom, Family, Casey Nicholaw, Steven Unger, BRS/GAGE and my husband and my rock Dom! @marishawallace marishawallace.com

Special thanks to the Dallas Theater Center Guild,

underwriters for the role of Effie White.

TOM EYEN (Author and Lyricist) is best known for works at opposite ends of the theatrical spectrum. Mainstream theatergoers became acquainted with him in 1981, when he partnered with composer Henry Krieger and director Michael Bennett to write the book and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Eyen's career started, however, with avant garde plays and musicals that he wrote and directed Off-Off Broadway in the early 1960s. This eventually led to Off-Broadway success in the 1970s, with the controversial nudity-filled performance-art play, The Dirtiest Show in Town and Women Behind Bars, a camp parody of women's prison exploitation films. Eyen died in Palm Beach, Florida at the age of fifty.

HENRY KRIEGER (Composer) began composing for Off-Broadway while in his ‘20s, during which time he met lyricist Tom Eyen. Together they created the score for the landmark 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls, which received six Tony Awards®. Mr. Krieger won a Tony® nomination for his score to Dreamgirls, as well as the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album. Two years later, his musical The Tap Dance Kid opened on Broadway, earning a pair of Tony Awards®. He collaborated with Bill Russell on the Broadway musical Side Show (1997, Tony Award® nomination for Best Score) and the regional musicals, Everything's Ducky (2000; revised as Lucky Duck in 2004), and KEPT (2002), a modern re-telling of the Camille story. Krieger and Russell also wrote "Santa's Gonna Rock And Roll," the opening number of the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular for over a decade, and they were also commissioned to write "Take The Flame," for the opening and closing ceremonies of Gay Games IV. With lyricist Susan Birkenhead, he contributed two songs to HATS!, the musical revue of the Red Hat Society. In 2006, Dreamgirls was made into a major feature film, with songs by Henry Krieger, Tom Eyen and others.

JOEL FERRELL (Director) is Associate Artistic Director at DTC, where his directing/choreography credits include: The Rocky Horror Show; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat; Cabaret; A Christmas Carol (2005-2009, 2011, 2012). DTC directing credits include: Romeo and Juliet; Clybourne Park; Red; God of Carnage; Dividing the Estate; reasons to be pretty; The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later; and Cotton Patch Gospel (starring its creator Tom Key). Recent DTC acting: Colossal. DTC choreography credits include: It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Who’s Tommy; and My Fair Lady. DFW Credits: Gruesome Playground Injuries, Othello (Second Thought Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Baltimore Waltz (Stage West); the premiere of Huck Finn by Lee Trull (Classical Acting Company); and Love’s Labors Lost, Comedy Of Errors (Trinity Shakespeare Festival). Mr. Ferrell has worked extensively around the country for Denver Center Theater, Portland Center Stage, North Shore Music Theater, Ford’s Theater and many more.

RICKEY TRIPP (Choreographer) Dance Educator, Certified Zena Rommett Floor-Barre Technique. B.A. Dance, San Jose State University. DTC: Stagger Lee (Long Lost John), FLY (Associate Choreographer). Broadway: Motown and In the Heights (OBC, Tony Award®). Off-Broadway: In the Heights (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance). TV/Film: Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris; Smash. Associate Choreographer: Cabin in the Sky



ARTIST BIOS(Encores! New York City Center), Victoria Secret Internet Commercial. Assistant Choreographer: Dreamgirls (North Shore Music Theatre); Soul Doctor (New York Theatre Workshop); The Fortress of Solitude and more. Faculty member of Broadway Dance Center.

MICHAEL O. MITCHELL (Music Director, Music Supervisor, Conductor) is the Music Director for Amatuer Night at the world-famous Apollo Theater. He was part of the music team for NBC’s award-winning production of The Wiz Live! His Broadway credits include: The Color Purple; Motown the Musical (Associate Conductor); Nice Work If You Can Get It; Memphis; and Baby It’s You. Michael was the Conductor/Music Director for the North American Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, starring Ted Neeley, for four years. He was also the Conductor/Music Director for Jesus Christ Superstar Gospel (Alliance Theater, Suzi Bass Award for ‘Best Musical Director’). As Music Director for The Best of Both Worlds, (dir. Diane Paulus), Michael was nominated for the Independent Reviewers of New England Award for the ‘Best Music Director.’ He debuted original songs and arrangements for a new gospel music “We Ain’t Perfect” written by Kenneth L. Roberson (“Avenue Q”) and Darryl Jovan Williams (Smokey Joe’s Café). Michael arranged and recorded “Un Peu Plus Haut, Un Peu Plus Loin”for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, which was performed at the Opening Ceremony by the international artist Garou. In 2013, Michael was commissioned to arrange and orchestrate “The Closer I Get To You/Where Is The Love” for the Houston Pops Orchestra’s Classic Soul concert series (conductor: Michael Krajewski). His orchestrations have been performed by: Charlotte Symphony, Harrisburg Symphony, Philly Pops, Atlanta Symphony, and Jacksonville Symphony. Michael has been heard performing on many illustrious stages, including: Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Apollo Theater, Feinsteins/54 Below, and Joe’s Pub.

BOB LAVALLEE (Set Designer) DTC: The Mountaintop; The Rocky Horror Show; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat; Cabaret; The Second City Does Dallas; Red; A Christmas Carol (2005-2012). Other work includes: Three Decembers (Fort Worth Opera); PBS’ Barney and Friends (Production Designer); Peter Wolfs, Dallas (Senior Designer); Casa Mañana Theater (5-Year Resident Designer); UNT School of Opera (Resident Designer); Shakespeare Dallas; Trinity Shakespeare Festival; Amphibian Stage; African American Repertory Theater of Dallas; Dallas Children’s Theater; Westport Playhouse; and the Zach Theater. Feature film Production Design: Searching for Sonny and The Land of Make Believe.

KAREN PERRY (Costume Designer) DTC: A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park, The Trinity River Plays. Other credits include: Having Our Say (Hartford Stage); Cabin in the Sky (Encore New York City Center); Lives of Reason (Two Rivers Theater); Dead & Breathing (The National Black Theatre); Seven Guitars, Sweet Blues, Guadalupe in the Guest Room (Two Rivers Theater); Proof (Quick Silver Theater Company); stop. reset, The Piano Lesson (Signature Theatre); Trouble In Mind (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Mark Taper Theatre). Selected Awards: Lucille Lortel Award; NBTG Lifetime Award; CD Guild Award; Cable Ace and AUDELCO Awards

LAP CHI CHU (Lighting Designer) DTC: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Cabaret; Death of a Salesman; The Good Negro; Fences. Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. New York: The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage Theatre. Awards: Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (The Angstrom Award for career achievement in lighting design); San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle (Multiple); Drammy Award for best lighting; Lucille Lortel Award Nomination (The Good Negro at The Public Theater.) Mr. Chu is a Lighting Design faculty member at California Institute of the Arts.

ARIA MUSIC DESIGN (Sound Designer) DTC credits: Cabaret and Les Misérables. Ray Nardelli is co-owner of Aria Music Designs, LLC which provides music and sound for theater, film, and owns a sound rental company (ariarental.com). Off-Broadway credits: Lookingglass Alice (The New Victory Theatre). Regional: Goodman Theatre; Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Guthrie Theater; and many more. He has recorded, mixed and produced CD’s for the musicals Sense & Sensibility, Eastland, Oh Coward, The Sound Of One; La Luna Muda; and Hillbilly Antigone. Over 400 Film, TV, DVD, and computer game credits worldwide.

J. JARED JANAS (Hair, Wig, and Makeup Design) DTC: Les Misérables. Broadway designs include The Visit; The Real Thing; Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill; Motown; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; Peter and the Starcatcher; All About Me; and Next to Normal. Recent Off-Broadway designs include Invisible Thread; Perfect Arrangement; The Tempest; Pretty Filthy; and Father Comes Home from the Wars. Recent Regional productions include Marley and Waterfall (Pasadena Playhouse). TV/Films include: Inside Amy Schumer; God’s Pocket; Six by Sondheim; 30 Rock; Lola Versus; and Angelica.



ARTIST BIOSVONDA K. BOWLING (Associate Music Director / Associate Conductor) is honored to be a part of Dreamgirls. Recent DTC: A Christmas Carol; MOONSHINE: That Hee Haw Musical; The Rocky Horror Show. Other recent shows include: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Wishing Star Productions); Assassins, The Drowsy Chaperone, Crazy for You, A Dog’s Life (Theatre Three); Les Misérables, In the Heights, Big River (Collin Theatre Center). Much love to Jeffrey, Harrison and Mason. For TD.

DEBBIE BROOKS (Music Contractor) of DFW Musicians Services LLC is contracting the musicians for her first DTC production with Dreamgirls. Contracting credits include the following National Tours: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder; Anything Goes; Beautiful; Billy Elliot; Book of Mormon; Chicago; Hair; If/Then; Jekyll and Hyde; Matilda; Motown: The Musical; Newsies; Phantom of the Opera; Porgy and Bess; and Young Frankenstein.

BARB HICKS (Production Manager) served as the Costume Shop Manager at Dallas Theater Center for many years prior to, most recently, leading the Costume Department at Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She is enjoying her return to DTC, leading the Production Department through the exciting and thrilling adventures of each season.

MEGAN WINTERS (Stage Manager) DTC: Romeo and Juliet; A Christmas Carol (2015); Colossal; The Book Club Play; Driving Miss Daisy; Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure; Oedipus el Rey; Clybourne Park; Red; Tigers Be Still (SM); FLY; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; The Tempest (ASM). NYC Workshop: FLY (ASM). She worked the grand opening of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and has enjoyed working with Second Thought Theatre, Shakespeare Dallas, Ogunquit Playhouse, Olney Theatre Center and Seaside Rep Theatre. Love to the fam for always supporting me on this crazy journey.

CHEYNEY COLES (Assistant Stage Manager): DTC: All the Way (ASM); A Christmas Carol 2015 (ASM); MOONSHINE: That Hee Haw Musical (PA); Medea (ASM); The School for Wives (ASM); A Christmas Carol 2014 (PA); The Rocky Horror Show (PA, IMAG); Fortress of Solitude (PA); A Christmas Carol 2013 (PA). Cheyney also served as the Stage Manager for the Brierley Resident Acting Company’s Greek Classics workshop with Academy Award Winner Olympia Dukakis. Second Thought Theatre: The Great God Pan (SM). Shakespeare Dallas: The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) [revised] (SM). Other recent credits include: Titanic (ASM; Lyric Stage) and Too Many Cooks (ASM; Circle Theatre). Love to Mom, Dad, Sally and Wylie!

TARA RUBIN CASTING (New York Casting) DTC: Romeo and Juliet; Clarkston; MOONSHINE: That Hee Haw Musical; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat; The Wiz; Arsenic and Old Lace; It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman. Broadway: The Heiress; Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson; Ghost; One Man, Two Guvnors (US Casting); Jesus Christ Superstar (US Casting); Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway; How to Succeed ...; Promises, Promises; A Little Night Music; Billy Elliot; Shrek; Guys and Dolls; The Farnsworth Invention; …Young Frankenstein; The Little Mermaid; Mary Poppins; My Fair Lady; Pirate Queen; Les Misérables; Spamalot; Jersey Boys; …Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Phantom of the Opera; Contact. Off-Broadway: Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Old Jews Telling Jokes. Regional: Yale Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse. Film: Lucky Stiff, The Producers.

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Join us as we kick off our 2016-2017 season with a brilliant new play that is at once intimate and – literally – universal. When a theoretical physicist and a beekeeper meet, their spellbinding romantic journey breaks the bounds of the

space-time continuum and unfolds into one of the most original, captivating love stories in years. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Plays of

2015, Constellations intelligently combines love and multiverse theory to explore the infinite possibilities within a single relationship. At turns uplifting, exhilarating, and heartbreaking, Constellations will transport audiences from the Wyly’s Studio Theater straight into the cosmos: through space and time, through first dates and

last fights, through fated encounters and chaotic clashes, to a place where all things are possible. From “dazzlingly gifted” playwright Nick Payne, this award-

winning drama asks why we love who we love – choice, chance, or destiny?

With Brierley Resident Acting Company member ALEX ORGAN and ALLISON PISTORIUS.

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CONSTELLATIONS


KEVIN MORIARTY is the artistic director of Dallas Theater Center, where his work as a director includes: It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman; The Who's Tommy; The Wiz ; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Henry IV; The Tempest; Fat Pig; Next Fall; his

original adaptation of A Christmas Carol; Oedipus el Rey;Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure; Medea; The School for Wives, Colossal and most recently, All the Way. Since 2007 he has led DTC through many new initiatives, including the move into the Wyly Theatre; the creation of the Brierley Resident Acting Company; an extensive series of new play productions; community collaborations with North Texas Food Bank, Dallas Holocaust Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and most of the region's theater companies; and multi-year partnerships with Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts and SMU Meadows School of the Arts. Before joining DTC, Kevin served as the artistic director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY, for seven years. From 2002-2007 Kevin was the Head of Directing for the Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Program in Providence, RI, and he was an Associate Artist at Trinity Rep Company. He made his operatic directing debut with The Lighthouse for The Dallas Opera in 2012, and directed The Marriage of Figaro in 2014. Kevin has served as a public school music teacher at La Crescent High School in La Crescent, MN, and as an Associate Professor at Brown University. Kevin is the Vice-Chair of the Dallas Arts District; a member of the Boards of Trustees for the Booker T. Washington Advisory Board, Theatre Communications Group, and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre; a member of the Dallas Assembly; a recipient of a Drama League directing fellowship; and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.

J E F F R E Y W O O DWA R D j o i n e d D a l l a s T h e a t e r Center in July 2015 as the managing director. For the past seven years he served as the managing director of Syracuse Stage, a professional theater-in-residence at Syracuse

University. From 1991-2008, he was the managing director of the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, New Jersey. During his tenure, the McCarter was honored with the Tony Award® for Outstanding Regional Theater. He has also held administrative positions with Hartford Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Northlight Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and has served as a consultant to a number of theaters. Woodward has been a member of the board of Theater Communications Group; president of ArtPride New Jersey, a statewide arts advocacy organization; panel chair and an on-site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts; and an adjunct professor of theater management at Syracuse University. He holds a BA from Pomona College and an MBA from New York University.

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Join us as we kick off our 2016-2017 season with a brilliant new play that is at once intimate and – literally – universal. When a theoretical physicist and a beekeeper meet, their spellbinding romantic journey breaks the bounds of the

space-time continuum and unfolds into one of the most original, captivating love stories in years. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Plays of

2015, Constellations intelligently combines love and multiverse theory to explore the infinite possibilities within a single relationship. At turns uplifting, exhilarating, and heartbreaking, Constellations will transport audiences from the Wyly’s Studio Theater straight into the cosmos: through space and time, through first dates and

last fights, through fated encounters and chaotic clashes, to a place where all things are possible. From “dazzlingly gifted” playwright Nick Payne, this award-

winning drama asks why we love who we love – choice, chance, or destiny?

With Brierley Resident Acting Company member ALEX ORGAN and ALLISON PISTORIUS.




ACT I

1 “I’m Looking For Something, Baby” 2 "Tiny Joe Dixon" 3 “Move (You’re Steppin’ On My Heart)” 3A Transition to "Fake Your Way" 4 “Fake Your Way To The Top” 5 “Cadillac Car” (Aria) 6 “On The Road - Cadillac Car” 7 “Movin’ Out/Recording Studio” 8 “Cadillac Car - A La Pat Boone" 9 “Steppin’ To The Bad Side” 10 “Party-Party” 11 “Baby-Baby” 12 “Family 12A “Show Biz Transition” 13 “Dreamgirls” 13A “Reporters” 14 “Heavy” 15 “Walkin’ Down The Strip” 16 “It’s All Over” 17 “(And I’m Telling You) I’m Not Going”

ACT II

18 Opening Act Two (Reprise: “Dreamgirls”)

18A Scene Change 19 “I Am Changing” 19A “I Am Changing - Vogue” 19Aa Vogue Transition to Dreams 19B “You Are My Dream” 20 “Ain’t No Party” 21 “I Meant You No Harm” 22 “Rap” 23 “I Miss You, Old Friend” 24 “One Night Only” 24A “One Night Only - Disco” 25 “Chicago” 26 “Hard To Say Goodbye, (My Love)” 26A Dreamgirls Bows 27 Bows (Exit Music)

DREAMGIRLS Musical Numbers

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ACT I

1 “I’m Looking For Something, Baby” 2 "Tiny Joe Dixon" 3 “Move (You’re Steppin’ On My Heart)” 3A Transition to "Fake Your Way" 4 “Fake Your Way To The Top” 5 “Cadillac Car” (Aria) 6 “On The Road - Cadillac Car” 7 “Movin’ Out/Recording Studio” 8 “Cadillac Car - A La Pat Boone" 9 “Steppin’ To The Bad Side” 10 “Party-Party” 11 “Baby-Baby” 12 “Family 12A “Show Biz Transition” 13 “Dreamgirls” 13A “Reporters” 14 “Heavy” 15 “Walkin’ Down The Strip” 16 “It’s All Over” 17 “(And I’m Telling You) I’m Not Going”

ACT II

18 Opening Act Two (Reprise: “Dreamgirls”)

18A Scene Change 19 “I Am Changing” 19A “I Am Changing - Vogue” 19Aa Vogue Transition to Dreams 19B “You Are My Dream” 20 “Ain’t No Party” 21 “I Meant You No Harm” 22 “Rap” 23 “I Miss You, Old Friend” 24 “One Night Only” 24A “One Night Only - Disco” 25 “Chicago” 26 “Hard To Say Goodbye, (My Love)” 26A Dreamgirls Bows 27 Bows (Exit Music)

DREAMGIRLS Musical Numbers

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World Premiere


book lyrics and music by KIRSTEN CHILDS

directed by ROBERT O'HARA

September 22-October 23 • Wyly Theatre

Set in the Old West with an unforgettable, soulful score, this

world-premiere musical comedy written by Kirsten Childs

(FLY) tells the tale of Isabella “Bella” Patterson, a young black

woman in late 19th Century America. When Bella boards a

train west to reunite with her Buffalo soldier sweetheart,

she encounters the most colorful and lively characters ever

to roam the Western plains. Bullets and fists will fly, heads

and hearts will break, but—blessed with a big heart, and

a voluptuous figure—Bella will breeze on through it all.

World Premiere produced in association with Playwrights Horizons, New York.

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Following the incredible success of A Chorus Line, director Michael Bennett had created Ballroom, based on the 1975 television drama, Queen Of The Stardust Ballroom. Unlike A Chorus Line, Ballroom ran for only 116 performances and soon Bennett was looking for a new creative venture.His attention soon turned to a project composer Henry Krieger and book writer/lyricist Tom Eyen were developing for Nell Carter about female back-up singers called One Night Only. Bennett could see the potential, but needed time and resources to hone the idea into a polished show. With some help from Joe Papp, and with the exit of Nell Carter and the entrance of a young singer named Jennifer Holliday, the process moved forward via Bennett’s new, signature modus operandi, the musical theater “workshop.”

It may be difficult for today’s young theater artists and audiences to understand how influential this developmental style of creating a musical would become. The old method of sculpting a show to prep it for Broadway involved taking the show on the road for out of town “tryouts”, but this had become cost prohibitive for producers. Bennett, building off the model used to create A Chorus Line, would depend on these workshops to experiment with and develop a piece, employing his keen eye for storytelling through movement and choreography. The result was a streamlined, fast-paced, musical that propelled an audience forward from one exhilarating moment to the next. That style, combined with a fictional American story of the rise of the Motown sound and the dazzling young artists who created it, gave birth to a hit!

Dreamgirls opened on December 20th, 1981 to instant acclaim, winning 6 of the 13 Tony Awards® for which it was nominated. As I sat in the audience on my birthday in April of 1982, having recently moved to New York from Ft. Worth, Texas, I could not believe my eyes. The entire show seemed to “dance” from scene to scene and moved with an effortless speed and cinematic dexterity. This production was equal parts; heart rending drama, musical extravaganza, and magic show. At it’s core, the show told the story of young, African American artists overcoming all odds to break down barriers and create a new and lasting musical legacy. No single musical has had a greater influence on me as a director. 35 years after it’s premiere, I still measure many musicals by the extraordinarily high standard created by Michael Bennett and his creative team.

-Joel Ferrell

Jenifer Lewis, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Loretta Devine in the original

Broadway production of Dreamgirls, 1981.

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THEATER CLASSES FOR TEENS, AGES 13-18MUSICAL THEATER INTENSIVE • PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP

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Monica Evers Susan and Michael Fortin Joseph Fox Amy Glad Lynne and Gil Glover Jose Gomez and Francis Luttmer^ Kathryn and Graham Greene Patsy Guest Grover Hartt, III and Charles Foster^Ed and Ida Hassler, Jr. Al Hill Keith and Shelli Howlett-BNI Scott Kahle and James A. Jones Janet and Tom Keckeisen Joan and Jack Kickham Kathleen and Terry Kittleson Anna and John Koepke Susan and Richard Lakin Robin Lederer Cathy Lowrance Gwyn and Wilson Mason Mark Mayland Stacy and Phil Meadows Judy Meagher Vicki and Howard Mudrick Margaret and Leo Newport Greg Odell Bonnie L. Pitman Paul Polanco and Roberto De La Cruz^ Pat and John Priest Noel D. Pullam and Darryl Clement Lisa and John Rocchio Marie and Charles Rosenfeld David Sassano and Don Tapani^ Catherin Roberts-Schroth Katherine Seale Bonnie and Bruce Shaw Pat and Dan Sherman Sandy Singer Russell Tether Michael Tignor Shari and Jay Tobin Brandon Tonniges Walker Trigg Brenda Truitt Kathy and Joe Van Blargan Elizabeth Wahlquist Kathy and John Ward Michael Kaufman and Durward Watson^ Ellen and Don Winspear

SuperFriends $200 - $499Anonymous Brooke and Greg Alexander Fonda and Jay Arbetter Sherry Bartholow Lloyd Bellah Rosalind and Mervyn Benjet Dee and John Bert John Birch Jan and Stuart Black Cindy Blue Allison and Chris Bovard Denise and Gregory Boydston Nancy and Randy Braden Brenda and Stuart Brand Ann and Keith Buckley Carol and Edward Burger Judy and Tom Butts

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Tincy Miller Marc Moseley Jay Mower Linda and Robert Muckerheide Kate and Keith Newman Mike Northrup Martha and David Norton Sal Olimpio Tania Oliva Karol Omlor Deonna Osborn Erika Pickens Ann Piper Jody and Melvin Platt Nancy Power Arlene and Bill Press Evelyn and William Raecke Crispin Reedy Rusty Rippamonti Ann and Duane Roberts William ""Billy"" Rodriguez^ Christine and Richard Rogoff Cynthia and Mike Romig Adrienne and Roger Rosenberg Patricia Sabin Sarah Samaan Cathi Scalise and Denise Costello^ Lorraine Sear and John McCafferty Brad Sham William Sherman Debby and Webb Spradley Bill St. John Phyllis and Ronald Steinhart Sherry Stewart Robert Stiles Jean Stoner Ann Stuart Lynn and Kathryn Surls John Swope Cheri and Bart Thomas Martea Thompson Judy and Martin Tobey JoAnn and Robert Tobey Rebecca and Brad Todd Jo Denton Tuck Douglas Unger Pat Vaughan Brian Walker^ Karen Ward Anonymous Linda and James Willson Doug Woodward Rachel and Natan Yaker Kathryn Yates Lauren and Jeff Zlotky

As of 4/1/16. Thank you to all of our Friends@DTC who joined after our print deadline.

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Co-Presidents Nan-Elizabeth ByorumJohn Howell

Co-Presidents ElectMickie BragaloneKristie Konstans

VP, Theater ServicesGinger Snider

VP, General MeetingsKathleen (Al) Lohr

Co-VPs, Special EventsSuzanne CarusoEleanor Casey

VP, MembershipSue Brown

VP, YearbookKaren Zvonecek

TreasurerDon Warnecke

Recording SecretaryJudy Mathis

Corresponding SecretaryPat Pace

HistorianKarol Omlor

ParliamentarianJerry Zvonecek



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LIFE BEYOND THE STAGECo-Presidents Nan-Elizabeth ByorumJohn Howell

Co-Presidents ElectMickie BragaloneKristie Konstans

VP, Theater ServicesGinger Snider

VP, General MeetingsKathleen (Al) Lohr

Co-VPs, Special EventsSuzanne CarusoEleanor Casey

VP, MembershipSue Brown

VP, YearbookKaren Zvonecek

TreasurerDon Warnecke

Recording SecretaryJudy Mathis

Corresponding SecretaryPat Pace

HistorianKarol Omlor

ParliamentarianJerry Zvonecek

PRODUCER ($1000)Kim and Scott SheffieldMary Anne Staab

PATRON ($500)Missy and David BooneMickie and Jeffrey BragaloneDiane and Hal BrierleyLinda and Bill CustardJulie and Ken HershAngela and John HowellCarol and John LevyJudy and J.C. MathisVicki and Kent NewsomStephanie and David RussakovSarah and Don Warnecke

SUPPORTER ($250)Joe AbbeyJill and Al AndersonAnne and Larry AngelilliTina and John BarrySuzanne CarusoPaula J. ClancyPatty and John CodyDr. Florence CoxSusan Gregory and Robert DrechslerBess and Ted EnloeRebecca and Barron FletcherMadeline and Michael FrebergBarbara and Abe GoldfarbKathleen Messina and Gary GoodwinAlicia and Paul HowellSusan and Bob KaminskiKristie and Greg KonstansPam and Brent NicholsonSarah RobySherry and David SivilsAnne and Alex SmithJean StonerBrenda TruittDonna WilhelmKaren and Jerry Zvonecek

ADVOCATE ($150)Brooke and Greg AlexanderJudi D. BakerBarbara Clay and Kenneth BernsteinDeborah and Nigel BrownMary F. BrownRandolph BrownNan-Elizabeth ByorumMary Lee CoxClaire and Dale CunninghamDeborah McMurray and Glen DavisonMarion Ward and Frank DuntonMarsha and John DurneyRobbe and Robert EpsteinSusan FalvoSusie and Curt FitzGeraldJoan and Wayne FlattRocky FordMarilyn Halla and Mary HallaHarriet HalsellLance HancockSue and Phil JohnKate and Dana JuettSylvia and David KiddTeresa and Luther KingBetsy and Keith KinneyGwendolyn LaweKathleen and Richard LohrBarbara and Sam McKenneyMrs. Eugene McDermottGlenda PrioloAndy Smith and Paul von HupperfeldJean Walden

SPECIAL MEMBER RECOGNITIONThe Guild appreciates all its members and lists below those who joined at the Special Recognition Levels. These higher levels of giving allow enhanced services to DTC and additional programs for the Guild.



$50,000+Philips Vari*Lite Pioneer Natural Resources

$30,000+brierley+partners Kimberly-Clark Corporation Pier 1 Imports Sidley Austin, LLP

$20,000+Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

$15,000+ AlixPartnersDr Pepper Snapple GroupHighland Park VillageNeiman MarcusWells Fargo

$10,000+DeloitteGardere Wynne Sewell LLPHallett & Perrin, P.C.Haynes and Boone, LLPJackson Walker, L.L.P.Locke Lord LLP Lucchese BootmakerLuther King Capital Management Munck Wilson Mandala, LLPNCH CorporationNorthPark CenterPwCTenet Healthcare CorporationVinson & Elkins, L.L.P.Westwood Trust Winstead PC

$5,000+ Androvett Legal Media and MarketingBeacon Hill Legal Staffing and Managed Review ServicesCiti Private BankDave Perry-Miller and Associates Ernst & Young LLPExxonMobilLincoln Property Company Mitchell Gold + Bob WilliamsSenderoTexas Oncology Theater ForwardThompson and Knight FoundationTime Warner Cable $2,500+ Ben E. Keith CompanyCrescent Real Estate EquitiesMerrill CorporationSpencer StuartTravisWolff

$1,000+ BNSF Railway Foundation Enterprise Holdings Foundation

CORPORATE CONTRIBUTORS

Support for Artistic, Educational and Outreach Programs and Event Sponsors

American Born MoonshineBabe's Chicken Dinner HouseBDO USA, LLPBrown-FormanChoice TechnologiesCombes & Associates, P.C., Certified Public AccountantsDeborah McMurray AssociatesEnterprise Rent-a-CarEquinox Highland Park Hewlett-Packard CompanyHighland Park Village

HYATT houseK104KomaliKRNBLa Cave WarehouseLIFXM.A.C McKinsey & CompanyMr. and Mrs. John P. McNaughton and Family Modern LuxuryThe Original Cupcakery

PaperCityPatron MagazinePhilips Vari*LitePier 1 ImportsProof + PantrySalumThe 4th Wall GalleryThe BoardroomThe Crescent ClubWindy Hill SpiritsWRR

IN-KIND & MEDIA DONORS

CORPORATE CONTRIBUTORS

SEASON SPONSORS



INSTITUTIONAL CONTRIBUTORS

$300,000+The Moody Foundation

$200,000+The Meadows Foundation Ted and Shannon Skokos Foundation

$100,000+Embrey Family Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThe Shubert Foundation, Inc.TACA

$50,000+City of Dallas Office of Cultural AffairsJean Baptiste (Tad) Adoue III Fund of the Dallas FoundationDallas Tourism Public Improvement District Edgerton FoundationTACA Donna Wilhelm Family New Works Fund

$25,000+AnonymousCarl B. & Florence E. King Foundation Communities Foundation of Texas

The David M. Crowley FoundationLaurents / Hatcher FoundationNational Endowment for the Arts The Sapphire Foundation, Inc.Shakespeare in American CommunitiesHarold Simmons Foundation TACA Bowdon & Embrey Family Foundations Artist Residency FundTexas Commission on the Arts Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation

$10,000+Dallas Theater Center GuildThe Carlson FoundationThe Stemmons Foundation

$5,000+The Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation, Inc. Harry S. Moss Foundation

$1,000+Dallas Arts District FoundationLouise W. Kahn Endowment Fund of the Dallas Foundation

ARTISTICThe Charles Peter Bock FundThe G. B. Dealey Fund

EDUCATION & OUTREACH PROGRAMSThe Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation, Inc.William Randolph Hearst FundMeadows Foundation

GENERALSara Birge FundThe Wyly Fund for Administrative ExcellenceDiane and Hal Brierley FundThe Roberta Coke Camp FundJoan and Coley Clark FundLyndhurst FoundationMr. and Mrs. William A. Custard FundArlene J. and John W. Dayton FundThe Dallas Theater Center Guild FundBess and Ted Enloe FundHamon FundHeldt FundMr. and Mrs. Richard C. Johnson Fund

Carol and John Levy Family FundEugene McDermott FoundationAnonymous FundThe Paul Raigorodsky FundMr. and Mrs. Robert C. Stack FundThe Waldo E. Stewart FundTheater Support FundLuther King Capital Management

SCHOLARSHIPWinifred D. Caldwell Scholarship FundThe Dr. Anson L. Clark Memorial Scholarship FundJohnny George Scholarship FundPreston Jones Scholarship FundCarl B. and Florence E. King Scholarship FundThe Zelma Naylor Scholarship FundThe Edythe W. and Henry X. Salzberger Scholarship FundDora and Robert D. Stecker Scholarship FundShakespeare Study Club Scholarship Fund

OTHERThe Frank Nick Scholarship for Creative GreatnessThe Alan M. May Fund

Dallas Theater Center is supported, in part, by the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, TACA, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

ENDOWMENT FUND

Dallas Theater Center is a participant in the Leadership U: Continuing Ed program, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group,

the national organization for the professional not-for-profit American theatre.

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STAFF

LEADERSHIP: Art ist ic Director, Kevin Moriarty; Managing Director, Jeffrey Woodward

ADMINISTRATION: General Manager / CFO, Alfred Butler; Associate General Manager, Dhyana Colony; Manager of Board Relations and Diversity Initiatives, Martha-Elena Howard; Office Manager, Carrissa Norman; Operations Manager, Darrell Niedert; Facilities Maintenance Technician, Albert Gonzales; Computer Consultants, Choice Technologies; Mayor's Intern Fellow, Mireya Reyna

ARTISTIC, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT: Associate Artistic Director, Joel Ferrell; Director of New Play Development, Lee Trull; Playwright-in-Residence, Will Power; Artistic Interns, Gracie Esmonde, Dante Flores; Interim Director of Education and Community Enrichment, Morgana Wilborn; Master Teacher, Christie Vela; Community Artist, Hassan El-Amin; Education and Community Programs Fellows, Laura Colleluori, Leah Harris; Teaching Artists, McClendon Giles, Chris Ramirez, Jessica Roberts, Meg Sullivan; Director, Public Works, Dayron J. Miles; Public Works Manager, Leah Harris; Public Works Interns, Sarah Roach, Nenad Vukovic; Commissioned Playwrights, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Kristoffer Diaz, Rajiv Joseph, Boo Killebrew, Aaron Loeb, Matt Lyle, Jonathan Norton, Kim Rosenstock, Steven Michael Walters, Kate Wetherhead

DIANE AND HAL BRIERLEY RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY: Adam A. Anderson, Kieran Connolly, Hassan El-Amin, Chamblee Ferguson, Tiana Kaye Johnson, Liz Mikel, Alex Organ, Brandon Potter, Sally Vahle, Christie Vela, Steven Michael Walters

DEVELOPMENT: Director of Development, Rhealyn Carter; Manager of Corporate Relations and Events, Robin Rose; Manager of Foundation and Government Relations, Jill Underwood; Annual Fund Manager, Erin Jines; Donor Services Associate, Patricia Kirven; Development Office Coordinator, Daniela DiBenedetto

FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING: Accounting Manager, Carol Weise; Payroll/Accounts Payable Coordinator, Terri Mashburn; Independent Audit Firm, BDO USA, LLP

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS: Director of Marketing and Communications, Brad Pritchett; Associate Director of Marketing and Communications, Darcy Koch; Director of Publications, Amy L. Webber; Patron Services Manager, DR Hanson; Marketing Manager, Shannon Jones; Tessitura Analyst, Traci McKinney; Digital Media Manager, Michael Copeland; PR Manager, Katherine Manson; Marketing Intern, Jordan Doyle; Web Developer, Chris Koller / Idealgrowth; Production Photographer, Karen Almond; Ticketing Services, AT&T Performing Arts Center

PRODUCTION: Production Manager, Barb Hicks; Assistant Production Manager, Samantha Goessner; Company Manager, Theresa Zicolello; Technical Director, Rick Miller; Assistant Technical Director, Matthew Norman; Shop Foreman, Zac Goodwin; Carpenters, Bruce Nuttall; Stage Operations Manager, Squeak Henderson; Interim Production Manager / Production Stage Manager, Eric Tysinger; Costume Shop Manager, Jennifer Ables; Assistant Costume Shop Manager, Chris Spencer; Draper, Amanda Hendrickson; First Hand, Kyle Everett; Stitcher, Melissa Perkins; Wardrobe Supervisor, Mattie O’Neal; Wig and Make-Up Supervisor, Nicole Alvarez; Properties Master, John Slauson; Assistant Properties Master, Nicole Gaignat; Properties Carpenter, Matt Duvall; Paint Charge, Sergey Chernomorets; Master Electrician/Lighting Supervisor, Nicole Iannaccone; Assistant Master Electrician/ Programmer, Meike Schmidt; Staff Electrician, Chris Martin; Sound Supervisor, Brian McDonald; Lead Production Audio / Mixer, Ashton McWhirter

SKOKOS LEARNING LAB: Colleen Breen; Lulu Cornelius; Katie Duke; Anneke Davis; Alyson Garcia; Froy Gutierrez; Trevor Haueisen; Lossie Hudspeth; Sylvie Lednicky; Clay Montgomery; Lashaun Morgan; Alex Norton; Angie Nunez; Bonnie Scott; Corsica Steding; Miles Sullivan; Hartley Wise

SOUTH OAK CLIFF LEARNING LAB: Davonta Battle; Marqus Brown; Clifton Buggs Kervin; Emily Casas; Jazmin Castro; Jade Cook; Alexis Douglas; Danice Dukes; Antranai Easter; Tytianna Gabriel; Ashley Giron; Jabarri Green; Giovanni Hernandez-Fabela; Le'Onta Hewitt Wade; Roderick Johnson; D'Lareneg Manning; De'Zhiray Mccormick; Jakieya Morgan; Anjel Owens; Adrian Rodriguez; Iran Smith; Kevin Smith; Dya'Mong Strahan; Demonya Swarn; Kameron Taylor; Christen Tillis; Elijah Wagner; Marvis White; Breanna Wimbley

FOR THIS PRODUCTION: Draper, Olivia Kennedy, Melissa Panzarello; Stitchers, Alisan Heath, Raul Luna; Costume Construction Intern, Isa Flores; SMU Costume Design Assistant, Hannah Stellmacher; Carpenters, Kenneth Bernstein Brian Bolen, Gustavo Cortez, Frank Dean, Savannah Relos, Damek Salazar, Derek Salazar, Jim Wildman, Chris Wyatt, Wardrobe, Dara Affholter, Alisan Heath, Rebecca Holt, Jessica Pehrson, Meagan Wintz; Wig Maintenance, Leslie Allen, Breanna Finneburgh; Stage Ops, Austin Antos, Soren Haroldson, Jeremiah Henderson, Chris Wyatt; Load-in Carpenter, Gustavo Cortez; Electricians: Ricky Besherse, Chris Erler, Kaitlin Forsman, Terrence Goebig, Claire Gault, Soren Haroldson, Luis Hernandez, Amber Heldt, Ben Leza, Chris Rollins, Jordan Smith; Spot Ops, Hilary Gregory-Allen, Chris Martin, Candice Miears; Mixer, Andrea "Slim" Allmond; Microphone Technician / A2, Liz Sokolak; Audio Techs, Aaron Roberts, Kellen Voss; Stage Management Interns, Tiffany Cromwell, Grace Shaw; BTWHSPVA Stage Management Intern, Michaela Langford

Adam A. AndersonKieran ConnollyHassan El-Amin

Chamblee FergusonTiana Kaye Johnson

Liz MikelAlex Organ

Brandon PotterSally Vahle

Christie VelaSteven Michael Walters

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Great acting is at the center of all great theater.

In 2009, with the generous support of Diane and Hal

Brierley, Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty reinstated

Dallas Theater Center’s resident acting company.

His intent was to develop and nurture professional

actors within the North Texas community and

enable them to make Dallas their artistic home. At

the same time, he sought to enhance DTC’s artistic

prof i le and create

ongoing collaborative

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Chamblee FergusonTiana Kaye Johnson

Liz MikelAlex Organ

Brandon PotterSally Vahle

Christie VelaSteven Michael Walters

Brierley Resident Acting Company

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Dallas Theater Center'sDiane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company

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JIM BENNETT attended Dallas Theater Center’s Graduate School of Drama from 1970-1972. Forty-five years later, Jim has never forgotten the impact Dallas Theater Center had on

his life, and as a result he decided to make a planned gift to DTC.

Recently, we had a chance to visit with Jim and ask him what spurred this commitment. Jim said, “it’s my way of saying ‘thank you’ to Mr. Baker and the staff for giving me two wonderful years of theater training. DTC gave me direction in my life.”

Jim has countless stories of his time as a graduate student in Dallas, including a particular late-night, fast food run that tested his acting chops: “I remember we took Hamlet ESP to Trinity University and after a performance, next to our motel, there was a fast food restaurant. Only the drive through window was open and none of us had a car, so we all pretended to be in a car, pantomimed rolling down the window and the clerk was so taken aback that she took our order.”

While Jim may like to "ham" it up, he is serious about his desire give back to DTC and notes that, “while the percent of my IRA being left to DTC isn’t enormous, it’s more than what I would or could give annually.” Dallas Theater Center is deeply grateful to Jim for helping ensure our work will continue for future generations.

Donor Spotlight: Jim Bennett

DTC gave

me direction

in my life.”

-JIM BENNETT

Please consider joining Jim by making a charitable bequest in your will or estate plan. For more information, contact Rhealyn Carter, Director of Development, at (214) 252-3912.

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