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September 15 - October 8, 2017

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From Cathy Spielberger Cassetta, Artistic Director

Choices! Choices!! Choices!!! Most of us are fortunate to have opportunities throughout each day to make countless choices that shape our lives. For, truly, our choices become us! We are the sum of all the choices we

have ever made.

And that is the focus of our 2017-2018 season! Choices — Our choices become us!

Welcome to Peter and the Starcatcher, a delightful play with music that explores and mines with great imagination and wonder the rich choices and opportunities that our young heroes have before them. In that vein, every production this season will shine a light on the choices and opportunities our characters have before them with the added opportunity for us to explore how their situations may reflect in and on our lives here in Silicon Valley.

The designated non-profit for this production is S.T.A.R. Programs, for the work they do with at-risk youth in our community to explore and expand opportunities and choices.

Today, I invite you to embrace the choice to experience the adventure of live performance! If you’re not already a subscriber, I encourage you to make the choice to subscribe to Tabard’s 17th season, filled with exciting and engaging plays and musicals. My hunch is you’ll be glad you did. I know we will be glad to have you with us for a fun and adventurous year.

From Nick Nichols, Executive Director

Can you help Tabard give the gift of theatre to underserved children in our community? Tabard currently runs very successful tuition-free after lschool theatre programs at Empire Gardens Elementary School and at the

Alum Rock Clubhouse with The Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. We are now partnering with Catholic Charities to expand our after-school theatre programs into public elementary schools they serve, and we are working to raise, by December, the needed funds to start this new program in January. Around the theatre you will see donation envelopes, and I hope you will help us with a donation to this worthy cause. You can also donate at www.tabardtheatre.org/donate. Please help us give these children the joy of theatre you are about to experience with this wonderful production of Peter and the Starcatcher. Enjoy the show!

A Play By

RICK ELICE

Based on the Novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Music By

WAYNE BARKER

Originally directed for Broadway by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers.

Originally produced on Broadway by Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert,Eva Price, Tom Smedes, and Disney Theatrical Productions.

Peter and the Starcatcheris presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

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producTion STaff peTer and The STarcaTcher

Cast(in alphabetical order)

Grempkin/Fighting Prawn/Mack/Sanchez .........Ken BoswellPrentiss ..........................................................Edward ClarkAlf .................................................................... James CreerThe Black Stache.............................................Ric ForresterTed...................................................................Marcus GayeCapt. Scott .........................................................Mike HugillMolly.........................................................Ari LagomarsinoLord Aster ........................................................J.J. MartinezBoy/Peter ......................................................Tyler OkunskiSmee/Greggors ............................................... Ron PackardSlank/Hawking Clam ......................................Tim ReynoldsMrs. Brumbrake/Teacher ................................. Todd Wright

Artistic Director Cathy Spielberger Cassetta Director Jay Manley Associate Director Mary Welty-Dapkus Music Director Catherine Snider Choreography and Movement Coach Katie O’Bryon Champlin

Dialect Coach J.J. Martinez Production Manager Charlynn Knighton Technical Director Joe Cassetta Set Construction Wizard Harley Goes Stage Manager / Light Board Dena Acolatse Assistant Stage Manager / Sound Board Charlynn Knighton Lighting Designer Nick Nichols Video Effects WMS Media, Inc. Sound Designer John DiLoreto Costume Designer Melissa Sanchez Costume Design Assistant Marilyn Watts Costume Assistant Esther Goes Properties Scott Ludwig Scenic Painter Andrew Breithaupt Program Layout Barbara Reynolds

Tabard offers its sincere and grateful appreciation to...

Annelle Delfs, Joint Venture Churches of Almaden, Pacific Repertory Theatre, Joe Ragey, TheatreWorks, and all our season subscribers, donors, sponsors,

and community partners who helped make this production possible.

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A portion of Tabard’s concession proceeds from this production will be donated to

MusiciansPiano ................................................. Catherine Snider

Percussion .................................................Tom Wieske

The Time 1885, in the reign of Her Royal Majesty Queen Victoria. God save her!

The Place Act I:

The harbor at Portsmouth, England, a precious cargo in a trunk on the dock. And two ships: one, the HMS Wasp, a swift British naval frigate;

the other, The Neverland, a slow ship, “long in the poop.” Both ships bound for Rundoon, ruled over by the evil King Zarboff.

Act II:Mollusk Island, a tropical oasis, inhabited by…mollusks!

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There will be a 15-minute intermission.

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Ken Boswell (Grempkin/Fighting Prawn/Mack/Sanchez) is delighted to be making his Tabard debut with Peter and the Starcatcher. Bay Area theatregoers may remember Ken as Sir in Side Show at Foothill Music Theatre. He has also appeared with City Lights Theatre Company in Spamalot (Arthur), Amadeus (Louis), Noises Off (Selsdon), and Calendar Girls (John), and with Los Altos Stage Company in Assassins (Guiteau) and Little Shop of Horrors (Mushnik). When not performing, Ken teaches theatre arts for young people in the Bay Area.

Edward Clark (Prentiss) is excited to be in his second Tabard Theatre show, following Memphis. In the past four years he has been given the opportunity to sing background for musical artists such as Journey and Josh Groban. He has also appeared on Oxygen’s original series Fix My Choir, hosted by Michelle Williams and Deitrick Haddon. Currently Edward is a student at San Jose State University, where he is earning his B.F.A. in Animation/Illustration.

James Creer (Alf) returns after outstanding performances in Tabard shows including Crowns; I Do, I Do!; Tuesdays with Morrie; The Duke, The Count, And Me; Looking Over the President’s Shoulder; and Driving Miss Daisy. He also vocal-directed Tabard’s award-winning production of Violet. James also starred in Mack & Mabel, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Ragtime, and Finian’s Rainbow for South Bay Musical Theatre and many productions with Campbell United Methodist Church. He received his musical education at Sam Houston State University.

Ric Forrester (The Black Stache) hails from a theatrical family: his parents, wife, and four children are all performers. Since the age of six, Ric has been treading the boards: performing, teaching, producing, or directing. He has worked with numerous Bay Area theatre companies over the years, and now Tabard. Some favorite roles: Alan in Equus, Pseudolus in Forum, Ray in Lone Star, and Donny Dubrow in American Buffalo. He thanks his family for all their love and support and dedicates his performances to his dear parents. Ohmigod!

Marcus Gaye (Ted) has been performing on stage since the age of eight. This is Marcus’s second show with Tabard, after appearing here in last seasons’s Memphis. Some favorite past roles include TJ (Sister Act), Sonny (Grease), and Juan Peron (Evita), all at Children’s Musical Theater San Jose. Marcus also performed in Super Bowl 50. Marcus hopes you enjoy the show!

Most plays begin with a playwright. Peter and the Starcatcher, atypically, began with its directors, the late Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, who saw a great play in Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s popular novel, Peter and the Starcatchers. With playwright Rick Elice, composer Wayne Barker, and a set of gifted designers on board, over a five-year period they crafted the play you will see today, as their unique concept for this piece developed.

Peter…, the play, has dozens of characters and unfolds in a variety of settings: a dock, two ships, the ships’ holds, the high seas, and multiple locales on the mysterious Mollusk Island. To encapsulate so much, the directors envisioned telling their tale through a form we call “Story Theatre.” Director Rees, who had starred decades earlier in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s legendary, 1980 story-theatre-styled Nicholas Nickelby, brought those techniques to Peter…

So, what is story theatre? In story theatre, actors frequently narrate the action, allowing events and time to leap ahead in a few words. And cast members play many roles, sometimes changing from one character to another in the blink of an eye, relying more on body language and vocal technique than costume changes. Realistic scenery and costumes give way to suggestive elements. Rather than giving the audience the whole picture, story theatre playfully asks audience members to be active participants and utilize their imaginations to make the play whole. Rees and Timbers, from whom we have borrowed gratefully, use, for example, an actor-held length of rope to define a door or an ocean wave; ordinary household objects become weapons or tools; a rubber kitchen glove becomes a… but I don’t want to give that away! It is all so much fun! And it echoes (as do many passages in the text), Shakespeare’s invocation in the prologue to his Henry V, “…on your imaginary forces work.”

Peter and the Starcatcher has been a labor of love for all of us — producers, designers, the creative staff — but most of all, a cast of twelve exceptional actors and myself. This is the epitome of what we call “ensemble” acting, and I am blessed to have worked with such gifted, generous, and loving people.

Thank you for coming! We hope you love Peter… as much as we have come to love it. And keep coming to Tabard Theatre!

- Jay Manley

Director’s Note

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Dena Acolatse (Stage Manager/Light Board) is honored to stage-manage her first production at Tabard and to work with such a fun and talented director and cast. The last production Dena stage-managed was Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at Fremont’s Broadway West Theatre in February 2014. Over the years she has stage-managed, assistant-directed, produced, and served on the board of the Menlo Players Guild in Menlo Park and the Walterdale Community Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. She returns to Tabard later this season to stage-manage The Miracle Worker.

Wayne Barker (Composer) earned a 2011 Drama Desk Award for Peter and the Starcatcher. Broadway credits: Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance (composer, co-lyricist with Barry Humphries). Regional credits: The Great Gatsby (Guthrie), Twelfth Night and The Three Musketeers (Seattle Rep). TV credits: A Little Curious. Other credits: Mark Bennett’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (orchestrations), Chicago City Limits, the Raymond Scott Orchestrette, and orchestras worldwide.

Andrew Breithaupt (Scenic Painter) finds himself just loving the second act of his career. Originally he majored in technical illustration at The Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Ontario, Canada, where he returned as a teacher to guide thousands of eager college students in the ways of 2D, 3D, static, and motion graphics software. By 2005, when he and his young family left Canada to live overseas, Andrew had also established AndrewTheArtist.com, a healthy illustration and design business. For the next decade he channeled his creativity into stay-at-home fatherhood, living first in Brussels then in Versailles. Now, with his family settled in the Valley, Andrew spends his days designing new worlds for Bay Area theaters with paint on his shoes and a huge grin on his face. For Tabard, he created the animation for Red and returns as scenic designer for The Miracle Worker.

Mike Hugill (Capt. Scott) is thrilled to be back with Tabard for this delightful fantasy as Captain Robert Scott. Having just completed the very special 10 in 10 collection of plays with Tabard, Mike has also performed with South Bay Musical Theatre, WVLO Musical Theatre, Tada Productions, and City Lights. Since retiring as an executive from Silicon Valley, Mike spends his time with grandkids, collector cars, and his wife, Debi, with whom he just celebrated his fourth anniversary after having been reunited with her at a high school reunion.

Ari Lagomarsino (Molly) is thrilled to be in her first production with Tabard Theatre. Ari is an alumna of the Pacific Conservatory of The Performing Arts; her last role in PCPA’s Rep Show was Hero in Much Ado About Nothing. Most recently Ari has been working as an actor/theatre educator with California Theatre Center and signed with RAE Agency in San Francisco. Ari invites you to let your imagination and childlike wonder run free as the show unfolds!

J.J. Martinez (Lord Aster, Dialect Coach) is thrilled to be making his Tabard debut with this show and to once again work with directors Jay Manley and Mary Welty-Dapkus, with whom he has collaborated many times in the past. He is a graduate of the Foothill Theatre Conservatory in Los Altos.

Tyler Okunski (Boy/Peter) is delighted to be making his debut with Tabard Theatre. He has performed in more than 20 shows including recent credits as Angel in Rent, Leaf Coneybear in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Young Tarzan in the West Coast premiere of Disney’s Tarzan at Children’s Musical Theater of San Jose. He is a senior at Bellarmine College Prep with plans to pursue a B.F.A. degree in college. He returns to Tabard in December for Holiday at the Savoy.

Ron Packard (Smee/Greggors) has frequently appeared on the Tabard stage, including turns as George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life, Snoopy in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Candy in Elvis has Left the Building. Other credits include Bud Frump in How to Succeed… (Dean Goodman Choice Award), Floyd in Fiorello! and Steward in Into the Woods. He dedicates his performance to the memory of Tom Alessandri.

Tim Reynolds (Slank/Hawking Clam) is pleased to return to Tabard Theatre, having previously appeared in Violet (Man 2), The Story of My Life (Thomas), and Follies (Ben Stone). Tim’s favorite role to date is that of Dad to Arabelle, Libby, Site, Khali, Bandit and, of course, the pillow pillaging perfect puppy — Kiana. Thanks to Maegan for her love and support while I go out to play! Maybe next time Arabelle will come with me!

Todd Wright (Mrs. Brumbrake/Teacher) is delighted to join in the fun for the first time here at Tabard. Todd has worked all over the South Bay, from comedy to drama, from musicals to Shakespeare. Some favorite roles include Georg Graupner in Bach At Leipzig at Pear Avenue Theatre, Russ/Dan in Clybourne Park at Palo Alto Players, Senex in Funny Thing Happened...Forum at Foothill Music Theatre, and Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew at the Los Gatos Shakespeare Festival. Hope you all catch a little starstuff this evening.

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Cathy Spielberger Cassetta (Artistic Director) is a theatre/television veteran and entrepreneur who created/produced/co-hosted the weekly TV program Theater This Week in the 1990s before founding Tabard in 2001. She has created and/or written and directed a handful of productions for Tabard, including the most recent Homeward Bound: An Orphan Train Journey. In her non-theatre time, Cathy teaches yoga at Joint Venture Churches in Almaden, The Sea Ranch, and periodically in Anchor Bay.

Joe Cassetta (Technical Director) continues to lead Tabard’s technical team, which he has done since the company was founded in 2001. With a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University, Joe’s steady and skilled leadership has led to Tabard’s increased ability to explore and expand what we can do on our stage.

John DiLoreto (Sound Designer) is Tabard’s chief audio engineer and has designed sound for 80 productions, combining his expertise in music, technology, and theatre. He has designed sound for more than 30 shows for Tabard since 2008, as well as major productions for TheatreWorks, City Lights, Children’s Musical Theater San Jose, South Bay Musical Theatre, WVLO Musical Theatre, Palo Alto Players, Hillbarn, and various clubs and bands over 30 years. He is also a former record producer, recording studio owner, and keyboardist in numerous rock bands and in theatre orchestras. While at M.I.T., he studied acoustics with Professor Bose, and he holds an M.Eng. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Stanford. By day, he is Tabard’s operations director.

Rick Elice (Playwright) has Broadway credits including Peter and the Starcatcher, Jersey Boys (with Marshall Brickman; Tony Award, Best Musical), and The Addams Family (with Marshall Brickman). Regional credits: Turn of the Century (with Marshall Brickman), Double Double, Dog and Pony (with Michael Patrick Walker), and Studio 54 (with Stephen Trask).

Charlynn Knighton (Production Manager, Asst. Stage Manager) most recently directed Tabard’s production of A Dickens of a Christmas Mashup and one of the plays in 10 in 10: 2017. With a B.S. in music and theatre, Charlynn has worked across the U.S. and the Bay Area with Millbrook Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Broadway San Jose, San Jose Rep, West Valley Light Opera, and Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory in a variety of technical and creative positions. She will make her Tabard on-stage debut later this season in Evelyn in Purgatory. She thanks her family for their constant love and support along this journey!

Scott Ludwig (Properties) is an alumnus of San Francisco State University’s drama department and has designed sets, props, and puppets for Urban Opera, Shotgun Players, The African American Shakespeare Company, and most recently for Palo Alto Players. Directing credits include Macbeth, The Three Sisters, The Blue Room, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Jay Manley (Director) is delighted to return to Tabard after Violet, Miracle on 34th Street, and last season’s Memphis. Jay is an award-winning director whose musicals and plays throughout the Bay Area have garnered praise and numerous citations from the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle and Dean Goodman Choice Awards. He founded, and for over 25 years

helmed, Foothill Music Theatre at Foothill College in Los Altos, and was recipient of a special citation from the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle for his work there. For more than 30 years, with his husband Vance Martin, Jay has led popular theatre tours to New York, Ashland, and other major theatre production centers, with their company, New York Theatre Tour: nytheatretour.com. Jay most recently directed the Mountain Play Association’s Beauty and the Beast on Mount Tamalpais, and he will return there next season for Mamma Mia. Jay wants to express his deep appreciation to his exceptional cast, the wonderful creative and production staff that has supported this production, and of course, Vance.

Nick Nichols (Lighting Designer) is Tabard’s executive director and also the resident lighting consultant for Tabard and Theatre on San Pedro Square, designing lighting for many of Tabard’s productions since he joined Tabard in 2014. Before moving into arts management, Nick spent 20 years working as a lighting designer and/or technical director for Villanova Summer Shakespeare, Princess Cruise Lines, Ballet San Jose, and American Musical Theatre of San Jose. Nick holds an M.F.A. in technical direction/lighting design from Temple University and has taught lighting and technical theatre at Santa Clara University, San Jose State, and U.C. Santa Cruz.

Katie O’Bryon Champlin (Choreography and Movement Coach) is thrilled to be part of such a creative team here at Tabard! Previously she has served as choreographer for shows at Foothill Music Theatre, Los Altos Stage, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, WVLO Musical Theatre, Pacific Repertory Theatre, and Peninsula Youth Theatre (to name a few!). She is a proud graduate of the Dell’ Arte International School of Physical Theater, and she currently teaches drama for the Harker Middle School. Also an actor, Katie will play Annie Sullivan for Tabard’s production of The Miracle Worker later this season.

Melissa Sanchez (Costume Designer) received her B.A. in technical theater/costume design from San Francisco State. Productions there included Chess, A Streetcar Named Desire, Barber of Seville, Spring Awakening, and Tartuffe. Other work includes References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Wallflower, and La Llorona. She recently costumed West Side Story, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Lizzie for City Lights. She is Tabard’s resident assistant costumer and costumed Musical of Musicals, The Cemetery Club, Memphis, Crowns, Swift Justice, and Miracle on 34th Street and assisted with costumes for Death Takes a Holiday and I Do, I Do!

Catherine Snider (Music Director, Piano) returns for her third Tabard show (Miracle on 34th Street, Memphis) and her 23rd show with Jay Manley! Catherine has received nine Bay Area Theater Critics Circle nominations for music direction and is honored to have won four. She has also received eight Dean Goodman awards. Catherine is part of a production team that takes The Harker School’s Conservatory to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe every four years.

Marilyn Watts (Costume Design Assistant) has been Tabard’s resident costume designer since the company’s second season and designed the costumes for the award-winning Trying. Marilyn is also Tabard’s audience services director and is costumer for several theatre/dance companies. One of her big joys in life is anything related to I Love Lucy.

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Tom Wieske (Percussion) returns for a third time to Tabard, where played for last season’s Memphis. He is also the percussionist for Nineteen Jazz Orchestra and has appeared on this stage performing with that organization.

Mary Welty-Dapkus (Associate Director) is thrilled to once again join long-time collaborator and friend Jay Manley, at The Tabard Theatre Company for this wonderful production of Peter and the Starcatcher. Mary and Jay celebrate over 25 years working together at the award-winning Foothill Music Theatre as well as projects at Broadway By the Bay, South Bay Musical Theatre, and now Tabard. Favorite shows over the years include Ragtime, The Producers, How To Succeed In Business, Show Boat, and Les Miserablés, to name a few. Mary is a graduate of Santa Clara University and the Foothill Theater Conservatory and runs her own life and leadership coaching business, Fresh Intuition. Theater continues to be one of her life passions!

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Ronald & Kathleen Kutch Robert Clare LandryDon & Carol LaucellaPatricia LaurieJosie & Skip LawsonGeorge & Diane LechnerJohn & Mary Ann LemonsClaire Lentz Robert LewisBobbi Lotman Andrew & Christina LowdElizabeth Lowenstein Margaret LundieChristine Lush Doris MartinezTony MastrobertoDavid & Claire McFeelyDarin McGrewDave & Helen McGuigan Michael & Peggy McNuttDeb & Scott McQueenTheresa Meditch Bob & Karol MeeksLarry & Susan MillerSheila MollettHelene MorleyChristina Morrill Carol NeillNhaai Nguyenduc Tyler Okunski Richard & Grace O’LearyJoseph & Pamela Oliverio Bruce & Patricia ParsonsKathyrn P Perrigo Les & Louise PerssonJill M. PeterDaryl Ragan Patty Rauch Team ResslerRobert & Jenny RossSuzanne RostamizadehFran Rushing Josh Salans Gerald Silva Laurel Smith Pieter & Jacqueline Smith Seunghee Son Caroline Spangler Jack & Sally StallardJay SteeleCraig & Kathy SutherlandMarvin & Ina TannerTony & Diane TaylorDebbie Torrey John & Claudia UngerGrace Vaccaro

Evelyn VigilJoan WagnerMitsu Wasano Donald & Gloria

WeddingtonLoretta & Ron WelchJudy WestDave & Carolyn WestcottDennis & Marianne Wilcox Ted & Marianne WilliamsJerry & Kay YoungRichard & Sharon ZechesRobert Zeiher & Susan

Weiner

In-Kind DonationsJack C. BorokKathy BullockJoe & Cathy CassettaVictor & Beverly Clifford Vicky DeggsKelly Endersby Craig Engen Yousuf Fauzan Harley & Esther GoesKatie HassettHank & Marcia Lawson Dottie Lester-WhiteRobert LewisDarin McGrewJanet MillerNick & Catalina NicholsGrace VaccaroGwendolyne WagnerAnne WelkerAFK Gamer LoungeCadence Design SystemsCafe Stritch City Lights Theater

Company Farmer’s Union Gingerbread on the Go Hotel DeAnzaJoseph George WinesLos Altos Stage Company Olla Cocina Pat Paulsen Vineyards San Francisco Giants San Jose Stage CompanySan Jose Symphonic ChoirSan Jose Wind Symphony Santa Clara Players Silicon Valley Gay Men’s

Chorus South Bay Musical TheatreSymphony Silicon Valley WVLO Musical Theatre

Arts Education DonationsRich & Anne Bluth Dave Daviar Vicky Deggs & Howard

Taub Harley & Esther Goes Jerry & Janice Keifer Kathy Kessler Bobbi Lotman Janet MillerNicole Letellier Darin & Michelle McGrew Pauline MooreNick Nichols Bruce & Lynne Noel Barbara Reynolds Frances Rushing Leo M. Shortino Family

Foundation Pieter & Jacqueline Smith Seunghee SonJay & Marcia Sternin Bob & Sharon Visini Gwendolyne WagnerJudy West Rich & Anne Winterlin The Applied Materials

FoundationCalifornia Arts Council Silicon Valley Community

Foundation’s Donor Circle for the Arts

San Jose Water Company

Matching GrantsAdobeDeVos Institute General ElectricGoogleIBMIntel Microsoft

Grants Arts Manager LLC City of San Jose Office of

Cultural AffairsDeVos Institute Intel Volunteer Grant

Program Silicon Valley Community

FoundationSilicon Valley Creates

Making memories. Tabard. Be a part of it. Tabard.

‘tab’ard: \’tab- erd also -ärd\ n: 1. An ancient London inn featured in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, from which pilgrims began their journey to Canterbury Cathedral and at which the innkeeper offered a free meal to the best storyteller. 2. A tunic worn by a knight over his armor and emblazoned with his sovereign’s arms. 3. The name appropriated by numerous contemporary collegiate literary fraternities. 4. A dynamic and imaginative theatre company in Silicon Valley, CA

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Administrative Office: 5663 Chambertin Drive San Jose, CA 95118408-979-0231

nick@tabardtheatre.org www.tabardtheatre.org

Our Mission Statement: Tabard’s mission is to provide live entertainment experiences that are enlightening, appropriate, and affordable for audiences of all ages. We champion new works, innovative interpretations, and unique plays rarely staged. Tabard is an inclusive environment where the community can participate in every aspect of the plays, musicals, educational programs, and music concerts we produce. With altruistic attention to the underserved, Tabard reaches out to communities such as the visually impaired and children in low-income areas, and donates a portion of each production’s concessions proceeds to a designated local charity.

A 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation

Executive Director: Nick Nichols Founder, Artistic Director: Cathy Spielberger Cassetta