City Garage presents

Tartuffe by Molière: A Reality Show

Translated and Adaptedby Frédérique Michel & Charles A. Duncombe

Directed by Frédérique MichelProduced by Charles A. Duncombe

September 11—November 1, 2015

Tartuffe by Molière: A Reality Show

Translated and Adaptedby Frédérique Michel & Charles A. Duncombe

Directed by Frédérique MichelProduced by Charles A. Duncombe

Cast(in order of appearance)

Trace Taylor .................................................Madame Pernelle Chelsea Militano .......................................................... ElmireJohnny Langan .............................................................Damis Megan Kim ..............................................................Mariane David Frank ..............................................................Cléante J Carlos Flores ............................................................ Dorina Bo Roberts ................................................................. Orgon John Hayden ...............................................................Valère George Villas* ...........................................................Tartuffe Zack Sayenko ...................................................Saul Bernstein

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

Production StaffProduction Design, Set & Lighting ..............Charles A DuncombeCostume Design ........................................... Josephine PoinsotVideo Design ........................................Anthony M Sannazaro Sound Design & Publicity Photography ..............Paul RubensteinAssistant Director ........................................... Berta FinkelsteinLight/Sound Operators ............ Jeffrey Gardner, Andrew LoviskaPublicity and Press.............................................Jerry Charlson

Special Thanks to Dan Butts and Tom Patchett for set dressing pieces.

The play runs approximately 130 minutes with one intermission.

CAST PROFILESTrace TaylorMadame Pernelle Trace Taylor began acting as a child in Cheltenham Glos., UK with Cheltenham Theatre & Gloucester County Youth Drama. Professional work continued

in the United States in regional theatres and on PBS in Florida and New York. Off Broadway musical theatre and Broadway Cabaret credits include Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, and The Mamet Women as well work with The Theatre Guild in NYC as associate producer for Susannah York’s The Loves of Shakespeares Women. A German Voice Over for Robert DeNiro’s The Good Shepherd and being a double for Reba McEntire have also a been a few highlights. She has also been seen in the City Garage Moliere productions The Bourgeois Gentleman, and The School For Wives.

Chelsea MilitanoElmireChelsea is thrilled to be making her City Garage debut. Some of her favorite theatre credits include Caroline in House of Ramon Inglesia, Jinny in The

Waves, and Marvalyn in Almost Maine. Chelsea graduated with Honors from Cornish College of the Arts with a BFA in Theatre. Since graduation she has performed in several short �lms, indie features, and has been the recurring host for Growth Circle.

Johnny LanganDamisJohnny is excited to be making his �rst appearance on the City Garage stage! He holds a BA in Theatre from Northwestern University. Since graduating in

2013, Johnny has studied at Howard Fine Acting Studio, Lesly Kahn & Co., and the Upright Citizens Brigade. He has appeared in multiple short �lms and web series during his time in Los Angeles, and is a proud actor and head mentor for the Young Storytellers Foundation. www.JohnnyLangan.com

Megan KimMarianeThis is Megan Kim’s seventh time onstage with City Garage after appearing with the company as Billie in

Timepiece; Hella in both Bulgakov/Moliere and Moskva; Ophelia the Terrorist in Opheliamachine; the Caged Woman in Caged; and Electra in Orestes 3.0: Inferno. She began as a ballerina in her hometown of Atascadero, CA where she starred in The Nutcracker as Clara and A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Puck among many other principal roles. She received her B.A. in Theatre Arts from California Lutheran University, and is continually working on her craft at YPS and Edge PAC.

David FrankCléanteEntering his 18th year of membership and having participated in more than 30 productions at City Garage, David is both glad and disturbed to see

that Tartuffe is still relevant. Past production highlights include: MedeaText: Los Angeles Despoiled Shore; Frederick of Prussia/GeorgeW’s Dream of Sleep; The Battle: ABC; The Bald Soprano; The Mission (Accomplished); Paradise Park; and When The Rain Stops Falling. He holds a B.S. in Theatre Performance from Ball State University, and constantly aims to inspire a love of theatre in his own students.

J. Carlos FloresDorinaThis J. Carlos’ debut at City Garage. A Mexican actor, director, writer and choreographer, he recently moved to California and performed earlier this summer at The

Odyssey Theatre in the play Oedipus Machina directed by Ron Sossi.His upcoming movie The 4th Company will be released this winter in Mexico. He played the role of Private Perez in the movie Saving Private Perez (distributed in the US by Pantelion), one of the leads in the �rst Mexican Disney movie High School Musical: The Challenge (also broadcast on TV in Europe). He worked for the Sony Entertainment’s TV Show Los Simuladores (2010 Emmy Nominee for Best Foreign Comedy). He was a dance instructor at Adriana Barraza’s (Oscar Nominee) Acting Studio in Miami for two years.

Bo RobertsOrgonBo Roberts has previously performed at City Garage in Blood On A Cat’s Neck; The Universal Wolf;

Wantons, Rogues and Libertines; George Sand: An Erotic Odyssey in Seven Tableaux; Journeys Among the Dead; Pre-Paradise, Sorry Now; Mariage Blanc; The Fetishist; Katzelmacher; The Empire Builders; Patriot Act: A Reality Show; The Battle: ABC (which won the Best Ensemble award at the 2006 LA Weekly Theatre Awards); Agamemnon; The Bacchae; Rhinoceros; The Bald Soprano, The Mission (Accomplished) [nominated for a 2009 LA Weekly Theatre Award for Best Ensemble], The School for Wives, The Chairs, The Trojan Women, Sganarelle; Orestes 3.0: Inferno; Bulgakov/Molière; and Timepiece.

John HaydenValereMaking his debut at City Garage Theatre, John is thrilled to join the talented cast of Tartuffe. Recently he has appeared in The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever

at North Hollywood’s Whitmore-Lindley Theatre and in Dracula at the Underground Theatre in Hollywood. He can be seen in numerous �lm and television projects, including Tabloid: Season 2, Suspect, The Stradivarius and the upcoming feature �lm Running With Fear.

George VillasTartuffeThis marks George’s �fth appearance at City Garage most recently playing John Smith in Break Of Noon, Henry Law in When the Rain Stops Falling, Orlando

in The Conduct of Life and Molière in Bulgakov-Molière last year. He was also seen as Joseph and Mary in John Steinbeck’s Sweet Thursday at the PRT. Other roles include Shrulik in Joshua Sobols Ghetto; Edmund in King Lear; Billy the Kid in The Beard; Anthony in David Rabe’s A Question Of Mercy; Siggi in Golden Boy, Trigorin in The Seagull and at the Mark Taper Forum in Oliver Mayer’s Blade to the Heat, Welcome to the Moon and Henry Levy in Irwin Shaw’s Bury the Dead. George is also currently shooting a remake of the miniseries Roots to air in 2016.

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Zack SayenkoSaul BernsteinZack is excited to join a very talented cast of City Garage Theatre. This is his �rst appearance with the company. Previously he performed with several

theatre companies in San Francisco and his other stage credits include American Buffalo, Streetcar Named Desire and All My Sons among others. He recently moved to Los Angeles and has since appeared in several TV shows including NCIS: LA, General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful and several �lms. He’s also done a very small voice-over part for Die Hard 5, so now he walks around telling people that he worked with Bruce Willis. STAFF PROFILESFrédérique Michel, Artistic DirectorDirectorFrédérique was born in Paris and studied theatre at the Conservatoire. She has led the company as Artistic Director since its founding in 1987. She received a Dramalogue Award for her direction of Dissident. Her 1998 production of George Sand: An Erotic Odyssey in Seven Tableaux was nominated for four L.A. Weekly Theater Awards, including Best Director. She was nominated again for Best Director for MedeaText: Los Angeles/Despoiled Shore (2000). In 2005 she won the LA Weekly Award for Best Direction (one-act) for La Leçon. Her production of The Battle: ABC was nominated for Best Direction and received the 2006 LA Weekly Award for Best Ensemble. She once again won Best Direction (one-act) for Quartet at the 2008 LA Weekly Theater Awards and was also nominated for her direction of The Bald Soprano. At the 2009 LA Weekly Theater Awards, she received (along with Charles Duncombe) the “Queen of the Angels Award” for “decades of directing and producing scintillating, politically charged theater that challenges audiences to reconsider their assumptions about the nature of politics and the nature of theater itself.” In 2011 City Garage received the Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre. In 2012 she worked with Neal LaBute in a new, west coast version of Filthy Talk for Troubled Times. Among her recent works at City Garage are the world premieres of Charles Mee’s Orestes 3.0, Magda Romanska’s Opheliamachine, Charles Duncombe’s Caged, Stephen Leigh Morris’s Moskva, Charles Duncombe’s Bulgakov/

Molière, the LA premiere of When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell; Timepiece by Charles Duncombe; and The Break of Noon by Neal LaBute.

Charles A. Duncombe, Producing DirectorPlaywright, ProducerCharles is a writer, director, and designer. He began his partnership with Frédérique in 1985 and has designed all her work since then. He has received two Dramalogue Awards for production design, and in 1999 won the LA Weekly Award for Best Lighting Design. He has been nominated three times for Best Production Design by the LA Weekly, and won the award in 2006 for the entire Three by Mee season of Agamemnon, The Bacchae, and Iphigenia. He has been nominated four times by the LA Weekly for Best Adaptation for his works Medeatext: Los Angeles/Despoiled Shore, Frederick of Prussia/GeorgeW’s Dream of Sleep, The Mission (Accomplished), and The Trojan Women: LA/Darfur Dreamscape. His play Patriot Act: A Reality Show won the Fratti/Newman Award for Political Playwriting in 2005. With Michel, he has also won the 2010 LA Weekly Award for Best Translation for Beaumarchais’s The Marriage of Figaro, along with the 2009 LA Weekly “Queen of the Angels” Award, and the 2011 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle’s Margaret Hartford Award for Sustained Excellence for the work of City Garage. His recent plays at City Garage are Caged (2013), Bulgakov/Molière (2014), and Timepiece (2015).

Paul Rubenstein, General ManagerSound Design, Publicity PhotographyIn 2009 Paul won the LA Weekly Theater Award for Sound Design for The Mission: Accomplished at City Garage. He last appeared onstage with City Garage in The Battle: ABC, winner of Best Ensemble at the 2006 LA Weekly Theater Awards.

Berta FinkelsteinAssistant DirectorBerta has been with City Garage since 2013. Her theater experiences include set construction, costume design and management of lightboards and followspots. She works with TreePeople’s summer series, Once Upon a Canyon, and at Santa Monica’s CityTV’s weekly program. She is a member of The Women of Steel band in Venice, Florida playing the tenor lead pan.

ABOUT CITY GARAGECity Garage has been producing innovative, award-winning theatre in Santa Monica for more than 25 years. Through the sponsorship of the Blank family, it is now the resident theatre company at Bergamot Station Arts Center. It has had more than two dozen “Critic’s Choice” or “Pick of the Week” productions. It received four L.A. Weekly Theatre Award nominations for its production George Sand: An Erotic Odyssey in Seven Tableaux (1998, four more for MedeaText: Los Angeles/Despoiled Shore (2000), and another two for Frederick of Prussia/GeorgeW’s Dream of Sleep (2001). Its staging of The Empire Builders (2004) by Boris Vian was nominated by the Weekly for Production of the Year, while its revival of Ionesco’s The Lesson (2007)received nominations in both direction and performance categories, winning the award for Best Direction. Heiner Müller’s The Battle: ABC was nominated for Best Direction and Best Ensemble in 2006 and won the Ensemble award. In 2007, its “Three by Mee” season received four LA Weekly nominations, including Production of the Year for Agamemnon. The season as a whole won in the Production Design category. In 2008, the company received seven nominations in six categories, including Best Ensemble (one-act) and Best Comedy Ensemble, and took home awards for Best Direction (one-act) and Best Performance (one-act). In 2009, the company earned six nominations including one for Best Ensemble and Best Adaptation for The Mission (Accomplished). In that same year, company founders Frédérique Michel and Charles Duncombe won the LA Weekly’s “Queen of the Angels” award for decades of contributions to L.A. theater. Its new versions of the Moliere classic The Bourgeois Gentillhome (2009) and Beamarchais’s The Marriage of Figaro (2010) were both “Critic’s Choice” in the LA Times, as was its original work about human rights atrocities in Darfur The Trojan Women: LA/Darfur Dreamscape.

The company’s work with Fassbinder texts has been featured in two German documentaries: Fassbinder in Hollywood, and Fassbinder: Love, Life, and Celluloid. Three of its Heiner Müller productions have been discussed in the book Müller in America published in New York in 2003. In the summer of 2004, in New York, the company received an Otto, a national award for political theatre (past recipients include Laurie Anderson, Bread and Puppets Theater, Steppenwolf Theater, and Heiner Müller). It was honored that year alongside Robert Wilson, El Teatro Campesino, and Charles Mee. In 2011 it received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle’s Margaret Hartford Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre. After performing for two years at Tom Patchett’s Track 16 gallery here at Bergamot, in 2012 the company moved into its current home in the T1 space

CITY GARAGE MATCHING FUNDDear Friend and Supporter,

We want to thank you for the support you’ve shown us over the years, either by coming to shows or making a donation.

City Garage has a wonderful future in store. The new Metro line will start running in the spring of next year, opening us up to easy access for audiences from across LA County. Though the Bergamot Station redevelopment is still some years away, when it comes we can look forward to the strong possibility of a beautiful new facility built just for us. To realize the promise of the next few years, we are initiating a five year plan of professionalization to gradually add staff and to increase compensation to artists. You can be part of that by making a gift to help us match three recent grants.

These grants, which total nearly $25,000, will provide us a wonderful base so we can continue our innovative work, but we can’t do it without YOU. They are matching grants, which means that we don’t recieve the money unless you step up to help raise these amounts:• L.A. County Arts Commission: $11,600• Org. Support Grant, City of Santa Monica: $7,000• Community Access and Participation Grant: $6,000

These grants are vital to continuing the work and we’ll be running this campaign from now until December 31st, 2015.

Once a month, we’ll send out a status report on each grant with a chart showing how much progress we’ve made in matching each grant and listing the name and the amount of donation each City Garage patron has made. We want everyone to know how generous you are—and your example will encourage others.

Merci in advance.

Frederique & Charles

Tartuffe by Moliere: A Reality Show(World Premiere)September 11, 2015—November 1, 2015

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The Winter of Our Discontent: Shakespeare in the Digital Age

—Fall 2015 to Spring 2016—

Join City Garage in an innovative exploration and deconstruction of three of Shakespeare’s classic texts!

Hamletmachine by Heiner MüllerNovember 13, 2015—December 20, 2015

The seminal late-20th century masterpiece that de�nes the post-modern approach to Shakespeare. This jagged, non-linear text breaks open the Hamlet mythology and uses it to re-examine the Opheliamachine, 2013

Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, 2011

blood-soaked 20th century heritage of revolutions, world wars, genocides, and the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Learby Young Jean LeeFebruary 5, 2016—March 13, 2016(6 week, regular run)

The West Coast premiere of the widely-acclaimed new text. In Lear, experimental playwright Young Jean Lee’s self-described “inaccurate distortion” of the classic, she banishes the title monarch and most of the other male characters to the wings and focuses instead on the younger generation: Lear’s three daughters and Glouscter’s two sons. The absurdist, meta results are irreverent, grotesque, and morally harrowing.

Othelloby Charles A. DuncombeApril 8, 2016 – May 15, 2016

This new deconstruction of Shakespeare’s Othello examines questions of race and power in what we long to be post-racial America—an America of police beatings, racial pro�lings, riots, and Supreme Court rollbacks of minority rights.

Orestes 3.0: Inferno, 2012

PATRONS($500+)Jeff AtikJoel Drazner Sue Ellen CaseTom ClydeRuth & Stan FlinkmanGeraldine Fuentes Andrew GiffordMyron MeiselBill MoynihanDouglas SteinbergAnonymous

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City Garage gratefully acknowledges the following generous supporters:

CORPORATE PARTNERSThe Wells Fargo Foundation

FOUNDERS($5,000+)AnonymousCheryl Saccio & Dr. George GoyTraverse BayJean-Michel MichenaudMegan Oppenheimer

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This project is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and

the Santa Monica Arts Commission.City Garage recognizes the Wells Fargo Foundation

for its generous support.

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FRIENDS($100+)T.T. & J. AlvarezTatiana AlvarezAlicia J. BentleyColette BluRandy BurtRichard ChernickRaffaella CommittanteRuthie CrossleyTanina DavanzoHarold DunniganDavid Mason EichmanJudith Epstein & Philip ToubusPenelope & Leo FrankGenesiusGeraldine FuentesGlen & Jennifer GersCathy & Clyde GoddardMarion & Jeffrey GraceHany HamidehValerie & Stephen HarwinMarshall Hea

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Coming In 2016 as our season continues:

The Winter of Our DiscontentPost-Modern Shakespeare in the Digital Age

Hamletmachine by Heiner Muller

Lear by Young Jean Lee

Othello by Charles A. Duncombe

Ensemble StaffArtistic Director: Frédérique Michel

Producing Director: Charles Duncombe

General Manager: Paul Rubenstein

Board of DirectorsDavid Burton, ChairJeff AtikJoel DraznerCharles DuncombeSamuel GoldsteinFrédérique MichelJean-Michel MichenaudPaul RubensteinDavid Tillman

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