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“So many truckers I spoke with initially took the job for the independence. Now, much like the closing of the smaller, independent they’ve had to sell their MAMA HATEDfarms, DIESELS BY RANDAL MYLER & DAN WHEETMAN WITH ADDITIONAL MATERIAL trucks, if they had them, and join the big conglomerates. They’re told when to BY CHARLES WELDON THE STAGE THEATRE sleep, eat, drive, stop—the exact opposite of why they became truckers.” —Randall Myler, co-creator, Mama Hated Diesels

IHOW CAN YOU Is a show about long-haul truckers the first, second or even tenth thing that would jump to mind as a subject for a musical? Don’t answer that. It’s life in a parallel universe. But the question points to the depths of my ignorance before I talked to Randall Myler and Dan Wheetman, co-creators of Mama Hated Diesels. “Randy and I tend to go for shows about underdogs,” Wheetman offered from his home in Seattle, “people you don’t hear much about,” which has included coal-miners, inhabitants of Appalachia, originators of the Blues and now truckers. Myler and Wheetman became acquainted when Myler was putting together the original road company of

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Quilters at The Denver Center in the early 1980s and needed a fiddler. Someone mentioned that Wheetman, then fiddling for John Denver’s band, might be available. He was. Since then you might say one thing has led to another. “Those tech rehearsals with Dan turn almost into a hootenanny,” Myler offered the day after Christmas from some very snowy spot in New Jersey. “During Hank Williams: Lost Highway [a show that originated with Myler, Wheetman and actor/writer Mark Harelik], the late Ron Taylor would start singing blues songs, out of which we decided to do It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. And at Blues rehearsals in Denver, Danny started singing coal-mining songs, out of which came Fire on the Mountain.

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“When we were in Louisville, Kentucky, with Fire On the Mountain, Dan began singing trucker songs from the 50s and 60s. So we talked about it, because the subculture of the American truck driver has fascinated me for a long time; it’s in line with the vanishing America.” rucker songs are in Wheetman’s DNA. His Dad was a long-haul trucker, as are his two brothers. Wheetman himself briefly drove trucks delivering furniture in Los Angeles, but for the most part, this father of five, who toured and recorded with John Denver for seven years, has had an eclectic musical career. Quoting from his bio: “He wrote a Christmas song for Kermit the Frog, recorded a 78rpm with R. Crumb and the

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“I’ll tell you: truckers have a wicked sense of humor. Oh, yeah!” —Randall Myler, co-creator, Mama Hated Diesels if they had them, and join the big conglomerates. They’re told when to sleep, eat, drive, stop—the exact opposite of why they became truckers. In New York City, where I live now, big rigs are considered a nuisance; we want their lettuce for our salads, but we don’t want to see them deliver it.” Said Wheetman: “If their trucks stopped rolling we’d stop eating in about three days.” Does Myler ask permission to use the words he quotes? “What I do is talk to the guys who run the truck stops. There’s always a couple of them who’ll say, ‘Oh, you should talk to Ed and so-and-so over there, they won’t mind.’ “Truckers enjoy the interest and the chance to give their side of the story because when Americans think of truck drivers they think Burt Reynolds movies. Usually redneck. I also tell them I won’t use their names because often it’s a composite of four or five conversations that make up one character in the show. This woman trucker I put in the show was the victim of a husband who beat her. She said to me, ‘He thought I was at the Jersey mall and I was at trucker school and one day I was just gone.’ She’s never looked back.” harles Weldon, who’s in the show, drove a truck out of Bakersfield for 12 years before becoming an actor and singer. He’s such a trove of knowledge that Myler insisted the show’s billing state “additional material by Charles Weldon.” “What Randy and I look for in these shows,” concluded Wheetman, “is authenticity. Charles brings a lot of that.” “You should hear what he has to say about the things that happened to him—an African American truck driver heading South…?! And he has a great sense of humor about it all,” Myler added. “I’ll tell you: truckers have a wicked sense of humor. Oh, yeah! They

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all should be in the show. I never can really use them, but I’ve been lucky through the years to have found actors who feel like people and not actors, if you know what I mean. “It’s a tough life,” he digressed. “So many of the drivers are so smart and funny and they put in enormous hours for their kids and families, whom they hardly ever see. Even if they’re traveling past their town, they can’t park their rig in their neighborhood, so the families have to go to the truck stop to see their Dad. And then there’s that string of ailments—bad backs, bursitis, the window’s open, one arm’s out… We talk about it in the show—with humor, like any job.” n interesting twist: “I wanted some visuals from the road,” Myler said, “slides— projections—looking at the world through the windshield, so I approached Jim Steinberg.” Steinberg, an award-winning professional photographer and Denver Center trustee (he also is one of five board members who run the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust whose proceeds are entirely dedicated to the American theatre), was happy to oblige. So where did the title come from? A trucker song, of course. Myler, singing raucously: “ ‘Mama hated diesels so bad/I guess it had something to do with Dad. The first time I saw her cry/Was when one of them trucks rolled by…’ “Fun, tongue-in-cheek stuff,” he said, unable to contain his laughter any longer. “Clearly, Danny and I will be doing a show on American farms. That could be coming soon, because that intrigues us and the music of that.” n

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Good Tone Banjo Boys, played a fiddle duet with Itzhak Perlman, and worked as an opening act for Steve Martin for a year.” Myler on the other hand is a theatrical documentarian, doing, in his words, “a live Ken Burns/Studs Terkel kind of thing with music.” “Denver’s been lucky for me,” he reflected about his decades-long association with The Denver Center, “because a lot of the shows that began here are still out there.” They include Love, Janis, Hank Williams, Appalachian Strings, Fire On the Mountain, which got several Jeff awards in Chicago and It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, with its two Tony nominations for Myler. e claims he can’t pinpoint what got him started down this path. He was impelled to “not write dialogue myself. Why make up things when they come whole out of people’s mouths? When you hear the songs and stories and the sense of humor and grittiness of these hard jobs, whether it’s coal-mining or truck-driving…” The sentence was left dangling. Through the years, Myler with Wheetman or Harelik visited the Library of Congress where they have many tape recordings of folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. “That,” said Myler, “encouraged me to lay down some of these stories before they were gone.” For Mama Hated Diesels he followed the Lomax example, taking a hand-held tape recorder into the field. “I did the first interviews when I was in Louisville, then at the Alley Theatre in Houston and then at the Arkansas Rep. I’m in New Jersey now and went out yesterday to a truck stop. Many of us think truckers are Southern, but most are from the north and many are women. That’s another thing. “Trucking was considered a man’s job. The women still get some guy over their CB saying, ‘Whatchyou doing on the road? You should be home cooking and raising a family.’ A woman who’d been driving a truck since the 1970s said, ‘I useta never see a woman truck driver on the highway and, suddenly, I was driving north one day and one was coming south; we passed, glanced at each other and almost both ran off the road.’ “So many truckers I spoke with initially took the job for the independence. Now, much like the closing of the smaller, independent farms, they’ve had to sell their trucks,

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A Denver Center World Premiere Musical

MAMA HATED DIESELS by Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman with additional material by Charles Weldon Directed by Randal Myler Musical Direction by Dan Wheetman Original Photography by Jim Steinberg Scenic Design by Vicki Smith Costume Design by Kevin Copenhaver Lighting Design by Don Darnutzer Sound Design by Craig Breitenbach Projection Design by Charlie I. Miller

CAST Truckers................................................................................ Brad Bellamy* Kathleen M. Brady* Mike Hartman* Charles Weldon* Wives and Son............................................................. Jan Leslie Harding* Jeanne Paulsen* Augustus Lane Filholm* Singers...............................................................................Rhonda Coullet* Jason Edwards* David P. Jackson* BAND James Cruce – Drums David P. Jackson – Bass, Vocals David Miles Keenan – Electric Guitar, Banjo, Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals

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UNDERSTUDIES Gabriella Cavallero* (Trucker, Wives, Singer), Anthony Hubert* (Trucker), Jeffrey Roark* (Truckers, Singers)

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rtistic Director Kent Thompson leads the Rocky Mountain West’s flagship professional resident theatre with a renewed excitement and an invigorating challenge to climb to the summit and explore the future of American theatre in the pioneering spirit of the West.     Since the Tony Award-winning company’s opening performance in 1979, Denver Center for the Performing Arts Founder Donald R. Seawell, Founding Artistic Director Edward Payson Call and long-time Artistic Director Donovan Marley nurtured a commitment to classics, the best of contemporary plays and the development of new works.  In his first four seasons, Kent broadened artistic offerings to include more plays by women and Latinos.  The new season will be produced by an expanded and more diverse resident company of artists, craftspeople and managers, reflecting the many cultures and communities of Colorado and the Rockies.     The company’s most exciting artistic endeavor is the expansion of the new play program.  Building upon the past successes of DCTC’s new play program – from Quilters to The Laramie Project, 1001, Lydia, Plainsong, Inana, Dusty and the Big Bad World and Sunsets and Margaritas – Kent is positioning the Denver Center to take the lead as a center of great new American writing for the stage, specifically through the creation of plays that explore what it means be an American in the 21st century.  This new challenge is especially evident in the company’s new annual showcase for its commissioned plays, the Colorado New Play Summit, which featured two world premiere productions.  To insure the futures of the American theatre and the Colorado New Play Summit, new plays by both established and emerging playwrights have been commissioned by the Denver Center Theatre Company this season.

   Kent is in his fifth season as Artistic Director of the Denver Center Theatre Company.  In his first four Denver seasons he directed productions of Dusty and the Big Bad World, Plainsong, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Amadeus, King Lear and Measure for Measure.    Prior to moving to Denver he was Producing Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for 16 years.  His production of Macbeth was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), to tour 13 US military bases in the fall of 2004.    In 1991 Kent created the Southern Writers’ Project (SWP), designed to commission and develop new plays that presented 16 world premieres during his tenure. Two of Kent’s major accomplishments since moving to Denver have been the establishment of the Women’s Voices Fund, commissioning and developing of new plays by women, and the Colorado New Play Summit, quickly becoming a premier national festival for new American plays.    He served for eight years on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and as its president for three years.  He has served on peer review panels for the NEA (also chair), TCG, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Fulbright Scholars Program, The Wallace Funds, The Doris Duke Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Bruce K. Sevy Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Play Development Bruce has directed such memorable Denver Center productions as The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Doubt, All My Sons, Master Class, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Christmas Carol, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, Molly Sweeney, Amy’s View, Valley Song, Pierre, Dinner With Friends, and The Cripple of Inishmaan. As Director of New Play Development, he oversees both the artistic and practical components of DCTC’s successful Colorado New Play Summit, including commissions from outstanding American playwrights.     He has directed for Arizona Theatre

Company, Cleveland Play House, Lark Play Development Center, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Northlight Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Pioneer Theatre Company, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space and Intiman Theatre in Seattle, the Kimo Theatre in Albuquerque, and Utah Shakespearean Festival.  His popular production of 2 Pianos, 4 Hands has been seen at more than twenty theatres nationally, including DCTC’s successful 2003 production. Charles Varin General Manager     In his fourth season in Denver, Charles is General Manager for the Denver Center Theatre Company. He and his team are responsible for overseeing the financial and administrative activities of the DCTC, creating and executing employment contracts and coordinating the travel, housing and other needs of the Company’s resident and guest artists.  Prior to DCTC, Charles worked for Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York.  Edward Lapine Production Manager Ed directs the company’s design, shop and technical areas. His other professional work included positions in technical management at A.C.T. in San Francisco, The Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California.  Ed has worked in film production in Southern California and also worked outside of the arts as a partner in a company developing products in the nanotechnology field. He holds a BA degree from Williams College and an MFA degree in Production Management from the Yale School of Drama. Jeff Hovorka Director of Media & Marketing    A native of Denver, Jeff oversees all aspects of marketing, media and sales for both Denver Center Attractions (DCA) and the DCTC.  He holds a BA in Journalism and English from Benedictine College and has been involved in theatre all his life. Jeff has worked in marketing and public relations for the DCPA for more than 15 years, and his prior professional experience also includes television and advertising work.  Prior to assuming the role of Director of Media and Marketing for the DCPA, he served as the Director (continued)

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of Media and Marketing for DCA, was the Associate Producer for Always…Patsy Cline and handled press and marketing for Patsy, Forever Plaid, Forbidden Broadway, The World Goes ’Round, Swingtime Canteen, The Taffetas, The Last Five Years, Girls Only and Denver’s longest-running musical, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, all at The Garner Galleria Theatre.  During his tenure with DCA, he also held the position of General Manager of The Galleria Theatre.  Daniel Renner Education Director and Dean, National Theatre Conservatory Daniel’s career has spanned acting, directing, producing, teaching and arts administration in regional theatres throughout the country. He has worked in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and many regional theatres including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC, and was an associate artist and director with the Intiman Theatre in Seattle for ten years. Daniel has served on the boards of TCG and ASSITEJ/USA, and is currently on the editorial boards of The Teaching Artist Journal and TYA Today. He is the recipient of a citation from the Kennedy Center for his contributions to arts education, received a TCG Observership Grant for work in diversity programming and new theatre education models, and was honored by PBS and major Washington corporations for innovation in education.  

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B.A./Oberlin College, M.F.A./Southern Methodist University. Geoffrey Kent Fight Director: Othello At the Denver Center: Eventide, Well, Absurd Person Singular, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Richard III, The Miracle Worker, Noises Off, Plainsong, King Lear, 1001, The Pillowman, Season’s Greetings, The Ladies of the Camellias, Jesus Hates Me, A Flea in Her Ear, Dirty Story, King Hedley II, The Lonesome West, A Skull in Connemara. Other Theatres: Hamlet, Three Musketeers, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Othello (Colorado Shakespeare Festival), Macbeth, Zorro (TheatreWorks), Carmen, Don Giovanni, Porgy and Bess (Opera Colorado), Lieutenant of Inishmore, Bug (Curious Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Festival St. Louis), Romeo and Juliet (Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet), Gloriana (Central City Opera). Special/ Awards/Training: Denver Post reader’s choice “Theatre Person of the Year,” President – Society of American Fight Directors, teacher – National Theatre Conservatory. www.thefightguy.com Douglas Langworthy Dramaturg: Mariela in the Desert, Othello At the Denver Center: When Tang Met Laika, Well, The Voysey Inheritance, Quilters, Sunsets and Margaritas, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Inana, The Miracle Worker, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Trip to Bountiful, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Lydia, The Diary of Anne Frank, You Can’t Take It With You. Other Theatres: Adaptor – The Three Musketeers, The Visit, Translator – The Good Person of Szechuan, Book/Lyricist – Tracy’s Tiger (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Special/Awards/ Training: National Theatre Translation Fund Award, Dramaturg and Director of Play Development at McCarter Theatre, Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dramaturg for Target Margin Theater in New York. Randal Myler Director: Mama Hated Diesels (See bio under Playwrights) Jim Steinberg Photographer: Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: Debut, Trustee – Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Other Theatres: National Council for the American Theatre, Trustee – The

Public Theatre, NY Shakespeare Festival, Co-Chair New Works Festival – Friends of Perry-Mansfield. Special/Awards/ Training: Winner 2008 ForeWord National Book Award, Winner 2008 Colorado Book Award, Finalist 2005 Colorado Book Award. Natural history and travel photographer and publisher: President of Jim Steinberg Photography – The Portfolio Collection, Ltd., CEO Portfolio Publications, Inc., 2005 graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute, 1975 Doctor of Arts in English from The University of Oregon, 1974 MA in English from The University of Oregon, 1971 BA in English (Cum Laude) from The University of Wisconsin. Jimsteinbergphotography.com Coloradoscenicbyways.com Bruce K. Sevy Director: Mariela in the Desert (See bio under Executive Staff) Kent Thompson Director: Othello (See bio under Executive Staff) Dan Wheetman Musical Director: Mama Hated Diesels (See bio under Playwrights)

D E SIGN E RS Bill Black Costume Designer: Othello At the Denver Center: The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Dusty and the Big Bad World, Doubt, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, All My Sons. Other Theatres: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Clarence Brown Theatre Company, Madison Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Round House Theatre, Skylight Opera Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespearean Festival. Special/Awards/ Training: Paul Soper Distinguished Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Theatre at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, two-time recipient of the John F. Kennedy Medallion for leadership role in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. William Burns Sound Designer: Mariela in the Desert At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Take Ten (Theatre Master’s – Aspen), Curious New Voices, Home

Craig Breitenbach Sound Designer: Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: Eventide, A Raisin in the Sun, Quilters, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Richard III, A Christmas Carol, Noises Off, White Christmas, Third, A Funny Thing…Forum, King Lear, Amadeus, Crowns, The Clean House, Measure for Measure, A Flea in Her Ear, Fire on the Mountain, Oedipus Rex, The Misanthrope, The Three Sisters, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Skin of Our Teeth, Betrayal, Spinning Into Butter, Dinner With Friends, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Laramie Project, The Show-Off, 1933, The Little Foxes. Other Theatres: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Shadow Theatre). Special/Awards/Training: 2008 Henry Award for Plainsong. Kevin Copenhaver Costume Crafts Director Costume Designer: Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: (20 seasons) A Christmas Carol, Noises Off, A Funny Thing…Forum, Living Out, Crowns, Fire on the Mountain, Boston Marriage, Oedipus Rex, Dirty Story, Blithe Spirit, Lobby Hero, Blue/Orange, Almost Heaven, Scapin, The Miser, Jesus Hates Me, Bernice/Butterfly, Pierre, Inna Beginning, The Elevation of Thieves, The Servant of Two Masters, Tantalus. Other Theatres: Smokey Joe’s Café, Colorado Catechism, The Underpants, Love, Janis, Dinner With Friends, Lobby Hero, The Syringa Tree, How I Learned to Drive (Colorado Theatres), Dream a Little Dream (Cleveland Play House). Special/Awards/Training: BA in Theatre Design from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music,

graduate Centro Maschere e Strutture Gestuali in Padua, Italy with master Commedia Dell’Arte maskmaker, Donato Sartori. Don Darnutzer Lighting Designer: Mariela in the Desert, Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: Eventide, Quilters, Richard III, The Trip to Bountiful, Plainsong, You Can’t Take It With You, A Funny Thing…Forum, A Christmas Carol, Measure for Measure, September Shoes, Fire on the Mountain, Oedipus Rex, The Merchant of Venice, John Brown’s Body, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Lonesome West, Pierre, The Immigrant, Dinner With Friends, A Skull in Connemara, Inna Beginning, The Little Foxes, Much Ado About Nothing, The ShowOff, Side Man, The Winter’s Tale, A Hotel on Marvin Gardens, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, 20 others. Other Theatres: It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues (Broadway), Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Almost Heaven and The Immigrant (Off-Broadway).   Jason Ducat Sound Designer: Othello At the Denver Center: When Tang Met Laika, Absurd Person Singular, The Voysey Inheritance, Radio Golf, Dusty and the Big Bad World, Glengarry Glen Ross. Other Theatres: Marat/Sade, Noises Off, Seven Guitars, The Winter’s Tale (Purdue), Lab Coats on Clouds (Prague Quadrennial), The Princess and the Pea, The Little Mermaid (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Elemental Theatre Company), Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (The Simple Theatre), Tribulation and the Demolition Squad (Chicago Dance Crash), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dancing at Lughnasa (The University of South Florida). Special/Awards/Training: MFA in sound design from Purdue University. Charles R. MacLeod  Lighting Designer: Othello At the Denver Center: (270 productions/26 seasons) When Tang Met Laika, Absurd Person Singular, A Raisin in the Sun, Radio Golf, Dusty and the Big Bad World, The Miracle Worker, Noises Off, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Lydia, The Diary of Anne Frank, 1001, Season’s Greetings, Gem of the Ocean, All My Sons, The Madwoman, Dirty Story, Betrayal, Jitney, Uncle Vanya, Waiting to be Invited, Gross Indecency, A

Christmas Carol, The Quick-Change Room, Love, Janis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Lost Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Servant of Two Masters, Sylvia, Master Class. Other Theatres: Girls Only, The Taffetas, My Way, Always…Patsy Cline (Denver Center Attractions), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Chapter Two, A Year with Frog and Toad (Theatre Aspen). Charlie I. Miller Projection Designer: Mariela in the Desert, Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: When Tang Met Laika, Sunsets and Margaritas. Other Theatres: username: FAUST – honors thesis multimedia production (Harvard’s New College Theatre), 15 workshops and productions (Harvard), Wolf Theatre Academy, PHAMALY in Denver. Special/ Awards/Training: BA in Visual and Environmental Studies (film, video, and multimedia production) from Harvard, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players, finalist for Harvard’s Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, 2009 Mizel Arts & Culture Center Cultural Achievement Award, creator and host of “10 Minutes to Curtain,” the DCTC’s monthly online video series (www.denvercenter. org/10minutes). Lisa M. Orzolek Director of Scenic Design Scenic Designer: Othello At the Denver Center: (190 productions/18 seasons) Well, The Voysey Inheritance, The Trip to Bountiful, Gee’s Bend, Third, The Pillowman, Living Out, After Ashley, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Boston Marriage, Visiting Mr. Green, Blue/ Orange. Other Theatres: Girls Only, The Taffetas, My Way, revival of Always… Patsy Cline (Denver Center Attractions), Twelfth Night, God’s Country, Bus Stop, The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre Conservatory). Training: BFA degree in Scenic Design from Boston University. Clint Ramos Costume Designer: Mariela in the Desert.   At the Denver Center: Debut.  Other Theatres: Costumes and/or sets: When The Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center, directed by David Cromer), Ruined (Oregon Shakespeare), The Temperamentals (New World Stages), The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…(Guthrie) , The Good Negro (Public Theater), So Help Me God! (Mint Theater), sets/costumes:

Designers

by Dark (Curious Theatre Company), Santaland Diaries (Boulder Ensemble Theatre), The Laramie Project, The Glass Menagerie (Oklahoma City Rep), New Kid (Imagination Stage, Washington, DC), We Are Not These Hands (Catalyst Theatre, Washington DC), tempOdyssey (Studio Theatre, Washington DC), Monster (Rorschach Theater, Washington DC), Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major (The Kennedy Center), Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (Metro Stage, Washington DC). Special/ Awards/ Training: Sound Design Fellowship – Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Sound Design Internship -The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Program Director /Instructor for the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas. Excellence in Sound Design - National (The Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival 2005).

Designers • Playwrights

American Repertory Theater, La Jolla, Guthrie, Asolo, Dallas Theater Center, Kansas City Rep, Oregon Shakespeare, Juilliard, Alliance Theater, CalShakes, Chautauqua, Centerstage, Opera Boston, Curtis Institute of Music, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Barbican (London), Reijksteatern (Stockholm), Thalia (Bucharest), Tanghalang Pilipino (Manila), Kannon (St. Petersburg), many others. Special/ Awards: 2007 and 2009 American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Awards, 2009 TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, Audelco, Elliot Norton, Drama Desk nomination, others. Vicki Smith Scenic Designer: Mariela in the Desert, Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: (22 seasons) Eventide, Inana, Noises Off, Doubt, Plainsong, Pride and Prejudice, A Funny Thing…Forum, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Ladies of the Camellias, Fire on the Mountain, Misanthrope, Blithe Spirit, Picnic, Scapin, Three Sisters, Lonesome West, Pierre, Hamlet, Dinner With Friends, Skull in Connemara, Pork Pie, Little Foxes, Much Ado About Nothing, Amy’s View, Cripple of Inishmaan, Side Man, Miser, Master Class, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Peter Pan, many others. Other Theatres: Kansas City Rep, Geva, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Arizona Theatre Company, Seattle Rep, Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Rep, Alabama Shakespeare, Penumbra, Children’s Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare, Pittsburgh Public, Anchorage Opera, Minnesota Opera, Cincinnati Playhouse, Alley, Berkeley Rep. Awards/ Training: MFA - University of Washington, Prague Quadrennial Design Exposition 2007.  

P LAYWRIGH t s Randal Myler Playwright: Mama Hated Diesels Randal Myler’s numerous writing and directorial credits include: Director/ Co-Author It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues (World Premiere Denver Center, later Tony Award nomination for both the show and Mr. Myler in NYC); Director/Co-Author Hank Williams Lost Highway (Outer Critics Circle Best Director nomination in NYC and two years at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville); Director/Author Love, Janis (World Premiere Denver Center, later 700 performance run off-Broadway at the Village Gate in NYC); Director/

Co-Author Fire On the Mountain (World Premiere Denver Center, later five Jeff Award nominations in Chicago); Director/ Co-Author Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert (Los Angeles Critic’s Ovation Award nomination for Best Musical); Director/Co-author Appalachian Strings (World Premiere Denver Center); Director/Co-author Touch the Names; Letters to the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial and others. In New York City he has directed productions at Lincoln Center, Broadway’s Ambassador Theater, New Victory Theater, Little Shubert, Promanade Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Manhattan Ensemble Theater, Roundabout’s Harold and Mimi Steinberg Center for Theatre, B.B. King’s, New World Stages, and others. Mr. Myler also has guest directed throughout the country, including the Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Mark Taper Forum,  Arena Stage, Old Globe, Seattle Rep, Geffen Theater, Wilshire Theater, Marine’s Memorial Theater,  Arizona Theater Company, Northlight Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Meadowbrook Theater, Arkansas Rep, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Theatreworks, Florida Studio Theater, Chicago’s Royal George Theater, Crossroads Theater, Laguna Playhouse, the Wheeler Opera House, Barter Theater, Virginia Stage Company, and many others. William Shakespeare Playwright: Othello    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born in late April 1564 in Stratfordupon-Avon. As a young actor, poet and playwright, he joined The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, one of the most successful acting troupes in London. In 1599, the troupe lost the lease of the theatre where it performed and built its own theatre across the Thames, south of London, which it called The Globe. The new theatre opened in July of 1599 built from the timbers of the old theatre. In 1603, when James I came to the throne, the new king designated the troupe as the King’s Company.    Shakespeare entertained the people of London at The Globe until June 19, 1613, when a canon fired from the roof of the theatre during a performance of Henry VIII set the thatch roof on fire and burned the theatre to the ground. Shakespeare retired from the stage but continued to write until his death in 1616 on his 52nd birthday. To this day, Shakespeare is the most widely admired and well-known poet and playwright in English literature.

Dan Wheetman Playwright: Mama Hated Diesels Dan is honored to be returning to Denver, one of his artistic homes. Dan’s first professional theatre gig was the Denver Center tour of Quilters in 1985. This month marks the 25th anniversary of that first job and the start of his artistic collaboration with Randy Myler. He has appeared in productions all over the US as an actor and musician and several of his plays with Mr. Myler have been premiered at DCTC including It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, Appalachian Strings, Fire on the Mountain and most recently, Mama Hated Diesels. They also have a new play Lowdown Dirty Blues premiering at Northlight Theater in Chicago later this season. He has garnered several LA Critics’ Circle awards for Musical Direction and a Tony nomination as a writer for Blues at Lincoln Center in New York. Along with his theatre work Dan also plays in a very eclectic band, Marley’s Ghost. Karen Zacarías Playwright: Mariela in the Desert Last year there were several world premieres of plays by Karen Zacarías: The Book Club Play at Round House Theater and the Berkshire Theater Festival, Chasing George Washington at the Kennedy Center, the musical Looking for Roberto Clemente at Imagination Stage, a bilingual adaptation of Romeo y Julieta (starring Elizabeth Peña) at Chicago Shakespeare, the adaptation of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents at Round House Theater and the world premiere of Legacy of Light directed by Molly Smith at Arena Stage. This last season also had East and West Coast Premieres of Mariela in the Desert. Karen is the winner of the 2006 Francesca Primus Award for her play, Mariela in the Desert (World Premiere at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago). Mariela is also the winner the 2005 TCG/AT&T First Stages Award, the 2004 National Latino Playwrights’ Competition, finalist for the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn prize, and short listed for 2005 Kesselring Prize. Her play, The Sins of Sor Juana won Outstanding New Play at the 2000 Helen Hayes Awards and has been produced throughout the country. Her musical plays for young people with composer Debbie La Puma have enjoyed productions at The Goodman Theater, The Coterie, Chicago PlayWorks, The Alliance Theatre, Imagination Stage, Arden Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, and St. Louis Rep. The plays include Einstein is a Dummy

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Christopher C. Ewing* Stage Manager: Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center (26 seasons) Eventide, A Raisin in the Sun, Quilters, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Noises Off, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Plainsong, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Funny Thing… Forum, A Christmas Carol, The Clean House, Gem of the Ocean, A Flea in Her Ear, Crowns, Fire on the Mountain, John Brown’s Body, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, The Skin of Our Teeth, Almost Heaven, The Immigrant, Tantalus, The Laramie Project, The Elevation of Thieves, Treasure Island, Taking Leave, The Dresser, Appalachian Strings, Peter Pan.  Other Theatres: Colorado Ballet, Denver Center Attractions, Bonfils Theatre. Training: BFA in Theatre Design/Technology from Loretto Heights College. Lyle Raper* Production Stage Manager Stage Manager: Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center (26 seasons) The Voysey Inheritance, Quilters, Radio Golf, A Christmas Carol, The Trip to Bountiful, 80 other productions. Other Theatres: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Court Street Theatre, Shakespeare in Santa Fe, Lizard Head Theatre. Special/Awards/Training: Taught a Stage Management class at the University of Denver. A. Phoebe Sacks* Stage Manager: Mariela in the Desert At the Denver Center: Eventide, Well, Sunsets and Margaritas, Inana, Glengarry Glen Ross, Gee’s Bend, Lobby Hero, Visiting Mr. Green, Copenhagen, King Hedley II, The Lonesome West, Dinner With Friends, Almost Heaven, The Immigrant, Pierre, 1933. Other Theatres: Into

the Woods (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center), Hats!, Menopause The Musical (New Denver Civic Theatre), Lobby Hero, The Syringa Tree (Lizard Head Theatre). Special/Awards/Training: Member of Actors’ Equity and proudly holds a B.A. in Technical Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado. Christi B. Spann* Stage Manager: Othello At the Denver Center: (12 seasons) When Tang Met Laika, Absurd Person Singular, The Voysey Inheritance, Dusty and the Big Bad World, The Miracle Worker, Quilters, Radio Golf, The Trip to Bountiful, Gee’s Bend, Our House, The Diary of Anne Frank, Pure Confidence, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Boston Marriage, Jitney, Pork Pie: A Mythic Jazz Fable, Wit, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Picnic. Other Theatres: Lizard Head Theatre, UCCS TheatreWorks, Young Actors Theatre, Great River Shakespeare Festival. Kurt Van Raden* Assistant Stage Manager: Othello At the Denver Center: Eventide, A Raisin in the Sun, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Richard III, A Christmas Carol, Noises Off, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Our House, Pride and Prejudice, Third, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1001, Season’s Greetings, Living Out, After Ashley, Jesus Hates Me, September Shoes, The Madwoman, A Selfish Sacrifice, Dirty Story, Visiting Mr. Green, A Christmas Carol, Picnic, Blue/Orange, The Three Sisters. Other Theatres: Great River Shakespeare Festival, UCCS TheatreWorks, Janus Jazz Aspen, Aspen Dance Connection.

ACTING

CO M P ANY John Arp* Senator, Gratiano, Fighter in Othello

At the Denver Center: Absurd Person Singular (understudy), Garbo in My Eyes. Other Theatres: The Imaginary Invalid, Kimberly Akimbo, Swiss Family Robinson, Urinetown, Pygmalion, Leading Ladies, Everything in the Garden (Creede Repertory), The Goat, Bug, For Better (Curious), Skin of Our Teeth, Guys on Ice, Escanaba in da Moonlight, The Underpants

(Aurora Fox), Metamorphoses, Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Avenue Theatre), The Unseen, Broken Glass, Hotel Oubliette (Stages Repertory-Houston), Winter’s Tale, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth (Houston Shakespeare). Special/Awards/ Training: Denver Post: 2007 Best Season/ Actor, 2006 Best Supporting Actor/Musical, 2005 Best Season/Actor, 2004 Best Supporting Actor. Franca Sofia Barchiesi* Oliva in Mariela in the Desert At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theaters: Ana in The Clean House (Yale, Woolly Mammoth, Milwaukee, Santa Barbara), Georgia O’Keeffe in Blue Plains (NY), Anna Magnani in Roman Nights (NY & London), Mary, Queen of Scots (NY), Arkadina in The Sea Gull (AGT), Five Women Waiting (NY), Big Love (Dallas), Dancing on Her Knees (Public Theatre), A Park in our House (McCarter & NYTW), The Sea Plays (Circle-in-the-Square), Tartuffe, Tailor Made Man (NY). Film/TV: Anna Akmahtova in Hope Against Hope, Lana’s Allure, Henry & Ella, Visions Over Italy,“Guiding Light.” Special/Awards: Helen Hayes Award (The Clean House), IFP Excellence in Acting Award (Heat and Silence). Brad Bellamy* Trucker in Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Other Theatres: So Help Me God (Off-Broadway), Actors Theatre of Louisville, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre Center, Long Wharf. TV/Film: Ira and Abby, Burning Point, The Spring in Her Step, A Kiss for Jed Wood, “On the Edge,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Conviction,” commercials for AARP, Snickers, Sprint, and many others. Special/ Awards/Training: Portland’s “Drammy Award” for Best Supporting Actor, formerly chairman of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s members council, artist in residence at Manhattan Punch Line.

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(developed at New Vision/ New Voices), a flamenco version of Ferdinand : The Bull, the mariachi-inspired The Magical Piñata, and salsa/hip-hop Cinderella Eats Rice and Beans: A Salsa Musical. Karen is the founding artistic director of Young Playwrights’ Theater, an award-winning non-profit dedicated to enhancing literacy, arts empowerment and conflict resolution through playwriting in Washington, DC area schools. She also teaches playwriting at Georgetown University. Karen lives in D.C. with her husband Rett, and children Nico, Kati, and Maia.

Acting Company

Kathleen M. Brady* Trucker in Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: (23 seasons) Well, The Voysey Inheritance, Quilters, The Trip to Bountiful, You Can’t Take It With You, A Funny Thing… Forum, The Madwoman, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Blithe Spirit, Bernice/ Butterfly, A Skull in Connemara, The ShowOff, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Rivals, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Misalliance, Taking Leave, Sylvia, The Comedy of Errors, Appalachian Strings, Galileo, Romeo and Juliet, Dancing at Lughnasa, Stories, Arsenic and Old Lace, Twelfth Night, Waiting for Godot, The Matchmaker. Other Theatres: PCPA/ Solvang Theatrefest Company (13 seasons), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Old Globe. Chad Callaghan Soldier in Othello At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Safe in Hell, The King Stag (Yale Rep), Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Williamstown), Angels in America, Three Sisters, Man and Superman, Hair, The Winter’s Tale, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Honest Iago (National Theatre Conservatory). Special/Awards/Training: MFA Candidate at the National Theatre Conservatory (second year).

Harry Carnahan* Cassio in Othello

At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Dolly West’s Kitchen (The Abbey Theatre/Ireland, The Old Vic/London), An Inspector Calls (Broadway, National Tour), Of Mice & Men (Cleveland Play House, Studio Arena), Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare Theatre, DC), Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, Antony & Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Coming of Rain (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), The Woman in Black (Merrimac Rep., Capital Rep.), The Glass Menagerie, Suddenly Last Summer, Far East (Studio Arena), 36 Views (Geva Theatre), Rhinebeck (Lark Theatre Co.)  TV/Film:  Everyone’s Depressed, The Insult, “All My

Children,” “The Job,” “Now & Again.”  Training:  The Juilliard School of Acting. Gabriella Cavallero* Understudy in Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: (17 seasons) Living Out, Garbo in My Eyes, A Christmas Carol, Picnic, The Skin of Our Teeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Inna Beginning, The Miser, Life is a Dream, Galileo, Man of the Moment, Romeo and Juliet, Stories. Other Theatres: 26 Miles (Curious), Anna in the Tropics (Aurora Fox), Every Secret Thing, The Chancellor’s Tale (Modern Muse), The Heiress, The Women (Arvada Center). Special/ Awards/ Training: Co-founder and Artistic Director of Modern Muse Theatre Company, 2009 Best Actress Drama/ Boulder Daily Camera, more than 500 recordings of audio books, two Heartland Emmy nominations for Best Documentary Narration. Tom Coiner Soldier in Othello At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Winter’s Tale, Man and Superman, Hair, Three Sisters, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (National Theatre Conservatory), Listeners, A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Dog Sees God, Direct Object (Hyde Park Theatre), The Brats of Clarence (Bedlam Faction). Special/ Awards/ Training: MFA candidate at the National Theatre Conservatory (second year).

Rhonda Coullet*

Singer in Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: The Robber Bridegroom with Barry Bostwick, Pump Boys and Dinettes (Broadway), Cowgirls, National Lampoon’s Lemmings with John Belushi and Chevy Chase (Off-Broadway), Sanders Family Christmas (Cincinnatti Playhouse), Jeanie in original LA production of Hair, Smoke on the Mountain

(McCarter), Anyone Can Whistle with George Hearn (Berkshire Theatre Festival), starred in her own musical Runaway Beauty Queen (FST, The Yard on Martha’s Vinyard). TV/Film: “Saturday Night Live,” wrote and sang tribute to Belushi “West Heaven,” narrated PBS’s “The American Experience,” Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video with Dan Ackroyd. Special/Awards/Training: Wrote the “Top 40” single for Jimmy Buffett “Bigger Than the Both of Us.” James Cruce Drums in Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Night club work and recording sessions in the Los Angeles area. TV/ Film: Honeydripper, The Indian Runner written by Sean Penn starring Viggo Mortensen, My One and Only starring Renée Zellweger. Training: Selftaught musician who learned to play in bars and clubs. Quentin Crump Understudy in Othello At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Cyrano, The Lark, Measure for Measure, Three Sisters, Angels in America, Hair, The Winter’s Tale. Training: National Theatre Conservatory (second year), holds a Bachelors Degree from Central Michigan University, where he studied visual art, theatre, and dance. John DiAntonio Soldier in Othello At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theaters: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Cleveland Shakespeare Festival), Starveling in Midsummer (Cleveland Play House), The Dauphin in Henry V, Ferdinand in The Tempest, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Orange County), Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, Roy Cohn in Angels in America, Solyony in The Three Sisters, Octavius in Man and Superman, Tribe in Hair (National Theatre Conservatory). Special/Awards/Training:

Jason Edwards* Singer/Guitar in Mama Hated Diesels   At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Ring of Fire (Broadway). Of Mice and Men, Johnny Guitar (Off-Broadway), numerous theatres across the US as both director and performer including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Virginia Stage Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, La Mirada Center for the Performing Arts, Florida Studio Theatre, Barter Theatre, worked with Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman in Fire on the Mountain in Chicago, Louisville, Sarasota, Little Rock. TV: “The Today Show on NBC,” The Nashville Network, Country Music Television. Awards: Chicago Jefferson Award nomination for The Will Rogers Follies (Marriott Theatre). Augustus Lane Filholm Son in Mama Hated Diesels At The Denver Center: Eventide, A Christmas Carol, A Prayer for Owen Meany.  Other Theatres: Frog in Persephone (Denison Montessori School), Guitar Player in Guitarbeque (various venues around Denver), Dancer/entertainer (The Colorado Rockies).  Special/Awards/ Training: Sixth grader at Hamilton Middle School, Denver Center Theatre Academy, loves baseball, cross country, and studies guitar with Paul Anderson. Recipient of the Mayor of Denver’s Mile High Scholar Award. Vivia Font* Blanca in Mariela in the Desert At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Six Degrees of Separation, All’s Well that Ends Well (The Old Globe), The Greeks-The Murders (USD), La Tempestad (Ohio Theatre, NYC),

Twelfth Night (Princeton Repertory). TV/ Film: Sarbanes Oxley, “One Life to Live.” Training: MFA The Old Globe/USD, BFA NYU Tisch. Yetta Gottesman* Mariela in Mariela in the Desert At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Cedar City Falls (Galapagos Art Space), The Cook (Seattle Rep), Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (Hartford Stage), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (The Public Theater), Aphrodisiac (Long Wharf), Touch (The Women’s Project), Where’s My Money? (Manhattan Theater Club), Two Sisters and a Piano (Alliance Theater), Ana in the Tropics (Arena Stage), Sonia Flew (Coconut Grove Playhouse). TV/Film: “Nurse Jackie,” “Gossip Girl,” “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” “Sex and the City,” Rabbit Hole, 27 Dresses, Lucky You. Special/ Awards/Training: Member of LAByrinth Theater Company and The Actors Studio. Sam Gregory* Adam in Mariela in the Desert At the Denver Center: (26 productions) Eventide, The Voysey Inheritance, A Christmas Carol, Noises Off, Doubt, Plainsong, The Diary of Anne Frank, King Lear, Season’s Greetings, After Ashley, Measure for Measure, A Flea in Her Ear, Hotel on Marvin Gardens, You Never Can Tell, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hedda Gabler, Tartuffe.  Other Theaters: Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, Cleveland Play House, San Jose Rep, American Players Theater, Eureka Theater, George Street Playhouse, O’Neill Theater, Paragon, Alabama/California/Colorado Shakespeare Festivals. TV/Film: “NY Undercover,” “One Life to Live,” “As the World Turns.”  Special/Awards/Training: Ovation Awards including Best Year by an Actor.

Jan Leslie Harding* Wife in Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Julie Taymor’s The Green Bird (Broadway), A Lie of the Mind, Defying Gravity, Album, Killer Joe, Henry VI-Parts I, II and III, Sincerity Forever, Bad Penny, Crowbar, The Land Of Fog and Whistles (Whitney Biennial), Strange Feet (Smithsonian, DC), My Head Was a Sledgehammer, I’ve Got The Shakes, Birth of a Poet (B.A.M. Next Wave). TV/Film: A Dog Year, Henry Fool, Amateur, Urban Legend, Sudden Manhattan. Special/ Awards: Collaborations with Richard Foreman and Mac Wellman, three OBIE Awards, London L.I.F.T., International Theatre Festivals in Montreal and Helsinki, O’Neill Center and the Playwrights Project at Healing Springs. Mike Hartman* Trucker in Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: (28 productions) Eventide, A Raisin in the Sun, Prayer for Owen Meany, Richard III, Glengarry Glen Ross, Plainsong, White Christmas, You Can’t Take It With You, A Christmas Carol, Funny Thing…Forum, King Lear, Season’s Greetings, All My Sons, Dirty Story, Madwoman, Grapes of Wrath, The Living, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?. Other Theatres: Grapes of Wrath, The Kentucky Cycle, Sherlock Holmes (Broadway), cowboyily (Creede Repertory), The People’s Temple (Guthrie), Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Center Stage, Kennedy Center, Geva Theatre, Virginia Stage. Special/ Awards/Training: BA Otterbein College, past Associate Artist at Cleveland Play House, multiple Henry and Ovation Awards winner.

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National Theatre Conservatory (second year), British American Drama Academy, BA in Theater and Psychology from Case Western Reserve University.

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Tamara Hoffman Understudy in Othello At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: The Winter’s Tale, The Three Sisters, Hair, Man and Superman, Angels in America, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (National Theatre Conservatory), Laguna Playhouse, Coronet, Craterian, Oregon Stage Works. TV/Film: “Will & Grace,” “Tales from the Whoop,” Calvin Marshall. Special/Awards/ Training: MFA candidate at National Theatre Conservatory (second year), BA from UCLA. Anthony Hubert* Understudy in Othello, Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: Radio Golf (Understudy). Other Theatres: Othello in Othello (Florida Shakespeare), Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Seaside Music Theatre), Weaver in Monsoon Christmas (Kravis Center), Antonio in Twelfth Night (Houston Shakespeare, Missouri Rep). TV/Film: “Safe Harbor,” “Sins of the City,” “Sheena,” Chapter Zero, A Dog and His Boy, Sweat. Special/ Awards/ Training: Assistant Professor of Acting and Directing at the University of Denver, MFA from The University of Houston School of Theatre, studied with Vanessa Redgrave, Mark Olsen, Edward Albee, Jose Quintero. John Hutton* Iago in Othello At the Denver Center: (19 seasons) Eventide, Absurd Person Singular, The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Richard III, Miracle Worker, Trip to Bountiful, Merry Wives of Windsor, Plainsong, Diary of Anne Frank, Measure for Measure, A Christmas Carol, Dirty Story, The Merchant of Venice, Blue/Orange, Copenhagen, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Betrayal, Hamlet, Dinner With Friends, Uncle Vanya, Little Foxes, Amy’s View, Side Man, Winter’s Tale, Tempest, Life is a Dream, Macbeth, Treasure Island, Misalliance, Racing Demon, Galileo, Grapes of Wrath, Julius

Caesar, Rose Tattoo. Other Theatres: Goodman, CENTERSTAGE, Huntington, Hudson Valley, Roundabout, Book-It Repertory, Old Globe, Curious. Special/ Awards/Training: A.C.T. in San Francisco. David Ivers* Roderigo in Othello At the Denver Center: (9 seasons/25 productions) Eventide, Absurd Person Singular, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Inana, Noises Off, Plainsong, Pride and Prejudice, You Can’t Take It With You, A Funny Thing…Forum, The Pillowman, Amadeus, After Ashley, Measure for Measure, All My Sons, Oedipus Rex, The Misanthrope, The Merchant of Venice, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Cripple of Inishmaan. Other Theatres: Utah Shakespearean Festival (12 seasons), Portland Center Stage, Oregon/ Idaho/ Alabama Shakespeare festivals, ACT, Seattle Rep, Tacoma Actors Guild, Artists Rep, Portland Rep. Special/ Awards/Training: Directed The Merry Wives of Windsor (Denver Center), Cyrano de Bergerac, Complete Works of William Shakespeare-Abridged (Utah Shakespearean Festival). David P. Jackson Bass in Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert (Seattle Repertory, Wheeler Opera House in Aspen), performed and recorded with Jackson Brown, John Stewart, Sonny and Cher, Jimmy Buffett, Glen Campbell, many others. TV/Film: Three years on “The Andy Williams Show” during the folk music days. Special: Wrote “Joy to the World” and “The No No Song” with Hoyt Axton, playing with Danny Wheetman led to the theatre and lately happily in Mama Hated Diesels.

Robert Jason Jackson* Othello in Othello At the Denver Center: Well, Richard III, King Lear. Other Theatres: Aida (Broadway), Funny House of a Negro (Signature), The Soldier’s Play (Second Stage), The Merchant of Venice (Public), Bubbly Black Girl (Playwrights Horizons), Love’s Labor’s Lost (Huntington), Othello (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Macbeth (Shakespeare Theatre), Richard II (Mark Taper Forum), Hedda Gabler (Roundabout), The Greeks (Hartford Stage), Henry IV- Part I (Kennedy Center), Hamlet (American Shakespeare). TV/Film: New Jersey Drive, Altamont High, “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Third Watch” and “New York Undercover.” Special: Jazz vocal – Conjure: Music to the Texts of Ishmael Reed and Dancing with Cab Calloway. David Miles Keenan Electric Guitar, Banjo, Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals in Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline (Oregon Cabaret Theater), John Denver Holiday Concert (Seattle Rep), The Half-penny Opera, Seesaw (Jewelbox Theater). TV/ Film: Co-composer of new score to the film The Adventures of Prince Achmed, original music used in films A Wink and a Smile and For My Wife. Special/Awards/ Training: David makes his home in Seattle, Washington where he regularly performs and records with at least seven bands (and counting...) www.davekeenan.com Geoffrey Kent* Senator, Lodovico, Fighter in Othello At the Denver Center: Eventide, Richard III, Hamlet. Other Theatres: Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Macduff in Macbeth, Aramis in The Three Musketeers, Octavius in Julius Caesar, the Antipholi in The Comedy of Errors (Colorado Shakespeare Festival), Actor in The Complete Works of

Mandi Masden Understudy in Othello At the Denver Center: Debut.  Other Theatres: Irina in Three Sisters, Harper in Angels in America, Perdita in The Winters Tale, Lilith in The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Sarah in Ragtime, The Threepenny Opera, Man and Superman, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Lysistrata, Once on This Island, Violet, Runaways.  Special: Mandi is currently a second year MFA student at the National Theatre Conservatory. Kathleen McCall* Emilia in Othello At the Denver Center: Maggie Jones in Eventide, Eva Jackson in Absurd Person Singular, Tabitha Wheelwright in A Prayer for Owen Meany, Queen Elizabeth in Richard III. Other Theatres: Kathleen has been a professional actress for 25 years working on Broadway, OffBroadway, in national tours, and regional theatres as well as television and film. Randy Moore* Duke of Venice, Fighter in Othello At the Denver Center: When Tang Met Laika, The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Roy in The Trip to Bountiful, Plainsong, White Christmas, Martin Vanderhof in You Can’t Take It With You, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Flea in Her Ear, Dirty Story, Picnic, Polonius in Hamlet, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Harpagon in The Miser, Side Man, Argan in The Imaginary Invalid, Father in Life With Father, Tantalus. Other Theatres: Cyrano, Hamlet, Iago, Prospero, Sherlock Holmes (Dallas Theater Center), Alley Theatre, Old

Globe. TV/Film: “Dallas,” “Wishbone.” Special/Awards/Training: Randy and his wife Norma have developed Stories on Stage. Genesis Oliver Understudy in Othello At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Dracula, Game On, Cruising The Divide, Greekest of Tragedies, Two Or A Carload (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Peppermint Creek), Angels In America, Three Sisters, Man and Superman, Hair, The Winter’s Tale, Tis Pity She’s a Whore (National Theatre Conservatory). Special/Awards/Training: MFA student at the National Theatre Conservatory (second year). Jeanne Paulsen* Wife in Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: Marion Brewster-Wright in Absurd Person Singular, Honor Voysey in The Voysey Inheritance, Harriet Wheelwright in A Prayer for Owen Meany, Queen Margaret in Richard III, Aunt Ev in The Miracle Worker, Sister Aloysius in Doubt, Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Penelope Sycamore in You Can’t Take It With You, Kitty Warren in Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Kate Keller in All My Sons, title role in Molly Sweeney, Terry in Side Man. Other Theatres: Prisoner of Second Avenue (Berkshire), The Kentucky Cycle, The Crucible (Broadway), Memory House (Seattle Rep), King John (Oregon Shakespeare).  TV/Film: “Law and Order,” “Promised Land,” Breaking Free. Special/ Awards/Training: 1994 Tony nomination, Clarence Derwent Award. Allison Pistorius Bianca, Wench in Othello At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Masha in The Three Sisters, Ann Whitefield in Man and Superman, Annabella in ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Harper/ The Angel/ Ethel in Angels in America, Old Shepherd in The Winter’s

Tale, Tribe in Hair (National Theatre Conservatory), Steel Magnolias (Casa Manana Theatre), Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare Dallas), Talking Pictures (Theatre Three), Noises Off, Major Barbara (Stage West), Lobby Hero, Scapino, The Country Wife (Second Thought Theatre). Training: MFA student at National Theatre Conservatory (second year), BA in Theatre and Dance, BA in French/History minor from University of Texas at Austin. Philip Pleasants* Brabantio, Fighter in Othello At the Denver Center: Harold McPheron in Eventide, Mr. Voysey in The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Bishop of Ely in Richard III, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Noises Off, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Harold McPheron in Plainsong, The Diary of Anne Frank, Third, A Funny Thing…Forum, Pure Confidence, King Lear, Amadeus, The Ladies of the Camellias, Measure for Measure, A Flea in Her Ear. Other Theatres: Alabama Shakespeare Festival (20 seasons), Amadeus (Broadway, National Tour), Treason (Off-Broadway), Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Huntington, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Cleveland Play House. TV/Film: “Another World,” “All My Children,” Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys. Jeffrey Roark* Understudy in Othello, Mama Hated Diesels At the Denver Center: A Christmas Carol, Trip to Bountiful, King Lear, White Christmas, Gross Indecency, Kingdom, A Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Merry Wives of Windsor. Other Theatres: An Ideal Husband (Papermill), My Fair Lady, HMS Pinafore (Berkshire), Sorrows of Stephen (Blue Heron), Best of Broadway (European Tour), Drood, Life is a Dream (Creede)), My Way (Denver Center Attractions), The Crucible, Evita, Big River (Arvada Center), Into the Woods, Rocky Horror Show (Denver Civic), South Pacific, Swing! (CDP), Psycho Beach Party (Theatre Group), The Last Five Years (Modern Muse). Training: BFA in Acting (Miami University), MFA in Acting (National Theatre Conservatory).

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William Shakespeare (Utah Shakespearean Festival) Crumpet in The SantaLand Diaries (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company) James/Brendan in The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Curious Theatre Company). Special/ Awards/ Training: Denver Post Ovation Award, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, Officer Lockstock in Urinetown.

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Jean-Pierre Serret* Carlos in Mariela in the Desert At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Wind in the Willows, The Triangle Factory Fire Project (The Haverhill Theater Center), Macbeth (College Production), Masco Frolics Lights Up, Romeo and Juliet, Pippin, Charlie Brown, J.A.T.D.C, Once on this Island, A Christmas Carol (H.S. Productions). TV/ Film: “Law and Order,” What Doesn’t Kill You. Robert Sicular* Jose in Mariela in the Desert At the Denver Center: The Voysey Inheritance, The Tempest, The Rivals, Macbeth, Galileo, A Dybbuk, The Last Yankee, The Imaginary Invalid.  Other Theatres: A.C.T. in San Francisco, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Marin Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC.  TV/Film: Love and Taxes, Never Die Twice, Dil Pardesi Ho Gaya (Bollywood), “The Young and the Restless,” “General Hospital.”   Lincoln Thompson Servant to Brabantio, Soldier in Othello At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale (Chautauqua Theatre Company), Joe Pitt in Angels in America: Part 1, Audrey in The Three Sisters, Bergetto in ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore (National Theatre Conservatory), Costard in Love Labour’s Lost, Cassio in Othello (Dallas Shakespeare Festival), the title role in Hamlet (Baylor Theatre). Training: National Theatre Conservatory (second year), graduate of Baylor University.

Stephen Weitz* Montano in Othello At the Denver Center: Eventide, Richard III, King Lear. Other Theatres: Acting: Morisot Reclining, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Copenhagen, (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company - BETC), Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, The Three Musketeers, Macbeth, (Colorado Shakespeare Festival), Our Town (TheatreWorks). Directing: Fat Pig, Sunset Limited, Antigone (BETC), Richard III (CU Boulder). Special/Awards/Training: Founder of BETC, Core-Company member Colorado Shakespeare Festival, MFA in Acting Alabama Shakespeare Festival, MA in Theatre CU Boulder, SCFD Actor/ Combatant, Stage Combat Choreographer – Life is a Dream (CU), Intimate Apparel, Over the Tavern (Arvada Center). Charles Weldon* Trucker in Mama Hated Diesels   At the Denver Center: Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean, The Madwoman, A Selfish Sacrifice, A Streetcar Named Desire, King Hedley II, Jitney, Coming of the Hurricane, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Two Trains Running.  Other Theatres: The Great MacDaddy, The Offering, The Brownsville Raid, A Soldier’s Play (Negro Ensemble Company), River Niger (Broadway), Birdie Blue (Second Stage Theatre), Hair (San Francisco), Big Time Buck White.  TV/Film: Serpico, Stir Crazy, A Woman Called Moses, The River Niger, Malcolm X, Drop Squad, The Wishing Tree,  Roots: The Next Generation, “Police Story,” “Hill Street Blues,” “Law and Order.”   Special/Awards/Training: Hit song “Diamonds and Pearls.” Caitlin Wise Servant to Brabantio, Wench in Othello At the Denver Center: Debut. Other Theatres: Fools/ dir. by Nagle Jackson, Life is a Dream/ dir. by Jamie Horton (Creede Repertory

Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing/ dir. Lynn Collins, To Kill A Mockingbird/ dir. Jane Page (Colorado Shakespeare Festival), Angels in America, The Three Sisters, Man and Superman, Hair, The Winter’s Tale, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (National Theatre Conservatory). TV/Film: Whisper Island. Special/Awards/Training: BFA in Acting from BYU, MFA candidate at the National Theatre Conservatory (second year), Irene Ryan winner 2005. Meghan Wolf* Desdemona in Othello At the Denver Center: Alba in The House of the Spirits (Summit).  Other Theatres: Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (Geva), Irina in Three Sisters, Belle in A Christmas Carol (Guthrie), Boss Grady’s Boys (78th St. Theatre Lab), Four Dogs and a Bone (W.H.A.T.).  TV/Film: “Law and Order,” “The Education of Max Bickford,” “Hack,” “The Beautiful Life,” “All My Children,” “Guiding Light,” The Jamie Kennedy Experiment,” Love My Guts, East Coast Rock and Roll, Temps.  Special/ Training: University of Washington’s Professional Actors Training Program, A Guthrie Experience for Young Actors in Training, just released her debut album of original songs Theory of Gravity.  meghanwolfmusic.com

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

The Directors and Choreographers are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union. The actors and stage managers employed in these productions are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Backstage and Ticket Services Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada. (or I.A.T.S.E.) Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE Member of the Colorado Theatre Guild

A division of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts EXECUTIVE Kent Thompson, Artistic Director Bruce K. Sevy, Associate Artistic Director Charles Varin, General Manager Edward Lapine, Production Manager Jeff Hovorka, Dir. of Media & Marketing ARTISTIC New Play Development: Bruce K. Sevy, Director of New Play Development Douglas Langworthy, Literary Manager/ Dramaturg Chad Henry, Literary Associate Sylvie Drake, Advisor Commissioned Playwrights: Constance Congdon, Marcus Gardley, Jason Grote, Steven Cole Hughes, Lisa Loomer, Rogelio Martinez, Julie Marie Myatt, Theresa Rebeck, Eric Schmiedl, Octavio Solis, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder Directors: Sabin Epstein, Israel Hicks, Christy Montour-Larson, Randal Myler, Terrence J. Nolen, Bruce K. Sevy, Kent Thompson Dramaturgs: Douglas Langworthy, Allison Horsley Choreographer: Christine Rowan Music Directors: Gregg Coffin, Dan Wheetman Composer: Gregg Coffin, Jorge Cousineau, Gary Grundei Orchestrators: Gregg Coffin, Thom Jenkins Casting: Bruce K. Sevy, Casting Director New York Casting: Paul Fouquet / Elissa Myers, C.S.A. Acting Company: Dana Acheson, John Arp, Franca Barchiesi, Brad Bellamy, Harvy Blanks, Paul Borrillo, Kathleen M. Brady, Renée Brna, Candy Brown, Larry Bull, Megan Byrne, Courtney Capek, Tonantzin Carmelo, Harry Carnahan, Gabriella Cavallero, Drew Cortese, Rhonda Coullet, Stephanie Cozart, Ron Crawford, Jeff Cribbs, James Cruce, R. Ward Duffy, Jason Edwards, Connor Nguyen Erickson, Shawn Fagan, Alec Farmer, Augustus Lane Filholm, Michael Fitzpatrick, Vivia Font, Bryce Foster, Rachel Fowler, Yetta Gottesman, Sam Gregory, Jan Leslie Harding, Mike Hartman, Carole Healey, Russell Hornsby, Anthony Hubert, Jim Hunt, John Hutton, David Ivers, David P. Jackson, Robert Jason Jackson, Andy Jobe, David Miles Keenan, Geoffrey Kent, Lauren Klein, Dudley Knight, Charlie Korman, Luciann Lajoie, Kate Levy, Jack Lilley, Cajardo Rameer Lindsey, Jessica Love, Kate Lubotsky, Billie McBride, Kathleen McCall, Zoe Miller, Chris Mixon, Randy Moore, Linda Mugleston, Leslie O’Carroll, Tyler Palmer, Martha Harmon Pardee, Melinda Parrett, Jeanne Paulsen, Ian Merrill Peakes, Jacob Pearce, Orion Pilger, Philip Pleasants, Jeffrey Roark, Christine Rowan, Thomas Russo, Erik Sandvold, Ellie Schwartz, Tracy Shaffer, Jean-Pierre Serret, Robert Sicular, Geno Silva, Gabe Simmons, Kim Staunton, Richard Thieriot, Tyee Tilghman, Marlene Warfield, Michael Wartella, Stephen Weitz, Charles Weldon, Michael Winters, Meghan Wolf, Sheldon Woodley, Ahman Woods, William Zielinski

National Theatre Conservatory Actors: Chad Callaghan, Tom Coiner, Quentin Crump, John DiAntonio, Tamara Hoffman, Mandi Masden, Genesis Oliver, Allison Pistorius, Lincoln Thompson, Caitlin Wise Designers Scenic Designers: Bill Forrester, Michael Ganio, James Kronzer, Lisa M. Orzolek, Vicki Smith Costume Designers: Bill Black, Angela Balogh Calin, Kevin Copenhaver, Meghan Anderson Doyle, David Kay Mickelsen, Clint Ramos, Susan Branch Towne Lighting Designers: Don Darnutzer, Charles R. MacLeod, Jane Spencer Sound Designers: Craig Breitenbach, William Burns, Jason Ducat, Kimberly Fuhr Multimedia: Charlie I. Miller, Resident Multimedia Specialist Coaches: Hilary Blair (Vocal), Michael Cobb (Dialect), Geoffrey Kent (Fight), Kathryn G. Maes (Dialect) PRODUCTION Production Staff Edward Lapine, Production Manager Rick Noble, Assistant Production Manager Dan McNeil, Technical Director Lyle Raper, Production Stage Manager Julie Brou, Prod. & Artistic Office Manager Resident Design Staff Lisa M. Orzolek, Dir. of Scenic Design Charles R. MacLeod, Director of Lighting John E. Pryor, Director of Sound Assistants: Shannon Fox, Reuben Lucas, Tara Houston Intern: Scott Burgess Stage Managers Stage Managers: Christopher C. Ewing, Kurt Van Raden, Lyle Raper, A. Phoebe Sacks, Christi B. Spann Production Assistant: D. Lynn Reiland Production Interns: Steve Dalton, Kassie Sanders, Jon Shire, Whitney Thomas, Annaleigh Timmerman Scene Shop Robert L. Orzolek, Shop Foreman Josh Prues, Assistant Technical Director Lead Technicians: Albert “Stub” Allison, Louis Fernandez Scenic Technicians: Nichole Carter, Mike Hamer, Justin Hicks, Brian Markiewicz, Ian McLeod Prop Shop Robin Lu Payne, Properties Director Roo Huigen, Lead Props Artisan Props Artisans: Jamie Stewart Curl, Charles Dallas, David Hoth, Nikki Mayer Interns: Tobias Miller, Keli Sequoia Paint Shop Jana L. Mitchell, Charge Scenic Artist Melanie Rentschler, Lead Scenic Artist Karin Mirick, Scenic Artist Interns: Jacintha Clark, Rachel Slotnick Costume Shop Janet S. MacLeod, Costume Director, Costume Design Associate Meghan Anderson Doyle, Costume Design Associate

Drapers: Stephanie Cooper, Carolyn Plemitscher, Louise Powers Stitchers: Belinda Haaland, Sharon McGhee, Wanda Price Tailor: Sheila P. Morris Assistant Draper: Jackie Elizabeth Scott First Hand: Gwen Dunham, Cathie Gagnon Costume Crafts Kevin Copenhaver, Costume Crafts Director Judy Craigo, Costume Crafts Associate Wigs Diana Ben-Kiki, Wig Master House Crew Christopher F. Kendall*, House Foreman Stagehands: Mariah Becerra*, Beth Chervenak, Stephen D. Mazzeno*, Miles Stasica*, Doug Taylor*, Matt Wagner*, Ron White* Ethan Harkless, Production Electrician *IATSE Local 7 Stagehands Wardrobe Brenda Lawson, Director Wig Assistants: Sonya Reynolds, Lisa Rokicki Dressers: Robin Appleton, Amber Donner, Amoreena Kissel, Tim Nelson, Alan Richards ADMINISTRATION Administration Charles Varin, General Manager Amy E. Allison, Asst. General Manager Lisa Parsons, Company Manager Emily Tarquin, Asst. Company Manager  Jody Meyer, Business Administrator DCPA Marketing Jeff Hovorka, Dir. of Media & Marketing Melissa Marano, Marketing Director, Denver Center Theatre Company Chris Wiger, Publicity and Public Relations Manager/Denver Center Theatre Company Genevieve Miller, Public Relations Manager/ Denver Center Attractions Jeff Rummer, Marketing Coordinator Anita Edwards, Web Services Manager Gabe Ratliff, Web Designer and Administrator Sarah Hom, Group Sales Manager Tina Risch, Group Sales/Community Services Manager Dan French, Group Sales Associate Cleo Maez, Group Sales Associate/Student Matinee Manager Mark Onderdonk, Marketing Business Manager Heidi Bosk, Tour & Promotions Coordinator Jamie Alexander, Audience Development Coordinator Kevin Wagner, Intern Publications Sylvie Drake, Director of Publications Suzanne Blandón, Associate Director of Communications Senior Graphic Designers: Brenda Elliott, Kyle Malone Graphic Designer: Kim Conner Production Coordinator: Seth Holt

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Phone Campaign Wid Horner, Manager Karla Satterlee, Assistant Manager Staff: Michael Bisbee, Russell Costen, Carolyn Jones, Stephanie Larason, Fredda Laurel, Brina Milton, Gloria Morales, Joni Pierce, Mary Alice Ramsey, Nathan Rose, Amy Serrazin, Brandi Walker, Cydnie Wilson House Management Bill Love, House Manager Valerie Schaefer, Asst. House Manager Theatre Managers: Nora Caley, Randy Dodd, Rick Herndon, Leilani Lynch, Greg Melton, Doug Murphey, Joyce Murphey First Year NTC Students Theatre Managers: Biko Eisen-Martin, Courtney Esser, Steve Jones, Amy Kersten, ZZ Moor, Chiara Motley, Andrew Schwartz, Matt Zambrano Department of Education Daniel Renner, Education Director Tam Dalrymple Frye, Academy Director Marti Steger, Programs Manager Stuart Barr, Technical Director National Theatre Conservatory Michael Cobb, Head of Voice and Speech  Robert Davidson, Head of Movement  Linda Eller, Librarian Sabin Epstein, Head of Performance Skills Jennifer Forsyth, Registrar Larry Hecht, Head of Acting Denver Center Theatre Academy Teaching Artists: Hilary Blair, Laurence A. Curry, David Saphier Jannett Matusiak, Academy Registrar

DCPA Ticketing Services Kirk Petersen, Director of Ticket Services Bruce Albright, Associate Director of Ticket Services David Smith, Manager of Subscription Services Jennifer Lopez, Box Office Show Manager Box Office Managers: Benjamin Koucherik, Alex Spalding, Laura Yaeger Show Leads: Kevin Dykstra, Doug Evans, Patye Gibbons, Joelle Parrott, Steve Rupp, Travis Warner Subscription Agents: Bill Harris, Mary Huckins, Jan Miller, Greg Swan Ticket Agents: Lou Adducci, Kirsten Anderson, Nicholas Brown, Trevor Curtis, Lauren Dahl, Thomas Flynn, Megan Hatch, Nick Jungferman, Noah Jungferman, Tristan Jungferman, Andrew Kleiman, Julie Lemieuz, Kirk LeValley, Scott Lix, Neil Singleton, Tim Slattery, Robert Warner Jim Hipp, Associate Director of Information Services Bobby Jiminez, Senior Paciolan Analyst Development Department Dorothy Denny, Executive Vice President Associate Directors: Linda Mitchell, David Zupancic, Katharine Tyson Mary Mosher, Major Gifts/Membership Coordinator Christopher Goetz, Development Associate Mark Tilsher, Business Administrator

Denver Center Theatre Company wishes to thank the following for their generosity Terry Shapiro, Photographer checkmate entertainment, Video Services

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denver office of Cultural affairs John W. Hickenlooper, Mayor Mama Hated Diesels photographer Jim Steinberg thanks JENNY STEWART for her research and scanning, CATHERINE TURNER for help in posting my blogs while on the road, and LORI LAUSE for her steering, cheering and great post production image work. Coca-cola for assistance on Mama Hated Diesels Project Cure for assistance on Eventide

TO OUR PATRONS

LATECOMERS will be seated at designated seating breaks only. THE TAKING OF PHOTOGRAPHS and the use of recording equipment is strictly prohibited in the theatres. TURN OFF CELLULAR PHONES in the theatres. You may check cell phones at Patron Services before the performance. TURN OFF PAGERS OR ALARM WATCHES in the theatres. If you are expecting an emergency call, please notify Patron Services. NO CHILDREN UNDER SIX YEARS OF AGE TO OUR COUGHING PATRONS: Complimentary cough drops are available at Patron Services or from an usher.

The Denver Center Theatre Company is grateful for the funds provided by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District. The Denver Center Theatre Company is a division of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, a not-for-profit organization serving the public through the performing arts. The Denver Center Theatre Company is supported in part by grants from the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs; the Helen G. Bonfils Foundation; and contributions from corporations, foundations and individuals. The DCTC operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States; and the Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers. The DCTC also operates under an agreement with Denver Theatrical Stage Employees Union, Local No. 7 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada. The Denver Center Theatre Company is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.