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BY JOHN KOLVENBACH PHOTOGRAPHY BY NICHOLE DEMENT

ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery Alan Harrison, Executive Director presents

LOVESONG by John Kolvenbach Directed by Kate Witt Featuring (in order of appearance) Beane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Christopher Zinovitch Joan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Hawkins Harry / Waiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nick DeSantis Molly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cindy Bradder

Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizabeth L. James Set and Prop Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan Schuy Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Josh Randall Costume Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margo Walker Sound Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jay Weinland Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan Floresca, Olivia Robinson, Rex Waters

Love Song is performed without an intermission. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. The World Premiere of Love Song was presented in March 2006 by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL; Martha Lavey, Artistic Director, and David Hawkanson, Executive Director. Love Song received its European premiere in the West End of London at the New Ambassadors Theatre on November 25, 2006, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Robert G. Bartner and Boyett Ostar Productions. Love Song is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., in New York. Sponsored in part by PERSONAL SAFETY NETS®

WHO’S WHO Christopher Zinovitch

Beane Christopher has been with ArtsWest for nine years. Love Song marks his return to the stage after a four-year absence. He has acted in Seattle, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Portland, Los Angeles, Reno, Phoenix, Hawaii, Christchurch (New Zealand), and The Cook Islands, in such shows as The Lion In Winter (Richard), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Master Ford)/ Irene Ryan Award Nomination, Ten Little Indians (Dr. Armstrong), The Judas Kiss (Oscar Wilde), Vilna’s Got A Golem (Zaval), Big River (Pap Finn / Sheriff Bell), Hair (Tribe), A Chorus Line (Larry, Zach, Paul) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Narrator), and All My Sons (George Deaver). He has directed Measure for Pleasure, The History Boys (Member’s Choice 2009 Gregory Award Winner for Outstanding Production), Rumors, HONK!, As Bees In Honey Drown, Blood Brothers, Beat The Sunset, Thrill Me, I Am My Own Wife,

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In the unlikely event of an emergency, please remain calmly seated until instructed to move by the house manager and ushers. If you have a medical situation arise during the performance, please contact the nearest usher. He or she will assist you.

Black Gold, tick, tick...BOOM!, and Bat Boy, The Musical. He has been the driving force behind the nationally recognized education program at ArtsWest where he has directed Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Footloose, Into The Woods, A Chorus Line, Cabaret, Hair, bare, and Pippin. He was educated at Chapman University and has toured nationally and internationally with The California Theater Center and Missoula Children’s Theater. In April Christopher will be directing (alongside Deanna Schaffer) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tell Me on a Sunday. He would like to thank Miztie, Liz, Nick, Heather, Cindy, Alan, and Kate for their support over the past few weeks!

Heather Hawkins

Joan Heather is thrilled to be back at ArtsWest. Previous shows here include: Lady Vanity in Measure for Pleasure, Dana in The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Meredith in Bat Boy, The Musical, Mrs. Johnstone in Blood Brothers, Mary in On the Verge, and Alexa Vere de Vere in As Bees in Honey Drown for which she won a 2006 Seattle Times Footlight Award. She just spent the holidays as Grace in The Best Christmas Pagaent Ever at Seattle Public Theater. Other Seattle Public shows include Sylvia in End Days, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale and Emma in Betrayal. Other Seattle credits include Irene in Susan and God for Taproot, Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Portia in Julius Caesar for Wooden O and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Seattle Shakespeare Company. Her work has also been seen at Village Theater, ACT, Empty Space, Mirror Stage, Our American Theater, Theater Schmeater, and the 14/48 festival. Her favorite role is Mom and Wife in The Life and Times of Tessa, Duncan, and Jay Weinland.

Nick DeSantis

Dan Schuy

Harry / Waiter

Set and Prop Designer

Nick feels blissfully at home to be back at ArtsWest. He has been seen on these hallowed boards in: Romance/ Romance, Once on this Island, The Judas Kiss, La Bête, How I Got That Story, tick, tick....BOOM! (Seattle Footlight Award), Bat Boy, The Musical and I Am My Own Wife. He has worked with Chris Zinovitch as choreographer and co-director in the ArtsWest internship program on Hair and Sweeney Todd. Other roles include Franz in Sunday in the Park with George at the 5th Avenue Theatre; and Rooster in Annie (Seattle Footlight Award); Skimbleshanks, Bustopher Jones, Munkustrap and Tugger in Cats; Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast; and Valere in Chasing Nicolette at the Village Theatre. He would like to thank and hug Kindy, Tuddahs, Duffle, the Bean, and Tillamook.

Cindy Bradder

Molly Love Song is Cindy’s first show on stage with ArtsWest and she is thrilled to be part of this crazy cast. On most days Cindy is a hair stylist in Fremont. Thanks and love to the fam, Pants, Spanks, the urban fam and Tillamook.

Elizabeth L. James

Stage Manager Elizabeth is in her fourth season at ArtsWest. Favorite ArtsWest credits are: Bat Boy, The Musical, The History Boys, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

This is Dan’s sixth production at ArtsWest having previously done the set designs for On the Verge, The Gifts of the Magi, Black Gold and Dead Man’s Cell Phone and producing the puppets and props for Pinocchio. Additionally, he has designed for The Bellevue Youth Theater, Seattle Public, and SecondStory Repertory. Normally, Dan spends ten months of the year as the technical director/resident set and lighting designer at North Seattle Community College, a position he has held since April 1, 1990. Abnormally, he is a Mariners fan and into model railroading. Thank you for seeing this production and supporting your local theater artists.

Josh Randall

Lighting Designer Josh is moving into his third year as ArtsWest resident lighting designer where he has designed lights for Measure for Pleasure, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The History Boys, Plaid Tidings: The Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid, Well, Pippin, and Black Gold. Josh is a freelance designer and technician and also works on Vashon Island.

Margo Walker

Costume Designer Ms. Walker began designing and constructing competitive ballroom dance costumes in 1982 and expanding to designing dance costumes for students enrolled in her dance studio, Steps and Variations in Modesto, California. After moving to the Seattle area, Ms. Walker worked on dance and ice skating costumes for Champion Design before becoming the wardrobe mistress for the Washington Academy of Performing Arts. Now freelance designing for such theaters as The Hi-Liners (West Side Story, Beauty and the Beast, 42nd Street) and Everett Community College (The Count of Monte Cristo,

Rashomon, Dear Brutus) This is her sixth show for ArtsWest (Pinocchio, High School Musical, The Gifts of the Magi, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Sweeney Todd).

Jay Weinland

Sound Designer Jay Weinland is happy to be back again at ArtsWest this season in particular because he gets to do a show with his lovely wife Heather Hawkins for the first time in years. Previous to Love Song, Jay sound designed The Dead Guy and I Am My Own Wife in 2008 and Beat the Sunset in 2006. A sound designer and musician in Seattle for the past 18 years, he has also designed at Seattle Public Theater, Book-It, Theater Schmeater, Exchange Theater, and Civic Light Opera as well as performing countless shows in the orchestra pit at Village Theater and CLO. Jay fills most of his days sound designing on the award winning Xbox game Halo, leaving as much time as possible for his wife and two wonderfully crazy children.

Ryan Floresca

Crew Ryan is excited to work at Artswest for another great show! Other credits include: Measure for Pleasure, Plaid Tidings, and two apprenticeship program shows: Pippin and last summer’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He’d like to thank his family for their everlasting love and support.

Olivia Robinson

Crew Olivia is happy to be back in the dark recesses of the tech booth at ArtsWest. A government worker by day, she enjoys getting a chance to return to her theater roots by occasionally running lights--although she still has High School Musical songs stuck in her head.

Rex Waters

Crew This is Rex’s first production with ArtsWest. As a migrant theater worker for more than 25 years he is excited to be invited into another theater home. Whether he’s operating a soundboard, a fly rail or muscling set pieces as a part of the running crew, his joy comes from solving the inevitable unforeseen problems without the audience or cast ever knowing anything had been awry. To date the higlight of his tech career was performing the role of The Raft in Puget Sound Musical Theater’s 1992 production of Big River; earning him his own curtain-call on its final performance. His current wish is that ArtsWest never regrets extending the invitation to work with them. Prost!

Kate Witt

Director Kate was most recently seen at ArtsWest in Dead Man’s Cell Phone and Well. She has worked with ArtsWest, Wooden O, SecondStory Repertory, New Century Theatre Company, and Seattle Shakespeare Company. Favorite roles include Calpurnia in Julius Caesar, Alex in On The Verge, Linda in Blood Brothers, Feste in Twelfth Night, Catherine in The Foreigner, Ruth in Blithe Sprit, Mrs. Segstrom in A Little Night Music, as a principal in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and as an ensemble member in The Adding Machine. She lives in Magnolia with her partner, Steve, and their beloved preschooler, Molly. Love Song marks Kate’s directorial debut at ArtsWest.

John Kolvenbach

Playwright John Kolvenbach is the author of Goldfish, Mrs. Whitney, On an Average Day, Gizmo Love, and Fabuloso. Goldfish premiered at South Coast Repertory in the spring of 2009. Love Song premiered at Steppenwolf in Chicago in the spring of 2006, directed by Austin Pendleton. Love Song went on to

the West End, where it was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. The London production was directed by John Crowley, with Neve Campbell, Cillian Murphy, Kristen Johnston and Michael McKean. On an Average Day premiered at the Comedy Theatre on the West End in 2002, with Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan, also directed by Mr. Crowley. Fabuloso premiered at the Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theatre in 2008, directed by Mr. Kolvenbach.

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Alan Harrison Executive Director With 22 years of experience in nonprofit theater management (his fifth with ArtsWest), Alan has worked with Lincoln Center Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, several other regional theaters, and counts over 40 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions among the 250 or so on which he was involved. While in Pittsburgh, Alan invented and was the first to implement the highly successful “Under 25? Only $10!” program, a venture that annually adds hundreds of thousands of young people to the audiences of arts organizations all over the world. For several seasons, Alan was the managing director for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, co-chair of the Master of Fine Arts program in Arts Management at the University of Alabama, and host of “All the World’s a Stage,” a weekly NPR newsradio program. He was a member of

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himself and the world around him. It is an alternate reality that exists in this postmodern world of digital media and image overload. Abstract painting can be a focus for artists who are escapist by trade. It requires slowing down, being messy, and finding order in the chaos. For Peacey, painting is a way to express himself and, while he admits he is not a saint, it is the pure expression of creative joy that he represents in this exhibition. Peacey received a BA in studio art from Western Washington University and has been exhibiting his work regularly in his Pioneer Square studio at the 619 Western artist lofts and throughout the region. We are pleased to continue the collaborative team, Pierre Gour and Garth Amundson, sound based installation of 24 decorative french horns, “Happy Happy Happy” in Alternative Media Platform, (AMP) at ArtsWest until the end of January. The creation of art is a means to explore the barriers that we build around us; viewing art is a way to see beyond these defenses to another perspective. This February in “Urban Constructions,” John Osgood and Monika Dalkin provide innovative and inspired representations of the literal and figurative walls that surround us. Dalkin presents playful constructions in shapes of homes. Working adeptly in many mediums, her strong conceptual pieces in ceramic and mixed media on panel convey a natural creative expression. Her iconic house shapes convey a myriad of ideas from warmth and protection to stability and social standing, all the while creating labels for those that live there. Dalkin’s installation of 100 ceramic ‘tags’ which make up a house structure, draw continued on next page

In the Gallery continued from previous page upon this idea directly, as well as a metaphor for graffiti. A visual language of shapes and symbols on the surface of her work explores the mysterious facets of walls. Dalkin holds an MFA from the University of Arizona, has exhibited her work internationally and has ongoing representation at Gallery 110 in Seattle. Osgood paints idiosyncratic characters with a bold palette in a graffiti art style. His collection of colorful oddballs are inspired by life and the uncomfortable and forlorn circumstances that happen within it. These unique characters are the embodiment of all of the idiosyncrasies recognized as one peers over the walls we surround our true characters with. Osgood was recently recognized in a feature story in the Seattle Times for his brainchild and work on a transformational memorial mural in Greenwood after the neighborhood was targeted by an arsonist. This is yet another example of his immense creative effort to transform heartbreaking situations into remarkable art. Osgood graduated from Washington State University and is owner and resident artist at Bherd Studios Gallery in Greenwood. Join both artists for their reception on February 11 from 6-7:30pm. If you are a local artist, check the website in January for two upcoming ArtsWest calls for art. Both AMP at ArtsWest and our 2010-2011 exhibition calendar will be requesting artist’s submissions. If you would like to receive more info, contact Nichole DeMent at [email protected] with “Prospectus 2010-2011” in the subject line or send a SASE to 4711 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116.

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