SET DESIGNERRICHARD CROWELL

CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, Inc.

This production made possible through special arrangements with Lucille Lortel, Daryl Roth, Wind Dancer Theatre, Inc. and Randall L Wreghitt.

This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Associa-tion that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists.

The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Bruce & Janet Bunch • Cheryl & David CophamGholi & Georgia Darehshori • John & Marjorie Madden • Arthur Zupko

HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • fORT myERS RIvER DISTRICTROBERT CACIOPPO, PRODuCInG ARTIsTIC DIRECTOR

P R E S E N T S

STARRINGED PILKINGTON* • GRAHAm SmITH* • PETER THOmASSON* • BRIAN HATCH

DIRECTED BYROBERT CACIOPPO**

COSTUME DESIGNERROBERTA mALCOLm

LIGHTING DESIGNERDAvID m. UPTON***

ASST. STAGE MANAGERKASEy PHILLIPS

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERAUDREy m. BROWN*

SOUND DESIGNERKATE SmITH

ASST. SOUND DESIGNERTIm COBB

2012-13 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS

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(In Order of Appearance)

Henry Ford........................................................................................GRAHAM SMITH*Warren G. Harding....................................................................PETER THOMASSON*Thomas Alva Edison............................................................................ED PILKINGTON*Colonel Edmund Starling.........................................................................BRIAn HATCH*

TImE & PLACEJuly 24, 1921. The woods outside Licking Creek, Maryland.

CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM will be performed with one 15-minute intermission.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

*The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

AUTHOR’S NOTEThis play is a fiction suggested by facts. That President Harding went camping with Henry Ford and Thomas Edison is fact; their evening “escape” from the media-packed campsite is fictional. Conversations are fictional, but based on events, documented personal philosophies and the political climate of the time. Though many remarks are adapted from the actual words of these three men, there is no proof that such a dialogue took place. What is indisputable is that Warren G. Harding is a man who never wanted to be President, Henry Ford is a man who did, and after many annual expeditions, this was Thomas Edison’s last camping trip with Henry Ford.

Mark St. Germain has written the plays Freud’s Last Session, Camping with Henry and Tom (Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award), Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap and Forgiving Typhoid Mary (Time Magazine’s “Year’s Ten Best”), Ears on a Beatle and The God Committee. With Randy Courts, he has written the musicals The Gifts of the Magi and Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer, winner of an AT&T “New Plays for the Nineties Award,” both produced at the Lamb’s Theater, New York City. Jack’s Holiday was produced at Playwrights Horizons. Mark’s musical: Stand by Your Man, The Tammy Wynette Story was created for Nashville’s Ryman Theater and has toured nationally. He most recently co-wrote the libretto for Charles Strouse’s American Tragedy. Mark co-wrote the screenplay for Carroll Ballard’s Warner Brothers film, Duma. He most recently directed and co-produced the documentary My Dog, An Unconditional Love Story. My Dog features Richard Gere, Lynn Redgrave and Glenn Close, among many others. It was shown on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and a spinoff was filmed for A&E/BIO. Television credits include Writer and Creative Consultant for The Cosby Show, Life Stories and Dick Wolf ’s Crime and Punishment. Mark wrote the children’s book Three Cups, illustrated by April Willy. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists, where he was given the Joe A. Callaway Award, a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writer’s Guild East and a Board Member of the Barrington Stage Company. He was awarded the “New Voices in American Theatre” award at the William Inge Theatre Festival.

SPECIAL THANKS TOVerdow Motorcycle shop • Bruce Strayhorn • South West Cycle

Ian Morrison, Carpentry Intern

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ED PILKINGTON* (Thomas Alva Edison) is Professor Emeritus of Theater at Appalachian State University, where he served as Director of the Acting Program. He is a recipient of the North

Carolina Theatre Conference “Outstanding Theater Career Award.” He has performed Off-Broadway in Light Up the Sky and Case of Libel at Playhouse on the Mall and Edward II at The 8th Ave Theater. Internationally he starred as “Dr. Gotshall” in God’s Man in Texas at Pacific Theater in Vancouver, BC. His regional credits include, “The Old Poet” in Night of the Iguana at Triad Stage; “Nunzio” in Over the River and through the Woods at Temple Theater; The Old Actor “Henry” in The Fantasticks and created the role of “Uncle Billy” in Jan Karon’s world premiere of Journey to Mitford at Blowing Rock Stage Company. Ed fondly remembers working with Playwright Rom Linney just before his death to create the lead character in Hisself at the Valborg Theater. Ed is honored to be making his Florida Rep debut with Graham and Pete under the direction of Robert Cacioppo and rubbing shoulders with fellow Ithaca College Alum, Carrie Lund.

GRAHAm SmITH* (Henry Ford) grew up jumping out of empty boxes in his father’s family-vaudeville-magic show, which toured the US and Europe from 1961-1973. BA: Davidson

College, MFA: The Hilberry Classic Theatre. He has appeared in nearly two hundred plays and eleven films. He worked for Charlotte Repertory from 1981-2002, spent fifteen seasons with the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival and is presently a company member with People’s Light and Theatre in Philadelphia (since 1998). He also works regularly at other theatres, including Riverside Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, North Carolina Stage Company, Festival Stage, Cape Fear Regional Theatre and Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. Notable roles include three Lears, three Cascas, two Jacques, Malvolio, Toby, and Aguecheek, Master Ford, Autolycus, Stephano, Gonzalo, Puck, Oberon (2), Peter Quince (2) in forty-two productions of Shakespeare. Other favorites include

Harpagon (2), Argan, Alceste, Roy Cohn in Angels in America, Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons, Tobias in A Delicate Balance, Don Quixote in The Return of Don Quixote, Salter in A Number, Rance in What the Butler Saw, Author/Buks in Valley Song (2), Owen in The Foreigner (6) and Bob Cratchit (15). He has received numerous nominations and wins for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor Creative Loafing Awards, the Arts and Sciences Creative Fellowship Award, nominated for a Vanguard Award for service to performing arts in Charlotte, served on Mayor’s Cultural Action Plan Committee 1997-2002 and was recently nominated for Philly’s Barrymore Best Actor Award for his portrayal of Louis de Rougement in Shipwrecked. He lives in Charlotte with his wife, Audrey, and Golden, Henry, and is quite happy to be here in his first production at Florida Repertory Theatre!

PETER THOmASSON* (Warren G. Harding) is pleased to return to the Rep having just closed in Other Desert Cities at The Hippodrome in Gainesville and A Lesson from Aloes at Sarasota’s

Banyan Theater where he also appeared in Ghosts, The Retreat from Moscow and Becky’s New Car. Last season he was in Florida Rep’s Black Tie, Rumors and It’s A Wonderful Life. At his home in Atlanta, he appeared in Theater in the Square’s Suzi award-winning The Little Foxes and was named Atlanta’s Actor of the Year for his work in The Men of Mah Jongg, The Savannah Disputation and The Sunset Limited. For 17 seasons he appeared at Flat Rock Playhouse, the State Theater of North Carolina. Favorite Florida Rep productions include To Kill A Mockingbird, Enchanted April and The Rainmaker.

BRIAN HATCH (Colonel Edmund Starling) is a recent graduate of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida where he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre. As well as

graduating Magna Cum Laude, he received an honors recommendation for his thesis entitled Group Stories: Transforming Memory

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into Narrative, a semester-long exploration of improvisation and play with Alzheimer’s sufferers at Winter Park Towers. Previous credits include Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Picasso), Little Shop of Horrors (The Dentist), The Pillowman (Katurian), Biloxi Blues (Eugene) and Mr. Marmalade (Larry). His improvisational works include a three year tenure with Rollins Improv Players, a fully improvised Greek tragedy entitled It’s All Greek to Me and SAK Comedy Lab’s Brawl for All. Brian would like to thank his family - that is, his Mom, Dad, sister and a host of friends, mentors and playmates - for their unwavering support. Finally, he is overjoyed to call Florida Rep his new home!

RICHARD CROWELL (Set Designer) is thrilled to return to Florida Repertory Theatre to be a part of this wonderful production and to work once again with the extraordinary staff at Florida Rep. Richard has been a part of various Florida Repertory productions since the inaugural season in The Arcade and has been designing scenery and lighting for the stage for over 30 years. He received his MFA from the Stage Design Training Program at Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University and a BFA from Memphis State University.

ROBERTA mALCOLm (Costume Designer) is pleased to be returning for her ninth season at the Florida Rep after 25 years traveling the country as a costumer/designer for everyone from community theatre performers to Florence Henderson, John Ritter, LeVar Burton, Tony Bennett, Patti LaBelle, Margaret O’Brien, Dean Jones and Cloris Leachman. Favorite productions include: Gaslight, Boeing-Boeing, You Can’t Take It with You, My Three Angels, Lucky Stiff, Florida Follies starring Florence Henderson, Too Big to be a Waitress, Show Boat (Dean Jones and Cloris Leachman national tour), Little Shop of Horrors, Curly McDimple starring Margaret O’Brien, Blithe Spirit, Annie Get Your Gun, A Funny Thing…Forum, Death of a Salesman and Cinderelle – a Rock Fairy Tale. Thanks to Sean, Becca, John, Bob – family always; and to the Florida Rep and its board for the opportunity to showcase the best theatre around.

AUDREy m. BROWN* (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to return to Florida Repertory Theatre. Audrey has worked

extensively with People’s Light & Theatre, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Riverside Theatre, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte Repertory Theatre and Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. She was the American Equity Stage Manager for the Royal Shakespeare Company for the Davidson College residencies. She hasalso worked with The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. & Dallas Theatre Center. Amember of AEA since 1991, Audrey currently lives in Charlotte with her golden retriever,Henry and husband, Graham Smith.

KATE SmITH (Sound Designer) is happy to return for her fourth season at Florida Rep. She is a native of Pennsylvania and a graduate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). She is excited to work as the lighting and sound designer in Florida Rep’s Studio for her fourth season. She served as the Sound and Lighting Designer for Florida Rep’s production of King O’ the Moon. Lighting design credits include Picnic (2009 KC/ACTF Region II Barbizon Award in Lighting Design for IUP), It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, The Santaland Diaries and The Lady With All the Answers for Florida Rep’s Studio and Evil Dead the Musical for Keystone Rep. Sound Design credits include Sylvia, August Osage County, Trying and You Can’t Take It with You. Kate has also worked for Brevard Music Center, NC as Master Electrician and as the light board operator at Flat Rock Playhouse, NC. Two summers ago, she worked as the Lighting Designer for IUP’s Keystone Rep and as part of the staff for the Footlight Players.

TIm COBB (Assistant Sound Designer) is excited to return for his fourth season at Florida Repertory Theatre. His usual job at Florida Rep is Technical Supervisor. Tim is always excited to branch out and work in different aspects of theatre production, having also worked in electrics and, once, in costume construction. He, hopefully, will never be allowed to do that again.

KASEy PHILLIPS (Assistant Stage Manager) is a proud graduate of THE Florida State University. Graduating Magna Cum Laude, she received a Bachelor of Arts in both Theatre and Creative Writing. Before graduating, she had the privilege of studying abroad at FSU’s Theatre Academy London where, among many exciting adventures, she became certified in stage combat with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat and had the opportunity to perform

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a monologue on the Globe Theatre’s stage. As well, she has had the honor of having some of her dramatic writing showcased at Florida State’s 2011 New Horizons: Original Works Festival and was cast in a devised adaptation of Oedipus Rex. Along with her acting and writing credits, she is happy to be returning to her native Fort Myers and to Florida Rep where she previously worked as a stage manager for their 2011 Summer Theatre Camp! In the management capacity, her credits at FSU include stage managing The Seagull, ACTF, the New Horizons: Original Works Festival and the MFA Social Issues Project, as well as assistant stage managing Fat Pig and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Whether it be on the stage, backstage, writing for the stage, or all three, Kasey is more than excited to see where she lands. She would like to thank her amazing family and friends for their support and for always telling her to do what she loved, even if the odds are not always in your favor. Love you all!

DAvID m. UPTON*** (Lighting Designer) is happy to be returning to Florida Rep todesign Camping with Henry & Tom. Other designs include work for The Revenge of the Mummy Attraction at Universal Studios Singapore, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Rep, North Carolina Theatre, The World Science Festival, Northern Stage, Merrimack Rep, Orlando Shakespeare, Seaside Music Theater, ReVision Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, The Orlando Opera and the Orlando Ballet, among others. David is a member of

the United Scenic Artists Local 829. Much love to Sarah for her endless support and encouragement.

ACTORS’ EqUITy ASSOCIATION (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American Actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of theatre as an essential component of our society. Today,

Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

fLORIDA PROfESSIONAL THEATRE’S ASSOCIATION (FPTA) is a statewide organization of professional theatre companies

and theatre professionals interested in the development and promotion of professional theatre throughout Florida. Florida Repertory Theatre is a proud FPTA member theatre.

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ARTHUR ZUPKO has loved theatre since childhood when his parents introduced him to Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Anthony newley, Mary Martin, sammy Davis, Jr. and Robert Goulet in their award-winning performances on the Broadway stage. Art strongly believes that performing arts education builds the audiences and artists of tomorrow. His longstanding support of Florida Rep’s Outreach & Education programming is legendary at Florida Rep. Art supports many other performing arts organizations and venues around southwest Florida. He is a true believer. Art is the principal contributor to Florida Rep’s ArtStage Studio Theatre renovation project.

ArtStage STUDIO THEATRE RENOVATIONflorida Repertory Theatre is pleased to celebrate its 15th Anniversary with the unveiling of this NEW performance venue, ArtStage Studio Theatre. This project was made possible, in large part, by a generous donation from Board Member, Arthur ‘Art’ Zupko. The project’s General Contractor, Chris-Tel Construction, and its president, Howard Wheeler, provided major support – as well as a significant anonymous contributor.

SPECIAL THANKS TOFlorida Rep’s ensemble of scenic and lighting designers for their suggestions, advice and consultation.

Richard Crowell • Jim Hunter • Matthew McCarthy • Ray Recht • Kate smithDavid M. upton • Robert F. Wolin • Todd O. Wren

THE RENOVATION TEAMChris-Tel Construction • Howard Wheeler, President

Parker mudgett Smith Architects • Pat Hartig, Architect

Dane Edwards, Project manager • Chris-Tel ConstructionBob mcDonald, Site Supervisor • Chris-Tel Construction

Steve Cullipher, Lighting Consultant • Barbizon InternationalChris Scott mille, Structural Engineer • southern Engineering of sW Florida

Jordan Rieks, Engineer • Energy Concepts of sW FloridaBobby Harmon, Sound Consultant • Harmon’s Audio / Visual

Dan Lukasik, Lead Electrician • Current Electricvirgil vasquez • Vasquez Construction

Sean m. Griffin, Production manager • Florida Repertory Theatre