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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Presenters
CLAYTON BASS, Santa Fe Botanical Garden RACHEL KELLY, Shakespeare in Santa Fe
JOHN F. ANDREWS, The Shakespeare Guild
Director
RACHEL KELLY
Artistic Consultant
NAGLE JACKSON
Acting Cast
DANIEL CABRERA, Lysander DYLAN FITZPATRICK, Theseus / Oberon
*BRENNAN FOSTER, Bottom *KENT KIRKPATRICK, Egeus / Quince
MIRANDA LICHTMAN, Hermia MARIAH OLESEN, Moth
SKYE PAGON, Hippolyta / Titania KOPPANY PUSTZAI, Flute / Cobweb
ANN ROYLANCE, Snout / Peaseblossom MIRANDA SAVAGE, Helena
BEAR SCHACHT, Snug / Mustardseed HANIA STOCKER, Demetrius
GEORGIA WAEHLER, Puck / Philostrate
Composer and Music Director
MARY KIMBALL OUTTEN
Assistant Music Director and Voice Coach
CORA HARMS
Flute and Percussion Players
CHARLY DROBECK, JEFF SUSSMANN
Stage Designer and Advisor
JAY BUSH
Set Designer
ROSARIO PROVENZA
Costume Designer
JASMINKA JESIC
Props Manager
PAOLA MARTINI
Artistic Administrator / Front of House
CINEMA JONES
Production Manager
PATRICK BRIGGS
Stage Manager
CATHERINE LYNCH
Assistant Stage Manager
MARIANNA GALLEGOS
Technical Director and Light Designer
BEN ROUNTREE
Production Intern / Front of House Assistant
CASEY LAKATOS
Production Interns
JAYDEN CHAVEZ, CHLOE HANNA, ROWAN JANSENS RACHEL PEARSON, CLEO ULATOWSKI
* Member of either SAG/AFTRA or Actors’ Equity Association, or both
Who’s Who in Our 2018 Production Of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ACTORS
DANIEL CABRERA, Lysander. A native of Albuquerque, Daniel has studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and at London’s eminent Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and he recently earned a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Daniel has appeared in two films, and his stage roles include Aaron in Titus Andronicus,
William and Sir Oliver Martext in As You Like it, and Ferdinand in last August’s Tempest for Shakespeare in the Garden.
DYLAN FITZPATRICK, Oberon / Theseus.
A Lincoln Center finalist at the 2015 National
Shakespeare Competition, Dylan has acted
in multiple venues at the Santa Fe University
of Art and Design, as well as at Adobe Rose
Theatre, where he starred in The Ultimate
Christmas Show. He has been directed by
Vaughn Irving, Jon Jory, and Gail Springer, and he has
appeared in Cabaret, Mary Poppins, and other classics.
* BRENNAN FOSTER, Bottom. Having
trained at Northwestern, Brennan has
appeared in four TV series: Breaking Bad
(AMC), Dig (USA), Gunslingers (Castle),
and Manhattan (WGN). His Bardic roles
include Benedick in Much Ado, the Prince
in Hamlet, and Stephano in The Tempest.
He’s also starred in Enchanted April, Gibraltar, The Iceman
Cometh, and The Philadelphia Story, with Aux Dog, Mother
Road, Vortex, and Shakespeare on the Plaza in Albuquerque.
* KENT KIRKPATRICK, Egeus / Quince.
A member of both Actors’ Equity and SAG-
AFTRA, Kent is well known to TV viewers
for roles in Better Call Saul, In Plain Sight,
Lazarus Man, Manhattan, and Wildfire. Local
audiences have admired his performances
with Shakespeare in Santa Fe (as Hortensio,
Lucio, and Puck), Adobe Rose (where he co-starred in Bus
Stop), and Shakespeare in the Garden (where he played
Trinculo in last year’s acclaimed production of The Tempest).
MIRANDA LICHTMAN, Hermia. Last year
in The Tempest Miranda charmed Santa Fe
audiences in the role for which she was
named. A recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch
School of the Arts, she has played Ophelia
at Playwrights Horizon, Tamora and Lady
Anne at RADA, and Amiens and Hymen at
the Stella Adler Studio. She has also appeared in two
television pilots, Family Style and Shadow Sides.
MARIAH OLESEN, Moth. With training at
Sheridan College in Wyoming and at Santa
Fe University of Art and Design, Mariah will
be familiar to those who’ve enjoyed The
Ultimate Christmas Show and Extremities at
Adobe Rose Theatre. She’s also appeared
in Company, Heathers, Threepenny Opera,
The Addams Family, 42nd Street, Little Shop of Horrors,
and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
SKYE PAGON, Hippolyta / Titania. A BFA
from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where
her work has included acting in both the Classi-
cal Studio and the Meisner Studio, Skye has
played Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew,
Paulina in The Winter’s Tale, and Portia in The
Merchant of Venice. She has also portrayed
Meg in Little Women, Alex in No.11 (Blue & White), and Dora
in Lida Stein and the Righteous Gentile.
KOPPANY PUSZTAI, Flute / Cobweb.
Koppany holds degrees from Raritan Valley
Community College in New Jersey and from
the Santa Fe University of Art and Design,
where his instructors included Jon Jory and
Hank Rogerson. At Adobe Rose he has
starred in The Ultimate Christmas Show and
Extremities. At SFUAD he portrayed Charles in Easy Virtue,
Macheath in The Threepenny Opera, and Peter in Company.
ANN ROYLANCE, Snout / Peaseblossom.
A Dramalogue Award winner, Ann has
worked in TV, theater, and clubs from DC
to New York to Sydney to Los Angeles. She
has worked with Stephen Sondheim, Harold
Prince, Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Harris, Kathy
Bates, Bob Newhart, and Eva Marie Saint,
and has acted locally for Adobe Rose, New Mexico Actors
Lab, Santa Fe Playhouse, and Santa Fe Shakespeare Society.
MIRANDA SAVAGE, Helena. A senior at
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Miranda has
also trained at the Stella Adler Studio of
Acting, where she played Lady Helena in
The Gut Girls. She portrayed Moth and
Starveling for Annapolis Shakespeare Com-
pany in Maryland. She has also appeared
in TV roles for CBS, HBO, and National Geographic Films.
BEAR SCHACHT, Snug / Mustardseed. A
singer and dancer as well as an actor, Bear
has portrayed Sky Masterson in Guys and
Dolls (Los Alamos Light Opera), Sheriff Joe
in Spitfire Grill (Dixon Community Players),
Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie (Taos
Community Chorus), and Matt in The
Fantasticks (San Juan College). For Sandstone Productions,
he has portrayed Chuck Cranston in Footloose.
HANIA STOCKER, Demetrius. Hania has
appeared as Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof
at the Lensic, as Doug in The Way We Get
By at Albuquerque’s Aux Dog Theater, as
Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, Detective
Tupolski in The Pillowman, Comrade O’Brien
in 1984, and Ned in The Normal Heart at the
Santa Fe Playhouse, and as Rev. John Hale in The Crucible
with Ironweed Productions.
GEORGIA WAEHLER, Puck / Philostrate.
A junior at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts,
Georgia has performed in a dance piece
inspired by the #MeToo Movement. Her other
credits include A Man of No Importance and
an original NYU graduate musical. She has
acted at the Five Angels Theatre, the Papermill Playhouse,
and in Surrey’s Guildford School of Acting.
COMPOSER AND MUSICIANS
MARY KIMBALL OUTTEN, Composer and
Music Director. Mary served as Resident
Composer for Shakespeare in Santa Fe
from 1989 to 2003, creating the music for
14 Shakespeare productions and for four
children's fairy tales with libretti and lyrics
by Nagle Jackson. She has also worked as
Artist in Residence for the Santa Fe Opera’s Education and
Outreach Department. She plays guitar, and her CD, Songs
& Sonnets from the Time of Mary Sidney, is in the gift shop.
CHARLY DROBECK, Flute Player. Charly
learned flute and piano as a child and then
studied jazz at Indiana University. She has
worked with the Creede Repertory Theatre,
New Mexico Repertory Theatre, Santa Fe
Pro Musica, the Orchestra of Santa Fe, and
the Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble. She has
worked frequently with Mary Outten, and she is a featured
player on Songs and Sonnets from the Time of Mary Sidney.
JEFF SUSSMANN, Percussion. Jeff has
played percussion for almost 50 years,
bworking with a broad array of groups and
songwriters. He has recorded with Michael
Stearns, Erik Darling, Krishna Dass, Ottmar
Liebert, Tulku, and ThaMuseMeant. He has
studied with Paul Wertico and Christopher
Shultis (UNM), and is co-founder and co-producer of “The
Drum is the Voice of the Trees,” a prestigious concert series.
PRESENTERS
RACHEL KELLY, Artistic Director. The
director of our production co-founded Shake-
speare in Santa Fe and served as its Artistic
Director from 1992 to 2002. She forged its
ties with St. John’s College and with Actors’
Equity Association. She introduced its
Shakespeare in the Schools and National
MFA Internship programs. A graduate of British-American
Drama Academy, she also played such roles as Celia, Puck,
and Hermia, and directed Phaedra, Romeo and Jeanette,
Sleeping Beauty, Tartuffe, and Beauty and the Beast.
CLAYTON BASS, Producer. Clayton has
served as Chief Executive Officer of the
Santa Fe Botanical Garden since 2013. He
worked with architect Michael Graves at
Emory University’s Michael Carlos Museum
and has held leadership roles at the Walter
Anderson Museum of Art in Mississippi and
at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama. He has also served
in leadership positions with the American Alliance of Museums.
JOHN F. ANDREWS, Producer. John
presides over The Shakespeare Guild, which
presents the Gielgud Award for Excellence
in the Dramatic Arts. Recipients of the trophy
include F. Murray Abraham, Eileen Atkins,
Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, David Hare,
Derek Jacobi, Kevin Kline, Ian McKellen,
Christopher Plummer, Vanessa Redgrave, and Patrick
Stewart. It is now bestowed each October as part of the
UK Theatre Awards luncheon in London’s historic Guildhall.
PRODUCTION TEAM
JAY BUSH, Stage Designer and Technical
Advisor. During a stellar career as Technical
Director, Production Manager, and General
Manager at Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Jay
designed presentations of Romeo and Juliet,
Twelfth Night, Hansel and Gretel, and other
classics. He then left to pursue a new career in architecture.
Christ Church Santa Fe is one of the local designs for which
he is celebrated.
ROSARIO PROVENZA, Set Designer. One of
today’s most eminent scenic designers, Rosario
has enjoyed a career with key roles in David
Letterman’s Late Night show on CBS, in the
acclaimed Longmire series on Netflix, and in
feature films such as The Tao of Steve,
Employee of the Month, Odd Thomas, and The
Messengers. With a degree from the Yale School of Drama, he
has worked extensively in theater, both here and elsewhere.
JASMINKA JESIC, Costume Designer. Mina
has done distinguished work in both film and
theater. Her clients have included Santa Fe
Stages, Shakespeare in Santa Fe, Theatre
Grottesco, Theaterwork, Stray Dogs, and the
College of Santa Fe. She has taught at Santa
Fe Community College and at Santa Fe University of Art and
Design, and has worked with a number of fashion studios.
PAOLA MARTINI, Props Manager. After
studying animation and filmmaking at Pratt Insti-
tute and at New York’s School of Visual Arts,
Paola earned a BA from the University of New
Orleans and served as Art Director for award-
winning feature film Sweet Melody. She has
worked as a Properties Master for Teatro Paraguas, Ironweed,
and Santa Fe Playhouse.
CINEMA JONES, Artistic Administrator. Cin-
ema has worked as Production Coordinator at
Reflective Images and as Box Office Manager
for the Adobe Rose Theatre. She has provided
her expertise in logistics to Teatro Paraguas,
Sangre de Cristo Mountain Works, and Santa
Fe Greenhouses. For this show she oversees all front-of-
house functions.
PATRICK BRIGGS, Production Manager.
Patrick is serving both as Production Manager
and, for our final week, in the roles of Egeus
and Quince. Patrick has worked with Corral
Playhouse, National Dance Institute, New
Mexico Actors Lab, New Mexico Outdoor
Drama Association, Shakespeare in SantaFe, Oasis Theatre,
and Santa Fe Shakespeare Society, and has acted with such
stars as Celeste Holm and Kier Dullea.
NAGLE JACKSON, Artistic Consultant. Nagle
is one of today’s most versatile theater artists. A
playwright as well as a director, he has overseen
the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and Princeton’s
McCarter Theatre. Between 1997 and 2002 he
and Rachel Kelly presided over Shakespeare in
Santa Fe at St. John’s College. And last summer he launched
Shakespeare in the Garden as director of The Tempest.
BEN ROUNTREE, Technical Director and
Lighting Designer. Co-founder of CYC-ics
Theater, a student-owned company, Ben is
a senior at New Mexico School for the Arts.
He has provided lighting and other technical
services not only to Shakespeare in the
Garden but to Adobe Rose Theatre, the Lensic Performing
Arts Center, and Teatro Paraguas.
CATHERINE LYNCH, Stage Manager. With
a a degree in directing and production from
Columbia College in Chicago, Catherine has
gone on to studies in London under the aegis
of Syracuse University. She has worked both
as a teacher (at Piven Theatre in Evanston,
Illinois) and as a casting director. And she recently directed
Time Stands Still at Santa Fe’s Adobe Rose Theatre.
MARIANNA GALLEGOS, Assistant Stage
Manager. Marianna’s acting credits include
roles at Adobe Rose Theatre, Guild Cinema,
American Southwest Theatre Company, the
San Francisco Youth Theatre, Valley Ensemble
Collaboration, and Working Classroom. In our
show she’ll be appearing briefly on stage in the role of Acorn.
JAYDEN CHAVEZ, Production Intern. A
junior at New Mexico School for the Arts, Jayden
is an actor, writer, and lighting designer, Her
resume includes B(D)ad Jokes, TBD, and A
Common Thread. She is also the artistic director
and co-founder (with Ben Rountree) of CYC-ics,
a student-owned theater company.
CHLOE HANNA, Production Intern. Having
recently graduated from NMSA, Chloe will be
studying in eight countries over the next four
years as a participant in Long Island Univer-
sity’s global campus program.
CASEY LAKATOS, Production Intern. Last
season Casey was a valuable member of our
technical crew. This year she’s also assisting
with front-of-house operations. A senior at
St. Michael’s High School, she has worked
at Adobe Rose Theatre, Scottish Rite Temple,
and Studio Center, gaining experience with light boards,
concessions, stage management.
RACHEL PEARSON, Production Intern.
Rachel has participated in ten shows at the
New Mexico School for the Arts, working both
onstage and backstage. Now in her second
year as a Lensic Technical Theatre Intern, she
has appeared in or provided assistance for such
films as The Kid and A Million Ways to Die in the West.
CLEO ULATOWSKI, Production Intern. A
senior at St. John’s College, Cleo is studying
philosophy and the history of mathematics and
science. She has read a lot of Shakespeare,
but this is the first time she has enjoyed a
chance to help present of one of his classics.
KEY GARDEN PERSONNEL
REBECCA L. JENSEN, Development Director.
Rebecca is a recognized leader in non-profit
publishing, marketing, and communications, and
she oversaw those responsibilities for Santa Fe
Pro Musica before joining the Garden staff in
2017. For several years she served as Executive
Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychology, and she played a similar role with the
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.
GEORGE JONES, Finance Director. With
degrees in mathematics and computer science
from Hartwick College and Ohio State Univer-
sity, George began his career with Andersen
Consulting (now Accenture) in Houston, and
has worked with a number of technology and
consulting firms. He has taught at Rice University, and his book
on business and professional ethics has been used at several
institutions of higher learning.
SHAWNA JONES, Volunteer Coordinator.
With two degrees from Texas Tech, a B.A. in
Spanish and Social Work and an M.A. in Public
Administration, and with experience in the
Peace Corps and at El Camino Real Academy,
Shawna has the perfect credentials for her role as
the Adult Education and Volunteer Coordinator for the Garden.
She works closely with Bardtenders who offer in-kind service.
SCOTT CANNING, Horticultural and Special
Projects Coordinator. Scott was at the Brooklyn
Botanical Garden from 1989 to 1992, when he
moved to Albuquerque. In 1994 he joined the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden as its curator of green-
houses. In 2001 he moved to Wave Hill, a garden
and cultural center in the Bronx. In 2014 he assumed his present
position at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden.
MOLLIE PARSONS, Education Director.
Mollie holds a degree in art history from Brown
University, and degrees in education from Harvard
University and Boston College. A native of the
Southwest, she taught at the Rio Grande School
in Santa Fe from 2009 to 2013, and then became
Founding Director of Education at the SFBG. She develops
partnerships not only with schools but with the larger community.
ADDENDA
CORA HARMS, Assistant Music Director. A
music educator, director, pianist, and choral/vocal
coach, Cora is Musical Director for Youth Theater
Company and Pandemonium Productions. She
recently presented a four-hand piano recital with
Melissa Toedtman, and she’s now planning a
cello and piano program with her father, Herb Breenhouwer.
ROWAN JANSENS, Production Intern. Rowan
is a theater student at New Mexico School for
the Arts. He has performed in a number of plays,
musicals, and dance pieces. In the process he
has also acquired valuable experience in the
technical aspects of production.
A Note from the Director RACHEL KELLY Presenting A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the natural beauty
of the Santa Fe Botanical Garden highlights the play’s many
references to a world that never ceases to enchant us.
The unique realms to be found in what has been described
as Shakespeare’s most imaginative play are masterfully
woven together like an unfolding dream. There is the domain
of the court, which is ruled by Duke Theseus and his bride-to-
be Hippolyta. There is the haunting beauty of the surrounding
woods, which are presided over by Oberon and Titania, the
King and Queen of the Fairies. There are the confusion-filled
haunts of the Lovers, who flee the court in search of solutions
to their romantic dilemmas. And there is the rustic retreat of
a simple but endearing group of “rude Mechanicals,” rough-
hewn men “who work for bread upon Athenian stalls,” and
who are “met together to rehearse a play intended for great
Theseus’ nuptial day.”
These settings intermingle and become delightfully enmeshed in
a frequently nightmarish plot whose prevailing theme is that
“the course of true love never did run smooth.” And out of this
midsummer madness the playwright weaves what the ineffable
Bottom calls “a most rare vision,” a transformative resolution
that Hippolyta recognizes as “something of great constancy.”
Presenters’ Gratitude
Following an inaugural season of Shakespeare in the Garden
that featured an enthusiastically-received production of The
Tempest, we’re delighted to welcome you to another classic
in a setting that seems perfectly suited to its special charms.
Once again we’re exceedingly grateful for the time and talent
that have been so generously contributed to this endeavor,
not only by our extraordinary dramatic artists, but by a pro-
duction crew that has worked tirelessly to facilitate their work.
We’re equally indebted to the sponsors, donors, volunteers,
and dedicated audience members who are doing so much to
make Shakespeare feel at home in a capital that was founded
while the playwright was at the height of his powers. A partial
list of special acknowledgments appears to the right.
CLAYTON BASS President and CEO, Santa Fe Botanical Garden
RACHEL KELLY Artistic Director, Shakespeare in Santa Fe
JOHN F. ANDREWS President, The Shakespeare Guild
Acknowledgments
Among the dozens of individuals and organizations to whom
we owe special thanks are the following: Rachel Kelly and
her mother Susan Kelly, who created the artwork for Dream;
Joel Aalberts and his colleagues at the Lensic Performing
Arts Center, who hosted Ever the Twain, and Jonathan
Richards, Valerie Plame, Lois Rudnick, and other members
of the splendid cast who performed in that festive May 29
benefit; the Graña Family and its memorial donation in honor
of Marigay Graña; Helen Chantler and Marc Choyt at
Reflective Images; photographer Lynn Roylance; Argos
McCallum and his colleagues at Teatro Paraguas; Joey
Chavez and the faculty at New Mexico School for the Arts;
Jay, Ernie, Aaron, and Ryan at Phase One Realty; Barbara
Burnett, Anne Gallagher, Leslie Veditz, and their associates
at Theatre Lovers Club; Mike Hayden, Michael Hurlocker,
and the other volunteers who helped architect Jay Bush install
the superb stage he designed for Shakespeare in the Garden;
Rachel Kelly and Christopher Purvis, Joan Dayton and
Richard Curless, and Jan Denton and John Andrews, who
hosted Bardtenders receptions; Bill and Peggy Jones, Susan
Kelly, Jane Shea, and other members of the Santa Fe
Shakespeare Salon; Theatre Santa Fe and its gifted web
designer Robin P. Williams; Caryl Farkas and the Santa Fe
Upstart Crows; Pronto Signs; Moira Gehring and the
Friends of the Library; Nelson Denman, a guitarist who
generously stood in for Mary Outten at several rehearsals;
thespian counterparts such as Adobe Rose Theatre and
Santa Fe Playhouse; Andrea Multari at Whole Brain
Design, who produced our marketing materials; and all the
others who assisted in various ways to bring this production to
life, among them Gino Barconi, Chris Blemensderfer, Letitia
Chambers, Kelly Kiernan, Sam Leyba, Owen Lipstein and
Maggie Fine, and St. John’s College.
Marigay Graña SEPTEMBER 2, 1936 – SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Last year we lost a leading advocate for the arts and civic
values. In 1992 Marigay Graña (pictured above) stepped up
to ensure the revival of Shakespeare in Santa Fe. She became
a member of its Board, and she fervently dedicated herself to its
endeavors. An award-winning author, urban planner, linguist,
historian, collector, adventurer, and political activist, she
was a loving friend. We miss her dearly, and we dedicate
to her memory this production of a play she cherished.